Jan 3 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday barred the U.S. Department of Defense from punishing a group of Navy SEALs and other special forces members who refused COVID-19 vaccines on religious grounds.
U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, acting in response to a lawsuit filed on behalf of 35 special forces service members, issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Navy and Defense Department from enforcing the mandate.
Reed, who was appointed to the federal bench in Texas by President George W. Bush, said the Navy had not granted a single religious exemption to the vaccine rule.
"The Navy servicemembers in this case seek to vindicate the very freedoms they have sacrificed so much to protect. The COVID-19 pandemic provides the government no license to abrogate those freedoms," the judge wrote in a 26-page decision.
The service members had faced a range of military discipline actions for refusing the vaccine.
First Liberty Institute, a legal organization dedicated to defending U.S. religious freedoms which represented the plaintiff service members, hailed the ruling as a victory.
"Forcing a service member to choose between their faith and serving their country is abhorrent to the Constitution and America’s values," said Mike Berry, the institute's general counsel, said in a written statement.
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...Keep in mind that even if these guys somehow manage to stay in, their careers are over, and that will be the same for anybody in any branch.
DoD is not fond of defiance, and even less fond of the defiant who win.
Mike
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/\ Same just about everywhere. If they wish to terminate your employment, they'll find a reason. Corporate loyalty and gold retirement watches died at about the same time.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] See Australia
Tenured law professor Amy Wax has come under fire for making racist comments during an online interview with a fellow academic
'The US is better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration,' Wax said in a December interview with Brown University's Glenn Loury, an African-American
'It’s just harder to assimilate those people or to have confidence that our way of life will continue if we bring a lot of people in who are not familiar,' she went on
These are not original ideas on the [political] right,' the educator asserted
The off-color comment came during a conversation between the two academics concerning US immigration
Wax has faced backlash for similar comments in the past, saying the US is better off with 'fewer nonwhites' in 2019 and disparaging black students in 2018
Penn Law School Dean Theodore Ruger called Wax's comments 'anti-intellectual' and 'racist' but as of Tuesday, she is currently still employed by the school
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Human Trafficking. That is why they do this at night. I wonder what you would find if you follow a few of the 'migrants' to their ultimate destination.
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"Say, was you ever bit by a bee,
A dead one, as happened to me?"
"I may have, I may not...
But last night I got shot
Getting head from a dead bear," said she.
[Science Alert.com] In a national park a four-hour drive north of Sydney in Australia, a fire is smoldering out of control — and it's been doing so for at least 6,000 years.
Known as 'Burning Mountain', the mysterious underground blaze is the oldest known fire on the planet. And some scientists estimate it may be far more ancient than we currently think.
Located under Mount Wingen in the state of New South Wales (Wingen means 'fire' in the language of the local Wanaruah people, the traditional custodians of the land), this underground smolder is a coal seam fire — one of thousands burning at any one time around the globe.
Once ignited, these subterranean fires are almost impossible to put out. Slowly but intensely, they travel through the coal seam, a layer of coal that naturally occurs beneath Earth's surface.
"No one knows the size of the fire under Burning Mountain, you can only infer it," Guillermo Rein, a professor of fire science at Imperial College London in the UK, tells ScienceAlert.
"It's likely a ball of around 5 to 10 meters in diameter, reaching temperatures of 1,000 degrees Celsius [1,832 Fahrenheit]," he explains.
Rein visited Burning Mountain in 2014 — which was on his field trip bucket list.
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Crusader, actually, it CAUSES global warming.
And, it's Trump's fault, of course.
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To the eco-fanatic, Gaia is a conscious, living entity. So, either Gaia wants this, or can't do anything about it.
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Where do such fires get their oxygen? I often need a bellows just to keep my trash fire burning.
And wouldn't the output gas be more CO than CO2? How does CO compare as a greenhouse gas?
[Townhall] Idaho could be the next state to outlaw abortion, local outlet Idaho Statesman reported Sunday.
In the Statesman’s report, it claimed that abortion access in Idaho is at risk due to a Supreme Court case that could overturn Roe v. Wade and legislation pushed at the state level that chips away at abortion access.
"This year, women could see abortion access severely curtailed in Idaho," the report stated. "Some Idaho bills already have threatened to hamper access to the procedure, and more could be on the way."
"Neighboring states and abortion clinic staffers said they’re already preparing for an influx of Idaho patients who could stretch their clinics to capacity," it added.
The Supreme Court case that could alter the future of abortion laws in Idaho is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Dobbs surrounds the constitutionality of a 15-week abortion ban in Mississippi. The Court heard oral arguments for the case on Dec. 1. In an amicus brief, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch asked the Supreme Court directly to overturn two landmark abortion cases — Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
"Roe and Casey are egregiously wrong. The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition," Fitch said in her brief. "So the question becomes whether this Court should overrule those decisions. It should."
Following the Dobbs oral arguments, reports indicated that the Supreme Court would be open to upholding Mississippi’s abortion law and possibly overturning Roe, as I covered. Several states would automatically outlaw abortion if Roe is overturned, including Idaho.
"Any ruling that returns abortion decisions to states could trigger laws in several states, including Idaho, that would essentially outlaw the procedures," the Statesman reported. "One Idaho law already on the books makes abortion a felony if Roe v. Wade is overturned."
A jury has found Elizabeth Holmes guilty of four charges in fraud case that lasted 14 weeks
Holmes, 37, is the disgraced founder of Theranos, a 'breakthrough' blood-testing startup that defrauded investors of $9billion and patients with inaccurate and unreliable results
After the company went kaput in 2018, bizarre details of Holmes' life have been made public: like how she styled herself after Steve Jobs, spoke in a fake baritone voice and claimed that her Husky dog was a wolf
Former employees recalled how the office was overrun by the dog defecating and peeing in the boardroom
The trial also revealed steamy texts between Holmes and the company's COO Ramesh 'Sunny' Balwani, with whom she had a secret affair and alleged that he abused her and forced her to have sex
Balwani famously got his employees to chant 'F***k you' to a rival competitor while dancing to MC Hammer in a rollicking staff meeting
From her Steve Jobs-inspired turtlenecks to claims that she doesn't blink her eyes, DailyMail.com recounts Elizabeth Holmes' long list of deceits and most outlandish moments below
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The test is, do any of them show up to give character testimony at her sentencing hearing.
My guess: No.
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The powerful old men who were her board of directors had one job: to ensure the company was being properly run, making money by doing everything right. Each of them chose not to do any of the things necessary to reveal the scam. What is the punishment for completely failing in one’s fiduciary duty?
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^ Since bankers stopped jumping out windows during stock-market crashes, the penalty is null.
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According to the Daily Mail link posted by Skidmark in response to the other article today on the subject, they and a few others together lost over $300 million from their investment in the company.
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if she would have filled out all paper work and claimed to be male and had a she wee it would never had seen a court room and she would have 1000 times the fourtune just look at all the tech and internet big wigs!
[Aljazeera] It’s official. Shares of Apple Inc rose as much as 3 percent on Monday to trade at $182.88 — enough to secure the iPhone maker the coveted crown of becoming the first publically traded company on the planet to cross the $3 trillion market capitalization mark.
To put that into perspective, Apple’s value now surpasses the nominal gross domestic products (GDPs) of six of the world’s top 10 economies including the United Kingdom, India, France, Italy, Canada and South Korea.
Apple’s rise has been relentless in recent years. Back in August 2018, it became the first United States firm to surpass $1 trillion in market value. It blew past the $2 trillion mark only two years later in August 2020. And thanks to the turbo-charged pandemic appetite for tech shares, it took roughly 17 months for Apple to reach the $3 trillion mark.
Since January 2007, when the late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, shares of the Silicon Valley giant have gained 5,800 percent.
The $3 trillion milestone is largely symbolic and indeed, other tech heavyweights outperformed Apple last year. Microsoft and Tesla shares gained about 50 percent each in 2021. Alphabet shares soared 65 percent and chipmaker Nvidia 125 percent. By contrast, Apple stock gained 34 percent in 2021.
But Apple’s sheer size does mean it has an outsized influence over stock markets. It accounts for roughly 7 percent of the S&P 500 Index.
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The Crapple ecosystem is designed by mental deficients for mental deficients. It sets my teeth on edge. For all its faults, Android is much more open. I'm running Microsoft Launcher as my front end, Office mobile apps, Outlook and Edge. I'm riding on top of the Gurgle mess, using a login to them for access to the Play Store only.
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I'd rather wipe my ass with sandpaper than to ever buy or use a product from Apple. They're the Notre Dame of tech companies - pure institutional pretension and arrogance.
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I really miss my Palm devices, but they went out of business. I got into Apple when my last Palm was dying because that’s what Mr. Wife’s employer supplied him, and that way we could more easily share apps and data. Stayed with them because it is such a pain to manually enter all the data not transferred when switching from Apple to Android ... and also in the opposite direction.
[Washington Examiner] Then-Vice President Joe Biden played a key role in helping further the billion-dollar con job perpetrated by Elizabeth Holmes, lavishing the disgraced Theranos founder with praise in 2015.
Holmes, whose company falsely claimed to be able to conduct wide-ranging and revolutionary life-saving tests using only tiny drops of blood, was found guilty on Monday on one federal charge of conspiracy to defraud investors and three counts of wire fraud. She faces up to 20 years in prison per count.
Holmes, now 37, and her longtime business partner Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani were indicted in June 2018 for two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud. The jury for Holmes did not reach a verdict on three of the wire fraud charges and found her not guilty of a conspiracy to defraud patients and not guilty on three of the other wire fraud charges. Another count against Holmes was dropped.
Balwani's trial is scheduled to begin later this month.
Theranos touted Biden’s July 23, 2015 visit to its headquarters in a lengthy press release, calling it "A New Era of Preventive Health Care" summit. Both the company and Biden repeatedly posted on Twitter about the event.
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Oooooooohhhhhh — in answer to the question I posed in another article on the subject posted today, Skidmark’s link reports that the generally-acknowledged-as-brilliant board members and clever, connected others between them lost over $300 million on their investment in the company, as sound a spanking short of jail time as I could hope for those who failed so spectacularly in their fiduciary duty to oversee the company.
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^ Just puts them of a mind to look for a "sure thing" to recoup their losses on, i.e. another war to nowhere.
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the people on the Theranos board of directors may be safe from criminal prosecution by virtue of 'idiot defense', i.e., "I'm just a corporate director, how am I supposed to know that our documents are completely fraudulent"
but there is civil liability that won't work that way
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What happened (penalty wise) to Enron board members? Worldcom board members? Not much, as I recall.
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in the Enron case, only directors who were employees of Enron were charged (Enron collapsed in 2001)- officers outside employees were not charged (some testified as witnesses for the prosecution)
interestingly the accounting firm of Arthur Anderson was also convicted but the conviction was overturned on appeal based on incorrect direction to the jury. The outside officers also lost a lot of money as their compensation had been in shares of Enron.
civil suits proceeded for years after and the last settlements were, I think, completed in 2009 or so.
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Plugs the Pathological Liar recognized a kindred spirit.
Maybe he copped a free sniff or two as well
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Is this something you are endorsing, thinking about, or planning for Besoeker?
I have been thinking about entering the thermal scope market due to bad luck with my night vision set up.
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The Daily Mail's Lillian Gissen,
Ironically, seems to be cissing,
Dismissing those men
Who are blessed like Big Ben
With a cleavage convenient for kissing.
Or perhaps motorboating on the Thames.
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Airpod? I'll stick to airhead. It's worked for decades.
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So, it this in place of THOT, or in addition to?
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An excuse for the Daily Mail to seine photos of busty women from the morass of the internet. The triangular body shape is small hips/broad shoulders, not, as they claim, flat bottom/large bosom.
[Breitbart] Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he believes "this country is going to be saved at the state level," which is why the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) recently announced its intention to establish versions of the Freedom Caucus throughout state legislatures.
"We put this together, this idea, about a year ago, and have been working on it," Biggs told Breitbart News at Turning Point USA’s recent AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
"There will be a separate unit, legally, and they’re going to — help provide communication and liaison between state legislative HFCs, and then federal HFC," the congressman explained.
"We think that this country is going to be saved at the state level, so we want to be able to provide the support that they need," Biggs said. "We want them to know what the FEDs are doing, and we want to hear what they’re doing and what their issues are so we can have better communication to try to fix what’s going on in Congress that affects negatively the states."
Biggs added that he believes the Freedom Caucuses will be the future of the Republican Party, "which is already a more right-leaning Party than it has been."
"I think we have a chance to really change the dialog, and the trajectory of the Republican Party long-term," he said. "And that really is the vision that I have and that the Freedom Caucuses have."
After being asked if he thinks the White House putting pressure on Big Tech to silence American citizens is a violation of the First Amendment, Biggs said, "That’s fascism, because they’re using big business to implement big government and anti-Constitutional policies."
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"State Level" salvation? A valiant effort, but it didn't work so well at Chickamauga in '63. Sadly, I feel the American experiment with federally imposed communism will have to play itself out. I hope and pray I am once again, wrong.
#2
Given that Hiroshima is in much better shape today than Detroit suggests that a little nuke war may not be such a bad thing. Time to reread Herman Kahn's On Thermonuclear War.
[Last American Vagabond] Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/1/21).
As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth is, or claiming they have the answer, is likely leading you astray, for one reason or another. Stay Vigilant.
[Garowe] For the first time in as many months, suspected al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... bandidoshard boyz raided a remote village in coastal Kenya on Monday morning, in an incident that comes at the time Somalia is undergoing political turmoil.
Police said the suspected Death Eaters whose number is yet to be established, killed at least six people in the bizarre incident, which comes at the time Kenya is working with International partners to lock the Death Eaters out of the country.
The incident took place at Widhu Majembeni village in Lamu County, a few miles from Boni Forest where a multi-agency team led by Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] have been conducting operations to flush out the krazed killers.
During the incident, police said, the Death Eaters torched several houses in the village while shooting randomly. It's not clear if security officers were at the site when the Death Eaters attacked the village at dawn.
While confirming the attack, Lamu County Commissioner Irungu Macharia said of the victims, one was rubbed out while another one was hacked to death. The remaining four were burnt to death in their houses.
Macharia said investigations into the incursion have commenced. Although the motive is not yet known, the Death Eaters often target security forces, civil servants, and innocent in their cowardly attacks.
Curiously, the incident comes two years after the attack which targeted the United States army at Manda Bay in Lamu County. The Jan 5, 2020 incident left three Americans dead triggering surveillance in the camp, which is strategic for the US in East Africa.
[Garowe] A notorious Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n-Dutch human trafficker was arrested in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, International Police [INTERPOL] has confirmed, days after his apprehension, ending the long search for his whereabouts.
John Habeta alias Obama, who holds citizenship in the Netherlands, but who owns a property in Leeds, and who for a price of $20,000 or more per head has been organizing travel of people from Sudan to Singapore and the Philippines.
John Habeta, 53, has been linked to a series of human trafficking cases within East Africa and around the world, with his preferred destination being Europe. His victims are mostly children and women, various police reports confirmed.
Interpol said John Hobeta was taken into custody at Schiphol International airport in Amsterdam on 25 December after his arrest in Kenya. His arrest, Interpol confirmed in a statement, came after years of failed police traps around the world.
Kenyan Police arrested John Habeta in Nairobi on 16 December as part of a sting operation coordinated between authorities in the Netherlands and Kenya with the support of INTERPOL’s General Secretariat headquarters, the statement further read.
Acting on globally sourced INTERPOL intelligence leads, the INTERPOL National Central Bureau [NCB] in The Hague alerted the Kenyan NCB to the runaway’s presence in Nairobi on 10 December.
An INTERPOL Red Notice — or international runaway alert — was published the same day for people smuggling and use of fake identity documents to carry out transcontinental smuggling operations, triggering the suspect’s surveillance and arrest on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital.
The Dutch national remains in jug in The Netherlands until trial where, if convicted, he faces a sentence of up to eight years in prison. Habeta was allegedly involved in at least four different operations to smuggle groups of Eritrean nationals into Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... using routes from Asia.
INTERPOL’s specialized unit on migrant smuggling and human trafficking identified Habeta as a high priority target in October 2020 when member countries alerted INTERPOL to new leads about the runaway’s global smuggling activities, which were immediately shared with the NCB in The Hague.
People smuggling syndicates are run like businesses with high-profit margins and links to a wide range of serious and often violent mostly peaceful crimes including illicit money flows, corruption, terrorism, trafficking in illicit goods, and human trafficking, the statement added.
International police cooperation Criminal groups behind human trafficking and migrant smuggling were already hit last July when INTERPOL’s operation Liberterra saw 286 suspects arrested worldwide.
In April, Operation Weka mobilized 24 source, transit, and destination countries enabling authorities in Africa and Europe to rescue nearly 500 victims of human trafficking and identify some 760 irregular migrants colonists.
Both operations boosted regional law enforcement cooperation into people smuggling and triggered associated police investigations in all continents into targets like Habeta.
"John Habeta alias Obama, who holds citizenship in the Netherlands, but who owns a property in Leeds, and who for a price of $20,000 or more per head has been organizing travel of people from Sudan to Singapore and the Philippines.
After smuggling them, his clients are then abandoned without any money or passports who often end up in prisons for years, some of his victims are still in Indonesian prisons and the women who gave birth in Indonesian prisons are raising their children in prison till this day.
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[An Nahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's annual inflation rate surged to its highest level since 2002 in December, official data showed Monday, after a currency crisis sparked by President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... 's unconventional economic policies.Consumer prices jumped by 36.1 percent last month from the same period in 2020, up from a 21.3 percent increase in November, according to the Ottoman Turkish statistics office.
The figure is the highest since October 2002 when inflation reached 33.45 percent, before the party of Erdogan came to power.
It is also more than seven times the official government target.
Erdogan's enduring success has often been attributed to the development and prosperity his government enabled after a financial crisis in 2001.
His Islamic-rooted party rose to power the following year, and he has dominated Ottoman Turkish politics for the past two decades as both prime minister and president.
But he faces an increasingly difficult path to re-election in polls due to be held by mid-2023.
Opinion polls show him losing in a second-round runoff against most major rivals, and his ruling alliance ceding control of parliament to an increasingly popular group of opposition parties.
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But Erdogan has stuck fast to his policies, opposing interest rate hikes -- which he calls "the mother and father of all evil" -- to combat inflation.
High interest rates are a drag on activity and slow down economic growth.
But central banks raise their policy rates out of necessity when inflation gets out of hand.
Erdogan on Monday accused "the elites" of profiting from "unearned interest income", sticking by his pledge not to raise borrowing costs.
The Ottoman Turkish lira lost 44 percent of its value against the dollar in 2021, with the losses accelerating at the end of last year, when Erdogan orchestrated a series of sharp interest rate reductions.
The dollar soared to a historic high of nearly 18.4 liras by the time Erdogan announced new currency support measures last month that were backed by reportedly heavy indirect interest rate interventions.
The exchange rate has since slipped back down to around 13 liras to the dollar, although the Ottoman Turkish currency lost a further two percent after the latest inflation reading was announced before recouping most of the day's losses before 1300 GMT.
A dollar was worth 7.4 liras at the start of 2021.
Emerging markets economist Timothy Ash of BlueBay Asset Management described the economic policies pursued by Erdogan as "simply disastrous".
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Is Erdogan going after our inflation rate? He's almost there!
[An Nahar] Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels seized a ship in the Red Sea, armed drones targeted Baghdad's international airport, and hackers hit a major Israeli newspaper Monday - a string of assaults that showed the reach of Iran-allied militias on the second anniversary of America's killing of a top Iranian general.
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Army on Monday claimed to have foiled an infiltration bid by a group of forces of Evil in Hamirpur area of Bhimber Gali Brigade in J&K's Rajouri.
Official sources told Greater Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... that Army soldiers posted in the BG Brigade, the area also referred as 'forward Balakote sector' "noticed an infiltration attempt by a group of infiltrators".
"The infiltrators were challenged with a kaboom triggered on the spot to foil this attempt," a source said.
Soon after the incident, the entire area along the Line of Control was cordoned by the Army and searches started to nab the infiltrators, he added.
As per sources today's could have been a BAT attack attempt as was attempted in north Kashmir's Kupwara on Saturday. The Army on Sunday said it foiled a "BAT action" in Keran sector of frontier district Kupwara by killing a bully boy the preceding day.
There has been a security high alert along the LoC already with intelligence agencies having an apprehension that multiple infiltration attempts could be made in coming days with bully boy outfits "attempting to push in as many forces of Evil as they can in near future".
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....Best part is that the Dems were going to do a political theater event at the Capitol on Thursday to commemorate the Riot That Was Totally An Insurrection And Has Doomed Our Democracy.
We should have a posting category for 'Divine Justice.'
Mike
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The only way found to shut down the government.
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#6 #4- Amen, Mike
Posted by: Frank G 2022-01-04 07:04
Frank,
Thank you, sir!
Also a bit of an update - as of 0700 EST, Interstate 95 from at least DC south to Fredericksburg is 'impassable', with hundreds of vehicles stranded. We have friends and family in NoVa and Tidewater - by all accounts it's remarkably ugly right now, and VDOT seems to be way behind the curve in getting things open. Some accounts say they've not seen ANY road crews since last evening, and many motorists are starting to run out of fuel.
I blame Gerbil Worming, but that's just me.
Mike
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The president was returning from his six-day New Year's holiday break in Wilmington, Delaware. He was originally scheduled to fly on Marine One from Delaware straight to the South Lawn of the White House. Instead of he took Air Force One to Joint Base Andrews and took the presidential motorcade back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Expensive vacation. Don't they have a basement in the White House?
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Some accounts say they've not seen ANY road crews since last evening, and many motorists are starting to run out of fuel.
You're F'd big time in a electric car. Put a little gas in the tank of a conventional car and you're moving again. T'aint going happen with a that zero emission status symbol unless you are somehow plugged in already (for a very long recharge).
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^ "I'm looking for an extension cord. Oh, about 25 miles long?"
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The Babylon Bee is reporting about the FBI To Host First Annual Jan 6 Reunion
I'm loving this snow storm just about now
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In the future, once the kinks have been worked out, battery-powered planes will be able to airdrop fresh batteries. For now...
The stranded, diverse and eclectic:
"A traffic jam's so much less hectic!"
The comradely hordes
Simply join hands, and cords,
And connect to Potomac Electric.
[wolves circle drum circle around burning Tesla]
[Newsweek] On Sunday, January 3, the heads of a half-dozen elite government special operations teams met in Quantico, Virginia, to go over potential threats, contingencies, and plans for the upcoming Joint Session of Congress. The meeting, and the subsequent deployment of these shadowy commandos on January 6, has never before been revealed.
Right after the New Year, Jeffrey A. Rosen, the acting Attorney General on January 6, approved implementation of long-standing contingency plans dealing with the most extreme possibilities: an attack on President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence, a terrorist attack involving a weapon of mass destruction, and a declaration of measures to implement continuity of government, requiring protection and movement of presidential successors.
Rosen made a unilateral decision to take the preparatory steps to deploy Justice Department and so-called "national" forces. There was no formal request from the U.S. Capitol Police, the Secret Service, or the Metropolitan Police Department—in fact, no external request from any agency. The leadership in Justice and the FBI anticipated the worst and decided to act independently, the special operations forces lurking behind the scenes.
"I believe that DOJ [Department of Justice] reasonably prepared for contingencies ahead of January 6, understanding that there was considerable uncertainty as to how many people would arrive, who those people would be, and precisely what purposes they would pursue," Rosen later told Congress. He stressed that his department "no frontline role with respect to crowd control," that they were focused on "high-risk" operations.
The contingency units meeting on January 3 included the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, the FBI's national "Render Safe" team, an FBI SWAT team from the Baltimore Field Office, Special Response Teams from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the U.S. Marshals Service Special Operations Group.
Most of the literature mistakenly says that the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)—including, famously, the units formerly known as Delta Force and SEAL Team 6—is the primary national mission force. Although overseas, the National Mission Force often operates as a Joint Special Operations Task Force (with FBI augmentation), made up of dedicated teams assigned to JSOC, inside the United States, the FBI is in charge.
A tactical team of the Hostage Rescue Team was one of the first external federal agencies to actually enter the Capitol after protestors breached the building. In addition to augmentation of emergency security assets, one team coordinated with the U.S. Capitol Police and Secret Service to provide additional safeguarding of Vice President Pence, who had been moved to the underground parking structure beneath the Capitol, from where he was supposed to evacuate. But Pence refused to leave the building and stayed underground instead.
The presence of these extraordinary forces under the control of the Attorney General—and mostly operating under contingency plans that Congress and the U.S. Capitol Police were not privy to—added an additional layer of highly armed responders. The role that the military played in this highly classified operation is still unknown, though FBI sources tell Newsweek that military operators seconded to the FBI, and those on alert as part of the National Mission Force, were present in the metropolitan area. The lingering question is: What was it that the Justice Department saw that provoked it to see January 6 as an extraordinary event, something that the other agencies evidently missed.
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/\ Yes, very likely "propaganda" or possibly cover for action. With the likelihood of future investigations and the potential release of videos, deniability will become essential.
Wasn't us, we're 'Special Agent Commandos.' Besides, everyone was wearing camo, must have been one of those evil DoD barrel chested freedom fighters from Fort Bragg.
With Capitol police officer Lt. Michael Byrd (dressed in pimp mufti vs camo) on site, "Secret Commandos" appear to have been more or less redundant.
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Someone smells leaks and the need to provide official fig-leafs to assets that need to be kept friendly, hidden and silent in the coming months of theater about J6 as they fumble towards replaying the idea that the right-wing coup plotters are the lurking danger behind a Republican election victory.
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there were dudes there with shades and manginas and manneries dressed like the playboy bunnies from apocalypse now with rubber 6 shooter dildos in their hands filled with tarter sauce! whatz with the green chunky stuff woke communion wine ?
[An Nahar] Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi vowed Dire Revenge against Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... if the former U.S. president is not tried over the killing of Qassem Soleimani , as Tehran marked two years since the commander's death."The aggressor and the main assassin, the then president of the United States, must face justice and retribution," Raisi said.
"It would be ok if the trial of Mr. Trump, (former secretary of State Mike) Pompeo and other criminals was held in a fair court where their horrible crimes were addressed and they faced justice for their actions," he added.
"Otherwise, I will tell all US leaders that without a doubt the hand of Dire Revenge will emerge from the sleeve of the Moslem nation."
Raisi was addressing thousands at Tehran's biggest prayer hall, at Iran's main event to mark Soleimani's death anniversary during a week of commemorations.
Participants held national flags and portraits of the slain commander, state TV showed.
Raisi called Soleimani a symbol of the Iranian revolution and of "bravery and rationality."
Soleimani, former commander of the Quds' force, the foreign operations' arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, was killed along with his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, in a US dronezap near Bagdad's airport on January 3, 2020.
Five days later, Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... retaliated by firing missiles at a U.S. airbase in Ain al-Assad housing American troops in Iraq, and another near Arbil in the north.
No U.S. troops were killed in those strikes but Washington said dozens suffered traumatic brain injuries from the blasts.
Trump said at the time he had ordered the dronezap in response to a number of attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq, and with more expected.
Iran's foreign ministry said in a Twitter post on Friday that "the current U.S. government bears definitive international responsibility for this crime."
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I'm sure the Dems (Schiff, Pelosi, Schumer, et al) would go for it, but realize it would set a bad precedent
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[An Nahar] "False intelligence" and a family dispute were the causes behind an Iraqi security operation last week that killed 20 people from the same family, the judiciary said Monday.The intelligence was provided by an informant who had "family disputes" with one of the victims, the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council said in a statement reported by the state-owned Iraq News Agency.
The informant, "nine officers and three agents" are being investigated over the incident that took place on Thursday in al-Rashayed village in the central Iraqi province of Babylon.
An investigating judge heard the statements of the 13 men, the news agency added.
On Thursday, rapid intervention units and intelligence forces stormed a house in al-Rashayed to pursue "two individuals accused of terrorism."
The state news agency said later that 20 members of the same family were killed and that the owner of the property "opened fire" and "refused to surrender."
"The questioning revealed that the cause of the tragedy was false intelligence provided by the nephew and son-in-law of one of the victims, because of family disputes," the judicial council's statement said.
The informant gave "false information to the security services indicating the presence of two wanted murderous Moslems in the victims' house," it said.
Investigations are ongoing and four arrest warrants have been issued, the statement said.
On Friday, Interior Minister Othman al-Ghanemi travelled to al-Rashayed where he sacked the Babylon police chief and announced the formation of a commission to investigate "the unit that carried out the operation."
Security forces said on Friday that a "number of officers and individuals" had been called in for questioning, without providing details on their identities.
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[FOXBUSINESS] Podcast titan Joe Rogan opened a GETTR account Sunday and encouraged 7.8 million Twitter followers to join him on the alternative social media app.
"Just in case sh-t over at Twitter gets even dumber, I’m here now as well," Rogan wrote on GETTR. "Rejoice!"
"GETTR" trended on Twitter throughout Sunday afternoon as users reacted to Rogan's tweet about GETTR, with many apparently taking his advice and opening an account.
Rogan's move to GETTR came on the same day that Twitter permanently banned the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., for spreading what the social media company deemed COVID-19 "misinformation."
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks to news hounds about being temporarily suspended from Twitter for tweets that violated the social media's misinformation policy on COVID-19 from her office in Longworth House Office Building in Washington, U.S. (Rooters/Elizabeth Frantz / Rooters)
Last week, Twitter also banned Dr. Robert Malone days before he appeared on Rogan's podcast to discuss the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines. Malone, a contributor to mRNA vaccine technology, also opened a GETTR account.
GETTR was launched July 4 by former Trump adviser Jason Miller, who told Fox News in an interview at the time that he wanted the social media app to be "independent from social media monopolies, independent from cancel culture; embracing free speech."
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Gotta kinda wonder why the US hasn't been doing this for decades.
China has put pen to paper on a new deal to deepen ties with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean
New deal will see Beijing share nuclear technology, build 5G and communications networks, help develop space programmes and pump cheap infrastructure loans into the region in attempt to buy influence
Comes off the back of years of Chinese investment and trade in the region, which has diminished US power
Beijing plans to 'take over' America's back yard and is a 'growing threat' to the US, analysts have warned
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1) The Cartels will capture Chinese throughout these areas.
2) In response, China will bring large numbers of military troops South of the US border.
3) They will consolidate and hold that position of strength for decades.
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China will dump a ton of money into Latin America only to find the area is poor for a reason and that reason is not US Imperialsm despite what Universities want everyone to believe.
[An Nahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... Secretary-General Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... announced Monday that his party is ready to "improve" its 2006 memorandum of understanding with the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... , its main Christian ally, a day after FPM chief Jebran Bassil criticized Hizbullah over its alignment with Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... in several key issues."We stress the importance of dialogue among the Lebanese and the importance of any invitation for dialogue among the Lebanese," Nasrallah said in a televised speech commemorating slain Iranian general Qassem Soleimani , in response to President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... ’s latest call for national dialogue.
"As for everything that has been mentioned and written about Hizbullah's relation with the FPM, I note that we are very keen on our allies and relation," Nasrallah added.
"We're keen on the understanding (with the FPM) and we're ready to improve it in a manner that achieves the national interest," Nasrallah emphasized.
He also noted that what was said by Aoun and Bassil over the past days are "issues that require frankness and clarifications."
Hizbullah’s leader also said that he will extensively address the domestic situations in another televised address in the coming days.
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[THEGUARDIAN] The US could be under a rightwing dictatorship by 2030, a Canadian political science professor has warned, urging his country to protect itself against the "collapse of American democracy".
"We mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine," Thomas Homer-Dixon, founding director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, wrote in the Globe and Mail.
"In 2014, the suggestion that Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... would become president would also have struck nearly everyone as absurd. But today we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real and the horrible commonplace."
Homer-Dixon’s message was blunt: "By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a rightwing dictatorship."
The author cited eventualities centered on a Trump return to the White House in 2024, possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.
Trump, he warned, "will have only two objectives, vindication and vengeance" of the lie that his 2020 defeat by Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.... was the result of electoral fraud.
A "scholar of violent mostly peaceful conflict" for more than four decades, Homer-Dixon said Canada must take heed of the "unfolding crisis".
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Thomas Homer-Dixon
Hyphenated last name - the surest sign of a self-important douchebag.
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Remember when someone wrote 'Trump 2016' on a sidewalk in chalk and people had massive trauma over it?
This guy (and most of CNN and MSNBC) never moved on from that.
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Could. Yeah, it *could* happen. And monkeys could fly out my butt. Both are equally probable.
It's kinda cute how they scare themselves with these fairy tales. Hey, let's all go out and discretely chalk "Trump 2024" on sidewalks and buildings everywhere. The sound of exploding heads will be glorious.
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The author cited eventualities centered on a Trump return to the White House in 2024, possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.
No need to wait until 2030, it's happening as we speak.
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The left is vaguely following a modified nazi playbook of othering non-vaccinated and setting up camps, and yet the right is the danger. Got it, the guy is an idiot.
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Perhaps a consummation devoutly to be wished...?
The triumvirate of Big Tech Billionaires, Unions and Minority/Gay/Academics, and the MSM has given us a script-reading Presidential façade for a emergent Marxist dictatorship now.
They have overplayed their hand in the rush to loot and finish the Obama 3.0 cultural transformation by using the covid truncheon far too long.
People are awakening to an adversary government in all but name, but the corruption of the electoral system and the massive, deep infestation of the government itself has caused a gigantic dumpster fire across every principal agency. Add to it massive debt, inflation, and the importation of millions more third world indigents whose only wish is a handout and lifetime subsidy, and the toxic sludge is overwhelming.
Some days I actually get worried that the last best hope of mankind, America, will end before I do! Thank God I'm not a pessimist by nature...
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it won't include a stint with Weight Watchers.
[WFB, via Insty] - Stacey Abrams was repeatedly praised as a "bold progressive" with an "unapologetically left" agenda during her failed gubernatorial campaign in 2018. Now that she's running again in 2022, Abrams and her media allies would like to revise the record by insisting that she is in fact a pragmatic moderate. Us normal folk call this 'rewriting history'. "A helium blimp, not hydrogen! Stable!"
Astead Herndon's most recent piece in the New York Times suggests the Stacey Abrams rebranding effort is well underway. Herndon, author of articles such as "Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream," conducted his own "review" of Abrams's political ideology and found "a leader who has carefully calibrated her positions, making a point to avoid drifting into one Democratic lane or another." That's because she's taking up all of the lanes.
The article includes a revealing quote from Democratic megadonor Steve Phillips about why white progressives, who comprise the vast majority of party activists and professional journalists, (we've noticed they're one and the same too! - ed.) have been so willing to embrace Abrams as one of their own. "It's hard for white progressives to be too critical of someone who is so strongly and fiercely unapologetically Black and female," Phillips told the Times. "Her authenticity comes from the sectors that are the core parts of the progressive base." Because you're a racist if you criticize black Democrats.
The article goes on to quote an Abrams spokesman who confirmed that the former progressive icon is actually a pragmatic moderate now who "defines herself by her values and her ability to navigate the buffet table at Golden Corral deliver results for the common good by navigating disparate groups and ideologies."
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This year's election cycle is shaping up unlike the double-wide Stacey Abrams who hasn't seen a gym since high school to be even more unfavorable for Democrats, mostly as a result of Joe Biden's failed presidency. If Abrams has to pretend to be a moderate to have any shot at winning, the media will be more than happy to oblige. At least someone's reading the tea leaves and knows Democrats are in for a world of hurt in ten months which cannot come fast enough.
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Don’t know how successful her ‘rebranding’ will be; and maybe its a coincidence, but CSX Transportation (the big blue and yellow railroad) has redone their freight car logo by removing the stylized boxcar graphics……
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Planet Abrams is proof that being unemployed, a tax deadbeat, a grifter, serial liar, stupid, and enormously ...enormous, can all be forgiven if you are a black female and play those alibi's to max effect with the democrat base. What she really wants is a salary and expenses from the campaign, ego feeding, and preening endlessly.
Her boyfriend looks right at home.
[NYPOST] Omicron has been a drag for New Yorkers, but not for Rep. Alexandria Sandy Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore... .The far-left politician (D-NY) was spotted maskless once again in Florida, this time at a packed drag bar in Miami — as the Big Apple continued to be hammered by record-high numbers of COVID-19 cases and faces an indoor mask mandate for one more month.
In video posted by a news hound for the Sunshine State’s Conservative Voice on Sunday, the Democratic darling is seen waving to the large crowd of mostly unmasked drag bar-goers.
"AOC is STILL lounging it up in Florida, in large crowds and maskless," tweeted Brendon Leslie, the news hound who initially posted the video to social media. "This time at a Drag Queen bar in Miami. Rules for thee but not for me."
"For those of you with zero sense of humor: the whole point of this post is to expose hypocrisy," Leslie said in another tweet.
"We don’t actually care she’s maskless. We care she fear mongers about Florida but then has the audacity to vacation here," he added.
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That explains the horse face.
A court in Ontario, #Canada, awards C$107 million ($83.94 million), plus interest, to the families of six people who died when #Iran's Revolutionary Guards downed a #Ukraine International Airlines plane near Tehran two years ago.https://t.co/8n3rMRMGYf
[FoxNews] After implementing a coronavirus mandate for health care workers this fall, Rhode Island has now opened an option for COVID-positive health care workers to continue working if their facility is facing a staffing crisis.
"Also, facility administrators should be using their clinical judgment in making staffing decisions. For example, a facility may opt for a COVID-19 positive worker to only care for COVID-19 positive patients," Joseph Wendelken, a spokesperson from the department of health, told the Providence Journal on Saturday.
A memo was sent to employees of state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital on Friday explaining that "those who are exposed or have a positive Covid test but are asymptomatic" can continue reporting to work "in crisis situations for staffing" if they wear N95 masks.
The memo came after Rhode Island updated its isolation and quarantine guidance in December to reflect the CDC’s updated guidance.
"For the general public, the updated guidance (which shortens the isolation and quarantine period in some instances) is reflective of science that indicates that most SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs early in the course of illness,'' Wendelken told the Providence Journal.
Workers at other hospitals and skilled nursing homes in the state who are "mildly symptomatic" can also continue working if the facilities are facing a staffing crisis, according to the Rhode Island Department of Health. Any hospital that needs to activate crisis staffing mode needs to notify the state Department of Health.
So far, the hospitals have not needed to call on COVID-positive workers to report to the job.
Like other states, Rhode Island required health care workers to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 1 of last year. The mandate resulted in the termination of hundreds of health care workers in the state, NBC 10 News reported.
But in November, 32 unvaccinated employees at Eleanor Slater were allowed to remain on the job due to staffing shortages.
"The Department of Health and Eleanor Slater did the very best they could do. Sometimes when there's not a decision to be made, it's an easy one to make," Democratic Gov. Dan McKee told NBC 10 News at the time.
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The narrative is collapsing even in blue places now. I predict that instead of the drip-drip-drip end so many people expect, it will collapse suddenly, like the Soviet Union.
The question is, how will the GOPe squander the "Post-COVID" windfall?
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When the bubonic plague struck Geneva in 1530, everything was ready. They even opened a whole hospital for the plague victims. With doctors, paramedics and nurses. The traders contributed, the magistrate gave grants every month. The patients always gave money, and if one of them died alone, all the goods went to the hospital.
But then a disaster happened: the plague was dying out, while the subsidies depended on the number of patients. There was no question of right and wrong for the Geneva hospital staff in 1530. If the plague produces money, then the plague is good. And then the doctors got organized.
At first, they just poisoned patients to raise the mortality statistics, but they quickly realized that the statistics didn’t have to be just about mortality, but about mortality from plague. So they began to cut the boils from the bodies of the dead, dry them, grind them in a mortar and give them to other patients as medicine. Then they started dusting clothes, handkerchiefs and garters. But somehow the plague continued to abate. Apparently, the dried buboes didn’t work well. Doctors went into town and spread bubonic powder on door handles at night, selecting those homes where they could then profit. As an eyewitness wrote of these events, 220;this remained hidden for some time, but the devil is more concerned with increasing the number of sins than with hiding them.”
In short, one of the doctors became so impudent and lazy that he decided not to wander the city at night, but simply threw a bundle of dust into the crowd during the day. The stench rose to the sky and one of the girls, who by a lucky chance had recently come out of that hospital, discovered what that smell was.
The doctor was tied up and placed in the good hands of competent “craftsmen.” They tried to get as much information from him as possible. However, the execution lasted several days. The ingenious hippocrats were tied to poles on wagons and carried around the city. At each intersection the executioners used red-hot tongs to tear off pieces of meat. They were then taken to the public square, beheaded and quartered, and the pieces were taken to all the districts of Geneva.
The only exception was the hospital director’s son, who did not take part in the trial but blurted out that he knew how to make potions and how to prepare the powder without fear of contamination. He was simply beheaded 220;to prevent the spread of evil”.
François Bonivard, Chronicles of Geneva, second volume, pages 395 – 402
Notice any similarities? Will we see the same justice meted out this time round? I really don’t know. I do know TPTB will have learned from history but have we (the plebians)?
Interesting times………….
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[NewsFrontInfo] Formations and military units of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Russia in 2022 will receive more than 400 units of armored vehicles. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, reports TASS.
"In 2022, more than 400 units of armored vehicles are planned to be delivered to the formations and military units of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation," the Defense Ministry said.
The ground forces will be transferred to modern and modernized models of armored vehicles, which have been repeatedly tested in different climatic conditions. Among them will be modern T-72B3M, T-80BVM, T-90M tanks, BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, modernized BMP-2 with a Berezhok fighting compartment, and BTR-82A armored personnel carriers.
Earlier it became known that in 2022 the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation will replenish missilesfor the promising S-500 Prometey air defense systems. Experts from China praised the characteristics of the Russiananti-aircraft missile system new generation.
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Earlier it became known that in 2022 the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation will replenish missilesfor the promising S-500 Prometey air defense systems. Experts from China praised the characteristics of the Russian anti-aircraft missile system new generation.
A dear friend - lost him a year ago to the damned COVID - worked as a defense analyst, and he often said that for at least the last two or three iterations, the Russians simply jacked up the missiles and slid a new nameplate on them.
Mike
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[An Nahar] The political aide to Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... , MP Ali Hassan Khalil, said Monday in response to Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... chief Jebran Bassil’s "rude accusations" that the Shiite Duo cannot be "blackmailed" by any "words of incitement."
The alliance between "the patriotic duo" is based on transparency and respect, Khalil said.
The politician went on to accuse the FPM of disrupting Cabinet sessions in the past, of corruption at the Ministry of Energy, of shelving draft laws, of covering up for thefts and of causing half of the Christians to emigrate.
"There is diffusion in responsibility, when two presidents are elected at the same time," Khalil said.
He added that Bassil is not defending the Christian rights, that were "wasted" by the FPM, but rather "his clan’s rights."
"The Lebanese have lived years of disruption for the son-in-law’s sake," Khalil said.
He added that Bassil is speaking of financial decentralization "to cover up the catastrophic failure and waste at the Ministry of Energy," and accused Bassil and President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... of shelving and delaying many draft laws.
Concerning the Tayyouneh festivities, Khalil asked "how the right to expression and demonstration became a conspiracy and how Bassil considered it an illegal act."
Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and Amal have been widely critical of the investigation into last year’s Beirut Port investigation, accusing the judge of being biased and asking for his dismissal — a position at odds with Bassil's party.
The dispute triggered October deadly festivities, further straining relations with Bassil’s party, which accused Amal of the violence.
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[AlAhram] Egypt’s Court of Cassation commuted the death penalty against six defendants charged with being involved in a terrorist attack on the Three Pyramids Hotel in Giza in 2016.
The top appeals court commuted the death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... against the six defendants to 10-year and life imprisonment sentences and five-year sentences against eight others.
It also acquitted 12 other defendants after overturning their sentence in the same case.
The verdict comes nearly two years after a Giza Criminal Court sentenced the six defendants in 2019 to death.
The attack in question was orchestrated on a tourist bus outside the hotel that did not result in any casualties. The attempt, however, was claimed by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... affiliate Ansar Beit al-Maqdes nonetheless.
The Ministry of Interior said the attack, which involved a group of people hurling fireworks, was aimed at security forces guarding the hotel.
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[RWMALONEMD] "The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people.
"We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business — not just at OneAmerica," the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. "The data is consistent across every player in that business."
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The homeless numbers have gone up.
One would think Covid would have reduced those numbers. Of course they could be a higher replacement rate because of idiot economic policies. It's hard to say.
The Arab Coalition says that Saudi Arabia’s defenses intercepted and destroyed five drones that were launched towards the Kingdom. https://t.co/JBLqvLiMBT
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Brandon Brown, the unintentional namesake of popular anti-Biden chant "Let's Go Brandon" will not be able to sport a sponsorship from LGBcoin afterall.
According to Fox News, the partnership with the cryptocurrency has been pulled back from the announced 33 races that Brown was intended to display the sponsorship.
Fox Business reports that Brown's spokesperson Maxwell Marcucci said that NASCAR "pulled back its approval of the sponsorship deal on Dec. 30, after the partnership with LGBcoin was announced."
"After the announcement went live on Thursday morning, NASCAR acknowledged to us late that afternoon that we had received approval but that they now needed to discuss this at a higher level," Marcucci said.
A NASCAR spokesperson went so far as to say that the driver jumped the gun by announcing the partnership between himself and the meme coin. This, however, has been disputed by Marcucci.
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1) Hit them with a lawsuit.
2) NASCAR will lose even more fans, including this one. It's getting to the point I'll skip the major races (Daytona 500, Talladega & the two road course races at Sonoma & Watkins Glen) and complete the ban.
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I quit NASCAR when they required restrictor plates.
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Peter Drucker said an organization can have one mission. As soon as it has two, it will fail at both. The C suite mania with wokeness portends lots of failure ahead.
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#3 Professional sports seems intent on running off 50% of its viewership. The little helmet logos at the back of the NFL helmets with slogans like "Fight Hate" are not-so-subtle virtue signaling that I despise, just like the sloganing of the NBA basketball courts.
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By and large LGB opponents are also big anti-gerbil-worming proponents, so NASCAR is alienating its fans in order to appease those who already hate it. Not a winning strategy.
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Just as COVID failed to wipe out approximately 1/3 of the human race, as was intended, the "reporter in a hijab at a NASCAR race" did not give the head office the excuse they wanted to ban all the crackers and "islamophobes," so this is plan B.
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[PostMillennial] According to data gathered by the Crime Stoppers of Houston, which was then publicized by FOX26 Houston news hound Greg Googan, "no fewer than 113 defendants charged with capital murder have been inexplicably granted bond and released back onto our streets pending trial," specifically, "we are talking about capital murder — the most egregious offense in the criminal code — a conviction for which carries either life imprisonment or the death penalty ."
In Harris County, judges began approving low bonds to reduce the prison population in response to COVID-19 in early 2020. Despite the waning severity of the pandemic, the practice has continued unabated, resulting in a surge in violent mostly peaceful criminal activity throughout the county.
More than 50,000 accused felons have benefited from bail reform policies, advanced by Democrat judges, the station reported.
Houston attorney Charles Adams told the station that the progressive bond policies are an overreaction to past policies, which at times have resulted in non-violent mostly peaceful offenders going to jail as they waited for their trial dates. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the new policy takes it too far and judges are "making decisions that sound better to movements as opposed to citizens," said Adams.
The move to enact progressive changes to bond policy in Harris County follows a nationwide move to enact low cash bail or eliminate bail entirely in an effort to provide "equitable" justice for those who can’t afford bail. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... such policies have endangered local communities, which are suffering from the consequence of violent mostly peaceful offenders roaming free as they await trial or sentencing for violent mostly peaceful offenses.
In Waukesha, Wisconsin, accused felon Darrell Brooks ...racist would-be rapper, actual wife beater and career criminal, responsible for the Waukesha Christmas parade massacre... Jr. was awaiting trial after being arrested for allegedly running a woman over with his car. Brooks is accused of plowing his vehicle through a Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring dozens.
According to a pretrial risk assessment administered to Brooks on Nov. 5, ahead of the mass casualty event, Brooks scored a four out of six in Failure to Appear (FTA), and a six out of six in New Criminal Activity (NCA) but he was nonetheless released, The Post Millennial reported.
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[AlAhram] Egypt has released Paleostinian-Egyptian activist Ramy Shaath, after he spent two-and-a-half years in prison, and will deport him within hours, member of Egypt's Human Rights Council Mohammed Anwar El-Sadat said on Monday Night.
Shaath, the son of former Paleostinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath, were tossed into the calaboose since 2019 over charges of assisting a terrorist group in the case known as the "Hope Cell."
Shaath, along with 12 other defendants in the case, also faced charges of disseminating false news about the political and economic conditions in the country in order to destabilise public peace and undermine trust in state institutions.
Shaath is a co-founder of Egypt's pro-Paleostinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In November, the state security misdemeanour court sentenced lawyer and former MP Ziad El-Eleimy, another defendant in the case, to five years in prison.
El-Eleimy served as an MP representing the Egyptian Social Democratic Party in the 2012 parliament.
The court also sentenced journalists Hossam Mones and Hisham Fouad to four years in prison in the same case.
Activists Mohammed Bahnasy and Hossam Nasser received three years in the same case, and labour activist Fatma Abul-Maaty received a three-year sentence in absentia.
The ruling is final and cannot be appealed.
In July of this year, the Court of Cassation upheld a ruling placing the 13 defendants in the case on the country's terrorism list for five years.
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[ColonelCassad] The Houthis hijacked the Emirati ship Rwabi, which was transporting a cargo of medicines and equipment (according to the Saudi coalition) from the captured island of Socotra to the Saudi port of Jizan.
Rwabi was captured in the Red Sea near Hodeidah. The vessel itself is a small transport with a displacement of 1666 tons built in 2021.
Pro-Iranian sources report that these actions were a response to the capture by the Saudis and emirates of ships with humanitarian supplies for Yemen, which had permission to pass from the UN.
The next stage of escalation, if the parties raise rates, is attacks on Saudi tankers in the Red Sea with the help of cruise missiles and ATGM boats (although at the moment the informal agreement concluded several years ago in Aden not to touch the tankers is being respected).
It is worth noting that the ships of the Saudi coalition sail off the west coast of Yemen without an escort, which makes them vulnerable not only to missile attacks, but also to capture by boats.
The coalition warships are trying to stay away from the coast, after serious losses in 2016-2018, when several warships were seriously damaged after missile hits, and one patrol catamaran completely burned down after a missile hit. In this case, the Houthis again recalled the vulnerability of enemy ships on one of the central transport arteries of the world.
PS. In addition to the commemorative events that swept across the Shiite world in honor of Qassem Soleimani, killed by the Americans, a kamikaze drone attack on the American Victory Base in Baghdad followed today.
Air defense systems shot down two drones. It can be expected that attacks on American assets in Iraq will continue in the coming days, especially since a number of groups have already announced that all the American military and its infrastructure are legitimate targets in the fight against foreign occupation of Iraq.
PS2. The Houthis showed a photo from the hijacked ship. The Saudi coalition itself lied about medicines - "Rwabi" transported army wheeled vehicles.
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] These days the Democratic Party is like a sad addict whose life has fallen apart, with too much to resolve and repair all at once. Sure, the aching hip and broken relationships can be put off for another day, but the lost job, wrecked car, and empty bank account require immediate attention. President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...... and the Democrats are — simultaneously — working to stave off the failure of his economic agenda, control a once-again rampaging pandemic, mitigate the effects of the worst inflation since 1982, and rescue democracy from new laws that permit the GOP to nullify the next election, all before they likely lose both chambers of Congress next year.There are too many liabilities to count. But there is one new and glaring problem that has nothing to do with bickering factions in Congress, and cannot be explained away by global trends or the potency of election conspiracies and propaganda. A distinct group of their supporters is leaving them. Many Hispanic voters, long a reliable part of the Democratic coalition, have walked away. It is not — yet — a majority of them, but the numbers are dramatic. Biden won 750,000 fewer Hispanic voters in 2020 than Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... did in 2016 — in an Electoral College victory he nearly lost by fewer than 45,000 votes in three states. Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... improved his margin with these voters by eight percentage points in four years, according to an analysis by the Democratic firm Catalist — a larger swing than any among white, black or Asian voters.
It gets worse. Biden’s approval ratings are awful across the board, but his support has eroded more among Hispanic voters than with any other racial group. A Pew/Marist poll from December showed his approve/disapprove numbers with Hispanic voters were 33/65, a net -32, while they were 40/56 with whites, a net of -16.
A recent Wall Street Journal poll showed Hispanic voters splitting their support between both parties, with just 37% of them backing Democrats in the House of Representatives if the midterm elections were held today, compared to the 60% they gave Democrats last November. Republicans would also garner 37% if the election were today. While Biden won 63% of Hispanic voters in 2020, this poll showed they would split their support in a 2024 rematch, with 44% for Biden and 43% for Trump.
Hispanic men are more supportive of Republicans than Hispanic women, and following the 2020 election some Democrats dismissed this as a temporary loss, an attraction to Trump’s strongman persona. But Democrats are wrong to delude themselves with such a fiction. The data shows Hispanic voters not only rejected the left’s embrace of socialism, but that they prioritized the issue of jobs and the economy over all else, even if they were critical of Trump’s stand on immigration and the border wall. Their focus remained the same a year later — Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin won the Hispanic vote when he defeated Terry McAuliffe ...If you constructed what a political boss looks like, it would be him.... in Virginia, and Hispanic voters strongly disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy. The WSJ poll findings showed that a negative outlook on the economy was seven points higher among Hispanic voters than it was for voters overall.
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They delude themselves in their divide and conquer game with making latin = race rather than the ethnic slice of Western Culture they actually are. They more the Left hammers at destroying Western Civ the more Hispanics they alienate.
[NEWS.YAHOO] To left-leaning Democrats, Stacey Abrams ...the pudgy, sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Stacey nominated herself to be Joe Biden's vice president nominee, to widespread national apathy. She has a very keen eye for Racism in any form, to include the imaginary... , who is making her second run for Georgia governor, is a superstar: a nationally recognized voting-rights champion, a symbol of her state’s changing demographics, and a political visionary who registered and mobilized tens of thousands of new voters — the kind of grassroots organizing that progressives have long preached.
"I don’t think anyone could call Stacey Abrams a moderate," said Aimee Allison, the founder of She the People, a progressive advocacy group for women of color.
Moderates would beg to differ. They see Abrams as an ally for rejecting left-wing policies that center-left Democrats have spurned, like "Medicare for All," the Green New Deal to combat climate change and the defunding of law enforcement in response to police violence.
"I don’t know that anybody in the party can say, ’She’s one of us,’ " said Matt Bennett, a founder of Third Way, the center-left group. "We can’t pretend she’s a moderate," he added. "But the progressives can’t say she’s a progressive and not a moderate. We’re both kind of right." "She's a floor wax AND a dessert topping! Stacey Shimmer!"
The question of how to define Abrams, 48, the presumptive Democratic standard-bearer in one of the most high-profile races of 2022, takes on new urgency amid the current landscape of the party.
Moderates and progressives sparred in Washington throughout 2021, frustrating a White House struggling to achieve consensus on its priorities and continuing an ideological debate that has raged in the party for years. There is also thirst for new blood across the party, considering the advanced ages of President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier. Of course Corn Pop is a real person.... , congressional leaders, and leading progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... of Vermont and Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless of Massachusetts.
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[An Nahar] The resignation of Sudan's prime minister leaves the military in full command and threatens a return to the repressive policies of the regime of ousted strongman Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... , analysts say.After months of street protests and violent mostly peaceful crackdowns that have claimed at least 57 lives, observers fear more bloodshed ahead after premier Abdalla Hamdok stepped down late on Sunday.
In his farewell address on national TV, Hamdok said he had tried to prevent Sudan "from sliding toward disaster" but that it was now at a "dangerous crossroads threatening its very survival".
"Hamdok's resignation has left the military in sole command of the country," said Magdi al-Gizouli of think-tank the Rift Valley Institute. "Protesters will take to the streets again and will be left to face more violence."
Since its independence from Britannia and Egypt in 1956, Sudan, now one of the world's poorest countries, has been mostly under military rule with only rare democratic interludes.
It has been navigating a fragile transition toward full civilian rule since the April 2019 ouster of veteran president Bashir following an unprecedented wave of youth-led protests.
Bashir, who is wanted for war crimes in the Darfur region by the International Criminal Court, was tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! as Sudan took steps to rejoin the international community and obtain debt relief, foreign aid and investment.
But the already rocky transition was derailed on October 25 when Sudan's new de facto ruler, top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, launched a coup, detaining Hamdok and his cabinet ministers.
The power grab sparked international condemnation and a new wave of street protests, with 57 people killed, hundreds maimed and at least 13 women raped during renewed street unrest.
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Burhan reversed Hamdok's ouster and reinstated him on November 21, also promising elections in mid-2023 -- but the protest movement had lost all faith in both leaders and kept up their demonstrations.
They accused the civilian leader Hamdok, a former international economist, of "betrayal" and "legitimizing the coup regime."
In the weeks since, Hamdok had failed to form a new government, and local media reported in recent days that he had not shown up at his office.
Gizouli said the parties to Sudan's November deal had hoped it would "reduce the agitation on the streets" and allow them to find a way "to rework the constitutional arrangements".
"But all this did not happen," he said.
Instead, Hamdok had found himself "paralyzed" and "not able to get anything done, neither politically nor administratively."
Some observers now fear that Hamdok's resignation signals a reversion to the kind of rule Sudan saw under the Islamist-backed regime of Bashir.
Sudanese analyst Kholood Khair wrote on Twitter that Hamdok's resignation "removes any facade the #SudanCoup generals can enjoy and present this coup as anything other than a reversion to the Islamo-military politics of Bashir.
"Though Sudan's future is uncertain, the clarity helps all to see this coup for what it is."
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[THEGUARDIAN] A 30-year-old Victorian man has been charged with arson in relation to last week’s fire at Canberra’s Old Parliament House.
Australian Capital Territory police detectives arrested the man on Sunday night in the ACT suburb of Parkes.
Police allege the fire during a protest last week was deliberately lit, and have also charged the man with damaging commonwealth property.
He is due to face the ACT magistrates court on Tuesday.
Three other people faced court on Sunday.
Two were charged with assaulting a frontline service provider and the third was charged with hindering a territory official.
Old Parliament House was closed after the front doors of the heritage-listed building were burnt in Thursday’s fire, causing potentially irreparable damage.
Police confirmed officials had agreed a small smoking ceremony could take place as part of a peaceful protest but said it got "a little bit out of hand".
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YouTube has removed Joe Rogan's three-hour and six-minute podcast episode with Dr Robert Malone, which was posted on New Year's Eve
Malone, 61, claimed to have invented the mRNA technology used in Covid-19 vaccines when he was just 28 years old
During the podcast, Malone drew parallels between the US and Nazi Germany with 'mass formation psychosis' and intelligent people 'barking mad'
Malone even questioned the effectiveness of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine in a tweet posted the day before his account was suspended on December 30
Yet despite creating the technology, Malone said he still speaks out about getting jabbed simply 'because it's the right thing to do'
He told Rogan that government-imposed vaccine mandates are destroying the medical field 'for financial incentives (and) political a**-covering'
The episode was posted in full on an account not affiliated with Joe Rogan but was later removed. The audio-only version of the episode is still on Spotify
Despite Malone's claims on the podcast, 62 percent of the American population is vaccinated and another 73.3 percent have at least one dose of a vaccine
Related: The video was uploaded to Rumble here, all 3+ hours of it.
[TOWNHALL] Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA) said on Sunday that Twitter’s permanent ban on Republican Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (GA) is "a little too late" and that it’s a good thing her voice was taken "out of the mix." As Landon covered, Greene’s personal Twitter account was permanently suspended from Twitter on Sunday over her "repeated violations" of the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy.
"We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy. We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement.
As Landon mentioned in his report, Greene posted a Twitter thread on Saturday about life before and after the Wuhan coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic where she claimed that there are "extremely high amounts of covid vaccine deaths." Greene’s office told the Washington Examiner that the thread caused her suspension from Twitter, but the platform did not confirm whether or not this was the case.
Following her suspension from the platform, Greene published a statement on Telegram where she said that "Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth" and "I’ll show America we don’t need them and it’s time to defeat our enemies."
"The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters ...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 30.09308 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 45.09103 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist... can go to the streets and threaten violence on Twitter, Kamala and Ilhan can bail out Black Lives Matter bully boyz on Twitter, CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... and the rest of the Democrat Propaganda Media can spread Russia collusion lies, and just yesterday the Chief front man for terrorist IRGC can tweet mourning Soleimani, but I get suspended for tweeting VAERS statistics," Greene said in the statement.
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Democrats do love censorship of other than their own BS
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Bello Turji, a notorious bandidos’ leader in Zamfara State, on Monday, released 52 people who had been under captivity for a long time, Daily Trust reports.
"The freed captives are currently being moved from the forest to an agreed spot where they will be ferried to Shinkafi town.
"Buses have been lined up and have been directed to start moving towards Maberiya, an area just 5km east of Shinkafi town," a resident who craved anonymity said.
Turji is the arrowhead of killings and kidnappings around Shinkafi — Sabon Birni and Isah local government areas of Zamfara and Sokoto states.
Last month, Turji wrote Shinkafi Emirate Council, stressing his willingness to lay down his arms and embrace peace.
Sources said it was part of the dialogue with Turji that led to the release of the kidnapped victims.
Security sources had in 2021 told SaharaReporters that Turji was trained by Buharin Daji, a notorious bandit that was killed by security operatives about three years ago.
Turji took charge of the Shinkafi armed wing of the group after the demise of Daji.
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Who in the fuck tested wild deer? These people are insane as fuck.
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Deer are tested for all kinds of diseases. CWD, Chronic Wasting Disease comes to mind, bluetongue, EHD, lice and ticks. Hunters try not to shoot an unhealthy looking deer, but sometimes it happens. State fish and game agencies are helpful in such matters. I suppose someone threw C19 into the mix for the heck of it.
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.
Starred with Bogart in the 1937 
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...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important....jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
...46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the 
...racist would-be rapper, actual wife beater and career criminal, responsible for the Waukesha Christmas parade massacre...
[AlAhram] Egypt has released Paleostinian-Egyptian activist 
...... 46th president of the U.S. 
[NEWS.YAHOO] To left-leaning Democrats, 
...46th president of the U.S. 
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to 
