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Fred, I am not here always, and I've come to you late. Please post another front page to Betty Davis and Gary Merrill, because I knew both of them personally. I would like to relate my exposure to these Icons of American Theater and Film, all good, yet potentially so enlightening, but my time grows short on this day.
Rantburg would be exactly the perfect venue for this exclusive, Thanks Bill
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[US News] ISLAMABAD (AP) — At least 22 people, including 10 children, died in a popular mountain resort town in Pakistan after being stuck in their vehicles overnight during a heavy snowstorm as temperatures plummeted, officials said Saturday.
Most of the victims died of hypothermia, officials said. Among them was an Islamabad police officer and seven other members of his family, fellow police officer Atiq Ahmed said.
More than 4 feet (1 meter) of snow fell in the area of the Murree Hills resort overnight Friday and early Saturday, trapping thousands of cars on roadways, said Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. The snow was so severe that heavy equipment brought in to clear it initially got stuck during the night, said Umar Maqbool, assistant commissioner for the town of Murree. Temperatures fell to minus 8 degrees Celsius (17.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
Officials called in paramilitary troops and a special military mountain unit to help. By late Saturday, thousands of vehicles had been pulled from the snow but more than a thousand were still stuck, Ahmed said.
[Jpost] Israelis are known for flouting laws and rules. The comments are classic.
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I peruse the JPost nearly daily online because A) they are our main ally in a volatile area, B) They are technologically advanced compared to their neighbors, C) They have an existential threat in Iran, Paleos, and Hezbollah, and D) they are Covid cutting edge.
D) has taken the lead daily in the JPost to the point of hysteria. This is more of the same
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Collapsing now.
Omicron's the last hurrah: its mild, you nitwits, and nearly everyone will catch it.
Gummint won't give up the manipulation of our daily lives down to the smallest detail.
COVIDians won't give up their shiny new religion.
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Ok, so treat it like a religion. Live & let live. Tolerance.
You want to worship St Anthony the Small, wear a talisman around your mug, light candles and chant Woke vespers? Go for it! Create your own houses of worship. Your own restaurants and bars, clubs and gyms, theaters schools swimming pools and ballfields. Your own hospitals and schools and colleges.
Every type of institution that can currently bear a Catholic label can also be used by the New Religion:
- charitable order: Covidian Little Sisters of the Poor
- school for girlz / alphabetters: Sacred Vaccinated Heart
- hospital: Saint WHO Medical
- fraternal organization: Knights of Fauci
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I totally agree, Merrick. Also, the left can learn to respect me saying "I don't believe in your god," same as they do for all the atheists out there.
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Gromguru's Covidian Correctional School for Wayward Girls
... in Austria, the thrice-vaccinated chancellor Karl Nehammer has tested positive for Corona. The news comes as Austria announces they will delay implementing their vaccine mandate by two months. It will now take effect in April, if at all.
Gerald Gartlehner, an epidemiologist and sometime governmental adviser, suggested that mandates (or at least their enforcement) might have to be re-evaluated in light of Omicron and the widespread immunity the new variant will elicit across the Austrian population. There is every reason to think that Austria will be past the peak of the Omicron wave in April, and that a majority of Austrians with have SARS-2 antibodies by then.
Top epidemiologist Harvey Risch blasts Fauci's COVID strategy, CDC data and research
"Dr. Fauci has interests that do not align with the public health [finanicial] interests of the United States," epidemiologist Harvey Risch says. ...
"[St. Fauci] has been canonized" as a public health guru "because of his political abilities, but not because of expertise," Risch claimed.
The "original sin" of the pandemic is suppressing early outpatient treatment. The U.S. should have "released the strategic national stockpile of hydroxychloroquine" and promoted ivermectin and other inexpensive drugs that are used in combination to take out the "evasive beasts" early in viral infection, he said.
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* s/b "Fauci has finanicial interests that do not align with the public health interests of the United States," epidemiologist Harvey Risch says. ..
[JPost] An air strike in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray killed 56 people and wounded at least 30 in a camp for the internally displaced, two aid workers told Reuters on Saturday, citing local authorities and eyewitness accounts.
Military spokesman Colonel Getnet Adane and government spokesman Legesse Tulu did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The government has previously denied targeting civilians in the 14-month conflict with rebellious Tigrayan forces.
Both aid workers, who asked not to be named as they are not authorized to speak to the media, said the number of dead was confirmed by the local authorities.
The aid workers sent Reuters pictures they said they had taken of the wounded in hospital, who included many children.
The strike hit the camp in the town of Dedebit, in the northwest of the region near the border with Eritrea, late on Friday night, the aid workers said.
One of the aid workers, who visited Shire Shul General Hospital where the injured were brought for treatment, said the camp hosts many old women and children.
"They told me the bombs came at midnight. It was completely dark and they couldn't escape," the aid worker said.
Ethiopian federal troops went to war with rebellious Tigrayan forces in November 2020.
Before the latest strike, at least 146 people have been killed and 213 injured in air strikes in Tigray since Oct. 18, according to a document prepared by aid agencies and shared with Reuters this week.
NEW YORK, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The possible failure of a juror in Ghislaine Maxwell's trial to disclose that he was a victim of sexual abuse may not be enough to overturn the British socialite's sex trafficking conviction and warrant a new trial, legal experts said on Thursday.
Maxwell, 60, was convicted last week on sex trafficking and other charges for recruiting teenage girls to have sexual encounters with Jeffrey Epstein. Her lawyers asked for a new trial after the juror told Reuters and other news outlets that he shared his experience of sexual abuse during deliberations.
It was unclear whether the juror, who asked to be identified by his first and middle names, Scotty David, revealed that experience during pre-trial vetting.
But not all instances of jurors failing to disclose information are significant enough to merit a new trial, experts said, noting that cases where verdicts were overturned largely involved jurors who deliberately omitted information to try to get on the panel.
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This D-bag says he convinced two other jurors in deliberations with his tales from being someone's sex toy. Another juror also withheld abuse history but revealed it to the media after the trial. She'll get a new trial
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I'm sure that suddenly after the jury came to the wrong decision some close relative of hers came into a lot of money and another had a non-fatal accident of some type. Unconnected of course but the combination brought back trauma that might justify a re-trial that could set Maxwell free where she could commit suicide in the peace of her own home.
[Jpost] Ramy Shaath, 50, was arrested in 2019 together with several Egyptian activists and businessmen on suspicion of assisting a terrorist group: the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
Egyptian authorities have freed Egyptian-Palestinian rights activist Ramy Shaath after more than 900 days of arbitrary detention, a statement from Shaath's family said on Saturday.
Shaath, who was a member of several secular political groups in Egypt and a co-founder of Egypt's pro-Palestinian BDS movement, had been forced to renounce his Egyptian citizenship and was on his way to France, his family said.
"If we are glad that the Egyptian authorities heard our call for freedom, we regret that they forced Ramy to renounce his Egyptian citizenship as a precondition for his release that should have been unconditional," the family statement said.
"No one should have to choose between their freedom and their citizenship."
Shaath, 50, a co-founder of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Egypt, is the son of Nabil Shaath, a former Palestinian Authority foreign minister and veteran member of the Palestinian leadership.
He was arrested in 2019 together with several Egyptian activists and businessmen on suspicion of assisting a terrorist group, the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, in the case known as Al-Amal (Hope) Cell.
He also faced charges of disseminating false news about political and economic conditions in Egypt.
The younger Shaath is on his way to France, where he will join his wife, French national Celine Lebrun, who was deported from Egypt after her husband’s arrest, according to Palestinian and Egyptian sources.
An Egyptian court had added Shaath and 12 defendants linked to Al-Amal Cell to Egypt’s terrorism list for a period of five years.
“[Muslim] Brotherhood fugitive leaders, including Mahmoud Fathi, Ahmed Mohammed Abdel Hadi and Ali al-Sayed Ahmed, plotted to provide financial support [to the defendants] for their hostile actions against the Egyptian state with the aim of harming national interest and economic security and carrying out aggressive actions against the army and the police,” the court ruled.
The Brotherhood leaders allegedly recruited Shaath and other activists and provided them with weapons and firearms to carry out schemes against the Egyptian authorities, according to the court.
Shaath, who was born in Lebanon, moved to Cairo with his family in 1977, his family said in a statement after his arrest.
“He dedicated his entire life to the defense of Palestinian rights and to freedom and justice in the region,” the statement said.
“He served as a political and strategic consultant to former PA president Yasser Arafat,” it said. “From Cairo, he played an active role in the negotiations for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state; after the negotiations failed, he withdrew from politics in the late 1990s.
“Much later, in 2010 as a movement for democracy and social justice was growing in Egypt, Ramy joined the coalition of activists who led the popular uprising that led to the ousting of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.”
The family accused the Egyptian authorities of “persecuting Ramy for many years for his public positions against all forms of political repression in Egypt, as well as his defense of Palestinian rights against Israeli occupation and apartheid.”
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According to unreliable sources, Antoine Fauveau *did* survive and was known as One-Nipple Tony to his friends, although they never said it to what was left of his face.
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I don't get it.
My mother put me in the trunk on more than one occasion. Most often for fighting with my sister.
What's the big deal, look how I turned out.
[Mercer]Excerpt:
"I understand why you are unaware of what’s going on in Biden’s America, among regular Americans: As a news-consumer myself who must consume the repulsive, ethics-abnegating, fake progressive media—I see that most of the legacy media’s time is devoted to prosecuting an ex-president, Trump, and maligning into oblivion his Deplorable base, whom they now accuse of spreading The Disease (as the ’unvaccinated’), and being a source of domestic terrorism. Media report not at all about Joe Biden’s policies and their impact on the average Joe."
Put it this way, when Trump is dead and gone, the same fraudulent, outlets, conjuring this alternate-reality, will continue to "report" on the "legacy of Trump." This, these fake-news frauds will frame as the news du jour.
[New York Times] VIENNA — I recently found myself in a conversation with a libertarian journalist who was visiting here. "Should we be surprised that Austria decided to lock down the unvaccinated and that the government is pushing for mandatory vaccination?" he bellowed at me. "Was it not the Austrians and the Germans who were first to lock down their minorities in the 1930s?" It’s the kind of mind-blowing exaggeration that is so typical these days of vaccine skeptics and the anti-lockdown right.
The specter of fascism is never far away in European politics, and accusing your enemies of being the heirs to Hitler has been popular since the end of World War II. But something truly surreal is underway: Traditionally, it was the parties of the far right, some of them with roots in the Nazi past, that were accused of fascist tendencies. Now they are the accusers. I’ve even heard some vaccine skeptics and anti-lockdown activists call for a Nuremberg trial for anyone who advocates mandatory vaccination.
Will these attempts to impugn the overweening state and accuse mainstream politicians of medical fascism work? Maybe. A recent survey by the European Council on Foreign Relations indicates that although most West Europeans support the restrictive policies their governments have put in place to fight the coronavirus, many also have mixed feelings. Almost half of Austrians and Germans, the poll found, experience the Covid pandemic as a loss of freedom. Populists are eager to weaponize this.
For the moment, they are failing. Recent elections in Germany, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria indicate that voters are less ready to follow populist leaders than they were just a few years ago. A YouGov-Cambridge Globalism study found in November that populist beliefs had "broadly declined" in 10 European countries over the past three years but that at the same time, conspiratorial beliefs are on the rise. I worry that the longer the pandemic restrictions continue and the harsher the economic effects are felt, the more likely populists’ arguments will resonate with the public.
The populist right has in recent months undergone an identity shift. It used to be that these parties claimed, with their positions on immigration and cultural change, to speak for "the people," a silent majority. That doesn’t work anymore. Austria’s Freedom Party, for example, has adopted a hard-line anti-vaccination stance. But holding this position means that it can no longer claim to be the champion of the majority; most Austrians have chosen to get vaccinated. At least in Western Europe, the vaccinated are the majority. Not surprisingly, when populists are in power — as they are in Hungary and Poland — they adopt vaccine and lockdown policies similar to those introduced by mainstream parties elsewhere.
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So the Nazi party has its roots in the far right? Um, nope. If they got that one simple fact incorrect, the rest of this article is base in lies and distortion.
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If every single one, and it must be every single one, of the slight majority has had the recommended four shots, but the new vax, sorry, up-to-date, recommendation is now five shots, then the compliance rate is likely closer to 1% at the moment.
[Head Topics] As the centerpiece of a multipronged initiative to combat climate change, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed on Wednesday a first-of-its-kind, state-wide ban on natural gas hookups in all new buildings.
While the measure would have to be passed by the state legislature, it already enjoys some support in the state Capitol.“Growing the demand for natural gas is exactly what the world does not need right now,” New York state Sen. Brian Kavanagh, who has sponsored legislation to phase out the use of natural gas in residential and commercial buildings,
told the publication Stateline on Thursday. “If you build buildings that rely on fossil fuels, you are baking in very long-term needs.Kavanaugh, like Hochul and the large majority of members in both chambers of New York’s legislature, is a Democrat. On the other side of the aisle, 20 Republican-dominated states have passed laws preventing local governments from banning fossil fuel infrastructure. headtopics.com
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Not to worry. There will be no additional electric generating capacity built, and no nasty high-tension lines to bring power from other places either. Which is just as well, as there is no new capacity being built anywhere in the blue, NIMBY northeast.
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So. What is the over/under on NYC running out of U-Hauls next?
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Discouraging natural gas heating in a dense urban setting has reasons (fire control), but doing so while discouraging new dependable local all-weather electrical production (*cough* nukes *cough*) is madness.
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[NewsReadOnline] In Kazakhstan on January 7, crime boss Arman Dzhumageldiev was detained in a pseudo ” Wild Arman “.
This is reported by Sputnik Kazakhstan.
Wild Arman is suspected of involvement in the riots in the country. According to available information, Dzhumageldiev recently returned to Kazakhstan from Turkey.
According to the Russian “Interfax”, together with “Dikim Arman” security forces detained six more people in Almaty. The detainees allegedly found four semi-automatic pistols of different brands and calibers, ammunition for them, edged weapons, and an armored vehicle. So far, all this has been confiscated from them.
According to Telegram channels, Dzhumageldiev flew to Kazakhstan to support the protesters, but after a skirmish with them, during which he was beaten, he began to call for an end to the violence and protests.
As a reminder, protests over gas prices began in Kazakhstan in early January.
As reported, the President of Kazakhstan, Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev, said that he had given an order to the security forces open fire to kill without warning. He stressed that "whoever does not surrender will be destroyed."
[American Thinker] People are moving from high-tax Democrat-run states to states that are more welcoming to businesses and individuals. The way Illinois is run shows many reasons why.
In Illinois, the legislature schedules adjournment by May 31, and their salary is $69,464 per year. They also get substantial pensions and other benefits with a few years of service. They also get an extra salary if they are a leader or head of a committee. The Legislature is very generous to itself.
This year, they are scheduling adjournment by early April so they can campaign. My guess is that their opponents don't get taxpayer-paid time off to campaign.
They will probably have fewer than thirty scheduled legislative days this year for their salary. They will make as much for a few days in session as the median family makes in Illinois in a year.
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Approaching the 10th anniversary of the bridge closure across the Wabash at New Harmony. If you wish to leave Illinois, you'll have to find another way out. BTW, the bridge at nearby I-64 is still open but crumbling and in need of tens of millions of dollars in repairs.
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Don't worry. Chicago and its suburbs AKA Illinios will continue to stay the course. Everything is working so well after all. For the past 20 years or more we've seen a steady stream of FIBs moving north from the NE corner of Illinios
[American Thinker] Sen. Tom Cotton took a lot of opprobrium for bringing up, during this year's stimulus debates in Congress, that some really vile people would get checks, given the poor construction of the Democrat-led law.
"If you see something, say something."
Why a killer like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the last living 2013 Boston Bomber, would somehow need a federal stimulus check, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, went unanswered. What the heck would he spend it on, other than to give it to his terrorist buddies? All sorts of jailbirds would get them — Chapo Guzmán? The shoe bomber? The underwear bomber? Susan Smith? Scott Peterson? The subhumans who shot up the synagogues in Philadelphia and Poway, Calif.? The freak who machine-gunned the theater in Aurora, Colorado? Parkland killer Nikolas Cruz? The demonic animal who killed the kindly black churchgoers who welcomed him into their Bible study in South Carolina? The dirtbags who shot Reps. Gabby Gifford and Steve Scalise? Ghislaine Maxwell and, while he was alive, Jeffrey Epstein? Based on the logic of the bill, they all could get their stimulus checks, too.
It was grotesque. Nobody wants the scum of the earth voting while they are incarcerated. But somehow, Democrats wanted to hand them money.
But when Cotton brought the matter up as a legitimate point of concern in Congress, which is actually his job, he was raked through the press as a fear-monger, and worse still, called a liar by someone who should have known better: the chief fact-checker for the Washington Post, Glenn Kessler.
Turns out Cotton was right, though, and now prosecutors are trying to claw back that stimulus check to compensate Tsarnaev's victims. According to Newsweek:
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Globetrotters with no visible sources of income, how exactly does that happen? I doubt it was the first US Government compensation he or his late brother have received.
[Breitbart] CLAIM: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: "We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators," from coronavirus.
VERDICT: FALSE. There are about 4,000 children in hospital from coronavirus.
Justice Sotomayor made several factually false statements during oral arguments Friday at the Supreme Court, as the justices considered challenges to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates, including a mandate on large private employers. Or was it 100,000,000? Welcome to the island of the dreadfully misinformed. We'll be blowing the ships horn when it's time to reboard.
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Glenmore: I think by now they've crunched the numbers out of the databases from the initial wave in China and have lists of any potential helpful drug to generate studies to prove they'll all give you strokes.
[BenarNews] Moslem leaders in the southern Philippines on Friday urged President Rodrigo Duterte to repeal a recently signed law criminalizing child marriage, saying it was part of their culture.
The law, which became effective last month but was announced late Thursday, prohibits the marriage of anyone younger than 18.
The community in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao does not support the law, said Romeo Sema, the region’s labor and employment minister.
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China limits foreign buyers to a single property.
Why doesn't everyone else do the same to them? They just buy these properties and then sit on them because their money has nowhere else to go. If they keep it in China, they lose it.
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Back when Japan was buying everything, analyst Ralph Acampora said, "That's fine. What are they going to do, take it back to Japan? They have to pay taxes on it here. The money spent to purchase it is now here."
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We gave an entire class of enablers who make millions off of foreign flight capital: Citigroup, BoA, JPMChase; real estate developers and brokers; tens of thousands of lashes and accountants; and of course the blue political class in CA WA and NY
[BBC] The Coast Guard has taken delivery of the last Fast Response Cutter the service plans to station in Bahrain.
Bollinger Shipyards, which builds the Fast Response Cutters, in a Thursday news release announced the delivery of the cutter Clarence Sutphin.
“USCGC Clarence Sutphin is the final of six FRCs to be home-ported in Manama, Bahrain, which will replace the aging 110’ Island Class Patrol Boats, built by Bollinger Shipyards 30 years ago, supporting the Patrol Forces Southwest Asia (PATFORSWA), the U.S. Coast Guard’s largest overseas presence outside the United States,” the company said in the release.
USCGC Clarence Sutphin is part of the Sentinel-class of Fast Response Cutters built by Bollinger in its Louisiana shipyard. The ship is set to be commissioned in April.
Once based in Manama, Bahrain, the new cutter will work with the Coast Guard’s Patrol Forces Southwest Asia.
“Ensuring that the brave men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard have the most state-of-the-art, advanced vessels as they work to build and maintain the necessary regional alliances to ensure maritime security in the region is a top priority,” Ben Bordelon, the president of Bollinger, said in the release. “Bollinger is proud to continue enhancing and supporting the U.S. Coast Guard’s operational presence in the Middle East and ensuring it remains the preferred partner around the world.”
The ships are 154 feet long and can go more than 28 knots, according to a promotional video from Bollinger.
The Coast Guard also has several Fast Response Cutters based in Guam for operations in the Indo-Pacific. The service in July commissioned three cutters in Guam – USCGC Frederick Hatch (WPC-1143), USCGC Myrtle Hazard (WPC-1139) and USCGC Oliver Henry (WPC-1140).
“The triple commissioning of Coast Guard cutters Myrtle Hazard, Oliver Henry and Frederick Hatch signals our dedication to regional partners and the growing maritime demand in the region,” Coast Guard Forces Micronesia Sector Guam commander Capt. Nick Simmons said in a July news release about the commissionings.
At the time, the Coast Guard said it has contracted for 60 Fast Response Cutters and that 43 were currently operating in the fleet.
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[REGNUM] The Kuril Islands are the key to the safety of navigation and fishing in the Sea of Okhotsk, the safety of its coast. By and large, the Kuril Islands are also a shield for the Russian Far East.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has filed a chargesheet against five operatives of the al-Qaeda in connection with a conspiracy to carry out kabooms in Uttar Pradesh.
Those charged are Museeruddin, Minhaj Ahmad, Shakeel, Mustaqeem and Mohammad Moid. Investigation revealed that accused Minhaj Ahmad was radicalized online by two Al Qaeda murderous Moslems based in Jammu and 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.... He had entered into a conspiracy with them for further recruiting members for al-Qaeda affiliate AGH (Ansaar Gajwatul Hind) and for committing terrorist acts.
He recruited Museeruddin into Al Qaeda fold and involved him in the conspiracy for committing terrorist acts in UP. Museeruddin and Minhaj Ahmad procured arms, ammunitions, kaboom and conducted reconnaissance of vulnerable areas for carrying out blasts with an intention to wage war against Govt. of India. Other three accused Shakeel, Mohd. Mustaqeem and Mohammad Moid aided and abetted Minhaj and Museeruddin in procuring weapons and ammunitions, thus becoming a party in furtherance of the conspiracy.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin assured that everything will be done so that the law on life imprisonment for pedophiles was adopted in January 2022.
"We will do everything so that the law on life imprisonment for pedophiles was adopted in January," Volodin said in the Telegram channel.
At the same time, in his opinion, it is necessary to work out with the Federal Penitentiary Service questions about the special detention of such criminals, in the most severe conditions.
"Criminals under such articles must serve life sentences in the most severe conditions - in the northern territories, mines. These geeks have to work hard to earn their own living, every day to remember the atrocities committed, to regret it.
The issue must be worked out jointly with the Federal Penitentiary Service," said the speaker of the State Duma.
As reported earlier by IA REGNUM , two men were detained in Kostroma, suspected of the brutal murder of a five-year-old girl. According to the investigation, on January 4, 2022, the child was abducted while walking by two men and carried away in an unknown direction. One of the men turned out to be a recidivist pedophile.
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My darling wife the psychologist has worked with numerous pedophiles.
She says there is no possibility of rehabilitation and being molested by a pedophile often leads to that behavior
She is a ardent supporter of life imprisonments with no possibility of parole
Pedophiles are predators and are serial offenders
[KriegmanSubstack] BLM Spreads Falsehoods That Have Led to the Murders of Thousands of Black People in the Most Disadvantaged Communities
This is the post that I made to Thomson Reuters’ internal social media site, called the Hub, that precipitated a barrage of hateful and racist attacks from BLM supporters within the company. When I contacted Thomson Reuters’ Human Resources department about the harassment, my post was removed, and I was told I was not allowed to use any company communications channels (email, teams, the Hub, etc.) to discuss the harassment I had experienced. Receiving no support from HR, I raised the issue with my colleagues and senior leadership over email, for which I was fired. Below is the Hub post that precipitated this chain of events, in full.
Blatant hypocrisy, the accepted rewarded Prog norm. [Breitbart] As the media fawned over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) commemorating the January 6 Capitol Hill riot on Thursday, few remembered when she praised protesters who stormed the Wisconsin State Capitol in 2011.
Over a decade ago, in the February of 2011, unionists stormed the Wisconsin State Capitol to prevent a vote on collective bargaining reform – the Act 10 protests. As Fox News noted, “thousands of demonstrators managed to enter the building by violently breaking down doors and shattering windows.”
[OneIndia] India and China have failed to finalise a date for the next round of military level talks. The talks are aimed at de-escalating tensions along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh.
The deadlock continues since Beijing has opposed the proposal made by New Delhi to resolve the remaining issues in the friction points along the LAC in one go.
The last time the two sides met was at the Chuhul-Moldo border on October 10 2021. The Indian side has sent several proposals for the next round of talks, but the response has not been favourable.
India has maintained that all friction points between Depsang and Chumar should be collectively tackled during the military commander level talks. China on the other hand has not been consistent in its replies. It keeps changing its demands and hence the Indian side is not aware of which of the proposals need to be taken seriously, Hindustan Times reported.
"The Indian side...made constructive suggestions for resolving the remaining areas but the Chinese side was not agreeable and also could not provide any forward-looking proposals," a statement after the last round of talks read.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... the psy ops by China are in full swing. First it renamed places in Arunachal Pradesh and then a video of the Chinese flag being hoisted in Galwan Valley went viral.
These type of operations have been going on since the standoff between China and India began along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh. It may be recalled that in September 16 2020, the Chinese PLA had tried to bring down the morale of the Indian troops.
The Chinese had put up loudspeakers and were making announcements in Hindi about the futility about being deployed at these heights. Constant attempts also made to tell the Indian soldiers that they are deployed here in the winter only because of the fancies of their leaders in New Delhi.
This was done after the Indian Army thwarted a PLA attempt on Rezang La and Rechin La Ridgeline. India had on August 29 repositioned its troops and dominated the heights of Finger 4 on the north bank of Pangong Tso. This move by India had taken the Chinese aback and today the PLA is resorting to psy-ops to demoralise the Indian troops.
In a tweet Global Times said, "in the Galwan Valley near the border with #India, under the characters "Never yield an inch of land," PLA soldiers send new year greetings to Chinese people on January 1, 2022."
China's national flag rise over Galwan Valley on the New Year Day of 2022. This national flag is very special since it once flew over Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Shen Shiwe who is part of the China state affiliated media said in another tweet.
Last week, India rejected China renaming some places in Arunachal Pradesh and asserted that the state has "always been" and will "always be" an integral part of India as assigning "invented" names does not alter this fact.
India's assertion came in response to Beijing announcing Chinese names for 15 more places in Arunachal Pradesh which the neighbouring country claims as South Tibet.
"We have seen such reports. This is not the first time China has attempted such a renaming of places in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. China had also sought to assign such names in April 2017," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said.
"Arunachal Pradesh has always been, and will always be an integral part of India. Assigning invented names to places in Arunachal Pradesh does not alter this fact," he said.
[OneIndia] A day after India asserted that the area where China is currently building a bridge across the Pangong lake in eastern Ladakh has been under illegal occupation of that country for around 60 years, Beijing claimed that its "infrastructure construction" is aimed at safeguarding China's territorial illusory sovereignty.India on Thursday said the bridge being built by China across the Pangong lake in eastern Ladakh is in an area that has been under illegal occupation of China for around 60 years and it has never accepted such action.
At a media briefing in New Delhi, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said "as regards reports about a bridge being made by the Chinese side on Pangong lake, the government has been monitoring this activity closely." "This bridge is being constructed in areas that have been under illegal occupation by China for around 60 years now.
As you are well aware India has never accepted such illegal occupation," he said. Bagchi said India has been taking all necessary steps to ensure that its security interests are fully protected. Asked for his reaction to Bagchi's remarks, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told a media briefing here on Friday that "I'm not aware of the situation you mentioned" without directly mentioning the Pangong Tso bridge.
"I want to stress that China's infrastructure construction on its territory entirely falls within its illusory sovereignty and is aimed at safeguarding China's territorial illusory sovereignty and security as well as peace and stability in the China-India border", Wang said.
Satellite images of the bridge being built in the Khurnak area surfaced on Monday following which military experts said the aim of the construction is to ensure that the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is able to quickly mobilise its troops in the region. China has been focusing on strengthening its military infrastructure after Indian troops captured several strategic peaks on the southern bank of the Pangong lake in August 2020 after the PLA attempted to intimidate them in the area.
The Chinese move to build a key bridge came in the midst of the eastern Ladakh border standoff that had erupted on May 5, 2020, following a violent mostly peaceful clash in the Pangong lake areas. As a result of a series of military and diplomatic talks, the two sides completed the disengagement process last year in the north and south banks of the Pangong lake and in the Gogra area.
The 13th round of Corps Commander-level military talks in October ended in a stalemate with the Indian Army saying that the "constructive suggestions" made by it were not agreeable to the Chinese side. In their virtual diplomatic talks on November 18, India and China had agreed to hold the 14th round of military talks at an early date to achieve the objective of complete disengagement at the remaining friction points in eastern Ladakh.
Each side currently has around 50,000 to 60,000 troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the sensitive sector.
[JPost] Gunmen took to the streets of the refugee camp to protest the arrest, with some opening fire.
Palestinian security forces arrested three young Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp, including the son of Zakaria Zubeidi, one of the terrorists who escaped from Gilboa prison, Hebrew media reported early Saturday morning.
The three Palestinians reportedly resisted arrest, so police detained them by force.
Reacting to documentation of the arrest, gunmen took to the streets of the refugee camp in protest, with some opening fire. Palestinian Authority (PA) officials from Ramallah have been working with field activists in the refugee camp to calm the area, according to Haaretz.
Zakaria Zubeidi was the former Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah’s armed wing, and later made recent headlines after escaping prison in September along with five other terrorists by digging a tunnel. All of the inmates were eventually recaptured.
Zubeidi is reportedly a "symbol" of the Second Intifada, which erupted in September 2000, and was even praised by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Fatah upon his escape from Gilboa prison.
Had Zubeidi returned to his home in the Jenin Refugee Camp, Israel would never have been able to recapture him, masked gunmen and political activists said in September.
Zubeidi was reportedly in close contact with several Israelis, including journalists covering Palestinian affairs, and briefed them on the latest developments in Jenin.
According to both Palestinian and Israeli sources, Zubeidi had survived at least four assassination attempts by Israel. He and his men were known to terrorize and intimidate Palestinians in the Jenin area.
In February 2019, he was arrested by the IDF and charged with carrying out at least two shooting attacks on civilian buses in the West Bank.
Another incident in Jenin last month involved the death of a 21-year-old nursing student at Arab American University, which sparked protests in which demonstrators clashed with PA security forces.
[AlAhram] China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday rejected suggestions that Beijing was luring African countries into debt traps by offering them massive loans, dismissing the idea as a "narrative" pushed by opponents to poverty reduction.
Wang, speaking ahead of touring Beijing-funded infrastructure projects in Kenya, said China's considerable lending to Africa was "mutually benefiting" and not a strategy to extract diplomatic and commercial concessions.
"That is simply not a fact. It is speculation being played out by some with ulterior motives," he told news hounds in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa.
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^ Yes. And they are being advised by Ivy League trained "development" experts who are currently welshing on their student loans.
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What will China do when the loans aren't repaid? Or the facilities built with them are "nationalized"? Or when the money just disappears into a numbered bank account?
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The Florida-based company, which was launched in 2013, has fired all of its employees
'Cyber Ninjas is shutting down. All employees have been let go,' Rod Thomson, the company's representative, said Thursday
According to LinkedIn, the firm employs fewer than 12 people
Maricopa County Judge John Hannah said he would levy a $50,000 fine for each day they refused to hand over documents relating to the audit
The report from election officials in Maricopa includes a record of nearly 80 misleading or false claims made by Cyber Ninjas in their audit
The $6million, Republican-backed review of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona's largest county officially ended in September and found no proof that the Arizona election was stolen from Donald Trump
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The fraud wasn't hidden; it occurred in broad daylight. Mail-in ballots in a mass scale, with zero in the way of chain of custody or audit trail.
"Harvested" and "cured" ballots -- by anti-Trump operatives paid for out of a tech oligarch's $440 million slush fund.
Collusion by all of the nation's media outlets to destroy any and all mention of clear, dispositive, massive forensic endence of one candidate's gross corruption and lies about same.
Organized nationwide lawfare and bullying of the other party's election officials by one party's bully boy lawyers.
Ridiculous shit involving floating-point decimal tallies of votes by a partisan voting machine company...midnight suitcases full of ballots... unmarked vans bearing tens of thousands of ballots all marked one way and only for the senile muppet atop one party's ticket... 11th-hour "everyone out of the building, fire drill" bullshit resulting in only one party's election monitors being forced out of the counting room: all of this third-world banana republic nonsense documented on video....
All of the above was legal. It all happened in front of our eyes. The party that staged all of it has admitted openly to it, and one of their media hacks has openly admitted that they "rigged" the election.
We all know this. All the legal skirmishing now is just Swamp Kabuki. Sound & fury, signifying nothing.
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None of that chicanery was legal, Merrick. It just is traditional in certain states and precincts, though generally on a much smaller scale. In 2020 we had a perfect storm of reduced supervision because of widespread mail-in ballots and panicking Democrats doing all the things as much as possible instead of a few of the things. But I recall discussions here in previous election years about precincts with over 100% participation, voting machines jiggered to deliver votes preferentially to Democrats, harvesting ballots from retirement homes/immigrants/the homeless, multiple registrations at multiple addresses for a single person, registrations for imaginary people at imaginary addresses, bins of uncounted votes “found” in car trunks and storage closets, piles of uncounted ballots for the wrong party found in the garbage....
Here are the Rantburg search results going back to 2002 for the term “vote fraud”. It did catch fraud outside of America as well, but gives a representative sample .
[AlAhram] Add Kazakhstan to the list of former Soviet republics whose independence is now being threatened by Russia. Russian leader Vladimir Putin is using a similar playbook in Kazakhstan to one that he has used over almost a decade to threaten the sovereignty of Ukraine.
[MarketWatch] The U.S. created a lackluster 199,000 new jobs in December, signaling that persistent labor shortages and another major coronavirus outbreak are holding back the economy.
The increase in employment was well below Wall Street expectations. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast 422,000 new jobs.
The U.S. jobless rate, meanwhile, slipped to 3.9% from 4.2% and drifted to a new pandemic low. The rate stood at 3.5% right before the pandemic.
The reason for the sharp decline: A separate survey of households from which the rate is derived actually showed a much bigger increase in employment for the second month in a row. also wage rate increased but not as much as inflation
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All those retiring boomers are going to thro the metrics off for years.
And of those youngsters entering the work force, it will be interesting to see their quality of work ethic after they, their peers, teachers, and parents taking two years off.
[Bearing Arms] Cage was speaking as part of a wide-ranging roundtable discussion for the Hollywood Reporter with fellow actors including Peter Dinklage, Jonathan Majors and Andrew Garfield. On being asked whether guns should be banned from film sets in the wake of the Rust shooting, Cage responded by saying that "movie stars" needed to know how to perform certain activities that may be outside the experience of workaday actors. "You need to know how to fight. You’re going to do fight scenes. You need to know how to ride a motorcycle. You need to know how to use a stick shift and drive sports cars, and you do need to know how to use a gun. You do. You need to take the time to know what the procedure is. Those are part of the job profiles."
Cage also added that these can overlap with the role of a stunt performer, in a mutually beneficial way. "The stunt man and the movie star are two jobs that coexist. Every stunt man needs to be a movie star, and every movie star needs to be a stunt man."
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I've heard countless stories of actors who lied about knowing how to or shoot guns or speak with a posh accent (Michael Caine hired for Zulu) or just ride a horse. When they get to the set and its discovered they lied someone is assigned to teach them.
Retaining that information is another thing.
Bothering about all that when you disrespect guns and gun owners and you are the executive producer and high lord of all you survey is even another thing again.
[IsraelTimes] Erik Kurilla gained extensive experience in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
A senior Army three-star general with extensive experience in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has been nominated to become the top US commander for the Middle East.
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter, close friend of an imaginary negro named Corn Pop. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan.... has nominated Army Lt. Gen. Erik Kurilla to head US Central Command and be promoted to four-star general, according to multiple US officials.
The Senate Armed Services Committee notice says only that Kurilla has been nominated to become a general, and does not detail which job he would get if confirmed. But his nomination for US Central Command has been expected for several months. US officials confirmed the planned job on condition of anonymity because it has not yet been made public.
If confirmed by the Senate, Kurilla would replace Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, who has led the command for the past three years and is expected to retire.
CENTCOM officially assumed responsibility for the US military’s relationship with Israel at the beginning of September. The IDF and CENTCOM have sine held a number of joint exercises.
Israel had previously been kept in the area of responsibility of EUCOM in order to prevent possible tensions between CENTCOM and the Arab and Moslem nations under its purview, many of whom did not maintain formal ties with Israel, and would therefore not want to be considered as mutual allies. The US Central Command’s area of responsibility stretches across the Middle East to Central Asia, including the Persian Gulf region, as well as Afghanistan and Pakistain.
In recent years, however, CENTCOM’s Arab allies have increasingly developed relations with Israel, some informally, so these issues have largely faded.
Thank you, President Trump.
Kurilla would take over as the Pentagon continues to try and shift its focus to the Indo-Pacific and counter a rising China, and to bolster defenses against Russia in Europe, where Moscow is massing troops near the Ukraine border, fueling fears of an invasion.
The US has withdrawn all forces from Afghanistan and has now formally shifted its role in Iraq from combat to advising and assisting the Iraqi forces. But the US strategy to put more emphasis on China and Russia has been repeatedly stymied by Iran, forcing the Pentagon to maintain a significant troop presence across the Middle East and cultivate strong relations with allies in the region.
In recent weeks, Iranian-backed militia groups have increased the pace of their attacks on US and allied forces in Iraq and Syria. The groups have made it clear they want all US troops out of Iraq, and have vowed to continue attacks until they are gone.
Kurilla, who is from Elk River, Minnesota, is currently commander of the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, but previously served as the chief of staff at Central Command, working for McKenzie and, before that, Gen. Joseph Votel.
He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1988, and has served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, commanding conventional and special operations forces. He commanded a Stryker battalion in Iraq in 2004, and was shot and maimed.
He later was commander of the 75th Ranger Regiment, overseeing combat teams deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. He also served as director of operations at the Joint Special Operations Command and was commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.
[Aljazeera] Sidney Poitier, who broke racial barriers to become the first Black actor to win the best actor Oscar award and inspired a generation during the United States civil rights movement, has died, officials said. He was 94.
Eugene Torchon-Newry, acting director general of the Bahamian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirmed his death on Friday.
Unschooled beyond fourth grade in the Bahamas, sent to America by his parents at 14 to save him from a life of crime, shot in the leg at 16 during a 1943 race riot in Harlem, Poitier worked hard jobs as a menial laborer and an Army hospital orderly before he happened to spot an audition notice for the Negro Ensemble Theater.
He was dismissed by the NET due to a thick accent and halting reading skills — and thereupon began the process of willing himself into becoming the most important American black pop culture figure of the 20th century.
Poitier sat before a radio and trained his own voice, remaking it until he achieved the indelible sing-song baritone that — a little like Cary Grant’s — sounded like no one else’s on Earth. He got into the theater troupe and made conscious use of a charisma that emanated from him like a pheromone.
Four years later he had his first starring role in a movie — 1950’s “No Way Out.” He was all of 22. And he was playing a doctor. He would do so again, 17 years later, in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” the first major motion picture to feature a black man and a white woman in a romance.
That film was the representative work of one aspect of his career — the aspect in which he served as the representation of black pride and dignity, a person it would be impossible to consider in any way inferior to anyone else.
Journalists Amady John Wesley and Wilguens Louissaint shot and burned in Haiti
Pair killed by the Ti Makak gang while reporting on lack of security in the midst of a gang turf war in the country's capital city for Canada’s Radio Écoute
Third reporter managed to escape attack in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petion-Ville on Thursday
Not sure WoT is the right place for this. Additional information should clarify.
[IsraelTimes] 39-year-old Pierre Girgis, a dual US-Egyptian citizen, charged with illegally acting as unregistered agent of Egyptian government
US authorities arrested a New York man who allegedly spied on political opponents of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, the Justice Department said.
Pierre Girgis, 39, was charged in New York with acting illegally as an unregistered agent of the Egyptian government.
The department said in a statement that, acting at the direction of Egyptian officials, Girgis "tracked and obtained information regarding political opponents of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi."
Girgis, a dual US-Egyptian citizen, also made arrangements for visiting Egyptian officials, including meetings with US law enforcement, the statement said.
Encrypted messages between Girgis and Egyptian officials showed he was in contact with more than one Cairo government agency for information collection between 2014 and
2019, according to the indictment.
Could be Muslim Brotherhooders, could be ISIS contacts, could just be Egyptian politics — very likely was all of the above...
In 2017, it said, he sent information on an anti-Sissi activist and other individuals that he had obtained from the Egyptian government to US law enforcement officers.
Somebody on our side clearly knew he was connected…
He was charged under a law that makes it illegal to act as a representative of a foreign government without first registering with the Justice Department.
The department "will continue to strictly enforce foreign agent registration laws, which remain critically important to ensuring that our government is not secretly influenced by foreign governments," said US Attorney Damian Williams in a statement."
[IsraelTimes] Quoting Aussie rocker Nick Cave, open letter states that ’cultural boycott of Israel is cowardly and shameful’; 30 acts withdraw over Israel sponsoring one of the shows
Over 120 entertainment industry figures signed an open letter against the boycott of a major cultural festival in Sydney, Australia, that began Thursday, after 30 acts and individuals withdrew over a sponsorship deal with the Israeli embassy.
In the letter published Thursday by the Creative Community for Peace, the signatories said they "believe the cultural boycott movement of the Sydney Festival is an affront to both Paleostinians and Israelis who are working to advance peace through compromise, exchange, and mutual recognition.
"While we all may have differing opinions on the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict and the best path to peace, we all agree that a cultural boycott is not the answer," the letter continued.
It quoted comments made by Aussie rocker Nick Cave in 2018, in which he said: "The cultural boycott of Israel is cowardly and shameful."
"Israel is a real, vibrant, functioning democracy — yes, with Arab members of parliament — and so engaging with Israelis, who vote, may be more helpful than scaring off artists or shutting down means of engagement."
Earlier this week, 30 bands, individual artists, companies, and panel members canceled their gigs or went ahead without sponsorships at the Sydney Festival 2022, in response to the Israeli funding for a show tied to an Israeli choreographer.
The embassy provided $20,000 for "Decadance," a show based on a work by Ohad Naharin and Tel Aviv’s Batsheva Dance Company, as part of the Sydney Festival 2022.
It was performed by the Sydney Dance Company on January 6 at the Sydney Opera House as scheduled, and is scheduled to run through January 9.
On the festival website, the embassy is listed as a "star partner" due to the sponsorship.
Artists pulled out in response to calls for a boycott by Arab, pro-Paleostinian, and other activist groups, The Guardian reported on Tuesday. Some of those who withdrew accused Israel of apartheid practices toward the Paleostinians.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... festival organizers remained determined to allow the performance to go ahead.
The Paleostinian Justice Movement Sydney claimed in December that the Israeli embassy funding was agreed on in May and called for a boycott, accusing the festival of contributing "to the normalization of an apartheid state."
PJMS called for a protest demonstration to be held opposite Sydney’s opera house when the festival kicked off Thursday.
The pro-Paleostinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement says it seeks to end Israel’s control of lands captured in the 1967 Six-Day War and what it describes as discrimination against Israel’s Arab minority. It also calls for a "right of return" for millions of Paleostinian refugees and their descendants to ancestral lands that they fled or were expelled from in the 1948 war during Israel’s creation.
Israeli officials vehemently reject the apartheid accusations, and Israel and other BDS opponents say that the BDS campaign encourages antisemitism and aims to delegitimize or even destroy Israel as a Jewish state.
[Rudaw] Peshmerga forces in Pirde (Altun Kupri) town, Kirkuk province came under attack late Friday, according to a commander and Kurdistan Region’s counter-terrorism forces. No casualties have been reported.
Nuri Hama Ali, a Peshmerga commander in Pirde, told Rudaw that a number of rockets were directed at Peshmerga bases in the district but none of them hit their target and did not cause any casualties.
Kurdistan Region’s counter-terrorism units also reported the attack, saying "eight Katyusha rockets landed near Fifth Front [of Peshmerga] in Pirde, Kirkuk without causing material damage or casualties."
Peshmerga ministry confirmed that the attack did not cause any losses, saying that they have launched an investigation into the incident.
Pirde district is about 40 kilometres northwest of Kirkuk. Peshmerga forces have been targeted by the 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.... (ISIS) there several times late last year. Over 20 members of Peshmerga forces were killed as a result of the assaults.
A Peshmerga fighter was shot and injured by an unidentified gunman in Kirkuk on Friday.
ISIS killed two Peshmerga fighters, Khalid Hameed and Ako Karim, on October 30 in Pirde’s Zorgazraw area.
Iraqi security forces arrested seven ISIS suspects in Kirkuk on Friday, according to Security Media Cell which claimed that they "confessed" to have committed crime in Kirkuk and Anbar provinces.
[Rudaw] A Peshmerga fighter was shot and injured by an unidentified man in Kirkuk in the early hours of Friday morning, an official source confirmed to Rudaw.
"Two bullets were fired from an unknown location which slightly maimed a Peshmerga fighter," Sarkawt Chimany, a commander of the Peshmerga forces, told Rudaw following the incident which took place in the Khasa dam in Kirkuk's Kochak village.
According to Chimany, the Peshmerga fighters within the brigade are on high alert. "We fired back and sent the attackers fleeing," he said.
The village's Facebook page claims that the Peshmerga fighter was maimed by a sniper rifle.
No group has grabbed credit for the shooting yet.
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[BBC] Driving around early on Friday morning, the smell of burnt vehicles was still in the air. Few people were about, many too afraid to come out into the streets.
The army and police are blocking key sites in the city, which has been the focal point of nationwide protests against the government.
When we approached soldiers at the main square they shouted at us and fired warning shots in the air, warning us not to come close.
I've been coming to Almaty for years. It's normally a bustling city, with lots of greenery and places to eat out and drink.
Now though shops and banks have been looted or destroyed. It will take some time for them to recover.
Much of the damage is around the big main square that protesters first went to when the demonstrations began.
Media buildings nearby were attacked and the mayor's office burnt down. It is pitch black now, having been engulfed by black smoke.
We saw no signs of protests on Friday, just a small group of people gathering near the destroyed buildings to take photos on their phones. But we could still hear shooting and explosions, which may have been be stun grenades. When I first arrived I thought there was fog then realised it was more likely to be smoke from the grenades and fireworks.
Several residents I spoke to were shocked and angry. These protests are unprecedented in Kazakhstan, and many here are surprised that they spread and turned violent mostly peaceful so quickly.
Some of those I spoke to are glad to see forces arrive from Russia and other neighbouring countries, hopeful they will restore order.
One woman told me the government should have been firmer from the start.
"If they had used force in the very beginning, this unrest wouldn't have happened," she said. "Maybe they were worried about condemnation, that they used weapons but you see now what this approach led to."
But amid the anger at the violence, there was sympathy for the protesters too. Many of the demonstrators come from rural areas, where pay is low and life is tough.
"I understand the demands of the protesters," said one man, a 22-year-old cook. "We can see that our salaries are not growing and most of the population is struggling. But this is now looting and hooliganism, ordinary people are suffering now. It must be stopped."
Almaty residents now face food shortages, with the big supermarkets closed. Shops that are open only take cash, but it is difficult to find somewhere to withdraw money. There's no internet and even getting a taxi seems too risky.
With the internet hit and phones not working properly, it is hard to find out what's happening outside the city. There are all sorts of rumours being shared that are impossible to check out.
Kazakhstan has never seen protests of this scale. There's been unrest before, but largely localised. None of them resulted in the main airport being attacked.
Plans to raise fuel prices triggered these demonstrations, but there is also widespread discontent about the government.
After the resignation of Kazakhstan's first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev ...served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Cossacks wear those great big hats. Or maybe it's the other way around... , who held office from independence up to 2019, people hoped the new leader Kassym-Jomart Tokayev would bring change.
These expectations were thwarted. In particular, the renaming of the capital Astana to Nur-Sultan, in honour of the former leader, was proof for many the old is elite is still in charge.
For now, things are calming down and the authorities appear to be in control.
But even if these protests have ended for now, the discontent will remain. Perhaps there will be another spark that fuels new ones
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I see our efficient moderators have been at work sponging up the stupidity, however that is no reason to waste a good rant.
"Why are you listening to *those* lying arseholes?" is a not infrequent comment here at the 'Burg.
At first glance, Rantburg appears to be a news aggregator for the War on Terror and Poetry. But we are also playing a higher level game here - Intelligence and Analysis.
No one is claiming that our sources are 100% gold standard true. Sometimes the news is not news, but magician's patter. Sometimes, the informative bits are not the message, but who is saying it and why. The question is not whether they are lying, but what are they selling?
On a personal note, I rather like the idea that Fred's totem animal is the Rhino, a friendly but unstoppable rhinoceros.
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^True. Most* of the longtime commenters here have a known mindset/world opinion - Mine included. The inclusion of foreign and other inputs mean a challenge to the local MSM narratives. I/We post JPost, Khaama, Tolo, and others NOT because we believe that shit verbatim , but to show what others are seeing. Mock away
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*happy sigh* So beautifully said, and so true. Frank G was the efficient one today.
Over the years, some of those who came to troll learnt to appreciate what we do here. Others got spam copped and chew toyed until they retreated in disorder.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Aaron Quinones, 27, has been charged with felony attempted murder after he allegedly tried to strangle an unidentified woman, 26, with a shoelace
The attack happened on January 2 at around 11am near the Miami airport
Quinones was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend two years ago and for larceny in 2013, according to Charlotte police
Public records reveal a long list of previous arrests in North Carolina dating back as early as 2013
On Sunday, Quinones punched the woman repeatedly in the face when she tried to get away before a bystander pried Quinones off her
Damn it Mohammed! Idiot! You had to use the same memory card as our photos for our Yearbook??
[Jpost] Oops! The drone shot down by the IDF on Wednesday had a memory card installed, revealing the Hezbollah operatives' faces and vehicles.
A Hezbollah drone downed by the Israeli military had a memory card with clear pictures of operatives belonging to one of the Lebanese terror group’s elite units.
The drone that was shot down by the IDF on Wednesday after it infiltrated Israeli airspace had images of its operators, belonging to the elite Radwan unit that uses unmanned aerial vehicles to gather intelligence on Israeli troops.
The pictures were likely taken by mistake by the UAV, but the pictures on the memory card revealed their faces, vehicles, complete with their license plates, as well as the operatives flying another drone that had also been downed a few months ago by the IDF.
According to a recent report by the ALMA Research Center, Hezbollah has some 2000 unmanned aerial vehicles, many of them advanced UAVs from Iran, others manufactured independently by the Lebanese terror group. Other UAVs used by Hezbollah are civilian drones, similar to the one downed on Wednesday.
The group was said to have 200 Iranian-made UAVs in 2013 and with the help from the Islamic Republic, it has since significantly increased its fleet that is set to be used for kamikaze attacks on strategic national assets in Israel as well as reconnaissance against IDF troops and bases.
Over the past year, Hezbollah violated Israeli airspace by sending 74 drones into Israel, a decrease from the 94 drones in 2020, but still an increase from 54 UAVs flown over the border in 2019.
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[REGNUM] At least 11 non-combatants were killed in a bully boy attack in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... . This was announced by the governor of Sanmatenga province in an official address.According to him, a group of unknown gunnies attacked the village of Ankuna. At the same time, the bully boyz deliberately attacked civilians. As a result of the attack, 11 people were killed and another was injured. Other details of the attack were not provided. Also, no reported material damage to the villagers.
As reported by IA REGNUM , on December 23, bandidos attacked the border post between Niger and Burkina Faso. It is noted that as a result of the attack, civilians and customs officers were killed, and several people were also injured of varying severity.
n a separate attack, two civilian volunteers working with the army's anti-jihadist campaign were killed at Noaka, also on Wednesday, and stores were put to the torch, the source said.
"The attacks have caused villagers to flee to the town of Kaya," the main town in the Centre-North region, the official said.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. The situation in the country has not yet returned to normal. Sporadic attacks by militant groups, as well as their cleansing, continue in cities, primarily in Alma-Ata. The authorities reported on the establishment of control over all the lost administrations and buildings of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but this of course does not mean that all groups of militants have been eliminated.
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It is becoming more and more obvious that the gas protests were an ordinary screen behind which the struggle of the Kazakh clans was hidden. Talks about the betrayal of some of the leadership of the KNB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the involvement of the Nazarbayev clan, form a situation where accusations of high treason and an attempted coup d'etat can be brought against Nazarbayev's entourage or even Nazarbayev himself (if he is still alive at all).
What facilities are now under the control of Russian troops.
98th Airborne Division:
- Airport Nursultan
- The building of the General Staff
- Telecenter
45th Separate Spetsnaz Airborne Brigade:
- Almaty Airport
- Headquarters Air Defense
- Nursultan
- 602 base
- Shymkent
31st Separate Airborne Brigade:
- Ust-Kamenogorsk
- Kazatomprom
TSSN Senezh
- Presidential Palace Nursultan
- CB
- KNB
414th Separate Naval Infantry Battalion (Caspian Flotilla):
- Port of Aktau
Correction from an earlier remark: As of December, 2021, the Russian 56th Separate Guards Airborne Brigade was reformed as an airborne regiment and folded into the newly formed Russian 77th Mountain Airborne Assault Division, now based in Crimea.
Note also, none of this includes Wagner PMC deployments, which likely were transported in via Russian commercial aircraft.
[Rudaw] Counterterrorism forces in Hasaka province, northeast Syria (Rojava) captured a suspected member of the 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.... (ISIS) late Thursday. He is accused of planning a rocket attack against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and anti-ISIS global coalition, the latter said on Friday.
"InSF HAT conducted an operation last night in Shaddadi, Syria that led to the capture of a #ISIS [Arabic acronym for ISIS] member who was planning a rocket attack against @cmoc_SDF and Coalition forces," the US-led coalition said in a tweet, referring to the Kurdish Internal Security Forces’ (Asayish) counterterrorism forces.
This follows a number of recent attacks on the SDF and coalition forces in the area.
The Coalition said in a statement on Wednesday that they were targeted earlier in the day with eight rounds of indirect fire at SDF’s military base, Green Village, which includes "a small Coalition advisory presence," in northeast Syria. It added that "the attack did not cause any casualties, but several rounds impacted inside the Coalition base and caused minor damage."
The statement also noted that the Coalition "responded swiftly and fired six rounds of artillery towards the point of origin of the attack just outside Mayadin, Syria." The Coalition claimed that Iran-backed militia groups fired on them and the SDF "from within civilian infrastructure with no regard for civilian safety."
[Rudaw] Hundreds of people, including security members, were killed and kidnapped in suspected Ottoman Turkish attacks targeting north and northeastern Syria (Rojava) over the past year, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a recent report displaying the upsurge in offensives in the region.
Over 700 civilians were kidnapped and 134 were maimed in Ottoman Turkish attacks in 2021, the SDF said on Thursday.
One hundred and forty eight SDF members died responding to Ottoman Turkish attacks and pursuing 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.... (ISIS) sleeper cells that remain active in the region, the report added.
Ankara often targets Rojava, killing and injuring civilians and security forces.
Rojava saw 47 Ottoman Turkish ground attacks and incursion attempts, as well as 89 drone offensives, according to the SDF.
Fifty-eight villages and three districts were the targets of direct bombardment. Zirgan district has seen an increase of suspected Ottoman Turkish bombardments recently.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has not yet commented on the report.
At least one person was injured in a Ottoman Turkish attack in the area last year, days after a similar attack took the lives of at least three people in Zirgan.
Rojava’s internal security forces (Asayish) have previously described Turkey’s offensives targeting northern Hasaka as "an attempt to displace the residents."
Hundreds of families have left Zirgan district as Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and bombardment spark fear in the residents, a conflict monitor reported at the beginning of the year.
Turkey has conducted three military operations in northern Syria since 2016, two of them against Kurdish fighters who Ankara considers a branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and a threat to its national security. It has been threatening a new offensive against Kurdish forces in Rojava in recent months.
[SteveKirschSubstack] No need to worry. It is doubtful that anything will happen because the work wasn’t published in a peer-reviewed journal so will be ignored by the scientific community. That’s just the way it works.
#1
Doubters said the vax would stop the virus. We see where that went. Now the vaxxed think 3 shots will protect them, maybe not. The inventor of the mRMA vax suggests otherwise.
#2
This will play out as expected. I see no end in sight and the numbers will only increase. All the while those who refuse vaccines will be blamed for all unforeseen deaths. Like the weather. They can be wrong and still hold on to their jobs.
TITLE: yes, omicron is mild.
refuting the new histrionics from the WHO
DATE: 7 Jan 2021. 11:00am Puerto Rico time
BODY: unless you live in an ice cave, you’ve probably seen this - it’s plastered and search optimized everywhere:
BBC NEWS: DEADLY OMICRON SHOULD *NOT* BE CALLED MILD, says World Health Organization
it’s also just plain wrong. it’s a crazed attempt at histrionics pushed by pandemia’s uncontested “house of wrong.”
such credibility as it once had, the WHO has squandered and then some over these two long years of beclowning themselves with reversals, reversions, fabrications, and fantastical fright narratives, seemingly at random.
this is just more of the same and i’m not even going to try to speculate on motive anymore. it’s just too absurd.
instead, i'll post the notes from a conversation with the head of international infectious disease at mass general that have been going around.
i can vouch for their authenticity.
Notes from a call with Edward Ryan MD, Director of International Infectious Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital:
1 Close to 100% of the positive cases in MA are Omicron. Delta is almost completely gone from New England.
2 This surge will peak sometime between 1/10 and 1/21 and then begin a quick downhill journey of two to four weeks.
3 We will end up with a 20-50% positivity rate.
4 February will be clean up mode, March will begin to return to "normal"
5 Omicron lives in your nose and upper respiratory area which is what makes it so contagious. It isn't able to bond with your lungs like the other variants.
6 The increased hospitalizations should be taken with a grain of salt as most of them are secondary admissions (i.e. people coming in for surgery, broken bones, etc. who are tested for COVID)
7 We won't need a booster for omicron because they wouldn't be able to develop one before it's completely gone and we're all going to get it which will give us the immunity we need to get through it.
8 COVID will join the 4 other coronaviruses we deal with that cause the common cold, upper respiratory infections, RSV, etc. It will become a pediatric disease mainly affecting young children with no immunity.
9 40% of those infected will be asymptomatic
10 Rapid tests are 50-80% sensitive to those with symptoms, only 30-60% sensitive to those without symptoms
11 Contact tracing is worthless because we're all going to get it and there's no way we could keep up with it.
12 We are fighting the last war with COVID and should be pivoting back to normal life, but society isn't quite ready for it yet.
13 There is no need to stay home from work or to be a hermit unless you're immunocompromised or 85 or older, but he does recommend staying away from large gatherings for the next six weeks.
Vince Evans confirmed he is leaving Vice President Kamala Harris' office to take on an executive director role with the Congressional Black Caucus
Comes in the midst of a staff exodus from Harris' office following several reports of a toxic work environment and 'bully' mentality from the vice president
Harris' former chief spokesperson Symone Sanders left at the end of the 2021
Ashley Etienne, Harris' former communications director, left in November
Peter Velz, currently director of press operations for Harris, has also told those in the vice president's office that he plans to leave
#2
The numbers might indicate it's something beyond a personal dislike or individual conflict of wills. Most of us have had to deal with issues such as that.
Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a condition that's characterized by episodes of sudden uncontrollable and inappropriate laughing or crying. Pseudobulbar affect typically occurs in people with certain neurological conditions or injuries, which might affect the way the brain controls emotion.
#10
She's a serious dingbat. It's one thing to be a quota hire. It's quite another to employ other quota hires. No one can remove her from the Naval Observatory before 2024. Why isn't she employing the best people for the job rather than a bunch of quota-determined tenth stringers like herself? None of her staff is gonna to challenge her for the post of heir apparent to Biden.
[Rudaw] America does not attribute the latest attacks on US military in both Iraq and Syria to any particular group, an official from the White House said late Thursday following an upsurge of offensives on bases housing coalition forces
"We don’t have any specific attribution today, in terms of the particular group by name or groups who might be responsible for this," White House spokesperson Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... said in a press briefing.
The US-led coalition fighting the 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.... (ISIS) came under fire in a series of attacks last week, at the same time thousands of people across the Middle East held emotional commemorations marking the second anniversary of the liquidation of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and an Iraqi militia commander in a US dronezap on January 3, 2020.
Psaki noted that "it is certainly possible" for the recent attacks to be due to "the anniversary of the Soleimani strike."
Widely blamed on the Iran-backed militias, attacks on American forces stepped up following Soleimani’s killing, allowing Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... to increase its influence in Iraq.
The American troops shot down two explosive-laden drones targeting a US compound in Baghdad airport on Monday, marking exactly two years since the general’s death.
Photos of the shot-down drones were shared on Telegram channels affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF or Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic) with the phrase "Soleimani's Dire Revenge" written on them.
Five rockets targeted Ain al-Asad airbase on Wednesday evening while "eight rounds of indirect fire" were reported from Syria.
The Pentagon late Tuesday said their troops in Iraq and Syria "remain at risk," after they foiled another rocket attack in northeast Syria (Rojava) and shot down two explosive-laden drones in western Iraq on the same day.
"We continue to see threats against our forces in Iraq and Syria by militia groups that are backed by Iran. But again, I don't have specific attribution on who was responsible for these specific sites," Pentagon spokesperson John F. Kirby said.
The US strike on Soleimani was ordered by former US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... who called Soleimani "the number one terrorist anywhere in the world" and claimed he was planning attacks on US forces. Tehran has threatened Dire Revenge for the general’s death.
Last year, at least 36 rocket and drone attacks were reported on bases and facilities housing US forces and personnel in Iraq and Syria, according to data compiled by Rudaw English.
[REGNUM] Somali security forces repulsed an attack by bully boyz from the al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... terrorist group (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) and eliminated 17 terrorists, Somali national television reports.According to him, the Islamists tried to seize a city in the province of Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... in central Somalia. The security forces managed to stop the terrorist attack, as well as eliminate 17 holy warriors. It is noted that the Somali army has begun to oust forces of Evil from the central and young regions of the country.
As REGNUM reported , on December 30, 2021, fighters of the al-Shabaab terrorist group (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) seized the city of Balad in the state of Hirshabella in Somalia. Then the Islamists managed to take the city as a result of a series of attacks.
[BBC] A UK defence source said it was unlikely the collision was deliberate.
A Russian submarine collided with a Royal Navy warship on patrol in the North Atlantic, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
HMS Northumberland had been tracking the submarine when it hit the ship's sonar - a piece of equipment being trailed hundreds of metres behind it.
The incident, in late 2020, was captured by a television crew filming a documentary.
A UK defence source said it was unlikely the collision was deliberate.
HMS Northumberland was searching for the submarine in the Arctic Circle after it disappeared from the ship's radar, according to Channel 5, which was filming for its Warship: Life at Sea series.
The MoD said the frigate had located the hunter-killer submarine using the towed array sonar - a long tube fitted with sensitive hydrophones to listen under the water.
A periscope was spotted on the surface by the ship's Merlin helicopter before the Russian submarine dived again, hitting HMS Northumberland's sonar. "One ping only, Vasily"
The film cameras captured the crew shouting: "What the hell was that?".
It is not clear what, if any, damage was suffered by the Russian vessel but the warship had to return to port in Scotland to replace the damaged equipment.
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.
[JPost] An air strike in Ethiopia's northern region of 
[Head Topics] As the centerpiece of a multipronged initiative to combat climate change, New York Gov. 
[American Thinker] People are moving from high-tax Democrat-run states to states that are more welcoming to businesses and individuals. The way Illinois is run shows many reasons why.
[Breitbart] CLAIM: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: "We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators," from coronavirus.
[BenarNews] 
[BBC] The Coast Guard has taken delivery of the last Fast Response Cutter the service plans to station in Bahrain.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] .jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[REGNUM] State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin assured that everything will be done so that the law on life imprisonment for pedophiles was adopted in January 2022.
[KriegmanSubstack] BLM Spreads Falsehoods That Have Led to the Murders of Thousands of Black People in the Most Disadvantaged Communities
[Breitbart] As the media fawned over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) commemorating the January 6 Capitol Hill riot on Thursday, few remembered when she praised protesters who stormed the Wisconsin State Capitol in 2011.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
[MarketWatch] The U.S. created a lackluster 199,000 new jobs in December, signaling that persistent labor shortages and another major coronavirus outbreak are holding back the economy.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter, close friend of an imaginary negro named Corn Pop. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan....
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
...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 
[BBC] Driving around early on Friday morning, the smell of burnt vehicles was still in the air. Few people were about, many too afraid to come out into the streets.
...
[SteveKirschSubstack] No need to worry. It is doubtful that anything will happen because the work wasn’t published in a peer-reviewed journal so will be ignored by the scientific community. That’s just the way it works.
[Rudaw] America does not attribute the latest attacks on US military in both Iraq and Syria to any particular group, an official from the White House said late Thursday following an upsurge of offensives on bases housing coalition forces
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
[BBC] A UK defence source said it was unlikely the collision was deliberate.
