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I don't know if anybody watched ABC News Live this afternoon, but if you did I hope you saw what I saw.
P.Trump was reading and signing Executive orders, listening to a reporter's question, context switching to conversationally answer another question and directing the stage staff, "... give me another one". Simultaneously. In realtime. Establishing eye contact with everyone.
[IsraelTimes] The three hostages released by Hamas from the Gaza Strip today were given “gift bags” by members of the terror group before they were handed over to the Red Cross.
According to Hebrew-language media reports, the bags included photos of them in Hamas captivity and a “certificate.”
A video released by the IDF shows former hostages Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher holding the gift bags when they were handed over to troops.
On Sunday, the first group of hostages set to be released under the new ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... were set free. As RedState reported, jeering crowds of deranged Paleostinians surrounded them, many cosplaying as soldiers in camouflage and terrorist headbands. Notably, they only seem to find their "uniforms" when the fighting stops. Funny how that works.
Naturally, the Red Thingy, which couldn't be bothered to do anything for the hostages throughout their captivity, tried to take center stage by being the go-between. In one last bit of propaganda, Hamas made sure the trucks were surrounded and that the hostages had to walk through a conglomerate of turbans who were touching and harassing them. The Red Thingy was fine with that, once again showing why no one should ever give a dime to that dumpster of an NGO.
The abuse didn't stop there, though. Hamas also gave the hostages "gift bags" and forced them to take smiling photographs. What was in the bags? According to reports, the bandidosturbans put pictures of the hostages while they were in captivity along with a map of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and a "certificate."
Paleostinians are the most depraved people on earth, and I don't say that lightly. They started a war by invading Israeli civilian areas and slaughtering over a thousand innocent people. They then took hundreds of hostages, including young babies. Refusing to hand them over, they saw Gaza essentially leveled and tens of thousands of their fighters killed by the IDF. And then when a ceasefire is finally reached, they cheer on Hamas and laugh about giving the hostages "gift bags."
There is no peace to be had with these people. That's not what the smart set wants to hear, but I've got decades of evidence to support that assertion. No amount of aid or concessions will ever be enough. Genocidal jihadi culture is all they know, and the average IQ among Paleostinians is below 70, likely due to generations of inbreeding. Reasoning with a population like that is simply impossible.
I don’t being aware of this, so here is Red State’s link to the study which appears at first glance to be legit.
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The real danger of this cultural inbreeding IMHO is cultivating traits like dangerous mental instability that need not necessarily correlate with a low IQ.
As for the article, maybe Israel could reciprocate by giving the next batch of released terrorists some complimentary samples of Israeli communications technology, like smart phones and pagers.
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So Gazans are low IQ because they are inbred illiterates.
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Illiteracy causes ignorance but not necessarily a low IQ.
In any case, these polities have by and large been sufficiently intelligent to play the Western political and intellectual class like a cheap fiddle for decades, an exception to this rule being Israel's successful ant-Hezbollah campaign of 2024.
[NotTheBee] I don't know if it's on purpose, or that Washington journalists are so deep in the bubble that they don't realize how much their preconceived notions have infected their reporting (probably a mix of both), but I have never seen the media report on a demonstration that I have personally attended that was absent of obvious cherry picking and bias.
This year's "People's March" was no exception.
Here is the photo the Washington Post used to kick off their article on the march, "Thousands rally at People's March in D.C. to protest Trump."
See lots of illustrative photos at the link.
Looks packed!
I've mentioned before the media trick of framing a tight shot in order to create the illusion of a massive rally.
Here's that same crowd (a little later, but the density of that one spot obviously changed little). I'm back further than The Post shot so you can see some media folks scrupulously filming the most concentrated part of the gathering.
Now, let's pan over a little, towards the direction of the stage that was erected on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in line with the Washington Monument in the background.
When you're looking through a crowd, it always looks dense, but upon closer examination you can see it's pretty sparse over there save for people jammed in the narrow space between the stage and the reflecting pool.
The Post said "thousands rally" and I'll give them that. Three thousand? Maybe four, given the people I saw leaving as I was walking in about halfway through. I'll give them some credit for the crowd given the dreary day and the impending snow storm the next day, but a lot of effort was put in to put up a stage, video screens, and a sound system for a relatively small crowd.
They must be disappointed.
I have never been to a lefty protest or rally that did not have the socialists out in full force.
I have also never heard this reported, or at least highlighted in any way.
(Like all these protests, it was a mishmash of special interests and identity politics, and it looked like groups were leaving once their narrow concerns had been addressed.)
[FoxNews] Media outlets are calling it ‘grassroots’ anti-Trump sentiment, but confidential documents reveal it’s more AstroTurf
As anti-Trump protesters swarmed the steps below the Lincoln Memorial Saturday, media outlets painted a feel-good portrait. NBC4 Washington declared on social media: "Grassroots groups are descending on the capital for the People’s March before President-elect Trump’s inauguration." The Associated Press reported that anti-Trump "demonstrators" "converge" on Washington, D.C., for protests led by the Women’s March, a "grassroots movement."
While this positive media coverage may have captured the energy of ordinary protesters, they omitted one critical detail: the name of for-profit professional machine behind the protest.
Far from a spontaneous outpouring of civic action, the event was coordinated by Movement Catalyst LLC, a for-profit company based in Silver Spring, Md., and the official permit holder for the protests, according to a copy of the permit, which I obtained from the U.S. National Park Service. In the 1990s, covering international trade for the Wall Street Journal, I was among the first reporters to put the term "AstroTurf" into the paper’s pages, describing a coalition against tariffs on minivans that the auto industry called "grassroots" but was actually manufactured by an industry lobbying group. Protest organizing isn’t much different nowadays, and today’s "People’s March" is more AstroTurf than "grassroots." So too is the march planned for Monday, when we can expect more aggressive rabble-rousers to show up, as I reported earlier this week.
A plan, marked "Confidential Document - Not for Distribution"
Whoops! So much for that plan…
and submitted as part of the permit application, reveals that Movement Catalyst and its team of professional protest organizers coordinated everything from security to dumpster pickups, "port-a-potties" and a meticulously detailed "run of show,"
So, what is Movement Catalyst LLC? According to Washington, D.C., government records, it is a limited liability corporation established in February 2021. On its website, Movement Catalysts promotes its for-profit services, writing it’s an "experienced and interdisciplinary team of strategists, organizers, campaigners, and researchers" who launch "strategic projects to meet the moment," partnering with organizations to "expand their ability to have an impact, and anchor movement infrastructure." Its officials didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The People’s March is one of those "strategic projects," and the company’s services include "strategy & campaign development" and "creative protests & events." A look at its funding reveals the scale of its operations. In 2021, Movement Catalyst LLC received $592,050 from the New York-based Sustainable Markets Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit for "web campaign development," according to its IRS Form 990 filing. Then, in 2023, Philadelphia-based Workers United, working on "organizing the unorganized collective bargaining," paid Movement Catalyst LLC a total of $319,600, according to its tax filing. The services provided? "CONSULTANT." This is far from a "grassroots," mom-and-pop operation run over a kitchen table.
The confidential document lists four top officials at Movement Catalyst, as "protest leads":
Abby Henderson, a partner at Movement Catalyst and the organization’s registered agent, is the protest’s "Production and Vendor Lead."
Bill Ragen, a partner at Movement Catalyst, is the "Production and Vendor Lead."
Liz Butler, another partner at Movement Catalyst," is also "Production and Vendor Lead."
Samantha "Sam" Miller, a "collaborator" at Movement Catalyst, is in charge of "Overall Coordination." On the National Park Service application, she is the "person in charge." Miller was the director at a previous professional protest company, DC Action Lab, that the Women’s March and others hired to mount protests during the first Trump administration.
The "PRODUCTION SCHEDULE" and "RUN OF SHOW/RALLY PROGRAM" was scripted with leaders and performers from many big-money organizations, including the Women’s March, Popular Democracy in Action, Standing Up for Racial Justice, Harriet’s Wildest Dreams and Dream Defenders. Movement Catalyst promised to provide at least 750 "identifiable marshals," each wearing "hi-visibility vests and volunteer credentials."
It’s always interesting to see the details that they planned to keep secret from the normies.
But Richard Pollock has even more:
As the “People’s March” was free from violence, the next one up is the ANSWER Coalition, which occurs on Monday.
ANSWER is potentially the most unruly and unpredictable group. The leaders say they expecte to draw about 15,000 people. They most likely will celebrate Hamas’ ceasefire with Israel.
The last time ANSWER was in Washington, they were protesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before a Joint Session of Congress. After the rally, some protesters rioted, police were assaulted, American flags burned and there was the desecration of monuments -- with one that was spray painted with a warning: “Hamas Is Coming.”
Ryan Mauro, who investigates extremist groups for the nonprofit Capital Research Center has exposed ANSWER as supporting Iran’s “Axis of Resistance,” which includes Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen along with the mullahs of Iran.
Ryan reported in a January 8 column that “ANSWER signed a statement declaring its endorsement of the Iran-led “Axis of Resistance” coalition of terrorist groups like Hamas and siding with Russia over Ukraine.
Expect unpredictability with the ANSWER Coalition.
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The difference of 1 day Jan 19th Biden vs Trump Jan 20th.
Under the Trump's Admin,
The Fed's & States will be expected to follow the US Constitution and the Bill Of Rights. Under Trump, a person can exercise their right to say and do stupid things. As long as it does no physically harm others. All w/o fear of being jailed, assaulted, Lawfare'd or shot.
Unlike the Biden Regime (2021-2024),
which acted like a Coup / Dictator with a pardoned / excused agenda ___ enforcement division. (note: I did not use "Law")
As the pictures clearly show.
They are 4% that makes up the nut factory.
They are comprised of Uber Left Liberals, National Socialist-Democrats and people just any cause for a place to bitch, moan and groan.
BTW:
Someone forgot to tell the Peoples March idiots, that the "National Socialist-Democrats Party" mixed in with them. Has pretty much the same 100-year-old NAZI party agenda, just gone way far Left. Their protests and actions under a NSDP regime, would have them jailed w/o a trial, hung, gassed or shot.
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It will become the new hajj for the voting blocks the Democrat's have courted for the last half century. The homosexuals, NORML, Greenpeace, return to the dark ages pre-renaissance Palestinian (or whatever they are, expat Arabs) cos players, can't leave out NAMBLA or Dudes for Harris. I'm trying to be all inclusive. If I forget anyone, I apologize. Who would want that anchoring any part of one's hold on their plebiscite?
Shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration eight years ago, half a million people headed onto the streets of Washington DC to protest the new president.
Now, as Mr Trump prepares for his return to office, an attempt to repeat the event and stir up mass resistance to the Republican fell flat. One unimpressed attendee described it as “disappointingly tiny”, while another said turnout was “unfortunate”.
For an event that billed itself as the “People’s March”, not a lot of people ended up marching.
Protesters lined the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to listen to speakers who branded Mr Trump a “Nazi”, condemned the evils of colonisation, and declared that anti-Semitism had been “weaponised”.
[IsraelTimes] After 3 civilian hostages freed, Israel releases mostly female inmates either to West Bank or East Jerusalem, first of up to 1,904 prisoners to go free in truce deal’s first phase
Israel released 90 Paleostinian security prisoners early Monday morning, hours after Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... released three civilian hostages Sunday on the first day of a ceasefire with the terror group in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) said in a statement.
Most of the inmates, who included terror convicts but reportedly none convicted of murder, were taken to the West Bank town of Beitunia where a crowd of hundreds cheered and chanted and some climbed atop the lead bus and unfurled Hamas flags.
They were joined by others waving the flags of Fatah, Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... and several other Paleostinian factions, including terror groups, as well as the Paleostinian flag and the flag of Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... ’s Hezbollah terror group.
The 90 Paleostinian prisoners released on Monday included between 62 and 69 women, according to contradictory media reports. The IPS statement did not provide a breakdown.
According to the Haaretz daily, Israel freed 62 women — including one minor — and 28 men, including eight teenagers. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the Ynet news site reported that 69 women were set free, including one minor, alongside eight male minors and 13 adult men. Similarly, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named said before the release that it had seen a list of inmates set for release that included 69 women.
Ahead of the return of the Israeli hostages, the IPS bussed the first round of Paleostinian prisoners to Ofer Prison in the West Bank, where Israeli security forces and Red Thingy representatives verified each prisoner’s identity and performed medical checks on them before releasing them in coordination with security forces and the government.
The prisoners include 78 West Bank residents, released at the Beitunia Checkpoint near Ofer Prison.
The remaining 12 East Jerusalem residents were transported back to the city and released back to their homes from the Russian Compound detention center.
As the release was delayed by several hours, Ynet reported that Israeli security officials were blaming the Red Thingy, accusing the organization’s staff of deliberately stalling the process with the purported motive of making Israel seem like it is not complying with the deal’s terms. But after a short while, the release went ahead.
The deal, signed Friday, is broken into three phases. During the first, 42-day phase, Hamas will release a total of 33 Israeli hostages — women, children, and elderly, maimed, or sick men — not all of whom are alive. Israel, in return, will release up to 1,904 Paleostinian security prisoners and detainees, including more than 150 bandidosholy warriors convicted of murder and several serving multiple life sentences for deadly terror attacks.
The next release of hostages and prisoners is due Saturday. In just over two weeks, talks are to begin on the far more challenging second phase of the ceasefire agreement.
The youngest prisoner freed Monday was Mahmoud Aliowat, 15, who was convicted of carrying out a shooting attack in the City of David area of Jerusalem, wounding two people, when he was 13.
The list also included, according to the list reported by AP, Khalida Jarrar, 62, a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP), a leftist faction with an armed terror group that carried out attacks on Israelis decades ago, including plane hijackings.
Jarrar was accused of criminal masterminding the 2019 bombing that killed 17-year-old Rina Shnerb at a spring in the West Bank. As part of a plea deal, Jarrar was charged with "illegal association" and sentenced to two years in prison in 2021.
Jarrar, 62, was again arrested in late 2023 and since held under indefinitely renewable administrative detention — a controversial tool enabling detention without charge that Israel uses against terror suspects in cases where disclosing the evidence against them in court could harm national security. The practice, primarily used against Paleostinians, has been criticized by right groups.
Dalal Khaseeb, 53, the sister of former Hamas second-in-command Saleh Arouri, was also on the list, which was provided by Hamas. Arouri was killed in an Israeli strike in a southern Beirut suburb in January 2024.
Also listed for release, according to AP, was Abla Abdelrasoul, 68, the wife of detained PFLP leader Ahmad Saadat who ordered the liquidation of Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi in 2001 and has been serving a 30-year sentence.
Haaretz also noted the inclusion on the list of East Jerusalem residents Nawal Abed Fatiha, an Israeli citizen who in 2020 stabbed a 70-year-old Israeli man with a knife in Jerusalem, and Ibrahim Zamar, who in April 2023, when he was 15, shot two people at the entrance to the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
A 2015 shooting attack in Jerusalem’s Sheik Jarrah neighborhood; Ibrahim Zamar, who carried out the attack, is to be released on January 19, 2025 in exchange for three Israeli women taken hostage by the Hamas terror group.
None of the inmates set free in the first batch have been convicted of murder, Haaretz reported. The adult men were being held for relatively minor offenses like incitement, identifying with terrorism and disorderly conduct, according to Ynet.
Almost all the hostages set for release by Hamas were kidnapped from Israel during the October 7, 2023, onslaught led by the Paleostinian terror group, in which 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians, and 251 taken hostage into the Strip.
For each of the living women, children and elderly, 30 Paleostinian prisoners will be released; for all nine sick hostages, 110 prisoners will be released; for each of the female IDF soldiers, 50 prisoners will be released; for hostages Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who have been held in Gaza for a decade, 30 prisoners will be released for each, in addition to 47 Paleostinians released in the 2011 Shalit deal and since rearrested; and for the bodies of hostages in the first stage, Israel will release the more than 1,000 Gazook detainees.
Following the first phase of the deal, Israel and Hamas are to engage in continued negotiations over a permanent ceasefire, as the terror group releases the remaining hostages and Israel releases more Paleostinian security prisoners.
It is believed that 91 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
Hamas has so far released three hostages during a ceasefire that began in January. The terror group released 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and four hostages were released before that.
Eight hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 40 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military as they tried to escape their captors.
Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the body of an IDF soldier who was killed in 2014.
[IsraelTimes] David Abrams makes a living off hunting alleged fraud by groups critical of Israel; in JVP’s case, the group allegedly misrepresented itself when applying for COVID relief funds
One of the most reviled adversaries of the pro-Israel community was just dealt a major blow in a fraud complaint brought by an activist attorney.
The anti-Zionist advocacy group Jewish Voice for Peace, which accuses Israel of genocide in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and wants the US to end military aid to the country, agreed to pay a penalty of nearly $700,000 to settle an allegation of financial fraud, according to a Wednesday announcement from the US Justice Department.
The resolution of the case, which centers on JVP’s application for COVID-19 relief funds in 2020, puts a significant strain on the group’s financial health — the group’s annual budget has hovered a little below $3 million for the past several years — and gives the group’s many critics a potent new weapon against it.
"Who would have imagined that an antisemitic group would also engage in fraud," tweeted Andrés Spokoiny, a Jewish nonprofit executive, in one representative example of the sentiment unleashed by the Justice Department’s announcement.
But JVP’s legal trouble was not just a lucky gift for its detractors — it was the direct result of one enterprising attorney’s strategy of weaponizing the law against critics of Israel. JVP is the latest in a string of left-wing and pro-Paleostinian groups he has succeeded in damaging.
David Abrams sics prosecutors on his targets using a law that allows private citizens to become whistleblowers when they discover alleged government fraud. The law also lets him collect a portion of the penalty paid to the government. He’s built a one-man business around the enterprise, called the Zionist Advocacy Center or TZAC.
"I’m a passionate Zionist and I’m also an attorney," Abrams told Politico in an article published last year. "And so it’s natural to say, ’Well, how can I combine those two things?’ And that’s what I started doing about 10 years ago."
His earnings in this work as of last year are at least $1.7 million, according to a tally based on court records by The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... . Abrams is one of several attorneys making money by hunting for pandemic fraud, but Abrams is in it for more than just the earnings.
"We’re in America," Abrams told Politico. "People have an absolute right to attack Israel unfairly, to slander Israel and so on. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... from my perspective, they don’t have the right to take government money to support their work that they’re not entitled to."
He refers to his solo act as "lawfare" on behalf of Israel.
Now, a major voice on the right is calling on the incoming Trump administration to make lawfare the central tactic of a national crackdown on antisemitism. The idea appears in Project Esther, a proposal from the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, which urges the federal government to target groups it deems supportive of the Paleostinian terrorist group Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... , including Jewish Voice for Peace.
In this case, Abrams found that JVP had received $340,000 through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. He believed the group should have been ineligible for funding — money that millions of American companies and nonprofits had also received during the pandemic — due to rules excluding entities "primarily engaged in political or lobbying activities."
He filed a lawsuit in late 2021 accusing JVP of lying on its application form, citing the group’s stated mission of campaigning to change US policy on Israel. The federal prosecutors who looked at the case agreed with Abrams’ assessment and decided to move forward with it. If the matter had gone to trial and prosecutors had prevailed, JVP would have had to pay back in damages triple the amount it received.
Instead, a settlement limits the penalty to only double the amount, with no admission of liability by JVP. The group maintains that "any misstatements in this application were inadvertent," according to the Justice Department. JVP’s leadership did not respond to a request for comment.
Abrams, who also did not respond to a request for comment, is owed about $68,000, or 10% of the penalty, according to a copy of the settlement agreement from the Justice Department. He will also collect about $1,800 from JVP, an amount representing his fees and expenses in filing the initial whistleblower lawsuit.
The JVP settlement comes several months after the resolution of another Abrams-instigated case against a Jewish group that is critical of Israel. In September, Americans For Peace Now, the US fundraising arm of a progressive Israeli group that advocates for the two-state solution, reached a deal with federal prosecutors to pay $262,000 over an identical allegation.
The group’s president and CEO, Hadar Susskind, told The New York Times it settled to avoid the cost of litigation but that the group genuinely didn’t consider itself a political organization when it applied for the pandemic relief money.
Abrams is also behind two earlier pandemic fraud settlements signed by left-leaning Washington think tanks: the Middle East Institute and the Institute for Policy Studies.
Before the pandemic, when Abrams had just started his Zionist Advocacy Center work, he waged lawfare with a focus on humanitarian groups working in Gaza, such as Norwegian People’s Aid, that had received contracts from the American government through USAID. He alleged that his targets had lied when certifying to USAID they had no links to terrorists. Norwegian People’s Aid paid a penalty of $2 million to settle the matter.
Not all of the cases Abrams brings are successful. In 2020, he brought a case against the New Israel Fund — a group supporting left-wing causes in Israel — in which he alleged the group had abused its tax-exempt status. That case was dismissed by mutual agreement without any penalty to the organization.
And, in 2015 he sued the humanitarian group founded by the late president Jimmy Malaise Carter
...only the second worst president ever. Now the third worst, after Obama and Biden... , accusing the Carter Center of support for hard boyz over a gathering for Paleostinian politicians in which it served them "physical assets of fruits, cookies, bottled water, and presumably other foods and drinks." Government prosecutors dropped the case.
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the settlement with JVFP seems like small potatoes compared with what could be had from deep pocket orgs like Arabella, Rockefeller Foundation, Open Source Foundation and Tides.
Basically a class action lawsuit where plaintiffs allege RICO to intimidate through violence and deprive civil rights of Jews on campus.
I think the civil actions are waiting for a criminal prosecution to start and give them an entry.
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[IsraelTimes] Hundreds of thousands more came back earlier in 2024 from Lebanon, fleeing Israel-Hezbollah conflict; Turkey allowing 3 round trips per refugee family to prepare for resettlement
Nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since the fall of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... ’s regime in early December, the UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said Saturday ahead of a visit to the region.
Those returns came after a lightning offensive by an Islamist-led coalition of rebels ousted Assad in December, raising hopes of an end to a 13-year civil war that killed over half million dead and sent millions seeking refuge abroad.
Between December 8 — when the regime fell — and January 16, some 195,200 Syrians returned home, according to figures published by Grandi on X.
"Soon I will visit Syria — and its neighboring countries — as UNHCR steps up its support to returnees and receiving communities," Grandi said.
Some half a million Syrians total returned home last year. Many of those who returned before the regime fell did so from Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... , amid fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah terror group there, who have since agreed to a ceasefire.
It was not immediately clear how many of those who went to Syria escaping that conflict may have returned to Lebanon since Israel and Hezbollah reached a ceasefire in November, or whether they may have been counted twice.
Footage shared online in the wake of Assad’s fall purported to show thousands in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... member, but not the most reliable... driving toward the border and into Syria to return to their homes.
Turkey, which shares a 900-kilometer (560-mile) border with Syria, hosts some 2.9 million Syrians who have fled since 2011.
Ottoman Turkish authorities, who are hoping to see many of those refugees return to ease growing anti-Syrian sentiment among the population, are allowing one member of each refugee family to make three round trips until July 1, 2025, to prepare for their resettlement.
Turkey is also involved in Syria itself, backing gangs that oppose the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the country’s north.
[Rudaw] The Iraqi government brought back 12 people from the Kurdistan Region who spent nearly two months in Libya trying to reach Europe, a diplomat told Rudaw.
"After nearly two months of efforts and follow-up, today we managed to return 12 citizens who were stranded in Libya while attempting to reach Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... through illegal means," Ahmad Sahaf, the Iraqi Embassy’s chargé d'affaires in Libya, told Rudaw.
"After coordinating with the Libyan government, they were returned today at 4:30 pm via Iraqi Airways," Sahaf added.
All 12 were from the Kurdistan Region and had been staying in a refugee camp in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... .
"The Libyan government had housed them in a special refugee camp in the Tajura area of the country's capital," said Sahaf.
Libya is a transit country for people trying to reach Europe because of its strategic geopolitical position and proximity to Italia.
In 2024, around 719.000 migrants colonists were registered in Libya, according to a report from the International Organization for Migration.
In June, twin shipwrecks off the coasts of Italia’s Roccella Ionica and Lampedusa left more than 70 people dead and missing. Most of the passengers were Kurds from the Kurdistan Region and Iran’s western Kurdish areas, as well as others from Bangladesh, Pakistain, Egypt, and Syria.
Around 20,000 people from Iraq and the Kurdistan Region migrated out of the country in 2023, seeking a better life in Europe. At least nine of them bit the dust on the dangerous and illegal smuggling routes, according to the Summit (Lutka) Foundation for Refugees and Displaced Affairs.
[Rudaw] A Kurdish rapper in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... who was handed a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... for supporting nationwide protests in 2022 has arrived in Germany after being freed from jail, a non-governmental organization announced on Friday.
Saman Yasin is a Kurdish rapper from Iran’s western Kermanshah province who recorded songs protesting Iran’s socioeconomic conditions. He was arrested in October 2022 and transferred to Tehran’s notorious Evin prison during the Jin Jiyan Azadi (Women Life Freedom) protests.
He was convicted on charges of moharebeh, or enmity against God, which carries the death penalty in Iran, as well as "assembly and collusion with the intention of acting against the security of the country."
His death sentence was overturned in October 2023.
Duzen Tekkal, a German-Yazidi journalist and founder of Hawar Help NGO, said on X that Yasin had managed to leave Iran and make his way to Germany.
"While in captivity, Saman was subjected to torture and even mock executions by prison guards... During at least one previous hospital stay, he was injected with an unknown liquid that caused him to lose consciousness for 24 hours," Tekkal said.
Yasin was admitted to a psychiatric clinic at least twice while in captivity, according to Tekkal.
Amnesty International says that Iran has used the death penalty disproportionately to suppress minority groups like Kurds and Baluchis who were active in the 2022 protests that erupted after the death of young Kurdish woman Zhina (Mahsa) Amini while in the custody of Iran’s morality police for wearing a lax hijab.
[Rudaw] A second mass grave in under a month containing the remains of 155 Kurds massacred by the former Iraqi regime decades ago was exhumed on Sunday in Iraq’s southern Muthanna province.
The state-affiliated Martyrs Foundation announced that the mass grave, located in the Tal Sheikha area of Iraq’s southern Samawa desert, was exhumed and the remains of 155 Kurds, mostly women and kiddies killed during the 1988 Anfal campaign, were found.
An additional seven graves in the area have been found and are being excavated, according to the foundation.
Chro Hama Sharif, a member of the Iraqi parliament’s deaders, victims, and political prisoners committee, told Rudaw that the Martyrs Foundation has yet to inform them about the mass graves.
The Anfal campaign began in 1986. Then-president Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime killed more than 182,000 Kurds in two years of slaughter and demolished around 4,500 villages in the Kurdistan Region.
Many of the victims were brought to prisons in the south of the country, where they were killed and their bodies buried in mass graves.
On December 22, several mass graves were discovered via satellite images in Tal Sheikha.
Iraq’s Supreme Court recognized Anfal as a crime against humanity in 2008. Years later, however, very little has been done for the survivors or the families of the victims.
Situation normal, then, because Turkish President Erdogan is determined to finish off the Kurds before he leaves office — feet first, if he has his way.
[Rudaw] Nearly daily festivities in northern Duhok province have left local populations afraid to leave their villages, even to tend their livestock, a local chieftain said on Saturday.
"Forty-something people in our area have been martyred for no reason and people are afraid to go out in their villages, even in Deraluk. In spring and winter, people tend to go out more often around the Deraluk subdistrict for some tea with their families... even this is dangerous now," Tahir Rashaveyi, chieftain (mukhtar) of Rashava village told Rudaw on Saturday.
His village is located in the Amedi district of northern Duhok province where Ottoman Turkish forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) frequently clash.
Rashaveyi said the situation started deteriorating four or five months earlier and now there are Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, shelling, and machine gun fire almost daily.
"There is heavy fighting in our area. Our people are very afraid, especially women and kiddies," he said.
Most of the villagers work as farmers, but are too afraid to tend to their herds or lands. Up to 50 villages along the road from Shiladize to Deraluk have been affected, according to the chieftain.
More than 500 villages in the Kurdistan Region have been emptied due to the conflict between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and the PKK, a Kurdish gang that has bases in the mountains of the Kurdistan Region.
Founded in 1978, the PKK initially called for the establishment of an independent Kurdistan but now calls for autonomy. The group is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey.
Turkey began intensifying its decades-long war against the PKK in Duhok province last summer, looking to secure the border region.
In November, Ottoman Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler said that the army had "secured" the key Zap area, which was one of the last remaining routes for the PKK to move from the Kurdistan Region into Turkey.
[Rudaw] Four civilians have been killed and more were injured in drone strikes on Tishreen Dam in northern Syria on Saturday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stated. This is the third attack on civilians at the site this month amid fears the dam could collapse.
“For the third day in a row, Turkish warplanes and UCAVs [unmanned combat aerial vehicles] have continued to target the civilian demonstrators at the Tishreen Dam, southeast of Manbij. Today, the strikes targeted the dam's structure, resulting in the martyrdom of four civilians and injuries to 15 others,” SDF spokesperson Farhad Shami wrote on X.
An ambulance transporting the wounded was also targeted, killing everyone inside, said Shami.
He shared videos of injured people lying on the ground and receiving first aid.
The conflict monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the strikes also caused material damage.
“A Turkish drone bombed, with two strikes, a gathering of residents present on the Tishreen Dam, east of Aleppo, which resulted in the injury of three people and caused significant material damage to the area, amid calls to stop bombing the dam for fear of its collapse,” it reported.
Tishreen Dam has been the focus of attacks by Turkey and Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) militants for the past month.
There are fears the structure could collapse and the administration of north and east Syria last week appealed to the international community to halt the attacks.
The dam on the Euphrates River provides electricity to much of northeast Syria (Rojava). The SDF took control of the facility from the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2015 with the help of American troops.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has also expressed concern over the humanitarian implications of attacks on the dam.
Two separate convoys of civilians going to the dam to protest the attacks have come under attack earlier this month, with several people killed and injured.
Turkey claims that there are Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members within the ranks of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the backbone of the SDF. Ankara has designated both as terrorist groups.
Speaking at a political event in Mersin on Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened the YPG.
"We have zero tolerance for the YPG terrorist organization, which occupies one-third of the country (Syria). We will soon take steps to resolve this issue once and for all," he said, according to Anadolu Agency.
Also on Saturday, SOHR said that airstrikes targeted a school and a car repair shop in the countryside surrounding the border town of Kobane.
Turkish forces and their Syrian allies also bombed villages around Hasaka with heavy artillery, according to the war monitor.
[IsraelTimes] US-backed Kurdish force demands ‘decentralized administration,’ refuses to dissolve itself in face of interim government’s efforts to unify armed forces
Syria’s new defense minister said on Sunday it would not be right for US-backed Kurdish fighters based in the country’s northeast to retain their own bloc within the broader integrated Syrian armed forces.
Speaking to Rooters at the Defense Ministry in Damascus, Murhaf Abu Qasra said the leadership of the Kurdish fighters, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), was procrastinating in its handling of the complex issue.
The SDF, which has carved out a semi-autonomous zone through 14 years of civil war, has been in talks with the new administration in Damascus led by former rebels who toppled dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... on December 8.
SDF commander Mazloum Abdi has said one of their central demands is a decentralized administration, saying in an interview with Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... ’s Asharq News channel last week that the SDF was open to integrating with the Defense Ministry but as "a military bloc," and without dissolving.
Abu Qasra rejected that proposal on Sunday.
"We say that they would enter the Defense Ministry within the hierarchy of the Defense Ministry, and be distributed in a military way — we have no issue there," said Abu Qasra, who was appointed defense minister on December 31.
"But for them to remain a military bloc within the Defense Ministry, such a bloc within a big institution is not right."
One of the minister’s priorities since taking office has been integrating Syria’s myriad anti-Assad factions into a unified command structure.
But doing so with the SDF has proved challenging. The US considers the group a key ally against 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.... bully boys, but neighboring The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... regards it as a national security threat.
Abu Qasra said he had met the SDF’s leaders but accused them of "procrastinating" in talks over their integration, and said incorporating them in the Defense Ministry like other ex-rebel factions was "a right of the Syrian state."
Abu Qasra was appointed to the transitional government about two weeks after Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , the Islamist group to which he belongs, led the offensive that ousted Assad.
He said he hoped to finish the integration process, including appointing some senior military figures, by March 1, when the transitional government’s time in power is set to end.
Asked how he responded to criticism that a transitional council should not make such appointments or carry out such sweeping changes of the military infrastructure, he said "security issues" had prompted the new state to prioritize the matter.
"We are in a race against time and every day makes a difference," he said.
The new administration was also criticized over its decision to give some foreigners, including Egyptians and Jordanians, ranks in the new military.
Abu Qasra acknowledged the decision had created a firestorm but said he was not aware of any requests to extradite any of the imported muscle.
They tried that in Lebanon, too. Inshallah means you don’t have to worry that the soldiers will shoot you for breaking the agreed-upon rules, I guess.
[IsraelTimes] Carrying their personal belongings, displaced residents of the Strip celebrate deal; hundreds of aid trucks enter enclave from Egypt
Thousands of displaced, war-weary Gazooks set off across the devastated Paleostinian territory to return to their homes on Sunday, after a long-awaited truce between Israel and Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... went into effect following an initial delay.
The ceasefire began nearly three hours later than scheduled, during which time Israel’s military said it was continuing to operate in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , with the territory’s Hamas-run civil defense agency reporting 19 people killed and 25 maimed in bombardments.
Thousands of Gazooks carrying tents, clothes and their personal belongings were seen heading back to their homes, after more than 15 months of war — started by the terror group Hamas — that displaced the vast majority of the territory’s population, in many cases more than once.
In the northern area of Jabalia, hundreds of Gazooks streamed down a sandy path, returning to an apocalyptic landscape dotted with piles of rubble and destroyed buildings.
In the main southern city of Khan Younis, people celebrated their pending homecoming.
"I’m very, very happy," said Wafa al-Habeel. "I want to go back and kiss the ground and the soil of Gaza. I am longing for Gaza (City) and longing for our loved ones."
Although the terms of the deal place no restrictions in general on when Gazooks can return to their homes, it does stipulate that movement from the south to the north will only be permitted on day seven of the truce. The IDF established a humanitarian zone for nearly two million displaced Gazooks in the south of the enclave.
The truce had been scheduled to begin at 0630 GMT (8:30 a.m.) but was held up for hours after Hamas failed to provide on time a list of the three hostages who were to be freed on the first day.
Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , a mediator of the truce, later confirmed it had gone into effect.
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...IMO: Muslims are vermin. Arabs are vermin squared. "Palestinians" and the rest of Muslims outside Dar, are vermin cubed. Globalists are vermin^4.
[WTAE, h/t Twitchy] President Joe Biden has pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, using the extraordinary powers of his office in his final hours to guard against potential "revenge" by the incoming Trump administration.
Andrew Johnson pardoned about 650 regular and about 7000 to ex Confederate soldiers and Confederate govt officials.
Carter pardoned several hundred thousand draft evaders but not by name.
Since Carter and except for Obama, no President has issued more than about 500.
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The question of whether or not Biden can pardon himself is still up in the air. There is still a period of time left for him to pardon Kamala Harris, resign his presidency and for the newly selected President Harris to then pardon former president Biden.
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James Kunstler beat me to it by a few hours: "As I write, long before dawn, “Joe Biden” remains President of the US. You must wonder, as the hours dwindle to noon, what pardon power magic he’s saving for the final minutes of his term, while the whole nation is distracted by the spectacle in the Capitol Rotunda"
One option to deal with Fauci, I copied this from the Maryland State Medical Board:
"License Number: D0004034 Dr. Anthony S Fauci
License Type: Physician-Medical Doctor
License Status: Active
License Issued: 10/02/1969 License Expiration: 09/30/2026"
If Fauci accepts his 'pardon,' thereby admitting he committed a crime, he can still be sanctioned by the MD medical board - cancelling his license for an admission to crimes. This is entirely a state issue and not one covered by a federal pardon. There is no federal licensure for physicians, last I checked.
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They need to charge them, get the Supreme's involved and get rid of pre-emptive pardons. If it fails charge some more until the figure out the argument to abolish it.
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He can pardon federal crimes. On going grand jury in Florida on COVID response is a state issue. IIRC recently SCOTUS ruled that state and federal prosecutions around the same action(s) do not constitute double jeopardy. There is also civil liabilities routes to seek redress.
The fact that Fauci's pardon specifically and explicitly addresses his Covid-related offenses, while being backdated to 2014—the year the gain-of-function ban took effect, which Fauci circumvented by outsourcing experiments to China—speaks volumes as to what this is really about. pic.twitter.com/rRI4fXsx5E
Separately, while Mercutio has a point, I can see how a Russian would find badanov’s cartoon funny, after all the abuse they took from America’s deep state about that particular lie.
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President Biden pardons his siblings just minutes before leaving office
So basically, the entire Biden Crime Family receives a Get Out of Jail card. This is after passing Go and collecting their $200. It is good to be King!
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Pardon aside - as Commander, which Trump is, he still should be able to recall Milley and discipline him via NJP. Pardon should not apply since it is non-judicial, crime not involved, strip him of his rank and clearance at a minimum. Make him thoroughly unemployable to the MIC.
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Subpoena them all to testify, under oath, and spill the beans. Since they cannot be prosecuted they no longer have a 5th Amendment privilege. So either they lie, and get prosecuted for perjury, refuse to talk, and be held in criminal contempt, or spill the beans so that everyone knows exactly why they needed pardons.
I also really like the idea of rolling up all the underlings and marching them off to jail. In their thousands.
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Declaring the cartels terrorists is a stroke of genious. Moving them away from the border will greatly assist the problems we are having with Mexico.
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Besoeker, that was my first thought when I saw it. And make sure he cannot ever get a clearance. That should keep him out of any jobs that need one.
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By classifying the cartels as terrorist organization they become a belligerent. IAW the Hague Convention of 1907 "a neutral country has the obligation not to allow its territory to be used by a belligerent. If the neutral country is unwilling or unable to prevent this, the other belligerent has the right to take appropriate counteractions."
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Couldn't Milley now be compelled to testify on the exact nature of his communication with the CCP in all details, by Congress or as part of a prosecutor's investigation into related wrongdoing by parties who weren't pardoned.
I reckon he didn't just personally dial Zhongnanhai and said "Hello Jinping!" a la Dr Strangelove, so others would have been involved.
[CapitolNewsService] With President-elect Donald Trump entering the Oval Office in January with a Republican majority in Congress, his administration may wield an influential tool to establish its deregulation agenda from the get-go: an obscure law called the Congressional Review Act (CRA).
Experts anticipate that the CRA will be applied liberally as Trump works to deliver on his promises to reverse many of Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration policies.
When Trump became president in 2017 – after two terms served by Democratic President Barack Obama – he made quick use of the CRA, disapproving 16 rules.
“I think there’s a lot of interest from Republicans on the Hill to get as many of these (joint resolutions of disapproval through the CRA) across the line as they feasibly can,” Dan Goldbeck, director of regulatory policy at the American Action Forum, an independent, nonprofit organization that analyzes domestic economic issues from a center-right perspective, told Capital News Service. “I would not be surprised to see them exceed their 2017 total.”
The CRA allows an incoming administration that follows a preceding administration of an opposing party to overturn rules created by federal agencies. Congress must agree to the reversals through joint resolutions of disapproval.
Once a resolution of disapproval has been passed by both chambers of Congress and signed by the president, the targeted regulatory rule is void and the federal agency that drafted it is blocked from introducing another rule in “substantially the same form.”
“This has been four years of a liberal Biden administration,” Sarah Hay, a policy analyst at The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, told CNS. “Going into next year, there’s going to be unified Republican control of both Congress and the presidency. This is the lightest lift way to overturn regulations issued by a prior administration that you disagree with.”
Passed in 1996 under President Bill Clinton, the CRA is used most often after a presidential transition in which there is a switch in party affiliation in the White House. The CRA allows a new Congress and president to look back to the previous Congress within 60 working days before the session’s end and overturn final rules issued by federal agencies.
When the 119th Congress convenes in January, those regulations issued during the 118th Congress within the lookback period are subject to review and potential action. While regulations aren’t actually passed by Congress, the body grants appropriate federal agencies the authority to issue regulations.
Doubling down, the CRA also provides an expedited procedure for the Senate to avoid the threat of the filibuster under certain criteria, requiring only a 51-vote simple majority.
“That makes it a very attractive tool,” Steven Balla, co-director of The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, said. “Under normal legislative procedure (the Senate) needs a filibuster-proof majority, which is going to be essentially impossible for them to come by when it comes to disapproving Biden administration regulations. It provides a way around some of those super majoritarian constraints in the Senate.”
The first Trump administration’s reversal of 16 rules marked the largest single batch of rule disapprovals in history and topped the total previous reversals combined under earlier administrations.
🚨Anthony Blinken and top Democrats are purposely destroying America before Trump becomes President on Jan 20th
"President Biden is committed to making sure that every dollar we have at our disposal, will be pushed out the door(to Ukraine) between now and January 20th." pic.twitter.com/jfUinWYW22
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Secretary Blinken apparently instigated the Hunter Biden laptop “51 intelligence officials” cover-up, so he may also be caught in President Trump’s response. Interesting times for both sides of the aisle…
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/\ It originated with a call from top Biden campaign official—and now Secretary of State—Antony Blinken to former Deputy Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Michael Morell.
Obama and Brennan might also be found in that woodpile.
Rep Lee Zeldin raises concerns that The EPA is on video bragging about giving $50 BILLION DOLLARS of US Taxpayer money to NGOs with the goal of EPA officials going to work at those nonprofits after Donald Trump takes office
The fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is entering its second day - one Gazan tells the BBC he slept soundly for the first time since the war "because of feeling safe"
Ninety Palestinian prisoners were released overnight as part of the first phase of the ceasefire, the Israeli prison service has said - most of them women and teenage boys
Three Israeli women including a dual British national were earlier released by Hamas - they are being treated in a Tel Aviv hospital and are in a stable condition
There have been emotional reunions on both sides - Palestinians were greeted with hugs and cheers by their families, while freed hostage Emily Damari shared the moving moment she had a video call with her family
The ceasefire in Gaza came into force after a last-minute delay, but joy faded as Palestinians returned to their destroyed homes and there is still uncertainty at what lies ahead, our correspondent writes
[NAHARNET] Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... has accused Israel of hundreds of violations of a ceasefire, to be fully implemented by next week, and warned against testing "our patience."
His remarks came during a visit to Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... by United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... , who called for Israel to end military operations and "occupation" in the south, almost two months into the ceasefire between Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel.
Guterres on Friday said U.N. peacekeepers had also found more than 100 weapons caches belonging "to Hezbollah or other gangs."
Qassem called "on the Lebanese state to be firm in confronting violations, now numbering more than hundreds. This cannot continue," he said in a televised speech.
"We have been patient with the violations to give a chance to the Lebanese state responsible for this agreement, along with the international sponsors, but I call on you not to test our patience," Qassem said.
Under the November 27 ceasefire accord, which ended two months of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese army has 60 days to deploy alongside peacekeepers from the UNIFIL mission in south Lebanon as the Israeli army withdraws.
At the same time, Hezbollah is required to pull its forces north of the Litani River, around 30 kilometwrs (20 miles) from the border, and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure it has in the south.
Qassem's speech came as Guterres met Lebanon's new President Joseph Aoun, the former army chief who has vowed that the state would have "a monopoly" on bearing weapons.
Analysts say Hezbollah's weakening in the war with Israel allowed Lebanon's deeply divided political class to elect Aoun and to back his naming as prime minister Nawaf Salam, who was presiding judge at the International Court of Justice.
Qassem insisted Hezbollah and ally Amal's backing "is what led to the election of the president by consensus," after around two years of deadlock.
"No one can exploit the results of the aggression in domestic politics," he warned. "No one can exclude us from effective and influential political participation in the country."
After his meeting with Aoun on Saturday, Guterres expressed hope Lebanon could open "a new chapter of peace." The U.N. chief has said he is on a "visit of solidarity" with Lebanon.
French President Emmanuel Macron was also in Lebanon on Friday and said there must be "accelerated" implementation of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire.
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[NAHARNET] The U.N. peacekeeping chief says Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... 's armed forces have significantly increased their deployment in the south near the border with Israel over the past two months.
Jean-Pierre Lacroix spoke to the U.N. Security Council in a video briefing from Beirut.
He said Lebanese troops have moved into 93 locations in the south since the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah began on Nov. 27. That's up from an estimated 10 locations south of the Litani River at the time of the truce, he said.
As part of the government's plan to deploy an additional 6,000 troops to the south, he said, 262 new recruits have arrived, another 673 are undergoing training and an additional 600 are undergoing pre-recruitment screening.
Lacroix echoed U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... , who is also visiting Lebanon, in urging Israeli forces to withdraw without delay.
The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire gave Israeli forces and Hezbollah two months to leave southern Lebanon and hand over control to the Lebanese Army and U.N. peacekeepers.
''With 10 days until the end of the stated 60-day period for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon, however, Israeli demolitions of tunnels, buildings, and agricultural land continue,'' he said. ''Some Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s have also been reported, as have ongoing violations of Lebanese airspace.''
Israel has said its actions are targeting Hezbollah assets and personnel, Lacroix said, but the presence of Israeli forces in Lebanon is a violation of the Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.
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[NAHARNET] Lebanese authorities are holding two U.S. citizens on suspicion of gathering information in Beirut's southern suburbs, considered a Hezbollah stronghold, officials said.
Even odds they were just tourists with really low emotional intelligence, going where angels fear to tread. Odd odds they really are spies who went through DEI training instead of spy craft classes. Let them be grateful that scary President Trump will be sworn in today, so they won’t have to rely on the Biden administration State Department to advocate for them, whichever is true.
The U.S. citizens were carrying cameras and smartphones, and drew the suspicion of Hezbollah members who detained them before handing them over to Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... 's military intelligence for questioning. That's according to two Lebanese judicial officials and a security official.
They’re very fortunate they didn’t accidentally fall down a highrise staircase on their way to the handover…
A U.S. Embassy official, when asked whether two Americans have been detained in Beirut, responded by saying: ''We are aware of the case but have nothing further to add.''
All four officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the security matter with the media.
Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar, which is close to Hezbollah, first reported about the detention, saying two Americans in their early 30s were detained Tuesday at a shawarma restaurant close to a compound run by Hezbollah.
Al-Akhbar said the two men entered Lebanon on Monday, rented a car and were staying at a hotel in central Beirut.
The Lebanese judicial and security officials said the men went for two days to eat at restaurants in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Iran-backed Hezbollah has deep support in Beirut's southern suburbs and in the country's south — areas that Israel repeatedly bombed last fall during the war with Hezbollah. A shaky ceasefire has been in effect since late November.
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A court in #Iran has sentenced popular singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death on appeal after he was convicted of blasphemy, local media report.https://t.co/pP4rG3HPpX
[GEO.TV] The next group of Gaza hostages to be released under a ceasefire agreement with Israel will be freed on Saturday, a senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday after the initial release of three women.
"The release of the second batch of Israeli prisoners (hostages) will take place on the evening of next Saturday, the seventh day from the start of the ceasefire agreement," the official said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak publicly about the matter.
Assuming Hamas can restrain themselves for that long, anyway, not to mention Islamic Jihad and the remaining small Palestinian terror groups, whether jihadi or secular Communist. History suggests the odds are not high that they all will manage to resist irresistible temptation, just as they couldn’t that fateful October 7th that they’ve been deservedly paying for ever since.
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So how many hostages will they re;ease this Saturday?
[IsraelTimes] The Trump transition team is reportedly considering relocating some of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s two million people outside of the enclave while post-war reconstruction of the decimated Strip takes place, with one of the temporary host countries considered for refugees being Indonesia.
NBC makes the revelation in a Saturday report but only cites one anonymous transition official, who divulges an idea widely seen as completely unrealistic, and it’s unclear how many people in the incoming administration are actually seriously considering it.
Regional countries to date have rejected the idea of accepting Paleostinian migrants colonists, not wanting to be seen as complicit in another refugee crisis. There is also significant fear among many Paleostinians that Israel would not allow those who leave the Strip to return.
Which is completely different than the fact that much of the Gaza population has been dying to move abroad since long before the 10/7 Hamas invasion. Has anyone considered boarding them in that futuristic building/city that Saudi Prince MBS has been constructing deep in the Saudi desert (or wherever it is)?
NBC also reports that incoming Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff is considering a visit to Gaza, as he works to maintain the nascent ceasefire deal that is slated to commence on Sunday.
"You got to see it, you got to feel it," the transition official says, adding that doing so would allow Witkoff to see the dynamics playing out on the ground himself, rather than taking Israel’s word for it.
Witkoff is considering the Gaza trip, as he plans to maintain a near-constant presence in the region over the coming weeks and months, given how fragile the deal is expected to be, NBC says, still citing the same lone unnamed transition official.
"Remember, there’s a lot of people, radicals, fanatics, not just from the Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... side, from the right wing of the Israeli side, who are absolutely incentivized to blow this whole deal up," the transition official says, offering rare criticism of Israel from a Trump official, albeit an anonymous one.
"If we don’t help the Gazooks, if we don’t make their life better, if we don’t give them a sense of hope, there’s going to be a rebellion," the transition official adds.
The Times of Israel revealed last week that Witkoff’s January 11 meeting with Netanyahu was critical in securing a breakthrough, with the Trump envoy leaning on the premier to make the compromises necessary for a deal.
He essentially conveyed to the prime minister, "If you’re not intent on making a deal, then tell me, and I’ll get on the plane and I’ll go home," the transition official tells NBC.
Witkoff reportedly highlighted to Netanyahu how much Trump did for Israel in his first term.
He also pointed to Trump’s willingness to take political heat from his conservative supporters in order to secure the ceasefire deal, and Witkoff urged the Israeli government to take the same approach, NBC says.
The network says Witkoff relayed the following message to Hamas via Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... : Unless you’re prepared to die, tell me why you don’t see this as the deal that could ultimately lead to the end of the war.
NBC also reveals that American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel is not scheduled to be released until Day 14 of the ceasefire.
No Israeli news site — even well-sourced ones — has published the days during which specific hostages will be released, and it’s unclear the veracity of this unsourced detail in the unconfirmed report.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Good to see that word is spreading about this rotten example of a human being and his Oh-so-important military comrades. Another project for the Trump team to act on this week fairly soon, after whoever owned Mr. Mannin’s spot in the organization chart fired him last week.
REPORT: A former FBI special agent and DoD advisor has been BUSTED coordinating a secret plot to sabotage Trump’s return.
The man who spilled the means is Jamie Mannina, who was exposed in an undercover video by O’Keefe Media.
[IsraelTimes] Wikipedia has banned several editors for using the platform to spread antisemitic rhetoric and misinformation about Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, the Anti-Defamation League says.
A thing that until now has not bothered Wikipedia management even a little. Curious, that.
These users have spread “malicious, false and biased information about Zionism and Israel across the platform,” says the ADL.
An arbitration committee for the collaborative online encyclopedia banned the users Iskandar323, Selfstudier, Nableezy, Levivich and Nishidani from the Israel-Palestine discussion for operating in bad faith, the watchdog says. Another editor, Ivana, was previously banned from all editing.
Following the decision, “it is now imperative for Wikipedia to begin work immediately to undo the harm caused by these rogue but prolific editors who literally have wreaked havoc across the platform,” the ADL says.
“As we have said before, Wikipedia needs to wake up to the reality that this is a systemic problem across the platform that needs immediate action. There is still a lot more that must be done to ensure that Wikipedia can live up to its policy around the encyclopedia holding a neutral point of view.”
The ADL was labeled as “generally unreliable” regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by Wikipedia’s editors in June. The organization charged that all of the banned users had taken part in a coordinated campaign to smear its credibility.
🚨JUST IN: Man pleads guilty to kill*ng a New Mexico State Police Officer who stopped to help him with a flat tire
Jaremy Smith pleaded guilty to stealing a gun and car, shooting Officer Justin Hare, kidnapping him, and leaving him on the side of the road while he was still… pic.twitter.com/XCgrzmGc1o
Police later connected Smith to the murd*r of paramedic Phonesia Machado-Fore, though he has not been formally charged yet
Smith was already on the run on March 15, 2024, after stealing a car and a 9mm gun
He got a flat tire while driving. Officer Justin Hare stopped to help and even offered Smith a ride into town to fix it
Smith admits to shooting Officer Hare once, then going around Hare's car and shooting him two more times
He then got into the police cruiser while Hare was still alive, drove for about five minutes, and took him out of the car before leaving him on the side of the road.
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He has an outstanding warrant in Carolina for a murder which he was fleeing from. Throw in interstate flight, he's got three hots and a cot for life.
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New Mexico does not have Capital punishment anymore. North Carolina does though they have not used it in years. If ever there was a deserving case, Smith is it.
🚨 Breaking: Following the assassination of two of Iran's 🇮🇷 Supreme Court judges by a court guard, today for the first time Supreme Leader Khamenei prayed while wearing a bulletproof vest 👇
[GEO.TV] Hundreds of supporters of South Korea's arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol, stormed a court building early on Sunday after his detention was extended, smashing windows and breaking inside, an attack the country's acting leader called "unimaginable".
Yoon on Wednesday became the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested as he faces allegations of insurrection related to his stunning, short-lived Dec. 3 declaration of martial law that has plunged the country into political turmoil.
Shortly after the court announced its decision around 3am (1800 GMT) on Sunday, Yoon's supporters swarmed the building, overwhelming riot police trying to keep them at bay.
Protesters blasted fire extinguishers at lines of police guarding the front entrance, then flooded inside, destroying office equipment, fittings and furniture, footage showed.
Police restored order a few hours later, saying they had arrested 46 protesters and vowing to track down others involved.
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the #Gaza Strip after a long-awaited truce between #Israel and Hamas came into effect, the UN says.https://t.co/vJpVKERigw
United Nations humanitarian officials say that more than 630 trucks of humanitarian aid have entered the Gaza Strip, in implementation of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
In a post on social media platform X, Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, says that over 630 trucks entered Gaza on Sunday, with at least 300 of them bringing humanitarian assistance into the north.
And no doubt all involved feel terribly noble for doing so. But the Hamas warehouses were already stuffed to bursting with supplies Hamas was selling at a huge mark-up to the populace they’ve deliberately kept cold and starving for propaganda purposes — where on earth are they going to put what’s coming in now? More from the Times of Israel:
The UN did not give details on where the shipments entered Gaza, but an Egyptian source speaking on condition of anonymity said that “197 trucks of aid and five of fuel entered through the crossing of Kerem Shalom between Israel and Gaza and that of al-Oga” and Nitzana between Egypt and Israel.
Some of the trucks were carrying prefabricated housing units.
That’s actually a good idea. Kudos to whoever thought of it, and also to whoever funded it.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said 600 trucks a day would enter Gaza after the ceasefire took effect, including 50 carrying fuel.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the Office for Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine from 00:00 01/19/2025 to 00:00 01/20/2025.
A total of 17 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
There were no reports of civilian injuries.
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residential building.
A total of 17 armed attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 48 units of various ammunition were fired.
20:04 Drone drivers demonstrate the art of precision dropping.
In the Kurakhovsky direction, at one of the strongholds, a dugout with Ukrainian servicemen who were trying to hide from a Russian drone in their positions was discovered and destroyed.
In the Seversky direction, at night, a Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicle was successfully destroyed, delivering personnel for rotation at positions.
19:55 Russian Armed Forces advance near Velikaya Novoselka –MAP.
19:03 Around 17.20 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of Kursk region.
17:33 Successful ramming of enemy "Baba Yaga". Combat drone crews of the "North" group of forces around the clockon dutyin the sky over the Khar'kov region and detect enemy attack drones. Objective control means recorded the destruction of another unmanned aerial vehicle "Baba Yaga" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:54 "Lancet" worked right on target in Sumy region.
A crew of the Lancet loitering munition from the North force group destroyed a US-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery unit.
16:19 Defeat of the deployment point of the 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces using a heavy flamethrower system in the Kursk direction –MAP.
15:53 Bradley was shot down in Novoivanovka, Kursk region –MAP.
15:27 Russian Ministry of Defense:
From 12.40 to 13.10 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles: three over the territory of the Belgorod region and one over the territory of the Kursk region
. 15:09 In the Pokrovsk direction, there are approximately six kilometers left in a straight line to the border with the Dnipropetrovsk region, if you move from the settlements of Udachnoye and Uspenovka. And to the M-30 highway, which connects Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) with Dnipropetrovsk, there are approximately five kilometers -MAP.
14:33 Russian Ministry of Defense:
FPV drone calculations at Rubicon Center destroyed a vehicle with Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in the border area of Kursk Oblast.
13:42 Russian troops released Vozdvizhenka
The settlement is located on the right flank of the Pokrovsk direction, and its liberation increased the chances of building a bridgehead to reach the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka highway. When this section of the highway is cut off, the supply of the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Chasovy Yar will be significantly complicated.
The main assault backbone in this direction previously established control over the strategically important T-0504 and Shakhovo-Timofeyevka road junction, which significantly worsened the enemy's logistics between Krasnoarmeysk and Konstantinovka. Fire contact is also recorded in the area of the infrastructure of the Ukrainian Bacon meat processing plant.
13:21 Another piece of bad news for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and good news for the Russian Armed Forces: Chasov Yar gradually is being squeezed. The 200th Motorized Rifle Brigade appears to be finishing cleaning up the western part of the city in the area of the private sector.
13:09 In the Kupyansk direction, in the area of the settlement of Novoosinovo, a 122mm self-propelled howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces 2S1 Gvozdika was destroyed by a Lancet loitering munition –MAP.
12:11 Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the liberation of the settlement of Vozdvizhenka in the DPR as a result of active offensive actions by the Center group.
10:56 Several KABs arrived in Grishino, less than seven km remain to the Dnepropetrovsk region.
08:12 Russian Ministry of Defense:
During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territories of the Bryansk and Belgorod regions.
05:01 Tankers of the "Center" are dismantling Ukrainian Armed Forces strongholds in the Krasnoarmeysk direction Operators of unmanned aerial vehicles of the "Center" group of forces identified enemy firing points. The tankers, having received the target coordinates, went to the firing position and destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold. The fire was adjusted by the UAV operators of the group.
03:50 Minor advance of the Russian Armed Forces south of Novoandreyevka in the Pokrovsky direction –MAP.
03:11 The Russian Armed Forces have advanced in the Zelenovka-Yantarnoye area in the Kurakhovsky direction –MAP.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on formations of the national guard brigade and foreign mercenaries close to Volchansk and Malye Prokhody (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 35 troops, three field artillery guns, and a depot of materiel.
The Zapad Group of Forces captured more advantageous lines and positions, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, a jaeger brigade, a mountain assault brigade, an airmobile brigade, an assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defence brigade, and a national guard brigade close to Petropavlovka, Novoosinovo, Glushkovka, Borovskaya Andreyevka, Zapadnoye, Zelyony Gai, Zagryzovo (Kharkov region), Novoyegorovka, Kolodezi, and Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 430 troops, a tank, three infantry fighting vehicles including a U.S.-made Bradley IFV, two U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, three pickup trucks, seven field artillery guns, three of them were NATO-made.
One Kvertus electronic warfare station and one artillery ammunition depot were neutralised.
The Yug Group of Forces units improved tactical situation and defeated units of two mechanised brigades and a motorised infantry brigade close to Minkovka, Markovo, Verolyubovka, Chervonoye, Chasov Yar, Podolskoye, and Alekseyevo-Druzhovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 195 troops, a U.S.-made HMMWV armoured fighting vehicles, and three pickup trucks.
One motorised infantry brigade command post, one electronic warfare station, and four ammunition depots were destroyed.
As a result of active offensive actions, the Tsentr Group liberated Vozdvizhenka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian units hit manpower and materiel of seven mechanised brigades, a motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, and an assault brigade of Ukrainian national police near Petrovka, Dzerzhinsk, Solenoye, Ukrainka, Novovasilyevka, Shevchenko, Novoyelizavetovka, Lysovka, Peschanoye, and Slavyanka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 535 troops, two US-made M-113 APCs, and a Finnish-made Pasi armoured personnel carrier, four armoured fighting vehicles, 10 motor vehicles, and five artillery guns.
The Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the depths of the enemy's defence, defeated units of four mechanised brigades of the AFU, a naval infantry brigade, three territorial defence brigades, and a national guard brigade near Dneproenergiya, Razliv, Velikaya Novoselka, Otradnoye, Novopol of the Donetsk People's Republic, and Temirovka (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 135 troops, a tank, an armoured fighting vehicle, a motor vehicle, and a Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system.
The Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware of three coastal defence brigades, a mechanised brigade of the AFU, and a territorial defence brigade close to Stanislav, Zmeyevka, Yantarnoye, Tokarevka, Antonovka, Kazatskoye (Kherson region), and Kamenskoye (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy lost more than 75 troops, an armoured fighting vehicle, five motor vehicles, and two electronic warfare stations.
Two depots storing ammunition and materiel were neutralised.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, clusters of enemy manpower and hardware in 143 areas during the day.
Russian air defence systems shot down three U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 66 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,792 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,674 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,800 field artillery guns and mortars, and 30,481 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
The Sever Group of Forces engaged formations of a tank brigade, a heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, a naval infantry brigade, and three territorial defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Bondarevka, Guyevo, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Sverdlikovo, and Sudzha. Two enemy counter-attacks were repelled.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware near Viktorovka, Vladimirovka, Zaoleshenka, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Kubatkin, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Martynovka, Melovoy, Oleshnya, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Yuzhny as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Zhuravka, and Yunakovka in Sumy region.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU lost more than 210 troops, an infantry fighting vehicle, five armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, an artillery gun, and a mortar.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 52,870 troops, 304 tanks, 232 infantry fighting vehicles, 174 armoured personnel carriers, 1,572 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,508 motor vehicles, 377 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 93 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 30 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, eight armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[Korrespondent] Almost half of the clashes took place in the Pokrovsky direction.
The enemy remains highly active in the Pokrovsky direction. There, Russian troops have already attacked the Ukrainian Armed Forces positions 62 times.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 125 combat clashes on the front. Our defenders are stopping the enemy, holding the lines and ruining the plans of the Russians. This was stated in the General Staff report on Sunday, January 19.
During these days, the enemy from the territory of the Russian Federation carried out artillery shelling of the areas of the settlements of Progress, Romanovka, Grabovskoye, Pokrovka in the Sumy region; Lemesheno in the Kharkov region; Leonovka, Medvedevka, Berilovka in the Chernihiv region. The settlements of Aleksandrivka in the Sumy region and Gremyach in the Chernihiv region were subjected to airstrikes with unguided air missiles.
In the Kharkov direction, with the support of attack aircraft, the enemy twice unsuccessfully attacked the positions of the Defense Forces near the settlement of Volchansk, and also carried out an airstrike in the area of the settlement of Volchanskie Khutor.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attempted to advance towards our positions in the areas of Stroyevka, Peschanoye, Kolesnikovka, Zagryzovoye and Lozovaya seven times during the day; four attacks were successfully repelled, and three more clashes are ongoing.
In the Limansky direction, 14 armed clashes occurred near Novoegorovka, Nadezhda, Novosergeevka, Novosadovoye, Zarechny, Kolodtsy, Zelenaya Dolina, Terny and in Serebryanskoye forestry. Seven armed clashes are still ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy carried out offensive operations in the areas of Ivano-Daryevka and Verkhnekamenskoye; both attacks were successfully repelled by our defenders.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy attacked seven times in the area of Chasovy Yar and Belaya Gora, and five combat clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction, the invaders attacked 17 times in the areas of Toretsk, Dilievka and Shcherbinovka. Eleven attacks were successfully repelled by our defenders, six combat clashes are still ongoing.
The enemy remains highly active in the Pokrovsk direction . Today, clashes of varying intensity have broken out 62 times near the settlements of Zelenoye Pole, Aleksandropol, Vodyanoye Vtoroy, Yelizavetovka, Mirolyubovka, Promin, Lisovka, Mirnograd, Pokrovsk, Zverevo, Shevchenko, Udachnoye, Uspenovka, Kotlino, Nadeyevka, Novotroetskoye, Novoandreyevka, Slavyanka, Petrovpavlovka, Andreyevka, Dachnoye, Ulakly and Yantarnoye, fifteen clashes are still ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the aggressor attacked 12 times in the areas of Constantinople and Velikaya Novosyolka, currently four combat clashes are ongoing. The enemy launched an air strike with unguided missiles on Novopolye.
The enemy did not conduct any active operations in the Gulyai-Polye, Orekhov and Dnieper directions .
In the Kursk direction, Ukrainian defenders are repelling one attack by the invaders; in total, four combat clashes have already been recorded. The enemy carried out two air strikes with two guided bombs on populated areas and positions of the Defense Forces. In addition, it carried out 196 artillery attacks, including five from multiple launch rocket systems.
Let us recall that on January 18, the losses of Russian troops in Ukraine amounted to 1,580 people killed and wounded . Russia's total losses since the beginning of the war have approached 820 thousand people.
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[Korrespondent] Since the beginning of the day, 180 combat clashes have occurred on the front.
In this direction, 150 invaders were eliminated, seven units of equipment, an armored fighting vehicle, five communications equipment were destroyed, an armored fighting vehicle, a mortar, two electronic warfare stations and equipment were damaged.
The defense forces are focusing their efforts on disrupting the Russian invaders' offensive plans and exhausting their combat potential. Since the beginning of the day, 180 combat clashes have occurred. This was stated in the General Staff's report on Sunday, January 19.
The enemy carried out 24 air strikes, dropping 34 KABs, used 961 kamikaze drones, and carried out more than four thousand shellings of populated areas and positions of our troops.
In the Kharkov direction, Russian terrorists carried out airstrikes in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk and Volchanskie Khutor, in addition, the enemy tried three times to break through the defensive lines of our defenders near Volchansk.
Thirteen times the enemy attacked our fortifications in the Kupyansk direction in the areas of Stroyevka, Peschanoye, Kolesnikovka, Zagryzovoy, Kutkovka, Novaya Kruglyakovka and Lozovaya. One combat clash is still ongoing.
Eighteen attacks were repelled by Ukrainian soldiers near Novogorovka, Nadezhda, Novosergeevka, Pervomayskoye, Zeleny Roshcha, Makeyevka, Novosadovye, Zarechny, Kolodtsy, Zelenaya Dolina, Terny and in the Serebryanskoye forestry in the Liman direction.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy carried out offensive operations in the areas of Ivano-Daryevka and Verkhnekamenskoye; in total, two attacks by the invaders were repelled.
In the Kramatorsk direction, our defenders repelled seven attempts by the invaders to advance forward near Chasovy Yar and Belaya Gora.
In the Toretsk direction, the occupiers stormed the positions of our defenders in the areas of Toretskaya, Dilievka and Shcherbinovka 19 times today. The defense forces are steadfastly holding off the pressure.
The enemy is intensively attacking Ukrainian defenders in the Pokrovsk direction. During the day, the enemy has made 88 attacks. The greatest activity of Russian occupiers continues in the areas of the settlements of Zelenoye Pole, Aleksandropol, Vodyanoye Vtoroy, Yelizavetovka, Mirolyubovka, Luch, Lisovka, Mirnograd, Pokrovsk, Zverevoye, Shevchenko, Udachnoye, Uspenovka, Kotlino, Nadeyevka, Novotroitskoye, Novotroitskoye, Novotroitskoye, Andreyevka, Dachnoye, Ulakly and Yantarnoye. Our defenders are courageously holding the lines; five combat contacts are still ongoing.
According to preliminary estimates, today in this direction our soldiers eliminated 150 and wounded 144 occupiers. Seven units of automobile equipment, one combat armored vehicle, 5 satellite communication facilities were destroyed, and an armored vehicle, a mortar, two portable electronic warfare stations and a unit of automobile equipment were also significantly damaged.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy carried out 13 attacks in the direction of Constantinople and Velyka Novosyolka during the day. Two combat clashes are still ongoing. The enemy carried out air strikes with KABs in the area of the settlement of Novopol, dropping five guided bombs.
The enemy did not carry out any active operations in the Gulyai-Polye direction.
In the Orekhov direction, the Russian invaders once stormed the positions of our defenders in the direction of Novoandreyevka. They had no luck.
In the Dnieper direction, two enemy assaults failed.
In Kursk region, Ukrainian defenders repelled 14 attacks by the invaders. According to updated information, the enemy carried out 12 air strikes during the day, dropping 16 guided bombs, and carried out 416 artillery attacks, including six from multiple launch rocket systems.
While in other areas there have been no significant changes in the situation.
The General Staff recognized the Ukrainian soldiers of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after King Daniel, the 79th Separate Airborne Assault Tavricheskaya Brigade, and the 37th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade, who steadfastly held back the invasion of superior enemy forces.
Let us recall that on January 18, the losses of Russian troops in Ukraine amounted to 1,580 people killed and wounded. Russia's total losses since the beginning of the war have approached 820 thousand people.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21.38 In the military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in pursuance of the decision of the Commander-in-Chief, a comprehensive group of the General Staff has begun work; today it is working in the 156th separate mechanized brigade. This was reported by the press service of the General Staff on Sunday, January 19.
19:33 Ukrainian defenders have repelled an attempt by the Russian army to storm their positions in the Toretsk direction under cover of bad weather. The corresponding video was released by the 28th separate mechanized brigade named after the Knights of the Winter Campaign on Sunday, January 19.
18.07 Since the beginning of the day, 125 combat clashes have occurred on the front. Our defenders are stopping the enemy, holding the lines and destroying the plans of the Russians. This was noted in the General Staff report on Sunday, January 19.
14:39 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky issued an order banning the transfer of highly qualified specialists from the Air Force to the infantry. At the same time, the current mobilization rates do not cover the army's needs. He said this in an interview with military journalist Andrey Tsaplienko.
13:02 Russian aggressors have used almost 1,300 air attack weapons against Ukraine this week, President Volodymyr Zelensky reported. The defense forces shot down 33 missiles, including ballistic missiles, and 311 attack drones. Another 136 drones failed to reach their targets.
12:41 Law enforcement officers conducted a special operation to expose illegal arms sales in four regions of Ukraine and detained 15 dealers. Among the items seized from the criminals were Russian Kalashnikov assault rifles with an Ognishche underbarrel grenade launcher, a batch of fragmentation grenades and explosives.
12:20 Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov met with Chief of the Canadian Defense Staff General Jenny Carignan. He outlined the areas in which our country needs increased supplies: air defense systems, heavy armored vehicles, and certain types of ammunition.
11:00 Law enforcement officers have exposed the activities of fraudsters from the Cherkasy region who implemented a scheme to appropriate donations for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported by the National Police. It has now been established that the perpetrators managed to appropriate more than UAH 2.5 million.
10:32 In Kiev, a lawyer recruited agents for the Russian military intelligence (better known as the GRU), and also defended already exposed enemy henchmen in court. He also passed on information to the Russians about SBU employees who were listed in criminal proceedings and exposed traitors. The perpetrator has been detained, the SBU reported .
9:51 On Sunday night, Russia attacked Ukraine with dozens of drones from
three directions. Most of them were destroyed by air defense. The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported the results of the combat operations.
9:35 In Dnipro, law enforcement officers exposed officials and doctors of the military medical commission of one of the RTCK and other medical institutions of the city, who falsified the results of blood tests for HIV. Such manipulations allowed "sick" men to be removed from military registration and leave Ukraine without hindrance.
9:10 Over the past 24 hours, 199 combat clashes have been recorded at the front. Almost half of them are in the Pokrovsk direction. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported the details in the morning report.
8:50 A Kherson resident lost his leg at a bus stop. The 59-year-old man stepped on a "petal" anti-personnel mine. As a result of the detonation, he received an explosive injury and a traumatic amputation of the foot.
8:25 On Sunday night, Russian aggressors attacked the Nikopol district four times with artillery, Grad MLRS and kamikaze drones. An industrial enterprise and an administrative building were damaged in Nikopol. The inspection of the attacked areas continues. Fortunately, there were no casualties anywhere.
8:00 Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops in Ukraine have lost 1,580 people killed and wounded. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in its morning report on Sunday. Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian troops have destroyed more than 150 units of Russian equipment, including eight tanks, 18 armored vehicles, and 15 artillery systems.
Ugh. Thank goodness the grownups are about to take over. The FBI should be mortified as well as worried.
[InsuranceJournal] FBI leaders have warned that they believe hackers who broke into AT&T Inc.’s system last year stole months of their agents’ call and text logs, setting off a race within the bureau to protect the identities of confidential informants, a document reviewed by Bloomberg News shows.
FBI officials told agents across the country that details about their use on the telecom carrier’s network were believed to be among the billions of records stolen, according to the document and interviews with a current and a former law enforcement official. They asked not to be named to discuss sensitive information. Data from all FBI devices under the bureau’s AT&T service for public safety agencies were presumed taken, the document shows.
The cache of hacked AT&T records didn’t reveal the substance of communications but, according to the document, could link investigators to their secret sources. The data was believed to include agents’ mobile phone numbers and the numbers with which they called and texted, the document shows. Records for calls and texts that weren’t on the AT&T network, such as through encrypted messaging apps, weren’t part of the stolen data.
AT&T publicly disclosed the breach in July and said it included six months worth of mobile phone customer data from 2022. The hackers threatened to sell the data unless the telecommunications company paid an extortion fee.
And now the Hamas-lovers who read GEO in Pakistan and elsewhere know, too. Ain’t life grand!
[GEO.TV] President-elect Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said on Sunday that if Hamas reneges on the Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal, the United States will support Israel "in doing what it has to do."
He added in an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation," "Hamas will never govern Gaza. That is completely unacceptable".
Incoming national security adviser Mike Waltz reportedly told the families of American hostages that the Trump administration will make sure that all phases of the ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas are implemented, amid concerns among many of the hostage families that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will resume fighting after the first phase, putting the lives of their relatives slated for release in the second phase at risk.
Families present at the meeting on Saturday expressed their concern over recent comments made by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said he received assurances from Netanyahu that Israel would resume fighting after the first phase, Axios reports.
The families asked Waltz that the Trump administration push for negotiations on the second phase of the deal to begin as soon as possible, rather than waiting for the 16th day of the ceasefire as the deal stipulates, the report says.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A fuel tanker explosion in Niger State in western Nigeria has killed 86 people, local outlet This Day Live reported on January 19.
The bodies of the victims were removed from the scene of the accident. The death toll stands at 55, said Alhaji Abdullahi Baba Ara, director general of the state emergency management agency.
He specified that 80 of the dead were buried at night. Another five bodies were taken away by relatives of the dead to be buried in the city. One person died after being hospitalized.
Authorities initially reported 50 people killed after a tanker exploded in Dikko. The accident occurred on January 18 at around 11:00 GMT on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway near the Baddegi gas station. The tanker overturned on its side and a tanker truck pulled up to pump out the fuel. During the pumping, gasoline spilled on a generator, causing an explosion and fire.
Inshallah. No amount of care can prevent what Allah wills, so why bother?
Most of the dead were people who ran to the tanker hoping to collect fuel.
Had they not run over to collect free stuff, they’d still be alive.
The fire also destroyed several houses and shops.
Accidents involving fuel tankers are common in Nigeria. In October 2024, more than 180 people were injured and more than 80 were wounded when a tanker truck overturned and exploded.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, in February 2022, at least 17 people were killed in a road accident involving a fuel tanker in the Nigerian state of Ogun. In November of the same year, in Kogi state, a fuel tanker with failed brakes collided with several cars in the oncoming lane. At least 12 people were killed in the explosion.
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The death toll from the explosion of a petrol tanker truck in #Nigeria that killed people rushing to gather fuel has risen to 86, emergency services say.https://t.co/vBxEsrhPAo
[GEO.TV] Five bad boyz were potted as security forces thwarted an infiltration attempt along the Pakistain-Afghanistan border ...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons... in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Zhob district, the military's media wing said on Sunday.
In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that they noticed the movement of a group of bad boys, who were trying to infiltrate through the Pak-Afghanistan border in the general area of Sambaza, Zhob district on the night between January 18-19.
''Own troops effectively engaged and thwarted their attempt to infiltrate. Resultantly, five Khwarij were sent to hell.''
Pakistain has consistently been asking the interim Afghan government to ensure effective border management on their side of the border, according to the ISPR.
It further said: ''Interim Afghan government is expected to fulfil its obligations and deny the use of Afghan soil by Khwarij for perpetuating acts of terrorism against Pakistain.''
Security forces of Pakistain remain committed to securing its borders and eliminating the menace of terrorism from the country, said ISPR.
[GEO.TV] In efforts to secure the roads and establish lasting peace in the restive Kurram district, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to take "indiscriminate and stringent action" against miscreants involved in attacks on relief convoys and deputy commissioner.
The decision was taken in a high-level meeting, which was attended by provincial chief secretary, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Akhtar Hayat Khan and civil and coppers, KP government spokesperson Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif said in a statement.
"Action against such miscreants in affected areas is indispensable," he said, vowing to ensure the implementation of a peace agreement within the two warring tribes as per the law.
Kurram has been wracked by violence for decades, but around 150 people have been killed in a fresh round of fighting which started in November last year when two separate convoys travelling under police escort were ambushed, leaving 40 people dead.
Despite the peace agreement reached on January 1, there have been repeated attacks on convoys and vehicles in the Bagan area and its surroundings, including a assassination on Deputy Commissioner Javedullah Mehsud.
Last week, bandidosLions of Islam ambushed a convoy of 35 vehicles set to resupply local traders in the restive territory with rice, flour, cooking oil and essential medicine, which claimed the lives of at least 8 people, including security personnel, drivers and civilians. Retaliatory action by security forces resulted in the killing of six assailants.
In the statement issued today, Barrister Saif regretted that some miscreants have "infiltrated" among the peace-loving people of Kurram.
[PULSE.NG] Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun has commended the Department of State Services (DSS) for the arrest of 10 suspected members of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... /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.... 's West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Ilesa-Osun.
In a statement by Malam Olawale Rasheed, the Governor's Spokesperson, made available to newsmen in Osogbo on Saturday, Adeleke hailed the alertness of the DSS operatives.
He said that the DSS move to eliminate threats posed by the suspected terrorists, gives assurance that our security agencies are up to the task of sustaining peace and security in every part of Nigeria.
Adeleke commended the intelligence-gathering skills of the personnel of the State Service, who painstakingly monitored the activities of the suspected criminals and moved swiftly to cut off their dastardly act.
''This is a welcome development and a big relief, not just for us as a government, but to the people of the state and Nigerians in general.
''I commend the security operatives for their alertness and intelligence-driven operation.
''We have absolute confidence in our security forces to keep protecting us,'' the governor said.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] ''In support of the oppressed Paleostinian people and their fighters, and in response to the recent massacres committed against our brothers in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , and as part of the fifth phase of support in the battle of the Promised Conquest and Holy Jihad:
The Air Force, Missile Force, and Naval Forces of the 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... i Armed Forces, with the help of Allah, conducted a joint military operation targeting the American aircraft carrier ''USS Harry S. Truman'' and several accompanying warships in the northern Red Sea. This operation utilized several drones and cruise missiles and marks the eighth attack on the carrier since its arrival in the Red Sea. I wonder if the carrier crew noticed?
The operation successfully achieved its objectives, thanks to Allah. The American aircraft carrier was forced to leave the theater of operations.
The Yemeni Armed Forces warn all hostile forces in the Red Sea against committing any aggression against our country during the Gaza ceasefire period. Any such aggression will be met with decisive and unprecedented military operations against these forces without limits or red lines.''
They do say so, yes. We’ll see what that means to them… and for how long.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Islamic Resistance® Movement, Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , stated Sunday that with the implementation of the ceasefire agreement, it reaffirms its commitment to upholding its terms, which it said is ''the result of the resilience and patience of our great people and the legendary steadfastness of our valiant resistance against the Israeli machinery of terror and killing.''
''Our heroic prisoners and detainees are on a path to freedom starting today, as we remain steadfast in our promise to them until they break the shackles of their captors and breathe freedom in the skies of Paleostine,'' the statement added.
The Paleostinian group affirmed that it is monitoring the delivery of aid and the relief of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... 's residents with all necessary measures, emphasizing its commitment to making every effort to provide all required support and assistance to restore normal life in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas also announced that it is awaiting the delivery of a list from ''Israel'' shortly, which includes the names of 90 detainees, comprising women and kiddies, expected to be released from Israeli prisons on Sunday as part of the first phase of the agreement's implementation.
The movement has fulfilled its commitments under the ceasefire agreement by providing mediators with a list of three Israeli female captives who will be released from Gaza on Sunday.
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[NAHARNET] Contacts intensified over the past hours, through mediators between Baabda and Ain el-Tineh, in order to contain the dismay of Hezbollah and Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial 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... , the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Friday.
''Baabda is betting on a breakthrough in the meeting between (PM-designate Nawaf) Salam and Berri today (Friday),'' the daily added.
''Berri will inform Salam that he agrees to take part in the government whereas Hezbollah will not join it and the Shiite share will go to the Amal Movement,'' Nidaa al-Watan said.
''The share will be reportedly five ministers in a 30-minister line-up,'' the newspaper added.
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[IsraelTimes] The Yesh Din rights group says four settler attacks on Palestinians have taken place this evening.
Yesh Din is like the Human Rights Watch of Israel. Nonetheless, this seems out of line to me.
In one previously reported attack in Sinjil, two houses were torched along with four vehicles.
In Ein Sinya, settlers set a house on fire.
In Turmusaya, dozens of settlers hurled stones at civilians and damaged property.
On the West Bank’s main north-south highway Route 60, settlers are hurling stones at passing Palestinian vehicles, the group says.
“This is the message the Israeli government and Defense Minister Katz send when they seek to ‘strengthen and encourage’ the settlements: Settler violence against innocent Palestinians without a response from the security forces,” Yesh Din says in a statement.
Last week, Defense Minister Israel Katz released all 16 Israeli Jews who were under administration detention due to their alleged involvement in attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. Katz argued that it was better for settlers to be able to rejoice amid the hostage deal, rather than only the families of Palestinian terrorists slated for release.
The Shin Bet was not consulted in the move and warned that it could further destabilize the West Bank.
Thousands of Palestinians and dozens of Israeli Arabs remain under administration detention.
[IsraelTimes] While the hostage deal was being implemented in Gaza, a group of Israeli settlers raided the Palestinian village of Sinjil, torching a home and two vehicles, including one that was holding gas containers, which caused a major blast, Palestinian media reports.
Palestinian media reports that an 86-year-old man had been in the home that was torched but was rescued in time and is being rushed to the hospital for treatment.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. by Kamran Gasanov
[REGNUM] In the current “new Syria,” Türkiye is behaving like a true patron. It is trying to confirm not only in words but also in deeds that it is the main beneficiary of the change of power.
According to Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan , all recent visits by colleagues from France, Germany, Italy and other countries took place thanks to Turkish mediation. Syria's northern neighbor is lobbying at international meetings, such as the recent summit in Riyadh, for the lifting of sanctions and the restoration of the Arab republic.
According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Damascus needs no less than $500 billion. For their part, the Turks have already begun to help the Syrians. Together with Qatar, they sent two floating power plants to the eastern Mediterranean to improve the electricity supply situation – the ships will be able to produce up to 800 megawatts of electricity.
Turkish construction companies are already "rising" on news about their possible participation in the construction of roads, schools, hospitals. But for a full-fledged restoration, international donors are needed - the US, the EU, China, the rich countries of the Persian Gulf.
Turkey's superiority is also felt during political and diplomatic events. The first high-ranking guest in Damascus after the December coup was the former head of Turkish intelligence, Hakan Fidan, and the leader of the new Syria and the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) movement*, Ahmed al-Sharaa, will pay his first foreign visit to Ankara.
He does not miss the opportunity to thank Erdogan for his support and help. It is clear that al-Sharaa will look for any way to weaken the dominance of the successors of the Ottoman Empire, but for now the reality is different. On January 16, he sent the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the transitional government, Asad Hassan al-Shibani, to Erdogan .
The main issues of interest to Erdogan and Fidan included the restoration of state institutions, the lifting of sanctions, and the return of 3 million Syrians from Turkey home. But the most problematic topic for Ankara is the fight against terrorism and the territorial integrity of Syria.
In Turkey, terrorists are no longer even understood to mean ISIS*, but rather the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which are part of the so-called "Syrian Democratic Forces" (SDF). The YPG, which the Turkish authorities consider to be the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, and the SDF occupy territories in northwestern Syria and are under the care of up to 2,000 American troops.
Erdogan demands the complete elimination of the YPG. In early January, Fidan told al-Sharaa in an interview with CNN Türk that "Syria must solve the problem of the Kurdistan Workers' Party ." If Damascus is unable to solve this problem, Ankara is ready to take responsibility into its own hands. At a meeting with al-Shibani, Erdogan said that in the future of Syria "there is no place for terror," that is, the YPG and SDF, and Turkey will not agree to the division of Syria, that is, the formation of Syrian Kurdistan, whether in the form of autonomy or a separate state entity.
Damascus, at least rhetorically, shares its ally's concerns. Al-Shibani told Erdogan that "northeastern Syria should not pose a threat to Turkey and should be united under our central control . "
For now, the Damascus administration is negotiating with the Kurds. And that is why Ankara has adopted a wait-and-see attitude, periodically flexing its muscles to intimidate the YPG and SDF. As part of this policy, the Turkish Air Force struck the town of Suluk in northern Syria in the first week of January.
KURDS TALK ABOUT INTEGRATION
Al-Sharaa announced the first official negotiations with the Kurds on December 29: "We are negotiating with the SDF to resolve the crisis in northeastern Syria ." The essence of those negotiations was, first of all, de-escalation. After all, on December 9, immediately after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad , fighters of the Syrian National Army (SNA) loyal to Turkey went on the offensive against the YPG and SDF forces in the Manbij and Ain al-Arab (Kobani) regions.
At the same time, the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) began to build up their forces along the Syrian border in preparation for a large-scale operation. Two weeks later, an SDF spokesman reported that the Kurds had decided to launch a counterattack near the Karakozak Bridge and the Tishreen Dam on the Euphrates River. And, according to some media, the Kurds managed to retake the dam. Al-Sharaa needs to extinguish the hotbeds of conflict in order to build new state structures and rebuild Syria.
Further issues in the negotiations concern the status of the territories under the control of the SDF and YPG and the status of these armed groups in the new state. In the same speech, the head of HTS* made it clear that his government considers the Kurds an integral part of Syrian society, but will not allow Syria to become a platform for PKK attacks. Al-Sharaa also stated that he wants to include the YPG and SDF in the forces of the Ministry of Defense.
Two days later, a Kurdish delegation arrived in Damascus and the first round of negotiations began. The main achievement of that meeting was the Kurds' agreement to preserve the integrity of Syria.
On January 9, SDF chief Mazloum Abdi said: “We share a common position on the importance of the unity and territorial integrity of Syria and reject any plans to divide the country that could threaten its unity . ”
What the negotiations between Damascus and the SDF will ultimately lead to is not yet entirely clear. Yes, formally the Kurds agree to the integrity of Syria, which seems to suit Erdogan. But what status will the Kurds receive for their territories and will there be some kind of autonomy that will smoothly flow into independence, like in Iraqi Kurdistan? Will the YPG and SDF fighters be disbanded or will they receive some status as part of the forces of the Ministry of Defense, which, by the way, other groups in Syria, such as the Southern Operational Headquarters, are also seeking for themselves? All these questions will have to be resolved in the near future by the new leader of the still ununited Syria.
By helping the new Syrian government, Turkey's allies will push them to take action against Kurdish militants. The only acceptable option for Ankara is the complete dissolution of the YPG and SDF.
The Erdogan government, by the way, is trying to achieve the same thing from the PKK already on Turkish territory. At the end of the year, Erdogan's AKP coalition partner Devlet Bahceli (MHP party) suggested that the PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan address parliament and announce the self-dissolution of his organization.
On December 19, Fidan said that Türkiye would not carry out an operation against Kurdish groups if the new Syrian authorities took control of the northeastern territories.
But the longer the negotiation process between Damascus and the Kurds lasts, the more bellicose the statements from Ankara become. On January 16, during a speech in parliament, Erdogan said that Turkey could “crush all terrorists” in Syria on its own, referring to ISIS* and the YPG.
POTENTIAL CRISIS
The United States remains an additional and significant component of the "Kurdish issue". After the overthrow of Assad, the Americans doubled their presence in northeastern Syria.
On January 8, at a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Ankara against a large-scale operation. Blinken said that Washington is working closely with Ankara to resolve issues with the PKK, and Turkey should not launch an operation. At the same time, he demanded that al-Sharaa ensure the participation of the Kurds in the transition period.
The following day, Deputy Secretary of State John Bass arrived in Ankara to discuss the YPG presence in northern Syria. The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet noted that Bass arrived after Ankara had toughened its rhetoric against the YPG, and therefore the White House wanted to reach an agreement with its ally. On the eve of the Deputy Secretary of State's visit, Turkish media outlets spread rumors that Turkey and Syria could jointly conduct an operation against the YPG, but apparently this was only a tool to increase pressure on the United States.
For his part, Fidan stressed that Ankara has no intention of talking to Kurdish fighters, saying that “the countdown to military action has begun .” Turkey has only one condition: the Kurds must lay down their arms and the foreign SDF fighters must leave Syria. If the West makes new demands on Turkey, a military operation will become inevitable, Hurriyet says.
Erdogan is irritated not only by the US, which is covering up the YPG, but also by France. But while the Turks are ready to talk to the Americans, they do not take the French seriously. At one of the press conferences, Fidan made it clear that his country will not interact with those who “hide behind the power of America, promoting their own plans .” This is how the Turkish minister responded to rumors that French President Emmanuel Macron proposed to outgoing US President Joe Biden to deploy a Franco-American contingent on the Turkish-Syrian border from the Syrian side.
Macron's plans were revealed to the Turks by the co-chairman of the Kurdish administration for foreign affairs, Ilham Ahmed , who said on TV5 Monde that the US and France "could ensure the security of the entire border . "
The warnings and attempts by Blinken's team to make diplomatic moves are understandable, given that the Biden administration has supported the Kurds and prevented Turkey from eliminating the YPG for four years. But all the State Department's statements are of little use now, because Donald Trump's team is coming to power tomorrow , and Erdogan will have to resolve issues with him.
The ongoing settlement of the Gaza conflict removes one of the major problems in the future relations between the leaders of the two countries, even taking into account that members of the new US administration are extremely pro-Israel. But the Kurdish issue has the potential to create a crisis in relations between Ankara and Washington.
For Trump, Syria is not only a question of influence in the Middle East, but also oil, concentrated mainly in Kurdish territories. Al-Sharaa can eliminate a potential problem point between the US and Turkey by reaching an agreement with the Kurds. But relying solely on the leader of HTS*, who needs improved relations with America to lift international sanctions, would be extremely short-sighted from Erdogan’s point of view.
The Turkish government is now fully confident that it can solve the Kurdish problem in Syria. According to a source at the Atlantic Council (an organization considered undesirable in Russia), who asked to remain anonymous, Turkey prefers to persuade the YPG to disarm rather than carry out a military operation against them, since Ankara believes that such a decision will create an opportunity to put an end to the PKK. But “if the YPG rejects the Turkish olive branch ,” Turkey will go on the offensive, and “the US will not be able to stop it . ”
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[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Fun fact: Karma’s middle name is Donald Trump.
BREAKING — On his first day in office, President Trump will suspend the security clearances of the 51 former intelligence community officials who "lied” about Hunter Biden’s laptop being Russian disinformation leading to mass censorship of the story, per Fox News.
According to the Fox News, citing a senior administration official, Trump will take action against the so-called "Spies Who Lie," as one of at least 100 executive orders he's expected to sign on his first day back in the Oval Office.
Not only did federal investigators eventually confirm that Hunter's laptop was authentic, a June 2024 report from the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Federal Government and the Permanent Select Subcommittee on Intelligence found that "The 51 former intelligence officials’ Hunter Biden statement was a blatant political operation from the start. It originated with a call from top Biden campaign official—and now Secretary of State—Antony Blinken to former Deputy Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Michael Morell.
"The Committees’ investigation revealed that without this outreach from Blinken, Morell would not have written the statement. Indeed, Morell told the Committees that the Blinken phone call “triggered” his intent to write the statement. The statement’s drafters were open about the goal of the project: “[W]e think Trump will attack Biden on the issue at this week’s debate”6 and “we want to give the [Vice President] a talking point to use in response.”
The Committees also found that:
High ranking CIA officials, up to and including then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, were made aware of the Hunter Biden statement prior to its approval and publication.
Some of the statement’s signatories, including Michael Morell, were on active contract with the CIA at the time of the Hunter Biden statement’s publication.
After publication of the Hunter Biden statement, CIA employees internally expressed concern about the statement’s politicized content, acknowledging it was not “helpful to the Agency in the long run.”
It's going to be a fun week, eh?
This is what WINNING looks like 🏆
President Trump has announced that the 51 ‘Intelligence Officials’ who LIED about Hunter Biden's laptop…will have their Security Clearances REMOVED. pic.twitter.com/Dg0le1PtFG
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Sorry about the 'Red Badge' we're working on getting your access restored. What can you tell us about how this unfortunate Hunter event came about; your contacts, messages, disussions, that sort of thing? We'd rather you didn't dicuss our meeting this afternoon, with anyone else. Any problem with a polygraph and NDA ?
#6
It’s kind of like denying Nancy Pelosi communion. Will there be actual enforcement? It will be interesting to see which ones try to sue him. There isn’t any grounds for the suit, but surely they will.
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And the other list of traitors get pardons: https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/01/20/biden-issues-preemptive-pardons-for-trump-foes-fauci-milley-and-jan-6-committee/
Thank God the opinions of the Biden-[Harris] administration no longer matter even a little bit. Have they ever been right about anything?
[GEO.TV] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented... welcomed a ceasefire in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... on Sunday and said hundreds of trucks were entering the seaside enclave to help its civilians.
"Today the guns in Gaza have gone silent," Biden said.
The president added that he has no concerns about Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... regrouping and it now falls on Trump administration to implement Gaza deal.
Biden added that hundreds of aid trucks are entering Gaza to assist civilians.
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It's too bad all of Hamas weren't armed identically to the douche nozzle pictured. His right to bear a fine rubber ducky shall not be infringed. Israelis would certainly cede this concession. That muzzie, I swear he's from Mostar!
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How is pardoning possible when charges are only electrical pulses between synapses and neurons in the brain? Granted,the numbers are brobdingnagian. Needing pardon is certainly an admission of guilt. Covid huckstering will be the least worrisome of the truly seditious actions these fourth estate fifth columnists are seeking absolution from the omnipotent "Bidet".
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How is pardoning possible when charges are only electrical pulses between synapses and neurons in the brain?
How much of what he signed is technically legal given he's not of sound mind and body? DoJ under Bondi should 'poll' SCOTUS on that very question, see how the cards are played.
[IsraelTimes] In a statement, Thailand’s Foreign Ministry welcomes the hostage and ceasefire deal and calls for the release of all those held in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , including Thai nationals.
"Thailand welcomes the announcement of a ceasefire and hostage deal in the Gaza Strip," the ministry says.
"Thailand commends Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , Egypt and the United States of America, for their pivotal role and continued efforts in mediating the conflicting parties towards the successful conclusion of the deal," the statement reads.
"Thailand calls on all sides to fully implement the deal, as well as the immediate release of all remaining hostages, including Thai nationals," the ministry says.
Eight Thai nationals who were taken hostage from Israel on October 7, 2023, are still held in Gaza.
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.
..always the voice of sweet reason...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
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...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
[FoxBusinessNews] Pizza Girl in Venice has handed out more than 1,000 pizzas for those impacted by fires.
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
[InsuranceJournal] FBI leaders have warned that they believe hackers who broke into AT&T Inc.’s system last year stole months of their agents’ call and text logs, setting off a race within the bureau to protect the identities of confidential informants, a document reviewed by Bloomberg News shows.
[GEO.TV] President-elect Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser, 
[Regnum] A fuel tanker explosion in 
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... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...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 
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
In the current “new Syria,” Türkiye is behaving like a true patron. It is trying to confirm not only in words but also in deeds that it is the main beneficiary of the change of power.
[GEO.TV] US President 
