[The ROOT - 'The Blacker the Content the Sweeter the Truth'] Virginia Military Institute superintendent and retired Army Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins went to Facebook to respond to a white alumnus who questioned his push for diversity and inclusion at the college, reported The Washington Post. The newspaper claimed Carmen D. Villani Jr. had warned fellow graduates on a radio show that critical race theory had ’entered the VMI realm’ (as if it’s some alien object entering Earth’s atmosphere).
The institute had requested $6.1 million to begin an investigation to examine its ’racist and sexist culture,’ reported the Post. The money would also go toward expanding their Title IX offices by adding admissions counselors to cater to underrepresented students and rebrand the college’s Confederate ’tributes.’ Wins responded to Villani’s remarks about expansion of DEI in t - he VMI Facebook group.
From The Washington Post: Where I go for all my nuus.
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Looks like this buffoon answers to the Governor of Virginia:
Governance
The Board of Visitors is the supervisory board[13] of the Virginia Military Institute.[14][15] Although the Governor is ex officio the commander-in-chief of the institute, and no one may be declared a graduate without his signature, he delegates to the board the responsibility for developing the institute's policy.[15] The board appoints the superintendent and approves appointment of members of the faculty and staff on the recommendation of the superintendent.[15] The board may make bylaws and regulations for their own government and the management of the affairs of the institute,[16] and while the institute is exempt from the Administrative Process Act in accordance with Va. Code (which exempts educational institutions operated by the Commonwealth),[17] some of its regulations are codified at 8VAC 100. The Executive Committee conducts the business of the board during recesses.[14][18]
The board has 17 members, including ex officio the Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of Virginia.[15] Regular members are appointed by the Governor for a four-year term and may be reappointed once.[15] Of the sixteen appointed members, twelve must be alumni of the institute, eight of whom must be residents of Virginia and four must be non-residents; and the remaining four members must be non-alumni Virginia residents.[15] The Executive Committee consists of the board's president, three vice presidents, and one non-alumnus at large, and is appointed by the board at each annual meeting.[18]
Under the militia bill (the Virginia Code of 1860) officers of the institute were recognized as part of the military establishment of the state, and the governor had authority to issue commissions to them in accordance with institute regulations.[15] Current law makes provision for officers of the Virginia Militia to be subject to orders of the Governor.[15] The cadets are a military corps (the Corps of Cadets) under the command of the superintendent and under the administration of the Commandant of Cadets, and constitute the guard of the institute.[15][19]
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"Your resignation is accepted"
"But I didn't offer it?"
"Again. Your resignation is accepted"
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BLM finished 2020 with $60 million in the bank. They're in turmoil. They fired Cullors, the founder, for corruption & embezzlement. All the BLM leaders have run off.
[Corey Digs] On January 24, 2022, Senator Ron Johnson held a panel discussion on ’COVID-19: A Second Opinion.’ The panel included world renowned doctors, medical experts, and lawyers such as: Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Richard Urso, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Steve Kirsch, attorney Thomas Renz and others. This nearly five-hour dialogue is packed with facts, data, expert testimonies and bombshells that encompass a range of topics.
One key moment came up during a conversation between Dr. McCullough, Dr. Kheriaty and others in which Dr. McCullough described the way in which Big Pharma has captured the FDA and CDC. The doctors elaborated on the revolving door between Big Pharma and these agencies, which ultimately puts the agenda of pharmaceutical companies first. Dr. Kheriaty and Dr. Cole explained how doctors are threatened to comply with the agencies’ guidelines under fear that they will lose their licenses.
In another segment of the discussion, attorney Thomas Renz put the names of three high ranking military personnel on record, after they provided evidence from the Department of Defense database indicating massive spikes in adverse events and illnesses following the rollout of the Covid-19 injections for service members. The data that Thomas Renz presented indicated that, with adverse events of myocarditis, it appears the Department of Defense covered-up the prevalence of such cases by removing many of them from their own database.
"In August, when the report was run on acute myocarditis in the DoD website, there were 1,239 cases and now when you run it, it’s down to 307. In January of 2022 there were 176 cases, and magically it’s down to 17... We have in the military the single best data set that exists because we have baselines in there, and acute disease across all categories in the preceding five years leading up to the vaccination year, was 1.7 million. They introduced and mandated a Covid-19 vaccine for our U.S. military when they had only lost 12 service members to the disease, and in the 10 months of 2021 after that, it jumped from 1.7 million all diseases to darn near 22 million. That is a 20 million increase." said Leigh Dundas, human rights attorney, working with Thomas Renz on the whistleblower case in the military.
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It's obvious now that the vaccine is more harmful to young people than COVID is. The data are overwhelming: from Israel, from Pfizer's own studies, from the CDC, from hospitals all over this country ... and now from the Department of Defense itself. They have solid data. It's accurate and it's a large data set taken from a million or more young people.
It's so horrific that they're literally doctoring the numbers now. Simply criminal.
How do we stop this insanity before it destroys our young people?
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These are the same assholes who love to bleat about how they're pushing policy X or Y "for the children." They don't give a flying fvck about our children.
[NYP] A pizza deliveryman shot a would-be carjacker six times in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood on Thursday night, cops said.
The 39-year-old pizza guy was delivering food on H Street just before 7:40 p.m. when an armed man approached him and tried to steal his car, WPVI-TV reported.
The pizza man, who had a concealed carry permit, drew his gun and blasted the 23-year-old attacker, cops told the station. The failed thief returned fire but didn’t hit the victim, WPVI said.
The would-be carjacker was driven to Temple University Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition, according to the station.
There have already been 90 carjackings in Philadelphia this year as officials in the City of Brotherly Love ramp up patrols to fight a surge in vehicle crime, WPVI stated.
Last year, there were 757 carjackings — up from 404 in 2020, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Thursday’s shooting was the second time this month a potential carjacking victim flipped the script and opened fire on the person trying to steal their car.
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wasn't their a pizza delivery girl who shot a robber in Atlanta a few years ago? I think she kept her job after an outcry for being fired after shooting said robber.
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Just imagine the memes playing on the Domino's logo (think: bullet holes...)
[JiustTheNews] In a new filing, Durham's team says the DOJ Inspector General was slow to fork over evidence pertaining to the Trump-Alfa Bank investigation.
Special counsel John Durham and his legal team say they're just learning about a March 2017 meeting between Justice Department watchdog Michael Horowitz and former Hillary Clinton campaign Michael Sussmann – indicted last year for allegedly lying to the FBI while pushing now-discredited claims about the Trump Organization.
Durham's team said Tuesday in a court filing they learned only a week ago about the meeting between Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and Sussmann, who made the claims in 2016 about communications between a Russia bank and the Trump organization.
"The OIG had not previously informed the Special Counsel’s Office of this meeting with the defendant," the filing by Durham's legal team states.
Sussmann, a former partner at the Perkins Coie law firm, has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Durham's team says that while Sussmann was pushing the claims to the FBI about communications between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank he told agents that he was not working on behalf of any particular client.
However, Sussmann had in fact been working on behalf of the Clinton campaign and billing his time to her camp.
Durham says he met with Horowitz in October of 2021 and afterward requested information and documents relevant to the origins of the Russia investigation. However, Horowitz failed to reveal that he had personally met with Sussmann in March 2017, Durham claims.
Durham also said he learned just this month that Horowitz was in possession of two FBI cellphones belonging to the bureau's general counsel, James Baker, the FBI official to whom Sussmann allegedly first lied.
The court filing this week also details the successful attempts of British former spy Christopher Steele to disseminate the Trump-Alfa Bank claims to the media and various high-ranking government officials. In late 2016, Obama administration officials forwarded the claims made by Steele about Alfa Bank to the FBI.
In British court, Steele has testified that it was Sussmann who provided him with claims about the Russian bank's supposed ties Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Eventually, the Horowitz report from December 2019 would clarify that by early 2017, the FBI knew there were no connections between Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization.
[Breitbart] The Bush family has cashed in on friendship with former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, the architect of the Tiananmen Square massacre, for generations, Peter Schweizer documents in his new book Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win.
Among the most longstanding and lucrative ties binding CCP elite to America’s wealthy is that forged by former President George H.W. Bush, who, Schweizer recalls in the book, was so beloved while serving as America’s top diplomat in China that then-President Deng Xiaoping “threw him a going-away party” in 1975, calling the Bushes “old friends.”
The relationship deepened under Deng’s successor, Jiang Zemin. Zemin was mayor of Shanghai when the Tiananmen Square massacre occurred in 1989, but took over as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party by the end of June, the month in which the massacre occurred. While not in charge when it actually happened, he became the face of the massacre for enthusiastically defending it in public and heavily censoring any mention of it within China.
Before he became president, the Bush family benefitted from a relationship with Jiang during his tenure as mayor of Shanghai, now China’s largest city. In 1989, as the elder President Bush settled into the presidency, his brother Prescott “closed a deal to build a golf club in Shanghai for foreign business executives” shortly before an official visit from his brother, Schweizer wrote. “It was one of the few golf courses in China that received government approvals required for construction.”
“The mayor of Shanghai during negotiations for the golf course, Jiang Zemin, became a Bush family friend who later became the premier of China,” Schweizer noted. Prescott had been forging business ties in the country since his brother became vice president under Ronald Reagan. At the time, the Cold War had taken up almost the entirety of America’s foreign policy conversation, with China a distant, at best, concern.
In the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Schweizer notes that Prescott actively opposed sanctions on China over human rights concerns.
“During the George W. Bush presidency, a new generation of Bushes began securing deals with Chinese officials,” Schweizer writes in his book. “Neil Bush, brother of the president, signed a contract with a Chinese company called Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing. Bush had no background in computing, but the firm paid him $400,000 a year.”
“The company’s cofounder,” he observed, “just happened to be Chinese premier Jiang Zemin’s son.”
Neil Bush is now a propagandist for Chinese state media, publicly opposing American support for the anti-communist protests in Hong Kong in 2019.
For example, in a speech in 2019 for the CCP-linked front organization China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), Neil Bush slammed the “America First” policies of the Trump administration. “China is not an economic enemy or existential national security threat to the United States,” he declared. “The demonization of China is being fueled by a rising nationalism in the U.S. that is manifested in anti-immigrant, anti-Chinese, pro-America-first rhetoric.”
Also in 2019, CUSEF became a major donor to the Bush China Foundation, pledging over a million dollars per year for a five-year period, Schweizer reports. He notes that this pledge “would constitute a large portion of the nonprofit’s income.”
[Breitbart] Peter Schweizer’s new book Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win tells the story of how Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) husband Richard Blum was part owner of a Chinese firm that allegedly sold computers with spyware chips to the U.S. military. The military has never been able to calculate how much sensitive data these computers allowed China to steal.
A hefty chapter of Red-Handed is devoted to tracking Feinstein’s long and expensive relationship with Communist China. The senator has made herself very, very useful to Beijing — so useful that she actually tried to excuse the Tiananmen Square massacre by suggesting China only called in combat troops to murder thousands of demonstrators because it ran out of cops.
In a total coincidence that could not possibly have been related in any way to Feinstein’s friendship with the tyrants of Beijing, her husband did a great deal of lucrative business with Chinese companies, including entities run by the Communist government and linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
One of those deals saw Blum becoming a major investor in a computer company that was founded by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), an institution tied to both the Chinese government and the PLA. The company was originally called Legend, but is better known by its second name, Lenovo.
Lenovo grew into a major player in the worldwide computer marketplace after it acquired IBM’s line of personal computer products in 2005. Lenovo’s deal to buy IBM’s business included $350 million in investments from three American private equity firms. One of them was Richard Blum’s Newbridge Capital.
Some lawmakers worried Lenovo’s purchase of IBM’s personal computer line could jeopardize U.S. national security and transfer advanced American computer technology to China. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who sat on the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time, was not one of them.
It did not take long for security agencies across the Western world — including the U.S., U.K., Canada, New Zealand, and Australia — to discover security vulnerabilities in Lenovo products and ban them from sensitive operations. The U.S. State Department announced it would not allow Lenovo computers to connect to its classified networks in 2006, barely a year after the IBM acquisition.
Somehow Lenovo still managed to sell a large number of laptop computers to the U.S. military, which discovered that many of those machines included motherboard chips that “would record all the data that was being inputted into that laptop and send it back to China,” as a computer operations manager for the U.S. Marines in Iraq put it.
A year after that testimony was delivered, Blum sold his stake in Lenovo.
The Pentagon released an audit in 2019 that found the Department of Defense (DoD) still has not formally banned computers from Lenovo, now the largest personal computer company in China, even though the Department of Homeland Security and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Intelligence Directorate have both identified the machines as cyberespionage risks. The U.S. Air Force purchased 1,378 Lenovo products worth $1.9 million as recently as 2018.
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Neil Bush rides again (remember Silverado S&L?).
Riding high with Biden's corrupt son.
And Pelosi's corrupt son.
And Kerry's corrupt stepson.
And Clinton's worthless daughter.
And So and So's so (o)n
And so on
And so on
Joe Biden on Friday evening said that he would be moving some troops to Eastern Europe - but 'not too many' - as tensions mount in Ukraine
Landing back in Washington DC after a trip to Pittsburgh, the president said that the troops would be moved 'in the near term', but did not say when
Hours earlier Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said that the world was overreacting to the threat of a Russian invasion of his country
Zelensky chided world leaders for their public statements, saying 'we don't need this panic' and condemning the withdrawal of diplomats
Chairman of Joint Chiefs Gen Milley warned of 'horrific' consequences if Russia put its 100,000-plus force to work on an invasion
Russia has amassed more than 100,000 troops around Ukraine after a steady buildup in the region and may be planning an invasion in February
UK intelligence source suggested Putin will continue massing forces for 'two or three weeks' before attacking
Attack could come from Belarus aimed at Kiev, coupled with amphibious assault from Crimea on port city of Odessa, before the troops roll in from the east
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...I've got a bad feeling about this...
Mike
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Biden can send the entirety for the US 5th Army because it won't make a difference as long as the crazies running Ukraine's militias don't fire on Russian troops.
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Tend to agree with EC here. The real danger is that we have a blithering idiot in the White House.
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If there is a coherent thought process at work here I suspect the plan is: 1- WH and MSM talk up an imminent attack 2- Putin doesn't attack and 3- WH and MSM claim that the only reason Putin didn't attack was Biden's firm resolve in the face of aggression, etc. 4- Biden's poll numbers go up.
For the downside of this strategy, see The Bedford Incident. Captain: "If he fires one, I'll fire one!" Crewman: "Fire One!"
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"Relax a bit" is more or less what Zelensky has been telling everyone, Brandon included.
This is all a huge head fake by Putin. Again.
There won't be an invasion-- that would have happened many months ago if that had been Putin's intention.
Relax.
Negotiate a settlement that protects our interests while recognizing Russia's.
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You don't invade a country like Ukraine with 100,000 troops.
Relax a bit.
True. And good advice in general. But permit me to play Devil's Advocate:
The Brandon Admin has already primed us that Russia might do a false flag op against their own troops.
100K troops is not enough for action, but it is a big enough mass that if a small band went off on a side quest nobody would miss them. They suit up in Ukraine jerseys, trade a few rounds with the Rus and fade back into the night. "Nope, wasn't us. We're right here!"
In the meantime, the temperature rises...
The leader of a shambolic third world non-democracy tells our president - C-in-C of the most powerful military the world's ever seen, Leader of the Free World - to "calm down."
a CNN report based on anonymous sources described the call as frustrating and tedious, featuring harried warnings from Biden that Kyiv would be “sacked” andexasperated requests from Zelensky for the president to “calm down.”
Got that? We're being dictated to, told to mind our manners, by a comedian who heads one of the world's most incompetent and corrupt regimes!
And he's RIGHT.
Because our leader is a senile muppet who, even when he had full control of his faculties, was a lying POS buffoon, a corrupt old hack and lifelong blowhard, whose son was taking in a small fortune from Ukraine's dysfunction and disarray.
[The Expose] Board-certified funeral director and embalmer, Richard Hirschman has made a startling discovery in the bodies of deceased people, he revealed that he is seeing arteries and veins filled with unnatural blood clot combinations with strange fibrous materials that are completely filling the vascular system.
According to Hirschman, this is unlike anything he had ever seen before in his over 20 years of experience in the embalming industry., he told Dr. Jane Ruby in what is a worldwide exclusive.
Hirschman met with Dr. Ruby, who is a medical professional with expertise in pharmaceutical drug development and over 20 years of experience in regulatory processes for FDA drug approval.
Embalmer Hirschman revealed to her that he had conferred with others in his industry who have also never seen anything like this until recently, but they have said they are finding them in the bodies they process as well.
Clots or Worm-Like Structures
Mr. Hirschman stated these clots or worm-like structures appear closely to vaccinated blood under a microscope, but he has never seen anything of these sizes before.
Mr. Hirschman reported that he started seeing these long, stretchy, fibrous blood clots in November of 2020, and then increasingly being found in 50% of the bodies he has been processing. Today that percentage is now closer to 80%.
He also said that he was able to confirm that some of those deceased with these blood clots had indeed received the Covid-19 vaccines, but he could not confirm all of them were vaccinated or what specifically is causing this increase in these usually long blood clots in the circulatory systems of the deceased.
[FOX] China reportedly displayed another alarming leap in space-based technology and capabilities this week after an analytics firm claimed to observe a satellite "grab" another and pull it from its orbit.
China’s Shijian-21 satellite, or SJ-21, disappeared from its regular position and reappeared while making a "large maneuver" to move closer to a dead BeiDou Navigation System satellite. The SJ-21 then pulled the BeiDou out of its orbit and placed it a few hundred miles away in a "graveyard orbit" where it is unlikely to interfere or collide with active satellites.
Chinese state media said the SJ-21 was designed to "test and verify space debris mitigation technologies," but the potential to move satellites around presents terrifying capabilities for orbital manipulation of satellites belonging to other nations.
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Why waste 10's of 1000's of High Level Tech hours developing something like a EEC (kh-12+). When you can snare one.
Of course CCP could just start claiming say 200 miles of sky / space over their Nation as theirs and clean it up for a technical / $$$ windfall.
Or license the that sky for a fee.
[ZH] A new court filing by special counsel John Durham reveals that Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz concealed crucial information from Durham in connection with the ongoing prosecution of Michael Sussmann, a former attorney to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The filing also reveals that Horowitz failed to disclose that his office is in possession of two cellphones used by former FBI general counsel James Baker. The phones may contain information that’s important to the Sussmann case, as well as to a separate criminal leak investigation of Baker that Durham personally conducted between 2017 and 2019.
Horowitz first came to public prominence in June 2018 when he issued a report on the FBI’s actions leading up to the 2016 presidential election. Horowitz followed up in December 2019 with another report on the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation and the bureau’s pursuit of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Durham’s filing on Jan. 25 involves discovery issues surrounding Sussmann’s upcoming trial for allegedly making a materially false statement to the FBI’s then-general counsel James Baker. As part of Durham’s discovery obligations, the Special Counsel’s Office met with Horowitz and his team on Oct. 7, 2021, and subsequently requested any materials, including any "documents, records, and information" regarding Sussmann that may have been in the possession of the Office of Inspector General (OIG).
On Dec. 17, 2021, Horowitz’s office provided Durham with information that Sussmann had given the OIG information in early 2017, that an OIG "employee’s computer was ’seen publicly’ in ’Internet traffic’ and was connecting to a Virtual Private Network in a foreign country." It isn’t clear what this information was about, why Sussmann would know about this information, or why he would have been interested in the internet activities of OIG employees.
It also isn’t known why Sussmann, a private citizen, would have been seeking out the OIG shortly after he was pushing information detrimental to Trump to both the FBI and the CIA.
At the time of the Dec. 17 disclosure, "the OIG represented to [Durham’s] team that it had "no other file or other documentation" relating to this cyber matter." However, last week, Sussmann’s attorneys informed Durham that there was additional information, including the fact that Sussmann had met with Horowitz in March 2017 to personally pass along the information about the OIG employee’s computer VPN use. This meeting between Horowitz and Sussmann hadn’t been disclosed by Horowitz to Durham during their previous meetings and interactions.
It isn’t known why Horowitz would have taken a personal meeting from Hillary Clinton’s campaign lawyer. According to Bill Shipley, a former federal prosecutor, "[y]ou don’t generally just call the IG and get a meeting with him personally." It also isn’t clear why Horowitz chose not to inform Durham of the meeting—particularly as it pertained directly to information that Horowitz’s office had been specifically requested to relay to Durham’s special counsel probe.
Sussmann’s attorneys further informed Durham that the VPN information had come from Rodney Joffe, a computer expert with close connections to the FBI. This was another material fact that hadn’t been disclosed by Horowitz. Joffe is of great import to Durham’s case against Sussmann and to the wider investigation into the origins of the Russia collusion investigation, since he was alleged to have provided Sussmann with falsified data about contacts between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank.
Those alleged contacts were used by Hillary Clinton and her campaign to push the narrative that Trump was compromised by the Kremlin. Durham had noted in a previous filing that "[Joffe’s] goal was to support an ’inference’ and ’narrative’ regarding Trump that would please certain ’VIPs.’" A subsequent filing by Durham noted that these VIPs were "individuals at the defendant’s [Sussmann’s] law firm and the Clinton Campaign." Joffe also is alleged to have been offered a high-ranking position in a Clinton administration.
The omission of information by Horowitz didn’t end with his meeting with Sussmann or the information on Joffe. Durham’s office has since discovered that the OIG "currently possesses two FBI cell phones" that belonged to Baker, the former FBI general counsel. Durham’s discovery of Horowitz’s possession of Baker’s two phones does not appear to have come through Horowitz or his office.
According to Durham’s filing, "in early January 2022, the Special Counsel’s Office learned for the first time that the OIG currently possesses two FBI cellphones of the former FBI General Counsel."
Sussmann is alleged to have lied to Baker when he tried to push incriminating data about Trump and Alfa Bank to the FBI; that data later turned out to be false.
That makes Baker, and his cellphones, central to the case against Sussmann.
There’s also another matter that relates directly to Baker and his undisclosed phones. Baker had been the subject of a criminal leak investigation for "unauthorized disclosures to the media" that was being conducted by Durham when he was the U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut.
During this investigation, Durham or a member of his team reportedly questioned Baker’s credibility. That memo is currently being sought by Sussmann’s attorneys. Although it’s not known with certainty, it’s believed that the leak investigation into Baker ultimately was closed without any charges. The disclosure about Baker’s cellphones would appear to be material not only to the Sussmann case, but also to the Baker leak investigation.
High Profile Investigations
Horowitz was in charge of a sequence of highly influential investigations into events leading up to and following the 2016 presidential election. Horowitz examined the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s private email server as well as the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign, alleged Russian collusion, and the resulting Carter Page FISA and abuse of the FISA court.
The Clinton email investigation review resulted in a 2018 OIG report that outlined a number of failures on the part of the FBI and made recommendations such as improving the FBI’s media contact policy and clarifying guidelines on making public statements. However, certain crucial issues, such as the fact that then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was supervising the investigation while his wife was running for a Virginia state Senate seat and had received large sums of campaign funding from Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe, were glossed over by Horowitz.
The IG merely recommended that "ethics officials include the review of campaign donations for possible conflict issues when Department employees or their spouses run for public office."
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Meanwhile, the "ATF (a part of DOJ) Raids Property of Amish Farmer" (article reported above the Durham article at ZH.) WTF? Corruption abounds around you and it goes ignored. A good toilet flushing is called for.
[Strategic Culture] Biden’s threat of unprecedented, harsh sanctions however, has brought forth a warning of a completely unexpected source — as both the U.S. Treasury and the State Department have warned Blinken that the envisaged sanctions would hurt U.S. allies (i.e. Europeans) more than they would hurt Russia, and that their imposition could even trigger a counter-productive global economic crisis that would touch both the U.S. and European consumer, via increased energy prices — thus giving a sharp kick to already record U.S. inflation rates. Senior Biden inter-agency advisors remain silent.
In short, Europe might also face a U.S.-led insurgency war fought from its territory, spilling over and across other states; giving birth to a new breed of radical ’jihadis’, and dilating around Europe. And to yet a new wave of sophisticated weaponry (as happened in the wake of the Afghan war) circulating amongst opposition groups, as Stinger missiles were sold on to who knows whom (and then had later to be bought back from them).
In a likely planted piece, the NY Times reports that:
For years, U.S. officials have tiptoed around the question of how much military support to provide to Ukraine, for fear of provoking Russia.
Now, in what would be a major turnaround, senior Biden administration officials are warning that the United States could throw its weight behind a Ukrainian insurgency should Putin invade Ukraine.
How the United States, which just exited two decades of war in Afghanistan, might pivot to funding and supporting an insurgency from just finishing one — is still being worked out: "Biden has not determined how the United States might arm insurgents in Ukraine; or, who would conduct the guerrilla war against Russian military occupation. Nor is it clear what Russia’s next move might be ... But Biden Administration officials have begun signalling to Russia [that eventually it] would find the costs of an invasion ... prohibitively expensive in terms of military losses.
"If Putin invades Ukraine with a major military force ... And if it turned into a Ukrainian insurgency, Putin should realize that after fighting insurgencies ourselves for two decades, we know how to arm, train and energize them", said James Stavridis, a retired four-star Navy admiral, who was the supreme allied commander at NATO.
This talk in the U.S. of an insurgency mounted via Ukraine has acquired a frenetic quality. Discussion has slipped into neurosis as the U.S. mainstream melts-down at any suggestion of selling out the cause of democracy and liberal values. See here the reaction when the Tucker Carlson’s guest said, "the world is perched on the edge of an abyss. We may soon see the worst combat in Europe since WW2 — killing thousands of people and raising the likelihood of nuclear war. It didn’t have to be this way".
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Madness. Complete and utter insanity.
What has infected the brains if our media and political class?
First the Russia Hoax: a complete fabrication, and then three years of nonstop hysteria, lies, bullshit.
Then the "systemic racism" bullshit: another massive lie, this one stoking a spree of violence, dozens of murders, thousands of riots, billions of dollars of property torched.
Then the 3rd world-worthy election farce.
Then the deliberate destruction of our border and the mad importation of 2 million illegals and thousands of single male violent criminals and latent terrorists from AFG and all over the world.
Then the tranny-rapist and black marxist rampages, with our highest federal law enforcement agency designating parents as "domestic terrorists" worthy of surveillance, suppression and beatings.
Then and now, the continuing COVID idiocy with its wrecking-ball carnival of Fauxi Follies, the retarded mask-worship, wanton devastation of our children, the suppression of effective treatments and the promotion of a faux-vaccine that actually has negative efficacy when given to people under 60.
And now war with Russia -- for "decades." War over a shithole's shithole, Nigeria North.
They are INSANE. How do we bring this insanity to an end before it destroys us?
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The solution has to be massive civil disobedience.
Like the truckers' revolt at the Canadian border happening now -- the one involving literally thousands, official reporting on which by American Pravda is completely absent.
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Lots, and I mean LOTS, of small disobediences. As Vanderluen has said, always carry a black sharpie. Mark up QR codes associated with vaccine passports / contract tracing everywhere you see them, making them useless. Lots of little, nearly invisible in the doing type things that become a tsunami when enough people do them at the same time.
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Have you heard about this mass disobedience by US and Canadian truckers? Our fascist leaders announced that the border will be closed next month to unvaccinated people.
And now there's a spontaneous revolt by 50,000 truckers and many thousands more supporters -- turning out in subzero weather to line the roadsides and cheer on the truckers.
$6 million raised for them -- and GoFundMe at first refused to release the funds.
And now Jolson Trudeau has gone into hiding-- in "quarantine" all this week because he was "exposed" to "someone who tested positive for COVID."
And this is completely ignored by our Shitshow Media.
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From the Truck Your Mandate civil disobedience movement:
"The Canadian Trucking Alliance and the American Trucking Associations estimated up to 26,000 of the 160,000 drivers who usually cross the Canada-U.S. border are likely to be sidelined by the vaccine mandates imposed this month on both sides of the border.
"The Canadian truckers’ motto is, 'We are taking our fight to the doorsteps of our federal government and demanding that they cease all mandates against its people.' They said they aren’t leaving the capital until all mandates have been lifted. Quite a promise.
"U.S. influencers expressing support for the Canadian Convoy include Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Mark Steyn, Tucker Carlson, Franklin Graham, Sean Hannity, Kirstie Alley, Glenn Beck, and Robert F. Kennedy. Thousands have donated to the fund-raiser for fuel. Thousands more have gathered along Canadian highways and overpasses in support in up to minus-30-degree weather, causing the local Nova Scotia government to ban gatherings along highways, for safety.
"The government of Quebec shut off traffic cameras in the province to stop people from watching the convoy online."
[Babylon Bee] BURBANK, CA—Trans woman Amy Schneider's winning streak on Jeopardy has ended. Despite holding the record for Jeopardy’s highest-earning female contestant ever, Schneider was defeated after being confounded by the clue, ’this gender has two X chromosomes.'
"I knew I was in trouble as soon as I saw the category of ’Grade School Biology’," said Schneider. "I avoided the category until the very end, as basic biology has never been my strong suit."
Many in the audience saw the disaster coming a mile ahead. "What was Amy thinking betting so much in Final Jeopardy under that category?" said Daniele Dacus, a fan of Amy’s. "You never bet that high on such a complicated, theoretical subject, where so little of that field is understood."
Sources claim that the host even gave a clue that ’this is one of 2 genders’, but Amy still did not get the question correct. Amy started to answer the question by writing, "What is different and unique to each person based upon how they identify, because gender is a complex subject with no definitive answ—." but ran out of room. Consequently, Rhone Talsma was declared the winner by writing "What is Female?"
At publishing time, Rhone Talsma has been asked to renounce his win or else be labeled a transphobic bigot for the rest of his life.
[American Thinker] The Supreme Court is going to hear two cases about racial preference in college admissions that allegedly discriminates against Asian students.
In the 1978 Bakke decision, the Supreme Court said race could be a factor in admissions, but as anyone who is sat through an academic committee meeting knows, when race is a factor, it is the only factor.
Even though the Supreme Court in Bakke said that a set-aside for admissions, or quota, was impermissible, colleges and universities routinely use racial quotas masquerading as goals.
The consequence has been that highly qualified Asian students are rejected on trivial and subjective data, such as leadership skills and self-confidence, to increase the proportion of less qualified blacks and Latinos.
How do Asian students achieve high academic status and participate in a range of extracurricular activities while lacking in leadership, self-confidence, and other personality traits? The answer is that when it comes to Asians, the subjective evaluation process is a farce designed to discriminate against them.
Race-based admissions are not the exception but the rule. And no one but diversity, inclusion, and equity experts conducting so-called cultural audits has profited from this policy.
Colleges and universities are run by a professional class of bureaucrats. And if anything, members of bureaucracy know that the very essence of their work is their own survival.
To survive the political pressure of diversity, colleges and universities play a numbers game and reduce standards to produce a student population that will meet the espoused goals of cultural auditors and intrusive minority politicians.
A great deal of social policy is counterintuitive. Among the casualties of the policy are the very minorities it is supposed to advantage.
[Hot Air] Earlier this week the Supreme Court took up affirmative action by agreeing to hear challenges to the admissions process at two US universities. Today, NY Times’ columnist John McWhorter has a piece arguing that it’s time to end affirmative action, though he still favors programs that give preference to students based on income.
When affirmative action was put into practice around a half-century ago, with legalized segregation so recent, it was reasonable to think of being Black as a shorthand for being disadvantaged, whatever a Black person’s socioeconomic status was. In 1960, around half of Black people were poor. It was unheard-of for big corporations to have Black C.E.O.s; major universities, by and large, didn’t think of Black Americans as professor material; and even though we were only seven years from Thurgood Marshall’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the idea of a Black president seemed like folly.
But things changed: The Black middle class grew considerably, and affirmative action is among the reasons. I think a mature America is now in a position to extend the moral sophistication of affirmative action to disadvantaged people of all races or ethnicities, especially since, as a whole, Black America would still benefit substantially.
McWhorter makes the column personal by talking about his own daughters. The oldest is still not in high school so they are years away from applying to college, but he says that when they do, he doesn’t want the admissions panel judging them based on their skin color:
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The college admissions mafia will easily avoid it. They've already thrown away objective data and standardized testing requirements.
Plus, every college-bound kid now has an A- or better average, so the admissions process is completely arbitrary and up to the admissions committees' political/financial whims.
Aka
"building the class,"
"ensuring a diverse learning environment,"
"promoting equity and inclusiveness,"
"recognizing achievement within the local context"
... and all their other BS. They're simply applying backfire quotas + optimizing for revenue now. They've made competitive college admissions into a complete joke.
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I was at CWRU when the iranians took our embassy personnel hostage. the iranian students at the school marched in solidarity with the "revolutionaries." We threw beer bottles at them. The cops laughed. Then the administration put all the iranians together in one dorm. "For their safety." The good old days of higher education.
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M,
What's CWRU like now? How woke has it become, relative to other top institutions? Asking for a friend
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I have no idea. I know it shrunk in undergrad enrollment after I graduated (1981) but I have not been back and get no alumni mailings from them at all. I have no reason to believe it's any different from the rest of the horde these days.
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Make no mistake. I'm glad I went there, had some very excellent profs, classmates and friends from outside the university community. If I hadn't already had a job lined up after graduation, I might have stayed in Ohio. Lot of good people there. OTOH, glad I went where I did and did what I did. And glad I left the Peeholes Dumbocrapic Rethuglic of PeeAye. Just wish I'd thought to do it sooner...
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Thx. We all need to anticipate & start making plans for how we'll manage in the coming (cultural, maybe economic also) Great Separation
Some might argue it was necessary to counter the racism suffered by blacks. But two wrongs don't make a right, they only make two wrongs. Can't argue with equal rights and equal opportunity. Can't go any further than that.
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[Washington Examiner] West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice told singer Bette Midler to kiss his dog's "hiney" Thursday in response to a tweet from the singer insulting his constituents last month.
The Republican's female bulldog, named Babydog, was present at the address and lifted by Justice for the audience to see at the end of the governor's State of the State address, which focused on the state's successes during the COVID-19 pandemic, including an increase in tourism, according to the West Virginia Gazette.
"They told every bad joke in the world about us," Justice said. "Babydog tells Bette Midler and all those out there [to] kiss her hiney."
The Republican governor then turned the dog around to expose her rear end.
[IsraelTimes] Report says Syrians in Deir Ezzor are joining Iranian militias for the pay and benefits, notes importance of local city to Tehran’s efforts to set up land corridor through Mideast
Iran ...The nation is 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... is enlisting snuffies in part of eastern Syria, looking to cement its influence in an area with a key border crossing for moving weapons to allied groups, according to a report Friday.
The Washington Post said Iran is outcompeting Syria in signing up fighters in Deir Ezzor province, offering better salaries and conditions to former rebels and army deserters than the Syrian military.
Citing local experts, the report said Iran — a leading backer of the Assad regime in the Syrian civil war — has also been building schools and distributing food, and has even tried to convert some mosques in the predominately Sunni-area to Shiite Islam, the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s official religion.
"They have more influence than the army," a former militia member identified as Abu Khadija was quoted as saying.
Abu Khadija said he joined a militia for the pay and benefits rather than on religious or ideological grounds, adding that many young Syrians saw the Iranian-backed gangs as "the only solution to escape the army."
"They are trying to win people over, unlike the army," he said. "If the army wants something from someone, they break down the front door. The Iranians don’t do such things."
The report noted the importance to Iran of al-Bukamal, a city in the province along the border with Iraq. Controlling the city is critical to Iranian efforts to establish a land corridor from Iran, through Iraq and Syria, into Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade... and out to the Mediterranean Sea, which could allow Tehran to more easily transport weapons, fighters and materiel throughout the Middle East.
"The Iranians want to create a popular base loyal to them in case they have to leave someday," Syria-based analyst Ammar al-Hamad told the newspaper.
In 2020, a private Israeli satellite imagery analysis firm released photos it said showed that Iran was constructing a new underground weapons storage facility at the Imam Ali base in the al-Bukamal region of Syria, which is believed to be run by Iranian forces.
The border area has been the site of several Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s attributed to Israel, which has vowed to prevent Iran from establishing a military presence in Syria.
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes inside Syria over the course of the country’s civil war, targeting what it says are suspected arms shipments believed to be bound for Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, which is fighting alongside Syrian government force.
Making friends and influencing people in the inimitable Joe Biden way.
[IsraelTimes] State Department says Cairo had not met conditions to receive $130 million in foreign military financing; On Tuesday US had approved $2.5 billion sale of military planes and radars.
[Aljazeera] The breadth of crumbling infrastructure in the United States is "mind boggling", President Joe Biden said on Friday, as he visited the site of an early-morning bridge collapse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The bridge collapsed just hours before Biden’s scheduled visit to the city to tout his massive infrastructure spending package — an incident that highlighted the urgency of his drive to address the nation’s ageing roads and bridge.
Ten people sustained injuries, all of them minor, when the snow-covered span collapsed into a wooded gully at about 6am (11:00 GMT), according to authorities, who said a large gas leak was reported in the area at the time. The leak was brought under control.
"It sounded like a snowplough," a witness told KDKA, a local news station, calling the timing — on the day of Biden’s visit — "an amazing coincidence".
Visibly moved, Biden gazed across a ravine over the buckled sections of the half-century-old Fern Hollow Bridge, flanked by Pennsylvania and local officials and emergency workers as he surveyed the damage.
"The idea that we have been so far behind on infrastructure, for so many years — it’s just mind boggling," Biden said.
The collapse highlights Biden’s call for massive investment in the nation’s bridges, highways and other infrastructure, which the president sees as a vital step in assuring the economy’s long-term health along with addressing supply chain shortage and revitalising manufacturing.
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More investments ... for Brother Jimmy? You mean like the billion dollar investment into his construction shell company as part of his Iraq war profiteering?
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With our crumbling infrastructure I think anyone who has been in charge of GIVERnment spending for the last 40 years should retire/resign immediately.
[Rudaw] The office of a German aid organization in Sulaimani province's Kifri city burned late Thursday, with an official from the organization telling Rudaw that it was arson.
Hunar Fakhraddin, head of projects at HAUKARI organization, told Rudaw on Friday that CCTV footage shows a group of people setting their office on fire, adding that the building is owned by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
"The office has completely burnt, including a big library, seminar hall, and a number of special rugs which we had bought for activities," said the official.
He also said that they do not suspect anyone, expecting the loss to be around $60,000.
"Police have launched an investigation into the incident," Fakhraddin noted.
HAUKARI has been active in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq for 25 years, according to its website. It has been focusing on activities regarding confronting violence against women, gender equality, and the participation of the youth in dialogues between the country’s ethnic and religious groups.
A number of German aid organizations work in the Kurdistan Region, mostly focusing on providing training to the youth.
[Rudaw] The last internally displaced persons (IDP) camp under federal Iraqi control is facing difficulties in its planned closure, according to the spokesperson of the Ministry of Migration and Displacement, citing pressure from society as well as clans preventing families at the camp from returning home.
"Most of the displaced in al-Jada camp have clan problems, in addition to the involvement of their families and children with ISIS [Arabic acronym for ISIS, or 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.... ] terrorist gangs, which prevent them from returning to their areas of origin," said Ali Abbas, spokesperson for Iraq's Ministry of Migration and Displacement, told Iraqi state-owned newspaper al-Sabah on Thursday.
Abbas says that society has outright rejected the IDPs. He notes that on one occasion a group of families were taken back to their homes, but were subsequently returned back to the camp the very same day due to people in the area not accepting their return.
Deputy minister Karim al-Nouri said "the ministry is working to implement the orders and instructions issued by the higher security authorities regarding the families of ISIS in al-Jada camp, where they are being dealt with humanely by providing them with their needs that help them live inside the camps."
According to Nouri, the possibility of establishing rehabilitation programs for children in the camp to work on their social integration is being studied by the ministry.
Earlier this year, Iraq repatriated a group of 111 families from the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) and transferred them to al-Jada camp.
In 2020, the Iraqi government began a push to close camps around the country. Last December, authorities announced their intention to close al-Jada camp. The closure would mark federal Iraq, excluding the Kurdistan Region, free of IDP camps.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the move was harshly criticized by rights groups as they called for voluntary returns instead.
Baghdad has asked the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to close camps under its control, but Kurdish officials say they will not force IDPs to return home.
[Rudaw] Members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) group in Iraq are unable to traverse in large groups and must rely on moving individually, an official from Iraq's Security Media Cell told state media on Thursday.
"Military operations have been continuing since last Sunday in various locations, starting with Diyala, Salahaddin, and Samarra, and today we began in northern Muqdadiyah in Diyala," said Major General Saad Maan, head of the Security Media Cell, describing areas in which ISIS remains a threat.
Maan said these operations were being conducted by teams from the Iraqi army, the Ministry of Interior, and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF or Hashd al-Shaabi).
"These operations succeeded in achieving their goals, reinforced by the presence of security leaders on the ground, and have so far resulted in the killings of a number of terrorists, the destruction of ISIS hideouts, and the strengthening of fortifications in the areas of operations," he added.
Maan also noted that the war on ISIS has transitioned into a guerilla war, with small skirmishes here and there. He claimed that the size of ISIS remnants are being blown out of proportion.
"They [ISIS] are trying to establish a presence in the areas of Khanukah, Mutaibija, and Jallab in Salahaddin, Qarachogh and southern Makhmour in Nineveh, Wadi al-Shay and Zghitun in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and Hawi al-Azim in Diyala," noted the general.
Last Friday, a deadly ISIS attack on an Iraqi base in Hawi al-Azim, Diyala killed 11 soldiers. It is the deadliest ISIS attack on the Iraqi army in 2022 thus far.
Touching on the situation in Syria, where ISIS Death Eaters detained in al-Sina'a prison in Hasaka attempted a large-scale prison break, Maan reassured that there is adequate security at the Iraq-Syria border. He says the area has been reenforced and the utilization of drones has contributed greatly to thwarting any potential threats.
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[Rudaw] German parliament approved Friday a motion by the government to extend its troops mission in Iraq for nine months. Kurdistan Region’s brass hats welcomed the decision.
The German government decided on January 12 to end its military mission in Syria but keep up to 500 soldiers in Iraq until the end of October 2022. The government sent a motion to the parliament which voted in favour of the extension of troops mandate in Iraq.
Germany’s defence ministry said in a statement on Friday that there are currently around 250 German soldiers in Iraq taking part in the global coalition against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... mission in Iraq.
Germany has been an essential member of the global coalition against ISIS. The Coalition was formally established in October 2014, after ISIS took control of vast swathes of territories in Iraq and Syria. Consisting of 84 nations, the US-led Coalition’s mission has been "degrading and ensuring ISIS’s enduring defeat," it says on its website, using Arabic acronym for the bad boy group.
The combat mission of the Coalition ended in Iraq at the end of the last year but it continues in Syria. The German army has been mostly based in Kurdish areas of both countries.
Kurdistan Region’s brass hats had welcomed the German government’s decision to extend the mission in Iraq, and they welcomed the parliament approval as well on Friday.
"I thank Bundestag for deciding to extend German troops deployment in Iraq. ISIS remains a serious threat to International peace and regional stability, and continued joint effort is needed to defeat terrorism," Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani said in a tweet.
The Region’s Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said he "strongly" welcomed the German parliament’s decision, saying "This mandate, and the support of the Global Coalition, is critical to the war on ISIS and training of Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi Army."
[Breitbart] Three conservative judges on a five-court panel struck down Pennsylvania’s 2019 expanded mail-in voting law that reportedly permitted 2.5 million people, the majority of them Democrats, to cast votes in 2020.
Basing their decisions on election laws passed in 1839 and 1923, the court ruled the legislature’s law unconstitutional. Pennsylvania’s constitution would have to be changed to allow mail-in voting, the court held.
"The Pennsylvania Constitution requires a qualified elector to present her ballot in person at a designated polling place on Election Day, except where she meets one of the constitutional exceptions for absentee voting," the ruling reads.
In 2019, the Republican-controlled legislature voted to permit mail-in ballots for additional reasons, such as illness and physical disability, which the judges deemed unconstitutional under the state constitution.
Gov. Tom Wolf (D) immediately announced he would appeal the decision to the state’s supreme court. "The Administration will immediately appeal this decision to the state Supreme Court and today’s lower court ruling will have no immediate effect on mail-in voting pending a final decision on the appeal," he said.
The ruling comes as Pennsylvania residents will elect a new governor and a U.S. senator in a hotly contested battle amid a 50-50 split senate. The ruling may impact the November election.
Donald Trump, who lost to President Biden in Pennsylvania by 1.2 percent, issued a statement in celebration of the news. "Big news out of Pennsylvania, great patriotic spirit is developing at a level that nobody thought possible. Make America Great Again!" he said.
Of the 6.9 million votes cast in 2020, 2.5 million of them were mail-in ballots, and most of those mail-in votes were cast by Democrats, according to NBC 10 Philadelphia.
Republican candidates and Trump supporters made this case in late 2020, unsuccessfully attempting to litigate the issue around Election Day. They alleged that Biden and other Democrat candidates benefited from ballots that were not legal, and that Democrats shouted down the idea that any of these Pennsylvania ballots were improperly cast, calling it part of "the Big Lie."
Pennsylvania is not the only state to rule in favor of election integrity. In January, a judge ruled absentee ballot drop boxes used in the 2020 presidential election are unlawful in Wisconsin:
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The decision now goes to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
I hate looking on Supreme Courts as super-legislatures as much as anyone else; but that is the role they have arrogated to themselves, and so I ask: Didn't we get a new conservative judge on the PSC last November who replaced a liberal? And so does not the PSC now have a conservative majority?
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PeeAyeSC tilts dem. No help there.
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List of Current Justices (Wikipedia): The last two elected (Sallie Updyke Mundy, 2017 and P. Kevin Brobson, 2021) are Republican. The previous five are listed as Democrats.
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I would like to see a 'constitutional convention' emitting a text that includes the current 1 - 10 plus:
all voting shall be in-person with proof of residence and
no criteria shall include color or shape of skin
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Republican candidates and Trump supporters made this case in late 2020, unsuccessfully attempting to litigate the issue around Election Day. They alleged that Biden and other Democrat candidates benefited from ballots that were not legal, and that Democrats shouted down the idea that any of these Pennsylvania ballots were improperly cast, calling it part of "the Big Lie."
Breitbart, tell me what happened to that effort? C'mon, tell the whole story.
IIRC, SCOTUS ruled that the litigants had no standing. What does that even mean? Isn't that an easy what to get out of making a decision? Isn't that an easy way to avoid doing the right thing?
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PeeAye will probably never have another Republican governor. So, it's gone.
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[ZERO] Gun control, another one of the seemingly empty promises made during the 2020 presidential campaign, was a core component of the Biden platform. Capitalizing on the left's illogical criticism of the second amendment, Biden's proposals ranged from everything to an assault rifle ban to a tax placed on certain gun owners. Though the Biden Administration has yet to achieve the fullest extent of its expressed intent, the political climate this cultivated has advanced anti-gun initiatives taken by state and local governments as illustrated by a recent San Jose, California ordinance which would require gun owners to purchase liability insurance. Its commitment to infringe citizens' second amendment right under the pretense of reducing gun violence has failed miserably, with gun-related crimes in places like New York City necessitating a meeting between Biden and the city's mayor due for next week.
While the Biden Administration hasn't been able to make a dent against the rising tide of violent crime across America that hasn't subsided following the easing of social unrest in the wake of the 2020 election cycle as many optimistically predicted, it has been successful in seizing weapons from law abiding citizens. A recent raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ("ATF") proves that point in spades. ATF executed an operation in the Leacock Township of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania against what it perceives as one of the nation's greatest threats: the Amish. Sarcasm aside, the raid on Amish dairy farmer Reuben King's Cattail Foundry property followed what the ATF described as evidence of an ongoing investigation.
King has claimed that though he is a gun collector himself who occasionally sells weapons, offering little insight into the potential of a greater criminal conspiracy that may have prompted the raid. To his point, the ATF has not made any arrests nor filed any charges against King following the raid. The lack of charges is rather curious as King himself has stated that he has sold guns from his personal collection without any license.
Tips offered to local media in the Lancaster area suggested that King may have sold upwards of 600 weapons, a claim the farmer has succinctly dismissed. King added that he has not sold any pistols, as his collection is a procurement of rifles he has sold to other Amish in the community for the purpose of hunting. Being Amish himself, King stated he did not advertise nor conduct any sales online given the group's exclusionary beliefs on modern technology that would be necessary to do so.
Despite the apparent impetus of the ATF raid may have been connected to King's lack of a federal firearms seller license, the federal Gun Control Act dictates no specific terms on when that type of license is required.
Internal documents from the ATF have conveyed that the Biden Administration has created a record of over 54 million firearm owners across the country. This database was compiled using a provision in the Gun Control Act of 1968 which requires any gun store that closes its business to report records of its transactions to the ATF. It's unclear how the ATF's record-keeping may have factored into the raid it conducted against King. That 1968 gun control legislation was recently cited in the Department of Justice's new rule requiring those who are federally licensed gun dealers to have increased storage and safety requirements on site at their dealerships which goes into effect on February 3rd.
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may be, As you know the Amish tend to stick to simpler stuff, except for the cell phones anf computers of course.
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My older sister looked into starting to breed cats and dogs while living on the East Coast. She had some stories about the ethics of "Amish puppy mill" owners and how their business practices produced 'damaged goods'... Not good stories at all.
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He wants to create roads that will 'self-enforce' through speed limits and cameras - rather than have cops patrolling them.
What does speed traps have to do with the fuking federal government? Fuck this meter maid.
How 'bout this Dwayne. How 'bout you go find what happened to the funds which were supposed to go towards maintaining that collapsed bridge. Where'd they go?
Should be Food Rationing, but I'm sure DC area residents will be content in their hunger with a federalized meter maid force proposed by a dude who took 8 weeks of maternal leave because he bought some kids.
Don't start nothing, won't be nothing. The problem with starting a war is the price to be paid if one happens to lose. And despite initial successes, it looks like the Tigrayans have lost.
[Garowe] Nearly 1,500 people died of malnutrition in just part of Æthiopia’s blockaded Tigray region over a four-month period last year, including more than 350 young children, a new report by the region’s health bureau says. It cites more than 5,000 blockade-related deaths in all from hunger and disease in the largest official corpse count yet associated with the country’s war.
"Deaths are alarmingly increasing," including from easily preventable diseases like rabies as medicines run out or expire, the head of Tigray’s health bureau, Hagos Godefay, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named late last year as the findings were being compiled. "This is one of the worst times of my life, I can tell you."
His report on the findings, published Wednesday by the independent Æthiopia Insight, says 5,421 deaths were confirmed in Tigray between July and October in an assessment by his bureau and some international aid groups. It was the first such assessment since the war between Tigray and Æthiopian forces began in November 2020, he said.
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Want macho masculine movie characters? See: movies of Clint Eastwood, Jason Statham and the like. See movies from screenplays by David Mamet. See movies directed by Michael Mann.
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To handle Madonna back in the day, I'm sure he NEEDED to be macho.
[IsraelTimes] Cyberattack linked to supporters of People’s Mujahedin of Iran, but opposition group does not officially claim responsibility.
Multiple channels of Iran’s state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
broadcast images on Thursday showing the leaders of an exiled dissident group and a graphic calling for the death of the country’s supreme leader, an incident that authorities later described as a hack.
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Life was infinite shadings of gray
And all hues of the rainbow at play,
Till wearing green glasses
Bared their ugly asses!
[INSHALLAH]
[SUBMIT]
[OBEY]
[PRAY]
[BenarNews] Bangladeshi government officials this week had their first meeting with Burmese junta representatives on the issue of repatriating Rohingya refugees who are sheltering in Bangladesh.
The repatriation talks, the first in more than a year, have been moving at a snail’s pace since more than 700,000 of Myanmar’s stateless Rohingya ethnic minority fled to southeastern Bangladesh in August 2017 after a brutal military offensive against them in Rakhine, their home state.
Bangladesh noted that it was dismayed at Myanmar’s tardiness in the vetting and verifying of Rohingya refugees, a statement issued Friday by Dhaka’s foreign ministry said about the meeting a day earlier. The verifying of refugees by Myanmar is a prerequisite for their return.
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Al-Hashd al-Shaabi Operations Command in Nineveh said today that ISIS terrorists' flow and infiltration attempts from Syria to Iraq dropped by 90%.
The head of the Command, Khudair al-Matruhi, told Shafaq News agency that intensified security measures have been taken to protect the Iraqi western borders with Syria.
Al-Matruhi referred the new plan's success to the high-level cooperation between the PMF, the Iraqi security forces, and the Peshmerga.
He indicated that the proactive operations contributed to preventing ISIS gunnies from running towards the Hamrin mountains and the areas that suffer from security gaps between Diyala and Saladin.
[FoxNews] But you shouldn't have to show ID to vote, right?
The Treasury Department is reassessing the Internal Revenue Service’s use of third-party facial recognition software ID.me for access to taxpayer accounts amid growing concerns about the company's privacy practices.
A department official told FOX Business on Friday that Treasury and the IRS are exploring alternatives to ID.me. Bloomberg first reported the news.
"The IRS is consistently looking for ways to make the filing process more secure," spokeswoman Alexandra LaManna said in a statement to FOX Business. "But to be clear, no American is required to take a selfie in order to file their tax return."
The IRS had previously announced that beginning in summer 2022, users who need to log on to the agency's website to access the Child Tax Credit Update Portal, check online accounts, get their tax transcript, receive an Identity Protection PIN or view an online payment agreement will need to create an account with identity verification company ID.me.
Existing online accounts, which currently only require a simple email and password to access, will no longer work beginning this summer, the IRS said. At that point, users will be required to create an account with ID.me.
Landon Eastep, 37, was shot and killed by nine law enforcement officers while walking along a Nashville highway carrying a boxcutter Thursday afternoon
Video footage recorded by a witness, police bodycam and highway surveillance recorded the moment of the deadly encounter
Police say Eastep was shot after he quickly pulled an unknown 'silver, shiny cylindrical object' from his pocket holding the boxcutter in the other hand
His sister-in-law Samantha McGill-Barge claims that he was 'unjustly executed with over 20 shots in very close range' and 'killed in cold blood'
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One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University. He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience.
[DW] The jailing of prominent journalist Sedef Kabas and threats against famous pop diva Sezen Aksu are stirring controversy in Erdogan's The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... . It's part of a trend that brings Islamists and government supporters together.
Two well-known women made headlines last week in Turkey, withprominent Ottoman Turkish journalist Sedef Kabas being one of them.
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Sure am glad we passed all those campaign-financing laws a couple of decades ago.
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^ Well, they did what they were designed to do: expunge the Keating 5's crimes and keep War Drums Johnny in his senate seat for life.
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Republican candidates who are running against Democrats who get money from this PAC need to call them on it very, very loudly. Remind voters of all the damage done by the Soros DAs, loud and clear.
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I think it's really time to limit each living soul to a $200 / year cap on political donations. And nothing from corporations.
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/\ ...And nothing from corporations. Unions? QUANGOs? NGOs?
A local official in Diyala revealed today that a combing campaign had been launched in eight agricultural villages district to prevent ISIS forces of Evil from getting back to them.
The administrator of al-Abbara district (15 Km north of Baquba) Shaker Mazen al-Tamimi told Shafaq news agency that a joint force carried out the operation.
Al-Abbara district witness continuous security breaches due to its vast rugged areas.
In the meantime, al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) announced that it had launched a three-axis operation in al-tharthar island in search of wanted people in some villages.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Have to chase him far?
A Florida police officer has been fired after tasering a wheelchair-bound man four times at point-blank range during a June arrest
Police body-camera video showed St. Petersburg Police Officer Matthew Cavinder as he deployed his Taser gun on 64-year-old Timothy Grant
Grant had been sitting in a wheelchair outside a gas station on June 20 when he was arrested for five open warrants
Cavinder later wrote a report that claimed Grant was resisting arrest with violence, however'Mr. Grant was not resisting with violence,' officials said
'This will not and cannot be tolerated here at St. Petersburg PD, and as long as I'm the chief here, it will not be tolerated,' said Police Chief Anthony Holloway
Cavinder had been an officer with the department since March 23, 2020
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I admit I have not watched the video, but from the headline, this smells like a George Floydish media event in progress:
Cop, taser, wheelchair, FOUR, point-blank range, not 'resisting'
As I understand, a taser has two modes. There is the familiar EnoughOfYourBullshite-ZZZZT mode that results in flopping on the ground, but there is also a direct contact 'drive' mode that gives a painful shock to help encourage with compliance.
Current theory of the crime: Wheelchair Guy was being a jerk while getting arrested for open warrants.
OK, I watched the video. It is bodycam footage and not the expected bystander cellphone vid which is a plus. Taser in drive mode: check. Wheelchair Guy may not have been 'resisting' in the sense of exchanging rounds with the cops, but he was not cooperating. At one point, WG tells the cops he can walk.
This is basically the George Floyd scenario - cops trying stuff uncooperative, intoxicated individual in the patrol car without success. I expect it will evolve in the same way.
[IsraelTimes] Bookseller says the fabricated antisemitic text was automatically put on its online store from ’standard industry databases’ before it was removed following social media outcry.
Twitter users began tweeting January 25 about an online listing on the booksellers’ site, which had been offering the famously fabricated antisemitic text for $24.95. The retailer said in a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the book was fed automatically to the website from "standard industry databases" and that the company took "prompt action to remove" the title.
Twitter users also objected to the description of the book on the site, which summarized at length the book’s fictional description of a Jewish plan for global domination and suggested that its authenticity is still an open question. The description justified its sale as "an interesting book which deserves to be studied in the same way the ’War of the Worlds’ radio broadcast duped many thousands.... We neither support nor deny its message, we simply make it available for those who wish a copy."
In their statement to JTA, a representative for Barnes & Noble wrote that the bookseller draws on industry databases and does the "utmost to diligently monitor such submissions for violations of our content policy." According to the statement, the book was never stocked in their bookstores.
"We regret that it was listed inadvertently. As soon as we are made aware of any such offending titles, we take prompt action to remove the offending titles in accordance with our policy, as we did with this title," said the representative.
While Barnes & Noble was the main focus of social media users’ outrage, other top online booksellers such as Walmart, Book Depository, Thrift Books and Hudson Books were selling dozens of versions, the Jerusalem Post reported.
A security source reported that the security forces managed to seize the launchpad used in the attack that targeted the Baghdad international airport, in Abu Gharib district, west of Baghdad.
[NYPost] Russian officials signaled at least a token interest in diplomacy to resolve the ongoing crisis with the West over Ukraine on Friday, insisting that Moscow doesn’t 'want wars.'
"If it depends on Russia, then there will be no war," Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a radio interview Friday, according to Reuters. "We don’t want wars. But we also won’t allow our interests to be rudely trampled, to be ignored."
Lavrov spoke two days after the US formally rejected Moscow’s demands that Ukraine be blocked from ever entering NATO, as well as that the alliance roll back its presence in former Soviet bloc states.
The State Department called the Russian stance a 'non-starter,' and Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated that opinion Wednesday.
"Right now, the document is with them, and the ball is in their court," Blinken told reports.
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[REGNUM] The law on life imprisonment of recidivist pedophiles was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin . The text was published on January 28 on the official portal of legal information. At least they weren't put in Juvie.
Life imprisonment is introduced for recidivist pedophiles. In addition, a life sentence is provided by law for those who have committed violent acts against two or more minors - and if this happened for the first time.
The same punishment will be meted out if violent actions are accompanied by the commission of another grave or especially grave crime against a person.
Recall that the State Duma adopted this law on January 18, the Federation Council approved on January 26.
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Wouldn't surprise me at all. Lots of eastern European girls wind up in the white slavery grinder. Imagine if Russia started wanting to extradite notorious ped0s who messed with underage girls from their sphere of influence.
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[REGNUM] At least 14 people have been killed in festivities amid conflict between two communities in eastern Chad, Agence La Belle France-Presse reported January 28, citing a Chadian government official.
On January 24, a protest was held in the city of Abéché. Representatives of one of the local communities expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that another community was holding its solemn event on foreign territory. Law enforcement officers tried to intervene in the situation. Riots broke out and lasted for two days.
On January 28, the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA ) announced that at least nine people had died in the Western Darfur region of Sudan due to conflict between Arab and Negro tribes.
The local version of the Janjaweed?
In addition, about 11,000 local residents were forced to leave their homes.
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Because our corrupt elites make bank from Ukraine and (to a much greater extent) also China.
They have no financial interests in Russia because the Russians never allowed them to grift -- not during Yeltsin's bacchanalia and not during the Putinshchina.
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Given Duck-Duck has been returning strange search results, the last few days.... Use Google Maps and and note the Ukrainian location, location, location to the MID-East/Europe economy.
Yes!, it is mainly EUROPE's problem.
But it affect lots of US Allies in the area.
Plus the GAS/OIL delivery and food production which are mainly used in the Western EU.
HOWEVER,
I feel The Biden Junta is using the UKRAINE for much needed Media Deflection and likely to get a Hush/Hush promise on the $$ Millions skimmed by certain DC types and family members.
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[REGNUM] The CSTO peacekeeping contingent may well be brought into the zone of the Kyrgyz-Tajik conflict, but this requires a request from at least one side. On January 28, a leading expert at the Center for Military-Political Research at MGIMO Mikhail Alexandrov told a REGNUM correspondent .
"The CSTO is quite capable of influencing the situation, it's just that the CSTO acts only when the parties themselves ask for help, or at least one side. Apparently, neither side is asking for help. Then, apparently, they somehow need to "let off steam", shoot at each other for some time, suffer losses, understand that there will be no reasonable decisions, and then ask for help from the CSTO," the expert said.
The political scientist noted that after a request for help, the CSTO could bring in peacekeeping forces, create a demilitarized border zone in the border area, in which people from both sides could live normally and use water. If such a request, the expert believes, then there will be no problems with the solution.
Recall that on January 27, armed festivities took place on the border of the Batken region of Kyrgyzstan and the Sughd region of Tajikistan.
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Booze, gambling, drugs. How's all those prohibitions going? Oh, the state does it now, for a piece of the action. Like gambling, Nevada has been dealing with 'legal' work for decades. The employees all have to be screened by law enforcement before they can be hired.
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I find it ironic that the same person can say with equal passion that (1) "women have absolute liberty to do anything with their persons" and (2) "women are never allowed to market their sexuality by being a 'exotic dancer', a pin-up model, prostitute, or etc."... Consistency is not a virtue, it seems.
Two people were killed on Friday in a kaboom in Babel Governorate, central Iraq.
A security source told Shafaq News Agency, "an explosive remnant of war blew up in Jableh district of Babel, killing two children and wounding their father.
According to a La Belle France-based group Humanity & Inclusion report, Iraq is heavily contaminated by explosive ordnance. Explosive remnants of war claimed about 700 victims between 2018-2020. The fighting has left the borders with Iran, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... littered with landmines and unwent kaboom! remnants of war,
"Iraq is one of the countries most heavily contaminated by explosive ordnance on earth," the organization said last October.
According to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... data, Across Iraq, about 100 children were killed or injured between January and September 2021 due to remnants of conflict.
Separatist insurgents have claimed responsibility for an attack on a #Pakistan-i army post near a southwestern port in which China is investing, and the army says 10 soldiers have been killed.https://t.co/izJVxReOmK
Separatist holy warriors have grabbed credit for an attack on a Mighty Pak Army post near a southwestern port in which China is investing, and the army said 10 soldiers were killed.
The attack, launched late on Tuesday in Kech district, north of Gwadar port, was the heaviest in years in a low-key insurgency that ethnic Baloch holy warriors have been waging against the Pak government.
The army said it killed one of the attackers and arrested three in a clearance operation that was still going on.
The Baloch Liberation Front (BLF)
...founded in 1964 in Damascus at the behest of Iraq to add their numbers to the Balochi insurgency in Iran, when Iraqi funding stopped they turned their attention to similar Balochi grievances in neighbouring Pakistan, where they’ve been insurging ever since...
hard boy group grabbed credit for the attack, saying in a statement sent to a Rootersnews hound that 17 soldiers and one of its members were killed.
Ethnic Baloch guerrillas have been fighting the government for decades for a separate state, saying Pakistain’s central government unfairly exploit the rich gas and mineral resources of 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... province, which shares borders with Afghanistan and Iran.
China is involved in the development of the Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea and other projects in the province as part of a $60 billion China-Pakistain Economic Corridor, which is itself part of Beijing’s Belt and Road initiative.
The holy warriors often target gas projects as well as infrastructure and security posts in the province but have begun launching attacks in other parts of Pakistain.
They also attack Chinese projects, and occasionally kill Chinese workers despite Pak assurances that it is doing everything it can to protect the Chinese projects.
Pakistain has also accused India of covertly supporting the hard boys. India denies that.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Um...no inspections?
Police reported the span, located in the city's Frick Park neighborhood, came down some time around 7am on Friday morning
Several cars as well as a Port Authority bus were involved in the collapse. Ten people were injured, three taken to hospital but none of the injuries are life-threatening, Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Chief Darryl Jones said
Biden toured the damaged bridge accompanied by local leaders and visited one end of the collapsed bridge where he spoke with first responders and local and state officials for an impromptu briefing
A photo from the scene shows the commuter bus - which had three passengers and a driver on board - upright on a section of the collapsed bridge while another vehicle is shown dangling near the edge
A September 2019 inspection of the city-owned bridge revealed the deck and superstructure to be in poor condition, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation´s National Bridge Inventory
So the Pittsburgh city fathers knew it was dangerous almost three years ago, but chose not to spend money for adequate repairs. Why should the rest of the country cover it?
The steel span, built in 1970, carried about 14,500 vehicles a day and is posted with a 26-ton weight limit
Rescuers rappelled nearly 150ft and others formed a human chain to pluck commuters from the vehicles
After reports of a strong smell of gas in the air a natural gas line was cut and nearby homes were evacuated
The collapse happened hours before President Biden's scheduled visit to Pittsburgh to tout his $1.2trillion infrastructure bill, which includes bridge maintenance. The White House announced the visit will go ahead
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BIDEN's in a Democrat run failing PA Town to discuss Infrastructure. Wow ! an a bridge just happens to collapse on cue. What are the odds.... Just saying ☺
BTW: What did PA / PA-DOT do with the $$$$
from several previous US Infrastructure budgeted Acts?
[PennCapitolStar] Fourteen Republican lawmakers filed the challenge last September
Nice of the courts to get around to dealing with what was an urgent issue in 2020, and remains urgent for 2022.
Got my main-in ballot for the early primaries yesterday.
A Pennsylvania appeals court has struck down the commonwealth’s landmark 2019 mail-in voting law, though the near certainty of an appeal means voters might not notice a difference until the Supreme Court weighs in.
In a 49-page opinion issued by Judge Mary Leavitt on Friday morning, the court found that the law, which allows all Pennsylvanians to vote by mail without an excuse, was unconstitutionally enacted as a statute, rather than being approved through the state’s long and rigorous constitutional amendment process.
“If presented to the people, a constitutional amendment to end the…requirement of in-person voting is likely to be adopted,” Leavitt wrote. “But a constitutional amendment must be presented to the people and adopted into our fundamental law before legislation authorizing no-excuse mail-in voting can ‘be placed upon our statute books.’”
The law, known as Act 77, was passed by the Republican-controlled General Assembly and signed by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in fall of 2019. Eleven of the 14 plaintiffs, all of whom are Republican lawmakers, voted for the law.
At the time, it was seen as a bipartisan win that expanded voting access. Since then, millions of Pennsylvanians have used mail-in ballots to participate in democracy.
However, Republicans began to sour on the law, amid former President Donald Trump’s baseless efforts to delegitimize mail-in votes in the lead up to the 2020 election.
In November 2020, after he lost Pennsylvania and the presidency, some of the former president’s allies filed a similar suit to invalidate the law and have millions of legally cast mail-in ballots thrown out.
The state Supreme Court rejected their arguments, but the court will likely hear them anew.
Adam Bonin, a Philadelphia elections attorney who often works for Democrats, told the Capital-Star he expected the ruling to be overturned on appeal to the state Supreme Court.
And if Gov. Tom Wolf does appeal the ruling, Pennsylvania appellate court procedure mandates that the lower court’s order will automatically be stayed — meaning mail-in voting will remain legal until the high court issues a ruling.
While the decision creates another layer of uncertainty on the commonwealth’s upcoming elections, the local officials who run elections are used to it by now, after years of court fights and legislative inaction on election law.
One county election official, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, expressed more displeasure about the timing than the ruling itself.
“An election director looks at this decision and says, ‘who cares?’ It’s going to be appealed,” they told the Capital-Star.
But with election day ticking closer, it does present the spectre of a time crunch in a month or two, when the state Supreme Court has to issue a final order — and “we’ll have no time to deal with the implications.”
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] He's from San Francisco.
He likes being probed.
Paul Pelosi Jr. is involved in an FBI investigation into San Francisco officials who were allegedly bribed to remove violations at his ex-girlfriend's property
City permit expediter Rodrigo Santos, a former president of the San Francisco Building Inspection Commission, was indicted for fraud in November
Santos is accused of having his clients donate thousands of dollars to building inspector Bernie Curran's rugby club in exchange for city permits
Pelosi seems to match the description of a 'Client 9', who wrote the Golden Gate Youth Rugby Association a $1,500 check, according to prosecutors' documents
The money was meant to encourage Curran to remove violation notices against a squalid Mission District 'hotel' that had a history of permit violations
A federal criminal complaint details alleged text messages from Santos telling Client 9, to drop off a check to the sports club
'With pleasure,' Client 9 replied, and later sent Santos a picture of a $1,500 check with the message: 'made the donation and it is being sent today'
Earlier this month a DailyMail.com investigation revealed Pelosi Jr has been linked to five other federal probes in the past
[IsraelTimes] Lawyer Inbar Nacht says dramatic events at Kabul airport touched her ’most fundamental Jewish feelings’; IsraAid, 2nd Israeli group, helped 200 at-risk refugees reach safe shores
When Israeli lawyer Inbar Nacht saw pictures last year of Afghans desperately trying to escape their homeland, she thought of her relatives who were murdered in the Holocaust and knew she had to act.
She and her husband Marius had founded a charity in 2020 that has worked on a range of initiatives, from assisting the elderly and disabled to supporting out-of-work artists during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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[HuffPost] When a 30-piece orchestra attempts to perform songs from “South Park,” the results are bound to be, well, classic.
The venerable animated series debuts its 25th season Feb. 2 on Comedy Central. In honor of the golden anniversary, someone thought it was a golden opportunity to put a new spin on some of the show’s songs.
So, a full Broadway orchestra was enlisted to sweeten up what can be some very salty lyrics. For instance, there is now no secret what Kenny is singing in the show’s theme song. (Hint: It’s very NSFW.) See the videos at the link
[IsraelTimes] Security forces respond to 9 smuggling attempts in ’one of the most active nights on the Egyptian border in recent memory’
Two Border Police officers were lightly maimed after they were mistakenly identified by soldiers as drug-runners in a firefight during a massive overnight smuggling operation on the Egyptian border, the Israel Defense Forces said Thursday.
According to an IDF spokesperson, there were at least nine smuggling attempts along the frontier overnight, making it "one of the most active nights on the Egyptian border in recent memory."
On a sometimes nightly basis, Egyptian smugglers attempt to pass contraband over the border — mostly marijuana from grow houses in the Sinai Peninsula, but sometimes harder drugs like heroin — to Israelis, who collect the packages and sell the drugs in Israel.
The IDF and Israel Police seized some 400 kilograms (880 pounds) of drugs, worth an estimated NIS 8 million ($2.5 million), over the course of the night, one of the largest busts in at least the past year, the military said. No arrests were made, however.
Earlier this month, the IDF seized some 100 kilograms of drugs that had been thrown over the border from Egypt, and in December, soldiers captured 120 kilograms of drugs, according to the IDF.
One of the smuggling attempts, the one in which the border guards was injured was a "violent mostly peaceful one," in which smugglers on the Egyptian side of the border drove up to the security fence in armored vehicles, with machine guns on top, and opened fire "massively" into Israeli territory, the IDF spokesperson said.
The machine gun fire was not initially directed at Israeli troops but was instead meant to deter Israeli forces from approaching the area, she noted.
A team from the Caracal Battalion, which guards the Egyptian border, responded to the attack and returned fire. A Border Police vehicle with the two officers inside was also nearby and approached the fence from the Israeli side.
During the firefight, the Caracal soldiers apparently believed that the Border Police vehicle was a truck being used by the Israeli smugglers to collect the packages of drugs, and shot up the tires, the IDF spokesperson said.
The two officers were lightly maimed by the gunfire and were taken to Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center for treatment, the military said.
"The incident will be investigated," the IDF said.
The case of friendly fire came after a deadly incident earlier this month, in which two officers from the elite Egoz unit were rubbed out by a fellow officer in another case of mistaken identity.
IDF chief Aviv Kohavi and Defense Minister Benny Gantz have vowed to conduct a thorough investigation of the incident.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's National Intelligence Organization on Friday neutralized a senior PKK fighter in the Kurdistan Region, a security source reported to Anadolu agency.
According to the source, Sileman Semo Yusuf, codenamed Azad, was neutralized when his vehicle was targeted in Sinjar.
He was in charge of the special forces of the Kurdistan Workers Party.
...currently a Trump Republican, Big Jim switched to the Democratic Party to run for governor in 2016, then returned to the Republican fold seven months after being sworn in. He subsequently beat the Democratic candidate for the office in 2020. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he turned the family ag. and coal millions into $1.2 billion before turning his attention to politics...
concluded his state of the state address Thursday by lifting up his English Bulldog Babydog and showing off her butt
The gesture was meant as a message to actress Bette Midler
'They never believed in West Virginia. That we could do it. They told every bad joke in the world about us,' Justice said
'And so from that standpoint, Babydog tells Bette Midler and all those out there, "kiss her hiney,"' he added
Midler made disparaging comments about West Virginia following Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin's refusal to support Build Back Better
'He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out,' she said of Manchin
On Friday she hit back and tweeted '...I’d say his dog’s ass would make a better Governor than him'
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People need to be reminded that they can be hit in the mouth these days. The internet have made people think they can say anything and there are no consequences.
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“We knew about them, so clearly they were no secret.”
[FoxNews] More than 178,840 migrants were encountered at the border in December.
The White House responded Friday to leaked video footage that shows migrants being transported on charter flights under the cover of night from southern border states to Westchester, New York, claiming the footage is "not new or news."
"There are no such things as secret flights," a White House official said in response to an inquiry from Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy. "The video footage your network has been running endlessly is from six months ago in August. Which by the way, Jen [Psaki] and others in the administration addressed this then too. Not new or news."
The footage was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino. Reports first surfaced of such flights in October when the New York Post captured video at the airport in White Plains, New York.
"The footage is of unaccompanied minors being transported," the White House official claimed, "either to a vetted relative or [to] a sponsor, and yes they passed through Westchester County, New York, en route to their final destination."
Saying the federal government has a "legal responsibility to safely care for unaccompanied children until they can be swiftly unified with a parent or a vetted sponsor," the official noted that the "Office of Refugee Resettlement facilitates travel for the children in its custody to their family or sponsors across the country."
The flights first streamed into the suburban airport from places such as McAllen, Texas, and Houston last August, according to the New York Post. They only stopped after the outlet captured footage of the landings in October.
Separate footage captured by Fox News revealed several federally contracted buses dropping off dozens of mostly male migrants at a parking garage in Brownsville, Texas. Black tarps were set up with a sign that said "Border Patrol drop-off" above it.
In response to that footage, the White House official said, "Migrants who cannot be expelled under Title 42 are placed into immigration proceedings, and one of those avenues could be placement in an alternative-to-detention (ATD) program in the interior of the United States, where they wait for next steps in the immigration process, such as a court hearing, and are required to check in with a local ICE office."
NEW: We witnessed the federal gov mass releasing single adult migrants, almost all men, at a parking garage in Brownsville. Taxi cabs were then called for them. We followed the taxis to Harlingen airport, where the migrants were dropped off to get on flights around U.S. @FoxNewspic.twitter.com/HcSSwtjMnR
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Have these "migrants (illegals)* been promised a quick path to citizenship if they join the "woke" military? Does the military need conscripts for the so-called Ukraine impending CF?
Sound far-fetched? Anything is possible with these Dem Banksters.
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You can't have a woke military with red blooded American boys so of course the military aged "migrants" will be offered citizenship in exchange for their "service". They won't know any better than to fire on American civilians either.
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Future draftees into a new "Anti-Domestic Terrorist Strike Force."
To be run out of a War Room situated halfway between Langley and the FB-eye.
Sure. Limited supplies at first go to those who can pay in cash or in kind, thus financing increased production. This is the power of capitalism.
Confidential vaccine distribution list developed under former President Trump
Administration prepared a secret list of which nations would get the doses first
It placed allied nations ahead of poorer ones with greater needs
The secret list was drawn up during the second half of 2020 and prioritized nations based on their strategic relationship with the U.S.
First on the list were allies, including Israel, Taiwan, South Korea, Canada, and several European nations, despite having perfectly good health-care systems
The countries also had their own financial resources to buy their own doses and had good infrastructure for it to be distributed
Next on the list were countries involved with the development of the vaccine
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, a public–private global health partnership with the goal of increasing access to immunization in poor countries, was third on the list
Fourth came all the other countries that were not already in any other category
The Trump plan never went into action because the Biden administration came to power before the vaccination effort had been fully set up
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I would agree with the "initial" selectivity process.
Rule #1 You take care of yourself and Family, before you take others.
NOTE: We are talking the initial development and release of a experimental VAX, not whether the country had a "...perfectly good health-care systems" .
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"In the event that the oxygen masks deploy, adults should place their own mask on their face first, then help children put on masks." There's a reason for that...
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More desperate? Did they vote with the US in the UN? Send them a book on "How to Make Friends and Influence People".
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[Regnum] The appeal of the Moscow regional organization of former juvenile prisoners of fascism to the president of our country to declare the Soviet people a victim of genocide during the Great Patriotic War caused me a deep and categorical disagreement.
[NYPost] Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said the US and NATO are creating panic in his country over a potential Russian invasion.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed concerns of the US and its NATO allies about a Russian invasion Friday, accusing them of creating a “panic” and insisting that he knows the situation in his own country.
“Do we have tanks on the streets?” Zelensky asked reporters during a news conference. “No. When you read media, you get the image that we have troops in the city, people fleeing … That’s not the case.”
Though Zelensky declined to rule out the possibility of conflict, he denied the repeated suggestion by Washington that a Russian attack may be “imminent”.
“I’m the president of Ukraine and I’m based here and I think I know the details better here,” he said at one point.
The news conference came one day after Zelensky spoke on the phone with President Biden. Following the call, CNN cited an unnamed Ukrainian official in reporting that Biden had told Zelensky that a Russian invasion of Kiev was almost certain. Read the rest at the link
A new video and photo of the US Navy F-35 stealth fighter jet that crashed into the South China Sea on Monday have surfaced Maybe we should let China have it, as a strategic ploy.
The video, which circulated on social media and confirmed to be real, showed the moment just before the $100 million jet crashed into the aircraft carrier
The pic, also confirmed to be real by a Navy spokesperson, shows the jet damaged and floating in the sea before it sank
It was the second time in three months an F-35 has been lost at sea, with the crash injuring the pilot and seven sailors aboard the USS Carl Vinson
The US faces a race to beat China in recovering the high-tech warplane as Beijing could claim salvage rights to remove an 'environmental hazard'
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said it had no interest in the jet and that the US should stop 'flexing force at every turn' in the South China Sea
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Just remember, Wave Of The Future!
Gonna be able to replace A10's and everything!
All AF officers who oppose the F35 are traitors!
(A general actually said that.)
This is remarkably like the F111.
Can be used for everything! Actually means can't do any paticular thing well.
One size fits all! Really means does doesn't actually fit anyone.
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Once the military's prime mission became procurement, everything else became even less than an afterthought.
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[AmericanSpectator] Religious freedom is the foundation to all other freedoms.
Freedom of thought, really, of which freedom to believe is one subset.
The group Open Doors USA released its last week, which tracks the countries that are the worst offenders of Christian persecution. There is a new top persecutor, which took over from longtime number one North Korea. The new winner, perhaps unsurprisingly, is Afghanistan. However, at number two, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea remains poised for a comeback next year. Another nine countries also are guilty of “extreme persecution.”
The Taliban takeover worsened an already terrible state of religious persecution in Afghanistan. Open Doors explained: “Christian persecution is extreme in all spheres of public and private life. The risk of discovery has only increased since the Taliban controls every aspect of government—including paperwork from international troops that may help identify Christians.” Even before August, noted Open Doors, it was “impossible to live openly as a Christian in Afghanistan. Leaving Islam is considered shameful, and Christian converts face dire consequences if their new faith is discovered. Either they have to flee the country or they will be killed.”
Isolated and brutal, North Korea fell back to number two even though persecution actually worsened. Its very human leader, Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, is treated like a near-deity, and he fears competition. Open Doors wrote: “North Korea has been at or near the top of the World Watch List for more than 20 years. That’s because any North Korean caught following Jesus is at immediate risk of imprisonment, brutal torture and death.”
The other countries in the top eleven, in order, are: Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Eritrea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran, India and Saudi Arabia. There’s a short paragraph about each at the link.
These are merely the worst of a very bad lot. Open Doors lists another 39 countries with “very high persecution.” Like the preceding states, these tend to be Muslim and/or authoritarian. Following the Kingdom through number 20 are: Myanmar, Sudan, Iraq, Syria, Maldives, China, Qatar, Vietnam, and Egypt. As for numbers 21 to 30: Uzbekistan, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Turkmenistan, Laos, Morocco, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Colombia. Numbers 31 to 40 run: Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Niger, Bhutan, Tunisia, Oman, Cuba, Ethiopia, Jordan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Completing the list at numbers 41 to 50: Mozambique, Turkey, Mexico, Cameroon, Tajikistan, Brunei, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Kuwait, and Malaysia.
President Joe Biden promised to make human rights a central issue of his administration. So far he has failed to deliver and has not used America’s clout against even the most egregious offenders with whom the U.S. has influence, such as Saudi Arabia. So Biden still has the freedom to be a lying asshole.
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I've said this for a couple of decades: I'll believe for a minute that the left cares about human rights, global warming, pollution, and other such things as soon as they demand China play along.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] And I thought 'Biden's an idiot' was going to get me in trouble!
Retired US Marine Gjergi Luke Juncaj, 50, of Las Vegas was taken into custody on Wednesday
He is charged with four counts of making threatening phone calls, DOJ said
The Justice Department said he told the worker: 'I hope you all go to jail for treason. I hope your children get molested. You are all going to (expletive) die'
If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of two years in prison on each count
Juncaj's threats against Staci McElyea, a worker in the Nevada Secretary of State's Office, were first revealed in a Reuters investigation published on Sept. 8.
The story detailed how Juncaj repeatedly told McElyea that she and her colleagues would be killed, according to her documentation of the calls, which were made on Jan. 7, 2021.
After the threats, McElyea, a former U.S. Marine, called the Nevada Capitol Patrol and sent the state police agency a transcript of the calls, Reuters previously reported.
An officer contacted the man, whom police would later identify as Juncaj.
Despite Juncaj's multiple threatening calls, state police decided not to charge Juncaj, Reuters found.
State detectives concluded that Juncaj's threats were 'protected' political speech and not criminal, because the suspect merely said he 'wished' election workers would die, according to a summary of the case.
The Reuters report, however, contradicted the detective's assessment.
McElyea's transcripts of the calls show that the man repeatedly told her she and her colleagues would be killed.
Juncaj could not immediately be reached for comment on Thursday by Reuters. He said in an interview for the September report that he 'didn't threaten anybody.'
Following the Reuters story, the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened an investigation into Juncaj, according to a Nevada state government source.
The indictment is the task force's second case, and the third known federal charge overall for threatening election workers since the 2020 vote.
In December 2020, federal prosecutors charged a New Hampshire woman with threatening a Michigan official.
The Justice Department's election threats task force was announced last June, shortly after Reuters published reports documenting more than 850 threats and menacing messages to U.S. election workers.
These included about 100 that legal experts say could be prosecuted under federal law. Almost all of the threats have been inspired by Trump's relentless false claims that the 2020 vote was 'rigged' against him, Reuters found.
Justice Department officials say they are now investigating dozens of similar cases.
The task force revealed its first arrest on Jan. 21, when it charged a Texas man with making violent threats against Georgia election and government officials.
Prosecutors accused Chad Christopher Stark of posting a Craigslist message on Jan. 5, 2021 entitled, 'Georgia Patriots it's time to kill.' Reuters couldn't reach Stark, who will appear in court on Feb. 4.
Federal authorities are also investigating an anonymous man who threatened Vermont officials, local law enforcement sources familiar with the probe told Reuters.
That man's threats were featured in a November Reuters investigation.
In response to that report, Vermont lawmakers are considering new legislation to make it easier to prosecute people who threaten election officials.
Election officials all over the country are being threatened and harassed, and those engaging in this domestic terrorism must be held accountable, said David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research.
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The Fed's has now clearly established the current grounds for Verbal Assault type arrests.
Think of all the threats we have Max Mouth, and others in congress saying to Trump supporters. Threats not made in the protect halls of steps of Congress?
Think of all the ANTI-FA & BLM video taped remarks about killing or injuring elected, appointed or federal/state/Police workers.
Remember Kathy Griffin's bloodied, decapitated Donald Trump head?
Remember washed up actors Tom Arnold & Peter Fonda telling Democrats to attack / Kidnap young Barron Trump?
I see a lot of people that need ARRESTING under the Equal Justice clauses of the US Constitution & US Code.
Now regarding what the NV guy said.
There is NO place for that type of behavior.
We are NOT LIBERALS, SOCIALISTS, DEMOCRATS, ANTI-FA, or BLM.
So having said that, If I were a police officer and heard him made the sames threats, I would have arrested his butt on the spot.
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'I hope you all go to jail for treason. I hope your children get molested. You are all going to (expletive) die'
Sentence #1 (assuming the quotes are accurate, never trust blindly) is protected speech. #2 is just tacky and ill-mannered, but not a crime. #3 is a fact
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Let us not forget the whole picture.
"Despite Juncaj's multiple threatening calls..."
The US Code 47 § 223 very clear on repeated threatening Phone Calls.
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Next up: Fredonia
[Rusvesna] During the joint exercises of Russia and Belarus "Allied Resolve", which should begin on February 10, the scenario of possible aggression against the Union State will be played out.
Viktor Gulevich, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus, spoke about this.
Gulevich explained that the borders of the states would be determined conditionally. At the maneuvers, the 'Western' countries (they are designated as “Nyaris”, “Pomoria”, “Klopia” and terrorist organizations controlled by them) will be confronted by the "Republic of Polesie” and the “Northern Federation”.
At the second stage of the exercises, the confrontation with the “Republic of Dneprovia” will be worked out, which, according to the plan of the exercises, is a terrorist group that is supported by the Western countries that lost in the first stage.
Recall that the exercises "Allied Resolve" should begin on February 10. To participate in them, Russia has already deployed multi-role fighters to Belarus .
It was also reported that Washington saw a “signal of aggression” in the upcoming joint exercises between Russia and Belarus and in the buildup of Russian troops near the border with Ukraine
[REGNUM] State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin assured that Russia would not go to war with Ukraine.
Follow the development of events in the broadcast: “Anti-Russian provocation: Kiev is preparing an attack on the Donbass – broadcast”
“Russia will not fight with Ukraine. (…) Russia and Ukraine need peace. The United States and European countries do not need a nuclear war," Volodin said in his telegram channel.
He urged and proceed from this.
“Any dialogue is always better. It must be built on the principles of mutual respect, defending the interests of its citizens,” he added.
He hopes that the Ukrainian parliamentarians will support the proposal of the head of the political council of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, Viktor Medvedchuk , to sit down at the negotiating table.
“The sooner the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada realize this and support the proposal of Viktor Medvedchuk, the better it will be for everyone,” the speaker of the State Duma is sure.
As REGNUM reported earlier , State Duma speaker Volodin announced that the State Duma was waiting for Medvedchuk as deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, members of the friendship group, "to discuss issues and develop decisions within the parliamentary dimension."
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It's almost like side effects are more the product than the therapeutic effects.
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The jury is still out on statin risk reduction and heart problems. I've taken statins for a long time and I still got PC (diagnosed in 2006). A few months back, I elected to get off statins as they seemed to be causing muscle aches and neuropathy. I called my physician first to check to see what he thought. I will go for an annual physical in Feb. At that time, I will check my PSA and cholesterol levels at that time. The PSA has been in check after radiation in 2006. No indication of heart problems.
Why is 'insanity' still a defense? Because someone incapable of recognizing reality can’t make reasoned decisions. The thing is, whether the plea is innocent by reason of insanity or guilty but insane, the sentence is the same — a long time in prison, hopefully one that has a mental ward separate from the rest of the prisoners. And hopefully one where a real psychiatrist oversees the medications and the prisoners are supervised to make sure they actually take their meds every day.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, 15, will use 'insanity' as a defense after pleading not guilty to charges made against him for the massacre
Crumbley's attorney filed a notice to perform a psychiatric evaluation on the teen which will determine if he understands the weight of his actions
If found not guilty, Crumbley will be referred to a state psychiatric center for custody and further evaluation
He is being charged as an adult for his alleged involvement in the Oxford High School shooting on November 30 that killed four students and injured several others
A new lawsuit has since been filed over the massacre blaming school officials and Crumbley's parents Jennifer and James for their negligence
Both parents have been charged with involuntary manslaughter after they allegedly gave Crumbley the gun he used as a Christmas present
Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria on Friday found the bodies of 18 fellow fighters inside a prison that the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group attacked last week, a war monitor reported.
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said Wednesday that they had recaptured the sprawling complex in the city of Hasakeh following a January 20 IS jailbreak attempt that sparked days of festivities inside the facility and in surrounding areas.
But mop-up operations are still underway in the Ghwayran prison where Kurdish forces say dozens of jihadists remain holed up.
During a sweep on Friday, the SDF backed by Kurdish internal security forces "found the corpses of 18 fellow fighters killed by jihadists", the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The war monitor, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria, also reported that an overnight air strike near the jail, carried out by the US-led coalition battling IS, killed seven jihadists.
The corpse count since January 20 now stands at over 260, including around 180 IS jihadists, 73 members of Kurdish-led forces and seven civilians, according to the Observatory.
The hard boyz that remain inside the facility have barricaded themselves in "cellars that are difficult to target with air strikes or infiltrate on the ground," the Observatory said.
Kurdish forces "are looking to starve jihadists into surrendering", said Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman, adding that those holding out were diehard IS followers.
An SDF official said around 60 IS fighters were holed up in a basement and a ground floor above it.
"We believe there are no minors among them," he told AFP on the condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to comment on the issue.
The jihadists have been given a deadline to surrender and if no progress is made they will be dealt with "firmly", he said, without specifying a time frame.
The Ghwayran jail assault was the most high-profile IS attack since the jihadists lost their "caliphate" nearly three years ago.
According to the SDF, around 3,500 inmates and IS attackers have surrendered to its forces since the start of operations to recapture the prison.
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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.
[NYP] A pizza deliveryman shot a would-be carjacker six times in 
[JiustTheNews] In a new filing, Durham's team says the DOJ Inspector General was slow to fork over evidence pertaining to the Trump-Alfa Bank investigation.
[ZH] A new court filing by special counsel John Durham reveals that Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz concealed crucial information from Durham in connection with the ongoing prosecution of Michael Sussmann, a former attorney to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. 
[Washington Examiner] West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice told singer Bette Midler to kiss his dog's "hiney" Thursday in response to a tweet from the singer insulting his constituents last month.
...The nation is noted for 
Hezbollah
[Aljazeera] The breadth of crumbling infrastructure in the United States is "mind boggling", President Joe Biden said on Friday, as he visited the site of an early-morning bridge collapse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
...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 
[Breitbart] Three conservative judges on a five-court panel struck down Pennsylvania’s 2019 expanded mail-in voting law that reportedly permitted 2.5 million people, the majority of them Democrats, to cast votes in 2020.
[ZERO] Gun control, another one of the seemingly empty promises made during the 2020 presidential campaign, was a core component of the Biden platform. Capitalizing on the left's illogical criticism of the second amendment, Biden's proposals ranged from everything to an assault rifle ban to a tax placed on certain gun owners. Though the Biden Administration has yet to achieve the fullest extent of its expressed intent, the political climate this cultivated has advanced anti-gun initiatives taken by state and local governments as illustrated by a recent San Jose, California ordinance which would require gun owners to purchase liability insurance. Its commitment to infringe citizens' second amendment right under the pretense of reducing gun violence has failed miserably, with gun-related crimes in places like New York City necessitating a meeting between Biden and the city's mayor due for next week.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
[PennCapitolStar] Fourteen Republican lawmakers filed the challenge last September
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...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 
