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with the Aquanet, however, it's an OSHA-approved helmet
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With a Type II rating because it covers her ears, Frank.
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"Mirror, mirror, in my hand,
Who's the fairest in the land?"
"Well, beautiful, since I've only ever seen you... say, where's your other hand, dollface? And could ya maybe grip me a little harder?"
"Stop, you silly! I'm simply contemplating the feasibility of erecting a series of mirrors to reflect this image down the block to all my friends. Perhaps a sort of spider's web of mirrors could eventually reach the entire neighborhood! Why, who knows, maybe some day in the far, far future, every lady in all of Bullfrog Junction will be able to see, and know, and be humbled by positive proof of my pulchritude, joie de vivre, and good taste in tattoos in real time... whatever that is. Whaddaya think of that?"
"Uh... I think we should move to the sofa."
[Babylon Bee] Recent national indicators have hinted that the Biden Administration may not be as popular as hoped. These revelations have forced strategists for the Democrat party to face the truth that Vice President Kamala Harris is so disliked, the nation would rather consider Hillary Clinton.
"National polls, which never lie, have shown that Americans would prefer Hillary Clinton over Kamala Harris, which is pretty bad," said political pollster Stanlip Bilksmear, "Even more disturbing, they both polled worse than ’The propped up corpse of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.’ That wasn’t even an option in our poll; Americans wrote it in."
Bilksmear explained that shifts toward favorability of previously-hated politicians are not uncommon, due to peoples’ tendency to forget the harsh nastiness of some public figures. "Voters seem to have already forgotten that Hillary Clinton is as likable as a tapeworm."
A spokesperson for the Vice President denied rumors that Harris was disliked, but would not comment further because he had already quit.
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No, not the nation. The democronic party bosses.
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Hill needs a new dentist.... startin' to look like Bugs Bunny's girlfriend
[Real Clear Defense] Taiwan on Friday commissioned new navy minelayers to add to its defenses against giant rival China.
President Tsai Ing-wen presided over a commissioning ceremony for the navy’s First and Second Mining Operations Squadrons, which will operate ships able to automatically sow large numbers of small but powerful mines at high speed without the need for divers.
Such technologies are part of a strategy to deter any possible invasion from China, with its huge army and vast superiority in numbers of warplanes, ships and other weaponry.
China claims Taiwan as its own territory, and has stepped up its threat to bring it under its control by force if necessary with frequent military exercises and by dispatching fighter jets and other planes to fly near the island.
The initial order of four ships manufactured by Lungteh Shipbuilding is part of a drive by Tsai to revitalize the domestic arms industry and reduce Taiwan’s dependence on chief ally the United States for defensive weapons. Lungteh also produces missile corvettes, patrol boats and other craft for the Taiwanese armed forces and police, along with ones for civilian use.
The automatic mine laying system was developed by Taiwan’s Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology.
[Daily Caller] Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares fired 30 staff members, 17 of whom were attorneys, Friday, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Virginia’s new Attorney General has just fired the entire civil rights division in the AG office and announced that he will prosecute criminal cases in jurisdictions where Soros DAs decline to prosecute.
Miyares was sworn into the position of Virginia Attorney General on Jan. 15 alongside Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
"During the campaign, it was made clear that now Attorney General-elect Miyares and Attorney General Herring have very different visions for the office," Miyares spokesperson Victoria LaCivita said, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "We are restructuring the office, as every incoming AG has done in the past."
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What Trump should have done on a much larger scale.
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[Babylon Bee] U.S.—The SCOTUS has struck down Biden’s vaccine mandates on the grounds that they are unconstitutional. Experts say this sets a dangerous precedent of letting individuals make their own medical decisions.
"What am I supposed to do now that I don’t have private companies working with the Federal government to force me to inject a foreign substance into my body?" said Linda Waddlebum, a concerned mother of 6 cats. "So dangerous and shortsighted. How will I stay healthy? I don’t even recognize this America anymore."
In response to the court’s decision, a large group of protestors has gathered outside of the Supreme Court building. "Pfizer knows best! What they inject, I can’t object!" they chanted while ripping up copies of the constitution. "Give us petty tyranny or give us death! Abolish the Supreme Court!"
"You can’t give people choices! What if they make the wrong one? One that isn’t what I wanted them to do?" said Waddlebum. "Next thing you know, people will decide to send their kids back to school and return to work in person without masks."
At publishing time, people were dangerously continuing on with their lives making the best medical decisions possible for themselves and their families. They were even able to make these decisions without fear of losing their livelihood.
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And you know, there are actually companies out there who are starved for people who are qualified, reliable, work hard, and can pass drug tests and / or background checks. They are generally not all that plentiful.
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functional legal depts
Now there's a contradiction in terms.
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On the other hand, Citicorp kept the mask mandate.
Their 4Q profits were down 29% from last year, but they are focusing on the important things!
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[FOX] A teenage attempted carjacker was shot and critically injured in Philadelphia after he allegedly tried to steal the vehicle of a legally armed driver, according to a local affiliate report.
Thursday marked the third time since the start of 2022 that an alleged carjacker was wounded by a legal gun owner, FOX 29 reported. According to local media, two attempted carjackers approached the 60-year-old driver around 8 p.m. local time on Cherokee Street in Mount Airy.
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More like this, please.
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The obvious answer is to ban guns in Philadelphia. Listen to the advice of police on how to survive a carjacking. I mean, this (the shootings of those poor, disadvantaged carjackers) would never have happened in an enlightened city like New York or Chicago! /sarcasm
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Yes, you can imagine the baby mama wailing "My chile sholdn'a never died over some white person's property!"
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Assault with deadly weapon charges against the suv owner in 5…4…3…2…
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[IsraelTimes] Egyptian authorities announce the arrest of a prominent member of a US-designated terrorist group. According to government media, the suspect was detained after a The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... -bound flight from Sudan that he was on made an emergency landing in Egypt.
The Interior Ministry says in a statement that a man, identified as Hossam Menoufy, was arrested earlier in the week, but doesn’t provide further details.
A man with that name is known to be a member of HASM,
.... also in our archives as Hasem and Hasam (Hands of Egypt, or possibly Decisiveness). One of the the NeverSisi militant arms of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, their preferred targets are Christians and soldiers/police in the Cairo area. It sprang into existence, fully formed, in 2016, inheriting personnel from previous MB armed factions and apparently organized by Mohammed Kamel, who was responsible for MB special cells until he was killed by security forces in a hail of gunfire about the time Hasm appeared... ...
a group previously implicated in several deadly holy warrior attacks in Egypt. Authorities also say that HASM was responsible for a boom-mobileing outside an Egyptian hospital that killed 20 people in 2019.
HASM, which the United States designated a terrorist group in 2018, is considered to be a splinter of the Moslem Brüderbund group. Egypt has long banned and declared the Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
Egypt has been waging a campaign against the Brotherhood since the country’s military in 2013 removed President Mohammed Morsi, who hailed from the group, after massive protests against his rule. Under President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, thousands of Brotherhood members but also other Islamists and many secular dissidents have been tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! . al-Sissi’s government has also continued to fight Islamic gunnies in the Sinai Peninsula.
Menoufy was sentenced in absentia in 2017 to life in prison, along with hundreds of others, for alleged involvement in the attempted liquidation of a top judiciary official, according to the government-run al-Akhbar al-Youm newspaper.
HASM also grabbed credit for the attack that killed an Egyptian National Security Agency officer and an attack that attempted to kill Egypt’s former top religious leader, Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa.
The arrested passenger, according to media reports, was handed in 2017 a death sentence in absentia for establishing Hasm movement, which claimed responsibility for a number of attacks against Egyptian security personnel in the years following the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in 2013.
The Hasm member was on Flight J4690 which had to make an emergency landing in Upper Egypt's Luxor because of a smoke alarm from the cargo compartment, the flight operator, Sudan's privately owned Badr Airlines, said in a statement on Saturday.
The statement added that in such cases the plane must make an emergency landing in the nearest airport in compliance with the aviation laws, saying "the landing was performed seamlessly at Luxor International Airport in Egypt."
The plane was inspected, the company said, adding that the smoke warning was found to be false and therefore it sent the plane for maintenance in Bratislava, Slovakia, to adjust the alarm system, flying an alternative plane for the passengers to continue the trip.
As per aviation laws, embarking on another plane makes the Egyptian authorities part of the process. Hence, the passenger was arrested, the company added.
Badr Airline asserted that it "has no connection with the actions taken by the Egyptian authorities [against the passenger], and that this does not fall within its responsibility."
The company is not aware of the reasons behind the arrest, the statement concluded.
Egyptian security forces have arrested and killed dozens of members of the terrorist group, which is placed on the terror list of Egypt, the UK, and the US.
The Egyptian authorities has tied the group to the banned Muslim Brotherhood group.
Turkey, whose government was a close ally to Hasm, has harboured several Muslim Brotherhood members after the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi on 30 June 2013, which led to the deterioration of relations between Egypt and Turkey.
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Tower: Flight J4690, you have an emergency
Flight J4690 " Wha?"
Tower: If you don't land immediately your engine will occupy the same space as an AA missle.
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So, the Egyptians most likely had an 'observer' tagging along with this guy who had a smoke tickler.
It's a little tube about half the size of a ball point pen. It's actually used to test the smoke detectors. The fumes they give off are almost invisible, but they trip the smoke alarm.
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[IsraelTimes] Twitter says it has permanently suspended an account linked to Iran’s supreme leader that posted a video calling for Dire Revenge for a top general’s liquidation against former US president Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... "The account referenced has been permanently suspended for violating our ban evasion policy," a Twitter spokesperson tells AFP.
The account, @KhameneiSite, this week posted an animated video showing an unmanned aircraft targeting Trump, who ordered a dronezap in Baghdad two years ago that killed top Iranian commander General Qassem Soleimani .
Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... ’s main accounts in various languages remain active. Last year, another similar account was suspended by Twitter over a post also appearing to reference Dire Revenge against Trump.
The recent video, titled "Revenge is Definite," was also posted on Khamenei’s official website.
According to Twitter, the company’s top priority is keeping people safe and protecting the health of the conversation on the platform. The social media giant says it has clear policies around abusive behavior and will take action when violations are identified.
As head of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Soleimani was the architect of its strategy in the Middle East. He and his Iraqi lieutenant were killed by a US dronezap outside Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020. Khamenei has repeatedly promised to avenge his death.
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are wary of the international community seemingly turning a blind-eye on 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.... ’s (ISIS) smuggling networks in Ottoman Turkish-controlled areas in northern Syria (Rojava), the force said on Friday.
In a blurb, the SDF said it was vigilant about the presence of militias in the region enabling the increasing presence of ISIS smuggling networks operating in and around the town of Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain).
One such militia allegedly supporting the activities of ISIS is the "Abu al-Qa'qaa" faction. Militias such as the "Abu al-Qa'qaa" function as networks facilitating the smuggling of people into The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and using the funds to finance ISIS activities, according to the SDF.
The Kurdish-led force also expressed concern with "international inaction" with regards to the criminal networks in the Ottoman Turkish-occupied areas, warning about the growing danger of the terrorist organization and claiming such activities will "impede efforts to combat terrorism".
The SDF is the US-led coalition's main ally in the fight against ISIS in Syria.
ISIS conducted over 300 terrorist operations in northern Syria in 2021, killing hundreds. The terrorist group's re-emergence is raising significant concern and threatening the area's security.
Last November, an alleged ISIS financier was arrested in Syria's eastern province of Deir ez-Zor.
[Rudaw] At least one was killed and a further injured when a powerful explosion struck the headquarters of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian Front for Liberation on Saturday, reported media outlets.
An explosion hit the headquarters of Ottoman Turkish-backed forces in Jindires district in Afrin, Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported.
North Press Agency (NPA) also confirmed the news, saying two members of the al-Mu'tasem faction, linked with the Syrian Front for Liberation were killed when an IED explosion detonated in the area. Significant material damages were also reported.
Afrin is a Kurdish-majority region located in northwestern Syria. It has seen many deadly bombings since the invasion of Ottoman Turkish forces and their Syrian proxies in 2018, expelling the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and forcefully displacing much of the population, committing what the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... describes as possible war crimes.
The Kurdish population fell by more than 60 percent in only the first two years of the invasion, according to the Afrin-based Human Rights Organization.
"According to the latest statistics that we have received, the size of the indigenous population of Kurds in the Afrin region reached 34.8 percent in January, while they previously made up 97 percent of the population," read a statement from the organization published in April 2020.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... usually blames the YPG, a part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), for deadly attacks in Afrin, but the group repeatedly denies targeting civilians.
Ankara considers the SDF a branch of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an gang struggling for greater political and cultural rights for Kurds in Turkey, and labels them a threat to its national security.
[BenarNews] Troops killed the alleged leader of an 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.... -linked holy warrior cell and three others blamed for a bus bombing that killed a 5-year-old boy earlier this week during a shootout on Saturday in the Southern Philippines, the military said.
The soldiers shot and killed Norodin Hassan and his men near the town of Carmen in Cotabato province, said Maj. Gen. Juvymax Uy, commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division.
The military identified Hassan (also known as Andot) as the leader of military affairs for the Daulah Islamiyah-Hassan Group. Daulah Islamiyah is the Filipino name for the Islamic State.
"The death of alias Andot and three of his cohorts only shows that justice is given to the victims of the Mindanao Star Bus bombing," Uy said in a statement.
The military identified two of the other three killed as Abdonillah Hassan and Abdonhack Hassan. Officials did not say if the turbans were related or if any soldiers were maimed in the shootout.
Soldiers recovered high-caliber automatic rifles, mobile phones, radios and "subversive documents with high intelligence value," the military said.
The Army’s 602nd Infantry Brigade commander said troops had received a tip about the holy warriors.
"After we identified the perpetrators who were responsible for the bombing attack, we immediately launched the manhunt operation to prevent them from doing similar atrocities in other areas, thus preventing further loss of lives and damage to properties," Col. Jovencio Gonzales said in a statement.
The bus had been traveling from the southern city of Davao, President Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown, along the highway near Aleosan town where the blast occurred early Tuesday, killing the boy and injuring six others, including the boy’s father and two younger siblings.
Several IS-linked turbans have been killed since late 2021, including Salahuddin Hassan, identified as a top lieutenant in the southern Mindanao region under Philippine leader Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan. Military intelligence officials have said they believe Sawadjaan was killed in a clash in 2020 although his body was not recovered.
"Our continuous effort to go after these terrorist groups has been unyielding. There will be no let-up and slowing down against these forces of Evil who continue to attack civilian populace, properties and communities," Uy said.
[Garowe] At least 108 civilians have been killed since New Year’s in a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the war-torn northern Tigray region of Æthiopia, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said Friday.
The UN also warned of a looming humanitarian disaster in the region, with its food distribution operations on the verge of grinding to a halt.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... said on Twitter: "My appeal to the parties: stop the fighting in all its forms. All people who need humanitarian aid must receive it as quickly as possible. It’s time to start dialogue and reconciliation."
The UN human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... office urged the Æthiopian authorities to ensure the protection of civilians, saying disproportionate attacks hitting non-military targets could amount to war crimes.
Northern Æthiopia has been beset by conflict since November 2020 when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops into Tigray after accusing the region’s ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), of attacks on federal army camps.
"We are alarmed by the multiple, deeply disturbing reports we continue to receive of civilian casualties and destruction of civilian objects resulting from airstrikes in Æthiopia’s Tigray region," rights office spokeswoman Liz Throssell told news hounds in Geneva.
"At least 108 civilians have reportedly been killed and 75 others injured since the year began, as a result of airstrikes allegedly carried out by the Æthiopian air force."
She detailed a series of airstrikes, including the January 7 attack on the Dedebit camp for internally displaced persons, which left at least 56 dead and 30 others maimed, of which three later died in hospital.
On Monday, 17 civilians were reportedly killed and 21 injured after an airstrike hit a flour mill, and on Tuesday, the state-owned Technical Vocational Education and Training institute was hit, reportedly killing three men, said Throssell.
Numerous other airstrikes were reported last week, she added.
"We call on the Æthiopian authorities and their allies to ensure the protection of civilians and civilian objects, in line with their obligations under international law," said Throssell.
"Failure to respect the principles of distinction and proportionality could amount to war crimes."
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... the UN’s World Food Programme said its distributions were at an all-time low, with the escalation of the conflict meaning that no WFP convoy has reached the Tigrayan capital Mekele since mid-December.
"Life-saving food assistance operations in northern Æthiopia are about to grind to a halt because intense fighting in the neighborhood that has blocked the passage of fuel and food," WFP front man Tomson Phiri told news hounds.
"After 14 months of conflict in northern Æthiopia, more people than ever need urgent food assistance.
"With no food, no fuel, no access, we are on the edge of a major humanitarian disaster."
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Well no shit. They run the auction AND they participate in it -- on both sides.
And it's totally opaque. Only Goggle/DoubleClick has the data about the bids - which one won, how many there were at other prices, bidding trends etc. It's not shared with anyone.
Congress made this legal -- solely in the programmatic advertising industry. Imagine if the trades on NYSE or NASDAQ were opaque, with one market maker only, both running the exchange and controlling both the buy side and the sell side, and never revealing the bid/ask spread for executed trades.
That's what our idiot rulers did in the $100 billion + programmatic as industry. Is it any wonder the Bathhouse Admin and Google's exec ranks were a revolving door? 345 WH meetings between the two.
Two members of former Kazakh president #NursultanNazarbayev’s extended family have resigned from the leadership of state oil and gas shipping companies, the Central Asian nation’s sovereign fund says.https://t.co/IM4gJvxMB0
An 11-alarm chemical fire erupted near the Qualco Inc chemical plant in Passaic, New Jersey on Friday night after sparking at a vacant manufacturing warehouse
The fire began at around 9pm at Majestic Injuries on 225 Passaic Street before spreading to multiple nearby buildings
Although never reaching the plant, around 100,000 pounds of chlorine pellets were reportedly affected as it produces chemicals for pools and spas
Nearby residents were urged to evacuate from the scene with Passaic Mayor Hector Lora previously telling locals on Facebook to close their windows
Only one firefighter has been injured as a result with no fatalities reported as of yet
Wike accused the NSCDC unit and police of aiding and abetting vandals and illegal bunkers to carry out their nefarious activities in the state.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has disbanded the Anti-vandal Unit of the Rivers State Command of the corps following allegations by the governor of the state, Nyesom Wike.
Some weeks ago, Wike accused the NSCDC unit and police of aiding and abetting vandals and illegal bunkers to carry out their nefarious activities in the state.
Reacting to this, the NSCDC Commandant General, Ahmed Audi, in a statement on Saturday expressed shock over the allegations as he ordered the suspension of the head of the anti-vandal team and the disbandment of the unit.
The statement issued by the NSCDC’s Director of Public Relations, Olusola Odumosu, reads, "Worried by this disappointing development, the CG has ordered the suspension of the head of the anti-vandal team and the disbandment of the unit with immediate effect, pending the outcome of an independent inquiry set up to look into the weighty allegations levelled against the unit by the governor."
Audi also ordered the Acting DCG in charge of investigation and intelligence to summon all the personnel involved to the national headquarters in Abuja for further investigation to determine the level of involvement and or culpability to dispense justice appropriately.
He also said the allegations as not being in tandem with his vision for the corps, stressing that he won’t condone any criminal act or act of compromise by any personnel.
He assured Governor Wike of getting to the root of the matter without delay, promising more synergy with the state government towards discharging more effective service delivery to the good people of Rivers State.
He said, "The swift action taken by me is to close any identified gaps in our operations and service to the nation, I will not tolerate any act of indiscipline, compromise or sabotage under any guise; our founding fathers have worked so hard to earn a good name for the service as a noble organization and I will not allow a few bad eggs to spoil our name, image, our credibility, and integrity. We will investigate those fingered in the allegations and deal decisively with them if found guilty to serve as a deterrent to others.
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Meidas Touch, a political operative group operating on behalf of Democrats and claiming to be “pro-democracy,” takes credit for pressuring @DIRECTV into canceling @OANN. pic.twitter.com/LWMDgHTuwp
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I got rid of DirectTV a long time ago. Tired of paying for ESPN and other channels I didn't watch. It wasn't part of anybody's organized campaign, but they have been bleeding subscribers for years.
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Silencing the people is the next logical step to imprisoning those that disagree. They are on track and doing well. People need to wake up and take action before action is not possible to take.
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Who still has Directv?
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AT&T has been trying to unload DirecTV
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[An Nahar] It is "most likely" that al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... will not personally run in the upcoming parliamentary elections, MP Hadi Hbeish said.
"This information has become almost certain, while the issue of running in elections in the regions will be the subject of serious discussions with him," Hbeish added.
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[SHAFAQ] The Islamic Dawa Party renewed confidence in its current Secretary-General, Nuri al-Maliki.
A source told Shafaq News Agency; The Islamic Dawa Party held its 18th conference and re-elected al-Maliki unanimously as its Secretary-General for a second term.
Shia parties have become a prominent political actor in Iraq after Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003. They have played vital roles in shaping constitutional and political processes.
Founded in 1957, Dawa is the oldest of these parties. Between 2005 and 2018, three of its leaders, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Nuri al-Maliki, and Haider al-Abadi, assumed the position of prime minister.
Al-Maliki, 71, is heading the Dawa bloc in the Iraqi parliament, with 33 seats.
Dawa is a leading party in the Shiite Coordination Framework.
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[NYPOST] Rapper Wavy Navy Pooh was killed in a drive-by outside Miami, according to reports.The 28-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Shandler Beaubien, was driving a Toyota Camry
...a startlingly bourgeois choice...
through Kendall, a suburb of Miami, at the moment of the fatal attack, The Sun reported.
Two children — ages one and five — were sitting in the back with a woman, said Alvaro Zabaleta, a Miami-Dade Police Department rep.
The shooter, driving a four-door gray Lexus,
...the Cadillac of their generation?
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[NYPOST] Prosecutors in soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office are flooding the exits amid his "radical shift in policy," The Post has learned.Bragg’s controversial "Day One" memo issued on Jan. 3 told assistant district attorneys to not seek prison sentences for many criminals and to downgrade some felonies to misdemeanors. His leadership has already created a firestorm that has led to an online petition calling for him to be removed.
"I know one [ADA] who was with the office over 20 years who left without a job," said a law enforcement source. "They didn’t want to work in this kind of office. They wanted to continue prosecuting the law."
Over the past two weeks, at least a dozen lawyers have quit.
Not all Democrats are his kind of Democrat even today, it appears. It’s like he’s the Kamala Harris of New York City.
Among the departures is senior trial counsel Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, who successfully prosecuted Harvey Weinstein, and won a 2016 conviction in the infamous 1979 murder of Etan Patz.
Illuzzi-Orbon, a Republican, had been at the office since 1988, taking only a brief leave in 2015 for an unsuccessful run for District Attorney in Staten Island.
Technically not a Democrat then, making her survival in the job until now even more impressive.
[Tolo] Hard to believe, I know
The Islamic Emirate is facing a shortage of professional staff, the New York Times reported, saying that many of the officials in government posts lack professional skills.
The report said that "many of the selected theologians are graduates of Darul Uloom Haqqania madrasa, one of Pakistan’s oldest and largest Islamic seminaries."
"Government jobs are given as patronage to ex-fighters and exiles living quietly in Pakistan. But not all possess the technical skills required for the job," the report read.
However, the Islamic Emirate denied the report.
"We deny the report of the New York Times that says the Islamic Emirate is faced with a shortage of staff..." said Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman for the Islamic Emirate.
Wahidullah Hashimi, a senior member of the Islamic Emirate's council for training and educating soldiers, relates the staffing problems to the corruption in the former government, as well as to the plot of foreigner’s to drain Afghanistan of talent.
"Foreigners intentionally evacuated Afghans, most importantly, the educated and professional ones, to weaken the Islamic Emirates and undermine our administration," Hashimi said as quoted by the New York Times. "We are in touch with some Afghans in different parts of the world and are encouraging them to return to Afghanistan because we desperately need their help and expertise to help their people and government."
Political analysts say that professional individuals should be appointed to senior government positions.
"The Islamic Emirate should trust the professional individuals and appoint them to senior government posts and include them in decision-making. This helps with professionalism and recognition," said Toreq Farhadi, a political analyst.
After the fall of the former government, many high-profile and talented youth left the country.
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"We deny the report of the New York Times that says the Islamic Emirate is faced with a shortage of staff..." said Bilal Karimi. "It is your Vice President who nobody wants to work with!"
New York let its eviction and foreclosure moratorium expire on Saturday
Those in the city will have to now apply for eviction protection and rent relief
Tenants' rights advocates rallied on the steps of the New York Public Library demanding another extension to the eviction moratorium until the end of June
Some protestors were arrested at Saturday's event, but the vast majority remained peaceful
Housing courts will consider cases filed by tenants and the Legal Aid Society starting on Tuesday
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...It will be interesting to see what happens next...in a weird, sick, watching-a-train-wreck kinda way.
Mike
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No doubt there are those who would make the moratorium permanent. But that'll never pass -- too may Democrat slumlords.
Thank God for DNC Slumlords.
[SHAFAQ] An explosion targeted a Ottoman Turkish military convoy on Saturday in the Zelikan area of Kurdistan Region.
A security source told Shafaq News agency that an bomb blew up targeting a Ottoman Turkish military convoy in the Zelikan area, on the outskirts of Bashiqa in Nineveh, without causing any casualties.
It is noteworthy that the Ottoman Turkish army, located in this area, is often exposed to attacks by unidentified parties.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Following the furious reactions of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, common people, social media activists, and former Afghan officials to the Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... ’s statements over his willingness to send qualified and trained manpower to Afghanistan, former Afghan President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... also reacted to the statements.
Hamid Karzai in a blurb said that Afghanistan has hundreds of thousands of qualified boys and girls who have studied both in Afghanistan and abroad.
The blurb said that there is no need for a foreign workforce in Afghanistan.
"Hamid Karzai welcomes PM Imran Khan’s suggestion over sending foreign manpower in particular Pak manpower to Afghanistan but there is no need for such manpower." Reads the statement.
Hamid Karzai has also called on the de facto authorities in Kabul to provide working facilities to Afghan boys and girls who are university graduates and also facilitate the return of Afghan experts and specialists to the country.
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[Epoch Times] The Biden administration issued a letter to Arizona threatening to take back COVID-19 relief funds sent to the state, saying Arizona’s provisions discourages schools from mandating masks. Delighting Blue States and irritating Red States everywhere. The Great Uniter.
In a letter (pdf) sent Jan. 14, the Treasury Department warned Arizona state that it has 60 days to remove or redesign the anti-mask-mandate provisions the Biden administration deems "inconsistent with the purpose and requirements" of the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program. In 60 days, no one will care as the pandemic winds down.
Failure to do so "may result in Treasury initiating an action to recoup SLFRF funds used in violation of the eligible uses," and the department "may also withhold funds from the State of Arizona’s second tranche installment of SLFRF funds."
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We are not run by a White House Dictatorship completely Yet.
We have a congress.
Funding allotcations, except what is controlled by the WH CONGRESSIONALLY appproved budget. Are NOT the WH's to play with.
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And I predict the Sumter moment will be in a blue state with rampant illegal immigrant crime, COVID mandates, and closed schools
The red states have this covered
The blue states are really the only ones listening to the other sock puppet
I know whose hand is in my sock but Bidet has no clue whose hand is in his sock
One would feel for them, truly, but they, too, could have chosen the benefits of peace and comity with Israel. Even de facto peace, such as Saudi Arabia’s current posture, has distinct benefits.
[Jpost] In November, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz signed the first-ever defense and security memorandum of understanding with his Moroccan counterpart.
Algeria is in a state of acute anxiety and paranoia over the growing military cooperation between Israel and the Moroccan military. a state of acute anxiety and paranoia being their natural condition
“The tension rises every day a little more between Algeria and Morocco, to the point that we are now talking about war between the two Maghreb countries,” according to a recent report in the Paris-based newspaper L’Opinion.
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[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, residents of seven villages in the northern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria, protested against the presence of the Syrian government forces and the Iranian-backed factions in their regions.
The protests, which took place in the town of al-Izba, north of Deir ez-Zor, were attended by the US-led Global Coalition.
Through loudspeakers, the protesters demanded the Global Coalition expel the Iranian factions from their villages.
The protesters held banners that had the phrases "There is no stability in the country with presence of Assad" and "Right of return."
"We are calling on the Global Coalition to secure our right to return to our villages," Abdullah al-Jleb, 30, a civil activist and one of the protest organizers, told North Press in an audio recording.
Al-Jleb, who comes from the village of al-Salihiya, one of the villages controlled by Iranian-backed forces, added that "We will not accept the presence of Iran, Russia and the Syrian government, as they are partners in the bleeding of Syrian blood."
The seven villages are al-Husseiniya, Murat, Mazloum, al-Salihiya, Hatla Khasham and Tabiya. These villages are controlled by the Syrian government forces and Iranian-backed factions.
The civil activist considered that "Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... is an occupying state that has looted our homes and displaced us."
"The series of killings plus security instability will not stop as long as Iran and the Syrian government are present in our region," he noted.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] Hundreds of women across four local government areas in Ondo State on Saturday protested against worsening security challenges in the area.
The women, who erupted into the streets of Oka Akoko, Akungba Akoko and some other Akoko towns, demanded improved security from the state and federal government.
Recent spate of insecurity in the area include abduction of teachers by button men in Auga Akoko, the killing of a police officer at Oka Akoko last week, and the attack on 17 travellers on Ifira Akoko-Isua Akoko road by armed robbers among others.
Some of the protesters, who held brooms, were half-naked and chanting various solidarity songs along the streets. "Visit our Youtube and Instagram channels!"
Recall that Amotekun Corps also arrested no fewer than 17 suspected bandidos from the North-West of Nigeria when they stormed Okitipupa area of the state.
The suspected criminals were found with dogs, cutlasses and charms as they wandered in the area without purpose.
It was the distress call by residents of the community to Amotekun operatives that led to their arrest.
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A man suspected of financing a terrorist organization in Syria and Iraq has been detained in Moscow, Yulia Ivanova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Investigative Committee’s Moscow department, told TASS on Friday.
"Thanks to the joint efforts of the Sherlocks of the Russian Investigative Committee’s Moscow department and operations staff, one more man, born in 1978, suspected of a crime, was identified and detained. The search of his apartment yielded bank cards, electronic storage devices, and technical gadgets," she said.
According to the Sherlocks, the suspect joined a community in a mobile app organized by Alim Begiyev, who recruited people in the Moscow region willing to sponsor a terrorist organization in Syria and Iraq. The community numbered some 30 participants, who raised money on their bank cards and transferred it to the accounts of members of an illegal gang taking part in hostilities. The money was used to maintain the logistics arms of terrorist organizations. Bergiyev was earlier sentenced to 17 years in a high-security prison. His accomplices were also found guilty and sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
The case against the detained man is being investigated under part 1.1 of article 205.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (abetting terrorist activities), which carries a punishment of up to life in prison. Charges will soon be brought against the man.
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[SHAFAQ] The U.S.-led Coalition denied the presence of any of its personnel in Balad, deeming the drone attack on the military base an "attack on Iraqi people".The official Twitter account of the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, said on Saturday, "Attacks on Iraqi installations are attacks on the Iraqi people."
"The Coalition maintains a minimal footprint on Iraqi locations to Advise, Assist, and Enable but has no personnel at Balad," it added, "the Iraqi Security Force has the capability and capacity to protect its installations."
Earlier today, a drone squadron attacked the Balad base in Saladin.
The leading figure in the Kata'ib Hezbollah movement, Abu Ali al-Askari, refuted the official statement of the Iraqi Security Media Cell (SMC) on Saturday morning's attack on the Balad military bases in Saladin.
Abu Ali al-Askari tweeted, "the version of the story told by the Security Media Cell is ridiculous and has many fallacies."
"The drones used in Iraq are only two types: the first is an offensive (suicidal) drone," he explained, "It moves directly toward the target, and it does not have the capability to alter its trajectory or go back to the launching base (single use)."
"The second type is the reconnaissance craft. It cannot operate in foggy weather and it does not need to be close to the target. In fact, it cannot be seen by unarmed eye most of the time."
"[for] reconnaissance, no more than a single drone is needed to do the job. Nevertheless, it is a piloted craft, it has no choice for it to run as the SMC said; similar to your commander and the kids behind him."
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[TribunePakistan] Despite ending nearly 50 years ago, US military operations in Laos have left behind a legacy of destruction that still endangers lives today. When did we go to war with Laos? I don't remember this. Was this under Nixon or LBJ?
On Dec 3, 2021, the China-Laos railway opened to traffic, connecting Kunming in southwest China’s Yunnan province with Lao capital Vientiane.
The railway is a landmark project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In addition to the extreme construction difficulty and risks of the project, what is less known is that the construction team also faced a deadly threat in the construction process -- a large number of unexploded ordnance (UXO) left by the United States during the Vietnam War are buried along the railway.
Laos, a close neighbour of China, is the only inland country of Southeast Asia, with mountains and plateaus covering 80 per cent of its 236,000 square kilometres.
The project took five years, during which countless hardships were experienced. Not to mention the long negotiation process, the project itself also had extremely rare difficulties and risks, such as poor meteorological and geological conditions, high environmental protection requirements, and even access to no man's land.
But what scared the workers the most was the deadly threat that they faced: a large amount of UXO from US carpet bombing during the Vietnam War, which Laos was embroiled in.
In order to block the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the supply route to the North Vietnamese forces, the United States covertly extended the battlefield into Laos at the instigation of the CIA, flying 580,000 bombing missions between 1964 and 1973, dropping more than two million tonnes of bombs (or 270 million bombs), with most being the dreaded cluster bombs. Oh. There they are. The CIA. Again.
Within nine years, 270 million bombs in total weighing two million tonnes were dropped on Laos, equalling eight bombs per minute on average. The total number of bombs is more than that dropped during World War II.
At the time, Laos had a population of about two million people, giving each Laotian a tonne of bombs, making it "the most heavily bombed country per capita in human history."
Although the Vietnam War eventually ended, the Lao people are still living in its nightmare of destruction. According to CBS, about 80 million dropped bombs did not explode, which is 30% of the total.
For decades, these unexploded bombs have been a threat to the lives of the Lao people. Some parts of the land in Laos cannot be cultivated because of the bomb threat, and the country's national construction and economic development have been seriously affected.
From 1975 to 2008, more than 50,000 Laotians, many of them children, were killed by unexploded bombs, according to government statistics.
Ironically, the entire amount the US spent on clearing unexploded bombs in Laos between 1995 and 2013 was only equivalent to the cost of three days of bombing during the Vietnam War. Billions for offense, not one cent for maimed children.
When then US President Barack Obama visited Laos in 2016, he promised an additional $90 million for clearing the unexploded bombs, but did not apologise for the bombing. The apologizer-in-chief couldn't even apologize.
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Under the Hague Convention, a neutral state is responsible for expelling any belligerent force from its land. If the neutral is unwilling or unable, the other belligerent may take actions as deemed necessary.
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Oh good! I'm glad someone came in to justify armed aggression against a neutral country. Say, what did we do when the Germans used the same excuse? Poland was launching attacks on German territory, the Germans *had* to invade to put a stop to it!
Oh that's right, they were hanged as war criminals. Tell me Kissinger doesn't deserve the same.
Video footage shows a New Jersey police officer shot and kill a 20-year-old man who went on a destructive rampage driving a backhoe into houses and cars
Joshua Gonzalez of Millville was fatally shot by Vineland Police Sgt. Louis Platania on December 18 after a 30-minute police chase
The New Jersey Office of Attorney General released several bodycam and civilian videos along with 911 calls from the incident last month
The footage shows Gonzalez driving the backhoe through the streets and front lawns around 5am ramming into homes and cars- one with a female driver inside
An investigation is currently being conducted by the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability who will decide whether criminal charges will be filed against the police officers
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So the police shot another unarmed man? I mean, he didn't have a gun or anything.
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flipped a cop car and damaged houses. 4 shots did the (necessary) trick. Now we'll hear all about how "he was a good boy. A considerate child. Wanted to be a pries/doctor/aspiring singer of nortenos", along with a 5th grade graduation photo and a lawsuit
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Honor student
Turning his life around
Milk o' human kindness
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Remember the M-6 tank stolen from the National Guard Armory in San Diego? The guy who stole it was a former armor crewman in Germany. He drove aroud for a couple of hours crushing cards and even an RV.
Tank Rampage in San Diego on the CBS Evening News 1995
[Tolo] Pretty quick on the uptake? "Give us money™"
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Thursday raised serious concerns about the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan.
OCHA said the Afghan girls and women are deprived of basic rights. "The fundamental rights of Afghan women and girls are under attack," OCHA said. It also said Afghan women and girls need the UN’s support and solidarity now more than ever.
According to the UN office, humanitarian organizations must aim to scale up assistance to women and girls by providing food, healthcare, education, livelihood opportunities and protection services.
OCHA said 11.8 million women and girls need urgent humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan.
OCHA’s tweet follows a gathering of women activists in Kabul on Wednesday night who lit candles during a demonstration. The women said they stayed awake all night and "lit candles for freedom."
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Islamic Emirate spokesman, reacted to the UN’s remarks, calling them baseless. Mujahid in a tweet said that since the Islamic Emirate has been in power, all the people enjoy rights and the UN report on women’s rights is based on "false information."
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What the fuck do they want us to do? Invade the country and run it for two decades? We tried that. It didn't work.
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well probably women don't have the rights enumerated in the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights
but they do have the rights enumerated in the 1990 Declaration of Human Rights in Islam.
e.g.,
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Article 1
a. The human beings are all a single family, joined together in servitude to Allah and filiation to Adam. All people are equal in their original human dignity, obligation and responsibility, without any distinction of race, color, tongue, sex, faith, political beliefs, social status or any other consideration. In fact, following the correct faith is the best guarantee for the development of this dignity and the road to human perfection.
b. All creatures are Allah's subjects and the most favored by Him is the one most beneficent to His dependents, and no one is preferred over another, except on the basis of Taqwa (Piety) and good deeds.
Article 6
a. Woman is equal to man in human dignity, and she has rights much as she has obligations. She has her civil status and independent financial resources, and the right to keep her name and lineage.
b. The man has to carry the burdens of financially supporting his family and be responsible for it and take care of it.
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I honestly don't give a fuck about Afghans of either sex rights. Maybe they should have picked up some weapons like the YPG.
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[SHAFAQ] The prevailing discourse in the United States is becoming dominated by the belief that the Middle East has lost its central position in the strategic calculations of the superpower. USA’s reliance on Middle Eastern oil has significantly reduced since the beginning of an era of uni-polarity; in fact, the US is now one of the biggest oil exporters in the world. Though the Middle East remains an area of secondary concern for the US, as a big chunk of the world’s energy supply comes from the Persian Gulf and stability in this region is necessary to sustain the global oil market and ensure consistency in terms of international economic order.
The primary focus of US foreign policy has shifted to the Asia Pacific region and the rise of China as an economic, military, and tech power. As of now, the US maintains the presence of over forty thousand troops on the ground in almost all Middle Eastern countries except Iran. The American disengagement in the region is not an option, leading to a significant reduction in troops; however, the military footprint has begun, particularly the defense infrastructure. According to reports, the Pentagon is scaling back on eleven Patriot and THAAD antimissile batteries from four regional countries, including Iraq 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... How is the US surviving in the Middle East despite reduced influence?
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Indian bomb disposal experts cordoned off a busy flower market in the capital New Delhi Friday after finding an improvised bomb left in an abandoned bag, police said.
"The site is under a police cordon and we have recovered an IED (Improvised Explosive Device)," a police officer told AFP.
"Everything else including who left the bag there and the kind of explosive inside the bag is a matter of investigation."
Police commissioner Rakesh Asthana told the NDTV news channel the bag was left behind by a customer who visited a shop to buy flowers at the Ghazipur wholesale flower market.
Media reports said police carried out a controlled explosion.
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It was set to go off just before noon, when the market gets busy. RDX and ammonium nitrate, a crude timer device. There was this hindu festival in which flowers are used in huge quantities, so the targets were the poor folks who'd head out there to buy flowers and ... heatheny stuff. Typical moslemnity of the Asian variety.
.@RTDNEWS reporter @patrickmwilson authored a story on Virginia Gov. Northam pardoning a Democrat who was convicted for a child sex crime by describing the offender’s act as an “interaction” w/the minor. Sen. Joe Morrissey was also indicted on child porn charges at the time. pic.twitter.com/4RtsGhTfat
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Preliminary official data on the victims of the events in Kazakhstan.
The dead (who were admitted to morgues) - 225 people (of which one is a citizen of the Russian Federation, as well as 19 policemen and security officials), of which 176 died in hospitals.
Wounded and injured - 4,578 people (265 of them in hospitals, 67 of them in intensive care).
Of the more than 8,000 detainees following the riots and the attempted coup, 446 people were arrested. 540 criminal cases were initiated.
The figure of 20,000 militants (only in Alma-Ata) did not find any statistical confirmation.
These are still preliminary figures, but it is expected that they will not change very much.
In general, following the events, the following questions remain:
1. Where is Nazarbayev?
2. What did Nazarbayev do from 1 to 10 January.
3. How much was actually the "combat asset" to which Alma-Ata surrendered?
4. Who exactly sent this "asset"?
5. What external forces were in contact with those who controlled the process in Kazakhstan?
6. Who exactly gave the order to hand over the guns (especially the guns of the KNB)?
7. What were the tasks of a group of militants who seized the airport in Alma-Ata?
8. Where did the bulk of the militants deploy from?
From other things in Kazakhstan.
1. Lukashenko said that they developed the CSTO operation in Kazakhstan together with Putin in an hour.
2. The withdrawal of the CSTO troops from Kazakhstan will be completed by January 20.
3. The Deputy Minister of Energy of Kazakhstan and a number of people were arrested for 2 months for increasing gas tariffs, which led to protests.
[NYPOST] A deranged homeless man allegedly shoved an Asian woman to her death in front of an oncoming subway train Saturday morning in Times Square, police said.The horrifying episode unfolded at 9:40 a.m. just nine minutes after the man was caught on video on the platform at the Times Square station at West 42nd Street and Broadway, police said.
The 40-year-old woman was waiting on the southbound platform when she was shoved onto the Q train tracks and hit, police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said in a late afternoon press briefing in the station.
"This incident was unprovoked and the victim does not appear to have any interaction with the subject," Sewell said.
The suspect had first approached another woman, who was not Asian, who became alarmed and moved away, said Assistant Chief Jason Wilcox of the NYPD Detective Bureau.
"She feels that he was about to physically push her onto the train," he said. "As she’s walking away she witnesses the crime where he pushes our other victim in front of the train."
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"Deranged"? He's not deranged. He's a hateful murderer. This kind of thing happens in New York City. The perps are always black. It's not an act of derangement. It's premeditated murder.
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#3 Dron, our current policy is to elect the mentally ill to public office where we can keep an eye on them. But there are always some who slip out into the general population.
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Where the hell in the Touchy-Feely Liberal MEDIA and Liberal Democrats on this?
Given their silence and lack of outrage. It almost has me wondering is it RACIST for Blacks to selectively murder Senior Citizen Asians?
Or, is it some strange form of broken woken social justice equalization I will never understand.
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The vagrant was trying to get a guaranteed 3 hots and a cot for years to come.
[SHAFAQ] Dozens of angry demonstrators in Dhi Qar blocked the road linking the governorate's capital city, Nasiriyah, to its northern districts, on Sunday morning.
Shafaq News Agency correspondent said that a group of locals from "al-Hamam" village used burning tires to block the traffic movement, causing a jam.
"The demonstrators demanded providing their hometown the same services offered to the rest of the towns in the governorate," our correspondent said.
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[LIBYAREVIEW] Hundreds of bodies of 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.... fighters killed in Libya years ago are rotting in food freezers in in western Libya, according to Rooters.Stored in a dusty corner of a compound outside Misrata, the 742 bodies were gathered in 2016 from battlefields and informal graves, but there was no agreement on how or where they should be buried.
Instead, Libya’s conflict rumbled on, frontlines shifted, governments changed, and financial crises came and went. The corpses, meanwhile, began to decompose, as power supplies to refrigerated containers were interrupted. Ewwwwwwwww
"Power cuts for long periods make the situation, the bad smell, worse," Salah Ahmed of the police unit handling the compound told Rooters.
Originally assembled for identification and proper burial, even those fighters identified by documents or former comrades remain uncollected by foreign states or family members. This has left it up to the government to dispose of them.
The police unit running the compound says the interim government has assigned a budget to bury the bodies soon.
“You have a total of $0.00, Sergeant Sa’id. Make it count.”
“Yessir, Your Immenseness. May I borrow some prisoners to dig a big hole in the desert and pile rocks on top afterward? Then all I’ll need is some shovels or pickaxes and some old baskets to move the dirt — I seen a TV special about archeologists in Egypt.”
Neither a date, nor a location have been announced.
One plan that assigned a burial ground in the city of Sirte, which IS seized in 2015 and held for over a year, was thwarted when frontlines moved. Another, to bury them at a cemetery originally dedicated to migrants colonists who died while trying to cross through Libya and on to Europe, was cancelled because it was not big enough.
When Libyan forces overran the group in Sirte in late 2016, after months of fighting, hundreds of bad boys’ bodies were left under the rubble or in shallow graves their comrades had dug.
The previous government ordered bodies to be collected from the rubble and exhumed from mass graves for identification, and return to their countries of origin or Libyan families. It also wanted to gather evidence of the flow of foreign jihadists into Libya.
Using documents and photographs, and by speaking to captured bad boys, the authorities identified over 50 of the bodies. These were mostly from Arab and African countries, but also identifications of a British woman and a French child were made.
Now the police looking after the bodies say they hope the interim government can find a solution quickly. Four of the ten refrigerator units are not working, leading to the moving of bodies to the functioning units.
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I'm no expert but I believe I can offer them a solution. Bury them.
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This is what you get for f---ing around with ISIS.
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[SHAFAQ] A source close to the Sadrist Movement revealed on Saturday that the next government would be shared by the winning parties in the parliamentary elections, including the Sadrist bloc, stressing that it will not be a technocratic government.
The source told Shafaq News Agency, "The personalities who will manage the ministries in the new government will be a well-known political figure, not independent nor technocrats."
"According to the political agreement among the political forces, the ministerial portfolios in the next government will be distributed according to the electoral entitlements and the number of parliamentary seats."
The source said, "the new government will be consisted of 21 ministries and has been classified into three groups: A, B, and C."
"Group A is the four sovereign ministries: Foreign Affairs, Finance, Oil, and Electricity."
"Group B is the eight medium ministries: Interior, Defense, Planning, Health, Trade, Justice, Education, and Higher Education."
"Group C includes nine service ministries: Industry and Minerals, Communications, Agriculture, Water Resources, Environment, Construction and Housing, Transport, Human Rights, and State Affairs."
It is worth noting that according to the results of the elections, the Sadrist Movement led by Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... won 73 seats, followed by the "Progress (Takadum)" Coalition led by Muhammad al-Halbousi with 37 seats. Next, the State of Law Coalition led by former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki with 33 seats, then the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Masoud Barzani with 31 seats.
Compared with 2018 results, The al-Fateh Alliance lost 31 seats, taking only 17 seats in the last elections.
The Framework and the Sadrist met frequently, but the main difference between the two sides still occurred.
On the shape of the government, al-Sadr insists on a majority government while the Framework suggested a consensus.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] No fewer than five persons have been reportedly killed as fresh crisis ensued when Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... herdsmen attack farmers in the Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State.
It was learnt the Fulani herdsmen and some Ohori farmers engaged one another in a clash at Idofa village, leading to loss of lives and property worth millions of Naira.
According to Daily Post, the residents of Aworo community in the Yewa North Local Government chased the herdsmen from their village to Idofa in Imeko, killing three of them and their cows.
Aworo people had accused the Fulani of destroying their farms and water sources through open grazing of cows, a practice the Ogun State government had banned.
A community leader who spoke on the condition of anonymity said there was a reprisal attack on Thursday after the Aworo people killed the three herdsmen in Idofa.
He said the retaliation led to the death of two Yorubas, one of whom was burnt beyond recognition.
Houses, four maize barns, cycle of violences and other valuables were reportedly set ablaze by the attackers.
"The Aworo people chased the herdsmen from Yewa North to Idofa in Imeko. They killed three of them there and killed their cows.
"On Thursday, the Fulani herdsmen returned in the dead of the night to launch an attack. They killed two persons, set houses and other properties on fire. One of those killed was burnt in a house beyond recognition. It took the intervention of the police and the Amotekun corps to calm the situation
"As we are talking, many Ohoris are injured, hundreds are now displaced at Imeko town. We need the attention of the Federal and the State Governments to take care of the displaced persons," the community leader explained.
As of Friday, it was gathered that many residents of the village had fled for fear of being killed.
The Ogun State Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Samson Odedina when called said had yet to comment on the matter as the time filing this report.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the incident on Saturday, assuring that those behind it would be apprehended and brought to book.
"We heard about it. It is an unfortunate incident and we are investigating it. We have called on all stakeholders, including the Fulani communities that have been living in that place, who testified that they did not even know the reason for the attack.
"We are investigating to ensure that those who carried out that dastardly act are apprehended in other not to cause further crisis.
"The situation is under control as more coppers have been deployed to the place. The Commissioner of Police has directed that the Area Commander should take charge of the security situation in the area."
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He has to be better than any of the Democratic candidates as a matter of principle.
[NYPOST] GOP gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani was hit in the face with a flower pot as he tried to break up a fight near Penn Station.
The 35-year-old son of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani told The Post he witnessed a man and a woman having a violent mostly peaceful confrontation last Saturday on 28th Street as he walked to a meeting with Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republicans.
"I got between the two of them," Giuliani said. "He had a flower pot. I think it was intended for her but it hit me on the left side of the face. Thankfully it was a plastic pot and not a clay pot. The soil mostly hit me. But I wan’t expecting it. It was a little bit of a shock."
The candidate said he heard the woman screaming "you leave me no money bitch," shortly before the man took a swing at her. Giuliani said the man also threatened to "beat the s—t" out of him as he started calling 911.
Cops arrived on the scene about 15 minutes later and a police report was filed.
"There are no arrests at this time," an NYPD spokesperson said. Giuliani said he was asked to look at a police photo array of possible suspects. He fingered one of them but told cops he couldn’t be 100% sure.
Locals in the area say the uptick in crime has been noticeable over the last five years. The incident was not far from where a violent mostly peaceful perv slashed a man who confronted him about masturbating in front of his wife just days earlier.
[An Nahar] U.S. intelligence officials have determined a Russian effort is underway to create a pretext for its troops to further invade Ukraine, and Moscow has already prepositioned operatives to conduct "a false-flag operation" in eastern Ukraine, according to the White House.White House press secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... said the intelligence findings show Russia is also laying the groundwork through a social media disinformation campaign that frames Ukraine as an aggressor that has been preparing an imminent attack against Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine.
Psaki charged that Russia has already dispatched operatives trained in urban warfare who could use explosives to carry out acts of sabotage against Russia's own proxy forces — blaming the acts on Ukraine — if Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... decides he wants to move forward with an invasion.
"We are concerned that the Russian government is preparing for an invasion in Ukraine that may result in widespread human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... violations and war crimes should diplomacy fail to meet their objectives," Psaki said.
Pentagon front man John Kirby described the intelligence as "very credible." A U.S. official, who was not authorized to comment on the intelligence and spoke on condition of anonymity, said much of it was gleaned from intercepted communications and observations of the movements of people.
The U.S. intelligence findings, which were declassified and shared with U.S. allies before being made public, estimate that a military invasion could begin between mid-January and mid-February.
Ukraine is also monitoring the potential use of disinformation by Russia. Separately, Ukrainian media on Friday reported that authorities believed Russian special services were planning a possible false flag incident to provoke additional conflict.
The new U.S. intelligence was unveiled after a series of talks between Russia and the U.S. and its Western allies this week in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... aimed at heading off the escalating crisis made little progress.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday said the U.S. intelligence community has not made an assessment that the Russians, who have massed some 100,000 troops on Ukraine's border, have definitively decided to take a military course of action.
But Sullivan said Russia is laying the groundwork to invade under false pretenses should Putin decide to go that route. He said the Russians have been planning "sabotage activities and information operations" that accuse Ukraine of prepping for its own imminent attack against Russian forces in eastern Ukraine.
He said this is similar to what the Kremlin did in the lead-up to Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that had been under Ukraine's jurisdiction since 1954.
The Crimea crisis came at moment when Ukraine was looking to strengthen ties with the West. Russia had stepped up propaganda that Ukraine's ethnic Russians were being oppressed in eastern Ukraine.
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Wow, it's like they're reading out their own playbook in advance.
Remember when their little buddy Georgia attacked Russia? If they'd been in NATO like a lot of people wanted, that would have led to a big shooting war. Just like this business encroaching on the Ukraine and trying to add it to NATO. Without Ukraine as a buffer state, Russia is indefensible.
Which, I guess, is the whole idea. March NATO right up to the steps of Moscow and then kick off an invasion. I wonder if they will remember to bring winter coats this time?
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The Crimea crisis came at moment when Ukraine was looking to strengthen ties with the West. Russia had stepped up propaganda that Ukraine's ethnic Russians were being oppressed in eastern Ukraine.
No, the Crimean crisis came when Ukraine's government was overthrown in a coup promulgated by western nteligence agencies.
Violent unrest in #Kazakhstan that began with peaceful protests over energy prices has left 225 people dead, authorities announce, a dramatic increase on previous tolls provided by officials.https://t.co/EdgMI7fiqWpic.twitter.com/nmyl6Ctq8L
[IsraelTimes] In a first, Israel has signed an agreement to supply natural gas to Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... , Channel 12 news reports.
The network says the deal was brokered by US envoy Amos Hochstein and secretly signed this weekend. It will see Israel transfer gas from the Leviathan field to Jordan, from where it will be sent on to Lebanon by way of Syria.
Everyone gets a cut, but in the end they need Israel’s goodwill as badly as Germany needs Russia’s...
The agreement was approved by the United States and was also coordinated with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... , according to the report.
It says the deal was partly designed to provide Lebanon an alternative to 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... as it seeks to recover from a deep economic crisis.
Lebanon’s Energy Ministry denies a report by Israel’s Channel 12 news yesterday that said Israel has signed an agreement to indirectly pump natural gas to Lebanon to aid the crisis-hit nation, calling it “completely untrue.”
“The Ministry of Energy and Water confirms that the gas supply agreement that is being worked on between the Lebanese government and the sisterly Egyptian government clearly and explicitly stipulates that the gas should come from Egypt, which owns large quantities of it, and consumes within the same country more than a hundred times what it will provide to Lebanon,” the ministry says in a statement cited by local media.
“What is being circulated about the fact that the gas will be Israeli gas is totally and completely untrue,” it adds.
I thought the whole point of cryptocurrencies was that they were safe from such things.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n hackers stole around $400 million worth of cryptocurrency through cyberattacks on digital currency outlets last year, blockchain data platform Chainalysis said on Thursday.Pyongyang is under multiple international sanctions over its atomic bomb and ballistic missile developments but analysts say the North has also built up its cyber capabilities with an army of thousands of well-trained hackers who extract finances to fund the state’s weapons programs.
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In 2021, the hackers launched seven attacks on crypto platforms, extracting assets from "internet-connected ’hot’ wallets" and moving them to North Korean controlled accounts, according to Chainalysis.
"Once North Korea gained custody of the funds, they began a careful laundering process to cover up and cash out," Chainalysis said in a report published on its website.
"These complex tactics and techniques have led many security researchers to characterize cyber actors for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as advanced persistent threats."
The report highlighted the rise of Lazarus Group, which gained notoriety in 2014 when it was accused of hacking into Sony Pictures Entertainment as Dire Revenge for "The Interview," a satirical film that mocked leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... "From 2018 on, The group has stolen and laundered massive sums of virtual currencies every year, typically in excess of $200 million."
The hackers also target a diverse variety of cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin, the world’s largest digital currency, accounting for only a quarter of stolen assets.
"The growing variety of cryptocurrencies stolen has necessarily increased the complexity of DPRK’s cryptocurrency laundering operation," Chainalysis said.
North Korea’s cyber-program dates back to at least the mid-1990s, but has since grown to a 6,000-strong cyberwarfare unit, known as Bureau 121, that operates from several countries including Belarus, China, India, Malaysia and Russia, according to a 2020 US military report.
The United States imposed new sanctions on North Korea this week following what Pyongyang called hypersonic missile tests on January 5 and 11.
On Friday South Korean and Japanese officials said North Korea fired an unidentified projectile eastward in its third suspected weapons test in just over a week.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and the Amal Movement on Saturday announced the end of their boycott of Cabinet sessions, citing "citizens’ needs" and "the living situations of the Lebanese." "Now everything will be right as rain"
Cabinet has not convened since October 14, when a stormy session was held in which the two Shiite parties demanded the removal of Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar over alleged bias.
"The Amal Movement and Hizbullah stress that they will continue to work for the rectification of the judicial course," the two parties said in a joint statement on Saturday.
"They call on the executive authority to act to rectify the current judicial course and abide by the constitution’s stipulations," they added.
The two parties also noted that "the political and economic domestic crisis has reached an unprecedented level, with the major collapse in the Lebanese lira exchange rate, the deterioration of the public sector and the plummeting of wages and citizens’ purchase power."
"Responding to the needs of honorable citizens and heeding the calls of the economic, professional and syndical sectors, and to prevent being accused of obstruction while we are the most keen on Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... and its people and social security, we announce our approval to attend the Cabinet sessions dedicated to passing the state budget and discussing the economic recovery plan and everything related to improving the living situations of the Lebanese," Hizbullah and Amal added.
Prime Minister Najib Miqati had recently announced that it is necessary to hold a Cabinet session to approve the state budget amid Lebanon's negotiations with the International Monetary Fund.
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Interesting information on Somalia’s military courts, headed by Hassan Ali Nur Shute.
[Garowe] al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them... murderous Moslems relentlessly carry out attacks in Somalia, such as Wednesday's suicide boom-mobileing in Mogadishu that killed at least 10 people. The group grabbed credit for the assault on a security caravan.
When the group is not staging direct attacks, it uses intimidation to collect "zakat," or taxes, and fees from Somali businesses to finance its operations.
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See Day 1 reports here and here. Also discussed yesterday here and here (including a link to audio of the jihadi, so you can judge his accent for yourself, dear Reader)
[NYPOST] An angry, apparently armed man took a rabbi and his congregants hostage at a Texas synagogue Saturday — demanding US authorities release an infamous convicted terrorist known as "Lady al-Qaeda" and even calling a New York rabbi in a bizarre bid for help, according to sources and reports.
The unnamed assailant was initially misidentified as Muhammad Siddiqui, the brother of Pak neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui ...American-educated Pak cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. In September 2010, she was sentenced to 86 years in jug after a three-ring trial. Siddiqui, using the alias Fahrem or Feriel Shahin, was one of six alleged al-Qaeda members who bought $19 million worth of blood diamonds in Liberia immediately prior to 9-11-01. Since her incarceration Paks have taken her to their heart and periodically erupt into demonstrations, while the government tries to find somebody to swap for her... , who was convicted in Manhattan Federal Court in 2010 of trying to kill US authorities in Afghanistan. She is currently serving an 86-year prison sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in nearby Fort Worth, according to public records.
A rep for Muhammad Siddiqui later claimed he had nothing to do with the incident, even though the man who stormed Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville claimed to be Aafia Siddiqui’s brother, according to the Daily Beast.
At some point, the hostage taker — who was caught on the synagogue’s livestream angrily ranting about religion — forced Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker to place a call to Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, a law enforcement source told The Post.
The man demanded to speak to Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, and asked her to use her "influence" to help get Siddiqui released before claiming to have a bomb, the source said.
Buchdahl called 911, the source said. It’s unclear what connection, if any, the 49-year-old Buchdahl has to the Siddiqui case.
Siddiqui is serving an 86-year prison sentence in nearby Fort-Worth, according to public records.
The incident unfolded just after 10:30 a.m. Texas time, according to the Colleyville Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The live stream had 8,000 viewers before it was cut off at 2 p.m.; during the broadcast, the man could be heard saying, "If anyone tries to enter this building, I’m tellin you ... everyone will die," and could be heard repeating, "I’m going to die. Don’t cry about me," according to the Jerusalem Post.
Police in Colleyville, a community near Dallas-Fort Worth, dispatched a SWAT team to the residential neighborhood surrounding the temple. They warned residents to stay away from the immediate area, according to social media and a tweet by Colleyville police.
The angry man can be heard ranting about religion on the ongoing livestream, the Fort Worth Telegram reported. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the video did not show what is taking place in the temple, and it was unclear how many people were in the synagogue, the newspaper reported.
On social media, many were offering prayers for Cytron-Walker, leader of the Reform Jewish congregation that was established in 1999, according to its Facebook page.
The feds claimed the MIT-trained Aafia Siddiqui was an al Qaeda associate when she was arrested in 2008 carrying handwritten plans for a radioactive "dirty bomb," along with a list of New York landmarks.
[IsraelTimes] After the hostage situation concluded with the release of all four people who were held at Congregation Beth Israel, a representative for the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... says there is no ongoing threat.
"I do not have any information right now that indicates that this is part of any kind of ongoing threat," says Matthew Desarno, the special agent in charge of FBI Dallas during a briefing with news hounds at a press staging area a quarter of a mile from the synagogue.
"We obviously are investigating, and will continue to investigate," he says, noting that the area remains an active scene of the crime.
Over 200 law enforcement officers were involved in the hostage situation throughout the day, including a special hostage rescue team of 60 to 70 members who flew in from Washington, DC.
The hostage rescue team breached the synagogue at around 9 p.m., Colleyville Police Chief Mike Miller says.
All of the hostages were adults, he adds.
Area residents who were evacuated from the neighborhood are still not allowed to return home, since the area is an active scene of the crime, a police representative told The Times of Israel.
[IsraelTimes] The hostage taker at a Texas synagogue can apparently be heard saying in a live video from the synagogue that congregants let him into the building.
The synagogue was live streaming a service on Facebook when the incident began and broadcast the first few hours of the crisis.
Facebook removed the video, but in segments that have been posted online, the attacker can be heard speaking, although much of what he says in unintelligible.
At one point, he says "They let me in. I said ’Is this a night shelter?’ and they let me in and they gave me a cup of tea so I do feel bad."
"I like the rabbi, he’s a good guy, I bonded with him, I really like him... I’ve only been here for a couple hours but I can see he’s a good guy," the attacker says.
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It's been confirmed that a Texas SWAT team went in and the hostage taker received some new ventilation holes courtesy of ballistic intervention. He has assumed room temp and below as he's probably in a cooler at the morgue. No hostages hurt.
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Video emerges that appears to show hostages making a run for it with the gunman chasing them who then ducked back into the building. That is when police moved in after him.
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Jewish community expresses shock at FBI's statement after hostages freed from synagogue.
Soon after the FBI freed four hostages held by a gunman for 11 hours at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas on Saturday, Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Field Office Matthew Desarno made a truly baffling statement.
“We do believe from our engagement with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community, but we are continuing to work to find the motive,” Desarno said
Just go visit the DFW Metroplex and see for yourself: you can't drive 500 yards in any direction around Big D or Ft Worth without hitting two or three synagogues
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We must not upset the Muslim community now. A muslim targeting Jews but not related to ant-semitism? Alrighty then. Worthless FBI and Biden administration.
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Notice that they haven’t released the hostage taker’s name
My money is that he is British citizen Middle Eastern
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On the bit of tape I heard, he sounded Indian subcontinent to me, which is not the same as English, though the FBI have pulled in British authorities, no doubt to trace the gentleman’s connections.
The Blackburn Muslim Community in Britain has confirmed that Faisal Akram, a member of the community, was the gunman who took hostages at a Texas synagogue and died during a rescue operation.
“Faisal Akram has sadly departed from this temporary world and returned to his Creator,” the community says in a Facebook post, urging the public to “let the authorities complete their investigations, have respect for the family and allow them to mourn peacefully.”
A comment on the post features a statement by Akram’s brother, who says the family is “devastated” and that “we as a family do not condone any of his actions and would like to sincerely apologize wholeheartedly to all the victims involved in the unfortunate incident.”
The brother, Gulbar, says the attacker “was suffering from mental health issues,” adding that “we were confident that he would not harm the hostages.”
He claims Akram willingly freed the hostages, saying: “Don’t believe the bull#### in the media, they were released from the fire exit and not rescued.”
“A few minutes later a firefight has taken place and he was shot and killed,” he says. “There was nothing we could have said to him or done that would have convinced him to surrender.
“We would also like to add that any attack on any human being be it a Jew, Christian or Muslim etc is wrong and should always be condemned.”
The article lists to a Facebook post on the subject that I find curious: isn’t the Islamic paradise only for those who die while committing jihad?
Blackburn Muslim Community
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إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُون
Faisal Akram has sadly departed from this temporary world and returned to his Creator. He was the son of Mohammed Malik Akram and the brother of Gulbar, Malik, Nasar, Yassar and Late Gulzameer Akram.
May the Almighty forgive all his sins and bless him with the highest ranks of Paradise. May Allah give strength and patience to his loved ones in dealing with their loss.
There are many stories circulating in the local community so please avoid taking part in the sin of backbiting. Let the authorities complete their investigations, have respect for the family and allow them to mourn peacefully. (Please check out the brother's statement in the comments section).
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Independent - Akram, a 44-year-old from Blackburn in Lancashire, was killed in an hours-long stand-off with police officers at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday.
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It has been revealed he was a British citizen. The man who took a rabbi and other people hostage at a Dallas-area synagogue Saturday night in an hours-long standoff with law enforcement has been identified as 44-year-old British citizen Malik Faisal Akram, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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British citizen could mean born there or had a passport issued there. Just as there are lots of "Swedes" not named Sven and lots of "Germans" not named Rolf.
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Malik "Nigel" Faisal Akram
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Reports are he got his weapons "off the street", whatever that means
Their hypothesis: USSA, under Brandon-Kackler-Fauxi-Ferret in the Age of COVIDian hysteria-idiocy, is now a soft target, of which the "soft underbelly" is the region just north of the Rio Grande
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Six people were shot during a concert at an event hall in Oregon on Friday night, and the suspected shooter was not yet in jug, police said.Officers responded to the WOW Hall in Eugene after reports of a shooting around 9:30 p.m., police said in a statement.
"What law enforcement found when they came on scene is what you would exactly expect when six people just got shot," Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner said at a news conference. "People are just trying to get out of here, their friends are on the ground, they’re trying to help."
Six people were taken to the hospital, and at least one of them was at death's door, Skinner said. The extent of the other injuries was not immediately clear.
The shooting happened in a back parking lot outside the venue, police and WOW Hall leaders said.
A concert featuring Lil Bean & Zay Bang, and other artists, was being held at the hall at the time.
Police said no suspect was in jug. Skinner described "chaos" when officers arrived, and said Sherlocks had not received much information from possible witnesses.
WOW Hall released a statement on its website acknowledging the shooting but declining to speculate on any details.
"We at the WOW Hall want to thank all first responders who came so quickly to ensure everyone’s safety and administer first aid," the message said. "We believe all staff and volunteers are safe and accounted for."
Investigators have not determined whether the shooting was random or targeted, the police chief said.
Eugene is located about 110 miles (177 kilometers) south of Portland ...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others... , Oregon.
Eugene police are still searching for the suspect in a mass shooting outside the WOW Hall that sent six people to the hospital Friday night.
Concertgoer Thomas Hiura, who was at the WOW Hall to watch friends perform, said he was on the sidewalk and saw a man with a handgun shoot at people gathered near the back door of the venue.
"I was leaning down over my bicycle, to grab my mask, and my attention was drawn by really loud gunfire," Hiura said. "He shot more than 10 rounds, and I thought about charging him."
"I believe I saw blood on the gravel," he said, noting he saw the suspect, who he described as a young man, run down a street after shooting.
Police have described the suspect as a MAGA hat wearing White Sup;remacist
male wearing a hoodie but didn't have more detailed information as of Saturday afternoon. The department has set up a dedicated tip line for the shooting, and the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... is assisting in the investigation.
One person was at death's door and undergoing surgery Friday night, Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner said at about midnight. That person remained at death's door Saturday afternoon.
Three of the others' injuries were between "serious and critical," while another's were minor, according to Eugene-Springfield Fire front man Mike Caven.
Those people were in stable, pH balanced condition Saturday.
All but one of the people injured — two females and four males — are from out of town and appear to have traveled to Eugene for the concert, police said.
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A concert featuring Lil Bean & Zay Bang
Vibrant and diverse
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Rap 'music' featuring lots of N words, praise of guns and misogyny
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The FAA is reviewing a proposal from FedEx after they requested a laser-based missile-defense system to be installed on their cargo planes
The delivery company applied for approval in October 2019 in order to use their aircrafts as a countermeasure against heat-seeking missiles called MANPADS
In addition, the installation of these missiles would allow the package delivery company to fly into otherwise restricted air spaces
The transportation agency is still in the process of reviewing the proposal and will offer the public the opportunity to comment on whether or not to approve
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the installation of these missiles would allow the package delivery company to fly into otherwise restricted air spaces
And by 'restricted air spaces', we mean contested air spaces, AKA war zones. FedEx has a bunch of planes and experience moving stuff. That could come in handy in the near future.
Along with SAM countermeasures, other popular items today are shore-based anti-ship missile systems and mine-laying ships. Kinda makes you think people are getting their ducks in a row for some big upcoming event. It is probably not the Chinese Olympics, although you can be sure China will send a delegation.
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I want to know who's gonna write the insurance policies that cover this.
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CrazyFool same here. I live in East Tennessee. I ordered something that came from New Hampshire and it went to Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois, Nashville, Memphis, Mississippi, back to Memphis, Knoxville, Kinsdport, and finally here. Took 2 weeks.
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A #Tunisia-n court, specializing in #terrorism, sentences nine defendants to death in the case of killing Said Ghozlani, a first sergeant in the Tunisian national army.https://t.co/B68f3g2vlF
Friday's verdict concerns the murder of army corporal Said Ghozlani in November 2016, in the Mount Mghila area near the border with Algeria.
He was found beheaded in his home in that region, which is considered a hideout for jihadists.
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 grabbed credit for killing the soldier.
The Tunis court on Friday also sentenced to jail 15 people accused of involvement in the murder, with terms ranging from 32 to 44 years in prison.
Tunisia saw a surge in radical Islamist activity following the ouster of autocratic president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in the 2011 revolution.
Dozens of members of the security forces have since been killed in jihadist attacks.
The security situation has greatly improved in recent years, but Tunisian forces continue to track down suspected jihadists in the Mount Mghila and Mount Chaami regions.
[Epoch Times] Jeremy Brown says his refusal led to 2021 arrest for being at U.S. Capitol on day of violence
A retired U.S. Army Green Beret arrested for being at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, says the FBI tried to recruit him to spy on the Oath Keepers group a few weeks before the violence at the Capitol.
Jeremy M. Brown, 47, who is being held in the Pinellas County Jail in Florida on federal misdemeanor charges related to Jan. 6, told The Epoch Times he believes his arrest and prosecution are payback for his refusal to become a confidential informant.
A federal judge ordered Brown held without bond pending his trial.
Brown said he went to the "Stop the Steal" rally on Jan. 6 dressed in tactical gear to provide security for event organizers and for VIPs who spoke at the rally.
He said FBI agents from the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) met with him in late 2020 and asked him to become an informant.
"On Dec. 11, 2020, the exact same Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) agents that (later) arrested me attempted to recruit me as a confidential informant," Brown said in a letter to The Epoch Times from the Pinellas County Jail. "Their ’pitch’ was intended to gauge my interest in infiltrating law-abiding citizen groups that had no criminal history and certainly were not designated ’terrorist groups.’" Lots more at the link
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Ignoring Mr. McCarthy’s repeated insistence that Donald Trump is an evil lying liar and that Joe Biden won fair and square, ignoring his ignoring of the part the FBI’s many informants and agents provocateur played in the events of the day, he makes a useful point about the January 6 prosecutions. Select paragraphs:
NationalReview] Two elements are indispensable to the crime of seditious conspiracy. First, there must be an agreement to use force, as opposed to protesting peacefully — even if rambunctiously. Second is the concept of levying war against the United States or opposing the lawful authority of the United States. Now that the Justice Department has been goaded into charging members of the Oath Keepers with seditious conspiracy for their participation in the Capitol riot, prosecutors may find that these elements pose insuperable challenges to their case.
The indictment filed Thursday necessitates revisiting this subject. It does not, however, change what I’ve already said about it, back in June: The actions of then-president Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... before and during the riot undermine seditious-conspiracy charges.
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Experts say the rarely used charge is hard to prove, but the case is strong; far-right militia accused of preparing to deliver arms to members on January 6, if need arose.
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Note that Andy McCarthy has constantly defended the professionalism, ethics, and integrity of the DOJ and FBI. 'Nuff said.
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Andy Mac shredded his credibility years ago when he tried to defend the FB-eye while exposing the Russia Hoax.
He's another D.C. area conservative cuck who's terrified that his livelihood and his family will be targeted if he's seen to be in the Orange Man's camp.
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It appears to me the Oath Keepers were prepared to deliver weapons to protestors if the feds opened fire on the protestors. This is consistent with the Oath Keepers' mission and, IMHO, the moral thing to do.
As that never happened -- excepting the cold blooded murder of Ashli Babbit -- the Oath Keepers were just observers, ensuring the feds didn't violate THEIR oaths en masse.
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Ahhh, but if their defense is "Trump made me do it", then the Dem Congress will try to ban Trump forever. So I like #5 defense.
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Increasingly clear they plan to use the process as the punishment and the example to intimidate others. The have weaponised our federal justice system to incite fear in citizens exercising their constitutional rights.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] The United States has issued a Tsunami alert for the West Coast after a gigantic underwater volcano erupted near Tonga's largest island, Tongatapu, sending a cloud of ash and gas steam into the air.According to Australia’s meteorology bureau, the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, about 65km north of capital Nuku’alofa, caused a Tsunami measuring 1.2 metres.
On Friday the volcano sent ash, steam and gas up to 20km into the air, Tonga Geological Services said in a Facebook post.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... there are no immediate reports of injuries or deaths so far in Tonga or elsewhere.
The US National Weather Service for the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... and the surrounding Bay Area warned residents to expect waves of up to three feet throughout the day and potential coastal floods in low-lying areas.
An alert issued afterwards warned locals to get out of the water and stay away from waterfronts, beaches, harbours, marinas and other coastal areas.
Boat operators were told to get their boats at least 180 feet up onto dry land.
"Do not go to the shore to observe the tsunami," it cautioned.
County officials in Berkeley warned, "People in Berkeley Marina, Get Out Of Your Boat And Off The Docks Now. Evacuation Order is due to a tusnami that is scheduled to arrive in Berkeley at 8.10am."
A Tsunami advisory means that strong currents and dangerous waves are imminent and people should stay out of the water.
It is one step short of a tsunami warning, which advises people to move urgently to high ground or inland.
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Apparently there was some flooding in Santa Cruz attributed to it (per an old friend.)
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Boko Haram ...not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... murderous Moslems suspected to be an arm of 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.... of West African Province, who attacked Kautikari Village under Chibok Local Government Area in Borno State on Friday, have killed four residents.
The murderous Moslems also kidnapped a large number of women and kiddies, while several villagers remain missing.
The Lions of Islam during the attack raided the home of a renowned businessman and set all his properties ablaze before snatching a cell phone belonging to his wife.
They also burnt down a church and some residential buildings.
Kautikari is located East and about 15km drive from Chibok town predominantly occupied by Christians.
Son-in-law of the businessman, who resides in Maiduguri, the state capital, disclosed that he received a distress call from the snatched phone of his mother-in-law by the Lions of Islam demanding for recharge card early Saturday morning.
"Our people of Kautikari are displaced following the attack on the community last Friday which is our market day.
"The armed Lions of Islam killed four people, destroy shops and loot food items. They also kidnapped scores of women and kiddies as many are still missing.
"Our church has been razed down, including my father in law’s house and shops in the community. I spoke with some of the family and they told me they are all safe, though displaced now.
"Unfortunately, my mother-in-law’s cell phone was snatched from her by the terrorists. I received a distress call from the snatched phone this morning by the Lions of Islam demanding for recharge card, before I informed the caller that ’God is in control’, and I quickly put off the phone," he narrated.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] Operatives of the Ondo State Security Network, codenamed Amotekun Corps, are currently interrogating no fewer than 17 suspected bandidos arrested with over 30 dogs, cutlasses and charms.
Reports revealed that they were arrested after they stormed Okititpupa town, the headquarters of Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state, and could not explain their mission to residents who were alarmed.
Amotekun officials in the South-West states had on Thursday said the regional outfit was on the alert following renewed attacks by killer herdsmen and turbans in Ondo State.
The officials in Osun, Oyo, Ondo and Ekiti states had disclosed that they had received credible intelligence that turbans and bandidos fleeing military operations in the North-West would seek refuge in the forests of the southern states.
They therefore said they had commenced combing forests in the region for the fleeing terrorists.
Although the corps had yet to link those arrested at Okitipupa to a particular crime, residents panicked over their suspicious movement within the town on Thursday and alerted the personnel who arrested them.
The Commander of Amotekun in the state, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye, was quoted by Daily Post that the northerners stated that an unnamed person invited them to the state.
He said, "They were people who claimed to have come from the northern part of the country with dogs, charms and cutlasses and the people of Okitipupa area who were not comfortable with them raised the alarm.
"But on interrogation, they claimed they were invited to Okitipupa by somebody and that they are actually working for the person. All attempts to reach the person they claimed to work for have not yielded any result till date.
"However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... we want to warn residents to be vigilant when they see what I will call mysterious things. We have over 30 dogs among able bodied men who don’t even know where they are going. They claimed they were dropped in Okitipupa by a vehicle and that the vehicle had left.
"This calls for a very serious concern looking at the very serious security situation in the country. Investigation into who brought them and their real mission is still ongoing. They were attempting to enter the forest behind the military barracks in Okitipupa when they were arrested."
1. No, being sick for 4 days isn't allergies. No matter what the wife keeps saying.
2. Driving oneself the hospitals community location is useless. You will wait hours because to the Triage Process and still fall thru the cracks.
3. Driving to the Hospital ER and checking in is also tactically useless. Which you figure out after 7 hours and 49 minutes of watching the wife sit in a wheelchair waiting, waiting, waiting and waiting WITHOUT further attention.
4. Return home and called 9-1-1.
5. 9-1-1 produces near IMMEDIATE Fire Dept. response.
6. Triage by Fire Dept member results in a private AMBO arriving all within 30 mins.
7. The patient is loaded up and taken back to the same Hospital ER by AMBO.
8. The patient is re-tested for COVID-19, which produce the same positive Covid-19 positive results as before.
9. ER Staff attention is immediate, full and swift. Unlike being a walk-in.
10. Within 30 mins of the 2nd arrival, the patient this time is quickly assigned Infectious ICU room.
11. Nurses & Doctor introduce themselves the patient, standard Covid-19 POE and treatment starts all within 2 hours of ER AMBO arrival.
12. The Medicare Vampires surround the patients and the start of medical care is administered. Then over the next 10 days the patient is cared for by some of the best VISA nurses and doctors. Which came to the USA as far away as Pakistan, South/Central America, and the UK to work 180 day VISAs to care for our loved ones and ourselves.
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Flu currently hitting my area hard. Nursing homes all Vaxed and having mass outbreaks of sickness. Women very pregnant harped on to get vaccine for herself and baby. Having seen family members having problems after vaccine will have no part of it. This VAX hysteria will not end soon.
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An alternate, yet more effective method, is to have planned for this. Identify a doctor that will prescribe Ivermectin and a zpack, then buy it. Research the protocol around the ivermectin treatment, buy the vitamins and other items. Have them all ready and when you get COVID, we all will get it vaccinated or not, and start the protocol. Take care of your family in these times where the messages from our government seem to be do nothing until your about to die.
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Hospitals never put their best people in the ER. In California, even without COVID, you'll wait while the staff tends to illegal aliens who use the ER as a substitute for a primary care physician because they have no insurance and no money. It's like being in the Third World.
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But, yes, I've heard it from numerous other sources. People who arrive at the ER via ambulance are treated before those who drive themselves.
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Identify a doctor that will prescribe Ivermectin and a zpack, then buy it.
Yes. Trying to find such a doc now. Appreciate suggestions -- no restrictions on (US) geography. tia, MF
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Stuff like this is why I was talking about the Spanish Nursing Home protocol. A major part of it is something you could buy over the counter and your chances of getting a Z-Pac are probably higher than getting hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin.
I’ve read that the immediate concern is that California regulations keep most truckers from being permitted to take shipping containers off the docks, so they’re piling up there, but perhaps I misunderstand.
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So basically the Calif Liberal Socialist Democrats are the cause of the shortages on the West coast and Northern Western USA.
But still we have Panama Canal routed ships at numbers greater than the previous 2 years slipping thru in to the Gulf. We have Mexico NAFTA ports that easily handle the Calif issues?
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They're piled up everywhere.
Ship tracker:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-120.6/centery:37.2/zoom:8
The worker shortage created a backlog in the system, and Cali's new rules screwed them up further. Ocean shipping is rerouting itself, with Home Depot's chartered ships coming into Houston, New Orleans and Charleston via Panama.
Bear in mind, meat and produce, TP and dairy shortages are from OTR trucker shortages.
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A lot of the containerships won't fit through Panama.
Amazon is taking the initiative to build their own special long containers and send them through Panama on ships fitted with their own cranes for unloading.
All that's needed is a chassis to show up next to the ship and will get loaded with a container in a couple of minutes.
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Anything to avoid building manufacturing sources here. Capital investment to sustain the Chinese economy because they are bought and paid for by the CCP. Utterly corrupt and nothing will be done by the board of directors or senior management.
#Philippines will acquire a shore-based anti-ship #missile system from #India for nearly $375 million to reinforce its navy, says the Southeast Asian nation’s defense minister.https://t.co/LTQIz5pkiG
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Philippines to buy India's BrahMos missile
"...Philippines became the first country in the region to acquire the BrahMos cruise missile system jointly developed by India and Russia. The ripples for this deal—years in the making—is likely to be felt for a while."
The BrahMos is a nasty beast with a 200kg warhead. Being hit by one will gut most naval vessels. This is not something the CCP will be happy about.
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/\ I checked the Indian press article to see if the Twitter photo of a BrahMos had anything to do with reality (journalists and their stock photos of the wrong items.
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.
[Babylon Bee] Recent national indicators have hinted that the Biden Administration may not be as popular as hoped. These revelations have forced strategists for the Democrat party to face the truth that Vice President Kamala Harris is so disliked, the nation would rather consider Hillary Clinton.
[Daily Caller] Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares fired 30 staff members, 17 of whom were attorneys, Friday, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...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 
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too....
[NYPOST] Prosecutors in soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney 
...aka 
[Epoch Times] The Biden administration issued a letter to Arizona threatening to take back COVID-19 relief funds sent to the state, saying Arizona’s provisions discourages schools from mandating masks.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
Hezbollah
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[NYPOST] A 
...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 
Instead, Libya’s conflict rumbled on, frontlines shifted, governments changed, and financial crises came and went. The corpses, meanwhile, began to decompose, as power supplies to refrigerated containers were interrupted.
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
...The nation is noted for 
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
Najib Miqati
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them...
...American-educated Pak cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. In September 2010, she was sentenced to 86 years in jug after a three-ring trial. Siddiqui, using the alias Fahrem or Feriel Shahin, was one of six alleged al-Qaeda members who bought $19 million worth of blood diamonds in Liberia immediately prior to 9-11-01. Since her incarceration Paks have taken her to their heart and periodically erupt into demonstrations, while the government tries to find somebody to swap for her...
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others...
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
...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 
Jeremy M. Brown, 47, who is being held in the Pinellas County Jail in Florida on federal misdemeanor charges related to Jan. 6, told The Epoch Times he believes his arrest and prosecution are payback for his refusal to become a confidential informant.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] The United States has issued a Tsunami alert for the West Coast after a gigantic underwater volcano erupted near Tonga's largest island, Tongatapu, sending a cloud of ash and gas steam into the air.According to Australia’s meteorology bureau, the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, about 65km north of capital Nuku’alofa, caused a Tsunami measuring 1.2 metres.
...not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
