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"Banana? Oh, Anna! No herb,"
Laughed Sigmund, "could ever disturb
An insecure Wiener
Of nervous demeanour. I, find fruit appealing? Superb! Er... absurd!"
[NPR] Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars, has died. He was 102.
Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on Sunday announced his death on Twitter, both of them calling McGee an American hero.
"While I am saddened by his loss, I'm also incredibly grateful for his sacrifice, his legacy, and his character. Rest in peace, General," wrote Austin, who did not specify where McGee died.
The Tuskegee Airmen is the nickname of the first African American unit to fly combat airplanes in World War II.
A true heroes.
He and the Tuskegee Airman earned their respect 100 fold over.
All despite the numerous social, racial and other challenges dumped on him and the 300+ other Tuskegee Airman members in life.
They did not use Skin color as an excuse. They rose above the stupid issues of the time and still fought to defend the safety and honor of ALL Americans.
They really stuck it out there.
I have to wonder, what they would have done if they met a modern day BLM Leader.
ATLANTA (AP) — A dangerous winter storm combining high winds and ice swept through parts of the U.S. Southeast on Sunday, knocking out power, felling trees and fences and coating roads with a treacherous, frigid glaze.
Tens of thousands of customers were without power in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. Highway patrols reported hundreds of vehicle accidents, and a tornado ripped through a trailer park in Florida. More than 1,200 Sunday flights at Charlotte Douglas International were cancelled — more than 90% of the airport’s Sunday schedule, according to the flight tracking service flightaware.com.
Winter Storm Izzy dumped as much as 10 inches of snow in some areas of western North Carolina as the system moved across the southeastern U.S., said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
First Sgt. Christopher Knox, a North Carolina Highway Patrol spokesperson, said that by midafternoon, the agency had responded to 300 car crashes and nearly 800 calls for service. Two people died Sunday when their car drove off the road and into trees in a median east of Raleigh. The driver and passenger, both 41-year-old South Carolina residents, were pronounced dead at the scene of the single-vehicle crash. Knox said investigators believe the car was driving too fast for the conditions, described as mixed winter precipitation.
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amusingly Jen Psaki tweeted that she didn't understand why DC shut down because of 1" of snow
this was just 10 minutes after public officials in DC, VA, and MD urged people to stay off roads
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^ well, we now have 1970s-style inflation, crime, corruption and incompetence again, so might as well bring back streaking.
Just hold off on disco, 'k?
ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. economy "has never worked fairly for Black Americans — or, really, for any American of color," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a speech delivered Monday, one of many by national leaders acknowledging unmet needs for racial equality on Martin Luther King Day.
Major events for the holiday also included the annual Martin Luther King Jr. service at the slain civil rights leader’s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, whose senior pastor, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, was hosting Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and other politicians.
Monday would have been the 93rd birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who was just 39 when he was assassinated in 1968 while helping sanitation workers strike for better pay and workplace safety in Memphis, Tennessee.
King, who delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech while leading the 1963 March on Washington and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, remains one of the world’s most beloved figures. He considered racial equality inseparable from alleviating poverty and stopping war. His insistence on nonviolent protest continues to influence activists pushing for civil rights and social change.
Yellen referred to King’s famous speech in remarks she recorded for delivery at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network breakfast in Washington, noting the financial metaphor he used when describing the founding fathers’ promises of equality.
King said on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that "America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned." He called it "a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds. But we refuse to believe the bank of justice is bankrupt!"
90+% of the time a person just has to get off their Butts to to train up and "EARN IT".
No one white, black, ta, yellow or whatever has a corner on earning $$$$$. True some are filthy right. What how did that happen? Usually Right place, right time having prepare some time prior.
Also please explain to me why so many of our LEGAL immigrants come here. Setup small family businesses and make a good enough living to support a family and get the kids thru College?
Also WHY the sudden abnormally early play of the Race Card by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen? Is it because its MID-TERMS and they need to stir up the usual BLIND mistrust for votes, to maintain power?
BTW:James Earl Ray, who we are told killed MLK, was a Northern Born IL. Democrat. So does anyone care to explain how a small time petty Gas Station robber, suddenly had the skills and exp. acquire multiple Passports, travel US-Canada-Europe and have enough $$$$$ needed to pull it off?
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So is a fatherless home, undisciplined and violent behavior.
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You feed a man a fish a day they'll never go hungry. You teach a man to fish, some will eventually vote Republican. Now why would the racists institution of Socialist mob want that?
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How about quit feeling sorry for yourselves and do something about it. Oh yeah, that may require work.
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Never mind the record high minority employment during Trump's administration.
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Even FACTCHECK.ORG pretty much seems to say TRUMP had a run. The C-19 got him.
An less anyone forgets.... he did this with both the House and Senate trying to screw him over using with FAKE and PHONY Impeachment Evidence.
Plus
"Job Openings — For nearly two years, Trump and the White House boasted that the U.S. had more job openings than workers to fill them. That was the case for 23 straight months from March 2018 through February 2020 — a month before the pandemic lockdown began to swell the ranks of the unemployed."
So was it The Wuhan Virus, congress paying people MORE to sit on their butts than working, or Trumps Mgt.?
Plus ..... If a person were to look at the OBAMA figures, they would note Obama had more Minorities on unemployment.
Maybe the 50+% NON-African part of Obama was Racist?
[Townhall] When it comes to anything related to Covid-19, leftists have become experts at distracting, blaming, obfuscating, censoring opposing views, and outright lying in order to further their twisted narrative and enact their tyrannical agenda. Question them directly, even politely, and expect to be dismissed, maligned, and talked down to, if you even get a ’response’ at all.
The reason they hate our questions, obviously, is that they know they can’t provide reasonable, science & data-based answers. But the fact that they’ll do everything they can to avoid them doesn’t mean we shouldn’t ask anyway, because the mere act of asking these questions is an act of resistance against Covid tyranny. In fact, we should all be asking every possible question every chance we get, both on social media and in real life. Because the story told by their actions and demeanor is every bit as important as the ’answer’ itself, should you manage to receive one.
Just watch the haughty scowls of Mr. Science himself, Dr. Anthony Fauci, when being questioned by Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul at one of several Senate committee hearings over the past two years. He has no choice but to be there (it IS the United States Senate, after all), but the thought of having to explain himself to the peasants clearly rankles him, and it shows. Does that deter Paul? Of course not, because he knows he isn’t reaching Fauci or brainwashed Branch Covidians, but rather non-insane, normal people on the fence who can be swayed by a solid argument.
To that end, in no particular order, here are six questions our Branch Covidian overlords refuse to answer, because they know they will look ridiculous if they even try to begin.
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So people say we should not compare the treatment of the unvaccinated to the Jews of 1940, the Asians of the early 40's, or the blacks of the 1950's. But tell me the difference now of not being allowed into a city to eat, shop, or check into a hotel because your not vaccinated? The reasons for the segregation of the Jews and blacks were the same as today, they-we are considered diseased, dirty and not worthy of participating in society. The Asians were out of misguided fear, not unlike today. The newspapers today are calling to lock people in their homes or camps until the unvaccinated comply. People say what happened to the Jews, Blacks and Asians could never happen again, never happen here, but it is... Locking people up because of fear. Where are the Jews in America standing up against this? Where are the blacks standing up against this? Where are the Asians? Just like the German civilians, they are either in agreement or are hiding in fear.... Which are you??? What side of the history will you fall into?
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A standard treatment protocol was established. It was remdesivir. It kills your kidneys and you drown.
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Re #4: I think our overlords would argue that it has to do with behavior (not being vaxxed) rather than some immutable quality or a "closely held belief" (race, color, or creed).
[WIRE] Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News on Saturday evening that the hostage situation that unfolded on Saturday afternoon at a synagogue in Texas was part of a "perfect storm brewing" and that it was a "religious war."
Graham’s remarks come after a man took several hostages at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville and demanded the release of a convicted Islamic terrorist who he claimed was his sister.
"This is a religious war," Graham told Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro. "What did I say on your show when we withdrew from Afghanistan? That this is a perfect storm brewing. The rise in terrorism by the Taliban taking back over; al Qaeda roams freely in Afghanistan. ISIS is alive and well over there, and the border is broken — it’s just a matter of time before terrorists over there come through our border and kill a bunch of Americans. I don’t know about the fact pattern here, but also this week, the Ayatollah’s people, the people around him, released a video indicating a desire to kill President Trump on a golf course. ... And the Biden administration hasn’t done a damn thing."
The hostages were later all freed after a hostage rescue team breached the area where they were being held and the suspect was killed. There is no official word on whether the suspect killed himself or whether law enforcement killed him.
The FBI claimed that "the hostage taker was specifically focused on an issue not directly connected to the Jewish community and there was no immediate indication that the man had was part of any broader plan," the Associated Press reported.
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More "Trump badmouthing DeSantis" stuff. You could say it's the media, which hates DeSantis anyway, liking the story. You could say it's overblown. Still, it's coming out of Trump's mouth and I don't dig it. YMMV. Some will say it's Trump playing 3-D chess. Sorry, the guy had so many backstabbers in his administration that I don't see it. In any event, DeSantis seems to just smile and say "people are going to say all kinds of things. I have work to do."
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Trump would be wise to keep his yap shut about DeSantis or anybody else for that matter. Plenty to talk about without cruising the gutter.
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#10 Yahoo News, Axios, unattributed quotes. All of us on this site know how this stuff works. If Trump wasn't the leading contender the knives would be out for Desantis.
[MAIL] The email came out of the blue one day in 2016. Almost a decade had passed since Miles and Cathy Alexander had left their jobs as residential managers of Little St James, Jeffrey Epstein's private island in the Caribbean.
Since then, Epstein had been jailed — briefly — for paedophile offences and the couple had retired to their native South Africa.
But now Darren Indyke, the disgraced tycoon's attorney, was back in touch. The lawyer wanted the Alexanders to do something that would be of particular benefit to Hillary Clinton and her campaign to become the first female President of the United States, later that year.
[AmericanThinker] As with other European Union countries, the Dutch government has been reveling in the power COVID bestowed on it. In response, the Netherlands has seen huge and violent protests against those draconian strictures. I’m betting that some of those protesters were among the people who voted for Gideon van Meijeren, a young man newly elected to the Dutch Parliament. This young man, during his first appearance on the floor, managed in just two minutes to completely humiliate Prime Minister Mark Rutte. Watching the video will make your day.
For a long time, the Netherlands has had some of the most restrictive COVID measures in Europe. In November, the Netherlands was one of the countries that announced that the unvaccinated were banned from most public places. The restrictions escalated when the Netherlands, a country in which 85% of the adult population was vaccinated, had an upsurge in COVID cases. These restrictions included putting a curfew on all bars, restaurants, and most stores from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. Immediately after the new year, the government also made it clear that, within a few months, vaccination certificates will be considered void without a booster.
In response to the government edicts, the Netherlands has been roiled by protests. There were massive protests in November, December, and (already) in January. The January protest made world headlines when the police allowed (or ordered?) their dogs to launch brutal attacks against the protesters.
A video is circulating showing van Meijeren, during his first official appearance in Parliament, asking Prime Minister Rutte a question. It’s a brilliant video because van Meijeren sticks to his guns as the Prime Minister sneers at him and at all those who are no longer on board with the world establishments’ COVID narrative. You will witness one of the great moments of someone truly speaking truth to power. Also, for an added smile, be sure to keep your eyes on the young woman sitting behind van Meijeren:
[BBC] The pandemic has made the world's wealthiest far richer but has led to more people living in poverty, according to the charity Oxfam.
Lower incomes for the world's poorest contributed to the death of 21,000 people each day, its report claims.
But the world's 10 richest men have more than doubled their collective fortunes since March 2020, Oxfam said.
Oxfam typically releases a report on global inequality at the start of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.
That event usually sees thousands of corporate and political leaders, celebrities, campaigners, economists and journalists gather in the Swiss ski resort for panel discussions, drinks parties and schmoozing.
However for the second year running, the meeting (scheduled for this week) will be online-only after the emergence of the Omicron variant derailed plans to return to an in-person event.
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Nothing has stopped Oxfam from an investment strategy to do the same. Thou shall not covet. How much more food could get in the hands and mouths of others were it not for corrupt, incompetent, and power hungry ruling classes.
Jihadis, whether Sunni or Shiite, or bank robbers? Perhaps one day we’ll find out.
[Rudaw] Two Kurdish-owned banks were hit with explosives late Sunday, according to security sources.
Two people were maimed in the attacks in the Karrada area, state media reported the commander of Baghdad operations Lieutenant-General Ahmed Salim as saying.
"Security forces are opening an investigation into two simultaneous incidents in the Karrada district of Baghdad that occurred this evening," tweeted Iraq’s security media cell, noting the first explosion of was a sound bomb at Cihan Bank near the National Theater, and the second targeted Kurdistan Bank in al-Wathiq square.
The sites appear to have sustained material damage in the attacks.
[Rudaw] Iranian security forces on Sunday denied links to the loud explosion that rattled several provinces in western Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... overnight, media affiliated to them said in a tweet, as they noted that the bang was just a massive "thunder."
Witnesses reported hearing loud explosions last night in several provinces including Kermanshah, Kurdistan and Hamadan. Almost 12 hours after the incident, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the loud explosion is not linked to the force’s activities in any way or shape.
"The explosions heard in west of the country have no connection to the activities of the security forces or anti-air defense systems," informed sources said, according to Tasnim News Agency. "The real source of the sounds heard were the occurrence of lightning in west of the country."
The authorities failed to say anything following the blasting sound, raising concerns, fear and questions among people.
A Twitter user emphasized the importance of authorities of informing the public of the happenings, while mockingly adding, "Maybe they themselves do not know what has happened."
The Iranian authorities’ statement comes in response to an IRGC-affiliated news hound who urged them to brief the public of what happened, rather than keep silent.
Previously, the governor of Asadabad city in Hamadan province had ruled out that the blast was the sound of thunder.
"We had no explosions in the city," Saeed Kitabi told Fars News Agency of the IRGC. "This was ruled out," he added, noting that they were investigating the causes of the loud blast.
The Khatam al-Anbia air defense command, which is responsible for planning and coordinating joint military operations within the Iranian forces, said that its systems did not carry out any tests and any news to the contrary is false, according to IRGC media outlets.
There were speculation that Israel may have targeted IRGC bases in western Iran.
"Israel knows better what is happening there," another social media user said on Twitter.
A third user compared the authorities silence to the time Iran stayed quiet for three days, as 176 people were killed when an Ukranian airliner was shot down over Tehran following the US liquidation of IRGC General Qassem Soleimani .
Flights were also cancelled in western Iran overnight but the authorities said that the cancellation was due to the bad weather.
[Washington Examiner] Republican Sen. Mitt Romney did not hold back when criticizing President Joe Biden’s first year in office.
You thought he was a better choice than President Trump, buddy. So they’re your 52 bad weeks. Enjoy your consequences.
When Meet the Press’s Chuck Todd asked the Utah senator what he believes the state of the nation is, Romney said the nation is "severely divided."
"When he was elected, people were not looking for him to transform America," Romney said. "They were looking to get back to normal, to stop the crazy. It seems like we’re continuing to see policy and promotions that are not accepted by the American people."
Romney also pushed back at Democratic strategist and media contributor James Carville, who had appeared on Meet the Press prior to the senator and said he would tell Biden, "Soldier on. You know, you had a bad week, but you had a good year."
"No, no, [Biden’s] had a bad year," Romney said emphatically. "He’s had 52 weeks of bad weeks. People are 7% poorer now because of Biden inflation. Gasoline prices are, what, 50% higher than they were when he took office. The border is a mess. COVID was resurgent. He didn’t have in place the [COVID] tests people needed to keep themselves safe. There was a disaster in Afghanistan. Russia is now threatening Ukraine. Things are not going well."
Remember when they were going well, buddy? It was until the last day of Donald Trump’s presidency. You, the brilliant Mitt Romney — former governor, former business owner, former business consultant, temporary US senator — were the one who decided that even Joe Biden would be better than Donald Trump, so you worked hard to effect that replacement. Swallow that thought until you choke on it... buddy.
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#2 address him only as Pierre Delicto Posted by: Frank G 2022-01-17 07:30
...And when you've lost Pierre Delecto...
Mike
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FWIW,
Romney has, at least, voted with the republican senate leadership on nearly every important measure in the past year. If he hadn't, the Dems might have BBB and the election fraud act by now.
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Romney is trying to keep his 2024 re-election hopes alive. We'll see if a credible primary opponent emerges. If Jason Chaffetz wants it, I bet he could take the seat from Romney.
It gets weirder: Barringer Crater in Arizona was "discovered" by a guy named Barringer. Coincidence? I think not. There is no telling how deep this goes.
[Ron Paul Institute] There was much speculation toward the end of Donald Trump’s term as president of the United States that Trump would pardon Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, or both of these men who were responsible for exposing vast amounts of wrongdoing by the US government. But, it did not come to pass. Why? Glenn Greenwald, who played a key role in helping Snowden expose information about the US government’s mass surveillance programs and who advocated in public and behind the scenes that Trump pardon both men, has some interesting thoughts about that.
The reason Trump failed to issue a pardon for either Snowden or Assange centers on the deep state trying to protect itself by placing Trump in jeopardy, suggested Greenwald last week in an episode of his System Update show.
In a written introduction for the episode, Greenwald notes that Trump, while president, had both "raised the possibility that he might pardon Snowden" and was "actively considering a pardon for Assange."
Greenwald, in the introduction, zeros in on a recent interview of Trump by Candace Owens. In the interview, Trump stated he came "very close" to pardoning one of them but did not ultimately do so. Why? Trump said the reason was because Trump "was too nice" to issue the pardon.
Greenwald isn’t buying that explanation. He writes:
The question that obviously emerges from that answer: too nice to whom? To the U.S. security services — the CIA, NSA and FBI — which had spent four years doing everything possible to sabotage and undermine Trump and his presidency with their concoction of Russiagate and other leaks of false accusations to their corporate media allies? Too nice to the war-mongering servants of the military-industrial complex in the establishment wings of both parties who were the allies of those security services in attempting to derail Trump's America First foreign policy agenda? Too nice to John Brennan, James Clapper and Susan Rice, the Obama-era security officials most eager to see both Assange and Snowden rot in prison for life because they exposed Obama's spying crimes and the Democrats’ corruption in 2016? Trump's "I'm too nice" explanation is, shall we say, less than persuasive.
In the System Update episode, Greenwald further explains that Trump’s enmity toward these deep state forces that helped lead Greenwald and many other individuals to think that Trump may issue the pardons:
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"Too Nice?" Without hearing the original tape, or being there in person, I feel there is a high chance of Observer Bias on interpreting Trump's diction. Did Trump mean "It would be too nice to pardon (a scumsucker like) Assange or Snowden"...?
[Breitbart] A multi-agency effort led to the arrest of a large group of migrants attempting to avoid detection by wearing camouflage. The arrest took place in a remote area of the Big Bend Sector in Texas.
Big Bend Sector Chief Patrol Agent Sean L. McGoffin tweeted an image of a large group of migrants wearing camouflage to avoid detection.
Van Horn Station agents teamed up with Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations aircrew on January 13 to locate and arrest the group of migrants. Officials report the migrants attempted to hide in the brush and utilize camo to avoid detection and arrest.
Agents transported the migrants to the Sierra Blanca Border Patrol Station for processing under CBP guidelines.
The human smuggling tactic of wearing camo is utilized frequently in this desolate area of Texas. On January 12, Van Horn Station agents apprehended another group of more than 30 migrants attempting to avoid detection.
The agents observed foot tracks leading away from the Texas-Mexico border, Chief McGoffin tweeted. The agents contacted AMO for overwatch assistance and located the group.
At night, the smugglers abandon the camo tactic in favor of dark-colored clothing. Alpine Station Border Patrol agents teamed up with Brewster County Sheriff’s Office deputies to arrest a human smuggler and a group of migrants.
[FoxNews] More than 20 illegal immigrants were found in a Texas motel where rooms were being used as "stash houses."
Officials from the U.S. Border Patrol and the Texas Department of Public Safety found more than 20 illegal immigrants in multiple rooms of a Laredo motel on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Border Patrol Laredo Sector.
Authorities were responding to a report of "suspicious activity" at the motel when the discovery was made.
"During the morning of Jan. 13, #TXDPS troopers and U.S. Border Patrol agents responded to a report of suspicious activity at a local motel in central Laredo. Once on scene, agents and troopers encountered over 20 undocumented individuals in multiple rooms of the motel," a Facebook post from the US Border Patrol Laredo Sector said.
The U.S. Border Patrol Laredo Sector also said that their agents and law enforcement partners "remain vigilant for actions by the criminal elements that attempt to exploit those they seek to smuggle for profit."
Just two days earlier, the U.S. Border Patrol Laredo Sector also announced that agents stopped a narcotics smuggling attempt and seized almost 400 lbs. of marijuana.
Border patrol agents were responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle on Jan. 10 in Laredo and found an abandoned SUV after it ran into a traffic sign.
Agents found five bundles of marijuana inside the vehicle, which is estimated to have a street value of $313,040 and weighs 391 lbs.
[BREITBART] Kari Lake, a candidate for Governor in Arizona, told Breitbart News Saturday that she plans to enter into an interstate compact with other states to circumvent federal immigration and border policies.
Before politics, Lake covered the state of Arizona as an anchorwoman for 27 years. Now, Lake is taking on the political battle in Arizona because the state needs a governor “who will stand for the people and not the special interest.”
Internet services were disrupted in #Lebanon because of diesel shortages, according to the state provider, adding another essential service to the list of casualties of the country’s snowballing economic crisis.https://t.co/F0anWmPSbC
[BrownstoneInstitute] We’ll be putting together the timeline of this disaster for many years to come. It all comes down to those fatal days between January and March 2020, from the news out of China, to the lockdowns in Northern Italy, to the lockdowns in the US.
The documented and admitted record is clear and this is the source of scandal, in my view. Top public health officials in the US, UK, and Australia spent the good part of six weeks obsessing over whether the virus was a lab leak, accidental or deliberate, and therefore what the political spin should be if it turned out to be true.
Something certainly happened to change the script in the last week of February. On February 25, 2020, Anthony Fauci wisely told CBS News the following: “You cannot avoid having infections since you cannot shut off the country from the rest of the world… Do not let the fear of the unknown…distort your evaluation of the risk of the pandemic to you relative to the risks that you face every day…do not yield to unreasonable fear.”
The next day, something shifted. Fauci wrote an email to the actress Morgan Fairchild that read as follows:
"Thanks for the note and the offer to help. It would be great if you could tweet to your many Twitter followers that although the current risk of coronavirus to the American public is low, the fact that there is community spread of virus in a number of countries besides China…poses a risk that we may progress to a global pandemic of COVID-19… And so for that reason, the American public should not be frightened, but should be prepared to mitigate an outbreak in this country by measures that include social distancing, teleworking, temporary closure of schools, etc. There is nothing to be done right now since there are so few cases in this country [NB: no way he could know this] and these cases are being properly isolated, and so go about your daily business. However, be aware that behavioral adjustments may need to be made if a pandemic occurs."
Suddenly, lockdowns were on the table. And we know what happened next. Fauci and Dr. Birx worked over the coming weeks to warm Trump up to the idea, culminating in the March 16, 2020, press conference that announced lockdowns to the nation.
Two weeks earlier, from March 3, 2020, at least, we had very good reports of the evidence out of China concerning the risk profiles of people who were vulnerable to the virus.
The new coronavirus is not an equal-opportunity killer: Being elderly and having other illnesses, for instance, greatly increases the risk of dying from the disease the virus causes, Covid-19.
Just like every other disease I can think of, being unhealthy in one direction makes the patient vulnerable to everything else coming down the pike.
It’s also possible being male could put you at increased risk.
For both medical and public health reasons, researchers want to figure out who’s most at risk of being infected and who’s most at risk of developing severe or even lethal illness. With that kind of information, clinicians would know whom to treat more aggressively, government officials would have a better idea of steps to take, and everyone would know whether they need to take special, additional precautions….
Elderly patients “were more likely to develop ARDS,” the researchers wrote, suggesting how age can make Covid-19 more severe and even fatal: age increases the risk that the respiratory system will basically shut down under viral assault.
Youth, in contrast, seems to be protective. The WHO mission reported a relatively low incidence in people under 18, who made up only 2.4% of all reported cases. In fact, through mid-January, zero children in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, had contracted Covid-19. It’s not clear whether that’s because children do not show signs of illness even if infected.
Even cases among children and teens aged 10 to 19 are rare. As of Feb. 11 there were 549 cases in that age group, 1.2% of the total, China CDC found. Only one had died….
Co-morbidities also raise the risk of dying from Covid-19. China CDC’s analysis of 44,672 patients found that the fatality rate in patients who reported no other health conditions was 0.9%. It was 10.5% for those with cardiovascular disease, 7.3% for those with diabetes, 6.3% for people with chronic respiratory diseases such as COPD, 6.0% for people with hypertension, and 5.6% for those with cancer.
[IsraelTimes] Judiciary claims Fariba Adelkhah broke the terms of her detention ’despite repeated warnings from judicial authorities’.
French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah was tossed in the calaboose I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! anew for breaking house arrest restrictions, an official from the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s judiciary authority said on Sunday.
Her Gay Paree-based support group had on Wednesday announced "with great shock and indignation" her reincarceration, which comes during sensitive talks in Vienna aimed at reviving a 2015 nuclear deal which offered Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.
"Ms Adelkhah... has unfortunately knowingly violated the limits of house arrest dozens of times," Kazem Gharibabadi, deputy head of the judiciary, was quoted as saying by Mizan Online, the authority’s news agency.
"She has insisted on doing so despite repeated warnings from judicial authorities. So now, like any other prisoner who has violated the same rules... she has been returned to prison," he added.
Adelkhah, 62, an expert on 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... and Shiite Islam at La Belle France’s prestigious Sciences Po university, was arrested on June 5, 2019, at Tehran Airport.
She was sentenced in May 2020 to five years’ imprisonment for conspiring against national security, accusations her supporters have always denounced as absurd. In October of that year, she was placed under house arrest with an electronic bracelet.
The French foreign ministry said the reimprisonment "can only have negative consequences on the relationship between La Belle France and Iran and reduce confidence between our two countries."
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday called the decision "entirely arbitrary," adding that "the whole of La Belle France" was "mobilized for her release."
Gharibabadi insisted that Adelkhah is "a citizen of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran," adding that Tehran "firmly condemns the intervention of other countries in [its] judicial process."
Iran does not recognize dual nationality, so it has denied French consular staff access to Adelkhah.
"It is very unfortunate that the French authorities... by issuing hasty statements, make baseless and unfounded remarks that are definitely unacceptable," Gharibabadi said.
Adelkhah is one of at least a dozen Western nationals believed to be held in Iran who rights groups abroad say are being detained for political reasons to extract concessions from the West.
Talks between Tehran and global powers on the 2015 nuclear deal entered the New Year with positive signals emerging, including the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... saying on Friday that a deal remained possible.
Iran’s foreign ministry front man last week cited "good progress," but French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Friday reiterated his view that the talks were progressing "much too slowly to be able to reach a result."
[Garowe] A jacket wallah on Sunday targeted a senior Somalia's government official just days after another deadly attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu, amid ongoing political wrangles involving the opposition and the fragile UN-backed government.
State media said Mohammed Ibrahim Moalimuu, the official spokesperson of Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble was targeted by a suicide bomber in the busy Dabka Junction in Mogadishu and suffered multiple injuries.
The PM H.E Roble strongly condemns the odious terrorist attack targeting Government Spokesman, Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim Moalimu who sustained injuries today but is in stable, pH balanced condition. The PM wishes Mr. MOALIMUU a quick recovery," said OPM.
It's not clear where Mohammed Moalimuu was going but Sunday is a normal working day in Somalia, a country where the majority of residents subscribe to Islam. The Dabka Junction is notorious for such incidents based on the data available in the media.
A photographer at the scene of the earth-shattering kaboom reported seeing body parts lying on the ground outside the house of Mohammed Ibrahim Moalimuu, who was rushed to a hospital, al-Jazeera reports. The number of casualties is not yet known.
Moalimuu has been giving official updates on the current political situation in Somalia including the recently concluded National Consultative Council [NCC] in which Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble was leading following an electoral dispute.
The attack also comes just a few weeks after outgoing President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmaajo differed with Roble over security and elections in Somalia, leading to the NCC meeting. At one point, Farmaajo purported to have suspended Roble.
But the standoff was solved after the meeting which was also supervised by the international partners, who are important in Somalia's development agenda. Stakeholders agreed to have Lower House elections concluded by February 25.
Al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... has taken responsibility for the attack. The group is known to wage such acts within and outside Somalia. The murderous Moslems usually take responsibility by publishing on their propaganda media outlets.
Last week, the al-Shabaab also launched an attack in the northern part of Aden Adde International Airport, which left at least 8 people dead. The group usually targets senior government officials, security forces, and innocent civilians.
There have been deliberate efforts to degrade the al-Shabaab with the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission Forces taking responsibility for such operations. Also, the Somali National Army has been carrying operations across the country.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A number of forces of Evil were killed and maimed in violent mostly peacefulfestivities on Sunday in restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province, southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , according to local sources.The sources said that festivities between al-Sabiha tribes and the UAE-funded Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia came due to the cutting off the main road in Sabr area linking Taiz and Aden, in protest against the killing of one of the tribe members.
The sources indicated that the STC militia leader in Lahj, Saleh al-Sayed, directed his troops to arrest al-Sabiha members, while refusing to hand over the suspected killers to the judicial authorities.
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[FoxNews] Former Justice Department attorney Hans von Spakovsky joined "Life, Liberty & Levin" for an interview airing Sunday in which he broke down what he considered the most alarming changes to election laws that come to be if Democrats are able to pass Rep. Terri Sewell's, D-Ala., "John Lewis Voting Rights Act."
Von Spakovsky, who served under President George W. Bush and is now a fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Election Law Reform Initiative, told host Mark Levin that Sewell's bill, heavily supported by Biden and fellow Democrats, will effectively erase any independent state government's control of their own election procedures.
"These laws do everything from gutting voter I.D. laws in all the states, to putting severe restrictions on states [from] being able to verify the eligibility and qualifications of voters, and [restrictions against] cleaning up and maintain[ing] the accuracy of their voter lists," he said.
But given the extreme efforts the Liberal Socialist Democrats are willing to try to skew the vote. It is clear they feel it is their only hope of retaining some form of control.
Without doubt, we the people must have Voting Rules and Regulations designed to protect the basic concept of 1 US CITIZEN, 1 VOTE. An with that said, I would say we do need common sense nationwide standardized Voting Rules and Regulations. But we need them written in simple, plain, Common person understandable level language. Whatever is developed needs to PROTECT THE VOTE, not lay a pathway for political abuse.
I would also suggest it be put to bed in the form of a Constitutional Amendment detailing a clear voting process not subject to change/adjustment every election by a bunch of State or DC politicians. Then voted on at the citizen level in each state.
But there must be criminal laws with serious repercussions for any one and/or Special Interest-Political Group violating Election Integrity.
A Citizens Civil Right to vote must be honestly counted. There is no room for fake voters, illegally printed absentee ballots, multi-state voters, the walking dead voting, and other creative schemes Radicals and Politicians dream up from time to time.
[NATION.PK] In yet another celebratory firing incident, a wedding ceremony in Lahore turned into mourning on Saturday night after two brothers were killed in an gun sex during a wedding function.
According to the police, two brothers identified as Maid and Safdar, died when a wedding party guest had gun sex during the marriage function in the Naseerabad neighbourhood of Lahore.
One of the dear departed, Majid, was constable at Anti Vehicle Lifting Cell (AVLC) department, said police.
The bodies were handed over to heirs after completing medico-legal formalities. Both deceased brothers were close relatives of the bride.
Police have launched an investigation into the matter.
Celebratory firing during joyous events in the country have claimed many precious lives and despite repeated warnings from authorities, the incidents again and again appear to raise serious questions on implementation of laws.
In a similar incident that was reported this year in November, a 7-year-old girl had been killed in an gun sex by a policeman during a wedding ceremony in the Qayyumabad ...a suburb of Korangi Town, if you know where that is... area of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... .
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The US State Department denied that the US had brokered an energy deal between Israel and Lebanon on Sunday, after Israeli media reported on Saturday that Israel may supply natural gas to Lebanon through Jordan.
Earlier on Sunday, the Lebanese Energy Ministry issued a "categorical denial" of the report, saying that the agreement being reached with Egypt would have Lebanon receive natural gas from Egypt, with the gas transported through Jordan and Syria.
Egypt receives millions of cubic feet of natural gas from Israel every day. The Lebanese Energy Ministry did not mention if it had requested that Egypt not use this gas in the supply which will be provided to Lebanon.
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[FoxNews] Robert Patillo also offered a strategy to prevent crime on 'Unfiltered with Dan Bongino'.
ROBERT PATILLO: Most of this crime is being pushed by drug gangs throughout the country. So we need to use some of our counterterrorism laws, the same ones they're using to prosecute people for other crimes around the country, use it to prosecute many of these drug gangs that are terrorizing communities. Let's do something about the importation of guns and drugs across the southern border. I think Republicans and Democrats can agree on that. Let's reform the way that we police to get officers out of the car, back walking a beat, knowing the people in their community to inspire the type of trust and understanding necessary so that you can have a community that works with the police and police to work with the community…
A #Jordanian army officer has been killed and three army personnel injured when drug smugglers trying to enter the country from #Syria fired at an army outpost along the border, a Jordanian army statement says.https://t.co/D47rPnUwnR
[DAILYYEMEN.NET] Violent confrontations erupted on Sunday in front of the Balhaf gas facility in Shabwa province, eastern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... According to local sources, the festivities came after leaders of the UAE-funded "Shabwani Elite" militia refused to recruit hundreds of sons of al-Awaliq tribe that Awad al-Wazir, appointed by the UAE as the governor of the province, is belonging to.
Al-Wazir is heading to establish a military force to remain under his supervision in Ataq city.
The confrontations, with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council forces, came after al-Wazir held images of the former president Ali Saleh inside the STC’s headquarters.
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...more formally Mustafa Kamel Mustafa. Abu Hamza is a popular nickname for jihadis, so he’s the Abu Hamza al-Masri in solitary in the Florence, Colorado supermax prison, connected to more planned and executed terror plots and jihadis around the world over the past several decades than you can shake a stick at, some of them Al Qaeda ...
six sons have convictions: Tito ibn Sheikh (born Hamza Mustafa Kamel), 35, Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, 40, Yasser Kamel, 31, Imran Mostafa Kamel, 29
However the remaining two sons also have a track record with extremism: Sufyan Mustafa, 27, and Othman Mustafa Kamal, 33
They, along with stepbrother Mohssin Ghailam, collectively chalked up 40 years in British jails
Career crook Tito ibn Sheikh appeared in the dock at Southwark Crown Court this week. But his crime — plotting to launder hundreds of thousands of pounds of stolen money for which he was sentenced to nearly four years — was perhaps less shocking than his notorious family background.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A woman who was working as a substitute teacher posted a video to social media alleging she was fired by school officials for not "identifying with" a student who "identifies as a cat" after she refused to meow back at the child in class.
"Okay, okay. I've got to rant for a minute," the teacher says in a short TikTok video. Just when I thought school couldn't get any weirder, it did today."
"I'm a sub, and the most important we do is take roll, so the school gets paid. So, I'm looking at the seating chart as I'm going up and down the rows and marking who's here and who's not," the TikTok user, who uses the screen name @crazynamebridgetmichael and has posted several videos in a school setting, continues in the clip posted about four days ago. "I get to the third row and I hear this 'meow!' Uhhh, excuse me? Excuse me?" she narrates.
"I start looking on the ground, through the fourth row—everything's good. Go to the fifth row—everybody's there. Then I hear 'meow!' I'm like, 'Okay, what's up with that? Who's doing it?' And this little girl in the very front row says, 'You have to meow back at him; he identifies as a cat.' Are you kidding me?" she questions.
"I said, 'Is there a litter box in here somewhere?' My sarcasm self: I probably should not have said that," the educator continues in the clip.
"He gets up and he storms out of the classroom, and I'm like, 'Ruff!' Of course, the entire class is laughing. I think, 'Oh, no problem, no foul.' I go to the office—Are you ready for this?—to check out. They said, 'We no longer need your services if you can't identify with all the children in the classroom.' And you wonder why they don't have any subs!" the teacher exclaims on video.
"I told the lady, I said, 'I didn't know cats were considered people; I thought they were pets.' Another school off my list," the teacher concludes the TikTok video that's captioned, "a typical day of subbing! can't make this up..."
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Unbelievably stupid (but not surprising).
identify as Klingon - so everyone better only speak to me in Klingon or I will have you fired.
The value of #Sudan's currency fell by more than three percent to 465 pounds to the dollar on the black market, traders say, as demand for dollars surged amid continuing political uncertainty following a coup in October.https://t.co/OpeNc2MQeh
[SHAFAQ] Iraqi security forces started an investigation into the simultaneous explosions that targeted two banks in al-Karrada, downtown the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the Security Media Cell (SMC) said on Sunday evening.
SMC confirmed in a statement that the two sonic kabooms targeted the Cihan bank, near the National Theater, and the Kurdistan Bank, near al-Watheq square, earlier today.
Two citizens sustained light injuries due to the attack, a source revealed on Sunday.
The two banks are owned by a business man from the Kurdistan Region.
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[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] On his first day in office, Virginia's newly-elected Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed 11 executive orders, including ones that he campaigned on, such as ending critical race theory and mask mandates in the state's schools.
Among the 11 executive orders are orders allowing parents to opt out of mask mandates in Virginia schools, withdrawing from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and ending the use of critical race theory, or "the use of divisive concepts, including critical race theory, in public education."
The list of executive orders Youngkin signed are as follows:
Executive Order Number One delivers on his Day One promise to restore excellence in education by ending the use of divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory, in public education.
Executive Order Number Two delivers on his Day One promise to empower Virginia parents in their children’s education and upbringing by allowing parents to make decisions on whether their child wears a mask in school.
Executive Order Number Three delivers on his Day One promise to restore integrity and confidence in the Parole Board of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Executive Order Number Four delivers on his Day One promise to investigate wrongdoing in Loudoun County.
Executive Order Number Five delivers on his Day One promise to make government work for Virginians by creating the Commonwealth Chief Transformation Officer.
Executive Order Number Six delivers on his Day One promise to declare Virginia open for business.
Executive Order Number Seven delivers on his Day One promise to combat and prevent human trafficking and provide support to survivors.
Executive Order Number Eight delivers on his Day One promise to establish a commission to combat antisemitism.
Executive Order Number Nine delivers on his Day One promise to withdraw from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
Executive Directive Number One Ten delivers on his fulfilling his Day One promise to jumpstart our economy by cutting job killing regulations by 25 percent.
Executive Directive Number Two Eleven delivers on his fulfilling his Day One promise to restore individual freedoms and personal privacy by rescinding the vaccine mandate for all state employees.
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[SANA.SY] Sudan’s Information Ministry on Sunday decided to close the office of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... -based (Al Jazeera Mubasher) TV channel in Khartoum, in addition to withdrawing the license from its correspondent as the channel has negatively affected "the country’s higher interests and national security".
"In view of Al Jazeera Mubasher channel’s unprofessional approach to the developments in Sudan, which works to strike the social fabric in the country by broadcasting media content that violates the behavior, norms and ethics of the profession and the morals of the Sudanese people, it was decided to withdraw the license granted to the channel’s office in Khartoum," Undersecretary of the Ministry of Information, Nasr El-Din Ahmed Mohammed Khaled was cited by Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) as saying in a statement on Sunday.
The decision affirmed that "Al Jazeera Mubasher channel broadcasted obscene words and showed inappropriate videos and old scenes, which harmed the country’s higher interests and its national security," stressing that the channel did not commit to the conditions included in the granted license.
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On Sunday, a new batch of Syrian families are preparing to leave the Hawl Camp, Hasakah eastern countryside, to go to their hometowns in Deir ez-Zor.
"The batch consists of 53 families with 217 individuals," Munir Muhammad, member of the camp’s management said.
The batch will be the 22nd of Syrian families to leave the Hawl Camp voluntarily following a decision by the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) to take out the Syrian families wishing to leave.
In 2020, the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) launched an initiative in coordination with dignitaries and tribal leaders to take out the Syrian families from Hawl Camp.
"The camp’s management will keep on evacuating the Syrian families wishing to leave in accordance with a program by the management to evacuate as many Syrian families as possible," Muhammad added.
Ali Mohammed, 72, who had been put in the al-Hol camp since 2018, returned home on Sunday.
Mohammed was acting as a preacher within the ranks of ISIS and seven of his cousins who also had links within the organization were killed during clashes with Kurdish forces and campaigns of the counter-ISIS coalition in the north and east of the country
Mohammed claims he is not an extremist, nor is he linked to any radical ideology, but that all he wants is a peaceful life at home.
"I am a Muslim. I am not associated with any organizations or armed groups," Ali Mohammed, an elderly former ISIS member, told Rudaw as he was preparing to live the camp along with his family to Deir ez-Zor's outlying village of Diblane.
Camp authorities say that in coordination with local officials in Deir ez-Zor, they will monitor the behavior of the returnees.
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[Garowe] On Saturday, Kenya marked two anniversaries of deadly attacks that left hundreds of civilians and security forces dead, is what caught the country unprepared and perhaps which triggered complex security operations within and along her borders.
The first anniversary was the sixth year after the deadly El-Adde attack which left hundreds of soldiers dead in one of the Forward Operating bases within the Gedo region of Somalia, perhaps the most dangerous attack on Kenya forces in the Horn of Africa.
At least 240 Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] died in the deadly attack, leading to questions about the presence of Kenyan troops in the country. After the attack, the al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... turbans also attacked the Kulbiyow Forward Operating base a year later [2017], killing 70 soldiers.
The second anniversary involved the Dusit D2 complex attack in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya in 2019. This was perhaps the last large-scale attack by al-Shabaab within Kenya. The attack led to upscaling of security forces in Kenya and a robust operation against the bad boys.
Most al-Shabaab attacks taking place outside Somalia are waged in Kenya, a friendly neighboring country, which has also contributed forces for peacekeeping missions in Somalia. There are close to 3,500 peacekeepers in Somalia from KDF.
Data collected by various security analysts including the Center for Peace and Security of African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... indicate that most al-Shabaab imported muscle are recruited in Kenya. They close over to Somalia for training before being allocated duties.
Sometimes back in 2016, al-Shabaab released a propaganda video showing Kenya fighters wearing pink socks in an unidentified location within Somalia. Kenya started a program of countering violent mostly peaceful extremism by persuading them to renounce their ideologies.
"We have given them an opportunity to surrender before we catch up with them. We know the recruiting cells and so far, we have destroyed a number of them. It's time that we urge them to surrender," President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a past event.
Some of the regions the al-Shabaab targets for recruitment include Wajir, Mandera, Garissa, and Lamu Counties just along the border. There is also some recruitment done in areas such as Nairobi, Nyeri, and Isiolo.
Kenya has tried and prosecuted several suspected al-Shabaab members, with some even convicted for their crimes. In fact, three convicts almost bravely ran away from Kamiti Maximum Prison in Nairobi before being rearrested several miles on their way to Somalia.
Andrew Franklin, a former Marine now working as a security analyst within Kenya, says the inability by Kenya to make public reports about attacks and recruitment gives al-Shabaab the ability to continue shelling the country.
"Six years after El Adde, the government has failed to issue a comprehensive report nor has KDF confirmed/denied numbers of MIA/POW. As for Dusit, much remains "unknown" and to many who should know better believe lessons were learned and that Kenya is much safer!?! Next time," he wrote.
Currently, there are close to 7,000 active al-Shabaab fighters across the region but most of them are domiciled in Somalia according to statistics released by the US Africa Command. The Command has been working closely to fight al-Shabaab within East Africa.
[SHAFAQ] The President of the Kurdistan region, Nechirvan Barzani, and Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, congratulated Nouri al-Maliki for being elected as Secretary-General of the Islamic Dawa Party.
"On this occasion, we stress the need for cooperation and common understanding between all parties and communities of Iraq, to overcome the problems and address the difficulties", President Barzani said.
For his part, PM Barzani said, "On the occasion of the success of the eighteenth conference of the Islamic Dawa Party, and choosing you as a Secretary-General of the party, I offer my sincere congratulations, wishing you and the brothers in the Dawa Party progress and success."
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...one of those Uzbeks, he was shadow provincial governor and head of the military commission of the IEA during the previous government...
a local commander of the Islamic Emirate who was detained by the government, has been brought to Kabul, officials said.
Commander Makhdoom Alam, who was based in Faryab province, was arrested last Thursday in Balkh.
The arrest of the commander sparked widespread demonstrations by residents in Maimana, Faryab's placid provincial capital.
"The person who was arrested ... is still detained by the security forces. The investigation is underway to find out the status of the case," said Bilal Karimi, deputy front man for the Islamic Emirate.
A front man for the Islamic Emirate told the BBC that the commander was involved in kidnapping.
"Remove this issue from your mind—to do something by way of demonstrations. The demonstrations are not going to change anything. The demonstration was set up by Westerners. This is what you call democracy," said the acting Minister of Agriculture Mawlawi Abdul Rahman Rashid.
Officials in Faryab said that the situation has returned to normal in the province.
"We will not allow anyone to cause such unrest in the city," Faryab Governor Qari Hafizullah said.
Mukhdom is an influential commander of the Islamic Emirate in northern Afghanistan. The Islamic Emirate denied any type of racism in the arrest of the commander.
Turkish-backed opposition factions in #Syria’s #Afrin mobilize fighters preparing for infighting as one of a faction’s leader will be prosecuted over charges of corruption and violation. #Turkeyhttps://t.co/cAyGAa0Pvr
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Harris' job is to check two boxes. And she's doing it. Her actual skills are irrelevant in the world of identity politics.
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/\ Entirely correct! Neither she or Biden are exercising any executive leadership. They are simply tools and 'useful idiots' of media diversion. The Shadow Government aka Deep State conducts all the decision making.
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^ Which sort of leads to a discussion of the quality of the decisions being made. If the objective is the public good, the decisions over the last year have been shockingly bad (and I had low expectations). If the objective is the personal accumulation of wealth and power, they're knocking the cover off the ball. Public Servant Fauci has power that a medieval monarch could only dream of.
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Public Servant Fauci has power that a medieval monarchCardinal could only dream of.
[NATION.PK] Rawalpindi-Former diplomat Shaukat Ali Mukaddam on Saturday appeared before the court and recorded his statement while demanding death penalty for Zahir Zakir Jaffar, alleged killer of his 28-year-old-daughter Noor Mukaddam.
"Zahir Zakir Jaffar had brutally murdered my innocent daughter without any reason therefore he should be hanged," said Shaukat Ali Mukaddam in his statement recorded by Additional and Sessions Judge (ASJ) Atta Rabbani.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The US-backed Saudi-led coalition warplanes on Saturday launched about 50 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Ma’rib , Shabwah and Bayda provinces, a security official said.The official added the aggression’s warplanes launched 12 airstrikes on Harib district and hit al-Jubah district in Ma’rib with nine airstrikes.
Moreover, the aggression’s warplanes launched five raids on al-Wadi district, causing great damage to citizens’ properties.
The official indicated the aggression’s warplanes targeted Aqabat al-Qandha’ in Bayhan district of Shabwah with 16 raids.
In Bayda, the coalition warplanes launched five airstrikes on al-Sawma’ah district, two airstrikes on Nate’i district and one airstrike on al-Sawadiya district.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] South Sudanese government and an SPLA-IO splinter group will sign a peace agreement on Sunday, January 16, announced the Sudanese government.A South Sudanese security delegation led by Presidential Adviser for Security Affairs Tut Gatluak and a delegation of the SPLA/IO Kitgwang faction led by General Simon Gatwich Dual resumed peace talks in Khartoum on January 11.
Sudanese military authorities in an invitation to the media said the signing ceremony of a peace agreement and the cessation of hostilities between the government of South Sudan and a dissident movement from Machar’s faction, will take place at the Higher Academy for Security and Strategic Studies in Suba suburb.
The ceremony is expected to take place in the afternoon.
The talks had been suspended after the coup d’etat last October.
President Kiir had proposed to transfer the talks to Juba but the breakaway group rejected the offer.
The agreement will pave the way for the belated enforcement of the security arrangements and end tensions at the border area between the two Sudans.
Sudan is the guarantor of the September 2018 peace agreement which was negotiated in Khartoum.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Life lesson: Don’t grab a fighter from behind without warning.
Authorities in Sunrise, Florida shared body camera footage of an incident that took place November 19
Everyone in the video had their face blurred except for Sergeant Christopher Pullease, 46, a 21-year veteran of the force
Pullease got into a verbal altercation with the suspect, who was already sitting inside a police car
A fellow officer - who has not been identified but has been on the force two and a half years - ran toward Pullease and pulled him by the back of his duty belt
Pullease turns around while backpedaling as he was pulled, then momentarily putting his hand at the other officer's throat and pushing her backward
Pullease has been taken off his supervisory duties since the incident. Internal affairs is investigating
Gee, maybe they can save a trip and interview Andy while they're there.
See Day 2 report here. Day 1 reports here and here. Also discussed yesterday here and here.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ...as first picture of gunman emerges and his 'devastated' brother says: 'He had a criminal record. How was he allowed to travel?'
FBI identifies Texas synagogue shooter as 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram, who is originally from Blackburn Blackburn is only 30 km from Manchester, which too often appears for interesting reasons in our archives.
His brother, Gulbar, liaised with suspect in FBI incident room, blamed mental health issues for Faisal's auctions
Sibling also revealed Malik Akram had a criminal record and asked how he was able to enter the United States
Two teenagers from south Manchester have been arrested in connection with incident and were quizzed last night
US President Joe Biden condemned Akram's actions as an 'act of terror' during a PR event in Philadelphia
All four hostages have been released after the terrorist was shot and police stormed the Texas synagogue
Gunshots were heard at around 9pm CST (3am GMT) after a hostage was released and SWAT team stormed in
Dramatic footage captured the moment two of three remaining hostages ran out of the temple, with the gun totting terrorist right behind them before he quickly retreated inside after seeing the nearby SWAT team
A SWAT team had been deployed and the FBI was negotiating with him as the standoff entered hour eleven
Akram had demanded the release of 'Lady Al Qaeda' Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving 86 years at FMC Carswell, New York for the attempted murder of US military personnel, according to an ABC News report
The rabbi held during the siege, Charlie Cytron-Walker, has since revealed that Akram was 'increasingly belligerent and threatening' during the stand-off - which was partly livestreamed on Facebook because as part of the synagogue's planned morning shabbat.
President Biden said: 'I don't think
...he could stop there and have told the absolute truth, poor man...
there is sufficient information to know about why he targeted that synagogue, why he insisted on the release of someone who's been in prison for over 10 years, why he was engaged, why he was using anti-Semitic and anti-Israel comments'.
Biden later added that it is understood that Akram purchased the weapons used during the stand-off 'on the street' and spent his first night in the US 'in a homeless shelter'.
'He purchased them when he landed and it turns out there apparently were no bombs that we know of.
'He apparently spent the first night in a homeless shelter — I don't have all the details, so I'm reluctant to go into much more detail, but allegedly he purchased it on the street. What that means, I don't know if he purchased it from an individual in the homeless shelter or a homeless community.'
Asked if the incident meant a new push to restrict firearm access, Biden said: 'The idea of background checks are critical, but you can't stop something like this if someone is on the street buying something from somebody else on the street.'
He indicated he would have more to say at his upcoming Wednesday press conference.
[IsraelTimes] Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, among four people held hostage at his Congregation Beth Israel, said Sunday that the attacker grew "increasingly belligerent and threatening" toward the end of the 11-hour standoff, and revealed that the captives had escaped, crediting security courses he had taken for helping them flee.
Authorities identified the hostage-taker as a 44-year-old British national, Malik Faisal Akram, who was killed Saturday night after the last hostages ran out of the synagogue around 9 p.m and an 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... SWAT team rushed into the building, apparently shooting him dead.
"Over the years, my congregation and I have participated in multiple security courses from the Colleyville Police Department, the FBI, the Anti-Defamation League, and Secure Community Network," Cytron-Walker said in a statement late Sunday.
"We are alive today because of that education. I encourage all Jewish congregations, religious groups, schools, and others to participate in active-shooter and security courses," he said.
"In the last hour of our hostage crisis, the gunman became increasingly belligerent and threatening," Cytron-Walker added. "Without the instruction we received, we would not have been prepared to act and flee when the situation presented itself."
Asked to clarify whether the suspects escaped or were freed by the gunman, as indicated by other officials and the attacker’s family, a spokeswoman for Cytron-Walker told The Times of Israel, "They escaped."
Update at 12:45 a.m. ET: Heard on the local 11:00 pm news: The two teens arrested in Manchester are Mr. Akram’s sons. Separately, Mr. Akram is unsurprisingly starting to be described as a Pakistani-Brit. As for me, I wonder why a mentally unbalanced petty criminal who landed in New York City would go all the way to the wilds of Texas to attack a minor synagogue noted for its work with Moslems, alternative lifestyles, and other “good works”.
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as to why Akram went to Ft Worth area it seems obvious that he did so because Aafia Siddiqui is being held at the Carswell Federal Medical Center in Ft Worth
question is who helped him get there from NYC and, for that matter, who gave him funds for an airplane ticket to NYC
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I googled synagogues in Ft. Worth, Texas — the one he attacked was the closest result to the DFW International Airport that’s actually Jewish.
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Mark Steyn: The weekend seizure of a Texas synagogue by a "British man" is the umpteenth example of "Let's pretend that the 37,893rd incident of Islamic terrorism is anything but Islamic terrorism".
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Yahoo listened to the tape and reports he claimed having six children. What a genetic heritage he left them, to be sure.
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(wfaa.com) DALLAS — The standoff had lasted more than 11 hours, and Charlie Cytron-Walker, the rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel, knew the situation wasn't improving.
Cytron-Walker and two other men were still being held hostage, as they had been most of the day Saturday, inside their synagogue in Colleyville. None of the hostages had been hurt.
But the suspect, Malik Faisal Akram, had a gun, and "he wasn't getting what he wanted," Cytron-Walker said Monday in an interview with CBS Morning News.
So, Cytron-Walker looked for an opening. When Akram "wasn't in a good position," Cytron-Walker made sure the other two hostages were ready.
Cytron-Walker then told them to flee, as he threw a chair toward Akram. The three hostages bolted for the door and escaped, a moment captured on video by WFAA.
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Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi had a strong relationship with local Islamic Mosques.
The Islamic Center of Southlake said Cytron-Walker brought sweets to their Eid festival and attends festivities during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, former center president Shahzad Mahmud said.
Mahmud said the rabbi and his wife have been friends of the Islamic center since "day one."
[Garowe] A renowned British terrorist who is being sought by Interpol and various security agencies around the world has reportedly ditched her fourth husband and subsequently, moved to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... after spending a couple of years in an unknown location in Somalia.
Samantha Lewthwaite
...who also used the fake South African identity of Natalie Faye Webb, converted to Islam at age 15, then worked her way bed by bed husband after husband up the Al Shabaab and Al Qaeda organizations. Though decidedly female, she reportedly was the key organizer of various jihadi plots in England and the Horn of Africa ...
alias the Black Widow, originally from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, is among the world's most wanted women. She is a mother of four according to security officials.
At 38, Samantha was previously linked to London's 7/7 bombing
...via first husband Germaine Lindsay, the British-Jamaican terrorist who carried out one of the deadly kabooms in London on July 7, 2005. Former Kenyan naval officer turned terrorist Abdi Wahid wore her wedding ring next, I think. Al Qaeda henchman Fahmi Jamal Salim, also known as Marco Costa, followed, fathering two of her children, then the one she just fled....
before fleeing to South Africa. Later, she crossed to Tanzania in 2011 and then Kenya, before Sherlocks tracked her to an al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... stronghold in Somalia.
The infamous Black Widow was linked to a string of attacks across the world which may have resulted in the death of over 400 people. She's currently the most sought female terrorist around the world, The Daily Mirror reports.
Most recently, she spent seven years with her fourth husband, a Somalia warlord known as 'Sheikh Hassan',
... Hassan Maalim Ibrahim to his mother...
before splitting from him and fleeing to Yemen, reports The Mirror.
Police sources said she fled from a 'no-go' zone in Somalia where they have been hiding and is believed to have crossed over to Yemen. She is now believed to reside in a jihadi-sympathising stronghold in neighbouring Yemen, where she wears a full niqab and gloves to conceal her identity.
One security source told the Mirror: '[Lewthwaite] and Sheikh Hassan are no longer together — it is thought they are divorced. She had protection from his family in a no-go area in Somalia. 'But now she is not welcome and has gone back to al-Qaeda-controlled Yemen. She got there in a dhow sailing vessel.
But despite this latest development, there are no intelligence reports which are exclusively reporting about her whereabouts. Yemen has been in turmoil for several years and there is a possibility that she crossed over unnoticed.
Lewthwaite, originally of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was the wife of 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay and is thought to be behind scores of suicide kabooms across Africa and the Middle East.
Interpol issued a Red Notice warrant for her arrest after she was linked to the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Kenya, which left five Britons and 66 other people dead and injured around 200 others.
London University graduate Lewthwaite reportedly altered her appearance through plastic surgery and piled on weight in a bid to remain unrecognised. She has pledged to raise all of her four children, who have three different fathers, as jihadists.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Saudi-led coalition forces in Shabwah province have on Friday imposed a curfew and issued orders preventing rustics from carrying their personal weapons.Local sources stated that the coalition moved to humiliate the rustics in the areas it recently took over in the areas of Usaylan and Bayhan, by imposing a curfew in popular local markets until further notice.
The arbitrary measures against the rustics come after the latter had vowed to take Dire Revenge on coalition-backed holy warriors for the burglary of dozens of civilian houses
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[NATION.PK] Police completed its operation in which a large haul of rusted weapons buried in a godown in the old city area.According to the details of recovered weapons given by the police, 13 anti-aircraft guns, 183 sten guns, 63 revolvers and six mousers were recovered in the excavation.
Moreover, parts of different sophisticated weapons were also recovered in large number after digging in the godown in Bhimpura locality of the old city area.
The police has recorded statements of the building’s Munshi and shopowners. "All of them have expressed their ignorance about the arms," police sources said.
Muhammad Saleem, who is running his shop in this building since 2007, has said that he was unaware about presence of the weapons. "I don’t know how the arms came here," Saleem said in his statement to police.
Muhammad Shafiq, who is running shop adjacent to the godown since last three years, also expressed his ignorance about the weapons. "Even the Munshi of the building since year 2003, said he was unaware about it," police sources said.
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well someone knew about them or they wouldn't be digging them up. Isn't there a gun market near the Khyber Pass that is renowned for making and bringing back old guns back to life?
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[NYPOST] The University of Michigan fired its president Saturday for having a years-long affair with a subordinate, and sending "inappropriate" messages to her on his university email.
The university’s Board of Regents made the decision after receiving an anonymous complaint in December that Dr. Mark Schlissel has "been involved in an inappropriate relationship with a University employee," according to a blurb. A three-page termination letter that cited five emails he sent concluded his "interactions with the subordinate were inconsistent with promoting the dignity and reputation of the University of Michigan."
"After an investigation, we learned that Dr. Schlissel, over a period of years, used his University email account to communicate with that subordinate in a manner inconsistent with the dignity and reputation of the University," the board said Saturday night announcing the removal of the president.
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The big surprise to me is that one of the entitled class actually was accountable for violating his own policies. May this trend spread!
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Oh, I think the Deep Left has a social credit system running already. When someone like this guy, Coomo or Franken gets jettisoned over improprieties with wimmen, it's because they were already slotted for being dumped.
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Could be wrong but I suspect there's much more to this story
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan’s Interior Ministry announced late Thursday the arrest of the killer of the Police Brig. Gen. Ali Praima Hammad, who was killed during the anti-coup protests.The killer confessed to killing the police general and wounding other coppers, said the police press office in a statement posted by the official news agency SUNA.
Earlier a police officer said that Praima had been stabbed to death in a knife attack.
The Head of the Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and government officials offered condolences to the family of the dear departed police general.
For his part, the army front man Tahir Abu Haja said that attacks on the armed forces and other regular forces "target the national security and the unity of Sudan".
The situation requires a serious assessment. There is no middle ground between Heaven and Hell. So, Freedom has no value if its fruits are death, blood and destruction," he stressed.
The security forces recently intensified the crackdown on the anti-coup protests which now involves the regular army and their armoured vehicles.
Until now 64 protesters were killed by the security forces and hundreds were maimed.
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Low-hanging fruit arrests, no risk no blow back, arrest a crazy black guy and have to use any physical force, career ending risks or worse. When you can't trust the DA and the department to protect you from lawsuits, MSM hectoring or abandonment for violating the Melanin Exemption, go for the safe and easy route to end-of-watch brewski's.
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So people say we should not compare the treatment of the unvaccinated to the Jews of 1940, the Asians of the early 40's, or the blacks of the 1950's. But tell me the difference now of not being allowed into a city to eat, shop, or check into a hotel because your not vaccinated? The reasons for the segregation of the Jews and blacks were the same as today, they-we are considered diseased, dirty and not worthy of participating in society. The Asians were out of misguided fear, not unlike today. The newspapers today are calling to lock people in their homes or camps until the unvaccinated comply. People say what happened to the Jews, Blacks and Asians could never happen again, never happen here, but it is... Locking people up because of fear. Where are the Jews in America standing up against this? Where are the blacks standing up against this? Where are the Asians? Just like the German civilians, they are either in agreement or are hiding in fear.... Which are you??? What side of the history will you fall into?
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Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Esmail Qaani visited the grave of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a commander in the pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Forces, as well as other graves in the city of Najaf, Iraq on Sunday, according to Iranian media.
حضور سردار قاآنی در کنار مزار شهید ابو مهدیالمهندس و شهدای خانواده صدر در نجف اشرف pic.twitter.com/g89dUzh7YM
Al-Muhandis was killed in 2020 in the US drone strike which targeted then IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad. The visit by Qaani comes after a string of rocket and drone attacks targeting US advisers in Iraq and Syria in early January. At least some of the attacks were blamed on pro-Iranian militias.
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The #Taliban have dismissed about 3,000 members accused of abusive practices from its extremist movement in a widespread “vetting process” launched since coming to power, an official says.https://t.co/pLx0X4ht1o
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Saudi-led coalition has prevented yet another oil ship from reaching the Hodeidah port on Sunday.
Spokesman of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... Petroleum Company (YPC), Issam al-Mutawakel, announced that the coalition stopped the ship Sea Adore from entering the port.
"Further deepening the suffering of the Yemeni citizen, the coalition continues to intensify the stifling fuel crisis by preventing an UN-permitted oil ship from access to the port, and took it the coast of Jizan," he added.
On Thursday, the YPC’s executive General Director, Ammar al-Adra’i, said in a news statement that "there is a stifling oil crisis that citizens are suffering from in all provinces."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. economy "has never worked fairly for Black Americans — or, really, for any American of color," Treasury Secretary 
[WIRE] Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News on Saturday evening that the hostage situation that unfolded on Saturday afternoon at a synagogue in Texas was part of a "perfect storm brewing" and that it was a "religious war."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...The word 
[Washington Examiner] Republican Sen. Mitt Romney did not hold back when criticizing President Joe Biden’s first year in office.
[Ron Paul Institute] There was much speculation toward the end of Donald Trump’s term as president of the United States that Trump would pardon Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, or both of these men who were responsible for exposing vast amounts of wrongdoing by the US government. But, it did not come to pass. Why? Glenn Greenwald, who played a key role in helping Snowden expose information about the US government’s mass surveillance programs and who advocated in public and behind the scenes that Trump pardon both men, has some interesting thoughts about that.
[Breitbart] A multi-agency effort led to the arrest of a large group of migrants attempting to avoid detection by wearing camouflage. The arrest took place in a remote area of the 
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...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[NATION.PK] In yet another celebratory firing incident, a wedding ceremony in Lahore turned into mourning on Saturday night after two brothers were killed in an 
[FoxNews] Robert Patillo also offered a strategy to prevent crime on 'Unfiltered with Dan Bongino'.
[DAILYYEMEN.NET] Violent confrontations erupted on Sunday in front of the Balhaf gas facility in Shabwa province, eastern 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A woman who was working as a substitute teacher posted a video to social media alleging she was fired by school officials for not "identifying with" a student who "identifies as a cat" after she refused to meow back at the child in class.
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[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] On his first day in office, Virginia's newly-elected Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed 11 executive orders, including ones that he campaigned on, such as ending critical race theory and mask mandates in the state's schools.
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[SHAFAQ] The President of the Kurdistan region, Nechirvan Barzani, and Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, congratulated Nouri al-Maliki for being elected as Secretary-General of the Islamic Dawa Party.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] South Sudanese government and an SPLA-IO splinter group will sign a peace agreement on Sunday, January 16, announced the Sudanese government.A South Sudanese security delegation led by Presidential Adviser for Security Affairs Tut Gatluak and a delegation of the SPLA/IO Kitgwang faction led by General Simon Gatwich Dual resumed peace talks in Khartoum on January 11.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...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...
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
[NYPOST] The University of Michigan fired its president Saturday for having a years-long affair with a subordinate, and sending "inappropriate" messages to her on his university email.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan’s Interior Ministry announced late Thursday the arrest of the killer of the Police Brig. Gen. Ali Praima Hammad, who was killed during the anti-coup protests.The killer confessed to killing the police general and wounding other 
Three men and one woman were arrested after staging a sit-in at the Times Square Olive Garden
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Saudi-led coalition has prevented yet another oil ship from reaching the Hodeidah port on Sunday.
