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There is a velocity at which mass convergence transmogrifies a somewhat protective "brain bucket" into nothing more than a (final) fashion statement.
[Defense One] President Vladimir Putin is more likely than not to invade Ukraine again in the coming weeks. As someone who helped President Barack Obama manage the U.S. and international response to Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014, and our effort to keep Moscow from occupying the whole country into 2015, I am distressingly convinced of it.
Why? I see the scale and type of force arrayed by the Russian military, the ultimatums issued by Putin and his officials, the warlike rhetoric that has until recently saturated Russian airwaves, and the impatience with talks expressed by his foreign minister. Add to that the likely anxiety produced in Putin by the demonstrations last week in Kazakhstan—and Moscow’s success in tamping them down.
But the basic reason I think talks with Russia will fail is that the United States and its allies have nothing they can immediately offer Moscow in exchange for a de-escalation.
[Defense One] The United States must do more than issue ultimatums about sanctions and economic penalties. U.S. leaders should be marshalling an international coalition of the willing, readying military forces to deter Putin and, if necessary, prepare for war.
If Russia prevails again, we will remain stuck in a crisis not just over Ukraine but about the future of the global order far beyond that country’s borders. Left unrestrained, Putin will move swiftly, grab some land, consolidate his gains, and set his sights on the next satellite state in his long game to restore all the pre-1991 borders: the sphere of geographical influence he deems was unjustly stripped from Great Russia.
The world will watch our response. Any subsequent acceptance of Russian gains will spell the beginning of the end of the international order. If Europe, NATO, and its allies in Asia and elsewhere fail to defend the foundational United Nations principles of sanctity of borders and state sovereignty, no one will. Sanctity of borders, you say? Ukrainian borders?
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Please ignore the western sponsored coup against Ukraine.
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Not the "Domino theory" narrative again?
Couple a feckless administration with a "woke" military and you have a recipe for another disaster.
This administration would have trouble organizing a one-man parade.
Borders are important in other countries but not ours? WTF?
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This retarded regurgitation of hollow cant shows why our ruling class is so fvcking incompetent. Evelyn Farkas is the brightest bulb these dimwits can offer. Consider how stupid and shallow her points are:
the basic reason I think talks with Russia will fail is that the United States and its allies have nothing they can immediately offer Moscow in exchange for a de-escalation
The man wants us to stop expanding NATO. No NATO membership for Ukraine. Got that ? No.Ukrainian.accession.to.NATO.
How fvcking obtuse do you have to be not to grasp what Putin has said, plainly and unmistakably, fifty times already?
Then she blathers endlessly about the End of the International Order, lions 'n' tiguhz 'n' beahz Oh My!
When did that happen as a result of Russia asserting its power in its backyard? After 2008? Nope. 2014? No. Why exactly is the Transdniester more significant than Crimea or Georgia for the continued survival and Success of The International Order? How does that work?
Again, this is one of their intellectuals speaking.
[Deadline] Meat Loaf, the hardworking singer and actor whose Bat Out of Hell is one of the best-selling albums ever and who played Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has died. He was 74.
The Grammy winner born Marvin Lee Aday died Thursday night surrounded by his wife Deborah, daughters Pearl and Amanda and close friends, Meat Loaf’s longtime agent Michael Greene told Deadline on behalf of the family. A cause of death is not being released. Paradise by the dashboard lights. Good bye Meat Loaf.
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He was talented, for sure. Worked with a great songwriter, Jim Steinman. Worked with some excellent producers. The critics thought it was schlock to the max, but it was entertaining as hell and sold well.
As John Hiatt said, "Today's music ain't got the same soul."
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^ Oops, Bob Seger said that.
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[American Greatness] Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said during an interview on Thursday that Joe Biden’s inability to express a coherent message on foreign policy has become such a national security risk, he should probably not be allowed "to speak or appear in public."
Paul appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss a wide range of topics, including Biden’s long and meandering press conference Wednesday afternoon.
"You know, it’s rambling and disjointed enough that it’s really hard to get a coherent message out of it," Paul told Hewitt. The senator stressed that it is of the utmost importance for a world leader to know what and what not to say.
"There are things you do to try to influence other countries," he explained. "And they are influenced by your public pronouncements. And in some ways, that’s all you have. You have the threat of military might, but you also have the influence of what you say."
Biden, who appeared tired, confused, and disoriented at times throughout the presser, at one point speculated that Russia will soon invade Ukraine. He also suggested that our NATO allies are not fully united on how to handle tensions between Ukraine and Russia, and that a "minor incursion" by Russia into Ukraine’s sovereign territory would be tolerated by the West.
Administration officials quickly put out statements to the media walking back Biden’s remarks, but the damage was done. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, a ruthless exploiter of weakness, had already seen Biden’s mixed messages.
"So you can’t be sending a muddled message or a message of well, it may not be too big a deal, you know, if there’s a Russian incursion," Paul told Hewitt. "So I think that it’s a mistake for him to be out in front. It’s dangerous to the country. And I think we’re stuck with him, in all likelihood, until 2024. And I think it would be good for the country for him not to speak and not to appear in public."
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I would go with not speaking at all, I'm tired of hearing that blithering idiot.
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Never interrupt your enemy while he's destroying himself.
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^ Generally agree with you M but in this case he's destroying the country as well. Not to worry though, his handlers are trying to stuff him in the basement and provide a suitable video doppelganger. Much better than an actual meat puppet.
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The have knocked the legs out from under any future efforts they make to apply the 25th Amendment skeer story to a non-dem president. All anyone will have to do is make the comparison to how they found Joe to be competent.
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My thinking is, compared to Billy Jeff Clinton and Bath House Barry, who are both severely flawed individuals, but at least mentally competent, Bidet is not, himself, a serious threat to the future of America. His handlers and backers are, and there is pretty much no way they avoid being damaged by association with Joe. They need to be exposed and tied to Joe's legacy of pathetic mediocrity forever.
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The State of the Union & Groundhog Day
This February 2, 2022, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address will occur on the same day.
This is an ironic juxtaposition of events.
One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication . . .
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Come to think of it, Max Headroom does look a bit like a slightly younger Uncle Joe.
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Joe Headroom.
I disagree. More, please. Why deny the voters of the United States, indeed the people of the world, the stage of the most popular, effective politician in the history of the United States, nay, the world.
Defeated Trump without even campaigning, without even trying. So persuasive is he, that professionally neutral moderators were won over before even the second question. Cicero cries for what he himself never could be. Machiavelli, as outdated as the flat Earth.
[American Greatness] The quest for truth-in-COVID did pick up some steam in late spring 2021.
Not about the vaccine, though.
About the origins of the virus.
From the first days of the epidemic, strong circumstantial evidence suggested Sars-CoV-2 had leaked from a Chinese lab. Both the virus itself and the facts around its emergence pointed to human intervention.
Wuhan, the city of 10 million people where the first cases were found, is home to China’s most important viral research laboratory, the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The institute aggressively researched bat coronaviruses, which China had viewed as a serious risk since the original SARS outbreak in 2003.
In 2017 the institute opened China’s first Biosafety Level 4 laboratory. Level 4 labs are the most secure available, designed to handle deadly pathogens such as Ebola. But just months after the lab opened, U.S. State Department officials visited and reported in a cable to Washington that the new facility was at risk of a serious accident. They found "a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory."
The troubled lab was located only miles from the first cluster of cases in central Wuhan. And it had worked with a virus very similar to Sars-CoV-2 known as RaTG13 (or RaBtCov/4991), which had been found in a cave in 2013 after several miners working there became seriously ill with pneumonia.
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Bio weapon is an Asian passion. Use of infection used many times against their own people. They have a long history in this use and attacking other peoples is not a concern for them. People to them are but blades of grass.
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It's working out so well for them right now. They are locking themselves down into a worse recession than the one that was supposed to usher in the 1000 year reich permanent dem rule. And their biggest custoners are not buying as much now.
Yes, a big win for them. /sarc
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India leads the charge"In what may be the first legal case of its kind globally, a petitioner in India is seeking to prosecute Bill Gates, Indian vaccine czar Adar Poonawalla, and Indian government and public health officials over the death of a 23-year-old man who died after receiving AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine." Died same day upon being vaxed.
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Soon to be in China - the Winter Olympics Where No One Came.
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My level of concern over the origins of COVID-19 has decreased greatly. Evidence for this has been thoroughly hidden and or buried along with those "in the know" back in the PRC over the last 2 years. I am more concerned about the next viral agent of mass destruction. Stay tuned.
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[BBC] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are meeting for talks in Geneva amid mounting fears that Russia could be about to invade Ukraine.
On Thursday Mr Blinken warned Moscow of grave consequences if any of its forces crossed the border.
Russia has 100,000 troops at the border, but denies planning to invade.
President Vladimir Putin has issued demands to the West, including that Ukraine be stopped from joining Nato.
He wants the Western defensive alliance to abandon military exercises and stop sending weapons to eastern Europe, which Moscow sees as its backyard.
Russia previously seized and annexed the Crimean peninsula in southern Ukraine in 2014. Ever since, Ukraine's military has been locked in a war with Russian-backed rebels in areas near the border. The conflict has claimed 14,000 lives and caused at least two million people to flee their homes.
The summit between the top US and Russian diplomats follows moves by Mr Blinken to secure US allies' backing for sanctions against Moscow.
After discussions in Berlin with British, French and German officials on Thursday, Mr Blinken said that allowing a Russian incursion into Ukraine would "drag us all back to a much more dangerous and unstable time, when this continent, and this city, were divided in two... with the threat of all-out war hanging over everyone's heads".
[Washington Examiner] President Joe Biden has blown past both Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump in adding regulatory costs in his first year, a new analysis shows.
The Biden administration is finishing off its first full year in office with more than $201 billion in regulatory costs and approximately 131 million hours in new annual paperwork, according to research by the American Action Forum, a conservative think tank that closely tracks government rule-making.
Biden’s regulatory costs are three times those added in Obama’s inaugural year and nearly 40 times more than in Trump’s first year, the group found. Additionally, Biden’s 131 million hours in annual paperwork attached to its regulations blew past the totals from Trump and Obama by 123 million and 105 million hours, respectively.
AAF noted in its research that the single biggest regulatory change during Biden’s first year, which came near the end of 2021, was a rule that changed tailpipe emission requirements for new cars, trucks, and SUVs.
The rule requires automakers to meet a fleetwide average of 55 mph by 2026 — a significant jump from the 38 mpg average required today and higher than the 43 mpg standard the Trump administration set for 2026.
The total cost of the rule change is expected to be about $180 billion, which makes it the most expensive final rule tracked by the AAF since 2005, the group said. In fact, Biden’s inaugural year in terms of regulatory costs would have fallen to second place behind Obama’s first year had that rule not been approved.
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How can a president issue economic rules without the approval of congress. So the next president says all the past rules are null and void. How do I run my business?
At least four people were killed and more than a dozen injured in shelling on #Syria's city of Afrin and a separate rocket attack on its outskirts, medics at a local hospital and civil defense rescue workers say.https://t.co/4lo5nKbuLP
At least four people were killed and more than a dozen injured in shelling on the Syrian city of Afrin and a separate rocket attack on its outskirts on Thursday, medics at a local hospital and civil defense rescue workers said.
They were the latest in years of attacks on the northwestern enclave controlled by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and the Syrian rebels it backs. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the assaults.
Turkey has blamed previous attacks there on the Syrian Kurdish YPG group, which held the Afrin area until Ottoman Turkish forces seized the region in a cross-border military operation in 2018.
The shelling on Afrin city killed three people and maimed a dozen more people, the medics and rescue workers said.
The separate rocket attack on a car killed a woman and maimed three more people in the town of Maryamayn on the ouskirts of Afrin, they added.
Ottoman Turkish forces responded by shelling Kurdish-held areas, media controlled by Turkey-aligned rebels reported.
Turkey regards the YPG as a terrorist group tied to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) inside its own borders, and has staged incursions into Syria in support of Syrian rebels to push it back from the Ottoman Turkish frontier.
Accusing the US of hostility and threats, North Korea says it will consider restarting “all temporally-suspended activities” it had paused during its diplomacy with the Trump administration.https://t.co/xt7IMzNfJH
That’d be Israel, I suspect. In which case the radar will just help them pinpoint their targets. Yay!
[NPASyria] Recently, Iranian-backed militias in al-Mayadin area in Deir ez-Zor countryside, east Syria, have installed a radar system to detect drones and protect its military points from being an aerial target by opponents.
Iranian-backed militias control large swaths of the Deir ez-Zor countryside, where al-Mayadin and al-Bukamal are considered the most areas of destinations by Arab and imported muscle who join the Iranian-backed militias.
A military source of the militias told North Press that it stalled a radar in Mazar Ayn area in the countryside of al-Mayadin, east of Deir ez-Zor.
“Got that, Yossi? The general will be interested.”
“Marked on the map, Sgt. Avi. Tell the boys to film the pretty secondaries — my girlfriend needs a birthday present.”
Areas held by Iranian-backed militias have been often targeted and are accused of launching attacks on the US-led Global Coalition bases eastern Syria.
In late 2021, the factions installed a radar system and operated it in al-Mazare’ area near al-Mayadin and transformed the area to colonies and military barracks.
Prior to that, the factions tested an Iranian-made drone nicknamed "Ababil" which hovered in the skies of al-Rahba castle and Mazar Ayn area south of al-Mayadin.
Over 2017, the number of Iranian-backed members in Syria mounted to 70,000 gunnies distributed on 50 military formations. Currently, they are estimated to be up to 100,000 bad boys, Muhammad Ali Jafari, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said.
[HodhodYemenNews] The US-backed Saudi-led coalition warplanes have launched a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i capital Sana’a early Thursday, targeting Sana’a Airport and residential neighbourhoods, security sources said.
According to the sources, the coalition warplanes launched three airstrikes on the vicinity of Sana’a international Airport and two airstrikes targeting the hygiene project in Asr area.
Moreover, the coalition warplanes targeted food stores of the merchant Haider Fahem in al-Thawra district with an airstrike and targeted al-Qiyadah al-Amma in al-Tahrir district in the center of the capital, with another airstrike.
The sources stated that the aggression’s warplanes launched a raid on Bab al-Yemen area in al-Safia district, which led to the damage of a number of citizens’ homes.
[HodhodYemenNews] Fierce battles have continued on Thursday between the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i army and Popular Committees on one side, and the Saudi-led coalition forces and their armed factions on another side, in the south of Ma’rib city, eastern Yemen.
The army forces carried out a successful operation, during which they were able to encircle the coalition troops and target them in al-Faliha area between Abida valley and the eastern Balaq Mountains, according to tribal sources.
The sources indicated that intense coalition Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s failed to save the Saudi-led forces, which suffered huge losses in lives and military gear.
Many coalition officers and soldiers were killed, including field leaders Hamad bin Mohammed bin Waheet and Zayed bin Sultan Ta’iman.
[HodhodYemenNews] Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i Armed Forces Spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e has confirmed on Wednesday evening that "the army forces were able to confront a wide advance of ISIS and UAE mercenaries towards our positions in the Harib and Ain districts. Despite their intense air cover, they did not make any progress."
He went on to say, "The enemy has been dealt a blow to its personnel and equipment, with more than 50 of them killed or injured, and a number of armoured vehicles destroyed".
"The missile force attacked large gatherings of the enemy with two ballistic missiles; the strikes were accurate, resulting in a large number of dead and maimed," the Yemeni Army front man concluded.
[SaharaReporters] Travellers in some communities in Borno State are now being forced by militants of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction of the Boko Haram, to pay what they call, taxes.
Military sources told SaharaReporters that the terrorists mounted roadblocks in the Gubio Local Government Area on Wednesday, issuing tax receipts to travellers.
SaharaReporters gathered that defaulters were forced by the insurgents to pay while the mobile phones of those who didn’t have money were seized.
“They took over different roads yesterday forcing people to pay taxes to them. They all came on motorcycles,” a source said.
This is coming hours after SaharaReporters published tax receipts issued by the terror group to farmers and herdsman in some North-East states.
The receipts were issued to residents of some farming communities in Borno State under the control of the group after collection of levies and taxes from them.
SaharaReporters had in several reports in 2021 reported how the insurgents had been taxing residents of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe State.
Sources said failure of the residents to comply with the directive attracts the death penalty.
SaharaReporters also reported how ISWAP established two Wilaya’s (Caliphates) at Lake Chad and Sambisa forest to sustain its war against countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
According to sources, the terrorist group lifted the ban imposed on fishing and farming activities in the Lake Chad area, three years after chasing people out of for allegedly spying for Nigerian troops.
It, nevertheless, imposed new taxes and levies in the areas controlled by ISWAP-Boko Haram, to regulate trades and agricultural activities.
Several fishermen, farmers and merchants had returned to the Lake-Chad area to engage in socio-economic activities, under the arrangement of the new ISWAP-Boko Haram leadership.
Since the death of JAS leader, Abubakar Shekau, ISWAP has been consolidating its grip in locations around Lake Chad.
Just recently, it appointed Wali Sani Shuwaram, a 45-year-old as the new Leader (Wali) of ISWAP in Lake Chad.
[SaharaReporters] Some photographs taken in the recent past showing two governors and an associate of notorious bandidos’ kingpin, Bello Turji, standing together have raised dusts.
In the picture with the suspect, Musa Kamarawa, who has confessed to working with Turji, are the governors of Zamfara and Sokoto, Bello Matawalle and Aminu Tambuwal, and the deputy governor of Sokoto, Mannir Dan Iyya.
Zamfara and Sokoto are two of the North-west states under attacks by bandidos in which hundreds of people have been killed and thousands displaced.
SaharaReporters last week Friday reported that Kamarawa, nephew to former Governor Attahiru Bafarawa, was arrested by the police and detained in Abuja over links to bandidos and their leaders.
Kamarawa was arrested in September 2021 but the video of his questioning by the police only appeared online a few weeks ago.
Under interrogation, Kamarawa said he had known Turji for long.
"Turji is my bosom friend, we are always in touch and we seek each other’s advice on our operations most of the time," the suspect said.
He said the notorious bandidos’ kingpin had over 100 armed guards around him and named those supplying Turji with shoes, military camouflage uniforms, drugs and other materials.
Kamarawa, who is from Isa local government area of Sokoto State, has extensive knowledge of communities and forests in Sokoto East and Zamfara North, especially villages bordering Shinkafi (in Zamfara) and Isa (in Sokoto).
Kamarawa was among those first contacted by Mr Matawalle after he was declared governor in 2019, to facilitate a peace accord with bandidos, Premium Times reports.
A source at the Zamfara Government House, who is also a Special Adviser to the governor, said Kamarawa was referred to by the governor when the peace accord was being initiated.
"Though Bello Turji didn’t accept the peace accord, there were a lot of bandidos who turned in their guns and ammunition through Musa (Kamarawa).
"We didn’t know he had interest in them and was working for them because he was always advising us to expand our peace talks. You can attest to the fact that several weapons and bandidos were here (Gusau) and we witnessed peace for some time," said the official who requested not to be named because he did not have permission to speak to journalists.
[SaharaReporters] The Kwara State Police Command has said claims that the fleeing Zamfara State bandidos kingpin, Bello Turji, has relocated to an unidentified forest in the state, are untrue.
Spokesman of the command, Okasanmi Ajayi, in Ilorin on Wednesday, said it was necessary to clarify the claims to diffuse the tension already created in the minds of the public by the statement by a Federal politician in the House of Representatives claiming the kingpin and his gang had relocated to an unidentified forest in Kwara State.
"However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the statement by the politician did not reveal the source or veracity of its assertion," the police front man noted, assuring that "Kwara State is safe and secure."
Okasanmi said "All the boundaries, both local and international within the state have been well and massively policed by both the police and the military.
"Vigilante and local hunters are working tirelessly with security agents to ensure our forests are well monitored and protected," he added.
He disclosed that the state Police Commissioner, Tuesday Assayomo, had directed a 24-hour patrol of all entry and exit points to the state, while tactical units had been re-energised with the provision of additional patrol vehicles and other needed tools and incentives to aid their performance.
The commissioner also advised the public to make information of strange movements and activities around them available to the security agencies at all times.
Recall that the news of the bandidos’ kingpin, Bello Turji and his gang went viral to the effect that he had relocated to Kwara State, following the onslaught by security forces on their hideouts in Zamfara State, recently.
[SaharaReporters] Some local security operatives and vigilantes have arrested four 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... bandidos lurking to abduct travellers along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
In a video seen by SaharaReporters on Thursday, the security personnel said they launched a manhunt on the assailants, following incessant abduction of travellers on the ever busy road.
In the video, the criminals were reportedly arrested inside a forest at Lagos-Sagamu interchange near a community, Lufape before the Redeemed Christian Church of God Camp in Ogun State.
The bandidos revealed their names as Abdullahi, Abubakar, Ibrahim and Mohammed.
The local security operatives who spoke in Yoruba said they recovered dangerous weapons such as loaded magazines and rifles from the assailants.
[SaharaReporters] Gunmen have killed a number of people and security agents in the last five days in communities in the Shiroro and Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State as another attack on the communities occurred on Tuesday.
According to Daily Sun, residents of Ukuru village in Bobi, Mariga local government area were woken up by the button men who killed an unspecified number of people. "They killed the women and raped the cattle"
Houses, food barns, including other properties were also destroyed in the process.
Scores of people, including women and kiddies were reportedly kidnapped during the attack.
The attack came barely 48 hours after the button men ambushed a Joint Security Team in Kwanan Dutse, killing three coppers and two vigilantes while a number of the button men were also neutralised.
Equally in Shiroro local government area, the button men also on Tuesday morning went haywire, sacking over 30 villages and displaced over 3,000 people.
Six people were killed while many were serious injured
Women were also said to have been raped in Ajatai in Kwaki community by the button men who stormed these communities at about 8am on Tuesday.
This was after the state Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello said it was time to declare a full-fledged war against the turbans in the state.
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The hood in its wisdom is rich,
At least in a limited niche:
"As is wrought on this dime,
'There would not be no crime
If you bitches just learned not to snitch!'"
["psst psst psst"]
"Well, it oughtta be. In Latin, natch."
Rivers State is Igbo (Biafra) country, primarily Christian with some Jews. Delta and Bayelsa States are next door.
[SaharaReporters] Troops of Operation Delta Safe have discovered and debilitated no fewer than 39 illegal refining sites, 91 cooking ovens, 24 reservoirs, 17 large dugout pits and 96 storage tanks in the Niger Delta region in the last two weeks.
During the operations, they also uncovered a total of 637,500 liters of illegally refined automotive gas oil; and 950,000 liters of stolen crude oil.
Among other things recovered were three assorted arms, 48 rounds of different caliber of ammunitions, two AK-47 rifle magazines as well as 17 pieces of galvanized pipes and 23 wooden boats.
Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Bernard Onyeuko, who made this known at a briefing on Thursday, stated that, "In addition, 10 criminals associated with pipeline vandalism, piracy, illegal oil bunkering and armed robbery were arrested.
"Also, troops recovered three assorted arms, 48 rounds of different caliber of ammunitions, two AK-47 rifle magazines as well as 17 pieces of galvanized pipes and 23 wooden boats among other items used for illegal oil bunkering activities in the course of the operations. All the arrested criminals and recovered items have been handed over to relevant security agencies for further action."
Onyeuko said troops of Delta Safe conducted these operations at different locations in villages, creeks and towns in Emohua, Ikwere, Port Harcourt and Ahoada LGAs of Rivers State.
Other locations are villages, towns and creeks in; Warri South, Warri South-West and Warri North LGAs of Delta State as well as in Ekeremor, Brass and Southern Ijaw LGAs of Bayelsa State.
[Townhall] The U.S. Supreme Court has not been too kind to abortion providers seeking relief from the Texas Heartbeat Act, which bans most abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is at about six weeks. On Thursday, the Court rejected a request from providers who were asking that the case be sent to a federal district court. Court-shopping, the Democrat's fave pastime
Abortion providers were asking that the case be sent to a federal district court, which had previously ruled against the law. As I reported in October, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, appointed by President Barack Obama, blocked enforced of the law with the strongest condemnation against it.
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Upon reading the Texas Law it seems to cover all the needed situations used to save the life of the mother (tubercular pregnancies and address situations of pregnancies resulting criminal sex crimes.
But why is Planned Parenthood (PPH) having $hit fit?
Given PPH performs about 40% of abortions in the United States, it stands to see a loss of income in the High $400+ million. Since about 45+% of PPH abortions happen after week 6, when the fetal Heart beat can be heard.
NOTE: Its no secret, a majority of possible unwanted pregnancies situations can quickly handled with 1 pill of Levonorgestrel (aka Plan B a <$50 OTC med). Since it stops gestation long before a fetal growth starts...
IF taken in 48hrs.
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Mayor Pete's very simple solution: an Executive Order from Brandon disallowing low visibility conditions.
*Chef's kiss!*
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"Heck of a job you're doing, brown-eye."
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If we really had an opposition party, they'd be running motions and hearings asserting "fraud" for sending checks to Buttigieg. He's clearly not a government "employee" in that he does ZERO work. Its PUBLIC GRAFT to pretend that he's worthy of a title and money for just being a gay faceplate.
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You can pay the gheygeld, but you'll never get rid of the ghey...
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Got a little train looting problem too, which I understand is not covered by local jurisdiction.
And now that word is out.
Maybe the Covid approach; start fining those companies and locations who don't comply and we'll figure out how the consequences are your fault down the road; likely saboteurs and anti-science radicals who think they are mind control devices.
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...which I understand is not covered by local jurisdiction
U.S. Code section 1991 – "Entering train to commit crime: This statute makes it a crime to willfully and maliciously trespass upon or enter a railroad train, car, or locomotive with the intent to commit murder or robbery. It applies in any territory or district within the jurisdiction of the United States. If a defendant enters a train in such a territory with the intent to commit murder or robbery, the defendant could face up to 20 years imprisonment. If a defendant enters a train with the intent to commit any unlawful violence upon a passenger, conductor, engineer, fireman, brakeman, mail agent, express messenger, or any officer or employee or person or property on the train, the defendant could be convicted and imprisoned for up to a year".
...so the Feds.
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^ Noted this the other day. "Robbery" usually involves taking property from an individual under threat of force. Breaking into a boxcar could be considered "burglary," which isn't the same thing. I'm no lawyer, but I do know burglary and robberyare not necessarily the same thing.
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I believe burglary is not considered a 'violent' crime. Robbery is.
#9
Buttigieg is a placeholder, someone who fills space and occupies a position. He is not there to solve any problems. The administration is virtue-signaling to capture votes from a segment of the population.
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Buttigieg is a placeholder, someone who fills space and occupies a position. He is not there to solve any problems.
He, and all appointments like him, are also attempted political blockhouses. "Only a homophobe would notice the cargo ship jam. You ask too much of a new parent...of twins."
Like when Agriculture was like where is our fucking Autumn fertilizer!? and the response was, "Oh, just became parents...and oh, twins! How totally unexpected! Needed some extra time." Like this is some medical era pre-stethoscope.
Twister star Bill Paxton , 61, died of a stroke on February 25 just 11 days after undergoing heart surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
His wife and children are suing the hospital for punitive damages, claiming its surgeon performed 'an overly aggressive surgery that he was not trained for'
The lawsuit also claims that Cedars lied to the actor's family about its intentions of conducting an autopsy
Paxton's family said the health center neglected to do so because it sought to 'could conceal their role in causing the death of Mr. Paxton'
It's not clear how much the family seeks in the Los Angeles Superior Court suit
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced her plan to ask National Guard members and state employees to volunteer as substitute teachers
New Mexico appears to be the first state to ask National Guard members to become classroom teachers
The governor said that since winter break 60 schools have gone into remote learning and 75 child day care centers have partially or completely closed
Lujan Grisham said the state is hoping to deploy 500 new substitute teachers and day care workers as soon as possible
Staff shortages are due to teachers testing positive for Covid or forcing to quarantine
#1
While I understand a person not wanting to work conditions adverse to their personal safety. Given the "claimed" NEA support of VAX'ing, then why are teacher refusing to teach? Should they been good little union members and have alrwady taken the VAX and all the boosters that Lord F & JB have decreed?
Or, is this really a politically agenda move to force other union demands greater agenda goals?
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#3 Frank G, that was the first thought that crossed my mind. I doubt that a lot of the national guard or state bureaucrats have all the training and education degrees that we hear are necessary. But they can do the job just as well as the credentialed teachers? Is that what we are hearing?
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Well they might actually know the subject matter for one....
#10
The article said the teacher shortage was the result of COVID related quarantines and isolation of + cases, not that teachers were refusing to teach. I think any able bodied person with a 1960s or earlier class high school diploma could teach reasonably well brought up primary students, but perhaps not in New Mexico. It is our own third world state, after all.
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I've got a neighbor whose pitty gets loose. There's going to be a problem. Hopefully it won't involve any of the kids in the neighborhood just out being kids.
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[American Thinker] The Democrats and the propaganda ministry have tried to portray the events of January 6 as the greatest assault on democracy... in like, forever. But it seems like that narrative is starting to unravel. The unraveling began when many people began to suspect that the whole thing was a setup and started looking into it.
It wasn’t law enforcement or MSM journalists investigating -- they could be controlled. It was amateur citizen investigators using the power of the internet. Ah... the internet -- allowing average citizens to cross-reference and collate a limitless sea of information. Our Founders would approve.
Citizen investigators began to identify individuals who were clearly involved in inciting the riot on January 6. But a curious number of them had not been arrested by the FBI, even though their identity was well known. One such individual is Ray Epps. Epps is seen on video urging the crowd to enter the Capitol building. He lives in Arizona on a ranch and hasn’t been arrested. There are numerous others, just like him. The question became unavoidable: Did the federal government have involvement with January 6? We don’t know the answer to that question -- and that’s a problem for a constitutional republic.
As this curious information began to come to public attention, the FBI cover-up started. It removed Ray Epps from its "most wanted" list and released a report stating that there was no evidence of a coordinated attack on the Capitol -- even though they had been calling it a coordinated attack for months. Apparently, the bureau hoped the whole thing would fade into obscurity. But it didn’t. Merrick Garland and San Fran Nan wouldn’t let it.
The proud head of the police part of our police state couldn’t let it go. Garland was having too much fun playing with his new "fully operational death star" -- which has the Orwellian name "Department of Justice." The only thing missing is a "Peoples" at the beginning of that name. Unfortunately, Garland has bragged for months about his "shock and awe" campaign to bring insurrectionists to justice. The DoJ has had hundreds of citizens under arrest for months -- for the horrendous crimes of trespassing and taking selfies on Capitol grounds. What are prosecutors supposed to do? Go to the judge and say, "Oops! Our bad." That’s not the way police states operate.
Merrick Garland isn’t the only one pushing the narrative beyond what the evidence supports. San Fran Nan has kept the topic in the news as well. She is facing a midterm shellacking, looking down the barrel of a Trump return to politics, and needs a propaganda blunt object with which to beat on Republicans. Her solution was simple, elegant, and stupid.
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Klain may be the immediate management handler and have input along with Dr Jill about what sidebar benefits flow from what the Meat Puppet says on Teleprompter Today, but the real policy decision makers are a Committee that includes the Obama wing of the demokrat elites, big tech, the gay lobby, teachers and other unions, and the lurking CCP. All people whose interests are best served by the rapid decline of our nation. Look around and explain what else could possibly explain the policy choices they have made and things they have halted!
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Attaboy John Klain, keep up the good work (sarc). Between you and China Joe, this administration is sinking fast. Stolen elections have consequences.
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Please to remember. Klain is yet another "expert." He's been getting paid to do this forever, so when he's wrong, he's "expert" wrong. Sorta like Fauxi and a cast of uncountable thousands of others inside the Beltway.
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Have not seen it yet, but there is a cartoon going around of Klain firing Joe Biden.
[ZERO] Consumer prices soared the most in 40 years in December, a stunning 7% from a year earlier that is crushing real wage gains and sending President Biden's polling numbers to a new record low. The Federal Reserve is expected to embark on an inflation-crushing mission with the first-rate hike expected in March to tame inflation.
According to Target's top executive, high inflation eating into wage gains is expected to directly impact US consumers who will be forced to drive less, eat at home, and reduce their shopping habits.
Chief Executive Officer Brian Cornell told attendees at a National Retail Federation event in New York on Sunday that high inflation will derail consumer spending patterns. Many will resort to cheaper generic-brand goods to save money.
"Some of the historical ways consumers react to inflation will play out again in 2022," Cornell said.
He noted consumers would "drive fewer miles, and you'll consolidate the number of times and locations where you shop. You'll probably spend a little more eating at home versus your favorite restaurant, and you might make some trade-offs between a national brand and an own brand."
Compared to the last two years of stimulus-fueled retail spending, Cornell expects spending patterns to change. He said a lot about the consumer would be understood in the next "60, 90, 120 days" in adapting to the high inflation environment.
As part of the rapid recovery, fueled by trillions of dollars in monetary and fiscal aid, prices for cars, gas, food, and furniture rose sharply in 2021. As consumers increased spending, supply chains became snarled, and prices increased further.
In the new year, US inflation pressures show very little easing, and some economists predict the peak could be nearing. The high inflation problem has led rate markets to price in 4 rate hikes by December, with the first live meeting expected in March.
Many consumers have never seen anything like this because they weren't around in the 1970s and early 1980s of high inflation. It only took then-Fed Chair Paul Volcker to increase interest rates to double digits to tame inflation which sent the economy into a deep recession.
High inflation has put Biden on the spot ahead of midterms. The latest polling data shows the president's popularity sunk to a new low this week.
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Bread & circuses (21st c version)
...Apparel and footwear will be hit hard
...Food staples will be OK - but Starbucks and packaged foods will be hit hard (how the hell can you keep buying cereal at $5 a 12-oz box?)
...Gambling and stock trading will suffer: the 5m+ little retail moron-muppets who bought "meme stock" garbage with their stimulus checks have lost 50-90% of their savings and have nothing left to invest in 2022
... Liquor Tobacco and Video Games: biggest winners in the consumer economy, followed by Hotels and Airlines as COVID-insanity collapses over the next 6-8 weeks
#5
Lets see,
Less stuff to buy, Limits, lines, stores following Government mandates, playing social issues and following politics etc, etc, etc. Yep! Sure sounds remittance of a country back in the 1960-1990's.
BTW: What I saw at WALLY WORLD and other Stores on 1-20-22
Certain Frozen Food dinners/pizza's Depending on brand and item type were OUT.
Certain brand Name Canned goods and packaged items OUT.
Milk, eggs and etc. - coolers far from fully stocked.
Bread well picked over.
Plenty of Smith Field Bacon @ $6.89+lb. available.
Other stores (Kroger, ALDI, Lidl, KJ's and Food Loin) all have similar situations. All depending on brand names and item types.
BUT ! ☺ There is plenty of TP and paper towels still on the shelves.
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But do you think for one minute corporate America might see that corporate support for dems put things where they are now, and maybe stop doing that? Nah. Too obvious.
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/\ As long as the company gov't store remains open and the 'mom & pops' continue to be eradicated, support for dems and the socialist dream will continue.
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It's a given in the financial media that "we spend too much," until we don't spend enough. We also "don't save enough," until we suddenly don't spend enough.
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current price per share is about 215 (off quite a bit today)
but at the beginning of the pandemic panic in March 2000, the price per share was about 100. It was about 30 per share at the bottom of the 2008-9 recession.
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On the other hand, Berkshire Hathaway A class shares are $458,675 today, but on 1 Feb 1990 were just $7455. Back then I had the $ but not the nerve to invest that much. I lost well over that much in much poorer investments over the next 10 years.
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Happened to me on United once.
Louisville KY to Chicago IL for an Oracle CIO conference. Pilot (et. al.) forgot to refuel.
Keynote speaker was United COO claiming 'best' everything.
I was escorted from the hall.
At this point requiring a mask is useless. The main purpose is to make sure you are willing to comply.
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I was gonna say. Would she have calmed down if they just let her take off the f*cking mask? Could have saved everybody time, trouble and expense, yessss?
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I have zero sympathy for any airline. The airline industry went all-in on this covid bullshit and this is part of the cost of playing that game.
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One day, everyone in class was asked to tell what the smartest thing was a grown-up had ever told them. When it was Jimmy's turn, he said, "My uncle told me why they call ships 'she.'" "And why is that, Jimmy?" "He said it's becaause you can try to steer them where you want to go, but they will go where they want to go instead."
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Any popcorn?
Prosecutors released photos of the far-right militia handling bins allegedly full of ammunition and weapons right before the riot “Allegedly”. Or they could have been full of potato chips and beer.
They're part of a request to keep Edward Vallejo, 63, jailed as he awaits trial
The group's 'quick reaction forces' waited at a Comfort Inn in Arlington, Virginia
Vallejo allegedly texted someone: 'QRF standing by at hotel. Just say the word'
The weapons were not needed since the group was able to breach the Capitol without them
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Happening now! Received letter fm IRS explaining (sort of) third payment of covid relief money, to the tune of $1400. Wife did as well. She received in 2021 a $600 debit card and i received 0.
Went to website listed in lettter and the id.me directions there, as well as how to access all other aspects of my ‘account.’
And then letter (must have been written by Sleepy Joe) goes off in some rambling manner about claiming credit at filing time, blah, blah, blah. Haven’t called the 800 number yet but not doing the facial recognition thing.
#6
They're saying this is to cut down on all the scams involving prison inmates stealing other people's identities on the IRS site. Which is a big problem. Seems there are other ways they could fix that, but there's no opportunity to add your face to a biometrics database then.
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I'm sure we are already in a biometrics database somewhere.
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01/21/2022 8:26
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Like an updated Driver's License photo
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01/21/2022 8:48
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In true IRS fashion, they never ran this stupid fuckin' idea by CPA's first.
#10
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Given CGI tech, handing third party contractor picked by this administration my handsome visage is certinan to created a file in Guangzhou for future fraud.
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^ Yes. Once you have a biometric signature, you can use it instead of the real thing. From fooling iPhones with a snapshot of a face to a fingerprint lifted with Scotch tape, it's all been done. Once it's digitized and stored, it's even easier.
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#1
Metformin is a very widely used generic drug which has been shown (unintentionally) as have cancer-preventative and possibly life-extending effects. For decades it has been used as a comparison "known" when new drugs particularly against Type 2 diabetes are tested. Naturally future incidence of cancer and overall death rates from any cause are logged during the drug trials for both those taking the experimental drugs and the comparison patients on metformin. Repeatedly the lower incidence of cancer and possibly prolonged life spans have been noticed in these tests of vast numbers of patients.
See "Silicon Valley techies are turning to a cheap diabetes drug to help them live longer" or Google "metformin life extension"
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[SaharaReporters] In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the Italian police launched operations in the Sicilian regional capital Palermo and on mainland Italia in the Puglian regional capital Taranto. The police were acting on information from a Nigerian migrant who said she had been forced into prostitution by the group.
According to the Italian news agency (AGI), the four suspects are charged with slavery, human trafficking, kidnapping, profiting from prostitution and employing "mafia methods."
Under Italian law, "employing mafia methods" generally means that those charged have used intimidation and threats to exploit their victims.
Sentences can vary, but being accused of being part of a mafia-like structure in Italia carries with it sentences of between three and six years. Anyone found to have used weapons will have the sentence increased to between four and ten years if found guilty.
Palermo's flying squad led the investigation via their department for foreign organised crime and prostitution.
One of the suspects was taken into custody in Palermo. The other three were found to be living in Taranto, where they were also taken into pre-trial custody. The Nigerian woman who accused the suspects was supported by a Pentecostal preacher, also from Nigeria.
According to AGI, the woman turned to the preacher for help after being forced to work as a hooker in Italia.
According to the woman’s statement, she underwent a "Juju" or traditional magic ceremony in Nigeria before being trafficked to Italia. The ceremony is commonly used to make sure that women who hope to migrate will not tell anyone, most of all the police or authorities, about what they are forced to undergo so that they can work, often as hookers to pay back the "debts" they are told they incurred for their journey.
Those who undergo such a ceremony often swear oaths with their own blood or hair. If they break their oath of silence, they are told either they or their family members will die or be seriously injured.
The woman said she was first kidnapped by a group of Black Axe
...like the old style Black Hand, but sharper...
members in Nigeria. She escaped with the help of a fellow Nigerian but to pay him back, she was asked to travel to Italia as a "slave." During the ceremony, she promised to pay €15,000 for her journey.
Once the woman arrived in Palermo, under "the threat of death and violence" reports AGI, the woman was forced to work as a hooker. The money she earned was then taken to "repay" the debt.
[BenarNews] Two suspected rebels were killed and a Thai soldier was injured in a shootout after negotiations failed during a standoff between forces of Evil and government authorities in Thailand’s Deep South, the police commander in Pattani province said Thursday.
The incident occurred days after the Thai government and Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN),
...trained in Bandung, Indonesia and retreating to safe havens in Malaysia, they’ve been causing trouble — mostly kabooms — for two decades as they work to make southern Thailand ungovernable...
the main rebel group fighting a separatist insurgency in the Moslem-majority southern border region, resumed in-person peace talks in Malaysia for the first time in nearly two years.
#YaoMing on Monday invited Enes Kanter to visit China after the Boston Celtics player urged athletes to boycott the #BeijingWinterOlympics. "If there is an opportunity, I would like to invite him to visit China... Then he may have a more comprehensive understanding of us." pic.twitter.com/Ds0Vt8c1es
Freedom (ignoring the insult of being addressed by other than the name he goes by) replied: "Listen, Yao Ming, you or your Communist Party cannot buy me. I do not need a luxury tour of China," he says. "I want the world to see the real side of China under [the] cultish Chinese Communist Party’s brutal rule, [with] slave labor camps and millions living in fear because of inescapable government surveillance." Freedom concludes the video, saying he will certainly buy his own ticket to China if Ming will agree to show him the real China of the Uyghurs, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Shuai.
Hey @YaoMing I heard that you are inviting me to China this summer. Ok, I accept your invite, I will be coming to China this summer,
[Rudaw] An explosion hit Ghweran prison in Hasaka, northeast Syria (Rojava) late Thursday, according to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which adds that the attack was a prison break attempt to free the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) prisoners.
"Our forces and the relavent security services are dealing with a new insurrection and an escape attempt carried out by ISIS Death Eaters detained in Ghweran prison in Hasaka, in conjunction with the detonation of a boom-mobile by the terrorist organization’s cells near the 'Sadkob' facility for storing and distributing petroleum products, close to the prison, and then festivities occurred between the Internal Security Forces with members of the terrorist organization cells infiltrated from the nearby neighborhoods," said the SDF in a statement.
Local media reported injuries among the Kurdish security forces and the escape of 20 ISIS prisoners.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) also reported the "violent mostly peaceful explosion," saying a large number of security forces were deployed to the incident area.
Siyamend Ali, head of media for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) which is the backbone of the SDF, said in a tweet that the prison contains thousands of ISIS prisoners. "The festivities continue between our forces and the terrorists."
Kurdish-led forces reported an attempted escape from a prison in northeastern Syria that holds IS militants. According to the report, militants first started to riot inside Gerwan Prison in the city of Hassakeh, which houses about 3,000 prisoners.
This was followed by a car bomb, which was detonated in a facility for storing and distributing petroleum products close to the prison. Clashes ensued with security forces in the area.
According to a statement by the U.S-led coalition, coalition aircraft provided support for the Kurdish-led forces, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, which sustained casualties during the attack.
"Coalition aerial assets quickly began supporting operations to stabilize the situation through a coordinated strike against the hostile forces,'' the statement said, without providing further details.
An SDF spokesman, Farhad Shami, said it was not immediately possible to confirm if anyone escaped from the prison. He said tens of IS militants who tried to attack the prison were hiding in neighbourhoods near the prison. An SDF statement said the militants were believed hiding in residential homes and a security cordon was imposed on the area. It said the riots in the prison were under control.
Kurdish authorities run more than two dozen detention facilities, scattered around northeastern Syria, holding about 10,000 IS fighters. Among the detainees are some 2,000 foreigners. The Kurdish-led forces, backed by the U.S-led coalition, declared a military victory against IS in 2019 after seizing control of the last sliver of land the militants controlled in southeast Syria.
Since, the Kurdish authorities have asked countries to repatriate their nationals, saying keeping thousands in cramped facilities is putting a strain on their forces. Prison riots are not uncommon.
[AnNahar] U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Thursday that "any" Russian troops entering Ukraine would trigger a response, after President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us... raised eyebrows by saying a "minor" incursion could invite a lesser response.
"We have been very clear throughout if any Russian military forces move across the Ukrainian border and commit new acts of aggression against Ukraine, that will be met with a swift, severe response from the United States and our allies and partners," Blinken told news hounds in Berlin.
He also warned that Western powers were united on Russia, adding that Moscow enjoyed no similar "strength."
Western powers are "acting together with one voice when it comes to Russia. That unity gives us strength -- a strength, I might add, that Russia does not and cannot match," Blinken said after talks in Berlin with Britannia, La Belle France and Germany.
[TWITTER]
#US President Joe Biden is not planning to answer a further #Russia-n invasion of #Ukraine by sending combat troops. But he could pursue a range of less dramatic yet still risky military options, including supporting a post-invasion Ukrainian resistance.https://t.co/Jg66Drw3g4
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They are just chomping at the bit to start a new war. They're really pissed off they had their Afghan war taken away and they want another one, pronto.
Anyone taking bets? Who thinks the same generals who couldn't win against herdsmen with AKs are going to knock over Russia, an advanced military who can actually fight?
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If they're unwilling to send troops to stem the invasion of our southern border, why bother sending anyone to stem the invasion of some other nation's border? /rhet question
Just WAIT till they see the nasty things the New York Times will say about them. That will show them!
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I expect Alexandra Chalupa or Vicki Nuland to go critical any moment now.
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It is worth noting that back in 2015, Ukrainian Army officers considered their coms hopelessly compromised.
Weren't they catching an artillery barrage 30 seconds after anyone turned their phone on?
Remember that gal who skypebooked herself purposefully avoiding reveille? That group is now leadership.
I'm not sure that discipline gap is attainable under current culture and/or training, especially when we have the girls training squads doing competitive tik-tok dance challenges.
[FOX] A new CIA document reportedly states that bizarre illnesses being attributed to "Havana Syndrome" are not the results of an attack by a foreign power, but those findings are being challenged by a whistleblower who claims the agency is hiding something.
An NBC News report late Wednesday night citing "six people briefed on the matter" said that, according to an interim report by the CIA, hundreds of supposed Havana Syndrome cases could plausibly be attributed to other things, even though roughly two dozen remain unexplained.
CIA DIRECTOR'S TEAM EXPERIENCED HAVANA SYNDROME SYMPTOMS ON RECENT TRIP TO INDIA
"CIA interim report is disinformation," countered national security attorney Mark Zaid. "Other agencies furious no coordination occurred & they disagree."
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I suspect the syndrome is the result of some CIA driven technology gone horribly wrong. Not that the CIA would ever do such a thing, or that it is indeed a "hostile power" with respect to the USA.
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[IsraelTimes] The United States will continue withholding aid from Sudan until the country’s military rulers stop the killing of anti-coup protesters and a civilian led-government takes power, two senior American diplomats say.
Today’s joint statement comes after a two-day visit to Sudan this week by US Assistant Secretary of State Molly Phee and the newly appointed US special envoy for the Horn of Africa, David Satterfield. The visit was meant to help pull the African nation out of a worsening crisis in the wake of the October 25 coup.
The military takeover has upended Sudan’s transition to democratic rule after three decades of repression and international isolation under autocratic President Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... , ousted during a popular uprising in April 2019.
While in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, Phee and Satterfield met with Sudanese civilian and military leaders, as well as with families of some of the killed pro-democracy protesters.
At least 72 demonstrators have been killed since the October coup. Seven were killed on Monday alone, according to a doctors’ activist group. Security forces used live ammunition and tear gas to disperse thousands who gathered in Khartoum. Among the seven killed, some were as young as 19 years old. Around 100 people were maimed, according to the Sudan Doctors Committee.
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The lawsuit alleges numerous causes of action related to comments the actor allegedly made about the deceased Marine’s family after learning that his sister was in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. Law & Crime
The following-back-and-forth is noted:
Baldwin: When I sent the $ for your late brother, out of real respect for his service to this country, I didn’t know you were a January 6th rioter.
Roice: Protesting is perfectly legal in the country and I’ve already had my sit down with the FBI. Thanks, have a nice day!
Baldwin: I don’t think so. Your activities resulted in the unlawful destruction of government property, the death of a law enforcement officer, an assault on the certification of the presidential election. I reposted your photo. Good luck.
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To bad Baldwin wasn't the one killed on set.
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Being killed on set would mean the family couldn't sue, this way is more painful to the sanctimonious prick.
[IsraelTimes] Only 2nd time an Israeli-led measure has ever passed; initiative earns 114 cosponsors, is approved by consensus; Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... opposes but can’t force vote since it hasn’t paid its UN dues
In a briefing with news hounds earlier this month, Erdan acknowledged that like all GA resolutions, this latest one will not come with an enforcement mechanism. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... he expressed hope that by setting a new "international standard" for what constitutes Holocaust denial and how social media companies are expected to act in response, the resolution will have significant ramifications on the discourse moving forward.
It was the first time a resolution introduced by Israel was adopted by the General Assembly since 2005, when the body passed an Israeli resolution declaring January 27 — the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp — as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
[Khaama] Ministry of Water and Power of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan reacted to the video clip of water of the Kamal Khan Dam in the western Nimroz province flowing to neighboring Iran.
Spokesman of the Ministry in a video clip on Wednesday, January 19, 2022, said that the water is not flowing to Iran and that it was allowed to flow so that it irrigates the nearby agricultural land.
He said that farmers and agriculturalists of the area had d petitions to the local administrations over the water to be allowed to flow on their land.
The Spokesperson said that the acting Minister of Water and Power agreed to do so after recommendations and requests from the residents and provincial officials.
Kamal Khan hydroelectric Dam is located in the Western Nimroz province bordering Iran that was completed last year during the presidency of Ashraf Ghani.
Iran had opposed the construction of the Dam and was furious as the Dam stopped water once flowing to Iran for years.
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[OneIndia] The bonhomie between Pakistain's ISI, its terror groups and the Khalistanis is an open secret. For years after India drove the Khalistanis out, Pakistain has been nurturing these elements and are now looking to re-launch them in India.
The ISI has for long been trying to convince the similarities in ideology and wants its forces of Evil and the Khalistanis to fight along side each other. As an Intelligence Bureau explains to OneIndia, the ISI wants its terror groups to fight in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... and the Paks in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and Delhi.
The Khalistanis based in Pakistain and the Lashkar-e-Tayiba have made public speeches on several occasions about the similarities between them. While the Sikhs in India denounce this comparison, in some quarters it has worked out very well for the ISI.
During the public speeches in Pakistain both elements speak about the historic links between the Sikhs and Moslems. They say that the time has come to be together and fight against India. When the Khalistani forces of Evil fled, they were received by the ISI and were provided with all facilities.
The ISI even went on to create the Sikh-Moslem Ithehad Federation to plan terror attacks against India.
This organization recruited cadres and also trained them. This outfit even attempted major recruitment drives in rural Punjab. These activities peaked in the early 2000s and the likes of Ranjit Singh Neeta were also imparted training by the ISI. Neeta on the other hand trained Pak youth in a bid to make them battle ready in Kashmir.
Further the ISI also created the Pakistain Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee, which was headed by Lieutenant General Javed of the ISI. The role of the committee was to invite Sikh youth from Punjab and then radicalise them to join their ranks. Through this committee, the ISI was able to rope in a little over 150 youth.
The ISI also created another outfit called as the World Moslem Sikh Federation, which had members of the Dal Khalsa, Babbar Khalsa International and the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. This forum was however meant to be political in nature and its job was to spread the ideology. Following this the ISI formed the International Sikh Moslem Friendship Organisation and set up its offices in Italia, Germany and the United Kingdom.
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Sikhism was created to fight coercive conversion policies of moslems. Sikhs were the militarized hindus. A buffer protecting the useless brahmins by reorganizing hitherto stratified castes and training them into a sword carrying, fighting brotherhood that would combat islam. They were the hindu equivalent of the Teutonic Order.
As the nonsense called 'representative democracy' consolidated its hold on the population, hindus lapsed into ideologies of submission to the State and 'peace'. The economy grew naturally to favor the most industrious, the most aggressive and the most well connected after independence. Many of these were sikhs. Because they were hardworking, farmers and landed peasants who invested all in the Agrarian backbone of the Indian economy. The hindu continuously believed in hubris and replaced his favourite idols with a hand-me-down European constitution; while the sikhs had become survivors, fighters... a sub-population that knew how to get shit done and not just trust in the State. And Indian moslems too similarly learned to flourish despite the State, how to blackmail and guilt trip the legislators like your Wakandans over past 'injustices'. Until they got their sops and used them to screw India at every turn.
It was only in 1980, when the Pakistani Islamic Jamaat began to find unconditional dollars thank you, Mr. Carter... Another Gawd cursed Democrat.
in their kitty that they strategized allying with militant sikh groups. The ISI began arming them and teaching them their bomb making and espionage tricks. The movement was scourged out from India by the mid 80s and the leaders were offed or fled via Nepal to the UK, some to Canada and some back to Pakistain.
Today, there's only mercs available, for use within India. Not really considered sikhs, most of them. Low strata vermin calling themselves great big three name names like they're ex-royalty. They're all crims, ex-cons and such posing as some religious outfit. Much like those black hebrew whatsits with their fake plastic menorahs. They just pose with Sikh religious paraphernalia and spout the arcana, wave their swords around. In reality they're all criminals. No self respecting Sikh or Punjabi hindu wants to have anything to do with them. Or with their paymasters, the moslems.
But India being the bureaucratic shithole of mediocrity it is, crippled with a socialist, humanitarian law machine that constantly tries to ape the west, there's just too many criminals alive. That, my friends, is the only problem. What bonds any criminals together? Why do cockatrice proliferate in the dark?
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Our entire society is a result of the genius of marketing people. Is it any wonder it's so f*cked up?
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My dealings with those from India has been a pleasant experience. Well educated and those not seem to be a very good people. Family being very important as well as extended family. Hard working and having a calm nature is refreshing. Very similar to Nepalese. As an ally I can think of few better. Very rich and very poor in one country. At one time the Jewell of Asia.
[JPost] The director of SITE Intelligence Group said on Thursday that AQAP (Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) announced the death of a military commander in a US airstrike in Yemen.
Rita Katz, director of SITE which monitors militants groups online, said the militant group did not mention any date or location for the death of Salih bin Salim bin Ubayd ’Abolan (aka ,, 'Umayr al-Hadhrami) who was also a former associate of Al Qaeda's leader Osama Bin Laden.
Katz pointed to Twitter reports of a US airstrike that killed 3 AQAP militants on Nov. 14.
We apparently missed it when it happened, as I saw nothing in the archives around that time. But now we know. ULULULULULULULULU!!!
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[IsraelTimes] Five members of a Paleostinian family arrested after Israeli police demolished their house in East Jerusalem have been released, their lawyer tells AFP.
The arrest of several members of the Salhiya family came as they were evicted from their house in the sensitive neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah by Israeli authorities before dawn yesterday.
Walid Abu Tayeh, the family’s lawyer, confirms "the release of the five people detained since Wednesday, including Mahmud Salihiya and his sons."
Police had accused several Salihiya family members of "violating a court order" and public disturbance.
Abu Tayeh says the release of the five was conditional on payment of a 1,000 Israeli shekel ($320) fine, and that the group is forbidden from entering Sheikh Jarrah for one month.
The looming eviction of other Paleostinian families from Sheikh Jarrah in May last year partly fueled an 11-day war between Israel and Paleostinian terror groups in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... In those cases, Paleostinians risked having to surrender plots of land to Jews who had mounted legal claims to the land.
But Jerusalem authorities have stressed the Salihiya family eviction is a different case and that the city intends to build a special needs school on the land, benefitting Arab residents of East Jerusalem.
The city has said it purchased the land from previous Arab owners and that the Salihiyas had lived there illegally for years, but failed to agree to a compromise on an eviction order first issued in 2017.
Just a little reminder to France of Iran’s hole cards in the nuclear negotiations.
[IsraelTimes] A Frenchie held in Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... for over a year and a half on spying charges, which his family has rejected, went on trial today severely weakened by a hunger strike, his family and lawyer say.
Benjamin Briere, 36, was arrested in May 2020 while traveling in Iran. He began the hunger strike in December to protest, among other issues, the lack of any serious advance in the proceedings.
His family says he is an innocent tourist unknowingly caught up as global powers including La Belle France and the US seek to negotiate with Tehran a revival of a 2015 deal over its nuclear program.
"We have very little information, all we know is that the hearing took place and that a verdict will be issued on Saturday," his sister Blandine Briere tells AFP.
She adds that an Iranian lawyer representing her brother and an interpreter were present for the hearing.
According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the hearing took place in branch four of the Revolutionary Court in the eastern city of Mashhad, where Briere is being held.
His Gay Paree-based lawyer, Philippe Valent, said in a statement yesterday that Briere was "very weakened" by his hunger strike, and had not been allowed to learn what specific charges had been brought against him.
“You were within reach when we needed new hostages, O unbeliever, as is our right according to Allah’s laws.”
Valent confirms that the hearing had taken place and says a verdict was expected from Saturday, the first day of the week in Iran.
The HRANA says Briere is still on a hunger strike.
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Wow, exactly what did the next-of-kin sign to permit that? Imagine how useful future brain dead people can be for experimentation, and what future definitions of "brain dead" might be!
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Why isn't this considered torture? The left tries to hijack the meaning of way too many words already, such as gay, hate, love, marriage, racism, bullying, etc. Now they want to redefine death to suit their needs -- the Culture of Death indeed.
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[JPost] WTF?? A third of clinical trial participants who received no vaccine reported systemic adverse advents including headache and fatigue.
More than two-thirds of the common side-effects people experience after a corona shot can be attributed to a negative version of the placebo effect rather than the vaccine itself, new research indicates.
Scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston examined data from 12 clinical trials of COVID vaccines and found the "nocebo effect" accounted for 76% of all common adverse reactions after the first dose, and nearly 52% after the second dose. A third of clinical trial participants who received no vaccine reported systemic adverse events like headache and fatigue.
Once again expectations drive the experience. One year for a Christmas party I divided a cookie recipe in thirds, colouring one part green, one part red, and leaving one part plain. About half the guests tasted the green cookies as pistachio and half tasted green as mint; about half tasted the red ones as peppermint, while half tasted it as cinnamon; and about half tasted the plain ones as vanilla. I’d used vanilla for the whole batch, with no other flavours added. The interesting thing was that half the crowd were engineers and chemists who worked professionally with perfumes and shaping consumer expectations using perfumes, so should have been more attuned to what they were smelling and tasting.
The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, suggest that a large proportion of milder side-effects such as headaches, short-term fatigue and arm pain are not produced by the vaccine itself, but by other factors thought to generate the nocebo response, such as anxiety.
"Adverse events after placebo treatment are common in randomized controlled trials," said lead author Julia W. Haas, PhD, an investigator in the Program in Placebo Studies at BIDMC. "Collecting systematic evidence regarding these nocebo responses in vaccine trials is important for COVID-19 vaccination worldwide, especially because concern about side effects is reported to be a reason for vaccine hesitancy."
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Walter Cannon MD wrote about "voodoo" deaths in 1942 and his term has gone down in history. Corona jab "deaths" as placebo effects would then be a type of "voodoo" death according to the thinking behind this article. But even Dr. Cannon in his original article warned:
Obviously, the possible use of poisons must be excluded before “voodoo” death can be accepted as an actual consequence of sorcery or witchcraft.
or negative placebo effects of corona jabs.
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Finally admitting there are adverse events. That’s something. Now we just have to believe the brand new meds just happen to be the safest ones ever developed. Seems legit.
[AnNahar] A powerful bombing struck a crowded bazar Thursday in Pakistain's second largest city, Lahore, killing at least two people and wounding 26, police and rescue officials said. A newly formed separatist group from southwestern Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province grabbed credit for the attack.
The blast was so powerful that it damaged several shops at the famous Anarkali bazar, two witnesses, Mohammad Hafeez and Abdul Majeed, told news hounds. Video footage from the scene showed burning cycle of violences and victims crying out for help. The killed and maimed included passers-by, shoppers or local store owners.
According to Abid Khan, a senior police official, some of the maimed were listed as being at death's door and there were fears the corpse count could climb further.
Police were still trying to determine what kind of device was used in the attack, Khan added. An investigation was underway.
Hours after the attack, the newly formed Balochistan Nationalist Army said it was behind the bombing. The group was established earlier this month, when two minor separatist groups — the Balochistan Republican Army and the United Baluch Army — merged and appointed Mureed Baloch as their front man.
Baloch grabbed credit for the Lahore attack in a posting on Twitter. He did not reveal the motives for the attack, saying only that a statement will be issued later.
Pakistain's Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... condemned the bombing and in a statement urged local authorities to provide the best possible medical facilities for the maimed.
Balochistan has been the scene of a long-running insurgency in Pakistain, with an array of separatist groups staging attacks, mainly on security forces. The separatists have been demanding independence from the central government in Islamabad. Although Pak authorities say they have quelled the insurgency, violence in Balochistan has persisted.
Pakistain has recently seen a flurry of attacks, including in urban areas. The Pak Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... claimed multiple attacks this week on police that killed at least three officers, including one in the capital, Islamabad.
The Pak Taliban, emboldened since the Afghan Taliban seized power across the border in Afghanistan, warned this week of more attacks to come.
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
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[Defense One] President Vladimir Putin is more likely than not to invade Ukraine again in the coming weeks. As someone who helped President Barack Obama manage the U.S. and international response to Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014, and our effort to keep Moscow from occupying the whole country into 2015, I am distressingly convinced of it. 
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... 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...
[ZERO] Consumer prices soared the most in 40 years in December, a stunning 7% from a year earlier that is crushing real wage gains and sending President Biden's polling numbers to a new record low. The Federal Reserve is expected to embark on an inflation-crushing mission with the first-rate hike expected in March to tame inflation.
[BenarNews] Two suspected rebels were killed and a Thai soldier was injured in 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 
...46th president of the U.S. 
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
[Khaama] Ministry of Water and Power of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan reacted to the video clip of water of the Kamal Khan Dam in the western Nimroz province flowing to neighboring Iran..jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
Sikhism was created to fight coercive conversion policies of moslems. Sikhs were the militarized hindus. A buffer protecting the useless brahmins by reorganizing hitherto stratified castes and training them into a sword carrying, fighting brotherhood that would combat islam. They were the hindu equivalent of the Teutonic Order. 
[JPost] The director of SITE Intelligence Group said on Thursday that AQAP (Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) announced the death of a military commander in a US airstrike in Yemen.
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