[PJMedia] In a pre-dawn attack in northwestern Syria, American special forces commandoes, backed by helicopter gunships, armed Reaper drones, and attack jets, assaulted a compound in Syria belonging to Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the ISIS terrorist leader who succeeded Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Pentagon announced that al-Qurayshi died when he detonated a bomb at the beginning of the attack killing himself and his family, including children.
“Thanks to the skill and bravery of our armed forces, we have taken off the battlefield Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi — the leader of ISIS,” Mr. Biden said in a statement. “All Americans have returned safely from the operation.”
The raid follows the end of the largest U.S. combat involvement with the Islamic State since the jihadists’ so-called caliphate was destroyed three years ago.
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American helicopters ferried the commandos into position after midnight, surrounding a house in Atmeh, a town close to the border with Turkey in rebel-held Idlib Province, according to eyewitnesses, social media reports and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a conflict monitor based in Britain.
A long, tense standoff ensued, with loudspeakers blaring warnings in Arabic for everyone in the house to surrender, neighbors said. After about two hours, the house’s occupants had not emerged and a major battle erupted, with heavy machine gun fire and apparent missile strikes that damaged the house, collapsed some of its walls and blew out its windows.
Al-Qurayshi kept an extremely low profile since taking over for al-Baghdadi. Apparently, not low enough.
He had not appeared in public, and rarely released any audio recordings. His influence and day-to-day involvement in the group’s operations was not known and it is difficult to gauge how his death will affect the group.
His killing, however, is a significant blow just as the group had been trying to reassert itself in Syria and Iraq.
ISIS had been trying to reorganize in recent months and they looked to expand their forces considerably by breaking thousands of their members out of prison. The Jan. 20 attack triggered a 10-day battle that spilled into the surrounding streets of Hasakah in northeastern Syria and drew American and British forces back into combat in support of their Kurdish allies.
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By the time the fighting was finished and the devastated prison was back in the hands of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, more than 500 people were dead, about three-quarters of them suspected militants, the SDF reported. And scores, maybe hundreds, of prisoners had escaped, free to raise the Islamic State’s black flag and fight again.
So despite being without their putative leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the terrorists accomplished exactly what they wanted to. They augmented their forces and gave potential recruits a rallying cry by re-engaging U.S. forces.
ISIS is not done terrorizing the region yet. It would help if the Syrian civil war would end so that ISIS territory could be reclaimed and ISIS terrorists expelled. But ISIS thrives on chaos, and they’re now trying to make their presence known in Afghanistan thanks to the botched U.S. withdrawal.
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi detonated a bomb that killed him and family members - including his wife and two children - as American forces approached a house in the village of Atmeh, in the rebel-held province of Idlib, a US official said.
Al-Qurayshi was among at least 13 people including four women who died during the operation, which lasted two hours.
A lieutenant described as a "deputy" and his wife, along with a child, were gunned down after the couple opened fire on US troops, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said during a defence briefing on Thursday.
At least six children were also among the dead, with one girl badly injured as the violence unfolded, children's charity UNICEF said in a statement.
Mr Kirby said the mission was "successful", adding there were no US military casualties.
Ten people including a man, woman and eight children were safely evacuated during the operation, which was "months in the making".
Al-Qurayshi was identified by his finger prints and DNA analysis, the Pentagon briefing was told.
Mr Kirby said he could not confirm whether a £10m bounty on the IS leader's head can or will be claimed.
Al-Qurayshi, also known as Amir Muhammad Sa'id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla, was named as the second leader of IS after founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in October 2019.
Residents told of the relentless gunfire and explosions that jolted Atmeh, near the Turkish border, in northwest Syria - which is home to many camps for people displaced from the country's civil war.
Biden announces that US Special Forces have eliminated Baghdadi successor and ISIS Leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in raid in Syria last night. pic.twitter.com/W5JsReA5K3
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Also find it curious that both ISIS honchos were killed near the Turkish border in areas controlled by Turkish paid forces. No Raqqa for these high Rollers.
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not directly related but my wife spent about a week watching the 2017 series Black Crows which is a Saudi financed, Lebanon produced drama about ISIS (very anti ISIS)
acting was pretty stiff, dialogue clumsy but noteworthy that the Saudis would spend $$$ to do this and furthermore show the sincere religious devotion of the ISIS people
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This is from the Daily Mail, so some of you may not want to read the incendiary prose.
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The new runway configurations at Chicago O'Hare are claimed to be safer in poor weather conditions and more easily maintained.
Apparently they're still not too sure about that.
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Starting yesterday at 5 pm, we had rain, freezing rain, and it's still sleeting. Supposed to be snow before it finishes this afternoon. But this is north Texas, so I guess the Daily Mail has no reporters here.
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Careful; they'll send someone out your way to show how you are making the price of steak so high even the civilized Pennsylvanians riot over a cut.
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Here in NE OH, they have scaled the predicted snowfall back from 12 inches in initial 24 hours of this storm to 6 inches. Supposed to be worse in counties to the south. My city has banned street parking from now until 1000 on Saturday the 5th. Supposedly that is to allow the plows to better clear the streets, but in this case it means they just won't be trying much to clear the streets at all!
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Yankees can't deal with a little snow and ice anymore?
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Got a nice fire in the fireplace but so far our power has not gone out. And no snow, but roads are slick with freezing rain - but no reason to be on them since most places are closed. It should be gone tomorrow.
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I seriously doubt I'll be flying out of Pittsburgh tomorrow, maybe Saturday. 1500 more feet to go on this well, pull data and then leave but looks like I'll only make it to the hotel:S
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I am going through the firewood! Probably good, since I have a lot stacked up next to the house, which needs to be burned or moved by spring. And I have just cut and stacked (not split yet) several trees worth of logs for next winter (trees in the way of shed expansion.)
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Holding the living room at 50 degrees above outside temp... And don't have to even turn off the heat while wife walks on the treadmill in the next room over. (And who cares if the bedroom is cold right now...)
[IsraelTimes] Shots were fired from a passing car Wednesday night at an Israel Defense Forces position near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, the military said.
The military said no soldiers were maimed in the shooting and searches for the shooter were underway.
This incident follows an uptick in attacks in the area in recent weeks.
On Saturday night, an IDF vehicle was damaged in a shooting attack in the northern West Bank. The incident occurred on a road between the settlement of Yitzhar and the illegal Gilad Farms outpost, near Nablus.
No injuries were reported.
The military vehicle — which had soldiers in it at the time of the attack — was struck with several bullets, according to the army.
The suspected Paleostinian button menexpeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
Last week, a drive-by shooting targeted a military post between the settlements of Itamar and Elon Moreh in the northern West Bank, according to the IDF.
No injuries were reported in that shooting as well, and the alleged button men fled toward Nablus.
[IsraelTimes] NJ Democrat, who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, calls for greater pressure on Tehran, asks what point is of continued talks: ’What exactly are we trying to salvage?’
US Senator Robert Menendez launched a lacerating expression of no confidence in the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... ’s efforts to reenter the Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... nuclear deal, a sign that Congress will make what has been a rocky road even rockier.
Bless the man for seeing clearly.
"At this point, we seriously have to ask what exactly are we trying to salvage?" said Menendez, speaking Tuesday evening on the Senate floor.
Menendez is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and will have the power to exact considerable oversight over the reentry of the United States into the deal, which trades sanctions relief for Iran’s rollback of its nuclear program.
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry... wants to reenter the deal, brokered in 2015 by the B.O. regime when he was vice president and squelched under Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... , because he sees it as the most efficient means of keeping Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons power.
Menendez said he was optimistic at first about Biden’s plans to reenter the deal as long as Iran agreed to extend its nuclear enrichment rollback provisions and expand the deal to cover missile delivery systems.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... Iran has proven recalcitrant especially since the election last year of a hard-line government under President Ebrahim Raisi, and Menendez wondered what the point was of continued negotiations to reenter the deal.
"I have yet to hear any parameters of ’longer’ or ’stronger’ terms or whether that is even a feasible prospect," he said in an hour-long speech. "And even when it seemed a constructive agreement might be possible last summer, upon taking office, the Raisi government abandoned all previous understandings and, as I mentioned, made absolutely clear that Iran’s ballistic missiles and regional proxy networks are ’not negotiable.’"
Menendez called on Biden to institute greater pressure on Iran, something the administration has been reluctant to do, fearing that will cut off any chance of reentering into the deal.
"These new efforts should include creative diplomatic initiatives, stricter sanctions enforcement, and a steely determination from Congress to back up President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...... ’s declaration that Iran will ’never get a nuclear weapon on my watch’," he said.
The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, wary of Biden reentering a deal that it opposed in 2015, retweeted a video of Menendez’s speech, calling it an "important statement."
Critics of the speech included NIAC Action, a group representing Iranian Americans who seek to deescalate tensions between Iran and the United States. Menendez has "been dangerously out of touch on Iran for years, and has never proposed a viable alternative that could do a tenth of what the JCPOA achieved," wrote Ryan Costello, NIAC’s policy director, using an acronym for the deal.
Trump pulled out of the deal in 2018, reinstituting sanctions suspended during the deal and adding many more. In retaliation, Iran stopped complying with components of the deal and stepped up its enrichment of nuclear fissile material. It is now close to weaponization levels.
Menendez was among a handful of Democrats who opposed the 2015 deal, but who also opposed Trump’s 2018 withdrawal, saying it would make matters worse.
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At the rate the dems are going with losing that "absolute lockstep" from their members, eliminating the filibuster won't be enough. They will have to figure out how to twist the pretzel so that a "bare plurality" is enough to pass their garbage.
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Critics of the speech included NIAC Action, a group representing Iranian Americans who seek to deescalate tensions between Iran and the United States.... Ryan Costello, NIAC’s policy director
A Zoroastrian Hibernian? Or yet another Woke virtue-signing lefty Harp?
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A liberal Democrat from New Jersey is bailing? I guess Biden really is in trouble.
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More likely a public quibble to signal to Kalorama that he needs some love. Since his travel days with his dentist ended, he has had a sweet tooth for secret friends I suspect. It is after all, New Jersey politics.
[Hot Air] Remember when Joe Biden pledged to have the most transparent administration — evah? Good time, good times. Time and time again reports have come out that prove this administration is one of the most secretive ever in recent times. Another example has come to light as it pertains to the Biden border crisis. DHS is quietly flying illegal Venezuelan migrants to Colombia.
Why are they flying to Colombia instead of their home country? Because their country will not accept them back. The Biden administration is using Title 42 to expel them back to South America. Illegal Venezuelan migrants who lived in Colombia before coming to the U.S. are going back to Colombia. Though they entered via Mexico, Mexico will not accept South Americans.
We know about the unprecedented flood of illegal migrants at the southern border. From time to time the surge of illegal migrants is mostly single adult migrants from countries that Mexico will not accept once they are expelled from the U.S. This is one of those times that the administration admits to having such a problem. The majority of illegal migrants fluctuates between a majority of unaccompanied minors, and of families, and single adults, mostly males. This latest quiet action coming from the Biden administration is to remove the Venezuelans to help get the flood of migrants under control. There has been an explosion in the number of Venezuelan migrants in recent weeks.
[TMGN via ZERO] A story not being covered by the corrupt corporate media over the past few years has been the story of Joe Biden's Son, Hunter. Or maybe, more specifically, the story of Hunter Biden's Handgun.
Hunter Biden purchased a .38 Revolver from a Delaware gun shop on October 12, 2018. If you're familiar with gun law or have bought a gun yourself, you'll know that to purchase a firearm you'll have had to fill out an ATF Form 4473, also known as a Firearms Transaction Record. More on that later.
Days later, on October 23, Hallie Biden (widow to Joe Biden's son Beau) searched Hunter's truck and found the handgun. She apparently feared for Hunter's safety and decided to put the gun in a shopping bag and throw it in the trash outside a grocery store. During the same day, Hunter finds out about the gun disposal and notifies law enforcement of the missing firearm. The investigation that followed involved the Delaware State Police, Secret Service, the FBI, and later on, the ATF.
Eventually, the revolver was found, turned into authorities by a man who routinely searched garbage cans in the area for recyclables. Interestingly according to a report from Politico, the Secret Service visited the gun shop where Hunter had purchased the firearm and asked to take the 4473 associated with the gun. The shop owner wisely refused this request, apparently "suspecting that the Secret Service officers wanted to hide Hunter's ownership of the missing gun if it were ever to be involved in a crime." Eventually, the gun shop owner did turn in the firearm transaction record to the ATF.
Here's where it gets interesting. Back in 2018, when this event occurred, Hunter Biden was famously addicted to drugs. (According to his memoir, he was smoking crack in 2018)
On a Firearms Transaction Record, there's a question on the form about drug addiction. It's a yes or no question, and answering yes leads to disqualification of being able to purchase a firearm.
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And Hallie Biden should have been prosecuted for criminal negligence. They are fortunate the gun was recovered rather than falling into the hands of kids or violent criminals.
Eventually, the gun shop owner did turn in the firearm transaction record to the ATF.
Anyone want to bet that the ATF has no record of having received that form?
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This stinks to high-heaven, but it is the swathe of corruption that is the real disgrace. Felony act by Hunter to lie, felony act by Beau's widow to throw the gun away, the failure of the local PD to disclose the fingerprints lifted from the weapon omce it was turned in, the illegal cover-up attemot by the Secret Service (if they were actual agents and not former agents acting under the color of authority) the ATF failure to prosecute, and the DoJ attempting to make this all go away.
Clearly, Biden and his family are treated as above-the-law in this and so many other examples of the corruption spanning decades,and the fear of reprisals has stopped a number of federal, state and local agencies from actually upholding the law. Instead, special rules for the powerful...
[IsraelTimes] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... say they have reopened public universities for women students in two of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, a move marking a major concession to international demands by the country’s new rulers.
Since they swept into power in mid-August, the international community has watched to see whether the Taliban will impose the same harsh measures as during their 1990s rule of Afghanistan, including banning girls from education and women from the workplace and public life.
The Taliban have imposed several restrictions, many of them on women, since their takeover — women have been banned from many jobs outside the health and teaching sector, and girls have not been able to go to school after grade six. The Taliban demand women wear headscarves but have stopped short of imposing the burqa, the head-to-toe covering that was compulsory under their previous rule.
The Taliban-run culture and information ministry says that public universities in the provinces of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. and Kandahar are now open for women in what it describes as a staggered process expected to see all students — men and women — eventually return to university.
[IsraelTimes] 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... ’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani rules out normalization with Israel in an interview with Axios.
Al Thani says there had been some ties in the past "when there were prospects for peace" but that it had since "lost hope."
He laments "the absence of a real commitment to a two-state solution."
Qatar has had some ties with Jerusalem over aid to the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... Strip, and has transferred millions of dollars to the impoverished territory with Israel’s approval.
[IsraelTimes] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... has created a new naval militia made up of mercenaries from around the region to attack enemies in its neighborhood and particularly off 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... , the exiled opposition alleges.
The National Council of Resistance® of Iran (NCRI) says the unit had been created as part of the Quds Force, the arm of the Revolutionary Guards responsible for extra-territorial operations.
"The Quds Force has been recruiting mercenaries for newly created, armed and trained terrorist units to attack ships and maritime targets in the region," it says in a report based on information received from Iran.
The NCRI, which is outlawed in Iran and is the political wing of the People’s Mujahedin, says the mercenaries are being hired from Iraq, Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... , Syria, Yemen and Africa.
The fighters are brought to Iran for training and then sent back to their home countries to conduct the operations, it says.
"The strategy affords the politically weakened and vulnerable Iranian regime a veneer of plausible deniability for its proxy war in the region, as it seeks to augment the export of terrorism on which it depends," the group adds.
The aim is to "disrupt maritime navigation of fat merchantmen, to attack ports, conduct ship hijackings and plant mines."
It is not immediately possible to verify the claims.
[HotAir] Remember the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone that was set up by activists and "protesters" in June of 2020? The real start of the CHAZ happened on June 8 when police rather suddenly pulled out of the East Precinct cop shoppe and boarded up the windows and doors. That gave the mob the sense that they were now in charge of the area and they quickly tagged buildings up and down the street with "ACAB" the abbreviation for "all cops are bastards." And a little more than a day later a dispute broke out over tagging which led to the first police action by CHAZ’s self-appointed leader/warlord Raz Simone.
Mr. Simone is the one being sued by several of his girlfriends for pimping them out.
What we didn’t know at the time was that on the same day police effective handed control of CHAZ to the mob, Mayor Jenny Summer of Love Durkan ...Democrat Maress of Seattle, who allowed a chunk of the downtown of her city to be turned into an autonomous combat zone. She just can't figure what went wrong, if anything... ’s administration was seriously considering the idea of permanently giving the precinct which police had just vacated over to Black Lives Matter:
That June, as cops lobbed tear gas from behind barricades, and protesters on the streets surrounding the precinct called for the Police Department to be defunded, Durkan’s office behind the scenes briefly contemplated handing over the multimillion dollar property that had become the focus of the demonstrations.
Calvin Goings, the director of the city’s Department of Finance and Administrative Services (FAS), emailed three memos and a draft resolution to Durkan on the afternoon of June 8, 2020 — at about the same time police were abandoning the East Precinct on Capitol Hill.
The draft resolution for transferring the property to Black Lives Matter Seattle ...a formerly lovely city in Washington state, governed by communists, anarchists, dipshits, and other sorts of incompetents. Home to Starbuck's, Boeing (at least for now), and Amazon, Microsoft, and Costco, the city became rich beyond its wildest dreams. All that money attracted the usual sort of grifting politician, and it's well on its way to chewing off the hand that feeds it... -King County (BLMSKC) included a July 1 effective date, and Durkan’s office subsequently discussed the possibility with the nonprofit, which at one point pushed to remake the building as a hub for public health and community care.
There’s no doubt this happened. The Seattle Times has posted all three of the memos. The plan was under consideration for about a week even as the CHAZ/CHOP degenerated into chaos. But despite having proof, a spokesperson for Durkan’s administration (she recently left office) has denied it.
Chelsea Kellogg, Durkan’s spokesperson, said, "There was no plan to transfer the East Precinct." She also claimed that the memos suggesting otherwise hadn’t been requested by the mayor but were sent to Durkan by the Department of Finance and Administrative Services (FAS), i.e. on their own initiative.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... Melissa Mixon, a spokeswoman for FAS said that was not true. "The Durkan administration directed FAS — in its capacity as the city’s real estate and facility management agency — to outline the process to transfer the East Precinct to BLMSKC," Mixon said.
To sum all of this up, when the protests that led to the CHAZ/CHOP were at their height, Mayor Durkan’s office considered handing the police precinct over to BLM permanently. They even had discussions with BLM about it, but ultimately BLM didn’t want the building and the idea was dropped. Since then, the mayor and her office have sat on this information and when asked directly, denied it was something they either considered or proposed.
One reason Durkan might be denying this is that the city is being sued by business owners who are arguing the creation of CHAZ/CHOP was an abdication of law and order by the city, i.e. they defacto handed CHAZ/CHOP over to a mob. It’s not hard to see how these memos about handing over the cop shoppe play into that argument.
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Let's not forget, while this was going on Seattle CoP had some loyal foot soldiers put together fake radio chatter in an attempt to frame the Proud Boys over CHAZ. Imagine the situation today had these schemes come to fruition. Sh!t can go sideways pretty damn quick.
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[AMERICANMIND] There’s a generation gap on the Right, and it’s hurting us.
"Divide and conquer" is the guiding strategy of the woke oligarchy. The regime is trying to marginalize Red America as illegitimate, to separate us from "the mainstream," and thus declare us undeserving of the rights and privileges of citizenship. But beyond that, the woke regime is also exploiting a generation gap on the right (which is partly but not wholly a factor of age), through double-speak and mixed messages.
Contrary to some prejudices among the younger Right, not every self-identified conservative over 50 is deluded and useless. Likewise, older conservatives need to know that not every young, right-wing provocateur on Twitter is a racist anarchist. But a lot of people on either side see each other that way, largely because the regime’s vast propaganda machine is able to re-enforce both of these prejudices.
It’s hard to know whether this multi-pronged media campaign by the Left is a carefully planned psy-ops strategy, or just the net effect of simultaneously asserting contradictory arguments depending on whatever seems expedient. Either way, a generation gap on the right is being exacerbated, in part because each side is reacting to the Blue regime’s propaganda.
The older generation grew up in an America where, on the surface, institutions were trustworthy, or at the very least, not actively at war with the people. That facade crumbled for those who grew up after 9/11. Decades of pointless war in the Middle East, the financial crisis in which not a single banker on Wall Street went to jail, and the ever-skyrocketing cost of living, soured the generation that grew up under George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The promise of racial reconciliation never materialized and the constant screams of crisis (climate change! COVID!) have further radicalized a growing youth faction on the right.
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Young people get almost all their news online, which gives them a broad array of information sources and makes them far less likely to accept any "official" narratives. At times, they may almost be too skeptical, embracing odd and outlandish theories simply because they are outside the mainstream. Insisting that the sky is pink just because Ibram X. Kendi says it is blue is not a sign of independent thinking.
Americans over 50 tend to be less active on social media, less frequent consumers of alternative news sites, and more dependent on the legacy media of newspapers and television networks. Of course, many older conservatives know that the establishment media is heavily skewed to the left, yet the publications they turn to correct this imbalance are, let us say, rather tame and conventional. As far as the younger dissident right is concerned, most old-line "conservative" publications are part of the same corrupt media establishment.
The more staid and authoritative style of the New York Times and the network news (which the Times heavily influences) tends to reinforce the Boomers’ inclination to believe that our institutions are still functioning normally and the system is working. Our political gerontocracy contributes to this problem: nothing makes a Boomer feel young like seeing Congress run by people in their 80s.
News stories that create enormous controversy online often get much less attention in the legacy media. Thus, conservatives among the older generation may have little familiarity with the details of events and scandals that lead millennials to be alarmed and cynical. The treatment of those arrested in connection with January 6 is a good example. Right-wingers under 40 tend to know much more about the mistreatment of these prisoners, and thus tend to be more sympathetic, compared to conservatives over 50, who were alarmed and repelled by the events of January 6, and thus are usually much less concerned with or attentive to those who have been arrested.
When a clear case of left-wing excess does leak into the mainstream news—about Critical Race Theory being taught in schools, for example—the legacy media will quickly offer an authoritative source to deny or downplay the revelations. This tactic works, up to a point, for those with more limited access to alternative news sources, but it only hardens the disgust and skepticism of those who are mostly online, who quickly learn about the dishonesty and hypocrisy of such denials. Read the rest at the link
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The divide is between those who think our major institutions are run by competent, credible authorities and those who view them as decadent, not worthy of deference and run by mendacious and corrupt fools.
The former group is overwhelmingly based in or near the D.C. Swamp and incapable of seeing that the system which benefits them so handsomely is literally destroying millions of normal Americans who lack their access or credentials.
Does anyone still believe that the CDC and NIH and FDA really have our best interests at heart, or that they practice disinterested science to advance public health?
When AstraZeneca's COVID vax in the U.K. and Europe was found to cause a spike in clotting that caused death in a few cases, it was halted by those nations' public health authorities. Pfizer's own data show their vaccine killed over a thousand people and caused many times that number of serious adverse effects in its first three months.
Was the Pfizer vax pulled here, as AZN's vax was in the U.K.? No. Instead we've heard nonstop bullshit about how safe it is, how anyone who expresses doubt or demands to see and scrutinize and discuss the data is a "denier" or a "conspiracy theorist" or "killing grandma" etc.
And yet the skeptics have been proved right again and again-- on the stupidity of the lockdowns, on the criminal suppression of effective treatments such as HCQ and ivermectin, on 'with' vs 'from' and the vast overcounting of COVID deaths and undercounting or denial of the vast number of deaths caused by the elite's botched public policies.
Ditto for the Ukraine farce, the endless overseas interventions to support gender studies at Kabul U., for all the BS about "systemic racism" and St George Fentanyl, for the notion that our elections are fair and honest, for the demonization of Russia or Hungary's Orban, for the UniParty's embrace of illegal immigration etc etc.
There is literally not one American institution's leadership that deserves our respect today.
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they suspect that many older conservatives, with their comparative financial security, are too insulated from the current crisis. Boomers have “made it” and will likely not live long enough to suffer the consequences of a financial or political collapse; they have seized the lifeboats and left the young to fend for themselves.
Unfortunately true, although I have tried to educate my adult children, but they already know everything.
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I have tried to educate my adult children, but they already know everything.
Should they ever be so blessed as to grow up, they will be surprised to find out how much the old man has changed!
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Agree with Tom at #3. LBJ introduced us to the credibility gap, sent our boys into a war with no clear plan for victory, gave us Affirmative Action, Medicare, raised taxes and stole money from Social Security which was never anything but a Ponzi scheme anyway. His Great Society and Vietnam War were the classic definition of guns and butter that bankrupted and poisoned our whole country. Remember HUD? HEW? I don't think we've ever really recovered from LBJ's time in office. That's certainly when I realized the government cannot be trusted.
Naively, I still believed in the media. It took me a long, long time to fully appreciate how biased they are. But I think that up until the 1990's there were still some newspapers, at least in southern California, that tended conservative. They're all gone now.
Now the TV and newspapers are nothing but Democrat Party propaganda, a vile pack of lies. Now we have the cancel culture with people like Neil Young trying to tell us what is misinformation and what isn't.
Neil Young can kiss my ass and then Joni Mitchell can too. Get Roger Waters in the line too. I'd rather listen to Pat Boone. But it's kinda sad, really, that we can no longer just kick back and listen to music or watch TV and be entertained by it instead of getting pissed off at all the lies, the stench of all the corruption.
I think it was when all of our major corporations, which include the major media outlets, got into bed with the Chinese Communist Party. The corruption stinks to high heaven.
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Boomers have “made it” and will likely not live long enough to suffer the consequences of a financial or political collapse
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Gavin Newsome getting a maskless picture taken with a maskless Magic Johnson while preparing LA and lockdown emergency California for the Super Bowl:
[JPost] The Houthis — also known as Ansar Allah, who now control most of Yemen’s north, have launched repeated missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia and the UAE over the course of Yemen’s civil war.
Houthi rebels in Yemen on Monday launched a ballistic missile at the United Arab Emirates. The missile was intercepted by the UAE military and no casualties were reported. It was the third Houthi attack on the UAE, a key member of the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen’s internationally recognized government, in less than two weeks, and follows a series of territorial defeats for the Houthis in its years-long battle to control the country. UAE’s Defense Ministry said Emirati forces responded by destroying the missile launch site in Yemen’s northern Al-Jawf region.
The Houthis — also known as Ansar Allah, who now control most of Yemen’s north, have launched repeated missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia and the UAE over the course of Yemen’s current eight-year-old civil war.
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Nice summation. Personally, I hope they kill each other to the last man, woman, cat, dog, chicken, ... you get the idea.
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Who are they and what do they want?
Angry black people wanting to destroy what they don't have, with Iran's help.
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I have yet to find studies on opioid ODs which attempt to distinguish the manufacturer of the offending killer agents. E.G. What percentage of fentanyl overdoses are due to illegally imported Chinese sourced fentanyl? THAT has zero to do with any legal US sources, and is all to do with the PRC and the USA failure to take this seriously.
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About 15% of overdose deaths now are due to prescription opiods. Before the fentanyl invasion, prescription abuse was responsible for the majority of deaths. But you can't sue drug dealers, the Mexican mob or Chinese communists.
you can't sue drug dealers, the Mexican mob or Chinese communists.
Actually the PRC can be sued in the USA, and IIRC they import a lot of valuable stuff into the USA. Interfering with those imports or even slapping a tariff on them is quite doable.
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Threaten to arrest and imprison Fauci. The Chinese will pay whatever we demand.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s bombardment of Derik town in northeast Syria (Rojava) in recent days is the declaration of war against the Kurdish forces, said Mazloum Abdi, general commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), late Wednesday.
Turkey announced Winter Eagle Air Operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraq’s Shingal and Makhmour towns and against the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Rojava’s Derik town early Wednesday. The Ottoman Turkish army targeted both forces in these areas late Tuesday, killing several civilians in Makhmour camp.
The YPG is the backbone of the US-allied SDF.
"Ottoman Turkish bombardment of Ain Diwar and Derik has resulted in the martyrdom of civilians and fighters and also hit public infrastructure, including a water dam and power station," Abdi said in a tweet. "This attack amounts to a declaration of war, endangers civilians, and undermines our fight against ISIS [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.... ]."
"With the rising threat of terrorism, our Coalition partners bear a large part of the responsibility to prevent such Ottoman Turkish attacks," noted the commander.
SDF said in a statement earlier in the day that Turkey’s bombardment of Derik on Tuesday killed four of its members and maimed five civilians.
"It is pretty obvious that the attacks of the Ottoman Turkish occupation state were not conducted without the knowledge of the international coalition forces. Therefore, the Ottoman Turkish occupation state, through the silence of the international coalition forces, seeks to legitimize its attacks and shell our people, our villages, and our infrastructures with its employees," it said.
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[REGNUM] Many decisions of Nicholas II as emperor became fatal mistakes, however, Sergei Kosinov , head of the Just Russia faction in the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region, considers his canonization to be a saint .
"Nicholas II didn’t follow his relatives a bit and didn’t understand a lot. He lost everything that was created by his predecessors, due to a character that was too soft. And, of course, it was wrong to make those rash decisions that led to disastrous consequences," the source of the REGNUM news agency believes .
As REGNUM reported , representatives of the investigative committee of Russia ruled out the possibility of saving one of the members of the royal family. All 11 people (Nikolai Romanov, his wife, their children and relatives) were shot on the night of July 17, 1918 in the Ipatiev house in Yekaterinburg. On August 14, 2000, at the bishops' council of the Russian Orthodox Church, the royal family was canonized as holy new martyrs.
In March 2022, it will be 105 years since the abdication of Nikolai Romanov from the throne, and in April - 110 years since the Lena massacre, when, according to various estimates, from 150 to 270 people were killed by bullets from government troops.
[REGNUM] In the reign of the Russian Empire, Nicholas II had much less advantages. than cons. His actions led the country to disaster. Such an opinion in a conversation with a REGNUM correspondent was expressed by a graduate of the history department of the Orenburg State Pedagogical University, who wished not to disclose personal data.
"For his time, he was a weak ruler. Under him, many negative events took place, which ultimately dragged the country into a civil war, and a monstrous split occurred. As he ruled Russia, this led, in principle, to a disaster. I am against the canonization of the image of Nicholas II," said the interlocutor.
Recall that on August 14, 2000, at the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, the royal family was canonized. In modern Russia, the crimes committed during the reign of Nicholas II are rarely remembered.
In March 2022, it will be 105 years since the abdication of Nikolai Romanov from the throne, and in April - 110 years since the Lena massacre, when, according to various estimates, from 150 to 270 people were killed by bullets from government troops.
Yousif Ibrahim no longer travels by night along the roads around his hometown of Jalawla in northeastern Iraq. He fears getting caught up in attacks by Islamic State.
"The police and army don't come into our area much anymore. If they do, they get shot at by militants," said the 25-year-old, who sells fish for a living in a nearby market.
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Do they still need "Keep Off The Grass" signs. ☺
While "One researcher has called human urine 'a treasure trove of liquid gold nutrients'"
I am sure others are wondering about the residual bacteria and related issues...
eg. A county in GA. had a waste processing plant that was offering processed human solid waste to farmers. Which used it to grow grass/hay as feed for numbers.
That GA. county now is/was paying the farmers for infecting their fields with contaminated solid waste. Many farmers quickly saw the annual payments were pennies on the Dollar and have sold the infected land to developers that are placing houses and Apartments on them.
as an aside from WIKI:Urine plays an important role in the earth's nitrogen cycle. In balanced ecosystems, urine fertilizes the soil and thus helps plants to grow. Therefore, urine can be used as a fertilizer. Some animals use it to mark their territories. Historically, aged or fermented urine (known as lant) was also used for gunpowder production, household cleaning, tanning of leather and dyeing of textiles.
Commentary by Russian military journalist,. Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. According to CNN, Biden has approved sending more US troops to Europe. Shipping will start in the next few days. We are talking about 3,000 soldiers in Poland, Germany and Romania. Earlier, the Poles announced the dispatch of 2.5 thousand soldiers from the United States to Poland.
2. Poland, following the Baltic states, will transfer MANPADS and various ammunition to Ukraine. The Czech Republic will transfer a batch of artillery ammunition to Ukraine.
3. The President of Croatia said that Britain is deliberately pushing Ukraine to war with Russia. So to speak, Johnson's visit to Kiev and all the accompanying talking shop summed up.
4..Germany has banned the broadcasting of RT DE in German. I wonder when DW and the Ebert Foundation will be blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation as a load?
5. In addition to the announced expansion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by 100,000 people, additional distributions of weapons (including MANPADS and ATGMs) for terbats for urban combat have been announced. Such terbats, if necessary, can be included in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and used to support offensive operations.
6. Head of the SBU Bakanov instructed to prepare the removal of personal files of SBU employees working in the occupied territories of the DPR and LPR. Earlier, there were reports that the documents of the Ukrainian special services were being taken to western Ukraine.
7. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine ruled out granting a special status to Donbass. A day after Zelensky's statements about his readiness to try to implement the Minsk agreements.
8. A wave of fake calls spread from Ukraine about the mining of 400 buildings swept through the DPR. Yesterday, a soldier of the LNR UNM died on the front line (bomb from a drone).
Overall, signs of an impending escalation persist, especially against the backdrop of a diplomatic stalemate.
The most likely scenario for the start of events is some kind of provocation in the Donbass or on the border of Ukraine and the Russian Federation, to which the Russian Federation will not be able not to react, after which prepared sanctions will be introduced against the Russian Federation.
The United States and Britain are pushing Ukraine along this path despite the plaintive protests of the Zelensky gang, which is also being driven to the slaughter.
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... ordered Wednesday the deployment of several thousand more troops to bolster NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces in eastern Europe, ratcheting up the US military response to fears that Russia could invade Ukraine.
With Russia refusing to pull back 100,000 troops poised on Ukraine's borders, Pentagon front man John Kirby said 1,000 US soldiers now in Germany would deploy to Romania, and another 2,000 in the United States would be sent to Germany and Poland.
We have vital interests in the Persian Gulf. In the South China Sea. In the Caribbean / on our southern Border.But not in Eastern Europe, let alone Georgia and Ukraine.
Are you kidding? Vital interests in the Persian Gulf? The US has the world's largest carbon reserves (I think Canada is 2nd). Exploit them and the Persian Gulf goes back to tribal war and piracy.
The South China Sea? The US has fewer interests and ties there than in Europe. Modern China is a creation of American elites' greed. It is American dollars and, more recently, Euros that created the threat. Cut off the fuel and fire goes out.
How about that Venezuela and Cuba? Feel threatened by them? Wanna go hide in a closet?
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Complete bullshit. 3,000 troops ... right. How many did we send to Iraq?
You mean, 1/100th of our Iraqi Freedom expeditionary force is supposed to make a difference to the calculations of a nuclear-armed SUPERPOWER that's essentially fighting on its home turf?
Biden will capitulate because ANY rational US president would capitulate: Ukraine is not a vital interest of ours and therefore none of our business.
Just as Hungary in 1956 was none of our business -- which is why Eisenhower wisely did nothing.
Sigh. Think how much stronger and better this country would be today if we'd had a skeptical, laissez-faire, domestically-focused, non-interventionist and non-Woke, conservative government like Eisenhower's for the lady half-century. Or Nixon's.
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Those "republics" are anything but. Nearly all are third-world shitholes presided over by bandits.
"Republics" were the Soviet Union's designations. They already were poor corrupt shitholes due to misrule by the Communists. That local Communists took over in the south upon dissolution of the Soviet Union is no surprise. What was fortunate is that most of the newly freed eastern European nations threw out the commies and formed democratic nations. No thanks to people like you.
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Mr. Ululet: I don't disagree with much of what you say.
The COVID debacle has taught me that we civilized, western, tradition-minded, freedom-loving folk can count on no one to defend our civilization.... certainly none of the globalist virtue-signaling morons who gave us the last five years of insanity over RussiaRussiaRussia, St George Fentanyl, BLMscam, PervOTUS Brandon, St Anthony the Dwarf and the Homy Church of Christ-COVIDian etc etc etc.
Let's agree that we need to
- Defend the homeland first and foremost
- Fix the homeland by beating back Woke-ism and its cucks within the elite
- Reduce overseas commitments -- "Retrench" and "Restrain" as B. Posen, J. Mearsheimer, and R. Schweller brilliantly
- Stand up for our traditional values and culture, especially our sons who've been maligned and assaulted from every corner by a decadent culture of fools, harridans, Marxists and pussifiers
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Ukraine is not a vital interest of ours and therefore none of our business.
A country struggling to become a modern (classical) liberal democracy is American business. Another consensual democracy always strengthens the US. You can argue whether the US should go to war over it and nobody here is advocating attacking Russia, but it is always in every democracies' interest. (Tell us about your thoughts on Korea in 1950).
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Mr Ferret, a truce as long as it doesn't violate either our principles.
We do agree on a lot of ideas or we wouldn't frequent Rantburg. Domestic agenda is broadly the same: mismanaged borders, political corruption, Marxist capture of institutions, trade.
But I am not an isolationist. Maybe it the generations of military family background. I don't like it when more powerful empires try to swallow up other counties, whether Ukraine or Taiwan. I don't like enabling enemies nor wasting resources on cultures diametrically opposed to ours. I do believe expending resources to advance freedom and democratic rule for people who want it is in our interest.
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A country struggling to become a modern (classical) liberal democracy is American business. Another consensual democracy always strengthens the US. You can argue whether the US should go to war over it and nobody here is advocating attacking Russia, but it is always in every democracies' interest. (Tell us about your thoughts on Korea in 1950).
Truly inspiring, and had you mentioned the 2014 coup that removed a Ukrainian political leader, it would have been the whole truth.
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Remember when the reddit crowd was yelling that Trump was going to start WW3 after killing Solamaniac? Wonder where that crowd is now?
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Not a peep from Code Pink or Cindy Sheehan either.
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Forget logic. This is just more theater in which our UniParty signals its virtue by heaping scorn on Deplorables. To them, Putin = Trump... even though Trump was the most anti-Russian hard ass POTUS we've ever had.
Russians, Hungarians and other tradition-minded or rightist Europeans = Jan sixers in the fevered little minds of Lindsey Graham and his ilk
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Truly inspiring, and had you mentioned the 2014 coup that removed a Ukrainian political leader, it would have been the whole truth.
The scale of cheating, sponsored/paid by the Russian SVR, that put Viktor Yanukovych in power in 2010 was truly staggering. Yulia Tymoshenko (primary opponent) was also corrupt elite, while the Russians had poisoned the previous president who Yanukovych lost to in 2004, again with massive fraud in the east.
It was Yanukovych who industrialized corruption into a truly national enterprise w/ a menu of bribes to be paid and the amount to be kicked upwards for any service. It made life impossible for citizens while vastly enriching himself and his cronies.
Yeah, it was truly inspiring to watch ordinary men and women face down imported secret service snipers with nothing but wooden shields to protest the industrialized corruption that was benefiting none but a tiny Russian controlled elite that was purposely killing the country.
Another consensual democracy always strengthens the US.
Of course, other nations being organized along divine lines would be good for the USA. However,
nation-building is to be avoided, period.
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It was Yanukovych who industrialized corruption into a truly national enterprise w/ a menu of bribes to be paid and the amount to be kicked upwards for any service. It made life impossible for citizens while vastly enriching himself and his cronies.
Yeah, it was truly inspiring to watch ordinary men and women face down imported secret service snipers with nothing but wooden shields to protest the industrialized corruption that was benefiting none but a tiny Russian controlled elite that was purposely killing the country.
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And it continues to this day with new management.
This time with ten percent for the Big Guy.
Burisma was controlled by a Yanukovych ally. It was consolidated during Yanukovych's misreign. Hunter joined Burisma's board while Yanukovych was president. You are blaming the wrong faction.
While Burisma gets all the attention in the US, it was not the most corrupt energy dealer. One of Yanukovych's cronies acquired a large portion of Russian nat gas imports and resold it for huge profits. Life under Russian puppets.
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And it continues to this day with new management.
This time with ten percent for the Big Guy.
As I have pointed out, the Big Guy was really up to his neck in bribes from the Yanukovitch government, which he blackmailed subsequent Ukranian governments into _not_ prosecuting.
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Part of me thinks this is kabuki theater by Russia to allow Biden to broker a peace, avert the crisis and be the great statesman so as to improve his poll numbers.
[IsraelTimes] Interior of Fadi Abu Shkhaydam’s home is demolished and entrance sealed; police say officers were attacked during operation
Security forces demolished on Tuesday the home of a Paleostinian terrorist who killed a South African immigrant to Israel in a deadly terror attack last November in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Fadi Abu Shkhaydam shot up a number of Israeli men in the alleyways of the Old City, killing Eliyahu Kay and injuring four others, two of them seriously. Border Police officers returned fire, killing the attacker.
On Tuesday, officers demolished the interior of Abu Shkhaydam’s home and sealed the entrance — a practice sometimes used by security forces when an attacker lives in an apartment rather than a house.
Police said around 150 officers were involved in the operation to demolish the home. In a statement, police said that the officers came under attack on the scene, and that "means of dispersal" were used.
The military initiated the process of demolishing Abu Shkaydam’s home in East Jerusalem’s Shuafat refugee camp shortly after the attack. His family appealed the decision in court, but their requests were rejected.
Abu Shkhaydam had five children — three boys and two daughters — and taught Islamic law at a boys high school, for which he received a salary from the Jerusalem municipality.
According to Israeli authorities, he was a member of Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,’s civilian branch, rather than its armed wing.
On November 21, 2021, he drew a submachine near the Chain Gate, which leads to the holy Temple Mount site, and opened fire on passersby, fatally wounding Kay and seriously wounding two others. Kay, who was employed at the Western Wall as a tour guide, had been walking to work when he was killed.
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razing his home gets him sympathy
The way to handle this is to raise the homes of the mayor, and of all his immediate neighbors, leaving his home intact.
This will make the neighbors and mayor very angry at him, and will make others not want to imitate him.
They are not really concerned about what he did;
they support him out of pity for his punishment.
[IsraelTimes] Court rules Ahmad Asafra guilty in stabbing death of Dvir Sorek outside of West Bank yeshiva, even though he was not present at the time of the attack
An Israeli military court on Monday convicted a Paleostinian of killing an Israeli teenager in 2019.
Ahmad Asafra was convicted of intentionally causing the death of Dvir Sorek. The charge is equivalent to murder in the West Bank military court.
Asafra was also convicted of two other charges of attempting to cause intentional death and a series of security offenses, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. He has not been sentenced yet.
The court determined that Asafra was the commander of a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror cell that carried out the stabbing attack. The court accepted the prosecution’s position that Asafra was guilty of the attack, although he was not present during the stabbing.
Another member of the cell, Yusef Zohar, was not present during the attack, but was convicted of a number of security offenses and was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years.
In December, Qassem Asafra and Nasir Asafra were sentenced to life imprisonment for the attack. The pair are cousins; it’s unclear how they are related to Ahmad Asafra.
Qassem Asafra was also convicted of an attempt to kill two Israelis in a 2011 terror attack in Beersheba, which he had not been caught for at the time.
Sorek, 18, was stabbed to death near the West Bank settlement of Migdal Oz in August 2019. He was a yeshiva student enrolled in a program known as hesder that combines Torah study with military service. He was off-duty at the time of his killing.
Sorek’s body was found on a road leading to the religious seminary where he was studying.
The attackers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace but were apprehended in the town of Beit Kahlil after a 48-hour manhunt.
The attackers told Sherlocks they killed Sorek due to "the suffering of the Paleostinian people" and "the situation at al-Aqsa [Mosque]," according to transcripts of their interrogation obtained by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
They planned the murder ahead of time, drove to an intersection and waited for an Israeli to attack, they said.
Nasir Asafra attacked Sorek after he got off a bus, first attempting to subdue him with a stun gun, then repeatedly stabbing him in the chest, he said.
"He tried to defend himself by covering his face and upper body with his hands. Then he remained still and didn’t move and I got into the car," the attacker told Sherlocks.
The Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Defence issued details about the "Winter Eagle" Operation in Iraq and Syria against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
"Around 60 aircraft were involved in the operation, including warplanes and armed and unarmed drones," the Ministry said in a statement.
"Our warplanes targeted sites in Qarajiq, at a depth of 165 km, Sinjar, at a depth of 85 km in northern Iraq, and Derik, at a depth of 9 km in northern Syria."
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's Defense Ministry added, "utmost sensitivity was shown" regarding the security of the civilians during the operations. It said Turkey would "continue the fight against terrorism for the security of our country and our nation with determination until the last terrorist is neutralized."
Today, Ottoman Turkish warplanes and drones have attacked Kurdish Death Eater training camps, shelters, and ammunition storage areas in northern areas of Iraq and Syria, Turkey's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.
The Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... said that the Ottoman Turkish forces struck PKK positions in three areas as part of the "Winter Eagle" Operation in Iraq and Syria.
Speaking at the General Assembly of the Young Businessmen Confederation of Turkey, Erdogan stressed, "When I said that we would enter the hideouts of murderous Moslems in Gabar, Gudi, Tendurik and Bestelar Dilarar (regions in northern Iraq, eastern and northeastern Turkey), some mocked. Now we have entered their nests."
He added, "Last night, we bombed targets in three different locations, and they could not even find a hole to escape to."
Iraq's Defense Ministry condemned what it called a Ottoman Turkish infiltration into Iraqi air space as a violation of its illusory sovereignty.
The PKK has led an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984, killing tens of thousands of people. Turkey and its allies consider the group a terror organization, including the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... .
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[REGNUM] February 2 is a memorable date not only for the people of Russia, but for the whole world. On this day, 79 years ago, Soviet soldiers defeated the Nazi troops near Stalingrad.
Commemorative actions were held in the Volgograd region. Servicemen of the Volgograd Territorial Garrison of the Southern Military District (SMD) took part in the solemn events on Mamaev Kurgan.
Servicemen of the Guard of Honor Company, accompanied by a military band, laid wreaths and baskets of flowers at the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Military Glory on Mamaev Kurgan, as well as at the grave of Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Chuikov.
According to tradition, at exactly noon, on the southern slope of Mamayev Kurgan, a "shot of memory" thundered in honor of the 79th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. Artillerymen of the Southern Military District fired a salvo from two ZIS-3 guns from the Great Patriotic War.
The Governor of the Volgograd Region Andrey Bocharov congratulated the veterans on the holiday and noted:
"The victory of the Soviet troops over the Nazi invaders in the Battle of Stalingrad - in the historic, turning point battle of the Great Patriotic War and the entire Second World War - is a vivid example of courage, heroism, love for their Motherland, their Fatherland, for their native land, self-sacrifice of the Generation of Winners in the name of future generations, in the name of us.
The words of the great commander, defender of the Russian land Alexander Nevsky: "Whoever comes to us with a sword, he will die by the sword" have become and will remain prophetic for all the invaders of our land. Eternal glory and memory to the Generation of Winners. Happy holiday! Happy Stalingrad Victory Day!
The festivities ended with colorful fireworks. It should be noted that due to the unfavorable epidemiological situation in the region, part of the events took place online. See photos at the link
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In a related vein, Sunday the 30th was the date of birth of Vasily Arkhipov, a Soviet officer who saved the world from nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis.
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Hey, Brandon, you really don't want to mess with these people especially on their home turf.
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[IsraelTimes] Mostofsky, who wore fur pelts and a police bulletproof vest when he entered the US Capitol, faces up to 18 months in jail
Aaron Mostofsky, the Jewish judge’s son who wore fur pelts and a bulletproof vest when he entered the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty in a federal court Wednesday to civil disorder, theft of government property and entering and remaining in a restricted building.
Mostofsky, who referred to himself as a "caveman" eager to protest Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... ’s presidential election loss, was seen inside the Capitol wearing a fur costume and a police bulletproof vest that he was accused of stealing during the mayhem. He gave a video interview inside the building, telling the New York Post he was there "to express my opinion as a free American that this election was stolen."
Mostofsky, 35, is scheduled to be sentenced on May 6. He faces 12 to 18 months in prison under federal sentencing guidelines, US District Judge James Boasberg said. Mostofsky also agreed to pay $2,000 restitution.
Mostofsky is the son of Steven (Shlomo) Mostofsky, a Kings County (Brooklyn) Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... Judge and former president of the National Council of Young Israel, an Orthodox synagogue association. NCYI has been outspokenly pro-Trump in the past.
Mostofsky’s brother, Nachman, who serves as executive director of Chovevei Zion, a politically conservative Orthodox Jewish advocacy organization, also attended the protests but he has said he left before the mob entered the Capitol.
Aaron Mostofsky’s unusual garb made him stand out from the crowd of camouflage-wearing, flag-waving rioters. At one point, he was photographed sitting on a bench near the Senate chamber holding a stick and the riot shield, which he said he picked up off the floor.
According to prosecutors, Mostofsky took a bus from New York to Washington and joined protesters in overwhelming a police line and storming the Capitol. Along the way, he picked up and put on the bulletproof vest, valued at $1,905, and the riot shield, worth $265, prosecutors said.
Before the protest, Mostofsky messaged another demonstrator that he could be found at the protest by looking for "a caveman," adding, "Even a caveman knows it was stolen," prosecutors said. Afterward, as his photo circulated, he said the image was unfortunate because "now people actually know me."
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Interesting public reaction to theft of a steak from an all you can eat Buffett considering these same people do not even pay attention when someone walks into a CVS or Walgreens and loot the store.
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I would have bet on a weekend when they serve Breakfast and the fight was over $5.25 p/lb Wings or $7.10 p/lb Bacon.
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BTW: Shop Food Lifting
We use to have 2 RYAN's in this area.
Until some customers working with waitstaff figured out sitting in the back area, they could load and empty plates full of meats into Zipper Thermal Bags hidden in Baby Carriages covered with a blanket.
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I stopped patronizing them when I noticed how many scruffy customers would just stand at the buffet and stuff their faces without bothering to have a tray. Gross!
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Sort of like Chuck E. Cheese but for older children.
The de-escalation zone in northwest Syria witnessed on Wednesday mutual shelling between Turkish-backed opposition factions and the Syrian government forces.
The opposition factions’ sites in the villages and towns of al-Ziyara, al-Enkawi, al-Zaqqum, al-Qarqur and Qleidin in the Ghab Plain, west of Hama, with dozens of missile and artillery shells by the government forces, North Press reported military sources of the opposition.
Similarly, the opposition factions’ gatherings in the villages and towns of Fatterah, Kafr Oweid, Sfuhen, Kansafra and Fleifel in Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib, were hit with heavy artillery and rockets by the government forces, the sources added.
Coincidently, the gatherings of the opposition factions in the towns of Kafr Ta’al and Kafr Noran and the village of Tedil, west of Aleppo, were hit with artillery shells and missile by government forces stationed in the Regiment 46. The Kabina area, north of Lattakia, was also hit with similar shelling by the government forces, according to the same sources.
Meanwhile, the opposition factions announced bombing the government forces’ sites in the town Quptan al-Jabal west of Aleppo and the Malajah area, south of Idlib, the sources indicated.
The escalation that northwest Syria is witnessing came in tandem with news that Turkish forces had reinforced their points near the lines of contact with the government forces south of Idlib.
[AlAhram] The US Army said Wednesday it will immediately begin discharging soldiers who have refused to get the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine, putting more than 3,300 service members at risk of being thrown out soon.
The Army's announcement makes it the final military service to lay out its discharge policy for vaccine refusers.
The Marine Corps, Air Force, and Navy have already discharged active-duty troops or entry-level personnel at boot camps for refusing the shots. So far, the Army has not discharged any.
According to data released by the Army last week, more than 3,300 soldiers have refused to get the vaccine.
The Army has said that more than 3,000 soldiers have been issued official written reprimands, which suggests they are already identified in the disciplinary process, and some of them could be among the first to be discharged.
The Pentagon has ordered all service members _ active-duty, National Guard, and Reserves _ to get the vaccine, saying it is critical to maintaining the health and readiness of the force. COVID-19 cases continue to surge around the country as a result of the omicron variant.
Roughly 97% of all Army soldiers have gotten at least one shot. More than 3,000 have requested medical or religious exemptions.
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth issued the directive Wednesday ordering commanders to begin involuntary separation proceedings against those who have refused the shots and do not have a pending or approved exemption.
``Army readiness depends on soldiers who are prepared to train, deploy, fight and win our nation's wars,'' she said.
``Unvaccinated soldiers present a risk to the force and jeopardize readiness. We will begin involuntary separation proceedings for Soldiers who refuse the vaccine order and are not pending a final decision on an exemption.''
The order includes active-duty soldiers, reserves serving on active duty, and cadets at the Military Academy at West Point, its preparatory school, and ROTC.
The detailed order said soldiers will be discharged for misconduct, and noted that those who are eligible to retire may do so before July 1.
Overall, nearly 600 Marines, airmen, and sailors have been thrown out of the military or dismissed from entry-level training at boot camps as of last week.
The military services have been going through a methodical process to deal with those who refuse the vaccine as well as those who request medical, administrative, or religious exemptions.
The reviews require counseling with medical personnel and chaplains as well as senior commanders.
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Looks like the old saying needs to be stood on its head: in America's Age of Woke, the only people refused accepted for military service will be "the halt, the lame and the swishy"
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^ very good point. Ore-COVID insanity, the brass was warning that some very low percentage of US 18 year-olds would even avoid automatic disqualification for service -- let alone choose, let alone be chosen, let alone survive basic training.
We won't come close to full staffing. This is a complete debacle that can only be solved, realistically and in the foreseeable future, by reducing our manpower and reducing overseas commitments.
And you ain't seen nothin' yet: the monstrous side effects of the "vaccines" and the years of lockdowns have destroyed this generation. We're facing a nuclear winter when it comes to manpower for the next generation of soldiers, workers, parents, etc.
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/\ And you ain't seen nothin' yet: the monstrous side effects of the "vaccines" and the years of lockdowns have destroyed this generation. We're facing a nuclear winter when it comes to manpower for the next generation of soldiers, workers, parents, etc.
Abortion, urban crime, ridiculous ME conflict, and senseless bush wars are failing to keep the population numbers down. For some reason, people continue to insist on procreating. Something simply had to be done to keep them apart. Bill and Melinda to interview Fauci. More at 11:00.
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OK some will be 365/200's.
But what about those in critical MOS's
"The detailed order said soldiers will be discharged formisconduct,
But will these personnel be given a Dishonorable Discharge? Because a Dishonorable Discharge causes all types of Civilian Employment, 2nd Amendment and other issues.
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The percentages of discharge upgrades requested by Congresscritter offices denied is something like near zero unless the person involved had a special or general courts martial.
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NN21, what makes you think they care if a dishonorable discharge causes them employment problems in the future. You either comply or you are shit to these people.
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My concern is the soldier who would be like, "Yeah, give me four shots and send me to Ukraine in the Winter to fight The Milley Doctrine against Russia."
On Monday, the city of Al-Zawiya witnessed violent clashes between a militia affiliated with the Awlad Saqr tribe, and another affiliated with Awlad Al-Shawsh, resulting in a number of civilian casualties and injuries.
In these clashes, three civilians were killed, as well as the militiaman Badr Kardamin, from the Awlad Saqr. Nine others were wounded, with their injuries varying from medium to critical.
One of the civilians killed was a bride from the Al-Toumi family, and was travelling to Al-Zawiya with her mother, who suffered injuries to her face.
Light, medium, and heavy weapons were used during the clashes. These erupted after Kardamin stole two trucks loaded with cigarette shipments from the Al-Shawsh militia.
The Government of National Unity (GNU) has reportedly failed to intervene, after civil mediation efforts failed to end the fighting.
Over the past months, violent clashes have taken place in western Libya, the most recent of which was in November. This was between the militias of Mohamed Bahrun (Al-Far) who is affiliated with the Ministry of Interior in Al-Zawiya, and the Stabilization Support Agency (SSA), led by Abdel-Ghani Al-Kikli (Ghneiwa), affiliated with the Presidential Council in Al-Zawiya.
Days before, a major oil refinery in the city, with a capacity of 120,000 barrels per day, was severely damaged as a result of the fighting.
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – A member of the Syrian government forces was wounded on Wednesday by the Turkish forces and the affiliated armed opposition factions bombardment of the countryside of Tel Tamr town, north of Hasakah, northeast Syria.
A member of the government forces was hospitalized after sustaining injuries to his foot as a result of Turkish shelling of Umm al-Keif village, west of the town, a medical source at the Martyr Legarin dispensary in Tel Tamr told North Press.
The populated villages of Kozaliya, Tel Shnan, Umm al-Keif, Tel Juma’a and Tawila in the western and northern countryside of the town were hit with a barrage of artillery and mortars by Turkish forces this evening.
The bombing also caused material damage to the residents’ property, according to a source in the Tel Tamr Military Council (a military formation affiliated with Syrian Democratic Forces-SDF).
Simultaneously, the villages of al-Asadiya, Dada Abdal and al-Bobi, in the town of Abu Rasin, were intensely bombed by the Turkish forces.
[JPost] The drone attack comes days after the Houthis launched a ballistic missile towards Abu Dhabi during President Isaac Herzog's official visit.
The defense ministry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said it intercepted and destroyed three hostile drones that penetrated the gulf country's airspace over unpopulated areas on the early morning of Wednesday.
Righteous Promise Brigades, an Iraqi-based militant group, took responsibility for the attack on the UAE.
UAE's defense ministry added that it is taking "all necessary measures to protect the state and its territory."
The Gulf state has been the target of several ballistic missiles and drone attacks over the past month, all claimed by the Houthis, a Yemeni rebel group backed by Iran.
On Sunday night, during Israeli President Isaac Herzog's official visit, Emirati air defenses intercepted a ballistic missile launched by the Iran-backed Houthis over Abu Dhabi. In response, the Saudi-led coalition launched a series of intense airstrikes on Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, early on Monday morning.
Syrian air defenses were also activated in response to an alleged Israeli missile barrage targeting the vicinity of the capital Damascus, hours after the attack on Abu Dhabi.
[REGNUM] The artillery of the Turkish army carried out an attack on the positions of the Kurdish detachments of the People's Self-Defense Forces (SNS) in northern Syria near the city of Manbij. This was reported on February 2 by the Kurdish news agency Firat.
Turkish artillery strikes were a response to shelling by the SNA troops of the city of Al-Bab, located 44 km north of Aleppo, where nine members of the Syrian opposition groups supported by Ankara were killed the day before, during shelling on February 2, another 32 were injured.
The Turkish army fired 19 shells at the village of Sheikh Nasser, and another 19 shells were detonated in Es-Sayyad and Yalanli. Information about possible civilian casualties and destruction of civilian infrastructure has not yet been received.
Earlier , REGNUM reported that the Turkish army launched a military operation, code-named "Winter Eagle". The purpose of the operation was the shelter of Kurdish partisans in the vicinity of the cities of Derik, Sinjar and Karachak - in Iraq, as well as the territory of the Syrian provinces of Hasakah and Raqqa.
[SaharaReporters] Troops of 27 Task Force Brigade of the Nigerian Army have neutralised Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province terrorists in an ambush staged at one of the insurgents’ notorious crossing points at the outskirts of Girboa village, Yobe State.
The Nigerian Army disclosed this in a Twitter post on its verified page on Wednesday.
It added that several weapons were also recovered from the terror group.
“Troops of 27 TF Brigade in conjunction with Civilian JTF on Tuesday 1 Feb 2022 laid an ambush on BHT/ISWAP terrorists at the outskirts of Girboa village, Yobe State. During the encounter, some terrorists were neutralised while others fled in disarray, weapons were also recovered,” the tweet read.
The terror group has caused over 100,000 deaths and displaced millions of individuals mainly in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe States.
ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – One man died under torture in a jail run by the Turkish-backed Sultan Shah Suleiman faction in Afrin region in Aleppo northern countryside, north Syria.
Yesterday, Rezan Khalil from Sheilh Hadid district, northwest of Afrin died because he was beaten on his head which led to hemorrhage of the brain, a local source told North Press.
Sultan Shah Suleiman faction had arrested Khalil before but released him after his family paid a ransom. Then, members of the faction arrested him for the second time.
The Turkish-backed Syrian opposition factions controlled Afrin in March 2018.
The Turkish-backed Syrian factions continue arresting, kidnapping and intimidating residents of Afrin with the aim to extort ransom for their release.
Suspected cult members have murdered a retired Assistant Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Christian Kpatuma.
The retired police officer cum lawyer was, on Wednesday, killed at his residence in Agwa, Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State.
The murder of the police chief, popularly known as ’Hippies’ has caused apprehension among residents of the area. Cult members are said to have taken over the Agwa community.
"Agwa people now live in great fear, in spite of the fact that her well-meaning sons and daughters suffered to build a Police Divisional Headquarters (adjudged to be the best in Imo State), which was commissioned barely three days ago together with a Vigilante Service. I am greatly pained," he said.
[DNYUZ] Questions Still Remain Over Truck Filled With Monkeys From CDC That Crashed In Pennsylvania.
In the 11 days since a truck hauling 100 monkeys from Mauritius crashed in Pennsylvania, one woman who got close to the scattered crates of monkeys on the highway has been treated for possible symptoms of illness.
And Kenya Airways, which is believed to have transported the monkeys to the United States, has decided not to renew its expiring contract to ship research primates here.
No other reports of possible illness related to the crash have emerged, according to state and federal health officials, who said it was not known whether the Pennsylvania woman’s symptoms were related to the cynomolgus macaques, which were being quarantined and monitored for diseases.
Experts said that direct exposure to monkey saliva or feces could be dangerous, but that the risk of a broader outbreak was low.
Ok, why aren't these animals going through USDA quarantine facilities? These aren't domestic animals, and should have been under USDA rules and jurisdiction. Vegas style. What are the odds our troll Fraudci is somehow connected?
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Short answer they where in route to the CDC which is a USDA quartatine site. Believe me USDA doesn't have enough space at their port of entry sites to do this.For example most zoos are USDA certified for this.Which is the reason you shouldn't smuggle your cute little doggie into the zoo, They could have it offed for breaking USDA quarantine.
[FoxNews] A good Samaritan in Texas is being hailed as a hero after he was shot several times while trying to save a woman from a suspect who was allegedly holding her at gunpoint early Tuesday.
The shooting unfolded just before 2:30 a.m. in the 9500 block of Lockwood Drive, Houston police said.
The woman, whose name was not immediately released, told police that she was walking when a dark-colored Kia pulled up and someone inside pointed a gun at her, FOX26 Houston reported.
The good Samaritan, identified by neighbors only as Marcus, was across the street when he spotted the woman being held at gunpoint and yelled at the suspect to leave her alone, according to the station.
"He really is a good person. He will stand up for anybody," neighbor Sheila Stagg told the station of Marcus.
But police said the gunman turned his attention away from the woman, got out of the car, and fired several shots at Marcus, striking him twice in the leg and once in the arm.
He was rushed to a hospital in stable condition.
Another neighbor told the station the Marcus' heroic actions were unsurprising.
"He’s a really good guy, and I’m not surprised he risked his life to save somebody else because that’s just the kind of thing he would do," Brittany Garcia said.
Police were still searching for the suspect as of Wednesday morning.
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Congratulations, Silentbrick! Being a sleeping platform builds a solid foundation for the rest of your parenting. In the short term it does mean you’ll be better at calming the little mite, much to Mrs. Brick’s frustration. I speak from experience on this — and frustrating as it was, thank goodness trailing daughter #1 did calm quickly as soon as he took her — I was as frantic as she by that point. It’s the warmer body, slower heartbeat, and deeper voice, I think.
[BBC] Pulsed electromagnetic energy "plausibly explains" some of the cases of the mysterious "Havana Syndrome" illness, a new US intelligence community report says.
There has been a contentious debate over whether symptoms afflicting US staff around the world were caused by some kind of device or were psychological in nature.
The latest report from a US Intelligence Community panel of experts says the symptoms are "genuine and compelling" and may have been caused by an external source.
But the panel does not look at who might be responsible.
Beginning in Havana, Cuba in 2016, US intelligence officers and diplomats began complaining of an array of unusual symptoms. At first, the claims were largely dismissed within government.
But in the last year, they have been taken more seriously with US officials have been encouraged to report similar symptoms. That has led to a flood of cases, numbering at least a thousand from around the world.
A January CIA study found no evidence of a widespread campaign by a foreign state and said many cases could be explained by natural causes or stress. However, it acknowledged that a number remained unexplained.
This new study examined more than 1,000 classified documents and interviewed witnesses to focus on a group of people suffering a particular set of symptoms (officials will not disclose the exact number).
They concluded that this set of cases cannot be explained by environmental or medical conditions and could have been caused by some kind of external source or device. "We've learned a lot," said one intelligence official familiar with the work of the panel.
The panel found four "core characteristics" that represented the symptoms - including a sense of pressure and that something was coming from a particular direction or location.
It examined the plausibility of five potential causes: acoustic signals, chemical and biological agents, ionizing radiation, natural and environmental factors, and radiofrequency and other electromagnetic energy and studied whether some kind of concealed device could create the reported symptoms.
The panel found that psychological or social factors could not alone explain the symptoms although they could have compounded some of the problems for those affected. It also found that they could not be explained by environmental or medical conditions.
"Several aspects of this unique neurosensory syndrome make it unlikely to be caused by a functional neurological disorder," the panel said. That pointed towards an "external stimuli" or source, in the view of the panel.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] I don’t know about the rest of you, but this is going to make Mr. Wife’s budget very happy. I do not dance gently through life.
The material was made by Massachussets Institute of Technology-led experts
It is formed from layers of tiny molecular discs that stack in order to form sheets
Each layer is held together by hydrogen bonds, making it strong and lightweight
It was long thought impossible to produce a two-dimensional polymers like this, called polyaramides
But special joins between each disk prevent them from twisting out-of-plane
Alongside protective coatings, the material could be used in construction
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Was in a H2S training and one of the hands had replaced his gorilla glass screen protector and was flexing the damaged one when it exploded and sent glass fibers and bits everywhere. Cool, other than having to get that crap off.
Henry Herskovitz and his Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends harassing Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor every Saturday morning since 2003.
[IsraelTimes] Judge rules that lawsuit against rallies denouncing ’Jewish power’ outside Michigan synagogue for 18 years was ’frivolous,’ week after appeal sent to Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
In the latest twist in the long-running legal saga over a small group of protesters who have gathered weekly outside a Michigan synagogue for the past 18 years, a judge has ruled that Jewish worshipers who lost a lawsuit against the protesters must pay them more than $150,000 in legal fees.
[Dawn] Terrorists attempted to attack security forces' camps in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Panjgur and Noshki in two separate attacks late on Wednesday evening, the military's media wing said.
In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said "both attacks have been successfully repulsed while inflicting heavy casualties to terrorists".
In Panjgur, snuffies tried to enter a security forces' camp from two locations, the statement read.
"However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... timely response by troops foiled terrorist attempt. During intense exchange of fire one soldier has been martyred. Terrorists have fled while their casualties are being ascertained."
In Noshki, according to the ISPR, snuffies attempted to enter a Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) camp which was "promptly responded", adding that four snuffies have been killed.
The statement said one officer was injured during the shootout and that "intermittent firing" was continuing.
Earlier, an FC spokesperson had confirmed two blasts near the camps at Panjgur and Noshki. He had said the blasts were followed by firing, which was ongoing.
The banned Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) grabbed credit for the attacks in a statement.
Today's incidents are the latest in a string of attacks in Balochistan and come a week after ten soldiers were martyred in a terrorist attack on a security forces' checkpost in the province's Kech district.
[IsraelTimes] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The US military launched interceptor missiles during an attack by 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... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels that targeted the United Arab Emirates during a visit by Israel’s president, the second-such time American troops have opened fire, officials said.
The acknowledgements by the White House and Pentagon late Monday represent a widening American involvement in Yemen’s yearslong war, a conflict that US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... declared nearly a year ago "has to end."
While the US has ended offensive support to the Saudi-led coalition fighting on behalf of Yemen’s exiled government, its involvement in defending the UAE comes as the rebel Houthis have declared al-Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi a target.
Al-Dhafra hosts some 2,000 American troops and has served as a major base of operations for everything from armed drones to F-35 stealth fighters.
Speaking from the White House, press secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... said the US military "responded to an inbound missile threat on the UAE.
"This involved the employment of Patriot interceptors to... (support) efforts by the armed forces of the UAE," Psaki said. "I would say we are working quite closely with them."
At the Pentagon, press secretary John Kirby said that "US Patriots were fired, but it was the Emirati surface-to-air missiles that actually engaged the targets."
Asked if that would include targets outside of al-Dhafra, Kirby said: " If we can help defend our Emirati partners, we’re going to do that."
Biden also mentioned the attack on the UAE at the White House during a visit by 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... ’s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, saying that "America will have the backs of our friends in the region."
The Emirati military, as with a similar attack last week, did not acknowledge that the American military opened fire. The autocratic UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, has threatened criminal charges against anyone filming an attack or outgoing interceptor fire.
The UAE’s state-run WAM news agency reported Monday’s interception, saying "the attack did not result in any losses, as the remnants of the ballistic missile fell outside the populated areas." It wasn’t immediately clear where the remnants fell, though American Patriot missiles are thought only to be deployed at al-Dhafra.
The attack came just before President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Dubai Expo 2020.
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This is the sane shithead whose Dwarf-Kommissar gave us a pseudo-vaccine that INCREASED the incidence of cancer 4-fold in those millions of DoD employees and dependents who took it.
This is the mendacious asshole who pretended, for decades, that his first wife's cause of death was a drunken driver -- when that driver was NOT drunk and when his wife caused her IWN DWARH by swerving into incoming traffic, most likely because she herself had impaired judgment and control due to medications.
And this lying buffoon is supposed to lead a national fight against cancer?
Like putting David Duke at the head of an anti-racism effort.
Or Joe Biden
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The "moonshot" is that Bidet is trying to rescue the image of his presidency from the dumpster. He is all hat and no cowboy. He's had 40 plus years to do something other than grift. I should have modified presidency with "stolen."
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If the "behind-the-scenes" people actually running things didn't grasp that a viable frontman is still essential to the success of such a dog-pony show, then I am not really so worried they have a permanent grip on anything,
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Yup.
Inequities huh. Yeah, I think of Zombeau, I most certainly think inequities.
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i don't find it sad. I hope he goes out the worst way possible in all honesty. Damned old fool would have everyone of us here shot in the head if he could get away with it.
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^ Good point...
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So basically reopening the disgraced Biden Cancer Initiative. Let the grift flooooooooooooooooooow.
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disgraced Biden Cancer Initiative
Good catch. Thanks for reminding us of Biden's post-VP graft.
Direct Translation vi Google Translate. Edited. By Boris Rozhin
[KateHon] For 30 years after the destruction of the USSR, the West turned a blind eye to the oppression of "non-citizens", the rehabilitation of Nazism and collaborationism, and also periodically sent its citizens to the Baltic borderlands as "presidents". The task was simple - to fix such a role and internal structure of the limitrophs at the stage of Russia's internal weakness, in order to use them in the future when Russia can finally turn to foreign policy issues and ensure the protection of its own borders.
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“If I wanted, Russian troops could be not only in Kiev, but also Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw and Bucharest in two days,” Russian President Putin allegedly told Poroshenko, according to the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
From BBC: Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung says it has a leaked document showing that Mr Putin made the threat to Mr Poroshenko, and the Ukrainian leader then passed on the comments to EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the weekend in Kiev.
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Just a quick note to let y’all know I spoke briefly with Fred last night. If all goes well he’ll be released from rehab at the end of next week. He’s proud of the long scar down the center of his chest, and in our brief conversation showed no signs of the aphasia that showed up in the first few days after the mild stroke that followed the heart surgery. He looks forward to rejoining us as soon as he is able, and appreciates the prayers and good wishes.
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Thanks, TW, and still praying for Fred!
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Great news and so glad to hear he's on the mend. He needs to make sure and enjoy his time off from riding herd on all of us 'crazed troublemakers' here.
[ZeroHedge] The study was authored by Jonas Herby, special advisor at Center for Political Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark; Lars Jonung, professor emeritus in economics at Lund University, Sweden; and Steve H. Hanke, a Professor of Applied Economics and Founder & Co-Director of The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
The authors wrote that "While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted." Or as Adam Carolla put it: "You closed the beaches down, you closed the schools down, cloth masks were gonna save us all, the vaccine was gonna be effective, natural immunity wasn’t effective — what have you been right about?"
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saw that video a couple days ago. I can't believe people like this actually survive.
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They didn't until recently when the machine needed cheerleaders for madness.
Even the shirts show a bit of non-sequitur sloganeering. Imitating the 9 year old cheerleader dance troops is weird enough in the head even without branching into the, arguable, borderline pedophile flavors of the modern troop dress chic.
That is, they are not aiming at you, or their cocktail friends, but your 9 year old.
[AlAhram] The United States will deploy a guided missile destroyer and state-of-the-art fighter jets to help defend the United Arab Emirates after a series of missile attacks by 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 rebels, a US statement said Wednesday.
The deployment, to "assist the UAE against the current threat", follows a phone call between Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the US embassy in the UAE said.
The UAE, part of the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels, suffered three missile attacks last month with the first killing three oil workers.
The second targeted Al Dhafra air base, where US forces are stationed, prompting them to fire Patriot interceptors to help shoot down the missiles as air crews scrambled to bunkers.
The guided missile destroyer USS Cole will partner with the UAE Navy and make a port call in Abu Dhabi, the statement said, while the US will also deploy fifth-generation fighter planes.
Other actions include "continuing to provide early warning intelligence", it added.
[IsraelTimes] Suspect allegedly punched an ultra-Orthodox man on a Brooklyn street during Shabbat
New York police arrested a suspect on Tuesday for allegedly punching a Jewish man on a street in Brooklyn last month.
The attack is being investigated as a hate crime.
The New York Police Department said it had arrested Babyson Dumervil, 24, and charged him with assault.
Police said the suspect crossed a street to approach an ultra-Orthodox man late at night and punched him in the nose.
The attack occurred on January 22 during Shabbat in the Crown Heights neighborhood.
Before the arrest, the Anti-Defamation League had offered a reward of $5,000 for information on the attack.
The arrest comes amid a string of antisemitic incidents in the New York region. On Tuesday, city Councilwoman Rita Joseph reported antisemitic graffiti in a New York subway station. She posted a photo showing the racial slur "kike" written on a wall five times. On Sunday, a truck driver shouted at Jews in Brooklyn, "Go back to your fucking country, let Hitler kill you." His company fired him for the comments.
On Saturday, a snow plow driver deliberately blasted two ultra-Orthodox Jewish men with snow in Lakewood, New Jersey. He posted the video online with the caption, "This one’s for you JC," apparently referring to Jesus Christ. The Anti-Defamation League called the incident "as dangerous as it is disturbing." His employer, Waste Management, fired him.
Last week, the Shmira Jewish community protection group said a man was chasing people with a machete in Brooklyn, and an assailant accosted a Jewish woman on a train in the borough.
"You little Jewish girl better get off this train before I hurt you," he said.
On Monday, New York police responded to threatening phone calls against Yeshiva University, although it wasn’t clear if they were motivated by antisemitism.
New York police made two other arrests for alleged hate crimes against Jews last month. In one incident, a woman told Jewish children, "Hitler should have killed you all" and spit on them. In another, a man allegedly assaulted a Jewish man for wearing an Israel Defense Forces sweatshirt.
Hate crimes usually do not result in arrests in New York.
Jews are targeted in hate crimes more than any other group in New York City, by far. The NYPD reported 198 confirmed hate crimes against Jews last year, out of 524 total hate crimes in the city.
[IsraelTimes] Network tells co-host to take a two-week break ’to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments’; move comes despite apologies for saying Nazi genocide ’not about race’.
The vicious mendacity of the unthinkingly conformist Progressive. She’s a Baby Boomer, so doesn’t have the excuse of ignorance — this was all over the news the first thirty years of her life.
Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from her role as co-host of ABC’s popular "The View" talk show after an uproar over her comments in which she said the Holocaust was "not about race," the network said Tuesday night.
"Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments," ABC News president Kim Godwin said in a statement.
"While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments," Godwin said. "The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities."
Hours before the announcement, the Page Six entertainment news site quoted ABC sources as saying that there was mounting anger at ABC and at parent company Disney that Goldberg has not been disciplined.
"ABC staffers and Disney Network execs are saying Whoopi went way too far. And board members are not happy with her apology and want a fuller retraction. The word is that Whoopi is in ’deep shit,’" the source told Page Six, adding that several of her co-hosts were among those saying Goldberg was "too controversial now for the show."
Goldberg apologized on Monday for saying the Holocaust was not about race, comments that sparked a firestorm of controversy, but not before appearing to double down on the statement in another interview.
On Monday morning, she made the initial comments on "The View" program.
"The Holocaust isn’t about race," but rather about "man’s inhumanity to man," she said. The statement drew condemnations from Jewish groups including the Auschwitz Memorial and the Anti-Defamation League.
Later Monday, she made similar comments on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" while discussing the controversy.
"I thought it was a salient discussion because as a black person I think of race as something that I can see, so I see you and I know what race you are and the discussion was about how I felt about that," Goldberg said about her earlier statements.
"People were very angry and they said, ’No, no, we are a race,’ and I understand," Goldberg said.
Colbert asked Goldberg, "Have you come to understand that the Nazis saw it as race? Because asking the Nazis, they would say, ’Yes, it’s a racial issue.’"
She responded: "The Nazis lied. It wasn’t. They had issues with ethnicity, not with race, because most of the Nazis were white people and most of the people they were attacking were white people. So to me, I’m thinking, ’How can you say it’s about race if you are fighting each other?’"
Goldberg has also come under fire for her stage name during the controversy. Born Caryn Elaine Johnson, Goldberg has no Jewish ancestry, but adopted her stage name to be deliberately Jewish-sounding, in part because she has said she personally identifies with Judaism. She told a London audience in 2016, "I just know I am Jewish.
No, my dear Ms Johnson, you are not. A fact for which I — as a real Jew with my mother’s (and most of her family’s) real Holocaust experience to show for it — am profoundly grateful. Bad enough that I have to share species and s3x with you without being more closely related.
I practice nothing. I don’t go to temple, but I do remember the holidays."
I remember Kwanzaa without practicing it, which does not make me African-American.
In 2016, she designed a Hanukkah sweater for Lord & Taylor.
That woman is a walking example of cultural appropriation.
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From the SJW view, Whoopi has a point. "Race" means black and white. Jews are whites. Therefore Germans vs. Jews was just an intra-white squabble and had nothing to do with race. This isn't some fringe view, it's what the professors at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. all think, and it's what they're teaching their students. Moreover, with the browning of America, people are less interested in the quarrels of Old Europe. It has nothing to do with them and they don't see why they should care. Do Americans care about the ancient hatreds between the Burmans and the Shan? Of course not.
Also from her point of view, she's Jewish, so she's talking about her own people. Goldberg, remember? If you can change your gender identity at will, why not your ethnic identity? It makes perfect sense.
This is why you study your enemy: you can know what they're thinking instead of dismissing them as idiots. This is why the right keeps getting its ass kicked in the culture war, not bothering to grok what is really going on. If anyone would like an education, here's a good start:
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Born Caryn Elaine Johnson, Goldberg has no Jewish ancestry, but adopted her stage name to be deliberately Jewish-sounding
She’s Rachel Dolezal in reverse. And meanly parochial in her understanding, though she plays up the idea that she is what Spike Lee calls the Magical Negro trope she played in Star Trek.
But that’s the external reality that contrasts to the SJW mind games Sheter the Lesser9291 describes.
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Is Whoopi Jewish? She stated she feels Jewish but not is not then same as being Jewish.
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I remember when she changed her name. Her point was to get attention from those she perceived controlled the entertainment industry in Hollywood. She is not or ever will be a Jew.
I would like to see her take a job as an Alec Baldwin film producer.
has no Jewish ancestry, but adopted her stage name to be deliberately Jewish-sounding
To make fun of Jews and Judaism? OK, I see the logic of appealing to self-hating Hollywood left-libs. High hit rate on that.
Or did she join "Whoopi" to "Goldberg" because she thought she'd get invited to more casting couches by directors who didn't ask to see a head shot and guessed she was a kinkier version of Goldie Hawn or Natalie Portman?
#10
I have no doubt she believes non-black people are white and she sees race as color of skin as she stated on Colbert's program. She was willing to take on he appearance of being Jewish in order to further her appeal as a miniority to get more recognician. Just another grifter.
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Is she still getting her $94,000/week salary?
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The View? A show with Hectoring hens about nothing.
The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) stressed the need to protect citizens against the Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and address the problems through talks.
"Following airstrikes in Ninewa with civilian casualties reported, we reiterate that Iraqi illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected at all times. Local populations must be protected; disputes should be addressed through dialogue and cooperation." The Mission said on Twitter.
Today, Ottoman Turkish warplanes and drones have attacked Kurdish bad boy training camps, shelters, and ammunition storage areas in northern areas of Iraq and Syria, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's Defence Ministry said.
"Around 60 aircraft were involved in the operation, including warplanes and armed and unarmed drones," the Ministry said in a statement.
"Our warplanes targeted sites in Qarajiq, at a depth of 165 km, Sinjar, at a depth of 85 km in northern Iraq, and Derik, at a depth of 9 km in northern Syria."
Turkey's Defense Ministry added, "utmost sensitivity was shown" regarding the security of the civilians during the operations. It said Turkey would "continue the fight against terrorism for the security of our country and our nation with determination until the last terrorist is neutralized."
The Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... said that the Ottoman Turkish forces struck PKK positions in three areas as part of the "Winter Eagle" Operation in Iraq and Syria.
Speaking at the General Assembly of the Young Businessmen Confederation of Turkey, Erdogan stressed, "When I said that we would enter the hideouts of turbans in Gabar, Gudi, Tendurik and Bestelar Dilarar (regions in northern Iraq, eastern and northeastern Turkey), some mocked. Now we have entered their nests."
He added, "Last night, we bombed targets in three different locations, and they could not even find a hole to escape to."
Iraq's Security Media Cell. Affiliated with the Defense Ministry condemned "the Ottoman Turkish infiltration into Iraqi air space as a violation of its illusory sovereignty."
The PKK has led an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984, killing tens of thousands of people. Turkey and its allies consider the group a terror organization, including the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... .
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[IsraelTimes] Parole board gives early release to Juana Rishmawi, who was sentenced to 13 months in November for activities with organization accused of funneling money to PFLP.
An Israeli parole board judge agreed Tuesday to the early release of Spanish aid worker Juana Rishmawi, who was locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in November for illegally funding a Paleostinian terror group, her lawyer said.
Attorney Avigdor Feldman said he expected Rishmawi to be freed within a week, provided the state does not appeal the parole board decision to release her early from her 13-month sentence.
"This was the right decision. It was supposed to be made a month ago and the prosecution or the state has no grounds to appeal this decision," Feldman told AFP.
"I hope she will be released [within the] next seven days."
Rishmawi was sentenced in November after a military court convicted her of working with an organization that it said was funding the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, a leftist group blamed for previous attacks on Israelis.
She had already spent some months in jug awaiting trial which were counted towards her sentence, her lawyer said.
Rishmawi had been working for a Paleostinian group, the Union of Health Work Committees, which Israel said funneled European donations to the PFLP.
In 2020, Israel banned the aid group from working in the West Bank.
In her November plea deal, Rishmawi claimed she did not know the health organization had been funding the PFLP.
The deal required her to pay a fine of NIS 50,000 (nearly $16,000). She was arrested in April last year, and Feldman said she signed the deal to avoid a lengthy trial.
"In the indictment against her, it says very clearly that she was not aware that the money was transferred from the organization to the PFLP, if it was transferred," Feldman said. "It was not proven even that the money was transferred."
Rishmawi holds Spanish citizenship and the Spanish ambassador to Israel attended the parole board hearing in Nazareth on Tuesday at which the decision was handed down.
Judge Chanan Efrati wrote that he approved Rishmawi’s early release in part because "the prisoner is an older woman and this is her first incarceration... It’s reasonable to assume that after her release she will leave Israel for Spain, where her family lives."
The military court sentenced Rishmawi just weeks after Israel outlawed six prominent Paleostinian civil society groups, charging that they too were fronts for the PFLP — an allegation the groups denied.
The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... and European governments that have donated funds to the banned groups have asked to see concrete evidence from Israel of the allegations against them.
[FoxNews] Hunter Biden's Burisma check was blown on crack, expensive sports cars and prostitutes.
In his own dear way he was doing his bit, putting money into the economy, right?
Part two of the Fox Nation special "Who is Hunter Biden?" hosted by Judge Jeanine Pirro explores the president’s son’s history of erratic and illegal behavior.
Hunter Biden's antics turned into crack binges and sex marathons with multiple prostitutes, according to the contents of his laptop. Pirro revealed these kinds of involvements would last years and would be funded by foreign oligarchs who looked to take advantage of the then-vice president’s son.
As the four-part special explores, Rosemont Seneca Partners, Hunter Biden’s financial firm founded in 2009, began making business connections in China and taking trips to Beijing in 2010 and 2011.
"They're not meeting with low-ranking people," American political consultant Peter Schweizer said. "They are meeting with the sort of top tier of Chinese finance. This is a small sort of rinky-dink financial firm that's only been in business for 18 months. And yet, these doors magically open."
In May 2013, then-Vice President Joe Biden pulled some strings to get his 43-year-old son a commission in the Navy despite his drug issue. But Hunter didn’t even make it past his first weekend at the Reserve after a drug test detected cocaine in his blood.
According to New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, Hunter Biden fabricated a story that a cigarette he had accepted at a bar must have been laced, but an entry from his laptop revealed that he did, in fact, relapse.
"After 10 years of sobriety, I relapsed at possibly the most inopportune time," he wrote. "The guilt and shame I have felt over letting my family down was indescribable. I sought an age waiver at 42-years-old to serve in the U.S. Navy. I dishonored that great privilege and for that, I am deeply ashamed. But I also know that I cannot allow one moment in time to define me."
Hunter Biden went back to business once Joe Biden was chosen to be President Obama’s point man on China. In December 2013, the father and son duo flew to Beijing on Air Force Two and ten days after their return, Hunter closed a $1.5 billion private equity deal called Bohai Harvest.
"It's not just Joe Biden bringing his son along because he likes him and he wants to chat to him on the plane." Devine said. "This is American power come to do business. Hunter Biden is recognized as a princeling."
In July 2014, Hunter Biden returned to rehab, this time in Tijuana, Mexico, after striking up a relationship with Burisma a few months prior. Schweizer explained that Joe Biden encouraged his son’s involvement since this was a way for his family to become "fabulously wealthy."
"American studies have shown that you might expect to get about 55 to $60,000 a year if you are serving on a board of a company about Burisma's size," he said. "By contrast, the Burisma board pay was $80,000 a month."
But Hunter Biden admitted that Burisma became a "major enabler" during his "steepest skid into addiction." His enormous income was being spent on crack, expensive sports cars, hotel suites, room service, prostitutes, and various hangers-on, who ran up his credit cards.
"The board fee had morphed into a wicked, sort of, funny money," he said. "It hounded me to spend recklessly, dangerously, destructively, humiliatingly. So I did."
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Wrong word. Debauchery is best applied to youth: wild oats and all that.
This sick mofo was not a kid but a middle-aged man. A married man with school-aged children when he flew around the world offering to use his father's clout to help
- government bandits
- Russian Oligarchs
- Chinese spies and military leaders
- scumbags of every stripe
... to launder money and suborn officials to become saps for hostile foreign interests.
This asshole was not a randy young man but a married middle-aged drug-addled shitbag with a teenaged daughter when he
- hung out and smoked crack with and impregnated a stripper
- made pr0n videos of himself diddling and smoking crack with whores
- hit upon and banged his dead brother's widow
- hit upon and tried to bang his dead brother's widow's 14 year-old daughter
The right word is not "debauched" but DELEAVED: wicked, demonic, inhuman, indifferent to the values and norms of all decent and civilized people.
Two died and scores were maimed in the Ottoman Turkish aerial attack on the Martyr Rustom Judy camp of the internally displaced Kurds in Makhmour, the camp's security body said on Wednesday.
The command of the camp's security body said that two of its members were killed in a Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... yesterday, Monday.
"The civilians immediately flocked to the site to offer aid. However, ars longa, vita brevis... Ottoman Turkish warplanes attacked them, injuring dozens," the command said.
A security commander in Sinjar, who preferred to remain anonymous, told Shafaq News Agency that Ottoman Turkish warplanes conducted more than 50 airstrikes between 10:00 pm and 03:00 am on Jal Meeran, Shello, and Khana Sur.
The attack was by far the most violent mostly peaceful since the beginning of the Ottoman Turkish attacks on Sinjar. It caused massive losses among the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters, according to the source.
Ottoman Turkish Air Force has struck targets of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the People's Defense Units (YPG) in the Kurdistan Region and parts of northern Syria.
The Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Wednesday that Operation Winter Eagle was carried out against PKK/YPG sites in Derik, Sinjar, and Karachak.
"During the operation, caves, shelters, hideouts and ammunition depots were targeted," The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's Anadolu News Agency (AA) said.
"Operation Winter Eagle was launched in accordance with international law, Article 51 of the UN Charter and UN Security Council resolutions on the fight against terrorism," the ministry added.
"Efforts to fight against terrorism for the security of the country and nation will decisively continue until the last terrorist is neutralized," AA quoted the Ministry.
Turkey's Communications Director Fahrettin Altun said on Twitter that the country's "strategy of eradicating terrorism at its source" has contributed to border security, territorial integrity, and national unity.
Since 2016, Ankara has launched a trio of transborder operations against anti-Ankara parties in the Kurdistan Region and northeastern Syria: Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018), and Peace Spring (2019).
#1
Yes. That would certainly explain wing shooters (birds / clays) and football circus catches. This story reminds me of the one about how daylight savings time confuses animals.
/sheesh
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is thawhy so many pee pees get caught in zippers and bras are so hard to undo in the back seats of cars?
#3
True most of the time, but most definitely NOT all the time. I believe strongly in intuition, but your beliefs on this will vary.
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Intuition — which is very real — skips the seeing/observation step. But often it’s based on experience seeing the same thing multiple times in the past, so the brain and hand together act in anticipation of the message still on the way up the nerves from the eye.
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often it’s based on experience seeing the same thing multiple times in the past,
Fellow I was playing baseball catch with [for those too young to remember baseball or catch, sorry] proposed we were doing realtime processing of partial differential equations (arc of the thrown curve) and solving boundary value problems (positioning the glove axis within 6 degrees for reception). That never left me and I always considered Intuition as a process of extending the curve without regards to boundaries.
#7
Ummmmm.....seems like a bit much. Perhaps missed a Schiaparelli Conversion? Point 1-5 perhaps, but fifteen and no way traffic functions...ok maybe explains Suburus and Jettas.
*creepy Joe whisper*
I think someone has spent too much time with lockdown herbs--
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
[TMGN via ZERO] A story not being covered by the corrupt corporate media over the past few years has been the story of Joe Biden's Son, Hunter. Or maybe, more specifically, the story of Hunter Biden's Handgun.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
...a formerly lovely city in Washington state, governed by communists, anarchists, dipshits, and other sorts of incompetents. Home to Starbuck's, Boeing (at least for now), and Amazon, Microsoft, and Costco, the city became rich beyond its wildest dreams. All that money attracted the usual sort of grifting politician, and it's well on its way to chewing off the hand that feeds it...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...46th president of the U.S. 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
Just a quick note to let y’all know I spoke briefly with Fred last night. If all goes well he’ll be released from rehab at the end of next week. He’s proud of the long scar down the center of his chest, and in our brief conversation showed no signs of the aphasia that showed up in the first few days after the mild stroke that followed the heart surgery. He looks forward to rejoining us as soon as he is able, and appreciates the prayers and good wishes.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
[IsraelTimes] Suspect allegedly punched an ultra-Orthodox man on a Brooklyn street during Shabbat
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
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