But there's more to the story!
[Epoch Times] If Tennessee and all Americans aren’t prudent, they’ll cast only a cursory glance at the recent and controversial conviction of Black Lives Matter (BLM) Memphis Chapter founder Pamela Moses for illegally registering to vote as a convicted felon, taking no more stock of it than a splashy headline on par with the resignation of BLM founder Patrisse Cullors after the discovery of her "Black Lives Manors." Indeed, Moses’s six-year prison sentence has far greater implications for the 2022 and 2024 elections.
Most mainstream coverage on Moses’s conviction is shocking: If you know the real, unfiltered story, you’re shocked that they de-emphasize how she accrued 16 criminal convictions prior to running for mayor illegally in 2019 and casting six illegal votes before being caught. If you know only the watered-down version presented by most outlets, you’re shocked at what you believe to be harsh treatment of this woman for mere misunderstanding.
Even the headlines lend a friendly disposition to her plight, painting her as a woman simply trying to vote and serve her community, unaware that her righteous work in political activism had resulted in felony charges. By all their accounts, she’s a go-getter who wants to lead others: a hometown hero. After all, she brought the first BLM chapter to majority-black Memphis. In reality, Moses’s sentence of six years ties back to run-ins with the law spanning two decades.
Only a broken system would enable Moses to cheat the system six times. It should go without saying that every state needs a modern, fail-proof system for verifying voter registration information and detecting unauthorized voting from people who cast votes illegally.
[Epoch Times] The beating of an unconscious Trump supporter by a DC Metropolitan Police Department officer on January 6 was deemed to be "objectively reasonable" after an investigation by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, The Epoch Times has learned.
The Internal Affairs investigation was opened in September 2021 based on a complaint filed by a Texas man who assembled video evidence of the officer striking an unconscious Rosanne Boyland with a steel baton and a large wooden stick at the entrance to the West Terrace tunnel at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Boyland, 34, of Kennesaw, Ga., was pinned under a pile of protesters who fled the tunnel when police deployed a crowd-control gas. After several minutes of being crushed by the weight of other fallen protesters, Boyland lost consciousness and stopped breathing, witnesses have said.
As Boyland lay unconscious on the ground DC Metro Police Officer Lila Morris repeatedly struck her with a steel baton and what appeared to be a wooden walking stick, according to a video recording. Another "insurrectionist" murdered by DC police. Who are they responsible to?
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Noted. Beating unconscious cops to death will also be judged 'Objectively Reasonable'.
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'Tis Pity She's a Po-leece, or, "I'm in government!"
As in Malcolm and Alex's mockery
Of blacks below stairs, dusky Dockery
Laid claim to prestige,
Fame, and trade of her liege,
From these guinea hens, DC peacockery!
[Aljazeera] NATO allies, fearful of a potential ground invasion by Russia, have stepped up support for Kyiv by sending additional troops and military equipment to Ukraine.
The alliance says its move is in response to Russia’s continued military buildup along the Ukraine border.
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If that’s what this bit from the article means, Procopius2k:
Airborne Tactical Advantage is one of a growing number of contractors that fly aircraft to help train military aviators. The company provides aggressor aircraft to help military fighter pilots learn their trade as well as other services to the military.
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^ First flew in late 1966. In service 1973-1992 with the French Air Force. Retired 2014. 720 built. Also used by the Iraqi, Spanish and Hellenic air forces.
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For vs. private air force/training private air force? Or some Heinlein style teaching where you learn to down a Mirage, passing a level to take on a more modern frame?
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When you have a hard time keeping pilots, someone forms an contracting business, hires those pilots at a higher pay scale then the government can pay and retain the skills. Zoomies don't like desk jobs nor momma the constant rotations(reassignments).
Blacks commit serious crimes at 8 times "whites". "Whites" in FBI crime statistics includes non-black Hispanics. So who are getting the benefit of doubt from the police?
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The pols see this as a threat to their authority. It wouldn't even be happening if they hadn't gambl3d their "authority" on the now completely busted COVIDian vaxx mandates and other dumb measures. They are doing this to themselves and are too dumb to realize when to cut their losses.
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I know there is a real slide scale going on for stupid moves, but this shit, the Brandon Handlers, they just put out there that if there were to be something similar in the US, and now especially Canada, any opposition, problems, etc. ties straight to The White House.
accused drivers of 'hurting jobs, businesses, and our country's economy
Oh that's fucking rich. 52 Curve Flattens ago they were godddammed heroes.
What the Truckers Want
I’ve spoken to 100 of the protestors gathered in the Canadian capital. What's happening is far bigger than the vaccine mandates.
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I don't know much about the Canadian parliament but if, as I suspect, it is modeled after the UK parliament, Trudeau could end up facing a vote of no confidence. Wouldn't that frost his balls?
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Trudeau could end up facing a vote of no confidence.
He's survived them before. I have found no mention or discussion of this actually succeeding in the present situation.
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This is going the way of our civil rights issues from the 60's. The governments are doubling down on their control over blue collar types trying to just get their voices heard over this medical tyranny. The governments hard line leaves the people backed into an ugly corner. No talks, no negotiations, just threats and violent actions by the government. If the government does not back down and have talks this will all end in violence, and real violence will ensue. They took the truckers fuel, gave it back under court order, but only after filling the cans with water. They are pulling the truckers passports, confiscating their funding, arresting them, beating them. Now Canada is in a state of emergency, the military refused to help the police today. The next step is violence. It seems the Canadian government is now willing to use it. When they do they will shut the communications down, a bad plan as it will get out anyway. The world will be as shocked as they were over the violence from Selma. Then we will have change. I am proud of the Canadians doing this, the liberty bell is ringing. Oh Canada...
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They took the truckers fuel, gave it back under court order, but only after filling the cans with water.
Sounds like a violent, provocative act.
Do they want violence?
Forget the dull places you've come from
Where life was so numbingly humdrum!
Live, free of the presence
Of Trumpkin scum peasants!
- Commander, Cantonment of Dum Dum
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^ An actual place, btw, though why I say so I'm not sure, since most of you will've experienced the Mutiny and all that at first hand or at least gotten the skinny in emails from friends.
[WND] Major technology companies and social media platforms have removed, suppressed or flagged the accounts of over 800 prominent individuals and organizations, including medical doctors, for COVID-19 misinformation, according to a new study from the Media Research Center (MRC).
MRC’s Free Speech America CensorTrack, an initiative that monitors acts of censorship across online platforms, identified over 41 instances between March 2020 and February 2022 in which doctors, scientists and medical organizations were censored, according to the results of a study shared with Daily Caller News Foundation.
Instances of censorship included Facebook’s decision to flag the British Medical Journal with a "fact check" and "missing context" label, reducing the visibility of a post, for a study delving into data integrity issues with a Pfizer vaccine clinical trial. Facebook also deleted the page of The Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter led by dozens of medical professionals, including Dr. Jay Battacharya, a Stanford epidemiologist, and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a former employee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which advocated for less restrictive measures to address the dangers of COVID-19.
"Big Tech set up a system where you can’t disagree with ’the science’ even though that’s the foundation of the scientific method," Dan Gainor, MRC vice president of Free Speech America, told the DCNF. "If doctors and academic journals can’t debate publicly, then it’s not science at all. It’s religion."
Big Tech also scrubbed podcast host Joe Rogan’s interviews with scientists Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone, the latter of which was instrumental in pioneering mRNA technology. Twitter banned Malone from its platform permanently in late December 2021 over the virologist’s tweets questioning the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccine.
"We tallied 32 different doctors who were censored, including mRNA vaccine innovator Dr. Robert Malone," Gainor said. "Censoring views of credentialed experts doesn’t ensure confidence in vaccines, it undermines faith in government COVID-19 strategies."
In addition to medical doctors, the study examined instances in which members of Congress were censored by tech platforms.
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Virtually everything these assholes claimed as false or "misinformation" has turned out to be true.
Two weeks ago, it was a conspiracy theory. Today, it is settled science. Our position has "evolved". Also, shut up.
It is a good thing covid wasn't Black Death serious because we have done a rather crappy job dealing with this on multiple levels. A serious After Action Report would be scathing.
BLUF:
[Red State] In the letter, Wyden and Heinrich reiterate Congress’s intent to limit/prohibit "the warrantless collection of Americans’ records, as well as the public’s intense interest in and support for these legislative efforts." Knowing that, the CIA "secretly conducted its own bulk program [redacted]" and "has done so entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection" and without oversight.
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Other three-letter agencies already do this "wittingly" so it seems repetitive, onless it is targeted by Humint sources and methods from CI's in the DNC? Asking for a friend, and just spitballing here.
[American Thinker] You couldn’t miss the headlines: The annual percentage increase in inflation clocked in at 7.5%, making it the worst increase in 40 years. For anyone on a fixed income, living off of savings, or in a low-paying job, this is a disaster. Rich people don’t feel it (much) but ordinary people do. But here’s the kicker: Inflation is almost certainly worse than it was 40 and more years ago. Moreover, because the government is in thrall to Modern Monetary Theory, it’s going to get worse, lots worse. And all the while, China is sitting there, watching and waiting.
Inflation destroys wealth. People’s salaries never keep up with the inflation rate and the elderly aren’t earning more money so their savings can only lose purchasing power. It also hits the poorest people the hardest, making it completely regressive. That’s why a news report like this one strikes terror in the heart of both citizens and the political party in charge:
A relentless surge in U.S. inflation reached another four-decade high last month, accelerating to a 7.5% annual rate as strong consumer demand collided with pandemic-related supply disruptions.
The Labor Department on Thursday said the consumer-price index—which measures what consumers pay for goods and services—in January reached its highest level since February 1982, when compared with the same month a year ago. That put inflation above December’s 7% annual rate and well above the 1.8% annual rate for inflation in 2019 ahead of the pandemic.
The so-called core price index, which excludes the often volatile categories of food and energy, climbed 6% in January from a year earlier. That was a sharper rise than December’s 5.5% increase and the highest rate in nearly 40 years.
That "40-year" number, though, is misleading. Certainly, inflation has shot up with incredible speed, as happened in 1982, but real inflation is probably even worse than the accelerated rate suggests. That’s because, in 1990, the government changed how it calculated inflation (something it also did in 1980). John Williams’s Shadow Government Statistics calculates inflation as it would have been calculated before 1980 and before 1990. According to his numbers, inflation would have been over 15% using pre-1980 metrics and over 10% using pre-1990 metrics.
You don’t need the numbers, though, to tell you what you already know. It’s getting increasingly hard to afford life’s necessities.
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Since 2020, here is some of what I am seeing in Mid East GA.
Gas (87) up 41% to 50+%
Smith Field Bacon up 155+%
Sunbeam Bread up 22%
DZ Eggs up 23%
2% Milk up 19% to 23%
Ribeye up 66%
80/20 Hamburger Up 32%
Dollar Tree up 25% ☺
WW Chicken Wings up 42%
SAMS Skinless Salmon up 19%
WW Pancake mix up 34%
40LBS wild bird seed up 19+%
SAMS Folgers Large Canister of Coffee up 19 to 21%
The Wrost Price Gouging seen to date
Food Lion 100 8 cup store label Coffee Filters $4.99 (note The Mr. Coffee brand in Dollar General sell for $1.99)
Is it all BIDEN's Fault NO.
The Global Pandemic shares significant blame also for the inflation.
BUT!!!
How the Biden Admin & SD's stumbled around, played politics with a pandemic to prolong it, meaningless Reg's, $ TRILLION in deficit spending, and general tinkle poor handling of the economy, are the largest part of the Blame.
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Funny how during the 2020 Trump Covid lockdowns inflation was only 1.4%. As soon as Democratic-socialists took power, inflation quintupled and is still rising. Last month inflation was 0.8% (10.0% normalized over one year).
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NN2N1, who the hell believes that food only rose 6% in 2021. I am see similar similar price increases except that in Texas French bread increased by 33%, meat 20-25% and gas has doubled from $1.50 to $3.10.
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I keep advising clients who are "considering" 4% mortgages "You better grab one--the real rate of inflation is much higher than even the Federal Reserve is pretending it is."
If you have the ability to borrow money cheaply and a GREAT thing to spend the money on, you better grab it before we witness Carter-era hijinx.
[American Thinker] If you think the highest overall inflation rate in 40 years of 7% is bad, get ready for a real shock coming to a pump near you. Oil prices are surging so much that, ironically, even the "Green New Deal" president is begging global and domestic producers alike to ramp up production and pump, pump, pump! And despite his releasing millions of barrels of crude from the strategic oil reserve and pleading with oil-rich nations to increase their output, prices continue to climb.
In early December, oil was trading at $65 per barrel. Today, it's over $90, which is more than a 50% increase in a little over a couple of months. This past week, the average price of gasoline in the United States hit a seven-year high at the pump, but there's still much more to come. And while the U.S. Energy Information Administration these past few weeks predicted that prices will now decline continuously well into 2023, oil traders are pricing for $100 per barrel and higher in the next several months.
The go-to scapegoat for every problem the administration faces seems to be COVID, and it's not at all different with this self-imposed oil crisis. Yes, demand for petroleum did drop at the peak of the virus — and by peak, think a year ago, when weekly deaths were much higher but fewer people had COVID. This brief pause in demand held oil prices down, but not for long and not enough to cause producers to shutter production. No, the reduction in domestic pumping has nothing to do with virology and everything to do with politics.
Imagine being the CEO of an oil company listening to the past year of antagonism from the Biden crowd — canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, suspending new drilling leases on federal land, and pledging to reduce U.S. carbon emission by 50% in the next seven years. Would you commit millions — nay, billions of dollars to drilling and developing oil fields? Nope! And that's why domestic production is down 1.2 million barrels per day over the past twelve months — not COVID.
Meanwhile, in the "for thee but not for me" world we live in, the administration hammers the domestic oil industry but begs OPEC nations to increase oil production. And while OPEC+ has committed to a 400,000 BPD increase, fulfilling that commitment is problematic. Only the Saudis have that level of excess capacity and, currently, they aren't particularly keen to help us out. Russian oil infrastructure is decaying and can't ramp up appreciatively, while political upheavals are interrupting production with big producers like Nigeria and Kazakhstan.
While the administration's hapless energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, laughed off a question in November about increasing U.S. production with a glib and erroneous response that OPEC and the global market set production, she now is imploring the domestic industry to "get your rig count up!" Why the sudden turnaround? Simple. People vote with their pocketbooks. A recent CNBC/Change Research poll shows that two-thirds of all voters disapprove of the Biden administration's efforts to "help their wallets." Personal finances are the biggest concern on people's minds — far outpacing racial tensions, policing, and even COVID. Gasoline is a large portion of a typical family's budget, consuming as much as 20% in low-income households.
From the current high of about $4.50 a gallon in California to a low of $3.00 in Texas, everyone will soon be paying more at the pump. West Coast folks will be spending well over $5.00 a gallon in the coming months — probably $6.00 — and even low-price Texas will see $4.00 per gallon or more. This isn't a guess or a prediction; it's a solid forecast based on the prices of futures contracts in the oil market.
Yes, if Russia suddenly fixed its ancient infrastructure, Saudi Arabia cranked open the valves, and U.S. oil producers instantly were able and willing to crack open the fracking, prices would drop. But we might as well believe in the tooth fairy while we're at it.
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I had to look up NetJets. Very pricey rabbit hole.
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My gas price went up 12.5% here in the past 10 days. And the Exxon station only had diesel. And I couldn't find a functioning pump at CEFCO. And Brookshire's gas pumps are closed for renovation.
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They spent about the last 17 years working to destroy the US oil industry (and US energy in general) to the benefit of their butt buddies Putin and Xi.
I'm sure whatever sleep aid they've laced Joe's ice cream with doesn't cause him nightmares.
[WND] In a case against a Jan. 6 defendant, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday rebuked Justice Department prosecutors for misleading a grand jury and the court about the whereabouts of then Vice President-elect Kamala Harris during the rioting at the U.S. Capitol.
Last week, CNN reported that contrary to the Justice Department's indictments, Harris was at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington when the riot began. It was Harris' security detail, in fact, that found one of the two pipe bombs that were widely reported on Jan. 6. But until last week, it wasn't known that Harris was within yards of a pipe bomb before it was discovered. Raising further questions is the fact that the pipe bomb suspect, despite surveillance camera footage and physical evidence, has not been identified.
In his order Thursday, Judge Trevor McFadden, noted that the government filed an indictment against Nicholas Rodean more than one year ago that erroneously stated that Harris and then Vice President Mike Pence were at the Capitol during the riots.
An excerpt of the order was tweeted by investigative reporter Julie Kelly, who has reported extensively on the Capitol riot and the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, finding parallels between the two in the use of FBI informants.
I’m not sure what his theory is here and I’m not sure he’s sure either. But the nice thing about “just asking questions” is that you don’t need to have a fully formulated theory. You’re … just asking questions.
His question are leading, though, which means he has some suspicions. From what I can tell, his theory is this: The FBI, possibly in cahoots with the Biden campaign, planted the two pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC to divert police resources from the Capitol as the insurrection began, all part of their sinister plot to make Trumpers look bad on January 6. Even more alarming, Kamala Harris ended up visiting DNC headquarters that morning, passing within yards of the still undiscovered bomb. It’s unclear whether Tucker thinks Harris knew the bomb was there or if some mastermind who knew it was there encouraged her to go, but it’s all far too coincidental to be innocent. And it’s weird that the public didn’t know until just last month that Harris was at the DNC that day. There must be a cover-up of sorts happening.
In fairness to him, that last part is pretty weird. Although Occam’s Razor suggests that the reason for keeping it quiet is that Team Biden thought the security lapse was embarrassing and didn’t want to call attention to it. You typically don’t want to signal to enemy powers that the vice president’s security detail may not be up to snuff.
Tucker goes on to claim that the bombs were basically inert, evidence that they were a pre-planned diversion rather than a serious attempt to do harm. That’s not what the FBI says, though:
#3
The DeepState placed the bombs at both DNC & RNC for two main reasons: gives them the justification for whatever violence they push onto protesters. By ‘bombing’ both headquarters it makes it appear that this is not about Dem or Rep; it is about destroying democracy which requires violence to squash.
Since the bombs were built only to scare and not to explode the DeepState need not worry about telling any other agencies or whether Any VP was nearby.
The fact they are lying about VP location just pushes the conspiracy theory even deeper.
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If it were not the"Jan. 6th", wouldn't many judges have tossed the case out the door? Because of the DOJ's omissions and misleading statements officially entered into evidence?
Shouldn't the person(s) that created and entered the known FALSE EVIDENCE be charged?
NOTE: These cases have APPEAL written all over them. Given the growing collection of DOJ evidence related issues and omissions now coming to light.
Surely,it has more and more of America wondering how much of the Jan. 6th congressional building trespassing was planned entrapment or staged by a mixed of rouge 5th column extremists, Capital/DC Police, a few staff, and ANTI-FA/BLM?
#6
There are a lot of common tools in the regime change toolbox that major intel agencies around the world. Increasingly the circumstantial information suggests the J6 incursion and the media shaping of how it was described initially sure seems to have that kind of patina. My question is whose toolbox?
I'm reminded of the scene where the guy turns to Harrison Ford's Jack Ryan character after opening his safe and holding out a piece of paper and asks "You don't have one of these Jack?"
[OneIndia] A Special Court of the National Investigation Agency has convicted and sentenced a terrorist of the Ansarullah Bangla Team in connection with a conspiracy case.
The special court at Kolkata convicted Samad Mia originally from Bangladesh and sentenced him to 7 years in jail apart from slapping a fine of Rs 16,000. The case was first registered by the Special Task Force, Kolkata in 2017 following the arrest of five members of the ABT. Four of them were Bangaldeshi nationals while one hailed from India. The ABT is a proscribed terror group.
The probe was taken over by the NIA in 2018 following which it was established that these persons had entered India in 2016. They had conspired to commit acts of terror in India.
These persons had travelled to Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune in the guise of labourers.
They also had tried to procure chemicals from a shop in Patna apart from procuring arms and ammunition in Kolkata. They also tried establishing hideouts in Ranchi, the NIA learnt.
Following the probe all five persons were arrested and charged by the NIA. Earlier the NIA court had convicted three of them. The trial against is remaining.
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To be fair, jpal, it’s an Indian prison, and Dron and his little playmates will no doubt drop by for tea from time to time, which will probably lead to reports of other arrests, even additional convictions for Mr. Mia himself. No barrel of mustache wax, though — that’s a Turkish thing.
[Rudaw] The Iraqi National Security Advisor claimed on Thursday that 20 "dangerous" members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) managed to escape during a prison break attempt in Hasaka, northeast Syria (Rojava) late last month.
Qassim al-Araji received the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Ambassador to Iraq Ville Varjola on Thursday, where he called on European countries to repatriate their ISIS-affiliated nationals in Rojava’s al-Hol camp, according to a statement by Araji.
ISIS attacked al-Sina’a prison in Hasaka on January 20 with explosive-laden vehicles and other weapons. This caused over a week of intense festivities between ISIS fighters and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The prison was retaken by the SDF with the support of the global coalition against ISIS, and the recaptured prisoners were transferred to another prison.
"Twenty dangerous murderous Moslems managed to escape from Hasaka prison," he claimed.
The SDF held over 4,000 ISIS prisoners, including minors, before the attack. The forces said that 121 of its fighters, prison guards and civilians as well as 374 ISIS members were killed in the festivities without confirming any alleged escapes.
Rudaw English has approached the SDF for comment regarding Araji’s claim.
The Hasaka prison break attempt has alerted Iraqi and Kurdistan Region governments who share borders with Rojava.
[Rudaw] The United Kingdom’s refusal to repatriate British nationals believed to be associated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) - and actively stripping the citizenship of at least 19 Brits stranded in northeast Syria - poses a serious security risk, a cross-party group of MPs and peers concluded in a report published on Thursday. The highly critical report recommends that Britannia immediately repatriates its citizens, regardless of gender or age, in stark contrast to the government’s current approach.
Eight months after the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Trafficked Britons in Syria launched their inquiry, hearing from a range of experts including former security officials, human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organizations including Human Rights Watch and Save the Children, as well as families of individuals themselves currently detained in northeast Syria (Rojava), the seventeen-member group found significant failures in the government’s approach to the trafficking of vulnerable women and kiddies, in particular.
In addition to finding that British officials did not do nearly enough to identify these at-risk individuals, many of whom were under-age at their time of travel, the report explicitly criticises the security risk that leaving the detention of suspected ISIS forces of Evil - and their families - to the Kurdish-led authorities poses; a warning played out in Hasaka, northeast Syria, in recent weeks, as well as suggestions that justice may be served in Syria.
"The APPG is deeply concerned by the UK Government’s public statements that express support for prosecutions of British nationals in the region. Multiple experts, including representatives of the US Government, told the inquiry that trials in the region are untenable, impractical, and unrealistic," the report said.
"Authorities in NES cannot try them as they are non-state actors; and transfer to Iraq or Assad's Syria would expose British nationals to the risk of torture, the death penalty , and serious fair trial violations. This would do nothing to achieve justice for the victims of ISIS."
According to the APPG’s findings, approximately twenty British families are detained in camps in northeast Syria; around 50 people, half of whom are children. Sixty-three percent of British women in the camps, the Reprieve investigation found, are victims of trafficking to or within Syria; 44 percent having been coerced by a male partner or relative.
And so forth.
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On the side of Islamic terrorists, always against their own people. Why am I not surprised?
#7
Our governments no longer worry about the governed (not suggesting these particular ones are or aren't worth the worry). I take nothing for granted any longer.
[Garowe] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... [UN] Panel of Experts is now investigating a Ottoman Turkish ship that was sighted along Somalia's coastline which is under the control of al-Shabaab
Further investigations show the ship was owned by Insan Hak ve Hurriyetleri ve Insani Yardim Vakfi, or IHH, an al-Qaeda linked Humanitarian Relief [organization] before being sold to Koza in 2018.
...... the personification of Somali state failure... murderous Moslems, a group that has killed thousands of people in its terror attacks.
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[Garowe] al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... holy warriors continued with their onslaught in Somalia as the country continued with elections which the opposition had termed as "shambolic" before an agreement was reached in December last year.
In the first strike on Wednesday, the holy warriors killed four civilians in the ancient town of Barawe in the Southern part of the country, on a day when the Southwest state was holding parliamentary elections for seven seats.
The al-Shabaab media affiliates reported the attack but did not give further details thus it's not clear who they targeted in this particular raid. But the fact that it happens at the time the region is holding elections for 13 parliamentary seats speaks volumes.
Witnesses said the holy warriors fired five rounds of mortars to the town with tow hitting residential houses. The mortars landed in Sakhawadin and Dayah neighborhoods in Barawe town, leading to four deaths and multiple injuries.
The network was down the town earlier but it’s back to normal service now, another witness said. The holy warriors thrive on communication failure when attacking certain towns in the country to evade hawk-eyed Somali National Army [SNA] and AU forces.
On Wednesday, only seven Parliamentary elections took place while the contest for the remaining six will be held on Thursday according to authorities. All states are rushing to beat the deadline and analysts say there has been tremendous progress in recent weeks.
Later on Wednesday, at least four people were killed and seven others injured in a kaboom at a restaurant in northeast Somalia's commercial city of Bosaso on Wednesday afternoon.
A Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... police officer told state-run Radio Mogadishu that the bomber struck in front of a restaurant in Bosasso ...Puntland's major (maybe only) port, population about 250,000, most of them shady characters who hang around waterfront dives and carry knives and brass knuckles... 's Al Macruuf shopping center. The motive of the latest attack in Puntland State has not been established.
Locals said security forces have launched a major manhunt for the perpetrators of the latest explosion in Bosaso town which has been beset by a series of landmine and suicide kabooms including liquidations in the recent past.
No group had grabbed credit for the blast but al-Qaeda allied terror group, al-Shabaab, and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... s [ISIS] have staged such attacks in the past in Bosaso and elsewhere in Puntland State. But al-Shabaab would later on claim responsibility.
The so-called ISIS wing in Somalia has its main base in the Puntland region and has occasionally clashed with Puntland forces and al-Shabaab. There have been efforts both by the regional and federal governments to flush out the murderous Moslems.
[IsraelTimes] Military prosecutors file indictments against three Paleostinian men accused of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in December in which an Israeli man, Yehuda Dimentman, was killed outside the illegal Homesh outpost in the northern West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces says.
The three men — Muhammad Youssef Jaradat, Mahmoud Ghaleb Jaradat, and Ghaith Ahmed Yassin Jaradat — are each charged with "intentionally causing death," the equivalent of murder in the military legal system, though only two of them were suspected of carrying out the deadly shooting itself. Their indictments come a week after a Paleostinian teenager was charged with driving the getaway car that was used in the attack.
The mother of the minor and one of the adult suspects are also due to be charged with failing to prevent the attack and with assisting them afterward, as her teenage son had told her about the plans in advance and she helped hide the weapons that they used after the attack, the military says. A number of other Paleostinians are also being charged for failing to prevent the attack and for their involvement in selling the guns used in the attack.
According to the indictment, the three men who carried out the attack planned the shooting in advance, picking the targets (Israeli settlers) and the location (Homesh) and planning their escape route. They also planned to steal the body of one of their victims, the IDF says.
On December 16, the three suspects arrived at the road outside of the Homesh outpost, where settlers illegally operate a yeshiva, or religious school, and waited several hours for a car to leave the area. When one finally did, two of them took positions alongside the road armed with guns, while the third ran back to the escape car. As the car carrying Dimentman and two other students at the illegal yeshiva passed by, they started shooting, each of them firing 20 bullets before a jam made their guns stop working, and they then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace in the escape car. Dimentman sustained fatal wounds and the two other passengers were lightly maimed.
The three suspects, along with the minor who acted as a driver, were arrested a few days later and have been in military custody since.
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – A displaced woman, who had earlier today shot by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) while smuggling fuel near the town of Atma, north Idlib, died of her wounds.
“Fatima Abdulrahman al-Hamid (28 ) was transported to Bab al-Hawa Hospital where she was put in the intense care room, but she died,” North Press reported a medical sources.
On Wednesday afternoon, a group of women and children were shot by HTS militants while smuggling containers of diesel fuel at Deir Ballut crossing, north of Idlib.
Following the shooting and injuring a woman, dozens of displaced people and residents of the town of Atma, north Idlib, protested against HTS at the backdrop of shooting. The protests were met with live bullets and armored vehicles by HTS militants, and several civilians were wounded as a result, local sources said.
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, a displaced child was deadly shot by the Turkish border guards (Gendarmerie) while he was near a camp in the Jisr al-Shughur area, west of Idlib.
The areas near the Syrian-Turkish border, north of Idlib, have witnessed shooting incidents by the Turkish border guards (Gendarmerie).
“The 12-year-old child Rashid al-Rifai, from the town of the town of Bdam in Jisr al-Shughur, was deadly shot by the Gendarmerie while he was near Bdam camp near the town of Ain al-Baida in the Jisr al-Shughur countryside, west of Idlib,” local sources from the area told North Press.
Late January, the 13-year-old boy, Khalid Skef, was deadly shot by Turkish border guards while working in farmland near the village of al-Dariya in Darkush district, northwest of Idlib.
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Shafaq News / Turkish airstrikes on the Kurdistan Workers Party's headquarters in the Kurdistan Region restricted the movement of the party's fighters, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that the Party's fighters' are mostly deployed in areas in Sinjar district, near the Iraqi-Syrian borders.
The party had been hiring Syrian workers to dig up tunnels, but half of them were killed in Turkish attacks.
Every now and then, Turkish aircraft attack PKK sites on the borders with the Kurdistan Region, as well as Sinjar and Makhmour districts.
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Suspected bandits have killed seven persons in an attack on three communities in the Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The attack was said to have occurred on Tuesday night.
According to the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union Public Relations Officer, Mr Luka Binniya, the gunmen burnt houses in Sabon Kaura, Zaman Dabo and Chibob communities in what could be described as a “coordinated attack”.
Binniya explained that the terrorists invaded the villages in large numbers and opened fire on residents, destroying property worth millions of naira.
“The terrorists also took advantage of the absence of the military in the early hours of Tuesday at a checkpoint between Ungwan Wakili and Abuyab and vandalised the only bridge linking the two communities.
“As I am talking to you, not even a motorcycle can cross that bridge now. Something urgent needs to be done in order to fix the bridge because the people in those communities are living at the mercy of those terrorists,” he added.
The development comes days after seven persons were confirmed dead following an attack on Kerawa village in the Igabi local government area.
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – The Islamic State Organization (ISIS) sleeper cells launched yesterday evening a violent attack against inspection points of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
ISIS sleeper cells targeted SDF military points near the Euphrates River bank in Shabkah neighborhood in central Shuhail with machineguns, a military source of SDF told North Press.
During the attack, two SDF fighters were killed and another was wounded, according to the source.
The attack between the two parties lasted for about half an hour before the attackers managed to ran.
Few hours after the attack, the ISIS claimed, through close outlets, responsibility for the attack.
This attack coincided with another that was launched against a military post of the SDF in the village of Jazaret al-Bushams, west of Deir ez-Zor.
ISIS sleeper cells targeted the military post on the entrance to the village with grenades and machineguns killing two SDF fighters and wounding two others, a military source of the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) of the village told North Press.
ISIS members and the SDF fighters clashed for about two hours reporting two ISIS casualties, the source said.
Meanwhile, more than five armed individuals involved in the attack and they ran away and hid in civilians’ houses after two of them were killed.
The SDF cordoned off the village and blocked the routes in order to pursue the attackers, the source told North Press.
The source described the attack saying it is the fiercest attack during February.
Two days ago, ISIS claimed responsibility for attacking an SDF checkpoint in Sabha town in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
Those attacks were launched following the ISIS attack on al-Sina’a prison in Hasakah on the 20th of January.
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ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, a Turkish drone bombed the hill of the city of Tel-Rifaat in the northern countryside of Aleppo, causing no casualties.
“The bombing caused material damage to the hill, after which the drone fell to the ground,” a local sources told North Press.
“However, the bombing caused a state of panic among the residents and the displaced people of Afrin, who live in semi-destroyed houses on the outskirt of the hill in the city,” the sources said.
On Wednesday, the Turkish forces and the affiliated armed opposition factions targeted the villages of al-Wardia, Hasajek, Qol Suruj, and the vicinity of the city of Tal Rifaat and Der Jamal in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
On February 3, the Turkish forces’ bombing of an elementary school in the village of Qaramil caused material damage to the school, but no injuries were recorded among the students.
Reporting by Nariman Hasso
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[TOLO] You can just smell the Biden stink on this
Officials from the Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) have held talks with a technical team representing a number of Ukrainian companies about establishing railways in Afghanistan.
Although the ministry has not specifically said in which parts of the country the railways will be built, it said on Monday that a technical team of Ukrainian companies has come to Kabul and met with the ministry’s officials, having shown an interest in building railways in the country.
"The Ukrainian delegation had a meeting with the ministry’s leadership team. They discussed the transit of goods, enhancing the capacities of railways’ engineers, the security of the Mazar-Hairatan railway, and building railways," Hamidullah Misbah, the spokesman of the ministry said.
Meanwhile, a number of economic analysts said connecting Afghanistan to other countries through railways will result in an increase of transit and trade.
"We should have railways in most of our provinces. Most of our borders (ports) should be connected through railways with the neighboring countries and from there with the world," said Khairuddin Mayel, deputy head of Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI).
According to the ACCI, by the extension of railways in the country, Afghanistan’s exports will increase and goods’ exports will become easy and quick.
"The extension of the railway is in the interest of the people of Afghanistan. We want our railway to extend. After sea shipping, railway is the cheapest and quickest means of transportation," said Mohammad Yunus Momand, ACCI acting director.
Currently, Afghanistan is connected to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan through the Hairatan-Aqina railway in the north, and to Iran through the Khawaf-Herat railway in the west.
According to officials, efforts are underway to connect Afghanistan to South Asia via railway.
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For what? So the girls can get to school.
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Sure Karzai Concrete and Gravel, inc. has already won the bid.
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, anonymous gunmen targeted Mos’ab al-Bardan, an opponent figure, and two of his escorts in Atman town in the central countryside of Daraa city, south Syria.
Al-Bardan is also a member of the Central Committee tasked to negotiate with the Syrian government.
Anonymous people driving motorcycles fired bullets at al-Bardan’s vehicle while he and two of his companions were heading to Atman, a local source told North Press.
Al-Bardan was seriously injured and was hospitalized. One of the companions was killed and the other survived.
Al-Bardan hails from Tafas town in the western countryside of Daraa. He is the most prominent football referee in Daraa and also a former leader of a Syrian opposition faction.
After the Syrian government controlled Daraa, al-Bardan along with multiple dignitaries from the area set up the Central Committee tasked to negotiate with the Syrian government and the Russian forces.
The Martyr Documentation Office, a local non-governmental organization that follows up the statistics of casualties and detainees in Daraa, documented 1,084 assassination attempts that killed 685 people, whether civilians, former fighters of the Syrian armed opposition factions who had settled their status or fighters of the Syrian government forces between the summer of 2018 and last September.
Since the second settlement process in October 2021, the Martyr Documentation Office has documented 55 assassination attempts that claimed the lives of 38 persons.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Thursday that 12 people were injured by falling debris from an attempted drone attack on an airport in the southern Saudi region of Abha near the kingdom's border with Yemen.
The coalition statement said the people who were hurt included travelers and workers at the airport. Two of the injured were Saudi citizens, four were Bangladeshi residents and three were Nepali residents. There was also one person each from Sri Lanka, the Philippines and India hurt.
Saudi air defenses destroyed the bomb-laden drone that the coalition said was launched by Houthi rebels inside Yemen early Thursday afternoon. Saudi state television and accompanying social media accounts carried video from inside Abha's airport showing operations there running as normal after the incident.
Saudi Arabia has been at war in Yemen since 2015 fighting against Iranian-backed Houthis who overran the capital and ousted the government from power.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden spoke with Saudi King Salman. The White House said the president and king discussed "Iranian-enabled attacks by the Houthis against civilian targets in Saudi Arabia." Biden underscored U.S. commitment in supporting Saudi Arabia in the defense of its people and territory from such attacks, it added.
The war has killed tens of thousands of people, both fighters and civilians, and spawned the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Charity group Oxfam this week said a yearlong battle over the strategic Yemeni city of Marib alone has displaced about 100,000 people. The fighting in Marib led to increased Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in recent weeks. The UAE is part of the Saudi-led coalition and backs Yemeni militias fighting the Houthis. U.S. officials have scrambled to reassure the Gulf strategic allies of U.S. defensive support.
The U.S. initially backed the Saudi war effort as the coalition tried to drive the Iranian-backed Houthis from the capital, Sanaa, and restore the previous government to power. President Biden, however, has since tried to distance the U.S. military from involvement in Yemen's war, where both sides are accused of human rights abuses.
A Saudi readout of the monarch's call with Biden said King Salman discussed the importance of strengthening mutual security cooperation and cited Saudi support for U.S. efforts in preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. The White House says Biden briefed the king on ongoing multilateral talks focused on Iran's nuclear program.
King Salman stressed the need to work together to counter the destabilizing activities of Iran's proxies in the region, according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
The two also discussed their shared commitment to maintaining balance and stability in oil markets as Brent crude hovers around $90 a barrel.
A total of 965 terrorists alongside their families and 550 children laid down their weapons and surrendered to the Nigerian troops in Borno and Yobe states within three weeks, the Defence Headquarters has said.
This was made known by Benard Onyeuko, the Director, Defence Media Operations while addressing the press on Thursday on the activities of Nigerian troops from January 20 to February 10.
According to Onyeuko, troops of the Operation Hadin Kai recorded victory as 965 terrorists laid aside their weapons in different locations including Gamboru, Tumbumma, Kukawa, Baga, Gwoza, Mallam Fotori, Damboa, KirtaWulgo, Bun Yadi, Gujiba, Madiya all in Borno and Yobe states.
The success, he said, is attributed to the airstrikes which eliminated several ISWAP Commanders and their fighters.
He further noted that 104 of the 965 terrorists are from the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) Camp that was taken by troops at Marte.
"The surrendered terrorists have been properly documented and handed over to the appropriate authorities for necessary action," he said.
Also, in Yobe and Borno states, no fewer than 120 fighters were neutralised by the troops while 50 of the terrorists were arrested, according to the Defence Headquarters. Weapons recovered from the terrorists include five gun trucks, 50 assorted arms and 200 rounds of different calibres of ammunition.
Shafaq News/ ISIS may be poised to recover operational capacity at the borders of Diyala with Baghdad amid worrisome movement of the extremist group's militants in dozens of abandoned villages in the area, a local official revealed on Thursday.
The administrator of Kanaan sub-district, Mahdi Abdul-Karim al-Shammari, told Shafaq News Agency, "the southern territories of Kanaan and Buhriz districts, southeast Baqubah, are ticking bombs that jeopardize the flank of Baghdad."
"ISIS militants heatmap is glowing as noticed recently with the increasing frequency of the attacks waged recently against the security forces stationed in the area," he explained, "more than 30 evacuated villages have become a safe haven for the terrorist groups."
Al-Shammari called for deploying advanced technology, including drones and long-range surveillance cameras, to "contain a growing threat to both Baghdad and Diyala at the same time."
ISIS has fallen far from its 2015 peak, when it was on the offensive against its many enemies and controlled a militant proto-state spanning Iraq and Syria. Faced with an overwhelming military campaign waged by an array of local and international foes, ISIS lost its last territorial foothold in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in early 2019. In both countries, it has survived by shifting from semi-conventional warfare to hit-and-run insurgency.
In Iraq, the group operates as small, largely autonomous guerrilla units spread across the country’s most inhospitable terrain, including its mountains and deserts. From these hideouts, ISIS militants emerge to prey on rural areas, kidnapping and extorting residents and killing state representatives. The group’s operations are simple; it has only infrequently carried out more complex or large-scale attacks.
Iraq has changed in ways that might prevent ISIS from returning in force. The nationwide sectarian polarisation from which ISIS benefited has faded. Additionally, now that many Sunni Arabs have experienced the dual trauma of ISIS’s draconian control and the military campaign to recapture their home areas from ISIS, most want nothing more to do with the group. The Iraqi security forces, for their part, have curbed their excesses and forged a more functional relationship with Sunni Arabs.
Yet despite these reasons for optimism, there are also threats. Securing peripheral areas still bedevilled by ISIS will be a major challenge. The government has yet to rebuild and jump-start the economies of these and other areas that were damaged by the war against ISIS, discouraging the displaced from returning. Healing society’s wounds seems similarly difficult.
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Roza Barakat's tormentors have been defeated, but the horrors she endured still hold her captive.
She was 11 years old when she was captured and enslaved by the Islamic State group, along with thousands of other Yazidi women and girls taken when the militants overran northern Iraq in their brutal 2014 campaign.
Torn from her family in the town of Sinjar, the enclave of the ancient religious Yazidi minority, she was taken to Syria, sold multiple times and repeatedly raped. She bore a child, a boy she has since lost. Now, at 18, she speaks little of her native Kurdish dialect, Kurmanji.
With the defeat of IS in 2019, Barakat slipped into the shadows, opting to hide in the turmoil that followed the worst of the battles. As IS fighters were arrested, their wives and children were packed into detention camps. Barakat was free, but she couldn't go home.
"I don't know how I'll face my community," she told The Associated Press, speaking in Arabic, as she nervously played with the ends of her long dark braid, the red polish on her dainty fingers fading.
For years, her IS captors told her she would never be accepted if she returned. "I believed them," she said.
Barakat's tale, corroborated by Yazidi and Syrian Kurdish officials, is a window into the complicated realities faced by many Yazidi women who came of age under the brutal rule of IS. Traumatized and lost, many struggle to come to terms with the past, while the Yazidi community is at odds over how to accept them.
"What do you expect from a child who was raped at 12, gave birth at 13?" said Faruk Tuzu, co-chair of Yazidi House, an umbrella of Yazidi organizations in northeastern Syria. "After so much shock and abuse they don't believe in anything anymore, they don't belong anywhere."
The AP does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission.
Barakat spoke to the AP from a safe house run by Tuzu's group just a few days after the leader of the Islamic State group, believed to have played a key role in the enslavement of Yazidi women, was killed in a U.S. raid in northwestern Syria.
She shrugged off the news, saying it doesn't make a difference.
IS first sold Barakat to an Iraqi from Tal Afar, a man older than her father. She shudders as she recounts how he "made me call his wife 'mother.'" After a few months she was sold to another man.
Eventually, her IS captors gave her a choice: Convert to Islam and marry an IS fighter, or be sold again. She converted, she says, to avoid being sold. She married a Lebanese they chose for her, a man who ferried food and equipment for IS fighters.
"He was better than most," she said. At 13, she gave birth to a son, Hoodh. At the peak of the militants' self-proclaimed "caliphate," they lived in the city of Raqqa, the IS capital.
Once, she begged her husband to find out what happened to her older sisters who had been taken just like her. She had lost hope that her parents were still alive.
Some weeks later, he told her he found one of her sisters, holding up a photo of a woman in Raqqa's slave market where Yazidi girls were sold.
"How different she looks," Barakat remembers thinking.
Shafaq News Agency correspondent said that the locals were not pleased with the progress of the campaign and quarreled with the security officers.
The brawl unfolded into armed confrontations between the locals and the officers but casualties were reported, according to our correspondent.
Yesterday, a group of citizens reportedly assaulted the head of Maysan's municipality with sticks and batons while he was overlooking a campaign to tackle encroachments to state property.
The incident took place in conjunction with the visit of the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, to the precarious southern governorate in the aftermath of an anti-narcotic magistrate killing last weekend.
Sources told Shafaq News Agency that the local official was transferred to a nearby hospital after sustaining multiple blows to different body organs.
On August 10, 2021, a citizen encroaching on state-owned land was seen killing Karbala Mayor Abeer Salim al-Khafaji, who had led a campaign to remove encroachments.
On November 23, 2021, the official in charge of removing encroachments in Basra, Makki al-Tamimi, was killed as a result of a campaign to stop such violations.
Significant takeovers of and encroachments onto public land have been taking place in Iraq since 2003. Political parties and militias, and individual supporters protected by political and armed groups, have taken control of such properties. Some of these violations have become a fait accompli even when those involved don't have the force of arms behind them.
Such property began to be seized following the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003. Not all governments have been able to stop this phenomenon. As a result of the encroachments, sidewalks, streets, and other public spaces often look ugly and disorganized. The population growth and the large-scale control that armed parties and groups enjoy have increased and widened these abuses.
Citizens who have encroached on property have always clashed with the security forces that accompany the team in charge of removing these abuses. These teams refused to enforce any campaign of this kind unless they were accompanied by security forces. They know very well that their task is not easy. The many such cases involving violence have prompted some employees to request to be exempted from such tasks.
Abeer al-Khafaji's killing was the spark that ignited a Cabinet "revolution" to remove encroachments on state-owned land. On August 12, 2021, the governorate of Karbala launched a campaign named after the slain mayor, The Martyr Abeer al-Khafaji Campaign, to remove encroachments. The municipal team is backed by security reinforcements.
The Nigerian Army has said its troops of the 149 Task Force Battalion in conjunction with the Civilian Joint Task Force killed an unspecified number of Boko Haram (BH) and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in Gubio, Borno State.
According to the army on its Twitter page on Thursday, four AK-47 rifles, two motorcycles amongst other items were recovered from the terrorists.
"Troops of 149 Task Force Battalion in conjunction with CJTF while on fighting patrol today 10 Feb 2022 neutralised scores of BHT/ISWAP terrorists in Dunga Lawanti village near Gubio in Borno State.
"Troops recovered four AK-47 rifles, two motorcycles amongst other items," the tweet read.
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you killed scores yet recovered 4 AK's? I would think if they were getting their asses handed to them they wouldn't have time to pick up weapons while fleeing. Must be looking for a check from our dumbass in chief.
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[REGNUM] Chinese scientists have discovered a new species of fan-winged parasite in the Gaoligong Mountains in southwest China's Yunnan province, Xinhua news agency reported Feb. 10.
Their findings were published in the international journal ZooKeys. The scientists confirmed that the parasites found on two wasp species (Vespa velutina and Vespa bicolor) belonged to the same species. After combining mitogenome data and morphological characters, this species was identified as a new species of the genus Xenos.
“Currently, about 30 species of fan-winged parasites have been recorded in China,” said Li Xueyan , a junior research fellow at the Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Combining three areas of biodiversity, including the Himalayas and the vast mountains of South Asia, the Gaoligung Mountains are home to about 17 percent of higher plants, about 30 percent of mammals and 35 percent of birds in China.
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...Kinda interesting when you remember that the largest single group of parasitic lifeforms on the planet is...wasps. Something like 14,000 species that lay their eggs in other critters.
Sleep tight. ;)
Mike
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so our politicians law makers intel and military have grown gmo wings and are flying to china for their payoffs explains all the UAP and UFO sightings no wonder they want to keep it hush hush!
[ZeroHedge] Having cost the jobs of three top Fed officials, including the Dallas and Boston Fed presidents as well as that of Vice Chair Clarida, one would think that matters relating to (potentially extremely lucrative) insider trading by members of the Federal Reserve should be fully in the public domain. One would be wrong.
In response to a Reuters Freedom of Information Act, the Fed said that there are about 60 pages of correspondence between its ethics officials and policymakers regarding financial transactions conducted during the pandemic year 2020 which have become an extremely sore spot for the Fed, with members of Congress demanding full transparency as to who knew and did what, when. The only problem: nobody is allowed to see them, as the Fed "denied in full” to release the documents, citing exemptions under the information act that it said applied in this case. Exemptions traditionally involve matters of national security, so how exactly alleged insider trading by a bunch of millionaires threatens "US Democracy" is something we would love to understand.
The disclosure of trading by two regional reserve bank presidents during the pandemic led them to resign last fall, and prompted Fed chair Jerome Powell to overhaul Fed ethics rules and request the central bank's inspector general to investigate.
The FOIA responses to Reuters for the first time quantify how much back and forth may have occurred over policymakers’ personal trading in a year when markets first cratered, then rebounded on the basis of both massive federal fiscal stimulus and an aggressive rescue effort by the Fed.
Reuters reports that it had requested release under the information act of any 2020 communication "regarding the propriety of individual financial transactions" exchanged between the Fed's general counsel or ethics staff and members of the Board of Governors, then Dallas Fed president Robert Kaplan, or then Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren.
Fed FOIA officer and deputy board secretary Margaret McCloskey Shanks responded to Reuters that staff had identified "approximately 47 pages of information" involving Fed board members and around 13 pages involving either Kaplan or Rosengren. However release of the documents was denied.
"The responsive documents contain predecisional and deliberative information, as well as information that is subject to attorney-client privilege," she wrote. There was, she said, nothing in the documents that was "reasonably segregable" and not exempt from release under FOIA.
Gunita Singh, a staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said the FOIA exemption cited by the Fed is meant to "protect agency candor" so U.S. government staff and officials can discuss issues freely as decisions are being made.
The response from Shanks did not detail what current discussions or deliberations warranted withholding the information.
Demands for more disclosure from the Fed about the ethics scandal has been widespread, with public interest groups and elected officials including Elizabeth Warren calling on the central bank to release more details about policymakers' stock trading and the guidance or opinions provided to them by ethics officials.
Oh, that's easy. Federal Reserve officers exposed in wrongdoing would damage the image of the Federal Reserve and the US dollar. This must not be allowed. It's a matter of national security.
Who cares if they're guilty? Top officials get to do this kind of corruption, it's not a big deal. What, you think they should be content with their salaries? When they see everyone else around them getting rich? It's an entirely unreasonable attitude.
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It should be fairly obvious they do not go to Washington to excel at being good public servants and representatives of the people. They go to Washington to become wealthy. Identifying the problem is the easy part. It's the doing something about it that's so very difficult.
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how exactly alleged insider trading by a bunch of millionaires threatens "US Democracy" is something we would love to understand
Actually, they're correct: exposing the rot at the heart of our national institutions -- the extreme venality, dishonesty and incompetence of our elites -- will destroy the legitimacy of those institutions.
Polls increasingly show that a very large portion of the public, about half now, does not believe that our elections are fair, that our leaders know what they're doing, or that they have our best interests at heart.
Bria's public awareness that the architects of our nation's monetary policy make fortunes from their insider knowledge of future interest rate movements would put a stake through the Ged's legitimacy.
That they made (and still make) ridiculous claims which Pfizer, Modeena and J&J themselves refused to make.
That, contrary to law, they suppressed information about and access to known safe and effective alternative treatments, including uncobtroversial and widely-used drugs that are on the WHO's list of essential medicines.
That they again violated EEOC laws as well as the Nuremberg Principles in forcing this experimental gene therapy upon millions of Americans on pain of losing their jobs, or seeing themselves and their children blackballed from normal participation in economic and social life.
Residents of #Hasakah southern countryside, #NE_Syria, receive messages from unknown individuals who demand sums of money and threaten them in case they refuse. #ISIShttps://t.co/XzJy1g0Lnl
SHADDADI, Syria (North Press) – The 28-year-old Sa’ed al-Omar, a pseudonym for shop owner in Shaddadi town south of Hasakah, northeast Syria, is still worried after he had refused to pay Zakat (donation of Islam) to some people pretended to be members of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS).
Few days ago, an individual, who refused to identify himself, received WhatsApp messages from unknown people asking to pay Zakat of $700.
Al-Omar refused to pay and they threatened him of “punishment and killing”, if he does not pay during coming days.
Recently, several people have received calls and messages from unknown people pretending as ISIS members asking to pay “Zakat”, and threatened of killing in case their request is refused or told to the security sides.
Those people targeted the well-offs and venture capitals in Shaddadi town.
It is first time that the residents receive such calls for “Zakat” since the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) controlled Shaddadi and cleared it of ISIS, according to the residents.
In February 2013, Shaddadi town, 60 km south of Hasakah, became out of the Syrian government control after fighting with the armed opposition factions and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS-formerly al-Nusra Front), where the city infrastructure was destroyed and the government institutions were looted.
One year followed the armed opposition control, ISIS attacked them, and after few days of fierce fighting, ISIS controlled the town.
In 2016, the SDF took control over Shaddadi.
During its control, the ISIS forced the residents to pay sums of money as Zakat, depending on how wealthy they were, via Zakat Diwan (office).
Shaddadi town and countryside witness activation of ISIS sleeper cells from time to time that target the SDF checkpoints and the US base in the town with missiles during the last period.
There is a prison in the town that houses thousands of ISIS members, and the SDF announces the capture of members and leaders from time to time.
Meanwhile, some people refused to call the security forces about the incident fearing of being killed or threatened, some of them dared and called, some people ignored the calls and thought those are some deceivers and fraudsters.
The security forces are following the contacts which send messages, according to those who called them.
Muhamad al-Ahmad, 34, a nickname of a trader in the town, received messages on WhatsApp a week ago, asking to pay $1,000.
“They told me if I do not pay Zakat, I will be punished severely”, he said.
“ISIS let us live in panic and fear and at the moment we are still worried about our families even though I refuse to pay” he added.
Reporting by Bassem Shuweikh
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Shafaq News/ Iraqi military forces deterred an attack waged by militants of the terrorist organization of ISIS in Diyala, a security source revealed on Thursday.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that a force from first division's second brigade identified an ISIS group near al-Udhaim dam, 65 kilometers northwest Baqubah.
The force pursued the terrorist group and clashed with it, killing at least four of its members, " the source said, "terrorist group attempted to attack an army unit but the attack was aborted."
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The British Foreign Secretary told the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry about the need to withdraw Russian armed forces from the Ukrainian border. Sergei Lavrov replied that the military is on the territory of his country. Liz Truss repeated that they should be withdrawn. To this, the Russian minister again objected that the military is not violating anything, since they have the right to conduct any maneuvers on the territory of the Russian Federation.
After that, he himself addressed a question to his British colleague: "Do you recognize the sovereignty of Russia over the Rostov and Voronezh regions?"
"Great Britain will never recognize Russian sovereignty over these regions,” the Foreign Minister replied after a short pause.
British Ambassador to the Russian Federation Deborah Bonnert had to intervene in the situation, who delicately explained to Mrs. Truss that we were really talking about Russian regions.
The British Embassy in Moscow did not comment on the situation.
Recall that during a press conference following the meeting, Sergei Lavrov said he was disappointed with the negotiations and noted that he and his colleague did not hear each other. Liz Truss said that no one undermines Russia's security. She also stated that she considers it necessary to withdraw Russian troops from the border with Ukraine.
[NewsFrontInfo] The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the West should not confuse the territories of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, since such a mistake could be fatal, she made this statement on the air of the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov program.
This is how the diplomat commented on the mistake of British Foreign Minister Liz Truss, who, answering a question from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, said that the Rostov and Voronezh regions do not belong to Russia. British Ambassador to Moscow Deborah Bonnert intervened and explained to Truss that they were talking about Russian regions.
Soon the diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in the Russian Federation published Truss's explanations regarding the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over these areas.
"She commented on it herself, she said that she confused Ukraine with Russia. The main thing is that this simply does not happen again, because they talk about Ukraine so often, and they so often recommend Russia what to do on its territory, that such mistakes can become simply fatal for them," Zakharova said.
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Coming soon: Biden will never recognize US sovereignty, anywhere.
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Foreign Minister Liz Truss, answering a question from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, said that the Rostov and Voronezh regions do not belong to Russia.
Jesus... ROSTOV? She's never heard of Tolstoy's characters in War and Peace? FFS, this is one of the West's foreign ministers. They're supposed to be our intellectual policy-makers -- the cosmopolitan worldly ones, those with a deep grasp of other nations' geography at a minimum and preferably their history and culture.
Claiming that Rostov and Voronezh aren't part of Russia is like claiming that Swansea and Bristol are not part of Britain. Or saying that El Paso is not part of the US.
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Claiming that Rostov and Voronezh aren't part of Russia is like claiming that Swansea and Bristol are not part of Britain. Or saying that El Paso is not part of the US.
There have been many cases of Turkish-backed opposition factions targeting civilians near the lines of contact in #Syria’s #Manbij.https://t.co/45vhA0TymI
MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – A young man lost his life on Thursday, after being shot while he was near the line separating the Manbij Military Council and pro-Turkish opposition factions near the village of Arab Hassan, northwest of Manbij.
“Two days ago, Hammond al-Ahmad al-Hussein (28) was injured as a result of being shot while he was near the contact lines,” an informed source said.
“Al-Hussein was immediately transported to al-Hikma Hospital in Manbij, but he died today of his sever bleeding as a result of being shot in the head,” the source added.
There have been many cases of Turkish-backed factions targeting civilians near the lines of contact, hoping to cross into the areas of these factions or simply passing by.
The Turkish-backed armed Syrian opposition factions continue to seize the homes of the indigenous people of #Afrin, northern #Syria, and sell or rent them to settlers. #Turkey#SNAhttps://t.co/JDYpUPPj59
ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – A member of the Turkish-backed al-Hamza Division factions sold a house owned by an indigenous resident in the village of Kafr Zeit, in the city of Afrin, north of Aleppo, north Syria for $1,500.
A member of al-Hamza Division, hails from Rif Dimashq, sold a house of Walid Nebo, located in al-Ashrafiya neighborhood in the city of Afrin, a local source told North Press.
The faction member had sold Nebo’s house to another member of the same faction, who hails from the town of Tel al-Daman in the southern countryside of Aleppo, the source added.
The Turkish-backed armed Syrian opposition factions continue to seize the homes of the indigenous people of Afrin, and sell or rent them to settlers, according to human rights and press reports.
In 2020, the Human Rights Organization-Afrin documented the seizure of 250 homes belonging to the indigenous people of Afrin by Turkish-backed factions.
The city of Afrin and its villages, north of Aleppo, have been controlled by Turkish forces and the affiliated factions since March 2018.
Since then, the region has been witnessing ongoing security chaos accompanied by infighting among militants of the Turkish-backed factions, arrests, and kidnappings amid the factions’ disability to settle the security and spread safety.
Two electricity grids at the Al-Zawiya power station were damaged after armed clashes erupted in the vicinity, the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) said in a brief statement on Wednesday.
The company explained that the clashes led to damage and disconnection of the power drain circuits (Al-Zawiya – West)) with a voltage of 220 kV, and (Al-Zawiya – Zahra) with a voltage of 220 kV.
It said that this will negatively affect the performance of the electrical network, and lead to an increase of power cuts in the area. A specialized technical team will begin to repair the stations, “when the security situation in the area improves.”
Since 2011, Libya has been suffering from a deficit in energy production. GECOL adopts a program of load shedding hours in various cities and regions, which often reaches more than 12 hours a day.
There is also a rise in the theft of copper cables, where thieves sell them on the black market. Libya is seeking to obtain multiple sources of energy to solve its energy crisis, which the Prime Minister has repeatedly promised to solve, but without result.
The country is seeking to disarm, demobilise, and reintegrate its militias into society, by obtaining suitable jobs in the security and public sector.
The Minister of Labour, Ali Al-Abed stated that the government plans to integrate youths currently belonging to militias, into the military and police. In a step to unify Libyan institutions, and rehabilitate youth involved in the civil war.
“There is more than one way to integrate them into institutions, or even to provide small and medium enterprises through the Financial Facilities Fund and the Human Resources Fund at the ministry,” Al-Abed explained.
The Minister noted that the integration of these youths depends on the stability of the government, the adoption of a budget, and relative stability in the country. As well as a comprehensive national reconciliation process.
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I like how they always put a monetary number on the seizures. It may be worth that if you are selling by 20's or grams.A ton is only worth about %>% million before cutting agents are used. Someone in the valuing of said coke knows what they are talking about on the street level.
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[RIA Novosti] Negotiations between Russia and NATO on security guarantees continue both in open and closed regimes, Vladimir Putin said.
"We are preparing a response to both NATO and Washington," Putin said after talks with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev .
In recent months, relations between Russia and the West have become even more tense, and the situation around Ukraine has worsened. Washington and Brussels accuse Moscow of preparing an "invasion", declaring that Russian troops are being pulled up to the border with a neighboring state. Against this background, the North Atlantic Alliance is strengthening its presence in Eastern Europe : it is sending additional forces and military contingents there.
The Kremlin denies these allegations and claims they are a pretext for increasing the bloc's military presence near Russia's borders.
At the end of last year, Russia handed over to NATO and the United States draft documents on security guarantees, the main requirement was the non-expansion of the alliance to the east, but it was its Western partners, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, that they ignored in their written response.
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Consider Prime Minister Klain's calculations: Magoo's SOTU speech is two weeks from Monday. The midterm elections come just six months after, so this speech is effectively the start of the campaign.
Klain no doubt wants SOTU to be a victory lap re COVID -- Magoo's version of W's "Mission accomplished!" bullshit. IE.e. claiming victory when in fact the 'vaccine' failed, the lockdowns and masks caused enormous damage for next to no benefit, and the horrors of all the side effects are now being made public in a slow drip that will continue for years.
Why would Klain/Magoo want to announce more troop movements & other preparations for war in Ukraine? How would that possibly help the Democrats this fall? Do any voters actually give a shit about shithole Ukraine?
Much more likely that Magoo will announce he's negotiating a deal with Putin. There's no benefit and a huge potential cost if he lets this remote, almost totally irrelevant conflict pre-empt his big SOTU address claiming Happy Days Are Here Again.
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The two "highlights" of the SOTU will be the announcement of a "deal" with Iran that will involve the US directly supplying Iran with nukes, (because equity!) and the finding of an obscure clause in NAFTA that allows for the US military to help the Canadian gummint crush the trucker's protests.
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The trucker issue is becoming scary. This could be the spark that sets off civiI w@r if Magoo and Jolson don't rein in their attack dogs
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Predictably, the "conservatives" in the Canadian gummint are stabbing the truckers in the back now.
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It's not right vs left or "conservative" vs "progressive." This is the traditionalist commonsensical People vs the incompetent, corrupt globalist-COVIDian Wokerati elites.
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If a critical mass of people come to the conclusion that a gummint of self-appointed "elites," sitting around telling everyone else what to do or not do isn't cutting it, there's gonna be quite a show.
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Afraid this one could get kinetic. Didn't end well for Gage's redcoats when they confronted the Sons of Liberty.
Maybe not the RCMP but reports are many of the police and tow truck drivers are defecting to the Freedom Convoy's side.
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Now the coke-head premier of Ottawa says they are "working on a plan" to end the vaxx passports. Really. They couldn't, you know, just announce on their state-run media that the passports are now invalid and people should toss them in the trash.
Bunkum and lies.
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Doug Ford?! Canada's Hunter Biden is Lremier of its largest province? YGBSM
Your grandfather's card for the draft?
He burned it. Okay, so he's daft...
But you're taking your war
On this cold pretty far,
Are you not, Covid kids? [Yeezus laughed]
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A suspected ISIS jacket wallah accused of being a key member of an attack on Gay Paree, in which 130 people died, today told a packed courtroom he should not be sent to prison for the rest of his days because 'I didn't kill or wound anyone'.
Salah Abdeslam,
...the only surviving button man of the Paris attackers — because his suicide vest failed to blow up — the boy who ran with all the other petty criminals in the notoriously Salafist Molenbeek neighbourhood until he grew up to transfer that sense of entitlement to membership in ISIS has already been sentenced in Belgium in a separate trial. It appears he has abandoned the habit of silence that got him twenty years for that one...
32, is facing multiple life sentences for charges including murder, attempted murder and hostage taking.
But the French Moroccan national on Wednesday said he had deliberately pulled out of the November 2015 rampage in which other faceless myrmidons including his brother were blown to pieces.
And he insisted he was now being 'made an example of' and did not deserve to spend the rest of his life in prison.
'I want to say today that I didn't kill anyone, and I didn't hurt anyone,' Abdeslam told a specialist court set up at the Palais de Justice in central Gay Paree.
'It's important for me to say this, because since the beginning of this case, people have not stopped slandering me.'
Abdeslam added: 'In the future, when someone gets into an underground train or a bus with a suitcase stuffed with 50 kilogrammes of explosives, and at the last minute decides 'I'm not doing this,' he will know that he can't, because otherwise he will be locked away or killed.'
Abdeslam has in the past described himself as a 'soldier with 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.... ' and part of the 'commando unit' that attacked the Stade de La Belle France national sport stadium, six restaurants and bars, and the Bataclan music hall.
He is now one of 20 defendants facing various charges related to the attacks, in a mammoth trial — the biggest in French history — that began in September.
Prosecutors allege that Abdeslam's explosive vest malfunctioned and that he then bravely ran away from the French capital in the hours after the Friday 13thattack.
In court today, Abdeslam denied ever having gone abroad from his home in Belgium to fight or train with ISIS.
He admitted being a 'member of Islamic State', adding 'I support IS, I am for them, I love them.'
But he said he was 'not initially motivated by religion,' but instead wanted to oppose Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad.
'I knew that the Syrians were suffering and I was in comfort, busy enjoying life while they were being massacred, I felt guilty,' he said.
Fourteen suspects are in the dock in Gay Paree, with six others being tried in their absence, five of them presumed dead in Iraq or Syria and the last in prison in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... Abdeslam is alleged to have been central to the international logistics operation that underpinned the ISIS attack.
He is believed to have escorted the three bombers who blew themselves up at the Stade de La Belle France in Gay Paree.
Abdeslam, 32, reiterated his claim of belonging to the Islamic State group, saying he pledged allegiance to the group "48 hours before the attacks" — though later claiming he had pledged "without even knowing it."
‘ROAD TRIP’
Abdeslam has so far largely refused to answer Sherlocks’ questions since his March 2016 arrest in Belgium, where police found him after months of searching for the men behind the massacres.
He has claimed he discarded his boom jacket and fled the French capital in the chaotic aftermath of the bloodshed, eluding an intense manhunt to return to Molenbeek, the Brussels district where he grew up.
The questioning focused initially on Abdeslam’s background and events before the attacks. Prosecutors have already established that he spent much of his youth as a pot-smoking fan of nightclubs and casinos.
Yet as questioning began by presiding judge Jean-Louis Peries, Abdeslam often gave offhand answers that verged on insolence.
Asked about a suspiciously short trip to Greece a few months before the attacks with one of his co-defendants, where Sherlocks say they might have met IS operatives, Abdeslam said it was just a "road trip."
"We stopped in Italia, ate pasta, then went to Greece and visited some islands and that’s it," he said.
"You think everything is linked to the Islamic State, but people also have a social life."
He also claimed he learned only months after that his brother Brahim, who detonated his suicide belt in a bar during the Friday night attack in Gay Paree, had traveled to Syria in early 2015.
Abdeslam’s mother, sister and ex-fiancée had also been scheduled to take the stand on Wednesday, but the presiding judge informed the court that they would not be coming, without giving further details.
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Wouldn;t it be easier and cheaper in the long run to just put the vest back on him, stake him out in a field somewhere and keep triggering the vest until it went "BANG"?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Satellite images have revealed a newly-constructed missile base in North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... that could store weapons capable of striking the United States, a think tank has warned.
The Hoejung-ni missile operating base in the north-eastern province of Hwapyong boasts underground bunkers and powerful weapons capable of mounting nuclear warheads, reports the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
There are also two huge shelters used for the arming and fuelling of weapons, known as 'missile checkout facilities', while trees, bushes and other vegetation covers much of the entrances to the base.
'The Hoejung-ni missile operating base will, according to informed sources, likely house a regiment-sized unit equipped with intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM),' the CSIS warns.
'Each... shelter measures approximately 35 metres (114ft) long, has a 25-metre (82ft) opening at each end, and is covered with soil and rocks with vegetation planted on top,' the report adds.
The new base, which has also raised alarm bells due to its close proximity to the Chinese border, has sparked the interest of international observers and US intelligence.
Security sources estimate that construction at Hoejung-ni first began more than two decades ago, and is among 20 or so bases which have never been publicly acknowledged by Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... 's administration.
The new unit contains a reinforced underground bunker that is at least 1,200ft long, while also being able to accommodate ballistic missiles known to be used by Pyonygang.
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imagine the idiocy in building a missile base where you can store your fucking missiles give the sat bitches promotions and raises the gadget and magoo team put another one in the intel win column!
The White House has approved a Pentagon plan to use troops in Poland to evacuate American nationals from Ukraine if Russia invades, it emerged on Wednesday
Officials said last year's Kabul airlift offered lessons: 'We don't want a chaotic withdrawal from Ukraine'
Vice President Kamala Harris will meet allies in Europe next week during the Munich Security Conference
An official said she would build on the 'intensive engagement that is already under way,
Intelligence officials said Russia has 70 percent of the forces it needs for an invasion already along the border
The U.S. has deployed 3,000 troops to eastern Europe and delivered 86 tons of weapons to Ukraine
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They couldn't come up with a plan in 20 years for Afghanistan yet they think they can for this shitshow this retarded fool is stirring up?
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Why would anyone go back to a neighborhood tavern where a brawl breaks out with near clockwork regularity? It simply defies logic and good common sense.
[PJMedia] Project Veritas released a video exposing the workplace of ESPN as being toxic and openly laden with racism. Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe connected with an ESPN studio operator named Trevor Adams, who sought to blow the whistle on the "discrimination" and "racism " he witnessed at ESPN as an employee.
Adams says he not only witnessed such behavior but experienced it personally. Once through a headset, a director called Adams "just another white Trump supporter" and said that "if there were more women in this building things would get done a lot better and quicker."
Other ESPN employees were recorded detailing experiences similar to that of Adams.
Alyssa Lang, an on-air talent for ESPN, who by appearance is a white female, characterized conversations held around her and comments made directly to her as "Just blatantly racist sh*t." In one instance, colleagues of Lang were verbally disgruntled about the fact that Lang and her two co-hosts were each white, the suggestion being that if a show is hosted exclusively by white people, it is somehow unfit to exist.
Doreen Murray, a graphics specialist, described ESPN as being an environment where accusations of racism are thrown around in retaliation for even the mildest bit of conflict. "This company has it set up where you can’t say anything because immediately they turn it around and scream racism."
This toxic and racialized work environment was felt by both white and black employees at ESPN.
And all this comes just months after ESPN’s racial fiasco involving Maria Taylor and Rachel Nichols, where Nichols was caught on tape describing how she felt pushed out of an on-air role that was contractually assigned to her, so that the darker-skinned Maria Taylor could ascend to the position, theoretically improving ESPN’s visual diversity posture.
Here is the entire exposé as posted on the Project Veritas YouTube channel.
[JPost] The UN has allegedly covered up the murder of two humanitarian workers in Syria by President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The United Nations has allegedly concealed the murder by the regime of President Bashar Assad of two humanitarian staffers who were part of a relief convoy between the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Homs in 2016.
A year-long investigation into alleged UN misconduct in Syria can now reveal that UN officials in 2016 appeared to have worked at cross purposes and did not publicize an internal UN message saying that Assad’s military had killed two aid workers.
A UN source in the Middle East said the reluctance to investigate and report the alleged murder of aid workers can be explained by the global organization’s fears it would be banned from conducting future relief missions in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Mohammad Al Abdallah, a Syrian human rights and democracy researcher and activist who is executive director of the Washington-based Syrian Justice and Accountability Center, said the UN had accepted a "poisoned and unhealthy" relationship with the Damascus government, in which the Syrian regime has allowed them to access places where they operate in exchange for dealing with the regime or concealing its violations.
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Say it ain't so. The UN corrupt, I will not tolerate such blasphemy.
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PESHAWAR: The husband of a woman, who had a nail hammered into her head allegedly by a faith healer some days ago, claimed on Thursday that she was suffering from mental health issues.
He said that the nail hammered into her wife’s head had nothing to do with any faith healer.
The nail was removed from the woman’s head at the Lady Reading Hospital some days ago. The news went viral on social media platforms after it was leaked from the hospital, prompting police to launch an investigation into the matter.
Earlier it was alleged that a fake faith healer smote the nail into her head to make her bear male offspring. However, on Thursday, her husband Ahmed Sabir, an Afghan national, appeared before journalists at the police lines and denied the assertion that an alleged faith healer hammered a nail into his wife’s head.
He claimed that his wife was suffering from mental health issues for quite a long and was also treated by psychiatrists. He also denied desiring a son, stating that he had 11 children including six sons from two wives.
Mr Sabir also questioned the media outlets for running the news without checking with the family. He said that the incident had nothing to do with any faith healer or desire for male offspring. “You people would not believe this, but she is possessed by spirits,” he added.
He said that the woman was his second wife whom he had married in 2012. He said that she was mother of three including two sons. From the first marriage, he has eight children including four sons and four daughters.
Mr Sabir said that his wife had in the past thrown herself from the third storey of his residence to kill herself.
SSP Haroon Rashid said on the occasion that police traced the family during the investigation. Regarding the nail in the woman’s head, he said that it might have been result of some accident. However, he said that police were planning a psychiatric evaluation of the woman.
The SSP said that the woman told investigators that she lost consciousness while removing a wall mounted heater and found the nail in her head upon regaining consciousness.
He said that police also checked the record of telephone calls of her husband, who was outside his home at the time of occurrence.
[Jpost] Israel’s Transportation Ministry has approved the first certification for unmanned aerial systems to operate in civilian airspace.
The certification was issued by Israel’s Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA) for the Hermes Starliner unmanned aerial system (UAS), developed and manufactured by Elbit Systems. Its receipt completes UAS compliance with NATO standardization for approval to fly in civilian airspace.
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[REGNUM] Three teenagers in the Krasnoyarsk Territory were found guilty of committing crimes against public safety. This was reported to REGNUM on February 10 at the Main Investigation Department of the TFR for the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Khakassia.
Three 15-year-old teenagers were convicted, according to the department. They were found guilty of undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities (Article 205.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), on four counts under Part 2 of Art. 223.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal manufacture of explosives and explosive devices”), for three episodes under Part 2 of Art. 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal storage and carrying of explosives and explosive devices”).
The case was initiated on the materials of the regional department of the FSB. According to investigators, in the period from October 2019 to June 2020, teenagers in Kansk united in a group "for the subsequent joint implementation of terrorist activities in the city." They communicated in one of the social networks and instant messengers, adhered to "the ideas of anarchism, the violent change of the state and political structure existing in Russia in the form of the elimination of state institutions of governance."
The defendants divided roles among themselves and studied independently, reading forbidden literature, recognized as extremist by a court decision. They also watched videos on the manufacture of explosives and explosive devices.
Teenagers independently made explosives and explosive devices, trained using them in an abandoned house, on wastelands and construction sites. The department emphasized that they were preparing "to commit a terrorist act by blowing up the building of the police or the FSB."
The court appointed one of the teenagers five years of imprisonment in an educational colony with a fine of 30 thousand rubles.
Two teenagers who cooperated with the investigation were released from criminal liability under Art. 205.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. They were sentenced for illegal manufacture, storage and carrying of explosives and explosive devices - three years and four years of probation with a two-year probationary period.
The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism says the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS), a terrorist group, is expanding its affiliates and network beyond Syria and Iraq to Africa.
The Under-Secretary-General of the UN office of counter-terrorism, Vladimir Voronkov told the Security Council on Wednesday that the epicentre of ISIL terrorist group – officially known as Da’esh – activities now appeared to be in the African continent.
The under-secretary-general said that the terrorist activities were gaining ground in the Central and West Africa, which he said continues at an “unsettling” scale and pace.
According to him, the terrorist activities intensifying in Central and West Africa – especially Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and Niger and attacks increasingly reported in the border area between Mozambique and Tanzania.
Pointing to potential spill-over effects that could reach even beyond the continent, he urged countries to use every tool at their disposal to sustain important gains made against the group.
He added that a subsequent targeted attack reportedly resulted in the death of the ISIL/Da’esh leader, Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Salbi, widely known as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi.
While that victory marks perhaps the most significant recent blow to the group’s leadership in years, the UN counter-terrorism warned that ISIL/Da’esh is known for its ability to re-group and even intensify its activities.
"We have learned over the past two decades that counter-terrorism is a long-term game and that there are no quick fixes," he stressed.
Citing the need for both military counter-terrorism operations and more comprehensive measures with a focus on prevention, he urged states to use all tools at their disposal, adding, "As we begin a new decade of counter-terrorism, it is time to ask ourselves difficult questions and search for honest answers."
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[REGNUM] An additional condition for the implementation of "Minsk-2" should have been the payment of compensation by Kiev to Donetsk and Lugansk for seven years of the war, said Mikhail Demurin, a REGNUM observer, on Thursday, February 10, commenting on the statements of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba.
As previously reported, Kuleba said that Kiev "will not implement the Minsk agreements on Russian terms, in the Russian interpretation."
"But this does not mean that we will not comply with the Minsk agreements in principle," he added.
"There are no 'Russian conditions' for the implementation of the 2015 Minsk agreements. There is a German formula for their implementation, the Steinmeier formula, but it did not work either. Didn't work because of Kiev.
In all other respects, the Minsk agreements exist in the form in which they were approved by the UN Security Council back in 2015, and this is how they should be implemented, adjusted for the delay in their implementation by Kiev for 7 years.
For these 7 years of the continuation of the war in the Donbass, Kiev must pay. This should be made an additional condition for the implementation of Minsk-2. It should have been put forward by Donetsk and Luhansk, and Russia should have supported it. But so far, unfortunately, such a condition has not been put forward," said Mikhail Demurin.
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Islamic State Organization (ISIS) is likely to choose a battle-hardened veteran from Iraq as new leader of ISIS and successors of Abu Ibrahim al-Qurayshi.
On February 3, al-Qurayshi blew himself along with members of his family up during a raid by US special forces on his place of residence in Atmeh town in Idlib city, northwest Syria.
Fadhil Abu Rgheef, an Iraqi expert who advises its security services, as saying there were at least four possible frontrunners, according to the Daily Mail.
“These include Abu Khadija, whose last known role was Iraq leader for Islamic State, Abu Muslim, its leader for Anbar province, Abu Salih, of whom there’s very little information but was close to Baghdadi and Qurayshi, and there’s also Abu Yasser al-Issawi, who is suspected to be still alive. He’s valuable to the group as he has long military experience,” Rgheef said.
Issawi’s death was reported in an air strike in January 2021 at the time the Iraqi forces and the US-led military coalition were fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
But an Iraqi security official confirmed there were strong suspicions that Issawi is still alive, according to the Daily Mail.
None of the four potential successors to al-Qurayshi had been captured by US forces, one security official and one army colonel told Reuters.
Both ISIS leaders Baghdadi and Qurayshi, were members of al Qaeda in Iraq from the start, and they did time in US detention in the mid-2000s.
The new leader would be a veteran Iraqi jihadist. “If they choose one in the coming weeks they’ll have to choose someone from among the same circle… the group that was part of the Anbari group which operated under (the name) of ISIS since the early days,” Hassan Hassan, editor of New Lines magazine which has published research on al-Qurayshi, said.
Reporting by Sara Youssef
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Could anyone tell me how to get 1 of these analyst jobs? I can state the obvious.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] The reason for the evacuation of the building of the Murmansk airport was a fake explosive device found on one of the passengers. This was reported to a REGNUM correspondent by the press service of the airport.
"At the entrance to the terminal building, a suspicious object, a dummy explosive device prohibited for air transportation, was found on the passenger," the press service said.
As REGNUM reported , the work of the airport was suspended from 19:00, evacuation was carried out, sappers arrived at the scene. At the moment, the work of the airport has been restored.
Trying it on for size. If it works, they’ll use it to bar Donald Trump and all his supporters.
[PJMedia] The North Carolina Board of Elections claims it has the power to prevent Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) from running for re-election because of his alleged role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol building.
Liberal activists had filed the challenge last month using an obscure "disqualification clause" in the Constitution — Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment — which was ratified after the Civil War to prevent Confederate officials and those who supported "insurrection" from returning to office.
The problem for the activists is that Cawthorn never supported an "insurrection."
CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...:
Cawthorn, who has denied any wrongdoing regarding January 6, filed a federal lawsuit last week to shut down the challenge. The elections board, in its court filing, said his lawsuit is premature and should be dismissed. The board also said it has the power to disqualify candidates based on constitutional considerations, not just based on state laws.
"States have long enforced age and residency requirements, without question and with very few if any legal challenges," the board wrote. "The State has the same authority to police which candidates should or should not be disqualified per Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment."
Did Cawthorn take part in an "insurrection" that would disqualify him from holding office?
Cawthorn was nowhere near the rioters on Jan. 6. He spoke to the 120,000 Trump supporters gathered on the ellipse prior to the riot. During his speech, he said nothing that could be construed as advocating for "insurrection" or revolution.
The liberal challenge to his candidacy is ludicrous.
Liberal activists who have mounted the effort to disqualify his candidacy say Cawthorn stoked violence and aided the insurrectionists. Days before the attack on the US Capitol, he said it was "time to fight." And at the January 6, 2021, rally at the Ellipse, he railed against the "cowards" in Congress who planned to certify Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan... ’s election victory.
Cawthorn will probably have to go through the entire sham of a hearing in court before a more rational judge tosses the challenge. Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck slipped the habañero into the roasted jalapeño... the liberal activists have now tarred Cawthorn as an "insurrectionist."
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Keep o with y'alls bullshit. In some cases the courts can't save your asses.
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A little quick action on the part of the NC state legislature could dispose of this issue. Not that they would ever stoop so low as to do this.
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Should have known this would happen.
"Insurrection."
"Domestic terrorists."
"Misinformation" -- and now, in best Orwellian newspeak, another completely made up term, malinformation, which will mean whatever the fvck our Stasi want it to mean so long as it can be used to suppress, harass, beat or break down the opposition.
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...I'm not particularly fond of REP. Cawthorn, but if he's got any smarts he will keep his mouth shut until they pull this, then land on them like a ton of bricks.
And his first question should be, "Please state the date and jurisdiction where I was found guilty, in the appropriate court, of insurrection."
Then file the mother of all civil rights violation suits. Bankrupt them to defend themselves. It's not so much fun Sticking It To The Man(TM) when you lose the McMansion and the Audi in the process.
Mike
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Don't let them hide behind North Carolina Board of Elections. These are NC Citizens. Name em and shame em. Make them pariahs in their own residences. Sue them individually for illegal harassment. Get down and dirty.
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It timed for Incitement leading into Mid-terms.
Looking at his Wiki page, a person might think WAPO NYT hired people to update it. ☺
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If I were a congressman or senator, I'd answer pretty much every question put to me with "Watch how I vote. That will be my statement."
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A Bright must be strong to belong
To the smart set, so sing a light song
And try to sound clever,
My children, whenever
You whine! [ponders sign: RIGHT IS WRONG]
Someone here (Hoib?) said yesterday that our current moment has zip in common with the decadence and barbarity of imperial Rome's perverted, insane courts.
This character is yet another example -- Exhibit A or maybe Exhibit LGBTQXYZ -- that we are dealing with our own bureaucratic version of Caligula and Nero's depravity.
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Buttplug has a kid to mess up now, whether biological or not they seem to have no problem giving these people, and I use that loosely,kids to raise and twist their minds.
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Toxic, Radioactive pretty much sums all these appointments.
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got laughed at for suggesting a cabal of sexual deviants and predators was/is being put into key power positions
No longer farfetched. Our POTUS and his family are corrupt, he's a pervert, his son is a depraved berserk pervert. His VP literally whored her way into politics. Third in line is a hideously corrupt old hack. All of them have no compunction about sicc'ing the FB-eye on parents who protest when tranny freaks are allowed to literally stalk and actually rape their daughters in the girls school bathroom.
[Jpost] hyperbole
Israel’s Transportation Ministry has approved the first certification for unmanned aerial systems to operate in civilian airspace.
The certification was issued by Israel’s Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA) for the Hermes Starliner unmanned aerial system (UAS), developed and manufactured by Elbit Systems. Its receipt completes UAS compliance with NATO standardization for approval to fly in civilian airspace.
HOMS, Syria (North Press) – Six members of the government forces, including a major general, were killed on Thursday, and more than nine others were wounded when their military convoy was attacked by unknown gunmen in the eastern desert of Homs, central Syria.
'Using automatic weapons, unidentified gunmen targeted a military convoy of the government forces, which was heading from Homs to the al-Tifour Military Airport, east of Palmyra,' a military source from the government forces told North Press.
“The attack resulted in the killing of six members, including officers, one of whom was known as Major General Sa’eed al-Khattar, while nine others were wounded. They were transported to al-Waer Military Hospital in Homs, and their injuries ranged between serious and moderate,” the source cited a doctor in the hospital.
The attackers were using four-wheel drive vehicles and bearing the flags of the Islamic State (ISIS). After the attack they ran away toward the Syrian Palmyra desert,” according to the source.
Iranian-backed factions along with the government forces control large areas of the Syrian desert, which has recently witnessed several clashes between ISIS and the government forces and factions supported by Iran.
Two days ago, an ISIS militant was killed in a Russian raid near the primitive oil tankers in the town of Dublan in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
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Shafaq News/ A blast from a roadside bomb reportedly hit a convoy of the US-led Global coalition in al-Muthanna on Thursday morning.
A source told Shafaq News agency that the explosion targeted a supply convoy of the Coalition inside the territory of al-Muthanna governorate.
The attack resulted in no human casualties and the convoy resumed its march toward its destination, according to the source.
Observers believe that Iran-backed Iraqi factions orchestrate these nearly daily attacks against the convoys of the US-led Coalition in Iraq. The frequency of the attacks increased drastically since the assassination of the Commander of Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, and the Deputy Head of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) Commission, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, in Baghdad in January 2020.
Heading into the first part of 2022 -with Qasem Soleimani's assassination anniversary, government formation process, and few other milestones- U.S. officials on multiple occasions anticipated an exacerbation of the attacks against U.S. interests in Iraq and Syria.
On December 9, the Iraqi government announced that U.S. troops had ended their combat mission. In reality, U.S. troops in Iraq made the transition to a training mission in July 2020, and thousands of U.S. troops will remain in both Iraq and Syria in this advisory role into 2022. The announcement was meant to ease pressure on the Iraqi government by Iranian-backed groups.
[Washington Examiner] In addition to the seemingly political motivated annual adjustment to the base seasonal employment numbers.
If you watched President Joe Biden’s remarks on the January jobs report, you could be forgiven for believing that a great feat that "never happened before" had just actually happened. You could be forgiven for believing all his platitudes about working families getting more of what they need, despite inflation not seen since the early 1990s. The problem for Biden and his plummeting approval rating is that his remarks are, at best, a rose-tinted view of reality.
A closer look at the jobs report reveals some concerning data. As the economy continues to recover from the COVID-19 lockdowns, we would expect that smart government policy would foster growth in private sector jobs. Unfortunately, this jobs report shows a reduction in private employment of some 300,000 jobs. Despite this administration’s claims to be laser-focused on "buy American" and repatriating the supply chain, this is a serious blow to the recovery.
In fact, the drop in private employment from December 2021 to January 2022 in this report is the largest decline in private employment during the recovery. This might explain White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s bizarre comment that 9 million workers had called in sick during January and thus there would be fewer people employed. They knew the private employment numbers were going to look bad.
So what explains the increase of 467,000 jobs in January trumpeted by Biden?
A massive, unprecedented increase in government jobs at all levels. Federal, state, and local governments hired nearly 768,000 new employees between December 2021 and January 2022. With the exception of massive government hiring in July and August of 2020 thanks to the CARES Act, there has not been an increase in government employment this large going back to May 2002, when the data became available.
This is not to say that government jobs are not important or that there are not generally good reasons for an increase in government jobs at times. Especially at the state and local levels, government jobs provide vital services to the public. However, the decline in private employment, coupled with high inflation, is indicative of some serious problems with economic fundamentals. Piling on more government jobs will only further burden the struggling recovery. Added Lord Garth: as has been discussed before, a lot of housing price increases are baked in for 2022; also petroleum futures signal higher prices on gasoline for the spring and summer so, at least for the next 6 months, things look pretty bad - however, the yield on Treasury instruments is still pretty low, e.g. 10 year T bond is below 2%
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Not hard to have job growth when you have put a shitload of people out of work and can fudge the numbers. I don't give a shit who is up ext, I can't wait to see this son of a bitch die and I hope it's painful. Take that scraggly ass bitch of a wife with you too.
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You really do have to wonder about a governmental system that permits something like a 'Biden' presidency to happen.
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Prices are sticky. No way that inflationary pressures can be reduced now without either stagflation or a reprise of Paul Volcker's famous "root canal" monetary policy.
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I don't understand the Wash Examiner articleshows approx stability in govt jobs.. If you look at table B-1 in the Jan 2022 BLS report,
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
Certainly the BLS has lots of problems in doing seasonal adjustment during the pandemic and this accounts for not only the difference between the Jan 2022 ADP and BLS reports (ADP showing job loss, BLS showing job gains) but also early months where ADP showed large gains and BLS showed small gains.
Also, the Wash Examiner doesn't seem to understand that the BLS report does not measure 'hiring', only people with jobs. Thus people 'recalled' from layoffs (which happens a lot in manufacturing) or switched from temp to permanent (which happens a lot in local govt education employment) are not really 'hiring' in the sense that most people use the term.
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By 1920, 5.4 million people worked for the govt.There were twice as many officials as there were workers in Soviet Russia...from Orlando Figes "Revolutionary Russia".
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Re #4: Upon closer examination, this article is comparing the 1 year rise in government employment, with the 1 month drop in private sector employment.
You can see approx those numbers on page 23 of your BLS PDF where 1 year government sector jobs (non seasonally adjusted) increased by 679,000.
The one month private sector jobs shows a several hundred thousand decrease. I leave it to you to add up all the private sector job categories.
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the household survey which generates those big govt employment increases is based on a pretty small sample and subject to a lot of misunderstanding by the people surveyed
I was looking at the employer (aka establishment) survey where the employers themselves report. In that survey, govt employment is pretty stable although the employment of teachers (a pretty large percentage of local govt) has been disrupted by pandemic related issues.
I wouldn't be surprised if the household survey also was messed up by this when, say a person goes from teaching remotely to teaching on site they change their answers about whether they are employed or not. Similarly the various auxiliary functions of education, e.g., kitchen workers, maintenance, health and safety, etc. have been filtering back to on site work over the past year.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The Internal Affairs investigation was opened in September 2021 based on a complaint filed by a Texas man who assembled video evidence of the officer striking an unconscious 
[WND] Major technology companies and social media platforms have removed, suppressed or flagged the accounts of over 800 prominent individuals and organizations, including medical doctors, for COVID-19 misinformation, according to a new study from the Media Research Center (MRC).
[American Thinker] You couldn’t miss the headlines: The annual percentage increase in inflation clocked in at 7.5%, making it the worst increase in 40 years. For anyone on a fixed income, living off of savings, or in a low-paying job, this is a disaster. Rich people don’t feel it (much) but ordinary people do. But here’s the kicker: Inflation is almost certainly worse than it was 40 and more years ago. Moreover, because the government is in thrall to Modern Monetary Theory, it’s going to get worse, lots worse. And all the while, China is sitting there, watching and waiting.
[American Thinker] If you think the highest overall inflation rate in 40 years of 7% is bad, get ready for a real shock coming to a pump near you. Oil prices are surging so much that, ironically, even the "Green New Deal" president is begging global and domestic producers alike to ramp up production and pump, pump, pump! And despite his releasing millions of barrels of crude from the strategic oil reserve and pleading with oil-rich nations to increase their output, prices continue to climb.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...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 
...... Somalia's version of the 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A suspected ISIS 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
