[CBS] Washington — The U.S. has intelligence that Russian commanders have received orders to proceed with an invasion of Ukraine, with commanders on the ground making specific plans for how they would maneuver in their sectors of the battlefield, a U.S. official told CBS News.
The orders don't mean a invasion is a certainty, as Russian President Vladimir Putin could still change the orders if he changes his mind, the official said.
After weeks of warning that an invasion of Ukraine was imminent, President Biden told reporters on Friday that he was "convinced" Putin had made the decision to invade Ukraine and said the U.S. believed Russian forces intended to attack in the "coming days."
[Western Journal] A citizens group out to catch suspected pedophiles reportedly found one that the tech giant Meta admits was an employee.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported Thursday that Jeren Miles, manager of community development at Meta — the parent company of Facebook — was filmed by members of Predator Catchers Indianapolis, which tracks individuals it believes are potential pedophiles.
The group is not officially connected with law enforcement but posts videos online of those it has connected with the potential sexual exploitation of children.
The man whom citizen activists were targeting identified himself as "Jeren" and the "manager of community development," according to a lengthy video posted on YouTube on Thursday.
Tedros is a Marxist stooge for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).1 The Chinese Communist influence over WHO has been solid for more than a decade, and the party was able to install Tedros without any competition. He became the first and only Director-General who is not a physician and instead is a communist politician.
Now the Director-General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus—known simply as Tedros—has unveiled plans to take charge of all global health.
While addressing the WHO Executive Committee on January 24, 2022, Director-General Tedros spelled out his global health plan, including his final priority for his enormous scheme:2
"The fifth priority is to urgently strengthen WHO as the leading and directing authority on global health, at the center of the global health architecture."
Tedros’s closing words to his report to the executive committee are chilling in their grandiosity and echo Marxist exhortations to cheering mobs by a Stalin, Mao, or Xi Jinping:
"We are one world, we have one health, we are one WHO."
Tedros seeks to become super-Fauci for the world, and, like Fauci, he will do it on behalf of the global predators.
IT BEGAN WITH THE DECADE OF VACCINES
The COVID-19 pandemic, organized by the global predators, was the spearhead of the first attack, and relied heavily on their manipulation of WHO for its cover-up of China’s release of SARS-CoV-2 and for justifying vastly destructive shutdowns. In our new book, COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey; we go into great detail about the draconian plans for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that originated at least as early as 2010 when Bill Gates announced the Decade of Vaccines at Davos with Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF).3
Gates and Schwab were joined by the CEO of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), a consortium devoted to bloating the wealth of the pharmaceutical industry through the massive distribution of vaccines with public financing. At the same time, Anthony Fauci was brought onto Bill Gates’ vaccine advisory board at his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, guaranteeing U.S. support for Gates’ plans through Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
A theme for the Decade of Vaccines was "Public-Private Partnerships Drive Progress in Vaccine Development, Delivery"—essentially the precursor to the Great Reset establishing a world governance of public and private health united in the spirit of fascism. By 2012, Gates achieved official UN approval for his scheme, establishing a broad network of global predators aimed at exploiting and dominating humanity through public health. Communist China would play a prominent role through its control over the UN and WHO and through its close relationships with global predators like Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Mike Bloomberg, Big Tech executives, and many other billionaires and world leaders.
A decade and more later, during COVID-19, WHO has proven its usefulness to the predators in orchestrating science, medicine, and public health in the suppression of human freedom and the generation of wealth and power for the globalists.
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Government control of health care will allow parties like the Democrats to realize their dream and final solution - to be able to completely deny access to health care to Christians. This is the brass ring, the final step they need to obliterate the religion that poses the greatest threat to the supremacy of the state.
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"Are you a doctor or a gummint agent? You have three seconds to respond. We will hold you to your answer. For the rest of your life..."
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We will make Fauxi, Dasazk and Collins draw straws to see who pulls the switch on who. That will be compelling pay-per-view.
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"Bill Gates made me do it. Spare me and I'll tell all..."
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So now there are reports that the MapleStasi have put out an arrest warrant for the dissident epidemiologist and former Trump administration Thought-Criminal, Dr Paul E. Alexander
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"Your cancer is very treatable at this stage, but nither I nor any of my colleagues will treat you..."
"What? You can't do that!"
"Why not, minister? You jailed my classmate and colleague because it was politically convenient for you. Now it's not politically convenient for any of us to treat you."
"But, but..."
"You should have thought this through before you wound up in this situation, you know..."
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Tedros & Tedros cartoons need to become a thing.
[AT - Clarice Feldman] From the 18th of this month through the 25th, national leaders are meeting in Munich in an apparent effort to deescalate the situation in Ukraine. The administration has pulled together its putative allies to forestall what it claims is an imminent threat by Russia to invade Ukraine. In fact, it discouraged (apparently unsuccessfully) Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky from attending on the ground that war could start any minute and his absence from Ukraine would be taken as flight. Heading the U.S. delegation is Vice-President Kamala Harris, which hardly comforts me. She threatens severe economic sanctions against Russia if they invade. (But this is from the very same administration which has done so much to strengthen Putin’s hand -- for example, by scotching the Israeli gas pipeline to Europe, giving a thumbs up to the Russian gas pipeline to Europe and reducing in every possible way U.S. energy production, all of which enriches Russia. President Trump used economic warfare and would have allowed completion of the domestic and Israeli pipelines and prevented the construction of the Russian pipeline to limit Russian power over Europe, as opposed to the saber rattling from the present White House.) The one thing you can count on with the Biden-Harris administration is inconsistency and incoherence.
Critics claim the entire business is a wag-the-dog scenario -- a distraction from the Democrats' (and the President’s) tumbling approval and disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. They assert the contretemps on the eastern Ukraine border is a legitimate effort by the mostly Russian settlers there to rejoin Russia and not a false-flag operation. Moreover, they agree with Putin that we agreed not to expand NATO to Ukraine. This week the critics of the administration got a bombshell that supports Putin’s position. It was discovered by a professor at Boston University, unveiled by the German media, and is a clear indication that Germany will not be onboard whatever nitwittery Biden-Harris propose.
David Goldman (Spengler) has done some significant coverage. Like me, he thinks NATO has gone far beyond its intended purpose and actual power.
He tweets:
The damage from Ukrainistan will be much worse than Afghanistan: Biden frog-marched our NATO allies into this one. They’re looking for excuses to bolt and when they do, NATO will be a grease patch on a side road near Fulda. With a defensible perimeter we could keep NATO.
The Bombshell
Contemporaneous records found in the UK national archives by Boston University political science professor Joshua Shifrinson and given to the German magazine Der Spiegel showed that on March 6, 1991 U.S., UK, French, and German foreign ministries indeed promised the then-Soviet Union "that we do not intend to benefit from the withdrawal of soviet troops from eastern Europe" and that "NATO should not expand to the east, either officially or unofficially." This account with the copy of the document appears in the Soviet news service
The story was first carried in Der Spiegel and Die Welt. As Die Welt notes, the document supports the Russian claim.
That the document account surfaced on German media during the security conference is a sure bet to my mind that the Germans will have a political fight on their hands if they join in slouching with Biden-Harris to war over the right of NATO to expand by adding Ukraine to its ever-larger grab bag of weak states we defend.
The 1991 protocol just released this week is in direct conflict with NATO’s 2008 commitment to Ukraine and Georgia that one day they, too, could become alliance members. That’s Russia’s position.
Missiles stationed there would be able to hit Russian targets within minutes and the protocol, if accurately reflecting the agreements made -- and there’s no reason to believe it does not -- conflicts directly with NATO and U.S. contentions about our agreement with Russia.
We claim, as Reuters summarizes, that Russia is demanding an effective veto on NATO membership; NATO Secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg parroted our claim: "It is a fundamental principle that every nation has the right to choose its own path... including what kind of security arrangements it wants to be part of." Maybe. But if the countries that make up NATO already told a neighboring country they would not admit Ukraine to its rolls, it should drop the idea of breaking the agreement.
Goldman was there and vouches for the narrative in the protocol, though until this week he had not seen the documentation. He calls Secretary of State Anthony Blinken a "a liar."
What is the Contrary Evidence?
There’s Blinken and there’s Steven Pifer. He was our ambassador to Ukraine 1998 to 2000. Writing in 2014, he denies any promises were made to the Soviets about not enlarging eastward. Pifer wasn’t there in 1990 and claims as his basis for contention an article in the Washington Quarterly by Mark Kramer (who did not see the formerly marked "secret" document in the UK archives) to argue we had only promised that "no additional troops would be deployed; no weapons of mass destruction would be placed" in the former German Democratic Republic. This pledge was, in fact, incorporated into Article 5 (signed September 12, 1990).
Pifer also quotes a publication (Russia Behind the Headlines) of a purported interview with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev was reportedly asked why he had not insisted that U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the East be legally encoded and responded, according to that report, NATO expansion was "not discussed at all." He did, however, call NATO eastward expansion "a violation of the spirit of the assurances given Moscow in 1990."
Eight years after the agreement detailed in the newly-found protocol, NATO did move eastward, admitting Poland, Hungary, and Czechia. Fifteen years later in 2204, it added Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Russia grumbled, but perhaps felt it was in too weak a position to do much then to halt NATO’s eastward expansion.
Russia now draws the line on NATO expansion into Ukraine and Georgia.
It might be useful for a reporter who might care to ask James Baker about the protocol and any assurances made to the Soviets by him and other NATO members.
If this were a legal case in the U.S., I believe the protocol could be entered into evidence under the Ancient Documents Rule even if the purported agreement had not been formalized in writing, although Russia’s acquiescence over the years to NATO’s eastward expansion would also be considered to weaken its case.
But all this business about credibility of the various parties and legalisms seems somewhat extraneous to me at this point. I think the German media has forced Germany’s hand and it will bolt and not stand with us. If it doesn’t go along, others will follow and the wag-the-dog effort will fail.
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Kamala Harris in Munich:
"I mean, listen guys, we're talking about the potential for war in Europe. I mean, let's really take a moment to understand the significance of what we're talking about."
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Right after the Joint Chiefs have been fired and Darth Lunch is sent to Gitmo, a presentation at the Pentagon: "This time, gentlemen, we have devised a scenario where the eurines and the cossacks can obliterate each other and we can watch from a safe distance..."
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...well, that would certainly solve their 'immigration' problem that doesn't want to fit in to Euro culture.
Q Would you be willing to talk a little bit about how the U.S. would get out of this potential conflict with Russia? What is the endgame? How does the U.S. — after imposing some of these sanctions and possible military action, how does the U.S. disentangle from this?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I would characterize it differently. I don’t — we don’t consider ourselves to be entangled. But we’re very clear of our principles
"clear of"? Like, "clear of the trees"? Speak English, you moron
THE VICE PRESIDENT: ...and our purpose, which is to be aligned with our Allies, understanding that — I mean, listen, guys, we’re talking about the potential for war in Europe.
I mean, let’s really take a moment to understand the significance of what we’re talking about. ... We are talking about the real possibility of war in Europe....
Like, yeah-uh. I mean, like, fer sure, we need to have that conversation.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: ...So our position is, for us, very clear, which is as a leader —
"Our position is as a leader." We know your position, skank.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: ...which we have been, bringing together the Allies, working together around our collective and unified position — that we would all not just prefer, we desire,
Not just 'prefer.' Desire. True diplomatic finesse, at its most subtle.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: ...we believe it is in the best interest of all that there is a diplomatic end to this moment. And so where do we want this to end? That is where we want it to end.
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Is that drool on her lip, or a quip
From the Injun who's driving the ship,
Who's parting the waters
And leading the plotters
To port and a comfortable slip?
[Breitbart] On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Brooke Jenkins
...involved in the effort to to recall SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin...
argued that the criminal justice system needs to be reformed, but there is a belief that “anyone who wants order in society” should be demonized, and “If you believe that murderers should go to prison, then somehow, you are a beacon of white supremacy or you’re a racist.”
Jenkins stated, “I think we are in a culture now where radical extremism is what’s cool. And they have found it appropriate to demonize anyone who wants order in society, who wants to hold perpetrators of crime accountable in society. If you believe that murderers should go to prison, then somehow, you are a beacon of white supremacy or you’re a racist. And so, we’ve found it acceptable that if somebody disagrees with these radical beliefs, that they are the enemy of social justice.”
She added that there are reforms needed to the criminal justice system, saying, “I think we have to take advantage of when the criminal justice system has jurisdiction over someone who’s committed a crime, and if they’re a drug addict or if they have mental health issues, we have to use that jurisdiction to sort of propel them into treatment, the appropriate treatment, so that they put their lives on a better trajectory, right? If it’s a youthful offender, that we help them get vocational training, resources to get their GED, so that they don’t simply use the courthouse as a revolving door, committing further crimes.”
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Civilization is a thin veneer over savagery. The savages are out to toss off the veneer.
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This week we learned that bike helmets are white supremacist, racist items and the enforcement of laws requiring them are racist. But take heart, because there’s a huge upside to the governmental response to perceived racism. Wait for it.
This week the King County, Wash. (greater Seattle) health poobahs rescinded the laws requiring bicyclists in the state’s most populous county to wear helmets. The King County Board of Health voted 11-2 to get rid of the requirement because “BIPOC riders and riders experiencing homelessness … are bearing the brunt of disproportionate enforcement, citations and fees,” Board Chair Joe McDermott declaimed.
Encouraging people to use helmets and directing them to cheaper helmets is the new course of action. Of course, bike enthusiasts have agitated for years to deep-six the helmet law, but the health board needed a better reason than mere freedom to get rid of it. As we learned this week on the pages of the Washington Post, “freedom” is a white supremacist construct. Voila! Helmets are racist because black people and the homeless and others get ticketed at a greater rate to the proportion of ridership.
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Now their heads will get cracked disproportionately. That will also be whitey's fault.
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[Jpost] Human rights experts have noted that the Baha’is are the most persecuted non-Muslim religious minority group in Iran.
It’s a Muslim heresy dating back to the latter half of the 19th century. Of course they’re sheep for Muslim shearing. This kind of thing is why the administrative and pilgrimage center of the faith was moved to Haifa, near where their prophet, the Baháʼu'lláh, died after a thirty year exile imposed by the Ottomans.
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In Austin, Texas to rally support for House candidates Greg Casar and Jessica Cisneros, the New York Democrat was heckled by a pro-Palestinian protester
'With media, with all this stuff, Palestine is basically a banned word. It's censored. We don't talk about it. No one knows about it,' she said
She pushed back on charges of anti-semitism leveled against some of Israel's biggest critics in the House, such as Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib
'Believing in the basic human dignity and the ability for a person to not be jailed or beaten for who they are, it does not mean that you are bigoted,' she said True. But believing and spreading baseless blood libels for political benefit does.
[FOX] The sister of late disgraced financier Bernie Madoff has died, along with her husband, in what's being investigated as a possible murder-suicide, according to a report.
Sondra Wiener was 86. She and her husband Marvin Wiener were both found dead in their Florida home Thursday and an investigation was underway, BocaNewsNow.com reported Saturday night, citing sources.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the investigation but wouldn’t identify the decedents, the outlet reported.
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Could be anything but the way all of his family seem to be dead makes me wonder a bit. Ruined people often have long memories and I seem to recall the quote about revenge being a dish best served cold.
[DAILY BEAST] While the world continues to watch Russian troops mass and maneuver at Ukraine’s vast borders, an esoteric group of investigative journalists and military experts are focusing on an ominous "Z" that has started appearing on military hardware heading towards Ukraine.
Video posted on social media has shown hundreds more tanks, communications vehicles and rocket launchers bearing down on the border. Many of those captured on camera have been painted with a "Z" inside a large white square.
Bellingcat reporter Aric Toler, says his group has been monitoring Russian military symbols for the last eight years, but they have "no idea what they [the Zs] are" and haven’t seen them before. "So, assume the worst, I guess/fear," he wrote on Twitter.
also, I'm pretty sure there is no pure Z sound in Russian --
they have a ZH sound and some others which sort of have a Z but not like the Z is zoo
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OMG! Z is the last letter of the alphabet. This can only be a reference to the end of the world. Or not.
A Russian "Z" looks similar to "3" and is the 9th letter of their alphabet. Unlikely to be painting their vehicles with Roman letters, I'm gonna guess this is some sort of graphic showing what unit they belong to.
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Invasion markings are not a good sign for peace.
ARGUABLY they could be distinguishing between sides in an exercise.
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Remembering in counter intelligence course the idea of individualized markings within a classified document or pieces of equipment that were being leaked to ID the perp by unique signature. Punctuational marking errors, so slight that they are invisible, or minor defects that are placed in altered places. SO maybe Putie is just using the high level scrutiny by the west to detect sources and methods? He is after all, KGB at heart.
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An History repeats itself yet again.
A Liberal political group using a reworded underlying Socialist Political Agenda has reached its usual climatic peak and the people are fed up.
Either his Admin must use Dictatorial level FORCE to stay in control, or be removed from power and face charges for the civil rights abuses they have inflicted?
[American Thinker] "The Science," which leftists always speak of as an oracle independent from petty human concerns, has spoken: Outside of well-fitted N95 masks, the cloth or loose-fitting paper masks that people have been wearing for almost two years do nothing to stop COVID’s spread. When it comes to kids, we also have some generally accepted science about COVID and masks—and none of it supports either COVID-panic or mask-wearing. Yet National Geographic, once a respectable magazine, insists that masks not only don’t harm children, but they’re actually beneficial.
My home in the 1960s and early 1970s was probably like most lower- and middle-class homes in America: We had a National Geographic subscription. The magazine, which was founded in 1888, brought the world into people’s homes. Suddenly, sitting in your living room or kitchen, you could see indigenous people in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Australia, as well as get a look at the folk cultures of Europe. It was a cruise around the world for the price of a magazine subscription. This picture, for example, shows that in 1921, ordinary people could see the Taj Mahal in color, which was very cool for that time:
That National Geographic no longer exists. In December 2016, right after Trump was elected president, National Geographic showed its woke credentials by doing a "gender" issue that featured, on the cover, a sad-looking little boy dressed up in girl’s clothes with his long hair dyed pink. This, we were told, was a "transgender girl."
But back to the magazine. The issue is behind a paywall so I won’t bother linking, but a HuffPost article excitedly reporting on National Geographic’s gender issue gives you a feel for what’s in it:
[The Federalist] As Republicans consider who ought to be tasked with responding to President Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1, they have the luxury of an obvious, unobjectionable choice whose message speaks to the moment, and to their priorities in 2022: Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor, Winsome Sears.
The San Francisco school board recalls are just the latest sign that American voters are fed up with the state of things in almost every arena, but particularly when it comes to school closures, mask and vaccine mandates, and the racial politicization of education.
They are tired of a White House and Democratic leadership in Washington which has spent the past year squabbling with its own flanks, left and center, and pretending despite all evidence that it is intolerant intransigent insurgency-minded Republicans who are the problem — not inflation.
The White House’s massive miscalculations over the past year are obvious. Instead of taking the win with Operation Warp Speed’s vaccines and using their wide availability as a path to get life, schools, and government policy back to normal as soon as possible, they doubled down on performative emergencies as a justification for insane policy packages no one understood. They doubled down on the Sunday show musings of Anthony Fauci, the arbitrary guidance of Rochelle Walensky, and the whiplash recommendations of their supposed experts at an alphabet soup of agencies. They doubled down on bureaucratic mandates and pressure campaigns that ran into the harsh reality of the Constitution.
LONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The assessments of U.S. and British spies on Ukraine cannot be trusted as they made so many grave mistakes in the run up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Russia's first deputy permanent representative to the United Nations said on Sunday.
MUNICH (AP) — Moscow would have its access to financial markets and high-tech goods limited under Western sanctions being prepared in case Russia attacks Ukraine, a top European Union official said Saturday.
The comments from Ursula von der Leyen, head of the EU’s Executive Commission, came as tensions over Russia’s intentions toward Ukraine intensified. U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday he was convinced" that Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade the neighboring country.
"The Kremlin’s dangerous thinking, which comes straight out of a dark past, may cost Russia a prosperous future," von der Leyen said during the annual Munich Security Conference, where U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris also spoke.
Von der Leyen said the EU’s executive arm has developed a "robust and comprehensive package" of possible financial sanctions against Russia with the U.S., U.K. and Canada.
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More sanctions (what few that are left). Yeah, sure, why not, along the lines of that rousing success story with Cuba, such a success after 60 years.
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"The Kremlin’s dangerous thinking, which comes straight out of a dark past,..."
Dark, huh? There was a period during Trump vs Hillary where the Message of the Day used 'dark' - dark soul, dark personality, etc. I wonder if we will be seeing this phrase in the future.
[Townhall] Former Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter was sentenced Friday to 16 months behind bars for killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright at a traffic stop last year, mistaking her gun for a taser.
The sentence, significantly below the recommended minimum for manslaughter charges, was given by Judge Regina Chu despite objections from the prosecution after Potter apologized to the Wright family.
"To the family of Daunte Wright, I am so sorry that I brought the death of your son, father, brother, uncle, grandson, nephew," Potter said in the courtroom.
Addressing Wright's mother, Potter said, "Katie, I understand a mother's love, and I am sorry I broke your heart. My heart is broken for all of you."
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested its former Superintendent of Police (SP) and IPS officer Arvind Digvijay Negi for allegedly leaking secret documents to an over ground worker of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... terror group, its official spokesperson said, according to news agency PTI.
The spokesperson said that Negi, a police officer who was promoted to the IPS batch of 2011, was arrested in connection with a case registered by the NIA on November 6 last year.
The case pertains to the spread of network ofl over ground workers (OGW (Over Ground Worker) Over ground workers (OGWs) are people who help militants, or terrorists, with logistical support, cash, shelter, and other infrastructure with which armed groups and insurgency movements such as Hizbul Mujaheddin and Jaish-e-Muhammad in Jammu and Kashmir can operate.... s) of the banned Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) for providing support in planning and execution of terrorist activities in India.
The NIA had earlier arrested six people in the case.
"During investigation, the role of A D Negi, IPS, SP posted at Shimla (since repatriated from NIA) was verified and his houses were searched. It was also found that official secret documents of the NIA were leaked by A D Negi to another accused person who is an OGW of LeT in the case," the spokesperson said.
[OneIndia] A terrorist was on Saturday shot full of holes in an encounter with security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... . Two army jawans have also lost their life during the shootout.
Acting on a specific input about the presence of bandidosfaceless myrmidons at Chermarg in Zainapora area of Shopian, security forces launched a cordon and search operation there, a police official told PTI.
He said as the forces were conducting searches in the area, the hiding bandidosfaceless myrmidons fired upon them.
The forces retaliated, ensuing an encounter, in which a murderous Moslem was killed, the official said.
The identity and group affiliation of the slain ultra is being ascertained, he said.
In a similar operation last month, two Death Eaters belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) outfit were killed in an encounter with security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Based on a specific input regarding the presence of Death Eaters in village Kilbal area of Shopian in south Kashmir, a cordon-and-search operation was launched.
In the ensuing encounter, two Death Eaters of the proscribed terror outfit LeT (TRF) were killed and their bodies were retrieved from the site of the encounter, the front man said.
The Resistance® Front (TRF) is a shadow group of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
He identified them as Sameer Ahmad Shah, a resident of Dhangam in Shopian, and Rayees Ahmad Mir of Pulwama.
"As per police records, both the killed Death Eaters were part of group involved in several terror crime cases, including attacks on security forces and civilian atrocities," he said.
Incriminating materials, arms and ammunition were recovered from the site of the encounter. All the recovered materials have been taken into case records for further investigation, the front man added.
[IsraelTimes] Husband, a Navy nuclear engineer, passed information about American nuclear-powered warships to someone he thought was foreign government representative; wife acted as lookout because of contempt for President Trump.
A Maryland woman pleaded guilty Friday to her role in a plot with her husband to sell submarine secrets to a foreign country.
Diana Toebbe entered the plea in federal court in Martinsburg to one count of conspiracy to communicate restricted data. Prosecutors said they would seek a prison term of up to three years at sentencing.
Her husband, Jonathan, a Navy nuclear engineer, pleaded guilty Monday to passing information about American nuclear-powered warships to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government,
...at one point it was claimed they were France...
but who was actually an undercover FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... agent.
Diana Toebbe was charged with acting as a lookout at several prearranged "dead-drop" locations at which memory cards containing the secret information were left behind. At the time of her arrest, Diana Toebbe was teaching at a private school in Maryland.
In pleading guilty to the same charge as his wife, Jonathan Toebbe, 43, faces a potential punishment between roughly 12 and 17 years in prison, a sentencing range agreed to by lawyers.
Prosecutors said he abused his access to top-secret government information and repeatedly sold details about the design elements and performance characteristics of Virginia-class submarines.
Jonathan Toebbe acknowledged during his plea hearing that he conspired with his wife to pass classified information to a foreign government in exchange for money with the intent to "injure the United States."
The memory cards were devices concealed in objects such as a chewing gum wrapper and a peanut butter sandwich. The Annapolis, Maryland, couple was arrested on October 9 after he placed a memory card at a dead-drop location in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
The FBI has said the scheme began in April 2020, when Jonathan Toebbe sent a package of Navy documents to a foreign government and wrote that he was interested in selling to that country operations manuals, performance reports and other sensitive information. He included in the package, which had a Pittsburgh return address, instructions to his supposed contact for how to establish a covert relationship with him, prosecutors said.
That package was obtained by the FBI in December 2020 through its legal attaché office in the unspecified foreign country. That set off a monthslong undercover operation in which an agent posing as a representative of a foreign country made contact with Toebbe, ultimately paying $100,000 in cryptocurrency in exchange for the information Toebbe was offering.
The country to which Jonathan Toebbe was looking to sell the information has not been identified in court documents and was not disclosed in court during his wife’s plea hearing Friday.
Jonathan Toebbe, who held a top-secret security clearance through the Defense Department, agreed as part of the plea deal to help federal officials with locating and retrieving all classified information in his possession, as well as the roughly $100,000 in cryptocurrency paid to him by the FBI.
FBI agents who searched the couple’s home found a trash bag of shredded documents, thousands of dollars in cash, valid children’s passports and a "go-bag" containing a USB flash drive and latex gloves, according to court testimony last year.
During a December hearing, Diana Toebbe’s lawyers denied prosecution assertions that cited 2019 messages exchanged by the couple in which she had contemplated fleeing the United States to avoid arrest. Instead, the defense said it was contempt for then-US president Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... as the reason behind the couple’s emigration plans.
Seriously? They would betray America to France, of all countries, merely because of the possibility that The Donald might win reelection? Some people deserve what’s coming to ‘em.
[AlArabiya] Algerian troops killed seven suspected snuffies Saturday in an ongoing operation in the northeastern province of Skikda, the defense ministry said.
The seven "terrorists" were rubbed out during a search operation in forest areas of Collo district, the ministry added.
The Algerian army regularly reports deadly operations targeting murderous Moslem fighters, two decades after the end of a decade-long civil war between the state and hardline groups that left 200,000 people dead.
Despite a peace and reconciliation charter signed in 2005 to end the violence, gangs still carry out sporadic operations against security forces.
On January 28, the defense ministry said that two Algerian soldiers and two fighters were killed in a firefight near the desert border with Niger.
Last year, 23 "terrorists" were "neutralized" and more than 200 captured, according to ministry figures.
[AlArabiya] Eight Malian soldiers were killed, 14 others injured and four are missing following a clash with armed gunnies in the northeast of the West African nation on Friday, the defense ministry said.
The ministry said late on Friday that columns of armed snuffies on cycle of violences had pinned down the unit, but the army, backed by the air force, killed 57 of them in the tri-border area near Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are struggling to contain armed gunnies linked to al-Qaeda and ISIS that control swathes of territory in the mostly non-existent border area of the West African Sahel that is larger than the size of Germany.
The attack comes as Mali’s ruling military junta on Friday asked La Belle France to withdraw troops from its territory "without delay", calling into question Gay Paree’ plan for a four- to six-month departure and highlighting the breakdown in relations between Gay Paree and its former colony.
Italian police said Saturday they had arrested an Egyptian suspected of trafficking migrants colonists across the Mediterranean during a trip that left seven people dead from hypothermia.
The suspect is accused of organizing the dangerous crossing by a boat carrying 287 people from Libya. Most were suffering from the cold when they were rescued by the coasties on January 25.
Police in the Sicilian city of Agrigento said in a statement that the ordeal on the overcrowded, 16-meter boat ended "with the death, by hypothermia, of seven Bangladeshi citizens, due to the inhumane conditions of the voyage."
The 38-year-old suspect, who was identified through witness testimony of survivors, had already been sentenced for a 2011 people smuggling crime in Sicily, police said, without providing further detail.
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The #US lifts a ban on imports of Mexican avocados, with exports to resume starting February 21, ending a week-long suspension triggered by a threat against a #food inspector that halted America’s primary supply of the produce.https://t.co/yemfAx7wEy
Cadesha Bishop, 28, was sentenced to eight to 20 years in jail on Friday after the 2019 incident that claimed the life of 74-year-old Serge Fournier
Bus surveillance video from March 21, 2019, showed Bishop pushing Fournier after he had asked her to be nicer to other passengers in the vehicle
Fournier fell onto the sidewalk and died a month later from his injuries
Bishop was charged with murder and released on $100,000 bond in 2019
Her bail was revoked in 2021 after she was charged with grand larceny, with prosecutors arguing she rented a 2020 Chevrolet Impala and did not return it
The prosecution downgraded the murder charge to abuse of an elderly person resulting in death and Bishop pleaded guilty on December 27
Bishop's exact sentence length is expected to be based on her behavior. Her alleged mental health history could also play a part in the parole board's decision.
common sense says she is basically an awful person
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bipolar
common sense says she is basically an awful person
The two are independent — part time daughter is bipolar, and a lovely, loving woman. But when she is on the manic side of the cycle, she works hard to control her impulses and intrusive thoughts that everyone is talking about her and judging her. Medication helped, once she was out of her mother’s house and could organize treatment; so did having responsibility for her own children. But she was able to recognize that she has a problem and do something about it — many can’t.
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Anyone should have felt privileged to ride on the bus with her. Just as I'm sure the woman Uber driver's first honest moment as a human being was when her passenger shot her.
Anyone who doesn't see it that way is an anti-CRT, rayciss cracker.
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Anyone who doesn't see it that way is an anti-CRT, rayciss cracker.
[Fox5Atlanta] Officials said a homeless man stole a fire engine and caused it to crash into another vehicle in a northwest Atlanta neighborhood on Saturday afternoon.
A spokesperson for the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department said the man entered what is called a paramedic engine while emergency crew were responding to a call of a gas leak English Avenue neighborhood.
While city officials initially indicated the man had attempted to steal the vehicle, police later clarified that the man only disengaged the fire engine's brake just before 4:20 p.m. causing it to roll backwards and crash into a parked car in the 700 block of Neal Street near Griffin Street
Firefighters said the accident was minor and there were no injuries. There was minimal damage to the fire department’s vehicle.
Officials said after the crash, the man got out of the vehicle and walked westbound on Neal Street.
The Atlanta Police Department is investigating the crash and the theft. Police spent the afternoon searching the area for the suspect.
One person was taken into custody. Their name and charges have not been released.
President Joe Biden went out to eat Saturday in DC with Hunter Biden's daughters Finnegan and Naomi Biden and Naomi's fiancé Peter Neal
Did the Stripper's baby also attend?
'Good to see you' was all the president would say as he waved to reporters on his way to the motorcade to return to the White House
Biden on Friday declared that Putin had made up his mind to invade Ukraine and it could be launched in days
Harris met with Ukrainian president Zelensky and said the United States and its allies were prepared to impose 'significant and unprecedented' economic costs on Russia if it further invades Ukraine
Harris, who wore a mask for her meeting, said the US and its allies have tried to engage with Russia to find diplomatic solutions but their efforts have not been met by the Kremlin in good faith
'We will target Russia's financial institutions and key industries, and we will target those who... aide and abet this unprovoked invasion'
She also implied the Kremlin had launched false flag attacks as a pretext for war, hours after a gas pipeline blast and car bomb rocked pro-Russian cities in Eastern Ukraine
The United States will not stop with economic measures, but will further reinforce the Eastern flank of NATO, Harris said at the conference
Friday was the first time the US has said Russia will invade. 'I'm convinced he's made the decision,' said Biden of Russian President Vladimir Putin
On Friday night, Biden tweeted that he hoped war could be averted between Russia and Ukraine
'We're calling out Russia's plans. Not because we want a conflict, but because we are doing everything in our power to remove any reason Russia may give to justify invading Ukraine'
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Himmm, 'significant and unprecedented' well that will have Putin trembling. I believe it would be far worse to have mad Maxine and Harris direct their squeals by megaphone towards Russia. OH, such pain.
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Lifted this from CTH and a poster because the mocking Kamala style statement is classic:
Sarah Lee
February 20, 2022 3:31 pm
Come on. Let’s be fair to Kamala.
First, she was wearing a black suit. That indicates professionalism and gravitas.
Second, she was wearing a mask. That indicates her profound concern for all those present at this event.
Third, she spoke in a somber tone and used some big words.
Granted the Wilma Flinstone necklace was a hat tip to something frivolous and perhaps inappropriate for the serious, grave, serious (did I say that already?), important, sobering moment in history that Kamala is speaking about with enormous restraint and discipline as she lays out a plan, an idea, a path forward for coming together to fight against that which must be fought and to create unity and togetherness at a difficult moment such as this because that’s what this is all about and we understand it and this is why and how it’s good and important because of everything she said and was about to say that will spell out precisely our values and desire to protect those who are in agreement and to ensure that every day we move forward together.
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An the opening in the clouds has started to form for the openly Anti-Conservative, Anti-Trump Anti-USA actor making $$Millions in the same country he ridicules.
BTW: Did Baldwin ever post BAIL and why has he been allowed to leave the state during this abnormally LENGTHY investigation?
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Santa Fe is as blue as you can get. Lots of the usual 'white privilege' there with lots of second (third or fourth or fifth..) homes of 'personalities' along with their usual enterrouge and followings.
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Obviously something sensitive got touched yesterday, so let's try to find some closure for you.
Your boys came up with a shoot from the hip and hope it turns out alright marketing strategy so awkward it bordered on satire, and so poorly executed the not only looked like a shit leftist meme it had a 70% style match with a Blamtifa call-to-action poster.
I wasn't the first to notice, because an gun grabber was tasked to write a hit piece based on anyone on-stage messing up, and they called red rover on Wee1 JR-15 and hired free agent DM Refrigerator Perry.
I guess I'm asking for clarification, and everyone is wound up a bit so we should skip the part about an interesting subculture of The Firearm Community proves interesting. At one point manufacturing was brought up, and if you are in manufacturing you know already how important presentation is, and in a calm mind wondering who Wee1s marketing group is so we know who to avoid - because first time ever anyone attending any SHOT got made a target like this.
Another, than anyone who isn't pushing The 2nd to the extreme, such as advertising to children without the adult's consent, is really anti-2nd and part of the problem. Well, guys like talking tits and beer, but thinking maybe not in church does not make someone anti-1st. Or like this maybe, making people uncomfortable for the sake of making them uncomfortable when they know you are making them uncomfortable on purpose...is a Karen, or an Alec, whatever the dude form name is. Bold marketing on selling the benefits of being part of The Firearm Community.
Sure Baldwin here would never been won over, he's so arrogant he even hates himself as shown by his massive collection of rehab receipts...which brings up, who even allowed him to carry something which goes bang? Any rate there are a whole bunch of new gun owners and people taking a look at the option, and the best thing the gun grabbers can do is make The Firearm Community look exactly like the gun grabbers say it is.
Personally, I would have liked to see the conversation go something like, "Yeah a bit on the nose, trying to give something to kids without involving the parents. We can get that cleaned up....say DM, what is your opinion about masks, shots, lgayperdo lifestyle being pushing in schools while going around the Parents?"
Or that it is interesting that this picture and piece was sat on for over a month until almost immediately after the Remington settlement announcement? Who paid for that space under the DM?
Like I said, just looking for some clarification on a subject you are obviously passionate and knowledgeable about.
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Why, ol Joe is a graduate of the Baldwin School of Home Defense, with a specialty in shotguns.
I do appreciate the concern Murcek, I really do, but I'm a pretty good typist so not much time at all. Now I have a youngster who can type faster than dictation, and hold a separate voice conversation while playing the game. Guess that is today's day and age for ya but I bet I'd still win in Lawn Darts.
Just one more question though, because something has been rattling around up there and I finally figured it out - the Fred Phelps business model. Remember them? Business plan was to fire up the loyal customers, influence the passives, and embarrass the competition into silence. Very interesting how they did that. So my question is, again, sir, and please bare with me, umm: If a person wanted to set up a Phelps model inside the firearm industry, what would that entail?
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Perhaps then, my question should have been open ended, really anyone, I was simply presented an avatar which claimed knowledge in the subject. My ignorance in production and presentation got the best of me. Trying to learn my one new thing each day got the best of me, and all that.
[FoxNews] An Uber driver and the mother of four children who was murdered in Pennsylvania this month begged for a passenger to spare her life in a robbery attempt which resulted in her death, according to dashcam evidence.
"I’m begging you, I have four kids," said 38-year-old Christi Spicuzza, according to dashcam video footage of the gruesome crime, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
Spicuzza, of Turtle Creek, was found dead on Feb. 12 with a single gunshot wound to the head in Monroeville, about 10 miles east of Pittsburgh, the Allegheny County Police Department stated.
On Feb. 10, around 9:15 p.m., Spicuzza picked up a 22-year-old passenger named Calvin Crew. Upon entering the vehicle, Crew allegedly pulled a gun out and placed it to the back of Spicuzza's head, according to a criminal complaint. In the complaint, police discussed evidence found on Spicuzza’s dashcam.
The complaint states, according to the Post-Gazette, that Spicuzza made clear to Crew that she had a family. Crew responded, "I got a family too. Now drive."
Crew allegedly told Spicuzza that if she followed his demands then everything would "be all right," just before Crew reaches for the dashcam and the footage ends.
Crew was arrested on Thursday and arraigned Friday before District Judge Robert P. Dzvonick. Pending a preliminary hearing on Feb. 25, Crew is being held without bail in the Allegheny County Jail, the Post-Gazette noted.
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No. What will happen is white preachers will line up white people to wash black feet. And the plate will be passed to raise a collection for "the Most Livable City 2022" campaign. That's Pissburgh and blue cities in general.
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BTW: It's been said 100's of times.......
This is an example of a Liberal Democrat run State / City where defensive carry is so controlled it is all but banned for citizens wishing to protect themselves. Leaving the Government and Criminals the only ones well armed.
What's the typical response time for a Pennsylvania under staffed / Defunded local Police Dept.?
Depending on the city location it's 20 mins to 45 mins.
Note: Most FELONY level crimes involving physical interaction between Thug & Citizen take less than 1 min (robbery, stabbing,assualt) to <12 mins (rape/murder).
At one point in the company’s history, Uber did allow drivers to carry firearms with them in their vehicles. Drivers simply had to abide by the local, state, and federal laws about carrying guns in a car, and the company would not intervene. However, Uber’s weapons policy has changed slightly since then.
According to Uber’s current weapons policy, no one can carry a firearm in an Uber – including drivers, riders, and other passengers. If a driver does choose to carry a weapon in his or her vehicle, he or she will have to abide by certain Transportation Security Administration rules about transporting firearms and ammunition.
The driver must unload the weapon and lock it in a hard-sided container.The driver must place the container in the trunk of the car.The driver must place any accessories, such as ammunition, clips, and magazines, in the trunk of the vehicle as well.
If the driver violates any of these provisions with his or her weapon, the company will suspend his or her account. This same policy applies to passengers as well.
On Saturday, different areas in the de-escalation zones, northwest Syria, witnessed military escalation and exchange of shelling between the Syrian government forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed opposition factions.
The opposition factions’ sites in the towns of al-Enkawi, al-Qahira and al-Sarmania in the Gab Plain in the western countryside of Hama were hit with heavy artillery and missiles by the government forces stationed in Jurin camp, North Press reported military sources in the opposition.
"The sites of the opposition factions near the towns of Kafr Noran and Kafr Ta’al, west of Aleppo, were also bombed by the government forces, but no casualties were reported," the sources added.
In Idlib, the fortifications of the opposition factions near the town of Afes, Harsh of Benin and the outskirts of the town of al-Bara, south Idlib, were, according to the sources, also bombed by the government forces stationed in Saraqib.
"The government forces’ sites near the town of al-Bureij, south Idlib, were hit with heavy artillery and missiles by al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room," according to the sources.
The de-escalation zone in northwest Syria witnesses daily bombardment between the government forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed opposition factions, without any change in the territorial control.
[BenarNews] Suspected members of the group behind the 2002 Bali bombings have infiltrated political parties so they can spread their radical beliefs, an anti-terrorism official said Friday, three months after authorities revealed that alleged Jemaah Islamiyah operatives had penetrated state institutions.
Irfan Idris, head of de-radicalization at the National Counter-Terrorism Agency, came out with this days after police arrested a member of a newly established party on suspicion of being involved with Jemaah Islamiyah. Authorities here blamed JI, the Southeast Asian affiliate of al-Qaeda, for carrying out Indonesia’s deadliest-ever terror attack 20 years ago.
Five men have been jailed for the rape of a girl between 2008-9, in Keighley:
Nazir Khan-12 years Omar Safda-12 years Kamran Hussain-5 years Hassan Basharat-12 years Imran Sabir-12 years Amjad Hussain & Barber Hussain to be sentenced at a later date. https://t.co/ZSmfBrI9mCpic.twitter.com/3hgly44VU5
Six members of a Keighley, Yorkshire grooming gang have been jailed for a total of 66 years for their parts in horrific sexual crimes against a young girl.
All six were sentenced on Friday at Bradford Crown Court after juries in two separate trials convicted them all of rape.
The victim reported the crimes - which took place in the Keighley area between 2008 and 2009 - when she was an adult.
Nazir Khan, 30, of Keighley, was jailed for 12 years for two counts of rape. He was also given an extended eight-year licence period. He was already on the Sex Offenders' Register.
Kamran Hussain, 29, of Keighley, was jailed for five years for rape and was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders' Register for life.
Omar Safdar, 30, of Oldham, was jailed for 12 years for three counts of rape. Imran Sabir, 42, of Keighley was jailed for 12 years for two counts of rape.
Hassan Basharat, 32, of Keighley was jailed for 12 years for three counts of rape, whereas Barber Hussain, 36, of Bradford, was jailed for 13 years for seven counts of rape.
Usman Sultan, 30, of Keighley was convicted of three counts of rape and will be sentenced at a later date alongside Amjad Hussain, 35, of Keighley who was
A German woman is indicted on charges of child endangerment, breaching her duty of care as a parent and breaking arms control laws through joining #ISIS in #Syria. @cmoc_sdf#AANEShttps://t.co/5IwcLL9Itf
Federal prosecutors in Germany charged a German woman of traveling to Syria with her young son to join 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.... Organization (ISIS).
Verena M., whose surname was not released for privacy reasons, was also indicted on charges of child endangerment, breaching her duty of care as a parent and breaking arms control laws, the prosecutors added.
In a statement released yesterday, federal prosecutors accused her of leaving Germany for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... with her son in 2015, against the father’s wishes. She then traveled to the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , where she joined ISIS, later moving to Raqqa in Syria.
During her time with ISIS, M. is alleged to have benefited from financial and housing support the group provided. In return she allegedly ran the household for her new husband, an ISIS member, and educated her son according to the ISIS’ radical ideas, abcNEWS reported.
Prosecutors also accuse her of possessing two assault rifles.
Verena M. was captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in 2019 and brought back to Germany two years later.
[DW] The Ukraine crisis, which has been brewing for years, does not come as surprise. But President Vladimir Putin’s actions stem from more than just Russian trauma.
This year's Munich Security Conference has been concentrated on Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... 's clear but unspoken threat of a military attack against Ukraine.
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Besides the oddly long protracted Saber Rattling with mid-term's campaigning starting and C-19 controls finally being openly challenged for the Voters.
I still end up asking the same question of the Biden Admin, that I have asked for about 2+ months.
Why is the Biden Admin willing to engage in a war 7,000+ miles away, and offer up US soldier lives, to protect another countries borders. But refuses to properly protect US Border, resulting in an estimated 2 Million violations in 1 year?
A process that has allowed ANTI-USA focused terrorists, Drug Cartels, and other such elements to gain easy entry to US Soil.
A process that can be tied directly to US Citizen deaths and murders?
Is increasing future Democrat Plantation Voter rolls more important to them than USA citizen lives?
Note to Magoo and his fellow numbskulls: not going to "invade." The tactic is called hybrid warfare, and the strategic goal is to thwart NATO expansion on Russia's front porch without getting bogged down in a conventional war
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If Frank Luntz or George Lakoff were advising them, we'd hear a lot of talk now about independence for Ukraine.
Which is easily satisfied by simply giving the Russians their #1 objective, an ironclad guarantee, in a formal signed agreement, that Ukraine shall be independent... of NATO.
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^ Cats understand going to the litter box to do their business. I don't grant the top people in the state dept or NSA that degree of knowledge.
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Putin senses weakness. Afghanistan didn't help. The fact that we can't protect our own borders projects weakness. Bad left-wing policies and poor focus also communicates weakness.
@StateBank_Pak “proposed a barter mechanism" for commerce ministry as an alternate for trade settlement. The trade ministry says it is in touch with Afghanistan to finalise barter propose. Trade ministry hasn't been able to come up with a solution for barter trade with #Iran.
Amusingly Pakistani Islamists are very angry that Pakistani Navy is taking part alongside Israeli Navy in the US-led naval drills. Pakistan-Israel cooperation is a good thing and I wish to see more of it. Too bad for people who don't approve of it. There's a lot more to come.
Israel's interaction with Arab & Muslim militaries is part of a growing trend whereby Israeli, Arab & Muslim militaries find themselves quietly working together in multilateral exercises facilitated by Western partners. Excellent article by @_AhmedQuraishihttps://t.co/Z17sFO3yMR
How much better off we would be if our nat-sec'y establishment were run by realists instead of the venal liberal globalist morons who given us our current nightmare. Sigh
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We don't need a national security establishment. We need a handful of grim, career diplomats who will communicate the message that "You may hit us. We will hit back in such a way you will never be around to see it. You will have no ancestors. Your "culture" will be not just forgotten but essentially obliterated."
And a gummint that backs them up. All the way.
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And if you don't hit us we don't really give a fvck. Because we need to start protecting our own border and save our own troubled nation from the sh!tty fascists who are hell bent on destroying it from within.
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Actually, the annual "making an extreme example" could be a clarifying ritual for the entire human race.
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"We only vaporized Ottawa. It was not clear that anyone outside there was really committed to their nonsense. Everyone else seems to be coming around quickly."
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[Newsmax] Left-wing media analysts have noted an abrupt change in Fox News coverage of special counsel John Durham's court filing alleging Hillary Clinton campaign ties to "exploiting" access to internet data in "gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump."
Both Mediaite and CNN noted Fox News now gives scant attention to claims Hillary Clinton's campaign "spied" on Trump.
The media critics say Fox's change came after Hillary Clinton's New York State Democratic Convention speech Thursday where she alluded to a potential lawsuit against conservative media, suggesting they had violated a legal standard to prove libel: "actual malice."
Clinton, denouncing the coverage of Durham's Feb. 11 court filing, claimed Fox News was "getting awfully close to actual malice."
Durham's legal filing never accuses Hillary Clinton herself of spying or wiretapping the Trump campaign or the Trump White House.
But the special counsel does make clear her campaign lawyer Michael Sussmannn, who has ties to high-tech firm, sought to monitor the internet traffic of the Trump campaign, Donald Trump's personal residence in Trump Tower, and the White House.
Still, Hillary Clinton's threat of a lawsuit might have effectively chilled media reports on Durham's allegations that her campaign spied on the Trump campaign.
False claims — including those made in the Steele dossier that was partially funded by the DNC and Hillary Clinton's campaign — promoted the idea Trump's campaign had secret ties to Russian agents. These allegations were used as the pretext for an FBI KGB counter-intelligence probe of Trump and his campaign. After falsely calling the election for Biden in Arizona Fox continues running DNC/deep state propaganda
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Fox News may be suffering from justifiable fears. Needless to say, these people and their beltway following are very dangerous. Bobby posted the following from Townhall here at the Burg this morning.
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^ Point well taken. VDH has been studying the history of politics going back 3000 years his whole career. There's a bit more there to work with than say the writings of Nicklaus Wirth. And still, all he can come up with is this?
He should be ashamed to be writing it. The people who go "Ohh, ooh, ya gotta read this!" should be even more ashamed.
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He should be ashamed to be writing it. The people who go "Ohh, ooh, ya gotta read this!" should be even more ashamed.
I get it. You're the arbiter of all news? Spare me.
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The piece was opinion. Not news.
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Forget it, Jake, etc.
Reforming our corrupt justice system would take two generations at least. We can't look to the law to protect us or our Republic any longer. Better to start ctr ating a parallel society with parallel institutions -- which will one day become a separate legal and Constitutional entity altogether.
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Doesn't change the fact that the pious yammerings of people like VDH, George Will, etc. lulls too many into a false sense that maybe, if we play fair, we will win in the end.
That's tripe. Ain't. Going. To. Happen. Whenever some GOPe squish says "We can't play by their rules, then we are just as bad as them," it's time to quit reading the stuff from the kids' table in the dentist's waiting room and maybe grow up.
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^ Agreed. We're through the looking glass now. We just need to separate from these lunatics.
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So, regardless of the sour assessment by some, it's time to realize you are not helping anybody see things as they are by pitching VDH et al.
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Working within the system is pointless.
Look at where we are: The legal system is corrupt. Our biomedical establishment is incompetent. Elections are suspect. Our FB-eye is becoming American Stasi and there is now a de facto gulag on the Potomac.
Big Tech and left-media monoliths have given us American Pravda. Our schools and colleges are reeling; most public K-12 schools are a shambles and our elite universities are becoming a parody of Woke credential mills.
Even our military, the one remaining institution that used to command universal respect and even admiration, has been degraded by this madness. Milley-Vanilli and Lloyd Have Moicey are doing their best to make our military into Tranny Story Hour.
The system is beyond repair. Time to separate.
If you live in a blue area, move to a red state: empty out all the blue areas.
Substack instead of Big Tech/American Pravda.
Bypass the financial system with a blockchain-based eBay style barter system based on calculated "indicative units" instead of currency.
Homeschool your kids. Support the expansion and adoption of certification exams to replace our corrupt and degraded Woke colleges' buttwipe BA/BS degrees.
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But, you could calm down, put on some khakis (blue jeans are gross prole stuff) and a button down collar Brooks Brothers shirt (top button tastefully undone) drink a light beer and watch a baseball game until you fall asleep at the bottom of the 6th inning during a pitcher change.
That would make you a Good American™
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VDH is a learned man. Nothing more.
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
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Yes... George Fwill's baseball: the only game that transcends the boundary between fury and repose. Played in a ballpark, whose enclosed green space stirs vestigial memories of Edenic existence. Which in the course of human events Loren ipsum hic haec hoc verbiage prevaricatus wordswordswordzzzzzzz
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The future is Zero Trust. Making any sort of deal that relies on "somebody's word" (good will, past track record) will be a waste of time and an affront to any honest man's sensibilities.
How it gets implemented I certainly am not qualified to say. That is where it has to go.
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"If by 'play' you mean, Drink deep the aura of the game..."
Well, it can't be zero. Do you mean you have zero trust in Gov. DeSantis? Less than total, sure-- anyone not born yesterday would agree -- but zero?
Trust simply needs to be mediated by new authorities that bypass our corrupt institutions. These will include family, place, experience, and new, alternative mechanisms that are taking shape now, spontaneously, outside the control of the kakocracy.
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TLDR synopsis: Referees are useless.
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Look at the lauguage / symbolism being used right now: Turdo is a limp wristed soy boy. Well. Seems the legislature there isn't too anxious to reign him in. Joe is a dementia riddled old fool. Well. Seems it only took 4 GOPe senators finding something more important than their jobs to skip a vote and let him keep vaxx mandates in place.
A lot of people are totally fooling themselves about how tenuous a grip these guys have on power. As of right now, they seem to be totally in charge, with the connivance of the alleged "opposition."
But VDH and G Will readers see a brighter day ahead.
Morons.
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I agree that the capitulation of the four GOP cucks tells us all we need to know about the complete fecklessness of the loyal "opposition."
If any of these fvckers had even a basic understanding of evolutionary biology and biostatistics, they'd oppose this madness with every fibre of their being.
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They're all over 60. They could die any time and they have healthcare the Aga Khan only dreamed of. They are playing for the money. Nothing more. You are a body to climb over to get to the money. Nothing more.
But read VDH and believe in a perfect future. Just stay out of the way when the action begins.
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^ They all were told at the beginning to not get the shots.
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Maybe what we need is a Constitutional amendment that says "If you die in office, your family gets nothing."
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Other than wearing a button down sweater, I would never correlate George Will and VDH. VDH understood Trump, his supporters and working class Americans. And supported the movement. George Will despises Trump and us smelly Wal Mart voters.
A kaboom reportedly targeted the residence of a member of the Iraqi parliament in Dhi Qar on Saturday morning.
A security source told Shafaq News Agency that the residence of MP Nisan al-Zayer, a member of Emtidad's parliamentary bloc, was attacked by an bomb in al-Dujain area, Souq al-Shoyoukh district.
"The attack resulted in damages to the front yard of the house. No human casualties were reported," the source said.
New York Times- more than one million Afghans have fled in recent months, but a record 1.2 million people returned (or were deported) from Iran and Pakistan in the fall of 2021.
The U.S. National Counter-Terrorism Center did not use all available DoD data to fully vet evacuees from Afghanistan before their arrival in the U.S, a new report says.
At least four dozen of the roughly 80,000 evacuees have "derogatory information" in their record and are in the U.S. and cannot be located, according to the Defense Department’s National Ground Intelligence Center.
According to the DoD Inspector General report, as of Dec. 13, 2021, an information-sharing agreement had led to NGIC personnel reviewing approximately 58,455 of the 80,404 records it received. The report anticipated that the review of the remaining evacuees would be complete around next month.
The report, released Feb. 15, says that "derogatory information" is defined as information "that potentially justifies an unfavorable fitness or access determination," requiring further investigation or clarification.
The issue was investigated in the wake of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last summer. The report found that the inability to fully vet Afghan evacuees resulted from an international agreement between DoD’s NGIC and "foreign partners," which prohibits DoD from sharing data with other U.S. government agencies.
As of Sept. 17, 2021, DoD’s NGIC identified 31 Afghans in the U.S. who had "derogatory information" and could only locate three Afghans. While this represents a fraction of the approximately 80,000 Afghans brought to facilities in the U.S., the 31 Afghans were identified prior to full information sharing began between agencies on Sept. 30, 2021.
Further, as of Sept. 29, 2021, 1,236 Afghans left bases in the U.S without completing the health screening, while another 1,358 left upon completion. There is no information in the report indicating that these individuals completed security screenings.
NGIC personnel also said that as of Nov. 2, 2021, 50 Afghan personnel were in the U.S. with information in DoD records that "indicate potentially significant security concerns." The report did not indicate the current status or location in the U.S. of these Afghans.
Whether the number of Afghans with security concerns or derogatory information has changed remains unclear. DoD would not provide further details and suggested Military Times submit a Freedom of Information request.
Given the large amount of Afghans brought to the U.S., the numbers with questions about them or who cannot be found is not a huge issue, said one of the people who has been helping rescue Afghan allies.
"I don’t think it’s a scandal," Shawn Van Diver, founder of AfghanEvac told Military Times. "I think we’re lucky it’s not a scandal. Derogatory information doesn’t mean they’re terrorists. It means there are questions."
Van Diver, a Navy veteran, has been working feverishly for months to bring Afghan partners and allies to the U.S. He says it’s important to keep this report in context.
"I think you’d be hard-pressed to find in a group of 80,000 Americans 31 that only had derogatory information," he said.
Once again, Van Diver says, context is key.
"I understand security screening, I know security screening," Van Diver said. "I know that behind every corner there isn’t a ’boogeyman.’"
DoD does "not have a role in enrolling, screening, or overseeing" Afghan parolees housed at temporary facilities within the U.S., according to the report, which also notes that Afghan parolees "have the right to leave" at any point after completing compulsory vaccinations and health screenings.
Evacuees from Afghanistan are admitted into the U.S. in two categories: those issued a Special Immigrant Visa and those granted Humanitarian Parole.
Those granted an SIV must have worked on a U.S. base in Afghanistan or have served as a translator or interpreter off base for at least one year. They must also demonstrate an "ongoing threat" due to their employment by the U.S. According to the report, approximately 34,500 SIVs have been provided under this program since 2014.
"Parolees" are not enrolled in the SIV program but are admitted into the U.S. for two years for "urgent humanitarian reasons." The report contains no data on the number of parolees admitted into the U.S. during an evacuation that flew some 120,000 people out of Kabul during the waning days of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.
While Afghans who entered the U.S. during the evacuation from Kabul were not fully vetted before their entry, interagency partners took steps to mitigate this issue once it was fully identified. Beginning on Sept. 30, 2021, the NGIC entered into an information-sharing agreement with the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol to "complete the review."
"I’m glad they figured this out," Van Diver said. "It sounds like by the end of March they’re going to get through everybody, and that we’ve solved the problem now."
French state television ran on prime time news tonight a vivid sequence in which 🇺🇦 's minister of interior and the French TV crew come under shell fire in the Luhansk region https://t.co/Q2yGMyd86f
The leader of the separatists in the Donbass region, eastern Ukraine, announced the beginning of the evacuation of civilians to Russia due to fears of a large-scale conflict.
"The large-scale evacuation of civilians to the Russian Federation is being held from today, in which women, children and the elderly will be given priority to move first," said Denis Pushilin, leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic. DPR) self-proclaimed, posted on Telegram on February 18.
Pushilin accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of ordering troops to launch an attack on the DPR.
He said that Russian officials and the government of the border Rostov province are ready to receive civilians in Donetsk and have prepared a "receiving place" for them. Pushilin also affirmed that the DPR is always in a state of combat readiness and capable of protecting civilians, but urged the public to listen and cooperate with the evacuation plan.
"The temporary evacuation will protect the lives and health of you and your loved ones," Pushilin said.
On the same day, the leader of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) self-proclaimed Leonid Pasechnik also announced the evacuation of civilians through Russia, saying that he had instructed his subordinates to implement. Pasechnik also called on those who can afford to hold guns to stay and defend their homeland.
The evacuation announcement was issued by the DPR and LPR leaders amid the recent escalation of festivities between government troops and separatists in eastern Ukraine. One source said shelling between the warring parties had recently broken out the most since 2015.
Nearly 600 explosions were recorded on the morning of February 18 in the Donbass region, up 100 from a day earlier, some of which involved 152 mm, 122 mm artillery shells and large mortars. The tank fired at least four rounds of artillery fire, the source said.
"They’re firing, all sides with every weapon they have," the source said. "This has never happened after 2014-2015."
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... Ukrainian officials denied this, saying there had been no reported deaths in recent days, while deadly festivities had occurred during the implementation of the ceasefire signed in 2015.
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said in a session of parliament today that the country is strengthening its defense capabilities, but "has no intention of launching a military operation against the separatists in the east or on the Crimean peninsula."
Fighting in the Donbass region recently increased after Ukraine received many weapons from the US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... members. The weapons arrived amid heightened tensions after the United States and the West accused Russia of amassing more than 100,000 troops near the border and planning an invasion of Ukraine.
Russia denied, asserting that all military activities close to the western border are an internal matter and only for the purpose of rehearsals against the threat from the scenario of NATO expansion to the east, and criticized the US and its allies. exaggerate the danger of war.
Before Russia’s deployment, the US sent warships and B-1B bombers to participate in NATO’s "unplanned exercises" in the Black Sea, with two members of the alliance, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and Romania, and Ukraine.
Russia on February 16 outlined five steps to resolve the conflict in the Donbass, including forcing Ukraine to comply with the Minsk agreement and stopping the supply of weapons to this Eastern European country. Russia also called on the West to withdraw its military advisers and stop all exercises between Ukraine and NATO, and then withdraw all foreign weapons transferred here.
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[Rudaw] A Pennsylvania man was arrested by American security forces on Thursday and later charged for torturing an unnammed victim when running a wepaons factory in the Kurdistan Region in 2015, the US Department of Justice, announced on Friday.
The department said in a statement that Ross Roggio, 53, was running a project in the Kurdistan Region in 2015 to construct a weapons factory, citing the indictment against the man.
"The superseding indictment alleges that one of Roggio’s employees raised concerns about the weapons project and, to prevent the employee from interfering with the weapons project, Roggio arranged for Kurdish soldiers to abduct the employee," added the statement.
Roggio and his Roggio Consulting Company LLC were charged in a 37-count indictment in 2018 for "illegally exporting firearms parts and tools from the United States to Iraq as part of the weapons project in Kurdistan. The superseding indictment adds the torture charges to the previously charged offenses," according to the department.
Roggio, who also commanded a number of Kurdish soldiers, had held the victim for 39 days, interrogating him. He had "directed Kurdish soldiers to suffocate the victim with a bag, taser the victim in the groin and other areas of his body, beat the victim with fists and rubber hoses, jump violent mostly peacefully on the victim’s chest while wearing military boots, and threaten to cut off one of the victim’s fingers while applying pressure to the finger with a large cutting tool," noted the statement. "The superseding indictment also alleges that on at least one occasion, Roggio wrapped his belt around the victim’s neck, yanked the victim off the ground, and suspended him in the air, causing the victim to lose consciousness."
If convicted, Roggio could be sentenced to up to 725 years in prison for all counts. "A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors."
"Roggio is the second U.S. citizen — and the fourth defendant overall — to be charged with violating the torture statute since the law went into effect in 1994," read the statement by the department.
The torture charges against Roggio are being investigated by the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... and Home Security investigations.
The Daily Beast has a good deal more on the story here.
[Townhall] Closing paragraphs:
Will the nation ever demand an investigation to find out how and to what extent Hillary Clinton's subordinates and contractors infiltrated the private communications of the president of the United States?
Will the people ever learn how such false information was seeded throughout the government and media in a conspiratorial effort to destroy a sitting president?
Hillary Clinton by now is an old master of scandals. Her lifelong oeuvre is vast - the cattle futures scam, Rose law firm missing documents, Travelgate, Uranium One shenanigans, missing emails, and the Steele dossier.
But the ongoing effort of her paid associates to tap into the top-secret communications of a presidential candidate and further use such illicit information to ruin the American presidency will go down as her greatest masterpiece of deceit.
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Answer: No.
The Clintons, like Bathhouse, are above the law.
We Deplorables are below the law.
Pakistan 🇵🇰 was about to establish “very stable” relations with Russia 🇷🇺 , like the ties it enjoys with neighboring China 🇨🇳. An inter-governmental agreement for a flagship gas pipeline project will be carried out by Russia to link Punjab province with the Karachi port city. https://t.co/KxhxmE6m0i
[Garowe] A jacket wallah on Saturday targeted a tea shop in Beledwyene town in Central Somalia, leaving at least ten people dead and scores injured, in yet another attack that comes at the time the country is struggling to conclude Lower House elections.
Police said the attackers targeted a tea shop in Beledweyne, the administrative capital of the Hiraan region, which is set to host Lower House elections in the coming days. The attack left at least 15 people seriously injured.
Witnesses said the attacker walked to the tea shop before blowing himself as dozens of people scampered for safety. Saturdays are working days in Somalia, a country whose most residents are Moslems.
A witness video making rounds on social media show dead and maimed being evacuated from the scene of the suicide kaboom in Beledweyne. Reports indicate almost all the victims are civilians including at least one civilian official.
State media reported that deputy district commissioner for social affairs Abdirahman Kenyan is among the victims killed in the suicide kaboom. Also, reports say a regional politician has reportedly been hurt in the attack.
So far, no group has taken responsibility for the attack but al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... holy warriors are known for such incidents. The group controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia, but efforts by security forces have seen its grip dwindle significantly.
On Wednesday, al-Shabaab waged multiple attacks within Mogadishu, leaving at least five people dead. The group usually targets security forces, senior government officials, and innocent civilians, who mostly bear the brunt of these cowardly attacks.
A jacket wallah killed 14 people in a popular restaurant in the central Somali town of Beledweyne on Saturday, on the eve of a round of voting there, police said.
The attack was claimed by the al-Shabaab Islamist bully boy group, which has been waging an insurgency in the troubled Horn of Africa nation for years.
Security had been tightened in Beledweyne ahead of a first session of voting for parliamentary seats in the constituency, which lies about 340 kilometres (210 miles) north of the capital Mogadishu.
"The number of people who have died in the heinous terrorist attack in Beledweyne today has increased from 10 people to 14 as of now," local police officer Mohamud Hassan told AFP by phone.
He said some of the 16 civilians earlier reported maimed in the suicide kaboom had shuffled off the mortal coil in hospital. Among the dead were local government officials.
"This was the deadliest attack I can recall in this town," he added.
Al-Shabaab said in a statement that one of its fighters carried out the bombing.
Somalia, particularly Mogadishu, has seen a spate of attacks in recent weeks as the country hobbles through a long-delayed election process.
Witnesses said the huge explosion tore through an open area of the Hassan Dhiif restaurant where people had gathered under trees to eat lunch.
In another incident on Saturday, one person was killed and six others maimed when an bomb went off in a teashop in Bosaso, the commercial capital of the northern state of 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 said.
Increasing abductions of children in #Syria’s southern city of #Daraa arouse fears and worries of residents in light of the government lax. #Russiahttps://t.co/8dvffY7BvK
Iraqi security forces apprehended a person with suspected links with the attack on the headquarters of the Iraqi Parliament Speaker, Mohammad al-Halboosi, in al-Anbar, Western Iraq.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that the arrestee is wanted for taking part in the attack that took place in al-Heet district yesterday, Friday.
"Inquiries with the suspect are underway," the source said.
Yesterday, a group fo unknown assailants threw a hand grenade at the headquarters of the leader of Takaddom movement, Mohammad al-Halboosi, in al-Heet.
The headquarters of Takaddom movement and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Baghdad, and al-Anbar have been targets for frequent attacks over the past few weeks.
The attack came a few hours after a statement by the incumbent parliament speaker, an ally of the leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... , accusing "unrestrained wills" of attempting to undermine the prestige of the state and "threatening the people".
"We did not fear the arms of who came before and will not tolerate the threats of those who followed. We did not, and will not, change our approach that is committed to building the state away from violence," he tweeted.
Al-Sadr lashed at the threats made against his "allies and partners" in the "national majority government", hinting at "cross-boundary" intentions to exert hegemony over Iraq.
In a strongly-worded tweet he shared earlier today, Friday, the firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... holy man quoted a verse from popular poetry, "It is not me who is threatened by death..nothing scares those who follow Mohammad," in reference to his late father, Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr.
"once again, the voices of predators, that recognize threatening as their only dialect, rise again. Once again, they are threatening the allies and partners in a national majority government that is neither eastern nor western."
"Enough threats," he said, "we will not hand the country back to corrupts and sell the country to [parties] across the borders. The majority of people are with the national majority government. We will stand idly and will not allow terrorism and corruption control us."
[IsraelTimes] TV network cites Israeli security officials warning that revived agreement won’t take into account the nuclear gains Tehran has made since Trump withdrew from the accord in 2018
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The IAEa is incapable of enforcing even plain vanilla inspections. And the parties involved, except for the US Senate and Israel, don’t want to enforce anything — they just want a piece of paper that says Peace in our Time, so they can get to the champagne toasts stage of the proceedings before moving on to activities that don’t involve pretending to care about that shitty little country, Israel.
Local media reports said that a tribal mediation for the release of #UN staff kidnapped by #AQAP in #Abyan failed for the second time. The kidnappers threatened to execute the hostages if the army tried to use force to release them.
Canadian authorities also announced they had used emergency powers to seize 76 bank accounts connected to protesters, totaling roughly $3.2 million ($2.5 million U.S.).
[AlAhram] Police aggressively pushed back protesters in Canada's besieged capital on Saturday, seizing trucks and finally retaking control of the streets in front of the country's Parliament building. Scores of trucks left under the increasing pressure, raising authorities' hopes for an end to the three-week protest against the country's COVID-19 restrictions and the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the same country that once produced McKenzie King... The street in front of Parliament Hill was the heart of the protests. It had been occupied by protesters and their trucks since late last month, turning into a carnival on weekends.
``They are trying to push us all away,'' said one protester, Jeremy Glass of Shelburne, Ontario, as authorities forced the crowds to move further from the Parliament building. ``The main camp is seized now. We're no longer in possession of it.''
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Smashing windows and tossing flash bangs is more aggressive than anything the protestors have done.
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About half of Canadians have voted for this. As I have said before, it's too bad we can't devise a political system where only the people who vote for bad stuff have to endure the consequences of their ill-informed choices...
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Well. We know where Joostin's patronymic came from. His genetic patrimony? That's maybe less clear. Are there any pictures of Pierre with a beard? On his face I mean.
Oh, that still didn't come out quite right...
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It appears as if the Canadian public supports the prime minister. Biden will interpret the same results will occur in the US.
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I don't think this would go over near as well in the U.S..
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.
Heinz Guderian
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No public support. Only 100’s arrested. You can’t expect change with 100’s of protesters. You need hundreds of thousands. J6 failed for same reason. Like one of our commentators wrote yesterday. Americans have a job and family and will comply with government.
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Biden will interpret the same results will occur in the US.
Correct. The kakocracy is desperate for signs they can get away with their monstrous shit.
e.g. Newsom defeating his recall attempt by more than 2:1 after he was down in the polls -- solely by waving the bloody COVID scary-shirt. After that sign, the Brylcreemed dictator doubled down on COVIDian repression. So even as blue states are slowly but steadily backing off of their ridiculous mandates, CA is now talking about forcing kindergartners to participate in their Mengelian experimental gene therapy. Every few months. Forever.
So now Prime Minister Klain, Fauxi, Da Ferret et al. will look to Canada and conclude, Yes, we can mandate whatever the hell we want, and all the tools of oppression -- doxxing, burning their financial lifelines, cracking heads -- will force compliance. Without a whimper.
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It appears as if the Canadian public supports the prime minister.
I keep seeing this message, but I'm skeptical. The PM was already annoying to at least half of Canada already. Overhead shots of the truck convoy and the large, cheerful crowds seem to contradict this. Also a number of provinces have dropped their mask/vax mandate.
As a side note, it is interesting how the government messaging has changed over time. Originally, when the blockade came to Windsor, the mayor was going on about swastikas and Confederate flags (in Canada?) and white supremacy and the general anti-government nature of the loutish protesters. When that did not stick, he switched to the terrible economic impact the blockade was having both on Canada and the US. Now, it is just a small group of malcontents with no general support. OK, sure.
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I can only speak for me. I'm not buying any Canadian products.
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Turbo hasn't been very bright in dealing with this. The truckers were not asking for much. This is not about health and controlling a pandemic. It's about control over citizens and trying to institute a globalist agenda. It's about squelching and smothing fteedom. Damn the fascists.
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Reading this comments make me throw up
Instead posting your coward conservative thoughts in here start to prepare and go active.
Go around and take civil servants and policemen addresses …..
This is the bunch that has to go first in the event of a dictatorship in the USA.
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There once trolled a greasy Sardinian
Whose penis fell well below median.
When he opened a can,
That unfortunate man
All too often heard, "Damn, is yo'," etc.
Seriously, though, aren't you also "black is..." and "Birra Ichnusa?"
According to Al-Naba, following an ISKP attack on Taliban check-post in Sawkay, Kunar, "Caliphate soldiers targeted 8 homes owned by TB, in the same area, with light & medium weapons, which caused material damage, before they safely return to their locations."
Today, the Yemeni 5th Military Region posted pics of Iranian Sageg RPG Launchers, RU90G thermal optics (1 was attached to a Type 79/SVD DMR), a possible Nakhjir-3 DMR, & other arms that were captured at Houthi sites in northern Hajja, #Yemen.@Natsecjeff@AbraxasSpa@Xanikenpic.twitter.com/pGOBFbnEy1
A Canadian woman held in a camp in northeast Syria on charges of links 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) may never leave the camp, CTV news said yesterday.
Kimberly Polman, now 49, was arrested in Baghouz town, eastern Syria, in 2019 and was sent to Roj Camp that holds many ISIS member families in northeast Syria.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Polman insists she never supported ISIS and that she was lured into ISIS by a boyfriend, who promised to marry her picturing for her that she was going to help Syrian children.
Polman admits it was a mistake to go to Syria and join ISIS and that it was a stupid thing to do. Now suffering physical and mental health problems including hepatitis and post-traumatic stress disorder, Polman appealed the Canadian government to take her home.
Peter Galbraith, a former US diplomat, has recently offered to escort Polman out of the camp, but Canada withheld his cooperation, according to CTV news.
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Another liberal woman blinded by her emotions. It just felt SO GOOD to be with him. She'd do anything to keep that feeling going. And she did.
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but Canada withheld his cooperation
"IF there was just some proof she killed someone, like Khadr. Bad luck, eh?"
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Probably afraid to go back to the Frozen Gulag...
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She has her own Wikipedia page, which claims the dual American-Canadian turned to Islam after being brutally gang raped, leaving three adult children behind when she left for Syria, presumably in Vancouver.
Canada apparently also is not interested in getting her back.
While Dawood Ibrahim amuses himself supporting Pakistan’s jihad against India, his brother takes care of the family’s gangster business back home.
[OneIndia] Enforcement Directorate (ED) took custody of gangster Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar from Thane jail in connection with an alleged money laundering case. He will be produced before a special PMLA court in Mumbai today.
Kaskar, already lodged in Thane jail in connection with multiple cases of alleged extortion, was taken into custody in the fresh case.
The probe agency is expected to seek his custody for questioning in the newly registered case against him, runaway gangster Ibrahim and others linked to the Mumbai underworld.
The ED on Tuesday conducted multiple searches in Mumbai as part of a money laundering probe into the operations of the underworld and linked illegal property deals and hawala transactions.
About 10 locations, including those linked to 1993 Mumbai blasts' criminal mastermind Dawood Ibrahim's late sister Haseena Parkar, his brother Iqbal Kaskar and a brother-in-law of gangster Chota Shakeel's in Maharashtra's capital city, were covered.
The action was undertaken under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The ED case is based on an FIR filed recently by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against Ibrahim, a runaway gangster, and others.
The NIA had filed its criminal complaint under sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
The anti-money laundering agency is understood to have recovered documents related to these alleged illegal property deals with links to Indian businessmen operating here and in Dubai, the sources said.
Some political links to these shady deals are also under the scanner of the agency.
The spillover of high tech modern weapons and advanced night vision devices left over by Americans in Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul in August 2021 is now finding its way towards Indian Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... via Pakistain through the Line of Control (LoC), said Major General Ajay Chandpuria, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 19 Infantry Division stationed in Baramulla of North Kashmir in an exclusive conversation with this journalist.
19 Infantry Division under the 15th Chinar Corps oversees the counter-terror grid and security preparedness along some crucial areas of Line of Control with Pakistain in North Kashmir.
"Afghanistan situation has a profound impact for the security situation for our country and specially in Jammu & Kashmir. It’s no secret that the various terrorist groups which were fighting the Americans in Afghanistan are now idle", says Major General Chandpuria.
"Coupled with that there are thousands of pieces of modern weaponry, night-vision devices and other modern equipment which was just left behind by the Americans. Lot of it as per the reports is getting proliferated towards Pakistain and some of it has gravitated closer to the Line of Control (LoC)", he further says.
After the fall of Kabul, as per reports, several turbans lodged in Afghan prisons were released by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and the Haqqani Network and sent to freedom in Pakistain.
Many of those veteran fighters from Jaish-e-Muhammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... and other terror groups have reached various camps and launch pads in Pakistain Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Over the last year a ceasefire has been achieved between India and Pakistain, restricting the "cover" fire usually given by Pak troops to make terrorist infiltration into India possible through the Line of Control.
"As per our inputs, we are at the peak of winters with a lot of snow which really restricts infiltration attempts here and since last one year since the ceasefire understanding we have more than 6 such infiltration attempts being made which were neutralised", says Major General Ajay Chandpuria.
"At any point of time we have around 100 to 130 turbans believed to be at launch pads opposite our area. In the infiltration attempts that have been neutralised, we have had recoveries of modern American assault rifles, modern generation thermal imaging night vision devices and such like equipment", he says.
While 2021 has mostly remained peaceful at the LoC, there are apprehensions after fresh recoveries and multiple agency reports that have indicated a rise in activities in Pakistain Occupied Kashmir suggesting a possible infiltration plan for the summer of 2022.
"I think that apprehension of the fighters who operated in Afghanistan from these terrorist groups along with the modern weapons and the equipment would certainly be present at the Line of Control and endeavour to infiltrate in the coming summers", Major General Ajay Chandpuria confirms.
The eerie calm after the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5th 2019 in Jammu & Kashmir had resulted in a downward terror graph in the valley.
Latest inputs about the Afghan war veteran fighters with modern American equipment reaching the Line of Control to infiltrate into India however is a serious development in the wake of Pakistain’s attempts to internationalise Kashmir yet again after several recent debacles.
Today, #AQAP's formal wire released a video & a eulogy statement for a slain militant: Muhannad Al-Qasimi. He entered #Yemen around 2013-2014. He conducted ops in Hadramawt, Shabwah, & Marib. He was killed by an airstrike in Marib around OCT-NOV 2020.@CarvajalF@Natsecjeffpic.twitter.com/4BkS9bKh2H
Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has released the biography of Fahd al-Mutairi, a Saudi Al-Qaida operative and "missile expert" who fought in Afghanistan and later Yemen, and who was allegedly killed by a U.S. airstrike in Yemen in October 2021.
UPCOMING REPORT | Al Shabaab's Arsenal: From Taxes to Terror
Hiraal Institute conducted a 4 -month study into al-Shabaab’s acquisition of lethal material. Stunning revelations on the group’s annual expenditure on arms.
Ottoman Turkish warplanes bombed sites of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Duhok, north of the Kurdistan Region, with the backing of heavy artillery fire, a source revealed on Saturday.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that Ottoman Turkish artillery and aircraft have been raining bombs on the PKK positions near the Rikan area in the sub-district of Shiladze, Amadiyah.
"The extent of the damages is not immediately clear due to the ongoing bombardment," the source said.
In July 2015, a two-and-a-half year-long ceasefire broke down, and the almost four-decade-long conflict between Ottoman Turkish security forces and murderous Moslems of the PKK, recognized as a terrorist organization by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , the U.S. and the EU, entered one of its deadliest chapters in nearly four decades.
Since 2016, Ankara has launched a trio of transborder operations against anti-Ankara parties in the Kurdistan Region and northeastern Syria: Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018), and Peace Spring (2019).
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[AlAhram] Afghanistan's Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... rulers have detained several British citizens and an American, including a former freelance television journalist who has been coming to Afghanistan for more than 40 years, both governments and a family member say.
A statement from the British government this week said there are a number of British nationals currently in Taliban custody. While the government refused to release their identities, Hassina Syed, the wife of Peter Jouvenal, a former freelance cameraman turned businessman, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, her husband was taken on Dec. 13.
And U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... 's ``State of the Union'' on Sunday that Washington was ``actively working'' to get the American released from Taliban custody. He refused to say more, citing the ``sensitivity of it.''
The American detainee and at least four other British nationals in jug remain publicly unidentified. It was not clear how many were detained together.
Speaking to The AP by phone from her home in London, Syed, an Afghan, said her husband was in Afghanistan investigating business opportunities, including investment in lithium mining. Afghanistan is rich in lithium, a key component of energy-storage batteries. He was traveling alone and not associated with the other detainees, she said.
Jouvenal had worked as a freelance cameraman during the 1980s Soviet invasion in Afghanistan and followed the country through its many wars. He married Syed and they have three daughters.
Jouvenal, who speaks both Pashto and Dari, Afghanistan's two official languages, had held several meetings with the Taliban's mining ministry before being detained in December, Syed said, including with the minister. No charges have been filed and until his detention, Syed said, Jouvenal had been careful to stay in regular contact with the Taliban authorities to ensure that they were aware of his activities and movements.
In the mid 2000s, Jouvenal owed and operated the Gandamak Restaurant and guest house in the Afghan capital, which had become well known among the many journalists who traveled to Afghanistan during the U.S.-led invasion that toppled the Taliban government in 2001.
The Taliban did not respond to requests for comment on the foreign nationals and on Jouvenal in particular.
In a statement, the British foreign office said the detention of British nationals is being discussed with the Taliban.
``UK officials have raised their detention with the Taliban at every opportunity, including when a delegation travelled to Kabul last week,'' the British foreign office said in a statement earlier this week,
There's been no explanation for the detentions.
Syed said her husband was alone and was not travelling with the other men who have been detained.
According to people with direct knowledge of the men currently being held in Taliban custody, at least two of the detainees were apparently in Afghanistan to secretly evacuate Afghan nationals. The people with direct knowledge spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks.
The Taliban have made it clear that Afghans without proper documents would not be allowed to leave the country.
Syed said she feared her husband may have gotten caught up in a Taliban investigation into attempts to secretly transfer Afghan nationals out of the country.
But Syed said she, too, was planning to return to Afghanistan after her husband's initial trip looking for partners in mining ventures. Together they planned to establish joint ventures.
In the telephone interview, Syed expressed fear for her husband's welfare but also frustration with the Taliban administration.
``They say they want foreign and Afghan businesspeople to come to Afghanistan, to invest in Afghanistan, but why will anyone want to invest if they cannot be certain of their safety?" she asked.
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.
[Western Journal] A citizens group out to catch suspected pedophiles reportedly found one that the tech giant Meta admits was an employee.
It's a last stage or last minute measure intended to reduce friendly fire. In this case, from HIND attack helo's or RU jet fighters. 
[The Federalist] As Republicans consider who ought to be tasked with responding to President Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1, they have the luxury of an obvious, unobjectionable choice whose message speaks to the moment, and to their priorities in 2022: Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor, Winsome Sears.
LONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The assessments of U.S. and British spies on Ukraine cannot be trusted as they made so many grave mistakes in the run up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Russia's first deputy permanent representative to the United Nations said on Sunday.
MUNICH (AP) — Moscow would have its access to financial markets and high-tech goods limited under Western sanctions being prepared in case Russia attacks Ukraine, a top European Union official said Saturday.
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