This is the rhetoric of someone who won't be happy just with control of the DPR/LPR. This is speech is designed to undermine the very existence of Ukraine as a country.
The FSB published a video of a "Ukrainian BMP" (lol) that was supposedly destroyed on the Ru-Ua border. @askai707 could probably figure out which Russian city it was based out a week ago, if you gave him enough time. https://t.co/HgDSkq5PjDpic.twitter.com/D4Jcb4xvVf
1/ Quick sequence of some of my favorite #Russia graphics so you can familiarize yourself with the scope of what is unfolding vis-a-vis #Ukraine. Russians live in the green. The wheat belt. The part of Russia that has temperature and rainfall levels to make habitation possible. pic.twitter.com/yA6NOjwsoF
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For any 'burgers out there who know which end of the thingy the boolet comes out of:
1- I see all kind of reports about "Russian armor" moving around, but what does that mean? If the reference is to tanks, are they T-72's or T-90's? In which case do follow-up vehicles include replacement arms for the loaders? Or are they the new T-14 Armatas, which are so cleverly designed that they're invisible?
2- And I see references to hundred of Javelins in the hands of the Ukrainians. I think the Russian countermeasure is improved top-armor for the tanks, but I don't know if that would actually work or has been tested in combat.
My point being that if I were a Russian tank commander I think I'd want President Putin to have the honor of commanding the lead vehicle. He can stand shirtless in the hatch for a great photo op.
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Ok, I'm watching for what passes for television news. Where are the talking heads who said Vlad was bluffing? FOX's Jennifer Griffin thinks he's likely to push beyond the Donbas toward Poland.
#4
Got to remember, the CCP didn't trust the units in Beijing to put down the Tienanmen demonstrations, they imported troops from provincial units from outside the capital.
#8
The June 4 incident is remembered the most, but the June 2 incident is forgotten. The communists did indeed order local units to open fire on the protesters. They instead refused to do so and talked to the protesters, some units handing over their weapons. I wish this fact were better known.
The communists brought in a parachute unit from Guangdong. They were willing to do the dirty deed.
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?Que? IIRC at one time the Germans, and other NATO countries, had more tanks in Canada than the Canadian Army did -- for training purposes. There just isn't very much open land in Western Europe that you can drive tracked vehicles over that doesn't have crops planted on it -- $Money$ for repairing the landscape gets expensive very fast.
[BBC] American endurance athlete Camille Herron has broken her own women's world record in winning the USA Track and Field 100-mile Championships in Nevada.
The 40-year-old beat her previous mark by almost a minute and a half, winning in 12 hours 41 minutes 11 seconds - averaging around 7:37 minutes per mile.
She finished almost half an hour ahead of first male athlete Arlen Glick, who came home in 13:10:25.
"What a difference a year makes," said Herron, who was fourth in 2021.
Camille Herron: Record-breaker fuelled on tacos and beer
"I came back healthy, humbled, hungry to redeem myself, and [ready] to let the magic come out."
In her first event as a Masters racer in the 40-44 age range, she also broke the 50-mile world record in that age group with a time of 6:08:24.
My apologies for accidentally deleting Skidmark’s post. Here it is, reconstituted, including Merrick’s posted comment.
— trailing wife at 10:20 a.m. ET
#1 In other news, UPenn's Lia Thomas (transitioned from M to F, pronouns she/her) defeated Yale's Iszac Henig (transitioning from F to M, pronouns he/him) to nab the Ivy League women's [sic(k)] freestyle crown
Year after year, the evidence is clear: strong gun laws save lives. Is your state doing enough?
Since 2010, the experts at Giffords Law Center have researched and graded state gun laws, revealing an undeniable correlation between strong laws and low gun death rates. To build a safer America for us all, our leaders need to adopt these lifesaving solutions nationwide.
EVERY STATE, RANKED
Each year, our attorneys track and analyze gun legislation in all 50 states, assigning laws and policies point values. States are ranked and given letter grades, which are then compared to the most recent gun death rates released by the CDC. For over a decade now, the data has shown that commonsense gun laws prevent gun violence—but only in the states with the courage to enact them.
Select a state on the map or in the table to view that state’s individual scorecard.
Tennessee: WHAT CHANGED THIS YEAR
Repealed a law requiring a background check to carry a hidden, loaded gun in public
Made it harder for local police to enforce federal gun laws
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Oh, I see. California, Illinois, and New York all have "A"s. Texas, and most of the south, have an "F". Florida has a "C".
Maybe 'gun violence' by felons and gangbangers never charged doesn't count?
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Florida will move up to an easy B once Nikki Fried is out of state gummint. We would move up to A- of not for the GOPe types holding back Constitutional Carry here.
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^Right up there with New York?
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Oops. I inverted the grading scale. We are working hard on our F.
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[Spectator via Lucianne] Sorry Democrats, Your Problem Isn’t Messaging. The voters know the difference between specious talking points and effective policies.
As the midterms loom, panicky House Democrats are painfully aware that the political portents do not favor them. They have been consistently behind on the generic congressional ballot, and their fate will be profoundly influenced by President Biden’s abysmal job approval numbers. Consequently, they badly need competent guidance from their leadership. They aren’t getting it. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is instead telling its members that their policies are not the problem. According to a recent Politico report, the DCCC insists that the source of their woes is GOP "culture war attacks" and the solution is better messaging.
[PHAL] Drivers greatest begin bracing for an additional surge in gas costs amid the battle between Russia and Ukraine and years of under-investment by the oil business, warns one veteran vitality strategist.
"My guess is that you are going to see $5 a gallon at any triple-digit [oil prices] ... as soon as you get to $100. And you might get to $6.50 or $7. Forget about $150 a gallon, I don’t know where we will be bv then," Energy Word founder Dan Dicker mentioned on Yahoo Finance Live.
Dicker mentioned oil costs might shoot greater to $150 a barrel, or in line to the "super spike" highs from 2007.
Oil costs have been red-hot currently as geopolitical tensions rise between Russia and the remainder of the world.
WTI crude oil has climbed 13% in the previous month to $94 a barrel. Russia produces 10 million barrels of oil a day, the equal of 10% of worldwide demand. Any lack of that oil on account of geopolitical points might trigger a tightly equipped market to grow to be tighter, pushing costs for the hydrocarbon up.
The march up in oil has pushed gas costs additional greater from already elevated ranges.
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Don’t forget the saudis drove the American frackers out of business by flooding the market with oil. Americans shut down wells permanently. They had more effect on oil prices today than Biden.
Not to be argumentative, but "permanently" might not be the right word. When the price per barrel goes into the $90. or higher range, pumps begin to go up and down again. One hundred year old "stripper wells" are pumping right now in the midwest.
#4
You might be right. I have read it is cost prohibitive to restart a wellhead. Not like flipping a switch. Sometime it cost more to run a well than it produces.
Just drove thru Kansas and Colorado and a lot of Wells were not pumping.
Maybe an oil guy can chime in.
Low production wells (10-20 barrels per month or less) do NOT pay for operating costs. They are however, seldom plugged. The pumps just remains idle, or "non-operating." Pumps can be removed or suction rods can be pulled (see graphic).
Plugging a well however, does not mean it can never be operated again. 'Water flooding' a formation (an extraction effort) can push oil into pools and existing wells that can become operational once again.
As an aside, buying farm land can highlight the facts of oil and mineral rights. Seldom are mineral rights sold with the sale of farm land. Farm land can be sold numerous times and pass through generations of heirs without oil or mineral rights being relinquished. Legal firms make extensive efforts to contact oil and gas mineral rights heirs in attempts to "buy out" their interests. Sometimes the heirs will take the cash and run.
A second aside. Oil and gas production, or wells need NOT be on your land. As a land owner, you may have what is referred to as "community interest." The oil in a given formation may lie beneath your farm or property, therefore giving you community interest in nearby wells and leases. Such arrangements can very from state to state.
Hope my 'oil patch' rambling hasn't bored anyone :-(
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"Surely KS, you jest."
It has crossed my mind to do away with paper listings and price tags and hang a digital board.
[WSJ] LONDON—Vikki Spit’s partner of two decades received his first Covid-19 shot in early May. Two weeks later, he died from a condition doctors for the 48-year-old former punk rock musician attributed to a rare vaccine side effect.
Ms. Spit now lives alone in a north England farmhouse, home to the couple’s rescue pets. Finances are tight. She struggles to maintain the online art-resale business her partner, who went by a single legal name, Zion, had started. She’s learning to drive—a task that had always fallen to him.
"Sometimes putting a kettle on seems more than I can manage," she says. Ms. Spit is now among hundreds in the U.K. and elsewhere applying for government compensation for suspected injury caused by Covid-19 vaccines. Tough to swallow...
She is part of a very small, little-discussed community of pandemic victims: those who have suffered—or had family or loved ones suffer—from rare but serious vaccine side effects recognized by doctors, regulators and researchers. They say they feel lost in wider Covid-19 statistics, which have shown vaccines to be extremely safe and effective for most of the population.
"The problems are extremely rare," said Kurt Weideling, whose wife, Nicola Weideling, 45, died in the spring in Southampton, England, from a condition doctors cited as a vaccine side effect. "That doesn’t make people any less dead."
Faced with the gravest health crisis in memory, governments deployed newly developed vaccines in record time. Many countries indemnified pharmaceutical companies that made the shots, with some governments promising to consider compensation for suspected Covid-19 vaccine-related injuries.
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This became very real to me a week ago tomorrow. The symptoms, as reported by the victim's widow appear to be identical. He was an organ donor, so an autopsy was not possible.... or so she was told by the authorities. Cause of death (SCD), sudden cardiac death. Nothing follows.
Test population? Yes, of course. My certificate is here on the desk somewhere.
[PJ] According to a study from a team at Texas Christian University, there is an apparent link between the strength of an individual’s immune system and how attractive they are.
This isn’t exactly the best news I’ve heard, and I’m inclined to be skeptical, but the link between attractiveness and health has been speculated on for a long time. This study claims to be more comprehensive than past research and examines the link between physical appearance, health, and immune function.
The research team had 159 TCU students and local community members photographed without make-up and each had a blood test to measure the strength of their immune systems to fight disease and infection.
Nearly 500 people were then brought in to rate members of the opposite sex based on their attractiveness based solely on their photograph and no other information.
"Interestingly, the study finds men and women have very different ideas about what makes a face attractive and healthy. Researchers found that, on average, women rated men with higher levels of NK (natural killer) cells as more attractive. These cells play a key role in fighting off and killing bacteria," reports Study Finds. "Men, on the other hand, found women with lower NK cell levels in their blood more attractive. Study authors believe the reason for this is women with lower NK levels generally have higher estrogen levels — a hormone important to sexual reproduction."
#3
China is watching this tour de force by Putin that reveals the desperate cowardice of the Bidet Administration. But most telling, is how they are also setting this up to be cover for all of their other failures in the press. Americans who are squeezed hard in the worst decline in quality of life since the Great Depression, are encouraged to monitor the breathlessly covered goings on in a nation that has virtually no cultural or economic significance to the US. But, theyare a significant cash flow provider to Hunter and a host of other DC elites, so maybe that explains it?After all, the tax plantation exists to serve the aristocracy on the Potomac!
#6
Putin doesn't need to invade. At this point he's already partially achieved his goals, and he has all the time in the world to achieve the remainder. Besides, invasion's not popular at home or with Xi; if he invades he will probably lose China's support.
You got COVID anyway? Well, it would have been worse without the vaxx. (That cannot be scientifically proved in any individual case, in any way at all.)
You got boosted, twice and got COVID again? Well, whatever it is, it's not proof the vaccines don't work. (Empirically, it absolutely is proof of exactly that.)
The next shot will do the trick. If not, there's always more lockdowns.
Pretty much the exact same schtick.
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Brilliant: Magoo & Co deliberately leaked their own intelligence assessments (bad move), then publicly predicted the other side's moves (really bad move), and then created expectations that the US would take drastic measures against Russia when the predicted act occurred (really stupid move).
Just brilliant: Show your hand and tell all the players at the pok3r table your strategy, and lock yourself in to one and only one maneuver in advance.... in advance of events that are totally under the control of your adversary.
From Kennan and Acheson, or Kissinger and Nixon, to Maxwell Smart and Wile E. Coyote. In barely a generation.
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17 intelligence agencies could not determine whether or not the prize was in the top or bottom of the box of Cap'n Crunch.
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These shitheads truly do believe their postmodern BS about how "The Narrative" is all.
They actually thought they could use screaming headlines, repeated 24/7 by their sycophantic press, to force a ruthless, brilliant realpolitiker acting on his own turf, with no hindrance at all, to capitulate. With their stupid fvcking "Narrative."
Yes, this is indeed just like the way they've lied repeatedly about WuFlu and forced their domestic subjects to comply with their idiotic, botched public health mandates and lockdowns and power grabs. But Putin is not a pu$sy, and Russians are not sheep.
#22
No, they all predicted an attack on Kyiv. That's not what's happening.
Look at the map: these tiny little Russian-speaking regions are as far from Kyiv (and Poland, and the West) as they can possibly be. These are Russian-speaking regions that by any historically, linguistically, culturally and socially have since Catherine's time been part of Russia. They have never respected Kyiv's rule. This is why there is zero opposition to the Russians there.
Even Magoo recognizes that we have no interest, absolutely none, in these regions -- which is why he's talking about completely ludicrous sanctions against only these two piss-poor regions that have no impact on us or the world at all.
Magoo's people could end this crisis tomorrow if they would simply agree -- in a formal signed document -- that NATO expansion into Russia's southern tier must never, ever happen.
#23
Sen. Bill Bradley told us that expanding NATO was a "blunder of monumental proportions."
Prof. Stephen F. Cohen of Princeton argued long and hard to no avail that this was a colossal mistake.
One of our greatest diplomats and most astute observers of Russia, George Kennan, strenuously warned in 1996 against this foolish, grievous error.
Every one of these wise students of Russia said that kicking the Russians while they were down would come back to haunt us. So foolish. Such blind, heedless arrogance.
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Just brilliant: Show your hand and tell all the players at the pok3r table your strategy, and lock yourself in to one and only one maneuver in advance.... in advance of events that are totally under the control of your adversary.
Following the brilliant President Obama’s script to the letter. It’s working about as well now as it did then, which must be of some comfort to somebody.
#25
The only thing that matters now is bringing this to a conclusion. That cannot & will not happen militarily. The Ukrainian government cannot possibly withstand a protracted war, and -- Lindsay Ghey's bleating notwithstanding -- we will not put our soldiers or airmen in harm's way. Our brace Polish allies, Estonians et al -- none of them matter.
Only the US could deter Russia. No one else. We never had any intention of doing so. We knew that. Putin knew that.
Sanctions are the ultimate stupidity -- the final, brainless flailing and thrashing of the most incompetent, demented, destructive presidential administration in US history.
Now our moronic leaders are on the brink of complete and total failure: trashing our economy-- El-Erin says stagflation is coming; showing the total bankruptcy of their vaunted Alliance; driving Russia and China, former rivals, into a de facto alliance in which Putin can move men and materiel from the Chinese border to the West because for the first time in modern history, Russia fears no Chinese incursion.
#26
All they had to do was treat Russia's legitimate security concerns with respect and due care. Admit that it was insane to try to expand NATO across Russia's southern tier.
Show a sincere willingness to create a security system that treated Russia as an equal partner -- instead of spreading endless bullshit about how Trump was a Russian spy and that great nation an evil transphobic white supremacist pariah.
And now we have a stunning failure. Fvck this absurd collection of retards. They have no legitimacy left, none.
[Pirate's Cove] At the end of the day, the main culprit in all this is China, for intentionally or unintentionally releasing COVID19. Not because someone at a bat or something. After that, you can blame politicians and bureaucrats and such "public health officials" for stoking too much fear, locking things down, shutting businesses down, and then keeping it going too long. Not just here in the U.S., but, many 1st World nations. Of course, some nations are recovering better than others. The U.S. was recovering well till Biden took office. Now? Not so much.
You’re already paying more for groceries and gas. Here’s where consumers will feel the next round of ’sticker shock.’
Consumers may already be reeling from higher prices for things like groceries and energy, but S&P Global Ratings says inflation has more surprises in store.
"Packaged food and household products companies have yet to pass through all of their price hikes, and so consumers will likely face more sticker shock before prices stabilize," wrote Sarah Wyeth in a note published Thursday.
"As grocery and gas bills increasingly squeeze budgets, we expect that consumers will defer some expenditures and switch to less-expensive brands in the second half of the year."
The U.S. inflation rate has reached a 40-year high of 7.5%. With prices heading north, some shoppers are already tightening their belts with the help of off-brand everyday goods.
But for many shoppers, government stimulus programs and other COVID-related conditions have offered a cushion.
Hmm, so all those programs are just pushing the pain off, and, really, making the coming pain worse.
#2
Ask Frank about his new truck.
I was window shopping replacing mine when the seat belt broke(?). A diesel one ton today, with the same capacity I need, would cost more than my first house in 1985.
#3
Back in the 60s, I could get a McDs basic hamburger, small fries and small drink for 45 cents. Yesterday, it was $4.50. However, back in the 60s I paid with a silver quarter and two silver dimes.
According to this site, that quarter at this moment is worth $4.31 and the dimes $1.72 each. So, technically its cheaper today than back then.
In ancient times when rulers would put base metal in the coinage it was known as 'debasing the currency'. Today, it's call Modern Economic Theory.
[Business Insider] The World Health Organization on Friday warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over and said there's a possibility of new variants.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told attendees at the Munich Security Conference in Germany that vaccinations and the fact that Omicron has turned out to be a far less severe variant are "driving a dangerous narrative that the pandemic is over."
"But it's not. Not when 70,000 people a week are dying from a preventable and treatable disease," Ghebreyesus added.
"Not when 83% of the population of Africa is yet to receive a single dose of vaccine," he continued. "Not when health systems continue to strain and crack under the caseload. Not when we have a highly transmissible virus circulating almost unchecked, with too little surveillance to track its evolution."
Ghebreyesus also warned that the world should prepare for the potential of more variants to arise.
"In fact, the conditions are ideal for more transmissible, more dangerous variants to emerge," he said.
According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, more than 65% of the total population of the United States is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, meaning either two doses of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the COVID-19 vaccine for those age 5 and up.
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Meh. Given they’ve been trying to gin up a panic over the danger of Omicron on the grounds that it is less severe but more easily transmitted, their definition of dangerous is so broad as to be meaningless. On the model of Anthropogenic Global Warming, in fact.
"...hazards caused by human action or inaction. They are contrasted with natural hazards. Anthropogenic hazards may adversely affect humans, other organisms, biomes, and ecosystems."
"A flurry of new studies suggests three doses of a Covid vaccine — or even just two — can provide long-term protection from serious illness and death."
Gee, I seem to recall a State of the Union speech coming up-- just a week from tomorrow, in fact.
Can another "Mission Accomplished!" declaration be far off? Supported by the mysteriously sudden appearance of "a flurry of new studies."
Which actually vindicate and repeat, in the main, what Dr. Robert Malone has been saying for months. In time for Brandon's SOTU on March 1. Convenient.
These mendacious, incompetent fvckers' heads are spinning so fast, they'll achieve vertical lift soon
#8
Such brazen, obvious liars. Almost as clownish as the CDC.
Or Scotland's public health bureaucrat-squirrels -- concerned about "misinterpretation" of the data, thus they have to hide it from public view. To hell with these moronic liars.
Concern about the misinterpretation of hospitalization data broken down by vaccination status is not unique to the C.D.C. On Thursday, public health officials in Scotland said they would stop releasing data on Covid hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status because of similar fears that the figures would be misrepresented by anti-vaccine groups.
"Misinterpreted."
"Misrepresented."
"Misinformation" and even "malinformation."
The hard jihad of the sword, the soft jihad of the law, the gently transgressive jihad of fashion. Or anti-fashion, really, looking at the photo at the link of Moving Black Objects sweltering in a Saudi-style shapeless black gown, hijab and face-covering niqab, leaving only a slit for their eyes. Ugh.
[OneIndia] Girl students in many parts of Karnataka were denied entry into their respective educational institutions on Saturday as they arrived in hijabs, despite a court order, as the issue showed no signs of abating after its flare-up about a fortnight ago that prompted the government to close down colleges and institutions for a couple of days.
As many as 58 students at Shiralakoppa in Shivamogga district who had refused to remove their hijab and staged a demonstration against the government pre-university college administration were suspended. They were suspended on Friday and were told that they should not come to the college, a student told news hounds.
On Saturday too, they came to the college, raised slogans and demanded their right to wear hijab. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... they were not let in. "We came here but the principal told us that we have all been suspended and there is no need for us to come to the college. Even police told us not to come to the college but we came here. Today, no one spoke to us," the students complained.
Despite a government order and the Karnataka High Court's interim order restricting the students from wearing hijab or saffron scarves inside classrooms, the girls came to schools and colleges donning the headscarf. In the SJVP College at Harihar in Davangere district, girls wearing hijab were denied entry. The pupils refused to go inside without the scarf, stressing that it was as important as education and they cannot give up their right.
In Vijay Paramedical College in Belagavi district, students complained to the news hounds that a holiday was announced by the institution for an indefinite period due to the hijab issue. "We will not sit without headscarves. Let the college realise how it affects our education. The principal is not listening to us," a student told the media. In Ballari, a group of girls were not allowed inside the Sarala Devi College, which has been witnessing protests from the day the controversy erupted and the government had ordered that no one should wear clothes that could disturb peace, harmony and, law and order.
The government college at Gangavathi in Koppal district too faced a similar situation where girls were not allowed inside the college. In Kudur village in Ramanagara district, some students staged a demonstration on the college ground after they were not allowed to enter the classrooms. On January 1, six girl students of a college in Udupi attended a presser held by Campus Front of India (CFI) in the coastal town protesting against the college authorities denying them entry into the classroom by wearing hijab.
This was four days after they had requested the principal permission to wear hijabs in classes which was not allowed. Till then, students used to wear hijab to the campus and entered the classroom after removing the scarves, the college principal Rudre Gowda had said. "The institution did not have any rule on hijab-wearing as such since no one used to wear it to the classroom in the last 35 years. The students who came with the demand had the backing of outside forces," Gowda had said.
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Selective dis-empowerment. Someone's gotta do it.
We allow our sikhs to wear all their religious paraphernalia. Hindus own the country so they can wear little ponytails, red dots, whatever they want too. Christians... well, we ain't fussy about anything now. But moslems. Those recalcitrant bastitches must be snubbed at every turn, their every demand and 'human right' denied. If you don't do that they start using your own egalitarian ideas and constitutionalism against you.
Besides, the uniform culture in Indian schools has served India well, with a too diverse population with every community nursing some supremacist idea of itself and a great class divide. Uniforms help even out the social field and every student is trained to act alike and not his/her hubris demands, at least while in school. It teaches humility and unity while also allowing the have-nots a sense of decency and class and elevates their thinking from wallowing in self-pity and ending up tools for bolshevism.
Security analyst @Natsecjeff wrote on Twitter: “Like Afghan Taliban, TTP has also maintained good relations with many of these “tribal elders” on both sides of Durand. Tribal links with TTP + sympathy for TTP’s ideology exists here."#TTP#Taliban#Kabulhttps://t.co/JzwDydB2Jn
Pakistain has released forty-six Tehrik e Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP) prisoners in an attempt to resume negotiations with the bad boy group according to sources privy to these developments.
Earlier, the TTP had consistently rejected Pakistain’s offer for peace, demanding more control of the tribal areas between Afghanistan and Pakistain as well as the implementation of their version of the Shariah.
The recent move to release the TTP prisoners is a move towards a permanent ceasefire and a peace agreement, The Pakistain Daily has learnt.
The TTP had significantly increased its attacks in recent times, exclusively targeting Pakistain’s security forces in contrast to Pak civilians.
This is a change from TTP’s strategy as earlier the group targetted soft targets including civilians in Pakistain.
It is believed that the recent resumption of peace negotiations come after the efforts of the tribal jirgas in Afghanistan’s Paktia and Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... s.
Sirajuddun Haqqani has also played an instrumental role in the attempts to establish peace between the Pak state and the TTP.
According to security analyst Faran Jeffery: "The "tribal elders" Pakistain is using to "mediate" with TTP are actually mostly TTP sympathizers. Why do you think TTP is still able to operate cells in tribal belt despite its leadership being based in Afghanistan? Most of these "tribal elders" have TTP’s best interests in mind."
FJ wrote on Twitter: "Like Afghan Taliban, TTP has also maintained good relations with many of these "tribal elders" on both sides of Durand. Tribal links with TTP + sympathy for TTP’s ideology exists here. It’s a repeat of the episode in Afghanistan, where tribal elders facilitated surrender of ANDSF."
FJ believes that the TTP’s strategy of not attacking civilians and focusing on attacks on Pakistain’s security forces has helped them gain the sympathy of many tribal elders who themselves may not have an ideal opinion of Pakistain’s security forces.
Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Nathaniel Ikyur, in a statement said the victims were killed on Saturday at about 5:00pm when the button men laid an ambush and blocked the Lordye-Gbajimba Road.
The statement reads, "At about 5:00pm Saturday, February 19, 2022, suspected Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... button men killed two males and a female while returning from a burial along Iordye-Gbajimba Road in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.
"The victims were riding on a cycle of violence when they were ambushed and rubbed out by the killer herdsmen. The two went titzup from gunshot wounds while the other was brutally macheted to death.
"Soldiers attached to Operation Whirl Stroke recovered the bodies and deposited the corpses at Gbajimba General Hospital.
"Sadly, this has been the plight of Benue indigenes in the hands of Fulani herdsmen who have invaded the state in a bid to take over our ancestral lands."
The latest incident comes a few days after five persons including a father and his son, were killed by suspected armed herdsmen in an attack on Tse Udeghe community, Mbakpa Council Ward and Ahumen community in Gwer West Local Government Area of the state.
“Violent festivities took place between the two factions at a military checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Qabasin near the city of al-Bab, which resulted in the injury of a member of the Civil Police, after the latter arrested two members of Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... ," a local source told North Press.
"Ahrar al-Sham mobilized its members, and sent a force to Qabasin town, in addition to the faction’s closure of the roads leading to it due to the festivities," the source added.
He pointed out that the Ahrar al-Sham faction took control of the Civil Police checkpoints in the city, amid the intervention of the Military Police in al-Bab and the leadership of the Levant Front faction to resolve the dispute between the two factions.
Since 2017, al-Bab city has been under the control of the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed Syrian factions following Operation Euphrates Shield, which was led by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian factions.
Areas controlled by the Ottoman Turkish-backed factions have been witnessing security chaos accompanied by frequent explosions and infighting, in addition to cases of abductions and corruption amid the failure of these factions to maintain security.
[Our Finite World] We have been told that intermittent electricity from wind and solar, perhaps along with hydroelectric generation (hydro), can be the basis of a green economy. Things are increasingly not working out as planned, however. Natural gas or coal used for balancing the intermittent output of renewables is increasingly high-priced or not available. It is becoming clear that modelers who encouraged the view that a smooth transition to wind, solar, and hydro is possible have missed some important points.
Let’s look at some of the issues:
[1] It is becoming clear that intermittent wind and solar cannot be counted on to provide adequate electricity supply when the electrical distribution system needs them.
Early modelers did not expect that the variability of wind and solar would be a huge problem. They seemed to believe that, with the use of enough intermittent renewables, their variability would cancel out. Alternatively, long transmission lines would allow enough transfer of electricity between locations to largely offset variability.
[2] Adequate storage for electricity is not feasible in any reasonable timeframe. This means that if cold countries are not to "freeze in the dark" during winter, fossil fuel backup is likely to be needed for many years in the future.
One workaround for electricity variability is storage. A recent Reuters’ article is titled, Weak winds worsened Europe’s power crunch; utilities need better storage. The article quotes Matthew Jones, lead analyst for EU Power, as saying that low or zero-emissions backup-capacity is "still more than a decade away from being available at scale." Thus, having huge batteries or hydrogen storage at the scale needed for months of storage is not something that can reasonably be created now or in the next several years.
[3] After many years of subsidies and mandates, today’s green electricity is only a tiny fraction of what is needed to keep our current economy operating.
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Look who invested. The elites. I'd bet you they got a nice return.
There is infiltration of dozens of Syrians and Iraqis on the border from time to time, according to security statements. #Syria#Iraqhttps://t.co/3wmFaWLyzj
On Sunday, the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) declared in a statement the capture of 22 Syrian people infiltrated to Iraqi territories.
"A well-done" ambush was set by the forces of Brigade 53 and the intelligence for those Syrian people who were captured and moved to competent authorities," the statement said.
The Iraqi authorities did not reveal the identities of those captured or their infiltration reasons.
The Syrian-Iraqi border witnesses infiltrations from time to time, according to security statements.
"There is a constant change in plans due to the situation on the border. The latest change was setting new checkpoints between Nineveh governorate and Syria to encounter infiltration," said Athir al-Ruba’i, commander of Squad 20 of the Iraqi Army.
The Iraqi security forces have not disclosed the official number of all the Syrian arrested who passed the border illegally since the beginning of the war in Syria ten years ago.
The areas of #Syria’s #Idlib under the control of #HTS and the Turkish-backed factions are witnessing continuous killings and security chaoshttps://t.co/7pIoZTnTpq
The opposition factions’ sites in the towns of al-Fatira, Kafr Aweid, Sufuhn, al-Bara, the outskirts of Kasanfra and al-Ruwaiha in Zawiya mountain, south of Idlib, were hit with heavy artillery and missiles by the government forces, North Press reported military sources in the opposition.
"The sites of the opposition factions in the towns of Taqad, Kafr Ta’al and the outskirts of Kafr Noran, west of Aleppo, were also bombed by the government forces," the sources added.
"The government forces’ sites near the town of Jobas, east of Idlib, were hit with Katyusha rockets by al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room," according to the sources.
According to the sources, al-Fateh al-Mubin managed to destroy a military bulldozer and a 14.5-caliber machine gun near al- Malajah in Zawiya Mountain, using guided missiles."
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) admitted, yesterday, the presence of imported muscle or those known as "al-Muhajirin" in Idlib, northwest Syria, two days after Australia designated it as a terrorist organization.
Last week, Australia listed HTS and the Guardians of Religion on its list of outlawed terrorist organizations.
This came through a statement issued by HTS, in which it obligated the families of migrant and imported muscle to evacuate their houses in Idlib.
The HTS security services issued a warning to more than 30 families of various foreign nationalities of the necessity of evacuating their houses within a maximum period of 10 days, local sources told North Press.
HTS security forces summoned a number of members, while similar warnings were issued to the wives of detainees in HTS prisons, to evacuate their houses before the end of the specified period, without clearing the reasons, the sources added.
This step comes to pressure the fighters who work in formations outside the HTS faction, to join its ranks or leave its area of controls, according to the same sources.
The HTS is tightening the screws on members of other factions in Idlib, where it recently arrested several members and leaders of foreign nationalities, according to the residents.
Last October, HTS expelled Jund al-Sham faction, led by Moslem Abu Walid al Shishani, from Turkmen Mountain area in the northeastern countryside of Latakia, and arrested its leaders.
Turkish-backed factions in #Syria’s #Afrin continue terrorizing and clamping down on the remaining indigenous people in order to leave or pay royalties.https://t.co/c3vpP2Cfd3
During the past few days, Daraa, especially its western countryside, has witnessed a number of liquidations targeting activists opposed to the Syrian government, the last of whom was Wassim al-Hamad, head of the local council in the town of Mhajjah in the eastern countryside of Daraa.
Muhammad al-Shara’, a member of the Martyrs Documentation Office in Daraa, a local civil organization, said they documented 124 liquidations, during which 83 people were killed, 31 were maimed, and 10 people survived between the second settlement and the third settlement, i.e. from November 2021 to the end of January.
266 people with settlement cards were subjected to liquidation attempts, 183 of whom were killed and 72 maimed, while 10 others survived, since the start of the first settlement until now, he added.
Statistics obtained by North Press from the office indicate that liquidations have increased by more than 100 cases every year since 2019.
Al-Shara’ considered that the activity against the government was "unpublished, because arrest, disappearance or liquidation is often the fate of those who oppose the Assad regime, and this is what happened with a number of oppositionists, such as members of the Central Committee."
The office documented the killing of 18 members of the Central Committee after the first settlement in the summer of 2018, the last of whom was Mos’ab al-Bardan, who was assassinated on February 10, 2022.
In 2019, Daraa recorded 305 liquidations, to rise in 2020 to 411, while in 2021 it recorded 509 liquidations.
FREQUENT LIQUIDATIONS
On February 15, anonymous button menrubbed out a paramedic in Daraa. On the same day, residents of Daraa countryside found the body of a person bearing signs of gunfire.
In the same context, local people of al-Muzayrib town, in the western countryside of Daraa, found, February 14, body of a man identified as Bashar Ji’arah who was a former member of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) organization, according to local sources.
Hours before that, unknown button men assassinated the young man, Ahmad Abdel Ra’ouf al-Rashdan, on the road between Tafas and al-Muzayrib towns.
Researcher and journalist Hussam al-Barm attributes the increase in liquidations to the continuation of government security services in their violations against civilians and the issuance of lists repeatedly on behalf of their opponents in order to finish them to counter all forms of opposition.
Al-Barm referred to the failure of the three settlements, which was only a means to count those who oppose the Assad regime and the Russians.
With regard to liquidations in the government held areas, which witness a heavy security presence, such as the city of Daraa, the researcher added that this is normal as the regime tries to show itself as a target to gain more sympathy of the popular incubator.
In January, unidentified button menrubbed out Zakaria Abdulrahim al-Bardan, a former member of the opposition factions, in Tafas, in the western countryside of Daraa.
According to a local source, al-Bardan obtained a settlement card in 2018, after which he moved to civil works.
IRANIAN ROLE
Activists believe that Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... has a role in the liquidations that take place in Daraa, especially those targeting opposition members, to further consolidate its influence on the border province with Israel and Jordan.
A member of the Central Committee, who preferred not to be named, expressed his belief that the party behind the liquidations was some of "the regime’s apparatus linked to Iran and Hezbollah."
He pointed out that Iran had recruited agents from the people of Daraa to carry out liquidations against oppositionists of the government.
"Iran is also trying to have a foothold in the Syrian south, from the borders of Golan in the west to Suwayda governorate in the east, because it considers the south as a gateway to Jordan and the Gulf to facilitate drug access to them."
He believed that the security solution pursued by the government in Daraa will have counterproductive reasons, and stability will not be imposed as it continues to commit violations against civilians, whether oppositionists or others.
Since early February, the western countryside of Daraa has witnessed nearly 16 attacks and liquidation attempts, in which 13 people were killed.
In its annual report for the past year, the Martyrs Documentation Office in Daraa documented 317 liquidation operations and attempts in the western countryside of Daraa alone, representing 62.5% of the total documented operations and incidents.
[American Thinker] The ordinary person is constantly being lectured and disparaged by intellectuals rooted in academia where Democrats massively outnumber Republicans. It is useful, lest there be some misunderstanding, to stress that I believe that intellectuals, including professors, can be a good thing. Indeed, they are essential to the development of civilization. I am one myself. There is nothing I love to do more than study the great philosophers, psychologists, social theorists, and literary figures. However, intellectuals have certain inherent limitations. First, they tend to think they know more than they do. More importantly, they tend to believe that their intellectual accomplishments make them morally superior to less educated people, hence the contempt expressed by so many in our "elites" for Hillary’s "basket of deplorable" in "flyover country".
Aristotle argues that the aim of studying moral philosophy is not just to become a better thinker but to become a better person. Immanuel Kant makes similar claims in his Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals. In "On Liberty," John Stuart Mill claims that only those who think through the issues rationally, like a philosopher, can know what is morally good. But does being an intellectual, even a "philosopher" (if one can still find one), make one better suited, as Aristotle puts it, to know "the good for man" and thereby become a better person?
Leo Tolstoy, the world-famous Russian novelist, was well familiar with the limitations of the intellectual elite. After having been one for a long time, he came to believe that many intellectuals, despite their elaborate programs of self-glorification, were often greedy narcissistic people of bad character. In his Confessions, Tolstoy explains that he came to believe that, ironically, the meaning of life is not understood by the people who write the celebrated books of the year on "the meaning of life" for fame and fortune, but by "the poor, the simple, and the ignorant, the pilgrims, the monks ... and the peasants."
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Well, as I've mentioned here before, "believing in yourself" is the foundational tenet of all "self improvement" scams. Ask Liz Holmes. Ask the all-star list of "shakers and movers" on the Theranos board. It works great until it doesn't. Then the bag holders lose everything and / or go to jail. The rest scatter for the hills, to turn up later on MSLSD talking about why all Trump supporters must be shot as part of the Ukraine Liberation War to End All Wars™ / Stomp Out COVID In Our Time Crusade™.
10% discount for khaki wearers and RayBan subscription customers.
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Pop quiz: Do you think Jeffrey Epstein "believed in himself?"
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Extra credit: In 250 words or less, how did that work out for him?
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I've always wondered how anyone simply designates himself as an intellectual, just because they attempt to interpret someone else's opinions and maybe write theses on thought processes of now dead men.
I'd rather be smart, in the moment really, than populate my mind with conflicting, even diametrically opposed ideas of people who will never see the world again.
If I can know at any given moment what God thinks about a certain thing... now that'd be something to study for.
'For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.' - Gawd
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The Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
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Lots of those who fancy themselves intellectual are merely pseudo or faux intellectual, having the patina of the thing due to a certain kind of education without having the intellectual rigour. Anyone who says, “The science is settled,” for instance. I grew up among the real thing, and they were great fun. But when I followed Mr. Wife to Cincinnati, I discovered myself happier in the somewhat more real world of corporate America.
Certainly, as we saw by the complete surrender, indeed enthusiastic adoption, by the academies of fascism/Nazism and Communism in their respective countries, and of Wokism in the West in the current period, the one pedestal intellectuals as a group consistently fail to mount is moral superiority.
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A truly intelligent person is humble by dint of their high understanding of how much they don't know.
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In my "lived experience" (did I say that right?), intelligence and moral character are independent variables, and I'd rate moral character as the more important of the two by far. In other words, if I've got to be in a foxhole, I'd rather be in a foxhole with a trustworthy guy with an IQ of 90 than with a Hahvahd PhD who'd stab me in the back for the slightest advantage.
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/\ Discovering what one does 'not know' appears to increase dramatically with age. By the time you reach the age of 70, you become amazed at the longevity coefficients of both helpless and stupid.
I have now reached the point where being referred to as a stupid SOB has become a jovial term of endearment.
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When asked "What makes someone and expert?" Marilyn Vos Savant replied "An expert is someone who not only knows as much as possible about a subject, but also knows which of that stuff is wrong."
Thinking about the "expert" causing much of the nation's ongoing pain right now, one Tony Fauxi, I'd have to say he fails the second part of Marilyn's definition handily.
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The smartest person in the room is the one who says "I don't know the answer to that, but I do know who to ask / where to look to find out."
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Good for you if you have the patience to sit through all those boring classes at the university and you have a family that will support you while you do. But many of the rest of us decided it was better to go to work.
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It all starts with the question a true "intellectual" always asks himself/herself:
What If I'm Wrong?
Remarkably, almost all of the so-called intellectuals (especially "Progressives") seem utterly incapable of conceiving even the thought of being wrong, much less questioning themselves and their rigid belief system.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wise people so full of doubts. -- Betrand Russell
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Well, a person can be anywhere from chastened to embarrassed to be wrong. If they have a moral compass. Your progressive, OTOH, simply refuses to accept their elevated self might be misinformed, incorrect or willfully ignorant. They waste no time getting down to the only posture they know: hating on you for making them look bad.
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In my day an expert was anybody more than 50 miles form home with a briefcase necktie and a sport coat with padded elbows...
[AP] Krystal Guerra’s Miami apartment has a tiny kitchen, cracked tiles, warped cabinets, no dishwasher and hardly any storage space.
But Guerra was fine with the apartment’s shortcomings. It was all part of being a 32-year-old graduate student in South Florida, she reasoned, and she was happy to live there for a few more years as she finished her marketing degree.
That was until a new owner bought the property and told her he was raising the rent from $1,550 to $1,950, a 26% increase that Guerra said meant her rent would account for the majority of her take-home pay from the University of Miami.
"I thought that was insane," said Guerra, who decided to move out. "Am I supposed to stop paying for everything else I have going on in my life just so I can pay rent? That’s unsustainable."
Guerra is hardly alone. Rents have exploded across the country, causing many to dig deep into their savings, downsize to subpar units or fall behind on payments and risk eviction now that a federal moratorium has ended.
In the 50 largest U.S. metro areas, median rent rose an astounding 19.3% from December 2020 to December 2021, according to a Realtor.com analysis of properties with two or fewer bedrooms. And nowhere was the jump bigger than in the Miami metro area, where the median rent exploded to $2,850, 49.8% higher than the previous year.
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...Well, for one, I see rent controls making a comeback, because the people most likely to suggest them are the ones least likely to understand the effects.
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It's Adam Smith's nature's way of saying - Move Elsewhere, like someplace you can afford.
It's call supply and demand. Florida and Texas are suffering from an uncontrolled influx of neo-Socialists who crapped in their old nest and seek a new one to despoil.
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Gee, do you think there's any relation to the recently-discontinued rent moratorium based on the deadlycoronavirus pandemic? Or is it just inflation due to the profligate spending because of the deadlycoronavirus pandemic?
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/\ Conspiracy theories. Little more than conspiracy theories.
Two people bit the dust on Sunday evening and two others were maimed in a tribal infighting at backdrop of an old Dire Revenge issue in a town east of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
A tribal infighting, with light and medium machine guns, broke out between the al-Shaitat tribe men at the backdrop of an old Dire Revenge case, which resulted in the death of a young man on each side," Ahmed al-Huwaish, a resident of the town of Gharanij, 90 km east of Deir ez-Zor, told North Press.
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) claimed yesterday, through its social media, the killing of a person on charges of collaborating with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in a town east of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.
The ISIS-related Amaq News Agency published that ISIS members targeted the young man Saleh Abdulmajid, with automatic machine guns in the town of Dhiban, east of Deir ez-Zor, on charges of dealing with the SDF, which led to his immediate death.
Two days ago, Abdulmajid was kidnapped in front of his house in the al-Latwa neighborhood in the town, only to be found dead with several gunshot wounds to the head near an abandoned room on the bank of the Euphrates River.
Recently, the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor has witnessed an increasing in liquidation attempts targeting SDF members, employees of the Autonomous Administration, tribal dignitaries and residents.
Two days ago, ISIS claimed targeting an SDF patrol in the town of Shuhail, in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, killing an SDF member and wounding another.
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[ShafaqNews] al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) on Sunday launched a large-scale operation in the turbulent district of al-Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, to secure the roads leading to the Iraqi capital ahead of an annual religious event of the duodenal Shiite Moslems.
The operation comes in conjunction with the anniversary of Mousa ibn Jaafar al-Kadhim's death, the seventh Imam in the duodenal doctrine, when thousands of pilgrims flock to al-Kadhimiyah area in Baghdad from both inside and outside Iraq.
A source revealed earlier today that the security authorities banned trucks from entering Baghdad for four days starting from February 24 as part of the precautions intended to secure the event.
[ShafaqNews] Iraqi Security forces found today a drone that is believed to have been used in the failed attack that targeted Erbil earlier.
A source told Shafaq News agency that the drone was found in the vicinity of Diyala governorate, and might be one of the drones that were found on Feb.12.
The Iraqi air defense's radars monitored, on Feb. 12, a number of drones that flew from Iraq's eastern borders, and heading to the west.
For its part, the US-led Global Coalition confirmed, last Sunday, shooting down a drone that was heading towards the capital Erbil.
A source in the coalition told Shafaq News agency that the drone had been seized to be examined.
.... also known as the Khazali Network, it’s one of the Iranian-funded Popular Mobilization Forces militias. Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq split off from the Mahdi Army in 2006...
was sentenced to death today on charges of terrorism, a reliable source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that the Maysan Criminal Court issued a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... against the leader in the Asa'ib, Hassan Tiraz al-Kinani.
On February 2, Iraqi security forces captured a contract killer charged with more than 20 killings and homicides in the governorate of Maysan.
The Security Media Cell (SMC) said that the arrestee was caught in a raid orchestrated by the govenorate's Operations Command in al-Mashrah area.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that the arrestee is wanted for a long list of charges following Article 4/Terrorism, 406/Homicide, and 421/Abduction.
The arrestee, Hasan Trad Ghleim from the Sneid tribe, has more than 20 liquidations and 29 arrest warrants in his record.
The source said that Ghleim assassinated Judge Ahmed Faisal al-Saedi who refused to cooperate with him, referred his narcotics case to the criminal court, and issued an arrest warrant against him.
He also killed Lieutenant Hosam al-Alyawi who ordered a raid to his headquarters and attempted to arrest him for his involvement in the killing of the educational supervisor Hamid Nehme. Nehme refused to withdraw a case he filed against Ghleim.
The list of Ghleim's victims includes more than 20 persons, including members of the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement and al-Salam companies, in addition to civil activists, tribal figures, and civilians.
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq issued had issued a statement refuting what was circulated by social media users about Ghleim's affiliation to the Iranian-backed movement.
The movement said it endorses the security forces in their quest to fight crime and urged them to execute a full swing campaign against the criminals.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in 2015 that China's initiative, known as the Belt and Road Strategy, encompasses about 1,000 projects, including connecting Eurasian countries to some 70 countries overlooking the line, primarily middle eastern countries, through which the road passes, with a network of land, rail and, airline routes, as well as pipes and internet networks, creating a nourishing environment for economic development.
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[ShafaqNews] Kurdistan's Counter-Terrorism Agency on Sunday said it handed a person with links to the terrorist organization of ISIS to the Iraqi security authorities.
A statement of the agency said that the arrestee, Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed Jodeih, was arrested on November 17, 2021.
The agency said Jodeih, who is wanted by the federal Counter-Terrorism-Services, was handed to the Iraqi side in accordance with a Judicial warrant on February 19, 2022.
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[NYPost] Ottawa police attempted to clear out the remaining "Freedom Convoy" demonstrators on Sunday — ending a 24-day occupation of the city’s center to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
At least two people were arrested as police moved into the "logistics camp" and removed the last vehicles occupying the area, according to the Ottawa Citizen.
The convoy of trucks had caused traffic backups in the city for weeks.
A total of 191 protesters were arrested and 57 vehicles were towed since police began forcefully removing them on Friday.
The camp, located in a city parking lot on Coventry Road, amassed roughly 100 vehicles. Across the street, several tents had been erected for meetings and meals, as well as a trailer with heated toilets and two saunas, the paper reported.
Officials are now concerned that protesters, many of them truckers, will regroup outside of the capital and come back, shutting the city down again.
"We are trying to keep tabs on those that are leaving and potentially massing to come back," Ottawa police chief Steve Bell said at a presser on Sunday.
On Sunday, Ottawa police said businesses should feel comfortable reopening following the weeks-long demonstration.
Bell said Ottawans can expect a heavy police presence in the area in the coming days. He told news hounds at a press briefing on Sunday that his department has a long road ahead in restoring the public’s trust of his department.
Most of those arrested were slapped with mischief charges, and dozens of vehicles had been towed, including all those blocking one of Ottawa’s major streets, authorities said.
[Globe&Mail] Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said this weekend that he will launch a legal challenge against the federal government’s "unnecessary and disproportionate" use of the Emergencies Act to dismantle protests against COVID-19 measures — just two weeks after the Alberta government quietly asked Ottawa for help dealing with demonstrators at the Coutts border crossing to the United States.
In a Twitter video posted Saturday, Mr. Kenney said that "invocation of the Emergencies Act is an unnecessary and disproportionate measure that can violate civil liberties, invades provincial jurisdiction and creates a very dangerous precedent for the future." He specifically cited the removal of protesters from Coutts by Alberta RCMP officers last week as evidence that "provincial law-enforcement authorities are able to deal with illegal road blockades."
Briane is a single mom from Chilliwack working a minimum wage job. She gave $50 to the convoy when it was 100% legal. She hasn’t participated in any other way. Her bank account has now been frozen. This is who Justin Trudeau is actually targeting with his Emergencies Act orders.
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Libya gave up its nuclear program. The Ukraine gave up its nukes. See what has happened to them.
Australians, New Zealanders, and Canadians gave up their arms. See what happened to them.
This is the reason for the 2d Amendment. Period. The founders never trusted a large standing army for the nation's protect and security. They had just removed the King's army and did not want another instrument of government to threaten what they had created.
[ShafaqNews] Iraqi security forces on Sunday apprehended two persons with links to a kaboom that took place in the governorate of Basra, far south of Iraq.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that a force from the Basra Police Department arrested two persons from al-Khayyala in the Safwan sub-district, 50 kilometers to the west of Basra, for detonating a bomb near the bridge in the sub-district.
The suspects, who initially reported that a foreign body went kaboom! at the site, admitted responsibility for the earth-shattering kaboom upon inquiries.
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So if I read this right...
Rockefeller University in New York also played with Gain of Function?
Deeper digging shows NIH granted close to $50M in recent years
So should we suspect that the 2015-2020 Research Grants totalling in the double digits Millions NIH grants were Doctor Flu. related?
"The aim of Rockefeller's scientists was to create an artificial version of the Covid-19 spike protein – the protein the virus uses to penetrate our cells – that could evade all known types of protective antibodies that had been found in the blood of Covid-19 survivors."
BTW: During the Obama Admin years this Univ. received crazy amounts of RESEARCH $$ in the Millions.
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...they inserted it into what virologists call a pseudotype virus, one which has been engineered so it does not have enough genetic material to replicate, allowing scientists to tweak it and understand how it behaves without any risk of it escaping.
AKA the beginning of every disease disaster movie ever made.
[Epoch Times]Herd immunity my ice cream cone!
President Joe Biden said the U.S. national emergency that was declared in early 2020 due to COVID-19 will be extended beyond March 1, citing what he called a "risk to the public health and safety."
In a letter released on the White House website, Biden told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that "there remains a need to continue this national emergency."
"The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause significant risk to the public health and safety of the Nation. More than 900,000 people in this Nation have perished from the disease, and it is essential to continue to combat and respond to COVID-19 with the full capacity and capability of the Federal Government," he wrote, adding that his office has "determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared" almost two years ago.
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the beginging of the "Canada Crackdown" In the USA
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More than 900000 people in this Nation have perished from the disease
Shameless. Wretched, fvcking lies, repeated by American Pravda.
They're not even bothering to address what his own CDC chief admitted and what we've all known from Day One: the real number of 'from' not 'with' COVID deaths is a tiny fraction of their reported number. Walensky admitted that "the overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities."
Which means the real number of from-COVID deaths in the US through January 2022 is likely not more than 180k, max, and probably around 100k.
Annualized, this equates to a nasty flu season. Again, the CDC itself admits what everyone with an even basic understanding of hospital coding techniques saw from the beginning: this flu bug has only and ever been a threat to the elderly, the obese, and diabetics.
The authorities royally fvcked up in suppressing the rest of us -- most egregiously, in destroying our children -- and now, rather than admit their mistakes and gross incompetence, they're actually doubling down.
We're now firmly in Soviet territory. Official lies, blatant, obvious, for no other reason than to extend control over us proles.
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Only numbers that really matter are "how many more people died since the advent of COVID than would statistically have been expected to die in that timeframe?" "How many more people have had adverse reactions to any vaccine in the time since the COVID vaxxes became available?"
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extend control over us proles
I can't speak for how they are doing with other people elsewhere, but here in Florida I have never tested positive, never gotten a booster (probably never will unless it's a matter of not being interned in a DHS camp) don't wear a mask anywhere at all and am never asked for documents related to COVID measures.
So, other than f*cking up the economy across the board, they arent controlling me any more than they were in fall 2019.
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Don't worry Joe. I'll hurry to get right on ignoring your stupid ass and "orders" as fast as I can.
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Even more retarded: the latest strain is even less of a threat than the earlier strains. Delta's cases = about 48m. Delta's actual, 'with' not 'from' death toll -- Walensky definition ie ~10-20% of reported = about 100k.
That's a case fatality rate of about 0.2%.
The CFR for omicron is even lower: Omicron cases since November. 24, 2021 = 30m. Reported deaths 125k ie actual, 'with' not 'from' death toll for omicron = ~20k.
So the case fatality rate for omicron = 0.07%.
Put them together and you have what our best biostaticuans calculate is an actual CFR for COVID of about 0.15%.
IOW, seasonal flu. And for this we have seen our democratic Republic destroyed, our country trashed. SHAME
They now are in the habit of protesting, and of refusing to be contented when given what they demand. I’m pondering the thought that this should be moved to Page 3: Non-WoT as Sudan’s background steady state.
[AlAhram] A Sudanese man was rubbed out Sunday as security forces cracked down on rallies against last year's military takeover, medics said, as a UN rights expert arrived in the country.
Regular protests have rocked the northeast African country since army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan led a military takeover in October, sparking international condemnation.
But the internationals condemned the regular protests before, the ones that caused the army to kick out the civilian government, and the regular protests of the previous military government that made for that civilian government, etc.
[Breitbart] Border Patrol agents in Texas continue to arrest migrants attempting to avoid apprehension with the use of aerial video technology, whom would otherwise be classified as “got-aways.”
Laredo Sector Carl E. Landrum tweeted an image showing what Border Patrol agents see when Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) cameras pick up a group of migrants moving through the brush. In this incident, the agents were led to the location of 24 migrants attempting to avoid arrest.
The sUAS operators guided the agents to the migrants who placed them under arrest.
“As USBP continues to expand its use of border technology, smugglers are discovering that it is becoming harder to hide under the cover of darkness,” Chief Landrum said in the tweet.
Further west, agents in the remote Big Bend Sector utilize night vision technology to find groups of migrants wearing dark and camouflaged clothing to attempt to hide in the brush.
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I can find hundreds of illegal aliens anytime I want to in most of Southern California, Tucson or El Paso. Just set up a simple checkpoint on a major urban street and film to drive arounds.
In 1993 I was in the Commander of the CA NG CounterDrug Task Force and visiting the USBP in San Diego to discuss support to the border road, fence surveillance and cargo inspection missions. My staff and I were in civilian clothes and stopped at the Dennys next to I-5 about 3 miles north of the border at San Ysidro for breakfast. We came out after breakfast and noticed a large van in the parking lot with the doors open and pedestrians coming up from the freeway and getting in. I sent one man to get the license number of the van and a second to call the USBP (days before cellphones as common possessions). The Van took off and crashed out of the parking lot at high speed, sped through the intersection causing a multi-car accident, got onto the freeway on=ramp and crashed into the ditch. We ran up to th intersection to help those in the accidentwho might be injured, and to observe the van, announcing in English and Spanish that we had called the Sheriff and USBP. In about 5 minutes both arrived on scene and we were standing in the intersection alone, every single person in the cars had fled on foot. Every single one! This was 1993, just imagine today!
[Breitbart] A Mexican scientist pleaded guilty to working for a foreign government while in the United States. The scientist, who admitted to having worked for Russian spies in Florida, faces a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
This week, 36-year-old Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes went before U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks where he pleaded guilty to the official charge of “acting on behalf of a foreign government without notifying the Attorney General” – a type of charge used for espionage cases. He is expected to be sentenced in May. Cabrera Fuentes, a Mexican national is a biochemist and a researcher who lived in Singapore and also studied for an advanced degree in Russia.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, the manner in which Cabrera Fuentes communicated with the Russian government official and the events that followed “are consistent with the tactics of the Russian intelligence services for spotting, assessing, recruiting, and handling intelligence assets and sources.”
The case against Cabrera Fuentes began in 2019, when a Russian agent recruited the Mexican scientist and asked him to rent a specific apartment in Miami, Breitbart Texas reported in February 2020. After Cabrera Fuentes rented the apartment, he traveled to Moscow, Russia, where he was given a description of a vehicle used by a “U.S. government source “ in Miami, Florida, and asked to find it and photograph the license plate. In February 2021, when Cabrera Fuentes went to photograph the vehicle at an apartment complex in Miami, a security guard caught him and kicked him out of the property. Two days later, federal authorities stopped the scientist at an airport in Miami and found photographs of the vehicle on his phone.
[JPost] In the future, Palestinians will have an entity, but not a full-fledged state, Defense Minister Benny Gantz told the Munich Security Conference on Sunday.
"Eventually we will find ourselves in a two-entity solution, in which we respect Palestinian sovereignty and governance, but we will be respected for our security needs," he said.
The moderator, Souad Mekhennet, senior security writer at The Washington Post, pushed him on his choice of words, "entities" and not "states," given that the normative international discourse on a resolution to the conflict is often two states. This would involve the creation of a Palestinian state, alongside the already existing Israeli one.
"Did you say a two-state solution is possible?" the moderator asked.
Gantz corrected the moderator, explaining that he had chosen to speak of two entities and not two states, by way of underscoring his rejection of an Israeli returning to the pre-1967 lines.
Israel's Defense Minister Benny Gantz is seen addressing a townhall in Munich, Germany, on February 20, 2022. (credit: Munich Security Conference) Israel's Defense Minister Benny Gantz is seen addressing a townhall in Munich, Germany, on February 20, 2022. (credit: Munich Security Conference)
To speak of a "two-state solution takes us to a former framework. It’s a phrase that gives the illusion of [a return to]1967 with the border lines, etc.; things that cannot happen.
"This is why I said two-entity solution. We would verify with one another how we can ensure Palestinian rights on one hand while safeguarding Israel’s security needs on the other," Gantz said.
Only once the issue of Palestinian sovereignty and Israeli security is resolved can one move forward... for a final resolution of the conflict, Gantz said.
"We cannot ignore the existence of the Palestinians and the Palestinians cannot ignore the existence of us Israelis in the area and we must find ways of living with one another," Gantz said.
"Both sides should take historic decisions," he emphasized.
"I hope that one day we can create a new reality... to take the realities on the ground [into account]," he said.
Gantz recalled that he had twice met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas because "We must maintain a strategic connection. We must maintain security. I am sure we must promote the [Palestinian] economy. Slowly but surely we will separate from one another and create a better reference for future discussion on what a permanent agreement would look like," he said.
The views of Gantz, who heads the centrist Blue and White Party, do not reflect the overall position of the government, which enjoys a wide range of views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Meretz has spoken of a two-state resolution to the conflict, while Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who heads the right-wing Yamina party, does not believe in talking to Palestinian officials at this time. Gantz, however, strongly advocates negotiation with Palestinians.
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[BenarNews] The International Court of Justice in The Hague will hold hearings this week to determine whether it has jurisdiction to judge if atrocities committed by Myanmar’s military against RohingyaMoslems constituted a genocide. or pest management?
The West African nation of Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... filed a case at the ICJ in November 2019 accusing Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention through the alleged expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from Rakhine state to neighboring Bangladesh amid a brutal crackdown in 2017.
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Incompetent to stand trial.
Because he doesn't understand how law works.
Does anyone?
[Breitbart] A Texas judge has found Darriynn Brown, 19, the man accused of kidnapping four-year-old Dallas boy Cash Gernon and stabbing him to death last May, incompetent to stand trial.
Dallas County Magistrate Judge Farrel Chapman’s decision Friday came after doctors for both the defense and the prosecution deemed Brown incompetent, the Dallas Morning News reports. Chapman ordered that Brown receive treatment at the North Texas State Hospital System.
If Brown, charged with capital murder, regains competency, he would stand trial for his alleged crimes. Heath Harris, Brown’s attorney, asserts that his client is schizophrenic and suffers from additional mental disorders.
[PJMedia] Back in September 2021, Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant. Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan... reassured Americans that the Afghan refugees whom he was bringing into the United States would be as benign and harmless as Aunt Harriet. Old Joe’s crack team (no, not Hunter) of experts would make sure of that by "conducting thorough scrutiny — security screenings for everyone who is not a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident." Well, here’s a shocker: Biden, one of the world’s least trustworthy human beings, lied again: Not only were most of the refugees not vetted at all, but on Thursday it came to light that at least fifty Afghan refugees with "potentially significant security concerns" were admitted to the United States with no problem, and are here now. Thanks, Joe!
Wait, it gets worse. The Defense Department’s inspector general reported Thursday, according to the Washington Times, that not only did Biden’s handlers bring these security risks into the country, but now they have no idea where they are: "It looked at a sampling of 31 security risk evacuees identified as of Sept. 17 and found only three could be located." Nor is that likely to be the extent of the problem: "Tens of thousands more names remain to be checked."
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[IsraelTimes] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... by the Nigerian army targeting "bandidos" kills seven children and wounds five others by mistake in Niger, a local governor tells AFP.
"There was a mistake with the Nigerian strikes on the border that resulted in victims on our territory in the village of Nachade" on Friday, says Chaibou Aboubacar, the governor of the Maradi region. "The victims are 12 children, seven of them dead and five maimed."
[IsraelTimes] A trailer truck smashes one of the gates at an important place of worship in Iran’s Shiite holy city of Qom and its driver was arrested, the Fars news agency reports.
It was not immediately clear whether the incident was accidental or deliberate.
Either way, by definition it must be Allah’s will. And the authorities don’t appear to be reacting as if it were jihad.
"A truck destroyed gate number six of the holy mosque of Jamkaran and entered the precincts of the sacred place," Fars says, without specifying whether there have been any casualties.
It adds that the truck was carrying extra gasoline, but did not specify what led to the incident.
The Jamkaran mosque, which welcomes thousands of pilgrims every week, was built on the spot where most Shiites believe the Mahdi, the twelfth imam of Shiite Islam, will return. They believe he disappeared more than a thousand years ago and will return one day to usher in a new era of peace and harmony.
Following the incident, pilgrims are evacuated and law enforcement personnel establish a security cordon, Fars adds.
A trailer-truck smashed one of the gates at an important place of worship in #Iran’s Shia holy city of #Qom and its driver was arrested, Fars news agency says.https://t.co/6busv8kDaa
[Breitbart] A man who has a track record of assaulting strangers allegedly punched a four-year-old boy in the head in Times Square on Thursday, authorities say.
Police say the attack occurred around 3:20 p.m. at the corner of 7th Avenue and West 46th Street when Babacar Mbaye, 34, randomly pummelled the small child who was with his 43-year-old mother, WABC reports.
Surveillance footage obtained by the New York Post shows two women, one of whom is the four-year-old’s mother, going after the suspect. One of the women tackled the perp to the ground while the other swung an object in her hand while standing over him, the footage appears to show. Two police officers then burst into the frame, with one of them engaging the suspect on the ground as the woman who was battling the man gets up, the video allegedly shows. It is unclear which woman is the boy’s mother, the Post reports.
“Who needs DA Bragg? The mother took care of justice the old fashioned way,” a Manhattan officer told the outlet, taking an apparent swipe at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The boy received medical attention at the scene in Times Square.
While being taken into custody, Mbaye allegedly kicked a police officer.
Prosecutors said that once he was in custody at Bellevue Hospital, he allegedly told police that he “drank a whole bottle of hand sanitizer” and added, “I shouldn’t have done this,” the Post reports.
He was charged with felony assault, reckless endangerment, and resisting arrest, prosecutors and police said. He was arraigned on Friday.
A New York City Police Department (NYPD) spokesman told WNBC that Mbaye has 40 prior arrests. His record, which dates back to 2009, includes arrests for criminal possession of a weapon, assault, driving while intoxicated, and menacing, sources told the Post. Additionally, he has 16 misdemeanor convictions on his record, prosecutors said.
At the time of Thursday’s attack, he was on supervised release for three open misdemeanors related to “assaulting strangers,” which date back to last summer, prosecutors said, per the Post. Two of the attacks happened in the past month; one where he “pushed a stranger and punched her twice in the shoulder,” and another in which he “punched a stranger in the head,” prosecutors said.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Jay Weiner set Mbaye’s bail at $30,000 cash, and Bragg’s office asked for bail be upped to $50,000, the Post reports.
Thomas Kenniff, Mbaye’s lawyer, said the defendant lives with his mother and siblings and is unemployed.
Per the Post, Kenniff said:
He was dancing in the midst of Times Square and inadvertently made contact with the child … which drew the ire of the child’s mother who maybe perhaps reasonably believed that he intended to strike the child. But I’m confident that was not his intention.
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I think some noted jurist once said "Your right to swing your arms around in public ends at my chin."
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I am all for ridding the streets of Dangerous Crazies types like it use to be.
But, how can we do it and not give the politically aggressive overreaching types a weapon to lock up opposition voices?
Deinstitutionalization def: Moving severely mentally ill people out of state institutions and then closing all or part of those containment institutions. Which happened between 1980 - 1999. It has been documented to be a major contributor to Metro Homeless numbers and their related crimes.
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Police are just not selected and incentivized for creative policing anymore. Too many pansy tests and psych evals and must be all sorts of woke nonsense too by now in training. In Asian countries, where there are crazies proportional to the large populations, we like to say 'life is short, the world is full, rid it of assholes one at a time, this is your duty.' Many a recidivist, crazy, or simply incontinent mofo is simply... wasted... in transit. All it takes is creative reporting and some counter forensics. Like 'he tried to run and got scrunched under a ten wheeler', or he slit his own throat with a loose handcuff, etc. One cop in Gujarat, only 1/4th of his arrestees ever got to a lock-up. He was investigated later and had to retire but in his career he rid the world of many assholes. Another guy in Chennai carried snake venom in a pouch for the eventual, 'he had ingested something before the arrest, we took him to a hospital but alas...'
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Its cute how so many are so predictably violent that is akin to a mascot at a theme park. Except instead of a hand-shake and photo op, they try to kill you.
"Hey, here comes Mickey the Knife! Gather close kids, and don't make the eye contact!"
[Breitbart] This figure has increased by eight percentage points since 2010, according to the Russian state-owned news agency.
China is suffering from a massive coal shortage that has pressed Beijing to ramp up imports of the fuel from foreign countries, especially Russia, over the past year.
“China imported about 3.7 million tons of thermal coal from Russia in September [2021],” the Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC) reported in October 2021. “That’s up 28% from August [2021] and more than 230% higher than a year ago.”
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OTOH, it's been pointed out by many that gerbil worming is a scam- "I'll believe it's a crisis when they all start acting like it's a crisis."
OTOH, you really don't hear much about this from China lovers like Tom Freidman or Joostin Turdo. I guess that means they are OK with it, eh?
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All of this is a well orchestrated and pre synchronized coordination between Russia and China. The Russians have waited until the closing of the Olympics to make their move. China will back and shore up the Russian economy after the "first Boot" cross the line in Ukraine. China will directly threaten Taiwan and Australia first . Why haven't we heard the other shoe being dropped by the Biden administration, sending home Russian Diplomat #2 in a 'Tit for Tat'? The US will lose this game of 'chicken' with China unless they pull every dollar out of China for every 'dollar' China sends into Russia to break the NATO AND EU sanctions.
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India and Russia have poorest grade of coal to burn. China's upgraded coal fired plants do very poorly with those sources. Australian coal was the best but they shot themselves in the foot on that one.
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You need good quality coal such as anthracite for best quality steel production. China had shut of Australia for a time for siding for Wuhan investigation.
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Metalurgical coal is a specific subvariety of anthracite. Coking coal.
Aren't the Chinese probably recovering steel from the demolition of buildings in the ghost cities? Maybe not. They might actually do the analysis and decide it's cheaper to create more new steel than recycle used. I have no idea.
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Subvariety of bituminous. Sorry.
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[Yahoo] President Biden agreed "in principle" to hold a summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the White House confirmed on Sunday evening.
Driving the news: Biden said the meeting can only take place if Russia does not invade Ukraine...
The agreement was reached following two separate conversations that Macron had with the U.S. and Russian leaders, according to a statement from the Élysée Palace, which said Putin had also "accepted the principle of such a summit."
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in an emailed statement that the summit would follow Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's scheduled meeting in Europe later this week — which would also only take place if Russia "does not proceed with military action."
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If this is all real and not a staged deflection.
Then BIDEN will play the role of UK Prime Minister Chamberlain and announce:
☺Here is a sample fill in the blanks MSM sound bite ☺
"My good friends, for the _#_ time in our history, a British Prime Minister A Democrat President has returned from (insert a nation) bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. -- September 30, 1938 Feb. ___, 2022"
Or, is this all Staged Saber Rattling deflection hype for the disastrous Mid-terms, given the LSD's polling numbers?
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How many times did US citizens (all races and colors) use their personal firearms in SELF-DEFENSE and/or the halting of a Crime?
A 2021 survey estimated that guns are used 1.67 million times per year in self-defense in the United States..
According to several Black Community sources that do not have independent official data to verify.
Depending on the source (BLACK GUNS MATTER, BLM, and etc.)
The Black Community use of Firearms in Self Defense is roughly 34 to 40% of the estimated 1.2 Million situations. Which seems in line with FBI crimes tables for B.O.B. crime rates.
BTW: When will the DOJ/FBI release the complete 2019 Crime Tables
☺ Should we expect the 2020 & 2021 crime tables in 2025 after the National elections?
[IsraelTimes] Sources quoted saying looming accord doesn’t address advances Tehran has made since 2015, so ’agreement the US will sign with Tehran is meaningless’.
[IsraelTimes] Bennett says Israel will maintain its citizens’ security, and is getting ready for ‘day after’ the agreement; says Iran will use financial gain from deal to fund regional terror.
ICYMI: #Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially inaugurates electricity production from the country's mega-dam on the Blue #Nile, a milestone in the controversial multi-billion dollar project.https://t.co/kEnXPcaBOc
[PJMedia] Sheriff Michael Chapman of Loudoun County, Va. got an unpleasant surprise recently from Old Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences. So does Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... ’s handlers. On Thursday, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) published a blurb that reveals the truly astonishing extent of the administration’s high-handedness, dishonesty, carelessness, and recklessness in its resettlement of Afghan refugees in cities and towns all over the United States. Without any prior warning, Loudoun County officials were told that 2,000 Afghan refugees would be arriving in the county in just over two weeks and that 2,000 more would be arriving every month after that through September. In what will come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention for the last thirteen months, Chapman and other Loudoun County officials found the Biden team to be disingenuous, uncooperative, poorly prepared, and worse.
"On February 4, 2022," says the Sheriff’s Office blurb, "the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) received an unannounced visit by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Protective Service (FPS) in which it learned that approximately 2000 Afghan refugees, per month, were slated to arrive at the Washington Dulles International Airport during a window beginning as early as February 19, 2022, and extending to September 2022." This gave them just two weeks to prepare for the influx. "DHS/FPS regional personnel advised the refugees would be transported by bus to the National Conference Center (NCC) where they would stay until their ultimate relocation elsewhere in the United States. DHS/FPS estimated that no more than 1000 refugees per month would remain at the NCC at any given time until September 2022. The refugees, for the most part, would enter the US from Qatar
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[JPost] Earlier this month, Amnesty International published a report accusing Israel of apartheid.
On February 1, Amnesty International accused Israel of apartheid. However blatantly false the charge — as even noted by the head of Israel’s leading Islamist party — the allegation exposes more about Amnesty’s hypocrisy, incompetence, and anti-peace narrative than it does about reality in Israel.
Context is important. Though Amnesty claims its apartheid report "took four years" to complete, its timing is awfully suspect. The report emerged just a year after the latest peace deal under the Abraham Accords, and it begins with a discussion about events from 2021.
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[Breitbart] President Joe Biden and his deputies at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have dropped nearly all border protections for U.S. graduates, allowing a mass rush of Indian graduates to grab jobs from Fortune 500 companies, experts and foreign workers say.
“They’ve opened up everything,” said Jay Palmer, a civil rights, human trafficking, and immigration rights activist, who works with many of the foreign visa workers who are exploited by their U.S. employers. He continued:
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Any guesses on what percentage of those "U.S. graduates" reliably vote as far left as possible every chance they get?
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You think those 'Indian' computer engineers, et al, have lots of degrees in Gender/Women/Queer studies? Gross assumption they'd vote Commie.
[Breitbart] Here’s an actual headline good for some laughs: “Vulnerable Senate Dems try to run as tax-cutters.” That howler of a header appeared this week in Politico.
As the publication explained, four Democratic senators all up for re-election in 2022— Mark Kelly of Arizona, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, and Raphael Warnock of Georgia—are now in favor of suspending the federal gasoline tax, which is 18.4 cents a gallon.
Politico added slyly, “It’s no coincidence that the Democrats most involved in the new push hail from the toughest battlegrounds.” And the article further added that in light of the failure of big-ticket legislative items such as Build Back Better, Democrats are “racing to cobble together an agenda that convinces voters that the party is responding to their biggest concern: rising costs.”
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.
[Spectator via Lucianne] Sorry Democrats, Your Problem Isn’t Messaging. The voters know the difference between specious talking points and effective policies.
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[PJ] According to a study from a team at Texas Christian University, there is an apparent link between the strength of an individual’s immune system and how attractive they are.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
Hezbollah
...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 
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
[Epoch Times]
[JPost] In the future, Palestinians will have an entity, but not a full-fledged state, Defense Minister Benny Gantz told the Munich Security Conference on Sunday.
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