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[NewsFrontInfo] The American elites did not foresee the development of events with the recognition of the independence of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics by President Vladimir Putin. The current precarious economic situation of the United States may prevent the White House administration from joining the West's sanctions war against Moscow's decision.
“This suggests that they were outplayed - this is generally Putin's style.
They really made a mistake. And this is a system thing. Putin said that it was pointless to talk with Western Europe - it was necessary to talk with the United States. And now they have another pain, ”-declared expert.
The decision of the Russian side on Donbass has finally cut the ground from under the feet of the collective West, which has serious economic and domestic political problems. The ill-considered imposition of sanctions by certain European partners of the United States can cause a wave of bans against Russia, for which Europe itself cannot be ready.
“Their key problem is that they don’t have mechanisms in the domestic situation by which they could do something, and Putin has put them in a situation in which they have the same situation in foreign policy. They don't know what to do with it. Moreover, they cannot, because in order to come up with a foreign policy, you need to be sure that you have an internal resource for its implementation, ”Khazin concluded.
The situation in Ukraine required decisive action on the part of Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized in his address to the nation what historical moments led to such a misunderstanding between Moscow and the West on all counts. The anti-Russian front is reaping the fruits of many years of aggression, which created a Russian superpower with inviolable national principles.
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"The American elites did not foresee the development of events with the recognition of the independence of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics by President Vladimir Putin."
Well I'm only Bavarian elite but I did foresee this.
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You give them way too little credit for their brainpower and way too much for their moral fortitude.
The "elites" in the West have spent the last thirty years undermining the West's ability to produce products and energy for themselves and empowering China's industrial base and Russia's leverage via its energy resources and the resources it leverages from the landlocked countries of Central Asia. (Oh, and whatever Iran can do to disrupt supplies from the Middle East).
But hey, the elites sure whipped those truckers' asses, eh? Maybe Putin will be impressed by their ability to have the RCMP trample underhoof some First Nations senior citizen on a mobility scooter.
#3
Even more comical: all the western elites' predictions centered on Kyiv. Instead the Russians are just moving materiel into those pro-Russian disputed regions at the far eastern end of Ukraine, de facto autonomous regions that could not be further from Kyiv.
Whose autonomy and independence would have been upheld by a good-faith, even minimally competent US government, if we ever were to have one.
#5
Has anyone considered tik-tok getting a platoon of paratroopettes to dance to Uptown Funk, then have Lunch Vader introduce Admiral Tits on a Bull for a national conversation about how the worlds' militaries should Go Green?
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all the western elites' predictions centered on Kyiv
Because Frank Luntz focus group said, although nobody in the group could identify Ukraine's location on a map, slightly more than half of them had at least heard of Chicken Keiv. Slightly less than half guessed correctly that it's a main course, not a diplomatic gambit...
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[Aljazeera] Sixteen people, including foreign nationals, were injured in Saudi Arabia when a drone launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeting an airport in the kingdom was destroyed.
A coalition statement, cited by the Saudi state news agency SPA on Monday, said the drone was launched towards King Abdullah Airport in the southwestern Jizan province.
According to the statement, victims suffered injuries from shrapnel during the drone interception.
The coalition said the drone was fired "from Sanaa International Airport to target civilians".
"Sixteen civilians of different nationalities were injured," it said.
Saudi state TV reported three travellers were in critical condition.
It aired a short video clip of the aftermath that showed glass shattered across the floor inside the airport.
The state-run Ekhbariya news channel later showed travellers moving about within Jizan’s airport and reported that flights were back to operating normally.
[GatewayPundit] Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem shared a new video on Monday highlighting the need to decertify the irredeemably compromised 2020 election in Arizona.
Mark Finchem is the Trump-endorsed candidate for Arizona Secretary of State.
Recently, Rep. Finchem introduced a resolution to decertify three 2020 county elections in Arizona and reclaim the state’s fraudulently certified electors. RINO Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who will decide whether or not this bill is assigned and voted on, immediately opposed Finchem’s resolution.
Rep. Finchem has challenged Rusty Bowers’ legal scholars to a debate with his attorneys on the resolution’s constitutionality. The Arizona Legislature must pass this resolution to restore voter confidence.
Please show me in the US and Arizona Constitutions the procedures to be followed for decertifying a Presidential election.
You'll pardon me if I don't hold my breath while you look that up.
Mike
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I have to agree with #1 on the legal point.
Plus it opens doors to constant political disruption to any hope of a smooth operating Admin. Unless Biden, Nancy, Chucky, and BJ knew the fix was in and assisted. Impeachment based on the fake election won't work even.
However, Biden Nancy and BJ have violated their Oaths of Office several times over and could be removed legally that way.
BUT.....
We have 3 branches of Gov. and we use to get, what we voted for.
Now politicians are elected by hacked Voting Machines, Elite political operatives, Social Media along with the cases of extra printed ballots.
The 3 branches of Government functionality was neutralized/corrupted the day the 2 Political Party system concept came into being. Then Voter Interests were only heard around election time.
NOW.....With all the phony ways to cast and count votes, voters are no longer even needed.
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show me in the US and Arizona Constitutions the procedures
Yeah, there's that. It appears that the Founding Fathers, despite their understanding of human nature and political systems, did not account for things going so far off into the weeds. But that is not the important bit.
The important part is that someone is saying this out loud. Anyone paying attention knows there were some election shenanigans, but you are not allowed to talk about it in polite company. The East German Stasi spend a lot of time shutting down dissent, not by throwing people in jail because you cannot arrest everybody, but by making sure no one talked out loud. But eventually, the signal gets through. Slowly at first. Then, all at once.
[American Thinker] With no public announcements, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) both are studying neurological problems that have appeared in people after receiving the COVID vaccines. In a scoop, Zachary Stieber of the Epoch Times has confirmed via emails that the studies are underway. You can read the report un-paywalled (by special arrangement with the Epoch Times) here:
#1
It happens with both VAX'd and Recovering infected persons.
We call it COVID BRAIN FOG around here.
Lots of stupid little things 1st couple of weeks like:
Forgetting what you are doing while doing it.
Looking down and seeing you have a filled coffee cup in your hand already.
Leaving the door unlocked or water running.
Leaving the car running while in the store.
It took me about 3 weeks to get back to normal.
A fireman in Metro Atlanta was telling me he has seen other firemen that had cases of Covid-19/22 or VAX'd to a much lesser degree...taking months to just to be 3/4's as sharp as they were before.
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/\ Had all of that before the Jab. Actually, I think the wife and I have picked up a bit of mental acuity. We've both decided to never follow any future governmental suggestions regarding health care or inoculations.
"Developing a safe and effective vaccine against the novel Coronavirus (“COVID- 19”) was a matter of urgency. But that urgency does not excuse cutting corners in clinical trials, wasting taxpayer dollars, violating federal regulations, and possibly endangering Americans’ health.
"Defendants Pfizer Inc., Icon PLC, and Ventavia Research Group, LLC (collectively, “Defendants”) conducted a clinical trial to test one of the COVID-19 vaccine candidates. In the race to secure billions in federal funding and become the first to market, Defendants deliberately withheld crucial information from the United States that calls the safety and efficacy of their vaccine into question.
"Namely, Defendants concealed violations of both their clinical trial protocol and federal regulations, including falsification of clinical trial documents. Due to Defendants’ scheme, millions of Americans have received a misbranded vaccination which is potentially not as effective as represented. The vaccine’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) authorization resulted from a deeply flawed clinical trial that violated FDA regulations. Defendants have profited from the COVID-19 pandemic at the expense of the United States and its citizens by abusing the scientific process."
The evidence presented is detailed, precise, marshaled superbly to support a tight well-argued case. From p. 8 of the linked case summary above, Brook Jackson alleges he saw Pfizer's subcontractor fake the blood draw clinical trials data:
"7. Ventavia’s trial protocol and regulatory violations were so widespread, in fact, that Relator observed them on a near-daily basis during her brief employment period. For example, Relator observed:
• fabrication and falsification of blood draw information, vital signs, signatures and other essential clinical trial data
... [and 12 other specific categories of violations of trial protocols]
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^ Who cares? It gets sent to a dem appointed federal judge, it gets "lack of standing'd" out of court. With prejudice.
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#1 I can't tell those neurological issues from my normal state.
I suspect they want to keep this kind of stuff quiet until they need to roll it out to use against Trump, and his 'reckless rush to dangerous vaccines.'
LONDON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Investors were bracing for a torrid day for Russian, Ukrainian and wider global markets when they reopen on Tuesday, after Vladimir Putin upped the ante in a crisis the West fears could unleash a major war.
#10
Kissenger/Nixon opening to China was based on the concept of triangulation. Seems familiar, but we seem to be on the wrong side of it. Our grandparents and parents (for us codgers) gave us a superpower based on strength, industry and confidence in our institutions, beliefs and exceptionalism. Seventy years later, we have squandered it and stopped believing in much of it beyond material plenty. And now that too is ending. It has been a chronicle of stupid choices and tolerance and coasting along on the belief that it will always be that way. The worst part for me is the mind-numbing lack of basic history and rudimentary situational awareness expected of a citizen. I look north and south and see nothing but our future as the globalist sewer rats loot what is left of the public trust and treasury.
I would try and tell our grandkids about the path that led to this to awaken them, but I can't fit it in 186 characters..
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/\ You did an excellent job of explaining the origins NBS.
The exploitation of cheap Chinese labor finds it's roots in the Kissinger/Nixon opening. Kissenger went on to make a successful career of coordinating investments in China. In fact, the crooked bastid is still at it today.
[Breitbart] Sunday on New York WABC 770 AM radio’s "The Cats Roundtable," Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) argued that President Joe Biden and his administration intended to "push people out of" fuel-based vehicles with their energy policy.
Thune told host John Catsimatidis that Democrats want to be more "eco-friendly," so they have decided to push people toward electric vehicles.
"I think honestly, that’s part of the strategy," Thune outlined. "I think it’s to push people out of, you know, fuel-based vehicles. But you are absolutely going to crush the economy and a lot of middle-income families, many of whom are not going to be able to convert to [electric vehicles]."
"The requirements that we’re going to have to meet in this country for the foreseeable future are going to have to be met with fuel oil, which we have an abundance of in this country, but because of policies that are out of whack relative to what the real economy is dictating, [is] not being developed," he added. "It’s unfortunate and sad that the United States of America is going to hat-in-hand to countries in the Middle East like the Saudis asking them to produce more energy so that we can fuel our economy here in the United States when we can do it on our own."
#4
Organize the truckers to strike and cut off heating oil and gas deliveries to the deep-blue cities. Raise CA's cost of electricity that's provided by other states.
#5
Well. If there was ever a group poorly positioned to be pushed onto the front lines, it would be the truckers. They need so many chits and regulatory stamps of approval issued by the gummint that they are being asked by people with no skin in the game to commit sui@ide. You don't think the gummint will let lots of newly arriveds from Latin America and the ME take those jobs? Just watch. It's miraculous how the gummint can pull one guy's permits earned over a lifetime of honest work while waiving all the requirements for Mahound or Jose.
And if waivers of liability for vcaccines bug you, you are gonna love imported truck drivers who can't read signs in English or pass a pi$$ test getting carte blanche to cream motorists right and left.
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^ BLUF: The arugula and guac must flow. To the blue cities anyway...
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^5 The appropriate reaction of truckers might be to rigorously follow every i-dotting and t-crossing of the law. And then some. Observe all speed limits, and give yourself a 5 mph cushion. Etc. Especially on traffic to the most offensive urban enclaves. And not just long-haul truckers, but local and delivery as well. But the window of opportunity is not all that big - soon enough trucks will be driverless Google vehicles.
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Raise CA's cost of electricity that's provided by other states.
Ouch, man they have already done that. It hurts! Take it easy, OK?
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soon enough trucks will be driverless Google vehicles.
Like so many other things, the 5-10 years it’ll take to translate that from idea to widespread reality is infinitely expanding from the ever-moving present point in time. Even if they get automatic cars to work, delivery and tractor-trailer trucks with their much larger loads having larger inertia and momentum — meaning considerably greater danger to other vehicles should they wobble even slightly out of their designated path or miss cues for unexpected behaviour by other vehicles — will make programming the things infinitely more complex while requiring much quicker response time.
As for the fuel-based vehicles thingy, that’ll just increase the two-decade pattern of the middle class moving from blue cities and states to red suburbs where they can work from home and drive short distances to work in nearby suburbs rather than in city centers. The higher cost of gasoline doesn’t matter as much when the driver only needs half or less as much to work and shop. Trailing daughter #2 has put 42,000 miles on her car, acquired new in 2013; her company policy will have her going in to the office only for meetings even after Covid ends, while her husband, an accountant, will continue working entirely from home — they’re talking about giving up his car completely, and Mr. Wife is talking about trailing daughter #1 and I giving up one of ours as unncessary.
Perhaps nowhere is the gap between America’s cognitive elite and its populace larger than in their preferred urban forms. For nearly a century—interrupted only by the Depression and the Second World War—Americans have been heading further from the urban core, seeking affordable and safe communities with good schools, parks, and a generally more tranquil lifestyle. We keep pushing out despite the contrary desires of planners, academic experts, and some real estate interests. In 1950, the core cities accounted for nearly 24 percent of the U.S. population; today, the share is under 15 percent, according to demographer Wendell Cox. Between 2010 and 2020, the suburbs and exurbs of the major metropolitan areas gained 2.0 million net domestic migrants, while the urban core counties lost 2.7 million.2
This is less a growth in “bedroom suburbs,” supplying workers to the urban core, but one that serves multiple employment centers and commercial development.3 The latest edition of Commuting in America estimates that almost 70 percent of metropolitan-area workers now live and work in the suburbs; trips within suburbs or suburb-to-suburb commutes constitute more than double the commutes with a central business district as the final destination.4...
The Pandemic Effects
The pandemic clearly hastened the shift to the periphery. Despite the disease’s relentless spread, the greatest concentrations of Covid fatalities have tended to be in dense urban areas. Much of this has to do not with population concentration per se but with the inevitable “exposure density” among those forced to take public transit, live in crowded apartments, and take elevators to work.22
These concerns are behind what Zillow calls “the great re-shuffling” toward suburbs, the Sunbelt, and smaller cities. Between 2019 and 2021, preference for larger homes in less dense areas grew from 53 percent to 60 percent, according to the Pew Research Center.23 During the pandemic year alone, construction in exurbs increased 20 percent, faster than other geographies. Both prices and the rate of building have risen the fastest in exurbia, with price increases twice the national average, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.24
Planned communities have done particularly well; the fifty largest exceeded expectations in the first half of 2021 and are experiencing growth of 20 to 40 percent annually. Robert Schottenstein, CEO of Columbus-based M/I Homes, Inc., a builder with fifteen projects in the Midwest, Southeast, and Texas, explains, “This is a flight to safety and security. The millennials are getting older, and they are transitioning as they start families.”25
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A couple years after I moved here, a small group got all hot n bothered about trying to establish an HOA type carbuncle. They were run off right quick.
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The graphic sez it all, and it's not as if the Dems have been silent on this.
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They had big plans to wreck the suburbs, but various bright shiny things (BLM, CRT, COVID, Ukraine) caused them to take their eye off the ball. Now it's time to make them pay.
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Interesting TW. Me and the wife are looking for a house in Texas (from Washington State). Looking at some of those planned communities around Fort Worth. After having a noisy neighbour here those HOA's don't sound so bad... I'll be working semi-remote and attached to the company's Austin Office. Going in about once every 6 months or so.
Wife is asking 'Why not live in or around Austin?'.
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tw, just to expand on your #9 and #11, I am reminded of the old saying that nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it. The power grid, which I have some very basic knowledge of, is a good example. Politicians with no relevant experience legislate "green" power; which causes the folks who have actually been running power generating stations for 20 years (or managing the grid) to reach for the Wild Turkey. Optimist though I am, I fear that this summer will bring power outages on a scale that is going to to cause real suffering. Regards to lotp.
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[Just The News] Fencing will be reinstalled around the U.S. Capitol next week as a security precaution for President Biden's State of the Union address on March 1.
The Capitol grounds were previously fenced off and guarded with a major police and military presence for six months following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
Similar security fencing is now being put back up as U.S. Capitol Police brace for a potential protest to come to Washington, D.C., similar to the ones that have made headlines in Canada, Fox News reported.
For more than three weeks, the so-called Freedom Convoy truckers have blocked roads in downtown Ottawa in protest of Canada's COVID-19 mandates. Canadian authorities began last week cracking down on the blockade by arresting some demonstrators and freezing their bank accounts.
Another blockade temporarily blocked the busy Ambassador Bridge border crossing between Windsor and Detroit before being resolved peacefully.
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Fencing around the Capitol should make for some nice photo opportunities. Great marketing for the midterm election! Just be sure to use a long lens to stay out of reach of the Capitol Police.
#2
Chain the gates shut from outside. Trebuchet africanized bee and murder hornet nests over the fence.
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Bidet's SOTUA is a good time to catch up on sleep and do something useful. Biden will try to claim victory over Covid and Putin. Dems are worried about 2022 Congressional elections. Why two Dems who are running are so desperate, they are even promising to cut taxes if they get to DC..
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^ Yeah and if you're not sleepy when it starts just watch for a few minutes and you will be.
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02/22/2022 13:20
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Next up: a moat filled with sharks with frikkin' lazer beams attached to their heads.
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02/22/2022 14:15
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Require a 4x the usual dose mRNA "booster" for admission to all buildings in the district, with an all-paid lifetime vacation in a tent just inside the wire at Gitmo for refusal. Watch how fast the gummint decides "the vaxx does not work and is being discontinued immediately."
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Did they have fences around the Capitol during the anti-war demonstrations in DC in the 60s?
ATLANTA (CBS46) -- Police are investigating after a man reportedly drove off in Paramedic Engine 16 and hit a parked car on the 700 block of Neal Street Saturday.
Shortly after that incident, the man exited the engine and went westbound on Neal Street.
According to the Atlanta Police Department, officers were able to locate and detain the male suspect, identified as 26-year-old Curtis Malik Smith.
APD says Smith appears to be a homeless male suffering mental health crisis. Officers placed him in custody and transported him to Grady Detention where he will receive further medical evaluation. He is charged with Theft by Taking and Criminal Damage to Property.
No injuries were reported during this incident and there is minor damage to the fire truck.
[AnNahar] Israel has recently carried out sabotage and espionage operations that targeted sensitive Hizbullah posts inside Lebanese territory, a media report said.
*Snicker* They see you when you’re sleeping,
They know when you’re awake,
They know if you’ve been bad or good...
Interestingly, this story showed up in the Beirut website, but not The Times of Israel.
Israeli elite commandos managed to “destroy secret facilities inside these posts and to seize important information related to Hizbullah’s arms program, various sites and the means of communication between its combat units,” Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai has quoted U.S. diplomatic sources as saying.
“Over the past months, Israeli elite forces conducted operations in various areas of Lebanon and entered into Hizbullah posts. These forces left messages to Hizbullah asking it to dismantle what is present in the manufacturing plants,” the sources added.
One can only imagine what they said.
“At other posts, they left sabotage marks on the contents of the sites,
“Ari was here”
while at other points they managed to obtain very precious information that exposed a lot of capabilities; means of communication and manufacturing; and other intel that is very valuable for the Israeli intelligence,” the sources said.
“For a good time call Hezbollah Joe 555-1212”
Hizbullah meanwhile managed to capture a man who was spying for Israel and had met with Israeli officers in various places in the world, al-Rai reported.
His name is Abdullah Abdullah ibn Mohammed Mahmud, but they call him George.
The spy informed the Israelis of the locations of important and secret Hizbullah and Iranian sites in Syria, the newspaper added.
[Garowe] al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them... bandidosLions of Islam have reportedly kidnapped a Kenyan doctor in the northeastern county of Mandera, the third to be kidnapped in as many years by the group, which controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia.
Security teams launched a rescue mission on Saturday after the bandidosLions of Islam picked the doctor in Fino, a few kilometers from Mandera town which borders Somalia. The doctor is said to have been taken across the border to Somalia.
Police said the four bandidosLions of Islam who were armed with guns, picked the doctor and two locals from Fino Health Center before going to Somalia. The doctor, police said, is not a local thus the possible reason for the abduction.
The two locals were later released before the bandidosLions of Islam and the doctor passed through the Kenya-Somalia border, police said, in what could lead to a major operation within the area.
Police suspect the abductors, thought to be members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group are in possession of medical equipment and medicine. At times, they abduct doctors to help with matters medication in areas they control.
In 2019, al-Shabaab kidnapped two Cuban doctors working in Mandera before releasing them months later following negotiations which were led by local elders. The doctors were identified as Assel Herrera and Landy Rodriguez and were part of a 100-member Cuban team that had come to Kenya for work under an agreement between the two countries.
Their driver, one Robow, was accused of setting them to the krazed killers, leading to his subsequent prosecution. Robow who was driving the car in which the doctors were traveling, was charged with terrorism for alleged complicity in the kidnapping of the medics.
Robow faced five counts including the commissioning of a terrorist act, kidnapping, and hostage-taking, aiding and abetting a terrorist act, and obtaining Kenyan registration by false pretense. He denied all the charges.
On Wednesday, February 16, Nairobi principal magistrate Martha Nanzushi ruled that Robow was guilty of kidnapping the medics and aiding a terrorist act.
She said the prosecution did not prove Robow was a Somali national as had been earlier claimed. "I find the accused guilty on counts one, two, three, and four as charged. No sufficient evidence adduced to this court in respect to count five," the magistrate said.
#1
And without the Daily Mail we would never have found out about it.
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Used to have a big friends get together at a restaurant just before Christmas every year. One year we had it a bit earlier than usual to take advantage of 12-13-14.
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Same in our area. Fellow shot himself dead. Wife who caused his anxiety is awarded $200,000 insurance money for his accidental death. Insurance providers once flush with money now in negative territory.
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02/22/2022 8:43
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Speaking of life insurance, that industry's CEOs know their statistics and (unlike the CDC or Fauxi) do not attempt to bullshit anyone.
Deaths have soared since the vaccine was introduced -- not just in Indiana but in muktuolle states around the country. Here's a dispatch from Indiana, as of January 2022:
Jan. 1, 2022
(The Center Square) – The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people.
“We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”
OneAmerica is a $100 billion insurance company that has had its headquarters in Indianapolis since 1877. The company has approximately 2,400 employees and sells life insurance, including group life insurance to employers nationwide.
...At the same news conference where Davison spoke, Brian Tabor, the president of the Indiana Hospital Association, said that hospitals across the state are being flooded with patients “with many different conditions,” saying “unfortunately, the average Hoosiers’ health has declined during the pandemic.”
In a follow-up call, he said he did not have a breakdown showing why so many people in the state are being hospitalized – for what conditions or ailments. But he said the extraordinarily high death rate quoted by Davison matched what hospitals in the state are seeing.
The number of hospitalizations in the state is now higher than before the COVID-19 vaccine was introduced a year ago, and in fact is higher than it’s been in the past five years, Dr. Lindsay Weaver, Indiana’s chief medical officer, said at a news conference with Gov. Eric Holcomb on Wednesday.
Just 8.9% of ICU beds are available at hospitals in the state, a low for the year, and lower than at any time during the pandemic. But the majority of ICU beds are not taken up by COVID-19 patients – just 37% are, while 54% of the ICU beds are being occupied by people with other illnesses or conditions.
#5
At this point, the politicians are washing their hands of it. The bureaucr@ps are lagging indicators. The pols are looking at the next election. The bureau types are watching the permanant gravy train head for the siding outside the shop where old rolling stock is broken up.
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#6
^ yes. Magoo will declare "victory" next Tuesday in his SOTU. Walensky and crew will pull an Emily Litello.
#9
I don't see how a booster of the same design as the previous shots will provide significant benefit, since the virus has mutated away from what that vaccine targeted. (Regardless of relative risks of vaccine and infection for a given demographic.)
#10
The UK government will no longer provide public Covid testing starting April 1.
“Because we know Omicron is less severe, testing for Omicron on the colossal scale we have been doing is now much less valuable in preventing serious illness,” Boris Johnson explained.
Which puts an end to mass surveillance.
Which puts a spike through the COVIDiocy: No mo' testing = no mo' pandemic. It's over. Just seasonal flu now.
#11
"Ron Brown plane ride" That's gonna leave a mark..as in a big grease stain.
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I don't see how a booster of the same design as the previous shots will provide significant benefit, since the virus has mutated away from what that vaccine targeted. (Regardless of relative risks of vaccine and infection for a given demographic.)
I liked the part when they said you can mix and match brands, no biggie, trust us.
Are they the same formula? Are there medication conflicts? Don't know.
Kind of miss being called a Flat-Earther, had some zing to it at least. Vaccine Hesitant is so 90's corporate speak, like Friends will be on after the commercial. Maybe get Oasis to do a PR piece.
#13
Unless they can stick me in a camp for refusing, I'll never take any booster of that garbage. Channeling Quint: "I'll never go in the water with a life jacket again..."
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#14
I'm not getting anymore, I had two shots total but I don't trust it now and wish I hadn't.
#15
They are going to talk tough but do nothing that might illuminate the fact it's just talk. COVID is over and the vaxx mandates will mainly be applied to people who need to work in a specific setting or cross a border.
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02/22/2022 17:22
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#16
Silentbrick, I suspect you are far from alone.
#1
People targeting 'top' white house officials with brain scrambling rays can't simply be clever enough to have made such a thing.
Or maybe it's aliens. That's right. Aliens are beaming down some self-destructive tzimmes into 'top' brains all the time. Only sometimes, the brain rebels. Or when the feed transmission is interrupted, they have a withdrawal of sorts. That's the Havana Syndrome.
[NationalPost] The NDP voted in favour alongside the minority Liberals, with some expressing concerns a 'no' vote would have toppled the government.
The House of Commons on Monday night approved the extraordinary and temporary measures in the Emergencies Act, heeding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the same country that once produced McKenzie King... ’s warning that the "state of emergency is not over," even though police ended a three-week occupation in Ottawa and reopened border points to the U.S.
The motion to confirm the declaration of emergency passed 185-151, with the New Democrats voting in favour alongside the minority Liberal government.
The Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois opposed it.
The vote to approve the measures will keep them in place until mid-March at the latest and the Senate must also vote on the government’s request.
At any point, the Senate, House or government could pull support and the extraordinary powers stemming from the emergencies law would be torn up.
Speaking to news hounds on Monday before the vote, Trudeau made it clear that there are still protesters and truckers awaiting an opportunity to come back to Ottawa, some of which are in the towns of Arnprior and Embrun, respectively 70 and 45 kilometres away from Ottawa.
Trudeau, who invoked the Act last week, stressed his government does not want to keep it in place "a single day longer than necessary."
"But even though the blockades are lifted across border openings right now, even though things seem to be resolving very well in Ottawa, this state of emergency is not over. There continues to be real concerns about the coming days," he said.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh echoed these concerns in a subsequent presser. He said some protesters waiting in the surrounding areas of Ottawa "need to be cleared out" and alleged that some supporters of the occupation are "still hiding in Ottawa itself."
Singh said his party was fully prepared to pull its support and to trigger a vote on the necessity of the Emergencies Act — which expands police powers and enables banks to freeze accounts linked to supporters of the protests — once it would not longer be necessary.
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185-151 seems a fairly small margin. I do like the irony of Trudeau being the leader of the Liberal Party. Liberal, hah! I say it is time for the People to rise up and go all Confucian Rectification of Names on their commie asses. It's time to call a spade a spade.
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Well. The US senate just let freedom go to the back of the bus on 4 votes because 4 GOPe squishes stayed away from their jobs. So "the margin" doesn't really mean much.
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Like everywhere else, the hipsters in the cities love this. Until there's a weighting system that keeps blue urban zones from steamrolling everyone else, this is what you will get.
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[JustTheNews] Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is focus of lawsuit.
A lawsuit filed against Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson asserts she illegally accepted private money for the 2020 presidential election to swing the election for President Joe Biden.
The Chicago-based Thomas More Society filed the lawsuit in the Michigan Court of Claims, alleging Benson violated election law by spending private election funding on partisan purposes that denied Michigan voters’ constitutional equal access voting rights.
The Center Square previously reported Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan contributed $400 million nationwide into the 2020 election through their Chicago-based nonprofit, the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL).
The 166-page filing claims that nearly half of CTCL’s funds flowed to Democrat-dominated areas where Biden won. For example, the lawsuit says CTCL made 19 payments exceeding $100,000 all to jurisdictions that Biden carried in 2020.
The lawsuit cites an America Public Media report finding some cities spent little of the money on personal protective equipment (PPE).
The Michigan Legislature aimed to ban private funding of public elections via Senate Bill 303, which Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed in 2021.
Thomas More Society Special Counsel Thor Hearne said that Benson spent CTCL money to boost Democrat-dominated areas in the 2020 election via increased mail-in voting and ballot harvesting.
“The Michigan Constitution guarantees every eligible citizen the right of equal protection when it comes to voting, and that means state officials may not put in place an election scheme that enhances the weight of votes cast by one class of voters or increases one favored class of voters’ access to the ballot,” Hearne said in a statement. “That’s just what happened here. Analysis of data that the Center for Tech and Civic Life provided to the Internal Revenue Service and other public records demonstrates that this scheme was designed to favor urban areas in Michigan and to disadvantage Michigan voters in rural and suburban more politically conservative areas.”
Hearne said the lawsuit aims to set the rules for future elections, not past elections.
“This case is not about relitigating the 2020 election,” Hearne said. “It is about making sure that these unfair and illegal activities cannot happen in any future election in Michigan. As Michigan’s chief election official, Secretary Benson is responsible for ensuring that every eligible Michigan voter has an equal right and opportunity to cast a ballot.”
A CNN report says 11 Republican-led states have prohibited private money from funding public elections.
Thomas More Society attorneys are representing Wisconsin voters in a similar lawsuit.
“The only way Michigan residents can stop a high-tech billionaire from California from directing the conduct of Michigan’s 2022 election is for the Michigan voters and citizens to prevail in this case against Secretary of State Benson,” Thomas More Society President and Chief Counsel Tom Brejcha said in a statement.
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So the CDC and Scotland's Public Health Authority have both buried their vaccine data. There's transparency for you: transparent, brazen, obvious liars.
Even American Pravda knows these fvckers are lying.
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 statusbecause of similar fears that the figures would be misrepresented by anti-vaccine groups.
"Misinterpreted."
"Misrepresented."
"Misinformation" and even "malinformation."
Right.
Our "public health agencies" are now refusing to release health data to the public. We need a new name worthy of INGSOC's Ministry of Truth (propaganda) or Ministry of Love (torture) for these sick mofos... maybe Ministry of Death.
The proles -- and even Nobel shortlisted scientists like Dr Malone, or Dr Harvey Risch of Yale or Dr Kulldorff of Harvard -- can't be allowed to see actual data about the actual safety and efficacy of this failed gene therapy.
Clue for these clowns: the U.K.'s NIH are releasing their data, as have many other nations. It's horrifying. The cure is worse than the diseases.
They fvcked up royally. They panicked, and and forced us all into their monstrous, failed experiment.
But at least Britain and other north European countries are now showing enough good sense to admit failure and change course. But not the USSA or the People's Thistle Republic.
Six-language coverage from #Kyiv with @AP_GMS. In this order: English, Luxembourgish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. pic.twitter.com/kyEg0aCCoT
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[Korrespondent] The situation with the alleged Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to be approaching its logical conclusion
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The situation around Ukraine has escalated to such an extent that the next two days may be decisive. The Pentagon says Russia could launch a full-scale invasion today. In Ukraine, they believe that Russian troops are not yet ready for this. Meanwhile, the Kremlin is considering recognizing "LDNR". The decision will be announced today, marking a turning point in the conflict. Korrespondent.net follows the events around Ukraine online. Continued on Page 49
[ArmyTimes] Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered forces Monday to "maintain peace" in separatist regions of eastern Ukraine in a further escalation of tensions that followed the Kremlin’s recognition of the areas’ independence despite warnings of sanctions and international condemnation.
In response to his earlier move recognizing separatist republics of Luhansk and Donestk, a senior Biden administration official said that the White House is assessing those moves and will determine what additional actions, likely in the form of sanctions, it will take, in the coming hours.
"We will continue to consult with our allies and partners about both diplomatic solutions and the consequences we will impose on Russia, should it further invade Ukraine," said a senior administration official during a Monday evening press call.
There are already more than 150,000 Russian troops surrounding Ukraine. The official pointed out that Russian troops have repeatedly entered the region since Russia invaded in 2014, during which time more than 14,000 people have been killed in fighting. But he declined to set a red line on what further incursions would prompt an additional U.S. response.
"Just in the last hour, we’ve seen Russia or troops to deploy into the DPR and LPR for so called peacekeeping functions," said the senior administration official, who declined to confirm reports by the Russian Interfax news agency and social media posts showing additional Russian forces entering the Donbas.
A Ukraine military official told Military Times Monday night that a new wave of Russian troops had entered the Donbas in the wake of Putin’s order.
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79th anniversary of Manstein's masterpiece: the Third Battle of Kharkov...
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He's sending 'peacekeepers' in already occupied territory. Just like the KGB followed the Red Army as it 'liberated' areas '42-post'45.
Now watch carefully how incompetent the Western leadership is. If they tell the Ukraine to accept this grab as a defacto event, their diplomatic war against Israel collapses when dealing with West Bank issues. No principle, not that they had any principles anyway.
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And then there's this where Zhirinovsky tells us the exact date and time that Russia would begin operations in Ukraine.
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Even the Polish leaders and the EU Foreign Minister admit the obvious and refuse to call this an "invasion." These are disputed lands already occupied by Russian troops.
Putin is yet again wrongfooting our sadsack, incompetent leaders.
Russia will not yet send troops to the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the recognition of which President Vladimir Putin announced the day before, said Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko.
At the same time, Moscow expressed its readiness to provide military assistance to the republics in the event of a threat.
“Military assistance is provided for by the treaty. But let's not speculate. So far, no one is going to enter anything anywhere. If there is a threat, then we will provide assistance in accordance with the ratified treaties, ”he said (quote about TASS ).
According to the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, the Russian Federation recognizes the DPR and LPR within the borders "in which they proclaimed themselves," TASS reports .
Journalists asked him if these borders include Mariupol.
"Nothing to say. Within the limits in which they exist and have been proclaimed. And they were proclaimed, and they exist, ”Interfax quotes Peskov.
He also commented on the possibility of introducing troops into the Donbass. According to him, the decision to send Russian troops to the DPR and LPR will be made depending on the situation and in the case of appeals from the heads of the republics.
Peskov added that a break in diplomatic relations with Ukraine is highly undesirable, it will make relations between the two countries and peoples even more difficult.
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This is a bargaining chip. Or if you prefer шахматы, Putin moving the Queen into striking position: check.
Magoo has to negotiate now. If someone in his admin is listening to reason, that is. "Independence" for Ukraine... with no NATO membership. A Ukrainian version of the sleight of hand formula we use vis-a-vis Taiwan
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WRT Taiwan, the gummint better pay whatever it takes to fast track Intel and Samsung's new chip fabs on US soil.
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Everything Putin has done this week has been 100 percent predictable. I knew Georgia Part II was on the table. If our "elite" had been paying attention they could have achieved a long lasting diplomatic solution.
But no.
Wew have old cold warriors applying the only thing they know about Russia thinking it will apply in reality.
Russia continues to call for talks despite the state department acting as though they don't need to talk, just impose sanctions.
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The people who actually won the cold war are mostly gone now. The office boys and girls that were there when it happened imagine themselves "old Russia hands" now. They couldn't be more wrong.
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There's nothing to negotiate.
There was nothing left to negotiate when the German Wehrmacht entered Prague.
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Bidet and Blinkey "have the Bear right where it wants them" now.
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Alas, all those shrewd and clear-eyed Russia hands who predicted Russian revenge on NATO were ignored.
Alas, the most eloquent and learned voices have departed the scene: George Kennan, Stephen F. Cohen,
Bill Bradley traveled around Russia in the mid-1990s with liberal politicians and heard an earful about NATO from ordinary Russians -- long before anyone ever heard of Putin. But no one listened to Bradley in 2008 when he warned of this.
No one listened to two of our greatest IR theorists, Mearsheimer of Chicago or Schweller of OSU. The former explained it with crystal clarity 6 years ago. No one in our arrogant, mindless foreign policy establishment heeded him.
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#10 Russia continues to call for talks despite the State Department acting as though they don't need to talk, just impose sanctions.
As with their COVIDiocy, our elites are just mindlessly thrashing now. "It failed -- so let's do more of the same."
Sanctions are the stupidest of our many retarded policies. They failed vs Saddam. They failed vs Iran. They've failed every damned place they've ever been tried, simply ending up punishing ordinary people and turning them against us.
Before our pointless and futile sanctions were. Applied to Russia in 2014, the Russian people and we had a favorable view of the United States and its policies. Thanks for the chili attic sanctions, the Russians now have an overwhelmingly negative view of the United States and its policies.
So now they're talking about sanctions again -- when Russia has $650 billion in the bank and $130 billion worth of signed oil and gas deals with its new ally, China. Which has THREE TRILLION $ in reserves.
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COVID brought us the "we are all in this together" mantra. It's nonsense, but it's what the leftist elite are selling. It's an expansion on the R2P bullship...
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Last night CBS News reported that Putin had launched into a tirade about Ukraine on Russian TV. But, of course, neither CBS nor any other mainstream outlet would report on what the man actually had to say. So I went to Al Jazeera and found highlights. I posted it for tomorrow's Opinion section. They say there are two sides to every story but you'd never know it from watching CBS.
I'm sorry if people in Donbass are suffering. I don't like all the tension. Yes, I think Putin is a ruthless dictator and a scary thug and I have no way of knowing whether his tanks will roll into Kiev or not. But, at this point and from where I sit, I'm more afraid of Brandon and his media friends than I am of Putin.
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We have no strategic interest in Ukraine.
Except we told them we'd guarantee their security if they gave up their nukes.
This and the cave towards Iran will kick off a world-wide nuclear arms race.
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Except we told them we'd guarantee their security if they gave up their nukes.
This and the cave towards Iran will kick off a world-wide nuclear arms race.
Unless it was part of a treaty endorSed by the US Senate those promises are meaningless.
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We expect that sort of thing from Putin but we thought Trudeau was just an annoying liberal weenie. We'll see how long Trudeau can get away with it.
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And now the kabuki begins, with "harsh" sanctions.
Which have never had the slightest impact on Putin's calculations or conduct and won't now -- except of course for cementing the new Russia-China alliance. Brilliant.
But American Pravda laps it up: NYT flooding the zone with a dozen screaming headlines and articles, as if this comical, useless theater were another D-Day landing.
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, a farmer was deadly shot by the Turkish border guards (gendarmerie), while working on his farmland in Salqin, northwest of Idlib.
“The Turkish border guards opened fire directly on the agricultural lands near the town of al-Mashrafiya in the Salqin, northwest of Idlib,” North Press reported local sources.
The shooting led to the death of Abdulmuttalib al-Khasara, who was also the Imam of a mosque, at the Bab al-Hawa border hospital after being seriously wounded, according to the sources.
There have been many shooting incidents by Turkish border guards at residents, including women and children, in the areas near the Syrian-Turkish border, north of Idlib.
Activists told North Press that Turkish border guards deliberately fire on residents trying to cross the Syrian-Turkish border.
On February 10, a displaced child was killed by the Turkish border guards, while being near the Badama camp near the town of Ain al-Baida in the Jisr al-Shughur countryside, west of Idlib.
Reporting by Samir Awad
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[KavkazUzel] The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don found Ramazan Appakov, a resident of Karachay-Cherkessia, guilty of justifying terrorism and fined him 300,000 rubles.
Ramazan Appakov, a 22-year-old native of Kislovodsk, Stavropol Territory, was accused of publicly justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of Russia).
"It was established that in November 2018, while in the village of Uchkeken, Malokarachaevsky district of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, the defendant posted on a public page in one of the social networks a video file containing calls for terrorist activities and statements on the recognition of the ideology and practice of terrorism as correct, in need of support and imitation," an employee of the press service of the Southern District Military Court told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on February 18.
Appakov was found guilty, he was fined 300 thousand rubles. Appakov did not appeal the verdict, and it entered into force, the press service of the court reported.
The "Caucasian Knot" has no comments yet from Ramazan Appakov and his representatives regarding the verdict.
It should be noted that the maximum punishment under this article is imprisonment for a term of five to seven years.
Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on February 18, the Southern District Military Court sentenced a resident of Dagestan , Ali Aliyev, to a large fine, finding him guilty of publicly justifying terrorism.
[KavkazUzel] A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Dagestan resident Ali Aliyev to a large fine, finding him guilty of publicly justifying terrorism.
Ali Aliyev, a resident of Makhachkala, was accused of publicly justifying terrorism using the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of Russia). Punishment under this article provides for both a fine in the amount of 300,000 to one million rubles and imprisonment for a term of five to seven years.
"It was established that in 2020, while in Makhachkala, the defendant posted text comments on a social network containing a positive assessment of the actions of members of illegal armed groups and international terrorist organizations," the press service of the Southern District Military Court told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
The defendant was found guilty, he was fined 400 thousand rubles, however, taking into account the period of detention, as well as being under house arrest, the amount of the fine was reduced to 300 thousand rubles. Aliyev did not appeal the verdict and it entered into force, the press service of the court reported.
The "Caucasian Knot" does not yet have any comments by Ali Aliyev and his representatives regarding the verdict.
The Joint Operations Force to Combat Terrorism in Libya published videos of the confessions of a cell affiliated with the terrorist organisation “ISIS.”
The men confirmed that some of them joined the extremist organisation in 2014 and 2016. They added that they participated in the armed attacks that took place in the city of Benghazi before moving to the South of Libya.
The men also revealed that they formed a secret cell in Tripoli led by the arrested terrorist Ahmed Al-Khashmi, nicknamed Al-Adnani.
The Joint Operations Force arrested all elements of the cell consisting of Sanad Al-Suwaii, Ahmed Ali Al-Khashmi, Tariq Abdul Salam Al-Obeidi and Abdullah Idris Al-Obeidi. The cell was stationed in Tripoli.
Last month, the Libyan National Army (LNA)’s Official Spokesperson, Major General Ahmed Al-Mismari, announced that 24 ISIS militants were killed during three-day long clashes against LNA forces near the town of Al-Qatroun in Southwest Libya.
Speaking during a press conference, Al-Mismari confirmed that an ISIS militant was arrested and four LNA soldiers were reported missing during the clashes.
He said the LNA directed its units to “hunt down” the ISIS militants who had escaped.
The Spokesman added that the army started off a large-scale operation in the southern outskirts of Qatroun, which is located some 200 kilometers from the border with Niger and Chad. It did so after detecting movements by ISIS cells around Mount Asida.
Several units of the LNA, including the Tariq bin Ziyad Brigade, the 73rd Infantry Brigade, and the 128th Military Battalion, took part in the operation. Libyan Air Force warplanes provided close air support for LNA troops advancing on the ground.
Notably, LNA forces conduct combing operations in the country’s southern region periodically in order keep ISIS at bay. Despite this, the terrorist group’s cells manage to launch attacks from time to time.
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We have stolen all we want from them so lets just sanction them.
[Jpost] China's foreign ministry spokesman said that the US arms companies' sale to Taiwan undermined China's security interests and China-US relations.
China has placed US companies Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Technologies Corp under sanctions over US arms sales to Taiwan.
The sanctions are countermeasures against the two companies over a $100 million February 7 arms sale that "undermined China's security interests, seriously undermined China-US relations and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait," foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular news briefing.
Beijing says that the self-ruled island of Taiwan is a breakaway province that must be reunified with the mainland.
"In accordance with the relevant stipulations in China's anti-foreign sanctions law, the Chinese government has decided to take countermeasures on the infringing acts of Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin," Wang said.
"Both are military enterprises that have long participated in US arms sales to China's Taiwan region."
This is the first time the companies have faced sanctions under China's new anti-foreign sanctions law drawn up last year in response to US sanctions against Chinese companies.
On at least two previous occasions China has announced sanctions against Lockheed and Raytheon, in 2019 and 2020, though Beijing provided no further details.
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Yum, chickpeas. I have a rice cooker and keep a casserole dish of mixed brown rice, chickpeas and lentils on the refrigerator top shelf. Instant meal when you add a can of something else and nuke it in the microwave.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
In the decrees on the recognition of the DPR and LPR signed by Putin, clause No. 4 actually allows the entry of Russian troops into the Donbass to protect the people's republics.
A number of sources report that the advance of Russian troops has already begun. Even before the signing of the recognition documents, the leader of the Communist Party Zyuganov said that tomorrow Russian troops would enter the Donbass.
The era of "northern winds", "military trade" and "deep mines of Donbass" is a thing of the past. Now Russian troops will be stationed quite legally and officially in the Donbas, as in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Attempts at shelling, apparently, will lead to "peace enforcement" by force and forced graves.
1. Russia officially recognized the sovereignty of the DNR and LNR. Putin signed the corresponding document. Tomorrow it must be approved by the Federation Council and the State Duma. Minsk-2 is dead. I congratulate the inhabitants of Donbass, what we in Crimea and Sevastopol got so easily in 2014, you suffered and paid with the blood of an 8-year wait.
2. Friendship and cooperation agreements have been concluded with the DPR and LPR, which will enable Russia to deploy troops in the Donbass along the lines of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Tomorrow, these agreements should also be ratified.
In fact, as mentioned earlier, it was not the Pridnestrovian, but the South Ossetian version that was implemented in the Donbass. As the only way to stop the implementation of the Karabakh scenario with a permanent war.
3. Russia requires the Kiev regime to immediately stop hostilities. In case of refusal, all the consequences of the continuation of the war will fall on Ukraine. In fact, this is a direct threat of peace enforcement. Since the probability of abandoning the war tends to zero, it is very likely that we will face a phase of active maneuverable combat operations.
We’ll see such global warming that our children will never see snow again.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Large parts of the US are facing major winter storms this week - Storm Nancy and Storm Oaklee
Storm Nancy will send temperatures plummeting by up to 30 degrees in the Midwest and Northeast
The worst of the storm is expected within 24 - 48 hours, and could bring over a foot of snow in some places We're lookin at 70 tomorrow, down to 30 tomorrow night w/22mph winds
The National Weather Service sent widespread winter weather alerts and warned of treacherous conditions
Nancy will be followed by Storm Oaklee later this week, which will track across the US from the Southwest
Oaklee is expected to make landfall in California on Tuesday but will gather strength as it sweeps eastwards
The storms represent yet more misery for millions who were battered by brutal weather late last week
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me too magpie, I still think it is. Also this "bomb cylone" that seems to be every winter storm now.
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We basically have named raindrops and named puffs of wind now. And I guess it's all down to diversity that what used to be called a "strong line of thunderstorms" is now a "derecho."
I live for the annual report of the "official end of hurricane season" where they basically play state funeral dirge music in the background while the talking heads mumble about "maybe next season will begin early."
Ghouls...
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They were predicting 15" here in the Missenota backlands; looks like 5" at most. OTOH it IS colder than a tiche's wit.
[IJR] The Capital Beltway may soon see blockades like Ottawa, Canada experienced as truckers protested COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Bob Bolus told Fox 5, an organizer of one of the convoys of truckers heading to Washington, D.C, "We will be along the Beltway where the Beltway will be shut down." so Fox 5 is organizing? A poorly written sentence.
He added that he plans to leave from Scranton, Pennsylvania on Wednesday morning and drive through the city before heading to the Beltway.
He continued, "I’ll give you an analogy of that of a giant boa constrictor that basically squeezes you, chokes you, and it swallows you, and that’s what we’re going to do to D.C."
"There will be a lane open for emergency vehicles, they’ll be able to get in and out and all that," Bolus added. "We will not compromise anybody’s safety or health, one way or the other. As far as if they can’t get to work, geez that’s too bad."
[Just The News] People's Convoy co-organizer Maureen Steele says truckers have been hit hard by COVID-19 mandates and the protesters "want accountability" for the government's actions during the pandemic.
The People's Convoy, inspired by the Canadian Freedom Convoy, plans to be in Washington, D.C., by March 5.
The truckers in the protest are looking to restore freedom and liberty, Steele told "Just the News, Not Noise" cohosts John Solomon and Amanda Head.
"We want accountability for what happened over the last two years," said Steele, calling the pandemic's fallout "devastating."
Some truckers have lost their jobs due to COVID vaccine mandates, Steele reported.
"They're still willing to go out on the road, and cross the country, for our freedom," Steele said. "And it's so typical of all of America, the blue-collar boys stepping up first.
Steele called the People's Convoy a "slice of Americana," explaining that "people from every walk of life" have joined the protest.
Deir ez-Zor, Syria (North Press) – The attack on al-Sina’a prison in Hasakah city, northeast Syria, gave a moral impetus to the sleeper cells of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS), which increased its operations, a military commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Monday.
On January 20, ISIS sleeper cells carried out a series of attacks on al-Sina’a prison, where thousands of ISIS members are detained, to break their ISIS inmates fellows out of the prison, which led the residents of the neighboring areas to flee and take shelter in mosques.
“The recent period has witnessed an increase in the pace of operations as the level of daring of ISIS operations has risen to the point of attacking military units,” Ibrahim al-Jassem, the commander of the SDF’s Hajin Military Council, said.
Since January 22, in conjunction with the attack on al-Sina’a prison, ISIS has claimed 20 operations against the SDF and one against civilians in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
Al-Jassem added that ISIS is not eliminated and has the ability to move, and this requires the help of countries to ensure its final defeat.
The countryside of Deir ez-Zor has been witnessing an increase in cases of killing of SDF members, the employees of the Autonomous Administration, tribal notables and civilians, most of which have been claimed by ISIS.
Meanwhile, SDF has intensified its security operations in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor to pursue ISIS sleeper cells.
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Shafaq News / Al-Siyada coalition, headed by Khamis al-Khanjar, commented today on the recent attacks that targeted its headquarters and offices throughout the country.
Yesterday, a group of unknown assailants threw a hand grenade at the headquarters of the leader of Takaddom movement, Mohammad al-Halboosi, in al-Heet.
The headquarters of Takaddom movement and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Kirkuk, Baghdad, and al-Anbar have been targets for frequent attacks over the past few weeks.
The coalition said in a statement today, "The coalition follows up with great concern the continuous terrorist aggressions targeting its representatives' headquarters and offices, and the Katyusha attacks on innocent civilians' homes, and surrounding cities with military convoys."
"These aggressions followed a series of threats made by figures that belong to well-known armed factions, through direct and indirect messages", it added.
The coalition concluded its statement by commending the positions of "National leaders" that denounced the attacks, calling on all parties to, "support the Iraqi judiciary and security agencies to pursue the criminals and those who issued those threats."
No fewer than eight persons have been killed, while 14 others, including five women, have been kidnapped by bandits at Gpekure, Makuba and Galapai communities in the Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.
It was learnt that the bandits had laid siege to the communities since Friday night when they first launched an attack on Gpekure, where they killed seven persons and abducted seven others.
The attacks forced dozens of residents, especially women and children, to flee to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in Zumba and Gwada communities, as well as Government Day Secondary School (GDSS), Shiroro.
A resident told Daily Trust that the attacks on Gpekure and Makuba happened around 11pm on Saturday, while that of Galapai was carried out around 1pm on Sunday.
He said, “These communities are just few metres away from one another. Galapai is just few metres from Galadima-Kogo that was attacked two weeks ago. If you are in Galadima-Kogo and you shout, someone in Galapai will hear you.”
The Secretary, Niger State Vigilante Corps, Shiroro LGA, Ayuba Dakko, confirmed the attacks.[I blame National Geographic]
Mr Dakko said, “In Gpekure, they burnt houses and foodstuff, killed seven persons and kidnapped five women and two men. After that, they invaded Makuba where they killed one person on Saturday. Today (Sunday), around 1pm, they attacked Galapai where they kidnapped seven persons.
“There is nobody remaining in those communities now. People have fled to IDP camps in Zumba, Gwada and GDSS, Shiroro. I slept in the bush yesterday. We the vigilantes couldn’t confront them because we don’t have the types of weapons they have.”
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[ColonelCassad] The press service of the Southern Military District reports that during the hostilities on the border of the DPR and the Russian Federation, five Ukrainian saboteurs and two infantry fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (hit by anti-tank weapons) were destroyed, who were trying to cross the Russian border to support one of the DRGs. There are no losses among the Russian military and border guards of the FSB who took part in the liquidation of the Ukrainian group.
"The subdivision of the formation of the Southern Military District, together with the border detachment of the FSB of Russia, prevented the violation of the state border of Russia by a sabotage and reconnaissance group from the territory of Ukraine.
February 21, 2022 at about 6 am Moscow time in the area of the settlement. Mityakinskaya, Rostov region on the section of the state border of the Russian Federation with the Republic of Ukraine, the border detachment of the FSB of Russia discovered the penetration of a sabotage and reconnaissance group.
To detain the sabotage group, the FSB border detachment of Russia requested reinforcements from the unit of the formation of the Russian armed forces of the Southern Military District allocated for the operational cover of the state border.
During the clash for the emergency evacuation of the sabotage group from the territory of Ukraine through the state border with the Russian Federation, two infantry fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered.
A unit of the Russian armed forces promptly arrived at the scene of the clash with fire from anti-tank weapons, and both infantry fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
As a result of the clash, five violators of the border of the Russian Federation from the sabotage and reconnaissance group were destroyed.
There are no casualties among the servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the border troops of the FSB of Russia.
A little earlier, the DPR UNM reported that there was a battle with two Ukrainian DRGs in this area after they blew up the artillery depot of the DPR army. It was also reported that someone's armored personnel carrier was destroyed in the area.
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"Someone's" armored car? That's a confused situation if you don't know who an armored cat belongs to.
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Been bugging me at odd moments for months that I can't find this viral-ish bit of video from a few years back: curious citizens exploring non-tank armored thingy abandoned on city street trigger autocannon, hitting building across intersection with a round or two, whereupon an old person shuffles out of doorway beneath point of impact looking more or less unhurt. Mariupol, maybe? Anyone?
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Been bugging me at odd moments for months that I can't find this viral-ish bit of video from a few years back: curious citizens exploring non-tank armored thingy abandoned on city street trigger autocannon, hitting building across intersection with a round or two, whereupon an old person shuffles out of doorway beneath point of impact looking more or less unhurt. Mariupol, maybe? Anyone?
Shafaq News / On Monday, Turkish warplanes targeted the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Duhok Governorate, Kurdistan.
A military source told Shafaq News Agency that "Turkey attacked the Kurdish group on Korzar Mountain of Matin, in Amadiya District."
Plumes of smoke rose high into the air around the scene.
Earlier Today, Turkish warplanes attacked north of Erbil Governorate, Kurdistan.
Eyewitnesses told our Agency that "Turkey carried out airstrikes on Parbezin Mountain in Sidekan, Bradost of Erbil where PKK fighters are located."
In the same context, "today, Turkish aircrafts struck intensively mountains overlooking the Shiladze district in the Amadiya District of Duhok."
No further information was disclosed.
The Turkish military has regularly attacked PKK positions in Iraq and Syria.
On February 2, about 60 Turkish fighter jets carried out operations on training camps, shelters, and ammunition storage facilities used by the PKK and its affiliates in northern Iraq and Syria.
PKK is designated a terrorist group by Ankara, the European Union, and the United States.
A 31-year-old subway rider was stabbed twice in arm on southbound 6 train near Canal Street on Sunday evening
Victim was hospitalized in stable condition; suspect fled and hasn't been arrested as of Monday
On Saturday, one man was stabbed by two teens during a botched robbery in 168th Street Station, and another was knifed on a train in Morningside Heights
As of January 1, there have been 276 instances of crime in subway system - up 65 percent compared to the same period last year
Mayor Eric Adams announced last month he was injecting more police officers into the subway system
Adams and Gov Kathy Hochul on Friday unveiled plan to combat homelessness in the subway by barring people from sleeping on trains
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Shit, he's probably getting the trading cards printed off as we speak. Free piece of crack in every package. Here's the hook - placing them in bike spokes will actually defeat any bike lock.
Justin Berry was among 19 Austin police officers charged last week with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for actions in the summer of 2020
Berry and his colleagues were tasked with responding to the George Floyd protests, which descended into violence
Hours before the charges against the police were announced, Austin city leaders approved paying $10 million to two people injured by police in the protests
The injured including a college student who suffered brain damage [was he already damaged?]
after an officer shot him with a beanbag round - a tactic no longer authorized in Austin
Berry, who is running as a Republican for election to the House in Texas, with the primary to be held on March 1, said that the Travis County top prosecutor, Jose Garza - a member of the Democratic Socialists of America party backed by funds from George Soros - has a vendetta against police
The indictments were also strongly criticized by Austin's chief of police and the president of the policing union
[Breitbart] Sunday on New York WABC 770 AM radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) argued that President Joe Biden and his administration intended to “push people out of” fuel-based vehicles with their energy policy.
Thune told host John Catsimatidis that Democrats want to be more “eco-friendly,” so they have decided to push people toward electric vehicles.
“I think honestly, that’s part of the strategy,” Thune outlined. “I think it’s to push people out of, you know, fuel-based vehicles. But you are absolutely going to crush the economy and a lot of middle-income families, many of whom are not going to be able to convert to [electric vehicles].”
“The requirements that we’re going to have to meet in this country for the foreseeable future are going to have to be met with fuel oil, which we have an abundance of in this country, but because of policies that are out of whack relative to what the real economy is dictating, [is] not being developed,” he added. “It’s unfortunate and sad that the United States of America is going to hat-in-hand to countries in the Middle East like the Saudis asking them to produce more energy so that we can fuel our economy here in the United States when we can do it on our own.”
Thune also slammed Biden’s decision to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline and instead “support” the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
“The notion that the United States of America would shut down an American pipeline and yet … support one that Putin is using to keep his economy going … the irony of that and the absolute hypocrisy of that you can’t even fathom,” he concluded.
Shafaq News / The Security Media Cell announced arresting four ISIS terrorists in Baghdad today.
The Cell said in a statement that the terrorists were arrested in a security operation today, noting that all legal proceedings were initiated against them.
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This is why we need wage and price controls, before the price of gas AND the minimum wage go to infinity. Maybe they will work this time. Unlike all the other times when they just *bleep*ed up the economy even more. But we have to do *something*, right?
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That was actually one of the lines, something like, "The reason the shelves are empty and the prices are up is because the economy is doing so well people are buying, buying, and buying."
Went to a Big Sandwich store the other day, the one which used to sell you a lot of sandwich for $5, did double meat and cheese, $12, and only had as much meat and cheese as normal back in the $ day.
Only customer, walk in, dude repeated my request to me and the cashier, and wasn't a dullard, so distracted/forgot to double up is very unlikely.
My take, they did all the shrinkflation they could absorb and still make a sandwich with a straight face, and the price is up about 20% from the last time I ate there.
Militants from the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, have taken over a military base located in Gamboru Ngala, Borno State.
SaharaReporters gathered that the insurgents on gun trucks attacked the base on Saturday night, exchanging firepower with Nigerian troops stationed in the community.
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According to a military source, the gunmen came in different groups and could not be counted.
The source added that “some Nigerian soldiers were killed while others fled into the bush”.
It was learnt that the insurgents also “burnt some buildings and vehicles in the military base”.
Since the death of JAS leader, Abubakar Shekau, ISWAP has been consolidating its grip in locations around Lake Chad.
Last year, it appointed Wali Sani Shuwaram, a 45-year-old as the new Leader (Wali) of ISWAP in Lake Chad.
The sect’s membership has swollen with the defection of hundreds of Boko Haram fighters under Shekau.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Army on its Twitter page on Monday announced success in its fight against insurgency around Mandara mountains along the northern part of the Nigeria-Cameroon border.
“Based on intelligence report, today troops of 144 Battalion Madagali-Adamawa State in conjunction with Civilian JTF laid an ambush on withdrawing ISWAP/Boko Haram Terrorists after a superiority clash between the terror groups. Scores of terrorists were neutralized at Mandara mountains,” it said.
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[Breitbart] A suspect in Memphis, Tennessee, was taken into custody after he allegedly tried to set a local hospital and police officers on fire over the weekend.
WREG reported on Monday:
Memphis Fire Department responded to a fire at Methodist South in Whitehaven around 3 p.m. on Sunday evening. An investigation began after MFD declared the cause [of the] fire as intentional. Witnesses told investigators that Devonta Willis got upset inside the emergency department of the hospital and used a lighter to set a mattress on fire.
According to the Shelby County, Tennessee, inmate lookup page, Willis was charged with resisting official detention, 59 counts of aggravated arson, and vandalism.
The listing said there was no bond information regarding the inmate.
According to law enforcement, when the fire began spreading, the suspect allegedly opened valves on nearby oxygen tanks “with the intention of blowing up the entire hospital.”
The National Park Service website said oxygen use has been connected to nearly 200 house fires, 46 deaths, and 60 citizens being hurt every year.
The agency described oxygen as a “powerful oxidizer” that becomes an accelerant. This causes flames to grow and spread quickly.
In its advice to firefighters, the agency said, “Fires burn hotter and faster in oxygen-rich environments, and combustible materials such as hair, plastic, oils, clothing, and furniture catch fire at lower temperatures than usual.”
“If you know oxygen therapy is being used in a residence, consider the location of the bottle currently in use, as well as spare and empty bottle storage. Factor that into your complete situational size-up of the fire,” the website read.
Hospital employees and patients were able to evacuate the building, and officers helped push hospital beds to a safe area outside.
“When officers tried to detain Willis, they say he was combative and tried to set them on fire,” the WREG report said, adding no one reported any injuries after the incident.
According to a police report, Willis came into the hospital for suicidal thoughts and said that he had an overdose.
The staff then put him in a locked room due to him being diagnosed with bipolar schizophrenia. Willis then became irate over the wait time and was breaking property.
Police said Willis grabbed two oxygen tanks and broke the back windows to the room. Officers arrived on the scene and spoke to him.
After several minutes of talking, Willis became upset and used a cigarette lighter to set the sheets and mattress on fire.
Police said scene officers called for cars since Willis was armed with broken glass and two oxygen tanks, and claimed he would kill people.
Several officers arrived on the scene and tased Willis, sending him to the ground.
Willis began to resist arrest by refusing to put his arms behind his back, moving his body and kicking. He still had a lighter in his hand and officers dry-stunned him to no effect.
Officers then tased Willis a second time, and he was taken into custody.
ALEPPO NORTHREN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – Over the past four years, the Turkish bombing has spared nothing, neither human life nor property, as villages in the countryside of Afrin and areas where Afrin’s IDPs residing have been subjected to repeated Turkish shelling with the support of the Turkish-backed armed opposition factions causing human and material losses.
Since 2018, 15 civilians, most of them children, were killed and dozens were wounded due to the Turkish bombing of villages in Sherawa district, south of Afrin, and the northern countryside of Aleppo, north Syria, according to statistics by Human Rights Organization-Afrin.
The bombing also burnt 2,100 acres of land, caused the loss of livestock in Sherawa, and destroyed houses, according to the organization.
On February 15, the center of the city of Tel Rifaat and its surroundings were hit with about 20 missiles by the Turkish forces, injuring 5 children as well as damaging civilians’ property.
In March of 2018, Turkish forces and Turkish-backed armed factions took control over the city of Afrin, displacing more than 300,000 indigenous people towards Shahba region, Aleppo northern countryside.
Some of them resorted to camps namely al-Awda, Afrin, Barkhodan, Sardam and Shahba, while others settled in 42 villages and towns in Aleppo northern countryside, as some families moved to other Syrian towns and cities, most notably to areas run by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).
Meanwhile, Turkey did not manage to seize several villages in Sherawa district including Soghana, Aqiba, Ziyara, Ibbin, Kalotah, Mayasa, Zarna’it, Zouq Kabir, Burj al-Qas, Bashemra and Khereibka, and then to be seized by Syrian government forces following the withdrawal of People’s Protection Unites (YPG) from there.
RUSSIAN AND GOVERNMENT SILENCE
The presence of the government forces in the aforementioned villages in Sherawa district, south of Afrin, and the deployment of Russian forces points in the northern countryside of Aleppo, do not prevent Turkey and its backed factions from targeting these areas on an almost daily basis.
Suleiman Ja’afar, the co-chair of the Legislative Council of Afrin, said since they were forcibly displaced to the northern countryside of Aleppo, they have met with the Russian forces deployed in the area several times, “every time they try to hold us to give up everything, even Afrin.”
“During our recent meeting with the Russians in the village of Wahshiya, the Russian official told us that Russia is not ready to hold the weapons to defend you,” Ja’afar added.
Ja’afar considers the Russian silence regarding the Turkish bombing an evidence of exchanged interests between the two parties.
The headquarters of the Russian forces are located in the northern countryside of Aleppo, they deploy in the villages of Wahshiya, Kashta’ar and the city of Tel Rifaat.
The Russian and the Syrian government silence regarding the Turkish bombing raises fears among the displaced people that Russia won’t support them, as it did previously when Turkey invaded Afrin.
Russia expelled its forces from Afrin, at the time, evacuated their points, and headed to the northern countryside of Aleppo.
TERRIFIED CHILDREN
Aziza Ibrahim, a mother of three, an IDP of a village of Afrin countryside and residing in Tel Rifaat, does not know how to dispel her children’s fears during the bombardment.
“My children go to school, but they are scared. We were not spared from the bombing despite our displacement to the northern countryside of Aleppo, we were bombed and the shells rained down on us,” said Ibrahim who lost two of her children, 15 years old and 11 years old, in Turkish bombardment on Tel Rifaat in December 2019.
Ibrahim said her children cannot sleep because of the intense sounds of the bombing.
The scenes of the Tel Rifaat massacre, which killed 10 civilians, eight of whom were children under the age of 15, in addition to wounding 13 others, are still stuck in minds of Afrin’s displaced, young and old.
VICTIMS OF TEL RIFAAT MASSACRES
On the fourth anniversary of Turkey’s invasion of Afrin, the Turkish forces bombed the villages of Aqiba, Ziyara, and the vicinity of Deir Jamal and Sheikh Issa village in the northern countryside of Aleppo, reporting material damage.
Amina Mustafa, displaced of a village of the countryside of Afrin to the village of Aqiba, recounts the moments of the bombing, which wounded her husband and destroyed part of the roof of her house.
Mustafa indicates that all her family members were inside the house when the shell fell on one of the rooms.
“My children were sitting in the room when a shell fell, I was in the room with my husband and our ten children.”
“A shell hit the house, thank God, my children didn’t get hurt,” she noted.
Reporting by Nariman Hesso
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[REGNUM] The recognition of the republics of Donbass will be followed by a catastrophe of Ukrainian statehood. This was stated on February 22 to a REGNUM correspondent by Oleg Nemensky , a leading expert of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies .
“Putin's speech was emphatically devoted not so much to Donbass as to the fate of all of Ukraine. He made it clear that with the recognition of the people's republics, Russia is questioning not only the prospects for resolving the conflict in the region on the "Minsk" grounds, but also the very foundations of the formation and development of the statehood of Ukraine , "the expert said.
According to the political scientist, behind all this is the conviction that with the change in the situation in the Donbass, the situation will not stabilize.
Actually, Russia's recognition of the people's republics and the closure of the Minsk process on its initiative is exactly what Kiev openly dreamed of, and this is exactly what they were striving for, Nemensky noted.
“Now no one will blame Ukraine for not fulfilling the conditions of Minsk-2, Russian troops openly enter its territory, and a package of maximum sanctions is being introduced against Russia,” the expert stated.
In general, it is very beneficial for Ukraine when Russia takes some tough actions, but stops at them and does not develop further. So, for example, it was with the Novorossiya project in 2014, so it was with the Donbass, the political scientist noted.
Putin has now made it clear that this time Moscow will not stop. Formally, there is a pretext: Ukraine will be given an ultimatum to cease hostilities. But you can be sure that she won’t do it - she won’t be able to, and “this will not be her will so much as the will of her masters in Washington,” the expert explained.
“So, further we will see the catastrophe of Ukrainian statehood. Russia's readiness to carry out a comprehensive solution to the "Ukrainian issue", formulated in Putin's speech, is exactly what Kiev was most afraid of. And not in vain,” Nemensky believes.
“So it was simply necessary to give a detailed historical justification for such decisions. As a historian, I will say that not a word was said in the president's speech that could be called into question. But our society has yet to realize these new meanings for it. The old Soviet propaganda, which substantiated the Leninist principles of national policy, has taken deep roots in the public consciousness and still has a lot of adherents. Even in the national-patriotic environment. I am sure that for many people the content of the historical part of this speech, as well as Putin's recent article on the same issues, is, to put it mildly, new.
Recall that on February 21, after a meeting of the Security Council, the President of Russia addressed the nation, in which he sharply criticized the national policy of the Soviet government, as well as the genesis of Ukrainian statehood. In conclusion, Vladimir Putin announced the recognition by the Russian Federation of the subjectivity of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.
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Too much bad blood between Ukrainians and Russians left over from Stalin's collectivization of Ukrainian farms. Too many people starved in the 1930's. Any battle for Kiev would be nasty and bloody. Putin might actually be embarrassed by the cost even if his troops take the city. Putin really should stop at Donbass. But then, Brandon should rein in NATO too.
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Bear Stearns was your warning to get your affairs in order. Plenty of time to think different. It was 183 days prior to Lehman Brothers. Before I went to help lead a part of TARP.
January's events [Stimulus, Bitcoin, Treasuries, GME] is your warning.
true! basic probabilistic concepts as well. i'm on the view that 5 in 6 stocks can't be halved, wo eventually the other 1 in 6 stocks also seeing extreme downward risk. these ideas from backtesting, discussed here:https://t.co/MIZpNuYble cc @RJRCapital@IAmMicMars@AdamGausepohl
[JustTheNews] Administration is "absolutely defying" a Supreme Court order to reinstate Trump's Remain in Mexico policy, said former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan.
In August, the Supreme Court declined to stay a lower court order that the Biden administration restart the Remain in Mexico policy.
Biden is "just giving lip service" to the policy, Morgan said. The administration is "just absolutely defying the court order right now," he continued. "Give you an example: In the month of December, while 178,000 illegal aliens broken into our country — in one month, in 30 days — in that same 30-day period, the Biden administration enrolled about 260 migrants in the Remain in Mexico program.
"It's having no effect, they're not taking it seriously. And let's keep in mind, the [Homeland Security] secretary [Alejandro Mayorkas] — as he's doing his just-shut-up-and-take-it tour to the agents out there — he's been very clear that he's also actively trying to end the program."
Meanwhile, Morgan noted, the FBI's counterterrorism mission has "been made exponentially more difficult because of the open border policy of this administration."
Border Patrol "has apprehended illegal aliens from 150 different countries — including, China, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Russia, the list goes on and on," he said. "They absolutely have expanded our national security vulnerability directly due to their open border policy."
As a stopgap, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is using his state's Department of Public Safety and National Guard to execute Operation Lone Star, which has "apprehended over 100,000 illegal aliens, thousands of guns, tens of thousands of pounds of narcotics that would have made their way to every town, city, and state," Morgan explained.
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We're through the looking glass now, with the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit, the Red Queen and their entire insane crew.
So our Mad Hatter-PervOTUS abandons our own border to invaders -- including thousands of murderers, rapists and some terrorists for good measure, even flying them secretly, in the dead of night, into various locales around the country on chartered aircraft.
No wonder this Mad Hatter-PervOTUS can't understand why Russians demand their own security against NATO's encroachment.
Mad Hatter logic: Deplorables like us and the Russians deserve no security. When they rap3 you, just lie back and think of England BLM.
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^That would actually make sense. 10% to the Big Guy, ya know.
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We talk all the time about the Chinese or the Russians infiltrating our government, but what about the cartels? "Lead or silver" may work just as well north of the border as it does south of the border. So does fear.
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#ISIS cells repeatedly launch a complex series of coordinated ambushes and assaults on Syrian government positions and military vehicles. https://t.co/BeYiOpI33j
PALMYRA, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, the National Defense Forces (NDF) affiliated with the Syrian government sent new military reinforcements from their positions in the countryside of Hama to the Syrian desert to fight the Islamic State ISIS.
“The National Defense Forces operating in the city of Maharda, north of Hama, sent new military reinforcements to their points in the Syrian Badia, east of Homs,” special sources told North Press.
“The military reinforcements consisted of about three tanks and more than 20 other vehicles, some of which carried machine guns of different calibers. They also included more than 60 members, most of whom are from the predominantly Christian city of Maharda,” the sources added.
This batch of reinforcements was preceded yesterday evening by similar reinforcements that came from the city Maharda and sites in its surrounding, the sources said.
ISIS activity has increased in the Syrian Badia, especially in the triangle of the governorates of Homs – Hama – Raqqa, as ISIS cells repeatedly launch a complex series of coordinated ambushes and assaults on government positions and military vehicles.
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DA George Gascon admitted that child molester Hannah Tubbs, 26, should not have been prosecuted as a juvenile and should have received a harsher sentence
Tubbs, a transgender woman, was sentenced last month to just two years in juvenile facility after pleading guilty to molesting a 10-year-old
At the time of the offense in 2014, Tubbs, then identifying as male, was two weeks shy of her 18th birthday
While in jail, Tubbs boasted to her father in jailhouse phone conversation that she'll be able to plead out and won't have to register as a sex offender
She also laughed about the prospect of leaving the country 'next time' she gets in trouble
Gascon, who is facing second recall for being soft on crime, announced on Friday changes to policies in exceptional cases such as Tubbs'
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Put in adult facility, it would be solitary as the likelihood of surviving 2 years would be minimal. Bad optics for one of the DA's major (though overall insignificant) constituencies.
The Nigerian Army says troops of 144 Battalion, Madagali in conjunction with Civilian JTF have killed an unspecified number of Boko Haram (BH) and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in Adamawa State.
According to the army on its Twitter page, AK-47 rifles, bicycles amongst other items were recovered from the terrorists.
“Based on intelligence report, today troops of 144 Battalion Madagali-Adamawa State in conjunction with Civilian JTF laid an ambush on withdrawing ISWAP/BHT after a superiority clash between the terror groups. Scores of terrorists were neutralized at Mandara mountains,” the army tweeted.
Since the death of JAS leader, Abubakar Shekau, ISWAP has been consolidating its grip in locations around Lake Chad.
Last year, it appointed Wali Sani Shuwaram, a 45-year-old as the new Leader (Wali) of ISWAP in Lake Chad.
The sect’s membership has swollen with the defection of hundreds of Boko Haram fighters under Shekau.
The terror group has caused over 100,000 deaths and displaced millions of people mainly in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states.
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.
[Breitbart] Sunday on New York WABC 770 AM radio’s "The Cats Roundtable," Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) argued that President Joe Biden and his administration intended to "push people out of" fuel-based vehicles with their energy policy.
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them...
...hereditary prime minister of the same country that once produced McKenzie King...
[JustTheNews] Democrat Secretary of State 
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[Breitbart] A suspect in Memphis, Tennessee, was taken into custody after he allegedly tried to set a local hospital and police officers on fire over the weekend.
