[BBC] Concerns about the health of the Ganges river in India have existed for some time. Now a new environmental crisis is looming for the country’s most important water source, due to Covid.
During the second wave of the pandemic, hundreds of bodies have been buried in shallow graves along the banks of the river, near Prayagraj (also known as Allahabad) in northern India. With the monsoon season about to hit, it is feared that many of these bodies will end up in the river, polluting it even further.
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Yes, we'll be closing all muslim cemeteries shortly.
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The BBC published an interesting article today which points out that, despite its ubiquity among major companies, diversity training doesn’t really work. At least that’s what a lot of the research on the subject suggests. But if so, why are so many companies committed to going through the motions?
The article opens by pointing to a summary of research on the topic published in 2018 by Harvard sociologist Frank Dobbin and Tel Aviv University sociologist Alexandra Kalev:
We have been speaking to employers about this research for more than a decade, with the message that diversity training is likely the most expensive, and least effective, diversity program around. But they persist, worried about the optics of getting rid of training, concerned about litigation, unwilling to take more difficult but consequential steps or simply in the thrall of glossy training materials and their purveyors. That colleges and universities in the United States persist in offering training to faculty and students, and even mandate it (29% of all schools require faculty to undergo training), is particularly surprising given that the research on the poor performance of training comes out of academia. Imagine university health centers continuing to prescribe vitamin C for the common cold...
...We’re describing a massive institutional effort which arguably produces very little or nothing. But so long as companies see legal benefits to holding the sessions, they’ll continue to do so. And as long as there is money to be made filling that corporate need, there will by companies jockeying to collect those dollars
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There is a real story in Archipelago Gulag. In some sort of official Soviet function the speaker mentioned "comrade Stalin", the hall bursts into spontaneous clapping. They clap for a minute, they clap for two - they continue clapping until people start fainting: nobody wants to be the first to stop clapping.
[YNet] - An Israeli officer who shot and killed an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem last summer will stand trial, Police's Department for Internal Investigations said Thursday.
Eyad Hallaq was fatally shot just inside Jerusalem's Old City on May 30 while he was on his way to the special-needs institution he was attending. He was 32 years old.
According to the indictment, while making his way to the location, Hallaq was asked by a Border Police officer to stop at a checkpoint and identify himself, but he did not respond. This prompted the officer to chase after the man and he was shortly joined by his commander and another officer - a defendant in the case.
They chased him into a nook and shot him, wounding the man, as he stood next to a garbage bin. Believing he was carrying a firearm, the officers approached the man and asked him to give them the weapon. Hallaq, who was still conscious, pointed at a teacher who was with him, who told the officers he wasn't armed.
Despite him being severely injured as a result of the shooting and not holding a weapon, the defendant fired another shot at his upper body, which ultimately lead to his death.
Hallaq’s teacher said she repeatedly cried out to police that he was "disabled" and tried in vain to stop the shooting. At least five bullet holes were seen in a wall of a small structure at the site.
The State Attorney's Office said that the incident is "hard and saddening," adding that the decision to indict the 20-year-old officer was made after a "thorough examination of the evidence, including the circumstances on the ground and the testimony of the officers." Trying to appease "international community" by sacrificing our children.
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Don't Brazil have enough problems without worrying about a space program?
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#1 The Alcântara Space Center (Portuguese: Centro Espacial de Alcântara, CEA), former known as Alcântara Launch Center (Portuguese: Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara,[3] is a space center and launching facility of the Brazilian Space Agency in the city of Alcântara, located on Brazil's northern Atlantic coast, in the state of Maranhão.[4] It is operated by the Brazilian Air Force (Comando da Aeronáutica). The CEA is the closest launching base to the equator.
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IIRC, NASA used Intel 8086 processors in those days because they hadn't gotten around to testing any of the more modern CPUs. It didn't have to be fast, just reliable. Now it sounds like the memory is the problem and the CPU is still OK which is pretty good after 40 years.
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Where are the snivelers saying AMD or ARM chips might have been better?
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Plus, it runs on Windows 3.0.
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1980's computer crashed...
I may have an 8088 based system in my hord.
Given NASA"s budget.. would asking k $20k
for parts and $22 Million for the service call be in the bid window?
I happened to be doing a google search for photos of the Hubble Telescope in orbit, when I happened to find a photo of interest. I downloaded it and pulled it up in Photoshop, where I zoomed in on the telescope.
That is when I noticed something that wasn't quite right. Something was in the picture, near the Hubble.
I began lightening the area with the Dodge Tool set on Midtones at 7%. Something began to appear and take shape. It is very strange, to say the least!
I am enclosing the original photo and a cropped version that I worked on.
Thank you,
Rog
(Editor's Note: I wrote Rog back and told him I thought the photograph was interesting. I also stated that there might be a very simple explanation for the unknown object, considering the many objects in orbit.
If any of our readers know what the second object might be, please let us know.)
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I used to go to what was certainly a "nuisance bar" in the town where I grew up. It wa shut down and cited for "people urinating outside the building" after closing time. The small-town newspaper story quoted a couple locals talking about seeing the undesirable behavior.
My mom knew I frequented the place, she read the article and she asked me if it was true. I said "Mom, if somebody was taking a leak in the street in front of your house at 2:45 am, how would you know?" "I guess if I was up, watching for it..." she said.
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Behold the "gorgeous mosaic" of "diversity"
Aka savages
Planet of the Apes
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I think he meant Brazil the country. Extreme corruption, rampant crime, violence, gross inequality savagery. Political instability and economic decline. Half the population destitute and 2-3% of the population controlling most of the wealth.
Oligarchy.
No place for a normal middle class family.
Have a nice day -- and here's a flyer for your perusal
[Revolver News] Of all the questions asked, words spoken, and ink spilled on the so-called "Capitol Siege" of January 6, 2021, none hold the key to the entire event quite like what Sen. Amy Klobuchar asked of Christopher Wray.
The Democrat from Minnesota asked the Trump-appointed FBI Director: Did the federal government infiltrate any of the so-called "militia" organizations claimed to be responsible for planning and executing the Capitol Siege?
Christopher Wray is able to uncomfortably weasel his way out of answering the question directly, partially because Klobuchar does him the courtesy of not asking him the question directly. Klobuchar instead asks the FBI director if he wishes he had infiltrated the militia organizations allegedly involved in 1/6 — assuming from the outset that there was in fact no infiltration, thereby providing the FBI director an easy way to avoid addressing the question one way or another.
Revolver News is willing to address the matter directly in the following three questions:
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A lot of OK went to the speech and walked in the opposite direction of the protest. So not all are morons. The ones with brains should have known they had been infiltrated and now know who they are.
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I guess you could call it rhetorical. I don't recall members of either group making much news before 1/6, not like they were burning crosses all over the country or even showing up at BLAMTIFA events. It all seems like somebody thinks there's a monster under the bed when it's really just a few dust bunnies.
But I've heard a lot about the FBI and none it has been good.
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But I've heard a lot about the FBI and none it has been good.
I used to think that L. Ron Hubbard's "Mission Earth" is (rather heavy handed) satire.
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Although she's a Democrat, this is Representative Lurie of Virginia taking CNO Gilday apart like a cheap suit on the Navy's promised weapons systems. Lurie is a former Navy officer, and really has her act together in this 5-minute clip. H/T and further discussion by the professionals at the cdrsalamander blog. We got big problems.
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The Obama promotions have reached their Peter Principle/Woke override
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I think everything a sailor needs to know about raycism is covered in Joseph Conrad's books...
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It should be just an eerily silent band of open ground with towers every so often sending invisible LIDAR sweeps, punctuated by the creepy moan of a robotically controlled minigun.
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^That was done prior to World War II by soldiers based out of Ft Hood.
[FOX] This weekend, police in Columbus, Georgia arrested a 39-year-old man called Justin Tyren Roberts. Over the course of a single day, Roberts shot five separate people in two different states. We know this because Roberts has admitted it. He also said why he did it. In his confession, police say, Roberts, "explained [that] throughout his life, specifically white males had taken from him." So he decided to kill them. In one case, Roberts walked up behind a white man, a total stranger, as he was getting out of a car and shot him in the back.
By any definition, these were crimes of viciousness motivated by race hate. They’re not unique in this country — not by a long shot. If we wanted to — and we don’t — we could do a whole show on crimes like these. Nor are they especially surprising, when you think about it.
If you really believed the propaganda from the Democratic Party and BLM are telling you — that white males are intentionally destroying the world — you might be motivated to hurt someone. Why wouldn’t you? What’s striking is how little attention Justin Tyren Roberts’ shooting spree has received. Imagine if the colors here were reversed. Roberts would be leading every newscast tonight. Needless to say, he’s not. In fact, this may be the last time you hear his name on television. On one level, that’s fine with us. Picking at the wound, America’s wound is unwise. We’ve always thought that. We think it more now than ever. A multi-racial country can only survive if it self-consciously deemphasizes race — if it treats every person as an individual and not a member of some larger group that’s guilty or innocent. That should be the goal, it’s our history, and we should get back to it as soon as we can.
“Compelling, shocking, and gritty with intrigue.”―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A real eye-opener that questions how well the country’s security is being protected.”―Kirkus (starred review)
A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: The Isis Edition exposes how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror. This updated edition of The Terror Factory examines the FBI’s use of stings to catch ISIS sympathizers in the United States, as well as how the bureau, already transformed into an intelligence agency whose tactics are similar to those of the CIA and NSA, has and will change under the presidency of Donald Trump.
Trevor Aaronson is a contributing writer at The Intercept and executive director of the nonprofit Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. Previously, he was a reporter with Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit and a fellow at the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkeley. He has also been an editor and reporter at newspapers in Florida and Tennessee. A two-time finalist for the Livingston Awards, Aaronson has won the Molly National Journalism Prize, the international Data Journalism Award, and the John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award.
[WND] Exclusive: Scott Lively explains nature of the 'Obama/Clinton/Biden' white-supremacy conspiracy
If anyone had any doubts about the far-left agenda of Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland or his willingness to lie to advance it, those doubts should have been put to bed this week when Garland declared, "The top domestic extremist threat comes from racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race."
That's a lie so baseless and so outrageous that it's scary, because only those who believe their power is so complete they can openly lie with impunity — or are clinically delusional — would assert it. After watching this same team steal the presidency through blatant voter fraud, made possible by an orchestrated pandemic in cooperation with Communist China and the now fully debunked but not discarded Russian Collusion Hoax (for which no one has been held accountable), I conclude it's the former. The co-conspirators are so powerful, and have gotten away with so much already, that they believe themselves untouchable.
That's especially concerning as we watch a true threat to their power emerging from the impressive Arizona forensic election audit and the promised "freight train" of other audits to come, while the MAGA movement begins its post-lockdown reemergence. People that corrupt and that powerful are capable of doing almost anything to protect themselves from accountability: from collapsing the global economy, to starting a major war, to staging false-flag domestic terrorism to blame on "white supremacists."
Garland has made the third option seem most likely. If so, the Obama/Clinton/Biden team has reason to believe it could work again after their huge success with that strategy in their test-run at Charlottesville, which I believe was their model for Jan. 6, complete with Antifa (and probably government) infiltrators posing as MAGA patriots, in cooperation with corrupt local cops and media. Bolstering that likelihood is the smug "Hollywood scriptwriter" mentality behind all the leftist head fakes, false flags and cover-ups since the start of the Obama/Clinton/Biden era: Benghazi (the Hillary-staged fake hostage crisis gone horribly wrong), the Seth Rich fake-robbery assassination, the Jussie Smollet hate hoax and the Gretchen Whitmer "thwarted (purported) kidnapping" being a few of the more obvious.
But my main purpose in this article is to identify what I believe is the hidden hand behind the "white supremacy" narrative that has become the centerpiece of the leftist strategy, driving everything from the BLM riots, to the Critical Race Theory blitzkrieg in the schools, to the orchestrated tidal wave of "wokeness" in the business world, to the ideological defilement of professional sports, to the raft of overtly racist Biden executive orders thankfully being struck down by the courts.
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We have Hate Crime Laws because targeting an individual because of their race sends out fear into that community.
How is this really different? If you exaggerate the attacks against people of color and blame whites don't you send out fear into those communities of color? I'm thinking class action lawsuit, People of Color versus Democrat Party and Media.
Listen to Jim Rickard’s predictions about the economy and markets.
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In this recording, James Rickards had to address the elephant in the room: "Where is the stock market crash you predicted?"
His answer will shock you. Plus, you’ll discover what he had to say about Cryptocurrencies... his comments will have you shaking in your boots...
[Babylon Bee] In a move to make purchasing congresspeople easier and faster for lobbyists, Congress voted to approve a new measure that calls for congresspeople to wear barcodes on their foreheads so lobbyists, activists, and corporations can simply scan them and self-checkout.
Self-checkout machines will be installed at all exits of the Capitol Building, so once they've added congresspeople to their cart, lobbyists can pay right on the way out.
"Purchasing congresspeople used to be a time-consuming, expensive process," said a Planned Parenthood representative. "Now, we can simply walk through Congress, scan all the congresspeople that are for sale, and checkout without having to interact with any humans."
VDH at American Greatness
For over a year, the American establishment and media borg have ostracized anyone who dared to connect the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic with the Chinese military-sponsored, level-4 biosafety Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Then, suddenly and without apologies for their past demagoguery, "journalists" and "experts" concede that the nearby Wuhan lab may well be the most likely genesis.
Why the abrupt change?
Donald Trump is no longer president.
There is now no need for progressives to declare everything Trump once asserted as truth a lie. And that paradox includes Trump’s spring 2020 insistence that the lab, not a wet market of sliced-up bats, was the source of the outbreak.
The recent release of Anthony Fauci’s emails, along with the new information about Dr. Peter Daszak’s gain-of-function research, make it indisputable that both were knowingly channeling U.S. taxpayer dollars to the Chinese for coronavirus research in Wuhan.
So now what?
We are left with a number of lose-lose scenarios about China’s failed efforts to lie about the origins of COVID-19.
One, will China continually deny what is appearing to be undeniable? Perhaps, if we remember it is a country with a Communist Party hierarchy that once killed 60 million under Mao, and whose present apparat has put over 1 million Muslim Uyghurs into camps.
A stonewalling Beijing likely will conclude that the risk of appearing guilty for causing one of the greatest "natural" global disasters in a century is not nearly as destructive to its interests as admitting it.
Will China then wait us out, in O.J. Simpson fashion, denying the obvious facts—until wearied Americans move onto another of their media frenzies?
Or, two, could China confess that its SARS-CoV-2 virus was birthed in the Wuhan lab, but claim its appearance was a "joint" effort with the United States? They would then point to Fauci himself, who approved funds for Wuhan coronavirus enhancement to be channeled by Daszak. The Chinese would further insist their combined efforts were aimed at finding a "cure" for coronavirus epidemics. And thus Beijing should not be blamed—or at least not solely blamed.
Beijing could retort that it, too, was misled by its own sloppy researchers. Or the communist government might even preposterously answer that its prior code of silence was meant to shield the role of U.S. funders of the pandemic disaster.
Americans then would end up wondering to what degree our own doctors and institutions, at the highest levels of the U.S. government and of global medical establishment, not only lied to us throughout the crisis, but, in some bizzarro way, may have shared responsibility for the engineering of the Satanic virus itself.
Or three, Chinese officials could privately wink and nod to our intelligence and military communities that their researchers were, in fact, pursuing "legitimate" viral gain-of-function research until a terrible Chernobyl-like accident took place. Such things have also happened, they might unofficially remind our officials, at Bhopal, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima. In back channels Beijing then would regret the resulting global economic catastrophe, the millions dead, the even more millions sickened, the billions of lives harmed by the lockdown, and the apparent 2020-21 American political, economic, social and cultural meltdown.
China additionally would lament its "mistaken" lack of transparency and the "confusion" that accounted for misleading the world. And yet China would still smile, and sort of promise off the record that such an unforeseen disaster would never, ever—or at least almost never—happen again.
Four, we tend to block out the unthinkable. Nonetheless, in a few weeks more information from within China could leak out that the virus was a joint weaponized creation of civilian virologists and the Chinese military. How the virus escaped would not be clear, but millions the world over would suspect the worst of any involvement of the Chinese military.
In all these scenarios, we are left with the suspicion that an embryonic engineered virus was mysteriously released that did more damage to the Western world than any weapon deliberately employed since World War II. And we will become terrified that, in theory, it could happen again. More importantly, we still have no idea what to do: whether to act in a punitive or deterrent fashion, or both or neither.
Washington strategists are no doubt gaming all these rumors and unthinkables.
In some way, many Americans are naïvely hopeful that COVID-19 was a one-off, ill-thought-out, gain-of-function laboratory accident.
But some are most terrified that it was a proto-bioweapon that, regardless of whether it was accidentally released at some point, became a "never let a crisis go to waste" moment—an attitude that not only explained Chinese lying, but also the entire terrible year of 2020, and the near destruction of American society itself.
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The moment Biden has an incapacitating stroke or health issue, China will "shock and awe" the world by taking Taiwan. They may do it sooner because currently Biden is such a Xi butt kisser.
It’s true that he’s never excluded the possibility of a lab leak, but how could he? Barring the discovery of SARS-CoV-2 in an animal host or some very uncharacteristic transparency by China about its labs, there’s no way to rule out a lab accident.
He sure did sound skeptical when he discussed it with National Geographic last year, though:
"If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what’s out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated ... Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species," Fauci says. Based on the scientific evidence, he also doesn’t entertain an alternate theory—that someone found the coronavirus in the wild, brought it to a lab, and then it accidentally escaped.
Compare that to his tone on May 11 of this year, when he was asked whether he’s still confident that the virus developed naturally:
"I am not convinced about that, I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we continue to find out to the best of our ability what happened," Fauci said. "Certainly, the people who investigated it say it likely was the emergence from an animal reservoir that then infected individuals, but it could have been something else, and we need to find that out. So, you know, that’s the reason why I said I’m perfectly in favor of any investigation that looks into the origin of the virus."
His May 11 comments sound like someone who’s keeping an open mind. His comments last year ... do not. Yet here he is today glossing over the evolution in his position:
[Just The News] Records suggest more than 100 batches of absentee ballots in Fulton County could be missing. Some experts see "election tabulation malpractice" as state officials seek to remove county's top election supervisors.
Documents that Georgia's largest county submitted to state officials as part of a post-election audit highlight significant irregularities in the Atlanta area during last November's voting, ranging from identical vote tallies repeated multiple times to large batches of absentee ballots that appear to be missing from the official ballot-scanning records.
The problems in predominantly Democratic Fulton County potentially impact thousands of ballots in a presidential race that Joe Biden was certified as winning statewide by fewer than 12,000 votes.
The memos reviewed by Just the News include the handwritten tally sheets for all absentee ballots counted by the county as well as a private report from a contractor hired by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to monitor the Atlanta-area election process. The report, which chronicled seven days of problems, recorded troubling behavior like the mysterious removal of a suitcase of sensitive election data known as polls pads, used to authenticate voters.
"Learn that Rick reprogramming poll pads earlier was setting up a new precinct for SC11 because someone took the wrong suitcase but only took one," the contractor Seven Hills Strategy wrote late on Nov. 2, the night before Election Day. "Seems to be a mystery who this person was --> Should have chain of custody paperwork!! That means that a stranger just walked out with sensitive election materials?"
The contractor also observed that sensitive election materials were left on a dock at a warehouse without supervision. "Several cases (including SC11) were just left out on the loading dock outside the warehouse," he wrote. "Thankfully the seals were intact."
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"Joe Biden was certified as winning statewide by fewer than 12,000 votes."
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Note: GA has the laws on the books to handle Election Fraud. But will the Gold Dome act or hide?
O.C.G.A. § 21-2-604. Criminal solicitation to commit election fraud.
O.C.G.A. § 21-2-603 - Conspiracy to commit election fraud
O.C.G.A. § 21-2-573 - illegal use of absentee ballots
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Certainly easier to digitally call a blank ballot for Biden then to try to mark up all those ballots in the necessary time. Then call it a glitch if caught and evidence is minimal and deniable enough to fool the rubes.
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Some experts see "election tabulation malpractice" as state officials seek to remove county's top election supervisors.
Remove them to the state pen.
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Should have chain of custody paperwork!!
And once again, we have chain of custody issues. Now, whatever could have happened to those poll pads while they were in possession of some unknown person or persons?
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Criminal conspiracy to commit voter fraud, you just have to flip some low level mutt to start the investigative tidal wave. But you have to want to....
[Rudaw] Two explosive-laden drones were shot down in Baghdad early on Wednesday, Iraq’s Security Media Cell has said.
"The security forces in the Baghdad Operations Command managed to shoot down a drone carrying explosives in an empty area near Rashid camp in Baghdad," it tweeted.
A second drone was shot down in the Kartan area, south of Baghdad, it added.
It comes just a week after three drones targeted Baghdad International Airport on June 9. One of the drones was shot down.
Earlier this month, the US Department of Defense revealed it is developing an interceptor missile against unmanned drones in populated areas. According to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the goal is to devise anti-drone technology that does not cause as much collateral damage as explosions.
Frequent attacks on the Baghdad airport and military bases around the country housing US troops are blamed on Iranian-backed militias who want to force American troops to withdraw from Iraq.
The use of drones, a new tactic, is concerning, the head of US Central Command said last week. "We are seeing pressure from Iranian-affiliated hard boy groups that want to push us out of Iraq, and the latest manifestation of that has been the use of small unmanned aerial systems, or drones," said Commander General Kenneth McKenzie.
Erbil International Airport was also hit by an explosives-laden drone in April.
On Sunday, channels affiliated to Iran-backed factions of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF or Hashd al-Shaabi) showed pictures of militias parading drones on trucks through Baghdad. Abd al-Rahman al-Jazairi, a PMF leader affiliated with the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, told Rudaw in May that there are Iranian-made drones in Iraq ready to be used against US combat troops.
[IsraelTimes] In further breach of nuclear deal and amid talks on striking new agreement, spokesperson says Tehran has also stockpiled 108 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20% purity.
The development came amid talks between Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and world powers in Vienna aimed at rebuilding the 2015 nuclear deal that put curbs on Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. Iran has been increasingly violating the terms of the deal since the Trump administration withdrew the United States from it in 2018.
"Under parliament’s law... the Atomic Energy Organization was supposed to produce 120 kg of 20 percent enriched uranium in a year. According to the latest report, we now have produced 108 kg of 20% uranium in the past five months," government front man Ali Rabiei was quoted as saying by state media, according to the Rooters news agency.
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... ’ atomic watchdog said last month that it had not been able to access data important to monitoring Iran’s nuclear program since late February, when the Islamic Theocratic Republic started restricting international inspections of its facilities.
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency made the comment in a report that estimated that as of May 22, Iran’s stockpile included 62.8 kilograms (138.5 pounds) of uranium enriched to 20% purity, and 2.4 kilograms enriched to 60% purity — well above the 3.67% purity allowed under the deal.
In the same IAEA report, the agency for the first time released estimates of Iran’s stockpile rather than precise figures, saying that the total stockpile was 3,241 kilograms (7,145 pounds), up about 273 kilograms (600 pounds) from the last quarterly report.
That was down from an increase of nearly 525 kilograms (1,157 pounds) reported in the previous quarterly report.
Though it was not immediately clear what led to the decrease, it came as a kaboom in April at Iran’s underground Natanz nuclear facility affected centrifuges there. Iran has yet to offer a full accounting of what happened in an attack it described as "nuclear terrorism." Israel, which is widely suspected of carrying out the assault, has not commented publicly on it.
The nuclear deal signed in 2015 with the United States, Germany, La Belle France, Britannia, China and Russia only permits Iran only to keep a total stockpile of 202.8 kilograms (447 pounds) of enriched uranium.
Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations and members of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... on Monday reaffirmed a commitment to stop Iran from making nuclear weapons, as diplomats from outside the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... cautioned that negotiations with the Islamic Theocratic Republic to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal still need more time.
I pray to GOD, that the US State Dept has a long term plan to proper nip this in the bud. A plan that that calls for other than working with the N.E.A. and Islamic Radicals in prep'ing US kids to convert to Islam.
It would not surprise me to see the Socialist-Democrat party moving to embrace Islamic Radical Groups. Then calling for the "United Islamic States of America" (UISA) just for Votes and power.
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It's been a click bait ad for a while now: "Iran is this close to an atomic bomb..."
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How close are those two Iranian Naval Vessels to Venezuela after Biden made feeble threatening utterances towards them a few days ago? Or have they already made Venezuelan port.
[Washington Examiner] Two U.S. soldiers, one from Fort Hood and another from the Pennsylvania National Guard, have been charged with smuggling people across the Mexican border.
Fort Hood soldier Ralph Gregory Saint-Joie, 18, and guardsman Emmanuel Oppongagyare, 20, made their first appearance in court on Tuesday where they were held in custody under $75,000 bonds pending a detention hearing scheduled for next Tuesday, according to a criminal complaint by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, obtained by CNN.
On June 13, Oppongagyaye was reportedly driving a vehicle and Saint-Joie was a passenger as they tried crossing the Hebbronville checkpoint, which is located about 150 miles south of San Antonio. Both soldiers were in uniform at the time.
The National Guard member told agents at the border checkpoint that they were traveling from the border town of Zapata, Texas, to San Antonio.
"The BPA questioned Oppongagyare as to his unusual route of travel to which Oppongagyare stated his Global Positioning System (GPS) took him through this route," the complaint read. "In the BPA's past experience, the GPS direction is a common explanation used by smugglers to justify their unusual route of travel to San Antonio, Texas."
During the agents’ second inspection of the car, two Mexican nationals were found in the trunk of the vehicle.
Oppongagye told the agent that a man he met through Saint-Joie paid him $100 and promised an undetermined additional sum of money if he picked up a man and a woman in McAllen, Texas, and drive them to San Antonio.
"Individual 1 promised to pay Oppongagyare and Saint-Joie an undetermined amount of money when they arrived in San Antonio, Texas, specifically instructed they both wear their United States Army issued uniforms to avoid questioning by BPAs," the complaint read.
Both soldiers face up to 10 years in federal prison and a possible $250,000 maximum fine, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas.
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Muscling in on a Democratic enterprise. It won't go well for Saint-Joie and Oppongagyare. They'll be at the 'Long Course' in Leavenworth shortly. The illegals will likely be permitted to keep their uniforms and be assigned to duties on Fort Hood pending formal enlistment or integration into sanctuary cities of their choice.
[IsraelTimes] Suspect critically injured near site of new illegal outpost; no Israeli casualties; separately, Paleostinian woman arrested with knife outside Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs.
A Paleostinian man threw an bomb at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank on Wednesday, prompting troops to open fire at the suspect, critically injuring him, the military said.
The army said a group of dozens of Paleostinians was making its way toward troops at the Evyatar illegal outpost when one charged at them and threw a suspicious object which went kaboom!.
An IDF soldier fired first in the air and then toward the suspect, who was hit and critically injured.
There were no Israeli casualties, the army said.
The area around Beita has seen repeated festivities between Israeli forces and Paleostinians in recent weeks following the establishment of a new West Bank outpost known as Evyatar on land close to the town. Paleostinians have hurled stones at troops and ignited swathes of terrain, while Israeli soldiers have responded with riot dispersal means and live bullets.
Two Paleostinians were killed by Israeli fire during different festivities between Beita residents and Israeli forces in recent days.
Also Wednesday, Israeli Border Police arrested a Paleostinian woman in possession of a knife at the entrance to Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs. The woman aroused the suspicion of officers outside the West Bank holy site, and they proceeded to carry out an arrest according to protocol, during which the woman threw her knife at the ground upon command. No one was injured in the incident, Border Police said.
Hours earlier, a female Paleostinian assailant attempted to commit a car-ramming and stabbing attack near the central West Bank Paleostinian town of Hizme before being shot and killed. The military noted that there were no Israeli casualties and that the attacker had been "neutralized." The official PA news agency Wafa identified the woman as Mai Afaneh, 29, from the town of Abu Dis, which is east of Jerusalem. Reports said Afaneh had written on Facebook hours before the attack: "I don’t have much time left in life."
[IsraelTimes] Firefighters battled four blazes in southern Israel Wednesday that were sparked by balloon-borne incendiary devices launched from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip for the second day in a row.
The fires, all located in the Eshkol region, were small and posed no risk to nearby communities, the Fire and Rescue Services said in a statement.
"Unfortunately we have gotten used to this," Ofer Lieberman a farmer from Kibbutz Am Nir told Ynet on Wednesday. "Our area remains tense even after [the Gaza] operation ends.
"We are the first to come under fire as soon as something happens elsewhere. This time it was the flag march in Jerusalem," he added, referring to Tuesday’s march of ultranationalist Jews through the Old City, which Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", warned would spark escalation.
Over 3 acres of lemon tree fields belonging to Kibbutz Nir Am were burned on Tuesday along with almost an acre’s worth of clementine trees, according to the Kan public broadcaster. Wheat fields and tangerine orchards were also burned, with over 30 acres of land torched in total.
The IDF struck Hamas military targets in Gaza after midnight on Wednesday in response to Tuesday’s arson attacks, which caused 26 fires in southern border towns.
The arson attacks and IDF counterstrikes were the first exchange between terror groups in Gaza and the army since last month’s 11-day conflict in the Strip.
[NYPOST] The Biden administration ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... is urging state and local officials across America to hold Independence Day celebrations this year — but is standing firm in preventing a fireworks display from being held at Mount Rushmore.
Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem tweeted out a letter Tuesday from the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs that read in part: "Thanks to the Biden administration’s whole of government pandemic response, the United States has made incredible progress in vaccinating Americans and getting our country back on track ...
"On July 4, because of our strong response, America will mark independence from the virus by celebrating with events across the country ...," the letter continued. "We welcome you to join us by hosting your own events to honor our freedom, salute those who have been serving on the frontlines, and celebrate our progress in fighting this pandemic."
"What a hypocrite," Noem tweeted. "President @JoeBiden wants ’a summer of freedom’ where we ’mark independence from the virus by celebrating with events across the country.’ Translation: fireworks are fine at the White House, but not at Mount Rushmore."
A confidential source has "leaked, in between cackling laughter" that Mount Rushmore is being "upgraded to 21st Century Standards" to reflect the "Unity of Events" more in keeping with our recent historical, political and social changes.
Joe wanted it to be a "Surprise 4th of July Present to the Nation which WOKE from 2020 political slumber of the 17th-20th Centuries".
The source also provided a quick look of the "new mountain view, and other details" Picture is worth 1000 words.
[ARABNEWS] A Lebanese woman hailed as a hero for confronting the widely despised MP Gebran Bassil ...arrogant, overbearing son-in-law of Michel Aoun, a Hezbollah suck-ass and wannabe Bashir al-Assad who plans on being president of what's left of Leb as soon as the old man's dead and the votes have been phonied up... , has vowed to remain defiant despite claiming her father was forced to apologize for her actions.
On Sunday, a video was widely shared of Yasmine Masri scuffling with bodyguards working for the head of the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... [FPM] after she heckled him with a cry of "shame on you."
The brawl took place at a restaurant in Bassil’s home town of Batroun, northern Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch... Masri said she was assaulted and had her phone broken by his security entourage but she told Arab News she was proud to confront Bassil. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... she said her father had been "coerced into apologizing" for her the bust up.
On Tuesday, a photo of the MP and the 31-year-old woman’s father was published in Lebanese media along with a story saying he met Bassil and apologized for his daughter’s behavior.
Masri was having lunch with friends in a newly-opened restaurant in Batroun when she saw Bassil and his entourage.
Lebanese are furious with the ruling elite and blame them for plunging the country towards economic collapse.
As the son-in-law of Lebanese President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... and a strong political ally of Iran-backed Hezbollah, Bassil in particular has come to symbolize the country’s corrupt self-serving politicians.
Last year, the US issued sanctions against him, accusing him of being "notorious for corruption."
Speaking to Arab News, Masri said Bassil "forced her father in to apologizing under threat, blackmailing and shaming him." She preferred not to give details of the nature of the blackmail.
"I have received physical threats," she said. "Just now, shortly before responding to this interview my mother called and asked me to stop; saying she doesn’t want to pick me up injured from a hospital."
But Masri, who like many young Lebanese is broiling with anger over the country’s plight, vowed not to stop expressing herself.
The food and drink manager was angered that Bassil had the audacity to show up in public as if he had no responsibility for the country’s woes.
Recounting what happened, she felt within her rights to shout "shame on you" in Arabic.
She said Bassil sent his bodyguards over to her and they threatened to beat her.
"I told them go ahead and they started beating me ... then I took back my phone and followed them and took a video. Then they beat me again and threw my phone on the floor and broke it," she added.
Masri said FPM supporters chased her for up to four hours around Batroun after the initial clash and would not let her leave the area.
"Batroun’s pompous blowhards [supporters of FPM and Bassil] were spitting at me, insulting me and threatening me all over the place," she said.
Masri describes herself as a politically-independent civil society activist, who became active during widespread anti-government protests in October 2019.
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[KhaamaPress] According to reports, the United States urged speeding up the visa process for Afghans who have worked for the U.S. government in Afghanistan.
The reports added that those Afghans who have worked with U.S. Government for the past 20 years, now reportedly their lives seem to be in danger after the withdrawal of foreign troops.
America plans to increase the number of visa services by five times in Afghanistan, Rooters reported.
Patrick Leahy ...Democrat Senator-for-Life from Vermont, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, source of more leaks than a plumber could keep up with... , United States Senator urged speeding up the Special Visas due to increases in Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... threats for Afghans who have worked with the U.S. government.
Rooters added that the United States plans to issue between 1,000 to 1,400 visas per month to vulnerable Afghans, but the embassy has issued only 237 visas in the past three months.
[ToloNews] Afghan cops retook the center of Khan Abad district in northern Kunduz province on Wednesday morning, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Wednesday.
The clearing operation was launched by the security forces on Tuesday night and "this morning the forces retook the center of the district," it said.
Fawad Aman, deputy front man for the Ministry of Defense, said: "Qari Hashem, a Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... commander who was leading the war in the district, has been killed with his 30 fighters during the operation."
The Taliban has not yet commented on the operation.
The center of the district has repeatedly switched hands in close fighting over the past several days, according to sources.
Fawzia Yaftali, a member of the provincial council, said that at least five non-combatants were killed--including women and kiddies--and 20 others, also including women and kiddies, were maimed during the festivities in the district.
"The preliminary reports indicate that the non-combatants were killed and maimed in firing from Afghan air forces," she said.
The Ministry of Defense has not yet commented on civilian casualties caused by the operation.
An administrator of a camp of Sere Kaniye IDPs in Hasakah, northeastern #Syria, said they have finished digging an experimental well in the camp amid the shortage and contamination of water.https://t.co/Nh8WdVeCDTpic.twitter.com/RwcKvV38iJ
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So they built a facility, with no water source?
[Garowe] A base used by Somalia-based al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... gunnies has been captured in the Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... State of Somalia, state media reports, in the ongoing crackdown against the murderous Moslems, who are fighting to topple the fragile UN-backed Somalia administration.
Security forces drawn from Puntland are said to have raided the base located in al-Miskad mountains of the Bari region, capturing the base that has been lately used to launch an offensive against innocent civilians in the Horn of Africa nation.
During the raid, state media noted, sophisticated weapons and Improvised Explosive Devices [IEDs] were seized. The devices are used by the gunnies during operations and have contributed to the deaths of thousands of people in Somalia and across the border.
"Security forces of Somalia’s Puntland State captured al-Shabaab base in al-Miskad mountains of Bari region. The forces also seized weapons and improvised bombs," state media reported.
Puntland is one of the most secure states in the war-torn nation but has lately been struggling to contain hard boy attacks, mainly in the northeast and southern part of the state, which borders Galmadug, another safe haven for the terrorists.
Al-Shabaab has been making inroads in the far east near Bosaso and also parts of Galkayo, the border city. It's in Galkayo that the gunnies have managed to wage deadly attacks but also, some ISIS gunnies have also been making their case known in the state.
The Somali National Army [SNA] has also continued with an offensive against al-Shabaab hard boys, with operations in Central and Southern Somalia yielding fruits in recent weeks. The military has dismantled al-Shabaab's logistics chain.
SNA destroyed the group’s main food store in central Somalia which was located near Mahas district in the Hiiraan region. The army destroyed a large warehouse in War-Ise village of middle Shabelle region where al-Shabaab used to store weapons and fuel, state media said.
The group’s movement was also weakened after government troops attacked them on several different fronts. Military experts have described the current operation as the toughest Al-Shabaab has faced in recent times.
Around 300 bad boyz were potted in the operations and the group lost more ground as Somali National Army intensified its combat to hunt down Shabaab. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the group managed to attack Gen Yusuf military base in Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing at least 20 recruits.
[ARABNEWS] A Jordanian MP expelled from parliament for inciting riots, has been arrested Jordan News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Jordanian MPs voted earlier this month to remove Osama al-Ajarmeh from the lower house after violence erupted like lava from a volcano in the suburb of Naour, a stronghold of the Ajarmeh tribe in southwest Amman.
Four coppers were maimed in festivities with supporters of the MP.
Al-Ajarmeh was seen in a video insulting King Abdullah II while carrying a sword and a gun in a shoulder holster.
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Oooooohhh that is sooooo cute! Normally we spamcop his posts as soon as they’re seen because he is boringly vicious, but this time I’m going to leave it up for a while because he got absolutely everything wrong in the cutest possible way.
He is still a vile little specimen of humanity, but like a two-year-old version of himself.
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I thought removed content went to the sinktrap.
Sadly, CrazyFool, the Sinktrap disappeared several upgrades back, never to be seen again. Black dirt castigated Fred, inter alia, as a half-Pakistani Jew lover... or something like that.
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Top 10 with the highest recent infections:
Rank ...Country
1 Brazil
2 India
3 Russia
4 Indonesia
5 S. Africa
6 UK
7 Iran
8 USA
9 Chile
10 Philippines
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rankings above are by absolute number not population weighted
btw, Brazil as well as a few other countries in SAmerica, is known to have vaccinated a lot of its people with the Chinese vaccine which is almost certainly less effective than the Russian vaccines
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[SPECTATOR.ORG] Keisha Lance Bottoms might well be an abject fool, and she is unquestionably terrible at running a major city. This is not in question. But Keisha Bottoms, like any urban Democrat mayor, is not an island unto herself. She’s more of an iceberg. She’s what you see, but beneath the surface is a vast political machine, an army of political fixers and operatives and assorted grifters, babus bureaucrats, lawyers, and street hustlers. Most of them are educated, at least to a degree, almost all of them have lots of experience in politics and government, and even if Bottoms is a fool they are not.
So how does Atlanta collapse from a world-class city to one that has its nicest area trying to escape? Not by accident.
Look, what makes a place livable is not the presence of lots of rich people. Rich people put themselves behind high walls, and rich people do what they can to keep the riffraff out. Having lots of rich people makes an area exclusive, not livable.
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They come from successful agriculture, and you'll notice most large cities began as tiny spots where water power could be harnessed to grind grain, or a good port to fish from. The rest, being places where precious resources could be easily harvested, such as salt farms or copper.
Stable population centers, universities, have the proper conditions for people to tinker. Unstable cities cause problems. Big problems. War. Authoritarianism. Genocide. Whatever it takes to keep The City functioning. The unstable City seems to produce that trio with a mid of instability is opportunity.
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Back in ancient times, after you planted the crop in the spring, the time between that and fall harvest, were often filled with keen adventures (raiding, pillaging, and looting).
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the time between that and fall harvest, were often filled with keen adventures (raiding, pillaging, and looting)
The Wakandians restarted the keen adventures back in the Spring of 2020 and haven't stopped...2021 just smaller groups of Mob Looters, different cities
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Urbanists are a variety of leftist. They will never argue honestly.
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City
Civitas
Civil civilized civilization civility
These USED TO BE associated with urbanism.
No one familiar with American urban life over the last 60 years with associate any of these values or institutions with America's large cities.
Detroit - Baltimore - Chicago - NE DC - West Philly - the Bronx - South Central LA: these are places where the opposite of civility & civilization hold sway.
Brutality, intolerance, savagery, animal instincts, Floydism: these are what have characterized urban life in the above and many other US cities during the last 60 years
Cities fail because people forget mayors, protocols, laws and courts, all exist for them, not the other way round. They fail when citizens put up their feet, with beer in hand and watch TV while the villains are outside, preaching revolution to their kids, when good-for-nothings are slinging dope and whoring about unchallenged. They don't fail because of bad policy. They fail when we don't lynch the marxist bastitches while we can, and they go on to become policymakers.
According to Wikipedia, Afghanistan contains 387 districts and 34 provincial center districts for a total of 421 according to the most recent official numbers, meaning 19% of them are in flames at the moment.
[ToloNews] Fighting between Afghan cops and the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... continued in at least 80 districts across the country in the past 24 hours, security sources told TOLOnews.
According to the sources, over 100 Taliban fighters and 90 security force members were killed during this period. Neither the Taliban nor the government has provided numbers of casualties.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo watched the circling Commanches and asked himself What would Geronimo do?... there are reports that Dawlatabad district of Faryab is switching hands between the Taliban and the security forces and both sides are claiming control.
Officials at the Ministry of Defense said that security forces have retaken control of the center of Khanabad district in Kunduz province. The center of Khanabad district fell to the Taliban two days ago.
"Including Qari Hashem, 20 of his fighters were killed and maimed. The district is completely under the control of the security and defense forces," said Farid Mashal, Kunduz's police commander.
"Javin district has collapsed, our sisters and brothers have been martyred, the entire people in Farah know that the Punjabis of Pakistain and Iranian Sepah are involved in the war," said MP Abdul Sattar Hussaini.
"If the central government does not focus on Farah, there will be a human tragedy," said Dadullah Qane, the head of Farah's provincial council.
A member of the Kunduz provincial council said that at least five non-combatants were killed including women and kiddies and 20 more maimed as a result of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s by security forces in the Dawra area of Khanabad.
"In areas around Sardawra in Khanabad, airstrikes were carried out on the people’s homes," said Fawzia Yaftali, the secretary of the Kunduz provincial council.
Fierce fighting was also reported in Dawlatabad district of Kunduz. Reports say a number of security forces remain under siege by the Taliban in Oba district of Kunduz.
In Ghazni province there are reports that a military helicopter used by the Afghan National Army was hit by the Taliban.
"As a result of fighting between the Taliban and security forces, unfortunately, 15 commandos and members of the National Army were martyred," said Abdul Ahad Bek, member of Faryab's provincial council.
Lawmakers from Farah province in the Parliament said that the casualties among the security forces in Lashjawin, Anar Dara and Poshtrod districts of Farah total about 100 people killed. They say 50 soldiers were taken hostage by the Taliban.
"These cowards who are sitting in the centers pledged us to send aid, but they did not do it until the last minute," said MP Humayoun Shaheedzada.
Not everybody wants the same Happily Ever After. This was not one I expected, but here’s hoping the Syrian refugees are as beneficial to their new home as Somalia is for them.
[Garowe] When the war broke out in Damascus and in its environs, many people may have expected Syrians to take refuge in Europe, America, or in the neighboring countries such as Jordan but this may not be entirely true.
Although a number of them may have flown to the aforementioned areas, a number of them chose Somalia, another country that has been engulfed in civil war, political unrest, and terrorism for many decades. It's not one of those destinations one would think of.
If you walk around the streets of Mogadishu, there is no doubt that you'll come across Ashamia restaurant, which is a popular eatery in Somalia, that is owned by a Syrian refugee. It's frequented by both Somalis and people from other diverse backgrounds.
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[NJ] Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Wednesday is set to unveil a statue of George Floyd that officials say will be displayed outside City Hall for at least a year.
"The artwork honors the life of George Floyd, an African-American man who was brutally murdered by a white Minneapolis police officer," the mayor’s office said in a statement. "Mr. Floyd’s death elevated the ’Black Lives Matter’ movement which has resulted in an international response, including protests, police reform measures, and the removal of Confederate statues from public parks and racist names from organizations."
Baraka will join actor, director, and filmmaker Leon Pickney, who commissioned the 700-pound statue and the sculptor, Stanley Watts, among other officials at the event, according to the mayor’s office. The event is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. outside City Hall on Board Street and will be streamed via the city’s Facebook page.
The statue was donated to the city this week as part of an effort to develop a "world class public art program," in Newark, the announcement said.
The ceremony will also honor Juneteenth, which is Saturday and marks June 19, 1865, when slavery was ended in the United States. Also called Jubilee Day or Liberation Day, the date is when Union troops brought news of the Emancipation Proclamation to enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, declaring all people held in slavery must be freed.
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Can we secede already? Make it a reverse secession. The USSA can secede from the rest of the country. Then they can have their own Soros DAs, unfounded unarmed i.e. outgunned police, tranny story hours etc.
Call it Floydia. The final event of secession itself could be referred to as the Floydian Slip.
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In Newark a Lazaran sentinel
Well-cast of a substance most plentiful
Drawls, "Get you a ticket
To visit and lick it,
All y'all who would follow St. Fentanyl."
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How nice of Newark to accept a new roosting spot for wildlife, kind of matches the lifestyle and lifetime of the roost. Or as he might of said "all that shit."
[KhaamaPress] Reports from the western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province suggest that at least 3 people were killed and 11 were maimed by unknown button men in Injil district on Tuesday night.
All the victims were members of one family, local official confirmed.
The spokesperson of Herat Police confirmed that the incident occurred when a family was visiting relatives in the Injil district.
There were two women and one child among the victims who were shot to dead, the spokesperson said.
The Herat police said they have launched an immediate investigation on the matter and yet the reason behind the attack is not clear.
The mysterious assassination of civilians has increased for the past few days in provinces.
[FoxNews] Fatehi is latest prosecutor candidate Soros has backed to reshape Virginia criminal justice system.
Liberal billionaire George Soros continues his push for his preferred left-wing prosecutors across the country, this time quietly racking up a guaranteed victory with $200,000 spent in Norfolk, Virginia.
Soros's cash infusion, which has slipped under the radar, includes $157,000 from his Justice & Public Safety PAC and $41,500 from his Democracy PAC to Ramin Fatehi, a state and federal prosecutor who won a three-way Democratic primary on June 8. He is now the only candidate on the ballot for the November general election for Norfolk's commonwealth's attorney.
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As of the census[46] of 2010, there were 242,803 people, 86,210 households, and 51,898 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,362.8 people per square mile (1,684.4/km2). There were 94,416 housing units at an average density of 1,757.3 per square mile (678.5/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 47.1% White, 43.1% African American, 0.5% Native American, 3.3% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 2.2% from other races, and 3.6% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 6.6% of the population. Non-Hispanic Whites were 44.3% of the population in 2010,[47] down from 68.5% in 1970.[48]
Assuming Google remains the search engine of choice, his views aren't exactly under the radar:
[KITCO] Copper prices slid to seven-week lows on Tuesday as traders and funds cut bets on higher prices due to growing nervousness that top consumer China would soon move to curb further price rises.
Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange was down 3.9% at $9,580 a tonne at 0947 GMT. Prices of the metal used in the power and construction industries have dropped more than 8% since touching a record high at $10,747.50 on May 10.
"We are in a soft patch," said Citi analyst Oliver Nugent.
"The next leg of the rally will be led by the physical market around the third quarter when the whole supply chain has used up its stocks.
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SELL-OFF: The sell-off started overnight as Chinese traders came back from a long weekend. Copper prices falling below the 50-day moving average around $9,781 accelerated the sell-off.
CURBS: China’s state planner last week renewed its pledge to step up monitoring of commodity prices, as domestic producer inflation hit its highest in more than 12 years.
Shanghai Metal Exchange Market (SHMET) and Chinese analysts said China plans to release state reserves of nonferrous metals copper, aluminium and zinc in a programme set to last until the end of 2021. Copper dropped to about $4.32 a pound this AM (6/16 is about $4.35 right now), down from $4.51/lb. last Friday (6/11). Apparently the Chinese just announced that they will be selling portions of their ’Strategic Stockpile’ of Copper, Aluminum and Zinc in efforts to curb prices, and the markets have reacted accordingly. Don’t know how long the new selloffs at lower prices will last, but it will offer some short-term relief for the construction industry. On a further note, the Chinese have NOT started any sell-offs of these commodities to date, so I’m not too excited yet. Keep in mind that Beijing purchased the bulk of these ’stockpile commodities’ in 2019-2020 when they were pretty cheap compared to today so would still be profiting if they sell.
It’s pretty apparent that the Chinese are trying to mitigate their domestic inflation rates, not for ’the good of the world’, but as a face-saving move for their population. There has been a lot of anger and dissent by the locals regarding inflation fears that we don’t hear about. The Chinese might also pump hard cash back into the economy to artificially lower inflation (and keep their folks manageable), and that cash has to come from somewhere (see above). My guess is that they might sell off other commodities as well, but are waiting to see how this announcement helps them before they do anything (if at all). They may not even sell off their Copper, Aluminum or Zinc, but rather capitalize by purchasing more at the lowered market costs, making their recent announcement simply a feint to lower their domestic usage commodities costs.
The Chinese have been historically famous for saying one thing and then doing something else entirely. They’ve been playing the ’Global Commerce Game’ for over 3,500 years, and they are very good at it.
Stay tuned, I know I will be.
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The Chinese might also pump hard cash back into the economy to artificially lower inflation
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'Hard Cash' is different than 'Printing Extra Currency', GF8820. It has definite value, in this case from the potential sale of a specific commodity wherein the new 'Hard Cash' from that sale would be tangibly equivalent to the commodity's value. The added 'Hard Cash' to the economy would collectively increase the value of the existing currency in circulation.
Just printing currency, with no equality or gain in tangible value as this is typically done at a loss in value, dilutes the value of existing currency in circulation.
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I probably should have said that 'The Chinese might also pump this hard cash back into the economy to artificially lower inflation but only after the Mandarins take their cut.'
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The Chinese also utilize copper and other industrial metals as collateral, commonly more than once. At some point the Shanghai Metals Exchange could become, interesting in the face of the unforeseen.
Passing laws is easy. Enforcing them is another kettle of locusts.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] The Senate’s Standing Committee on Human Rights on Wednesday unanimously adopted ’The Islamabad Capital Territory Senior Citizens Bill, 2021’ and ’The Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill, 2021’.The bills, which have already been passed by the National Assembly, were presented in the maiden meeting of the committee, held here at the Parliament House under the chairmanship of Waleed Iqbal.
Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari, while presenting the bills, briefed the committee on the salient features of two bills. The committee members appreciated the efforts of the Human Rights Ministry in tabling such bills which were pivotal for the well-being of citizens.
After detailed deliberations, the members suggested some editorial amendments and thereafter the committee unanimously passed both the bills.
A report to the House in pursuance of the ruling of the Senate chairman was presented in the meeting.
Earlier, Committee Chairman Waleed Iqbal welcomed the members and stressed the need to work on human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. across party lines and beyond politics.
Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed highlighted the issue of curbs on media and the proposed Pakistain Media Development Authority Ordinance. Dr Mazari, however, termed it an unauthentic news, saying no such ordinance was being issued.
Senator Muhammad Tahir Bizinjo suggested that the committee should also look into the attitudes and mindset that prompted violent mostly peaceful behaviour.
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[AlAhram] Egyptian authorities continued to keep the Rafah border crossing open to receive maimed Paleostinians and allow the delivery of humanitarian relief assistance into the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
According to official sources Wednesday, the crossing will remain open to allow entry of relief materials into the Gaza Strip for the reconstruction of the impoverished Paleostinian enclave after the widespread destruction it witnessed due to last month’s Israeli onslaught.
A number of ambulances were on hand at the crossing to receive injured Paleostinians, including those at death's door, and move them to Egyptian hospitals for treatment, the sources said.
The crossing is open according to directives of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
[AlAhram] Dardar was formerly a member of the al-Qaeda-linked Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), many of whose fighters joined EIGS
No doubt EIGS better matches Islamic State in the Greater Sahara in some languages other than English. MUJAO, sometimes abbreviated as MOJWA, hooked up with Mokhtar Belmokhtar’s al-Mulathameen Brigade to form the Al Qaeda in North Africa-linked al-Mourabitoun, part of which split off to pledge allegiance to ISIS in 2015. Both groups seem to be jihading in the same territory, but somehow they make it work.
French forces have captured in Mali a man they describe as a "high-ranking fighter of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in the Greater Sahara" (EIGS), the French army's chief of staff said on Wednesday.
[PJMEDIA] Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... and Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... appeared tense and uncomfortable in their first of two bilateral meetings today as the two leaders are expected to butt heads on everything from cybercrime to human rights
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Putin is expected to bring up human rights in the U.S. by pointing to last summer’s anti-police riots. You’d never see anything like that in Russia, Putin will probably say. This is because
... because Russians unlike Woke Americans and west Europeans are proud of their culture and scorn Wakandan savagery and shakedown routines
[ToloNews] Afghan authorities on Wednesday said that at least six tribal elders were arrested for acting as go-betweens in agreements that led to government forces leaving their posts to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in various parts of Badghis province.
Hessamuddin Shams, the governor of Badghis province, said that the tribal elders played a key role in paving the way for dozens of soldiers to leave their posts.
"We have arrested at least six influential people who were involved in mediating between the security forces and the Taliban to evacuate their bases," said Shams.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... local officials in Badghis have also said that at least 50 soldiers who made agreements with the Taliban to leave have returned to their bases.
This comes days after authorities warned that those who mediate between the security forces and the Taliban will be arrested.
"This is a very bad tradition in Afghanistan that needs to be prevented ... the people come and ask the security forces to surrender to the Taliban, these people should face the law," said MP Ziauddin Akazi.
"The government maintains the right to take action against every person who is involved in disrupting the system," said civil society activist Junaidullah Ashkani.
Recently several soldiers surrendered to the Taliban without any resistance. Jond is a district in Badghis that has been under siege by the Taliban for more than a decade. Jond fell to the Taliban a few days ago.
Gavaughn Streeter-Hillerich has been convicted for setting fire to @PortlandPolice North Precinct at a BLM-Antifa riot in June 2020. There were 19 people inside during the arson attack. He said anarchists & @RoseCityJustice leaders were there. He's sentenced to 5 years in prison. pic.twitter.com/fhL2gSJTze
[ARABNEWS] Efforts to form a government and end the political stalemate gripping Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch... reached a dead-end on Wednesday amid heated exchanges between President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... and Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
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[KhaamaPress] According to the reports, the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... fighters attacked the Kohmard police headquarter in Bamyan province overnight, a local official confirmed.
Sayed Anwar Rahmati, governor of Bamyan Province said that the Talibs launched an attack against Afghan cops in Kahmard District of Bamyan at 02:00 pm last night.
According to Rahmati, at least 5 Afghan security force members have been killed and one has been maimed as a result of clash between the Taliban fighters and the Afghan cops.
He stated that no reports of casualties from Taliban are available yet.
The governor said that the district government office and several security outposts are under the control of security forces, and Bamyan Police Chief is also in the area.
On the other hand, Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid said in a Twitter statement that nine security forces were killed and two police HQ are under the control of the Taliban after a heavy clash between Taliban and security forces in Kahmard District.
[Townhall] A group of parents in Gainesville, FL, concerned about potential harms from masks, submitted six face masks to a lab for analysis. The resulting report found that five masks were contaminated with bacteria, parasites, and fungi, including three with dangerous pathogenic and pneumonia-causing bacteria. No viruses were detected on the masks, although the test is capable of detecting viruses.
The analysis detected the following 11 alarmingly dangerous pathogens on the masks:
Half of the masks were contaminated with one or more strains of pneumonia-causing bacteria. One-third were contaminated with one or more strains of meningitis-causing bacteria. One-third were contaminated with dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens. In addition, less dangerous pathogens were identified, including pathogens that can cause fever, ulcers, acne, yeast infections, strep throat, periodontal disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and more.
The face masks studied were new or freshly-laundered before wearing and had been worn for 5 to 8 hours, most during in-person schooling by children aged 6 through 11. One was worn by an adult. A t-shirt worn by one of the children at school and unworn masks were tested as controls. No pathogens were found on the controls. Proteins found on the t-shirt, for example, are not pathogenic to humans and are commonly found in hair, skin, and soil.
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Welcome to the real world. Those promoting fears should all live as the boy in the bubble lived. We live in an ocean of germs. We re-breathe others air. So when you drive down a road and smell cigar or cigarette smoke what might that tell you. Then still smell these orders with the mask on.
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Kids are the primary vectors of every new food and flu. Anyone who has paid attention already knew that.
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Ever notice that NO effort was ever made to treat mask disposal as a medical waste problem?
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M. Murcek I see them on the ground everywhere.
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Yes, they are big enough to cover the crack vials and used condoms...
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The truth, utterly lost to the Fauxi cabal, is we humans are dirty animals but our immune systems do just fine as long as freaks like Daszak are not being sent money to research ways to kill us all.
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I about belted a teacher, a neighbor, for getting on a 1st grader having his mask down for 5 seconds after a drink.
4 months ago, still pissed.
Saw someone's granddaughter, face strapped, literally climbing up her leg trying to get max distance from me, au natural.
Re-breathing bad air for 8 hours is going to be the least harmful aspect of the house arrest.
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humans are dirty animals but our immune systems do just fine
Healthy and active does wonders.
Sitting around the house waiting for Big Burger to show up at your door is the worst thing people could do.
We did basically fucko out here. Some people got sick, but local meds had a cocktail put together and 2 days later out the door. Caught a lot of shit for it too, not wanting to do the square dance. In total, 6 deaths with the Covid, and I'm telling ya the Fates had already granted them extra thread.
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Its amazing to me how many, including Doctors, act as if we are basically wide open to infection and disease here on planet earth and catching anything is a literal death sentence as if we were in some alien environment we hadn't experienced before.
"OMG! You ate a strawberry without washing it first!!!!"
Attention: We, as humans, evolved here. this earth is our natural environment, our home. Very little here, relatively speaking, can kill us. At least very little which has not been designed in some laboratory financed by the government.
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Healthy and active does wonders. Sitting around the house waiting for Big Burger to show up at your door is the worst thing people could do.
We did basically fucko out here. Some people got sick, but local meds had a cocktail put together and 2 days later out the door. Caught a lot of shit for it too, not wanting to do the square dance. In total, 6 deaths with the Covid, and I'm telling ya the Fates had already granted them extra thread.
Save your kids. They are hurting.
AMEN!
Thank you for this. I wish our leaders had as much common sense -- called 'common' because it's so rare -- as you and yours.
What extraordinary stupidity we've witnessed these past 15 months.
That's the crux of it. Most of those bugs are facultative pathogens - meaning they'd happily eat or kill you, but your body has evolved defenses to keep them under control. And if not, we've got modern medicine to fight back with. So bring it, you little microbial *bleep*ers!
As for children being self-propelled disease vectors, that has to be totally unsurprising if you know any actual children.
From the WaPo in a report mostly favorable to Biden there is this nugget...what I'd like to know is which lobbyists with direct access to Biden, e.g. BGR, Roberti Global, McLarty Inbound, Atlantic Council got the Nord Stream 2 decision and did any of them have a relationship with Hunter Biden
Last month's decision to withhold sanctions against the company and CEO behind the nearly completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline was particularly divisive. Critics of the pipeline, which would transport natural gas from Russia to Germany, view its imminent completion and operation as a major geopolitical coup for the Kremlin.
The State Department, in a position backed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, his deputy Wendy Sherman and Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, recommended a raft of U.S. sanctions intended to block the pipeline, without waivers for the company or chief executive, said officials familiar with the decision.
Joe Biden sold the former territory called "Russian America" back to the Russians for an undisclosed sum, stock options and Putin's Dacha on the Black Sea.
Biden sees this as a win-win as he will eliminate Republican Representatives in the House and Senate rebalancing power back to the Democrat Party, without having to hold an election.
Russian America was the name of the former Russian colonial possessions in North America from 1799 to 1867. Its capital was Novo-Arkhangelsk, which is now Sitka. Settlements were mostly in Alaska but also spanned parts of what is now California, and also three forts in Hawaii
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Map of the US territory to be returned to Russia under the deal, which is written as a footnote in the "Juneteenth Legislation" recently passed by the House and in the Senate by UNANIMOUS Voice vote.
[All Africa] Several attacks in Côte d'Ivoire along the border with Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... claimed the lives of six Ivorian soldiers in the past three months. Five others were maimed. These incidents have heightened fears of violent mostly peaceful extremism spreading in the country.
Ivorian authorities attribute the assaults to a group linked to Katiba Macina, affiliated with the Jamâ'ah Nusrah al-Islâm wal-Moslemîn (Group for the Support of Islam and Moslems).
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"President Ouattara. Terrorism is no longer an external threat to us."
Maybe rephrase the question: If a fifteen week old unborn baby ain't human then what the hell is it?
[CNSNEWS] In relation to the upcoming Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, CNSNews.com asked Sen. RichardDick "Da Nang Dick" Blumenthal (D.-Conn.) if a 15-week-old unborn baby is a human being.
Blumenthal did not answer directly but said: "I’m going to wait for the Supreme Court decision."
At the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, CNSNews.com asked Blumenthal: "The Supreme Court this fall will review a Mississippi law that bans most child sacrifice abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Is an unborn baby at 15 weeks a human being?"
Blumenthal said, "You know, I’m going to wait for the Supreme Court decision. Right now, child sacrifice abortion at that point in a pregnancy is legal and constitutionally protected, and I believe it should be."
When asked again if the unborn baby is a human being, Blumenthal did not respond.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization this fall. Specifically, the Court will seek to decide "whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective child sacrifice abortions are unconstitutional."
Attack of the fifty foot baby!
"You think I should kill it, eh, Abie?"
"Hey, go ask my brother,
Two hundred foot mother!
Oy, why did we gobble
Dat fish from Chernobyl?"
And Rose was delivered! Well... maybe.
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Believe the science.
It is estimated that in the history of the Earth ~100 billion humans have been born. Everyone has been in a woman’s womb. Yet there is hesitation in comprehending.
Kataib Hezbollah says it "joined regional equation established by Hassan Nasrallah on Jerusalem," because "Zionist barbarism not confined to Palestinian innocents, affected entire region. Zionists killed commanders fighting ISIS. Free Iraqis will defend their holy sites, Al-Aqsa" pic.twitter.com/UOpqlQpOe3
Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades announced that one of its militants has died from wounds suffered by an IDF airstrike during the May conflict. #Gaza#Israelpic.twitter.com/c97swPxje8
Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades is the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, and very fond of shooting off rockets as well as roadside bombs and blowing up vehicles. The PRC split off of Fatah because they objected to setting up the Palestinian Authority making nice-ish with Israel. They may be supported by Hezbollah, but definitely are the third largest jihadi organization in Gaza after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
[AlAhram] The militia has strengthened its reach through recruitment, superior command over terrain and planting bombs that outstripped the capabilities of the Congolese army.
United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... experts said on Wednesday they had been unable to find evidence of direct support by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... for an Islamist militia in eastern Congo, which was blacklisted in March by Washington as a terrorist group.
Experts on Central Africa have been debating whether the Allied Democratic Forces ...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels.... (ADF), blamed for increasing violence over the past two years in eastern Congo, has genuine links with the Islamic State group based in the Middle East, sometimes known as ISIS or ISIS.
The ADF has publicly aligned itself with Islamic State, which in turn has grabbed credit for some of its attacks. The United States referred to the ADF as "ISIS-DRC" when it added it to its terrorism blacklist.
In its latest report, the UN Group of Experts on the Congo said the ADF and Islamic State both benefited from making public statements that link them with each other. Such statements were "complementing and amplifying ADF local propaganda, and suggesting increased global reach for ISIS," the report said.
But it added: "The Group did not however find conclusive evidence of ISIS command and control over ADF operations, nor of ISIS direct support to ADF, either financial, human or material."
It found the ADF was getting better at making bombs using expertise from fighters recruited from East Africa, but that these bombs were used for "tactical, offensive, defensive and harassment purposes rather than as a terrorist tool".
The ADF has committed a spate of brutal reprisal attacks on civilians since the army began operations against it in late 2019. The group killed around 850 people last year in Congo’s restive east, according to UN figures, and violence has persisted this year with almost weekly attacks.
They advised the Congolese government to improve the army's intelligence and technical capabilities, while increasing efforts to negotiate with the group to disengage and disarm.
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Prominent in the Wilayat Wasat Ifriqiya, or Central African wilayah are the two wings of ISIS-DRC and ISIS-Mozambique, as identified by the CIA. ISIS-DRC, led by Musa Seka Baluku, styles itself as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) of Congo to escape the islamist tag.
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styles itself as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) of Congo to escape the islamist tag.
I agree that they are definitely Islamist, Dron. I just am not aware of a functional connection with ISIS — cross-training with other ISIS groups, for instance — beyond a merely sentimental attachment in order to more effectively terrorize the unbelievers. There are apparently over 100 such groups in the region, many of them jihadi without being formally connected to anything more than the idea of their entitlement to pillage, plunder, and rape for the greater glory of Allah and the Ummah... and not working for a living, of course.
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Langley identified 'em as ISIS, TW, long before some islamophile in the UN decided to arrange for ease of mobility for daesh chapters with their 'report'.
ISIS-DRC, also known as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and Madina at Tauheed Wau Mujahedeen, among other names, is responsible for many attacks across North Kivu and Ituri Provinces in eastern DRC. Under the leadership of Seka Musa Baluku, ISIS-DRC has been notorious in this region for its brutal violence against Congolese citizens and regional military forces, with attacks killing over 849 civilians in 2020 alone, according to United Nations reporting on the ADF.
[ToloNews] Afghan cops retook the center of Dawlat Abad district in northern Faryab province on Wednesday morning, the Army's 209 Shaheen Corps said in a statement.
Security forces launched a clearing operation on Tuesday night with air support in the center of the district and cleared it of Taliban ...Arabic for students... , the statement said.
The statement did not provide further details about the operation or about casualties sustained by the security forces or Taliban.
The center of the district fell to the Taliban a week ago after heavy fighting.
The Taliban has not yet commented on the operation.
[ARABNEWS] Law enforcement agencies around the world have uncovered the extensive drug trafficking operations of Hezbollah and its affiliated groups and individuals. The main objective of its involvement in the narcotics trade is financial, to fund its expanding activities in Syria, Iraq, Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... and Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch... itself. However,
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On the one hand, it's easy to see this as savagery. On the other hand, I think we lost something when we moved executions behind prison walls here in America.
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I agree with the sentence for child rapists and child murderers. Except I would have had them hung. Slowly.
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If you take the time to watch any of the enthusiast live streams before a BO or SpaceX Boca Chica event, you will note the people in the comment stream are 1000% enthusiastic, 0% informed. The BO flight will be sub-orbital, therefore there will be no re-entry in the technical sense. Also, as it never reaches orbit, Jeffy is in no real danger of doing a Major Tom. A really hard landing might be fun to watch...
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Instruction for Bezo: Feed the monkey a banana.
Yes, some people are determined to continue the farcity of the Chinese virus lockdown and shutdown inspired mentality, which (natch) just might continue into NEXT YEAR!!!
Behold the unpersuasive and tendentious argument coming from one of the smuggest-looking broad bureaucrats since her boss showed her self-satisfied ugly puss onto the political scene:
[CNBC] - LONDON — Vaccine policy will top all other economic polices this year as the world tries to recover from the coronavirus crisis, International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said Wednesday at CNBC’s Global Evolve Summit.
"Vaccine policy this year, probably next year, is going to be the most important economic policy, may beat even monetary and fiscal policy in terms of significance," Georgieva told CNBC’s Geoff Cutmore.
"A prerequisite to bring the world to a sustained high level of growth everywhere is to vaccinate all people and that’s not yet done. We have [a] two track vaccination path right now; we have to overcome that," she said.
The IMF said in April that the end of the crisis was "increasingly visible." At the time, the institution raised its economic projections for the global economy based on higher vaccination rates and the ongoing monetary and fiscal stimulus.
As a result, the IMF projected a global GDP growth of 6% for this year and 4.4% next year. But the forecasts are heavily dependent on how vaccination programs evolve, including in low-income nations. And we all know just how reliable forecasts of all stripes have performed in the past year, don't we?
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A new frontier in scamming, along with gerbil worming...
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What's all the hubbub? Vaccines are great! Like for Shingles, Polio etc. The Chicom Covid jab is an mRNA experimental genetic modification that has only EUA (Emergency Use Auth). So what if the spike protein migrates from the injection site to cause heart/ lung /repro issues...small price to pay to have an answer to "your papers please..."
[PJMEDIA] Buckhead, a portion of Atlanta, Georgia, is looking to break free from the rest of a city in rapid decline. After decades of increased safety that started ahead of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, it took one woman and a single summer to ruin it. Not even New York City Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... can beat Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ time for running a city into the ground. It took de Blasio two terms. Bottoms has been so spectacular she’s announced she won’t even run for a second one.
As a result of her rank incompetence, Buckhead, a wealthier section of Atlanta with about 100,000 residents, has decided to control its own destiny. There are two bills in the state legislature to affect the split, and the group has raised the required amount of money to move forward. Buckhead is petitioning to become wholly independent and establish and enlarge their own police force under different leadership.
Tucker Carlson interviewed Bill White, the leader of the movement to create an independent Buckhead. White told Tucker that residents feel as if they are living in a war zone. They are filing for divorce, according to White, and it will be final. He expects there will be an initiative on the ballot in 2022. If it is successful, Atlanta will lose at least 20% of its tax base.
Carlson described the rise in crime during his monologue. Two recent assaults include a man shot while jogging by an unknown assailant in a residential neighborhood and the stabbing of a pregnant woman on a walking trail in broad daylight. Her baby had to be delivered three months early. Neither victim was robbed, just violent mostly peacefully assaulted.
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Divide & Conquer, Left and its strategy for disunity.
Remember what ever a Leftist says or supports, you should consider they want the opposite to gain for their ultimate goal - conquer and rule, by their rules, not the law.
See if they get the West Berlin treatment. Petty shit, but effective, like lowing the speed limit to 20mph, setting up traffic cameras galore, and ending police patrols around the perimeter.
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The elite universities are showing the way. Now Harvard Yake Princeton etc have separate ceremonies, separate tribal designators (African Kente cloth scarves), and soon separate diplomas for terror Wakandan "graduates."
Separate institutions.
Separate credentials (degrees in this case)
Separate regulations and separate legal regimes soon to come.
You could simply say 'because it's Ethiopia' and be done with it, but that would give these 2nd generation Robert Fisks at the Economist no chance to wonder aloud and broadcast their naivete.
[Economist] -
The Economist explains
Why has civil war returned to Ethiopia?
Ethnic divisions have thrown Africa’s second-most-populous country into renewed conflict
BY SOME RECKONINGS Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa. For a short while, under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, it looked as if it might become one of the most democratic. Not anymore. National elections, scheduled for June 21st, no longer herald progress. Abiy, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, now draws more international condemnation than praise. For more than six months, his federal government has been engaged in a bitter war against the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which until recently controlled the northern state of Tigray and previously dominated national politics. The conflict has fanned tensions among Ethiopia’s 80-plus ethnic groups and taken a frightful human toll. Why has civil war returned to Ethiopia?
The TPLF fired the first shots on November 4th, when its fighters attacked a base housing federal troops—to pre-empt an imminent attack from federal forces and their allies, it argued. In response, Abiy ordered air strikes and sent in ground forces. For the first few months of the conflict, a communications blackout made it difficult to know what was happening. Gradually the scale of the horror has emerged. Atrocities have been committed by all sides. Thousands of civilians are thought to have been killed, and millions more have been displaced, many over the border to Sudan. The raping of women has been widespread. And hunger has returned to Tigray, the site of a devastating famine in the 1980s. War and the alleged deliberate blocking of food deliveries have driven 350,000 people to the brink of starvation. That's all I can get that's not behind a paywall, but here's the tweet where some of the opinion pops out, a watered down version of 'they coulda been a contender with dat new Prime Minister'.
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They are not to blame. Civilization simply hasn't reached them yet. Send in a small survey group in another 1,000 years to conduct a re-assessment. In the meantime (as with most of the continent) don't get your hopes up.
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"Western Civilization" did reach them and take hold--in the form of the Soviet-backed Derg. That made an unusually bloody hash out of the local culture. The place wasn't always this bad.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Data released Tuesday shows US producer prices jumped 6.6% annually in May
It is the largest jump for the index since annual data was first kept in 2010
Deutsche Bank warns inflation could become 'devastating' if trends continue
Republicans blame Fed's loose money policy and massive fiscal stimulus
I've said it before, I'll likely say it again: If there's $1.2 trillion total in circulation, and you put $1.9 trillion more in, that means 150 percent inflation.
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[ARABNEWS] Afghanistan is currently facing a fresh wave of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... disease (COVID-19) cases, with much higher rates of infection and death compared to the last wave. The official statistics provided by the Ministry of Public Health are believed to be far less than the actual number of positive cases and fatalities, as only a very small percentage of the population actually reaches out to government hospitals for testing and treatment, given the poor condition of government-run health centers. Most people with symptoms visit private hospitals and clinics instead. The dilemma is that those with symptoms are less interested in getting tested for COVID-19 and instead seek treatment right away. Doctors usually prescribe antibiotics without a clear diagnosis, sometimes complicating patients’ conditions.
Afghanistan has a dysfunctional and inadequate healthcare system, in spite of the millions of dollars spent by the international community. There have been improvements, but they do not match the money spent. This relates to aid effectiveness and the Afghan government must take most of the blame for not being an efficient partner and failing to achieve the best results from the investments made in the health sector.
In recent years, the private health industry in Afghanistan has made some progress in terms of diagnostics and treatment, but it has a long way to go before it can gain the people’s trust. That is why most patients who can afford treatment abroad prefer traveling to Pakistain, India or even as far as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... . This is also because of the extremely inadequate services in public hospitals and the poor track record of the private ones, which are considered less cost-effective than treatment abroad.
In Afghanistan, the focus has been more on hospital buildings than on expertise, equipment, diagnostics and the quality of drugs. Enhancing Afghanistan’s health sector is more complicated than is often assumed. It will require a multidimensional approach, from elementary schools to medical colleges, curricula, the knowledge and experience of academia, and proper policy and regulatory frameworks provided by the government. Afghanistan’s health sector cannot be promoted in isolation from other sectors like education and law enforcement. Poor regulations lead to low-quality medicines finding their way into the Afghan markets. Corruption provides a breeding ground for all the mismanagement in the health sector.
The government recently established the Food and Drug Authority and placed a competent technocrat at its head. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... without strong political will, a clear vision, a well-defined mandate and proper support from the country’s leadership, the desired results may not be achievable, as the establishment of such authorities in other sectors has failed to deliver in the past.
Last year, when the World Bank and other donors provided generous support in the form of a relief package to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19, there were reports of mismanagement, corruption and improper utilization of the aid money. The Afghan government last December launched a World Bank-sponsored national meals program to provide relief for the most vulnerable segments of society. It is very important for the government to ensure that such assistance reaches the most deserving if it is to restore its credibility.
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I believe g(r)omgoru #1 comment had made the point.
But lets add to it... WIKI "2019 - Kabul, Afghanistan: United Nations Development Programme aids were attacked and one, Anil Raj, was killed.
An independent humanitarian research organization, Humanitarian Outcomes, conducted a survey revealing that in 2019, a record number of 277 major attacks took place against aid workers.
.... 483 aid workers were killed, kidnapped or wounded in that year, which was the highest number since 1997."
[REDSTATE] While there hasn’t been much coverage, two special elections in Georgia last night have some Democrats on edge. The elections, which were held to fill state legislature seats, concluded with Republicans winning both, but that’s not really the story.
Rather, the story is the change in vote share that happened in these districts, both favoring the GOP compared to their 2020 results.
The results in the more rural district are important because Democrats gaining vote share a lack of turnout to compete with the suburbs those areas handed the Democrats both Georgia Senate seats in January of this year. Blame that on whatever you want, whether it be Lin Wood telling Republicans not to vote or people just feeling disenfranchised after the prior November election, but seeing a return to more normal voting patterns is good for Republican chances in 2022. Remember, Sen. Raphael Warnock will already be up for re-election again after just two years.
The gains in suburban Atlanta are also something the GOP has been looking for. Again, blame it on what you want, but the GOP lost previously red suburban areas across the country largely due to a shift among college-educated women. Are things returning to normal? If they do, 2022 is going to be more than just the GOP taking the House by a slim margin, which would already be enough to give Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... a stroke.
Conventional wisdom has placed Georgia as "lean D" following 2020, but perhaps what happened prior was the aberration? Maybe those rushing to redefine the entire state were overreacting? It’s starting to feel that way. I certainly wouldn’t bet on Warnock in 2022 given he only won by 93,000 votes in a special election that might as well have been cooked up in a lab to favor him. With the opposition party already having built-in advantages in the first midterm of a new presidency, gains like we saw last night can lead to much bigger things.
Nothing is dispositive this early in the game, but anyone who’s honest would much rather be the GOP heading into 2022 right now.
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.
[Revolver News] Of all the questions asked, words spoken, and ink spilled on the so-called "Capitol Siege" of January 6, 2021, none hold the key to the entire event quite like what Sen. Amy Klobuchar asked of Christopher Wray.
[FOX] This weekend, police in Columbus, Georgia arrested a 39-year-old man called Justin Tyren Roberts. Over the course of a single day, Roberts shot five separate people in two different states. We know this because Roberts has admitted it. He also said why he did it. In his confession, police say, Roberts, "explained [that] throughout his life, specifically white males had taken from him." So he decided to kill them. In one case, Roberts walked up behind a white man, a total stranger, as he was getting out of a car and shot him in the back. 
Amazon excerpt - The Terror Factory
Siener van Rensburg got a few things right as well.
[Just The News] Records suggest more than 100 batches of absentee ballots in Fulton County could be missing. Some experts see "election tabulation malpractice" as state officials seek to remove county's top election supervisors.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...knaves, footpads, and 
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...arrogant, overbearing son-in-law of Michel Aoun, a Hezbollah suck-ass and wannabe Bashir al-Assad who plans on being president of what's left of Leb as soon as the old man's dead and the votes have been phonied up...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
[ARABNEWS] A Jordanian MP expelled from parliament for inciting riots, has been arrested Jordan News Agency reported on Wednesday.
[SPECTATOR.ORG] Keisha Lance Bottoms might well be an abject fool, and she is unquestionably terrible at running a major city. This is not in question. But Keisha Bottoms, like any urban Democrat mayor, is not an island unto herself. She’s more of an iceberg. She’s what you see, but beneath the surface is a vast political machine, an army of political fixers and operatives and assorted grifters, 
...
[NJ] Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Wednesday is set to unveil a statue of George Floyd that officials say will be displayed outside City Hall for at least a year.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
...Arabic for 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
Perhaps 'Intelligence Design' is unhappy with the slaughter of the innocent unborn and finally giving what we deserve. 
...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels....
...Arabic for 
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[REDSTATE] While there hasn’t been much coverage, two special elections in Georgia last night have some Democrats on edge. The elections, which were held to fill state legislature seats, concluded with Republicans winning both, but that’s not really the story.
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
