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Birth Name : Nancy Kovach
Born: March 11, 1935 in Flint, Michigan, USA
Nancy Kovack was a student at the University of Michigan at 15, a radio deejay at 16, a college graduate at 19 and the holder of eight beauty titles by 20. Her professional acting career began on television in New York, first as one of Jackie Gleason's "Glea Girls" and then, more prominently, on The Dave Garroway Show (1953), Today (1952) and Beat the Clock (1950). A stage role opened Hollywood doors for Kovack, who signed with Columbia. She later racked up an impressive list of episodic television credits, and was Emmy-nominated for a 1969 guest shot on Mannix (1967). The wife of world-renowned maestro Zubin Mehta of New York Philharmonic fame, Kovack publicly alleges that she was recently bamboozled (to the tune of $150,000) by Susan McDougal, a central figure in the Whitewater scandal.
TRIVIA:
Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes" (McFarland & Co., 1991).
Her father was an executive with General Motors.
Stepmother of Mervon Mehta and Zarina Mehta.
Sister-in-law of Zarin Mehta.
Has appeared five times on the situation comedy Bewitched (1964), three of her appearances portrayed Darrin Stephens' catty former girlfriend Sheila Summers.
Best remembered by the public for her role in the second season episode Star Trek: The Original Series: A Private Little War (1968), as the sexy native medicine woman Nona.
Attended and graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan (1954).
Currently resides with her husband Zubin Mehta in Germany.
Height 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
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This is well known. " Smaller, nonurban liberal arts schools take the brunt of the shrinking student body". Liberals don't have children. Save the planet has a price. I read somewhere 50% of liberal colleges will be gone is a very short period of time. Meaningless degrees with no application to be employed. Just means they have the ability to learn so on the job training required but do they want to work?. HA, now there's the rub.
#2
End the student loan program and see how many public institutions of 'higher learning' stay around. Most states can't afford to run that deep into the red floating the places.
It needs to be limited to studies that lead to well paid careers that will pay back the loans and add to the tax base. Also limit the amount and watch tuition drop like a rock.
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& why vaccination is so key.
AFAICT they have not yet addressed whether the vaccine response on the brain is similar to the apparent virus response. (Or whether it varies according to the vaccine.)
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Correction: We are now hearing calls for 16-year olds to vote Democratic.
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06/22/2021 13:05
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I was in favor of the 18-year-old vote in 1970 because I didn't think it was right to send young men to fight for democracy when those same young men were not allowed to vote. I thought young men who are being required to fight in a war should have a say in whether or not that war should even be fought.
Today's 16-year-olds face no such set of circumstances. The justifiable fear is that today's 16-year-olds have been subjected to indoctrination by teachers' union operatives. They need time in the working world so they can see reality before they vote. You might even say the same for 18-year-olds since the draft is no longer in effect.
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06/22/2021 15:33
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I would agree with Abu. There needs to be a set limit on things. This 18-21 stretch to "adulthood" is fucking retarded. One age to drink, vote and go to war. That is adulthood. End of fucking story.
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16-18 years old can graduate from high school
16-21 years old "get your adult compass bearings ☼ "
and set sail to adulthood.
Adult
Adulthood, the period in the human lifespan in which full physical and intellectual maturity have been attained. Adulthood is commonly thought of as beginning at age 20 or 21 years. Middle age, commencing at about 40 years, is followed by old age at about 60 years.
Emancipation is a legal way for children to become adults before they are 18. Once a child is emancipated, his or her parents do not have custody or control of him or her anymore. Emancipation is usually forever. But the court can cancel the emancipation if the minor asking for the emancipation lies to the court or is no longer able to support himself or herself.
If you are emancipated, you can do some things without your parent’s permission, like:
Get medical care;
Apply for a work permit;
Sign up for school or college; and
Live where you want to.
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By dropping the voting age the State or Nation Emancipated all citizens at the age of 18 years old.
All contracts were now possible ; buy a house, car, enlist in the military, become a licensed business person, run for public office, etc.
The dimension of space and time, represented by what is transpiring in the here and now, is all that we will ever know.
Unlike the continuum of perpetual time and infinite space, everything that we know will experience disruption, dissolution, disintegration, dismemberment, and death.
The inevitability of our ending represents the tragic comedy of life.
Much of our needless suffering emanates from resisting our impermanence rather than embracing our fate.
Only through acceptance of the events and situations that occur in a person's life including suffering, and by releasing our attachments, will a person ever experience enlightenment.
[RealClearPolitics] You probably heard it reported a few weeks ago that Donald Trump has been telling confidants that he expects to be reinstated as president in August. I have no way of knowing if that story is accurate, nor does New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman, who reported it, but we do know that Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, has boasted that he has evidence of election fraud that will force the Supreme Court to unanimously overturn the Nov. 3 election and put Trump back in power within six weeks.
No doubt that is far-fetched, but it raises the fascinating theoretical question of what would happen if a presidential election were indeed proven to be stolen. What would be the recourse? Or would the nation just have to accept its illegitimate ruler the way they do in corrupt Third World countries?
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Several Constitutional scholars have opined that we are stuck with Joe. Even if massive voter fraud is proven. He was elected by the electors and confirmed in the house.
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06/22/2021 10:58
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would the nation just have to accept its illegitimate ruler the way they do in corrupt Third World countries?
Yes, and the electors were selected by overt fraud. A contract predicated upon fraud has no standing. What happens next? There is no answer - only power.
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...The only Constitutional remedy is impeachment. IF it could be proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that Biden knew what was going on (and if you think about it, that would explain why he was in his basement for most of the campaign and DOCTOR Jill was doing so much) then he could be jacked up on charges before the Senate.
Does anyone really think that people like Pelosi, Schumer, et al, would vote to impeach or convict?
You could hope that IF Biden actually didn't know what was happening and then had it proven, he'd have the decency to resign, but THAT opens up a can of worms at a positively Biblical level.
*If he resigns, you'll then have to prove President Harris knew, and imagine the fun once people start screaming about 'lynching' the first Female/Black VP.
*But let's say that somehow, it happens. Then that puts Nancy Pelosi in the White House - and I've said for some time that she may be crazy, but she's not insane - she's not going to leave a job as powerful as SOTH just to be President for a few years.
*And that makes Senator Patrick Leahy, the President pro tem of the Senate, POTUS. Hell of an improvement. And again - does anyone think that Harris, Pelosi, or Leahy would be any better than Biden, if not in fact worse?
I remember the many links here from 2017 and 2018, about the contorted scenarios that people were coming up with to put Hilary! in the Oval Office, all of which stumbled on the Constitution that we presumably hold so dear. But now, presumably rational people are making similar arguments from the other side of the aisle, and it just ain't gonna work.
We're stuck until 2024.
Mike
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06/22/2021 13:28
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Remember we are the united States of America (remember that in the original document united was not capitalized because it was the States of America acting in a united fashion to create.}. Constitutional remedy by deciding to re-stage the election when fraud has been proved could happen in mere weeks if all state legislatures acted. And, if they were really insightful, repealing the 17th Amendment might also change permanently the insanity of fiscal malfeasance that has impoverished our grandchildren.
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Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution says: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors...
I don't see anything that requires an honest election. Theoretically, a State could, if the Leg decrees, choose Electors from the local machine without reference to any election at all. If a State decides to stick with a bogus outcome, it seems to fall within their rights.
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer (PTUI), but I did have Fireball in my coffee this morning)
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Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors...
There is a big chunk of the problem. The Constitution says the state legislatures set the rules, but because *reasons*, state judges set aside the existing rules and made up their own for how ballots would be counted. (Hint: judges are part of the Executive and not the Legislature) I still cannot believe the US Supreme court punted on this for lack of standing.
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IF it could be proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that Biden knew what was going on
Quite obviously impossible - on this or any other thing he is clueless.
Constitution provides only one means of replacing the President, regardless of how he obtained office, and that is Impeachment, which will not happen. Even if it should, it would have to be repeated with Harris, resulting in Pelosi or whomever Harris appointed before being expelled. In no case could it ever be Trump.
The Bill of Rights did provide for one other means of replacing a government which had gotten to big for its britches, a number between one and three.
#13
He was elected by the electors and confirmed in the house.
But was Biden really elected by the proper number of electors? If he were not, a remedy must be found. The election would have been stolen and Biden would not be the President. Moreover, all his decisions would have to be negated.
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IF it could be proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that Biden knew what was going on.
That is possibly where the dementia comes in. Even if he doesn't, he could play Sergeant Schultz and people would absolutely believe him.
Posted by: Bobby ||
06/22/2021 10:26
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Of course, if you don't think your troops are ideologically reliable, it makes sense to send them as far away from Fort Pelosi as possible.
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06/22/2021 10:31
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Excellent idea to go where our national interests and alliances actually make sense. America must be a Pacific nation and secure it from Chinese dominance.
Plans however, are not facts, and the Presidium at Kalorama may tell SecDeaf Austin to cool it,
It is the first time that a UK aircraft carrier is supporting live military operations on the ground in over two decades, projecting British military power on a global scale.
Royal Navy carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, a $5billion ship, is taking on the 'lion's share' of operations in Iraq
Commodore Steve Moorhouse said the UK is carrying out most of the missions to wipe out remnants of ISIS
US forces are instead focusing on withdrawing its remaining troops from Afghanistan after two decades
Russian warplanes have also been keeping tabs on state-of-the-art F-35 jet aboard the 65,000-tonne ship
The HMS Queen Elizabeth and its support ships, which include the US destroyer The Sullivans, departed the UK in May for its first operational deployment in a move that was set to outrage Russia and China.
The carrier will remain in the eastern Mediterranean for two to three weeks before moving through the Suez Canal to continue with a seven-and-a-half-month deployment to India, South Korea and Japan.
The $5billion warship, with eight RAF F35B stealth fighter jets on board, left for Asia on May 24 accompanied by six Royal Navy ships including HMS Defender and HMS Diamond, a submarine, 14 naval helicopters and a company of Royal Marines.
The flagship also has 10 US F-35 jets from the Marine Corps' Fighter Attack Squadron 211 aboard that carry out operations under British command.
The Carrier Strike Group will visit India, Singapore and then to Japan via the South China Sea.
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#1
I'm not sure if I'm more disappointed in the person who was like, "Yeah, put a US Flag underneath the toilet flapper." or the people in the group who went, "Super great idea!"
Guess squadron art is phobiaphobiaphobic nowadays.
#2
A lonely old hikikomori,
A window, a dive. "Herro, dorry!"
"It wasn't my wish
To be saved like a fish
Or memento." Throws back. "Thanks!" "So sorry!"
#11
Lawyer knows his only 50/50 hope of any money is if he can settle out of court with the homeowners insurance company.
As one civil court lawyer said: Next time put a small sign on the side of it that explains it is reinforced due to repeated destruction. The vandal or driver not controlling his/her/it vehicle won't read it anyway, but the warning sign was posted.
BTW: Mailboxes once installed are the property of the US Postal Service and fall under FBI Law Enforcement authority.
#12
As P2K said: "Wouldn't have look any different than hitting a tree." Or a bridge, retaining wall, house or some other erected structure? In many States you have to get past thresholds of fault in civil courts.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The pushback accelerates. That little girl gave a Platonic ideal of a fiery political speech. Watch the video at the link.
The little girl, known as Novalee, spoke on June 8 at the Lakeville Area School board meeting in Minneapolis
She attacked the board for banning political posters, then putting up BLM ones
Novalee told them: 'You have lied to me and I am very disappointed in all of you'
She said BLM was 'about getting rid of police officers, rioting, burning buildings down'
She urged the board to remove the posters, which she said made kids racist
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^^^^
Nice to see the CEV edition* in action,
but don't recall, "mock.... etc."
You must have the most up-to-date version,
commonly called "The Salty Sailor Edition",
I must get a copy, it really brings things alive...
*for those unfamiliar
CEV is the Contemporary English Version of the Bible, published by American Bible Society.
"In the biological destruction there are the organized tempests on the magnetic fields. What will follow is a contamination of the bloodstreams of mankind, creating intentional infections. This will be enforced via laws that will make vaccination mandatory. And these vaccines will make possible to control people. The vaccines will have liquid crystals that will become hosted in the brain cells, which will become micro-receivers of electromagnetic fields where waves of very low frequencies will be sent. And through these low frequency waves people will be unable to think, you’ll be turned into a zombie. Don’t think of this as a hypothesis. This has been done. Think of Rwanda"
This is also interesting: virus sized transistors
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2011/... Link found here.
[American Thinker] Citing experts at the Meedan Digital Health Lab , Reuters Fact Check vigorously asserts that the spike proteins induced by the COVID vaccines do not kill or damage cells.
Perhaps so, but something from the vaccines is causing deformations and apparent inflammation in red blood cells, as evidenced by images from microscopy photos. Images of blood cells taken before and after the vaccines can be seen starting about two minutes into the five-minute video. Postvaccine red blood cells exhibit rough instead of smooth edges, irregular shapes, and grouping together over time which is described as the "beginning form of thrombosis," or blood clots. More research is needed to determine exactly what is causing these cell deformations.
There are also numerous tiny white particles in the photographs which are presumed to be lipid nanoparticles (LNP). The delicate mRNA fragments from Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are encased in LNP, which serves to protect the mRNA from disintegrating before it can do its job in our bodies. Pfizer conducted a biodistribution study where they injected rats with bioluminescent RNA-encapsulated LNP, and found that the LNP had travelled not only beyond the injection site, but throughout the circulatory and immune systems, and had accumulated in virtually every organ in the body.
Meanwhile, Spain and Russia are reportedly advising citizens to avoid air travel if they have been vaccinated for COVID-19. It’s common knowledge that flying frequently, especially on long distance international flights, can cause blood clots, but talk about mixed signals! What’s next, nonvaccination passports? The takeaway here ought to be that whether or not someone gets vaccinated should be a personal decision, and that the practice of forcing people, especially students and younger adults, to get vaccinated, should be abandoned.
#6
You can look at Hatfill's letter to America (linked here, look at Daszak's video again, and ask yourself, if the authorities like Fauci and Daszak are lying about the origin of the virus and lying about treatments, but we should trust them to be telling the truth about the vaccines?
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/\ Thank you Snowy for re-posting the Hatfill letter. Nothing can say 'police state' or FBI rush to judgment better than what this fellow experienced some 20 years ago.
Steven Jay Hatfill is an American physician, pathologist and biological weapons expert. He became the subject of extensive media coverage beginning in mid-2002, when he was a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks. Wikipedia
#8
Well I just echoed the link that tw put up in another post today. (At least I think she's the one who does the massive cross-reference links at the end of posts).
#9
In USA everything is bound with one's ideological identity? You can't be a true conservative if you look at Brazil - where they gobbled HCQ like candy?
* '90% COVID patients who were given fake Remdesivir survived': India's Gujarat Police busted the inter-state racket' (original link, freep thread.
I want you to consider that the people who made this virus, who aren't all in China, (even though China is currently rich and powerful) didn't make it and release it so they could stop there and tell the truth about how to treat it.
It would take very little to dump "fake" hcq into the Brazilian market, especially if they don't have local manufacturers. And if they're doing that with remdesivir, they're probably doing it with hcq and ivermectin as well.
Then look at Israel's 689 deaths per million from the disease and compare it to Vietnam's ~ 20 deaths per million. That's pretty much raw data there, they're using _something_.
#12
(And just checking: Are you saying I should accept the advice from Daszak and Fauci who helped fund the fucking virus because that's a minor political dispute and I should be open minded?)
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Ref #13: I believe most everyone here is aware of USAID and their sources of funding and Deep State affiliations. Perhaps the DIA Chinese defector could shed some additional light on the subject.
Off to the Atlanta wet mkts. Got to pick some monkey brains for dinner.
#21
Why, maven of marvels mathematical,
Wax suddenly so autocratical?
Why namecall and curse
At us dull vax-averse?
Wake me up when you're back from sabbatical!
Profoundly sympathetic to both points if view, me, but if wary skepticism is good enough for God, it's good enough for (these) vaccines. For now. God help us. ;-)
#22
In the meantime, I suspect whatever vaccines are single dose are probably safer than the multiple-dose versions. I suspect, but can't prove, that the multiple-dose thing is a statistical hack to ensure everyone's gotten a working dose even though storage and transport of the vaccines are problamatic.
And that the multiple dose thing is what's causing the problem with people with diagnosed or undiagnosed autoimmune issues.
#23
#21 Because I'm tired of the "scientific" arguments of covid-sceptics.
#22 Thing, we know empirically that second dose improves performance (duration of immune memory, magnitude of secondary response, etc...). And it's used not just in covid - cf. Why do we need multiple doses of a vaccine?
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grom: I think the double-dose thing in this case was to compensate for the unreliability of the two mRNA vaccines from their storage or transport issues. And that it's causing problems with people _with immune issues_ with two effective doses because *that's what the original virus was designed to do.*
The Chinese Bioweapon was made
to kill and incapacitate,
short, middle or long term.
1 week, one month one year - three years.
Lab animals, which got the "spike based vaxx" all died within 3-4 years. Do some research, it is out there...I wrote about this a year ago, and this venue pushed me off...well, now you know...
Why do you think the powers that be are trying to take the information off the net... ?
American Greatness China deserves credit for a remarkable feat of strategic improvisation in translating a public health crisis into a large economical and geopolitical advance at the expense of the West.
h/t Instapundit
[NYP]- An alarming new report has revealed that a majority of the country’s biggest cities are even more segregated today than they were more than 30 years ago.
Nearly 81% of the country’s metropolitan centers — 169 out of 209 cities — are more segregated than in 1990, according to a new study, with cities such as Providence, Rhode Island, and Salt Lake City, Utah, seeing notable increases.
Cities considered the most segregated include New York — which ranks No. 1 — as well as Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, among others.
While a few Southern cities are considered some of the most segregated metropolitan areas in the US — such as Miami (ranking No. 5) and New Orleans (tied for No. 10 with Beaumont-port Arthur Texas) — others in the region also saw the greatest decrease, including Miami, as well as Savannah, Georgia, and San Antonio, Texas.
The new report by the University of California Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute, which "flies in the face of prevailing perceptions that the US has become less segregated since the Civil Rights era," found that a majority of regions with more than 200,000 residents were more segregated in 2019 than they were in 1990. Structural racism in action? 😃
#1
It can probably be said with some accuracy, 'multi-tribal societies' are indeed a challenge.
The integration of the Khoisan (people who speak Africa's clicking languages) may provide some insights. They've been around for some 60,000 years and may speak the earliest known form of human communication. Modern integration into African society, very difficult.
It might be instructive to note the lack of Khoisan inclusion does not appear to have been negatively impacted by white colonialism. Causation then, must be found elsewhere.
It has been pretty obvious since the 70's that the Democrats hit on the idea of using Metro areas to congregate their voter plantation.
Since the Metro areas have the highest voter population they become controlling Voter districts and whoever is feeding and housing them usually gets their votes.
Votes than allow control of funding, appointments and election (FULTON Co. GA) results.
It also makes Metro Areas the ruling voice, despite a greater but spread out population, over the entire state.
eg. GA State Political Districts Atlanta v. surrounding counties..
Augusta GA. which stupidly consolidated the City and County. An to make sure the Downtown Minority Ran city controlled it all sliced the voting district up to give city voters greater say.
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If the Electoral College system was eliminated and the US were to have simply a popular vote totality to selected the next President (even if the elections were actually honest) America's 20-40 biggest cities would control the nation permanently Voter plantations become the feudal power centers and all the rest of us are tax farms and serfs. Representative democracy under a Republic with 3 co-equal branches of federal government and 50 states become window dressing for a new system of race based power, and white folks aren't in charge of it. Now the military purges seem more ominous...
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If the Electoral College system was eliminated and the US were to have simply a popular vote totality to selected the next President (even if the elections were actually honest) America's 20-40 biggest cities would control the nation permanently
Not if you replace "winner take all" with proportional representation - which, naturally, leads to multiparty system.
#2
Not enough. A national register of citizens, with biometric data and social security, DL, Passport and Voter Photo ID all linked to a single Unique Identification number.
Polling booths manned by National Guard, no campaigning or political talk outside booths, and ballots all counted by a dedicated government agency.
#4
Voter ID should not even be an issue. I'm only surprised that 20% don't think we should have it (These are probably members of the Dem Party). Of course, we should have voter ID. You need it for just about everything else.
#5
Eliminate absentee voting. If you want to vote show up at a polling place and present your id. polling official checks a data base (state or federal) and either accepts or denies your petition to vote. I prefer ID's on a state level because of response time and prevention of hacking. Further any official who interferes with identity checking is incarcerated for 2 months in an outdoor detention facility.
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the Manchin compromise requires ID for voting but defines ID to include utility bill
it is interesting in that a lot of Dems staked everything on getting rid of ID and so I don't see this getting a lot of Dem support without more watering done of the ID requirement
Manchin's bill also restricts mail in to those who have an excuse but here too the details matter and some Dems will find it too restrictive
The more important issue is that this entire effort takes power from the States and Federalizes it.
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h/t HotAir
[The Atlantic] - Quitting your job is hot this summer. More Americans quit in May than any other month on record going back to the beginning of the century, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For every 100 workers in hotels, restaurants, bars, and retailers, about five of them quit last month. Funemployment!
Low-wage workers aren’t the only ones eyeing the door. In May, more than 700,000 workers in the bureau’s mostly white-collar category of "professional and business services" left their job—the highest monthly number ever. Across all sectors and occupations, four in 10 employees now say they’ve considered peacing out of their current place of work.
Why the sudden burst of quitting? One general theory is that we’re living through a fundamental shift in the relationship between employees and bosses that could have profound implications for the future of work. Up and down the income ladder, workers have new reasons to tell their boss to shove it. Lower-wage workers who benefited from enhanced unemployment benefits throughout the pandemic may have returned to the job and realized they’re not being paid enough. Now they’re putting their foot down, forcing restaurants and clothing stores to fork over a higher wage to keep people on staff.
...Quitting gets a bad rap in life, as it’s associated with pessimism, laziness, and lack of confidence. In labor economics, however, quits signify the opposite: an optimism among workers about the future; an eagerness to do something new; and a confidence that if they jump ship, they won’t drown but rather just land on a better, richer boat.
#5
I think it's important to have another job offer before quitting your job. A bird in hand, as they say. But I also believe it's important to know when to start looking for that other job to keep from getting stuck in a rut.
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I believe nearly 30% of the population is Chinese or Asian. The Asian propensity for study and academic achievement may contribute to this 'everyone gets a trophy' mindset.
[Breitbart] The United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) confirmed it has reinstated its chief of diversity and inclusionprofessional racist, Richard Torres-Estrada, following an investigation into politically charged social media posts he made, including one that compared former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
SOCOM said in an email statement to Breitbart News on Friday:
Mr. Torres-Estrada has resumed the duties of the Chief of Diversity & Inclusion for United States Special Operations Command after a USSOCOM commander-directed investigation into the circumstances surrounding his hiring concluded and found no violations of law or DoD regulation.
SOCOM reassigned Torres-Estrada in late March after some of his social media posts drew attention for their anti-Trump and anti-Republican leanings. For example, on June 2, 2020, he tweeted a meme that criticized Trump by comparing a photo of him to a doctored photo of Hitler.
[BenarNews] Thai security forces bumped off two suspected faceless myrmidons during a shootout at a beach resort in the Deep South on Monday, saying they were wanted in connection with the killings of three family members by rebels in a roadside ambush.
Monday’s killings brought to six the number of suspected separatist Malay Moslem rebels slain by government personnel since late April in Thailand’s troubled southern border region, with one analyst remarking that the rebels were now "clearly on their back foot."
The two suspects were hiding out at the Awada Resort in Yaring, a district of Pattani province when security forces raided the seaside hotel at 3 a.m. to capture the pair, authorities said.
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[IsraelTimes] 2 Paleostinians arrested for throwing stones, Molotov cocktails at Jewish homes; police use batons, tear gas, ’skunk’ water cannons and sponge-tipped bullets to disperse Paleostinians.
Paleostinian protesters and Jewish residents clashed late Monday in a volatile East Jerusalem neighborhood before police moved in to disperse the Paleostinians, wounding at least 20.
Jewish residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood said protesters threw stones and Molotov cocktails at Jewish homes, lightly wounding a pregnant woman who was hit in the head with a stone.
The neighborhood has been the scene of frequent festivities in recent weeks over the impending eviction of Paleostinian families and the violence has spilled over into wider conflict in Jerusalem and beyond. The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group in 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 used the festivities as a pretext to fire rockets at Jerusalem sparking a 11-day conflict with Israel.
After the protesters attacked a Jewish home, residents responded with rocks and pepper spray and a brawl broke out.
Police then used riot dispersal means, including batons, tear gas, "skunk" water cannons and sponge-tipped bullets.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said 20 Paleostinians had been treated, including 3 for pepper spray, 13 from tear gas inhalation, two hit by sponge-tipped bullets, and two with wounds from being hit by batons.
The rescue service also accused Jewish residents of stoning an ambulance.
At least two Paleostinians were arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails at Jewish homes.
[IsraelTimes] Terror group’s 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... chief Yahya Sinwar says Israel ’did not get our people’s message’ after meeting with United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... special envoy.
Why is the UN or another nation negotiating with murdering Officially labeled Terrorists?
Start rounding them up, hang those guilty of terrorism.
Video Stream the body disposal as it being fed to the Hogs... Place a video on the Internet as a future warnings.
Note: Having seen what hogs can do to a drunk bleeding driver who crashed into a hog pen beside the road back in the 70's. The Picnic will take about 1 hour depending on how hungry the hogs are, and the mobile of the person.
BTW: I am sure AL/GA/SC Farmers have plenty of wild hogs to meet ANY NEEDED SIZE Terrorist.
Good to know. Not that it will stop the Biden administration from continuing to try.
[IsraelTimes] In first presser since win, president-elect says the Islamic Theocratic Republic will continue to be ’a defender of the oppressed people including the Paleostinians’.
[IsraelTimes] Press secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama... says real decision-maker in 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... ’is the supreme leader — that was the case before the election, is the case today’.
[IsraelTimes] Habib Abu Habib, 41, accused of throwing a rock at Mordechai Katz’s head from close range on May 12; in separate case, terror suspect arrested south of Haifa.
An Acre man has been indicted on charges of attempted murder and terrorism for his alleged role in violent mostly peaceful rioting in the city last month.
Habib Abu Habib, 41, is accused of throwing a stone at Mordechai Katz’s head from only a few feet away on the night of May 12, knocking him to the ground. Katz was also kicked and stoned before he was rescued by locals and a police official who fired his gun into the air.
Prosecutors said Monday that Abu Habib was caught on video picking up the stone in the street, running at Katz and throwing it at him.
He is also accused of taking part in the stoning of the car of another man in the city later that night.
The rioting came amid intense ethnic violence that rocked Israeli cities for several days during the Operation Guardian of the Walls conflict in 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... Separately on Monday, a man suspected of being involved in unspecified terrorist activities was arrested on the side of the highway south of Haifa.
The Shin Bet security service confirmed that the man, who was stopped by police, has been handed over to their custody for questioning. It is not immediately clear what the man is suspected of having done or planning to do.
Video footage from the scene showed the man being handcuffed and blindfolded by uniformed and plainclothes coppers.
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Navy procurement has been a scandal since the Greatest Generation retired (who remembered why you did it right and didn't bleed on the next technology).
Did a ITSEC consulting gig at the Rotten-Grotten GD Electric Boat yard back in the later 90's. Everything I saw and heard while there, proved to me they had total traceability of all parts from creation to installation and its lifecycle afterwards.
Note: These boats are already approaching 20+ year lifecycle. Couple that with their missions, number of dives and combat training simulations. Yes Parts will fail given the heavy and strenuously use.
But as long nothing fails in the "Forest" and there is still a Bubble, it can be fixed.
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/\ The 1960's until today probably heralds the 'hay day', but the dynamic pre-dates the 1960's a bit:
Most of the equines sent to South Africa came from the United States. From October 1899 to June 1902, 109,878 horses and 81,524 mules were shipped from New Orleans in 65 different British steamships making 166 voyages at an average cost of US$597,978 per month for each of the 32 months of the war. It was one of the largest global transports of animals in history.
[ToloNews] Reinforcements arrived in the northern province of Faryab early hours of Monday morning to launch operations in areas that have fallen the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , the provincial police said.
The security forces have mobilized and will launch the operation soon, Faryab police front man Abdul Hakim Yurish said.
The festivities inched closer to the city of Maimana, the center of Faryab, on Sunday morning.
The police front man said that "four Taliban were killed and 11 more were maimed in a clash in Pashtun Kot district in Faryab.
He added that seven Taliban were killed in Afghan forces operation in Sabz village in Pashtun Kot district. The Dahan Dara village in the district was also cleared of Taliban, he said.
Taliban has not yet commented on the operations.
A statement by Afghan Army's 209 Shaheen Corps read that the Taliban’s gatherings were targeted by Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Dawlat Abad and Chahar Bolak districts in Balkh on Sunday in which 31 members of the group were killed and seven more were maimed.
The officials said that 11 vehicles owned by the Taliban were damaged in the airstrikes, the statement said.
Taliban has issued a statement and claimed that they have captured the center of Dawlat Abad and Shulgara district in Balkh province, but local officials have not commented on the fall of the areas to the group.
While many districts in Faryab are under Taliban influence, festivities inched closer to the outskirts of the city of Maimana on Sunday, increasing the alarm of Faryab residents and politicians from the province in Kabul, who said that urgent action by the security forces is needed.
Along with fighting in the center of Faryab, the centers of 11 districts have fallen to the Taliban on Sunday.
The districts include Chal, Namak Ab, Yangi Qala, Khwaja Ghar and Hazar Samooch districts in Takhar, the Dara-e-Soof-e-Bala district in Samangan, Chahar Bolak district in Balkh, Khashrod District in Nimroz, Manjigak and Khanaqah districts in Jawzjan and Kharwar district in Pashtun-infested Logar.
Faryab politicians said the province needs urgent attention to push back the Taliban attacks from the center of Faryab.
The newly appointed acting defense minister Gen. Bismillah Mohammadi called on the people to stand with security forces and that the government will provide facilities and equipment.
Populist Press links to original National Pulse article
Fauci Lets Slip That Mark Zuckerberg Offered Him ‘Resources & Money’ In Redacted E-Mails.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has revealed what Mark Zuckerberg offered him in redacted portions of his recently released emails. The conversation, he admitted, included offers of “resources and money” from the Facebook founder who at the time same was ploughing cash into interfering in the 2020 election on behalf of Democrats.
[AlAhram] Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... fighters took control of a key district in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province Monday and encircled the quiet provincial capital, police said, as the holy warrior group added to its string of recent victories on the battlefield.
Fighting around Imam Sahib district began late Sunday and by mid-day Monday the Taliban had overrun the district headquarters and were in control of police headquarters, said Inamuddin Rahmani, provincial police front man said.
Talibs were within a kilometer (mile) of Kunduz, the quiet provincial capital but had not entered into the city, he said, although there were reports of small bands of Taliban near the outskirts and residents trying to leave for Kabul.
Dozens of districts have fallen to the Taliban since May 1, when U.S. and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... troops began their final departure from Afghanistan. Like Imam Sahib district in northern Kunduz, their significance often lies in their proximity to roads and major cities.
Imam Sahib is strategically located near Afghanistan's northern border with Tajikistan, a key supply route from Central Asia.
Rahmani said police and Afghan National Army soldiers had jointly tried to defend the district. He said it still wasn't clear how many casualties the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces suffered in the protracted battle or how many Taliban were killed or maimed.
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahed confirmed Imam Sahib district was in Taliban hands.
Several other districts in Kunduz have also fallen to the holy warrior group in the latest round of fighting, including Dasht-e-Archi, which neighbors Imam Sahib, said Rahmani, further consolidating local transportation links in the area.
Syed Mohammad Mousavi drove with his family to the relative safety of Kabul from northern Mazar-e-Sharif, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Kunduz on Sunday.
He said people were trying to leave Kunduz city for Kabul fearing additional fighting. ``The Taliban were all over the road, checking cars. We were very scared,'' he said after reaching the capital.
In recent days, the Taliban have taken several districts across the three northern provinces of Kunduz, Baghlan and Balkh, said Mousavi. Significantly, witnesses said Doshi district in Baghlan province was in Taliban hands, which if it true gives the holy warrior group control of the one road that links five northern provinces to the capital Kabul.
The Taliban have circulated videos on their website and to WhatsApp groups which they claim show government soldiers who have surrendered being told to return to their homes and receiving money from the Taliban. On Sunday, Taliban leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhunzada issued a statement ordering his soldiers to ``treat those who surrender well and display good behavior with them.''
But the fighting has been bitter in some districts with both sides suffering casualties. A senior police official speaking on condition he not be identified because he is not authorized to speak to the media said the police fighting in the districts are mostly from poor families. Those families have remained poor despite the trillions of dollars spent in Afghanistan in the past 20 years. ``They have not seen changes in their lives and are indifferent so they see no difference. ... They want to save their lives just for today.``
[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces (ISF) have opened an investigation after a Katyusha rocket hit Ain al-Asad airbase in Anbar province on Sunday afternoon, Iraq’s Security Media Cell has said.
The cell said that the unwent kaboom! missile was launched towards the base from the al-Baghdadi area in Anbar. No casualties were recorded.
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.
Balad airbase, in Salahaddin province, was hit by last week. Two days later, Iraqi forces found four more rockets ready to launch towards the base.
Ain al-Asad, which houses personnel from the US-led coalition and the Iraqi army, was last hit in May.
Attacks on Iraqi bases, especially those hosting US troops, have increased since the US assassinated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in Baghdad in January 2020.
In its quarterly report on anti-Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) operations, the Pentagon said the militia attacks have had "minimal impact" on the mission against ISIS, but that the groups "threaten Iraq’s long-term security."
The US has offered up to $3 million for information on attacks in Iraq.
[THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE] A friend noted last year that he’s come to pity virtually everyone he sees on television. Who is more pitiable than Anthony Fauci ...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place... of recent days? He was a paragon of self-mastery, the indispensable virtue in an age when one must be an actor to be an effective bureaucrat, and a bureaucrat to be a scientist—"the princes and the servants of the princes and...the magi." Last year, one saw signs that read, "In Fauci we trust." Now, amid heightened scrutiny, Fauci rebukes those who question him with the pronouncement that he is science incarnate: "Attacks against me are attacks against science." Et Scientia caro factum est et habitavit in nobis. In the end, Fauci has no mastery over science nor public policy nor even himself. The only real power was exercised over his fellow citizens, which arose from their fear and was maintained through lies and half-truths he termed science.
Fauci’s fellow elites don’t need him anymore. Trump is gone, and trillions of dollars have been printed for Wall Street, the blob, and corporations, especially those whose interests are interwoven with the state, whose own power is substantially expanded. In the wealthiest—and whitest—Washington, D.C. suburbs, yard signs still remain to signal to any angry mob that might return. Fauci is expendable. A ruling class that knows how to benefit from every crisis is confident it can withstand whatever deluge may come.
It is of course likely that the ruling class will not only survive but continue to profit from every crisis that arises. But the unknown variable is how the children of the COVID generation respond. Children have a natural antipathy for lies. Today’s children have been frightened and deceived—by elites like Fauci, by their teachers, even by their parents. Elites will have to go to significant lengths to prevent today’s children from eventually learning that it wasn’t the science that dictated that they remain home and avoid friends and wear masks but mere fallible humans, perhaps with another agenda; that many rich and powerful elites benefitted from the pandemic shutdowns and the bailouts.
Many are likely to sooner or later rebel against the teachers who taught them that a person is good or evil on the basis of epidermal pigment or genitalia. They may also rebel against the parents who were either gullible or obsequious, for children often come to hate those who cannot protect them, much as they come to hate those who spoil them. It is they who may become the wrathful simpleton-citizens of Miller’s imagination, who will one day cry, "Let us stone and disembowel and burn the ones who did this thing."
If that day ever comes, it’s unlikely the angry mob will find Anthony Fauci doing penance in a desert monastery.
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[The Last Refuge] The Chinese Academy of Science is rewarding the Wuhan Institute of Virology for an outstanding contribution toward scientific achievement due to their cutting edge bio-research in the creation of SARS-CoV-2. The Chinese Communist Party wishes to celebrate the stunning success of Wuhan team for creating the COVID-19 global panic that has led to trillions in global wealth redistribution.
CHINA — The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has been listed as one of the candidates for the 2021 Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of CAS for its achievement in identifying the COVID-19 pathogeny.
China’s "bat woman" Shi Zhengli, and Yuan Zhiming, director of the WIV’s Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory were selected as the outstanding contributors of the WIV group candidates.
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My mistake. So, adding insult to injury.
In all fairness, do you expect Chinese to feel anything but contempt for country preoccupied with LGBTQ rights & structural racism - attempting to explain difference in outcomes while ignoring differences in IQ?
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KUDO's to the writer(s) efforts to put this together, the subtle wit and ability in doing a Political Drive-By with such grace, surely deserves phrase.
That's quite a coincidence. I've stopped listening to them.
[Citizens Free Press] La musique de nos artistes, on en est fiers. J'annonce donc que notre gouvernement va inciter les ministères et sociétés d'État à diffuser de la musique et des chansons québécoises dans leurs édifices.
De plus, nous investissons 1,1M$ dans le projet Écoute mon album de @ADISQ_. pic.twitter.com/oEOWrzK4Bt
— Nathalie Roy (@NathalieRoyCAQ) June 20, 2021
Only music by Quebec artists will be played in provincial government buildings and on phone lines starting immediately. The policy change comes after cultural minister Nathalie Roy was "shocked" to hear an American singer warbling in English while she was on hold with the ministry she heads.
They mean it to be a slap in the Yankee face, no doubt, but it’s not as if the Americans will notice the lost sales, and local musicians always need more exposure. It would be lovely if the American governors would do the same for the musicians in their states. Does the lady mean something like this, which is clearly not at all derivative of American musical forms:
If you are craving a taste of France, you may be surprised to know that you can get a bite sized version much closer to home than you think. Only a quarter of the flight distance of New York City to Paris, the tiny French overseas territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon sits off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada's easternmost province.
Despite the seemingly secluded nature of the islands, Saint Pierre and Miquelon has a long history, rubbing shoulders with smugglers, sailors and imperial powers. Only 300 kilometers from Newfoundland's capital, St. Johns, these islands offer the culture of Metropolitan France in North America
[KhaamaPress] In recent weeks, the number of terrorist attacks, kidnappings, criminal offenses, and other similar occurrences has escalated across Afghanistan.
In the face of a rise in violence, Beijing has advised Chinese people in Afghanistan to move out of the country as soon as possible, and its organizations to take extra measures during these challenging times.
In the light of the deteriorating situation, the embassy of China in Afghanistan cautioned on Saturday that Chinese citizens and organizations should take special precautions and enhance their emergency readiness.
Through a statement issued on Saturday, the embassy of China in Kabul stated that "the conflicts in Afghanistan are constant" asking its nationals in Kabul to "be more cautious" and "urgently depart".
China has attributed an increase in violence on the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... ) abruptly withdrawing troops from Afghanistan after almost two decades of deployment.
During a meeting with Afghanistan and Pakistain in June, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi remarked that the expedited departure of US forces constituted a "challenge" to Afghanistan, but that it might be good for the country’s long-term security.
China is not the only country cautioning its nationals to depart from Afghanistan as soon as possible. The US and the UK did advise their citizens to limit traveling to Afghanistan and warned the nationals in Afghanistan to consider leaving Afghanistan since the beginning of the year, given the tough security situations.
The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Minsk has suspended its activities. The political leadership of Belarus has declared the undesirability of the presence in the post-Soviet republic of a senior human rights adviser to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Thus, the official Minsk achieved what it wanted, being in a protracted and acute conflict with the UN Human Rights Council.
Speaking on June 21 at the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stated: "The situation in Belarus continues to deteriorate."
She drew attention to the fact that in Belarus there are "severe restrictions on civil space, including the right to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association", the security forces are carrying out "raids against civil society and independent media."
The authorities of the post-Soviet republic are under attack not only by human rights activists and journalists, but also by civic activists. Unacceptable measures are being taken against them, which is why the High Commissioner "continues to receive numerous reports of arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and ill-treatment”.
Bachelet also said that she regrets the official Minsk decision that negatively affected the work of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry does not comment on the situation.
The National Human Rights Action Plan (NHRAP) was approved by the government of Belarus in 2016. It was announced as a comprehensive document. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry periodically reported on the success of its implementation against the background of directly opposite assessments coming from the Belarusian public and international organizations. For many years, official Minsk has refused to recognize the mandate of the UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on the situation with human rights in Belarus.
[BB] In order to bring back the viewers it's lost since the 2020 election ended, CNN is rehiring the biggest draw for its audience: former President Trump, who will host all the news segments every night on prime time.
"What we've discovered since the election is people only watched our station to see Trump, so we're hiring him to anchor our programs," said Bob CNN, owner and founder of the cable news station. "This will finally get our ratings out of the dump."
[AlAhram] The prosecutor is demanding that the party be dissolved, that it be deprived of treasury funding and that about 450 party members be barred from holding political office for five years
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... 's highest court on Monday accepted an indictment by a top prosecutor seeking to disband a pro-Kurdish opposition party on terror-related charges.
The Constitutional Court ruled in favor of hearing the case against the People's Democratic Party, or HDP, which was filed by the chief appeals court prosecutor who is accusing it of allegedly colluding with the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, and of seeking to ``destroy the unity of the state.''
This was chief prosecutor Bekir Sahin's second petition seeking HDP's closure after the Constitutional Court rejected a previous attempt in March, citing procedural deficiencies.
The HDP said the closure case was ``the culmination of a months-long political campaign'' against the party.
``Everyone has seen with their own eyes that this is a political operation,'' said HDP chairman Mithat Sancar. ``We won't allow the struggle for (democracy) to regress. This case will further increase our determination for democratic politics and our determination to expand the struggle.''
The move against the HDP _ the second-largest opposition party in Turkey's parliament _ comes amid a widespread government crackdown. Dozens of elected HDP politicians and mayors _ including former co-chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag _ as well as thousands of party members have been arrested on terror-related accusations. Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, a triangular dorsal fin appeared in the water. Then another... several HDP mayors who were elected in 2019 have been replaced by state-appointed trustees.
Turkey's President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... has called HDP members terrorists, while his nationalist party allies have repeatedly called for the party to be shut down. Erdogan's government has also been behind a general crackdown on dissent ever since a failed 2016 coup attempt.
The main opposition Republican People's Party, or CHP, which has long accused Turkey's judiciary of being under the influence of Erdogan's government, suggested on Monday that the prosecutor had received ``instructions'' to open the case.
``The closure of a party through a case that was opened under instructions will hurt the people's conscience,'' said CHP front man Faik Oztrak.
On Thursday, a gunman attacked an HDP office in Izmir, western Turkey, killing a female employee. The assailant entered the building, fired shots and attempted to set it on fire, the party said. He was arrested.
The Kurds are scattered mainly in southeastern Turkey as well as parts of Syria, Iraq and Iran. They constitute Turkey's largest ethnic minority group and make up an estimated 20% of the country's population.
The PKK is considered a terror organization by Turkey, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the U.S. The group has led an armed insurgency against the Ottoman Turkish state since 1984 and the conflict has killed tens of thousands of people.
It is possible that Russian special services are behind the explosions at the Svoboda ammunition factory in the Serbian town of Cacak. This suspicion was voiced on June 21 by the expert of the Institute of International and National Security (Serbia) Darko Trifunovic on the air of the Serbian TV channel Prva.
Trifunovic recalled that all production lines at the Svoboda factory have been updated, and that even Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic doubted that the explosions were accidental, since they occurred in rooms where there is no electrical wiring.
“I would organize an investigation for sabotage,” Trifunovic said, adding that similar incidents have recently occurred in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria.
"Bulgaria and the Czech Republic are investigating the Russian secret service of the GRU and their Unit 29155 (PDF), which is suspected of organizing explosions at military depots, about which they believed that they were delivering (artillery) weapons to Ukraine," Trifunovich said.
On the same day, the Serbian journalist and politician Zoran Ostoich, on the air of the Pink TV channel, repeated the thesis that Russian special services could be behind the explosions at the Svoboda factory, but he did not rule out that what happened could be a signal to the Serbian leadership after the visit British Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace. "I would associate this with the visit of the British minister and with the agreement that he signed with Vucic on counteracting foreign malignant influence," said Ostoich.
Let us remind you that the owner of the Pink TV channel Zeljko Mitrovic is considered one of the close associates of Alexander Vucic. The former wife of the President of Serbia, Ksenia Vucic, is the director of one TV channel of the Pink media corporation - Pink 3.
[AlAhram] Ninety Egyptians who were tossed into the calaboose in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... over charges of illegal immigration were released on Monday, said a statement by the Egyptian embassy in the Libyan capital, which resumed its work in May after a seven-year-closure.
The Egyptian citizens spent three days at Tripoli's immigration detention centre before the Egyptian embassy was able to resolve the matter with the concerned authorities, said Mohammed Tharwat, the head of the Egyptian diplomatic mission in Tripoli.
Tharwat expressed his thanks to the Libyan interior minister and all municipal authorities for their efforts, which he said reflect the "inextricable" ties between the two countries.
The Egyptian embassy and consulate in Libya were shut in January 2014 after the kidnapping of four Egyptian staff of the embassy by button men and an attack on the consulate.
Egypt and Libya agreed in April to resume flights between the two countries’ capitals as Cairo seeks to restore normality in relations with the neighbouring country, especially after the election of an executive authority to guide the country until legislative elections are held by the end of this year.
The reopening of the embassy and the resumption of flights came almost a month after a visit to Tripoli by a delegation of 11 Egyptian ministers led by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, which was the first such visit by senior Egyptian officials to the country in a decade.
Libya was a major destination for Egyptians seeking work abroad for decades before the 2011 NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -backed uprising.
According to a 2010 report by the International Organisation for Migration, some 1.5 million Egyptians were working in Libya at the time of the uprising.
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In the Dnipropetrovsk region, for a week they have not been able to cope with the consequences of heavy rains, and on the eve of heavy rainfall fell in Bukovina.
As a result of bad weather in Ukraine flooded 240 houses in Chernivtsi and Dnipropetrovsk regions, reports GSCHS in Monday, June 21.
So, in the Chernivtsi region, 29 residential buildings and 87 household plots in 15 settlements remain flooded. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, 23 private houses and 102 households are partially flooded.
It is also noted that the day before, as a result of bad weather, local roads with a total length of about 30 km and the road surface of 9 bridges in 29 settlements were partially damaged (travel to settlements is provided). There are no casualties or injuries as a result of the bad weather.
35 people and 18 pieces of equipment (including 7 motor pumps) were involved in eliminating the consequences of bad weather from the State Emergency Service. In total, about 1,160 square meters of water was pumped out from 63 household plots and 51 residential buildings. The work on pumping water continues.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, during the day on June 20, the divisions of the State Emergency Service pumped out 56,288 square meters of water (since the beginning of work - 605 thousand 218 square meters of water). The work on pumping water continues, 21 people and 21 units have been attracted from the department. equipment (including 14 motor pumps).
[ToloNews] Military experts and sources have reported that delays in deploying reinforcements to districts — most of which are in rural areas — have been a major cause behind the fall of district centers to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in the last two months.
Sources in some provinces said that the exaggeration by the Taliban about the number of their fighters and about the expansion of their attacks on other districts is another reason behind the evacuation of districts without any resistance.
On Monday sources said that at least a dozen districts fell to the Taliban. In the past 48 hours, the centers of five districts fell to the group. In many cases, the security forces did not receive reinforcements and evacuated after hours of fighting, locals and other sources said. The districts include Sholgara, Dawlat Abad and Kushinda in Balkh province.
"Many areas are falling to the armed opposition because security forces remain under siege and they have no equipment or supplies," said Raihana Sadat, a member of the provincial council in Balkh.
On Sunday, at least 600 security force members in Dasht-e-Archi district in Kunduz retreated to Khawaja Bahauddin District in Takhar, according to sources. Later during the same day, Qala-e-Zal district in Kunduz was also evacuated by security forces.
"The Imam Sahib district will also fall if the situation continues," said Khaluddin Hakimi, a member of the Kunduz provincial council.
In Faryab, meanwhile, in addition to the fall of six districts to the Taliban, fighting has inched closer to the capital, Maimana. MPs from the province said the lack of reinforcements has led to the crisis in the province.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the Defense Ministry on Monday said that reinforcements have been sent to Maimana.
"It is questionable," said Sayed Anwar Rasul Oghli, head of a youth movement in Kabul. "People know that the security forces stationed in Qaisar, Dawlat Abad, Shirin Tagab and Khwaja Sabz Posh (districts) retreated without any resistance."
"We had at least 300 people. Many of them fought and said they were faced with an offensive attack. They did not know the number (of the Taliban), but it was exaggerated, and they were told that at least 5,000 to 6,000 Taliban were attacking them," said Fawzia Raufi, an MP from Faryab.
The Defense Ministry also said that all options are on the table to improve the security situation.
"You witnessed the clearance of many areas in Takhar last night," Defense Ministry front man Rohullah Ahmdzai said.
"I am ready. It is not only Qaisar (district)... I am ready to go to Faryab, to Jawzjan, or any other place that has fallen, even areas that are too challenging. I am ready to go and respond to the Talibs," said Nizamuddin Qaisari, former police chief for Qaisar district in Faryab.
Figures collected by TOLOnews show that at least 50 districts have fallen to the Taliban or have been evacuated in the last two months. Many of these districts are still contested and have seen ongoing fighting over the last few weeks.
Good. It needs an active citizenry to hold what the Afghan army and police take from the jihadis.
[ToloNews] People in various provinces including Takhar, Balkh and Baghlan in the north, Badghis in the west, and Parwan in central Afghanistan, have taken up arms to fight the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... amid an escalation of violence by the group.
Public uprising forces commanders in the provinces said they will stand beside the security forces to retake the lost districts. Some politicians said that it is necessary that people have taken up arms to defend the country under the current circumstances.
In Takhar, the Taliban has attacked at least 10 districts. Now some residents have taken up arms to support the fight against the Taliban in preparation for potential attacks in Namak Ab, Rustaq and Kalafgan districts in the province.
"The former mujahideen commanders, security forces, the police chief, the security chief, the governor, all were here and deployed people to various areas," said Gen. Najibullah Najib, a former mujahideen commander.
"We will never allow the Punjabis, the puppets, to threaten this country," said Abdul Bashir, the deputy commander of a special forces unit in Takhar.
Officials in Takhar said that government institutions in Rustaq, Kalafgan, Worsaj, Farkhar and the city of Taluqan have fallen to the Taliban.
"You see that we are on the frontlines. Mr. Saadat and the commander of the highway is also here," said Abdul Khalil Zahid, a commander of public uprising forces.
"We are now in the Chashma-e-Shir frontline (in Takhar). It is not concerning. All Takhar people have been mobilized and are standing with security forces" said Habibullah Mahboob, a Takhar resident.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... Balkh governor Farhad Azimi said that former mujahideen commanders have been mobilized to fight against the Taliban in the province following the fall of the centers of five districts of Balkh to the group.
"Thousands of forces have been prepared to defend the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif and the districts that have been lost," Azimi said.
A former mujahideen commander said that handing over districts to the Taliban is not acceptable and that they are fully ready to support the Afghan forces.
"The move by Badghis residents is a self-motivated action and the main goal is to defend the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan and the security forces," said Abdul Basir Salangi, an MP from Badghis.
"We fought against the Taliban for years. I assure you that we will prevent the Taliban from recent disturbances in a few days," said Mohammad Amin Dara-e-Soofi, a former mujahideen commander in Balkh.
"We have enough special forces members in Jamshidi and Chai Khan area (in Balkh)," the Afghan Army’s recruitment officer Sayed Yasin Sadad said.
The back-to-back fall of districts to the Taliban in the last two months has been unprecedented. Most of the districts that have fallen to the Taliban have been in the north.
[ToloNews] The new wave of violence engulfing the country--now especially in the north--compelled some politicians on Monday to call for the formation of a "high council of combat" led by various prominent leaders from around the country as well as politicians in order to fight the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... The politicians said the government has lost control of managing the war and to defend the country the government should mobilize influential mujahideen leaders and public uprising forces.
The speaker of Parliament and some politicians emphasized the importance of a national consensus under the current situation and said the government should consider the value and participation of all ethnic groups when it comes to appointments in security agencies.
"There were forces, there were arms, and there was morale, but the morale was killed, unfortunately," said Fazl Karim Aimaq, an MP from Kunduz.
"The government should be asked why districts have been handed over without resistance," said Belqis Roshan, an MP from Farah.
"The government has unfair views toward the people and regions. Another reason (behind the fall of the districts) is the removal of experienced figures from the system," said Habiba Danesh, an MP from Takhar.
The politicians stressed the need for a national mobilization against the Taliban.
"The Taliban offensive, the launch of a psychological war and the complication of the internal crisis have made us deeply concerned," said Mir Rahman Rahmani, the parliament speaker.
"Six districts belonged to the first regiment. The commander is not there," said Razi Mangal, an MP from Paktia.
"Our shallow leaders should manage the war, they are outside the country as the people are killed," said Sadiq Qaderi an MP from 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... According to MPs, the support of neighboring countries for the Taliban is one of the reasons behind an escalation of violence in the country.
"There are countries that want to cause Afghanistan’s system to collapse so they can divide it into different countries and merge it with their own country," said Shinkai Karokhil, an MP from Kabul.
"Pakistain wants to keep the war here fueled and wants to continue this proxy war," said Nasir Farahi, an MP from Farah.
The government said that new plans are have been formed to boost security. The reshuffling of positions in the security agencies is said to have been part of this plan.
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[Regnum] As practice shows, Georgia swallows many actions of the Azerbaijani side, in a number of issues it simply condones Azerbaijan. How can one fail to recall the "neutrality" of official Tbilisi during the last war in Karabakh (yes, in fact, no one would really allow it to occupy it)!
[Federalist] Nationwide, mothers in school districts are pushing back against Marxist-infused critical race theory curricula in order to protect their children.
There have been few things more glorious to witness in recent weeks than the impressive array of courageous and relentless mothers around the country lambasting school boards for their support of vile critical race theory.
These moms of different socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds are confronting and boldly holding to account school board members, administrators, and teachers who are indoctrinating innocent children with a destructive ideology.
They understand perhaps better than anyone that Marxist-infused curricula intended to sow division and resentment have no place in a free and civilized society, and is endangering their children’s cognitive, psychological, and emotional well-being. It has been an exhilarating display of unity and common decency.
It turns out everyday women don’t want their children being brainwashed to view the world through the lens of “whiteness,” white racism, and white privilege. They don’t agree that America was founded on racist principles. They reject the claim that hard work, self-reliance, objectivity, deferred gratification, family, respect for authority, and respect for the written word are intrinsically racist values exploited by white Americans to relentlessly suppress people of color.
Mothers resent their children being defined as a collective based on race, gender and sexuality, and being told that their achievement in life is determined by these fixed categories as opposed to their endeavors. They don’t like the glorification of organizations like Black Lives Matter that undermine the nuclear family and promote violence against police.
Mothers taking on woke school boards understand that critical race theory and related “equity-based” training gives no one a free pass. Whether they’re being shamed as oppressors or demeaned as helpless victims, no child will emerge from this unscathed. It is mothers who have their children’s development and best interests at heart, and who will not see them shackled with racist labels and burdened with cruel and ignorant stereotypes.
The sort of psychological and emotional abuse, to say nothing of the academic vacuousness, that school children are being subjected to may appeal to the sliver of the population that consists of fringe white far-left neurotics and militant degenerates. But it does not curry favor with ordinary American families from all walks of life. A recent survey found that three-quarters of respondents were “somewhat or strongly opposed” to schools teaching that white people are inherently privileged, while people of color are inherently oppressed and victimized.
[NATION.PK] In an interview with Axion, HBO on Sunday, the Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistain: Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... , while referring to the rising rape cases in the country, said that if a woman wears fewer clothes, it will have an impact on men. During the interview, which was released on Monday, the premier spoke over multitudes of issues ranging from military bases; the Afghan grinding of the peace processor, and Pakistain's counteractive strategy towards the 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... pandemic.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... his statements over women's dressing and temptation received overwhelming attention and criticism on social media.
Referring to the prime minister's earlier remarks on rising vulgarity in the country that had triggered a backlash on social media, Swan asked:
"On increasing vulgarity, you said it will have consequences, and you were accused of rape victim-blaming. How do you respond to that?"
Defending the criticism against himself, the prime minister responded, "it is such nonsense".
He said, "I never said veils: this was never said. I said the concept of pardah is [to] avoid temptation in society. We don't have discos here, we don't have nightclubs."
"So this is a completely different society, a way of life here. So, if you raise temptation in the society to the point, and all these young guys have nowhere to go, it has consequences on the society," he added.
Swan asked, "Do you think what women wear--that, that's part of any temptation?"
"If a woman is wearing very few clothes, it will have an impact on men," said the PM. "Unless they're robots. I mean, it's common sense."
"Yes, but will it really provoke acts of sexual violence?" asked Swan.
"It depends which society you live in," said the premier. "If in a society, people haven't seen that sort of a thing, it will have an impact on them," he added.
Various leaders of Pak political forefront and professionals belonging from various walks of life have given their perspectives over the prime minister’s statements.
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[KhaamaPress] The US Embassy in Kabul declared on International Refugee Day that it intends to cooperate with Afghanistan’s neighbors to support Afghan refugees and migrants colonists.
The United States would work closely with Afghanistan’s neighbors to support refugees, migrants colonists and internally displaced persons, emphasizing that roughly 115,000 people were displaced in Afghanistan in the current year, Ross Wilson, Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Kabul, tweeted on World Refuge Day.
Highlighting on $266 million humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan’s conflict and dealing with the spread of Covid-19, Ross Wilson has written that giving a helping hand is a significant aspect of "Enduring Partnership".
This comes at a time when the US has urged to expedite the process of issuing SIV visas for those Afghans who have worked for the US government in Afghanistan as their lives will certainly be in danger, especially after the foreign troops’ withdrawal.
Refugees are among the world’s most vulnerable individuals. The 20th of June has been declared as International Refugee Day by the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... . The Day is an opportunity to raise awareness about the situation of refugees throughout the world and the efforts being made to defend their human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... The increasing conflict in Afghanistan seemingly has created concerns for the citizens, if the peace talks and a political settlement is not possible in short-term, a prolonged conflict will create a situation of uncertainty and chaos which will result in flowing more immigrants colonists and refugees to the neighboring countries including Pakistain, 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 Tajikistan.
Millions of Afghans flow inside the borders of Iran and Pakistain during the 1990s conflicts in Afghanistan.
And they started flowing back after the Taliban were driven out, a flow that has not ceased since.
[NATION.PK] The Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, on Monday said that Pakistain and Azerbaijan share mutual values of cultures, religion and history and geo-strategy.
According to the issued details by ISPR, the Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa met with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in Baku.
As per informed by ISPR sources, the COAS is on a two-day long official visit to Azerbaijan. Minister of Defence of Azerbaijan Colonel General Hasanov Zakir Asgar Oglu was also present during the meeting.
Matters of mutual interest, regional security situation including recent developments in Afghan Peace Process and bilateral defence and security cooperation in various fields were discussed during the meeting.
He also expressed Pakistain Army’s desire to further enhance bilateral military cooperation and regional partnership between the two countries.
The Azerbaijan side thanked the Army Chief for Pakistain's support to Azerbaijan at all international forums.
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[Breitbart] Daniel Llorente – an anti-communist Cuban dissident who achieved world renown in 2017 by interrupting the nation’s Marxist May Day parade waving an American flag and receiving a beating on live television – has joined the thousands risking the harrowing trek across Central America to reach the United States.
Llorente confirmed to Breitbart News on Wednesday that he, his son Eliécer, and his nephew left Guyana in late May en route to the southern border of the United States. He is seeking legal entry. At the time of his last communication with Breitbart News, he had just reached Costa Rica. He was arrested in Venezuela shortly after departing Guyana but released and bussed to the Colombian border, allowing him largely uninterrupted transit.
Llorente is now using his journey to teach other Cubans making their way north about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A fervent Christian – though not belonging to any church or creed – Llorente has taken to preaching to Cubans as they wait for buses, traverse dangerous jungle territory, or line up for humanitarian aid. He asserts that the “curse” that befell Cuba in 1959 began when dictator Fidel Castro ordered the removal of a popular Christian sign from people’s homes, reading “Jesus Christ, this is your house,” and replaced them with a sign reading “This is your house, Fidel.” According to Cuban-American scholar Carlos Eire, “hundreds of thousands” of homes bore the latter sign in the aftermath of the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
While Cuba is statistically a majority-Catholic country, the Cuban Communist Party is formally atheist and persecutes Christians who do not use their faith to promote communism. Most Cubans alive on the island today have never experienced religious freedom – including Llorente, who expressed awe to Breitbart News on the prevalence of Christian imagery and churches in Colombia and Central America.
The dissident told Breitbart News he left Guyana after two years of attempting to find a legal way to leave to the United States. Both the United States and the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), he said, promised to help him achieve some form of normalized migrant status upon his first visit, but neither followed through.
“The U.S. embassy two years ago committed to me that they would attend my case. Two years passed, they did nothing, I went several times and they never saw me,” Llorente said in an interview with Breitbart News. “The U.S. has shown the world through me that it has dropped the ball.”
Unlike the vast majority of the thousands attempting the journey to America, Llorente never chose to leave Cuba and has no legal documents to help him receive political refugee or asylum status in the United States. Llorente was first arrested in Cuba in 2002 for placing a sign in front of his home denouncing communism. He spent nine years in prison for that infraction.
In May 2016, police arrested him again for greeting the first cruise ship from the United States to visit Havana in the Castro era, the Adonia. Llorente waved an American flag and shouted “yes, we can!” – the campaign slogan of then-President Barack Obama. Prior to his arrest, the regime sent a mob to threaten and antagonize him with racial slurs, a practice known as an “act of repudiation,” prompting Llorente to call the majority of Cubans “hypocrites” for participating in government functions without question.
A year later, he interrupted the largest regime parade of the year, the parade organized on May 1, or International Workers’ Day. Llorente ran before a crowd of thousands of communists in Havana, waving an American flag in protest of the event. Video of his intervention shows plain-clothes officers immediately apprehend and publicly assault him.
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[ARABNEWS] EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Saturday said that the Lebanese leaders were to blame for the crises gripping their country, and threatened to impose sanctions on those who continue to obstruct the formation of a new government. Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... earlier this month, the World Bank issued another warning about the impending economic collapse of 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... , stressing that its economic and financial crisis is likely to rank in the Top 10, possibly Top 3, most severe episodes globally since the mid-19th century.
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[Breitbart] Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada recently hosted its first-ever drag queen show at one of its on-base dining and entertainment clubs, according a base spokesperson. We'd never have made it to the Elbe without drag queen shows. Everybody knows that.
Nellis Air Force Base said in an email statement to Breitbart News:
Nellis Air Force Base and the 99th Air Base Wing hosted its first-ever drag show Thursday, June 17, at the Nellis Club. The event was sponsored by a private organization and provided an opportunity for attendees to learn more about the history and significance of drag performance art within the LGBT+ community.
Ensuring our ranks reflect and are inclusive of the American people is essential to the morale, cohesion, and readiness of the military. Nellis Air Force Base is committed to providing and championing an environment that is characterized by equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion.
The drag queen show came to light after Air Force veteran podcaster "BK" posted a digital flyer for the event that read: "DRAG-U-NELLIS" and "CLASS IS IN SESSION."
"Discover the significance of Drag in the LGBT+ Community at the Nellis Club," it said.
It was scheduled for Friday, June 17, at 5 p.m. and "Sponsored by the Nellis Top 3."
The "Top 3" at Nellis Air Force Base is a social and professional organization established to "enhance the morale, esprit de corps, of all enlisted personnel assigned to the Wing and to facilitate cooperation between members of the top three enlisted grades," according to its private Facebook page.
"The base Top III will provide a forum for its members to meet, share personal experiences and expertise, and assist one another. It may function as an added channel of communication within the chain of command, between the commander, and the enlisted force on Nellis AFB," it said.
One person who attended the drag queen show posted on her social media account, "Had a fun night ... at a drag Queen show at nellis afb last night."
The Nellis Club, according to the Nellis Force Support Squadron website, is a consolidated club offering a "versatile dining and entertainment experience for all its members."
#4
^
Very good poetry,
your mind is like a pinball machine
fast rolling steel ball, flippers,
gutters, sound, lights, points tally.
Entertaining... Elton John B-Proud.
[Russia Insight] Russian President Vladimir Putin answered journalists' questions after the end of talks with President of the United States of America Joseph Biden.
'We feel for the Americans, but we don't want the same in Russia!'
On June 22, 1941, Germany launched its invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, codenamed Operation Barbarossa. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler predicted a quick victory, but after initial success, the brutal campaign dragged on and eventually failed due to strategic blunders and harsh winter weather, as well as a determined Soviet resistance and attrition suffered by German forces.
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brutal campaign dragged on and eventually failed due to....
And to material ferried into Murmansk at great cost, as well as convoyed overland through Iran.
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..read an analysis that figured that the Soviets had burned through their armor assets by early winter and the only tracks between them and the Germans before Moscow were the ones that had arrived from the UK via the Murmansk runs. Interesting. Valid?
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#2 ..read an analysis that figured that the Soviets had burned through their armor assets by early winter and the only tracks between them and the Germans before Moscow were the ones that had arrived from the UK via the Murmansk runs. Interesting. Valid?
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I think that might be an echo of German accounts/reports that showed the German General Staff so badly underestimated actual Soviet strength that by their own reckoning they had 'destroyed' the Red Army by late fall....but they kept coming.
Mike
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^ Don't forget that Zhukov and his Siberian Army were lurking just east of Moscow waiting for Stalin's order to join the fight.
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Nah, that "Siberian army" myth has been debunked. The divisions were raised from around the Moscow area and sent into combat.
The real reason is that the Germans identifed 10 Soviet armies in front of Moscow. Destroy them and the war is won. They destroyed nine of them. The Soviets hid their strength so well nobody knew they were so hideously well armed. The Germans had identified over 300 divisions and they just kept coming. That plus the inadequate German logistics sealed the deal.
The lend lease didn't get going until 1942 didn't hit stride until 43. By that time the Germans were out of oil and had failed to seize more in the Caucasus (stopped at Stalingrad along the way).
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Barbarossa was supposed to begin in the spring of '41. The Greek defeat of the Italians in the Balkans forced the Germans to divert 700,000 men and materiel to the Balkan/Greek Invasion and delay Barbarossa. Otherwise, the Germans would have had additional time, men and materiel to take Moscow.
[DW] More than a dozen people were killed when button men in vehicles opened fire in several districts of the city of Reynosa, close to the US border.
Gunmen in sports utility vehicles shot some 14 people in different parts of the Mexican border city of Reynosa, according to reports on Sunday.
Another person was reported to have been killed in an attack on police near a border bridge.
Criminal activity in the city — which lies across the border from McAllen, Texas — has long been dominated by the Gulf Cartel, but splits are thought to have developed in the gang.
Local media reports on Sunday put the corpse count as high as 18.
The attacks began early Saturday afternoon in several neighborhoods in the eastern part of Reynosa, according to the Tamaulipas state agency that coordinates security forces.
The identity of the victims and the attackers was initially unknown, as well as the motive.
"Investigations were initiated to establish the causes of the homicides and locate those responsible, particularly in the surveillance and patrolling actions that are carried out in various parts of Reynosa," said an official report.
The violence mobilized the army, National Guard, state police and other agencies.
SPIRALING DEATHS IN BATTLE FOR CONTROL
Mexico has seen its two bloodiest years ever, with 34,681 recorded murders in 2019 and 34,554 in 2020.
Various cartels are battling for control of smuggling routes to the US that are used to transport drugs, weapons and people.
Successive governments have failed to bring the crime syndicates under control. Many have accused law enforcement and the judiciary of colluding with the gangs, or of having succumbed wholesale to corruption.
Spiraling homicide statistics, instability and high levels of corruption have led some US commentators to conclude that Mexico is on the path to becoming a failed state.
Current president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has said he wants to fight cartels with "hugs not bullets."
Lopez Obrador has criticized past administrations for their policies that prioritized the removal of cartel leaders.
US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has declined to pass judgment on the policy, saying he does not know what it means in practice.
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"O Mexico! Holy refrito,
One never will meet a bandito
In this sweetest of lands--"
"Buenos... ayyy, Señor Franz!"
[tips his hat to the head of Carlito]
[AlAhram] The agricultural blow and lack of funds to finance the imports will add to pressure on a Syrian economy already reeling from the war and buckling under the pressure of US sanctions, and the COVID-19 pandemic
The "year of wheat" campaign pushed by Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... is in jeopardy after low rainfall risked leaving an import gap of at least 1.5 million tonnes, according to preliminary estimates by officials and experts.
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[BREITBART] A far-left group will run $1.2 million worth of ads in Arizona from June 21 to June 30 to pressure Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) into trashing the filibuster, amid fears the Republicans will use it to block the legislation designed cancel state voter ID laws and publicly fund political campaigns.Just Democracy will air two ads on cable news programs, local news, and local sports in Arizona and spend $200,000 on digital ads to garner support for the "For The People Act."
One ad begins in reference to her past voting record, "Arizona, Kyrsten Sinema is failing us."
"As the GOP tries to silence our voices, she’s just standing by, supporting a Jim Crow relic instead," the ad says. "You’re refusing to stand with us, Sen. Sinema. Why should we stand with you?"
A second ad slams Sinema for not "fighting" for federal takeover of local elections. "You’re doing their [Republicans] dirty work, letting a Jim Crow relic keep us down."
"Our right to vote is under attack," the ad continues, calling out Sinema for upholding the filibuster.
Sinema is a co-sponsor of the "For The People Act," which presumably will receive a vote in the Senate on Tuesday. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the measure is expected to collapse due to the filibuster’s 60 vote threshold, as Democrats have failed to whip enough votes to overcome the barrier.
A Thursday poll indicated the majority of likely general election voters oppose the federal election takeover bill that specifically cancels state voter ID laws and publicly funds political campaigns.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... Democrat leadership on Wednesday pleaded with the radical left to quit attacking Sen. Joe Manchin ...Dem senator-for-life from West Virginia. Manchin is one of the approximately one Dem senators who exhibits more integrity than Jello, often even representing his constituents... (D-WV) over his opposition to the canceling the filibuster and the legislation.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.54261 years, or 318.79827 years in dog years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... on Wednesday recommended outside groups not "try to bully Manchin, but to instead focus on the historical and factual arguments related to the legislation."
Perhaps in a different political position than Sinema, Manchin said he feels comfortable throwing a wrench into the radical Democrats’ fast-moving laundry list of legislative items, telling the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , "What are they [Democrats] going to do? They going to go into West Virginia and campaign against me? Please, that would help me more than anything."
[ToloNews] Fighting has reached five cities in the north as many districts around thriving provincial capitals have fallen to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in the last few weeks, mostly in Faryab and Takhar provinces.
Lawmakers and residents warned that fighting around the cities of Maimana in Faryab, Taluqan in Takhar, Pul-e-Khumri in Baghlan, Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... city in Sar-e-Pul and Kunduz city in Kunduz province have raised concerns among the people.
The main route that connects Kabul with northern provinces has been closed to traffic for the last two days because of Taliban influence in Doshi district in Baghlan.
The government announced that security forces had retaken two districts in Takhar; however, many districts across the country that are in Taliban control are being reported: Sources said that security forces left the three districts of Sholgara, Dawlat Abad and Kushinda in Balkh; the Qala-e-Zal and Imam Sahib district in Kunduz; Doshi and Julga districts in Baghlan; Aqcha district in Jawzjan; and Zazai Aryub district in the eastern province of Paktia in the last 24 hours.
"There isn’t anyone to help. The fighting has reached the entrance to Pul-e-Khumri," said Ajmal, a resident of Pul-e-Khumri.
Activists from Faryab who have come to Kabul said that the city of Maimana, the capital of Faryab, is on the verge of collapse and that there is a need for urgent action by the government.
Pul-e-Khumri and Taluqan residents meanwhile said security forces are in dire need of reinforcements.
The fighting has also gripped the northern provinces of Sar-e-Pul and Kunduz. Kunduz temporarily fell to the Taliban back in 2015 and 2016.
"The situation in Kunduz is deeply concerning. The government officials have no plan to address it," said Amruddin Wali, a member of the provincial council in Kunduz.
But the Defense Ministry said that thorough plans are underway to suppress the Taliban.
"They are fighting the enemy with full force and the security and defense institutions--from the leadership to the soldiers on the battlefield--are making efforts to bring positive changes in those areas,’’ said Rohullah Ahmadzai, a front man for the ministry.
Figures collected by TOLOnews show that at least 60 districts have either fallen to the Taliban or are currently being fought over by government forces and the Taliban.
"They are selling districts and are leaving them. It is not a tactical retreat. It is a deal," said Abdul Qadir, a Kabul resident.
[ARABNEWS] Tyrannical regimes always collapse years — and perhaps even decades — before their downfall is officially announced. In a state like Iran, fears about, and hedges against, downfall represented a focal point in the thoughts of its founding father Ayatollah Khomeini and his loyalists such as Morteza Motahari, Mahmoud Taleghani and Mohammed Kazem Shariatmadari.
They believed that any future collapse of the regime would be caused by external pressures, so they focused on ways to handle them. They were heedless of any potential adverse interactions at home, believing that the mere existence of the Islamic Theocratic Republic would result in all the Iranian people submitting and becoming obedient servants of the Vilayat-e Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist) system.
During its early days, the Iranian regime managed to wipe out all its domestic opponents through liquidations, arrests and even mass executions, such as the 1988 slaughter of tens of thousands of leftist dissidents. This led to many leading opposition figures fleeing Iran. Despite this wiping out of opponents, even the most ardent regime loyalist must have wondered if it would be possible for any single Iranian faction — primarily the holy mans — to cling to absolute power for decades without facing any serious competition from other factions within society.
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[ToloNews] Bangi and Khwaja Ghar districts in the northern Takhar province were retaken from the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in an operation by government and public uprising forces on Monday morning, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
The operation was launched on Sunday night with Air Force support and "the districts were cleared of Taliban this morning," the ministry said.
"The Taliban beat feet from the district after suffering heavy casualties," the Defense Ministry said.
The statement also mentioned that Abdal and Qara Parcho villages on the outskirts of the Taluqan city, capital of the province, were also cleared of the Taliban.
Taliban has not yet commented on the operation.
The situation has been fragile in the northeastern province of Takhar over the last two weeks. Eight districts of the province, including Chal, Baharak, Ishkamish, Namak Ab, Yangi Qala, Khwaja Ghar and Hazar Samooch, have either fallen to the Taliban or have been evacuated by security forces within a week's time.
[ARABNEWS] The suspects in Jordan’s high-profile "sedition case," former minister Bassem Awadallah and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, appeared in court on Monday over their alleged roles in a plot to "destabilize the country."
Dozens of news hounds had been outside the State Security Court (SSC) since the early hours on Monday waiting for permits to enter the heavily-guarded court but were told it was a closed-door hearing.
Images on social media showed Awadallah, a former royal court chief, and bin Zaid both wearing blue prison uniforms as they were escorted by security guards to the SSC building.
Sources who attended the session said that the judges read out the charge sheet against the defendants, who pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." . The court also heard testimonies of two prosecution witnesses related to leaked audio clips.
The court is scheduled to hold another closed-door session on Tuesday.
Last week, the SSC prosecution office leveled sedition and incitement charges against Awadallah and bin Zaid and accused them of conspiring with former crown prince Hamzah to destabilize the country and fuel unrest against the monarch in collaboration with foreign parties.
Bin Zaid was also charged with possessing illegal narcotics (hashish).
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[JUSTTHENEWS] As the government reviews several hundred reports of heart inflammation in young people following COVID vaccination, high-profile medical and legal scholars are calling on colleges to scrap their COVID vaccine mandates, calling them unnecessary and potentially harmful to students.
University of California-Irvine medical ethicist Aaron Kheriaty and University of Notre Dame law professor Gerard Bradley went so far as to invoke the post-Nazi Nuremberg Code in urging universities to abandon their mandates, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week.
Though many universities already offer exemptions based on medical history and religious objections, the professors suggest two more: the emergency use authorization (EUA) status of the COVID vaccines and widespread natural immunity.
Younger adults and children have "extremely low" risk of mortality from COVID, epidemiologists Martin Kulldorff of Harvard Medical School and Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford Med wrote in an op-ed for The Hill Thursday.
(Kulldorff, a pioneer in vaccine safety, didn't share the op-ed on his newly unlocked Twitter feed. "Twitter does not allow vaccine scientists to freely discuss vaccines, but you can find it on my LinkedIn and Gab accounts," he tweeted Thursday, referring to his monthlong suspension for questioning the protective power of masks.)
"Even a slight risk of a serious vaccine adverse reaction could tip the benefit-risk calculation, making the vaccine more harmful than beneficial," Kulldorff and Bhattacharya wrote, accusing universities with mandates of ignoring "basic benefit-risk analyses, a staple of the toolbox of scientists."
A suicide boom-mobileer attacked French troops patrolling in central Mali on Monday, according to La Belle France’s military, wounding six soldiers and four civilians including a child in the war-torn West African country.
The French soldiers, who were traveling in a vehicle, were on a reconnaissance mission near the town of Gossi to secure the area around a nearby forward operating base.
"Six French soldiers and four Malian civilians were maimed by the earth-shattering kaboom of the suicide vehicle," the French military said in a statement.
The army added that none of their lives were in danger.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior Malian military officer and a local elected official had earlier said that some soldiers were evacuated to the French army base in northern city Gao by helicopter.
The French military also said that it sent "alert units" including Tiger combat helicopters and Mirage 2000 fighter jets to the area of the attack to support ground troops.
Mali has been struggling to contain a brutal Death Eater insurgency, which first emerged in the north in 2012 before spreading to the center of the country and neighboring 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... and Niger.
Thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed in the conflict and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes.
Former colonial power La Belle France, which intervened in Mali in 2013 to beat back the Death Eaters, currently has 5,100 soldiers deployed across the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas...
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I knew that was gonna happen as soon as the organization was named.
Opening paragraphs:
[Federalist] When a former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence says directly into a camera that fighting terror may now mean arresting members of Congress, the blood sport of politics has been taken to a new and more dangerous level.
Speaking on MSNBC recently, Frank Figliuzzi opined to Chuck Todd that: “Arresting low-level operatives is merely a speed bump, not a road block. In order to really tackle terrorism … and this time domestically … you’ve got to attack and dismantle the command-and-control element of the terrorist group, and unfortunately, and I know this is painful to hear … that may mean people sitting in Congress right now, people in and around the former president.”
It is the stuff of banana republics when political opponents are locked up, and this was urged not by a fringe activist on an obscure YouTube channel, but by a former high-ranking U.S. intelligence official on the second-most-watched cable news network, with no gasp from the host. Is this what “homeland security” has become?
Clearly, much has changed since 9/11, when President George W. Bush instituted a new office to “secure the United States from terrorist threats of attacks” that eventually became the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). With a $40 billion budget and more than 240,000 employees, it is now a behemoth eclipsed in size only by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
Although established with noble purpose, there is growing evidence that its focus has evolved in a direction those voting for its creation never imagined. Those with the secret clearances and shiny badges are increasingly scrutinizing our homeland, not for external attackers, but our own people.
Congratulations!" At first, the employeenation was puzzled, but over time the Golden Banana Award became one of the most prestigious egregious honors bestowed on an inventive employeepolitical party to corrupt and diminish a nation.
Let this be the first blog to site the Democrat party with this Gollum's ring of recognition.
[BREITBART] NBC anchor Chuck Todd said Sunday on "Meet the Press" that the outrage parents are experiencing over Critical Race Theory
...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites and Asians are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense... was "manufactured."PBS news hound Amna Nawaz said, "Specific to this idea of critical race theory. I spent time reporting on this county in Virginia about an hour outside of Washington. To your point, this is something mobilizing people and resonating very deeply. It was about a 100-degree day, dozens and dozens and dozens of parents, mostly white in this largely affluent county, showed up to a school board meeting, for in the first one they attended, specifically because of this one issue."
Republican strategist Brad Todd said, "you mentioned critical race theory a couple of times. This is a parent-led backlash at the grassroots level."
Anchor Chuck Todd said, "It’s manufactured, and then sort of the fire was lit."
Brad Todd said, "I disagree. I think it started because parents have had it with the education bureaucracy after COVID. They’re fed up with it. They tend to trust Democrats on education funding, but they trust Republicans on education accountability. I think the backlash you’re seeing on critical race theory in schools is other parents trying to hold educators accountable."
MSNBC political analysts Cornell Belcher said, "It’s coordinated, it’s aggressive, it’s intentional. This is part of the tribalism play. The critical race theory is yet another tool in the racial, tribal boogeyman’s toolbox to drive and inflame tribalism which Republicans think helps them in elections. This is Trump 2.0. It is a continuation of this. Critical race theory is an arcane ideal. Why is it front and center right now? The same reason Mitch McConnell attacked Stacey Abrams ...the pudgy, sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Stacey nominated herself to be Joe Biden's vice president nominee, to widespread national apathy. She has a very keen eye for Racism in any form, to include the imaginary... when she came out for the voting bill. It is racial. It is tribalism. We’ve seen it grow under Trump. This is part and parcel of it. They think this helps ignite their base. This is not grassroots, and Brad, you know this is organized and is being paid for."
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Chuck Todd is an early AI droid, who wandered off from
the Alphabet R&D facility in Silicon Valley back in the early 1990s, Google had tried to control him remotely back in the early 2000s, but met with mixed success. In about 2015, he was sold to the Democrat party for an undisclosed sum, and his AI update program maintenance was subcontracted to Zuckerberg/Facebook. His outlandish interpretations
of American politics, culture and society make him a valuable tool for all things leftist.
[Townhall] Back in the day, the meetings of the Communist Party and the KKK were distinguished by two things — first, how similar what was being said was to today’s Democrat Party dogma, and second, that half the people in the audience (and on-stage) were working for the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... . But chasing commies and hood-wearing Dems is out of fashion, and things like figuring out the motive behind a guy who drools over Maddow and comes to a softball diamond with a rifle and a list of Republicans is too hard. Today, you are the target because you oppose the regime, and you are a target because you are law-abiding, and honest, and at some level you still cannot imagine your own government has you in its sights merely for trying to work for political change.
But it does.
Today, it’s open season on the *dministration’s political opponents instead of on actual criminals, so there’s about a 100% chance that the foam-mouthed idiot who just showed up to your conservative meeting or online in your chat thread talking about doing some damn fool thing has a junior G-man — actually, today it’s probably a junior G-nonbinary — on his speed dial. Those unfashionable trespassers involved in the minor fracas on Capitol Hill — libs, save your toobinesque insurrection fantasies for someone who wasn’t in the middle of a real one, incidentally one fueled by your garbage Dem icon The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters ...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 29.55631 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 44.55426 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist... — undoubtedly included a significant number of dudes working for the feds. Oh, the regime’s licensed media is denying it now, but like all the other big stories that got walked-back later — remember the tinkle tape, the Russian bounties, and the pangolin-slandering Wuhan lab thing? — we’ll eventually find out the truth about what the DoJ knew (everything) and when it knew it (all along).
And for those huffy bureaucrat defenders who insist our glorious premier investigative agency would never stoop to framing people, I give you "FBI Agent Kujtim Sadiku [who] admitted last week in an ongoing trial in Knoxville that federal agents:
Falsely accused former UTK associate professor Dr. Anming Hu of being a Chinese spy.
Falsely implicated him as an operative for the Chinese military in meetings with Hu’s bosses
Used false information to put Hu on the federal no-fly list.
Spurred U.S. customs agents to seize Hu’s computer and phone and spread word throughout the international research community that Hu was poison.
Used false information to justify putting a team of agents to spy on Hu and his son, a freshman at UTK, for nearly two years.
Used false information to press Hu to become a spy for the U.S. government.”
So, if you think those very special agents wouldn’t gin up and encourage a conspiracy to commit some crime in order to hook-up a bunch of knuckle-dragging Jesus people who like Trump and think that men can’t magically change into women by wanting to, think again. Here’s a good rule of thumb — assume anyone pushing conservatives to do something illegal, immoral, or just plain stupid in a chat room, at a meeting, in a bar, is probably working with the feds to set us up. And the proper response is "Beat it, narc."
Take the five dingbats who supposedly — because you can trust nothing coming out of the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... ’s PR department — wanted to kidnap Stepford Governor Gretchen Whitmer ...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender who never got off the ground... for some reason. Shockingly, two of the five appear to have been FBI plants — what’s shocking is that the other three weren’t. MSNBCNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... went bonkers over this ridiculous nonsense back when it first happened and the FBI is taking a bow for stopping this perilous plot that its own people were apparently plotting. I guess when actual mass murderers keep mass murdering, yet time after time the FBI knew about the nuts beforehand, you kind of need anything like a victory you can get. Retchin’ Gretchen was in more danger from air sickness on that donor’s jet that whisked her off to sunny, sane DeSantisland than from a quintet of misfits with a direct line back to the FBI HQ.
Understand that no one advocating violence — specifically that you go commit violence — is your friend. Such a person is either crazy, or stupid, or a snitch setting you up. Always reject them. Tell them to get the hell out. And do it loudly and clearly so the dudes sitting outside in the Ford Econoline van can get a nice crisp recording of you demanding they buzz off.
It’s not necessary or justified here, not even close, and no reasonable person could think so. The mechanisms of a free society are battered but they still exist, and they are our imperfect means of promoting change. But the nuts and the narcs will try to convince you differently. They will point out gross misconduct in six big Democrat cities last November, and it was gross — I was there. But they don’t point out that patriotic Americans won 15 seats in Congress in that same election. We can and do win elections, and we can and do win in court — not all the time, but sometimes, so that these remain viable paths to vindicate our rights. Yeah, the garbage media is biased, but we are strengthening the conservative alternative. And it is likely 2022 will see the Democrats crushed and that 2024 will see Ron DeSantis boot out soon-to-be presidentrix Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and now Joe Biden's wing nut. She's displaying her level of competence in her hanling of the Biden Border Surge . So, anyone telling you to do something violent mostly peaceful instead of doing the hard work of winning elections is either a fool or a fed, or both.
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I'm sure the planning to cancel DeSantis and render his office inoperable was already greenlit immediately after the last favourable CPAC poll, and something will be ready in time. Bureaucrats, congresspeople, media contractors, think tanks and judges all informed to watch out for another challenge to the consolidation of the One Party system. Probably why the hordes cultivated by the Dems haven't been designated as crims and put away yet. Trumps will keep rising for a while, one stronger than the other, and they'll have to be dealt with. I'm sorry but anyone who thinks winning elections and court cases alone will be enough is just wrong.
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Don’t be surprised when Desantis starts acting like a RINO.
Won't be because of money. It will be because of blackmail. He will be threatened with exposure of Epstein's Island trips etc. - regardless of whether they are true, they can be created as 'Truth.'
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Most people treat other people with respect and tolerance in a civilized society, if and until the interactions turn negative, untenable or uncivilized.
Possibly Mr. Lemon, has come across an article on the internet blog, NationalVangard.org which may have raised this question in his mind.
The article is Blacks Aren’t Human with the byline ROSEMARY W. PENNINGTON (EDITOR) · 14 MARCH, 2015. Written with a global sociological view.
I'll provide you some aid Mr. Lemon, this was an opinion piece, and the internet is full of opinions, some reasonable, some not.
You are young Mr. Lemon, a Millennial, you need to pace yourself, lest your world suddenly deteriorates because of prejudicial thinking...
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/\ You are young Mr. Lemon, a Millennial, you need to pace yourself, lest your world suddenly deteriorates because of prejudicial thinking...
Age is certainly not a guarantor of knowledge but it usually does contain a measure of life experiences and observations. These experiences and observations guide our opinions, thinking and intentions. I believe an applicable term or reference might simply be our desire or intention for 'survival.'
Some form of organized 'civilization' containing positive behaviors and outcomes appears to be a key to survival. While they cannot yet communicate with us, I suspect the animal kingdom might agree.
'Fully human' is certainly not the question. 'Fully civilized' is likely the correct term.
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g(r)omgoru, you could have just said 'celebrities are circus monkeys'. You might catch some innocents in the mix but in general it's more inclusive and accurate.
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Help! Help! My ratings are cratering, and I'll try any fool thing to get them back up!
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RJ let me parse
(1) Not everyone should be a mathematician - but, a 30 million strong group (given all these affirmative action educational opportunities) should produce some. Unless something is lacking.
(2) Notable African-Americans: celebrities, politicians, university (non-stem) professors just don't make up for (1) for me.
Sorry. I guess I'm a racist. Also male chauvinist pig.
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To keep from becoming the racist that people like Lemon accuse me of being, I must constantly remind myself that not all black people are as deficient as he is.
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Mr. Lemon, video clips like these about the mob twerking on an ambulance (thanks, Skid) also make it difficult for me. I don't want to be a racist but clearly something has gone wrong somewhere. It might help if more prominent people of color would publicly denounce Critical Race Theory, or at least denounce twerking on an ambulance to celebrate a shooting that occurred during a Juneteenth celebration.
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No Don, I just see you as living proof that not all humans are even minimally intelligent.
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Grom, I'm only talking about the second part of your post. Celebrities are trained monkeys and I feel that should be pointed out at every opportunity.
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Oregon made it illegal to own chimpanzees in 2010, but anyone who owned an ape prior to that year was authorized to keep the animal for the rest of its life
Hmm. What's more plausible -- that they didn't know the term, or that they couldn't bring themselves to use it?
Turkish forces deployed in the #Idlib countryside bombed Syrian government forces’ positions south of Idlib in response to intense shelling carried out by the latter on sites near Turkish points.https://t.co/ej0LvnnWRg
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 21, 2021
On Monday, Ottoman Turkish forces deployed in the Idlib countryside bombed Syrian government forces’ positions south of Idlib in response to intense shelling carried out by the latter on sites near Ottoman Turkish points.
Ottoman Turkish forces stationed in their points around the town of al-Bara bombed military positions of the Syrian government forces near the city of Kafr Nabl south of Idlib, with heavy artillery shells, destroying a tank, killing soldiers inside, and wounding others nearby, military sources in the opposition told North Press.
The Ottoman Turkish bombardment came in response to the killing and wounding of about 15 civilians, including women, as a result of artillery shelling with guided laser missiles carried out by Russian forces stationed in the town of Basqala, south of Idlib, on the towns of al-Bara and Ahsem where Ottoman Turkish forces are deployed, according to the sources.
Pro-Ottoman Turkish armed opposition factions bombarded positions of the government forces near Khan al-Sabil, Basqala, Hantoutin and al-Dar al-Kabira, south of Idlib, with heavy artillery and rocket launchers.
Government forces continued their artillery and missile bombardment on villages and towns of al-Fatira, Kafr Awed, Kansafra, and al-Bara in Zawiya Mountain in the southern countryside of Idlib, which led to the injury of a civilian in al-Bara.
The bombing is part of a campaign of escalation of Syrian government and Russian forces in southern Idlib and northwestern of Hama villages and towns, which began early this month in those areas with Ottoman Turkish troops and military points.
Ethiopian national in Asir region has been arrested by Saudi Arabia's @Mokafha_SA for selling cannabis, and in possession of over 1,000 amphetamine pillshttps://t.co/xTA0m0JuKZ
We all know that climate change is the direst threat to face mankind in the entire history of dire threats. Or maybe white supremacy is -- who can keep track these days? We also know that it's all Trump's fault. Nonetheless, I was shocked to see the Guardian publish an opinion piece advocating nukes, since the Guardian is a leading proponent of using unicorn flatulence to drive turbine blades.
[Guardian] Even a more aggressive investment in renewable energy wouldn’t have solved Germany’s problem. There are just a handful of large economies that have already mostly decarbonized their grids; all of them have a foundation of nuclear or hydroelectricity (or both), and then to greater or lesser degrees add renewables like wind and solar on top. This is because nuclear and hydro are able to provide electricity whenever we need it. These "firm" sources of clean electricity do not need to wait for the sun to shine or the wind to blow to power the ventilators in our hospitals. Batteries and other forms of energy storage are great, and we need much more funding of research and development to make them even better, but until huge technological leaps occur, sustainables are hindered by the need for cooperative weather. Heresy! AOC will strike this person down with her mighty intellectual powers.
So why, given the stakes of global warming, is there still so much hostility to nuclear power? Because reasons, that's why.
Some of the paranoia is no doubt rooted in cold war-era associations of peaceful nuclear power with dangerous nuclear weaponry. We can and should separate these two, just like we are able to separate nuclear bombs from nuclear medicine. And we should also push back against popular narratives around Chernobyl and other disasters that simply aren’t replicable with modern technology. Advanced reactors and many existing ones are designed with passive safety systems — they don’t need active intervention by humans or a computer to deactivate in case of emergencies. In case you're wondering, this guy has no scientific chops whatsoever. He is the author of The Socialist Manifesto, whatever that is, which explains why the Guardian lets him offer dissenting views. In their world, he's a Made Man.
Nuclear is an idea whose time came and seemed to have passed, but may indeed have a future. For those of us looking for a solution to climate change, the least we can ask is that no plants like Indian Power close until we have a clean, dependable and scalable alternative already in place. But, but, we only have until next Tuesday to stop carbon emissions. John Kerry said so.
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Jane doing poorly?
Confucius say, "Time for La Fonda
To climb into Heaven's Lagonda
So China make face
In new nuclear race
And take space for the Asian Wakanda."
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25-30 years ago, when all the green talk was about hydrogen-fueled cars, there was a big article in Scientific American about switching to hydrogen power required nukes.
That burst that bubble!
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[Federalist] 'It may no longer be fair, practical, or even constitutional to provide publicly-funded education solely through the vehicle of state-operated schools,' the two-time U.S. attorney general contends.
“The greatest threat to religious liberty in America today,” said former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr in a recent speech, is “the increasingly militant and extreme secular-progressive climate of our state-run education system.”
Barr, whose high-profile career has demonstrated a deep commitment to the U.S. Constitution as written and intended, spoke to the religious liberty legal defense organization Alliance Defending Freedom. The legal lion put together a strong argument that a half-century of Supreme Court decisions combined with the left’s long march through American institutions have pushed U.S. public schools so far from religious neutrality that many now comprise a government-established preference for the atheist religion. Government preferences for some religious views over others are unconstitutional under the First Amendment.
“The heavy-handed enforcement of secular-progressive orthodoxy through government-run schools is totally incompatible with traditional Christianity and other major religious traditions in our country. In light of this development, we must confront the reality that it may no longer be fair, practical, or even constitutional to provide publicly-funded education solely through the vehicle of state-operated schools,” he said.
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Mr. Barr, you omitted talking about the Deep State, current left-wing radicalism and its effects on the country, law-breakers within the government, weaponizing the government against citizens, and the rigging of elections to get their candidates placed.
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.
[RealClearPolitics] You probably heard it reported a few weeks ago that Donald Trump has been telling confidants that he expects to be reinstated as president in August. I have no way of knowing if that story is accurate, nor does New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman, who reported it, but we do know that Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, has boasted that he has evidence of election fraud that will force the Supreme Court to unanimously overturn the Nov. 3 election and put Trump back in power within six weeks.
Dr Pierre Gilbert in 1995:
...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 
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...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...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 
...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...Arabic for 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[Regnum] As practice shows, Georgia swallows many actions of the Azerbaijani side, in a number of issues it simply condones Azerbaijan. How can one fail to recall the "neutrality" of official Tbilisi during the last war in Karabakh (yes, in fact, no one would really allow it to occupy it)! 
...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...
...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 
[ARABNEWS] EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Saturday said that the Lebanese leaders were to blame for the crises gripping their country, and threatened to impose sanctions on those who continue to obstruct the formation of a new government. 
[Breitbart] Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada recently hosted its first-ever drag queen show at one of its on-base dining and entertainment clubs, according a base spokesperson.
[BREITBART] A far-left group will run $1.2 million worth of ads in Arizona from June 21 to June 30 to pressure Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) into trashing the filibuster, amid fears the Republicans will use it to block the legislation designed cancel state voter ID laws and publicly fund political campaigns.Just Democracy will air two ads on cable news programs, local news, and local sports in Arizona and spend $200,000 on digital ads to garner support for the "For The People Act."
...Dem senator-for-life from West Virginia. Manchin is one of the approximately one Dem senators who exhibits more integrity than Jello, often even representing his constituents...
[ARABNEWS] Tyrannical regimes always collapse years — and perhaps even decades — before their downfall is officially announced. In a state like Iran, fears about, and hedges against, downfall represented a focal point in the thoughts of its founding father Ayatollah Khomeini and his loyalists such as Morteza Motahari, Mahmoud Taleghani and Mohammed Kazem Shariatmadari.
Long-term incarceration without charges or trial, endless legal harassments, disappearances, and occasional suicides also appear to be on the menu. 
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
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