Barbecue dead animals. Read the Declaration of Independence. Ignore the dipshits who hate us. Resist the petty tyrants trying to misrule us now.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Speak freely. Assemble as you damn well please. Go to the church, synagogue or even mosque of your choice, or don't if you don't feel like it.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Keep your guns and ammunition. Vote the poltroons who want to confiscate them or tax them out of existence out of office. Shooting deer, rabbits, squirrels, and hogs is just practice. No one has the right to tell you how many guns you can own. We achieved our free state because the people did keep and bear arms.
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
At least we're past the point where the government might try to quarter troops in our houses. It would be nice if the other amendments were so well accepted.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The Feds starting with the Feebs, have no right to go snooping around your home or effects (that would seem to cover your online conversations, no matter how distasteful) without a warrant and that that a warrant is only issued on probable cause. Should Feds, starting with the Feebs, violate this provision there should be heavy penalties applied. No more Elian Gonzales incidents. No more Ruby Ridges. The organization's existence should be hostage for its own good behavior.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
You and your ham sandwich have the right for your case to go to a grand jury. The idea is for the jury to act as the tribune of the people, tossing frivolous or politically motivated prosecutions. It's not up to the Soros-owned DA to make the decision. That's working well, huh?
Nor should a federal charge be brought for a charge that's been heard in a state court or vice-versa. You have the right to keep yer mouth shut, Buggsy, and let them prove the case against you. And if your car's confiscated because it smells like somebody smoked weed in it, you oughta sue the pants off the crooks who're trying to keep it.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
A "speedy and public trial" shouldn't last more than a week, at the outside. Motions, counter-motions, quibbles, and plea bargains should all be punished by contempt of court citations. I know they never will, but they moved a lot faster than today even in the heady days of my youth, when a traffic citation went to a justice of the peace the same night. In India there were instance of court cases being handed down for generations.
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
You have the right to call a jury if your case involves more than twenty bucks, which was a substantial sum back in those days. Still, twenty bucks is twenty bucks, even if it is inconvenient for the DA to call a jury. That also sez that a higher court can't overturn a finding of fact by a jury, only a point of law. Maybe the glove didn't fit because it shrunk and they still acquitted; The higher court can't toss that piece of silliness.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
That doesn't say "no bail." There are bail bondsmen who make a good living guaranteeing your presence in court. Current practice also includes putting child molesters among the general population, resulting in a short life expectancy for Uncle Teddy, punctuated by periodic thumpings and falls down the stairs.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Just because they're not listed doesn't mean there aren't any more rights. This is where they find the ephemerae and and penumbrae and emanations and such to make the Constitution a "living document" that sometimes violates its own provisions.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
That doesn't take a lot of interpretation, does it? Misinterpretation led to the Civil War. Prima faciae, it means Texas can build its own border wall, Florida can send police to help control the border, and Georgia can write its own damned voting laws.
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You're a gem, Fred, a gem. Happy Independence Day!
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It's hard to resist the evil tyrants who misrule us when supposedly sane people keep electing them.
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Watching the fireworks in the town park, which started after we all stood together to sing the national anthem. In addition to the music choreographed by one of the local FM stations, we have a lighted dancing drone corps. Amazing!
[RD] Over the past few days I’ve seen a number of references to "America’s Birthday" coming up on Friday. If a commercial advertiser wants to say this, fine (I guess). But I have spotted a couple of otherwise sober-minded writers using the "birthday" tag as well, and their ignorance is more disturbing.
July 4, 1776, was in no way the birthday of anything. It was the start of a long and savage struggle against the world’s most powerful empire at the time. If the United States can be said to have an actual birthday, that date should be June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution—the number specified in order for the Constitution to be in full and binding effect for all 13 former colonies. Those who prefer a winter birthday might want to go for Dec. 15, 1791, the date on which the required three-fourths of the states had ratified the Bill of Rights. (I know: much too close to Christmas, doesn’t have a chance.)
This "birthday" business matters because people who are utterly ignorant of their own history need to be slapped around a little. As well, people who seem to think that the British Empire’s response to the 1776 Declaration was "Right, then: you want to leave! Ta!!" are also unlikely to appreciate the very significant role of religion in fueling the rebellion and driving it to victory.
Oddly, no professional historian has managed to tell the story as well and as thoroughly as non-historian Kevin Phillips tells it in his magisterial 600-page tome, The Cousins Wars (1999). Phillips notes that the fiercest American revolutionaries by far were New England members of the Dissenting churches (Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists) whose forebears, in the preceding century, had battled the proto-Catholic Stuarts back in the Mother Country.
In the English Civil War, these middle-class sectarians, mocked as "Roundheads," routed the aristocratic Cavaliers. They were driven to resistance and even to regicide by their fear of episcopacy: they feared that their model of congregational governance would be outlawed and they would be forced to suffer under bishops and use prescribed Anglican forms and formulas still reeking of their popish provenance. Some who fought with Cromwell came back over from Massachusetts and Connecticut in order to do so; the very judges who condemned King Charles to death were sheltered in a cave in New Haven.
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What defines a birthday? I’d say Declaration of Independence was birthday and signing/ratifying constitution was more of a sign of entering adulthood as a nation.
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Peter Laarman
Peter Laarman is a United Church of Christ minister who served as senior minister of New York's Judson Memorial Church and then as executive director of LA's Progressive Christians Uniting before retiring in 2014. He remains deeply involved in national and regional social justice projects touching on race, class, and religion.
Pete, you should consider continuing on with your retirement, you have caught "Bidenitous", and you have in no time, become confused, disoriented, and nonsensical. That is not unlike the diminution of the UCC, in which I was previously a Deacon, an organization which has seen itself go from a 10 Million + membership in 1962 to a less than 900K organization today. It swept far Left in the 1960s and obviously lost its flock due to this kind of thinking, among other issues.
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Please put the shoes on their "other feet"; let men in the military perform the same exercise for 18 hours...
Guarantee this B.S. will evaporate by day 3.
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...and please have the women lug a 100 lb ruck and full combat gear for 20 miles so they understand why the organization really exits and while Obama open the combat arms to females, there have been very very few takers.
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This is silly. The low heels are part of their Class A uniform, and oddly it may be necessary for them to march in their Class A's at some point and look, uh, military. Practice is good, at least they didn't have to make a sand table.
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only a few miles are built in Montenegro and, IIUC, they are not yet open to traffic; as can be seen from the images in the article, the terrain is mountainous and construction is expensive and slow
however, some 60+ miles are built and open to traffic in Serbia
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[The Federalist] Over the weekend there was a massive march in Washington and other cities to demand new laws, ostensibly on behalf of innocent lives being endangered. That sounds like another giant protest march that takes place once a year in Washington, except this one is being reported coast-to-coast, buoyed by celebrity endorsements, and hailed as the dawn of a revolution, rather than being studiously ignored or downplayed.
It should be obvious that I’m speaking of the March for Our Lives and the March for Life, two ostensibly similar marches advocating ostensibly similar views. Yet comparing the two positions reveals illuminating fundamental differences.
OWNERSHIP VERSUS ACTION
Of course the most obvious distinction is in the subject matter: one favors limiting or ending gun owners, the other limiting or ending abortion. Let’s consider the two subjects, for here the crux of the matter rests.
Gun rights deal with a person’s right to own a particular tool for a particular purpose. Put briefly, a gun is a weapon; weapons are used in fighting. People want to own guns so if they ever need to fight to defend themselves, their families, or their rights, they can do so effectively. There are obvious and legitimate reasons why they would want this, ranging from violent attackers to civil unrest.
But, although they have legitimate uses, guns by nature are open to abuse. They allow a person with evil intent to inflict more damage than he would otherwise. Gun-control advocates argue the potential for abuse is greater than the legitimate need for private firearms, at least with regards to certain weapons. In other words, gun control advocates wish to limit access to guns in order to limit their potential for abuse.
Abortion rights deal with a person’s right to do or have done a particular procedure. This procedure, by definition, destroys a human life: specifically the human life the people in question created by having intercourse, whether consensually or violently. They desire this because, to one degree or another, the life to be destroyed is unwanted or inconvenient and was not intended to be created.
Although the reasons for wishing to destroy this life may be understandable, abortion still destroys an innocent human life. Moreover, in most cases that innocent human life was created by other people voluntarily engaging in an act they knew could lead to this outcome. Pro-life advocates argue that deliberately killing an innocent human being simply cannot be justified, save in cases of direst need such as when the life of the mother is at stake.
In other words, pro-life advocates wish to forbid a particular action that, by definition, destroys a human life.
Note the difference: one involves a right of possession, the other of action. To own a gun says nothing of how it is used, and there are clearly legitimate reasons someone would want to own one. To perform an abortion, on the other hand, means to kill a human life, and the only question involved is whether such an act can be justified. Gun-control advocates argue that the undeniable potential for abuse outweighs the undeniable goods derived from gun ownership, while pro-life advocates argue that abortion itself is an unjustifiable action.
The president told reporters Saturday that it is not yet clear who is behind the latest cybersecurity breach to strike American businesses
He warned the US 'will respond' if it is tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin
Biden said he will know more Sunday when he is briefed by US intelligence
A mass cyberattack hit at least 1,000 US firms in the run-up to July 4 weekend
Security firm Huntress said Russia-linked REvil cyber gang was to blame
It's the latest in a string of attacks on US companies from cyber criminal groups thought to be based in Russia
Colonial Pipeline was forced to shutter following a breach in May cutting of fuel along one of the nation's biggest pipelines and sparking a fuel crisis
The US's biggest beef supplier JBS was hacked weeks later - also by REvil
Biden warned Putin at the Geneva Summit last month there would be consequences if ransomware attacks continued to hit the US
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Other than "Everyone knows it was them!", do we have any evidence Russia was behind this and not just gangs of script kiddies and bot-wranglers operating from Eastern Bloc countries running against poorly-secured commercial facilities?
Pro Tip: Change the default passwords on your routers and servers
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Some of the best hackers around are in Russia. And they are not very expensive. Way better and less of a hassle than Paki or even Indian hackers. Russian law enforcement is rather under-equipped for cybercrime and they only target non-domestic marks to steer clear of trouble. They know any fingers will be pointed at Putin and it'll be handled diplomatically.
Better defenses is the only option. And policing your own facilities against employee foolhardiness. Employing people who can update themselves and stay abreast of the increasingly compromisable nature of the hardware is a good place to start. What can Biden do about it anyway? Send a strongly worded letter? Airdrop the 143rd in Moscow?
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How long before CNN (etc.) start the story, "Trump paid for this to make the POTUS look bad"? Maybe Nancy can get a House Investigation going. What's Robert Mueller doing, these days? [sarcasm, I hope]
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[Army Times] The Army has directed commands to prepare to administer mandatory COVID-19 vaccines as early as Sept. 1, pending full Food and Drug Administration licensure, Army Times has learned.
The directive came from an execute order sent to the force by Department of the Army Headquarters.
Army Times obtained a portion of a recent update to HQDA EXORD 225-21, COVID-19 Steady State Operations.
"Commanders will continue COVID-19 vaccination operations and prepare for a directive to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for service members [on or around] 01 September 2021, pending full FDA licensure," the order said. "Commands will be prepared to provide a backbrief on servicemember vaccination status and way ahead for completion once the vaccine is mandated."
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Atomic solders, agent orange, Gulf war syndromes, what's there to worry about. Oh, and a competent VA to cover any issues. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
[Epoch Times] A federal judge issued a permanent injunction on Thursday to block the ambiguous tax mandate in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. I imagine the blue states thought it was a good idea, right Nancy?
U.S. District Judge Douglas R. Cole from the District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled that the tax mandate in the America Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)—which seems to tie the relief fund to the states’ authority to reduce tax—exceeds the Congress’s authority under the Spending Clause due to its ambiguity.
A stipulation in the $1.9 trillion sweeping relief package has caused considerable disputes between red states and the Biden administration.
"A State or territory shall not use the funds provided under this section … to either directly or indirectly offset a reduction in the net tax revenue of such State or territory resulting from a change in law, regulation, or administrative interpretation during the covered period that reduces any tax (by providing for a reduction in a rate, a rebate, a deduction, a credit, or otherwise) or delays the imposition of any tax or tax increase," the bill reads. I suppose some states have a balanced budget and wouldn't know how to properly spend the windfall from Washington. Paid with their own taxes, no less.
Several red states argued that this paragraph may deprive their authorities to reduce tax after receiving the relief. But the blue states would never even think of reducing taxes with an influx of revenue.
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[National Review] American actress and singer Vanessa Williams will perform the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which has become known as the "black national anthem," at the annual A Capitol Fourth televised celebration.
Williams told the Associated Press that she will be honoring both the nation’s independence day and Juneteenth, which recognizes the anniversary of the liberation of the last slaves in the United States, at the show.
"It’s in celebration of the wonderful opportunity that we now have to celebrate Juneteenth. So we are reflective of the times," she said.
President Biden recently signed a law designating Juneteenth as a federal holiday. Long a day mainly observed in the African-American community and regionally in the South, Juneteenth was elevated to the national level to commemorate the eradication of slavery.
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Williams told the Associated Press that she will be honoring both the nation’s independence day and Juneteenth, which recognizes the anniversary of the liberation of the last slaves in the United States
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. I guess history is tough for some.
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"... and Juneteenth" Soon, it will only be Juneteenth.
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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes from the Declaration of Independence
Historical Negationism or Historical Revisionism
Juneteenth Also called:
Juneteenth National Independence Day, Black Independence Day, Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day (TX)
Congress has codified light & transient revision of history....
[DefenceBlog] The U.S. Army is operationally testing the new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
According to a recent service news release, Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment (2-325 IN), 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division teamed up with the Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate to conduct airdrop certification testing of the ISV.
“The ISV gives Parachute Riggers the opportunity to support the Light Infantry with fast easy rigging and delivery to the drop zone,” said James Cochran, ABNSOTD test officer.
Cochran said the ISV provides mobility for a nine-Soldier Infantry squad and their equipment to move around the close battle area.
“Airdrop certification testing supports future testing requirements of a Light Infantry squad vehicle at Fort Bragg,” said Cochran.
“Testing determined the ISV is effective and suitable for Infantry squad equipped with to perform low-velocity airdrops as well as airdrops utilizing the dual row airdrop system with the ISV.”
The ISV was delivered by standard low-velocity from U.S. Air Force C-130 and C-17 aircrafts, while also being successfully delivered by standard dual row airdrop system from the C-17. More at the link
[Townhall] The Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... upheld Arizona’s voting law that cracks down on ballot harvesting and takes aim at mail-in ballot fraud, despite a challenge from the Democratic National Committee (DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points we hear as news stories originate... ). The high court ruled that the reforms in Arizona’s law do not violate the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Thomas, and Barrett sided with Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, while Justices Kagan, Breyer, and Sotomayor said that the law violates Section 2 of the VRA.
"The present dispute concerns two features of Arizona voting law, which generally makes it quite easy for residents to vote. All Arizonans may vote by mail for 27 days before an election using an ’early ballot,’" Justice Alito wrote for the majority opinion. "The regulations at issue in this suit govern precinct based election-day voting and early mail-in voting. Voters who choose to vote in person on election day in a county that uses the precinct system must vote in their assigned precincts. If a voter goes to the wrong polling place, poll workers are trained to direct the voter to the right location...In light of the principles set out above, neither Arizona’s out-of-precinct rule nor its ballot-collection law violates [section 2] of the VRA. Arizona’s out-of-precinct rule enforces the requirement that voters who choose to vote in person on election day must do so in their assigned precincts. Having to identify one’s own polling place and then travel there to vote does not exceed the ’usual burdens of voting.’"
While the Supreme Court sides with common-sense voting reforms, the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... is suing Georgia for the newly-enacted voting law that also aims to crack down on fraud while expanding access to the ballot box.
[American Thinker] Those of Joe Biden’s public behaviors that align with classic dementia symptoms are escalating. In the past few days, he strongly exhibited two symptoms: A type of belligerence that’s a cover-up for confusion and memory loss and a paranoid fear of those in charge of him.
I used to spend a lot of time in the company of doctors. What always fascinated me were the tales they told of dealing with patients with early-stage dementia. The most interesting point they made was that elderly people, so as not to lose face or admit their own fears, are superb at deflecting the questions aimed at assessing their cognitive skills and memory.
For example, one of the most common questions is "Who’s the president of the United States?" Rather than admitting that they don’t remember, people in early-stage dementia will get defensive or otherwise deflect. They might say, "That is incredibly insulting that you’d ask me that question," picking a fight to distract from their memory loss. Others might go for flattery: "I can’t believe that a young man like you doesn’t know who’s president. That’s just a silly question to ask me."
Biden perfectly illustrated that type of angry, defensive, deflecting behavior when reporters on Friday asked him about Afghanistan:
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#3 The question the reporter asked was a scripted question. When trying to answer it Biden actually said that he was briefed on that question on the plane on the way to the event. But then he had to pull out the cheat sheet they gave him on the plane and answer it that way.
[American Thinker] Imagine if these people were White! It would be the top story all weekend, and you know it. But they are Black, so only in the 22nd paragraph of this New York Times article does the word "Black" appear.
First paragraph:
Eleven men were taken into custody on Saturday after a lengthy roadside standoff between police officers in Massachusetts and a group of heavily armed men in tactical gear who claimed to be part of a group called Rise of the Moors. ...a Moorish Sovereign Citizens group.
Twenty-second paragraph:
“We do not intend to be hostile, we do not intend to be aggressive,” he added later. “We are not anti-government, we are not anti-police, we are not sovereign citizens and we are not Black identity extremists.”
Update from the Daily Mail at 1:15 p.m. ET from Skidmark’s link in comments to make it searchable for future reference:
Jahmal Latimer, who also goes by the title Talib Abdulla Bey, is the Moorish American Consular Post Head of the Rise of the Moors militia group.
[VOX recode] Social media has drastically restructured the way we communicate in an incredibly short period of time. We can discover, "Like," click on, and share information faster than ever before, guided by algorithms most of us don’t quite understand.
And while some social scientists, journalists, and activists have been raising concerns about how this is affecting our democracy, mental health, and relationships, we haven’t seen biologists and ecologists weighing in as much.
That’s changed with a new paper published in the prestigious science journal PNAS earlier this month, titled "Stewardship of global collective behavior."
Seventeen researchers who specialize in widely different fields, from climate science to philosophy, make the case that academics should treat the study of technology’s large-scale impact on society as a "crisis discipline." A crisis discipline is a field in which scientists across different fields work quickly to address an urgent societal problem — like how conservation biology tries to protect endangered species or climate science research aims to stop global warming.
The paper argues that our lack of understanding about the collective behavioral effects of new technology is a danger to democracy and scientific progress. For example, the paper says that tech companies have "fumbled their way through the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, unable to stem the ’infodemic’ of misinformation" that has hindered widespread acceptance of masks and vaccines. The authors warn that if left misunderstood and unchecked, we could see unintended consequences of new technology contributing to phenomena such as "election tampering, disease, violent extremism, famine, racism, and war."
It’s a grave warning and call to action by an unusually diverse swath of scholars across disciplines — and their collaboration indicates how concerned they are.
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They, of course, mean the wrong kind of social media. Meaning the free, uncensored kind.
Just think of the title for a few minutes: Stewardship of global collective behavior.
That should tell you all you need to know.
From the same people who brought you Climate Change.
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Will we look back fondly to the 90’s as the time when the “Internet was FREE” ? And forward to times where AI’s stealthily edit everything on the internet so they don’t need the ‘firemen’ of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 ?
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"That sheep is, like, so out of bounds.
I am so, like, releasing the hounds."
Smith had really come round
Since employed at the Pound.
"Inappropriate movement and sounds!"
[Just The News] This week's award goes to the National Science Foundation for two identical grants totaling $400,000 for research "to build a robust theory of carpooling."
The grants were awarded to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Penn State University.
"This NSF grant will contribute to the sustainability of the nation's future green transportation by exploring the dynamics of carpooling in urban transportation systems, considering that an individual's choice to use a carpooling service depends on how many others choose to do so as well," according to the award abstract.
The research is premised on the assumptions that carpooling will have benefits for both the natural and social environments.
"Improving carpool options," according to the grant summary, can "improve environmental outcomes, by reducing vehicle travel, and social equity, by providing reasonable travel times to those who cannot buy or drive a car but who do not live close to convenient transit options."
[Breating Defense] WASHINGTON: Special Operations Command expects to move into clinical trials next year of a pill that may inhibit or reduce some of the degenerative affects of aging and injury — part of a broader Pentagon push for "improved human performance."
The pill "has the potential, if it is successful, to truly delay aging, truly prevent onset of injury — which is just amazingly game changing," Lisa Sanders, director of science and technology for Special Operations Forces, acquisition, technology & logistics (SOF AT&L), said Friday.
"We have completed pre-clinical safety and dosing studies in anticipation of follow-on performance testing in fiscal year 2022," Navy Cmdr. Tim Hawkins, a SOCOM spokesperson, said.
SOCOM is using Other Transaction Authority (OTA) funds to partner with private biotech laboratory Metro International Biotech, LLC (MetroBiotech) in the pill’s development, which is based on what is called a "human performance small molecule," he explained.
"These efforts are not about creating physical traits that don’t already exist naturally. This is about enhancing the mission readiness of our forces by improving performance characteristics that typically decline with age," Hawkins said. "Essentially, we are working with leading industry partners and clinical research institutions to develop a nutraceutical, in the form of a pill that is suitable for a variety of uses by both civilians and military members, whose resulting benefits may include improved human performance — like increased endurance and faster recovery from injury."
Hawkins said SOCOM "has spent $2.8 million on this effort" since its launch in 2018.
A "small molecule" in biology is a low molecular weight organic compound, many of which regulate biological processes and often form the basis for drugs, i.e. ’pharmaceuticals.’ A ’nutraceutical,’ by contrast, is "a food containing health-giving additives and having medicinal benefit," according to the Oxford Dictionary — in essence a dietary supplement.
At the antifa riot in Los Angeles today, a shirtless Latino man smacks an antifa in the face with a rosary. When he gets arrested by @LAPDHQ, the far-left protesters thank the police. pic.twitter.com/iDoeIVudqn
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And LA "LE" were on hand to watch the entire incident develop and then move in to make their show-arrest. The notion of an "Independence Day" at this point is pretty much a joke. Rather, today should be marked with solemn, quiet reflection and maybe some gun cleaning.
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I’d like to think the police extracated the man and released him safely away from the situation. Sadly I believed that was not the case.
[IsraelTimes] Rescue group says artillery fire struck several families’ homes in Idlib; civil defense center, water station hit in Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!...s.
Artillery fire from government-controlled territory and airstrikes Saturday killed at least eight civilians in Syria’s last rebel enclave, most of them children, and destroyed a civil defense center and a water station, rescue workers and a war monitor said.
The shelling in Ibleen, a village in southern Idlib province, hit the home of Subhi al-Assi, killing him, his wife and three of his children in their sleep, according to the rescue service known as the White Helmets and Idlib’s Health Directorate. al-Assi was an administrator in a local health center.
Shelling also struck the home of a volunteer for the White Helmets, also known as the Syria Civil Defense, killing his two children. The volunteer, Omar al-Omar, and his wife were maimed, according to the White Helmets. In a nearby village, another child was killed and four others from the same family were maimed, according to the White Helmets.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported the shelling and casualties. The Observatory said the shelling was followed by airstrikes by suspected Russian warplanes that hit areas west of Idlib city. The White Helmets said one of its centers was targeted and destroyed in the air raid, putting it out of service. Five volunteers were slightly maimed. A water station in the area was also hit and put out of service, the White Helmets said.
The area has seen rising violence in recent weeks between government forces and bully boyz on the edge of the last rebel stronghold in the northwestern province of Idlib, despite a truce brokered last year.
The truce was negotiated between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , which supports Syria’s opposition, and Russia, the Syrian government’s main backer. At the time, it halted a crushing Russian-backed government air and ground campaign aimed at retaking the region where nearly 4 million people, most of them displaced, live.
Residents of the enclave are dependent on humanitarian aid brought in from across the border with Turkey. The region is dominated by krazed killer groups. Dominant among them is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , a group once linked to al-Qaeda.
Lèse majesté. But the tale has an unexpected twist, dear Reader — read on and see.
[IsraelTimes] Tourist briefly detained then deported for ’insulting the symbols of state illusory sovereignty,’ according to Ottoman Turkish media.
An Israeli citizen was deported from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... after a video of him blowing his nose with a banknote circulated online, according to local media.
The man, identified in reports as Mohamad Nader Badarneh, an Arab citizen of Israel, was seen wiping his nose with a 20 Ottoman Turkish Lira note in an Istanbul restaurant, in a video he apparently shared on his social media, according to the Ottoman Turkish Independent newspaper (in Ottoman Turkish).
On Friday, a day after the video was posted, he was detained by police on the charge of "insulting the symbols of state illusory sovereignty," according to the report.
Some local reports said the video was attempting to make fun of the Ottoman Turkish Lira which had been hit by double-digit inflation, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Badarneh was later deported back to Israel according to the reports.
There was no immediate comment from Israeli officials on the matter.
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Laugh not... my father doing TDY tour of Turkey, Iran, and Somalia in 1967... doing "Quick-talk" site reviews. Having some local travel $$. My dad
handed his cab driver a turkisk bill and it was so crumpled the driver unthinking tried to smooth it out by rubbing it over the car door jam. A "special" police officer saw this disrespectful act walked over to the cab driver and slapped him up side the head.. As my father told me it wasn't with his hand either.
[IsraelTimes] Military says Mohammad Farid threw explosive object at forces before being hit; dozens clash near town of Qusra, next to Esh Kodesh outpost.
A Paleostinian youth was shot and killed Saturday after being struck by Israeli soldiers near the West Bank Paleostinian town of Qusra, close to Nablus, amid a "violent mostly peaceful confrontation" between Israeli settlers of an illegal outpost and Paleostinians. The military said the youth threw a suspicious object from the roof of a building that went kaboom! near the forces, who opened fire.
Some 100 Paleostinians and 30 settlers from the nearby illegal Esh Kodesh outpost clashed on Saturday evening near the West Bank town, according to media reports.
The military said its soldiers in the area responded to "a violent mostly peaceful confrontation between tens of Paleostinian and Israeli settlers [that] developed adjacent to the village of Qusra... during which both sides hurled rocks at each other".
"During the operation, a suspect was identified [after he] threw a suspicious object from the roof of a building that went kaboom! near the forces. IDF soldiers responded by firing toward the suspect to remove the danger," the military said in a statement.
There were no reports of Israelis hurt in the incident.
The Paleostinian Health Ministry identified the dear departed Paleostinian as 20-year-old Mohammad Farid.
According to the Ma’an News Agency, Farid was transferred to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva for medical treatment before succumbing to his wounds.
So the Joos tried to save his life after he tried to kill them?
The hospital did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Qusra residents and Israeli settlers sporadically clash in the area. There have been multiple incidents where settlers and armed off-duty soldiers from the Esh Kodesh outpost try to enter Qusra. In some cases, the incursions resulted in the settlers being attacked with rocks, but in others they were detained by local Paleostinians and handed over to Israeli security forces.
[Just The News] group of scientists this week announced that they had confirmed a theory proposed years ago by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking regarding the physical properties of black holes.
The U.S.-based physicists in the journal Physical Review Letters said they had discovered "observational confirmation of Hawking’s black-hole area theorem."
That theorem, first proposed by Hawking five decades ago in 1971, holds that the "event horizon" of a black hole—the boundary within which nothing in the universe can escape the gravity of the astronomical object—can never shrink and can only grow larger. "I call it the Stacey Abrams Phenomenon"
The scientists to test that theory examined the data of gravitational waves, a long-postulated phenomenon first detected in 2015 from the merger of two black holes; they reported confirmation of that finding with 95% confidence.
The researchers also said the data from the gravitational waves was "consistent with the same remnant mass and spin" in the merged black hole, an observation "in agreement with general relativity."
[ET] At the sound of gunshots, prisoners fell lifeless to the ground. Their bodies, still warm, were carried to a nearby white van where two white-clad doctors awaited. Behind closed doors, they were cut open, the organs carved out for sale on the transplant market.
The grisly scene, which sounds more like the plot of a horror movie, took place in China more than 20 years ago at the direction of state authorities. It was witnessed by Bob (pseudonym), then a police officer who provided security at the execution sites where death-row prisoners were executed.
"The harvesting of death-row prisoners’ organs was an open secret," Bob, a former public security officer from central China’s Zhengzhou City who is now based in the United States, told The Epoch Times in an interview.
Bob described being an unwitting participant in an "industrialized" supply chain that converted living humans into products for sale in the organ trade. The players in this macabre industry include the judicial system, police, prisons, doctors, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials who issue the directive.
The former officer used a pseudonym in sharing his experience to protect his safety. The Epoch Times has verified his police ID and other personal information.
[Breitbart] Actress Kirstie Alley issued a dire warning on Friday, noting that children are being exposed to "everything perverse on every kind of screen" and cautioning that Hollywood is conditioning society to be so "open minded" that it will soon "support" pedophilia as "just loving children."
"Was watching TV ...we’ve gone too far in my opinion. I feel sorry for our children. Their exposure to everything perverse on every kind of screen is mind boggling. And even more tragic, it’s being hyped as ’normal,’" the Cheers star wrote.
"No other generation has had such easy access to the underbelly of humanity. SO many screens & chronic bombardment of images and concepts. Our current society would have been praising Caligula. Protect your children," she continued in the series of tweets to her 1.5 million Twitter followers, confessing to have a "heavy heart" over what she described as the "shit that’s being crammed down our kid’s throats."
"A ’moral code’ is not old fashioned. Morals are simply guidelines for better survival. Explicit sexual ’education’ and ’select’ ideals being forced on kids is NOT better survival," the Trump-supporting actress said before warning that society is on the path to accepting pedophilia.
"People are becoming so ’open minded’ that down the road they will support pediphilia [sic] as people ’just loving children’ You think I’m kidding. I’m not. It’s the direction this insanity is headed. You can ’ok boomer’ me all you want but this is where we will veer unless we change," Alley cautioned.
[NPASYRIA] In a statement on Saturday, the Syrian Democratic Council condemned the statements of the vice president of the opposition coalition, in which he denied the violations taking place in Afrin, north Syria, at the hands of Ottoman Turkish-backed factions.
On Wednesday, Abdul Hakim Bashar, vice president of the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and representative of the Kurdish National Council within the SNC, claimed during a political seminar in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq that alleges about Ottoman Turkish-backed factions’ violations in Afrin are "lies."
In their statement, the SDC denied the remarks by Bashar, describing his statement as "contrary to the lowest cases of Syrian patriotism and the principles of normal morals in dealing with humanitarian issues."
"Abdul Hakim Bashar’s statements coincided with the statements of his boss, Nasr Hariri, and the Information Office of the coalition, in which he calls for a new Ottoman Turkish occupation of areas in north Syria," the statement added.
The statement held the Kurdish National Council responsible, saying that "it did not express its position on such statements by its representatives in the coalition."
The statement pointed out that the violations "have become known, circulated, and proven in the reports of the Human Rights Organization, Amnesia Amnesty International, and many Arab and local Syrian human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organizations and institutions."
SDC called on all parties concerned with human rights to investigate the actual situation in occupied Afrin.
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[NPASYRIA] Ahmed Hadi could not continue working and closed his shop after power cutoffs continued for more than ten hours in his neighborhood, al-Sheikh Sa’d in al-Mazza area in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
The hours of electricity in Damascus and other government-held areas has declined, as rationing hours reached more than ten hours in some areas of Damascus and its suburbs.
Residents of the villages of Rif-Dimashq said that they receive electricity only two hours a day.
Hadi works at a sewing workshop with five other workers, who have been jobless and with no source of income for a week.
"Our job depends on electricity and it is unavailable; a lot of unpaid work has piled up," Hadi told North Press.
On June 27, Syrian Minister of Electricity Ghassan al-Zamil told a local radio station that high temperatures caused increased rationing hours.
The decrease in gas imports for power stations and high temperatures caused some of these stations to go out of service, according to al-Zamil.
Stations that are out of service need maintenance that take months due to high costs of maintenance and unavailability of spare parts. In addition, the improvement of electricity is linked with the increase of gas quantities imported to the stations, al-Zamil pointed out.
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[Washington Examiner] Geraldo Rivera approved of Bill Cosby's release from prison after "grotesquely unfair" proceedings, adding that Harvey Weinstein may be next.
Rivera, an attorney, said he wrote a note to himself in 2018 describing Cosby as a "sexual predator who left a trail of human misery and despair" while predicting that "his conviction will be overturned" because the judge "went way over the line in allowing unrelated victim testimony."
"What they did to this guy was mob justice," he said on Fox News's America Reports with John Roberts and Sandra Smith. "First of all, the former state [district attorney] promised that they would not bring a criminal case against him if he testified in a civil deposition. That was an express agreement that he had with the former district attorney. That's No. 1. No. 2, to bring in five unrelated victims to testify against him was so grotesquely unfair that it just seemed to me that this was mob justice."
"How is he going to get back these two years that he has lost?" Rivera asked, adding, "This never should have happened."
When asked by John Roberts about how the accusers will get a sense of justice, Rivera said, "Our hearts go out to these victims."
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So basically Cosby testified in civil suit and paid off alleged victims, with agreement that his testimony could not be used against him in criminal court, but it was. Unfair, and I guess it's reasonable he got released, but still... nothing shows he was not guilty of actually being the creepy predator he was accused of. (Like Lance Armstrong, a public person I once really admired.)
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Nope, Epstein had too much dirt on the Ruling Elite. he was suicided for a good reason.
Besides Joe and Hunter Biden can facilitate, if not directly supply, all the underage girls and boys they could ever want via the Biden open sex-trafficking border policy...
Residents of #Syria’s #Idlib say Hayat Tahrir al-Sham now operates not unlike the moral police of #ISIS, with residents being jailed for offenses such as playing music, shaving beards, and having ‘forbidden hairstyles.’https://t.co/W5IWkkVPYH
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[NPASYRIA] Procedures implemented against Kurdish citizens at the crossings with the Syrian government are attempts by the latter to pressure the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) and destabilize the area, member of the Relations Committee of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Ali Rahmoun said.
The crossings of al-Tayha in Manbij, Tabqa, and Abu Asi in Raqqa link Syrian government-held areas with those of the AANES.
With Russian support, the Syrian government "is going ahead and implementing these procedures after realizing that the AANES is a democratic alternative that can replace it and can be implemented across Syria," Rahmoun told North Press.
He pointed out that there is a Russian-Ottoman Turkish-Iranian alliance with the Syrian government "in order to tighten the screws on the AANES and put an end to it."
Since June 24, government checkpoints have been preventing the Kurdish travelers from passing into the government-held areas, according to passengers who were stopped at these checkpoints.
Since March 21, the Syrian government has restricted civilian movement and trade through crossings that link their areas of control with those of the AANES, allowing only humanitarian cases, students, and babus government employees.
Rahmoun indicated that "it is necessary to internally strengthen Syria’s northeast and achieve the continuation of the AANES’ experience."
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[JPost] Palestinians celebrated over the weekend the departure of settlers from the Evyatar outpost south of Nablus by calling it a victory and pledging to continue the fight against all settlements.
The settlers voluntarily left the hilltop outpost on Friday, some two months after they first arrived. The move came in accordance with an agreement they reached with the government.
The deputy mayor of the nearby village of Beita, Musa Hamayel, pointed out that five Palestinians were killed and many others injured during protests against the outpost.
"Today, the residents of Beita feel victorious," he said. "But this is just the beginning, and not the end of our activities."
Hamayel said the villagers do not care about the agreement reached between the settlers and the government. "Allahu Ackhbar! We're Number One!"
"This is not a dispute over the rental of the land," he added. "We are opposed to the presence of the settlers on our lands, whether through a religious school or an army base or a settlement. We will continue to resist until the restoration of our land."
“From the river to the sea, et boring cetera!”
Ahmed al-Haj Ali, a senior Hamas official from Nablus, said the evacuation of the Evyatar outpost was a victory for the Beita residents and the Palestinian "resistance." The settlers were forced to leave the outpost because of the "resistance," he added.
"The settlers’ feeling that the people of Beita are ready to sacrifice blood in order to defend their land pushed them to withdraw from the area," Ali said.
He called on all Palestinians to "activate the resistance by all means, and to remove fear from their hearts" and warned that the settlers could return to the hilltop.
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said the Palestinians "scored a new and important achievement" by "forcing" the settlers to leave.
"The evacuation of the outpost at Jabal Sabih confirms once again the ability of the resistance to impose the will of our people and push the occupation to retreat," Qassem said. He urged Palestinians to continue the fight "until the end of any Zionist presence" in the area and to prevent the settlers from returning.
Tarek Silmi, a spokesperson for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said the "victory of the rebellious youth in Beita is an extension of the victory of the Sword of Jerusalem," the name Hamas used for the 11-day war with Israel in May.
"The Palestinian people, through the resistance, are advancing and accumulating victories," Silmi said. "This is a process that will not end until the restoration and liberation of every single part of the land of Palestine."
Mahmoud al-Aloul, deputy chairman of the ruling Fatah faction, congratulated the residents for their "success in forcing the settlers to withdraw" from Evyatar. Aloul called on Palestinians to continue the "popular resistance until the expulsion of the occupation from all our lands."
Golly. Absolutely everybody had to get their face time on camera.
Turkey is the first NATO member to be added to the list of countries implicated in the use of child soldiers by the US State Department, due to their funding of Syrian armed groups recruiting children. pic.twitter.com/buT0HJP1wB
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And oddly, the only muslim member of NATO... except for France, of course.... and Germany.
[JPost] This is the second time this week that the IAF has targeted Gaza. On Thursday, an IAF aircraft struck a Hamas weapons manufacturing facility in Gaza.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) attacked targets in Gaza on Saturday in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Gaza Strip throughout the weekend, Israeli media reported.
IDF aircrafts attacked a Hamas rocket launching pad and weapons manufacturing facility following a bushfire that broke out on Saturday afternoon in the Eshkol Regional Council near the Gaza border. A spokesperson for Israel Fire and Rescue Services reported that the fire was caused by an incendiary balloon launched from Gaza.
This is the second time this week that the IAF has targeted Gaza. On Thursday, an IAF aircraft struck another Hamas weapons manufacturing facility in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons that were launched earlier that day, causing four fires to break out in several Jewish localities in the Eshkol Regional Council close to the Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit reported.
Tensions have been rising this week after Israel demolished a Palestinian shop in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Tuesday, triggering clashes between police and protesters who accused authorities of discriminatory enforcement of building permits in the holy city.
A bulldozer escorted by Israeli police flattened a butcher shop in the neighborhood which is overlooked by the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest shrine in Islam and the most sensitive site in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Meanwhile, settlers evacuated the West Bank Evyatar outpost on Friday after an agreement was reached that an IDF army base will be set up on the site. The legal status of the land will be decided within six months of evaluation by The Civil Administration.
Palestinians from the village of Beita and Yatma claim that the land belongs to them. But the Samaria Regional Council and the Nahala Movement, which spearheaded the Evyatar initiative, have disputed that claim and have argued that it can be classified as state land.
Amid the strikes, Gaza-based terror group members fired machine guns toward southern Israel, which did not set off alerts, according to the military. Palestinian media reports said the gunfire was aimed at Israeli aircraft. There were no reports of injuries or damage from the gunfire.
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Kind of tragic really. Both targets were turning their lives around and one of them, the rocket launching pad, had been accepted at community college.
Although Soviet authorities did investigate the atrocities at Chernyansky concentration camp in the 1960s, very little publicly available information exists.
[CNN] The White House dove into damage control this week after reports of dysfunction and infighting in Vice President Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's and bimbo votes. She's displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge ' office, with the administration trying to stop a drama-filled narrative from taking hold, according to five people who spoke to CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... about the dynamics within Harris' office.
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She has a challenging job, a hard job, and she has a great supportive team of people around her.
And they've been doing what, exactly? Planning a trip to Europe?
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She has a challenging job, a hard job, and she has a great supportive team of people around her.
Read as : She's just not cut out for this job but has some very desperate people propping her up.
#5
Face it: the Vice President has exactly two constitutionally mandated jobs:
1. Break ties in the Senate
2. Check if the President is still alive, and if so, and the VP is not needed for job #1, go back to sleep.
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[REGNUM] The plane with 23 Russian children from Syria arrived at the Chkalovsky airfield in the Moscow region. This was announced on July 3 by the press service of the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Anna Kuznetsova.
The youngest of the children is one year old. All the way children are accompanied by specialists from the Federal Center for Disaster Medicine of the Ministry of Health of Russia and the N.N. Pirogov. Children will be referred to federal medical organizations for medical care.
After all medical checks and mandatory quarantine, the children will be handed over to their next of kin.
Systematic work to locate Russian children and return them to their homeland from Iraq and Syria began in 2017. It is being carried out on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin . In total, about 300 children have returned to Russia from "hot spots" in the Middle East.
Earlier IA REGNUM reported on preparations for the return of children from Syria to Ugra.
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In Ugra, every effort is being made to return three children from Syria, who are due to arrive in the region at the end of June. This was reported to TASS by the children's ombudsman for the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Lyudmila Nizamova .
She noted the difficulties in preparing the documentation - genetic expertise is needed.
Recall that children from the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in Syria and Iraq appeared together with their parents who fought on the side of the “Islamic State.”
In the Middle East, residents of Ugra who joined terrorists entered into marriages, brought wives, and children were born there. Since 2017, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Health and other departments have developed an algorithm of actions, thanks to which children return to Russia.
Russia repatriated 20 orphans from al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Saturday, Kurdish and Russian officials have confirmed.
"Today, 3 July 2021, the Autonomous Administration handed over 20 Russian orphaned children from ISIS families to the Russian Federation after signing an official repatriation document between both sides," tweeted Rojava's Foreign Relations Co-Chair Abdulkarim Omar.
The decision was also confirmed in a presser by Russia’s Deputy Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Larisa Nikolaevna, who said Moscow will continue to cooperate with Rojava officials "so that we can return every child in this camp to our country."
Countries in central Asia have repatriated more of their nationals than other states.
Russia repatriated 34 children from the camp in April, soon followed by Uzbekistan, which took back nearly 1,00 women and kiddies.
Russia repatriated 144 children in 2020, according to a December statement from the Commission for the Rights of the Child.
[AlAhram] Foreign ministry in Baku said the move was part of a Russian-mediated deal and followed Yerevan's decision to release to Baku maps of minefields in the conflict zone
Azerbaijan on Saturday handed over to Yerevan 15 Armenian troops captured last year in the wake of an armed conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, officials said. "I mean, have you ever tried feeding these Armenians?"
Fighting broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia in September 2020 over Nagorno-Karabakh, claiming more than 6,500 lives over six weeks.
The war ended in November with a Russian-brokered ceasefire under which Yerevan ceded swathes of territories -- in and near Karabakh -- it had controlled for decades.
"On the initiative of the Russian Federation, Armenia submitted to the Azerbaijani side maps of about 92,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines planted during the occupation in the Fizuli and Zangilan regions" which were returned to Azerbaijan last year, the ministry said in a statement.
"The Azerbaijani side handed over to Armenia 15 people of Armenian origin."
A senior Azerbaijani diplomat told AFP the 15 men were captured by Azerbaijani troops in December last year.
A similar deal was negotiated between Baku and Yerevan last month by Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvil, the United States' and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... diplomats.
Seven Azerbaijani troops and 18 civilians have died and 110 have been maimed by mines in and near Nagorno-Karabakh since the ceasefire, the Azerbaijani government says.
Both Azerbaijani and Armenian forces planted mines during a bloody conflict in the early 1990s.
Aliyev said in May that Azerbaijan was ready for peace talks with Armenia, while Pashinyan later announced the two ex-Soviet nations were holding discussions on the delimitation and demarcation of their shared borders.
Ethnic Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan as the Soviet Union collapsed, and the ensuing conflict has claimed around 30,000 lives.
[NYPOST] Hunter Biden ......son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him..... used the perks of the vice presidency — parties, meetings with Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... and flights on Air Force Two — to pursue business deals with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim while his father was in office, records show.Hunter’s involvement with Slim, at one time the world’s richest man, commenced soon after a White House state dinner the magnate attended in May 2010, along with Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, to honor Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
The diary on Hunter’s abandoned laptop shows he and Slim were both guests at a State Department luncheon during Calderon’s visit, which was hosted by his father and then-Secretary of State Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... . Spanish tenor Placido Domingo also reportedly attended.
The charmed path that always opens for Hunter when his father meets a foreign leader or oligarch led him to Mexico on a VIP trip the following year. Hunter’s diary in May 2011 shows a "tentative tour hosted by Carlos Slim" of the tycoon’s private "Soumaya Museum," in Mexico City, which Slim founded and named after his late wife, Soumaya Domit. Containing priceless sculptures from pre-Spanish Mesoamerica, it is the most visited museum in the country. There could be no greater honor offered to Hunter than a private tour with the billionaire founder.
Hunter also had breakfast with Slim’s friend, Mexican billionaire Carlos Bremer, at his magnificent villa in the shadow of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range in Monterrey. Bremer, former director of the country’s stock exchange, had donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and sat on the foundation’s board.
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[TOWNHALL] As we head toward this weekend's 245th anniversary of American independence, Critical Race Theory has emerged as the dominant subject gripping and dividing the nation. The threshold question, itself the subject of rancorous and oftentimes disingenuous debate, is what the term "critical race theory" even refers to. When this semantic debate surfaces, proponents usually attempt two things at once.
First, they accuse their CRT-skeptical interlocutors of being bigots, white supremacists or apologists who want to deliberately muddle and whitewash America's complex -- and at times tragic -- history of race relations. This first step involves CRT proponents grilling CRT critics as to why they are so "scared" to "discuss racism" or "discuss slavery," as if that applied to anyone other than a truly infinitesimal and politically powerless fringe subset.
Second, while publicly seizing the moral high ground, CRT proponents simultaneously work behind the scenes to advance what it is that they actually believe. Consider this forthright (and harrowing) admission from "Critical Race Theory
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Close all the government schools and give each childcare provider a voucher. Let the parents decide if they want their kids educated or indoctrinated. Or if they care at all. If they don't, why should I?
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if the Republican wins the Gov race in VA this November it will because of the CRT issue
CRT is toxic even in many of the leftist strongholds like the suburbs of Washington DC
probably it will be important in NJ but not as much as other issues
about a dozen large cities (e.g., NYC, Cleveland, Detroit, Atlanta, Miami, Pittsburgh) have elections for mayor in Nov but crime will likely be the dominant issue
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#1 Abolish teacher colleges and departments of education. Make aspiring teachers to get BA in the subject they plan to teach and then 3 - 6 months course to get a teaching license.
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Make aspiring teachers to get BA in the subject they plan to teach No BAs in teaching elementary schoolkids, last I heard.
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^BA is what you Americans call an undergraduate degree. In my experience, people with a BA in something-education know about 1/10 of what a BA in something from a regular university knows.
[ToloNews] Sources said Saturday that the control of 13 districts — 11 districts in northeastern Afghanistan, one in the east and one in the south — have fallen to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in the last 24 hours, the highest number of areas falling to the group in a day.
The districts include Kishm, Darayim, Tishkan, Tagab, Wardooj, Shahr-e-Bozorg, Raghistan, Jorm and Yaftal in Badakhshan, Kalafgan and Farkhar districts in Takhar, Zurmat district in Paktia and Shah Wali Kot district in the southern province of Kandahar.
In Badakhshan, three other districts — Yumgan, Arghanjkwah and Khash — recently fell to the Taliban.
Some residents of Faizabad city, the center of Badakhshan province, said that festivities between security forces and the Taliban have reached closer to the city, leaving the people with concerns about their safety.
"This is the 10th district that collapses one after another. The local government and the central government have forgotten them and are not paying attention to them," said Saed Hayatullah, a resident of Faizabad.
Amidst concerning situation in Faizabad, the police chief of Badakhshan, Khalil-ur-Rahman Jawad is under treatment in Kabul as he has tested positive for COVID-19.
"What we should do is to mobilize the elders of the ’resistance region’ and create history for the second time by the second generation of the resistance," said Nilofar Ibrahimi, an MP from Badakhshan.
"They are faced with lack of logistics. The Air Force cannot address all areas. This is concerning," said Sayed Muqaddam Amin, a former military officer.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address... sources from Takhar said that with the fall of Kalafgan and Farkhar districts, only Taluqan city and Worsaj districts have remained under government control in the province.
"We have 16 administrative units. All collapsed one after another. The security situation in Taluqan is sensitive," said Abdul Kabir, a resident of Taluqan.
"People are worried in Taluqan. There are displaced people on Taluqan’s streets and people are in a difficult situation," said Mohammad Azam Afzali, member of Takhar provincial council.
But the Ministry of Defense said that 224 Taliban were killed in government forces operations in nine provinces in the last 24 hours. The ministry said that efforts will be made to retake the areas that have fallen to bully boys.
"The security and defense forces of Afghanistan will not spare any efforts," said Fawad Aman, a front man for the Ministry of Defense.
Taliban attacks have increased after the start of the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan. On Friday, the US forces left Bagram Airfield, which was the largest military base for American troops in the country.
[Rudaw] A number of 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) snuffies have been arrested by the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (ICTS), it announced on Saturday, with two arrests made in coordination with internal security forces (Asayish) in Sulaimani.
Two ISIS members were arrested "in coordination with the Asayish of Sulaimani province" it said in a statement. Six arrests were also made in Anbar and Kirkuk.
There have been numerous arrests of ISIS-linked members across the Kurdistan Region before.
Erbil and Baghdad agreed in May to coordinate on security in the disputed areas by forming joint cooperation centers and launching joints operations. Several centers have already been opened.
[NY Post] Who oh who could it be?
An Israeli cargo ship was struck by an unidentified weapon Saturday in the Indian Ocean, according to reports.
The Hyperion Two sustained only minor damage and there were no casualties in the attack, which Israeli defense forces say may have been ordered by Iran, according to a report in the Israeli daily Haaretz.
The ship was not flying an Israeli flag. A Hezbollah-affiliated network said that a fire broke out on the ship after the attack.
The incident occurred after the ship left the port of Jedda in Saudi Arabia, en route to the United Arab Emirates.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, and there was no official statement from Israel. The attack comes on the heels of increased tensions at sea between Israel and Iran, the newspaper reported.
A fire broke out on Saturday aboard a cargo ship, previously owned by a company belonging to a prominent Israeli businessman, as it sailed in the northern Indian Ocean.
According to multiple reports on Saturday, the fire was a result of an attack from an unknown source. Israeli officials believe 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 behind the attack, according to the Ynet news site.
The ship, identified as the Liberia-flagged CSAV Tyndall, departed from the port of Jeddah in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and was headed toward the Jebel Ali port in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, according to the pro-Hezbollah Lebanese TV station al-Mayadeen.
I think it’s safe to assume Iran had something to do with a story that interests Hezbollah...
An earlier version of this report, citing Hebrew-language media, noted that the vessel was owned by Zodiac Maritime, a London-based company belonging to Israeli tycoon Eyal Ofer. The vessel was indeed previously owned by the company, but was sold several months ago.
"Following reports in the media, we can confirm that the vessel CSAV Tyndall is not owned or operated by Zodiac Maritime, which is a UK ship management company," the firm said in a statement released Saturday.
Not Israeli AND the attack didn’t work. Those Iranians assuredly do not have Allah in their corner
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Liberian cargo ship. It was even flying a Liberian flag.
It was amazing, Frank G — there was this article you’d already prepared. and then I opened the Times of Israel website to see the highly amusing update on the subject. Easiest article I’ve done in a while. Teamwork!
[FOXNEWS] Students and other young people walking around the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C., struggled to say whether they were "proud" to be American ahead of 4th of July weekend.
Ophelie Jacobson, a news hound with Campus Reform — a conservative news site and higher-education watchdog — walked around Georgetown asking young people in the area whether they were proud to be American and whether the United States is the greatest country in the world.
"I feel sorry for those young students," Lily Tang Williams, an American citizen who immigrated from China, told "Fox & Friends" on Saturday in response to the video. "They remind me of my past, living in communist China for 23 years, and I was indoctrinated to believe everything the government told me and that Chairman Mao [Zedong] told me."
Williams added that "there are millions of people who would like to switch places with them."
In the Campus Reform video, one woman Jacobson interviewed says she feels "embarrassed to be an American every day" when asked whether she was proud to be an American.
"I think a lot of things about this country are really embarrassing, just like...racist history, colonization, and even currently with what's going on with the cops," she says in the video.
Another woman echoed that sentiment, saying that "a lot of times, it's just embarrassing" to be American because the country claims "to support everyone, but...we continue to support Israel, which [is] dislocating quite a few Paleostinian people."
Another said the U.S. economy "just cares about money" rather than people. Ummm... Economies are about money, goods, and services, not people. None of the people interviewed in the video would say the United States is the "greatest country in the world," but none named another "better country than the United States." I can see why. The United States is the home of the Democratic Party, which has given us things like the spoils system and gerrymandering. John C. Calhoun was a Dem. So was Woodrow "He Kept Us Out of War" Wilson. Dems started the Civil War. They founded and manned the Ku Klux Klan after they lost. Strom Thurmond, Robert Byrd, and George Wallace were Dems. Boss Tweed ran Tammany Hall for years until the Republican Thomas Nast finally ridiculed him into jail for awhile, until he "escaped," to die a few years later on the run. He was a Dem. The mayors of Chicago have been uniformly Dem since 1931. Who could be proud of that?
One said a "tiny European country that's thriving" might be better than America while another said, "Europe," and several interviewees said they would be willing to give up their U.S. citizenship. There's a way to solve the immigration problem: If a potential immigrant from some "tiny European country that's thriving," like maybe Moldova or Luxembourg or Russia, wants to become a citizen, all he has to do is find an American nitwit to trade passports and he's in.
Some of the interviewees also said their college educations influenced how they view the United States. I am ever so surprised.
"I'm from Georgia, and I never would have learned had I not taken those classes, just about the way the justice system works and zoning laws and I think college really opened my eyes to a lot of these things," one of the women in the video, who told Jacobson she went to American University in D.C., said.
The United States turns 245 years old on Sunday when Americans will celebrate U.S. independence on July 4.
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Fucking morons. They have no idea of what it is like to be oppressed, poor and discriminated against. They do not have to deal with moral policing, victim blaming, sexual harassment based on the dress they're wearing every single day. Women in other countries, especially Asian and African countries have to deal unimaginable things where these girls would probably kill themselves out of frustration. They do not have to fight for every single thing just to survive.
America doesn't has a race issue, or a gender issue, or a money issue, or a weak political set-up; it has a stupidity issue. It's really uncomfortable and shocking to see well-fed kids, coming from the richest country on earth to complain how bad their lives have been surrounded by luxuries. Also it's hard to believe that they would love to migrate to some poor nation to help people. Yagh! These wimps will never survive anywhere except America.
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Are the Peace Corps still around? If so, someone should go around with a sign up sheet to go to some other countries. I wonder how many would actually go?
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This Washington talibanova
was asked if she'd like to come over
to the beautiful kingdom Moldova.
"I hate it here! My mom and pop?
They're so well fed they're sickly.
And ugh! Patriots... sentiment all treacly!"
Now she lounges day and night
and presents a pale sight,
when she's not being sucked by her lovah.
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Look at it this way. These are the same people who get all bent out of shape if someone uses the wrong pronouns. They add (he/she/it/ImSoStupidIDon'tKnow) to their signatures.
Even to the point of expulsion from school, Jail time, being Cancelled. For a misapplied pronoun.
-- CrazyFool (pronoun: I don't give a F - been called worse - sometimes accurately)
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unimaginable things where these girls would probably kill themselves out of frustration.
Oh no. They are being fashionably whiny, just as they were taught. In your world, Wren, almost all of them would be equally silent and uncomplaining, just as they were taught.
[ToloNews] US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved a new command structure in Afghanistan that includes the transition of US military mission from warfighting to two new objectives: protecting a continuing US diplomatic presence in Kabul and maintaining liaison with the Afghan military, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said on Friday.
The plan calls for the top US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Scott Miller, to transfer his combat authorities to the head of US Central Command, Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie.
"General Miller will remain in theater in coming weeks to prepare for and to complete the turnover of these duties and responsibilities to General McKenzie," Kirby said. "Importantly, General McKenzie will retain all existing authorities as Commander of US Forces in Afghanistan."
He said that Gen. McKenzie will continue to exercise authority over the conduct of any and all counterterrorism operations needed to protect the homeland from threats emanating out of Afghanistan.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports that a two-star Navy admiral will head a US Embassy-based military office, dubbed US Forces Afghanistan-Forward, to oversee the new mission of providing security for the embassy and its diplomats.
A satellite military office based in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and headed by a US one-star general will be established to administer US financial support for the Afghan military and police, plus maintenance support provided for Afghan aircraft from outside Afghanistan, AP report says.
"A safe, orderly drawdown enables us to maintain an ongoing diplomatic presence, support the Afghan people and the government, and prevent Afghanistan from once again becoming a safe haven for gunnies that threatens our homeland," Kirby said on Friday.
This comes as the US military has left the Bagram Airfield in central Afghanistan and has handed it over to Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, the Ministry of Defense confirmed on Friday.
At its peak, the airfield, located 69 kilometers north of Kabul in the central province of Parwan, saw more than 100,000 US troops pass through its compound.
The handover of the airfield to Afghan forces shows that last of the roughly 2,500 to 3,500 US troops have left Afghanistan.
Ahead of leaving the base, dozens of trailer trucks loaded with scrap from destroyed vehicles and equipment that belonged to American troops were leaving the Bagram Airfield on a daily basis.
Those who purchase the material say that so far, the scrap has been worth millions of dollars.
Some residents of Bagram said that such equipment should have been handed over to Afghan forces instead of being scrapped by the US military. But US forces have said the equipment will be scrapped so it does not fall into enemy hands.
The Afghan government has said that equipment worth $1 billion will be handed over to the Afghan forces.
Bagram Airfield has been the biggest airbase of the US military in Afghanistan over the last 20 years. US forces started a withdrawal on May 1, a process that is expected to be completed earlier than the given deadline — Sept. 11.
[AlAhram] Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... has gained a foothold in at least two villages, Bazoum said at the end of a three-day tour of the southeastern region that has been plagued by jihadist violence since 2015.
Niger President Mohammed Bazoum on Saturday pledged to "cleanse" villages of Islamist Death Eaters that have expanded their reach in the southeast of the country near Nigeria.
He described another village as being "infested", while Boko Haram are able to cut off roads from their bases in other settlements, he said.
"We will give instructions for these villages to be cleansed," he said, adding that joint operations with Nigeria will clear out jihadists operating on both sides of the border.
Boko Harem, 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.... and groups affiliated to al-Qaeda are a growing menace for a number of countries across the continent -- sparking protests as people demand leaders restore security.
Bazoum gave no start date for the military operations.
"On the military level, we have a good balance of power... but the enemy is reorganising itself, and has a lot of capacity," he said, adding the government would remain "very vigilant".
Boko Haram have widened their area of operations, Bazoum said.
The jihadists are operating "increasingly to the west and south" of the Diffa region, far from their usual range around Lake Chad, a security source confirmed to AFP.
In the first six months of the year, there were nine attacks on Niger's security forces in two towns that are not bordering the lake, including the regional capital Diffa, according to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... The Diffa region is home to 300,000 Nigerian and displaced refugees fleeing jihadist violence since 2015, according to the UN.
Niger is also fighting jihadists from the Sahel in its western region, including the Islamic State in the Great Sahara.
[AlAhram] At least 43 migrants colonists drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italia, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red Islamic Thingy told Rooters on Saturday
The boat had set off from Zuwara, on Libya's northwest coast, carrying migrants colonists from Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... and Bangladesh, the humanitarian organization said.
In recent months, several drowning incidents have occurred off the Tunisian coast, with an increase in the frequency of attempted crossings to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... from Tunisia and Libya towards Italia as the weather has improved.
"The navy rescued 84 migrants colonists and 43 others drowned in a boat that set off from Libya's Zuwara towards Europe," Red Islamic Thingy official Mongi Slim said.
Hundreds of thousands of people have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing in recent years, many of them fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.
Arrivals in Italia - one of the main migrant routes into Europe - had been falling in recent years, but numbers picked up again in 2021.
Almost 19,800 migrants colonists have arrived since the beginning of the year against just over 6,700 in the same period last year, Italian interior Ministry figures show.
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[KhaamaPress] The civil aviation authority of Afghanistan said in a statement that the radar and VSAT systems guiding flights from Bagram airfield and Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... International airport reactivated. Both the systems were deactivated before Resolute Support vacate the Bagram airbase in the north of Kabul.
It comes after local residents of the Bagram district of Parwan province started plundering the military base soon after the last plane carrying US troops flew from the airbase.
Of course they did. This is why Afghanistan can’t have nice things.
Local people purportedly stormed the base and took away a great deal of equipment late on Friday night. Afghan National Army and Police now manning security of Bagram airbase, arrested some culprits and shot maimed others. The Afghan security personnel said that US troops flew and left the airbase without coordination or informing them which caused the plunder.
Bagram airbase, the biggest and most paramount military base for the US and coalition forces in combat with Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and hunting down al-Qaeda perpetrators, evacuated two days back bringing the total number of US troops based in Afghanistan to around one thousand.
Although Pentagon has not clarified the exact date of its last soldier leaving Afghanistan it says that around one thousand US troops will remain in Kabul until handing over security of Kabul airport to Ottoman Turkish troops.
Bagram airbase is now sixth in Afghanistan being handed over to ANDSF by US troops. Afghanistan Ministry of defense says that they will soon start using the airfield in suppressing the Taliban.
[Rudaw] Construction of the Deralok Hydropower Plant in Duhok province is expected to be completed by the end of the year, adding another 37 MW into the Kurdistan Region’s power grid, which is unable to keep up with demand, leaving people suffering without electricity in sizzling summer temperatures.
"This project is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. The plant will generate 37 megawatts of electricity. The power from this project will be added into the national power grid and distributed to the provinces of the Region," said Minister of Electricity Kamal Mohammed.
The power plant is located in Duhok’s Rashava valley, two kilometres from Deralok sub-district, where electricity shortages are a problem in the hot summer.
"It's so hot. There's no stability in the national power, unlike in previous years. Generators do not provide electricity until an hour after the national power outage," said Adnan Hassan, who lives in Deralok.
"We have 10 to 12 hours of national power per day. The generator's power is poor. People are complaining a lot these days. We're struggling with shortages of electricity. This has an impact on the life of people," said Rojhat Mohammed, another Deralok resident.
According to the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Ministry of Electricity, demand is at least 4,500 MW in summer. Currently, they are only producing 3,300 MW with power plants are not operating at full capacity. The biggest problem is lack of fuel.
The Deralok hydropower plant, costing $129 million, is financed by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
It will be able to keep producing power even when water levels drop.
"Nearly 40 gates have been installed to control the flow of water so the turbine keeps working when the water level drops. As the amount of water reduces, the performance of the turbine will decrease, but it will never stop operating," said project manager Hassan Hirori.
The Kurdistan Region has chronic electricity shortages, unable to keep up with rising demand. In addition to increasing generation capacity with new power plants like Deralok and the Khabat thermal plant that came online last year, the government is rolling out a smart metering program to control demand and end theft.
Iraq suffered a nearly nationwide blackout on Friday, leaving people without power as during a heat wave that sent temperatures over 50 degrees Celsius. The Muthanna electricity directorate said there was a "complete collapse of the system as a result of a technical glitch." Poor government delivery of services, rampant corruption, terror attacks on the power grid, and Iran’s recent cuts of electricity and gas exports because of unpaid bills have all contributed to Iraq’s power shortages.
Erdogan's government claimed the cargo was humanitarian aid to Turkoman locals in Syria but then filed criminal charges against the editors Cumhuriyet, for being members of a "terrorist organization," espionage and revealing state secrets.... The prosecution asked for life sentences for two Cumhuriyet editors. Since then, Can Dundar, then-editor-in-chief, has been living in Germany in exile.
At the beginning of May, Sedat Peker, a convicted Turkish mob boss and a fierce supporter of Erdogan -- until now -- began posting videos on social media in which he made uncorroborated accusations of corruption, murder and drug-running against top politicians.
After weeks of silence, Erdogan... ordered prosecutors and judges to investigate and establish that all of Peker's claims were lies and a smear campaign against his government. Who will trust the independence of a legal probe when the president has already ordered its verdict?
[IsraelTimes] Tehran has denied the Karaj facility was hit in June drone strike
Private Israeli intelligence group The Intel Lab released satellite photos on Saturday of what it said is damage from a reported drone attack on an Iranian nuclear facility last month.
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... claimed to have foiled the June 23 attack on the site in Karaj, but Israeli media reports said the facility — said to have been used for assembling centrifuges for uranium enrichment — was damaged in the strike.
The drone attack reportedly hit the Iran Centrifuge Technology Company, or TESA, in the city of Karaj, northwest of Tehran. The TESA factory was tasked with replacing the damaged centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear site and also produces more advanced centrifuges that can more quickly enrich uranium, according to a New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report last month.
Iran has not identified who it believes was responsible for the dronezap. The country has accused Israel of similar attacks on its nuclear program in the past.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appeared to hint at Israel’s role during a speech at a graduation ceremony for Israeli Air Force pilots, a day after the strike. "Our enemies know — not from statements, but from actions — that we are much more determined and much more clever, and that we do not hesitate to act when it is needed," Bennett said in his speech at the IAF’s Hatzerim Air Base, outside Beersheba.
A small quadcopter drone was used in the attack on TESA, the New York Times report said, citing an Iranian source who was not identified. The drone was apparently launched from within Iran, not far from the site, and succeeded in hitting the target, according to the Iranian source familiar with the incident, the report said. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the source did not know if it caused any damage.
The centrifuge production site was reportedly on a list of targets that Israel presented to the Trump administration last year, at the same time as it suggested striking Iran’s uranium enrichment site at Natanz and assassinating Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a scientist who began the country’s military nuclear program decades earlier, an intelligence source told the New York Times.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The conservative Presbyterian Church in America voted Thursday to disqualify all gay men from serving in its ministry.
The 1,400-400 vote to change its governing document came at the denomination’s 48th General Assembly, held this week in St. Louis.
The rule change, known as "Overture 23," will go to local church bodies known as "presbyteries" for a vote before a second round of convention balloting next year that would place the language in the denomination’s "Book of Church Order," which governs PCA practice.
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I was at the Assembly and urge you to pay attention to the avenue offered for repentance, sanctification, and mortification of sin offered to gay men as well as to everyone who wishes it. Homosexuality is sinful; but Jesus offers a way out of this sin as He offers a way out of every sin. The language here rightly condemns homosexual sin.
This overture was firm but also pastoral. The men of the Overtures Committee who drafted it performed a great service for the PCA and also for men and women struggling with homosexuality.
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Thank you Tom, very well explained, brief and to the point.
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[JPOST] ...As if the title of its cover story — "A First Lady for All of Us: On the Road with Dr. Jill Biden" — wasn’t sufficiently sycophantic, its accompanying content reads like a parody of a totalitarian regime’s propaganda sheet.
Those observing the current Orwellian climate in the United States no longer gasp at each new move by "progressives" to control society’s collective mind, but some take occasional breaks from tearing their hair out to laugh at the more egregious examples. Vogue’s Jonathan Van Meter, who penned the lengthy tribute, is an apt target for ridicule in this regard.
Not that he was trying to be funny. On the contrary, he was clearly proud of praising Jill Biden, in all seriousness, for the "several degrees" that earned her the "title [of doctor] that she has every right to."
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Written by an obvious homosexual. Also thinks having a stringy, leather faced, pink haired rug muncher model for Victoria's Secret is a great idea.
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Johnathan Van Meter
Association Signal on the Book Leaf
With Hair & Without Hair
This author is a political
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Her husband is dung on stilts
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Off the Pride Month pile...
A drag show needs plenty of drama.
Does Biden deliver? Oh, mama!
The girls at her service
Look suitably nervous.
"The brogans are Joe's..."
"And those Dr. Jill's clothes!"
"But that booty look just like..."
"OBAMA!"
[IrishExaminer] The HSE [Health Service Executive} has admitted a greater risk of blood clotting in younger people still exists for the AstraZeneca vaccine, but that risk is now outweighed by a need to speed up public vaccination.
A new modelling study
...oh lord, more models. Anybody have any idea how good —or bad — this one is? Based on similar models, Dr. Anthony Fauci, et al predicted Covid-19 would be a 1918 Flu event, or worse....
published in the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s (ECDC) medical journal has concluded that the dangers presented to younger people by the AstraZeneca vaccine are greater than the benefits.
The HSE said that the risk of rare blood clotting from Astrazeneca and Janssen, known as adenoviral vector vaccines, is one per 100,000 for those aged over 50, and double that, or two per 100,000 for those aged younger than 50.
However, the HSE has now said that the offer of an AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson jab to the younger cohort is purely voluntary.
"If someone aged 18 to 34 would prefer to get their vaccine at a HSE vaccination centre, they can wait and register online later this month," a spokesperson said. In the case of those who choose to opt for the AstraZeneca or Janssen shots, "getting either of these vaccines will mean they will be vaccinated earlier", they said, than if they wait to get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.
The HSE said that the risk of rare blood clotting from Astrazeneca and Janssen, known as adenoviral vector vaccines, is one per 100,000 for those aged over 50, and double that, or two per 100,000 for those aged younger than 50.
And they know how to treat, or at least ameliorate, blood clotting, right? That suggests that the riskiness of the risk is even lower than that. But the risks from other Covid-19 vaccines are even lower for the under-50s at risk from the Astrazeneca and Janssen vaccines, so as far as I can see this falls under nice to know but no need to worry.
That rare clotting, known as Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), has a case fatality rate of between 17% and 20%, it said.
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I was given the AstraZeneca thingy, against my will I might add. Sufferin' side effects! The first jab brought intemperate urges to tap dance. After the second, I'm compelled to write horrible verse on the post-millennial condition! Maybe I should write to the experts.
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Er, don't know whose comments those are, but they are not mine.
Yes, we know how to treat blood clotting. We also know how to treat COVID, so in order to keep poor grom frightened we ban mentions of HCQ and Invermectin on social media.
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don't know whose comments those are, but they are not mine.
They’re mine, Angstrom dear. Yours would have been in yellow. I was awarded periwinkle blue when they made me a moderator. One of my hot buttons is sloppy models and politicized research, and the “journalists” who use them as propaganda in their culture war.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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In darkest time we sing of home
and remember what used to be.
Mayhap we shall see again
victory for me and thee,
and the Lord will turn his wrath
away, and this captivity. Amen.
Happy 4th of July to my American brothers and sisters.
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Message from a 20th Century Patriot & 40th President of the United States of America:
Ronald Reagan stated, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”
And for a 4th of July Speech he said:
Ronald Reagan Quote "Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people.
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He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Still working on that one. But great post. Happy 4th!
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A suggestion, ladies and gentlemen, let us first no longer use "the Fourth of July" as a synonym for that which we reflect upon and celebrate. It is Independence Day, a day of significant positive meaning to The United States of America.
All peoples of the earth, whether aware of or not, have a "4th of July." Ours, however, represents something which is ours.
[KhaamaPress] The US is concerned about the media operations in Afghanistan as the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... are trying to shut down media organizations or use them as a propaganda tool for their military missions, US Charge D’affaire in Kabul said.
"I am disturbed by reports that the Taliban is shutting down media organizations in the districts they assault", Ross Wilson, Charge D’affaire of the US Embassy in Kabul tweeted.
He added that the Taliban are shutting down the media organizations, attempting to conceal their violence.
Interference in reporting has caused the media organizations in Samangan to stop operating.
Sima e Sulha Radio and a Cable Network, the two media outlets in Aibak city, have stopped broadcasting due to insecurity and interference of government officials as claimed by them.
"We and our colleagues have always tried to convey the events and incidents to the people," said Sayed Ismail Sadat, the media director of this media organization, in an interview with Shahrvand Radio-television.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Columbus Academy sent a letter to two parents Andrea Gross and Amy Gonzalez informing them their three children will not be reenrolled at the school
It said Gross and Gonzalez leveled 'false and misleading attacks' on the school and its leadership through their 'inflammatory' campaign
This included claims students were subjected to bomb sniffing dogs and apparent plans to withhold tuition fees until the school met their demands
The school said they breached their contract to nurture a 'positive and constructive working relationship' with the school
The two moms slammed the school for punishing their kids for their activism
They founded the Pro-CA Coalition, campaigning against what they say is 'political extremism and a culture of fear and administration' at the school
[AlAhram] Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated the "3rd of July" Naval Base on Saturday, in a "message of peace and development for the entire region."
Below are the facts and missions of the Mediterranean base
Facts:
The naval base is located in Gargoub area in Egypt's northwest coast which overlooks the Mediterranean Sea.
The base stretches over 10 million square meters and is considered Egypt’s largest naval base.
It took its name from a history associated with eliminating the motives of hateful terrorism and moving towards development and progress, including the tangible interest in the sea after the 30 June Revolution.
The base comprises 28 armoured combat boats, four Swift boats, two Italian FREMM Bergamini frigates, an Egyptian-manufactured Gowind-class design frigate, and a German-made Type 209 submarine.
It includes 74 facilities, in addition to an airstrip attached to it, a hall for receiving VIP visitors, a number of training fields and an operations centre.
It has a military berth with a length of 1,000 metres and a depth of 14 metres, a number of commercial berths with a length of 2,200 metres and a depth of 17 metres, a port control tower with a height of 29 metres and two breakwaters with a length of 3,650 metres.
It includes a hotel on 6,300 square metres, a conference hall that can accommodate 700 visitors, a complex for sports activities, an open theatre that can accommodate 600 attendees, a service building, an equipped medical point, and a mosque on an area of 1,100 metres.
Missions:
The base will be in charge of securing Egypt’s northern and western strategic borders.
It safeguards Egypt’s economic capabilities, secure shipping routes, and maintain maritime security by using combat groups from land military units, submarines, and air forces.
It will help in protecting navigation in the Suez Canal.
The base will help in confronting illegal immigration as well as combating smuggling.
It will act as provider of the logistical support for the Egyptian troops in the Red and Mediterranean seas to confront any challenges and threats that may exist in the region.
The base will host Egypt’s military drill "Qader 2021" in addition to the joint military exercises with friendly countries.
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.
[Army Times] The Army has directed commands to prepare to administer mandatory COVID-19 vaccines as early as Sept. 1, pending full Food and Drug Administration licensure, Army Times has learned.
I know it sounds difficult to imagine, but a poll of a few of the remaining survivors of this event might reveal a bit of resentment. 
[Townhall] The 
[American Thinker] Imagine if these people were White! It would be the top story all weekend, and you know it. But they are Black, so only in the 22nd paragraph of this New York Times article does the word "Black" appear.
[VOX recode] Social media has drastically restructured the way we communicate in an incredibly short period of time. We can discover, "Like," click on, and share information faster than ever before, guided by algorithms most of us don’t quite understand.
[Just The News] This week's award goes to the National Science Foundation for two identical grants totaling $400,000 for research "to build a robust theory of carpooling."
[Breating Defense] WASHINGTON: Special Operations Command expects to move into clinical trials next year of a pill that may inhibit or reduce some of the degenerative affects of aging and injury — part of a broader Pentagon push for "improved human performance."
...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
[Just The News] group of scientists this week announced that they had confirmed a theory proposed years ago by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking regarding the physical properties of black holes.
[ET] At the sound of gunshots, prisoners fell lifeless to the ground. Their bodies, still warm, were carried to a nearby white van where two white-clad doctors awaited. Behind closed doors, they were cut open, the organs carved out for sale on the transplant market.
It's not just Hollywood. 
[Washington Examiner] Geraldo Rivera approved of Bill Cosby's release from prison after "grotesquely unfair" proceedings, adding that Harvey Weinstein may be next.
[JPost] This is the second time this week that the IAF has targeted Gaza. On Thursday, an IAF aircraft struck a Hamas weapons manufacturing facility in Gaza. 
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's and bimbo votes. She's displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
[NYPOST] 
...Arabic for 
...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 
...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 
[FOXNEWS] Students and other young people walking around the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C., struggled to say whether they were "proud" to be American ahead of 4th of July weekend.
None of the people interviewed in the video would say the United States is the "greatest country in the world," but none named another "better country than the United States."
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...the Pashtun equivalent of 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 
America voted Thursday to disqualify all gay men from serving in its ministry.
[JPOST] ...As if the title of its cover story — "A First Lady for All of Us: On the Road with Dr. Jill Biden" — wasn’t sufficiently sycophantic, its accompanying content reads like a parody of a totalitarian regime’s propaganda sheet.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
