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^Arkin said he was hesitant to share the names of any of the drugs, adding that he could not recommend them until they underwent proper clinical trials.
To recollect, HCQ also worked like a charm - in vitro
h/t Instapundit
[Times of Israel] - The head of Military Intelligence on Tuesday said Israel is facing constant cyber threats and will respond to attacks as it does to any other type of aggression.
"Israel is under constant threat in the cyber dimension, and attacks are sometimes carried out against it. We are able to deal with most of the threats through advanced defense capabilities," Maj. Gen. Tamir Hayman said at a conference at Tel Aviv University.
Hayman said that like in other military theaters, defense alone is not sufficient and "additional steps must be taken to preserve Israel’s [tactical] superiority over our enemies."
[FOX] Billionaire Jeff Bezos announced Tuesday he's shelling out a massive amount of his own cash to two men: the controversial CNN contributor Van Jones and celebrity chef José Andrés, each of them getting $100 million to direct to the charities of their choice.
In a surprise at the end of a media conference following his successful trip to sub-orbital space, the Amazon and Blue Origin founder unveiled his new "Courage and Civility Award," which he said "recognizes leaders who aim high and who pursue solutions with courage and who always do so with civility." Recipients receive $100 million to give away to charities or non-profits of their choice, and Bezos said awardees may direct all the funds to their own non-profits or "spread the wealth" to other organizations.
The move came minutes after his backlash-drawing comments that he wanted "to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all this. So seriously, for every Amazon customer out there, and every Amazon employee, thank you from the bottom of my heart, very much." Some hit back at him on Twitter, demanding a "refund."
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Couldn't get any people of color on the flight so here's a few hundred million to ease the pain. You like my silly, thrift shop hat? Yes, it covers up my old bald white head, makes me look more WOKE like.
[FOX] Sen. Rand Paul said he will send a letter to the Department of Justice asking for a criminal investigation of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
"I will be sending a letter to Department of Justice asking for a criminal referral because he has lied to Congress. We have scientists that were lined up by the dozens to say that the research he was funding was gain-of-function," the Kentucky Republican told Sean Hannity of Fauci on Tuesday evening’s "Hannity" program.
"He's doing this because he has a self interest to cover his tracks and to cover his connection to Wuhan lab," Paul continued.
Paul’s interview comes after he and Fauci had another heated exchange during a Senate hearing Tuesday when the two traded accusations of "lying" over gain-of-function research at a Wuhan lab floated as the origin of the coronavirus.
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Despite Fauci's word salad, it seems to me the salient point is that US tax money (with Fauci's knowledge and approval) went into one end of a Chinese pipeline and a bioweapon emerged at the other end. Talking about the exact intended purpose of the cash ignores the fact that cash has a serious tendency to be fungible.
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It's a way of adding more instances of negligence and dereliction of duty against the roque DOJ and the WH. Nothing wrong with keeping the pressure on em.
BLUF:
(Guardian) "We know that there are big fishes out there that wanted the death and are part of the plot to kill the president ... There are more powerful people behind this," the 54-year-old politician added.
Pierre admitted the identity of those conspirators remained unknown: "But we do believe that the president had a lot of enemies — people who didn’t agree with his plan and programs, and certainly with his agenda. And we believe they might be linked to this crime."
[BBC] The allegations that spy software known as Pegasus may have been used to carry out surveillance on journalists, activists - and even perhaps political leaders - highlights that surveillance is now for sale.
The company behind the tool, NSO Group, has denied the allegations and says its customers are carefully assessed.
But it is another sign that high-end spy techniques, which used to be the exclusive preserve of a few states, are now spreading more widely and challenging the way we think about privacy and security in an online world.
In the not-too-distant past, if a security service wanted to find out what you were up to, it took a fair degree of effort. They might get a warrant to wiretap your phone. Or plant a bug in your house. Or send a surveillance team to follow you.
Finding out who your contacts were and how you lived your life would take patience and time.
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Awww come on, every time you use these 'consumer' products, you are being tracked. Outside the usual governments, the 'business' people have been doing it for decades. It's just the 'usual' suspects of governments now has spread to nearly all of them. We're in a zero trust culture now cause those who do it never pay a price outside the going market value of what they collect.
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In the famous words of one we all know, Aww "come on man". Currently it is wide spread and quite invasive. Next step is your chip card. All your discretionary spending will be monitored and controlled. Donuts, no you have diabetes, travel no you owe taxes or child support. On and on.
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Cash, real paper currency, is increasingly being seen as an inconvenience, especially by younger retail clerks...yet it makes one far less visible so we use it for everything we do in person.
For bills its paper checks and the mail. Credit cards only as a form of payment when we have to get something not locally available.
[FOX] A spokesperson for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tested positive Monday for coronavirus following a meeting last week with members of the Texas Legislature who fled the state for Washington, D.C. proving the vaccine only effective in humans
Drew Hammill, a top aide to Pelosi, said the unidentified staff member was fully vaccinated and did not have recent contact with the top California Democrat, though the speaker's office is taking extra precautions as a result.
"Yesterday, a fully vaccinated senior spokesperson in the speaker’s press office tested positive for COVID after contact with members of the Texas state legislature last week," Hammill said in a statement obtained by Fox News.
"This individual has had no contact with the speaker since exposure. The entire press office is working remotely today with the exception of individuals who have had no exposure to the individual or have had a recent negative test. Our office will continue to follow the guidance of the Office of Attending Physician closely."
On Tuesday, Pelosi and her staff were spotted wearing masks again at the Capitol. Following a loosening of mask restrictions by the Capitol physician, many members have opted against masks in recent weeks.
Agree with #1 thru #4
But there is the possibility that the Democrats while pushing us to get vaccinated, with only GOD who knows what other DNA mod's in it. Are not doing it themselves.
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Masks dont matter - aerosolized particles of the virus are smaller than the mask can filter.
And the vaccine is not a preventative one, it's an immunity-boosting one. It is designed to give the body the ability to recognize the infection quicker and produce the antibodies needed to effectively fight the virus quicker, rather than having them continuously present, unlike, say, the polio vaccine, which provides immunity. So yes, you may get infect by a variant even if you have been vaccinated, but your body is much more likely to fight it off before it becomes serious than if you were not vaccinated. As far as I can see from public data, the people that are being hospitalized and dying are the UN-vaccinated. The math says to get the job, preferably the Pfizer one, especially if you are extremely overweight, diabetic and have heart/lung issues, and are over 60 years old
That's the main group this thing is hospitalizing and killing, and that's why the FL gov's action to concentrate on protecting that group worked as well as it did, and NY was a death trap because they did nearly the opposite.
Funny thing is, this who Sir Robin (monty python) act by the Dems in Texas is going to cost them dearly in 2022, not jsut in Texas, but nationally.
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[American Thinker] The news out of Cuba and South Africa has been pretty gruesome this last week, what with anti-regime riots in Cuba and general looting in the ANC’s South Africa.
But Communist Cuba has been for over half a century the darling of our socialist friends, and South Africa has been the darling of our anti-racist friends. How could it be that these darling regimes are staring into the abyss, with no food and no medicines when all the good people were agreed that they were the wave of the future?
It all makes sense when you accept my maxim that all government is force plus loot and plunder.
But, I realized, my maxim violates the Einstein principle to make things as simple as possible but no simpler. It seems to me that there is a difference between the loot and plunder practiced by our beloved ruling class here in the USA and the loot and plunder practiced by the Castro family. The key question is who gets a share of the loot and plunder. Rather obviously, in Cuba, very few people get to share in the loot. Beyond the Castro family, I suppose that the drug lords in and out of the Cuban armed forces need to be included in the handout. In South Africa, it seems that the ANC politicians are in cahoots with the billionaires. In Chávez’s Venezuela, it has been necessary to deal in the armed forces, although we are told that "Children of Venezuela’s elite including ex-leader Hugo Chavez’s daughter flaunt wealth."
But whatabout the US? It seems to me that the recipients of loot and plunder are more broadly based than in the avowedly socialist countries. Here the recipients of loot and plunder seem to include the corporate elite, the politicians and their families, the educated class, and the vote-bank oppressed peoples. Here the Average Joe still gets his Social Security and the Average Jane still gets her Medicare, but that may change, because Whiteness.
So let us categorize the various socialist systems of loot and plunder.
Stalinist Communism. Only the ruler himself gets the loot, and what he wants is T-34 tanks. Even the ruler’s family members are lucky to get a share.
Latin-American Communism. The ruler and his family get the loot. Others in the "ruling clique" may share if they behave themselves.
Tribal Communism. The members of the ruler’s tribe get to share in the loot. Others need not apply, unless they get desperate.
Chinese Communism. All members of the "ruling clique," understood as the CCP, get to share in the loot. Factory Girls, not so much.
Democratic Socialism. All members of the ruling class get loot and plunder, and if there is anything left over, the constituents of Bernie Sanders in Vermont and AOC in New York City get free health care.
Viking Socialism. Head over to Britland in the Autumn. Share out the grain and silver and women and slaves among the warriors.
Enough of the socialists: whatabout us?
Whiteness Countries. The "ruling clique" gets first dibs at the loot, but all members of the educated ruling class get their share, from woke corporations to woke academicians to green energy capitalists to climate-change scientists to grant-fed activists. Non-whites are much fussed over, but the rulers usually Make Things Worse for them. Peasants better get vaccinated, or else.
By "ruling clique" I mean, after Gaetano Mosca, those "who monopolize the management of the state and occupy the more important offices." By "educated ruling class" I mean the ruling class in general, the equivalent of an army’s officer corps.
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Fidel Castro, lawyer and politician, at the time of his death had an estate worth S900 million. Profitable, eh? Not so different in other Statist societies or those heading in that direction.
[BUZZFEED via RS] Today Buzzfeed wrote an article on the now prosecution of plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer last year, and they made a stunning revelation in the process:
BUZZFEED — The audacious plot to kidnap a sitting governor — seen by many as a precursor to the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol by hundreds of Trump-supporting protesters — has become one of the most important domestic terrorism investigations in a generation.
The prosecution has already emerged as a critical test for how the Biden administration approaches the growing threat of homegrown anti-government groups. More than that, though, the case epitomizes the ideological divisions that have riven the country over the past several years. To some, the FBI’s infiltration of the innermost circle of armed anti-government groups is a model for how to successfully forestall dangerous acts of domestic terrorism. But for others, it’s an example of precisely the kind of outrageous government overreach that radicalizes people in the first place, and, increasingly, a flashpoint for deep state conspiracy theories.
The government has documented at least 12 confidential informants who assisted the sprawling investigation. The trove of evidence they helped gather provides an unprecedented view into American extremism, laying out in often stunning detail the ways that anti-government groups network with each other and, in some cases, discuss violent actions.
An examination of the case by BuzzFeed News also reveals that some of those informants, acting under the direction of the FBI, played a far larger role than has previously been reported. Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them.
A longtime government informant from Wisconsin, for example, helped organize a series of meetings around the country where many of the alleged plotters first met one another and the earliest notions of a plan took root, some of those people say. The Wisconsin informant even paid for some hotel rooms and food as an incentive to get people to come.
The Iraq War vet, for his part, became so deeply enmeshed in a Michigan militant group that he rose to become its second-in-command, encouraging members to collaborate with other potential suspects and paying for their transportation to meetings. He prodded the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping plot to advance his plan, then baited the trap that led to the arrest.
This account is based on an analysis of court filings, transcripts, exhibits, audio recordings, and other documents, as well as interviews with more than two dozen people with direct knowledge of the case, including several who were present at meetings and training sessions where prosecutors say the plot was hatched. All but one of the 14 original defendants have pleaded not guilty, and they vigorously deny that they were involved in a conspiracy to kidnap anyone.
You know maybe twenty years ago a report on the FBI like this would have been shocking to the American people, and it honestly still is to some degree given what the FBI is supposed to be about. But after what we saw with the FBI protecting Hillary and then trying foist a coup against Trump in the name of Russian collusion, I’m sure none of you are actually surprised. And none of us will be if these allegations by Buzzfeed turn out to be true. It’s too late. We’ve already lost trust in the FBI and it’s leadership, and that includes Trump appointee Chris Wray.
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Nothing new here. This is what the FBI did to the left in the 60s and 70s. Of course, then they were exposed in public and had a lot of their powers curtailed, but that was long ago when people actually expected more from a respected institution like the FBI. Today, they are yet another group of hostile elites who despise the American people and wish us harm.
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Investigators or agent provocateurs? Terrorism investigation? My arse! There's still not much serious law enforcement effort against terrorist groups Antifa or BLM. Antifa was far more involved in Jan. 6 than is being reported by the MSM.
The audacious plot to kidnap a sitting governor — seen by many as a precursor to the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol by hundreds of Trump-supporting protesters
Way to hyperbolic on the part of Buzzfeed.
Buzzfeed is not good at making causal connections or doing investigative journalism. Personally, IHMO January 6th was a setup. The left was trying to set up a narrative by using a false flag operation to destroy Trump. We still have not gotten to the bottom of things because many are pushing the narrative rather than the truth.
The narrative of the "Big Lie" is being pushed by the left rather than trying to find out the truth about the election.
At some point the number of people out here opposing the B.S. is going to be overwhelming larger than the ruling class, criminally installed minority. That point in time may be already here. What then? Do we look like CCP rather than a freedom-loving Democratic Republic where people choose their own government?
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I've suspected John's 'agent provocateurs' theory for many years. Their emphasis is on conviction rates, a gov't numbers game. Their source recruitment failures paint a definite pattern. Pattern and social network analysis, it's not magic, just ordinary common sense.
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Anyone seen any early reporting or analysis from that FBI-State Department special investigative task force? Host Nation coordination cell lead....name, statements? Have they arrived in Haiti yet? Has there been a Benghazi annex style security delay? Mask shortage? Annual leave ?
#11
Reporting this morning indicates Moïse was making frantic WTF phone calls for ten minutes prior to his departure from the planet. Again, my guess is fearing the worst, he defaulted to his Glock. Sixteen shots to the head and body group would discount a carefully planned execution.
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"The audacious plot to kidnap a sitting governor — seen by many as a precursor to the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol by hundreds of Trump-supporting protesters"
I appreciate them putting the two operations into the same sentence. Let readers decide.
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Been fucked since at least 1918. The rapid expanse of government due to communist fears lead to where we are now. The 1950s only accelerated it. In the 1950s and 60s, the one in your stoner group egging people on to do illegal stuff was the FBI informer/agent.
[Garowe] The al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... says it is monitoring the ongoing preparations for elections in Somalia, something which threatens the future of the Horn of Africa nation, which is still struggling with instability, over three decades after the ouster of the ex-central government.
Al-Shabaab, which controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia, has been battling to overthrow the fragile UN-backed Somalia administration through threats, cowardly attacks, and intimidation of bigwigs and innocent civilians.
In recorded audio published by the group's media houses, Ahmed Omar alias Abu Ubaidah, the substantive al-Shabaab leader, is heard purportedly threatening delegates who are set to participate in Somalia's elections that are due to kick off from July 25.
According to Ubaidah, whose whereabouts still remain unknown, al-Shabaab opposes the process in "totality" given that it's "not transparent" and denies Somalis the right to "vote for the right leaders" in a free and fair exercise.
"They [leaders] will not be guaranteeing your safety," he said in purported audio published by the hard boy media. It was his first speech in regard to upcoming polls, something which may lead to several questions about the safety of those casting votes.
The FMS parliaments are set to pick senators of the 54-seat Upper House this month before 27,775 electoral delegates representing Somali clans elect Members of Parliament. In early October, the MPs will choose parliamentary leadership who then choose a new president.
Outgoing President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo, whose term expired on Feb 8, is seeking to defend the seat but he's facing stiff competition. Among others, Farmajo will battle with former Presidents Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud along with former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire among others.
Stakeholders have raised questions about the possible infiltration of al-Shabaab in the exercise, something which may end up producing sympathizers or even al-Shabaab members in the coming parliament. The vetting of delegates has been heightened.
Last week, the Jubaland state warned elders against associating with the group, arguing that those found culpable will be expunged from the delegates list. Somalia still practices indirect elections where elders have a huge role to play alongside their clans of origin.
It's unclear where or when Abu Ubaidah’s speech was recorded but he mentions the hard boy group’s attack on Bosaso prison in March, and the Somali parliament’s term extension in April, and the political stalemate that followed, tells a lot.
The group raided Bosaso prison in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... in March where a number of prisoners escaped. A month later, Farmaajo tried to extend his term in office but was outrightly rejected by various stakeholders, leading to a consensus meeting that paved way for elections.
[BenarNews] Government troops killed a suspected member of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bully boy group’s Philippine branch and captured two others during an operation in southern Maguindanao province at the weekend, the military said Monday.
Soldiers were checking on reports about Dawlah Islamiyah-Hassan Group
...sometimes spelt Daulah Islamiyah, for some reason, which means Islamic State in the Philippines, whatever the words actually translate as. It has several groups...
suspects being present in Shariff Saydona Mustapha town when the suspects shot at them on Saturday morning, precipitating a gunbattle, said Lt. Col. Benjamin Cadiente, commander of the 33rd Infantry Battalion.
"While troops were approaching the reported location of the terrorists, they were fired upon by an undetermined number of Dawlah Islamiyah-Hassan Group members, which forced the soldiers to retaliate," Cadiente said in a statement, using the Philippine name for the Islamic State (IS) group led by Salahuddin Hassan.
A suspect identified only as "Tong Bomber" was killed in the shootout, according to the state-run Philippine News Agency. He was a bomb expert believed to be responsible for attacks against military convoys and installations in Maguindanao, the PNA report said.
"He was killed following the 7 a.m. encounter in Barangay Nabundas, Shariff Saydona Mustapha town," PNA quoted Cadiente as saying in his incident report to the Army’s 6th Infantry Division commander.
A soldier was maimed in Saturday’s incident, but was out of danger after receiving medical treatment, the military said.
The three suspects allegedly belonged to a faction of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State... (BIFF) led by Hassan, which has pledged allegiance to IS.
BIFF is a splinter group of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which signed a peace deal with Manila in 2014 and controls a Moslem autonomous area in the south.
Other Dawlah Islamiyah cells have worked with a faction that was behind a five-month siege of Marawi,
...that’s be the Maute Group, founded by the Maute brothers...
a city in the southern Philippines, by pro-IS Filipino fighters and snuffies from other countries in 2017.
In January, BIFF snuffies allegedly carried out two roadside kaboomings in the south that killed three and injured scores of people.
In May, BIFF briefly took over a southern town, but bloodshed was averted when they left after a tense standoff.
During a trip to the south soon after, President Rodrigo Duterte warned Moslem leaders he would have to wage an all-out war similar, if local authorities did not rein in the bully boys.
Since January 2021, government forces have captured or slain some 150 bully boy suspects, of whom 19 were from DI and 131 from BIFF.
[IsraelTimes] US State Department declines to weigh in on company’s settlements boycott, but reiterates opposition to BDS; kosher markets in the US drop the ice cream from shelves.
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The real culprits are the Unilever bosses, I'm told. The ice cream distributor was bypassed and the directions for this BDS shit came from London directly. My info is only hearsay though.
Of course, examples must be made. It's just an ice cream, like Bennet said.
[VDH] Too many elites on the coasts don’t live in the real world. They have these grand ideas about how society should function, but they don’t suffer the consequences of their own ideology. For this podcast, Lisa speaks with a true renaissance man who has a foot in both worlds — an academic and a farmer — Professor Victor Davis Hanson. A classicist, military historian, and one of the nation's most respected political commentators, Professor Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a farmer in the San Joaquin Valley of California. He and Lisa dig into the state of America today culturally, economically, and politically. Plus, they discuss how elites insulate themselves from the country's problems in a cocoon of their money, fancy degrees, and self-righteousness.
[IsraelTimes] Despite anger over Jewish visits to the Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av, prayers take place peacefully; Bennett conveys his blessings to Israel’s Moslem and Druze populations.
No surprise — he’d been getting psychiatric treatment on the German dime before the attack. Quite probably at some point it will be realized that he’d wanted to attack the natives in the name of Allah for some time, but it was only thanks to Western medicine that he was able to overcome his particular brand of disorganized craziness enough to act on it. But in the meantime the locked wards of Germany will house an increasing percentage of Muslim nutters, until they come to look like German prisons.
[IsraelTimes] 24-year-old Somali man reportedly shouted ’holy shit! Allahu akbar’ during attack last month that left three women dead.
The suspect in a fatal knife attack in the German city of Wuerzburg
...sometimes spelt Würzburg and sometimes simply Wurzburg...
last month has been sent to a psychiatric hospital, after experts determined that it may not be possible to hold him criminally responsible for his actions, Sherlocks said on Tuesday.
The June 25 assault in and outside a store in the Bavarian city left three women dead and another five people seriously injured. The suspect, a 24-year-old Somali man, was shot in the leg by police and arrested after people surrounded him and tried to hold him at bay with chairs and sticks.
Investigators said after the attack that an Islamic Death Eater motivation appeared likely, since witnesses reported that the man twice shouted "holy shit! Allahu akbar," the Arabic phrase for "God is great," and he also referred to "jihad" after his arrest.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... Bavaria’s state criminal police office and Munich prosecutors said on Tuesday that after evaluating his cellphones, they found no propaganda or other Death Eater material, and nothing that pointed to anyone else having been involved in or known about the attack. except the voices in his head and the call of the faithful bleating of the Muezzin
Experts on deradicalization and Islam are still evaluating "whether and to what extent religious convictions of the suspect might have played a role" in the attack, the Sherlocks said in a statement.
The suspect was tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! immediately after the attack, but a local court last week ordered him provisionally moved to a psychiatric hospital, after an appraisal by experts raised doubt over whether he could be held criminally responsible. He was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday. A final expert report "will take some time," Sherlocks said.
Prosecutors have said two other incidents earlier this year resulted in the suspect being sent briefly to a psychiatric hospital.
[FoxNews] An Oklahoma man has been arrested and charged with first-degree rape for allegedly impregnating a 12-year-old girl.
Juan Miranda-Jara, 24, walked into Hillcrest Hospital in Tulsa July 14 with a child in mid-labor, FOX23 reported.
Doctors called police, telling them they had a rape victim and Miranda-Jara was arrested. Miranda-Jara had reportedly told officers he was the father of the child and appeared not to understand what all the fuss was about
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"Miranda-Jara had reportedly told officers he was the father of the child and appeared not to understand what all the fuss was about."
It's not a big deal in Mexico or whatever hellhole he's from. 12 year gap between mom and kid? Totally normal.
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Whoopi will be along shortly to tell us it's not "rape rape."
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In yet another sign of the times, 'Investigators are trying to piece together the man's relationship with the child'. Maybe they could call the FBI in on the case.
Video from this week shows an assailant smashing a bottle over an NYPD officer's head in an unprovoked assault. Tyshaun Holloway has been arrested twice previously for assault on police. The officer received lacerations to the head & neck. pic.twitter.com/3sJV1pK3on
Russian warplanes launched airstrikes on the sites of the Turkish-backed armed factions in the northern countryside of #Latakia and the western countryside of #Hama, northwest #Syria.https://t.co/p5iwea5VWn
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An investigation into the alleged kidnapping of the Afghan ambassador’s daughter has found no evidence of an abduction, #Pakistan’s interior minister says, as relations between the two countries become increasingly strained.https://t.co/Q9D4HO2x8upic.twitter.com/9x07ot0a3s
An investigation into the alleged kidnapping of the Afghan ambassador’s daughter has found no evidence of an abduction, Pakistain’s interior minister said Tuesday, as relations between the two countries become increasingly strained.
The Afghan foreign ministry said Saturday that Silsila Alikhil was riding in a taxi in Islamabad when she was kidnapped and held for several hours, during which she was "severely tortured by unknown persons."
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Pakistain’s foreign ministry put out a statement at the time saying she had been assaulted, adding that security for ambassador Najibullah Alikhil and his family had been tightened.
But on Tuesday Pakistain authorities cast doubt on the story.
"There is no case of kidnapping," Pakistain’s interior minister Sheikh Rashid told news hounds at a presser, adding that Sherlocks had watched 700 hours of CCTV footage and searched 200 taxis.
He said the incident was being used as a way to "defame our country."
"Pakistain will not back down from this case, even though there is a huge difference between her (claim) and our findings," he added, inviting Silsila Alikhil to help with the investigation.
The Afghan ambassador was recalled to Kabul on Sunday over "security threats," a move Islamabad said was regrettable.
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"Heh heh... No worries folks. Her veil was too thick. She was roaming the streets wondering how far the darn car was parked. The bruises are from bumping into pedestrians."
[NINANEWS] An bombwent kaboom! targeting the house of a civil activist in al-Montazah neighborhood in central Nasiriyah.
A security source said, according to Nasiriyah News Network: "The explosion caused damage to the front of the house, without causing any human casualties.
This is the first time that Turkish forces and Turkish-backed armed factions have targeted the Shi'ite towns of Nubl and Zahra since they took control of the Barad region to the west following their attacks on Afrin in 2018.https://t.co/988tkiQCG4
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Israel Defense Forces chief Aviv Kohavi warned Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... on Tuesday that Israel will respond to any rocket attacks from the country, after forces of Evil fired projectiles toward Israeli territory overnight.
In response to the rocket fire, which set off warning sirens in the Western Galilee region, the military said it fired artillery shells at the source of the rockets.
One of the rockets was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system, while the second fell in an open area near the coast, the IDF said. There were no reports of injuries or damage, and the military said it had no special instructions for residents of the region.
The early morning attack came some four hours after Syrian state media said Israeli aircraft launched a number of missiles at targets near the Syrian city of Aleppo.
The Israeli military believes the rockets at northern Israel were fired by a Paleostinian group in southern Lebanon, not by the country’s powerful Hezbollah terror group. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Hezbollah maintains tight control over southern Lebanon, making it unlikely that such an attack would be conducted from that area without at least its tacit approval.
The Lebanese Army announced Tuesday it had located three Grad rocket launchers, one of which was armed, in the town of Qlaileh, south of Tyre.
There are several Paleostinian terror groups operating in southern Lebanon, along with Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and closely allied with Syria’s Assad regime.
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The Infections vs. Death Toll the C19/21 Delta variant in the United Kingdom
Last 7 Day Infection and Death related numbers
7-21-21 44,104 new cases and 73 new deaths - mortality rate 0.16 of 1 %
7-20-21 46,324 new cases and 96 new deaths - mortality rate 0.20 of 1%
7-19-21 39,572 new cases and 19 new deaths - mortality rate 0.048 of 1%
7-18-21 47,646 new cases and 25 new deaths - mortality rate 0.052 of 1%
7-17-21 54,205 new cases and 41 new deaths - mortality rate 0.075 of 1%
7-16-21 51,311 new cases and 49 new deaths - mortality rate 0.095 of 1%
7-15-21 47,932 new cases and 63 new deaths - mortality rate 0.13 of 1%
Last 7 day Total Infections: 328,637
Last 7 day Total Deaths: 342 (5 per/MP) A death rate the same the current US rate
per million.
Odds of Infection in last 7 days: 328,637(i) / 68,260,406(UK Pop) = 0.481 of 1% UK
Odd of Dying if Infected in last 7 days: 342(d) / 328,637(UK-Infections) = 0.104 of 1%
SUMMARY
Looking at the Infection and Death Graphs shown on the "WorldoMeters Covid-19 Website".
So far it appears to be a more infectious, but far less deadly.
[Iran Press TV] The head of Afghanistan’s Etidal (Moderation) Party has categorically rejected a report published by an Iranian daily about the formation of a "Shia mobilization force" in the conflict-ridden country, saying the popular forces defending their homeland do not rely on any faction or movement inside Afghanistan or abroad.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Sayed Hassan Safaye dismissed as a "lie" the article published by Jomhouri-e Eslami newspaper the previous day titled "Hashd al-Shi'i rises in Afghanistan," saying the many contradictions that the report contains attest to its fallacy.
He also said that the report, which carried his picture with the name Sayed Hassan al-Heidari, disrupted public opinion.
"While completely rejecting the false news, I declare that I have not been present in any foreign conflict and war except alongside my dear compatriots. As long as I live, I will not allow anyone to use our homeland against our national interests and religious coexistence... I consider the publication of such lies to the detriment of the integrity of the Afghan people," Safaye said.
"Our jihad (arduous efforts) against the mercenaries and sworn enemies of this homeland is for the sake of God and in support of the achievements made by the establishment as well as our national and cultural values. We have not attacked any nation or region, but we stand up with our lives against tyranny and aggression of foreigners in defense of our soil and people," he added.
The Afghan politician further stressed that he had joined the popular resistance front formed in Balkhab District after it was besieged by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... bad boy group.
"We thank God that as a result of the coordination among all the fighters of the resistance front, the Taliban’s heavy attacks were thwarted and Balkhab was purged of them," the politician said.
"The Balkhab Popular Resistance® Front and other fronts have been formed with the full backing of the people and are not affiliated to any faction, domestic or foreign current. These spontaneous and sincere movements of the people are in support of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan, our Constitution and national and Islamic values. All the fighters of this front fight in coordination with the military forces of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan, defending their land," he added.
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They will keep coming as long as they have incentives to do so and the border is open.
Why in the heck do so many on the left subscribe to Soros' cockamamie notion of "Open Borders?" A sure recipe for disaster. It id the same with the Cloward and Piven crazy notion of collapsing the system.
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I walked around the Oly Village the other day along with the swimming venue. I think I have seen the apex of human physical development (in a good way....)
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Um... people don't watch woman's beach volleyball for the sport just like people didn't read playboy for the articles.
[NATION.PK] Leader of Opposition in Sindh Assembly, Haleem Adil Sheikh has said that arrest of six cops of CIA police Jamshoro with the 65kg of chars by Rangers personnel from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... was the ample enough proof that police officials under the direct patronage by Chief Minister Sindh and IG police Sindh were doing the dirty business.
In a statement issued on Monday, he said that Mr Sarwar Rahupoto, the younger brother of Mr Skindar Ali Rahupoto, the PPP MNA from Jamshoro, was directly involved in that big scam.
Haleem Adil alleged that Rahupoto himself was involved in the shifting of the contraband from Jamshoro to Karachi but he was yet to be arrested. "This shows that CM and Bilawal Houses run through the money being earned through such criminal acts like drug pushing," he said and asked the PPP leaders to come up with a clear stance over the arrest and recovery of chars by Rangers personnel from a police van.
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#Tunisia’s Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi sacked Health Minister Faouzi Mehdi, Mechichi’s office says, amid spiraling #coronavirus cases in the North African country.https://t.co/Sm8KdoqNG1
Erdogan told journalists in a televised address from Nicosia in northern Cyprus, on Tuesday that Ankara was "right now looking positively" to the idea of running Kabul airport after US troops withdraw from Afghanistan.
"[But] firstly, America will stand by us in diplomatic relations. Secondly, they will mobilize their logistical means for us... and the other one is that there will be serious problems on financial and administrative issues, and they will give necessary support to Turkey," he said. "If these conditions can be met, we, as Turkey, are planning to operate the Kabul airport."
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stretched a lil thin there huh yippy
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Translated via Google Translate. Edited by Aleksandr Kots
[KP] Impressive, but still "not set off." There is a golden toilet, but no golden loaf. And his own full-length portrait in a carved gold frame is also missing. And he was stingy on a pond with swans.
Whenever we are shown the abode of another "burned out" corrupt official, suddenly taken by the sciatic nerve, we go numb with "Spanish shame."
You have stolen many, many millions. Well, do you really feel sorry for throwing over a normal designer? Where does this passion for "gypsy baroque" come from with its massive gold stucco moldings, white marble, giant crystal (seemingly) chandeliers, "Botticelli-like" canvases all over the wall, baths on "lion legs".
Decorators, who can be entrusted with the stolen wealth, only have a little imagination with them. So they sculpt kitsch from the 90s in the palaces of bribe-takers, under the “new Russians”. And a rod of them "Versailles" in the suburbs (like the arrested vice-rector of Moscow State University Grishin).
No mind, no imagination. Grab and hide a billion under the plinth. Greed has ruined the frayer. As it is sung in the song of the Circle: it is not a "point" that usually ruins, but a golden toilet bowl.
A case was initiated against members of a criminal group led by the head of the UGIBDD in Stavropol
It is also always interesting to find out, but how did the investigators come up with all this luxury? Here lived a man, for almost ten years. He headed the regional State traffic inspectorate, stole to the best of his strength and appetite. It was said he called on New Year's and birthdays only the faithful accomplices, tied up with only bribes and one designer, left work by bus, and then transferred to a sports BMW, smelling of expensive leather, and drove to a country residence. And no one, no one except the most dedicated, knew about him?
Although, as practice shows, in any region there is a public figure or journalist-truth-bearer who will take you on local rubles with an excursion, tell you which minister, prosecutor or colonel the mansion belongs to. And from the inconsistency of their scale with the salaries in their positions, (from ostentatious impunity, let's say more simply) conspiracy theories about circular corruption are born among the people, originating from Moscow itself. These people will clap their tongues after looking at the photo: "What kind of palace should the head of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs have then?" And that one is quickly dismissed from his post. The bribes are smooth.
"And to us, to us, when will the investigator arrive in the blue helicopter?", raced in social networks throughout the country, delighted with the scale of the covered gang of "werewolves in uniform" in Stavropol.
"It is no longer surprising to be arrested by a wealthy official. It is a common thing. But, 35 traffic cops at a time is just a miracle!" said another on social media.
"Is it possible that they have declared war on corruption?" The people look hopefully on TV. But out of habit he adds, "or the campaign before the elections?" Reference to the upcoming federal Duma elections in September.
Aleksandr Kots is prior service Russian airborne and a writer/photographer for Komsomol Pravda
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Another possible only explanation is that since weed is legal in NY, they are going by state law instead of federal, thereby preventing the bad optics of arresting the state's (mostly Dem) citizens for something legal at home.
[Iran Press TV] Peru finally has a new president. The South American country's electoral authority has declared socialist Pedro Castillo as the next chief executive, putting the seal on weeks of bitter political bickering and rivalry among two camps in the wake of a run-off election on June 6.
Castillo won the election by only 44,000 votes against right-wing Keiko Fujimori. The official results had been delayed due to Fujimuri’s plea to annul the election, as she claimed that up to 200,000 votes had been rigged, without providing evidence.
After a lengthy battle over the results, the Electoral Tribunal reaffirmed the election results on Monday.
"I proclaim Pedro Castillo as president of the republic and Dina Boluarte as first vice president," tribunal chief Jorge Salas said in a ceremony aired on television.
Hundreds of Castillo supporters, who had been camping in front of the Electoral Tribunal in the capital, Lima, for weeks, awaiting a final proclamation, broke out in celebration at the news, chanting, "Yes, we could."
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So THAT'S where the Dominion voting machines disappeared to...
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edit.
[RedStar] By the end of this year, more than 800 units of armored vehicles are planned to be delivered to military units and formations of the Ground Forces.
As part of the execution of the state defense order, the enterprises of the military-industrial complex will transfer to the modern and modernized models of armored vehicles that Russian Ministry of Defense have successfully proven themselves in operation in various climatic zones.
*The T-90 is an upgraded T-72. The T-72 has been in service since 1979. There's been about 3200 of them built.
*Our armor mainstay is the M1 Abrams, in service since 1979 as well. It has been decisively kicking T-series tank a$$ since 1991, and we've built almost 10,300 of them. The latest version, the M1A2D SEP is a very literal Doomsday machine against other tanks.
*Given Soviet Russian maintenance standards, a 30-40% combat availability is reasonable on any given day. During the last two Persian Gulf Live Fire Exercises, the US Army was able to reach a 90% combat availability rate.
Mike
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With the defunding the police movement, police resignations and now the COVID catch and program , look for the sure-to-come upswing in crime of all kinds. Guess I'll buy some stock in firearms companies and booze and beer companies--both essential goods.
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I kinda like the idea of home confinement for NON-VIOLENT prisoners.
Ankle Bracelets to monitor and track locations. Total bedroom only CCTV monitored confinement when not at work or at pre-authorized medical appointment.
Make them pay for their own confinement. Allowing more space for the serious dangerous types.
[PHILADELPHIA.CBSLOCAL] A 1-year-old baby is in the hospital after being shot in West Philadelphia, police said Saturday. It happened just after 8 p.m. at a corner store located at 50th Street and Haverford Avenue.
Police said a white Jeep pulled up to the intersection and one of the vehicle’s occupants began shooting, striking two individuals, including a bystander — a 1-year-old baby, who was in their mother’s arm.
The baby was shot once in the left leg and placed in stable, pH balanced condition at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
"This goes to show that there are a lot of guns on the street, and you have folks who are not afraid to use these guns and they don’t care who’s around when they use these guns," Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Joel Dales said. "It’s a big problem. This is not OK. This is not OK at all."
According to police, a 26-year-old man and another man were inside the store. The two men returned fire at the vehicle.
At this time, police believe the 26-year-old man was the intended target. Police said he was shot in his arm and is in stable, pH balanced condition. He is in jug, according to police.
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[ToloNews] No reports have been made on Tuesday, the first day of Eid, about attacks by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... or festivities in contested districts between the government forces and the krazed killer group, despite there being no announced agreement on a ceasefire. The cessation of fighting allowed Afghans to celebrate the beginning of the holiday with calm.
The Afghan government and Taliban were expected to announce at least a three-day ceasefire during this Eid, but it did not happen despite a high-level meeting in Doha between representatives of both sides.
"We are ready to thwart any plan by the enemy," said Dadan Lawang, Commander of the Afghan Army’s 203 Thunder Corps.
TOLOnews news hound Hasiba Atakpal who visited a security forces post on the outskirts of Gardez city in Paktia said there were some soldiers who did not visit their families for five months, and many have remained at their posts rather than going to their homes to celebrate Eid.
One of those soldiers on duty is Zikrullah, an army officer who says he hasn’t visited his family for the last five months and that during 10 years of service, he has always celebrated Eid festivals with his comrades.
"Every day in which we are in our strongholds and the people are happy is a happy day and Eid for us," Zikrullah said.
The security forces pledged that they will soon retake control of areas that have fallen to the Taliban in the province.
"We are ready to defend the country" said Shafiqullah, a soldier.
"I assure you that the fallen districts will be retaken by us," said Mohammad Ghani, a solider.
Acting Defense Minister Gen. Bismullah Mohammadi visited Paktia province on Tuesday to meet with his soldiers on the frontlines.
He said that Afghan forces are fighting for peace, not for the continuation of war.
"We should have reached an agreement in the last 25 years, but you witnessed that the Taliban dominated a specific part of Afghanistan but could not get a result. Conflicts continued, and they did some deeds in Kabul and other areas, but none were acceptable to the people of Afghanistan," Mohammadi said.
Tribal elders and members of the provincial council in Paktia said they support the government forces but criticized the handover of some districts to the Taliban by some security force members.
"Anyone who is here, especially if they have a military uniform--their character will be judged if they leave a district," said Abdul Malik Mujahid Zazai, head of Paktia provincial council.
"Our demand is that Paktia should be given air support in its operations," said Amanullah Zadran, a tribal elder.
President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... in his exclusive speech on the occasion of Eid in ARG thanked all the families who have sent their sons to serve their country and countrymen as members of ANDSF.
This year’s Eid is that of the soldiers, said Ghani.
In his speech, President Ghani commended ANDSF and added that the forces made the greatest sacrifices in the past three months which were not seen even throughout the past two decades.
Apart from previous Eids, this year’s one is devoid of somehow usual three-day ceasefire and the warring sides are staring down the barrels in their respective strongholds.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s political office front man Naeem Wardak in a Twitter post wrote the group tends to free some detainees of the Afghan government in respect of Eid. The Afghan government has not commented on the issue yet.
“Certain ongoing activities, such as #Iran’s continuing arms transfers to #Hezbollah ... serve to undermine Lebanese sovereignty, contribute to political and economic instability in the region," #US President Joe Biden says.https://t.co/L3FERLwqMW
#EU policymakers propose a new agency to stop financial firms from aiding criminals and terrorists after a scandal at a Danish bank highlighted the inadequacy of the bloc’s defenses.https://t.co/TT3SOxzY8j
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
[ToloNews] Atta Mohammad Noor, an Afghan politician who attended the two-day negotiations with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... delegation in Doha, said the group sought the release of more prisoners and the removal of its leaders' names from the UN blacklist as a trust-building measure.
But Noor said this will not happen and the government will not repeat its previous act--of releasing 5,000 inmates--which did not help in reducing violence or furthering the grinding of the peace processor in the country.
He added that three commissions were formed during the two days of talks in Doha — the commission for building trust, commission on review of the Constitution and the commission for partnership in power — but none led to any results.
Noor said that trust can be built through other ways.
"Trust can be built through understanding, partnership in power, political partnership, end of war, reduction in violence, and ceasefire. We could have started from any other route, but regretfully, this did not happen," Noor said.
He welcomed the agreement in Doha for the continuation of negotiations and the protection of civilians and their property but said that there are other ways that trust can be built between both sides.
"We hope that one day the other side will realize that war is not the solution in Afghanistan and peace is in the interest of all sides," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... President Ghani on a trip to Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province on Monday accused the Taliban of having secret deals with Pakistain about the Durand Line, water, mines and security forces in Afghanistan, and said the group has destroyed over 140 mosques.
"How did you deal concerning Afghanistan’s water? How did you deal on Afghanistan’s mines? How did you deal on Afghanistan’s defense and security forces? How did you deal on the Durand Line?" Ghani asked.
The Taliban has denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! Ghani said the Taliban want the surrender of the government, and he reiterated that there won’t be any deal on women’s rights.
"I told the foreigners 'goodbye.' Did you hear one word from your president to ask them to stay? I told them 'goodbye.' God is our protector," Ghani said.
Ghani made the trip to Herat as 17 out of 19 districts as well as two key border towns in the province have fallen to the Taliban in the last three weeks.
#Greek authorities on the eastern Aegean island of #Lesbos say they are drawing up a criminal case, including on charges of espionage, against 10 people, all foreign nationals, for allegedly helping migrants enter the country illegally.https://t.co/D8kXpQAFvl
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An island of fair Lesbos,
to which sex-starved despos,
are taken by imps of Soros.
They plod till they reach,
the other side of the beach,
and catch 'nuther ride to Thesos.
#4
Oh great. Apparently there's a word filter that doesn't allow the proper form of lesbos-ian. And it doesn't tell you it's filtering you. How Orwellian.
#7
Thirteen. Winston tried to say "Sapphic"
In monitored telescreen traffic.
The bells of St. Winifred
Were silent as Minifred's
Laughter. He spat something graphic.
A Coptic church in British Columbia, Canada that was recently targeted in an arson attack was burned down this week. The church was used by those of African & Middle Eastern background. Churches have been destroyed in Canada recently by far-left activists. https://t.co/hAe1PqbyPE
The #US military conducted an air strike against al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab militants in #Somalia, the first since President Joe Biden took office, the Pentagon says.https://t.co/y7MgvRSXuA
The US military conducted an air strike against al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... hard boyz on Tuesday, the first since President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... took office, the Pentagon said.
The US military command for Africa (AFRICOM), in coordination with the Somali government, "conducted one Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the vicinity of Galkayo, Somalia today against al-Shabaab," Pentagon spokeswoman Cindi King told AFP.
The strike, 700 kilometers (430 miles) northeast of Mogadishu, targeted Shabaab Death Eaters, King said.
"A battle-damage assessment is still pending due to the ongoing engagement between al-Shabaab and Somali forces, however the command’s initial assessment is that no civilians were maimed or killed as a result of this strike," she added.
The strike is the first conducted by the US military in Somalia since January 19, when AFRICOM announced it had killed three Shabaab hard boyz in two strikes in Jamaame and Deb Scinnele.
Biden was inaugurated the next day. As soon as he arrived at the White House, he limited the use of drones against Death Eater groups outside US theaters of war.
That reversed the policy of his predecessor Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... , who had given the US military carte blanche in countries such as Somalia and Libya.
In March, Pentagon front man John Kirby said that any planned strikes against Death Eater groups outside Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq were now submitted to the White House before being carried out.
Drone strikes multiplied during Trump’s term, going from 11 in Somalia in 2015, to 64 in 2019 and 54 in 2020, according to the non-governmental group Airwars, which monitors civilian deaths in bombings around the world.
Just before he left office, Trump ordered the withdrawal of some 700 special forces soldiers who were deployed in Somalia to train and advise the Somali army.
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] The motion to proceed immediately with ballot inspection in Fulton County, Georgia has been submitted to the county’s Superior Court. The news came by way of court documents made public on Tuesday.
"Motion to immediately proceed with ballot inspection: Come now, Petitioners Garland Favorito, Michael Scupin, Trevor Terris, Sean Draime, Stacey Doran, Christopher Peck, and Brandi Taylor (hereafter the Favorito Petitioners), by and through their attorneys of record, and file their motion to immediately proceed with ballot inspection," the motion stated.
"Wherefore, the Favorito Petitioners pray: a) That the court SETS a date, time and location to conduct the planning meeting for the ballot inspection immediately," it continued. "That the court ORDERS the ballot inspection commence immediately after a suitable ballot inspection plans is devised; AND for any other relief the Court DEEMS just and proper."
The document dated on the 17th was released publicly on Tuesday morning. In June, a Henry County judge dropped Fulton County, its elections board, and the court clerk from the suit under ’sovereign immunity’ — but he added individual members of the county’s board of elections as respondents.
The Superior Court Chief Judge Brian Amero ruled to allow for the inspection of nearly 150,000 absentee ballots in Fulton County, Georgia. The judge’s ballot review, which was requested under ’discovery’ rules, will apparently proceed.
"The plaintiffs in the case, nine Georgia voters, scored a victory last month when Amero ordered scanned images of 147,000 absentee ballots to be unsealed," the Washington Examiner reported. "But he placed the inspection, which would allow for high-resolution re-scans of ballots and an in-person review, on hold while considering the defendants’ motions to dismiss."
"An attorney for the Fulton elections board said the ruling prevents the possibility for an in-person review of absentee ballots using high-powered microscopes in the Georgia World Congress Center, as sought by those who believe fraud resulted in Democrat Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage... ’s 12,000-vote win over Republican Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... ," the Atlanta Journal Constitution earlier reported.
"That litigation is finished," said Don Samuel, a prominent Atlanta attorney hired by the Fulton elections board. "Is there going to be an audit? Not right now ... There’s no discovery permitted. There’s no lawsuit pending anymore."
The claimant Garland Favorito argued that the ruling was a victory.
"Favorito plans to submit a ballot inspection plan next week based on the judge’s order in May to unseal absentee ballots, allowing for high-resolution re-scans of ballots and an in-person review," AJC noted.
"We just want Fulton to be held responsible," Favorito said. "We could be moving forward any time now unless they try to stall again. Fulton may make a new desperation move to postpone it."
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Why do I sense a tragic fire in the future where the ballots are stored?
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If it was an honest and fair election, why not proceed post-haste with a full audit in Georgia? After all, Biden was the most popular candidate in history as shown by his rallies--right?
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What I say to lefty acquaintances who spout "Trump is lying about the Elections being stolen" is - "Do the full audits and prove him wrong. If there's nothing to hide, then show him and his followers".
Usual response is a blank stare (and mental BSOD requiring a reboot).
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I predict it will soon be discovered that Donald Trump carried Georgia with a substantial lead over Plugs. I will go on to predict that the runoff which resulted in rascals Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock becoming US Senators was also rigged.
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Want a good example of how desperate the illegally elected GA Democrats US Senators are?
Last night on YouTube, I saw a political ad thanking both of them for the recovery and climate issues. The obviously Liberal Special Interest Group was falsely trying to claim and sound Conservative and even used "Conservative _____" in its claimed name.
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This makes me kind of wonder how long this has been going on in other places. In Washington state for example mail-in is the default - there are no polling places. I have no idea how my vote is counted.
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This will continue as long as there are mail-in ballots and electronic counting machines. If you want a fair election show up and be counted. count the ballots by hand in each 'precinct'.
Sources confirmed that the rockets were fired from the Parwan-e-Se area in Kabul’s District 18 in the north of the city.
The rockets landed in Bagh-e-Ali Mardan and Chaman-e-Hozori areas in Kabul’s District 1 and Manabe Bashari area in Kabul’s District 2 — all near the Presidential Palace, officials said.
But sources from the government said that one rocket landed at the Presidential Palace's compound in which one person was maimed.
"When I saw the car that rockets were fired one after another, I was scared. No one was there in the car," said Tabish, a Kabul resident.
The rockets were fired from a corolla vehicle that was burnt after the incident.
"People were too afraid. It had a loud sound. There were four blasts sound," said Mujib, a Kabul resident.
"Six rockets were fired from this car," said Mohammad Nasim, a Kabul resident who said that people were scattered at a mosque near the area after hearing the sound of blasts.
Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... has denied their involvement in the incident.
It was the fourth rocket attack on the Presidential Palace over the last three years and all have been fired from the same place.
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Failure to properly calculate the safety radius, blast impact, and damage. In an era of probable bio-weapons, a "controlled" detonation in a built-up area? How prudent is that ?
If you can't move the charge, how about moving the people ?
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...When I was a munitions maintenance specialist for the USAF, about this time every year we would have a rash of instances of people in the dorm or base housing being caught with fireworks, which was an absolute no-no on base. When caught, we were detailed to pick the stuff up and store it until EOD could properly dispose of it.
And we aren't talking throwing it in the back of the truck and lighting it on the range - we were required to treat it (and all unknown explosives) as if it were a live Mk82 bomb, and dispose of it on the range according to Hoyle.
My first time dealing with this, I asked (politely and respectfully, of course; that's just the kinda guy I am )why we were going to that extent and was told that rarely are these things made with any kind of quality control or design safety. They could - and did - go off from being set on a sun-warmed street surface or from rough handling. Every chief I ever had treated them as the deadliest things they could have ever worked with, and I quickly held to that view and have ever since. My family and friends consider me a spoilsport; but on the other hand they can do so with the same number of digits, limbs, eyes, and orifices that they started the day with, as well as not catching a severe case of the dead.
Mike
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But getting the right answer is racist.
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We got it under control. Out motto is "Fireworks Is Us."
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"...they can do so with the same number of digits, limbs, eyes, and orifices that they started the day with, as well as not catching a severe case of the dead."
Essentially the same thing wording we teach for construction safety.
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Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?
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^ Nice reference, Sundance
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rarely are these things made with any kind of quality control or design safety
Turkish forces and their affiliated opposition factions bombard civilian cars on the #M4 road between Hoshan village and Ain Issa town, 50 km north of #Raqqa, with heavy weapons . pic.twitter.com/PtXjFpM6pT
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) July 20, 2021
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[Outkick / Clay Travis] - Game 5 of the NBA Finals between the Bucks and Suns drew 9.6 million viewers on Saturday, down enormously from 2019’s Warriors-Raptors Game 5, which averaged 18.4 million viewers.
Remember, NBA media demanded last year that we discount the 2020 NBA Finals’ atrocious ratings because the matchup took place out of season and during a pandemic. So, as a nice guy, I’m honoring their requests and only comparing the 2021 Finals to 2019.
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Monday, the Libyan television channel "218 News" claimed that Ottoman Turkish officers have installed an air defence and jamming system, inside the military manufacturing factory in the town of Bani Walid.
Sources told 218 that the Ottoman Turkish officers entered Bani Walid a few days ago, taking advantage of the operations carried out by the 444th Brigade, under the command of Mahmoud Hamza. The 444th Brigade is allegedly taking action without consulting any other security apparatus, and the government is supposedly unaware of these movements in Bani Walid.
The installation of the system comes within the framework of Ankara’s fear of any movements of the Libyan National Army (LNA) in Bani Walid.
In the same context, according to a leaked document, the EU is finalising plans for a military mission in Libya in order to compete for influence with other forces there, EUObserver reported.
The EU diplomatic service’s internal paper dated 1 July stated that Libya’s grinding of the peace processor required large-scale disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR) of fighters, as well as a fundamental security sector reform (SSR).
"In this context, an EU military CSDP [Common Security and Defence Policy] engagement should ... be considered in order not to leave the entire field of activity in the military domain to third states," the statement read.
The paper did allude to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... , when it reported on a "third country" that had "continued denial of inspections" of suspected arms shipments to Libya, in violation of a UN embargo. The same country "maintains a strong military presence in Libya and provides training to selected armed forces in western Libya, especially the Coast Guard and Navy," it noted, after Turkey sent troops to Libya last year.
It explained that Turkey’s Defence Ministry has been tweeting about the interception of migrants colonists off of Libya’s coast, prompting fears that Ankara may gain further leverage over the EU by taking control of the central Mediterranean migration route, as well as the one it already controls via Greece.
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[NINANEWS] The Security Media Cell announced the death of 30 citizens and the injury of more than 50 others in the earth-shattering kaboom of Sadr City.
The cell said in a statement: "Yesterday's bombing in Sadr City was carried out by a suicide terrorist wearing an boom belt, killing 30 citizens and wounding more than 50 others."
Kadhimi Chairs An Emergency Security Meeting On The Bombing of Sadr City
[NINANEWS] Prime Minister, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Mustafa al-Kadhimi chaired last night an emergency meeting that included military, security and intelligence leaders, against the background of the terrorist attack with the cowardly bombing that took place in Sadr City.
Al-Kadhimi began the meeting, according to a statement by his office, by noting that terrorism had proven their failure to gain a foothold as a result of the blows they received at the hands of our heroic armed forces, so they resorted to a path of meanness and defeat by targeting innocents at random, as the cowards have always condemned.
And he said: I offer my condolences to our sons, our brothers and our people in Sadr City, and let the families of the deaders know that retribution will pursue terrorism in every hole and every hiding place, and the bully boyz will not be safe on the land of Iraq.
He explained that the criminals, with their desperate attempts, wanted to create chaos, after detonating the electric power transmission towers, they went to indiscriminate killing and bombing among the safe people.
Al-Kadhimi directed that any commander or officer who is proven to have failed to perform his duty be held accountable, investigated and referred to the competent court, stressing on our security forces to remain the eye that never sleeps for the security and safety of Iraqis, and to mobilize intelligence work with all its energies, and with precise preemptive strikes, in order that terrorism has no sanctuary or incubator anywhere.
He also directed the redistribution of holding sectors for the security forces in the capital, Baghdad, in a way that increases the readiness of our units and their ability to confront terrorist and criminal schemes.
Al-Kadhimi also directed to provide urgent assistance in all its forms to the families of the victims, and for health personnel to mobilize all their energies in order to treat the injured.
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Seems like things have been kicking up in the mid-east since January.
[ISSUESINSIGHTS] As TV screens showed the Dow Jones tumbling on inflation and renewed COVID fears, President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... took to the podium Monday to brag about how great the economy is doing and why he deserves all the credit. It was a remarkable act of prestidigitation for such an old man.
Biden said that "it’s true that the economy was sputtering before I got here." That’s provably false.
He said that: "We’ve gone from 60,000 jobs per month to ... more than 600,000 jobs per month since I took office." That’s grossly misleading.
He went on to boast that: "Look, we’ve brought this economy back from the brink." That is a bald-faced lie.
Biden’s intent with his remarks is to argue that his $1.9 trillion "rescue" bill saved the economy, and the even bigger spending bills he wants Congress to pass will keep it going. No one should believe a word of it.
Take his claims about jobs. It is true that the average job gain in Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s last three months in office averaged 60,000. But Biden is seriously cherry-picking his data.
The average monthly job growth from April 2020 to January 2021 was 1.5 million. That’s the average. Per month. The labor market had regained 60% of the jobs lost by the time Trump left office.
Compared to that, the 600,000 monthly job gains under Biden looks paltry.
Job growth was so fast in Trump’s last nine months in office that the unemployment rate plunged from 14.8% in April 2020 to 6.3% by January 2021. That was far below what the economic experts Biden loves to quote had expected.
By comparison, the unemployment rate under Biden has gone down only three-tenths of a percentage point, from 6.2% in February to 5.9% in June (which was up from May’s 5.8%).
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Well, after your fellow Dems shut down large swaths of the economy, I guess such a claim is somewhat tenable.
"In a span from 23:39 to 23:51 on July 19, four F-16 fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force entered Syria’s airspace via the US-controlled al-Tanf zone and fired eight guided missiles at facilities southeast of the city of Aleppo," he said.
According to Kulit, seven missiles were downed by the Russian-made Pantsyr-S and Buk-M2 systems that were on combat duty. One missile damaged the building of a research center in the settlement of Safira in the Aleppo governorate," he said.
The Dubai-based Al Hadath television channel reported earlier on Tuesday that Israel had delivered airstrikes at defense enterprises near al-Safira. According to Al Hadath, strikes were also delivered at weapons depots belonging to pro-Iranian Shia units fighting on the part of the Syrian army. Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen television channel reported that a research center near Aleppo was a target of airstrikes.
Syria’s SANA agency said earlier citing a military source that the Syrian air defense forces had repelled an attack by the Israeli Air Force southeast of Aleppo late on Monday.
[Iran Press TV] Syria has warned the Israeli regime of "serious repercussions" of unrelenting military attacks against the war-torn country, saying such acts of aggression will not dissuade Syrian forces from battling Israeli-backed bully boy groups.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said the Israeli regime forces late on Monday launched an aerial attack targeting positions in the al-Safirah area in the northern province of Aleppo near the Ottoman Turkish border.
The attack was successfully intercepted by Syria’s air defenses, which shot down most of the missiles.
The statement added that the aerial aggression by Tel Aviv coincided with missile attacks by al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front gunnies in parts of Aleppo and north of Hama Province lying on the banks of Orontes River.
The attacks were launched from the group’s hideouts in northwestern Idlib Province, the last major bully boy stronghold in the country.
The Syrian ministry warned that Tel Aviv will bear "full responsibility" of the consequences resulting from its unrelenting aggression, continued support to armed terrorist groups and occupation of Arab lands, including the occupied Syrian Golan, renewing the vows to reclaim the occupied territory.
Reports circulating of at least two Syrian fighters killed and several injured during Israeli airstrikes Monday night in Aleppo, #Syria. #Israelpic.twitter.com/xnbFN5v4i6
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"in Aleppo". That's a big city. So the Jews knew where to find these guys, and planned on sufficient accuracy that a warhead about the size of an M79 proje would do the job. Am i reading that right?
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Gary Johnson: "What is Aleppo?"
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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.
[FOX] Billionaire Jeff Bezos announced Tuesday he's shelling out a massive amount of his own cash to two men: the controversial CNN contributor Van Jones and celebrity chef José Andrés, each of them getting $100 million to direct to the charities of their choice.
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...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 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[Iran Press TV] The head of Afghanistan’s Etidal (Moderation) Party has categorically rejected a report published by an Iranian daily about the formation of a "Shia mobilization force" in the conflict-ridden country, saying the popular forces defending their homeland do not rely on any faction or movement inside Afghanistan or abroad.
...Arabic for 
Event #11 Billy, just past the Oly gardens. Take a left at the maple tree forest. 
[Iran Press TV] Peru finally has a new president. The South American country's electoral authority has declared socialist Pedro Castillo as the next chief executive, putting the seal on weeks of bitter political bickering and rivalry among two camps in the wake of a run-off election on June 6.
...Arabic for 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage...
Similar story, Top Men. 
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
[Iran Press TV] Syria has warned the Israeli regime of "serious repercussions" of unrelenting military attacks against the war-torn country, saying such acts of aggression will not dissuade Syrian forces from battling Israeli-backed
