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[ESPN] - France upsets U.S. men's basketball, snaps winning streak
It wasn't completely shocking given Team USA's bumpy exhibition game stretch in the lead-up to Tokyo -- the U.S. lost to Nigeria and Australia, marking the first time it has lost back-to-back exhibition games since professionals began playing in 1992 -- which revealed this team is not infallible. But the Americans' loss to France was still notable -- and jarring -- in that it snapped their 25-game Olympic winning streak dating back to 2004 in Athens. Again, this team will not medal at these Games.
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I agree, g(r)omgoru. Possibly make marriage with children, along with physical and mental disability grounds to get taken off that list — and watch many of those young ladies who were concentrating on their careers choose to fix the childbearing gap instead. ;-)
#4
The last man inducted entered the U.S. Army on June 30, 1973 during the last draft conducted.
Seriously, aside from registration, not much of a risk so far.
#10
And yet... in the end, notwithstanding feminine clucking and preening, whose eggs are the rarest and therefore the most precious in any rationally ordered economy? Men's eggs, that's whose!
#11
Somehow I get the impression this is a way to populate the new Climate Change Brigade that was posted a few days ago. Women would naturally select that sort of thing over combat in the military. Then before you know it a huge percentage of the young are working directly for the government.
#12
Honestly, given how many of them support the so called 'trans' movement, treat them exactly like men. Hell, given they are putting tampons and pads in Men's room, seems fair they get annual prostate exams in return.
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Normally the feds would refuse — neither their training nor their job description encompasses street patrolling and arresting drunk&disorderlies. But given that the alternative is setting up Conservative suckers for terrorism convictions, no doubt there are enough who would leap at the chance for honest work.
#2
So this is really what it was all about. Cities defund their local police. Then bring in federal police, soon we have a federal police force across the nation. Nothing like the fed finding a way around the posse commentates laws...
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The whole defund the police nonsense as a collective strategy of the Marxists seemed to make no sense, since in the long term they were damaging the places they ruled. BUT.... as a technique to roll the public and local/state lawmakers to quit dealing with the most expensive and difficult aspects of local government by handing it off to the federal government, its brilliant. In a decade or so, we have the uniformed branch of the FBI/DHS/DOJ enforcing the laws, and like the current civil rights division of the DOJ or the senior leadership of the FBI field offices, the law becomes whatever the Presidium and Central Committee want enforced.
Step #2 Socialcrats and their Rioters call for DEFUND THE POLICE.
Step #3 Socialcrats Appointed DA refuse to seriously handle Rioters/Black Racists Groups criminal cases.
Step #4 Socialcrats police treatment and lack of basic safety for Police results in massive resignations.
Step #5 Felony Crimes increase 200 fold.
Step #6 Citizens call for and demand Protection.
Step #7 Metro Socialcrats call DC Socialcrats to request FEDERAL Law Enforcement. Because local police refuse to follow Local Socialcrat Politicians blind eye orders on when, where and who to enforce the laws on.
Step #8 DC approves The Federalization of City Police Forces.
[FoxNews] Liberal mega-donor George Soros has directed $1 million to an activist group attempting to defund the police as violent crime surges in major urban centers across the nation.
Soros sent the million dollars via his Color Of Change PAC on May 14, according to Federal Election Commission files obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The organization describes itself as "the nation’s largest online racial justice organization" and actively engages in efforts to defund police departments such as spreading an online petition calling for "divesting from and dismantling the systems that unjustly harm Black people."
The group also backed a push by the Milwaukee City Council to defund the police.
"Policing is a violent institution that must end," the group’s president wrote in a statement supporting the move. "We imagine a country where there is enough money to educate our children, care for our sick and feed those who are financially unstable. Defunding the police allows for this vision."
Violent crime has surged dramatically in many large cities across the United States this year, including in areas where Soros has spent large sums of money electing Democratic candidates who have promised to ease sentencing requirements and implement relaxed bail reform laws.
In 2018, Soros spent millions of dollars to help elect current Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon who promised to implement sentencing reforms and decriminalize certain illegal activities. In 2021, the Los Angeles City Council redirected funds from the LAPD to social outreach organizations.
This year in Los Angeles, murders are up 20% and violent crime has spiked which has contributed to a rampant homeless crisis that many argue Gascon’s policies have made worse.
Philadelphia, where Soros spent almost $2 million electing District Attorney Larry Krasner, currently has the highest murder rate per capita among the 10 largest cities in the country and homicides have risen 35% this year.
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Giving them too much money encourages sloppy, ineffective practices, g(r)omgoru. Also, an archive search reveals this is a repeat grant to continue and expand proven operations, not start-up seed money.
Finally, Mr. Soros and the rest of the Progressive Billionaire Club each have a large number of intersecting charities that give to one another’s projects, so that what is reported seems to merely hint at how much a given NGO actually receives.
#5
^Actually, this is an interesting question. Given that Soros annoyed not just Americans but Russians as well - how come he's still alive. Who's provides his back?
#6
He is only one of many putting their money where their Progressive Billionaire and near-billionaire hearts are. And his sons are actively involved in running his foundations, so the entire Gendankenexperiment is pointless.
What needs to happen is that blame for rampant criminality is laid directly at the feet of the financiers of these politicians and activist groups, and the mere suggestion of their support becomes political poison.
#7
'If satan be divided against satan', I suppose.
There are no governments which actually value the words written of in our lofty books and bills. If there were there'd be fewer people on the planet and the wood chippers would run day and night until a semblance of order was won.
[Ynet] Lebanese terror group confirms death of operative, but does not specify circumstances; Iran yet to comment on killing of Iranian official, with Al-Arabiya reporting he died in one of several attacks in Syria this week
Israeli strikes in Syria reportedly killed a Hezbollah military commander and an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) senior official. The Kan public broadcaster reported that Hezbollah military commander Imad al-Amin was killed in western Syria.
The Lebanese terror group confirmed on Telegram that al-Amin was killed "while fulfilling his duties" but did not specify when or how.
Saudi outlet Al-Arabiya also reported that a senior official in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Sayed Ahmed Qurayshi, was killed under unknown circumstances in Syria this week. There has been no official confirmation from Iran.
A report on Saturday said that Russia intends to curtail Israel's military operations in Syria by supplying the regime of President Bashar al-Assad with stronger air defenses.
[Free Beacon] Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard are the premier summer stomping grounds for obnoxious libs who enjoy feeling morally superior to their fellow Americans. According to science, however, they have also become COVID-19 hotspots as reckless libs flee to the beach in droves.
The Massachusetts vacation havens like to boast that they are some of the most-vaccinated locales in the country. They aren't so boastful of late, or at least they shouldn't be. A Fourth of July outbreak in Cape Cod's Provincetown has resulted in at least 250 confirmed cases, prompting local officials to issue an advisory urging people to wear masks indoors.
Following the July 4 weekend on Martha's Vineyard, health officials reported more new COVID-19 cases in four days than they had in the previous six weeks. Evidence suggests journalists are at least partially to blame.
"Guys Covid has changed things. I'm at the whitest white person wedding ever on Martha's Vineyard and literally every guest has been on the dance floor since the first song," journalist Lucy Huber tweeted on July 12, days before cases on the island started to spike.
BLUF:
[PJ] But most vaccine skepticism, if by that we mean reluctance, is not based on conspiracy theorizing — it’s based on risk-benefit calculations. You may think it’s an innumerate calculation. But when you look at patterns of uptake in the United States, two factors stand out, factors that are larger in their effect than partisanship: age and density. The older you are and the denser your community, the more likely you are to be vaccinated. The younger you are, and the more rural your community, the less likely you are to have gotten it. This reflects the real facts about the risk of death from COVID. People may be wildly overestimating their risk from the vaccine and underestimating their risks from COVID — but they have the directional thinking correct. Those who are in less danger, act like it.
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30% of people have no intention of being vaccinated. That's a hard floor. Our in-house magic numbers guy will have plenty of bad names to call them. Does he still want to punch the governor of Florida? Comon over. We'll pound you flat and enjoy listening to you try to say "Freudian Projection" with no teeth.
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#4
True it is. The ones who ":have it all figured out" don't last long.
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07/25/2021 2:37
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Disclaimer: I got vaccinated as soon as was possible for my age range. It didn't change my opinion that everyone else has to make that decision for themself. The "do it for the good of humanity" crap does not need to be discussed. Half of humanity wants the fruit of the other half's efforts. Fuck them.
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everyone else has to make that decision for themself
No more than they're entitled to "make that decision for themselves" about DUI.
p.s. There are two groups in USA that under- vaccinated relative to the rest of the population. One is hard-core conservatives, the other are inner-city dwellers. Draw your own conclusions.
#7
I never tested positive. I am naturally immune. Got the jab anyway. How many people who never got it feel no need to get a shot? Of course, their DNA and immune systems are "Freudianly Projecting" and they will get the GAMMA or KAPPA variant shortly...
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07/25/2021 2:57
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#8
Similar but different, s "tropical disturbance" is moving away from the east coast of CONUS but may produce named raindrops along the east coast.
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07/25/2021 3:01
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#9
Oooh, unvaccinated is like DUI. Sounds like somebody is getting nervous.
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07/25/2021 3:04
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Lots of people propagate STDs. Not my problem. The notion that COVID people are infection machines is about the same. I don't kiss them, I don't let them sneeze in my face. The idea that someone else is dangerous to me just by living differently sounds sorta rayciss. Even tho it's true...
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07/25/2021 3:08
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#12
So, g, should people who blow 1.0 on a COVID meter be banned from breathing for a year?
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07/25/2021 3:10
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Drunks Against Mad Mothers. Healthy People Against Gummint Freakouts. How bout this. My guns have killed no one. My breath has killed no one. Even the Founding Fathers didn't see a "right to breathe" as necessary in the Bill of Rights. Of course, the Bill of Rights did not carve out a space for panty wetting academics. Part of the reason they hate the Constitution so much...
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07/25/2021 3:17
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#14
Eric Hoffer said it: A religion needs a devil. COVID is a religion that worships it's own devil. Mr. "Freudian Projection" is just a USSR apparatchik who sees "wreckers" everywhere he looks.
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07/25/2021 3:24
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Just think if HIV+ people had been forcibly quarantined back in the day. Lots of sorrow would have been avoided but the media would be screaming about the injustice of it now. They would treat COVID the same to sell newspapers. Think about it.
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07/25/2021 3:39
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Bigger Picture. Not available as an Excel plug-in...
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07/25/2021 3:58
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This subject is totally polarized. I have talked to people who would reelect Obama. Then those who would reelect Trump. No use providing any evidence. Some totally trust government and others are skeptical of government. I hold the opinion our government is capable of anything. Legal proceedings have started.Cease and desist legal action soon. Justice soon but outcome fair most likely not.
#23
All God's creatures are born to die. Why have a bad attitude about it? You claim you are agnostic or athiest. You believe numbers are God. So look at the numbers, g. How much worse is the human race than last year? How much of it is disease? How much of that disease is more fatal because treatment changed during lockdowns? It can all be entered into an Excel sheet. Of course, if the answers don't line up weith narrative...
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#24
Every man has barely enough faith for himself in this day and age, so I can only speak for myself. I also understand that to some this may seem like stupidity, but bear with me.
It was promised to them that believe in God that the gates of hell shall not prevail against them, so some people don't care for diseases, man-made thingies or what have you. I can understand that, totally. To them, the profession of their faith includes fearlessness against calamity and plagues.
I also understand the conservative distrust for anything that comes out of a politician's or federal official's mouth. Some people are motivated just by that. I took the jab only out of rendering to Caesar, and with confidence that God will take care of the rest, that my life and death will not be decided by a chink playing with test tubes or some clueless geeks desperately trying to save governments from failing.
Most of you aren't afraid of death either. I think what you resent is being needlessly endangered because of high handedness and callousness of your rulers. Bear in mind that there be higher than them, and the highest is the keeper and saviour of your souls. Whatever you guys and girls do, just keep the faith and don't fear for anything.
The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. - Job [or psalms]
I do not think a Wuhan Lab construct or a bad batch from the good fellas at Pfizer can do much about it. Without our confidence in our own life, what are we?
#25
I do not accept that a number off a spreadsheet should control my life. I had no input into who chose the numbers, the algorithms, the software or the media distillation of the results. I'm several degrees of separation from the results and I won't run my life that way. If that makes me a drunk on the highway then learn to drive.
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07/25/2021 4:16
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The closest you get to Avogadro's Number or the Chandrasekhar Limit in your work, g, is cut and dried statistics, which is GIGO all the way.
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07/25/2021 4:51
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#32 - Yes. If you offered drunks a shot that would give them 100% immunity from a DUI you'd get 100% takers. Totally different situation. g just isn't that smart.
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07/25/2021 4:56
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#35
I "changed the argument" from whatever to actual physical constants. Freudian projection, no doubt...
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07/25/2021 5:07
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#32 Rantburg's leading intellectual have spoken.
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#35 When, if ever, you'll grow up MM - you'll find out that the tricks you learned in your high-school debating club have no place in arguments about reality.
#40
Im comfortable with the statements I've made. I never got around to insulting anyone, but I did insult some religious convictions. And got the expected feedback.
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07/25/2021 9:19
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#32 wasn't me, but he gets to say his piece around here too. I'm still waiting for the absolute physical constant that bolsters your "arguments..."
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07/25/2021 9:25
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#42
I'm not the one screeching about "Freudian Projection" and accusing people of psychiatric issues just because I disagree with them. That's a very soviet kind of thinking, eh, tovarisch?
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07/25/2021 9:30
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#43
Poor MM, I really hurt your feelings. Sorry. You're special - don't believe anybody who tells you that you are not.
#44
My IQ is around 125. My key "intellectual leap" is to realize it's not my place to run other people's lives. For a Leo that's a really difficult reach...
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07/25/2021 9:46
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#45
No worries. My feewings aren't the focus of my life...
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07/25/2021 9:48
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#46
"Flame Off!" for this thread, today anyway
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07/25/2021 9:50
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#50
The more complicated the issue, the less likely there is a "simple truth."
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07/25/2021 10:15
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#51
G, you still live in a land where politicians understand politics is the art of the possible. We're way past that here in the USA. Watch us, there will be clues to what's coming next.
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07/25/2021 10:27
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#52
^There are some advantages/disadvantages for every political system.
The evidence thus far appears to show that is not the case this round in America — at the federal level, at least. With procedures being tightened up in many Republican-controlled states, the next several years should be interesting.
#59
You should just go the extra kilometer and accuse people who won't get vaccinated of premeditated murder. Maybe now you understand why I called you a piece of shit.
#60
Everybody who has worked with someone who said "I don't get a flu shot. I get the flu anyway and the shot seems to guarantee it's worse." raise your hand.
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07/25/2021 11:14
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#61
Yes, an anecdote, but one I've heard a bunch of times.
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07/25/2021 11:15
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#67
I did know a guy who sorted packages at UPS when an ATF operation busted people stealing guns.
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07/25/2021 11:31
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#68
The media every week runs a story about someone who was anti-vax in their social media and then died of COVID. Is anyone tracking the social media / fatal COVID case angle?
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07/25/2021 11:39
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Well, I get a "not found" screen. That seems appropriate.
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07/25/2021 11:42
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#72
WRT the DUI non argument, if the gummint required you to drive drunk, insist you allow your kids to have homosexual encounters in school, would you go along with that?
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07/25/2021 11:46
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#73
BTW, Neil Cavuto is sucking Fauxi's d*ck on TV. Are you still watching that crap channel?
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07/25/2021 11:58
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g(r)omgoruI I am far from a "hard core conservative" nor am I an inner city dweller. I have not been vaccinated nor do I plan on it.
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07/25/2021 12:10
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g(r)omgoru I am far from a "hard core conservative" nor am I an inner city dweller. I have not been vaccinated nor do I plan on it.
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07/25/2021 12:12
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^ Cripe, there's the problem. The man has about a point oh two percent chance of dying from COVID. But to the COVID religionist it's the black death.
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07/25/2021 12:21
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#80
Jf a virus was going to mutate until it was 100% fatal to humans it would have happened a long time ago. Or maybe Chinese help made it different this time?
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07/25/2021 12:24
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#81
Yes, yes, HIV (thanks, Tony) and Ebola which seems to not spread much.
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07/25/2021 12:28
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#82
The gummint never seemed to getting around to outlawing sex over syphilis or HIV. Story in there somewhere...
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07/25/2021 12:30
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#83
^I said it before, and I'll say it again - all covid-skeptics are CCP collaborators.
#84
A jerk just got two years in jail here for having undisclosed HIV+ sex with multiple women. Who want to bet against some federal judge tossing tbat sentence because it gives LGBTQWXYZ activists the howling fantods?
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#85
COVID intervention.
Besoeker, for your link you pasted Azithromycin, zinc sulfate and budesonide with HCQ instead of a URL.
#86
>I said it before, and I'll say it again - all
>covid-skeptics are CCP collaborators.
You were a vax skeptic six months ago.
You know, the more shit you spread, the harder it's going to be to get people to take the vaccine when we finally get one that's actually worth a flying fuck. "Here, try this one, it's better than the mandatory one we made you take last month with the side effects and the high failure rate."
#87
Well, I got vaccinated so I actually need to drink some Wild Turkey if i want to drive drunk. As for respecting other people's choices, I'll keep checking my mailbox for my CCP membership card...
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07/25/2021 12:41
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#88
If Tony Fauxi started reading lottery numbers on TV I'd believe nobody ever wins the lottery.
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07/25/2021 12:44
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g(r)omgoru My doctor said even if I get covid I have a 99+ percent chance of surviving. The vaccines are not 100 percent effective, actually less than 99 percent. I have a less than 1 percent chance of getting it. There are known short term side effects that I do not wish to take a chance on having and there are unknown long term side effects I also don't wish to take a chance on. I am not a covid skeptic.
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07/25/2021 12:58
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I'm not a COVID skeptic. I've known people who got it and I've known people who have lost family members to it. What I am skeptical about is the magic numbers and the gummint's hair on fire approach. If they worried about the national debt 1/10th as much they might be marginally credible. But no. Draw your own conclusions.
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#91
All unvaccinated will (die)- if not delta, then epsilon.
Yet you called my post bandolier (or some such) which made the exact same point you just made. You really are a piece of shit.
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07/25/2021 13:00
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#93
COVID is not the flu, but it's going to be the new flu. CDC recorded no flu deaths this year. MAgIC NuMbErZ...
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07/25/2021 13:04
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I'll throw my two cents in here, just to stir the pot.
I'm almost 75 years old, my wife will be 79 in a few months. Neither of us is getting the vaccine until it's been DEMONSTRATED to be safe for people with our underlying conditions (diabetes, neuropathy, other problems). The number of people OF ALL AGES that have died from this vaccine are so high as to be unacceptable. The number of people who have gotten their "immunizations", then later contracted the disease, is unacceptable.
My daughter almost died of COVID pneumonia. The local hospital gave her invermectin. She survived. My wife and I were exposed both before and after her hospitalization, and haven't gotten sick. We take vitamin C and D daily, along with zinc. Haven't had a cold in four years. The only time I've had the "flu" (multiple diseases under a common name) was the only time I had a flu shot. My wife had Hong Kong back when that was a major worry, and hasn't had any flu since. The best way to beat this crap is to have a healthy immune system that fights it off.
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07/25/2021 13:07
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Motion for Preliminary Injunction Civil Action No. 2:21-cv-00702-CLM.Let the games begin.
#96
OP, God bless you, your wife, your daughter and all the rest of us. You are, of course Freudian Projecting your childish and uneducated CCP approved anecdotes. I hope you get that everything I wrote after the first period is /sarc
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07/25/2021 13:12
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#97
Oi vey, I've hurt your feelings. If you lot were, just a little bit, more honest with yourself ... but then, there is no use to ask for miracles.
#104
Ever notice politicians and number crunchers who are not CPAs are essentially immune to malpractice suits?
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07/25/2021 13:36
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#105
Oi vey, I've hurt your feelings. If you lot were, just a little bit, more honest with yourself ... but then, there is no use to ask for miracles.
This is perfect. You are defining honesty as agreement with you!
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07/25/2021 13:40
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#106
^ killshot
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07/25/2021 13:42
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#107
I like g. I wish he would take a look at himself and realize Excel isn't Wisdom, Knowledge, Truth or Beauty. Tben he could stop sitting at the kids' table...
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07/25/2021 13:49
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#108
I expect the longest Rantburg thread was much longer and probably more interesting. I suspect TW has the dope on that...
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07/25/2021 13:57
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#109
Yes, in the Murat and Aris days.
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07/25/2021 13:59
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#110
You know who I miss, blogger wise? Marduk of Babylonian Musings. I miss Daniel Medley too.
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07/25/2021 14:02
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#111
I like you too, MM - you amuse me. So, a few months from now - when booster shots will be available, don't forget to take yours.
#112
Im all on board with that, g. I need to be around to pester you...
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07/25/2021 14:13
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#113
Get a room
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07/25/2021 14:15
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#114
I was totally against anti-vaxxers (felt it was a crime against humanity) until COVID. Nobody needs measels or polio, or even COVID. But the new sales pitch puts my teeth on edge and that just can't be ignored.
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07/25/2021 14:17
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#115
Frank G. helps us keep it real.
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07/25/2021 14:19
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#116
And, g, next time something as bad as polio comes around, I'll be a fucking stormtrooper.
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07/25/2021 14:24
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#117
Most of what needs to be done to prevent the next polio is to electrocute Fauxi and Daszak at half time of the next Super Bowl.
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07/25/2021 14:31
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#118
If the gubamint was really worried about covid spread the southern border would be closed.
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07/25/2021 15:26
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#119
I expect the longest Rantburg thread was much longer and probably more interesting.
M.Murcek, we’ve had threads that went close to 200 comments. In general because they got nasty, which makes me cry. I’m sure Frank G is right about the instigators. Also, g(r)omguru is not Herb McCoy.
Too many of the comments in this thread, except for personal anecdotes, are repetitions of things said with the same level of frustration multiple times previously — none of which changed any minds then. We are all blind philosophers trying to figure out the elephant.
g(r)omgoru dear, if you have not yet done so, please follow the links to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology study referenced in the original article. The entire point is that the research shows skeptics are responding to the published data at a high level of sophistication, as measured by the shocked MIT anthropologists. The data underline the need for humility and mutual respect in such discussions.
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It's OK to disagree with my fellow Burgers, but I do try to keep it factual. I personally don't appreciate my intelligence or sanity being questioned by anyone who has never actually met me, and I try to remind myself that no one else likes that either. At the same time, I'd be the first to admit I can be quite insane and have been known to plumb the depths of human stupidity. But I have my good days too. I've learned a lot from the various experts here who don't start with "I'm an expert" but instead make their knowledge accessible to me. This place is special and worthwhile and I try to always remind myself that I need to be worthy. I sometimes fall short, and if I ever fall way too short, toss me. But I'm glad to be here and appreciate everyone else who contributes here. Especially the ones I don't always agree with. They are a gut-check we all need, I hope I'm something like that to others at times...
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You don't think if there were any adverse effects, we'd hear about it by now? I mean, not a few dozens people but a few hundred thousand.
p.s. Before vaccines become available, we seen - here at Ranburg - a "scientific" report that masks don't work, at least once a week. We seen reports that people who recovered from Covid have antibodies six-months later. We seen reports that HCQ, ivermectin - and, for all I know hair growth cream - cure Covid.
So, it all may be science for MIT anthropologists. For me, it's no different from AGW science or Christian science or Creation Science (or a book by an eminent physicist - they used to be published one every few years, "proving" that evolution can't work).
p.s. IMO, in USA, simple questions of epidemiology & immunology become mixed with your Manichean politics. And I'm really, really don't want any more people in this group disappearing.
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Any anomaly will get extra attention. I personally squirm in my skin when I read Candace Owen making every anecdote she recounts into the apocalypse. Have people had adverse reactions up to and including death from vaccines? For sure. People die in car wrecks and plane crashes too, but we don't stop driving or flying. OTOG, no one makes you get in a car or a plane. I think the idea you must be vaccinated is not much different from the idea you must get a college degree. Lots of people will never pay off their Queer Studies degree loans (politicians keep saying they are going to make rich taxpayers cover that but don't hold your breath) Yes, some will say that it's no meaningful comparison, but imagine what that capital - human and monetary - could have done if not pathetically misdirected. It's hard to accept that a person can kill an inconvenient human being and call it choice but be labeled a threat to humanity because they choose not to be vaccinated. Yes, yes, consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. Give me something better than that, OK?
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I keep hearing that delta variant is spreading like wildfire, but I'm not hearing about increased death rates or overflowing hospitals. Makes me wonder if its weaker, and if our health care industry pretty much knows what to do in most cases now that they've had a years experience.
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If you are hearing it from CNN or FAUX News or from anything downstream IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD.
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Per my tracking of Worldometers data, cases are up over the last two months, but deaths have been steady at 300-400 a day. Compare to 6,968 dead on Feb. 13.
I believe the press is hyperventilating to support Joe's vaccine goals.
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#122 -- Maybe you're not reading the right material. So far, more than 5000 deaths have been reported to VAERS since December, 2020. Compare that to fewer than 500 deaths from polio vaccines since 1954. I grew up in Louisiana. I had classmates that had polio. I gladly got the vaccine, as did most of my relatives. I don't see the same incentive to get a vaccine that has ten times the adverse effect in eight months that the polio vaccine had in 60+ years.
https://undercurrents723949620.wordpress.com/2021/07/23/injuries-upon-vaccination-nearing-500000-5467-u-s-deaths/
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#127 more than 5000 deaths have been reported to VAERS since December, 2020. Compare that to fewer than 500 deaths from polio vaccines since 1954.
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#128 = are you pleased with yourself? No other friends to annoy or bore?
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#128: You're trying to compare 98 million Americans getting a vaccine to 3.68 billion doses administered. Does not necessarily mean 3.68 billion Americans got vaccinated (Since there's only ~330 million people in the nation). Nice try, but a statistical fail. You're also comparing a period that covered ~8 years with one that's covered less than 8 MONTHS. Another statistical fail.
I'm not good at math, but my logic appears to be better than yours. The numbers of deaths is still unacceptable to me, and so is the number of seriously injured. When those numbers improve (by at least 1000%) I might reconsider.
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WTF went on here? Gawddayumn you guys can go at one thing all day!
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In today's Sun paper front page we have an article about Fort Detrick in Frederick Maryland. Basically they report that China is spreading disinformation about their work there in bio weapon engendering.That the locals know that is not being done there, hogwash. I know for a fact locals have been concerned for years about their work there in a local civilian community. I delivered medical products for the study of bird deaths(of Pneumonia) that occurred so rapidly. I understand sheep also die very fast as well of pneumonia. This goes back to the 70's. So media news is simply propaganda is my point. Several times in my life I have been years ahead of the general population on ideas. Why, I don't know. I tell you this I could lie and people would accept what I say easier. The truth is harder to accept. So I have been here many times. This vaccine problem has just begun. It is unfortunate and unnecessary but with a shortened life span and many die(of vaccine) in the next two years will prove the truth of what others have said more qualified than myself. The sign up ahead says bridge is out but people insist the sign is wrong and drive forward. Such are the ways of people.
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President Joe Biden plans to create ways for Americans to report radicalized friends and family to the government
"As the Burg goes, so goes the nation"
Nom de plume, IP addresses, opinions, social ranking assessments, County Town City State Nation association research and it goes on until people are identified and tracked down; this is the environment the government is creating, announced on June 6th 2021. 🔗 above
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[France24] The European medicines watchdog on Friday approved the use of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine for children aged 12 to 17, making it the second jab for adolescents for use on the continent.
"The use of the Spikevax vaccine in children from 12 to 17 years of age will be the same as in people aged 18 and above," the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said, using Moderna's brand name.
The vaccine will be given in two injections, each four weeks apart.
The decision by the Amsterdam-based agency follows the approval of the first vaccine for European youngsters, by Pfizer/BioNTech in May.
The effects of Spikevax have been studied among 3,732 children aged 12 to 17 years, the EMA said.
"The study showed that Spikevax produced a comparable antibody response in 12- to 17-year-olds to that seen in young adults aged 18 to 25 years," it said.
It uses genetic material to deliver instructions to human cells to create the spike protein of the coronavirus, thereby training an immune response without exposing the host to a real infection.
The EU on Thursday said 200 million Europeans have been fully vaccinated, more than half of the adult population, but still short of a 70 percent target it had set for the summer.
[American Thinker] Why has the United States been transmogrified in little more than half a century from a Christian nation that joyously displayed Christmas trees and crèches in public spaces into a secular nation that bans prayers at public school graduation ceremonies, allows men who "identify" as women to invade female dressing rooms, and even celebrates a woman's constitutional "right" to snuff out the life in her womb? These are a few of the transformations in American society that Michael Knowles analyzes in his recent work Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds — transformations broadly attributed to "political correctness" and Marxism.
As Knowles's subtitle suggests, a major component of the left's revisionist project is through control and manipulation of language, making it almost impossible to think and speak outside the radicals' linguistic box. The apotheosis of what once seemed modest feminist-inspired changes (e.g., substituting "chairperson" for "chairman") is the modern demand (on pain of being labeled a "transphobic bigot") that everyone must call a man a woman if "she" identifies as a woman. This linguistic project is part and parcel of the "long march through the institutions" that "cultural Marxists" deem necessary to destroy the "false consciousness" Americans imbibed from traditional culture.
To give one salient example, if the values extant in the 1950s permeated society, most women would likely embrace the idea of being married and a mom — a decision that feminists like Simone de Beauvoir equated with being in prison. "Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one." Given the enthusiastic "breaking the glass ceiling" rhetoric that emanates incessantly from leftist media and the implicit denigration of women who choose to become mothers and homemakers, de Beauvoir's vision of "freedom" for women now lacks only the element of legal compulsion. To control language, one must occupy the "commanding heights of the culture," and today, all these institutions (media, academia, Big Tech) are overwhelmingly under leftist control.
Explaining Marxist goals and their linguistic tactics, however, is only one side of Knowles' argument. The most provocative component of his book concerns a critique of conservatives who play into the hands of their opponents by failing to see the importance of these linguistic battles or by countering them with abstract paeans to "free speech" and "free markets." By defining the linguistic terms of debate, Marxists are able to create "heads I win, tails you lose" scenarios that revolve around putative "rights" of "marginalized" populations who "feel excluded" by traditional culture (e.g., statues of Jefferson, the National Anthem, the nuclear family). Knowles observes that "free speech" and "anti-censorship" arguments only create a moral vacuum that the culturally dominant left inevitably fills. He further notes that no society, including America, ever tolerated all manner of speech or failed to censor actions and ideas it deemed inimical to its welfare.
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The old Monty Python sketch: "What do I mean when I say mean? What do I mean when I say say?
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Woody Guthrie had a sticker on his guitar that said "This machine kills fascists." Woody, of course, was a fascist lover to the core. Yes, children, they are afraid of words so say them, loud and proud. People who are afraid of speech and ideas are dangerous people indeed.
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Yup. Happens on this site too. How often do you see words like "Dreamers" used instead of substituted? The ignorant person who posted it didn't even think, but implicitly accepted the Left's frame.
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Actually you can get to mind control too. You just have to keep the mind malleable and confused long enough from birth to adulthood, so as to deny it proper development. Catch 'em young, as they say.
[Washington Examiner] The CIA is taking the threat of COVID-19 seriously. "Vaccinated", not "Vetted"
William Burns, the director of the CIA, said nearly all the agency's officers are fully vaccinated roughly a year and a half into the pandemic, which is displaying signs of resurgence with the spread of the more contagious delta variant.
"Navigating through the COVID pandemic — and we're still navigating through it, although, at CIA, we have fully vaccinated more than 95% of our officers, both at headquarters and overseas," Burns told NPR in an interview on Thursday. He made the comment while talking about taking care of the CIA's own and creating more diversity in the workforce.
The figure shared by Burns is far above vaccination rates seen across the country. A total of 162,725,812 people in the United States have been fully vaccinated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday, which is 49% of the population. COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have risen above the 600,000 mark, and there have been more than 34 million cases, according to CDC data.
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The original The Fly was a straight up tragedy. The remake was somewhat of an intellectual excursion in the last days before everything was all rayciss all the time.
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BTW, my microchip is fabulous. Totally compatible with the Windows Insider version of Windows 11 I'm running right now...
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we have fully vaccinated more than 95% of our officers,
What do they mean by officers in this context? Is there a corresponding group of enlisted personnel? Support staff?
If they mean the people who go abroad to spy and manage spies, then the Covid vaccine is probably added to a long list of region-specific shots they’ll have gotten, including cholera, yellow fever, and tetanus.
From a Facebook posting:
Back in 2004, a guy named Brian Binnie flew this little rocket-powered beauty, basically built in Burt Rutan’s garage, into space. No computer controls, not even hydraulics…the control surfaces were connected to the joystick by cables and pulleys, like a WWI biplane. THIS was the first privately built aircraft to fly to space, twice within two weeks.
So when Amazon man emerges from his ridiculously expensive toy that he had nothing to do with designing, building or flying (he even thanked all of us for paying for it), wearing a cowboy hat as if he some living-on-the-edge maverick who’s risking it all…well, I’ll tip my hat in respect to Brian.
Great little documentary about Burt and the whole crew if anyone’s interested…
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Very cool, Besoeker. Only remembered now are the lost Vineland settlement of Erik the Red and the apparently regular foraging trips across the Atlantic of the Medieval Irish monks, yet they led to Columbus and the colonization of the Americas. It’s important to remember the pioneers, even if they did not establish a permanent beachhead.
Jeff Bezos did not do the research and development, but it was his interest and money that enabled this flight to happen — and considerably more cheaply and quickly than the U.S. government’s NASA, if possibly more expensively than Mr. Rutan’s project (we don’t know — Rutan’s project also had outside billionaire funding). Mr. Bezos earned the right to show his trust in the team that did the actual work by risking his life in the still experimental demonstration.
Let us be glad he chose to spend some of his profits on helping us escape the planet of our birth instead of wholly on destroying our politics and society down here.
And yes, every Amazon transaction did contribute in small part to enabling him to enable the scientists and engineers. I am as willing to accept credit for this participation as previous generations were to accept that by paying taxes they became partial owners of that “...one small step for a man, one giant leap for Mankind.” That Jeff Bezos expressed this awkwardly is no surprise, but does not change my part in the thing.
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Mr. Rutan’s Wikipedia page is fascinating (yes, Wikipedia does have its uses, however imperfect it most definitely is). His partnership with Paul Allen, formerly of Microsoft, is of long standing, and his work over the decades has been much honoured within the industry, including winning the first X Prize for this effort.
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Mr. B a side note; "Aloha Wanderwell (Idris Galcia Hall née Welsh, October 13, 1906 – June 4, 1996) was a Canadian-American Internationalist explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator. In the 1920s, while still a teenager, she traveled 380,000 miles across 80 countries, becoming the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in a Ford 1918 Model T. Beginning when she was just 16 years old, the journey took the five years 1922–1927 to complete."
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[ZERO] Because once again the lack of police on the streets is turning into a problem - this time in the Bronx, where illegal street vendors and gamblers "have taken over a commercial strip," according to the New York Post. The takeover is a result of new city laws that make it impossible for the NYPD to confiscate goods or even demand ID from street vendors.
The new law went into effect in May 2021 and moved enforcement away from NYPD and to the city's Department of Consumer Affairs and Worker Protection. Someone from the agency told the Post the law doesn't even go into effect until September.
Marko Majic, head of business development for City Jeans on East Fordham Road, told the New York Post: "It looks like a bazaar in Istanbul. The only difference is in Istanbul it’s legal and organized and here it is illegal and unorganized."
The Post reports there are now 242 sidewalk vendors, more than the 230 storefronts in the same area.
"They sell water, jewelry, masks, toys, counterfeit goods, anything you can imagine," said Wilma Alonso, director of the Fordham Road Business Improvement District. She said they even play three card monte and called the situation a "public safety crisis".
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She said they even play three card monte and called the situation a "public safety crisis".
It's worse than the square from Ertugrul!
Crack pipes, bongs, Evian bottles half full.
You know you're not in the Piazza Del Conte,
with Wakandans throttling each other
over cheating at Three Card Monte!
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who cares , let them live in their shithole. Anyone with any sense wouldn't go into the bronx anyway. Same reason I stay out of the perimeter in ATl.
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[Alt-Mkt] On the global news front I have been watching one event with special attention, mainly because it seems like almost no one else is — I am speaking of course about the social and economic collapse in South Africa that has been escalating over the past couple weeks. What is strange to me is that certain parallels between South Africa and the US are being summarily ignored.
Basically, the South African situation is a more exaggerated version of what is happening in America, and we need to consider if it is merely a preview of future events as the extra financial protections in the US begin to fall away.
South Africa’s government under the ANC (African National Congress) was already going full communist in 2018-2019 before the covid pandemic. Under proposed amendments to the constitution, they demanded that "reparations" be taken from white farmers in the form of land grabs, which would then be redistributed to black citizens.
This is the classic critical race theory argument — That because colonialism once existed, all beneficiaries and their supposed descendants owe dues to the descendants of indigenous people who lost their lands. The problem is, only the descendants of WHITE colonists are required to pay dues.
This is exactly the same path that socialists/Marxists in the Democratic Party are pursuing in the US, with some states and cities demanding reparations for blacks be written into law because of slavery nearly 200 years ago. The reparations movement is tiny, but like all other social justice initiatives it is gaining power because politicians and corporations are supporting it artificially. Why? That’s easy: It’s all about divide and conquer.
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Honestly, the Woketards might be able to turn the cities into dystopian apocalyptic hellholes that'll end where the hated militia's set up roadblocks to keep food and other supplies out while the woke plague devolves into eating each other literally. Out in Normal human land, we'll just shake our heads and keep the guns close.
[Just The News] top FBI official has violated agency policy by failing to timely report a romantic relationship with a subordinate, according to a new Justice Department inspector general’s report.
The report released Thursday does not name the official. However, The Washington Post, which first reported about what the IG reports calls "misconduct," identified the official as Jill Tyson, an assistant director in the bureau’s Office of Congressional Affairs.
The newspaper said it identified Tyson based on information from current and former law enforcement officials.
The investigation also found the official allowed the relationship to negatively affect an appropriate and professional superior-subordinate relationship and to disrupt the workplace by interfering with the ability of other FBI employees to complete their work. The official also participated in a hiring or organizational decision involving the subordinate, all in violation of FBI policy, according to a summary of the report.
Whether the FBI will take action in response to the report is unclear.
[NYPOST] The Department of Justice has decided not to investigate whether the civil rights of residents in New York’s government-run nursing homes were violated by Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo ...Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he has about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him. Noo Yawk's politix being what they are, he is still hanging tough, waiting to ride it out.... ’s controversial admission policy related to the COVID-19 pandemic.In a letter Friday, the DOJ’s Office of Legislative Affairs told US Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), ranking member of that House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, that New York was off the hook in connection with potential violations of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.
In August, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division requested information from New York in connection with a March 25, 2020, order from the state Department of Health that required nursing homes to admit "medically stable" COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals.
It also sought records from Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Jersey, which adopted similar rules that the DOJ said "may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents."
"We have reviewed the information provided by these states along with additional information available to the Department," Deputy Assistant Attorney General Joe Gaeta wrote Friday.
"Based on that review, we have decided not to open a CRIPA investigation of any public nursing facility within New York, Pennsylvania, or Michigan at this time."
[KhaamaPress] US recent request to Congress for supporting ANDSF worth $3.3 billion which prioritizes, one billion dollars for the Afghan Air Force to support ongoing military operation which also include delivering additional aircraft, one billion dollars for purchasing key supplies to ANDSF including fuel, ammunition, and spare parts, and $700 million to continued payment of salaries for Afghan troops.
It comes as the United Kingdom announced its one hundred million pounds of aid to Afghanistan this year. Very likely a Foggy Bottom - Green Zone leasing arrangement to the Taliban. They've had over 20 years to arm up. Good money after bad.
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Matt, that was me, the limerick idiot, idiotically taking the name in vain upon remembering Shipman's thing for pie hats. Should've gone with "Ghost of Shipman," or just kept quiet, since I only knew the man from his later posts here. Sorry for any confusion.
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Shipman died quietly of cancer a few years ago, Matt.
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NO! We are broke! The national debt is north of 30 trillion and growing like a cancer. If the Treasury had to pay even 3% return on existing t-bills/debt it would consume the entire federal budget. The Fed doesn't dare use liquidity tools or decrease buying treasuries in the greatest ponzi scheme in world history, or the whole fiat money system would collapse when any sane person looked at it. Since the 1960's America has endured the greatest looting of the public treasury since the fall of Rome, and the level of direct and indirect ruinous taxation on the middle class is worse than that experienced by the serf class in medieval Europe. We have exported our industrial base, imported useless illegals and torn the fabric of the nation to tatters over racist slanders as we devolve into tribal groupthink and educate our children in progressive gibberish. And the remedy of an honest election is now dubious at best as we see that the Marxists and their allies clearly stole the last elections....God help us!
[IsraelTimes] Arab paper claims that after getting sense US does not back ongoing Israeli raids, Moscow has taken steps to upgrade Syrian missile defenses.
Russia has "run out of patience" with Israel in Syria and is planning a shift in its policies toward Israeli sorties over the country, according to an unconfirmed report on Saturday.
The London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq al-Awsat cited an unnamed "well-informed" Russian source
...who may or may not be informed to any degree, or even Russian...
as saying that following talks with Washington, Moscow had got the impression that "Washington does not welcome the continuous Israeli raids," and thus believes it has the freedom to act more aggressively to thwart them.
Clearly someone believes President Biden is not in Israel’s corner, and is willing to send out feelers to see if Israel can be intimidated.
In light of this, the Russians were now supplying Syrian forces with more advanced anti-missile systems and know-how, making them more capable of shooting down Israeli armaments, the report said.
Unless the Russians are willing to man the things themselves, it won’t make any difference.
It claimed the effect of this was already being seen, with Syrian air defenses shooting down seven of eight Israeli missiles during a July 19 Israeli raid.
There was no outside confirmation of the Arab newspaper’s report.
Syrian media reported two Israeli attacks this week, on Monday night and early Thursday. It claimed that in both cases most missiles were shot down — though Syria has regularly made such claims in the past, in what Syrian war analysts have generally believed to be empty boasts.
Israel’s military does not comment on reports of specific strikes in Syria save for those that are in retaliation for attacks from the country.
Israel has launched hundreds of strikes against Iran-linked military targets in Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations. Jerusalem fears Iranian entrenchment on its northern frontier, and it has repeatedly struck Iran-linked facilities and weapons convoys destined for Hezbollah.
Russia has repeatedly criticized Israeli strikes over the years.
In January, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Jerusalem should provide Moscow with intelligence about suspected threats so that it can "neutralize" them, rather than attack them itself.
"If Israel is really forced to respond to threats to the Israeli security coming from the Syrian territory, we have told our Israeli colleagues many times: if you see such threats, please give us the information," Lavrov said at the time.
Russia has deployed a large military presence in Syria to support dictator Bashir al-Assad through his country’s brutal civil war. In order to prevent unwanted festivities, Jerusalem and Moscow have maintained a so-called deconfliction mechanism, which has allowed the two countries to effectively communicate with one another and avoid altercations.
This mechanism has been generally successful, with the notable exception of an incident in September 2018, in which a Russian spy plane was shot down by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile that had been fired in response to an Israeli attack.
Moscow blamed Israel for the deaths of the troops on board the aircraft, saying Israeli planes had hidden behind the Russian aircraft, a charge that the Israel Defense Forces fiercely denied No, no! Certainly not!
On Saturday, the Saudi-based al-Arabiya news network reported that Imad al-Amin, a military commander for Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy whose members have fought in Syria on behalf of Bashir al-Assad’s forces, was killed in one of the Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s this week.
Hezbollah confirmed on Telegram that al-Amin was killed "while fulfilling his duties" but did not specify when or how, Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported on Saturday night.
Al-Arabiya also reported that a bigwig in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Sayed Ahmed Qurayshi, was killed under unknown circumstances in Syria this week. There has been no official confirmation from Iran.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Qurayshi has been based in Syria since 2013 and had "participated in many military operations alongside Qassem Soleimani ," the former commander of the IRGC’s al-Quds Brigade who was killed by the US in January 2020.
Responding to this report of a successful [Israeli] attack early Thursday morning.
[IsraelTimes] In an interview with Russia’s Tass news agency, Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit, the head of the Russian military’s Reconciliation Center in Syria, appears to confirm reports of Israeli strikes in Syria last week.
"Two F-16 fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force made a strike with four guided missiles on facilities in Homs province from the airspace of Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that... ," he says.
"All four missiles were destroyed by the Syrian duty air defense facilities, with the use of Buk-2ME systems of Russian manufacture."
Queerly enough, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which admittedly is not fond of the Assad government or its allies, reported the attack destroyed weapons and ammunition depots belonging to Hezbollah, suggesting at least one Israeli missile got through, if not more.
Israeli planes carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against targets in Homs on both Wednesday and Thursday nights, Damascus claims.
Israel’s military does not comment on reports of specific strikes in Syria, save for those that are made in retaliation.
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Russians were now supplying Syrian forces with more advanced anti-missile systems and know-how, making them more capable of shooting down Israeli armaments
That's one way to make Russian system "intercept" more IAF missiles - become a target.
[NPASYRIA] On Saturday at dawn, Turkish forces targeted the northern vicinity of the city of Tel Rifa’at, Herbel, Ain Deqna, and Maraanaz in the northern Aleppo countryside with shells from their base in the town of Kaljibrin, also in the north Aleppo countryside.
Local sources from the city of Tel Rifa’at, which includes residents and IDPs from Afrin, northwest Syria, said that the intermittent shelling is ongoing until the moment of preparing this report.
Since the invasion of Afrin by Turkey and Turkish-backed armed factions in 2018, hundreds of families from Afrin have been displaced to the city of Tel Rifa’at.
However, areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo are witnessing shelling coinciding with a Turkish silence regarding Russian and government shelling against areas in Idlib, although the past two days witnessed protests demanding the Turkish guarantor assume to its responsibilities over what is happening in the area.
Observers believe that Turkey and Russia have tacitly agreed to target the populated areas in Syria, where Syrians are the “big loser” in this shelling.
It is worth mentioning that areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo always witness shelling by the Turkish forces and the armed factions that are stationed in the surrounding areas.
Rabi’a Waqqas, an IDP from Afrin residing in Tel Rifa’at, said that during the past two days, the vicinity of the city witnessed shelling causing fear and panic among people.
On July 11, four people including a child were wounded as a result of a Turkish drone attack against the city center of Tel Rifa’at.
In January, as a result of the Turkish artillery shelling on populated neighborhoods in Tel Rifa’at, four civilian including a woman and a child lost their lives and ten other were wounded in addition to causing massive material losses in the site.
In 2019, Turkish forces and Turkish-backed armed factions targeted the Tel Rifa’at city, reporting ten casualties, including eight children and eight other wounded.
Para troopers, Marine Commandos pressed into service; Search operation on to rule out possibility of any other militant in area, ascertaining whether group had infiltrated, say officials#BandiporaEncounterhttps://t.co/8c4Nyeyr9A
Three unidentified holy warriors were killed while a soldier was maimed in a fierce shootout in Shokbaba forest area of Sumlar in north Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ’s Bandipora district, police said Saturday.
A police official said that the operation was still underway and massive searches are being launched to rule out the presence of any more holy warriors. The official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that acting on a specific lead about the presence of holy warriors in Shokbaba forest area, joint teams of police, army’s 13, 14 and 14 RR and CRPF launched a search operation in the wee hours.
"As the forces intensified the searches, the hiding holy warriors opened fire that retaliated, triggering an encounter," the official said. "In the ensuing shootout, two holy warriors were killed while firing continued in the area."
After a few hours of lull, the official said that contact was once again established with one more holy warrior. "He was hiding under the cover of trees and bushes. After an intense exchange of fire, the third holy warrior was also killed."
Police sources said that it was being ascertained whether the slain holy warriors had recently infiltrated or were hiding in the forest belt of Shokbaba range. "The area is on a height and covered by dense forest cover," they said. Defence sources said that the operation took time given the fact that holy warriors changed their first location from Shokbaba to Aragam where army’s 13 RR engaged them. "There is a tough terrain and the operation was a deliberate one," they said. They search operation is on to rule out presence of any other hiding holy warrior in the area even as the firing has stopped.
BREAKING Syrian government forces stationed in Jurin camp bombard the villages of al-Ankawi and al-Qehr in the Ghab Plain in the western #Hama countryside. pic.twitter.com/Y7CZUG8lhN
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[NYPOST] President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage...... wants to use $100 million in emergency cash to help resettle thousands of Afghan translators in the United States, according to a report. The White House also released a further $200 million of inventory for US agencies required to meet those same needs, Rooters reported.
So that’s really $300 mil, not a mere $100 mil.
Around 2,500 people who worked as translators or provided other services for the United States have been granted special immigration visas (SIVs) and are expected to be brought to a military base in Fort Lee, Virginia for final processing.
The refugees would potentially face retaliation from the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... because of their assistance during the US war effort.
The first group of such refugees will arrive by the end of the month. A total of 18,000 visas are currently being processed.
Biden has promised a final withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by the end of August. The United States has had a presence in the country since the 9/11 terrorist attacks almost 20 years ago, making the war the longest in US history.
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Doing what must be done often comes at a high price...
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in "Man in the High Castle" he was executed by then-Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith's SS officer, Erich Raeder after inadvertently revealing Martin Heusmann as the coup mastermind. The coup was an assassination of Hitler.
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"This guy's not some pimp on the Reeperbahn, he's an SS Colonel."
- Sven Hassel
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Where can I watch Man in the High Castle?
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^ Torrents are best, if you don't want to contribute to the wealth of Netflix etc.
Install Tor. Head to 1337x.to and search for it. Oh, you'll need μTorrent too. If there's a simpler way I don't... wait!
There's 123moviesto.to also. You'll need Tor browser of course. Just stream it off there, keep clicking down popups from time to time.
[DW] After the so-called "Islamic State" saw its influence wane in the Middle East, the group and its affiliates targeted poorly governed areas in Africa. But just how big is the threat across the continent?
In 2018, the West Africa Center for Counter Extremism (WACCE) reported up to 6,000 West Africans who had fought with IS had returned home from Iraq and Syria after the group's self-proclaimed caliphate collapsed.
Last week, Niger's President Mohammed Bazoum said his country needed technological assistance from its European partners to fight jihadis. He complained of swaths of territory in Mali and Niger being taken over by the so-called "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.... " (IS) — known also as ISIS — and its affiliates.
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If you put a teaspoon of sewage in a barrel of sewage, you get...
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Ah, just as expected. Marketing new threats now that Afghanistan is closed for business.
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Shitholes seeking help from the abundance of confused European and American moralists, to preserve their own faulty kingdoms. Independent nations not willing to civilize, it's high time they took responsibility for their own failures. Or ask China their full time partner in raping their own countries.
Yes, very well maybe. Especially the modern muzzism. In medieval times they had some grit and integrity those bastards. Now it's just projecting their own hostility and baseness on others to guilt our courts and legislatures into accommodating them as 'minorities'.
Fun Fact: Projection itself is mis-associated with the Freud senior, as it was his daughter Anna who 'discovered' it. Wasn't much of a discovery, she just gave a name to a transparent trick delinquents and sociopaths had been pulling since ever.
[SHAFAQ] Local officials in Khanaqin confirmed today that the district's residents did not enjoy the holidays due to the poor security and service conditions that prompted them to spend Eid in the Kurdistan region.
The director of the Department of Culture and Arts in Khanaqin, Abbas Muhammad al-Arkwazi, confirmed to Shafaq News agency that Khanaqin residents resorted to the region to spend the Eid, in light of the facilities the government provides for tourists.
For his part, the Director of Khanaqin Tourism department, Samir Sardar, announced granting more than 2,000 entry licenses to the Kurdistan region for licensed tourism companies and offices in Diyala.
According to Sardar, the lack of services and the security situation negatively affected the holidays in Khanaqin.
It is worth noting that Khanaqin had always been a destination for tourists during holidays, receiving at least 30,000 tourists on each occasion.
Specialists attribute the decrease in the number of tourists in Khanaqin to the administrative and security changes in Khanaqin during the last three years.
[IsraelTimes] Officials in Florida, Texas, New York, New Jersey and Illinois reviewing whether move requires divestment from parent company Unilever under their various state laws.
[IsraelTimes] NY-based Susannah Levin, a 21-year contractor for the company, says decision by ice cream giant is part of ‘despicable trend’ of anti-Zionism.
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Whether it be antisemitism or the PC's word Anti-Zionism.
It still reeks of RACISM.
This latest new Socialist uprising we are seeing seems to be nothing more than National Socialism (Nazi) rebooted and groups and companies are jumping on the band wagon yet again.
eg. Nazi - a member of the German fascist practices and agenda following US Socialcrat party. Which started in Germany the US 1933 2008 (Obama)and ended in 1945 2022 under Adolf Hitler Sanders/Harris/Pelosi Junta.
[SHAFAQ] Iraq’s Security Media Cell reported on Saturday that the Military Intelligence arrested three bandidosgunnies in al-Anbar and Saladin governorates.
The Cell said in a statement the intelligence detachments of the Samarra and al-Anbar Operations Command arrested two bandidosgunnies in Saqlawiya, Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... and the Martyr Aws, the entrance to al-Anbar.
It added that a joint force had arrested another terrorist in the al-Jumhuriya area of Dujail district in Saladin governorate.
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[AlAhram] Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi announced Saturday the arrest of a "terror cell" behind a Baghdad market bombing that killed dozens and was claimed by 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.... group.
The attack sparked revulsion and renewed fears about the reach of IS, which lost its last territory in Iraq after a gruelling campaign that ended in late 2017, but retains sleeper cells in remote desert and mountain areas.
The bombing took place on Monday at al-Woheilat market in Sadr City, a Shia suburb in the capital, and officially killed 30 people, excluding the direct perpetrator.
"We have arrested all the members of the cowardly terrorist cell that planned and perpetrated the attack," Kadhemi said on Twitter, "and they will be put before a judge today."
The prime minister did not specify the number of people arrested, but a source at the interior ministry said the suspects were anticipated to make televised "confessions", a common occurence for major crimes in Iraq.
- NEW DRONE ATTACK-
An armed drone targeted a military base in Iraqi Kurdistan that hosts American troops, without causing casualties, the US-led coalition said Saturday.
It was the latest in a spate of attacks on US military and diplomatic facilities in Iraq.
Iraqi Kurdish media outlets said the attack targeted a base at al-Harir, 70 kilometres (45 miles) northeast of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region.
US interests in Iraq have been hit by 50 rocket and drone attacks so far this year -- assaults Washington consistently blames on Tehran-backed factions operating within Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary alliance.
The Iraqi Resistance® Coordination Committee on Friday threatened to continue the attacks unless the US withdraws all its forces and ends the "occupation".
Most of the American troops deployed in the coalition, which helped defeat IS in Iraq in 2017, were withdrawn under former US president Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... Those that remain are officially classed as advisers and trainers for Iraq's army and counter-terrorism units.
Kadhemi is expected to meet US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run.... in Washington on Monday to discuss a possible full US troop withdrawal from Iraq.
But analysts say events in the wake of the 2011 US withdrawal from Iraq -- notably the rise of IS -- may make Biden reluctant to authorise a full pullout, for fear of giving the jihadists rooms to regenerate once more.
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[WND] A blog posting that offers support to President Trump warns that "deprogrammed" and "re-educated" are words that almost always are connected to violence.
"Can you think of a single time in history where these words were used WITHOUT being deadly?" the site wonders.
The issue has come up — again — because leftists have returned to their insistence that anyone who disagrees with them must face that deprogramming, or re-educating.
Now it's MSNBC's Mike Brzezinski
...a typo — that’s Mika Brzezinski (f), not Mike (m). Third wife of anti-Trump Conservative Joe Scarborough, daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski. Her job, apparently, is to rile up the rubes on the Left, which is much harder to do with a Democratic squirrel in the White House instead of Donald Trump...
who is demanding an indoctrination program, apparently forced or otherwise, for those who don't agree with her ideology and politics.
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IA REGNUM continues to investigate the traces of Hitler's aggression and genocide on the territory of modern Russia. Our new step on this path is a series of essays on concentration, labor, transfer camps on the territory of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation within its current borders.
[Garowe] For the second time in two days, the United States military targeted al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... bully boyz in Somalia, showing some signs of helping the country progress, just over eight months after unprecedented withdrawal from the Horn of Africa nation.
On Tuesday, the US Africa Command launched a deadly Arclight airstrike
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The Somali (Puntland) news site takes notice of the activities of a hometown girl in faraway America.
[Garowe] Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... , the Somali-born US congresswoman, is now challenging the renewed Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Somalia by the US Africa Command, which has been helping the Horn of Africa nation contain the al-Shabaab "You killed my husband who was my brother" Continued on Page 49
[IsraelTimes] A Jordanian man has been rubbed out by the Jordanian army after attempting to cross into Israel, according to multiple reports.
The Israeli military says it is looking into the matter, emphasizing that the entire incident took place on Jordanian soil.
Three suspects approached a border fence between Israel and Jordan when Jordanian forces showed up on Saturday afternoon, according to Israel’s Channel 12. The soldiers called out to the three and opened fire when one of the suspects continued toward the fence. It is unclear what happened to the other two.
The event comes hours after Israeli soldiers arrested five border infiltrators from Jordan following a manhunt earlier in this day.
One suspect was quickly arrested and the other four were caught near the Dead Sea in the early afternoon.
All five were unarmed. The military says it believed they were illegal immigrants colonists and did not represent a danger.
[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan ministry of interior affairs said that people in 31 provinces will not be allowed to get out of their homes from 10pm to 4am except for emergency.
The Afghan capital Kabul, eastern Nengarhar province and the northern Panjsher provinces are exempt from the new decree.
Ministry of interior ministry said that most of the terror activities are being conducted throughout night that behooved them to impose such unprecedented limitations.
Deputy spokesperson of Afghan interior ministry Ahamd Zia Zia has asked people in 31 provinces to cooperate with the Afghan Forces and abide by the rules of night curfew.
The unprecedented curfew comes at a time when the Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters and Afghan government forces are busy fighting in over ten provinces of Afghanistan.
Ministry of interior affairs too announced it plan for recapturing over 200 districts which have fallen to the Taliban in the past two months.
The ministry has also said to be fully prepared for thoroughly implementing the new curfews.
Afghanistan's Caped President Ashra Ghani has previously said that a new six-month security plan has been made and will be implemented throughout the country. The new curfews are not clarified to be part of the six-month security scheme.
[SHAFAQ] Iraq in 2021 is still a state afflicted by poverty, injustice, the trauma of great loss of life, and daily fear. Iraqis still suffer from a sense of powerlessness, defeat and humiliation. Since the start of the year, 330 civilians have been killed, including 27 children. Iraq Body Count has now documented more than 208,800 violent mostly peaceful civilian deaths since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, most of them occurring after the country became a democracy in 2005.
Far from reaching "the end of history", the pursuit of neoliberal transformation by successive Iraqi governments has produced a dystopian economy and a failed state.
Democratically elected governments in Iraq, supported by the US-UK coalition that invaded and occupied Iraq in March 2003, as part of the ’War on Terror’, have so far killed more than 4,000 Iraqi civilians through bombing and shelling aimed to destroy the insurgency and in the last years the Iraqi police force and militias it supports have killed hundreds of protesters across Iraq. The Iraqi governments also allowed the killing of thousands more in Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s by Coalition and Ottoman Turkish forces or Iranian-supported militias such as the Popular Mobilisation Forces.
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Far-left protesters get arrested in Brooklyn after refusing to obey dispersal orders. They’re trying to protect a building their comrades broke inside & occupied. Video by @elaadeliahu: pic.twitter.com/6oAkCzvEK5
[NYPOST] As vice president, Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage... kept a variety of private e-mail addresses from which he would sometimes forward and receive government correspondence, 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..... ’s laptop shows."Robin Ware," "Robert L. Peters" and "JRB ware" were three such pseudonyms on e-mails that mixed official and family business.
In a four-week period in 2016, for instance, John Flynn, who worked in the Office of the Vice President, sent Joe his official daily schedule to his private e-mail address Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov and copied Hunter.
There were 10 such e-mails copied to Hunter between May 18 and June 15, 2016.
In one e-mail from Flynn to Joe, a k a Robert Peters, on May 26, 2016, and copied to Hunter, the schedule includes "8.45am prep for 9am phonecall with Pres Poroshenko."
Poroshenko was president of Ukraine and, at the time, Hunter was being paid $83,333 a month to sit on the board of corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings Ltd. Hunter introduced top Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi to his father in April 2015 at a dinner at Café Milano in Washington, DC.
In December 2015, Biden famously threatened Poroshenko that he would withhold $1 billion in US aid unless he fired Ukraine’s top prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who at the time was investigating Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky. Shokin was removed from office on March 29, 2016.
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if true this is a big deal but I'm not sure it is true
I'd be more sure if Judicial Watch or others with investigative experience weighed in on it
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Antony CumHo says the DOJ will pass on it
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IMO this is endemic in our Federal, State and Local governments. Thwarting the FOIA and avoiding stuff leaked to the press by mistake or a bureaucratic enemy's malice.
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There are now foreign news agencies spending a great deal of time regularly talking about how grotesquely incoherent and when coherent how corrupt he is. Deep State support looks like the work of people who are fools as the rest of the world sees them.
[NYPOST] A Florida woman was busted for allegedly skinny-dipping in a stranger’s pool Monday, a report said.The 69-year-old homeowner, James Clark, called 911 after he discovered the naked swimmer, Heather Kennedy, 42, in his pool after he returned home from a doctor’s appointment, according to an arrest report obtained by the Smoking Gun.
When police arrived, Kennedy, who lives about two miles from Clark’s Port Charlotte home, initially refused to leave the water, the report said.
Once Kennedy finally got out of the pool, police said, she struggled with officers who tried to handcuff her.
The woman was charged with trespassing and resisting without violence, the report said.
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She voted four times in 2020. He's registered to vote in six states already. How cute...
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Cure story...
Nice to see some media still digs for the GOOD stories and not just dirt.
But being MINNEAPOLIS and their Governor.
I am sure Anti-FArt and etc... are already demanding Granny be arrested for violating the C-19 rules (no triple Mask) and social distancing.
[SHAFAQ] Three security officers were killed, and two were maimed in an attack waged by ISIS operatives in southwest Kirkuk earlier today, Saturday, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that a group of ISIS operatives attacked a site of the Federal Police in the village of "Karhat Qazan" in al-Rachad sub-district, Southwest Kirkuk.
The attack resulted in killing three officers and injuring two others, the source said.
BREAKING Russian warplanes target the vicinity of Zayzoun Station in #Syria's west #Hama countryside with air-to-air missiles. pic.twitter.com/JVKcmhN1dz
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) July 24, 2021
Air to air? Are the Israelis wandering through the neighbourhood yet again?
My best guess: This was a Chechen organized crime hit, a preventative measure against further investigations against drug trafficking. Chechnya is responsible for most of the methamphetamine that goes to Russia. Prolly a fair amount of ganja, as well.
Rantburg had an opinion piece last Wednesday from Russian military journalist Aleksandr Kots about the corruption bust of the head traffic cop in the Stavropol krai. You can read about it here
[REGNUM] Friday evening in Stavropol, near house No. 55/4 on the Southern bypass, the deputy head of the CID of the police department No. 4, Ruslan Abovyan was shot to death.
According to the telegram channel "112", the killer fired almost the entire clip at the policeman then left the scene.
Alerts were initiated, but the armed suspect escaped capture. The offender left the car near the village of Kursavka and disappeared on foot. Dog handlers with dogs were sent on his trail.
Ruslan Abovyan died while receiving medical treatment.
The shooter was identified as Zaurbek Keniev, 44.
Investigators said the shooting was recorded by CCTV cameras.
[REGNUM] A resident of the city of Volkhov, Leningrad Region, suspected of drug trafficking, opened fire on police officers who came to his home on Saturday, July 24, according to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
Investigators of the drug control department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia received operational information about the illegal production of synthetic drugs in the village of Balandino, Volkhovsky District, Leningrad Region.
"Operational information has been confirmed. The drug laboratory was located in a barn on a garden plot," the department said.
Early in the morning of July 24, the police drove to the indicated address, but met with resistance. An unidentified armed male suspect, who is a resident of the Krasnogvardeisky district of St. Petersburg, upon seeing the police officers, ran out of the barn and disappeared into a residential building.
"The malefactor, armed with a sawed-off hunting rifle, opened fire at the policemen. One of the officers used a service weapon and wounded the suspect, hitting him in his leg," the department said.
The suspect was given first aid on the spot, after which he was handed over to doctors. Then law enforcement agencies proceeded to search the house, where they found several firearms.
"There were also two women in the house. Their involvement in illegal production is currently being established. In the shed, police officers found laboratory equipment and chemical raw materials for the production of drugs," added the St. Petersburg Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
[ToloNews] The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... in a new report is warning that the threat from terror groups such as ISIS and al Qaeda is expanding in many places in Afghanistan where the security situation remains fragile with uncertainty surrounding the grinding of the peace processor and a risk of further deterioration.
The report by the UN Security Council, published Thursday, says that despite territorial, leadership, manpower and financial losses during 2020 in Kunar and Nangarhar
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[REGNUM] The candidate for the State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, director of CJSC "State Farm named after Lenin" Pavel Grudinin will be excluded from the party list for the upcoming elections to the State Duma.
As reported by TASS with reference to the draft resolution of the Central Election Commission of Russia, the fact is that the candidate did not provide a number of documents after the statement of his ex-wife about the existence of offshore assets.
"The commission initially did not have data on Grudinin’s foreign assets and trusted the candidate, since there was no information preventing his registration," explained Nikolai Bulaev, deputy chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation .
The fact that candidate Pavel Grudinin still has assets in Belize was confirmed by the Russian prosecutor's office. This circumstance is contrary to the laws on elections.
As reported by IA REGNUM , the fact that the general director of CJSC "Sovkhoz named after Lenin" Pavel Grudinin before the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation continues to own shares of the Belize offshore "Bontro LTD", lawyer Dmitry Malbin said .
The ex-wife of Pavel Grudinin, Irina, sent a letter to the CEC. Hate to think of all the shit my ex wives could say. Background
The elections of the deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the VIII convocation will take place on the Single voting day on September 19, 2021.
[PAGESIX] Federal prosecutors in New York on Friday detailed a string of new accusations of sexual assault and bribery against R. Kelly going back 30 years, including how the disgraced R&B singer allegedly abused a teenage boy in 2006.
In a lengthy court filing, the prosecutors asked a judge for permission to admit what they said was evidence of the sickening allegations — for which Kelly has not been charged — at his upcoming sex-trafficking trial in Brooklyn.
The uncharged acts are "directly relevant to and inextricably intertwined with the evidence of the charged crimes," the prosecutors argued in the motion.
The filing alleges that in 2006, Kelly sexually abused a 17-year-old boy, named only as John Doe #1, after meeting him at a McDonalds in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... and asking "what he was willing to do to succeed in the music business."
According to the court docs, the boy introduced Kelly to a close male pal who was 16 or 17. Several years later, Kelly allegedly started a sexual relationship with that person, John Doe #2, and forced several of his girlfriends at the time to have sex with the young man while he filmed.
The documents also describe how a "crisis manager" for Kelly allegedly bribed a Cook County, Illinois, clerk with $2,500 to get inside information on the singer’s legal troubles after the Lifetime documentary "Surviving R. Kelly" came out in early 2019.
Prosecutors also want to introduce evidence that Kelly, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, allegedly sexually abused the singer Aaliyah Haughton and married her in 1994 when she was 15 so that she couldn’t be forced to testify against him, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. She died in a plane crash in 2001.
Other allegations contained in the filing include unlawful imprisonment, hush money payments, threats and psychological abuse.
[SHAFAQ] The Global Coalition announced today, Saturday, that drone attacks targeted their headquarters in the Harir region of Kurdistan Region.
The official OIR military Spokesman, Wayne Marotto said, in a statement, that at 01:23 a.m., drones targeted the headquarters without causing any casualties or damage.
Marotto added; The American and the Coalition forces will remain vigilant, confirming the Coalition right to defend itself.
[NPASYRIA] Israeli military Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against Syria will not stop, and will soon hit the artery that links 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... with Syria through Iraq, American sources said on Saturday.
The successive Israeli airstrikes against Syria have obtained American and Russian green light, which encourages the end of the Iranian and Chinese presence in the region, the sources told Elnashra News.
Iranian presence has paved the way for the Chinese presence in Syria, and that in turn will not satisfy either Russia or the US, the sources indicated.
Last week, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a meeting in Damascus with his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad ...Syrian foreign minister, formerly Perrmanent envoy to the UN. He replaced Wally Muallem, who died in office at age 79, having been FM since approximately age 12... that his country has released a four-point proposal to solve the "Syrian issue."
The key to an overall solution of the Syrian issue is through implementing the "Syrian-led, Syrian-owned" principle established by the UN Security Council, Wang Yi mentioned.
"All parties concerned should take concrete steps to effectively advance the comprehensive settlement of the Syrian issue," he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... on Thursday, the Israeli military (IDF) told Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that its latest assessment found that the IDF is still not at full readiness for a major conflict with Iran, according to the Israeli Walla! website.
During the past six months, the IDF held a series of discussions in addition to an in-depth discussion between Minister of Defense Benny Gantz and Minister of Finance Avigdor Lieberman regarding the security budget and the increase required in order to counter future challenges, according to the website.
Additionally, a discussion, chaired by Bennett, over the Iranian nuclear issue was held recently.
During the discussion, the IDF representatives showed medium combat efficiency to wage a broad campaign against Iran, either with or without a nuclear agreement with the US, which included airstrikes, the site said.
Given all this, the IDF and Mossad stressed that Israel should develop multiple operational plans, which could be put into operation whether the US signs a new deal with Iran or not.
A security official told Walla! that if Iran cuts a new deal with the US, "It’ll be a problem to bomb from the air."
"The goal of such operations would not be to destroy Iran’s nuclear program in a single blow, but to sabotage, disrupt, and delay the program indefinitely through surgical strikes and intelligence operations," the official said.
To continue and expand this campaign, the IDF and Mossad are likely to request more funds and greater resources — as such intelligence operations are usually very expensive, he added.
Walla! indicated that the IDF "refused to directly discuss a potential battle against Iran over the progress in the nuclear project."
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BREAKING Violent clashes taking place now on the frontline of the village of al-Jat, north of #Manbij, between the armed factions loyal to Turkey and the Manbij Military Council. pic.twitter.com/xCdctcfvwV
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[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, the leader of 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... (HTS, formerly Jabhat 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 .. ... ), said that "the faction’s priority is not to confront the Syrian regime, but to work on opening new fronts and regaining the areas it lost."
"Assad’s forces’ aim in escalating their military campaign is to provoke the factions to know their available military capabilities and to shuffle the cards in the region," he told activists in Idlib.
For months, Idlib’s countryside has witnessed an escalation between the government forces and the opposition factions, despite the ceasefire agreement signed since March 5, 2020.
In a related context, the opposition Quwat Tamouz (July Forces) faction in Idlib demanded through a statement on Saturday that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... stop handing over Syrian lands, and also demanded al-Jolani leave Syria.
The statement said: "What matters to Turkey in Idlib is to negotiate to ensure its geostrategic and security interests in the face of the Kurds, and it will be satisfied with a border strip with a depth of 10 km."
Despite the protests that took place during the last two days, Turkey, the guarantor, is still silent about the Russian and Syrian government bombing of areas in Idlib.
In the past two days, several villages and towns in the Zawiya Mountain area, south of Idlib, witnessed angry protests denouncing the silence of the Ottoman Turkish forces regarding the recent military escalation of Russia and the Syrian government forces in southern Idlib, which led to the killing and wounding of dozens.
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[ToloNews] Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Saturday said that 33 people were assassinated in Kandahar over the past two weeks.
"Religious scholars, tribal elders, civil society activists, journalists and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... defenders and female journalists are being sacrificed in assassinations," said Zabihullah Farhang, front man to AIHRC.
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[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian assailant who was throwing Molotov cocktails and rocks at an Israeli car was shot in the West Bank on Saturday, the army said.
Two other suspects were arrested after a chase, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The military said the three Paleostinians were hurling Molotov cocktails and stones at an Israeli vehicle near the settlement of Mevo Dotan. Soldiers moved to arrest them and thwart a potential terror attack, opening fire in their direction and hitting one suspect. His condition was not immediately known.
The other two were apprehended a short while later, the military said.
[DW] The International Judo Federation confirmed on Saturday that Algerian athlete Fethi Nourine and his coach have withdrawn from the judo competition at the Tokyo Olympics to avoid facing an Israeli athlete.
In a statement, the IJF said Nourine and coach, Amar Benikhlef, "gave individual statements to media announcing their withdrawal from the competition to avoid meeting an Israeli athlete during the event."
"We worked a lot to reach the Olympics, but the Palestinian cause is bigger than all this," the 30-year-old Nourine told Algerian television. His statements were backed by Benikhlef, who admitted they had "not been lucky with the draw. We got an Israeli opponent and that's why we had to retire. We made the right decision."
The federation said both were temporarily suspended after an investigative commission "confirmed all the facts." It added that the case was assigned to its disciplinary commission for "further investigation, judgement and final sanctioning beyond the Olympic Games."
The Algerian Olympic Committee withdrew accreditation for both Nourine and Benikhlef and "plans to send them home, applying sanctions accordingly," the IJF statement said.
NOT THE FIRST TIME
Nourine, who was due to take part in the under-73-kilogram event, has previously pulled out of other judo competitions to avoid Israeli opposition — most recently at the World Championships in Tokyo two years ago.
The phenomenon of Israeli athletes facing boycotts due to their nationality is not new. At the Tokyo Olympics, international judo was hoping to outline the progress made, but have now been hit by another public setback.
The comments by the two Algerians "are in total opposition to the philosophy of the International Judo Federation. The IJF has a strict non-discrimination policy, promoting solidarity as a key principle, reinforced by the values of judo," the federation said.
Athletes from other countries such as Egypt and Iran have also previously refused to compete against Israelis, with the story of Saeid Mollaei the most high-profile. Mollaei has since defected to Mongolia and could face the Israeli in question, Sagi Muki, in the semi-finals of the men's -81kg at Tokyo 2020.
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Losing to a Juice would be embarrassing. Better to bail and look like a wussie. After all, it's not like the Olympics is about sportsmanship any more.
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He's just afraid of those Krav Maga moves thrown in...
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Who would participate against a South African athlete during the era of apartheid? It would be a deeply moral act. Same as apartheid Israel.
These people need to be shown what they are doing is wrong, and international sport was one of the areas that hit South Africa hard. Let's do it again.
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I was nine when I had my first fight. Taekwondo it was. I threw up after the fight, which I won. But the winning I don't remember. Sheesh! [smacks forehead]
[SHAFAQ] An Azerbaijani soldier was killed, and three Armenian soldiers were maimed on Friday in the most recent clash between the two countries since their bloody conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh last year. Both Baku and Yerevan reported, in recent months, shooting incidents along their borders, raising fear of a renewed territorial dispute between them.
"On July 23 (Friday), at approximately 16:00 (1200 GMT), Armenian armed forces shot up Azerbaijani army positions at the Kelbajar sector of the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border," Baku's defense ministry said in a statement, adding "an Azerbaijani army serviceman was killed by the enemy's sniper."
Armenia blamed Azerbaijan for the incident, stating that "three Armenian servicemen got maimed in the intense shootout."
Baku's President Aliyev told the AzTV network on Thursday: "This is our ancestors' land, we are on our land," referring to the territory that Yerevan considers part of its Syunik district.
[ThriftBooks] Marcel Sternberger was a methodical man of nearly 50, with bushy white hair, guileless brown eyes, and the bouncing enthusiasm of a czardas dancer of his native Hungary. He always took the 9:09 Long Island Railroad train from his suburban home to Woodside, N.Y, where he caught a subway into the city.
On the morning of January 10, 1948, Sternberger boarded the 9:09 as usual. En route, he suddenly decided to visit Laszlo Victor, a Hungarian friend who lived in Brooklyn and was ill.
Accordingly, at Ozone Park, Sternberger changed to the subway for Brooklyn, went to his friend's house, and stayed until midafternoon. He then boarded a Manhattan-bound subway for his Fifth Avenue office. Here is Marcel's incredible story:
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[NYPOST] As a mayoral candidate, Maya Wiley famously said she’s “been black all my life” — but that’s cold comfort to her failed campaign’s unpaid vendors, who are owed nearly $1 million, including a black-owned business that now has to lay off employees.
“This could break my business,” the vendor told The Post, speaking this week on condition of anonymity because he signed a contract with the campaign that bars him from speaking to the media.
“That was revenue I was waiting for to be able to pay my staff. It means I have to make some cutting decisions when it comes to staff,” he said about his five-figure invoice.
The business owner said he’s looking at two to three layoffs.
Wiley owes 28 individuals and companies a combined $999,664.51, including over $500,000 to GPS Impact, a Des Moines, Iowa-based political communications company for ads and fundraising; $40,320 to Bumperactive, an Austin, TX-based company for campaign merchandise; and $211 to the United States Postal Service for postage and a P.O. box rental, according to Campaign Finance Board records.
[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, the Syrian opposition faction Quwat Tamouz (July Forces) in Idlib demanded, through a statement, that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... stop handing over Syrian lands, and also demanded the departure of 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... leader Abu Muhammad al-Jolani.
"What matters for Turkey in Idlib is to negotiate in order to ensure its geostrategic and security interests in countering the Kurds, and it will be satisfied with a border strip with a depth of 10 kilometers," the statement said.
Despite the protests that took place over the past two days, Turkey, the guarantor of a ceasefire in the region, is still silent regarding the escalation of Russian and government shelling against areas in Idlib.
Simultaneously, on Saturday at dawn, activists from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) monitored rocket shelling by Ottoman Turkish forces against Kurdish areas in the southern countryside of Aleppo in the villages of Ibbin, Maraanaz, and Tel Rifa’at, causing material losses.
On Thursday, areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo also witnessed intensive shelling by Ottoman Turkish forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed armed factions.
The shelling targeted Deir Jmal, Soghanakeh, Ibbin, Aqibah, Maraanaz, and the vicinity of Menagh Military Airport, reporting no casualties, according to SOHR.
"The Astana agreement and its outcomes are like a stab in the heart for the Syrian revolution, and sold deaders’ blood at a cheap price that descends to the level of treason," the statement pointed out.
Additionally, the statement called for the departure of al-Jolani and "all international criminals from Syrian territory immediately."
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert climbed the cocoanut tree, looking for ships. He saw none. He looked in the other direction and saw Irene, vigorously scrubbing her backside... Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly 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) are running areas in Idlib and parts of Aleppo countryside after they managed to expel other factions with the support of Turkey.
"All evidence suggests the continuation of the surrender of the liberated areas, as what happened in Ma`arat al-Nu`man a-Sharqi, Hama countryside, and Khan Shaykhun, which were handed over by those who claimed to have been Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham," it added.
A deputy sheriff in Vancouver, Wash. (near Portland, Ore.) was killed in a shooting incident on Friday evening. Local Antifa have taken to social media to celebrate the officer's death. https://t.co/UtEbYx1IzR
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It won't. Handwriting is on the wall and going forward people who want jobs in "law enforcement" know who butters their bread.
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The laws (officers) where I live are still pretty much on the up and up, but the day is coming where whitey gonna have to solve his own problems and part of that will be "my word vs his dead ass."
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Local officials will wonder why no one wants a law enforcement career...
...except the Private Military Companies. I thought Lefties hated mercs.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Democrat Illinois Rep. Marie Newman admitted to a federal judge that she offered a six-figure job at her congressional office to a potential political rival, an apparent bribe that may be a federal crime.
The broken contract in question was offered to Iymen Chehade, a local Paleostinian activist who was considering running against Newman in the primaries last year.
According to legal filings obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, "The contract between Newman and Chehade promised the activist a senior role in Newman's congressional office should she be elected. The role did not require Chehade to maintain specific hours at the office, despite paying a $140,000 salary. The contract also gave Chehade complete discretion about the selection and employment termination of staff members under his supervision."
It appears that the job never materialized, however, and Chehade wound up suing Newman. The legal action was settled out of court in June 2021, with the terms not made available to the public. Kendra Arnold, the executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, stated: "Civil liability and government ethics and criminal liability are two completely separate things. The civil court case is between her and the other individual."
"Whether they resolve their personal differences has nothing to do with the ethics case and her issues with the federal government. The facts in the civil case show the ethics concerns are significant," Arnold said.
The Newman campaign acknowledged the settlement in a statement to the Free Beacon: "Congresswoman Newman and Chehade have resolved their dispute and the lawsuits have been dismissed by agreement," the campaign said. The front man did not respond to additional questions about the ethics complaint.
Syrian government forces continued to send military reinforcements to #Daraa city, south #Syria, despite the reported news of an agreement between the Daraa Tribal Council and members of the Central Committee to break the siege.https://t.co/vEgnOhXxnI
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[The Guardian] A virulent and fast-moving coral disease that has swept through the Caribbean could be linked to waste or ballast water from ships, according to research.
The deadly infection, known as stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), was first identified in Florida in 2014, and has since moved through the region, causing great concern among scientists. Wait. Global Climate Change started before 2014, right?
Scientists have not yet been able to determine whether the disease is caused by a virus, a bacterium, a chemical or some other infectious agent, but the peer-reviewed study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science supports the theory that ballast water from ships may be involved. Conducted in the Bahamas by scientists at the Perry Institute for Marine Science, it found that SCTLD was more prevalent in reefs that were closer to the Bahamas’ main commercial ports, in Nassau and Grand Bahama, suggesting a likely link between the disease and ships. I noticed a few years ago on a Bahamas trip that coral death was worse at the dock than a mile away. Just an anecdote, I know.
In 2017, the spread of deadly pathogens by ships when they discharge ballast water prompted the International Maritime Organization to implement the Ballast Water Management Convention, which requires that ships discharge their ballast water – used to maintain the ship's stability – 200 nautical miles from shore in water at least 200 metres deep before entering port, to ensure they do not bring in harmful foreign pathogens. Suncreen, too. Just before COVID hit, we were directed to use "reef-safe" sunscreen. Real science is complicated.
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We allegedly have some of the best tap water in the US and I can't drink it. I'd say that's a factor.
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This made me recall that ship's hulls are often coated with a chemical that reduces barnacle growth. Plus the seawater circulating as coolant is subject to barnacle and mussel growth. Some commercial cleaners are used to dissolve the barnacles and mussels when added to the cooling loop. The cleaners dissolve calcium. Coral is calcium-based. Where is this done; when docked? Just a thought, and correlates with observed coral kill patterns mentioned in the article.
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I always liked The Works toilet biscuits. They are impossible to get since the COVID scam started...
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#Metootoiletbiscuits -quite tasty -you must have noticed how 'fresh' your breath is after the first bite mmmm goodness in every bite of
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.
[Free Beacon] Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard are the premier summer stomping grounds for obnoxious libs who enjoy feeling morally superior to their fellow Americans. According to science, however, they have also become COVID-19 hotspots as reckless libs flee to the beach in droves.
[American Thinker] Why has the United States been transmogrified in little more than half a century from a Christian nation that joyously displayed Christmas trees and crèches in public spaces into a secular nation that bans prayers at public school graduation ceremonies, allows men who "identify" as women to invade female dressing rooms, and even celebrates a woman's constitutional "right" to snuff out the life in her womb? These are a few of the transformations in American society that Michael Knowles analyzes in his recent work Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds — transformations broadly attributed to "political correctness" and Marxism.
[ZERO] Because once again the lack of police on the streets is turning into a problem - this time in the Bronx, where illegal street vendors and gamblers "have taken over a commercial strip," according to the New York Post. The takeover is a result of new city laws that make it impossible for the NYPD to confiscate goods or even demand ID from street vendors. 
...Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he has about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him. Noo Yawk's politix being what they are, he is still hanging tough, waiting to ride it out....
We actually don't see a problem. 
Any reports of Biden art work being involved ? 
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...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that....jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...... 46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage......
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
... 
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run....
...Arabic for 
[SHAFAQ] Iraq in 2021 is still a state afflicted by poverty, injustice, the trauma of great loss of life, and daily fear. Iraqis still suffer from a sense of powerlessness, defeat and humiliation. Since the start of the year, 330 civilians have been killed, including 27 children. Iraq Body Count has now documented more than 208,800 
...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.....
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[PAGESIX] Federal prosecutors in 
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel....jpg "Faisal Mekdad")
...Syrian foreign minister, formerly Perrmanent envoy to the UN. He replaced Wally Muallem, who died in office at age 79, having been FM since approximately age 12...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
[NYPOST] As a mayoral candidate, 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
