A man was caught on camera slapping an elderly Jewish plumber over an apparent parking dispute, knocking his Yamaka [yamulka, a small skull cap] off his head
The incident took place today at 11.50am in the Borough Park neighborhood in Brooklyn
The assailant became aggravated when the back-end of the Hasidic Jewish man's van partially obstructed a driveway
Hate crimes are up by a shocking 101.7 percent in New York City this year, rising from 172 in 2020 to 347 this year.
This wasn't a "hate crime", it was some prick illegally parking, obstructing a driveway, being told to move, saying "no" and then getting instant justice.
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If the guy who got slapped always reliably votes leftist, he got exactly what he voted for.
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Looking at the video taken from above, it does not appear to me that the plumber’s van is blocking the driveway. I saw a young Hispanic man getting off on slapping an old Jew to the ground — the Blacks may have started the game, but the Hispanics quickly joined in the fun.
Orthodox Jews reliably vote Republican, and the Chassids even more so — and they have a long history of mutual admiration with Donald Trump.
If the video had not been popular on YouTube, the police would not have bestirred themselves. But there has been a problem of attacks on Jews in New York City in recent years, so the politicians take notice when forced to do so, passing the buck to the police.
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Lisbon was in the mid 80s today, expects 90s tomorrow and Saturday (normal is low 80s)
Rome was near 100F today, expects similar maxima the next three days (normal is high 80s)
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We have had one above average day here on the Space Coast this month. Forecast is for below average all month. Since I moved here almost 4 years ago there has not been a 100 degree day. Used to get 3-4 every summer in PeeAye.
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[AmGreatness] Gary Maynard, the California professor allegedly behind a number of wildfires raging in Northern California, is an anti-Trumper who said in a November interview that President Trump suffered from malignant narcissistic personality disorder and could become violent and destructive in response to defeat. Federal prosecutors allege Maynard, who was arrested Saturday, intentionally tried to trap fire crews with his fires in rural Northern California.
"Donald Trump’s lack of or unwillingness to self-reflect in order to self-improve, and his lack of empathy while being threatened with his first major, public, political and personal defeat, might activate a sense of the need for the use of violence, violent protests by his supporters or outright sabotage of the nation by locking down the economy or some other major act to damage the nation before he is forced to leave office, if he loses," Maynard told left-wing journalist Charles Krause, who writes for The Globalist.
The journalist posted his interview of Maynard, accompanied by grotesque caricatures of Trump, on his blog, Art Profiler.
Maynard compared Trump to the maniacal cult leader Jim Jones, who in 1978 ordered the mass murder-suicide of 918 Jonestown commune members, 304 of them children. The cult members died after drinking Flavor Aid laced with cyanide. The accused arsonist said that Trump "may become the first president to be forcibly arrested and removed from the White House."
"Dr. Maynard explains what to look for in Trump, as the President reacts to his defeat—and how best to avert an irrational act of retribution with potentially far greater consequences and loss of life than Jonestown, between now and Trump’s last day in office two months from now," Krause wrote in the piece’s introduction.
Maynard, 47, has taught at colleges in New York and California, including as an adjunct lecturer in the sociology department at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.
Last fall, Maynard taught in the criminology and criminal justice department at Sonoma State University. His bio on the university website says he graduated from Bowling Green State University, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Stony Brook University, and one of his specialties is environmental sociology. He has master’s degrees in political science, theater arts, and sociology, as well as a Ph.D. in sociology.
His teaching and research focus on "sociology of technology/social media, social psychology, sociology of health, deviance and crime, sociology of the mass media, youth and adolescence, global sociology, environmental sociology, the sociology of sports, the sociology of drug abuse and alcoholism and quantitative research methods."
The corporate media have made a point of linking the wildfires—including the Dixie Fire, the second-largest in California’s history—to climate change.
As we now know, at least some of the fires were likely started by Maynard, although authorities have not released any information about his possible motive.
"Where Maynard went, fires started. Not just once, but over and over again," federal prosecutors said in a court memorandum arguing for Maynard to be denied bail.
While court documents allege that Maynard is connected to more than a half-dozen dangerous fires in Northern California, he is currently charged with starting only the Ranch Fire. That blaze broke out on Saturday morning, in a remote area where, according to court records, Maynard had just camped for the night. It’s one of three fires officials allege Maynard set in recent days—all of them very close to the Dixie Fire’s northeastern footprint.
Prosecutors also say Maynard wanted firefighters to die in the fires he caused.
"He entered the evacuation zone and began setting fires behind the first responders fighting the Dixie fire," the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento stated in court papers. "Maynard’s fires were placed in the perfect position to increase the risk of firefighters being trapped between fires."
Maynard’s alleged offenses "show that he is particularly dangerous, even among arsonists," the federal prosecutors said.
Ironically, Maynard in November was concerned about President Trump’s supposed propensity for violence.
"With vain malignant narcissism—if they brood and burn up in quiet desperation as their power slips away, that is when they decide to say ’Fuck it—let’s go out and take out those who harmed and sabotaged and betrayed me.'" the professor told Krause.
"The QAnon people really, really worry me, that they will see this as the last hour of their movement where they must act to save the world from the communist Democratic party, the one-world government, and the demonic child sex cult that is running the world," Maynard added.
"Donald will not stay quiet or stay still or play nice," the criminal justice professor concluded. "The question then becomes will he get violent or spur on violence? Because he does not care if he ruins the peace and safety of the U.S. society."
In a sickening twist, Krause’s article featured a cartoon by Jim Boden called "Götterdämmerun," a German word for a turbulent ending of a regime or an institution. The picture shows Donald Trump hovering over a building engulfed in flames.
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Jim Jones was a socialist -- and that was at the root of his popularity with the left, and his eventual fate.
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Taught at Sonoma State University - he fits right in there.
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08/12/2021 12:07
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Go Seawolves! (used to be the Cossacks because of Fort Ross, but that was raycist or sumpthin')
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08/12/2021 14:07
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Yep - I was a Cossack. SSU also produced one of the best offensive lineman to ever play in the NFL, Larry Allen who was coached by Frank Scalercio Jr. The program was taking off when Title IX was used as an excuse to gut men's sports on campus. They changed their mascot at the same time because "Cossack" was too male and too violent. Flash forward to today, men have pretty much disappeared from the campus.
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Right. And we're still as close to a working hypersonic missile as we are to commercially viable fusion. Which is to say "not close at all."
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08/12/2021 9:26
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actually the US isn't too many years from a working hypersonic missile
there have been several tests, some more or less successful
the budget for this is in the $ billions
I think an important motivation for getting this done is to discourage a Chinese attack on Taiwan. If a few platforms in the Pacific were armed with this weapon it would mean a lot in that context.
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08/12/2021 13:28
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Should have been a "voice vote" so everyone can be unanimous anonymous (We heard Yeah, but we don't know exactly who said it) and (we heard a few Nay...We know Donkeys nay)
#4
Well, I see a different faction won the bureaucratic wars yesterday.
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08/12/2021 10:39
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The Bureaucratic Juggernaut has shut down: Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado, and North Dakota in the name of fighting Global Wormening. they just don't like it when the negatie consequences hit the New Class instead of just the working stiffs down here.
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He doesn’t have the first idea who has visited his castle in what is locally known as Chateau Country. Livin’ large for a guy who’s never had a job. Not Obama large, but close enough for a senile, saggy assed white man.
#3
Well, Joe, you wanted to be POTUS, so good luck with this hellish situation. Maybe you could put Kamala in charge of the problem so she can show her foreign policy chops in advance of 2024. Or maybe Code Pink can vigorously protest the Taliban. Or maybe Extinction Rebellion can chain themselves to the US embassy in Kabul. Or load Antifa onto a C-130 and drop them into the heaviest fighting (parachutes optional).
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08/12/2021 11:07
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Learn, islamics of the world
denounce Allan and his fiery hoofs;
remember Persians, Pashtuns and
assorted pansies thrown from roofs.
Dee-moh-kraatzy's not fer yeh,
just calvin ball forever,
and Shariah shit and burqas...
and Allan, that Indian giver!
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08/12/2021 12:05
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Remember, American troops are NOT mercenaries, but Patriots serving and trusting that their lives matter and will be spent for just cause. IN 1944, they we asked to go ashore in France to help save the world for democracy and defeat evil.
In 2021, I imagine some Marxist in the Administration is going to ask them to risk their life slowing the fall of Kabul because if makes Bidet look bad....is there any greater proof of how far we have fallen in out betrayal of those serving now?
billions of $ in military equipment and billions more in civilian infrastructure
and post Taliban victory, an population in captivity
nothing good
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08/12/2021 14:23
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Maybe you could put Kamala in charge of the problem so she can show her foreign policy chops in advance of 2024.
A genius idea - at least as long as she physically goes there. She could do a lot of good. Not in terms of making the situation better, but in terms of supplying comic relief for us folks back home. Think of the confusion, misstatements and general inept buffoonery! It might even be a reason to watch the news again. Or not. Probably not.
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^ She could get a picture taken of her riding in a tank and looking stern. It worked for Dukakis.
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08/12/2021 15:14
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just looking thru some numbers
of the 2350+ military fatalities in Afghanistan,
about 1700 were during Biden's VP days
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News says US Marines being sent to secure the Embassy. Saigon REDUX visuals coming for Bidet as our 20 yr graft-filled investment in the Afghan Army folds far faster than the ARVN troops back then, many of whom were heroic if doomed. What really pisses me off is we just equipped the entire Taliban with a semi-modern force, most of which will end up sold out of Pakistan and elsewhere...
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There's a plan to put rotary cannon on B-1s. Do it. Then make being on any part of the Afghan border a deadly proposition. Cordon sanitare.
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08/12/2021 17:23
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Cordon sanitaire
Medicine
A cordon sanitaire is the restriction of movement of people into or out of a defined geographic area, such as a community, region, or country. The term originally denoted a barrier used to stop the spread of infectious diseases.
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Right when everyone thinks Biden has lost Afghanistan to the Taliban I expect 100,000+ Taliban to be killed overnight and Biden will be declared the winner of Afghanistan the next day.
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Ref 18 above, I never had a problem ARC lighting the crap out of AQ and the Afghan mutts who allowed them to fester. My problem was staying as if we owed fhem a rescue from their cultural/religious miasma. Bush 43 was not the hard man that was needed.
More Loudoun County School nonsense can be seen here.
[FoxNews] A northern Virginia school board voted Wednesday evening to approve a new policy expanding the rights of transgender students.
In what was seen as a victory for LGBTQ advocates, the Loudoun County School Board approved the policy by a 7-to-2 vote following hours of debate and after minor amendments were made.
"LCPS’ number one priority is to foster the success of all students and ensure they feel safe, secure, accepted, and ready to learn at school," Loudoun County Public Schools said in a statement. "The school division will continue to do its due diligence in creating that environment and remaining open and transparent with all LCPS partners, community members, and stakeholders."
Policy 8040 requires teachers to use preferred pronouns and allows "gender-expansive and transgender students" to participate in sports and other activities "in a manner consistent with the student’s gender identity."
It also allows transgender students access to school facilities that correspond to their "consistently asserted gender identity."
The policy follows Virginia law, which directed districts to consider revised anti-harassment guidelines.
On Wednesday, School Board Member Jeff Morse denounced the guidelines, according to FOX 5 of Washington D.C.
"The policy is not needed. The policy does not solve the issues that it's purported to solve. The policy has forced our focus out of education and I will not support it," Morse said.
Wednesday’s meeting was sparsely attended -- a contrast with the board meeting Tuesday when parking lot rallies were held and a public comment period went over four hours. Nearly 200 people came inside to speak.
The meeting length prompted the school board to postpone its decision until Wednesday.
Tuesday's meeting came just a few months after physical education teacher Tanner Cross denounced the policies. Cross told the school board he wouldn't "affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because it's against my religion. It's lying to a child, it's abuse to a child, and it's sinning against our God."
His subsequent suspension and lawsuit poured fuel onto an already fiery debate over free speech and identity in one of the nation's wealthiest counties, located about miles 35 miles west of Washington D.C.
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If a conservative wins they'll still be unable to get anything done with the folks in Sacramento blocking the way. Arnold had that problem over a decade ago and he's a squishy. So all Elder will manage is frustration and being given credit for California's economic collapse.
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I like Doug Ose better. In a recent debate they asked the candidates how they could get anything done with all the donks in Sacramento. Ose was the only one who seemed to know what a governor can do in spite of the donks. He rattled off the names of state commissions and, of course, the state Board of Education whose current members are pushing Critical Race Theory. The people who sit on these boards and commissions are appointed by the governor, he said. So the guy has spent some time actually thinking about what he can and will do if elected.
Elder's only advantage, as far as I can tell, is statewide name recognition from his books, podcasts and talk shows.
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I've heard of Kevin Kiley as a viable candidate. Don't know much about him. He is one of 200 candidates for the governor of California.
[JPost] - The Food and Drug Administration is slated to amend the emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer and the Moderna Covid-19 vaccines Thursday to allow immunocompromised people to get a third dose, NBC News reported.
The announcement is expected within the next 48 hours, but the timing could move, according to multiple sources. What did I told you yesterday?
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I got the J&J one jab at the beginning of May. What will be the guideline for getting the booster? Will each vax have its own specific booster? Will the gummint still pay?
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Will each vax have its own specific booster?
Probably. Although, eventually, the periodic boosters will become (relatively) cheap and long lasting (before use) protein vaccines.
Will the gummint still pay?
They offering unvaccinated rewards*. So, probably, yes.
*Incidentally, that gives me an idea. What about "If you avoid DUI for six months, we give you 100$."?
#4
My mom always said "You don't get an award for doing the right thing." Times have changed. Of course, in The Marching Morons the bribes were as stupid as the bribees...
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08/12/2021 6:29
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Still waiting for the solicitation letter to the class action lawsuit for people who got the jab as soon as possible and missed out on the bribes.
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OTOH, maybe they'll decide that people who got vaxxed and then got COVID anyway should be culled. That'll be a dis-incentive.
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08/12/2021 6:33
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Welcome to the "New Normal".
Where every year will be "Difficult and Challenging Times."
Which Begs The Questions:
Will the VAX Passport become the official Voter ID for EVERYONE?
Will certain demographic groups be exempted until at until after the 2024 election aka Election Fraud II?
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My dream is Fauxi and Algore at half time at the Super Bowl. A 1911 Colt with one round and a bottle of Jack Daniels. Whichever one doesn't "do the right thing" with the pistol gets garroted on national TV.
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08/12/2021 8:13
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If you are not worried about 'The Jab', pass this post.
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08/12/2021 8:20
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I'm a long way from g(r)'s "anything that can be injected in your arm is good" but I'm also f*cking sick and tired of Candace Owen and that crowd. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
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The truth is we don't know the truth.
The mayo Clinic reports reduced effectiveness of vax and long term implications:
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-vaccines-pfizer-moderna-delta-biden-e9be4bb0-3d10-4f56-8054-5410be357070.html
Thank you for digging up some very timely data.
Driving the news: The study, conducted by "nference" and the Mayo Clinic, compared the effectiveness of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in the Mayo Clinic Health System over time from January to July.
"Overall, it found that the Moderna vaccine was 86% effective against infection over the study period, and Pfizer's was 76%. Moderna's vaccine was 92% effective against hospitalization and Pfizer's was 85%.
But the vaccines' effectiveness against infection dropped sharply in July, when the Delta variant's prevalence in Minnesota had risen to over 70%.
Moderna was 76% effective against infection, and Pfizer was only 42% effective."
The effectiveness is even lower than the CDC reported and UK collected data we discussed yesterday.
Note: Mayo Clinic chose "nference" as its first Clinical Data Analytics Platform partner....
[Ynet] Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday announced an investment of NIS 2.5 billion in the health system in order to fight back against the continued rise in coronavirus cases.
In order to prepare for a significant increase in hospitalized COVID patients, Bennet said, the government will hire 2,000 more doctors, nurses, hospital staff and paramedics.
[AlAhram] The blast killed six soldiers and two coppers charged with oil field protection, the source said.
A blast killed eight members of the security forces on Wednesday during an operation in northern Iraq to detonate explosives planted 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, a security source said.
A military sapper was preparing a charge to detonate unwent kaboom! ordnance laid by the jihadists in Salaheddin province "when a mistake was made and the earth-shattering kaboom happened", the source told AFP.
Some of Iraq's largest oil refineries are situated in the region where the earth-shattering kaboom occurred. IS took the area in 2014 and it was recaptured by the Iraqi army in 2016.
[IsraelTimes] Director of moderate Moslem group’s outreach branch suspended after exposé reveals years of antisemitic statements published on Facebook.
A Moslem imam in Norway who has led interfaith dialogue projects has been suspended after it was revealed that for years he has been posting antisemitic statements on Facebook, including on how Jews are dangerous and "should be killed." "It's their culture and religion. Who are we to judge?"
The Norway branch of Minhaj-ul-Koran, an international Moslem organization that is considered moderate and geared toward outreach, suspended Noor Ahmad Noor indefinitely on Monday following an exposé published last week by the Vartland newspaper on his antisemitic statements.
Various Minhaj-ul-Koran groups periodically turn up in the news for exactly this kind of nonsense, suggesting that their outreach is old fashioned dawa for the purpose of converting the gullible in Dar al Harb, reducing future need for the hard jihad of the sword. Clearly the claim of being moderate Muslims is bit of taqqiya for the rubes.
Noor had served for years as the branch’s director.
Police have launched an investigation into his remarks.
In one post from 2019, Noor wrote that Jews "put the world in danger" and it is "necessary to kill them."
In a short statement to the Norwegian media, Noor said: "My posts were published in frustration over attacks in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... . Innocent children and women were killed. My criticism and frustration should have been directed at the regime. And not against a group of people. I apologize."
As director of Minhaj-ul-Koran, he has participated in meetings and projects with top government officials, including cabinet ministers and Ivar Flaten, head of the Church Dialogue Center in Drammen, the Norwegian city where Noor lives.
Flaten initially defended Noor, speaking with the Vartland website, arguing dialogue occurs amid disagreements, but has since called the remarks "unacceptable, shocking."
In a statement, Minhaj-ul-Koran wrote: "These are attitudes and values we have zero tolerance for as a religious community. This is contrary to what we have been working for for decades."
[IsraelTimes] Bomb disposal experts, tasked with ensuring site is safe for opening of academic year, hustled away by terror group; UNRWA warns it won’t let students back until check completed
Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", has prevented UN bomb disposal experts from inspecting a Paleostinian refugee agency school in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip under which a tunnel dug by the terror group was uncovered during fighting in May, the Kan public broadcaster reported Tuesday.
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[EpochTimes] U.S. military service members will be allowed to seek an exemption from the soon-to-be-mandated COVID-19 vaccines, which would be determined by individual military service regulations, a Pentagon spokesperson said.
"There is a religious exemption possibility for any mandatory vaccine, and there’s a process that we go through to counsel the individual both from a medical and from a command perspective about using a religious exemption," Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said during a press briefing on Aug. 10.
The department would make sure that every individual with reservations gets proper counseling on the COVID-19 vaccine’s safety and efficacy, Kirby said. Both a medical professional and a commander would counsel the individual about the risks of not being vaccinated and how that might affect deployability, assignments, travel, teammates, and the mission.
"We take freedom of religion and worship seriously in the military. It’s one of the things that we sign up to defend," Kirby said. "And so it’s something that’s done very carefully."
Service members also will be able to apply for medical exemptions, Kirby said.
"The primary care physician will be able to help make that determination," he added.
A service member can’t request an exemption just because he or she doesn’t want to take the vaccine, Kirby said.
"You’ve got to go through a process to get that approved. Troops who have pre-existing medical conditions, or on the advice of their physician might not have to take the vaccine," Kirby told Fox News on Aug. 10. "But if you’re just objecting because you’re objecting, once it’s become mandatory, that’s a lawful order, and our expectation is that you’re going to obey that order."
"Nobody is looking for strong, punitive disciplinary measures here. Frankly, we believe that most troops will respond positively to the order, just like they do in every other mission-critical order that they’re issued. But there are tools available to commanders, short of disciplinary action, to try to get soldiers to do the right thing."
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Aug. 9 that the Department of Defense would require all active-duty military members to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
According to Pentagon, more than 73 percent of active-duty military members have received at least one shot of the vaccine to date.
[IsraelTimes] Ali Shamkhani, an Iranian general and the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, sends a tweet in Hebrew.
The message, which was also tweeted in English, notes that Shamkhani met earlier today with Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. The two "discussed developments in Afghanistan, Syria and the Persian Gulf," Shamkhani writes in Hebrew.
"Fortunately, the political obstacles to Iran’s membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization have been removed, and Iran’s membership will be finalized," Shamkhani tweets in broken Hebrew.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a political, economic and security alliance that currently comprises eight countries — China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistain, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian hit by Israeli army gunfire last week during festivities in the West Bank has died of his wounds, Paleostinian sources tell AFP.
The sources say Dia al-Sabarini, 25, was seriously maimed in the northern town of Jenin and transferred to hospital on August 3. Five other Paleostinians were maimed in the same festivities after troops had entered Jenin, according to Paleostinian medics.
Israeli police say security forces had opened fire after coming under attack with bombs and Molotov cocktails during an operation in Jenin.
[DW] La Belle France saw its largest protests yet against the country's health pass. In Italia, some anti-vax demonstrators wore the widely condemned gold stars, echoing the badges Nazi Germany forced Jewish people to wear.
Protesters erupted into the streets in La Belle France and Italia on Saturday in opposition to COVID rules that they say infringe on their civil liberties but which officials argue are needed to curb the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
The protests come as European countries double down on efforts to get wide portions of their populations vaccinated in the face of the spreading delta variant — and in a bid to avoid further lockdowns.
WHAT HAPPENED IN LA BELLE FRANCE?
Demonstrations against La Belle France's health pass and mandatory vaccines for health care workers entered their fourth weekend, with Saturday seeing the largest rally yet.
An estimated 237,000 people turned out nationwide, according to the Interior Ministry. The figure exceeds the attendance a week ago, which saw 204,000 protesters.
While 17,000 people turned out in Gay Paree, much of the focus was in southern La Belle France — where between 10,000 and 20,000 people marched in Nice alone.
In contrast to prior weekends, the demonstrations were largely peaceful. The more major scuffles broke out between protesters and police in Lyon, La Belle France's third-largest city.
The protests come on the heels of a Constructional Council ruling on Thursday. The court approved the government's plan for the health pass and vaccine requirements for workers in hospitals in nursing homes.
La Belle France is currently in the grips of a fourth wave of coronavirus infections. The county has seen a boost in vaccinations since French President Emmanuel Macron announced the health pass in July.
Some two-thirds of the French population eligible for the jab have received one dose, while 55% are fully vaccinated.
WHAT HAPPENED IN ITALIA? Italia also saw thousands turn out against the implementation of the country's Green Pass, which is now required for teachers and for people to attend indoor events.
News agency ANSA reported that "thousands" marched in the city of Milan at an unauthorized protest.
Some within the anti-vaccine movement wore widely condemned yellow star badges reading "not vaccinated," resembling those that Jewish people were forced to wear by the Nazis.
Another 1,500 people gathered in Rome, posters reading: "No Green Pass!" while in Naples, around 100 anti-vax protesters demonstrated against vaccinations for children.
Italia has overseen a successful vaccination campaign, with over 63% of the population older than 12 are fully vaccinated.
WHAT IS THE HEALTH PASS?
The health pass in La Belle France and the Green Pass in Italia are both digital certificates that provide proof of a person's coronavirus status.
They contain data on whether the person is vaccinated against COVID-19, has recently tested negative, or has recovered from the virus.
The pass is already required in La Belle France for those who want to go to the movie theater or attend other major events. Starting on Monday, it will also be required for those who want to visit bars and restaurants, or for those traveling on long-distance trains or on airplanes.
In Italia, the Green Pass is required to enter museums, sports venues, cinemas and for indoor dining. School teachers, university staff and university students are also required to show the pass.
[Rudaw] The Lithuanian government is offering some 2,800 Iraqi migrants colonists in its country a free ticket home, telling them they likely will not be given refugee status.
"We’re offering free return, voluntary return to Iraq," Arnoldas Abramavicius, Lithuania’s deputy interior minister, told Rudaw’s Bestoon Khalid in an interview on Tuesday.
Iraqis made up more than half of an estimated 4,000 migrants colonists who recently entered Lithuania from Belarus and are being held in camps pending processing of their asylum claims. The Lithuanian government has accused Belarus of "weaponizing" migrants colonists, sending them across the border in a bid to force the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to ease sanctions.
Kurds held in camps in Lithuania have told Rudaw their conditions are poor, their tents are flooded, and some have resorted to drinking toilet water.
"Of course conditions are not so good" in the camps, because they were "misled and cheated" into thinking they would get to western Europe, said Abramavicius. Vulnerable people, including minors and families, have been moved to better shelters, but the government was not prepared for the influx of migrants colonists and the situation will likely worsen when winter comes, he added.
He urged migrants colonists to go home. "We can offer a free ticket and we can offer some pocket money, 300 euros," he said. "Very few of them will be granted refugee status as we’re considering that Iraq is not a country affected by war. It’s, we consider it a democracy. And so there is no need to escape and to grant them refugee status."
Some Iraqis have taken the offer, and five or 10 people have decided to return, he added.
Iraq is also repatriating its nationals stuck in Belarus. Over 300 migrants colonists have returned home so far. Iraqi Airways has temporarily suspended flights to Minsk.
[Rudaw] More than 300 Iraqi citizens stranded in Belarus and on the Lithuanian border have returned to Iraq, Baghdad’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday evening.
The body of a migrant killed on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border was also repatriated.
Around 240 Iraqi citizens, including the body of Jaafar al-Haris, arrived at Baghdad’s International Airport on Tuesday evening, said the ministry’s spokesperson Ahmad al-Sahaf.
Another flight with over 80 people arrived in Baghdad on Monday, he added.
Some 4,000 migrants colonists have flooded into Lithuania from Belarus in what Lithuania says is a politically motivated move weaponizing migrants colonists to pressure the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to lift sanctions on Minsk. Most are Iraqis, including Kurds.
Speaking to Rudaw on Thursday, Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantas Adomenas said their neighbor is pushing migrants colonists into Lithuania in order to pressure the EU into dropping the sanctions.
The European Union (EU) placed sanctions on Belarus in June over "enduring repression" and the forced landing of a Ryanair flight carrying a prominent Belarussian human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... defender, then in exile in Poland.
Kurds stranded in Lithuanian camps have told Rudaw of harsh living conditions, with flooded tents, assault by authorities, and no drinking water — forcing some to drink toilet water.
Some said they would rather be deported than be kept in the camps.
Safeen Dizayee, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)'s Department of Foreign Relations, discussed the situation with Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis in a phone call on Tuesday .
The two sides agreed to "strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation," he said.
Lithuania and Latvia both took "emergency action" over the situation on the Belarusian border on Tuesday, AFP reported, with Lithuania’s parliament approving the construction of a fence on the border.
The EU said there had been a "significant decrease" in migrant crossings after Iraq suspended flights to Belarus following requests from the EU and Lithuania, it added.
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They are both the billionaire equivalent of welfare queens. Musk based his ventures on collecting government subsidies. Bezos' wealth based, until recent law changes, on a business model of avoiding state and local sales taxes.
[Rudaw] Two Paleostinian orphans whose parents were affiliated with 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.... (ISIS) have been handed over to the Paleostinian consulate in Erbil, an official from northeast Syria (Rojava) said on Wednesday.
"Two orphaned ISIS children from Paleostine were handed over to a delegation from the Paleostinian consulate in Erbil" on Wednesday, Abdulkarim Omar, the co-chair of Rojava’s Foreign Relations commission said in a tweet.
The Consulate General of the State of Paleostine in coordination with "northern Syria’s foreign affairs office, the two children Kawthar and Ahmad Sharih were received in the presence of their grandfather," the Consul General to Erbil Nazmi Hazouri told Rudaw.
"We thank the officials in the foreign affairs office, as well as the department of foreign relations in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) for their great and inspiring cooperation in the success of this humanitarian mission," he added.
It is unclear from which camp the children were taken. The al-Hol and Roj camps, under Kurdish control, hold more than 60,000 people, most of whom have suspected ties to ISIS.
Al-Hol is home to more than 30,000 ISIS-linked foreign nationals, including more than 22,000 foreign children.
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[Garowe] The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia [AMISOM] released a statement following the death of seven individuals in Beldamin-Golweyn road in Lower Shabelle, south of the country on Tuesday.
In a tweet, AMISOM maintained the victims were members of al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , adding that they had laid an ambush against the troops who were in a routine operation within the region which is largely under the control of the al-Qaeda linked group.
AMISOM further noted that after the death of the suspected bully boys, an assortment of weapons was recovered. The Uganda People's Defense Forces [UPDF] participated in the operation according to sources.
"AMISOM Uganda troops while on routine patrol to secure the main supply route between Beldamin-Golweyn forward operating bases in Lower Shabelle have today engaged and dislodged an al-Shabaab ambush that had been laid in waiting," the mission said.
"During the counter-attack, 7 bad boyz were potted while others sustained injuries and an assortment of weapons was recovered. AMISOM commends the bravery and fast action of its soldiers in which one peacekeeper sustained injuries."
But a statement by the state media seemed to suggest that those killed were innocent civilians. According to multiple sources, five were picked from the nearby village while two were truck drivers who were using the route at the time of the ambush.
"AMISOM forces have killed 7 unarmed civilians in Golweyn town of Lower Shabelle region, on Tuesday, Madeey Sheikh Osman, the commissioner of Golweyn told to the state media," state media reported.
Neither AMISOM nor the federal government of Somalia is yet to issue a comprehensive statement over the incident. The UPDF troops have been pursuing al-Shabaab bully boyz in Lower Shabelle, which is almost under the control of the bully boys.
One of the parents who spoke to the media accused AMISOM of "lying" to the public, adding that one of his sons was killed in the incident. He asked the union mission to take responsibility and accountability for the actions.
"My son and 6 others were mercilessly murdered by AMISOM, I call on the Federal Government of Somalia to hold Amisom accountable for this act," said Mohammed Yonis whose son was among 7 civilians who were allegedly killed in Golweyn by Amisom forces, on Tuesday.
Shalambood District Commissioner Nur Osman Rage who spoke to BBC Somali Service accused AMISOM of intentionally killing the civilians.
"The people have been rounded up and blindfolded, forcefully sat on a landmine and detonated," Nur said.
An official working for AMISOM, who asked not to be named, told the BBC Somali service that they had not heard of the incident but would seek further information. The official said AMISOM will provide details once thorough scrutiny has been done.
But the Shalambood governor said: "With shots being fired if people die, everyone dies somewhere. These people are people who have been rounded up and blindfolded and then killed because," he said.
[BenarNews] Bangladesh counter-terror police said they stopped a planned drone attack on government installations with the arrest on Wednesday of three suspected Neo-JMB
.... sometimes called New JMB after the Bangladeshi jihadi group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen. This time it’s linked to ISIS, but still on the Pakistani payroll. Shaykh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif is the nom de guerre of their big turban, who may be Sajit Debnath aka Muhammad Saifullah Ozaki, the Japanese-Bangladeshi jihadi and former associate professor of Ritsumeikan University. Their big attack was on the Holey Artisan Bakery in 2016...
krazed killers, two of whom were bomb-makers.
Security analysts said it could be easy to improvise drones and use them for attacks, but this was the first time they had heard from police about faceless myrmidons allegedly planning such strikes.
[Murcek] If you are into classic Fender guitars, Matthew Scott is a resource. He knows he doesn't know everything but he knows his commenters know a lot...
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The Sistan and Baluchestan police commander announced the confiscation of over 1 ton of narcotics in an armed clash between police forces and smugglers in Iranshahr County.https://t.co/V5pKeTDuNA
[RedState] The United States is a very young country. Our sense of history is compressed. Our history is a blip on the radar of many other nations’ and peoples’ histories. So our perspective on things is often quite different.
China has been China for thousands of years. Basically the same people living in the same place for eons. With a very different history — which imbues them with a very different perspective.
We in the US are VERY fortunate. The reason we remember so desperately the Great Depression is because it was such an anomaly for us. Ten years of hard times scarred the psyche of generations of Americans.
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There are all kinds of history books out there and all kinds of history classes in our universities. Anybody can study any aspect of the subject they choose without being limited to the history of just one nation. There are American, Chinese and world histories among hundreds of others. Which ones do the supposedly great and wise Chinese study?
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And which histories have led their commie bosses to believe that government control of the means of production will succeed?
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Wealth is power. Concentration of power is bad (except in warfare). Time for modern Teddy Roosevelt to come for the Silicon valley?
Mind you, CCP doesn't object to concentration of power per se - just power outside their own hands.
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There are all kinds of history books out there and all kinds of history classes in our universities.
Where have you been for the last few years? Here it 'burg somebody post an article about history courses abolished by a major University every week. But you [Americans] do have black history courses & womyn history courses.
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studying History is a big endeavor and requires the ability to correlate alot of divergent sources. Studying the History of China ( or India ) is a large undertaking an takes alot of time and thought. This is a somewhat simple article considering its premise, but its not inaccurate. China has been dealing with "Christians" for a long time and pretty much have our weak point nailed down. that being "Mammon"...just sayn'
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OK, it's been many years since I studied history in college and I'm not surprised if Black History and Chicano Studies have replaced some of the more, um, traditional courses. But, still, the study of history is not limited by the length of time the United States of America has been a nation.
I would agree with Thing From Snowy Mountain about Chinese influence on Big Tech. The only thing I know to do about it personally is to not use them, not give them any opportunity to make any money from me or to influence me. Same with the big corporate media companies. Turn 'em off, change the channel, read a book or go outside and get some exercise.
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An agent provocateur is a person who commits or who acts to entice another person to commit an illegal or rash act or falsely implicate them in partaking in an illegal act, so as to ruin the reputation or entice legal action against the target or a group they belong to or are perceived to belong to
[IsraelTimes] Seven residents of the south of the country were arrested recently for alleged acts of violence in May during an armed conflict between Israel and the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, it was announced Tuesday.
According to a statement from the Israel Police, the seven individuals were detained following a joint undercover investigation by police and the Shin Bet domestic security service.
The suspects are accused of rioting on several occasions near the Bedouin city of Rahat, north of Beersheba.
Police said the suspects threw rocks at passing cars and at coppers during protests amid the 11-day flareup of violence between Israel and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, in Gaza earlier this year.
The seven individuals were slated to appear at the Beersheba Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for a hearing on extending their detention.
Police said they will continue to work to investigate the festivities and violence that took place across Israel in May and to locate suspects, "and additional arrests are expected."
On Sunday, five Bedouin residents of the town of Kuseife in the south were indicted on terror charges for alleged acts of violence in May during the conflict.
From May 10-21 Israel fought against the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip. In response to thousands of rockets fired by the Paleostinian terror group at Israeli cities, the IDF carried out hundreds of bombing raids on Hamas targets in the coastal enclave.
The escalation in violence between Israel and Hamas sparked mass unrest in mixed Arab-Jewish locales in Israel.
[DW] Germany will stop deporting failed asylum seekers back to Afghanistan.
Germany will temporarily stop deportations to Afghanistan due to the unstable security situation, the German Interior Ministry told DW on Wednesday.
It comes after the Netherlands suspended deportations to the country for six months.
Earlier in the day, the German Interior Ministry said it believed it would still be possible to deport Afghan asylum seekers, despite the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... quickly retaking parts of the country.
Interior Ministry front man Steve Alter said Wednesday nearly 30,000 Afghans in Germany were slated for deportation.
That’s an awful lot more than I expected...
Alter told news hounds the Ministry "continues to be of the view that there are people in Germany who need to leave the country, as soon as possible."
In the Netherlands, Ankie Broekers-Knol, the state secretary in the Ministry of Justice, told parliament in The Hague Wednesday deportations would be suspended for the next 12 months due to the Taliban's advances across Afghanistan.
The move is an about face as just last week, the Dutch government urged the Afghan government to continue to accept failed asylum seekers.
Since NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces announced their withdrawal from Afghanistan in early May, the Taliban have sought a battlefield victory making aggressive pushes for territorial gain as civilian casualties mount.
In recent days, the Taliban have captured nine out of 34 picturesque provincial capitals.
The decisions against deportation came after six European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... member states, including Germany, warned against stopping deportations from Europe.
#Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani names an ambassador to #SaudiArabia in a further sign of improved ties after Riyadh and its allies agreed this year to end a boycott of their Gulf neighbor.https://t.co/pE8xUdBwNg
[NYPOST] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... on Wednesday threatened to respond to US-South Korean military drill it claims are an invasion rehearsal.Senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol condemned South Korea for continuing the allied drills and warned of unspecified counteractions that would make Seoul "realize by the minute" that it had waded into a security crisis.
His statement comes a day after Kim Yo Jong — the powerful sister of leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... — said the drills were the "most vivid expression of the US hostile policy" toward North Korea, adding that Pyongyang will work faster to strengthen its preemptive strike capabilities.
She called Seoul authorities "perfidious" over the South’s joint military exercises and demanded Washington withdraw its forces from the peninsula.
"For peace to settle on the peninsula, it is imperative for the US to withdraw its aggression troops and war hardware deployed in South Korea," she said.
The US and South Korea have not confirmed when the drills will take place, but local media have reported preliminary training was underway this week to set up larger computer-simulated drills from Aug. 16 to Aug. 26.
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North Korea has such issues threats and has for over 50+ years.
As the NK serfdom crumbles and starves, it needs to spew Panic and Hype to keep the growing population in line.
NK communism is basically no more than a modernized Joseon period King/Ruler down to dirt workers type hierarchy.
They are just using new titles and applying the same class structure that controlled a persons life or death without question.
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] County-level Republican parties in Wyoming are beginning to abandon Rep. Liz Cheney ...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as Republican royalty. A staunch Never Trumper, Liz supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump for his role in the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Publicans dumped her from her leadership position in May 2021. Refusing to admit that she had trashed her own career, Cheney has said that she intends to be the leader... in a fight to help to restore our party and that she may be interested in a future presidential run.... ahead of the 2022 midterm primaries over her ongoing criticism of former President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and her participation in the select Jan. 6 Committee.
"In the immortal words of the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump ...’You’re Fired!'" said letters sent recently to Cheney from GOP officials in Park and Carbon counties.
The state has 23 counties, most of which are very rural. Because of the state’s low population, Wyoming has just one congressional seat.
While the votes from the two counties are symbolic, they represent a growing displeasure from state party officials at Cheney.
But Cheney has come under fire from statewide Republicans since she voted to impeach the former president earlier this year, as calls to primary her rose. They increased again after she agreed to serve on House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... ’s select committee looking into the origins of the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol Building, which many Republicans believe is a partisan entity that is meant to legitimize a pre-determined conclusion that Trump was responsible for it.
The county GOP letters also come after the state Republican Party voted overwhelmingly to censure Cheney in February for her impeachment vote.
And in May, congressional Republicans voted, again overwhelmingly, to remove Cheney as chair of the House Republican Conference, the No. 3 position within the party in that chamber, after she kept up her critique of Trump and continued to blame him for the Capitol breach.
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Boosh fambly comeback on indefinite hold. Heh...
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life at the Family compound in Wilson musta made her think everyone in Wyoming was just like they are in Jackson/Wilson. A quick trip to Riverton or DuBois woulda cleared that up toot sweet.....
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DuBois .... spent quite a lot of time in the summers of '78 and '79 doing my Geochem MS work in the Absaroka Volcanic field. DuBois was the closest town. Fine people. If they're still like that, Cheney is history..about the same level of dislike for horse thieves I'd imagine
[DW] Instead of paying human traffickers, increasing numbers of Tunisians are buying their own boats and organizing do-it-yourself ocean journeys to Europe. It appears to be a growing trend.
In a self-made video, posted live on Facebook, young Tunisians on the boat clattering noisily toward the Italian coastline look relaxed, as though they're on holiday.
"I salute the neighborhood of Tadhamon and my friend, Abdel-Majid," Hamoud, one of the 10 young men on the boat says, joking into the camera. He's referring to the working-class Ettadhamen neighborhood on the outskirts of Tunis. "And greetings to those who were invited to participate in this trip but refused," he continues wryly.
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Hattip to Thing From Snowy Mountain. 746 also submitted this article, because great minds. :-)
[SacramentoBee] A college professor suspected in a series of arson fires in remote forested areas of Northern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, near the massive Dixie Fire has been charged in connection with one of the blazes in Lassen County and was ordered held Tuesday in the Sacramento County Main Jail.
Gary Stephen Maynard, 47, is believed to have worked at a number of colleges in California, including Santa Clara University and Sonoma State University, where a Dr. Gary Maynard is listed as a lecturer in criminal justice studies specializing in criminal justice, cults and deviant behavior.
Sonoma State spokeswoman Julia Gonzalez said Maynard is no longer with the university.
"He was a part-time lecturer in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice," she wrote in an email. "He was employed with Sonoma State University in Fall 2020, but did not have an appointment for Spring 2021.
"Mr. Maynard was contracted to fill in for a faculty member who was on leave. He taught two seminars in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies in Fall 2020."
Santa Clara confirmed that Maynard had worked there, as well.
"Gary Maynard was an adjunct faculty member in the sociology department at Santa Clara University from September 2019 to December 2020," the university wrote in an emailed statement.
Maynard was arrested Saturday following an investigation that began July 20 and included a U.S. Forest Service agent placing a tracking device under his car after he had been stopped briefly by Susanville police on Aug. 3.
Maynard, whose middle name is alternately spelled "Stephan" in jail records, made a brief appearance Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento, where Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Anderson asked that he not be released from custody.
"There are simply no conditions that could be fashioned that could ensure the safety of the public with respect to this defendant," Anderson told U.S. Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman.
"Over the course of the last several weeks, Maynard has set a series of fires in the vicinity of the Lassen National Forest and Shasta Trinity National Forest...," Anderson wrote in a detention memo. "The area in which Maynard chose to set his fires is near the ongoing Dixie fire, a fire which is still not contained despite the deployment and efforts of over 5,000 personnel.
Maynard is charged in a criminal complaint with willfully setting the Ranch Fire in Lassen County on Saturday, and could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine on that count.
Newman said the nature of the case suggested there may be mental issues at play and ordered him to remain in jug pending a hearing Wednesday.
"There’s certainly some potential, if not red flags, pink flags," Newman said.
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I got downvoted slightly over at That News Place for Hack(er)s for suggesting that maybe this guy was responsible for the Dixie Fire too. Or that the original fire was arson.
It's hard for me to tell.
Of course, in modern California and the land of the technoligarches, you can be running around trying to burn people to death and that's merely a pink flag rather than a red one.
Portland, Oregon is unsafe by design. Stop showing your white privilege, you raycist!
[KGW] People who live on Hayden Island say the homeless crisis and crime seem to be getting out of hand. They feel crime is rampant and, according to statistics, they're right. Portland Police Bureau data show crime on Hayden Island is the worst it's been in the last five years. Property crimes like theft, burglary and larceny make up the vast majority.
"I don't feel safe," a resident named Judi told KGW. "It didn't used to be like this."
Oftentimes, Hayden Island residents say they see stolen kayaks and boats pulled up next to two abandoned military vessels and an encampment along Jantzen Beach.
"The beach guys prowl around the marinas but they don't steal cars," said resident Howard Johnson. "That's where you've got to define what you're looking at and who might be doing it."
Police say it’s not just the transient population committing crime; opportunists steal and vandalize and they often get away with it.
Interstate 5 running through the island makes it a prime target; people coming from the south in Oregon or the north in Washington are able to quickly hop on and off the island to commit crimes there or escape being caught.
Residents see cars without license plates all over the neighborhood and believe they're stolen and brought to the area to be stripped.
John Seaman is one of many hit by thieves and has security camera videos of people stealing from his porch in the middle of the night. He said he knows others have had items stolen in the middle of the day.
Judi and her family had to track down her son's car after someone stole it from a parking lot. She said after retrieving it alongside Portland coppers, the thieves returned the following day to try stealing it again. Their other cars have been broken into multiple times, with catalytic converters stolen and windows smashed.
Earlier today Dakotah Horton pled guilty to assaulting a federal officer during the #Portland#Antifa July 27th federal courthouse riot
He smashed a federal officer w/ a baseball bat causing significant bruising@USAO_OR recommends 24 months in fed prison. Sentencing on 11/18 pic.twitter.com/rFmqbyO5Ir
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[REGNUM] The Uzbek authorities have come to a secret agreement with Facebook that the latter will remove human rights groups that are undesirable for Uzbekistan in this social network, a competent source told REGNUM news agency .
“The Uzbek authorities have shown Facebook that they can seriously impede the work of this social network. For example, about six months ago, Uzbek users complained that access to Facebook was not available or limited. The American network made the appropriate conclusions from this and decided to make concessions, ”said the agency's source.
According to him, the background of the event can be briefly described as follows: Uzbekistan demanded that Facebook install its servers in the republic, but then, after some negotiations, the parties agreed that Facebook, in order not to spend money and create unnecessary inconveniences for itself, would simply sacrifice the fruits of labor of human rights activists: block pages and groups that are objectionable to the Uzbek authorities.
"In order to create a basis for blocking pages and groups, Facebook has developed a mechanism - mass warnings of violations are sent to resource administrators indicated by the Uzbek authorities. At the same time, there are no violations, as such, just nagging on the part of Facebook in order, as noted above, to sum up the base. And after a while the groups are blocked," the source said.
In particular, he said, such popular groups in Uzbekistan as Law and Order, Fergana Valley, Uyat.uz and others were blocked.
"All these groups had tens of thousands of subscribers and were exclusively engaged in human rights activities, which the Uzbek authorities considered dangerous for themselves," the source said. Good thing for the government of Uzbekistan to block free speech in Uzbekistan before the Taliban can, right?
[Rudaw] About two-thirds of Syria’s Christians have fled the country in the past decade of conflict in the country, according to data from an Assyrian political party.
Christians made up eight to ten percent of Syria’s population before the start of the civil war in 2011. Today that number has decreased to three percent, the Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO) told Rudaw. The party is close to the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... -backed Syrian opposition.
The number of Christians in the Kurdish-populated Jazira region in the very northeast of the country has decreased from 150,000 to around 55,000.
The data was confirmed by other Christian parties in Rojava. ADO obtained figures about Christians in regime-held areas from the Vatican.
Syria’s Christians helped to defeat 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 (ISIS). The Syriac Military Council is part of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and is a partner force of the global coalition against ISIS.
Politically, Syrian Christians, mostly Syriacs and Assyrians, are divided into three main parties. ADO is the oldest of them, operating since 1957. The Assyrian Democratic Party (ADP) and the Syriac Union Party (SUP) are close to the Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria (Rojava).
ADO and SUP have engaged in unity talks recently, hoping to strengthen their influence in the country.
"The talks which began a few months ago between Syriac and Assyrian parties continue. We have discussed a number of significant issues... We are working on finding a mechanism to increase coordination between parties," Gabriel Mushe, head of relations office for the ADO, told Rudaw on Monday.
Henna Sewime, a leadership member of the SUP, told Rudaw that they have discussed three main things during their talks: unity of Christians, a united Syria in the future, and the recognition of Christians in the future constitution of the country.
[NYPOST] With his resignation announcement on Tuesday, 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.... joins a club of scandal-scarred New York politicians that is neither small nor exclusive.
The Democrat said he will step down on Aug. 24 — with more than a year left in his third term — amid threat of impeachment and multiple investigations into the slew of sexual harassment allegations against him, as well as his handling of nursing homes during COVID-19 and his $5.1 million book deal on the pandemic.
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[LUG-info] The obtained confessions of Roman Protasevich allowed the LPR law enforcement officers to move forward in the investigation of the criminal case initiated against him by the LPR General Prosecutor's Office. This was announced at a briefing in Lugansk Inform Center by the official representative of the LPR Prosecutor General's Office Inna Semenova.
"The confessions received by Roman Protasevich allowed us to make significant progress in the investigation of the criminal case initiated by our supervisory department in May this year," she said.
The LPR General Prosecutor's Office, which, within the framework of the criminal case initiated against Protasevich, is conducting investigative actions into his participation in terrorist organizations, declared its readiness to provide Belarusian law enforcement officers with legal assistance in investigating the criminal actions of the suspect and asked Belarus to provide an opportunity to conduct investigative actions with the participation of Protasevich on the territory of the Republic.
Protasevich is the founder of the Nexta Telegram channel, recognized as extremist in Belarus. Together with his partner, Sophia Sapega, he was detained on May 23 while checking documents at the Minsk airport.
A criminal case was initiated against Protasevich under several articles, including those providing for responsibility for organizing mass riots.
Earlier, Protasevich stated that he was in Donbass at the height of hostilities in 2014-2015, allegedly as a journalist. However, there are photographs of Protasevich, in which he is captured in military uniform with weapons in his hands together with militants of the Ukrainian nationalist Azov battalion. Boris Rozhin stated in his blog that LPR investigators were satisfied with answers Protasevich had given, subtly indicating he may be off the hook.
Related, a Belarus news presenter, Zenia Lebedeva gave an interview with Sofia Sapega, Protasevich's girlfriend, who stated that the couple were not removed from the plane, but were deplaned normally. Their identities were discovered when Belarus customs performed a routine documents check.
She also claimed that she knew of no Belurus security agents who were on boards the Ryan Air , but that she suspected Protasevich was fingered through someone in his circle. '
In other words, it was not Belarus authorities who notified officials of a potential bomb threat on the bird, but a friend/rival of Protasevich.
The interview of Sapega (in Russian, but translatable):
Christian Anti-Abortion event tonight in Salem Oregon.
A group of #Antifa showed up in black bloc to disrupt the event. So far they've been largely unsuccessful, currently there is a large number of guys are facing off with them protecting the eventpic.twitter.com/WyU8zIMISt
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Most of the freaks are wanna be sidewalk commandos. A few anything goes psychopaths. On the other side a bunch of squarejohns and a few seasoned tough guys.
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Rinse and repeat. Keep putting the pressure on the LARPers so as to draw out the real thugs, then dispense with them.
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Giving the hard cases hematomas gets the LARPers' attention.
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[The Hill via Citizen Free Press] Data to be released Thursday by the Census Bureau is likely to show the U.S. is diversifying at the fastest rate in the nation's history, even as overall population growth slows to the most sluggish pace since the country's founding.
The new figures are almost certain to shine a spotlight on a trend that annual surveys have illustrated over the last several years: The number of white Americans is declining.
The white population in America has grown far more slowly than minority groups for decades. White people are having fewer children and starting their families at a later age than other groups, a long-term trend that demographers have called a baby bust. The opioid epidemic, too, has claimed so many lives that it measurably reduced the nation's life expectancy, especially among white people.
Over the last four years, annual census surveys have shown the white population has declined by more than 1 million - a drop that is sufficient to wipe out the population growth among white people from 2010 to 2016.
The pace of the decrease is accelerating, too. Between 2016 and 2017, the white population fell by an estimated 129,000 people. From 2019 to 2020, that decline sped up to 482,000.
If trends from annual estimates conducted over the last decade hold, the census data released Thursday is likely to show an America that is, for the first time in the nation's history, less than 60 percent white.
Minority groups, however, are growing.
The number of Hispanic or Latino Americans grew by at least 1 million in eight of the last 10 years, and by 10.5 million between 2010 and 2020. The number of Asian Americans grew by about half a million in seven of the last 10 years, up 4.7 million over the decade. And the number of African Americans grew by at least 300,000 in eight of the last 10 years, or an estimated 3.4 million since the 2010 census.
[NYPOST] Faced with universal demands for him to step down and clearly unable to govern, 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.... did the only sane thing: He tendered his resignation. Good riddance. Now Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will take over at a key moment for the state.She’s largely unknown and untested — but good signs abound: The Buffalo native has called herself "an independent Democrat" and got her start in politics as an aide to Rep. John LaFalce and the late, great Sen. Pat Moynihan, both independent-minded liberals.
When then-Lt. Gov. David Paterson took over in 2008 after a prostitution scandal forced out Gov. Eliot Spitzer, he’d served in the state Senate for decades, including as minority leader. Hochul has years in local government, a term in Congress and seven years as Cuomo’s rarely consulted LG. (Ironically, she led the gov’s "Enough is Enough" sexual-assault-prevention initiative.)
"As someone who has served at all levels of government and is next in the line of succession, I am prepared to lead as New York State’s 57th Governor," she tweeted Tuesday. She’s also visited all 62 of the state’s counties every year as LG.
Yet she will preside over a state facing soaring crime and a post-COVID economy struggling to recover, with a disastrous rent-relief program and a leadership void at key agencies such as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Enormous fiscal challenges lie just down the road, and next year’s race for governor will only add complexity.
Worst, she must face down radicalized politicians whose agenda — yet more anti-cop measures, raising taxes further and yet more irresponsible state spending and bank-busting programs like single-payer health care — would be disastrous.
Her first order of business, of course: Clean house at the Capitol’s Second Floor, removing Cuomo loyalists, especially those linked to his numerous scandals. But she’ll also need to assemble her own trusted team all across state government.
Paterson managed to see the state through the rocky recovery from the 2008 recession; Hochul may face an even heavier lift. New Yorkers should wish her well.
Sun Guangxin, a Chinese real estate tycoon, has since 2016 spent an estimated $110 million buying up land in Val Verde County in Texas
Worth an estimated $2.1 billion, according to Forbes, Sun has bought 140,000 acres of Texan land near the U.S.-Mexico border, by Laughlin air force base
Sun has set aside 15,000 acres to build a wind farm which would feed into Texas' power grid
His actions have raised eyebrows, given his close ties to Communist party officials in Urumqi - home to the persecuted Uighur minority
It has also triggered claims Sun could equip the turbines with spying equipment, or even let China hold Texas's power grid to ransom
Environmentalists were concerned about the impact of a wind farm on the Devils River ecosystem, 'considered one of the last wild and pristine rivers in Texas'
On June 7 Governor Greg Abbott signed into law the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act
The bill is designed to stop business entities associated with 'hostile nations' from accessing the Texas grid and other pieces of 'critical infrastructure'
Talk about a contradiction in terms. "Communist Billionaire".
National Infrastructure / Power Grid and etc. should limited to USA OWNED, LOCATED & CONTROLLED ONLY COMPANIES. Simply to avoid a conflict of interest and loyalty issues.
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"We are from Cohnhore" Monty Python sketch you can't find online anymore.
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So Texas doesn't trust their own democrats, feeling they'll happily grow dependent upon this power instead of building and upgrading existent power thus putting Texas future in Chinese hands? Well don't let them connect to the grid or pass a law saying Texa power must come 80% from non-wind sources.
[EN.MEHRNEWS] Unknown gunnies in the Iraqi city of Karbala killed the mayor of the holy religious town on Tuesday.
Abir Salim, the Mayor of Karbala was on an inspection visit to the Mualemchi district in the city where unknown button men opened fire on him, according to local Iraqi media.
The gunnies reportedly shot three bullets at him.
The mayor was immediately taken to a nearby hospital but succumbed to death due to his critical wounds.
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An #Afghan official and local media reports say President Ashraf Ghani has replaced the army chief of staff amid a #Taliban blitz across the country.https://t.co/8xurUaB9jI
Brilliant.
A Defense Ministry official said Gen. Hibatullah Alizai replaced Gen. Wali Ahmadzai as the Afghan army chief of staff. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the change that has not yet been announced publicly.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Several Lebanese parties said on Wednesday they would boycott a parliamentary session called to discuss a proposal that critics say would effectively derail judicial efforts to question bigwigs over the Beirut port blast.
More than a year since the Aug. 4 blast, many Lebanese are furious that no bigwig has been brought to account for more than 200 lives lost and thousands of injuries.
With leading Christian and Druze groups planning to boycott, it was not clear if there would be enough MPs for quorum at the session called on Thursday by Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... The only item on the agenda is the petition from a group of MPs asking that the bigwigs including the caretaker prime minister be referred to a special council that hears cases against former presidents and ministers.
The Christian Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... said the petition was an attempt to obstruct the judicial probe. MPs aligned with Druze leader Walid Wally Jumblat ...Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... said it would "obstruct reaching the truth".
If approved, the petition would first lead to a parliamentary inquiry, said Nizar Saghieh, head of The Legal Agenda, a research and advocacy organization.
The process could lead to a trial by the special council if two-thirds of MPs voted for one, he said, adding that the inquiry could go on indefinitely.
"The aim of the petition is to create a parallel parliamentary inquiry and consequently to confuse the judicial inquiry," he said.
The petition was lodged after investigating judge Tarek Bitar requested immunity be lifted from former Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, former Public Works Minister Ghazi Zeaiter and former Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk, all of whom are MPs.
It seeks permission for those three, in addition to caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and Youssef Finianos, another former public works minister, to be referred to the special council.
All deny wrongdoing.
“Wudn’t us. Maybe Allah dunnit — ‘cause all that happens is his will.”
Khalil and Zeitar are both senior members of Berri’s Amal Movement and allies of the Iran-backed, Shiite group Hezbollah. Finianos belongs to a Christian faction that is allied to Hezbollah.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... on Saturday accused Bitar on Saturday of playing politics, calling the investigation politicized.
Bitar has not commented on the accusation.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least one person was killed Wednesday and 25-30 people were feared trapped after a landslide onto a road in India’s Himalayan north, officials said.
"Six people have been rushed to local hospitals with injuries. At least one person is dead," a local police official from Himachal Pradesh state bordering Tibet told AFP.
"We think one bus and or a truck and some cars are also under the rubble. But there is no clarity yet because the landslide... is still happening. The rescue work can only start after the rocks stop falling and the slope becomes stable."
A statement from the state emergencies center said that, according to the local police, "25-30 passengers are stuck or trapped at the incident site".
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[EN.MEHRNEWS] Today, the thought of Imam Hussein (PTUI!) has doubled the honor of the land of the Medes and the Persians in the world and the enemies are desperately inviting Iranians to come to the table of negotiation, Iranian Army’s second-in-command said. The relations of the countries have been influenced under the heavy shadow of the realism school of thought which is based on arrogance and hegemony, Deputy Commander of the Iranian Army Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Dadras said Wednesday morning.
In fact, such a sinister school of thought considers power as the basis for determining the rights of countries in all fields, he added.
He went on to say that the Islamic school thought enjoys great role models such as Imam Hussein (PTUI!), a great figure who is the manifestation of endurance and resistance against arrogant powers and oppression.
"We also obey such a school of thought and consider this great figure as a role model", the Iranian Army’s second-in-command noted.
Today, the thought of Imam Hussein (PTUI!) has doubled the honor of the land of the Medes and the Persians in the world, Dadras said, adding that today the enemies are desperately inviting Iranians to come to the table of negotiation.
"On the other hand, some regional countries, supporting their American allies to achieve their interests, are weak and they are being humiliated by the United States", he added.
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More Loudoun County School Board nonsense can be seen here.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Laura Morris was a fifth grade teacher at Lucketts Elementary School in Leesburg, Virginia
On Tuesday night she quit in front of Loudoun County School Board in a tearful protest at their policies
She accused the school board of forcing her 'to push highly-politicized agendas on our most vulnerable constituents – the children'
Morris also spoke out against forms which she said teachers were encouraged to fill in, reporting their colleagues if they criticized the teaching program
Loudoun County is at the forefront of the culture wars sweeping U.S. schools
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Hope somebody decent hires her.
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I think Oregon has demonstrated the need for public education doesn't exist by basically ending proficiency in reading, writing, and arithmetic requirements. Time to kick back vouchers to parents (who give a damn) to shop a market of providers.
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I went two two private schools growing up. One was staffed by serious pedagogues who had no time for any politics. The other had some great teachers and some apparatchiks Stalin would have loved right up until he had them shot...
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Making education a state activity gets you the same thing making municipal sanitation a gummint activity does. Piles of stinking garbage overdue to be picked up. Outlaw public schools. sell the property. Outlaw teachers' unions. Make anyone with a union card go through an arduous re-education camp to even be eligible for rejection from teaching in the future.
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Saint FDR (8/16/1937) -
"All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.
Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government."
He was talking about Federal Employees, to be clear, but the same could be said for all public trough employees.
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By putting their focus on targeting White women, the Left confirms that they were 100% successful in getting all (but mostly White) men purged from public schools, while their female counterparts stood by silently and let it happen because they were too busy getting their "you go girl, rah-rah" dopamine fix being fed to them by the media and the unions. Now the crosshairs are on them and suddenly it's a crisis. Too little too late. The publics school system is irrevocably broken.
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When I was in grade school, it was assumed any male teacher was ghey. The females were either hawt or disgusting.
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[NYPOST] Days after a police officer was murdered in her city, 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... Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black... vowed Wednesday to boost police funding next year after it was slashed amid calls to defund the department."It’s my expectation that the police department budget will increase, no question. We have to," Lightfoot said at a presser announcing her budget forecast.
She gave no indication of how much she plans to increase the department’s $1.6 billion budget.
She only said additional funds were needed to recruit the "next generation" of officers, as well as "increase the resources devoted to the health and wellness of our coppers."
"We have to make sure we are continuing to provide resources to recruit the next generation of coppers and make sure we’re doing that recruitment in a way that reflects diversity of the city," she said.
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Watch the budget increases to be for 'Social Welfare Officers' or 'Diversity Enforcement Teams'.
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And who would join? Knowing that she will throw them under the bus - and then repeatably drive the bus over them herself - at the earliest opportunity?
[NYPOST] The US Senate has voted to pass an amendment in the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package that bans federal funds from being used to teach Critical Race Theory
...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites and Asians are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense... in schools, Sen. Tom Cotton says.The Arkansas Republican introduced the Stop CRT Act last month in a bid to prevent federal tax dollars from being used to teach the "indoctrinating" theory in K-12 classrooms.
The Senate approved Cotton’s amendment 50-49, according to Fox News.
"They want to teach our children that America is not a good nation but a racist nation," Cotton said on the Senate floor ahead of the vote.
"Those teachings are wrong and our tax dollars should not support them."
Cotton called CRT an "un-American ideology."
"My amendment will ensure that federal funds aren’t used to indoctrinate children as young as pre-K to hate America.
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That won't help because the difference in achievement is an observable fact - and nobody has the balls to say that this fact is due to 20% difference in IQ.
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One day I was in the checkout line at the grocery store and the person in front of me was having what I call a bad transaction - in this case trying to use coupons that did not apply to the purchases being made. When it was my turn, the cashier said "I'm really sorry about the wait." I said, "I'd rather have to deal with stupid people than have to deal with being stupid myself." She smiled big time and said "I never thought of it that way. That makes my day!"
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So Federal dollars will be used to pay some other school cost, freeing those dollars for CRT indoctrination.
[EpochTimes] Amid a bevy of COVID-19 vaccine mandates being handed down by governments and businesses, there has been a kaboom of fabricated vaccination cards, according to researchers.
"As a segment of the population tries to avoid the new measures, the darknet reacts to the real market and thus demand gives birth to offers," Dmitry Galov, a researcher at cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, said in interview with The Wall Street Journal, referring to the fake vaccine cards.
Forged vaccine cards that claim to be issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been proliferating on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and other online marketplaces, according to reports.
In another example, an Instagram account with the username "vaccinationcards" sells laminated COVID-19 vaccination cards for $25 each. A user on the messaging app Telegram offers "COVID-19 Vaccine Cards Certificates" for as much as $200 apiece.
"This is our own way of saving as many people as we possibly can from the poisonous vaccine," reads the seller’s message, viewed by at least 11,000 app users.
On Twitter, one user with more than 70,000 followers wrote, "My daughter bought 2 fake ID’s online for $50 while in college. Shipped from China. Anyone have the link for vaccine cards?"
In La Belle France, after the country’s Parliament approved a law requiring a pass to enter certain businesses, tens of thousands of protesters erupted into the streets over the past several weekends. Around 250,000 people were estimated to have protested over the past weekend in Gay Paree, Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... , and other cities against vaccine passports after La Belle France’s top court ruled that most of the health pass law was constitutional.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face... there have been sporadic protests in some U.S. cities, including in Lansing, Michigan, the state’s capital, over the recent weekend. Protests are also reportedly planned in New York City over vaccine mandates.
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The very same people who love fake ballots despise this.
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Interesting that google and the media provide top notch useable images to print and fill in. That are good enought for commercial level access. Even what VAX-data is needed in what lines.
But remember there is a state and likely a Fed database tracking who has and who has not actually taken it.
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An agent of influence is an agent of some stature who uses his or her position to influence public opinion or decision making to produce results beneficial to the country whose intelligence service operates the agent. Agents of influence are often the most difficult agents to detect, as there is seldom material evidence that connects them with a foreign power, but they can be among the most effective means of influencing foreign opinion and actions as they hold considerable credibility among the target audience. Most commonly they serve the interests of a foreign power in one of three ways: either as a controlled agent directly recruited and controlled by a foreign power; as a "trusted contact" that consciously collaborates to advance foreign interests but is not directly recruited or controlled by a foreign power; or as a "useful idiot" that is completely unaware of how their actions further the interests of a foreign power.
The term "agent of influence" is often used to describe both individuals and organizations engaged in influence operations. Individuals engaged in this type of influence operation may serve in the fields of journalism, government, art, labor, academia, or a number of other professional fields. Cultural opinion makers, nationalists, and religious leaders have also been targeted to serve as individual agents of influence.
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Look. Anyone stupid enough to look to social media for information prolly sucks up whatever the press-on nails guy in the White House video says. And those individuals believe you and I are rubes for not going along. It's not possible to reason with tem, don't even try.
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I have a real vaccine card from the place I got my shot. How long do you think it will be before I'm arrested for having a fake card?
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If You got your shot in the A-- (place you got your shot) and are forced to show a picture (of that place),
I'd say not very long (possession & distribution of P-rn-o-graffy and all)
That’s ok. We don’t need to kick those who deserve it if they would just take themselves where they can’t do kick-worthy things anymore. If only he hadn’t been around to kick a year ago or more, how much happier we’d all be.
[AMERICANTHINKER] 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.... announced yesterday that he’s resigning as governor of New York because he loves the state and it’s clear that he’s in the way. Since I think very little of the man, both as a person and a politician, the fact that he’s leaving seems like good news. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... it’s very likely that, by pulling out now, he’s sparing himself and his minions a criminal investigation into the 15,000 old people who died last year when he insistently warehoused COVID patients into retirement communities. Also, considering who’s already lining up to take his place, New York may find itself going from the corrupt Democrat frying pan into the equally corrupt communist fire.
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Listen to his All Over The Map Exit Speech.
Buried deep in it was about 45 seconds of him actually saying he was resigning.
Surrounded by with something like 10 to 12+ minutes that sounded like a College Football coach doing poorly delivered "Win for the the Gipper" routine.
Basically, he resigned to avoid Criminal indictment and Impeachment.
Both of which would have likely barred him from future NY / USA Political Offices until pardoned by the next Liberal in Office.
Now he just has to pay some hush $$$ or have some threats made to keep his Political Meal Ticket viable.
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How bout G.W. Boosh comes back and gives a speech where he says: I pushed this country down the toilet for 8 years and ushered in Bath House Barry." How bout that?
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Via regnum.ru: Several hundred government soldiers have surrendered to the Taliban
The army corps of the Afghan government forces surrendered to the Taliban in the area of the administrative center of Kunduz province, The Washington Post reported on August 11.
According to the newspaper, several hundred Afghan soldiers defending a military base near Kunduz airport surrendered and transferred all weapons and equipment to the Taliban (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation).
Local officials say some of the Afghan military has moved from the airport to the mountains.
As reported by IA REGNUM , against the backdrop of the withdrawal of US troops and their satellites from Afghanistan, the Taliban seized nine of the country's 34 administrative centers and continue to attack the forces of the Afghan government.
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"Dignified Transition" ceremony in the Stans. Little "dignified" about how this conflict evolved and ultimately culminated. The entire country wasn't worth the life of one American.
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The last time the U.S. didn’t bother to care the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were attacked. The Capitol building was reportedly supposed to be hit, too, but some very brave men on the third airplane said, “Lets roll!” and ended up crashed into a field instead.
The question is how to care more effectively than has been done for most of the past two decades.
#Sudan will hand former president Omar al-#Bashir to the International Criminal Court along with other officials wanted over the Darfur conflict, Foreign Minister Mariam al-Mahdi says.https://t.co/1FuTXbTx4Y
Part of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s speech which caused a wave of false headlines online yesterday. Here is what the commander of the Libyan National Army had to say in regards to the Army being under the control of the Government.https://t.co/PzK4AXb3CT#Libya#LibyaReviewpic.twitter.com/TXFXfDrcuO
This guy makes Epstein's clients look like a bunch of school boys.
[Breitbart] Hunter Biden claimed during a post-coital conversation with a woman identified by the Daily Mail as a prostitute that Russian drug dealers stole his laptop (not the one abandoned to a Delaware computer repair shop) during a Vegas bender where he nearly drowned in a hotel hot tub, according to footage unearthed by the tabloid. **WARNING — GRAPHIC VIDEO AT LINK**
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Why would he make a video of his romp with a prostitute? Why would he tell the prostitute about his missing laptop? Could this video be faked or is he really that stupid? I'm thinking that, if he doesn't sue the Daily Mail, the video must be real. I've heard it said that the truth is stranger than fiction but this is just soooooo bizarre...I'd love to see Hollywood make a feature length movie about it. Popcorn?
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the First Family. I couldn't be prouder.
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Hard to believe the guy could be that stupid, arrogant and reckless. But if he is, it's like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. You get all kinds of warnings in life. Lucky people get off with more warnings and less trouble than they deserve. But if you're that stupid and you don't stop, never even slow down, eventually you get yourself into the kind of trouble that is more than just an amusing story in a tabloid even if your daddy is the president.
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The same people who pretended to be outraged over "mean" tweets do every sort of mental gymnastics to pretend that Hunter Biden doesn't even exist.
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Abu Uluque, I haven't watched the video but I suspect this was a honeytrap and the ladies handlers set up the video. The real question is why didn't anyone prevent Hunter from having a second laptop in the first place. At the very least they should have set up some kind of Chromebook where the laptop itself had no content, that way Hunters handlers could cut off access quick if he lost another one.
It's one of Hunter's kinks. When the abandoned laptop was first revealed, it was shown that Hunter had his own pron channel (don't remember which one but one could pay to view) of his recorded escapades with prostitutes.
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Thought the FBI had one of them. Russian gangsters another. The other?
Meanwhile, in other related news "Tara Reade says that White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was wrong to say that sexual misconduct claims against President Biden were “heavily litigated” already."
[DAILYWIRE] Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan (R) officially signed civil arrest warrants for 52 House Democrats who refused to show up for another special legislative session, thereby keeping the session from proceeding.As The Washington Post reported:
Phelan front man Enrique Marquez said warrants were signed for 52 Democrats who failed to return during the fifth day of the House’s second special session, leaving the chamber eight members short of a quorum.
The move by Phelan comes after the Texas Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... overturned a ruling Tuesday "by a Travis County district judge that blocked them from ordering the arrest of quorum-busting Democrats, who were in Washington, D.C., for about a month," KXAN reported. "Democrats who are arrested would not face criminal charges and could not be tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! or fined. Law enforcement officers carrying out arrest orders by state officials could only try to bring them to the House chambers."
"The Supreme Court of Texas swiftly rejected this dangerous attempt by Texas Democrats to undermine our Constitution and avoid doing the job they were elected to do," said Renae Eze, an Abbott spokeswoman. "We look forward to the Supreme Court upholding the rule of law and stopping another stall tactic by the Texas Democrats."
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Add a "resigned position by default" amendment to the legislation they ran away from. Make them come back and vote on their own removal from office.
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If they refuse to do their Jobs,
then IMPEACH THEM for Violation of Oath of Office.
Then hold Special Elections to replace them.
#Lebanon’s central bank governor tells the country’s high defense council he can no longer open credit lines for #fuel or subsidize fuel purchases, according to the al-Jadeed TV channel.https://t.co/CpB98y2QoH
[JPost] Who, oh who, could it be? Jooooo spy squirrels? Joooo dolphins?
Syrian media reported an explosion and fire on a ship at the port in Latakia on Tuesday, with initial reports indicating that the affected vessel had been used to transfer Iranian oil to Syria in the past.
The Syrian state news agency SANA reported that firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out in a ship that was undergoing maintenance at the port.
Smoke from the fire caused some of the workers to suffer difficulty breathing. The ship was empty, according to SANA.
TankerTrackers.com, an online service that tracks and reports shipments and storage of crude oil, identified the vessel as the WISDOM, saying that the tanker had recently relocated in the port to make room for the Iranian oil tanker SAM 121.
The WISDOM has been used to transfer Iranian oil from Iranian tankers, including the SAM 121, to Syria in the past, according to TankerTrackers.com.
If this was the WISDOM, this isn't the first time the vessel has been affected by such an incident.
In April, initial reports claimed that the ship had been targeted by a drone attack, although Iranian and Syrian media later denied the reports, saying that a fire had been caused by a welding accident, killing one worker.
In May, the vessel was hit by another fire, after what SANA claimed was a technical failure in one of the engines.
The news comes as tensions remain high between Israel and Iran after an Iranian drone strike targeted an Israeli-managed Mercer Street ship off the coast of Oman in July, killing a British citizen and a Romanian citizen. The United States, the United Kingdom and Israel have all threatened retaliation and the attack has garnered international condemnation of Iran.
Iran has denied being responsible for the attack and claimed Israel and there US are attempting to destabilize the region, but on Saturday US Central Command (CENTCOM) released evidence that the drones used in the attack were Iranian-made.
Less than a week after the attack on the Mercer Street, Iranian forces reportedly attempted to hijack the Asphalt Princess tanker off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, but fled the ship after workers sabotaged the engines, according to the British daily The Times.
On Monday, Iranian Nour News claimed that an Israeli submarine had secretly entered the Red Sea accompanied by two ships.
In recent years, Israel and Iran have reportedly targeted each other's maritime vessels on dozens of occasions.
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A lot of Iranian stuff exploding lately. Could just be coincidence. Bad grounding straps, that's my theory. Electrostatic discharge from all that hot, dry wind.
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] According to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, he and Vice President Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge talked about "the complete opening" of the 2,000 mile border between the United States and Mexico. The announcement comes after the border has been closed to non-essential travel between the two contries.
Obrador tweeted, "We spoke again with Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States. In good terms, we dealt with the immigration issue, the complete opening of the northern border to reactivate our economies and continue with mutual cooperation to face the pandemic."
"The White House said the two leaders discussed ongoing bilateral cooperation to address ’irregular migration’ to the shared U.S.-Mexican border, and agreed to focus on bolstering Central American economies through investment in agriculture and climate resilience," Rooters reported, adding, "The U.S. vice president also told Lopez Obrador that Washington was committed to sending additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Mexico, on top of the 4 million doses already delivered, the White House said."
Lopez Obrador told a morning news conference earlier that day, "This is what I’m going to suggest today, that we can demonstrate that we’re not putting the population at risk."
Back in March of 2020, the Trump administration closed the southern border to limit the spread of COVID; Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Chad F. Wolf wrote:
U.S. and Mexican officials have mutually determined that non-essential travel between the United States and Mexico poses additional risk of transmission and spread of COVID-19 and places the populace of both nations at increased risk of contracting COVID-19. Moreover, given the sustained human-to-human transmission of the virus, maintaining the current level of travel between the two nations places the personnel staffing land ports of entry between the United States and Mexico, as well as the individuals traveling through these ports of entry, at increased risk of exposure to COVID-19.
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[Rudaw] A Kurdish couple is facing the possibility of having to return to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... where they face a six-year prison sentence after their request for asylum was rejected in Germany.
Sinem Mut and her fiancé Anil Kaya left Turkey in March 2019 after being accused of being members of the Maoist Communist Party (MKP), which Turkey deems a terrorist organization. Mut and Kaya have reportedly denied joining the party. According to the couple, they came to Germany and applied for asylum after realizing they could no longer live a "dignified life" in Turkey.
A German court rejected their application, media reported on Monday, and said they will face deportation if they do not depart Germany by August 21.
"The questions asked in court, as well as what we read in the courts decision, made us live through what we experienced in Turkey again," Kaya said on Twitter after receiving the verdict.
Academics for Peace, a non-profit association founded to support academic freedom and freedom of speech in Turkey, claimed that Mut and Kaya, who were both pursuing post-graduate studies, are "only two of the hundreds of academics who are targeted by Turkeys ongoing and fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... development in recent years."
Ottoman Turkish courts have been accused of applying criminal law and procedures arbitrarily against critics of the government.
Mut and Kaya plan to launch a petition campaign to garner national attention in order to convince German authorities to let them stay in the country.
Iran’s new president presented a cabinet dominated by hardliners on Wednesday, state TV reported, among them a foreign minister known for close ties to Hezbollah and an interior minister wanted by Interpol over his alleged role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires.
The conservative holy man and former judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi nominated hardline career diplomat Hossein Amirabdollahian to the crucial post of foreign minister as Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and the US seek to resuscitate Tehran’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers.
Amirabdollahian, 56, has served in a range of administrations over the decades. He was deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs under former populist hardline president Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad, known in the West for his Holocaust denial and disputed reelection in 2009.
According to Rooters, Amirabdollahian is an avowed anti-Westerner believed to have close relations with the Hezbollah terrorist group in 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... as well as Iran’s Revolutionary Guards force.
Raisi also appointed Gen. Ahmad Vahidi — a former defense minister blacklisted by the US in 2010 — as his interior minister. He was the head of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, its international operations arm, at the time of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... ’s capital. His name appeared on an Interpol "red notice" list regarding the attack on the AMIA building.
The 1994 AMIA (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) bombing, carried out by a Lebanese jacket wallah who drove a boom-mobile at the multistory building, killed 85 people and maimed hundreds. The bomber was subsequently identified as Ibrahim Hussein Berro, an operative of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group, and he was allegedly assisted by other Hezbollah and Iranian operatives.
The Iranian cabinet list, which offered few surprises, must still be confirmed by he country’s parliament. The supreme leader also typically weighs in on picking officials for the most sensitive positions, such as foreign minister.
Javad Owji, 54, a longtime official in the country’s vital oil and gas sector, was nominated as oil minister. Raisi picked Rostam Ghasemi, a former oil minister under Ahmadinejad, as the minister for roads and urbanization. The list named Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, a former deputy chief of staff of the armed forces, as defense minister.
A black family has filed a federal complaint against Mary Lin Elementary (@APSLinRockets) after it was discovered the principal had been segregating the students based on race. Operating on CRT, school believed black kids would do better without whites. pic.twitter.com/0wcbr19UnJ
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The genuine civil rights leaders of the 1950s and 60s are turning over in their graves.
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No .... Obama had rotisserie installed in everyone of their graves because of what he planned to do in his first term, and didn't want to see or hear of any grinding noise reports coming to his office in his second term.
[BIZPACREVIEW] Fox News host Steve Hilton blasted teachers’ unions on "The Next Revolution," saying parents have been stripped of their power when it comes to determining what is best for their children.
This being the very thing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis endeavored to avoid in signing an executive order banning school mask mandates — some districts are trying to skirt the order by requiring masks, but allowing parents to navigate the red tape to opt-out.
"This week, as parents across the country protest cruel, scientifically illiterate mask mandates for kids, [President] Biden’s hapless education secretary Miguel Cardona threatens school closures in response, and Biden himself weighed in against kids, against parents, and against science," Hilton declared.
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Teacher's unions have not improved the educational system; if anything, they've degraded it.
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.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...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 
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as 
...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 
[NYPOST] With his resignation announcement on Tuesday, Gov. 
...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....
...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black...
[EpochTimes] Amid a bevy of COVID-19 vaccine mandates being handed down by governments and businesses, there has been 
"Dignified Transition" ceremony in the Stans. Little "dignified" about how this conflict evolved and ultimately culminated. The entire country wasn't worth the life of one American.
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
[JPost] 
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...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...
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