[Arutz 7] - Rabbi David Oberlander, one of the leading figures of the Belz Hasidic movement in Ashdod, died at the Ichilov Hospital from the coronavirus. He was only 38 years old.
...Rabbi Oberlander died exactly 30 days after his father, Rabbi Moshe Yosef Oberlander, also died from the coronavirus, and two weeks after the disease claimed the life of his uncle, Rabbi Yechiel Oberlander.
Belz Hasidic movement are covid sceptics (cf. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/HkuZd0UMw)
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They lived by their rules and died by their rules. Seems that's how freedom is supposed to work. But the stone atheist is alarmed, because "the deaths." Comon...
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No. They lived by their rules, until they got sick. Then they took advantage of the secular Israeli society's rules on Covid medical treatment.
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He's bitter about people mocking his religion. Don't you go trying that!
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They paid taxes? They were entitled.
Typical "Government don't tell me what to do, I has my rights! I'm entitled to Government assistance when - in the course of excising my rights - I run into trouble!"
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Wow, just WOW! She lays it all out concisely, in a short commercial. Very well done. Now it is up to the voters of Baltimore to make the changes necessary.
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If she doesn't get at least a dozen marriage proposals out of this I'll be surprised.
Politically astute, media aware and she totally rocks the red dress.
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Her campaign website: https://kimkforcongress.com/. It tells very little more about her personal history, and her Wikipedia page is similarly sparse.
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Smaller than a re-entering MIRV, which we are assured is detectable?
Different animal. We can track the launch and the trajectory with thermal, then radar. An MIRV coming in from deep space would most likely catch us completely by surprise.
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When I lived at White Sands Proving Grounds in the late 50's Dogs proved better at locating fallen missile parts than man or instruments . Before firing, critical missile parts were sprayed with squalene, a shark liver oil almost odorless to humans but easily detected by dogs.
h/t Instapundit
[NYP] - There was one glaring omission from Michelle Obama’s 20-minute Democratic National Convention speech Monday night — Kamala Harris.
That’s because the former first lady recorded her rousing speech before Joe Biden selected Sen. Harris of California as his running mate.
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“Right now, kids in this country are seeing what happens when we stop requiring empathy of one another,” Obama said.
You cannot require empathy from anyone. It's hard to empathize with people who do stupid things and then suffer the natural consequences. But if you had taken your two daughters to Sunday School they might have at least learned the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments.
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Those who did were in for a real treat if they’ve never had a concussion or done hallucinogenic drugs before and wondered what either is like without having to actually experience them.
Solid. Gold.
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I wonder how many viewers they had, other than political pundits.
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Yea, let's celebrate violence against those who do not voluntarily comply.
So he goes down to Huntington Beach, notes 1/4 have on masks, and wants to try out his invention, and says this:
'I fully expect people to get angry at me,' Pan said in the video. 'I even brought my running shoes in case things got, y'know, racist.'
Yesterday I thought this was all clever. This here, well, I guess this was an exercise born of antagonism instead of curiosity.
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Just went to vote in meaningless primary. But I went to the poll. It was actually busy. I told every poll worker they are what makes America great, voted and moved on. I'll be voting in person in November too.
The mask thing is a bad joke, but it's not worth losing your dignity over.
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Allan Pan shows what happens when young engineers have free time and decide to test answers to all their nerdy ComicCon wonderings. Before the Rona he made flamethrower Kung Fu fists and tried shooting at Wonder Woman bracers to see where the bullets would go.
What he gleefully demonstrated was that this is not an effective solution, even if it were not assault.
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Leveraging his fame to demonstrate physical violence upon 'racists' and 'mask holes' is no longer cosplay, but encouragement to commit assault those who are not on board his idea of how others must live.
Says it himself; I'm going to go to the beach and talk about shooting them in the face and if they don't like that, they're racist.
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Starting to wonder if the masks are going to make this worse. Consider that all coronaviruses are notorious for creating a short lived immune response. Something between 3 and 12 months. If that's true, and if the masks actually reduce R-naught (both big "ifs") then there could be a sweet spot where the masks make this thing perpetual. In other words, they slow the infection down to the point where it doesn't burn out before people who already had it start to lose immunity. Fun, right?
A bit of googling for US infant mortality rates by race (for example - scroll down for bar chart) shows the rate for blacks is roughly 2~3 times that for whites. That's in the aggregate without controlling for the doctor's race.
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Will the Daily Mail(UK) enlighten us to what the equivalent statistics are in England? Or in France, for that matter. Agree that the smell of BS is strong here.
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I would think some factor is missing, such as the parents waiting longer before seeking care, or white doctors being in higher positions so that really bad cases are escalated to them.
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I'd look at poor diet, lack of pre-natal care, and overall health first.
My first thought; along the theory that vegetarians and especially vegans have underdeveloped infants. Children born addicted to drugs is a real thing.
The researchers analyzed records on 1.8 million hospital births in Florida between 1992 and 2015.
Oooook...Which Florida?
At baseline, 1,090 out of every 100,000 black babies born died within the first 28 days of life.
That was more than twice the death rate among white babies: 490 per 100,000.
The team attributed this shocking disparity to higher rates of eclampsia and preeclampsia (potentially dangerous high blood sugar during pregnancy) among the mothers while they were pregnant, higher rates of preterm delivery, economic disadvantage and racial bias.
Oh, its the racial bias.
Once again a DM article drinks 16 pints of cheap beer, passes out, and can't figure out why they shit the bed.
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with a ton of pictures and irrelevant videos overlapping what you wanted to read
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Having babies in abortion clinics is deadly....
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From the article: "The team attributed this shocking disparity to higher rates of eclampsia and preeclampsia (potentially dangerous high blood sugar during pregnancy) among the mothers while they were pregnant, higher rates of preterm delivery, economic disadvantage and racial bias."
Perhaps the white doctors are less aware of how to handle this situation.
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Seeing as how the Government critters in Sacramento have stifled most utility infrastructure upgrades over the last 40 years because of some endangered amoeba, unsightly towers, excavation permitting or some grievance concocted at the time, I'm surprised that their system fails as little as it does.
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In fairness to the incompetent state government, we should acknowledge that this heat is unprecedented since at least last summer.
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"At Bachelor Hall," she confessed,
"Those boys was obsessed with my chest.
Got into my drawers
And banged like French doors.
They're the four quickest buns in the West."
But what'd they think of your box?
"Never mind that. Did I mention trying on one of Cary's suits?"
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—Sources are reporting that Trump has dealt a killer blow in his ongoing war against his sworn enemy, the U.S. Post Office. In a move of sheer, mind-blowing brilliance, Trump directed the Post Office to put his face on every single stamp, forcing the Democrats to reverse course and abolish the institution once and for all.
The new stamp, dubbed "The Trump-Stamp," to be used on all pieces of mail features a smiling Donald Trump, with the caption "GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER."
Don Lemon broke the news in a tearful address to the nation last night. "Our democracy is over," he said. "It doesn't exist anymore. I will never send another piece of mail ever again, and neither should you or else you're a racist."
Antifa and BLM responded by marching on local post offices and burning them down. Enthusiastic Trump supporters quickly bought up all the stamps. They are now selling for $3,000 apiece online.
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Remove the attribution to the Babylon Bee and I think you have a winner. Left-wing dingbat heads would spin and throw-up like the little girl in the Exorcist?
h/t Hot Air
By Haider Warraich
Dr. Warraich is a cardiologist.
[NYT] - ...Eduardo Rodriguez was poised to start as the No. 1 pitcher for the Boston Red Sox this season. But in July the 27-year-old tested positive for Covid-19. Feeling "100 years old," he told reporters: "I’ve never been that sick in my life, and I don’t want to get that sick again." His symptoms abated, but a few weeks later he felt so tired after throwing about 20 pitches during practice that his team told him to stop and rest.
Further investigation revealed that he had a condition many are still struggling to understand: Covid-19-associated myocarditis. Mr. Rodriguez won’t be playing baseball this season.
Myocarditis means inflammation of the heart muscle. Some patients are never bothered by it, but for others it can have serious implications. And Mr. Rodriguez isn’t the only athlete to suffer from it: Multiple college football players have possibly developed myocarditis from Covid-19, putting the entire college football landscape in jeopardy.
I recently treated one Covid-19 patient in his early 50s. He had been in perfect shape with no history of serious illness. When the fevers and body aches started, he locked himself in his room. But instead of getting better, his condition deteriorated and he eventually accumulated gallons of fluid in his legs. When he came to the hospital unable to catch a breath, it wasn’t his lungs that had pushed him to the brink — it was his heart. Now we are evaluating him to see if he needs a heart transplant.
An intriguing new study from Germany offers a glimpse into how SARS-CoV-2 affects the heart. Researchers studied 100 individuals, with a median age of just 49, who had recovered from Covid-19. Most were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms.
An average of two months after they received the diagnosis, the researchers performed M.R.I. scans of their hearts and made some alarming discoveries: Nearly 80 percent had persistent abnormalities and 60 percent had evidence of myocarditis. The degree of myocarditis was not explained by the severity of the initial illness. 0.05%????
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That's what I think the virus was intended to do. Low mortality - to avoid panic & lockdowns. Infects most of the population with mild symptoms, and a few months later - bingo.
By the way, the effects of Covid 19 on hearts and brains were only discovered because of all the attention. In the scenario described above, it would've taken years. And be old news.
That is, in this view, the high mortality is an unintended product of the way they produced the virus (growing bat viruses on human tissue cultures) and before they could tone it down, the virus escaped.
That's raises an interesting question. We know "herd immunity" approach originated with China - who made it WHO's official position, and it spread from where*. So the question is - are "herd immunists" paid Chinese agents or simply idiots?
*It was the official position of most state epidemiologists (including Fauci - look it up) in the beginning. Fortunately, dropped when the corpses started pilling up.
[HuffPoo] A Fox News panel had high praise to offer after former first lady Michelle Obama’s address at the Democratic National Convention Monday night.
In her nearly 19-minute speech, Obama denounced President Donald Trump for creating chaos and division and failing to lead with empathy and competence. She also urged Americans to bring his presidency to an end and elect former Vice President Joe Biden.
Many right-wing figures, including some Fox News contributors, criticized the address online. Fox News chose not to air much of the first portion of the convention, opting instead to show Sean Hannity interviewing Donald Trump Jr. Nonetheless, the conservative network’s panel for the convention was apparently impressed by Obama’s speech.
"It’s very difficult to try to connect with an audience without an actual audience there with you but she has the ability to connect with people through the screen," Fox News anchor Dana Perino said. "You got the sense when you talk about authenticity, she has it in spades."
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I forfeited my right to make any comments on Mike's speech because I couldn't be bothered to watch it. Reruns of Last Man Standing and Big Bang were more my speed. But I gather from the comments I've read that she was short on facts and long on depression. She needs to see a therapist about her problem. Then she blamed Trump for covid-19, black youts breaking the law, resisting arrest, murdering each other and overdosing on fentanyl. Isn't that what Democrats typically do?
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Yep. She played to the idea that this virus was entirely preventable, that if any competent Democrat were in charge that it would be gone by now, and that all WuFlu deaths are blood on Donald's hands. Of course, we may have this under control soon, and if Joe happens to get elected, they'll claim all the credit. And if it still persists, it'll be "oh, sorry, but we're in power now and we're not giving it back because you morons couldn't figure out we were lying."
Mollie Hemingway - excellent as usual
[Federalist] A New York Times reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for his role perpetrating the Russia collusion hoax was tasked with framing the news that a former top FBI lawyer was to plead guilty to deliberately fabricating evidence against a Donald Trump campaign affiliate targeted in the Russia probe. The resulting article is a case study in how to write propaganda.
Adam Goldman broke, and cushioned, the news that former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was to plead guilty to fabricating evidence in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant application to spy on Trump campaign affiliate Carter Page.
His job was to present the news as something other than an indictment of the FBI’s handling of the Russia collusion hoax, to signal to other media that they should move on from the story as quickly as possible, and to hide his own newspaper’s multi-year participation in the Russia collusion hoax. One intelligence source described it as an “insult” to his intelligence and “beyond Pravda,” a reference to the official newspaper of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Here’s how Goldman did it.
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[New York Post] It’s hardly shocking to see a boldfaced name out East during the summer. But one sighting took a spy by surprise.
"Strange but true. Just saw Carlos Danger Anthony Weiner at a children’s park in Sag Harbor with his kid," said a source. "I noticed him before he put his mask on," they added.
Of course, Weiner is a registered sex offender, having done time for sending explicit pictures to a 15-year-old in 2016.
Page Six reported earlier this year that parents at his son’s downtown school were up in arms because Weiner was lobbying to be allowed onto the school grounds. He had previously been allowed only as far as the school gates.
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He's not being kept from his child. He's being kept from other children due to his sexual proclivities. As a divorced father, you should appreciate that - If you're not like Weiner
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^Look up definition of pedophilia, Francis - 15 year is illegal (and immoral, IMO) but it's not pedophilia.
Ever wonder why, why do they hate Trump so much? This video goes into more detail and shows you the real reason. We must reelect Donald J Trump this November 3rd 2020. America can't be run by socialist politicians.
[RedState] In a delivery already as bland as a 2nd-grade talent show, John Kasich was even more unremarkable.
It was some good comedy when it was announced last week that the Democrats had invited former Ohio Governor John Kasich to speak at their convention. Not only was he likely to generate the exact same unmeasurable amount of influence on GOP voters, but he was also slated to have more speaking time than the party darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And Alex From the Bronx was clearly in a snit over this.
She has been sniping about Kasich for the better part of the week, and today he returned fire, leading to an epic confrontation on par with two goldfish having a territorial dispute in the bowl. Finally, tonight, we got to see the majestic discourse from the postal progeny, and it was bad enough to Return to Sender.
John’s message was centered on a concept that is not only unoriginal, but a well-worn path. ’’America is at a crossroads.’’ Then to deliver this message with the deft touch only the ham-fisted can — to illustrate this he was literally standing at a crossroad.
[Jpost] Ambassador Erdan files formal complaint with Security Council over July 27 incident, in which IDF says members of the Lebanese terror group entered Israeli territory.
Keeping Hezbollah on the back foot? Israel can’t seriously expect the UN will take meaningful action, despite the evidence.
Israel filed a formal complaint with the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council on Monday over an incident along the Lebanese border last month, in which the Israeli military says it foiled an attack by the Hezbollah terror group.
Carry on foiling, Israel, while the UN continues blithely doing nothing.
In the complaint, Israel’s new ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, said the Hezbollah cell was armed with a .50-caliber sniper rifle, which was recovered at the scene, along with military fatigues.
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[Washington Examiner] A top House Republican said he was "shocked" when he saw the name of the judge before whom former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith is expected to plead guilty in the first criminal case arising out of U.S. Attorney John Durham's inquiry into the Russia investigation.
Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox Business host Lou Dobbs on Monday he has no idea how Judge James Boasberg, the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, ended up being in charge of a case related to the FISA surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide.
"I saw that today. I was a little bit shocked," the California Republican said. This was after Dobbs, a staunch ally of President Trump and stern critic of the Russia investigation, asked if it was "a little bit screwed up."
The FISA court, which oversees requests for surveillance warrants for federal law enforcement and intelligence purposes, is currently composed of 11 judges. Boasberg, who is a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, has served in the FISA court since 2014. He was named the presiding judge of the FISA court on Jan. 1.
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We take care of our own. 'Voels van 'n veel'... (birds of a feather) so to speak. If Clinesmith goes down hard, all of us could be implicated as well.
Hillary Clinton emails
On August 22, 2016, Boasberg ordered the release of over 14,000 emails found in the United States Department of State correspondence of Hillary Clinton by the FBI during an investigation of Clinton's private server.[20] These emails were requested by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, because the FBI has indicated that emails were work-related and not entirely private as Clinton had previously said.[20]
Trump tax returns
On August 18, 2017, Boasberg dismissed a lawsuit from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), which had sued the IRS under FOIA seeking President Donald Trump's personal tax returns from 2010 to the present to be released. Boasberg concluded that because personal tax returns are confidential, they may only be obtained either by permission from Trump himself or if Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation signed off to allow the disclosure.[21
[Breitbart] Monday on CNBC’s "Squawk Box," White House trade and manufacturing adviser Peter Navarro shared the belief held among those in the Trump administration that China is "biding their time" in trade negotiations and "waiting for the election hoping Joe Biden will get elected."
In the interview, Navarro warned that the Chinese Communist Party is "waging information warfare against" the United States in attempt to "manipulate" the upcoming 2020 presidential election with "pro-Biden messages" on the internet.
"I think in terms of productive conversation we had today, we have China. They came to the table. They signed a phase 1 deal. They’re abiding by the deal. At the same time, they’re clearly biding their time now, waiting for the election hoping Joe Biden will get elected," Navarro cautioned. "And by the way, I don’t know if you’ve heard of the Wu Mao Army, but one of the things that’s going on is the Chinese Communist Party is waging information warfare against us, trying to manipulate our election. The Wu Mao Army is this vast army of millions of Chinese that basically get paid to troll our internet and push anti-Trump messages, pro-Biden messages."
"I looked at what’s going on here with our democracy, and it’s the scariest I’ve ever seen it’s because as beneficial as the social media is, it’s also become a tool for people like the Chinese Communist Party to influence what’s going on here. So, as the president loves to say, let’s see what happens in November, but in the meantime, we have to be on guard," he concluded.
[IsraelTimes] Some Paleostinian officials believe Emirates-backed Mohammad Dahlan, a former top security official to PA President Abbas, was involved in the move to normalize ties.
Prominent figures in Paleostinian politics condemned the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates as a betrayal. The PA itself called the deal "despicable" and demanded it be reversed. Said Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... , the veteran Paleostinian negotiator, "I never expected this poison dagger to come from an Arab country."
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[IsraelTimes] Israel on Monday released a West Bank leader of the global campaign to boycott the Jewish state, following his arrest last month by Israel’s internal security agency.
Mahmoud Nawajaa, coordinator of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in the West Bank and 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... , was arrested at his home in Ramallah on July 30.
Several rights groups, including Amnesia Amnesty International, campaigned for his release, including through rallies in Ramallah and Gaza this month.
Israeli military tribunals exercise jurisdiction over Paleostinians in the West Bank.
A Shin Bet spokesperson told AFP that Nawajaa had been "arrested and questioned on security matters... and released at the end of the investigation."
The BDS movement calls for a wide-ranging embargo of Israel over its treatment of the Paleostinians. Israel sees BDS as a strategic threat and accuses it of anti-Semitism.
A law passed in 2017 allows Israel to ban foreigners with links to BDS.
Last year, Israel expelled the country director of Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir, after accusing him of supporting BDS, a claim he denied.
Israeli sources had previously told AFP that Nawajaa’s arrest was not linked to his role with the BDS movement.
[FoxBusiness] The plan would have cut funding by billions of dollars, the president said.
A proposal by Pentagon officials to slash Military Healthcare by $2.2 billion dollars has been firmly and totally rejected by me. We will do nothing to hurt our great Military professionals & heroes as long as I am your President. Thank you!
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...One of the FIRST things we can expect from a Biden Administration would be an essential dismantling of the military health care system for pretty much everybody except active duty personnel. Obama's people couldn't quite bring themselves to do it; I have no doubt that Biden's team won't make the same mistake.
Mike
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[Jpost] The attack was carried out in response to incendiary balloons sent from 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 into Israeli territory throughout the day.
Israeli aircraft carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on targets in the Gaza Strip in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning, hitting Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, targets and infrastructure.
The strikes landed near the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, according to Paleostinian reports.
"IDF fighter jets and aircraft attacked an underground infrastructure belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip," the IDF's Spokesperson's Unit said in a statement.
The military added that the attack was carried out in response to incendiary balloons sent from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory throughout the day, in addition to consequent fires in which a children's preschool and some 150 of hectares of agricultural land were burned.
An incendiary balloon landed in front of a Sderot preschool on Monday, starting a fire in the region. While some 35 children attend the preschool on a daily basis, the building suffered structural damage, but was fortunately empty at the time and no injuries were reported, according to Maariv, The Jerusalem Post's sister publication.
Moreover, the airstrikes took place only hours after an Egyptian envoy left the Strip in an attempt to mediate in order to prevent escalation between Hamas and Israel, as well as after the Gazook balloon units threatened on Monday night to "burn everything in the Gaza envelope" on Tuesday.
Israel has launched several attacks on targets in the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave over the past week due to increasing launches of incendiary balloons from the Strip into the South, as well as rocket attacks.
On Sunday, five Israelis were maimed when Hamas fired at rockets towards southern Israel. Interceptor rocket fragments slammed into the yard of a home in Sderot, damaging the home and injuring a 58-year-old man, the IDF said in a statement at the time.Two other women were treated for shock, while another two hurt themselves while running to the bomb shelter.
[AlAhram] Eleven Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i government troops, including a senior officer, were killed in a rebel missile attack and festivities to the northeast and east of Sanaa, military and medical sources said Monday.
General Mohammed Ali-Roqn, commander of the army's 122 brigade, along with eight other soldiers were killed in battle in al-Jawf province Sunday while trying to reclaim positions lost months ago, the sources said.
The rebels also suffered casualties, the military source added without elaborating.
Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels took control of the capital of the northern province of al-Jawf earlier this year -- a strategic advance that means they now threaten oil-producing Marib province.
Yemen's vice president, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, in a statement carried by the official Saba news agency, said Roqn was killed "while conducting military operations" in al-Jawf.
May he quickly find himself precisely where he belongs, as opposed to where he fondly believed himself headed.
Two government troops were killed and four others maimed in a Houthi missile attack on a military base in Marib, east of Sanaa, a government official said.
Renewed festivities also broke out in al-Baida -- which is under nominal government control -- between loyalist forces and the Houthis, who have launched offensives against al-Qaeda snuffies in the province.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... -- considered by the United States as the radical group's most dangerous branch -- has carried out operations against both the Houthis and government forces..
The government and rebels have been locked in a five-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands -- triggering what the UN terms the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Fighting has carried on despite repeated calls for a ceasefire as part of global efforts to combat 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... , which health agencies fear could become a disastrous outbreak in impoverished Yemen.
More than 1,800 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Yemen, including 530 deaths.
[FoxNews] Spokesperson for social media giant says satire site 'was mistakenly caught in a spam filter'
Twitter offered an apology to the popular conservative satirical website The Babylon Bee Monday after the tech giant briefly suspended the site's account.
Bee editor-in-chief Kyle Mann initially alerted fans that Twitter had taken action against the outlet's account.
"Your account, TheBabylonBee has been suspended for violating the Twitter Rules. Specifically for: Violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam," Twitter wrote in an e-mail posted by Mann. "You may not use Twitter's services in a manner intended to artificially amplify or suppress information or engage in behavior that manipulates or disrupt's people's experience on Twitter."
The suspension sparked a major outcry among conservatives who launched a #FreeTheBee campaign on Twitter.
Less than an hour later, the Bee's account had been restored.
The Constitutional Committee of the Egyptian House of Representatives approves the agreement on demarcating the Egyptian maritime borders with Greece. pic.twitter.com/4SeLEEnwvC
[ToloNews] At least 23 Taliban ...Arabic for students... were killed in festivities in Badghis, Ghazni and Maidan Wardak provinces, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) and other military authorities said on Monday.
At least 17 Taliban were killed in attacks on security checkpoints in Qads district of Badghis province, the statement said, adding that seven others were maimed.
Four other Taliban were killed and one was maimed in Andar district of Ghazni province after the Taliban clashed with security forces, the 203rd Thunder Military Corps said in a statement.
Two other Taliban were killed in festivities with security forces in Jalrez district of Maidan Wardak, the statement added.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... neither the MoD nor 203rd Thunder Military Corps have provided details about Afghan forces casualties during the festivities.
That’s nice. Will he comp the hotels for their clean-up and redecorating costs?
[NYDAILYNEWS] The city will eventually move homeless people out of hotels and back into shelters, Mayor de Blasio said Monday, though he declined to provide a timeline.
The promise came amid growing concerns of aggressive panhandling, public urination and other quality-of-life infringements blamed on homeless people housed in hotels in Hell’s Kitchen and nearby nabes.
"As the ... health situation continues to improve, we’re going to start the process of figuring out where we can get homeless individuals back into safe shelter facilities and reduce the reliance on hotels," de Blasio said at a presser.
In the spring, the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) began moving about 10,000 homeless people into hotels from shelters, where fear of 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... spread remains high.
Since then, residents of Hell’s Kitchen, where homeless people are living in eight hotels, and other areas have complained of close encounters with enraged or apparently drug-addled individuals.
Hizzoner insisted the city has the situation under control.
"On the specific quality-of-life issues, it’s incumbent upon every city agency involved to get out there and solve them," he said, mentioning the NYPD, DHS, and the Health and Sanitation departments.
"I’ve instructed all of them to address these issues as they come up and make sure that neighborhood residents see that these concerns are being addressed," he added.
De Blasio said for the city to get homeless people out of hotels, it has to "identify space that will work in our existing shelters.
"We’ll have more to say on that as the plans are more deeply developed and as we see what the health situation shows us," he added.
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[EN.ANNAHAR] More than 15 years after the truck bomb liquidation of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut, a U.N.-backed tribunal in the Netherlands is announcing verdicts this week in the trial of four members of the krazed killer group Hezbollah allegedly involved in the killing, which deeply divided the tiny country.The verdicts on Tuesday at the Special Tribunal for 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... , based in a village on the outskirts of the Dutch city of The Hague, are expected to further add to soaring tensions in Lebanon, two weeks after a catastrophic explosion at Beirut’s port that killed nearly 180 people, injured more than 6,000 and destroyed thousands of homes in the Lebanese capital.
Unlike the blast that killed Hariri and 21 others on Feb. 14, 2005, the Aug. 4 explosion was believed to be a result of nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate that accidentally ignited at Beirut’s port. While the cause of the fire that provided the trigger is still not clear, Hezbollah, which maintains huge influence over Lebanese politics, is being sucked into the public fury directed at the country’s ruling politicians.
Even before the devastating Beirut port blast, the country’s leaders were concerned about violence after the verdicts. Hariri was Lebanon’s most prominent Sunni politician at the time, while the Iran-backed Hezbollah is a Shiite Moslem group.
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[Rudaw] The US-led coalition denied carrying out an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... against Syrian regime soldiers in Qamishli on Monday, saying troops engaged in "self-defence" after coming under fire near a regime checkpoint, according to an official statement.
According to the statement, coalition troops and members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were conducting a "routine" security patrol near Tal Az-Zahab, southeast of Qamishli in Hasaka province, when passed a pro-Syrian regime checkpoint.
"After receiving safe passage from the pro-regime forces, the patrol came under small arms fire from individuals in the vicinity of the checkpoint. Coalition troops returned fire in self-defence. The Coalition did not conduct an airstrike," the statement read.
No coalition members were maimed or killed, it added.
The statement followed reports from Syrian state media of an "airstrike" by coalition helicopters, killing at least one Syrian regime soldier and wounding two others.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported the strikes taking place after regime forces refused to let the US patrol pass, putting the regime soldier corpse count at two.
"Reliable SOHR sources have confirmed that regime checkpoint blocked a US military column in Tal al-Zahab village, south of al-Qamishli airbase in al-Hasakah countryside, which evolved to altercation between both sides," reported the SOHR Monday afternoon.
"Aircraft affiliated to the International Coalition came later and struck the checkpoint, leaving many casualties among regime soldiers stationed at the checkpoint," it added.
A video posted to Twitter on Monday afternoon purportedly shows US force fire at a Syrian army outpost.
This is the first direct military engagement between the United States and Syrian regime in recent months.
A unit from the Syrian army confronted a US military convoy in a village associated with the town of Tal Tamr in Hasaka province in July.
The US said it had "completely withdrawn" from northeastern Syria in late 2019, according to statements made by US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. However around 600 soldiers remain across parts of the country to protect oil fields from 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), according to Rooters.
The withdrawal of US troops in early October prompted international outcry as Ottoman Turkish-backed forces invaded the areas held by the SDF since the defeat of ISIS.
Operation Peace Spring, greenlit by the decision of Commander-in-chief President Trump, saw The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... launch its long-expected invasion of the region.
It aimed to cleanse the area of SDF, which it sees as a terrorist group, before resettling Arab refugees from elsewhere in Syria that have fled to Turkey since 2011.
[AmericanMilitaryNews] A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer was arrested and faces charges he spied for China for years.
Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, a 15-year agent of the CIA, was charged Monday for selling U.S. secrets to China, NBC reported. Ma reportedly disclosed a substantial amount of highly classified national defense information" to five members of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, including the identities of CIA officers and human assets, information about the CIA’s internal organization and means of CIA communications.
Ma worked for the CIA from 1967 to 1989 and was assigned to work overseas in the East-Asia and Pacific region during part of his CIA tenure. The meeting between Ma and the Chinese officers reportedly happened about 12 years after his retirement from the agency, around some time in 2001. According to the charging documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Ma kept in touch with his Chinese contacts as he applied for an FBI position in 2004. Over the next six years, Ma allegedly downloaded, collected or otherwise photographed sensitive information to pass along to China until he stopped work for the FBI in 2010.
Ma was reportedly caught after the FBI began a sting operation in January of 2019. The FBI had reportedly held suspicions about Ma for years but it is not clear as to why the FBI waited as long as it had to investigate Ma.
President Trump doesn’t like spies and traitors, whether serving the Deep State or a foreign state, and does not exempt Communist China.
As part of the sting operation, an FBI agent pretended to be a Chinese government auditor reviewing the Chinese governments handling of Ma as an intelligence source. The FBI agent reportedly showed Ma a video of his 2001 meeting with the Chinese officials to gain Ma's trust. It was not immediately clear how the FBI obtained the footage.
After playing the footage, the FBI agent gained Ma's trust and got him to admit in further meetings that he worked for the Chinese. Meaning, he had been 'flipped' by the Chinese and at some point had become a double agent.
According to the charging documents, Ma told the agent he "wanted ‘the motherland' to succeed" and said he would consider working again for the Chinese government, "perhaps as a consultant."
Ma is charged with conspiring to communicate national defense information to aid a foreign government and, if convicted, faces up to a life term in prison.
Ma is not the only former CIA agent to face charges of spying for China. In May of 2019, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 54, a former CIA case officer and U.S. Army veteran admitted to spying for China. Lee reportedly devised a document on his computer on May 26, 2010, that detailed specific locations where CIA officers were, as well as the precise location and time frame of a sensitive CIA operation, which was all secret level classified information. He then transferred the sensitive information to a thumb drive, he used to transfer the information.
The New York Times reported in November that Lee was sentenced to 19 years in prison.
So it seems reasonable that Mr. Ma should get the same.
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Multiculturalism is the future! Go ahead US government, keep hiring those Chinese foks, giving them security clearances, and access to highly classified documents.
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It used to be that if you were from a Communist country, or even had relatives in a Communist country, you had some trouble getting a clearance. Not sure when it changed.
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^ During the Kennedy administration. The earliest version of woke.
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he "wanted ‘the motherland' to succeed"
Patriotic Chinese-American. Notice which one comes first.
GRAPHIC: With the streets in downtown Portland occupied by BLM & antifa rioters, a man crashed his car. The mob pulled him out & beat him senseless in front of the passenger. He’s bleeding & unconscious. No police. Video by @livesmattershow. #PortlandRiotspic.twitter.com/jjnt5dUeb8
.@TPostMillennial is reporting that the BLM "security" filmed beating the Portland driver unconscious is Marquise "Keese" Lee Love. He has not been accused or charged by police.
There was a lot of chaos in the middle of downtown Portland overnight with groups of thugs (who were at the BLM protests) going around beating people. Those who intervened to help were then also assaulted.
It looks like the person robbed and beaten by BLM protesters in downtown Portland tonight is a trans woman. She pleads for her backpack back. Her longboard was also stolen. She may be transient. The man who tried to protect her was later beaten himself & kicked unconscious. pic.twitter.com/uNrgCkevUt
.@tedwheeler, just bringing to your attention to what kind of speeches are happening outside the Justice Center. A #BLM speaker says officers should have been strangled by the umbilical cord as babies, & that she’s ready to shoot & kill them now. #antifapic.twitter.com/cBoR4T0AH2
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Makes Lord of the Flies look like high tea.
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The commie perp was wearing a vest with "Security" on it. He was acting in an official capacity in Mayor Wheeler's reimagined police force. When Dems talk of replacing police with community activists, this is precisely what they have in mind.
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The Portland Police have (finally) named the suspect and are looking for him like so. After all, he was jaywalking.
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Second look at the Blaster Auto Defense System?
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Footage of the incident showed the bronze figure with red bands around its neck as a group pulled it to the ground in Grand Park last Thursday shortly before 7pm
The group are said to have changed clothes in an attempt to avoid detection
They 'cheered and celebrated as others vandalized...the statue', police said
Protesters have been tearing down statues across the country as part of anti-racism demonstrations fueled by George Floyd 's death in Minneapolis in May
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[Spiked] New Zealand has delayed its election, even though just five people are in hospital with Covid.
With New Zealand overwhelmed by a terrifying 78 cases of Covid-19, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has taken the emergency decision to postpone the general election by a month.
New Zealand’s hospitals are presumably struggling to cope with their staggering total of five Covid-19 patients. The prospect of voters going to the polls and spreading their democratic germs, therefore, does not bear thinking about.
This is the latest authoritarian pandemic overreaction by Ardern’s government, which recently put Auckland back into lockdown. That decision was made because four new cases of Covid-19 were discovered in the city. It has a total of just 19 active cases, and, throughout the pandemic, not a single person has died from the virus there.
’Covid Zero’ is not a reasonable requirement for a reopening of society. With uncertainty about when and even if a vaccine will be produced, such an approach could lead to perpetual restrictions.
But it is also striking how little reaction the news of the election delay has received, especially considering the outrage when Donald Trump suggested doing the same thing in the USA, a country far worse-hit by the virus than New Zealand.
Accusations of an autocratic takeover were aired in response to Trump’s idea. One senator called it a ’serious, chilling attack on the democratic process’, and many Trump critics agreed. How can the difference in the reaction to Ardern’s decision be so stark?
It’s simple: Ardern is a poster girl both for liberals and for keen enthusiasts of authoritarian Covid-19 measures. Apparently this means she should be immune from criticism.
The Libyan democratically elected parliament #HoR , through PM Ali Altikbali has refused any plans to create a buffer zone or demilitarize the Sirte and AlJufra Line and we have not received any official suggestion Describing this as a plane to permanently divide #Libya.#LNA. pic.twitter.com/JqDw2V2W6H
[LAWOFFICER] 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... police say citizen tips led them to a man suspected of being seen in a livestream video burglarizing an ATM during overnight looting last week.
Arron Neal was arrested on charges of burglary and criminal damage to property, Police Supt. David Brown said Saturday.
Police said Neal was livestreaming when he smashed an ATM on North State Street with a hammer, Fox 32 Chicago reported.
After posting the video on YouTube, Chicago Police Department then fielded tips from viewers, which led to the suspect.
"We posted this video on our website and within 90 minutes, members of the community contacted us and solved this crime," Brown said, according to the Chicago Sun Times. "What happened downtown and on the West Side last week had nothing to do with protesting, it was criminal behavior, and it will not be tolerated in the city of Chicago."
As a result, Neal was jugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in lieu of $100,000 bond Saturday, the paper reported.
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Timmy Cook tole me mah data wuz private...
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The rest of this opinion piece, is, I think, farther left than I am willing to go, the author clearly unaware that the anti-Bibi movement is not a grassroots uprising but the weaponization of Israel’s branch of Antifa by Israel’s Deep State, payrolled by American Progressives, but the first bit is useful background to current events in the region.
[IsraelTimes] Last November, three dozen public figures from around the Arab world gathered in London to launch the Arab Council for Regional Integration — meaning, the integration of Israel into the Middle East. It was the first time in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict that a pan-Arab group had formed for the sole purpose of ending the Arab boycott of Israel. The group included a Lebanese Shiite holy man, a Saudi publisher, a member of the Egyptian parliament.
For all the fear of an imperialist Iran, what really motivated them to take the great personal risk of publicly calling for normalization was the Arab world’s existential crisis. The collapse of the Arab spring, the self-devouring of Syria, the destruction of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... and Libya and Iraq — all convinced Council members that the Arab world’s decades-long obsession with Israel was poisoning their own societies with hatred and a conspiracy mindset, undermining their ability to deal with chronic problems. Ending its war against Israel, Council members said, was a prerequisite for the Arab world’s ability to heal itself.
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[DailyCaller] 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... reportedly paid bounties to a Taliban ...Arabic for students... -backed Haqqani terrorist network for at least six attacks carried out against U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
U.S. intelligence identified the link between Iran and Haqqani following the December 2019 suicide kaboom at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, which killed two civilians and injured dozens more, CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... reported Monday morning.
Two Trump administration officials said, according to CNN, that the bounties led to President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s decision to kill former Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani by dronezap in January. Trump cited Soleimani and Iran allegedly planning further attacks against U.S. forces in the region as a justification for killing him.
Sounds fair to me.
CNN’s report comes after U.S. intelligence reports leaked accusing Russia of paying bounties to Taliban-backed fighters for attacks against U.S. soldiers.
Who leaked, and why did they falsely accuse Russia to protect actual perpetrator Iran?
The White House said Trump did not act, arguing that there was a lack of consensus within the intelligence community (IC) over the veracity of the information.
..or is someone having a little too much fun with nearby Deep Staters?
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told news hounds at a press briefing in June that Trump would act if the IC reached a consensus on the intelligence.
The president stated during his hour-long interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan that he did not raise the issue during a recent phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... The White House, National Security Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Department of Defense did not return Daily Caller’s inquiries on the report by press time.
[KhaamaPress] The Foreign Ministry of Iran reacted to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent remarks regarding the supply of weapons by Tehran to Taliban ...Arabic for students... group.
Saeed Khatibzadeh, a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, also blamed Washington for the ongoing situation in Afghanistan, calling it an outcome of the warmongering and interventions of Washington.
He said Pompeo’s allegations are considered as blamegame and attempts to deflect public opinion in Afghanistan with regard to US aid to ISIS, according to IRNA News Agency.
Furthermore, Khatibzadeh said US has not yet give response to public opinion’s demands regarding the identity of helicopters flying in Afghan airspace and under 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... coverage to help ISIS.
Pompeo on Wednesday said Tehran continues to arm the Taliban group today.
Responding to a question regarding Russia and Tehran’s intervention in Afghanistan, Pompeo said "We’ve made clear we know the history, we know that the Russians have armed the Taliban in the past, right. We know that the Iranians continue to arm them today. So we know these facts."
"We’ve made clear to each of them our expectations, and we will do everything we need to do to protect and defend every American soldier and, for that matter, every soldier from the Czech Republic or any other country that’s part of the Resolute Support Mission to make sure that they’re safe," he said, adding that "We have done that. We did it last year, we’ll do it again this year, and we’ll do it so long as we have soldiers in Afghanistan."
[ToloNews] At least five Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... were killed and two others--including a Taliban leader--were maimed during a joint security forces operation in Kabul, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Monday.
The operation was launched in Shakardara district and 25 bully boys, including three group leaders, were arrested. The Taliban "were causing fear in the district," the statement said, adding that "the forces will remain in the district for security."
"The forces also seized weapons during the operation," it added.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the statement did not give details about security force casualties.
The Taliban has not yet commented on the operation.
Surely, someone will beat me to this punch. [Washington Examiner] President Trump's joint announcement with the UAE and Israel was landmark enough on its own. The normalization marks the first between Israel and another Middle Eastern nation since President Bill Clinton helped broker the peace deal between Israel and Jordan in 1994. A single new formalization is a big deal that it is, and for other nations to join, especially as Iran grows unusually embattled, would constitute a monumental realignment of the axis of power in the Gulf.
And, of course, it would undercut the entire thesis of the de facto Obama Doctrine that assumed peace in the Middle East was contingent of empowering Iran and cowering to the Hamas and Hezbollah.
The Obama Doctrine has been disproven, and Trump's approach to the Middle East is clearly focused in the right direction. The real political question to come: Will the Israel-friendly Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris cut their losses and follow Trump or go down with the ship to preserve Obama's crumbling legacy?
Since neither of them would be in charge of foreign policy were they to win in November, the question of how much the Deep State hates President Trump and seeks to undo all his works contains all the answer we need.
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Will the Israel-friendly Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris cut their losses and follow Trump or go down with the ship to preserve Obama's crumbling legacy?
Why do writers talk as if Biden / Harris has a non-single digit chance to become Prez and VP? Their campaign is about to become the first with little to no campaigning; Trump hit the road and Joe's gonna hide in his basement as long as possible. Last week had three consecutive days of Biden mumbling and drooling in front of the press corps, only to be whisked away every time when someone asked him a question. Last week also had him announce as uninspiring a VP pick in recent memory - an opportunistic slut who openly admitted she'll say anything that the moment requires and was polling at 0% and won zero delegates when she was the first broad to exit the Dem Prez race. They will do everything in their power to prevent Biden and Trump from debating.
I'll say it again - in what significant manner are the Dems running a national campaign?
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"America's Covid Response worse in the World" infomercials.
Heard one of those on the Beeb just the other day. The US had the highest death toll, followed by a list of much smaller countries. That suggests they weren't using Per Capita numbers which means the data is useless for other than Jeopardy questions.
[LAWOFFICER] In a sad scene of resignation a Seattle police officer told a person believed to be a BLM protester that he planned to resign due to the civil unrest and riots.
A video circulating on social media (see below) shows the unnamed officer drive up to a protester and have a short conversation.
"You having a good day today?" says the officer through his passenger side window, which is rolled down.
"Not really, you’re around," replied the protester.
"I’m sorry for that. But just don’t worry man, cuz guess what? I’m leaving. You guys won," the officer says. "F***ing two months baby, I’m out."
"You’re about to resign?" queries the hopeful protester with a touch of excitement in his voice.
"I’m f***ing gone, bro," declared the officer.
"How you felling about that?" the protester asks, almost empathetically.
"I’m feeling great," says the officer. "I’m leaving this department. You guys won."
The conversation continues with the protester chumming up to the officer, even asking him to be interviewed (like he was going to join forces with them).
When the protester realizes the officer is not resigning due to "police brutality," but because of the onslaught occurring against officers, he suddenly turns against his "new friend."
Apparently shouting to other demonstrators, the protester says, "Hey, he said he’s tired of us. He’s gonna resign because of Black Lives Matter, not because he’s tired of the police."
Now, returning to his caustic demeanor, the protester says, "Hey, you triggered boy? You triggered? Oink, oink, ... oink, oink. F*** you and your blue life, boy."
The insulting activist then repeats the inflammatory comments a second time when the officer appears to say something about being friends. The angered protester responds, "Nah, we ain’t never gonna be friends. We’ll never see eye to eye. I don’t give a f*** if you take that badge off, you’ll never be my people."
18 people were arrested overnight at the Seattle antifa riot. For weeks, roving gangs of antifa black bloc have been smashing property & attacking police. Last night they threw rocks & explosives at officers, causing injuries. https://t.co/TlQUe72sSMpic.twitter.com/aD3Cpfel5E
Due to #GNA and Unconstitutional Governor Sadiq al-Kabir of the Libyan central bank incompetence The Libyan owned Bank ABC announced its results for the first half of this year reporting a net loss of $67 million due to major client fraud#Libya#LNA#HoRhttps://t.co/tZfrfURGNM
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2010-12-14 Manama, Bahrain: Arab Banking Corporation (“ABC”) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a 49% ownership stake in Mediterranean Bank S.A.L., a Libyan bank headquartered in Benghazi, in the North East of Libya, and with branches in Tripoli and Misurata. The acquisition, which is subject to final regulatory approval from the Central Bank of Libya, is expected to close before the end of the first quarter of 2011. ABC will also manage the bank on a day-to-day basis...
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...When I was in the ROK in the early 80s, dogs were to a surprising extent considered just as much livestock as pets (see also kagogi) but the government made a full-court press prior to the '88 Olympics to get it stopped. They did pretty good in the cities, but out in the country and smaller cities it's still common.
The point here though is this - up north, they never stopped using dogmeat, and if it's to the point where pets are now being confiscated (and keep in mind that in a society where food is often scarce at best, the pets likely belonged to upper middle or upper class Norks because they were the only ones who could afford the luxury of feeding them) then it's bad. Really, really bad.
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[Fierce Biotech] Just weeks after ExeVir Bio was spun out of a Belgian research institute to develop a llama-inspired antibody treatment for COVID-19, a rival effort has sprung up at the University of California, San Francisco. Now, the UCSF team is reporting promising preclinical results for its aerosol formulation—and suggesting it could be used as a self-administered form of protection against the virus.
Llamas and other camelids fight off pathogens like viruses with tiny antibodies called single-domain antibodies or "nanobodies." The UCSF team used protein engineering to make a synthetic nanobody that prevents the spike protein on the surface of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from binding to healthy cells and infecting them.
In tests against the live virus in the lab, an aerosolized form of the nanobody rendered SARS-CoV-2 incapable of binding to the ACE2 receptor on healthy cells that line airways. The synthetic nanobody remained functional after it was freeze-dried, exposed to heat and aerosolized, they reported (PDF) in the preprint journal bioRxiv . The UCSF team dubbed the aerosol formulation "AeroNabs."
UCSF’s Walter said the llama-inspired AeroNabs could be used as a sort of personal protective equipment, a "stopgap" until the vaccines become available. UCSF is planning human trials and is in discussions with partners who could provide manufacturing and distribution support.
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It seems going about my life as I already was is prevention enough. But where's the graft in that?
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Perhaps useful for the 0.05% actually at risk from covid.
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My wife gets two nebulizer treatmenta a day...Albuterol Sulfate 0.5 ml with Sodium Chloride 0.9%. She also is on two inhalers:
Advair and Spiriva.
We have our fingers crossed.
Leaked information from the Turkish and Qatari Defence ministers meeting in #Tripoli , as they have expressed the need to attack and take the oil facilities in one quick attack, hoping this attack wil take the Libyan Army by surprise will not give #Egypt enough timeto react. pic.twitter.com/xJcyqknpmL
[KhaamaPress] A group of Taliban ...Arabic for students... sustained casualties as they were busy manufacturing an improvised bomb, roadside kaboom, in a mosque in North of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the incident took place in a mosque in Chahabar Bolak district of Balkh.
The statement further added that a group of 8 Taliban IED experts were busy manufacturing a bomb inside a mosque in Sikandar Khel Village.
The premature explosion caused by IED killed four Talibs and maimed at least four others, the 209th Shaheen Corps added in its statement.
According to Shaheen Corps, the earth-shattering kaboom killed Zarif son of Najmuddin, Abdul Basir son of Abdul Basir, Abu Bakar son of Talib and Habib son of Arzankar.
The explosion also destroyed a large cache of explosives and other materials which the group was using to manufacture IEDs, the statement added.
The Taliban group has not commented in this regard so far.
[Mises] As the widening gyre that that is 2020 continues to turn, it seems that every day some new disastrous and ill-thought-out proposal is made or policy implemented. Among the chaos, the chorus to cancel rent in particular has stuck out for its sheer insolence and the ease with which it has entered the discourse as a sensible policy solution.
The idea of abolishing rent is not new, but until now it has never really been considered anything but a nutty pipe dream. But with the economic carnage wreaked by the virus and ensuing government lockdown still ongoing it has disturbingly come to be viewed as a conceivable policy option. With tens of millions out of work, the ability to pay for basic necessities like housing is obviously a valid concern, but the callousness of the idea of simply expropriating housing from property owners is disturbing and indicative of darker trends coursing through the body politic in these turbulent times.
One of the most high-profile leaders of the cancel rent movement is Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who introduced legislation in April that basically amounts to nothing other than government extortion of landlords. Christian Britschgi reports that the bill would simply cancel all rent and mortgage payments for primary residencies across the entire country until a month after the federal state of emergency has ended. Attempting to collect rent or reporting the nonpayment of rent to credit agencies results in increasing fines, including the seizure of one's property.
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Bad enough I had to live through a professional tenant who wound up costing me nearly $20K last year *never mind the stress induced heart attacks), now I gotta hear shit like this. If the state wants to deprive me of rent from my downstairs apartment, the least they could do is knock that deprived rent off of my principal balance. Throw in no real estate taxes for the same time frame and you might actually get some other landlords to take this bullshit seriously. Until then, fuck off.
#2
Rent is a fact of life, but lowering rent (and other rent-seeking) as a %age of the economy IS a noble goal advocated by actual Capitalists from Adam Smith (via Ricardo onwards). The current parties seem to want to MAXIMISE rent-seeking in it's various forms by subsidising title (yet making it hard to get to all but the biggest companies) in all forms.
#3
If the rents are controlled by law or regulation, landlords will get it from the tenants in other ways: additional fees to cover their costs plus a reasonable profit (I informed tenants as part of their move-in walk through that I would be significantly overcharging them for each burnt out lightbulb they left for me to replace when they moved out, or they could do it themselves for the cost of 60 watt incandescents from the grocery store), delaying maintenance until the cost to hold the property matches the rents received, or selling the property to the tenants as condos. This is how slums and multimillion dollar condos happen — we’ve seen all that play out over the half century or more New York City has enforced rent control.
The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasool, said in a statement received by Alghadeer, “Based on the directives of the Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, dismissed the Director of National Security in Basra Governorate from his position”.
This is the second security official to be dismissed by Al-Kadhimi within few hours, after the police chief, Lieutenant General Rashid Falih, was dismissed from his position earlier today.
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[Mises] As the widening gyre that that is 2020 continues to turn, it seems that every day some new disastrous and ill-thought-out proposal is made or policy implemented. Among the chaos, the chorus to cancel rent in particular has stuck out for its sheer insolence and the ease with which it has entered the discourse as a sensible policy solution.
