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FL guv DeSantis attempts a workaround after HHS slashes federal supply of monoclonal antibodies from its stockpile
Friday September 24th, 2021

lanaturner1
Why are Turkish Military Cargo Planes Still Landing in Libya?
Fatah gunmen in Bethlehem participate in the funeral of Hussein Masalma
Bosnian and Herzegovina court upholds 2018 terrorist indictment
Man Shot Dead in Libyan Capital by Masked Gunmen
Four Tunisian parties said on Thursday that President Kais Saied had lost his legitimacy
Three infiltrators killed near LoC in Uri
Durham Indictment Shows Clinton Likely Worked With Top Google Exec To Fabricate Russia Hoax, Says Google Whistleblower

Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11143 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ya hid the Good Morning, Fred. Tryin' to keep Lana to yourself?
Posted by: Otto Snutle7016 || 09/24/2021 12:20 Comments || Top||

#2  LA Confidential - one of my favorite movies (even if it does have Spacey in it)

Posted by: Warthog || 09/24/2021 15:39 Comments || Top||

#3  How was Fred s'posed to know?
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 15:53 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Video shows Missouri cops allowing their police dog to maul a black man who 'threatened to kill officers during arrest'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The incident happened in the St. Louis suburb of Woodson Terrace on Monday

  • Three white officers are seen allowing dog to repeatedly bite the black man

  • Police say the unnamed man had threatened to kill officers and resisted arrest

  • Footage sparked outrage online and drew condemnation from local media

  • The St. Louis County prosecutor's office is now investigating the incident
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 09:03 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11143 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More like this pls
Posted by: Ethelred the Swank6539 || 09/24/2021 12:31 Comments || Top||

#2  ^1. Ditto
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 09/24/2021 13:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh gee darn
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/24/2021 20:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Animal cruelty
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/24/2021 21:06 Comments || Top||

#5  DeRe fundfang the Police K9s
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 21:20 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Illegal immigrant, 25, is jailed for 30 years for kidnapping his ex-girlfriend, stuffing her in a suitcase and leaving her to suffocate to death by the side of the road in Connecticut
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Javier Da Silva Rojas, 25, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison with an additional two years supervised release for murdering Valerie Reyes, 24

  • Rojas, who is an illegal immigrant living in Queens, New York, murdered his ex in 2019 by knocking her out and then shoving her body into a suitcase and leaving her on the roadside

  • She died of homicidal asphyxiation, a coroner found

  • He told Reyes's family that he was 'repulsed' by his action and apologized in a White Plains federal court on Thursday
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 09:02 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Explain to me again why the death penalty is cruel and unusual. I think execution needs to be compared to the crime - if it's less cruel, it's appropriate.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/24/2021 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  30 years = what? 5-7 with "good behavior?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/24/2021 9:32 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Biden wins Arizona (again): Draft report of GOP election audit confirms president's win and widens his lead over Trump by 360 votes after 6-month process at a cost of $6MILLION
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • 'The Fake News is lying about the Arizona audit report!' Trump said

  • 'The audit has uncovered significant and undeniable evidence of FRAUD!,' he claimed on Friday morning

  • A Republican-commissioned review of more than 2million ballots cast in Arizona last year confirmed the accuracy of Biden's win in Maricopa County

  • Private contractors conducted the recount and the findings and the finalized version is set to be released on Friday

  • Audit confirmed Biden had 360 vote lead and that there are 'no substantial differences'

  • The audit lasted almost six months and cost $6million to conduct

  • Republicans are trying to downplay the draft by calling it 'only a partial report'

  • Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Texas have also called for a recount recently after being pressured by Trump
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 08:59 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11148 views] Top|| File under:


#2  More Daily Mail bullsh*t. Leaked draft only addresses one aspect and shows 55K bogus votes. Early leak to try to reduce impact of full report.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/24/2021 9:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Maricopa county cheating is small potatoes compared to Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta.
Posted by: Spereng Crins7805 || 09/24/2021 10:16 Comments || Top||

#4  None of the various systems related to elections had numbers that would balance and agree with each other. In some cases, these differences were significant.
There appears to be many ballots cast from individuals who had moved prior to the election.
Files were missing from the Election Management System (EMS) Server.
Ballot images on the EMS were corrupt or missing.
Logs appeared to be intentionally rolled over, and all the data in the database related to the 2020 General Election had been fully cleared.
On the ballot side, batches were not always clearly delineated, duplicated ballots were missing the required serial numbers, originals were duplicated more than once, and the Auditors were never provided Chain‐of‐ Custody documentation for the ballots for the time‐period prior to the ballot’s movement into the Auditors’ care. This all increased the complexity and difficulty in properly auditing the results; and added ambiguity into the final conclusions.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/24/2021 12:55 Comments || Top||

#5  The biggest heist of all was the Dems-media-Bigtech-Intel Community conspiracy to quash the Hunter & Big Guy vice presidency for sale story.

20% of Biden voters said they'd never have voted for him if they'd learned of the Bidens' extraordinary corruption. Had this genuine and devastating report not been spiked by the Dems' media tools, Trump would have won easily.

THAT's the biggest scandal of all. We've never seen collusion on such a grand scale -- across the press, the CIA, and the tech companies. Our "democracy" is now a sick joke.
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 13:03 Comments || Top||

#6  55K ballots found to be of critical concern should be everything you need to know. This was just Maricopa county too…
Posted by: Saltie Fork || 09/24/2021 17:11 Comments || Top||

#7  This is simply another run at disinformation, so they can have a headline already out there when the real report is released.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/24/2021 18:38 Comments || Top||

#8  55K ballots found to be of critical concern

See the number skyrocket when a canvas of the mail in votes is done.
Posted by: Spereng Crins7805 || 09/24/2021 21:04 Comments || Top||


Tulsi Gabbard Schools Joe onthe Border Crisis
[Townhall] Former 2020 presidential candidate and Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is blasting President Joe Biden's catastrophic and ongoing border crisis. In addition, she's urging him to return to former President Donald Trump's policies, which kept illegal immigration at bay.
Who?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/24/2021 08:27 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11138 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
Now We Know Why Prosecutors Wanted to Keep Jan. 6 Videos Away from the Public
[Trending Politics] Prosecutors lost a battle to keep some of the 14,000 hours of January 6 surveillance video that was accumulated by the FBI out of the public view. And much to anti-Trump Democrats’ chagrin, social media is already having a field day with it. Buzzfeed’s Zoe Tillman who broke the tough news:

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday released a new collection of Capitol surveillance videos from Jan. 6 after a judge ordered them to do so, rejecting the government’s argument that making the clips public could threaten the security of the complex.

The disclosure marks a setback for the US Capitol Police and the US attorney’s office in their efforts to control how much footage from the Capitol’s closed-circuit video (CCV) system gets out. In the latest case, prosecutors argued that revealing the location and vantage points of more cameras could help "bad actors" trying to plan some future assault on the building. A judge concluded that argument was too speculative, however, and that the public had a strong interest in seeing videos that formed the basis for a recent plea deal.

US District Chief Judge Beryl Howell ordered the videos released in response to a request from a media coalition (including BuzzFeed News) that is petitioning judges on a rolling basis for videos that prosecutors have relied on in Jan. 6 cases. Howell’s decision isn’t binding on other judges in the US District Court for the District of Columbia presiding over Capitol riot prosecutions, but it gives the media coalition a favorable ruling to point to in future fights.

When some of this video made its way into the hands of the public, everyone could see exactly why the prosecution didn’t want it to get out: It doesn’t fit the narrative of the ’deadly insurrection’ that the fake news media has been propagating. Watch for yourself:
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 07:01 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11142 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are they referring to the withholding of incriminating evidence, like the Hunter Biden laptop ......conspiracy ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 7:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow, that video sure does look like Antietam and the Wheat Field doesn't it? Oh the humanity....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/24/2021 12:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Funny how all the violent clash video I've seen took place outside, but I get the impression the bulk of the arrested were arrested for going inside where all the footage is ridiculously peaceful.

I'm no expert but it seems like two groups.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/24/2021 12:37 Comments || Top||

#4  That Buffalo Shaman character's a dead ringer for Lenin.

A real ins-Erectionist, I'm tellin' ya
Posted by: Nero Creaper7205 || 09/24/2021 12:50 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm no expert but it seems like two groups.

Like the majority coming through the window and their weirdly consistent behavior of getting through, looking around, then darting top-left?

Well, then police tape head and his buddies getting in some victory pics.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2021 13:51 Comments || Top||

#6  OMG - can we get a NSFW warning on this! All the Blood! All the Violence! is that a lump of brain matter I see?

(/SARC)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/24/2021 14:25 Comments || Top||

#7  THERE WILL BE BLOOD FUD
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 16:05 Comments || Top||

#8  F--king liars. Conspirators.

Literally everything they falsely alleged about Trump is ACTUALLY TRUE about their their own conduct.
Posted by: Failed Stater334556712 || 09/24/2021 23:12 Comments || Top||


Iraq
‘Main’ ISIS hideout destroyed in Hamrin mountains
[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces on Thursday destroyed the "main" 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) hideout in the Hamrin mountain range that crosses Kirkuk and Salahaddin governorates, as Erbil and Baghdad work towards forming two joint brigades to counter the Death Eater group’s remnants.

In coordination with the Joint Operation Command, an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
targeted an ISIS hideout that is "considered to be the operation center for launching terrorist attacks in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
" the Security Media Cell said.

Four members of the Death Eater group died, it added, as the search for other ISIS hideouts continues.

Militants have conducted around 134 attacks in disputed territories so far this year, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Peshmerga Jabar Yawar told Rudaw last month, noting that most of the attacks took place in areas between Kifri and Tuz Khurmatu, as well as in eastern and western Kirkuk.

In the latest edition of its weekly propaganda magazine al-Nabaa, ISIS claimed it carried out 22 attacks in Iraq, killing and injuring 49 people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2021 06:37 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11150 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Home Front: Politix
Top Republican releases remaining Palestinian aid he held up for month
[IsraelTimes] Senator Jim Risch approves payment of last $20 million of $75 million package pledged by Biden, but insists it be reprogrammed for food aid, not funneled to terrorists

A top Senate Republican agreed Wednesday to release the remainder of humanitarian funds that he had been holding up since the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us...
allocated them to the Paleostinians last spring, his office told The Times of Israel on Wednesday night.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2021 06:05 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11138 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Africa Horn
Sudan seizes assets of Hamas-linked firms, amid move toward West
[IsraelTimes] Khartoum, which last year began normalization process with Israel, is shedding elements linked to longtime leader Omar al-Bashir, denying a safe haven to Gazoo-ruling terror group

A Sudanese committee set up to recover public funds after the ouster of autocratic ruler Omar al-Bashir
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it...
has taken control of companies linked to the Paleostinian terrorist group Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, a source said Thursday.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2021 05:59 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11151 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  Following he coup that brought the Islamist military to power in 1989, the Islamist intellectual Hasan al-Turabi, steeped in the tradition of the Muslim Brotherhood, welcomed to the Sudan a knot of Islamist leaders. Turabi was a friend and mentor to Osama Bin Laden who settled in Khartoum in 1991. Turabi sponsored the first Popular Arab and Islamic Conference in that year, and the first great meeting of Muslim Islamists attracted little international attention. However, more than a score of Islam's leading intellectuals attended, including Rachid Ghannouchi of Tunisia, Sheikh Zindani of Yemen, Abbasi Madani of Algeria, Alija Izetbegovic and Mustafa Ceric of Bosnia, Gaidar Jemal of Russia, and members of the Muslim Brotherhood from Egypt, Jordan and Europe. Its purpose seemed innocuous enough and when asked, Turabi stated simply that the mission of his Islamic organization was to promote "our religion and our culture," and defend Muslim values throughout the world. As such it offered a meeting house for likeminded individuals and organizations, many of them "listed" by the U.S. Department of State, Department of Treasury and/or the Department of Homeland Security either as terrorists or as members of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Among the listed organizations that maintained an office in Khartoum were HAMAS, Lebanon’s Hezbollah (Party of God) and a number of other smaller Palestinian organizations. HAMAS was allowed to invest in Sudan and benefited from banking privileges rarely offered to foreigners. It maintained its close relationship with the Sudanese Islamists for more that thirty years.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 09/24/2021 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  *happy sigh* Rantburg U!
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2021 21:01 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
30 Facts You NEED to Know: Your Covid Cribsheet
By Kit Knightly

[LewRockwell] We get a lot of e-mails and private messages along these lines “do you have a source for X?” or “can you point me to mask studies?” or “I know I saw a graph for mortality, but I can’t find it anymore”. And we understand, it’s been a long 18 months, and there are so many statistics and numbers to try and keep straight in your head.

So, to deal with all these requests, we decided to make a bullet-pointed and sourced list for all the key points. A one-stop-shop.

Here are key facts and sources about the alleged “pandemic”, that will help you get a grasp on what has happened to the world since January 2020, and help you enlighten any of your friends who might be still trapped in the New Normal fog (click links to skip):

“Covid deaths” – Lockdowns – PCR Tests – “asymptomatic infection” – Ventilators – Masks – Vaccines – Deception & Foreknowledge

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PART I: “COVID DEATHS” & MORTALITY

1. The survival rate of “Covid” is over 99%. Government medical experts went out of their way to underline, from the beginning of the pandemic, that the vast majority of the population are not in any danger from Covid.
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 09/24/2021 00:50 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We should or at least are supposed to keep blog articles in Opinion.

I found a link to the next you wanted, but it was posted at Lew Rockwell.

There is no way this article is War on terror
Posted by: badanov || 09/24/2021 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2 

Right now somewhere Social Media Censors are working overtime.

Numerous MSM/Liberal/Democrat FACT-CHECK sites is holding Emergency meetings and trying figure out ways to discredit the FACTS.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/24/2021 5:37 Comments || Top||

#3  #2, So true. They are losing the argument in the light of day. Desperation to hold the high ground. Such a waist of time and so much damage done. People are turning away from media, medical and politicians as I have seen in no other time in my life. It is fortunate that we still have an alternative media but I am certain that is their primary concern and target.
Posted by: Dale || 09/24/2021 6:15 Comments || Top||

#4  The religion of the irreligious. Any surprise it's pathetically fragile?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/24/2021 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Long Island Railroad..even if you had the two shots you still must wear the mask..I'd say 30% of folks don't have them on, including me..the conductors just take your ticket and smile and move on to the next rider..I don't ride it in rush hour so I would wear it if I did just to avoid confrontations..not so in N.J transit trains..Du musst es tragen! or you are off the choo choo.
Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756 || 09/24/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||

#6  The original Off Guardian article was linked yesterday. I bookmarked it for future reference.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/24/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#7 
Next for Dem States Everywhere...
Posted by: Craise Elmusoper5465 || 09/24/2021 17:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Losing the US Navy SEALs?
[American Thinker] So is Joe Biden ready to lose the U.S. Navy SEALs?

Sure looks like it, based on this JustTheNews report:

Several hundred elite Navy SEALs are in danger of being blocked from deploying with their special operator teams by the Pentagon after failing to get a mandatory COVID vaccine, according to a lawyer and pastor counseling them.

The number involved in the dispute with the Pentagon amounts to as many as a quarter or more of all active duty SEALs, a loss that could impact military readiness since SEAL teams play an outsized role in modern military operations, their advocates told Just the News.

If so, that's bad news for military readiness. We all know what happens to military readiness when the Navy loses a ship — imagine the impact of losing a huge chunk of the elite fighting force. And in the wake of Biden's failed Afghanistan pullout, with terrorists the world over regrouping, there could be consequences for the U.S.

JustTheNews notes that it costs $500,000 to train a SEAL. There's also the reality that only one out of four SEAL applicants actually makes it through training to get the title of SEAL; the rest wash out. They're not called an elite fighting force for nothing. What's more, they are very popular with the public, having taken down Osama bin Laden and other terrorist monsters to protect our country. Biden wants to get rid of that?

Now, to be fair, there are sound reasons for asking troops to get vaxxed. One unvaxxed troop spreading disease to the others on the tightly packed Navy ship or submarine is no laughing matter, particularly since the vaccine itself isn't preventing breakthrough infections.

But there are valid reasons for objecting, too.

Taking the vaccine, for one, might actually be making troops more vulnerable, if the example of hyper-vaxxed Israel is taken into account.

Some troops may object to taking the vaccine based on that, and others may object based on the record these vaccines have of triggering heart problems in young people, particularly healthy young men such as themselves. Compared to the low lethality of having COVID among the healthy young, taking a vaccine with those life-altering potential results seems stupid.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 00:33 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Today the Arizona election audit comes out and that makes everything pivotal if the company that did it is not corrupt like most of today's America is these days.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 09/24/2021 3:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah? I’ve been hearing about the Arizona audit results coming out any day now for a couple of months. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Jones4656 || 09/24/2021 4:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Swamp actively blocking and suppressing Arizona audit at every opportunity. The fix is in just as with Hunters laptop. Shows how much corruption is so pervasive.
Posted by: Dale || 09/24/2021 6:02 Comments || Top||

#4  ....Ummm, no.

This is easily the third or fourth 'report' I've seen in the last week or so saying that (Fill in the name of elite group here)was going to be in deep trouble because of vaccine refusals. My favorite was the alleged middle-of-the-night text from SECDEF to all F-22 pilots that they had a couple days to get vaxxed or else.

These are men who have achieved the pinnacle of military readiness and reputation. They have gotten shots for things we've never even heard of, and done so uncomplainingly. Even if this were somehow true, the line of men more than willing to get the shot and replace them would stretch for a hundred yards or more.

If this were to have shown up on even Fox News, I would say there might be some truth to it.

JustTheNews? Justtheno.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/24/2021 6:07 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Ditto Mike. Numbers reductions possibly, not entire unit eliminations. Keeping the flag will allow continued POM budget line entry and funding. Gotta keep the funding flow, a few ghost soldiers holding the flag should work.

The Goldwater–Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of October 1986 gave SOF a separate budget line (not included in Big Army, Big Navy, etc.) Much easier for the Klingon's to manipulate.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 6:13 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 /\ Ditto Mike. Numbers reductions possibly, not entire unit eliminations. Keeping the flag will allow continued POM budget line entry and funding. Gotta keep the funding flow, a few ghost soldiers holding the flag should work.

Besoeker,

The force reduction angle is one I hadn't considered, but one that makes a lot of sense - the USN has been looking to trim its special ops forces for a while now; they had to expand them far beyond any reasonable limit because they were the most effective forces we had in the AF and Iraq...which meant that people got in who ordinarily shouldn't have.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/24/2021 8:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Now, I DO wish I had resisted my Yellow Fever vax.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Trying to get all but the woke out of the military.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/24/2021 12:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Can you say, kabuki?
I knew you could
Posted by: Nero Creaper7205 || 09/24/2021 12:48 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Northrop tests interoperability between advanced airborne radar and electronic warfare system
[C4ISRNET] WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman said it successfully demonstrated interoperability during a recent test of a new electronic warfare system meant for F-16s.

During the Northern Lightning Air Force exercise, which took place in August at Volk Field Air National Guard Base, aboard a Canadair Regional Jet, the company says it tested using the APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar, which the company is providing to the Air Force, and what it is calling the Next Generation Electronic Warfare System, an ultrawideband system that detects the radio frequency environment to decide which signals to jam.

Company officials said it’s critical both aircraft subsystems — the active electronically scanned array radar, which is nearly identical to those aboard F-35s and F-22s, and the EW system — can perform their roles without interfering or degrading each other.

"You needed it to be interoperable with the other subsystems and one of those other key subsystems is the advanced AESA. Because you don’t want electronic warfare to have a negative impact on AESA, you don’t want AESA to have a negative impact on electronic warfare," James Conroy, Northrop’s vice president for navigation, targeting and survivability, told C4ISRNET. The EW system is "a survivability function. AESAs aren’t typically only doing survivability, they’re doing other situational awareness as well as targeting capabilities. You have subsystems that are doing different functions, and you need both those functions to be able to operate simultaneously."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 00:22 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Zoo Animals Act Like Their Keepers
[NYPOST] Turns out humans aren’t the only ones who get down and dirty for sexual pleasure.

A pair of frisky gorillas at the Bronx Zoo proved that when one was filmed performing oral sex on its partner in front of aghast zoo-goers. A clip of the NSFW scene is currently blowing up on social media — but animal experts report that it’s all completely normal.

"I was shocked and had no idea that was a ’natural’ act," the videographer, who has opted to remain anonymous, told The Post of the steamy spectacle, which he captured while visiting the iconic NYC zoo with his family.

"I was in the gorilla exhibit with my 4-year-old daughter and niece," he said. "My wife had to stay out of the exhibit with my sleeping son, so I wanted to capture a lot of video. Then this magic happened."
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 09/24/2021 00:13 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11149 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
IG: Pentagon Reliance on Chinese Pharmaceuticals Creates National Security Risk
[Free Beacon] Defense Department's reliance on Chinese supply chains for pharmaceuticals poses a severe national security risk, a Pentagon inspector general's report warns.

The U.S. military's ability to treat soldiers and personnel worldwide relies on products made and shipped in foreign countries. The Pentagon does not produce its own pharmaceuticals, so it relies on the American commercial sector to procure vital medicines for the armed forces. As the commercial sector increases its reliance on foreign countries the department follows suit, the report, which was released Wednesday, found.

"Pharmaceutical supply disruptions could compromise the standard of care to [Defense Department] beneficiaries," the report concludes. "A disruption of the supply of foreign-made [active pharmaceutical ingredients] to domestic manufacturers could cause a drug shortage that affects every level of the U.S. health care system."

Some 72 percent of commercial pharmaceuticals are procured from foreign countries, and 13 percent come from China, according to a 2019 Food and Drug Administration study. During the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, China threatened to withhold life-saving drugs from American citizens over the growing rift between Washington and Beijing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 00:12 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11135 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1 
Once again the RANT BURG and common sense has out thought the Biden Admin by years.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/24/2021 4:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Outrageous! Perhaps there is something General Milley could discreetly say to Chinese Pharmaceutical leaders to calm their supply-line fears.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 6:23 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Somalia's military court sentences jail terms to foreign Al-Shabaab fighters
[Garowe] Somalia's military court on Thursday nabbed
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
two imported muscle over links to al-Shabaab
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
holy warriors, in the latest judgment which could be the most memorable this year, as the Horn of Africa nation struggles with violent mostly peaceful extremism.

The military court hailed a British citizen, Dereton Antonio Perez, 44, and Malaysian, Ahmed Mustaqim bin Abdihamid, 34, to 15 years in prison after they were found guilty of recruiting foreigners for the terror group of Alshabab.

Last week, the two appeared before trial judge Hassan Ali Nor Shuute, who has been the most efficient judge in the federal republic of Somalia. The judge is credited for his robust judgments in al-Shabaab-related trials.

"The Armed forces court has today sentenced two foreigners, a British citizen, Dereton Antonio Perez, 44, and Malaysian, Ahmed Mustaqim bin Abdihamid, 34, to 15 years in prison after they were found guilty of recruiting foreigners for the terror-group of Alshabab," state media reported.

The military court said Dereton Antonio Perez had worked with several al-Shabaab leaders, planned attacks in La Belle France, and taken part in many battles inside Somalia.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread...
the military court said that Ahmed Mustaqim Bin Abdihamid, a Malaysian known as al-Ansar, joined al-Shabaab in 2009 and took part in the al-Shabaab insurgency in Galgadud region against Ahlu Sunna Wal-Jamaa.

The military tribunal also sai Darren Anthony Byrness and Ahmed Mustaqim bin Abd al-Hamid had left al-Shabaab to join ISIS, but their sea voyage to 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...
had succeeded. On April 18, 2019, he was captured by Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
forces and handed over to the Somali government.

Al-Shabaab has often used foreign nationals to carry out attacks within and outside the country. For instance, the group recently confirmed that Kenyan nationals took part in the raid at Amaara military base in the Central part of the country last month.

In January this year, the snuffies also confirmed that a number of imported muscle especially from Kenya took part in the raid at Manda Bay military base in Kenya which is run by Americans. The raid left three Americans dead but the military managed to kill five terrorists.

Somalia has intensified the fight against al-Shabaab and IS-Somalia holy warriors. The courts are playing an important role in shaping law and order, with suspects often arraigned and subjected to intense trial where evidence is tabled before judgment.

Also, the group has lost grip in several areas following sophisticated operations run jointly by Somali National Army [SNA] and other partners such as AMISOM and the US Africa Command. Several countries have invested massively in the fight against al-Shabaab in Somalia.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2021 00:11 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11143 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)

#1  Badanov deleted my resubmit, why?
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 09/24/2021 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Badanov deleted my resubmit, why?

There was nothing at the ink you provided. I did find the article at Lew Rockwell's blog. I resubmitted it in Opinion.
Posted by: badanov || 09/24/2021 1:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Thank you, I was pulling it from Citizens Free Press. I'll do better next time.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 09/24/2021 1:06 Comments || Top||


Al-Shabaab attack KDF base in Somalia as bomb blast kill two in port city
[Garowe] al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...

Lions of Islam attacked a Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] Forward Operating Base in southern Somalia on Wednesday in a rare ambush that comes after weeks of stability and peace in the region.

Residents reported heavy fighting at the KDF Forward Operating Base in Hosingow which is found within Sector II of 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 Forces [AMISOM] in Somalia. The base is under the control of KDF.

According to reports, KDF troops exchanged fire with the al-Shabaab Lions of Islam who wanted to run over the base, with the fight lasting for several hours. Details about the casualties remain scanty but it's reported that the Lions of Islam were subdued.

The KDF, AMISOM, and the federal government of Somalia are yet to issue a statement with regard to the latest ambush by the al-Qaeda-linked hard boys. In fact, the military rarely gives details on operations or ambushes.

It's not the first time the Lions of Islam are trying to run over or attack a KDF military base within Somalia. In 2016, the Lions of Islam attacked El-Adde Forward Operating Base run by KDF, killing over 200 soldiers according to reports.

A year later, the Lions of Islam also attacked Kulbiyow FOB in Jubaland killing over 70 KDF soldiers. In return, the KDF has managed to liberate several towns within Somalia, killing thousands of Lions of Islam in the process besides capturing quite a number of the attackers.

Elsewhere, at least two people were killed in a blast in Marka, Lower Shabelle region. The explosion, which is said to have been heard in some parts of town, took place in Awale Garage in Marka’s Wadajir neighborhood with reports saying that the blast was a remote-controlled landmine.

At least two people are said to have succumbed to injuries sustained during the blast while several others are maimed. Marka locals reported having heard heavy gunfire from government soldiers stationed at Marka cop shoppe near Awale garage after the incident.

There was another landmine blast at Ambareso area near Barawe port city on Thursday morning, targeting anti-al-Shabaab militia group, per the former district commissioner Aden Omar.

No group has yet grabbed credit for the blast. However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
al-Shabaab is known for such cowardly attacks across Somalia and Kenya.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2021 00:11 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11138 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


China-Japan-Koreas
The long-suppressed official report on US biowarfare in North Korea
Courtesy of Rantburg’s own Professor badanov, a master class in Communist propaganda. Rantburg U is now in session:
[Medium] Written largely by the most prestigious British scientist of his day, this official report, containing hundreds of pages of evidence about the use of US biological weapons during the Korean War, was effectively suppressed upon its original release in 1952.
This is an old libel against the US dating back to the Korean War itself.
The report mentioned is written by a British Sinophile, Joseph Needham under the auspices of the organization International Scientific Commission and funded by a Soviet front group, the World Peace Council.

Courtesy of researcher Jeffrey Kaye, INSURGE now publishes the report in text-searchable format for the first time for the general public, with an exclusive, in-depth analysis of its damning findings and implications.

The report provides compelling evidence of systematic violation of the laws of war against North Korea through the deployment of biological weapons — a critical context that is essential for anyone to understand the dynamics of current regional tensions, and what might be done about them.
It is worth noting that the Soviets overran Harbin in 1945, where the actual experimentation of Japanese Unit 731 took place, and so had access to documents and materials for the germ warfare program the Japanese implemented.

In fact, the Soviets conducted war crime trials against the Japanese directly related to germ warfare in Khabarovsk in 1947.

The Soviets and the Chicoms were on very good terms in 1950 with the Soviet providing pilots for the Nork MiGs, so it is hard to imagine the Communist Koreans and the Chicoms did not have access to those materials as well.

In the report, it is mentioned a number of pathogens they claim the US used, including cholera, which has been a feature of every military conflict from the time of the Scythians up to and including the Yemeni Civil war. Cholera is a direct result of poor sanitation practices relating to contaminated food and water. It is not hard to start a cholera epidemic, but it is 100 percent preventable.

Some time a while back, I posted an historical article relating to Unit 731 to a personal website. You can read it here. You can read the original Russian source here.

Interesting to note the article does not mention American use of germ warfare.

(If you don’t see any embed above, download the full report here).
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11147 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  No mention of budae jjigae?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/24/2021 7:43 Comments || Top||



Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Underage marriage is an increasingly common phenomenon in the villages near northeast Syria’s Hasakah
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11140 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems


Government Corruption
New emails reveal Hunter Biden asked for $2 Million plus ‘success fees' to help unfreeze Billions in Libyan assets
[Citizen Free Press] Two previously unpublished emails sent by business contacts of Hunter Biden indicate that the president’s son requested an annual retainer of $2 million to help recover billions in Libyan assets frozen by the B.O. regime.

The first email, dated January 28, 2015, was sent from Sam Jauhari, a Democratic donor with businesses in the Persian Gulf, who was helping spearhead the Libya project. It was addressed to Sheikh Mohammed al-Rahbani, another Obama campaign donor involved in the proposal.

In the email, Jauhari is frank about what Biden would bring to the table, and what he says Biden wanted in return:

Per phone conversation I met with #2 son. He wants $2 per year retainer +++ success fees. He wants to hire his own people — it can be close circle of people for confidentiality. His dad is deciding to run or not.

His positives are he is Chairman of UN World Food Program, son of #2 who has Libya file, access to State, Treasury, business partner SofS [Secretary of State] J. [John] Forbes K [Kerry] son and since he travels with dad he is connected everywhere in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and Asia where M. Q. [Muammar Qadaffy
...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland...
] and LIA [Libya Investment Authority] had money frozen. He said he has access to highest level in PRC [China], he can help there.

His negatives are that he is alcoholic, drug addict — kicked out of U.S. Army for cocaine, chasing low class hookers, constantly needs money-liquidity problems and many more headaches.

We should meet in Gstraad or London to decide next steps.
Posted by: Spereng Crins7805 || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11147 views] Top|| File under:

#1  once this (if it ever) starts getting traction, look to hunter to 'start using again' and 'tragically overdose'

ultimately nothing more than another bloody shirt for joe to wave
Posted by: Retard Strength || 09/24/2021 8:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Joe, please adopt me! I need the money!
Posted by: Tom || 09/24/2021 14:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Curious minds want to know who's snapping up Hunter's weekend daubings at auction. Bet the buyers are from
Libya
Ukraine
Moscow
Beijing
Almaty
San Francisco
Reston-Potomac-Langley
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 15:59 Comments || Top||

#4  In my life experience, someone as damaged and corrupted as Hunter always, always, reflects the character of their significant parent, insome significant way. No honest observer cannot help ut suspect how deep the corruption goes with his father.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/24/2021 20:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Will the teflon ever wear through?
Posted by: KBK || 09/24/2021 22:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Will no one rid us of this pestilent Biden Crime Family?
Posted by: Archbishop || 09/24/2021 22:41 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Erdogan sez that Turkey's ties with the UnitedStates are not healthy and that Washington needed to ''sort out'' issues over Ankara's purchase of Russian S-400
Agreed. So those ties should be untied as soon as possible, to benefit both sides of this Devil’s bargain.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11139 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  We've already sorted it out. Bye, Felicia.
Posted by: Spereng Crins7805 || 09/24/2021 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Heh. Spoken like a true American, mr. Crins.
Too bad that your current admin is still bent over, like many other countries, paying the baksheesh to the Old-Sick-NeoOttoman-Man
Posted by: Nomad || 09/24/2021 13:04 Comments || Top||

#3  "Mr. Erdogan, are you, perhaps, a connoisseur of modern art?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2021 18:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Project Veritas: FDA Worker Recommends Blow Darts for Vaccinating Black People
Not the Bee
[PJMedia] Nazis, racism, manipulated data, and politics at the FDA: Project Veritas’ second Covid-19 vaccination video seems like a comedy but ultimately isn’t very funny. In the video, FDA economist Taylor Lee calls for vaccinating black people with "blow darts" so many times you’ll wonder if he is he joking or not. When the Project Veritas undercover news hound suggests that blow darts might remind black folks of slaves being rounded up in Africa, Lee suggests blow-darting white people first so that black folks can’t claim "racism."

Lee, in what appears to be several meetings with the undercover journalist, also suggests handling non-vaccinated people in Nazi-like ways, including identifying the unvaxxed "like, with a Jewish star" and going door-to-door to force vaccinations.

Lee suggests that educated white people are down with the vax. He thinks uneducated white people, "like in Alabama," and black folks should be forced, or even tricked, into getting the jab.

Lee goes on say that the FDA, with the exception of their scientists, is polluted with politics. Even worse, he discusses how data can be manipulated.

The real punchline is when Lee, presumably an "educated white person," tells the undercover journalist, "If you’re an undercover journalist, you can’t quote me."



Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11149 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Low level punk/fag(got).
Beneath PV to publish.
Was prob mouthing off to impress interviewer who he would be pleased to "date".
PV loses cred with this vid, sorry guys.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 09/24/2021 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Agreed
Posted by: Saltie Fork || 09/24/2021 0:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Deep State Exposed.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 09/24/2021 1:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds like the Biden administration. Its about time to hear the other side of the story. The pervs have had their day. This fellow sounds like a Vindman wanna be but in truth this is how these people think and speak. He is simply a white version of a Maxine Waters.
Posted by: Dale || 09/24/2021 5:57 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
FedEx teams up with tech startup Aurora to test SELF-DRIVING deliveries between Dallas and Houston - but with a safety driver for now
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh great. As if I45 isn't screwed up enough as it is.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/24/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||

#2  And that's different from a train, how?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 23:21 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, one of the founders of the Taliban and chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  "Dirka Dirka Jihad Jihad"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Two Gaza jihadis dead of Covid
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

If two died, many more must be infected — a cheerful thought.
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11143 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  "Mask up in the tunnels, Martyrs!"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2021 6:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Allan wills it
Posted by: Retard Strength || 09/24/2021 7:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Chose oil of lavender over Ivermection. They chose poorly.
Posted by: KBK || 09/24/2021 22:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Just like here: Are they dead from COVID, or dead with COVID?
There is a difference.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/24/2021 22:28 Comments || Top||

#5  So they say.
So we have said - politely, fearlessly, for 18 months now.

For which we have been demonized -- hounded, insulted, ostracized.

Called "conspiracy theorists," "wackos," Trumpian paranoid insurrectionists.

But we were right.

With =/= "from."

EPPUR SI MUOVE
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 22:37 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Number of people who joined the Iranian forces reached 12,000
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11145 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  ...Two words: "dental benefits".

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/24/2021 19:18 Comments || Top||


SDF spokesman Aram Hanna stated that Turkish military intervention in northeast Syria creates an unstable environment
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11138 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
Sticky bombs destroyed through controlled explosion in Poonch
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies

#1  You gotta watch out about sticky stuff in Poonch.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/24/2021 12:38 Comments || Top||

#2  I heard tell Epstein scored him some sticky poonch
Posted by: Nero Creaper7205 || 09/24/2021 12:54 Comments || Top||

#3  In the poonch, or just around the poonch.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2021 13:22 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Judge Overturns parts of Florida's Sanctuary City Ban
[EpochTimes] Florida Senate Bill 168 bars sanctuary policies, or policies that prohibit or impede law enforcement from complying with federal immigration law or that block law enforcement agencies from communicating or cooperating with federal immigration agencies.

The Florida legislature passed the legislation in 2019 and Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed it into law.

But some of the groups that supported and were involved with crafting the law, including the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), have "been described as anti-immigrant hate groups," U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom, an Obama nominee, wrote in her 110-page ruling.

"This involvement strongly suggests that the Legislature enacted SB 168 to promote and ratify the racist views of these advocacy groups," she added.
She can read the Legislature's minds, and they are evil.
The Community Justice Center, one of the plaintiffs, said in a statement that the ruling was "a victory for immigrants across the state of Florida."
Legal or illegal, past, present, and future.
"This law was clearly developed to encourage racial profiling, civil rights violations, isolation of immigrant communities, and unjust deportations. It did more harm for the causes of public safety than good. This should send a clear message to Gov. DeSantis and all those proponents of this racist law that they will not go unchallenged," the center said.
On the other hand -
"Yet again a federal trial court judge partially enjoins a plainly constitutional state statute," Taryn Fenske, the governor's spokesperson, said in a statement to news outlets. "We disagree with the judge's ruling and expect to win on appeal."
Posted by: Bobby || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11136 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
US journalists could get up to $50K bonus in spending bill
by Adam Guillette

[DailySignal] There’s one piece of the $3.5 trillion spending bill that the media is unlikely to tell you about—their bailout.

The massive, bloated $3.5 billion spending bill has so much pork that fiscal hawks could eat it for weeks. One piece that hasn’t received much attention yet is a special journalism “tax credit” equal to 50% of the salary of each journalist—up to $50,000 per journalist annually.

Yes, that’s correct, your tax dollars would be paying 50% of the salary of many journalists, whether you like their reporting or not.

Think of it as a way to turn every news outlet in America into a version of NPR.

Let’s be clear: "Saving" the media would destroy the media. How could we ever trust journalists to accurately cover the elected officials who voted against their funding? How can you “speak truth to power” when you’re also pleading with that power for cash? Which news outlets would get the funding, and which would be snubbed?

Any pretense of objectivity would be destroyed once the media is on the federal payroll.

And if you think the media is already hostile to conservatives, libertarians, Christians, business leaders, southerners, and basically anyone who didn’t love Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, D-N.Y., dress from the Met Gala, just imagine the disdain they’ll show us once they’re funded by tax dollars. Also imagine the press coverage of any politician that dares to oppose renewing—or increasing—their funding.

The idea that Americans should be forced to financially support news outlets they don’t like is immoral, obnoxious, and a threat to both free markets and free speech. It’s also outrageous when one considers the proliferation of new media outlets that have already replaced these dinosaurs.

In 2021, most Americans are getting their news from independent podcasts, blogs, social media sites, and more. They compensate these journalists using new payment services like Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, and GoFundMe. Last year Patreon alone paid out roughly $1 billion to creators.

Rather than using politicians to shake down taxpayers, why don’t these desperate journalists try to collect money voluntarily on Patreon?

This isn’t the first time progressives have tried to redistribute your tax dollars to their allies in the media.

A dedicated media bailout was initially proposed at the onset of the pandemic. First, news outlets lobbied Congress for a dedicated bailout. This was in addition to Payroll Protection Program cash that many local newspapers took advantage of.

The Seattle Times happily grabbed $9.9 million. The Tampa Bay Times, a hard-left newspaper, bagged $8.5 million. Many other newspapers did the same.

When this dedicated bailout failed to catch steam, their next proposal was to modify Payroll Protection Program rules so that large conglomerates like McClatchy would be allowed to qualify. Gannett deserves credit for opposing both efforts, and it wasn’t alone.

Our organization, Accuracy in Media, led the fight against both versions of the media bailout. Accuracy in Media activists sent emails, made phone calls, and even delivered 50,787 anti-bailout petitions to the office of then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress supported this bailout, but fortunately, McConnell responded to the petitions and blocked the proposal.

Read the rest at the link

Adam Guillette is currently the president of Accuracy in Media. Previously, he served as the vice president of development for Project Veritas.
Posted by: badanov || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Congress continuing to tax Americans to pay for leftist bs that Americans do not read and would not otherwise pay for.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 09/24/2021 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  ESfB,
Why are you offended?
The chicoms have been paying for the MSM ads for years. Cheaper to pay traitors than to pay revolutionaries.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 09/24/2021 0:39 Comments || Top||

#3  That is one way to get MSM support for your spending bill and to get MSM donations to Dem candidates
Posted by: Airandee || 09/24/2021 7:32 Comments || Top||

#4  How could we ever trust journalists to accurately cover the elected officials who voted against their funding?

Like you actually trust them now? I haven't for the past forty-three years.
Posted by: Raj || 09/24/2021 9:31 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Two Afghans evacuated by Americans and staying in Fort McCoy in Wisconsin have been federally charged, one with attempted rape, one with murder
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Two evacuees from Afghanistan will face federal charges for crimes allegedly committed at Fort McCoy.

Bahrullah Noori, 20, is charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor through the use of force. The victim was not yet 16 years old, according to an indictment.

Mohammad Haroon Imaad, 32, is charged with assaulting his spouse by strangling and suffocating her. The indictment alleges that the assault occurred on September 7, 2021.

Both men made initial appearances in Madison on September 16 and are being detained at the Dane County Jail.

Noori and Imaad are scheduled for arraignment Thursday, September 23.

If convicted, Noori faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 30 years and a maximum of life in federal prison on the charges alleging use of force, and a maximum penalty of 15 years on the other two charges. Imaad faces a maximum penalty of 10 years.

These cases are not related, according to a Justice Department news release, which added:

The charges against them are the result of investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Fort McCoy Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Taylor Kraus is handling the Noori prosecution and Assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary Corey is handling the Imaad prosecution.
Courtesy of Skidmark in comments yesterday, a Fox News article on the subject reports that Mr. Noori made use use of a plural number of under-16 year olds, while Mr. Imaad battered his wife on September 17th, not the 7th.
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11151 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  How long before the left, with a straight face, posits a droit du seigneur brown person, a right to their quaint cultural customs, here on American soil?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/24/2021 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  #1 They already do.
Posted by: Nguard || 09/24/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Yet another example of the incompetence and failure to vet the people we evacuated from Afghanistan.
Posted by: Tom || 09/24/2021 14:30 Comments || Top||

#4  IIUC st like 40% of Afghans follow their quaint tribal custom of marriage to a first cousin or cousin once-removed.

So basically, this is largely a nation of inbreds with an average IQ slightly above room temperature.

WTF are we doing importing 100,000+ genetically-deficient Muslims?

We spent hundreds of billions and rovers of American blood on these barbarians. We owe them NOTHING.
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 16:10 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Wheels on Water - The Slow, Ugly, and Incredibly Successful Consolidated PBY Catalina
A fella I worked on aircraft engines with, way back in another lifetime, said that Navy pilots called them 90-90-90.

90 knots takeoff speed, 90 knots cruise speed, 90 knots landing speed




Summer of 1984 I believe. I was walking the flight line at the old Ladd AFB, Fort Wainwright, Alaska one evening and saw a PBY parked there. I walked over for a closer look and the pilot climbed out. He asked me if I wanted to take a tour. He was a crusty old Texan who had flown them in WWII. It was outfitted with fire retardant chemical tanks. He had a three month BLM contract. He's had the contract for several years. He was sure proud of that old bird.
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#1  There's a PBY fuselage covered in blue tarps awaiting restoration at Jack Bolt Field here in NSB.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/24/2021 8:42 Comments || Top||

#2  The PBY was the most numerous aircraft of its kind, with around 3,300 aircraft built.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 09/24/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Ugly?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/24/2021 18:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Ugly?

I know, right?
Posted by: badanov || 09/24/2021 18:48 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
FL guv DeSantis attempts a workaround after HHS slashes federal supply of monoclonal antibodies from its stockpile
[NBCMiami] Speaking at a news conference in Tampa Thursday, DeSantis said the state will be receiving about 3,000 does of the new monoclonal antibody treatment from GlaxoSmithKline. DeSantis said the state acquired the treatments to try to make up for {HUGE} reductions in federal allotments of the monoclonal antibodies. Less than 18,000 doses of Regeneron's monoclonal antibodies are expected to arrive from the federal government next week, DeSantis said.

DeSantis said it's a dramatic reduction from just a couple weeks ago, when the federal government was sending Florida more than 40,000 treatments per week.

Health and Human Services officials said they were changing the system for allocating monoclonal antibodies to maintain an equitable distribution of the treatments.
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#1  Xavier Becerra is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 25th United States secretary of health and human services. Becerra previously served as the attorney general of California from January 2017 until March 2021. Wikipedia

Banana Republic politician.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 09/24/2021 3:14 Comments || Top||

#2  His assistant is a transvestite.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 09/24/2021 3:15 Comments || Top||

#3 
So the DC gender & nationality confused types are playing Politics with the vaccine and likely killing many Liberal/Democrat voters?

Yep! they thought that one thru for the 2022 elections.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/24/2021 5:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Restrict it now, re-authorize it closer to the election. Claim victory, virtue signal, permit the media to blame conservatives regarding former restrictions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 6:17 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 Yes, the births among the left are in decline and now add deaths. Plus add immigrants who are no guarantee of a liberal voter. Most Latins I have been around are family oriented and are far less in lock step as with the black Democrat population.
Posted by: Dale || 09/24/2021 6:26 Comments || Top||

#6  How the new migrants vote is irrelevant. Votes can be controlled and manipulated. The migrants must be brought into the country to bolster sagging population census figures. Democratic congressional seats depend upon it. Teacher's unions need students, big government needs indigent constituents. Re-zoned multi-family housing needs multi-families. Chinese box stores need.....
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 6:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Afghans, Pakistani jihadists, Haitians, drug dealers and traffickers coming to your neighborhood soon. If one complains about the invasion at our borders and the national suicide foisted upon us by Washington with its insane immigration policies (basically none), you will be called a racist or xenophobe. The U.S. already has enough enemies within its borders; many of them installed as government office-holders. I doubt that we voted for them.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2021 9:36 Comments || Top||


Economy
[Buy American] The reason your Christmas is going to cost more this year: Huge backlog of SIXTY TWO container ships wait to dock at America's biggest port as global supply chain crunch hits home
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which moves 40 percent of containers in the US, currently has 62 cargo ships waiting to enter the port

  • The backup was brought on by a combination of it being peak shipping period and a pandemic-induced buying boom and labor shortage

  • The ports serve as the entry point for a third of imports to the US, and are the main import point for goods coming from China

  • The west coast ports have faced traffic since August, when a then record-breaking 44 container ships were stuck off the coast due to similar disruptions

  • The Long Beach port is now on pace to break it's all-time record and process than 9 million container units this year, almost a million more units than in 2020
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India-Pakistan
Three infiltrators killed near LoC in Uri
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11147 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Olde Tyme Religion
Crusader mass grave in Lebanon sheds light on cruelty of medieval warfare
[JPost] Interesting stuff
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India-Pakistan
Direct link to unlawful conversion racket: UP ATS arrests top Muslim cleric
[OneIndia] The Uttar Pradesh Anti Terror Squad has arrested one Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui on charges of religious conversion. UP ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar told a presser that the holy man had direct links with the mass unlawful conversion racket.

He said that Maulana Kaleem had direct links with mass unlawful conversion racket that was busted by the ATS earlier this year. He not only funded and oversaw the activities, but also used to his trust to fund the madrasas involved in the racket, Kumar also said.

Kumar also said that the probe showed that the Maulana's trust received Rs 3 crore in foreign funding including Rs 1.5 crore from Bahrain. He said that six teams of the ATS have been formed to investigate the matter. Siddiqui runs Jamia Imam Waliullah Trust that funds several Madrasas for which he had received huge foreign funding, the ATS said in a statement. He was taken into custody when he was returning home at Muzaffarnagar after attending a programme in Meerut.

In July this year, the Enforcement Directorate filed a case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with the religious conversion racket busted by the UP ATS.

The ED named Mufti Qazi Jahangir and Mohammad Umar Gautam as the main accused in the case. After this case was busted, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath ordered action under the Gangster Act and National Security Act. The UP police said that this racket involved the conversion of deaf children and women to Islam.

I converted 1,000 non-Moslems to Islam by marrying them all to Moslems, Mohammad Umar Gautam boasted before the police. Umar along with Mufti Qazi Jahangir Alam Qasm from Delhi's Jamia Nagar were arrested by the police for running an outfit involved in converting deaf and dumb students and other poor people to Islam in Uttar Pradesh with funding from the Pakistain's ISI. The arrests were made by Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad following the registration of an FIR in the case at Lucknow's ATS cop shoppe.

The outfit that they ran is named Islamic Dawah Center, having access of funds from Pakistain's ISI and other foreign agencies, said Kumar. The ADGP said the ATS had been working on the case on the intelligence that some people were getting funds from ISI and other foreign agencies for converting poor people to Islam and spreading communal enmity in the society.

The ATS probe has resulted in the duo's arrest, said Kumar, adding they have been booked on various charges including those under the Indian Penal Code and Uttar Pradesh's stringent anti-conversion law.
Investigation revealed that a particular school for hearing and speech impaired in Noida was also approached to entice them with promises of employment and money to get them converted to Islam.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Volgograd Jehovah's Witnesses Sentenced to Prison for Extremism
[KavkazUzel] A court in Volgograd has appointed real terms for five Jehovah's Witnesses, having found them guilty in an extremism case. The defendants pleaded not guilty and are going to appeal the verdict. The relatives of the convicts said the sentence was expected.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, five Jehovah's Witnesses from Volgograd accused of extremism declared in court that they were not involved in the activities of the organization banned by the court. The prosecution requested seven to nine years in prison for them. The relatives of the defendants indicated that in the event of a real imprisonment, the families of the Volgograd Jehovah's Witnesses will be left without breadwinners. In the last word, the defendants declared their innocence and asked the court to acquit them.

Jehovah's Witnesses Valery Rogozin, Sergei Melnik, Igor Yegozaryan, Vyacheslav Osipov and Denis Peresunko were accused of involvement in an organization that the court found extremist. But they themselves insist that they are not involved in the activities of a legal entity prohibited by the court, but simply professed their religion. In court, according to the defense of believers, evidence was disclosed that had nothing to do with the essence of the charges or the religious views of the defendants, and the religious examination did not explain what the extremism imputed to believers was.
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Rest Day: Joe Biden Goes Back in the Bunker with No Public Events
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden will not appear publicly on Thursday, according to his schedule.

The president plans to receive the 9:30 a.m. daily briefing and his weekly economic briefing before having lunch with Vice President Kamala Harris at 12:30 p.m.

Nothing else is on Biden’s public schedule for Thursday afternoon.

The president continues taking a lower public profile, refusing to take questions from the press on the host of issues facing his presidency.

Biden’s envoy to Haiti resigned on Thursday, citing “inhumane” deportation of Haitian migrants from the Southern border.

Department of Homeland Security continues working to disperse over 15,000 migrants living in a makeshift camp under a border bridge in Del Rio, Texas.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, only 1,719 migrants have been expelled back to Haiti, while 3,206 have been moved into custody.

Biden has also failed to publicly address the mistaken U.S. military drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed 10 Afghan civilians including seven children and zero terrorists.

The president has not spoken to the press extensively since September 11, when he addressed his falling poll numbers with reporters.

On three occasions since then he provided only one short answer during his public events as reporters shouted questions.

As the president left the United Nations on Tuesday, he responded to a question about the chaos on the Southern border.

“We will get it under control,” he replied shortly.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He had a big day giving that speech at the UN. And then he got to meet BoJo. That's a lot of excitement in one week.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/24/2021 12:07 Comments || Top||

#2  My greatest fear is that all the people who hated President Trump's high profile actually welcome and like this.
Posted by: Tom || 09/24/2021 14:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Our very own Leonid Brezhnev.
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 16:03 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
New AI system fills rifle sights with extensive, easy-to-digest info
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11138 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The demo used ARCAS systems mounted on M-4s, with testers shooting at stationary targets.

Maybe they need to evolve this platform to accommodate a heat-seeking, motion-sensitive round and one that factors in drop and changing wind conditions.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2021 9:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe they need to eliminate all this shit with a good set of ROE.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 23:21 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Joe Biden Bans Officials from Using Horses to Secure the Border - based on fake news

[BREITBART] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan...
will ban officials from using horses while securing the border, days after controversial photographs emerged of agents on horses confronting Haitian migrants colonists the White House confirmed Thursday.

"[W]e will no longer be using horses in Del Rio," White House press secretary Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
said during the daily press briefing with news hounds.

Psaki cited the ban as proof that the president was upset by the images, after members of Congress and activists voiced their outrage that these tactics were happening during Biden’s presidency.

Psaki defended Biden for failing to publicly condemn the images.

"His actions make clear how horrible and horrific he thinks these things are," she said.

Rep. The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters
...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 29.81435 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 44.81229 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist...
(D-CA) called the incident "worse than slavery."

"I’m pissed," she said during a presser Wednesday. "And I’m not just unhappy with the cowboys who were running down Haitians and using their reins to whip them. I’m unhappy with the administration. We are following the Trump policy."

"Cracking a fucking whip on Haitians fleeing hardship shows you that this system simply can’t be reformed," Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) wrote on social media.

Biden’s Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas pushed back on the claim that agents were using whips on people and that the images captured the long separated reins used to control their horses.

He later said he was "horrified" by the images and said the incident was under investigation.

Activists compared the border agents to slave hunters.

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 or misogyny or something like that. 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
voiced her outrage at the photos on Tuesday calling for an investigation.

"I fully support what is happening right now, which is a thorough investigation into exactly what is going on there," she said. "But human beings should never be treated that way. I’m deeply troubled about it."
The National Review points out:
An unnamed Border Patrol agent told Townhall’s Julio Rosas that mounted agents often twirl their reins to keep migrants colonists at a distance so they’re not crushed underfoot.

Ortiz said that he did not believe that the reins had been used to strike any refugees and none of the photos or videos that have circulated of the interactions appear to show the reins making contact with migrants colonists.
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#1  Reigns of terror.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 8:54 Comments || Top||

#2  The "Then" picture doesn't look right.

Is it block print, is it graphite on paper, is it graphite on canvas? Is is bullshit on photoshop filters?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2021 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Some twit on fakebook commented the border agents were "obviously not well trained". I told her to go down there and show them how.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/24/2021 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  No horses? OK, then Dobermans and Germans Shepherds.
Posted by: Nero Creaper7205 || 09/24/2021 12:52 Comments || Top||

#5  US policies should not be guided by the falsifications and misinterpretations of the media. A boy can dream.
Posted by: Tom || 09/24/2021 14:51 Comments || Top||


#7  Feds against the Feds.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 09/24/2021 15:51 Comments || Top||

#8  #FJB
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 15:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Joe wants to see what happens to a handful of Border Patrol agents on foot in the midst of 10,000 illegal aliens.

Wants a repeat of 13 dead service members in Kabul.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 09/24/2021 16:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Well if they can't use loose ropes (which is what it looks like to me - definitely not whips) I guess they will have to use guns and long range rifles.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/24/2021 20:47 Comments || Top||

#11  CF, or go really old school and use lances and sabres.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/24/2021 20:57 Comments || Top||

#12  From KTSM (El Paso):

The photographer behind images depicting Border Patrol agents on horseback told KTSM things are not exactly what they seem when it comes to the photos.

The photographs, which were taken Sunday, appear to show agents on horses with a whip in hand. The photos caused outrage because from certain angles, it appears to show Border Patrol whipping migrants, but photographer Paul Ratje said he and his colleagues never saw agents whipping anyone.

“Some of the Haitian men started running, trying to go around the horses,” Ratje said.

Ratje is a photographer based in Las Cruces and has been in Del Rio since Friday. He said took the photographs from the Mexican side.

“I’ve never seen them whip anyone,” Ratje said. “He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the picture.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2021 20:59 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ disappointing.
These scammers could use a good horsewhippin'
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 21:14 Comments || Top||

#14  I'm thinking a mine flail tank will encourage people to go away.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/24/2021 21:19 Comments || Top||

#15  Maybe loudspeakers blasting the Noriega Treatment 24/7 ?
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 21:24 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Haitian migrants are sent detailed instructions on WhatsApp and social media which help them cross border into Texas
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The situation in Del Rio spiraled this week as more than 15,000 migrants, many of them from Haiti, arrived at the US-Mexico border in Texas

  • Migrants have been settling in a makeshift camp as they waited for Control Border Patrol agents to process their petitions to stay in the U.S.

  • Some Haitian migrants followed detailed instructions sent to them via WhatsApp from fellow compatriots who had recently taken the route to the Texas border

  • WhatsApp and other social media platforms are used to share information that can get distorted as it speeds through communities, directing migration flows

  • Fabricio Jean, of Haiti, 38m followed detailed instructions sent to him, his wife and two kids via WhatsApp that said he needed '20,000 pesos' to take buses

  • Jean and his family didn't envisage to find thousands of Haitian migrants like himself crossing at the same remote spot near Del Rio, Texas
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11149 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Afghan migrant truth is leaking out. Reports surfacing from the vicinity of Camp Atterbury, Indiana indicate things not going well. Food and med shortages, shortages of workers and volunteers. Migrants walking off campus. Urgent calls to local churches and charities for clothing. Media restrictions.

Cold weather coming. This may get very interesting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 7:16 Comments || Top||



#4  They are utterly destitute immigrants invaders who have cell phones.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/24/2021 22:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Le Camp des Saints -- a l'Americain
Posted by: Jean Respail || 09/24/2021 22:40 Comments || Top||

#6  This guy knows how to turn a phrase. Beautifully done, and well said.

America Resembles a Failed State
Posted by: Failed Stater334556712 || 09/24/2021 22:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Who's manipulating this madness?
To what end?

From the article linked, above:

Todd Bensman of CIS did what virtually no member of the media has done—excepting one Los Angeles Times reporter I’m aware of—and crossed into Ciudad Acuña to talk to directly to the migrants on the Mexican side. What he found was surprising, and shocking. The Haitians reported that they, longtime residents of Mexico, were abruptly released by Mexican authorities to proceed north and cross into the United States in mid-September. The reason given: a gift in celebration of Mexican Independence Day. So they did—by the thousands.

Someone orchestrated this.

Who? To what end? These are questions a press corps competent to its putative purpose might pursue. These are questions to which a government genuinely concerned with the welfare and sovereignty of the United States might demand answers—and accountability. Neither media nor the federal government will do anything like that. We are left to ask it ourselves, and we start with the understanding that if Bensman’s account is accurate, then the Haitian incursion and encampment, stupendous and alarming as it is, is not the real crisis. Don’t misunderstand me: it’s a crisis in full, but it’s a crisis covering for something else.

It’s a feint.

A feint for what? Here we must speculate. At dusk I stand on Border Patrol Hill, where the Border Patrol has not set foot in a year, and I see the dozens of vehicles waiting to cross. They will cross, and they will succeed, because they are unopposed. Perhaps the Haitian influx is a feint to that end: a cartel operation leveraging the apparatus of Mexican governance that is increasingly in its thrall. Perhaps the Haitian influx is a feint for something else. Perhaps, on the other side of the border, there is a strategic mind at work—it would not have to be a particularly advanced strategic mind to perplex and outwit our federal leadership—and he is seeing what the Americans have to bring to bear. If that’s the case, then I’ll tell you one thing that mind has already learned: our leaders prioritize optics and symptoms over substance and causes.

The Haitians are pawns on the chessboard. They aren’t even close to the only migrants out here.
Posted by: Failed Stater334556712 || 09/24/2021 22:53 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Man Shot Dead in Libyan Capital by Masked Gunmen
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Wednesday, Abdel-Hakim al-Thaaban, a resident of the al-Ghararat area in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
was shot by unknown button men, sources told Libya’s Alsaaa24 News.The sources pointed out that the incident occurred near the Jaafar al-Tayyar mosque, as al-Thaaban was attending the dawn prayers. Gunmen fired four rounds at him from close range into his back before fleeing the scene.

Libya continues to suffer from extrajudicial killings forced disappearances, rape, and kidnappings by gangs.

Libya ranked 20th among the most insecure countries, according to the Numbeo Crime Index. The war-torn country received a high rating of 62.00.

Tripoli ranked 50th globally in the Crime Index’s classification for cities, the second-highest in the Arab world, after Damascus was given first place.

The city of Tripoli was given a rating of 64.27, due to high levels of crime and insecurity. It is currently controlled by the Government of National Accord (GNA).

The Crime Prevalence Index aims to assess the general level of crime in 135 countries around the world. The crime index is based on several criteria; such as murder, robbery, and rape.

Last month, the body of a military field commander was found rubbed out in his car in the Janzour area, west of Tripoli.

The man was identified as Tariq Mahmoud Qalia, a member of the Burkan al-Ghadab (Volcano of Rage) operation, who participated in the armed conflict between the Government of National Accord (GNA), and the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA).

Sources from the region said Qalia was with his friends in Janzour yesterday, before they lost contact with him late at night.



Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11145 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Eastern countryside of Deir ez Zor is witnessing widespread assassinations of members of the SDF
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11146 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


-Land of the Free
Protesters Shout Down Al Sharpton's Press Event at Texas Border Bridge Camp
[BREITBART] The civil rights hustler Al Sharpton
...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor...
toured the makeshift Haitian migrant camp situated under the local international bridge Thursday. At the conclusion of his visit, Sharpton attempted an impromptu presser. His remarks were cut short after protesters shouted him down until choosing to leave the site.In the video, a visibly frustrated Sharpton can be seen trying to speak to media. Shouts from the crowd of mainly residents included the phrases "go home," "get out of Texas," and "our Border Patrol are heroes." Attendees eventually crowded the reverend’s entourage as they exchanged words—prompting a quick departure.

Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11139 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Migrant skin tone finally turned a dark enough shade to set off the bat signal in the Race Hustler's cave. Where there is $$ to made off racial issues - real or imagined - you'll find Al. He has been a frequent visitor to MN in the last 15 months.
Posted by: WacoInMN || 09/24/2021 6:23 Comments || Top||


#3  The usual suspects; racist scammers show up to stir up trouble where there is already plenty of trouble created by China Joe and his crazy Soros open-border policies.

Many of the Haitians trying to come in have been living in South America since the 2010 earthquake. It was the one where the Clintons ran off with about $13 billion in aid money to Haiti.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2021 9:25 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Pentagon says Kabir Aidi, aka Mustafa, was ISIS-K ''facilitator'' killed in U.S. drone strike Aug. 27 who was “directly connected” to suicide attack that killed 13 American troops at Kabul airport
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11152 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  The Junta controlled Pentagon says.....
Having screwed the pooch weeks ago and killing a family .... We now got it right....

Public Trust Rating: ★★ / 10


Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/24/2021 4:46 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm withholding my judgement until I hear it confirmed by......
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 6:32 Comments || Top||

#3  So they say.
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 20:13 Comments || Top||


It’s general amnesty, don’t defame IEA: Taliban’s acting defense minister to his fighters
[KhaamaPress] The acting defense minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob called on foot soldiers that general amnesty has been announced and no one should defame the IEA with their arbitrary actions.

The acting defense minister has asked his foot soldiers to seriously implement general amnesty and does not mistreat people.

A statement released by Yaqoob reads that some Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
members have been seen in different provinces carrying out reprisal and have killed those who had worked for the previous government, which is not the policy of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

"Behave well with people, do not defame IEA with your arbitrary actions, stop taking unnecessary photos and videos, and do not enter to government administrations unless you need to." The statement addressed Taliban fighters.

The son of the founder of the Taliban further added that some commanders of the Taliban have recruited ill-bred people to expand their ranks which in opposition to the IEA and the culprits will be given punishment.

The call comes after some Taliban fighters have reportedly been entering houses of the officials of the previous government by night and kill and kidnap them.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11129 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


UN Commits $45 Million for Afghanistan Healthcare
[ToloNews] Facing the possibility of Afghanistan’s healthcare system completely collapsing, the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
announced the release of $45 million from an emergency fund to support Afghanistan’s healthcare system.

The United Nations’ top humanitarian official, Martin Griffiths, on Wednesday said in statement that he is releasing the fund to boost life-saving support in Afghanistan. "Allowing Afghanistan’s healthcare delivery system to fall apart would be disastrous," he said. "People across the country would be denied access to primary healthcare such as emergency caesarean sections and trauma care."

The former minister of public health Wahid Majruh said the emergency fund should be immediately sent to Afghanistan. According to Majruh, the Ministry of Public Health has not paid the salaries of doctors and medical employees for several months and it faces a shortage of medicine.

"The aid should come soon, if it arrives late, the problem will get worse. As a result, some health centers will be closed due to lack of equipment and medicine," Majruh told TOLOnews.

Relatives of patients in Khost provincial hospital complained over problems with health services in their province, saying a lack of medicine and oxygen is big challenge.
Living in a Third World country is challenging. It’s worse when you let yourself be conquered by 7th century totalitarians.
Khost Resident Mir Saayed said: " No medicine is available here. The medicine a patient needs we buy from outside the hospital."
"Mo didn't have medicine, and neither do you"
The UN announcement comes as World Health Organization chief Tedros Ghebreyesus completed a high-level mission to Kabul, where he met the prime minister of the caretaker government and other bigwigs in Kabul.

The acting minister of foreign affairs of the caretaker government asked the international community to continue their support for the health sector in Afghanistan.
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Africa North
Four Tunisian parties said on Thursday that President Kais Saied had lost his legitimacy
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Head of the Islamist Ennahda party urges 'peaceful struggle' against Tunisian president moves

[AlAhram] 'There is no longer any alternative to struggle, naturally a peaceful struggle,' the speaker of Tunisia's parliament Rached Ghannouchi said.
Given that Ennahda is the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia, we know that the peaceful struggle will become violent as soon as some of the younger members become impatient with the failure of the soft jihad of charity and the democracy fails to quickly deliver victory.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Homeless Portland man has been arrested over the murder of Quinton Miller, who was stabbed to death
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese Defector Claims COVID Outbreak Was Intentionally Released in October 2019 at Military World Games
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] According to Chinese defector Wei Jingsheng, the COVID-19 outbreak was intentional and was released through the Military World Games in Wuhan, China in October 2019 and China decided to wait two months before they notified the world.

Jingsheng said the athletes fell sick after the event yet nothing was done.

Check out what the Daily Mail reported:

A whistleblower has sensationally claimed China deliberately spread Covid at a military tournament two months before the rest of the world knew about the deadly virus.

Ex-Chinese Communist Party insider Wei Jingsheng said The World Military Games in October 2019 could have acted as the virus’ first superspreader event.

The international tournament for military athletes was held in Wuhan — the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic — two months before China notified the World Health Organisation
...Kind of like the Center for Disease Control only run by the UN, with about the results you'd expectt...
about its first cases.

Mr Jingsheng claimed it was no coincidence some of the 9,000 international athletes who gathered for the event reportedly became sick with a mystery illness.

"I thought the Chinese government would take this opportunity to spread the virus during the Military Games, as many foreigners would show up there," he said the new Sky News documentary What Really Happened in Wuhan.
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#1 

Amazing what we hear despite Social Media and the WH & MSM efforts to control the narrative.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/24/2021 4:55 Comments || Top||

#2  I suspect many folks in 2019 would've thought it was just a bad case of influenza. Until they died.

I pray the release was an accident.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/24/2021 14:38 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Name changes fail to improve opposition image in Syria's northwest
[NPASYRIA] Residents and faceless myrmidons in areas held by Ottoman Turkish-backed armed Syrian factions in the northern countryside of Aleppo, north Syria, question the usefulness of establishing new formations among the opposition military faction’s ranks, and believe that announcing new names does not contribute to the improvement of their behavior.

Under the name of the Syrian Liberation Front: the new formation, which was announced through an official statement, consists of the Hamza Division, Mu’tasim Division and Sultan Suleyman Shah Division, as well as the 20th Division and Liwa Suquour al-Shamal.
Residents believe that uniting those factions under new names is useless in light of the increasing disputes between the factions themselves and even within the new formations.

SAME HARASSMENTS
Continued on Page 49
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Three die, 14 rescued on Mount Elbrus
Direct Translation via Google Translate
[REGNUM] A total of 14 individuals were rescued from a group of tourists who asked for help on Elbrus. This was announced on September 24 by the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

It is specified that 14 out of 19 people are alive, currently rescuers are evacuating them. Two more people are alive, their whereabouts are known, rescuers are now making their way to them. There is great hope that people can be saved.

A group of 23 climbers registered their route according to the rules. Of these, four people did not begin to climb, the remaining 19 began to climb to the top, but at an altitude of 5,400 meters they asked for help due to the deteriorating weather conditions.

It is noted that one of the climbers has a damaged leg, the health of two more has worsened. The rescuers managed to lower five athletes from a height of 5,400 m to a height of 5,000 m. The search and rescue operation continues, 40 rescuers and 12 pieces of equipment are taking part in it.

Earlier IA REGNUM reported the death of three climbers from the group climbing Mount Elbrus.

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Economy
'Temporary' Inflation to last longer than expected - Fed
Unexpectedly.
[Reuters] - A period of high inflation in the United States may last longer than anticipated, two U.S. Federal Reserve officials said on Wednesday, prompting one to pull forward his views on when the central bank should start raising interest rates.

Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said with growth surging to an estimated 7% this year and inflation well above the Fed's 2% target, he now expects interest rates will need to rise in late 2022.

"Given the upside surprise in recent data points I pulled forward my projection," Bostic said, placing him among seven Fed policymakers who at the central bank's meeting last week projected the overnight policy rate may need to lift from the current near zero level sometime next year.
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#1 

Again the RantBurg readers have beat the Biden Admin to the punch.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/24/2021 4:53 Comments || Top||

#2  https://youtu.be/2TnkJ8_BmSI
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 09/24/2021 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  expects interest rates will need to rise in late 2022.

Too late. With a Federal debt of $30 trillion, each percent rise in the interest rate requires 1.4% of GDP, or 8% of total federal tax receipts, to pay for it. Only way out is ruinous inflation with low interest rates to steal Americans' and world wide dollar holders' savings.
Posted by: Spereng Crins7805 || 09/24/2021 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Inflation as a policy is a form of hidden tax, since debt repayment can be made with lesser real value future dollars, reducing the net monetary value of the debt service calculated in past dollar terms...simply put, the face value of the debt instruments is fixed, but the future repayment dollars are inflated, and in high inflation, significantly so. That it is a betrayal of the public trust to knowingly implement such a policy just goes along with all the other malfeasance attributable to the Imperial attitudes of democrats and the uniparty.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/24/2021 12:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Stagflation is here (again). Seen that movie.

Welcome back, Carter
Welcome back,
Welcome back,
Welcome ba-a-a-ack
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 13:08 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Shooter kills one and wounds at least 12 before turning gun on himself at Kroger supermarket in Memphis
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The shooter who opened fire at a Kroger supermarket in Collierville, Tennessee is believed to be an employee

  • Several workers said they recognized the shooter, who has not been named, as an employee

  • Police Chief Dale Lane, though, would not confirm whether the shooter was an employee as they work to determine a motive

  • One person was killed and 13 were wounded in the shooting

  • At least four of those wounded were listed in critical condition

  • At least nine victims were rushed in ambulances to Regional One Hospital

  • As of Thursday night, at least one victim was in surgery for injuries they sustained and another was admitted to the ICU

  • The gunman later killed himself

  • Customers were seen running out of store while employees took cover in cooler

  • Police chief said it was 'most horrific event that's occurred in Collierville history'

  • Cops were still investigating shooter's car and personal items left in parking lot
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#1 

He was heard saying..."...Miles to go before I Sleep"

Some of you will get it ☺.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/24/2021 5:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Telefon
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2021 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Telefon is a little like the Manchurian Candidate, i.e. a brain-washed assassin programmed to certain instructions received via the telephone.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Story is shooter was the sushi chef at the deli counter, who had been fired because sales were bad.
Evidently, people in Memphis don't go to Kroger to get their sushi. Suprise.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/24/2021 12:48 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Rheinmetall starts production of new tank gun for Challenger 3
by Dylan Malyasov

[DefenceBlog] A new 120mm smoothbore gun, created by German defense company Rheinmetall, has entered production at the company’s Unterluss facility.

According to a Sep. 21 news release from the British Army, two Rheinmetall 120mm smoothbore L55A1 weapons for testing and trialing, have entered production ahead of schedule.

The new smoothbore will use to upgrade to transform 148 Challenger 2 (CR2) Main Battle Tanks (MBT) into the new Challenger 3 (CR3) configuration.

Read the rest at the link
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#1  Pretty.
What overpressure performance numbers?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 23:23 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Utmost poverty, former Afghan policeman commits suicide
[KhaamaPress] A former Afghan policeman commits suicide in eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
after he was left without a job and the previous government did not pay his three months’ salary.

As per the report of TOLOnews- A local news channel-, Shaaker was a 16-year policeman and had 38 years of age who did away with himself on Thursday, September 23.

Shaaker had two wives and seven children along with his mother and siblings who were all financially supported by him.

The former policeman did away with himself after he did not find any job and remain without any financial resources to feed his family members.
This is all Trump's fault, I'm sure
It is worth mentioning that, nearly ten cases of such have been witnessed in different provinces and Kabul since the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
takeover.

The change in regime left nearly 300 thousand security forces members jobless and over one million civil servants all of who have an average of 7 people in their families.

People have been asking the Taliban to get settled and pave the ground for financial activities and jobs so that they can survive.

In the meantime, the people and world have been calling on the international community to help avert the looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and have been asking the US to release billions of dollars frozen by the country.
No.
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#1  300 Thousand former Afghan security forces personnel. Taliban 25,000 at most.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 09/24/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  this is news. a moslem committed suicide without taking other people with him.
Posted by: Retard Strength || 09/24/2021 8:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Too bad he thought his American provided paycheck wasn't worth fighting for.

Shaaker had two wives and seven children along with his mother and siblings who were all financially supported by him.

He didn't think his 2 families were worth fighting for either.
Posted by: Spereng Crins7805 || 09/24/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Two wives? That sort of explains it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 11:32 Comments || Top||

#5  As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives,
And as I passed him coming back,
Above his head I read this plaque:
"Here lies the man with seven wives.
We should have hidden all the knives."
Posted by: Clyde the Hairy8275 || 09/24/2021 15:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Why did anyone ever think that corner of hell and its sick inhabitants could ever be lifted out of their degradation and savagery?
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 15:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Dog that caught the car.
Posted by: KBK || 09/24/2021 22:10 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Why are Turkish Military Cargo Planes Still Landing in Libya?
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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#1  Because they're not done with Libya?
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/24/2021 12:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Because they are bringing "food parcels".
/s
Posted by: Nomad || 09/24/2021 13:05 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Muslims have highest fertility rate, Jains the lowest among India's major religious groups: Pew report
[OneIndia] Moslems in India still have the highest fertility rate among major religious groups, followed by Hindus, while Jains have the lowest fertility rate, a nonpartisan American think tank said in a report on Tuesday, according to which every religious group in the country has seen its fertility fall.

In the latest report on the religious composition of India, Pew Research Center said that among Indian Moslems, the total fertility rate has declined dramatically, from 4.4 children per woman in 1992 to 2.6 children in 2015.
And probably even lower since then, at barely above replacement.
"Every religious group in the country has seen its fertility fall, including the majority Hindu population and Moslem, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain minority groups," it said. "Moslems still have the highest fertility rate among India's major religious groups, followed by Hindus at 2.1. Jains have the lowest fertility rate (1.2). The general pattern is largely the same as it was in 1992, when Moslems had the highest fertility rate at 4.4, followed by Hindus at 3.3. But the gaps in childbearing between India's religious groups are generally much smaller than they used to be," said the report.

For example, while Moslem women were expected to have an average of 1.1 more children than Hindu women in 1992, the gap had shrunk to 0.5 by 2015, said the report.

"What do these trends mean for India's religious composition? India's Moslem population has grown somewhat faster than other religious groups because of fertility differences. But due in part to declining and converging fertility patterns, there have been only modest changes in the overall religious makeup of the population since 1951, when India conducted its first census as an independent nation," Pew said.

Hindus, it said, made up 79.8 per cent of India's 1.2 billion total inhabitants in the most recent census, conducted in 2011. That is 0.7 percentage points less than in the previous census in 2001, and 4.3 points below the 84.1% recorded in 1951.

Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him...
the share of Moslems grew from 13.4 per cent in 2001 to 14.2 per cent in 2011 - up by a total of 4.4 percentage points since 1951, when the census found that Moslems comprised 9.8 per cent of India's population.

Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains, who together make up nearly all of the remaining 6 per cent of the population, were relatively stable in their shares since the 1951 census, it said.

Statistical analysis of census and survey data shows that fertility has been by far the biggest driver of the modest amount of religious change in the decades since Partition, it added.

According to Pew, in India and elsewhere, education is a primary factor in how many children women tend to have. Other prosperity indicators - such as life expectancy and average levels of wealth - also frequently correlate with fertility measures: Women who have better access to schooling, jobs and health care tend to have fewer children, it said.

"Population growth is driven not only by how many children women have but also by the concentration of women of childbearing age. Younger populations have more women entering their prime childbearing years and, as a result, tend to grow faster than older populations," it said.

"In addition, where people live within India, as well as their history and cultural norms (which are harder to measure), play a role in the choices they make about family matters. In short, people's religion alone does not determine how many children they will have. Religion is just part of a complicated picture," Pew said. PTI LKJ AMS AKJ RS
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Fatah gunmen in Bethlehem participate in the funeral of Hussein Masalma
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Arabia
Breakthrough front in South Marib in Yemen
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin remarks on the latest Houthi offensive which threatens to encircle a number of Saudi troops.

[ColonelCassad] In recent days, the Houthis have made major operational advances in Marib.

As a result of a sudden offensive in southern Marib, the Houthis were actually able to break through the front, take Bayhan and reach the southern route, along which the entire Marib group of Saudis was supplied. Now it is practically cut off from the possibility of receiving reinforcements from the southern provinces, since the route has come under the control of the Houthis for a long distance. A rather large city of Harib was also taken. A large number of captured trophies are noted.

Now, the entire grouping is essentially hanging on one supply route going through the desert to the east. In addition, the troops defending the bulge in the south are under the threat of encirclement if the Houthis can advance along the route to the northwest. In addition, in front of the Houthis, when moving to the north, there are practically no troops and they operate here in free space, since the front is broken through to the full depth.

There is the option of a direct throw of light infantry to the north, in order to reach the key route from the south and cut off the entire Marib grouping from the supply (this is several tens of thousands of people), forming a grandiose cauldron.

It goes without saying that the Saudis can now be expected to hastily build barriers south of the highway and try to stop the Houthi advance by withdrawing some of the troops from a potential operational sack south of Marib. The Saudi Air Force's massive airstrikes did little to help the defenders.

Potential boiler in southern Marib. According to various estimates, units equivalent to 3-4 brigades may be surrounded there.

It can be stated that the Houthis, having failed in March-April to break through the front of the Saudis and Hadis to the west and north of Marib, changed the plate, carried out the necessary regrouping of troops and were able to find weaknesses in the formation of the enemy, having achieved a breakthrough of the positional front. This is the largest Houthi success since the successful part of the offensive west of Marib in February 2021.

Now in southern Marib, a serious operational crisis is developing, which, if successful, could have far-reaching consequences for the entire Yemeni war. It is also demonstrated once again that the Houthis have an operational initiative in the Yemeni War. Invaders and Hadists have been playing on defense since 2019.
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#1  Where are the Russian PMCs?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 8:47 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Russian Officials Assess Proposal to Populate Siberia With 'Resurrected' Woolly Mammoths
Dinner!
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Umm? Sure.
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Apparently Jurassic Park was a How-to manual

Posted by: Warthog || 09/24/2021 9:53 Comments || Top||

#2  If you made a fire-breathing mammoth, would the fire come out of its mouth or trunk?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2021 13:25 Comments || Top||

#3  ^-- Ass.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/24/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder how much the tags will go for.
Posted by: Cesare || 09/24/2021 14:48 Comments || Top||

#5  I think that would make it a Woolly Bully.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2021 15:52 Comments || Top||

#6  The Other White Red Meat
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 16:00 Comments || Top||

#7  "Poor Lutz! What a pitiful putz!"
"He's the buffalo's nuts when he ruts..."
"But the things he would do!
Much the worst was--"
"Me tooooo!"
Chaste Ms. Chastain's unkindest of cuts.
Posted by: Clyde the Hairy8275 || 09/24/2021 17:32 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Drone attack: NIA raids multiple locations in Jammu and Kashmir
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency carried out searches in five locations in Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, following the recovery of 5 kilograms of IED. The IED, it may be recalled after the twin explosions at the Jammu Air Force Station on June 27.

The NIA conducted raids at Anantnag, Srinagar, Baramulla, Doda and Kishtwar. The security agencies it may be recalled had arrested a Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander Nadeem Abrar from Budgam district along with his associate. Following the arrest, ammunition, a pistol and hand grenades were recovered.

Jammu IAF base attack: Sources say 'pressure fuse' in bombs indicates role of Pak militaryJammu IAF base attack: Sources say 'pressure fuse' in bombs indicates role of Pak military

Rogue drones are the latest worry for India and an estimate would show that there are 6 lakh of them in India. These drones are a potential threat and the government is looking for a solution to counter this problem. In this regard the agencies conducted a data estimation and learnt that there are over 6 lakh rogue or unregulated drones of various sizes and capacities.

Recent incidents like the lethal drone attack on Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
's largest petroleum company and arms dropping by UAVs in Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

from across the India-Pakistain border has only alerted the agencies to come up with a plan to counter the drones.

These agencies are now looking at some specific anti-drone techniques like sky fence, drone gun, ATHENA, drone catcher and Skywall 100 to intercept and immobilise suspicious and lethal remote-controlled aerial platforms.

A recent paper titled 'Drones: A new frontier for Police' published in the Indian Police Journal (IPJ) by IPS officer and Additional Director General in Rajasthan Police, Pankaj Kumar Singh, has talked about these new techniques.

A drone gun is capable of jamming the radio, global positioning system (GPS) and mobile signal between the drone and the pilot and forces the drone to ground in good time before it could wreak any damage. This Australia designed weapon has an effective range of 2 kms, the paper said.
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ISI created TRF to give itself, Lashkar plausible deniability for attacks in J&K
[OneIndia] On Tuesday, the National Investigation Agency conducted raids at 8 locations in Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
's Anantnag, Baramulla, Kulgam, Srinagar, Doda and Kishtwar Districts.

The NIA said that the probe revealed that Pakistain based handlers of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and their associates based in Jammu and Kashmir are planning terrorist activities. It further said that they were planning on using the pseudo-acronym The Resistance® Front so as to maintain plausible deniability.

The case on hand relates to the recovery of 5 kilograms of IED from a terrorist of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba at Bathindi in Jammu on June 27 2021. It was learnt that the the Lashkar-e-Tayiba wanted to cause a kaboom in Jammu using the IED.

The Resistance® Front or the TRF was formed around March 2020. The first time that the police came to know about the TRF when a module was busted on April 23 2020 at Sopore. The police had said back that it was a proxy of the Lashkar.

A security bigshot tells OneIndia that this group is the Lashkar-e-Tayiba which is operating under a new name. It is an age old trick of these groups to change names so that there is an element of surprise for the security agencies.

The group has also indulged in plenty of propaganda activity. On the groups, the members speak about the need to increase the resistance in Jammu and Kashmir, especially after the Centre on August 5, 2019, withdrew the special status.

The TRF also goes by the name JK Fighters. Following the Sopore raid, the police arrested four persons-Ahtisham Farooq Malik, Shafqat Ali Tagoo, Musaib Hassan Bhat and Nisar Ahmad Ganai. A police official who questioned the four said that they were reporting to their handler in Pakistain. He goes by the name Andrew Jones and on the group, he operates under the ID of Khan Bilal. The group is called as TRF/JK Fighters-The Resistance® Front.

Officials say that the group is used to recruit local youth for terror-related activities, especially in North Kashmir. There are messages on the group, which clearly instigate the locals into taking up arms and fighting the Indian forces.

Intelligence Bureau officials say that the group is a proxy and intends focusing on recruiting local youth. As pointed out by the NIA, the ISI has formed this group and the intent is to strike using a pseudo-acronym. This would give Pakistain plausible deniability, the officer also explained. It would also keep the heat away from the Lashkar and the ISI especially in the wake of the recent developments at the Financial Action Task Force.

Earlier this year the TRF targeted people citing the new domicile law. A Jammu and Kashmir based Punjabi jeweller was rubbed out in Srinagar. He was based in J&K for the past four decades and was rubbed out by motor-cycle borne holy warriors in the city's Sarai Bala locality.

The TRF said that the domicile law was not acceptable and everyone other than indigenous Kashmiris would be treated as occupiers if they acquire property in Jammu and Kashmir.

Satpal Nischal who was rubbed out in the congested Sarai Bala area got a domicile certificate. He became the first domicile holder to be targeted by holy warriors since the new law took effect. He was the owner of Nischal Jewellers in Srinagar and the police said that he took three bullets on his chest. After getting the domicile certificate, he purchased a shot at the Hanuman Mandir in Srinagar and a house at Indira Nagar.
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Europe
Bosnian and Herzegovina court upholds 2018 terrorist indictment
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] On September 23, the court of Bosnia and Herzegovina upheld the indictment in the case of Sena Hamzabegovic, involved in the financing of terrorist activities .

Hamzabegovich is accused of participating in the collection of financial aid for citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who fought on the fronts of Syria and Iraq on the side of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation). The indictment emphasizes that the purpose of this organization was to destabilize and violent mostly peacefully change the political and constitutional order in Syria, and the faceless myrmidons who joined it, carried out daily armed attacks on the civilian population.

Recall that the BiH prosecutor's office collected evidence that Sena Hamzabegovic from 2013 to 2018 collected and forwarded money to gunnies in Syria, which was then used to buy weapons and pay salaries to holy warrior mercenaries.
Posted by: badanov || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11154 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


India-Pakistan
LeT module busted in north Kashmir’s Hajin
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11140 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Home Front: Politix
AOC blubbers bursts into tears as Iron Dome's $1bn funding is OVERWHELMINGLY approved in House 420-9
  • The House passed the Iron Dome bill in an overwhelming 420 to 9 majority

  • Rep. Rashida Tlaib went after the bill because its text expresses a US endorsement of the Israeli military's rocket campaign against Gaza in May

  • Rep. Ted Deutch, a moderate Democrat, condemned Tlaib on the House floor

  • Tlaib is the only Palestinian-American elected official in Congress

  • She called Israel an 'apartheid state' that the US was 'enabling' Wednesday night

  • $1 billion was originally allocated toward the Iron Dome in Democrats' continuing resolution to avert a partial government shutdown

  • It was swiftly removed from the bill after progressives threatened to tank it
Courtesy of Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589:
Former Bartender AOC Appears to Weep When Changing Israeli Iron Dome Vote From Nay to Present


Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11159 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I have a grin that'll last all morning long.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/24/2021 8:25 Comments || Top||

#2  If your wood lasts more than 4 hours, see a doctor ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2021 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  I dunno Frank..Wood ? over this biatch? not bloody likely
Posted by: Warthog || 09/24/2021 9:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Never happen. Not even with your Johnson Frank.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Was anyone there to milk her liberal tears?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/24/2021 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Because she wants to see every Jew dead.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/24/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#7  This is about holding together the patchwork of domestic funding sources far more than honest support for Israel and American Jewish interests.
Many of these democrats share the attitudes of the far-left, they just don't dare say it or show it openly.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/24/2021 12:28 Comments || Top||

#8  AOC also voted "Present" after Pelosi pulled her aside and yelled at her.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/24/2021 21:00 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Did she cry? The buck-toothed one, that is ... (Pelousy's too botoxed for her tear ducts to work any more)
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 21:27 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
‘Active’ militant killed in encounter in south Kashmir’s Shopian
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Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11140 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Fuego Volcano Erupt in Guatemala, Spewing Out Vast Amounts of Smoke and Lava
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Isn't that what volcanoes usually do? And ain't "Fuego" (Fire, if your Spanish is that rusty) an original name for a volcano?
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Amigo to Guatemalteco:
"¡Señor, favor, leggo mi Eggo!"
A standoff ensued
That the two quickly rued
As they stewed in a lago of fuego.
Posted by: Clyde the Hairy8275 || 09/24/2021 1:58 Comments || Top||

#2  previous eruptions were in 2018

the peak of the volcano is about 12k feet

probably no consequences to the stratosphere as it is about 50k feet at that latitude
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/24/2021 8:26 Comments || Top||

#3  "We're screwed. Where are we gonna find a virgin to sacrifice? Tu Mama?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2021 8:45 Comments || Top||


#5  Isn't that what volcanoes usually do? And ain't "Fuego" (Fire, if your Spanish is that rusty) an original name for a volcano?

Had a conversation with eldest about the merits of learning other languages. I explained to her that magic moment when you realize all those exotic sounding names are just as flat as our own.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2021 10:54 Comments || Top||

#6  queso means cheese in spanish
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/24/2021 12:42 Comments || Top||

#7  I think Rio Grande translates into something like Big Money.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2021 15:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Chili con translates to "Chili with."

Deadpool sez "cancer" is "el cancer."
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2021 16:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Rio Del Oro
Posted by: Et Tu Brute || 09/24/2021 16:01 Comments || Top||

#10  So this group of people is out of country, and sit down at the local restaurant.

Waiter comes up, says something unintelligible. Group of people all make that face when presented with this situation. Again, waiter speaks, and finally one of the group says, "We Do Not Speak Your Language."

Waiter, speaking slower and louder, says, "I'm from Boston!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2021 17:10 Comments || Top||


Moderna CEO Believes Coronavirus Pandemic Could Be over Next Year
[Breitbart] Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel offered his outlook on the coronavirus pandemic Thursday, maintaining the public health crisis could be over next year and things could return to normal.

When asked by the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung when he thinks the pandemic will end, Bancel pointed to the widespread expansion of vaccination efforts, predicting there will be enough vaccine doses to vaccinate everyone by mid-2022.

"If you look at the industry-wide expansion of production capacities over the past six months, there should be enough doses by the middle of next year so that everyone on this earth can be vaccinated," he said, adding that they should "soon" be able to vaccinate children ages five to eleven and, eventually, those as young as six months old.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Where and when have we heard that one before. This iust the beginning. The new normal.
Posted by: Dale || 09/24/2021 6:19 Comments || Top||

#2  'but if we can get you to pay for more vaccines i'm sure we can keep it going longer'
Posted by: Retard Strength || 09/24/2021 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  there will be enough vaccine doses to vaccinate everyone by mid-2022


So there will be no reason not to vote.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Nonsense. The pandemic will last until we have not just zero deaths, zero hospitalizations, but until there are zero cases.
In other words, forever.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/24/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#5 
Look at the Spanish Flu for an example of run time.
It ran in 4 Waves, with the 2nd being the most deadly and was over in 2 years and some months.

AN the was WITHOUT a VAX

First wave of early 1918
Deadly second wave of late 1918
Third wave of 1919
Fourth wave of 1920

W/O the Covid-19 Pandemic....
How will the Democrats demand and justify special voting processes that they can use to fudge the 2022 election votes.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/24/2021 10:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Translation: "It's already over, but we can string this out for 6-8 months."
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/24/2021 12:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Congressman files two-states act that restricts Israeli use of US arms
[JPost] POS's gonna POS. Levin? Sounds Paleoish self-hating Jooish
Sadly, yes.
Well, he is a democrat, so...
A bill that affirms a two-state resolution at the pre-1967 lines and restricts Israeli use of arms, was filed to Congress Thursday by Representative Andy Levin (D-Michigan).

"When I visited Israel and Palestine in 2019, I recognized hope for a two-state solution is alive amongst Israelis and Palestinians," tweeted Levin after submitting his bill known as the "Two-State Solution Act." It is one of a number of legislative drives by US politicians bent on using Congress to determine American policy with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"The Two-State Solution Act represents the change in US policy we need to move us closer to this future," said Levin.

The bill is not expected to pass the House and the Senate. It rescinds a number of significant policies from the former Trump administration, including its declaration that West Bank settlement activity is not inconsistent with international law.

According to a draft copy of the bill, seen by The Jerusalem Post, it would be American policy to view "the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and Gaza, are occupied territories" and that territory would be "referred to as such consistently in official US policies, communications, and documents."

Levin's two-state act also undoes US policy which allows products produced over the pre-1967 lines to be marked "made in Israel." Under the terms of his bill, such language would be forbidden and replaced with an origin marker, starting "made in West Bank" or "made in east Jerusalem."

The act prohibits US support to any Israeli projects located over the Green Line and bans Israeli use of its military aid in those regions. It specifically specified that such assistance can't be used to help Israel impose sovereignty in the West Bank prevent the execution of a two-state solution.

"The United States should ensure that military assistance provides to Israel does not facilitate unilateral actions by the Israeli Government that impede the achievement of a two-state solution, including through unilateral efforts to annex or exercise permanent control by Israel over any part of the occupied Palestinian territories," the sct started.

It further explained that US aid must "not be used in a manner that violates internationally recognized human rights."
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11148 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  It's a suck up to his muzzie voters around Detroit.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/24/2021 12:42 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Police are slammed for creating 'a surveillance state' by using AI software to spy on social media and identify potential criminals
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Precincts in Massachusetts and Michigan are scouring social media for possible threats, according to reports

  • ShadowDragon's SociatNet program analyzes more than 100 platforms, from Facebook and Instagram to Pornhub and Amazon, for key names and terms

  • Critics say social-media scans by cops violate First Amendment rights and targets minorities

  • ShadowDragon maintains its crawlers only scrape data from public sites
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11151 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Catch one, ah'm sold.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2021 23:22 Comments || Top||



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