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At lunchtime the mule had waxed wordy:
"The hills hereabouts are shore purdy...
The plowman: "I guess."
"And that big yeller... dress
You been eyeballin', down the back forty."
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Or of course horse.
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[Al-Monitor, HT: Insty] Top generals in charge of Turkey’s military operations in Syria have sought retirement amid escalating tensions in Idlib, fueling questions over Ankara’s Syria policies.
Turkey was rattled last week by reports that five generals serving on Syria-related missions were seeking to resign, including the head of a command center in charge of all Turkish operations in Syria and two others at the helm of commando forces that are deployed in Syria on a rotational basis.
An unnamed Defense Ministry official told the state-run Anatolia news agency that only two generals had asked to retire "due to health and familial reasons" and their requests had been granted. "The presentation of the two generals’ retirement requests as something extraordinary [and a sign of] problems within the Turkish Armed Forces is seen as an effort to create perceptions aimed at discrediting the Turkish Armed Forces," the official was quoted as saying.
Still, abrupt retirement requests by meritorious generals with ample operational experience and bright careers ahead of them are highly unusual in the deep-rooted traditions of the Turkish military, especially in the middle of critical missions. Early retirement requests by such figures can be read as a gesture of disagreement with their superiors or disapproval of government policies.
In the context of Turkey’s military intervention in Syria, the following reasons seem likely:
The government’s Syria policy — or lack thereof — has become so irreconcilable with the operational reality in Syria that commanders are struggling to cover it up on the ground.
The government’s policy and political directives on Syria have come to significantly jeopardize the safety of Turkish soldiers.
Military commanders and their units are growing increasingly disturbed by the intensity of operations and frequency of rotations.
The overall risk is growing for Turkey in Syria, especially in Idlib, the last stronghold of radical Islamist rebels.
Indeed, the situation in Idlib has markedly escalated in recent weeks. Developments in the region suggest that it is becoming harder for thousands of Turkish troops deployed at more than 30 military outposts in Idlib to keep their positions. Intensified air raids by Russian and Syrian warplanes as well as ongoing Syrian military reinforcements around Saraqib have made it almost impossible for Turkish military outposts in the area to operate properly, secure logistical supplies, evacuate sick or wounded soldiers or patrol critical routes.
Most recently, three Turkish soldiers were killed Sept. 11 when an anti-tank guided missile hit their armored vehicle on a road between Idlib city and Binnish.
Turkish-Russian accords on Idlib have thus far allowed Turkey to maintain its military presence in the region. It has effectively served as a barrier to large-scale offensives by Syrian government forces to recapture the province. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Sochi Sept. 29, a summit that might prove a turning point for Turkey in Syria with serious implications in domestic politics. This time, Russia appears keen on securing the evacuation of six Turkish military outposts in the area between Idlib and Saraqib to the east, clearing the way for Syrian government forces to march on Idlib from the east and the northeast and eventually recapture it. Such a move would mean that Moscow no longer sees a need to collaborate with Turkey in Idlib and limit the Turkish military presence to the north of Idlib. Such a development is likely to trigger a fresh refugee flow to and across the Turkish border and stoke anti-refugee sentiments in Turkey atop the recent public outcry over the influx of Afghans fleeing the Taliban.
Controversy over the Turkish military’s personnel management has been fanned further by reports about a record number of colonels being forced into early retirement — around 200 at the Supreme Military Council in August and about 600 at last year’s council.
Overstaffing at the rank of colonel has long been an issue for the Defense Ministry, but the measures taken have resulted in highly unfair procedures. The service term of military officers was limited to 28 years in 2016 and a promotion to general now requires a decision by the Supreme Military Council, regardless of age and length of service. Those who are not promoted could be sent into retirement as early as their 40s and despite their involuntary retirements, would have to wait until the age of 50 to receive pensions. Hundreds of colonels have reportedly been affected by the policy, left without financial means and social security until the age of 50 after at least 20 years of military service. Their numbers will grow each year unless this unfair procedure is rectified.
By sending young colonels into retirement, the Turkish military is losing officers at their most productive age even as it seems to struggle to find senior-level officers for critical posts. Instead, perhaps the ministry should focus on legal amendments that keep officers longer in lower ranks and prevent them from climbing too quickly through automatic promotions.
Meanwhile, the changes in the military’s long-established assignment and promotion system have fueled questions of whether Erdogan’s government is conducting covert purges to create room for loyalists and the Turkish Armed Forces are on the way to becoming partisan.
The military had already seen massive purges and shakeups after the failed coup attempt in July 2016. Controversial legal amendments removed parliamentary oversight and other checks and balances in the military-government relationship, establishing absolute presidential control. And since Erdogan assumed sweeping executive powers in 2018, the military has become increasingly politicized and embroiled in daily political bickering.
Erdogan’s government has repeatedly shown that it seeks unquestioned control of any changes in the military rather than an inclusive process of reform that is based on compromise and open to public debate, including the views of the opposition. As a result, the military continues to be drawn into the clamor of daily politics. Ultimately, the controversies are not only harming morale and motivation in the military, but also eroding its operational effectiveness.
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Why don’t the bite-heads do that in the USA, step down that is.
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Overstaffing at the rank of colonel has long been an issue for the Defense Ministry, but the measures taken have resulted in highly unfair procedures. The service term of military officers was limited to 28 years in 2016 and a promotion to general now requires a decision by the Supreme Military Council, regardless of age and length of service. Those who are not promoted could be sent into retirement as early as their 40s and despite their involuntary retirements, would have to wait until the age of 50 to receive pensions. Hundreds of colonels have reportedly been affected by the policy, left without financial means and social security until the age of 50 after at least 20 years of military service. Their numbers will grow each year unless this unfair procedure is rectified.
While they could drive cabs in the EU on the sly, this does create coup risk for Erdogan. The fact that he did not sentence the coup plotters to death Mina suggests he is cognizant of the fact that killing them would have meant an assassination to kick off the next coup.
[Real Clear Politics] The Biden administration never expected congressional oversight to be comfortable, but even as lawmakers were busy grilling top military brass Tuesday about their handling of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Jen Psaki said the hearing was necessary and good.
"We feel this is a part of democracy," the press secretary explained from the White House podium. After all, she continued, President Biden "welcomes the candor" and "welcomes the debate." That candor is a reflection of his leadership, "and that’s the kind of president that he will continue to be."
All the same, this hearing was particularly problematic for the president. Just hours before Psaki embraced the oversight, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and the head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Frank McKenzie, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that they had recommended keeping at least 2,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan to prevent the country from collapsing. The obvious problem: Biden had gone on the record in August saying he never got that advice.
The president told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that his military advisers did not recommend leaving a residual force, insisting that "no one said that to me, that I can recall." Now, the White House says a closer reading of the transcript shows Biden was referring to "a split" between generals who argued a residual force was necessary and those who said it was not. "So, what should everybody take from that?" Psaki asked reporters, setting up the answer to her own question. "There was a range of viewpoints."
Milley and McKenzie, as their testimony made clear Tuesday, were on the losing side of that argument. Who were the military commanders who won the debate? For now, that remains a mystery.
When pressed by a reporter from ABC for that information, Psaki refused to name names. "The president made clear that the advice was split. He didn't outline what every individual conveyed to him in private," she replied, adding that Pentagon officials were "testifying before Congress today. They're answering questions accurately. They're providing more detail on their advice, as they should."
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Seeing as how Panama has a heavy concentration of CCP facilities by the canal ports, who is to say that some 'help' for these migrants wasn't offered or received?
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^ wonder how much of the $$ funding of the coyotes for all these Haitian invaders being paid with CCP/Chinese-generated counterfeit bills?
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I recall a briefing a few years back about the re imaging of the hundred dollar bills in an effort to defeat the massive counterfeiting overseas, in particular by the Iranians using intaglio presses we gave the Shah for high quality work. Then it was briefed that about 1/3 of foreign cash in use was phony. I'm sure the ChiComs have improved that.
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So now NYPD will field Customer Service Representatives, whose job is to generate 'service pathways'. The CSR will go to the call first, and decide what service unit you need (fire, ambulance, mental health).
Try not to bleed to death in the meantime.
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Californians getting what the voted for...good and hard. Well, we didn't all vote for it. But those of us who didn't will suffer the consequences just as if we did.
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How many young men and women, after being told they can't become police until they are 21, will go into other lines of work and forget all about the police?
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So if you patrol a vibrant, ethnic neighborhood, your career will end early due to "racial bias".
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[FoxNews] A coalition in Del Rio, Texas, helped coordinate travel for nearly 1,200 migrants between Sept. 20 and Sept. 24 and provided them with food and hygiene kits.
"It's not their intent to stay in Del Rio," Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition (VVBHC) director of operations Tiffany Burrow told Fox News. "They want to reunite with their loved ones."
VVBHC, a faith-based organization, describes itself as a group of local citizens and agencies dedicated to helping migrants get to their destinations after they're released from federal custody. Burrow told Fox News the migrants purchase their own tickets.
"The past two weeks have definitely been extraordinary in far as numbers go," she said. "In just three days, we assisted over 1,000 families."
As many as 15,000 migrants recently crossed the U.S.'s southern border into Del Rio. Between 10,000 and 12,000 were later released into the interior of the country, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told "Fox News Sunday."
Mayorkas said the number could increase as the remaining cases are processed.
Burrow told Fox News that many of the migrants that VVBHC helps end up in cities across America.
"If we weren't here, I think it would be pretty tricky for them to figure out how to get from Del Rio to wherever their final destination is," she said, adding that VVBHC is the only group in Del Rio that works with migrants.
Burrow told Fox News that migrants have been coming "all year long." In August, VVBHC assisted 3,649 migrants. At the time of the interview, toward the end of September, the organization had tallied 3,500 assists.
Burrow also told Fox News that there had been "quite a few newborns born at our local hospital."
"Now we're having to add swaddling blankets and newborn items for moms," she said. "That's always been in place, we're just seeing it in bigger numbers."
Burrow added that "the support from the community has been phenomenal."
"The majority of our volunteers come from a multitude of religious backgrounds and we all work together to help these people in need," Burrow continued.
[FoxNews] Asenior al Qaeda leader has been killed in a dronezap in Syria, U.S. defense officials confirmed to Fox News Thursday.
Salim Abu-Ahmad was killed in a U.S. Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... near Idlib, Syria on Sept. 20. He was responsible for planning, funding, and approving trans-regional al Qaeda attacks.
"There are no indications of civilian casualties," U.S. defense officials said.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported Sept. 20 that a dronezap hit a vehicle traveling on a rural road in rebel-controlled northwestern Syria, killing at least one person.
The Civil Defense team, known as White Helmets, said the unidentified body was lifted from the car along the Idlib-Binnish road east of Idlib province.
U.S. Central Command said American forces had conducted a "kinetic counterterrorism strike" near Idlib province targeting a big shot of the krazed killer group al Qaeda.
"Initial indications are that we struck the individual we were aiming for, and there are no indications of civilian casualties as a result of the strike," said Navy Lt. Josie Lynne Lenny in a statement.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the vehicle had been carrying a krazed killer linked to al Qaeda.
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You have to wonder how they rate what qualifies as an 'emergency'. I'm thinking that if you get beat down and jacked in the street you're on your own, whereas bank robbery still rates a response. And somewhere in the 'gray' area is convenience store robberies.
Probably a "sliding scale", as in how much money did you slide under the table.
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The point I'm getting at is that this is what is commonly refered to as 'giving up'.
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Berkeley on the Brazos, seems it still fits as a description of Austin stupidity.
[PJ] Preside Joe Biden wants to put an actual Communist — self-proclaimed "radical" Cornell University law school professor Saule Omarova — in charge of the nation’s banking system.
Omarova graduated from the Soviet Union’s Moscow State University in 1989 on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship, according to the Wall Street Journal. As recently as 2019, she was still praising the USSR’s economic system as in some ways superior to our own. "Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there. Market doesn’t always ’know best.'"
As a matter of fact, I will say what I will about the old USSR.
Teachers there were paid the same as doctors — because medicine was considered "women’s work" and both were paid crap numbers of worthless rubles. Sexism and central mismanagement, all in one murderously totalitarian package.
There’s a reason the USSR is defunct and the U.S. isn’t — at least until Omarova gets her way.
Omarova’s goal is the eventual elimination of private banking and the establishment of the Federal Reserve as the nation’s only bank.
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So, the economy will be controlled by government experts who have no skin in the game. Let's at least make it interesting: if the GDP doesn't rise by 5% the experts get hanged in Lafayette Square. It'd be great for DC tourism. Very Stalinist, too.
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Why nominate someone so obviously unhinged to such an important position? Just why?????
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because they don't give a shit
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I am watching the avengers. “-Winter Soldier” explains the deep states.
[American Thinker] Reagan once said: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." He was right, the government’s not your friend and it most certainly isn’t here to help you.
The dirty little secret about government is that its purpose is not really to make the lives of citizens better but, rather, to accumulate power at the expense of citizens. Not sure about that? Ask yourself, how many government agencies have put themselves out of a job because they succeeded? There’re a few that technology left behind, like the Steamboat Inspection Service; others that served their purpose, like the Defense Homes Corporation; while others were merged into other agencies like the General Land Office, subsumed into the Department of Interior. In our history, there have been fewer than 100 federal agencies that have actually been shuttered, and most of those existed in the early 20th century to deal with the Depression or the two world wars.
According to the Federal Register, the federal government has 457 different agencies. That’s 457 agencies covering virtually every aspect of American’s lives, most of which are staffed by unelected bureaucrats, all of whom spend your money and many of whom write regulations that carry the force of law which the government’s police power enforces. This includes everything from the State Department to the Geographic Names Board to the International Broadcasting Board to the ATF.
And that 457 is misleading. While it includes a dozen organizations tied to Defense, there are dozens more agencies that come under it that are not listed in the Federal Register such as the DoD Education Activity or the Office of Naval Research. Wikipedia lists a more realistic, but still lacking, 1,500.
The American government has become a leviathan. It’s everywhere, involved in virtually every aspect of American’s lives, and it’s perpetual, regardless of its record of dismal failure. Two examples:
1) The War on Poverty, AKA the Great Society. The brainchild of LBJ, the Great Society programs were created to address poverty in America. They included things like food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, Head Start, and others.
In 1964, when the Great Society programs were passed, the poverty rate was 15%, dropping to 13.9% the next year. By 1969 the rate was 9.7%. Exactly 50 years later, in 2019, the rate was 8.7%. That means that as a result of fighting the War on Poverty for half a century, after spending over $30 trillion, the poverty rate dropped by a rounding error—by literally 1%!
Yet somehow the War on Poverty goes on, with more programs, more money, more regulations and, of course, more employees. Indeed, DHHS, which manages many of the programs, has a staff of 80,000 and an annual budget of over $1 trillion.
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At one point, the promise was "a chicken in every pot".
Now it's "We're going to put all of you in the same pot."
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I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." He was right, the government’s not your friend and it most certainly isn’t here to help you.
Reagan was hated by the left. Many in his own party didn't like or support him. The bureaucracy didn't like him. The people seemed to love him. History does seem to repeat itself.
[IsraelTimes] Speaker says he didn’t mean to call for peace with Israel, others say they were misled about conference’s content; pro-Iran militia says normalizers are ’legitimate targets’
Iraqis who participated in a conference calling for normalizing ties with Israel disavowed or recanted their remarks after being subjected to death threats and arrest warrants, with some participants saying they had been duped into attending.
Last Friday, over 300 Iraqis from across the country gathered at a conference in the Kurdish capital of Erbil, where speakers called for peace and reconciliation with Israel. Iraq has been at war with Israel since 1948, when the Jewish state was established.
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[AnNahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... on Thursday announced downing an Israeli unmanned drone in south Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that... In a statement, the group said its Death Eaters downed the drone at 1:55 pm after targeting it with the "appropriate weapons."
The statement said the drone was brought down as it was hovering over the Maryamin valley in the outskirts of the southern town of Yater.
The Israeli army meanwhile announced that the drone "fell during routine activity" and that the incident was being "investigated."
Hizbullah had vowed to down Israeli drones overflying Lebanon after an explosive-laden drone blew up over Beirut's southern suburbs in August 2019. It has since announced downing several Israeli drones in Lebanon's skies.
[Jpost] Rand Paul, the Republican senator from Kentucky, is the latest lawmaker to get in the way of $1 billion in new assistance to Israel to replenish its Iron Dome anti-missile system.
Paul on Thursday revealed himself to be the single senator refusing to “hotline” the bill now that it has been approved by the U.S. House of Representatives. “Hotlining” is when all 100 senators agree to allow a bill to go straight to the floor for a vote, substantially accelerating the process.
Paul is one of the most outspoken opponents of foreign assistance, and for a period a number of years ago proposed eliminating assistance to Israel. Now, a spokesperson for Paul told Politico that Paul will drop his objection to the Iron Dome hotlining if the $1 billion comes from proposed assistance to Afghanistan.
Paul’s stand is the latest wrinkle in a funding request that has roiled Congress. Progressives last week squelched a plan by the Democratic leadership in the House to slip the money into an unrelated emergency stopgap government funding bill, saying the last-minute inclusion undercut congressional conventions.
Instead, the Democratic leadership advanced the funding in a standalone bill, which the House approved after a brief debate. The standalone bill passed overwhelmingly, including among progressives in the Democratic caucus.
Israel asked for the $1 billion, which is in addition to $500 million the Iron Dome gets each year, to replenish supplies after Israel’s Gaza conflict in May.
h/t Instapundit
[DailyMail] - Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is poised to approve funding for British engineering giant Rolls-Royce to create a fleet of mini-reactors.
Ministers are understood to have adopted a 'change of focus' towards nuclear power amid the current crisis caused by rocketing global wholesale gas prices.
Rolls-Royce believes its plans to install at least 16 plants could create 40,000 jobs by 2050 in the Midlands, the north of England and other parts of the country.
[UPI] The number of U.S. workers filing for new unemployment benefits has risen for the third straight week, the Labor Department said in its weekly report Thursday.
The department said there were 362,000 first-time filings last week, an increase of 11,000 claims.
The figure was almost 30,000 claims higher than the 335,000 that most economists expected. but also
The report also noted that the number of Americans receiving federal aid fell from 11.2 million in the first week of September to about 5 million in the week ending Sept. 11 -- a decline of 6.2 million [Covid relief unemployment payments expired in many States].
A more positive signal from the report is that the overall number of [unemployment] filers fell by 18,000 to 2.802 million.
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We have APPLIED HERE signs everywhere around here.
Why not start making UEI persons collecting weekly $$$$$ to present a list of places they applied for jobs at each week.
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Why not start making UEI persons collecting weekly $$$$$ to present a list of places they applied for jobs at each week.
A lot of states used to have that requirement, NN2N1. Apparently that was raycist or something, though.
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I think the economic news of the hour is Janet Yellen saying that unrealized gains (all) should be viewed as capital gains and taxed that way. Give that a moment's thought.
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Old Yellen's on a mission to kill American capitalism. We're headed for the kind of black market free-for-all that was seen in Yeltsin's Russia ... say, Yellen.. Yeltsin... you don't think ...?
I can't think of a single aspect of the financial arena which hasn't been diddled these last 6 months; and watch, the government will declare the solution is more government including COLA stimulus checks to conjure even more money into the system.
I have a little game going on these last 2 months, perhaps someone else has been playing too? The game is this: every place I go into which sells beverages - grocery stores, quick shops - I look to see if single serve ice tea is available, unsweetened or sweetened, the extra sweet/raspberry/lemon etc. less popular flavors don't count.
First success was about 500 miles away, and it was a local brand. Next was an additional 100 miles out and off-broadway for a name brand.
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#8 True. Pepsi and Coke having major problems. I asked sales rep if supplies would improve mid month and he said towards end of month. End of month I reminded him of his guesstimate. He replied No!, I didn't say that.
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Well, I quit buying Pepsi products when Idiot Nooyi was their CEO and I dropped Coke when they got woke. I simply dare you to find RC Cola minis anywhere.
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Thank goodness. Our children and grandchildren will be grateful for that failure.
[BUSINESSINSIDER] House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, pulled a vote on President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us... 's $550 billion infrastructure bill originally planned for Thursday. It's a major setback for Democrats as moderate and progressive feuds deepened over Biden's domestic agenda.
The vote was yanked after it became obvious that House Democratic leaders didn't have enough support to clear the bill and send it to Biden's desk. Despite a three-vote margin of error in the 220-212 chamber, Pelosi had predicted success and tried brushing aside the sizable hurdles before her.
"I'm only envisioning taking it up and winning it," she said at a Thursday presser, adding, "you cannot tire, you cannot concede. This is the fun part."
House Democrats were advised that a vote could be rescheduled on Friday. The White House said Congressional Democrats would continue trying to resolve their wide-ranging differences as they negotiated a larger social spending bill capable of drawing support across the party.
"A great deal of progress has been made this week, and we are closer to an agreement than ever," 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 in a statement. "But we are not there yet, and so, we will need some additional time to finish the work, starting tomorrow morning first thing."
The blow to Biden's agenda comes as progressives launched a full revolt after the California Democrat decoupled the bipartisan infrastructure bill from passage of the larger $3.5 trillion social spending plan earlier this week. The latter measure is aimed at ensuring tuition-free community college, affordable childcare, Medicare and Medicaid expansion, and a renewal of the child allowance among other measures. "Human Infrastructure" according to their bullshit spin
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill is sometimes said to be $1.2T, sometimes $1T, sometimes $550B
It is, in some ways, all three.
$1.2T is total authorizations but this includes funds that were previously authorized in various Covid relief.
$1T is the amount is you pretend any physical thing is infrastructure.
$550B is the amount of new spending authority.
The amount of useful infrastructure is probably about $200B and of that most is Congressionally designated, a.k.a. port barrel. Some of it is 'green' e.g., replacing diesel buses with electric buses that is almost certain a waste of money but does involve actual products and results in rolling stock that can be used.
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Around three-fourths of #Venezuelans now live in extreme poverty as the once-prosperous #OPEC nation’s hyperinflationary economic collapse continued for a seventh straight year.https://t.co/r8EUcwKwFh
[SultanKnish] 50 years after Ms. Magazine was founded by Gloria Steinem, the prototypical feminist magazine decided to erase women by referring to them as “birthing people” and “people with vaginas”.
Once the champions of newspeak jargon like “herstory” that was supposed to emphasize the role of women, Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation are now erasing women. After generations of accusing men of objectifying women by reducing them to body parts, the professional feminists are eliminating women entirely by reducing them to body parts.
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No one cares about your problems
Nor your politics,
You're so 20th Century
It hurts to talk about your politics
Can you say, (or understand) C'est du passé
[Babylon Bee] ALBANY, NY—New York atheists have come out in force against the COVID-19 vaccine after learning that their state’s Governor Kathy Hochul claimed that God made the scientists, doctors, and researchers invent the vaccine. The state’s atheists were further incensed when Hochul displayed a religious emblem hanging from her neck that symbolized her acceptance of the holy vaccine.
Crowds of atheists pressed into the State Health Department’s headquarters to submit forms seeking religious exemptions from the vaccine requirement.
"We're sick of these religious nutjobs in government forcing their religious convictions on the rest of us!" said Brett Winstone, president of the local Free Thinkers Society chapter. "This is not a theocracy! You will not force your god vaccine into our atheist veins!"
"A religious exemption for atheists like me makes perfect sense," said fervent atheist Craig Nostic. "I mean, we’re always thinking about religion and talking about religion. My Christian friends are actually kind of sick of how I won’t stop talking about religion."
When word spread that their religious exemptions would be accepted, the crowd of atheists fell to their knees in humility and offered praise and gratitude to the cold, unforgiving, empty, endless void.
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Until I saw the source of the article, I was ready to believe that it was real.
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Scary when the BB articles seem like reality.
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At this point Babylon Bee is only front running reality by 20 days or so. Give it time.
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"COVID is God's gift to the Left."
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#Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares says he has received assurances over gas supplies from #Algeria, amid fears a crucial pipeline via #Morocco could be shut.https://t.co/Lz0sptkGmq
National security adviser Jake Sullivan has planned on discussing high oil prices with #Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting earlier this week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki says.https://t.co/CNA444aR3W
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Dutch and German police have busted a criminal gang who made video tutorials on how to bomb cash machines, only to blow themselves up in the process, officials said on Thursday.
One suspect was killed and another badly hurt in the Dutch city of Utrecht when a trial run went wrong at an illegal “training center” for explosives attacks on ATMs, the EU’s police agency Europol said.
Police eventually made nine arrests during an 18-month operation targeting the gang, which is linked to at least 15 bombings on ATMs in Germany resulting in losses of 2.15 million euros ($2.5 million), it said.
“The criminals were making video tutorials which were given in person to other criminals,” a Europol spokeswoman told AFP.
“The main suspect -- a 29-year-old --- blew himself up when filming a tutorial video. His accomplice -- a 24-year-old -- was seriously injured and taken into custody,” she said.
The explosion happened in September 2020.
The police hunt began after officers in Osnabruck, Germany, identified “suspicious orders” of ATM machines from a German company, said Europol and its sister judicial agency Eurojust in a joint statement.
Surveillance led police across the border to Utrecht in the Netherlands where the 29- and 24-year-old suspects were allegedly running the training center.
“The pair was ordering different models of ATMs and recording tutorials on how to most effectively blow them up,” the EU agencies said.
“The cash machines were blown open using homemade explosive devices, posing a serious risk for residents and bystanders,” they added.
The two men were blown up “during one of the test runs of an explosion.”
Dutch police aided by Europol arrested three people during raids in the area around Utrecht, Amsterdam, and The Hague on Tuesday, during which seven properties were also searched.
Those three suspects will be extradited to Germany. The other six people were arrested in the Netherlands during the past year.
Europol said that bomb attacks against ATMs were a “growing concern” in Europe.
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"I love it when a plan comes together."
George Pappard, in 'The A-Team'.
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"Dutch and German police have busted a criminal gang"
Sounds like they busted themselves.
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Pfc. Tyler Thomas, 21, Spc. Sika Tapueluelu, 26, and Staff Sgt. Angel Green, 24, are all believed to have died by suicide within 48 hours of each other
Their deaths were announced officially by Fort Drum on September 19
Green was one of the last soldiers to return from Afghanistan during the chaotic US exit from Kabul and returned to the army base in New York on September 6
Their deaths are currently being treated as separate incidents as each soldier served in different platoons and occupied different roles
'We want to know what didn't we catch. What are we missing?' said the soldiers' commander in a statement
The soldiers were all part of the 10th Mountain Division which deployed extensively to Iraq and Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks
Many members of the division participated in the US military's withdrawal from Afghanistan last month
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America now has a self-destructive, suicidal culture. Look up the "deaths of despair" studies, or the stats showing declining longevity. Look at the extreme hate fest of the last 17 months, or the appalling Facebook / Instagram internal documents revealed in the blockbuster Wall Street Journal series.
The co-founder & president of American liberal think tank @NiskanenCenter has resigned after pleading guilty to domestic violence against his wife. He allegedly pushed her to the floor, put his hands around her neck & pushed her down the steps. https://t.co/G4bM8NbZu8
Has anyone looked at worldometers lately and checked the covid cases and deaths worldwide ? The United States has the worst record worldwide with the leadership of President Jim Jones , the CDC and Dr. Kevorkian over at the NIH pushin the vaccine bullshit are killing Americans .. Look at India with a population of over 1billion compared to the USA with a little over 300million ..since switching to ivermectin India has destroyed covid since August and Japan has started ivermectin and their covid numbers dropped like a rock
To be fair, American numbers are inflated by something between 50% and 200%.
'You Sir, Are The One Ignoring Science': Rand Paul Battles Becerra Over COVID-19
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) grilled HHS Sec. Xavier Becerra during a Senate Health Committee hearing on Thursday.
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Republicans are always demolish democrats in debates - according to republicans.
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Most people don't realize that it's not about controlling the disease...it's about ensuring power and control. We're raising an entire generation of kids to be afraid not to wear a mask even though they do more harm than good. May God help us since we don't seem to be able to help ourselves.
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You know all those "cases" the panic-pron mongers keep pitching? They're either false positives or people who got the lung crud. Must be in the bazillions by now.
Anybody think finding a positive is false removes it from the totals? Me either.
So...the numbers are grossly inflated and the remainder are immune.
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Republicans are always demolish democrats in debates - according to republicans.
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How could it not be for your own good? I mean, look at the source. The same people who vocally wish the entire country dead save for the odd urban enclave. The same people with the same incandescent hatred and contempt who are in the gleeful process of replacing the native population, destroying small business and criminalizing individual enterprise.
Besides, look at their own behavior. They 'always' practice full masking procedures. I mean except for birthday parties, red carpets, The French Laundry, and inside the governor's mansion, any, alright ALL.
Then again, how about those mandates? They are ironclad as well they should be. Well, except for the Post Office and that makes perfect sense, I mean come on, man. Then there are the Afghans and their delicate sensibilities along with all the other newly dispersed 'migrants', refugees' or whatever narrative term of art is en vogue at the moment.
But out of all of it, who can forget the very pinnacle of intellectual achievement, that we 'must protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated'. An observation and warning so profound that it is possible Western Civilization has hit a summit never before reached, and sadly never to be trod again.
No wonder the Plains' Indian called the white man wasichu, because the stench of this imbecilic decree sure lingers in the in the nostril of free people and civilization like the loud fart it is.
Mister, we could use a man like Sam Kinnison again.
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It's not fair. Bacerra is a mental midget trying to debate Rand Paul who really is a medical doctor, an elected office holder as opposed to a political appointee and, on top of that, a really smart guy.
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Notice the mask is on the other end of the scale from the chinese recycled paper masks.
Time to stop stuffing towels down our throats; especially the youngsters and teens.
Had to catch my daughter from straight laughing out loud at a true believer wearing one of those masks with the mouth cut out and replaced by plastic, I guess so people ran read lips or something. You know, when it isn't fogged over from breathing.
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"Thank you, Senator, for your comments. Now I'm going back to my office to do exactly as I please."
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true believer wearing one of those masks with the mouth cut out and replaced by plastic, I guess so people ran read lips or something
homemade dental dam?
Shit if I know. From the side it looked like something out of Total Recall, like a black/dark blue Pac Man was emerging from her nose.
Had daughter been versed in Schwarzenegger, we could have movie pun quoted all the way home, all it would have taken is, "Its not a tumor!" "You're one ugly M-Fr" and gone cringe real quick, "Boys have a penis and girls have a beak face." or "Goooo! Get from the chompers!"
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A woman in Tacoma, Washington plead guilty on Tuesday for setting fire to five Seattle Police Department vehicles during the violent mostly peaceful riot downtown Seattle following the death of George Floyd last year.
Margaret Aislinn Channon, 26, used aerosol cans as a blowtorch to light five Seattle police vehicles on fire parked in the area of 6th and Pine on May 30, according to the US Department of Justice.
Arson is a serious felony that is punishable by a mandatory minimum of 5 years in prison and punishable by up to 20.
According to court documents, Channon also plead guilty to crimes that coincide with property destruction which include; looting, breaking windows, and smashing equipment.
The document states, "According to the plea agreement, Channon appears in videos from the protest in downtown Seattle wearing distinctive clothing and showing tattoos on her hands and arms. Channon is captured on video using fire and aerosol cans to light five Seattle Police Department vehicles on fire. She is also shown entering various stores and removing items of clothing. She admits smashing the window at the Verizon Store, and entering a sandwich shop and destroying the electronic cash register."
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She admits smashing the window at the Verizon Store, and entering a sandwich shop and destroying the electronic cash register.
"....DOWN WITH THE CORRUPT HETERONOMATIVE CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY!!! And gimme a turkey club, gluten-free bread, and light on the mayo, please"
Mike
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So she went missing in Big Bend National Park back in Feb. 2019. Was headed easterly and then a year later popped up in Washington State as ANTI-FArt Looter and Arsonist.
[FOXNEWS] President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan....... is continuing his string of family-related hires with the nomination of House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn ...Democratic Representative-for-Life from South Carolina. He has been warming his safe seat since 1993... ’s, D-S.C., daughter to a federal commission.
JBiden nominated Jennifer Clyburn Reed t to serve as the federal chairperson of the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission (SCRC), a currently inactive commission established in 2008 that was "created to address economic distress" in the southeastern region of the U.S.
The nomination raises some questions as it appears to be the latest trend in family-related political hirings by the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra) ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... While Reed’s father, the House majority whip, does not have a hand in administration dealings, he did give a critical endorsement to Biden in the packed South Carolina Democratic primary election.
The political capital that Clyburn gained from his endorsement of Biden could have played a role in the president’s decision to nominate Reed to the position over someone who may be more qualified, according to government oversight group American Accountability Foundation, which uncovered the possible tie between the endorsement and nomination.
A spokesperson for Clyburn’s office did not answer Fox News’ question on whether the House majority whip’s endorsement played any part in Biden’s nomination of his daughter, instead pointing Fox News to the White House.
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Criminals, commies and relatives -- what's not to like about Biden nominees?
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Hmmm...daughters with Daddy's that owe you their jobs? Fair pickings!
Severe financial shortfalls and the coming of winter could spell a “major humanitarian crisis” for #Afghanistan if money isn’t restored to pay for wages and services, especially healthcare, says top #RedCross official.https://t.co/kg5WlVlY6S
Which is exactly why his successor had to put a stop to it.
[DAILYCALLER] A democratic Texas mayor said Thursday that the southern border was secure under former President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... , according to the Washington Free Beacon. He added that it’s time for President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... to get things under control.Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz told the outlet that the city’s resources have been strained over recent months as the city provides migrants colonists with aid, medical service and transport. As concerns about the threat of COVID-19 ramp up, Saenz admitted the border was secure and Laredo residents were safe when Trump was in office.
"We need to truly secure the border," Saenz told the Washington Free Beacon. "It was working under Trump, call it whatever you want to call it, but it was working."
Saenz appeared to suggest Trump’s "Remain in Mexico" policy was working and needs to be reinstated to curb the flow of illegal immigration.
"The key, ultimately, is removing the incentive to come to the border and file for asylum. I believe in the asylum process. It needs to be followed or changed. If we don’t like the way people are attempting to come, we can have them apply remotely or from either the country of origin or some other place that is close to the country of origin," Saenz said.
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Mona Rodriguez was shot leaving Millikan High School in Long Beach Monday
She was driving away having gotten into a fight with a 15-year-old girl when a school safety officer shot into the vehicle, which had two other people inside
The father of Rodriguez's child said officer gave no warning before shooting
Long Beach Police are investigating the officer's use of lethal force and the school safety officer, who has not been named, has been placed on leave
Superintendent Jill Baker said safety officers are 'highly trained and held accountable to the established standards in their profession'
Rodriguez's family pleaded with hospital to keep her on life support
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She was driving away having gotten into a fight with a 15-year-old girl when a school safety officer shot into the vehicle, which had two other people inside
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Superintendent Jill Baker said safety officers are 'highly trained as a fry cook and held accountable to the established standards in their profession'
When we empower government to protect us we do so with the understanding it will follow strict guidelines for arrest and use of force.
In this case I agree...
The School Security Guard went way beyond any reasonable needed response. He should be Immediately Fired, arrested and GJ criminally charged.
#Lebanon says it has formed a new government delegation to resume talks with the #IMF aimed at rescuing the country from an economic meltdown.https://t.co/ImsQj6Egsn
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The simple logic down here this neck of the woods.
If you are acting like a mob of Rabid Animals in the streets looting, rioting, setting fires, and assaulting persons and vehicles carrying defenseless persons, and/or families?
-----> DO NOT <-----
expect to be treated humanly.
Note: While small cars loose traction due the number of bodies stuck under them. 4x4's have better traction.☺
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points: he didnt plow into the crowd, he started from a stop, hitting a bunch of people who were blocking the car and threatening him; who cares what color he is.
The posting here wasn't very clear. It all took place in Guerrero state on the west coast of Mexican, where the communist movements of its past meet with the expectation of criminal organizations.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Video leaked by Los Tlacos
Who?
cartel showed rival members of La Bandera
Also who?
kneeling side-by-side before they were killed
Four bodies were discovered in the trunk of an abandoned car that was left in front of the campaign office of Iguala, Mexico, mayor-elect David Gama Pérez
A member of Los Tlacos is seen in the footage interrogating La Bandera members, who linked their leader Chucho Brito to mayor Gama Pérez
One of gang members said that Chucho Brito had a direct 'line' to the mayor and made money off of construction projects that were awarded to him
"Los Tlacos and the Southern Cartel, which are fighting for control of at least a thousand communities and a million hectares of forests and fertile lands to grow poppies and marijuana. And also the almost 10 million pesos a year from the collection of fees to the 600 miners of the Carrizalillo mine, according to their complaints."
"According to DEA reports, the Gulf Cartel maintains its power base in Tamaulipas and Zacatecas, where it could have alliances with the CJNG. The group founded by Juan García Ábrego in the mid-1980s in Matamoros, still operates to ship H and C by transporting cargo that enters the United States at points in McAllen and Brownsville, Texas."
[JPost-almost posted to Opinion] A Tel Aviv-based servicer for satellite images estimates that the facility was not just any military compound - it was a secret missile base.
A fire erupted in an IRGC facility in Iran on Sunday leaving two dead and one injured. On Thursday, Tel Aviv-based ImageSat International - ISI, a commercial servicer for satellite images - estimated that the facility was not just any military compound - it was a secret missile base.
It is still unclear why the fire erupted on Sunday.
A series of explosions and fires have hit industrial sites across Iran, including a number of petrochemical plants, in recent months and over the past year.
Iranian officials have referred to most of the cases as incidents or accidents, although some reports have claimed that at least some of them involved foul play.
The aging infrastructure in Iran has also been blamed for at least some of the incidents. Frequent blackouts have plagued Iran recently amid a heatwave.
#ISI reveals: On Monday, 27 September 2021, a mysterious #explosion shook western #Tehran, #Iran. According to #ISI intelligence report, the explosion occurred at an #IRGC secret missile base of Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group. pic.twitter.com/EMERYT2S5c
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On February 23, 2012, ISIS [Institute for Science] released the report, "The Physics Research Center and Iran’s Parallel Military Nuclear Program", based on a set of about 1,600 telexes which contain a set of procurement data about Iran’s Physics Research Center (PHRC) and its head Sayyed Abbas Shahmoradi Zavareh. One topic in this report was a discussion of a 1988 effort to illegally procure a mass spectrometer with nuclear applications in uranium isotope separation. Iran has stated that Shahmoradi was asked to procure this spectrometer prior to the start of the PHRC when he was a manager at Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG). This organization was a leader
in Iran’s effort to build ballistic missiles. Evidence in the original ISIS report suggests that SHIG was also the original location of Iran’s military nuclear program.
The Department of Homeland Security is worried that rolling back the Trump-era Title 42 policy would encourage more migrants to come to the border and send numbers surging in October
Alejandro Mayorkas expressed the concern in a phone call with senior Homeland Security officials
Title 42 is set to expire today after a lawsuit from immigration groups, but the White House appealed
DHS announced Wednesday it will again try to end the Trump-era 'Remain in Mexico' policy
Statement comes after a Texas federal court ruled in August the administration memorandum ending the Migrant Protection Protocols was unlawful
'A new memorandum terminating MPP will not take effect until the current injunction is lifted by court order,' the DHS press release reads
The new order, it states, will address concerns raised by the court regarding the previous memorandum
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A UCLA professor who was briefly suspended after declining a request that Black students get easier final exams after George Floyd’s death sued the school Wednesday, accusing it of defamation and loss of financial opportunities.
Gordon Klein, a lecturer at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management who has taught there for decades, filed the lawsuit in state court against the school’s dean, Antonio Bernardo, the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Board of Regents, and a host of unnamed "co-conspirators."
"I did this because the school has continued to retaliate against me, and other scholars are facing retaliation, and I thought it was important for someone to step up and say, ’enough,’" Mr. Klein told The Washington Times. "I have the legal skills and training to do so, so I’m stepping up."
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UCLA will settle. The non-POC kids would seem to have a pretty good case of civil rights discrimination
This is a RACIST Mentality.
To say/demand only a certain race of people need easier rules and tests over others. Is akin to saying only that race is genetically mentally inferior.
Any such school practicing such nonsense should be stripped of all STATE & FEDERAL Grants, companies and Alumni Donors listed that supported the educational facility.
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Separate from them. We can't live with these people any longer.
Let them have their own separate colleges, or separate classes, curricula and living arrangements within the same college, with separate diplomas and graduation ceremonies etc.
They can have "red" diplomas and go on to "red badge" jobs with a separate management chain, separate HR dept and separate pay scale, promotion paths etc
Just f--king separate from these barbarians already.
They and we are separate peoples.
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^ #5 Many times. Lost nearly every time.
Now established precedent. As the jingle has it: They go together
In the good ol' USSA
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hot dogs
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Affirmative Action
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egyptian authorities said on Thursday they had blocked a scheme aimed at financing the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund and alleged a link to the imprisoned founder and former chairman of dairy and juice firm Juhayna , Safwan Thabet.
The scheme aimed to funnel funds using Thabet’s companies into "terrorist activities", the interior ministry said in a statement, adding that $8.4 million and ammunition had been found in an apartment in Giza, across the Nile from central Cairo. It described Thabet as a "Brotherhood leader".
The Thabet family have denied any wrongdoing in statements on social media. A lawyer for Juhayna could not be reached.
Thabet was arrested in December, and his son Seifeldin was detained in February after taking over as chairman.
In a statement released on Monday, rights group Amnesia Amnesty International said authorities were holding the men in conditions that amounted to torture after they refused to cede assets to a government-owned entity.
Amnesty said the authorities had failed to produce evidence for the alleged affiliation with the Brotherhood.
Juhayna is a household name in Egypt and the country’s largest dairy products and juice producer.
The Brotherhood has been subject to a sweeping crackdown since then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sissi led their ouster from power in 2013.
Juhayna continued to operate normally after Sisi became president the following year.
According to the statement, the National Security Agency found out that MB member Yehia Mahran Othman played a prominent role in said plot by being one of the main arms of the imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood senior figure Safwan Thabet.
Thabet, Egypt's Juhayna Food Industries’ chairman, was arrested in December of last year over charges of calling for unauthorised protests, joining an outlawed group, inciting violence, and financing a terrorist group.
The agency concluded that Thabet assigned Othman to exploit the former's companies in transferring and concealing the terrorist organisation's funds in an attempt to circumvent the legal procedures taken to freeze its assets, the statement added.
According to the statement, Othman operated out of an apartment in Hadayek Al-Ahram district, where he concealed MB funds.
Police forces raided the apartment and discovered a secret room containing a total of $8.4 million along with an undisclosed amount of money in other foreign currencies and a hidden stash of ammunition, the statement read.
All legal procedures were followed, and the Supreme State Security Prosecution was notified to commence its investigations, the statement concluded.
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] During the Congressional Baseball Game on Wednesday night, President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant. Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan... made an appearance and was booed by many in attendance.
At one point during the night while in the dugout, the maskless Joe Biden boxed in a young woman, putting his hands around where she was so she couldn’t move.
Ick.
"Ever seen a grown man naked?"
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"Let The Games Begin!"
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My guess is he had something on her or someone in her family. Seems that's his target - the wife, daughter, or person who really needs his approval for something.
We know he likes to do much worse when he's alone with someone.
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I doubt his SS detail would protect him. Apparently old Pervert Magoo is in the habit of groping the SS wives as well - per Gateway in 2017:
According to the source, a Secret Service agent once got suspended for a week in 2009 for shoving Biden after he cupped his girlfriend’s breast while the couple was taking a photo with him. The situation got so heated, the source told Cassandra Fairbanks, that others had to step in to prevent the agent from hitting the then-Vice President.
[NOQreport] With all the hype and noise surrounding the politics and medicine of the Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J jabs, it's time to put together a concise discussion of how vaccines work, focusing on the Fauci Ouchy. I will try to stick purely to the science, leaving out issues of masking, social distancing, lockdowns, and so on. Those are related epidemiology, but don't explain vaccine function and design. So, without further ado...
The concept of a vaccine had been folk wisdom for centuries, but no scientific basis was understood. In the eighteenth century, smallpox killed up to twenty percent of the population. Several investigators began a practice called variolation.
Physicians made small cuts in healthy people, and then put material from smallpox blisters in the cuts. This killed two or three percent of patients, but on balance, that was still a reduction in the death toll. George Washington used it to protect the bulk of his army, even though he lost some soldiers with the practice.
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With COVID-19, if the other three antigens were included in the vaccine, we'd have robust immunity, and no boosters would be required, since the shot would produce roughly the same response as an illness would.
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There is, though, a more charitable explanation for all these "gifted amateur" anti-vax articles - a hypothesis suggested by the quality of their articles. COVID May Cause Restless Anal Syndrome
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1) None of the approved vaccines contains the live virus. This means they cannot give you COVID-19.
2) Data from the United Kingdom and Finland show that the AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna vaccines do reduce onward transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to a degree.
One UK study found that the AstraZeneca vaccine was 47% effective and the Pfizer vaccine was 49% effective at preventing onward transmission to household contacts of vaccinated people who had breakthrough infections.
3) Currently approved vaccines have been shown to be effective to provide at least some protection against new variants as these vaccines work to create a broad immune response. The mutations causing these variants should not make the vaccines ineffective.
4) Boosters are currently under investigation
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I haven't seen too many, if any, recent success stories form Israel regarding the vax. too bad, I was hoping it would be effective.
What is it now, two additional boosters required for the Green Pass?
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Merck is about to seek an Emergency Use Approval, EUA, for molnupiravir. Company has been working on this for a year or so and the data has been good.
The USA Dept of HHS has committed to buying about 1 to 2 million treatment units if the drug does get EUA.
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VAERS data released today by the CDC showed a total of 438,441 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 9,048 deaths and 41,015 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and July 2, 2021.
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Mother Superior Branch Covidian jumped the gu-u-un
Branch Covidian jumped the gun...
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VAERS data released today by the CDC
How do these numbers compare to other vaccines like the annual flu shot currently in use? Because Deacon Blues’ numbers don’t look large for 300+ million doses given. I realize that a lot of adverse events have not been reported, and that many of those that were are actually minor, but surely someone is looking at a side-by-side comparison.
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Those numbeers were from the JUne 2 release. They are the lateset ones available.
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No exact numbers seem to be available for deaths related to flu vaccine. However, the two most common causes of death due to a flu shot are anaphylaxis and Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and from the information given by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) it is possible to work out an approximate number.
The CDC reports 1.31 cases of anaphylaxis per million flu shots given, so that would be about 183 cases per year in the US (on average, around 140 million Americans a year receive a flu shot). Anaphylaxis has a fatality rate of between 0.25% and 0.33%, so on average that would be one death every two or three years.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome is a reaction of the central nervous system to bacterial or viral infection, most commonly food poisoning. It causes paralysis, usually temporary, and may result in a hospital stay of up to six weeks. A small number of people are permanently impaired, and approximately 3% -5% die. According to the CDC, only one or two people in a million will develop GBS as a result of the flu shot. That gives a range of between 4 (140 x 3%) and 14 (280 x 5%) deaths a year from flu-shot related GBS.
Based on these calculations, the number of people dying from the flu shot in the US each year would be between 4 and 15, so probably an average of about 9, out of 140 million vaccines given, while anywhere from 12,000 to 56,000 die as a result of catching the flu, and the vast majority of flu-related deaths occur in people who are not vaccinated (CDC figures from 2010–11 through 2013–14).
Here’s where I got the basic figures, if you want to run the math for yourself: Estimating Seasonal Influenza-Associated Deaths in the United States Click through the menu on the left to get to the information about anaphylaxis and GBS - it’s all on the same site, just different pages.
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Important to note that VAERS reporting is optional. So those numbers are a fraction of events, by no means all of them.
You will go to school You will go to university You will choose your favourite faculty You will help and support your family We have sacrificed our life for your education Girls education shows how developed a country is#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign#today#GirlsEducationpic.twitter.com/iz2CIHsSS9
The mysterious stabber wanted in a spate of random attacks in Portland has been arrested. Dana Lamar Willis, 43, is charged with attempted murder, 2nd-degree assault & unlawful use of a weapon. He's accused of randomly stabbing people in the streets. https://t.co/X1q50s6kRqpic.twitter.com/7h9Sb6fS0l
Functionally a summary of some of the ways Progressives have lost in the Supreme Court in 2021, and how Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor expects that to continue in the next session. Very heartening.
[CNN] Justice Sonia Sotomayor tells law students:
Days before the start of a Supreme Court term that promises to be tumultuous, Justice Sonia Sotomayor tells law students: “There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount” https://t.co/S5CPxcacGt
Days before the start of a tumultuous term, and after the Supreme Court justices divided bitterly over a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned an audience of law students about the frustration of having to write dissents.
"There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount," she said Wednesday at an event hosted by the American Bar Association. "Look at me, look at my dissents."
Earlier this month, Sotomayor penned a scathing opinion when the court's majority allowed the Texas law to go into effect, calling the action "stunning."
"You know, I can't change Texas' law," Sotomayor said Wednesday, "but you can and everyone else who may or may not like it can go out there and be lobbying forces in changing laws that you don't like."
The justice then caught herself speaking about a contentious case currently before the court.
"I am pointing out to that when I shouldn't because they tell me I shouldn't," she said. "But my point is that there are going to be a lot of things you don't like" and that the public can change.
On Monday when the new term starts, Sotomayor will likely enter a new season of dissent. The court is set to grapple with some of the biggest cases in Sotomayor's tenure, including another abortion case that represents a full-frontal attack on Roe v. Wade, as well as a Second Amendment dispute that could lead to the invalidation of gun restrictions in the country.
No one expects the 67-year-old justice to be in the majority in those cases.
"She is crafting arguments for future advocates, she is creating these road maps for how to restore rights to disempowered people," Columbia Law School's Alexis Hoag said at a recent event sponsored by the liberal American Constitution Society. "I'm looking for lengthy dissents."
Last April, Sotomayor acknowledged that she was writing for the future at times. "Maybe," she said, "a later court will understand I was right."
George Washington University Law Professor David Fontana -- who once dubbed Sotomayor the "People's Justice" -- took to Twitter recently to highlight her role after the court's majority allowed the Texas law to go into effect.
"Sotomayor has chosen a different path," from Chief Justice John Roberts and others who are more moderate in their dissent, Fontana wrote. "Better to push and develop and alternative perspective by your vote rather than sacrifice the microphone."
"The Court's order is stunning," Sotomayor wrote at the time. "Presented with an application to join a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of the Justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand."
Sotomayor added: "The Court should not be so content to ignore its constitutional obligations to protect not only the rights of women, but also the sanctity of its precedents and of the rule of law," she concluded.
Last term, Sotomayor dissented in more than half of the divided cases for the third time in eight years, according to statistics compiled by Scotusblog.
In one case , the court made it easier to sentence juveniles to life without parole. Sotomayor seized on the dispute, noting that the majority had gutted recently decided precedent.
She also wrote the main dissent when a 6-3 court invalidated a California rule that required charitable organizations to disclose the names of their contributors. She noted that the opinion could impact donor disclosures in the political sphere by allowing more anonymous, so called "dark money" into the system. The majority, she said, marks disclosure requirements with a "bull's-eye."
She was in dissent too when the court said that two provisions of an Arizona voting law that restricts how ballots can be cast did not violate the historic Voting Rights Act and she disagreed with the majority in cases that came to the court via its emergency docket.
In November, for example, the court denied a request from inmates in a geriatric prison to allow further protections from Covid.
"The dangers of COVID--19 to these especially vulnerable inmates were undisputed and, indeed, indisputable," she wrote.
In January, she lashed out at the Trump administration's push to execute 13 death row inmates after nearly a two-decade pause.
"To put that in historical context, the Federal Government will have executed more than three times as many people in the last six months than it had in the previous six decades," she wrote.
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Two systems of justice, the rigging of the justice system, things like the Mueller farce, using the full power of the goverment against citizens, abuse of basic Constitutional rights, a lack of accountability in government and a rigged election system have made for a very jaundiced view in many, many people. We are heading torwards (or already there) a 1930's Germany if something doesn't change.
[Federalist] Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a damning report on Thursday chastising the Federal Bureau of Investigation for "widespread" violations in the intelligence agency’s applications for searches and surveillance filed through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
"The FBI’s Woods Procedures are designed to ensure FISA applications are ’scrupulously accurate’ and require agents to document support for all factual assertions contained in them. However, our audit found numerous instances where this did not occur," the Justice Department report states.
In the newly released audit, Horowitz detailed how "the FBI was not meeting the expectations of its own protocols" by failing to comply with the Woods Procedures. Of the 29 FISA applications from 2015-2019 that were reviewed, the inspector general and his team found more than 400 "instances of non-compliance with the Woods Procedures." When the timeline expands to encompass the approximately 7,000 FISA applications authorized between January 2015 and March 2020, Horowitz found "at least 179 instances in which the Woods File required by FBI policy was missing in whole or in part."
In February 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray expressed confidence in his agency’s FISA processes to legislators.
"It’s important for the American people to understand and for this committee to understand that the vast majority of the FISAs that we do, both the initial applications and the renewals, are the kinds of applications that I am quite confident, we don’t know each other, but I’m quite confident you wouldn’t lose any sleep over and we really wouldn’t want to grind things to a halt on that front," Wray told Republican Rep. Jim Jordan.
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If the border is going to be wide open and the US military is going to fly thousands of unvetted people in from the middle east, I think we can get rid of FISA, Homeland Security, FBI Counterterrorism and so forth right away.
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Portland firefighters (@PDXFire) will be getting bulletproof vests as deadly violence & crimes continue to soar in the city. In response to BLM-Antifa demands last year, city government defunded police & abolished gun violence reduction team. https://t.co/cFvbmjBu96
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In Portland a fireman sits braggin'
To kids from his little red wagon:
"We only wear vests
When we're making arrests
Or to answer alarms
From the suburbs and farms,
Burning arms with our fire-breathing dragon."
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government defunded police & abolished gun violence reduction team
You can call the gun violence reduction effort a 100% complete success. No weapons expressed a desire to commit violence or were found to on their own.
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Many areas no go zones now. Even before the apocalypse Philly had no go zones. Local chap did bail bond work on the side had his truck stolen. He located it with GPS and contacted the local police. They said too high crime area to go. When they go they must have at least two officers. So he went and stole his truck back and upon leaving told the officers he had got his truck back. You did what?. We lost a cruiser in that area ourselves. Now that's what I call hutzpah or what others call chutzpah.
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They used to regularly shoot at police, ambulances and firemen responding to incidents in Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhoods. Area became a no-go zone.
But that was decades ago. Things have changed, right?
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A young Iraqi man named Hassan Muhammad Aswad was arrested and tortured by the Iraqi Federal Police Intelligence before being released without any charges, local media in Iraq reported on Thursday.
Viral videos on social media show the results of Aswad having been tortured and electrocuted, resulting in severe injuries to the point where he had to have his hands amputated.
The father of the young man, Hassan Muhammad Aswad, appealed to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to follow up on the case of his son who was arrested without justification.
The father of the young man said during an interview with Tigris TV that his son was born in 1993 and works as a guard in a company in the industrial district of Kirkuk.
"He was arrested in June 2021, and the judge allowed me to see him for a short time, after 20 days, nothing happened, and we were not allowed to see him again," the father added.
The father also said that relatives informed him that they saw the young man in a deplorable condition in a hospital and that he could not even drink water due to the severity of his injuries as a result of the torture.
The father appealed to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi, to look into what his son was subjected to and seek justice.
Organizations condemn the torture tactics
The organization "Ending Impunity in Iraq" condemned the torture of the young man.
The organization said in a statement that it condemns the crime of brutal torture to which Aswad was subjected to at the hands of security forces affiliated with the Iraqi Ministry of Interior in one of the detention centers.
"This crime comes to be added to a wide range of similar crimes of torture carried out by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior agencies inside detention centers to get fabricated confessions from the accused under torture. The defendants died as a result of torture in other cases," the statement added.
The statement also "reminded" the Iraqi government of its obligations to respect the constitution, implement the law, punish the perpetrators, compensate the victims monetarily and morally, quickly bear the costs of their treatment in full, and put an end to the violations of the Ministry of Interior and its loose security services.
"The steady increase in the size and quality of gross human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... violations in Iraq and by the official security agencies in charge of protecting society and law enforcement indicates a deep imbalance suffered by the Iraqi security institutions at the levels of management, oversight, and training, not to mention the outbreak of the security overlap crisis between the work of official and semi-official agencies, including partisan militias and security groups, are not subject to the law of the work of institutions, and they are among the main things that stand behind the consolidation of the phenomenon of impunity in Iraq," the statement added.
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"...It was nothing personal; we just had to do our quarterly brutality qualifications."
Mike
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Well, you have to stay in practice.
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[CBSNEWS] Smith & Wesson is moving its headquarters from Massachusetts to Tennessee, citing the southern state's "unwavering support of the Second Amendment" as well as its lower cost of living. The decision to depart New England was "an extremely difficult and emotional" one, Mark Smith, the gun-maker's president and CEO, said Thursday in a statement. The company, based in Springfield, Massachusetts, since 1852, will spend $125 million on the relocation, it said.
As many as 750 jobs will move from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Missouri to Maryville, Tennessee, by the summer of 2023, according to Smith & Wesson.
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[MAIL] The Marine pictured helping hoist a baby over the walls of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul last month is under investigation by the U.S. Military after he appeared on stage with Donald Trump at a rally in Georgia on Saturday.
'The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) has initiated a command investigation regarding LCpl Hunter Clark's attendance at the event last weekend to determine if any DoD policies were violated,' Captain Kelton Cochran, a spokesman for the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, said, according to Task & Purpose.
'Any details pertaining to this incident are not releasable while the investigation is being conducted,' Cochran said.
Lance Corporal Hunter Clark was helping guard the Kabul airport during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in August. A picture of him went viral as he helped save a baby being lifted up by an Afghan outside of the airport walls.
On Saturday, Clark appeared with former President Trump on stage at the Georgia National Fairgrounds & Agriculture Center in Perry, Georgia for a massive rally.
An emotional Clark introduced himself as the 'guy that pulled the baby over the wall' and choked up as the crowd chanted 'USA'.
It is, however, against Defense Department rules for active-duty troops to 'speak before a partisan political gathering, including any gathering that promotes a partisan political party, candidate, or cause.'
Clark did not wear his Marine uniform while on stage with Trump and he did not campaign for any political candidate — even though the former president was there to rally for three different Republican candidates in Georgia.
The appearance, however, comes as the military is increasingly cracking down on servicemembers' behavior.
Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller was relieved of command after he posted a video to Facebook critical of higher up military leadership and demanding they take responsibility for Kabul falling to the Taliban in the withdrawal. He is currently being held at the Brig on Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina.
The baby's father had been working for US military continuously for weeks and had not been able to see his daughter. While working with US forces, he was communicating with his wife to try to get them into the KIA (where he was) for evacuation. Father was inside the wall while his daughter was handed over. He says,
He reached out to a Marine standing on a vehicle, along the barbed-wire fence, and pointed out his baby on the other side. "He told me the only thing he could do was lift her over the barbed wire, but he said she'd be hurt. I told him I'll take the chance. I'd rather her get hurt than die," he said.
The Marine agreed. Hameed helped stabilize the Marine's legs, which allowed him to lean over far enough to grab Liya by her right arm, and lift her over the barbed wire. That was the moment Hameed got to meet his newborn for the first time. He held her for two minutes, before returning to help with the evacuations. Sadia had collapsed from exhaustion, and he still had to figure out how to get her through the gate.
Hameed handed Liya to a Marine, not knowing where she'd be taken or when they'd be able to reunite.
"That day I handed over my baby to a total stranger. The only thing I trusted is that he was a Marine, and that my daughter would be safe," he said.
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[CNN] Special Counsel John Durham has issued a new set of subpoenas, including to a law firm with close ties to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, an indication that Durham could be trying to build a broader criminal case, according to people briefed on the matter. So far, Durham's two-year probe into the FBI's Russia investigation hasn't brought about the cases Republicans hoped it would.
The grand jury subpoenas for documents came earlier this month after Durham charged Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann with lying to the FBI in a September 2016 meeting. During that meeting, Sussmann handed over data purporting to show links between the Trump Organization and Russia's Alfa Bank. That tip became part of the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election but the FBI ultimately couldn't find evidence of a link.
In seeking additional documents from Sussmann's former law firm, Perkins Coie, investigators from the special counsel's office appear to be sharpening their focus on the Democratic political machinery during the 2016 campaign and efforts to tie Trump to Russia.
Perkins Coie's clients in 2016 included the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The law firm also hired on the campaign's behalf a research company that commissioned the dossier from ex-British spy Christopher Steele that alleged that Trump was compromised by Russia.
Durham has already accessed reams of the law firm's records, such as billing records, meeting calendars and a log of documents that the firm protects under attorney-client privilege. Some of the newly sought-after documents have been guarded so far by attorney-client privilege.
An attorney for the law firm didn't respond to requests for comment.
Durham's new subpoenas could lead to a court fight over privileged information and draw more about the Clinton campaign into the open.
While working for Perkins Coie, Sussmann also represented Rodney Joffe, a cybersecurity expert referred to in Durham's indictment as "Tech Executive-1." In 2016, Joffe, who has not been previously identified, worked with researchers to collect internet data about the Trump Organization that Sussmann took to the FBI.
Durham's continued use of the federal grand jury in Washington, DC, signals that he could be interested in adding to Sussmann's charges or bringing cases against additional defendants.
Still, more than two years after being commissioned by then Attorney General William Barr to investigate whether federal authorities improperly targeted the Trump campaign, Durham has little to show for his efforts. His special counsel probe, which has lasted longer than Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has so far brought only two lying charges against little-known figures, including the case against Sussmann, who has pleaded not guilty.
The results have underwhelmed Trump supporters who had hoped former top FBI and intelligence officials would be prosecuted for "spying" on Trump and his campaign.
Already the scope of Durham's probe has narrowed after Barr announced last year that investigators had found no wrongdoing by the CIA. Yet Durham has continued his investigation, largely in secrecy, working out of a non-descript office building near trendy Washington's Union Market.
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Why bother John? You didn't exactly burn the midnight oil to "bring the guilty to justice". Although, this does set up a perfect black-mail opportunity for charges to be dropped given certain conditions. Somebody in Perkins Coie or on the Hildabeast's team pissed of their fellow travelers somewhere.
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The only "round" I care to read about is severe prison terms being handed out to the miscreants of the Deep State to break up this kind of crap forever. As if!
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Antifa held a direct action march through Leipzig, Germany on Monday. They held a banner that read, “Saxony must die.” Saxony is the state where Leipzig is. Two weeks ago, thousands of antifa from around country descended on city for a violent riot. pic.twitter.com/RBn2D7WRTT
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Verge of collapse!, it has already happened. Ships anchored for so long have or are having shortages of food and water. Truckers will not comply with apocalypse administrators. Protocols HA, dictates by college pukes they are called by workers.
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This is what happens when you 'eliminate redundancy'. You don't have redundancy anymore. As in, no backup system.
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Why do San Diego and L.A. all of a sudden have port problems. I've seen blame put on anything from lack of truckers, to dock workers, shipping containers and port infra-structure problems.
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I'd guess this is the flip side of our just-in-time inventory management and outsourced (to China) supply chains. It works beautifully IF, and only if, all parts of the chain -- demand chain and supply chain both -- are stable and predictable.
But when even one element goes awry, the effect is the same as the effect on traffic when you have a big rig wreck blocking three lanes.
And right now we're seeing a huge disruption to the stability & predictability of the demand chain -- because consumers are alternately bingeing and then being thrown into lockdown -- as well as the supply chain due to western MNCs shifting their production base out of China.
So the exact same system that previously gave the global economy unheard-of efficiency and low prices is now causing massive inefficiency and spiraling inflation.
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Just received my Tactacam Cellular Trail Camera after waiting more than 12 months. Company flew shipment over after being unable to lease a cargo container.
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#5 above is spot on. Just in time logistics requires source to sale transportation rapidity and confidence. IN a vast commercial ecosystem like the US, massive decoupling of interlinked components, devastating declines in labor and buyer access, and overall loss of capital investment maintenance and improvements have left a battlefield-like landscape for business. And now, into this comes a collection of Command Economy geniuses who have no idea of how a demand economy actually works, and will react to massive inflationary spirals with price controls not interest rate braking. The entire federal budget would be required to be spent on debt service alone if actual interest rate hikes and liquidity curbs were enacted to stop the destructive levels of inflation. Remember WIN (Whip Inflation Now) under Ford with 18% interest rates? The Republic will not survive these craven morons.
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Read somewhere that Costco brought in their own containers or leased them and picked up their stuff.
I wondered if California spent previous infrastructure money or ignored infrastructure in their ports causing a lot of the existing trouble? I dunno. Reading the above, it reads like there a lot of dislocations in the demand/supply chains all along the chains.
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I read, about a month ago, that Home Depot had taken a two year lease on a small container ship, and enough empties to fill it.
They want their stuff for Xmas.
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I was surprised last week when I visited a nearby grocery store. It is part of a local chain of about 20 stores. Their bakeries used to sell doughnuts made in the stores. The doughnut displays were empty. A sign posted on them said the local doughnut flour supplier had gone out of business & so they couldn't make doughnuts.
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Costco may have its own shipping containers but it doesn't have its own port.
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And now, into this comes a collection of Command Economy geniuses who have no idea of how a demand economy actually works, and will react to massive inflationary spirals with price controls not interest rate braking
Exactly. These jokers are making a minor disruption into a massive economic dislocation that could destroy economic growth for years.
The integrated demand/supply chain logistics system that has been carefully created, over decades, by expert management at hundreds of multinationals from Japan to Germany to the US and then spread across the world, is as finely calibrated as a Swiss watch.
Pres. Magoo's crew of lefty morons knows as much about the operations of such an intricate, complex system as Hunter Biden knows about chivalry.
They are destroying overtook what Deming and other brilliant supply chain experts designed and built over half a century. Savages.
Ministers admit some people face losing jobs as furlough finally ends tomorrowGovernment says scheme had to end 'at some point' and there are 'opportunities'
Latest figures from July showed 1.6million jobs still being propped up by scheme
Experts warned only a 'trickle' of staff were being taken off furlough scheme
[DAILYWIRE] Education Secretary Miguel Cardona stopped short of claiming that parents should be the "primary" stakeholders in their children’s education on Thursday.
Cardona sat before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Thursday to testify on school reopening strategies and policies around COVID-19. Under questioning from Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), Cardona refused to call parents the "primary stakeholders" in a child’s education.
"Do you think parents should be in charge of their child’s education as the primary stakeholder?" Braun asked the Education secretary.
Cardona responded, "I believe parents are important stakeholders, but I also believe educators have a role in determining educational programming."
"And I think that’s going to be a little out of focus," Braun shot back. "What I think you’re going to find across all elements of education, since they pay the bills, they raise the kids, they probably need to be the primary spokespeople for their own kids’ good education."
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The National School Boards Association urged the president in a letter Wednesday to mobilize federal agents to protect them from protesting parents
NSBA President Viola Garcia and Interim Executive Director and CEO Chip Slaven penned the complaint, which was also published online
The correspondence states that outbursts from 'extremist' parents irate over vaccine and mask mandates should be treated as 'domestic terrorism'
The letter to the US president requests 'immediate assistance' for school staffers and board members, who they say are under 'immediate threat'
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Some of my teachers were WWII vets. They didn't need the FBI to protect them.
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Next step will be to create an American Stasi within the security services. Mission: protect the Woke by ferreting out insurr3ctionists from every town and precinct across the land.
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Some of these outraged parents need to run for school board.
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After decades of the left screeching about "getting in their faces" and throwing tantrums at school boards, city halls, the halls of Congress, and the Supreme Court, they're demanding protection because someone else is using their tactics against them.
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With the political clout teacher unions have I would not be surprised if they get protection.
Breaking: Los Angeles antifa member Vishal Pratap Singh (@VPS_Reports), 28, of Redwood City, Calif., has been arrested & charged with battery. The militant activist has been filmed multiple times engaging in fights at antifa direct actions. https://t.co/4Tf0HGRLUEpic.twitter.com/QXiuM0dVK9
Update: Los Angeles antifa member Vishal Pratap Singh (@VPS_Reports) was released from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Office West Hollywood jail without bail. He was issued a citation for battery. He has a court-ordered appearance on 4 Oct. at LA Superior Courthouse by the airport. pic.twitter.com/OeUrriNDiR
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Al-Monitor, HT: Insty] Top generals in charge of Turkey’s military operations in Syria have sought retirement amid escalating tensions in Idlib, fueling questions over Ankara’s Syria policies. 
[Real Clear Politics] The Biden administration never expected congressional oversight to be comfortable, but even as lawmakers were busy grilling top military brass Tuesday about their handling of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Jen Psaki said the hearing was necessary and good.
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[PJ] Preside Joe Biden wants to put an actual Communist — self-proclaimed "radical" Cornell University law school professor Saule Omarova — in charge of the nation’s banking system.
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
...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...
[Babylon Bee] ALBANY, NY—New York atheists have come out in force against the COVID-19 vaccine after learning that their state’s Governor Kathy Hochul claimed that God made the scientists, doctors, and researchers invent the vaccine. The state’s atheists were further incensed when Hochul displayed a religious emblem hanging from her neck that symbolized her acceptance of the holy vaccine.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Dutch and German police have busted a criminal gang who made video tutorials on how to bomb cash machines, only to blow themselves up in the process, officials said on Thursday.
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle...
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
[Federalist] Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a damning report on Thursday chastising the Federal Bureau of Investigation for "widespread" violations in the intelligence agency’s applications for searches and surveillance filed through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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[MAIL] The Marine pictured helping hoist a baby over the walls of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul last month is under investigation by the U.S. Military after he appeared on stage with Donald Trump at a rally in Georgia on Saturday.
[CNN] Special Counsel 
