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Dorothy Sebastian
The daughter of a clergyman and a mother, who was an accomplished painter of portraits and landscapes, Stella Dorothy Sabiston spent her formative years in her home state of Alabama. She had three siblings, all of whom died relatively young. She attended the University of Alabama, but always harbored ambitions of becoming an actress.
Born: Stella Dorothy Sabiston, April 26, 1903, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Died: April 08, 1957, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
[MAIL] Seattle's City Council announced on Monday that it had completed the $48 million purchase of three buildings in the fashionable Capitol Hill neighborhood, to provide homes for some of the city's 12,000 homeless people.
Seattle has the third highest homeless population in the country - only New York City and Los Angeles have more, according to the City Mayors Association.
In June, the Seattle City Council and Mayor Jenny Durkan signed a joint proposal that included $28.5 million from the COVID relief funds, officially titled the American Rescue Plan, for the acquisition of housing.
The Capitol Hill deals are part of the first round of acquisitions, with more announcements expected in the coming weeks, the city says.
The buildings are due to be ready before Christmas.
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And what happens when Antifa decides to burn this housing down? Oh, I forgot the DOJ and FBI has said Antifa and BLM are not terrorist groups. I don't know how they explain the orgy of letfwing violence across the countr for past two years.
[Right Scoop] The Supreme Court today put the kibosh on an effort by voters in the District of Columbia to elect Congress members:
CNN — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a long shot bid from registered voters in the District of Columbia who sought the ability to elect representatives to Congress.
The group of voters said their inability to vote for members of Congress violated their rights to equal protection and due process and pointed to the fact that Congress extended voting rights to overseas residents but not to similarly situated residents of DC.
"Residents of the District of Columbia are the only adult American citizens subject to federal income taxes who lack voting representation in Congress, except for felons in some States," lawyers for the residents wrote in legal papers.
A lower court ruled against the voters, holding that they do not live in a "state."
The court rejected the appeal without comment.
While the Supreme Court’s rejection allows the lower court ruling to stand, the overall effort is by no means over. Fascist Democrats are continually trying to push for statehood so they can elect more Democrats to Congress so they can destroy this country.
Even so, I’m very glad the Supreme Court didn’t even entertain this unconstitutional madness.
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Virginia took back Arlington from DC in the late 1800s. Maryland should take back much of the remains of DC, leaving only the federal triangle - the Mall, the White House, etc. as the district.
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Only fly in that ointment is that Maryland doesn't want the place. I adds nothing, and it adds to the crime rate. Prince George's county is presently and extension of the district. Absorbing the District would make it an extension of Prince George's County. Yuck.
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at the time it was established DC was at the center of the 13 colonies/states. Now somewhere near Topeka, KS is.
Heh. If they were throwing fits about Kansas City, they would love Topeka.
How about the confluence of the Platte and Missouri rivers? Nah, Platte City looks like a nice place. Can we make Death Valley work?
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It must be frustrating to have your totally genius plans to create a Brave New World constantly thwarted by a bunch of old dead white guys and their stinky Constitution.
[SeattleTimes] The average temperature at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station between April and September, a frigid minus-78 degrees (minus-61 Celsius), was the coldest on record, dating back to 1957. This was 4.5 degrees lower than the most recent 30-year average.
We first learned of this record through a tweet from Stefano Di Battista, who has published research on Antarctic temperatures. The legitimacy of Di Battista's information was confirmed by Richard Cullather, a research scientist at NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office.
The temperature averaged over September was also the coldest on record at South Pole, wrote David Bromwich, a polar researcher at Ohio State University, in an email.
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Where is the Climate Change, Al Gore, Hollywood, the Artistic Child and media on this Breaking News?
"RECORD COLD & POPLAR ICE CAPS NOT MELTING"
Once again a lot people made $$$$$$ predicting climate related BS and we now have more Federal Regs, laws passed and Taxpayer $$B funneled into pockets based on those LIES.
BTW: Anyone working McMurdo Station in the last 30 years could have told us this also.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.—Hubba hubba! Playboy subscribers are going crazy over the latest cover model to grace this month's issue: Dr. Anthony Fauci.
"When thinking of who we wanted on the cover this month, the choice was easy," said Playboy's Editor in Chief Timby McPiddle. "It was between our trademark beautiful women, or the savior of the world and sexiest man alive, Dr. Fauci. The choice was easy!"
Dr. Fauci has made history as the first male Playboy cover model to also unleash a devastating virus on the world that killed millions of people and then become a celebrity doctor making millions of dollars offering unsolicited advice on TV. The cover will show him in an alluring black girdle and bunny tail.
"As Playboy moves into a more progressive 21st century, we are proud to be featuring attractive progressive icons like Dr. Fauci!" said McPiddle. "Congratulations, Dr. Fauci!"
Sources say next month's edition will feature Nancy Pelosi.
Toss your capitalist cookbooks aside, this anti-capitalist cooking show walks you through the grueling experience of cooking... the socialist way.
[AP] Three Vatican Swiss Guards who have refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 upon Holy See orders have voluntarily left the storied corps to return to Switzerland, a Swiss Guard official said Sunday.
Lt. Urs Breitenmoser told The Associated Press that all Swiss Guards had been asked to be vaccinated "to protect their health and that of the others they come into contact with as part of their service."
"Three members of the Guard have chosen not to adhere to that request, voluntarily leaving the corps,″ Breitenmoser said in a statement.
Three other guardsmen are temporarily suspended from duty while they await vaccination, he said.
The prime duty of the all-male corps, with its colorful uniforms and plumed helmets, is to protect the pontiff. The members stand guard during papal ceremonies as well as at the various entrances of the tiny, independent walled city state near Rome’s Tiber River. During the pandemic, the guardsmen on duty don protective surgical masks.
Pope Francis, who has been vaccinated against COVID-19, has repeatedly stressed the altruistic and health value of receiving the shots during the pandemic.
[Right Scoop] Project Veritas has just released their latest and greatest regarding the COVID vaccines, with this one focusing on Pfizer scientists admitting that natural antibodies are likely much better than the vaccine.
One of them also admits that if you have natural immunity, then you don’t need the vaccine unless your immunity begins to wane. And he also explains why people are getting sick with Delta after being vaccinated.
These scientists signed NDAs and will probably get into quite a bit of trouble over this release:
Stacking with The Walking Unvaxxed’s post for ease of reading and commenting:
[CitizenFreePress] Covid-19 vaccine exposed, Part 4
Pfizer scientist Nick Karl — "Your antibodies are better than the Pfizer vaccination. I work for an evil corporation. Our organization is run on Covid money now." Talk to your friends, medical workers, who have contracted c-19. They know the truth.
Is there any surprise money is driving the "pandemic"?
The original Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were reported to be effective for 5-6 months with early adopters vaccinated around New Year. With Israel on it's 3rd booster, it seems like the interval for booster effectiveness is shrinking with each shot.
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Was following what was written. My mistake if Israel is on the it's first booster, not third.
Really?
With Israel on it's 3rd booster, it seems like the interval for booster effectiveness is shrinking with each shot.
Maybe, in the future, you should take every statement made by antivaxxers with a grain of salt? Just check if the author is vaccinated to put you in a proper frame of mind.
[Raw Conservative] Taiwan’s foreign minister is warning of war with China and is asking Austraila for aid with intelligence, Australian Broadcasting reports.
The news comes after the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China flew dozens of sorties into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) beginning on Friday.
On ABC’s "China Tonight," Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said that if the PLA launches an actual strike, Taiwan is ready to repel it.
"The defense of Taiwan is in our own hands, and we are absolutely committed to that," Wu said.
The statement comse after Taiwan sharply criticized China on Saturday after Beijing marked the founding of the People’s Republic of China with the largest ever incursion by the Chinese air force into the island’s air defense zone.
Taiwan, a democratically governed island that is claimed by China, has complained for more than a year of repeated missions near it by China’s air force, often in the southwestern part of its air defense zone close to the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands.
Taiwanese fighters scrambled against 38 Chinese aircraft in two waves on Friday, the Taiwan Defence Ministry said. It said Taiwan sent combat aircraft to warn away the Chinese aircraft, while missile systems were deployed to monitor them.
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#1 Might want to keep a close eye on Kadena and Guam. A two or three pronged attack is not out of the realm of possibility.
Posted by: Besoeker 2021-10-05 07:40
My concern would be this: IF they can time it right (remember, the Japanese didn't) they can launch their attack on Taiwan and then tell us in no uncertain terms that there are missiles aimed at Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, and Seattle - then simply ask, "Are you willing to trade these cities for Taiwan?" I figure at that point, those respective Governors will soil themselves and demand we stay out of it. In OR and WA, I suspect Antifa will deploy right quick to cripple or at least slow down any US military effort through those states.
I simply do not see a Biden Administration standing up for Taiwan in the face of any political opposition or violence.
Mike
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Then the Chinese are cut off from the international trade. No oil, coal, food, raw materials imports. No selling the labor of a 100's millions of factory laborers. Hope it's worth it for them. It will be worth it for America as industry has to rebuilt.
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Meanwhile, MSN is creaming their jeans over the blockbuster movie from the CCP regarding the Battle of Lake Changjin. We used to recall this as Chosin Reservoir, and we used to root for the USMC.
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Confucius say, "Chinese oppression
Save North from its war of aggression,
And thus -- hush ma mouth! --
It's not part of the South
But our poor enslaved puppet possession."
[Aljazeera] Senior military officials in the United States have linked the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces in August to former President Donald Trump’s deal with the Taliban in 2020 promising a complete withdrawal of US troops.
General Frank McKenzie, the head of Central Command, told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday that once the US troop presence was pushed below 2,500 as part of Washington’s bid to complete a total withdrawal by the end of August, the unravelling of the US-backed Afghan government accelerated.
"The signing of the Doha agreement had a really pernicious effect on the government of Afghanistan and on its military — psychological more than anything else, but we set a date — certain for when we were going to leave and when they could expect all assistance to end," McKenzie said.
He was referring to a February 29, 2020, agreement that the Trump administration signed with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, in which the US promised to fully withdraw its troops by May 2021 and the Taliban committed to several conditions, including stopping attacks on US and coalition forces.
The stated objective was to promote a peace negotiation between the Taliban and the Afghan government, but that diplomatic effort had failed to gain traction before former US President Donald Trump was replaced by President Joe Biden in January.
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At the Congressional hearings General Frank McKenzie appeared a petulant, nasty blame-shifter, and the type of officer you'd love to smack in the mouth.
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nope nope nope, y'all and the "president" are to blame. That was how it was under Trump, blamed for everything whether he was in it or not. So eat shit.
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We don't buy it and this fuck up is on you and your ilk.
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Fortunately grounding the Afghan air force by virtue of forcing the maintenance contractors out of the country had nothing to do with it. That sure is a relief! Running away from Bagram in the middle of the night and releasing a herd of blood thirsty goat molesters was a real plus as well.
Root causes? I think the tenor and initiative irrevocably changed after the Defenestration of Prague.
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Sorry General, youhad 2 decades, and a lot of braver and honorable troops, and you allowed the politicians and political officers (especially under Obama) to throw away those troops, and lose the war instead of standing tall and demanding real goals and definite outcomes instead of the forever war you advocated and emplaced.
Fuck you general, don't try to point fingers at others for your cowardice in confronting an incompetent president over his stupid cut and run strategy and the absolute incompetence with which you and your peers handled the departure.
If you had any honor and courage, you'd resign. Cowardly sycophants and political lackey like you lose wars, get soldiers killed needlessly and endanger the nation for your political gains.
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Appropriate graphic except the material being spread on the crops is actually good for something.
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Given the rules of engagement the troops were forced to work under, as well as the tribal nature of Afghanistan, we could never have actually won there. Unless we were willing to do to them what we did to Germany and Japan in WWII.
However, I am sure that under Trump, the ultimate withdrawal would have been done in a much more orderly fashion.
Yes, the Taliban would have been back in power, but we would have been spared the sight of people falling from airplanes; American citizens, green card holders, SIVs, and others being stranded.
The Taliban might have ended up with most of the weapons that we had given to the Afghan army, but every American vehicle left behind would have been disabled or destroyed.
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Really. Because it sounds like about ten years ago the seeds were planted for a woke brass who would get their funding and chance to play Rainbow 6 Generals and toy around with HUMINT theories so long as the war kept going and those getting boodle continue getting paid.
A highly profitable stalemate, and now that brass is rewarded by getting to remold the military in their own form.
"Welcome to the 'Stan trooper....hey, I recognize this name, your dad and I fought in this valley back in '04. How's the old man? Suicide, that's too bad. Hey, I want you to take your platoon down to that village with this bag of cash. You should receive a briefcase, bring that directly to me."
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Was General McKenzie saying this at the time of the Doha agreement, when Trump was still the commander-in-chief? Did he offer his resignation at the time?
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And don't forget the Edict of Turda.
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Having troops clean the walls and sweep the floors, instead of evacuating pallets of cash and weapon systems?
State was busy drawing up a lawsuit against Poland and Clippy was making sure everyone showed to the Drag Queen Base Dance.
Good thing we had the Soldier's General hot on the scene....
Honk Honk, guess who's turning the corner in Afghanistan - this guy in his bitchin' Hilux - Choo Choo motherfuckers! Got the boom boom Z.U. twenty three option baby! Whaaaat?! Even got the Dukes of Peshwar Valley flag on the hood, losers. Best part, didn't cost me a thing. Cost those 50 assholes plenty, I'll tell ya. Jay Leno's garage? Jay Leno's garage? The daffuck is Jay Leno?
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We were in Afghanistan for about 20 years and spent somewhere between $1-2 trillion. We had around 2300 KIA and another 20,000 injured. Allies had additional casualties. Throughout the 20 years, the question: "Will the Afghans be able to stand up and defend their country?" was never satisfactorily answered. So "No" this clustetfuck cannot be laid on Trump. Damned perfumed generals.
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These mofo's are creating a Weimar situation in this country. Retarded and craven elites pissing on our war dead and selling out the country to foreign interests.
Creating hyperinflation.
Destroying our industrial base.
Sicc'ing Antifa (yes, that one) on us and unleashing a new wave of violent black shakedown artists.
Destroying public order.
Creating a culture of toxic garbage, used to hook our young and make them stupid zombies.
All for their foolish globalism.
We know where Weimar leads. This will not end well.
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#23 This isn't Weimar it's worse. Weimar was a lot of happenstance and circumstance. Based on the constancy of tactics and direction this would appear to be a plan.
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I had heard that the military convinced Trump to leave a force of 2-3000 and Biden decided not to leave any presence. If that is true I expect a Trump comment before long, and I expect there are documentation even if its emails and such.
[Just The News] Drug Enforcement Administration agent was killed, and two officers were injured in a shooting aboard an Amtrak train in Arizona on Monday, according to reports.
According to The Hill, DEA special agent Cheri Oz confirmed the officer’s death, as well as the death of the shooter in a press conference in Tuscon.
"I am deeply saddened to confirm that one special agent died as a result of the injuries sustained during the shooting," Oz said. "A second special agent is in critical condition and a task force officer is in stable condition."
Tuscon’s Police Chief Chris Magnus said the shooting occurred around 8 a.m. local time Monday when officers were conducting a "routine check" aboard the stationary train, looking for illegal guns and drugs.
The assailant appeared to open fire when officers were detaining another suspect. Officers reportedly found the shooter dead inside a bathroom stall.
No passengers were injured in the shooting, and the situation is under federal investigation.
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Based on absolutely no evidence (other than recent patterns), my theory is the deceased shooter was an FBI undercover informant working a drug cartel infiltration scheme.
[FOX] The last two years seem to have been one continual crisis—well aside from the coronavirus pandemic.
The spiraling prices of cars, gas, appliances, lumber, homes, and food are revisiting the miseries of the 1970s.
Anarchy defines the border.
A new divisive tribalism centers on "critical race theory."
Unelected Washington grandees in the CIA, FBI, IRS, NSA, and Pentagon—like John Brennan, James Comey, Lois Lerner, Gen. Mark Milley, and Robert Mueller—feign ignorance or mislead under oath—or even break or ignore laws without consequences.
Ancient customs and laws are under assault from the Electoral College to the century-and-a-half make-up of the Supreme Court.
The current administration looks to the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the Paris Climate Accord for answers to America’s problems.
What is going on?
All of these daily melodramas are the natural dividends of the diminishing power of the independent American citizen—politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Citizens are becoming inert, as radical ideas take root that our Founders never envisioned.
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federal investigators have started using new "keyword warrants" and used them to ask Google to provide them information on anyone who searched a victim's name or their address during a particular year, an accidentally unsealed court document that Forbes found shows.
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Using the pretext of victim protection and investigation, they have moved into keyword searches with undisclosed parameters. Who trusts this after the clear pattern of utter FISA abuses?
[Cloudflare] “Facebook can't be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second.
Today at 15:51 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was going on.
Social media quickly burst into flames, reporting what our engineers rapidly confirmed too. Facebook and its affiliated services WhatsApp and Instagram were, in fact, all down. Their DNS names stopped resolving, and their infrastructure IPs were unreachable. It was as if someone had "pulled the cables" from their data centers all at once and disconnected them from the Internet.
How's that even possible?
Update from Facebook
Facebook has now published a blog post giving some details of what happened internally. Externally, we saw the BGP and DNS problems outlined in this post but the problem actually began with a configuration change that affected the entire internal backbone. That cascaded into Facebook and other properties disappearing and staff internal to Facebook having difficulty getting service going again.
Now on to what we saw from the outside.
Meet BGP
BGP stands for Border Gateway Protocol. It's a mechanism to exchange routing information between autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet. The big routers that make the Internet work have huge, constantly updated lists of the possible routes that can be used to deliver every network packet to their final destinations. Without BGP, the Internet routers wouldn't know what to do, and the Internet wouldn't work.
The Internet is literally a network of networks, and it’s bound together by BGP. BGP allows one network (say Facebook) to advertise its presence to other networks that form the Internet. As we write Facebook is not advertising its presence, ISPs and other networks can’t find Facebook’s network and so it is unavailable.
The individual networks each have an ASN: an Autonomous System Number. An Autonomous System (AS) is an individual network with a unified internal routing policy. An AS can originate prefixes (say that they control a group of IP addresses), as well as transit prefixes (say they know how to reach specific groups of IP addresses).
Cloudflare's ASN is AS13335. Every ASN needs to announce its prefix routes to the Internet using BGP; otherwise, no one will know how to connect and where to find us.
Our learning center has a good overview of what BGP and ASNs are and how they work.
In this simplified diagram, you can see six autonomous systems on the Internet and two possible routes that one packet can use to go from Start to End. AS1 → AS2 → AS3 being the fastest, and AS1 → AS6 → AS5 → AS4 → AS3 being the slowest, but that can be used if the first fails.
Key part of Cover Story:
Problems began with a routine BGP update that went wrong, wiping out the DNS routing information that Facebook needed.
Facebook-Group down 6+/- Hours.
It was reported by a few anon staff Facebook sent a CERT Team to its Cal. data site to address the server issues and had badge access problems, requiring landline comm verification for access.
It was verified the Facebook outage also lockout many employees from communicating with each another using their internal Facebook tools. FB employs a LARGE number of HOME WORKERS.
Outage coincidentally happened around CBS’s 60 Minutes release of the interview with Frances Haugen (Facebook Whistle Blower). She is scheduled to testify in the US Senate Oct. 5th. regarding FB User safety and Political abuses in 2020.
Sources speculate if the 2019-2020 political censorship engagement data trail/files were "lost" during the "crash".
A few dark ch. sources reported big offers of $$$$$$$/ employment to the person or persons responsible for the outage were authorized. Which fueled initial reports of a DNS Hack. IT Security Expert Madory said. “We obviously can’t rule out someone hacking them, but they also could have done this to themselves.”
Its estimated that Facebook and its acquisitions lost about $5.9B in related revenue during that 6+/- hrs.
FB stock price fell roughly $20 a share in 6 hrs
Several different domain name registers listed the domain Facebook.com as up for sale. Yep you could have been the owner of Facebook.com for a few hours ☺☺☺
Either way the X & Millennium generations got to exp. a sample of 1960 retro communications
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This looks like some powerful player identified (or created) a single point of failure for one of the internet's major infrastructure hubs and then pulled the trigger.
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I wonder if this Facebook trouble was Russia's strategic retaliation/shot across the bow for Pandora.
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OK I'll ask...
Having been in I.T. relate operations for over 35 years.
Our common sense roll out practice was always to BETA TEST ANY UPDATE .....BEFORE..... to going operational.
Are we to believe a F-100 company does not practice common basic operational safety roll out steps?
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I developed a network for a Paradyne product in the 1970's. And it was impervious to failure because all the nodes continuously updated their routing paths. That was a mickey-mouse operation. Am i to believe that the internet is dependent on a single node?
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It's hard to test anything as core as naming and routing -- do you build a separate Internet for testing? -- so mostly you do with layers of reviews. Sometimes mistakes still filter through.
This one sounds like someone didn't do any immediate checking, and let an error propagate for a while.
And, no, the Internet isn't dependent on a single node -- but when all nodes are getting the same (wrong) answer...
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Insightful comment from old timer Internet Engineer Bill Woodcock on KrebsOnSecurity.com:
"In old-school networking, we had literally dozens of routing protocols to choose from, and as we had a wealth of layer-1 and layer-2 protocols to choose from. So the chances that an organization would be running the same IGP (internal gateway protocol) and EGP (external gateway protocol) were essentially nil; one chose best-of-breed for each independently, and they have very different needs.
"By about 1996, the EGP choice had devolved into a monoculture of people running BGP, and that makes sense, because convergence on a single protocol is driven by the Network Effect, just as a common trading language makes it possible to do business across borders… Knowing that you’d be using the same routing protocol with all your external neighbors decreased the time and effort needed to reach the goal. Unfortunately, when we reached an EGP monoculture, competitive pressure also went away. We were using BGPv4 in 1996, and we’re still using the same version now today, twenty-five years later, with literally no significant improvement or development to the protocol. And although it played no part in yesterday’s incident, the thin layer of security that’s added on to the side of BGPv4 to try to remedy its worst deficiencies has actually _lost_ significant ground since its peak in about 2003-2004.
"It took longer for IGPs to die out, and when they did, the monoculture that took hold was in the form of “iBGP,” which meant simply using BGP for internal routing as well as external routing, even though it was a technically much worse choice for the purpose… and I’m afraid I was one of the people who pushed that forward, in the name of efficiency and, frankly, laziness. A lot of the poor Internet engineering choices that we’re now living with the consequences of were done in the name of laziness, in times when businesses were striving for exponential growth, money was plentiful, but time and attention were scarce and growing scarcer. So today, essentially _every_ network of global scale runs BGP as both their external and internal routing protocol
"And it’s in this environment that a problem like the one Facebook had becomes possible. Pushed to simultaneously grow and cut costs, their engineering departments are hollowed out, losing the entire middle to a bipolar structure of a very small handful of the same old farts that I was working with when they were kids, thirty years ago, who actually know how things work, and a lot of actual kids who are paid a pittance and given no meaningful path to intellectual and career growth; where before they’d have had mentors and a ladder of ever-more-challenging work to make their way up, now their growth path is blocked by automation. “Dev Ops” automation that allows the attention of a team of two or three or four people to be spread across thousands of routers and tens or hundreds of thousands of servers through abstracted fleet management, using the kids for “rack & stack” grunt-work, where they never get to touch anything that they could break, but also never get to learn how it works. Like I said, I’m dealing with exactly the same small set of people now, in my counterpart networks, that I was thirty years ago… but some of them are starting to retire, others are wanting more time with family, and we’re all just getting old; this isn’t sustainable. So, in this environment of too little attention from too few senior people stretched too thin, and using too many abstraction layers of automation that was all-too-often written for unrelated purposes, you get own-goals like yesterday’s, where the senior people have to dig through layers and layers of crufty scripts in half a dozen languages (an area where there has _not_ been useful consolidation) to find and remediate the problem, while the junior folks are _literally_ locked out and unable to help.
"It’s worthy of note that this monoculture/stagnation process has certainly not been limited to routing protocols; where we had many competing and improving layer-2 protocols, since about 2001 they’ve pretty much all been squeezed out by Ethernet in its many, equally mediocre, forms. There used to be dozens of email formats, with a rich market in gateways between; since that competition was eliminated, email has become homogenous and an efficient home for spammers. It’s precisely this trend toward stagnation in open standards and open protocols that has made the predatory centralization of proprietary garbage like Gmail and Office365 and Facebook possible… When there were alternatives, nobody would ever have given such half-assed things a second glance."
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What of the reports of employees not even able to gain access to the building so as actually work on the situation?
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DevOps is where the adults work. The other software dev teams are full of young H1B drones who know little and have next to no experience to draw upon.
Care to guess which group gets executive attention and lavish resources, and which is starved?
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Proof that the entire internet can be shut down for an extended period. Crippling many businesses that do financial transactions on line, etc. during that time.
[Red State] In a number of articles penned in the following days, Donahue is characterized as "uniquely qualified" for that moment in time and generally depicted as a humble, understated leader of his division.
Unfortunately, everything isn’t quite as it may seem. During the last hours of the evacuation, according to troops under his command and as documented by photographs and witness statements, Donahue ordered all of the passengers aboard a C-17 transport plane to disembark so he could have a souvenir loaded onto the plane. That souvenir, or "war trophy," was an inoperable Taliban-owned Toyota Hilux with a fully operational Russian ZU-23 anti-aircraft autocannon mounted in the bed. Once the Hilux was loaded passengers were allowed back on the plane, but, of course, there wasn’t room for all of them. According to troops on the scene, at least 50 people and perhaps as many as 100 people were left at Kabul to make room for the Hilux.
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Also read US left behind 2 CRAM. Now the Chinese and Russians each get one to figure out how to jam/spoof it and the West's last ditch defense against antiship missiles (Phalanx and SeaRAM).
[BBC] The Pandora Papers is a leak of almost 12 million documents that reveals hidden wealth, tax avoidance and, in some cases, money laundering by some of the world's rich and powerful.
More than 600 journalists in 117 countries have been trawling through the files from 14 sources for months, finding stories that are being published this week.
The data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC, which has been working with more than 140 media organisations on its biggest ever global investigation.
BBC Panorama and the Guardian have led the investigation in the UK.
[PJ] As President Joe Biden pledges to bridge the divide between those who want an immediate vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill and radicals determined to block legislation until they get the highest profligate social spending possible, Biden’s allies took to the Sunday shows.
"We need to deliver for the American people," Cedric Richmond, a senior presidential advisor, told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. "And so, what we have work to do is make sure that Senator Manchin understands how this affects the future in terms of making sure that we invest in American families so that they can determine their own destiny. We think we have unity of purpose with Senator Manchin. That’s what the president does best and that is to talk to Senator Manchin and make sure that he understands the entire vision why we need to do it and what amount."
But when Richmond echoed the Democrat lie that trillions of dollars actually equal zero, Wallace interrupted, explaining, "It doesn’t cost zero. Whether it’s $3.5 trillion or $2 trillion, it — or $1.5 trillion, whatever, it costs that amount of money. Now, you can pay for it either by borrowing it or you can pay for it by raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy, but it doesn’t cost zero."
[Free Beacon] One-third of inmates freed by Democratic Kentucky governor Andy Beshear during the pandemic were later charged with a felony, according to a state report.
Beshear commuted the sentences of 1,704 inmates through executive orders last year, citing an interest in limiting the spread of COVID-19 in prisons and protecting the health of vulnerable inmates. A report from Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts, released under pressure from Republican state lawmakers, found that 553 of those inmates were subsequently charged with felonies as of August.
The Courier-Journal revealed the findings of the report, which also showed that with misdemeanor charges considered, nearly half of the released prisoners were charged with some crime.
While the report did not detail the specifics of the crimes, it tallied the number of felony charges by their class. Four were charged with Class A felonies against a person, and 24 were charged with Class B felonies against a person. Class A felonies include the most grievous crimes, including "murder ... first-degree rape, and sodomy involving a child under 12 years old," according to the Courier-Journal, and Class B felonies include "first-degree manslaughter, rape, sodomy, assault, and robbery."
The Kentucky Republican Party accused the governor of endangering public safety by releasing the inmates.
"While Gov. Andy Beshear kept kids out of school, businesses shuttered, and even sent law enforcement to stalk churchgoers, he let more than 1,700 criminals out from behind bars—hundreds of whom went on to commit felonies," a spokesman for the party told the Washington Free Beacon. "Despite the governor's repeated assurances that these offenders were nonviolent, they even included dangerous criminals convicted of crimes like attacking police and corrections officers, carjackers, gun crimes and domestic violence, and more. Gov. Beshear's commutations raise serious questions and he needs to answer to the people of Kentucky."
Beshear defended his commutations in April 2020, insisting the state selected for release only inmates who had not been convicted of violent or sexual crimes.
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30 years ago, a psychiatrist from UCLA gave a talk on prison reform. He said 1/3 of all prisoners continued as before, 1/3 changed their behavior to commit less severe crimes, and 1/3 stopped committing crimes altogether.
[IsraelTimes] Staff of a private militia belonging to the Islamic Movement
...this one is the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel...
have tried to prevent suspects in an assault on coppers from being photographed, standing at the entrance to a court hearing on their remand and physically blocking photographers from entering.
"You don’t have an approval to enter, this is a private area," the two men tell a photographer for the Walla news site, according to footage published by the outlet. The report says court guards weren’t around.
"Calm down, don’t be a hero," the men can be heard saying, despite having no authority to prevent journalists from entering the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court hearing.
The photographers are eventually allowed in.
Police arrested four suspects over the weekend after several officers were assaulted early Friday by private security guards working for the municipality of the Arab Israeli city of Kafr Qasim.
The officers had sought to enter the town’s municipality after receiving a report that someone had been violent mostly peacefully taken into the building, but were denied entry by the guards. A scuffle broke out and several cops were beaten and bloodied.
[IsraelTimes] Three suspects in the beating of coppers in the Arab Israeli city of Kafr Qasim have been remanded until Thursday, police say.
Police arrested the three suspects over the weekend after several officers were assaulted early Friday by private security guards working for the municipality. Police suspect a fourth man, who hasn’t been arrested, was also involved in the attack.
The officers had sought to enter the town’s municipality after receiving a report that someone had been violent mostly peacefully taken into the building, but were denied entry by the guards. A scuffle broke out and several cops were beaten and bloodied.
[IsraelTimes] Suspect reportedly crossed from Ottoman Turkish side of island on bike and was casing out Israeli businessmen; was arrested by anti-terror unit while in possession of gun and silencer.
The would-be hitman in the alleged Iranian terror plot to assassinate one or more Israeli businessmen in Cyprus reportedly spied out potential targets at an office complex where multiple Israelis worked, Channel 12 news reported Monday night.
Over the past week, reports have emerged of an attempted attack on Israeli targets in Cyprus, though reported details of the plot and its targets have varied widely.
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[IsraelTimes] Azerbaijan denies allegations from Tehran that Israel’s military was in the Caucasus country during drills run by Iran’s army on their shared border.
The Iranian claims about Israel come after state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
last week showed tanks, howitzers and helicopters firing at targets in the northwest of the country.
Israel is a major arms supplier to Azerbaijan, which last autumn won a six-week war with neighbor Armenia over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has filed a supplementary chargesheet against two murderous Moslems of the Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen
...one of Pakistan’s ISI’s catspaws in Kashmir, TuM was founded in 1990. By the end of the decade they were on their fourth emir, and subsequently their limited membership has been mainly visiting Paks with a few locals for local flavour. They’ve been seen in the Kashmir Valley in the Beeru belt of Budgam district, Ganderbal, and parts of Srinagar, Anantnag and Pulwama, and gotten funding from the Saudi Arabian Harmain Islamic Foundation — one of the financiers of 9/11, among other little projects — as well as the ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba...
in connection with a conspiracy case registered at Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... The NIA has charged Zafar Iqbal based in Pakistain and Shaid Naveed. The accused persons were part of a deep-rooted criminal conspiracy hatched by Pakistain based handlers of the terror group and their associates based in Poonch and Kuwait.
The NIA says that they were planning on executing terror attacks in a bid to wage war against the Indian state. The accused were tasked to smuggle arms, ammunitions, explosives and narcotics, the NIA said. During the course of the investigations a large cache of arms, ammunitions, explosives, narcotics, flags, posters and other incriminating material were seized.
The probe revealed that Iqbal had sent funds through Naveed who at that time was based in Kuwait.
These funds were then sent to Poonch to carry out the plan. Further investigation into the case continues.
[Rudaw] A Ottoman Turkish court sentenced a Kurdish politician who died four years ago to more than eight years in prison for his alleged links to an umbrella group linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), media affiliated with the group reported on Sunday.
Ahmet Onder was sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison in Hakkari province’s criminal court in the Kurdish-populated southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... during a trial of people accused of links to the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), Firat News Agency (ANF) reported. KCK is an umbrella group of a number of parties, including the PKK, which is deemed a terrorist organization by Ankara.
Onder died four years ago due to cancer. He was the head of communications in the People's Democratic Party (HDP), a pro-Kurdish party that top Ottoman Turkish officials have accused of being the political wing of the PKK, leading to the arrests of scores of their politicians - including former co-chairs and parliamentarians and members - in recent years on terror charges. HDP has denied any links to the PKK.
The PKK established the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), which soon became a target of the state, in 2007. Ottoman Turkish prosecutors launched a campaign dubbed the KCK Case, arresting and otherwise reprimanding anyone believed to be affiliated with the group.
Turkey has detained and sentenced scores of Kurdish politicians, activists and journalists in the last decade for their alleged links to the KCK.
In a case last year, 68 out of 79 people tried were found guilty on charges of membership in a terrorist organization for their alleged links to KCK.
The recent case put 30 people on trial, including Ramziya Yashar from HDP who was sentenced to 17 years and six months in prison over alleged "membership in a terrorist organization," local news reports said.
Yashar was the co-mayor of Yuksekova district, arrested in October 2019 along with a number of other HDP mayors in the Kurdish-majority areas during police raids.
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Don't threaten school board members. Dont follow them into restrooms. Limit your activities to speaking out against the policies and running against the members.
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See post below - Bidet says that's "part of the process, heh heh heh..."
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the big problem I see is the lack of a common language: They talk about "feelings", micro-aggressions and patriarchy. To a non-woke person this sounds like demented babbling.
it reminds me of the abolitionists and pro-slavery people talking past each other in the 1850's.
We had much greater differences with the Soviets than we had with the Confederates, but during the Cold War both sides agreed on one thing: Nuclear war would be very, very bad. This one thread kept the peace long enough for the two sides to develop a common language that peacefully resolved our differences.
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#6 Good post. My particular concern is the speed at which the Narrative and its vocabulary continue to mutate. E.g., five years ago (or less) "woman" would have been considered a non-controversial term. It's tough to have a discussion when the language of the discussion switches from Farsi to Finnish after five minutes.
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[SkyNews] Sky News host James Morrow says the Biden administration has "two very different attitudes" to COVID depending on how you choose to enter the country. Neither of them coherent.
While overseas travelers from 33 countries will be permitted entry if they show proof of vaccination and test negative to the virus, Democrats last week voted to block measures which would ensure illegal immigrants were tested.
"Strict rules for people flying into the country legally, but it’s a COVID free-for-all if you stroll in illegally, and it doesn’t make any sense until you realise one thing," he said.
"The stuff for legitimate travellers flying into LAX or JFK is all window dressing.
"The progressive left’s real goal is to bring about what is happening at the border across the country to every suburb in America — chaos and lawlessness, because let’s be honest, that’s what they want to do.
"They want to fulfill Barack Obama’s promise to, as he said, ’fundamentally transform America’.
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Which is why so many want to come in illegally: it's so much easier!
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The ships not allowed in ports on the west coast and east coast are not allowed in because of covid. This administration allows everything else in but little else. Starting to look like a Democrat October surprise.
On 30 Sept., a man tried breaking inside a Portland restaurant occupied by staff. Police responded but backed away to give man "space." He proceeded to use a large rock to smash his way inside, forcing staff to flee & hide in the freezer room. https://t.co/GgPPCUixRepic.twitter.com/G6ojwbzHFw
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Yes. This is what happens when the city council that orders the police around is populated with space cadets. And yes, they are all getting what they voted for, good and hard, now.
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[BenarNews] As many as six separatist snuffies and a Thai army lieutenant were killed in a gunbattle Sunday in Thailand’s Deep South, where government forces have surrounded suspected rebels in a local swamp during the past several days, military officials said.
The bodies of four suspected Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN)
...the Salafi Barisan Revolusi Nasional-Koordinasi (BRN-C), the largest group in the south Thailand Islamist jihad. Trained in Bandung, Indonesia and retreating to safe havens in Malaysia, they’ve been causing trouble — mostly kabooms — for two decades as they work to make southern Thailand ungovernable...
rebels were retrieved from the site of the firefight, which broke out in the pre-dawn hours and lasted till before noon inside a wetland in and around Hutaelueyo, a village in the Bacho district of Narathiwat province, a military front man told BenarNews.
[AlAhram] At least 14 soldiers were killed and seven injured by bully boyz at the Yirgou military barracks in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... 's Sanmatenga province on Monday, the government said.
The soldiers were targeted at 5 a.m. by a large number of heavily gunnies and showed ``great combativeness,'' Minister of Defense Aime Barthelemy Simpore said in a statement.
The government immediately launched an aerial and ground offensive, he said.
Locals near the attack said they were shocked, given there had been an increased military presence in the area recently.
``We are totally devastated because of what happened,'' Abdoulaye Pafadnam, the mayor of nearby Barsalogho town, told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named by phone.
``Many defense and security forces were sent to cover the area, and it was very encouraging to see that. We did not think that such an attack would happen in our zone....But when 12 soldiers get killed and equipment is taken away, it creates a big fear,`' he said.
Violence linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group is increasing across the once peaceful West African country.
As of Saturday there were six explosives detonated within seven days killing eight people and wounding several others, according to a tweet by Menastream, a conflict monitoring consultancy.
While attacks had previously been concentrated in the north and east, they're expanding across the country. At least three of the explosives last week occurred in the west and southwest including the first deadly explosive in the Cascades region, according to Menastream.
Conflict analysts say the intensifying of attacks are due to some jihadist groups trying to consolidate gains before the rainy season ends, when violence typically increases and that the spike in explosives is a response to more Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s by the army, said Heni Nsaibia a senior researcher at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
``One could assume that the explosives are both a response of choice to the airstrikes, and a way to deter movements by ground forces, in order to force them to become more static.'' he said.
[ToloNews] Zabihullah Mujahid, the deputy minister of information and culture, said that a ISIS hideout was eliminated in an operation by Islamic emirate forces on Sunday.
Mujahid said in a tweet that an operation was launched last night in Kabul’s District 17 in which the ISIS center was destroyed.
"All ISIS fighters present in the hideout were killed," Mujahid said.
So far, the number of casualties is not available.
A security source told TOLOnews that "10 members of a family affiliated with ISIS were killed in the operation."
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon... people living in the area told TOLOnews that last night they heard sound of heavy and light weapons.
According to eyewitnesses, the operation started around 8pm and lasted until around 10pm.
Local residents have confirmed the shooting of light and heavy weapons in the area and have also reported two explosions.
Sources of the Taliban have also said that they have launched operations in PD17 to eliminate a hideout of the ISIS-K.
The operation has allegedly left the hideout destroyed and at least three killed.
The operation is conducted hours after a suicide bomber exploded his explosives in Eid Gah mosque where Taliban authorities and civilians had gathered for the prayer/mourning ceremony of the slain mother of Zabiullah Mujahid- spokesperson of the Taliban.
The explosion has reportedly left more than ten killed and over 20 more wounded.
Witnesses and AFP journalists heard blasts and gunfire in the capital at the time of the raid, and images posted to social media showed a large explosion and a fire at the scene.
Kabul resident and government employee Abdul Rahaman told AFP that a "large number" of Taliban special forces attacked at least three houses in his neighbourhood.
"The fighting continued for several hours," he said, adding the sound of weapons kept him awake all night.
A government cultural commission official, who asked not to be named, told AFP that five people died and 11 were wounded, adding the casualties included both civilians and Taliban members.
"We have also arrested three people in connection with the blast," he said.
According to the official, the device was placed at the entrance to the mosque and detonated as mourners were leaving after offering condolences to Mujahid and his family.
A witness at the mosque, who asked not to be identified, told AFP that Sunday's attack at the entrance was carried out by a single suicide bomber.
Just outside the eastern gate, a dark patch was visible on the ground where the explosion took place and bullet holes could be seen in a wall.
The witness said a group of Taliban members -- including senior figures -- inside the mosque grounds came under fire after the blast, taking two casualties.
He added that two Taliban units mistakenly opened fire on each other in the confusion following the explosion, but interior ministry spokesman Qari Sayed Khosti denied there had been any gunfire.
"A suicide bomber detonated his explosives among the crowd killing three people and wounding a dozen," he said.
[Rudaw] Two people were maimed in a suspected drone attack in a village in Sulaimani province on Monday, witnesses and local officials told Rudaw.
The incident took place at 5:00pm in Saydani village in Chamchamal district, western Sulaimani province. A 24-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man were maimed.
"The injury to the man is serious," Sharif Rahim, spokesperson for Chamchamal health directorate, told Rudaw.
Witnesses said the attack was carried out by a drone.
"Only The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... bombs here, therefore we are sure it was done by Turkey," Shawkat Sharif, chieftain of the village, told Rudaw.
Both Turkey and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... carry out frequent operations in the Kurdistan Region, often using drones, to target Kurdish opposition groups.
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[MSN] Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, three of the most-popular websites and apps in the world, were knocked offline Monday in a major internet outage.
The outage occurred around 12 p.m. EST. The three products are all owned and operated by Facebook. Several other products that are owned and operated by Facebook were also affected.
According to The Verge, the issue appears to be a DNS (server) problem.
"We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience," Facebook communications exec Andy Stone said on Twitter.
From NN2N1, with Fred’s comments:
DNS.... ETC......
ENGINEERS CAN'T EVEN BADGE IN, TO GET IN TO FIX IT.....
Hmm. We're having trouble finding that site. We guessed that.
We cannot connect to the server at www.facebook.com. It's back up and running now.
If that address is correct, here are three other things you can try:
Try again later.
Check your network connection.
If you are connected but behind a firewall, check that Firefox has permission to access the Web.
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Facebook was targeted by mus1im extremists because Zuckerburg is Jewish!
[Rudaw] As Iraq heads to the polls on October 10, a spotlight has fallen on the outsized influence neighbouring Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... wields - but also on the growing popular backlash against it.
The parliamentary vote is being held early as a concession to a pro-democracy movement that railed against an Iraqi political system it decried as inept, corrupt and beholden to Iran.
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[Bloomberg] Given the scope of their ambitions and our dependence on them, behemoth brands should be treated, and held to account, for what they really are: commercial superpowers.
It’s getting harder to distinguish brands from nation-states.
customers (citizens), shareholders (legislators), boards of directors (executives), chairmen (monarchs), CEOs (presidents), and oversight boards (judges)
... or even size, though the comparisons are startling:
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That's simple. Whatever you may think of them, Amazon and Facebook are successful entities that aggressively accomplish their goals.
The UN is a festering cesspit of triple parking, skip out on the tab, 2nd to 4th sons. Too stupid to survive in their country of origin, this herd of mouth breathing rent seekers issues extravagant demands that would embarrass Arafat.
[FoxNews] Adela Raz, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the U.S., said in an interview that she does not believe President Biden cares about the fate of Afghan women left behind to live under Taliban rule
It’s true: he doesn’t...
and said she feels a level of guilt for persuading women to believe there was a future in the country.
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There was a future. But then Groper Joe was made President. He cares about as far as he can sniff or grope them.
And that goes for the rest of his administration too.
[ZeroHedge] The immune systems of the vast majority of people who have been infected with Covid-19 will continue to carry antibodies against the virus for at least 12 months, according to a peer-reviewed study accepted by the European Journal of Immunology on Sept. 24.
More science, courtesy of Vespasian Ebboting9735, stacked together for efficiency:
[ConservativeTreehouse] The California study finds that vaccinated individuals are more susceptible to COVID variant infections than unvaccinated. Geer Vanden Bossche has been warning that vaccine antibodies would suppress natural antibody responses. The vaccine antibodies take control of the immune system and defend only against a targeted virus.
Veritas Journalist: “So, I am well-protected [with antibodies]?”
Chris Croce, Pfizer Senior Associate Scientist: “Yeah.”
Veritas Journalist: “Like as much as the vaccine?”
Croce: “Probably more.”
Veritas Journalist: “How so? Like, how much more?”
Croce: “You're protected most likely for longer since there was a natural response.”
Croce expressed dismay with his company’s direction and moral compass:
Veritas Journalist: “So, what happened to the monoclonal antibody treatments?”
Croce: “[It got] pushed to the side.”
Veritas Journalist: “Why?”
Croce: “Money. It's disgusting.”
Croce: “I still feel like I work for an evil corporation because it comes down to profits in the end. I mean, I'm there to help people, not to make millions and millions of dollars. So, I mean, that's the moral dilemma.”
Veritas Journalist: “Isn’t it billions and billions?”
Croce: “I’m trying to be nice.”
Veritas Journalist: “No, I hear you. I hear you. I do. I mean, I’ll still give you a hard time about it.”
Croce: “Basically, our organization is run on COVID money now.”
[WashingtonTimes] ... unusually high prices for natural gas are pushing some electricity producers in Asia to switch from natural gas to oil-based products, helping support prices.
The price of a barrel of crude jumped by 3%, or $2.32, to $78.17 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest since 2014. The Brent international benchmark hit a new 3-year high at $81.48, up 2.8% on the day.
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[Garowe] Somali National Army (SNA)'s Special Forces (Danab) on Monday killed seven al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... holy warriors during a sting security operation carried out in the Lower Shabelle region, the southern part of the country.
Military commanders told SNA Radio that three al-Shabaab leaders were among those killed during the operation in Busley and Bulo-Alundi villages under the Janale area.
The SNA commanders said several bully boyz were maimed and their hideouts were destroyed in operations after the army received intelligence of al-Shabaab's presence in those locations.
The military officials said the security operation will be intensified in the area to wipe out al-Shabaab fighters who often carry out roadside attacks against allied forces in the region.
The snuffies have intensified attacks in Somalia despite government forces having made intensive operations against the forces of Evil in central and southern regions in recent months in an attempt to flush out al-Shabaab cells.
[Garowe] Malaysian holy warriors battling in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria are well documented, but Kelantanese Ahmad Mustakim Abdul Hamid is probably the first case involving al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... in Africa.
The Somalia-based terrorist group is said to have many foreigners within its ranks, and even at a leadership level.
Influenced by what they read, mostly online, they joined the organization to fight the Somali government and its Æthiopian allies.
The current number of imported muscle in Somalia is unclear but in 2011, it was reported that there were even US citizens in the mix, mostly of Somali descent.
One report stated that the group recruited over 40 Americans and 20 Canadians to battle in Somalia.
Foreigners were recruited to serve as mercenaries and as propaganda tools because of their ability to speak English, for radicalization and recruitment.
But according to an article by David Shinn in 2010 for the US-based Foreign Policy Research Institute, top leaders then included those from Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... , Pakistain, Algeria, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Bangladesh, India, Afghanistan, and Uganda.
"Al-Shabaab has developed one of the most effective recruitment programs found among Death Eater Islamist groups.
"It has been particularly successful in the large Somali diaspora in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia," he wrote.
The presence of foreigners, according to many analysts, has been both a boon and bane to al-Shabaab because it has led to differences and conflicts among the rank and file.
According to the National Counterterrorism Center in the US, in-fighting and shifting alliances were common.
"So, the desertion of Ahmad Mustakim in 2015 came as no surprise as he probably could not take the constant bickering inside the group.
"But he was arrested and tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! for his attempt," a source added. Intelligence updates have indicated that al-Shabaab is now led by Ahmed Umar, also known as Ahmed Diriye and Abu Ubaidah, with a US$6mil (RM25mil) bounty following the death of Ahmed Abdi Godane in a US Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in 2014.
[AnNahar] An Iranian nuclear reactor being converted from heavy water production into a power generating research facility will be launched within a year, a front man for parliament's energy commission announced.
Under a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and world powers, the Islamic republic shut down the original Arak reactor in Markazi province so that it could not produce military-grade plutonium.
It also pledged that a replacement of the original reactor with a new one would support "peaceful nuclear research".
Quoted on Sunday by the Fars news agency, Mustafa Nakhai, front man of the legislature's energy commission, said "the Arak IR-20 reactor will be launched in a year from now".
Nakhai said he was in turn quoting Mohammed Eslami, newly-appointed to head the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI).
He also quoted Eslami as saying the new IR-20 reactor at Arak will feed into the generation of a planned 8,000 MW of nuclear power, to be achieved by the construction of additional reactors, state news agency IRNA reported.
Nuclear chief Eslami also said in mid-September during a site visit to Arak that Iran wanted to establish the long-planned research facility "as quickly as possible".
The AEOI had said early this year that it would cold test the new reactor in the first three months of the Iranian year, which began on March 21.
The 2015 nuclear deal gave Iran sanctions relief in return for tight controls on its nuclear program, monitored by the UN.
Tehran has gradually rolled back its nuclear commitments since 2019, a year after then US president Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... withdrew from the multilateral deal and began re-imposing sanctions.
Talks began in April in Vienna in a bid to bring the US back inside the deal, but the dialogue has been stalled since June, when ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi was elected as Iran's president.
[Breitbart] The Polish government has sent at least 31,000 text messages to migrants near its border with Belarus telling them to go back to Minsk, stating that the Polish border is closed.
The text messages say in English, “The Polish border is closed. The Belarusian authorities lied to you. Go back to Minsk!” and give links to a site in English, French, Arabic, Russian, and Polish stating that migrants who cross the border illegally are subject to imprisonment.
The site also warns the migrants that adverse weather conditions at the border could place their safety at risk, particularly if migrants are sleeping outside and without any form of shelter, broadcaster FranceInfo reports.
The warning is not without precedent as five migrants have been found dead at the Polish-Belarusian border in recent weeks, with some migrants reportedly freezing to death as nighttime temperatures drop close to freezing.
Earlier this month, Poland declared a state of emergency at the border regions with Belarus and has since revealed that some of the migrants crossing illegally from Belarus have had radical Islamic propaganda in their possession.
Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński stated this week that the government would also be extending the state of emergency along the border by another 60 days.
Poland has blamed the Belarusian government of President Alexander Lukashenko for the surge in migrant arrivals, an estimated 5,000 attempted crossings since the start of September.
This week, European Union Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said that President Lukashenko was “desperate”, following actions imposed upon his regime after what many believe to have been the hijacking of a RyanAir flight that had a regime-critical journalist aboard in May.
"Mr President, Mr. President, I've been talking about how you have 48 Democratic votes right now, the other two have been pressured over the weekend by activists. Joe Manchin had people on kayaks, show up to his boat. Senator Sinema last night was chased into a restroom. Do you think that those tactics are crossing a line?" Doocy asked.
"I don't think they're appropriate tactics but it happens to everybody," Biden said. "The only people it doesn't happen to are people who have Secret Service standing around with them. So, it's part of the process."
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I'm sure that sympathetic take will bring her directly into the progressive fold.
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Harassing a US senator - part of the process. telling your school board members to back off the CRT - domestic terrorism.
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^. Yes. Part of the natural spiraling down into extreme radicalism. When Obama imported Somalis and Palestinians,this is what happens to your party.
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Those who pay will get whatever services they require. They have their own private doctor. House calls and much better being in home environment. The medial people seem to really enjoy this approach. Less hours, good income and the ability to enjoy their work and life.
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The Zircon has been identified by Moscow's state-controlled TV as Vladimir Putin's weapon of choice to wipe out coastal American cities in the event of an atomic conflict.
[Breitbart] A 22-year-old New York City man has been arrested 57 times this year, including a stabbing, while 46 of the arrests stem from retail thefts.
Isaac Rodriguez enjoys robbing one store in particular more than any other: Walgreens. He has shoplifted from Walgreens 37 times and holds an affinity for the store in Jackson Heights, which he has lifted 23 times, the New York Post has reported.
“This guy comes here every day stealing, every single day. He comes, and he steals,” the manager of Walgreens at Jackson Heights detailed, the Post reported. “We call 911 and make a report, and that’s it. Our company policy is if anyone comes, because of a safety issue, we cannot stop him. We cannot do anything.”
The manager says Rodriguez has been shoplifting from the store for “at least a year, at least every single day. … Whenever he goes to jail he stops. Sometimes he comes three, four times [a day] to get all of a [certain] merchandise,” according to the Post.
In addition to his 37 shoplifts at Walgreens, Rodriguez has also stolen from Victoria’s Secret four times, Rite Aid three times, Target three times, CVS twice, and Family Dollar and Macy’s once, police told the New York Post.
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Stealing all of a specific product suggests he's part of an organized retail theft ring. If the police would roll use him to get the rest of the organization, they'd likely find ties to a cartel or a terrorist organization.
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[The Naked Hedgie] The epic rise of Theranos and its equally epic unravelling has turned out to be one of the most spectacular stories in recent years.
Recall, dear Reader, that Theranos was a company chock full of Bright Young Things that supposedly had a breakthrough technology that would quickly perform vast numbers of very demanding blood tests using only a few drops of the patient’s blood. Unfortunately, that breakthrough had not been invented yet, and in fact continues to be the finest quality vapourware that at one point was valued at $9 billion before falling to zero in 2016.
It went down as the largest fraud since Enron and the greatest scandal in Silicon Valley’s history. But media narratives have invariably focused on the company’s young founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes. Countless reports and documentaries are all based on the unlikely assumption that Theranos was her own brainchild and that she herself was in control of events. We’ll consider a different perspective here: one which places Theranos in context of the current pandemic and the coercive measures planned by the global health authorities. As you’ll see, the real story of Theranos will prove very relevant to our present predicament. But most importantly, there is a very significant silver lining to this story. If you happen to feel pessimistic about the way things are going now, the real story of Theranos will give you encouragement and a great dose of optimism. * snip *
That story enabled the audacious 19-year old to launch her venture, raise a total of over $750 million dollars and assemble a board of directors counting some of the world’s most powerful individuals. Theranos obtained funding from a number of high profile capitalists including the billionaire venture capitalists Tim Draper and Don Lucas Sr, Rupert Murdoch, the Walton family, Betsy Devos, Larry Ellison, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim and companies like Walgreens and Safeway.
Theranos Board of Directors included former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, former Defence Secretary William Perry, future Defence Secretary General James "Mad Dog" Mattis, former U.S. Senator and Chair of the Armed Services Committee Sam Nunn, power lawyer David Boies, Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Gary Roughead, and former CEO of Wells Fargo Richard Kovachevic. It was indeed the board to take over the world.
[AlAhram] Taiwan urged Beijing to stop "irresponsible provocative actions" after 56 Chinese warplanes crossed into its air defence zone on Monday in yet another record incursion.
The defence ministry said it scrambled aircraft to broadcast warnings after 36 fighter jets, 12 H-6 nuclear-capable bombers and four other planes entered its southwest air defence identification zone (ADIZ).
Four more fighters entered the zone in a night sortie, bringing the total to 56 planes, the ministry added.
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), Taiwan's top China policy-making body, accused Beijing of "seriously damaging the status quo of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait" with its recent string of incursions.
"We demand the Beijing authorities immediately stop its non-peaceful and irresponsible provocative actions," MAC front man Chiu Chui-cheng said in a statement.
"China is the culprit for causing tensions between the two sides of the (Taiwan) Strait and it has further threatened regional security and order," he added, saying Taiwan "will never compromise and yield" to threats.
The ADIZ is not the same as Taiwan's territorial airspace but includes a far greater area that overlaps with part of China's own air defence identification zone and even includes some of the mainland.
Self-ruled democratic Taiwan lives under the constant threat of invasion by China, which views the island as its territory and has vowed to one day seize it, by force if necessary.
In the last two years, Beijing has begun sending large sorties into Taiwan's defence zone to signal dissatisfaction at key moments -- and to keep Taipei's ageing fighter fleet regularly stressed.
Nearly 150 Chinese warplanes had breached Taiwan's ADIZ since Friday when Beijing marked its National Day with its then-biggest aerial show of force, buzzing the island with 38 planes.
That was followed by another incursion by 39 planes on Saturday, sparking criticism from Washington.
State Department front man Ned Price reiterated Monday that the United States was "very concerned" by the "provocative" moves by Beijing.
"This activity is destabilising, it risks miscalculation and it undermines regional peace and security," Price told news hounds.
"We strongly urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic and economic pressure and coercion against Taiwan," he said, calling US commitment to the island "rock-solid".
RAMPING UP PRESSURE
China's foreign ministry on Monday accused Washington of sending out "an extremely wrong and irresponsible signal" with "provocative" actions such as selling arms to Taipei and sending its warships to the Taiwan Strait.
"The US should correct its mistakes, earnestly abide by the 'one China Principle'... prudently and appropriately handle the Taiwan issue, stop bolstering 'Taiwanese independence' separatist forces," said spokeswoman Hua Chunying.
Beijing has ramped up pressure on Taiwan since the 2016 election of President Tsai Ing-wen, who rejects its stance that Taiwan is part of "one China".
Under President Xi Jinping, Chinese warplanes are crossing into Taiwan's ADIZ at an unprecedented rate.
Last year, a record 380 Chinese military jets made incursions into Taiwan's defence zone, and the number this year as of early October has already exceeded 600.
Last week, 24 Chinese warplanes flew into the zone after Taiwan applied to join a major trans-Pacific trade pact, a move Beijing has opposed.
Friday's show of force came the same week China accused Britannia of "evil attentions" after it sent a frigate to sail through the Taiwan Strait, which Beijing claims as its own waterway.
Xi has described Taiwan becoming part of the mainland as "inevitable".
US military officials have begun to talk openly about fears that China could consider the previously unthinkable and invade.
Monday's incursion "was a way for Beijing to tell Washington that it will not submit to US warnings, that it, not Washington, sets the rules in this part of the world," said J. Michael Cole, a Taipei-based analyst at the University of Nottingham's Taiwan Studies Programme.
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Meanwhile in homeland China we have major problems. The whole eastern area of China power outages. Factories cut back days of operation. In one factory they work two days a week. Days without power in many cities or about all. Massive flooding. Crops lost. Constructions crumbling dams, roads, and any buildings. Using bamboo as rebar. Glass bottles as filler to reduce amount of concrete used. Artificial rebar 1" you can bend like a rope. Then adulteration of foods to something other than what you would expect. They use everything and eat anything. China has grown very fast but they are now and for years to come in distress. OH, 30 days supply of coal that is poor quality and costs too much to use as currently they loose money on every kilowatt generated. The banking system can go down anytime. This will ripple worldwide. So naturally they want a distraction from their many failures.
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...This is similar to what we did during the run up to DESERT STORM - we'd fly huge formations towards the Iraqi border daily then turn around at the last second, and we did it every day for literal months. (We were also futzing with their radars for hours a day at random intervals - something we haven't seen yet from the PRC.) The Iraqi radar operators got used to seeing planes flying around and it eventually just became part of the background noise.
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[Breitbart] The U.S. Border Patrol’s Laredo Sector Horse Patrol Unit rescued a migrant who became lost on a ranch approximately 50 miles from the Texas border with Mexico. The agents utilized their horses to search for the migrant and then provided first aid before transporting him.
The Horse Patrol Unit “is an invaluable asset to both agents and people who need assistance,” Laredo Sector Chief Patrol Agent Matthew Hudak said in a tweet on Friday.
Hudak said the horse-mounted agents carried out a search for a migrant who was either lost or had been abandoned on a ranch near Hebbronville, Texas. The agents responded to a 911 call reporting a person lost in the brush, according to information obtained from Laredo Sector agents.
Human smugglers utilize the ranches in this area to move migrants around interior immigration checkpoints.
The chief said the agents found the man, a Honduran national, under the brush and provided first aid. They then transported the migrant on horseback, to an awaiting Border Patrol vehicle for processing.
“Every year, many undocumented individuals fall into distress due to the high temperatures as they travel through the arduous south Texas terrain,” Laredo Sector officials said in a written statement. “Fortunately in this incident, agents found the individual and provided him with the first aid needed to avert a heat-related injury.”
Horse Patrol Units of the U.S. Border Patrol have a long history of carrying out migrants rescues in remote and hazardous terrains all along the southwest border. Breitbart Texas regularly reports on the rescues and apprehension of migrants and the seizure of drugs carried out by the men and women of the Border Patrol who serve on horseback.
"Go away! I gotta poop!"
[REDSTATE] If you took the weekend off from the internet, you missed one of the most absurd scenes in politics to play out in a while. U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) was harassed and followed into an Arizona State University bathroom while multiple people filmed the entire thing.
The activists, at least one of whom was apparently an illegal immigrant, were demanding she pass a pathway to citizenship via reconciliation, which is odd given the Senate parliamentarian has already said that can’t happen. But I mean, did you really expect logic from people who stalk people into bathrooms to scream at them over political disagreements?
And sure enough, one of the activists has spoken out, and a lack of logic is the least of her mental concerns.
BREAKING: The woman who followed Sen. Sinema into the bathroom and stood right outside the stall, posted this on Facebook pic.twitter.com/OcvoYHXLGa
Can we just start with the fact that there’s something really gross about an illegal immigrant making these kinds of demands of a senator who was duly elected? Further, that they can do so without any fear of deportation while attending a major university paid for with taxpayer dollars? Oh, and she wants free rent and free healthcare, too, because why not? You can just feel the gratefulness for allowing her to live here illegally.
And I have no idea what the gig economy has to do with human trafficking, but I do know the PROAct would kill tens of millions of jobs and subjugate masses of Americans to the whims of corrupt unions and more big government. If that’s the kind of economy she wants, Venezuela does exist.
But really, the biggest disconnect here is that this illegal immigrant wants to be here in the first place. According to her rant, we all live on stolen land where people are kidnapped and murdered while having no access to jobs, clean water, or healthcare. That sounds like an absolute hellscape that isn’t worthy of human inhabitance. Yet, in the same breath, she demands citizenship in the dystopian nightmare that the United States of America supposedly is. Weird, right?
Clearly, this woman is a raging lunatic, and what happened to Sinema is a disgusting breach of privacy that should not be abided by. Various laws regarding harassment and filming someone in a bathroom were likely broken here, and while I understand politicians typically let this stuff slide, they shouldn’t. An example needs to be made because this is going to get dangerous if it continues.
Ashley Reese (@offbeatorbit), a staff writer at @Jezebel, calls for people to "absolutely bully Kyrsten Sinema." The moderate Democrat senator from Arizona was accosted & followed into the bathroom by activists who filmed her going to the toilet. https://t.co/XsilkVgxe7
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I have read that Soros is paying this creature to stalk Sinema. What I'd like to know is how an illegal alien is getting on US domestic commercial flights.
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If she's an illegal, she's not "indigenous", is she?
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Illegal alien invaders? They are illegal and all those who aid and abet them in this illegal act are criminals too. Act accordingly and jug their asses.
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All the NGOs, lawyers and individuals who assist these illegals in committing the illegal act of invading the U.S. need to be jugged and the illegals returned to their place of origin.
[ToloNews] Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) officials on Monday said Afghanistan owes $62 million for electricity from neighboring countries.
DABS officials said they have asked UNAMA to provide $90 million to pay the debt, adding that if UNAMA does not provide it they might pressure those people who have not paid their electricity bills, even though many people cannot afford it. What a dilemma!
Safiullah Ahmadzai, acting operational director of DABS, said the company has paid the electricity bill for the last two months to the electricity-exporting countries.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... a document obtained by TOLOnews shows that DABS owes over $51 million to four neighboring countries: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Iran.
DABS owes over $51 million to four neighboring countries: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Iran.
"UNAMA contacted us and told us what they can do for us. We requested they provide $90 million to Afghanistan. We asked UNAMA to pay the electricity bill of those customers who have not paid or cannot pay to the neighboring countries," Ahmadzai said.
According to Ahmadzai, DABS has sent letters to the power-exporting countries asking them to not cut electricity and pledging to pay the debt.
"If the bills are not paid, there is a risk that the neighboring countries will reduce the exported electricity and gradually cut it. DABS should address the problem immediately," said Amanullah Ghalib, former director of DABS.
A number of residents raised concerns over the bad economic situation in the country said the relevant departments should address the challenges promptly.
"We urge the neighboring countries to provide electricity until our government is recognized," said Ahmad Reshad, a Kabul resident.
"We urge the private companies, factories and people who have not paid their bills to pay their bills, so our electricity is not cut. Winter is approaching and we are facing serious problems," said Abdul Khabir, a Kabul resident.
Statistics show that Afghanistan pays around $22 million to $25 million a month to neighboring countries.
[DW] More than 9,000 people are stranded at military bases in Ramstein and Kaiserslautern. Washington suspended flights when measles were detected among evacuees landing in the US.
The Federal Interior Ministry in Berlin announced Monday that 9,139 Afghan refugees were currently stuck at US military bases in Germany owing to a suspension of evacuation flights by the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... Berlin's Foreign Ministry confirmed that the refugees were scheduled for evacuation but flights had been stopped in September after cases of measles were detected among Afghans arriving in the US. Berlin says none of the Afghans currently stranded at Ramstein Air Base and the Rhine Ordnance Barracks in Kaiserslautern had been promised admission to Germany.
Refugees housed at the bases have now received vaccinations against measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox according to the US military.
But not Covid-19? How odd.
The vaccination of more that 8,800 individuals was completed ahead of schedule on Sunday and carried out at the request of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The US is expected to resume flights this Friday. Ramstein serves as one of Washington's main flight hubs between Afghanistan — now controlled by the Islamist Taliban ...Arabic for students... — and the US, the other being in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... Officials at Ramstein have confirmed only one case of measles among evacuees in their care. The US 86th Airlift Wing on Monday said: "Ramstein is equipped to expeditiously resume flights once given approval to do so."
Ramstein Air Base serves as the headquarters for the US Air Forces in Europe, Africa and for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... Allied Air Command. The broader Kaiserslautern Military Community in and around the base is the largest US community overseas.
[GREATERKASHMIR] The Paleostinian president hosted an Israeli Cabinet minister for a late-night meeting Sunday, in a new sign of slowly improving ties between the sides.
Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz became the second top official to meet with Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... since the new Israeli government took office in June. Defense Minister Benny Gantz also met with Abbas at his West Bank headquarters in August.
The new Israeli government is comprised of eight parties spanning the Israeli political spectrum, from far-right hardliners who oppose a Paleostinian state to dovish parties that support a two-state solution.
Horowitz, who was joined by other members of his Meretz party, including Arab Cabinet minister Esawi Frej, leads the most dovish faction in the coalition.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett comes from a small, hardline religious party, and he has ruled out the establishment of a Paleostinian state on his watch. But he has called for reducing frictions, primarily by taking steps to boost the Paleostinian economy.
According to the state-run Wafa news agency, Abbas stressed the importance of ending the Israeli occupation and achieving a just and comprehensive peace.
Abbas' government seeks the establishment of a Paleostinian state in the West Bank, Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and east Jerusalem territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.
Horowitz posted a picture of himself and Abbas on Twitter. We have a shared mission: to preserve the hope for peace, on the basis of a two-state solution," he said.
[KhaamaPress] The acting minister of the higher education of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Abdul Baqi Haqqani said that those who have graduated from high schools during the past twenty years are of no use.
The acting minister is meant by the graduates who have studied during the non-Taliban era when they were fighting the US-backed governments of Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... and Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... Abdul Baqi Haqqani made the statements in a meeting with the university lecturers in Kabul.
Haqqani said that they must hire teachers who instill the students and incoming generations the values that are of use in the country and Afghanistan can utilize their talents in the future.
Earlier, the acting minister of higher education had said that the Master’s and Ph.D. holders of modern studies are less valuable than those who have studied in madrasas and have religious studies in Afghanistan.
The statement of Haqqani comes as the period-200-2020- is said to be one of the most important and rich eras when it comes to the level of education in Afghanistan.
The writer of this report is one of those who first went to school in 2000, graduated, got his BA degree in journalism, and is now working as a professional Afghan journalist in Kabul.
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When I saw 'BLM activist and transvestite model' I thought for a second they might have been talking about two different people. Nope - they gotta combine them with a fugly face 1st graders can use to play 'connect the freckle dots' for days on end.
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A woman runs this operation and you can see the results. Time magazine would deliberately have controversial figures posted on cover to dive circulation. I understand their market shares have been pissed away. Actually people don't read medias these days. People are avoiding most media as well.
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The surprise is that Playboy is still published.
Probably no long profit driven, but social status driven.
Whoever came up with this will get at least three high profile cocktail party invites. That's Big Time connections baby, maybe even a post in DC as a Military Diversity Advocate/Watchdog.
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Not quite Jesus overturning the money-changers' tables at the temple, but you gotta start somewhere.
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What does testing have to do with mandates? This is stupid, and counterproductive.
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Flipped a canopy, eh?
No flipped vehicles or burning buildings anywhere.
Pikers.
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Was listening to person's hip hop music channel this morning, talk show hosted by legend in the business. He was talking about an upcoming rap battle between a couple Big Names.
Said he was absolutely going to be there, unless he had to get the vaccine. Co-host was something like come on, not even for this? Nah.
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[REGNUM] In the Western Military District, an official investigation has begun in connection with the participation of a company of the guard of honor in the church wedding ceremony of Georgy Romanov and Rebecca (Victoria) Bettarini , which took place on October 1 at St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg. IA REGNUM was informed about this on October 4 in the press service of the Western Military District.
In response to questions posed in this regard, the district press service offered to send an official request from the editorial board, which will be done by the agency.
...Damned Tolkienists. Between them and the Trotskyites, you can't swing a dead koshka around here without hittin' a saboteur or wrecker. And don't get me started on Kerensky and his guys...
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The only one allowed the trappings of royalty is Putin!
Why did the wife convert? The churches reconciled decades ago.
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[BREITBART] A group of cartel gunmen shot and killed a Mexican local police chief who had just taken office hours earlier in the border state of Nuevo Leon.
The murder took place on Thursday night in the municipality of Cadereyta, just west of the Monterrey metropolitan area. A group of gunmen hiding in a vacant lot shot Police Chief Roberto Julián Saenz Garza as he walked outside of his home. Garza had just been sworn in as the new head for public safety in Cadereyta before the fatal attack. Relatives tended to Saenz inside of the house in the Padilla neighborhood while they called for paramedics who rushed him to a local hospital where he eventually died.
Law enforcement sources consulted by Breitbart Texas revealed that Cadereyta is a known drug corridor used by the Gulf Cartel to move drugs and migrants from Monterrey to the border city of Reynosa. Earlier in the week, the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel had placed several banners throughout Nuevo Leon announcing that they would be stepping up their attacks against their rivals with the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas. One of the theories points to that criminal organization being behind the murder. Law enforcement sources revealed that they were also looking at the possibility that the murder may have been carried out by the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas since both criminal organizations have a long-standing turf war for control of the northern part of Nuevo Leon.
Purchases of PCR tests in China’s Hubei Province surged months before the first official reports of a novel coronavirus case there, according to a report from researchers in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia.
About 67.4 million yuan ($10.5 million at current rates) was spent on PCR tests in Hubei during 2019, nearly double the 2018 total, with the upswing starting in May.
The report, released by a research team that includes former intelligence officers, is based on records from a website aggregating information on bids for public sector procurement contracts.
The report casts further doubt on China’s official line about the origins of the virus. The report alleges the unusual uptick likely signals awareness of a new disease spreading in and around Wuhan.
Orders doubled from universities, jumped fivefold from the Chinese CDC and surged tenfold from animal testing bureaus. Monthly procurement data shows a spike in orders in May, especially from CDC buyers and the People’s Liberation Army.
"We believe the increased spending in May suggests this as the earliest start date for possible infection," the report said.
Purchases rose sharply from July through October as well, in particular from the Wuhan University of Science and Technology. The institution spent 8.92 million yuan on PCR tests in 2019, about eight times its total for the previous year.
The university, along with local hospitals and public health authorities, plays a direct role in responding to outbreaks of new diseases, according to the report.
The involvement of these groups provides evidence that "the increase of purchasing was most likely linked to the emergence of COVID-19 in Hubei Province in 2019," the report said. "We assess with high confidence that the pandemic began much earlier than China informed the W.H.O. about COVID-19."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Dodge Charger muscle car was filmed spinning donuts around a cop car outside Downtown Philadelphia's famous city hall Saturday night.
The shameless act of hooliganism was snapped by an onlooker from the window of a nearby tall building just before midnight, with the car screeching around the Ford police cruiser multiple times as passengers sat on the vehicle's open windows.
'No f****** way,' onlookers could be heard yelling as the car drives by. 'Oh sh**, oh sh**.' Another onlooker was filmed clambering onto the cop car's bonnet moments later.
Despite the dangerous behavior, Philly PD did not make any arrests.
Shortly before they arrived, the same group were filmed spinning donuts on the wide intersection outside Philadelphia City Hall as their cronies blocked traffic,
Some set off fireworks as the cars passed by, but miraculously did not hit any onlookers.
'We really lawless as sh**,' one onlooker titled their video.
Cops were eventually able to move the racers on and restore the normal flow of traffic.
Philadelphians could later be seen dancing on top of the cop cars before the police were able to break up the crowd.
NBC Philadelphia reports that police are now investigating the incident.
[GatewayPundit] Stuart Scheller had this to say about President Trump and his family.
President Trump. I was told by everyone to kiss the ring because of your following and power. I refuse. While I respect your foreign policy positions, I hate how you divided the country. I don’t need or want your help. You do not have the ability to pull US together. You may even win the next election. But your generation’s time is running out. Tell your son to stop tweeting about me. Your whole family knows nothing about US or our sacrifices. I could never work with you. I’d rather sit in jail and be released with a dishonorable than make compromises in my beliefs. I have opinions in this new light of Stewie, all of them vulgar
Not everybody likes President Trump — his personality is polarizing. But note that Colonel Scheller respects his foreign policy positions, a sentiment he likely does not feel for President Biden’s, and ditto about Biden’s domestic policies.
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After Lt Col All Mouth spewed spital against Trump his fund raising stalled. His idiocy is that Trump devided America. But Lt Col Know Nothing is too stupid to know that when America saw the Dems and Republicans were united and one was just as corrupt as the other (aka DC Establishment) the voters broke from the norms and sent in a non-politician.
For years this moron lived off the tax payers as part of the military and is 100% clueless about any thing outside of his Deep State bubble. 10 years in Levenworth aught to do it...
#5
Amazing as the DC DOD Brass royal screw up in Afghanistan is being spread. How quickly narrative and comments made by a person locked in solitary confinement and unable to defend himself changes.
Being a skeptic... I'll wait to hear it directly from him instead of trusting what is said in the MSM and printed in Social Media.
#7
plenty of cell phones in prions, some county jails you can even rent ipads. Don't know about the brig though.
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I believe the President is not as polarizing or divisive as what is so loudly said of him. LtCol Scheller did very purposefully violate a direct order to no comprehensible end; he has already resigned and is on the way out and nothing he has said is timely.
His adult and professional life have been lived in a space with jealously guarded hard edges. Whether nascent hero or broken clock he got himself exactly where he is through his own efforts. Time will tell who he is or can be.
#9
So he hates Trump. Get in line with about half of America. This is not news. Its an attempt to sway Trump supporters to leave him in jail. He was not jailed for his anti Trump rant. But the propaganda blast seemed to work, now BB is overlooking the real reason he is in jail, and walking away. I say good job to the psyop groups.
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#10
Rank and file has a lot to be frustrated about.
I may even agree here; if the reports have been ten years of rainbow farts, what has been going on?
FFS, that story about Brave Sir Donahue and his Last Man Out picture, when really he was collecting war booty (Hilex with a ZSU-23 mount) at the cost of evacuees? WTF? If that is true, it is an easy step to take that he was there to explicitly make sure Afghans were taken instead of Americans.
Got Milley lurking around in the curtains. And these are just the faces, what is in the machine?
#11
Scheller is that rare animal who is truly guileless. He would never have made general. Most people tamp down their personal views/ambitions when they clash with those of people useful for their personal advancement until those people are superfluous to said goals. For good or evil, life is not a test graded by impartial arbiters. What he said will have an impact on Trump's comeback hopes. And people like me, who are relying on that comeback to repair some of the damage still unfolding under Democrat rule, will abstain from contributing to a man unconcerned about continued Democrat domination.
#12
Trump was and is a goof. Yes, most of views on the burning issues were correct, but his leadership was in incoherent, inconsistent, and weak. Not a model C-in-C.
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Which is why we will see more and more articles like this, to discredit and divide the opposition.
There is that smell in the air that what was going on over there was a Mexican Donkey Show and those stories can only be suppressed and dripped out so much.
This is a hyped up Trump People and Mean Tweets, but still excellent points Zhang Fei.
#14
Trump was and is a goof. Yes, most of views on the burning issues were correct, but his leadership was in incoherent, inconsistent, and weak. Not a model C-in-C.
You've mistaken Trump for a king, who can put (some of) his opponents in the ground.
You go to the elections with the candidates you have, Sheba tse Tung4690, not waiting for a Platonic Ideal of a prince on a white charger (who never shows up anyway). Would Hillary have been better? Is Mr. Biden?
The only way President Trump could have been a stronger Commander in Chief would have been to fire the all the senior officers who were busily “resisting” his orders instead of actually doing the job they were sworn to do. Ditto on the civilian side among the bureaucrats, of course, but that is not the question at hand.
Little Stewie hadn't the brains to realize it wasn't Trump dividing the nation it was, is our ChiCom Leftist Industrial treasonous media that did that.
No one asked this fruck to kiss "Trump's ring". But now he sure is kissing Biden's ass.
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Yes: Trump faced severe resistance from the swamp.
Yes: the election was a farce, and likely stolen.
Yes, his enemies lied and cheated and stoked riots and forged ballots and fabricated stories out of thin air and collided with our enemies to destroy Trump.
- AND -
Yes, Trump shot himself more times than they shot Rasputin.
And yes, Trump was and is a goof who threw away his chance at winning re-election.
I feel like I'm in France 1943 and I'm getting pretty tired of the people who just want to argue about whether Paul Reynaud was a good leader or not. Can we put it off until we actually have meaningful elections again?
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Question: Could this be related to the Massive backup of ships at California ports waiting to unload?
MSM reports now are indicating ...
Officials investigating the oil spill are looking into whether a ship’s anchor may have struck a pipeline on the ocean floor, causing the Oil Pipeline leak.....
#4
How old is the pipeline and how many years ago should it have been replaced but for opposition of CA lawmakers and environmentalists? Hope they are satisfied denying the law of unintended consequences.
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