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Constance Campbell Bennett was an American stage, film, radio and television actress and producer. She was a major Hollywood star during the 1920s and 1930s and for a time during the early 1930s, she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood.
Born: Constance Campbell Bennett, October 22, 1904, New York City, U.S.
Died: July 24, 1965, Fort Dix, New Jersey, U.S.
Resting place: Arlington National Cemetery
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Bennett married for the fifth and final time to US Air Force Colonel (later Brigadier General) John Theron Coulter. After her marriage, she concentrated her efforts on providing relief entertainment to US troops still stationed in Europe, winning military honors for her services. Bennett and Coulter remained married until her death in 1965.
Constance Bennett Death
Constance passed away on July 24, 1965 at the age of 60 in Fort Dix, New Jersey, USA. Constance's cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage.
Now this is a clickbait headline I can really dig!
Schadenfreude is a heckuva drug.
[Zero Hedge] - The US bond market may be closed, but it was fully open in China, and locals are taking advantage of this fact to do one thing: sell.
In the aftermath of our viral post ""Catastrophic" Property Sales Mean China's Worst Case Scenario Is Now In Play", China property firms bonds were hit with another wrecking ball on Monday as Evergrande was set to miss its third round of (offshore) bond payments in as many weeks and rival Modern Land became the latest scrambling to delay deadlines.
Having already suffered the fastest drop on record, Chinese junk bond markets - where property developer issuers dominate - were routed once again as fears about fast-spreading contagion in the $5 trillion sector, which drives a sizable chunk of the Chinese economy, continued to savage sentiment. Meanwhile, China Evergrande Group's offshore bondholders still had not received interest payment by a Monday deadline Asia time, Reuters reported citing sources.
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Xi Jinping appears to have given all Chinese real estate developers the green light to tear up their foreign debt. The question all foreign bondholders have is whether this applies to non property-related sectors as well. How about foreign debts unrelated to bond issuances?
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For me the interesting questions then become - if the RE developers welch on foreign debt (Xi gave the implicit green light for that last week), will there in fact be anything left over to service domestically issued debt? And - will we actually hear about it if / when it does?
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Chinese companies have been sucking up a lot Wall Street money for the past few years. A nicer class of folks couldn't lose their shirts when Xi directs those Chinese companies to hand over their profits to the CCP instead of Wall Street.
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This is merely one part of the many problems China has. Biden's big Daddy is an absent father.Banking system collapse, real estate collapse.30 day supply of coal of poorest quality(costing $10 dollar loss for every kilowatt generated). No power, no water and major crop losses. Building and all sorts of constructions collapsing. Two days work if power available then sent home where they have no food, water or power. Then totally overextended thru out the world.
So what do they do. Direct war talk with Taiwan.
The air is being let out of the puff paper dragon.
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You would not believe how they have adulterated food. I shall never eat at a Chinese restaurant. In China they eat everything. With all their problems now and winter will soon arrive. In all honesty I believe they will resort to cannibalism. People are like blades of grass to them. Chop shops as we have here for babies. I wish my belief was different but all I have seen and read of these people in communism anything is possible.
Perhaps an even deadlier virus to cut down on their excess population? Biden and his buddies wouldn't object too much as it helps them hide the billions they have been stealing from pension funds..
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Recently saw a video of them collapsing a dozen new but un-used buildings to make room for new buildings. it's hard to get my head around that combined with this news. Maybe the video was older than i thought.
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Year's ago, about the time of Nixon, we began to get a little too chummy with and connected to China. We are observing the effects of those decisions today.
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#11 They have entire city built and unused. Construction quality so poor probably better to tear them down. Bamboo for rebar. 1" rebar you can tie into a knot. Pillars from floor to top floor 15 flours up you can stick a screw driver into and it breaks up like sawdust. Inspectors paid off. Contractors forced to cut corners but its been done for so long it has become standard practice. Those islands they built are already sinking. So much has been done incorrectly.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the country’s new Taliban rulers, the Taliban said Sunday.
The statement came at the end of the first direct talks between the former foes since the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of August.
The U.S. statement was less definitive, saying only that the two sides "discussed the United States’ provision of robust humanitarian assistance, directly to the Afghan people."
The Taliban said the talks held in Doha, Qatar, "went well," with Washington freeing up humanitarian aid to Afghanistan after agreeing not to link such assistance to formal recognition of the Taliban.
The United States made it clear that the talks were in no way a preamble to recognition of the Taliban, who swept into power Aug. 15 after the U.S.-allied government collapsed.
State Department spokesman Ned Price called the discussions "candid and professional," with the U.S. side reiterating that the Taliban will be judged on their actions, not only their words.
[Free Beacon] Border Patrol agents are dealing not just with surging migrant populations but also with victims of cartel violence who are being treated in the United States for wounds sustained in Mexico.
Customs and Border Protection disclosed on Thursday that agents found five migrants outside the border town of Hidalgo, Texas, who required emergency medical treatment due to gunshot wounds that are suspected to have taken place in Mexico. Those migrants were sent to a local hospital and their condition remains unknown.
"This encounter serves as yet another reminder of the dangers migrants face when they place their well-being in the hands of smugglers who are only interested in turning a profit," Rio Grande Valley Sector chief patrol agent Brian S. Hastings said in a statement. "Smugglers routinely place migrants in dangerous situations where they are at risk of drowning, exposure to the elements, and assault."
Customs and Border Protection did not disclose the status of the six other migrants found in the group, nor whether the injured would be deported after their treatment. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to a request for comment.
News of the injured migrants comes as warfare between rival cartels in Mexico is putting both American civilians and military personnel at risk. Fox News reported gunfire flying over the head of Texas Army National Guard soldiers standing guard near the border late Thursday night.
[FOX] China Evergrande Group, the embattled property developer, is the first high-profile real-estate company to run into serious trouble in Beijing’s campaign to tame a roaring property market.
It might not be the last.
As China enters what many economists say is the final stage of one of the largest real-estate booms in history, it is confronting a staggering bill: More than $5 trillion in debt that developers took on when times were good, according to economists at Nomura Holdings Inc.
That debt is nearly double what it was at the end of 2016 and is more than the entire economic output of Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, last year.
Global markets are braced for a possible wave of defaults, with warning signs flashing over the debt of about two-fifths of development companies that have borrowed from international bond investors.
Chinese leaders are getting serious about addressing the debt, with a series of moves meant to curb excessive borrowing. But doing so without torpedoing the property market, crippling more developers and derailing the country’s economy is quickly turning into one of the biggest economic challenges Chinese leaders have faced in years, and one that could reverberate globally if mismanaged.
Luxury developer Fantasia Holdings Group Co. failed to repay $206 million in dollar bonds that matured Oct. 4. In late September, Evergrande, which has more than $300 billion in obligations, missed two interest-payment deadlines for bonds.
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So where'd all the money go, then? The executives just steal it?
Same place it went in all other bubbles - into the pockets of people who would not have been hired had the bubbles not existed, in the forms of salaries disbursed. Housing, raw materials, luxury goods - all are sectors inflated by the leverage-induced bubble blown by an absolute monarchy in egalitarian garb that will not tolerate any backtalk.
[American Thinker] As Joe Biden's public approval tanks in the polls, his sidekick Kamala Harris is also looking pretty wretched.
She underwent 'repackaging' from swamp consultants who specialize in "crisis messaging," to very miserable results as she posed for videos with kids, coming off phonier than ever.
And more important, she may have been frozen out of all serious decision-making as an obviously giggling lightweight.
There's this item, reported by Fox News:
Several top members of the Biden administration were in Mexico City on Friday for a meeting with Mexican officials regarding security along the U.S.-Mexico border. But Vice President Kamala Harris wasn't among them.
Harris, whom President Biden appointed in March to manage the U.S. response to the migrant crisis along the border, went to New Jersey instead.
Attending Friday's high-level talks in Mexico's capital were Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Ken Salazar, a former U.S. senator from Colorado who now serves as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, also attended.
"Today's High-Level Security Dialogue marks an important new phase in the US-Mexico security partnership," Mayorkas tweeted Friday. "We will work together under a new framework to guide our joint efforts, and work toward our shared goals of security and prosperity for our two nations."
Those are heavy hitters, and they have a multipronged agenda with Mexico. They'll be talking about extradition treaties, migrant arrangements, gun-running, and how to fix up Central America so its citizens will want to live there. CNN has a report on the agenda to be discussed in these high-level talks. Harris is Biden's border czar, and somehow, she's not important enough to be there.
PJMedia columnist Rick Moran argues that Harris may be skipping out of this heavy-hitter meeting basically because she's so lazy, which is one possibility.
But the other one is that she was disinvited. The big boys have moved in and pushed Instagram-obsessed Kamala aside as a nuisance who'll get underfoot.
I lean to 'disinvited' at this point, given various circumstances.
One, on Sept. 9, according to an Associated Press report, Harris actually was the one who announced the high-level talks, surely implying she would be in them.
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Besoeker... Here is a possible why?
What if she has a drug use issue and she is seeking a private/quiet treatment solution?
I say this given her documented erratic behavior cited by several Media outlets, which suggested she appears spaced out or High.
eg.... Is Kamala Harris, er, high? Harris was speaking to the children as part of her role as Chair of the National Space Council. She certainly sounds spaced.Example story here.
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Maybe she picked up the wrong glass while meeting with Joe and got some of his dementia meds by accident. Some of 'em are not benign for someone who isn't supposed to be taking them.
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This isn't surprising - her uselessness is almost unique amongst modern politicians, and she's the lead argument / proof for keeping broads out of politics altogether.
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The VPs job is to look worse than the President. They picked a good candidate for that but the task was impossible. They are screwed in 2024 election if they don't have illegal assistance.
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#5 What if she has a drug use issue and she is seeking a private/quiet treatment solution? ... she appears spaced out or High. She certainly sounds spaced.
Yes, definitely a chemical imbalance with this one. Not sure if it's an ingested, or synthesized, or naturally-produced-by-an-illness chemical, but a chemical imbalance nonetheless.
That bizarre cackle gives it away.
She laughs maniacally and inappropriately at awkward moments, when there's nothing remotely funny about the situation.
[WAPO via PJ] Joe Biden’s massive $4 trillion spending bills are in mortal danger of collapsing under their own weight as the gap between what the radicals want and what less-radical Democrats will vote for widens.
To make matters worse for ordinary Americans, Biden has come down decisively on the side of the radicals, leaving party moderates to wonder where the sanity went.
The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, already passed by the Senate, is languishing in political purgatory with radical Democrats in the House threatening to kill it unless their $3.5 trillion social safety net bill is approved first. Resentful moderates feel they’ve been lied to by the president and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who promised an up-or-down vote on the bipartisan bill before the end of September.
Here we are a third of the way through October and the House still isn’t ready to consider infrastructure legislation or the safety net bill. Why is that?
Part of the problem is that radicals will be radicals and despite sweet-talking and compromising from Biden, Bernie Sanders and his radical allies have announced they have "compromised enough" and have declared all-out war to get what they want.
[AlAhram] Gunmen from gangs of cattle thieves and kidnappers have opened fire on a market in northwest Nigeria, killing at least 19 people, officials and local residents said Sunday.
Northwest and central Nigeria are plagued by criminal gangs of cattle thieves and kidnappers for ransom called bandidos, who raid villages, killing and abducting residents as well as looting and burning homes.
The gangs have been targeting schools where they abduct students.
Officials and local residents said the button men Friday raided a market in Unguwan Lalle village in Sabon Birni district of Sokoto state, near the border with Niger.
"They attacked the market in the afternoon, killing 19 people," said Aminu al-Mustapha Gobir, a local politician representing the district in the Sokoto parliament.
Several people injured in the attack were taken to a hospital in Sabon Birni town, said Gobir, who attended the funeral of two of the victims in the state capital Sokoto.
One trader who escaped the attack, Abubakar Shehu, said around 20 people were killed and many others badly injured.
"They came around around 3:00 pm after everyone had returned from Friday prayers," he said.
He said the attack could be a reprisal for the killing of 11 bandidos by local vigilantes fighting the gangs at a market in nearby Mamande village on Thursday.
News of the killings was slow to emerge due to the shutdown of telecommunication services in the area.
For several weeks troops have been conducting air and ground operations on bandit camps in neighbouring Zamfara state where authorities have shut down telecom services to disrupt communication between the gangs.
Bandits fleeing the military operation in Zamfara have set up camps in Sabon Birni district from where they raid villages.
The influx of bandidos from neighbouring Zamfara state prompted authorities in Sokoto to suspend weekly markets and shut down telecom towers in areas on the border with Zamfara, including Sabon Birni.
Sokoto state internal security commissioner Garba Moyi confirmed Friday's attack, blaming non-observance of a government ban on weekly markets in the area.
"We have observed non-compliance with the suspension of markets in areas prone to bandidos attacks including Sabon Birni," Moyi said.
Last month 17 Nigerian security personnel were killed when button men raided their base in Sabon Birni's Dama village which the military blamed on 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.... -aligned jihadists.
[Garowe] The Somali National Army (SNA) said Saturday its forces killed five al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... murderous Moslems and maimed several others during a sting security operation in the southern region.
Shillawe Abdullahi Abdirahman, Danad's civil-military co-operation and media commander said the number of casualties will increase since the operation which is being conducted by the Special Forces (Danab) was still underway in Lower Jubba.
"We will provide more updates on the security operation since the security operation continues," Abdirahman told SNA Radio.
The military official said the security operation will be intensified in the area to wipe out al-Shabaab murderous Moslems who often carry out roadside attacks against allied forces in the region.
Despite intensified security operations mounted by the allied government, the bully boyz have too increased their onslaught against government security forces and other public places to topple the government.
[IsraelTimes] Move ends almost 24 hours of total blackout after central plants ground to a halt amid oil shortages
Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... ’s electricity grid was back online Sunday after the army supplied fuel to two key power stations that had run out, a minister said, ending almost a day of total blackout.
The Deir Ammar and Zahrani plants ground to a halt Saturday, causing the state electricity network to collapse completely for the second time this month.
The Mediterranean country is battling economic turmoil, and the cash-strapped state has in recent months struggled to import enough fuel oil for electricity production.
Most Lebanese saw no major change to their daily lives on Saturday, as the state has been barely providing one to two hours of power a day for months.
Energy Minister Walid Fayad said Sunday that the grid was back up and running.
"The network is back to normal, as it was before the gasoil ran out at Deir Ammar and Zahrani," he said in a statement, implying production would revert to the previous few hours a day.
He thanked the army for handing over 6,000 kiloliters of gasoil, half of which he said went to each power station.
The state electricity company had said Saturday that a shipment of fuel oil was expected to arrive that evening, and be offloaded at the start of next week.
Lebanon has witnessed rolling power cuts across the country since the end of its 1975-1990 civil war, but the economic crisis has made matters drastically worse.
Lebanese who can afford it subscribe to private generators to keep appliances on, but even their owners have started to ration power supplies due to the scarcity of fuel.
The international community has long demanded a complete overhaul of Lebanon’s loss-making electricity sector, which has cost the government more than $40 billion since the early 1990s.
[KhaamaPress] Daoud Wardak, son of Abdul Rahim Wardak-former defense minister of Afghanistan- has bought a super luxury house in Beverly Hills, Miami, Florida.
He already owns a $5.2 million Miami Beach condo at the prestigious St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort.
Through his businesses and wealth origins are not publicly well-known, public corporation records show he is the president of a Miami-based firm called AD Capital Group.
Other reports indicated that his older brother Hamed Wardak is also a successful businessman who runs military transportation company NCL Holdings.
The company is based in Virginia but operating primarily in Afghanistan.
The NCL had secured lucrative US government contracts that were reportedly worth $360 million.
Based on the contracts the NCL was protecting America’s supply routes in Afghanistan.
Daoud Wardak buys a house worth millions of dollars at a time as over twenty million people in Afghanistan are hand to mouth and millions of children are malnourished with hundreds of thousands more displaced internally.
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Sarcastic Humor On -
☺☻ I am sure he just happened to get rich from honest means and efforts.
After all, wouldn't the Biden Admin, FBI, NSA, CIA, DC Swamp or the UN raised concerns?☺☻
Sarcasm Off
Besides, surely someone out there is likely checking for any backdoor political donations, favors or $$$ pocket linings. By using sites like OPENSECRETS.ORG or 1/2 dozen others.
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...The B-2 is - at the bottom line - late 70s and early 80s tech. All things considered it did very well, but its tech was steadily challenged from the start (especially its finicky coatings) and the USAF, to its credit, understood that. The B-21 is - so far (emphasis added) - doing very, very well because it is, and should possibly be called, a B-2 derivative with upgraded tech and capabilities.
I think the real challenges will be:
(A) Are we going to get the couple hundred aircraft we need, or will Congress in its never ending quest to cut money where it shouldn't instead cut the order to a tactically useless handful?
(B) If we get all the aircraft, where are we going to put them? When USAF killed SAC at the end of the Cold War, it also got rid of most of the bases and infrastructure that could have supported them. The remaining bases probably can't be expanded enough to support 2-3 squadrons at 17-20 aircraft each, not to mention the literal thousands of personnel needed to maintain and fly them. And don't forget the political pressure there's going to be to base them in someone's district/home state that's far, far away from where they should be.
Stay tuned...
Mike
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Who the hell needs stealth bombers? Their only purpose is to start wars. Do we really need another war?
Here's a crazy idea: let's defend America's borders. Insane, I know, but I bet you if we try it, it'll work.
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literal thousands of personnel needed to maintain and fly them.
My hope is that the B-21 is easier to maintain than the B-2 - especially the coatings! The B-2 have a reputation as a hanger queen with dozens of airmen assigned to visually inspect the outside aafter each flight.
If we can avoid that the aircraft will have a much smaller footprint.
Delivering mega-death by the kiloton through hostile airspace? Yes, it could do that -- but so could a cruise missile or ICBM.
Fly world wide (with enough tanker aircraft, but that begs the question of where those will fly from.) and deliver conventional weapons? Yes, but as Mike put it: will we build enough to be "Tactically useful"?
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My hope is that the B-21 is easier to maintain than the B-2
The coating problem was solved with the F-35. See "F-35 fibre mat".
The B-21 is designed to fight China. None of the fighters have the range after the initial exchange and loss of airbases like in Okinawa. A B-21 can get close to the coast with long range missiles and destroy military and infrastructure assets throughout the populated parts of China. A thousand stealthy cruise missiles per week will reduce even a country as large as China to a pre-industrial level pretty quick.
[IsraelTimes] UN agency in September estimated that Islamic Theocratic Republic has 84.3 kilos of uranium enriched to that level
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... has enriched more than 120 kilograms of 20-percent enriched uranium, the head of the country’s atomic energy agency said on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Saturday evening.
"We have passed 120 kilograms," said Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. "We have more than that figure."
"Our people know well that they (Western powers) were meant to give us the enriched fuel at 20 percent to use in the Tehran reactor, but they haven’t done so," he added.
"If our colleagues do not do it, we would naturally have problems with the lack of fuel for the Tehran reactor."
In September, the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran had boosted its stocks enriched above the percentage allowed in the 2015 deal with world powers.
It estimated that Iran had 84.3 kilos of uranium enriched to 20 percent (up from 62.8 kilos when the IAEA last reported in May).
Under the deal, Iran was not meant to enrich uranium above 3.67 percent, well below the 90-percent threshold needed for use in a nuclear weapon.
Under the 2015 agreement China, La Belle France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States had agreed to lift some sanctions against Iran if Tehran cut back its nuclear program.
But since then US president Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... pulled Washington out of the deal in 2018, Tehran has progressively abandoned its commitments under the agreement, and the United States has imposed fresh sanctions in response.
On Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said he was optimistic that talks on reviving the 2015 deal would make progress, provided Washington fully resumed its commitments.
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[Rusvesna] In Rostov-on-Don, there is a trial of Aslan Gagiev, nicknamed Dzhako, who is considered the leader of one of the bloodiest criminal gangs in Russia. The accused and his opponents have already made loud statements.
The leader of the criminal group, Aslan Gagiev, at the trial in Rostov-on-Don, confessed to the murder of the Deputy Prime Minister of North Ossetia, Alania Pagiyev. He named the customers. But they don't believe him. What "shines" for the criminal?
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese TV channel cites sources in the terror group claiming it also wants IDF to stop all border incursions.
Lebanese pro-Hezbollah TV channel Al Mayadeen reported Saturday on the terror group’s alleged demands as it holds indirect talks with Israel for a long-term ceasefire in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
Unnamed sources cited by the network said Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, was committed to maintaining the calm "as long as the occupation adheres to it."
They said Hamas, in talks being mediated by Egypt, demanded that Israel not enter the border area in eastern Gaza and sought safety for Paleostinian farmers near the border. It also wanted freedom of movement for its own forces near the border.
The sources said Hamas also wanted Gaza’s reconstruction sped up following May’s war and previous conflicts.
On the issue of a prisoner exchange, the sources said that "the ball is now in the Israeli court," while adding that Hamas has clear demands on the issue, though they did not elaborate.
Ottoman Turkish state media reported on Tuesday that Hamas and Egypt have advanced agreements to strengthen the ceasefire, days after senior Hamas officials met with Egyptian intelligence in Cairo.
The terror group and Egypt saw "progress" in "understandings to stabilize the truce in Gaza, speed up the pace of reconstruction, and efforts to ease the siege," according to the Anadolu news agency.
In a rare scene, senior Hamas officials, including Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , gathered in Cairo on Sunday night for the current round of talks with Egyptian intelligence officials, aimed at procuring a long-term ceasefire with Israel.
An official in Hamas told The Times of Israel that some movement in the talks has been "expected," but added: "These meetings are often just talk. But obligations are later borne out if each side does what it has pledged to do."
Israel and Hamas have been holding indirect negotiations, moderated by Egypt, on stabilizing the fragile ceasefire since the 11-day battle between the two sides in May. Israel has vowed not to allow a full reconstruction of Gaza without a prisoner swap between the two sides.
Israel leveled higher restrictions on Gaza for months following the 11-day conflict, effectively preventing substantial reconstruction of the battered enclave.
Hamas currently holds two living Israeli civilians as prisoners in Gaza — Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed. The terror group is also holding the bodies of two Israeli soldiers killed during the 2014 Gaza war: Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett discussed the prisoner exchange issue with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi during a recent state visit to Sharm el-Sheikh.
For months, Israeli officials vowed that they would not allow a full reconstruction of Gaza without a prisoner swap. Despite the absence of an agreement, however, Israel has slowly relaxed the additional sanctions following low-level exchanges of fire with Paleostinian bully boyz in Gaza.
[JustTheNews] Mexican officials discovered more than 600 migrants hidden in trucks near the southern border Thursday, according to reports.
According to the Associated Press, more than half of the 642 migrants discovered were children, while the vast majority were of Guatemalan descent.
The migrants were found near a military checkpoint, crowded within six different trailers.
Officials said the caravan’s journey seems to have begun in the Mexican state of Puebla, with the goal of making it to Monterrey, which is a key transport hub for migrants attempting to cross the border illegally.
According to The Hill, last month a caravan holding 400 migrants was spotted in Mexico en route to the U.S.
[OneIndia] A special court of the National Investigation Agency has convicted accused Nainar Abbas Ali alias Library Abbas in connection with the Mysuru blast case. It may be recalled that a blast had taken place in a public toilet in the court premises of Chamarajapuram, Mysuru in 2016. The court also convicted Karim Raja and Dawood Suleiman, both residents of Tamil Nadu.
Investigation had revealed that the kaboom in Mysore Court was one among the five series of kabooms committed by the members of Base Movement, an organization, owing allegiance to al-Qaeda, a proscribed Terrorist Organization. They had also executed the bomb Blast at Chittor Court, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, Kollam Court, Kerala and at Mallapuram Court, Kerala on. Al-Qaeda = The Base in Arabic.
Abbas and Dawood Sulaiman had formed the Base Movement, in Tamil Nadu in January, 2015, inspired by ideology of al- Qaeda and its leader the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is no longer with us, and won't be again...... . They had recruited the other accused persons and hatched criminal conspiracy to threaten government departments, especially Courts, holding them responsible for atrocities and injustice meted out to a particular religious group. In pursuance to the conspiracy, they had systematically issued threats to prison authorities and police officials of different states and to French Embassy in India.
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This smells like China/Pakistan. With the troubles China is now having Pakistan will be forced to tone things down. I am very impressed with India. I see better days for their people and country. I would argue a bond between India,Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Then let the others see the benefits an association would be. The results would be most impressive. I would toy with the idea of Bangladesh having a huge population would jump at the opportunity to participate. No labor shortage here. Overhead very low. The benefits to Bangladesh would be multifaceted and long term.
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For a drought-stricken country, Bangla offers a yearly supply of water as it seems to be perpetually under 10' of water during typhoon season
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it seems to have a firm hold on the Islamist problem.
That alone would seem to have some value, in terms of development and investment.
Hey, I wonder if the excess moisture is what keeps Bangla muslims from being overwrought like their coreligionists in the ME who are no doubt over-heated and suffering from electrostatic discharge.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Public records show the Georges Bergès Gallery in Soho, New York City, was granted a $150,000 COVID-19 disaster assistance loan last year
In July 2021 - six months after Joe Biden took office - this figure was then revised, awarding the company another $350,000 and $500,000 in total
Just over two months later, the gallery hosted a pop-up show at the famous Milk studios in Hollywood to sell the president's son's paintings
The Soho gallery is also set to hold a New York City show of his work this spring
In total, the gallery received around $580,000 in COVID-19 relief payments - $80,000 from two PPP loans - while employing just two people
There is no indication Biden was involved in the loans or that Hunter profited from them - through a salary from the gallery or it marketing his paintings
Questions have already been raised about the ethics of Hunter's art dealings
I’m sure there are words, but I don’t have any. Read on, dear Reader:
[IsraelTimes] Court documents don’t say what nation Jonathan Toebbe was trying to contact when he sent information about the design of US nuclear-powered submarines.
A US Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government, but who turned out to be an undercover FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... agent, the Justice Department said Sunday.
The FBI must have an entire section hired just for their friendly demeanor.
In a criminal complaint detailing espionage-related charges against Jonathan Toebbe, the government said that he sold information for nearly the past year to a contact he mistakenly believed represented a foreign power. That country was not named in the court documents.
One assumes it is therefore not Russia, China, or one of the Muslim countries.
Toebbe, 42, was arrested in West Virginia on Saturday along with his 45-year-old wife, Diana, after he placed a removable memory card at a prearranged "dead drop" in Jefferson County, according to the department.
It was not immediately clear whether either Toebbe had a lawyer. The Toebbes are from Annapolis, Maryland.
The FBI says the scheme began in April 2020 when Jonathan Toebbe — a US government employee since 2012 — sent a package of Navy documents to a foreign government and said he was interested in selling operations manuals, performance reports, and other sensitive information.
Authorities say he also provided instructions for how to continue to the furtive relationship, with a letter that said: "I apologize for this poor translation into your language.
Not Canada or Australia...
Please forward this letter to your military intelligence agency. I believe this information will be of great value to your nation. This is not a hoax."
The FBI’s legal office in the foreign country received the package,
”Suzie, take this package to Agent Joe at the American embassy. Tell him the CIA is playing games again, and we don’t want to get involved.”
which had a return address of Pittsburgh, last December. That led to a months-long undercover operation in which an agent posing as a representative of the foreign government offered to pay thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency for the information Toebbe was offering.
In June, the FBI says, the undercover agent sent $10,000 in cryptocurrency to Toebbe, describing it as a "sign of good faith and trust."
As part of the operation, authorities say, the FBI observed the Toebbes arrive on multiple occasions at agreed-upon locations for the exchange, concealing an SD card between two slices of bread on a half of a peanut butter sandwich in one instance
Ick...
and in a chewing gum package in another.
The complaint alleges violations of the Atomic Energy Act, which makes it a crime to disclose information about atomic weapons or nuclear materials with the intent of harming the United States.
The Toebbes are expected to have their initial court appearances on Tuesday in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
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"Wang, turn these over to Americans and tell them we are being good friends. We already have the schematics copies for the entire sub, and this is just probably a dangle from the Agency to waste our time."
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Yes, we need to kill that misleading, phony label, "Progressive." A progressive in this country has traditionally referred to a 1900-era wasp-y, tradition-minded, good-government elitist of either party, like Teddy Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson.
Today's Left-wingers have nothing at all in common with those elite white angli-Saxon Protestant men of the early 20c. Sanders, the Squat et al. are MARXISTS.
They've largely swapped out class struggle for race struggle, but it's the same core idea set: dialectical materialism, violence leading to dictatorship, all means justified so long as the enemy of The People is finally cry shed.
Thousands gather for a pro-European Union rally in the Old Town of Warsaw, #Poland. Dozens of police keep them separated from the anti-EU, nationalist counter protest. pic.twitter.com/jrz3BTKhov
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I was augmenting eldest's education when the topic of a potential Eastern European Union was brought up, which countries, different ports and trade routes, when she says, "Except Greece. Greece is a mess."
She didn't get that from me, which is why I snorted loud enough to wake the dog.
Gov. Gavin Newsome signed a Democrat-authored bill that will mandate California high school students be required to take a course on critical race theory in order to graduate high school. CRT teaches one to analyze life through racial grievances. https://t.co/sZW8oX0CF4
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Newsome and his ilk have killed off California, kaput, croaked, finis. Too many liberals and radicals have killed off the golden goose. Short of a miracle, California is dead and people are fleeing to other states.
[THEPARADISE.NG] One could feel the tension at a Clark County School District board meeting as one fed-up dad spoke for a group of fourteen parents while serving a $200 million lawsuit over mask mandates. Watch:
"This is segregation based off of your own fears and your own personal interests," the unidentified father argued. "The people in this country have had enough, and we are fighting back."
"I have something to give you," he then said. "Security, would you do me a favor? Would you please hand those forms to the board members? You’ve been officially served a $200 million lawsuit with six complaints and violations or multiple amendments."
"Your job is not to be concerned with the children’s health," he added. "You’re not nurses. You’re not doctors. You are not responsible for their health organization. Your only focus is on our children’s education, and the education system here is 50th in the state, and you make almost more money than anybody else."
"It is very clear that you have failed in doing that job," he said. "This country is not alone. It’s time that we wake up. Now, we’re gonna do a lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit. We can throw it out as much as you want. We’re gonna keep this paperwork on your desk and keep the problem going until we get exactly what we want."
"This is not a negotiation, we will have our freedom of choice, and we’re gonna see you in court," he added to applause.
The lawsuit was served in late September, and was reported by the Las Vegas Sun.
"Another set of parents has sued the Clark County School District in federal court to eliminate its coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic mask mandate," the Las Vegas Sun reported. "They want $200 million in damages and criminal charges for top district officials."
"Fourteen plaintiffs, with 18 children between them, said in the suit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas that the school board and CCSD Superintendent Jesus Jara ’blatantly and maliciously’ violated the Constitution with the requirement," the report continued.
"Plaintiffs’ children have constitutionally protected interests in the benefits that come from them not being subject to the Board’s mask mandate, including the ability to pursue an education without being subjected to health risks that are not offset by any scientifically provable benefits," the parents argued in the complaint.
"The parents, who are representing themselves, claim violation of due process rights and allege that Jara and the school board committed felony threats ’to injure a person’ because masks have been ’scientifically proven’ to cause physical and mental harm," the report added.
Mask mandates have not been shown to be effective at curbing the spread of Covid-19. A study came out this week that showed there was no statistically significant difference in Florida between school districts that followed the law and allowed mask choice and those that illegally imposed a mask mandate.
Even setting aside the scientific arguments for the moment, one can witness the relief of one boy who was informed by his mother that a group of unidentified parents won a lawsuit against the mask mandates.
That really just says it all.
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The truth surfaces eventually. Burred for so long truth will be told. Perhaps not in the various media but word of mouth works very well. I have always enjoyed oral history. They don't claim the media high ground. Just from my personal experience the vaccination train has killed so many. Most poor souls within thirty days. Then the living with various afflictions.
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Enrollments down dramatically now. 50% of liberal colleges will fail in a few short years. Now they are talking about having men return to college. They are desperate.
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"OE label on China swabs. EO stands for ethylene oxide. Hospitals have used this for years to sterilize medical equipment. Swabs saturated with EO and swabs inserted deep into nasal cavity."
Those of you who work or have worked in hospitals Ethylene Oxide has been used for years to sterile medical equipment.
Just look for the OE label on the swab package. Insert deeply into nasal cavity and guess where near,the brain. So swabbing frequency?. Repeated exposure to a carcinogenic agent. Good luck with that.
As compared to about 15m outside the public school system:
5.7m in private schools
~5m (?) in charter schools
~4-4.5m homeschooled
So public schools are already down to about 76% of the total, having fallen from close to 85% just 15 years ago and CA. 80% pre-COVID.
Public schools' % of total enrolled will drop another 3% this year, and maybe 1-1.5% each year for the rest of the next two decades.
That implies that by 2040 public schools will be ca. 50% of total. Those schools will likely be about 80-90% minority in most metro areas.
Most of the nation's white students will be homeschooled or, as is the case for nearly all this nation's politicians' kids, educated in private schools. Homeschooling will probably exceed 20% of total by 2040.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Alexander 'Xan' Tanner, 30, is a founder and the president of Panorama Education, an analytical software and services company in Boston
Tanner married Attorney General Garland's daughter Rebecca in 2018
Panorama recently put out a resource that includes an article that calls both Ku Klux Klan members and Trump's supporters 'examples of white supremacy.'
The article, also claims that 'murderous police officers' is part of the reason why white supremacy 'is everywhere'
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#Britain has rescued or intercepted a total of 1,115 #migrants attempting to cross the English Channel over just two days, the country’s interior ministry said on Sunday.https://t.co/avEv8EYQqc
We thought of ourselves not as Paddies
But typical mithers and daddies
And kids -- average wights! --
Who got banned, without rites,
From our land by piratical... "baddies." /uptalk
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Chicago in ashes. A dreary
Awakening. Coughing and beery,
"Well, Patrick, how now?"
"Sure we'll scapegoat that cow
For selecting for K, Cate O'Leary!"
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[IsraelTimes] Arabic media claims man nicknamed ’Sabri’ was a senior Iranian official in Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... when Ron Arad was captured there, leading Jerusalem to hope he’d have info on airman’s fate
If it’s Arab media, especially a source we don’t use, it has equal odds of being completely made up as it has of being all or partially true.
An Arabic-language newspaper published new alleged details over the weekend on Israel’s supposed kidnapping of an Iranian general as part of efforts to find new information on the whereabouts of missing Israeli airman Ron Arad.
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Clean up on aisle #3 please.....
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Thus demonstrating the dangers of jogging.
Or being in Damascus.
Or being an Iranian general.
Or something...
(See sunny South Africa on no dollars a day.)
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[DW] As the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... lobby for international recognition of their "Islamic Emirate" in Afghanistan, the group's ideological allies in Pakistain are applying political pressure on Islamabad.
Powerful Islamist factions in Pak politics are putting pressure on the government to officially recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
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[AMERICANTHINKER] There’s scarcely a place in the modern world that will not be feeling the high cost and discomfort of a shortage of energy supplies and their increasingly soaring prices. Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... already is. Due to a shortage of oil, the two power plants that supply 40% of that country’s electricity shut down. There is no electricity in Lebanon and will not be any for some days.
It’s an extreme case, but even the United Kingdom, the EU, the U.S., and China are running up against diminishing ability to obtain the necessary energy supplies to keep things running smoothly. Some of the shortages are due to accidents, like the cutting of an undersea cable to the UK, but most are due to green policies and stupid political choices, ironically shutting down oil and gas-fired power plants and fossil fuel exploitation and transport at the demand of the greens, who grossly overestimate both global warming and the ability of air, sun and water to take their place. Ironically, this means coal -- the dirtiest possible fuel -- is back in huge demand,
Despite an import ban on Australian coal, China relented and has begun unloading Australian coal because of an extreme power crunch. Coal is now in demand in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... as gas prices soar and the EU’s energy policies are in large responsible.
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Greta steps on a rake.
Humans generally have trouble predicting second-order consequences, but the Greens don't even try.
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Australian coal was the best. What there power plants were designed to burn. With the ban of Australian coal what was left was Russian and India coal of high sulfur content and power plants performed poorly with it. China had no choice especially with winter coming and factories mostly shut down.
[BREITBART] On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s "Real Time," host Bill Maher wondered how the Build Back Better bill will help the economy when there’s a shortage of workers and building supplies are being held up by supply chain issues.
Maher said, "It’s interesting. Because I keep reading about the Build Back Better bill. They want — we can’t — we don’t have enough workers, even if we passed it tomorrow. And because of all these supply chain problems, we don’t have building supplies. So, how are we going to build back better if we have no workers and no supplies?"
He added, "It’s a good idea, though. It’s always a good idea."
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There's no shortage of potential workers; stop paying or otherwise supporting people who aren't working (including retirees) and confiscate their savings. Then draft them into slave labor camps. It is not nearly as far-fetched as it should be.
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Of course, the "Build Back Better" bill has nothing to do with building or back or better. It's a slush fund the size of the Roman Empire.
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#4 Ditto that Boyo.Payoffs and corruption is everywhere in this world. Obama sent that money to a few well connected. Biden tried thru the CIA. Two pallets of crisp $100. dollar bills is the only requirement. Amateur hour for years.
[JPost] The treatment reduced the risk of reaching mechanical ventilation by 44%. ICU admissions were lower by 43%, and an overall in-hospital mortality saw a 47% decrease. It's a followup to this report from George Washington University in Anesthesia and Analgesia.
Over-the-counter aspirin could protect the lungs of COVID-19 patients and minimize the need for mechanical ventilation, according to new research at the George Washington University.
The team investigated more than 400 COVID patients from hospitals across the United States who take aspirin unrelated to their COVID disease, and found that the treatment reduced the risk of several parameters by almost half: reaching mechanical ventilation by 44%, ICU admissions by 43%, and overall in-hospital mortality by 47%.
"As we learned about the connection between blood clots and COVID-19, we knew that aspirin — used to prevent stroke and heart attack — could be important for COVID-19 patients," said Dr. Jonathan Chow of the study team. "Our research found an association between low-dose aspirin and decreased severity of COVID-19 and death."
Low-dose aspirin is a common treatment for anyone suffering from blood clotting issues or in danger of stroke, including most people who had a heart attack or a myocardial infarction. Although affecting the respiratory system, the coronavirus has been associated with small blood vessel clotting, causing tiny blockages in the pulmonary blood system, leading to ARDS - acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Israeli researchers reached similar results in a preliminary trial at the Barzilai Medical Center in March. In addition to its effect on blood clots, they found that aspirin carried immunological benefits and that the group taking it was 29% less likely to become infected with the virus in the first place.
"Aspirin is low cost, easily accessible and millions are already using it to treat their health conditions," said Chow. "Finding this association is a huge win for those looking to reduce risk from some of the most devastating effects of COVID-19."
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Before COVID-19 I was already taking Vit D3 2000 IU daily and getting plenty of sunlight. Since COVID-19 started, I have been started on atorvastatin, clopidogrel, famotidine and most recently colchicine. I wonder what my risk of COVID is with all these supposed risk-reducers.
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Gee.
What is shocking...or maybe it isn't...is it took so long for somebody to study the effects of a blood thinner on a blood clotting problem. You know, other than us folsky prairie bumpkins. Good to see confirmation.
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Saturday, Major General Khaled al-Mahjoub, Director of the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) Moral Guidance Department, confirmed that the 5 + 5 Joint Military Commission’s (JMC) established a plan to gradually remove mercenaries from the country. In statements to the al-Ain News newspaper, he added that this plan includes removing the mercenaries before the next elections on December 24th.
He stated that the remaining period of time, although it is short, is that the plan is set and has specific dates. He noted that the mercenaries will be expelled on time because this has become a local and international demand.
On the possibility of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s intransigence in refusing to expel its mercenaries, he stressed that this is no longer acceptable, neither internally nor externally. He explained that the United States (US), for example, issued the Libya Stability Law, which is very important and supports the JMC efforts entrusted with the security aspect.
Al-Mahjoub concluded by saying that the removal of mercenaries will ensure that there is no military pressure in conjunction with the elections. He pointed out that the next President will find a suitable ground for action to move Libya away from its ongoing crisis.
Since the 2011 fall of former ruler Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... , Libya has descended into crises on multiple fronts.
Until recently, the country had essentially been divided between the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... -based Government of National Accord (GNA), and a rival administration, led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... , who commands the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA).
Mercenaries and other fighters from outside Libya have reportedly been operating inside the country for years, including some previously involved in the Syrian conflict.
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[TASS] Five people were killed in a car bomb blast in Aden, Yemen, on Sunday, Al Arabiya news channel reports.
According to it, all victims are civilians. Five more people were wounded. According to Al Arabiya, the car bomb attack targeted a motorcade with city authorities. The car bomb went off in Tawahi district in Aden’s center.
The channel specified that the governor of Aden was targeted. Besides, the minister of agriculture was among the passengers in the motorcade. Neither the governor, nor the minister was injured.
Both men who were targeted in the attack are members of the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC).
Civil war erupted in Yemen in 2014 between the internationally-recognized government and the Iran-backed Houthi militia then an Arab Coalition intervened in 2015.
Tensions flared when the STC claimed self-rule of parts of southern Yemen in April 2020, but the group in July rescinded this claim in an effort to present a united front with the government against the Houthi militia.
[KhaamaPress] Officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said that they transferred nearly USD$18 million from the central bank of Afghanistan-De Afghanistan Bank- to the ministry of finance on Sunday, October 10.
De Afghanistan Bank in a statement said that the cash was seized from officials of the previous government in Kabul, Panjshir, Khost, and Pashtun-infested Logar provinces.
The money was kept in De Afghanistan Bank and was transferred to 3000208203041- an account of the ministry of Finance.
The statement reads that the money includes,
USD$ 15,995,377
AFS 86,164,350
Euro 7,450
Indian Rupees 30,350
UAE Dirham 300
In the meantime, the statement adds that a relatively large amount of gold has also been seized that is now kept in the central bank of Afghanistan.
[IsraelTimes] Abbas has been meeting with senior embassy personnel, but Paleostinian official says policy unchanged and Ramallah won’t meet local US diplomats until consulate reopened
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Paleostinian Authority 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.... has been meeting with senior US officials based out of the embassy in Jerusalem in recent months, despite ordering his own diplomats not to do so, officials in Washington and Ramallah have confirmed to The Times of Israel.
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[HOTAIR] Portland ...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others... hasn’t quite crossed that line this year but it seems inevitable. So far this year, 68 people have been killed compared to a high-water mark of 70 who were killed back in 1987. Of course the population of Portland is almost double what it was in 1987. Still, the city had just 36 homicides in all of 2019, so a sudden surge to what will likely be double that in 2021 is worrisome.
Fatal shootings in almost all sections of the city have followed fistfights, social media disputes, and drug deals gone bad. People sitting in cars, relaxing after work with friends in a bar, attending house parties or walking in a park have been rubbed out.
Forensic analysis of spent bullet casings from scene of the crimes reveals connections between many of the shootings, pointing to gangs and retaliation as frequent drivers of the gun violence, Sherlocks say...
From January through the end of September, police counted a total of 943 shootings that killed or injured 307 people. That compares to 488 shootings and 126 people killed or injured in all of last year.
During that same period, police recovered 4,909 bullet casings. That compares to 4,652 in all of 2020.
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[OneIndia] The recent spate of killings in 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.... have been claimed by a little known outfit called The Resistance® Force, an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. With Pakistain facing the heat at the world stage for openly using outfits such as the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... in Jammu and Kashmir the strategy now is to create new terror groups in a big to avoid the heat.
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[IsraelTimes] Country closes airspace and land border crossings as voters head out to elect a parliament many hope will deliver much-needed reforms after decades of conflict and mismanagement.
Polls closed across Iraq on Sunday evening in parliamentary elections that were held months ahead of schedule, in response to a popular uprising against corruption and mismanagement.
The voting was marked by a boycott by many of the young activists who thronged the streets in late 2019, and reports of low turnout. Tens of thousands of people took part in the mass protests and were met by security forces firing live ammunition and tear gas. More than 600 people were killed and thousands injured within just a few months.
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[NEWS.YAHOO] Czech voters evicted the communists from parliament on Saturday for the first time since the end of World War Two, voting out a party whose forebears ruled the central European nation from 1948 until the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that ushered in democracy.The communists incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! tens of thousands in forced labor camps in the 1950s and brutally repressed dissidents such as playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel, but remained in parliament following the revolution.
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In this week's election, the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia took 3.62% of the votes with nearly all precincts reporting, less than the 5% needed to enter parliament and potentially marking a final chapter for a party that has gradually shrunk as its ageing membership dwindled.
"It pleases me, it pleases me a lot," Jiri Gruntorad, 69, a former dissident who signed the dissident Charter 77 statement and was incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for subversion from 1981 to 1985 by the communist authorities, told Rooters. "But it's coming too late."
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Ah. The nostalgia party.
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#Iran plans to offer #oil and gas condensate to “any investor in exchange for either goods or capital investment” in the Islamic Republic’s sanctions-hit energy sector, says the country’s oil minister. https://t.co/rm6K9jpSM2
[IsraelTimes] Congressional panel says former US president’s firm had to inject millions into the luxury hotel; Trump Organization alleges ’political harassment’.
Former United States president Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s company lost more than $70 million on his Washington, DC hotel during his four years in office, despite taking in millions from foreign governments, according to documents released on Friday by a congressional committee investigating his business.
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And, of course, the lefty media spin is "this is just more proof Trump is a putz." Spin, spin, spin...
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Literally everything these nutters claimed about Trump was false. Nearly all of it is actually true of Biden and his grifting family:
1. colluding for personal enrichment via signed JVs and sweetheart deals with front companies top officials of a hostile foreign power: these assholes completely fabricated nonsense about Trump and Moscow real estate, a city and nation where his company has no history to speak of, and quashed the actual, existing, in your face billion-dollar deals between Hunter Biden/The Big Guy and Chinese govt front companies-- plus the corruption that landed two of Hinter's close business partners in federal prison.
2. Dictatorial executive branch power grabs. Biden's DOJ and FBI are hunting down ordinary moms who don't want their kids terrorized with Marxist struggle sessions or tranny dild0 story hour.
It's Biden's police state that has persecuted the 1/6 trespassers, labeling them "terrorists" and detaining the latter w/out habeas corpus for going on a YEAR now. Trump did nothing at all against the 9-month actual reign of terror perpetrated by the acolytes of St George Floyd and Antifa.
3. Military blunders and treasonous phone calls to foreign leaders. They falsely accused Trump of making such calls, but it was Biden (and Milley, behind Trump's back) who actually did commit such a treasonous offense.
Biden royally fucked up the AFG pullout -- even though he was warned that the AFG govt was about to collapse -- which warning he passed on to the AFG president and then LIED ABOUT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
4. They spread bullshit about Trump being mentally incompetent -- he passed his doctor's test with flying colors -- and ignore the obvious fact that in Biden, we actually do have an obviously mentally incompetent, early-stage dementia sufferer.
5. They claimed Trump would steal the election -- and then their allies in the media and Big Tech spiked unfavorable news and helped corrupt local officials perpetrate a third world, goat rodeo farce of an election to push their basement-bound muppet across the finish line.
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Which way did Trump's net worth go between his inauguration in 2016 and today? Compare that to any or all of his predecessors.
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A waste of time arguing with the Trump Haters:
If Trump made money it's a sign of vast corruption,
if Trump lost money it's a sign that he is totally unfit as a leader and...
if Trump broke even -- it's a sign of how diabolical his sinister plan must be!
[TASS] Several Russians have been deleted from the US sanction lists in exchange for Russia’s consent to receive US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday.
According to Zakharova, Nuland’s visit to Moscow was requested by the US side. "Indeed, she was on a sanction list. It means that such a person cannot cross the border. They put Russian representatives on their sanction lists, hence, in this case the matter was settled on the parity basis," she said in an interview with the Voskresny Vecher (Sunday Evening) with Vladimir Solovyov program on the Rossiya-1 television channel.
"Yes, naturally. Have you ever had any doubts about public diplomacy?," she said when asked whether it meant that the United States had removed Russian representatives from their sanction lists. "I think our Western partners should analyze this approach and understand that we can respond in a negative manner to negative things. We can also respond in a positive manner to positive things and have always been opting for the latter," she said.
The US Department of State said earlier that Nuland will set off for Moscow on October 11 to meet with high-ranking Russian officials to discuss a range of bilateral issues, as well as regional and global problems.
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Zakhrova later clarified to the Govorit Moskva radio station that one Russian citizen had been removed from the U.S. sanctions list. She did not disclose the person's name.
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[REGNUM] As a result of the actions of illegal armed groups remaining in the Syrian Idlib zone, a Syrian soldier was killed and a civilian was wounded, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, Deputy Head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, said at a briefing on October 10 .
A Syrian army soldier in Idlib province was killed by a militant sniper.
"In the province of Idlib, as a result of a sniper attack by terrorists from the area of the village of Fatira on the positions of government forces in the area of the village of Khazarin, a Syrian army soldier was killed," the Russian military said.
A civilian was wounded after being hit by a mortar shelling that targeted government forces in the area of the village of Safsaf.
[REGNUM] A Turkish military convoy has come under fire in the Syrian province of Aleppo, Nors reported on October 10.
According to the agency, the attack took place near the city of Mari.
Turkish armored vehicles were fired upon by anti-tank guided missiles.
According to the latest data, as a result, two Turkish soldiers were killed and four were injured.
At the same time, the Turkish Ministry of Defense has already announced that in response to this attack, a military operation was carried out in Syria, during which five "terrorists" were destroyed.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Controversy over the sexualization of children reignited this week as an Indiana pole dancing instructor who reportedly teaches the provocative dance technique to kids was discussed online.
On Saturday, the criminal history of the instructor's husband surfaced, and it includes a mention in the Indiana sex offenders registry.
Earlier this week, social media users came across an advertisement for kids pole dancing classes. The lessons were offered up by Tiff’s Pole Fitness of Jasper, Indiana.
The disclaimer on the side of the poster, completely with a skimpy cartoon girl hanging upside said "no worries... your child will be taught age appropriate pole sport techniques only."
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... that contradicts what Tiffs Facebook page said. Spotted by one user, a post says "now offering kids pole ages 7 to 12 & extra flirty flow classes!"
While most of Tiff’s Pole Fitness original Facebook page was scrubbed, some surviving comments showing its establishment earlier this year survived.
According to Google Cache, one of the last posts made by Tiffs Pole Fitness Inc. talked about deleting posts: "I have deleted one of my recent posts because the shares and views have extended far beyond our community & area. I didn't anticipate that it would begin to go viral & I want to protect the privacy of my students & our small community."
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Everything within The State.
NOTHING outside The (Woke Pervert) State.
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Just in case you are unsure about whether this is about athleticism or something really sinister, that is the hair style (and animal sidekick) from the disney childrens' movie Tangled, where she forms a romantic relationship.
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Strikes me as curious that the advert specifies class attire very specifically. However, I have not seen a lot of flyers for children's pole dancing.
[ToloNews] Dozens of Afghan students on Sunday gathered in front of Pakistain’s embassy in Kabul to protest the recent shutting of Torkham Gate.
Most of today’s protestors, who are studying in Pakistain, declared that they will miss a semester if the gate remains closed, adding that border area tensions should not affect their learning.
"It is now four weeks that the gate is closed. We will miss the current semester if we don’t get there in four days," a protestor said.
"It is a month since the universities started and we are stranded here. Some have visa problems ... there are many difficulties," another protestor said.
After media news hounds were forbidden from covering today’s protest, the protestors filmed the gathering and sent it to the media.
In the meantime, officials at the Ministry of Information and Culture announced that some efforts are underway to reopen Torkham and Spin Boldak’s gates.
"We are willing to solve the problem. Both countries need to allow travel, we have to realize our necessities," said Zabiullah Mujahid, deputy minister of information and culture.
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"Nestled into the mountainous valley of the Khyber Pass, used by traders and invaders from Alexander the Great to the British Empire, Torkham became a route that U.S.-backed mujahedeen took into Afghanistan in the 1980s. It is part of a region "caught between various empires," says Sarfraz Khan, a University of Peshawar international relations professor.
In recent years, Pakistan has tightened security. A 1,600-mile fence [!!] built in 2017 by the Pakistani military now climbs the dry, craggy mountain slopes and makes it harder to slip into Pakistan from Afghanistan.
This is the Israeli branch of the group that caused those Covington Catholic boys such problems a few years back.
[IsraelTimes] 51 members of the 3,000-strong community living in the Negev desert city of Dimona were ordered to leave Israel by September 23, but have so far stayed put.
Immigration police began touring employment areas in the southern city of Dimona on Sunday looking for 51 members of the Hebrew Israelites Community who were ordered to leave the country by September 23 on the grounds that they have no legal status to stay.
"The enforcement of the deportation has begun and today a few immigration officers came to randomly check all the business areas of the community," a Hebrew Israelites front man, Ashriel Moore, told the Times of Israel.
Earlier this year, 17 letters were sent to the families containing the 51 individuals, some of whom were born in Israel and some of whose children have served in the IDF. They were told to leave within 60 days but were given the right of appeal.
In response to their requests to be allowed to stay, the Interior Ministry’s Population and Immigration Authority wrote to each family last month that neither residency in Israel for a long period nor work in the country were sufficient grounds for a change of status.
The September 23 deadline passed without any community members leaving the country.
Following the Interior Ministry’s rejection of the appeals, the community turned to the Beersheba District Court, which asked it to clarify why a class action suit was being requested.
The community’s response is ready and due to be submitted to the court, Moore said.
All 51 people who received deportation notices either entered Israel from the United States as tourists and remained in the country, illegally, once their permitted three-month stay was up, or are the children of those who did so.
Some are adults who were born in Israel, according to Moore, who is coordinating the campaign to stop the deportations. Of these, some have their own children. Those who are not eligible for US citizenship or have given it up are stateless and have nowhere to go, he said.
The 3,000-strong community, which believes it is descended from an ancient Israelite tribe, began arriving in Israel in 1969, following the late Ben Carter, a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... steelworker who renamed himself Ben Ammi Ben-Israel and claimed to be God’s representative on earth.
According to its website, the community, which permits polygamy, does not subscribe to any religion "because religions have only divided men." They do, however, observe the Sabbath and Jewish holidays mentioned in the Torah, circumcise male children eight days after birth, and require women to observe the biblical laws of purification.
The community is not recognized as Jewish by Israel’s religious authorities.
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The Black Hebrew Israelites are one of the descendant groups of the African-American mystical nationalism movement of the late 19th century, ed. Their congregations range from reasonably normal to batshit crazy Black supremacist. Wikipedia has an article about them that doesn’t appear to be politicized.
[GREATERKASHMIR] Police on Sunday claimed to have arrested four OGW (Over Ground Worker) Over ground workers (OGWs) are people who help militants, or terrorists, with logistical support, cash, shelter, and other infrastructure with which armed groups and insurgency movements such as Hizbul Mujaheddin and Jaish-e-Muhammad in Jammu and Kashmir can operate....
s of the TRF (The Resistance® Front) it said were involved in the killing of a cab driver in Shahgund area of north Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Bandipora district on Tuesday.The dear departed Mohammad Shafi Lone, president of the local cab drivers' association was shot at in Naidkhai area of Shahgund on Tuesday.
Shafi was removed to a hospital but succumbed to the wounds before being admitted. The driver's was the third killing that evening after Kashmiri Pandit chemist Makhan Lal Bindroo and a non-local vendor were rubbed out in Srinagar.
In a statement issued the evening, IGP Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said that the killing was carried out at the behest and instruction of TRF handler Lala Umar, a resident of Pakistain by the "terrorist associates...identified as Tariq Ahmad Dar alias Tariq Khoucha, Mohammad Shafi Dar, Mudasir Hassan Lone and Bilal Ah Dar alias Sahb Khoucha".
"However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... one of the terrorist associate involved in the killing, identified as Imtiyaz Ah Dar alias Kotru is absconding and has reportedly joined the terrorist ranks, " the IGP said.
"To carry out the nefarious design, a conspiracy was hatched by the LeT(TRF) module of Shahgund, Hajin area. The module carried out a thorough reccee of the target and all his movements were closely watched," he said.
"On the fateful evening, one of the terrorist associates called the victim for a meeting at Gundboon and after reaching the said place, a detailed ambush/trap had already been laid by the other members of the module, the victim was swiftly assassinated," added the IGP.
As per the IGP Kashmir, the module was busted by a special team of Bandipora Police after thorough human and technical corroboration.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Czech President Milos Zeman was rushed to the hospital on Sunday, a day after the country held parliamentary election in which populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis’ party surprisingly came in second and Zeman has a key role in establishing a new government.The Czech presidency is a largely ceremonial post but the president has the right to choose what political leader can try to form the next government.
Earlier Sunday, Zeman met with Babis, his close ally, but the prime minister made no comment as he left the presidential chateau in Lany, near Prague.
On Saturday, the centrist ANO (Yes) party led by Babis, a populist billionaire, narrowly lost the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election, which could spell the end of the euroskeptic leader’s reign in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... nation of 10.7 million people.
A liberal-conservative three-party coalition named Together captured 27.8 percent of the vote, beating Babis’ ANO, which won 27.1 percent. In a second blow to the populists, another center-left liberal coalition received 15.6 percent of the vote to finish third.
The winning coalition won 71 seats while its third-place partner captured 37 seats to have a comfortable majority of 108 seats in the 200-seat lower house of Parliament, and they pledged Saturday night to work together. Babis won 72 seats, six less than in the 2017 election.
But Zeman earlier indicated he would first appoint the leader of the strongest party, not the strongest coalition, to try to form the government, which would be Babis. In his only post-election comment, he congratulated the election winner and all elected politicians.
The anti-migrant and anti-Moslem force in the Czech Republic, the Freedom and Direct Democracy party, which wants the country to leave the EU, finished fourth with 9.6 percent support, or 20 seats. In another surprise, the Social Democrats and the Communists, the country’s traditional parliamentary parties, failed to win seats in parliament for the first time since the split of Czechoslovakia in 1993.
It’s not clear how the hospitalization of Zeman, 77, will affect efforts to form the next government. Zeman is a heavy smoker and drinker who has suffered from diabetes. He has trouble walking and has been using a wheelchair.
Prague’s military hospital confirmed that Zeman was transported there Sunday.
"The reason for his hospitalization are the complications that accompany the chronic disease for which we treat him here," said Dr. Miroslav Zavoral, the director of the clinic. He declined to elaborate.
Zeman was previously admitted on Sept. 14 for what his office described later as a planned examination. The office said the president was only dehydrated and slightly exhausted. Zeman was released after eight days, his longest hospital stay.
He spent four days in the same hospital in 2019 for similar reasons.
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[GREATERKASHMIR] Amid fresh civilian killings in 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 National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday carried out raids at at least 16 locations across Kashmir valley, wire agency IANS reported.As per the IANS report, the raids pertain to two cases, one regarding the publication of 'ISIS voice of Hind' anti-India propaganda magazine and another against the The Resistance® Front (TRF), an offshoot of bully boy outfit LeT as per police.
During the fresh raids-still going on at nine locations in Srinagar, Anantnag, Kulgam, and Baramulla at the time this report was filed- several suspected youth have been detained by the NIA for questioning, the IANS report said.
As per the report, a total of 570 people including 70 from Srinagar district alone allegedly involved in law and order cases, have been detained in a fresh crackdown by the security agencies after recent civilian killings in the valley.
Two teachers from the minority communities of the same school including a woman principal were rubbed out inside the school premises in Srinagar's Eidgah area on Thursday. The killings came less than two days after three civilians including a prominent Kashmiri Pandit chemist and a non-local vendor were killed in Srinagar and Bandipora districts.
The fresh civilian killings have kept security agencies on tenterhooks with Srinagar district in particular seeing a heightened security vigil of late.
Over 700 'terrorist sympathisers' have been detained by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, after a spate of hard boy attacks on minority civilians.
"All the detainees are under joint interrogation of different investigating agencies, which are trying to understand and correlate the working model behind the assassinations of minority civilians," reports News18.
At least seven people were killed by gunnies in Kashmir Valley in five days. Of those killed, four belonged to minority communities. Six of the deaths were reported in Srinagar.
Supinder Kaur, a Srinagar-based Sikh, and Chand, a Hindu from Jammu, were killed two days after The Resistance® Force, a shadow outfit of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... , grabbed credit for the deaths of three people on Tuesday.
Makhan Lal Bindroo, a prominent Kashmiri Pandit and owner of Srinagar's most famous pharmacy, was rubbed out at his shop that evening. Minutes later, a 'chaat' vendor, Virendra Paswan from Bihar, was gunned elsewhere in the city. Almost simultaneously, another civilian, Mohammad Shafi Lone, was killed at Naidkhai in Bandipora.
Three days before that, turbans rubbed out Majid Ahmad Gojri, at Srinagar's Karan Nagar locality. Later that Saturday night, they bumped off Mohammad Shafi Dar at Batmaloo.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A man known as the "Wizard of New Zealand" will stop receiving salary payments from the country’s Christchurch City Council, after working for the city for 23 years.The wizard, whose name is Ian Brackenbury Channell, was receiving a salary of $11,700 per year since 1998, according to local media reports.
The reports added that the wizard no longer fits with the "modern image of the city," which is why his acts of wizardry services — which he was paid for — are no longer required.
"They are not thinking of ways to promote Christchurch overseas. They are just projecting an image of babus bureaucrats drinking lattes on the boulevard. Their image of Christchurch is nothing to do with the authentic heritage of the city. I am the original image of Christchurch," Channell was quoted by local media as saying.
For their part, representatives from the Christchurch City Council had told local media that terminating his services was a difficult decision to make.
Representatives said the city of Christchurch is changing, and that new programs will be introduced to its residents and citizens. He's since been reinstated and received a raise after turning the Christchurch city council members into mackerels and letting them gasp out their miserable lives flopping on the floor of their conference room.
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Per Wikipedia
In 1974 The Wizard migrated to Christchurch in New Zealand and began to speak on a ladder in Cathedral Square. The city council attempted to have him arrested but he became so popular that they made the square a public speaking area. Wearing his costume as a false prophet of the Church of England, or his wizard's pointy hat, he has spoken there at lunchtimes in the summer months.
The Wizard in December 2012
He confronted Telecom over the colour of public telephone boxes, played for the local rugby team, heckled Christian evangelist Ray Comfort, evaded the compulsory census and performed rain dances in Canterbury, Auckland and the Australian outback.
With the help of the mayor, Vicki Buck, the city of Christchurch hosted a wizards' conclave in 1995 when visiting colleagues gathered to help build a wizard's nest on top of the university library tower, to witness the New Zealand Wizard hatching from a giant egg in the city art gallery, sky diving whilst chanting a spell for a major rugby match and performing various rituals round the city. Soon afterwards, accompanied by 42 assistant wizards, he came down by gondola from the Port Hills with tablets bearing the address of his new website.
In 1982 the New Zealand Art Gallery Directors Association issued a statement that in their opinion The Wizard was an authentic living work of art and the city council appointed him "Wizard of Christchurch". In 1990 the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mike Moore, an old friend, appointed him the official "Wizard of New Zealand".
He initially provided his services free. In 1998 the Christchurch City Council signed an contract with him to "provide acts of wizardry and other wizard-like-services – as part of promotional work for the city of Christchurch" for an annual fee of $16000. This contract was terminated in 2021, The Wizard said he was disappointed but will continue to appear in the city. The Wizard has received financial support from his partner, Alice Flett.
On 8 September 2003 The Wizard's large wooden house was destroyed by a fire, which Christchurch police treated as arson. The Wizard, his partner and two boarders were lucky to escape with their lives and The Wizard's extensive book and video collections were destroyed. The "Wizardmobile", constructed from the front halves of two VW Beetles, was also attacked and damaged.
After the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, The Wizard planned to retire and permanently leave Christchurch, saying that the town he loved had gone and that it was the end of an era. After it was announced by the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority and the Anglican bishop that the remains of Christchurch Cathedral would be demolished, The Wizard returned to Christchurch to oppose the demolition. The Wizard continues to speak on the need to preserve Christchurch's heritage buildings.
Since 2014, Ari Freeman has been The Wizard's apprentice
Infinitely better than those vicious weirdos in other parts of Oz who beat the shit out of grannies for the sake those weirdos' sick COVID & Control fetish
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Authorities in 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... have arrested seven undocumented individuals for selling SIM cards belonging to existing citizens and residents, Saudi Press Agency SPA reported on Sunday.For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.
Media spokesperson for Riyadh police Major Khaled al-Kraidis said that the seven violators who were arrested were of Bangladeshi nationality, aged between 30 and 40.
The seven perpetrators were selling the SIM cards without the knowledge of the people who were registered under them, using stores in the city of Riyadh as a cover to carry out the illegal activity.
The police seized 1,461 SIM cards and four fingerprint readers.
They are currently undergoing initial legal procedures and have been referred to the Public Prosecution.
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[All Africa] Congolese officials are promising to set up an independent inquiry and punish local officials involved in sexual assaults detailed in a recent investigation by the World Health Organization (WHO).
But Kinshasa's promise comes as those who had blown the whistle on abuses received threats for pushing for offenders to be punished in a country where such abuses are reported on a regular basis.
A damning report by the WHO last week indicated that massive sexual abuse, including rape, was committed by employees of the UN agency as well as officials in the local health ministry in North Kivu and Ituri between 2018 and 2020 as the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Would have been nice to rein them in BEFORE the sexual abuse scandal; but I suppose that is too much to hope for.
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Notice that there's no mention of the UN in the headline. It's all Congo's fault.
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[LIBYAREVIEW] On Monday, the capital of the UK, will host a meeting on Libya. The meeting will discuss the issue of disarming militias and unifying security institutions. It will discuss ways to settle this file before the general elections at the end of this year.The meeting is sponsored by the UK Foreign Ministry and the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). It will be attended by Libyan Foreign Minister, Najla al-Mangoush, members of the 5 + 5 Joint Military Committee (JMC), military attaches and international parties concerned with the Libyan issue.
In a statement to al-Arabiya, JMC member Lieutenant General, Khairy al-Tamimi, said that the JMC will participate virtually, as they will remain in Libya. He added that the meeting will discuss developing a plan to dismantle the armed militias. It will also discuss ways of unifying the country’s security institutions under one authority.
Last week, a large explosion occurred South of the Libyan city of al-Zawiya. It came as a result of a conflict between two militias, seeking to establish greater dominance over parts of the Coastal Road.
A convenience store was blown up in the Bir Sardin area, which belonged to the brother of one of the leaders of the Muammar al-Dhawi militia, which is active in the Warshafana area, Southwest of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... . Sources accused militias from al-Zawiya of the earth-shattering kaboom, in retaliation for engaging in festivities last week.
The sources revealed that the two sides are fighting due to issues related to fuel smuggling. As Warshafana groups recently stopped several fuel smugglers belonging to the al-Zawiya militias, at a vital gate on the Coastal Road.
Notably, the Berlin Conference II on Libya reiterated the call for the immediate "withdrawal of foreign mercenaries from Libya."
The Conference also called for Libyan authorities to do their part to make the December elections possible, to unify the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) and ensure an equitable distribution of oil revenues.
The 58-point document is divided into six sections including the Introduction, Political Process, Security, Economic and Financial Reforms, Compliance with International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and the Follow Up.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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...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 
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...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
...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 
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...... who is no longer with us, and won't be again......
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
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...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others....jpg "Kashmir")
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Former United States president 
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel....jpg "Kashmir")
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...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A man known as the "Wizard of New Zealand" will stop receiving salary payments from the country’s Christchurch City Council, after working for the city for 23 years.The wizard, whose name is Ian Brackenbury Channell, was receiving a salary of $11,700 per year since 1998, according to local media reports.
...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...
