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Vonda Kay Van Dyke
Born: May 19, 1943 (age 78) Muskegon, Michigan
Education: Arizona State Univ. graduated from UCLA
Occupation: Author
Titles: Miss Phoenix 1964, Miss Arizona 1964, Miss America 1965
She is unique among pageant winners in that she was and still is the only Miss America who was also Miss Congeniality.
Pageants: In her senior year she entered a local America's Junior Miss pageant, where she surprised the judges and her fellow competitors by performing ventriloquism as her talent, which she later honed at the Phoenix amusement park, Legend City. She was named Arizona's Junior Miss for 1961, and traveled with "Kurley-Q" to Mobile, Alabama, for the national finals, where she placed in the top ten.
Her next major pageant was the 1962 Miss Phoenix competition. She later won the Miss Tempe crown in 1964, then Miss Maricopa County, then Miss Arizona, and finally Miss America, where she was the first contestant to use ventriloquism in the talent competition.
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Bess Myerson
Born: July 16, 1924, The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Died: December 14, 2014 (aged 90), Santa Monica, California
Bess Myerson was an American politician, model and television actress who became famous in 1945 as the first Miss America who was also Jewish. Myerson is the only Jewish woman to win the title to date. Her achievement, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, was seen as an affirmation of the Jewish place in American life.
[Army Times] A progress report from the Defense Department’s Countering Extremism Working Group is about three months late, but it’s nearly done, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told Military Times on Monday.
The report, originally due in July, is supposed to include a list of mid- and long-term efforts for the working group, as well as an update on their first three tasks, as laid out by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin back in April.
“The report is nearing completion,” Kirby said, though there is no date nailed down for briefing the secretary and then announcing the results publicly, adding, “And it will, as we’ve talked about, it will include a new definition set of what extremist activity comprises.” "Voting Republican, thinking for oneself, denying White Supremacy sins, transphobia, ...."
Previously, the DoD definition of extremist activity focused on planning, fundraising or other “active” participation in extremism groups, though membership was not banned.
The new definition is expected to more specifically identify extremist behaviors, outside of a group setting, as several recent examples of extremist service members have been unaffiliated with an organization.
Though the report is running behind, Kirby said that the working group has continued ahead with its tasks in the meantime.
“They have set up processes, interdepartmental processes, to continue to work on this, Kirby said. “And one of the things that they already said they were going to try to do was another study on extremism, so the work continues.”
In addition to the definition and a prevalence study, the working group will update procedures to screen for extremist sympathies in recruits and to educate transitioning service members about the possibility of being recruited by an extremist group after separation.
In the meantime, DoD has funded outside research into best practices for dealing with extremism in the military
A Rand Corp. report published in September recommended a handful of things the Pentagon is already looking at, including research into the current state of extremist views in the services, as well as means to handle the issue when it comes up.
However, according to the report, “the military could better leverage existing violence prevention programs to prevent service members from becoming involved with extremist groups.”
That same sentiment is reflected in another, privately-funded Rand report released Monday.
Further down the road, Rand’s Monday report suggests, there will need to be a clear framework for dealing with troops who are found to fall under the new definition of extremism.
“Ultimately, DoD will need to craft policies that govern the consequences for service members who are shown to have joined an extremist organization,” which could include discharge, the report continues, but could also involve interventions “designed to help individuals walk away from extremism.”
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The best outcome I can see here is that Power Point preparation gets classified as an extremist activity. But that's a lot to hope for. Maybe we can dig up a Power Point of Jackson explaining his flanking maneuver at Chancellorsville to Lee.
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Pretty sure the Sci Fi novel was a John Brunner one.
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Merrick Ferret ('MF?'), did you choose that nym or was it perhaps our host's most creative one yet? 'Honoring' our AG as a sometimes-domesticated relative of a weasel.
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did you choose that nym or was it perhaps our host's most creative one yet?
While our host no doubt inspired me -- perhaps the benign equivalent of the young Harvard Wakandan lass's Woke Miasma Theory -- I chose it with the help of MG's parents. Combine a pseudo-Wakandan given name (WTF is a white man doing, running around with a ghetto name like Merrick?) .
As to "Ferret," aside from the alliterative ring, the image of a semi-feral rodent presented itself naturally with this one.
Come to think of it, all of these bizarre characters resemble diminutive semi-feral rodents: (menstruating person)
Tony Blinken-Marten
Squirrelface Kamala
Dr. Rachel Rodent,
BootyGerbil, Czar of Canals & Tunnels
and of course Fauci the Ur-Weasel
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I am thinking the book was Shockwave Rider.
And.... it has ties back to....
THE RAND CORPORATION
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider
The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.[1][2] It also introduces the concept of a Delphi pool,[3] perhaps derived from the RAND Corporation's Delphi method – a futures market on world events which bears close resemblance to DARPA's controversial and cancelled Policy Analysis Market.
The Key phrase here is Unrealized Capital Gains - Because he hasn't sold ownership so he's never cashed out. The amount appears to be all his wealth.
A mark-to-market billionaire tax on unrealized capital gains would be robbery to @elonmusk as he would likely need to liquidate ~half his $TSLA shares just to pay the tax. pic.twitter.com/tXd0ExcQiM
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The very definition of counting chickens before they hatch and killing the goose that lays the golden eggs all rolled into one. And all to make a better life for the George Floyds of the world.
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A young, energetic, well educated entrepreneur and philanthropist who understands math. He must be evil.
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Well, you have Musk and Thiel on the one hand, tending their knitting and making the occasional sharp observation of society. Then you have Microdose Jack, Fat Boy Benoiff, Suckerpurge, Reed Hastings and other people who think their money gives them some special license to decide how you should live. Maybe billionaires should take a vow of silence.
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10/26/2021 6:48
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OTOH, the gummint could stop the subsidies it makes to Tesla and SpaceX. Let the screeching begin.
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Ref #4: Some things are better leased than purchased.
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would be more fair to simply alter the 'step up basis' rule and limit the amount of 1031 exchange holdings to, say $10M.
then the cap gains rate could be lowered a point or two with a net
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When a Democrat California senator gave Musk grief he moved to Texas. Not sure where he can go now, but I imagine he'll be a lot more involved in donating to strategic political campaigns in the future.
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I basically think Musk has made most of his money from being a Tax Farmer for various green schemes. This should be a warning to everyone: live by the left-wing swindle, die by the left wing swindle.
'She says, "You know, he understands all his failings and flaws as a man, and you don't seem to understand as well just exactly how messed up you are"'
Obama said he replied to his wife: 'You're right. No doubt'
Michelle and Barack Obama met in 1989 while working at a law firm in Chicago and married three years later
Springsteen and Obama have paired up now to produce a podcast and forthcoming book, 'Renegades: Born in the USA'
Nobody over there considered the idea that this might be a Palestinian Authority operation?
[IsraelTimes] Sabah daily releases mugshots of the suspects, apparently taken by Turkish authorities and accompanied by initials purporting to represent their names.
Turkey’s Sabah daily on Monday published photos of 15 men that the newspaper alleges spied for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency and were arrested by authorities earlier this month.
The photos appear to be mugshots of the men taken by Turkish authorities and are accompanied by initials claiming to represent their names. No further details were reported by the paper.
According to a Sabah report last week, the arrests took place on October 7, following a year-long National Intelligence Organization (MIT) operation involving some 200 Turkish intelligence officers who tracked down the alleged spies.
The suspects, said to be of Arab descent, operated in groups of three, the report said. Some had met with Mossad agents in Croatia and Switzerland, where information was exchanged. They had also received orders in the Romanian capital of Bucharest and Kenya’s Nairobi. The five groups had operated in different areas of the country, Sabah reported.
The chairman of the powerful Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Saturday said none of the 15 were Mossad agents. MK Ram Ben-Barak, a former deputy director of the Mossad, also suggested the Turkish government is eager to show its intelligence “achievements,” resulting in the occasional publication of false information. “None of the published names were [of] Israeli spies and therefore, it should be put in proportion,” he told Channel 12.
Sabah, which is close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Friday conducted an interview with one of the detainees, whom it identified only by his initials, M.A.S.
There has been no official confirmation from Turkey on the arrests and it was not clear how the paper interviewed the man if he had been arrested.
“I met face to face with a Mossad official. He taught me to encrypt files on the laptop,” M.A.S. told Sabah.
Scare quotes mine. For a given value of far right that places them far to the right of the far left Black Bloc’s Antifa/Black Lives Matter, who were the ones orchestrating the violence as usual.
[IsraelTimes] Civil damages suit filed by residents of Virginia city says those who arranged ’Unite the Right’ gathering planned violence in advance and came prepared.
A civil trial began on Monday of the organizers of a far-right rally four years ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one person dead and 19 injured.
The lawsuit against the organizers seeking financial damages was filed by residents of the Virginia city impacted by the violence that accompanied the gathering.
The "Unite the Right" rally was held to protest municipal plans to remove a statue of General Robert E. Lee, who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia for the pro-Slavery South during the 1861-65 American Civil War.
It began with a march on the evening of August 11 by neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... s and Ku Klux Klan members carrying tiki torches.
Clashes broke out the next day and a white nationalist drove his car into a crowd of counter-demonstrators, killing a 32-year-old woman, Heather Heyer.
Then-US president Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... came under fire when he said afterward that there were "very fine people on both sides" of the protests.
Among the parties to the suit are four people who were hurt in the car attack.
Defendants in the suit are two dozen "individuals and organizations that conspired to plan, promote, and carry out the violent mostly peaceful events in Charlottesville."
"There is one thing about this case that should be made crystal-clear at the outset — the violence in Charlottesville was no accident," the complaint says. "Defendants spent months carefully coordinating their efforts on the internet and in person."
"Defendants brought with them to Charlottesville the imagery of the Holocaust, of slavery, of Jim Crow, and of fascism ...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State, which is the alliance of big business and labor with the government in service to the all-powerful State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of oddballs who have no idea what they're talking about... ," the complaint says. "They also brought with them semiautomatic weapons, pistols, mace, rods, armor, shields, and torches."
The organizers have rejected the charges, claiming self-defense, and argue that they were merely exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech.
Jury selection began on Monday. The trial is expected to last several weeks.
Anti-racism groups have previously used civil litigation to target bully boy groups in the United States and force them into bankruptcy.
[IsraelTimes] IDF mum on alleged strikes on observation posts; no casualties reported; apparent attack comes after Putin said to tell Bennett Russia won’t hamper Israeli action
Israeli helicopters hit three targets in Syria near the border in the early hours of Monday, Syrian media reported.
According to the reports, the missiles struck targets connected to the Hezbollah terror group on the outskirts of the town of al-Baath as well as other locations in southern Syria.
The three sites were all reportedly connected to Hezbollah’s so-called Golan File, its efforts to establish a front along the Golan border from which it can carry out attacks against Israel.
According to Syrian media, two of the sites were observation posts used by the Lebanese terror group, while the third target was a site just next to a Syrian military facility that Israel has long claimed was working with Hezbollah, the offices of Cpt. Bashar al-Hussein, commander of a reconnaissance company in the Syrian army’s 90th Brigade.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-Syrian opposition organization of unclear funding, said the strikes caused "material damage," but there was no immediate word on casualties.
There was no comment from the Israel Defense Forces, in line with its policy of only publicly acknowledging strikes that are in response to attacks from Syria.
Later on Monday morning, in a tacit threat, the Israeli military reportedly dropped leaflets in the Syrian Golan mentioning Hussein by name and warning Syrian troops to avoid cooperating with Hezbollah. The IDF did not immediately confirm dropping the fliers, but the pages were marked with the eagle symbol of the Israeli military’s 210th "Bashan" Division, which defends that area of the border with Syria.
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The IDF continued its leaflet campaign along the Syrian side of the Golan today. The leaflets warned members of the Syrian armed forces against cooperating w/ Hezbollah & its commander, Jawad Hashem. The leaflets have been dropped before & after Israeli attacks in the area. pic.twitter.com/YTEJOsSumb
[Rudaw] A suspected Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... targeting Erbil’s eastern border with 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... on Monday resulted in no reported casualties, according to a local mayor.
The suspected Ottoman Turkish drone struck Bradost mountain range in Erbil’s Sidakan subdistrict on Monday, targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) activity in the region.
"There was a guerrilla base on the mountain and today a group of guerrillas strolled through the area, grabbing the attention of the Ottoman Turkish drone and leading it to strike the area," Ihsan Chalabi, mayor of Sidakan, told Rudaw.
"The strike was close to a Peshmerga base, but there were no casualties," he added.
The PKK is an gang fighting for greater rights for Kurds in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , with several bases in the Kurdistan Region. Turkey frequently carries out cross-border ground and air offensives against alleged locations of the PKK, which Ankara considers to be a terrorist organization.
In April, Turkey launched the twin operations ’Claw-Lightning’ and ’Claw-Thunderbolt’ against the PKK in northern Duhok.
Iran also targets Kurdish opposition groups within the Kurdistan Region’s borders. For decades, Kurdish opposition parties have struggled to secure the rights of Kurds in Iran.
From the mid-1990s until 2015, parties based in the Kurdistan Region have generally stayed away from clashing with Iranian security forces.
Since early 2015, however, these groups have deployed units to mountainous areas close to the Iranian border. From there, they have sent units into Iran and clashed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and other security forces.
Last month, Iran attacked the border areas of Choman, Sidakan, and Haji Omran on several occasions, targeting alleged Kurdish opposition group bases.
There have been over 400 military incursions into the Kurdistan Region so far this year, endangering innocent civilians, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) coordinator for international advocacy Dindar Zebari said in a statement on September 22, without naming any nation or group.
Civilian populations and the environment have been severely damaged by the Turkey-PKK conflict. Several people have been killed, thousands of acres of land have been scorched, and people’s houses and livestock have been hit.
The KRG has repeatedly called on both Iran and Turkey to respect its illusory sovereignty, and for the Kurdish groups to stop using Kurdistan Region territory to launch attacks on its neighbors.
[OneIndia] The ongoing encounter in the Bhata Dhurian entered into its 16th days making it one of the longest battle with the terrorists. While the Indian Army suffered many casualties during the encounter, the new strategy is to adopt a wait and watch policy.
In the encounter, nine Army personnel including JCOs have bit the dust. Sources tell OneIndia that the gunnies are very highly trained and are being guided on a minute to minute basis by officials of the Pakistain Army. It is also clear that they have been battle hardened during the extensive training imparted to them by the Pakistain Army. A TOI report also said that these gunnies could be working under the guidance of retired Pakistain Army personnel as well.
Pakistain has very often in the past used the services of retired army personnel to train their terrorists.
The investigation into the Mumbai 26/11 attacks made it clear that a group of former naval officers had trained the gunnies to launch an attack from the seas.
An official said that this has been an old strategy by the Pakistain establishment to use retired personnel to train terrorists. They have a deniability factor and if it comes to light, they will reject all allegations that the gunnies were trained by the state.
In this context one must look into the role played by the mysterious Sajid Mir in the 26/11 attacks.
He had coordinated with David Headley and played an extremely crucial role in the logistics part of the attacks. While Pakistain continues to deny Mir's existence, the Indian Intelligence agencies say that Mir was once part of the ISI. He was then asked to quit to specifically train and guide gunnies of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba.
In the ongoing Poonch encounter, the role of the retired army personnel has come to light. A specific team has been put in place to particularly train and then guide the terrorists. This is one of the major reasons why the encounter has been on for long. Like one saw in the Mumbai attacks, the gunnies in the Poonch encounter have been effective as they have been operating in buddy pairs.
The gunnies have managed to drag this encounter for so long due to the advantage they took in operating in pairs of two. This has allowed them to change positions continuously and engage a larger number of troops.
Around 10 gunnies of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba infiltrated from Pakistain into the judges over the past three months. While the patrolling and the security measures along the border with Pakistain has been very high, these gunnies managed to infiltrate as they came in, in smaller numbers and not as an entire group. This may have helped them dodge the security agencies, officials say.
[DW] The injuries were mild, officials said, in the second such scuffle in three days. Poland has drastically increased its military presence at the border with Belarus as people seek to enter the EU by the thousands.
Two Polish soldiers have suffered minor injuries, officials said Monday, after about 60 people tried to push their way across the country's border with Belarus. The scuffle occurred the night before, near the village of Usnarz Gorny.
A video was published on Poland's border guards website that showed men trying to break a razor wire fence with branches. Officers said they were then attacked with branches and stones. A similar scuffle occurred on Saturday.
Poland already has about 6,000 troops on the border, and will increase that number to 10,000, the Defense Ministry announced later on Monday.
WHY IS THERE A NEW BORDER INFLUX VIA BELARUS?
Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, the EU countries that neighbor Belarus, are facing increasing pressure. The Belarusian government has maintained its policy of picking up migrants colonists and refugees and dropping them off at the borders in an effort to encourage them out of the country.
European leaders believe this policy has been implemented in retaliation for sanctions against Belarus' strongman President Alexander Lukaschenko.
Polish state news agency PAP reported that the Defense Ministry has been in contact with Europe's border patrol agency, Frontex, to see if it can arrange flights for the refugees back to their home countries. They mostly hail from Iraq, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Syria.
As the cold sets and and a few refugees have died under mysterious circumstances, activists have been seeking more transparency from Polish officials about what is going on at the border.
On Saturday, a group of women — including two of Poland's former first ladies, Jolanta Kwasniewska and Anna Komorowska — protested near the border against pushing the people, including many children, into the forest back toward Belarus.
Despite the strong military presence on the border, thousands have entered Poland in the past two months. Poland's security officials have said that migrants colonists and refugees can pay up to $12,000 (about €10,000) in their home countries to people promising to get them to the EU, preferably to Germany.
Germany has seen some 4,200 new arrivals in October alone, according to federal police.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has arrested one 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.... operative in connection with a conspiracy case hatched in Bengaluru. The arrested operative has been identified as Muhammad Tauqir, a resident of Bengaluru.
The NIA had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Tauqir, Zuhab and Mohammad Shihab for their affiliation with the ISIS. Earlier the NIA had also arrested two accused persons namely Ahamad Abdul Cadar and Irgan Nasir.
The NIA learnt that Tauqir along with the other accused had raised funds, radicalised and recruited gullible Moslem. They had formed a group called as the Koran Circle and these recruits were sent to Syria to join the ISIS.
Earlier In 2013, Muhammad Tauqir Mahmood along with his associate had also visited Syria illegally to liaise with ISIS leadership and had offered support from Indian Moslems.
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"All-Star Portfolios," eh?
Like what? The COVID portfolio? The Afghan dossier?
Would you believe... Tranny rights?
Or maybe posturing about the nonexistent Green New Deal?
Perhaps parading the heads of "domestic terrorists" on pikes?
[Free Beacon] The reimplementation of the Migrant Protection Protocols may do little to curb the surge of migrants at the southern border if the president is unwilling to reach a diplomatic agreement with the Mexican government, giving the White House cover to placate left-wing activists while avoiding being held in contempt of court.
Informally known as "Remain in Mexico," the MPP program forces most migrants who apply for asylum to wait in Mexico before their U.S. immigration court hearing. Although a federal court ruled in August that President Joe Biden must keep MPP as an available enforcement tool, the administration has placed the onus for renegotiating the program on Mexico. Nor is it likely a court will force the two countries to reach an agreement.
"It’s going to be hard to put the genie back in the bottle," Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) told the Washington Free Beacon when asked about the feasibility of starting the program again. "What President Biden destroyed is profound and significant."
Proponents credit the Remain in Mexico policy with plummeting apprehensions of illegal immigrants in 2019 and 2020 by disincentivizing attempts to enter the country. They argue Biden's suspension of the policy in January signaled to the world that the southern border was open. Since the policy's repeal, apprehensions of illegal immigrants have surged to an all-time high.
The White House has said it will appeal the court's decision but will comply for now "in good faith." Immigration experts, however, are worried that MPP is effectively dead and that Biden has wiggle room to placate the demands of the court and left-wing activists who call the policy inhumane and a violation of the nation's obligation to care for asylum seekers.
"In the short term, the Biden administration can say, ’There's nothing we can do, the Mexican government won't cooperate,'" said Jessica Vaughn, the director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. "But ultimately the U.S. is the subject of Mexico's demands, which is not a place you want to be in when conducting diplomacy, especially if the Biden administration behind the scenes actually wants a deal because of political pressure."
In a court filing earlier this year, attorneys for the White House said the Mexican Foreign Affairs Ministry will not "accept MPP enrollees" without "certain improvements to the program," such as not allowing sick migrants back into the country. An Oct. 14 statement from the Department of Homeland Security said that Mexico "must make an independent decision to accept the return of individuals without status in Mexico as part of any reimplementation of MPP."
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Hundreds - probably thousands - of illegals have died try to cross the border (and more from their exploitation after they got here.) Most would have lived if the swarms had been subjected to just a little determined .50 cal discouragement very early on. But no, that would be inhumane...
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Not to worry. They still have to be masked. When they enter. We are ruled by morons.
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Let me get this staight; if you are a member of the U.S. military, if you don't get vaccinated, you get terminated; However, if you are coming from some country with not to many vaccine shots, you don't need to be vaccinated to enter U.S.!
What is wrong with this picture?
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#10 LOLOL! How did I miss that POS production?
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Oh, its a masterpiece. Frogtown II features Lou Ferrigno and the greatest chin in show business, Robert Z'Dar. Gawd I miss the 80s and early 90s film entertainment.
[American Thinker] The United Nations, awash in greenie ideology, has decided that now would be a good time to horn in on the state of Texas's internal energy production. For its own good, of course:
NEW YORK — The leader of the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... says Texas must end its reliance on oil and gas production to remain prosperous in the era of climate change.
At a UN summit next month, world leaders will be asked to rapidly cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. A vast increase in the production of renewable energy will be required to reach those targets.
UN Secretary General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... says Texas is well-positioned to lead the way in the production of renewables.
"If Texas wants to remain prosperous in 2050 or 2070, Texas will have to diversify its economy and Texas will have to be less dependent on oil and gas," Guterres said. "It has all the conditions to be — because of the weather in Texas — a leading state in renewable energy in the US," he added.
That prompted just the right response from Texas's no-nonsense governor, Greg Abbott:
Texas to United Nations: Pound Sand
The world is reeling from spiraling fuel costs caused by premature over-reliance on renewable energy.
High fuel costs punish middle class families & stoke the supply chain crisis.
[IsraelTimes] The Saudi-led coalition backing the government in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... says it has killed 105 Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels in Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s near the strategic city of Marib.
Thirteen military vehicles were destroyed and 105 holy warriors were killed in strikes in the past 24 hours in al-Jawba, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Marib, and al-Kassara, 30 kilometers northwest, the coalition says, according to the official Saudi Press Agency.
The Iran-backed Houthis rarely comment on losses, and AFP cannot independently verify the toll.
[IsraelTimes] A senior Sudanese diplomat is quoted by Israel’s Kan public broadcaster as saying that the country’s apparent military coup today is not expected to dramatically affect plans to normalize ties with Israel.
The report says this is because the military leaders, many of whom support the normalization efforts, have strengthened their position.
The outlet quotes the unnamed diplomat as saying Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who was arrested today, had intended to soon travel to Washington to formally sign the normalization deal.
The diplomat warns, however, that in the long term, the fact that establishing ties with Israel is an idea primarily identified with the army, without civilian officials, could erode public support in Sudan for the move.
The military "made a big mistake by throwing away the partnership with the civilian officials," the diplomat says. "They are underestimating the response of the people, which is fed up of military coups, and they may face an uprising."
[IsraelTimes] At least two people have died and several others are maimed in a kaboom on a bus near Kampala, police say, following a deadly attack claimed by 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.... in the Ugandan capital.
"The death of two people has been confirmed," Ugandan police front man Fred Enanga says in a statement, adding that several maimed people are being evacuated.
[FoxNews] The Department of Education appointed the president of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) to a federal board overseeing student progress, despite a controversial letter the organization sent urging the Biden administration to investigate opposition to school boards.
Earlier this month, Viola Garcia was appointed by Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), which has oversight over the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
The NAEP, according to its website, was first administered in 1969 and "is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation’s students know and can do in subjects such as mathematics, reading, science, and writing."
Garcia signed the Sept. 29 letter asking the Biden administration to review threats and violence against education administrators and schools to determine if they violate the Patriot Act and hate crime laws. The letter came amid clashes between angry parents and educators over COVID-19 policies and critical race theory being taught in classrooms.
The letter went on to address hostilities toward school boards as possible acts of "domestic terrorism," claiming there had been an increase in "acts of malice, violence and threats against public school officials."
The NSBA, which represents more than 90,000 school board members, was in talks with White House officials for several weeks before sending its letter, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon and later released by Parents Defending Education (PDE).
[Just The News] A civilian professor at the Air War College in Alabama pleaded guilty Monday for lying to federal investigations concerning his relationship with a Chinese national.
According to the Justice Department, Xiaoming Zhang admitted to prosecutors that he made false and misleading statements when questioned about his relationship with a Chinese official.
The 69-year-old instructor was required to have a security clearance in order to maintain his position at the school on Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. In order to obtain that clearance, Zhang was required to divulge any information concerning previous contacts with foreign officials, which he did not.
"Beginning sometime in 2012, Zhang developed a relationship with a known foreign official working with the Shanghai Municipal Government," the DoJ wrote in a statement. "Records indicate that Zhang met with the official in person on approximately six occasions and exchanged approximately 40 emails with him from December 2012 to January 2017.
"At some point during this period, Zhang became aware that the official was using, or attempting to use, their relationship to gain access to sensitive information in Zhang’s possession, as well as to make contact with other potentially valuable individuals." Full DoJ release found at this link.
[RT] Ankara has backtracked on its threats to declare 10 envoys "personae non gratae" after they called for the release of an opposition figure even though their embassies had officially vowed not to interfere in the country’s affairs.
The apparent resolution of the diplomatic row was announced by President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... following a government meeting to discuss the potential expulsion of the ambassadors late on Monday.
Shortly before the meeting, the US Embassy, along with as well others involved in the scandal, released a statement pledging their compliance with Article 41 of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, which states that missions must not interfere in the affairs of the host country.
Erdogan reiterated his displeasure with the original statement by the 10 envoys, calling it a "great insult" to the country’s judiciary, which "does not accept anyone’s orders." He acknowledged the "step back" by the embassies, however, signaling that the row was resolved.
"Our intention is not to create a crisis, and those embassies backtracked in their statement of adherence to the Vienna Convention. We expect the ambassadors to act accordingly from now on," Erdogan stated.
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[THEGUARDIAN] A former senior Saudi intelligence officer has claimed that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists. As crown prince, Moe has quietly jettisoned his country's policy of trying to impose its religion on the rest of the world... is a "psychopath with no empathy" who once boasted that he could kill the kingdom’s ruler at the time, King Abdullah, and replace him with his own father.
In an interview on US television, Saad Aljabri, who fled 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... in May 2017 and is living in exile in Canada, also said he had been warned by an associate in 2018, after the murder of the journalist beloved martyr of journalism Jamal Khashoggi ......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatari payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal...... in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, that a Saudi hit team was heading to Canada to kill him.
Aljabri told 60 Minutes on CBS he was warned "don’t be in a proximity of any Saudi mission in Canada. Don’t go to the consulate. Don’t go to the embassy." When he asked why, he said he was told "they dismembered the guy, they kill him. You are on the top of the list."
Some details of the alleged murder plot, which were detailed in litigation in the US and Canada, have already been reported. But the 60 Minutes interview represents the first time Aljabri has publicly spoken about his break with Prince Mohammed.
He also spoke of the plight of his two youngest children, Sarah and Omar, who were arrested and are in prison in Saudi Arabia in what is widely seen as an attempt to force their father back to the country.
Saad al-Jabri did not provide evidence to the CBS News program, which aired Sunday.
The ex-intelligence official, who resides in exile in Canada, claimed that in 2014, Prince Mohammed bin Salman boasted that he could kill King Abdullah. At the time, Prince Mohammed held no senior role in government but was serving as gatekeeper to the royal court of his father, at the time still heir to the throne. King Salman ascended to the throne in January 2015 after his half-brother, King Abdullah, died of stated natural causes.
Al-Jabri used the interview to warn Prince Mohammed that he has recorded a video that reveals even more royal secrets and some of the United States. A short, silent clip was shown to "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley. The video, al-Jabri said, could be released if he's killed.
Al-Jabri's allegations are the latest attempt to pressure the 36-year-old crown prince. Two of al-Jabri's adult children are in detention in Saudi Arabia, allegedly as pawns to force their father to return to the country. If he returns, al-Jabri faces possible imprisonment or house arrest like his former boss, the once-powerful interior minister, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was ousted from the line of succession by the current crown prince in 2017.
The Saudi government has issued extradition requests and Interpol notices for al-Jabri, alleging he is wanted for corruption. Al-Jabri claims his wealth comes from the generosity of the kings he's served.
While it is not the first time al-Jabri has tried to exert pressure on the crown prince, it is his first on-record interview since his son Omar al-Jabri, 23, and daughter Sarah al-Jabri, 21, were detained in March 2020 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A son-in-law was allegedly kidnapped from a third country, forcibly returned to Saudi Arabia, tortured and detained.
Human Rights Watch says the arrest of family members is an apparent effort to coerce al-Jabri to return to Saudi Arabia. A Saudi court sentenced his son and daughter to nine and six-and-a-half years in prison, respectively, for money laundering and unlawfully attempting to flee Saudi Arabia, according to the rights group. An appeals court reportedly upheld the prison sentence in May, without informing the family.
Al-Jabri has filed a federal lawsuit in the United States against the Saudi crown prince, alleging the royal tried to trap and kill him in the U.S. and Canada.
Meanwhile, Saudi entities are suing him in the U.S. and Canada, claiming he stole some half-a-billion dollars from the counterterrorism budget. A Canadian judge has frozen his assets due to purported evidence of fraud as the case proceeds, according to the CBS News report.
#SaudiArabia’s Embassy in the US says the “discredited” former government official Saad al-Jabri has “a long history of fabricating and creating distractions to hide the financial crimes he committed.”https://t.co/GSs1XnPcFz
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"his wealth comes from the generosity of the kings he's served"
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"claiming he stole some half-a-billion dollars" ... "judge has frozen his assets"
I believe we have arrived at the gist of the matter.
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Sounds like a hit piece. Perhaps we aren't pumping oil fast enough to lower gas prices, or just continuing soft coup policies from 8 months ago?
[BREITBART] A front man for the White House claims that the administration is "unfamiliar" with the popular "F*ck Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us... " or "Let’s Go Brandon" chants that have filled the halls of so many events in the past few months.
The two chants have been spreading like wildfire since the start of the college football season and an early October NASCAR race respectively.
Mike the Tiger of LSU Tigers is carried by fans during the second half against the Florida Gators at Tiger Stadium on October 16, 2021 in Baton...
But the White House is feigning ignorance of the persistent attack on their boss.
According to the Washington Post: "Administration officials sought to downplay the phenomenon, and at least one claimed to be unfamiliar with the ’Let’s go Brandon’ chant or its cruder cousin, though they are now chanted everywhere from football stadiums to concert arenas to local bars."
Andrew Bates told the paper that he had "never heard of that chant" until the Post’s news hound "explained it" to him.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the 10th-anniversary celebration of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial near the Tidal Basin on the...
Still, even as the White House is acting like no one there ever heard of the phenomenon, Joe Biden himself has mentioned it all at least once. The Post reminded readers that Biden made an oblique reference to signs reading "F*ck Joe Biden" that lined the road as he traveled in a presidential motorcade in Pennsylvania last week.
During a speech in Scranton, Biden again claimed that he is one of the most popular presidents in modern history, "Notwithstanding some of the signs I saw coming in."
Naturally, the Post blamed it all on Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... for his "norm-breaking and vulgarity of the Trump era." However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the paper was alarmed that the chants are "far more vulgar and widespread."
The paper also tried to wave off the chants as examples of a mere "target of vilification" being used to unite Republican opponents of Biden. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the paper neglected to point out that the chants are not only occurring in deep red, Republican districts, but is being seen universally across the nation, even in places as blue as Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Boston, Massachusetts.
Indeed, the chant was heard just today during a a march of New York City municipal workers who are tired of the 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... mandates.
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Anybody surprised by that denial? Anybody? Bueler? Brandon?
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OK!
so they just as much admitted being TOTALLY out of touch with the real world around them.
*Snicker* There are real risks to getting the concentrated attention of PTA parents, who nowadays bring skills far more interesting than mere cookie baking to the table.
[JUSTTHENEWS] A national education group that implied some parental activism is tantamount to "domestic terrorism" owes nearly $20 million to the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... , according to tax forms reviewed by Just the News.
Most of that comes from "accrued pension liability," as disclosed by the National School Boards Association's 2017 and 2018 Form 990 filings. Unlike those two, the 2019 form — the most recently filed — does not include an itemized list under the federal income taxes subheading for "other liabilities."
Its liabilities have exceeded its assets by around two to one in recent years, and up to seven to one in the first half of the 2010s, according to rundowns by ProPublica.
Just the News couldn't find any IRS action seeking recovery of that money. The only federal legal action against NSBA in its own jurisdiction was an employee lawsuit alleging racial discrimination, which a judge dismissed about a year ago.
NSBA director of communications Jason Amos noted it's a tax-exempt nonprofit but didn't respond when told the liabilities are listed on its own federal tax forms.
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Doesn't look like the right link to the article; it says nothing about the supposed IRS liability. That said, I'm thinking said liability is really what the union owes the pension fund in matching 401(k) contributions, not a tax it owes to the IRS. The latter kind of liability would generally be for unpaid payroll taxes like Al Sharpton did for a number of years.
When it was seventeen. Congratulations to the one that got better.
[ToloNews] At least 16 people including seven children and three women were killed in festivities that erupted between the forces of the Islamic Emirate and a group of gunnies in the western province of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , sources claimed on Monday.
The sources said that the house belonged ISIS. Three members of the Islamic Emirate were also killed, the sources added.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... Mawllavi Naeemulhaq Haqqani, provincial director of information and culture, said that a number of kidnappers were killed in the festivities.
"In these festivities, four abductors were killed," he said.
"We seized weapons and explosives and grenades," said Meer Agha, deputy of the district police for PD 15 of Herat city.
"(The festivities) begun at 10:30 am and lasted until 4:00. They had AK-47s and machine guns," said a member of the Islamic Emirate.
The festivities also inflicted damage on nearby houses.
"Almost eight houses were damaged," said Mohammad Osman, a tribal elder.
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Those employees are all white, though many identify as brown. They still don't want anything to do with dirty foreigners except for the budget they create.
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How many of God's Children do they even have left? Most are already on their way here.
We're already converging so rapidly with Latin America -- corrupt oligarchy, hyperinflation, Marxist takeover of education, shambolic police state etc...
Might as well just declare an Anschluss with Guatemala and Honduras and be done with the idea of a border
#Facebook will fuel more violent unrest around the world because of the way its algorithms are designed to promote divisive content, whistleblower Frances Haugen tells the British parliament.https://t.co/ua00flFg5r
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This is the argument to institute censorship. What she is saying is the 1st amendment should not apply here for the betterment of the masses, as they are too stupid to not get angry and shoot people..
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Fakebook's internal "activists" and "whistleblowers" are upset that it doesn't do even MORE censorship of UnWoke Deplorable wrongthink. Per documents leaked to the WSJ,
American climate protesters are carrying out a UK-style protest by shutting down traffic on the FDR Drive highway in Manhattan. Affected drivers are angry. Video by @ScooterCasterNY: pic.twitter.com/XuuMpRIXhC
A tweet? In these degenerate times they can’t even be bothered to haul out the stiff writing paper and the good calligraphy pens? Wow.
[RT] International parties have voiced their concern and condemnation after the Sudanese military staged a coup, arresting the prime minister as well as other senior civilian leaders and dissolving the government.
In a statement on Monday, African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat demanded the release of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other officials of the transitional government, and called on the Sudanese military to respect human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. . "The chairperson calls for the immediate resumption of consultations between civilians and military," Mahamat said, adding that dialogue and consensus was the only path to "save the country and its democratic transition."
Neighboring Egypt and regional power 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... both called for restraint and demanded that all parties work for the welfare of the country.
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U.S. military tipped off to attack on base housing American troops in Syria last week and moved them prior to the drone strike: U.S. officials. Bomb fragments later found where U.S. troops sleep. U.S. officials blame Iran for launching 5 drones. No U.S. troops killed or injured.
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I do recall garbage strikes in NYC back in the 1970s. You wouldn't want to rerun the 70s (as we are apparently intent on doing) without garbage piling up on the streets of NY, would you?
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They just need to come from some 3rd world country to get an exemption!
[Garowe] al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... still remains a major threat to peace and stability in Somalia, a report compiled by the United Nations
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A notorious French drug baron who skipped bail in March this year has been re-arrested in a Morocco hospital where he is being treated for a serious facial wound, security sources told AFP on Monday.
Sofiane Hambli, a 46-year-old Franco-Algerian, used false papers to check himself into a hospital after suffering a 20-centimeter (eight-inch) gash following an assault with a machete or sword in Tangier, the sources said.
"Once he’s recovered, we’ll go to get him," one of the sources told AFP, confirming information first reported by the L’Obs magazine.
Originally from the eastern French town of Mulhouse, Hambli is considered one of the biggest importers of cannabis to La Belle France and has a long criminal record, as well as a history of escaping from detention.
The man known as the Chimera was named in an international search warrant this year after skipping bail last March in La Belle France, having been accused of organizing the import of four tonnes of cannabis.
The Gay Pareeien newspaper reported at the time that he made 2.4 million euros ($2.8 million) from the transaction, but never delivered the drugs to his buyer "who is thought to have wanted Dire Revenge."
Hambli denied the accusations.
He is also known to have been an informant for La Belle France’s anti-narcotics police and was involved in the import of seven tonnes of cannabis in a 2015 operation that was being monitoring by authorities.
One of his associates, Moufide Bouchibi, a 41-year-old Franco-Algerian sometimes called the "king of hash," was sentenced in La Belle France to 16 years in prison last month for drugs offenses.
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... (SC) directed the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... commissioner on Monday to demolish Nasla Tower, a 15-storey residential building located at the intersection of Sharae Faisal and Shahrah-e-Quaideen, through "controlled blasting" within a week and submit a report.
The matter was taken up by a three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistain (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan and Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, at the SC's Karachi registry, where the city commissioner appeared before the court.
The court further instructed the commissioner to ensure that no harm was caused to other buildings and persons in Nasla Tower's vicinity because of the blast.
It also directed the builder of Nasla Tower to refund money to registered buyers of the residential and commercial units, adding that the city commissioner should ensure that the refunds were made.
The court adjourned the hearing of the case until Tuesday (tomorrow).
A three-judge SC bench, led by Chief Justice of Pakistain Gulzar Ahmed, had initially ordered the demolition of the 15-storey building for encroaching on the land meant for a service road on June 16.
Issuing a detailed order for the same on June 19, the court had also directed the builders of Nasla Tower to refund the amount to the registered buyers of residential and commercial units within three months.
The court had said in its judgement that "After examining the entire record and scrutinizing the reports submitted by all concerned agencies and departments, we are in no manner of doubt that the tower in question (Nasla Tower) has indeed been constructed on encroached land which amongst other things has also blocked a service road."
"Being illegal construction and there being no provision for compounding such illegality specially where a service road has been blocked, the same is liable to be demolished," it had added.
The apex court had also directed the Karachi commissioner to remove all persons from the building and take its possession immediately and initiate and complete the demolition process as expeditiously as possible and submit a report in court.
Later, the builder of Nasla Tower had filed a review petition against the June 16 order, which was dismissed by the apex court last month.
Subsequently, the district administration served notices to the residents of Nasla Tower earlier this month, directing them to vacate the 15-storey building by October 27 or face coercive action by relevant authorities.
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As Pakistan is the most corrupt nation on earth, something is missing here. Someone pr some city body was not paid off.
[WASHINGTONPOST] In a case that has generated a political firestorm, a Virginia juvenile court judge found sufficient evidence during a trial Monday to sustain charges that a teen sexually assaulted a classmate in the girls’ bathroom of a Loudoun County high school in May.The teenager, now 15, is also charged with the sexual assault of another student that occurred months later at a different Loudoun school. Loudoun County juvenile court Chief Judge Pamela L. Brooks said she would wait to sentence the teen until that case is decided in November.
The judge’s finding is the juvenile court equivalent of a guilty verdict in other courts.
The case generated local and national attention after the parents of the girl assaulted in May said the charged youth was "gender fluid," prompting renewed backlash against a policy in Loudoun County schools that allows transgender students to use bathrooms that match their gender identity. That policy was adopted after the May assault.
Authorities have not commented on the youth’s gender identity and it did not become an issue Monday in court. During the hearing, the 15-year-old victim in the first case testified she had consensual sexual encounters with the defendant on two occasions in a girls’ bathroom at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn. On May 28, she said, the two arranged to meet again and the youth threw her to the floor and forced her to perform sex acts.
The case also has sparked anger from parents who have questioned why the teen was allowed to attend another school while awaiting trial in the May assault. It has prompted the head of Loudoun County schools to embark on major reforms to the district’s disciplinary procedures to prevent a similar occurrence.
It also has become an issue in the Virginia governor’s race, where in recent days Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin has called for an investigation of the Loudoun County School Board and demanded more police in schools in response to the incidents.
#Lebanon's Christian politician Samir Geagea has been summoned for a hearing by Army Intelligence over the fatal clashes in #Beirut this month, a source close to the party says.https://t.co/GHppT35Du9
[AlAhram] Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi announced on Monday that he will not be extending a national state of emergency that has been in place for the past several years.
"Egypt has become, thanks to its great people and loyal men, an oasis for security and stability in region. So, I have decided for the first time in years not to extend the state of emergency nationwide," the Egyptian president announced on Monday evening in a short statement on his social media accounts.
"This decision was in fact made by the Egyptian people over the past years through their honest and loyal participation in all development efforts," he added.
"As I declare this decision, I remember with all respect and appreciation our heroic deaders, without whom we could not have achieved stability or security," El-Sisi said.
A nationwide state of emergency was imposed in April 2017 after two church bombings killed 47 people in Alexandria and Tanta. It has since been continually renewed for three months at a time in accordance with the constitution.
[JUSTTHENEWS] The military of Sudan on Monday dissolved its power-sharing government and declared a state of emergency, hurling the African nation into political crisis.The prime minisAbdel Fattah al-Burhanter, Abdalla Hamdok, and his wife were arrested and the head of Sudan's armed forces, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, said that an "independent and fair representative government" will now assume power until elections in 2023.
For weeks, tensions have been escalating between the country's military and civilian leaders. Now, various government ministers have been arrested by "joint military forces."
Military powers have also taken control of the country's state broadcaster.
The Information MinistAbdel Fattah al-Burhanry of the country wrote in a Facebook post, "Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, in a message from his house arrest, asks the Sudanese to adhere to peaceful (means of protest) and occupy the streets to defend their revolution."
Bullets were reportedly fired at protestors demonstrating against the coup outside Sudan's General Command in the city, according to the Ministry of Information. The ministry reported casualties, but it is not clear how many.
Internet and phone service is also reportedly down for a significant faction of Sudanese citizens.
[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Monday handed down death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... to two police officials, who were serving as the guard and driver of the former chief of the police’s Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC), for killing teenager Intizar Ahmed in a "planned encounter" in the city's Defence Housing Authority neighbourhood in 2018.The ATC judge found police constables Bilal Rasheed and Mohammad Daniyal, who were then posted as the gunman and driver of ex-ACLC chief (now DIG) Muqaddas Haider, guilty of shooting 19-year-old Intizar to death.
The court also awarded life imprisonment to six other ACLC officials, including then-station house officer Tariq Mehmood, former inspectors Tariq Raheem and Azhar Ahsan, then-head constable Shahid Usman and ex-constables Ghulam Abbas and Fawad Khan.
A seventh accused, Ghulam Abbas — another former head constable, was acquitted for want of evidence.
Intizar, who was studying in Malaysia, had returned to Pakistain for his holidays.
He was travelling in his car with a friend, Madiha Kayani ... four star general, Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani was the former Director General of ISI... , on January 13, 2018, when coppers in plain clothes chased his car and shot him dead in DHA after he failed to stop the vehicle upon the cops' direction. Kayani had managed to escape the scene unscathed in a rickshaw.
"I am satisfied that the murderers of my son have been awarded the death sentence. It has been proved that both the accused rubbed out my son," Ishtiaq Ahmed, the victim's father, told Dawn.com after hearing the order pronounced by the ATC-VII judge, who conducted the trial at the judicial complex inside the central prison.
"But justice will be fully served when the sentences awarded to the accused are executed," Ahmed added.
A couple of months after Intizar's killing, Kayani in a video statement, which went viral on social media, had appealed to the Rangers and other law enforcement agencies to provide her security.
In July this year, the court had reserved its verdict after recording evidence and final arguments from the defence and prosecution sides.
All the undertrial coppers were indicted on May 15, 2018, for the student's murder. During the trial, the prosecution examined nearly 20 witnesses.
A ballistics expert had confirmed that official weapons of the ACLC personnel were used in the killing.
In their statements, recorded under Section 342 of the Criminal Procedure Code, all the accused had denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! against them and claimed innocence.
Intizar’s killing was initially termed an act of assassination by police but after a few days, it transpired that ACLC officials were involved in it.
The investigation officer of the case had initially charge-sheeted nine officials.
The IO had later let off ex-head constable Ghulam Abbas, saying he was not present at the scene of the crime, but the court took cognisance of the matter and also initiated a trial against him.
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[AnNahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Fadi Akiki has charged 68 people, including 18 detainees, with murder, attempted murder and the stirring of sectarian strife in connection with the deadly Tayyouneh incidents, state-run National News Agency said on Monday.
Among those charged in absentia were the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... official in charge of Maarab security, Simon Musallem, two Amal Movement members, two Syrians and a Lebanese Army soldier, media reports said.
The rest are residents of Ain al-Remmaneh and LF members and supporters, the reports added.
The suspects have also been charged with "incitement, possession of unlicensed firearms and sabotage of public and private properties," NNA said.
"The detainees and the file have been referred to acting First Military Examining Magistrate Fadi Sawwan," the agency added.
Later in the day, the army said its Intelligence Directorate has completed the investigations into the incidents, referring the file and the detainees to the military prosecution.
A staffer for @theSNP has been stripped of his parliamentary pass after sharing a post by antifa @EmilyGorcenski "advocating armed violence" a day after a conservative lawmaker was slaughtered. Gorcenski has a long history of extremism despite @TwitterSupport policy. pic.twitter.com/icF2rYZp7o
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[KinoNews] Chinese war drama " The Battle of Chosin Reservoir " became the highest grossing film of 2021. As a result of the past weekend, her cumulative box office receipts exceeded $828.1 million, which allowed it to oust from the first place another Chinese-made project, the comedy "Hello, Mom," which finished at one time with $821 million.
It is noteworthy that this outstanding result of the "Battle of the Chosin Reservoir" was achieved almost exclusively at the national box office. The film is set in the early 50s of the last century during the Korean War, when the Chinese armed forces managed to encircle a large group of American troops. Popular actor Hanyu Zhang played one of the key roles .
Note that not a single Hollywood film project, even released worldwide, has managed to compete with blockbusters produced in China.
The most successful American film at the time of this publication was the action movie Fast and Furious 9, which grossed $716 million.
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The most successful American film at the time of this publication was the action movie Fast and Furious 9, which grossed $716 million.
Gawd hollywood sucks.
Was going to ask if the movie is any good, then remembered Air Strike, which even Bruce Willis couldn't carry me more than 15 minutes into the prop flick.
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Have you ever heard of TF Faith, the Arm's 31st RGT that fought on the east side of the Chosin Reservoir? I first read about them in Roy E. Appleman's East of Chosin(1987) covering the brief life and death as they slowed down a CCF juggernaut. Only recently has their sacrifice been more than a footnote or a scurrilous comment implying that "they broke and ran"...
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Was going to ask if the movie is any good, then remembered Air Strike, which even Bruce Willis couldn't carry me more than 15 minutes into the prop flick.
ICYMI: #Sudan’s #Beja tribes plan to end shutdowns which have curtailed the fuel supply of the country, Al Arabiya sister channel Al Hadath reports.https://t.co/OFnfcPf67r
Joint Parties of Baramulla Police headed by SHO PS Sheeri, Army 161 TA and 53 Bn CRPF arrests OGW of TRF/ LET outfit alongwith 1 hand grenade, 2 pistol magazines & 16 live rounds at Kitchama, District Baramulla.@JmuKmrPolice@KashmirPolicepic.twitter.com/ITKSDUlwCk
— Baramulla Police (بارہمولہ پولیس) (@BaramullaPolice) October 25, 2021
[FOXNEWS] Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said in an interview that aired Sunday night that Dr. Anthony Fauci ...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place... , the top disease specialist in the U.S., should be fired after last week’s revelation that the National Institutes of Health funded gain-of-function research on the 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... Paul was interviewed by Axios and mentioned a letter from the NIH to Ranking Member Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., that admitted to "limited experiment" conducted in order to test if "spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model," which critics say contradict Fauci’s long-held claim.
"He [Fauci] should be fired, Paul said. He continued, "just for lack of judgment if nothing else."
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Fauxi and Dasazk pay per view in a cage with scorpions that have had their stingers dipped in ebola.
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"Gain in function" is a PC term for "Weaponization". He developed a bioweapon that was released into the public killing millions. He needs to be tried in the Hague for crimes against humanity.
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Grandma back into the pestilential nursing home? Ok.
Destroy the livelihoods of 20 million US households? If you say so.
Ruin the next generation by making them into masked zombies staring at screens all day and half the night for a year and a half? Sure, we're all in it together, got it.
But hurt beagles? Now you've done it. That's FASCISM
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Only problem with the Hague is the only person who died under their jurisdiction died of old age in jail.
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Grandma back into the pestilential nursing home? Ok.
Destroy the livelihoods of 20 million US households? If you say so.
Ruin the next generation by making them into masked zombies staring at screens all day and half the night for a year and a half? Sure, we're all in it together, got it.
But hurt beagles? Now you've done it. That's FASCISM
The first three statements are built upon the foundation of the potion gnome's unquestionable morality.
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I need a ruling on my Al Hat
For the youngsters, he's like a Dr. Bolivar Trask from Days of Future Past. All these weird, torturous experiments are gross on their own. Together, it creates a weapon of enormous power, except this won't be Sentinels vs. Mutants, it will be The Powerful vs. Humanity.
What those experiments have three goals: hyperfear, madness, and hopelessness. Once they get you in your apportioned box, they will use these tools to do their bidding. That is, until you aren't needed anymore and get replaced by robots.
Imagine. Hawaii all to yourself and 100,000 others, half of them there to do chores mostly unseen, the other half important. Interesting. Famous. Your people. Your own private jet. Your own private island. Do what you will, no longer pretending to obey laws, obey the will of the people whatever that is, obey morality, but rule.
This is what will happen if this farce is allowed to run its course, and if you are reading this, you are not going to be invited.
[RT] Three major British museums have backed a report condemning "the growing trend to alter public history and heritage without due process". The report calls for careful consideration before removing statues or renaming streets.
The V&A, Science Museum and Museum of the Home have all lent their names to the paper, written by broadcaster Trevor Phillips and published on Monday by Policy Exchange, a conservative-leaning think tank.
The paper states that, across Britannia, "the alteration of public history is taking place — whether through the removal of statues, the renaming of streets, the re-evaluation of school curricula or the removal of museum exhibits — without a rigorous and non-partisan approach having been taken."
Put simply, Philips argues that the authorities are caving in to the demands of ’woke’ activists, often without asking whether the supposedly offensive statue, monument or street name even needs to be changed in the first place.
This activism was once confined to college campuses — students at Oxford University have been campaigning for the removal of a statue of imperialist conqueror Cecil Rhodes since 2015, for example. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the Black Lives Matter protests that went kaboom! across the US following the murder of St. George Floyd ...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that... last year soon spread across the Atlantic, bringing with them new calls to take down ’problematic’ monuments.
Activists toppled a statue of slave trader and philanthropist Sir Edward Colston in Bristol, a Devon council overruled dozens of objections to place a plaque next to a statue of Sir Francis Drake to highlight the 16th-century explorer’s connection to slavery, and London Mayor Sadiq Khan has formed a commission to pore over all the capital’s statues and the names of roads and public spaces to scrub some of them of their troublesome past and rename them in honour of "Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, women, the LGBTQ+ community and disability groups."
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New from a post by Military Informant page in VKontakte According to the Zvezda TV channel, on Monday, October 25, the crew of the Vice-Admiral Kulakov BPK prevented the pirates from seizing a civilian ship in the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean.
At about 13:00, a Russian ship received a distress signal from a container ship "Lucia" sailing under the flag of Panama from the Republic of Togo to the Republic of Cameroon. An attempted hijacking of the vessel by unknown armed men in a fast boat was reported. The crew of the container ship took refuge in the engine room.
A Ka-27PS helicopter with a Marine Corps unit was immediately lifted from the Russian ship and immediately headed to the area of the incident. When a military helicopter approached, the pirates left the ship, got into a fast boat and headed towards the coast at full speed.
The helicopter overflew the ship. Later, an anti-terror group was landed on board the container ship from the VPK "Vice-Admiral Kulakov", which freed the crew and proceeded to inspect the ship.
RFS Vice-Admiral Kulakov is an upgraded Udaloy class destroyer. She is part of the Russian Northern Fleet. Her home port is Severomorsk base.
She was tasked with antisubmarine duties in the Gulf of Guinea. She was the flagship of a task force which included the tanker Akademik Pashin and tug Altay.
A pro-life rally at the University of North Texas in Denton was protested & attacked by antifa who shouted, “F— your god.” Antifa have assaulted a number of Christians this year in America, saying their beliefs are “fascist.” https://t.co/yuHLEyODEm
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The Knights Templar was created in 1124 to protect pilgrims on their trek to the Holy Land. It was approved by Rome. I would say it is time for a new Templar movement until I recall that French greed was the Templar undoing; And its destruction was approved by Rome. Governments and Popes are so predictable.
Stuck in Gaza for the past 15 years, Munir Hamo is one of some 5,000 #Palestinians who received rare #Israeli approval earlier this month to be included in the population registry, making them eligible for official documents.https://t.co/mQ0NC98r1G
[RevolverNews] If Revolver News’s previous reporting points to a proactive role of the federal government in relation to the conspiracy cases against Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, the Ray Epps story that follows suggests a similar, yet more egregious, explicit, direct and immediate degree of federal involvement in the breach of the Capitol itself.
Here is a transcript of Thomas Massie’s exchange with the Attorney General, just in case you skipped past the video above.
Rep. Massie: As far as we can determine, the individual who was saying he’ll probably go to jail, he’ll probably be arrested, but they need to go into the Capitol the next day, is then directing people into the Capitol the next day, is then the next day directing people to the Capitol. And as far as we can find. You said this is one of the most sweeping in history. Have you seen that video, or those frames from that video?
AG Garland: So as I said at the outset, one of the norms of the Justice Department is to not comment on pending investigations, and particularly not to comment on particular scenes or particular individuals.
Rep. Massie: I was hoping today to give you an opportunity to put to rest the concerns that people have that there were federal agents or assets of the federal government present on January 5 and January 6. Can you tell us, without talking about particular incidents or particular videos, how many agents or assets of the federal government were present on January 6, whether they agitated to go into the Capitol, and if any of them did?
AG Garland: So I’m not going to violate this norm of, uh, of, of, of, the rule of law.
[Looks down and away]
I’m not going to comment on an investigation that’s ongoing.
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When Garland said the Justice Department does not comment on pending investigations the response from Massie should have been “I am requesting you leak the information to the media as the department did on previous investigations”.
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When I was in college back in the late 70s we were on foot headed out for beer when we spotted an obese syster with piercings and tats decades before those became common, in a circus tent sized muumuu with a little slithery mammal on a leash. One of my fellows said "Nice weasel, lady!" and she bitterly spat back "It's a ferret, asshole." I still get a laugh thinking about it.
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I think Mike at Cold Fury came up with one of the best "the morals of a stoat."
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Round the clock electronic surveillance in vulnerable areas, better intelligence networks and strong patrolling on roads and highways around the cities to prevent entry and exit of the murderous Moslems with more barricading and placing of the security bunkers will be the key features of the new security systems, a government source said, as per IANS.
Under the electronic surveillance, drone grids are being set up in those areas where the non-Kashmiri and the migrant labourers have been living and in some places more CCTV cameras are getting installed.
Under the drone grid system, a round the clock control room has been set up to closely monitor the movement of suspicious elements and on identifications of any such movement in the areas, the security personnel on the ground will be alerted soon on a real-time basis. This will be manned by the J&K police and other security forces personnel.
The sleuths from intelligence agencies and National Intelligence Agency have been working to pinpoint the real conspirators who activated the hybrid Death Eater network to execute the recent 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 security agencies have also been keeping an eye on over 80 families whose youngsters have left home and are absconding since long as they believe that these youths might be used by the Death Eater organizations to execute these killings, as per the report.
.@oxfamgb, the British global poverty nonprofit that has charity shops across the UK, has removed a children’s game celebrating inspirational women and girls after trans & non-binary staffers complained it wasn't inclusive. https://t.co/FAbTFrJiuZ
[BIZPACREVIEW] Democratic Rep. Alexandria Sandy Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore... might wish there was an edit button on Twitter, as she was mocked hilariously after she posted a single message on the Rolling Stone hit piece about January 6.In case you missed it, Rolling Stone published an article claiming that White House staffers and GOP members of Congress promised pardons to Jan. 6 organizers. AOC couldn’t wait to get her hands on Twitter to chirp about it, but it didn’t go all that well once people saw her message and noted one key detail.
The Democrat politician quote-tweeted someone and added the following statement: "Any member of Congress who helped plot a terrorist attack on our nation’s capitol must be expelled. This was a terror attack. 138 injured, almost 10 dead. Those responsible remain a danger to our democracy, our country, and human life in the vicinity of our Capitol and beyond." Nine is almost ten. So's eight, but not so close. I dunno about seven though.
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What Miz Occasional-Cortex Has illustrated is "Valley Girls" aren't just from California anymore.
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^ except now they're no longer stupid but pretty. Now they're retarded + equine bovine or hircine butt-ugly
It came to me today, as I was wondering where to file an article. It had to do with "Climate Protesters" blocking a road into Manhattan.
Then there was the Oxfam story. They removed a kiddie game celebrating "inspirational women" after trans and non-binary staffers complained.
There's another caravan of migrants headed our way, border patrol or no.
You Tube deleted an anti-Biden rap song ("Let's Go, Brandon") after taking issue with some of the lyrics
The military's taken over in Sudan, again, because obviously they can do it so much better than a civilian government. Just look at Burma. Or Myanmar, or Thingoon, or whatever it's called this week.
Museums in Britain are complaining because every time somebody is "triggered" by the sight of somebody who lived two or three hundred years ago his/her/its statue gets tossed into the Thames.
Hey! That's kinda like what's happening here in the U.S., with Jeff Davis, R.E. Lee, John C. Calhoun and others who were on the other side in the late (160 years ago) unpleasantness.
Now, my definition of inspirational women does lean toward the strawberry blondish and svelte, but I can certainly see the value of a Margaret Thatcher, or an Anna Comnena, Galla Placidia, either Queen Elizabeth, or even the Queen of Sheba.
I like that term "choreographed offense." It sums it up pretty well. I can remember (yes, I'm that old) my mother and father (I had one of each) arguing over the "civil disobedience" approach. Civil disobedience involves violating laws. Mom was on the side of the people getting water-cannoned and/or tossed into the jug. Dad, the wiser of the two as I've come to realize, could see what the idea looked like when drawn out to absurdity. It looks early afternoon at the nut house.
If I've got a hair up my butt because gas prices under the Biden Crime Family have gone through the roof, does that give me any right to block Coastal Highway to the north and south of Rehoboth Beach?
If someone takes issue with my protest, is getting out of their (blocked) car when they're not gonna make it to work today and hitting me with a tire iron also covered?
Blocking Coastal Highway would be a demonstration that I'm an anus. Hitting me with a tire iron would be a demonstration that the other guy's an anus too.
When hundreds or even thousands of anuses take to the streets it's called mob rule, just like the Moslems erupting from their mosques like clockwork on Fridays, looking for infidels to kill. It applies in Portland, where the authorities, such as they are, are so intimidated by the people in favor of burning the place down that they told the police to let them do as they pleased. Seattle's not far behind them; they had a nice Summer of Love last year. Minneapolis is run by what acts like a student council. San Francisco is properly called Pooptown, and New York is run by a corrupt communist. What idiot doesn't believe that the people calling to defund the police® aren't crooks? Cui fergawdsake bono?
So anyway, to make a long story short, I've added another category and called it Mob Rule. I'm still of two minds whether to dump the antifa/BLM category into it, but when it's people being bullied and shamed and such, I think they fit perfectly well. If it's not otherwise organized, anything with the story containing the word or an allusion to "activists" gets included. Your comments are welcome.
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I like it.
Following the "what, when, who" model of characterization it might be appropriate to expand the search list index of 'organization' to include the many non-terrorist agency elements we encounter daily.
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Could also call "all that's afflicting this country" "Soros". He's the money behind all of it.
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And Russia has a warrant for his arrest.
As an aside, it's great to pin this all on one fella, but the institutions, all of them -- government, academia, religious institutions and corporate entities -- have been overrun by the Marxist and leftist crazies who are all too happy to use those institutions to impose their weird world view on the rest of us.
Lots of Progressive centi-billionaires are putting their money into politics. Mr. Soros himself mostly teams up with various combinations of others for various projects. Some months back ee had an article that listed a bunch of them and their funds and NGO targets — I didn’t recall most of them, though most had been mentioned in our archives.
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The centi-billionaires aren't even coy about the baksheesh they're spraying about. Think:
- Reid Hoffman funding outright lies and disinformation campaigns
- Hoffman + Sheryl Slander grabbing that deranged surfer girl, Bambi Hippocampus, to hop in a private jet and spin ridiculous tales and outright lies about Judge Kavanaugh
- Reed Hastings funneling a $68 million post-presidential payout to Soetoro the "Executive Producer" of stupid films no one's ever heard of
- Reed Hastings funneling another payoff to a future Woke Party presidential hopeful, $5 million to Gavin Brylcream's anti-recall campaign
- Suckerberg spending $441 million under the guise of "election integrity" but in reality to rig the election in the battleground states
- Bloomberg spending $200 million to outright buy felons' votes in Florida @ ~$13k per felonious monk
- hundreds of Google employees rotating in and out of the Soetoro and Pres. Magoo administrations, making policy by directive and administrative fiat and ensuring that DOJ doesn't join the antitrust bandwagon and investigate Google's blatant price-fixing, anticompetitive behavior and outright manipulation of the programmatic advertising market
Probably dozens more examples but these are the biggest and most obvious.
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the three box choice looms as soap box has been drowned out and made invisible, and the ballot box seems to be increasingly suspect, with 2022 perhaps answering the question about its integrity. If the Dominion solution is used in the Old Dominion options dwindle to ...
[ToloNews] Spin Boldak border crossing opened for three hours on Sunday night after Afghan passengers who were stranded on Pakistain’s side of the crossing started quarreling with the Pak military. But the two crossings have otherwise remained closed for around a month.
It is reported that thousands are stranded on both sides of Spin Boldak crossing.
Residents from Afghanistan's south and east called on Kabul and Islamabad to take steps toward reopening the Wesh-Chaman and Spin Boldak border crossings which have been closed for around a month.
"Our voices are not heard. We are here for two weeks. Several people died inside cars," said Ahmadullah, an Uruzgan resident.
"It is three weeks that Spin Boldak is closed. It is the time for exporting fruits too, this harms trade and the economy," said Farooq, a resident of Kandahar province.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... the Pak delegation led by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi ...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached... in a recent visit to Kabul talked about strengthening commercial relations and reopening borders, but apparently the border problem have not been addressed yet.
"The problem must be solved. As before, the travelling should be based on identity cards, the issue of having passports and visas should not be considered," said Abdul Aziz, a Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. resident.
Qureshi pledged that Torkham Gate would reopen soon, but the gate is still closed.
Betcha a little investigation would reveal this is merely another branch of the same Black Bloc anarcho-syndicalist organization that most recently spawned Antifa and Black Lives Matter, latching onto another cause to which they apply the same methods and ultimate goals.
[RT] Insulate Britannia has resumed its protest after a 10-day hiatus, with its environmental activists blockading major roads in London to demand that Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... and his government insulate the country’s homes.
A total of 61 members of Insulate Britannia made their return on Monday by obstructing busy streets in the capital at Limehouse causeway, close to Canary Wharf, Liverpool Street and Southwark.
Footage uploaded on Twitter showed police attending to activists near Southwark Bridge, some of whom had glued their hands to the road. One law enforcement officer warned a demonstrator that he would "use force" to move her if she did not remove herself from the path.
Another video showed members of the movement sitting across a busy junction, bringing a halt to traffic, including several buses, as horns sounded and sirens flashed.
Other clips showed a driver attempting to get through the activists as one protester stood with his hands on the front of the car while members sat behind him with the group’s logo. Protesters were then dragged out of the way by civilians, only for them to shuffle back into their original places.
In a statement released on the same day confirming their return, one activist lashed out with accusations that the government "is actively following a path that will lead to the death of millions," saying this is "genocide."
He went on: "If you know this and are not joining nonviolent mostly peaceful civil resistance then you are complicit. We can’t be bystanders. Short-term disruption or genocide — that’s your choice."
[AnNahar] A Munich court on Monday sentenced a German woman who joined the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group to 10 years in prison over the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi "slave" girl die of thirst in the sun.
Presiding judge Reinhold Baier of the superior regional court in the southern German city handed down the verdict to Jennifer Wenisch,
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30, in one of the first convictions anywhere in the world related to the Islamic State group's persecution of the Yazidi community.
Wenisch was found guilty of "two crimes against humanity in the form of enslavement", as well as aiding and abetting the girl's killing by failing to offer help and membership of a terrorist organization.
Wenisch and her IS husband "purchased" a Yazidi woman and child as household "slaves", whom they held captive while living in then IS-occupied djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq, in 2015, the court found.
"After the girl fell ill and wet her mattress, the husband of the accused chained her up outside as punishment and let the child die an agonizing death of thirst in the scorching heat," prosecutors said during the trial.
"The accused allowed her husband to do so and did nothing to save the girl."
Wenisch's husband, Taha al-Jumailly, is also facing trial in separate proceedings in Frankfurt, where the verdict is due in late November.
Identified only by her first name Nora, the Yazidi girl's mother has repeatedly testified in both Munich and Frankfurt about the torment allegedly visited on her child.
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The defense had claimed the mother's testimony is untrustworthy and said there was no proof that the girl, who was taken to hospital after the incident, actually died.
Wenisch's lawyers had called for her to receive just a two-year suspended sentence for supporting a terrorist organization.
When asked during the trial about her failure to save the girl, Wenisch said she was "afraid" that her husband would "push her or lock her up".
At the close of the trial, according to the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, she claimed she was being "made an example of for everything that has happened under IS".
According to other media reports, Wenisch converted to Islam in 2013 and travelled the following year via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and Syria to Iraq where she joined IS.
Recruited in mid-2015 to the group's self-styled hisbah morality police, she patrolled city parks in IS-occupied Fallujah and Mosul.
Armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, a pistol and an explosives vest, her task was to ensure strict IS rules on dress code, public behavior and bans on alcohol and tobacco.
In January 2016, she visited the German embassy in Ankara to apply for new identity papers. When she left the mission, she was arrested and extradited days later to Germany.
Wenisch's trial, which began in April 2019, is one of the first examples of court proceedings over the Islamic State group's brutal treatment of Yazidis.
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A Kurdish-speaking group hailing from northern Iraq, the Yazidis were specifically targeted and oppressed by the jihadists beginning in 2015.
Prominent London-based human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... lawyer Amal Clooney, who has been involved in a campaign for IS crimes against the Yazidi to be recognized as a "genocide", was part of the team representing the Yazidi girl's mother.
Germany has charged several German and foreign nationals with war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out abroad, using the legal principle of universal jurisdiction which allows crimes to be prosecuted even if they were committed in a foreign country.
A handful of female suspects are among those who have appeared in the dock.
In November 2020, a German woman named as Nurten J. was charged with crimes against humanity allegedly committed while she was living in Syria as a member of Islamic State.
In October 2020, another German court sentenced the German-Tunisian wife of a rapper-turned-jihadist to three-and-a-half years in prison for having taken part in the enslavement of a Yazidi girl in Syria.
Wenisch’s trial is one of several against ISIS women accused of holding Yezidi slaves in Iraq and Syria. Last year, a German court sentenced Omaima Abdi to three-and-a-half years in prison. She was found guilty of being a member of ISIS and enslaving a child.
Mother of three and former ISIS propagandist Ms Abdi, 37, is the widow of Dennis Cuspert.
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In this series of trials the Yezidis were slaves back in the ISIS caliphate in Iraq-Syria, Skidmark. Some of the ladies trekked there and back again on their own, others were brought along the underground railway as eager volunteers, some were arrested or captured and sent back.
[Garowe] At least 30 people have been killed so far in Galmadug following three-day festivities between Somali National Army [SNA] and Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama'a [ASWJ], a Sufi militia that has been helping the government fight against al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... for years in the past.
The war started on Saturday after SNA and Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... troops stormed Guriel town which has been under the control of ASWJ for the last three weeks. Government forces engaged in a fierce shootout with the militia, leading to the death of close to 30 people, including army commanders.
The few residents who remained in the city said both sides used heavy artillery, mortars, machine guns, and vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft guns during a fierce battle in the streets. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, military officials from the opposing sides told VOA that both sides suffered fatalities.
Col Abdirisaq Mohamud Yusuf a senior SNA officer, told VOA that the regional commander of Somali's Danab Brigade, Abdiladif Feyfle, was among the dead. Danab or "lightning" brigadiers are U.S.-trained Somali commandos.
"I can confirm that three of our soldiers were killed and more than 10 injured during the fighting," Ahmed Shire Falagle, Galmudug's regional state information minister, told VOA's Somali Service. "I also know that a significant number of Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama’a militia were killed, although I cannot give an exact number."
Falagle also said government troops ultimately took control of the town and that opposing combatants retreated.
"We have driven the militia out of the town and now they are firing back from the outskirts," he said.
But witnesses who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal said that government forces managed to hold control of only the cop shoppe, the district headquarters, and several ASWJ administrative buildings.
"None of the two sides is in full control [of the town] yet," one witness told VOA. "We can hear heavy gunfire and shelling. The government soldiers are positioned at strategic bases at the heart of the town."
A moderate Sufi sect, ASWJ previously assisted Somali government troops battling al-Shabaab Islamist bully boys, temporarily striking a regional power-sharing deal with the Somali government. Saturday’s fighting followed a simmering dispute over ASWJ's representation in local, state, and national government.
Mogadishu has been denying the group's request to have a share in Galmudug, saying its members should peacefully seek power through their respective clans. It also wanted the group's militia to be integrated into national forces.
In February 2020, the group also clashed with SNA leading to massive losses that also so many of its fighters surrender. The group has often insisted that its major agenda is to crush al-Shabaab murderous Moslems, who still control large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia.
[RT] The US State Department has frozen $700 million in aid to Sudan, after the country’s military staged a coup and arrested the civilian government. A front man said the US is willing to use "all measures" to resolve the crisis.
"The United States is pausing assistance from the $700 million in emergency assistance appropriations of economic support funds for Sudan," State Department front man Ned Price told news hounds on Monday, adding that none of the aid money had been transferred so far.
The funding was intended to help Sudan transition to democratic rule after long-time leader Omar Bashir was removed from power in 2019 in the wake of months of civil unrest and protests.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... that transition was thrown into disarray on Monday when the country’s military arrested Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other ministers in pre-dawn raids, and military officer Abdel Fattah al-Burhan — who had been charged with overseeing a four-year shift to civilian rule — dissolved the government and announced that the military alone would take charge of the remainder of the transition.
Price told news hounds that US officials had not been forewarned about the coup, and that he could not provide any information on Hamdok’s whereabouts or condition. He called on the Sudanese military to immediately release the detained officials, and warned that the US is "willing to resort to any and all appropriate measures to hold accountable those who may be attempting to derail the will and the aspirations of the Sudanese people."
While Price did not elaborate on whatever these "measures" would be, he did repeatedly cite the "peaceful protests" taking place in Sudan as something putting pressure on the military. Shortly after Price’s briefing, a gathering of Sudanese civil and political groups calling themselves the ’Forces of Freedom and Change’ called for mass civil disobedience and promised to fill the streets with protesters and overthrow the military junta.
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Russia was about to lose its Red Sea port in the Sudan. More than likely it will be the first nation to recognize the re=formed Islamist military dictatorship.
Inching toward informal acceptance rather than formal recognition. Not that the Talibs care, so long as the dhimmis resume forking over the moolah.
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate on Monday welcomed the reopening of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s office in Kabul, saying that the step could be the beginning of engagement with European countries.
"The decision of the European Union to reopen its office in the near future is a good step and it is in the interest of the people of Afghanistan," said Ahmadullah Wasiq, deputy front man for the Islamic Emirate. "They will evaluate their work from the vicinity."
According to a report in the Financial Times, the European Union is considering restarting its political activities in a limited way in Kabul.
The report said that the move is not intended to recognize the current government in Afghanistan.
"As we have repeatedly said, this is not a sign of recognition. We want to be able to better assist the Afghan people who need our help by being closer and, inevitably, we need to engage with the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ," said Nabila Massarali, EU spokesperson.
With the collapse of the former government and the Taliban’s takeover, Western countries suspended their missions in Afghanistan. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... some of the western countries shifted their diplomatic activities to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... ’s capital of Doha.
"They should lobby for the human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... and the rights of women and press the Taliban and also continue aid to prevent the humanitarian crisis," said Wali Frozan, a political analyst.
Abdul Qahar Balkhi, the foreign ministry’s front man, said in a tweet on Monday that the Islamic Emirate would guarantee the security of the European Countries’ embassies and personnel.
"Resumption of EU mission in Afghanistan is sound and positive step which we welcome. Just as security of other embassies in Kabul is guaranteed, the security of EU embassy & personnel will also be guaranteed," he said.
The Financial Times writes that the European Union sought to resume operations within a month.
"I hope the Taliban can fulfil the expectation of the world countries and European Union, thus we can engage with the world," said Jawid Sangdel, an international relations’ expert.
Based on the reports, a delegation of the European Union visited Kabul last month to assess whether they would be able to resume their activities in Kabul or not. The EU is concerned that it would not be able to properly implement its package of one billion Euro aid to the people of Afghanistan without having an actual mission in Kabul.
[KhaamaPress] Spokesperson of Afghanistan’s ministry of foreign affairs Abdul Qahar Balkhi in a series of Twitter posts said that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... welcomed the Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... ’s remarks over removing the name of the Taliban from their list of terror organizations.
Abdul Qahar Balkhi wrote that the chapter of war has come to end in Afghanistan and added that the world must bring positive changes in their relations and approaches with Afghanistan.
"We seek positive relations with the international community based on the principle of reciprocity." Reads a Twitter post.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that they are thinking to remove the Taliban from their list of terror organizations that was added in 2003.
Putin had asked the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... to take the lead in this regard as only Russia’s action will not make difference.
[JUSTTHENEWS] By John Solomon
Georgia’s top election official on Thursday leveled a blistering attack on his longtime nemesis, arguing liberal voter activist Stacey Abrams has no business interjecting bogus “stolen election” claims into Virginia’s closely contested gubernatorial race to try to help Democrats win.
“With Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe giving Stacey Abrams a platform to spread stolen election conspiracy theories, I felt it important to speak up,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger wrote in an Op-Ed in Real Clear Politics designed to remind voters Abrams leveled unproven claims her bid for Georgia governor was stolen in 2018 long before Donald Trump made similar claims in 2020.
Abrams lost her 2018 race to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp by 55,000 votes but has never conceded and has taken her stories to Virginia in recent days to whip up Democrat votes.
Raffensperger, who famously resisted Trump’s efforts to overturn last November’s election, said Abrams was first to erode Georgians’ confidence in their election systems and then used her claims as a fundraising tool.
“Virginia deserves better,” he wrote. “By inviting Stacey Abrams, who has yet to concede her 2018 gubernatorial election race, to campaign for him, McAuliffe is demonstrating that he cannot be trusted to defend Virginia’s elections, a concerning development that should worry every voter in that state.
“Since November 2018, Abrams has alleged repeatedly that her election was ‘stolen.’ She filed a lawsuit against Georgia’s elections officials that continues to this day, though a federal judge appointed by President Obama has thrown out the most headline-generating allegations,” he continued. “She has raised millions of dollars off of her stolen election claims and has since built a national profile based on lies about the integrity of Georgia’s elections. She has referred to Republicans as domestic enemies.”
Raffensperger also poked McAuliffe, noting his earlier embrace of stolen election claims as far back as 2000.
“McAuliffe is no stranger to stolen election claims either. He famously insists the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections were stolen. In 2019, McAuliffe spread conspiracy theories about voting machines being hacked by the Russians during the 2020 election,” he wrote.
Raffensperger has battled with Abrams for years in the courts of public opinion and law but his OpEd Thursday escalated the feud.
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Childish schoolyard name calling. Dueling without the scent of cordite, senseless.
The people of Georgia would be far better served if the feckless Raffensperger would confine his limited energy and efforts to voting matters here in Georgia. He's providing her media coverage she would get nowhere else.
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar told constituents at a town hall Saturday that Minneapolis' rise in gun violence and carjackings can be blamed on police who "have chosen to not fulfill their oath of office and provide the public safety they owe to the citizens." https://t.co/xrrSrHfNYu
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Well, yeah. If the po po arrested the bangahs and carjackas, the problem would at least abate. Can't have that...
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Same narrative being pushed here in Seattle by the City Clowncil regarding increased criminal activity; they went further and placed the blame directly on the Chief.
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It was a trope in old movies for the beat cop outside the bank to run up to a motorist and yell "Follow that car!" Does that count as carjacking for Omar?
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[AlAhram] An Egyptian court sentenced on Monday terrorist Bahaa Kishk, the right-hand man of Hisham Ashmawy
...also in our archives as Hesham El-Ashmawy and Hisham el-Ashmawi, he was also known as Abu Omar El-Mohager (the immigrant). El-Ashmawy was thrown out of Egyptian special forces in 2011 for extremism. He went on to help found Ansar Bayt Al Maqdis, then the local branch of Al Qaeda, with whom he shared the results of his military training. When they became ISIS in the Sinai, he left for the Western Desert to form the Al Qaeda linked al-Mourabitoun. At some point they wandered off to Libya, where in 2018 the LNA caught him and sent him back. Egypt had convicted Mr. Ashmawy in absentia in 2014 of misbehaving, so when they got him back it was just a matter of executing, in both senses...
who was executed in Egypt last year, and two runaways to death over terrorism charges.
The ruling was issued after the country's top Moslem legal authority consented to the punishment. In July, the court referred preliminary death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s against the defendants to the grand mufti, whose opinion is legally required in death penalty cases but is not binding.
The prosecution charged the defendants with leading al-Qaeda-aligned al-Mourabitoun group along with Ashmawy and financing a terrorist organization with arms, ammunition, and explosives.
Kishk, who was arrested in Libya and extradited to Egypt, was considered the right-hand man of Ashmawy, who was also captured in the eastern Libyan city of Derna in late 2018.
Ashmawy, described as the country's most dangerous terrorist, was handed over to Egypt by forces loyal to Commander 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... in May 2019.
Ashmawy was handed two death sentences after being convicted of orchestrating several deadly high-profile attacks against security forces. He was executed by hanging in March 2020.
Monday's verdict is not final and can be appealed.
The US Embassy in #Sudan’s capital #Khartoum advises American citizens to shelter in place and stay aware of their surroundings after reports of armed forces blocking areas in and around the city, the embassy says.https://t.co/kKwd1VOL1Opic.twitter.com/zjR7t1JymA
An #Iranian court sentences a man to 10 months in prison and 40 lashes for stealing three packs of cashews, Fars news agency reports.https://t.co/fzhWLKmnyU
Clashes broke out at the Barclays Center in New York when anti-vaccine mandate protesters tried to go inside. They’re protesting in support of Kyrie Irving, who is unable to play home games with the Brooklyn Nets because he’s not Covid vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/Abhc7RZCb8
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
If you served here or visited from 1836 to the present day, you were, or likely are an extremist. 
A young, energetic, well educated entrepreneur and philanthropist who understands math. He must be evil. 
Maternal genetic contamination. She is certain of it, has fotos. 
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
Hezbollah
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...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 
...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 
[Free Beacon] The reimplementation of the Migrant Protection Protocols may do little to curb the surge of migrants at the southern border if the president is unwilling to reach a diplomatic agreement with the Mexican government, giving the White House cover to placate left-wing activists while avoiding being held in contempt of court.
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...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 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...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...
A 'Royal' psychopath, how unique and extraordinary. 
...46th president of the U.S. 
...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...
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
[JUSTTHENEWS] The military of Sudan on Monday dissolved its power-sharing government and declared a state of emergency, hurling the African nation into political crisis.The prime minisAbdel Fattah al-Burhanter, 
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place...
/\ Lab monkeys, snakes, beagles, finally NYC nursing home residents and the general public. 
[RT] Three major British museums have backed a report condemning "the growing trend to alter public history and heritage without due process". The report calls for careful consideration before removing statues or renaming streets.
...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that...
According to the Zvezda TV channel, on Monday, October 25, the crew of the Vice-Admiral Kulakov BPK prevented the pirates from seizing a civilian ship in the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean.
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the 
...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
[RT] The US State Department has frozen $700 million in aid to Sudan, after the country’s military staged a coup and arrested the civilian government. A 
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
