The American Federation of Medical Specialists makes it clear, "Physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license."
Hopefully asking thoughtful questions and observing how the medical authorities like Dr. Anthony Fauci have changed their own positions on vaccines is not considered "misinformation." Or that citing the CDC and major news organizations won’t be considered "disinformation." In the 1950s, x-raying pregnant women was standard practice, and questioning that harmful procedure, were such a thing to be done in the 1950s with today’s climate now might be considered mis- or disinformation.
VAERS is voluntary reporting. For a variety of reasons, all cases do not make it to the VAERS database. How much is this underreporting? VAERS did their own analysis about ten years ago and found, "Fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported." Their words, not mine.
This means adverse events could be happening far more frequently than what we are being told by the corporate media who don’t even report VAERS's current data. What if these adverse events are 10 or even 100 times more common than VAERS reports? To paraphrase Billy Beane, "If the vaccines are safe, why aren’t they safe?"
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Ditto lockdowns and masks. If they were going to work, they would have by now.
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But wait! Masks stopped the flu dead in its track!
COVID must be sneakier...
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The vaxxes are working like diluted penicillin. It doesn't kill the bug, it allows it to mutate as a another viable strain. We have a protocol now with existing drugs to be administered at the initial onset of the virus. Let it run its course.
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The vax's are working as designed. Folks continue the mistake of working of the wrong set of requirements.
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The vax's also work in other ways that are mostly unknown at present. See this abstract
Five years of following vaxed vs. unvaxed are probably necessary to sort that out.
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Forgot to mention in #5. The research in that citation has probably not been done with respect to other immunizations, such as those for tetanus, flu and shingles. Maybe all immunizations do that on a short term basis.
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How long have these "negotiations" been going on now? They just keep beating a dead horse.
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I wonder how ValJar gets her daily brief from Tehran? Since she lives inside the walls of the Presidium, the Kalorama Kompound, with Champ and Big Mike. Sadly, the entire complex is protected, by the United States Secret Service, from surveillance and intercept monitoring by foreign powers. Still, somewhere there must be a record of OCONUS calls, so maybe its just asking ATT for a copy of the collect calls made from the upstairs ValJar bedroom?
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NN2N1,
Actually you are off by a factor of 10. This release is 3 days worth of gas. So Zero Hedge is right, this really is a rounding error for gas prices.
Depending on how quickly they release it, and where, it might have a marginal effect on the Christmas shopping season.
It will be interesting to see what the new guy does about it once he’s sworn in.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The request for Jefferson's statue removal came from the Commission on Racial Justice and Reconciliation, led by outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio's wifeCharlene McCray, after black staff complained about the statue that honors a slave owner.
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Over the years, that statue had taken on a frown...
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I read news like this and think "Surely we have reached Peak Insanity now." But there's always something else.
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^ aka "tomorrow"
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I imagine those same workers have zero qualms about accepting $1 and $20 bills bearing images of other slave-owning US presidents.
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3 & 4 -- LOL
Oddly, there's very good video portrait of Jefferson by the very liberal Ken Burns. It hasn't been banned yet, but, as the lady said, tomorrow is another day.
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[BBC Jerusalem] In the turquoise waters of the Red Sea, Israeli, Emirati and Bahraini naval forces for the first time just days ago rehearsed joint security operations with a US warship.
It followed a war-game at a desert airbase just north of the Israeli port city of Eilat last month, which sent fighter planes from Israel and seven other countries roaring into the skies.
Such drills aim to send a strong warning to Iran, which has recently been holding its own large military exercises, and stress strategic alliances.
But they come at a time when many in Israel are worrying about whether this small country could soon feel forced to act alone to attack Iran's nuclear programme militarily.
The government has allocated $1.5bn (£1.1bn) to prepare the Israeli armed forces for a potential strike against Iranian nuclear sites, and there are near-daily warnings from political and military leaders.
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[Just The News] With President Joe Biden's massive social spending bill facing an uncertain future in the U.S. Senate, most media attention has focused on two skeptical Democrats, Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
But a prominent Republican says she senses more Democrats in the chamber who are facing tight 2022 reelection races are considering bolting from their party's $1.75 trillion signature Build Back Better legislation, which passed the House last week on a party line vote.
"Not only is it Manchin, but you've got about five or six others in the Senate that are looking at their races, they're down in the polls, or they're tied up in the polls," Sen. Marsha Blackburn told Just the News on Monday. "And the Republican ballot is up. Joe Biden, his popularity is just unbelievably low. I mean, whoever thought he would be lower than Jimmy Carter.
"It is harder every day for Democrats to support this abysmal bill," she said during an interview with the John Solomon Reports podcast. "And some of these House members who finally came around and voted for it. They might as well start cleaning their office out and heading home, give somebody their proxy to vote. They will not be reelected."
Blackburn suggested Democratic support is weakening as the CBO found the legislation will add significantly to the U.S. debt. Americans realize those costs will be passed on to them, and fears grow that a massive injection of federal spending will only worsen persistent inflation.
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From your lips to God's ears Senator Blackburn. The Build Back Bankruptcy program will enslave the current and future generations of Americans. There may be no digging out of the hole created by these Democrats and a few Republicans.
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[American Thinker] Two names were mulled over. They see Pete Buttigieg as a malleable young figurehead, figurehead being the operative word. The movers and shakers wanted someone in the Oval Office, like Biden, who will do their bidding over policies and budgets. However, Buttigieg is too much of a lightweight. He just proved himself to be a failure as Transport Secretary. He spent over two months at home feeding the baby as hundreds of freighters and tankers were unable to offload their cargo because thousands of truck drivers went missing.
The other name that is a constant is Hillary Clinton. This is probably due to Hillary Clinton constantly pushing herself for the job. The problem with Hillary Clinton is that, although they consider she’d be a capable vice president, would she be able to beat Donald Trump in 2024 should The Donald decide to take his title back? The answer is no.
The answer is clear, the problem is solved, according to my source, by selecting Michelle Obama. Money, the machinery of power, the media will be behind her.
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Moochelle as VP seems to be speculation or wishful thinking. Watching her career (as it were) she suffers from the same thing as Barack - she's allergic to real work. Plus - she's never held elected office, so I don't see it happening.
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Someone of her caliber... perhaps a Fleshlight?
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HJAHAHA!!! Imagine the riots if they move her out. Every black neighborhood will burn. And the second question is how will they get her out? What is the constitutional process?
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Hollywood Hulk Hogan would never have happened, if Hulk Hogan wasn't willing to play the part.
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It's not a concern if Big Mike never did a lick of work in her life as long as she can read from a teleprompter.
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The plan to install Obama 4.0 trial balloon is floated. Pelosi is preparing to bail, and the massive House of Representatives tsunami is apparent even to the morons at the DNC, with the Senate not a better than even bet to go red.
So, if you want to dump Kamala, act now to use every bit of PR leverage and insider information you have to make the Cackle-Jackal recognize she would never be elected President, and would not be on the ticket if JoJo can be propped up for another year or so. Then, offer her the sweet ride of a lifetime as a Supreme Court Justice, no work involved, propped up by smart clerks like Kagan and Sotomayor. Add the special backdoor benefit of the Pelosi spousal retirement plan of lifetime investment access to insider info, and poof...she willingly leaves the job open for Big Mike. But they have to act now to get the ball rolling. Look for even greater disasters for the VP in the weeks to come...its an uphill plan, but its backed by the current powers that control the WH.
[The Wrap] Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Chris Wallace bristled at the direction the network is headed, skewing away from news and more towards a nearly full-time editorial bent, according to a lengthy report by NPR.
Baier and Wallace, according to the report, "shared their objections with Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and its president of news, Jay Wallace." The objections eventually made their way to Lachlan Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of the network’s parent company, Fox Corporation.
Fox News representatives declined to offer statements regarding Baier and Wallace, and Murdoch didn’t immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
NPR’s report comes the day after news broke that two longtime Fox News commentators, Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, quit following the release of a trailer for Tucker Carlson’s Capitol Riot special report, "Patriot Purge," which supports and amplifies false claims and conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
[CleanTechnica] If you own a Chevy Bolt that is affected by the battery recall due to the risk of fire, you’re in luck. General Motors started producing new battery cells in September to fix the manufacturing defect that led to about a dozen fires. GM says it will replace the entire battery pack in 2017, 2018, and 2019 cars, and some of the battery modules in 2020 and newer cars.
In September, GM released a statement saying, “GM and LG have identified the presence of two rare simultaneous defects, found in the same battery cell, made during module manufacturing process.” The company explained the cause is a torn anode tab and folded separator within the battery modules, as we reported earlier.
If you are looking to buy a new Chevy Bolt or EUV, you’re out of luck, however. Production was shut down at the Orion factory where the cars are manufactured starting the week of August 23. GM said at the time it would prioritize getting the newly manufactured modules and battery packs to dealers by October 1 so the task of replacing the defective batteries could begin.
Production restarted on November 1 but stopped again on November 15. The cars made during those two weeks were built as replacements for some of the cars in the hands of current Bolt owners, according to the Detroit News.
Last week, GM spokesman Dan Flores issued a statement saying, “GM has notified employees at Orion Assembly the plant will take downtime for the remainder of the 2021 calendar year. This decision will enable us to continue prioritizing recall repairs. We will continue to inform employees at the appropriate time of any additional production schedule adjustments in early 2022, as we continue to focus on battery module replacements.”
Also last week, Orion Plant Director Reuben Jones sent a note to employees that read, “Beyond 2021, our production schedule continues to be dictated by what is needed to help the customers affected by the recall, as opposed to filling orders for new vehicles.” Translation: “We aren’t building any new cars at Orion for the rest of this year and we’ll see about restarting production next year. Happy Holidays.”
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[Breitbart] On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s "America’s Newsroom," Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) stated that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is acting as the Chinese Communist Party’s "frontman" in the case of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai and argued that the U.S. should totally boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics because we can’t guarantee the safety of American competitors from "ubiquitous electronic surveillance, to DNA harvesting, or simply hostage-taking."
Cotton said, [relevant remarks begin around 2:30] "The IOC is acting as nothing but a frontman for the Chinese Communist Party. Last week, I called for a complete and total boycott of these games, partly because the Biden administration cannot assure the safety of our athletes and their coaches and staff from ubiquitous electronic surveillance, to DNA harvesting, or simply hostage-taking. If the Chinese Communist Party will take its own athletes and disappear them and then march them out in hostage videos like this, what will they do to our athletes? This is a regime that is committing genocide against its own people. We should not be doing anything to celebrate or honor China with these [Olympic] games. We can rebid them. There [are] probably half a dozen European nations that could host them in February if we move now."
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We Can't Ensure Safety of Olympic Competitors in China
A PRC 'COVID style' quarantine of Olympic Competitors may be necessary. It will be for their own safety. Commercial air travel will be restored when the conflict between the mainland and our break-away province has been brought under control.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Amazon founder and owner of the Washington Post Jeff Bezos donated a whopping $100 million to the Obama Foundation, the largest ever to the charity.
As part of the gift, Bezos asked the plaza at the Obama Presidential Center be renamed John Lewis Plaza, after the late congressman and civil rights leader who spent decades fighting for voting rights.
Bezos, one of the world's richest men, has made a series of high-profile donations since stepping down as CEO of Amazon in July, in addition to self-funding his brief jaunt into space on his Blue Origin rocket. Last week, he pledged almost $100 million to groups working to end homelessness.
In September, standing alongside climate envoy John Kerry, Bezos pledged $1 billion from his coffers to fight climate change through the Bezos Earth Fund foundation.
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Fearing the military is siding with main stream america and his handlers needing some good PR where he full is too full to talk. He visits troops he will send to remote places that should be prepping to defend the homeland from CCP.
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Resurrecting a 60's comment - using troops for window dressing at a staged PR event, like everything this is theater for the clueless on social media and the MSM.
Gag me with a spoon...
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Did he regal them with Beau’s exploits as a JAG NG officer? Recount how he won a Bronze Star in the Green Zone for legal services that were far beyond the call of duty? One assumes they served a carefully curated crew.
Video posted to social media on Sunday shows the moment a prison gang beat a schizophrenic inmate unconscious with everything they could grab
Jayshawn Boyd, 22, was standing in a common area of the Essex County Correctional Facility when a group of inmates started beating him
One of them could be seen holding an industrial broom, which he uses to hit Boyd with as the others grab other items
Another inmate dumps water from a mop bucket on him
And others hit him with everything they can, including one shirtless man who threw a microwave on his head four times
The seven men have been charged but have not yet gone before a grand jury
No guards interfered during the altercation
Lawyers for Boyd are now suing Essex County, New Jersey officials claiming they violated his Constitutional rights by putting him in a dangerous situation
They claim he was put in the 'gang unit' of the prison, despite not being a gang member
They also claim negligence and improper training by the Essex County Department of Corrections prompted the attack
Boyd is now in a medically-induced coma at a Newark hospital
Boyd's lawyers filed a tort claim late last month against Essex County officials claiming that correctional officers violated Boyd's Constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment by putting him in a 'gang unit' - even though Boyd is not a member of any gang.
Boyd was taken into custody at the jail on September 9 for two domestic altercations involving his mother and his brother.
In May, Boyd - who suffers from schizophrenia - was transferred from the Essex County jail to Ann Klein, a psychiatry hospital, as he awaited sentencing and a trial for the domestic assaults, NJ.com reports.
Mr. Boyd should be in a locked psychiatric ward for the violent insane, but the only place that has such long term housing is the prison system — but not all prisons have separate areas for the criminally insane. Contra the Daily Mail’s report, we don’t know what happened after these few minutes.
Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, is the driver of the red Ford SUV that plowed through crowds on Sunday at the parade
Brooks was bailed out of jail on November 19 after posting a $1,000 cash bond on charges of battery, disorderly conduct, bail jumping and resisting an officer
The Milwaukee District Attorney admitted on Monday the bond was 'inappropriately low'
The charges relate to an incident on November 2 involving the mother of one of his children in Milwaukee
Brooks is said to have hunted her down in a hotel then followed her in the street in his car, demanding that she get in, before 'punching her with a closed fist' and then 'running her over'
Court records show he was charged on November 5, paid cash bond on the 11th but the records weren't updated until the 19th
On Sunday, he plowed through crowds at 4.39pm in his red Ford SUV, killing five people and injuring 48
The victims are all adults and their ages range from 52 to 81; they were named by police on Monday
Brooks Jr. was fleeing the scene of a domestic dispute which cops were on their way to
Milwaukee County Attorney John T Chisholm previously spoke of trying to reduce his county's prison population. He even let a progressive criminal justice nonprofit called Vera perform an 'audit' on his office.
Vera, which is based in New York, opposes cash bail, with the implementation of that measure partially-blamed for a crime spike in NYC. Milwaukee saw murders spike by 95 per cent between 2019 and 2020, with 2021 currently recording as many homicides as there were by the same stage of 2020.
Brooks lives some 20 miles away in Milwaukee in a suburban home where he films rap videos in the street.
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Cause the Left doesn't recognize human free will. Thus all miscreants are 'victims' even though hundreds and thousand in the same situation choose not to do destructive and criminal acts.
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$1,000 bond on a charge of "battery" for "running over his baby mama" ... thats called "attempted murder" in the rest of the US.
$1,000 bond for attempted murder and bail jumping...this goes beyond even deliberate indifference and is clearly criminal negligence o behalf of that DA...much like what those aggressive DA's charged the officers standing by in the Floyd incident.
I could make a criminal negligence case against the DA for intentionally setting a low bond or even any type of bond in that circumstance. A bond is set to ensure the accused will show for hearings/trial...which he did not...this is insanity. The DA took time to read those charges...make some type of deal...or through gross negligence release this obviously dangerous individual back on the streets to steal those victim's lives. They lost all that they are, were, or ever will be due to the negligence of that DA and the evil heart of that killer.
There has to be a way around qualified immunity to ensure the DA pays for his gross negligence.
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^ That's a good plan. It will work much better if criminals (and their relatives) don't get to vote and "outside money" is banished from the political equation. Unfortunately, I'd say neither improvement is anywhere in our immediate futures.
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Silly me. I thought if you were charged with bail jumping, and then subsequently arrested, you were immediately thrown in jail.
I mean, if you didn't show up for a hearing previously, why would they think you would show up next time, and set bail at $1000?
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A mistake? It's like Alec Baldwin saying he didn't know the gun was loaded.
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If creatures like this one only killed their own kind, I'd still be dissatisfied about the malfunctioning system, but more willing to leave it up to others of his tribe to solve the problem as it relates to themselves.
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That gentleman might not want to venture his 'revolution' much out of the city where he lives, Skidmark.
Lots of 'Private Firepower' in the suburbs and countryside.
Surprised it was only a Police Officer who fired at the suspect after the ramming. Concealed-carry is becoming a thing in the Milwaukee suburbs.
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Yeah, but those evil, dangerous, Trump-supporting Jan. 6 guys are still in solitary confinement. Remember, it's the white supremacists who pose the threat.
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Pretty certain that many of the people wearing MAGA hats are not Trumpsters. Some are ANTIFA and some are most likely agent provocateurs, Jan.6 needs an honest airing instead of this boondoggle created by Queen Nancy to support a left-wing anti-Trump narrative. The one guy in the article photo inside the House looks a lot like Ray Epps from Arizona.
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The "fleeing a knife fight" thing has been debunked. I wonder if the DA or media will bring up that he crossed the county line to go on his escapade.
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Concealed-carry is becoming a thing in the Milwaukee suburbs.
I suspect we may see Badgers open carrying AR-15s at all public gatherings in red Wisconsin in the near future, although probably not in Milwaukee County.
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The live stream of the brave justice warrior race terrorist is supposed to be here at 5 pm ET.
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A mistake is putting Beanboozles in the Easter Candy.
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Multiple counts first-degree intentional homicide. No "jus' a axedent while ah was fleein'" bullscrit.
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They're reading his rap sheet now. This will take a while...
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Multiple jurisdictions in multiple states took a pass on locking this creep up over the recent years.
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First words out of the judge's mouth are discussion of bail. Really. YJCMTSU.
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I'm watching the arraignment. I can't believe they are even considering giving him bail of any amount. $5 million cash was proposed. The suspect is a real and present danger to anyone within his reach, should he not be kept locked up. That would be a reasonable thing -- no bail.
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To the court commissioner's (judge's) credit, he's just following the law of the state of Wisconsin. He's going into some impassioned detail right now as to how he's appalled and has not in his 40 years with the court seen a case anything like this.
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The filthy bastich was just led back to jail.
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For bail, how about $1 million per each person killed or injured during the "incident". After all, the DOJ is about to pay out about $130 million to families connected to the Stoneman School massacre since the FBI did not do what it could have done to prevent it.
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"Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into treatment program, who's going to go out and kill somebody?" Chisholm said in a 2007 interview with the Journal Sentinel. "You bet. Guaranteed. It's guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach."
[AlAhram] An Armenian soldier was killed by Azerbaijani shelling on Monday amid simmering tensions on the border between the two ex-Soviet neighbors.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a decades-old dispute over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region that lies within Azerbaijan but was under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994.
Fierce fighting that erupted in September 2020 ended six weeks later with a Russia-brokered peace deal that saw Azerbaijan gain control of a significant part of Nagorno-Karabakh and reclaim all the regions that were controlled by Armenian forces outside the separatist region.
Tensions again escalated last week, which saw the worst festivities since the 2020 hostilities. At least seven Azerbaijani troops and one Armenian servicemen died in the fighting last week.
The Armenian Defense Ministry said that Azerbaijani forces again fired on Armenian positions in the southern Gegarkuni region on Monday, killing a 19-year-old soldier.
Earlier Monday, opposition supporters blocked traffic in Armenia's capital to urge the government to take a tougher stance amid tensions with neighboring Azerbaijan.
The protesters demanded that the authorities don't sign documents on the delimitation and demarcation of the border between the countries and reject Azerbaijan's plans for transport corridors across the Armenian territory.
The Russia-brokered peace deal envisaged a transport corridor via Armenia that would link Azerbaijan with its exclave Nakhchivan region _ a plan strongly opposed by the Armenian opposition.
[NPASYRIA] On Monday, the US forces conducted a patrol in the Derik region in the far northeast Syria.
An American patrol, coming from Rimelan Airport, toured the southern countryside of Derik, local sources told North Press.
The patrol consisted of four military armored vehicles, without being covered by planes, the sources added.
The patrol stopped for several hours at Robarya Agricultural Airport, which is used by US forces as an airstrip, before returning to its base, according to the sources.
The presence of the American patrol at the airport coincided with two Russian helicopters flying over the western countryside of Derik.
On November 18, the US forces conducted a military patrol of four armored vehicles in the countryside of Derik.
[IsraelTimes] Police arrest a Paleostinian teenager in East Jerusalem, who is suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at an Israeli officer last night, injuring him.
The 18-year-old suspect is arrested and his remand is later extended until Wednesday.
[IsraelTimes] The wife of the Old City terrorist has been arrested by Israeli security forces at the Allenby Crossing upon her return to the West Bank from Jordan, the family’s lawyer, Medhet Dabih, told Paleostinian media.
She is being questioned by the Shin Bet security service, the reports say. The woman is claiming she was in Jordan to visit her mother, who is sick with cancer, according to the Kan public broadcaster.
Her husband, Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, gunman Fadi Abu Shkhaydam, shot and killed Israeli Eli Kay, 26, and injured four others in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday.
Several other family members were arrested and subsequently released by Israeli authorities, including Abu Shkhaydam’s daughter Aya, according to Diba.
The Israel Police did not respond to a request for comment.
On Palestinian social media, some speculated that Jordanian authorities had deported Sou’ad at the request of Israeli authorities. Diba dismissed the allegation as a “rumor.”
“She returned to the country on her own to be with her children and family,” he said in a phone call.
In Shuafat, Fadi Abu Shkhaydam raised five children — three boys and two daughters — and taught Islamic law at a boys high school, for which he received a salary from the Jerusalem municipality. According to Israeli authorities, he was a member of Hamas’s civilian branch, rather than its armed wing.
#Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says he will head to the war front to lead soldiers battling #Tigray rebels as the year-long conflict moves closer to the capital Addis Ababa.https://t.co/bZ97kKwwdj
[IsraelTimes] West Bank cell aimed to carry out some bombings imminently; suicide kabooms planned; ringleader was offered $1m. for kidnapping; arrests come day after Old City killing of Eli Kay
Israeli security forces arrested dozens of members of a Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, cell that was in the advanced stages of planning major terror attacks in the West Bank and Israel, the Shin Bet security service said Monday.
The effort to uncover the cell has been ongoing for several months, first coming to light with a round of arrest raids in September, including one in which two Israeli soldiers were seriously injured and several Paleostinian suspects were killed in shootouts.
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[Garowe] The arrest of two prominent professors in Æthiopia's capital has given new focus to allegations that the authorities are engaged in a ruthless crackdown against ethnic Tigrayan civilians, as the country plunges deeper into a conflict that began over a year ago in the northern state of Tigray.
Professors Assefa Fissiha and Mehari Redeai both teach law at Addis Ababa University.
Although there is been no official confirmation of their arrests, multiple sources have told the BBC they were detained by the security forces for allegedly breaching the terms of Æthiopia's state of emergency, imposed as Tigrayan forces advanced towards the capital earlier this month.
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[AlArabiya] Khalozai operated a The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... -based hawala business to transfer funds to finance ISIS-K operations over two years, the US said.
The US announced new sanctions on an operator for ISIS-K in Afghanistan on Monday, accusing him of operating a Turkey-based money-moving business.
"Ismatullah Khalozai has been an international financial controller for ISIS-K and has carried out missions for senior ISIS leadership," the Treasury Department said in a statement.
Khalozai operated a Turkey-based hawala business to transfer funds to finance ISIS-K operations over two years, the US said.
Before that, he allegedly ran a United Arab Emirates-based financing scheme, "which involved sending luxury items to international destinations for resale to generate funds in support of ISIS-K."
He is also accused of human trafficking and facilitating the movement of imported muscle "who seek to escalate tensions in Afghanistan and the region."
"The Biden Administration is committed to rooting out terrorist financing networks around the world," Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Andrea Gacki said. "Today’s designation underscores the United States’ determination to prevent ISIS-K and its members from exploiting the international financial system to support terrorist acts in Afghanistan and beyond."
Additionally, the State Department designated three ISIS-K leaders.
Sanaullah Ghafari, Sultan Aziz Azam, and Maulawi Rajab were designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).
Last week, the UN said ISIS had a presence in almost every Afghan province.
The current emir of ISIS is also included among those blacklisted, the statement reads.
"Sanaullah Ghafari, also known as Shahab al-Muhajir, is ISIS-K’s current overall emir. He was appointed by the ISIS core to lead ISIS-K in June 2020. Ghafari is responsible for approving all ISIS-K operations throughout Afghanistan and arranging funding to conduct operations," the statement reads.
ISIS spokesperson Sultan Aziz Azam is also blacklisted who, according to the statement, has been acting as ISIS’s spokesperson since the group's emergence in Afghanistan.
Maulawi Rajab, the leader of ISIS in Kabul province, has also been blacklisted. "Rajab plans ISIS-K’s attacks and operations and commands ISIS-K groups conducting attacks in Kabul," the statement reads.
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[Babylon Bee] "Can't we all just get along?"
U.S.—In a rare moment of national unity, Americans of all races, backgrounds, and creeds have joined hands together across America around the shared belief that we should immediately launch all mainstream media journalists directly into the Sun.
"I know we don't agree on much these days, but this one's a no-brainer," said Dale Smith, a white guy from Townville Tennessee. "I'm honestly not sure why we didn't do this a long time ago."
Darnell Woodson, a black small business owner from Baltimore, agrees. "Wait a minute! We haven't launched all the lyin' journalists into the Sun yet? Well, no wonder things are so bad," he said.
Citizens, experts, and policymakers all agree that gathering up the people most responsible for the racial hatred and division in this country over the last decade, loading them all into a rocket, and launching them straight into the nearest star as quickly as possible is the most effective thing we can do to promote healing in America.
Elon Musk has announced he will dedicate one of his very own SpaceX rockets for the task. He will also dedicate a second rocket large enough to hold Brian Stelter.
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Was here in Jackson Ga at the PIG doing some food shopping. Watched an older 80's white women being helped to and into her car by customer... a 40 something Black male. He then got in his pickup and left. It is my opinion, its not us older generation that have issues with color, its this new generation.
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Media is doing to black people as they did to white folk; presenting them as Madison Avenue or else.
Everyone points as laughs at Kabul Gay Poetry Slam Culture, but the only difference is the contrast in established culture. We are getting it worse, its just we've been parboiled.
[The Last Refuge] There are many new readers since we originally began highlighting the work of the DOJ Community Relations Service (DOJ-CRS) over a decade ago. The Christmas parade attack in Wisconsin is the worst case scenario for the federal officials who shape American racial views for political control. What you are about to witness is the largest CRS propaganda push in recent memory.
Race is used as a political tool by those who control the levers of power in the U.S. government. Victims and perpetrators are defined according to how the dividing narrative fits their effort for political value. The progressive group deep inside the CRS are also called "the federal peacekeepers", because they organize the nuances within the division to protect the system from outcomes they essentially create.
The CRS watches, and in many ways facilitates, politicians and federal officials stirring up racial strife. The CRS supports cultural Marxism. However, when the inevitable violence surfaces, the CRS must control the backlash. [NOTE: The CRS only activates when the minority supported group attack the majority non-supported group.]
The mass killing of white people in Wisconsin motivated by a black suspect -retaliating based on a false information created by federal officials, politicians and national corporate media- is the apex of predictable outcome from a national program of cultural Marxism. They need this story to go away FAST.
The DOJ-CRS is our American social fabric abuser. In this Wisconsin scenario, the progressive CRS has a major role to play in shaping the perspectives of victims away from the consequences of their activity.
Every resulting action is under the CRS control, and every word follows their script. Everything, including the excuses, justifications, tone and requests from the officials under the guidance of CRS, is purposeful propaganda. The CRS assigns the public face of local response (it will likely be Daniel Thompson), and the CRS hands out the script that all local, state and media allies are required to follow.
The emergency response scripts are pre-written talking points for generic use when needed. The emergency scripts are managed by officials within the Dept of Justice Community Relations Service and generally do not change over time. Those initial talking points are deployed quickly once the attack occurs. That initial emergency response took place last night and into this morning. However, now the CRS will get down to the business of granular control with people on the ground in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
[The Last Refuge] The self-proclaimed black supremacist, who used his vehicle as a weapon to kill five people and injure 40 more, has his first court appearance scheduled for 2:00pm CT tomorrow (Tuesday November 23, 2021) [Details Here].
Suspect Darrell E. Brooks will have his preliminary hearing under the careful control of the U.S. Dept of Justice Community Relations Service (DOJ-CRS) who oversee all U.S. criminal cases when race is identified as the underlying motive for an attack.
Due to the high visibility of the case; and specifically because the DOJ-CRS are the primary stakeholder in the judicial proceedings {Go Deep}; the Community Relations Service has provided a court order instructing the Waukesha judiciary how they must engage/control media access. [Media Instructions Here] The CRS provides the template and Chief Judge Jennifer Dorow signs the order.
The primary concern for the CRS, aka ’federal peacekeepers’ is control over the national media narrative. The techniques behind the court order are familiar: A very restrictive set of media rules follows.
Long term CTH readers have familiarity with how the peacekeepers work to tamp down issues and control criminal cases that are adverse to the interests of the federal government.
Ironically, and purposefully, the claimed need for national racial cohesiveness is the statutory justification for federal control. Ironic, because the DOJ-CRS support the use of race for political benefit, then the CRS claims to protect national unity against the outcome from using race for political benefit. The propaganda is thick. I digress...
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The emergency response scripts are pre-written talking points for generic use when needed. The emergency scripts are managed by officials within the Dept of Justice Community Relations Service and generally do not change over time.
Probably written many decades ago in Moscow. The classics never go out of style.
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[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief reversed a short-lived enforcement policy in August shortly before roughly 30,000 Haitian migrants converged on the border crossing at Del Rio, Texas, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The November 18 report described how border chief Alejandro Mayorkas reversed the planned August enforcement against one group of Haitian migrants:
In August, as intelligence reports showed large groups of Haitian migrants in southern Mexico preparing to move north, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to deport about 600 Haitians who had recently crossed the border.
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[ISWnews] Ansar Allah’s exemplary resistance in al-Hudaydah and their fierce battle with the Saudi coalition in these four years have led to al-Hudaydah’s fame and now they call it “Stalingrad of Yemen”
On November 2017, with the fall of the town of al-Khokhah to the Saudi coalition, the battles on the west coast of Yemen entered al-Hudaydah province. After a year, these battles were extended to the east and north of the city of al-Hudaydah, and finally, with the Stockholm Agreement, on December 18, 2018, the ground clashes were stopped.
Despite the agreement reached by Ansar Allah and Mansour Hadi government, the Saudi coalition bombardment, widespread ceasefire violations, and the siege of Ansar Allah-controlled towns, including the town of al-Durayhami, continued for months.
But finally, in the last week, with the withdrawal of the Saudi coalition forces from most of al-Hudaydah province on November 12, 2021, the battle of al-Hudaydah ended.Ansar Allah exemplary resistance in al-Hudaydah and their fierce battle with the Saudi coalition over the past four years led to al-Hudaydah becoming even more famous. To the extent that these days al-Hudaydah is called “Stalingrad of Yemen”!
[FirearmsNews] There was excitement in the air at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. The final minutes in the 300-meter Free Rifle event were ticking down, and a crowd was building. Word was spreading that a shoot-off was taking place between Robert Bürchler and an unknown Soviet marksman. Bürchler was one of Switzerland's finest riflemen, but who was this Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov? The last time a Russian team had attended the Olympics was in 1912 when the Tsar was still in power.
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[KavkazUzel] A military court in Rostov-on-Don today sentenced Batyr Magomedov, a native of Dagestan, deported from Georgia to 11 years in a strict regime colony, recognizing him as a member of a terrorist organization.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, a court in Georgia on July 23, 2020 decided to deport Batyr Magomedov, a native of the Dagestani village of Novy Khushet, who had served a sentence in the case of crossing the Turkish-Georgian border. In September 2020, the Georgian authorities handed over Batyr Magomedov, against whom a case was initiated in Russia for involvement in the armed underground, to Russian border guards. The defense's instructions on the threat of unjustified criminal prosecution were ignored, the lawyer stated.
Batyr Magomedov, 27, was accused of participation in the activities of a terrorist organization. The maximum punishment under these articles provides for up to twenty and up to fifteen years in prison, respectively.
"It has been established that from June 2013 to May 2016, the defendant, while in the Syrian Arab Republic, armed himself with firearms and ammunition, took part in armed formations. From March 3, 2015 to September 27, 2020, he took part in activities of the banned international terrorist organization "Islamic State," told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in the press service of the Southern District Military Court.
Magomedov was found guilty by the court. He was sentenced to 11 years in a strict regime colony, serving the first 3 years and 6 months in prison. The verdict has not entered into legal force and can be appealed by the parties in the Military Court of Appeal, the court said.
The "Caucasian Knot" has not yet received any comments from Batyr Magomedov and his representatives regarding the decision of the court. The criminal case against Magomedov entered the court on July 12, the process took five sessions, follows from the card index on the website of the Southern District Military Court.
[Jpost] The Dubai Air Show saw the participation of defense and military hardware from countries like the United States, Russia and Israel.
The Dubai Air Show closed on Thursday, with major aviation and defense companies clinching billion-dollar deals. But while the likes of Airbus and Boeing battled it out for industry dollars, the overtones of geopolitical battles could be seen throughout the week-long event.
The biennial exhibition saw the participation of defense and military hardware from countries like the United States, Russia and Israel. Israel displayed its hardware for the first time at the show following its normalization of diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates last year. The state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries company showed off a range of manned and unmanned naval and aerial drones.
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[Breitbart] Biden administration climate czar John Kerry is drawing scrutiny from Republicans for downplaying and trying to derail legislation against China’s use of Uyghur forced labor, from which Kerry and his wife seem to benefit financially.
The Biden administration is officially against China’s use of forced labor from its Uyghur minority population, which Chinese companies are suspected of using in the manufacturing of solar panel parts. President Joe Biden as a candidate and president has called China’s treatment of the Uyghurs a “genocide” and compared it to the Holocaust.
However, when a reporter asked Kerry at the recent COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference how he has addressed with Chinese officials the issue of Uyghur slave labor being used to build solar panels in China, he responded, “That’s not my lane here. … My job is to be the climate guy, and stay focused on trying to move the climate agenda forward.”
The comment raised eyebrows in Washington, given Kerry’s past role of promoting human rights as secretary of state during the Obama administration and given the administration’s official stance.
Republicans say Kerry has also been lobbying against bipartisan legislation that would ban the import of any Chinese goods made with Uyghur slave labor from entering the United States, including solar panels.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who introduced the legislation in the Senate, wrote in an op-ed last month, “Kerry has been working against my legislation, and has convinced President Joe Biden to stay silent on the bill.”
“What we’ve heard from various folks is that the administration does not want it to pass because it makes things much more difficult to meet their climate objectives,” a senior Senate aide told Breitbart News.
“Those companies have to prove there’s no slave labor in their supply chain, it’s a very difficult thing to do, the solar industry in particular. So we’ve heard that John Kerry is forcefully behind that and potentially some others.”
The Uyghur Forced Labor Act would go further than steps the Biden administration took during the summer to sanction some Chinese companies and entities accused of using Uyghur slave labor.
The legislation easily passed in the Senate on a bipartisan voice vote in July but has been held up in the House under the alleged pressure from Kerry.
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Former Pentagon chief of staff Kash Patel weighs in on Durham investigation latest.
Will it make any difference? Is the Russian collusion hoax too big for Durham to handle? Nunes expressed some doubts on 8/10/21. So far, things are very slow going. None of the big fish have been reeled in who cooked up this mess for the nation.
[TASS] Four Syrian soldiers were killed and one was injured in shelling by militants in the provinces of Idlib, Aleppo and Hama. This was announced to reporters on Monday by the deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit.
According to him, one Syrian soldier was killed in the province of Idlib as a result of sniper attacks by terrorists from the Kansafra areas on the positions of government forces in the area of the village of Kafer Nebel, another in the province of Hama as a result of shelling from a large-caliber machine gun fired by terrorists on positions government forces in the area of the village of Kavkaba.
"In Aleppo province, as a result of an artillery strike by militants from the direction of Blinta on the positions of government forces in the area of Bala, one Syrian soldier was wounded. areas of the settlements of Kafer-Halab and Urum-es-Sugra, two Syrian soldiers were killed," Kulit said.
He stressed that the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties calls on the commanders of illegal armed formations to abandon armed provocations and take the path of a peaceful settlement of the situation in the areas under their control.
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[AlAhram] Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... was refusing to discuss the fate of 2,000 migrants colonists wishing to go to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and stranded in Belarus.
The West accuses Belarus of bringing in would-be migrants colonists_mostly from the Middle East_and taking them to areas along its borders with EU members Poland and Lithuania with promises of an easy crossing.
Belarus denies the claim, instead criticising the EU for not taking in the migrants colonists.
"I am waiting for the EU to respond on the issue of 2,000 refugees," Lukashenko told officials on Monday, adding that he expected Europe to let the migrants colonists in.
"They said, (German Chancellor Angela) Merkel promised me that they will consider this problem at the level of the European Union. But they are not doing it," he said, quoted by state news agency Belta.
Lukashenko said European officials refused any contact on the subject despite calls from the Belarusian foreign minister.
"We should demand that the Germans take them in," Lukashenko said.
Earlier this month Belarus cleared a makeshift border encampment, sending 2,000 migrants colonists to a nearby logistics centre.
Last week Lukashenko and Merkel spoke by phone twice, discussing the migrant crisis and agreeing to maintain contacts.
The migrants colonists, many fleeing war and poverty, have spent thousands to fly into Belarus on tourist visas. Once at the border, they are faced with squalid, freezing conditions.
The West accuses Belarus of engineering the crisis is Dire Revenge for sanctions slapped on Lukashenko's regime after its brutal suppression of protests against his rule.
The migrants colonists say they want to get to Germany via Poland and Lukashenko has said that he is ready to send them there by plane if necessary.
[MonitorUganda] The Trump Organization has reached a deal to sell its Washington hotel lease for $375 million to CGI Merchant Group, which plans to remove ex-president Donald Trump's name from the luxury property's facade, US media reported Sunday.
The Miami-based investment fund has struck a separate agreement with Hilton Worldwide Holdings to rebrand the Trump International Hotel as a Waldorf Astoria, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Contacted by AFP, CGI declined to comment. The Trump Organization and Hilton group also did not immediately return requests.
The historic building just a short walk from the White House and down Pennsylvania Avenue from the US Capitol is not owned by the Trump Organization.
Once the capital city's main post office, the structure is owned by the US government which in 2013 leased it to Trump's real estate company for 60 years, with an option to extend for another 40 years.
The Trump Organization invested some $200 million in the renovation of the building, which was constructed in the late 19th century and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
According to a report by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the company created to manage the hotel, Trump Old Post Office LLC, incurred more than $71 million in losses between the hotel's opening in 2016 and August 2020. It has never turned a profit.
During Trump's presidency the establishment -- known for its massive atrium and soaring clock tower -- served as a meeting place for Republican officials, donors and lobbyists.
At the time several lawmakers and other figures expressed concern that the 263-room hotel was accommodating foreign dignitaries visiting Washington.
They pointed to a potential conflict of interest for Trump, who was both president of the United States and still a key shareholder in the Trump Organization.
A congressional investigation into the matter is ongoing.
[DW] Italian authorities said the criminal network forced 41 Nigerian women into prostitution while nine were forced to beg for money on the streets. The exploitation stretched outside Italia into Germany and Libya.
Guardia di Finanza police cruiser with rainy windshield and blue flashers
Italian police on Monday announced they had broken up a Nigerian crime ring operating across the country with the arrest of some 40 suspects.
The suspects have been charged with money laundering, facilitating illegal immigration, human trafficking, forced prostitution and slavery, according to a police statement.
Authorities say the network was active in Cagliari, Sardinia; Turin in Piedmont; and Ravenna in the Emilia-Romagna region. Beyond Italia, the network stretched from Nigeria via Libya and up to Germany as well. Police say dozens of other individuals are currently under investigation.
CONTROLLING VICTIMS THROUGH 'MACABRE VOODOO RITUALS'
Police said those individuals arrested Monday had been responsible for the fates of 41 women who were forced into prostitution and nine more who were forced into begging.
According to Sherlocks, the gang managed to move nearly €11.4 million ($12.5 million) in prostitution, money laundering and begging profits to Nigeria.
They did so by using an informal Hawala system that moves money across international borders outside the formal banking system.
Police say the group used 11 teams of cash couriers — hiding cash inside retractable luggage handles or pasta packages to elude searches at Italia's airports.
The men arrested Monday were said to have lured young Nigerian women to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... with the prospect of working in Italia and the payment of their travel costs.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... upon arrival the women were psychologically abused and even subjected to "macabre voodoo rituals," designed to keep them from contacting Italian authorities for help and making them fear harm to their families back home should they fail to repay their expenses or disobey their handlers.
Authorities were tipped off by a Nigerian woman who sounded the alarm — saying the women incurred debts as high as €50,000 to be brought illegally to Italia where they were then forced into prostitution to pay off the debt.
Measures taken by judicial authorities in Italia ended up helping the victims break "the ties of physical-psychological coercion which kept them bound" to the criminal network.
While sex work is legal in Italia, exploiting hookers is a crime.
Video at the link: Trafficking women in Europe — The Nigerian Mafia in Italy
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So the Mafia has a diversity and inclusive program too?
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Had my first Echocardiogram yesterday. Procedure took about 15-20 minutes. Tech lady who administered the procedure said she'd been doing them for 28 years, never had a problem finding employment or opportunity for advancement.
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Everyone I have ever known in the medical imaging field has always been as busy as they wanted to be, often more busy than they would have preferred.
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never had a problem finding employment or opportunity for advancement.
Probably not Art or Philosophy majors, then.
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The concept of "begging profits" blows my mind. Dear Europe: you have a very comfortable social net; beggars don't need your money.
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The San Francisco Bay Area faced a third consecutive day of brazen shoplifting on Sunday
A group of about 40 to 50 teenage looters wielding hammers smashed glass cases at a Hayward jewelry store and ran off with an unknown amount of goods at around 5.30pm Sunday
The suspects also reportedly ran into other stores in the Southland Mall and walked away with clothes and shoes, though police do not know how many items were stolen
Just about an hour later, in San Jose, a group of suspects entered a Lululemon store in the outdoor mall at Santana Row and took an unknown amount of merchandise before they fled the scene
The thefts come one day after a group of 80 brazen shoplifters entered a Nordstrom in nearby Walnut Creek
Three people were arrested in that incident, in which three employees were injured
And on Friday, a Luis Vuitton store in San Francisco's Union Square was targeted and ransacked by a group of more than a dozen thieves
Residents in the business owners in the area cite a 2014 law that downgraded the theft of property less than $950 in value from a felony charge to a misdemeanor for the rise in thefts
They also blame woke San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin for a rise in crime - he now faces a recall election amid fury over his soft-on-crime stance
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Given the many shortages we are told we are facing nationwide... maybe we should stop sending food stuff into these lawless areas. Until they are under control again.
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But according to the California Penal Code, what we saw was not looting.
The penal code defines looting as “theft or burglary…during a ‘state of emergency’, ‘local emergency’, or ‘evacuation order’ resulting from an earthquake, fire, flood, riot or other natural or manmade disaster.”
The #US slaps sanctions on another company involved in the controversial #Russia-#GermanyNord Stream 2 pipeline even as it stops short of more drastic steps.https://t.co/xKyb47n8Nu
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the United States was imposing sanctions on Transadria Ltd., a shipping company linked to Russia, as well as two vessels.
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan.... ’s administration took the action as part of a required report to Congress on action against the pipeline, which Ukraine and other Eastern European states fear will embolden Moscow and reduce their leverage.
But Biden has waived sanctions on the main company behind Nord Stream, concluding that the pipeline will go ahead anyway and that it is better to work with Germany.
"Even as the administration continues to oppose the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, including via our sanctions, we continue to work with Germany and other allies and partners to reduce the risks posed by the pipeline," Blinken said in a statement.
Germany, in a deal with the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... , agreed to economic support to Ukraine on transitioning to clean energy and said it would insist that Russia keep gas flowing through its neighbor.
The administration’s approach has found wide opposition in the US Congress, with one Republican senator citing the issue to hold up State Department nominations.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, cell reportedly being directed by Istanbul-based leaders; Israel held off on announcing arrests until return of two Israelis accused of spying by Ankara
Hamas gunman Fadi Abu Shkhaydam had traveled to Turkey several times in recent months and met with senior Hamas officials there. Security officials believe that he had received his instructions for the attack there.
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Monday demanded The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... shut down the offices of the Hamas terror group operating in the country after Israel announced the arrests of a sophisticated 50-member West Bank cell being directed from Istanbul.
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[Shafaq News] A blast from a boom-mobile reportedly rattled the left side of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Nineveh's capital city, earlier today, Monday.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that the earth-shattering kaboom took place at al-Zohour (Blossoms) Street near Sayidati al-Jamila (My Beautiful Lady) roundabout on the left side of the city.
"Security authorities believe the earth-shattering kaboom is intentional," the source said, "the forensic team has started digging in the site to reveal the circumstances of the incident."
"At this moment, there is no information about the casualties," the source said.
Throwing bad money after worse. The good money disappeared into select bank accounts long ago.
[AlAhram] The International Monetary Fund said Monday that weeks of talks with Pakistain have produced a preliminary agreement toward reviving a $6 billion economic bailout for the Islamic nation.
Pakistain and IMF originally signed the accord in 2019, but the release of a key installment had been on the hold since earlier this year. That's when the fund expressed reservations about a delay in Pakistain's compliance with conditions of the bailout.
The IMF statement Monday said that under latest proposal, IMF would disburse about $1 billion to Pakistain, bringing the total disbursement out of the $6 billion bailout to about $3 billion since 2019, according to the statement.
The talks this month yielded an agreement ``subject to approval by the Executive Board, following the implementation of prior actions, notably on fiscal and institutional reforms,`` the IMF statement said.
Such an approval by IMF's executive board is considered a formality.
Muzzammil Aslam, a front man at Pakistain's finance ministry, also confirmed the latest development, saying the staff-level agreement was reached between Pakistain and IMF after 45 days of discussion.
In April 2020, the IMF released $1.4 billion to Pakistain, helping it handle an economic crisis amid a surge in fatalities from 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... . At least 28,663 Paks have died from COVID-19 since last year, while about 1.2 million tested positive from the new virus.
Analysts say the fund wants Pakistain to further reduce the budget deficit, increase tariffs of electricity and petrol, as well as curb money laundering and corruption. The government in recent weeks complied with most of the conditions of IMF, but doing so made Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... highly unpopular among people as inflation and the price of essential food soared.
In its statement Monday, the IMF also praised some measures taken by Pakistain government, saying the country's new moves could result in 4% growth this year and 4.5% the fiscal year after that.
Officials say the delay in agreement between Pakistain and the IMF was due to uneasy relations between Pakistain and the United States. U.S. President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... has avoided a call to Khan since he came into power. Khan this year publicly refused to provide bases to Washington for operations in Afghanistan.
The U.S., which exerts major influence over the IMF, has said the fund should not finance the tens of billions of dollars in loans that Pakistain has taken from China as part of Beijing's worldwide Belt and Road Initiative.
[NPASYRIA] Syrian government exploits Ottoman Turkish threats to take control over northeast Syria’s regions, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement on Monday.
Of course. As far as the central government oligarchy is concerned, the Kurds are no less resisting reunification than the Sunni jihadi groups on the other side of the country, if considerably less viciously destructive in the dealings with the surrounding population.
"Syrian government is not ready for any political settlement in Syria, and it exploits the deteriorating economic conditions of the people," the SDF statement added.
"The insistence of the ruling authority in Damascus to solve the Syrian crisis through its own logic and striking compromises is void from any surreal or national criteria," the SDF noted.
"Our people have to realize this fact very well and defy the autocratic policy," the statement stressed.
The meeting announced that the SDF will closely work with all parties including the US-led Global Coalition and Russia to find a real solution to the Syrian crisis that will meet the demands of the Syrian people with all its political and social entities.
The statement pointed out that the military operations against ISIS should be accompanied by real developing and economic projects in northeast Syria, notably in the areas directly affected by the war on ISIS.
On Monday the military council of the SDF held its periodic meeting in which it discussed the SDF military, political and field conditions as well as its future plans for the next phase.
The meeting also rounded on the continuous Ottoman Turkish threats to northeast Syria and "provocations along the Syrian border specially on the occupied areas."
The statement focused on the necessity to take Ottoman Turkish threats seriously and that all forces have to mobilize and get ready for fighting to confront any Ottoman Turkish fresh aggressions.
“Don’t make their mistake of trusting us, or you’ll get stuck just like they did.”
Senior State Department officials warn #US citizens that there are no plans to fly the US military into #Ethiopia to facilitate evacuations or “replicate the contingency effort we recently undertook in Afghanistan.”https://t.co/nkIItNm7fQ
[NPASYRIA] On Monday, two people were killed and seven others were maimed in Russian several air raids in northwest Syria.
Russian warplanes raided the Kabbana hills area, north of Latakia, and the vicinity of the town of Taltita in Jabal al-Summaq area northwest of Idlib, with high-explosive missiles, North Press reported opposition military sources.
"The bombardment resulted in the killing of two people and wounding of seven others in the town of Taltita. The maimed were taken to medical points for treatment," the sources added.
The air strikes coincided with the government forces’ shelling of the gatherings of the opposition factions in the town of al-Bara, south of Idlib.
In turn, the armed opposition factions bombed the government forces’ points near the town of Jobas in the eastern countryside of Idlib, with heavy artillery, according to the sources.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... North Press was unable to check the received information with other sources.
For months, areas in Syria’s northwest have been witnessing mutual shelling between parties to the conflict in different areas amid news on government military reinforcements to different areas in the region.
Although the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subject to a Russian-Ottoman Turkish ceasefire agreement signed in March 2020, the area witnesses frequent mutual bombardment despite the entry of the ceasefire into force.
[NPASYRIA] Residents of Syria’s southern city of Suwayda speculate that Russia’s negative role in earlier incidents in their city has pushed locals to oust Russia’s patrols from the city and its countryside.
Others believe that the presence of Russian soldiers in Syria’s south cause tension to “foreign powers”.
Last week, residents of al-Qrraya town, south of Suwayda, evicted a joint Russian-Syrian government patrol given Russia’s role in last year’s clashes raised outrage among the people.
The clashes in al-Qrraya erupted between the people and Russian-backed Fifth Brigade.
Similar incidents took place over the past years under the tense relations between the mainly Druze people of Suwayda and Russian soldiers.
In 2016, Russia started visiting Suwayda officially claiming to give humanitarian aid to the people specially that the city was under Syrian government forces in a formal way.
MEMORY FULL OF TENSE RELATIONSHIPS
In 2017, the people of al-Janinah village, northeast Suwayda, drove out a Russia’s patrol that was distributing humanitarian assistance.
Again in 2017, armed men from Shahba city expelled a Russian patrol from the city square and fired bullets at them claiming that the Russian soldiers wonder in the streets on an daily basis.
Russia’s first intervene in the security and political affairs of Suwayda was in the summer of 2018. Russian representatives met dignitaries and notables of the city as well as members of the security committee affiliated with the Syrian government.
During the meeting, Russia’s representatives called Suwayda people to sign a settlement agreement alleging local terrorist groups exist in the area. This caused a widespread disapproval among the Druze community inside and outside Syria.
ISIS attacks on the city in 2018, that claimed lives of up to 250 people and wounded hundreds others, worsened the rage already existing.
Suwayda’s residents voiced accusations against government forces and Russian forces saying they were responsible for hundreds of ISIS fighters to enter the city following an agreement signed in Yarmouk Camp, south of Damascus.
SPONSORED ASSAULTS
Locals of Suwayda accused Russia of conspiracy with the Eighth Brigade to assault the city in March 2020, and this made the relations even worse.
Nine young men were killed and six others were captivated by members of the Eighth Brigade when they assaulted famers in the fields near Busra al-Sham.
The Russian-backed Eighth Brigade murdered the captives in a brutal way raising widespread anger by locals and political and religious communities.
Na’im Saleh, a pseudonym for a man close to one of the captives, told North Press that finger blame is firstly pointed to the Russian forces in the massacre committed by the Eighth Brigade.
“Russian soldiers supported the Eighth Brigade with weapons and fighters. Moreover, Russia heated up the racial conflict already existing in the region instead of containing it and bringing perpetrators to accountability.
RECRUITING SOLDIERS
In late 2020, Russia re-sent military delegates to meet leaders of Suwayda. A settlement was proposed by Russia’s side for those young men who refused to join the Syrian army or those wanted by the Syrian government forces.
The proposal received a low turnout because many people had lost trust in Russia’s role.
In early 2021, Russian forces through meditators who follow government security branches started to enlist young men in the Russian soldiers and sent them to Libya or other regions to fight.
Kamal Hareb, 29, told North Press that the deteriorating economic conditions pushed many young men to enlist in the Russian forces and go to the desert of Libya as fighters to protect Russian military facilities.
Each enlisted fighter would serve for four months and would be paid $1,000 as a monthly salary.
After that, vehicles loaded with recruited Syrians drove to Khmeimim Air Base in the coastal area where the soldiers underwent medical tests then dispatched to Beni Ghazi airport in Libya by Russian planes.
The Syrian fighters were deployed on many points and observatory posts within the Russian military facilities where they suffer shortage of food, water and medical supplies, according to Hareb.
Adham al-Hassan, a resident from Suwayda, said the Russian soldiers have a key role in protecting Syrian people from terrorists.
“The consistent Russian support to the people has lessened the brunt of the economic siege imposed on the country,” he added.
According to al-Hassan, some foreign parties are trying to instigate skirmishes in Syria’s south for malicious purposes and escalating tensions between the residents of Suwayda and the Russian forces.
#5
The Wright brothers didn't fly very far at Kitty Hawk either but they knew they were onto something and they kept working on it. I believe that competition and demand will drive innovation and advances in this technology until it gets to the point where it is no longer the butt of your jokes.
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#6
Agree with Abu. Innovation takes time. Batteries need to get significantly better and cheaper to make electric planes worthwhile. Good to see demonstrations of new tech.
#7
I'll say one thing, if it catches fire, it's toast. Fuel based planes are too, but they can at least be put out. If that crashes, it's going to burn out for a long time.
#8
As Stephen den Beste put it: "Batteries need to be better than the energy density of a diesel engine and its fuel tank, also refuel up as fast" (or words to that effect). They have a long way to go to meet that goal.
#9
Couldn't you combine batteries with solar. Once you get high enough there are no cloud problems and your upper surfaces could potentially generate power to recharge, assuming they are light and sturdy enough of course.
No beef with competition and innovation. BIG beef with current mania for filling every urban parking area and suburban cul-de-sac with filthy, inefficient, expensive subsidized people-anchors.
[Rudaw] Security forces have arrested over a dozen Iraqi nationals at the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) for committing a number of violations, a monitor reported on Sunday amid fears of an increase in crime at the camp.
Fourteen Iraqis, including one woman, were arrested by al-Hol’s internal security forces (Asayish) according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). The security members were supported by Rojava’s Jazira operation forces.
The detainees "confessed to killings, chaos, raiding reception centers and targeting internal security forces" inside the camp, the monitor added.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested thousands of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) fighters along with their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019. Most of these people are held at al-Hol, which is home to more than 60,000 people - mostly women and kiddies from different nationalities, including Iraqis.
The camp has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism. Human rights groups have previously warned of squalid conditions in the camp, describing it as "filthy and often inhuman," with "life-threatening" conditions.
Seventy-three crimes have taken place in al-Hol since the beginning of this year, killing 79 people including security members, said SOHR.
[Shafaq News] A security source in Diyala reported today evening that a member of the Iraqi army was killed and three others were maimed in an ISIS attack south of Baquba.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that ISIS murderous Moslems attacked a security checkpoint south of Buhriz district, 9 km south of Baquba.
He added that the army forces clashed with the terrorists, which resulted in the death of one member and the injury of three others.
Areas south of 8 district are subjected to continuous attacks due to the presence of ISIS outposts and dens in their villages.
[IsraelTimes] Bahrain’s interior ministry announces it had arrested a gang of armed "terrorists" it said were linked to groups in Iran.
"Terrorists (were) arrested for plotting terrorist operations against security and civil peace," the interior ministry says on Twitter.
"Weapons and explosives from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... were seized" from group members who "are linked with terrorist groups in Iran," the brief statement says.
Sunni-ruled Bahrain accuses Shiite Iran of provoking unrest in the Gulf kingdom, an allegation Tehran denies.
The ministry gives no further details, including on how many people were arrested or their nationalities.
Bahrain has been hit by waves of unrest since 2011, when security forces crushed Shiite-led protests demanding a constitutional monarchy and an elected prime minister.
Opposition movements have been outlawed and hundreds of dissidents have been imprisoned — with many stripped of their nationality.
Human rights groups have frequently said cases against activists in Bahrain — men and women, religious and secular — fail to meet the basic standards of fair trials.
Bahrain’s authorities have repeatedly rejected the accusations.
[ToloNews] The World Food Program (WFP) in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provided cash-aid to dozens of vulnerable families in west of Kabul on Monday.
WFP’s zone manager, Daoud Ghaznawi said that each family would receive 7,000 Afs in cash.
"We distribute the aids in two rounds. First, we have provided food materials. Now provide about 76 US dollars to each family," he said.
The international organization including the UN have warned of severe humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as the winter is approaching.
The vulnerable families praised the provision of aids, calling on the international organization to ramp up their efforts to help the people who are in grave need.
"I ask the donors to support the hospitals, boot up their donations to overcome the existing poverty," said Bibi Anisa, who was waiting on the line to receive the aids.
"I called on them to surge the rate of the aids in the future. This will help the people a lot better. This capable us to at least provide burning materials for the winter," said Safiullah Khan, another aid receiver.
WFP provided donations to at least 9 million Afghans last year. According to the organization, 14 million people would be given aids in the ongoing year. The organization is also planning to provide aid for over 23 million people- that will also cost more than 220 million dollars.
[NPASYRIA] Ottoman Turkish-backed armed factions kidnapped yesterday, two civilians in Shiyeh district of Afrin region, north Syria.
The Ottoman Turkish-backed Sa’d Ibn Abi Waqqas faction kidnapped Farah ad-Din Ibrahim and Sherhad Za’im Hesso of the village of Hikjah affiliated with Shiyeh district, in the northwestern countryside of Afrin under the pretext of dealing with the Autonomous Administration previously, an eyewitness told North Press.
So far, the destination or the fate of the two civilians are still unknown, the source added.
Yesterday, the body of the 75-year-old Shehadeh Muhammad Shehadeh, a resident of the village of Qoptan al-Jabal, in the western countryside of Aleppo, was found on the route runs from Afrin to Jinderis district.
The city of Afrin and its villages, north of Aleppo, have been controlled by Ottoman Turkish forces and the affiliated factions since March 2018.
The Afrin region has been witnessing cases of killing, kidnapping and arrest, in addition to frequent bombings, amid the inability of the factions controlling it to settle the security in the region.
#US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells #Sudan’s leaders in separate calls that the country needs to make more progress on democracy before Washington resumes $700 million in suspended aid.https://t.co/UZdYHGkgfZ
[NPASYRIA] On Monday, Russian Military Police (MP) along with Ottoman Turkish forces, conducted a joint patrol in the western countryside of Kobani, northern Syria. This is the 79th joint patrol of the two forces conducted together.
The patrol, which consisted of eight Russian and Ottoman Turkish military vehicles accompanied by two Russian helicopters, set out from the village of Ashma, 20 kilometers west of Kobani.
It roamed the villages of Jarqeli Fouqani, Jebnah, Bayadiyah, reaching to Zor Maghar, which is opposite of Jarablus on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River and the last village west of Kobani.
After that the patrol immediately returned from Zor Maghar heading to the east, passing the villages of Bayadiyah, Mishko, Jebnah, Binder, Qaraqoy Tahtani, Qola, and Sosan before reaching the checkpoint of the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) near the Iza’a (Radio) Tower seven kilometers west of Kobani.
The patrol returned to the setout point in Ashma village, passing the villages of Seftek, Boban, Khorkhori, Dikmekdash, Qaran, and Jarqeli Fouqani.
After that, the Ottoman Turkish military vehicles returned to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... through the gate near Ashma village, while the Russian military vehicles returned to their position near Sirrin town south of Kobani.
On November 15, the Russian MP conducted the 78th joint patrol with the Ottoman Turkish forces in the eastern countryside of Kobani.
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