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-Great Cultural Revolution
Why is Russia so traditionalist and conservative culturally when they lived under a Marxist-Leninist government for almost 100 years? Why didn't Marxism totally destroy Russian traditions and culture and replace it with a postmodernist one?
This is an ironic counterpoint, written by a Russian Jew currently living in Russia proper, to non-Russian observers who see Putin as a kind of Grand Wizard with nukes minus the taint of Jim Crow, and Constantine the Great rolled into one.
[Quora] A bronze monument to a living person (right) is the epitome and symbol of Russia’s postmodernist epoch.

RT created a beautiful myth that modern Russia is a traditionalist country and keeper of white Christian values with Putin at its helm.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 11/29/2021 11:12 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [15 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  I "like" neither Putin nor Napoleon.

I think a lot of the western liberals who pretend to get emotionally wrapped up in hating Putin while taking his bribes don't really understand Putin, the Russian Revolution, the French Revolution, or Napoleon.

Putin is _just_ the Russian Napoleon for the French Revolution, Russian Edition (tm), No more, no less, and noone in the west is capable of dealing with him one way or another because of all their myths about the French Revolution and their myth that Napoleon was the betrayal of the French Revolution instead of its culmination.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/29/2021 12:41 Comments || Top||

#2  A good comparison would be how Scipio didn't get wrapped up in hating Hannibal. All the big machers in the Senate (i.e. Cato the Elder, etc) were wrapped up in hating Hannibal and Carthage because they couldn't defeat him. Scipio could, and to him it was no big deal.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/29/2021 12:47 Comments || Top||

#3  So he's saying its like Hollyweird.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2021 19:57 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
R&B singer Ari Lennox aka Courtney Shanade Salter held for disturbance at Amsterdam airport
AMSTERDAM, Nov 29 (Reuters) - American R&B singer Ari Lennox was arrested at Amsterdam Schiphol airport on Monday for disturbing public order, Dutch military police said, after she had accused airline staff of racial discrimination.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 09:45 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wakandan hissy fits don't work in Holland? Who knew ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  A pretty woman, but that is the wrong dress for her body. What was her stylist thinking?
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2021 9:58 Comments || Top||

#3  ...and it clashes with her Versace handbag!
Posted by: Raj || 11/29/2021 11:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Ah Yes, Me thinks the Lady has just become a Blues Singer.
Posted by: Bill Thrinter9574 || 11/29/2021 13:43 Comments || Top||

#5  If you're gonna fight, then fight - but never clash.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/29/2021 16:53 Comments || Top||

#6  "Don't you know who I am? Ari Lennox?
The angry drunk diva whose antics
Involving shea butter
Set hearts all a-flutter,
Who kills when she does calisthenics?"
Posted by: Flert Fleretch7633 || 11/29/2021 18:01 Comments || Top||


Britain
Yorkshire blizzard strands pub goers at Tan Hill Inn
LONDON (AP) — Dozens of customers who stopped for a drink at Britain’s highest altitude pub got a longer stay than they bargained for, after the building was cut off by a blizzard.

Sixty-one people woke up Monday after their third night at the Tan Hill Inn in the Yorkshire Dales, 270 miles (435 kilometers) north of London. They have been unable to leave since Friday, when a late autumn storm brought snow and heavy winds that felled power cables and blocked roads.

The pub sits 1,732 feet (528 meters) above sea level and is used to being cut off by bad weather.

Manager Nicola Townsend said staff had organized movies, a quiz night and karaoke for the stranded guests. They have also been entertained by an Oasis cover band, Noasis, who have also been stuck at the pub since their gig on Friday night.

Townsend said the guests were "in really good spirits."

"They’ve formed quite a friendship ... like a big family is the best way I can describe it," she said. "One lady actually said ’I don’t want to leave.’"

Townsend said she hoped people would be able to head home later Monday once roads had been cleared.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 09:13 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [30 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That could have been any of us, had we planned properly.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  I suspect this means Hardknott Pass is impassable?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/29/2021 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Besoeker Vrywilliger !

A rescue mission, your chance to get into the Spirits of the Season!
Posted by: Alistaire Whase2887 || 11/29/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Never 'volunteer.' It's printed in my DNA.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Take 'The Jab', it'll fix the DNA issues in no time.

Me, I'm channeling Ernest... Onwards to Tan Hill Inn
Posted by: Alistaire Whase2887 || 11/29/2021 10:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Wahahahahaaa
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 10:44 Comments || Top||

#7  really interesting from a meteorological point of view

even places 600' lower in elevation reported all rain, e.g., Buxton
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/29/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||

#8  3 days
61 people
How many Loos?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 17:53 Comments || Top||

#9  [sits in tree hollering "Anita Loos!"] Also,

Oh, pity the terrorist Brit
Who, stuck at the pub for a bit,
And, having to go,
Took a shit in the snow,
For no sooner at home did he sit
With his cuppa and pup
Than the Queen knocked him up
With a DNA test and a writ.
Posted by: Flert Fleretch7633 || 11/29/2021 18:34 Comments || Top||


Europe
Half of French Believe in Demographic Shift ‘Great Replacement' Theory
[Breitbart] A survey released this week has revealed that half of the French public believe in the “Great Replacement” theory and that elites in politics and business are attempting to replace the native population of France.

The Ifop survey, which asked a number of questions regarding immigration and topics such as Islamisation, found that 50 per cent of the French believe in the Great Replacement, a theory coined by French writer Renaud Camus to describe the demographic replacement of native peoples by mass migration.

Nearly seven in ten of the respondents to the survey, or 69 per cent, stated they believed there were “too many” immigrants in France, while 62 per cent said that immigration was the primary reason for insecurity issues in the country, French news magazine L’Obs reports.

In the Ifop survey, respondents were also asked about French identity and Islam, with 70 per cent stating that France should remain a Christian country, while 68 per cent said that Islam was a threat to French identity.

Crime, particularly that involving underage illegal immigrants, has become a major problem in certain parts of France and the surge in minor migrant criminality was highlighted earlier this year by French Senator Henri Leroy.

“Just look at the panorama of delinquency. There is a worrying increase which seems exponential. The number of minor migrants was 30,000 in 2015 and 60,000 in 2018, and the associated problems are increasing at the same rate,” Leroy said in May.

“In Bordeaux, 40 per cent of delinquency is attributable to them, and the proportion was 24 per cent two years ago. The problem grows and threatens to infiltrate all sections of delinquency, trafficking, banditry… We need to stop this bleeding,” he added.

The survey was conducted by Ifop for the anti-hate groups the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) and the magazine Le Droit de Vivre in response to the dramatic rise of the conservative writer and presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour in polling for next year’s French presidential elections.

Zemmour has been clear in his stance against mass migration and has referenced the Great Replacement theory in the past.

He has also been firmly opposed to the Islamisation of France and was placed under investigation over remarks he had made at a conference in 2019 when he stated: “In France, as in all Europe, all our problems are aggravated by immigration — schools, housing, unemployment, social deficits, public order, prisons — but all our problems are also aggravated by Islam. It’s double punishment.”

Earlier this month, a hate crime trial for Zemmour began over comments he had made on French television regarding minor migrants last year.

“They have nothing to do here, they are thieves, they are murderers, they are rapists, that’s all they are, they must be sent back and they must not even come,” Zemmour said while appearing on the television programme Face à l’info on broadcaster CNews.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 09:12 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [20 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  The 'Other Half' are immigrants or foreigners?
Posted by: magpie || 11/29/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, when you're looking at things from the results end...
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/29/2021 15:58 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Large Migrant Group Rushes Border in West Texas
[Breitbart] Border Patrol agents in Del Rio apprehended more than 250 migrants crossing the Rio Grande in a single group. The group, according to a source within Customs and Border Protection (CBP) crossed the river into the United States on Sunday near the Del Rio International Bridge where more than 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants were held in a makeshift detention camp in September.

The source says the nationalities of the migrants were a mix of mostly Venezuelan and Cuban migrants. The source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, says the nearly 300 migrants are being held under the port of entry while they await transportation to nearby Border Patrol stations in the region.

As reported by Breitbart Texas, the area that once provided temporary shelter to nearly 15,000 migrants under the international bridge was being used again to shelter migrants as they awaited transportation in early November. The overcrowding at Border Patrol stations in the sector is one factor impeding the Border Patrol from rapidly transporting migrants from border crossing points.

The overflow staging area drew international attention in September as officials held thousands of mostly Haitian migrants in the outdoor facility in filthy conditions. During this crisis, migrants were held outdoors in self-constructed cardboard and thatch huts for several weeks.

These migrants will ultimately be removed from the area and processed for removal according to the source. Although some single adult migrants were among the group, family units with small children will likely be released into the communities surrounding Del Rio the source says. In what is becoming a revolving door process, on Sunday several busses from local Border Patrol stations released hundreds of migrants to a non-government shelter in Eagle Pass.

The Del Rio Sector ranks second in the nation in migrant apprehensions, only behind the Rio Grande Valley Sector, according to CBP reports. The apprehension of numerous large migrant groups within the Del Rio Sector recently is compounding the logistical problems currently facing the agency.

Recently, in one single event, a group of nearly 200 mostly Central American migrants crossed the Rio Grande near Normandy, Texas, just thirty miles away from Del Rio. According to the source, a large portion of the detained population at Del Rio Border Patrol stations consists of single adult migrants. The Border Patrol relies on ICE to find suitable, longer-term detention spaces for the single adult migrants and is also a complicating factor that adds to the overcrowding at temporary processing centers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 09:09 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [41 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Nah, Just the Mob Football Match Semi-Finals 2021, México vs West Texas



Posted by: Bill Thrinter9574 || 11/29/2021 14:04 Comments || Top||

#2  a large portion of the detained population at Del Rio Border Patrol stations consists of single adult migrants

AKA an invading army. The women and children are just camp followers.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/29/2021 18:11 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian Brig.-Gen. urges destruction of Israel prior to nuke talks
[JP] The spokesman for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s armed forces, Brig.-Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi, on Saturday urged the total elimination of the Jewish state during an interview with an Iranian regime-controlled media outlet.

"We will not back off from the annihilation of Israel, even one millimeter. We want to destroy Zionism in the world,” Shekarchi told the Iranian Students News Agency.

Shekarchi’s genocidal antisemitic remarks come just days before the nuclear talks are set to restart in Vienna Monday on curbing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s illicit nuclear program. The United States and other world powers are seeking to provide Tehran with economic sanctions relief in exchange for temporary restrictions on its atomic program. Israel and other countries believe Iran's regime seeks to build a nuclear weapons device.

The Iranian general also blasted Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates for normalizing diplomatic relations with Israel, terming the diplomacy “intolerable” for Iran’s clerical regime. "Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and other countries considered as Muslims, for us they part of the Zionist regime and this is very important," said Shekarchi.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 09:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [26 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Hey, Brig.-Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi, let me clue you in, Israel has one of the highest vaccine rates in the world, 3 Boosters plus per citizen, with break-thru cases and higher mortality rates, they are not going to be around for long. So, cool your jets, sit down, shut up and wait.
Posted by: Glineling and Company7371 || 11/29/2021 14:47 Comments || Top||

#2  These guys are living in the Mideast fantasy of "said it, did it!".
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 17:49 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
The FULLER moon! Photographer pieces together 200,000 lunar snaps to reveal every crater and crevice on its surface in incredible detail
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 08:42 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Bill Thrinter9574 || 11/29/2021 13:56 Comments || Top||

#2  You always find these gems Skid!
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/29/2021 21:40 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Lines gather outside NYC courthouse two hours before Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial kicks off today: Her brother claims she is paying 'blood price' because Epstein dodged justice UPDATE: prosecutor is Comey’s daughter
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial begins today in New York; She faces up to 80 years in prison if found guilty

  • Maxwell, 59, is charged with recruiting and grooming four underage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to abuse from 1994 to 2004

  • Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and other charges and has been awaiting trial for over a year in 'hell-hole' Brooklyn prison

  • The high-profile trial is expected run to mid-January with opening statements beginning Monday

  • Lines formed outside the New York courthouse Monday two hours before the start the trial

  • Maxwell's brother Ian claimed she was paying a 'blood price' because Jeffrey Epstein dodged justice

  • Sarah Ransome, one of several women who have accused Epstein and Maxwell of sexual abuse, was seen arriving at the courthouse Monday morning but will not be testifying

  • Ransome, who was born in South Africa to wealthy British parents, claimed she tried to escape Epstein's 'pedophile island' through shark-invested waters after being raped three times in one day




Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 08:38 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [33 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Judge Nathan has granted Ghislaine Maxwell's request that evidence in the trial be redacted to hide 'sensational and impure' information.

Any Comey's daughter is on the prosecutorial team?

Is the fix in?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/29/2021 12:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Government is just not supposed to be a family business, but that has never stopped it from being exactly that.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2021 12:12 Comments || Top||

#3  This isn't a trial. It's a whitewash. They will go just enough for Jeopardy to attach and then declare her innocent or a mistrial or something. Then she can never be charged again.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/29/2021 13:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Comey, the father had a history of being a fixer for the Clinton Crime family.

Maxwell will likely receive a large payoff for keeping her mouth shut and threatened with going the way of Epstein or disappearing.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/29/2021 18:00 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Knife-wielding mugger who committed three crimes in 36 hours bragged to cops he'd be freed each time because of NYC's woke cash bail law
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Agustin Garcia, 63, was arrested three times for robbery - once at knife point - within a 36-hour time span in New York City

  • He was released without bail and reportedly bragged to cops that he knew he'd be released because he didn't have a prior record

  • He was reportedly arrested for stealing beer, and robbed a woman at knifepoint when released, only to be jailed and let go once again

  • The district attorney's office said he was later jailed for stealing a phone

  • Under former governor Andrew Cuomo's controversial reform laws passed last year, bail can no longer be imposed on misdemeanors and non-violent felonies

  • A recent change to the law allowed judges to now set bail in misdemeanor cases, if the defendant has an open case involving harm to another person
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 08:31 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anarcho-Tyranny, part 52
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 11:59 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
DoJ accuses Steve Bannon of 'misleading and frivolous' attempts to turn his prosecution for refusing to testify before January 6 committee into a 'public spectacle'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Steve Bannon on November 17 pleaded not guilty to criminal charges filed after he defied a subpoena issued by a congressional panel

  • Bannon, the first person to face charges in connection with the House probe, handed himself in to the FBI on Monday after last week being indicted

  • He claims communications with the former president are covered by 'executive privilege' and that the investigation is politically motivated

  • Prosecutors for the DoJ accused Bannon's defense team - led by Evan Corcoran - of stalling their efforts to reach an evidence-sharing agreement

  • Instead, according to the Justice Department, Bannon's lawyers used a public court filing to complain about the case
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 08:27 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [27 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unlike the Star Chamber, er, "committee" itself.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/29/2021 9:52 Comments || Top||

#2  The committee has got its tit in a wringer. Time always slows down in that situation.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2021 10:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Well isn't the biden admin handlers trying make this public a witch trial?... When a MASS MURDER can get a judge to set bail for race based murders and Jan. 6th protests can't get a bail hearing?

Where the 💩 is the justice?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/29/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Bannon might be under indictment but he has DoJ and Schifferbrains right where he wants them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/29/2021 11:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Instead, according to the Justice Department, Bannon's lawyers used a public court filing to complain about the case
Bannon is a private citizen and it is a 'public case' ... your problem is? Other than the Kafkaesque nature of your petulance.
Posted by: magpie || 11/29/2021 11:28 Comments || Top||

#6  If the FBI had no part in and nothing to hide, why not make the documents of 1/6/2020, videos, etc. public?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/29/2021 11:41 Comments || Top||

#7  ^
They have to clean the videos up a little and CG doctoring takes a little time still, since the CCP is having "some" issues 😎
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/29/2021 14:17 Comments || Top||

#8  That would be self incriminating for the FBI #6.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 11/29/2021 20:28 Comments || Top||

#9  DoJ-KGB shows their 'misleading and frivolous' attempts to turn prosecutions into a 'public spectacle'

Fixed that.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/29/2021 21:29 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
'Race for the most woke company marches on': Best Buy and Levi's face customer boycott after offering employee counselling over Kyle Rittenhouse's not guilty verdict
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Rittenhouse was cleared of all charges after killing two men in Kenosha in 2020

  • After the ruling, Levi and Best Buy both offered counselling to their employees

  • In response some have taken to social media to say they will boycott their stores
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 08:25 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [21 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Instead of counseling they should have had an all hands that showed the relevant video of the encounter. Showed the criminal records of those that tried to kill Kyle. Then asked if anyone had any questions? Anyone still upset should be given the chance to quit.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/29/2021 11:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Pants of gun carrying cowboys. Now full gay.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/29/2021 21:41 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK Government Bans Word ‘Christmas' to Avoid ‘Offending Minorities'
[NEON] Civil servants in the United Kingdom have banned the word "Christmas" from a proposed government campaign fearing it would offend minorities.British officials vetoed the use of "Christmas" from being used in a COVID testing drive which would be marketed at students.They argued the term risks offending minorities within the country."We have been advised by Cabinet Office that we should not use the word Christmas — as the Government campaign needs to be inclusive and some religions don’t celebrate Christmas," an email seen by The Mail on Sunday read."The other option was ’festive season,’ which keeps the emotional motivation."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 07:12 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They're never concerned about offending the vast majority are they?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2021 7:19 Comments || Top||

#2  cUKs
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 8:54 Comments || Top||

#3  The same officious twits that wanted to outlaw buying a pint at the pub
Posted by: magpie || 11/29/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||

#4  And with this statement the United Kingdom has sealed the fate of every person in the Kingdom;
Santa Claus IS offended, its Coal for All of You!

The UK civil servants not only have brought Coal to Newcastle, but reprehension upon themselves from Jacob Marley! Good Luck getting a night's sleep.




Posted by: Bill Thrinter9574 || 11/29/2021 13:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Is The Omicron Variant The 'Midterm Election Variant'?
[PJ] Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), who previously served as White House physician under Barack Obama and Donald Trump, has a disturbing theory about the Omicron variant.

On Saturday, Jackson suggested that Democrats will use the Omicron variant to push for universal mail-in voting for the 2022 midterm elections and save their party from an electoral bloodbath next year.

"Here comes the MEV — the Midterm Election Variant!" Jackson tweeted. "They NEED a reason to push unsolicited nationwide mail-in ballots. Democrats will do anything to CHEAT during an election — but we’re not going to let them!"

Reaction to the Omicron variant has been mixed. Some countries, including the United States, have announced travel bans with several African countries (where the variant was first discovered), citing its apparent high level of transmissibility for the decision.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has already declared a state of emergency for New York, even though there are no confirmed cases in the country, let alone her state, yet.

At least one doctor in South Africa has reported that the symptoms of the variant are mild but doctors have cautioned that we don’t know yet how the new variant will affect the elderly, who have typically been the group most at risk from COVID.

As for Jackson’s theory, while some have mocked him on Twitter, others think he’s on to something. Last year, COVID led to many changes in how we do elections, including several states and areas implementing universal mail-in voting—a very insecure voting method. While it seems many people are anxious to return to normal, Democrats have been hoping to make various COVID-era changes in voting permanent. So far, those efforts have failed, and I wouldn’t put it past them to use Omicron, or another variant that comes after it, as a pretext for implementing universal mail-in voting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 02:54 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Disturbing" yes. Surprising, no.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 2:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Must WATCH Video:

Neil Oliver's Criticism of COVID Protocols Is Absolute Poetry
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 3:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Reuters - U.S. readies fight against Omicron but too soon for lockdowns -Fauci

Omicron will no doubt morf into more deadly strains closer to the midterm. The lockdowns, restrictions, cancellations, and re-scheduling of elections must wait until then.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 3:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Omicron - The Unicorn of Fascist Democrats have been Praying for to Save Their Party!

Fly with Us, We Dems, O'Omicron, Save Us from the Republicans, you venerated mythical being of Mother Gaia!

Posted by: Hupeting Barnsmell6664 || 11/29/2021 3:42 Comments || Top||

#5 
BUT, if we are to follow SCIENCE. We should focus on where the problem areas are actually.

Currently for C-19/21 Infections per million for the last 7 days.


#1 is the Cayman Islands.
A lot of Western and Eastern Europe are #2 to #56
USA is #59.
South Africa is #109 out of 207 nations.


DEATHS per/Million over the last 7 days
#1 Bulgaria.
#43 USA
An again, a good ways down the list is South Africa @ #86.


So maybe the problem ain't the South African strain (??yet??)

But! If its so darn bad then shutdown ALL international travel ASAP. Stop, hold 5 days and TEST any and all persons (WH/Congress/Federal employees included) entering the USA to check for C-19/21 infection. If infected, no matter what their social, elitist, rank or political status. They are to be securely Quarantined in a CDC approved Medical Quarantine Treatment Facility, until no longer found an infectious threat to others.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/29/2021 6:39 Comments || Top||


#7  Is our DC types flim-flamming us again?

UPDATE from the Botswana Covid-19 Task Force.
"According to a public statement by the Botswana government, the new Omicron mutation was first discovered in four people who had received both doses of the COVID vaccine. Meanwhile, South Africa’s medical chief Dr. Angelique Coetzee said that she had only seen “very very mild cases” of the variant so far."

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/29/2021 7:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Ref #7: Coetzee? Obviously he cannot be believed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 7:52 Comments || Top||

#9  If its so darn bad then shutdown ALL international travel ASAP.

From Africa? Dass rayciss
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 8:59 Comments || Top||

#10  Omicron will likely be under control by early summer at the latest.

Maybe the next variant will be out then.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/29/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||

#11  Xi?
Xi-eesh!
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 10:42 Comments || Top||

#12  The left will keep hyping these worse and worse variants to bring about more and more control of the populace and to justify mail-in voting.. They will keep pushing mail-in voting to make elections easier to steal in 2022 and 2024. IMO, this will fail; people are 100% fed-up with their crapola.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/29/2021 11:24 Comments || Top||

#13  Ref #12:

"You never let a serious crisis go to waste."
-Rahm Emanuel
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 11:29 Comments || Top||

#14  Plenty o' letters left in the alphabet. And then they can start using the Hebrew letters, or Cyrillic letters
but not Mandarin
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 11:49 Comments || Top||

#15  New symptoms curiously identical to vax side effects.
Posted by: Angstrom || 11/29/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||

#16  They need to compare the Covid numbers to pre-covid seasonal flu deaths. I'm guessing the numbers are roughly equal.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/29/2021 15:45 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Federal taxpayers fund program paying students $5k to receive training in critical race theory
[Just The News] Federal grant records show the U.S. Department of Education has awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to fund critical race theory training for future educators at several colleges across the country.

In 2016 under the Obama administration, the federal government awarded its first five-year grant of $1,116,895 to North Carolina Central University (NCCU) for "training" college students in critical race theory.

The program is called "The Research Institute for Scholars of Equity," or RISE. RISE promises to produce "a cadre of scholars who value and advance equity." As part of the program, these students receive a $5,000 stipend, money for food and housing, and a travel allowance. According to promotional materials and grant documents, RISE students are trained to use critical race theory as a means of evaluating teacher quality, among other things.

NCCU partnered with the University of North Carolina, Wilmington on the project, which provided one-year fellowships to about 60 students.

While some of the students will likely go on to be teachers, the program also puts an emphasis on training students with "research careers that will inform policy and practice in education" on a broader scale, helping propel critical race theory conversations nationwide.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 02:38 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As part of the program, these students receive a $5,000 stipend, money for food and housing, and a travel allowance.

Outrageous! RISE should be funded through the same mechanisms as BLM and Antifa. Oh WAIT !
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 2:48 Comments || Top||

#2 
What's the cost for a community College class $250 with books?

OK so register where its being given during your free time and make $4,750. for beer, and other personal items.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/29/2021 5:34 Comments || Top||

#3  North Carolina Central University, a state-supported liberal arts institution, is a public, historically black university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Dr. James E. Shepard in affiliation with the Chautauqua movement in 1909.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 11/29/2021 6:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, at least queer studies majors will have someone to look up to.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2021 7:05 Comments || Top||

#5  You have to pay students $5000 to listen to this Marxist crap?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/29/2021 11:49 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
NYC 'career criminal,' 23, is charged with attempted murder for 'opening fire and wounding two cops' who were responding to a 911 call on Thanksgiving Eve
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Charlie Vasquez, 23, from Brooklyn, was charged with two counts of attempted murder, assault, criminal use of a firearm and criminal possession of a weapon

  • Vasquez was arrested in The Bronx, near the 48th Precinct, on Wednesday, after he reportedly opened fire on NYPD officers Alejandra Jacobs and Robert Holmes

  • Jacobs, a military veteran, was shot twice in the right arm, while Holmes, who has been in the department for eight years, was shot in his right armpit area

  • Holmes and Jacobs were treated at St. Barnabas Hospital. They have since been released and are expected to make a full recovery

  • Police said Vasquez had eight prior arrests, once for criminal possession of a weapon for allegedly pulling a gun on a 32-year-old male during a fight in 2017

  • 'This is a Thanksgiving 'tradition' we never want to repeat,' the Police Benevolent Association (NYC PBA) tweeted after both officers were discharged


New York State trooper opens fires on RFK Bridge after driver hits him: No one is injured but suspect is taken into custody

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • While nobody was injured by the shots, the trooper was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens to treat a leg injury he suffered during the incident

  • All northbound lanes were initially closed, but the northbound right lane has been reopened since

  • NYPD units confirmed a suspect was taken into custody in the Bronx

Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 01:59 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [17 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1 
This situation will continue to happen. As long as State Law Makers go touchy-feely Liberal and continuously toss taxpayer $$$$ at trying and failing to fix career criminals, instead of isolating them from the good, morally honest people.

Our Law Enforcement and Honest citizens should never be legislated into being made easy prey for the those that don't obey the law.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/29/2021 5:10 Comments || Top||

#2  The situation then rapidly escalates with Holmes and Vasquez wrestling and Jacobs can be seen firing at the suspect

What's the bet she shot her partner while she was dancing around?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 7:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Is this perp going to get released on a $1000 bail, the going rate asked by a Soros-placed prosecutor. I also blame Obama for kicking off this period of disrespect for cops and calls for defunding the police. After Biden, the next worst POTUS ever.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/29/2021 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  NYC 'career criminal,' 23,

And to think, some kids waste their time going to VocTech School, Community College and/or University for a career... pray tell what is a career criminal (18-23 - 5 years is a career?)

recidivist
Posted by: Bill Thrinter9574 || 11/29/2021 14:22 Comments || Top||

#5  [relief that "armpit area" seems unlikely to mean "moob"]
Posted by: Flert Fleretch7633 || 11/29/2021 16:00 Comments || Top||


Europe
UK special forces will go undercover to infiltrate Calais people smuggling gangs: 30 elite reconnaissance soldiers will disguise themselves as migrants in bid to take down ruthless traffickers
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A team of up to 30 elite troops from the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) is set to be offered to French authorities to tackle the ongoing migrant crisisThe regiment specialises in aggressive surveillance and has worked with MI5

  • At least 27 migrants drowned in the deadliest-ever Channel crossing this week

  • Boris Johnson has offered France 'hundreds of boots on the ground' to help
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 01:57 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [19 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Certainly a great idea to announce it. Reminds me of the sign "secret nuclear bunker".
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/29/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Good to see you EC.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Or it's just a feint, keeping the traffickers' anxiety levels sky high for the cost of 'words only'.

Or not.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/29/2021 13:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Secret Nuclear Bunker - Museum in Nantwich
Iodine Pills Anyone?
Posted by: Bill Thrinter9574 || 11/29/2021 14:13 Comments || Top||

#5  An undercover press release. Must have been to the FBI management seminar.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/29/2021 15:57 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/29/2021 18:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Would this be more of an MI6 job? Or are they too busy covering their tracks now that the dossier has exploded?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2021 19:50 Comments || Top||


Good Morning

'More money than God:' Chinese titan lavished
Hunter Biden with 3-carat gem, offer of $30 million
Monday November 29th, 2021

fayewray0621.
Pirates Ambush Oil Workers, Civil Defence Personnel, Kill Four
Gunmen Attack Jos Prison
BLM accused of launching bail fund for Waukesha massacre suspect
Woke students want Kyle Rittenhouse kicked out of ASU
Sudan's Prime Minister sacks police chief and his deputy
Two Syrian military personnel injured in shelling

Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:18 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A hungry gorilla of Newton
"In mood for a juicy rambutan"
Got caught stealing treats. "Um,
This not Arbor... eat 'em?
Well, f--k! Me take walk
Out to dark Franklin Park,
Maybe pick up a cute orang-utan."
Posted by: Flert Fleretch7633 || 11/29/2021 2:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Vina Fay Wray was a Canadian/American actress best remembered for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned nearly six decades, Wray attained international recognition as an actress in horror films. She has been dubbed one of the early "scream queens".

Born: Vina Fay Wray, September 15, 1907, Cardston, Alberta, Canada
Died: August 08, 2004, New York City, U.S.
Posted by: Javing Bucket1830 || 11/29/2021 2:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Certainly not a women to monkey with.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 3:00 Comments || Top||

#4  VFW = Vina Fay Wray









What a Beautiful Lady, I'd of defend her against any Gorilla 🦍 What about you Chimp?
Posted by: Javing Bucket1830 || 11/29/2021 3:05 Comments || Top||

#5  VFW - (Veterans of Foreign Wars) NO - Vina Fay Wray






Posted by: Javing Bucket1830 || 11/29/2021 3:17 Comments || Top||

#6  She can sit on top of my Empire State Building anytime...
Posted by: Jay-Dubya || 11/29/2021 8:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Thanks Fred, you have impeccable taste. I did not realize Faye Wray was so beautiful. I hope she is no relative of Chris Wray.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/29/2021 11:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Cries Chris, "Merry Xmas, I'd say...
But the bliss of this day went away
When-- [sobs]
It wasn't Saint Nick
But some cat with a pick
I saw mistletoe-kissing Mommy Fay Wray!"
Posted by: Flert Fleretch7633 || 11/29/2021 15:46 Comments || Top||

#9  I only found out a couple of years ago that she was a natural brunette. Looks really good in a blonde wig. That and I've always wanted a mountain lair in the shape of a skull.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/29/2021 16:43 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Features of Houthi Sectarian Abuse, Displacement of Minorities
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The 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...
militia’s hostility towards other sects and religions 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...
dates back to before the Iran-backed group staged a nationwide coup. It expelled all Jewish community members in Saada governorate a year and a half after declaring its rebellion against the central authority in mid-2004.
The contentious Houthi policy had spread to affect the Salafist movement, whereby Houthis targeted their education centers in the Dammaj area and forcibly displaced faith group members in a campaign reminiscent of the imam’s rule in Yemen.

Houthis later expelled the rest of the followers of the Jewish religion, the followers of the Baha’i religion and Christianity, to begin the stage of doctrinal change in Yemen through altering school curricula, changing mosques and overtaking public media.

By the end of 2020, the Houthi militia had completed the expulsion of all adherents of the Jewish religion from Yemen, a religion that had existed in the country for millennia.

Reports have said that the very last Jews in Yemen were forced to flee the country in exchange for the release of Levi Salem Marhabi, a Jewish man who has been imprisoned by the Houthis since 2016. But Marhabi remains imprisoned despite a Houthi court exonerating him.

It was also confirmed that a group of Yemeni Christians, including Reverend Mushir al-Khalidi, had been deported after several months of detention.

Moreover, holy mans from the Baha’i religion, which had been practiced in Yemen since the 1940s, were also deported.

According to a report released by ACAPS, from 2015, Houthis have been gradually enforcing policies linked to suppressing the religious practices of some Islamic sects. Reports on such incidences increased between July—September 2021.

The Houthis are repressing the population in two different ways:

1) imposing generic religious norms including taxes and celebrations.

2) suppressing non-Zaydi practice (such as the weddings, Salafi centers, and Tarawih prayer which is conducted during Ramadan).

There’s a mixture of ideological and pragmatic intentions behind this such as:

- Increasing revenue by collecting Zakat and taxing religious celebrations.

- Encouraging people to join the frontlines through sermons and other religious messaging, thereby increasing the number of fighters

- Emphasizing that ’true believers’ are those from the Zaydi school of thought (implying that those unaffiliated are infidels) to increase supporters for Zaydi Islam and hence the Houthis.

There are deliberate attempts to create division among people from different Islamic sects. Incidents related to religion reported between July—September built on previous incidents related to tax collection, music suppression, the closure of Salafi mosques, the replacement of Sunni imams who didn’t reinforce Houthi policies, and making changes on the school curriculum, especially with regard to history and Islamic and social studies.

Sanaa residents told Asharq al-Awsat that Houthis replaced mosques' imams who refused to abide by the group's policies. They also altered some of the Koran verses in their curriculum to teach and encourage violence instead of coexistence.

Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [24 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
U.S. Navy Rescues Iran Seamen Adrift in Gulf for 8 Days
[An Nahar] The U.S. Navy has rescued two Iranian seamen who had been adrift for eight days on a fishing boat in Gulf waters, a statement said on Sunday.The men were in "good health and spirits" despite their ordeal, the navy said.

"A U.S. Navy vessel rescued two Iranian mariners (on Saturday) from a fishing vessel after it was adrift for eight days in the Gulf of Oman," the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, or NAVCENT, said.

Navy fat merchantman Charles Drew arrived at the scene with food, water and medical care six hours after a distress call from the mariners, the statement said.

The two men were transported to an Omani coastguard vessel near the capital Muscat. "The mariners were in good health and spirits at the time of the transfer," it added.

"We appreciate the government of Oman for its assistance and support in helping us return the mariners home," NAVCENT commander Vice Admiral Brad Cooper said in the statement.
Al Ahram adds:
Navy fat merchantman Charles Drew arrived at the scene with food, water and medical care six hours after a distress call from the mariners, the statement said.


Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [18 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Iraq
French team arrives in Iraq to restore artifacts destroyed by ISIS in Nineveh
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [27 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  So they, the Wahhabis, can do it again?
Posted by: magpie || 11/29/2021 11:39 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Bank Accounts of Former Govt Officials Still in Country to Be Unlocked
[ToloNews] Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund issued a decree ordering the Central Bank to unblock the bank accounts of those former government officials who have not left the country.

In September, the Islamic Emirate froze the bank accounts of former government officials and now has decided to free the accounts of those who are still in the country.

Based on the decree, the Central Bank must also pay the salaries of former government officials who still work in government departments.

The decree also directs the Central Bank to unblock the accounts of the national assembly members, but it said they will not be paid a salary.

"The Central Bank is obliged to free the accounts of those former government officials who now work with the Islamic Emirate and pay their salaries. It is also ordered to release the accounts of those former government officials who are in Afghanistan," said Ahmadullah Wasiq, a member of the cultural commission of the Information and Culture Ministry.

Based on the decree, the properties of those former government officials who have left the country and have not handed over their responsibilities to the current government will remain frozen. However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
their relatives’ properties and accounts will be freed.

A number of political analysts welcomed the move, saying it will create conditions for trust-building between the former government officials and the Islamic Emirate.

"The Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
have understood that the confiscation of property of former government officials was not the right thing to do, and was a political decision," said Jawad Hussaini, a political analyst.

"This encourages the former government officials who left the country and whose properties are frozen in Afghanistan (to return to the country)," said Shahzada Massoud, a political analyst.

"The Islamic Emirate should take another step demanded by all the people of Afghanistan and that is to include all the ethnicities in the cabinet," said Abdul Rauf Tawana, a university lecturer.

Several days ago the Islamic Emirate in a similar move appointed a team under the auspices of the Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi to return the houses and personal vehicles of the former government officials.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [27 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bassil Says 'No Iranian Occupation'
[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
chief Jebran Bassil on Sunday noted that "there is no Iranian occupation of Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them...
," as he lashed out at political rivals and Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [21 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Africa Horn
Sudan's Prime Minister sacks police chief and his deputy
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok has sacked the police chief and his deputy, on Saturday.Their relief comes after accusations by the Chair of the Sovereign Council and videos activists posted on social media showing coppers shooting on demonstrators

The prime minister dismissed "the Director-General of the Police Forces, Lt-Gen Khalid Mahdi, and his deputy, Lieutenant-General Sadiq Ali Ibrahim."

Hamdok further appointed "Lt Gen Anan Hamed as Director-General of the Police Forces, and Maj Gen Mudassir Abdel-Rahman as his deputy and General Inspector of the Police Forces".

42 people were killed and more than a thousand maimed, according to the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors, an independent medical group.

Following the killing of 15 protesters on 17 November, the police director held a presser on 18 November to dismiss the use of live ammunition against demonstrators.

However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on 24 November told the Financial Times that the protesters were possibly killed "by some elements within the police and ’armed elements’ linked to political parties," denying any involvement of the army and the Rapid Support Forces.



Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [27 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Iranian arrested in Kenya for planning terror attacks against Israeli targets
[JPOST] An Iranian man, Mohammed Saeid Golabi, has been arrested in Kenya on suspicion of planning terror attacks against local and Israeli interests, according to an exclusive report in the daily Kenyan newspaper The Star.Kenyan police had monitored the activities of Golabi and his local associates, and were convinced of his links to terror activities, multiple Kenyan police sources told The Star.

"We have profiled him and his contacts over time," said a senior officer at Kenya’s anti-terrorism police unit. "We have enough reason to believe that he has been working with those terror groups."

Golabi visited the region frequently, and is suspected of working with a group of Kenyans to gather intelligence against establishments both private and state-owned, with the aim of attacking them, the report said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [31 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


India-Pakistan
Two soldiers martyred in attack on military post in North Waziristan
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Terrorists targeted a military post in Datta Khel area of North Wazoo and after an intense exchange of fire, two soldiers embraced martyrdom, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said.

The martyred soldiers were identified as 27-year-old Naik Rehman, a resident of Chitral, and 22-year-old Lance Naik Arif, a resident of Tank. The Search operation is being carried out to eliminate the absconding terrorists, the statement added.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [29 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)


Britain
Malala Yousafzai officially graduates from Oxford University
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Nobel Peace Prize holder Malala Yousafzai
...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again...
has officially graduated from Oxford University. The philosophy, politics and economics graduate posted a series of photos from the big day on her social media handle.

Malala was accompanied to the ceremony by her parents, Ziauddin Yousafzai and Toor Pekai Yousafzai, and her husband Asser Malik. She poses in black and white graduation attire.

In the fascinating landscapes, Malala has been spotted donning a cheeky smile while posing for her graduation pictures.

In some clicks, Malala can be seen with her friends however the spotlight of the whole occasion would definitely be Malala’s pictures with her better half Asser Malik.

Asser looks mighty proud of Malala’s achievements as he gives off a gleaming smile for the photo session.

He said that "the place we first met felt a little more special on the day of Malala’s graduation."

Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [20 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel, Iran Broaden Cyberwar to Attack Civilian Targets
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Millions of ordinary people in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
and Israel recently found themselves caught in the crossfire of a cyberwar between their countries, The New York Times

... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

reported.
In recent weeks, a cyberattack on Iran’s nationwide fuel distribution system paralyzed the country’s 4,300 gas stations, which took 12 days to have service fully restored, it said.

It was followed days later by cyberattacks in Israel against a major medical facility.

Hacks have been seeping into civilian arenas for months. Iran’s national railroad was attacked in July, but that relatively unsophisticated hack may not have been Israeli. And Iran is accused of making a failed attack on Israel’s water system last year.

The latest attacks are thought to be the first to do widespread harm to large numbers of civilians. Nondefense computer networks are generally less secure than those tied to state security assets.

Both countries appear to be striking out at civilians to send messages to their governments, said the New York Times.

Neither Israel nor Iran has publicly grabbed credit or laid blame for the latest round of cyberattacks. Israeli officials refused to publicly accuse Iran, and Iranian officials have blamed the gas station attack on a foreign country, stopping short of naming one.

Experts say the cyberattacks on softer civilian targets could be the start of a new phase in the conflict.

Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [16 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Iraq
Al-Khazali: Iraq is going through a ''political blockage''
[SHAFAQ] The Secretary-General of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement, the villainous-looking Qais al-Khazali
......sinister-looking Iranian stooge, Secretary General of Persian proxy militia Asaib Ahl al-Haq, wannabe Nasrallah......
, said today that Iraq is going through a "political blockage".

al-Khazali said in a televised speech, "the political parties that participated in the elections and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
mission were suspicious about the election results," noting, "many participants in the electoral process are certain that the results are tampered with."

"Saying that the preliminary election results were identical to the manual recounting results is 100% funny", he pointed, adding, "6,200 ballot boxes were not closed on time."

Al-Khazali concluded, "Ballot boxes that were excluded must be manually recounted."
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [13 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli bus driver injured by rocks near West Bank checkpoint near Jerusalem
[IsraelTimes] Driver in his 30s lightly hurt by glass shrapnel, as suspected Paleostinian assailants throw rock near Hizma roadblock; no others reported to be injured.

An Israeli bus driver was lightly injured Saturday evening when stones were thrown at the vehicle near a West Bank checkpoint northeast of Jerusalem.

The driver, in his 30s, was lightly hurt by flying glass, as the bus was targeted by suspected Paleostinian assailants near the Hizma checkpoint.

Magen David Adom paramedics treated the man and took him to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem for treatment.

There were no other injuries in the incident.

It was the second time this month in which a bus driver was injured in attacks near the checkpoint, which lies on the seam between Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Last week, a Molotov cocktail was hurled at a bus near the checkpoint during festivities between security forces and hundreds of Paleostinians, as they honored Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terrorist Fadi Abu Shkhaydam, who had killed an Israeli and maimed four others in Jerusalem’s Old City earlier in the day. The bus driver, 25, was treated for shock; no passengers were hurt, MDA medics said at the time.

Also last week, dozens of Israeli settlers held a demonstration in the Binyamin region of the West Bank, in protest of what they say is an uptick in stone-throwing attacks by Paleostinians.

Protesters gathered near the Paleostinian village of Luban e-Sharkiya, the Ynet news site reported.

Settlers claimed that recently there has been an increase in rock-throwing incidents, and warned that lives are at stake.

Stonings of vehicles by both Paleostinians and settlers in the West Bank are common and in some cases have led to serious injuries or deaths.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Al-Rahi Hails Cassation Court's Ruling on Port Investigation
[An Nahar] Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday lauded the latest decision by the Court of Cassation on the flurry of lawsuits and legal motions that had paralyzed the probe into the catastrophic Beirut port blast."The unanimous decision of the general commission of the Court of Cassation confirmed the rightfulness of the judicial investigation, restoring the Lebanese judiciary’s seriousness, prestige and unity, and reviving hope that the probe into the port crime can be continued away from politicization, sectarianization and interests," al-Rahi added in a sermon.

The Court of Cassation on Thursday threw out two lawsuits submitted by ex-premier Hassan Diab and ex-interior minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq accusing Bitar of summoning them illegally. It ruled there was no evidence suggesting Bitar had committed any errors.

The same court also overturned two similar lawsuits filed by politicians Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zoaiter. Also on Thursday, the Criminal Court of Cassation rejected a lawsuit filed by ex-public works minister Youssef Fenianos that had demanded Bitar's removal from the blast probe.

The court also said that it is the only authority eligible to look into recusal requests against Bitar, which prevents the accused ex-officials from filing motions with the Court of Appeals.

Turning to the suspension of Cabinet sessions, the patriarch lashed out at the "obstructors," stressing that they have no right to "prevent Cabinet from convening."

He wondered whether they are awaiting "further collapse, Lebanese lira downfall, hunger, poverty, emigration and deterioration of Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....
’s ties with the Gulf countries."

"It is unacceptable for Cabinet to remain absent or the hostage of this or that party while it is the authority concerned with rescuing Lebanon," al-Rahi added.
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Afghanistan
An underground network of intelligence operatives helped Taliban seize Kabul
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
have had an underground network of intelligence operatives that helped them seize power from inside, parallel to their military victory.

Taliban’s agents have been present in ministries, universities, business entities, and aid organizations, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
Continued on Page 49
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#1 
Posted by: BLACKS IS A FORM OF DIRT. || 11/29/2021 1:05 Comments || Top||

#2  World's Second Oldest Profession - Spies.
Sometimes the two professions merged, a little wine 🍷, a roll in the hay, and the army didn't live to fight another day.

So, Bill where are you headed to this fine day?
I'm going to Rahab.
Rehab? We didn't know you had a problem...
What for, is it Physical Therapy?
Yep, You could say that...PT, Puta, Putana...
Oh Golfer's 🏌 PT, Don't forget to keep your equipment clean, especially your balls.



Rahab the Pro* - Spy for the Israelites
Fine Golf Instructor too
Posted by: Bill Thrinter9574 || 11/29/2021 13:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Why not?
Worked here.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 17:50 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Photo Play: For the first time in modern history, the Black Sea Fleet ship received the St. George flag
Direct Translation via Google Translate. edited.
[REGNUM] For the first time in modern history, the ceremony of raising the St. George naval flag was held in Sevastopol on the large landing ship (BDK) "Azov" of the Black Sea Fleet.

The ship received the stern St. George naval flag in memory of the feat accomplished by the ship of the same name in 1827. Then the battleship "Azov" under the command of Captain 1st Rank Mikhail Lazarev in the Navarino battle entered into battle with five ships of the Turkish-Egyptian squadron and destroyed them.

The rite of consecration of the St. George naval flag was held in the Cathedral of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir - the tomb of admirals. After the consecration, the ceremony participants laid flowers at the graves of the admirals.

The stern flag was handed over to the captain of the ship to the ringing of bells, after which it was solemnly hoisted.

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#1  The ship doesn't display any rust. Just saying.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2021 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  RFS Azov was recently modified, along with four other Ropucha class vessels.
Posted by: badanov || 11/29/2021 7:33 Comments || Top||


#4  Man, they can build some pretty ships.
Posted by: Jise Elmeang4932 || 11/29/2021 8:09 Comments || Top||

#5  They can build ships.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2021 8:26 Comments || Top||

#6  the Cathedral of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir - the tomb of admirals

Boy, that just rolls right off the tongue...
Posted by: Frank G || 11/29/2021 8:33 Comments || Top||

#7  the Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir

'Mir the Peer (Vlad-Blessed)
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 9:05 Comments || Top||

#8  ...They're heirs to a proud tradition and history - they've earned a bit of ceremony.

The one gunner in the pic with the cannon, though...he could stand to skip a few lunches, I think.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/29/2021 12:59 Comments || Top||

#9  The Battle of Navarino in 1826 was key in securing Greek independence and the beginning of the end of the Ottoman Empire, for those who keep track of such things.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/29/2021 16:05 Comments || Top||


Ukrainian journalist faces charges for demonstrating a howitzer firing
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novost] The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) of Ukraine opened a criminal case against journalist Yuriy Butusov after he posted a video of shooting from a howitzer.

Butusov posted the video on the Internet on Saturday. He wrote that the footage was filmed a long time ago, but did not specify when and under what circumstances.

"Today, on the Day of Remembrance of Holodomor Victims, I must admit that I can probably be involved in the deaths of some people in Donbass - but only in the deaths <...> of the murderers of the Ukrainian people,” he signed the video.

The journalist also said that the security forces transmit exclusive information from the places of hostilities.

"Possible violations of office will also be checked by those who allowed a civilian to use the appropriate weapons," the RRB website says.

Butusov's actions will be checked under the articles "Violation of the rules for handling weapons, as well as with substances and objects that pose an increased danger to others" and "Planning, preparation, unleashing and waging an aggressive war."

According to the investigation, the incident took place outside the conflict zone in the southeast of the country, but the exact information will be made public "after a detailed check."

The actions of the journalist were condemned by the Ministry of Defense and the Kiev delegation in the trilateral contact group on Donbass.

The journalist himself considers this case to be revenge after an altercation with President Volodymyr Zelensky during a press marathon on Friday. Then the head of state said that Butusov worked for the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky and was offended because he did not receive a position in the Ministry of Defense.

In addition, the commander-in-chief accused Butusov of the deaths of people in the Donbass.

"The State Bureau of Investigation has just opened a case against me under article 437 -" Planning, preparing, unleashing and waging an aggressive war."

"I was the one who published the video from Bayraktar (Turkish drone. - Ed. note) and thus led to the death of our soldiers (whom, of course, I did not say)," Butusov said.

He believes that the video of the shot was used simply as "an excuse for escalation," although the caption says "it was a long time ago."

The journalist said that he was not going to leave the country and would stay in Ukraine. Eight years ago, he already went to the Maidan, Butusov added.

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China-Japan-Koreas
‘More money than God:' Chinese titan lavished Hunter Biden with 3-carat gem, offer of $30 million
[NYPOST] The Biden family offered their services to a huge, Chinese-government-linked energy consortium to expand its business around the world. How do we know? Because of hundreds of emails documenting the deal found on Hunter Biden
...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him...
’s laptop, left in a Delaware repair shop in April 2019. In her new book, “Laptop from Hell,” New York Post columnist Miranda Devine tells the tale:

James Gilliar, a wiry, 56-year-old British ex-SAS officer, got to know Ye Jianming, the 40-year-old chairman of CEFC, when they were both working in the Czech Republic.

CEFC was a Chinese conglomerate, one of the largest energy companies in the world.

Ye’s task at was to spend $1.5 billion as quickly as possible to ensure the Czech Republic would become China’s “Gateway to the European Union,” a priority of President Xi.

To that end, Ye bought everything from a football team and a brewery to an airline, before being named “special economic advisor” to Czech President Milos Zeman.

Now he was looking for an influential partner to help with acquisitions in other locations around the world that had strategic significance for the Chinese state.

Gilliar had an idea who could help: The Biden family.

Gilliar connected with Hunter Biden through trusted Biden family friend Rob Walker, a former Clinton administration official whose wife, Betsy Massey Walker, had been Jill Biden’s assistant when she was Second Lady.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [42 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  If the Corporation derives more than 51% of its profit through foreign enterprise, effectively it is no longer a USA company; therefore, it must be divided into US and Foreign equivalents, all foreign interests abide by the laws of foreign enterprise laws dba USA.

Otherwise, recall your foreign interests and abide by USA law. If done conservatively, profits generally increase, as the political element decrease in importance to the entire enterprise.

So, get out of the Political Business and return to the Stockholder Profit Business.

Execute with extreme prejudice this "Biden Mob Activity" and get "The Gomba Boss" thrown out of Office. Jill the Shill needs to go too.
Posted by: Jack Hupatch4436 || 11/29/2021 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  It is political. Hunters daddy is the commander in chief of the military that would defend Taiwan from China's invasion.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 11/29/2021 1:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Look up Philip Ho, Hunter's former partner now in prison for money laundering and bribery. He's a Chinese agent.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 2:09 Comments || Top||

#4  The S hittiest political class in modern American history.

Literally every accusation these disgusting criminals made against Trump was false -- and actually true of their own behavior.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 8:57 Comments || Top||

#5  When Hunter couldn't smoke that rock, he traded it for some rocks he could smoke.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2021 11:39 Comments || Top||

#6  The Biden's are so bought and have sold out the country to China.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/29/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||



Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
The State Duma wants to help denationalization of enterprises
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] The adoption of the law on the "golden share" will serve to denationalize strategic enterprises. As a REGNUM correspondent reports, this was stated by the State Duma deputy from the SRZP Nikolai Novichkov .

:If we introduce this very "golden share" now, it means that we will give the government the opportunity to sell additional stakes, issue, thereby, in fact, to denationalize those very important enterprises for the state," Novichkov said.

In his opinion, the bill is pure craftiness.

"And when we adopt this law on the 'golden share,' we, the deputies, we, the parliament, will take responsibility, and the government will tell us:'You have decided.' Therefore, we will do what we think is necessary. I believe that the government does not need to be given such an opportunity, let it work in the legal system in which it is located,' the deputy said.

The State Duma in November in the first reading adopted a government bill, which proposes a new basis for the application of a special right - the so-called golden share - to participate in the management of a joint-stock company.

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Russian academic: Invasion of Russia already has begun
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RusOnline] Representatives of the consolidated West, mainly the United States and the leading countries of the Eurozone, at one time did everything possible to ensure that all the breakaway parts of the former USSR fell into a state of utter frustration after the collapse of the Union.

This opinion was expressed in his personal Telegram channel by the well-known Russian political scientist Yevgeny Satanovsky, according to IA DEITA.RU.

According to him, three decades after the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century," as Russian President Vladimir Putin assesses the collapse of the Soviet state, the West, represented by Great Britain, has begun to implement the plan of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill to invade our country, which he and failed to be implemented in the 40s of the last century.

According to the expert, all London's statements regarding the fact that Russia should take responsibility for the migration crisis that has begun on the border of Poland and Belarus are nothing more than a provocation, the main goal of which should be political or other pressure from the Russian leader. relation to Alexander Lukashenko.

As Satanovsky noted, if Russia follows the West's lead and really begins to interfere in the internal affairs of the former Soviet Union, this will lead to destabilization of the political and socio-economic situation along the entire perimeter of our borders, which is what the current Western establishment is trying to achieve.

All this should weaken Russia so much that it could be unceremoniously invaded, the political scientist believes. "German tanks on the former Soviet border - for the first time since World War II. And the fact that the current Western bosses are clearly implementing Churchill's plan to strike at us," the expert noted.

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#1  I claim that the fall of the Soviet Union was just a Chapter 11 type reorganization.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/29/2021 5:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Does anyone still doubt that Russia has been, is now, and always will be an oriental despotism forever removed from Europe?
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 11/29/2021 6:09 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Europe is becoming more despotic by the week, thanks to the onset of Woke madness and Branch Covidian dementia.

Russia is more democratic in many ways than the USSA. Anyone who still believes that we have rule of law and a functioning Bill of Rights isn't paying attention.

Certainly more democratic than the severely cucked, self-hating, speak-not-of-Christmas UK.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 9:14 Comments || Top||


Former Aydar commander say Ukraine being pushed into war
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RusOnline] The leader of the Ukrainian punishers gave an interview to Russian journalists, telling shocking facts about what is happening now in Ukraine.

That in Ukraine he is not allowed to tell the truth about the war in Donbass and the war in the rear cities of Ukraine, where civilians are forced to fight for their lives, trying to pay for exorbitant housing and communal services.

Basically, he talks about what is happening now, how "foreign partners" are pushing Ukraine into the war, and why they are so afraid of Russia's rise. Melnychuk says that the murder of civilians, the shooting of Donbass cities with artillery - all this is done with the knowledge and order of representatives of the foreign masters of the Ukrainian government.

In an interview, he tries to shield himself and Aydar from accusations, although he admits a lot - kidnapping, murder of a peaceful man, looting. He says that there was a fighting Aydar, but he was in the rear, and everything was done by those in the rear.

Is it really so in Ukraine ... it is interesting that Melnichuk decided to give an interview to Russian TV, despite the fact that Russia in Ukraine is considered an aggressor country? Personally, this interview shocked me a little. Of course, I perfectly represent who Melnichuk is. I saw that with my own eyes. What did "Aydar" do in the LPR, I heard stories of local residents about the bullying of Ukrainian punishers.

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Government Corruption
FDA wants to regulate vegetables, spices and minerals!
[Twitter]
So a prescription for your next bagel, pie or slice of ginger? NUTS! Note all Organic anything is on the list too! Perhaps a prescription for each meal from the government or you starve?





Posted by: 3dc || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [25 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  Disband the FDA, recent evidence on Clot Shot Reporting shows they are corrupt, cut the head of the snake off before it gets a chance to procreate, or gather more responsibilities to corrupt.

Strike Now Citizens...Before You Live to Regret Your Inaction.....Do Not Tread on (Me) Us !!!

Posted by: Jack Hupatch4436 || 11/29/2021 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: conservatives are dirty cowards || 11/29/2021 1:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Actual FDA docs
Posted by: 3dc || 11/29/2021 2:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Instant Promotions! Easiest way for a bureaucrat to get promoted is to convince their masters that they need more underlings.
Posted by: magpie || 11/29/2021 2:20 Comments || Top||

#5  The entire government needs to treat their offices like they do the military - strict limits on personnel size and ranks.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2021 7:22 Comments || Top||

#6  CONFLICT: Recent FDA Commissioner Is On Pfizer Board of Directors
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||


#8  This is actually about what licensed pharmacists can use to mix medications:

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/human-drug-compounding/bulk-drug-substances-used-compounding-under-section-503a-fdc-act

The biggest section of the list, which seems to be drawing the panic, are "unsupported" -- which just means the FDA isn't satisfied there's a benefit to including them in compound medicines. It's not about requiring prescriptions for access to any of them.

Twitter is a cesspit. This is a fine example of the chunks you get out of a cesspit.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/29/2021 10:05 Comments || Top||

#9  Good find, Rob.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2021 10:38 Comments || Top||

#10  But, why would they do this?

For example, searching ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ you can identify a great deal of scientific information about:

OTC ANTI-SPIKE AND ANTI-COVID-19 PHYTOCHEMICALS & NUTRACEUTICALS, AS WELL AS WAYS TO REPAIR COVID-19 SPIKE DAMAGE.

Competent, peer-reviewed research (with good indicia of reliability & validity) exists for:

🔷Viral Envelope Disruption
🔷Viral Spike Disruption
🔷Fusion Inhibitors
🔷Entry Inhibitors
🔷RdRp & Replication Inhibitors
🔷Immunomodulators
🔷Indistinct Antivirals & Support
🔷Bradykinin Reduction
🔷Porphyrin Reduction
🔷Metabolic Homeostasis Support & Restoration
🔷Cardiovascular Support

Some of us would be dead without these resources. What gives?
Posted by: cingold || 11/29/2021 11:58 Comments || Top||

#11  Alfalfa is Arabic for father of all foods.
Posted by: Dale || 11/29/2021 17:58 Comments || Top||

#12  Regulatory capture is a thing
Posted by: 3dc || 11/29/2021 19:53 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Two Syrian military personnel injured in shelling
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] Two Syrian soldiers were wounded in Idlib province during sniper and artillery fire.

"In the province of Idlib, as a result of sniper and artillery shelling by terrorists from the Kansafra region on positions of government forces in the area of ​​the village of Kafer Nebel, two Syrian servicemen were wounded," said Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria ...

According to the deputy head, eight attacks from terrorist positions were recorded in the Idlib de-escalation zone over the past 24 hours.
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Africa Subsaharan
Uganda loses its only international airport to China for failing to repay loan: Reports
[indiatoday] Uganda has lost its only international airport, the Entebbe International Airport, to China for failing to repay a loan, African media reported.

The government has failed to reverse a loan agreement with China which had repayment conditions for attaching its only airport.

In 2015, China’s Export-Import (EXIM) Bank lent Uganda $207 million at two per cent upon disbursement. The loan, meant for the expansion of Entebbe airport, came with a maturity period of 20 years including a seven-year grace period, News X reported.

However, as per international media reports, the Ugandan government waived off the clause for international immunity for securing the loan, following which the Chinese lender can retake possession of Entebbe International Airport without any international arbitration.

A statement from the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) reportedly suggested that some provisions in the Financing Agreement with China exposed Entebbe International Airport and other Ugandan assets to be attached and taken over by Chinese lenders upon arbitration in Beijing.

Last week, Ugandan Finance Minister Matia Kasaija had apologised to Parliament for "mishandling" the multi-million dollar loan.

According to the latest media reports, a delegation of Ugandan officials also visited China earlier this year in an attempt to renegotiate the clauses of the loan agreement. However, the visit was unsuccessful as the Chinese authorities refused to allow any alteration in the original terms of the deal.
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#1  Surveying for the military additions to start after the end of the year. /Sarc, I hope
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/29/2021 16:03 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Sorry, but Hunter Biden's profiteering matters ‐ even if the rest of the press ignore it
[NY Post] Most of the media continue to ignore Hunter Biden like toddlers with their fingers in their ears. His laptop is "unconfirmed." "Unsubstantiated." "It doesn’t matter."

The first two are obviously false, a weak excuse to cover things up for the administration. From the beginning, the laptop was substantiated: Hunter’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski confirmed his correspondence was real. Hunter Biden
...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him...
never denied they were his files; in fact, his memoir confirms the pictures of the drug use, prostitutes and financial documents from the laptop.

Post columnist Miranda Devine’s new book, "Laptop from Hell," details how the Chinese gave Hunter a 3-carat diamond and includes pictures from the computer of the diamond as well as a Hunter selfie showing his back tattoo of the Finger Lakes. Were these all doctored? Hunter himself confirmed in an interview with The New Yorker that he received the diamond but just waved it off as a nice gesture.

The Biden files have been confirmed and substantiated eight ways to Sunday. Reporters just don’t want to hear it.

So that leaves "It doesn’t matter." Liberal media outlets are uniquely incurious about Hunter selling the influence of his father. In the case of the Chinese deal, outlined by Devine, they say there’s "no indication" that Joe Biden ever received the "10 percent for the big guy" promised in one e-mail.

But consider these questions:

  • We know from Hunter’s own correspondence that the chairman of China’s government-connected energy firm CEFC promised him $10 million a year for three years to provide "introductions." What politicians did he introduce executives to? Which of those meetings did Joe Biden help facilitate? What promises were made at those meetings?

  • Hunter complains multiple times that he’s expected to be the provider for the whole Biden family and expresses frustration at the "lack of respect" he received for bringing in the cash. Not only Devine’s book but "The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power," by Politico’s Ben Schreckinger, reveals how the president’s family used his position for profit.

  • It goes even further than that. E-mails on the laptop indicate Hunter was paying Joe’s personal bills. What else was he paying for? Was he supplementing Joe Biden’s government salary? There also are indications that Hunter and Joe shared bank accounts and credit cards. In one case, Devine writes, Hunter used a credit card to pay a prostitute and instantly got a visit from an ex-Secret Service agent. How much were their funds co-mingled?

At the very least, the Chinese were paying the vice president’s son for government access. But it also now seems that the Chinese were paying Joe Biden millions through his son.

We’ve asked these questions of the administration and it ignores us, knowing that CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, et al. have its back and will never press things.

Joe Biden wants millions for IRS enforcement. Wonder if that includes actually finishing the investigation of his son’s money-making and registering as a foreign agent. And would it include an audit of the president’s own income and whether he was declaring money given to him by Hunter?

That is why Hunter matters. The media are out of excuses.
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#1  American Pravda, pretending that the Bidens are not corrupt, that the Waukesha massacre did not occur, that blacks post-Floyd have not embarked on a full-spectrum, nationwide violent rampage based on a sense of invulnerability and legal immunity.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Can't believe anything MSM says anymore. Hunter and his escapades are but one of the more egregious examples of MSM deceit and corruption. So they can talk about covid all they want and I can't believe it because if they conceal the truth about the Bidens they would lie about anything. They can talk about the climate all they want but they have no credibility. None whatsoever. Best thing to do is turn off the TV and cancel the newspaper subscriptions.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/29/2021 12:30 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Independent Bar Association Office Taken Over by Islamic Emirate
[ToloNews] Afghan Independent Bar Association (AIBA) members claimed Sunday that Islamic Emirate forces took over the AIBA office in Kabul and the government (Islamic Emirate) is aiming to use it as a government office functioning under the Ministry of Justice.

This comes as a great number of Afghan prosecutors and advocates--many of whom were women--left the country after the collapse of the former government in August.

"The forces of the Islamic Emirate entered the associations’ Kabul office, closed all the rooms and ordered all the members and staff to get out of the office," said Najla Rahel, a former deputy at AIBA.

"Our request is the independence of the association; if it is not considered, we will continue and launch civil protests," said Sayed Maarof Hashimi Jahed, head of AIBA's media office.

The members further added that AIBA, which was functioning independently in accordance with the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) laws, was established by a private fund and the government was only to monitor the association’s operations.

"The association is maintained by a private budget of defense attorneys, we want our rights, which is the independence of the association--our rights should not be ignored," said Hebatullah Naqed, a member of the AIBA.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute in a statement called for the sustained independence of the AIBA, saying the Islamic Emirate’s international recognition will face further challenges by taking such steps.

Officials at the Ministry of Justice said the Islamic Emirate has announced that AIBA will work under the Ministry of Justice. The MoJ spokeperson Mohammad Bashar said a caretaker has been chosen to manage the organization, but he did not provide a name.

"The AIBA is no longer independent, it is part of the Ministry of Justice and a caretaker introduced for the association," said Mohammad Bashar, front man for the Ministry of Justice.

The Afghan Independent Bar Association (AIBA) was formed in 2008 to work for promoting and protecting rule of law, social justice and for the implementation of Islamic instruction in Afghanistan. More than 6,000 defense attorneys from across the country became members of the AIBA and its provincial centers are open in almost all provinces of the country.
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Doha: Islamic Emirate, EU Talk Aid, Safety for Departing Afghans
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate and EU delegates held a two-day meeting in Doha to discuss the situation in Afghanistan and particularly the way forward, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs front man Abdul Qahar Balkhi said.

The Islamic Emirate delegates led by acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and the EU delegates led by EU Special Representative for Afghanistan Tomas Niklasson discussed humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, health, security, and safe passage for people wishing to travel out of Afghanistan.

The EU delegation said they will continue providing support for the Afghan people and will have an office in Kabul for humanitarian efforts.

"The EU delegation expressed a willingness to continue assisting the Afghan people and informed (us) about (a) continued presence of an EU humanitarian office in Kabul providing humanitarian assistance," Balkhi said.

The Islamic Emirate delegation said that security will be maintained and it called for political considerations to be separated from humanitarian support, and it stressed the need to move forward through cooperation rather than pressure, Balkhi said.

At the final stage of the two-day dialogue, a trilateral meeting was held between the EU, Islamic Emirate and 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...
i officials and all sides agreed to continue such meetings, Balkhi said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [27 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Qaouq: Hizbullah Backing Efforts to Resolve Govt. Crisis. Really.
[An Nahar] Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
central council member Sheikh Nabil Qaouq on Sunday stressed that his party is supporting efforts aimed at resolving the governmental crisis and resuming Cabinet sessions."Addressing the governmental crisis represents a necessary gateway for alleviating the suffering of the Lebanese and curbing collapse in the various fields," Qaouq said.

"Hizbullah is not standing idly by as to addressing the governmental crisis, and it is rather supportive and keen on the success of the efforts," the Hizbullah official added.

The efforts "have not stopped to resolve the only obstacle, whose solution is not impossible," Qaouq went on to say, apparently referring to the standoff over Beirut port blast lead investigative judge Tarek Bitar.

He added: "The suffering of the Lebanese is very big, the living circumstances are difficult, and our major priority is serving the people and easing their plight. Hizbullah is helping and offering everything in its capacity to this end."
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [21 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Iraq
Kurds in AANES protest recruitment of teenage girls for combat
[SHAFAQ] Kurdish protesters in northeastern Syria demonstrated outside UN offices on Sunday against what they say is the continued recruitment of teenage girls for combat, an AFP correspondent reported.

Last Sunday, three families accused the "revolutionary youth" of kidnapping their underage girls in Amuda and transporting them to training camps.

"The revolutionary youth kidnapped my daughter (Avin, 15 years old) a week ago, along with two of her schoolmates," Belkis Hussein told Shafaq News agency.

Shafaq News sources indicate that since the beginning of the current year, the Revolutionary Youth have recruited more than 100 children in AANES.

The Revolutionary Youth is affiliated with the Autonomous Administration, and recruit men and women, most of whom are minors, and are often accused of acts related to child abuse.

The Kurdish National Council has repeatedly accused this group of being behind burning and assaulting its headquarters in the region.
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Africa Subsaharan
Pirates Ambush Oil Workers, Civil Defence Personnel, Kill Four
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Suspected sea pirates early on Sunday launched multiple attacks on some workers with the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in Okoroma and Ogbokiri—Akassa communities of Nembe and Brass local government areas of Bayelsa State.

The button men reportedly rubbed out two workers of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company and personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The skipper of their boat, who is an indigene of Okoroma community, has been declared missing by the locals.

In the ambush that occurred at Ogbokiri-Akassa in the Brass Local Government Area, six Nigerian oil workers who were busy doing maintenance job close to their platform were kidnapped and taken away.

The Agip oil workers and their security personnel were attacked around 6am on Sunday while working close to a Manifold in Bayelsa.

The front man for the NSCDC, Bayelsa command, ASC1 Ogbere Solomon, who confirmed the incident, said only one worker of the command died in the ambush, while two others who were missing had been found and were currently receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre in Yenagoa, the state capital.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [24 views] Top|| File under: MEND

#1  Aaarrr, we be pirates, here to plunder and pillage,
fill my barge tanks with ye 'oil or off with ye heads.



or we may commence with guitar playin & singin and drive ye insane for the rest of ye lives
Posted by: Spike Snusose6461 || 11/29/2021 14:58 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Leaked Message From Son of Morsi's Aide Deepens 'Brotherhood Crises' Abroad
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A leaked message from the son of Essam El-Haddad, aide to former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, on the Brotherhood’s political future, deepened the crises of the organization abroad.

According to the researcher in the affairs of fundamentalist movements in Egypt, Amr Abdel Moneim, "[the leaked message] reveals the distress of the organization, which is facing a major deadlock within its internal structure."

He noted that the message will open disputes within the Istanbul Front led by Mahmoud Hussein, the former Secretary-General of the organization.

According to al-Arabiya channel website, Abdullah al-Haddad, son of Essam al-Haddad, Mohammed Morsi’s assistant for foreign affairs, demanded the release of his father imprisoned in Egypt, in exchange for a pledge to quit politics and stop engaging in any related activities.

In an article published on a local Egyptian website, Abdullah said that Morsi’s death "ended a painful chapter in Egypt’s modern history."

"His death became a clear statement that the new local and regional political landscape will not allow for a recurrence of any form of political activity like that which occurred between 2012 and 2013," he stated.

Abdullah added that his father belonged to a past political era that has ended, in reference to the Brotherhood rule.

In remarks to Asharq al-Awsat, Abdel Moneim said that al-Haddad family used many of such methods during the last period to pressure Egypt to release Essam and his son Jihad.

Essam al-Haddad was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the case of "espionage with foreign parties." He was a member of the Brotherhood’s Guidance Office, and was appointed as Morsi’s assistant for foreign affairs during the Brotherhood’s rule in 2013. He obtained British citizenship. As for his son, Jihad, he was responsible for foreign relations and the chief advisor to the organization’s al-Nahda project.

Regarding the "leaked letter", Abdel Moneim said that it was "an attempt to gain international sympathy with al-Haddad family."

He added that the message will raise disputes within the Istanbul front and will open room for many questions about the situation of the organization there, especially that Essam’s brother, Medhat, is one of the leaders of the Brotherhood in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  The Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimun) was founded in Egypt and despite many vicissitudes its nexus was always found there. However, with the disastrous end to the Arab Spring, the Ikhwan found a home in Turkey where Erdogan not only seeks to restore the Caliphate and extend the boundaries of a Greater Turkey, but take charge of the Brotherhood activity world-wide. Al-Sisi has greatly reduced the power of the Ikhwan in Egypt, and Turkey (not Qatar or London), for the present, is its home.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 11/29/2021 5:53 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Woke students want Kyle Rittenhouse kicked out of ASU
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Following the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse earlier this month, a student organization at Arizona State University is calling upon campus leadership to expel the acquitted teen, claiming he is a "racist" and "blood-thirsty murderer."

Political student organization MECHA de ASU
... they used to write it MEChA for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan, but accuracy clearly is no longer important in these degenerate times. Yet another race-based Communist organization hoping for the success of the Black Panthers. The first chapter formed at a conference in Santa Barbara in 1967, by 2012 there were more than 500 including both college and high school chapters...
posted a list of demands to their Instagram on Friday, calling for campus leadership to "withdraw" Rittenhouse from the university, to issue a statement against "white supremacy
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values...
," and to defund their campus police in order to redirect funding to the multicultural center.

The organization's four demands are as follows: "Withdraw Kyle Rittenhouse from ASU," "Release a statement against white supremacy and racist murderer Kyle Rittenhouse," "Reaffirm support for the multicultural center on campus as a space safe from white supremacy," and "Redirect funding from ASU PD to support the multicultural center and establishment of a CAARE Center on campus."

MECHA de ASU is a Chicano-centered organization for students on ASU's campus. According to the group's GoFundMe page set up for general funding for the student organization, "Our work is toward empowering our community in order to liberate colonized people. Our values are rooted in anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, anti-heteropatriarchy, antiracism."

"Even with a not-guilt verdict from a flawed 'justice' system — Kyle Rittenhouse is still guilty to his victims and the families of those victims," the group continued in its demands post on Instagram. "Join us to demand from ASU that these demands be met to protect students from a violent mostly peaceful, blood-thirsty murderer."

The organization is holding a rally on campus on Dec. 1 regarding these demands.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [33 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  And the unwoke would like to beat the woke into a comatose state for even trying to engage in the unconstitutional act of abridging the right to free association.... an F--ken brick will do if it hits these idiots at ASU (A66hole-Sh-thead-Univeristy) in the right place.
Posted by: Jack Hupatch4436 || 11/29/2021 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Or what?

Sounds like libel and slander to me. Perhaps Rittenhouse can add this org to his suits.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/29/2021 0:23 Comments || Top||

#3  I read that Kyle is Hispanic, or at least his mother is. How would a Hispanic individual killing two crazed white rioters in self defense mark him as a White Supremacist?
It seems to me thase complainers are the white supremacists here.
Posted by: Goober Choluque6459! || 11/29/2021 0:43 Comments || Top||

#4  A commenter here the other day shared a link that claimed Mr. Rittenhouse has one Hispanic grandparent. To me that isn’t enough to make anyone anything, but I never liked the One Drop rule.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2021 1:35 Comments || Top||

#5 

OK !! WOKE'ers QUIZ TIME.

Q. How many Blacks did Rittenhouse shoot or kill?
A. ZERO all three of the men he shot in self-defense during violent riots in Kenosha on Aug. 25 last year were WHITE Career Criminals who attacked him.

Q. Is he a “white supremacist”?
A. The State and FBI both did a deep dive into his life and found nothing about white supremacy or militias. What they did find was pro-police, “Blue Lives Matter” posts from a teen who had been a police and fire department cadet prior to the pandemic and riots.

Q. Is he or was he ever a member of the "Proud Boys"?
A. NO!

Q. Why is Woke in involved in this?
A. $$$$, Camera time, Media PR, $$$$
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/29/2021 5:29 Comments || Top||

#6  If you ask me I think Kyle is more of a Yale or Harvard man.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/29/2021 6:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Somewhere in the applications for any college or university that receives federal funding should include a pledge sign by the applicant that they will abide and respect the first amendment rights of their fellow students. Betcha the faculty would moan and groan.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2021 7:26 Comments || Top||

#8  So does ASU have an endowment or something? And how large is it? Kyle's Lawyers might want to know in case they kick him out...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/29/2021 8:15 Comments || Top||

#9  These "woke" students need to STFU. Rittenhouse was exonerated by a jury of his peers. If he sues CNN, MSDNC, and others, he is likely to be a wealthy young man. He might endow some college if they treat him well. Perhaps, Hillsdale College might be glad to have him.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/29/2021 11:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Students at ASU prefer murderous pedophiles be allowed to kill at will rather than anyone defend themselves.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/29/2021 11:58 Comments || Top||

#11  #10 prefer murderous pedophiles be allowed to kill at will rather than anyone defend themselves.

They're following the lead of our ped0phile and ped0-pushing elites:

- The P[ed0phile]OTUS who sniffs and gropes little girls and reportedly showered with his fu-ked-up-for-life 12 year-old daughter

- PedOTUS's crack addict ped0phile son, who hit upon his 14 year-old niece (while screwing her mom, his dead brother's widow)

- Epstein the ped0 and his pals...

- ...Clinton (mari) the intern-banger and rapist who banked a 9-figure fortune selling access to his wife's presumed future reign as PedOTUS

- ...Gates the deci-billionaire serial harasser and likely ped0

- and an entire party of pervert-pushers who criminalize and seek to imprison parents when they insist on protecting their kids from filthy deranged ped0-manuals inserted into the school curriculum

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 12:13 Comments || Top||

#12  Truly stoopid raycis dumfucks don't even realize he's enrolled ON-LINE
Posted by: Frank G || 11/29/2021 12:53 Comments || Top||

#13  *Shrug* It is the Classic Leftist United Front™. BLM/Antifa are allies so Rittenhouse must be declared an unperson!
Posted by: magpie || 11/29/2021 12:55 Comments || Top||

#14  My question, if you got 150 million from CNN/MSNBC and the View would it be worthwhile to attend college?

I'd probably still go but it would be a totally different experience, that's for certain.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/29/2021 13:01 Comments || Top||

#15  /\ I'll go out on a limb and predict Kyle will never become a welder. plumber, or pipefitter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 13:04 Comments || Top||

#16  Hard to avoid the conclusion that many (most) of these fooks have gone (are) insane. Here's the brilliant classicist & writer Michael Anton's masterful summary:

"Our regime cannot, at present, unload a cargo ship, stock a store shelf, run a clean election, handle parental complaints at a school board meeting, pass a budget bill, treat a cold variant, keep order in the streets, defeat a third world country, or even evacuate said country cleanly.

"And that’s to say nothing of all the things it should be doing, that all non-joke countries do, that it refuses to do. If our ruling class has a plan, it would seem to be to destroy the society and institutions from which they, at present, are the largest—one is tempted to say only—beneficiaries.

"Do they think they can benefit more from the wreckage? Or are they driven by hatreds that blind them to self-interest? Perhaps they’re simply insane?"
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 13:09 Comments || Top||

#17  All True Believers™ are utterly invested in the dogmas of their religion. There is no concrete evidence, past or present, that will sway them. If calling it insanity makes it easier for some to wrap their heads around...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2021 13:16 Comments || Top||

#18  I honestly have no idea what drives them.

I could not begin to untangle the warp and weft of these characters' gross incompetence, frenzied hatred, deranged voracity, clownish self-absorption and cynical self-interest.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||

#19  clownish self-absorption

My only exposure to Sh*tter is the sidebar at Rantingly. Look at the current discussion (among the True Believers™) of the CEO news. "Will it be even worse?" Why, yes. Yes it will. But they'll stay, because heaven forbid they couldn't broadcast their hot takes all day long.

The most sadly illuminating is Candace Owens "Wouldn't it be awesome if Jack opened a Parler account?"

Dear sweet Baby Jeebus hobbling in on a rubber crutch.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2021 14:04 Comments || Top||

#20  Re: #16
Good Post...Genuinely Stimulates the Mind.

Perhaps Future Shock is actually at hand. TMI = Social Insanity.
Posted by: Bill Thrinter9574 || 11/29/2021 14:32 Comments || Top||

#21  Universities are marxist cess pools. All of them. I think he should be an AR-15 salesman.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 11/29/2021 17:34 Comments || Top||

#22  At trial, he said he wants to be a nurse. Given that hospitals are another woke circus I think he'd be wasting his time getting a degree he couldn't get a job with. But there's a lot of that going on in America's higher ed scam-fest these days.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2021 17:43 Comments || Top||

#23  Based on his extraordinary self-possession, marksmanship and exquisite grace under pressure, why not NRA spokesman & Youth Ambassador + Educator / Trainer ?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 18:20 Comments || Top||

#24  Too young to be the next 007?
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/29/2021 21:30 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Canada's indigenous health expert Carrie Bourassa loses job when ancestry claims prove false
[NYPOST] A Canadian medical researcher who rose to become the nation’s top voice on indigenous health has been ousted from her government job and her university professorship — after suspicious colleagues investigated her increasingly fanciful claims of Native American heritage and learned she was a fraud.

Carrie Bourassa, a public health expert who served as scientific director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health, was suspended on Nov. 1, five days after the state-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation published a lengthy expose on her background.

Far from being a member of the Métis nation, as she had long claimed, a laborious trace of Bourassa’s family tree revealed that her supposedly indigenous ancestors were in fact immigrant farmers who hailed from Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.

"It makes you feel a bit sick," said Janet Smylie, a Métis professor at the University of Toronto who worked with Bourassa on a book about indigenous parenting.

"To have an impostor who is speaking on behalf of Métis and indigenous people to the country about literally what it means to be Métis ... that’s very disturbing and upsetting and harmful."

Colleagues began to doubt Bourassa’s story as she began to add claims of Anishinaabe and Tlingit heritage to her tale — and took to dressing in stereotypically indigenous fashion.

It started to unravel in 2019, when she appeared in full tribal regalia — draped in an electric blue shawl, with a feather in her partially braided hair — to give a TEDx Talk at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.

"My name is Morning Star Bear," she said tearfully as the crowd cheered.

"I’m Bear Clan. I’m Anishinaabe Métis from Treaty Four Territory," she proclaimed as she described an impoverished childhood beset by violence.

But colleagues at the university, where Bourassa held a professorship, smelled a rat.

"When I saw that TEDx, to be quite honest, I was repulsed by how hard she was working to pass herself off as indigenous," said Winona Wheeler, an associate professor of Indigenous studies at the college.

Wheeler, a documented member of Manitoba’s Fisher River Cree Nation, started digging into Bourassa’s genealogical records — and took her findings to the media.

But when pressed to provide evidence of Native American heritage, Bourassa suddenly changed her story — saying that she had been adopted into the Métis community by an unnamed Métis friend of her deceased grandfather, Clifford Laroque.

"Even though Clifford passed, those bonds are even deeper than death because the family has taken me as if I was their blood family," she insisted in a statement. "In turn, I serve the Métis community to the best of my ability."

The case is drawing comparisons to that of Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who claimed to be black as president of a local branch of the NAACP — and to Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless
, who claimed Native American ancestry on the strength of family lore and her "high cheekbones."

Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [35 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A Flim-Flam Artist 🎨 is always available to fleece
the gullible government and associated persons; just amazed me it took so long...
Posted by: Jack Hupatch4436 || 11/29/2021 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Elizabeth Warren's cousin?
Posted by: warthogswife || 11/29/2021 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Morning Star Rat
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 10:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Quit it, lady. You're making Ward Churchill look bad...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

#5  If the institutions are so inherently white supremacist racists why all the whites trying to be something else to get a job?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2021 19:56 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ It's how you get all that free gummint money.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 11/29/2021 21:46 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Five Iraqi Kurdish Fighters Killed in Attack Blamed on IS
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Five Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters were killed and four maimed in a roadside kabooming blamed on jihadists of 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, regional authorities said on Sunday.

The Saturday evening bombing south of the city of Sulaimaniyah underlined the "serious threat" IS still poses to the Kurdistan region four years after the Iraqi government declared victory over the jihadists, the region's prime minister Masrour Barzani said.

The region's peshmerga ministry said the slain fighters who were hit had been on their way to reinforce comrades who had come under attack by IS fighters.

"We have warned time and again about the dangers posed by the Islamic State group terrorists," Barzani said.

The last major attack blamed on IS in Iraq was an assault on a checkpoint south of Kirkuk that killed 13 coppers in September.

The last major attack claimed by IS was a July bombing in the Baghdad Shiite distric
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [19 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa North
Court in Tripoli has decided that Abdulhamid Dbaiba is not eligible to run for President
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  June 24, 2021
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Prime Minister, welcome again. And I’m so pleased to have this opportunity to see you, to see the foreign minister, to see your delegation, especially after the very good, good day we had yesterday, which I think demonstrated again the very strong support on the part of the international community, the United Nations for Libya, for a strong, positive future as a unified, independent, stable country without any foreign interference. And I think the path that you’re on and that you’re leading the country on is – offers tremendous opportunity and possibility for the future. I know the Libyan people very much look forward to elections in December, and I know you’re working toward that, but we’re very pleased for this opportunity today to talk in a little bit more detail. So welcome. Very good to see you.
INTERIM PRIME MINISTER DABAIBA: Thank you, Secretary. We are very grateful for your presence with us yesterday.
Whether Blinken has bet the wrong horse depends on whether it's possible to imagine anything honest emerging from Tripoli.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 11/29/2021 6:02 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Gunmen Attack Jos Prison
[SAHARAREPORTERS] The Nigeria Correctional Service (prison) located in Jos, the Plateau State capital has come under attack from button men suspected to be bandidos

Some unknown button men on Sunday afternoon attacked the facility.

A source told SaharaReporters that heavy gunfire could be heard in the area.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
details were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report so it was not clear if there were casualties.

Some button men on Monday, October 18 attacked the Oko Medium Security Centre in Edo State and freed the inmates.

The button men overpowered the armed guards at the facility and looted shops along the road to the facility,

Also in October, button men attacked one of the facilities of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS), in Oyo State.

The facility christened Abolongo correctional facility, was attacked by the button men on the evening of Friday, October 22.

It was gathered that the button men set all the prisoners at the facility free during the attack.

It was gathered that the attackers used grenades to gain access and set prisoners free.

Spokesman for the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) in the state, Olanrewaju Anjorin had confirmed the attack.



Ewps!
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [34 views] Top|| File under: Banditti


Fifth Column
BLM accused of launching bail fund for Waukesha massacre suspect
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The Milwaukee branch of Black Lives Matter has been accused of trying to raise millions of dollars for Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell Brooks, whose bail is set at $5 million, after GoFundMe shut down a previous bail fund for the defendant.

"Why is the Milwaukee branch of #BlackLivesMatter trying to raise $5,000,000 ... the exact amount of bond needed for #WaukeshaMassacre perpetrator Darrell Brooks???" questioned Mythinformed Milwaukee. "The goal was moved to $4,000,000. What kind of game is this person playing?" the Twitter account added after replies to the thread said that the fund's goal was reduced to $4 million.

The fund's organizer Holly Zoller said on the GoFundMe page launched two days ago that donations will benefit The Bail Project, a national nonprofit organization that "provides free bail assistance to thousands of low-income Americans every year, reuniting families and restoring the presumption of innocence."

"We believe that paying bail for someone in need is an act of resistance against a system that criminalizes race and poverty and an act of solidarity with local communities and movements for decarceration," the GoFundMe page reads.

The Bail Project is a registered nonprofit on GoFundme. Donations are typically 100 percent tax deductible in the United States, according to GoFundMe.

"Want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money to benefit The Bail Project, and any donation will help make an impact. Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me," the description reads.

The Bail Fund describes Zoller as "a Bail Disruptor" in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as the founding organizer and board member of Louisville Books to Prisoners.
Zoller was also accused last year of distributing riot equipment to Black Lives Matter-Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
activists from a U-Haul truck during unrest in Louisville following a Kentucky grand jury's decision in September 2020 to indict only one of the coppers involved in the high-profile Breonna Taylor case.

GoFundMe had pulled a separate crowdfunding page earlier last week to raise bail money for Brooks. GoFundMe confirmed to FOX Business via a spokesperson that they've removed the fundraiser for violating the platform's Terms of Service. The organizer who launched the fundraiser, a man identified as James Norton, will no longer be permitted to use the platform for any future fundraisers.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [38 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  I am sure the $5M would fill a lot of pockets ...
As I remembering the other suddenly $$$ RICH $$$ BLM leadership and their new multiple $million dollar homes.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/29/2021 5:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, how can he top his last stunt if he's not allowed out on bail?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2021 7:38 Comments || Top||

#3 

After the trial where does the $5 Million go?

BTW: It would seem given all the Bail Projects and Go-fund-Me scams. There should already be enough $$$$ in the bank to handle the usual 10% to a bail bonds man to secure the bond?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/29/2021 7:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Mass murder suspect has bail, but not Jan 6 defendants?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2021 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  And all our official state media accounts of MathBoi Fly, Aspiring Rapper-Race Warrior and Mass Murderer of White Grannies and Children, have disappeared down the memory hole.

F--k these liars.

End this nonsense. Recall the Soros-commie DAs. "Re-fund" the police. Retell the accounts of their crimes with unrelenting publicity, don't relent. Use everything short of war until the great majority of Americans rise up to oppose these monsters and remove this threat to our Republic
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Russian born Charlie Birger's murderous career came to a screeching halt on 19 April 1928.

Effective cures are available.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2021 9:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Not in Wisconsin.
The citizenry needs to take over at some point. We're getting close.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 9:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Here's a statement from Wisconsin's twin senator-shitheads Johnson & Baldwin.

Note the tut-tutting, "Peasants, behave!" language they use .... it's simply unbelievable:

"It has come to our attention that outside individuals or groups may attempt to exploit the tragedy that occurred last Sunday in Waukesha for their own political purposes,” the joint statement reads. “As the U.S. Senators representing Wisconsin, one from each political party, we are asking anyone considering such action to cease and desist."

No: it's you who need to cease lying.

Along with being a lifelong felon and ped0phile/child $ex trafficker, MathBoi Fly / Darrell Brooks is a BLM activist and a race warrior.

He deliberately attempted to slaughter dozens of innocent white people after this sick racist movement conned him and millions of other violent idiots with the big lie that Rittenhouse is a "white supremacist" guilty of targeting black people.

You assholes are not worthy of the office you hold.
Your lies are literally killing our children and our mothers and grandmothers.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Victor Hanson: The media’s blatant lies about Waukesha and Kenosha amount to racial arson
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 10:55 Comments || Top||

#10  Blacks looking fora 'scuse ta hate on whitey will always find one. The fact that so many people still think Rittenhouse killed black people and Jacob Blake was unarmed says more about what they (and lots of 'em are white) want to believe than about what harm the media's doing.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2021 11:00 Comments || Top||

#11  Why short of war Merrick, that seems to be what they want.
Posted by: Chris || 11/29/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#12  VDH aptly sums it up - our system is diseased, corrupt, beyond repair:

"How a Wisconsin ex-felon received a $1,000 bail bond and freedom to mow down innocents, after trying to run down two with his car, while another juvenile without an arrest record, with good grounds to claim self-defense, was required to post a $2 million bond (and so stayed incarcerated pending charges without running water in his cell) is a commentary on the abject implosion of the American justice system.

"Rittenhouse should have never been charged; Brooks should not have been out of jail. The effort to make the former a beneficiary of white supremacy and the latter a victim of it required a level of amoral media deceit that finally was unsustainable even in this bankrupt age. "
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#13  People who don't get that the whole sh*t-show is just beginning are a laugh riot. That includes VDH, as intelligent as he is.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#14  Yes, unsustainable, which is why the Waukesha Massacre has disappeared entirely from the mendacious media.

Just sick. Stomach-turning.

And terrifying when the implications are considered: they really want impunity for violent rampaging racists and berserk felons to go out and torch and slaughter their way through middle American towns. They are literally enabling mass murder now.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 11:25 Comments || Top||

#15  the whole sh*t-show is just beginning

Correct. It's a full-spectrum assault now on civic order.

Portland used to be a bland, boring rainy little American backwater. It's now anarchy, another Belfast but without troops or ranks or water cannons.

The local mall used to be a boring middle class gathering place, the epitome of bland suburban safety. Now these havens are like Portland subject to the mob: roving packs of 20, 40, 70+ marauders, often feral yours as young as 15, descending like jackals upon store after store in city after city across the land, smashing and shooting and killing.

And then there's Kenosha -- torched by a literally off-his-meds ped0philic anaI rapist and a pack of savage felons -- and Waukesha: literally a racist massacre.

And a billionaire funds these monsters' bail and decriminalized their pillaging.

And Biden and his fellow tyrants are determined to punish suburbs and towns like the above with legislation that inflicts upon them state-mandated "high density" housing projects (read: dense with white-hating felonious thugs).

And their lapdog media and idiot UniParty senators try to banish all mention if the obvious conclusion: the elites are fomenting bloody pogroms against white American normals.

We are now like the old Pale of Settlement Jews. Oppressed by the Tsar's officials, beaten by his Cossacks, set upon by our racist neighbors, with no refuge in law or justice left us.

Should we, the New Jews, flee before the next Holocaust is unleashed?
Or follow Kyle's example?

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||

#16  If he gets out on bail someone better keep a close eye on him. BLM probably doesn't care if he skips to Brazil but others might.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/29/2021 17:02 Comments || Top||

#17  If he gets out on bail, the FBI will help him skip make it to asylum.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2021 17:18 Comments || Top||

#18  Put him in the asylum. Padded cell. Throw away the key.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 18:21 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Al-Khazali calls on al-Sistani to intervene
[SHAFAQ] The Secretary-General of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement, the villainous-looking Qais al-Khazali
......sinister-looking Iranian stooge, Secretary General of Persian proxy militia Asaib Ahl al-Haq, wannabe Nasrallah......
, called on the supreme Shiite authority, Ali al-Sistani, to intervene and solve the "dangerous" political situation in Iraq.

Al-Khazali said in his speech, "the attack that targeted the prime minister's house is serious and cannot be tolerated at all, and trying to accuse the resistance factions of it is nothing but playing with fire and an attempt to drag the country into a major crisis."

He added, "Al-Kadhimi was not present at his house when the alleged targeting was announced," noting, "Al-Kadhimi did not accept the involvement of resistance factions in the investigation, which makes things more suspicious."

"This is a message to the committee charged with investigating the alleged attack on al-Kadhimi's house... You must provide tangible, real evidence, not speculations, nor media and Facebook gossip, because the situation is intolerable."

Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [27 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Africa Horn
Several Sudanese Soldiers Killed in Attack by Ethiopian Forces
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Six Sudanese soldiers were killed on Saturday in an attack by Æthiopian forces on a Sudanese army post near the border between the countries, Sudanese military sources told Rooters.

Sudan's army said in an earlier statement on Facebook that "groups of the Æthiopian army and militias attacked its forces in al-Fashaqa al-sughra, which resulted in deaths ... our forces valiantly repelled the attack and inflicted heavy losses in lives and equipment on the attackers."

The army statement did not provide any details about the corpse count.

Æthiopian government spokesperson Legesse Tulu did not immediately respond to a Rooters message seeking comment on the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [16 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Europe
Spain's Canary Islands draw more migrants despite dangers
Bar graph and map can be seen at the link.
[DW] A lack of prospects exacerbated by the pandemic has been leading tens of thousands of Africans to make the dangerous crossing to Spain's Canary Islands. It remains unclear how many have died in the attempt.

The Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
ese army managed to rescue all 82 migrants colonists on board a boat that had capsized earlier this month. Good news of this kind is a rare commodity along the stretch of the Atlantic off the west coast of Africa.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [13 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  They come for The Birds





I get a little Tippi in the Hedren thinking about this, but the invaders will solve my consternation.
Posted by: Jack Hupatch4436 || 11/29/2021 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  The Spanish wiped out the original inhabitants, iirc.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2021 7:32 Comments || Top||

#3  How bad must life be to try an escape to a volcano?

Canary Islands volcano increasingly aggressive as Spain's leader announces emergency funds
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2021 7:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Welfare doesn't hurt, plus the likelihood they'd be evacuated to Europe if things go really bad.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/29/2021 8:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Plus all de topless whi' bitchez on de beachez
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/29/2021 9:31 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian Soldiers, Operatives Of Anti-Graft Agency, Engage In Gun Battle In Ogun
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were in a shootout with military personnel on Saturday night at Gbenga Daniel’s Conference Hotel, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

The battle ensued following the invasion of the hotel by EFCC operatives during a social function during which they were shooting indiscriminately in the air to get many injured.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [17 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
Media freedom at risk as Taliban censors news reports in northern Afghanistan: Report
[KhaamaPress] The local authorities in northern Badakshan province have asked media outlets to publish their reports after a review and censorship, the Afghanistan journalists safety committee reported.

The Afghanistan journalists safety committee (AJSC) in its latest report claimed the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
authorities in Badakhshan province have announced that no media or news agencies are permitted to publish against the interest of the Taliban administration.

The provincial Director of Information and Culture, Muezuddin Ahmadi has said that women are not allowed to appear in public for reporting purposes, while he has said female media workers can work in the office apart from the male staff, AJSC reported.

According to the source, the guideline issued by the Ministry of Promoting Virtue and Prohibiting Vice has also raised concerns amongst the media owners believing that both the financial crisis and further limiting media activities could lead to the closure of more media outlets.

This comes as, since the return of the Taliban into power, dozens of media outlets including news agencies, radio, and TV stations have collapsed.

Earlier reports suggested over 150 media organizations have been shut down due to the financial crisis.

Dozens of violent mostly peaceful cases against journalists have been reported since the fall of Afghanistan in the hands of the Taliban. Journalists have been killed, detained, and beaten.

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
the Taliban authorities have announced to consider certain democratic values including freedom of speech in order for the world countries to recognize the new regime.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [23 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Iraq
Al-Hakeem requests a meeting with al-Sistani
[SHAFAQ] The leader of the al-Hekmah (Wisdom) movement, Ammar al-Hakeem, has requested an "urgent meeting" with the Supreme Shiite authority, Sayyid Ali al-Sistani, to set out a roadmap that leads the country past the current impasse, a source in the Coordination Framework revealed on Sunday.The source told Shafaq News Agency that al-Sistani's bureau promised to respond to al-Hakeem's request soon.

"The meeting is sought to be confidential or personal to give the Marja'iyah [the top Shiite Authority in the country] first-hand information about the initiative launched by the leader of al-Hekmah movement," the source continued, "the Marja'iyah can make the appropriate amendments to achieve consensus in the Shiite house."

"Many political forces had asked for meetings with the Marja'iyah, but their requests were denied," the source said, "the forces of the Cooperation Framework are aware of al-Hakim's request, and they hope it resolves the crisis in the country."

Earlier today, the Secretary-General of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement, Qais Khazali, called on the supreme Shiite authority, Ali al-Sistani, to intervene and solve the "dangerous" political situation in Iraq.

Al-Khazali said in his speech, "the attack that targeted the prime minister's house is serious and cannot be tolerated at all, and trying to accuse the resistance factions of it is nothing but playing with fire and an attempt to drag the country into a major crisis."

He added, "Al-Kadhimi was not present at his house when the alleged targeting was announced," noting, "Al-Kadhimi did not accept the involvement of resistance factions in the investigation, which makes things more suspicious."

"This is a message to the committee charged with investigating the alleged attack on al-Kadhimi's house... You must provide tangible, real evidence, not speculations, nor media and Facebook gossip, because the situation is intolerable."
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [23 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq



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