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Milwaukee County DA admits it was a mistake to grant $1,000 bail to SUV-driving felon days before he smashed into Xmas parade
Wednesday November 24th, 2021

rita_hayworth_15
Qatar, Hamas seek to bypass Israeli curbs on cash funding for Gaza
Israel%u2019s Gantz heads to Rabat to formalize defense ties with Morocco
Gantz exposes Iran drone bases, says Tehran tried to fly TNT via UAV into West Bank
Hezbollah smuggling weapons to Arab Israelis to sow civil strife %u2013 police
%u2018I Hope You Die%u2019: The Murderous ISIS Jihadi From New York City You Heard Nothing About
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Michigan woman admits using
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Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2021 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and producer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in 61 films over 37 years. The press coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe Hayworth after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s.

Born: Margarita Carmen Cansino, October 17, 1918, New York City, New York, U.S.
Died: May 14, 1987, New York City, New York, U.S.
Posted by: Otto Crerenter3297 || 11/24/2021 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2  MCC - Margarita Carmen Cansino
RH - Rita Hayworth







Posted by: Otto Crerenter3297 || 11/24/2021 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  MCC-RH - Revealed: She Engaged in Domestic Aquatic Hygienic Activities

Posted by: Otto Crerenter3297 || 11/24/2021 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  MCC-RH - Après DAHA - All Fresh & Duey !

Posted by: Otto Crerenter3297 || 11/24/2021 8:13 Comments || Top||

#5  That 1938 Rita beach pic's da bomb
Posted by: Slereter Spailet1813 || 11/24/2021 19:02 Comments || Top||

#6  "A bottle of beer and a peach
And perhaps an unoccupied beach
And a couple of thou
Would, I think, be enow...
Who needs you?" [screeching]
Preach, Stacy Keach.

No excuse. Didn't even stay at a sleepy, violence-plagued motel down the coast last night.
Posted by: Lionel Elmumble1080 || 11/24/2021 19:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Bye-bye, Tamale Pie, or, "It's 1938, and everything's great!"

O bland All-American Rita,
You ate too much meat and no pita
Or fufu or naan.
"Yo, you need a real man."
"Or a Carmen Miraaan...duh!"
[Rita sharing banana with cheetah;
Kate screeching and throwing excreta]
Posted by: Lionel Elmumble1080 || 11/24/2021 23:25 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Nancy Pelosi just went into contract to buy a Florida oceanfront mansion. Will it be under the ocean soon with GW?
[Twitter]


Posted by: 3dc || 11/24/2021 09:56 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [8 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  no personal income tax in Florida vs yuge tax in CA
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/24/2021 10:38 Comments || Top||

#2  ..tax evader. When the rats desert the ship...

OK, add to Constitution V.2 the requirement that representatives and senators must remain in their home district/state for 10 years after retiring.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 10:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Florida is where people go to retire so this might be a sign of something good.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/24/2021 11:32 Comments || Top||

#4  She just bought it so that some immigrant and refugee families would have a place to live. Pictures and directions should be handed out to folks crossing the southern border. A problem is that they would have to cross state lines to get there.
Posted by: Matt || 11/24/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#5  I think "crossing state lines" is going to be the new "states' rights" dog whistle. they brought it on themselves...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 11:52 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Upvote for #1 and #2. "Let others pay!" Pelosi will say.
Posted by: magpie || 11/24/2021 12:54 Comments || Top||


VDH - Losing Confidence in the Pillars of Our Civilization
[Townhall] Millions of citizens long ago concluded that professional sports, academia, and entertainment were no longer disinterested institutions, but far Left and deliberately hostile to Middle America.

Yet American conservatives still adamantly supported the nation's traditional investigatory, intelligence, and military agencies - especially when they came under budgetary or cultural attacks.

Not so much anymore.

For the first time in memory, conservatives now connect the FBI hierarchy with bureaucratic bloat, political bias, and even illegality.

In the last five years, the FBI was mostly in the news for the checkered careers of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Robert Mueller, Lisa Page, and Peter Strzok. Add in the criminality of convicted FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith.

The colossal FBI-driven "Russian collusion" hoax was marked by the leaking of confidential FBI memos, forged documents, improper surveillance, and serial disinformation.

Prior heads of the CIA and FBI, as well as the director of national intelligence, have at times either not told the truth under oath or claimed amnesia, without legal repercussions.

Mention the military to conservative Americans these days, and they unfortunately associate its leadership with the disastrous flight from Afghanistan. Few, if any, high-ranking officers have yet taken responsibility - much less resigned - for the worst military fiasco of the last half-century.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2021 09:42 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Prior heads of the CIA and FBI, as well as the director of national intelligence, have at times either not told the truth under oath or claimed amnesia, without legal repercussions.

Part of this is that taking an oath, which used to be considered a serious act with serious consequences, has been completely devalued. There really isn't much point in swearing Congressional witnesses in any longer, and I wonder how many witnesses in ordinary legal proceedings have gotten the message that they can forswear themselves without consequence.
Posted by: Matt || 11/24/2021 14:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Is perjury even prosecuted anymore?

I notice that Grosskreutz perjured himself at least once in the Kyle trial, yet no one even mentions the possibility of prosecuting him.

Has perjury been decriminalized?


Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/24/2021 16:37 Comments || Top||

#3  One of the tenets of Western Civilization is "Thou shall not bear false witness", which folds into the title of the article.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 17:16 Comments || Top||

#4  N9 government body is a "pillar of our civilization". Individual liberty, Judeo-Christian ethics, and Renaissance curiosity are what built our civilization -- and none of those require government.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/24/2021 19:50 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Lawsuit Exposes Deep Corruption in H-1B Job Outsourcing Program
[Breitbart] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is holding a third lottery for H-1B visas this year after U.S.-based Indian managers corruptly sold multiple tickets to fellow Indians, according to a lawsuit by Asian job seekers.

“There is literally no [DHS] follow up to fake filings that we can ascertain, and no effort is made by [DHS to] weed out folks who have filed multiple applications with multiple employers,” said Charles Kuck, an Atlanta lawyer who helped file the lawsuit.

“This is a giant loophole and one which is clearly subject to manipulation at the expense of legitimate applicants,” including his Asian clients, he told Breitbart News.

A November 22 legal filing said the agency:

…selects different registrations during each round of selection, but keeps selecting [duplicative applications from] the same individuals. This, in turn, leads to the need for [DHS] to conduct supplemental rounds of selections in order to meet the annual [85,000] limitations.

The third lottery was announced on November 19 by DHS’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency.

The fraud is being conducted by U.S.-based Indian companies who work with Indian graduates to bundle multiple fraudulent visa applications into the job lottery, according to the June lawsuit by hundreds of Asians who are also trying to get U.S. college-graduate jobs and valuable green cards vis the H-B outsourcing program.

“Brazenly, these entities advertised all over social media and H-1B forums on the internet, pitching to prospective H-1B applicants that the odds would be in their favor with multiple registrations,” the lawsuit said. It continued:

For example, one entity, which calls itself “Fluxtek Solutions,” advertised that they “will place you on H-1 lottery from multiple companies so that the probability of picking cap process is high.” … Fluxtek Solutions was also promising its customers “100% job Guaranteed with H1B Visa Sponsorship.”

Fluxtek did not respond to a call from Breitbart News.

DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas suggested November 4 he would rewrite some of the rules for the H-1B Program.

I find some of the highest skilled processes to be in dire need of re-engineering. The random lottery [for H-1B visas] to me is not an optimal way of serving the market needs. And … we’ve got to do a really good job of developing homegrown high skilled talent.

Nearly all of the visa reforms that were slowly imposed by President Donald Trump have been reversed by Mayorkas and his allies. But Mayorkas is defending a Trump rule that would allocate new H-1B visas to companies that offer the highest pay.

The H-1B and other visa programs allow Fortune 500 companies and their subcontractors to import low-wage, mid-skill foreign professionals use in a very wide variety of jobs needed by American graduates, including in science, Silicon Valley, journalism, fashion, and healthcare.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 09:41 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm borrowing Sarah Hoyt's shocked face.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 12:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Fashion?

We have talent developed on-shore. We even have technologies that require fewer developers to build and maintain. But managers like empire-building, don't like paying for high-skill employees, and importing talent and off-shoring gives them everything they want.

But doesn't necessarily build the software the company needs.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/24/2021 19:20 Comments || Top||

#3  If they are truly needed, why not use a green card? Get rid of H1B, its indentured servitude that hurts resident workers in the US.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 11/24/2021 19:53 Comments || Top||


Europe
Hybrid Warfare: Poland Predicts Long, Drawn Out Belarus Border Crisis
[Breitbart] Polish government official Stanisław Żaryn has predicted that the migrant crisis on the border with Belarus may last for a long time, adding that the conflict may be a “cynical ploy” orchestrated by Belarusian services facilitating the incursion attempts “to exhaust our soldiers and officers”.

Mr Żaryn, the spokesman for the Minister-Coordinator of Special Services, part of the National Security Department of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, spoke out on the ongoing crisis in which thousands of migrants have camped along the border and tried to illegally cross from Belarus in recent weeks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 09:38 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Shoot anybody who steps across the line unauthorized and the problem will be solved.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/24/2021 11:27 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China: Photographer sorry for 'small eyes' Dior picture
[BBC] A Chinese fashion photographer has apologised for her "ignorance" after a picture she shot for French luxury brand Dior sparked outrage.

Chen Man's photo showed a woman who some Chinese netizens said perpetuated Western stereotypes of Asian faces.

"I blame myself for my immaturity and ignorance [in my past works]," Ms Chen, 41, wrote on social platform Weibo.

Dior said the photo, which was recently displayed at a Shanghai exhibition, has since been removed.
"I denounce myself"
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 09:28 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Sounds like China is just effn with people to see what they can get away with.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/24/2021 11:01 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US base in Syria targeted by rockets - report
[Jpost] The Kharab al-Jir military base used by US forces in the Hasaka Governorate in northeastern Syria was targeted by rockets, according to Syrian state news agency SANA.

According to the report, five rockets were fired at the base. No casualties have been reported.

An official from US Central Command (CENTCOM) told Al-Arabiya that no injuries or damage were caused by the rocket attack, saying that the rockets fell short and did not impact near the bases themselves.

It is as of yet unclear who fired the rockets towards the base.

In October, a suicide drone attack targeted the US's Al Tanf base in Syria, with The New York Times reporting according to anonymous US and Israeli intelligence officials that the attack was done as retaliation for Israeli airstrikes in Syria.

According to the report, five suicide drones struck the base. No casualties were caused in the incident, as most of the troops were evacuated beforehand due to an Israeli intelligence tip. The drones were linked to Iran, as they were similar to ones used in other attacks by Iran-backed militias.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 09:25 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [20 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Economy
Biden's short-term scheme to rein in spiking gas prices by opening Strategic Petroleum Reserve Is a thinly-veiled ploy, reeking of political desperation and bound to backfire
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 09:12 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 
1st my apologies for getting the decimal in the wrong place for the 50M barrel release a few days ago. As Lord G. pointed it SHB 2.9## days, not 29.## days.

Regarding the latest Socialcrat nutroll.
Shutting down the Key Stone and etc. that were to bring in Northern Oil was likely one of the stupidest stunts they could have done.

The Negative Return on Votes (RoV) is likely well over 60+ to 1. The Junta result will only keep the usual small percentage "Tree Hugger" votes they will get in return usually anyway. But pissed off millions, including independent voters.

But as long as the Socialcrats have 20+ Special Interest Groups... TOO many with agendas contrary to the overall good of America., They will always be in a conundrum, COW-TOWING for votes, instead of doing whats best for America as a whole.

BTW: Now that 50 of the 714 million barrels in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve were drained off.

What cost was applied to it (ROI) and what will it cost to replenish it. Or did the Fed turn a profit selling it off?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/24/2021 11:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Russia and OPEC+ already laughed and said, "Hokay, we can hold back for a while." Way to go, Brandon...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Something to also wonder....

Why is the Biden Admin selling millions of barrels of oil to CCP.

If you look at the chart it seems dramatics export increase in 2020 to CCP, fall in line with US Consumer GAS Price increases.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/24/2021 12:59 Comments || Top||

#4  If you look at the chart it seems dramatics export increase in 2020 to CCP, fall in line with US Consumer GAS Price increases.

China Joe sold out his country? When does such behavior become treasonous?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/24/2021 14:17 Comments || Top||

#5  To quote Joe Biden, (quote) "End of Quote" (end of quote).
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/24/2021 18:19 Comments || Top||

#6  (Quote) My brain is drained, I'm an empty suit (end of quote)

Could someone please add this line, to president talking head's speech on the next go around (question mark). Many Americans might sleep better at night, if they knew the truth.
Posted by: Menhadden Whomort8615 || 11/24/2021 18:30 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China's birth rate falls to its lowest for decades - highlighting looming demographic crisis for the country
[MAIL] China's birth rate plummeted to a record low last year, highlighting a looming demographic crisis for Beijing caused by a rapidly ageing workforce, a slowing economy and the weakest population growth in decades.

China relaxed its 'one-child policy' - one of the world's strictest family planning regulations - in 2016, allowing couples to have two children. Earlier this year that was extended to three children.

But the changes have failed to result in the hoped-for baby boom, as the cost of living rises and women increasingly make their own family planning choices.

Last year, China recorded 8.52 births per 1,000 people according to the 2021 Statistical Yearbook released in the past week - the lowest figure since the yearbook data began in 1978.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 09:11 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies



-Great Cultural Revolution
Our Intelligence Gets Insulted as ‘Experts' Weigh in on Using ‘Looting' to Describe Looting
[Red State] RedState editor at large Kira Davis wrote Sunday about a very dumb yet predictable move by the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board to stop referring to sex offenders as "sex offenders" because of hurt feelings and stigmatization and whatnot.

The term was changed to "adults who commit sexual offenses."

Unfortunately, as Kira also noted, the language police have been running wild in recent years as it relates to both the "transgender rights" debate as well as criminal justice matters, like using "justice-involved individuals" to refer to criminals and using the term "person" to describe convicted felons, because apparently changing the way these people are referred to will decrease the likelihood of them becoming repeat offenders or something.

The debate on the terminology used to describe the accused or convicted is not just confined to the criminal justice system, however. The debate has also played out perhaps even more extensively in the mainstream media, with one notable example being the AP’s decision last October to encourage media outlets to not refer to riots the likes of which we saw during the Antifa/BLM-led "protests" as "riots."

The newest debate around the language used to describe suspected or confirmed offenders in the media comes after a wave of flash mob robbery incidents in the San Francisco area over the weekend that saw criminals block off city streets and bum rush department stores and grab possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars in merchandise and then flee the scene.

The incidents — and some in the law enforcement community referring to what happened as "looting" — apparently unnerved ABC7, which consulted "experts" who suggested the use of the term "looting" was not only technically wrong according to California law but was also supposedly stigmatizing to people of color and should not be used:
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2021 09:07 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pillaging anyone? There is a reason the word 'vandal' is in our vocabulary.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 17:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Well Pedophiles want to be referred to as MAPs - Minor Attracted Persons. I guess other sex offenders want a new name as well...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/24/2021 17:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Havoc
Mayhem
Tumult
Bedlam

Actually, we should stop beating around the bush and call it by its proper name: Anarcho-Tyranny
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/24/2021 17:30 Comments || Top||


Britain
No police sacked over child grooming scandal: Officers avoided serious sanction over failures that let down victims of Rotherham gangs
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Operation Linden probed 47 South Yorkshire Police officers after 44 white girls were abused between 1997 and 2013

  • No officer has been fired for the mistakes made resulting in the scandal

  • Only five officers received sanctions up to a final written warning from the IOPC
Many officers exploited a loophole that meant if they resigned or retired they could not face disciplinary proceedings.

The IOPC said eight officers had a case to answer for misconduct and six for gross misconduct.

Five received sanctions up to a final written warning, which one campaigner branded ‘just a slap on the hand’.

However, despite the apparent lack of accountability, the watchdog found that some historical police failures were continuing today and the report made 12 recommendations to improve training, police practices and called for a change in the law to protect sexual abuse ‘survivors’ from having their future life prospects damaged by their past experiences.

There were ‘many instances where crimes were not recorded when they should have been’.

In particular there has been ‘no discernible improvement’ with an issue of failure to record crimes against vulnerable children.

More should be done to help and communicate with victims and there had been ‘missed opportunities’ by police to work with community leaders.

The IOPC found that many victims now had criminal records from incidents during the time they were being ‘exploited.’ Such ‘survival crimes’ may have taken place whilst under the influence of the abuser.

But the criminal records made it more difficult for victims to find work.

The IOPC has called on the Law Commission to look at offences committed where a child is being groomed or exploited. The possibility of using this as a ‘defence’ and to allow convictions to be legally kept secret should be considered.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 09:01 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  the problem wasn't with the police line officers,

the problem was with their supervisors and on up who established the policy of 'you are not allowed to offend the Moselm

speaking of this the "Daily Mail' refers to the abusers as "Asians" - that

Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/24/2021 10:29 Comments || Top||

#2  ...long establish terminology in the UK.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 11:02 Comments || Top||

#3  "...befehl ist befehl"
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/24/2021 11:46 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Waukesha parade horror made possible by left-wing district attorneys' attempts at bail reform, critics say
[FOX] Attempts at criminal bail reform that put violent offenders like Waukesha suspect Darrell Brooks Jr. out on the street at low or no cost is endangering communities around the country, according to experts on criminal justice and law enforcement.

Police in cities including Milwaukee, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are facing understaffing and low morale — in part due to such policies, according to Betsy Brantner Smith, a retired police sergeant and spokesperson for the National Police Association.

"These extremely liberal prosecutors who want to talk about restorative justice, and what that means is is that we are putting the public in danger by trying to give these people too many opportunities to re-offend," she said. "It's incredibly frustrating for law enforcement, and it's just absolutely dangerous for our communities."

She pointed to Milwaukee prosecutors’ decision earlier this month to request just $1,000 bail for Brooks, who had a violent criminal history stretching back to 1999 and an active warrant for jumping bail on a sex crime charge in Nevada.

Brantner Smith acknowledged that high bail for minor and nonviolent offenses is unfair, but Brooks’ history is extreme: multiple firearms and battery convictions, strangulation, sex offenses and drug charges on a 50-page rap sheet that spans three states.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2021 08:59 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [12 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
£100m F-35 fighter jet crashed into the Med while taking off from HMS Queen Elizabeth because the cheap rain cover hadn't been taken off properly, investigators fear
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 08:59 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, somebody probably had more than just one job, but still...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 14:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Call that rain cover all the names you want, how many people failed to notice it was still on?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/24/2021 16:33 Comments || Top||

#3  My phone tells me when it thinks the lens of the camera needs cleaned. You'd think that expensive plane could detect that something was wrong with the air flow at idle.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 16:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Someone neglects a teensy part of a well-defined procedure with catastrophic results. Hmm, where have we seen *that* recently?
Posted by: SteveS || 11/24/2021 17:24 Comments || Top||

#5  My phone tells me when it thinks the lens of the camera needs cleaned. You'd think that expensive plane could detect that something was wrong with the air flow at idle.

Even Spaceball 1 knew when it was time to suck.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/24/2021 19:31 Comments || Top||

#6  "I'm surrounded by assholes!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/24/2021 21:01 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Clever Business Owners Ward Off Looters With Kyle Rittenhouse Scarecrows
[Babylon Bee] SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Small business owners have devised a clever solution to the mostly-peaceful looting problem that has plagued retail stores in the nation’s democrat-run cities.

Standing near a Kyle Rittenhouse scarecrow outside her fifth-generation vintage VCR boutique, Reeba Hastings said, "We’re already seeing positive results from this bad boy. Just yesterday, a flash mob of fifty looters was ready to pilfer my precious vintage VCRs, but one look at this scarecrow and they scattered like politicians from a polygraph machine!"

However, some have pointed out the scarecrow’s downside. One store owner complained that, while scaring off potential looters, they tended to lure unemployed communist Antifa activists from out of their parents' basements and into the streets.

"The commies are perfectly harmless when near the Kyle Rittenhouse scarecrows," said the store owner, "One of them kept trying to hit the life-size replica of our national hero, but kept missing and punching himself in the face over and over."

The scarecrows also reportedly cause celebrities to lose their minds and froth at the mouth.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2021 06:36 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Witnesses: Waukesha Attacker Drove SUV in ‘Zig-Zag Pattern' to Hit as Many People as Possible
[American Greatness] Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, has been charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide after he drove his SUV into a Christmas parade on Sunday, resulting in multiple fatalities, and more than 60 people injured. His bail was set at $5 million on Tuesday. Brooks faces a mandatory life sentence if convicted.

Brooks is accused of driving his SUV in a "zig-zag pattern" with the intention of striking "as many people as possible," according to the criminal complaint.

The suspect allegedly refused to stop even after an officer banged on the hood of his red Ford Explorer, and another officer fired three shots into the vehicle.

An 8-year-old boy became the sixth person to die Tuesday, from injuries sustained in the horrific vehicular attack.

Five people ranging in age from 52 to 81 were pronounced dead within hours. Jackson Sparks, 8, was the first of many injured children to have died. He was walking in the parade with his 12-year-old brother Tucker, who was injured in the crash and was being discharged from the hospital, according to his GoFundMe page.


"The nature of this offense is shocking," said Waukesha Court Commissioner Kevin Costello.

According to the criminal complaint, Brooks drove his SUV at high speeds in a "zig-zag driving pattern" to hit as many people as possible.

Detective Trussoni spoke with multiple citizen witnesses who were present during the parade. One witness indicated, "As I continued to watch the SUV, it continued to drive in a zig zag motion. It was like the SUV was trying to avoid vehicles, not people. There was no attempt made by the vehicle to stop, much less slow down."

Detective Trussoni spoke with another witness who described the same zig zag driving pattern by the SUV and the witness further indicated, he felt it was "a direct intent to hit as many parade participants."


More than 60 people were injured, and six people were killed, according to the complaint.

The city’s livestream video and bystander video captured the chaotic scene when an SUV sped along the parade route and then into the crowd. Several of those injured remain in critical condition.


Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson said that there was no evidence the bloodshed Sunday was a coordinated terrorist attack, however, according to reports, Brooks’ social media shows that he’s been an ardent supporter of Black Lives Matter who promoted violence against white people.
Posted by: Clavith Phomomp6945 || 11/24/2021 02:02 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  $5M bail set.
What do you think are the odds someone will come up with the money for him?
Posted by: james || 11/24/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#2  I still haven't seen any nice splashy headlines about how GoFundMe is treating this guy the same way they treated Rittenhouse.

Like news stories that fail to mention even the perp's name if it's a giveaway, I'd say the silence is telling.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 9:49 Comments || Top||

#3  How many must be senselessly murdered before bail is denied ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2021 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  All those lives are worth only 5 million?
Oh and with bail bonding that would be $500K.
It doesn't say much for the legal system.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/24/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Saw a video of someone recording the parade, with the kids marching by quickly followed by the car.

There is no doubt.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/24/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Wikipedia is calling it a "car crash," but having a "debate' about whether to call it an "incident" instead.

YJCMTSU
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 11:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Life Accounting, per Woke actuaries in the new USSA:

each left-wing victim of White S'premacy is worth $25m (cf Charlottesville)

each victim of White "Gun Violence" is worth $130m/17 = $8m

each white victim of Black Racist mass murder is worth $5m/6 = < $1m (and falling, as more and more of the injured die)

each victim of Black "Gun Violence" is worth $0
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/24/2021 11:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Oh and the most valuable life of all is that of a violent Black felon and drug-overdosing 'victim' of 'systemic police racism': $27 million.

So we can conclude, with reasonable certainty, that our new Woke USSA values political pawns at least 30x higher than normal patriotic law-abiding citizens.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/24/2021 12:04 Comments || Top||

#9  You know without any uncertainty that if this was a white male driving through a MLK day parade, it would be 24hrs of non-stop hate in the LSM.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 12:52 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Can't wait to see how they try to smear JJ Watt for paying for all the Waukesha victims' funerals. It's gonna be called "rayciss" somehow, you just know...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 12:54 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ I actually wouldn't be surprised if the NFL decides it's going to be bad publicity for their "league."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 12:55 Comments || Top||

#12  So the race-warrior and ch!ld $es trafficker MathBoi Fly was actually swerving toward his prey, trying to knock off as many white schoolkids and grannies as possible.

And we were originally told by our f--king media shills that he was just an ordinary dude from the 'hood, fleeing the evil cops after a leisurely afternoon of mutual knife-combat.

F--k these liars.

Damn them to hell for trashing our precious commitment to truth and rule of law.

Does anyone still deny that this "revolutionary justice" push marks our Wokesters and Soros-commie DAs as would-be Bolshevik revolutionaries?

If so, then those deniers ought to read and ponder today's thoughtfulsummary of this left-wing "Terrifying Assault on Due Process" by the WSJ's careful, incisive, level-headed editor Gerard Baker.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/24/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Robert Kennedy Jr. exposes Gates, Fauci, and gov't collusion in interview with Tucker Carlson
WASHINGTON, D.C (LifeSiteNews) — Robert Kennedy Jr. shed light on the deep-seated corruption occurring within Big Pharma and the federal regulatory bodies, including their worrisome ties to billionaire population control advocate Bill Gates.

In an interview on November 15 with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Robert Kennedy Jr., the nephew of late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, detailed the decades-long corruption occurring within the pharmaceutical industry and the federal regulatory agencies. Included is the collusion between Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Gates pursuant to vaccine development, vaccine safety, mass vaccination programs, and legal immunity.

"[The corruption] began in 1986 when they passed the Vaccine Act and gave complete shield from liability to all vaccine companies," Kennedy told Carlson. "So, if you’re a vaccine company and you injure somebody, no matter how grievous the injury, no matter how reckless your conduct, no matter how negligent you were, no matter how toxic the ingredient, nobody can sue you."

According to Kennedy, it "wasn’t a bunch of hippies" who thought the vaccines were dangerous, but rather it was "insurance companies" who refused to insure vaccine manufacturers because their products were "too dangerous."

Kennedy explained that when Pfizer, called Wyeth at the time, developed and administered a "diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine (DTP)" in the "early ’80s," they quickly discovered that there was serious risk of injury. Despite their "internal documents" presuming a "one in 15,000" rate of "permanent brain injury or death," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) listed the serious injury rate at merely "one in a million."

Kennedy described that after the mass reports of injury and death, Wyeth (Pfizer) conducted its own study with the National Institute of Health (NIH) and found that the true injury rate was a staggering "one in 300."

"[After the frightening discovery] they went to the Reagan administration, and to the Democrats in Congress ... and they said, ’if you don’t give us blanket freedom from liability, we are going to stop making vaccines and you will be out of a vaccine supply,’" Kennedy informed Carlson. "So, Congress passed and Reagan signed [the Vaccine Act]."

In the interview, Kennedy told Carlson that "everybody was reluctant" to pass the measure, and Reagan had even asked Wyeth (Pfizer), "why don’t you just make the vaccine safe?" to which the company stated, "Because vaccines are unavoidably unsafe."

Confirming Kennedy’s assertion, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 uses the phrase "unavoidable side effects" verbatim when enshrining into law that "no vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2021 01:49 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Africa, the Gates 'test' population? Philanthropy no, power absolutely.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2021 2:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Kennedy shows how even coming from the fambly of "Camelot," you can become an outcast by speaking against the dogmas of the left's "cathedral."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 8:16 Comments || Top||

#3  If anyone has familiarized themselves with the global locus of power, it would be a Kennedy. Three or four generations of sustained wealth did not arrive via accident or Irish luck.

I hope Mr. Kennedy is careful. Those contesting for the power are quite unscrupulous. Many of the old hond's masters have never come home.

A bit more on the family history found at this link.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2021 8:51 Comments || Top||

#4  because of the 1986 act a reporting system (vaccine adverse event report system) was established; subsequent studies over the next half decade or so showed no causal connection between the DPT vaccine and negative outcomes

it took several year of data collection, analysis and re-analysis to come to this conclusion and of course since some people do have unfortunate illness people are always looking to blame someone
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/24/2021 16:22 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
'The old white ppl…knock dem TF out!' Waukesha suspect shared social media posts promoting violence towards white people and claiming black people were the 'true Hebrews'
[Daily Mail UK] The suspect accused of plowing into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin and killing five on Sunday shared social media posts promoting violence towards white people.

Today, eight-year-old Jackson Sparks was named by relatives as the sixth victim, having died in hospital from his injuries.

A now-deleted Facebook account belonging to Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, showed the alleged killer had encouraged knocking 'white ppl [the f**k] out' and also appeared to support the controversial Black Hebrew Israelites.
The Black Hebrew Israelites are one of the descendant groups of the mystical African-American nationalism movement of the late 19th century. Their congregations range from reasonably normal to batshit crazy Black supremacist. Nation of Islam is another descendant of the same movement, but claiming to be the true Muslims as BHI are the true Hebrews.
Brooks was charged on Tuesday with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide and is expected to face more charges.

Police are yet to determine the motive behind the deadly rampage, however, records reveal Brooks is a career criminal with a rap sheet dating back to 1999 and had been bailed twice this year.

Facebook posts also show the amateur rapper, who went by his stage name, MathBoi Fly, had shared a series of links and memes relating to race and white privilege in June 2020, when protests erupted over the death of George Floyd.

Five of the six victims - all white - who died on Sunday were aged 52 to 82 and part of a Waukesha club known as the Dancing Grannies.

On June 9, 2020, Brooks wrote: 'LEARNED ND TAUGHT BEHAVIOR!! so when we start bakk knokkin white people TF out ion wanna hear it...the old white ppl 2, KNOKK DEM TF OUT!! PERIOD..' followed by a middle finger and expletive emoji.

He also shared an article from ESPN that same day about NBA player Kyle Kuzma breaking down 'his belief of what white privilege', to which Brooks commented: 'interesting'.

Brooks had also shared a post about a white cop being 'violent towards peaceful protestors', six days earlier.

The posts are among several that have emerged in the wake of his arrest after allegedly driving his red Ford SUV in a crowd of kids and elderly dancing groups during a Christmas parade in the Milwaukee suburb.

Brooks's troubling track record has raised questions as to why he had been allowed on the streets and his motives.

Among the brow-raising social media posts that surfaced on Tuesday is a meme about Adolf Hitler and the identity of the 'real Jews'.

The graphic - posted on November 2015 - claimed negros are 'the true Hebrews' and that America had moved 'false white Jews into a state of Israel'.

The post seemed to promote the views of the Black Hebrew Israelites who believe African Americans are literal descendants of the Israelites in the Bible.

Brooks had shared the meme with a caption '#research' and commented: 'real game rite here'.
Posted by: Clavith Phomomp6945 || 11/24/2021 01:35 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So why wasn't the FB-eye all over this obviously dangerous violent racist?

All this stuff was out there in broad daylight. It was easily surfaced by amateurs cruising the internet within a couple of hours of Sunday's attack.

Oh, right. I keep forgetting.

Yes, Mr. Ferret. No, it won't happen again Mr Ferret Sir.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/24/2021 2:35 Comments || Top||

#2 
There will be NO JUSTICE, even IF its convicted.The Death Penalty was abolished in Wisconsin over 160 years ago (1853).

For us, that make up Society and the civil moral class of America. We will pay for ITS retirement, medical coverage, free TV room and meals for about the next 50 years. In short IT will be treated and live better than those in extreme poverty and the true homeless in the USA that still follow the law.

HOWEVER, THERE IS AN OPTION FOR JUSTICE STILL. The US-DOJ could step in and charge him with 1st degree Murder resulting from Domestic Terrorism, like they did Timothy McVeigh.

But does any one see that happening with serious true intent, given this Socialist Junta's stated radical agenda?




Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/24/2021 6:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Did I miss where blm condemned his actions?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/24/2021 10:22 Comments || Top||

#4  A couple of weeks ago we had a Rutgers University professor advising that white people are villains and should be "taken out" (although in a non-violent kind of way). It looks like she got her wish.
Posted by: Matt || 11/24/2021 11:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe those professors home addresses should be made public.
Posted by: Chris || 11/24/2021 11:31 Comments || Top||

#6  up until the Waukesha massacre, it seems many, probably most, of Darrell Brooks, Jr's victims were black
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/24/2021 11:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Sometimes Justice can be found in strange places, recommend he avoid water-based hygiene for the next few decades....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/24/2021 12:55 Comments || Top||

#8  It's worse than all that. The current pr3sldent of the United States encouraged this mass murder.

He and his wicked Attorn3y GeneraI and the rest of his Woke political party greenlighted this murder by stating he was "angry and concerned" about the R!ttenhouse verdict.

No POTUS has ever done this before. Even after the trial of mass murderer Charles Manson, POTUS refused to comment because of our culture's commitment to due process and rule of law.

What Brandon and Ferret and their paramilitary thugs and media organs are doing now is terrifying.

The implication of this assault on our bedrock traditions is clear. The canary's on life support now.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/24/2021 13:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Watch for DOJ to take the rapper in on various nebulous excuses and make him basically disappear.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 13:42 Comments || Top||

#10  I believe Mr. Brooks moved from Theory to Praxis.
Posted by: Secret Master || 11/24/2021 14:14 Comments || Top||

#11  Not to worry, Al Sharpton just declared that "not all white people are racist". Whew! But, how do we know which ones?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/24/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||

#12  There are three categories:
- Blacks
- GoodWhites
- BadWhites

GoodWhites are honorary Blacks.

GoodWhites have the same relationship to the Woke Revolution as the radical French and left-wing Russian aristocrats had to the jacobins and Bolsheviks: useful allies, accepted for their skill in using the levers of power.

BadWhites are the Class Enemy. Cis-heteronormative deplorable racist supremacist scum, standing in the way of progress, itching to pull the trigger on innocent Blacks.

Lower-class GoodWhites make up the Revolution's shocktroops: your JoJo Rosenbaums and other street warriors and Teefa paramilitary berserkers who can be counted on to burn-loot-murder whenever the elite GoodWhites smell an opportunity to subvert the BadWhites and their phony charades of "justice," "due process," "rule of law," "merit," "free and fair" elections etc.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/24/2021 16:00 Comments || Top||

#13  Merrick, there are also bad blacks - people like Winsome Sears - who have wandered off the reservation.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/24/2021 18:38 Comments || Top||

#14  Rambler in Virginia - Uz a butt-on pusher.
Posted by: Menhadden Whomort8615 || 11/24/2021 18:47 Comments || Top||

#15  Just raising Cain
Posted by: KBK || 11/24/2021 19:14 Comments || Top||


11/21/21 Waukesha doorbell video appears to show arrest of parade suspect
[NBCnews] Scenarios like this event are why I stopped answering knocks on my door years ago. People I am willing to see already know how to reach me. The man who opened the door and let the stranger in is lucky he survived. Article states resident was watching football & completely unaware of the parade events.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/24/2021 01:19 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 

Think about this...

He tells the home owner via video-Doorbell.
He is Homeless and waiting for UBER to pick him up.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/24/2021 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Watch the video to observe him lying and improvising any way to get what he is after. I've had people like that knocking on my door years ago, probably they were not fresh from committing multiple felonies.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/24/2021 14:37 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The spy was in full sight – but no one looked
Not always infallible. Here’s hoping the cost is not too high.
[DEBKA] How a spy came to serve Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
out of the cherished sanctuary of an Israeli military chief-of-staff-turned-defense minister can’t be explained away — certainly not by a stream of lame excuses emanating from the Shin Bet security service.

Omry Goren Gorochovsky, 37, had been at it for at least three years from April 2019 before he was discovered. He was working at the time as cleaner at the home of the ex-chief of staff Benny Gantz. The military chief had just launched into politics as leader of the opposition Blue-White party, when his mobile was invaded by Iran-backed hackers. This prompted the taunt that a leader who couldn’t protect his own phone, could not aspire to protect the country.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Vet, Vet, Vet, close and continuing contacts, if not, any member in a high, medium or low position in a government is potentially susceptible to become a target of foreign espionage.
Posted by: Snaviter Thud1230 || 11/24/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Reminds me of that "Dead-stick landing a Cessna at night" joke.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/24/2021 12:01 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Liberman: Iran will have nukes in 5 years; that’s the ‘most conservative estimate’
Thank goodness that estimate keeps moving back.
[IsraelTimes] Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman predicts Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
will obtain a nuclear weapon within five years, even if a new nuclear agreement with world powers is reached.

"The most conservative estimate is that with an agreement, Iran will have nuclear [capability] within five years," says Liberman. "Looking at the amount of enriched uranium it currently has... it’s enough for one nuclear bomb at least."

He suggests Israel will be forced to act alone to thwart Iran from reaching this threshold.

"We must make a decision alone. The most conservative estimate is that it will take five years, at most, until Iran has nuclear capability," he repeats.

Liberman makes the comments at a counter-terrorism conference in Herzliya.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [16 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Obama Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was effectively there by 2030 so Iran is pretty well on its schedule.
Posted by: BernardZ || 11/24/2021 3:38 Comments || Top||

#2  They probably already bought at least one of NoKor's little nukes, so 'will have nukes in 5 years' is a true statement.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/24/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Depends... Are we talking about the current "efficient nukes" the major powers have -or- are we talking about the first nukes that were *huge*? Do they have enough highly enriched uranium to build a WW2-era bomb that would take a cargo aircraft (at least) to deliver? Quite possibly.
Posted by: magpie || 11/24/2021 22:28 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Antifa accounts in Portland and beyond are terrified over the Rittenhouse acquittal
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 

Like was said here back sometime in 2020...

Once there is a KENT State scenario, the Protestors/Rioters/Looters will suddenly see the consequences of their actions and become less aggressive. Thus adding Self Defense to the mix of a RIOT tends to quickly make Individuals of a MOB.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/24/2021 7:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Ever read Kent State by James Michener? There is a passage in it, when the Guard shows up the Blacks leave the university. Their experience with the Guard was that they shoot and wanted no part of that.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 7:34 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Libya’s Election Commission: 98 Presidential candidates have officially been registered
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Libya: Where everyone wants to be president.
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [10 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1 
Posted by: Otto Crerenter3297 || 11/24/2021 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  "...among them are Pete Bootyjudge, Stacy Abrams and Beto 'Abdul' O'Rourke"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2021 8:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Abrams at least could honestly promise to provide the entire country with shade.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 9:03 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian Bad Weather Report
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] On Wednesday, November 24, it will be cloudy in Krasnoyarsk with clearings, sometimes light snow, air temperature -1 to +1 degrees C, ice on the roads. This is reported by the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation.

At 09:20 it was about 0 degrees C at Teatralnaya Square.

At night from 24 to 25 November it is expected to reach −3 to +0 degrees C, with snow at times.

The speed of the west wind is 5-10 m/s, in gusts up to 13-18 m/s. Pressure - 735 mm Hg. Art.

On Thursday, November 25, in Krasnoyarsk up to −3 to −1 degrees C, cloudy, snow. At night, up to −5 to −3 degrees C.

On Friday, November 26, in Krasnoyarsk it is expected up to -10 to -5 degrees C during the day and up to -16 to -14 degrees C at night, cloudy, no precipitation.

According to forecasts of the Central Siberian UGMS, on November 24, in the south of the Taimyr Municipal District (MR) and in the Turukhansk District, in places a gusty south wind up to 15-20 m/s, a blizzard.

In the central and southern regions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in Khakassia and Tuva, a strong westerly wind is expected in gusts of up to 15-20 m/s, in some places up to 25 m/s, in the mountains there is heavy snow in places, ice on the roads.

On November 24-26, avalanche dangers increased in the mountainous regions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Khakassia and Tuva.

Sharp cooling is expected in Omsk, Tomsk and Novosibirsk
[REGNUM] A sharp cold snap by 9-12 degrees is expected in the Omsk, Tomsk and Novosibirsk regions at the end of this week. On November 23, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, Roman Vilfand, announced this to reporters.

The specialist clarified that at present in the south of Western Siberia, in the Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk regions, the temperature is close to the climatic norm. However, from November 26, a sharp cooling is expected in these regions and frosty weather will set in. At night, it is expected -16 to -21 degrees, during the day the air temperature will be -11 to -16 degrees.

At the same time, in the regions of the Volga Federal District (VFD), according to Vilfand, a slight warming is expected, by one or two degrees. The air temperature will be + 2 to -2 degrees.

Posted by: badanov || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, Whoo, that's a cold one coming.
Time to bring in the polar bears before they all freeze...
Posted by: Gomez Peacock1554 || 11/24/2021 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  noon temp nov 24 in Oymyakon is -30F
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/24/2021 0:12 Comments || Top||

#3  23F here this morning and yesterday morning. Way below normal November temperatures. This is more like January/February.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/24/2021 8:47 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
2 civilians killed, 6 soldiers wounded in latest Israeli strike in Homs, claims Syria
[IsraelTimes] IDF mum on alleged attack amid an uptick in recent purported IDF strikes on northern neighbor

Israeli forces struck a site in Homs in central Syria in the early hours of Wednesday morning, according to Syrian state TV. Two non-combatants were killed and a third civilian was maimed, and six soldiers were maimed in the attack, according to reports in Syrian media.

According to reports, Syria’s air defenses were activated in response to the attack. Damage was caused to several structures, the military claimed, according to Rooters. The SANA News Agency claims that Syrian forces shot down several missiles.

The Syrian military claims to shoot down incoming missiles after nearly every alleged Israeli strike, which Israeli military officials and civilian defense analysts largely dismiss as empty boasts.

There was no comment from the Israel Defense Forces, in line with its policy of ambiguity regarding its specific activities in Syria.

Last Wednesday, Syrian state media reported that the IDF had fired missiles at a target near the capital of Damascus. In that incident, Israeli forces in the Golan Heights fired two surface-to-surface missiles at an empty warehouse south of the city at around 12:45 a.m., according to SANA. The report said there were no casualties and also claimed that Syrian defenses downed one of the Israeli missiles.

There has been an uptick in the number of strikes allegedly carried out by the Israeli military in recent weeks, including a rare early evening attack in the area of Homs earlier this month.

Several of the recent purported Israeli attacks on Syria were allegedly conducted with surface-to-surface missiles, instead of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s with fighter jets, as part of an apparent arrangement with Moscow, as the Russian-made air defenses being used by Syria have struggled to counter the Israeli air raids, embarrassing Russia.

Israeli officials have expressed increasing concern over the proliferation of Iranian-made surface-to-air missile systems in Syria, as well as the Syrian military’s improved air defense capabilities, which have made it more difficult for the IDF to operate over Syria.

Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes inside Syria over the course of the country’s civil war, targeting what it says are suspected arms shipments believed to be bound for Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
’s Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, which is fighting alongside Syrian government forces.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [22 views] Top|| File under:


Down Under
Australia labels all of Hezbollah a terrorist organization
Some sort of tipping point seems to have been reached.
[IsraelTimes] Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews says the Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
-based organization poses a ’real’ and ’credible’ threat to Australia, and provides support to other terror groups


Australia on Wednesday listed all of Hezbollah as a "terrorist organization," extending an existing ban on armed units to the entire organization, which wields considerable power in Lebanon.

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said that the Iran-backed Shi’ite group "continues to threaten terrorist attacks and provide support to terrorist organizations," and poses a "real" and "credible" threat to Australia.

Hezbollah has been designated as a terrorist group by parts of the West, although some countries have been reluctant to sanction the group’s political wing, fearing it could destabilize Lebanon and hamper contacts with authorities.

Hezbollah defies easy definition — acting as part political party, part terrorist organization and part provider of basic services to Lebanon’s Shi’ite community. It is the only side that has to date refused to disarm since the country’s devastating civil war ended in 1990.

Membership in the organization or providing funding for it will now be banned in Australia, which has a large Lebanese community.

No reason was given for the timing of the move, which comes as Lebanon reels from spiraling political and economic crises. Nearly 80% of the population is estimated to be living below the poverty line.

Elections are expected in March 2022 and there is growing public anger about nepotism and corruption among Lebanon’s ruling class.

Hezbollah is labeled a terrorist group by the United States, Israel and the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
, and Israel often calls on to other countries to follow suit. A growing number of countries have done so, and Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
placed the organization’s financial arm on its terror blacklist last month.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Florida couple charged with having oral sex in cop car
[NYPOST] A classy raunchy Florida couple got busted for having oral sex in the back of a police car — with the man yelling "F—k Five-O!" during the recorded romp, according to an arrest warrant.

Florida Highway Patrol Troopers stopped Yordan Noa, 24, in the early hours of last Tuesday for allegedly driving his black BMW on a suspended license.

They offered to give his 24-year-old passenger, Summer Watkins, a ride to a gas station — but she apparently had other ideas.

"Baby, we should record an OnlyFans video back here," Watkins allegedly said to Noa, according to the warrant.

When Noa was also put in the back of the same squad car, Watkins brilliantly allegedly asked the cop, "What if I suck his d—k back here?"

"I told her that she could not do that," trooper J.D. Perez-Morales wrote — just for her to again allegedly ask, "Can I suck his d—k back here?"

After again saying no, the officer left them alone in the back of the car for a short period — only to later see what really went down when he reviewed the prisoner video footage, he wrote.

"Shortly after I closed the door, Mr. Noa whipped out his schlong took his penis out of his shorts" and Watkins "bent down and began to eat the baloney perform oral sex," Perez-Morales wrote.

Watkins "can be heard saying ’f—k Five-O’ while giving oral sex" — while Noa filmed it on his phone, yelling, "Can ya’ll hear me? She’s sucking d—k in the back of a state trooper right now," the report said.

As Noa FaceTimed a friend, Watkins bragged, “I just sucked his d–k in the back of a police car,” the report said.

The officer dropped off Watkins before seeing the footage — then predictably went straight back and arrested her for being a dipshit lewd and lascivious behavior and breach of peace, both misdemeanors.

She was later released from jail on a $1,000 bond and is scheduled for arraignment on Dec. 16, records show.

Noa was arrested for driving on a suspended license, possession of a controlled substance,
I'm so surprised.
as well as indecent exposure in public, breach of peace and lewd and lascivious behavior. He also bonded out of jail and is scheduled to be arraigned on Dec. 13.
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  released from jail on a $1,000 bond

Seems a popular denomination.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  lewd and lascivious behavior

Kinda the Joe Biden profile, isn't it...Come here little girl...sniff, sniff.
Posted by: Gomez Peacock1554 || 11/24/2021 0:14 Comments || Top||

#3 

Role playing ... Cop and arrested hooker posting bail?☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/24/2021 7:38 Comments || Top||

#4  "Lewd and lascivious" is a felony in many states and the offender must register as a sex offender.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 11/24/2021 8:42 Comments || Top||

#5  "I was jus' giving her a breathalyzer test"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2021 8:47 Comments || Top||

#6  It's a dumb idea these days to do anything a cop won't get in trouble for arresting (or shooting) you for.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 8:47 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Incredible moment pilot becomes the first to land an Airbus A340 on ANTARCTICA
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..Humans are really weird.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 7:07 Comments || Top||

#2 

All I am thinking about is ICE, landing at 140+ miles p/hr. and how far the plane slid.

Note: I had a buddy that did a Winter-Over in McMurdo Station and saw a loaded C-17 doing it.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/24/2021 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3  There was a rescue flight in winter too. One of the scientists needed a medevac.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 7:48 Comments || Top||

#4  ^
Procopius2k
was that in 1996 when a guy went bananas and attacked a bunch of people with a hammer?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/24/2021 7:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Meanwhile, the USAF is resurrecting an old project, sort of: they are in talks w/Japan’s civil aviation about putting floats on a C-130 for special ops. Years back Lockheed (pre-merger days) floated (bad pun, not sorry) a flying boat version of the Herc to the DoD. This latest go-round has floats attached to the struts so it is convertible between land and sea. Not a true amphibian. Picture shows 2 floats about the size of Rhode Island.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/24/2021 8:29 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 - No that was with Kurt Russell and Wilford Brimley
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2021 8:48 Comments || Top||

#7  There was a rescue flight in winter too.

Doctor rescued from Antarctica in 1999 dies at 57
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 9:38 Comments || Top||

#8  'the colder the better' is true only to a certain point

when it gets really cold and stays cold, the tires on the plane freeze and crack, in addition various hinges freeze shut, etc.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/24/2021 10:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Gonna load up some fungi from Yuggoth?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/24/2021 10:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Bet they kept those engines running the whole time they were there. Jet Engines do not like starting when they're cold. That's why you almost always see prop planes at those latitudes.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/24/2021 16:16 Comments || Top||

#11  At the Pole the don't turn off the engines--I'm told they have to keep the fuel from congealing. Warming it up with a fire under the wing isn't something they like doing.
Posted by: james || 11/24/2021 22:22 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Pakistan pledges $28m in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] Pakistain’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
has announced a sum of twenty-eight million US Dollars as humanitarian aid to Afghanistan which includes food, medical, and other humanitarian assistance, Aljazeera reported citing an official from Imran Khan’s office.

According to the report, the Pakistain government has also authorized the transportation of humanitarian aids from India to Afghanistan through Pakistain.

The humanitarian aids from Pakistain will include 50,000 metric tonnes of wheat, other food commodities, emergency medical supplies, winter shelters, and other supplies, the Pakistain government said in a. statement released following the Prime Minister’s meeting with his key cabinet members.

The statement has also declared that Pakistain’s government will reduce tariffs and sales taxes on certain Afghan export commodities to Pakistain.

Imran Khan has met Pakistain’s army chief General Qamar Bajwa, Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the country’s National Security Advisor on Monday.

This comes as Afghanistan is facing a humanitarian crisis following an unexpected fall of the country in the hands of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
, a military group who were negotiating with Afghanistan’s government in Doha, 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...
on a political settlement.

Taliban took power in Afghanistan by force on August 15 and the world countries have not yet recognized them as a legitimate power in the country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [13 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Pakistan is importing wheat despite estimates of a record 27.3 million tonnes production this year.Sep 2, 2021
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 11/24/2021 7:04 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
NYC may soon let 800,000 non-US citizens vote
[FoxNews] Bill calls for allowing legal residents and others to vote in city elections.
So what's the difference between a citizen and a non-citizen? Apparently nothing.
New York City may soon permit hundreds of thousands of noncitizens to vote in municipal elections, while Mayor Bill de Blasio and his successor, Eric Adams, feel differently about the prospect.

The bill aims to amend the city's charter by including a new chapter with provisions for allowing green card holders and those with work authorization to register to vote and take part in citywide elections through the creation of a separate municipal voter registration. Adams supported the concept when he was campaigning for mayor earlier this year.

"We cannot be a beacon to the world and continue to attract the global talent, energy and entrepreneurship that has allowed our city to thrive for centuries if we do not give immigrants a vote in how this city is run and what our priorities are for the future," Adams said in February, according to the New York Daily News.

De Blasio, meanwhile, said on "The Brian Lehrer Show" in September that there are "two problems" with the bill.

"One, I don't believe it is legal. Our law department is very clear on this," the mayor said. "I really believe this has to be decided at the state level, according to state law."

The other issue, he said, is that it undermines efforts to get people to become citizens.

"I think there's a real set of mixed feelings it generates in me about what's the right way to approach this issue," he said.

The New York Times reports that the bill would allow an estimated 808,000 noncitizens to vote.

The bill says residents must be living in the city for at least 30 days prior to an election. It also specifies that it only applies to municipal elections and calls for a separate form of voter registration to reflect that.

"Nothing in this chapter shall be construed so as to confer upon municipal voters the right to vote for any state or federal office or on any state or federal ballot question," the bill says.

That difference is what leads Anu Joshi, the vice president of policy at the New York Immigration Coalition, to believe the bill would stand up to a legal challenge, despite de Blasio's concerns.

"Any restrictions that are currently on the books really only apply to federal and state elections," Joshi told the Times.

The bill is next scheduled for a vote by the city council on Dec. 9.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [14 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Four Amendments About Who Can Vote." Is NYC not a part of the USA?

The Constitution specifically states you must to a citizen to vote. If allowed, it will set a dangerous precedent. I see fraud. What's to prevent these non-residents from "moving" into NYC specifically to vote. It seems like it would be easy for some Soros organization to recruit these non-citizens to put down an address 30 days prior to an election just to vote. Who is going to check this?

For crying-out-loud, doesn't NYC have more significant issues at hand. How's crime in the city? How's the budget? Corruption? Pandemic? Garbage?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/24/2021 12:30 Comments || Top||

#2  So what's the difference between a citizen and a non-citizen? Apparently nothing

Being male and a citizen means you are automatically a member of the federal militia, with the implied obligations.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 12:49 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Milwaukee County DA admits it was a mistake to grant $1,000 bail to SUV-driving felon days before he smashed into Xmas parade
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The shamefaced Milwaukee District Attorney's Office admitted on Monday it was 'inappropriate' for convicted felon Darrell Brooks to be allowed out of jail on a $1,000 bond three weeks ago after trying to run over his ex-girlfriend, as he was charged with five counts of murder for the lives he took at the Waukesha Christmas Parade on Sunday night. Brooks, 39, was taken into custody in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday night after police found his red Ford SUV parked neatly in a driveway five blocks from where he drove through crowds of kids and elderly dancing groups.

The amateur rapper has a long criminal history dating back to 1999 with more than 15 arrests in the state of Wisconsin alone for charges including possession of drugs, strangulation and suffocation, battery, illegally possessing firearms as a convicted felon and resisting arrest.

On Sunday, he was fleeing the scene of a domestic dispute when he crashed into the crowds after smashing through safety barriers and breezing past cops. One officer tried to stop him by shooting at his car but he stopped because there were too many people around for him to safely fire his weapon.

Police had just arrived at the home that Brooks had fled when he plowed into the parade crowds, killing five adults. The victims have been identified as Dancing Grannies Virginia Sorenson, 79, Leanna Owens, 71 and Tamara Durand, 52, Citizen Bank employee Jane Kulich, 52, and 82-year-old Wilhelm Hospel, the husband of one of the grannies. The Waukesha Police Department have now arrested Brooks on five murder charges.

On November 2, he was arrested on domestic violence charges after trying to 'run over' his ex, the mother of his child, at a gas station. His bond was set at $1,000 and he posted it on November 11th.

Courtesy of Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843: Meet the 'progressive' prosecutor who gave Waukesha parade suspect Darrell Brooks 'inappropriately low' bail
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One of the injured children has since died. Death toll is now at 6.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/24/2021 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  I expect the Brooks' legal defense team to move for a change of venue, most likely to Milwaukee county.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/24/2021 0:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Could they sue the DA for reckless endangerment?
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/24/2021 1:42 Comments || Top||

#4  The families hurt need to find some way to sue that DA and anybody who donated money for his election... all the way to poverty.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/24/2021 1:51 Comments || Top||

#5  DA Chisholm knew and predicted that this kind of low cash bail would cause innocents to be slaughtered.

This is not the first time.

Here's his logic in defending his lax policies in 2007 in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel - these policies resulted in a violent heroin addict's release after which the addict killed a woman:

"Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into treatment program, who's going to go out and kill somebody?" Chisholm said in a 2007 interview with the Journal Sentinel. "You bet. Guaranteed. It's guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/24/2021 2:03 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ So, in some situations, "If it saves just one life" isn't the operative excuse argument.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Soros Prosecutor Logic: The life of the victim is not worth as much as the inconvenience of the criminal.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/24/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#8  And yet you still have your job, doncha?
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/24/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#9  A mistake is when I think I will get the dishwasher loaded right this time.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/24/2021 11:08 Comments || Top||

#10  So the males are all child fuckers and the females raised by single mothers.

Here is the fruit from which they gather their seeds.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/24/2021 12:45 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
North Dakota man convicted over an axe attack on office of Republican @Sen John Hoeven is revealed to be part of antifa
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [10 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  "Your money's no good here, Mr Torrance"
- Lloyd the Democrat bartender fundraiser to the axe murderer
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/24/2021 2:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Thomas “Tas” Alexander Starks, 31, of Lisbon, N.D., was filmed on CCTV trying to break inside the office of Sen. John Hoeven's in Fargo on Dec. 21, 2020, using an axe. In April, he pleaded guilty to a charge of destruction of government property. Federal sentencing guidelines suggested 10–16 months in prison but he was only sentenced to probation and fined $2,784 for restitution.
According to court documents, Starks’ colleague said he was “politically open and motivated,” left-leaning and "very active in protests.”
Recently Starks has taken to Facebook to brag about getting his axe back from the FBI.
“Look what the FBI were kind enough to give back to me!” Starks posted on Oct. 26.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 11/24/2021 6:55 Comments || Top||

#3  At least he shows remorse...uh, no
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2021 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Boy's gonna end up on the open-end of a shotgun.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/24/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||

#5  When are judges going to be held accountable for their role in these non-punitive sentences?
Posted by: Crusader || 11/24/2021 10:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Judges will always use the excuse they are "just following the law," except when they are making or un-making it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 10:54 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ Thing to remember about judges. Before they were judges, they were lawyers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2021 11:12 Comments || Top||

#8  When I was a newspaper reporter, the inside joke on the courthouse beat was "What do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 80?"

"Your honor..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 11:24 Comments || Top||

#9  And they gave him his axe back.
Posted by: KBK || 11/24/2021 19:10 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
UN to evacuate families of international staff from Ethiopia
[AlAhram] The United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
will evacuate family members of international staff from war-torn Æthiopia, according to an official document seen by AFP Tuesday, as rebels claim to be advancing closer to the capital.

An internal UN security order asked the organization to "coordinate the evacuation and ensure that all eligible family members of internationally recruited staff depart from Æthiopia no later than 25 November 2021".

The order came as La Belle France became the latest country to advise citizens to leave Æthiopia, following similar advisories by the US and the UK in recent weeks as the fighting between federal forces and Tigrayan rebels edges closer to Addis Ababa.

"All Frenchies are formally urged to leave the country without delay," the French embassy in Addis Ababa said in an email sent to French citizens.

Embassy staff were taking steps to facilitate citizens' departure by booking seats on commercial flights and would "if necessary" organise a charter flight, the email said.

Northern Æthiopia has been wracked by conflict since November 2020 when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops into the Tigray region to topple its ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner promised a swift victory, but by late June the TPLF had regrouped and retaken most of Tigray including its regional capital Mekele.

Since then the TPLF has pushed into the neighbouring Afar and Amhara regions and this week claimed control of Shewa Robit, just 220 kilometres (135 miles) northeast of Addis Ababa by road.

Some TPLF fighters were believed to have reached Debre Sina, roughly 30 kilometres closer to Addis Ababa, diplomats briefed on the security situation said.

A communications outage in much of the conflict-hit zone has made battlefield movements difficult to verify.

The government has not responded to requests about the status of Shewa Robit.

The African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
's special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo, is leading a frantic push to broker a ceasefire, but so far there has been little concrete progress.

On Monday Abiy seemed to cast doubt on the prospects of a peaceful solution, announcing he was heading to the front "to lead the defence forces".
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [12 views] Top|| File under:


-War on Police-
DOJ to pay $130M to Parkland massacre families after FBI failed to investigate tip off that student Nikolas Cruz was planning a mass school shooting
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Family of 16 of the 17 killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland have reached a monetary settlement with the government

  • Settlement comes over the FBI's failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack

  • Attorneys said the settlement's details are confidential, but a person familiar with the deal said the government will pay the families $127.5 million overall
The Times of Israel adds:
Seventeen students and faculty were killed and another 17 injured when 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz attacked Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an AR-15 assault rifle on February 14, 2018.

Expelled from school for disciplinary reasons, Cruz was known to be fixated by firearms — and had reportedly been identified as a potential threat to his classmates.

Cruz bought the weapon legally, despite having been in local records as having a history of mental health problems.
...diagnoses of autism, anxiety, depression and significant psychological problems, described as a troubled kid obsessed with guns — the police came to the family home frequently to deal with him. Mr. Cruz was adopted at birth, then his adoptive father died when he was young, followed into the grave by his adoptive mother a few months before he ran amok. So really he was a classic school shooter. Interestingly, his biological sister, Danielle Woodard, 34, also has a long rap sheet, and is classified as a habitual violent offender...
Victims’ families sued the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
and the Justice Department, saying the FBI had specific tips that Cruz had exhibited increasingly violent mostly peaceful conduct, collected guns and ammunition, and declared a desire to kill people and specifically to carry out a school shooting, according to a statement from Kristina Infante, lead counsel for the relatives.

One of those tips, the Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier admitted, was of a message Cruz posted on YouTube, vowing: "I’m going to be a professional school shooter."

If the FBI had transmitted that information to its Miami field office, it would have been investigated, the plaintiffs argued.

In October, Cruz, now 23, pleaded guilty to 17 counts of premeditated murder. He is awaiting sentencing and prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty
Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 submitted the CBS News version of the story, commenting:
The DOJ, of course, will pay NOTHING to these families. The funds will have come from the US Treasury and the amount added to the national debt. Wouldn't it be nice if instead the money was subtracted from pensions paid to FBI officials, with none of them getting a cent until the amount was paid. Or better, abolish the FBI and start over.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  DOJ or the taxpayers?
Posted by: Kofi Panda2845 || 11/24/2021 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Next Bostonians and Fort Hood families.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 6:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Don’t forget San Bernardino
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 11/24/2021 7:39 Comments || Top||

#4 

Agree with #1
Did any lose a job or get demoted?
Or was it the Obama 5th Column DOJ running its own show during the Trump Admin?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/24/2021 8:01 Comments || Top||

#5  They don't see it as our money.
Posted by: Chris || 11/24/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Combine that with some kind of prison term or loss of pension for incompetency for the DOJ people that made the decision.

We can't let the government fail upwards again and again and expect things to get better.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/24/2021 11:29 Comments || Top||

#7  And don't forget the Nashville VBIED either...
Posted by: Tennessee || 11/24/2021 20:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Hey Mr. FBI Agent - that guy is building a bomb in that RV over there... well, we knocked on the door but no one answered...

I will bet neither the Agent nor the SAC was held responsible.
Posted by: Tennessee || 11/24/2021 20:29 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: The First 100 Days
BLUF: Afghanistan world’s unhappiest country: ISIS running amok, Talib government still not recognized internationally, most news outlets closed, females back in purdah — no work, no schools, no independence. Forward to the past!
Afghanistan tops the world ranking as the ‘least happy’ country

Security Situation in the 100 Days Since Takeover
TOLOnews’ findings show that in the first 100 days of the Islamic Emirate rule, in addition to minor incidents, seven big security incidents occurred in the country that caused 630 cases of death or injury.

The suicide attack outside of Kabul airport during the evacuation in August, suicide attacks on Shia mosques in Kunduz and Kandahar, and the attack on Sardar Mohammad Daud Hospital in Kabul were some of the major security incidents.

The attack on Kabul airport happened amid the evacuation of foreign nationals and their local partners. At the time, the airport was under the control of US soldiers. In that attack over 100 people including 13 US soldiers were killed and over 100 were injured. Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack.

Three days after the airport attack, a US drone targeted a house in Kabul in which 10 civilians, including seven children, were killed. US forces targeted a vehicle they believed to be carrying Daesh fighters, according to public statements, but later their findings showed all the victims were civilians.

On October 3rd, an explosion occurred outside Eid Gah Mosque in Kabul, killing and wounding several people. Later in the evening of the same day, the Islamic Emirate launched an operation in Kabul against a Daesh hideout and--according to officials--10 Daesh members were killed.

Although the Islamic Emirate has said Daesh is not a serious threat in Afghanistan, the group has claimed responsibility for many of the attacks, including the attacks at the airport and the Kunduz and Kandahar mosques’ attacks, all of which had heavy casualties.

Additionally, five Daesh suicide bombers attacked Sardar Mohammad Daud Hospital in Kabul in early November. Security forces responded to the attack. Four security members were killed in the clashes. The attackers were also killed.

Despite the security incidents, there have been achievements too. In response to complaints about harassment by some security members as well as extrajudicial killings, the Islamic Emirate established a reform commission.

Officials of the commission said that so far 650 force members have been dismissed for misusing the name of the Islamic Emirate, and some of them have been detained.

A decrease in criminal activity and a decrease in kidnapping are other improvements people experienced in the past 100 days.

“In the last 45 years, this is the first time that there is a strong central government and no island of power exists in the country,” said Saeed Khosti, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry.

Human Rights Situation After 100 Days of the Islamic Emirate
[ToloNews] After the political change in the country, human rights, especially the rights of Afghan women and girls, have become a hotly debated issue both within Afghanistan and internationally.

The international community has stated that the involvement of Afghan women in the government and respect for women's rights are conditions for the recognition of the new government.

“In contrary to the Taliban’s commitments, in the last three weeks many women were banned from going to their work and are marginalized. In many areas they are not even allowed to go out of home without a Muharram,” said Michel Bachelet, the UN high commissioner for human rights.

On September 16, the Islamic Emirate announced its lineup of cabinet members and there were no women in the cabinet. Further, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs was suspended and named the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

Meanwhile, female students at secondary schools, along with female teachers, were banned from attending school, although male students and teachers were allowed to continue their education.

Based on numbers reported by the United Nations, in 2020, 27% of the members of the Parliament's lower house and one-fifth of the former government employees were women, and 5.3 million girls were going to school. But after the political change in the country, women were not only barred from working in the government structure but also the fate of high school girls remains unclear, which has sparked a sustained international reaction. The status of Afghanistan's representation in the UN remains unclear. Suhail Shaheen was proposed by the Islamic Emirate to represent the country at the international body, but his appointment was rejected by the UN.

Following strong reactions over the closure of girls' schools in the country, the Ministry of Education said that now girls and young women in grades 7-12 will be allowed to go to school in 8 provinces.

“The issue of the girls' education is very important. We are working on a plan; when completed, we will provide the right environment for girls to pursue their education,” said Nazar Mohammad Irfan, spokesman for the Ministry of Education.

In the meantime, Afghanistan has been removed from the list of countries classified with a "hybrid system" in terms of “backward democracies," and has been placed on the list of authoritarian governments.

After 100 Days, Islamic Emirate Still Seeks Intl Recognition
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate marked 100 days in power on Tuesday, following repeated diplomatic efforts led by Amir Khan Muttaqi to achieve international recognition for Afghanistan’s new government, which is led by Mawlawi Hebatullah Akhundzada, the Islamic Emirate supreme leader.

Islamic Emirate officials flew to various regional countries--and further--to seek engagement and to build relations with foreign governments. In return, representatives of at least six countries visited Afghanistan and held talks with officials.

Faiz Hameed, general-director of Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir...
(ISI), Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi
...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
, Pak foreign minister, Abdulaziz Kamilov, Uzbekistan's foreign minister, Mutlaq bin Majed al-Qahtani, special envoy of the foreign ministry of the state of 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...
, Hasan Qazemi Qomi, Iran’s special envoy to Afghanistan, Germany's Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistain Jasper Wieck, and the Dutch Special Envoy for Afghanistan Emiel de Bont are foreign officials who visited Afghanistan during the first 100 days of the Islamic Emirate.

"The diplomatic and foreign policy of the Islamic Emirate was limited to some neighboring and regional countries during the hundred days. Countries are waiting to see whether the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
will fulfil whatever they committed to earlier or not," said Fakhruddin Qarizada, former adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

During the first 100 days, six significant regional and international meetings were held on Afghanistan. Iran, Pakistain, India, Russia, China hosted meetings on Afghanistan, and G20 leaders and as well as the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
Security Council (UNSC) discussed Afghanistan’s issues in separate sessions.

Against expectations, the recognition of the Islamic Emirate government was not discussed at the meetings; and the outcomes of the meetings were mostly alike.

The meetings mainly focused on--and stressed-- topics such as an inclusive government, human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
, freedom of expression, the right of education and employment for Afghan women and girls, and Afghanistan’s soil not being used as a platform for insurgency.

In reaction to the statements of many of the meetings, the Islamic Emirate officials insisted that they have fulfilled the demands.

"The world countries and region have one opinion about the Taliban that they must change, and they (the Islamic Emirate) must act in accordance with international standards; however, I think the Taliban deserve to be recognized," said Abdul Moqadam Amin, political analyst.

At the same time, some regional and world countries including Pakistain, China, Russia and Britannia stressed that they would take steps toward engagement with the new government in Afghanistan to assist in overcoming the crisis in the country. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
said: ""They may not speak for all Afghans, far from it, but they are some kind of authority."

Currently, it is reported that eleven countries, including Iran, Pakistain, China, Russia, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Italia and United Arab Emirates, have open embassies in Afghanistan.

257 Media Outlets Closed in 100 Days Since Takeover
[ToloNews] So far, the Islamic Emirate has released two lists of principles for the media’s operation which have raised concerns over restrictions of media activities in the country.

"Recently access to information have been limited which has caused problems for news hounds. The recent statement of the Ministry of Virtue and Vice has increased the concerns over restrictions of media activities," Abdurraqib Fayaz, a news hound said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce...
organizations supporting media said they are worried about the possible restrictions against media outlets.

"The recent statement, which has eight articles (from the Virtue and Vice ministry) has raised concerns. We hope the issue is resolved in consultation with the media," said Hujatullah Mujadedi, head of the Afghanistan Independent Journalists’ Association.

Afghanistan National Journalists’ Union, an organization supporting media in Afghanistan, said that since the Islamic Emirate rule, over 257 media outlets have ceased operating in the country due to financial challenges as well as restrictions. This includes print, radio and TV stations. According to NAI, over 70 percent of media workers have become jobless or left the country.

Reports show that during these 100 days, six news hounds have bit the dust in various incidents including attacks by unknown gunnies, explosions, committing suicide and traffic incidents.

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#1  "Time flies like an arrow" 🏹 100 days - WoW -

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan possess an estimate 1 Trillion Dollars of Strategic Minerals.

World's Largest Lithium Deposit


Posted by: Snaviter Thud1230 || 11/24/2021 12:06 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Israel’s Gantz heads to Rabat to formalize defense ties with Morocco
[IsraelTimes] Defense minister to meet with his counterpart and with Moroccan foreign minister nearly a year after normalization agreement signed.

Amid burgeoning relations between Israel and Morocco following a normalization agreement last year, Defense Minister Benny Gantz will travel to Rabat on Tuesday evening for two-day trip that will "formalize" cooperation between the two countries, officials said.

Gantz was expected to meet with his counterpart, Abdellatif Loudiyi, and with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita.
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#1  Israel, Morocco sign historic defense agreement
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 9:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Needless to say, not everyone will be thrilled with this development.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
EU Court of Justice keeps Hamas on list of terrorist organisations
[AlAhram] The Court of Justice of the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
upheld on Tuesday the acts of the Council of the European Union maintaining the Paleostinian movement Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, on the European list of terrorist organizations.
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Iraq
Striking at the heart of the enemy: In the final part of our series from brave pilot's gripping memoir, a nerve shredding account of how the RAF blasted an Isis bomb factory to smithereens
The set-up:
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] After a spell of good weather, thunderstorms had returned, and the Mediterranean air at our base in Cyprus was unusually humid as I walked back to Ops after a trip over Syria.

Two of my flight commanders approached me with an urgent request that had come in from Air Operations while I was airborne.

'They want an IED [improvised explosive device] factory destroyed. As soon as possible.
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Home Front: WoT
‘I Hope You Die’: The Murderous ISIS Jihadi From New York City You Heard Nothing About
His only appearance in our archives is the report of his arrest in 2015.
[PJMedia] Ali Saleh, 28, was born and raised in the Jamaica, Queens neighborhood of New York City, in idyllic circumstances: according to court documents, he came "from a loving home, surrounded by parents and siblings, and was both educated and employed." Yet despite the fact that we are constantly told that ignorance and deprivation cause terrorism, Saleh’s enviable upbringing didn’t prevent him from turning to the dark side. Wednesday, he was sentenced to thirty years in prison after pleading guilty to aiding 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....
(ISIS). He gives every indication of being as hardcore an adherent as the jihad terror organization ever had. And one question that no one seems to be asking is: Where did he get these ideas in Queens?

In addition to the 30 years for aiding ISIS, Saleh was also sentenced Wednesday to eight years and four months in prison for assaulting a federal correctional officer. According to the Justice Department, "on July 13, 2018, at approximately 12:35 p.m., while a senior correctional officer was retrieving trash through an access slot of Saleh’s cell, Saleh reached through the slot and slashed the officer with an improvised knife, lacerating the officer’s right forearm and damaging the officer’s radial nerve. Saleh smiled at the officer and said, ’I hope you die.’" Charming guy.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gantz exposes Iran drone bases, says Tehran tried to fly TNT via UAV into West Bank
[IsraelTimes] Defense minister again threatens military strike if diplomatic efforts to halt Iran’s nuclear program fall through

Defense Minister Benny Gantz revealed the locations of two Iranian drone bases that he said were used to conduct attacks against targets at sea in recent months.

According to Gantz, one of the sites is located in the area of Chabahar and the other is situated on Qeshm Island, just off the coast of the Iranian mainland.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Dozens of San Francisco area stores, pharmacies hit by mobs of smash-and-grab looters: 'Hurts us all'
[FoxNews] The thieves targeted pharmacies and marijuana dispensaries in Oakland.

Mobs of thieves ransacked at least two dozen San Francisco area businesses over the weekend, as smash and grab incidents rage in the Bay Area.

"At least two dozen businesses were impacted," Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong told CBS SF. "Roving caravans of vehicles, targeting cannabis operations, retail shops, pharmacies, throughout the city of Oakland."

The mobs of thieves hit a handful of pharmacies and marijuana dispensaries in Oakland, including the Wellspring pharmacy that released surveillance video of the scene to the media. Police added that the mobs in Oakland fired 175 shots during the incidents, forcing officers to pull back to safe locations, The Mercury News reported.

'Experts' blasted for cautioning against use of term 'looting' to describe large-scale California thefts

[FoxNews] The affiliate pointed out that they did not yet know the identities and races of the perpetrators of the recent wave of thefts, before noting that they occurred following last Friday's acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.

It then cited Martin Reynolds, co-executive director of the Robert C. Maynard Institute of Journalism Education, who was reminded of Black residents in New Orleans that were described as looters for committing "crimes of survival" following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 when they stole water, food and other supplies prior to receiving aid from the federal government.

"This seems like it's an organized smash and grab robbery. This doesn't seem like looting. We're thinking of scenarios where first responders are completely overwhelmed, and folks often may be on their own," Reynolds said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  San Francisco's woke DA FINALLY wakes up to gangs looting stores: FELONY charges for nine people are announced after 20 people ransacked Louis Vuitton store We'll see if this change of heart amounts to anything at all.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/24/2021 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  This country is coming apart at the seams. Now even reliably lefty San Franciscans are buying guns and getting shooting lessons.

Our Cold Civil War is heating up.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/24/2021 2:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Decivilization

there is a reason the word 'vandal' is in our language
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Somehow or other this isn't a RICO investigation for the FBI. There's too many PTA members out there who need to be checked out.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/24/2021 9:33 Comments || Top||

#5  The residents will still vote 'D' next time around.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/24/2021 9:34 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia warns it can destroy NATO satellites - rendering missiles useless - as White House says it has 'serious concerns' about military build-up near Ukraine – but Putin's spy agency dismisses US 'hysteria'
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wouldn't that be a "triggering" event denying intel on whether you've launched the big boys?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  I tried to read the article, but it required me to disable my ad blocker, so no.

If the satellites are destroyed, the icbm's, sub launched missiles, and airborne launch platforms are not useless, they are unimpaired, just behind the curve but not by much. Sats are not all that are used to detect a launch.

Like I said, I didn't get to read the article but the headline smells like bullshit from here.

As Skid says, loss of sats would be a trigger.

This field used to be my life's work.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/24/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, the Minutemen and Tridents use inertial and celestial guidance. GPS has been added as another cherry on top.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 10:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Russian bluster. GPS sats are in medium orbit (~20,000 km) well above the A235 interceptor's capability. The older cruise missiles also use radar based TERCOM, and as said by M Murcek, strategic nuke missiles use internal guidance. GPS guided JDAMS also have inertial navigation backup which in most cases is good enough.
Posted by: Clavith Phomomp6945 || 11/24/2021 13:33 Comments || Top||

#5  'As long as they don't prevent us from using the proper pronouns!" -- Gen Milley.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/24/2021 16:28 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Ладно, Коммандир:
Он
Она
Оно
Ху
Хуа
Хуе
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/24/2021 16:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
AOC sparks fury by demanding reform of NYC's 'excessive' bail laws
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Sandy Ocasio-Cortez
    Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore...
    were blasted on social media

  • Two 'squad' members touted criminal justice reform measures on Monday

  • AOC lamented 'excessive bail' imposed by prosecutors in New York City

  • Rashida Tlaib said she supported proposal to close federal prisons within 10 years

  • Comments by lawmakers were made a day after Waukesha, Wisconsin tragedy

  • Police said Darrell Brooks Jr, 39, mowed down scores of paradegoers on Sunday

  • Five people died and 48 others were injured in the horrific tragedy in Wisconsin

  • Brooks was out on $1,000 bail at the time of the parade tragedy in Waukesha
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Would someone in NYC please recall this idiotic girl in a woman's body; She is an embarrassment to thinking woman everywhere.
Posted by: Gomez Peacock1554 || 11/24/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Does she have to file an 'in kind' contribution donation to the Trunk party when she does this?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 6:54 Comments || Top||

#3  The dumbest bartender in America
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2021 7:06 Comments || Top||

#4  The dumbest bartender in America

That seems a bit harsh. After all, she did earn a degree in economics so she could make change.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/24/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||

#5  *slow clap*

Palosi moving out of the San Pillage area and child fucking terrorists out to murder, this is on her mind.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/24/2021 11:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Pelosi just purchased a $25 million mansion in Florida. She must anticipate that SF is becoming a dangerous garbage dump in which to live. Is she planning to move to a red state which is safer? Is she going to claim residency in a state with far lower taxes?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/24/2021 12:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Fine. Let us require an Liability Insurance Policy before release.
Posted by: magpie || 11/24/2021 12:56 Comments || Top||

#8  So, AOC just personally guarantees the bail bonds for these innocent folks arrested by the NYPD for no good reason. Problem solved.
Posted by: Matt || 11/24/2021 13:13 Comments || Top||

#9  "I'll tell you how I keep AOC in line, see this finger, I use it to poke her in the eye. She has fallen for it three times. AOC is not very smart you know" --- Nancy Pelosi

Posted by: Menhadden Whomort8615 || 11/24/2021 16:58 Comments || Top||

#10  As long as AOC allows all those rapist, murders, etc.. to stay at her house until their day in court. but I don't expect she will do that.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/24/2021 17:09 Comments || Top||

#11  AOC, Omar, Pressley, Tlaib are no longer "The Squad", instead please refer to them as,
"The Potomac Witches" or TPW.

Any members of the press, government operatives elected or appointed, including bureaucrat congress or executive woman may qualify for inclusion to the group. Nominations are now open.

Think of them as Potomac Swamp Creatures, heretofore largely unnoticed in the Potomac Swamp until the "New World Order" emerged Socialist, Communist, Antifa, and BLM orientated here in America.
Posted by: Menhadden Whomort8615 || 11/24/2021 17:28 Comments || Top||

#12  They are meant to be lightning rods while the rest of the dems do what they're gonna do anyway.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 17:29 Comments || Top||

#13  I have read that as many as 30% of the Donk Party is actually Communist/Socialist members taking cover as/in the Democratic Party. - Lightening Rod - No, I don't perceive that, I posit their true to their beliefs and genuinely expect to influence legislation to meld it to their goal, ushering in Communist/Socialist objectives into the American System.
Posted by: Menhadden Whomort8615 || 11/24/2021 18:22 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
SriLankan court begins the trial of 25 men accused of plotting the Easter Sunday bombings that killed nearly 270 people in 2019
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

A Sri Lankan court on Tuesday began the trial of 25 men accused of plotting the Easter Sunday bombings that killed nearly 270 people in 2019, as lawyers warned of a protracted and complicated legal battle ahead.

The suspects were brought under heavy guard in batches from different prisons by police to the Colombo High Court during the morning hours.

Police have filed over 23,000 charges against the suspects, including conspiring to murder, aiding, and abetting the attacks, and collecting arms and ammunition. Lawyers representing the suspects said the charges were too numerous in number and the case could take as long as a decade to conclude.

"As things are now it is impossible to identify which specific charges match with which suspect. We are hoping there will be more clarity on this. We are concerned that this case will drag on and it will be a futile exercise," Attorney Noordeen M. Shaheed, who represents six of the suspects, told
Rooters.

The group includes Mohammad Naufer, who officials say criminal masterminded the attack and is linked to 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....
. He was escorted by armed police to the court with his face covered by a piece of cloth.

Another key suspect is Y.M. Ibrahim, the father of two of the jacket wallahs, Inshaf and Illham Ibrahim, who targeted two hotels in Colombo.

Lawyers for Naufer and Ibrahim could not be immediately reached for comment.

The string of attacks carried out on April 21 2019, Easter Sunday, targeted three churches and three hotels, killing 267 people, including at least 45 foreign nationals. At least 40 children also died.

The attacks, the worst in Sri Lanka’s turbulent history, also injured about 500 people, mostly belonging to the island’s minority Catholic community.

The Catholic community is keeping a close eye on the trial, said lawyer Neville Abeyratne who is representing the head of Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith.

"We are monitoring this trial in the hope that when it ends we can bring civil action asking for compensation for those who were killed and injured," he told Rooters.

Trials of two Sri Lankan officials accused of failing to prevent the attacks began on Monday.
The original events transpired before our eyes here. The miscreants were associated with either National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) (also spelt Sri Lanka Thawheed Jamaat, Tawheed Jamaath and Thowfeek Jamaath), which had not only pledged allegiance, but had gotten training from ISIS experts. The other group is Jamathei Millathu Ibrahim.
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#1  Good heavens. I thought this was going to be one of those things which retroactively proved never to have happened.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 11/24/2021 0:27 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Jury orders organizers of antisemitic Charlottesville rally to pay $26M in damages
[IsraelTimes] After a monthlong civil trial, jurors remain deadlocked on two key claims in case against 2017 ’Unite The Right’ rally where neo-Nazi
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
s chanted ’Jews will not replace us’

The pre-verdict version of this article was not so bold, calling them only white nationalists, though they neglected the scare quotes.
A jury ordered 17 “white nationalist”
...scare quotes throughout are mine...
leaders and organizations to pay more than $26 million in damages on Tuesday over the violence that erupted during the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
That’s the one where the gun toters were from several chapters of Redneck Revolt/John Brown Gun Club — which calls itself Antifa’s militia wing — pretending to be white supremacists. In a just world, they would be the ones tried and fined...
After a nearly monthlong civil trial, the jury in a US District Court deadlocked on two key claims but found the “white nationalists” liable on four other claims in the lawsuit filed by nine people who suffered physical or emotional injuries during the two days of demonstrations.

Attorney Roberta Kaplan said the plaintiffs’ lawyers plan to refile the suit so a new jury can decide the two deadlocked claims. She called the amount of damages awarded from the others counts "eye opening."

"That sends a loud message," Kaplan said.

The verdict, though mixed, is a rebuke to the white nationalist movement, particularly for the two dozen individuals and organizations accused in a federal lawsuit of orchestrating violence against African Americans, Jews and others in a meticulously planned conspiracy.

White nationalist leader Richard Spencer vowed to appeal, saying the "entire theory of that verdict is fundamentally flawed."

He said plaintiffs’ attorneys made it clear before the trial that they wanted to use the case to bankrupt him and other defendants.

"It was activism by means of lawsuits, and that is absolutely outrageous," he said. "I’m doing fine right now because I had kind of accepted in my heart the worst that could happen. I had hope, of course, but I’m not terribly surprised or crestfallen."

Jurors were unable to reach unanimous verdicts on two pivotal claims based on a 150-year-old federal law passed after the Civil War to shield freed slaves from violence and protect their civil rights. The Ku Klux Klan Act contains a rarely used provision that allows private citizens to sue other citizens for civil rights violations.
Such an queer basis for a lawsuit. I’d be inclined to vote against it on that basis alone, but I wasn’t asked.
Under those claims, the plaintiffs asked the jury to find that the defendants engaged in a conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence and that they knew about the conspiracy but failed to stop it from being carried out. Jurors could not agree on those claims.

The jury did find the defendants liable under a Virginia state law conspiracy claim and awarded $11 million in damages to the plaintiffs under that claim. Jurors also found five of the main organizers of the rally liable under a claim that alleged they subjected two of the plaintiffs to intimidation, harassment or violence that was motivated by racial, religious or ethnic animosity. The jury awarded the plaintiffs $1.5 million in damages on that claim.

The final two claims were made against James Alex Fields Jr.,
...also in our archives as James A. Fields, diagnosed schizophrenic among other things, poor man. Hopefully he is getting the treatment he needs in prison...
an avowed Hitler admirer
...so many schizophrenics admire Hitler, Napoleon, and so forth. Given it’s a function of their madness, one can’t judge them for it as one would a sane preference in that direction...
who intentionally drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one woman and injuring 19.
Queerly enough, Heather Heyer apparently died of a heart attack, not of being hit by a car. But the injured definitely discovered why steel wins over flesh...
The jury found Fields, who is serving life in prison for murder and hate crimes, liable on an assault or battery claim and awarded six plaintiffs just under $6.8 million in damages. The jury awarded the same plaintiffs nearly $6.7 million on a claim that Fields intentionally inflicted emotional distress on them.

Hundreds of white nationalists descended on Charlottesville for the Unite the Right rally on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017, ostensibly to protest city plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Actually, they were there to protest the erasure of American history, of which this was one small example from just that year.
During a march on the University of Virginia campus, white nationalists chanted "Jews will not replace us,"
...or more likely “You will not replace us” — the Jew chant makes no sense unless one assumes the crowd must have been Jew-haters because they're white, donchaknow...
surrounded counterprotesters and threw tiki torches at them.

Then-president Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
touched off a political firestorm when he failed to immediately denounce the white nationalists, saying there were "very fine people on both sides."
A deliberately manufactured firestorm based on a deliberately incomplete transcription of President Trump’s considerably more nuanced statement, as I recall, the first of many equally manufactured firestorms.
The lawsuit — funded by Integrity First for America, a nonprofit civil rights organization formed in response to the violence in Charlottesville
...more a Progessive Democrat dirty trick organization funded by the usual lefty uber-rich cabals than a civil rights org. We all know that those are like...
— accused some of the country’s most well-known white nationalists of plotting the violence, including Jason Kessler, the rally’s main organizer; Spencer, who coined the term "alt-right" to describe a loosely connected band of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and others; and Christopher Cantwell, a white supremacist who became known as the "crying Nazi" for posting a tearful video when a warrant was issued for his arrest on assault charges for using pepper spray against counterdemonstrators.

The trial featured emotional testimony from people who were struck by Fields’ car or witnessed the attacks as well as plaintiffs who were beaten or subjected to racist taunts.

Melissa Blair, who was pushed out of the way as Fields’ car slammed into the crowd, described the horror of seeing her fiancé bleeding on the sidewalk and later learning that her friend, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, had been killed.

"I was confused. I was scared. I was worried about all the people that were there. It was a complete terror scene. It was blood everywhere. I was terrified," said Blair, who became tearful several times during her testimony.

During their testimony, some of the defendants used racial epithets and defiantly expressed their support for 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...
. They also blamed one another and the anti-fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
political movement known as Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
for the violence that erupted that weekend.

In closing arguments to the jury, the defendants and their lawyers tried to distance themselves from Fields and said the plaintiffs had not proved that they conspired to commit violence at the rally.

Before the trial, Judge Norman Moon issued default judgments against another seven defendants who refused to respond to the lawsuit. The court will decide damages against those defendants.

More about Integrity First for America. Amusingly — or not, as the case may be — not one of the words in the name is true of the organization:
Tech Billionaire Who Bankrolled Numerous Disinformation Projects Linked To $620,000 Donation To Fusion GPS’s Legal Fund
Dated December 21, 2020
[DailyCaller] An anti-Trump group funded heavily by Reid Hoffman, a liberal billionaire tech titan who’s bankrolled political disinformation peddlers, contributed $620,000 to a legal fund for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the controversial Steele dossier, financial filings show.

According to IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
filings, The group Integrity First for America (IFA) made the contribution in 2018 for the legal defense fund of Bean LLC, the holding company for Fusion GPS.

IFA, which launched in October 2017, is the first entity to be identified as one of Fusion’s benefactors. Initially billed as an anti-corruption group that planned to investigate Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
’s business dealings, IFA has since turned it focus on litigation against white supremacist groups.

It is not clear whether Hoffman was aware that IFA has helped Fusion GPS.

The New York Times

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

reported in October 2017 that Hoffman planned to give more than $1 million to IFA. IFA’s board chairwoman, Monica Graham, told Agence La Belle France-Press in February 2018 that the initial funding for the group came from Silicon Valley funders. She singled out Hoffman as a significant donor.

IFA received $2.9 million in contributions in 2017 and nearly $9 million in 2018, according to its filings with the IRS.

Hoffman has funded multiple anti-Trump and anti-Republican initiatives, some of which have faced accusations of pushing politically-charged disinformation.

Hoffman apologized in late 2018 after The New York Times reported that he was a top funder for a project spearheaded by the tech firm New Knowledge, which created fake online personas aimed at influencing conservatives voters in Alabama’s Senate special election in December 2017.

According to The Times, the project’s operators created thousands of fake Russian accounts that followed Republican candidate Roy Moore. The mass following generated national media coverage and fueled the narrative that Republicans were the party favored most by Russia.

New Knowledge worked closely with Fusion GPS, according to a book by Fusion founders Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch. The firm also contributed to a Senate Intelligence Committee report about Russia’s efforts to push disinformation on social media.

Hoffman was an early backer to ACRONYM, the progressive tech company behind the botched app used in the Iowa Democratic caucuses earlier this year.

Another Hoffman-funded entity, American Engagement Technologies, published misleading Facebook ads from accounts designed to stifle Republican voter turnout in the special election. Facebook announced in January 2019 that it was investigating New for Democracy, another group Hoffman financed that was accused of publishing misleading news stories ahead of the 2018 midterms.

Dmitri Mehlhorn, who is reported to be Hoffman’s top political adviser, was on the board for News for Democracy. He is also on the board of IFA.

Susie Buell, a Democratic activist who is close to Bill and Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
, is also an IFA board member.

One of IFA’s founding executives is Mary Mapes, a former CBS News producer who was fired in 2005 over her work on a report on fabricated documents that said George W. Bush dodged serving in the Vietnam War.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [18 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  In my opinion, the money will never be paid.
Posted by: BernardZ || 11/24/2021 3:32 Comments || Top||

#2 

I actually see a GREATER GOOD resulting from this verdict. As there is now a recent Legal Case Precedent to sue protest organizers for the results of their protests.

Now ALL Militant/Radical extremists organizers (Neo-Nazi, BLM, ANTI-FA and etc...) that turn violent, become RIOTS, a collection of Arsons and massive Looting can be sued.

Questions:
Yes, there is always questions.
How much of the Charlottesville Rally was the fault of the Neo-Nazi's, The City itself, and how much was the Crazy Ass protesting Liberals, BLM and etc... fault?

Because, as many videos show, the LEFT was the most physically violent up until James Alex Fields crashed into the Crowd.

So was James Alex Fields actually a member of the Racist Organizers group? Or, a Lone YANKEE raised RACIST Wolf with a history of Mental issues dating back to grade school, that drove down from OHIO by himself?

BTW: As we all have seen from video's both sides were armed with various weapons. But there were a lot baseball bats suddenly produced on the LEFT after the car crash.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/24/2021 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Jason Kessler, listed in article as a white supremacist was actually Occupy Wall Street member. Some facts are just a little too inconvenient to the narrative.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/24/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Bad people on both sides.
Posted by: KBK || 11/24/2021 19:20 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Berri to Find 'Formula' with Hizbullah over Cabinet Sessions
[An Nahar] The Baabda meeting between President Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
, Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
and Prime Minister Najib Miqati was obviously a positive milestone, but many points remained unresolved, al-Liwaa newspaper said.

An understanding needs to be reached with 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...
, the newspaper said, adding that Berri "has showed flexibility" and has promised "to solve Hizbullah’s objections and to work on finding a practical formula."

Also "no judicial solution has been found concerning the dismissal of lead investigator in Beirut port blast Judge Tarek Bitar," the newspaper said.

Well informed sources told al-Liwaa that the meeting, that broke the ice between Aoun and Berri, indicates that files are being discussed and that a dialogue has started but the date for an upcoming Cabinet session has not been set yet.

COMMENTS 3
Thumbansarullah 11 hours ago
God bless our Shia resistance for finding the Formula to free Lebanon from the Saudi-American-Israeli-Bengali-Libyani-Morocani-Somali-Bahraini-Emirati coalition and its evil scheme towards Lebanon.

The formula is Army-Resistance-Shia minus Bitar.

Shia Shea Shia !!!

Missingsingldad 5 hours ago
God rid us of the party of demons... the destroyer of Lebanon... the murderer of thousands of Arabs. Hell, Nasrallah killed more arabs than Israel have in the last 60 years. TFEH!

Missingeasygoing 9 hours ago
Formula is take that CANCER & you out of Lebanon piece of shit!!

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Africa Horn
Uganda arrests Somali national with detonator in Kampala
[Garowe] A Somali national has been arrested in Kampala with a detonator, Uganda police said, in the latest development which could shape the anti-terrorism war, following a series of attacks in the East Africa nation.

The Uganda police said the Somali national was arrested at Speke Resort Hotel in Munyonyo, just within the outskirts of Kampala. Fred Enanga, the police spokesperson, said security guards managed to recover the detonator.

"The device was discovered by the security as they did a thorough search of the vehicle, a Toyota Wish which was being driven by Abdul Karim Mayowu, a 25-year-old Somali national and resident of Lungujja in Lubaga division," Enanga said.

Mr. Enanga added that the police are currently interrogating the Somali national, adding that it's said that he's a special hire driver and that had been hired by one Muhammad Hassan, 28, another Somali national to go pick his mother and siblings from the hotel.

"That is how he drove with this suspected device. We have now arrested the two and also other close associates of the family including 40-year Asili Yasin and 20-year-old Maxbal Masal. The device that he was found with is one that can operate or detonate a given bomb. We now have a duty to trace backward for the main component of the suspected bomb," Enanga noted.

The incident comes just a week after ISIS took responsibility for twin kabooms in Kampala which claimed the lives of two people. President Yoweri Museveni
...President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote...
vowed to "crush" the murderous Moslems who were attacking the country for the third time within four months.

So far, a total of 106 suspects have been arrested in connection with the incident. Uganda has been one of the most stable nations in East Africa when it comes to matters terrorism but the recent attacks have raised fears among stakeholders.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


-Land of the Free
It Will Take More Than the Rittenhouse Verdict To Vindicate American Justice
By Conrad Black

[NYSun] It is undoubtedly true that the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was a victory over dishonest and overreaching prosecutors, over a largely dishonest national press, and over the same elements that produced mob rule in Kenosha in the summer of 2020.

The jurors, in their questions and their diligence, clearly overcame the immense media bias against Mr. Rittenhouse, and the intermittent chanting and howling by mobs outside the courthouse
...led by members of Antifa/BLM/Black Block “activists”...
of often rather explicit threats against the jurors if they did not convict. The case was widely misrepresented as a trial of white-supremacist vigilantism intruding into Wisconsin from outside to aggravate the oppression of blacks in Kenosha.
...whereas in reality young Mr. Rittenhouse went there as a naive, independent supporter of the Black Lives Matter idea, though perhaps no longer of BLM Inc...
The jurors deduced that the defendant was invited to Kenosha by his family, had been asked to help defend an automobile dealership in the event of violence, was a legal carrier of the specific weapon that he owned, which was legally in the home of relatives in Kenosha.

The initial portrayal of the case, including by then-candidate Joe Biden, of white supremacist violence, was exposed as defamatory fiction, and even the prosecution witnesses powerfully contributed to the perception that Mr. Rittenhouse, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, had acted in self-defense.

It emerged that he was a well motivated and presentable young man, a good kid, and in no way a troublemaker or a bigot, contrary to what was instantly claimed by most of the media, all the way up to and through the trial.

The judge, too, deserves credit for criticizing the prosecution when it attempted to construe the defendant’s previous silence as an acknowledgment of guilt, in plain contravention of approximately 50 years of overwhelming constitutional interpretation, and for the prosecution’s attempt to hold that shooting someone had no legal character of self-defense if the gunshot victim was himself not armed.

The footage of the defendant being kicked in the face by one of those he shot, bashed over the head with the skateboard by another, and responding in the third case to having a gun pointed at his face at point-blank range, were all of great assistance to the defense.

Yet as the facts unfolded, and the lies of the press and political lynch mob that had attempted to try and convict young Mr. Rittenhouse for the last 15 months before the matter could get to court were exposed, there was no accommodation of the sharply evolving picture of what had actually occurred in Kenosha on August 25, 2020.

Not only did the defendant’s good character and background come to light; the fact that the two deceased and the other complainant party were all rioters and to some extent vandals and bullies, did not visibly shake the prosecution in its determination to proceed with four counts of actual or attempted homicide, plus a related lesser count.

Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [12 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Meanwhile in Waukesha a few days later the American judicial process was found to be in disarray.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/24/2021 0:56 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Qatar, Hamas seek to bypass Israeli curbs on cash funding for Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Under reported emerging deal, Qatari-funded fuel from Egypt will be sold in the Paleostinian coastal enclave, with proceeds going to pay civil servant wages

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...
and the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group are reportedly working on an agreement that will use Qatari-funded fuel to pay the wages of civil servants in the Gazoo
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)


Africa North
Sources confirm that UN special envoy to Libya Jan Kubis has resigned
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [8 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  "They told there was gonna be bribes! They keep bringing me goats!"
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/24/2021 9:16 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hezbollah smuggling weapons to Arab Israelis to sow civil strife – police
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese terror group accused of upping efforts to send quality arms into Israel following May festivities between Jews and Arabs

The Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
-based Hezbollah terror group is trying to smuggle weapons into Israel for use by the Arab Israeli community in future festivities, a police official has said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  We call them "community organizers" over here. We even elected one for president. Twice
Posted by: Sgt. D.T. || 11/24/2021 1:53 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey Lira Crashes 13% vs U.S. Dollar to New Record Low
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [7 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Stepping out to buy a loaf of bread?
Don't forget your wallet.

Posted by: Otto Crerenter3297 || 11/24/2021 8:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Turkey cut the listed pay (frequently they don't pay or pay very late) of their mercenaries in Syria from $2K/month to $600/month earlier this year.

Time for another pay cut.

Also, Turkey has some mercenaries in Libya and a few in Somalia Time for a paycut there too.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/24/2021 11:53 Comments || Top||


Economy
Samsung plans to build $17 billion chip-making plant in Texas
[FoxBusinessNews] Samsung Electronics Co. plans to build a roughly $17 billion chip-making plant in Taylor, Texas, according to people familiar with the matter, a mega investment by the South Korean tech giant, as the Biden administration pushes for an expansion of U.S. semiconductor production.

An announcement could come as early as Tuesday, people familiar with the matter said. Gov. Greg Abbott is scheduled to make an "economic announcement" Tuesday at 5 p.m. local time.

The Taylor facility, located in central Texas, plans to create around 1,800 jobs, though chip production isn’t expected to start until the end of 2024, according to documents Samsung had previously filed with Texas authorities. To woo Samsung, Taylor had offered incentives that include the equivalent of property-tax breaks of up to 92.5% for the first 10 years, with the write-offs gradually declining over the next several decades.

Samsung’s doubling down on Texas where it already has a footprint comes amid a year of historic spending for the semiconductor industry, spurred by government incentives seeking to attract local production. A global chip shortage has undercut many industries from smartphones and home appliances to cars.

Samsung, the world’s largest semiconductor maker by revenue, plans to invest more than $205 billion over the next three years, with chip-making a priority. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has earmarked more than $100 billion over the next three years to build new chip factories. Intel Corp. has also unveiled more than $100 billion worth of semiconductor factory investments plans in the U.S. and Europe over the coming decade.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, it'll be out of the range of Nork SCUDs for sure.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 7:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Long history of Chip making in Texas, Going back to Texas Instruments and others.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 11/24/2021 19:50 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Researchers develop device worn on the stomach that can detect a fatal opioid overdose within 15 seconds and injects users with naxolone, which helps the person start breathing again
The addicts will love that. Could make the lives of EMTs easier, too, if they don’t have to go every time for their repeat customers...
... and druggies are sure to wear the device. Of course they are.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe that'll work for snakebite.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2021 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Entrapment meets fatal attraction
In lovable snitch's adaption:
"I's gettin' too high,
so..." [a needle, a Pi,
and a wire] "A Bubs Goldberg contraption!"
Posted by: Lionel Elmumble1080 || 11/24/2021 0:47 Comments || Top||

#3  After 6 overdoses will it still work. The high is all that matters. They become violent after you bring them down many times. In ER extra security for the violent ones. Stimulus money received and within 24hrs overdosed. I'd bet China has no problem.
Posted by: Dale || 11/24/2021 3:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Third time it's triggered, it starts pumping cyanide.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/24/2021 8:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Another solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/24/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#6  "A Bubs Goldberg contraption!"

I laughed!
Posted by: SteveS || 11/24/2021 10:58 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Elly A. Starling, a male to female antifa member, was arrested at the violent anti-Rittenhouse riot in Portland
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  And he will be sentenced to a women's prison, surrounded by all the things he could never have outside.
Posted by: Clavith Phomomp6945 || 11/24/2021 3:30 Comments || Top||

#2  um, Bubba? That whole transgender thing didn't work for you.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/24/2021 9:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Does he have a sister named Clarisse?
(I note he's basically "sorta" male to female; not gonna get on RuPaul looking like that.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/24/2021 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  "She's a he, so...."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/24/2021 14:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Needs a little wax on the mustache area. Aunt Betty is giving "her" a run for the money though...
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/24/2021 18:02 Comments || Top||

#6  "She was so mean, she tried to grow a mustache."
Posted by: SteveS || 11/24/2021 18:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Given a little time "she" might make it, as in the example below (woman to man transition) ((genetically NO; Physical Appearance Yes))

Posted by: Menhadden Whomort8615 || 11/24/2021 18:45 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm soooooooo confused, can "we" start all over again (?) - reset - sorry doesn't work that way..
You are nuts 🤪 just face it.
Posted by: Slereter Spailet1813 || 11/24/2021 18:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Is it simply sampling bias, or is the "T" group of unhappy souls over-represented in Antifa?
Posted by: james || 11/24/2021 21:56 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Suspect with ties to al-Nusra was detained in Khabarovsk
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] The Federal Security Service (FSB) detained in Khabarovsk a foreign citizen who was involved in financing the terrorist group Dzhebhat al-Nusra. This was reported on November 24 by the press service of the regional FSB.

"The officers of the FSB of Russia in the Khabarovsk Territory detained a 26-year-old native of one of the Central Asian republics involved in committing crimes under Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Assistance in terrorist activities)," the message says.

The law enforcement agency added that the man voluntarily transferred money to the needs of one of the structures of "al-Nusra." In addition, criminal cases were opened against four other foreigners who knew about the crime, but did not report it to law enforcement agencies.
Posted by: badanov || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [7 views] Top|| File under: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (al-Nusra)


Home Front: Politix
Illinois Dem fired over 'reprehensible' tweets calling Waukesha Christmas parade 'karma'
[NYPOST] The Illinois Democratic social media director who called the deadly Christmas parade rampage in Wisconsin "karma" for the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse has been fired over her "callous and reprehensible posts."

Mary Lemanski sparked outrage with posts suggesting the Waukesha killer drove his SUV through paraders Sunday — killing five and injuring dozens — because he "probably felt threatened" like teen gunman Rittenhouse had during the state’s riots last year in Kenosha.

"It was probably just self-defense," she also tweeted on her since-deleted page, suggesting the suspect — a convicted pedophile with a lengthy rap sheet — "came to help people," again like Rittenhouse testified he had done.

"You reap what you sow," she wrote, saying, "I just believe in Karma and this came around quick on the citizens of Wisconsin."
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dem fired? It would appear hell has frozen over.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/24/2021 1:37 Comments || Top||

#2  "You made us look bad by telling everyone what we really think! We can't cheat the deplorables like that!"
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/24/2021 4:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Looked her up. She is really quite a self centered little bitch. She whines about people not liking the music she both plays and composes too. She can't understand why even Democrats are now threatening her life... on her cellphone.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/24/2021 5:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh and something is wrong with all people that they don't love her music.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/24/2021 5:45 Comments || Top||

#5  More children in adult bodies
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2021 6:55 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2021 7:08 Comments || Top||

#7  This guy beats her up pretty good...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#8  I find her comment about Karma sweetly ironic as it just kicked her in the Labia.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 11/24/2021 8:48 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Like all the worst things about communism, leftists think nothing bad will ever happen to them. Until it does.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#10  She's finding out what karma is now.
Posted by: Chris || 11/24/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#11  She got fired for letting the mask slip.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/24/2021 10:36 Comments || Top||

#12  Interferes with the propaganda operative.

Straight up terrorism attack, skipping all the escalation steps and right to killing children.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/24/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||

#13  /\ Echoing #9: Leftists never believe they will face the firing squad.
Posted by: magpie || 11/24/2021 12:58 Comments || Top||

#14  All leftists believe they will be rulers in the new order. I call it "commissar syndrome."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 13:01 Comments || Top||

#15  #9 ...And leftists tend to think nothing in their fault; it's always someone else's fault. They are always the victim in their minds.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/24/2021 14:03 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Michigan woman admits using 'RentAHitman.com' to try to kill ex
[NYPOST] A brilliant twisted Michigan woman has admitted to trying to hire a hitman on a fake website to kill her ex-husband for $5,000.

Wendy Lynn Wein, 52, faces at least nine years behind bars after pleading guilty to filling out a "service request form" on RentAHitman.com seeking help with "an issue" she had in July 2020, MLive.com reported.

Wein pleaded guilty to charges of solicitation of murder and using a computer to commit a crime on Nov. 12. A plea agreement caps her minimum sentence at 108 months and she will learn her fate in January, the outlet reported.

Michigan State Police said Wein reached out to the fictitious website that claims to "solve problems" and said her ex-husband was her intended target. The site’s owner then contacted cops, saying he was concerned the South Rockwood woman wanted her former flame dead, state police said.

An undercover trooper posing as a hitman later met Wein in a parking lot, where she offered to pay him $5,000 to kill her ex and provided him with a payment for travel expenses, authorities said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rent a Clinton?
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/24/2021 1:31 Comments || Top||

#2  This site ia actually a dummy test that was set up for use by a couple of 'white hat' hackers who do penetration and reliability exploits for clients. The took the site name because, like nobody would ever use this, right?
Turns out they had so many outside 'tickles' that they ended putting up a "service request" form on the front page, which they then forward on law enforcement.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/24/2021 9:29 Comments || Top||

#3  A rookie mistake. Everyone knows RentAHitman.com is a honeypot. For actual hitman services, you want REDACTED.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/24/2021 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  I assume a website like this was 100% FBI. In the past I assumed it was to catch the bad guys before they commit crimes. Now I assume it is to protect Democrats caught in the net.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/24/2021 11:27 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Also a great way to acquire "assets."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2021 11:39 Comments || Top||

#6  "We're hiring. Some experience required"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2021 12:09 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian teen detained in Kazan on mass shooting plot
[TASS] Federal Security Service agents in Kazan detained a teenager that plotted an armed attack on an educational institution, the agency’s press service told TASS on Tuesday.

The agency, known as FSB, said the planned "mass murder" was instigated by a Ukrainian national, named Yaroslav Ovsyuk and living in Ukraine, via the Telegram messenger.

Agents seized items from the suspect’s home that included an airgun, communications devices whose browser history contained search queries about repurposing the airgun for combat, and materials describing armed attacks on educational institutions.

Russia’s Investigations Committee in the Tatarstan region, which includes Kazan, has opened a criminal case against the suspect, who wasn’t identified, on charges of premeditating a murder of two or more people.
Posted by: badanov || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [15 views] Top|| File under:


A resident of Makhachkala suspected of financing ISIS
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[KavkazUzel] A criminal case on the financing of terrorism is being investigated against a resident of Makhachkala, who is suspected of transferring 120,000 rubles to a member of the Islamic State, the investigation reported today. 

The Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Dagestan announced the investigation of a criminal case under the article on the financing of terrorism against a 36-year-old resident of Makhachkala.

According to the investigation, in January-February 2019, the suspect, knowing that the international organization "Islamic State" was recognized as terrorist and its activities were prohibited on the territory of Russia, transferred 120,000 rubles to an ISIS member through a local resident, the ICR department for Dagestan reported today at your site.

"The woman realized that the funds were intended to provide for illegal groups created in Syria to commit terrorist crimes," RIA Dagestan was quoted as saying.

Part 1 of article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (assistance to terrorist activities) provides for up to 15 years in prison.

The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on October 15, investigators reported a criminal case against a 30-year-old resident of the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan. According to the investigators, he organized a fundraiser for militants in Syria , and also tried to recruit a Chechen resident into the ranks of IS through the Internet.
Posted by: badanov || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [13 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Afghanistan
Islamic Emirate Appoints 27 Senior Officials
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate officials said they appointed 27 people in senior positions to ministries as well as to other departments and to the military.

Zabiullah Mujahid, front man for the Islamic Emirate, said these people have been appointed to these positions based on an order by Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Based on a list which Mujahid posted on Twitter, Mawlawi Shahabuddin Delavar has been selected as the acting minister of mines and petroleum, and Mullah Mohammad Abbas Akhund has been named the acting minister of disaster management.

The following have been appointed:

Mawlawi Shahabuddin Delavar, acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum

Haji Mullah Mohammad Isa Akhund, Deputy Minister of Mines and Petroleum

Mullah Mohammad Abbas Akhund, acting Minister of Disaster Management

Mawlawi Sharafuddin, Deputy Minister of Disaster Management

Mawlawi Enayatullah, Deputy Minister of Disaster Management

Mawlawi Hamdullah Zahed, head of the National Procurement Authority

Sheikh Abdul Rahim, Deputy Director of National Procurement Authority

Mawlawi Qudaratullah Jamal, Head of the Supreme Audit Office

Mawlawi Ezatullah, Deputy Director of the Supreme Audit Office

Mawlawi Mohammad Yusef Mestari, acting Director of Prisons

Mullah Habibullah Fazli, Deputy Director of Prison Affairs

Mawlawi Keramatullah Akhundzadeh, head of the Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission

Mawlawi Ahmad Taha, Deputy Minister for Borders and Tribal Affairs

Mawlawi Gul Zarrin, head of the Kuchi department in the Ministry of Borders and Tribal Affairs

Sheikh Mawlawi Abdul Hakim, Deputy Minister of Martyrs and the Disabled

Mawlawi Saeed Ahmad Shahidkhel, Deputy Minister of Education

Mawlawi Abdul Rahman Halim, Deputy Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development

Mawlawi Atiqullah Azizi, Deputy Minister of Finance and Administration at the Ministry of Information and Culture

Mullah Faizullah Akhund, Deputy Minister of Youth at the Ministry of Information and Culture

Mawlawi Saifuddin Taieb, Deputy Director of Communications at the administrative office

Mawlawi Fathullah Mansour, head of Kandahar airport

Mohammad Ismail, Executive Commander of the Military Court

Mawlawi Esmatullah Asim, Deputy of Afghan Red Islamic Thingy Society

Mawlawi Rahimullah Mahmoud, Deputy Commander of al-Badr Corps in Kandahar

Mawlawi Abdul Samad, Deputy Commander of the Azm Corps in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
Mullah Nasir Akhund, Deputy Minister of Finance

Mawlawi Arefullah Aref, Deputy Minister of Energy and Water.
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#1  three people in charge of Disaster Management

not enough
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/24/2021 13:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Afghanistan is the Ummah now, Lord Garth. All disasters are therefore Allah’s will, and therefore do not need human management.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2021 14:53 Comments || Top||

#3  well by an extended definition, the believing Moslems in every country are part of the Ummah

Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/24/2021 18:47 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Four ISIS members arrested near Erbil: Coalition
[Rudaw] A number of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) members were arrested near the capital of the Kurdistan Region, the US-led Coalition said on Tuesday as the group remains a threat to the security and stability of Iraq and the Region.

In a series of operations, the US-led coalition with the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Directorate (CTD) arrested four ISIS members near Erbil, the Coalition’s Special Operations Joint Task Force-Levant announced in a tweet.

"These operations reduce ISIS’s [ISIS] ability to coordinate movements and harass the people of Iraq," it added, without disclosing further information about the detained members.

Iraqi forces have not yet commented on the arrests.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [14 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Rojava hands ISIS-linked orphan to Norway
[Rudaw] A Norwegian orphan whose parents were affiliated with 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....
(ISIS) has been handed over to a delegation from the Nordic country, an official from northeast Syria (Rojava) said on Tuesday.

"An orphaned Norwegian child from ISIS families was handed over to a delegation representing the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs" on Monday, the co-chair of Rojava’s foreign relations commission Abdulkarim Omar said in a tweet.

Abdulkarim did not disclose which camp the child was taken from.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested thousands of ISIS fighters along with their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019. Most of these people are held at al-Hol and Roj camps.

A total of 40,000 children from 60 different countries were living in dire conditions in both Roj and al-Hol camps, Save the Children warned in a report in late September.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [16 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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