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Virginia Mayo was an American actress and dancer. She was in a series of comedy films with Danny Kaye and was Warner Brothers' biggest box-office money-maker in the late 1940s. She also co-starred in the 1946 Oscar-winning movie The Best Years of Our Lives and White Heat.
Born:
Virginia Clara Jones,
November 30, 1920, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died:
January 17, 2005, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Hearing up now on Bannon contempt of Congress charge. This is what Bannon's legal team wants under discovery from the government: pic.twitter.com/RWOFBxx4TQ
It's clear Bannon's team is attempting to delegitimize the entire J6 committee, which is great.
Notes Thompson's personal lawsuit should preclude him from heading committee. Notes Raskin's lead role in Trump's impeachment. "Entitled to know what the processes were."
[IndianExpress] Gen Bipin Rawat chopper crash: General Bipin Rawat, wife among 13 killed
Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat, his wife were among 13 killed after an IAF chopper they were travelling in crashed near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. A Mi-17, gawd I don't know why we can't just buy a friggin' Sikorsky or something, at least for the veeps.
"With deep regret, it has now been ascertained that General Bipin Rawat, Mrs Madhulika Rawat and 11 other persons on board have died in the unfortunate accident," the Indian Force said in a tweet.
The crash happened at a distance of about 10 km from the helipad where it was to land. Earlier today, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh informed Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the incident. According to sources, Singh will brief Parliament on the incident tomorrow. See photos from the incident site here.
Sources earlier said that at least three injured people from the crash were taken to a nearby hospital. The crash took place in the Nilgiris, shortly after the Mi-series chopper took off from the army base in Sulur.
From NDTV : General Bipin Rawat: Five Highlights Of An Outstanding Career
Here's your 5-point peek into General Rawat's career:
General Rawat had an illustrious career in the defense services spanning over four decades that saw him rising in ranks to be appointed the first joint chief of the tri-services. The CDS is a one-point advisor to the government on matters related to the military and functions with the main aim of integrating the three services - the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. He was appointed the 27th Chief of the Army Staff in 2016 amid a controversy over his seniority. He had superseded two senior officers to occupy the Army chief's position. He then rose to become the CDS in 2019. The government had amended the Army rules to extend the age of superannuation from 62 years to 65 years, paving the way for his appointment to the post.
He is credited with being instrumental in reducing militancy in Northeast India. The 2015 cross-border operation into Myanmar in which the Indian Army successfully responded to an ambush by NSCN-K militants was conducted under his supervision. He was also part of the planning for the 2016 surgical strikes, in which the Indian Army went across the Line of Control into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and conducted an airstrike on a Jaish-e-Mohammad terror training camp in Pakistan's Balakot. General Rawat was reportedly monitoring the developments from South Block in New Delhi.
General Rawat was a veteran in counterinsurgency and high-altitude warfare, having served in difficult terrains including the Northern and Eastern commands. He has also served as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-C) Southern Command. During his long career, he served across the country in various roles. He commanded a company in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir. As a Colonel, he commanded the 5th battalion 11 Gorkha Rifles in the Eastern sector along the Line of Actual Control at Kibithu in Arunachal Pradesh. As a Brigadier, he commanded 5 Sector of Rashtriya Rifles in Sopore, Kashmir. He has also been part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force and has commanded a multinational brigade in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he was twice awarded the Force Commander's Commendation.
General Rawat has been decorated with many honours for his service, including the Param Vishisht Seva Medal, Uttam Yudh Seva Medal, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, Vishisht Seva Medal, Yudh Seva Medal, and Sena Medal.
General Rawat is an alumnus of the St Edward School in Shimla and the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla. He was commissioned in the Fifth Battalion of the Eleven Gorkha Rifles in December 1978 from the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun. He was a recipient of the prestigious "Sword of Honour". General Rawat also attended the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.
[SputnikNews] India signed several agreements with Russia on Monday after a one-on-one meeting between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu. The two countries also held the inaugural 2+2 ministerial dialogue to discuss issues that have made waves internationally.
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FYI India: Cheap weapon systems suck.
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Given India's work on attempting to provide for their military in house, it's a cheap way to buy time for what they need til they start their own production lines.
[JustTheNews] Chris Magnus was confirmed in a 50-47 vote after his nomination was opposed by the National Sheriffs' Association.
President Joe Biden's nominee for Customs and Border Protection Director, Chris Magnus, was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday.
The Tucson, Arizona, police chief secured his position with unanimous support from Senate Democrats in a 50-47 vote. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) also voted in his favor, while Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) did not vote.
Magnus' nomination was opposed by the National Sheriffs' Association and the Arizona Sheriffs' Association. The law enforcement groups said Magnus did not assist Border Patrol agents as police chief, and he does not have enough experience to lead the federal group.
Magnus deleted his Twitter last week after making comments about police officers' use of force at his department.
Sexual harassment and retaliation allegations against Magnus were settled out of court in 2017 for an undisclosed sum, Fox News reports.
He faced another lawsuit as a police chief in Richmond, California. Magnus was accused of making racist jokes against black cops, but the 2007 lawsuit was ultimately dismissed.
The now CBP head stood against the Trump administration's fight against sanctuary cities, writing in a 2017 New York Times op-ed that Tucson is not a sanctuary city but takes "pride in being welcoming to immigrants."
"Justice Department grants and other federal support funded through our taxes should not be tied to immigration policies," he wrote.
During his committee hearing on Tuesday, Magnus described the images that conjured false claims of Border Patrol agents whipping migrants as "troubling."
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The law enforcement groups said Magnus did not assist Border Patrol agents as police chief, and he does not have enough experience to lead the federal group.
With respect to the current Administration, he's perfect for the job. Let's call him Captain Turnstile!
[DailyWire] Attempts from far-left activists and students to get Kyle Rittenhouse booted from Arizona State University have failed, the teenager revealed Monday during an appearance on Blaze TV’s “You Are Here.”
Asked about what schools he’s looking at for college, Rittenhouse enthusiastically responded, “ASU, Arizona State University — I’ll be there in the spring!”
“Weren’t there people protesting that?” Blaze Media’s Sara Gonzales asked the 18-year-old.
“Yeah, but they failed,” Rittenhouse responded.
When the protesters were mocked for falsely claiming the teen “murdered” “black people,” Rittenhouse replied, “Look, everybody has the right to protest, no matter how silly it is.”
Officials at Arizona State University said last week that Rittenhouse “was not currently enrolled at the university, though he was taking online classes, as activists called for his removal from the school,” The Daily Wire reported.
“Kyle Rittenhouse has not gone through the admissions process with Arizona State University and is not enrolled in the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation,” the school said. “ASU can confirm that Mr. Rittenhouse enrolled as a non-degree seeking ASU Online student for the session that started Oct. 13, 2021, which allows students access to begin taking classes as they prepare to seek admission into a degree program at the university.”
In a follow-up statement, ASU said Rittenhouse was not enrolled as a student at ASU: “Kyle Rittenhouse has not gone through the ASU admissions process. Our records show that he is not currently enrolled in any classes at ASU.”
In response, Rittenhouse family spokesman Dave Hancock told Fox News that the teen’s professors “advised [him] to temporarily withdraw from classes but that he is planning on enrolling again.”
“Amid his most recent semester, Kyle’s professors at Arizona State University recommended a compassionate withdrawal of his online classes,” Hancock said. “Now that the trial is behind him, Kyle is eager to enroll in more classes. He is hopeful that attending Arizona State in person will soon be an option.”
It seems Rittenhouse has since re-enrolled and has been accepted.
A jury last month found the teen not guilty on all charges related to a fatal riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that took place last year. The teen was facing life in prison without the chance at parole.
During his appearance on Blaze TV, Rittenhouse repeatedly rejected the notion that he’s a “hero” or “heroic,” emphasizing that he wished he did not have to take anyone’s life.
The teen noted that he had no choice but to fatally shoot his attackers and believes it is a “God-given right” for anyone to defend themselves from danger.
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Now the question becomes.
How many actual enrolled ASU students will raise hell, skip classes, get dropped or kicked out for violating student rules, get arrested for number of things, then rack-up a few $1,000 in student loans debt to protest him exercising his legally justified Civil Rights.
Verses the imported Thugs playing Students, that the MSM will use and portray as students?
I would also warn him never to date from the ASU Student body to avoid False Sexual Assault claims.
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^ He seems unashamed about who he is and what he's done (as he should be.) I doubt he will change his name or appearance. But I guess wrong half the time.
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Pride is one thing, but receiving multiple death threats every day without benefit of police protection is another thing entirely
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In his case, the death threat idiots are COMICON level. If he got a penny for each one, he would already be retired.
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"Death threats" pale in comparison to:
1) being charged by a lunatic while someone else fires shots, presumably at you
2) being chased by a mob
3) having another lunatic try to crush your skull with a skateboard
4) yet another lunatic tries to jump-kick you in the head
5) yet ANOTHER lunatic feigns being peaceful and draws a pistol on you
Stupid tweets, emails, phone calls -- all pale in comparison to what he went through in the space of a few minutes. And he kept his head, only missing one target, and defended himself brilliantly.
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Yes he did. He's an extraordinary young man and a great hero. Naive though he may have been, it nonetheless gives us all hope for our country that we can still produce such a young man.
But the evidence from his trial is unmistakable: Kyle is suffering from PTSD.
Two public breakdowns, plus his or his lawyers' admission that, during his nightmarish jail stay pending release on bail, he was vomiting every day from the stress, tell us that this brace young man has paid a horrific price for his valorous actions.
And will continue to pay the price for as long as he lives in this sick and decadent shadow of our former great Republic.
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He is sorta chubby. I really don't see any evidence of having trouble keeping his food down. Yes, that is how some people handle stress, I'm one of them.
Not throwing any shade at him at all. He seems to be handling the after-action every bit as well as he handled the combat. More like him, please.
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Our formerly great republic had witch trials well before the Constitution was ratified. Just sayin'...
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Maybe you're right. I don't think any of us knows what he's actually facing now. I can't imagine how I'd endure that surreal Kafkaesque, shitshow-ordeal he's endured these last 15 months
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Well, he's already a hero. Heroes are thrust into these situations, and they get damaged yes. But they leave us hope. That's why they're called exemplary. I love this kid.
O' babyfaced chap from Illinois,
Creedmoor Position posterboy.
My salute to yer daddy and mammy,
for raisin' ya this triple whammy
for them Wakandan baiters of soy.
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I have a hard time imagining you'd come out of the mess he was in without seeing that life comes down to doing exactly what's necessary in the moment. It has to be both humbling and empowering at the same time. One of the best saying on the Murphy's Law Calendar is "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." Kyle has already said he wishes he had not been there. But he was and he's alive to say he knows better now. That's pretty much as good an outcome as you could ask for.
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Let's please remember something the media doesn't bother to point out. Multiple people were trying to execute him for putting out a fire they set. That's the republic we currently live in.
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Kyle Rittenhouse Reveals He Plans to Become a Lawyer
If he makes it all the way through, he’ll have no problem getting a job with one of the conservative versions of the ACLU. And a great asset he’ll be for them. As I recall, he originally planned to become a policeman.
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If he figures to be the sort of lawyer who shoots to kill, he will be busy and successful.
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Man... how I wish we too had gun rights just like Americans. Yes, I get it; it kind of hinders jihadists, khalistanis etc. away from raping and shooting every innocent being. But it's so liberating to own guns and rifles.
Anyway, if those filthy leftists and liberals keep marauding against conservatives and gun laws, they're very much welcome to live in countries such as mine.
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If he runs the calculus and decides "If I shoot that guy who's trying to kill me, I will be put through kangaroo court." he winds up dead. So, that decision tree would have avoided kangaroo court, anyway....
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With rights come responsibilities. I have lived in the brotherhood of the gun my entire life and I have known some very responsible people.
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Known some raging a$$holes too. That needs said.
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Shoot, shoot, shoot it boy. You gotta shoot it for me.
I've really got to get a fast ride out of here...
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[Rudaw] Following a spate 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) attacks on villages located in the security vacuum of the disputed areas between Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, Peshmerga forces were deployed to the village of Liheban in Kirkuk's Sargaran sub-district on Monday in a sign of the increasing cooperation with Iraqi forces attempting to limit further violence.
The deployment comes after an uptick in ISIS attacks on Peshmerga forces and civilians in villages situated across the disputed land, as the terrorist group has taken advantage of security gaps between Peshmerga and Iraqi forces.
On Saturday, Iraqi and Kurdish forces held a high-level security meeting in Baghdad to boost cooperation between the two forces, and they have now established military bases in coordination with the Iraqi army which has enabled the Peshmerga to be deployed in Liheban, near Mount Qarachogh in Makhmour: a village they had previously only limited access to, being situated in the disputed area.
On Sunday, Liheban villagers fled their village due to a sustained ISIS attack, as ISIS concurrently attacked a Peshmerga checkpoint near the village of Qara Salim close to the town of Pirde.
Many villagers from Liheban returned to their homes on Monday, with one villager estimating that around 30 families have returned, and it is expected that more will follow now Peshmerga forces are stationed in their village.
Saadi Ali, a Peshmerga commander, told Rudaw on Monday that after President Barzani’s office ordered the Peshmerga to take care of the villagers in the area, their troops were deployed. "Previously, this area was a security vacuum, but now we're stepping in to conduct more patrols in the villages," he said.
Mahmoud Khalaf, the Iraqi commander of Nineveh operations, explained that the coordination will be implemented in the Makhmour front and Nineveh province, where ISIS assaults are increasing.
"Coordination and cooperation are evident, especially in these villages. There’s no issue in the villages under our responsibility. Coordination is present throughout the region except in Liheban [where only Peshmerga will be deployed]. The coordination encompasses the Makhmour front and the entire Nineveh province," he told Rudaw.
Ayub Abdulla, a farmer from Liheban village who fought the ISIS button men until dawn on Sunday, told Rudaw how relieved he was to have laid down his gun and be back home with his family, tending to his livestock.
"I am grateful to president [Massoud] Barzani and the Kurdistan Regional Government who aided us. My job is to raise livestock [not to be a soldier]."
ISIS attacks are nevertheless continuing to threaten nearby villagers, who have mounted calls on authorities to increase their security coordination in the area.
Goran Karim, from Shahal village, told Rudaw that the villagers no longer sleep at night. "We have to stay guarded. The Iraqi army is present there but the military bases aren’t close enough [to each other] to encircle the village [to protect it]."
Several villages are situated between Mount Qarachogh and the Sargaran sub-district. Due to increased ISIS attacks, aside from Liheban, they have all stood empty since last month. Time will tell if other villagers feel safe enough to return.
[Fox via Right Scoop] The former US Senator who lost to Jon Ossoff in the runoff elections of 2020 has just announced his bid to be governor of Georgia and is vowing to defeat both Brian Kemp and Stacy Abrams for the job.
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[KavkazUzel] A military court in Rostov-on-Don today sentenced Maykop resident Salamshokh Komilov to seven years in a strict regime colony, having found him guilty of preparing a terrorist attack in a city shopping center.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on March 17 the FSB reported on the arrest of a native of Central Asia, a supporter of the terrorist organization "Islamic State."
On the same day, the special service published a video on the footage of which the detainee admitted that he was preparing a terrorist attack in the center of Maikop. The FSB video clip about the arrest of a terrorist in the capital of Adygea looks staged, the veterans of the special services interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" noted.
The version that the terrorists decided to choose Maykop for the explosion in the shopping center also raises doubts, the Caucasian experts pointed out.
A military court in Rostov-on-Don today sentenced Maykop resident Salamshokh Komilov to seven years in a strict regime colony, having found him guilty of preparing a terrorist attack in a city shopping center.
The 22-year-old Salamshokh Komilov was accused of preparing a terrorist attack, illegal manufacture of explosive devices and attempted production of explosives and illegal purchase of explosives.
"It was established that in February 2021 the defendant decided to commit an explosion in one of the shopping centers in Maikop. Komilov looked on the Internet for information on the manufacture of an improvised explosive device, after which he acquired tools and components for its manufacture, which he began to store at his place of residence. also made an improvised explosive. However, Komilov could not complete the criminal intent due to circumstances beyond his control, in connection with his detention by law enforcement officers, " the press service of the Southern District Military Court told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
The defendant was found guilty.
"Taking into account assistance in the investigation, full admission of guilt, remorse for what he had done, as well as other mitigating circumstances, he was sentenced to seven years in a maximum security correctional colony with serving the first 2 years and 6 months in prison with a fine of 150,000 rubles," reported the press service of the court.
[BloombergLaw] The Biden administration’s mandate for federal contractors’ employees to be vaccinated will be halted nationwide, amid a slew of challenges from states that say the president overstepped his authority in requiring the Covid-19 shots.
The mandate, which was set to take effect on Jan. 4, applies to roughly a quarter of the U.S. workforce and affects companies that do business with the federal government, including Lockheed Martin Corp., Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and General Motors Co.
A federal judge in Georgia blocked the mandate on Tuesday. The latest order follows a Kentucky federal judge’s grant last week of a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit involving Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio.
The government contractor mandate spurred a series of federal lawsuits from states seeking to block its implementation, including Arizona, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgia. They argue that the administration lacks the authority to require vaccinations and the mandates violate the U.S. Constitution.
As set forth in more detail in its Order, a Georgia federal district court judge today issued an injunction halting enforcement of Executive Order 14042, which requires that federal contractors and subcontractors with specific types of covered contracts ensure that their covered employees are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 18th, 2022.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency filed a supplementary chargesheet against on Mohammad Nakeem Khan of Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , following the recovery of arms and ammunition, explosive substances and heroin.
The probe revealed that these substances belonged to the terror group Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen
...one of Pakistan’s ISI’s catspaws in Kashmir, TuM was founded in 1990. By the end of the decade they were on their fourth emir, and subsequently their limited membership has mainly been visiting Paks with a few locals for local flavour. They’ve been seen in the Kashmir Valley in the Beeru belt of Budgam district, Ganderbal, and parts of Srinagar, Anantnag and Pulwama, and gotten funding from the Saudi Arabian Harmain Islamic Foundation — one of the financiers of 9/11, among other little projects — as well as the ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba...
and its off-shoot Jammu Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF). The probe also revealed that the accused Nakeem along with the other accused and handlers or the terror group had facilitated the transportation of arms and ammunition along with explosives and narcotics from the Line of Control to the interior areas of Poonch.
The NIA had earlier charged 7 accused persons in connection with the same case. Further investigations are on, the NIA said in a note.
[SlayNews] Not a single healthy child aged between the ages of 5 and 18 has died from COVID-19 in the first 15 months of the pandemic, a study by German scientists has found.
"Overall, the SARS-CoV-2-associated burden of a severe disease course or death in children and adolescents is low," the scientists stated in a new report.
"This seems particularly the case for 5-11-year-old children without comorbidities."
While the virus has yet to claim the lives of any healthy children between the ages of 5 and 18, only six children and adolescents have died in that age range due to severe preexisting conditions.
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Just finding the death stats on the <= 18 age demographic is difficult.
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15 Jul 2021 Nature: Deaths from COVID ‘incredibly rare’ among children
In a series of preprints published on medRxiv1–3, a team of researchers picked through all hospital admissions and deaths reported for people younger than 18 in England. The studies found that COVID-19 caused 25 deaths in that age group between March 2020 and February 2021.
About half of those deaths were in individuals with an underlying complex disability with high health-care needs, such as tube feeding or assistance with breathing.
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There is a reason the data is hard to find.....
[FoxNews] Demonstrators' causes include climate change, immigration, voting rights, health care and racial justice.
A left-wing protest in Washington, D.C., is blocking traffic in the nation's capital to demonstrate against an administration and lawmakers they believe have failed them by not delivering on various promises.
The initiative, dubbed "Shutdown DC," is a joint effort from several activist organizations that are each conducting blockades at different spots near the Capitol building.
"On Dec. 7, as Congress returns to the Capitol for the last week of the 2021 legislative calendar, we’re going to take bold direct action to demand that Congress and the administration take action to pass the programs that they promised us and we voted for," said a message on the Shutdown DC website. "We’re taking to the streets to shut down the backroom meetings and political theater that have failed to deliver the progress that our communities need."
The groups involved include SPACES In Action, Extinction Rebellion DC, Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund, Code Pink. Demonstrators are advocating causes including climate change, immigration reform, voting rights, D.C. statehood, health care and racial justice.
In other words, various Black Bloc anarcho-communist groups and various far left activist fellow travelers.
Images from the scene showed protesters blocking roads as they stood in the way of traffic with signs and other props.
Any word on whether they bothered to get proper permits from the city?
The blockade organizers offered training for participants this past weekend, advertising that they would be teaching "the basics of organizing disruptive direct action, specific skills like assertive intervention, working as a police liaison, and making action art!"
According to conservative podcaster Lyndey Fifield, the blockades did more than just draw attention to their causes: they also got in the way of World War II veterans looking to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which took place on Dec. 7, 1941.
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There is some family research I have been wanting to do at the National Archives in DC, but in view of recent events, I've decided to stay far away from that area for the duration.
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I would be very interested in the entire statement and the context in which it was said — this reads like clickbait, though I don’t know enough to say.
[DailyBeast] Dan Crenshaw Blasts GOP Freedom Caucus: They’re ’Grifters’ and ’Performance Artists’
Besides calling out attention-seeking colleagues like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, Crenshaw also surprisingly heaped praise on pariah Adam Kinzinger.
Crenshaw came to the defense of current GOP pariah and avowed Trump critic Adam Kinzinger, praising the retiring Illinois congressman for his conservative voting record.
"Adam Kinzinger voted with Trump almost 99 percent [of the time]. He was number two," Crenshaw said of the Illinois lawmaker, who is one of only two Republicans on the Jan. 6 House select committee.
As for the Freedom Caucus—which consists of headline-making congresspeople such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, and Matt Gaetz—Crenshaw pointed out that the group largely sits at the bottom of the Trump-supporting pile.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw slams 'grifters in our midst' as he criticized 'performance artists' of the House Freedom Caucus who issue 'lie after lie after lie' during campaign event in Texas
He is the latest high-profile figure to take issue with GOP members who hog the headlines with outlandish claims
But he defended Rep. Adam Kinzinger who he said voted with Trump 99 percent of the time - but is now hated by MAGA world for joining Jan 6 investigation
Wowie! Dan Crenshaw trashes ‘Freedom Caucus’ members Greene, Brooks, Gohmert, Gosar, Jordan, etc, as “performance artists” while defending Kinzinger. “We have grifters in our midst .. lie after lie after lie.” 🍿 pic.twitter.com/hoaGOcOx9s
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Dan Bongino discussed Crenshaw and his remarks on the Tuesday podcast (Rumble). Bongino outright called Crenshaw a liar. Maybe someone can put that video here...
Apparently Crenshaw lied about Kinzinger voting record. His "liberty score" was 45 out of 100.
Notional Review cruises. Lincoln Project contributions. Yes, yes, the stuff that pushes back the marxist world takeover project.
Cripe...
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Easy to see
With a glass eye. Nice play if you meant it...
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secular conservatism?
The GOP under Trump has jettisoned the Country Club Republicans in favor of the blue-collar folks that form the backbone of this country. This demographic shift puts the party closer to the way it was under Reagan before the Bush clan took over.
It is not a secular/religious divide, it is more like Omega vs Deltas as far I can tell.
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I don't want to belong to any club that will have me."
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I don't get it, fighting within the conservative ranks or just jockeying for non-positions on positions?
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Crenshaw is not a conservative. The people "fighting" are not conservatives.
Got it?
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Samuel Alexander Mudd Sr. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
After Booth's death on April 26, 1865, Mudd was arrested and charged with conspiracy to murder Lincoln. The prosecution called 366 witnesses.
On June 29, Mudd was found guilty with the others. The testimony of Louis J. Weichmann was crucial in obtaining the convictions. According to historian Edward Steers, the testimony presented by former slaves was also crucial, but it faded from public memory.[20] Mudd escaped the death penalty by one vote and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Surratt, Powell, Atzerodt and Herold were hanged at the Old Penitentiary at the Washington Arsenal on July 7, 1865.
Mudd was just 49 years old when he died of pneumonia, on January 10, 1883, and was buried in the cemetery at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Bryantown, the same church in which he once met Booth.
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"There's no finger-wagging" [disgraced Russia Hoax pusher] Jake Sullivan said
No finger-wagging? Okey-dokey.
So will Pres. Magoo treat the Russians to his customary:
...Hair-sniffing?
...Girl-groping?
...Pants-pooping?
...Pocket-lining?
...Biden-bullshitting?
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While Magoo was figuring out what his screen's central sideways triangle means, Putin and his staff were probably treating themselves to loops of this delightful smacking of the PervOTUS:
[KhaamaPress] Leader of the so-called anti-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... resistance front and son of the slain Ahmad Shah Masoud,
...also spelt Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir Valley was assassinated by Al Qaeda turbans posing as journalists two days before 9/11, when his namesake was only 12 years old...
Ahmad Masoud
...also Ahmad Massoud, official leader of the National Resistance Front based in the Panjshir Valley, though word is that he and former Afghan vice president Amrullah Saleh decamped for Tajikistan when the valley fell to Taliban forces....
has met with the head of the notorious private militia- Blackwater- Erik Prince in the Tajik capital Dushanbe.
Reports have only confirmed their meeting but details have not been disclosed yet.
Blackwater is a notorious private American militia that gains contracts to secure US diplomatic missions and diplomats abroad.
Ahmad Masoud fled Afghanistan after the defeat of his-led anti-Taliban front and the collapse of Panjshir province to the Taliban.
Panjshir, in the north of Kabul that was known as the resistance front against the Taliban was not collapsed during the five-year rule of the Taliban in the 90s.
The province was fully packed with different large and small scale American and Russian weapons that have been seized by the Taliban and are being delivered to Kabul.
Unconfirmed reports indicate that there are still hundreds of trucks of weapons that were kept in caves during the soviet-mujahideen war in Afghanistan.
Ahmad Masoud seems to be a new player from the northern alliance that will play the role of opposition to the Taliban or any Pashtun-led government in Afghanistan.
His resistance front is reportedly given an office in the US.
Whew! That was getting tiresome. Now to get the rest of them to stop playing at universal jurisdiction.
[AlAhram] A Dutch appeals court upheld Tuesday a lower court's decision to throw out a civil case against Israel's defense minister and another former senior military officer over their roles in a deadly 2014 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... The Hague District Court ruled in January 2020 that the case against Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and former air force commander Amir Eshel couldn't proceed because the men have "functional immunity from jurisdiction.''
The Hague Court of Appeal said Tuesday that the lower court was right to rule that Gantz, who was a senior military officer at the time of the airstrike, and Eshel had immunity because they were carrying out Israeli government policies.
The case was brought by Ismail Ziada, who lost six members of his family in the airstrike that lawyers for the men argued was part of an Israeli military operation during the 2014 Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... conflict. He wanted the Dutch court to order Gantz and Eshel to pay damages.
The lower court also said that Ziada was free to sue the men in Israel. At hearings in 2019, Ziada rejected the idea that he has access to justice in Israel as "farcical as well as vicious.''
Ziada told an earlier hearing that he lost his mother, three brothers, a sister-in-law and a 12-year-old nephew in the airstrike.
Israel's Justice Ministry told the court before the 2020 decision that an internal Israeli military investigation determined the airstrike had killed four bully boyz hiding in the house. It said the attack was permissible under international law. Gaza's Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, rulers themselves have said that two bully boyz were in the building.
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A bunch of Israeli politicians and generals can’t get off the airplane in Britain, among others for that reason, Dron. Universal jurisdiction is an interesting conceit that America has been known to indulge in as well, though not against Israelis despite numerous attempts.
[JPost] Wanna bet the Squad, Dems, and Biden veto it? "Such flouting of anti-terrorism financial regulations is only possible through the maintenance or use of correspondent accounts at United States banks."
A group of 13 Senate Republicans, spearheaded by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), introduced on Monday the "Taylor Force Martyr Payment Prevention Act," a legislation "aimed at eliminating Palestinian 'martyr payments.'"
According to Cotton and his colleagues, banks in "nominally friendly jurisdictions" evade United States anti-terrorism sanctions by avoiding an official presence in the United States "and continue to knowingly provide banking services, including dollar-denominated transactions, for terrorist organizations.
"Such flouting of anti-terrorism financial regulations is only possible through the maintenance or use of correspondent accounts at United States banks for the benefit of terrorist organizations," the bill reads.
The legislation includes a Sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Treasury should find foreign financial institutions that flout anti-terrorism financial regulations to be of primary money laundering concern, "and prohibit the maintenance or use of correspondent accounts in the United States by such institutions."
Cotton introduced the bill in a press conference alongside Republican senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Ted Cruz (R-TX). Taylor Force’s murder led to the passing of the Taylor Force Act in both houses of Congress. The act cuts non-humanitarian US aid to the Palestinian Authority until it stops paying terrorists and their families.
"Radical Islamic terrorists shouldn’t be rewarded for killing innocent people, and banks should be held responsible for processing any sort of ’martyr payments.’ Our bill will build upon the Taylor Force Act to ensure Palestinian terrorists don’t benefit financially for committing these senseless murders," Cotton said.
"In the years since our son Taylor was killed in 2016, we have been dedicated to making certain that at least some good emerges from our loss," said Stuart Force, Taylor Force's father, at the press conference. "Our first mission was the enactment of the Taylor Force Act in 2018, which limits the US aid to the Palestinian Authority while it continues its reprehensible Pay for Slay program of compensating terrorists and their families," he said.
"We've recently come to the realization that the job is half done and the truth is the payments have continued and those responsible have not been held accountable," Force continued. "The Taylor Force martyr payment prevention act seeks to finish the job by providing the US government with an important new tool to disincentivize banks from being part of the martyr payment program and deny them access to the US financial system until they stop doing it."
He went on to say: "Speaking from personal experience, we can tell you, this is not a theoretical problem. The family of the Hamas terrorist who murder Taylor and celebrated as a hero by Hamas has been receiving martyr payments as reward for his despicable act."
[Rudaw] The United States said it will continue to support the Peshmerga and Iraqi forces in their fight against terror in a letter received by the Kurdish prime minister on Tuesday as America’s mission in the country formally shifts away from combat into an advisory role.
Sent by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, the letter comes at a time where 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) attacks on the Peshmerga forces are on the rise, especially in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad with 22 Kurdish soldiers killed in the past two weeks.
America will continue to assist the Peshmerga and Iraqi forces in confronting ISIS, particularly in the fields of "consulting, information exchange and intelligence," read a statement from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) that was sent to Rudaw.
Austin also emphasized the importance of maintaining the strong relation the Kurdistan Region and America share, as well as America’s cooperation in confronting ISIS, it added.
Washington has maintained a strong relationship with the Kurdistan Region and Iraq. The US has provided the Kurdish Peshmerga with several rounds of military aid over the years, namely in the fight against ISIS beginning in 2014. The coalition gave over 200 vehicles, including Humvees, water tankers and transport trucks to the Kurdish fighters in July and September.
[Wash Examiner] She was a toxic commie POS who should never have been nominated
They tried and failed. This time the system worked as intended.
Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden's pick for comptroller of the currency, has withdrawn herself from consideration.
Omarova faced broad opposition from the banking industry and Republicans, as well as skepticism from centrist Democrats, because of her controversial academic writings and proposals, including her advocacy for the end of banking "as we know it."
The Cornell Law professor told Biden in a Tuesday letter that her nomination was "no longer tenable." Omarova's allies on Capitol Hill had accused her opponents of redbaiting, as she was born in the Soviet Union and attended Moscow State University.
"It was a great honor and a true privilege to be nominated by President Biden to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency overseeing the U.S. national banking system," she said in a letter to the White House withdrawing from consideration.
During her November confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Omarova also faced scrutiny over her recent comment that "we want" oil and gas companies to go bankrupt in order to fight climate change. She conceded during the hearing that she should not have framed her argument the way she did. While Republicans in the hearing largely stuck to questioning her policy positions and academic writings, some probed for questions about her past, including details about her thesis from college.
"I don’t mean any disrespect, I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade," said GOP Sen. John Kennedy in an attack that drew condemnation from Democrats.
"Senator, I’m not a communist. I do not subscribe to that ideology. I could not choose where I was born," she responded.
Biden responded to her withdrawal by invoking combative remarks about her nomination from some on the Right.
"As a strong advocate for consumers and a staunch defender of the safety and soundness of our financial system, Saule would have brought invaluable insight and perspective to our important work on behalf of the American people," the president said. "But unfortunately, from the very beginning of her nomination, Saule was subjected to inappropriate personal attacks that were far beyond the pale."
Democrats have a wire-thin majority in the Senate and can’t afford to lose even a single vote. In the days after Omarova's hearing, it was reported that centrist Democratic Sens. Jon Tester of Montana, Mark Warner of Virginia, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, John Hickenlooper of Colorado, and Mark Kelly of Arizona expressed opposition to her nomination.
This isn't the first Biden nominee to fall through. Neera Tanden's nomination for director of the Office of Management and Budget was withdrawn in light of Twitter posts she had made attacking lawmakers. Biden also withdrew David Chipman's nomination to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives over his gun control positions.
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Wally Jumblat ...Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... has decried that "today, more than ever, we are living in another Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... .""The Lebanese decision has been completely usurped by a party that extends from here to the Islamic Theocratic Republic" of Iran, Jumblat said in an interview with the PSP’s al-Anbaa news portal, referring to 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... "At the same time, there is the enormous economic crisis, which is the result of bad behavior, or the exacerbation of the class of bankers and traders and those in the political class who are benefitting from the discrepancy in the exchange rate," Jumblat added.
He accordingly called for "a new political system that emerges from a new electoral system."
"The current system is a system of splitting shares between the Shiite duo and the Christian duo, and the biggest loser in this system was al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... Movement chief Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... as well as us as a minority party and the general and national parties that call for abolishing political sectarianism," Jumblat explained.
He, however, said that it is not possible to build a new electoral system under the current political equation.
As for the controversy over the port blast investigations, the PSP leader said recusing Judge Tarek Bitar from interrogating former ministers is "not the appropriate solution," seeing as it would fragment the investigation.
He added that Bitar "should have questioned the judge who ordered the confiscation of the ship and the unloading of its cargo, seeing as the ship was full of ammonium nitrate."
Separately, Jumblat said "regaining Lebanon from the Iranian axis requires international circumstances that would allow the country to be present."
As for the upcoming presidential election and the possibility of extending the term of President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , the PSP leader said: "Constitutionally, President Michel Aoun cannot have his term extended. This matter contradicts with the constitution and he must hand over his post when the final moment comes."
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[Rudaw] 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) Death Eaters on Tuesday launched an attack on the Iraqi forces in Kirkuk province, killing two soldiers, a security official told Rudaw as the terror group’s resurgence threatens the stability of the country and terrorize civilians in disputed areas.
A number ISIS Death Eaters attacked Dibis town in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... killing two Iraqi soldiers, an officer from Kirkuk police told Rudaw on the condition of anonymity.
The terror group attacked the forces from "two sides," the source noted.
ISIS attacks have been on the rise recently, especially in territories disputed between Erbil and Baghdad.
Hours before the Iraqi army was targeted, a number of Katyusha rockets believed to have been fired by ISIS Death Eaters landed near the bases of Peshmerga forces on the outskirts of Prde town in Kirkuk, Peshmerga commander Nuri Hama Ali told Rudaw.
Another commander said the rockets landed at around 7:00 pm. No casualties or injuries were reported.
No group has grabbed credit for the recent two attacks.
Meanwhile sirens blared from the US consulate in Erbil, according to a Rudaw English news hound who was in the vicinity of the compound on Tuesday night.
The terror group on Tuesday grabbed credit for an attack on Peshmerga in Kirkuk late on Sunday, killing four of them. The Death Eater group also grabbed credit for a Thursday attack on two villages in southwest Erbil near the disputed territory of Makhmour that left 10 Peshmerga fighters and three civilians dead.
Kurdish and Iraqi officials have blamed the attacks on the security vacuum between Erbil and Baghdad, holding a high-level security meeting to ramp up cooperation in these areas.
The deadly ISIS offensives come as America prepares to withdraw its combat troops by the end of the year, as the coalition formally shifts its mission focus to advising and assisting Iraqi forces. There are currently about 2,500 US troops in Iraq, including in the Kurdistan Region. It is not immediately clear whether the shift in roles will change the number of American soldiers in the country.
[AyPee] Lawyers for the former "Empire" actor rested their case shortly after Smollett finished a second day of testimony at the Chicago courthouse on charges he lied to police about the January 2019 attack. Prosecutors said they had no other witnesses to call, and Judge James Linn scheduled closing arguments for Wednesday.
[FoxNews] Los Angeles police last month created "Follow Home Task Force" in response to growing crime trend
The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating after homeowners were attacked in an apparent follow-home robbery by men wearing 'police-type' gear and badges.
As the trend of follow-home robberies continues in Los Angeles, police are investigating surveillance video showing alleged thieves clad in "police-type" gear attacking a group of victims outside a home before forcing them inside.
The video shows three people appearing to return home when two men claiming to be DEA agents approach them. Both men are seen wearing what appear to be police badges as well as black vests with "police" written on them.
One suspect was armed with a gun, while the other brandished a rubber mallet, police said.
The suspects hold the victims at gunpoint and demand they open the front door, according to the video. When the victim with the keys appears to struggle opening the door, the suspects throw punches and yell curse words.
The video ends as the victim attempts to open the door again.
Police said that once the door was opened, three more suspects came onto the scene, entered the home and stole the victims' belongings.
The incident is believed to have taken place in the city’s Fairfax neighborhood, FOX11 Los Angeles reported.
The incident comes as Los Angeles and other areas of California are being hit with a rash of thefts, including smash-and-grabs and follow-home robberies.
A Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) spokesperson told Fox News last week that follow-home robberies seem to be "popping up everywhere" in the city.
The LAPD announced in mid-November that it is investigating more than 110 robberies involving at least six different street gangs in which the victims were followed home. The LAPD had issued a warning regarding the "follow-home robberies" earlier in November after a series of incidents.
The department later developed a "Follow Home Task Force" in response to the ongoing crime trend after one such robbery ended in a homicide Nov. 23.
[An Nahar] An Israeli air strike hit a shipment of Iranian weapons in the Syrian port of Latakia Tuesday, in the first such attack on the key facility, a war monitor said.The Israeli raid "directly targeted an Iranian weapons shipment in the container yard," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Syrian state media reported the strike on the container yard at Latakia port without specifying what was targeted.
The Observatory, a UK-based organization with a wide network of sources on the ground across Syria, said the raid triggered a series of explosions.
It reported "huge material losses" but added there were no immediate reports of casualties.
According to the Syrian state news agency SANA, the strike occurred at 1:23 am (2323 GMT Monday).
"Our air defenses repelled the Israeli aggression in Latakia," it said, adding that a number of containers caught fire in the strike.
Latakia is the northernmost of Syria's main ports, and lies around 230 kilometers (140 miles) north of Damascus.
Photos and footage published by SANA showed a fire in the yard but state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said later that firefighters had brought the blaze under control.
Israel rarely comments on the air strikes it carries out in Syria but has said repeatedly it will not allow its archfoe Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... to extend its footprint in Syria.
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It reported "huge material losses"
Those yuge materials of Latakia,
let 'em be and they come t' fcuk ya.
Repelling a Juice aggression?
Nope, woebegone obsession.
They'll come anywho, and sock ya.
Hiya, all. Sorry, been busy. But I used to check in to read from time to time.
[Breitbart] Craig Shirley, author of December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World, speculated on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that American political divisions will fracture the country within the nation’s third century.
"I don’t know if America is special enough to stay together in a third century," Shirley warned on the 80th anniversary of Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1942.
Shirley remarked, "[Andrew Breitbart] once said, very adroitly, that politics is downstream from culture. Our culture, we don’t eat the same breakfast cereal anymore. We don’t read the same newspapers. We don’t consume the same news. We’re divided in every way, shape, and form in our culture, and thus it translates downstream into our politics. I personally think — and not that I’m hoping, I’m just an observer — but I think the United States is heading toward a breakup. It’s already happening."
We are rapidly becoming two very different nations with two very different cultures. At one time we truly were the “United” States of America, but now we have been split into two opposing camps that deeply hate one another. As a result, in recent years we have watched millions of Americans relocate for ideological reasons. This has caused “red states” to become even redder and “blue states” to become even bluer. At this point, there are just a handful of “purple states”, and it is in those states where our presidential elections are determined. It is really not healthy for just a few states like Pennsylvania and Michigan to have such power, but that is a topic for another article. In this article, I want to discuss why the mass exodus from blue states to red states is actually going to accelerate in 2022.
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There is a phrase on every coin and every dollar that holds the Nation together. When that phrase is no longer true, then we are no longer a nation.
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The American republic was designed with 'just good enough' centralization as the founders understood the dangers of the concentration of powers. Since the end of WW2 those in Washington have been hungering on more and more power and centralization. So much so we basically lost the old republic and have had a oligarchy for decades. It's finally reached a point that the kabuki theater of pretense is quickly dissolving for too many people to ignore. Throw in the incompetence of those with their hands on power, the stage is set for dissolution.
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The new Woke motto for the USSA: e uni, plurum
= Out of One, Many
BLUF: We need to separate from this sick mofos. They aren't remotely like us, they hate us, and they're deliberately destroying the nation we love.
Agreed that our destiny is at least two nations in a very loose federation having a single currency and military under a single command.
But really, how can we have one nation and...
- two de facto justice systems -- one to release Deep State and BLaMteefa criminals, another designed to punish law-abiding white Class Enemies
-- two definitions of American history -- one that says we've always been devils and that slavery 'n' rayciss defines every single event and personage in our national story, and another that says we're a great nation that like any other has flaws
- two definitions of human biology and normal human behavior -- one that says there are 17 genders, promotes ped0phila and encourages children to hack off their genitalia or breasts, and another that preserves the normal human moral understandings of our civilization
- two incompatible immigration policies -- an Open Borders pushed by the UniParty, and normal border enforcement advocated by governors like DeSantis and Abbott
- two incompatible political economies -- one based on Latin-style Oligarchy and dependence along with surveillance by Big Tech, the other based on broadly shared prosperity from traditional industries, domestic manufacturing, and millions of small businesses
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Plenty of divided countries these days but few where the fault lines are so clearly drawn between two mutually loathing groups.
On one side are the Wokesters and white-hating blacks totaling maybe 12-15% of the population; their elitist UniParty backers and hypereducated apologists -- these total another 10-12%; and finally the vast ranks of government employees, who now make up over a quarter of the workforce.
Deduplicate and you get at least 40% of the population supporting the Woke vision of a New USSA.
As to the rest of us normals, we're all but nonexistent in the deep blue cities and inner suburbs where about 40% of the population resides, so it's hard to see us making up more than 50% of the population.
In short we're divided as deeply, cleanly and as bitterly as the French were in the first half of the 20th century. Didn't end well for France's Third Republic and won't end well for us.
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Watching many of the polls there is always about 22-24% support what ever on the Left. There seems to be about a 40% middle who are unlikely to 'die on that hill' for anyone. There about 30% +/- who are on the right or 'Amercian' (vs International Socialist) side.
As for the cities, I thought it was a nice warning back in April 2020 what happens to them when supply lines and distribution is cratered. Heck they just sit there like sheep lead to the slaughter by the pols who let the gangs and thugs run loose.
[Rudaw] A military official from the Shingal Resistance Units (YBS) was killed in an airstrike by the Turkish army in northern Iraq on Tuesday, the Kurdistan Region’s counter-terrorism directorate said in a statement following the attack, with a media outlet close to the armed group confirming the news.
Turkish airstrikes targeted a vehicle in the town of Khanasor in Shingal district, killing the YBS military commander Marwan Badal Haji, the directorate announced on Tuesday afternoon.
Badal was accompanied by his two children at the time of the offensive, Firat News Agency (ANF) which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) reported.
ANF confirmed Badal’s death, noting that his children were safe.
Turkey has not yet commented on the attack.
The Yazidi commander Badal, also known as Dijwar, formed the core of a local Yazidi militia in 2014 during the Islamic State (ISIS) invasion. The terror group caused havoc in the Yazidi heartland of Shingal in Nineveh as it killed and enslaved thousands of the ethno-religious group.
The militia later grew to be a highly maintained force that became known as the YBS, supported by the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG).
Turkey considers the YPG and YBS to be an offshoot of the PKK, an armed group fighting for the enhanced rights of Kurds in Turkey. The PKK is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, which carries out regular military campaigns against the group at home and in northern Iraq, including in the Kurdistan Region.
Several armed forces affiliated with the Iraqi government, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the PKK, and Hashd al-Shaabi are present in Shingal. The district is among the areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad. Ankara occasionally carries out such attacks against the YBS in Shingal.
A Turkish airstrike killed two members of the YBS, including a senior commander and three civilians on August 16. Another aistrike hit a hospital in Shingal a day later, killing four care workers and four YBS fighters.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has previously warned that they will continue attacking Shingal as long as the PKK fighters are present there.
Turkey is currently conducting two military operations against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region, causing casualties among the PKK, Turkish army, and civilians.
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...Quite likely the most effective single anti-ship weapon of the Second World War.
Mike
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The US Navy had a Wargaming System before the start of WW2 that (as a programmer that got permission to make a cottage game out of it stated) accurately covered everything but two (2) Japanese weapon systems:
(1) The Type 93 'Long Lance' Torpedo; and
(2) Kamikazes.
It is an interesting hypothetical to wonder what would have happened in the Imperial Japanese Navy had invested in an additional 20 long-range submarines and attacked US/Canadian shipping.
Amazon's website and app crashed after 10:30am ET on Tuesday for thousands of users worldwide
Amazon Web Services is also down across the globe, along with Amazon Prime Music and Video and Alexa
Amazon Web Services provides cloud computing services to individuals, universities, governments and companies
Amazon officials stated they have identified 'root cause' of the problem and were working to fix it
Outage was likely due to issues related to application programming interface (API), Amazon said, which is a set of protocols for building and integrating application software
Users have experienced 27 outages over the past 12 months on Amazon
THIS is what happens when you try to teach unemployed "journolists" to code
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While this was going on, my own Alexa devices gave me different bogus excuses for their failure to perform. Had I not known better, I would have wasted a lot of time track the excuses down. Instead I Googled "Alexa network malfunction" and got this story. I was still able to turn most of my devices off & on using the Android app provided by the manufacturer of the devices. The app bypasses Alexa but can coordinate with it.
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Wonder what the outage did to the Federal AWS cloud?
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You would hope that they're part of a different 'cloud' Skid, but you never know how they actually set things up.
No matter how the contract reads.
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A lot of competition in providing cloud capacity and service these days. Amazon gets a huge part of its revenue from this and profit margin is 80% or more.
CISCO and ORACLE and others are ramping up cloud service.
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Not just Disney+ -- Disney World admissions wasn't working, either. Considering the degree of integration they have, that may have also meant their hotels couldn't process new guests, restaurant charges and the pre-paid meal plan wasn't working, and charge-to-room was down as well.
I *hope* there are some tough questions being asked about the cloud strategy at Disney. They've been focused on cost-cutting, but this has to have hurt.
The only thing I saw was a slicer I use for 3D printing wouldn't run locally, because it couldn't validate my account. At least the vendor for that has already planned an "offline" mode that isn't dependent on the cloud.
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^ Yes. I had a dr's appointment yesterday morning that certainly would have been derailed if they were on AWS. It wasn't so I guess they weren't.
Works for me.
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How about we setup a NO E-Use for a just 8 hours for 1 day each year. Where are all Smart Phone Internet/SMS access for 16 years old and below shut off?
Then we can watch this E-Generation go bananas or actually look at the world around them.
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which should have briefly made things interesting over in Langley.
For a short while they would have to have made guesses on no information instead of bad information. Or have lacked the information they normally ignored that didn't fit the guesses they already agreed on in their meetings.
Why have IT at all?
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I would hope they have some backup process in place. Paper charts or something of that sort. You would be stupid to rely solely on the cloud no matter what the sales rep promises.
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A few years back, VA had a three-day outage due to a botched data center switch over. In those three days they accumulated a six-month backlog of written stuff that needed keyed in. It happens fast.
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I watched a low budget movie. I guess it has become a but of a cult hit since the last I watched it. They used some of their new money and fame to go back and re-touch a couple scenes, clean up the credits.
Point is, the streamer can and will edit movie content at their pleasure. How long before Major League gets the treatment?
If you don't have a copy, you don't have a copy.
On the other side, every one of your devices sends data to advertisers - why would one of these voice activated things be any different? And who isn't to say that certain jingles or phrases in commercials doesn't activate them?
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Day is coming where bots will look for stuff that hasn't been "approved edited" and edit or delete it. You need offline backups that are never exposed to the internet.
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[AlAhram] Islamist Lions of Islam waging a brutal insurgency in northern Mozambique have kidnapped more than 600 women and kiddies over the past three years, Human Rights Watch said in report Tuesday.
An gang linked to 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 since 2018 kidnapped and enslaved more than 600 women and girls in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province," the rights group said in a statement.
Some have been freed by Mozambican and foreign forces deployed this year to help quell the violence that has wreaked havoc in the region since October 2017.
But some are still missing, the rights watchdog said.
Women and girls were kidnapped during raids on towns and villages by the Lions of Islam known locally as al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... , although they have no known connection to the group with a similar name in Somalia.
The group force young women and girls to "marry" their fighters "who enslave and sexually abuse them" while some have been sold off to foreign Lions of Islam for between $600 and $1,800, it said.
"An unknown number of women and girls remain in captivity in Mozambique, facing horrific abuses daily, including enslavement and rape by al-Shabaab fighters," said Mausi Segun, HRW's Africa director.
HRW based its report on investigations including interviews with former abductees or their relatives, security sources and government officials.
The unrest that has plagued the gas-rich northern region of Mozambique has claimed at least 3,578 lives, including 1,575 civilians, according to US-based conflict tracking organization, ACLED.
More than 800,000 others have been displaced, according to government and UN agencies.
Since July, more than 3,100 African, European and US soldiers have been deployed to the Cabo Delgado province to quell the unrest.
[FOXNEWS] South Carolina sheriff’s deputies arrested a 14-year-old male high school student Monday on charges that he threatened to shoot up schools in his county, authorities said.
The Lexington County Sheriff’s Office said the Gilbert High School student made a "threatening statement" while on the bus last Thursday, and another student overheard him.
The student told school administrators that he heard the other student allegedly talking about wearing a trench coat the next day and shooting up an elementary school and a middle school, according to an incident report cited by the sheriff’s office.
"The student who came forward should be commended for doing the right thing," Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon said. "They heard something and reported all the details to someone who could immediately step and take action to make sure everyone stayed safe.
"While there was never any imminent danger to students, teachers or anyone else on a campus, this is another example of how we and Lexington School District share in the responsibility to protect those who learn and work at school."
The student, whose identity has not been publicly released, was released from custody after he was charged, the sheriff’s office said. He is due to appear in a Lexington Family Court at a later date.
The Lexington School District sent out a message to families. The district said a GHS administrator had notified law enforcement, which investigated and determined there was no immediate danger to students or staff.
The district said it has suspended the student, and he faces expulsion.
"We are proud of the student who came forward to report the threat," the district said. "This situation is another example of how we must work together to keep each other safe. We take threats seriously and take swift and stern action against those making threats against our schools."
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He didn't do anything we don't see here.
Oh, wait...
[KhaamaPress] Spokesman of the Pentagon John Kirby said that there are still 34,000 Afghan evacuees who are living in seven US military bases now after three months of evacuation.
Initially, there were 53,150 Afghan refugees housed in eight military bases of the US among them Fort Lee stopped operations and now left only seven of those bases.
As per information, nearly 20,000 Afghan evacuees have so far been processed and are now living in different states of the US.
"We now have we have fewer Afghans on military bases than ever before, and more now have processed out than we have waiting to get processed," Kirby said.
John Kirby said that majority of the Afghans who had come to the US have now been processed out of camps but did not say anything about how long the mission in military camps will continue and which camp will be the next to end its refugee support operation.
In the meantime, there are still thousands of SIV, P1, and P2 applicants left in Afghanistan. Most of them have been processed but are stuck in the country due to a lack of flights.
The US has lately announced that they do not plan another round of evacuation but will take the people in regular flights out of Afghanistan.
The US airlifted about 82,000 Afghans out of Kabul in the days leading up to Aug. 30 as the Taliban encroached on the city
The 34,000 figure is down from six weeks ago on Oct. 26 when 53,150 evacuees were still living on military bases
So far the US has pledged about $13.3 billion to Afghan settlement efforts
The seven military bases still participating in Operation Allies Welcome are: Fort Bliss in Texas (where an approximate 3,500 refugees are housed), Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey (11,000), Fort McCoy in Wisconsin (7,100), Camp Atterbury in Indiana (3,500), Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico (2,900), and Fort Pickett (5,100) and Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia (1,300).
[FoxNews] Maryland, Illinois do nearly same thing DOJ is suing Texas for.
Texas on Monday became the first state to be sued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) over its proposed congressional redistricting map, raising questions about whether other heavily gerrymandered states could be next and whether Democrat-controlled states are at risk of being sued too.
"Our complaint today alleges that the redistricting plans approved by the Texas state legislature and signed into law by the Governor will deny Black and Latino voters an equal opportunity to participate in the voting process and to elect representatives of their choice," Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said Monday.
The lawsuit follows warnings from Attorney General Merrick Garland earlier this year that the DOJ is open to suing states if it believes their maps are gerrymandered to limit minority representation. But Texas is far from the only heavily gerrymandered state in the union. Republican-controlled Ohio and Pennsylvania, and Democrat-controlled Maryland and Illinois, are among the worst offenders.
Fox News asked the DOJ Monday if it may sue any other states for gerrymandering, including blue states. The department declined to comment.
The DOJ's lawsuit against Texas specifically alleges that the state uses a technique called "cracking" to split urban minority populations into several congressional districts that rope in large suburban and rural White populations. This creates districts that overall lean Republican and limits the opportunity minorities have to elect members that represent their specific interests, the department said.
"The enacted Congressional plan intentionally discriminates against minority voters in DFW by excising rapidly changing communities from DFW-based districts and attaching them instead through a narrow strip to several heavily Anglo counties," the DOJ's lawsuit against Texas says.
"By cracking minority communities and submerging urban minority voters among rural Anglos, the Congressional map effectively turns back a decade of rapid Latino population growth and preserves Anglo control of most remaining districts, particularly District 24," it adds.
This created several "Anglo-controlled districts," in the DFW area, the DOJ said. The DOJ alleges that Texas did the same in the Houston area.
But Texas is not nearly the only state to split up voters in minority-heavy cities for seemingly political purposes. Maryland's and Illinois' maps do essentially the same thing.
In the Maryland legislature's final proposed map, Baltimore City is split into three different congressional districts that reach far out into the state's suburbs and rural areas. The 7th Congressional District is shaped like an "S" and cuts through the heart of Baltimore, before reaching into the outlying areas north and south of the city – as far as the rural community Stablersville just 10 miles south of Pennsylvania.
The 3rd Congressional District is shaped like a giant "M." It starts in the rural farming areas along the Mason-Dixon line, dips down into Baltimore city, then juts south to Washington, D.C.’s, northwest suburbs in Glenmont. The 2nd Congressional District includes the southeast part of Baltimore as well as many of its suburbs to the north, east and south.
[FOXNEWS] The Black Lives Matter protester charged with intimidating the judge presiding over the trial for former police officer Kim Potter in the shooting of Daunte Wright has been extradited to Minnesota ahead of his first court appearance Tuesday.
Cortez Rice, 32, of Minneapolis, is currently being held at Hennepin County Jail on a $50,000 bond, the Hennepin County Attorney's Office tells Fox News Digital. His first court appearance is scheduled to take place at 1:30 p.m. CT.
Rice was taken into custody on Nov. 30 after Wisconsin State Patrol pulled him over for speeding on a freeway, court records show. He was allegedly operating without a valid driver’s license. He was transported Monday night from Waukesha County Jail back to Minnesota.
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Since the Feds won't prosecute BLM it's up to the states and locals
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BLM / ANTI-LAW
Remember NOT all the judges have been bought off yet.
Just most of the liberal City council's and DA's.
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So, he crossed state lines (gasp! Shreik!!) to intimidate the judge? Shouldn't all the major cable news outlets be playing state funeral music and asking why the flag at the Capitol is not at half-staff?
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[WSJ] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserved him... has done enormous damage to New York City over his eight years in office, and most New Yorkers will be elated to see him leave on Dec. 31. True to form, however, on Monday he announced one more progressive parting gift: A coercive and counterproductive Covid vaccine mandate.
The mayor is requiring that all private workers in the city be vaccinated by Dec. 27, which he called "a pre-emptive strike" against a virus surge this winter. The mandate is a strike against the city, not the virus. It will yield diminishing public-health benefits while making it harder for the city to recover economically from his and former New York Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo ...former Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he had about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him when he resigned... ’s destructive lockdowns.
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The days between 27 Dec and 1 Jan might be a very good time for the NYC business community to demonstrate massive refusal to comply with such an idiotic order.
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If Comrade Joe can't get away with it neither can Comrade Bill. Court has or will strike it down.
I suppose it is more of a virtue signaling thing for DeBlasio, something to campaign on.
[WSJ] WASHINGTON—Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan...... ’s nominee to oversee large national banks, withdrew from consideration on Tuesday, amid opposition from Republicans and moderate Democrats who had sought to block her nomination, the White House said.
"I have accepted Saule Omarova’s request to withdraw her name from nomination," President Biden said Tuesday, saying he would look for a new nominee.
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[IsraelTimes] A suspected member of the team that murdered Saudi journalist beloved martyr of journalism Jamal Khashoggi ......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatari payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal...... in 2018, Khalid Alotaibi, was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport outside Gay Paree today, judicial and airport sources say.
Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi who lived in self-exile in the United States and wrote for The Washington Post, was strangled by a hit squad in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and his body dismembered. Hopefully in that order
Two people were killed when a gunman opened fire inside a public services office in Moscow on Tuesday, the mayor of the Russian capital Sergei Sobyanin said.
"As a result of the shooting by an unknown person, two people were killed, three were maimed," Sobyanin said on Twitter, adding that the shooter was detained.
The incident occurred at a multi-functional government office in the south-east of the city, he said.
Sobyanin said that "doctors are doing everything possible to help the maimed."
Russian news agencies, citing sources in the interior ministry, reported a child had been injured in the shooting.
The capital's Sherlocks launched a criminal case into the shooting, they also reported.
Mass shootings in Russia are rare but the country was rocked by two separate tragic killing sprees -- one at a school, another at a university -- this year, spurring politicians to tighten laws regulating access to guns.
In one high-profile public shooting in 2019, a gunman opened fire near the FSB domestic intelligence agency headquarters in central Moscow, killing an officer and wounding five people.
Other high-profile shooting cases have taken place in Russia's army.
In November 2020, a 20-year-old soldier killed three fellow servicemen at a military base near the city of Voronezh.
In a similar attack in 2019, a young recruit rubbed out eight servicemen.
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[FOXNEWS] Prosecutors in San Diego filed charges against at least 10 anti-fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... protesters who allegedly tried to disrupt a pro-Trump rally earlier this year with "violent mostly peaceful criminal acts."
"Video evidence analysis shows that overwhelmingly the violence in this incident was perpetrated by the Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... affiliates and was not a mutual fray with both sides crossing out of lawful First Amendment expression into riot and violence," District Attorney Summer Stephan’s office said in a news release, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The defendants "are self-identified to be affiliated with Anti-fascists or Antifa" and gathered on Jan. 9 in San Diego to take "direct action" against a pro-Trump "Patriot March," according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. "Direct action" is defined as "acts of violence such as assault, battery, assault with deadly weapons, arson, and vandalism," according to the DA’s office. Police declared an unlawful assembly the day of the festivities.
At least seven people were arraigned Monday, following raids in Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, last Thursday that led to arrests of the suspects.
They face charges such as assault, conspiracy to commit a riot and illegal use of tear gas. They’re accused of using tear gas, sticks, flag poles and other items to attack the Trump supporters, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The case is allegedly the first to use conspiracy charges against suspected Antifa members, the outlet reported.
One social media post appearing to match the description of the attacks shows an alleged anti-fascist protester pepper-spraying a man and his dog. A videographer based out of Los Angeles also recorded some altercations involving pepper spray and a wooden folding chair, which matches an attack described by prosecutors.
One group of the anti-fascists originated in San Diego, while another group formed in Los Angeles a week before the pro-Trump rally, according to the criminal complaint. They’re accused of circulating a Jan. 2 social media post calling for a counterprotest to the pro-Trump rally, "in essence agreeing to take part in the ’direct action.’ Others agreed by showing up in Pacific Beach on January 9th, 2021 and participating in the violence," prosecutors allege, according to the criminal complaint.
Those arraigned on Monday were identified as Luis Francisco Mora, 30; Joseph Austin Gaskins, 21; Faraz Martin Talab, 27; Bryan Rivera, 21; Brian Lightfoot, 25; and Jesse Merel Cannon, 31; Jeremy Jonathan White, 39.
An arrest warrant was issued for Erich Louis Yach, 37, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
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As Israel has been saying since former president Barack Obama started talking about his nuclear deal with Iran over a decade ago.
[IsraelTimes] Proposals submitted by Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... at talks in Vienna last week aimed at reviving the 2015 deal on its nuclear program fall short of what is needed, La Belle France says.
"The proposals presented by Iran last week do not constitute a reasonable basis that is compatible with the objective of a rapid conclusion while respecting the interests of all," the French foreign ministry says in a statement, expressing "disappointment" that the talks failed to move forward.
Who knew — walls work?
[IsraelTimes] IDF chief Aviv Kohavi says new 40-mile above- and below-ground fence is changing the reality along the restive border, where subterranean attacks have dogged the military for years.
Standing in the shadow of a 30-foot-high concrete wall, top defense officials announced Tuesday that Israel had completed construction of a massive barrier running the length of the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Continued on Page 49
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Karelia and Archangelsk expect severely cold weather.
[REGNUM] Arkhangelsk, Magadan regions, Karelia and Chukotka will find themselves in the epicenter of abnormal cold by the end of the working week. This was announced on December 7 by the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, Roman Vilfand.
Follow the developments in the broadcast: "Hurricanes, storms, blizzards: bad weather in Russia and the world - all the news"
According to the specialist, in the European part of Russia, the most intense anomalies in freezing temperatures will be observed in the Arkhangelsk region and Karelia. By the end of the working week, temperatures in these regions will be 7-11 degrees below the climatic norm.
In the Arkhangelsk region -20 ... -21 degrees is expected, in Karelia the thermometer will drop to -18 ... -23 degrees.
The most noticeable drops in temperature in the Asian part of the country will be observed in the Magadan Region and in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. In these regions, the temperature is 7-11 degrees below the climatic norm, but frosts are expected to be stronger than in the European part of Russia, down to -48… -49 degrees.
Earlier IA REGNUM reported that, according to forecasts, severe cold weather from the north-west of the European part of Russia will not reach Moscow and the Moscow region.
Bad weather delays flight in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
[REGNUM] Unfavorable weather conditions on the Kamchatka Peninsula have led to a long delay in the departures of seven flights of local airlines from the airport of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Elizovo). This follows from the data on the online scoreboard of the airport of the capital of the region as of 10:45 local time (01:45 Moscow time) on December 8.
Follow the developments in the broadcast: "Hurricanes, storms, blizzards: bad weather in Russia and the world - all the news"
Currently, the list of delayed flights to Ust-Kamchatsk, Nikolskoye, Ossora, Ozernaya, Tigil, Sobolevo, Ust-Khairyuzovo. The first two flights cannot take off from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky from 25 November. On Tigil and Sobolevo - from December 2 and 3, respectively.
Recall that the last few days the weather in Kamchatka has been under the influence of a cyclone, which caused heavy rainfall and increased wind. An avalanche danger has been declared in the mountainous regions of the peninsula.
Record snowfall covers Moscow - photo report
[REGNUM] On December 7, there was a heavy snowfall in Moscow. Over the past day, almost a quarter of the monthly precipitation rate fell in the capital, forming 15-centimeter snowdrifts.
The last time that much rain fell was in 1949. Then at the base weather station VDNKh recorded 12.7 millimeters of atmospheric moisture, which until now was the maximum indicator for all time.
City utilities are working to clear snow from roads.
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my fav station Oymyakon was at -68F at 3pm on 8 Dec
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Why the sudden interest in Russian winters? From what I read, Russians can handle anything mother nature throws at them. Is this narrative to counter the climate change religion in the US?
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Why the sudden interest in Russian winters? From what I read, Russians can handle anything mother nature throws at them. Is this narrative to counter the climate change religion in the US?
No underlying theme, or hidden agenda. Just posting news articles abut Bad Weather in Russia.
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The deal was realized under the Obama administration. The CIA was aware of it as not only did China penetrate the CIA but the CIA had an important penetration agent in Beijing. Note: The CIA has kept this deal under wraps for five years.
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Is it going to be like apple TV, where you pay $5/month to be able to rent stuff for the same or higher prices than Prime or Vudu? The only free stuff is a few apple originals, like Greyhound or Foundation. We used a gift card we got to watch foundation and rent a few kids movies....when foundation season two rolls around, I'm sure there will a trial we can use:p
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That Foundation was pretty good but was 'Foundation' in name only. Completely different story from the book.
Greyhound was pretty good also.
Not much else on AppleTv I'm interested in.
As for Apple I doubt Apple has much that China hasn't already stolen.
A new technical carjacking method has been reported in the York region of Ontario, Canada, with thieves using AirTags to track and steal vehicles
The York Regional Police have reported five such incidents since September
Thieves place the small device in hidden areas of vehicles parked in public spaces to later track it to the owner's home and steal it from their driveway
The $29 AirTag device, launched in April, is designed to help track down lost items using an iPhone
[Free Beacon] The Biden administration plans to push the Supreme Court to dismiss a school-voucher case on a technicality, fearing that a ruling that allows state funds to go toward religious uses will throw open public coffers to religious schools.
The Biden Justice Department during oral arguments on Wednesday will press the Court to dismiss the case. The plaintiffs have a leg up heading into the argument because the Court said in decisions from 2017 and 2020 that religious groups can't be excluded from public benefits because of their religious identity.
The case, Carson v. Makin, involves two sets of parents from Maine who are seeking a wider distribution of state tuition assistance for religious schools. The Biden administration's stance is a sign the Justice Department anticipates losing the case, which would be a blow to Democrats and their union allies.
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Tax paying parents should see their tax money go to the school they send their kids to if it is not a public school. With pron in text books and crt pushed in public schools, they don't deserve every parent's tax dollar.
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Too many PUBLIC Schools have became Liberal, Socialist, Social Norm Busting Indoctrination centers.
Some going so far as to attempt to hide what is being immorally taught to K-1+ students from the parents.
So since Parent(s), are already paying School Taxes, but not having a say in the material. Some even BRANDING parents as Domestic Terrorists, just for demanding morally properly taught education materials be used.
YES !!! They should be allowed to transfer their Tax educational funds to private schools that will adhere to their family norms and views.
Thus offsetting the additional expenses they are willing to incur for an education that is applicable in the real world.
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It would be a mistake to presume private schools are not pushing this because the teachers programs are programming the teachers for it, for years. There are no good resources for parents to distinguish between virtue signaling and actual indoc unless the private school says it outright. In public schools this stuff is overt and easy to spot. While you will get the better education, in private schools it is much more subtle and harder to detect until you are financially invested.
That’s one way to move the recalcitrants among the Talib cannon fodder far from the children of the citizenry they consider their rightful booty.
[KhaamaPress] A front man of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Inamullah Samangani said that the leadership has created a special military unit to protect forests in seven provinces of Afghanistan.
Inamullah Samangani in a series of Twitter posts said that the 450-member unit will be assigned not only to protect forests but also to prevent deforestation and trafficking of the forests.
"100 members of the unit will be assigned in Kabul and 50 more will be assigned Nuristan, Khost, Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... , Paktia, Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , and Nengarhar provinces each." Reads Twitter posts.
This is the first time Afghanistan witnesses a special unit for the protection of forests in Afghanistan that is named "Green Unit".
Illegal mining and deforestation in different provinces of Afghanistan have been one of the biggest issues that have concerned not only people in the country but the previous governments about the natural resources of Afghanistan.
[An Nahar] At least four non-combatants were killed and four more maimed Tuesday in a cycle of violence bombing near a hospital in central Basra city in southern Iraq, security forces said.
Referring to "the earth-shattering kaboom of a cycle of violence", they said in a statement that "four citizens were killed and four others injured while two vehicles near the cycle of violence caught fire".
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the earth-shattering kaboom.
The blast hit at a crossroads in central Basra, near a hospital and a popular market, an AFP photographer reported.
Iraq has been torn by years of war and insurgency since a U.S.-led invasion toppled dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003.
In recent years, the city of Basra has mostly been spared such attacks.
But in recent weeks several deadly attacks claimed by 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.... (IS) group have targeted Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq.
IS established a self-proclaimed "caliphate" across Syria and Iraq from 2014 but lost its territories to offensives in both countries.
Iraq proclaimed its victory against the jihadists on December 9, 2017.
Today, IS maintains a largely clandestine presence in Iraq and Syria and conducts a sustained insurgency on both sides of the border, according to a U.N. report published early this year.
Across the two countries, IS is believed to retain some 10,000 active fighters, according to the report.
The last major attack claimed by IS in Iraq targeted a market in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in July and killed about 30 people.
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[An Nahar] There are "no positivities" that indicate that the Cabinet will convene soon and the political rift has become deeper regarding the file of the Beirut port blast probe, al-Joumhouria newspaper quoted "credible sources" as saying."The Shiite duo is still maintaining its inflexible stance regarding investigative judge Tarek Bitar and its decision is final as to the Shiite ministers’ boycott of Cabinet sessions until a final decision is taken on Judge Bitar’s fate," the sources said, in remarks published Tuesday.
The sources noted that 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... and the Amal Movement are not calling for Bitar’s removal but rather for restricting his jurisdiction to the questioning of employees and referring the accused ex-PM and former ministers to the Higher Council for Trial of Presidents and Ministers.
Parliament has meanwhile distanced itself from any solution, because it considers that "the better solution for this crisis is in the hands of the relevant authorities, specifically the Justice Minister (Henri Khoury) and the judicial authority," the sources added.
"The bet remains on the exit that the Justice Minister is working on, which is based on forming a judicial accusatory body comprised of three judges so that it becomes the authority that receives appeals against the investigative judge’s decisions, a move that would allow defendants to submit their defenses to several judicial authorities," the sources said.
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[THEHILL] The Charlottesville, Va. city council on Tuesday unanimously approved a move for its now-infamous statue of Confederate leader Robert E. Lee to be melted down to create public artwork that will "reflect racial justice," The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported.The city council will give the statue to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the monument to create a new piece of public artwork, according to the measure.
The city council selected the Jefferson School’s proposal "Swords Into Plowshares," from other potential bidders for the statue, according to The Times.
According to its Indiegogo campaign page, the Jefferson School plans to "transform a national symbol of 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... into a new work of art that will reflect racial justice and inclusion."
"It is a community based project that all of the voices in the community will be able to articulate what we want in our public spaces, as opposed to objects that were given to our community that highlighted a particular ideology that we no longer share," Jefferson School center executive director Andrea Douglas said.
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That "deadly white [hillbilly] rally,"
Per press, with its dubious tally
Of one, is surpassed
By Black bodies amassed Every hour on walks through the valley:
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So, I guess we can ask, will the statue be anatomically correct? For learnin' the chilluns, ya know...
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If placed near a local public school the new statue could serve two purposes:
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"We have destroyed sites in Sanaa linked to ballistic missiles and drones," the official Saudi news agency SPA tweeted.
It earlier said the Saudi army had intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired at the kingdom by Houthis in neighboring Yemen.
Iran-backed Houthis control much of northern Yemen, including the capital Sanaa, which they seized in 2014.
A Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen a year later to prop up the government in a conflict that has left tens of thousands dead and millions displaced.
The SPA said the target of the retaliatory strike included an area of "caves and secret ballistic missile warehouses on the outskirts of Sanaa."
The Saudi defense ministry, cited by the news agency, denounced the Huthi missile-firing and the rebels' "vicious and irresponsible behavior of targeting civilians."
"The ministry of defense will take all necessary and deterrent measures to protect civilians and its territory," the SPA said.
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[ToloNews] Several school-aged girls in the northeastern province of Kunar have called for the reopening of schools for girls grades 7-12 in the province.
They urged the new government to let girls continue their education in Kunar, as they have been allowed in some other provinces.
"My sisters are in grade eight and nine, they are always asking me about their schools, they get upset when they hear no clear news about the reopening of schools. We ask the Islamic Emirate to let schools be opened," said a girl in grade 5.
Along with students, a number of teachers and tribal elders in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... claimed that the Islamic Emirate is behaving inconistently toward Afghan students across Afghanistan.
"High schools are closed in eastern provinces; schools must be opened so everyone--men and women--are allowed to learn and get an education in Islam," said a teacher.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... the head of the education department in Kunar province, Mawllawi Muhebullah Haidari, said the department is prepared to reopen schools for girls if they receive permission.
"We ask elders (government leaders) to give permission, we are ready to open the schools," said Haidari.
Based on the reports, nearly 70.000 girls are attending in Kunar’s schools.
After the collapse of former government, schoolgirls from grade 7 to 12 have been allowed to continue their studies in eight provinces of Afghanistan. Schools in the remaining provinces are still shut.
[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan’s central bank-De Afghanistan Bank- in a statement on Tuesday, December 7 said that they received a second package of cash in humanitarian aids to the bank.
The bank did not close the exact amount of money though, the statement reads that the money was delivered to Afghanistan International Bank (AIB) through the central bank of Afghanistan.
The cash in humanitarian aid by the UNAMA comes as Afghanistan’s local currency is at its lowest point ever against the US dollar.
The most recent official exchange rate I found is 96.1538 afghanis to the dollar.
It is said that the lack of a dollar has caused the local currency (Afghani) to lose its value and ultimately made the prices of food ingredients to be double.
Seventh century customs lead to seventh century economies, say others.
De Afghanistan Bank in the statement said that the problem of the banking system and local currency will soon be resolved and banks will deliver their best services to people.
In the meantime, officials in UNAMA said that the money is not given to authorities in Kabul but to private banks in Afghanistan so that they pay the bills of humanitarian activities of the UN.
UNAMA has announced to be given Afghanistan central bank $16 million in cash.
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
...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 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...former Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he had about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him when he resigned...
...... 46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan......
......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatari payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal......
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
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...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...
