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Dorothy Sebastian was an American film and stage actress.
Born:
Stella Dorothy Sabiston,
April 26, 1903, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
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April 08, 1957, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Thank you, Fred, for continuing your front-page theme of Bygone Celebrities at Christmas. Today your publication features Dorothy Sebastian (aka Stella Dorothy Sabiston), who, as it turns out, is an actress for most other holidays and celebrations too.
First Christmas and then a few from the other holidays;
(You might add these to your extensive Burger Celebrity Archives)
Sincerely, your friend Punky
(P.S. Please don't grumble, I promise you I'm doing my best.)
Gwen Lee & Dorothy Sabastian challenge for the Christmas Turkey Wishbone
The Christmas Turkey before the steroid treatments
Dorothy with a Blunderbuss, how the turkey met it's demise
Dorothy preparing the prised turkey in her kitchen on Christmas Eve
Looks like Dorothy wishing all Burgers a Merry Christmas (think of it as mistletoe on growth hormones) Throw Her a Kiss (B kisses his screen in instances like this)
from Daniel Greenfield
"A single, ominous question now hangs over the White House: What could possibly cause President Trump to put the interests of Russia over those of the United States?" Senator Schumer insinuated in 2018.
Why is Schumer putting Russia’s interests ahead of those of the United States by blocking Nord Stream 2 sanctions on Putin’s pet pipeline into Europe?
Schumer, along with a number of other top Democrats, is a beneficiary of campaign contributions from top Democrat fundraiser Vincent Roberti whose lobbying firm was paid over $8.5 million by Nord Stream 2 which is owned by Putin's state-run Gazprom energy monopoly.
Roberti, a former Dem politician, has maxed out his donations to Schumer and to Rep. Eric Swalwell, who may have been cheating on Fang Fang with Vladimir, and threw in a generous $171,000 to the DCCC, as part of the over $545,000 donated to the Democrat political machine.
The top Dem bundler is reportedly lobbying on "issues related to the U.S. position toward the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, including potential financial sanctions affecting the project."
Suddenly, Schumer, who was accusing the GOP and Trump of being in bed with Putin, and demanding that they vote on sanctions, was refusing to hold a floor vote on Russia sanctions. rtwt
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Literally everything these mendacious sh!ts claimed about Trump & Russkies was fabricated -- and actually true about their own stinking corrupt corpse of a political class's whore-tricks turned for various foreign interests.
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"A single, ominous question now hangs over the White House: What could possibly cause President Brandon to put the interests of China over those of the United States?"
[ZERO] New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the easing of COVID-19 restrictions on national television, based on a 'traffic light system.' She said orgies for up to 25 people are permitted.
Ardern spoke with Seven Sharp hosts Hilary Barry and Jeremy Wells about New Zealand's reopening timeline, known as the traffic light system. For some context, the traffic light system categorizes freedoms available to vaccinated Kiwis based on location and whether they live in a red, orange, or green zone.
The traffic light system aims to end lockdowns in New Zealand and enforce vaccine passports.
For instance, in Auckland, a major port city in the north of the country's North Island, lined with superyachts, the metro area is currently classified as a "red" district -- meaning Kiwis can engage in everyday essential activities.
Ardern explained on national television, "I can confirm that Tinder liaisons have reopened," adding, "it's not strictly embedded in the traffic light system but um, it is a given, up to 25 actually, in a red area."
[OneIndia] Two 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.... police personnel were killed and 12 injured on Monday when bully boyz opened fire on their bus in Zewan area on the outskirts of Srinagar city.
The bus, carrying 25 police personnel, came under fire from bully boyz in Zewan in Pantha Chowk area this evening. At least 14 personnel of the ninth battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police sustained injuries in the attack. The injured were evacuated to various hospitals where two of them died.
Among the injured personnel, ASI Ghulam Hassan and SgCT Safique Ali gave up the ghost and attained martyrdom,whereas condition of other injured personnel is stated to be stable, the police said.
"Police has started the paperwork but haven't done much else in this regard under relevant sections of law and officers continue to work to establish the circumstances which lead to this terror crime. Area has been cordoned off and search in the area is going on," they added.
In a tweet, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said, "PM Narendra Modi has sought details on the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir. He has also expressed condolences to the families of those security personnel who have been martyred in the attack."
The attack comes days after two cops were killed in a terror attack on a police party in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district, evoking widespread condemnation from various political parties.
The two copperswere maimed in the firing and were admitted to a hospital, where they died.
The attack also comes on the close heels of the recent spate of assassinations on migrant workers and members of the minority communities in Kashmir.
No terrorist outfit has so far grabbed credit for the firing on the police bus which came on the 20th anniversary of the attack on the Parliament building in the national capital by the Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... terrorist outfit.
On December 13 in 2001, bully boyz attacked the Parliament complex and opened fire, killing nine people. All five bully boyz were rubbed out.
[ToloNews] Officials of the Islamic Emirate said that the Pashtun-infested LogarMes Aynak copper-mining project, a major venture with China, has resumed operations.
"One of the projects that China has been working on for thirteen years is the Mes Aynak project, for which some contracts have been signed. We want to finalize this project with China," said Zabiullah Mujahid, a front man for the Islamic Emirate.
Mujahid also called on potential financial backers to invest in Afghanistan.
The head of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, in a meeting with the country’s business owners, said that Afghanistan has many mines and a lot of natural resources, and if they are used properly they could solve the nation's economic problems.
"If one of our mines is regulated, extracted and processed on a regular basis, our problems will be solved," said Shahabuddin Delawar, minister of mines and petroleum.
In the meantime, officials of steel mills said that there are 42 steel mills in the country which employ over 20,000 workers.
The factory owners have requested that the Islamic Emirate provided them with opportunities to extract metal from the mines in the country.
"We have made great efforts to extract, but unfortunately it didn’t work; now we hope to extract from iron mines for the first time in Afghanistan," said Parwaiz Khwajazada, factory head.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... the Chamber of Industries and Mines said that many factories in the country have been closed due to the lack of raw materials and markets, and dozens of factory workers
[NYPOST] An AlaskaIHOP is going viral with a savage note blaming President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...... for its lack of staff.
"Due to the fact that Biden gave out way too much free money and nobody wants to work anymore, we are forced to reduce our hours during this week," the sign in the window of a franchise in Wasilla read.
"Thank you for your understanding and patience," read the widely shared, error-ridden note that IHOP confirmed was genuine but "unauthorized."
The sign quickly divided those who shared it online, with some using the hashtag #BoycottIHOP — but others deliberately seeking out the exact location to support it for being honest about the damage caused by the increasingly unsupported president.
"We can’t wait to eat at [a] place that has the courage to admit the obvious," one person tweeted, while admitting they’d never been to one of the International House of Pancakes locations before.
"Haven’t been to an IHOP in over 20 years, but now I’ll start," another person tweeted, while others told the chain the sign had made new customers.
"So, the snowflakes are boycotting IHOP, because they spoke the truth. I suddenly have a serious craving for Pancakes," someone else wrote.
Others, however, said they were so angered, they would boycott the all-day breakfasts, including the Twitter user who appeared to have first posted the picture.
"We can’t eat at a place that condones this," said @ThatOtherDude12 while posting the sign on Friday.
Others pointed out that the stimulus payouts had been started by Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , ridiculing the suggestion that they were the real cause of staff shortages.
"It couldn’t be the $2.25 an hour that people don’t want to work for, could it?" someone named Jamie Carter asked, looping in IHOP’s official account.
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Biden Administration: Not only do our newly bought twins bring in $1000 per month, the Buttgigs have decided to take 6 weeks off and no longer will pay on our student debt because nah ni nah ni nah nah.
[TheBlaze] Barclays economist Jonathan Millar predicts the Fed will raise interest rates twice in 2022 and three more times in 2023. IMO, Yellen (at Treasury), Powell (at the Fed) and Rouse, Bernstein and Boushay (at the Council of Econ Advisors) should all resign. I'd fire the OMB director too if there was one who wasn't acting.
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If they do that the federal deficit will explode
[EASTBAYTIMES] An NBC sports crew was robbed at gunpoint Saturday morning in Oakland, police said.The crew was on assignment in the Jack London Square area when three armed individuals took a camera from inside the crew’s vehicle, according to Oakland Police Department spokesperson Kim Armstead. None of the crew members were holding the camera at the time and there were no injuries.
The robbery marks the third incident involving news organizations in Oakland in the last two and a half weeks.
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[KavkazUzel] Ten former police officers convicted in the case of death after interrogation at the police department of North Ossetia resident Vladimir Tskayev, demanded from the appellate instance to acquit them, Zemfira Tskayeva said today.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote in August, Zemfira, the widow of Vladimir Tskayev, appealed against the sentences of ten former police officers convicted in the case of her husband's death, demanding that their punishment be tougher. The convicts also filed appeals, insisting on an acquittal. The Supreme Court of North Ossetia, where today began consideration of complaints against the verdict of police officers convicted in the case of the death of Vladimir Tskayev, closed the process to the press.
On July 28, the court sentenced the 10 police officers charged in the Tskayev case to sentences ranging from two to ten and a half years, although the prosecutor asked for them to be imprisoned for six to thirteen years. All the condemned in the last word declared their innocence. The siloviki did not manage to hush up the case of Tskayev's death, and the court ruled on the real terms of imprisonment due to a wide response, the journalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" said.
Tskayeva noted the impartiality of the judge.
"He did not stand on ceremony with anyone: neither with the side of the convicts, nor with us," her words are quoted on the website of the publication.
The next session of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia on the Tskayev case is scheduled for December 21, Krylya TV reported on its website today.
The case was submitted to the Supreme Court of the Republic on November 22, it follows from the case card on the court's website.
Let us remind you that the trial in the case of Tskayev's death lasted more than two years. According to Zemfira Tskayeva, the defense of the defendants dragged out the process in every possible way - out of 143 hearings that were to take place, 73 were postponed because of the defendants and their lawyers.
[Breitbart] MSNBC network national affairs analyst John Heilemann said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that there were “30 million people right now who are ready to take up arms” for former President Donald Trump.
Anchor Chuck Todd said, “I want to read what Bart Gellman wrote in the cover story for The Atlantic. Some might say it is hyperbolic, but John Heilemann, I’m curious if you think it is? The headline is Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun. ‘Trump and his party convinced a dauntingly large number of Americans, that the essential workings of democracy are corrupt, that the made-up claims of fraud are true, that only cheating can thwart their victory at their polls, that tyranny usurped their government and that violence is a legitimate response.’ Hyperbolic or fact?”
Heilemann said, “Fact, I think. The strength of that Gellman piece is it lays out this extraordinary reality that there is this research that shows something like 8% and maybe as many as 12% that say Joe Biden was illegitimate and violence is an appropriate tool to removing him and restoring Donald Trump. That’s between 20 and 30 million people. That’s a mass movement in America in favor of political violence, which is a new thing. We’ve been political violence before, lynching many things over the course of time that African-Americans have suffered, but this is 30 million people right now who are ready to take up arms.”
He added, “You put that together with what the president, the former president, and his allies are doing in the political realm, statehouses, state legislatures and the party apparatus to be able to engineer a situation where they are in a stronger position to pull off a coup in 2024 than they were 2020. That’s not hyperbolic at all. Those are all facts.”
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He said it in a bad way, but that doesn't mean it's not true.
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Trump and his party convinced a dauntingly large number of Americans, that the essential workings of democracy are corrupt, that the made-up claims of fraud are true, that only cheating can thwart their victory at their polls, that tyranny usurped their government and that violence is a legitimate response.
I think we will give the DNC and affilliates credit for that mindset.
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This is the way the US government/deep state have operated for a long time. Goad the other side with inflammatory rhetoric until they make the first move. Then claim it was a sneak attack and lay waste to them.
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Yeah, it's one reason I've been so suspicious of people like that agitator we had a few days ago. Life is still pretty normal, we still have hope we can settle this according to the constitution. It's not black flag time and anyone screaming it is will probably be a f'ing buttheaded idiot.
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The way the government is so weaponized against citizenns, one has to wonder why anyone would take part in such a poll? Maybe the numbers are far higher. Then one has to ask, who is really the enemy in this country? Maybe the sitting government, does not represent the citizens.
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What scares some of them (but not enough of them yet) at night is that a lot of those "80 million voters" suddenly will disappear (as though they really existed in the first place) to defend their power.
As the leadership in the Donetsk and Lugansk separatist republics finally learned, once you fuck over your recruits, they stop believing in your bullshit, then they stop showing up.
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Richard Gere and the gerbil story. In years past i head it from the LASD detective who handled the case. Not to pun excessively but that story was quickly memory holed.
[RT] In an effort to limit infections, South Korea is to trial an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system to track Covid cases in one of its most densely populated cities, according to an official cited by Reuters.
The system, which will be funded nationally and tested in Bucheon, on the outskirts of Seoul, will begin operating in January. Using facial recognition and AI, it will take advantage of the city’s 10,820 security cameras to track the movements of active cases and their close contacts, and to determine whether they wore a mask.
Reuters reported on Monday that the city had submitted a 110-page business plan to South Korea’s Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology, which is seeking proposals to limit the spread of infection. Once the project is rolled out, South Korea will join China, India, Japan, Poland, Russia, and multiple US states in exploring the potential of facial recognition to keep a watchful eye on those who test Covid-positive.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An 18-year-old graduate of an Orthodox school tried to blow himself up at a convent outside Moscow on Monday, wounding at least one teenager, the interior ministry said."An 18-year-old graduate of this educational institution entered the premises of the Orthodox gymnasium of the Vvedenskiy Vladychniy convent and went kaboom!", the ministry said in a statement.
A 15-year-old was injured in the attack, which took place in the city of Serpukhov south of Moscow, the statement said.
According to preliminary information, the would-be bomber was not killed in the blast, it said.
The ministry said the staff of the school had been evacuated and that "information about other victims" was being clarified.
Several Russian news agencies said that up to seven people were maimed in the attack.
Moscow prosecutors posted a video from the scene of the incident, with police and ambulance cars outside the convent in snowfall.
The incident took place in the city of Serpukhov around 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Moscow.
The Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said it had sent detectives to the scene.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Russian military journalist, Boris Rozhin, adds some details:
An 18-year-old graduate of an Orthodox gymnasium blew himself up in a gymnasium at a nunnery.
The character went to the gymnasium and detonated an improvised explosive device on the front porch of the building while other students were there.
As a result, seven people were injured (one teenager was seriously injured, five with light injuries). The suicide bomber blew off his leg.
The bomber came to the gymnasium before the start of classes, when a prayer is being performed in the hall. Today they prayed for Saint Andrew the First-Called.
The suspect wanted to go to where all the students were gathered, but the door was locked. Then the terrorist detonated a makeshift bomb in the foyer, where there were only a few people. After the explosion, the guards pushed him out into the street, but he resisted and again burst into the building.
The teachers recognized the former graduate Vladislav Struzhennikov as the attacker. The motives for his action are not yet clear.
According to some reports, he also had a sword with him.
PS. Amendment: The character without a leg still died
PS2. A source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs claims that the suicide bomber wanted to blow himself up during the morning prayer, which was held in the gymnasium building.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sudanese police fired tear gas Monday to disperse hundreds of protesters who rallied near the presidential palace in Khartoum demanding civilian rule, witnesses said.It was the latest rally in recent weeks by Sudanese opposed to a military-dominated government in the country where top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan seized power in an October coup.
On Sunday, Rooters revealed that Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has replaced all acting state governors appointed by the country’s military leader after a coup in late October.
The decision is part of efforts by Hamdok, who returned to the premiership under a deal with the military, to roll back changes made by the military following the takeover.
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[JustTheNews] Some of the most progressive Democrats in Congress are supporting new legislation that could help an unexpected group: those who were arrested and imprisoned without trial for playing a role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Democratic Reps. Hank Johnson (Ga.)
...who once worried publicly about Guam tipping over..
and Jamie Raskin (Md.) on Wednesday reintroduced the Bivens Act, which would allow citizens to recover damages for constitutional violations committed against them by federal law enforcement officials.
The bill, which the lawmakers first introduced last year, seeks "to provide a civil remedy for an individual whose rights have been violated by a person acting under federal authority." It would do this by adding five words — "of the United States or" — to a longstanding provision enacted in 1871, known as Section 1983, which gives individuals the right to sue state or local officials who violate their civil and constitutional rights. The additional words would include federal officials in the statute.
The FBI, Justice Department, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and federal prison officials are among the law enforcement entities that would be held accountable under the legislation.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) introduced a companion bill in the Senate this week.
Supporters of the legislation argue that no statute, including Section 1983, currently gives individuals the right to sue federal officials who violate the Constitution. Johnson and Raskin said as much in a press release, pointing to the former Trump administration as reason to pass their bill.
While Johnson and Raskins framed their bill as a way to protect against the overreaches of the Trump administration, the legislation would incidentally offer a path to civil remedy for those imprisoned without trial for alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach who say they've been mistreated by federal authorities to sue.
Several Jan. 6 prisoners allege the FBI, Justice Department, and federal prison officials under the Biden administration have violated their civil and constitutional rights.
Thomas Caldwell, 66, for example, says he was arrested at his Virginia farm in January and interrogated for hours without being told what he was being charged with. Caldwell, a military veteran, never entered the Capitol building on Jan. 6 but spent well over a month in solitary confinement.
George Tanios, 40, says he had a similar experience at his West Virginia home in March, claiming federal agents wouldn't answer him when he asked why they were arresting him. He was imprisoned on charges related to the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and remained in jail for months, despite the District of Columbia's chief medical examiner concluding Sicknick died of unrelated natural causes. According to Tanios, his business was devastated as a result of his arrest and imprisonment.
Christopher Worrell was also arrested and imprisoned for his involvement in the Capitol riot despite never entering the building. In October, a federal judge found D.C. Jail Warden Wanda Patten and D.C. Department of Corrections Director Quincy Booth in contempt of court for refusing to turn over records related to the care of Worrell, who suffers from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and had a broken hand. The judge referred the matter to the attorney general "for appropriate inquiry into potential civil rights violations of Jan. 6 defendants, as exemplified in this case."
[NYPOST] White House press secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... claimed Monday that Vice President Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge is still the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us... ’s point person on immigration after the president of Guatemala said in an interview last week that he has had no contact with any top US official since this summer.President Alejandro Giammattei claimed to Fox News that he hasn’t heard from Harris since she visited Guatemala City in June as part of a rocky trip to discuss the "root causes" of the continuing immigration crisis at the US southern border.
"We had many conversations with your ambassador, but [between] my presidency and the White House, no," Giammattei said. "I spoke once to Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter, close friend of an imaginary negro named Corn Pop. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan.... because I introduced myself. Then we had the visit of Vice President Harris. On matters of state and migration, we had [Homeland Security Secretary] Mr. Alejandro Mayorkas [in July]. Aside from that direct communication, no, we have not had it."
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"May the Lord bless and keep the Tsar - far away from us!"
https://youtu.be/8jZFnKZcids
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My republican (small 'r', please) soul cringes ever time I hear "czar"
[AviaProNews] The American nuclear submarine only miraculously did not sink after a collision with a Chinese underwater drone.
The American nuclear submarine "USS Connecticut" suffered critical damage to the bow after collision with a Chinese underwater unmanned vehicle. Judging by the damage received, almost any submersion of this submarine would have led to flooding of the compartments, and the fact that the submarine carrying nuclear weapons miraculously was able to rise to the surface immediately after the collision indicates that the American command was very lucky.
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Just how big and fast are these Chinese unmanned Subs? Maybe not a mountain, but large enough to do damage makes me wonder why we didn't detect it. Have the Chicoms got some digital "voodoo" that
makes it undetectable? All sounds fishy.
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Disinformation. If the Chinese had done anything like that the deep state would be shouting it from the mountaintops. Instead they tried to cover it up - a sure sign there's blame to be spread.
The March 2021 Pentagon report,Study on Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Readiness of Members of the Armed Forces, explains that “In the United States, 37 percent of people regularly don’t get their recommended seven to nine hours of sleep per night. For military personnel, that number climbs to 76 percent,” highlighting sleep deprivation issues that many face within the military community.
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Bertie, in the 60s, the duty shift was 6 on and 12 off. Running in place or weights or any rythmatic exercise was forbidden. All that is necessary is for on weighted article to hit the deck or a satellite to catch it near periscope depth to start tracking. Another bad thing was sound over the ships speakers. Like “man battle station for weapons system readiness test.
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[NYPOST] Thousands of migrants colonists clashed with Mexican police Sunday as they approached Mexico City on their northward trek through the Central American country. Approximately 550 coppers were deployed to lead the migrants colonists through the Mexican capital, government officials told BBC News.
The migrants colonists were planning to walk to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a well-known pilgrimage site in the city. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... police reportedly blocked the group, telling them they should spend the night at a hostel before moving on.
Authorities alleged the migrants colonists attacked first, saying they threw stones and grabbed police shields
Some migrants colonists claimed they felt threatened after being surrounded by the riot gear-clad officers, according to BBC News.
The migrants colonists had been walking along the highway connecting Mexico City with Puebla before they were stopped.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US forces carried out a "large airborne operation" near Deir al-Zor in eastern Syria on Monday at dawn, Syrian state news agency SANA said.The American forces landed in the town of Busayra, east of Deir al-Zor, and "kidnapped a number of civilians," it said.
There was no independent confirmation of the report.
The province of Deir al-Zor, along the Iraqi border, is a strategic supply route for Iranian-backed militias who regularly send reinforcements into Syria to support Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... against murderous Moslems seeking to topple his family rule.
US forces are deployed at a base in al-Tanf region, south of Deir al-Zor, as part of combat mission against 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.... snuffies who continue to wage a low-level insurgency in Iraq and Syria.
Kurdish counterterrorism forces and the global coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) on Monday killed five members of a "dangerous" cell in a joint raid against the group in eastern Syria, according to a statement from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The Kurdish-led SDF said in the statement that a "dangerous" ISIS cell was hiding near al-Busayrah town in Deir ez-Zor province. "After investigations, information gathering, and careful follow-up of wanted persons during the last period, the cell’s whereabouts were raided with air support."
The ISIS fighters fired at the raiding forces who responded and killed five members of the cell, "most of whom were wearing boom belts," according to the SDF which said in the statement that the raid followed recent ISIS activities against civil and service institutions in the town.
Al-Busayrah is located on the banks of the Euphrates where ISIS remains active despite the group’s territorial defeat in 2019. The SDF and coalition forces have conducted several raids in Deir ez-Zor recently. They have also conducted a number of joint patrols in the area this month.
Four members of a family were also killed in the joint raid, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), including two who were targeted by coalition gunfire from a helicopter while trying to flee on a cycle of violence.
The SDF is the main ally of the US-led coalition in the fight against ISIS on the ground in Syria.
The increased military operations against ISIS signal a surge in the group’s activities in the region.
According to the latest Pentagon report on the fight against ISIS, the Death Eaters’ activities "significantly" decreased from July to September 2021, but, citing the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), it said "there were signs that the group is ’poised to increase activity in the coming quarter after a period of recuperation and recovery.’"
"The DIA said that ISIS moved some of its fighters during the quarter from the Syrian desert back into Iraq and northeastern Syria, which ISIS perceives to be important operating environments," added the report.
[LBCGROUP.TV] Tunisian President Kais Saied said on Monday that those who receive foreign funding have no place in parliament.
The judiciary has opened an investigation into three political parties, including the two largest in the currently suspended parliament - Ennahda and Heart of Tunisia - on suspicion of receiving foreign funds during the 2019 election, a judicial source told Rooters in July.
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Ennahda (Tunisian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood) has received funding from Qatar for decades. Qatar's ruling al-Thani family has for years funded Ennahda's leader, the peripatetic Rachid Ghannouchi.
[IsraelTimes] Washington Post says strikes hit facilities near Damascus and Homs in June 2021 and in March 2020, after Jerusalem identified efforts to restart illegal program
Israel carried out a pair of strikes against alleged Syrian chemical weapons ...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented except among devout Moslems... sites in March 2020 and June 2021, after receiving intelligence that the regime of Bashir al-Assad was seeking to rebuild the illegal arsenal, according to a Monday report.
Current and former Western intelligence officials familiar with the matter told The Washington Post that in this year’s strike, Israeli jets fired at three targets near the cities of Damascus and Homs, killing seven Syrian soldiers and an engineer who allegedly worked at a military lab.
The report said the 2020 strike targeted a villa outside Homs, which was previously the hub of Syria’s chemical weapons program. The Villa was being used to make tricalcium phosphate, or TCP, Western intelligence officials told The Post. TCP has many nonmilitary uses, but it can also be converted into phosphorous trichloride, a precursor for sarin and other nerve agents.
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Keeping with its policy of ambiguity on such affairs, the Israel Defense Forces declined to comment on either strike.
The report said the attacks grabbed the attention of Western intelligence officials, as the targets were not Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... proxies, which has been the case in hundreds of IDF Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in recent years.
It said Israel received intelligence in the months ahead of the 2020 raid that Syrian President Assad was seeking to rebuild h'>nullis chemical weapons program, which he had agreed to dismantle in 2014, following pressure from the B.O. regime.
Analysts have described the program as a deterrent against Israel, but it was repurposed repeatedly for use against Syrian rebels, including in one particularly deadly attack in August 2013, where roughly 1,400 non-combatants were killed in the Damascus suburbs. The UN found that chemical weapons were used in the attack, though Syria denied this.
The attack sparked international outcry and threats of a military strike from then-US president Barak Obama. Assad subsequently agreed to disassemble the chemical weapons program and ship its equipment out of the country.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... Assad continued employing the deadly weapons in more than 200 attacks against rebels, even after threats by the B.O. regime and air strikes ordered by former president Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... , The Post reported.
It is not clear whether Israel’s strikes were successful in disrupting Assad’s efforts. The strikes were preemptive in nature, eliminating Syria’s chemical production capabilities before the weapons are made, Western intelligence officials told The Post. A strike on operational chemical weapons would risk unleashing them into the surrounding areas.
The Post said that in both attacks, the US was made aware of the strikes and the intelligence that Israel said justified them after the fact.
[IsraelTimes] Israel is officially refusing to admit to hitting Syrian chemical sites, as reported by The Washington Post just now, but former Shin Bet head and current Likud MK Avi Dichter appears to confirm Israeli worries about Syrian chemical weapons ...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented except among devout Moslems... "If the [Bashar] Assad regime did not hesitate to use chemical weapons against civilians, of course any Syrian outfitting of nerve weapons would be a real cause for worry in Israel. If the regime uses them against Syrians, imagine for yourselves what else it could do," he says.
He also seems to makes the case for why Israel would not trust international guarantees about its enemies, following a US-Russian-Syrian deal eight years ago to rid Syria of chemical arms.
"It’s hard to see the Russians taking aggressive action against Assad. He’s guilty not only of making chemical weapons but of using them against civilians, and despite that he’s remained as a figure that they hold onto and have even revived. One also has to admit that the Americans weren’t really in Syria," charges Dichter, who previously headed the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
If the implications were not obvious, he intimates that Israel will take what action it needs to against Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... with or without the backing of the US, which is engaged in indirect talks with Tehran on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.
"If the day comes that we have no choice, we’ll need to do something with what we have and not just with what we want," he says.
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Nyaah, who hasn't? At this point, world + dog have bombed chemical weapon sites in Syria belonging to one side or another. And by 'chemical weapon sites', we mean pool cleaning supplies and the odd baby milk factory.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Links contained in the article are to Telegram channels and are in Russian.
[ColonelCassad] How fast things are happening.
Only recently he wrote how terrorists from JNIM threaten to sue Russia, which does not allow them to organize a jihad and sends military advisers and PMCs to West Africa, as "suddenly" Western analytical the center picks up this theme and begins to expand the Overton Window on the topic of which terrorists and against whom it is worth doing business.
As soon as the terrible, terrible Russians began to show interest in the "African Afghanistan" in the person of Mali and offer Bamako their help, as in the main lobbyists of the wars (https://t.me/rybar/21786) NATO represented by think-tank International Crisis Group rolled out analytics (https://t.me/strana_tuaregov/431) on the topic "Is it possible to have a dialogue with the Al-Qaeda branch in Mali?"
We are talking about the Jabhat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) group, with which both the official authorities and the contingent of Operation Barkhan are fighting.
On February 5, 2021, the International Crisis Group called (https://t.me/rybar/16548) the US authorities to revise the classification of the Syrian "Hayat Tahrir al-Sham" as terrorists and establish a dialogue. If in the case of HTS the formal severing of ties between the international terrorist organization Al-Qaeda and the former Jabhat al-Nusra played into the hands, in Mali the main lobbyists of NATO's wars went further.
The author of the analytical channel In the country of the Tuareg @strana_tuaregov tells in detail (https://t.me/strana_tuaregov/431) about the main proposals of the think-tank:
- start a dialogue with terrorists on the territory of a third country - for example, in Algeria, Qatar, Mauritania or Norway with Switzerland;
- terrorists need to open a political office and form a negotiating committee;
- France needs to stop being stubborn and hold off military operations for the duration of the negotiations;
- The Jabhat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin group needs to officially break with al-Qaeda.
Apparently, the International Crisis Group was commissioned to study public opinion after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan. NPOs have to find out in which states are ready to put up with terrorists and under what conditions.
It is difficult to explain such proposals by other reasons.
Thick hint that if you are friends with terrorists against Russians, then a lot is possible.
If you look in general, it looks like preparation for the recruitment of the next "sons of bitches" that will be required at various theaters in the framework of the new Cold War against China and the Russian Federation.
PS. After numerous complaints from France to the EU and NATO about the fact that it was being kicked out of Mali (plak-plak), the EU imposed sanctions against the Wagner PMC and its leader, Colonel Utkin, for "human rights violations" in Sudan, CAR, Ukraine. Libya, Syria and Mozambique. Also introduced separate sanctions against the leadership of Mali "for obstructing a democratic transition."
It is clear that this is all due to the fact that the Russians are settling in Mali, and the French were asked to leave from there.
"Democracy in Mali is in danger. I will complain to Brussels!" Hence the sanctions hysteria to somehow console Macron, who lost two countries in the French sphere of influence during his term. Of course, Wagner will continue to operate in Africa, as its success is the best advertisement for local governments,
Ironically, during Haftar's offensive against Tripoli, Wagner and France were on the same side, since both Russian PMCs and France were involved in supporting Haftar. And there France was never embarrassed by such a neighborhood, because France was not concerned about "human rights in Libya" but about the expulsion of "friend Recep" from destroyed Libya, with which the "Total" corporation had oil contracts (guaranteed by Haftar), which could have gone to dust if Erdogan had captured Cyrenaica (but thanks to the work of PMCs and Russian military assistance, as well as Egypt's threats to enter the war, the plans of the "friend of Recep" did not come true).
[ToloNews] Schools in Afghanistan remain off-limits to many girls between grades 7 and 12, but some girls have continued their lessons at home.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported that women teachers were meeting at unknown locations in Kabul and teaching girls inside homes.
"The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... allowed just boys to go to schools but don’t allow girls to go to school," said Atefa, a student speaking to AP.
"I am a teacher (at) a school. But now, after the coming of Taliban, the schools for girls are closed," said Zakia, a teacher, "because the students must study, we created a small course at home, so the students come here hiddenly."
When the Islamic Emirate swept into power, schools and universities were closed. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... schools soon reopened for boys of all ages--as well as for both boys and girls up to grade 6--but girls and young women in grades 7-12 in many provinces are still not allowed to attend school.
"There is still hope. We students will continue our path. We will bravely go forward and will not stop. We will continue our education," said Asinat, a student who would be in grade 12.
Schools allowing the attendance of girls in grades 7-12 are opened in eight of 34 provinces.
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Seriously, this story is played out. Seems to me they have alot more shit to worry about than going to school.
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^ True, but for the past 20 years, Afghan girls going to school has been the singular focus of the Deep Star/MSM.
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It’s good that they realize the new government will continu to prevent them from continuing their schooling and they are making other arrangements. It probably won’t be much longer before they have to actively hide what they are doing.
Los Angeles police confirmed a male suspect is in custody after five to six shots were fired from an apartment window on 6200 block of Hollywood Boulevard
The shots were fired a little after 7 pm on Sunday as a memorial for the late Mexican singer Vicente Fernández was taking place
Photos at the scene showed a glass door that was shattered after being struck by a bullet
There were no injuries or fatalities, and the shooter's motive remains unclear
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That first bullet point brought to mind the image (from a movie) of a revolver being emptied unaimed out a window. Shooter? Maybe some de Niro vintage slab of ham going all "don't mess with me, I'm ka-ray-zy?" Couldn't place it... finally had to Google. Natalie Portman as a kid. Just the kind of thing that the kind of person who'd randomly empty a pistol out a window onto Hollywood Blvd. might fixate on. Or not. What struck me funny was, the scene apparently showed six rounds from a five shot gun.
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It is a petty that their recognition of Heroism will always be tainted with the Biden name and its suspected political application with Mid-terms hopes already deep down the drain.
BTW: It was President Donald Trump that signed into law H.R. 8276, which authorizes the President to posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Cashe and others.
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...The effort to get SFC Cashe a richly deserved MOH has been underway for some time now - IIRC at least since the Obama Administration - with DoD being curiously unwilling to consider it.
Mike
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Nowadays, any time I see the phrase "first black/woman/gay/lez/weirdo to _____", I am immediately suspicious of that person's qualifications, assuming they identify as a person, of course. But reading about SFC Cashe, he sounds like the real deal. I am puzzled by the DoD's reluctance to recognize this.
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Not denigrating in any way the honor and sacrifice of those to be honored,but the timing in the midst of Biden polling disaster is highly suspect.
I have no doubt that these bottom-feeders will use every public ceremony of dignity and honor as a photo op for positive media coverage and preening by that senile clown puppet of the Kalorama Kompound Central Committee. They are beneath contempt.
[Garowe] At least 4 million people in Somalia have been badly exposed to hunger following severe drought in Somalia, a country that is also battling myriad challenges, including but not limited to the Alshabaab menace.
Reports indicate that the Galgaduud region of Galmadug state in Central Somalia is one of the most severely affected areas in the country.
Somalia, a war-torn country, becomes increasingly vulnerable to crises as it has experienced more than 30 climate-related hazards since 1990, including 12 droughts and 19 floods, whose outcome has always been severe.
It sounds like they need canals and dams to store flood water against future need — really basic civil engineering, when the community isn’t fighting a continuous war of all against all.
There are also reports that Alshabaab holy warriors may have started to give food to vulnerable families as a way of enticing them. The holy warriors control large swathes of rural Central and southern Somalia.
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It sounds like they need canals and dams to store flood water against future need — really basic civil engineering, when the community isn’t fighting a continuous war of all against all.
[WashingtnPost] Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday that Britain had registered its first death of a patient with the omicron variant, while U.K. health officials warned that the new version of the coronavirus was spreading at jaw-dropping speed.
“I think the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus, that’s something we need to set on one side and just recognize the sheer pace at which it accelerates through the population,” Johnson told reporters during a visit to a vaccination clinic in London. He urged people to quickly increase their protection with a booster shot.
Long lines formed outside vaccination clinics Monday, with people waiting to get a first, second or third dose.
The prime minister’s office did not immediately offer any details about the person who died — age, vaccination status or any underlying conditions.
"The US does not want to open a consulate merely to have a place for diplomatic connections with the PA [Palestinian Authority]. If that is all they wanted, they could easily do this by opening a mission in Abu Dis or Ramallah -- where most other countries conduct their relations with the PA... the purpose of opening the consulate is to recognize Palestinian claims to Jerusalem." — Eugene Kontorovitch, professor, George Mason University, Antonin Scalia School of Law, Israel Hayom, December 5, 2021.
The 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations states that "a consular post may be established in the territory of the receiving State only with that State's consent". In other words, reopening the consulate may be done only with the consent of the Israeli government.
All this cannot be dissociated from the general hostile attitude of the Biden administration towards Israel from the moment it came to power.
Earlier in March, an internal memo from the US State Department was leaked to The National, a daily newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The National reported that "The Biden administration memo recommends voicing US principles on achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace under a two-state solution framework 'based on the 1967 lines'".
The author of the memo is Hady Amr, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs and Press and Public Diplomacy in the Biden administration, and also in charge of US negotiations with Israel and Palestinian organizations. It is hard to imagine that Amr was chosen as an "honest broker". Amr has a long history of anti-Israeli activities.
Amr also is the lead author of a report published by the Brookings Institution in December 2018 in which some proposals are made that could be regarded as disturbing. The report says that the United States must "reconnect" with Hamas, a fundamentalist terrorist group; seek "to create a Palestinian unity government integrating Hamas", and "compel Israel to make major concessions", even if it may "endanger Israel". The report never defines Hamas as a terrorist group, and never says that Hamas's goal is to destroy Israel. The report adds, "should Israel prove uncooperative with American efforts, the United States could signal it will move ahead anyway."
The behavior of the Biden administration towards Israel is all the more worrying in that at the same time, it places itself in a weak position regarding negotiations with Iran and seems ready to make a deal with the mullahs' regime at any price, in a resolution that has already been called "less for less", or, worse, "less for more".
An Israeli diplomatic service briefing recently announced the Biden administration is ready to accept a deal with Iran that includes only two elements: the removal of all international sanctions still imposed on Iran, and Iran's pledge to stop enriching uranium, which would mean that Iran's nuclear program would remain intact and that Iran's regional destabilization actions, including its threats against Israel, could continue.
Two days before the current negotiations began, chief Iranian Army spokesman Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said to the Iran Students News Agency (ISNA) that Israel's annihilation is his country's "greatest ideal before us and the greatest goal we pursue."
Iran claims, truthfully or not, that it already has enough enriched uranium to produce a nuclear warhead on short notice. On November 8, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh, announced that Iran will only agree to sign a deal with the US if all sanctions are unconditionally lifted. "Either we agree on everything, or we agree on nothing," he said.
The US Biden Administration seems.... at a time finally of peace, deliberately acting to destabilize not only Israel's new coalition government but, more importantly, the entire region. The United States seems once again to be igniting, on the heels of its failure in Afghanistan, yet a second, unnecessary disruption, with all the carnage, global damage and pandemonium that will result. Those two historic upheavals will be the legacies of the Biden Administration. If Biden is looking for yet another disaster to notch on his belt, this is it.
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Certainly not a shooting war. That might be embarrassing.
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Biden has been anti Israel for a long time. He' is taking up where his boss Obama left off. Trump almost derailed this agenda.
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Biden has been obsessed with Israel since at least 1982. Menachem Begin delivered an epic bitch-slapping to Biden when, as a junior Senator, that vile and posturing piece of shit tried to threaten Begin -- literally pounding the table in the Senate.
JPost's recounting of the famous incident is worth re-posting, both to show the great dignity of Menachem Begin and the squalid and spineless piece of shit that is Joe Biden:
In 1982, prime minister Menachem Begin testified in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Then-senator Joseph Biden told Begin that US aid to Israel could be cut off if actions in the West Bank did not cease.
Menachem Begin responded, “Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history.
"Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
Senator Joseph Biden slammed on the dais, clearly angry with what Begin was saying.
Menachem Begin continued, “This desk is designed for writing, not for fists. Don’t threaten us with slashing aid. Do you think that because the US lends us money it is entitled to impose on us what we must do?
"We are grateful for the assistance we have received, but we are not to be threatened. I am a proud Jew. Three-thousand years of culture are behind me, and you will not frighten me with threats. Take note: we do not want a single soldier of yours to die for us.”
IOW: F-off, you disgusting excuse for a human being
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No, he is at war with the majority of the American people, many of whom did not vote for this poufy perv, and his socialist/communistic, dictatorial, illegal, unconstitutional policies and directives.
His direction vis-a-vis Israel is a subset thereof.
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[RIA Novosti] In 37 regions of Russia, 106 neo-Nazis from the Ukrainian "MKU", which was preparing terrorist attacks and massacres, were immediately identified, the FSB reported.
This is the largest operation against supporters of an extremist group in Russia.
"Operational-search measures and investigative actions have been carried out in relation to 106 supporters of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi youth group MKU, created by the citizen of Ukraine Krasnov Yegor, operating under the auspices of the Ukrainian special services, identified in 37 regions of the Russian Federation," the release says.
The Investigative Committee has been following Krasnov's activities for a long time, a criminal case was opened against him on the preparation of murders, and his announcement on the international wanted list was also initiated.
The aim of the current events was to suppress the action, inspired by Krasnov in various regions of Russia, "within the framework of which, with the help of messengers and social networks, his supporters were informed of instructions about the commission of terrorist attacks and massacres."
"Among the detained supporters of MKU, three administrators of the organization's Internet communities have been identified who propagandized extremist ideology at the direction of Yegor Krasnov and called for violent actions. Two more detainees are suspected of preparing armed attacks on educational institutions," in the message.
FSB detained in Saratov 14 members of the Ukrainian radical group "M.K.U."
In addition, in the Penza region and the Komi Republic, the activities of two affiliated with "M.K.U." extremist groups, which consisted of five and eight people. It was not specified whether all of them were detained or only part of them.
At home, members of the organization found smooth-bore and rifled civilian hunting weapons and ammunition, pneumatic and hollow pistols, machine guns, a large number of knives, and tear gas canisters.
Among those detained in these two regions are those who corresponded with Krasnov and received instructions from him to carry out violent actions and make improvised explosive devices.
Now the issue of bringing the detainees to criminal responsibility is being resolved.
Investigative Committee has disclosed details of the case of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi group "M.K.U."
For the first time about the detention of supporters of "M.K.U." in Russia, the Federal Security Service reported in March this year: 13 neo-Nazis were arrested in Gelendzhik, another in Yaroslavl. After that, the special service repeatedly reported on special operations in other cities - from the center (Moscow region) and the south (Anapa) to the Far East (Chita).
As one of the neo-Nazis detained in Gelendzhik said in a video published by the FSB, they received instructions from Krasnov on the preparation of terrorist attacks and practiced their skills by beating homeless people and representatives of youth subcultures.
As a "demonstration of adherence to Nazi ideology," the group members burned a copy of the Victory Banner, and the video report was sent to Ukraine. The FSB gave a similar description when detaining other groups of MKU supporters. At least one of the adherents of the group, at the instigation of Krasnov, committed two murders, noted in the UK.
"...We are led by a feeble incompetent who is advised by fools. Our military is broken and has not won a full-spectrum, high-intensity conventional war in decades.
"And the American people are sick of seeing the lives of their sons and daughters – our amazing warriors – squandered in ill-considered conflicts that our garbage establishment has neither the competence nor, apparently, the intention of winning.
"My test for whether any conflict is worth it is whether I could explain to the mother of a paratrooper from Omaha who just found out her son was killed in action why it was worthwhile. The proud mothers of the boys from the 82nd and 101st killed at Normandy understood. But I could not make that case to them over Ukraine...."
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What I do know is the Russians are responsible for the idea that everyone not an active communist is a "Nazi", so I don't trust the labels assigned by their government press.
Maybe Putin should keep his thugs inside Russia?
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[Garowe] al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them... Lions of Islam on Monday retook a strategic town in Central Somalia albeit temporarily, in a drastic move that could yet again raise questions about the ability of Somali government forces to effectively handle insecurity incidents.
The al-Qaeda linked group seized Matabaan, a key town in the Hiran region on Monday according to the residents who spoke to Garowe Online by phone. The Lions of Islam raised their black banner on top of Matabaan's police and administrative offices to show their arrival.
According to reports, the Lions of Islam temporarily took over control of the town when Galmadug coppers who were tasked with manning the area left for unknown reasons. Once Somali National Army [SNA] seizes important towns, they hand them over to other security forces.
The latest reports from Matabaann town indicate that the al-Shabaab fighters have left the town as government troops mobilize in Guriel to head to the area. Before leaving, the Lions of Islam reportedly destroyed the town’s cop shoppe by detonating explosives.
The development comes just days after government forces in Guriel faced Ahla Sunna Wal Jamaa [ASWJ] in the region, leading to the death of dozens. The ASWJ militia was once an ally of the federal government of Somalia before cutting ranks.
The Somali government has been battling against al-Shabaab Lions of Islam with the help of African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission Forces [AMISOM] in the region. Although the troops have not managed to completely vanquish al-Shabaab, important gains have been made.
[Jpost] The computer-aided simulations included potential shooting down of US missile-tracking satellites, satellite jamming, and other electronic warfare "effects" that are possible tactics in space warfare. Actual satellites are not used. The Space Force hasn't been integrated enough [or at all] to begin running the min/max BDA and its trickle down effects. "No update!"
"Well, maybe the feed's down." "What'll we do!"
"Let's resend that last report so they get something with an updated timestamp that shows we're working." "But it's OLD data!"
"Yeah, we don't want them to be rushing into anything"
"Why don't you do a couple of laps around the conex before the coffee finishes."
[IsraelTimes] Police say investigation into suspected accomplice in Damascus Gate attack completed; teenage suspects in separate Jerusalem stabbing remanded for 4 days
Police said Monday that a man suspected of aiding a Paleostinian terrorist who committed a stabbing attack near Jerusalem’s Old City earlier this month would soon be indicted over his role in the attack.
Separately, two female teenage suspects were remanded in jug for an additional four days over another stabbing attack, in the capital’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, last week.
In the first case, a Paleostinian assailant stabbed a Jewish civilian near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on December 4 and then attacked two Border Police officers, who subsequently shot him dead. The civilian was seriously maimed in the attack.
In a statement Monday, police said a 48-year-old taxi driver from Kafr Qasim had been arrested shortly after the attack, and that the man had now been arraigned in court and remanded in jug for four more days ahead of a formal indictment for allegedly aiding the terrorist.
Police said the driver’s investigation had ended, concluding that he had given a ride to the terrorist — a Paleostinian without a permit to enter Israel — from a roadblock near the West Bank city of Qalqilya to a place near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, where the attack was carried out.
The statement did not specify if the man was suspected of knowingly aiding the terrorist or was aware he was entering Israel illegally.
The man’s taxi has been confiscated, the statement added.
The attack happened on Saturday near the Old City in Jerusalem. The assailant was seen crossing a street, then turning and repeatedly stabbing an ultra-Orthodox man behind him. He then ran at the responding officers.
The attacker was later identified as Muhammad Salima, a 25-year-old from the West Bank town of Salfit who was in Israel illegally.
The victim of the attack, Avraham Elmaliach, 21, was stabbed in the neck.
The officers were questioned after video of the incident showed them firing at Salima when he was already lying on the ground. But the State Prosecutor’s Office later closed an investigation into the officers, saying in a statement: "An examination of all the circumstances found that this was an incident that lasted only a few seconds, in circumstances where there was a real and tangible danger to the lives of the officers and civilians in the area."
In a separate suspected terror attack days later, an Israeli woman was lightly injured when an attacker plunged a foot-long (30 centimeter) knife into her back as she walked her five children to a daycare in the flashpoint East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
Police said the suspect was a 14-year-old girl who lives in Sheikh Jarrah. A member of a well-known local family, the suspect lives in a home that, like many in Sheikh Jarrah, is embroiled in a court battle with Jewish groups that have contested the property’s ownership.
Police said Monday that the remand of two teenage girls had been extended — the suspected stabber and a second who allegedly helped her after the attack and tried to eliminate incriminating evidence.
The investigation in their case is still ongoing. Court hearings in the case are being held behind closed doors due to the suspects’ age.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A case in an Iraqi court filed by the Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU) militia (Hashed-al-Shaabi), contesting its defeat in the October 10 parliamentary election was adjourned Monday until next week.Judge Jassem Mohammed Aboud, whose court must rule on the complaint before final results are ratified and a new parliament is inaugurated, adjourned the case until December 22 after a procedural hearing.
Shia Moslemholy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... was declared on November 30 as the biggest winner of the election.
Al-Sadr’s movement won nearly a fifth of the seats — 73 out of the assembly’s total 329, well ahead of the 17 seats of the Fatah (Conquest) Alliance, the political arm of the pro-Iranian paramilitary network.
Hashed leaders have rejected the result — sharply down from their 48 seats in the outgoing assembly — as a "fraud."
Mohammed Majid al-Saadi, lawyer for the plaintiffs, told AFP at the court that the aim of the Hashed’s appeal was "to have the results annulled" because of "serious violations."
According to the Fatah Alliance, the electronic voting system had failed to recognize the finger print identification of many voters.
It has also protested at alleged failings of a new electronic machine used for the election and organized demonstrations.
Tensions over fraud allegations and violence culminated on November 7 in an liquidation attempt against Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi, from which he emerged unharmed.
No group has claimed the attack.
UN special representative Jeanine Hennis has noted that "so far and as stated by the Iraqi judiciary, there is no evidence of systemic fraud."
After a final court ruling, parliament will hold its inaugural session and elect a president, who will in turn appoint a prime minister to be approved by the legislature.
In multi-confessional and multi-ethnic Iraq, the formation of governments has involved complex negotiations ever since the 2003 US-led invasion toppled former president Saddam Hussein.
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This Jewish billionaire is right, from his point of view. Inflation penalizes savers and rewards borrowers. The thing to do is borrow as much money as you can and invest it to make more money. The idea that the rest of us don't qualify for loans and can barely keep our heads afloat is foreign to him. He's speaking from his own perspective inside the censored bubble. If we could all go to the bank and get a small loan of a few million we could all make out like bandits. But the idea that we can't get near-zero interest loans like he can is unknown to him.
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Would his logic be different if he were not Jewish, my dear Clulet Splat5443? Please explain how, as I am more ignorant than I would like to be on the subject.
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Inflation penalizes savers and rewards borrowers. The thing to do is borrow as much money as you can and invest it to make more money.
Classic Wharton School of Economics philosophy that 'Great Minds' have used since the sixties to scuttle the US and world economy.
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Yeah, Bloomie, that's why your and yours are running up the stock market. The you'll cash out (crash) when the government has to suck up tons of that money to pay the debt on its IOUs and those bond yields climb.
[JPost] Kalorama Kompound Kontinues its Jooo Hatred The US has reportedly rejected an Israeli request to fast-track the delivery of two tanker aircraft.
The US has rejected an Israeli request to fast-track the delivery of two tanker aircraft which had been ordered by Israel, as plans for a possible military option against Iran's nuclear plan move forward, Ynet reported on Monday.
In October, sources in the Defense Ministry stated that senior Israel Air Force (IAF) officers had requested that the supply of four KC-46 tanker aircraft from the US be sped up, asking that two of the aircraft be delivered immediately. The officers asked that the other two be supplied within the next two to three years.
According to the Ynet report, the IDF hopes to convince the US over the next year.
The US State Department approved the possible sale of up to eight KC-46 tanker aircraft and related equipment to Israel for an estimated cost of $2.4 billion last March, marking the first time that Washington has allowed Jerusalem to buy new tankers.
Israel was set to receive two of the Boeing-made planes by late 2023, and during former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s last visit to Washington, he raised the issue that two of the eight tankers be supplied in the next year.
The KC-46 tankers will replace Israel’s Ram (Boeing 707) tanker aircraft that are required for long-range missions and nearing the age of 60.
Israel’s fleet of Ram planes, the number of which remains confidential, are former civilian aircraft adapted for military uses such as aerial refueling for fighter jets, as well as its fleet of transport aircraft. They were grounded last year.
The new KC-46 tankers can refuel jets with 1,200 gallons of fuel per minute by its fly-by-wire 55-ft. refueling boom. It also can have wing air refueling pods allowing three jets to be refueled at once within three to four minutes.
With a range of 11,830 km., with the capacity to unload some 207,000 lbs. of fuel, the KC-46 can refuel over 64 different types of aircraft.
Such refueling aircraft would be critical for a strike on Iran, as a mission against Iran would need to travel over a thousand kilometers in each direction.
During a recent visit to the US, Defense Minister Benny Gantz updated American officials that he had set a deadline for when the IDF will need to complete preparations for an attack against Iran. There was no US veto to Israel's plans, according to a senior diplomatic source.
The US and Israel are reportedly planning large joint exercises to prepare for a possible strike against Iran's nuclear program.
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The Turkish lira crashed as much as seven percent to a new record near 15 to the dollar on Monday, gripped by worries over President Tayyip Erdogan’s risky new economic policy and prospects of another interest rate cut on Thursday.https://t.co/N2wpWq8B22
[JustTheNews] Yuma, Arizona, Mayor Douglas Nicholls declared a city state of emergency last week due to the numbers of migrants entering the city.
Yuma has been seeing "unprecedented numbers of migrants entering the city prior to being processed and released by Border Patrol," according to a press release.
The city has less than 100,000 residents, but in five days last week, more than 6,000 illegal migrants traveled from Mexico through the Yuma area into the United States.
The first weekend of December alone, more than 4,000 migrants were apprehended by Border Patrol agents in the Yuma area.
Migrant encounters have increased by more than 2,600% in the past two months, according to Customs and Border Protection.
Many migrants lack adequate food, water, shelter, and other basic necessities, and the surge has particularly strained medical resources in the area, the press release states.
One of the city's other major concerns is the fact that migrants are treading on Yuma's farm fields. This creates concerns about food safety and crop destruction.
By making the proclamation, Yuma will be eligible for state and federal funding to address the crisis.
“The change in the movement of migrants greatly impacts the Yuma community,” the Republican mayor said.
The abrupt disappearance of a live feed showing Taiwan’s digital minister occurred because the White House panicked over a map showing Taiwan in a different color than China, Reuters claimed on Monday.
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How is it not blatantly obvious that Biden's people are in the pay of China?
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/\ Or pro-China investment strategists and IT oligarchs.
* I had intended to attach one of my favorite 'box store' thumbnail graphics to this comment. Unfortunately Google has just fielded something called 'Google Lens' which does not lend itself to copying and story insertion. Not so very strange, is it ?
Ryan Sawyer Mays 20, is attending a hearing Monday that will determine whether there's enough evidence against him to proceed with a trial
He is charged with aggravated arson and willful hazarding of a vessel related to the torching of the $1.2 billion Bonhomme Richard warship in July 2020
He appeared for the pretrial hearing in uniform, despite dropping out of the Navy SEAL training program
Investigators were led to Mays after interviewing the 177 service members assigned to the Bonhomme Richard, according to an NCIS search warrant
At least 63 people were injured, including 18 firefighters who filed workers' compensation for suffering concussions
An internal investigation determined the fire was 'preventable' and placed some of the blame on members of the ship's 'inadequately prepared crew'
[BBC] Thousands of Haitian migrants have returned to the island after being deported by the US. Many of the migrants had been living in South America and have not set foot in Haiti for years.
Perhaps they would have been wiser to stay were they were, instead of believing the flim-flam promises of American streets paved with gold for the taking. But at least they now have been treated to one of life’s lessons.
The BBC’s Will Grant spoke to migrants about the "inhumane" treatment they say they received at the US border - and about how they'll try to rebuild their lives now.
#Libya’s two parallel central bank branches will formally begin the process of reunification, although progress will depend on the outcome of upcoming presidential elections, Tripoli’s central bank governor says.https://t.co/40YfZ1mB2e
[IsraelTimes] US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland has apparently sought answers from Israel regarding settler attacks on Paleostinians, during a meeting in Jerusalem with Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev.
In a tweet, Bar-Lev says Nuland "took an interest in, among other things, settler violence and how to lower regional tensions and strengthen the Paleostinian Authority."
Bar-Lev, who is in charge of police, says he told her that giving out more work permits to Paleostinians from the West Bank and 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... was "the key to lower tensions, just like implementing a plan for a joint industrial zone on the outskirts of Gaza and more. American help for projects of this kind could help a lot."
As of last month, the Shin Bet had recorded nearly 400 settler attacks on Paleostinians in 2021, up from fewer than 300 last year. Critics say few attacks lead to arrests or prosecutions. According to police, the number of indictments of Jewish hard boyz has doubled from 16 to 32 over the past year.
The State Department usually stays out of such matters unless they involve US citizens, but on October 1, it issued a rare rebuke following an attack, signaling a possible shift.
... alternately Raed Saleh, he fancies the title "Sheikh of Al Aqsa" as suitable for the head of the outlawed Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the militant arm of the Israeli branch of the Muslim Brotherhood based in Umm al-Fahm in the Galilee. The Southern Branch went in for Israeli politics as part of the Obama-era Arab Joint List project, though their goals are the same. Sheikh Saleh’s role is to cycle in and out of Israeli prisons for cause — perhaps now would be a good time for Israel to change the pattern...
tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... for praising a deadly Paleostinian terror attack, arrives in his hometown of Umm al-Fahm after nearly a year and a half behind bars
A controversial Moslemholy man was greeted by cheering supporters in his northern Israel hometown on Monday after his release from prison, where he served 17 months for incitement to terrorism.
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#Israel releases from jail radical cleric Raed Salah, a rival of the first Arab party leader to support an Israeli government, who was imprisoned for incitement to terrorism.https://t.co/nGnTlgWaRN
[BBC] The US says more than 1.7 million migrants were detained along its border with Mexico in the past 12 months - the highest number ever recorded.
More than one million of them were expelled to Mexico or their native countries, according to data from US Customs and Border Protection.
Agents apprehended people from more than 160 countries.
President Joe Biden's popularity in opinion polls has been sinking, partly as a result of his immigration policy.
Just 35% of Americans said they approved of his handling of the issue, in an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey earlier this month.
Mr Biden promised a more humane immigration policy than his predecessor Donald Trump, but the US-Mexico border has been engulfed in crisis for much of the Democrat's nine-month-old presidency.
The detention numbers for the 2021 fiscal year, which ended in September, are the highest since 2000. That year, more than 1.6 million migrants were held at the US-Mexico border. But the number has not reached 1.7 million since US authorities first began tracking such entries in the 1960s.
"The large number of expulsions during the pandemic has contributed to a larger-than-usual number of migrants making multiple border crossing attempts," the US Customs and Border Protection said.
Those trying to enter the US illegally were mainly from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Of all those detained, the biggest category were adults travelling without children - more than 1.1 million (or 64%).
At the same time, the US authorities said they encountered more than 145,000 unaccompanied children - a record number.
Almost 11,000 of those children remained in government custody on Friday.
A BBC investigation of the Fort Bliss detention centre in Texas earlier this year found reports of sexual abuse, Covid and lice outbreaks, hungry children being served undercooked meat and sandstorms engulfing the desert tent camps where the young people were being held.
Republicans have blamed Mr Biden's promise to create a pathway to citizenship for immigrants for fuelling the surge.
Mr Biden - who is making one of his regular trips to his home in Delaware this weekend - has been facing questions this week about why he has not visited the border.
The White House press secretary told reporters on Friday that Mr Biden drove by the border in 2008 when he was campaigning to be Barack Obama's vice-president.
[NYPOST] United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... called on Monday for new rules covering the use of autonomous weapons as a key meeting on the issue opened in Geneva. Negotiators at the U.N. talks have for eight years been discussing limits on lethal autonomous weapons, or LAWS, which are fully machine-controlled and rely on new technology such as artificial intelligence and facial recognition.
But pressure has increased in part due to a U.N. panel report in March that said the first autonomous drone attack may have already occurred in Libya.
"I encourage the Review Conference to agree on an ambitious plan for the future to establish restrictions on the use of certain types of autonomous weapons," Guterres said at the start of the five-day talks.
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons has 125 parties including the United States, China and Israel.
Some participating states such as Austria call for a total ban on LAWS while others including Washington have been more reticent and have pointed to potential benefits of such weapons which might be more precise than humans in hitting targets.
Amnesia Amnesty International and civil society groups are calling for countries to start negotiating an international treaty and will present a petition to negotiators later on Monday.
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The nations that can afford the 'killer robots' will just ignore him Same as the minefield treaty where the nations that fell a need for them use them and ignore the posturing busybodies.
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Strikes such as that are not the idle actions of some enlisted man behind a drone joy stick, they are authorized at the highly levels of the National Command Authority.
The Pentagon's statement merely indicates that no further investigative action will be undertaken. Shocking... no ?
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If we applied this same garbage in the 1940s, we'd be lucky to still be fighting WWII. Most likely we'd have lost.
"Doolittle Crews Face Charges for War Crimes"
"Dambusters Guilty!"
"USS Barb Use of Unguided Rockets Criminal: JAG"
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I read this to mean that they really wanted to hang a low-ranking drone operator, but the operator had receipts. "Sir, it says right here in the log that General Smith [REDACTED]."
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^ Clearly a case of White Rage™
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General LeMay said he'd be hanged for what he did to Japan if the roles were reversed. And he was right.
War crimes don't become good just because we do them.
[Breitbart] The Chicago Tribune has obtained many of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) text messages that reveal combative interactions with aldermen and city workers while shedding light on how the Democrat mayor runs the crime-ridden Windy City.
The outlet obtained upwards of two and a half years of the mayor’s text messages through Freedom of Information Act requests. “Her staff failed to comply… until the state attorney general admonished them and the Tribune threatened a lawsuit,” the outlet reports. The admonishment and lawsuit threat led to Lightfoot’s office producing hundreds of pages of documents, including the mayor’s text messages.
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"Nasty combative interactions" -- that's the Chicago Way! Some Chicagoans do this with guns, others with a keyboard or phone call.
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Lori Lightfoot - a face that could sink a thousand ships.
#EU foreign ministers agree to slap sanctions on targets linked to the #Russia-n private military company Wagner, accused of acting to destabilize Ukraine and parts of Africa.https://t.co/EjcYbayWim
[ChristianPost] A new study from a Vienna-based watchdog organization suggests that anti-Christian hate crimes in Europe have increased by 70% between 2019 and 2020 amid rising concern about declining religious freedom across the continent.
A new report this month from the Observatory on Intolerance Against Christians in Europe (OIDAC) focuses on how declining religious freedom, freedom of conscience and parental rights have impacted the liberties of European Christians.
The document identifies "increasing intolerance and discrimination" against Christians from governments through legislation and political discourse. It also identifies intolerance from individuals through "social exclusion and criminal acts."
OIDAC notes that the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe published its annual hate crimes report in November, stating there were 981 anti-Christian hate crimes in Europe for 2020 compared to 578 in 2019.
"This meant an increase of 70% in anti-Christian hate crime since last year," the OIDAC report states.
"Our numbers speak louder than our words. This is one of the reasons OIDAC was founded over ten years ago, because there was no other organization reporting and raising awareness on this phenomenon in Europe."
The study compiled over two years focuses on situations for Christians in five countries — France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom — amid rising "secular intolerance" and "Islamic oppression."
"These countries were selected because, according to our observations, Christians face the most difficulties in them," the report explains.
"The findings of the report are based on a variety of data we collected. The majority of our data is based on descriptive cases, an extensive questionnaire and in-depth interviews with experts and afflicted Christians."
While hate crimes have a higher frequency in France and Germany, they tend to be more severe in Spain and France, the organization finds.
[JustTheNews] Vice President Kamala Harris is set on Monday to announce $540 million in private corporate investments in Central America's Northern Triangle – a facet of the Biden administration's plan to slow migration from the region by making it more livable.
The new funding is in addition to the $750 million in private sector dollars the vice president announced in May.
President Biden in the early months of his presidency tasked Harris with helping stem the flow of illegal migration across the U.S. southern border by addressing what the administration refers to as root causes including poverty, corruption, crime and natural disasters, prominent in the Northern Triangle, from which many of the migrants are now coming.
However, since being given the task, the wave of illegal migrants flowing across the border has hit record heights.
Harris' efforts to reduce corruption in Central American nations have also hit some major roadblocks as Guatemala's attorney general fired the country's head anti-corruption prosecutor just weeks after Harris visited the country over the summer to encourage preserving the rule of law.
The vice president, at the time, didn't speak with leaders in Honduras or El Salvador because of significant corruption in those governments. However, Honduras recently elected a new president – Xiomara Castro – who has promised to fight corruption, improve the economy, and protect women in the country. Harris spoke with Castro on Saturday, congratulating her for her victory, and discussing the road forward for Honduras.
Harris will reportedly announce the funding commitments on Monday at a business roundtable with corporate leaders representing companies like Microsoft, PepsiCo, Cargill, and Nespresso.
PepsiCo, Cargill, and Parkdale Mills have each promised roughly $150 million for various projects in Central America over the next several years. Microsoft has committed to providing three million people with internet access, and will raise that figure to four million while also teaching 100,000 people digital skills.
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I really think the Cartels have something on the Dims. Obama sent them guns and money. Now his VP is sending the.other VP with lots of cash down there.
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$540mil... That's what, about $10 per resident of the Triangle? Sure, that'll make a huge difference.
Nearly half a million individuals from those nations shelled out a multiple of that sum in the past nine months just to pay smugglers. And Kackala Whore thinks this piddling sum will make a dent in these wretched people's desire to GTFO of their shithole countries. Right.
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I really think the Cartels have something on the Dims.
Gee, ya think? She could put that $540 million into a border wall and other border security measures and that would be far more effective at slowing immigration. But it would also slow the flow of cocaine, meth and fentanyl. Can't have that.
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[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan’s Central Bank (De Afghanistan Bank) on Sunday, December 12 said that the third batch of World Bank’s cash assistance to Afghanistan arrived in Kabul and was given to Afghanistan’s International Bank (AIB).
Central Bank in a statement said that the money is part of the World Bank’s humanitarian pledges to Afghanistan.
The cash was taken from Kabul International Airport to Afghanistan International Bank by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... .
[Breitbart] The campaign of Ohio GOP U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno told Breitbart News exclusively on Monday that he has launched a $4 million dollar ad buy highlighting illegal immigration.
The ad called "Freebies" focuses on the illegal immigration "invasion" along the U.S.-Mexico border and demands President Biden end the border crisis, along with making English the official language of the United States.
The Moreno campaign claims the ad, which will run starting in December til January 15, is the most expensive and the most concentrated political ad campaign ever in an Ohio primary.
"Illegals come because of the freebies. Free money from Biden—and to take your job," Moreno said in the ad. "Free passes for crime because Democrats want their vote."
"They’re changing our nation. Let’s stop them," he continues. "Build the Wall and make English our official language."
[Rumble] Video at link. Alex Stovall, Republican candidate for US Congress heading into the Arizona primary, has private ideas that he shares only with his BFF from Project Veritas that do not match his public campaign.
[An Nahar] Afghanistan's new Taliban ...Arabic for students... rulers are committed in principle to education and jobs for girls and women, a marked departure from their previous time in power, and seek the world's "mercy and compassion" to help millions of Afghans in desperate need, a top Taliban leader said in a rare interview.Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi also told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the Taliban government wants good relations with all countries and has no issue with the United States. He urged Washington and other nations to release upward of $10 billion in funds that were frozen when the Taliban took power Aug. 15, following a rapid military sweep across Afghanistan and the sudden, secret flight of U.S.-backed President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... "Sanctions against Afghanistan would ... not have any benefit," Muttaqi said Sunday, speaking in his native Pashto during the interview in the sprawling pale brick Foreign Ministry building in the heart of the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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[KavkazUzel] The court sentenced an unidentified 26-year-old man to eight years in a strict regime colony, having found him guilty of trying to persuade the prisoners of the Krasnodar remand prison to participate in a banned organization.
The Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnodar was considering a criminal case against the man accused of committing crimes under Part 2 of Article 282.2 (participation in the activities of a religious association, in respect of which the court adopted a final decision banning activities in connection with the implementation of extremist activities , with the exception of organizations that, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, are recognized as terrorist) and part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inclination, recruitment and other involvement of a person in the activities of an extremist organization).
According to the court's verdict, in August 2020, having joined an international religious association, whose activities were recognized as extremist and prohibited on the territory of Russia, the man was a supporter of religious ideology and shared the main ideas of this religious association, according to a statement on the website of the Krasnodar Regional Court today.
"While on the territory of SIZO No. 1 in the city of Krasnodar, he actively promoted the ideas of a banned organization and carried out work on recruiting new participants. and also persuaded and urged to take part in it," said in a message on the court's website.
The illegal activities of the 26-year-old man were identified and suppressed by the officers of the Federal Directorate of the Russian Federation for the Krasnodar Territory.
The Oktyabrskiy District Court of Krasnodar found him guilty and sentenced him to eight years in a maximum security colony, as well as restriction of liberty for a year and a half. The verdict has not entered into legal force, said the joint press service of the courts of the Krasnodar Territory.
Commentary from Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
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[ColonelCassad] In China today, mourning events are held to mark the next anniversary of the Nanjing massacre, when the troops of the Japanese Empire captured Nanjing in the winter of 1937 and massacred more than 300,000 civilians and prisoners of war.
In principle, already on this story in stories about "samurai honor" and the like, one can put an end to it.
Today, a country that did something similar in the Second World War and which it lost while still under American occupation, dares to open its mouth again over the Chinese rights to Taiwan and the Russian rights to the Kuril Islands.
Japan should be reminded of this more often to remember how and why she parted with the Kuril Islands and not only with them. Otherwise, she doesn't want to make peace.
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There are those in Japan who tell a different version of this story. Those who were massacred, they say, were not civilians but Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers who had shed their uniforms in a cowardly attempt to avoid fighting.
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Some of that may be true but vintage images fromthe era of bayoneted women and children in piles gives a lie to any idea that rhe Japanese Army acted in a civilised manner.
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Japanese chauvinists have a long history of denying the facts of their nation's culpability for the Nanking Massacre and other atrocities which were too much for even their Nazi allies:
"so brutal were the Japanese in Nanking that even the Nazis in the city were shocked. John Rabe, a German businessman who led the local Nazi party, joined other foreigners in working tirelessly to save the innocent from slaughter by creating a safety zone where some 250,000 civilians found shelter...."
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Japanese chauvinists have a long history of denying the facts of their nation's culpability for the Nanking Massacre and other atrocities which were too much for even their Nazi allies:
Actually, they did apologize for their war in China, but Mao, Chinese leader at the time, said there was no need. Because of the Japanese invasion Mao's kommies were able to gain power in the end.
It is worth noting at this point that the Chinese nationalists did nearly all the fighting and dying, but it was Mao's kommies that wound up winning.
An attack by button men on a community market in Pinau community of the Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State has left at least seven people dead, Daily Trust reports.
Many villagers were also injured in the attack which was carried out on Sunday evening.
Wase youth leader, Shapi’i Sambo confirmed the latest attack, and further described it as unfortunate.
He said the button men stormed the market and started shooting sporadically.
Another source said that in the last 10 days, button men had kidnapped many people in the area and collected millions of naira as ransom.
The source said, "They collect ransom in millions. Sometime they collect N2 million and sometime N5 millions. Last three days, they collected N5million before releasing a man whom they kidnapped some days back."
[Breitbart] Afghans brought to the United States by President Joe Biden’s administration are being offered free housing, food stamps, and are “entitled” to nearly $2,300 in payments, a new report details.
Mostly thanks to Democrats and Republicans funding Biden’s massive Afghan resettlement to the sum of more than $13 billion, Afghans in the U.S. are being offered free housing to be resettled in states that do not have large Afghan populations, according to the Washington Post.
In addition, the Post reports that Afghans who have yet to be matched with a refugee contractor are being temporarily offered food stamps while each receives nearly $2,300 in federal aid.
The Post reports:
Evacuees who show up to their offices without first being assigned to their organization by the U.S. State Department are either being turned away or provided with limited aid, such as food stamps and basic medical care. [Emphasis added]
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The evacuees are each entitled to receive $2,275 in federal support that is meant to cover housing costs, job training and other expenses over a three-month period once they are matched with a resettlement agency. [Emphasis added]
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For example, the evacuees are being offered free housing in Oklahoma, officials said. They are also pointed to other parts of the country with more job opportunities. [Emphasis added]
Afghans are being temporarily housed across various U.S. military bases in Texas, New Jersey, Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, and New Mexico. From there, they are resettled across 46 states, at a rate of about 4,000 resettled every day, as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) help to secure them jobs.
More than 70,000 Afghans have been brought to the U.S. by the Biden administration since mid-August and about 34,000 remain on U.S. military bases awaiting resettlement.
The federal government’s funding of the resettlement operation is only one faction.
As Breitbart News has reported, multinational corporations in the airline industry, pharmaceutical industry, big banks, and tech conglomerates are working closely with the Biden administration to funnel Afghans into American jobs.
Facilitating much of the corporate partnership is an NGO backed by former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama and former first ladies Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama. That NGO is working with the Koch brothers network of donor class organizations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the resettlement.
Over the last 20 years, nearly a million refugees have been resettled in the nation — more than double the number of residents living in Miami, Florida, and it would be the equivalent of annually adding the population of Pensacola, Florida.
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$2,300 in federal aid
...plus 20 ballots each, pre-marked for Dems. For harvesting in 2022 and 2024.
Violence broke out on Saturday night as a group of #antifa militants in black uniforms showed up at the home of alderwoman Kelly Russel in Frederick, Md. They gathered there to try and intimidate her into defunding police. pic.twitter.com/26rnCBOyJR
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#1
It seems the more Anti-FA protests, the more they take on the look and actions of the Fascism that they use as an excuse to Riot, Loot and even occasionally protest.
BTW: the Anti-FA salute/gesture of a clenched fist is actually a Communist gesture. Initially it was used in the Spanish Civil War between the fascists and the communists.
So Given everything they do, mimic and whine about. Does Black Lives ONLY Matter & ANTI-FA have Communist Roots, Support and Funding?
#3
Antifa? Frederick, Maryland? Incredible! And the goose-stepping FBI leadership turns (purposefully) a blind eye to a vicious revolutionary movement.
#5
Look at the mug shots of the hundreds of Teefa freaks that Andy Ngo has posted over the last few years. Read their Sh!tter squawk. Most Teefa in this country are either
a) violently mentally ill,
b) serious drug abusers,
c) gender-bender freaks, or
d) a combination of some it all of a)-c)
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