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Knickerbocker storm
The Knickerbocker storm was a blizzard on January 27–28, 1922 in the upper South and middle Atlantic United States. The storm took its name from the resulting collapse of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C. shortly after 9 p.m. on January 28 which killed 98 people and injured 133.
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Extratropical cyclone, Blizzard
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January 27, 1922
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January 29, 1922
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On a Lighter Note, Other Knickerbocker(s)
Knickerbocker Glory : Harry Potter - Fictitiously Delicious
Knickerbocker Bock Flat Top Beer
1940 Ruppert Knickerbocker beer stein
Heringbone knickerbocker
Knickerbocker Bar & Grill, New York
1962 Knickerbocker One Design
Knickerbocker Holiday Highlights
CITY Boots Knickerbocker Women's Navy Cowboy Boots
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Reminds me of the spring I left the Colorado mountains. Three day blizzard dumped 5 feet of snow. The Dodge would push through the fresh powder but I couldn't open the doors. Had to climb in and out the windows.
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Late entry for Things Knickerbocker
From The Oldest Bar in Every State
Knickerbocker Saloon, Lafayette Indiana (Est. 1835)
Reading the liquor license displayed on the wall in Indiana's oldest watering hole may be the only time you’ll see the words 'Knickerbocker" and "No. 1" in the same sentence this century. Even better, if you're a history buff, that liquor license was the first one issued in the entire state. Which makes sense, given it's the oldest bar.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Let's go Brandon!': Biden is jeered as he surveys tornado damage in Kentucky after twisters ripped through four states killing at least 88 people and leaving thousands still without water or power: Returned to DC in the evening
President Biden flew Wednesday morning to one of the areas worst hit by tornadoes at the weekend
He was briefed by officials and emergency workers in, western Kentucky, in a state where 74 people died
'I have not seen this much damage from a tornado,' he said after flying over the affected area
During a tour of Mayfield - epicenter of the damage - he said the government wouldn't leave until it was rebuilt
'We got 99 billion of damage just this year just this year because of weather and climate change,' he said
More than 88 people were killed as more than 30 tornadoes hit four states
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..well thank goodness that some nerd got them to finally ratify the 27th Amendment ....
"Delays laws affecting Congressional salary from taking effect until after the next election of representatives."
[PostMillennial] What these CEOs are not saying is that their aircrews are tired of idiots fighting about masks on their planes. They see the best way forward is to pull the gummint authoritah rug from beneath the Karens' feet.
The CEOs of two of America's largest airlines have come out and contested the notion that wearing masks is an effective way to halt the spread of COVID-19 on planes.
On Wednesday, the CEOs of two of America's largest airlines questioned the need for masks on planes. American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and Southwest's Gary Kelly made the comments after the topic of masks was brought up during a senate hearing regarding financial support given to airlines by the government during the pandemic.
As CNN reports, both CEOs noted that the HEPA filters used on most airplanes capture nearly all the "airborne contamination" and, along with the almost constant exchange of cabin air with fresh air, help provide an environment that is as clean, if not cleaner, than any other indoor space.
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Turning point?
a la Stalingrad, November '42?
Where's our equivalent of Operation Uranus against the COVIDiots?
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Even my sister, who has been paranoid about her college students getting infected in her classroom, is looking forward to Omicron painlessly vaccinating the population, as it were.
Even though the obvious intelligent policy -- obvious to anyone who understands basic facts about evolution and microbiology -- would be to ALLOW this vastly-milder, almost totally harmless variant to infect as many young and middle-aged people as possible so that it survives -- while the truly virulent, deadly variants die out along with the relatively small number of elderly and comorbid hosts they infect.
But no. Hysteria reigns.
And our children are forced to suffer the ghastly consequences. F--k these fools.
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The left has concentrated on infection rates because its scary bit death rates are what we should really be watching (with one eye on hospitalizations to prevent the hospitals being overwhelmed).
Death rates for Omicron show it is milder by a long shot.
[Warzone] The U.S. Marine Corps has decided to ban its entire fleet of tracked Amphibious Assault Vehicles, or AAVs, from taking part in "regularly scheduled deployments" or entering the water for any reason except to support emergency crisis response operations. This comes more than a year after an AAV sank during a training exercise, killing eight Marines and a U.S. Navy sailor, an accident that was attributed to a slew of maintenance, training, and leadership failures. The Corps is already working toward replacing its aging AAVs with new 8x8 wheeled Amphibious Combat Vehicles, or ACVs, but is also in process of scaling back its heavy vehicle capabilities — it notably began divesting all of its M1 Abrams tanks last year — as part of a radical redesign of its overall force structure.
The Marine Corps announced the new policies for employing its AAVs, a primary job of which is to move troops and equipment ashore from amphibious warfare ships, earlier today. It's not clear how many AAVs, of which there are a number of variants, the service has in inventory in total at present. A 2016 edition of The Military Balance, an authoritative guide to military forces around the world that is published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a U.K.-based think thank, put the figure at 1,311 vehicles.
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The Corps "is also in process of scaling back its heavy vehicle capabilities — it notably began divesting all of its M1 Abrams tanks last year — as part of a radical redesign of its overall force structure." And where can that redesign be found?
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If you talk to a Navy diver (or Seal for that matter), ask them about sinkers. Somebody's gotta go get the bodies. Marine exercises and air crew training. (Ever wonder why there's a Seal training facility near P'cola?)
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Blinding dust storm moving at hurricane force winds of 90mph has blanketed half of Kansas
The winds were so powerful that they knocked down tractor trailers and caused destruction in Colorado
They also sparked fires throughout Oklahoma, with reports of tornadoes in Iowa and Nebraska
A severe weather alert was in place for 100 million people in states throughout the Midwest and Great Plains, with the National Weather Service calling it a 'historical weather day'
It came amid some record high temperatures, just days after dozens of powerful tornadoes swept through the area, flattening homes and businesses
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My friends in Loveland and Longmont had pictures of trees falling on houses and small structures ripped apart. Looked like a small tornado ripped through there.
Where I am we have just had 60ish MPH wind gusts and lawn decorations deciding they needed to visit Kansas. Definitely small dog warning in effect.
[IsraelTimes] An Ohio chapter of the nation’s largest Moslem civil liberties and advocacy organization fires its leader for ethical and professional breaches that it says include a years-long secret association with an anti-Moslem group.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... -Ohio says executive and legal director Romin Iqbal was informed of his termination yesterday, following the conclusion of an investigation by an independent forensic expert ordered by its national headquarters. Iqbal had been suspended since last week.
The probe found "conclusive evidence that Iqbal had spent years recording CAIR network meetings and passing information regarding CAIR’s national advocacy work to a known anti-Moslem hate group," a release says.
During a briefing, spokesperson Whitney Siddiqi identifies the group as the Investigative Project on Terrorism, led by Steve Emerson.
CAIR-Ohio says that "after being confronted with clear evidence of misconduct," Iqbal admitted to secretly working for the group. Iqbal declines comment through his attorney, Dave Thomas.
23 men on trial in Belgium accused of being part of gang that smuggled 39 Vietnamese migrants to the UK in 2019, all of whom suffocated to death in the back of a refrigerated lorry
Vo Vang Hong, 45, accused of being ringleader who ran safehouse in Belgium which victims passed through
Ten of the accused - three Belgians, six Moroccans and an Armenian - were taxi drivers in the Anderlecht district of Brussels who allegedly helped ferry migrants to the safe house
12 are Vietnamese or Vietnamese-Belgians and accused of acting as grocery shoppers or safehouse guards
Prosecutors say the smugglers had connections in France, the Netherlands and Germany, and that it was believed some of the defendants continued their illegal activities after the October 2019 tragedy.
They said the 'very well organised' gang specialised in clandestinely transporting people into Europe then Britain for a total fee of £20,000 each.
They said the gang used an Irish trucking company that regularly imported Vietnamese biscuits to get the migrants across the Channel, and that Vietnamese gang members took charge of them once they got to Britain.
Others of the gang have already been convicted. Their story, including convictions and sentences, is told at the link.
Armed Gunmen Reportedly Surround Libyan Prime Minister Dbeibeh's Office in Tripoli
[SPUTNIKNEWS] According to local reports, a group of armed button men has surrounded the Presidential Council building in the Libyan capital city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Photos shared on social media purported to show armed button men in technicals posted up around the offices of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, leader of the Government of National Unity.
Video purported to be of the button men at the site was also shared on social media, along with footage of the technical convoy on the highway.
According to al-Arabiya, power has been cut to the building as well.
Sky News Arabia reported that Salah Badi ...a Misrata militia commander, self-appointed colonel and a member of the Wafa Islamist bloc. He was cashiered from the Libyan army in 1992 because he was nuts... , leader of the al-Samoud Brigade militia, announced on Wednesday night that there would be no presidential elections in Libya and the UN-sanctioned group would close all state institutions in Tripoli.
Elections are presently scheduled for December 24, but earlier on Wednesday, the head of the Interior Affairs Committee in the Libyan House of Representatives warned the country wouldn't be ready to hold elections by then and called on the government to accept the situation. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier that a postponement of the elections would be acceptable provided the outcome is accepted.
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May 30, 2019 — One of the militias supported by Turkey is the al-Samoud Brigade led by Salah Badi, who was put on a UN sanctions list late last year.
[MAIL] The founder and billionaire behind Coinbase, an American cryptocurrency company, is now looking to cure aging and is using machine learning to do so.
Brian Armstrong recently announced his new 'epigenetic reprogramming' company, called NewLimit, which aims to make therapies that reverse the aging process.
According to a press release, NewLimit will 'start by deeply interrogating epigenetic drivers of aging and developing products that can regenerate tissues to treat specific patient populations.'
Armstrong plans to employ machine learning to determine what cell features change as we age in order to create 'therapies that could slow, halt, or reverse this process.'
However, NewLimit is still in the concept stage, but Armstrong says the company's founders, which includes Stanford PhD Blake Byers, have committed $105 million to getting it off the ground.
[An Nahar] A Gulf Cooperation Council summit has called for prohibiting Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... ’s Iran-backed Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... "from carrying out its terrorist activities and supporting terrorist militias that threaten the stability of Arab countries."Lebanon's ties with Gulf states have grown increasingly strained in recent years because of Hizbullah’s growing influence and its interference in regional conflicts.
A Lebanese minister's recent remarks on the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's war sparked a row with Gulf countries that has exacerbated Lebanon's multiple crises.
Yemen's Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s have repeatedly targeted Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... in cross-border attacks, using drones and missiles. Riyadh has meanwhile staged a deadly military campaign in support of the internationally-recognized Yemeni government.
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[NewsFrontInfo] Ukrainian artillery units fired mortar fire on separatist positions at Staromikhaylovka early Wednesday morning according to data supplied by New Front news outlet and by Donetsk Ministry of Defense news releases.
The artillery originated from Pervomayskoye, the security zone of the Ukrainian 54th Brigade. The area where the artillery strike occurred is southwest of Donetsk city.
For a week until Wednesday, separatist media had reported no artillery coming from the Ukrainian side. Tuesday separatist media reported automatic grenade launcher (AGS) fire on Gorlovka, north of Donetsk city. AGS fire again took place on Gorlovka on Wednesday.
The fire came from Novoluganskoye, in the security zone of Ukrainian 30th Brigade.
According to a news report which appeared on the website of lb.ua, Ukrainian media reported that the separatists fired mortar fire on their positions at Pervomayskoye. The fire from the separatists included AGS fire.
Ukrainian media also reported mortar fire on Peski, nearly directly adjacent to Donetsk city in the west.
Ukrainian media also reported mortar fire on Lugansk, but the location was not reported.
The New Front account also added that several artillery units were brought close to the line of contact by the Ukrainians, including anti aircraft missile carriers.
[JPost] "Like, um, and yeah, umm, and I love sushi, I mean Koalas." Appears she sobered up long enough to say yes.
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Caroline Kennedy to be US ambassador to Australia and Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan as ambassador to Belize, the White House said.
Kennedy, 64, is the daughter of John Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States who was assassinated in 1963. She previously served as US ambassador to Japan.
Kwan is the winner of two silver Olympic medals in figure skating. She has served as an adviser to the US Department of State on women's issues.
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Is this nitwit crow still alive???
I guess she has escaped the Kennedy Curse this far, why not send her to Australia; Home of the Covid Gestapo, aka one of the blind 5 eyes nations, they will likely put her in one of their "until dead Covid Quarantine Camps" and release her when she channels ""Dead Uncle Ted""
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I am sure there is no connection ☻ that the JFK assassination file dump on Tuesday and JFK's daughter is politically rewarded / bought off the next day.
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Vacuous and untalented. They’ll love her in Canberra.
And they might really get to love her, ask to keep her on as a permanent US Ambassador to Australia, inthat case they might say, "We Love Caroline, We Can'ta berra to be without her." 😁
A shootout broke out between holy warriors and security forces in Redwani Bala area of south 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.... 's Kulgam district on Wednesday night.
According to news agency GNS the encounter broke out shortly after a joint team of police and army launched a cordon and search operation in the area following a tip off about the presence of holy warriors there.
As per sources, two holy warriors are believed to be trapped in the area.
[Breitbart] Abdul Elahi, a serial blackmailer who targeted 2,000 victims online, forcing them to self-harm and engage in paedophilic activity, was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! after admitting 158 charges committed against 72 victims.
Abdul Elahi, 26, forced his victims, around 550 of whom were British, to send degrading images of themselves or others to him.
The National Crime Agency (NCA), roughly equivalent to America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... ), said that Elahi would target vulnerable people, such the underage and people in debt, by posing as a wealthy individual on ’sugar daddy’ websites and promising large sums of cash for indecent photos.
After he obtained the photos, Elahi would use them as blackmail to extort more extreme photos and horrific videos from his victims, demanding that they film themselves self-harming and/or physically abusing young children and younger siblings, for example.
If victims refused to send Elahi what he demanded he would become aggressive and threaten to send their explicit photos and videos to their families and friends.
When his victims begged for mercy or said they were suicidal, Elahi would laugh at and ridicule them.
Elahi would sell this content via encrypted platforms and made upwards of £25,000 in the process. One customer alone purchased over 1,000 hours of ’box set’ content from Elahi.
When questioned in court Elahi admitted that he viewed his "sadistic" crimes as a job and was "trying to make as much money" as he possibly could.
His victims ranged from eight-month-old babies to adults, and detectives believe there are many more victims to be discovered.
More than 67,000 images were recovered from Elahi’s hard drives and victims are believed to be from around thirty different countries.
Sentencing judge Sarah Buckingham described Abdul Elahi as the "very worst type of predatory offender ever identified thus far".
She told Elahi he had "plainly derived pleasure from the agony you caused — with complete disregard for your victims’ suffering," and that there was "a sadistic element to your offending, demonstrated through the blackmail and the relentless targeting of children and young adults."
"The abhorrent nature of your crimes warrants an extremely long sentence for the protection of the public," she said, handing down a reported sentence of 32 years — although he will be eligible for release after serving only two-thirds of it.
The NCA had been working with the Revenge Porn Helpline for over two and a half years in an attempt to remove Elahi’s content from social media and pornography sites. They have so far removed 135,000 individual images.
"This content is some of the most extreme that the helpline has ever dealt with," the helpline has said.
Elahi’s co-defendant Kirsty Nicholls, 35, of Northolt, west London was also sentenced to a notional six years and nine months for her role in assisting Elahi create indecent images of children, with the prosecution noting she had willing abused a young boy on camera for Elahi in a BDSM-style performance and "even made suggestions as to what to do in the next video" for him.
[Rudaw] Iraq has granted 420 laissez-passers to migrants colonists stranded on the Belarus-Polish border who wish to return, the country’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday as efforts continue to repatriate migrants colonists stranded across European borders.
"The ministry has granted 420 passports to Iraqis who wish to return voluntarily from those stranded at the Belarusian border," Iraqi state media quoted the foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed al-Sahaf as saying, adding that the process had arisen from the efforts of Iraq's embassies in Moscow and Warsaw, as well as consular teams in Belarus, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Thousands of Iraqi and Kurdish people have traveled to Eastern Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in recent months, where they hoped to cross over and make their way to Germany and, from there, the rest of Europe.
In response, Poland has tightened its border security. Some migrants colonists on the Belarus-Poland border have sustained injuries, and several others have bit the dust.
On Tuesday, Sahaf said that Iraq’s embassy in Poland will offer Iraqi migrants colonists stuck on the Polish-German border laissez-passers to voluntarily return home.
Iraq began offering repatriation flights last month, returning over 3,000 Iraqi and Kurdish migrants colonists from Minsk.
Erbil and Baghdad have accused Minsk of exploiting the migrants colonists for political gain against the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . Iraq suspended the work of both the honorary embassy of Belarus in Baghdad and the consulate in Erbil in an effort to prevent its citizens from traveling to Minsk.
The exodus of Kurds is part of a migrant crisis that has compelled European nations to fortify their borders. Tensions are high between Belarus and Europe. Poland has refused to take in any migrants colonists, instead calling on them to return home.
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani received a phone call from the British Home Secretary Priti Patel on Thursday. They discussed the migration of people to Europe and crises related to the issue, with Barzani telling Patel that the Region will "cooperate with the Iraqi federal government and European countries to encourage the voluntary return of migrants colonists," according to a statement from his office.
It has not yet been revealed whether either official raised the issue of the 27 migrants colonists who drowned in the English Channel last month. The Gay Paree prosecutor’s office on Tuesday announced that they had identified all but one of the migrants colonists, with 17 Kurds among the dead.
[Free Beacon] President Joe Biden's nominee for the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the Senate "gender advisers" for combat troops are critical to the United States' success, a position some veterans say is nothing more than a left-wing initiative that distracts from the military's core duties.
The revelation came during a Dec. 8 exchange with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.), who asked how Adm. Christopher Grady intends to implement "women, peace, and security" legislation within the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"The role of a gender adviser is a way to attack a very significant issue, and if confirmed, I look forward to leveraging those advisers who can make me think better and smarter about the issues that you raise," Grady said. "So I look forward to, if confirmed, understanding that ecosystem and helping advance that cause going forward again."
Via Lawrence Person's excellent BattleSwarm Blog; highly recommended:
[National Review] - Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo has been ordered by the state’s ethics board to forfeit $5.1 million in profits next month from the memoir he published over the pandemic.
In a near unanimous decision, a twelve to one vote, the New York Joint Commission on Public Ethics passed a resolution demanding that Cuomo return his earnings from the book, "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic." This comes a month after the panel rescinded its prior approval giving the now disgraced governor permission to keep the book side hustle while he was still serving as governor of New York, confronting multiple scandals simultaneously. Here's this CPA's analysis of the above, left as a comment on BattleSwarm Blog:
Even better — he’s got a serious tax problem or two now, in addition to an inability to pay all of it back. It’s a reasonable assumption that he received this $5.1M in the form of an advance in 2020 and presumably paid taxes on all of it at the highest Federal marginal rate of 37% (approximately $1.8M), in addition to whatever the highest NY state tax rate is. For lack of a better way to describe it, this income is now effectively disgorged in another tax year. My knowledge of the Internal Revenue Code, while not absolute, does not indicate an easy avenue for him to recoup this $1.8M from the Feds or NY state, for that matter. I don’t see a way for him to amend his 2020 Federal tax return since the ’loss’ / disgorgement occurred in another tax year, and how’s he gonna cough up the full $5.1M advance when over 40% is gone through taxes? Do you think he’s got $2M sitting around to cover the difference?
In my professional opinion, he’s fucked.
Lawrence Person makes an excellent point, mentioning our old pal Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano:
How unpopular is Cuomo? Even former Gambino Family underboss Sammy "The Bull" Gravano said Cuomo’s granny-killing was beyond the pale. "I don’t give a f— who tells me to do that, whether it’s [former President] Trump, the president, the vice president, you, him, I would never do it...And I’m a badass. I’d never do it."
How bad do you have to suck to have a guy involved in 19 murders to think you’re scum?
When you're involved in untold thousands, that's how.
Since National Review sucks big hairy donkey ballz, in addition to skimping on salient information, this New York Post article gives some better details, making me slightly reconsider some of the above:
Whether the state can claw back the profits from Cuomo’s self congratulatory pandemic memoir remains to be seen, with some ethics experts questioning the legality, along with the ex-governor. James issued a statement saying, ""We are currently reviewing JCOPE’s vote and determining how best to move forward."
Cuomo’s office said earlier that he netted about $1.5 million after taxes and expenses he's claiming serious six-figure 'expenses' writing a fucking book - ed.
for the book last year, with one-third donated to the United Way of New York State and the rest plowed into an irrevocable trust for his three grown daughters.
"JCOPE has exactly zero authority to issue an order such as this," said David Grandeau, a former executive director of the state’s ethics agency. "All it [the law] says is JCOPE has the right to issue opinions and opinions are like a—holes, and in JCOPE’s case, there’s 13 of them. There’s just no authority to issue it. "
Let the assholes fight it out, and bring me some popcorn so I can enjoy the show!
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In the portion of the political ionosphere that Sonny Coomo inhabits, money is "an idea' much as Chris Wray says Teefa is "an idea, not an organization." All Sonny has to do is have his lawyers set up a shell company that "agrees to pay." What said shell company will do is make some political contributions and after that you will never hear about this again.
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The ill-gotten gains are nothing -- absolutely zip -- when set next to this incompetent liar's monstrous order to send the elderly back into the nursing homes where they contracted COVID and actually died of, not merely with, the virus.
Cuomo is guilty of manslaughtering thousands of New Yorkers. His negligence killed them.
And we talk about a book deal. This counter is sick, decadent, beyond repair.
If he put the $5mil into any well-diversified portfolio of stocks in late 2020 he'd have pocketed at least $1.5 million in gains by now.
These assholes are laughing at us. Smollett, Steele, Schiff, Comey, Brennan, Rice, the Bidens, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Cuomos, on and on and on...
Our kakocrats brazenly lie, scam, steal and, in Sonny's case, kill their way to fat fortunes.
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In their minds they're valiant heroes rescuing the Republic from Deplorables.
Look at how they talk to each other: they've convinced themselves that we're "insurrectionists," Nazis.
In their fevered dreams they picture themselves as Stauffenbergs putting suitcase bombs under OrangeAdolf's conference table.
Would anyone criticize Claus Von Stauffenberg of such petty crimes as perjury, fabricating documents, messing with the Nazis' election results? Of course not. Anything goes when you're a heroic savior, fighting with the angels to send Satan back to hell.
And now these assholes are literally accusing 30 million of us of making preparations for Civil War II. To restore "white supremacy."
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Would anyone criticize Claus Von Stauffenberg of such petty crimes as perjury, fabricating documents, messing with the Nazis' election results? Of course not. Anything goes when you're a heroic savior, fighting with the angels to send Satan back to hell.
...Perhaps it might be salutary to remind the Resistance that although von Stauffenberg was more than willing to sacrifice himself to kill Hitler, it was less because Der Fuhrer was evil but more because Der Fuhrer was losing.
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Cuomo has probably already paid $1-2M in State and Fed taxes on this.
I presume since the Commission has no authority beyond just 'passing a resolution' that this is of essentially no practical consequence.
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They are utter fools for investing in WWII technology like aircraft carriers. They are just big targets for submarines.
And wait for the next big shooting war for everyone to discover that the naval mine has made huge strides and is really the thing that will decide conflicts. They're not those spiky things any more. They are torpedoes in a box anchored to the sea floor that listen for specific audio signatures and launch themselves when a targeted ship sails by.
[Rudaw] The Iraqi minister of migration and displacement on Wednesday said they will close down the last internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Nineveh province this month, in coordination with the Kurdistan Region despite ongoing difficulties.
"The ministry has closed all camps for the displaced in all governorates, except for the camps of the Kurdistan Region," Minister of Migration and Displacement Evan Jabro told Iraqi state media (INA) on Wednesday. "This month will witness the closure of al-Jada camp, which is the last displacement camp in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ," she said.
Last year, the Iraqi government began a push to close camps around the country, three years after the defeat of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS), including camps in the Kurdistan Region. The government has been criticised for this policy with rights monitors calling instead for voluntary returns.
More than half of the IDPs in the Kurdistan Region’s camps are Sunni Arabs and Yazidis from Nineveh province that fled Iraq in 2014 when ISIS took vast swathes of territories.
Many IDPs are reluctant to return home because of continuing violence in their original areas, a lack of reconstruction following the destruction of their homes, and little in the way of basic services. Some who voluntarily left the camps to salvage their homes and livelihoods have been forced to return to the camps, unable to piece together the basics.
Baghdad has asked the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to close camps under its control, but Kurdish officials say they will not force IDPs to return home. The Kurdistan Region is currently host to over 664,000 displaced Iraqis, according to the KRG’s Joint Crisis Coordination (JCC) September data.
"The displacement in Iraq will not continue forever... and there is only one camp left in Iraq outside the Kurdistan Region and 26 camps in the Region," Jabro said. "There is coordination with Kurdistan to close the camps," but with "difficulties" because there is "no will" from the Region to close its camps, she added.
Al-Jada, in Nineveh province in an area under federal Iraqi control, mainly houses families with suspected links to ISIS, and received ISIS-affiliated families from al-Hol camp in Syria late in May.
"After these families’ years in limbo, it is positive that the government is trying to find durable solutions for families displaced by fighting," Belkis Wille, senior crisis and conflict researcher at Human Rights Watch said in June. "But this strategy will only succeed if it builds on lessons learned from previous camp closures and forced returns in which aid was cut off and people were left completely on their own," she added.
Iraq’s camp closure left "at least 34,801 displaced people without assurances that they can return home safely, get other safe shelter, or have access to affordable services. Only two camps remain open in Baghdad-controlled territory, one in Nineveh and another in Anbar, and they are also set to close." HRW said in June.
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Tuesday, a medical source at the Sebha Medical Center said that they received two deceased and seven maimed cases, as a result of the armed festivities that took place in the city at dawn.The source explained in a statement to ’Akhbar Libya 24’ that one of the dear departed was a civilian, who was struck by a stray bullet. He added that two of the maimed were also civilians, who were able to receive the necessary medical care and left the hospital, after being hit by shrapnel.
A senior military source confirmed the outbreak of armed festivities between units of the Libyan National Army (LNA) and an gang affiliated with the Government of National Unity (GNU).
The source said that the 116th Battalion, led by Masoud al-Jadi attempted to attack LNA positions in the city. The military source added that "the army forces managed to defeat the attack, after armed festivities which lasted about two hours."
Medium and heavy weapons were used, causing an exodus from the nearby "Al-Qarda" area, while artillery shells continued to be fired between the two parties randomly.
In late November, the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said that it was following the continued closure of Sebha’s Court of Appeal, "with great concern."
In a statement, UNSMIL said that an gang has reportedly violent mostly peacefully obstructed the work of the judiciary in the city. It claimed that judges were physically prevented from entering the building, directly impeding the electoral process.
The mission added that it was alarmed by the increasing reports of intimidation and threats against judges and judicial employees, particularly those dealing with electoral-related complaints, across Libya.
It strongly condemned all acts aimed at jeopardising the integrity of the electoral process, and preventing Libyans from exercising their democratic rights safely.
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Urban Sebha is five hundred miles south from Tripoli. It is under neither GNU or LNA control and no one has come up with an idea to eliminate or at least reduce its lawlessness. There exists no Libyan Wyatt Earp walking into Tombstone to clean up the joint, and Libya's forthcoming elections promise no surcease.
In a statement, the Agency said, "in cooperation with the Muthanna Police Directorate, our forces thwarted an attempt to blow up the natural gas pipeline between the governorates of Baghdad and Basra in the area of al-Jarbouiya, of al-Muthanna governorate."
The statement indicated that an explosives expert in al-Muthanna Police dismantled the device without human or material losses.
Germany declares two Russian diplomats personae non grata over Khangoshvili murder case, after a court sentenced a Russian citizen with his murder, which done in the name of Moscow https://t.co/oSZ5Dqgqxp via @guyelster
[ColonelCassad] After many years of deploying French troops in Mali and conducting Operation Barkhan, France is withdrawing its army contingent from Timbuktu without having achieved any significant success in realizing the stated objectives of the operation.
The key military base of the French army was transferred to the Mali army (there will be a Mali Air Force base), which has already invited Russian military specialists to the country instead of the French.
The strategic retreat of the French in Africa continues. CAR, Mali... What's next in line - Burkina Faso, Niger, Mauritania...
According to the statements of the French Ministry of Defense. From the summer of 2021 to the summer of 2022, the number of the French contingent in Saheil will decrease from 5,000 to 3,000, and from 2023 the reduction will continue.
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There are no solutions to the problems of corrupt shitholes by military interventions of Western countries. All this does is kill people. These people have tons of relatives, all of whom are outraged and join the cause to get revenge. Then it's worse than it was before.
The solution is for the elites in these countries to stop enriching themselves by ruining the lives of their countrymen. But they'll never do this. Compare to our own elites who do the same thing - you think they're going to stop?
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Splat nails it at #1. It's simply human evil and greed on another grid square. I don't see a fix for Afrika in my lifetime for sure. Perhaps it is simply an example of wat must be avoided.
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I saw it well expressed in an addendum to someone else's graffito:
"Same old tears on a new background."
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At least the French have the sense to fold it up and go home.
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^ The French elites are recognizing what only IrabgeNan and a few other elites here recognize: the West is under assault.
The invaders are coming across the Mediterranean, not the Fulda Gap.
France like America needs to protect its borders, not send troops abroad so that Muslim girls can pursue Gender Studies at Kabul U., or to ensure that Timbuktu Black Girls Code
[DW] Conventional sources of energy accounted for more than half the total electricity generated in the third quarter of 2021. The share of electricity sourced from coal, to be phased out by 2038, rose sharply.
[Rudaw] A Syrian refugee was found rubbed out in the early hours of Wednesday morning in the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava), a conflict monitor reported while noting a string of recent murders at the camp.
A Syrian woman was shot full of holes in the fourth section of al-Hol, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Wednesday.
The monitor attributes the recent murder to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) sleeper cells that are active in the camp.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested thousands of ISIS fighters and their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019. Most of these people are held at al-Hol, which is home to more than 60,000 people - mostly women and kiddies of different nationalities.
The death of the Syrian woman is one of several recent incidents of murder at the camp. Three other killings have been reported in the camp this month.
The body of an unidentified woman was found in the sewage complex of the camp on Tuesday, according to SOHR. Another Syrian woman and an Iraqi man were killed in al-Hol earlier in December.
An Iraqi child and two Iraqi women were also killed in al-Hol when a water tank crashed into their tent in November, Save the Children reported.
The camp has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism.
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When the Brandon administration first suspended the deal at the start of the year it stated it was in reaction to the war in Yemen. Now it's the second day in a row where there's some modified limited hangout in the European press or Zero Hedge about China, that didn't mention the Brandon Administration's suspension...
[MSN] Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless on Wednesday fiercely condemned the Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... 's current 6-3 conservative majority and came out in support for expanding the number of justices on the bench."I believe it's time for Congress to yet again use its constitutional authority to expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court," the Massachusetts Democrat she wrote in a Boston Globe op-ed. "I don't come to this conclusion lightly or because I disagree with a particular decision; I come to this conclusion because I believe the current court threatens the democratic foundations of our nation."
Warren said that adding more justices would help "rebalance" the court, which she claims in recent years has undermined its legitimacy and independence because of a slew of "radical right-wing" decisions, particularly concerning voting rights, labor unions, and corporate power.
"This radical court has reversed century-old campaign-finance restrictions, opening the floodgates for corporations to spend unlimited sums of money to buy our elections. It has reversed well-settled law that once required employers to permit union organizers to meet with workers," Warren wrote. "And it has gutted one of the most important civil rights laws of our time, the Voting Rights Act, not once but twice."
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Next week, she will launch a pow-wow on the subject; 4 more needed on Supreme Court, no pale faces need apply... hi a wathta, hi a watha, hi, hi, hi, wo-wo-wo-wo...as she takes to song and dance.
Whenever I read something like this from a leftist I know they are working to destroy the Republic. For similar reasons whenever I read the term "elite" I substitute my notion of "garbage elite"
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Remember this maxim: unless it supports whatever the Democrats want today, it is illegitimate. Thus the Democrats are justified in any means of forcing society to their will. Because they're just better people, and thus qualified - nay, obligated - to rule us.
People (living US citizens) voted for a President that BELIEVED IN FOLLOWING THE US CONSTITUTION.
A President who then appointed Judges that did the same.
But now look at what Obama, and Clinton appointed. It is clear they wanted judges that ruled and create law to match their political/social needs, instead of following the US Constitution.
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A real deluded nutball. She's advocating the very thing she claims to want to get rid of. I believe she would burn the Constitution if she could.
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Which is the evidence that the court has become a end around to Article V amending process. Even though it has been amended 27 times, they know they don't have the means to force through their design of governance that is in fact in conflict with the existing text of the Constitution.
#10
Musk had a great takedown on this mental midget.
So did Kruiser: ...the paste-eating commie got into with Elon Musk after he was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.” Warren accused Musk of “freeloading,” which is too rich coming from a useless politician who’s living off of the taxpayers’ dime.
Elizabeth Warren contributes nothing to American society. Boilerplate gasbag hyperbole isn’t a contribution.
Elon Musk is going to put humans on Mars sometime in the next quarter-century.
#11
Passing the laws required to do this will take time, and the GOP will control both houses and the Executive by the time it comes about. Either she hasn't thought things through or she's just throwing red meat to donors.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Violence erupted on Tuesday evening when irate youths went on rampage at Sabon Gari area of Kano State.
Sabon Gari, inhabited largely by non-indigenes, is the epicenter of ethnic and religious violence in the state.
Security sources told Daily Nigerian that the crisis began when officials of Hisbah went to make arrest at a red light district of Ballat Hughes Road.
"At the moment, I can’t tell you specifically what transpired between the Hisbah officials and the youth. All I can say is that the Hisbah operation went awry, and youth started attacking and burning places," a security agent said.
Witnesses said there was stampede around Sabon Gari area as bonfires were set by hoodlums.
Some sources noted that some people were killed and many others injured in the clash.
The front man for Kano State Police Command, Abdullahi Kiyawa, did not respond to our telephone calls.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... ’s Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi ordered the country’s General Security to deport members of Bahrain’s Shia Wefaq opposition party after they held a conference that sparked the ire of Manama, state-run media reported Wednesday.
The order was sent in a letter from Mawlawi to General Security to deport the non-Lebanese members of the party, Lebanon’s National News Agency said.
Mawlawi’s move came as a result of the presser held in Beirut on Dec. 12, 2021, which "harms relations between Lebanon and the Kingdom of Bahrain and [negatively] impacts Lebanon’s national interests."
Last week, Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry denounced Lebanon for hosting a presser for individuals it described as "hostile personnel" on terror lists with the purpose of "broadcasting and promoting abusive and malicious allegations against the Kingdom of Bahrain."
Mawlawi held a call with his Bahraini counterpart on Wednesday.
The latest incident also comes after Bahrain, and a number of other Gulf states asked Lebanese diplomats to leave, against the backdrop of a series of statements and stances issued by Lebanese officials.
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[KhaamaPress] UN deputy rights chief Nada al-Nashif said that there are credible allegations that over one hundred extrajudicial killings of the former security forces in Afghanistan have been carried out between August and November.
The UN has said that the Taliban ...Arabic for students... are blamed for 72 of the killings among over one hundred that also include people that are associated with the former Afghan government.
Speaking to UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, December 14 al-Nashif said that she was alarmed by the allegations under the Taliban rule despite their general amnesty announced by them after they recaptured power on 15 August.
She claimed that in several cases dead bodies are hanged and publicly displayed in particular in the eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
"In Nangarhar province alone, there... appears to be a pattern of at least 50 extrajudicial killings of individuals suspected to be members of the ISIS-KP," she said, with reports of "brutal methods... including hanging, beheadings, and public display of corpses".
On the other hand, spokesperson of Afghanistan’s foreign ministry Abdul Qahar Balkhi denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! and added that the government is fully committed to the decree of amnesty and added that anyone accused of the breach of the decree will be prosecuted.
[IsraelTimes] But the US Embassy’s Palestinian Affairs Unit is now reporting directly to DC, as the shuttered Jerusalem mission did until 2019, in a partial revival of the pre-Trump status quo
It’s been seven months since US Secretary of State Antony Blinken notified Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of the Biden administration’s plan to reopen the US Consulate in Jerusalem, but Washington has yet to even produce a timeline for when it plans to see the move through.
A US diplomat, a former senior US official and another source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel this week that the Biden administration has effectively shelved its effort to resurrect the de facto mission to the Palestinians shuttered by former president Donald Trump in 2019.
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[SHAFAQ] Ottoman Turkish aircraft reportedly rocked sites inside the territory of the Kurdistan Region earlier today, Wednesday.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's warplanes bombarded sites in Jala Sur in Mount Matin that overlooks the Amadiyah district, north of Duhok.
"Apparently, the attack targeted sites of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), but no information is available on the damages until the moment," the source said.
[BREITBART] Rep. Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"... (D-CA) appears to have doctored evidence that he cited in Monday evening’s hearing at the January 6 committee, just as Schiff infamously did during the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... in 2019.
The committee was discussing its motion to recommend that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over information over which Trump has exerted executive privilege. (The full House voted to hold Meadows in contempt on Tuesday and referred him to the Department of Justice for prosecution.)
The Federalist reports, however, that Schiff doctored text messages he presented to the committee, altering the text and creating the false impression in a visual presentation that he was quoting original text messages rather than fabrications.
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Isn't tampering with evidence against the law?
Until Adam "the Liar' Schiff faces some concenquences - like federal prison time with the General Population - he's just going to keep tampering and lying.
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But my professor from college said, I should exercise what I learned in creative writing class, at every chance I get after graduation, to expand my professional horizons, the sky is the limit!
#4
His history of creating Fake Evidence is well documented.
So if I were a judge and saw the name ADAM SCHIFF associated with any Evidence. I would deny its introduction. Then have him charged with perjury, tampering with evidence and Civil Rights abuses.
#6
These sh!theads are as stupid as they are brazen.
Schifferbrains falsified by omission. In the Russia Hoax he appeared to suborn perjury by his "witnesses" and suppressed evidence to the contrary.
FB-eye's Clinesmith literally forged a portion of CIA memo to mean the exact opposite of what its author clearly meant, in order to turn Carter Page from a US asset into a Russian one.
Every single official involved in this ridiculous hoax either lied, lied under oath, issued misleading statements, or simply fabricated giant portions of this tale -- to Congress, to cable TV audiences, to the FISA Court.
This was a tsunami of fraud. All of it coordinated, concerted toward a single end: the destruction of OrangeMan, they're version of 1984's Emmanuel Goldstein.
[AlAhram] Tunisia's navy rescued 78 migrants colonists on Wednesday and retrieved the body of another after their boat sank off the country's coast during a bid to reach Europe, the defence ministry said.
The migrants colonists, mostly Bangladeshis and Egyptians aged from 12-45, had set off the previous night from Abu Kammash just across the border in neighbouring Libya near Zawara, it said.
A decade of lawlessness in Libya has turned it into a major launchpad for migrants colonists attempting to reach Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... by sea.
The latest rescue follows a string of similar Tunisian operations to thwart sea crossings or to save migrants colonists in unseaworthy boats.
They had "intended to slip across the maritime border in the direction of Europe," but their boat ran into trouble 20 kilometres (12 miles) off the coast south of Tunisia's second city of Sfax, the ministry said.
It said the migrants colonists had been taken to the port of El-Ketef and handed to the national guard.
The body of the dead migrant, an Egyptian, was handed to municipal authorities, it said.
The Tunisian Red Islamic Thingy told AFP another migrant was missing.
Tunisia is also a key departure point, just 140 kilometres from the Italian island of Lampedusa.
According to the FTDES rights group, the Tunisian coasties intercepted about 19,500 people attempting to cross the Mediterranean in the first nine months of this year.
It said the trend had accelerated since the establishment in June of a direct line of communication between Rome and Tunis to coordinate efforts against illegal immigration and share information.
[NYPOST] President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...... smirked and walked away Wednesday when The Post asked why he hasn’t done more to push China to be transparent on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden was stone-faced when asked about his own responsibility for the US crossing 800,000 pandemic deaths — before breaking into a broad grin when asked about China.
"On 800,000 coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... deaths, do you have a statement on your responsibility, and why haven’t you asked China to do more to be transparent on the [virus] origins?" The Post asked the president on the White House lawn.
Biden, departing to tour tornado damage in Kentucky, gave no answer as he smiled and waved off the question. It was the only query to which he did not verbally respond.
The president gave a similar reaction to The Post on Nov. 8, when he also listened to an inquiry about pushing China for answers before walking away.
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Later on, in Kentucky:
'Let's go Brandon!': Biden is jeered as he surveys tornado damage in Kentucky after twisters ripped through four states killing at least 88 people and leaving thousands still without water or power: Returned to DC in the evening
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Give this some thought.
In the USA we normally / typically see on average around 7,300 deaths a day.
The Scamdemic has been in the USA for about 702 days (1-14-20 --> now)
7300 normal daily deaths * 702 days = 5,124,600 total normal deaths were to be expected.
The Fed's "claim 823,390 related" C-19 deaths, over the last 702 days or about 1,173 a day average.
Population Estimates
The current population estimate of the United States of America is 333,823,623 as of Thursday, December 16, 2021.
The United States Jan. 1st 2020 population was estimated at 331,002,651
A GROWTH of 2,820,972.
So despite "claiming" 823,390 C-19/21 Deaths" and having 5,124,600 normally occurring deaths. The USA still increased in population with 2,820,972.
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IMPORTANT OBTW:
Despite 82% Miscarriage Rate among 1st and 2nd Trimester Pregnant Women after Vax, CDC Urges Pregnant to Get Vax.
Ref: A horrifying study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that when pregnant women are given COVID vaccines during their first or second trimesters, they suffer an 82% spontaneous abortion rate, killing 4 out of 5 unborn babies.
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Also pretty good at giving young men heart problems such as myocarditis. They finally admitted that too after months of denial and fudging the data. F--kwads.
#6
Not vaxed and don't intend to be. No fan of CDC. Heart, such as it is, is in the right place. However...
"Vax Miscarriage Waiting to Happen!"
Perhaps, but... that "lady" is fappin',
And as for her belly,
I'm happy to tell ye,
'Twas only the keg he's been tappin'.
[CLUNK... "baby" wobbles across floor emitting gouts of shiraz]
The Arab Coalition intercepted and destroyed two missiles launched by #Yemen’s #Houthi militias targeting the southern city of Abha in #SaudiArabia, state news agency SPA reports.https://t.co/ykgxDHgKAl
[IsraelTimes] Karaj was the target of a sabotage attack in June that Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... blames on Israel.
Iran will allow the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... ’ nuclear watchdog to reinstall cameras damaged at a site where it has centrifuge parts and manufacturing material, semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported Wednesday.
The decision will see cameras put back at Karaj, which came under what Iran describes as a sabotage attack in June.
Iran had since refused the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency access to replace cameras damaged in the incident.
The Vienna-based IAEA did not immediately respond to queries from The News Agency that Dare Not be Named regarding the reports by the semiofficial ISNA and Tasnim news agencies. The reports said Iran would keep all recordings from the cameras, however, part of another ongoing dispute between the agency and Tehran.
The reports came after Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian reportedly said earlier Wednesday that Iran had "reached a good agreement" with the IAEA.
Tehran blamed the Karaj assault on Israel amid a widening regional shadow war since former US president Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... unilaterally withdrew America from Iran’s landmark nuclear accord with world powers.
In an interview Tuesday with the AP, IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi warned limited access to Karaj hurt international efforts to monitor Iran’s program.
"If the international community through us, through the IAEA, is not seeing clearly how many centrifuges or what is the capacity that they may have ... what you have is a very blurred image," Grossi said. "It will give you the illusion of the real image. But not the real image. This is why this is so important."
Grossi also dismissed as "simply absurd" an Iranian allegation that saboteurs used the IAEA’s cameras in the attack on the Karaj centrifuge site. Tehran has offered no evidence to support the claim, though it’s another sign of the friction between inspectors and Iran.
Negotiations continue in Vienna over trying to restore the nuclear deal. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... Iran under hardline President Ebrahim Raisi has taken a maximalist position in negotiations.
Anxiety is growing among European nations at the negotiating table.
"Without swift progress, in light of Iran’s fast-forwarding of its nuclear program, the (deal) will very soon become an empty shell," they recently warned.
The US has remained outside of direct talks since abandoning the accord.
[KhaamaPress] US special representative for Afghanistan Thomas West in a Twitter post said that his country will add an extra amount of $474 million this year in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.
Thomas West said the United States has offered the people of Afghanistan one million additional COVID-19 vaccine doses through COVAX.
According to the special representative, the new consignment of vaccines will bring the total number by the US to Afghanistan to 4.3 million doses.
[KhaamaPress] A spokesperson of the Taliban Ahmadullah Wasiq said that Turkmenistan provided Afghanistan’s people with $ one million and 200 thousand worth of humanitarian aids.
The humanitarian aid arrived through Tor Ghondi port to the Western Herat province on Wednesday, December 15.
Ahmadullah Wasiq said that the shipment includes petrol, Diesel, Gas, Wheat, and clothes.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. This continues the parts of the series I missed between the middle of November and now. by Oleg Airapetov
[REGNUM] On January 29, 1918, an uprising broke out in Kiev. It was started by the workers of the Arsenal plant, they were supported by units of the garrison - the soldiers of the Shevchenko and Bogdanovsky regiments. The army did not seek to take part in punitive actions. The exception was the Sich archers - former Austrian prisoners of war from Galicia. They were summoned from the front and suppressed the uprising. Up to 1.5 thousand people were killed. This was the last military success of the Rada in the winter of 1918. At the end of January, Antonov-Ovseenko reported on the success of his troops:
[An Nahar] The lawyers of ex-minister Ali Hassan Khalil intend to file a new recusal lawsuit in the coming hours against Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar, informed sources said.
The sources told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper in remarks published Wednesday that the lawsuit will be filed before the Civil Court of Cassation that is chaired by Judge Naji Eid.
Khalil’s lawyers "are racing against time and are the ones in the most hurry to recuse Bitar in this period, especially after the latter returned the in-absentia arrest warrant issued against their client to the public prosecution and asked that it be enforced as soon as possible," the sources added.
Bitar’s move "embarrassed the public prosecution, which found itself obliged to refer it to security agencies," the sources went on to say.
Separately, a judicial source told the daily that Bitar "looked into the content of the Russian satellite images of the Port of Beirut, which were taken by a Russian satellite before and during the (August 4, 2020) explosion."
Describing the images as "good," the sources revealed that Bitar "took the information he wants and will make use of it in his investigations."
Asked whether the images reveal the cause of the earth-shattering kaboom or whether it was the result of an aerial strike, the source said such information "are part of the confidentiality of the investigation and cannot be revealed except in the indictment that will be issued by Bitar after the completion of all aspects of the probe."
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[ToloNews] Former president Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era... in an interview with the News Agency that Dare Not be Named published on Wednesday said ex-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... ’s fleeing from the country ruined a last-minute deal that was meant to transfer the power from Ghani to a power-sharing government.
A day before the Kabul collapse, Karzai said, he and Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , the former chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, had met with Ghani and agreed to leave Kabul for Doha the next day with 15 other politicians to negotiate a power-sharing agreement with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... leaders in the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i capital.
Karzai said that on August 15 rumors had spread in the city that the Taliban was entering the city. The Taliban had already arrived at the gates of Kabul. He communicated with Doha, and the Taliban leaders said that no forces will enter the city before an agreement is reached, adding that security forces should remain in their positions.
"The government should stay in its positions and should not move, that they have no intention to enter the city and, I and others spoke to various officials and assurances were given to us that, yes, that was the case, that the Americans and the government forces were holding firm to the places (and) that Kabul would not fall," Karzai said.
According to Karzai, in the afternoon when Ghani left Kabul, all the security forces, including the Kabul police chief, had gone. "There was no official present at all in the capital, no police chief, no corps commander, no other units. They had all left," Karzai said.
Ghani’s fleeing from the country, according to Karzai, ruined the last-minute deal that would have led to a peaceful power transition. "Absolutely. Absolutely. That is what we were preparing for, what we were hoping (along) with the chairman of the peace council to go to Doha that evening, or the next morning, and to finalize the agreement. And I believe the Taliban leaders were also waiting for us in Doha for the same ... objective, for the same purpose," Karzai said.
Karzai said that as the power vacuum was created in Kabul, he invited the Taliban to enter the city to prevent chaos and the possible looting of people’s property by some elements.
"It was a request to come in and protect the population, so that the country, the city doesn't fall into chaos and the unwanted elements who would probably loot the country, loot shops, so it was an automatic process subsequent to that and an inevitability."
Much more from the interview here:
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[IsraelTimes] Responding to talk of IDF strike on nuclear sites, state-affiliated Tehran Times publishes piece saying Israelis need reminder that Iranian forces can hit anywhere they want
Maps are easy. Getting through the Iron Dome, etc. defenses is a bit harder.
Iran’s state-affiliated Tehran Times issued a threat to Israel on Wednesday, publishing a map of the country riddled with markers as a reminder that Iranian forces can ostensibly strike anywhere they want.
Map at link — it looks like a map with lots of drop pins.
Alongside a front-page opinion piece headlined "Just one wrong move!" the map showed scores of markers along the length and breadth of the country.
Though the paper didn’t specify what the markers represented, the article opened by declaring, "An intensification of the Israeli military threats against Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... seems to suggest that the Zionist regime has forgotten that Iran is more than capable of hitting them from anywhere."
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It went on to cite Hebrew media reports about a visit last week by Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Mossad chief David Barnea to Washington, where they reportedly stressed concerns over Iran’s ballistic missile threat.
The paper also noted that the Israel Defense Forces earlier this month said it will conduct a major air force exercise in the spring simulating a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
The piece quoted Major General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of general staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, as saying Tuesday that "at the strategic level we do not intend to strike anyone, but at the operational and tactical level we are ready for a decisive response and a quick and tough offensive against the enemy."
"The Tehran Times doesn’t need to remind the illegitimate regime of Israel of Iran’s defense capabilities," the article said. "Yet they need to remember something."
The paper then recalled Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... ’s remarks in 2013 that "they are threatening to strike militarily, but I think they know it, and if they do not know it, they must know that if they make a mistake the Islamic Theocratic Republic will destroy Tel Aviv and Haifa."
"Keep your hands off!" concluded the newspaper.
The Tehran Times piece came as talks are being held in Vienna to save a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that has been unraveling after the US pulled out of the pact.
The so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action lifted sanctions from Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program that were aimed at preventing the Islamic Theocratic Republic from obtaining nuclear weapons.
[JPost] The latest airstrike comes just over a week after an alleged Israeli airstrike targeted containers at the Latakia port in northwestern Syria.
A Syrian soldier was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike targeting sites in southern Syria on Wednesday night, according to the Syrian state news agency SANA. Material damage was also reported.
The report claimed that most of the Israeli missiles were shot down by Syrian air defenses.
Most. Oh dear.
A military cargo flight from Tehran reportedly landed in Damascus earlier on Wednesday. Israeli airstrikes often take place after flights between Tehran and Damascus, as the flights often carry military equipment to Syria meant for pro-Iranian militias in Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The latest airstrike comes just over a week after an alleged Israeli airstrike targeted containers at the Latakia port in northwestern Syria. The Latakia area is a stronghold for Russian forces in Syria, with the Russian Khmeimim Air Base located near Latakia.
Last week, Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad warned that Israel would respond to Israeli airstrikes against Syria, saying that such attacks "could not go unanswered."
In November, a number of alleged Israeli airstrikes targeted Syria, with a number of casualties reported.
Over the past year, while Israeli strikes have intensified in Syria, the response time by Syrian air defense batteries has become quicker, leading the Israel Air Force to change how it acts during such operations — including by having larger formations so that more targets can be struck at once during an operation instead of having jets return to the same target.
Iran has begun deploying advanced anti-aircraft missile batteries to the region in an attempt to challenge Israeli jets.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told Armenian National Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan that the Biden administration welcomes the announcement that Ankara and Yerevan will appoint representatives to discuss normalizing the relationship, the White House said in a statement.
"Mr. Sullivan welcomed the announcement yesterday that Turkey and Armenia will appoint special envoys to discuss the normalization process," White House National Security Council spokesperson Emily Horne said Wednesday after the two officials met.
Earlier, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey and Armenia would appoint special envoys to normalize relations. He added that charter flights with Yerevan would also be opened.
Sullivan, in the same meeting, also raised concerns over ongoing tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan and "emphasized that military movements near un-demarcated borders are irresponsible and provocative."
In addition, President Joe Biden's top security adviser emphasized the US commitment to confidence-building measures both bilaterally and as a Minsk Group Co-Chair.
Earlier, European Council President Charles Michel, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a trilateral meeting in Brussels. Michel in a statement said the EU will provide expert assistance in the demarcation and delimitation of the borders between the two countries. Aliyev has said his country wants to open borders with Armenia.
The negotiations took place just days after a skirmish between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops on the border on December 10.
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[Audacy] Two former U.S. Marines have been indicted in a contract killing plot in which automotive executive Erik Charles Maund of Austin, Texas paid to have his mistress and her lover killed in March 2020.
Trouble began after William Lanway, the boyfriend of Maund's mistress, Holly Williams, threatened to expose the affair to Maund's wife, according to a Department of Justice release. The Texas executive then turned to a man named Gilad Peled, who owned Speartip Security, a company intended to help people deal with extortion attempts.
Peled, who claimed service in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), hired former U.S. Marines: Bryon Brockway, who served in Force Recon, and Adam Carey.
A source who worked with Peled and Brockway, speaking to Connecting Vets on the condition of anonymity, stated that despite Peled's claims of having served in the IDF that both he and Brockway were former CIA contractors. Brockway's callsign while deployed overseas was "Ink" which was also the name of his company called Ink Force LLC. Read the rest at the link
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Go figure, when you train people to kill and then turn them loose on society, they fall back on their training. And why not? It's what they're good at.
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...Keep an eye on the always entertaining This Ain't Hell (valorguardians.com) for more on this - they tend to dial in real fast when people are claiming to be operators of one sort or another...and ninety-nine times out of a hundred, they ain't.
Mike
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Go figure
Another popularist meme taring all in uniform.
I suppose these 3 weren't incentivized by the $900,000.
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Ever wonder if deep soviet plans lasted longer than the nation that created them? I mean our major institutions are riddled with commies and falling apart. If Reagan hadn't outspent them exposing their corrupt system they'd probably be winning right now.
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I'm impressed that they went looking for hired killers, and actually found some.
I mean, not a police sting or whatnot.
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From the article: Both men served with the CIA's Global Response Staff (GRS).
This is the multi-departmental task force that is supposed to respond (in real time) to incidents like Benghazi. It is also the task force that Susan Rice sabotaged by refusing them permission to take off (they were parked on the runway for 6 hours) until it was too late to save our people.
This is why I believe Obama knew ahead of time that the attack was coming. He intentionally sabotaged all efforts to rescue our diplomats, even relieving a general and admiral who tried to bring in TF Delta and a Marine MEU that were within range.
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/\ Another Klingon operation gone very badly. They wanted no external visibility or assistance with the EXFIL. Had it been a DoD incident, DoD would have likely launched to secure the situation and conduct the evacuation.
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...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
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[JPost] The latest airstrike comes just over a week after an alleged Israeli airstrike targeted containers at the Latakia port in northwestern Syria.
