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and those leather outfits in The Avengers? Rooowwwrr
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I'm gonna go with No, because a) you don't want the actors messing with the props, and b) if you are running your movie set properly, there are no live rounds.
...Pakistani-American Muslim whose family has deep ties to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the radical Muslim Brotherhood...
Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, has written a book describing her life experience during a time when her husband Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... was sending pictures of his penis to various underage girls around the country. [One of Andrew Breitbart’s Funniest Moments]
Back in 2011, Andrew triggered a series of events that long outlasted his time with us. Very influential New York Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner was texting pictures of his penis (amid other things) to underage girls. Andrew was tipped off and eventually exposed the story. It was a hot mess of DNC, MSM and the entire Clinton machine circling the wagons to protect Weiner and attack Breitbart. Andrew won against the entire machine in epic fashion. It was just awesome.
A few years passed, and then Anthony Weiner was caught doing it again, only this time there were criminal charges. Huma has written a book about her life in the aftermath of Weiner’s exposure and appears on CNN to talk about it.
There is a facet to the Huma Abedin story that no one in the media will discuss, including Dana Bash. Huma’s husband, Anthony Weiner, tried to cut a deal with federal officials at the Southern District of New York (SDNY) to avoid criminal prosecution. Weiner offered to give Huma Abedin’s laptop, which included all of Huma’s electronic communication files with Hillary Clinton, to the US Attorney’s office and FBI in return for no prosecution.
Huma’s laptop was essentially the Abedin/Weiner insurance policy against the Clintons. The laptop contained copies of all the emails that were missing from the Clinton private servers, because Huma’s email account automatically copied the emails to her account in the cloud so she could access them from any device. There were 350,000 emails and at least 344,000 Blackberry communications on the laptop. [FBI FILES]
The Abedin laptop had all the Clinton emails that Hillary Clinton’s lawyers said were no longer available, as the servers were destroyed and data deleted.
The Southern District of New York (SDNY) and FBI took custody of the laptop, but never made the deal with Anthony Weiner.
Despite numerous mistaken reports about the Clinton email issues at hand, it was THAT Abedin laptop that was the true purpose of Bill Clinton meeting with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the airport tarmac, Arizona 2016.
A review of the Inspector General report about the FBI activity surrounding the Abedin laptop, an overlay of the Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text messages around the time of the laptop, and a review of James Comey statements about the laptop, all tell a remarkable story about the coverup.
[PJMedia] Ms. Abedin worked for many years at a journal that promotes Islamic-supremacist ideology that was founded by a top al-Qaeda financier, Abdullah Omar Naseef. Naseef ran the Rabita Trust, a formally designated foreign terrorist organization under American law. Ms. Abedin and Naseef overlapped at the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (JMMA) for at least seven years.
Throughout that time (1996–2003), Ms. Abdein [sic] worked for Hillary Clinton in various capacities. Ms. Abedin’s late father, Dr. Zyed Abedin, was recruited by Naseef to run the JMMA in Saudi Arabia. The journal was operated under the management of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, a virulently anti-Semitic and sharia-supremacist organization. When Dr. Abedin died, editorial control of the journal passed to his wife, Dr. Saleha Mahmood Abedin — Huma’s mother.
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Ms. Abedin worked for many years at a journal that promotes Islamic-supremacist ideology that was founded by a top al-Qaeda financier, Abdullah Omar Naseef. Naseef ran the Rabita Trust, a formally designated foreign terrorist organization under American law.
In their eyes Carlos Danger's great sin was that he listed after tender youth of the wrong gender
[Don Surber Blog] The Daily Mail reported, "A woman, armed with a pickaxe, was shoplifting at a Los Angeles Rite Aid.
"Shoppers videotaped the bizarre scene on Thursday as the woman walked up and down the aisles with the weapon in hand.
"She reportedly threatened employees and customers and warned that she would come back as she walked out with a basket full of merchandise.
"It comes as LA and cities throughout California continue to be plagued by robberies amid the state's zero bail policies."
There's your democracy. Californians voted to decriminalize shoplifting. Californians elected pro-criminal DAs.
Shoplifting and the outright looting of stores are rampant in California.
But just as the media called massive riots by Democrats in city after city mostly peaceful protests in 2020, the media is denying the theft.
In the epicenter of the new lawlessness, the San Francisco Chronicle is the bulwark for thieves.
It published on July 20, "San Francisco’s shoplifting panic desperately needs some context" by Adam Johnson.
He began, "You no doubt have seen The Video. A man, in broad daylight, brazenly empties the shelves of a San Francisco Walgreens and casually rides a bike out of the store with little intervention from a nearby guard.
"The lawlessness, the complete societal breakdown. A shocking sight that offends the basic notions of law and order.
"When I say you’ve no doubt seen the video, I am absolutely confident you have, because a recent analysis by the media watchdog FAIR found that the video — taken by ABC7’s Lyanne Melendez — garnered over 300 articles of media coverage around the world and millions of clicks, from the United Kingdom to Mexico to France and beyond.
"That’s a sizable amount of coverage, indeed, for a single instance of petty theft."
If someone stole his bicycle, I doubt he would consider the theft petty.
On October 15, the Chronicle reported, "Is shoplifting forcing Walgreens to cut back in S.F.? Data on the closing stores puts the claim into perspective."
Relying on city government data, the Chronicle claimed, "But the timing of Walgreens’ decision led observers to wonder whether a $140 billion company was using an unsubstantiated narrative of unchecked shoplifting to obscure other possible factors in its decision."
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Watched the cops take a woman out of CVS in handcuffs a couple days before Christmas. Don't know if she was shoplifting, trying to pass a bad prescription, or what. But that wild-west business ain't playing here.
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When was the last time anyone read about an Amazon delivery truck being hijacked ?
Your laptop is now your store. Order 'on-line' from Home Depot and your purchase can be picked up from an (outside the store) locker. Sears stores eventually became little more than ordering and pick-up centers as well.
The middle-man (brick & mortar stores) are rapidly disappearing. Once you hit the "Purchase item" button, you are dealing directly with the Chinese manufacturing facility. Shoplifters and 'smash & grab' gangs are simply facilitating the transition.
I am certain you are familiar with the marketing term...."Factory Direct."
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And this is a good thing how exactly? Amazon is exactly the kind of megacorp that nobody should be doing business with.
Why do you think Antifa/BLM are attacking these stores? They need to destroy small business, because SMEs are the foundation of strength for America. More closed stores, more unhappy people, more recruits for them. The Bolsheviks did the same thing with the Czar.
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It's difficult to succeed when people expect you to actually do something.
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A large amount of Amazon sales are Amazon renting out digital storefront to small businesses.
Yes Amazon is evil and only looking for a profit, but it does seem what they do could easily be reproduced by others but so far nobody has seriously stepped up and tried.
[MAIL] Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was slammed on Twitter after she and her wife, Amy Eshleman, posted a video wishing a 'joyous Kwanzaa' to all who celebrate.
'Joyous Kwanzaa, Chicago!' Lightfoot said in a video shared online. 'The seven principles of Kwanzaa guide us to unity and cooperation as we work to uplift and protect our neighbors.'
'As you light the candles and gather in unity, we hope your holiday is filled with rejoicing and happiness,' Eshleman echoed.
The pair, who also used the holiday video as an opportunity to promote COVID-19 vaccinations, were criticized by Twitter users who cited the crime wave ravaging Chicago and Lightfoot's alleged failures as leader.
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Laughing at us now.
The Humiliation Stage, similar to the Bolsheviks' obscene and vicious parodies of religious rituals such as the "Komsomol Christmas" farce of 6 Jan 1923
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I'm guessing one of the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa is not Marksmanship.
But unloading all your shots in a general direction is, apparently. Maybe it's the 8th?
Sumthin's gonna get hit.
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#1 - yep, for starters. The main point of Kwanzaa was to pull Black America away from Christmas, and replace it with a CRT holiday. Fast forward to today - and here we are.
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[AP] Holiday sales rose at the fastest pace in 17 years, even as shoppers grappled with higher prices, product shortages and a raging new COVID-19 variant in the last few weeks of the season, according to one spending measure.
Mastercard SpendingPulse, which tracks all kinds of payments including cash and debit cards, reported Sunday that holiday sales had risen 8.5% from a year earlier. Mastercard SpendingPulse had expected an 8.8% increase.
The results, which covered Nov. 1 through Dec. 24, were fueled by purchases of clothing and jewelry.
Holiday sales were up 10.7% compared with the pre-pandemic 2019 holiday period.
By category, clothing rose 47%, jewelry 32%, electronics 16%. Online sales were up 11% from a year ago and 61% from 2019. Department stores registered a 21% increase over 2020.
After omicron hit, some consumers stayed home and shifted their spending to e-commerce -- but sales stayed strong. "I feel really good about how the season played out," said Steve Sadove, senior adviser to Mastercard and former CEO of Saks Inc. "When people feel a little bit uncomfortable, you’ll see a little bit of a pickup in online and a little bit of a slowdown in store performance.’’
A broader picture will be revealed next month when the National Retail Federation, the nation’s largest retail trade group, comes out with its combined two-month results in mid-January. The results will be based on an analysis of the November and December sales figures from the Commerce Department. Analysts will also be dissecting the fourth-quarter financial results from different retailers that are slated to be released in February.
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I'm still waiting on two I ordered back in October.
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Small, family owned Sherwin-Williams store in my area has a difficult time getting paint. The nearby Lowes box store has no problem getting Sherwin-Williams paint.
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Was riding with my neighbor the other day and we passed a truck load of finished lumber. I commented I'm almost surprised they don't have an armed escort.
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[Guardian] Harris is navigating a position that comes with great influence but few formal responsibilities — and the stakes are even higher for her compared to past vice-presidents See? You raycisss's and misogynists are just expecting too darn much from her!
Earlier this month, Kamala Harris convened the inaugural meeting of the National Space Council, an important summit that brought together cabinet secretaries and top space and military officials in the sun-drenched atrium of the US Institute of Peace. Over the course of nearly two hours, the vice-president engaged the panel in discussion with real, earthly implications for national security, the climate crisis and workforce development.
But attention in Washington was diverted elsewhere. At the supreme court, the justices were weighing the future of abortion rights. Republicans in Congress were threatening a government shutdown over their opposition to Covid-19 mask mandates. And as Harris spoke, public health experts confirmed the first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the US.
Such is the challenge of Harris’s mission: a historic first navigating an inescapably secondary role. Her work on the president’s most urgent priorities — combatting the coronavirus pandemic and enacting his legislative agenda — is often overlooked, while her efforts on her own policy portfolio often goes unnoticed.
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Her "course" obviously does NOT include working with Biden to solve current challenges and problems. She is likely waiting until Biden is gone to initiate her program of social change and repression.
#4
She and her boss are either the most clownishly incompetent, repulsive, degraded characters to hold those offices,
or
extraordinarily cunning, devious and secretly brilliant masters of a kind of strategic subterfuge.that eludes the grasp of ordinary folks like us.
"...like it or not, Democrats ought to get used to the idea of nominating Kamala Harris if Biden doesn’t run. They’re unlikely to have much of a choice."
Someone in the clip said the woman “went crazy on the airplane, punched this man in the face, spit on him, scratched him (and) poured hot water on my leg.”
Full-spectrum. MMA caliber.
According to TMZ, Cornwall went ballistic because the man wouldn’t mask up while eating and drinking.
[BBC] Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say at least six people have died in a suicide bomb attack on a crowded restaurant in the eastern city of Beni.
Police prevented the bomber from entering the building, but he blew himself up at the entrance killing himself and five other people.
Another 13 people were injured.
The officials blamed Saturday's attack on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militant group said to be linked to the so-called Islamic State (IS).
So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
More than 30 people were celebrating Christmas at the In Box restaurant when the bomb went off, two witnesses told AFP news agency.
"I was sitting there," local radio presenter Nicolas Ekila told AFP. "There was a motorbike parked there. Suddenly the motorbike took off, then there was a deafening noise."
There have been frequent clashes in Beni between the army and Islamists in recent weeks.
In November, Congolese and Ugandan forces began a joint operation against the ADF in an attempt to end a series of brutal attacks.
Authorities in Uganda say the group is behind a series of recent attacks in the country, including in the capital Kampala.
The militant group was formed in the 1990s by Ugandans disgruntled with the government's treatment of Muslims, but it was routed from western Uganda and its remnants fled across the border to DR Congo.
It established itself in the eastern DR Congo and has been blamed for thousands of civilian killings there over the past decade, including in attacks on Christians.
In March the US put the ADF on its list of terror groups linked to IS. For its part, IS says the ADF is an affiliate. The original 'Endless War.'
[ZERO] Supply chain issues aren't just showing up for consumer staples, they're also starting to rear their head in rental cars.
There has been a shortage in the rental car industry since earlier this year and while travelers are "encountering higher rates and few choices," according to a new Wall Street Journal article, companies like Hertz are "struggling" to re-stock fleets after downsizing due to Covid.
For customers lucky enough to even find a car, many are being forced to downsize or book vehicles they didn't originally intend.
At the same time, rental rates are skyrocketing. The daily rate is now $81, which is up 31% from a year prior, WSJ reported. Hasn't someone told Hertz the "official" CPI number is just 6.7%?
This figure is up from about $46 per day, prior to the pandemic.
In winter destinations like Maui, Salt Lake City and Bozeman, Mont., rates are over $100 per day, WSJ reported.
The omicron variant has also caused some travelers to switch from flying to driving, further depleting supply of rental cars. One traveler who chose to drive to North Carolina from Chicago told the Journal: "It was overall a high-stress situation." I doubt those rates include State and local taxes.
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I recently looked into leasing an F-150 at a local Enterprise agency for five day trip. Price before taxes was $235. per day. Needless to say, I did not lease a pickup.
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We're heading to the southwest this spring to visit relatives for a week. If the rental prices don't come down, we'll probably drive as 6 days of driving, meals, fuel and hotels to get there & back would be a lot less than the flights and a car rental.
Disclosure - There are no time constraints on our end and I don't mind driving long distances.
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/\ Air travel for me means traveling to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport. That in itself is a non-start, and not likely to change anytime soon.
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Really don't want to put up with the airport/airline BS anyway, so I am not a part of the car rental shortage. Do want to get to Portland to see descendants I have not seen in almost 3 years. Four day drive, for me; 7-8 with spousal unit. If I can convince her to fly I'll drive out (with a load of daughter's 'stuff' to dump off) and then we will take a leisurely drive home.
Plus at Ohare, you get the joy of getting back and finding your vehicle ransacked, if even there. Private lots offer a bit more security, but not much.
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And don't get me started on Midway.
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Wishing u safe travels and happy times Glenmore.
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I rate Ohare as worse than Hartsfield, Mullah. Food is worse, if you can find an open vendor. Baggage handling is infamously worse. Of course I never actually leave either one by ground transport.
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Definitely a 'True' statement about the ORD food, Glenmore. Hartsfield does have better food, plus the vendors are usually open.
ORD vendors seem to be on perpetual break.
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I developed my system for road trips a few years back. Stripped the back seats out of my Elantra, laid some strategically cut pieces of plywood in back, converting it to a 2-seat station wagon. 1 or 2 can lay down side by side on air mattresses & take a snooze quite comfortably. Having a -30 deg F down sleeping bag works in really cold weather. For really long stretches driving, I stop every hour or two and walk 20 or more minutes. This adds substantially to the time I must travel but the exercise and stretching that results pretty much cancels out the stiffness I used to develop on long trips without long walking breaks. After I've covered 4 miles in a long day of driving I am really glad to simply sit at the wheel and relax. I usually wear support hose to prevent leg swelling and leg clots. I'm already on an anti platelet drug for other reasons anyway. I carry some camping gear to make coffee & heat food up at rest stops just in case I can't find a place to get a bite.
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/\ Your system is no doubt a violation of some Federal law. If I were you, I would submit a copy of your comment to OSHA for review and legal finding.
I understand that there is, at least some places, locally a supply shortage, as visitors unaware of the local traditions, leave their vehicle locked so windows get broken out.
[IsraelTimes] Status will grant almost all the same rights as citizens, except voting in elections; can be renewed after 6 months if they prove their lives are centered in Israel
Israel will next week begin granting temporary residency to 2,440 Sudanese asylum seekers who have been waiting several years for a decision on their requests to stay in the country, the Haaretz daily reported Saturday.
The status, which is being allowed in accordance with a High Court of Justice ruling earlier this year, will be granted until a final decision on their fate is made.
The temporary status will be given to asylum seekers from the Darfur, Nuba Mounts and Blue Nile River regions in Sudan who filed their applications before 2017, according to notifications sent to various courts that were dealing with the petitions filed by the asylum seekers.
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It grants the recipients almost all of the rights of Israeli citizens other than voting in elections or running for office, the report said.
After half a year has passed, recipients will be able to apply for an extension from the Population and Immigration Authority if they can show that their lives are centered in Israel, and upon payment of a fee.
The process will begin in the coming days with the publication of a list on the Immigration and Population Authority website of all those entitled to temporary status. The individuals will be called into the authority where they will be given certification by the end of January, Haaretz reported.
In April the High Court had demanded that a decision on the asylum requests be made by the end of this year or the applications must be automatically granted temporary status.
The ruling pushed the Immigration and Population Authority to carry out a curtailed security check into candidates. Rather than holding a personal interview with each applicant, their details were passed to police and the Shin Bet security service who did background investigations. Those with a significant criminal past or other security issues will not get the temporary status, the report said.
Sudanese immigrant Monim Haron, a key figure in the community, last week told Haaretz that the developments are "a significant step for us as some are waiting more than eight years for a decision on our requests."
He said asylum seekers had hoped Israel would recognize the genocides that they beat feet from and grant the status without the need for a High Court decision.
[Rudaw] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS) has conducted over 300 terrorist operations, killing hundreds of people in northern Syria, including Rojava, in the course of this year, a conflict monitor reported on Sunday as the re-emergence of the murderous Moslem group threatens the security of the area.
The terror group launched over 342 armed attacks in Deir ez-Zor, Hasaka, Raqqa and Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said in a recent report.
The attacks killed 228 people, among them are five children, nine women and 135 security members including officers of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), it added.
In joint operations with the US-led coalition, the SDF arrested 858 ISIS suspects since the beginning of the year.
Four hundred and nine of them were later released while the rest are still in detention, noted the monitor.
The SDF on Saturday announced the arrest of a prominent ISIS leader who was involved in a 2014 attack on the Kurdish town of Kobane in Rojava.
An alleged ISIS financier was arrested in Deir ez-Zor last month.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed it conducted two attacks in Syria from December 16 to 22, killing and injuring 5 people.
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[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish leader, long critical of Israel, tells spiritual leaders he values renewed dialogue with Herzog, Bennett; says he supports rebuilding local synagogues, condemns Holocaust
Rabbis from across the world filled the halls of Istanbul’s Conrad hotel this week for the inaugural conference of the Alliance of Rabbis in 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.... s (ARIS). They were expecting two days of networking, discussions of Jewish law and simple camaraderie over their shared experience of supporting Jewish life in Moslem-majority countries.
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"Let's entice the Juice back and maybe they can jump-start the economy."
[ColumbusDispatch] Columbus police confirmed Sunday that a body found two days earlier in a vehicle on the North Side belongs to a local imam.
The body was discovered in a wooded lot at All City Auto Recycling in the 1400 block of Windsor Avenue, and as many as 200 people converged nearby after 3:30 p.m. Friday when news spread within the Somali community that Mohamed Hassan Adam, longtime imam of the Masjid Abu Hurairah mosque on the Northeast Side, had been found deceased inside the vehicle.
Police officially identified the 48-year-old Muslim leader as the victim of the city's 198th homicide in 2021 in a press release Sunday.
There is no evidence at this point that the death was the result of a hate crime, but the investigation is ongoing and still in the very early stages, according to police.
Adam had been missing since Wednesday, according to Hassan Omar, president of the Somali Community Association of Ohio.
According to police, relatives called in a missing persons report around 2:30 p.m. Thursday. The report included Adam's picture and that of the vehicle, a yellow van used to transport children. The word "Students" was on the rear.
Omar and other community leaders put together a search party to look for the missing imam, and on Friday, a volunteer found a body in a van with Adam’s license plate and reported it to the police, Omar said.
“The whole community is in shock, and the family is terrified,” said Omar, who had known Adam for 20 years. “He was a businessman, a leader, a father and a husband. He had a food pantry during COVID-19 to help community members. He was a role model for many young people.”
Imam Horsed Noah, outreach director of the Somali Islamic Centers of Ohio, also praised Adam, whom he said he had known for nearly a decade.
“Mohamed Hassan was someone who would feed the homeless. Mohamed Hassan was the one who would monitor our youth to stay away from drugs, to stay away from gun violence,” Noah said on Friday. “Today, the Somali community lost a pillar.”
According to Islamic customs, a burial should take place as soon as possible after death. Noah said the victim’s family members are hoping to have the burial in about three days but do not know when they would be able to retrieve the body.
Calls to officials with the Franklin County Coroner's office were not immediately returned Sunday.
Meanwhile, Noah said Sunday he would like to see more of a commitment by the police to resolving the numerous homicides experienced by the Somali community.
“We have lost a lot of Somali youth through gun violence, and while we appreciate the police’s collaboration, we feel that they were not so quick to find out who the murderers were,” he said. “We wish they would have a closer relationship with community and faith leaders. We wish that they would have a higher level of cultural competency and get to know our people.”
To recruit the public's help, the Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has offered a $10,000 reward for information that might lead to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved.
"Our entire Ohio Muslim community has suffered a profound and tragic loss," said Amina Barhumi, CAIR-Ohio acting executive director.
You’ll recall, dear Reader, that the previous executive director, Romin Iqbal, was recently fired after he had for years been passing information on the organization to Steven Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism.
“CAIR-Ohio will be demanding answers and justice, and keeping our community informed of any updates.”
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I go to that part of Columbus once or twice a year for work reasons. It's a rough place; the man could have been killed for any number of reasons. Or none at all.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A herd, self-culling.
'I'm so concerned about our children because there is an epidemic, if you will, of mental health challenges,' Dr Vivek Murthy said Last week, Murthy's office issued a mental health advisory after unveiling alarming figures that one in five young people report experiencing depression
'We know that their lives have been turned upside down,' Murthy said
Just below 790 children aged 0-18 have lost their lives to COVID since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the CDC
But almost 70 per cent of parents who have a child for whom they sought out mental health treatment in the past 12 months have used tele-health therapy
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24/7 at 1-800-273-8255
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I remember how "Brave New World" ended.
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tele-health therapy
Showing they don't understand the problem...or worse.
Made this distinction the other day and got a 'you are right' from wife - if 10% of the working population had died, this is the virus' fault - otherwise it is a social policy decision and will last as long as it is allowed to.
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Three autistic grandkids. They not only made no socially adaptive progress since COVID restrictions, they lost about a year of previous gains. They already have a hard time reading social cues, then they mask half the faces.
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Fauci is simply out of control now. That lunatic just said he thinks we need to don the mask [ ie bow our heads / take the knee / part our ass-cheeks ] FOREVER.
[IsraelTimes] 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... , the Paleostinian Authority 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... ’s electrical company sign a deal to advance a long-term project to supply Gaza’s only power plant with Israeli natural gas.
Qatar’s envoy to the Gaza Strip, Mohammad al-Emadi, says that today’s memorandum contains a pledge to invest $60 million in laying the pipeline for the proposed project.
The so-called Gas for Gaza initiative is a complex diplomatic dance, involving Israel, Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, the PA, Qatar, Egypt and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , among other players. But the basic idea is simple: to replace the diesel fuel that currently powers Gaza’s electrical plant with Israeli gas.
Under the proposal, natural gas will flow from Israel’s Leviathan gas field, which lies off Gaza’s coast, to a power station in southern Israel. The EU and Qatar will then fund extensions to the pipeline to Gaza’s power plant.
The project has been in the works for years, and has been repeatedly delayed due to wars between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers. In February, al-Emadi said he hoped a final deal could be reached soon, only to see another battle between Israel and Hamas break out a few months later, in May.
[FRONTPAGEMAG] "All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management."
The above caveat about government unions — usually known by the kinder and gentler "public employee unions" — was not issued by the Koch Brothers or Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... . The statement was made by none other than progressive icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Additionally, George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO for 24 years, once stated, "It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government." Both men understood that the very nature of government makes it wrong for its leaders to enter into negotiations with any union. When government unions negotiate, they often sit across the table from people they helped put in office with generous campaign contributions. And when these unions go on strike, they walk out on the taxpayer.
In the private sector, if a business is forced to pay its workers more money, those costs are passed on to the consumer. If the cost of a product is raised too high, the purchaser can choose to go elsewhere. Most unions get this and realize they can’t bargain for excessive salaries and perks. But some unions push things too far and ultimately price their members out of a job. An example of the latter is the United Auto Workers, whose exorbitant demands drove car buyers to Japanese models and automakers to produce cars elsewhere, thus sending bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... down the road to ruin.
But the government unions are always a nightmare for consumers, as they can’t shop elsewhere for services provided by the state, because the government has a monopoly on them. When union negotiators and elected officials agree on exorbitant pay packages and protections for cops, prison guards, firemen and teachers, what can the public do? Call a different fire department if their house is burning down?
There is an exception here with schools, but unless there is a parental choice system in place, where public tax money follows the child, only the well-to-do really have a choice. In exercising that option, they must pay twice, however — in state and local taxes which go to their local public school and tuition payments for the private one.
It's worth noting that many government union leaders fully understand the conflict of interest. In 1975, Victor Gotbaum, leader of District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in New York City, bragged, "We have the ability, in a sense, to elect our own boss." Forty-five years later, in 2020, Los Angeles teacher union boss Alex Caputo-Pearl admitted, "We have a unique power — we elect our bosses. It would be difficult to think of workers anywhere else who elect their bosses. We do. We must take advantage of it."
While all government unions do damage, none is more noxious than the teachers unions because their collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) have been a disaster for students and good teachers alike. The unions don’t treat teachers as professionals, but rather as interchangeable widgets, all of whom are of equal value and competence. To differentiate between effective and ineffective educators as a result of what their students actually learn would necessitate doing away with their fossilized, industrial-style work rules like one-size-fits-all salary scales, not to mention tenure, contractually known as "permanence" and seniority — perennial union mainstays. Many studies have borne out the harm of CBAs to America’s children.
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Public employees have a right of free assembly, free association, and the right of petition. Those are Constitutional rights. They do not have an equal standing to the state. The state is sovereign. If you don't want to work for the state, take your labor elsewhere.
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There is an exception here with schools, but unless there is a parental choice system in place, where public tax money follows the child, only the well-to-do really have a choice.
False. Very rarely do parents have a choice to go to a charter or private school and have their tax dollars go with them.
Democrats cite that giving parents a choice will decimate public schools - as if that is a bad thing - never mentioning that $800/month which get routed to a charter school for a student which has moved there is $800 less the school has to pay to educate that student. Or that, of that $800/month only about half is spent on actually educating the student (which they are doing less and less), the other half is spent on the huge overhead, union contracts (which are completely unrelated to actual education) and non-essential staff.
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If the public schools are Zoom-bombing the kids instead of teaching face to face, then the only potential reason for any parent not to homeschool her or his kid is financial: the cost of tutoring.
But for many, that cost is looking bearable: 4-5 tutors @ $50/hour i.e. maybe $300 per week , 35+ weeks a year, is doable.
This is the beginning of the financial death spiral of the public schools. Those lazy idiots have only themselves and their greedy bosses to blame.
[LIBYAREVIEW] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has transferred tens of thousands of Syrian mercenaries to western Libya, since it announced its intention to intervene militarily in Libya in December 2019. It did so under a security agreement it signed with the outgoing Government of National Accord (GNA)The Ottoman Turkish government also sent Syrian fighters to the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is a disputed region between Armenia and Azerbaijan, to participate in the war alongside the Azerbaijani forces.
Sources have told Libya Review that Turkey, in coordination with 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... now intends to transfer loyal Syrian fighters, in Azerbaijan & Libya to Afghanistan.
Libya Review sources have confirmed that Turkey’s move to transfer mercenaries in Libya and Azerbaijan to Afghanistan is "supported by the change in Ottoman Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East."
These moves indicate that Turkey has begun to retreat from the "provocative" roles it used to play in a number of countries in the region, especially Libya. This step has come after an increase in international demands calling for the expulsion of imported muscle from the North-African country.
On October 8th, Libya’s 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) signed a comprehensive action plan, which it described as the cornerstone of a gradual, balanced and sequential process for the withdrawal of mercenaries, imported muscle and foreign forces from Libyan territory.
Following the announcement of the Action Plan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... (UN), António Guterres, called on all Libyan and international parties to work towards implementing the plan for the withdrawal of mercenaries and imported muscle from Libya.
In a previous statement, La Belle France, Germany, Britannia, the United States (US) and Italia also supported the Libya’s JMC in implementing its comprehensive Action Plan for the withdrawal of mercenaries, imported muscle and foreign forces from Libyan territory.
International and regional calls for the necessity of removing the mercenaries from Libya put Turkey in a dilemma. This prompted it to go directly to coordination efforts with its ally Qatar, to get the mercenaries out of Libya.
The sources indicated that Turkey and Qatar are "working with full force to manage & operate Kabul Airport to enable them to transport Syrians from Libya and Azerbaijan to Afghanistan."
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As long as the United States is not involved, I could care less who they send to AFG.
Male to female trans #Antifa rioter Joshua "Eva" Warner, who was federally charged over assaulting officers in August 2020, had her case dismissed after completing just 30 hours of community service. Warner was arrested & quickly released at multiple Portland antifa riots. pic.twitter.com/BtHlk5yCRz
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Just checked, NOTHING in Corporate news.
Not even a line
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^ went down the same memory hole that the late-November Waukesha Race Massacre disappeared into. Not one mention in American Pravda since Nov 28.
Gone.
Never happened.
Jarrod Deferrari, an armed & dangerous Portland #Antifa member, has been sentenced to more than 7 years in prison for robbing a store & pointing pistol at cashier's face. The trans militant was previously released for allegedly smashing up a church at riot.https://t.co/EbvQpxWYDw
[DETROITNEWS] The indictment against five men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender who never got off the ground... should be dismissed due to "egregious overreaching" by federal agents and informants, defense lawyers wrote in a coordinated attempt to scuttle the high-profile case three months before trial.
Here’s hoping.
According to the filing, 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... agents and federal prosecutors capitalized on discontent with Whitmer's handling of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, invented a conspiracy and entrapped five people who face up to life in prison if convicted of kidnapping conspiracy in a case that has shed light on violent mostly peaceful extremism in Michigan.
The 20-page motion, filed Christmas night by all five defense lawyers, asks U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker to dismiss the conspiracy charge. The move would effectively dismantle the government's case and remaining charges, which are intertwined and based on the conspiracy charge, the lawyers wrote.
The request follows a stream of allegations and developments about the government's team involved in the case. That included the convictions of FBI Special Agent Richard Trask, the government's public face of the investigation who was arrested on a domestic violence charge and later fired and convicted of a misdemeanor; and informant Stephen Robeson, who was dropped by the FBI after being caught illegally possessing a sniper rifle.
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Last I looked, of the 12 or so people involved in the alleged plot, half of them were either Feds or paid informants, including one of the leaders who provided plans, money and hotel reservations.
No fewer than six people, including a police officer’s wife, were kidnapped, when bandidos invaded Wusasa community in the Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Christmas night.
SaharaReporters had reported that the incident happened on Saturday night close to Kuregu Wusasa, opposite New ECWA church.
A source in the area had told SaharaReporters on Sunday that the suspected bandidos stormed the area with arms and ammunition, whisking away five persons.
It was further revealed that the bandidos struck around 10:30 pm and went from house to house.
It was learnt that the wife of a policeman, his daughter and four others were kidnapped, according to Daily Trust.
The report said Kaduna State Vigilance Service (KadVS) later responded to a distress call put across to them but the bandidos were already on their way out with the victims.
"As they (KadVS) arrived and engaged the bandidos in a gun duel, they (bandidos) bravely ran away with the victims, it was later realised that the victims were from three different houses in the Wusasa area," the newspaper quoted a source as saying.
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[REGNUM] Former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev himself brought the state to such a state that it was already disintegrating. This was announced by the last chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Ruslan Khasbulatov, commenting on Gorbachev's words about the possibility of saving the USSR by creating the Commonwealth of Sovereign States (SSG).
"He brought the state to such a state that it was already disintegrating. It was lucky that the putsch took place, because if not for that, everyone would have accused him of defeating the Soviet Union. And now, you see, he has the opportunity to say: 'No, I would have kept it,' but they prevented me," he said in an interview with Gazeta.ru.
Khasbulatov added that the only difference between the JIT project and the CIS agreement would be the presence of a “powerless president”.
As reported by IA REGNUM, earlier Mikhail Gorbachev, the first president of the USSR, named a way that could save the USSR after the August 1991 coup. According to him, the country could be saved by creating the Union of Sovereign States.
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Soviets were already in decline. Gorbachev just made it official.
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^ Yes. That the Politburo would take a chance on an outsider with strange ideas about 'reform,' a rube from the sticks like Gorbachev, shows how desperate they knew their situation was.
A videographer for @KPIXtv was assaulted by a random black male suspect in the middle of an interview in San Francisco. The suspect was apprehended by police. pic.twitter.com/ObCJLhcKAB
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The body of a Pak-American woman, who Sherlocks believe was killed by her former husband over a property dispute, was brought to the city of Rawalpindi for further investigation, police said Sunday.Wajiha Swati, a US citizen of Pak origin, had been missing since she arrived in Pakistain in mid-October to settle issues with her ex-husband, Rizwan Habib.
Habib was arrested on suspicion of murder last week, said Sajid Kiyani, Rawalpindi’s police chief. He said Habib confessed Saturday to killing Swati after four days of interrogation, and that he killed her the day she arrived in the city.
Swati’s body was found in the district of Lakki Marwat in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.
"Police have exhumed the body from a house in Lakki Marwat’s Peezo area, where the suspect led the police after confessing (to) the murder," Kiyani said.
Habib’s initial court appearance was set for Monday. He was unable to be reached in jug and it was not immediately clear if he had legal representation.
Police said a complaint was initially filed about Swati’s disappearance and during the subsequent investigation US Embassy officials contacted police to assist in finding her. It was not immediately clear where Swati resided.
Kiyani said Habib managed to convince Swati to return to Pakistain. Police believe he picked her at the airport, kidnapped her and killed her with the help of his father and another man, both of whom were also arrested.
Investigators believe Swati was killed by her former husband in a dispute over property.
Kiyani said police retrieved the body from a house owned by an employee of Habib.
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[SHAFAQ] A fourth group of Iraqi nationals will be transferred from al-Hol camp in the northeastern Syrian city of al-Hasakeh to al-Jadaa camp in Nineveh this week, a former member of the Iraqi Parliament, Sherwan al-Dubardani, said on Sunday.
Al-Dubardani said in a statement earlier today that the rehabilitation center, in reference to al-Jadaa camp, will receive a fourth group of ISIS murderous Moslems' families.
The new group is expected to arrive by Thursday, he added.
Since May, many hundreds of relatives of suspected ISIS members were moved in groups from al-Hol camp in northeast Syria into al-Jadaa camps amid widespread discontent from the administration and people of the governorate.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] The Public Interest Legal Foundation went to Pennsylvania with a list of tens of thousands of people who were likely dead, but still on the state’s voter rolls in the weeks before the 2020 election.
The state was totally uninterested, according to Christian Adams, the organization’s founder. But once the election was over, Mr. Adams says, the state changed its tune.
It went into mediation with PILF, agreed to look into the list and even agreed to a settlement paying some of the group’s lawyers’ fees.
The kicker, though, was that Pennsylvania prosecutors even brought charges against a man who, according to PILF’s data, had registered his dead wife to vote, then requested her ballot in the 2020 election.
"All of the sudden they’re happy to settle, and to clean up their rolls," Mr. Adams told The Washington Times.
He said it’s not a fluke. The aftermath of the 2020 elections have opened new opportunities for election-integrity advocates, who say they’re seeing signs of better cooperation from at least some jurisdictions.
Good.
Last year’s contest exposed what those involved in voter administration have known for years — national elections are not an exact science, but rather an approximation of the will of voters in the weeks surrounding early November.
How close an approximation is still heatedly debated.
But it’s become clear to many that dirty voter rolls, lost or miscounted votes and mishandled ballots are more common than one might have imagined.
The difference in 2020 is that one of the candidates, then-President Trump, argued those usual flaws, combined with more preposterous speculation about machines switching votes and dumping ballots, "stole" the White House.
While the outlandish claims still have traction among some Trump supporters, the more complicated work of cleaning up the very real problems with dead people, noncitizens and other bogus voters remains.
Mr. Adams said his experience with Pennsylvania shows that in some states, the new attention from 2020 has helped.
"A virtual army has arisen of the grass roots, who are not worried about magic voting machines, and recognize the real work of election administration. These people are pressuring states to follow the law and remove dead voters," Mr. Adams said.
[SHAFAQ] A civilian detained by a group of ISIS Death Eaters returned home four months after being kidnapped in the southeast of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a source revealed on Sunday.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that the terrorist group released one of three civilians it captured last July.
The released abductee, who is originally from al-Shirqat district, was found near al-Debs district, while his lover companions, both residents of al-Qayarah, are still in the custody of the terrorist group.
On July 7, a group of ISIS gunnies posing as security officers set up a checkpoint near the village of Kindar on the Makhmour-Erbil road.
The group kidnapped three civilians and injured three others after opening fire on their vehicle.
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He is very lucky. Frequently they take the ransom money and shoot the hostage in the head anyway.
[EEnews] After years of planning by city officials, New Yorkers got a close-up glimpse of the trade-offs inherent in the fight against climate change when crews this month began cutting down the first of a thousand trees targeted for removal in John V. Lindsay East River Park.
Since the chain saws arrived two weeks ago, workers have moved quickly to get rid of more than 70 species of mature trees at the popular 46-acre park on the Lower East Side, including 419 oaks, 284 London planes, 89 honey locusts and 81 cherry trees; along with eventually demolishing a running track, ball fields, lawns, picnic areas, an amphitheater and a composting center...
The park overhaul, spurred by the destruction of Superstorm Sandy in lower Manhattan nearly a decade ago, is all part of a $1.45 billion flood protection project that backers say befits the nation's largest city, a massive project that will include the construction of a 2.4-mile system of walls and gates along the East River.
We did something like that in Cincinnati a decade ago. Riverfront Park was built as a series of terraces that accommodate seasonal flooding, containing gardens, playgrounds, open air performance spaces, and an underground parking garage. We love it as much as New Yorkers love their Central Park.
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one person who benefited was a NYC employee in charge of the program who got a cushy job in the Biden Admin
obviously a lot of contractors, a lot of trade unions, etc. will benefit
the people living behind the storm walls will benefit someday when the walls prevent flooding
eventually, the new part will be years and it will be a mess during construction and in the meantime the park will be unusable by the public
the existing park is somewhat archaic by modern standards and IMO it should be improved but the price tag seems more than an order of magnitude too high - Flood walls shouldn't cost more than $15M.
Terracing the park shouldn't cost more than $100k-$200k per acre. Putting modern benches and play areas would be another $50k per acre at the most.
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the people living behind the storm walls will benefit someday when the walls prevent flooding
[SANA.SY] The Ottoman Turkish occupation’s mercenaries of terrorist organizations continued their criminal acts against the locals in Aleppo northern countryside as they launched raiding and kidnapping campaigns of the citizens in Afrin area.
Local sources told SANA on Saturday, that terrorist groups of the so-called "al-Sham legion" raided a number of houses in the village of Baniraka in Raju township, Afrin area, Aleppo northern countryside in the framework of their continued terrorist acts to force the locals to leave their houses.
The sources added that Ottoman Turkish occupation’s mercenaries opened fire to intimidate the locals ahead of the bandidossnuffies kidnapped several citizens and took them to one of their positions.
The state of chaos and insecurity continues in the areas occupied by the Ottoman Turkish occupation forces and their mercenaries, as the kidnapping, theft, armed robbery, imposing royalties and other repressive acts are increasing against civilians to force them to leave their houses in order to seize them
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[CWBChicago] An Avondale man who illegally carried a firearm to a family Christmas party wound up shooting two attendees, including an 11-year-old, when he fumbled the gun and it discharged — twice — prosecutors said. The family took his gun away and told him to leave the party.
Tyquan Scott, 23, headed to his girlfriend’s family’s home on the 5400 block of North Austin in Jefferson Park to celebrate Christmas Eve with a gun tucked into his waistband, prosecutors said.
Scott began drinking and, around 11:30 p.m., his gun began to fall out of his waist, according to the allegations.
He grabbed for the weapon to keep it from falling, but it fired, striking an 11-year-old boy, prosecutors said. Then, it fired again, striking a 25-year-old man. Both victims were shot in their legs. Police said they were listed in good condition after the shooting.
"We won’t quite categorize it as a Christmas miracle, but it is fortunate to be sure," Judge David Navarro said during Scott’s bond hearing.
Other family members took Scott’s gun away and asked him to leave, prosecutors said. Police recovered the gun from a table in the home.
Officers radioed a description of Scott, and cops found him sitting at a bus stop about three blocks away, according to prosecutors.
The 11-year-old’s mother reportedly identified Scott as the person who had the gun and caused it to fire. An assistant state’s attorney said Scott admitted to having the gun and said he "grabbed it by the trigger as it began to fall."
Assistant Public Defender Courtney Smallwood emphasized that the alleged shootings were accidents. Scott lives with his girlfriend and two children, Smallwood said.
Prosecutors charged Scott with reckless discharge of a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. Navarro set bail at $50,000, meaning Scott must post a $5,000 deposit to get out of jail.
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Police in L.A. arrested four men accused of being part of a "follow-home" robbery where a man was murdered when trying to protect his girlfriend. Thieves have been picking out victims from expensive venues & robbing them at gunpoint of valuables. https://t.co/rva9Qlia5z
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Cause "taking him (the victim) off" is a street cred thing.
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This 'follow-home' procedure seems to be more and more prevalent recently.
Have always told my family and friends to be situationally aware and 'watch your rear-view to see if you're being followed'.
Some of them used to say I was paranoid, but no longer.
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And if you are being followed, what then? Head to the nearest police station? Many people wouldn't even know where it is unless they could ask someone. Once you do get there, you might not get much help unless there happened to be officers coming in and out when you pulled it. Go to a "busy place?" Yeah, sure, so they can phone video you being robbed for not cooperating. I live in a pretty good place, but I'd still give even odds on getting any help at all from a civilian in a public place, and I really couldn't blame them for not wanting to be involved.
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More White Supremacists
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Watch your mirrors; exit your vehicle with your firearm (and mind) ready.
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No bail required for shooting at a cop, at least for someone named 'Nasir.' Now for someone named 'Glenmore' they'd throw away the key for simply having possession of a firearm in NYC.
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[REGNUM] The 60-year-old French citizen of Syrian origin was accused of supplying components for chemical weapons to Syria by French justice. This was reported on December 26 by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
According to the agency, the accused is the owner of a shipping company residing abroad. He was detained in the south of France, after which he was transferred to Paris in custody. Here the suspect was charged with involvement in war crimes and "conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity."
Recall that the UN Security Council resolution on the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria was adopted in 2013. During the next year, 2014, 1,200 tons of chemical warfare agents were removed from Syria and destroyed. Nine countries took part in the operation. Russia was one of them.
Earlier IA REGNUM reported that the European Union extended the sanctions regime for the use of chemical weapons proposed by the UK and France after the attacks in Syria and British Salisbury.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Militants targeted an army post in Pakistain’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, killing a soldier in a firefight overnight, Pakistain's military said.
The attack took place in the Shewa area of the district of North Wazoo in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, the army said in a statement on Saturday.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
The military said that during an intense exchange of gunfire a soldier was killed. It said a search of the area was being carried out to find the holy warriors. No additional details were released.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... ’s government declared two days of mourning starting on Sunday after 41 people died in an attack by suspected murderous Moslems in the troubled north."The search mission in the area of an ambush by armed terrorist groups... has established a toll of 41 bodies. The president decrees national mourning of 48 hours," said a government statement issued on Saturday evening.
The government said the dead included members of an official self-defense force known as the Volunteers for the Defense of the Motherland (VDP), set up to support the army.
Volunteers receive 14 days of training and are then sent out on patrols and surveillance missions, equipped with light arms.
Among the victims of Thursday’s attack was Ladji Yoro, considered a leader of the VDP in Burkina Faso, the statement said.
"The identification of the victims is still underway," said the government statement.
According to local media, the ambush targeted a convoy of traders escorted by VDP near Ouahigouya, a town not far from the Mali border.
The attack was the deadliest since mid-November when 57 people,including 53 gendarmes, were killed.
Like its neighbors Mali and Niger, Burkina Faso has been caught up in a spiral of violence since 2015, attributed to armed jihadist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda and 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.... bully boy group.
The fighting has left at least 2,000 people dead and 1.4 million displaced.
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[SHAFAQ] Two ISIS holy warriors were killed in an ambush set up by a force of the Federal Police on Sunday evening, a senior security commander revealed.
The commander of the advanced headquarters of the Joint Operations Command, Lieutenant-General Ali al-Furayji, said that the Federal Police's mechanized division killed two bandidosturbans in an ambush in al-Tarfawi, western Kirkuk.
One of the bandidosturbans was wearing an explosive vest, al-Furayji said.
The commander of the advanced headquarters said that the security forces will continue to "hunt the rats of ISIS", Indicating that he issued immediate orders to honor the force that executed the ambush.
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The bodies of 28 migrants have washed up on Libya’s western coast after their boat sunk, a security official says, the latest tragedy on the world’s deadliest migration route.https://t.co/JMhEYvCoD5
[AlAhram] The Saudi-led coalition fighting 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... said Sunday it struck a Huthi rebel camp in the capital Sanaa, as it intensified an aerial bombing campaign against the Iran-backed holy warriors.
The coalition, which backs Yemen's internationally recognised government against the Huthis in a civil war, said it destroyed weapons storehouses in the rebel-held capital, according to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
"The operation in Sanaa was an immediate response to an attempt to transfer weapons from al-Tashrifat camp in Sanaa," it said in a statement, adding it "destroyed weapons warehouses".
The coalition is scheduled to hold a news conference on Sunday at which it has said it will show evidence of involvement by Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... 's Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in the Yemeni conflict.
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... has long accused Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... of supplying the Huthis with sophisticated weapons and its Hezbollah proxy of training the holy warriors, charges the Islamic republic denies.
The coalition launched a "large-scale" military operation against the Huthis on Saturday, the Saudi authorities said, after missiles fired by the rebels killed two people in the kingdom, the first such deaths in three years.
Those air raids left dead three civilians, including a child and a woman, Yemeni medics told AFP.
The coalition maintains its operations are carried out in accordance with international humanitarian law, repeatedly urging the Huthis against using civilians as human shields.
It said it will present during Sunday's news conference "evidence of involvement of Lebanon's terrorist Hezbollah in Yemen and use of (Sanaa) airport to target the kingdom", according to SPA.
The coalition has intensified its air strikes on Sanaa, targeting earlier this week the airport, whose operations have largely ceased because of a Saudi-led blockade since August 2016, with exemptions for aid flights.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... the murderous Moslems often launch missiles and drones into Saudi Arabia, targeting its airports and oil infrastructure.
The UN estimates Yemen's war will have claimed 377,000 lives by the end of the year through both direct and indirect impacts.
[AlAhram] Clashes between 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... i government forces and the country's 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... rebels attacking the key central city of Marib killed a senior military commander on Monday, officials said.
The development is a big blow to the forces of Yemen's internationally recognized government, which have been fighting for months against the Iranian-backed Houthis' attempt to take Marib. The Houthis launched an offensive earlier this year on the city in an effort to complete their control over the northern half of Yemen.
Maj. Gen. Nasser al-Zubiani, who headed military operations of the government's armed forces, was killed on the front line in the Balaq mountain range, south of the city of Marib, said the two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Al-Zubiani was inspecting government troops and allied tribal fighters trying to stave off the Houthi attack at the time. Government forces had earlier advanced a few kilometers (miles) following fierce battles south of the city, one of the officials said.
The rebels stepped up attacks on Marib in recent weeks, sending waves of fighters to try and breach government defenses. Hundreds died in the festivities, mostly rebels, the official added.
A Saudi-led coalition, which is fighting on the side of the government forces, said it launched at least 35 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on rebel positions around Marib over the weekend, killing at least 200 Houthis. At least three more airstrikes hit the rebels in Yemen's western coast, it said.
The Houthi offensive on Marib came as they suffered blows elsewhere in the country. Last month, government forces took the district of Hays and a major highway linking the contested port city of Hodeida with the rebel-held capital of Sanaa.
[Jpost] Will an overt airstrike on Iran really achieve so much more for Israel in terms of a delay than continued covert operations?
The targets in Iran would vary.
The first would be Natanz, Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility. The complex consists of two large halls, roughly 300,000 square feet each dug somewhere between eight and 23 feet below ground and covered by several layers of concrete and metal. The walls of each hall are estimated to be approximately two feet thick. The facility is also surrounded by surface-to-air missiles.
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Well, I hope it's a CRUSH rather than a strike.
[JPost] Creating facts on the ground
The approval of the NIS one billion plan strengthens Israel's presence in the Golan Heights territory
Israel's government is expected to approve a NIS one billion plan to develop the Golan Heights that will at least double its Jewish population and allow for the creation of two new towns in the region.
"We are making history in the Golan," Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tweeted in advance of the vote, which will take place during a special government meeting in the Golan Heights.
He tweeted a photograph of himself landing via helicopter on the Golan, stating that was the "beginning of an important day on the Golan."
At the start of the government meeting, Bennett said, "Friends, this is our moment, this is the Golan Heights moment," he said.
"A combination of circumstances led us today to a dramatic government decision to direct many resources, about one billion shekels, to strengthen the settlement of the Golan Heights," Bennett exclaimed.
"First, it must be said - the Golan Heights is Israeli. This goes without saying," he stated.
The government's allocation of resources strengthens Israel's presence in the Golan Heights territory which it captured from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and which it annexed in 1981.
The United States recognized Israel's sovereignty over the Golan in 2019 and is the only country to have done so. Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked former US president Donald Trump for that recognition by creating a town in the Golan in his name.
Israel has insistent that retention of that mountain range is essential for Israel's security.
"After about ten years of terrible civil war in Syria, every sane person in the world understands that a peaceful, flourishing and green Israeli heights [here] is preferable to another alternative," Bennett explained.
"The fact that the Trump administration has recognized this [Israeli sovereignty on the Golan], and the fact that the Biden administration has made it clear that there is no change in this policy, is also important," Bennett said.
The goal of the development plan is to double the population on the Golan, including through the construction of two new neighborhoods in the town of Katzrin and the creation of two new towns already named Asif and Matal, Bennett explained.
The plan calls for half-a-billion shekels for housing construction, NIS 162m. for tourism, industry and commerce and NIS 160m. for transportation systems and health care facilities, Bennett said.
Changes in the way people in the 21st-century work allow for people who work virtually to consider living in places such as the Golan, Bennett said
"To Israelis looking for a place to build their home, I say - this plateau is waiting for you. Come to the Golan," Bennett exclaimed.
Iraq will evacuate more than one hundred Iraqi nationals stranded at the Belarusian borders with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , spokesperson to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed al-Sahhaf, said on Sunday.
Al-Sahhaf said in a statement earlier today that 110 Iraqis have applied for voluntary repatriation after contacting the Iraqi embassy in Poland.
"Their repatriation, in coordination with the Belarusian, will take place via Baghdad and Erbil airports," he said.
On December 19, al-Sahhaf stated, "we were able to make ten evacuation flights from Minsk, with a number of 3,718 passengers, in coordination with Iraqi Airways."
"We have so far granted 515 laissez-passers to those who lost their passports, in Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland," he added.
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It is said that 007 was modeled after a WWII British officer who was a drinker, womanizer and did outrageous things during the war. He did not live long as he was eventually a war casualty.
#5
Last night Mr Warthog and I watched the newest Bond film, No Time to Die. The ending is terrible and out of sync with the style of Bond films. If this is all the writers have, the series will be on a serious decline. Pity.
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Does anyone recognize the concept of fiction anymore?
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I read my first bond would have died of STD's in the late 70s early 80s. Even as a kid I thought Bond was probably seducing a higher class lady than the magazine writers desperate to take him down.
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Oh sure, Bond would have died, but Shrillary is still sucking wind.
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Actuarial Karens can carp,
"Lucky Jack should be plucking a harp,"
And statistical hens
Cluck, "Don't run with those pens
Or you're sure to be flattened like Sharpe!"
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Immortal! The son of a gun
Hummed, "God Save the Queen," but... which one?
Shed blood for the empire?
"Sure," chortled the vampire,
"But just in the dark, or I'm done."
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Missing from the reenactment were the companies of Germans (Hessians) captured, and the marched to western Pennsylvania for internment. Where the bulk decided to stay after the war ended, rather than go home.
That's the how we got all those German towns in western PA, that have a tradition of opposing helping the Brits in time of war.
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[RIA Novosti] The North Atlantic Alliance has already offered Moscow a date for a bilateral meeting, the press service of the military bloc told RIA Novosti.
"NATO Secretary General Jens Stolenberg, as chairman of the Russia-NATO Council, decided to convene a meeting of the Council on January 12, 2022. We are in contact with Moscow on this meeting," the agency's interlocutor said.
He recalled NATO's position that "any dialogue with Russia should be conducted on the basis of reciprocity, take into account NATO's concerns about Russia's actions, be based on key principles and fundamental documents of European security, and take place in coordination with NATO's European partners."
As confirmed by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova , Moscow received a proposal to convene the Council and is considering it in practical terms. The diplomat stressed that Moscow is ready for a direct dialogue on security guarantees.
In mid-December, the Foreign Ministry published a draft treaty with the United States and an agreement with NATO. The documents have already been handed over to Washington and its allies. At one point, Moscow proposes that the alliance provide guarantees that would exclude the bloc's further advance in an eastern direction, in particular, on Ukrainian territory.
As Vladimir Putin has repeatedly emphasized, NATO's eastward expansion and the deployment of offensive weapons in Ukraine are red lines for Moscow. In turn, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pointed out that the bloc is increasing the supply of weapons to Kiev, and the number of Western instructors has also increased in the country. In his opinion, this could provoke the Ukrainian authorities "into military adventures," which creates a direct threat to Russia's security.
The Russia-NATO Council was created in 2002 as a platform for the development of interaction and coordination. He promoted Moscow's cooperation with the alliance countries in important areas, in particular the fight against international terrorism. After 2008, the council's work stalled.
[RIA Novosti] Deputy of the State Duma from the party "Fair Russia - The Truth Behind" Mikhail Delyagin does not rule out that the Ukraine in early 2022 may attack several Russian border regions.
"There is a real threat of an attack on Russia , they (Ukrainians. - Ed.) Are being prepared for this, but they do not really want this. <...> The West is pushing them to this very strongly," your Youtube channel.
He added that the Ukrainian leadership is being pushed towards aggressive actions by the bad internal situation, "a situation of absolute hopelessness."
"We will enter the risk zone, I am afraid, somewhere in early February and will sit in this risk zone until mid-March, maybe until the end of March," the deputy said.
According to Delyagin, attacks on Crimea, Rostov-on-Don, Belgorod and Bryansk should be expected.
Recently, the West has increasingly said that Russia is preparing an "invasion" of Ukraine. In Moscow denied this, stressing that no one is threatened, and the movement of troops on their own territory should not disturb anyone.
As the Kremlin has repeatedly noted, such attacks are used as an excuse to place more military equipment and NATO forces on the Russian borders.
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No point talking with NATO or the Ukrainians - just the US. If they don’t sign off on an agreement then it doesn’t matter what the other parties say
#2
He's just bluffing. His real goal is to force the US to stop expanding NATO. That's an easy concession for us to make: at this point expanding NATO brings us nothing but grief. Conceding something that's worth nothing to you and everything to your adversary is a smart negotiating strategy.
We could have had Russia as a bulwark against Islamist terror and a partner that along with India and Japan would keep China off balance and in check.
Instead, thanks to Cheney-W-McCain's stupid fantasies of creating Jeffersonian democracy everywhere from Cairo to Baghdad and Damascus to Kabul and the Caucasus, we ended up with trillion-dollar albatrosses and democracy in none of those nations.
Under Soetoro and his twin idiots McFaul and his boss Hillary, we added an albatross in yet another shithole, Ukraine. And now under Brandon, our list of humiliating defeats includes Afghanistan.
All when Russia could have been what it was in 2201-2003, a willing partner offering us significant military cooperation, including forward bases in Central Asia, in our mutual conflict with Islamic terror.
All because of our retarded obsession with democracy promotion abroad -- while our own democratic institutions at home are now reeling and under assault by our own shitty little authoritarians and corrupt oligarchs.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition revealed on Sunday evidence proving the involvement of 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 Shia Hezbollah militia 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... and in using the country’s airport to target 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... .The Coalition showed pictures of Hezbollah members training the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia to launch explosive-laden drones.
Coalition front man Brigadier General Turki al-Malki said in a presser: "The Houthis do not have the ability to make the decision to be part of the political solution in Yemen."
"The terrorist organization Hezbollah has spread destruction in the region and the world, and it bears the responsibility for targeting civilians in Saudi Arabia and Yemen," he added.
Malki stressed that "the Iranian regime sponsors its proxies in the region to carry out destruction and devastation", adding that "the Houthi militia adopted its sectarian ideology from Iran."
The Coalition said that the Houthis had fired 430 ballistic missiles and 851 explosive laden drones at Saudi Arabia since the Yemen war began in 2015, leading to the deaths of 59 Saudi civilians.
Yemen’s Houthis have in recent months ramped up their attacks on the Kingdom and launched dozens of cross-border aerial attacks on Saudi Arabia.
The Iran-backed militia targeted civilian areas and energy facilities in the Kingdom with explosive-laden drones and ballistic missiles.
The Arab Coalition has been conducting strikes against Houthi militia’s sites in Yemen targeting their weaponry and their core bases.
Coalition front man Turki al-Malki told a news conference the Huthis were "militarising" Sanaa airport and using it as a "main centre for launching ballistic missiles and drones" towards the kingdom.Malki showed news hounds a video clip which he said depicted "the headquarters of Iranian and Hezbollah experts at the airport" where, he alleged, "Hezbollah is training the Iran's Houthi sock puppetss to booby-trap and use drones".
Malki showed other clips which he said depicted a Hezbollah member placing explosives in a drone, and a man he identified as a Hezbollah official telling Houthi members "we must strengthen our ranks".
The footage could not be independently verified.
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Airlines cancel hundreds more flights, citing staffing problems tied to #COVID19, as the nation's travel woes extend beyond Christmas, with no clear indication when normal schedules would resume.https://t.co/5P3H6rmnDT
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Men typically assume if you get in another guy's grill about something they may end up on your ass with a bleeding nose. These boxwine bitches think they are immune to a physical response even as they slap or hit. See the surprise when one gets disabused of their immunity...
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they you may end up on your ass with a bleeding nose
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Can someone explain ?
The ancient Greeks believed their wombs made them hysterical. I dunno. Maybe more sensitive to social pressure. Everyone is wound up pretty tight right now. Which is exactly why an annoying outburst might be might with a poke in the nose. Think of it as pushing the Reset button.
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an annoying outburst might be might with a poke in the nose
Civilized TX allows the more severe charge of 'battery' to be bundled with the lesser verbal 'assault' charges. Sometimes 'felony assault' depending on the severity of the battery. Shouting in your face is a 'public disturbance' for the most part.
If you are grabbed during the shouting then a poke in the nose is just self-defense.
[PJMEDIA] “Throughout the last three months I have been straightforward about my concerns, that I will not support a reconciliation package that expands social programs and irresponsibly adds to our $29 trillion in national debt that no one seems to really care about,” Manchin said on Nov. 1.
Four days later, Seattle socialist Rep. Pramila Jayapal told her caucus they had taken their petulant protest as far as they could. Biden asked Democrats to trust him on Manchin’s commitment to passing the legislation, and though five Marxist representatives — Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush ...a member of the progressive Squad. Born in St. Louis, Bush represents Missouri's 1st congressional district that includes all of the city of St. Louis and a large part of northern St. Louis County. Cori sez America is Racist AF... , Alexandria Sandy Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore... , Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... , and Rashida Tlaib — disagreed, the legislation passed.
It was a disastrous maneuver by Democrats.
The far-left goons created fake expectations that they would use their leverage on infrastructure to pass all of Build Back Better; needless to add, they failed to deliver.
Her infrastructure bill’s passage also came too late for the ballot box.
Just days earlier, Republican Glenn Youngkin shocked Democrat Terry McAuliffe ...If you constructed what a political boss looks like, it would be him.... in the Virginia gubernatorial election. Democrats from the Commonwealth blame Jayapal and her hard boy colleagues.
"I think congressional Democrats blew the timing," Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine Hillary's running mate in 2016. Remember him? said. "We should’ve passed these bills in early October. If we had, it would’ve helped Terry McAuliffe probably win the governor’s race."
Finally, Jayapal’s agenda and plan was rendered pointless when Manchin told Bret Baier on Fox News last week he won’t support the boondoggle.
The political stunts orchestrated by Jayapal proved again that Democrats are incapable of governing. If the party simply passed infrastructure after the U.S. Senate did earlier this year, they could have avoided the congresswoman’s preposterous charade.
People living in left-wing bubbles like Jayapal don’t care about the overall picture, however, nor do they value colleagues in real districts where elections are not guaranteed.
Jayapal, as expected, has taken zero responsibility for the embarrassment she created; like other socialists, she instead blames Manchin for "betrayal" and also told news hounds he lacks integrity.
This is rather rich coming from a bully who had more than a dozen former staff members recently accuse her of abuse.
And with all those horrors and failures, I congratulate Washington state’s third-term congresswoman on earning the dubious title of biggest loser in 2021.
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[AlAhram] The World Food Programme said Wednesday it was "forced" to cut aid to 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... due to lack of funds, and warned of a surge in hunger in the war-torn country.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Source contains some charts in English
[ColonelCassad] At the current growth rates, in the second half of the 20s (if not earlier), it will surpass the volume of the conventional film industry in its usual sense.
People who in modern realities deny the role and importance of the video game industry in mass culture and everyday leisure of a huge part of society, the further, the more they move away from the real state of affairs. Of course, you can deny reality, especially since at one time they also denied the role of radio, cinema, television, the Internet, which of course did not interfere with the formation and development of innovations within society with the transition from innovations to routine consumption. In the case of video games, consumers are no longer children, but people over the age of 24.
So, the average age of a Russian gamer is slowly increasing, and last year it was 24+ years:
30 percent of the respondents belonged to the age group from 14 to 24 years old.
37 percent- from 25 to 34 years old.
33percent - from 35 to 44 years old.
59 percent of Russian gamers are men while 41percent are women.
That is, in 2020, 70 percent of consumers of video game products are people from 25 to 44 years old, that is, the most able-bodied part of the population of the Russian Federation .
This, of course, does not mean that this growth, in the case of the gaming industry, does not take various ugly forms, like the same financial pyramids with NFT tokens, mobile gacha dumpsters, as well as other loot boxes, "game services", etc., not to mention mention the progressive creative impotence major publishers and glossing over all and all pervasive povestochkoy (which leads to a collapse, even those huge conglomerates as "Aktivizhn-Blizzard" and Ubisoft ").
But anyway, it's all there, there will be the main thing, will continue to grow, covering most of the country's population.
The state in this regard mainly demonstrates ridiculous approaches and, as a rule, a poor understanding of what to do with all this.
A recent interview with Mizulina's (Yulina Mizulina, Russian senator (Russian Federation Council)) daughter, clearly shows this.
As a result, we are witnessing a wonderful picture when state and opposition speakers compete among themselves for the title of "Best Luddite of the Year". On the one hand, the conditional right Vitaly Milonov (Russian national deputy), with shouts, needs to pray and ban video games, because of them children are being killed in schools.
On the other hand, the conditional leftist Semin with calls to play chess and read Marx. At one time, the Liberal Democratic Party tried to flirt with this topic by dragging some young deputy Vasily Vlasov (Russian national deputy) into the federal agenda, but everything ended very badly there.
"Party blogger" Yuri Khovansky (Russian video blogger) is in jail for the propaganda of terrorism, the "former producer of the Goblin" who was involved in the persecution of people, ended up in a psychiatric hospital, the deputy's assistant got used to organizing the physical persecution of various bloggers, etc. etc.
The CPRF and the video game industry exist in virtually non-overlapping universes. "United Russia" is also not far behind (in Sevastopol, if something is remembered for seven years, it is the organization of tournaments in "tanks" and "counter"). On the other hand, if you look at what the Liberal Democratic Party was doing, probably for the best.
The head of #Iran's judiciary grants Christian prisoners 10 days' liberty to spend the holidays with families, in a rare move towards the minority community.https://t.co/XTaUfSEwAr
[ArmyTimes] Retired Navy SEAL and the first commanding officer of SEAL Team Six, Richard “Dick” Marcinko, has died, according to a post on the Navy Seal Museum’s Facebook page.
He was 81.
Marcinko led the SEAL team in what has become known as the Navy’s most successful SEAL operation during the Vietnam War: the May 1967 assault on Ilo Ilo Han. Marcinko and his men killed many Viet Cong and destroyed six of their sampans, according to the Navy SEAL Museum. Marcinko deployed a second time with SEAL Team Two during the Vietnam War. His platoon assisted Army Special Forces during the Tet Offensive.
He was one of two Navy representatives on a task force to help free American hostages during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979. After the tragedy, the Navy tasked Marcinko with designing and developing a dedicated counterterrorist team.
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas B. Hayward selected Marcinko as the first commanding officer of the unit. At the time, the Navy had two SEAL teams. According to the Navy SEAL museum, Marcinko named the unit “SEAL Team Six” to make other nations believe there were additional SEAL teams. He also hand-picked members from across existing SEAL teams and Underwater Demolition Teams. Marcinko led SEAL Team Six for three years.
“The SEALs who knew Dick Marcinko will remember him as imaginative and bold, a warrior at heart,” retired Navy SEAL Adm. Eric Olson, who commanded U.S. Special Operations Command from July, 2007 to August, 2011, told Navy Times. “He was a spirited rogue for sure, but we are better off for his unconventional service.”
After retiring from the Navy, Marcinko became CEO of SOS Temps Inc., his private security firm, according to his Amazon author profile.
Marcinko was the author of The Real Team; The Rogue Warrior’s Strategy for Success: A Commando’s Principles of Winning; and the four-month New York Times business bestseller Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando’s Guide to Success, according to Amazon.
He also created Richard Marcinko Inc., a motivational training and team-building company; and Red Cell International, Inc., which conducts vulnerability assessments of high-value properties and high-risk targets, according to Amazon.
“Rogue Warrior, his #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography, set the stage for his bestselling Rogue Warrior novels, eight of which were coauthored with John Weisman,” according to Amazon.
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I had occasion to have a chat over beers with another Admiral (ret.) at the time. His take was Marcinko leaned a little to far forward over the line. He proposed the subsequent arrest and conviction was intended as a message to Vice Admiral James "Ace" Lyons about 'acceptable' covert behaviors. Marcinko was just a surrogate.
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Nobody does maritime operations better than US Navy SEALS. They are quite possibly unsurpassed globally. Historically, their problems seem to begin after they come ashore.
I've read Marcinko's stuff. A bit long on self-promotion in my opinion. Made my stories about being 'back in the rear with the gear' quite mundane. Perhaps I have a personal problem.
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#1 I read his book. Good read but he seemed a little nuts.
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The way I understood it, he was one of those men you pray for in wartime...and pray doesn't get assigned to you in peacetime.
Mike
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“We sleep soundly in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would harm us" - G. Orwell
RIP, sir.
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I knew and liked him, the rogue fit him well, but as a fellow seal he could have got it done in a more secretive manner without pissing off those that could hurt him and the community.
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"He was a man, all in all. We shall not see his like again."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[MAIL] Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was slammed on Twitter after she and her wife, Amy Eshleman, posted a video wishing a 'joyous Kwanzaa' to all who celebrate.
...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 
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...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...
[EEnews] After years of planning by city officials, New Yorkers got a close-up glimpse of the trade-offs inherent in the fight against climate change when crews this month began cutting down the first of a thousand trees targeted for removal in John V. Lindsay East River Park.
[CWBChicago] An Avondale man who illegally carried a firearm to a family Christmas party wound up shooting two attendees, including an 11-year-old, when he fumbled the gun and it discharged — twice — prosecutors said. The family took his gun away and told him to leave the party.
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Wazoo
...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 
Hezbollah
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
[JPost] 
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...a member of the progressive 
