SEOUL, Dec 27 (Reuters) - South Korea authorised for emergency use Pfizer's (PFE.N) antiviral pills targeting COVID-19 as the first of its kind to be introduced in South Korea, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said on Monday.
[BBC] "So now finally, we're on the map," says Philip Balhoa about Lüderitz, a town in southern Namibia, where harsh desert meets pale ocean.
The port town has previously benefited from diamonds and fishing booms, but now struggles with high rates of unemployment and aging infrastructure.
A proposed green hydrogen project is set to be "the third revolution of Lüderitz," says Mr Balhoa, a member of the town council.
He hopes that the project will train and employ local people, or "Buchters" as they affectionately call themselves - bringing down the town's 55% unemployment rate.
"For a town that's really been struggling economically over the past 10 or 15, maybe longer, years, this is something that people are really very excited about," he says.
The project will be based near the town in the Tsau //Khaeb National Park, and ultimately produce around 300,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year.
In simple terms, the renewable energy from the sun and wind will be used to separate hydrogen molecules from desalinated water.
Those hydrogen molecules in their pure form or in derivative green ammonia can make up a variety of products, including sustainable fuels.
The preferred bidder, Hyphen Hydrogen Energy, is set to start production in 2026 and will have the rights to the project for 40 years, once the necessary feasibility processes are concluded.
The firm says the four years of construction are likely to create 15,000 direct jobs and 3,000 more during full operations - and that 90% of them will be filled by locals.
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I suspect this is still primarily Greenscam but this is the kind of thing we will depend on in the future - use excess solar power in one place (or nuclear at one time) to manufacture chemicals or liquid transportation fuels.
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Dateline 2030: A Namibian 'green' hydrogen plant was utterly destroyed in a gigantic explosion. Officials say the blast occurred when a 3rd shift maintenance worker opened a valve and sparked a flame to heat his lunch.
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Liquid state 600 lb thermos bottles currently in use. Same for liquid oxygen. Fear greatest problem as bad as with Covid nannies. This is the future electric big failure. Boiling point of Hydrogen is -252.9°C.Boiling point of Oxygen is -183°C. Boiling point for nitrogen -195.79°C.
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LNG at -163C already uses 10% of the natural gas energy content to liquefy it. As you get closer to absolute zero, the cooling process becomes less energy efficient. Liquid hydrogen currently requires about 1/3 of its energy content to liquefy it. Add in the turbo cooling plant, storage and transport and it becomes a money loser.
[BBC] Kelly LeBonty, the rescue group's director, told the Detroit Free Press that the son said his father had initially planned to breed only a handful of birds, but had ended up spending $1,200 (£890) a month on them.
[BBC] Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it "challenged" a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.
The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a "challenge to do".
"Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs," the smart speaker said.
Amazon said it fixed the error as soon as the company became aware of it.
The girl's mother, Kristin Livdahl, described the incident on Twitter.
She said: "We were doing some physical challenges, like laying down and rolling over holding a shoe on your foot, from a [physical education] teacher on YouTube earlier. Bad weather outside. She just wanted another one."
That's when the Echo speaker suggested partaking in the challenge that it had "found on the web".
The dangerous activity, known as "the penny challenge", began circulating on TikTok and other social media websites about a year ago.
Metals conduct electricity and inserting them into live electrical sockets can cause electric shocks, fires and other damage.
[MAIL] A political science professor who serves on a panel that advises the CIA on when countries might slide into civil war amid factors like undemocratic tendencies has identified the U.S. as farther down that potential path than many could imagine.
'We are closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe,' said Dr. Barbara Walter, who serves on the Political Instability Task Force, which guides intelligence analysts on countries overseas that might be on the brink of conflict.
The University of California San Diego academic, who has studied hotspots like Syria and helps run a blog on political violence, said the U.S. meets several of the telltale signs that are part of a road to insurgency.
'No one wants to believe that their beloved democracy is in decline, or headed toward war,' she writes in her forthcoming book, How Civil Wars Start.
'If you were an analyst in a foreign country looking at events in America — the same way you’d look at events in Ukraine or the Ivory Coast or Venezuela — you would go down a checklist, assessing each of the conditions that make civil war likely. And what you would find is that the United States, a democracy founded more than two centuries ago, has entered very dangerous territory,' she writes, according to the Washington Post.
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The fights over Supreme Court nominees should have been a signal that 9 people sitting for life, unaccountable to the people making decisions that have significant impact upon the nation and society, that this is not a form of democracy or republic.
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And Dr. Walters and her panel along with our friends at the CIA are concerned about a US 'civil war' for what reason ?
Have they been tasked with writing white papers and summaries that support particular desired outcomes ?
Are foreign intrigues and threats to the United States no longer of interest? Has their focus somehow been expanded, or have their interests always been rooted in political domestic control ?
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You see another brick in the structure being created out of whole cloth to cover the attempt to seize overtly the power of the Central Committee at the Kalorama Kompound. All the destabilizing efforts to transform our institutions and public confidence creating the backlash anger in the remaining parts of the population aware of what America looked like a mere decade ago. This pretext of lies about insurrection and criminal justice reform/racism sets the stage, along with the deepening infestations in our government and military, for direct actions in the coming elections of 22 and 24. They aren’t advancing so rapidly now as the ruse is widely being seen, ut they are deeply entrenched behind most of the key mechanisms of power. They do seem to be fracturing a bit.
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I haven't read her book, but I'm not sure her argument -- if this capsule summary is true -- is off the mark:
"[Walter] said the two best predictors of whether violence is likely to happen is whether a nation is an anocracy and “whether ethnic entrepreneurs have emerged in a country that are using racial, religious or ethnic divisions to try to gain political power.”
Well, it's without question true that the BLM grifters, "Ibram X." Kendi, the NYT "1619" fabulist and their merry crew of race-hustlers are "ethnic entrepreneurs": they have made and are busy adding to small fortunes out of ginning up hatred of an ethnic group.
In fact, the civil-war expert has done us all a great service by introducing this new term, ethnic entrepreneurs. That summarizes nicely much of the BLM and "BIPOC" Woke movement's m.o. and energy. If the definition of "ethnic" could be stretched a bit to include the Tranny Mafia, it would cover >90% of the Wokesters.
Thank you, professor!
You've just provided the rationale for a severe crackdown on BLM, Antifa, Kendi, the "1619" hustle and the rest of these civil war fomenters.
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As to "anocracy," the hybrid of democracy and authoritarianism, well, once again, UCSD Prof. Walter is on the mark.
Biden and his party, along with the DOJ, FBI and their compliant puppets in major media outlets, have without question done extraordinary damage to our democratic institutions.
In October 2020 they suppressed the biggest news story of the decade -- the factual, incontrovertible, directly sourced with forensic evidence story of how Joe Biden was lying when he claimed he had no knowledge of or involvement in his son's business dealings with CEFC, a known front organization by which the Chinese government bribes and gains influence over foreign politicians.
This cabal suppressed a factual story that easily would have swung the election to Trump.
And for the preceding four years, to spread a preposterous lie about that same opponent, these powerful elites perverted or undermined virtually every national political institution our democratic republic is based upon.
They trashed the Constitution, faked evidence, planted false stories with their media friends and then pretended that those fake tales themselves warranted wiretapping in their false submissions to the FISA Court, broke laws left right and center, lied to the public, forged documents to claim the exact OPPOSITE of verbatim CIA testimony, suborned perjury from witnesses, and then coaxed over $1 billion in "dark" and non-dark spending by all of five deci-billionaires to ensure the desired 2020 election outcome.
Thank you again, Professor Walter!
You've just given us the intellectual basis on which to conclude that our national elite are authoritarians who lack legitimacy.
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I explained this once years ago. Briefly, up until WWII all Americans were no more than 3 gen's from "Mother Culture" and shared varied commonality in culture, religion and livlihood across the US. The beginning of the cold war, and various other factors, coincided with an erosion of this "Mother Culture" connection. We identified by what we were not; communists, authoritarian, godless, opressors, etc. When the cold war ended we had to look in the mirror, 2.5 generations later, we were becoming a different America, with erosion in the glue a culture needs to be monolitihic, United We Stand, Divided we fall. Supreme Court nominees, infection of military. What is lacking is the understanding we now live an a country with a fractured and widening cultural divide. We essentially have different "kinds" of Americans and they all believe they are entitled to their version of the heritage that is America. Whether they hate it or love it. In our current environment, right now, there is no mechanism powerful enough to walk this back and nor is there a desire from 30%+ of the country, to do so. Sorry tried to be brief, but its a complex issue over 80 years.
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...The identity of The Man Who Never Was has been known for about 25 years now, and the article points that out. Truly hoping this isn't an effort to jump on the bandwagon of the upcoming movie (which, by the by, I cannot wait to see).
Mike
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I remember a movie withClifton Webb as I recall, is it a remake?
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#2 I remember a movie withClifton Webb as I recall, is it a remake?
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Not exactly - the Clifton Webb version, The Man Who Never Was, still holds up as a great flick but was made in 1956 when a lot of the details were still classified. This will cover the same story, but hopefully with more detail.
Mike
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[Howie Carr] Dementia Joe Biden could have gotten America’s attention a little more forcefully Tuesday if only he’d just led with the latest ominous omicron death toll:
"My fellow Americans, today I regret to inform you that as of this morning, about a month after it was first discovered, omicron has now killed as many Americans as ... Alec Baldwin’s gun. Or Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile."
He could have paused for effect to let that grim milestone sink in for all 330 million Americans. Then he could have begun again:
"By Christmas, only four days away, I am informed by the all-knowing Dr. Fauci that the U.S. death toll will likely equal that at O.J. Simpson’s home in Brentwood on that grim evening back in 1994."
When the news of the death in Houston broke Tuesday, it got the most play of any passing in Texas since Nov. 22, 1963. It was a two-fer — the guy had had the virus before, so the TV "experts" all got to shout in unison how antibodies didn’t save him and you better get a booster or two or three. The company line, in other words.
It was another bleak day — for Dementia Joe’s poll ratings. The panic porn-industrial complex is just not clicking on all cylinders anymore. They can’t keep their stories straight, and I’m not just talking about the trademark Biden incoherence.
there are several testing methods that can ID the Omicron, e.g. the antigen and the nucleic acid
however, I don't know much about how each city's supply of test kits stands; it is likely that the variant will spread much, much faster than it can be tested
by early Feb 2022 or so it should be almost ubiquitous in the USA
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[American Greatness] COVID-19 has ebbed and flowed. Originally, we were warned it could be a Black Death-style disaster; it turned out to be more like a very serious influenza season, with perhaps two or three times the mortality of a normal flu, mostly concentrated among the elderly—a nontrivial social cost, but still a manageable situation.
At various times, it also appeared that we were out of the woods. The grim experience of New York in early 2020 was not repeated in most of the rest of the country. Rather, the initial wave came and went far less dramatically, with the vast majority of people either not getting infected or not becoming seriously ill.
But COVID has a way of making a mockery of predictions. Because, after a brief reprieve, it resumed: first in the summer of 2020 in the South, and then, later, nationwide.
At the end of 2020, vaccines came online. These novel vaccines appeared to be working, as cases soon declined. Of course, the decline in cases could have also just been a coincidental event based on the natural rise and fall of cases in every pandemic. By early summer 2021, though, things had gone so well—whether because of vaccines, natural immunity, or a combination of both—that Joe Biden more or less declared victory over the coronavirus.
Then, in spite of widespread vaccine uptake, the Delta surge arrived. We were told vaccines prevented death and disease at high rates, but the totals of mortality with Delta exceeded those of earlier waves. Statistical tricks made this appear to be a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" but that was only because estimates included cases from earlier in 2021, when fewer people were vaccinated, and many were catching the earlier (and deadlier) Beta variant.
None of the data really squared with the claims of vaccine efficacy. One would expect at least some significant downturn in cases, and certainly in death and hospitalization, if the vaccine were truly 95 percent effective and something like 75 percent of adults had the vaccine. It turned out the vaccines lost efficacy quickly and barely put a dent in the spread of Delta. The vaccine promoters (and mandaters) overpromised and under delivered, and continue to do so.
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Actually, the first vaccine created was from a non-fatal variant of smallpox. The variant (called cowpox) was given to people and few adverse effects but did immunize them from smallpox.
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The ultra-vax should be asked if that cruise ship with 100% reporting vax status of passengers and crew should be used as a control group for a couple weeks; nobody on or off except medical emergency.
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Nice theory, but our immune systems have been compromised by the vaccines. Not only has that opened us up to more COVID, but to other diseases as well.
but that is a two edge sword; there are anti virus compounds in the atmosphere, sunlight, etc. so with every foot it travels the virus becomes effectively weaker
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[USA Today] WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris said the United States may lose its standing as a role model for the world — and democracy itself would be put at risk — if voting rights legislation is not passed.
Harris, who has taken the lead on voting rights, said during a wide-ranging interview broadcast Sunday on CBS News’ "Face the Nation" that people around the world are watching the United States "because we have held ourselves out to be a model of ... the ability of a democracy to coexist with an economic strength and power."
But Harris warned that if lawmakers don’t pass legislation to preserve voting rights, the United States’ standing could be in jeopardy.
"We have been a role model saying, 'You can see this and aspire to this and reject autocracies and autocratic leadership,'" Harris said. "Right now, we're about to take ourselves off the map as a role model if we let people destroy one of the most important pillars of a democracy, which is free and fair elections."
Harris recognized the issue isn't a top concern for many Americans but said it should be.
Pack the Court. End the filibuster. Install "D.I.E." kommissars imposing political loyalty tests. Suppress reporting on the Democrats' massive corruption including the Biden Crime Family's sale of access to a front company for the CCP.
Isn't it funny how shameless and shameful mean the same thing?
[Pirate's Cove] We all know that the Chinese coronavirus doesn’t attack people who are eating with masks off, right? Who knew that essential workers only have Bat Soup Virus for half the time as non-essential works? Why don’t we just declare all workers essential? That would fix this, right?
New York cuts essential worker quarantine times in half
New York’s essential workers now can return to work just five days after receiving a positive COVID-19 test, so long as they’re vaccinated and asymptomatic.
Why it matters: The revised rules cuts quarantine time in half from 10 days and come as New York has struggled to maintain staffing levels within a variety of industries, including health care, food services, and transportation.
Between the lines: Governor Kathy Hochul said in a Friday briefing that the move was based on early indications that infections from Omicron are less severe than from the original COVID-19 strain or the Delta variant.
So, if you’re a health care worker, work at the airport, grocery store, or a bar, or pick up the garbage (among all the stuff in the "revised rules"), you only need to quarantine 5 days, not 10. But, if, say, you are a doorman or sell guitars, 10 days. But, it’s hard to know, because the list is so darned expansive
State officials said that the new rules came after the CDC released new guidance reducing the quarantine time for health care workers from 10 to seven days.
See? Even the CDC thinks COVID only effects some people differently than others. We can all declare ourselves healthcare workers! Science!
#1 It's all just being made up as they go along now. Which do you think the use, @uija board, wheel of misfortune or chuck-a-luck cage?
Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-12-28 07:17
Dartboard.
Mike
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New York essential workers
Police, Fire, Ambulance, Garbage, Union, half quit.
Half of those remaining work from home?
So 1/4 of the workforce are given a 1 week vacation?
[The Hill] White House medical advisor Anthony Fauci said on Sunday ahead of holiday travel, mask wearing on flights may be here indefinitely.
Fauci told Jonathan Karl on ABC’s "This Week" that despite filtration systems on board airplanes, it would be "prudent" for passengers to take the "extra step" within the enclosed space and wear a mask.
"I think when you're dealing with a closed space, even though the filtration is good, that you want to go that extra step when you have people -- you know, you get a flight from Washington to San Francisco, it's well over a five-hour flight," Fauci said, when asked he believed there would be a post pandemic point when passengers will not have to wear masks on flights.
"Even though you have a good filtration system, I still believe that masks are a prudent thing to do, and we should be doing it," he added.
[AP] The U.S. flu season has arrived on schedule after taking a year off, with flu hospitalizations rising and two child deaths reported.
Last year’s flu season was the lowest on record, likely because COVID-19 measures — school closures, distancing, masks and canceled travel — prevented the spread of influenza, or because the coronavirus somehow pushed aside other viruses.
"This is setting itself up to be more of a normal flu season," said Lynnette Brammer, who tracks flu-like illnesses for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The childhood deaths, Brammer said, are "unfortunately what we would expect when flu activity picks up. It’s a sad reminder of how severe flu can be."
During last year’s unusually light flu season, one child died. In contrast, 199 children died from flu two years ago, and 144 the year before that.
In the newest data, the most intense flu activity was in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., and the number of states with high flu activity rose from three to seven. In CDC figures released Monday, states with high flu activity are New Mexico, Kansas, Indiana, New Jersey, Tennessee, Georgia and North Dakota.
[Red State] Here’s a fun one for you. According to the latest U.S. Census, the Native American population in the United States grew by 86.5 percent between 2010 and 2020.
Yep, you read that right. Eighty-six percent!
But how could this be possible? In a piece for The Conversation, Circe Sturm, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts wrote that this is a rate of growth that "demographers say is impossible to achieve without immigration."
Well, it’s not likely that more Native Americans are entering the U.S. right? So, there has to be another explanation.
But, according to Sturm, this increase is occurring because "individuals who previously identified as white are now claiming to be Native American."
She also explains that "[t]his growing movement has been captured by terms like ’pretendian’ and ’wannabe.’"
The author refers to this phenomenon by what she calls "racial shifting."
Insert Elizabeth Warren and Rachel Dolezal jokes here.
But what is interesting is that the author points out that those choosing to identify as Native American are trying to move further from "whiteness." The author says that in her 14 years of researching this issue and interviewing "dozens of race-shifters" for her book, "Becoming Indian," she "learned that while some of these people have strong evidence of Native American ancestry, others do not."
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Whenever I have to fill out a form for any bureaucracy that asks what my ethnicity is, I always check the Native American box. It's not a lie. I was born here. That makes me a native.
Some of these bureaucracies are getting wise though. They've changed it from Native American to American Indian. But, hey, if men can identify as women I can identify as any ethnicity I want.
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[Townhall] There's an accident in the Oval Office. Not the kind of accident left on the rug in front of the Resolute Desk on a regular basis by the untrained, rowdy dogs the Biden's sicced on the unwitting White House staff and Secret Service. I'm talking about the man who sits behind the resolute desk for his daily naps.
Joe Biden is the accidental president. He is the result of an accident of American politics.
His presidency will not be remembered with an asterisk, as my friend and fellow Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter would say. No, it will be remembered... reviled... as the accident that it was, is and ever shall be.
He became the Democrats' nominee in 2020 by accident. He shouldn't have even run in the first place. Everyone knows that's true.
If he was such a great man and gifted leader and our nation couldn't do without him, why didn't he just run for Obama's third term in 2016 as the sitting vice president? This would've been the natural move for such a powerful, important, and wise leader to make.
But he didn't run in 2016. And did you notice that nobody seemed to notice? Nobody seemed to care. Even Obama sat by and let him languish as the Democrats openly joked about him and Hillary Clinton's henchmen bullied him into officially declaring himself a non-candidate.
There's nothing this decrepit perv has touched that he hasn't debased. Who benefits? The DeepState?
Not so sure of that -- do they really gain, long-term, from the anarchy and degradation of popular support?
Look at DoD. Popular support for the military has collapsed in the last 7 months. Sure, they have their loot, but for how much longer if they're now held in the same esteem as Pelosi and Congresscritters?
Or do they just believe the end of the American Experiment is nigh, and are just feeding off the federal corpse before the debt's called and the money's gone?
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Or do they just believe the end of the American Experiment is nigh, and are just feeding off the federal corpse before the debt's called and the money's gone?
Seems about right to me.
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The Big Guy
PervOTUS
Plugs
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Neil Kinnock's Amanuensis
Ashley's Shower-Cabin Buddy
“I love those barrettes in your hair, man,” Biden said [to the elementary schoolgirl in front of her parents at Langley- “I tell you what, look at her, she looks like she’s 19 years old, sitting there like a little lady with her legs crossed.”
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Biden's also a serial defamer. He hops on the false outrage train and slanders innocent people in high profile cases -- casually, knowingly, repeatedly.
This serial slanderer defamed Kyle Rittenhouse, calling him a "white supremacist."
He slandered the Border Patrol agents, repeating the bogus take about "whipping" illegals and promising to punish the agents for this made-up, non-crime.
[Organic Prepper] How is it possible to survive a nation with inflation rates of 20%/month and 1700%/year? The answer? The underground economy. This is the level of hyperinflation we have found ourselves with here in Venezuela, and considering the spread of inflation worldwide, it would be well worth the prepper’s time to glean what we can learn here.
Virtually everything you read dictates inflation on this scale necessitates civil war.
Yet Venezuela hasn’t seen this. Why not? Why are the streets not being taken by armed civilians?
While the main reason revolves around 20 years of disarmament and anti-self-defense teachings, I would argue that there is a second reason we haven’t delved into full on anarchy as well: our underground economy.
[Breitbart] A Finnish Tesla owner received a repair bill totaling almost half of what he initially paid for the car. His response? Have YouTubers blow up the car with 66 pounds of dynamite and post the video rather than pay the hefty bill.
The Verge reports that a Finnish Tesla owner named Tuomas Katainen recently received a quote on having the battery in his 2013 Tesla Model S vehicle replaced. He was shocked by the bill of $22,600, perhaps not knowing Tesla’s notorious reputation for massive repair costs. Katainen discussed his experience with the car stating: "Well when I bought that Tesla, the first 1,500km [932 miles] were nice. Then, error codes hit."
The Verge reports that a Finnish Tesla owner named Tuomas Katainen recently received a quote on having the battery in his 2013 Tesla Model S vehicle replaced.
At sometime those magical electrical cars have got to have their batteries replaced, not to mention disposed of (as in NIMBY).
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Ideally, a market for replacement batteries would lead to third-party vendors and some price competition. In practice, the market is tiny and Tesla would probably fight it tooth and nail, just as Crapple does with replacement parts for their slavery-made phones.
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...Jets we can't maintain, ships that we can't repair, and money for the Ukraine.
Got it.
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The Taliban are now our friends. We absolutely must have a new (or refurbished) old enemy. The cost savings of peace must be avoided. The MIC and our Congressional shareholders demand it !
[OneIndia] While it has been ascertained that a rogue cop had planted the bomb in the Ludhiana Court, further probe has revealed that the attack was part of a much larger plan.
The Intelligence agencies have learnt that a Germany based Khalistan terrorist and another from the Babbar Khalsa in Pakistain had planned this attack after being tasked by the ISI.
The Babbar Khalsa terrorist who is currently in Pakistain has been identified as Harvinder Singh Sandhu, while the Khalistan supporter based in Germany is Jaswinder SIngh Multan ...Home of the Multan Sultans... i.
Both had coordinated with each other and planned the attack. The attack was first of the many other acts of terror they had planned to destabilise Punjab, an Intelligence Bureau official told OneIndia.
Sandhu according to the IB official is also wanted in scores of cases that include cross border smuggling. Sandhu is wanted in 30 different cases that include murder, smuggling of arms and ammunition, drug peddling etc.
Siddharth Chattopadhyay, the state police chief said that the accused Gagandeep probably met with some people including Khalistani elements and drug smugglers while he was in jail. He had very good technical skills and the initial inquiry reveals that he had gone inside the washroom to assemble the bomb. We also have strong leads that the narco-hard boyz and pro-Khalistani elements are behind this attack, he also said.
The suspect was identified as a Gagandeep Singh alias Gaggi. He was dismissed from service in 2019 for his alleged involvement in drug peddling. He was posted as the head constable at a cop shoppe in Khanna at the time of him being dismissed. The drug peddling case was investigated by the Ludhiana unit of the Special Task Force.
The former cop had spent 25 months in jail before getting bail on September 8. The hearing in the case was scheduled to be held on Friday, but the matter was adjourned to February 2022.
The Sherlocks would now look into whether Gaggi was tasked by the ISI's Khalistan network in Germany to carry out this attack. Moreover Gaggi could have been roped in easily as he had a personal interest as his hearing in the drug case was coming on Friday. He also had a personal interest in carrying out the blast as he may have been looking to destroy documents relating to his case.
A report in the Hindustan Times says that the ISI had tasked Jaswinder Multani , a Germany based pro-Khalistan terrorist to carry out this blast. Multani has a strong network within India has been in the business of supplying arms and ammunition through his contacts in the ISI.
Punjab has been witnessing some violent mostly peaceful incidents in the recent past. They include lynching, assassinations of Hindus and kabooms. These incidents are being reported at a time when the Intelligence has over the many years warned about the Khalistan hard boyz wanting to make a return to the state, which had once handled the problem exceptionally well and driven them out.
Meanwhile the National Security Guards have found that the explosives were very powerful. The agency also learnt that the bomb went kaboom! accidentally when it was being assembled. Investigations found aluminium and plastic shrapnels in the body of the dear departed and the nature of the explosives clearly indicated that had the earth-shattering kaboom taken place as planned, it would have had a devastating effect.
[IsraelTimes] Videos posted to social media show huge explosions and fires raging across the port; strike would be second alleged Israeli attack on facility this month.
Syrian state media said Israeli warplanes fired missiles on the port of the coastal city of Latakia early Tuesday causing large explosions and fires, the second alleged strike in a month on the key facility.
SANA, Syria’s state media, quoted an unnamed military official as saying that several missiles struck the container area in the port, setting some of them on fire. He said the strikes caused "massive material damage."
The strikes came from the direction of the Mediterranean, he said. So it could've been anybody, right?
The official said efforts were still underway to put out fires and assess the damage. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the attack, which activated Syrian air defenses, according to SANA.
Videos posted to social media showed huge explosions and fires raging across the port.
Syria’s state-run al-Ikhbariyah TV ran footage showing flames and smoke rising from the terminal. It reported damage to residential buildings, a hospital, shops and some tourist sites near the port.
An al-Ikhbariyah TV news hound in the area said Tuesday’s attack appeared to have been larger than the strike earlier this month and the earth-shattering kabooms could be heard in Tartus, another coastal city more than 80 kilometers (nearly 50 miles) away. The news hound said ambulances were rushed to the scene but it remained unclear if there were any casualties.
Until earlier this month, strikes on the port of Latakia were highly irregular. The port is a vital facility where much of Syria’s imports are brought into the war-torn country and through which Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... reportedly brings in weapons to its militias in the country, including the Lebanese terrorist army Hezbollah.
Though Israel has regularly conducted raids against Iranian-linked targets in Syria, it rarely strikes close to Latakia, let alone inside the terminal, as the Russian military maintains a base of operations nearby. Due to its delicate relationship with Moscow, Israel typically refrains from carrying out attacks against targets if there are Russian troops nearby, though Israel believes that this well-known policy has led Iran to seek to protect its arms transfers by conducting them near Russian-controlled areas.
Moment of the Israeli strikes on Latakia port by Sham FM. Looks like weapon/ammunition shipment was targeted. pic.twitter.com/PZD844to6H
[Rudaw] Three people have been charged with murder in Greece following the death of 16 migrants colonists who were killed when a boat transporting them from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... to Italia capsized, authorities said Monday.
The suspects were among 63 people rescued following the tragedy Friday when the vessel carrying migrants colonists from Turkey to Italia overturned near the Greek island of Paros. They were charged with causing an accident at sea, intentional manslaughter and membership in a criminal organization, the coasties said.
At least 30 migrants colonists died at sea in three separate incidents in Greece last week and more than 160 were rescued, including the capsizing near Paros. Smugglers are now seeking to avoid Greek islands near the Ottoman Turkish coast which are heavily patrolled by the coasties and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... border protection agency Frontex.
Over the weekend, Merchant Marine Minister Yiannis Plakiotakis described the smugglers as "ruthless killers" who are cramming people onto unseaworthy boats and failing to hand out life vests, even to underage passengers.
Two of the suspects arrested Monday were 31 years old and the third was 40.
[Rudaw] More than 350 people have died in over 200 Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) attacks in disputed territories in the first 11 months of 2021, an official from the Peshmerga ministry told Rudaw on Monday, following an increase in the bully boy group’s activities.
In the first 11 months of the year "ISIS turbans conducted 229 attacks in disputed territories, as result of which 356 people were martyred, 480 were maimed and 33 were kidnapped," the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Peshmerga Jabar Yawar told Rudaw.
The terror group has killed 22 Peshmerga fighters since November 27.
Iraqi and Kurdish officials held security meetings and launched joint military operations against the bully boy group.
The Iraqi counter-terror forces have conducted over 300 operations against ISIS, according to data provided to Rudaw English by Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Services (ICTS) Sabah al-Numan.
The Iraqi army and the Peshmerga started talks in July to form two joint brigades to counter ISIS remnants but efforts to form these brigades have so far stalled.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... Numan told Rudaw English the joint-brigades will be established within the first two months of the new year.
Multiple ISIS suspects have recently been arrested across Iraq.
Iraqi forces on Thursday arrested five ISIS members including a health worker that has admitted to treating ill and maimed members of the bully boy group.
Kurdish security forces detained a group affiliated with ISIS in Erbil on December 18. Two ISIS arms smugglers were also captured in Erbil earlier in the month.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 12 attacks in Iraq from December 16 to December 22, killing and injuring 26 people.
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[IsraelTimes] Ahead of the resumption, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the agenda should be "the issue of guarantees and verification" on the lifting of US sanctions.
"The most important thing for us is to reach a point where we can verify that Iranian oil will be sold easily and without any limits, that the money for this oil will be transferred in foreign currency to Iranian bank accounts, and that we will be able to benefit from all the revenues," he said, quoted by state news agency IRNA.
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Sure, then covertly sink the tankers.
Piss off the Sellers
Piss off the Buyers
Piss off the Bankers
Piss off the Shippers
Piss off the Insurers
Piss off the Money Washers
Piss off the Ecos
Just a few and the message will get across.
An all around WIN!
[Rudaw] Several members of a paramilitary group were killed in a recent suspected Ottoman Turkish attack that targeted the Kurdish town of Kobane in northern Syria, a military official said early Monday.
Five members of the Revolutionary Youths were killed in a "Ottoman Turkish raid that targeted the gathering of nine people of the youths organization [Revolutionary Youths] in a house3 in Kobane," commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Mazloum Abdi tweeted.
A Ottoman Turkish drone targeted Kobane on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the conflict monitor raised the corpse count to six on Monday and three other injuries.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... has not confirmed the offensive yet.
The Revolutionary Youth is believed to be affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and operates in the Kurdish area in Syria as a pressure group, intimidating those who are critical of the Kurdish administration.
The PKK is named a terrorist group in Turkey.
Ankara often targets north and northeastern Syria (Rojava), killing and injuring civilians and security forces.
It has conducted three military operations in northern Syria since 2016, two of them against Kurdish fighters whom it considers a branch of the PKK and a threat to its national security.
Suspected Ottoman Turkish shelling killed four people in Zarkan district on Wednesday.
Turkey has been threatening a new offensive against Kurdish forces in Rojava in the recent months. But, Abdi earlier this month said Turkey is unable to undertake another "military adventure" against Rojava due to internal issues and international pressure.
A member of the victim’s family said contact was established with the abductors two days after the incident.
Kidnappers, who kidnapped an operative of the Department of State Services in the Abaji Area Council of Abuja, have demanded the sum of N20million as a ransom to release him.
The button men had last week invaded the community in their numbers and attacked the DSS outpost in the area.
During the exchange of gunshots with the DSS operatives, the button men successfully kidnapped an operative but the front man of the service denied the report.
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[SANA.SY] A number of button men from the US occupation-backed QSD militia were maimed in an attack with an bomb launched by the Popular Factions who targeted their car on al-Kharafi Road, north of Deir Ezzor.QSD militia immediately brought additional forces with ambulances and cordoned off the scene of the earth-shattering kaboom, and a number of maimedbutton men were transferred, local sources told SANA.
The attacks on positions of the QSD snuffies in al-Jazeera region have been escalated recently, and resulted in the death and injury of many of them and the destruction of their positions and vehicles.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] President Joe Biden admitted that his administration has not done enough to ease the COVID testing demand, vowing to do better
In a meeting with 25 of the nation's governors, Biden acknowledged the long lines around the country
'That's not enough. Clearly not enough,' Biden said, adding: 'We have to do more. We have to do better. And we will'
Meeting comes before he departed for Rehoboth Beach, where he will spend a few days at his family beach home in Delaware
Biden administration faces criticism for a shortage of COVID tests
Dr. Anthony Fauci said more tests will be available in January
'We've obviously got to do better,' Fauci said Sunday on ABC's This Week. 'I think things will improve greatly as we get into January'
COVID cases hitting record highs in parts of country due to Omicron
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Not surprising - Biden's crowd could fuck up a cup of coffee.
Next: Capitulation, to be followed by Change The Subject. Look -- over there! Voting rights!
Ukraine!
Putcherfuckingmaskon!!!
LOOKOUT--it's Emmanuel Goldstein!
When I announced our family was leaving New York and moving to Florida, a state with a governor who has led the way on sanely managing COVID-19, I received dozens of messages from New Yorkers considering the same move. When I asked several if I could quote them, they asked to use a fake name. They live in fear of being “canceled” for not being sufficiently terrified of COVID. Three vaccines and many new treatments do not seem to matter. We must live suspended in our fear indefinitely.
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"....saying the solution was solidly on 'state level.' "
Of course when Trump said something similar to that, he was excoriated.
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"States' Rights." Lefties are horrorized.
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"Trump doesn't have a plan. I do." After blaming Trump for almost 2 years for not doing enough and almost a year of his lies and failures he claims it's not his job.
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Police on Monday claimed to have arrested two krazed killer associates affiliated with the Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... outfit and recovered arms and ammunition from their possession in south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Pulwama district.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] The Brooklyn Museum has added a new feature to its 1776 oil-on-canvas painting of Continental Army Gen. George Washington — a description card that notes his ownership of slaves despite defending the self-evident truth that all men are created equal.
The portrait shows Washington standing in military dress uniform with Boston in the far background. It was painted by Charles Willson Peale and commissioned by Continental Congress President John Hancock just before he famously signed the Declaration of Independence.
The new description card focuses on the "tension between the existence of slavery and the Declaration’s affirmation of freedom and equality" that it is "absent from Peale’s celebrated portrait."
"Washington enslaved more than 300 people prior to and during his tenure as the nation’s first president," the card reads in part.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the museum’s website description of the portrait does not include any mention of slavery. Instead, it points out that Boston stands in the background because Washington had liberated it from the British in March 1776.
"In a diary entry dated July 2, 1776, Peale recorded work on the portrait along with these terse but resonant words: ’This day the Continental Congress declared the United States Colonies Free and Independent States,’" the online description reads in part.
The description card included with the in-person exhibit makes no mention of Boston or this context for the painting.
The Brooklyn Museum did not respond Monday to a request for comment on when the portrait’s description changed and why the online version is different from the on-site text.
Displayed in the American Art galleries on the fifth floor, the portrait is part of a collection of art from 1660-1830 that shows America’s transition from European colonies to independent states.
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Slavery was a common form of labor before the industrial revolution around the world. White folk in the New England colonies had to free themselves from the bondage of steep taxation from the Crown before they could build the economy to free all men which occured 4 score and 7 years later.
After George Washington died his wife lived on their plantation in fear because if both husband and wife masters are dead the slaves were freed men.
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[REGNUM] About 4,600 Kosovars renounced their citizenship in 2021 for this separatist entity. This was reported on December 27 by Radio Kosovo 1.
The Kosovo Interior Ministry says the main reason for renouncing Kosovo citizenship is that many foreign states, mainly EU countries, do not allow their citizens to hold dual citizenship. Thus, those have to give up their Kosovar passports.
"Many EU countries do not allow dual citizenship, as do some non-EU countries. Since a large number of our citizens have been living in these countries for years, and many were born there, they are obliged to renounce their previous citizenship if they want to obtain the citizenship of the country in which they live," an employee of the press service of the Kosovo Behar Hazirai .
Recall that in 2020, about 3,600 people renounced Kosovo citizenship.
Probably a baby's. I read somewhere that Moslems use them when making pita bread.
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"Slumps, Dies In Nigerian Police Custody" is merely a long and complicated way of saying "Dies In Police Custody." Maybe the Nigerian Police aren't big fans of people who are found with human skulls?
[SANA.SY] Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... issued on Monday the new financial law for administrative units.
The law unifies all financial laws related to the revenues of administrative units in one law, and allows these units to provide their budgets with new revenues to help them improve their financial situation and enable them carry out their responsibilities and the development and service role entrusted to them in local societies.
It comes in light of the Local Administration Law issued in 2011 that expanded the capacities and authorities of the administrative units’ councils to perform their duties in the economic, social and service development.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Steven Bondy was confirmed by the Senate to the embassy in Bahrain on December 18
His main detractor in the explosive report is Miguel Correa, a retired general who is credited as playing an integral role in the US-brokered Abraham Accords
Multiple allies of Correa also claim to have heard about Bondy's alleged racism
The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and other UAE officials reportedly expressed their discontent with Bondy after a White House meeting in March 2018
Other State officials claim Bondy was prone to un-diplomatic gaffes
The State Department and Bondy denied the accusations to DailyMail.com
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Further evidence / proof this is being done entirely on purpose.
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And they think they're so smart and sneaky about it, Raj.
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My way of looking at it is, if you say that kind of thing anyplace but in an empty, un-bugged room, it will get out. If you don't say that kind of stuff, you will eventually be accused of it anyway.
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[Garowe] At least four soldiers, including a district security chief, were killed and three others maimed in a kaboom in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu late on Saturday night.
A vehicle carrying security personnel was targeted with a remote-controlled improvised bomb in Mogadishu’s Daynile district, a police officer told Anadolu Agency.
The blast took place in front of the district’s main cop shoppe and the dead include Abdisamad Ugas Fara'ade, the top security official in Daynile.
The attack was claimed by the al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... terrorist group.
It was the second kaboom in the Horn of the African country in less than 24 hours.
Earlier on Saturday afternoon, al-Shabaab claimed to have killed a security bigshot in a bombing in the port city of Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region.... in Jubaland State.
That came on the heels of an al-Shabaab attack in Jubaland’s Taabto town in which three officials, including the town’s mayor and head of its town’s taxation department, were shot full of holes.
[An Nahar] The bitter cold of Afghanistan's winter has small children huddled beneath blankets in makeshift camps. Sick babies in hospitals lie wrapped in their mothers' all-enveloping burqas. Long lines at food distribution centers have become overwhelming as Afghanistan sinks deeper into desperate times.
Since the chaotic Aug. 15 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... takeover of Kabul, an already war-devastated economy once kept alive by international donations alone is now on the verge of collapse. There isn't enough money for hospitals.
Saliha, who like many Afghans uses just one name, took her infant son to the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in the capital, Kabul. Weak and fragile, 4-month-old Najeeb was badly malnourished.
The World Health Organization is warning of millions of children suffering malnutrition, and the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... says 97% of Afghans will soon be living below the poverty line.
For millions living in camps for the displaced or sitting outside government ministries seeking help, the only source of warmth is to huddle around open wood-burning fires.
Nearly 80% of Afghanistan's previous government's budget came from the international community. That money, now cut off, financed hospitals, schools, factories and government ministries. In the Taliban's Afghanistan there is no money. Sanctions have crippled banks while the U.N., the United States and others struggle to figure out how to get hundreds of millions of dollars of humanitarian aid to Afghans while bypassing the Taliban, even as there are no immediate signs of the widespread corruption that characterized the previous administration.
For many of Afghanistan's poorest, bread is their only staple. Women line up outside bakeries in the city, young children arrive before dawn to get bread. The majority scramble to find food, and fuel. The statistics provided by the U.N. are grim: Almost 24 million people in Afghanistan, around 60% percent of the population, suffer from acute hunger. As many as 8.7 million Afghans are coping with famine.
School for girls under the Taliban is erratic, and in many provinces they are not allowed to attend school after grade 6, but in more than 10 provinces schools are open. The international community is working on ways to help the schools that are open while encouraging the Taliban to open the rest.
In some areas, such as the western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province, teachers and parents together cajole local Taliban leaders to open schools. In schools like Tajrobawai Girls High School in Herat, it is paying off.
Months ago, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees warned of a mass exodus of Afghans should Afghanistan be allowed to free fall into an economic abyss.
The exodus has already begun as thousands stream out of Afghanistan for Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in desperation. By the hundreds they pack buses that take them from Herat to nearby Nimroz province from where they make the dangerous trek into Iran. Some hope to go further, to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and eventually to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... — despite Europe's increasing determination to keep migrants colonists out.
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Children are starving but the Taliban leaders and fighters look well-nourished. I wonder how that happens.
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Difficult to adapt to a global economy when all you know about is goats and poppies.
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Sometimes trying to jumpstart a culture from the 7th century to the 22nd without developing all the intermediate steps does more barm than good, especially if you just leave suddenly and stop all the financial life support. In a way our hubris caused a lot of this suffering by thinking we could westernize this dumpster of a county. W should have ended it after bouncing the rubble hard and telling them and the Paki’s to avoid another jihadi tumor on their soil or suffer more of the same kinetic education.
[NYPOST] Police in Las Vegas made a gruesome discovery during a routine traffic stop in the gambling mecca — a severed head. "Ew! Yuck! Gruesome!"
"Really gruesome!"
"It don't get no gruesomer than that!"
Cops pulled over 57-year-old Eric Holland near the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino on Thursday, and found he was sought on an outstanding warrant for theft and embezzlement dating to 2019, KLAS-TV reported Saturday. "Theft and embezzlement, huh? Lemme see that license and registration again!"
Holland had to be tased during the bust. "Lend me yer taser, Fritz! Mine's on the... you know."
When police searched the bed of his truck, they found several large coolers and discovered there were human remains stashed inside — including the severed head, the outlet said. "Hey! Is this your head?"
"Nope. This one's mine... And stop tasing me!"
Holland now faces murder charges and is due to appear in Las Vegas court Monday. ”Whereas the defendant being found in possession of a human head not his own..."
Police have not said whether the remains found in the truck have been identified.
No additional information was immediately released.
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[SANA.SY] The Israeli occupation troops arrested on Monday fourteen Paleostinians in several areas in the West BankThe occupation forces stormed Dora and Beit Awwa in Hebron, Deir Abu Mash’al and Beit Liqya in Ramallah, al-Khudir town in Bethlehem, Silat al-Harithiya in Jenin and Qalandia Camp in occupied Jerusalem, and they arrested fourteen Paleostinians, according to Wafa News Agency
On Sunday, the occupation forces arrested two Paleostinians in Taqoua town in Bethlehem and Deir Jarir town in Ramallah, the West Bank
[SANA.SY] The locals in al-Ziyara village in Aleppo northern countryside have staged a stand in protest against the crimes of the Ottoman Turkish occupation and its terrorist mercenaries against the Syrian citizens.
Over the past weeks, locals in a number of towns and villages in Aleppo northern countryside have organized several stands in protest against the Ottoman Turkish occupation and its mercenaries of terrorist organizations and in condemnation of their crimes against the Syrian citizens.
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It’s a waste of effort, but I’m sure the meals were delicious.
[AlAhram] A trilateral ministerial meeting was held in Cairo on Monday between Egypt, Jordan, and Paleostine in Cairo to discuss proposals to break the current stalemate in the Israeli-Paleostinian grinding of the peace processor.
The meeting was held between Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, and Paleostinian Civil Aviation Minister Hussein al-Sheikh, where they discussed the recent developments in the Paleostinian issue.
The meeting was also attended by the intelligence chiefs of the three countries.
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[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... chief Jebran Bassil has reportedly met with Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... coordination official Wafiq Safa in the past few days.
Well informed sources told ad-Diyar newspaper, in remarks published Monday, that the two officials have met for "open and frank" talks and discussed the recent "crisis" that occurred between the two parties after the Constitutional Council failed to issue a ruling on the appeal against the electoral law’s amendments.
The results of the meeting were "positive," according to the sources.
Bassil and Safa discussed what has been said about "a deal that failed at the last minute," the sources said, adding that "had the bargain succeeded, the FPM would have benefited from it" while it would have "come at a high cost" for Prime Minister Najib Miqati.
The sources said that the discrepancies between the FPM and Hizbullah have been clarified and that the two parties have both affirmed the continuation of their alliance, meetings and regular communication.
Bassil last week blamed Hizbullah and Amal for the Constitutional Council’s no-ruling, saying it is a result of a "new four-party alliance" in the face of the FPM.
President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... is scheduled to make a televised address today, Monday.
Aoun will voice "explosive" remarks and will tackle all the obstacles that marred his tenure by both "allies and rivals" and will "call things by their name," Baabda Palace sources told al-Anbaa newspaper in remarks published Sunday.
Bassil is also scheduled to have a speech on January 2.
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[REGNUM] MValve has published a list of Steam Platinum games in 2021, that is, it named the platform's bestsellers. The information was published on December 27, 2021 on the service website.
The platinum list includes the following free-to-play games:
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive,
Dota 2,
Apex Legends and Destiny 2.
The top 12 sales leaders also include Naraka: Bladepoint, Battlefield 2042, Valheim, Rainbow Six Siege , Grand Theft Auto V, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Dead by Daylight, and Amazon's massive New World RPG.
Earlier IA REGNUM reported that TV Asahi has published a rating of 100 console games that are popular among Japanese gamers. 50 thousand people took part in the company's survey.
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Was hoping to get some Valheim time, but as I teach my kids, real life first. Back it was still quite young, saw someone/group had re-created Helm's Deep. Pretty neat, nicely done.
[Rudaw] The top Iraqi court ratified the results of the October 10 parliamentary elections on Monday despite claims by pro-Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... political parties that the vote was rigged.
The Federal Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... said on Monday that it had rejected an appeal by Hadi Amiri, leader of Fatih Alliance, against the final results of the elections which were announced late November.
Hours later, the top court said that it had ratified the final results of the election.
According to the final results, the Sadrist bloc gained 73 seats out of the legislature's total 329 seats, becoming the top winner of the elections. Fatih Alliance, the largest list representing the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi), won 17 seats. Taqadum, a Sunni alliance headed by the outgoing speaker of Iraqi parliament Mohammed al-Halbousi, gained 37 seats.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which had gained 33 seats in the initial results, lost two seats to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). This increased PUK’s seats from 15 to 17 but a Kurdish winning candidate, who won a seat in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... has announced she is affiliated to the party as well. The New Generation movement won nine seats.
The Coordination Framework, which includes the Fatih Alliance, State of Law Coalition and National State Forces Alliance and other blocs, have alleged fraud, demanding the cancellation of the vote.
Hashd supporters have held several protests in the capital city of Baghdad, especially on Fridays, rejecting the election results.
Amiri’s office said in a statement on its Telegram channel on Monday that he is "committed" to the supreme court’s decision "out of our keenness to abide by the Constitution and law as well as our fear for the security and political stability of Iraq."
It added that they still have a "deep belief that the electoral process was marred with a lot of fraud."
Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... , leader of the Sadrist bloc, welcomed the decision in a tweet, describing it as "national democratic wedding." He also called for the speedy formation of a "national majority government."
Iraq's supreme court on Monday rejected a motion filed by the Hashed al-Shaabi ex-paramilitary alliance contesting its defeat in the October 10 parliamentary election.
"The Federal Court has decided to reject the complaint... and to make the plaintiffs bear the costs," Judge Jassem Mohamed Aboud said, reading out the verdict.
The court "rejects the request of the plaintiffs... not to ratify the final results of the election," he said. "The verdict is binding on all authorities".
While the ruling is a key step forward, it does not mean that the final results have been ratified, an electoral commission lawyer who attended the court hearing said.
That requires an official announcement to endorse the results, only after which can the new parliament be inaugurated and a new government formed.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Basra Operations Command announced on Monday the launch of large-scale security operations in the northern regions of the province.The Command said in a statement received by al-Ghadeer news, that "large operations were launched in the areas north of Basra and the city center, in addition to the revival of Abu al-Khasib."
Adding, "The operations resulted in the arrest of a number of wanted persons according to various criminal matters, and the confiscation of light and medium weapons, various ammunition, and non-original wheels without traffic plates."
"Good results have been achieved, and we are striving to achieve the best by maintaining the momentum in supporting inspections to limit arms to the state," the Command said.
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[SANA.SY] Ottoman Turkish occupation-linked forces of Evil sold several houses in Afrin city in Aleppo northern countryside, which they had previously seized by force and expelled their residents.Local sources told SANA that forces of Evil of the so-called "Al-Jabha al-Shamiya" seized by force of arms the houses and shops belonging to the locals of the area in al- shrafieh neighborhood in Afrin city, and they sold them to the families of terrorist organizations at prices agreed upon with the Ottoman Turkish occupation.
Meanwhile in Brad village in the northern countryside, the so-called "Al-Sham Legion" forces of Evil imposed a ransom on the shepherds for allowing them to graze the sheep in the plains of the village.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Political thugs loyal to Senator Elisha Abbo have allegedly assaulted one Silas Daniel, causing him grievous injuries in Adamawa State.
Silas, an estranged former Personal Assistant (PA) to Abbo, was attacked with machetes, daggers and clubs by thugs, allegedly on the order of the politician.
Abbo became infamous in a similar circumstance when he assaulted a nursing mother at a sex toy shop in Abuja two years ago. The incident was captured by a CCTV camera.
SaharaReporters learnt that Silas, who is in a critical condition at the Adamawa/German Hospital, Yola, was reportedly manhandled on December 23, 2021, in Vimtim, in the Mubi Local Government Area, during a football competition, which he had sponsored.
SaharaReporters learnt that the football tournament had attracted young people to Silas, which Senator Abbo, saw as a threat to his popularity among the youths.
Narrating his ordeal to SaharaReporters, Silas said, "Senator Abbo had recruited the thugs and detailed them to kill me.
"I parted ways with him when he defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC); ever since he's been plotting to harm me.
"When I announced this year's annual football competition on our Fali tribal WhatsApp platform, he (Abbo) opposed it, saying it was improper for an individual to sponsor the event.
"He insisted that the tournament must be taken away from me and managed by Fali Cultural Development Association.
"He had no problems with individual sponsorship of the events previously because I gave credit to him back then when I served as his Personal Assistant.
"Now that we have severed ties, I'm in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he saw the event as a threat to his popularity among the youths, therefore, he wanted it scuttled.
"During the grand finale on December 23, 2021, while a football match was being played at Vintim playground; the senator's thugs, led by one of the coppers attached to him, pounced on me with machetes, daggers and clubs.
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Loving the Nigerian news stuff Fred. Keeping it coming!
A far-left convicted domestic terrorist has been sentenced in federal court in Washington state to a year in prison. Ellen Reiche (they/them) & an accomplice tried to derail a train. The attack was claimed on the extremist #antifa site for @igd_news. https://t.co/DprSHAaHpw
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They/them has a federal jacket now. Even if a future dem prexident pardons they/them, the jacket remains until the big showdown when all that stuff gets destroyed at the source.
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[GREATERKASHMIR] A video has surfaced on social media in which a fully masked man, identifying himself as an Indian Sikh, is seen declaring to "assassinate" Queen Elizabeth II to avenge the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, prompting Scotland yard to launch a probe, days after an intruder was arrested at the monarch's Windsor Castle.
The video, shared on Snapshot, is that of a fully masked man who identifies himself as Indian Sikh Jaswant Singh Chail and declares that he wants to "assassinate" the monarch in Dire Revenge for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, according to The Sun newspaper which obtained the video.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... the 19-year-old intruder, who has not yet been named by the Metropolitan Police, is now being held over mental health issues.
Scotland Yard officers were investigating the video reportedly linked to the intruder armed with a crossbow arrested at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day.
The Metropolitan Police said that the arrested suspect has been sectioned under the UK's Mental Health Act after a mental health assessment and remains in the care of medical professionals .
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what I've done and what I will do. I will attempt to assassinate Elizabeth, Queen of the Royal Family, the masked man is seen saying in the video.
This is Dire Revenge for those who have died in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre. It is also Dire Revenge for those who have been killed, humiliated and discriminated on because of their race. I'm an Indian Sikh, a Sikh. My name was Jaswant Singh Chail, my name is Darth Jones, he says.
The massacre took place at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar during the Baisakhi festival in April 1919 when the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer shot up a crowd staging a pro-independence demonstration, leaving scores dead.
In the video clip posted on The Sun website, the 'Star Wars' film-like masked figure holds a shiny black weapon and speaks in a distorted voice.
It was reportedly sent to followers of the man's Snapchat account 24 minutes before armed security officers arrested him near the 95-year-old Queen's private apartments.
In a message sent on Snapchat alongside the video, the teenager wrote: I'm sorry to all of those who I have wronged or lied to. If you have received this then my death is near. Please share this with whoever and if possible, get it to the news if they're interested.
Police are also carrying out searches at a housing estate in Southampton, where the suspect reportedly lived with his family.
A 19-year-old man from Southampton was arrested on suspicion of breach or trespass of a protected site and possession of an offensive weapon, Met Police said in a statement.
Following a search of the man, a crossbow was recovered. The man was taken into custody and has undergone a mental health assessment he has since been sectioned under the Mental Health Act and remains in the care of medical professionals.
Enquiries into the full circumstances of this incident are being progressed by Metropolitan Police Specialist Operations, the statement added.
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Saturday, the Head of the Internal Affairs Committee of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Suleiman al-Harari, called for imposing severe penalties against human traffickers. He also stressed the need to bring all drug pushers to justice.
In a statement, the Parliament’s media office said that al-Harari stressed the need to deal with the issue of combating human smuggling and all illicit psychoactive substances as a national priority. He called for security operations to be launched nationwide to combat the phenomenon of human trafficking.
Al-Harari expressed the parliamentary committee’s appreciation for the wide security operation carried out by the competent authorities to pursue human smugglers in the city of Tobruk and its neighboring border areas.
The Member of Parliament (MP) also stressed on human and legal treatment of migrants colonists who were freed from human smugglers.
Al-Harari affirmed the keenness of the HoR to support the relevant security services in combating all smuggling activities, and that the Interior Committee’s work will increase penalties in all smuggling-related cases.
Abuse of migrants colonists is widespread in war-torn Libya. Migrant smugglers and people traffickers, as well as militias have been exploiting the chaos which has reigned since the 2011 ousting of dictator longtime ruler Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... . Those intercepted at sea by Libya’s controversial coasties and returned to Libya are usually brought to detention centres notorious for abuse, torture, slavery, extortion and rape.
According to International Organization for Migration (IOM), some 3,200 people were being held in 11 detention centres in Libya last October.
Since the overthrow of Qadaffy in 2011, Libya has become the major transit point for African and Arab migrants colonists hoping to reach Europe. Thousands of people have crossed into Libya from neighboring countries in recent years and traveled onwards to the Mediterranean coast, where human traffickers operate boats bound for Europe.
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[An Nahar] President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... on Monday criticized Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and the Amal Movement without naming them as he called for "urgent" national dialogue over key matters.
"I tried to prevent the collapse and I called for several meetings and conferences, proposing solutions, but the system’s parties refused to give up any gains, without the taking the people into consideration," Aoun said, in an address to the nation.
"The solution first requires accountability, which means identifying those responsible for the collapse, as well as protecting people's money and returning it to depositors. It also requires transiting to a civil state and a new system based on broad administrative and financial decentralization. The coming elections must be a referendum on this," the President added.
As for the controversial issue of Hizbullah’s arsenal of weapons, Aoun said "it is true that defending the country requires cooperation between the army, people and resistance," but stressed that "the main responsibility belongs to the state."
"Only the state devises a defense strategy and oversees its implementation," he added.
He also urged an end to "the premeditated, systematic and unjustified obstruction that leads to the disintegration of institutions and the dissolution of the state."
"It is necessary for the government to convene as soon as possible to address the problems around Cabinet’s table. Under which law, logic or constitution is Cabinet being paralyzed?" Aoun asked, lamenting that Cabinet is being asked to "take a decision that does not fall under its jurisdiction" and that it is being paralyzed due to "an issue that does not represent a dispute that has to do with the National Pact."
He added: "I do not want to antagonize anyone, neither individuals nor groups, and I don’t want to undermine the unity of any sect, but we must be frank: procrastination is lethal and I will not accept to be a witness to the fall of the state."
"From my position as someone entrusted with the constitution, I call for urgent national dialogue to agree on three issues, and later work to approve them in institutions," the President went on to say.
He said the three issues are "broad administrative and financial decentralization, a defense strategy to protect Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... , and a financial and economic recovery plan that would include the necessary reforms and a fair distribution of losses."
In an apparent jab at Hizbullah, Aoun added: "I want the best relations with Arab countries, specifically with the Gulf states, and I ask: what is the justification for straining the ties with these countries and interfering in affairs that do not concern us?"
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[An Nahar] 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... on Monday executed a 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 man accused of plotting a suicide kaboom in the kingdom and of links to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist group, the interior ministry said. The wealthy Gulf country, with one of the world's highest execution rates, has been the target of a series of deadly IS shootings and bombings since late 2014.
"Mohammed al-Saddam, a Yemeni national, sought to target civilian gatherings at a public facility under the instructions of the ISIS terrorist organization," the interior ministry said in a statement, referring to IS by its Arabic acronym.
"The death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... was carried on Monday in the city of Riyadh."
It said the man had "pledged allegiance to IS" and was planning a "suicide attack using an boom belt", without elaborating on the case or when the Yemeni was arrested.
The Saudi authorities could not immediately be reached for comment.
The number of executions had dropped significantly in 2020, partly due to a moratorium on executions of people sentenced to death for drug trafficking.
But Amnesia Amnesty International said in August that at least 40 people were executed this year between January and July in Saudi Arabia, more than for the whole of 2020.
A total of nearly 70 people have been executed this year in the kingdom, according to an AFP tally based on official statements.
Saudi Arabia put 184 people to death in 2019, according to Amnesty, which has said it was the highest number recorded in a single year in the country.
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So, suicide by sword
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On Friday, the Embassy said that it will continue to recognize the Government of National Unity (GNU) as the authority tasked with leading Libya to elections and that it does not endorse the establishment of parallel governments or institutions.
These remarks came after the High National Election Commission (HNEC) announced that despite being technically prepared, it was unable to meet the 24th of December date set by the political roadmap for national elections.
In a statement, the Municipal Council affirmed its categorical rejection of any foreign interference into the country’s internal affairs, urging all Libyan relevant authorities to expel the British Ambassador from Libya.
The Municipal Council stressed the necessity of holding presidential and parliamentary elections as soon as possible, in order to meet the aspirations of the Libyan people and respect their will.
It also called on national powers in all parts of the country to stand united against all attempts to undermine national illusory sovereignty and foreign interference in the Libyan national decision.
Notably, the Embassies of La Belle France, Germany, Italia, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US) issued a joint statement yesterday in which they said the transfer of power from the current interim executive authority to the new executive authority should take place following the announcement of the results.
The western countries warned that they will hold to account those who threaten the stability or undermine the political and electoral process in Libya, through violence, or the incitement of violence.
Citing inadequacies in electoral legislation, challenges, and appeals related to candidates’ eligibility, the Commission requested that the Libyan Parliament set another date for the first round of the Presidential elections, within a 30-day period.
Currently at stake is a grinding of the peace processor that is viewed as the best hope in years of bringing an end to the decade of chaos and violence that has engulfed Libya since a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -backed uprising which ousted Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... in 2011.
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Gosh, western meddling in affairs that don't concern them? Say it isn't so!
The bandits invaded their communities, killed men and destroyed properties.
No fewer than 30 women have been reportedly kidnapped by bandidos in Zamfara following attacks on 15 villages within the neighbourhood of Gusau, the state capital.
In a report by BBC Hausa, some locals in Geba and Gidan Kaura villages, and others in communities within the Gusau Local Government Area, said the bandidos invaded their communities, killed men and destroyed properties.
A source said, "The bandidos kidnapped women and girls, took them away."
One of the locals told the media: "The bandidos kidnapped 10 women in Kura, at Bayauri they kidnapped 9. They also entered a village called Gana and kidnapped 7 before proceeding to Duma and kidnapped another 7. These happened before Sunday morning."
According to the report, many villages have been deserted, as the villagers have now embarked on an exodus to the state capital, Gusau.
The development follows an announcement that security agents arrested some bandidos that were earlier dislodged in their hideouts after they went to a medical facility for treatment.
For some years, Zamfara is among the states in the North battling with banditry, a phenomenon that has attained a disturbing dimension in the states of Sokoto, Katsina, Kaduna and their neighbours.
Last week, the bandidos burnt over 20 passengers in a motor vehicle in Sokoto, a development that caused a series of condemnation and elicited anger among some Nigerians, who were alleging that the government was allowing the bandidos to have a field day, unchallenged.
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[REGNUM] December 22 marked the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the fierce civil war in Georgia. This war subsequently found itself in some shadow of two other bloody armed conflicts on the territory of this Transcaucasian republic - the interethnic Georgian-Abkhaz and Georgian-Ossetian ones. However, it is difficult to underestimate what role the civil war played in the plunge of the prosperous and prosperous Georgian SSR into a state of complete chaos and blatant lawlessness.
The hostilities in the very center of Tbilisi on Rustaveli Avenue lasted 16 days, and the war itself, sometimes dying out, then swelling again, lasted two years in the western regions of Georgia, bringing innumerable troubles to the population. The consequences of the war affected Georgia throughout the entire 90s.
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[FoxNews] A man armed with a box-cutter slashed a New York City woman repeatedly in her face and body following an argument over the victim’s roommate, according to police and startling surveillance footage.
The suspect began arguing with the 48-year-old woman about her roommate around 9:10 p.m. Thursday inside an apartment building on East 180th Street in the Bronx, the New York Police Department (NYPD) said Sunday.
EXCLUSIVE: Terrorists, Bandits Take Over Hometown Of Secretary To Nigerian Government, Boss Mustapha, Residents Flee Homes Over Impending Attacks | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/zTe8ZpV7w7pic.twitter.com/AHuTi53mcq
Residents of two villages, Kwapre and Dabna in the Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State have abandoned their homes over the fear of attacks by Lions of Islam and bandidos ravaging parts of the state.
SaharaReporters learnt that Kwapre and Dabna villages in Garaha Ward in the Hong Local Government Area were currently ghost villages, as people fled to safer places.
Kwapre, Dabna, Lar, Zah and other adjoining villages are in Garaha Ward, where the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, and the slain Nigerian Army Brigadier General, Dzarma Zurkusu hailed from.
A community leader in Garaha, Honorable Hyella, told SaharaReporters that people fled Kwapre to escaped being trapped and kidnapped by bandidos and the Boko Haram ...the name means Western education is forbidden, They're what you get as the result of a traditional African or Islamic education... .
He said, "There are only seven persons left in Kwapre now; the rest have relocated to either Hong or Pella.
"People have justifiable reasons to run for their lives, because 52 persons were kidnapped in April this year and only eight persons have returned home since then. Now that there's a buildup of heavy presence of suspected bandidos in the area again; the people have to run for their lives.
"People have to run because kidnappings happen on a daily basis. The bandidos have begun to tax villagers; so far they've taxed Dabna, Sushiu, Lar, and many villages within the Duguba district to pay safety levies."
SaharaReporters had on May 12, 2021 reported that Boko Haram Lions of Islam demanded a ransom of N28million to free some persons kidnapped in Adamawa State.
The captives, numbering 52 including women and kiddies, were kidnapped last month in Kwapre village, in the Hong Local Government Area.
Another source, who did not want his name in print, said, "The people in Dabna have moved to Gombi, a nearby town and Hong. Few families are still there, may be about ten households or so," he added.
The spokesperson for the police in the state, DSP Suleiman Nguroje, confirmed the scare, saying, "Yes, there's kidnap scare around those villages. Of course it's normal for the people to be scared. But the Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Ahmed Barde, has directed the deployment of troops to safeguard the areas."
Somali President Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed said on Monday he had suspended the powers of the prime minister amid a corruption probe in what the assistant information minister said amounted to an "indirect coup".
Mohammed accused Roble of looting public land owned by the Somali National Army and of interfering with a defence ministry investigation, Rooters reports. All other ministers would continue with their duties, he said.
Roble was not immediately available for comment. "I can say no more!" But the government spokesperson, Mohammed Ibrahim Moalimuu, said on Facebook the president's action was unconstitutional.
He said the prime minister would continue with his duties.
Mohammed and Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble on Sunday each accused the other of holding up ongoing parliamentary elections in a dispute analysts say may distract the government from its fight against the al Qaeda-linked insurgency al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... Mohammed also said he had removed the commander of marine forces, General Abdihamid Mohammed Dirir, from office while a similar investigation was being carried out.
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If I'm a corrupt Somali politician I'd rather move to the US, marry my brother and run for Congress not be stealing shit worthless Somali real estate.
[Rudaw] Two rockets were fired at a Ottoman Turkish military base in Nineveh province on Monday night, a local official told Rudaw, adding that no casualties or material damage has been reported.
The rockets landed between Jubran village and the Ottoman Turkish military base in Zelkan sub-district, its mayor, Mohammed Amin Gharib, told Rudaw, adding that the distance between both places is five kilometers.
The mayor noted that no casualties or material damage were reported, and that the direction from which the rockets were fired is unknown.
The Ottoman Turkish military base, located in Nineveh Plain’s Bashik town, has been targeted multiple times this year.
It was targeted earlier in April when four rockets were fired, killing one Ottoman Turkish soldier and injuring two civilians, including a 12-year-old girl, in the attack.
Multiple rockets were again fired at the base in November but no casualties were reported.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... -Iraq relations were strained in the wake of the deployment of some 150 Ottoman Turkish soldiers to Iraq in December 2015. The troops are still present in the area despite calls from Iraqi officials for them to leave.
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.
[Pirate's Cove] We all know that the Chinese coronavirus doesn’t attack people who are eating with masks off, right? Who knew that essential workers only have Bat Soup Virus for half the time as non-essential works? Why don’t we just declare all workers essential? That would fix this, right?
[Red State] Here’s a fun one for you. According to the latest U.S. Census, the Native American population in the United States grew by 86.5 percent between 2010 and 2020.
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...The nation is noted for 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The Brooklyn Museum has added a new feature to its 1776 oil-on-canvas painting of Continental Army Gen. George Washington — a description card that notes his ownership of slaves despite defending the self-evident truth that all men are created equal. 
About 4,600 Kosovars renounced their citizenship in 2021 for this separatist entity. This was reported on December 27 by Radio Kosovo 1.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
...They hate 
[NYPOST] Police in Las Vegas made a gruesome discovery during a routine traffic stop in the gambling mecca — a severed head.
[SANA.SY] The Israeli occupation troops arrested on Monday fourteen Paleostinians in several areas in the West BankThe occupation forces stormed Dora and Beit Awwa in 
Najib Miqati
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
...They hate 
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Political thugs loyal to Senator Elisha Abbo have allegedly assaulted one Silas Daniel, causing him grievous injuries in Adamawa State.
[GREATERKASHMIR] A video has surfaced on social media in which a fully masked man, identifying himself as an Indian Sikh, is seen declaring to "assassinate" Queen Elizabeth II to avenge the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, prompting Scotland yard to launch a probe, days after an intruder was arrested at the monarch's Windsor Castle.
...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later...
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
...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...
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Saturday, the Fezzan Municipal Council strongly condemned the statements of the British Embassy in Libya, saying that this constitutes a blatant interference in the internal affairs of Libya.
[FoxNews] A man armed with a box-cutter slashed a New York City woman repeatedly in her face and body following an argument over the victim’s roommate, according to police and startling surveillance footage. 
...the name means 
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
