PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — The heads of the security detail meant to be protecting Haitian President Jovenel Moise the night he was assassinated will be interrogated in the coming days, the head of the public prosecutor office said Thursday.
"I have given (police) the power to interview all the security agents close to President Jovenel Moise," said Port-au-Prince government commissioner Bed-Ford Claude, a day after Moise was shot dead at his home in the capital.
"If you are responsible for the security of the president, where were you? What did you do to avoid this fate for the president?" Claude said.
Good news and bad news for the guards: they're all alive today because they didn't fight back against the assassins. None of the guards suffered any injury. It's almost as if the whole thing was staged. Poor Moise: he should have invested in better guards. The NYT, of all places, has more.
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I'm awaiting General Mark A. Milley's second book.
The truth will be revealed about the Mar-a-Lago conference, you'll see.
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BTW, I'm still curious as to how a General officer like Milley finds the time to write books.
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Philip Rucker is a reporter and is currently the White House Bureau Chief at The Washington Post, where he has been working since 2005. He covered the entire Trump administration for the Post, as well as Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.[1] Jim Wertz, the Chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party, has called him "one of Washington, D.C.'s most respected journalists."[2]
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Source: Johns Hopkins University (JHU) COVID-19 Dashboard managed by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE). (Update at 7/18/2021, 6:22 AM)
Taking the data at face value, which I and others have some difficulties. I see Worldwide there has been to date, 190,089,665 Covid-19/21 cases and 4,084,395 Deaths.
The US accounted for 34,070,262 (17.92%) of those in infections and 608,898 (14.91%) of all those deaths.
The World Population is about 7.9 Billion and the USA population is about 340 Million (counting illegals). So the USA population represents 4.30% of the world population. But accounts for 17.92% of all infections to date and 14.91% of all deaths? Something does not seem to add up.
With the USA a Top 10 Healthcare System in the world. Logic would seem to say the USA should have at the least Infection and mortality numbers closer to the population percentages that it represents in the world.
So why the 250+/- % added difference and this is with official sources telling us over 54% of the population has been vaccinated.
Interesting Note:
Looking at other top 10 major Non-Communist/Socialist nations, we see similar unusually high numbers.
SO THE QUESTION IS:
Was the WUHAN Covid-19/21 release an accident? Or a planned?
Bonus Question:
What do the 11 top states for infection/death numbers have in common?
#1 California 3,858,391 | 64,093
#2 Texas 3,039,664 | 52,816
#3 Florida 2,450,344 | 38,388
#4 New York 2,125,535 | 53,765
#5 Illinois 1,399,946 | 25,790
#6 Pennsylvania 1,220,385 | 27,790
#7 Georgia 1,145,976 | 21,558
#8 Ohio 1,116,808 | 20,437
#9 New Jersey 1,028,503 | 26,536
#10 North Carolina 1,022,876 | 13,523
#11 Michigan 1,003,432 | 21,109
According to Coronavirusbellcurve, 39 states report deaths in assisted-living/nursing home. 51% (average of 39) of the COVID deaths are in those facilities. Which includes Sonny Cuomo's "20%" in New York - 'best' of the 39 states..
Just for comparison, Minnesota reported 81% of COVID deaths in assisted-living facilities.
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[ZeroHedge] Remember, a decade ago, during Arab Spring, Facebook and Twitter were critical for organizers to orchestrate uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Bahrain.
The Biden administration is finding ways to provide anti-censorship tools to Cubans to access social media during the blackouts.
According to Bloomberg, the U.S. government supports a censorship circumvention tool designed to unblock content in Cuba and is powered by a company called Psiphon Inc.
As of Thursday, Psiphon tweeted, "1.389 Million daily unique users accessed the open web from Cuba through the Psiphon network. Internet is ON; circumvention tools ARE working."
Psiphon uses proxy servers that disguise internet traffic so Cuban authorities cannot tell if people are accessing social media platforms. The Toronto-based nonprofit has received money from the U.S. government.
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Censorship circumvention tool or data collection service? Given political tilt of the Biden administration and the Left's love for Cuban dictators, I'm a bit suspicious.
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Depends who offers more "support". As government here, like any dictatorship, increasingly is mostly for sale, contravening outcomes seem inconsistent only until you see that the motive is financial, not principle.
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D.C. is the capital of the entire U.S. not just the District of Columbia. To me both BLM painted on the street and BLM street signs as well Free Cuba painted on the street defaces the Capital of the USA.
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I suspect a massive "Let's Drink Cuba Libres" street party would be shut down thanks to open container laws.
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When BLM is designated a terrorist organization - as it will be - I look forward to seeing every gummint official, corporate asswipe and hollyweird creep being stripped of all rights, disgorged of all assets and sent to live in the least habitibale terrain in CONUS in tents.
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Re: #3 above. I would suggest northwestern North Dakota for the winter months.
[Jpost] Turkey’s state media claimed last week that a “mass grave” of 61 bodies was found in Afrin in Syria, an area that Turkey illegally occupies and which it ethnically cleansed of Kurds in 2018. The Turkish state media claims, without any evidence that “the victims were executed by the US-backed PKK/YPG terrorist organization.”
In fact, say many Kurds, the victims were people killed by Turkey who had been buried in rows of marked graves until Turkey bulldozed the grave markers in 2018. Now Ankara has discovered a grave it allegedly desecrated and is inventing false reports.
The claims by Turkey and its state media, that often behaves as a propaganda arm of Turkey’s ruling AKP party, is not the first time Ankara has invented stories about Afrin. On the eve of a meeting with US President Joe Biden and Turkey’s President, Turkey invented a story of a “YPG/PKK terror attack on hospital” in Afrin in mid-June. Turkish media, such as Anadolu, pushed the story until after the June 14 meeting, and then it suddenly stopped covering it, as if the attack had never happened. It is still not clear who bombed the hospital.
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[LI] As per the norm, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy nailed the Biden White House Friday after their Thursday announcement about how they were "flagging problematic [COVID] posts for Facebook that spread disinformation."
During the heated exchange, which took place during the Friday press briefing, Doocy referred to what the administration was doing as "spying," which Psaki took issue with.
Psaki responded to Doocy’s pointed questioning by saying in so many words that it couldn’t be "spying" because it was publicly available information. She also drew equivalencies between the White House’s interactions with the press corps and their communications with Big Tech entities, apparently hoping people don’t understand that there is a difference between the White House being obligated to communicate with the press corps versus them trawling the social media accounts of private citizens for alleged misinformation to report to said social media platforms.
Doocy tripped her up throughout the exchange, basically getting her to admit that the Biden administration’s position on working with social media companies in a Big Brother-type capacity to censor private citizens was only being done in an effort to save lives.
For those who missed it, watch their back and forth below:
[NYP] President Biden’s adviser Susan Rice is being ordered to sell a $2.7 million stake in the oil pipeline company Enbridge — after the Biden administration decided to allow the firm’s Line 3 pipeline project.
The Office of Government Ethics ordered Rice to divest from the company on July 9, according to filings first reported by The Daily Poster.
Although Biden has broadly taken action against oil pipelines, most notably canceling the Keystone XL oil pipeline, his administration has continued to allow the Line 3 project, which would bring Canadian oil through Minnesota to Wisconsin.
Environmental activists oppose the Line 3 project, but the cause has received far less national attention than other pipelines.
Last month, Biden administration officials indicated they would not withdraw permission for Line 3 in a major boon for the company.
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/\ Excellent question! Can I safely assume ENB was just one entry in her portfolio.
I'm even more curious about the massive accumulation of wealth of her former boss Soetoro. I'm discounting personal ambition, family inheritances, Federal Thrift Savings Plan, and book sales.
[ZERO] CDC health officials are now working vigorously to trace contacts of anyone directly exposed to a Dallas resident who recently returned to the US on a trip to Nigeria. The man is now in isolation at a Dallas hospital after testing positive for an extremely rare disease known as Monkeypox - said to be the first ever case of its kind in Texas.
It's also the first case seen inside the United States in two decades, with the last significant outbreak in 2003 including 47 reported human cases. The infected person flew into Atlanta international airport on July 8, and then on to Dallas Love Field the next day.
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Just returned from Nigeria, eh? Did someone forget that proverb about "Don't lick a gift monkey in the mouth".
Sure, proverbs are folk sayings, but they represent the accumulated wisdom of the ages, people.
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This is the first of many reports downplaying the voter fraud in Arizona and Georgia. Don't believe them.
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Here is nearly 110,000 ballots in dispute from Maricopa County. This is w/o closer examination such as photocopied ballots, ghost voters and addresses. Notice the 74k received mail-in ballots that have no record of being sent out.
STUNNING in race decided by 10,457 votes
3,981 voted despite registered AFTER Oct 15 deadline
11,326 voted who were NOT on rolls on Nov 7 but WERE on Dec 4
18,000 voted and then were removed from rolls AFTER election
74,243 mail-in ballots w/ NO evidence of ever being sent
Did he really? That appears to be a more and more very questionable claim. Pima County reported only 182 cases of possible fraud. Maricopa County appears to have better than 100,000 votes that could be fraudulent. Pima County did not do a forensic analysis of the vote whereas Maricopa County did. Maricopa County has not received the material that was subpoenaed. So far around 5% of the Maricopa County vote looks questionable. The registered voters in Arizona is something like 4.3 million voters.
The entire State, as well as other states such as Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia should have a forensic audit. Maybe we should have an entire new election under legal Constitutional rules.
What ever happened to all the depositions taken by Giuliani that were taken that suggested many voting illegalities?
IMHO, elections that are fraudulent may be the greatest threat to our freedoms.
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The needle is slowly moving...
First, there was absolutely no voter fraud whatsoever and you are a terrible person for even suggesting it.
Now, it's only hundreds of instances of voter fraud, no big deal and certainly not thousands of cases like the bad people are saying.
Tomorrow...
Side note: You know all those blue cities that have not had a Republican mayor since gawd knows when? I'm starting to see why.
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Once upon a time in the American West, it was the custom to go about armed for protection against wild animals, brigands and savage natives. We seem to be returning to those days.
There was this chinaman, name of J. Woo.
If anything, a poster boy for Amendment Two.
He liked him some gun, and better if deux!
A pioneer, like Jefferson, but of Gun Fu.
Sadly for his women, he too voted blue.
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sometimes this policy is called 'wet foot no, dry foot yes'
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Importers of leftist ideas and reliable left voters, they'll take in all that will come. Anyone on the other side of that coin, not so much. I think a lot of the same dynamic is in play with the foot dragging on bringing Afghans who helped the US in the Stan. Those people are not radical pisslam friendly.
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[ColonelCassad] The United States has officially condemned the shooting by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... of 22 Afghan special forces soldiers and officers who were trying to surrender to the Taliban. The episode took place on June 16 this year in Davlat-Abad, Faryab province (a town near the border with Turkmenistan), where active festivities between the Afghan army and Talibs, who are trying to seize the historic provincial capital, continue.
The Taliban refused to take them prisoner and shot them on the grounds that they served the Americans (most of these special forces were trained and trained by the Americans, they are also one of the most combat-ready units of the Afghan army, which periodically gave the Taliban a fight).
A very demonstrative cruelty against the background of mild conditions for ordinary soldiers and coppers, who are even given money to travel home. This execution transparently hints how the Taliban intend to treat those who actively served the United States during the years of occupation. In fact, using this example, you can assess the motivation behind the complaints of translators and US volunteers in Afghanistan, who demand that they be evacuated from the country.
On the other hand, the Taliban usually take responsibility for such acts of violence and weave them into their propaganda. In this case, he officially denies his involvement, although the video can indeed be seen surrendering military and Taliban fighters.
To see a video of the incident click here. To see photos from the incident click on the link in the title.
Breaking: A mass shooting in downtown Portland victimized at least eight people. Police have no information about the suspect or suspects. Portland’s deadly violence has continued to soar following police defunding led by BLM activist @JoAnnPDX. https://t.co/AGGnbjeCg8
[KhaamaPress] Out of roughly 20 thousand Afghan interpreters and other jobholders who have applied for SIV, 2,500 of them are planned to be evacuated directly to the United States within days.
After immense pressure from politicians within the US, veterans groups, and refugee organizations on the Joe Biden crime family administration ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... to take acute actions for protecting Afghan interpreters, the administration ultimately decided to vacate 2,500 Afghans directly to the US and 10 thousand others to US overseas military bases or to a third country.
The eligible people for the direct flight to the US are the applicants whose security vetting is cleared, a State Department spokesperson told NBC.
The spokesperson added, shortly after their arrival and completing their medical check-ups their immigration status will be adjusted so they can be eligible for refugee resettlement benefits along with their families.
The mentioned number of Afghan interpreters is purportedly intended to be flown out in chartered civilian planes.
Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... was not expected to make a decision as such but he apparently took the action after the security situation deteriorated in Afghanistan recently.
As per the information of the State Department, half of 20,000 SIV applicants are still in the initial stages and are required to take action before the US government processes their cases.
[PJ Media] Through its military TV channel, China has threatened to use nuclear weapons — first — if Japan intercedes in defense of Taiwan.
The undated chilling video is clear in its message. "When we liberate Taiwan, if Japan dares to intervene by force, even it if only deploys one soldier, one plane and one ship, we will not only return reciprocal fire but also start a full-scale war against Japan," the video says.
"We will use nuclear bombs first. We will use nuclear bombs continuously until Japan declares unconditional surrender for the second time," referring to the end of World War II and Japan’s surrender after the United States used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
China-watching blogger Jennifer Zeng downloaded the clip above and others from a Chinese official online video channel.
Later in the same post, Zeng highlights another video from the same channel in which China proposes invading and capturing Japan and splitting it into four countries.
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China continues to isolate itself. Words of a weak people. Standees of army personnel, equipment and so on. Just a big puff dragon bully strutting about with delusions of grandeur. Problem is as with the Democrats here they believe their own lies. Isolated as with Kim with nothing to offer the world but trouble. Japan has no respect for them. They are messing with the wrong country.
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I doubt Washington and the Deep State Department would end their fellation of Xi Jinping if the Chinese invaded and seized Hokkaido tomorrow afternoon.
Anybody who lives in the real world knows that such a thing is not possible anymore. Any attempt to use nukes in Asia, will begin a mutual destruction which will see China acutely fcuked.
The US is not the only country in the world that may fight alongside Japan, or deploy nukes on China. If America just stands aside and don't rush in to save China, other Asian nations would gleefully set back the tiny Hans a couple of decades. Only problem is, we can't expect Biden's America to do even that right.
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Japan should respond by updating their constitution to remove the limitation on a defense only military. Let the Chinese reflect upon the horrors of WW2.
[Army Times] Special agents from Fort Hood’s CID detachment are investigating the potential theft of "more than 100″ missing night-vision devices, III Corps officials confirmed to Army Times.
"Fort Hood is investigating missing Monocular Night Vision Devices from a maintenance facility at Fort Hood, Texas reported on July 12," said Maj. Marion Nederhoed, a III Corps spokesperson. "Currently, the missing equipment has no immediate impact on unit readiness."
Night-vision goggles are considered extremely sensitive items throughout the military, and units will often lock down their perimeter and organize massive search parties for even one missing device.
The shocking quantity of missing devices first came to light through a post by U.S. Army W.T.F. Moments, a popular Facebook page focusing on Army culture.
The post included a screenshot of a text message directing the measures the unit — which Fort Hood officials did not identify — would take to search for the devices.
"Yesterday ELM had 106x NVGs stolen from their secured storage facility," said the text.
ELM likely refers to the unit’s electronics communications maintenance facility, where skilled soldiers repair unserviceable electronic devices — such as night-vision equipment.
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[ColonelCassad] In Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk, despite the official ban, there were events of the Tsarists dedicated to Nicholas II (anniversary of the execution of the former Tsar).
The oligarch Konstatin Malafeev led the procession of about two thousand people. Most of those present, of course, were without the required medical masks.
Although the other day the governor banned the march because of the deteriorating epidemiological situation in the region, the march was still held, saying that "it was disorganized" and "people just passed."
The police and local authorities did not put any obstacles to breaking the law. If you can't, but you really want to, then you can. The main thing is then to pretend that this is not what it seems. The authorities did just that, stating that "this is not a procession with the cross, people were just walking."
An unidentified official of Sverdlovsk said:
"The event was not agreed, but, nevertheless, people followed this path. This is a question for law enforcement, of course.
The procession in the form in which it is traditionally held was not held here yesterday.
Individual citizens in small groups have followed the path along which this case traditionally takes place.
Well, we walked along the sidewalk. Officially, we do not think that we had a religious procession."
Regnum offers some photos from the event and their commentary:
In Yekaterinburg, on the night of July 17, a procession was held on the occasion of the next anniversary of the execution of the former Emperor Nikolai Romanov and his family members. The event brought together about two thousand people, the local Holy See told reporters.
The participants of the event moved from the Church on the Blood after the end of the Divine Liturgy. At around 6:30 local time (4:30 Moscow time) they reached the monastery on Ganina Yama.
"The initiative of the people's memorial process came from the people themselves, who wanted to walk with prayer the path along which the bodies of the last Romanovs were transported from the house of the engineer Ipatiev to the place of their destruction ," they say in the diocese.
Earlier, the authorities of the Sverdlovsk region canceled the procession. The reason was the situation with the coronavirus.
Believers walked in small groups along pedestrian crossings and sidewalks, observing security measures. Thanks to the interaction with the authorities, the event was held without incidents. On the morning of July 17, a prayer service to the "Holy Royal Passion-bearers" was held at Ganina's pit.
We will remind, Romanov and members of his family, as well as servants were shot on the night of July 17, 1918 in the house of engineer Ipatiev.
[ESPN-CCP Approved] Weird shit watching real time. I suspect Mayor Bowser will blame ghost guns and White Supremacists
WASHINGTON -- The game between the San Diego Padres and Washington was suspended in the sixth inning Saturday night after the Nationals said a shooting was reported outside the stadium.
There were no immediate details on what had occurred. More than two dozen police cars, ambulances and fire engines were on the street outside the third base side of Nationals Park.
The Padres had just taken the field for the bottom of the sixth when several loud pops were heard from the left field side of the ballpark.
Fans sitting in left field quickly began leaving through the center field gate. A short time later, fans along the first base side began briskly leaving their seats. Some fans crowded into the Padres' dugout on the third base side for safety as sirens could be heard from outside the park.
The Nationals then announced there had been an incident was outside the stadium and posted a message on the scoreboard telling fans to remain inside the stadium.
About 10 minutes later, the team tweeted: "A shooting has been reported outside of the Third Base Gate at Nationals Park. Fans are encouraged to exit the ballpark via the CF and RF gates at this time."
The Nationals said Saturday's game will resume Sunday at 1:05 p.m. ET and be completed as a nine-inning regulation game. It will be followed by Sunday's regularly scheduled game, which also will be played as a nine-inning regulation game, the team said.
Update at 12:05 a.m. ET:
Two people were shot, said Dustin Sternbeck, a Metropolitan Police Department spokesman. Investigators believe, based on preliminary information, that one of the victims was an employee at the stadium, he said.
Washington police later tweeted that "two additional victims associated with this incident walked into area hospitals for treatment of gunshot wounds.''
Update at 4:15 a.m. ET:
The shooting, an exchange of gunfire between people in two cars, left three people injured, according to Ashan Benedict, the Metropolitan Police Department's executive assistant police chief. One of the people shot was a woman attending the game who was struck while she was outside the stadium, he said. Her injuries weren't considered life-threatening.
Two people who were in one of the cars later walked into a local hospital with gunshot wounds and were being questioned by Sherlocks, Benedict said, and the extent of their injuries wasn't immediately clear. Investigators were still trying to locate the second vehicle involved in the shooting.
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Insurrection? Not being accustomed to hearing gunshots in the vicinity, I’d be concerned it was another Las Vegas massacre or Orlando nightclub shooting.
Am I wrong I’m to see situational awareness and refusal to sit still for the slaughter in the crowd reaction?
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Apparently the shooters showed up in the emergency room not too long after. Still no photos of them or mugshots or anything so I think we can assume they are from one of the groups the Media reflexivly protects.
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[ColonelCassad] The Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s have reported on a successful counter-offensive in al-Bayda province, where they repulsed attacks by ISIS and 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's al-Qaeda.
According to the report, the Houthi forces successfully repelled the krazed killer offensive and launched a counteroffensive, liberating more than 100 square kilometers of territory.
The losses of the krazed killers, as well as the Hadists, amounted to 350 killed and 560 maimed, as well as 29 armored combat vehicles and carts. During the battle, the Houthis used 66 ballistic missiles and kamikaze UAVs.
The Houthis have once again accused the Hadis and Americans of operating in Yemen together with ISIS, whose operational interaction with the Death Eaters is carried out through Marib, while the Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n Air Force launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the Houthis in support of the ISIS offensive in early July.
The Houthi command says it will conduct hostilities until the complete expulsion of ISIS bully boyz and their sponsors from the United States and Saudi Arabia from Yemen.
At the current stage, the Houthis are pursuing the retreating krazed killer forces and are carrying out a sweep of the liberated areas.
Videos from the operation can be seen here, here, here, here, here, here and here. To see photos from the operation click on the link in the title.
[Garowe] For seven months, the United States has slowed down operations against al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... snuffies in Somalia, in a strategy that has been widely criticized by local stakeholders, who believe the efforts of US Africa Command were still needed to eradicate the turbans.
On Jan. 19, a U.S. aircraft opened fire on a vehicle driving near Jamaame, Somalia, killing a commander of the Islamist turban group al-Shabaab, the local al Qaeda affiliate, which has been a thorn in the flesh for the fragile nation, still fighting for stability, three decades later.
That mission and another the same day brought to 203 the number of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... carried out in Somalia during his term in office, according to military records. On Jan. 20, Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... was sworn in as president. Since then, there hasn’t been a single U.S. airstrike on al-Shabaab.
The U.S. war against al-Shabaab, conducted largely behind a veil of secrecy since 2007, remains in limbo as Mr. Biden weighs his national-security priorities and wrestles with the last-minute decisions of his predecessor.
"We’re committed to Somalia," said a senior U.S. official as quoted by the Wall Street Journal, a leading US publication. "What exactly that will look like is still under discussion."
Close to 700 US troops who were responsible for among others, training and equipping Special Forces besides helping in aerial surveillance, left Somalia without a structured plan. A number of them were repositioned in Kenya and Djibouti.
But the burden now seems to be shifting to the Somali National Army [SNA] and African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission Forces [AMISOM], who are set to leave Somalia upon full implementation of the Somali Transition Plan [STP]. They are expected to hand over security responsibilities to SNA by the end of 2021.
The US Africa Command top general, Stephen Townsend recently told the US Senate that "Al-Shabaab is still a dangerous entity in Somalia but we are weighing for strategies on how we shall bounce back and help in defeating the group".
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... he did not highlight the exact plans despite reports from the Department of Defense that Biden has already written a proposal to them, suggesting deployment of Special Forces to Somalia, to help in fighting the turbans.
As a short-term strategy, however, the US has already dispatched Special Forces to Kenya's northeastern region, where they are helping Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] in tracing and killing the turbans. The troops are currently stationed in Wajir, a county in northeastern Kenya where al-Shabaab frequently wages attacks.
Besides Somalia, al-Shabaab has often crossed over to Kenya where it wages persistent attacks, especially in Mandera, Wajir, Garissa, and Lamu. In January 2020, the United States army was attacked in Manda Bay base by the turbans.
Al-Shabaab still controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia, but they have been significantly weakened in their strong bases such as Middle and Lower Jubba. There are close to 7,000 active al-Shabaab fighters in the country.
[All Africa] Moslemholy mans in Lamu are agitating for a county by-law to ban Moslem women from riding on boda bodas.The leaders represent Moslem organizations including the Coast Inter-Faith Council of Clerics (CICC) and the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK).
They claimed that boda boda operators flout Islamic laws and the culture and heritage of Lamu by allowing female passengers to straddle their motorbikes. Dear lordy! You know what happens when a woman straddles something!
The popularity of boda bodas, they claim, had increased promiscuity among married and unmarried women.
Speaking at a community social gathering at the Lamu Fort over the weekend, CICC Lamu branch chair Mohammed Abdulkadir, Lamu County CIPK chair Abubakar Shekuwe and other Moslem leaders expressed concerns over the number of Moslem women seen straddling motorbikes.
Women who ride on cycle of violences, they lamented, expose parts of their bodies thus offending Islamic teachings.
Ustadh Abdulkadir also noted that children were dropping out of school to engage in the boda boda business, particularly on Lamu Island.
He said teenage pregnancies were also on the rise as boda boda operators give money and lifts to schoolgirls in exchange for sex.
"Lamu is a historical town with its own religious and cultural aspects. This town is populated predominantly by residents who profess the Islamic faith. We get irritated seeing our women and girls straddling boda bodas and exposing their body parts," he said.
"This are against Islamic teachings. There is a need for a county by-law introduced urgently to either ban boda bodas from operating here or Moslem women riding on these motorbikes."
Sheikh Shekuwe said motorbikes are generally not a woman-friendly means of transport.
In Islam, it is wrong for a man and a woman who are not husband and wife to be close to each other.
Sheikh Shekuwe said transport on motorbikes involves contact between the operator and the passenger.
He cited higher divorce rates on Lamu Island and blamed boda bodas.
He questioned why county officials were taking too long to remove boda bodas from Lamu town.
Lamu Old Town is arguably the most unique and beautiful Swahili town in Kenya, but the growing number of boda bodas is fast eroding efforts to preserve its cultural richness.
The Old Town was listed as a World Heritage site by Unesco in 2001 owing to its well-preserved culture and heritage spanning centuries.
Sheikh Shekuwe expressed concern that the town might lose its Unesco status if a formula is not introduced to move boda bodas out of Lamu Island.
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This old Myrtle Beach 'Bike Week' foto may prove Mohammed Abdulkadir's concerns to be justified.
[WMBF News] MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Realtors said they aren’t surprised that sales of single-family homes in the Grand Strand and surrounding areas are at a record high.
According to the June 2021 market report from the Coastal Carolina Association of REALTORS, since May, the median home sale price exceeded $350,000. That represents a 24% increase from 2020 and the largest year-over-year increase since 1999, realtors said.
Other factors contributing to the all-time high spike are low interest rates, multiple offers on homes, days on market decrease by 21.3% and limited home inventory, with a 72.1% decrease, according to the CCAR.
"The monthly market report numbers have proven, once again, that the Myrtle Beach area is one of the most desirable places to live in the country," Laura Crowther, CEO of CCAR, said. "And, with school still out for the summer and an increase of people flocking from large cities, it’s no wonder our housing market is in high demand."
Recently, U.S. News & World Report ranked Myrtle Beach No. 1 on its list of the fastest-growing places in the United States for 2021-22.
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^ Daughter's a Real Estate Agent in east San Diego County. Inventory's so low that houses sell for $40-$50K above ask, with multiple offers (including cash) in days
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#1 CT, PA and MD too. The Yankee Refugees aren't just fleeing the bad weather.
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/\ The 'New South' American tribalism. The locals know the deal. They know the locals know the deal, but don't give a damn. They tend to cluster in like-minding, senior living environments...clinging to their MB's and Lexus'.
The car tags are quickly changed. Easy to spot though, once they open their mouths.
[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in partnership with the US-led Global Coalition forces, arrested gunrunners in the eastern and western countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.
A military source from the town of al-Zer, 35 km east of Deir ez-Zor, told North Press that through a joint raid with the Global Coalition, the SDF arrested a civilians kidnapper and the largest gunrunner between the Autonomous Administration and the Syrian government areas.
The source added, that after initial investigations with him, he admitted that he was smuggling weapons and kidnapping civilians and taking them to the government-held areas in return for sums of money.
Also today, the SDF, with the participation of the Global Coalition, arrested three other people on charges of distributing and smuggling weapons in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
From time to time, the SDF and the US-led Global Coalition launch security campaigns to control the crossings and pursue the ISIS sleeper cells in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
Yesterday, two ISIS members were killed in an SDF and Global Coalition airdrop in the town of Thiban, 50 km east of Deir ez-Zor.
Pakistan’s take on Thursday’s deadly encounter for Lashkar e-Taiba big turban Abu Huraira AKA Aijaz from Pakistan and his two local henchmen. It turned out that one of the henchmen was related to Mahmoud the Weasel; MtW’s youngest daughter is in dire need of braces, so he made the fateful phone call.
[NATION.PK] In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism ... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ... martyred three more Kashmiri youth in Pulwama town.The youth were killed by the troops during a cordon and search operation in New Colony area of the town.
Authorities imposed strict curfew in Pulwama town in New Colony area of the district. Officials while confirming the imposition of curfew said that entire Pulwama town is under curfew "as a precautionary measure" to avert any untoward incident. People were informed through loudspeakers to stay indoors and not try to venture out amid curfew.
The authorities also suspended internet services in Pulwama and other areas of the South Kashmir.
Kashmir Police chief in a tweet claimed three murderous Moslems were killed in an operation. The operation was going on till last reports came in.
[ToloNews] Acting Minister of Defense Gen. Bismillah Mohammadi on Saturday said that the Afghan people and the government will not allow the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... to takeover the country through military pressure.
He said that losing territory during the war is a natural phenomenon, but territory never determines the fate of the conflict.
"The Taliban will not reach to their goals through violence. They only add to the pain and suffering of our people. But they will not reach to their evil goal. We are fully committed to defend Afghanistan," said Mohammadi.
Mohammadi made the remarks during the graduation ceremony of 135 Afghan Special Force members in Kabul. The new officers will soon be deployed to the frontlines.
Congratulations, gentlemen, and happy hunting. Goodness knows your prey is plentiful these days.
"We will not allow anyone to rule our country and soil until we are alive," said a newly Special Force graduate Sayed Tawala.
"The Afghan people must be assured," said Sakina, a Special Force officer.
The graduation comes at a time that the Taliban have taken over 200 districts in the past two months.
"Losing territory or a geography during war is a normal thing. Everyone knows that territory is being exchanged during the war, but it does not determine the main thing," said Mohammadi.
"We will defend till last drop our blood and will not permit the enemy to get to its evil objective," said Khaled Amiri, the commander of Special Forces of the Afghan National Army (ANA).
Violence dramatically increased in Afghanistan following the US announcement of withdrawing its forces from the country by August 31st.
How do you know when the socialists are actually really, really, worried?
When NPR carries a story like this.
HAVANA — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel for the first time is offering some self-criticism while saying that government shortcomings in handling shortages and other problems played a role in this week's protests.
But in a televised address Wednesday night he also called on Cubans to not act with hate — a reference to the violence that occurred at some of the rare street demonstrations in which protesters voiced grievances over high prices, food shortages and power outages, while some people also called for a change in the government.
Until now, the Cuban government had only blamed social media and the U.S. government for the weekend protests, which were the biggest seen in Cuba since a quarter century ago, when then-President Fidel Castro personally went into the streets to calm crowds of thousands furious over dire shortages following the collapse of the Soviet Union and its economic subsidies for the island.
Díaz-Canel, however, said that failings by the state played a role in the unrest.
"We have to gain experience from the disturbances," he said. "We also have to carry out a critical analysis of our problems in order to act and overcome, and avoid their repetition."
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Top ag production is sugar then tobacco as well as cassava which contains cyanide that needs to be removed before consumption. Then comes beans etc.. Those at crop priorities need a major overhaul.
[BenarNews] Indonesian police said Friday that one of two suspected Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) Death Eaters killed in a security raid in Central Sulawesi province this week was the group’s second-most senior member who initially had been misidentified.
The slain suspect was Muhammad Busra, or Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , not Ahmad Gazali, provincial police front man Didik Supranoto said.
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Op-ed piece by two Haitian academics. Worth a read as it covers a lot of the background of the past 30 years to explain why Haiti continues to be a failed country.
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elected in the first round of the November 2016 presidential elections, Moïse only garnered 590,927 votes, about 10 per cent of the electorate
Easy enough.
80% of the population didn't believe in/participate in/care for/understand, a popular vote solution. Or were starved of their motivation.
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Remember when the American ruling class was selling spreading 'democracy' in the world, at the same time they were engineering its destruction at home. True representative government is a rare thing throughout history. It doesn't naturally spring forth in the temporary absence of other governing rituals.
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Yhe US ruling class defines 'democracy' as our guys in charge as opposed to anybody else. Doesn't matter what is done, as long as they get to give the orders.
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[REGNUM] In the city of Sukhum in the "New District" there was a shootout. This was reported on Saturday, July 17, by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Abkhazia.
"Near house number 8 on September 30 street, a shootout took place, as a result of which three citizens were taken to the Central Republican Hospital with gunshot wounds," the message says.
It is noted that currently doctors in the intensive care unit continue to fight for the life of one man. Two others have died.
Employees of the investigative and operational group and experts of the forensic center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs work at the scene.
As reported by IA REGNUM , on May 20, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Abkhazia reported that one of the suspects in the murder of the nephew of the first president of the republic, Vladislav Ardzinba Kemal, was detained in Abkhazia.
Several #hospital administrators in a southern #Iraqi province abandon their posts, local authorities say, after arrest warrants are issued for senior staff following a deadly hospital fire in the city of Nasiriyah.https://t.co/584vJ2JQdg
[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... in his speech in Regional connectivity, Challenges, and Opportunities in the Uzbekistani capital Tashkent said Pakistain is acting opposite its commitment over being opposed to the military takeover of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Ghani said that the organizations who support the Taliban together with the Taliban celebrate the destruction of Assets of the Afghan people by the Taliban.
President Ghani who was talking right in front of Pakistain’s Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... said, as per intelligence estimations, there has been an influx of 10 thousand Jihadi fighters who have crossed borders from Pakistain into Afghanistan to fight along with the Taliban.
Ghani asked Pakistain to use its influence and leverage over the Taliban and get them to sit at the negotiating table.
Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan in his turn denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! by President Ghani and added that Pakistain is the only country that is suffering the most from the turmoil going on in Afghanistan.
The last thing Pakistain wants is more conflict in Afghanistan, said Khan.
Imran Khan further added that short of military action against the Taliban and Pakistain, the country has done everything to get the Taliban on the dialogue table. He called it unfair to be blamed for what is going on in Afghanistan.
President Ghani in his speech accused the Taliban of breaching their commitments made in Doha to not attack major cities. He called on the Taliban to sit at the negotiating table to prevent Afghanistan enters an acute war like Iraq, Algeria, Syria, Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that... , and other countries.
[SHAFAQ] Iraqi security forces on Saturday apprehended two ISIS turbans in Baghdad's north sector.
A statement of the Security Media Cell (SMC) said that one of the arrestees served as the Explosive devices' official of ISIS in the north Baghdad sector, while the other operated in the security detachments of the terrorist organization in the same sector.
The terrorists, according to the statements, confessed to their crimes, and they were referred to the relevant authorities to resume the investigations and legal proceedings.
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[Just the News] Expected to be included in the Congressional Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill is language that will advance the party's goals for immigration reform. Working with the White House, a group of top Capitol Hill Democrats are workshopping placing a handful of immigration measures into the spending bill that will likely be passed via budget reconciliation, that is with no Republican support.
Democrats are reportedly attempting to include pathways to citizenship for a number of illegal immigrant groups in the bill, including "dreamers," who came or were brought to the United States as minors, and farmworkers already living and working in the country. The Hispanic Caucus is also lobbying to include giving out green cards to "essential workers," including those who work on the frontlines of health professions during the pandemic, as part of the legislation.
It is not clear that the Democrats will be able to include all, or any, of these measures in the final framework of the bill, if they wish to pass it without Republican support. There will likely be a lively back-and-forth with the Senate parliamentarian (who happens to be a former immigration lawyer) regarding what immigration policy can, under the complex and sometimes obscure rules of the Senate, be included in the budget.
To qualify for Senate passage with a simple majority vote, which the $3.5 trillion package theoretically will, any given part of it must directly relate to federal revenue. It remains to be seen how Democrats will retrofit their immigration goals to meet the standards of the Senate rules in that regard.
Violent clashes involving antifa broke out at another unlawful assembly outside the Wi Spa in Los Angeles. For a second time this month, antifa confronted those who protested an alleged viral incident where someone exposed their penis to women at the spa. https://t.co/7AYQmUDau2
LAPD arrested dozens of people during a violent transgender rights protest and fired non-lethal projectiles to disperse the crowds
Members of the Proud Boys and Antifa reportedly clashed in the streets of downtown LA outside of a Koreatown spa
Videos emerged showing police in full riot gear beating protestors back with batons, buildings covered in graffiti and a reporter being attacked
LAPD said in a statement on Twitter that smoke bombs and other projectiles were thrown at officers trying to break up the crowd
Police recovered stun guns, knives and pepper spray were confiscated
The riot stemmed from a viral Instagram video of an irate customer complaining to Wi Spa staff that a transgender woman was in the women's section of the spa
[SHAFAQ] Metro Center for Journalists Rights and Advocacy demanded on Saturday holding a public trial for the defendants involved in the liquidation of the Iraqi security expert, Hisham al-Hashemi. The center said that a public trial will reveal the identity of parties behind the liquidation, adding, "it will deter whoever, individuals or parties supporting them, from committing such crimes."
"Impunity contributed to a horrific surge of liquidations that neutralized hundreds of the best intellectuals, civil activists, journalists, and protestors who took the streets to seek a homeland."
Iraqi state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
aired a video on Friday in which a police officer said he led a group that bumped off well-known analyst and government advisor Hisham al-Hashemi a year ago outside his home in Baghdad.
Hashemi, who had advised the authorities on defeating Sunni MoslemIslamic 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.... Death Eaters and curbing the influence of the pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today 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. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... Shi’ite militias, was rubbed out on July 6, 2020, in a rare high-profile killing in the Iraqi capital.
In the video broadcast by Iraqiya state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
a man in a brown jail jumpsuit identifies himself as Ahmed al-Kinani, 36, a police first lieutenant working with the interior ministry.
In brief comments, Kinani described how he led a group of four other suspects, who are still on the lam, to track down and kill Hashemi.
"I pulled my police pistol and shot four bullets into him," Kinani said, without giving a motive for the killing.
A government statement on Friday described the officer as a member of "rouge group" without naming it, and said his confession had been witnessed by a judge in the presence of the suspect's lawyer.
"We promised to capture Hisham al-Hashemi's killers. We fulfilled that promise," Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi wrote on Twitter shortly before the video was shown on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
No one had grabbed credit for Hashemi's killing, which took place in the Zayouna district of eastern Baghdad and came at a time of rising tension between Kadhimi's government and powerful Iran-backed militias and political parties who oppose him and accuse him of siding with the United States.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Rochester’s Mayor Lovely Warren is facing a new round of felony charges today related to firearms and child endangerment, following a police raid at her house back in May of this year that led to the arrest of her husband in what was a cocaine distribution ring.
He’s also facing these newest charges. Warren previously denied knowledge about her husband’s (Timothy Granison’s) activities.
According to Democrat & Chronicle the charges against Democrat Mayor Lovely Warren stem from the May 2021 raid at her house. On that occasion her husband Timothy Granison was arrested on three charges related to drugs and firearms.
While separated from her husband, Mayor Warren still lived with him and their ten-year-old daughter. The Daily Wire at the time said that the couple’s daughter was the only one home at the time of the house search.
On Monday, Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley announced charges against Warren.
"Both are charged with criminal possession of a firearm, a felony, and two counts each of endangering the welfare of a child and failure to lock/secure firearms in a dwelling, both misdemeanors," Democrat & Chronicle says, citing the district attorney’s office.
It was late last year (as well as earlier this year) that Black Lives Matter activists rioted in the city in response to the Rochester Police Department’s handling of Daniel Prude. The 41-year-old black man ran naked in the streets and had to be restrained. He died of asphyxiation in the process.
[IsraelTimes] Network airs footage of daily sessions being held in the compound, with police turning a blind eye, in what would appear to be a reversal of decades-long policy.
Interesting: #Iran’s IRGC has again begun recruiting Afghan migrants and refugees to be sent to #Lebanon for military training, IranWire’s sources have said. https://t.co/M4CXVjwAf3
[SHAFAQ] "The Promised Day Brigade", PDB, (al-Yawm al-Maw'oud), affiliated with the Peace Companies of the Sadrist movement, executed a show of force in the streets of Najaf ahead of its participation in securing the annual pilgrimage in Muharram.
Shafaq News Agency correspondent said that the brigade troops stationed in Kufa downtown in Najaf governorate and blocked a few roads.
A statement of the Peace companies, aka Saraya al-Salam, said on Saturday, "Under the direct supervision of the Najaf Brigade Commander, Ali al-Ghurabi, and in coordination with the security forces, the Peace Companies-the Najaf Brigade of the Second Division Command is to participate in the security plan for the anniversary of the martyrdom of the ambassador of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him) Moslem Ibn Aqil."
The Promised Day Brigade was established as a successor of the disbanded the Army of Mahdi (Jaish al-Mahdi), Iraq's largest armed faction before disbanding it in 2008.
[ToloNews] Silsila Alikhil, daughter of Najibullah Alikhil the Afghan ambassador in Pakistain, was kidnapped and tortured before being released, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The ministry condemned the act and called for safety to Afghanistan’s diplomatic mission in Pakistain.
The daughter of the Afghan ambassador to Islamabad Ms. Silsila Alikhil, was kidnapped for several hours and severely tortured by unknown individuals on her way home," the ministry said in a statement.
After being released from the kidnappers' captivity, Alikhil is under medical care at a hospital in Islamabad, the statement added.
MoFA said it is concerned over the safety and security of diplomats, their families, and staff members of the Afghan political and consular missions in Pakistain.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on the Government of Pakistain to take immediate necessary actions to ensure full security of the Afghan embassy and consulates as well as the immunity of the country's diplomats and their families in accordance with international treaties and conventions, the statement said.
"While the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs is following the matter with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistain, we urge the Pak government to identify and prosecute the perpetrators at the soonest possible time," the statement concluded.
[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan foreign ministry summoned Pak ambassador to Kabul this afternoon after the daughter of Afghanistan’s ambassador to Islamabad was manhandled and tortured.The Pak ambassador to Kabul hours after he was summoned in a Twitter post said that PM Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... has ordered the interior ministry to utilize all sources to apprehend the culprits of the incident. Khan has added that the incident should be investigated on top priority.
The daughter of Afghanistan ambassador to Islamabad Selsela Alikhel was man-handled in Islamabad while riding a rented vehicle. She was then released after being tortured by unknown button men.
[SHAFAQ] An official security source reported on Saturday that four Iraqi army forces were killed in an attack on a military point in the west of Kirkuk Governorate.
The source told Shafaq News Agency, that ISIS launched an attack on an Iraqi Army post in the village of "Idris Arab", al-Dibs district, west of Kirkuk which killed four members of the Iraqi army.
In 2017, Iraq declared final victory over ISIS after Iraqi forces drove its last remnants from the country, three years after the bad boy group captured about a third of Iraq’s territory.
Yet, ISIS still has sleeper cells in several Iraqi Governorates.
Talking the Bovine kind of cow - not the leftist...
[NYPost] People in the Philippines are so loath to get the COVID-19 vaccine, one town is offering free cows as an incentive, a report said Monday.
Local officials in San Luis, within the Pampanga province about 50 miles north of Manila, are raffling off a cow each month to inoculated residents as a means to encourage people to get the jab, Al Jazeera reported.
"Winning a cow might not mean much in other places but here in San Luis, we’re agricultural, so it’s the ideal incentive," Ardee Taruc, the town’s disaster mitigation officer, told the outlet.
The cows, supplied by local donors and worth about $628, could be a ticket out of extreme poverty for some residents, the outlet said. It’d be able to eat for free on an abundant supply of grass in the locale and a farmer could start a herd, use the cow to carry heavy goods and sell its milk, the outlet said.
"It’s up to the winners if they want to slaughter the cows," Taruc said.
Vaccine hesitancy, coupled with a sluggish roll out, has been a major issue in the southeast Asian country, which is grappling with one of the worst outbreaks in the region.
The New York Times gets such a thrill from revealing the secrets of their enemies, like Israel and America.
[IsraelTimes] Israel has continued to allow cyber-surveillance companies to secretly work with 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... , despite the killing of dissident journalist beloved martyr of journalism Jamal Khashoggi ......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal...... , The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reports.
Citing government officials and other sources familiar with the matter, the newspaper says controversial private intelligence firm NSO Group cut ties with Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi’s 2018 killing in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the Israeli government encouraged it and two other firms to keep working with the Saudis. A fourth firm wasn also reportedly given a license to work with Saudi Arabia.
According to the report, one of the firms given permission by the Defense Ministry to work with Saudi Arabia is named Candiru. On Thursday, Microsoft said it issued a software update to block spy tools developed by the firm that were allegedly used to snoop on over 100 people worldwide, including dissidents, activists and journalists.
The other two firms named in the report that have licenses to work with Saudi Arabia are Verint and Quadream, the latter of which was said to have begun working with Riyadh following the Khashoggi killing.
The Defense Ministry tells the Times in response that it will revoke the license of any company whose wares are used to violate human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... , while declining to discuss specific licenses it has issued.
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And there they were in that airplane selfie, not one wearing a mask.
[FOX] Several of the Texas Democrats who fled the state capital to avoid voting on an election integrity bill have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Three of the 60 Texas House Democrats tested positive for the virus while staying in Washington, D.C., according to Texas House Democratic Caucus leadership.
The members who tested positive will be forced to isolate themselves for 10 days.
All three members had been fully vaccinated before they and nearly 60 other representatives crowded onto buses and chartered planes Tuesday to deny a quorum in a special legislative session called by Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... In the days since, the group has made the rounds on Capitol Hill to lobby for passage of the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Democrat-pushed bills that would federalize elections and override GOP state laws targeting voter fraud.
The runaway Dems held a non-socially-distanced meeting with Vice President Harris, visited Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.61507 years, or 319.30549 years in dog years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... in his office, and crowded together to sing an off-key version of "We Shall Overcome" for the press.
[ToloNews] The Afghan National Security and Defense Forces retook the control of Sheikh Ali district in Parwan province in central Afghanistan, security officials said Saturday.
There are reports that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... has taken over Dand district in the southern province of Kandahar.
Security officials have said that fighting continues in 15 provinces including Taluqan city, Maimana city, Kandahar and Gahzni provinces.
"This war is not only the Taliban war, but it is a great conspiracy of the region, we will fight against it," said Khair Mohammad Taimoor, police commander of Takhar.
"The enemy suffered casualties and retreated. We cleared surrounding areas of the city," said Fida Mohammad, the commander of Afghan Special Forces ...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... in Takhar.
According to the Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD), 284 Taliban fighters have been killed and over 200 more maimed in different parts of the country in the past 24 hours.
"Fighting is underway in the suburbs of the city, the people in Taluqan city are in fear during the nights," said Arian, a resident in Taluqan city, the center of Takhar province in the northern Afghanistan.
"We call on the government to take Takhar out of this chaos," said a resident of Taluqan Ahmad Zia.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... residents in Faryab have also expressed concerns over the fragile security situation.
"The situation in Faryab is very critical, unfortunately 14 districts of Faryab have collapsed," said a resident in Faryab Khairullah Shuja.
"The situation is very tense, the war rages on inside the city," said a resident in Maimana Jawed.
In the southern Afghanistan, there are reports that the Taliban have taken the control of Dand district.
"We have the military advancement continues so that the way is paved for the recapture of other districts," said Fazluddin Ayyar, the governor of Parwan.
Some politicians in Afghanistan’s parliament meanwhile casted doubts over the collapse of districts in the southern Kandahar province.
"Kandahar has suffered political collapse. Several districts collapsed in one phone call," said MP Khan Agha Rezayee.
Afghan government statistics show that 284 Taliban fighters were killed and 205 more were maimed in 15 provinces of the country in the past 24 hours. But Taliban has rejected the figures.
Hundreds of people are arrested and businesses shut in the #Ethiopian capital on suspicion of supporting #Tigrayan rebels in the country’s war-torn northern region, police tell state media.https://t.co/UdDoCxGURS
[Rudaw] Finland has repatriated about 30 of its 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) affiliated nationals from northeast Syria (Rojava) and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , including a woman and her children who were returned on Friday, a special envoy from the Finnish foreign ministry told Rudaw English on Saturday.
"Finland has so far repatriated ca. 30 individuals that were kept in al-Hol camp: 10 children and 3 mothers were handed over by NES authorities," said Jussi Tanner said, referring to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES).
The others were brought back via Turkey: "approximately one dozen children and 4 mothers first escaped al-Hol in 2019-2020 and were repatriated by the foreign service of Finland via Turkey," he added.
Tanner refused to provide the exact number of those repatriated "in order to protect the privacy of the children."
He led a Finnish delegation that arrived in Rojava on Wednesday and returned to Finland on Friday, taking with them an ISIS-affiliated Finnish woman and her two children who had been held at Roj camp, according to Kurdish authorities and a Finnish statement.
"The mother of the two children was also repatriated. It was not possible to repatriate only the children. In all official activities, priority has been given to the best interests of the child," Helsinki stated on Friday, adding it plans to bring home the remaining children still held in Rojava camps "as soon as possible."
Rojava authorities handed over 10 Belgian children and six women, who were their mothers, to Brussels on Thursday.
According to Helsinki, there are still nearly 900 European citizens — 600 children and 300 women — in Rojava’s camps, including several Finns.
An official security source in the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said today, Saturday, that the PMF members controlled a camp of ISIS west of Al-Anbar after violent clashes between the two sides.
The source told Shafaq News Agency, "The PMF launched this morning an operation to purify the desert areas of ISIS elements then it clashed with terrorist Organization and controlled its military camp."
The source added that "the PMF forces won the confrontation and control the ISIS camp in the western al-Anbar desert, they also confiscated vehicles and destroyed others."
For its part, The PMF leader in al-Anbar, Awad al-Jaghifi, revealed on Saturday, an increase in the number of ISIS members in Haditha district, west of the Governorate.
Al-Jaghifi said in an interview with Shafaq News Agency, that "the weak intelligence effort and the failure to implement security missions, in addition to the failure to control the Iraqi-Syrian borders are the main reason of ISIS spread in the area."
He added, "The number of ISIS elements has begun to increase in the areas of western al-Anbar, especially the areas of al-Shamiya and al-Jazira, which are affiliated to Haditha District."
Al-Jaghifi explained, "Yes, there is coordination between the security services, but the duties are not carried out as they should be,...the security forces in the areas of al-Shamiya and al-Jazira are not enough."
Al-Jaghifi continued, "The failure to hold the Iraqi-Syrian borders properly since the liberation operations until now, facilitates the Organization's elements to infiltrate and move to and from Iraqi territory."
And he added, "Our demands are still the same as they were in the past, which we often demanded from the federal government and the General Command of the Armed Forces, namely armaments and mechanisms only since the number of fighters is sufficient and all of them receive their salaries."
He noted that it is not possible to "control the desert areas of al-Anbar, without providing sufficient mechanisms and weapons, in addition to carrying out intensive duties no less than twice a week."
Al-Jaghifi concluded his speech by saying, "We need to deploy thermal surveillance cameras in the desert, whatever the cost."
[PJMedia] Editor’s note: PJM contributor Raymond Ibrahim’s book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, was recently translated into French and released in La Belle France. Arnaud Imatz of the French magazine La Nef interviewed him about it (online version here). The full English version of that interview follows (a much shorter version appears here).
The American Raymond Ibrahim has just published a fascinating and erudite history of the centuries-old conflicts between Islam and Christianity: L’épée et le cimeterre (Jean-Cyrille Godefroy Editions). This book is the almost exhaustive account of the fourteen centuries of antagonisms and fights, major or minor, which took place since Yarmuk (636), until the end of the Barbaresque wars (1830), through the famous battles of Guadalete (711), Poitiers-Tours (732), Manzikert (1071), Hattin (1187), Las Navas de Tolosa (1212), Koulikovo (1380), Constantinople (1453), Malta (1565), Lepanto (1571) and Vienna (1683).
A historian, linguist and philologist, and a specialist in oriental languages, Ibrahim has methodically exploited first-hand sources, both Moslem and "Western", and has consulted numerous manuscripts from the Library of Congress in Washington. His book is not only a detailed chronicle of the battles, it is also and above all a rigorous analysis of the intentions and strategies of the various warring leaders. Ibrahim shows that the Moslem forces were essentially obeying a religious, messianic, expansionist, conquering logic, whereas the Christian armies wanted above all to recover territories that for centuries had been Roman, Greek and Christian. He also shows that the religious fervor of today’s Islamists overlaps exactly with ancestral Islamic dogmas, that Western reactions are 1400-year-old self-defense mechanisms, and that current rivalries are the reflection of a very old existential struggle. We interviewed him for La Nef.
La Nef: Is the hostility between Islam and Christianity an accident of history or is it part of the continuity of Islamic history?
Ibrahim: It is most certainly part of a continuum. The problem is that modern historians tend to sideline this religious aspect, and focus instead on national identities. For example, we know that for centuries, a great array of "Eastern" peoples invaded and sometimes conquered portions of Christendom. Modern historians give them a variety of names—including Arabs, Moors, Berbers, Turks, and Tatars; other times they are called Umayyads, Abbasids, Seljuks, Ottomans, etc. What modern historians fail to do, however, is point out that all these groups relied on the same exact jihadist logic and rhetoric that contemporary terrorist groups such as 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.... do today. Whether it was the Arabs (or "Saracens") who first invaded Christendom in the seventh century, or the Turks and Tatars who terrorized Eastern Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... into the eighteenth century—all of them justified their invasions by citing Islamic teaching, namely, that it is Islam’s "destiny" to rule the whole world through the means of jihad. They also followed the classical juridical injunctions of, for example, offering the "infidels" three choices before battle—conversion to Islam, acceptance of dhimmi status and payment of tribute (jizya), or death. And, once they conquered a Christian area, they immediately destroyed or transformed churches into mosques, and sold whichever Christians were not slaughtered into abject, and often sexual, slavery.
The degree to which the modern West fails to realize this is evident in its claim that groups like the Islamic State are not behaving according to Islamic teaching and doctrine. In fact, not only are they acting in strict accordance with Islam’s traditional worldview—hating, combating, killing and enslaving infidels—but they often intentionally emulate the great jihadists of history (such as Khalid bin al-Walid, the "Sword of Allah") whom the West tends to know nothing about.
La Nef: In your opinion, the term "West" masks the real history because it suggests that the "Eastern" and North African lands conquered by Islam (Syria, Egypt, Asia Minor, North Africa), that is to say two thirds of the original Christian territories, were not really part of the Greco-Roman Christian heritage, contrary to what is usually said of the Christian regions of the Balkans or Hispania. Why do we always refer to the Byzantine Empire and never to the Greek-Roman Christian Empire?
Ibrahim: Yes, just as post-Christian Europe and its offshoots (America, Australia, etc.) fail to understand Islam’s true history, so too do they fail to understand their own true history—especially as impacted by Islam. What is now referred to as "the West" was for centuries known and demarcated by the territorial extent of its religion (hence the older and historically more accurate term, "Christendom"). It included all the lands you mention and more; they had become Christian, many centuries before Islam arrived and were part of the same overarching civilization. Then Islam came and violent mostly peacefully conquered the majority of those territories, some permanently (the Middle East, North Africa, Anatolia), some temporarily (Spain, the Balkans, the Mediterranean islands). During this time, most of Europe became the last and most redoubtable bastion of Christendom not to be conquered though constantly attacked by Islam. In this (forgotten) sense, the term "the West" becomes ironically accurate. For the West was actually and literally the westernmost remnant of what was a much more extensive civilizational block that Islam permanently severed. Overall, however, the term "the West" shortchanges its own history with and truncation by Islam. It further implies that all those "Eastern" lands conquered by Islam were never part of "Western civilization," when in fact they were the original inheritors of its Greco-Roman and Christian heritage.
Which leads to the so-called "Byzantine Empire." In 330, Roman emperor Constantine the Great built a new capital for the empire, which he named "New Rome" (though it was later dubbed Constantinople in his honor). Although it was profoundly Christian; although it was Old Rome’s direct successor and survived the former’s fall by a thousand years; although everyone, friend and foe, called it "Roman"; and although it was Christendom’s easternmost bulwark against Islam for centuries, since 1857 it has been known as "Byzantium"—another neologism that severs the continuity and significance of the post-Christian West’s own history and heritage.
Collectively, all these terms—"the West," "Byzantium," etc.—do one thing: they remove the "C" word—Christianity—from the consciousness of the descendants of those who fought and died for it. They are part of the same trend that has supplanted terms such as B.C. (Before Christ) with B.C.E. (Before the Common Era)—even as one wonders in vain what differentiates the so-called "common era" from what came before it, other than Christ.
La Nef: The battle of Manzikert, which was for the Turks what Yarmuz was for the Arabs, is celebrated as a great victory of Islam by Erdogan and Ottoman Turkish dignitaries. On the other hand, the leaders of countries like La Belle France and Spain prefer to ignore or underestimate the historical importance of Tours-Poitiers or Las Navas de Tolosa. Many French scholars no longer consider the battle of Poitiers-Tour (732) as a "turning point" but rather as a "minor raid episode". Should we see in this attitude signs of the revival of fighting Islam and, conversely, of European pacifism and renunciation?
Ibrahim: Yes, you should most certainly see this, because that is precisely what these attitudes signify. But I would argue that, for the European elite, the matter is worse than merely "downplaying" their ancestors’ defensive victories against Islam. Some are actively condemning them. For a growing number of Spaniards, for example, the Reconquista—centuries of warfare to liberate Spain from Islam—is a source of shame, a reminder of how "intolerant" and "backwards" their forbears were, particularly vis-à-vis the supposedly "tolerant" and "advanced" Moslems of al-Andalus. In reality, the shame such elites have for their ancestors, and the praise they have for their ancestors’ enemies, is indicative of the degree to which they have been indoctrinated in a "history" that is antithetical to reality.
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Foolish French just learning in 2021? It's tough to support ignorance.
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Better than those whom appear to never learn (read that our Washington D.C. elite). I'll have another very small slice of that Parisian Flan please.
"According to information from unofficial sources, Azerbaijan intends to provoke new military clashes in Artsakh (unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic - TASS) and on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. Manifestations of that we see today at the Nakhichevan section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Incidents provoked by Azerbaijan do not allow us to start working on the delimitation and demarcation of the border," Pashinyan said.
Negotiations on Karabakh within Minsk Group
Armenia is ready to resume the negotiation process on the final settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group, Pashinyan announced.
"The use of force and massive crimes cannot help resolve the Karabakh conflict, the settlement of which is possible only through negotiations under the auspices of the only format with an international mandate - the OSCE Minsk Group. I have already stated several times that Armenia is ready to resume the negotiation process in accordance with the items of the April 13 statement of the Minsk Group," Pashinyan said.
Baku and Yerevan have disputed the ownership of the region since February 1988. The OSCE Minsk Group, co-chaired by Russia, the United States, and France, was created as a format for finding ways to peacefully resolve the conflict. It also includes Belarus, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
The situation in the conflict zone around Nagorno-Karabakh escalated on September 27. After a month and a half of fighting in the conflict zone, on November 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint statement on the complete cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh.
On April 13, Aliyev said he expects proposals from the Minsk Group on its further functioning and noted that it could play a positive role in the further establishment of a peaceful life in the region. On the same day, the Minsk Group called on the parties to refrain from mutual accusations and begin preparations for constructive negotiations.
[CFP] Black Rifle Coffee called supporters of Kyle Rittenhouse ’repugnant’ and labeled Proud Boys as ’racists.’
"It’s like the worst of American society, and I got to flush the toilet of some of those people." Since you say you'd be willing to pay to get rid of me, I want my buyout in unmarked $20's
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Local (MN) Caribou Coffee Obsidian - pretty good, though not as good as the coffee I got when I was living on Kaua'i. Never tried BRC, but if this moke will pay me, I promise never to.
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Red State wonders if there is a gotcha based on an incomplete quote, and :
Wall Street doesn’t like conservative companies, especially ones with a political face. The mopes that will flock to Black Rifle’s board of directors will be left-leaning types who won’t like the way it is run and its zero-f***s-left-to-give attitude. If the company does go public, then Hafer will be dancing to the tune of a bunch of gutless wonders who are afraid to offend anyone.
Going back to Hofer’s aphorism, I’d like to add Robert Conquest’s Second Law of Politics, that is, “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.” (Check out the conservative media landscape and look at the outlets and think tanks that were doctrinaire conservatives a decade ago but today are defending Joe Biden and who tried to defeat President Trump twice.)
Just as Black Rifle Coffee is on the cusp of changing its financial structure, it is also arriving at a philosophical decision point. Will it stay conservative and cater to the people that made it successful? Will it go “woke”? Will it complete the transition from a cause to a grift? Unfortunately, the signs aren’t all that great.
I’m leery of making a judgement based on anything the New York Times reported, so I’ll await more information before deciding.
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I get the green beans shipped in from SweetMarias.com and roast my own. Comparable price to store bought even with shipping and tax. Much better than Charbucks. I swear they use inferior beans and over roast.
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Best I ever had was from a now out of business place called Kick Ass Coffee Company in Hawaii. Found it when I was on a trip to see the Keck Telescopes.
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Kick ass coffee returns something different for me M. Perhaps Bad Ass coffee in Hawaii? Thx for sharing and always enjoy the opportunity for a nice cup of Kona
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#14, you have made my day! I want more of that good stuff. Looking under the wrong name was thwarting me. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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I don't trust the NYT but...
Black Rifle Coffee did have an interview with NYTs and they've had over 24 hours to make a statement about the quotes, clarifying or correcting them and have remained silent.
[CBSNews] Three New Jersey brothers will pay $1.6 million to settle charges of instigating more than 45 million illegal robocalls nationwide, including to tens of millions of Americans on the Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call Registry, the agency announced on Friday.
The siblings also agreed to a permanent ban on telemarketing and will hand over a residential property to resolve the agency's allegations, made in a complaint filed by Department of Justice on behalf of the FTC.
According to the FTC's suit, Joseph, Sean and Raymond Carney initiated more than 45 million illegal telemarketing calls to people across the U.S. between January 2018 and March 2019 to pitch a line of septic tank cleaning products. Most of the calls, or 31 million, were placed to numbers on the FTC's registry of people who don't want to receive marketing calls.
Telemarketers working on behalf of the brothers falsely told consumers they were calling from an environmental company to offer free information on their septic tank cleaning products, the complaint charges.
Instead, people staying on the call allegedly got a sales pitch. People who bought the products and had outstanding balances were falsely told they would be referred to an attorney or collection agency, according to the government.
"The defendants continued to call consumers despite the consumers having told the defendants to stop calling and to place the consumers' telephone number on the defendants' internal do not call list," the complaint states.
Joseph and Sean Carney, two officers of Environmental Safety International , or ESI, are prohibited from billing or trying to collect payments from anyone in connection with the business, which must be dissolved within 30 days, the settlement stipulates.
Efforts to contact ESI were unsuccessful, with a company phone number disconnected.
The Federal Communications Commission last month started requiring wireless companies to adopt authentication technology to block robocalls. Americans got roughly 4 billion spam calls in May alone, according to the makers of call blocking app YouMail.
"We want to stop robocalls and make it easier for consumers to safely answer the phone, Acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel recently told CBS News Consumer Investigative Correspondent Anna Werner. Rosenworcel called the new regulation "crucial" in stopping scammers.
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The telephone companies make money on robocalls. Therefore they will never stop. Surprising that anyone got fined, typically federal regulators are in on the take and won't investigate. Note how the telephone companies didn't get fined for allowing what they clearly knew were robocalls.
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Will I still get my 'extend your car warranty' calls?
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The Robo callers should be required to pay a $1000 fine per violation and/or a percentage of all violated No-Call List owners monthly bills on the No-Call List.
With just a $1.6M fine for 45M calls of which 31M were NC's and no jail time. The FED's have made it still profitable to violated the law and get caught.
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I don't answer calls that don't match entries in my contact list. If you need to actually talk to me legit, leave a voicemail. I find it interesting that robocalls that go to voice mail usually have the beginning of the message cut off because the delay going to voicemail is not taken into account.
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Ya gotta nice business here. Shame if something happened to it.
A young man was shot dead during a second night of protests over water shortages in southwest #Iran, a local official confirms, blaming armed protesters for the shooting, state news agency IRNA reports.https://t.co/9zLMqckZEe
Protesters erupted into the streets for a second consecutive night in Iran’s oil-rich southwest to protest water shortages, videos shared on social media showed, with reports of security forces shooting dead at least one protester.Security forces rubbed out Iranian Arab citizen Mostafa Naeemawi in the city of Shadegan (al-Falahiya) in Khuzestan province during Friday night’s unrest, Al Arabiya Farsi reported, citing local sources.
The protests began late on Thursday in several cities in Khuzestan province, including its capital, Ahwaz, according to videos shared online. The region is home to a large ethnic Arab population.
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Several videos shared on social media showed a large crowd chanting in Arabic late on Friday in the city of Susangerd (al-Khafajiya). "The thieves robbed us in the name of religion," protesters in Susangerd could be heard chanting in Arabic in one video, in reference to Iran’s Shia theocracy.
The government sent a delegation on Friday to Ahwaz to tackle the water shortages that have sparked the protests, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Iran’s Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian warned in May of water shortages in the summer, saying this year was "one of the driest in 50 years."
The water shortages have also led to power outages which sparked protests in several cities earlier this month. Some of the protests turned political with chants against Iran’s highest authority, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... The protests in Khuzestan come as thousands of workers in Iran’s key energy sector have launched strikes for better wages and working conditions.
Iran’s economy has been hit hard since 2018 when former US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... withdrew Washington from the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers and reimposed sweeping sanctions on the country. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the country’s economic problems.
[Garowe] The Somali National Army [SNA] has retaken Ba'adweyn town in Mudug, central Somalia, top military officials said, hours after deadly festivities with the al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... murderous Moslems, who had dislodged them from the strategic center.
Al-Shabaab captured the town a couple of weeks ago after a fierce shootout with the government troops, who were forced to immediately abandon it for their own safety. They have been collecting taxes from the locals besides plans to set a parallel administration.
Pictures by state media show military personnel from the 21st division raising the Somali flag at their former base. The town in Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... state changed hands in recent weeks, and al-Shabaab has been keen to stay around in their bid to ouster fragile UN-backed Somalia administration.
According to the state media, the national army managed to destroy four bases that had been established by the gunnies in the town, besides removing several Improvised Explosive Devices [IEDs] which had been implanted by the terrorists.
"Somali National Army and Galmudug regional Darwish forces are conducting offensive operations to flush out the bully boyz in southern of Mudug region," state media reported. "The troops destroyed four Shabaab bases, foiled suicide kaboom, and removed IEDs."
Early on Friday, a boom-mobile went off near a military base in the vicinity of al-Shabaab-held Ba'adweyne town in Mudug, central Somalia, with reports indicating that the gunnies were prepared for an offensive to push the military further from the outskirts of the town.
Security officials confirmed that the blast was foiled after the government forces shot the driver. No casualties on SNA were reported, but the gunnies are said to have suffered immense losses during the foiled attack. It's after the attack the military managed to retake the town.
The al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab however, claimed it launched a car kaboom on Friday on a military base housing Somali army forces and Galmudug regional troops near Ba'adweyne, adding that it managed to kill four soldiers besides destroying one SNA vehicle.
In recent weeks, Ba'adweyn town has been an epicenter of the festivities between the government troops and the al-Shabaab murderous Moslems. The military has heightened operations against al-Shabaab in Middle Shabelle and parts of Lower Shabelle and Jubba ahead of AMISOM exit later on this year.
[Iran Press TV] Iraq’s Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq resistance movement says the Iraqi government is not entitled to keep any foreign forces in the country without the authorization of the country’s parliament, stressing that the American forces’ presence in Iraq runs counter to the Arab country’s constitution."The presence of American troops in Iraq is a clear violation of the Iraqi constitution," Mahmoud al-Rubaie, front man of the resistance movement’s political bureau, told Iran’s Tasnim news agency.
"Furthermore, there is no agreement or approval for the presence of these forces in Iraq from the parliament of Iraq, as a country with a parliamentary system, and the government has no right to keep any foreign troops on the Iraqi soil without the consent of the parliament," al-Rubaei said.
He pointed out that the incumbent Iraqi government has admitted, unlike previous governments, that the US forces are neither training nor advisory forces, but rather, they belong to the US Army’s Ground Force, who have committed a series of crimes in Iraq.
"Among the crimes committed by the American forces in Iraq, we can mention the biggest, which is the martyrdom of the commanders of victory," al-Rubaei said.
He was making a reference to the US liquidation of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today 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. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... ’s top anti-terror commander, General Qassem Soleimani , along with deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, at Baghdad International Airport in January 2020, after which Iraq’s Parliament passed a law demanding the expulsion of all US-led forces.
[Iran Press TV] A Colombian police chief claims a former Haitian Justice Ministry official ordered two former Colombian soldiers to assassinate President Jovenel Moise.
Moise was assassinated by a hit squad at his private residence in the capital Port-au-Prince on July 7.
Haitian authorities say the operation involved at least 26 people, many of them Colombian mercenaries, who were hired through the Florida-based security company CTU.
Speaking in an edited video clip provided to media outlets, the police chief, Jorge Vargas, said an investigation by Haitian and Colombian authorities alongside Interpol into the murder had revealed that Joseph Felix Badio may have ordered the liquidation.
Badio had first told the former soldiers — Duberney Capador and German Rivera — that they would be "arresting" the president, Vargas said.
But a few days before the operation, Badio told them that the plan had been changed and that "what they had to do was assassinate the president of Haiti," Vargas added.
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"This is a big plot, a lot of people are part of it," Haiti's Acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph said in a news conference. "I am determined to move the investigation forward."
Emphasis added.
How did the "LOTS OF PEOPLE" communicate? Anyone listening? NSA, FBI, Interpol... Yes? No? Bueller, anyone?
Anything more on Florida based CTU Security? I thought not.
[BIZPACREVIEW] Following an Arizona Senate hearing Thursday about the ongoing audit of Maricopa County’s election results, a Republican state senator issued stunning tweets calling for the state’s electors to be recalled and a new election held.
State Sen. Wendy Rogers, a retired Air Force pilot, posted the tweets after Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan, CyFIR founder Ben Cotton and Arizona Senate Liaison Ken Bennett testified about their current findings.
"Thousands of names were added to the voting rolls after election day, but are recorded as casting a ballot in the 2020 election," Logan claimed at one point in the hearing.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck slipped the sriracha into the habañero, and the habañero into the roasted jalapeño... all three slammed the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for refusing to hand over the additional information needed to complete the audit.
"Auditors want passwords the county says it doesn’t have, and they also want computer network equipment directly related to the election and a complete copy of the Maricopa County voter registration database," according to Phoenix station KNXV.
Combined, the board’s refusal to comply, Logan’s alleged finding and the whole issue with mail-in ballots reportedly being sent to people who’d never requested them was "enough" for Rogers.
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/\ Yes, it really is shocking to the deplorable conspiracy theorists and anti-JAB crowd. We probably should just go ahead and volunteer to be monitored. Reporting our on-line ammunition purchases and recent FB entries might also be helpful.
#Syrian President Bashar #Assad is sworn in for a fourth seven-year term in the war-torn country, pledging to overcome the impact of Western economic sanctions and retake territory still out of his control after 10 years of fighting.https://t.co/1tPJyYwSAQ
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.
[LI] As per the norm, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy nailed the Biden White House Friday after their Thursday announcement about how they were "flagging problematic [COVID] posts for Facebook that spread disinformation."
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...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...46th president of the U.S. 
[All Africa] 
This old Myrtle Beach 'Bike Week' foto may prove Mohammed Abdulkadir's concerns to be justified. .jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
"We will not allow anyone to rule our country and soil until we are alive," said a newly Special Force graduate Sayed Tawala.
HAVANA — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel for the first time is offering some self-criticism while saying that government shortcomings in handling shortages and other problems played a role in this week's protests.
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
...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 
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Rochester’s Mayor 
[SHAFAQ] "The Promised Day Brigade", PDB, (al-Yawm al-Maw'oud), affiliated with the Peace Companies of the Sadrist movement, executed a show of force in the streets of Najaf ahead of its participation in securing the annual pilgrimage in Muharram.
...aka 
...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...
[FOX] Several of the Texas Democrats who fled the state capital to avoid voting on an election integrity bill have tested positive for the coronavirus. 
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...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 
[CFP] Black Rifle Coffee called supporters of Kyle Rittenhouse ’repugnant’ and labeled Proud Boys as ’racists.’
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[BIZPACREVIEW] Following an Arizona Senate hearing Thursday about the ongoing audit of 
