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Arizona Audit Twitter Accounts Removed by Big Tech
Wednesday July 28th, 2021

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Nigeria school kidnappers abduct man delivering ransom
How Will Recent Events in Tunisia Affect Libya's Muslim Brotherhood?
Tajikistan fears entering extremists from Afghanistan.
US bans low altitude flights over Afghanistan due to surge in militant activities
Taliban victory in Afghanistan is victory of entire Muslims: TTP leader
TX Operation Lone Star in the News
Wealthy Democratic donor Ed Buck, 66, found guilty of providing fatal meth doses to two men in exchange for sex as part of twisted 'party and play' fetish, now faces life in prison

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11143 views] Top|| File under:

#1  *nosebleeds*
Posted by: Wren || 07/28/2021 2:02 Comments || Top||

#2  ^😂
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 2:05 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Spike Spolutch2490 || 07/28/2021 2:43 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Spike Spolutch2490 || 07/28/2021 2:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Dancer Rod Strong and Show Girl Wife, Dale Strong, Backstage in Dressing Room at the Latin Quarter
Posted by: Spike Spolutch2490 || 07/28/2021 2:51 Comments || Top||

#6  We are going to break for breakfast, how many breakfast burritos do you want ? 1 or 2 ...
Posted by: Spike Spolutch2490 || 07/28/2021 3:14 Comments || Top||

#7 
[Hurls a rock]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 3:55 Comments || Top||

#8  ^And if you miss?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 4:01 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Miss that?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 4:03 Comments || Top||

#10  You hit a communist orbiting her so it is still a win.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/28/2021 8:22 Comments || Top||

#11  Truly excellent find, Fred. Keep it up....um...
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/28/2021 10:16 Comments || Top||

#12  Anyone getting "Strong" urges?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#13  Ha! Erection puns!

[raises hand looking left and right]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 10:42 Comments || Top||

#14  I think Spike went to sleep. This is becoming a real Stacy Abrams breakfast. Oh just any gal will do about now!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#15 
Posted by: Spike Spolutch2490 || 07/28/2021 11:57 Comments || Top||

#16 
Posted by: Spike Spolutch2490 || 07/28/2021 12:00 Comments || Top||

#17  You men need to pull yourselves together. How do you start with the adorable Dale Strong and arrive at the unspeakable.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/28/2021 12:13 Comments || Top||

#18  OK, we went from radically pretty Dale Strong to radically grotesque Stacy the Hut. This is an extremely disturbing turn of events. Gentlemen, please, try to stay on topic.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 13:38 Comments || Top||

#19 
Pole Dancing Is Now an Officially Recognized International Sport
Posted by: Punky Black2379 || 07/28/2021 15:16 Comments || Top||

#20  Still trying to recover from Simone Bile pulling herself from Olympic competition. Mental issues I'm hearing.
Posted by: jpal || 07/28/2021 16:53 Comments || Top||

#21  Ref #19. Open to non-females? Age restrictions ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 17:02 Comments || Top||

#22  #21 Answers

Please See IPSF for all the details, both sexes are represented, physical size guides the sport, not necessarily age.
Posted by: Punky Black2379 || 07/28/2021 17:20 Comments || Top||

#23  Seen on Facebook: An MD and former college gymnast explains why Ms Biles made that choice, and why she agrees.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2021 23:14 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Bandits steal truckloads of copper worth millions in southern Africa - sources
[Reuters] LONDON/JOHANNESBURG - Crime gangs have stolen dozens of truckloads of copper owned by miners and traders including Glencore, Trafigura and Traxys this year as they were heading to ports in southern Africa, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 07:55 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
This great 'non-apartheid' State
to which we all contributed.
Where out of a certain train,
a Mahatma of Gandhis was booted,
they would not give a visa
to Martin Luther Junior King!
And now they have no use
for steel, diamonds, copper,
except as Ghetto Bling.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 13:06 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
First Insurrection Witness Supported Floyd Riots
[Post Millennial] Newly revealed tweets from Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn who testified before Congress on Tuesday during the Jan. 6 commission hearing shows that he was an ardent supporter of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots last year, said the burning of Kenosha was an "appropriate response."

Fox News host Tucker Carlson had previously predicted that the committee would have Dunn testify and called out the officer's radical activism. "Dunn will pretend to speak for the country's law enforcement community, but it turns out Dunn has very little in common with your average person. Dunn is an angry, left wing political activist whose social media feeds are full of praise, not coincidentally for Nancy Pelosi."

During Tuesday's Jan. 6 commission hearing, officer Dunn falsely claimed that Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died as a result from injuries sustained on Jan. 6, which has been debunked by the Washington DC Chief Medical Examiner. The medical examiner found that officer Sicknick died of natural causes.
He doesn't dispute the M.E.'s report, just is sure the riot contributed to Sicknick's death. Somehow.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/28/2021 07:45 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...he was an ardent supporter of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots last year, said the burning of Kenosha was an "appropriate response."

Excellent lead witness. Let's go with Harry Dunn. Please make sure he's solid with the talking points.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 9:28 Comments || Top||

#2 

BZZZT Mistrial! Get out!
Every witness looks Ugandan!
What's the world coming to,
when our voter cannot abandon
all politeness, and trash our
edifices an' all like a Wakandan?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 9:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Pelosi's Jan. 6th Committee = Partisan Star Chamber. Communist show trial is an alternate name for it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Five takeaways from a bracing day of Jan. 6 testimony
[The Hill] The House select committee’s first hearing Tuesday to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol was as personal as it was probing.

Sober verbal accounts from four police officers who came under physical and psychological attack that day were combined with raw video footage of rioters shouting epithets and using physical force against law enforcement.

The panel hearing the testimony was unusually united — especially for present-day Washington. It included seven Democrats and two Republicans all handpicked by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

All were critical of former President Trump, who was impeached for inciting a mob to attack the Capitol. No defenders of Trump were present after Pelosi rejected two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) choices.

Here are five takeaways from the day.

DEMOCRATS PICKED THEIR WITNESSES CAREFULLY
Each of the four officers selected to testify before the committee had previously shared gripping accounts of their experiences with various news outlets.

The panel likely knew what it was getting on Tuesday, and what a nation watching on cable television received was dramatic, stark and personal.

"On Jan. 6, for the first time, I was more afraid working at the Capitol than during my entire Army deployment to Iraq," said Aquilino Gonell, a Capitol Police sergeant and Army veteran.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 07:28 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11148 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was unable to watch the testimony. Can I safely assume this photo was NOT included ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  A $hit storm in a glass of tepid tea.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 9:15 Comments || Top||

#3  "bracing"??? Happened to catch a glimpse of Pelosi's Pigs, poorly coached fiction.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 07/28/2021 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Kinzinger is another RINO who needs to primaried.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 13:47 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ already in the works. He's a goner
Posted by: Frank G || 07/28/2021 14:27 Comments || Top||

#6  I was more afraid working at the Capitol than during my entire Army deployment to Iraq

Want to bet he never left the Green Zone?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/28/2021 17:35 Comments || Top||

#7 
What a snowflake ❄ , oh, he was Army, not a Marine.
Never mind...
Posted by: Voldemort Borgia7443 || 07/28/2021 17:48 Comments || Top||

#8  BLM riots have injured over 2,000 police officers. Not one hearing by the Dims about that.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 07/28/2021 22:16 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Insurection Theater Begins
[Fox News] The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is holding its first hearing Tuesday, kicking off what is likely to be a politically charged and contentious several months focusing on the violent day.
Won't such public testimony taint ongoing criminal investigations?
The Tuesday hearing focuses on "The Law Enforcement Experience on January 6th." The four witnesses at the hearing are Private First Class Harry Dunn and Sergeant Aquilino Gonell of the U.S. Capitol Police, and Officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges of the Metropolitan Police Department. They provided detailed and emotional testimony about the attack on the Capitol.

"To be honest, I did not recognize my fellow citizens who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 or the United States they claimed to represent," Gonell, an immigrant and Army veteran, said. "The rioters called me traitor, a disgrace, and shouted that I, I, an Army veteran and police officer, should be executed."
Instead, an Air Force veteran was executed.
"I heard specific threats from un-named, un-arrested, un-indited, co-conspirators to the lives of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and also Vice President Mike Pence," Gonell added, saying that he officers "fought hand to hand, inch by inch, to prevent an invasion of the Capitol by a mob intent on subverting our democratic process."
Antifa loaners from Portland?
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who is a vocal critic of Trump, followed Thompson with comments lamenting that a bill for a special commission modeled on the 9/11 Commission failed in the Senate. But, she said, the committee must investigate the events of Jan. 6 anyway.

"We must know what happened here at the Capitol," she said. "We must also know what happened every minute of that day in the White House. Every phone call. Every conversation. Every meeting leading up to during and after the attack."
That'd be interesting, if unlikely. Lots of horrifying testimony follows.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/28/2021 07:28 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lots of testimony from U.S. Capitol Police personnel. Apparently nothing from the FBI. Very curious.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 7:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Besoeker,

Because the FBI knows Antifa & BLM infiltrated and had a script the Feds have on tape. My guess.
Posted by: Lampedusa Angish2634 || 07/28/2021 8:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, testimony loaded with 'made for teevee' video and emotion. A bit light on fore knowledge, causation, and facts.

And there I was in my freshly pressed uniform and they called me a 'worthless Mick pig.' You can easily understand my frustration and desire to shoot every last one of them.


Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 8:40 Comments || Top||

#4  With fair elections, there is a good chance Pelosi will be removed from office in 2022; certainly removed as Speaker.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:12 Comments || Top||

#5  With fair elections,

In other words, her position is safe.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/28/2021 14:04 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Why Democrats Don't Care About Crime
[American Thinker] American cities are reeling from increased crime ranging from burglary and arson to murder. Americans, rightly, are concerned -- except for Democrat officials. San Francisco, a bastion of progressive stupidity, is among the hardest hit cities -- yet the San Francisco lunatics who run the city claim anyone concerned with rising crime is a white supremacist. This is common from among the Democrat intelligentsia and leadership.

To understand why Democrats don’t care about crime, we must turn to two prophets of the new anti-American ideology. Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault are essential to understand to enter the deluded mind of the modern progressive and why they are happy to let American cities burn rather than confront crime and stop the desecration of America’s once iconic cities.

Antonio Gramsci authored his famous treatise while imprisoned in Italy under Mussolini’s government. Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks offered an explanation for why the proletariat revolution failed in the West and laid out a new roadmap for revolutionary success in the future. According to Gramsci, the revolution failed by the revolutionaries didn’t have cultural-institutional power.

Gramsci’s thesis is called "cultural hegemony." The idea, in a nutshell, is that cultural values and consciousness emanate and are reinforced by societal institutions. Business, media, religion, courts of law -- all institutions controlled by the patriotic bourgeoisie prevent the underclass and exploited people from ever learning of their oppression. The task, then, of the radical is to seize control of the institutions in order to propagate the revolutionary ideology. This reached fruition beginning in the late 1960s with student radicals influenced by Gramsci eventually growing up and taking positions throughout American institutions.

Emphasis added:
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 07:19 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11142 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The idea, in a nutshell, is that cultural values and consciousness emanate and are reinforced by societal institutions. Business, media, religion, courts of law

Now called WOKE for short.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  But they do care. Crime, as the Soviets taught us, is a tool of control. Democrats *like* crime.
Posted by: Angstrom || 07/28/2021 9:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Finding that the working class didn't care for communism was a huge blow, one for which they never forgave us.

Instead of just admitting they were wrong and trying something else, they went on a multi-generation project to destroy our lives and force communism on us against our will.
Posted by: Slomorong Thraiger7030 || 07/28/2021 11:15 Comments || Top||

#4  "Criminals are class-brothers" - Archipelago Gulag
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Dead on, Angstrom. No matter the details it works out for their agenda. On the one hand it keeps the population preoccupied with their own security. On the other it destroys the high trust society we have enjoyed in America.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/28/2021 12:24 Comments || Top||

#6  File under - professional courtesy
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||

#7  I thought the intentionally high crime rates were about gun control. They use the issue of murder rates And violent crime to blame guns, then get the guns taken away or stricter gun laws.
Posted by: Xyz || 07/28/2021 14:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Now they and the MSM are yammering about GHOST GUNS as if they are the source of teh problem
Posted by: Frank G || 07/28/2021 14:44 Comments || Top||

#9 

End game a DC Nationally controlled Local Police Force.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2021 15:05 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
The Justice Department Is Struggling To Bring Capitol Riot Cases To Trial: Here's Why
[NPR] Early one morning in January, Suzanne Ianni peered through her window to discover two black SUVs and a police cruiser parked in front of her house. All she could think was: "Aw, they're here."

While Ianni had been expecting federal agents for days, she wasn't fully prepared for their arrival or for the moment when they said, "You're under arrest." "And I just sat down in a chair, I was trying to catch my breath," she told NPR. "And they're like, OK just relax," she said. "It's only a misdemeanor."

Ianni, a 59-year-old mother of three, is one of the more than 570 people charged as being part of the mob that overran the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. She stands accused of disorderly conduct and being inside a federal building illegally.

The morning the FBI came, she recalls her husband handing her a coat and some shoes and then when the agents told him "no laces," Ianni couldn't help but laugh. "I'm like OK, I'm not going to hang myself over trespassing, you know."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 07:04 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Proving someone guilty is oftentimes a very difficult task. Investigations and evidence gathering can literally takes months, even years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 7:07 Comments || Top||

#2  But it will be the taxpayers who face the bills for false imprisonment, harassment, and political prosecution
Posted by: Frank G || 07/28/2021 7:27 Comments || Top||

#3  This appears to be keeping the DOJ too busy to go after conservatives for all sorts of other thought crimes...
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2021 9:03 Comments || Top||

#4  And while DOJ fiddles around the political prisoners languish in AMERICAN prison with ZERO due process. DOJ needs to remember these are Americans, not AQ.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/28/2021 10:07 Comments || Top||

#5  And while Justice continues its navelgazing tens of thousands of illegals carrying the corona virus spread their disease throughout the USA. They create the situation that allows our masters in Washington to reintroduce lockdowns and increase their control over the hoi-polloi.
Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 || 07/28/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||

#6  "I'm not going to hang myself over trespassing littering, you know."
Alice's Restaurant reference, for you young folks.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/28/2021 10:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Justice will never be realized if a fourth category of cases are swept under the rug; left-wing extremists and provocateurs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:33 Comments || Top||

#8  #1 Very droll, B. LOL.
Posted by: Matt || 07/28/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#9  I think it's because if they go to trial, they will lose and it'll look bad.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/28/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ That's gonna be awfully embarrassing for them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 13:59 Comments || Top||

#11  The process is the punishment
Posted by: Frank G || 07/28/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Biden administration proposes 'just the first' set of Buy American rule changes
[Washington Examiner] The Biden administration is announcing a new, proposed Buy American rule, which federal officials say marks "the most robust changes to implementation of the Buy American Act in almost 70 years."

Signed in 1933, the Buy American Act requires the federal government to only purchase goods determined to be at least 55% manufactured in the United States. The new proposed rule, which the administration will seek comment on for the next two months before publishing an official rule change, would immediately increase the domestic component threshold to 60% and gradually increase the threshold to 75% over the next decade.

The proposed rule marks "just the first set of proposed reforms to procurement policy under the Biden-Harris administration to ensure taxpayer dollars help American businesses compete in strategic industries and help American workers thrive," according to administration officials.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 07:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11160 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why does this sound more like the usual political graft dealing and less about the American worker?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2021 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  More inflation pressure.
More nationalization of power.
Another tool to oppress the honest and booster the crooked.
Another reason to bring more slave laborers here to pervert the country.
Posted by: boomerc || 07/28/2021 8:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Back a couple years when I was overseeing bridges (usually with Fed Highway funds) Buy America limited us to 1/2 of 1% foreign steel or iron
Posted by: Frank G || 07/28/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  'Buy America Rules'.....we may want to closely examine the small print concerning disclosure.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Blowing smoke?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Where will they get their computers? I wanna know because I'd like to know where I could get a computer Made in USA.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 14:30 Comments || Top||

#7  ..just turn over a square half mile of land that the computer factory sits on to the American embassy. Voila! Made in America.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2021 15:12 Comments || Top||

#8  I've been to 3 stores looking for work boots made in America. There were none.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/28/2021 17:09 Comments || Top||

#9  ^^^
Midwestboots.com - Work boots MADE IN AMERICA Catalog

Review the Brands and the Type of Boot you are interested in, find a 'local' supplier or order from the source....Just trying to help another RB reader.. Your Welcome
Posted by: Voldemort Borgia7443 || 07/28/2021 17:54 Comments || Top||

#10  For - Abu Uluque

American Made Computers

Just passing by thought I'd say ---Hi !

Its a start, there are more, good luck---thought I'd help another RB reader... You are Welcome.

Posted by: Voldemort Borgia7443 || 07/28/2021 18:02 Comments || Top||

#11  Another link for computers
RB does not want to use the link (tried 4 times) so here it is --- in the open ----
oneword
usa made products (dot) biz
Posted by: Voldemort Borgia7443 || 07/28/2021 18:08 Comments || Top||


Breaking: Biden DOJ Declares COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Legal
No credibility and flip-flopping. Vaxxed people might just refuse to play
[GatewayPundit] The Biden DOJ ruled that federal law doesn’t prohibit public agencies, private business from requiring vaccines for employees

It was only a few months ago that Kamala Harris said she would NEVER take the Trump endorsed vaccine.

The Epoch Times reported:

The Department of Justice concluded in an opinion that federal law doesn’t prohibit public agencies and private businesses from requiring COVID-19 vaccines under the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization.

On July 26, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, California, and New York City said they would require some of their government workers to get the COVID-19 shot or be tested weekly. Veterans Affairs, with the move, became the first federal agency to mandate the vaccine.

The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel on July 26 wrote (pdf) that because access to COVID-19 vaccines is more commonplace, “numerous educational institutions, employers, and other entities across the United States” have said they will require some individuals to be vaccinated against the virus as a condition of employment, participation, benefit, service, or relationship.

“For instance,” it wrote, “certain schools will require vaccination in order for students to attend class in person, and certain employers will require vaccination as a condition of employment.”

The opinion, which noted that some have questioned the legality of such mandates, concluded that federal law concerning the FDA’s emergency use authorizations (EUA) on COVID-19 vaccines made by Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson doesn’t “prohibit public or private entities from imposing vaccine requirements, even when the only vaccines available are those authorized under EUAs.”
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/28/2021 06:57 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11144 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That will never pass a court muster. And how many cases has the DOJ won under Biden? Oh yeah... zero.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/28/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#2  DOJ is overstepping, the courts make that call.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/28/2021 10:08 Comments || Top||

#3  DOJ Dawn Johnsen is a long-time Democrat toady. She previously worked as Dep. Attn Geeral for the Department of Justice under President Clinton.
President Obama nominated her to return to the Office of Legal Counsel as assistant attorney general but the Senate neglected to act on the nomination.
She taught Constitutional Law I and II, and Seminars in the Separation of Powers and Sexuality, Reproduction and the Constitution, according to the Maurer School of Law. Indiana U. website. Johnsen is also the wife of Mayor John Hamilton of Bloomington.
Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 || 07/28/2021 10:35 Comments || Top||

#4  yeah, since when does the DOJ detrmine what is legal or not? As the above comment , thought that was the courts job.
Posted by: Chris || 07/28/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#5  COVID Rebased -Serious Issues
Posted by: Alistaire Grusoter6809 || 07/28/2021 14:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Former analyst who leaked sensitive drone details sentenced to nearly four years in prison
[Washington Examiner] A former intelligence analyst and Afghanistan war veteran was sentenced to nearly four years in prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act by leaking classified information on the U.S. drone strike program to the media.

Daniel Hale, 33, was arrested in May 2019 for leaking extensively to an unnamed reporter, with charging documents easily identifying him as Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept, an outspoken critic of U.S. military activities overseas. Hale pleaded guilty in March.

U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady sentenced Hale to 45 months in prison on Tuesday. The judge determined that Hale's actions went past his "courageous and principled" stance on drones, according to the Washington Post.

"You are not being prosecuted for speaking out about the drone program killing innocent people," the judge said. "You could have been a whistleblower ... without taking any of these documents."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 06:49 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now, about those leaked classified Clinton documents.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 6:54 Comments || Top||

#2 
Under the Espionage Act by leaking and illegally obtaining classified information regarding Nation Security is a violation.


Additional Facts:
* He was already taking classified information home only a few weeks into a job at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency back in 2014.

* The information collected was not in his assigned area or related to his job. Spy charges could have been applied.

* He was already hooking up with the media and various Anti-USA / Anti-War activists seeking to stop all use of drones.

* While being Anti-War as early as 2012, he still took a job as a defense contractor in 2014 which supported the Sandlands and Affie War efforts.

* In 2014 he printed out classified documents and shared several with Jeremy Scahill, a reporter for the Intercept. Note: Jeremy Scahill is known for having written a number of Anti-War effort articles. Like the Hit piece Blackwater (X-SFOD-D) operators and their missions.

* Hale's house was search in 2014 but the was not charged until 2019????

* No reporter, journalist or media person/group has been charged for receiving and publishing Hales National Security Classified information.

Note: However, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains the DOJ's only media person charged for leaking / publishing on or about 3-16-2016, 30,000+/- emails & email attachments to and from Hillary Clinton's private illegal email server while Obama's Secretary of State.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2021 8:35 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 It matters whether you are a peeon or a conservative. Woe to you if you are both.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 10:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe we should stop murdering civilians with drones? Just a thought.

It would put an end to all these leaks. It would also not be a war crime, which supposedly America are the good guys.
Posted by: Slomorong Thraiger7030 || 07/28/2021 11:12 Comments || Top||

#5  If you accept Afghan and Pakistani intel as actionable, this is what you get. Can't you just see corrupt ANSDF officials conspiring to feed in their own targets into the targeting pipeline?

"There is a major terrorist dump... here!"

"But this looks like a farm."

"It is! A terrorist farm!"

"Mahmoud, are you sure this is not your cousin's poppy farm?"

"Uhh yes... but he harbors terrorists too!"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 11:24 Comments || Top||

#6 
Regarding the innocent Civilian lives....

Ask the Islamic Terrorists why they held meetings, gatherings, and planned suicide operations in the area of families, civilians and etc.

Ask the Islamic Terrorists why they repeatedly strapping on bomb vests of children to murdered Innocents in a totally NON-Military area (eg. Open Air Food market) to kill 100's and forever crippling even more to FORCE others to adopt their way of thinking?

Ask the Islamic Terrorists why its acceptable to murder a person(s) because they pray to the same GOD in a different manner or don't accept their 200 to 1400 AD practices?

Ask the Islamic Terrorists why its OK to make captured married/widowed women sex slaves?

Ask the Islamic Terrorists why its OK to take
per-puberty girls as partners?

Ask the Islamic Terrorists why its OK to murder all Homosexuals?

Then IF You are still alive.
Ask me if collateral damage is worth saving 10 or 100 fold more lives?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2021 13:57 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Rare blood clot cases not higher after AstraZeneca second dose
[JPost] - AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot did not increase the instances of rare blood clots with low platelets in people after the second dose, a study published in the Lancet medical journal showed on Wednesday.

The data found that the estimated rate of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) after the second dose of the vaccine, Vaxzevria, was 2.3 per million in those inoculated, comparable to the typical rate seen in those who have not been vaccinated, AstraZeneca said
But what about your D*ck falling off?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 02:58 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But what about your D*ck falling off?

You can donate it to science...

Icelandic Phallological Museum

Posted by: Gluns Thud9300 || 07/28/2021 5:51 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Jack Those3868 || 07/28/2021 6:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Antifa stooge preparing to run for Oregon governor
Democrat Oregon lawmaker @ Tina Kotek is preparing to run for governor. Last year her legislative director Kristina Narayan was arrested at an antifa riot. Kotek has also written a letter condemning police for protecting the police union hall from rioters.
Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 02:10 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11138 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm sure she'll make a great Governor of Portland
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/28/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||

#2  How can Oregonians tell the difference from who they have now?
Posted by: Snomoth Whereling9836 || 07/28/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I hope it wins
Posted by: Chris || 07/28/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||


Obama joins NBA Africa as strategic partner
[JPost] - Former US President Barack Obama has joined NBA Africa as a strategic partner to help advance social responsibility efforts across the continent, the National Basketball Association said on Tuesday.
I'm sure they'll love getting preached at by "I, me, mine"
Obama will have a minority equity stake in the new venture, which over time he intends to use to fund Obama Foundation youth and leadership programs across Africa.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 01:56 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
'Saving Afghan Interpreters' Is A Scam That Would Bring 100,000 Afghans To U.S.
[Sultan Knish] - Getting the United States out of Afghanistan is relatively easy compared to getting Afghanistan out of America. The latest stage of the withdrawal is accompanied by frantic calls to "save Afghan interpreters" coming from the same media that also wants us out of Afghanistan.

But what’s the use of leaving Afghanistan if we’re going to bring it with us to America?

The "interpreter" scam is one of the longest running immigration hoaxes on record.

Before the withdrawal, there were some 2,500 American soldiers in Afghanistan. After the withdrawal, there are around 600 soldiers left behind.

And there are 20,000 Afghan "interpreters" applying for SIVs or Special Immigrant Visas.

How can there be 20,000 interpreters for 2,500 soldiers?

It’s not as if we haven’t been handing out SIV visas like candy already.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 01:32 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just thinking ahead a bit, what is the plan for teaching these people to speak Spanish ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 7:49 Comments || Top||

#2  But what’s the use of leaving Afghanistan if we’re going to bring it with us to America?

Leaving Afghanistan was Trump's idea, and would have been performed in an orderly, non disgraceful way. This charlie foxtrot has DEM-OH-CRAT written all over it.

How many Kurds/Yazidis/Christians were airlifted out after the ISIS war? But it's important to get all of Ghani's boys out because a) They know much about what was really interpreted out there and you can't ensure they will be killed before talking to the media. And b) It's an escape plan already paid for, and the ⭔ officials just kept their end of the bargain.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#3  ^What splendid cynicism! Shabash!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 9:11 Comments || Top||

#4  When does the diversity training start?
Posted by: Matt || 07/28/2021 12:45 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ They're pashtuns, Matt. No-white, moslem, and already gay by necessity.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 12:49 Comments || Top||

#6  I fear for our nation's sheep.
Posted by: Matt || 07/28/2021 13:02 Comments || Top||

#7  ^^^
See, look what you've done, they're upset...

Posted by: Snomons Crutle3682 || 07/28/2021 13:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Yup. And with horse rapers already up and about.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 13:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Seen somewhere on the interwebs: The three biggest cowboy lies are

1) I won this belt buckle at the rodeo,
2) My pickup is paid off,
3) "Honest, I was just trying to help this sheep over the fence."
Posted by: Matt || 07/28/2021 13:23 Comments || Top||

#10  You forget the one that nobody's bothered to debate.

"I can shoot this tin can off the top o' yer head."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 13:31 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Viral load in vaccinated people is as high as it is in the unvaccinated
HotAir
I missed this detail from Rochelle Walensky’s press conference earlier but it helps explain why the CDC is suddenly nervous about vaccinated people going around unmasked.

It’s getting attention online this afternoon too, partly because Drudge is highlighting the news and partly because excited vaccine skeptics are misunderstanding what it says, I suspect. When the CDC says that the vaxxed and unvaxxed have the same viral load, they don’t mean they have the same amount throughout their bodies, including their lungs. That would mean the vaccines don’t work, which is why anti-vaxxers have perked up about it. But we already know that they work: The numbers prove that the vaccinated are at far less risk of serious illness than the unvaccinated are. Delta usually can’t get enough traction in a vaccinated person’s body to debilitate them.

What the CDC means is that the vaxxed and unvaxxed have similar amounts of viral particles in their noses and throats, making them equal risks to infect the people around them. That’s a big deal and it helps explain the change in mask guidance. If the vaccinated are as likely to infect an unvaccinated person as another unvaccinated person is then reducing infections requires everyone to mask up, not just those who haven’t had their shots.
Since vaccinated don't have symptoms, they - in effect - become asymptomatic carriers (see the Wikipedia article).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 00:59 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11153 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Only a matter of time before some unvaccinated attacks a vaccination center murdering personnel and clients.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 8:37 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ What makes you think that ? Kind of stretching things a bit.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 07/28/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Let be even more specific - within two weeks from today.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#5  within two weeks from today.

I'll take that bet. We are not against the vaccination. We just don't want to be forced to take it.
Posted by: Angstrom || 07/28/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Now moving into the realm of Siener van Rensburg.

Time will tell.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 9:43 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm not saying you'll do it. But among crazy people - and anti-vaxxers are crazy - some are more crazier than others.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 9:51 Comments || Top||

#8 
A well earned KUDO to Rantburg'ers.

It seems, what many of us have openly pondered here for months ago. In that the mRNA Vax do not stop/kill/neutralize the C19-21(A-D). The Vax could just make a person's body immune to it and potential carriers for each 14+/- day infection cycle.

So we could have 1/3+ of the US population as potential Typhoid Mary's walking, shopping, handling food and flying around in the USA.


BTW: I agree with #5.

We just don't want to be forced to take something we don't fully trust and even the experts are not sure of the long range implications & issues yet.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2021 9:58 Comments || Top||

#9  So sorry, NN2N1, but you people forfeited any credibility when you started producing "scientific" proofs against masks & social distancing.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 10:08 Comments || Top||

#10  ^
Why do you keep stepping into
thickened fists, my friend?
These adamant men and women
are just following their trend,
of not trusting a damn word
said by the federal fiend.

All that matter to me, is
that everyone good will live,
and continue to give,
libtards and muzz the shiv.
And most, that our pals here
refrain from meeting their end.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 10:18 Comments || Top||

#11  Speaking of scientific credibility... despite a whole lot of recent problems, I was able to find, this weekend, a physical copy of the PDR from 2017 that had dosage information for HCQ. Its recommended emergency dosage for malaria treatment was 1600 mg over the first 48 hours.

I think the scientific study you linked a couple weeks back had the patients taking 2800 mg over the first 48 hours.

As near as I can tell, the study was giving the patients a lethal dose of the drug but not acknowledging it and pretending to prove it doesn't work.

I don't expect you to take my word for it, but I took pictures and video, or alternatively, you could go to a library (if they're open there) and look it up for yourself.

(I have to go off now to get my bank account fixed and my car fixed, TTYL).
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/28/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||

#12  I remain amazed that so many "smart" people know not to put the entire executive team onto the same plane...yet openly desire to put ALL of the human team into the plane marked "Vaccinated".

What if that plan goes down?
Posted by: Crusader || 07/28/2021 10:29 Comments || Top||

#13  and anti-vaxxers are crazy

From where I'm standing, any healthy person under 40 who gets the vaccine is crazy.
Posted by: Angstrom || 07/28/2021 11:19 Comments || Top||

#14  Crusader: there are multiple vaccines available, with at least 3 different general operating principles.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/28/2021 11:32 Comments || Top||

#15  ^10 Because I'm going to miss some unvaccinated here when they die.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#16  What if that plane goes down?

Then no one will worry about it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2021 11:46 Comments || Top||

#17  From where I'm standing, any healthy person under 40 who gets the vaccine is crazy.

Then you're standing in the wrong place: As delta variant spreads, medical experts warn of risk to young children
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 11:47 Comments || Top||




#21  So the apocalypse isn't going to end with a bang, just gasping and whimpering from the walking crawling dead.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2021 12:10 Comments || Top||

#22  #20 Evilution in action?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 12:13 Comments || Top||

#23  Then you're standing in the wrong place

I like it here just fine. Check in in a year or so. Let's see how things look then.
Posted by: Angstrom || 07/28/2021 12:13 Comments || Top||


#25  “ https://fee.org/articles/new-danish-study-finds-masks-don-t-protect-wearers-from-covid-infection/”. The information on viral prevention was disproven on the 50s, but the CDC…
Posted by: Vensa || 07/28/2021 12:19 Comments || Top||

#26 
The Simpsons predicted spread of coronavirus

Posted by: Spike Spolutch2490 || 07/28/2021 12:35 Comments || Top||

#27  It is susally interesting to read past the posted teaser. To wit -

Some researchers believe that the high viral load in vaccinated people with Delta may include lots of dead viral particles, which might still show up in a test despite having already been neutralized by the immune response provoked by vaccination. The CDC evidently believes differently.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/28/2021 12:48 Comments || Top||

#28  #22 is regressive evolution. You can't believe a word he says. Just wants to argue.
Posted by: Dale || 07/28/2021 12:50 Comments || Top||

#29  Also - If you’re going to mask, wear a real mask. A piece of fabric from CVS won’t do much to prevent infecting others with a variant that produces a thousand times as many viral particles as the original SARS-CoV-2 did. Wear an N95. They’re widely available — for the moment.

I have a washable Sonovia mask, myself. Better dust it off, I guess.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/28/2021 12:53 Comments || Top||

#30  Dr. Leana Wen — “New data suggests that fully vaccinated individuals are not just contracting COVID, but could be carrying higher levels of virus than previously understood, facilitating spread.”
Posted by: Blinky Platypus8845 || 07/28/2021 14:53 Comments || Top||

#31  Ref: #9 "You people..."

I cited facts from various respected medical sources and vendors in the case on masks.

eg. When the C-19/21A-D is smaller than the filtering design of the mostly used paper masks. Is it SAFE as stated? HELL NO!

Given any virus can infect via the Eyes. So how is a paper mask helping other than reducing how far an infected person discharge carries?

Why weren't face shields required?

Shouldn't the mandate be, that the infected MUST wear a protective coverings instead?

If masks worked, then why were we told for 11+ months a simple surgical paper mask was enough... suddenly we needed to wear double masks?

Why 6ft Social Distancing, when the CDC's own pre-2019 Flu data shows Viruses travel up to 12 ft via Sneeze or cough?

Despite being told otherwise, we now know the virus could remain in the air for up 1 hour in closed room/office areas. So does Social Distancing work in a ER, doctors office or waiting room?

Why were we told early on it was a BAT and now we all know factually its was the WUHAN Lab $$$$ sponsored by guess who?

Why were we told it lives on any surface 12 to 24 hours? When its a Virus which quickly dies if not in contact with a suitable living BIOLOGIC source.

If it is so bad, then why are we permitted to dispose of possible C-19/21A-D infected masks and tissues in the general garbage or toilet that ends up at the City dump or treatment facilities?

Is the C-19/21A-D real? HELL Yes!

Does it kill Older persons and those with existing Medical issues? HELL Yes!

Does it kill in the numbers reported in the USA? Questionable.

Did it have the 4.3% mortality rate as predicted in 2020 by the experts?
NO! It was less than 2.4+/-% AND ONLY IF you were part 2.6+/-% that got infected. An that mortality rate was BEFORE the VAX was available and issued.

So given all the BS, false or mistaken facts generated by THEM PEOPLE in charge to LOOK like they had a handle on it, or for political reasons. It has left too many feeling played and dis trustful of THEM PEOPLE.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2021 15:01 Comments || Top||

#32  It is unpublished, and the CDC has not released it. But “it is concerning enough that we feel like we have to act,” Walensky said.

Could you release the data please. No offense, but it's a CDC credibility thing. Boy who cried wolf too many times.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 15:30 Comments || Top||

#33  #31 StillConfused About Masks? Here’s the Science Behind How Face Masks Prevent Coronavirus

The science starts on page 4.

p.s. Proper way to present scientific evidence - or any evidence - is to cite the source. So the reader can check for her/himself and NOT rely on your reputation. Because "I cited facts from various respected medical sources and vendors in the case on masks." has the same validity as "I'm the Galactic Overlord".

That said, believe what you wish - just don't try claiming that it's an objective fact.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 16:11 Comments || Top||

#34 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 16:45 Comments || Top||

#35  1st of all g(r)omgoru
Thanks for the info exchange, it has made the discussion more interesting.


SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) by the numbers
SOURCE : NIH.GOV
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7224694/
SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped virus ≈0.1 μm in diameter, so a N95 masks are capable of filtering

Multiple Sources But let stick with The FED's.
www.epa.gov/sciencematters/epa-researchers-test-effectiveness-face-masks-disinfection-methods-against-covid-19

Paper Surgical or “Procedure” Masks DO NOT offer the needed level of filtering. "These masks are not as effective at filtering out small particles like viruses and bacteria..."Surgical masks with ear loops only provided 38.1 percent filtration.

1 & 2 Ply Cloth Masks - Reusable cloth masks are not as effective in the prevention of infection as N95 respirators or surgical masks. This is because the pores in woven materials are larger than 0.3 microns and cannot, therefore, filter out all of the droplets containing viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, in which the viral particle size is 0.125 microns.

SUMMARY: N-95 or better YES. Cloth Masks & Paper Surgical NO or IFY
=======================================================

VACCINATED PERSONS

CDC walks back claim that vaccinated people can’t carry COVID-19 NY POST April
By Natalie O'Neill April 2, 2021 | 11:37am | Updated
Source: nypost.com/2021/04/02/cdc-walks-back-claim-that-vaccinated-people-cant-carry-covid/

“It’s possible that some people who are fully vaccinated could get COVID-19,” a CDC spokesperson told the New York Times. “The evidence isn’t clear whether they can spread the virus to others. We are continuing to evaluate the evidence.” Dr. Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said confusion about bulletproof immunity could lead to Americans refusing to wear a mask after getting the jabs.

COVID-19 vaccinated person can remain a virus carrier, professor says
29 Mar 2021 news.az/news/covid-19-vaccinated-person-can-remain-a-virus-carrier-professor-says.

Director of the Azerbaijani Research Institute of Medical Prevention, Professor Adil Abdullayev told Trend.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2021 18:44 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Wealthy Democratic donor Ed Buck, 66, found guilty of providing fatal meth doses to two men in exchange for sex as part of twisted 'party and play' fetish, now faces life in prison
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Ed Buck, 66, was found guilty Monday of nine felonies in the sex-for-drugs case

  • He was arrested in September 2019 following two deaths and multiple other overdoses

  • Gemmel Moore, 26, was found dead of an overdose in Buck's West Hollywood apartment in 2017

  • Timothy Dean, 55, died 18 months later and Buck was finally arrested, pleading not guilty and claiming his victims were drug addicts

  • A date has not been set for sentencing but he faces life in prison
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11144 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"May I invade your arse, young man,
And make like a true Af-ghan?"

"Oui monsieur, but do make sure,
I'm passed out fatally before."

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 4:19 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Railing people respectfully.
Posted by: Wren || 07/28/2021 6:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Worried? Who me ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 6:40 Comments || Top||

#4  several decades of large campaign contributions to Dems, e.g., Hillary, Adam Schiff, Ted Lieu, Gavin Newsom, Kamala

despite this, almost no coverage from NYT, WaPo, etc. - NYT in an article deep in the paper called him a 'small time donor'
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/28/2021 10:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Isn't West Hollywood included in Schiff's district? Photos show Schiff as clean-shaven. Thought he had a beard.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Thought he had a beard.

That's Nancy.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#7  That's Nancy.
That's not a beard, just too many facelifts...
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/28/2021 14:00 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria school kidnappers abduct man delivering ransom
[BBC] Kidnappers in Nigeria have seized a man who was sent to deliver a ransom payment to secure the release of dozens of kidnapped school children.

The elderly man was sent by the children's parents after they managed to raise 30m naira ($73,000; £53,000) by selling land and other possessions.

But they have been left feeling hopeless following his kidnapping.

The north of the country is in the midst of a wave of school abductions carried out by criminals for profit.

Ransoms are frequently paid, but this is a rare case where the person carrying the cash has been taken.

The kidnappers called up the school's headteacher to say that the money delivered was not the agreed sum.

The 136 students were taken from an Islamic school in Tegina, Niger state, in late May.

Gunmen riding on cycle of violences stormed the town and opened fire indiscriminately killing one person and injuring another.

As people fled, the attackers went to the school and seized the children.

The parents and school administrators negotiated with the criminals and agreed to pay the ransom. They sold part of the school's land as well as other possessions.

Headteacher Malam Abubakar Alhassan told the BBC that six people were sent with the correct amount to meet the kidnappers near the forest where the children were being held.

When they arrived, the button men demanded that one of the group, an elderly man, follow them into the forest so that the cash could be counted.

But they later called to say the money was not sufficient.

"Parents are now resigned to fate. They say they can't raise any more money. They are now relying on God," Mr Alhassan told the BBC.

More than 1,000 students have been kidnapped from schools across northern Nigeria since December last year.

Hundreds of them are still in captivity.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11159 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Breakdancing to become an Olympic sport in 2024? Yes.
[NPR] Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Raphael Xavier, professional breakdancer and professor of hip-hop dance at Princeton, about break dancing becoming an Olympic sport.

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:

Forget ice skating. Breakdancing is the coolest new Olympic sport. The International Olympic Committee has officially announced it will add breakdancing to the Games under the name breaking. Breaking, of course, is a style of hip-hop dance that includes footwork and athletic moves like back or head spins. The dancers, often called b-boys or b-girls, will be able to compete in the 2024 Olympics in Paris. And here to talk about it is professional hip-hop dancer and breaker Raphael Xavier. Welcome to the program.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IOC "Well, that dead shark isn't going to bugger itself now is it?"

F*** the Olympics.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/28/2021 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  The Russians and East Europeans will be all over this - it's a circus act. The other one that comes to mind is "big air snowboarding," where you do spasmodic tricks as the mountain falls away rapidly underneath you.
Posted by: Fairbanks || 07/28/2021 0:55 Comments || Top||

#3  agreed silentbrick
Posted by: Chris || 07/28/2021 0:58 Comments || Top||

#4 
Not the Bee? How... wha...?! WHAT?!


Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 8:31 Comments || Top||

#5  THIS is break dancing:

Posted by: badanov || 07/28/2021 8:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Followed in 2028 by twerking.
Posted by: Angstrom || 07/28/2021 9:38 Comments || Top||

#7  From the NPR interview:

you are now a professor at Princeton teaching break dancing classes and the history of hip-hop.

This is not the Princeton I used to know.
Posted by: Creretch Lumumba7973 || 07/28/2021 12:29 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 Two Entrants for 2028



Posted by: Snomons Crutle3682 || 07/28/2021 13:06 Comments || Top||

#9  WAsn't it Galligar who stated that "Sex should be an Olympic Event so we can win some!"

Of course considering some of the practices being condoned these days... might e a bad idea.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/28/2021 13:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Chicago mayor defends granting interviews only to reporters of color
[NYPOST] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black...
has reportedly defended her controversial decision to grant interview requests only to minority journalists — calling the number of non-whites covering her "unacceptable."

"I would absolutely do it again. I’m unapologetic about it because it spurred a very important conversation, a conversation that needed to happen, that should have happened a long time ago," Lightfoot told the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

’ "Sway" host Kara Swisher on Monday of the temporary May declaration.

As she marked her two-year anniversary in office in May, the Democrat — whose city is in the midst of a plague of gun violence and is on track to surpass last year’s total of 48 mass shootings — assailed the "overwhelming whiteness" of the Windy City’s media and announced that she’d grant one-on-one interviews only to minority members, Fox News reported.

"Here is the bottom line for me, to state the obvious, I’m a black woman mayor. I’m the mayor of the third-largest city in the country, obviously I have a platform, and it’s important to me to advocate on things that I believe are important," Lightfoot told Swisher.

"Going back to why I ran, to disrupt the status quo. The media is critically important to our democracy ... the media is in a time of incredible upheaval and disruption but our city hall press corps looks like it’s 1950 or 1970," she added.

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11147 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Only 1 Word needed to explain this.
RACIST!
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

#2 
Ahm a reportur of color, Ma'am.
Ahh can color youse good.
An' report it done by crackers,
hyuk hyuk... just boys from mah hood.

Ahh did it for mah boy Jussie,
and Cory Ma'am, an' others.
Ahh kins do it for youse.
Say...how 'bout a tree noose?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Nothing racist on the part of the mayor. How about focusing on Chicago's problems; say, all the shootings and crime?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Militants attack Syrian Army vehicle in Aleppo
[TASS] One Syrian soldier was killed and three more were wounded as Syrian army vehicles were attacked in the north of Syria’s Aleppo governorate by militants operating in Turkey-controlled areas attacked Syrian army vehicles, Vadim Kulit, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, said on Tuesday.

"In the north of the Aleppo governorate, militants of illegal armed groups operating in Turkey-controlled territories fired a guided anti-tank missile from the vicinity of the settlement of Qasar at a ZIL-131 vehicle of the Syrian army that was moving along the a highway near the city of Tel Rifaat," he said.

According to Kulit, one Syrian soldier was killed and three more were wounded.

On July 20, militants from Turkey-controlled territories opened mortar fire at the settlement of the Nubbol in the Aleppo governorate. One woman was killed in the shelling.

On July 21, positions of Syrian government troops near the settlement of Tel Tamer in the northwest of the al-Hasakah governorate came under shelling, killing one Syrian soldier and wounding one more.

The Russian reconciliation center continues to fulfill assigned tasks after the completion of the military campaign in Syria. The center’s officers regularly travel around the country's liberated areas to assess the humanitarian situation. The main efforts of the Russian military are now focused on assistance to the refugees returning to their homes and evacuation of civilians from de-escalation zones.
Posted by: badanov || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11144 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Africa Horn
European Union cuts Kenyan military funding in Somalia
[Garowe] The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
has cut the Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] budget in Somalia by almost half, giving a further indication of the impending exit of the AMISOM troops from the Horn of Africa nation, which is still struggling with the al-Shabaab
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
menace.

This will pave way for the exit of the KDF troops serving in AMISOM, and subsequent repositioning to the Kenya-Somalia border which stretches along with the Jubaland state and the northeastern part of the country. There are close to 3,500 KDF soldiers in AMISOM.

KDF first joined the fight against al-Shabaab under Operation Linda Nchi in 2011 but a year later, it joined the AMISOM team. Since then, the European Union has been one of the key financiers along with the UN and other stakeholders.

Treasury told Parliament Monday that Kenya received $45 million from 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 in Somalia (Amisom) in the 12-month period to June 2019 against a target of $85 million. This now means the EU has started the formal withdrawal process.

The cut was linked to the partial withdrawal of Kenyan troops who were deployed to Somalia in 2007 to defend the internationally-backed government against attacks on the Shabaab.

"The amount was received was based on the number of actual troops deployed in Somalia. By July 2018, the number of troops was subsequently reduced," Julius Muia, the Treasury principal secretary (PS) said without disclosing the actual figures.

The EU funds cater for allowances for the Amisom troops and police, international and local civilian staff salaries, operational costs of their offices, among others. The EU has been the single largest contributor.

The international community pays $1,028 (Sh111, 229) for each soldier per month, their respective governments then deduct about $200 (Sh21,640) for administrative costs, leaving them with a take-home of about $800 (Sh86,560).

Al-Shabaab conducts frequent assaults in Kenya, mostly in the region bordering Somalia, to put pressure on the Kenyan government to withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Somalia.

KDF Sectors II and VI of AMISOM in Somalia, which stretches most parts of Jubaland. The KDF team flushed al-Shabaab out of Kismayo
...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region....
, the regional administrative capital of Jubaland in 2012.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
ACLU will represent woman with 'F*** Biden' yard signs
[WashingtonExaminer] Two New Jersey residents who were previously ordered to remove anti-Joe Biden signage from their property will be represented by a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, according to court filings from Saturday.

Homeowner Patricia Dilascio was ordered on July 15 by Roselle Park Municipal Court Judge Gary Bundy to remove three of 10 flags displayed on her property within a week or face $250-per-day fines despite some flags being owned by her daughter Andrea Dick. The signage featured profanities and insults such as "F*** Biden," "Joe Biden Sucks," "Socialism Sucks, Biden Blows," and "Don't Blame Me I Voted For Trump," among others...
fwiw, obscenity may be regulated but you have to have a lawful procedure to establish the 'when and where and in what manner' of content that is prohibited.
The same sentiments can be expressed without cussing, most assuredly. But what’s sauce for the Left’s Antifa/BLM ought to be sauce for the Right.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11152 views] Top|| File under:

#1  May be legal but clearly the property owners have no class nor shame.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 07/28/2021 2:23 Comments || Top||

#2 

Look I don't like biden admin either and the Anti-USA issues surrounding this Socialcrat Junta.

But I am fed up with any open displays of profanity. eg. F**k _____, or Penis and Vagina Photo or graphic art displaying T-shirts, penis mobiles and graphic vehicle art.

Besides the SCOTUS ruled 30+ years ago about community set standards and YES it can be enforced if done so equally and fairly.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2021 10:07 Comments || Top||

#3 
I prefer things like this. And they're no vulgar either. No sane judge can entertain anything against them.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||


#5  ^And what's going to do when Hunter rings her doorbell and asks "You called mem?"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 12:10 Comments || Top||

#6  I hate the vulgarity where kids can see it, but approve the message.

Usually tact goes a long way with messaging. Something this lady doesn't get. You just turned off at least half of potential supporters.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/28/2021 13:42 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Snomons Crutle3682 || 07/28/2021 13:56 Comments || Top||

#8  The newsworthy bit here is the ACLU actively defending an individual's rights. Last time I can recall that happening was in 1978, that neo-Nazi march in Skokie.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/28/2021 15:52 Comments || Top||

#9  I would not trust the ACLU to represent me.
Posted by: Shiva Protector of the Hohlraums || 07/28/2021 18:55 Comments || Top||

#10  They'll represent her, badly, and then recommend a plea deal.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/28/2021 19:53 Comments || Top||

#11  New Jersey Supreme Court vacated a municipal judge's decision ordering Andrea Dick, of Roselle Park, to remove profane pro-Trump posters
-- Skid's link in #4
Posted by: SteveS || 07/28/2021 20:40 Comments || Top||

#12  That hack Muni Judge should be repeatedly beaten with a copy of the Constitution then stripped of any powers
Posted by: Frank G || 07/28/2021 20:43 Comments || Top||

#13  Key question: would she have been persecuted(sic) the same way if she had put up signs saying the same things about Trump?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/28/2021 21:08 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
After months of optimism, a return to the Iran nuke deal begins to look unlikely
[IsraelTimes] The Islamic Republic’s demands, along with progress in its program, make a return to the JCPOA seem much more difficult than when Biden came into office.
In certain circles enlightenment finally dawns.
After months of expectations that a breakthrough in the Vienna talks on Iran’s nuclear program was only a matter of time, the chances of success are now looking increasingly remote.

Earlier this month, Iran’s deputy foreign minister said negotiations on restoring the nuclear deal will not resume until the hardliner Ebrahim Raisi takes office as president on August 5.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  As things have been going, why would Iran want or need to go back to the nuke deal.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/28/2021 9:57 Comments || Top||

#2  The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), noted in this report, is rather an obscure organization comprised in the main of retired military. Founded in 1981 it has created a Generals and Admirals (G&A) Program to educate military from Israel and the USA on programs and policies of mutual interest.
Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 || 07/28/2021 10:18 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Two Suspects Arrested for Targeted Killings: Statement
[ToloNews] Two suspects were arrested by security forces on charges of attacking government officials and the Afghan military in various provinces, a statement by the First Vice President’s Office reads.

The statement says both suspects are Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
members.

One of them, Agha Mohammad, confessed that he was in prison for four years up until 2020 during which time he met Qari Faigullah, a Taliban member, who asked him to participate in killing babus government employees, specifically Taj Mohammad, a police officer at Takhar Police Headquarters who was involved in imprisoning the Taliban member, the statement said.

Agha Mohammad also confessed that he planned to travel to Takhar to target the police officer and other babus government employees but was arrested by security forces, the statement added.

Another suspect, Samiullah, confessed that he joined the Taliban one and a half years ago, according to the statement.

The statement said that Samiullah also confessed to being involved in four bombing attacks in Kabul with one targeting a police vehicle in Kabul’s District 16, another targeting a police vehicle in the Karte Naw area in Kabul’s District 8, another targeting an army vehicle in Bagrami district and another targeting a police vehicle in Kabul’s District 8.

The statement added that Samiullah confessed that his cousin, Nooruddin, carried out six explosions targeting babus government employees.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11145 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Home Front: WoT
TX Operation Lone Star in the News
[TexasDepartmentOfPublicSafety] As part of Operation Lone Star and under the direction of Governor Abbott, DPS continues its presence, including air, ground, marine and tactical security assets, along the border to combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas.

Check out some of the recent news coverage of Operation Lone Star below.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11150 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Texans doing Federal jobs.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/28/2021 11:27 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Maryland Voter Integrity Group Finds Serious Anomalies in Four Maryland Counties
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] The Maryland Voter Integrity Group announces today that a recent analysis into voter registration records and voting trends over the past decade shows remarkable anomalies in the most recent Presidential Election.

Maryland joins 35 other states in taking a closer look at in the integrity of election systems throughout, including at the county level. Former Army Captain and self-proclaimed #intelpatriot, Seth Keshel, assisted the recent analysis of Maryland county information.

Recent data provided by the Maryland Secretary of State office shows a number of trends from the past three Presidential elections, taking place in 2012, 2016, and 2020. In each of the four Counties of focus, Anne Arundel, Carroll, Frederick, and Harford, certain trends seem to be clear:
  • In all four Counties in the 2012 and 2016 elections, the Democratic vote increase remained marginal, ranging between 1% to 2% overall.

  • In 2020, however, these same metrics showing the Democratic vote increase spiked to between 34-37% in all four of these Counties. This appears to have taken place without any measurable population growth, registration expansion, or vote increase for either party.
These staggering findings highlight the need for a Full Forensic Audit of the 2020 election within these four Maryland Counties, and at the State level.

These incidents of massive inaccuracies in State Election Systems are not limited to Maryland. Investigations are ongoing in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan, and the recent Democratic Mayoral Primary in New York City also demonstrated what significant impacts these anomalies exert.

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11150 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sadly, that does not surprise me. This has been going on here for a very long time.
Posted by: Dale || 07/28/2021 4:03 Comments || Top||

#2  You mean to tell me our votes out here might be worth less than spit? And that we don't really pick many of our leaders. Is that what's coming out of many of these audits? Could that possibly be?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 22:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Kinda makes you wonder about all those cities that have not had a Republican administration for umpteen years.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/28/2021 23:12 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram Cameroon attack kills 5 soldiers, civilian: Defence ministry
[AlAhram] An attack by Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
killed five Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
ian soldiers and a civilian, according to a defence ministry statement on state radio Tuesday.

The attack took place on Monday night in the far north of the central African country near the border with Nigeria, where operations by the Islamist group have been on the rise.
Added after the midnight rollover for future reference, All Africa adds:
"Heavily armed terrorists from the Boko Haram sect attacked the command post sub-sector two of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) of the Lake Chad Basin Commission in Zigue in the Far North Region of Cameroon at 9.30pm on Monday," Cameroon's Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

The statement said, "several assailants were killed and their bodies carted away as the terrorists retreated."

With headquarters in N'Djamena, Chad, the MNJTF is a joint military command of around 10,000 uniform men from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Benin that has been contributing to restoring a safe and secure environment in the areas of the Lake Chad Basin that are affected by Boko Haram.

The Monday night attack was the second after that of Saturday which occurred in Sagme, North of Zigue. The Cameroon Defence ministry said eight soldiers were killed and 13 others were wounded during the attack which was the first by the group in close a year.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man in yellow dress steals school bus, crashes front loader into home in cross-state spree
[KOMONEWS] A lunatic man in a yellow dress stole a school bus and drove for miles across multiple counties before abandoning it and hitchhiking across the state, where he drove a front loader into his own home as his wife fled, sheriff's officials say.

Chelan County Sheriff Brian Burnett said there was nothing deputies could do to stop the man under the new police reform laws that recently took effect.

The bizarre drama unfolded over the weekend and started Saturday morning in Steilacoom, when the 39-year-old man was released from Western State Nut House Hospital.
"Okay, Napoleon. Yer gettin' mainstreamed. Sign here!"
"You'll need my Imperial Seal to make it official, doc!"

Later that evening he was seen walking along Highway 2 near Leavenworth in a yellow dress.

At around 7:40 p.m., employees of Osprey Rafting say they saw the man get into the company's large yellow school bus and drive away.
"Ahah! The Imperial Short Bus! I shall drive to Waterloo!"
Chelan County sheriff's deputies spotted the bus running a red light near Monitor and tried to pull the man over but he refused to stop and kept going.
"Youse'll never take me alive, coppers! Hahahaha!"
Deputies discontinued the pursuit because the new police reform laws no longer allow law enforcement to pursue a fleeing vehicle unless there is cause to believe that a serious felony has occurred, Burnett said.
"Let 'im go, Car 54! It ain't worth the paperwork!"
Douglas County deputies later spotted the bus heading east on State Route 28 and followed it through the city of Wenatchee, but the suspect refused to pull over and they, too, had to break off the pursuit.
"He ain't stoppin', Chief!"
"Okay. See if you can write a few parking tickets. That'll give you somethin' to do until shift change!"

The bus was later found abandoned near Moses Lake.
"What? Outta gas? You and the Old Guard have failed me, bus!"
Police lost track of the man for a time as he hitchhiked across the state to Spokane and then to Chewelah in Stevens County.
"Need a ride, bub? Say! Nice dress! Are those real sequins?"
The next day, Sunday, officials say the suspect stole a front loader and crashed it into his own house, flipping a vehicle into the structure.
"Take that, abode of foulness!"
The suspect's wife had just fled from the home when she learned her estranged husband might be coming. She was uninjured.
"Whaddya mean, 'They let him out?' He's bonkers!"
"Now, now, Mrs Bonaparte! We don't use that kinda language about the reality-challenged anymore!"

The suspect was finally taken into custody in Stevens County, still wearing the yellow dress, and booked into jail for investigation of motor vehicle theft, first-degree malicious mischief and attempting to elude police.

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11158 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No Dr I and neither he my patient, but I suspect he may have been released from Western State just a bit early.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/28/2021 7:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Classic Fred. Holding my stomach laughing.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Deputies discontinued the pursuit because the new police reform laws no longer allow law enforcement to pursue a fleeing vehicle unless there is cause to believe that a serious felony has occurred, Burnett said.

Funny. I thought grand theft auto was a serious felony.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 14:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Kudos Fred for story and comments.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 15:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Schumer Directly Targets Trump Supporters, Asks How 74 Million Could Vote For a 'Despicable, Racist, Vile Man?'
How rude.
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] Over the weekend during a speech with New York State assembly member Rebecca Seawright, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer hammered Trump supporters, wondering how they could possibly vote for such a “vile man.”

“You probably ask yourself the same question I ask myself: How could 74 million people vote for such a despicable human being as Donald Trump,” Schumer said. “He is a vile man. He is dishonest. He is divisive — That’s what he loves to do, just divide people.”

Schumer continued, “He’s a racist and he always appeals to the dark side of human nature, which he’s very good at, unfortunately. How did they vote for him?”

The comments from Schumer are similar to those made by Hillary Clinton when she called Trump supporters “deplorables.”

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11163 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Deserves a very slow and painful death.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 07/28/2021 2:25 Comments || Top||

#2  How could 81 million people vote for a disgrace to humanity like Biden?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 4:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Hopking to testify at the Insurrection Theater, Chuckie?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/28/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Asks How 74 Million Could Vote For a 'Despicable, Racist, Vile Man?'

I thought Biden got more than 74 million?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2021 7:38 Comments || Top||

#5  They didn't "hammer" me coz I don't give a fuck what they think.
Posted by: badanov || 07/28/2021 8:39 Comments || Top||

#6 

Note to Chucky"

Chucky, as you and Nancy know. It was closer to 82+ Million if the votes were honestly counted.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Just wait until shit goes kinetic butt nose. You will not last long.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/28/2021 11:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Ima wondering how many people voted for a dumbo like Schumer?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||

#9  How could 81 million people vote for a disgrace to humanity like Biden?

They didn't.... vote counting computers did
Posted by: Warthog || 07/28/2021 11:47 Comments || Top||

#10  The thing I find ridiculous is there is an episode of "The Apprentice" where the contestants are sent to Schumer's New York Offices.

Schumer explains that he and Trump knew each other since they were kids. Schumer's and Trump's father were both in real estate and frequently worked together. Schumer showed the contestants around and made it clear that they were old buddies and best friends.
Posted by: Creretch Lumumba7973 || 07/28/2021 12:46 Comments || Top||

#11  friends until he came after their grifting.
Posted by: Chris || 07/28/2021 13:50 Comments || Top||

#12  He needed Trump when Trump was a Capitalist for the same reason he hates Trump as a politician. Trump was/is much more famous/popular than Chucky.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 07/28/2021 16:02 Comments || Top||

#13  Because in spite of that he was a better choice by far.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/28/2021 16:02 Comments || Top||

#14  How could the people of New York vote for such a vile man as Chuckey?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/28/2021 17:14 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Primorye melts from the sweltering heat
Direct translation via Google Translate
[REGNUM] In Primorye, on July 28 and 29, abnormally hot weather is expected - during the day the air temperature is predicted above 37 degrees, the press service of the RF Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region told the IA REGNUM correspondent .

Almost all of July in Primorye, high temperatures are kept: in the southern regions of the region: above 35 degrees (95 F), in the western and central regions: above 37 degrees (98.6 F). In some areas of the region, the thermometer reaches +40 (104 F) and above.
pussies. Where I live, that's called "summer"
Posted by: badanov || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Kevin McCarthy Goes There in Scathing Comments About Liz Cheney
[REDSTATE] GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy
...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's...
may finally be fed up with the political machinations of Liz Cheney
...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as Republican royalty. A staunch Never Trumper, Liz supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump for his role in the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Publicans dumped her from her leadership position in May 2021. Refusing to admit that she had trashed her own career, Cheney has said that she intends to be the leader... in a fight to help to restore our party and that she may be interested in a future presidential run....
. Today, when asked about the situation involving Cheney joining forces with Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Continued on Page 49
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Florida Lawmaker Demands 2020 Election Audit to Insure Voter Confidence
[BREITBART] Florida State Representative and U.S. congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini (R) demanded the Florida Secretary of State and local Supervisors of Elections "initiate a forensic audit of the 2020 election in Florida’s five largest counties to help ensure voter confidence.""A full forensic audit of the five counties must be done immediately," Sabatini announced in a blurb. "Florida voters’ confidence in our elections is at an all-time low. Disturbing revelations in Arizona, Georgia, and other states make clear that the Secretary of State needs to do more than attempt to secure future elections."

"They must also look back and ensure that laws already on the books were followed in previous elections. This is a non-partisan issue and is a necessary step in ensuring voter confidence in future elections," he explained.

"These elections officials work for us—We the People—and it’s time they start showing some transparency about the 2020 election," Sabatini told Breibart News in reference to the five counties of Broward, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Orange.

When asked why an audit should be performed in Florida, where Trump and Republicans did well in 2020, Sabatini told Breitbart News that "every single state should have a random audit to figure out if there were discrepancies, just to be sure."

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russian warplanes target with several air raids the vicinity of the town of Kansafra in Jabal Al-Zawiya in the southern Idlib countryside
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11146 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Iranian judoka who defected dedicates his silver medal to Israel
[IsraelTimes] Saeid Mollaei, a former Iranian judoka now representing Mongolia, dedicates his silver medal in the final of the men’s 81-kilogram division to Israel.

“This medal is also dedicated to Israel and I hope the Israelis appreciate this achievement,” he says, according to Israel’s Kan broadcaster.

It was the first Olympic medal for Mollaei, two years after he left his native Iran after revealing that his national team coaches had ordered him to lose in the semifinals of the 2019 world championships in Tokyo to avoid facing Israel’s Sagi Muki in the final. Mollaei subsequently moved to Germany and then acquired Mongolian citizenship.
Mollaei has since visited Israel and befriended Muki.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  bet that shit hurts
Posted by: Chris || 07/28/2021 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Mongolian citizenship?
Posted by: Slomorong Thraiger7030 || 07/28/2021 11:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Not the worst thing that could happen to an Iranian.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 11:26 Comments || Top||

#4  bet that shit hurts

DEDICATED
Not defecated.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Taliban Attacks Pushed Back in Kapisa District: Official
[ToloNews] Taliban
...Arabic for students...
attacks in Nijrab district in the central province of Kapisa were pushed back by security forces and members of the public uprising forces early on Tuesday morning, a police official said.

The attacks happened in Dara-e-Farokh Shah and Dara-e-Kalan areas in Nijrab district, Kapisa police front man Shayiq Shorish said.

The festivities started shortly after midnight and continued until 4 am on Tuesday, he said.

Shorish said that six people, including two civilians and four members of the public uprising forces, were killed in the festivities.

This comes as former Kapisa governor Mehrabuddin Safi on Monday said that weak coordination among public uprising forces led to the fall of many key areas to the Taliban in the province, including Nijrab district.

Safi said that the presence of a large number of Taliban fighters also led to the fall of the Kapisa districts.

Security forces left key parts of the Nijrab district two weeks ago, while the Tagab and Ala Sai districts in the province fell to the group earlier in the month.

Over the past two weeks, festivities have been underway in parts of Nijrab to retake the district, but no progress has been made so far. Hundreds of district residents have been displaced due to the festivities.

The deputy governor of Kapisa, Aziz-ur-Rahman Tawab, was killed in a clash with the Taliban in Nijrab district on July 16. The fall of key parts of the district happened three days after his death.
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Watchdogs, Reporters Seek Release of Kandahar Journalists
[ToloNews] The arrest of four journalists in Kandahar by the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
, NDS, the country’s intelligence agency, has sparked reactions from watchdog organizations who say the four must be released and the reason for their detention should be made clear.

Three of the journalists--Bismillah Watandost, Qudrat Sultani and Mohib Obaidi--work for Radi Millat Ghag, and Sanaullah Siyam is a cameraman working for Shinwa Agency in Kandahar. They were arrested by the NDS when they returned from Spin Boldak district on Monday where they went to investigate claims of civilian deaths at the hands of the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
"Whenever a news hound makes a mistake, the media violations commission should decide and approve that he has made a mistake and then he can be arrested," said Samiullah Ghairatmal, head of the Nai office in Kandahar. Nai is an organization supporting open media in Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Interior Affairs said interrogations of the four journalists are underway.

"There is evidence against the four journalists who have been arrested on charges of supporting enemy propaganda in Kandahar. The security agencies are conducting their assessment based on the law," the Interior Ministry’s front man Mirwais Stanekzai said.
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US bans low altitude flights over Afghanistan due to surge in militant activities
Heads up! Or not... (ooops!)
[KhaamaPress] The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) restricted low-altitude flights over Afghanistan citing the recent rise in Death Eater activities.

The emergency order by FAA effective Sunday has excluded US military aircraft from the order and the latter can still fly as regular.

As per the new order, US airlines cannot fly below 8,000km in the Kabul Flight Information Region unless the operations are in and out of Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance...
International Airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

The move by Afghanistan’s biggest ally —the US- is unprecedented in the past twenty years.

The US regulatory orders the limitations two days after US CENTCOM commander General McKenzie announced US military preparation for intensifying Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s to support ANDSF fighting the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
The new intensified aerial strikes will probably be conducted until the full withdrawal of the US forces-August 31- but General McKenzie acknowledged that the support to Afghan National Defense and Security Forces will continue even beyond the deadline.

Afghanistan’s key International Airport’s-Hamid Karzai International Airport- security is to be handed over to Ottoman Turkish troops to ensure smooth operation of the airport.
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#1 
Puzzling as a vast majority commercial flights in and out of Hamid Karzai International Airport (oKAB) are NON-USA and not controlled by
the US FAA.

Plus most commercial jets are already fly high due to the 16,000 to 24,000 ft mountain ranges of the area?

Question: Does the FAA have authority over US Military Aircraft in the Camp Dwyer area?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Below 8,000km?

Well, I guess Starlink is safe.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/28/2021 20:18 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Democrats: 'We're F***ed' with Election Integrity Laws in 18 States
[BREITBART] Democrats are worried about winning the 2022 midterm elections after Republican state legislatures reformed 30 election integrity laws in 18 states and additional legislation may come. CEO of the Stacey Abrams
...the pudgy, sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Stacey nominated herself to be Joe Biden's vice president nominee, to widespread national apathy. She has a very keen eye for Racism in any form, to include the imaginary...
-founded New Georgia Project, Nsé Ufot, told Politico, "If there isn’t a way for us to repeat what happened in November 2020, we’re f—ed."

Latosha Brown, cofounder of Black Voters Matter, told Politico that "hope is quickly turning into frustration." She then asked, "When in the hell are those who claim that they are committed to democracy going to show up to protect those that protect democracy?"
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11151 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, Amazon does sell 55 gallon drums of lube, so there should be enough for everyone.

For Worried Democrats
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/28/2021 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Nsé Ufot

...Real name, Scrabble board accident, or 'Tofu' spelled backwards - YOU be the judge!

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/28/2021 4:24 Comments || Top||

#3  'We're F***ed' with Election Integrity Laws in 18 States

That's why there is so much push-back on honest audits and election reforms.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:38 Comments || Top||


Iraq
IRGC Qods commander Ismail Qaani is in Baghdad and “will meet Iraqi officials tomorrow”
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

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#1  Possibly, but I sure bet he has a hard time getting a cab.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/28/2021 15:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Has Iraq existed as a nation since Biblical times? I don't think so. Woodrow Wilson screwed up its boundaries -- and screwed the Kurds. During WWI Britain took Iraq from Ottoman Turkey and was then granted a League of Nations mandate in 1920. However, even then the boundaries were questionable and Shiite Basra and the south only joined later. The Hashemite monarchy was created by the Brits in 1921 and was granted a form of independence in 1932. Next, a pro-Axis revolt in 1941 cause a British occupation. The monarchy survived but was overthrown by the military in 1958. Sixty-three years later a failed state at its inception remains next to Yemen the Arabs most notorious failed state.
Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 || 07/28/2021 19:18 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Arizona Audit Twitter Accounts Removed by Big Tech
[The Last Refuge] A day after publicly announcing they are partnering with The Five Eyes intelligence community and Intelligence Branch of the U.S. government {Go Deep}, Big Tech moves to shut down the Twitter accounts of the Arizona Audit:

Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers anticipates she might be the next person to get shut down:



Also: Twitter Suspends 'Audit War Room' Accounts For WI, PA, NV, GA, AZ While Dems Start 1/6 'Show Trial'
Posted by: Snomoth Whereling9836 || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11150 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Silencing those seeking the truth. The Democrats are full om fascists.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/28/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||

#2  What's Big Tech afraid of? Whatever it is, censorship is not the answer.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:41 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
EU ‘appalled’ by alleged killing of 2 Gazans by Hamas security forces
[IsraelTimes] Hassan Abu Zayed and Imad al-Tawil slain during or following altercations with Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, security forces, leading Paleostinian rights groups to demand independent investigations.

The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
said on Tuesday that it was "appalled" by the deaths of two Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
residents during or immediately following altercations with Hamas security forces, as human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
groups call for independent investigations of both deaths.

Hassan Abu Zayed, a 27-year-old resident of Gaza City, was driving on Friday night when he was shot and killed by Hamas security forces, allegedly as he sped through a checkpoint.

According to the Hamas Interior Ministry, security forces spotted a car speeding toward them as they manned the checkpoint in Gaza City’s eastern al-Tuffah neighborhood. The driver ignored calls to stop, Interior Ministry spokesperson Iyad Bozm said.

"Two shots were fired at the vehicle, which did not stop and sought to flee. It later became clear that one of the passengers had been injured. He was taken to a hospital where he passed away from his wounds," al-Bozm said.

But the Independent Commission for Human Rights, who brought in a physician to attend Abu Zayed’s autopsy, said it had found unexplained discrepancies between the autopsy and the ministry’s account.

Imad Tawil, a 27-year-old resident of Deir al-Balah, was allegedly beaten by Hamas police early on Sunday during a raid by officers in the city’s al-Nuseirat Refugee Camp. A half hour later, Tawil began to complain of chest pains before collapsing. Although he was rushed to a nearby hospital, he later died, according to the Independent Commission for Human Rights.

Protests rocked the West Bank last month over the death of opposition figure Nizar Banat while in the custody of the Paleostinian Authority’s security services.

The demonstrations, which saw thousands take to the streets in Hebron and Ramallah, were brutally suppressed by Paleostinian officers. Human rights groups have charged that some protesters were beaten during the dispersal. Others had their phones and cameras smashed or stolen in an attempt to prevent them from documenting the violence.

In contrast, Gaza has remained relatively quiet since the deaths of the two men, although their funeral processions saw hundreds gather to mourn in the neighborhoods in which they lived, according to local media.
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Barack Obama is planning star-studded party at his $11.75 million Martha's Vineyard mansion to celebrate his 60th birthday and Oprah and George Clooney will get invites
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Martha's Vineyard Airport has, I think, fewer than 70 spaces available for private aircraft if they also provide commercial service. Could be a problem unless they shut down the commercial service.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/28/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I recommend seaplanes. The celebratory narcotics and distinguished visitors can always be brought in by seaplane.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#3  With climate change, Hussein's mansion will all soon be under water.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 15:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Superspreader event.
Posted by: KBK || 07/28/2021 22:40 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
5 arrested over shooting death of Islamic Movement leader in Jaffa
Green on green, but good to know.
[IsraelTimes] 4 men, 1 woman held in connection with killing of Muhammad Abu Nijm, which police say was linked to a conflict between families for control over local businesses.

Police said Tuesday they had arrested five people in connection with the deadly shooting of an official in the Islamic Movement
...the Israeli branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, it appeared on the scene in the 1970s, splitting into the usual militant and political arms: the outlawed militant Northern Branch based in Umm al-Fahm in the Galilee, and the political Southern Branch based in Kafr Qasim near Tel Aviv, which hopes to achieve the same goals via Israeli politics and is now part of Naftali Bennett’s governing coalition. About 10% of Israel’s Arabs are connected to the organization, if only as recipients of its many charities. Raed Saleh is the Northern Branch’s fiery big kahuna, though he fancies the title "Sheikh of Al Aqsa" as more suitable, and openly supports Hamas, Erdogan’s Turkey, and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt...
in the central city of Jaffa
...the Northern Branch expanded into Jaffa two decades ago, attracted by the 40% of the population that is Arab...
in January.

Police said the arrests were the result of a wide-ranging undercover investigation that concluded the killing was part of a feud between families over control of businesses in the city.

Mohammad Abu Nijm, a well-known activist in the political movement,
...accountant by day, so he may have known something someone didn't want known, or possibly he was just caught in the crossfire; Jaffa Moslem Brüderbund Number 1 by night — which is a bit more serious than a mere “activist”...
and his nephew, Omar Kurdi,
...age 26, of Ramle...
were maimed when a gunman opened fire on January 24.

The two were taken to Wolfson Hospital in Holon for treatment, where Abu Nijm later departed this vale of tears.

According to Channel 12 news, the investigation revealed the murder was part of a conflict between families in Jaffa that has claimed at least 10 victims.

Abu Nijm, 39, had no criminal background but was connected to one of the families that was party to the conflict.

The report said police concluded that those arrested — four men and one woman, all in their 20s — knew the victims and were residents of the same Jaffa neighborhood.

Abu Nijm was a well-known activist in the Islamic Movement, a political organization, religious outreach group and social service provider founded in the 1970s. The movement split two decades ago — the more moderate southern branch is represented by the coalition’s Ra’am party, while the more hardline northern branch has been outlawed in Israel.

Arab Israeli cities and towns have seen a dramatic spike in violence over the past several years. Government officials, both Arab and Jewish, have said organized crime is driving the body count.

Arab Israelis argue that police neither enforce the law in their cities nor work to solve murders in Arab communities. Police charge that Arabs do not cooperate with investigations by law enforcement, leading to low rates of success.

Some 46 Arab Israelis have been killed in homicides since the beginning of 2021, according to the Abraham Initiatives nonprofit organization.

In 2020, around 70 percent of homicide victims in Israel were Arab, although Arab Israelis constitute just 20 percent of the population.
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Jordan said to nab Islamic State terrorists for plot to attack Israeli soldiers
[IsraelTimes] Four arrested as part of cell inspired by group, according to Jordanian newspaper; military prosecutor says they also considered targeting Jews in the kingdom.

Four Jordanians allegedly involved with the bully boy 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....
terror group have been charged with plotting to attack Israeli soldiers near the Jordanian border, the Jordanian newspaper al-Rai reported.

The four suspects, who were arrested by Jordanian intelligence, planned to attack and overcome Jordanian border guards before reaching the Israelis on the other side of the border near Wadi Araba in the south, the Monday night report said.

"Intelligence operations by intelligence agents resulted in the detection and arrest of the cell’s members, preventing them from completing their terror plot," the report said.

According to the reported indictment, the four suspects met in the Jordanian cities of Irbid and Karak. All were inspired by the bully boy Islamic State, which has conducted an insurgency in Iraq and Syria for years as well as terror attacks around the world.

Their plans grew more sophisticated, and the four allegedly discussed targeting not just Israeli soldiers, but also Jews — likely foreign nationals — living in the kingdom.

One of the four cell members was arrested at the end of last year, and the remaining three were caught in February, the report said.

According to the indictment, issued by the Jordanian State Security Prosecutor, the four intended to acquire firearms to execute the plot, but were arrested before they could purchase them, al-Rai said.

Jordan has had peace with Israel since 1994, when the two countries signed a historic treaty in Wadi Araba. The two sides have cooperated closely on security for decades, although worsening relations between Jordan’s King Abdullah II and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu chilled ties in recent years.

The Islamic State organization has posed a challenge to Jordan’s internal stability in recent years. While the radical terror group — which sought to restore the glory days of the historic Islamic caliphate — has been on the retreat for years, Jordan still bears scars from the struggle.

In 2015 when IS burned captured Jordanian pilot Muadh al-Kasasbeh alive in a cage, it disseminated a graphic video of his painful death, shocking and outraging the kingdom.

The following year, IS-affiliated murderous Moslems stormed a tourist site in the southern city of Karak, killing 14 civilians and security personnel. Five of the attackers perished in the crossfire.
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Cyber
Key South African ports declare 'force majeure' after cyberattack
[NYPOST] South Africa’s state-owned ports and freight rail operator Transnet has declared "force majeure" at the country’s main container terminals because of "an act of cyberattack, security intrusion and sabotage" that struck last week.The measure, which releases a company from fulfilling contractual obligations, affects key container terminals in Durban, Ngqura, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, Rooters reported Tuesday, citing a note dated Monday that Transnet sent to customers.

"Transnet, including Transnet Port Terminals, experienced an act of cyberattack, security intrusion and sabotage, which resulted in the disruption of TPT normal processes and functions or the destruction or damage of equipment or information," the note reads, according to Bloomberg.

"Investigators are currently determining the exact source of the cause of compromise and extent of the ICT data security breach or sabotage."

Transnet is reportedly taking "all available and reasonable mitigation measures" to limit the impact of the disruption. Container terminals are operating at a slower pace than usual, Bloomberg reported.

Transnet representatives did not return The Post’s request for comment. The company said in a statement to Rooters that the force majeure declaration would be lifted soon.

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Europe
Germany: Drugs gangs grow more brutal and unscrupulous
In Sweden many of the gangs are pure Muslim ethnic immigrant groups, while others are Eastern Europeans ethnic immigrant groups, only a few are native gangs. I don’t know if the situation is similar in Germany.
[DW] The killing of a top journalist in the Netherlands shows that drugs gangs are increasingly likely to use violence, a new German report shows. It also highlighted increased trafficking of "New Psychoactive Substances."

A German government report into drug crime released on Tuesday shows how organized crime groups are increasingly likely to use violence.

Police identified some 284,723 suspects acting as part of criminal organizations in 2020 — and they were increasingly likely to be armed.

JOURNALIST KILLING REVEALS DANGER
Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) President Holger Munch said the data showed a "growing potential for violence in this phenomenon area."

Munch said the fatal shooting of Dutch crime journalist Peter de Vries in Amsterdam earlier this month was evidence of the threat posed by organized international narcotics trafficking.

According to media reports, de Vries may have been caught between the fronts of a cocaine war between rival mafia clans.

The German government's federal drugs commissioner Daniela Ludwig warned that the situation in Germany should not be allowed to go as far as that in the Netherlands.

"We are seeing an increasing number of drug-related crimes in Germany and the EU, which are being carried out ever more brutally, ever more unscrupulously," said Ludwig.

"We must prevent criminals from behaving in Germany as if their actions had no consequences, as if they were in a lawless space. That is by no means the case here, and we must make that even clearer in the future!"

The largest increase in trafficking offenses in 2020 was in New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), the report said. The number increased by 16.2% compared to the previous year.

NPS are designed to replicate the effects of illegal drugs like cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy while remaining legal. They were previously more commonly known as "legal highs."

They include synthetic cannabinoids like "spice," as well as substances that mimic stimulants, tranquilizers, and hallucinogens.

Germany was still being used as a transit country for chemicals in drugs production, the officials said. In 2020, several shipments of amphetamine precursors were seized at German airports.

There were also larger quantities of chemicals for the production of NPS from China, destined for the Netherlands. Production facilities for the manufacture of synthetic drugs have increasingly been identified on Dutch soil.

For cocaine, trafficking offenses increased by 9.6% over the same period, and for so-called crystal, or crystalline methamphetamine, by 7.2%.

'TRADITIONAL' DRUGS STILL BIG BUSINESS
The most trafficked narcotic in 2020 was cannabis with 31,961 recorded cases, followed by amphetamines with 5,581 recorded offenses.

When it came to heroin trafficking, cases known to the police were down 4.9% compared to 2019. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
officials said, there was thought to still be widespread availability and continued demand for the drug in the German market.

Estimates by the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
show opium poppy cultivation areas in southwest Asia grew significantly in 2020.

When it came to cocaine, the trend appeared to be ever upward. Total cocaine seizures in 2020 were at least 11 metric tons. In 2018, there were at least 5 metric tons, which had increased to 10 tons in 2019. A record seizure of 16 tons in the Port of Hamburg in February this year indicates that this trend will continue.

Restrictions imposed because of the COVID-19 pandemic were said to have had little impact on narcotics crime. Drugs continue to be widely available, officials say, with increased use of the already well-established online trade.
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#1  The Chicago template. Soon, the Mexican template.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2021 13:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Ah, the joys of multiculturalism.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 13:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Gotta wonder though if EU and/or German politicians are getting a piece of the action like our politicians here in America.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 13:41 Comments || Top||

#4  would you really be a politician if you weren't in on the grift?
Posted by: Chris || 07/28/2021 13:45 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Egyptian court sentences Hisham Ashmawy’s top aide, two others to death
There are still a few more rounds to go before he is finally hung, or shot, or whatever it is they do to put bad guys out of their misery over there.
[AlAhram] An Egyptian criminal court sentenced terrorist Bahaa Kishk, a top aide to Hisham Ashmawy
...also in our archives as Hesham El-Ashmawy and Hisham el-Ashmawi, he was also known as Abu Omar El-Mohager (the immigrant). El-Ashmawy was thrown out of Egyptian special forces in 2011 for extremism. He went on to help found Ansar Bayt Al Maqdis, then the local branch of Al Qaeda, with whom he shared the results of his military training. When they became ISIS in the Sinai, he left for the Western Desert to form the Al Qaeda linked al-Mourabitoun. At some point they wandered off to Libya, where in 2018 the LNA caught him and sent him back. Egypt had convicted Mr. Ashmawy in absentia in 2014 of misbehaving, so when they got him back it was just a matter of executing, in both senses...
who was executed in Egypt last year, and two others to death on Tuesday over terrorism charges.

The court referred the sentences to Egypt's Grand Mufti for a non-binding opinion, and set 25 October to issue its final verdict in the case.

The defendants are charged of leading al-Qaeda-aligned group "Al-Mourabitoun" along with Ashmawy, and financing a terrorist organization with arms, ammunition and explosives.

Kishk, who was arrested in Libya and extradited to Egypt, was considered the right hand of Ashmawy who was also captured in the eastern Libyan city of Derna in late 2018.

Asmawy, described as the country's most dangerous terrorist, was handed over to Egypt by forces loyal to Commander Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly...
in May 2019.

Ashmawy was handed two death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s after being convicted of orchestrating several deadly high-profile attacks against security forces. He was executed by hanging in March 2020.
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Home Front: Politix
George P. Bush Fails to Win Donald Trump Endorsement
Surely there is another statewide role that does not have such strong a incumbent where he would have as much fun...
[BREITBART] Texas political figure George P. Bush failed to win an endorsement from former President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
on Monday for the state attorney general race.The former president endorsed current Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for reelection — even though he is under investigation by the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
for dealings with political donors and was indicted for securities fraud.

"Ken has my Complete and Total Endorsement for another term as Attorney General of Texas," Trump wrote. "He is a true Texan who will keep Texas safe—and will never let you down!"

George P. Bush, the son of failed presidential candidate Jeb Bush, worked hard to demonstrate to Trump he fully supported the president in an attempt to win his endorsement.

He pinned a picture of himself and Trump on his Twitter account, after visiting the former president in Bedminster, New Jersey in June.

During the campaign, Bush’s team gave out beer koozies reminding voters of positive things that Trump had said about him.

But Trump remained loyal to Paxton, who helped lead the fight challenging the 2020 presidential election by suing four battleground states. The Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
did not take up the case. Paxton also spoke at Trump’s rally in Washington, DC, on January 6th to challenge the election results.

Bush responded to Trump’s endorsement by again pointing out Paxton’s legal troubles on social media.

"I’m running for Attorney General because Texans deserve integrity and honesty from the office of Texas’ top law enforcement official," Bush said. "Texans deserve a candidate without a laundry list of existing and potential criminal indictments."

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11158 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If Paxton is under investigation by the FBI he must be doing something right.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 14:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Is it just me, or he does look sorta "Hispanic"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 15:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Bush’s Wife Columba Bush: Age, Net Worth, Height & More!

grom, you may consider Columba Bush's ethnicity a liability for her son's candidacy but I have no problem with it. Here in Southern California we interact with Hispanics all the time and there is usually no problem. The problem with George P. Bush is on his father's side of the family. Roosevelts, Kennedy's, Clintons and Bushes have done quite enough to this country.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 16:27 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 I don't consider it a liability - I just asked a question. And I know that it could be an advantage in Texas.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 16:33 Comments || Top||

#5  He's white Hispanic a la George Zimmerman of Trayvon Martin fame.
Posted by: jpal || 07/28/2021 18:54 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Kandahar: over one hundred thousand people displaced
[KhaamaPress] Ever since the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
toppled two Police Districts of Kandahar city —the thriving provincial capital- and neighboring districts of the capital city, the city has been the battlefield between the Afghan government forces and the Taliban.

The warring sides have been fighting in six Police Districts of the city for the past three weeks.

As per a survey cited by local journalists, an average number of over one hundred thousand people from 22 thousand families have been displaced to secure areas of Kandahar city. Four families are now living in a residence once fit for only one and most of the others are living on the roads.

Tens of families have also been settled in two local camps.

In a temperature now soaring 40 centigrade, people in Kandahar are devoid of electricity, fuel price has been nearly doubled, academic institutions are shut and there are no mobile signals/connections available by night.

Local journalists report that public residential areas and homes have been transformed into military bastions and are being used by both sides.

Civilians are being killed and maimed on daily basis but there is no human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
advocate to defend the violation of human rights.

Pillage once reported from the districts of Kandahar province has to been witnessed in the thriving provincial capital as several shops and drugstores reportedly looted recently.

People in Kandahar city warn that if the conflict continues with its current momentum, more people will displace which will lead to a humanitarian disaster in the strategic province of Kandahar.
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Arabia
Four ballistic missiles launched towards Jizan city in Saudi Arabia tonight by Iranian-backed Houthi militias
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Tajikistan fears entering extremists from Afghanistan.
[KhaamaPress] Tajikistan Foreign minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin on Tuesday said that the government cannot state the exact number of refugees to be allowed from Afghanistan and will remain cautious while accepting asylum seekers from its war-ravaged neighbor.

Muhriddin fears that the supporters of terrorist groups might enter along with the people of Afghanistan.

Earlier, the Tajik government had acknowledged that the country is willing to accept up to one hundred thousand Afghan refugees as conflicts rage in the country and the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
are now controlling over 190 districts.

"We need to create certain conditions for Afghan refugees to avoid the spread of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
in the meantime", said Muhriddin.

The Tajik Foreign Minister in the meantime expressed concern over the potential entrance of al-Qaeda, Turkistan Islamic Party,
...TIP is listed under Tehrik-e-Taliban in the Al Qaeda organization table...
and Ansarullah’s associates who are outlawed by Russia.
Jamaat Ansarullah — as opposed to all the other groups that go by Ansarullah, including the Houthis in Yemen — is the Tajikistani branch of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which fights alongside the Taliban in Jawzjan and Faryab provinces.
On Friday, the deputy of Tajikistan’s Committee for Emergency and Civil Defense said the country is assessing its potential for accepting one hundred Afghan refugees and the public is also building camps.

The optimistic call is voiced by the northern neighbor of Afghanistan after Pak high-ranking officials said that they cannot afford more Afghan refugees. The Pak officials had also seen the case as the same to 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
but the Iranian government is yet officially comment on the issue.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11148 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems


Science & Technology
Stop the Fearmongering: Johns Hopkins Doctor Shreds Latest COVID Madness Peddled by CDC and Fauci
[Townhall] Fear is contagious. It’s almost as bad as the Delta variant. Again, is the new variant more transmissible? Yes. Is it deadlier? No. Does it make you sicker? No. Are those being impacted primarily the unvaccinated? Most definitely. So, when you want to increase vaccination rates, the government did what it did best: screw things up. Fully vaccinated people now must wear masks again in high-case areas. What constitutes a highly infectious area? Well, that’s not clear yet, but I’m sure the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci will make up some science fiction to justify this new mask mandate. The mandates are coming too. Not nationwide, Biden can’t do that yet due to the midterms, but federal agencies are one-by-one mandating it for workers who risk the loss of pay or their jobs if they refuse.

Get vaccinated but also continue to live in fear. Yeah, no wonder why hesitancy is through the roof. All this move does is make the vaccine-hesitant dig in further and give anti-vaxxers all the ammunition they need to chip away at the credibility of the vaccines. You can’t be mad at the latter group when those who want us to get vaccinated offer all the ammunition to shoot that narrative down or at the very least question it—heavily.

Well, take a break from being mad and read what Johns Hopkins doctor Dr. Marty Makary wrote about new studies about natural immunity which if ignored by Fauci and company. He also rehashed an old Fauci statistic that shreds the current push for new mask protocols and possible lockdowns (via WSJ) [emphasis mine]:
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Texas has seen nearly 9,000 COVID-19 deaths since February. All but 43 were unvaccinated people.

Natural immunity, eh?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Died of or with? GIGO
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2021 6:12 Comments || Top||

#3  The don’t test the vaccinated.
Posted by: Xyz || 07/28/2021 7:30 Comments || Top||

#4  there are all sorts of ways to cherrypick data, and the Holy State _needs_ to be able to censor the media in order to hide stuff like Daszak's role in creating the virus. So they turn everything into an argument about the Vaccine. And they're accusing Trump of opposing it when he's one of the biggest vaccine boosters around.

There's multiple layers of walls of lies floating around.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/28/2021 7:43 Comments || Top||

#5 

Dr. Fauci Warns These COVID Symptoms May Never Go Away

98 Symptoms Coronavirus Patients Say They've Had
"Long haulers" report a wide variety of painful side effects from COVID-19
Posted by: Crique Crock2035 || 07/28/2021 8:47 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ My only question is, when will Fauci 'go away' ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 9:20 Comments || Top||

#7  ^Let me give you a hint: Clinton, Bush II, Obama, Trump, Biden.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Wouldn't it be great if Fauci died of these... blood clots? I think it would be hilarious.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 9:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Wouldn't it be great if Fauci died of these... blood clots?

I'd make a large wager that Fauci has not been, and won't be, vaccinated. He *says* he has been, but given his track record that's strong evidence that he hasn't.
Posted by: Angstrom || 07/28/2021 12:15 Comments || Top||

#10  COVID Reassessed - Serious Information
Posted by: Gomez Johnson6844 || 07/28/2021 14:59 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Texas police learn COVID-positive illegal immigrants sent to local hotels, after Whataburger encounter
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11144 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In response to the news, city officials are asking the public to adhere to social distancing measures and wear masks.

Fauci's science?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/28/2021 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  I think we have found some of the soon to be accredited Texas Covid deaths.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2021 8:32 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Libya militia leader Mohammed al-Kani diagnosed with rigor mortis
[MIDDLEEASTEYE.NET] Mohammed al-Kani, a Libyan militia leader who has been accused of murdering hundreds of civilians in the western Libyan town of Tarhuna, was announced dead on Tuesday by several local sources.

Kani was the leader of the notorious Kaniyat militia, also known as the 7th Brigade or the 9th Brigade, part of eastern commander Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly...
's Libyan National Army (LNA).
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11164 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Himmmm. Rigor Mortis. That sounds serious.
Posted by: Dale || 07/28/2021 4:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't believe there is any treatment for it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Taliban victory in Afghanistan is victory of entire Muslims: TTP leader
And if they do not win?
[KhaamaPress] The leader of Tahrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain (TTP) Noor Wali Mehsud
...the fourth Number 1 of the Pakistani branch of the Taliban, he was tapped for the honour after his predecessor was dronezapped in 2018. A member of the Mehsud tribe of South Waziristan, the right reverend mufti (a title he earned by acquiring a diploma from a Pakistani madrassah, impressive in a society where most are completely illiterate) is especially keen on the hospitality aspect (to domestic and foreign jihadis) of Pashtunwali ...
appeared in a TV interview for the first time ever and said that their relations with the Afghan Taliban are based on brotherhood, sympathy, and Islamic principles.
He seems to prefer the turban to the pie-hat
Mehsud was interviewed by CNN
...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...
through intermediaries somewhere along the Pak-Afghan border.

The TTP leader acknowledged that the victory of the Afghan Taliban in Afghanistan is not limited to the country but it is a victory for the entire Moslem people in the world.

The victory of the Afghan Taliban is voiced at a time when nearly half of the Afghan districts have fallen to the fighters.

Earlier, US CENTCOM Commander General Frank McKenzie had said that the Taliban are pretending their victory is inevitable which he believes is not the case indeed.

The Pak Taliban’s leader though claims their core objectives to be fighting Pak Security Forces and gaining control over the Pak tribal regions, they have too conducted heinous attacks in Afghanistan close to the border with Pakistain.

Their bloodiest attack in Afghanistan was that on a base in 2009 in which seven CIA officers and contractors were killed in Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
bordering Pakistain.

As per political analysts, the Afghan Taliban’s so-called victory in Afghanistan will harm Pakistain as the latter will face an influx of Afghan refugees in case civil war erupts.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11149 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  "And what does our lucky winner get?"
Posted by: Nguard || 07/28/2021 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  You actually do not to be there to win.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 7:40 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Firefighters tackling blazes engulfing Russia’s Khabarovsk Region
by Stanislav Ruottselainen

[TASS] Wildfire suppression units in the Khabarovsk Region are combating blazes encompassing over 5,800 hectares, the regional forestry committee told TASS Tuesday.

"The forest protection authorities registered 11 wildfires this week. Five blazes covering a total of 5,806 hectares (14,332.11 acres) are currently being extinguished. The operation involves 129 people and 41 vehicles," the committee said.

The largest wildfire, located in the Nikolayesky district, has engulfed over 5,500 hectares (13,590.8 acres) alone, and it has been localized.

Last week, smoke from the wildfires in Yakutia was recorded in the Khabarovsk Region. Currently, the wind change has dispersed the smoke.

The total wildfire area in the region is over 8,200 hectares (20,262.64 acres), including a 7-hectare fire in the Dzugdzhursky reserve. At present, there are some blazes that are out of reach and can’t be extinguished.

"Some wildfires are located in remote or hard-to-reach areas, and it is almost impossible to get there, let alone send vehicles. A special commission assesses the danger of such hotspots, and, if no threat is found, usually it won’t be tackled. Rather it will be allowed to burn out on its own naturally. Usually, such fires spark from thunderstorms in taiga. Currently, we have five such fires, with total area of 2,400 hectares (5,930.529 acres)," says Committee Forest Guard and Protection Division head Vladimir Letuta.

In order to prevent such blazes, 18 districts have imposed special anti-fire measures. The public has been barred from visiting the woods or working with fire.

Current weather conditions
The region has been experiencing an abnormal heatwave, with daytime temperatures rising 7 degrees above average for this period of the year, which ramps up the danger of wildfires occurring.

"Since the beginning of the spring, we have been conducting regular preventive raids in the forests, identifying those who violate the fire safety regulations. There are substantial fines for violating it. A person may face a fine of up to 7,000 rubles, while a company can be fined by up to 500,000 rubles. However, punishment is not the goal. The most important thing to note here is that any small fire can morph into a wildfire that destroys everything in its path. The situation in Yakutia is a shining example. Therefore, we urge our citizens to comply with the fire safety rules," Letuta stressed.

Since the beginning of the fire hazard period, the blazes swept across 147,000 hectares (363,244.911 acres). Last year, the total fire area in the region was 226,000 hectares (558,458.162 acres).
Posted by: badanov || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11136 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
How Will Recent Events in Tunisia Affect Libya's Muslim Brotherhood?
Badly, one hopes.
[LIBYAREVIEW] During a meeting on Sunday evening, Tunisia’s President Kais Saied and the country’s security and military leaders, decided to dismiss Tunisian Prime Minister Hicham Mechichi, suspend the country’s Parliament, and waive the immunity of all its members.These decisions came in the wake of widespread protests across Tunisia against the PM and Ennahda, the Islamist ruling party affiliated with the Moslem Brüderbund, over the nation’s economic and social turmoil.

These events brought back memories of the Arab Spring, which began a decade ago in Tunisia, following the mass protest against the previous regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

The uprisings, which demanded an end to corruption and economic stagnation, managed to overthrow four Arab regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, 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...
This sudden change opened the door to widespread security turmoil, the proliferation of arms, illegal border movements, and bolstered terrorism in the region. These revolutions did not eliminate corruption, rather the economic and living conditions worsened in several states.

The Moslem Brüderbund (MB) organization took advantage of these events, and rode the crest of the revolutionary wave, and quickly secured power in Cairo, Tunis, and Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
In July 2014, millions of Egyptians erupted into the streets; calling for the overthrow of the Brotherhood government. The country’s security agencies, especially the army and police, responded quickly to these demands.

The same scenario has happened again in Tunisia, with the Tunisian people rising up against the policies and practices of Ennahda, its MP’s, and government ministers.

President Saied announced that he would assume control of the executive authority with the assistance of a new prime minister. This is the biggest challenge yet to a 2014 democratic constitution that split powers between the President, Prime Minister, and Parliament.

The events in Tunisia are a decisive blow to the MB, leaving Libya its final stronghold in the region.

All the while in Libya, there is widespread popular criticism against the Moslem Brüderbund due to its continued alliance with militias, foreign forces, and mercenaries, as well as its involvement in many cases of corruption, theft, and terrorism.

Observers believe that these developments will have a significant negative impact on the MB’s Justice and Construction Party in Libya, and affect the organization across the region.

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11158 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  This article presupposes the demise of Tunisia's Ennahda. That may be easier said than done without spilling blood.
Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 || 07/28/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2021-07-28
  Libya militia leader Mohammed al-Kani diagnosed with rigor mortis
Tue 2021-07-27
  'Death to the dictator!': Anti-government protests reach Tehran
Mon 2021-07-26
  Tunisian army deployed in the capital
Sun 2021-07-25
  US military targets Al-shabaab again in Somalia
Ilhan Omar bitches about it
Sat 2021-07-24
  Nigeria jails 10 pirates over ship hijacking
Fri 2021-07-23
  Taliban claim control of some 90% of Afghanistan's border areas
Thu 2021-07-22
  Nigeria: 100 kidnapped villagers released by bandits
Wed 2021-07-21
  30 Civilians Killed And More Than 50 Others Wounded In Sadr City Explosion
Tue 2021-07-20
  Ghani Visits Herat to Review Security Situation
Mon 2021-07-19
  ‘967 Taliban Killed in 4 Days’ as Clashes Continue: ANDSF
Sun 2021-07-18
  Syrian President Bashar Assad is sworn in for a fourth seven-year term
Sat 2021-07-17
  Former Libyan PM, Al-Sarraj Purchases Vanuatu's Passport
Fri 2021-07-16
  As economic conditions worsen in Leb, angry Beirut residents attack Leb army vehicles; elsehwere, PM-designate Saad Hariri resigns
Thu 2021-07-15
  Taliban Control Spin Boldak Crossing in Kandahar, and beyond
Wed 2021-07-14
  '261 Taliban Killed' in Past 24 Hours: MoD

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