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Accordion aka Squeeze-Box 🗃 This is a list of articles describing popular music acts that incorporate the accordion. The accordion appeared in popular music from the 1900s-1960s. This half century is often called the "Golden Age of the Accordion." Three players: Pietro Frosini, and the two brothers Count Guido Deiro and Pietro Deiro were major influences at this time.
Cops in Northern Virginia have been warned by ISIS of a potential threat at malls and shopping centers, according to Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis
Increased law enforcement will continue through Halloween weekend and into Tuesday - Election Day - when McAuliffe and Youngkin compete for governor
Officers were already reportedly patrolling the area around Fair Oaks Mall, which is located 20miles outside of Washington, DC
Earlier this week Department of Homeland Security's intelligence chief John Cohen said ISIS wants individuals to act on their own in lone-wolf attacks
US intelligence agencies also said they believe the Islamic State in Afghanistan could develop the capability to attack the United States in as little as six months
The worrisome announcements come after the rapid end of America's 20-year war, which resulted in the death of 13 US troops killed in an ISIS-K suicide attack
Update from Twitter at 3:49 p.m. ET:
Some USSS agents are concerned DC-area ISIS threat may be related to a report of 3 Afghan refugees who forced their way off a bus earlier this month
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Could security issues associated with this threat be used to call for extended/relaxed election rules to allow McAuliffe's people to line up votes they look to need?
[BBC] The 30-year-old artist, whose real name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, was arrested on Thursday at a stadium in New York City ahead of his concert.
Mr Maxwell and five other people are accused of transporting drugs, including heroin, on Long Island and New Jersey.
If convicted they face a maximum of life imprisonment.
Mr Maxwell has so far made no public comments on the issue.
"As alleged, the defendants transported, distributed and sold more than 100 kilograms [220lb] of deadly and addictive drugs, including heroin and fentanyl, on Long Island, deliberately contributing to the opioid epidemic that has devastated our communities and taken too many lives," US Attorney Breon Peace was quoted as saying by CNN.
[BBC] US intelligence agencies say they may never be able to identify the origins of Covid-19, but they have concluded it was not created as a biological weapon.
In an updated assessment of where the virus began, the Office of the US Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said an animal-to-human transmission and a lab leak were both plausible hypotheses for how it spread.
But there was not enough information to reach a definitive conclusion.
China has criticised the report.
The findings were published in a declassified report which is an update of a 90-day review that President Joe Biden's administration released in August.
It said the intelligence community remains divided on the most likely origin of the virus. Four agencies assessed with "low confidence" it had originated with an infected animal or a related virus.
But one agency said it had "moderate confidence" that the first human infection most likely was the result of a laboratory accident, probably involving experimentation or animal handling by the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The report also said Chinese officials were unaware of the existence of the virus before the initial outbreak of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan, in late 2019. But it said China was continuing to hinder the global investigation and to resist sharing information.
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When you can't trust your intel, you must trust your instincts. My instincts tell me that Covid-19 is a bio-weapon developed by the CCP with help from Dr. Fauci and deliberately released to help the Democrats cover their cheating in the 2020 election. No, I have no proof of this assertion. I do not have the vast resources of the US intel community. But my nose always tells me when something stinks.
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But it said China was continuing to hinder the global investigation and to resist sharing information.
This is the key sentence.
Why would the Chinese refuse to cooperate with an investigation unless they were guilty?
Why even bother with an investigation if you do not have access to the facts?
Why not just put Fauxi in jail for lying to Congress about it?
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My sense is that the bioweapon was released in some accidental or preliminary and modest test form and the epidemic that ensued ws wholly of a scale beyond expectations. Once it blossomed, the CCP PLA decided to go all in and sought to spread it worldwide even more effectively. Unclear how many variants might have been additonal releases or if they are refining the virus to have demographic specific efficacy. But, it is clear that our own internal Marxists and their CCP allies have explored all the ways this enables the destabilization of the "Main Enemy". For the IC to not confirm the source and their refusal to do so shows how compromised they are and wholly in need of radical reformation/reduction/relocation/reeducation to again become the servants of the Republic.....and I want a pony!
[Gateway] During fiscal year 2021, under the open border policies of Joe Biden, the US welcomed 1.7 million illegal border crossers into the United States. This was during a so-called pandemic when the rest of the country was required to wear masks, get tested and take at least two doses of an obviously failed vaccine.
On Thursday news broke that illegal aliens from 2018 may receive $1 million per family for the alleged "abuse" and inconvenience they endured when they broke US law and entered the US illegally.
These insane rules that are destroying the United States are not by accident, they are by design.
The Marxists are tired of waiting to take complete control of your life and decisions. So they opened the borders and flooded the system on purpose. It’s not for votes. They don’t need the votes. They know after their "success" in 2020 that they can take any future election they want.
So why flood the system?
It’s part of the Cloward-Piven approach to political dominance — collapse the system and usher in their Marxist utopia.
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven (both longtime members of the Democratic Socialists of America, where Piven today is an honorary chair), the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Today nearly one in 300 people in America are illegal aliens brought in under Joe Biden. By next year it will be 1 in 100 if the Biden regime continues to let in 400,000 illegals a month like are expected in October.
America is a great nation but no country can withstand these numbers of illegal invaders into their country, and into the already bloated welfare system.
The end is near if these demons are allowed to enact this plan and sink this great nation.
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There is no historical precedent for a nation deliberately destroying itself.
Nero's neglect was a single act of a The Ming Dynasty's destruction of the Treasure Fleet came after it had achieved its goal of impressing the world, and was done in part to free up resources to defend the Middle Kingdom against Mongol invaders.
Our morons are inviting the Mongol hordes in. The actions of this administration are supported by nearly the entire political-economic-intellectual elite. And neither the Romans nor the Han Chinese ever spat upon their own, denouncing themselves for the sins of Roman-ness or Han-ness.
Why is this happening now?
How much longer will Heritage Americans who love our country and its republican traditions tolerate this descent into masochism and insanity?
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Biden is beyond incompetent. He is a flaming asshole and a bullying fool who erased all the progress that Trump made working closely with Mexico's president.
This thorough analysis ("The Real Reason For the Border Crisis") describes how our corrupt, blithering moron of a POTUS has destroyed the trust and cooperation that his predecessor earned from Lopez Obrador and the other Latin American leaders through skillful, patient, wise and respectful diplomacy. Trump and Lopez Obrador moved the problem south, to the southern Mexican border, where it became manageable.
In the Trump era, the Mexicans actually built a wall on their southern border and halted the caravans in their tracks before they got anywhere close to our border. Biden has trashed this cooperation, moved the problem up to our border, encouraged literally millions of would-be migrants from around the world to rush Del Rio and all the other entry points, and insisted that the Mexicans appoint their own shbilic Muelker-style Grand Ibquisitir to prosecute -- get this -- corruption.
[RedState] I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It’s "almost" like Clueless Joe™ Biden and his equally clueless administration are trying to destroy everything from the demographics of America — that’s a given — to parents’ faith in their kids’ schools to the entire U.S. economy. Only this time it could not be more clear.
Amid soaring gas prices, White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy on Thursday announced that the Biden administration is going to increase regulations on the oil industry: "There’s a place for" regulation and "We’re going to use it," McCarthy said during an appearance on MSNBC’s "Hallie Jackson Reports." Moreover, McCarthy told Jackson oil executives will soon face "a day of reckoning" on Capitol Hill.
Hold the bus.
So Biden kills the Keystone XL Pipeline ten seconds after he sits his clueless ass down at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, continues to disrupt oil prices, begs OPEC to increase production, cries to the oil companies, and now this nimrod announces on PMSNBC that the hapless administration is going to increase regulations and blister oil executives before deranged Nancy Pelosi’s Democrat-controlled House.
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No. Can't let Mad Hatter Harris assume the throne. Everyone knows that slut is off her rocker.
They'll rev up the animatronics, keep rolling out Joe in front of his prompters, and let Dr. Edith Wilson-Biden run things behind the scenes -- with direction and guidance from Kalorama
#3
In a month they will blaming OPEC again for rising prices. Don't know about the rest of you but I saw a 40% increase in my home gas bill last month.
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Whatever happened to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
Or do these idiots not even know of its existence?
#5
Agree with #2. Biden is the perfect president for the bureaucracy. A mere figurehead going senile who will never, ever interfere with their pet projects.
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I paid almost $80 to fill my tank yesterday. But I'm happy to pay it because Democrats will get clobbered in 2022.
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[American Thinker] This is where Fauci's word magic comes in because in biology, the jargon term "Gain of Function" refers not to human health, but to the health of the bugs that can kill you.
So you thought the NIH was about YOUR health?
Well, most of the NIH is in fact dedicated to human health. But not in virology or bacteriology or parasitology, where scientific jargon is flipped on its head. This is molecular biology, where it makes a kind of sense to look at bugs from their own point of view. If the COVID virus learns to infect humans more lethally, it's a Gain of Function for the bug. Your illness and death, your Loss of Function, is their gain — if you get what I mean.
So if the United States pays for the Wuhan lab via a cutout corporation called EcoHealth, and you naturally assume it's all for a good purpose.
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As Gay replaced Homosexual. Gain of Function has replaced Germ Warfare.
But why?
Is it like a handful of Power Elitists are have hinted? That there are too many people and we have diminishing food and natural resources? Was the approaching 8 Billion population number the magic watermark for some type of artificially induced population trimmer, like the Covid-19?
Because with just 5,007,010 C-19 "claimed" deaths in 2 years they'll need another go at it.
BTW: Interesting how Hollywood's 1973 Soylent Green movie plot mimics some many current events. "By the year 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution and an apparent climate catastrophe have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing.... The homes of the elite are fortresses, with private security, bodyguards for their tenants...As a result of the weekly supply chain and distribution bottlenecks, the hungry masses regularly riot when supply runs out... "
[American Thinker] As the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Over the past century, we’ve embarked on a number of noble initiatives to improve the world in which we live. But in the true spirit of "never let a crisis (or opportunity) go to waste," leftists have managed to subvert all these pursuits. Posing as benevolent government "servants" they have graciously offered to guide us through the complex social and scientific issues associated with each objective. We naively let them. We’re just now beginning to see that the course they’ve charted does not lead to the destination we were promised. It leads to a loss of self-governance -- also known as tyranny.
In the 1940s our government decided to get into the disease control business by stamping out malaria. That seemed innocent enough. The CDC was created to accomplish it. The NIH already existed but, apparently, one bureaucracy was not enough. But it turns out, eliminating malaria (at least in America) wasn’t enough. The NIH and the CDC have since expanded their missions (research for the former and disease prevention for the latter) to become two of the greatest threats to civil liberties in existence. They are calling for the suspension of our rights in the name of defeating a virus -- which the NIH admits to having helped create in funding gain of function research. Per their guidance, our rights to movement and assembly have been restricted. Our property rights have been put on hold (e.g., the eviction moratorium). It’s all being done in the name of the "public good." There is a term for letting the benefits of the many outweigh the rights of the individual -- mob rule. That’s a long way from the original mission to stamp out malaria.
[Mises Institute] Last month, the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia released a new study which showed that, at least among those polled, "roughly 4 in 10 (41%) of Biden and half (52%) of Trump voters at least somewhat agree that it's time to split the country, favoring blue/red states seceding from the union."
Moreover, majorities in both groups agreed there are "many radical, immoral people trying to ruin things" and that "it is the duty of every true citizen to help eliminate the evil that poisons our country from within."
On might conclude that people who think that things are generally going well in a country aren't so concerned with "the evil within" that they think it's time to "split the country."
It seems that President Biden has been unable to "unite" the country after all, in spite of his promises that it's "time to heal in America" and that he will "be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify." Rather, it appears the country embraces a hard divide over a variety of issues, with vaccine mandates and parental rights in public education being only the most current ones.
At this point, there's no reason to believe these divides are simply going to go away. Secession is likely to become even more mainstream, as has been occurring in recent years, and as the old "liberal consensus" of the mid-twentieth century recedes ever more into the distant past.
Rather, experience increasingly points toward separation, even if such events seem far off. In the real world, after all, major political changes can come suddenly and in unexpected ways. In 1987, most Soviets still assumed the USSR would continue to exist for many more decades—if not centuries. Because of this, now is the time to begin asking the difficult questions about secession and how military and financial questions can be addressed.
Considering all this, we see three main reasons why it is increasingly unwise to ignore secession as a serious possibility.
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While I don't see a "Conservative States of America" (CSA) ☺ in the near future.
I do see liberals openly circumventing our US Constitution. So have States start charging such persons/Politicians with violating Civil Rights.
I would welcome Laws and Amendments that:
LIMIT DC powers to what they were to have been to begin with.
3 elected term limitation with a 5 year prohibition before being allowed to run again.
Forbidding any elected official from association with any company that they received donations from and/or steered contracts for 10 years to include backdoor $$$$ via Family/Friends.
Limiting donations to $25 per voter and $5,000 per 501 #c registered SIG per election cycle.
Require all MEDIA to OPENLY declare their political position of support or neutrality.
Remove the current Civil Lawsuit immunity for Politicians who make threats and slanderous comments.
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#2: its coming. When biden charges Abbott with usurpation of federal powers vis-a-vis the border. I don't see any way the current country can remain. Jefferson said that the tree of freedom must be watered with the blood of patriots. I do not want a 'civil war' but i do want a new constitution free of all 'penumbras' and equal justice applied to all. I don't see any way to get a conservative nation using the existing constitution. Yea, Greg Abbott.
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Reason #4: these mofos are certifiably insane.
Can anyone make sense of today's fresh burst of lunacy?
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They have set the stage with the massive lies and partial truth about Jan 6, and the "white supremacist" meme, precisely as a predicate for what is coming. Is it possible these latest outrages on the border, Afghanistan, inflation, supply shortages, climate bullshit, and not this amazing stupidity, are all provocations to elicit a poorly organized, fragmented public reaction? One that can be the justification for massive military reaction, the demise of the 2A, and creation of the national police force? Inquiring minds wonder...
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^ Yes. Never could have imagined this, but the provocation thesis is becoming more and more plausible with each passing day. There is no other way to explain this swelling concatenation of idiocies
#8
I'll accept secession only if it's based on a precinct-by-precinct basis. Anything else would be tyranny for far too many. Just because 20% of Colorado has 85% of the population does not justify forcing me to live to THEIR whims, especially since they're too stupid to think beyond their wish for "free stuff".
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I agree. Its just the costal region of CA and WA (not sure abut Oregon) which are blue.
Besides - you'd want a port on the pacific coast outside of Alaska.
[OneIndia] A terrorist who was going to kill a shopkeeper in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... has been rubbed out.
The police said that the terrorist fired on the ADP of the Army and Police in Cherdari, Baramulla. The alert parties retaliated and 1 terrorist was killed. The police have recovered 1 pistol, 1 loaded magazine and I Pakistain made grenade from his possession. Now where could he have gotten that?
The police said that the killed terrorist has been identified as one Javed Ah Wani of Kulgam.He had assisted another terrorist, Gulzar in the killing of 2 labourers from Bihar in Wanpoh. He was on a mission to kill one shopkeeper in Baramulla, the police said.
On October 21 the security agencies had shot full of holes four snuffies in two separate encounters.
These snuffies were responsible for the killing of migrant workers, the police said. In the shootout at Shopian two snuffies and a Sepoy Karanveer Singh were killed. In another encounter at Kulgam, two bad boyz were potted.
The snuffies killed in Shopian were behind the killing of a carpenter from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
The two snuffies killed in Kulgam were responsible for the killing of two labourers from Bihar.
Last week a Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander and a top terrorist in Jammu and Kashmir, Umar Mushtaq Khanday involved in the killing of two police man was shot full of holes.
Another terrorist Suhail also was killed by the police. The two bad boyz were potted in Drangbal, Pampore. The Jammu and Kashmir police said that the force is committed to hunt down these snuffies who try to create fear among the masses and spread mischief and tumult in the Valley. Such elements and their names should be excised from society the police also said.
The police had said that Khanday a top Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander has been trapped during an operation in Pulwama. He was named among the top ten snuffies by the police along with Salim Parray, Yousuf Kantroo, Abbas Sheikh, Reyaz Shetergund, Farooq Nali, Zubair Wani and Ashraf Molvi, Saqib Manzoor and Wakeel Shah.
[Rudaw] Dozens of Sunni Arab men who served prison time for affiliation with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS) or were acquitted, continue to be punished as they are stuck in limbo in the Kurdistan Region, Human Rights Watch stated on Thursday. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said the men are not forced to stay, but do not leave because of unfavourable conditions in their home areas.
"The men are currently stuck in a camp in the Kurdistan region, after being released from prison between 2018 and 2020. Security forces are not allowing them to leave the camp to live elsewhere in the Kurdistan region, and they fear for their lives if they were to return home," Human Rights Watch stated.
"These men, most of them boys back when ISIS was in control of their areas, have been and continue to be punished, even though many were victims as child soldiers," said Belkis Wille, senior crisis and conflict researcher at Human Rights Watch. "After years of suffering they are still in limbo with no hope for the future."
Erbil and Baghdad have detained thousands of ISIS suspects.
According to Dinar Zebari, KRG’s coordinator for international advocacy, 398 ISIS detainees have been tried and sentenced in the Kurdistan Region and 48 were found not guilty and released. The KRG has also handed over 853 ISIS suspects to Iraqi courts.
Human Rights Watch said the state of limbo for the men who were released in the Kurdistan Region "stems from a lack of coordination and recognition between the separate judicial systems of the Kurdistan Regional Government and Iraq’s Baghdad government, as well as the near-total impunity with which gangs operating in the men’s home communities arbitrarily detain and even kill those suspected of ISIS affiliation."
Earlier this year, a Shiite militia commander called for the forced displacement of civilians from Sunni areas north of Baghdad and in Diyala province to cut off local support for ISIS in these regions that have been a hotbed of terror activity.
Many displaced Sunnis are reluctant to return to their homes because of continuing violence, lack of reconstruction, little in the way of basic services, and accusations that they support ISIS. Some who voluntarily left the camps to salvage their homes and livelihoods have been forced to return to the camps, unable to piece together the basics.
Zebari said that the KRG does not force anyone to stay. "It's worth noting that while the majority of displaced people want to return to their original and liberated places, majority of these displaced people are currently unable to do so due to a lack of adequate conditions, such as basic life services, job opportunities, and security," he said in an email to Rudaw English on Thursday evening.
"No acquitted ISIS [ISIS] turban has been forced to dwell inside the Kurdistan Region camps," he added. "The regional government supports a voluntary and dignified return of these individuals without them serving a second sentence, passing through cumbersome investigations, or being a target of social criticisms in their places of origin."
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[OneIndia] The Malayalam translation of the 14th century Arabic text Mashari-Al-Ushaaq or the Book of Jihad has been used in Kerala extensively by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... In the year 2018, the National Investigation Agency had produced a copy of the Book of Jihad in a special court after scores of KeralaMoslems left the state to join the ISIS in Afghanistan. The NIA claimed that a member of this module, Abdul Rashid had used quotes extensively from this book. It was further stated that it was these discourses that convinced many to join the ISIS as they were told that Jihad is an obligation for the Islamic faithful.
The book was little known in Kerala although the Arabic version was available for centuries. However it was the ISIS sympathisers who began publishing this book in Malayalam. They called it Vijayathinte Vaathil Vaalinte Thanalil or the Door to Success, the shade of the sword.
While the book was not available in print, it was circulated among many Moslems in the form of a 344 PDF. It has 33 chapters and it speaks about the important of breeding horses to wage Jihad. Seen as a full handbook on Jihad, the book also speaks of the punishment to be given to cowards who fail to wage a holy war.
The Kerala police had recently asked the state government to ban the circulation of this book. The police said that the book inspires youngsters with a strong religious inclination in joining terrorist organizations. The state has formed a three member committee to examine the content.
Kerala's tryst with Jihad is a well known fact. The recruiters and sympathisers have relied heavily on Arabic material to push forward their cause and recruit people into terror groups. Further the state has also witnessed a heavy Wahhabi presence, which has only added to the problem. Money has been pumped into the state in huge numbers and these have been used extensively to further the cause of Jihad.
The original book was written in Arabic by a religious scholar Imam Abu Ahmad Ibnu Ibrahim Muhammad al Dimashqi al Dumyati also known as Ibn Nuhaas. He was killed by the Romans in 1411. However in the late 20th century the book was resurrected by an Egyptian author Sayyid Quote. Since then many who read the book have termed it as the best inspiration to wage Jihad.
Officials tell OneIndia that the Kerala police had rightfully asked for a ban on the book. In Kerala it has been a free run for the Islamist fundamentalists, the official further notes.
The NIA had found that several Jihadist organization had mushroomed over the years in the state and were recruiting people to radicalise them and prepare them for Jihad. It was also found that these youth were being taught the principles of Wahhabism.
In Kerala welcoming the Wahhabis for years together dealt a blow to internal security. In Kerala there was a steady flow of funds to the tune of Rs 1,700 crore from the Gulf nations specifically to promote Wahhabi activities in the state.
Many in Kerala have welcomed with open arms the Wahhabi style of preaching and this has let them take control over several Mosques in the state.
[Rudaw] The United States on Friday announced sanctions targeting Iran’s drone program, which it said has been used to attack American forces and partners in the Middle East, including Iraq. The move comes days after Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... indicated it is ready to resume nuclear talks in Vienna.
"Iran’s proliferation of UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] across the region threatens international peace and stability. Iran and its proxy bandidosLions of Islam have used UAVs to attack U.S. forces, our partners, and international shipping," said Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo.
The Treasury sanctioned companies and individuals it said supported the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) drone programs and designated Saeed Aghajani who commands the IRGC’s drone force.
The IRGC’s elite Quds Forces "has used and proliferated lethal UAVs for use by Iran-supported groups, including Hizballah, HAMAS, Kata’ib Hizballah, and the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s," stated the Treasury. "Lethal UAVs have been used in attacks on international shipping and on U.S. forces."
US interests in Iraq and Syria have come under attack or threat of attack by drones at least 12 times in 2021, most recently at al-Tanf base in southern Syria, according to data compiled by Rudaw English. Iraqi militias with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) backed by Iran are widely blamed. In June, drones were front and centre at a PMF military parade.
The militias demand the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq and stepped up their attacks after the US assassinated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and PMF commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in Baghdad in January 2020. The US has agreed to pull out its combat troops by the end of the year as it focuses on training and advising Iraqi forces in the fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS).
The new sanctions come as Iran is under pressure to return to delayed nuclear talks. Tehran’s top nuclear negotiator this week said Iran would resume talks with six world powers by the end of November. Negotiations were suspended in June to allow for a transition of power after elections in Iran.
Reporting on the announcement of the sanctions, IRGC-linked Tasnim news said the White House was expected to refrain from introducing new measures as a sign of goodwill.
[BREITBART] The great takeaway from the 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... pandemic is a rejection of borders and walls, Pope Francis ...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity (so to speak) within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... told the BBC on Friday morning.
"Climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic have exposed our deep vulnerability and raised numerous doubts and concerns about our economic systems and the way we organize our societies," the pope asserted in a special audio message for the launch of the COP26 Climate Conference.
"The most important lesson we can take from these crises is our need to build together, so that there will no longer be any borders, barriers or political walls for us to hide behind," he declared.
Francis said the pandemic and climate crisis have together taken away humanity’s sense of security, making people feel powerless and lacking control over their lives.
"We find ourselves increasingly frail and even fearful, caught up in a succession of ’crises’ in the areas of health care, the environment, food supplies and the economy, to say nothing of social, humanitarian and ethical crises," he stated.
These crises are all profoundly interconnected, he stated, and call for "the ability to formulate plans and put them rapidly into action, to rethink the future of the world, our common home, and to reassess our common purpose."
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Breaking: Portland antifa member John Colin Hacker, 37, was indicted for a 2019 attack on me. He is charged w/felony 3rd-degree robbery. There is an active arrest warrant. Read the press release from @Liberty_Ctr & donate to my legal fund against #Antifa: https://t.co/3xk6LcjtE1
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Remember we are talking about a Portland DA. Office
So does anyone think this Anti-USA Brown Shirt will get much more than a $500 Hollywood/(D) covered fine?
Or has the Portland Business owners and Middle Class finally made it clear? Take control or we're leaving. Then were are you going get the Tax Revenue to run the city?
Seriously with the C-19 petering out,
The Socialist- Democrats are in a tight spot.
They need the AF and BLM Brown Shirts to still disrupt order as much as possible. So as to impose greater controls and have any chance to fake the 2022 election results.
Isn’t that theoretically exactly counterproductive?
[BREITBART] On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s "Cavuto: Coast to Coast," Rep. Troy Carter (D-LA) argued that the impact of inflation on people "will be eased when we start to invigorate our economy, and we invigorate our economy by pumping money into it to stimulate it."Carter disagreed with "the notion that somehow the Build Back Better or the infrastructure plan will negatively impact inflation," because there have been "several Nobel Peace Prize economists who vehemently disagree with that. Listen, when people make more money, they spend more money. When you make money, it doesn’t just go into a black hole in your backyard. It goes into the stores, it goes into school, it goes into homes and cars and providing better lives for our children. So that money that’s in —."
Host Neil Cavuto then cut in to ask Carter how he would respond to people who have lost purchasing power even though their wages have gone up.
Carter responded, "I think you tell them that they need to get on the phone, they need to call their members of Congress. I think you tell them to get on the phone and call their senators. Because we’re —."
Cavuto then cut in to ask if that will ease inflation’s bite.
Carter answered, "No. The inflation bite will be eased when we start to invigorate our economy, and we invigorate our economy by pumping money into it to stimulate it. It’s not unlike anything that we’ve done before, except the magnitude of the dollars that we’re putting in with Build Back Better and infrastructure are life-changing and unprecedented. And most economists — I mean, there will be some that obviously disagree, you and I may disagree, but from my vantage point and the economists that I’ve looked at and listened to suggest that the money that we’re putting in, we’re not talking about Bs, we’re talking about Ts, trillions of dollars for infrastructure, for housing, for rail, for [the] environment, these are all things that’s going to pay dividends for years and years to come."
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BTW, it's one thing to have an idiot congressman (redundancy alert!) say this, but the Secretary of the Treasury is saying pretty much the same thing.
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And the solution for diabetes is a massive increase in sugar intake. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Thursday gave a free hand to the law enforcement agencies (LEAs) to deal with the ongoing violent mostly peaceful protests by the banned Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP).
"The government cannot allow anyone to play with the lives and properties of citizens and it is the responsibility of the government to maintain law and order and protect public property and the government will fulfil its responsibility in all circumstances," he underscored as he directed the LEAs to take all possible measures to maintain the law and order situation in the province.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... a rally comprising thousands of workers of the proscribed TLP left Kamoke and entered Gujranwala city on Thursday afternoon, as life in the areas surrounding its route continued to remain disrupted. Some 4,000 TLP workers travelled on Grand Truck Road in large trucks and buses along with their supplies, as stick-wielding activists of the group guarded the procession from all sides.
Soon after reaching the inner city, the TLP protesters set up camp on GT Road, blocking the thoroughfare. Markets in the vicinity were also closed down to avoid any untoward situation. The protesters said they would spend the night in Gujranwala before leaving for Islamabad via Wazirabad and Gujrat in the morning.
A heavy deployment of law enforcers has also been reported at different points with measures being taken to stop the rally before it reaches Islamabad.
Due to the security situation in the region, Pakistain Railways has also cancelled several scheduled trains in view of possible sit-ins in Islamabad by the proscribed right-wing outfit.
Railway operations between Lahore and Rawalpindi have been disrupted and all trains between the two cities have also been cancelled.
The route of the Tezgam Express locomotive from Lahore to Rawalpindi has been diverted from Lahore to Gujrat instead of its usual Lahore to Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... via Rawalpindi route.
A day earlier, the federal government had announced the deployment of Rangers in Punjab for 60 days after at least four coppers were martyred and over 250 sustained injuries in festivities between participants of the march and law enforcers near Sadhoki.
Warmly celebrate the successful maiden flight of the Carrier-borne stealth fighter J-35 of the Chinese Navy. 🇨🇳 (Images via wb/T旺旺T) pic.twitter.com/1OTu9AG6Ar
[NYPOST] A professor at New Jersey’s Rutgers University said she believes that white people are historically "committed to being villains" — and that her unfiltered solution to addressing white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... would be to "take them out."
Brittney Cooper, a professor of women’s and gender studies and Africana studies, addressed the history of colonialism during a discussion last month about Critical Race Theory
...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites and Asians are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense... with the Root Institute.
"I think that white people are committed to being villains in the aggregate," Cooper said during the online conference.
She said white people don’t trust society to redistribute power to diverse groups of people "because they are so corrupt."
"You know, their thinking is so murky and spiritually bankrupt about power that they ... they fear this really existentially letting go of power because they cannot imagine another way to be," she said.
Cooper said there’s no "sufficient" solution to addressing white supremacy.
"The thing I want to say to you is we got to take these motherf—kers out," she said, though she quickly added that she "doesn’t believe in a project of violence."
"I truly don’t because I think in the end that our souls suffer from that and I do think that some of this is a spiritual condition," Cooper said.
Speaking about white supremacy, Cooper also added that she "fundamentally believes that things that have a beginning have an ending."
"All things that begin in white folks are not infinite and eternal, right? They ain’t gonna go on for infinity and infinity. And that’s super important to remember," she said.
She argued that white people are already "losing," noting the rising cost of living and that demographics are shifting.
"White people’s birth rates are going down ... because they literally cannot afford to put their children, newer generations, into the middle class ... It’s super perverse, and also they kind of deserve it," she said.
She said only future generations may see an end to the so-called culture war.
"’Kids actually can grasp critical race theory because the issue that the right has, is that critical race theory is just the proper teaching of American history," she said.
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things that begin in white folks are not infinite and eternal
committed to being villains in the aggregate
this really existentially letting go of power
a project of violence
because I think in the end that our souls suffer from that
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Here's Ms. Donutz-to-Taxpayer-Dollars in 2014, calling for white folk to be burned alive -- this time she had benefit of a (likely white) copy editor at Salon.com:
"Peaceful protests have been happening for over 100 days. But white folks only really pay attention if they fear they have something to lose. Smoke flares in their nostrils, because then they are confronted with the possibility of charred, burning, white flesh. No more water."
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If Rutgers does not fire her... then go liberal style boycott on all Rutgers business donors, and start posting questions to famous Alumni supporters if they support or will continue to support such Campus Racist treachers in any form?
[BenarNews] Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law postponing parliamentary elections in an autonomous Moslem region currently governed by former separatist rebels in the south, his office said Friday.
Voters in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of MoslemMindanao (BARMM) were set to elect their first government next year, but the head of the transitional authority in the region had requested more time to complete reforms that he said were needed before the polls.
The polls "shall be held and synchronized with the 2025 national elections," said the amended version of the law that Duterte signed on Thursday.
Ahod Balawag Ebrahim, who heads the former separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the transitional authority in BARMM had pushed strongly for the postponement of the polls.
Known widely as Murad Ebrahim, the leader had said that the COVID-19 pandemic had disrupted efforts by the transitional authority to complete foundational work in time for the regional polls originally expected in 2022.
"Initially, we wanted six years [of transition] but the Moro Islamic Liberation Front had agreed to a compromise of three years. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... we see that time as very short," Murad told BenarNews last December.
He was referring to negotiations that ended the front’s decades-long armed separatist campaign and led to the creation BARMM.
"The extension for three more years gives us a better chance for healing, for rebuilding, and for setting the future of the Bangsamoro," Murad had said at the time.
MILF used to be the largest of guerrilla organizations fighting for a separate Moslem state in the mainly Catholic Philippines since 1978. In 2014, it signed a Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) with the government after 17 years of conflict and negotiations in Mindanao.
The front settled for expanded autonomy and agreed that its members would turn in their weapons. In February 2019, these former guerrillas, led by Murad, formally assumed leadership of the autonomous Moslem region.
‘ABSENCE OF AN ELECTORAL FRAMEWORK’
Postponing the vote is tantamount to extending the term of the region’s caretaker government, the Bangsamoro Transition Authority, Georgi Engelbrecht, senior analyst, Philippines, said on Friday.ñ
"’[T]he former rebels running the interim government had to put aside their institution-building in order to spearhead relief operations in the region while dealing with periodic lockdowns and steering a less operational Bangsamoro Parliament," the International Crisis Group’s expert said in an ICG Q&A.
"Another part of the rationale for extending the transition was the absence of an electoral framework to guide parliamentary polls in the new autonomous region."
According to Engelbrecht, the interim government was responsible for designing the framework, or electoral code, but at present, only a draft code exists.
Engelbrecht noted that some observers alleged that MILF might have had an interest in extending the transition period because it meant the group would have another three years before facing voters for the first time.
"While that is difficult to corroborate, the fact remains that electing 80 parliamentarians without clear guidelines would have proven challenging," the ICG expert said.
[An Nahar] An altercation between a 55-year-old man and a group of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and Amal Movement protesters was the trigger that started the deadly Ain al-Remmaneh-Tayyounehfestivities on October 14, a media report said Friday, citing a video and a witness’ testimony included in the probe of the army’s Intelligence Directorate.The leaks, published by the al-Akhbar newspaper, identify the man as Gilbert Marasidian. The man told interrogators that he had resigned from the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... 30 years ago.
"The latter appears heading alone and angrily toward the protesters who were passing on the main road on their way to the Justice Palace. Insults and a verbal clash ensue, before a large number of protesters enter into the street where they beat him up severely and knock him down," al-Akhbar reported, citing the probe’s video.
"That was followed by acts of rioting and vandalism before the situation escalated into a direct clash with LF groups deployed at the Frères intersection under the supervision of Maarab security officer Simon Mousallem, who according to the probe’s records had moved to Ain al-Remmaneh along with dozens of people on the night that preceded the massacre," the daily added, noting that Mousallem "inspected the area along with (the LF’s) military official in Ain al-Remmaneh, Elias Nakhle."
A witness identified as Pierre R. whose house overlooks the site where the festivities first erupted meanwhile told interrogators that he first heard protesters chanting slogans supportive of Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... and slamming LF leader Samir Geagea ...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005... as a "Zionist."
"When the demo reached the intersection leading from the Sami al-Solh Street to my house, I saw a person who is around 50 years old, whom I know to be a resident of the neighborhood, approaching the demo. He seemed dismayed and annoyed by the slogans he was hearing," the witness says.
"Minutes later, a group from the demo stopped and started exchanging insults with that person and the matter escalated into a fistfight. Protesters from the demo later entered from Sami al-Solh al-Street into the street leading to Ain al-Remmaneh and I started seeing them smashing cars and burning a cycle of violence. Protesters and individuals from the side of Ain al-Remmaneh then started hurling stones at each other before army troops intervened to separate between the two sides," the witness adds.
Noting that he did not see anyone carrying a gun or a rifle, the witness notes that his balcony was hit by two gunshots and that the first "came from Badaro’s side near the Mersaco company building."
Marasidian for his part tells interrogators that some protesters suddenly stopped and exchanged insults with a number of "LF supporters and Ain al-Remmaneh residents some of whom were carrying sticks."
"The insults were against the LF leader before turning sectarian, after which some protesters entered into the street and started beating up the young men coming from inside Ain al-Remmaneh," Marasidian adds, noting that he was assaulted and that some protesters were carrying handguns on their bodies.
"The group gathered near the Our Lady of Lourdes monument started shouting partisan and sectarian slogans in response to the protesters’ chants, which provoked the protesters who entered into the street and started their attacks," Marasidian went on to say.
[REDSTATE] We are only a few days removed from Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan... comparing Glenn Youngkin, the sweater-vest wearing, Harvard-educated Republican, with those who entered the Capitol Building on January 6th. Yet, the disgusting smears aren’t slowing down.
In what many are describing as an obvious setup meant to tie Youngkin to racists that he has nothing to do with, tiki-torch wielding men photo-bombed his campaign bus today. Conveniently, a single news hound was around to snap a picture so it could go viral.
Amazingly, Elizabeth Holmes didn’t bother to, you know, go ask these men who they are and who they are affiliated with. Instead, she just put the picture up with no context whatsoever. That’s apparently called "journalism" these days.
Let’s also note that one of the men in the picture is black, which essentially confirms these are Democrats trying to falsely attack Youngkin just days before Virginia votes. If these were real white supremacists, I’m going to guess they wouldn’t be palling around with a black guy. But hey, what do I know?
The next question is who paid these men to do this. Was it coordinated by the McAuliffe campaign or by one of the other groups supporting his campaign (such as The Lincoln Project)? That’s what my bet would be on. It’s unlikely these men got together completely unprompted to pull off this stunt. Further, here’s Mcauliffe’s spokeswoman immediately running with the smear, which makes me think they are involved.
By the way, this is the same Christina Freundlich who got caught trying to kill the Fox News story about McAuliffe hiring Marc Elias.
Of course, there was a lighter side to this as well as the jokes started to roll in.
You can smell the flop sweat emanating from Terry McAuliffe’s campaign. Unable to compete with Youngkin on the issues, he and his allies have been reduced to alleging "racism" where none exists. It’s the same tactic that Democrats always use, and it’s going to fall flat here. While McAuliffe has focused on courting out-of-state politicians, Youngkin has been on the ground, focusing on the voters. The people of Virginia know who he is. They know these smears are ludicrous.
The people dressed as alt-right Charlottesville-style supporters of the Republican candidate for Virginia governor have been revealed to be Democrat operatives engaged in a hoax. Anti-Republican Party group, @ProjectLincoln, has claimed responsibility. https://t.co/GAcLepAt5D
The @TerryMcAuliffe campaign now condemns the fake alt-right Charlottesville, Va. rally organized by Democrat operatives after its staff had spent all day amplifying and spreading the hoax stunt. The hoax was meant to damage Republican @GlennYoungkin. https://t.co/IpXP4je405
Lauren Windsor, a left-wing political operative dubbed the "Democrats' answer to James O'Keefe," has admitted to helping organize the alt-right hoax rally in Charlottesville. Before the hoax was exposed, she had pretended to be surprised at the photos. pic.twitter.com/HD7ETsRK0b
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One look at those doofuses and you just know they are not the sharpest tools in the crayon box. McAuliffe must be scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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^ McAuliffe lives and wallows in the bottom of the barrel.
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[REGNUM] The Tunisian security services have identified a cell of the Islamic State terrorist group (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) in the southeast of the country, the press service of the Tunisian Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.
It is reported that the cell included four people planning a terrorist attack in Tatavin province. They were going to attack the Tunisian security forces with cars filled with explosives. During the special operation, explosives, equipment for the manufacture of explosive devices, as well as a large amount of money were seized from the terrorists.
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[FoxNews] “None of the civilian employee plaintiffs will be subject to discipline while his or her request for a religious exception is pending," read a minute order from District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly obtained by Fox News [on 28 Oct 2021].
The Biden administration, which had until noon on Friday to respond, said in a filing that it would not agree to halt the discipline and termination of any employees in the process of seeking a religious exemption to the vaccine pending the court's ruling on the temporary restraining order (TRO) motion.
"The Biden administration has shown an unprecedented, cavalier attitude toward the rule of law and an utter ineptitude at basic constitutional contours," said the plaintiffs' attorney Michael Yoder in a statement to Fox News.
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Well we now have several grounds for an Impeachment process to be called for.
So why is it so silent in the House of Rep. in DC?
[An Nahar] Protesters started gathering Friday in the heart of London's historic financial district to lobby against the use of fossil fuels ahead of the start of the U.N. climate summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow.The protests in London, which were to be joined by Swedish climate activist Greta "Pippi" Thunberg ...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change... , are part of a worldwide day of action before leaders head to Glasgow for the U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP26. Many environmentalists are calling the Oct. 31-Nov. 12 gathering the world's last chance to turn the tide in the battle against climate change.
The protest began at the Climate Justice Memorial outside the insurance marketplace of Lloyd's of London, as demonstrators called for the global financial system to stop investing in the use of fossil fuels.
They laid red flowers spelling out "Rise Remember Resist" at the site before beginning their march to several high-profile institutions in the City of London. They were being escorted by police. Protesters chanted "Ensure our future, not pollution!" as they made their way to the financial firm Macquarie Capital. Outside the firm, five women dressed as banshees and held cymbals, wailing and lying on the ground clutching white roses.
The international bank Standard Chartered will be the focus of the main action in the afternoon, followed later by a vigil at the Bank of England. There are also protests planned at British banks Lloyds and Barclays.
The protesters included people who traveled from the front line of climate change in Asia and the Pacific to call out the banks they say are responsible for financing activities they blame for the destruction of their homes by rising seas.
Some in London protested about local issues, including the plan to build the Silvertown Tunnel under the River Thames in east London, which they say will attract more vehicle traffic into the British capital.
Across the world, demonstrators were taking to the streets to urge action now, including in coal-reliant Poland, where city sirens sounded at noon in Warsaw and other major cities. Poland's conservative government has been slow to embrace new climate goals, arguing that the country needs more time to phase out its heavy dependence on coal and pivot toward more renewable sources.
The summit in Glasgow is taking place a year late because of the 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... pandemic. Six years ago in Gay Paree, nearly 200 countries agreed to individual plans to fight global warming. Under the Gay Paree pact, nations must revisit their previous pledges to curb carbon pollution every five years and then announce plans to cut even more and do it faster.
[ToloNews] The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says that 91 percent of aid provided to 60 audited projects had been wasted or misallocated.
"In 2021, SIGAR audited a sample of 60 US infrastructure projects in Afghanistan, and it found that $723.8 million, or 91 percent, had gone toward assets that were unused or abandoned, were not used as intended, had deteriorated, were destroyed, or some combination of the above," SIGAR said in a recent report. Teaching canaries to ride bicycles, another equally challenging pursuit.
Economic experts said administrative corruption in the former government was the main reason for the waste of foreign countries’ investment in Afghanistan.
SIGAR said that the reconstruction projects were not properly completed.
"The projects supported by the international community’s aid were not completed properly. The projects were involved in corruption and these projects didn’t add to any permanent infrastructure," said Sayed Hakim Kamal, a political analyst. "The contracts for these projects were a mistake."
SIGAR has previously expressed concerns over the existence of high-level of corruption in the former Afghan government’s institutions.
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I knew an oil speculator fella years ago. He raised money for drilling expenses by selling 10% interest certificates. Problem was, he'd sell 25 to 30 certificates for each well. The certificates were usually verbal (a tax avoidance technique). Dry holes were his specialty.
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91 percent, had gone toward assets that were unused or abandoned, were not used as intended, had deteriorated, were destroyed, or some combination of the above
I'm honestly surprised that much actually made it to being spent on "assets". But I guess the seller of those "assets" were the intended recipients all along.
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[DAILYTIMES.PK] The National Security Committee (NSC) on Friday resolved not to tolerate any further breach of law by the members of Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistain (TLP), as all the state organs stood ready to act as per law to protect the life and property of citizens.
Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... , who chaired the 35th meeting of the NSC, also stressed that no group or entity would be allowed to cause public disruption or use violence to pressure the government. Taking serious note of the unprovoked violent mostly peaceful attacks committed by TLP members, the committee members were unanimous that TLP was deliberately employing violence against public property, state officials, and ordinary citizens to create instability in the country and that "this shall not be tolerated."
The committee members emphasized that the government recognized the right of peaceful protest of all Paks. The meeting was attended by relevant federal cabinet members, National Security Adviser, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, all three services chiefs, DGs of ISI, IB, and FIA, and senior civil and military officers.
The NSC received a detailed briefing on the country’s internal security situation and the ongoing agitation by the Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistain (TLP). The prime minister stressed that no group or entity would be allowed to cause public disruption or use violence to pressure the government. The committee praised the police for their professionalism and restraint despite being directly targeted and suffering casualties, including four deaders and over four hundred injured, but warned that the "state’s restraint should not be seen as a sign of weakness."
The prime minister and committee members expressed condolences at the loss of life of coppers and committed to compensating and looking after their families. Commending the exceptional performance of the law enforcement agencies, the prime minister assured that the government would firmly stand behind them as they acted to enforce the law and protect the public. The NSC took notice that no previous government or prime minister had taken such an unequivocal, public international stance on the issue of Namoos-e-Risalat and Islamophobia.
Under the current government, Pakistain has successfully brought these issues to the fore of international diplomatic discourse in the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , among other fora. It was reiterated that one key objective of establishing the Rehmatul-lil-Alameen Authority was also to intellectually counter international propaganda against Islam and sanctity of the Holy Prophet (PTUI!).
[An Nahar] Former security chief and current member of parliament, Jamil al-Sayyed ... who is owned by the government of Syria, but presently rented out to Hezbollah... , denied accusations on Friday that he smuggled tens of millions of dollars out of his crisis-hit country.He challenged his accusers to reveal the name of a government official whom they said helped him transfer the funds.
Al-Sayyed, ally of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , was sanctioned Thursday along with two Lebanese businessmen by the U.S. Treasury Department.
The U.S. agency said al-Sayyed sought to skirt informal capital controls imposed by local banks since November 2019, and was aided by a senior government official in transferring over $120 million to overseas investments, presumably to enrich himself and his associates. The statement did not name the government official.
The Treasury Department also said al-Sayyed had contributed to the breakdown of the rule of law in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... , citing his urging of security forces to kill protesters who gathered outside his home.
Speaking during a news conference in Beirut, al-Sayyed denied all the charges, adding that he is ready to go to the United States to be questioned there and defend himself.
"I challenge them to grant me a (U.S.) visa to go. I will go tomorrow and will face them," al-Sayyed said, adding that if the funds were discovered in "any corner of the world ... they can keep me in jail there."
"Who is the senior government official? Since you said he is a senior government official, release his name so that we know who he is. Why didn't you accuse him?" al-Sayyed asked. He also challenged the Treasury Department to say where the money was transferred and invested.
Al-Sayyed said that in June 2020, a group of protesters gathered outside his apartment building, causing a mess and trying to break in. The politician said his pregnant daughter was at home during the incident, and he told the guards "to open fire" if anyone breaks into the apartment. He added that in any country in the world, a person has the right to defend himself if someone tried to break into his home.
Al-Sayyed was among four pro-Syrian generals tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! without charge for nearly four years over the 2005 liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. al-Sayyed and the three other generals were freed in 2009 for lack of evidence.
The politician said he visited La Belle France this year while he was preparing to file a lawsuit at the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... to demand "compensation and apology" over the time he spent in jail. al-Sayyed said that he wanted to prove that at the time when he was in detention, then U.S. ambassador to Lebanon Jeffrey Feltman was putting pressure on U.N. officials to keep him in jail.
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[Korrespondent] This year, another record harvest of grain and leguminous crops is expected in Ukraine - 81 million tons. This is the third record in the last four years, according to the Inflation Report of the National Bank of Ukraine.
"A significant harvest plays a significant role in the recovery of the Ukrainian economy after the coronavirus crisis. It will also have a positive effect on a number of related activities, and will also provide stable export earnings," the report says.
According to NBU estimates, an increase in grain harvest by 10 percent gives an additional growth in agriculture by 3.4 percentage points. and a direct impact on real GDP growth, by 0.3 percentage points. Accordingly, only a record grain harvest this year will provide 0.8 percent of real GDP growth in 2021.
The report also says that the growth in agricultural productivity has secured Ukraine's role as an important player in the global market. During the period from 2005 to 2020, the volume of exports of food products (together with agricultural and food industry products) in nominal terms increased more than five times, and their share in the export of goods increased from 13 percent to 49 percent.
Despite a lower harvest of agricultural crops according to the results of the 2020/2021 marketing year (MG), the country ranked first in the world for the export of sunflower seeds, 4th place for corn and barley, 6th place for the export of wheat, reminded the NBU.
"In 2021, the weather turned out to be more favorable for Ukraine compared to other countries in the region. Against the background of poor harvests in other countries and, accordingly, maintaining high prices, this will ensure high export earnings at the end of this year and over the next year," the report says.
The NBU also noted that it is the agro-industrial complex that has played a key role in the formation of favorable conditions in the foreign exchange market in recent months.
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Ukraine is blessed with the most fertile soil ("black earth") on the planet. Ukraine is cursed with the most corrupt and dysfunctional society north of the Black Sea. But at least they have Burisma & Biden Inc.
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^ Like Tom I'm delighted to see good news, but this does read like a cut-and-paste from Pravda ca. 1960.
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Like Tom I'm delighted to see good news, but this does read like a cut-and-paste from Pravda ca. 1960.
This is from a Ukrainian government agency reporting on the record harvest.
Please note that throughout the history of journalism, you will find that 85 percent of all news stories are institutionally generated, and that includes both eastern and western media.
Only in the last 20 years can you find original news generated by independent individuals, thanks to the internet.
[ToloNews] One woman died and another woman was maimed after they were hit by a vehicle associated with Islamic Emirate forces in PD 5 of Kabul city, family members of the slain woman claimed on Thursday.
The victims’ families called on officials to hold the perpetrators accountable.
According to the family, the accident occurred on Wednesday.
"We want the government to arrest the criminal. We know he didn’t intend to kill (my mother) but it is shameful to hit someone with a car and leave them on the street," said the son of the victim.
"An accident took place. When I came out of the shop, I saw two women lying on the street. One of them died and another was maimed" said Ramiz, witness.
"We call on the Islamic Emirate to find the perpetrators via cameras and bring them to justice soon," said Naveedullah, a relative of the victim.
But the Ministry of Interior said that the case is under investigation.
"Unfortunately, they succeeded in escaping but efforts are underway to find the perpetrators via cameras and hold them accountable," said Sayed Khosti, a front man for the Interior Ministry.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said on Friday that during an important operation last night 32 activists of a banned outfit had been arrested. Facebook Fact Checkers?
In a tweet, the minister said these people were spreading hatred through fake social media accounts. He said that big action against those spreading fake news and propaganda has been launched and more arrests would be made soon.
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20-25% of the $144m is slated for "Art Therapy" in the form of Hunter's action paintings, to be hung in public buildings across Kabul and Kandahar and other regional centers. Sort of like the murals in post offices funded by the WPA during the Depression.
Even more offensive is the Twix video attached to the article.
[DonSurber] Satire about California became reality in Florida this week.
Todd Starnes reported, "Teachers at Wilton Manor Elementary School in Fort Lauderdale took their students to a gay bar and grill.
"Photographs show the boys and girls inside Rosie’s Bar and Grill – decked out in rainbow colors. The bar advertises itself as a place for LGBT diners and their allies.
"Among the items on the menu – naked sweaty lovin’ hot wings and the Ivana Hooker hamburger.
"Broward County School Board member Sarah Leonardi was invited to chaperone and she posted photos on Twitter."
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Turks are getting in on the fighting: Turkish artillery shells two villages in the north of Aleppo province Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[VOENNOEDELO] Turkish artillery strikes at territories in the north of the Aleppo province in Syria. The settlements of Ein Dakna and Biiluniya came under fire. RIA Novosti writes about this, referring to a message in the Kurdish agency ANHA.
As indicated in the message, artillery fire was recorded in the evening of October 28. Presumably, the volleys were fired by cannons and rocket systems. Dozens of shells exploded in settlements.
The agency said that the army of the Syrian Arab Republic returned fire. The positions of the militants near the city of Azaz were fired upon from multiple launch rocket systems.
[BenarNews] A senior Filipino bully boy described as the overall leader of the so-called 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.... in the Philippines was killed along with his wife in a clash on Friday with police and the military in the country’s south, authorities said.
Salahuddin Hassan previously was identified as a top lieutenant in the southern Mindanao region under the command of Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, the leader of the Philippine IS branch of Islamic State (IS). Military intelligence officials have said they believe Sawadjaan was killed in a clash last year although his body has not been recovered, and that Hassan has played a more active role since then.
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[An Nahar] al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... Movement said Friday in a statement that their "moderate approach" does not mean they accept that Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... endanger co-existence and launch "provoking and hateful campaigns" against the Arab Gulf states "to please Iran."
"We’ve had enough with Hizbullah’s arbitrary policies in politics, security, economy and foreign affairs," the statement said.
Concerning the Tayyouneh festivities, al-Mustaqbal condemned the "illegal use of weapons" and "force" in internal conflicts and rejected "all forms of violence."
Hizbullah had issued a statement on Thursday in support of the minister of information, George Kordahi, for his stand against the 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... war.
Hizbullah’s statement rejected all calls to sack Kordahi, considering them "a violation of Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... ’s illusory sovereignty."
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[NPASYRIA] Senior coordinator of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) was arrested in Iraq in a security operation in Diyala Governorate, Iraqi Security Media Cell said in a statement on Friday.
The arrestee "is a dangerous terrorist, (...) and is a special coordinator with the so-called military official of ISIS in Hamrin Mountains, the Media Cell added.
This operation came three days after carrying out Miqdadiyah Massacre in the Diyala Governorate during which 17 individuals were killed.
On October 26, the Iraqi Security Media Cell arrested seven individuals belonging to ISIS in Baghdad, al-Anbar, and Saladin Governorate in the middle and west of the country.
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[LIBYAREVIEW] Western Libya continues to suffer from the control of militias. A few weeks remain until the country’s Presidential and Parliamentary elections are due to be held, according to the roadmap approved by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF). Despite the approaching date of the elections, the security situation does not bode well that an important and decisive event will happen soon.Recently, 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... has witnessed a new wave of insecurity, chaos, and festivities between armed militias. Violent armed festivities erupted on Monday evening in the city of al-Zawiya, between the militias of Mohammed al-Bahrun (Al-Far) and the Stabilization Support Agency, led by Abdel-Ghani al-Kikli (Ghneiwa). This led to extensive damage to the al-Zawiya Oil Refinery Complex.
Other festivities in the al-Farnaj area of Tripoli took place between Ghneiwa and the Judicial Police Affiliated with the (RADA) Special Deterrence Forces led by Abdel-Rauf Kara.
On Wednesday, an gang affiliated with the 444th Brigade, stormed the house of the commander of the Tripoli military region, Major General Abdel-Basset Marwan in the Soug al-Jumaa district and assaulted him.
On the same day, Libyan Minister of Sports, Abdel-Shafi al-Juweifi announced that an gang stormed the ministry’s headquarters in Tripoli, and assaulted several employees.
On Thursday, the Commander of the 55th Infantry Brigade in western Libya, Muammar al-Dhawi, survived an liquidation attempt, the Brigade announced in a statement.
These events show that despite the political progress being made, the country remains under the control of militias and gangs.
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[DAILYTIMES.PK] State’s patience is already running out amid the protests by banned Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP). On Thursday, National Security Adviser (NSA) Moeed Yusuf said that the banned outfit has crossed a red line.The NSA warned the TLP to be mindful of the fact that there will be "no armed militias of any sort in our country".
The statement from the top security adviser came as the protesters created chaos in Punjab’s cities. Also, the government is holding talks with their imprisoned leader Saad Hussain Rizvi.
Yusuf took to Twitter to condemn and warn the TLP protestors for orchestrating extreme violence against the coppers during their protest march.
He clarified that for all the individuals and groups who think they could challenge the writ of the Pak state, "do not test the proposition". "As the basic principle of national security, the state will never shy away from protecting each and every citizen from any form of violence," he underscored.
The NSA said that the proscribed organization’s protestors had martyred coppers, destroyed public property, and continued to cause massive public disruption.
He warned that the law would take its course for each one of them adding: "and the outlaws will be treated like forces of Evil with no leniency".
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Border officials apprehended a record 1.7 million migrants trying to cross illegally during the 2021 fiscal year
The letter takes issue with Mayorkas terminating the border wall, failing to take adequate, releasing migrants into the interior and refusing to enforce laws
Texas Republican Reps. Louie Gohmert, Michael Cloud, Jodey Arrington and Pete Sessions expressed support for the memo
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[JPost] The Iranian hacker group "Black Shadow" announced that it had hacked and shut down the servers of the Israeli Internet company Cyberserve, Israeli media reported early Saturday morning.
The group, which is responsible for the attack on Israeli insurance firm Shirbit and the financing company KLS, stated in their announcement that they has released information about the company's customers - including the transportation company "Dan."
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[RIA Novosti] Moscow will do everything possible to protect the rights of Russians, including in the Donbass. This is stated in the commentary of the Department of Information and Press of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding reports of the detention of Russian citizens living in the village of Staromaryevka in Ukrainian captivity.
The ministry appealed to partners in the "Normandy format" and the OSCE with an appeal to influence Kiev and ensure that violent actions against local residents stop.
"We continue to monitor the development of the situation," the ministry added.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the situation in Staromaryevka is difficult: officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine periodically arrive there to carry out 'filtration measures.' They impose a kind of curfew, prohibiting local residents from leaving their homes, ostensibly to check the passport regime. This was done most severely at the beginning of the week.
These documents were confiscated from people with passports of Russia and the DPR , and their owners were subjected to violent actions.
"This even caused an armed escalation, which was discussed at the meeting of the Contact Group on October 27," the Foreign Ministry noted.
On Wednesday, the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had seized the village, and a checkpoint had been set up at the entrance. According to him, children and the elderly also live in the village, and it is "extremely problematic" to liberate Staromaryevka in a peaceful manner."
He stressed that Kiev is going to provocations and is doing everything possible to unleash a full-scale war in the region, but blame the DPR and LPR for this.
Donetsk has already applied to the OSCE and called on the world community to force Kiev to return to the mainstream of a diplomatic settlement of the conflict.
Portland is now the first to offer bereavement leave for employees after they have an abortion. City Council unanimously approved the changes earlier this month.https://t.co/TbiysMjJG2
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I had Bee...
Hey, what if I adopt an aborted fetus? Am I entitled to family leave like Secretary of Transportation, Pete Bootyjudge? I refuse to go on talk shows though. Unless it's, you know, lucrative.
[NPASYRIA] On Wednesday, the Iraqi Joint Operation Center announced that 11 non-combatants were killed in a kaboom carried out by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in Diyala governorate east Iraq.
"ISIS criminals attempt to go back once again to their desperate methods in targeting the innocent safe citizens after their failure in confronting our military and security forces," the Operation Center said in a statement.
ISIS committed a terrorist attack on the village of al-Hawash in al-Muqdadiya area, Diyala governorate, killing 11 people and wounding a number of unarmed civilians, the statement added.
The Joint Operation Center intensified pursuing ISIS fighters inside Iraq and said the battle against ISIS is "ongoing"
The Iraqi forces promised most severe punishment to the perpetrators to seek justice for the victims.
[BBC] ShotSpotter's incident-review room is like any other call centre.
Analysts wearing headsets sit by computer screens, listening intently.
Yet the people working here have an extraordinary responsibility.
They make the final decision on whether a computer algorithm has correctly identified a gunshot - and whether to dispatch the police.
Making the wrong call has serious consequences.
ShotSpotter has garnered much negative press over the last year. Allegations range from its tech not being accurate, to claims that ShotSpotter is fuelling discrimination in the police.
In the wake of those negative news stories, the company gave BBC News access to its national incident-review centre.
ShotSpotter is trying to solve a genuine problem.
"What makes the system so compelling, we believe, is a full 80-95% of gunfire goes unreported," chief executive Ralph Clark says.
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What I've been reading is they basically make it up. I mean it's theoretically possible it works. It's also possible that Google Alphabet is disinterested company only concerned with the public good.
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"All life forms in sector 4 were eradicated after a gunshot was 'detected'." That's where it's headed.
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Portland #antifa cell of the Youth Liberation Front announces a “Devil’s night bash” on Saturday, 30 Oct. The flyer for the event says to wear black, bring a friend & have a “trick up your sleeve.” The group was responsible for organizing riots across the US last year. pic.twitter.com/OUx7rWTXaX
[ToloNews] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... in unofficial meetings with Iranian officials said they recognize the Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... River Treaty signed between Afghanistan and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in 1973, an official from Iran's foreign ministry has said.
According to the treaty, Afghanistan is committed to sharing the water from the Helmand River with Iran and will supply 26 cubic meters of water per second, or 850 million cubic meters per annum.
Former president Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... had repeatedly said Afghanistan would not give water free of charge to any country, especially to Iran.
Rasoul Mousavi, general director of the Iranian foreign ministry’s west Asia department, said on Thursday in a meeting that the Taliban in their unofficial meetings with Iranian officials have recognized the 1973 treaty.
Mousavi has also said the recent developments in Afghanistan (Taliban) could turn into a strategic threat against Iran’s national interests unless changes happens in the government.
"If the Taliban government with the current thought and format gets established in Afghanistan, it definitely will be a strategic threat against our country’s national interests. There is no doubt about it," he said.
Although the Islamic Emirate has not rejected or confirmed the remarks of the Iranian official, they have sparked reactions among the people and analysts.
Attaullah Afghan, the former head of the Helmand provincial council, said the level of water has lowered in Helmand River, and said that the river’s water flow into Iran should not be allowed.
"Iran’s request for water is not accepted to the Helmand people because they themselves face a water shortage," he said.
"The Iranians want Afghanistan's water to not be managed properly," said Hamid Mujadadi, a university lecturer.
Tariq Farhadi, a political analyst, said Mousavi’s remarks are not valid because Iran has not recognized the Islamic Emirate and they cannot reaffirm such treaties. "Remarks of the Iranian official are completely baseless. When has the Taliban signed it? When they were not in power? So that signature is not valid. If they signed after coming to power, Iran has not recognized their government," he said.
Ghani had said he will give water to the neighboring countries in exchange for oil, but will not give it away for free.
[THEFEDERALIST] Alexander Vindman, the retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who helped plot the botched impeachment of former President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... in what amounted to a failed coup attempt, thinks Tucker Carlson should be "censured" for saying things Vindman doesn’t like about the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Lt. Col (Ret.) Sausage said something? Meh
In a tweet Thursday responding to a trailer Carlson posted for his new documentary, "Patriot Purge," Vindman asked, idiotically, "How is this different than yelling fire in a crowded theater? Carlson is attempting to incite a riotous mob. He should be censured. I’d like to hear the arguments for/against this being protected speech."
Well since you asked, the argument for Carlson’s documentary being protected speech is right there in the Bill of Rights, on the first page, where it says Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. That includes reporting and commentary that some people, even disgraced former Army officers who try to remove duly elected presidents, disagree with.
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Flounder needs remedial civics. Censure is a disciplinary process brought against an elected official.
He has in mind censoring, which is the business of the bearded kook who runs Twitter, YouTube's Nazis and The Police State Formerly Known as Facebook, now known as Meta[mucil]
[JPost] Telecommunication services were interrupted in Sudan, the Saudi-owned, Dubai-based al-Hadath television channel said on Saturday, hours before a planned protest by opponents of what they say is a military coup.
[REDSTATE] Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling announced today the results of an investigation into election law problems in Racine County and Wisconsin.
"Election statute was in fact not just broken, but shattered by members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission," Schmaling said.
Schmaling and Sgt. Michael Luell, who led the investigation, said that they determined that eight people were living at the Ridgewood Care Center who had diminished capacity and who couldn’t even recognize family members at the Ridgewood Care Center had nonetheless voted by mail-in ballots. The investigation began on the complaint of one woman who said her mother voted despite not even being able to recognize her and beginning to hallucinate.
Schmaling said that they might forward recommendations to the local DA but that they actually wanted a statewide investigation because they believed the problem was greater than in the one home but Luell’s investigation so far had only pertained to the one home.
They claimed the Wisconsin Elections Commission broke the law when it told towns that they didn’t have to follow state law requiring "Special Voting Deputies" to go into the nursing homes to ensure that those who wanted to vote could vote. Those deputies are generally bipartisan and then can also obviously see that the actual person is voting for themselves.
[Journal Times] YORKVILLE, WI — The Racine County Sheriff’s Office announced in a Thursday morning news conference that it has identified eight cases of what it believes to be election fraud at a Mount Pleasant nursing home.
Following the allegations, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Racine County Republican, called for Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Meagan Wolfe to resign. The WEC called an emergency special meeting to be held by teleconference Thursday evening.
Sheriff Christopher Schmaling and Sgt. Michael Luell, who led the investigation, said that eight men and women whose mental capacities had diminished due to age and/or disease, several of whom were largely unaware of what day it was and sometimes couldn’t recognize family members, sent mail-in ballots from Ridgewood Care Center, 3205 Wood Road.
No charges have, to date, been filed in connection to the investigation. Schmaling and Luell said they may forward recommendations to the Racine County District Attorney’s Office, but would prefer that a statewide investigation be launched.
[ToloNews] More than 2,500 displaced families were transferred from Kabul back to their home-provinces, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said on Thursday.
The head of the Kabul refugee department, Abdul Matin Rahimzai, said that the evacuation process would continue.
"We have evacuated 2,500 displaced families from Kabul. Today we are evacuating 450 families from Kunduz and some of the other provinces," he added.
The UN said earlier that many of these families were incapable of going back to their home areas due to financial problems.
"We and around 75 families were displaced from Ghor to Shahar-e-Naw camp. We haven’t received any aid from any organization," said Ghulam Jailani, a displaced person.
Thousands of displaced families are struggling with severe challenges in the capital city of Kabul.
"We haven’t seen anything good but cold weather, exhaustion and poverty," said Abdul Samad, a displaced person.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), nearly 700,000 people were displaced between January and September 2021.
[BREITBART] An unknown number of additional women have accused World Health Organization (W.H.O.) staff of sexual abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (D.R.C.) during the agency’s response to the country’s Ebola outbreak from August 2018 to June 2020, Rooters reported Wednesday."More people [have] come forward alleging abuses by aid workers at the time," Rooters paraphrased Dr. Gaya Gamhewage — the W.H.O.’s acting director of prevention and response to sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment — as saying on October 27.
"We have heard through the inter-agency network that there are more complaints in Goma," she said. Goma is the capital of D.R.C.’s North Kivu province.
Gamhewage said she could not verify the exact number of new allegations as she "did not have access to the complaints due to confidentiality issues."
Several local residents of the D.R.C.’s North Kivu and Ituri regions have accused at least 21 W.H.O. staff members of perpetrating acts of "sexual abuse and exploitation (S.E.A.)" against them during a period spanning August 2018 to June 2020. The W.H.O. employees were stationed in eastern D.R.C. as part of the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... (U.N.) health agency’s response to a regional Ebola outbreak. An independent commission contracted by the W.H.O. to investigate the allegations of S.E.A. published its initial findings on September 28.
The commission’s report detailed "multiple allegations of rape and offers of employment in exchange for sex," W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged on October 21.
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[BREITBART] One Illinois mayor is defying Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s (D) statewide mask mandate, lifting the requirement and making it optional.
Mayor Craig Johnson of Elk Grove Village is not enforcing the governor’s order, which requires those two and older to wear a mask when in indoor public areas.
"We have Amita Alexian Brothers right here in Elk Grove ... hundreds of thousands of people a year go to that hospital and we watch the daily numbers," he explained. "And the daily numbers I’ve been tracking in the single digits for months."
According to ABC 7, there are currently seven 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... patients at that hospital, none of whom are on ventilators.
"We are following the science. That’s our key," he said, questioning the governor’s line of logic forcing areas with low infection rates to mask up.
"And the science has said, according to the governor last spring. Once you drop below 5 percent, he’d open up. Well today we are at 1.6, 1.7 percent. Why aren’t we opening?" he asked.
The mayor also noted this week that the village has held a number of events without any coronavirus breakouts.
"We have to start moving on. We’re as safe as we can be. If you want to wear a mask, wear a mask," Johnson said. "But it’s time to move on."
Pritzker reinstated the mask mandate in late August and has shown no signs of lifting the mandate. Dr. Allison Arwady of 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... ’s health department said they will have a "better sense by, I think, Thanksgiving" on whether they will lift the mandate.
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The USA would see a majority of the Whites aren't wearing masks down here.
Strangely it is the Asians, Latinos and Blacks wearing masks the most.
[An Nahar] Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... on Friday ordered the Lebanese ambassador to the kingdom to leave the country within 48 hours and stopped all imports from Leb ...In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... , a response to comments by a Lebanese minister who described the war in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... as a Saudi "aggression."Saudi state media added that the kingdom's ambassador to Beirut was also asked to head back home.
The Saudi statement also noted that "Lebanon has not taken measures requested by the kingdom to halt the exportation of drugs from Lebanon through the Lebanese exports to the kingdom, especially amid the control of terrorist Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... of all border posts."
"No penalties have been taken against those involved in those crimes that are targeted against the people of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in addition to the noncooperation in handing over the runaways to the kingdom, in contravention of the Riyadh judicial cooperation treaty," the statement added.
The statement meanwhile reassured that "the kingdom is keen on the Lebanese citizens who are residing in the kingdom," noting that "they are considered part of the fabric and unity that gather the Saudi people and its Arab brothers who live in the kingdom."
A source close to the Gulf Cooperation Council meanwhile told Lebanon's MTV that "all of Lebanon's ambassadors will be expelled from the GCC member states in the next few hours."
"There is an inclination to impose comprehensive political and economic sanctions on Lebanon in the next few days," a Gulf source told the TV network.
A Saudi source meanwhile told MTV that "the sharp diplomatic crisis will lead to Lebanon's isolation in the Arab world," warning that "we're still in the beginning" of the measures.
The developments come days after a video circulated on social media in which Lebanon's Information Minister George Kordahi described the war in Yemen as an aggression by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Kordahi made the comments on a TV program before he was chosen for the post in September. Kordahi is close to the Marada Movement the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change... , a close ally of Iran-backed Hizbullah.
Saudi Arabia lists Hizbullah as a terrorist organization. Relations between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon have been tense in recent months over what the kingdom says Hizbullah's control of the small country.
#Breaking Saudi source to MTV: The sharp diplomatic crisis will lead to Lebanon's isolation in the Arab world ... https://t.co/V6ggLnkQUr
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[RIA Novosti] Employees of the Nazi concentration camp in Moglino, Pskov region, unlike their "colleagues" from Tin Gorka, Novgorod region, were partially punished for their crimes.
RIA Novosti was told about this by a leading researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences Boris Kovalev, commenting on the new excavations in Moglino. The remains of another 188 people were found there, including several dozen children. In total, according to historians, in 1941-1944, Nazi punishers killed about 3 thousand people there.
"The results of the investigation of the war crimes of Moglino may become as resonant as the new data on the tragedy in Tin Gorka. But if the executioners of Tin Gorka escaped punishment for the most part, then according to the events in Moglino some of the criminals were brought to justice in 60-70 years," noted the scientist.
The camp was organized by the Nazis shortly after the occupation of Pskov in 1941. Initially, Soviet prisoners of war were kept in the Moghlin "factory of death", who, at the sight of German machine guns, repaired the Riga-Pskov road. According to the recollections of local residents, out of 280 soldiers, no more than 30 survived in a few months.
Since March 1942, civilians, including children, had also been brought here. The place became known as a transit camp for the unreliable and was under the direct control of the Pskov external department of the Estonian security police and the German SD.
As follows from the documents of the regional FSB, which RIA Novosti got acquainted with, Estonians worked in the protection of the concentration camp. According to the plans of the Nazi command, it was planned to transfer part of the region after the Second World War to Estonia.
In the course of recent excavations, they found, possibly, the place of the murder of dozens of orphans, in which a high-ranking SS official participated, Yuri Alekseev, director of the Trustworthy History Foundation, told RIA Novosti.
Meanwhile, last Tuesday, the Soletsky court of the Novgorod region, for the first time in the history of Russian legal proceedings, recognized the massacres of Soviet citizens during the Great Patriotic War as genocide, in fact, the massacres in Tin Gorka . According to the court, they were part of Germany's plan to free the territories from civilians and their subsequent colonization.
[RIA Novosti] They took the prisoners, took them to the pit, shot them, no one counted the corpses, then they drank vodka.
This is how the former Estonian punisher who served in the Great Patriotic War in Pskov and the region described his crimes so casually.
These and other facts from the life of the occupied territory can be learned from the archival materials declassified by the FSB Directorate for the Pskov Region, which were reviewed by RIA Novosti.
We are talking about the protocol of the interrogation of the Estonian Arnold Weedler, who served as a guard at the headquarters of the German SD security service, and then in the Moglino concentration camp, as well as a copy of the protocol of the inspection of the places of executions and the burning of the corpses of Soviet civilians and prisoners of war near the village of Androkhnovo.
Shooting "debut"
As Weedler said during interrogation, the first time he participated in the execution of prisoners in the fall of 1942, when he served in Pskov, occupied by the Nazis, in the protection of the SD headquarters.
"We took about fifteen prisoners from the basements, where the police department was located, put them in a car and went to the prison. There they also took 30 to 35 people. Tthey were also put in the car. There were two cars in total. The prisoners were all men, all civilians,." Weedler recalled.
According to him, at the place of execution, the prisoners were stripped, divided into five or six groups. "One group after another was brought to the pit and shot," said the punisher.
"All the guards accompanying the prisoner were shooting. None of the shot people escaped," he added.
Executions without counting
In the spring of 1943, Weedler, along with other Estonians, was transferred as a guard to the Moglin camp. There he also took part in mass executions.
"In the Moglin camp we already wore the German uniform, which we received in Pskov. The same emblem remained on the cap - the skull and bones, the letters SD on the sleeve," Weedler recalled. The camp guard was an Estonian Thorn.
"Around July-August 1943, I accompanied a large group of prisoners to be shot," Weedler said. "In July 1943, people from the Moglin camp were loaded into four or five cars, I don’t remember exactly. It was a large group, about a hundred, if not more. People were of different nationalities, among them were children, women. On the site of the prisoners, again they were divided into groups, stripped, brought to the pit and shot, including both adults and children," the punisher said.
The punishers did not bother counting the number of victims. "I also shot. How many I killed, I did not count. Everyone was shot, but no one counted," added Weedler.
After returning to the camp, the executioners received encouragement from the Nazi leaders.
"After the execution they buried everyone, returned to the camp, treated us to vodka," Weedler recalled.
According to him, all the camp guards took part in that execution. Among them, Weedler remembered the Estonians Luukas, Krispin, Purkuu. Some time later, a group of 50-60 people was taken away for execution, Weedler said.
"They said they were Jews. They brought them to the same place where they had been shot before. Everyone was shot," he added. Among those who participated in that execution, Weedler named the Estonians Lepmets and Oisel.
Like other punishers, Weedler was found by the KGB after the war. By the verdict of the court he was shot.
The general picture of the atrocities of Hitler's punishers and their accomplices in the Pskov region is complemented by the results of an examination of the places of executions and burning of the corpses of peaceful Soviet citizens and prisoners of war near the village of Androkhnovo, carried out in May 1945.
"During the inspection, the following was established: 20 meters (from) the southern side of the Androkhnovo village and 500 meters from the highway going (in the direction) Leningrad - Pskov and 800 meters from the leather warehouse in the forest, a site was discovered: a cemetery of buried executed Soviet prisoners of war . An area with a diameter of 50 meters, which is surrounded by a circle of barbed wire," said the protocol of the inspection of the place of this terrible find.
For the reliable burning of corpses, the punishers first doused them with a flammable liquid, tar. Tt is noted in the protocol.
Two more places of execution and burial of prisoners of war were found on the territory of the warehouse of leather raw materials, and nearby, on the side of a country road, three. In each of these three places, apparently, there were several dozen corpses.
In addition, further in the direction of Androkhnovo, ten more places of executions and burials of prisoners of war were found, and on the western side of the village: a lot of ashes from burnt corpses.
Earlier, RIA Novosti got acquainted with multi-page protocols of interrogation of Estonians Johannes Ohvril and Viktor Teinbas, who served as guards in the Moglin concentration camp, and also other witnesses, dated 1966-1967.
During interrogations, the criminals told how they contributed to the destruction of the civilians of the Pskov region, as well as named the names of other Estonian punishers and described in detail how the Nazis executed the prisoners of the concentration camp.
The Nazis organized the Moglino concentration camp shortly after the occupation of Pskov in 1941. Initially, Soviet prisoners of war were kept there, who at the sight of German machine guns, repaired the Riga-Pskov road.
According to the recollections of local residents, out of 280 soldiers, no more than 30 survived in a few months.
Since March 1942, civilians, including children, have also been brought to the camp. The place became known as a transit camp for unreliable persons and was under the direct control of the Pskov external department of the Estonian security police and SD. According to the plans of the Nazi command, part of the region after the Second World War was planned to be transferred to Estonia , and therefore the Estonian punitive forces were actively involved in the occupied Pskov region. Historians believe that about three thousand people could have died in this camp from 1941 to 1944.
After the discovery in Moglino of the burial place of civilians who died at the hands of the Nazis during the war, the Investigative Committee of Russia began a pre-investigation check. Now on the site of the former concentration camp, search engines of the Western Military District are working, they have already found the remains of 45 Red Army soldiers. The remains will be buried in the memorial cemetery.
[KhaamaPress] An 83-year old Toba Moradi and her six relatives who were members of the only Jewish family in Afghanistan left the country the previous week and are now temporarily living in Albania.
Toba Moradi who was born and raised in the Afghan capital Kabul wants to go to Canada and start a new life with four of her children already settled there.
They were all rescued by IsraAid humanitarian organization that receives assistance from the Israeli President.
Toba Moradi’s siblings have been living in Israel and her parents have also been buried there but she was not in contact with her sibling since they left Afghanistan in the 1960s 1980s.
The Jewish Afghan woman said that she misses Afghanistan and added that she decided to leave her homeland in order to rescue her children’s lives.
"I left Afghanistan, I loved my country Afghanistan, loved it very much. I had to leave because my children were in danger. I am happy that I am going to see my children. My children are in different places, one in one place the other one in the other place; I was not able to see them. I was crying." She told AP.
Toba Moradi is a distant cousin of Zabulon Somantov who left Afghanistan last month.
Somantov would named himself as the only Jewish in Afghanistan and the sole survivor of a centuries-old community.
Simentov’s distant cousin, Tova Moradi, was born and raised in Kabul and lived there until last week, more than a month after Simentov departed in September. Fearing for their safety, Moradi, her children and nearly two dozen grandchildren fled the country in recent weeks in an escape orchestrated by an Israeli aid group, activists and prominent Jewish philanthropists.
“I loved my country, loved it very much, but had to leave because my children were in danger,” Moradi told The Associated Press from her modest quarters in the Albanian town of Golem, whose beachside resorts have been converted to makeshift homes for some 2,000 Afghan refugees.
Moradi, 83, was one of 10 children born to a Jewish family in Kabul. At age 16, she ran away from home and married a Muslim man.
As I understand it, by Muslim law this makes her children and grandchildren Muslim, following the faith of their father. And if the children are practicing Muslims, they are not Jewish, but of Jewish ancestry, by Jewish law. They’d have to undergo formal conversion to be Jews, same as anyone else. Whether there is a legitimate concern that the Taliban would bully them for it is a different question...
She never converted to Islam, maintained some Jewish traditions, and it was no secret in her neighborhood that she was Jewish.
Now, Moradi and six of her relatives are in Albania, and another 25 relatives made it to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates earlier this week.
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[Gateway] During fiscal year 2021, under the open border policies of Joe Biden, the US welcomed 1.7 million illegal border crossers into the United States. This was during a so-called pandemic when the rest of the country was required to wear masks, get tested and take at least two doses of an obviously failed vaccine.
[RedState] I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It’s "almost" like Clueless Joe™ Biden and his equally clueless administration are trying to destroy everything from the demographics of America — that’s a given — to parents’ faith in their kids’ schools to the entire U.S. economy. Only this time it could not be more clear. 
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...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 
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[REDSTATE] 
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...In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
[KhaamaPress] An 83-year old Toba Moradi and her six relatives who were members of the only Jewish family in Afghanistan left the country the previous week and are now temporarily living in Albania.
