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“ The Oxford Companion to the Body dates the origin of the pubic wig to the 1450s. According to the publication, women would shave their pubic hair for personal hygiene and to combat pubic lice. They would then don a merkin. Also, sex workers would wear a merkin to cover up signs of disease, such as syphilis.[1][2]”
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[Spectrum News, hat tip to The Dallas Morning News, behind the paywall]
Texas’ highly restrictive new law has spurred the largest documented decrease in abortions in the state, according to University of Texas at Austin researchers. A new study says abortions in the state were down 50% in September 2021 compared to September 2020. That was the intent of the bill's backers and author.
The law prohibits abortion once fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which is frequently as early as six weeks into pregnancy and before most women know they’re pregnant. But well after they know they could be pregnant.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, Nov. 1 is set to hear two challenges to the restrictive abortion law: One from the Department of Justice and another brought by abortion providers.
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So they need to look deeper. Are birth rates up? Is the surrounding states abortion rates up? Lets get to the truth.
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Thank God. Literally.
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the largest documented decrease in abortions in the state
How reliable are those statistics?
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...maybe we need to check (barely) post natal COVID death stats?
it is curious that the researchers looked at wait times for abortion appointments in neighboring States as a proxy for detecting Texans seeking abortions in neighboring States (as 49Pan wanted).
I'm guessing that the neighboring States didn't have complete records at the time the researchers asked.
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Also not as bad (good) as the abortion providers forecast, which was 85% less.
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Met two 22 SAS liaison personnel back in the early 90's while at Bragg. Some really down to earth great people with very creative ways of doing things.
[PJ Media] A contingent of House Democrats plans to introduce a resolution urging the Biden administration to condemn Israel while also supporting six Palestinian groups that are designated as terrorist organizations by Israel, the United States, and the European Union.
Rep. Betty McCollum (D., Minn.) plans to introduce the resolution, which, unsurprisingly, will be co-sponsored by "Squad" members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.), and Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), and several other House Democrats. The Jooo-Hating Usual Suspects
"Among the groups backed in the Democratic resolution are the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is designated as a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union," the Washington Free Beacon reports. "Also included is the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, which had funding cut from it in 2020 after the group’s leadership was arrested for murdering a 17-year-old Israeli."
The resolution by House Democrats celebrates the groups for the "value and importance" of their "courageous work," while also condemning Israel for its supposedly "repressive act designed to criminalize and persecute important Palestinian human rights organizations." The resolution also calls on Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to condemn Israel’s "authoritarian and anti-democratic act of repression" and support the six terrorism-tied organizations.
While it is unlikely the resolution will get widespread support, it nevertheless is a symptom of the rising problem of anti-Semitism becoming mainstream within the Democratic Party. Earlier this year Nancy Pelosi infamously walked back her rebuke of Rep. Ilhan Omar for equating so-called "crimes against humanity" by the United States and Israel to "unthinkable atrocities" by the Taliban and Hamas. The incident proved that the Democratic Party leadership is unwilling to hold their own accountable for radical anti-American and anti-Israel views.
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this is one reason it was disappointing that the Dems didn't have a real nomination convention in 2020
most people don't realize the toxic hatred in the Dem party and it is covered up by CBS, NBC, CNN, yahoo news, google news, Bloomberg news, etc. The only way this gets to the low information voters and the gaslighted voters (whom make up at least 30% and maybe 60% of the registered voters) is to see it with their own eyes.
Raw, psychotic anti Israel hatred is just one of the things that would come out of a convention, raw anti American hatred also, also anti white, anti blue coller, etc.
Maybe in 2024
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^ You won't post here under that Nym
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Ok I will change my name are you happy 😃
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What is this, the 80s?
Maybe some Yo Mama jokes?
Yo Mama so ugly, she puts dirt on her face so nobody thinks she's palestinian.
[FoxNews] Attendees at the conference include Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, USAID Administrator Samantha Power, NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Eric Lander, and EPA Administrator Michael Regan.
Biden climate advisers John Kerry and Gina McCarthy will also be in Glasgow.
[FoxNews] Want proof that President Biden is just another "limousine liberal"? Check out his 85-vehicle motorcade through Rome this weekend ahead of Sunday's COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, says Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe.
Boothe called climate change a "limousine liberal issue" during an appearance on Fox News' "The Big Saturday Show" in the aftermath of Biden's extravagant vehicular display overseas.
"The issue of climate change is a limousine liberal issue," Boothe said. "The Republican Party has turned into the party for the American worker, and Democrats are the party for coastal elites. This issue alone underscores that point."
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No rules will matter so long as some arrogant a-hole points a gun at people and pulls the trigger. Baldwin ignored the most fundamental rules of gun safety; he was negligent at the least. He should pay the price.
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I hope he loses every dime he's got.
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"Hilaria" is a fake mamacita. Her real name is Hillary Hayward-Thomas.
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I was under the impression Ms Hutchins was a kid, I assumed no more than 25. But according to the article she was 42, so there’s no excuse for her not having full control of the weapons in her charge.
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I was under the impression Ms Hutchins was a kid, I assumed no more than 25.
Halyna Hutchins was the Director of Photography (DP), the person in charge of the camera and lighting crews. The DP has nothing to do with props.
The young person in question was the armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, aged 24. Her father is Thell Reed, a well-known guy in the business. The armorer, along with the prop master is responsible for any guns on set and making sure they are used safely. This was her second time out as lead armorer on a film.
depending on how contract was written will determine his vulnerability to negligence
civil more likely than criminal
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Reduced to a pauper, where he has to sign on to a 2nd rate reality TV series where he goes around to various gun ranges and panhandles for being RSO of the Year.
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Look at it this way: At least you won't be up there at altitude when the geomagnetic storm screws up coms, navigation, and maybe the whole fly by wire aircraft.
Just sayin
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And suddenly millions of Americans realize they really don’t need to fly
[NYPost] One person was killed and three others were injured when shots rang out at a California lawmaker’s party, reports said.
Gilroy City Council Member Rebeca Armendariz was hosting a large outdoor party when someone opened fire around 1 a.m. Saturday, according to NBC News.
Two of the survivors had "life-threatening injuries," the article said.
"We are giving our full cooperation to the Gilroy Police Department in this investigation," the Democrat said in a statement to an NBC network affiliate.
"Our primary concern is for the individuals impacted and their families. We hope the Gilroy community will come together with love and support for those touched by yesterday’s events at the appropriate time."
[Foxnews] A massive caravan of thousands of migrants has rejected an offer of humanitarian visas for some of the travelers, and is continuing with its journey to the United States border.
The Mexican National Institute of Migration said in a statement that it offered humanitarian visas to women and children in the caravan, but said it was rejected by leaders of the caravan, which set off from southern Mexico last week.
One of the leaders told Reuters that they were distrustful of the authorities who they said had broken promises to them in the past -- and that the deal involved them reporting to government shelters and possibly being moved across states.
The migrants, currently in Ulapa, will leave later Saturday and head to Mapastepec as they walk at night to beat the heat of the day as they take their chances to get into the United States via the southern border -- where there were more than 1.7 million migrant encounters in Fiscal Year 2021.
Organizer Luis Garcia Villagran had told Fox News earlier this week that there were approximately 4,000 migrants in the caravan, with 1,256 under the age of seven, over 400 between the ages of seven and 18, more than 100 babies under one and 65 pregnant women.
MIGRANT CARAVAN CONTAINING THOUSANDS TRAVELS THROUGH MEXICO TOWARD US BORDER: ’TELL BIDEN WE ARE COMING’ "Give us our money!"
While single males are mostly being turned away under the Trump-era Title 42 public health order, the Biden administration has only been turning away a fraction of family units and is not applying Title 42 to unaccompanied children. In September, 75% of single adults were expelled under Title 42, while just 27% of family units were expelled.
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[Just The News] Legislative Republicans excoriated Gov. Tom Wolf for "playing favorites" after a report concluded his administration helped only Democratic counties secure $21 million in private grants ahead of the 2020 election.
Broad + Liberty reported the Pennsylvania Department of State and various left-wing groups worked together to funnel private grant funding to Democratic-leaning counties without offering the same assistance to Republican-leaning counties.
"This latest report indicates the administration and the Department of State played favorites when they connected certain counties to large sums of grant funding while ignoring other counties," Rep. Seth Grove (R-York) said. "Not only did this create unequal access to voters, but it also essentially disenfranchised voters in counties that did not receive equal funding."
About half of the money — procured through the Chicago-based Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL)
...Mr. and Mrs. Mark Zuckerberg’s private “grant mentor” NGO that gave millions of dollars to favoured boards of elections heading into November 2020...
— went to Philadelphia County, Grove said, representing about $10 spent per voter there. Other counties received around $1 per voter, he said.
The Center Square previously reported 13 counties across Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia received the private grants last year after challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic forced local officials to burn through their annual budgets long before the Nov. 3 election.
In an interview with APM Reports, Chester County's acting Director of Voting Services Bill Turner described the $2.5 million grant his office received as "a lifesaver" that he used to fund 14 drop boxes, body cameras and extra poll workers.
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Woof can't run again and his AG is running for the job. If the electorate of my former home state is too dumb to move away from dem insanity, at least I'll only have to read about it, not live it.
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[BBC] Teenager Jess Griesel does not seem the usual red beret-wearing member of South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) - the party intent on upsetting the country's political landscape.
She is a 19-year-old white, Afrikaans-speaking undergraduate who was recently elected to the Student Representative Council (SRC) of Cape Town university on an EFF ticket.
But in a country as racially charged as South Africa, her stance has not gone down well with some people. When Ms Griesel announced her SRC candidacy in September, one social media user described her as a "race traitor".
Twenty-seven years after the end of white-minority rule - when Nelson Mandela was elected as president in South Africa's first democratic election, calling the country "the rainbow nation" - Ms Griesel tells me the backlash shocked her.
"Being called a race traitor was something that I found very interesting and very telling about South Africa today. It insinuates that there's still an 'us' and a 'them' club."
To understand the reaction she has faced - one needs to understand how the EFF has shaken up politics in South Africa.
Formed in 2013, it is led by the fiery Julius Malema, who has modelled himself on Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez and unapologetically promotes the interests of poor black South Africans.
The party describes itself as "a left-leaning, radical, anti-imperialist and economic emancipation movement, inspired by the broad Marxist-Leninist school of thought."
Members are disruptive, literally and figuratively.
They are often accused of being anti-white. That is because they have repeatedly demanded that white South Africans give up the land taken from black people.
Some EFF supporters occasionally sing the apartheid-era chant "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer", a highly controversial song that a court ruled as hate speech and which is seen as being directed against the white farming community.
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The party describes itself as "a left-leaning, radical, anti-imperialist and economic emancipation movement, inspired by the broad Marxist-Leninist school of thought."
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I suppose I’d worry more if her attempt at a fist wasn’t a perfect match for her snub nose, dimples, and wavy blond hair. She looks like she’s playing at revolution, no doubt unlike her adult comrades.
[EpochTimes] Several U.S. states on Friday mounted multiple federal lawsuits against the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal workers and contractors.
Texas sued individually in a federal court in Galveston. Another lawsuit, filed in a federal district court in Missouri involves Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Yet another lawsuit, filed in a federal district court in Georgia, involves Georgia, Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia.
The lawsuits come a day after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president... announced he sued the administration over the same vaccine mandate. As of late Friday, the total number of states suing the Biden administration over the mandate is 19.
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him.... on Sept. 9 issued a far-reaching executive order that requires almost all federal employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment, including civilian federal employees and contractors. The order goes into effect on Dec. 8. Regular COVID-19 testing isn’t an option, but religious or medical exemptions from vaccination may be granted, according to the order. Contractors that don’t comply may lose out on government contracts.
All 19 states seek to block Biden’s requirement, arguing that the mandate violates federal procurement law and is an overreach of federal power. The states also argue that Biden’s vaccine mandate violates the 10th Amendment that separates the power between federal and state governments; uses federal spending to coerce the states, which is unconstitutional; and did not properly allow for 60 days of public comment.
The Biden administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
[OneIndia] The decision by Pakistain Prime Minister, Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... to notify Lt. General Nadeem Ahmed Anjum as the next ISI chief is a clear sign that the army continues to be in complete control of the country.
The new spymaster will replace Lt. General Faiz Hameed next month. The notification by the Prime Minister's Office comes after nearly three weeks of a face-off between the military and the government.
On October 6, The Mighty Pak Army chief, General Qamar Bajwa had reshuffled the top military brass and while doing so, he transferred Lt. Gen Hameed to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... as the corps commander. He also appointed the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... corps commander. Lt. General Anjum as the ISI chief.
However Imran Khan was reluctant to notify the appointment and this had strained the relations with the military. However Khan had to tow the line of the army chief. This has now led to strong speculation that General Bajwa may most likely continue to head the military beyond November 2022. He took over as the army chief on November 29 2016.
While the army chief had made his decision on the new ISI chief, Khan remained reluctant and said that he wanted the due process to be followed. He was trying to suggest that he did not want to replace Lt. General Hameed as the ISI chief. To be sure, General Bajwa had sent a list of names to be appointed as the next ISI chief so that the PM could interview them. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... this was just a way to help Khan save face, but in reality the message was clear and the army wanted only Lt. General Anjum as the next ISI chief.
However on October 26th it became clear that the army had had its way. The PM's office said in a tweet Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa called on Prime Minister @ImranKhanPTI today. The meeting was part of the ongoing consultation process between the Prime Minister and Chief of Army Staff about the timing of change of command in ISI and selection of the new DG ISI.
During this process a list of officers was received from ministry of Defence. Prime Minister interviewed all the nominees. A final round of consultation was held between the Prime Minister and Chief of Army Staff today, the PM's office also tweeted.
After this detailed consultative process, name of Lt..Gen. Nadeem Anjum was approved as new DG ISI. The designate DG ISI shall assume charge on 20th November, 2021, another tweet read.
[AnNahar] An Israeli missile strike killed five pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... bully boyz near Damascus on Saturday, a war monitor said, while state media said two Syrian soldiers were maimed in the attack.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike "destroyed a 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 Iranian weapons and ammunition" convoy heading towards 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... At least five pro-Iranian fighters were killed and several maimed, said the war monitor.
Earlier state news agency SANA, quoting a military source, said two Syrian soldiers were maimed after explosions were heard in the Syrian capital.
"The Israeli enemy fired a salvo of surface-to-surface missiles from northern occupied Paleostine targeting positions near Damascus," SANA said.
"Our anti-aircraft defenses were activated and were able to hit some of the enemy missiles," the source said, adding that the attack maimed two soldiers and caused damage.
AFP correspondents in Damascus heard multiple explosions at around midday.
Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel has routinely carried out air strikes inside Syria, mostly targeting Syrian government troops as well as allied Iranian and Lebanese Hizbullah forces.
It is rare for Israel to carry out strikes on Syrian targets during daylight hours.
Strikes were reported in the areas of al-Dimas, Qudsaya and al-Mezzah military air base — all located west of Damascus.
According to the Observatory and Syrian media reports, the strike targeted advanced weaponry and ammunition depots belonging to Hezbollah, Iranian forces and allied militias.
The targets of the strike were all located in areas known to host Syrian air defenses as well as arms warehouses.
[CNN] ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... US Border Patrol recorded more migrant deaths on the US southern border in fiscal year 2021 than in any prior year on record, according to data shared by the agency Thursday.
There were 557 Southwest border deaths during the fiscal year, which ended September 30. That's up from 254 deaths in fiscal year 2020 and 300 deaths in 2019, marking a significant increase amid a 30-record year for border crossings. The agency data on deaths dates to 1998.
A majority of migrant border deaths have been related to heat exposure, according to the agency. Moslem colonists Migrants often face dangerous terrain and can get lost as they try to make their way to the US.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli F-15 fighter jets escorted an American heavy bomber through the region as it made its way to the Persian Gulf on Saturday, in an apparent threat to Iran.
"The flight represents the continued operational cooperation with American forces in the region," the Israel Defense Forces said.
The escort mission came as Israeli and American officials have increasingly threatened to act against Tehran’s nuclear program, as 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... has stalled indirect negotiations with the United States in Vienna regarding a mutual return to the 2015 nuclear deal.
The Israeli military shared photographs and video footage of the flight, showing the American B-1b bomber, which is capable of carrying heavy bunker-buster bombs that would be needed for a strike on Iran’s largely underground nuclear facilities, alongside the Israeli F-15 jets.
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"In the beginning of this year, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi announced he had instructed the military to begin drawing up fresh attack plans for such an operation, and last week the government reportedly allocated billions of shekels toward making those plans viable."
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[REGNUM] On August 19 (September 1), after overcoming the crisis of negotiations on the issue of indemnity and Sakhalin, an armistice agreement was concluded in Portsmouth between the armed forces of Japan and Russia. On August 31 (September 13), the corresponding document was signed by representatives of the Russian and Japanese command in Sypingai.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] St. Louis mayor Tishaura Jones ...Cop-hating Dem heronner da mare of St. Louis. Chicago and Baltimore needed some competition for murder capital... was speaking to the press about efforts to reduce violent crime when what sounded like gunshots went off
Jones did not miss a beat, barely reacting and sarcastically saying 'Oh isn't that wonderful,' before getting back to the topic at hand
Jones explained that because she was born and raised in St. Louis, the sound of gunfire was nothing new to her
Mayor Jones and Lucas' press conference comes as homicides have gone down in St. Louis City
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When I was born in St. Louis in 1949, the population of the city was 850,000. In the 2020 census, it is just barely over 300,000. Can one wonder why?
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/\ They all moved across the river to Venice and Sauget for the shopping and night life.
[NYPOST] The FDNY shut down 26 firehouses across the Big Apple as of 7:30 a.m. Saturday because of staff shortages caused by the vaccination mandate, The Post has learned.Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican who represents Staten Island and Brooklyn, tweeted Saturday that five of the companies were in her district — and said it’s Hizzoner who could have blood on his hands.
"If someone dies due to a slower emergency response, it’s on Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... and his overreaching mandates. I hope this fool fixes it ASAP!" she tweeted.
The shuttered companies included Engine 55 in Lower Manhattan, Engine 234 in Crown Heights, Engine 231 in Brownsville, Ladder 128 in Long Island City and Engine 158 and Ladder 78 in Richmond on Staten Island, according to an FDNY alert sent Saturday morning.
"Twenty six companies out of service is an unconscionable number," said Councilman Joe Borelli, a Staten Island Republican who chairs the committee on fire and emergency management. "The firefighters who are unable to work have all been tested within the week and are not Covid positive, and I doubt New Yorkers care about the vaccine status of the person applying defibrillators to their chest."
Looking over the area via Google earth, you can see numerous shell holes north of Telmanovo. The affected area is ( I think) west northwest of Telmanovo. You can see trenches and shell holes there as well.
Note from the journalist Varvara Pukhova: Geographical note: Novaya Marievka is a village close to Ukrainian lines
“Regular shelling of the Ukrainian military forced the residents of Novaya Marievka to hide in basements. The settlement of Novaya Marievka, although it is in direct line of sight from the opposite bank of the Kalmius River occupied by the Ukrainian army, has been considered a relatively quiet place since the active fighting in 2015.
Affected by the large distance to the enemy. The situation changed earlier this week when Ukrainian troops crossed the river and tried to gain a foothold on the opposite bank in the village of Staromaryevka.
Despite the statements of the Ukrainian leadership that they crossed the water barrier for "humanitarian purposes", the first thing that the special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine did was to arrest local residents with passports of the Russian Federation and the DPR.
At the same time, the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine methodically began to work the roads and heights, covering the attempt of their troops to gain a foothold on the bridgehead. The nearest village, Novaya Maryevka, came under fire from large-caliber artillery.
At the moment of calm, local residents clean up the remains of windows and roofs broken by close hits. They spend their last nights in basements again, and do not leave the courtyards to work in vegetable gardens, which are hit by mines and shells.
"I was insanely afraid, all the old people stayed here, we are hiding in the basement, who can walk. Those who are lying are just in their houses, and I am afraid for them," says a local resident Svetlana before bursting into tears from her nerves and experienced fear.
At the moment, the Ukrainian troops are suffering losses, but under the cries of their propaganda about the victorious "toad jump" they continue to remain in Staromaryevka under the cover of civilians, and their artillery shells the villages of the Telmanovsky district of the DPR every day. "
The leaders of the United States, Germany, France, and Britain express their “grave and growing concern” at #Iran’s nuclear activities, after a meeting on the sidelines of the #G20 summit.https://t.co/wDLYAIpB6d
#Iraq’s state oil marketing company, #SOMO, says Iraq sees no need to take any decision to increase its production capabilities beyond what has already been planned for #OPEC countries.https://t.co/2uMJG5659P
[Garowe] Two soldiers were killed in an al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... attack on a Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... military base in Af-Urur of the Bari region on Saturday morning, residents said.
The attack began with mortars fired by Al-Shabaab at a military base in the Galgala mountains and the army responded with heavy weapons.
Witnesses said they heard sporadic gunfire after the attack near the village as Puntland troops managed to remain in control of the key base.
Al-Shabaab has carried out similar attacks on Af-Urur in mid-2017, killing more than 40 soldiers and civilians, the deadliest single-day attack.
Puntland faces double threats to its security from al-Shabaab and ISIS-linked Death Eaters which set up a base in the Bari region in 2015 to wage a terrorist insurgency.
The state forces have been carrying out routine operations in Galgala and hotbed of terror areas in the region for the past few months to maintain security.
#G20 leaders have formally endorsed the global agreement for a minimum 15 percent corporate tax, US Treasury Secretary #JanetYellen said, hailing it as a “historic” step. https://t.co/kVe2UOmSd1
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How about a 15 percent tax on all PACs and political donations?
And given that our Congresscritters get to covert their reelection slush fund to private assets upon retirement, how about taxing that too as Unearned Capital Income?
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[RusOnline] After the military use of the Armed Forces of the Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drones in the Donbas, experts even started talking about the possibility of Russian air defense crews appearing in the conflict zone.
Vasily Kashin, a Russian political scientist and an employee of the Higher School of Economics, told Kommersant that if Kiev continues this use of drones in Donbass, countermeasures will inevitably follow to bring about a balance of power. The actions of the Ukrainian side will lead to the need for a sharp strengthening (rearmament) of the air defense of the DPR and LPR in order to clear the skies of the self-proclaimed republics from the presence of hostile drones. Either direct participation in their (DPR and LPR - ed.)
Air defense of the Russian armed forces will be required - Kashin explained the prospects. In turn, Konstantin Skorkin from the Carnegie Moscow Center explained Kiev's actions with a desire to “raise the enthusiasm” of Ukrainians. He recalled that during the Second Karabakh war, the mentioned drones showed themselves very well, becoming a "military sensation".
The victory of Baku inspired Kiev, which saw a model for the return of territories in Nagorno-Karabakh and decided to seize the opportunity. It is clear that this parallel is very stretched, since by nature the conflicts are different, but in Kiev they are looking for simple recipes - noted Skorkin. At the same time, an expert from the Russian International Affairs Council, Timur Akhmetov, who lives in Ankara, said that critics of the Turkish authorities urge Ankara to be more selective in the supply of weapons.
Especially when it comes to hot spots near Turkey. An error in the miscalculation of the risks of any supplies may affect the situation in other conflicts with Turkey's participation - thinks Akhmetov. He thinks that in the dialogue between Moscow and Ankara, a discussion of the supply of weapons will inevitably appear, since Russia can transfer its weapons into the hands of Turkey's enemies, symmetrically responding to the appearance of Turkish drones from Ukraine.
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HEY, Yoohoo Foggy Bottom! Hows about forgetting about Ethiopian problems and asking the Latin American desk to take action on all those folks coming across our Southern border ?
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[ColonelCassad] Having defeated the troops of Ethiopia on its territory, the army of the independent Tigray launched an attack on the central regions of Ethiopia, with the ultimate goal of reaching the capital of the country. Now battles have unfolded for the large city of Dessie.
The Ethiopian army is in a state of demoralization and partial decay, which leads to large losses, desertions and huge trophies from the Tygrai.In recent months, Ethiopia has lost more than 250 units of various equipment, which is destroyed or captured by the Tygrai army.
Several thousand soldiers surrendered - in 2021, the Tigray army holds the world record for the number of captured prisoners, even the Houthis were overtaken. Two divisions of the Ethiopian army virtually ceased to exist, two more suffered heavy losses.
But not so long ago Ethiopia controlled most of Tigray, including its capital. Disgracers. See the photos at the link
[IsraelTimes] Destination ostensibly barred from publication, but revealed by some Hebrew-language media; Asian nation said to be a significant importer of Israeli goods, including arms.
It was not clear why Gantz’s destination had been placed under gag order, as Israel and Singapore have long enjoyed open relations. And former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with his counterpart in the small Asian country in 2017.
Sources involved in the matter told The Times of Israel’s sister site Zman Yisrael that it was Singapore that had asked to keep the meeting under wraps, with Israel apparently complying with the request.
The two countries established diplomatic relations in 1969, but have ties dating back to 1965, when Israeli military advisers covertly assisted Singapore after its declaration of independence.
Singapore is Israel’s second-largest export destination in Asia after India, which is said to also include arms, considering a significant portion of Israel’s exports is defense-related.
The Singapore Air Force’s 116th squadron uses Hermes 450 drones, manufactured by the Israeli Elbit Systems defense contractor.
Israeli arms giant Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has also previously attended the Singapore Airshow, where it once unveiled a new laser defense system.
[TASS] The Project 20380 fourth corvette Rezkiy built for Russia’s Pacific Fleet arrived in Vladivostok for outfitting, mooring and shipbuilders’ sea trials, Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Sergei Avakyants told reporters on Friday.
"Today, the Rezkiy, delivered to Vladivostok from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, has been rolled out from the Zeya self-propelled dock. The corvette has been placed into the outfitting yard of the Amur Shipbuilding Plant in Vladivostok for its equipping and preparing it for mooring and shipbuilders’ sea trials," the Pacific Fleet’s commander said.
As the admiral specified, "the new corvette is set to enter service with the Pacific Fleet in 2022."
Currently, the Russian Pacific Fleet operates the Project 20380 corvettes Sovershenniy, Gromky and Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov.
Project 20380 corvettes are designed to accomplish green-water missions, fight enemy surface ships and submarines and provide artillery support for amphibious assault operations. The corvettes of this type incorporate the latest solutions for reducing their physical fields. In particular, the shipbuilders significantly reduced their radar signature during their construction, using radio absorption materials and specially designing their hull and superstructure.
Project 20380 corvettes are armed with Uran anti-ship missiles, Redut surface-to-air missile systems, A-190 artillery guns and Paket-NK anti-submarine warfare weapons. They can carry Ka-27 helicopters of any modification.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Five people holding tiki torches stood outside Glenn Youngkin campaign bus
They were in Charlottesville, in a deliberate echo of the August 2017 rally under the banner Unite The Right which saw neo-Nazis clash with counter-protesters
Stuart Stevens, co-founder of The Lincoln Project and former Republican strategist, defended the move to CNN's Chris Cuomo
'Listen, every day I hear people pleading with the Lincoln Project to help show Democrats how to win, how to play hardball. You know, this is an example.'
The organization refused to apologize and suggested it would continue to show up until Youngkin disavowed former President Donald Trump
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"people plead with the Lincoln Project to help show Democrats how to win, how to play hardball. You know, this is an example"
So your little grifting vehicle has f-all to do with Lincoln's party and it's principles -- it's actually about defeating them.
I'm not in favor of violence against such little monsters as this thief and his fellow scam artists. But as a matter of justice, they deserve to have their faces rubbed in their own fecal matter at some point.
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The principals of the Lincoln Project are all butthurt political consultants who were made to look foolish by Trump's unconventional campaign. They are like all bitter losers, just out to spoil the party they were not invited to. The bigger picture is that political consultants have been a pox on the republic, selling often inferior product to the electorate via "anything goes" tactics.
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Youngkin Keeps Lincoln Project Away By Holding Rally Within 500 Feet Of A School - its the Bee
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RE#1 Why are you not in favor of violence against these type of "people"? Do you think that they wouldn't use it against you?
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All the Lincoln Project people have tax and / or ped0 problems. As long as they run losing campaigns for Pubs or work dirty tricks against Pubs, they have a ticket to play.
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Billionaire Democratic donors give big to anti-Trump Lincoln Project Billionaire investor Stephen Mandel — a longtime backer of Democratic groups — gave $1 million to The Lincoln Project last month. Bain Capital executive Joshua Bekenstein chipped in $100,000 to the group. DreamWorks founder David Geffen — a million-dollar donor to Democratic super PACs in 2018 — also gave $100,000 to the Republican-led group. So did billionaire cable TV pioneer Amos Hostetter, another major Democratic donor. Retail developer Joseph Kaempfer added $75,000.
Some current and former Republican donors also bankrolled The Lincoln Project in the second quarter. Investor and former Jeb Bush backer David Seldin gave $75,000. His political contributions have shifted entirely to Democrats in the Trump era. Michigan oil executive Sidney Jansma, who is backing critical Republican congressional candidates in his state such as John James, Peter Meijer and Lynn Afendoulis, (RINO back sabbers) donated $100,000. (RINO back sabbers)
Portland trans #antifa member Andrea Lane Mun, formerly known as Jacob Andrew Camello, promises mass political violence if Kyle Rittenhouse isn't convicted. Andrea was charged with multiple violent felonies in April but the case was dismissed. https://t.co/fu8aHgno5Mpic.twitter.com/IGjftDAA4p
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So Anti-Fa Leaders have openly set itself above US law and plans physical violence and mayhem, if their guilty verdict demand isn't met.
Sounds like Anti-FA is a Revolutionary Domestic Terrorist Group.
We know the there are 1000's of FBI, State, and yes even still good Portland LEO's. So why hasn't Andrea Lane Mun been arrested by any of the still good LEO's?
Is it due to the current Government and leadership seat holders?
Has the incoming Coup clearly placed themselves above the law?
Because, it is clear and well documented that it has selectively enforced, applied and even violated US Law's, as needed, for their Social-Political agenda many times.
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And we are supposed to be scared of a piece of shit like this. Give me a damn break. Screw law enforcement they aren't going to do a damn thing. We need more ppl like Kyle Rittenhouse to take a stand.
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Mun was arrested, but charges were dropped as is almost always the case in Portlanistan. LE did their job, but Soros'funded DAs have nullified the rule of law.
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These f--kers supported a knife-toting rapist car thief out on n arrest warrant and expressed their support by torching a city and causing mayhem -- with the help of a convicted child rapist who traveled from Arizona (Rosenbaum) so he could set a dumpster on fire... at a GAS STATION. The other two attackers were also felons. The fourth assailant (D'Flying Kicker III) hasn't been caught but odds are, he's a felon too.
Kyle Rittenhouse is more than a national hero. His extraordinary example of singular moral clarity and physical courage represents this country's best hope of the next generation recovering some sanity in our law enforcement and criminal justice systems.
If Kyle is not acquitted of all charges, it will effectively be the last nail in the coffin of rule of law in this country.
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^ Yes, the powers that be want this scalp badly. If the state court doesn't provide the correct result, the Dept. of Injustice will be there to bat clean-up.
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We cannot, must not let this extraordinary young man be chauvined. It's time to draw a line in the sand.
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Springfield revives and updates the classic High Power with the SA-35
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#1, the FBI is irretreivably corrupt. There are no lower rank good guys there. During the Coup Against Trump they had to be either in on it, or too stupid to be on law enforcement. BTW, how is the investigation of the Las Vegas shooter?
[KhaamaPress] A group of 29 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) left Afghanistan and arrived in London on Thursday, October 29 as part of the UK initiative.
The group was evacuated from Afghanistan as a result of interference from the British Foreign Ministry, LGBT+ rights charity Stonewall, and the asylum group of Rainbow Railroad.
The group also includes students and teachers who were advocating the rights of LBGT in Afghanistan.
The activists and foreign ministry in the UK said that this is the beginning and they will continue to help all the Afghans who are at risk.
British foreign minister Liz Truss said that Britannia is a free country and people can live as they want to be and free from persecution.
LGBT Afghans have complained that they have been beaten and intimidated by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in Afghanistan thus, they have left their country.
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How many Rantburgers identify as "LGB"???
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How many Rantburgers identify as "LGB"???
At least several, Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843, along with any other category, I suspect. One of the moderators is open about his homos3xuality, and about how shocked he was to be made welcome here after living most of his life on the Liberal side.
Eyewitnesses said that a car bomb exploded at the first gate of the airport near the hotel.
In addition to ten victims, there are at least 12 more people who were injured. It is known that five people are in serious condition. Teams of doctors and rescuers are working at the scene of the tragedy.
None of the groups operating in Yemen have yet claimed responsibility for the explosion. The police are specifying the exact number of dead and injured, as well as material damage.
#NASA and #SpaceX have delayed a mission sending four astronauts to the International Space Station to avoid “a large storm system,” the agency says.https://t.co/HSGBmEWrYH
[IsraelTimes] Thousands of Sudan ese march in streets against ouster of civilian government, as West calls for military leaders to show restraint
Sudanese security forces rubbed out two people Saturday during mass protests against the country’s recent military coup, a doctors’ union said. The shootings came despite repeated appeals by the West to Sudan’s new military rulers to show restraint and allow peaceful protests.
During the protests, thousands of Sudanese marched into the streets, chanting "revolution, revolution" to the sound of whistles and drums, to protest against the coup that is threatening to derail the country’s fitful transition to democracy.
Hackers believed to be linked to Iran have breached an Israeli internet hosting company, taking down several of its sites, local media outlets report.https://t.co/zf1yl8IMoF
Hackers believed to be linked to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... have breached an Israeli internet hosting company, taking down several of its sites, local media reported.
The cyberattack hit websites including of Israeli public transport companies Dan and Kavim, a children’s museum and public radio’s online blog, with none of the sites available to users by midday Saturday.
The hacking group known as Black Shadow grabbed credit for the attack and published what it said was client data, including the names, email addresses and phone numbers of Kavim clients, on the Telegram messaging app.
"Hello Again! We have news for you," the hackers wrote in a message on Telegram on Friday night.
"You probably could not connect to many websites today. ’Cyberserve’ company and their customers (were) hit by us," it said.
"If you don’t want your data leak(ed) by us, contact us SOON."
Later another message read: "They did not contact us... so (the) first data is here," with the group dumping the information online.
Israeli media said Black Shadow is a group of Iran-linked hackers who use cyberattacks for criminal ends.
The group breached Israel’s Shirbit insurance firm in December last year, stealing a trove of data.
It demanded a $1 million ransom and began leaking the information when the firm refused to pay.
The new attack comes after an unprecedented, unclaimed cyberattack wrought havoc on Iran’s petrol distribution system this week.
Iranian media have pointed the finger at government opponents abroad.
Iran and Israel have been engaged in a so-called "shadow war", including several reported attacks on Israeli and Iranian ships that the two have blamed on each other, as well as cyberattacks.
In 2010 the Stuxnet virus — believed to have been engineered by Israel and its ally the US — infected Iran’s nuclear program, causing a series of breakdowns in centrifuges used to enrich uranium.
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[AlAhram] Ongoing warfare in Marib, al-Bayda, Shabwah and elsewhere 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... has created one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world, second only to the manmade famine caused by the Æthiopian government’s war in the Tigray.
According to Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Ramesh Rajasingham, more than 20 million Yemenis, or two-thirds of the population, need assistance from aid agencies.
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[Jpost] Two Israeli men were shot dead in Kiryat Motzkin, northern Israel, on Saturday evening.
Police have identified the men as "Caucasian Mafia" head Shmuli Isakov and his son Per, 20. The motive is assumed to be gang-related.
Police have opened a criminal investigation and are searching the area for evidence and suspects. Badanov has highlighted the frequent mentions of these wonderful peeps
Could be a culture thing, since this lot are presumably the Jewish version.
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ICYMI: #Kuwait orders #Lebanon’s charge d’affaires to leave the country and recalls its ambassador from Beirut in protest over comments made by a Lebanese cabinet minister criticizing the Arab intervention in Yemen.https://t.co/4lunYz40i2
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Obama's "fundamental transformation" that he talked about in 2008 turns out to be the destruction of the Constitution and the placement of Abombinites in the courts and Executive Branch. Rigging of elections was a part of that equation as well.
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Merrick Garland is more concerned about terror threats from bake sales and pissed off moms. When will you accept that the government may no longer be by the people, for the people?
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We the Weasels of the Union of Soviets, in Order to form a more perfect Onion, establish WokeJustice, insure domestic Strife, provide for the common alien, promote the general Impoverishment, and secure the Blessings of Graft to ourselves and our Posteriors, do ordain and establish this Destitution of the Union of Socialist Soviets of America.
[Rudaw] 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) hard boyz attacked Peshmerga forces in Kirkuk province’s Altun Kupri district on Saturday, reportedly killing two Peshmerga fighters, according to a statement from Kurdistan’s Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD).
The attack by the hard boyz happened at Zorgazraw region of Kirkuk’s Altun Kupri district, around 40 kilometers northwest of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... where two Peshmerga fighters were killed, according to the statement from CTD.
A statement from the Ministry of Peshmerga identified the two dead as Khalid Hameed and Ako Karim.
Nuri Hama Ali, a commander of the Peshmerga forces in Kirkuk told Rudaw over the phone that they are looking into the attack and resulting casualties.
A Peshmerga told Rudaw on the condition of anonymity that a number of Peshmerga have been injured in the attack.
[ToloNews] At least two people were killed and ten others were maimed after members allegedly belonging to local forces opened fire on a gathering at a wedding party in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. on Friday, the family claimed on Saturday.
According to the family, the incident took place on Friday night in Marghondai village of Surkroad district.
The family claims that the forces belonged to a local checkpoint.
"I told them that they are young--let them play the music--
...one sees the family's mistake immediately...
but they dragged me back and opened fire, some of the boys were maimed and two others were killed," said Noor Hazrat, a family member of the victims.
The Islamic Emirate spokesmen said the button men do not belong to the Islamic Emirate, adding the incident was caused by a personal dispute.
“They thought they were free. They were shown their error.”
Local officials confirmed the incident and said an investigation had been launched.
A security source told TOLOnews that two perpetrators had been arrested for firing.
The witness said the attackers also broke the musical instruments.
"It was nearly midnight. Three people entered the house. One of them broke the musical instruments and then went out and then opened fire on approximately 50 people," said Abdul Bassir, a witness.
The maimed were transferred to the provincial hospital.
"A person was shot in the leg. I wanted to help him. When I drove the car, one of them told me to go but another one opened fire," said Abdul Fawad, one of the maimed.
"They opened fire and then escaped," said Sayed Akbar, one of the maimed.
Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters rubbed out two wedding guests who were listening to music, local officials and a witness said Saturday, forcing Afghanistan’s new government to insist such attacks are not authorized.A relative of the victims said Taliban fighters had opened fire while music was being played at a wedding in Sorkhrud, in Nangarhar province in the east of the country, killing two and wounding two more.
Music was banned the last time the Taliban ruled Afghanistan and, while the new government has not yet issued such a decree, its leadership still frowns on its use in entertainment and sees it as a breach of Islamic law.
"The young men were playing music in a separate room and three Taliban fighters came and opened fire on them. The injuries of the two maimed are serious," he told news hounds.
Qazi Mullah Adel, front man for the Taliban governor in Nangarhar, confirmed the incident but did not provide further details. A security source said the two men who attacked the wedding are now in jug.
In Kabul, government front man Zabihullah Mujahid said he could not confirm the incident, but promised that it was not Taliban policy to execute music lovers.
"Investigations are continuing. So far, it’s not clear how it happened," he said. "Is it a personal matter or what?
"In the ranks of the Islamic Emirate no one has the right to turn anyone away from music or anything, only to try to persuade them. That is the main way," he told a news conference.
"If anyone kills someone by himself, even if they are our personnel, that is a crime and we will introduce them to the courts and they will face the law."
The previous Taliban government between 1996 and 2001 imposed a very strict interpretation of Islamic law and harsh public punishments.
But, since returning to power in mid-August after overthrowing the US-backed government the Taliban, seeking international recognition and an end to sanctions, has tried to show a more moderate face.
US President Joe #Biden will meet with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip #Erdogan on the sidelines of the #G20 summit in Rome, a senior US official confirms.https://t.co/LaghUbNRwu
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Biden Thinking: "I wonder if anyone will notice if I start sucking my thumb...This Prez Gig is tougher than I ever thought...I want some ice cream... maybe a n-a-a---zzz 😴"
[Rudaw] Around 300 Kurdish migrants colonists remain in stalemate on the Belarus-Poland border, claiming physical harassment by border guards, a lack of food and water and dire cold.
Karwan Kamil, a migrant on the border, told Rudaw on the phone on Saturday that around 300 Kurdish migrants colonists from the Kurdistan Region have been stuck in the forest between Belarus and Poland for weeks and "are facing a terrible situation with no food or water."
He said that an 11-year-old child from Erbil has died of cold and hunger.
Kamil said that the Belarus police have treated them terribly.
"[Police] have broken arms and legs of many migrants colonists...they do not help us at all," he said, adding that more migrants colonists will suffer at the border should the situation continue.
Balen Yousif, a migrant from Zakho, is shown in video footage sent to Rudaw calling for help, claiming that border guards broke his limb.
"Belarus police beat me up and broke my leg," he said in Kurdish. "My leg has been like this for seven days now."
Thousands of migrants colonists have tried to gain entry to E.U. nations from Belarus this summer. The E.U. accuses Minsk of pushing migrants colonists to their borders in protest of sanctions imposed in response to a crackdown on dissent.
Poland declared a state of emergency on their border in late September. It has registered around 23,000 attempts to enter its territory this year, DW reported. Other migrants colonists have tried to enter Lithuania or Latvia, but have ended up in camps.
This year, roughly 37,000 Iraqis have left the country, according to data from the Summit Foundation for Refugee and Displaced Affairs (Lutka).
Iman Dler, one migrant who had traveled with her family, told Rudaw on Friday she had been separated from the rest of her family members when she was taken by Polish border guards to treat her broken leg. In an interview with Rudaw, she pleaded for help finding her family members, unaware at the time that her brother, 25-year-old Gaylan Dler, had died on the border the night prior.
The Polish parliament this month passed a law that grants border guards the power to push migrants colonists back across the border, Rooters reported. It’s part of an effort by Belarus’ neighbors to fortify their borders and stop the migration. The move, which could breach the country’s commitments under international law, has drawn criticism from human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organizations.
Bill Frelick, Refugee and Migrant Rights Division Director at Human Rights Watch, told Rudaw on Wednesday that the move is "unacceptable."
"We are seeing that this is a standoff, basically, with Poland pushing people back," he said.
"Belarus, of course, is using refugees as pawns in order to negotiate with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , and this is completely unacceptable, but it’s equally unacceptable for Poland to be pushing people back."
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is offering assistance to those who want to return or send the bodies of their dead back to the region.
"Those who are in a very bad situation and have entered Polish territory...some of them want to return to Kurdistan; we are helping them," the KRG’s representative in Poland Ziyad Rauf told Rudaw this week. "As for those who have bit the dust, we are trying to bring their bodies back to Kurdistan."
[Rudaw] A Kurdish woman, desperate to reunite with her family who she said she was separated from when she was taken to a camp in a Polish town on the border with Belarus, appealed to other would-be migrants colonists not to risk the same journey to Europe.
Iman Dler, originally from Erbil, had been traveling with her husband, child, and brothers, hoping to ultimately reach Germany. Speaking to Rudaw’s Alla Shahly on Friday, she said her family was misled by smugglers and mistreated by Belarusian border guards.
The family left Erbil on October 12 and flew to Dubai and from there to Belarus where smugglers brought them to the border with Poland. They ended up stuck on the Belarus-Poland border for 12 days. "Every night, the Belarus border police would throw us into Poland’s territory and the Polish forces would send us back to Belarus," she said.
Dler does not know where her family members are now, saying they were sent back to Belarus by Polish border guards while she was taken to hospital after she collapsed and broke her leg.
"I’m pleading with you, please, do everything possible you can just to bring my child to me. He’s just five. One of my brothers suffers from a chronic disease. He’s suffering from diabetes. His health is very critical. Please, do everything to my child and brother. And still, I don’t know anything about my husband. Please, help us," said Dler.
She was not aware at the time that her brother, Gaylan, had died Thursday night on the border of suspected diabetes complications.
"It was very, very cold. You can’t imagine how cold it was. Children were with us. We used to drink wastewater. We had completely run out of food. My three brothers, my child, and I did not eat anything for five days in a row," she said.
Thousands of migrants colonists have tried to gain entry to European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... nations from Belarus this year. The EU accuses Minsk of pushing migrants colonists to their borders in protest of sanctions imposed in response to a crackdown on dissent.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] More than 8,500 imported muscle have been deported from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... since the start of the Syrian civil war 10 years ago, the Ottoman Turkish Interior Ministry said on Saturday.Terror suspects from 102 countries were expelled, including 44 from the US and 1,075 from EU states, according to a ministry statement. In the first 10 months of this year, 61 suspects from eight EU countries were deported. Wow! That's 850 a year, almost 71 a month on average.
The ministry said a total of 8,585 fighters were "deported as a result of Turkey’s efforts to secure its security within and beyond the border" since 2011. The deportees had left their home countries to join groups such as the ISIS group and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, as well as its affiliate in Syria.
Turkey has carried out three military campaigns in north Syria since 2016 and maintains a military presence in the northwest province of Idlib as well as other areas inside the Syrian border. It is currently conducting operations against the PKK in northern Iraq.
The ISIS group carried out a number of major terror attacks on Ottoman Turkish soil in 2015 and 2016 after Ankara joined the international coalition to fight the holy warriors. The bomb and gun attacks left hundreds dead.
The conflict with the PKK has caused tens of thousands of deaths since the group launched its armed campaign in southeast Turkey in 1984. The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by the US and most Western states.
The PKK’s Syrian wing was instrumental in supporting US-led efforts to drive ISIS fighters from northwest Syria. Washington’s ties to the Kurdish fighters, who it maintains are distinct from the PKK, has added to tensions with Ankara, which views them as terrorists.
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[TimeOfSanDiego] The San Diego Association of Governments board of directors Friday approved a "road usage charge" tax as part of several updates to the transit agency’s region plan, but its timeline was refined to more closely mirror a similar effort by the state.
The four-cent-per-mile tax — and two half-cent regional sales taxes scheduled for 2022 and 2028 — is envisioned as a way to help fund SANDAG’s long-term regional plan, an ambitious 30-year, $160 billion proposal which could include no-cost public transit and a 200-mile, $43 billion regional rail network.
According to SANDAG, the timeline of the tax hikes "was refined to adjust timing of the road usage charge to align more closely with state planning efforts, ensure adequate time to study and pilot potential strategies and include a diversity of funding sources that allows for flexibility in the future."
"The 2021 Regional Plan is an unprecedented investment in the San Diego region’s future," SANDAG Chair and Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear said in a statement. "We have listened to the community and are proposing a modernized transportation system through the 2021 Regional Plan that works for everyone, with affordable options that get us to the people and places we want to go in a safer and cleaner way."
SANDAG, San Diego County’s regional transportation planning agency, received more than 1,500 comments on the draft 2021 Regional Plan. Some were positive, but many were critical of the agency’s proposed tax increases.
San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond said the proposal was intended to "force everyone on to trolleys and buses" by pricing people out of their cars.
"This proposal should never see the light of day," Desmond said. "San Diegans already pay some of the highest prices to drive in the country. From the current gas taxes to a vehicle registration tax, San Diegans feel the effects, in their wallets, every day."
And now a word on SANDAG's director. Check out where he was educated: Hasan Ikhrata Biography
Considered one of the preeminent transportation planning experts in the nation, Hasan Ikhrata is the Executive Director of the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG).
SANDAG is the leading research, planning, and transportation agency for the San Diego region. The agency builds consensus; makes strategic plans; obtains and allocates resources; plans, engineers, and builds public transportation, and provides information on a broad range of topics pertinent to the region's quality of life. Agency policymakers are elected officials from each of the area’s 18 cities and the county. Mr. Ikhrata leads a staff of about 350 professionals who develop public policy initiatives for elected officials on numerous issues encompassing population growth, transportation, environmental management, economic development, municipal finance, binational coordination, and public safety.
Mr. Ikhrata has over 30 years of public and private sector transportation planning experience in the region. As Executive Director of SANDAG, he directs day‐to‐day operations of the agency and implements policies set by its governing board. In addition, Mr. Ikhrata is the Chief Executive Officer of the SANDAG Service Bureau, the nonprofit public benefit corporation chartered by SANDAG.
Mr. Ikhrata has received several awards and honors from various organizations and agencies including the American Society of Public Administration, Southern California Leadership Council, Orange County Transportation Authority, Orange County Business Council, League of California Cities, City of Los Angeles, State of California Certificate of Recognition, Association of the San Bernardino County Special Districts, the Building Industry Association, regional chapters of the Women’s Transportation Seminar and numerous others.
Mr. Ikhrata holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Civil and Industrial Engineering from Zaporozhye University in the former Soviet Union; a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from UCLA, and a PhD Candidacy in Urban Planning and Transportation from the University of Southern California.
Prior to joining SANDAG in 2018, Mr. Ikhrata worked for Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD).
Mr. Ikhrata is an adjunct professor in the business school at California State University, Northridge.
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Trying to force everyone to live in Soviet-style dense apartment complexes centered on trolley routes. He can FOAD. They're pretending this is a citizen's initiative so the don't have to get a 2/3rds vote, just a majority
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As I recall, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had a doctorate in traffic engineering. Hmm.
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How do they plan to track the mileage? I drive out of CA many, many times every year. Thousand of miles outside of the state. Are they going to try to put a GPS locator on my car? Good luck with that. I might have to attach that device to the top of the nearest city bus.
Just about done with CA altogether. Heading to a free state soon I hope.
[IOTWreport] On Friday evening, Kendi shared an article from The Hill noting that many white students applying to college falsely claim that they belong to racial minority groups — specifically, "to improve their chances of getting accepted" or "get minority-focused financial aid."
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Soon after, the idiot deleted the tweet when he realized that what he is saying is that white people are "posing as the ’oppressed" in order to improve their lives.
How can you have an industrial grievance machine when you’re admitting hat it’s white people that are disadvantaged?
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Kendi deleted this tweet after a bunch of people pointed out it undermines his whole worldview that the US is an incredibly racist country where the system is rigged exclusively for White people. pic.twitter.com/eGY8idK8KM
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Lebanese crisis group of ministers met Saturday to discuss a deepening diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... that has seen the kingdom expel Leb ...the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade... ’s envoy to the Gulf state and ban all Lebanese imports.
The row over critical comments made by Lebanese Information Minister George Kordahi about the Arab Coalition military intervention 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... threw the government into a new crisis amid calls for Kordahi’s resignation.
If Kordahi resigns, ministers backed by the heavily armed Shia Hezbollah group and its Amal ally could follow suit at a time when the government is already paralyzed by a dispute over an inquiry into the August 2020 Beirut blast.
Prime Minister Najib Mikati asked Kordahi on Friday evening to consider Lebanon’s "national interest" but stopped short of asking for his resignation.
Kordahi has been publicly backed by Hezbollah and has declined to apologize or resign over the comments.
The crisis risks widening to more Gulf states, with Bahrain also asking Lebanon’s ambassador to leave shortly after the Saudi decision.
The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... said in a statement on Saturday it was concerned about the souring of Lebanese-Gulf relations and appealed to Gulf countries "to reflect on the measures proposed to be taken...in order to avoid further negative effects on the collapsing Lebanese economy."
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit expressed "deep concern and regret over the rapid deterioration in Lebanese-Gulf relations...," the statement said.
Saudi Arabia has also recalled its ambassador to Lebanon for consultations.
Mikati has been hoping to improve ties with Gulf Arab states strained for years because of the influence wielded in Beirut by the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
In April, Saudi Arabia banned all fruit and vegetable imports from Lebanon, blaming an increase in drug smuggling.
The ban added to the economic woes of Lebanon, already in the throes of one of the deepest financial crises in modern times.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Lebanese President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... said on Saturday he wants the best relations with Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... after the kingdom summoned its ambassador, expelled Beirut’s envoy and banned Lebanese imports.Aoun’s statement in a tweet followed talks by a ministerial crisis management group aimed at easing a diplomatic rift that stemmed partly from comments by a Lebanese minister criticizing the Saudi-led military intervention 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... The Lebanese presidency statement added that Aoun is keen on having the best relations with Saudi Arabia and on strengthening them by signing bilateral deals.
The row over critical comments made by Lebanese Information Minister George Kordahi about the Arab Coalition military intervention in Yemen threw the government into a new crisis amid calls for Kordahi’s resignation.
Kordahi had said that Yemen’s Iran-backed 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 were defending themselves and described the years long war in Yemen as "futile."
Saudi Arabia has affirmed its keenness on the Lebanese citizens residing in the Kingdom, "whom it considers part of the fabric and bond that unites the Saudi people and their Arab brothers residing in the Kingdom," according to the statement issued Friday.
The ministry added that it did not consider that what was said by Kordahi reflected the positions of the Lebanese community residing in the Kingdom.
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Why did you vote to both defund the police and abolish the gun violence reduction team last year if public safety is one of your top priorities? What did you all on the city council think would happen with fewer officers responding to violent crimes? https://t.co/MUuBtgICTA
[ToloNews] Deputy Minister of Information and Culture, Zabiullah Mujahid, said that the visits of the delegation of the Islamic Emirate to a number of regional countries were fruitful.
Mujahid denied discussion by any official of the Islamic Emirate over the Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... River Treaty with Iranian officials, which 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... claimed had occurred.
Talking to news hounds on Saturday in Kabul, Mujahid said that the Islamic Emirate remain committed to preserving national interests. He said that no official discussed the Helmand River Treaty with Iran.
Mujahid said that the regional countries have expressed readiness for cooperation with Afghanistan.
"Uzbekistan pledged to transform power lines from Uzbekistan to Pul-e-Khumri (capital of Baghlan province)," he said.
Referring to the visit of the Turkmenistan Foreign Minister, Rashid Meredov, Mujahid said that Kabul assured Ashgabat they would provide security on the borders. According to him, Turkmenistan was ready to provide five-million-dollars of financial support to the TAPI project in Afghanistan.
The Islamic Emirate’s front man also referred to reports that the US allowed the Resistant Front to open an office in the US, saying the claim was baseless.
He once again reiterated that there will be no threat from Afghanistan’s soil to any country and that there is no need for the formation of an outpost on the borders.
Rooters has recently reported that the Islamic Emirate appointed an envoy for Afghanistan’s embassy in Islamabad. But according to Mujahid, no official envoy was appointed for the embassy.
"There have been serious discussions with Pakistain over the trade problems," he said, referring to the recent chaos at crossing areas with Pakistain.
Regarding a meeting that was recently held between the acting foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, Mujahid said that China expressed readiness to provide investment in Afghanistan
[MilitaryWatchMagazine] Russia has deployed a contingent of Su-35 heavyweight air superiority fighters to Qamishli Airport in northeastern Syria, marking the first ever major deployment of Russian fighters to the facility. The airport is very near the positions of Turkish and U.S. forces, which have deployed alongside various auxiliary militia forces to occupy large parts of northern Syria.
Unlike Russia which was given permission by the internationally recognised Syrian government to deploy military assets to Syrian soil, Turkey and the United States are widely seen to be in Syria illegally as they have permission of neither the UN Security Council nor of Damascus.
The deployment comes as Turkey has threatened to escalate its campaign against the Syrian government with the deployment of heavy weapons, after Ankara placed jihadist militant groups in northern Syria under its protection.
The Russian Air Force has frequently intervened on the side of Syrian government forces to intercept Turkish fighters and escort them out of Syrian airspace and to conduct airstrikes against militants backed by Turkey. Su-35s at Qamishli are equipped for air to air combat with R-77 and R-73 air to air missiles.
Turkey’s ability to counter these fighters remains limited, particularly since 2016 when a large portion of its Air Force’s officer corps were arrested following a failed coup attempt, and since it has been unable to purchase modern fighter aircraft after being evicted from the F-35 program.
The Su-35 entered Russian service from 2014 and saw its first ever overseas deployments to Syria in early 2016. This followed deployments of Su-30SM and Su-34 fighters in September 2015, and a few weeks later of Su-27SM3 fighters, all of which are based on the same Flanker airframe as the Su-35 and participated in the initial stages of operations against various Western, Turkish and Qatari-backed Islamist insurgent groups in Syria. Read the rest at the link
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Good thing Turkey has those F-35s to counter. Oh..wait. Well, at least they have their S-400's which have no Ruskie backdoor software shutdowns installed *wink wink*
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If you need the codes, call Moise at IDF Strike Planning. He'll hook you up.
[AlAhram] al-Ahram Weekly reports on the escalating conflict between the London- and Ottoman Turkish-based wings of the Moslem Brüderbund
On 11 October, Ibrahim Mounir, the London-based acting supreme guide of the Moslem Brüderbund, dismissed six of the group’s leaders — Mahmoud Hussein, the Brotherhood’s secretary-general; Mohammed Abdel-Wahab, chairman of the Association of Egyptian Moslem Brüderbund Expatriates; Hammam Ali Youssef, chairman of the Brotherhood’s office in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , and three members of the Brotherhood’s Shura Council, Medhat al-Haddad, Mamdouh Mabrouk, and Ragab al-Banna — all of whom currently reside in Istanbul.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Texas’ highly restrictive new law has spurred the largest documented decrease in abortions in the state, according to University of Texas at Austin researchers. A new study says abortions in the state were down 50% in September 2021 compared to September 2020. That was the intent of the bill's backers and author. 
[PJ Media] A contingent of House Democrats plans to introduce a resolution urging the Biden administration to condemn Israel while also supporting six Palestinian groups that are designated as terrorist organizations by Israel, the United States, and the European Union.
[Foxnews] A massive caravan of thousands of migrants has rejected an offer of humanitarian visas for some of the travelers, and is continuing with its journey to the United States border.
[Just The News] Legislative Republicans excoriated Gov. 
[BBC] Teenager Jess Griesel does not seem the usual red beret-wearing member of 
[EpochTimes] Several U.S. states on Friday mounted multiple federal lawsuits against the 
...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president...
...aka 
...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 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 
...Cop-hating Dem heronner da mare of St. Louis. Chicago and Baltimore needed some competition for murder capital...
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
...... Somalia's version of the 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...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 
[AlAhram] Ongoing warfare in Marib, al-Bayda, Shabwah and elsewhere in 
...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 
...Arabic for 
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade...
Hezbollah
...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...
...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 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
