[Jpost] Prosecutors have asked US District Judge Royce Lamberth to impose a 51-month sentence on Jacob Chansley,
...the unsuccessful actor who mostly did his thing to acclaim at Antifa protests, and who was described by prosecutors back home as mentally unbalanced, possibly because of Asperger’s Syndrome...
who pleaded guilty in September.
The US Capitol rioter nicknamed the "QAnon Shaman" for his horned head-dress faces a judge on Wednesday who could sentence him to more than four years in prison for his role in the deadly January 6 attack by former President Donald Trump's followers.
Prosecutors have asked US District Judge Royce Lamberth to impose a 51-month sentence on Jacob Chansley, who pleaded guilty in September to obstructing an official proceeding when he and thousands of others stormed the building in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's election.
"Defendant Chansley's now-famous criminal acts have made him the public face of the Capitol riot," prosecutors said in asking for the 51-month sentence. That would be the stiffest imposed on any Capitol rioter, after a former mixed martial artist filmed punching a police officer during violence was sentenced last week to 41 months in prison.
Chansley's attorneys have asked the judge for a sentence of time served for their client, who has been detained since his January arrest.
While in detention, Chansley was diagnosed by prison officials with transient schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety. When he entered his guilty plea, Chansley said he was disappointed Trump had not pardoned him.
Defense lawyer Albert Watkins said the US Navy in 2006 had found Chansley suffered from personality disorder but nonetheless declared him "fit for duty."
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"Deadly attack", just like the "deadly coronavirus"
The big lie.
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"made him the public face of the Capitol riot"
No, actually, I think it was more the horns and body paint. Every circus loves a freak.
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What role? He got his picture taken wearing a ridiculous costume and he gets four years for it? C'mon. What's the maximum sentence for misdemeanor trespassing? And, as far as obstructing an official proceeding, doesn't Nancy bear some responsibility for her refusal to allow adequate security for that "official proceeding"?
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I charge Nancy Pelosi with keeping an attractive nuisance. If said nuisance had not been there and been as attractive and easily accessible as it was due to lack of proper security, none of this would have happened.
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No doubt this sentence will be sharply criticized by the Soros DA's who oppose incarceration and want to abolish jails. Or maybe not.
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Lot of cosplay going on, he just won first prize. Remember, just to his right was Devil Eyes and to his left Confederate Doughnut. Brokeback Duster is still my favorite.
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"deadly attack" is an obscene insult, given that it was Capitol Officer Michael L. Boyd who attacked and killed a trespasser who posed no threat of injury or harm to any of the officers around her.
This shit is outrageous. What country are we living in?
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According to an old Daily Mail article I just came across, Jacob Angeli Chansley has been deteriorating for years. He has been jobless and living with his mother in Phoenix for several years, and refers to himself as an actor, and before being jailed spent his time roaming his mother’s neighbourhood in his shaman costume and going to all sorts of protests — he’s clearly not particular.
Several other articles mention that while in the Navy he was diagnosed as schizotypal.
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Given Mr. Chansley’s deterioration, and that there are so few private long term mental asylums, the judge may be taking advantage of the situation as he considers sentencing. But he might also go for time served. Prosecutors often do not get what they ask for in terms of sentences.
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41 months. Less than the prosecutors asked for, but still a jolt.
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11/17/2021 15:11
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And yet a guy in New York I believe just got off with probation for 4 sexual assaults of young women.
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11/17/2021 17:26
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Convicted and sentenced for breathing. Got it.
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11/17/2021 18:04
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The Big Lesson From the Left: The Congressional Session of formalizing Joe Biden's Election Fraud into a Presidency that day is NOT to be interrupted by a rally by the guy who actually won. And if the protestors are lead into the capital by Pelosi's Capital Police (entrapment) then while Biden and Pelosi are in power opponents to dare to protest will go to prison.
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And also a Democrat Congressman who while Chair of the Intelligence Committee slept with Fang Fang a Chinese spy and will NOT be prosecuted by Biden's Deep State or Pelosi's Capital Police.
[TheHill] Democrats and other critics of former President Trump celebrated when criminal charges were leveled against Stephen Bannon late last week.
But the political downside of the pursuit of Bannon is becoming clearer by the day.
There’s no guarantee that the underlying purpose of the prosecution — to compel Bannon to cooperate with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection — will work.
Bannon may ultimately prefer the risk of a fairly short jail sentence, and the martyrdom it would confer on him from Trump supporters, over testifying.
Even if he were to cooperate, the question then becomes whether the public will learn anything more damning than it already knows about Bannon and his former boss.
After all, Bannon said on his podcast the day before the riot that "all hell is going to break loose tomorrow." And Trump’s central role in inciting the insurrection was so blatant that he became the first president in American history to be impeached twice. ^ That is a blatant lie and an injection of hack partisan opinion, typical of The Hill
Above all, the criminal case has given Bannon the biggest platform he has enjoyed in years.
The news that he had been indicted on two counts of contempt of Congress on Friday was the lead story on the websites of The New York Times and other leading news organizations.
Bannon’s initial court appearance on Monday was another media circus, with network newscasts running footage of Trump’s former chief White House strategist lambasting the prosecution and President Biden. Bannon live streamed his comments outside the court on the social network Gettr, a favorite among pro-Trump conservatives.
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The only thing that will stop the massive corruption on the left is the use of force. Men with guns (FBI) are already applying the use of force in raids against associates of major figures on the right almost daily.
[PJMedia] Right after Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger began his closing statement in the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial, YouTube cut off channels that were beating legacy media channels. Coincidence?
The Rekieta Law channel, which features multiple lawyers doing real-time analysis of the trial, often beat the number of people watching the PBS stream. The PBS stream is one of the more reliable ones available to YouTube users and was being used by several outlets.
After getting cut off, Nick Rekieta reminded YouTube that ten lawyers considered it a breach of contract. Read the rest at the link
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I believe these Rekieta lawyer-commentators were generally praising the defense and heaping scorn on the prosecution's disgusting lies and evidence-tampering.
So of course our bigtech Ministry of Truth cuts them off and keeps streaming PBS's bullshit and big lies. So predictable.
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#3 On a lighter note, perhaps when they take the feed down, YouTube could do the Soviet thing and switch to pre-programmed acceptable entertainment for the masses.
The USSR always reverted to Swan Lake. Maybe for this trial YouTube-Ministry of Truth could switch to a sendup of Tom Stoppard's sendup on Shakespeare: "Rosenbaum and Grosskreutz are Dead”
In late-breaking news, the defense filed a motion for a mistrial with prejudice on grounds that the State failed to provide the defense with the high-definition drone video in its possession, insteady merely providing the defense with a low-resolution version of that video, as well as on other grounds.
[Red State] The Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States are not coronations, despite how the Democrat Party likes to treat these roles. But in the bigger picture, the Vice Presidency of Kamala Harris is what all the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion measures that this administration champions and pushes down the throats of Americans look like. I see whut they did there
Harris is the poster child of this hodge-podge of multiracial celebration, racial and social justice, and symbolism without substance. Since the days of her relationship with California Assembly Speaker and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, to now, Harris has had roles handed to her that were taken from more qualified, more prepared, and probably more competent people, all because she needed credentials and was touted as a "symbol" for racial progress. Whether it was hers or someone else’s progress didn’t really matter.
The legacy media spent the entire 2020 campaign season not asking her hard questions, but touting her clothing, her shoes, her ethnicities, and letting her cackle her way out of anything she didn’t know. You see, it didn’t matter whether she was competent or not; the sheer power of being the first female Black-Indian-Asian president or vice president was going to outshine any policy, obstacle, and leadership requirement! You better recognize!
So, you would think the Biden administration would be happy about all this. Think about it: America is seeing what it will be like when every industry, corporate board, school board, your local McDonalds, and lemonade stand is run and staffed by Kamala Harris-types. You think supply-chain and workforce issues are bad now? Imagine when it’s not just a government representative who whines and complains about how unfair the world is treating them because they get nothing done, but when it’s your Starbucks barista? This is what America has in store as this Biden-Harris incompetency rolls into its second year, with two more to go.
You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. This is the end result of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion the Democrats so desperately want.
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Did Willie pay for those big rocks she's wearing?
Both her parents earn upper middle class paychecks, as do she and her husband... and her mother is Indian, which means family pieces handed down to the daughters. Also, it could be costume jewelry.
[Times of Israel] A new documentary chronicles a piece of history that seems impossible to comprehend, detailing a verboten relationship at Auschwitz between a Jewish prisoner and an Austrian SS officer.
The romance between the comely, apple-cheeked Slovak captive Helena Citron and the blonde Nazi captain, Franz Wunsch, is unwrapped in the deeply engrossing "Love It Was Not" documentary from Israeli filmmaker Maya Sarfaty.
Using findings from years of research, eyewitness testimonies and a moving chorus of voices from Citron’s fellow inmates as well as artful diorama photos and footage, Sarfaty tells the story of Citron and Wunsch at Auschwitz.
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This presents some interesting and complex questions. Do you testify for or against a Monster (and if you were in the SS your were by definition an Evil Monster) you Loved.
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I don't think she did love him. She wouldn't have avoided him post liberation.
She just used the guy to survive, which is understandable.
[Washington Examiner] There's a stunning assertion in a new Washington Post article about how Democrats view the current political situation. "Privately, many administration officials and allies contend that the state of affairs cannot get worse," the paper says, "thinking that Biden and the Democrats have hit their floor in negative approval ratings."
Instead, those administration officials and allies appear to believe wonderful things are about to happen. They see the COVID pandemic fading from public concern. They see the supply chain problem getting better. They see the economy improving. And then Joe Biden will be popular again.
Here's the problem. Neither Biden nor his allies saw the problems coming in the first place. Indeed, the headline of the Washington Post article is, "Biden has underestimated problems facing the country — and Democrats fear that has become a political problem." The paper says that a "growing number of Democrats" worry that the president has "repeatedly underestimated the scale of the challenges facing the country" and that Biden's "tendency to downplay the issues has only made things worse." But now, those same Democrats "privately" contend that things "cannot get worse."
But things can get worse. Biden stubbornly discounted the danger posed by inflation. He rejected the views of respected experts who warned that his own policies — his party's massive stimulus bills — would make the problem worse. On COVID, he misjudged the threat of variants and did not know what to do when the delta wave hit. And on Afghanistan, he ignored the advisers who said his exit plan could become a fiasco. Given that record, why believe that Biden, who turns 79 on Saturday, will suddenly develop better judgment?
There are two issues here — the substance and the politics. Will inflation worsen, wiping out wage gains and making it more difficult for millions to get by? That's the substance. Will inflation continue to eat away at Biden's job approval rating? That's the politics. You will probably not be shocked to learn that Democrats are mostly talking about the politics.
Biden and his party's real problem, some Democrats told the Washington Post, is messaging, especially about those big spending bills. "There hasn't been great communication about what these bills mean for people," Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer told the paper. Indeed, the Washington Post reports that after yesterday's signing of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, the White House will conduct "an aggressive effort to sell his economic agenda, including robust travel from Biden and Cabinet officials and a media blitz."
"I don't think Democrats brag enough," Steven Reed, the Democratic mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, told the Washington Post. "I don't think we celebrate enough. I don't think that we tell people why we are bragging and why we are celebrating." "We need to party and celebrate and really rub those deplorable faces in it"
But the very policy decision that Biden wants to promote and celebrate — passing those enormous spending bills — is the policy that is making inflation worse. Last February, just two weeks into the Biden presidency, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned the White House that the spending could spur inflation. The White House pooh-poohed it and told everyone not to worry. But now, Summers has been proven right and Biden wrong. So what is Biden proposing to do? Spend even more and try to do a better sales job.
Inflation is a substance problem. It is a real thing, making people's lives more difficult. COVID is a real thing. Afghanistan is a real thing. They are not communications problems. "Robust travel" and a "media blitz" will not solve them.
Every politician facing falling approval ratings wants to believe that his real problem is communications. That way, he doesn't have to change what he is doing; he only has to sell it more effectively. But Biden does not have a communications problem. He has a substance problem. And there is no reason to believe that it will get better.
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The Dems "communications" problem went into hyper drive November 6, 2016, when their media enablers doubled down on still louder and more forceful "communication".
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Of course they know, it's their goal.
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Yeah, failing into power is the blueprint, if they can just keep people confused about that long enough. That's were articles like this come in, "Ooops, they did it again! Just some skylarking more than anything, just you wait and see."
[Politico] As President Joe Biden weighs whether to impose a diplomatic boycott on next year’s Winter Olympics in China, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill want to force his hand.
Biden is facing bipartisan pressure from Congress to snub China at the 2022 games as some senators seek to force a diplomatic boycott as part of annual defense policy legislation hitting the Senate floor this week. The goal, lawmakers say, is to call attention to China’s human rights record, including what the Biden administration has characterized as a genocide of religious minorities in Xinjiang.
But House and Senate leaders are cool to the idea of imposing a diplomatic boycott on the games as part of the defense policy bill — even as support is growing on both sides of the aisle to send a message to Beijing.
"I think it’s a very difficult issue, and it would be tough to get it done in that way," House Armed Services Chair Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said in a brief interview. "As a general rule, I don’t think boycotting the Olympics is a good approach."
"I don’t think we’ll get it done," added Senate Foreign Relations Chair Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who supports a diplomatic boycott. His GOP counterpart on the panel, Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho, offered a similar assessment: "I don’t think there’s a consensus one way or the other at this point."
Biden is expected to heed a recommendation from his advisers to bar U.S. government-sponsored travel to China for the Olympics, according to a Washington Post report Tuesday. The Biden administration has declined to comment on that report.
[IsraelTimes] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s interior minister claims an Israeli couple arrested for photographing a presidential palace in Istanbul was not doing so innocently, in the first official Ottoman Turkish comment on the matter.
Minister Suleyman Soylu tells news hounds that the Israelis "focused" on Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... ’s residence while photographing it and "marked it."
He also says prosecutors believe Mordy and Natali Oknin committed "what can be called diplomatic and military espionage," but that the court will decide.
Israel has firmly and formally rejected the allegation that the Oknins are Israeli spies.
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'Marked' Erdogan's residence.
Very likly a live environment training exercise. Difficult for me to believe his location isn't monitored and tracked on an daily basis.
[IsraelTimes] Cybersecurity researchers say they have uncovered evidence that Belarus has been involved in a hybrid hacking and disinformation campaign against Eastern European NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... members since 2016
...and nobody noticed? Shouldn’t the CIA or the FBI, or maybe the NSA have been paying attention for exactly that?
that aimed to sow discord in the military alliance, steal confidential information, and spy on dissidents.
Today’s report by the prominent US cybersecurity firm Mandiant appears to mark the first time Belarus has been blamed in the campaign known as Ghostwriter. European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... members have said they suspected involvement by Belarus’ close ally Russia, and Poland has directly accused Moscow of hacking government officials’ emails and leaking them online.
While Mandiant says it has compelling forensic evidence that Belarus was involved in the hacking — whose targets have also included German politicians — it says it has no direct proof of Russian participation, though that does not rule it out and attributing cyberoperations can be difficult.
The Belarus government did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A press officer at the Russian embassy in Washington had no immediate comment on alleged Russian involvement in Ghostwriter. Russian officials regularly reject accusations that they are involved in hacking and disinformation activity.
[Daily Caller] A former Obama economic adviser has become a prominent Democratic critic of the Biden administration’s handling of the inflation surge.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who served as head of the National Economic Council during the Obama administration, slammed the Federal Reserve and Biden administration’s response to the surge in prices.
"After years of advocating more expansionary fiscal and monetary policy, I altered my view this past winter, and I believe the Biden administration and the Federal Reserve need to further adjust their thinking on Inflation today," Summers wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post Monday.
Summers criticized Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s recent remarks when he called inflation transitory at a speech in Jackson Hole in August.
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Summers said all this half a year ago. See his interview w Martin Wolf of the FT. "Too much water in the tub"... 15x bigger than was possibly needed
Paul Krugman
@paulkrugman
Trying to clarify my own thoughts on inflation. I got inflation wrong; I didn't see the current surge coming. But why? I didn't think the fiscal stimulus early this year would boost demand as much as Summers et al predicted ... and, in fact, so far it hasn't 1/
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Who listens to Krugman? That asshole hasn't been right about anything since he married his harpy wife and went left decades ago
A lot of people swear by Krugman. A few years ago I was on a cruise. A lot of NY people who regularly read the NYTimes. I told them about a few idiotic Krugman comments. I didn't have the broadband to get them live and they didn't believe me.
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Any Obama cronie taking a swipe at Biden is just their way of prepping the field for the deployment of Big Mike.
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Michelle Obama made it clear she loathes politicians and politics, and deeply resented having to play the supporting wife. I don’t think she’ll be interested in playing second diddle to her husband’s despised former Number 2.
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tw, of course, if Big Mike is named VP after Kamala is somehow removed, Joe will immediately resign, making her president.
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I don't think Michelle liked any part of it at all.
With stuff coming out of Harris' mouth, stuff like a white man would have received support, saw another thing I read about losing "the colored community" I think it was how they put it (themselves) if replaced by a gay white man, it sounds like Buttgig is being weighed, with Harris getting a chance at a Supreme Court seat.
Harris is arrogant enough and Buttgig conceited enough to not fully understand that VP may not be the place to be standing when this stalled bus gets hit by the train.
*at the risk of being off topic, I have to point out this should not happen. Not because I don't want Harris to fail so spectacularly as to blow up The Narrative. I want that very much. It sets a precedent that a party can run a P/VP ticket however they want, install the preferred dictator into VP after the election, and then stage some reason for the President to resign.
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Welp, after installing Mrs. Buttgig as president, they could put Mrs. Buttgig in as vice-president, and run an Everything is AWFL campaign because those who control a Karen, control a thing.
Email Received By Fox News Reporter Raises Question ... said "They’re preparing something in Congress that they have not done in many, many years”
“Chad Pergram said they’re preparing something in Congress that they have not done in many, many years – It’s about the process by which you go about confirming a new vice president,” she said…
On the podcast, Pergram said he received an email from a source who wrote that the reporter should “start to familiarize yourself with the confirmation process not just in the Senate, but in the House, for a vice president.”
[IsraelTimes] Wall Street Journal cites diplomat saying parts for 170 advanced centrifuges have been produced at Karaj since late August, without any UN monitoring.
Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... has resumed producing parts for advanced centrifuges at a nuclear site allegedly once targeted by Israel, according to a Tuesday report by the Wall Street Journal.
Citing unidentified diplomats, the US newspaper said that operations at the Karaj facility resumed in August and have ramped up, with one diplomat saying that enough parts for 170 centrifuges had been produced since then.
The diplomats said there had been no UN monitoring of the site.
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency’s director Rafael Grossi said last month that one of the watchdog’s cameras was destroyed and another heavily damaged in the June blast at Karaj, which Iran alleges was an Israeli sabotage attack.
Iran has acknowledged removing several damaged surveillance cameras installed by the IAEA at the Karaj site. It is unknown how many cameras are there.
In July, Iran accused Israel of mounting the sabotage attack on the site, which makes components for machines used to enrich uranium. Without disclosing details of the assault, Iranian authorities acknowledged that the strike had damaged the building.
The attack on Karaj was just the latest in a series of suspected assaults targeting Iran’s nuclear program that have heightened regional hostilities in recent months. Israel is widely believed to have carried out the sabotage, though it has not grabbed credit.
Earlier this month, Iran said it had almost doubled its stock of enriched uranium, as it prepares to resume talks with world powers on curbing its nuclear program.
"We have more than 210 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20 percent, and we’ve produced 25 kilos at 60%, a level that no country apart from those with nuclear arms are able to produce," said Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) front man Behrouz Kamalvandi, in a report carried by the semi-official Tasnim and Fars news agencies.
Sixty percent enrichment is the highest level to which Iran has enriched uranium and is a short technical step to weapons-grade 90%. Under the nuclear agreement, Iran was barred from enriching uranium above 3.67%.
[IsraelTimes] Suspect accused of preparing mass act of violence, terror financing; prosecutors say he acquired material to build improvised bombs, began to build submachine gun
A Syrian man who allegedly supported 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’s ideology has been charged with making preparations for an attack in Germany, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The suspect, who was identified only as Abdullah H.
...who doesn’t seem to be in our archives...
in keeping with German privacy rules, was charged at a Berlin court with preparing a serious act of violence and terror financing. He was arrested in November 2019 in another case, which prosecutors gave no details of. probably an unserious act of violence and terror financing
Federal prosecutors said that he decided by June 2019 to carry out an attack in Germany that would be on a similar scale to previous IS attacks in Europe. They said his aim was to kill or wound as many people as possible.
Prosecutors said that the man acquired material to build improvised bombs, including acetone, hydrogen peroxide and sulfuric acid. He also allegedly made enquiries about using ordinary fertilizer as an explosive, acquired various metal parts and tools, and began to build a submachine gun.
The alleged plans were halted by his arrest, prosecutors said.
[IsraelTimes] European Court of Justice says Orban’s government broke EU law by criminalizing helping refugees to apply for asylum.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s top court ruled Tuesday that Hungary broke EU law by making it a criminal offense for people or organizations to help migrants colonists and refugees apply for asylum, in a new legal blow to Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s right-wing government. EU clowning itself. I don't think Orban cares what they say
Hungary erected a razor-wire barrier on its border with Serbia and Croatia in 2015 as well over 1 million people, most fleeing conflict in Syria, entered the EU, often from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... via Greece. Tens of thousands moved north, deeper into the EU, in search of sanctuary and better lives.
As more people arrived, Orban began to accuse Hungarian-born US billionaire George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... and groups linked to him of encouraging the migrants colonists. In 2018, Hungary’s government introduced legislation known as the "Stop Soros" laws that would make it an offense to help people apply for asylum.
The Hungarian government also started a billboard campaign against the Jewish billionaire and philanthropist, which was deemed antisemitic.
The posters showed a large picture of the émigré laughing, alongside the text: "Let’s not let Soros have the last laugh," a reference to government claims that Soros wants to force Hungary to allow in migrants colonists.
The European Court of Justice said Tuesday that Hungary had failed to fulfill its EU obligations "by criminalizing, in its national law, the actions of any person who, in connection with an organizing activity, provides assistance in respect of the making or lodging of an application for asylum in its territory..."
The Luxembourg-based court said the legislation restricts "the right of access to applicants for international protection and the right to communicate with those persons," as well as the right of the migrants colonists themselves to consult a legal advisor or counselor.
The court said the law cannot be justified by the aim of preventing "the assistance of misuse of the asylum procedure and of illegal immigration based on deception."
Orban’s government is a staunch opponent of immigration. Its treatment of migrants colonists and refugees has brought it into frequent conflict with many of its EU partners and the executive branch, the European Commission, which supervises the respect of the bloc’s laws.
#6
Schindler's Pissed, or, "Oskar, you'll follow Rickles, as usual."
I give you the Gitler of crime
Who could sell you your soul... for a time,
That rascal of Lodz,
To his ghetto a doge,
Of heritage purer
Than even der [Rechtsarmengrabben]!
Good Nutsies still toast him: "L'Chaim!"
[Just The News] Like travel agents preparing customers for a cruise, nonprofits working with the Biden administration have created detailed itineraries and information packets to help illegal aliens travel to wherever they want to go in the U.S., according to documents obtained by a Texas congressman.
Often courtesy of American taxpayers struggling to pay their bills during surging inflation, illegals are given free quality hotel rooms, plane tickets and transportation to the airport, travel maps, and instructions to TSA to bypass photo ID requirements, according to the documents shared with Just the News.
The prototype packet, which was provided by a whistleblower to Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas), undermines Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' claim that the southern border is closed. Instead, it highlights an extensive network of nonprofits, corporations and family foundations working together to circumvent immigration laws passed by Congress.
The packet provided by Gooden to Just the News details a travel itinerary of a 46-year-old Honduran who entered the U.S. illegally in California, one of thousands assisted by the San Diego Rapid Response Network, which identifies itself as a "coalition of human rights and service organizations, attorneys and community leaders dedicated to aiding immigrants and their families in the San Diego border region of the U.S."
One of its partners, Jewish Family Services, which did not immediately return request for comment, appears to have arranged the Honduran's travel, according to the documents.
We sort of had the Deep State's Ministerium für Staatsicherheit (German: “Ministry for State Security”) STASI piece figured out, but additional analytic confirmations are always welcomed.
Brannon Howse of WVW TV hosted a four-hour special report on Nov. 14 featuring a symposium of distinguished retired FBI agents discussing what they believe is an ongoing Marxist revolution in America.
The reason the revolution continues to plod forward is because so few in politics today are willing to call it what it is, said Terry Turchie, who spent 29 years in the FBI and authored the book, In Their Own Words: The Democratic Party's Push for a Communist America.
"It's time we made our voices heard," he said. "There was a day when they warned in Congress about the perils of communism. You don't see that anymore. And we are concerned about that."
Turchie was one of four retired agents participating in the symposium, moderated by Howse. The others were Cecil Moses, David Baldovin and Brian Shephard.
"We're not from the Democratic Party, the Biden campaign or even the Republican Party," Turchie said. "We are speaking from experience... We saw firsthand what is going on because we were following people and heard what they were saying and heard from counter-intelligence informants so we know what they're up to."
Turchie said the communists worked a completely different strategy on the U.S. than they did in Russia or Cuba. Instead of fomenting violent revolution, they infiltrated the U.S. government, the schools and major institutions to accomplish a revolution using a long-term strategy of attacking the culture.
"People will laugh at that. Certain people will say we're all from the McCarthy era," he said, adding that's just a deflection tactic.
"We don't have to back away from that because in fact McCarthy was right."
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I worked for Terry Turchie in San Francisco at a time when the FBI was not rife with a cesspool of political operatives. We never expressed political opinions since the enemies of America were clear and mostly foreign entities.
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Jack, I was just about to send this to you, but clearly, you already saw it and how it expresses what we both see.
This is existential my friends, and it needs to be confronted in every way we can!
[AlAhram] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... has issued a decree eliminating the post of top Moslemholy man for the country and expanding the powers of a government ministry overseeing religious affairs.
The new decree, which state media said came into effect on Monday, effectively forces Ahmed Badreddin Hassoun, appointed as grand mufti by Assad in 2004, into retirement.
His prerogatives will be folded into a council that falls under the ministry of religious endowments, or waqf, which already oversees Islamic affairs in Syria, the official SANA news agency said.
The Council on Islamic Jurisprudence will from now on determine the lunar calendar and make rulings on matters relating to religious rituals and rites, SANA said.
The news agency did not elaborate on the reasons behind the move but it comes after years of government efforts to expand state oversight of religious affairs.
In 2018, Assad issued a decree limiting the mufti's term, previously unlimited, to a renewable period of three years.
It also expanded the power of the waqf minister, allowing him to name the mufti, who had previously been appointed by the president.
The legislation sparked controversy, with many on social media saying it was state interference in religious affairs.
Others said it was a way to regulate religious discourse in order to "fight extremism".
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Unexpectedly.
DHS said in a statement that Customs and Border Protection would handle the incident since the Office of Inspector General had declined to take action
CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) will now investigate the Sept. 19 incident and determine whether disciplinary action is necessary
Mayorkas said in September the investigation would be completed in 'days, not weeks,' but requests for updates went unreturned until today
Mayorkas is set to testify before the Senate, where he's likely to face questions about the record number of migrants at the southern border
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They never needed an investigation before they punished the agents. They only needed one if they wanted to be fair, and that's not what they were going for.
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[Rudaw] On Sunday, the bodies of two Kurdish migrants colonists were returned home for burial. Gaylan Dler, 25, and Kurdo Khalid, 34, died in Belarus where thousands of Kurds from Iraq are caught in a standoff between Minsk and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Gaylan Dler had diabetes. He left Erbil with his two brothers, sister, and her family on October 12, traveling through Dubai to reach Minsk. On the border, they were pushed back and forth across the frontier by Belarusian and Polish forces, his sister Iman Dler told Rudaw from a center in Poland where she was staying after breaking her leg.
Gaylan lost his supply of insulin when he got separated from his brother-in-law in confusion at the border and died in the cold on October 29. He was buried in Erbil on Monday.
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Stephanopoulos: “Is there anything President Biden can do” to address inflation?
Biden advisor Brian Deese: “Number one: We have to finish job on COVID…getting those shots out to 5-11-year-olds is gonna provide a lot of comfort to American families.”
[victorygirls]You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. — Morpheus, from The Matrix.
Nothing has shut down the world as much as the Covid pandemic — not even the six years of World War II. But what if I were to tell you that it wasn’t because of the virus, but rather propaganda intentionally spread by Xi Jinping? And, moreover, that he took advantage of an ordinary coronavirus to propel his way to world dominance?
I recently finished reading the book Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World, by Michael P. Senger, who has researched the Covid pandemic since March, 2020. Senger, a San Francisco attorney, has amassed hundreds of sources of information (he lists nearly 600 footnotes) that show how Xi’s propaganda war brought the world to a halt. His conclusions are jaw-dropping.
But before I continue recounting Senger’s work, consider the words of the Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu, who wrote in the Fifth Century BC:
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
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[ColonelCassad] 1. Europe has introduced new personal sanctions against Belarus in connection with the situation around migrants on the border with Poland.
2. Belarus has already officially announced that it will give a tough answer. Among the options, blocking the transit of European goods through Belarus and blocking the transit of gas.
3. After the Kremlin sent Merkel to communicate directly with Lukashenko, she was forced to call him today and discuss the situation on the border with Poland with the "illegitimate president" for about an hour.
As it turned out, if necessary, they are even ready to talk with Lukashenka. But with "President Tikhanovskaya" for some reason no one is in a hurry to discuss "ways to resolve the migration crisis."
4. Russia has traditionally stated that what is happening is a showdown between the EU and Belarus, and it has nothing to do with it.
Of course, even if Russia has something to do with it, the logic of the game requires you to say that you have nothing to do with it. Therefore, regardless of what Russia has to do with it, during today's talks between Macron and Putin, Macron was directly told that the solution to the problem lies in the EU’s negotiations with Lukashenka (which de facto means disavowing the policy of non-recognition of Lukashenka).
Call Mekel Lukashenko is the first swallow, but not the last. This is to the question of whether Lukashenka has a profit from what is happening.
And more about the sanctions.
The EU announced the imposition of sanctions against the Wagner PMC for the fact that Wagner got completely unbridled and entered Mali, from where the French were asked to leave, who are losing another country from their crumbling neo-colonial empire.
A particularly touching reason is that the Wagner PMC is interfering in foreign conflicts. They are blathering about this in the EU, the troops of the member states of which have been hanging out in Afghanistan for 20 years and not so long ago happily scrambled out of there. It is quite obvious that the decision is lobbied by France, which in Africa is not being kicked only by the lazy. It is quite understandable that Wagner has acted and will continue to do so in Africa.
In addition to Wagner itself, veiled threats are also directed at the local military junta, which is threatened to be deprived of all economic aid if it continues to flirt with the Russians. Of course, if she adhered to a subordinate position in relation to France, then no claims against the Malian military junta would arise. There is exactly one problem - she communicates with the wrong people. Therefore, now it can easily fall under the sanctions, the introduction of which France is seeking.
It is reported that Russian military instructors are already training the military in Mali to throw a flounder correctly, since the French could not teach them this.
[NPASYRIA] On Tuesday, the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria witnessed mutual shelling between Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian armed opposition factions and Syrian government forces in different areas.
"The government forces continued bombing the opposition factions’ sites in the villages and towns of al-Fatira, Kafr Oweid, Sfuhen, Kansafra, outskirts of al-Bara, Ehsem, al-Ruwaiha, Deir Sunbul and Benin in Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib," North press reported a military source in the opposition.
"Sites of the opposition factions in the villages and towns of Kafr Amma, Kafr Ta’al, Tedil and Kafr Nouran, west of Aleppo, were also bombed by the government, while no casualties were reported," the source added.
"The factions responded to the government forces’ bombardment by shelling their positions near Miznaz, the Regiment 46, Kafr Halab, Khirbet Jadraya and Urum al-Kubra and Urum al-Sughra, west of Aleppo, with heavy artillery and rockets," according to the same source.
For months, areas in Syria’s northwest have been witnessing mutual shelling between parties to the conflict in different areas amid news on government military reinforcements to different areas in the region.
Although the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subject to a Russian-Ottoman Turkish ceasefire agreement signed in March 2020, the area witnesses frequent mutual bombardment despite the entry of the ceasefire into force.
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[MiddleEastForum] The Islamist movement, which seeks to apply medieval Islamic laws and build a worldwide caliphate, has expanded massively in the past half-century. But it now faces a significant and growing counter-movement, especially in Muslim-majority countries. ...
Anti-Islamism comprises four complementary trends. Going from quietest to most radical, they are: moderate Islam, irreligiosity, apostasy, and conversion to other religions. All have an international presence but, for illustrative purposes, I shall focus in each case on a key Middle Eastern country: moderate in Egypt, irreligiosity in Turkey, atheism in Saudi Arabia, and conversion in Iran. He briefly discusses each of these cases. I don't know how any reliable metrics can be obtained to verify or refute his thesis.
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[An Nahar] Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh ...Governor of Lebanon'scentral bank, Banque du Liban since April 1993. Salameh was appointed Governor by decree, approved by the Council of Ministers for a renewable term of six years. He was reappointed for four consecutive terms; in 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2017. Salameh chairs the Banque du Liban Central Council, the Higher Banking Commission, the AML/CFT Special Investigation Commission and the Capital Markets Authority. Salameh is a member of the board of governors at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and at the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF). Salameh is the longest-serving central bank governor in the world.... will make a shellshock monetary-judicial revelation in the next few days that will change the course of the legal disputes, LBCI television reported.
A judicial front man in Luxembourg meanwhile said that judicial authorities these have launched a "criminal lawsuit" related to Salameh and his companies and assets. A front man for Salameh for his part said that the governor has not been notified of any lawsuit against him in Luxembourg, declining to give further comments.
At least two investigations into Salameh’s activities are meanwhile underway in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... and La Belle France.
The governor has denied committing any violations in connection with the two probes.
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I’d vote for Khalifa Haftar if I could, but Saif al-Islam Gadaffi is probably less polarizing. Even if he does look silly wrapped in all that brown fabric, and with a greying beard to boot.
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The Islamists apparently chose not to put forward
Dbeibah or another candidate. The Muslim Brotherhood supported President of the Tripoli High Council of State Khalid Al-Mishri, but they appear to have backed off. Thus,, one can assume that the Islamists haven't much confidence in their ability to win an open election.
[WorldViewWeekend] Chinglai Yang and Ling Ye are faculty members in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Chinglai Yang received his undergraduate degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, an institution under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party via the Chinese Academy of Science and dedicated to improving China’s economy and defense infrastructure.
In 1996, Chinglai Yang completed a doctoral degree in biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Alabama.
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OK I am not a USA (Insert Major Name) University Fan by any stretch of the imagination.
But any field of study can be used for Good or Bad.
eg. ITSEC White Hat vs. Black Hats, Law Degrees, Poli-sci and etc.
So should a educational facility be blamed for the misapplied use of education?
OF COURSE, WITH THE NOTED EXCEPTION
of the Uber-Liberal Left taught Social/Woke-CRT degrees that too many offer knowing it will result in increased Social and Civil unrest.
#4
Agree it's not really the universities' fault. It's our idiot political class (and Stasi) who are to blame for allowing this ridiculous "Confucius Institute" BS to even exist in this country
#5
The universities have enthusiastically chased CCP money and influence, to the point of actively protecting their people embedded among university researchers. On the administrative side they are no naifs unaware of the adder nestled in their bosom.
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Sept 10:BEIRUT — U.S. President Joe Biden has cleared $47 million in military aid to Lebanon, but as an expert explained to Defense News, this doesn’t mean the Lebanese Armed Forces will receive that amount. Under sections 552(c)(2) and 506(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, Biden authorized the secretary of state to “direct the drawdown of up to $25 million in commodities and services from the inventory and resources of any agency” and “direct the drawdown of up to $22 million in defense articles and services from the Department of Defense” to support Lebanon’s military, per a Sept. 7 statement from the White House. However, “the drawdown authority does not constitute aid in itself, and the LAF has not been allocated $50 million in aid,” said Nerguizian, senior associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “What it does mean is that the president has instructed the U.S. government interagency to make excess defense items available to the LAF,” he added. “This is not aid in an account like [Foreign Military Financing]. Sections 552(c)(2) and 506(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act just instructs the U.S. interagency to assess what excess items are available, to make such items available for transfer to the LAF, and only if the items are releasable and line with the requirements of the LAF and U.S. interests more broadly.(More than the usual BS.)
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WTF! (reads article) MD-530's (whoo)
Basically a traffic reporter bird with rockets and guns. They might even be able to keep up maintenance. TIWBOI
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[IsraelTimes] Slain man apparently linked to Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... ; IDF says it’s still looking into details of overnight incident in village of Tubas, near Nablus
A Paleostinian man was rubbed out during festivities with Israeli troops in the northern West Bank in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Paleostinian media reported.
The man, Saddam Hussein Bani Odeh, 26, appeared to have ties to the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad terror group, though the organization did not immediately claim him as a member.
According to Paleostinian media, the Israeli security forces had entered the village of Tubas, northeast of Nablus, early Tuesday to conduct an arrest raid. During the incursion, violent mostly peacefulfestivities broke out between the troops and residents of the village.
It was not immediately clear if the soldiers were looking to arrest Odeh or another person in the village.
The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately confirm the reports. A spokesperson said he was aware of the incident, but was still looking into the matter.
After his death, Odeh was brought to a morgue, where he was wrapped in an Islamic Jihad flag, something normally only done for members of the organization.
On an almost nightly basis, Israeli soldiers and coppers enter Paleostinian villages and cities to arrest people, mostly young men and teenagers, suspected of belonging to terrorist organizations, as well as for lesser offenses like throwing rocks at passing cars in the West Bank or taking part in violent mostly peaceful protests against security forces.
[SHAFAQ] On Tuesday, a security source said that three missiles fell near the town of Bavyan on the borders of Qesrok district in Shikhan district, east of Duhok.
The Source told Shafaq News Agency, "According to preliminary information, the missiles were launched from djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to target the Ottoman Turkish base in Bashiqa, but they went beyond the required range."
There were no casualties, and missiles fell on the outskirts of Bavyan village."
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[RIA Novosti] The dead and wounded, shootings, accusations of provocation, a year after the end of the Second Karabakh conflict in the region, it may flare up with renewed vigor. In Yerevan and Baku, there are reports of battles along the border with the use of artillery and armored vehicles. RIA Novosti understood the situation.
LOCAL BATTLES
According to the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, at 13:00 local time, "units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces committed a new provocation in the eastern direction," firing at the Armenian positions on the contact line in the Syunik region. An answer followed. There are dead and wounded. Twelve servicemen were captured.
ARMENIA AND RUSSIA DISCUSSED THE SITUATION ON THE BORDER WITH AZERBAIJAN
"The situation continues to remain extremely tense," the Armenian military department adds. "Local battles are underway. Our armed forces are carrying out proportionate actions and control the situation. The Azerbaijani side suffers heavy losses in armored vehicles and manpower."
In turn, Baku announced about "panic in the ranks of the Armenian army" after "a large-scale provocation." They believe that the neighbors began "a surprise military operation at 11:00 (local time. - Ed.)
With the aim of seizing heights on the indicated directions of the state border and taking more advantageous positions to gain a military advantage."
"In response, anti-tank weapons and mortars of the opposite side were destroyed," the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry claims. "The situation at the border remains tense, military operations are underway."
RECRIMINATION
The situation in the region has been heating up since November. The media reports that the Azeris fired at the workers of Nagorno-Karabakh were also confirmed by the Russian peacekeepers. The brigade that repaired the water supply for the contingent had three wounded and one dead.
"The repeated provocations with violation of the ceasefire regime openly demonstrate the deceitful nature of Baku's statements about its desire to normalize relations with Armenia and the Armenian people," the Yerevan noted.
Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced tense situation at border
After the incident, the Berzor-Stepanakert highway linking the Armenian regions of Nagorno-Karabakh with the "mainland" was blocked. And only the mediation of the Russian military helped unblock the road.
And on November 13, citizen of Armenia Norayr Mirzoyan, passing by the checkpoint in the Shushi region in his private car, threw a hand grenade at the Azerbaijani military. Two soldiers and a sergeant were wounded. Armenian media reported that he was a relative of a murdered worker.
On the same day, Yerevan was accused of attacking positions in the Kelbajar region. A day later, in shelling "from sniper rifles, grenade launchers and various small arms." Armenia called it a reaction to "an attempt to launch an offensive" on the border.
A SHAKY TRUCE
Officially, the ceasefire after the 44-day war has been in effect in the region for over a year. As a result of negotiations with the mediation of Russia, the Kelbajar, Aghdam, Lachin and Hadrut regions, as well as the settlements in the south of the unrecognized republic - Fizuli, Jabrail, Zangelan and Kubatli were transferred to Azerbaijan. The NKR had 3,170 square kilometers out of the pre-war 11,458.
Since then, the parties have regularly accused each other of violating the ceasefire. Now Yerevan is talking about the invasion of the Azerbaijani troops into Armenia. And he calls on the allies in the CSTO "to respond clearly."
They separately addressed Moscow: Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan recalled the 1997 agreement, according to which Russia and Armenia "undertake to render each other mutual assistance in the event of a military threat."
Russian peacekeepers during a ceremonial formation on the territory of a military town near Stepanakert on the first anniversary of the introduction of a peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called on both sides to stop actions that "provoke an escalation of the situation."
The CSTO, however, stated that they are closely monitoring the situation, but have not received any official requests from Yerevan. There is no information about the talks between the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia, which were scheduled online for November 9.
[Facebook] Over the past day in the Idlib deescalation zone, 11 artillery strikes were recorded from the positions of the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra.
In Aleppo province eight artillery strikes were recorded, in Idlib province, two, in Latakia province, one.
Russian military police report paroling in Aleppo, Hasaka and Rakka.
[SteynOnline] [A]n inspirational bridge story from Grafton County, New Hampshire, try this - from my book After America:
As we discussed earlier, in a liberal world much of our language decays into metaphor, disconnected from physical reality. A few years ago, a Fleet Street colleague accidentally booked himself into a conference on "building bridges" assuming it would be some multiculti community outreach yakfest. It turned out to be a panel of engineers discussing bridge construction. If only more "bridge building" was non-metaphorical: The ability to build real bridges is certainly an attribute of community, and one Americans used to be able to do for themselves.
A friend of mine is a New Hampshire "selectman", one of those municipal offices Tocqueville found so admirable. In 2003, a state highway inspector rode through town and condemned one of the bridges, on a dirt road that serves maybe a dozen houses.
That's the bad news. The good news was the 80/20 state/town funding plan, under which, if you applied to Concord for a new bridge, the state would pay 80 per cent of the cost, the town 20.
So they did. The state estimated the cost at $320,000, so the town's share would be $64,000. Great. So the town threw up a temporary bridge just down river from the condemned one, and waited for the state to get going. Six years later, the temporary bridge had worn out, and the latest revised estimate was $655,000, such that the town's share would be $131,000.
That's the bad news. The good news was that, under the "stimulus" bill, they could put in for the 60/40 federal/state bridge funding plan, under which the feds pay 60 per cent, and the state pays 40, and thus the town would be on the hook for 20 per cent of the 40 per cent, if you follow. If they applied for the program now, the bridge might be built by, oh, 2018, 2020, and it'll only be $1.2 million, or $4 million, or $12 million, or whatever the estimate'll be by then.
[NEWSTALK1130.IHEART] The enduring mystery of the Kyle Rittenhouse criminal trial, which went to a jury Tuesday, has been the identity of "Jump Kick Man." As Rittenhousebravely ran away from a crowd of people, he testified that one of the pursuers hit him in the head with his skateboard. When Rittenhouse fell to the ground, Jump Kick Man flew through the air and stomped on his head. Rittenhouse fired two shots at Jump Kick Man, but missed.
Almost immediately, the man who had struck Rittenhouse with his skateboard, Anthony Huber, hit him with the skateboard again, and Rittenhouse fired a single round, killing Huber. A third man, Gaige Grosskreutz, saw this and approached Rittenhouse with his hands up. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... when Rittenhouse looked down for a split second, Grosskreutz pulled out a handgun and pointed it at Rittenhouse's head. Rittenhouse fired a single shot, striking Grosskreutz in the arm.
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Anthony Michael Huber
born 8/21/1994
Given his violent mental / criminal behavior documented below and in the link provided. Why wasn't he put in Criminal Mental ward for 20+ years? Or was his vote that important to the Socialcrats?
It seems the DA office there, was too Liberal minded in its felony sentencing punishments?
aka Skate Board Dude
For greater details that Social Media and others seemed to avoid.
Quoting only a small part of his violent mental criminal history.
"In 2012, Huber held a 6-inch-long butcher knife to his brothers neck and violently attacked him. He told his brother he was going to “gut him like a pig.” He choked his brother and dug his nails into his neck. His brother could not breath for 10 seconds. He then stabbed him in the ear. He then threatened to burn the house down and kill his mother, grandmother and siblings. Huber left on his skateboard.
In 2017, Huber was in an argument with his sister. His mother called the police and told them that “(Huber) has a history of abusive behavior.” He Karate kicked her and she fell down in pain. He told the police that it wasn’t “wrong” to hurt his sister.
Note: there is a link inside the link, that lists in detail the Wack Jobs arrests and problems with police.
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It gets even more surreal when you consider that Rosenbaum was -- get this -- a bipolar extremely violent child rapist who was literally off his meds and alternately demanding to be shot and screaming that he would kill Kyle and several other peaceful citizens on the night that he rushed Kyle and tried to grab his gun.
And -- wait, there's more! - he'd just been released from the hospital after a suicide attempt.
And he'd fought with the paramour he was staying with. Because Rosenbaum unlike Kyle had no family or job in Kenosha and really did travel great distances in order to stir up a hornet's nest and wreak havoc on peaceful, innocent strangers in a town thousands of miles from his home.
The cherry on this shit sundae: as Andrew Branca pointed out (but Kyle's bumbling Attorney failed to), Rosenbaum in grabbing Kyle's gun was at the time of the first shot simultaneously disarming Kyle and in the process of arming himself.
So now we have the upside-down Wonderland prosecution of the young man who along with several other naive but heroic ordinary citizens tried to defend Kenosha from these savage berserkers -- after the police were effectively stood down. And the governor who refused to call out the Guard when those monsters were burning and threatening to slaughter people is now calling out the Guard in response to this show trial. That would be the trial of the supposed "white supremacist" who shot a deranged and violent bipolar child rapist who had charged him and tried to take his gun -- after the defendant had interrupted this monster's attempt to set a gas station on fire using a flaming dumpster the monster had ignited.
Anyone else agree that this nation has gone insane?
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Anyone else agree that this nation has gone insane?
Certain corners of it, yes. But the nation as a whole is getting more sensible — and increasing the number of Republicans elected at all levels of government — with every election.
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While the media doubles down on their vile spew.
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The sad thing, Rob, is "prosecutorial discretion" is so far-reaching that this is probably just business as usual.
They have no discretion when it comes to giving the defense ALL the information they have. Maybe I'm wrong, and they only have to disclose what they intend to use at trial -- but a motion today reveals they withheld the high definition drone video from the defense.
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[GEO.TV] As the government continues to work out its secretive deals with the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP), which was proscribed because of its acts of terrible violence in the country, and the murderous Moslem Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP), it appears to have forgotten that its priorities should be different.
While there is a need to get militancy under control, giving way to the demands of such parties and groups has not worked in the past and is unlikely to work now. The TLP has, on each occasion that it has protested, got away with its actions.
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[GEO.TV] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... have arrested a man for allegedly selling dozens of women in northern Afghanistan after duping them into believing they would be marrying into money, officials said Tuesday.The man was arrested in northern Jowzjan province late on Monday, Damullah Seraj, the Taliban provincial police chief, told news hounds.
"We are still in our initial stages of the investigation. We hope to find out more about this case later," he said.
Mohammad Sardar Mubariz, a district police chief in Jowzjan, told AFP the man would target poor women desperate to improve their circumstances.
After saying he would find them a wealthy husband, he would move them to a different province where they were instead sold into servitude.
He allegedly trafficked around 130 women this way.
Crime, nepotism, and corruption are not new in Afghanistan but rising poverty is undermining the Taliban government's claim to legitimacy.
Since their return to power about three months ago, the Taliban are trying to contain a spate of crimes such as robberies and kidnappings in the big cities.
On Tuesday, the Taliban interior ministry said 60 people — including members of the passport department — were arrested for forging documents to obtain passports.
The ministry said it was temporarily closing the passport office in Kabul for maintenance.
[AlAhram] Sudanese authorities released Al Jazeera television's Khartoum bureau chief on Tuesday, the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... -based network said, two days after security forces arrested him from his home.
[NPASYRIA] After being targeted by a group affiliated with the Syrian government on Tuesday afternoon, the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish)
...the Asayish is the Kurd-dominated security organization in the Kurdish territories in Syria...
intensified their security checkpoints in Qamishli city, northeast Syria.
"Members of the National Defense Forces (NDF) fired at Asayish members in Hasakah, injuring one in the hand," North Press reported a security source from the Asayish.
The Asayish intensified the number of its security checkpoints in Qamishli and in the vicinity of the security square where the government forces are present.
The Asayish members were told not to pass through the government-controlled areas, eyewitnesses said.
At the end of April, the Tayy neighborhood in the city of Qamishli witnessed violent mostly peacefulfestivities between the NDF and the Asayish. The conflict ended with the control of the latter on the neighborhood after negotiations brokered by Russia.
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[ColonelCassad] A new big video report of the Houthis has been released on the ongoing offensive in South Marib.
Many killed and captured carts, many killed and captured (it should be noted that the wounded are not finished off, but bandaged and taken to the rear), various trophies, plus a very atmospheric piece of video with the storming of a village.
Fighting is now taking place for the mountainous region of Jabal al-Balak, the last major natural obstacle in front of the provincial capital of Marib.
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Over 130 Yemen rebels killed in battle for Marib: Coalition
[AlAhram] The Saudi-led coalition 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... said Tuesday it has killed over 130 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 in the past 24 hours in strikes in and near the northern pro-government bastion of Marib.
The Saudi-led coalition has been reporting high corpse counts in almost daily strikes since October aimed at repelling a rebel offensive on the city of Marib, the government's last stronghold in the north.
The Iran-backed Huthis rarely comment on the tolls, which have exceeded 3,700 in the past weeks, and AFP cannot independently verify the coalition's figures.
"Sixteen military vehicles were destroyed and more than 130 terrorist elements eliminated" in the latest raids, the coalition said in a statement carried by the Saudi state news agency SPA.
It said the operations were carried out in Marib and al-Bayda provinces.
The Huthis began a major push to seize Marib city in February, and renewed their offensive in September.
There was also reported fighting on a separate front, along Yemen's Red Sea coast after Huthi forces pushed south in recent days.
The coalition said Tuesday they targeted four Huthi positions along the western coast.
A Huthi advance near Yemen's lifeline port of the western province of Hodeida and a Saudi pullback have displaced more than 6,000 people, according to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... On Monday, the coalition said in a statement that the "redeployment and repositioning" of its troops and government forces last week was designed "to support the Yemeni government in its national battle on all fronts".
[ToloNews] Farmers in the southern provinces of the country said they are happy about their opium products in the fall season of this year.
Farmers in Kandahar and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... say that this year the yield is good considering the drought in the country.
Mohammad Wali, a farmer in Kandahar, said that although he is concerned about the drought this year the cultivation of the opium is favorable as there is no other work.
"There is no work, all the families are in debt and everyone’s hope is opium," said Mohammad Wali, a farmer.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... officials of the Islamic Emirate said they are trying to find alternatives for the poppy farmers.
Saffron and pine nuts are traditional... cucumbers and tomatoes would probably be overwhelming to those simple souls.
"The Islamic Emirate through using government facilities, and in coordination with various international organizations and in cooperation with the international community, is trying to find alternative jobs for those who are cultivating opium," said Enamullah Samangani, deputy front man of the Islamic Emirate.
“Sure, you can plant something else. Just as long as we get the same tax as if you’d planted opium, plus an extra 10% for the extra trouble you’re giving us.”
"The issue of narcotics is one of the world’s biggest problems, and our neighboring countries, especially Russia, will be greatly affected by Afghanistan’s narcotics and this will affect the relations of the Islamic Emirate with the world," said Noorullah Hazrati, a university lecturer.
One of the major challenges that the previous government was facing was the massive cultivation of poppies and the production of opium in the country.
Thanks to the independent actions of the CIA, Pakistan's ISI, and various Afghan politicians unwilling to give up a good thing.
Based on reports of international organizations, 90% of the world's narcotics is produced in Afghanistan. Although millions of dollars were spent on the eradication of opium it is still being cultivated in the country.
[KhaamaPress] The Foreign Ministry of Uzbekistan announced that the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... will establish a center of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan in Termez of Uzbekistan.
A statement released by the ministry reads that special representatives of EU and Uzbekistan for Afghanistan discussed the issue on Monday, November, 15 in Brussels.
European Union’s envoy to Afghanistan Tomas Niklasson appreciated the efforts of Uzbekistan in the evacuation of EU nationals from Afghanistan and expressed interest in continued cooperation with Uzbekistan in bringing peace and stability in Afghanistan.
The special representatives also agreed to continue consultations.
Earlier, the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... had said that the main hub of the World Food Program for assistance to Afghanistan will be based in Termez.
It comes as the international aid organizations have called on the international community to move forward and help prevent the deepening humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
[KhaamaPress] Provincial officials in central Daikundi province said that their intelligence personnel arrested 11 people who are suspected to be ISIS-K affiliates.
The officials said that the suspects are from Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Ghazni, and Urozgan provinces but added that further investigations have been started.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... have also seized weapons with the suspects.
It comes a day after the Taliban fighters in large-scale operations in four districts of Kandahar province arrested ten ISIS-K affiliates and killed three more.
Are those the final numbers? Yesterday’s reports were confused on the subject.
Provincial officials of Kandahar province said that four hideouts of the terror group have been eliminated in the province.
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.... of Iraq and Syria-Khorasan branch (ISIS-K) is now the only terror group that operates against the Taliban in Afghanistan and inflicts causalities on civilians people mainly the Shi ’ite Moslems.
So the Taliban keep saying, What odds that it’s actually true?
[NewsFrontInfo] Separatist troops stationed it Trudovskaya mine returned mortar fire with Ukrainian army units in Maryinka, Wednesday, according to Ukrainian and Russian language new resources.
Separatists fired on Maryinka, they claimed, after Ukrainian mortar units fired on them using 82mm mortars.
According to Ukrainian new sources, separatist troops fired 82mm mortars at a residential building located at 236 Prokofieva Ulitsa. The lb.ua report said the residential building was destroyed.
Elsewhere in Donetsk, official Ukrainian military a civil new sources said separatists used mortar and medium artillery fire at Novotoshkivsky.
Separatists also fired on Novoalexandrivka in Lugansk.
Separatist media claimed that Ukrainian troops fired on an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) drone at Novozvanovka.
Lugansk official media said that Ukrainian EW units were jamming an OSCE drone over Schastye and Luhanskoye, they say, to prevent discovery of Ukrainian heavy equipment in the area.
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[KavkazUzel] The hostilities in the area of the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia were stopped after telephone talks between the heads of the Defense Ministries of the two countries with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defense department reported. The Armenian side confirmed the stabilization of the situation.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, today the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced an attempt by Armenian soldiers to seize the heights in the Kelbajar and Lachin regions, and the Armenian defense department accused Azerbaijan of attempting to advance troops on the border. The parties later exchanged accusations of shelling.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, two Azerbaijani soldiers were injured in a shootout, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia reported that four Armenian soldiers were wounded and several soldiers were killed, 12 Armenian soldiers were captured .
The press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Armenia and Azerbaijan stopped clashes in the border area after a conversation between the heads of the Defense Ministries of the two countries with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
"As a result of telephone conversations, the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides took measures to stabilize the situation. At present, the clashes in the area of Mount Kilisali have ceased, the situation has returned to normal and is under control," the press service of the Russian defense department RIA quoted as saying.
The Ministry of Defense of Armenia also disseminated a message about the ceasefire on the Armenian border through the mediation of the Russian side.
"From 18:30 (17:30 Moscow time) on the eastern part of the border of Armenia, the fire stopped, the situation is relatively stable," the statement of the Armenian Defense Ministry says. As a result of the retaliatory actions of the Armenian side, the Azerbaijani armed forces suffered losses, the ministry said.
"The Armenian side also has losses. By this time, it is known about the death of one serviceman - a contract soldier born in 1991, Meruzhan Harutyunyan," the message says. The number of wounded is being specified. Another 12 Armenian servicemen were captured in Azerbaijani captivity, the ministry said.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry also reported on telephone conversations in connection with the situation on the Azerbaijani-Armenian state border, conducted by the head of the department Zakir Hasanov with the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Trend agency reported.
Let us remind you that the border conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan flared up in May. Yerevan then announced the consolidation of Azerbaijani troops in the Black Lake region, on the territory of Gegharkunik and Syunik regions.
The Azerbaijani military reached these lines following the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict in the fall of 2020 - earlier, these two Armenian regions adjoined the so-called "security belt" in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian-Azerbaijani border, both in this and in other areas, has not been precisely defined since the collapse of the USSR. More details about the border conflict can be found in the "Caucasian Knot" reference " On the Black Lake: the border conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia ".
The territories of the Kelbajar and Lachin regions fell under the control of Azerbaijan under an agreement of November 10, 2020 following the results of the 44-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh. In total, following the results of the 2020 war, Azerbaijan gained control over two-thirds of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Dammit! But possibly this means the kind of arrest the Mullahs did of Al Qaeda cadres and bin Laden dependents for the better part of two decades: semi-house arrest that was really protective custody to keep them safe from Western hunters as well as provide a communication channel directly to the Al Qaeda executive suite.
[KhaamaPress] Iran’s Ministry of Interior Affairs announced that Nizamuddin Qaisari a former militia commander and aide of Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... accused for fabricating documents arrested.
Head of the residents and refugees of Iran’s Interior Ministry Mehdi Mahmoodi said that Qaisari had come to Iran ...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... illegally and was making fake documents for Afghans.
Someone has to — it’s not like the Taliban have been providing either fake or real documents in recent months.
Mahmoodi said that Nizamuddin Qaisari had three different offices in Tehran and Karaj city where he would fabricate documents for Afghan refugees.
Qaisari would reportedly charge people large amounts of money for providing them with fabricating documents.
Nizamuddin Qaisari was arrested days after the Taliban ...Arabic for students... took over Afghanistan on August 15 who was then released and went to Iran.
Qaisari was one of the notorious commanders in the northern Balkh province of Afghanistan where he was leading anti-government people uprising.
Previous Afghan government had conducted several operations to arrest him but had failed.
[An Nahar] Intensive efforts are being made to reach a solution for the suspension of Cabinet sessions and the results might appear in the next few days, informed sources said."There are four proposals that are being discussed to agree on a solution that would lead to resuming Cabinet’s sessions," the sources told MTV.
"The four proposals are based on re-arranging the judiciary and are based on steps that the judiciary should do, not the government, seeing as the government cannot resolve anything and cannot be party to the conflict because this is not its role," the sources added.
MTV also reported 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... is leading contacts with its ally 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... chief Suleiman Franjieh in a bid to find an exit for the issue of Information Minister George Kordahi’s resignation as well as a complete solution for the crisis."
"What’s meant by a complete solution is the dismissal of the investigative judge into the port case Tarek Bitar and the subsequent resignation of Kordahi," the TV network added.
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”I’ll take that $10 million for a dollar!”
“I see two over there, anyone bidding three?”
[KhaamaPress] As Afghanistan has been dealing with western sanctions and no foreign aid, the local currency-Afghani- hit the lowest level against US dollar in the past twenty years, with 1$ trading for 95 Afghani.
To prevent the plummeting move of the local currency, ten central banks of Afghanistan-De Afghanistan Bank- announced to be auctioning $10 million on Tuesday, November 16.
In a statement released by the bank, private banks and forex traders were asked to participate in the bidding.
The bidders will be paying Afghani for the amount of dollars they buy in the auction.
In the meantime, economic analysts suspect that the auction will not be beneficial as the dollars will be trafficked abroad and will have less impact on the value of the local currency.
It is worth mentioning that the previous Afghan government would auction this amount of dollars every week but did not impact the local currency due to vast corruption.
It comes as the Human Rights Watch has asked the United Nation to ease financial restrictions on Afghanistan as people are suffering from critical malnutrition, unemployment, and high prices of food and fuel.
Published from a comment yesterday from our own M. Murcek [ZERO] House Republicans in the Judiciary Committee have sent a Tuesday letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland after an FBI whistleblower provided 'a protected disclosure' revealing that "the FBI's Counterterrorism Division is compiling and categorizing threat assessments related to parents, including a document directing FBI personnel to use a specific "threat tag" to track potential investigations."
The evidence - an email sent the day before Garland testified on October 21 - "referenced your October 4 directive to the FBI to address school board threats and notified FBI personnel about a new "threat tag" created by the Counterterrorism and Criminal Divisions."
"This disclosure provides specific evidence that federal law enforcement operationalized counterterrorism tools at the behest of a left-wing special interest group against concerned parents," the letter continues.
Despite the obvious instructions to the FBI, Attorney General Merrick Garland previously gave testimony before congress denying that parents who attended school board meetings were being targeted by an FBI Counterterrorism task force. However, today the House Judiciary Committee has received a ’whistleblower complaint’ showing the FBI is indeed using the Counterterrorism Division as the tool to target parents. [Document Source]
The day before AG Merrick Garland testified to congress, the FBI instructed all national heads of the Counterterrorism Division to begin using internal tags to create a notification list containing the names of parents they considered to be domestic extremists.
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Until a few years ago you could call the local FBI office directly. When the Dems decided to destroy our country, all calls then forwarded to the same main number. When that happens the Dems are isolating a government agency away from the people in order to gain full control as an enforcment arm of the DNC.
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When the Republicans as may happen, with luck, fairly soon, they can rename the DEpartme4nt to the Department of Injustice.
The Dems are creating some wonderful precedents.
If they take over the house, for example, they really should censure Madame Pelosi for her recent behavior.
Or censure all those who recently censured a Republican. That would save a lot of time in Committees.
Jordan have called on the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to launch an investigation to determine the sex of Zohreh Koudaei
The Iran women's football team goalkeeper saved two penalties during a crucial penalty shoot-out win against Jordan in September
The president of the Jordan Football Association, Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein, tweeted on Sunday a letter 'requesting a gender verification check' on Koudaei
Iran team's selector, Maryam Irandoost, dismissed the allegation and said the accusation was being used to cover up for Jordan's loss
Jordan also alleged that the Iranian women's team 'has a history with gender and doping issues', and called for 'due process' to be followed
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Where's his Islamicly required beard?
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One of the local farming couples has an interesting difference in body types.
He is a short (~5-ft) slender guy that you wouldn't think could even lift a bail of dry hay (don't let that fool you, though) and she is 6'2" and built like one of my college linebacker buddies. They're a great couple.
So not calling this one yet.....
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[REGNUM] The tests of the anti-satellite weapons system, carried out on November 15 by the Russian military department, were carried out in strict accordance with international law. This was stated in the commentary of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, published on November 16.
The statement states that the only sure way to the safety of space activities is to start negotiations on an international agreement banning the deployment of any types of weapons in space.
"We confirm our readiness to discuss the entire spectrum of space security issues with all interested states, including the United States. We are convinced that the launch of negotiations on an international agreement prohibiting the deployment of any types of weapons in outer space, the use or threat of the use of force against or with space objects is the right way to reduce tensions and remove the concerns of states in the context of ensuring the security of space activities," stated in the document of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
"There is a basis for such work - the Russian-Chinese draft treaty on the prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space, the use of force or the threat of force against space objects (DPROK)," the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasizes.
As reported by IA REGNUM , on November 15, the Russian Ministry of Defense tested an anti-satellite missile, successfully destroying one of the decommissioned satellites in near-earth orbit, launched back in the Soviet era.
The Ministry of Defense showed a video proving that the ISS was not in danger The video is at the link
[RIA Novosti] The Ministry of Defense published a video that simulated the trajectory of the fragments of the destroyed Tselina-D satellite and the orbit of the International Space Station
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The department emphasized that the specialists visualized the situation in outer space, based on real data.
"The video image clearly shows that objects move in orbits with different inclinations in different planes. In addition, the ISS is located 40-60 kilometers below the fragments of the destruction of the spacecraft," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
It is noted that the domestic space control system monitors each orbit of all objects that appear and, in addition, predicts the situation.
"From the moment of their appearance, the fragments of the former satellite do not pose any threat to the ISS. The statements about the alleged risks for the ISS do not correspond to reality," the Defense Ministry concluded.
Earlier on Tuesday, the defense ministry said that Russia had successfully tested and hit an inoperative Tselina-D spacecraft that had been in orbit since 1982. As the Ministry of Defense emphasized, the United States knows for certain that the resulting fragments do not threaten orbital stations and satellites. The department also recalled that such tests had already been carried out by America, China and India.
In Washington said yesterday that because of the Russian anti-satellite weapons tests there was a danger of collision with the ISS space debris.
For more than 40 years Moscow has been advocating the development of an agreement prohibiting the deployment of weapons or the use of force in outer space. Russia has repeatedly submit proposals to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
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In addition, the ISS is located 40-60 kilometers below the fragments of the destruction of the spacecraft," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Mendacious asshole. Orbits decay, which means the fragments will gradually drop closer and closer to the ISS orbit...
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#1 In addition, the ISS is located 40-60 kilometers below the fragments of the destruction of the spacecraft," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Mendacious asshole. Orbits decay, which means the fragments will gradually drop closer and closer to the ISS orbit...
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...With two of their own guys on it. That's cold.
Mike
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that objects move in orbits with different inclinations in different planes
All orbital planes intersect.
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[AlAhram] At least 32 people, including 28 military coppers, were killed in an attack carried out by an unidentified group of gunnies on a gendarmerie post in Inata, northern Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , according to Rooters.
In the wake of the attack — the deadliest witnessed by the country’s troops in years — President Roch Kabore announced a three-day period of national mourning.
Another group of gunnies also attempted a second attack in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday but were successfully repelled by troops.
Numerous attacks have been launched by gunnies linked to ISIS and al-Qaeda in Burkina Faso over the past few years.
The Death Eaters’ insurgency across Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... in West Africa has killed thousands and displaced millions so far.
Earlier this month, Egypt opened the Sahel and Sahara Counter-terrorism Centre in Cairo to coordinate the efforts of the 20 states of the Community of Sahel-Saharan [CEN-SAD] states to confront terrorism.
[JPost] Take a hostage (robot), assholes. It will send the artillery coordinates, or just explode - you're familiar with that atrocity, right?
Elbit Systems and Roboteam have released the ROOK UGV, which will support infantry in a number of frontline roles.
"If you want to send robots where you don’t want to send soldiers, you need a solution for that," said Elad Levy, CEO and founder of Roboteam.
His company, together with Elbit Systems, on Tuesday, announced the debut of what they are calling "the mothership of unmanned vehicles": ROOK, a multi-payload military 6x6 Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV).
The UGV’s innovative design and built-in autonomy suite offers improved capacity, maneuverability and agility from its previous models, creating "a human machine" that is "really part of the team," said Yoav Poizner, the senior director of Elbit C4I and Cyber.
He said the ROOK is the next step toward enabling "everything that happens in the sky" through use of drones and aerial robots to occur on the ground and in the field where soldiers need it, too.
The ROOK was developed based on the operational experience accumulated through fielding of the 4x4 PROBOT UGV systems, which became operational a few years ago through a first collaboration between the two companies.
What makes ROOK most unique is that it started as a connected system, the teams said.
"Because we built it from the first screw, we know how the robot works with the software," Levy said.
"It has built-in autonomy and built-in artificial intelligence that provides a full solution. Without that level of sophistication, you would not want to rely on it in the field."
The ROOK was designed from scratch as a robotic UGV platform in compliance with applicable military standards, a release explained. It has a modular box structure that allows for components to be replaced by users in the field without the support of the manufacturer.
Other features include a low center of gravity, essential for carrying heavy payloads on rough terrain. The ROOK weighs 1,200 kg. (2,646 lbs.) and can carry a payload equivalent to its own body weight. It stands 24 cm. above the ground and travels at a speed up to 30 kilometers an hour (19 mph).
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I like the 1895 7×57mm Chilean Mauser and its 1500 meter flip up sight, better and its KISS design was my buying point.
In the 90's they went for about $50 to $75 still packed cosmoline.
Many owners replaced the barrel with a more common US caliber like 30/06, 308 and some went ape and higher.
NOTE: The Mauser Action was good enough for the US Gov. to buy the 1903A1 which used a copy and later got sued by Mauser in 1914 (WWI) and after WWI won in 1924.
Irony the WWI German Army was fought and beaten in part using a German designed weapon.
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Chilean Mauser with sight elevation at approx 1200-1500m (difficult to tell in the photo, but about halfway up the rail). Notice the shooters are in the open, with no apparent concern for return fire.
Interestingly, The U.S. Army has selected a new round to replace those equipping its M4A1 carbine and M249 Squad Automatic Weapons. The Army selected five companies to produce prototype weapons in the new, mysterious 6.8-millimeter round.
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At a time when the world is awash in 7.62 and 5.56 weapons and huge industries and inventories of those ubiquitous calibers, and our industrial base and economy is in crisis over inflation and supply-chain issues, what in Gods name idiot thinks we need to re-caliber our armed forces with a completely new round? For the near term, the existing standards do the job just fine. Only a procurement system and policy makers bloated with graft and corruption would consider this the time to relook something so elemental to national defense! God we are cursed with ruling class morons....
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In one of the Russian-Turkey rumbles in the late 19th Century, both side were armed by different American gun manufacturers in New England. It was referred to as the Connecticut War.
The Liverpool suicide attacker built a 'Mother of Satan' ball bearing bomb used by ISIS extremists to 'cause maximum carnage' and may have been driven to take revenge after his asylum bids kept being turned down, it was claimed today.
Enzo Almeni, 32, a Muslim who converted to Christianity four years ago, was killed after the homemade device exploded as his taxi pulled up at Liverpool Women's Hospital just before before the 11am minute's silence on Remembrance Sunday.
His bomb was made using homemade TATP explosives. TATP is unstable and known as a 'Mother of Satan' because it is liable to blow up accidentally. It was used by Islamist terrorist in the Paris suicide attacks of 2015, the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 and the failed Parsons Green Underground station.
The asylum seeker's heritage was disputed by UK immigration officials, having arrived in Britain claiming to be of Syrian and Iraqi heritage, when the Home Office reportedly believed he was from Jordan.
A security source told The Sun: 'One of the issues being looked at is whether this unresolved grievance pushed him over the edge and prompted him to carry out the attack.'
It is not yet known when he arrived in the UK but he first became known to the authorities after being arrested for possession of a 'large knife' after the rejection of his asylum claim in 2014, resulting in him being sectioned under the Mental Health Act and hospitalised for several months.
Ever since then it is clamed he had been in a long-term dispute with the Home Office over his application for UK residential status, and until recently had been living at a hostel for asylum seekers - run by private contracting giant Serco - in Sutcliffe Street, Liverpool, 'for some time' before renting a flat two miles away in Rutland Avenue, which he turned into a bomb factory.
His driver David Perry, 45, survived in a 'miracle' after Almeni's 1lb bomb failed to properly detonate, with the hero cabbie said to have started 'vibrating' and 'flashing' in the seconds before they reached their destination.
Police and MI5 are trying to work out if Liverpool's main maternity hospital, which was packed with mothers and new babies, was his intended target. ISIS attacked the maternity ward of Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, killing 24 including 16 mothers and two children in 2020.
A senior former intelligence source told the Mirror: 'The bomber intended to enter the hospital and trigger his device, but for some reason it went off early and failed properly to initiate. Had he successfully set off the bomb inside it would have been extremely bloody and horrific. We believe this was a partial explosion, clearly from a device at high-chest level, aimed at causing many casualties.'
Heads up, dear Reader — we’re about to be hit with a new and startling number.
[ToloNews] US State Department spokesperson Ned Price says that the evacuation of US citizens and legal residents from Afghanistan is ongoing.
Good to hear they aren’t being completely ignored by the government anymore...
His remarks come amid reports saying thousands of US residents are still in Afghanistan.
Eh? Thousands??? Last we heard it was at most a few hundred.
Speaking to news hounds, Price said efforts are ongoing to help US residents in Afghanistan depart to the United States.
"As of today, the United States government has directly assisted the departure of 435 US citizens and 325 lawful permanent residents.
Who, pray tell, are the other 49,000 already in the United States, plus the others parked in various countries along the way? And why were they prioritized over thousands of our own people?
All US citizens who have requested assistance from the US government to depart Afghanistan, and who are ready to do so, have been offered an opportunity to leave the country," he said.
Price’s remarks come as Foreign Policy magazine reported that it has learned that the State Department believes as many as 14,000 US legal permanent residents remain in Afghanistan.
FOURTEEN THOUSAND??? They can’t have all gone back for summer vacation — who are these people?
Republican Representative Chris Smith said the US State Department has failed in the evacuation of American citizens from Afghanistan, as thousands of its legal residents are still in Afghanistan.
"Isn’t the operating assumption about 14,000?" Smith asked Brian McKeon, deputy secretary of state for management and resources, at a hearing, referring to the figure briefed in private. "We don’t track [legal permanent residents]," McKeon responded, Foreign Policy reported.
"Some of them are Afghan-Americans who do not want to leave Afghanistan. Some of them do not reveal their identity due to security concerns. And undoubtedly, among them there could be some people who carry out intelligence activities in Afghanistan," said Shukria Barakzai, a former Afghan diplomat.
Way to seal their fates, dude.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat...... US Secretary Antony Blinken met with the director of the International Organization for Migration, Antonio Vitorino, on Monday and thanked IOM for its support in the evacuation process from Afghanistan.
"I have to say, especially with the recent evacuation and relocation efforts in Afghanistan, the IOM played an absolutely critical role, stepping up, stepping in. Whether it was at Ramstein or Dulles Airport, working with UNICEF on unaccompanied children, we're so grateful for that work," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat...... the international affairs committee of the US congress said it will increase its assessments about the evacuation of US soldiers and their Afghan allies from Afghanistan.
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#3: 'impeach' ... must start in the house and that wont happen until 2023 when a new, hopefully conservative, house is empaneled. I vote for secession of the middle from the coasts and a stripped down constitution. no penumbras! Gov abbott as the president and AG paxton as AG.
US Dollars, alternators, tires, batteries, fuel filters, ammo, motor oil, MOGAS, rations, American cigarettes, COVID meds..... being palletized for midnight delivery.
Aircraft arrive AFG. Cargo is offloaded. US CITS board midnight delivery aircraft engines HOT (still running) for return to CONUS or Germany. No media coverage.
Pasaki gives special WH news briefing, announces year long Operation **** **** successfully concluded, now in Sustainment Phase... which is 'already paid for.' Cost of Taliban sustainment a fraction (possibly .0003%) of previous US assistance to AFG government.
Biden and Dems credited with getting everyone home just prior to the upcoming election. CNN signs rights to documentary. Biden and Dr. Jill host WH dinner for returnees and children. Massive prime-time media coverage less FOX News.
Needs must when the Devil rides, even if they’re icky Shiite heretics. Time enough to go jihad on them after they shore up the Afghan economy, the blind, greedy fools. (Or not, as the case may be.)
[ToloNews] Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and the Iranian Special Representative for Afghanistan Hassan Kazemi Qomi said on Tuesday that Afghanistan and Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... are working to expand their economic and political relations.
Qomi, leading a delegation, arrived in Kabul on Monday and held talks with several officials of the Islamic Emirate including Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and Amir Khan Muttaqi.
Muttaqi said the Iranian delegation was comprised of technical teams from different ministries which held talks with relevant Afghan teams.
Muttaqi said the Islamic Emirate has also appointed technical teams from the related ministries who will hold talks with the Iranian teams in the future to expand cooperation.
According to Muttaqi, the teams will discuss issues related to economic cooperation, border issues, and Afghan refugees in Iran.
"The people of Afghanistan and the new government of Afghanistan want good relations with the neighboring countries and the world, especially with the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran. Our relations with Iran have been good and we are trying to improve them further," Muttaqi said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other shoulder...... Qomi also said they had good discussions with Islamic Emirate officials, especially over economic cooperation.
Qomi said Afghanistan is under sanctions and Iran is trying to expand its economic cooperation with Afghanistan at this crucial juncture.
"We had positive and constructive talks on different issues, including expanding cooperation between the two countries, mainly in the economic sector and issues related to borders," he said.
Qomi added that some countries are trying to destabilize Afghanistan through their proxies and thus Iran is working to cooperate with Afghanistan in the security area as well. "Today the people of Afghanistan are under pressure from terrorist groups being supported by the outsiders," he said.
In the meantime, Muttaqi in an interview with Pakistain’s Geo News said the enmity between the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and the United States has ended and now Kabul wants to have diplomatic relations with Washington.
Muttaqi also said the United States should release Afghanistan assets and the international community should recognize the new government.
The international community, however, has repeatedly said respect for human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... , especially women's rights, and the formation of an inclusive government are conditions for recognition.
[NYPOST] Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday she will not seek reelection in 2022, becoming the latest high-profile Democrat to retire from politics as the party seeks to hold on to narrow majorities in the House and Senate next year.
"It’s time for me to come home," said Speier in a Twitter video announcing her decision.
Speier, who has been a member of Congress since 2008, recalled the 1978 liquidation of Rep. Leo Ryan (D-Calif.) by followers of cult leader Jim Jones shortly before the infamous mass murder-suicide of Jones’ followers. Speier, then a Ryan staffer, was shot five times but survived.
"Forty-three years ago this week, I was lying on an airstrip in the jungles of Guyana with five bullet holes in my body," Speier said. "I vowed that if I survived, I would dedicate my life to public service."
"It has been a remarkable journey that has surpassed my wildest dreams," she added. "Today, I’m announcing that I will not be a candidate for reelection to Congress in 2022."
The 71-year-old Speier, who represents a safe Democratic seat in the the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... Bay area, said that it was time for her to "be more than a weekend wife, mother and friend."
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A Hazy Morono level ditz. Unfortunately, some of these retiring dems come from dem lock districts and some of them will be replaced by someone even worse.
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Sat in some meetings with her when she was a San Mateo County Supervisor. She did not impress.
[LIBYAREVIEW] A group of armed militias in the western town of Zawiya announced their rejection of the candidacy of late Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him... ’s son Saif al-Islam, threatening a return to civil war.Earlier today, the High National Elections Commission (HNEC) announced that Saif al-Islam submitted his candidacy for the Presidential elections in the southern town of Sebha, 650km south of 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... On Sunday evening, the militias issued a statement threatening to shut polling stations down if the elections proceeded with the current laws.
Additionally, they warned the international community that these elections "will bring Libya back to square one and will drag the country into another civil war."
This comes in conjunction with militias from Zintan, who held a military parade with heavy weapons, to express their rejection of Qadaffy’s application.
In a video shared by an election official, Saif al-Islam addressed the camera, saying that "God will decide the right path for the country’s future."
The 49-year old, who earned a PhD from the London School of Economics, wore a traditional Libyan robe, turban, and spectacles. It was his first public appearance in almost five years. He was seen as the reformist face of the Qadaffy regime before the 2011 uprising. He was arrested in November 2011, and released in June 2017 after more than five years of detention.
This July, he told The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... in an exclusive interview that he was considering a run for the country’s top office. His candidacy is likely to stir controversy across the already divided country.
Last month, Chairman of HNEC, Emad al-Din al-Sayeh, said Saif al-Islam was eligible to run for the upcoming Presidential elections. In a discussion session via Clubhouse, al-Sayeh noted that the law issued by the Libyan Parliament does not prevent his candidacy.
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[Regnum] The crew of the ship in Sevastopol was given a solemn welcome - the cruiser entered the bay to the tune of "Legendary Sevastopol".
The cruiser "Moskva" performed a mission to monitor NATO ships in the Black Sea.
The ships of the US Navy entered the Black Sea in late October - early November, the presence of the American military was explained by unscheduled exercises.
The actions of the US naval forces were constantly monitored by the Black Sea Fleet, including the missile cruiser Moskva.
The day before, on November 15, it became known that the flagship of the 6th US Fleet Mount Whitney had left the Black Sea.
On November 16, the cruiser Moskva also returned to the base. The missile cruiser Moskva is the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, based in Sevastopol since 1999. The cruiser is designed to deliver strikes against large single ships and groupings of attack surface ships, to ensure the combat stability of naval anti-submarine groups and to conduct collective air defense of ship formations in remote areas.
[NewsFrontInfo] The ship visited Istanbul as planned, according to a release from the US Sixth Fleet posted on its official website.
"USS Porter (DDG 78) left the Black Sea, arriving in Istanbul for an earlier scheduled port visit on 16 November. While in Turkey, the crew of the ship will have the opportunity to take part in coordinated tours and events of the MWR format (Morale, Welfare and Recreation - morale, welfare, recreation. - Ed.) To learn about the history and get to know the rich culture of the city," it was said in the message.
Destroyer Commander Christopher Petro said the visit is "a great opportunity to strengthen our naval partnership with a NATO ally," so the US ship's crew is looking forward to serving as US ambassadors in Istanbul and "appreciating the culture, history and hospitality of the local people."
Recall that the American destroyer USS Porter entered the Black Sea on October 30 to participate in exercises with NATO allies and partners in the region. Since arriving in the Black Sea, the ship has conducted maneuvering exercises with the Blue Ridge-class command ship USS Mount Whitney, the flagship of the US Sixth Fleet of the Henry J. Kaiser class USNS John Lenthall (T-AO 189), as well as ships of the Bulgarian, Romanian, Turkish and Ukrainian fleets.
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[ColonelCassad] 1. After the communication of the parties with Shoigu, it was announced that the hostilities had ceased and the parties continued negotiations. Both sides confirmed a decrease in the intensity of clashes by the night of November 17. However, there are still reports of sporadic border gunfights, where Azeri troops invaded Armenia.
2. Armenia has not sent a written request to the CSTO on the use of articles of the organization's charter, having limited itself to verbal appeals that do not oblige anyone to anything. All the same line from the cycle "recognize Karabakh, but we ourselves will not recognize it." Now "We want help from the CSTO, but we will not send the corresponding paper to the CSTO." This once again reminds of who exactly is in power in Armenia and how much they are concerned about the issues of sovereignty and Armenian interests.
3. Armenia recognized 15 200x fighting per day + from 6 to 12 prisoners of war. Azerbaijan is hiding its losses, but judging by the videos published, it has at least several killed and wounded, plus several destroyed pieces of equipment. Basically, a penny price for the occupied territories. It is quite obvious that the tactics of squeezing out the territories on the border from the Armenians will continue, because sooner or later Pashinyan will be knocked out and the moment for territorial acquisitions may be lost, so we must take advantage of the moment that Aliyev, with the support of Turkey, is doing.
4. The Armenian opposition once again threatens with protests and demands that Pashinyan and his gang resign in order to end the ongoing disgrace that threatens Armenia with further territorial losses. Pashinyan by itself is not going anywhere, well, except perhaps a trip to the "summit of democracies", where only he was invited from the CSTO countries (which, again, says a lot about Pashinyan himself).
5. Regarding Pashinyan's hopes for international support, it is worth remembering how the West helped a lot during the Karabakh war (a little more than nothing), which was of course a more weighty reason than the loss of pieces of territory by the Armenians on the border.
As a result, in 2020, the remnants of Karabakh were taken under the tutelage of the Russian Federation. But as practice shows, this did not stop the holding of anti-Russian rallies in Armenia. It is interesting how many more territories Armenia should lose before the onset of enlightenment in their heads and the realization of the simple fact that in the Transcaucasus there is no one else to deal with the security issues of Armenia except Russia.
Well, perhaps even to bow to Iran, which in recent months has also somewhat changed its position on Turkish affairs in the Transcaucasus and is flexing its muscles. Well, just like that, you immediately have to run to Moscow for protection.
Armenia asks for military aid from Russia More from Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] In connection with the invasion of Azerbaijan into the territory of Armenia, Armenia officially requested military assistance from Russia in accordance with the 1997 agreement, which obliges Russia to provide military assistance in the event of a threat to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Armenia.
So far, the request has been made orally, but as the Armenians assure, a written request of identical content is being prepared. Of course, any reaction can be made only after an official written request. It is worth noting that just the other day, local Armenian Natsiks held a rally against Russia.
In the course of renewed sporadic hostilities, Azerbaijan continues to squeeze pieces of the border territory from Armenia, taking advantage of the military and political inconsistency of Armenia itself, where an incessant disgrace continues after Pashinyan came to power.
Azerbaijan will take what it can bite off and hold.
1. The secretary of the Armenian Security Council stated that Armenia asks Russia to help protect its territorial integrity within the framework of the 1997 bilateral agreement, a written appeal is being prepared.
2. If it is possible to resolve the current situation through negotiations, it will be talks. If not, then we will ask you to provide Armenia with military equipment so that the Republic of Armenia can resolve the situation by military means - Armen Grigoryan (Head of the Security Council of Armenia)
3. As of 14:30, the situation on the eastern border of the Republic of Armenia remains extremely tense. Local battles are being waged, during which the enemy uses artillery, armored vehicles and small arms of various calibers. Adequate actions are being taken from the Armenian side. The situation is controlled by the armed forces of Armenia (c) the Ministry of Defense of Armenia
4. The Armed Forces of Armenia committed a large-scale provocation on the state border today. As a result, two servicemen of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan were injured, who received medical assistance; nothing threatens their lives.
The enemy fired intensively at the positions of the Azerbaijani army from small arms and grenade launchers of various calibers. In order to prevent the combat activity of the armed forces of Armenia, the units of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan located in the Kelbajar and Lachin directions carried out an immediate operation.
As a result of the measures taken, the Armenian military were disarmed and detained, a large number of weapons of various calibers and ammunition were seized as trophies. (c) Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan
5. Over the past day, the Armenians have 10 killed, six wounded and six prisoners (Azerbaijan claims 22 prisoners). Azerbaijan recognized two wounded (according to the statements of Armenians, Azerbaijanis had killed and wounded). Several pieces of equipment were also damaged.
and the fact we support terrorist infrastructure....
[Jpost] To date, UNRWA services 5.7 million Palestinian refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Is it fund raising time again already? How time does fly.
The UN Relief and Works Agency that services Palestinian refugees is close to collapse due to vicious political attacks and lack of funding, its commissioner, General Philippe Lazzarini, told a donor conference in Brussels.
"Today I have to raise the alarm, because if we do not have a real solution now and for the future, the institution is on the edge of a collapse," Lazzarini told reporters after the meeting.
UNRWA has already struggled to pay its bills, including salaries, he said.
The international pledging conference raised $38 million of what had been a $100 million budgetary shortfall for November and December.
Lazzarini told reporters that UNRWA’s budget has been largely stagnant since 2013, even though the refugee population, as well as its needs, has grown.
Member states have not been willing to back up their statements in support of the organization with actual funds, Lazzarini said.
"Today I called on member states to deliver on their political commitment to UNRWA through commensurate resources," said Lazzarini to reporters.
When he addressed the conference, Lazzarini spoke of the financial crisis and the severity of attacks by UNRWA’s opponents.
"These financial threats are closely connected to the vicious and increasingly frequent political attacks that UNRWA is facing," Lazzarini said.
He did not name the attackers, but they have included Israel, the former Trump administration, prominent US Republicans, and right-wing NGOs.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, urged countries ahead of the conference not to donate to UNRWA.
"UNRWA has long been part of the problem and not part of the solution," Erdan said in a statement from Jerusalem. "Instead of functioning as an agency for humanitarian and educational assistance, the agency functions as a political body that promotes the Hamas narrative [and] allows incitement against, and delegitimization of, Israel to be written into Palestinian [school] textbooks."
Hillel Neuer, who is executive director of the NGO UN Watch, stood outside the UNRWA conference venue in Brussels and handed out information against the agency.
Neuer is among those who has charged that textbooks used in UNRWA schools have promoted antisemitism and incitement against Israel. He also released a study this year that provided examples of antisemitic media posts by some UNRWA staff.
"I’m here urging delegations from the US, EU, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Italy, Australia, Switzerland and many other countries to demand that their money to UNRWA — our taxpayer funds — not go to teachers who glorify Hitler," Neuer said.
Still, Lazzarini added, "No Agency invests more than UNRWA into mitigating these risks."
Those who argue against UNRWA, he charged, are exploiting these issues for political gain at the expense of services to refugees.
"We need to do more to counter these attacks, to expose their political agendas and shield Palestine refugees from the crippling impact of these attacks," said Lazzarini. "We need to address these attacks for what they are."
Lazzarini said that their objective was "to erase the rights of over 5.7 million registered Palestine refugees as enshrined in international law and UN resolutions."
The attackers, he said, want to "weaken the Agency through baseless accusations of politicization and incitement. This is both naïve and dangerous. If these threats are not addressed decisively, they will create a vacuum and a human disaster that this region simply cannot afford."
[MONITOR.CO.UG] Police have said that the twin explosions that hit Kampala at a police checkpoint and Parliamentary Avenue on Tuesday were carried out by three jacket wallahs who died instantly.
Police also said three civilians had been confirmed dead and 33 others injured, although the number of fatalities could be higher than reported so far.
Five of the injured are at death's door, according to police spokesperson, Commissioner of Police Fred Enanga.
Mr Enanga told journalists in Kampala that the police attack was carried out by one suicide bomber who was captured on CCTV camera carrying a backpack before he detonated it. Two civilians went titzup and 17 others were maimed and evacuated from the scene to the hospital.
"The first attack occurred near the check point to the Central Police Station, in Kampala at around 10.03am. The fresh footages on CCTV clearly indicate how a male adult, putting on a black jacket, and carrying a backpack let 'er rip. He died instantly and the spillover effect caused additional injuries to coppers and other civilians who were within a radius of 30 metres. Two other people have been confirmed dead, while 17 others sustained injuries. Those injured were within the section covering the point of impact and the front desk area at the Central Police Station," Mr Enanga said.
The Parliament road attack was conducted by two suicide bombers riding on two boda boda cycle of violences. One civilian was killed in the earth-shattering kaboom that happened at Raj chambers and Jubilee Insurance offices at Parliamentary Avenue.
"Two suicide bombers were clearly captured, on cycle of violences, disguising as boda boda riders. They detonated the bombs they were carrying on themselves, that killed them instantly," he added.
Police said the fourth suicide bomber was pursued and arrested in Bwaise, a Kampala suburb after he was shot and disabled by counter terrorism operatives.
"Although three suicide bombers died in the double kabooms, our CT response teams managed to pursue a fourth suicide kaboomer and intercepted him at Bwaise. They shot and injured him, and immediately after, recovered an unwent kaboom! improvised bomb at Nansana-Katooke, at his home, which the bomb squad, were going to neutralize. We are now pursuing other members of the terror groups," CP Enanga added.
The explosions which happened three minutes apart were carried out by suspected domestic murderous Moslems linked to Allied Democratic Forces ...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels.... (ADF) using Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), according to police.
"It clearly shows that the ADF linked radicalized groups, still have a desire to carry out lethal attacks, on soft targets, with suicide kaboomers and improvised bombs. These kinds of threats remain significant because IEDs and suicide bomb jackets can easily be built from common household items found in local markets, retail shops and supermarkets," Mr Enanga added.
The attacks follow two blasts last month -- a bus explosion in Mpigi District that maimed many people and a bombing at a roadside eatery in Komamboga in the capital Kampala that killed one woman.
[MONITOR.CO.UG] Police said Tuesday that they arrested a suspected jacket wallah who allegedly tried to blow up Nansana Town in Central Uganda, moments after three of his colleagues (suicide bombers) killed at least three civilians in a twin bombing in the capital, Kampala.
Colleagues? That would make him Allied Democratic Forces, too.
Police spokesperson, Mr Fred Enanga said the force’s Counter-Terrorism (CT) operatives November 16 ’’quickly discovered another man only identified as Moze who intended to detonate a fourth jacket-bomb in Uganda.’’
"Although three suicide bombers died in the double kabooms, our CT response teams managed to pursue a fourth suicide kaboomer and intercepted him at Bwaise. They shot and injured him, and immediately after, recovered an unwent kaboom! improvised bomb at Nansana-Katooke B Wamala Ward, at his home, which the bomb squad, were going to neutralize. We are now pursuing other members of the terror groups," CP Enanga told journalists at the police headquarters in Naguru, Kampala.
[JPost] just some random building the Juice Atrocity targeted, right? Nothing to see here?
One of the missiles was shot down and no losses were reportedly caused. still trying to squeegee up the remains?
The IDF fired two missiles from the Golan Heights towards an empty building south of Damascus on Tuesday night, according to the Syrian state news agency SANA.
We’re to take their word that it’s nothing more than an empty baby milk factory?
One of the missiles was shot down and no losses were caused according to the report. It is unclear as of yet if the missiles were fired from an aircraft or were surface-to-surface missiles.
The latest strike comes a little over a week after two Syrian soldiers were injured and material damage was caused in an alleged Israeli airstrike targeting sites along the coast of Syria and in the center of the country.
A military source told SANA at the time that an Israeli airstrike was carried out from north of Beirut, targeting sites in the central and coastal region of Syria, adding that the majority of the incoming missiles were intercepted. Initial reports by Syrian sources indicated that the strikes targeted locations near Homs in western Syria and Tartus on the coast.
A woman was injured and a number of houses were damaged in Hermel in northeastern Lebanon due to shrapnel from the interceptions of Israeli missiles by Syrian air defenses, according to Lebanon's National News.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Alexander Kots
[KP] With great professional interest, I awaited reports from Western journalists from a refugee camp on the border with Poland. I remember the Syrian government staged an attraction of unprecedented openness after the massive missile strike that the United States and its allies launched across the country. The reason then was the alleged use of chemical weapons by Assad's army in the city of Duma.
After he was freed from terrorists, Damascus sent all interested journalists there. Without unnecessary accreditations, without (lo and behold!) Escorts from the Ministry of Information, without the "tails" of intelligence officers. Work? I don’t want to! Look for evidence of the regime's treachery. Or, on the contrary, the provocations of the militants.
But representatives of major media brands have been doing anything but finding the truth about the chemical attack. They were more interested in the "bombing of schools and hospitals" than witnesses to the staged "sarin poisoning" at a local field hospital. We then found them (the witnesses), and the Western media read a prepared mantra about the atrocities of the Assad regime. Actually, we did not expect anything else then. We got used to it.
European reporters in Belarus did not disappoint either. Minsk, too, apparently decided to play free journalism, and now in the border zone, against the background of barbed Polish wire under the jets of water cannons and clouds of tear gas with microphones, CNN and BBC journalists are standing. I even held my breath. How they will get out?
"You see migrants (that's the word, not refugees) throwing stones and bricks at the police force," says Steve Rosenberg, BBC correspondent.
This is chaos that has no end. And this is very similar to a provocation. It seems that on this side of the border a decision was made to provoke a response from Poland and the EU. And with this picture, Alexander Lukashenko wants to show the world the image of a heartless and inhuman Europe. Belarus will not fail to use this image.
Bravo! Of course, I do not approve of the violent actions of some of the refugees, but it was necessary to ignore the fact that about two thousand people who were deceived by the hospitality of the European Union have been spending the night practically on the street for almost a week to the accompaniment of Polish loudspeakers and strobe lights.
Here, unprepared people will easily lose their nerves. At home, they were promised an unhindered journey to Germany through Minsk for their money. And then some "cosmonauts" with cannons stood in the way. Of course, those who are tired of trembling in frail tents at night take out their anger at them.
But Steve Rosenberg didn't go that far. This would spoil the previously prepared picture, in which tons of water are poured out into the frost on people only because Lukashenka wants it. How else to explain to the audience the actions of the Poles, so as not to expose the European Union in an unfavorable light.
Every year, by the way, about 700,000 refugees receive citizenship in the EU per year, most of whom came to the Old World through Turkey. This is about 2,000 people a day. As much as it is now freezing on the Polish-Belarusian border. Erdogan, apparently, did not want to show Europe as inhuman - so they let him in.
Aleksandr Kots is prior service Russian airborne and a writer for Komsomol Pravda
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Russian garbage agitprop. I love how it's supposedly Poland who is "heartless" while Putin's cockholster Lukashenko is the one not providing shelter. They're in Belarus; they were taken to Belarus by that government; they're not the Poles' problem.
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I think I can unravel this really clumsy machine translation, but Google really struggles with the old кто кого. Maybe try Yandex?
Who exactly is the object of the writer's sarcasm -- the CNN and BBC liars? Lukashenka? Erdogan?
Kinda hard to take anyone's side here, when you consider the cast of poltroons* and blackguards* involved
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On a lighter note, perhaps when they take the feed down, YouTube could do the Soviet thing and switch to pre-programmed acceptable entertainment for the masses.
The USSR always reverted to Swan Lake. Maybe for this trial YouTube-Ministry of Truth could switch to a sendup of Tom Stoppard's sendup on Shakespeare: "Rosenbaum and Grosskreutz are Dead”
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Nigeria's police have released 11 people kidnapped by militants during a special operation in Delta State, according to the press service of the department.
It is reported that on November 14, a group of militants in military uniform attacked a bus and seized all the passengers they took away in an unknown direction. Nevertheless, the police officers managed to find the bandits and free the abducted people. It is alleged that the militants themselves fled the scene after learning about the approach of operatives.
As reported by IA REGNUM , on November 15, unknown armed militants killed 15 civilians in northwestern Nigeria. The attacks occurred in two municipalities in Sokoto state.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[REGNUM] In Ugra, frosts are expected below -30 Degrees C
In Ugra, on the night of November 19, frost will hit -30 degrees Celsius. This was reported by the Khatnty-Mansiysk Center for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring.
On Thursday night, November 18, the temperature will drop to -21 degrees C, in the afternoon it is expected to rise to -20 degrees C.
On the night of November 19, frost will hit -28 degrees C, wind gusts up to 11 meters per second. During the day it "gets warmer" to -16 degrees C.
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[Red State] The Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States are not coronations, despite how the Democrat Party likes to treat these roles. But in the bigger picture, the Vice Presidency of Kamala Harris is what all the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion measures that this administration champions and pushes down the throats of Americans look like.
[Times of Israel] A new documentary chronicles a piece of history that seems impossible to comprehend, detailing a verboten relationship at Auschwitz between a Jewish prisoner and an Austrian SS officer.
[Washington Examiner] There's a stunning assertion in a new Washington Post article about how Democrats view the current political situation. "Privately, many administration officials and allies contend that the state of affairs cannot get worse," the paper says, "thinking that Biden and the Democrats have hit their floor in negative approval ratings."
[Politico] As President Joe Biden weighs whether to impose a diplomatic boycott on next year’s Winter Olympics in China, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill want to force his hand.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
[Daily Caller] A former Obama economic adviser has become a prominent Democratic critic of the Biden administration’s handling of the inflation surge.
Green New Deal wind turbine maintenance. 
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...Governor of Lebanon'scentral bank, Banque du Liban since April 1993. Salameh was appointed Governor by decree, approved by the Council of Ministers for a renewable term of six years. He was reappointed for four consecutive terms; in 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2017. Salameh chairs the Banque du Liban Central Council, the Higher Banking Commission, the AML/CFT Special Investigation Commission and the Capital Markets Authority. Salameh is a member of the board of governors at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and at the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF). Salameh is the longest-serving central bank governor in the world....
[WorldViewWeekend] Chinglai Yang and Ling Ye are faculty members in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at 
Why is it always Georgia ? 
...Arabic for 
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...Arabic for 
...The word 
[ZERO] House Republicans in the Judiciary Committee have sent a Tuesday letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland after an FBI whistleblower provided 'a protected disclosure' revealing that "the FBI's Counterterrorism Division is compiling and categorizing threat assessments related to parents, including a document directing FBI personnel to use a specific "threat tag" to track potential investigations."
Chilean Mauser with sight elevation at approx 1200-1500m (difficult to tell in the photo, but about halfway up the rail). Notice the shooters are in the open, with no apparent concern for return fire. 
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him...
...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels....
