[Bloomberg] More people are back in the City of London than at any time since the government imposed a lockdown in March last year as Covid-19 ripped through the country. Even as the new omicron variant spreads, almost 80% of workers in the financial district were back at their desks on Tuesday and Thursday of last week, according to data compiled by Google, which tracks the locations of its users.
Christmas parties may have been encouraging more people to come to the area, with bars and restaurants thronged with revelers midweek -- but firms are starting to cancel gatherings, or scale back their party plans, in the face of the new variant.
[FoxBusinessNews] Strategy aims to leverage entire U.S. government to fight corruption.
"Corruption threatens United States national security, economic equity, global antipoverty and development efforts, and democracy itself," Biden said in a statement on June 3, 2021, as he established a fight against corruption as a core national security interest of the United States. "But by effectively preventing and countering corruption and demonstrating the advantages of transparent and accountable governance, we can secure a critical advantage for the United States and other democracies."
The strategy involves five pillars: modernizing, coordinating and resourcing U.S. government efforts to fight corruption; curbing illicit finance; holding corrupt actors accountable; preserving and strengthening the multilateral anti-corruption architecture; and improving diplomatic engagement and leveraging foreign assistance resources to fight corruption.
The strategy comes after federal departments and agencies conducted a review "to take stock of existing U.S. Government anti-corruption efforts and to identify and seek to rectify persistent gaps in the fight against corruption."
The strategy lays out a few different types of corruption:
Grand corruption: when political elites steal large sums of public funds or otherwise abuse power for personal or political advantage.
Administrative corruption: the abuse of entrusted power for private gain — usually by low- to mid-level government officials — in interactions with citizens and the private sector, including to skirt official regulations and extort citizens in exchange for their basic services.
Kleptocracy: a government controlled by officials who use political power to appropriate the wealth of its nation. Can include state capture.
State capture: when private entities improperly and corruptly influence a country’s decision-making process for their own benefit.
Strategic corruption: when a government weaponizes corrupt practices as a tenet of its foreign policy.
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Plugs "The Big Guy" leading an anti-corruption push is about as credible as his deranged son leading a 'Just Say No to Drugs' (and Depravity Debauchery Pr0n Hookers and Money-Laundering) campaign
[BlockClubChicago] Four volunteers with My Block, My Hood, My City were robbed while hanging up Christmas lights in Grand Boulevard on Saturday, the nonprofit and police confirmed.
The volunteers were decorating a home near 48th Street and Martin Luther King Drive as part of the nonprofit's annual "Be Part of the Light" event, which aims to decorate homes, buildings and light poles for the holidays along a 12-mile stretch of King Drive.
Around 3:50 p.m., four women ages 30-34 were decorating a home near 48th and King Drive when multiple people pulled up in a white SUV and got out, demanding the women's belongings before fleeing with a purse, wallet and a fanny pack, police said.
To make matters worse, the Christmas tree the group saw lit up in Washington Park was burned overnight — for the second year in a row
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48th and MLK is just about the worst possible neighborhood in Chicago. Does these people's naivete know no bounds at all?
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Four volunteers with My Block, My Hood, My City were robbed while hanging up Christmas lights
I am beginning to think that the fundamental building block of the Universe is not hydrogen, but irony.
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For those following the heyjackass.com website, neighborhood in article is known as 'Grand Boulevard', not to be confused with 'Grand Crossing' neighborhood.
Both are dangerous to human life, however.
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[Townhall] Days after news came out that Vice President Kamala Harris would be losing not only her top adviser, Symone Sanders, but two other staffers, The Washington Post ran a piece noting the departures "[reignite] questions about her leadership style—and her future ambitions."
The article comes less than a month after CNN ran a brutal story on the "entrenched dysfunction and lack of focus" by the VP and her staff.
In the report published Saturday, WaPo details how former staffers who worked with her prior to her becoming VP, said a "consistent problem" with the Democrat is that she would "refuse to wade into briefing materials prepared by staff members, then berate employees when she appeared unprepared."
"It’s clear that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work," one former staffer told the Post. "With Kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it’s not really clear why."
One defense of Harris came from Sean Clegg, a political consultant who once advised Harris—but in doing so he compared her to Donald Trump.
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Turns out after you sleep your way to the top, people expect you to actually perform. Combine this with affirmative action hire, and is it any wonder she's incompetent? She's vice president, an easy job if there ever was one.
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Yet more evidence of the effort to push her to accept the SCOTUS nomination and the back-channel Pelosi lifetime insider-information and special access awards. The demokrats and the Central Committee at Kalorama know they have a rapidly declining puppet show in Bidet et al, and the Cackle-Jackal has now been seen as a huge impediment to 2022 and beyond. They know the additional scrutiny on even their best voter fraud can't cover the mega-gap in the mid-terms, let alone 2024. So the faucet of insider stories and negative publicity will slowly increase until even a dullard like Kamala sees the dead end. The problem is she is just a tenacious and obdurate assh*le who knows she will be President if she just hides and waits...I look for something criminal to be revealed an insider hint piece and the hardball threat behind closed doors of a criminal impeachment to kick her into accepting h SCOTUS deal. The collateral damage to the whole democrat brand is mounting, but they are facing a Hobson's choice.
[Breitbart] A brawl broke out between rap groups Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Three 6 Mafia on stage during a Verzuz rap battle at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California, Thursday night. The fight came after a member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony called Three 6 Mafia "devil worshippers" and suggested the group’s name is a nod to "the mark of the beast."
The brawl — which caused the show to stop — ensued shortly after Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Bizzy Bone accused Three 6 Mafia of "mocking" him, according to a report by TMZ.
[MAIL] The CEO of an online mortgage lender fired 900 of his employees in a brutal Zoom call - then slammed them for being being so lazy they effectively 'stole' from customers.
Vishal Garg axed around nine per cent of Better.com's workforce last Wednesday, including its entire diversity, equity and inclusion team, which deals with complaints about racism and sexism in the workplace.
Garg told them bluntly: 'This isn't news that you're going to want to hear...If you're on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off. Your employment here is terminated effective immediately.'
The 43-year-old said that the 'market has changed' meaning savage cuts to the $7 billion company's workforce were needed to avert disaster.
One angry worker filmed the call and shared it online, complete with a moment where they cursed at the CEO as he confirmed the mass 'termination' of employees at from the Manhattan-headquartered mortgage provider.
The unidentified male worker could be heard to say 'F**k you dude. Are you f**king kidding me?'
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Vishal Garg axed around nine per cent of Better.com's workforce last Wednesday, including its entire diversity, equity and inclusion team, which deals with complaints about racism and sexism in the workplace.
Popcorn, anyone?
Mike
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See if you can identify the potential source of Vishal's unexplained wealth.
Vishal Garg is the Founder and CEO of Better Mortgage, working to make the mortgage process simpler, faster and much much better for all Americans. Mr. Garg is also the Founding Partner of 1/0 Capital, a credit and financial technology incubator where he has been a member of the founding team and currently serves as Chairman of Climb Credit, The Number, and Phoenix Holdings. Previously, he was co-head and Managing Partner, ARAM ABS Group ($6 B+ assets) and the Founder and President & CFO of MyRichUncle (2005 NASDAQ IPO), which he founded at the age of 21 and built into the fourth largest private student loan originator in the US. Prior to MyRichUncle, Vishal was an analyst in the Mergers & Acquisition dept. at Morgan Stanley, a frontier emerging markets portfolio manager for the Strategies Fund. He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and a Deans Scholar at NYU Stern where he graduated with highest honors.
Are we looking at repeat of the Obama 2010-2013 Housing market style crash headed our way?
THE LAST CYCLE
Relax Loan qualification rules, Low ball home Interest rates, Hot market, Home prices increase 15% to 30 % above normal, Fed's increases loan rate, Buying cools off, job market sucks, 8.2+/- Million foreclosures over the 2 to 3 year cycle.
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^ The only parties who didn't get their fingers burned last time were the bankers who should still be in jail today. Everyone else involved will be less likely to play the game.
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[Aljazeera] Future pandemics could be even more lethal than COVID-19, so lessons learned from the outbreak must not be squandered and the world should ensure it is prepared for the next viral onslaught, one of the creators of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine says.
Sarah Gilbert, a professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford, said in the Richard Dimbleby Lecture that the world should make sure it is better prepared for the next virus, according to the BBC.
The novel coronavirus has killed 5.26 million people across the world, according to Johns Hopkins University, wiped out trillions of dollars in economic output and turned life upside down for billions of people.
"The truth is, the next one could be worse. It could be more contagious, or more lethal, or both," Gilbert said. "This will not be the last time a virus threatens our lives and our livelihoods."
"The advances we have made, and the knowledge we have gained, must not be lost," she said.
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"The advances we have made, and the knowledge we have gained, must not be lost," she said.
Yes, with 'transmissibility' now enabled, research funding of this mysterious function-gaining 'wet market' scourge must continue. A global treaty is urgently needed.
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Considering how much they botched this one and only seem to double down on things that don't work, maybe its time to examine what people did where it impacted the least and actually learn something.
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A "really" rough draft I have been on and off again working on since 2020.
COVID-19 LESSONS I LEARNED
a) Know your problem before running off half cocked.
b) Only let the non-political aligned experts define the problem and make recommendations.
c) State Governors and President should make decisions based on proven facts and data. Mayors and local politicians should BUTT OUT
Be careful in selecting your experts.
Do not use experts that:
a) previously have a bad track record for accuracy,
b) have only flown a desk and have not been actively hands on with such situations,
c) tend to pander to Politicians and elitists with global agendas,
d) rely of anonymously written computer models,
e) and /or love Media Notoriety.
Establish how figures will be collected from the start.
a) Establish who is responsible for the figures.
b) Establish a standardized constant publicly understandable way of presenting figures that paint a clear timely picture. Always start off with weekly figures, before list total figures.
c) If issues change, or issues arise, then state why, explain and move on.
d) If any data were deliberately falsified by person(s) involved in the collection, they should be outed and criminally charged.
e) Always show Infected, cured and death rates together.
f) Remember wild predictions only cause Panic.... Never use them.
g) Show which demographic groups are being more seriously affected and explain why?
h) Show what environments are causing the most seriously issues.
i) Never allow media, politicians or others to sell panic over Facts for revenue & attention.
j) Any Federal, State or media person spewing hype and panic over facts should be exposed and removed from public access.
Media Handling and Media Updates
a) The updates should NEVER be allowed to become a Political Circus.
b) Call out all violators that publish misleading facts.
c) Refuse to answer future questions from repeated violators and openly explain why.
d) All questions should be related to Current Known data, not predictions.
e) All Predictions must be treated as non-gratta.
f) Explain how it is being addressed and what the next steps are in the plan.
g) Avoid politics and politically based agendas of those focused on Blaming and not solutions.
h) If a reporter presents inaccurate misleading open ended data in a question, point it out BEFORE answering, or rephrase the question to properly answer it.
i) If a media person goes on a blame game agenda call them out for it.
j) Do NOT feed those 2nd guessing actions for personal or political reasons with answers.
k) Do not tolerate a person or media outlet that is trying use a press briefing to become a celebrity or cause a news worthy political agenda spectacle. Warn them and openly remind them they there to collect news, not become part of the news. If they continue, terminate the press briefing and post the facts to the official website along with an explanation why.
l) Hold a Closeout debriefing of official findings and mistakes made in handling the process. Post this on a publicly accessible website.
m) Develop and post a written set of Rules of Decorum expected of all media and persons present. State if not followed then what action will be taken.
Dealing with Counter-Productive Politicians
a) Play no favorites. Focus on solutions and containment.
b) Remember you are dealing with a Pandemic NOT helping someones re-election.
c) No one or political party member is immune from having to answer for politicizing the issue.
d) Use the Subject Matter Experts to call out the Political Media Hounds when they are wrong.
The President will openly communicate with the leaders of both major parties.
a) His staff will ensure they will be provided what is being done and will be done on a daily basis.
b) Him or the failing staff member(s) will be the sole Whipping Boy for Mistakes.
c) But all involved parties will share in any good News and successes.
d) Always use and quote the experts by name and apply what is recommended, if Feasible and Constitutional.
e) Proven Unified Talking Points. KEEP IT SIMPLE & EXPLAIN IT SIMPLY AS POSSIBLE. Use analogies to help explain complicated issues.
f)Require both party leaders to keep their extremists in check.
Seriously, that's an excellent playbook. A pity that our chicken little moronic leaders can't execute on it....they've painted themselves into a corner now and can't begin to get out sans losing face -- and power, power, power
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As near as I can tell, we lost over half a million people here in the US because we wouldn't treat this like all other varieties of viral pneumonia.
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Simply to refrain from reporting stupid predictions and idle projections would be a vast improvement by both the government and the media.
In reporting deaths from whatever, always report deaths from all other sources at the same time. Include with every report the average deaths / day historically.
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^ Context. Aren't they always whining about how this or that criticism of some stupid thing some lib said "lacks context?"
Riiiiiight...
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[Quartz] The omicron variant is spreading fast. According to the World Health Organization, at least 38 countries, on six continents, have confirmed cases of the new variant. There is still quite a bit we don’t know about omicron—including whether it is more contagious than delta, and if it is more likely to escape vaccine protection.
So far, we have some indications that both conditions might be true, and that omicron appears to present a higher risk of reinfection for people who already had covid-19. At the moment, delta—which is more contagious than previous variants—is still the prevailing variant around the world, and with omicron increasing and winter underway in the northern hemisphere, it’s again time to mask up properly.
In other words, you might want to put away your cloth masks and turn to N95.
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It is evident that the atheists and agnostics on the left have a new religion: covidism which they will live in forever
Notice how news out of Africa about this new variation is almost completely absent especially after that doctor talked about how mild its effects were
The worsening drought is top of mind for environmental groups who have started to pressure Governor Newsom to curtail the rights of heavy industry in the state...
“It is unthinkable that serial water abusers like Big Ag and Big Oil can reap billions of dollars in profits...” said Alexandra Nagy, Food & Water Watch’s California Director.
On Monday, Nagy’s organization, along with nearly 50 others, urged Newsom to use his executive powers to ... place a moratorium on new oil and gas operations, factory farms ....
“COVID has been such an illustrative example of what’s possible in a true emergency situation,” said Nagy.
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Crowder made an interesting point. With each variant do we have data on hospitalizations and deaths? Any kind of sane policy planning should be using that info.
With each variant do we have data on hospitalizations and deaths?
The current PCR type tests don't exactly show which variant is responsible for a positive. The genome has to be tested separately and this is not nearly as fast as the PCR test. The USA has lagged behind other countries like South Africa and the UK in doing this. Most likely the Moronic variant was worldwide by the time South Africa broke the news.
The ongoing deaths from whatever variant are usually omitted by the MSM in its hysterical hype.
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[BBC] A dissident former leader of Colombia's Farc rebels has been killed in an ambush in Venezuela, local media reported on Sunday.
Hernán Darío Velásquez, nicknamed El Paisa, was reportedly shot dead in Venezuela's Apure state.
His death has not been officially confirmed and the Colombian army said it had no knowledge of the killing.
Local media have speculated that mercenaries may have killed Velásquez, seeking rewards for his capture.
Colombian authorities told El Tiempo newspaper that they would not confirm his death until officials had seen his body. A spokesperson for Colombian President Iván Duque told Reuters news agency that his office was seeking more information.
The Farc rebels were a Marxist group that waged a bitter war against the Colombian government for over 50 years, before eventually calling a ceasefire in 2016.
[Just The News] Analysts urge strategy to credibly threaten to "render Taiwan not just unattractive if ever seized by force, but positively costly to maintain" by destroying its semiconductor industry.
The U.S. military no longer scares Beijing to the degree it once did, so other deterrents must be used, analysts said.
The United States might lose a war against China over Taiwan, and therefore should adopt a "scorched-Earth" plan for Taiwan to destroy its own industries if Beijing attacks, according to analysts writing in a U.S. Army publication.
The recommendations appear in the winter issue of Parameters, a quarterly publication from the U.S. Army War College.
Coauthors Jared McKinney and Peter Harris note that the U.S. military no longer scares Beijing to the degree that it once did.
BLUF:
The best way to forestall a Chinese assault on Taiwan is not via military threats, but by persuading Beijing that an attack would backfire, McKinney and Harris noted.
"The United States and Taiwan should lay plans for a targeted scorched-earth strategy that would render Taiwan not just unattractive if ever seized by force, but positively costly to maintain," the authors wrote. "This could be done most effectively by threatening to destroy facilities belonging to the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the most important chipmaker in the world and China's most important supplier."
China also should be warned of potential domestic unrest.
China has secretly signed agreement that will ensure Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing end-users receive substantially reduced 'post conflict' pricing and free delivery.
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The United States might lose a war against China over Taiwan, and therefore should adopt a "scorched-Earth" plan for Taiwan to destroy its own industries if Beijing attacks, according to analysts writing in a U.S. Army publication.
The Taiwanese may already be considering that, according to a couple of other articles I've seen. The Chinese also have to consider the possibility that losing Taiwan - a US ally in one form or another since the late 1930s - could result in a thorough wipeout of whatever party was in power here when it happens, and us deciding to throw the environmental protesters out the window and build our own plants.
I still believe that the PRC has no desire to rule over the blasted rubble that would be Taiwan after any invasion, no matter how well planned, so they will do everything in their power to walk in quietly.
Mike
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Scorched earth means you destroy your own territory, so your enemy can't use it.
The French coined a better word, that deals with destroying your enemy's territory, so your enemy can't use it: chevauchée
Also most commonly associated with the phrase fire and sword.
The example in the article (Sweden) is more in line with the traditional concept of scorched earth, where you make the cost of invading territory you own too high.
In the concept being discussed, the US would turn its power on an ally as a strategic deterrence.
The very idea wouldn't give the Chinese pause, but could give them cause to dismiss the seriousness of the US's commitment to defend Taiwan
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The scorched earth conceit is retarded. The Chinese are obsessed with reclaiming Taiwan and have been for more than half a century -- Kissinger said that was all they wanted to talk about back in 1971. Has f-all to do with whether Taiwan even has a tech industry.
That this is even discussed is still more evidence that We Are Ruled By Morons
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As the credibility of US deterrence rapidly declines, and the specter of a kinetic invasion looms ever larger in the visible media, the appeal of compromise and lucre will make a soft-invasion most likely in the next 6 months perhaps...with all the face-saving blathering possible to assuage the patriots and nay-sayers. Perhaps even a "compromise" brokered by Bidet to put a US face on the surrender/victory. But make no mistake, in the domestic Middle Kingdom press, it ill be a massive victory and confirmation of their world power supremacy in their eyes!
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"...could result in a thorough wipeout of whatever party was in power here when it happens, and us deciding to throw the environmental protesters out the window and build our own plants."
Maybe the earth we need to scorch is far to the east of Taiwan?
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and us deciding to throw the environmental protesters out the window and build our own plants.
Given that three of the big chip makers are building new factories or expanding current ones in the U.S., it looks like the our own piece is already underway.
[AlAhram] Æthiopia's military this week regained control of territory previously claimed by Tigrayan rebels, a potential validation of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's decision to join soldiers to conflict-hit areas. Yet how the government scored its wins and what they mean for an eventual outcome in the year-old war remain points of fierce debate as fighting enters a new, uncertain phase.
Just a month ago, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) rebel group appeared to be on the offensive, claiming to have captured Dessie and Kombolcha, towns on a key highway headed towards the capital Addis Ababa. They reportedly reached as far as Shewa Robit, around 220 kilometres (135 miles) northeast of Addis Ababa by road.
But after Abiy announced last week he would lead operations in the field, the government announced a string of victories and the rebels acknowledged making adjustments to their strategy.
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[DW] DW is probing "serious allegations" of antisemitism posted privately online by DW employees that were reported in German media. The broadcaster is also halting cooperation with Jordan's TV Roya over antisemitic content.
Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international broadcaster, has established an independent investigation into a press report on antisemitic remarks made by some members of the editorial staff at DW's Arabic service.
Director General Peter Limbourg has emphasized that there is a zero-tolerance policy toward antisemitism at DW.
"The private statements made by some DW employees that were quoted in the press are incompatible with the values which we all stand for at DW," he said.
The investigation will examine comments by DW employees in other media and on their personal social media profiles.
"To carry out the independent investigation, DW was able to appoint two specialists with a particularly high-level expertise for this task: former German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and psychologist Ahmad Mansour. I thank them both for their contribution in bringing a prompt resolution to what has been a difficult time for DW."
ROYA TV PARTNERSHIP HALTED
Germany's foreign broadcaster also said it was stopping cooperation with one of its Middle Eastern partners, Jordan's Roya TV, after discovering that the station was spreading antisemitic comments and cartoons.
"We are truly sorry that we did not notice these disgusting images," DW's managing director in charge of distribution, Guido Baumhauer, said. "We will now even more critically review our partner selection internally, especially with regard to antisemitism and racism."
DW also said it regretted its previous assessment that Roya TV was not anti-Israel.
SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The investigation follows a report published on Tuesday by the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung.
The paper reported that members of DW's Arabic service and a freelance trainer had posted antisemitic comments on social media as well as in other media outlets in recent years.
The remarks were posted on private social media accounts, with some posts later deleted.
[TheBurningPlatform] The Omicron® virus has arrived right on schedule and, of course, quite propitiously for those promoting The Great Reset®. Fortunately, for them, each new wave has its own trademarked classification designed for maximum advertising impact within the ever-expanding COVID® brand. Accordingly, the Omicron® campaign comes just in time for kids getting jabbed and will potentially distract from the spate of gift-wrapped Faucigate books lovingly laid under living room trees this Christmas. Furthermore, Omicron®, will likely be used to conceal Covid vaccine failure and convince the Double-Jabbed to take that third swing.
As I’ve stated before, the Elite won’t turn back now. They are completely committed. This is because the Covid offensive either ends up with them lined up against walls or the We the Plebeians in digital chains.
Many reading these words were, certainly, in varying degrees, concerned at the announcement of Omicron®. But, the concern was not likely over the “virus”, per se, but regarding the reactions to the propaganda by governmental agencies and dupes alike. This is how incrementalism works: trauma and reward are the tools utilized by tyrants to train their subjects. Sadly, the fear-based lockdown and pressure-release method has most people responding like puppets to masterfully manipulated strings.
It seems Covidism has, indeed, become an international Punch and Judy Show as the puppet masters have created a new reality. But, to be completely honest, the new reality was stage-crafted years before Covid.
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Der König was addled and sold,
Rumpelstilzchen rapacious and bold.
Oh, how fiercely they yearned
For your firstborn, and burned
To turn cold... into flu... into gold!
Um... how about "Columbia, the Germ, and Emotion?"
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Once vaxed always vaxed. They would put people in camps as in Australia. No mellowing here. They have bolted down the bait and think nothing of it. All who refuse cause Covid deaths. They are more angry and strident than ever. This has only gotten much worse. You speak of the country being polarized. Well here is a perfect example.
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Dorothy Britton ...
"Ziegfeld Girl,"
"The Most Beautiful Showgirl in the World!"
Dorothy won 'Miss United States' then onto the 2nd 'Miss Universe' (as Miss New York) Beauty Pageant in 1927 as the winner. Was a Ziegfeld Girl, Earl Carroll's Sketchbook and Vanities featured star. As with most Ziegfeld Girls she did magazine ads such as Blue=Jay foot treatment and the Motorcar 'Viking 8' as well as posed for ACJ (Alfred Cheney Johnson) also in nudes. After her marriage she retired from show business and raised a family. Dorothy had two children and a sister named Ethel Merriam.
It was reported she worked as a 'Saleslady' in a New York Dress House before winning 'Miss Universe" and later doing 'Red-Cross' work during the mid 1940's. She was in a few legal battles with being arrested for indecent exposure during a Vanities performance as well as her husband Cliff's business doings and his ex-wifes alimony non payments.
Birth Name: Dorothy Katherine Britton
Birth Date: 5/28/1907-2/8/1977
Birthplace: Jersey City, N.J. USA
Married: Clifford Ray Parliman (WWI Aviator, secretly married in early 1932).
Parents: William Britton and Martha Molyneux
Clubs/Theaters: Amsterdam Theatre | Earl Carroll Theatre |
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Dorothy looks like an angel but she's got the devil in her eyes.
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^^^^
Here, use the stuff in the Blue Devil Detection Kit on the pic and see if she was a little devil in reality.
(Please post results for all to know)
[IsraelTimes] Guard at Te’enim Checkpoint seriously maimed when hit by vehicle coming from Paleostinian side; suspected assailant said ’neutralized’
An Israeli security guard was seriously maimed in a suspected car-ramming attack at a West Bank checkpoint early Monday morning, security officials said. The driver of the vehicle was shot and "neutralized."
The incident occurred at about 1.30 a.m at the Te’enim checkpoint near the West Bank city of Tulkarem. The guard was hit by a vehicle traveling from the Paleostinian side, the officials said.
Security forces at the checkpoint shot and "neutralized" the driver, the officials said. Hebrew media reports said he was killed.
Magen David Adom medics said the guard, 34, was in a serious, but stable condition with head and chest injuries and was conscious. He was evacuated to the Tel Hashomer hospital near Tel Aviv.
The incident comes just over a day after two Border Police officers rubbed out a Paleostinian assailant after he stabbed a Jewish civilian in a suspected terror attack near the Old City of Jerusalem.
[IsraelTimes] Eric Zemmour, whose anti-migrant and anti-Islam comments have drawn comparisons to former US president Trump, announced his candidacy with the slogan, ’Impossible is not French’
Anti-racism activists were beaten up Sunday as “far-right”
former French TV pundit Eric Zemmour held his first presidential campaign rally near Gay Paree, a few days after he formally declared his candidacy in a video highlighting his anti-migrant and anti-Islam views.
Related: Deutsche Welle has video, and identifies the antiracists as SOS Racisme, officially an activist arm of various Socialist political parties across Europe, but in the case of the Norwegian branch both open Maoists and convicted fraudsters.
[MAIL] China's military is on pace to become a 'peer competitor' to the United States' armed forces as the country moves to amass nuclear weapons at 'breakneck' speed, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned on Saturday.
However he also downplayed the possibility of a new Cold War and emphasized diplomacy and deterrence as the US strategy to compete with the growing economic powerhouse.
Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California, the Pentagon chief devoted much of his nearly hour-long appearance to discussing 'an increasingly assertive and autocratic' China's efforts to upend US dominance in the global order.
Part of that threat includes a goal to amass a thousand nuclear warheads in its arsenal by the end of the decade, Austin said.
'We’ve seen two decades of breakneck modernization by the People’s Liberation Army,' he said, referencing the Chinese military. 'And China’s military is on pace to become a peer competitor to the United States in Asia - and, eventually, around the world.'
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Given that you and be boys at the puzzle palace have failed in your primary responsibility of protecting the continental United States from invasion, why should we care about about justifications for more stuff you'll never use.
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Say what you want about the strategy behind MAD, but it worked for two opponents who both understood there would be no winners. Do you think the CCP thinks that way?
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..when you got a population of 2 billion and can get away with playing loose with bio-weapons, can you be sure?
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China had bases in East Africa in the 1400s IIRC.
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China makes lots of claims about being great explorers, yet no archeological evidence supporting those claims exists. The only diplomatic contact between China and the Roman Empire was the result of Roman merchants trading in (present-day) Vietnam and running into a Chinese ambassador.
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You think there would be at least 4 huts:
One for Skipper and Gilligan
One for the Professor
One for Mr. and Mrs. Howel
One for Ginger and Mary Ann.
[Garowe] Somalia-based al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... hard boyz on Saturday killed two coppers in Mandera, in an ambush that comes after several months in the country, which had been enjoying relative peace and stability.
Authorities in Kenya said the hard boyz ambushed coppers who were riding on a lorry while taking patrols in the region around Rhamu area of Mandera county. The incident happened around 9 am local time.
Several eyewitnesses told the Star that the lorry was on administrative duties as it was also carrying food for officers on the ground when the incident happened. The victims were shot at and sustained multiple gunshot wounds.
According to locals, the hard boyz had been sighted days earlier and were allegedly planting explosives. The al-Shabaab hard boyz first tried to use a rocket-propelled grenade on the lorry but missed prompting them to use rifles.
"They sprayed the lorry as it paced past where they had staged the ambush," an officer said.
A police officer who survived the attack said their driver drove past the scene at high speed amid heavy gunfire.
"Unfortunately we lost two officers and others were maimed. It could have been worse," said the officer.
North Eastern regional police commander Rono Bunei confirmed the incident and said a reinforcement had been sent to the ground to pursue the attackers. The lorry’s tires were deflated but the driver managed to control it for almost 20 kilometers and called for medical help on those injured.
This is the latest such incident to happen in the area in the past months. This has grounded many operations in the expansive county, which has left at least 30 people dead.
The border region has borne the brunt of repeated attacks from the hard boyz who are at times aided by locals. The area is near the Somalia border and the hard boyz usually cross at will and stage attacks before escaping back.
The holy warriors have been attacking places in the region especially in Mandera and Garissa after breaching security zones, which left dozens of civilians and security officials dead or maimed.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] A Nigerian man, Osagie Aigbonohan, was on Friday convicted by the Southwark Crown Court, United Kingdom over his involvement in a romance scam in which he conned several women out of thousands of pounds. This was made known in a statement issued on Saturday by the National Crime Agency.
The 40-year-old Nigerian was said to have used a number of aliases to contact women online through dating and social media sites, and in one case cheated a woman out of nearly £10,000 (about N7.5million at the parallel market).
According to the statement, Aigbonohan used the name ’Tony Eden’, after which he struck up a ten-month relationship with the victim in 2020, via a dating site and persuaded her to lend him money to buy machinery for his business overseas.
The victim reportedly made nine transfers into various accounts operated by the Nigerian under fake identities, with the money eventually being sent into a personal account held by Aigbonohan, which he used for everyday spending.
Also, data recovered from Aigbonohan’s phone showed that he received money from at least eight other victims and had been in contact with over 670 people in total.
The statement said one of the victims was terminally ill, but Aigbonohan continued to pursue her even after she had passed away.
He was arrested in July 2021 and a false driver’s license was found on him at the time. Also it was discovered that he had no legal right to be in the UK, having overstayed his visa from two years ago.
Records showed that despite living in Abbey Wood, London, the Nigerian will spend victim’s money in locations across London, Manchester and Glasgow.
NCA officer’s conducted a search on the culprit's residence where they found a footwear he had purchased with store vouchers that could be linked back to one of the victims.
Aigbonohan was said to have appeared before Southwark Crown Court on Friday, where he pleaded guilty to charges relating to fraud and money laundering.
He will remain in jug until he is sentenced at the same court on 14 January 2022.
Dominic Mugan, NCA Operations Manager, said: "Romance fraud is a particularly cruel crime that impacts victims both emotionally and financially, with victims often feeling like they’re the ones to blame.
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[PoliticsWeb] During the local election campaign Ferial Haffajee wrote about the sad state of her part (and every part) of Johannesburg: litter everywhere, potholes, street lights and traffic lights that don't work, irregular water, irregular power, uncollected rubbish and all the rest of it. When she recited this lament to the ANC she was angrily accused of "nostalgia for the white city".
In today's South Africa it is, of course, politically inadmissible to say that the whites got anything right so instead Ferial recorded sadly how in the years before 1994 there had been lots of bold talk by the UDF about how much better in every respect things would be in the new, liberated South Africa. The developmental state. People's education. Reconstruction and development. The comrades gave such inspiring speeches about these matters...In this election we saw the overwhelmingly Zulu electorate of Umgeni, in KwaZulu-Natal, elect an administration headed by a young white mayor. And, of course, something similar has been happening in the Western Cape for some time. In this election a Cape Town electorate which is overwhelmingly African and Coloured chose a young white man as mayor. For the ANC this is a nightmare come true, with Black and Coloured people electing a white simply because they think he will govern better; and the ANC plummeting to under 19%...The ANC has taught young black South Africans that African government doesn’t work, that their politicians are crooks and that it’s not worth voting. The exact opposite of Mandela’s dream.
Moreover, the party was handed on a plate the richest country in Africa with the best infrastructure, the richest mining industry and the most productive agriculture. Within a generation it was an almost bankrupt country in which very little worked. What to say after that?
As long as the leftist incompetents are in control, there will always be plenty of wreckers, hoarders, kulaks, saboteurs, and counterrevolutionaries to blame for why the Millennium has not yet arrived. It shall ever be thus.
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^Mike, you left out the Trotskyite deviationists. :)
[An Nahar] A Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels 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... accelerated Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the capital and elsewhere in the conflict-stricken country in recent weeks, as government forces advanced in the west coast and the key province of Marib, officials said Sunday.The coalition said it hit military facilities in rebel-held Sanaa and launched airstrikes against Iran's Houthi sock puppets
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[GatewayPundit] On Thursday Dr. Fauci complained publicly about Lara Logan’s comments comparing him to the Nazi doctor. VIDEO at the link.
Following her comments about Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Fox News appearance on Monday, Lara Logan has been noticeably absent from the airwaves this week, having made zero appearances since.
"Has Lara Logan been quietly benched by Fox News? All indications are yes," CNN’s Oliver Darcy pointed out in the Reliable Sources newsletter. "Fox isn’t commenting on the matter, but prior to that Monday appearance, Logan was a mainstay on the network. Now she has disappeared."
Darcy may have a point. Looking into some immediately prior appearances, we found that for the week of November 21 to 27, Logan was on that Sunday on Fox & Friends, and that Friday on The Faulkner Focus. That week the network also aired the Fox Nation "Patriot Awards" show, where Logan was a presenter.
The previous week, Logan was on with Trey Gowdy, Sean Hannity, Fox & Friends, Fox News Primetime, The Five, and America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino, where she spoke with Sandra Smith about terror and promoted her special on Fox Nation. So she regularly appears both on the network’s opinion shows and the dayside news programs.
While Lara Logan is neither a contributor nor host on Fox News Channel, like many Fox Nation personalities she is on the network a lot. Or rather, she usually is. She wasn’t in the days following the Mengele comments.
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She isn't wrong, therefore she must be silenced.
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Like Dr Angelique Coetzee who said her patients have extremely mild cases of Omicro, Logan is an evil, white South African who must not be believed. The crisis and fear must continue.
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It's stupid to use over the top nazi rhetoric when legitimate criticisms can be made. It's one of the many reasons people consider Fox as controlled opposition.
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Why hasn’t anyone, I’m looking at you Fox News, ever mentioned the finances of the vaccines and the useless drug Fauxi promoted?
The little gremlin is getting rich blocking low cost generic cures for this virus and he and the dark lords at WHO are killing thousands
He’s a nasty self serving sociopath and an advocate for killing the entire planet in the name of science
Gain of function research is as we’ve seen very dangerous and should be banned
When AIDS spread among gay men and intravenous drug users four decades ago, it became conventional wisdom that the plague would soon devastate the rest of the American population. In 1987, Oprah Winfrey opened her show by announcing, “Research studies now project that 1 in 5—listen to me, hard to believe—1 in 5 heterosexuals could be dead of AIDS in the next three years.” The prediction was outlandishly wrong, but she wasn’t wrong in attributing the scare to scientists.
One early alarmist was Anthony Fauci, who made national news in 1983 with an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association warning that AIDS could infect even children because of “the possibility that routine close contact, as within a family household, can spread the disease.”
After criticism that he had inspired a wave of hysterical homophobia, Dr. Fauci (who in 1984 began his current job, as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), promptly pivoted 180 degrees, declaring less than two months after his piece appeared that it was “absolutely preposterous” to suggest AIDS could be spread by normal social contact. But other supposed experts went on warning erroneously that AIDS could spread widely via toilet seats, mosquito bites and kissing.
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Here is what she actually said, “What you see on Dr. Fauci — this is what people say to me: that he doesn’t represent science to them. He represents Josef Mengele,” she said. “Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who did experiments on Jews during the Second World War and in the concentration camps. And I am talking about people all across the world are saying this, because the response from covid, what it has done to countries everywhere, what it has done to civil liberties, the suicide rates, the poverty, it has obliterated economies."
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^ It's a variation on Godwin's Law. She muddled her point as soon as she made the association.
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[FOXNEWS] Rep. Alexandria Sandy Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore... said 'a lot of these allegations of organized retail theft are not actually panning out' America's Sweetheart Dumbest Bartender.
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🚨 Coalition officials have NO reports of an attack on al-Tanf, Syria. Earlier this morning Syria’s state-controlled agency SANA reported that “several explosions were heard from the US base in Al Tanf, Iraqi-Syrian border”
[SHAFAQ] Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance banned using "foreign" and "non-Persian" names for commercial centers in the capital, Tehran.
The resolution includes Latin, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, and local accents in Iran.
Mehr News quoted Tehran's Places Police Chief, Nader Moradi, saying that the commercial centers are allowed to use Persian names only and local names are allowed in the corresponding cities and provinces exclusively.
The new act permits the local authorities to "deal with the violators appropriately".
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So, Nike and Starbucks are out?
what about Mongolian Grill?
On Saturday night, a mob of youths in Chicago beat a public bus driver. The 49-year-old CTA driver was inspecting the bus when he was attacked by the mob. He was hospitalized for his injuries. Attack follows another beating of CTA employee earlier in week.pic.twitter.com/NpMTGUjTZ0
Four volunteer women putting up Christmas decorations on a street in Chicago's South Side for a nonprofit were robbed by thieves who pulled up in a vehicle and made off with their purse, wallet & fanny pack. https://t.co/mHDQoDpHqK
[NATION.PK] A court released a senior civil judge, arrested over rape charges in Lower Dir.An investigation team, termed allegations against the judge baseless and recommended dismissal of the case against the judicial official.
Police had arrested senior civil judge Lower Dir at Timergrah, Muhammad Jamshed over rape charges levelled by a woman.
According to the district police officer (DPO), a female, resident of Chitral, had accused the civil judge of sexually assaulting her.
Police moved the woman to the hospital for medical test, while a case registered against the judge.
Alleged rape victim, Dua Akhtar, had claimed that the judge had promised job for her sister and subjected her to sexual assault.
"The judge had also demanded Rs 1.5 million for arranging job for sister," the woman had alleged.
Registrar Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... High Court had suspended the judge over the rape allegations.
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[NATION.PK] Assistant Commissioner of Jhang Imran Jaffer was shot full of holes allegedly by his cousins over a ’sewerage line dispute’ on Sunday.
Police said that AC Jhang Imran Jaffer was killed in a gun attack. Police added that there was a dispute over the sewerage line between Imran Jaffer and his paternal cousins.
The assistant commissioner was allegedly shot full of holes by his cousins including Sohail.
Following the firing incident, the district police officer (DPO) rushed to the scene of the crime. He also visited Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital Bhawana besides inspecting the scene of the crime.
He expressed condolence to the family of slain Imran Jaffer and assured them of strict action against the culprits.
Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar took notice of the incident and summoned a report from the inspector general (IG) besides ordering to immediately arrest the accused.
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[NATION.PK] Minister of Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Saturday expressed deep sorrow and regret over the Sialkot incident, and said that narrow minded religious fanaticism was like a time bomb which needed to be defused before it was too late.
In a tweet he said: "What should I say about the Sialkot incident other than the fact that we as a nation must stand together and dismantle such ticking time-bombs before they detonate. The sands of time are slipping from our fingers, we must act and act now."
The minister said that such incidents sadden the society for a couple of days and then everyone forgot the incident till next tragedy. He said such type of apathy from the society could lead to bigger tragedies as many countries have witnessed bloodshed at the hands of such fanatics.
[Townhall] Last week, a former Iranian judiciary official charged with war crimes in Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... testified in a Swedish court. The first person to date to face trial for the horrific 1988 massacre, Hamid Noury’s testimony offered revelations that laid bare Tehran’s vulnerabilities and revealed important insights into the regime’s domestic affairs.
Noury, who is accused of participation in the massacre of more than 30,000 political prisoners in Iran in 1988, 90 percent of whom were members of a singular opposition movement — was arrested in Sweden in 2019.
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"U.S. officials can close ranks with Tehran’s democratic opposition and give hope to those on the Iranian street that the future can be brighter than the past."
Boy that is the last thing they should do. Since when do situations get any better because of that? Iran is the way it is today because the US got involved with Ayatollah Khomeini and was convinced he'd be a good guy.
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"U.S. officials can close ranks with Tehran’s democratic opposition and give hope to those on the Iranian street that the future can be brighter than the past."
Boy that is the last thing they should do. Since when do situations get any better because of that? Iran is the way it is today because the US got involved with Ayatollah Khomeini and was convinced he'd be a good guy.
Ever since I got defrauded, I've avoided all social contacts for fear someone else might get over.
Saudi Arabia’s air defenses have intercepted and destroyed a drone launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militia to target civilians in the Kingdom, the Arab Coalition says.https://t.co/kQYJg0Q2wLpic.twitter.com/KJmp2z0aFu
The Arab Coalition announces it had destroyed four drones launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militia targeting the southern region, adding that it had also conducted 19 targeted strikes on Marib and al-Jawf during the past 24 hours.https://t.co/kQYJg0Q2wL
[NATION.PK] The recent developments in Pakistain with respect to the government making unspecified deals with the TTP in Afghanistan through interim Afghan interior minister Siraj Haqqani, and with the TLP on the rampage again through an equally controversial clergy has earned the government a lot of ire from within as well as from outside. Both proscribed organizations have undoubtedly questionable conception, existence, funding, sponsorship, motives and bloody operational strategy; with the blood of law enforcers as well as that of innocent civilians on their hands, besides plundering and destroying public and private property. While the government takes solace in the erroneous argument of a belief in the non-violent mostly peaceful solution to a potentially inflammatory situation; yet, the maximum opposing views are that of capitulating to guns totting firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... bigots wearing religious cloaks who act as proxies in the hands of foreign hostile agencies as well as used by internal actors for show of power for politico-economic mileage. Both opinions hold some logic nevertheless, which shall be briefly discussed here.
There is a general consensus in the country among historians that the over assertive clergy of today was never supportive of the creation of Pakistain in the first place. However,
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On Sunday, the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia renewed its attacks on the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i governorate of Marib by firing several missiles. According to Al Arabiya’s correspondent on the ground, the militias fired three missiles in the space of an hour targeting Marib, one of which landed at the airport.
The recent Houthi attacks come after the Yemeni army and resistance forces had made advances in the past few days in the strategic governorate, inflicting heavy losses on the militias.
The Arab Coalition announced it has destroyed four drones launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militia targeting the southern region, adding that it had also conducted 19 targeted strikes on Marib and al-Jawf during the past 24 hours.
During the recent operations, 14 military vehicles were also destroyed alongside the killing of more than 115 Houthi krazed killers, pointing out that the launch of the drones coincided with the launch of four ballistic missiles towards Marib.
[NATION.PK] Police on Saturday night arrested six more suspects in connection with the lynching of Sri Lankan factory manager Diyawadanage Don Nandasri Priyantha in Sialkot.
So far, a total of 124 suspects, including 13 key suspects, have been arrested in the gruesome murder case. Police will produce all the arrested suspects before court to seek their physical remand for interrogation in the killing, said police officials.
A day earlier, the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government had sent an initial investigation report of the Sialkot tragedy to Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... , well-placed sources told Geo News.
As per the preliminary report, a dispute had emerged when Kumara removed some posters from the walls of the factory at 10:28am. The posters were reportedly inscribed with the name of the Holy Prophet (PTUI!).
Shortly after, the factory owner had reached the spot and resolved the issue. Kumara had apologized for the misunderstanding on his part.
After Kumara made the apology, the matter was reportedly considered settled and the factory workers had dispersed.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... some workers then incited their colleagues to attack the manager.
Within a few minutes, a mob formed and set on the victim within the premises of the industrial unit, eventually killing him.
A total of 13 security guards were present in the factory as the brutal attack was occurring. None of them tried to rescue the victim or disperse the mob, the report had said.
Kumara’s body was later dragged outside the factory.
Police received a phone call at 11:28am about the incident, officials had said. A police party had reached the site within 12 minutes.
The wife of Diyawadana Priyantha pleaded for justice for her slain husband from both Pak and Sri Lankan leaders, Sri Lankan news outlet Newswire reported.
"I got to know about the brutal murder of my husband from the news. Later, I saw this on the internet as well. He was a very innocent man," she said, talking to news hounds from BBC Sinhala.
"I request leaders of Sri Lanka and Pakistain to do justice for my husband and two children, by bringing the perpetrators to justice," she went on to say. The dear departed's brother said that Priyantha had been working in the Sialkot factory since 2012.
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A surprising response. Has Pakistain started to become a country without us noticing?
[Powerline blog] Steve wrote here about the speech that French nationalist Eric Zemmour delivered to announce his candidacy for the French presidency. The post includes a translation of Zemmour’s speech, which has electrified Frenchmen. Some of them, anyway.
So of course Zemmour must be denounced by right (i.e., left) thinkers. Yesterday the New York Times warned its readers against Zemmour.
Mr. Zemmour, the far-right polemicist who this week announced his run for next year’s presidential election....
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Full-spectrum assault on Zemmour coming. NYT from the legacy media, YouTube/Google from BigTech, and no doubt Twitter and FB will follow.
Note that YouTube's little fascist censors slapped an "age-restricted," must-sign-in gateway on Zemmour's video. The better to help American Stasi to track you, my dear.
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Read the speech at Powerline Blog (ignore the obligatory French-bashing throwaway comment).
This man speaks beautifully. It's an heroic, inspiring speech that recalls a time when we in the West were proud of our heritage our frat civilization -- and apologized to no one for it.
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[RusOnline] Vladimir Putin: "The US military decision-making centers will be amazed." These centers are located off the coast. And when launching missiles from submarines after 5 minutes - "Come on by!" To begin with, I will touch upon the essence of the current "surge of confrontation."
What is it connected with and what is the ultimate goal. Otherwise, it is difficult to understand why and for what purpose everything is being done.
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Putin is issuing an ultimatum. No more NATO expansion. No more broken promises. No more pointless humiliation of Russia.
"The threat on our western borders is, indeed, rising, as we have said multiple times," Putin said at a ceremony for ambassadors at the Kremlin on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. "In our dialogue with the US and its allies, we will insist on developing concrete agreements prohibiting any further eastward expansion of NATO and the placement there of weapons systems in the immediate vicinity of Russian territory."
Putin said Russia needs "legal guarantees" that Moscow's security concerns in the region will be respected.
"We need legal guarantees," Putin said. "Russia's legal concerns in the security sphere were ignored, and they now continue to be ignored."
If our leaders were even halfway intelligent and supple-minded, they'd realize it's actually a big opportunity for us and for Russia. This gives us cover to do what everyone here agrees we must do posthaste: shift our attention and our military-diplomatic focus toward the real threat, which is CHINA.
If we were to agree to make Ukraine a neutral, demilitarized, nonaligned border state -- like Finland during the Cold War, or Austria if you prefer -- and drop our foolish sanctions that only hurt ordinary Russians, we would lose nothing and gain immense goodwill from the Russian people and the Russian establishment.
Maybe even the first step into drawing Russia closer to, instead of pushing it away from, the West .... as we and Girbachev once talked of doing, in more sensible times.
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Maybe even the first step into drawing Russia closer to, instead of pushfing it away from, the West .... as we and Girbachev once talked of doing, in more sensible times.
Hell, we took away Ukraine's nukes and didn't give them back when Putin didn't honor his part of the agreement. He's been taking over Ukraine since 2013 or so using the NATO excuse with no sign of Ukraine actually joining NATO at any point in the last seven years.
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What is our vital interest -- VITAL, ie must-have, without-which-we're-screwed, i.e. something worth giving our own lives for -- in Ukraine?
I've never in over 30 years heard anyone articulate such a vital interest. Not articulate one clearly and thoughtfully -- I mean, it's never been articulated at all.
We humiliated the Russians and pushed them into China's arms -- for nothing.
Nothing except a few million in Biden Baksheesh.
Let Biden's corrupt crackhead grab a javelin and ship out to Luhansk.
Not one American soldier or even one more dollar should be spent supporting a shithole where every rational calculation of American interest counsels us to stay the f--k OUT.
[Breitbart] Hundreds of children have been born to newly-arrived Afghans who were brought to the United States as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation since mid-August, securing birthright citizenship in the process.
Biden started the operation in the midst of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — bringing at least 70,000 Afghans to the country for resettlement with minimal standard vetting procedures.
Since then, Republicans and Democrats in Congress have bankrolled the operation to the sum of more than $13.3 billion in American taxpayer money.
According to data from the U.S. Army, more than 250 U.S.-born children have been delivered to newly-arrived Afghans since the end of August.
Most of the children have been born to Afghans temporarily living on various U.S. military bases which the Biden administration has converted into refugee camps until non-governmental organizations (NGOs) resettle the Afghans across 46 states.
Despite their parents having only arrived over the last few months, the U.S.-born children of Afghans are able to secure birthright American citizenship thanks to the nation’s so-called anchor baby policy.
The policy allows any foreign national, regardless of whether they have ties to the U.S. or not, to secure birthright American citizenship for their child so long as they are born within the physical perimeters of the country.
The U.S. is among one of only two nations in the developed world to have such a policy.
For Afghans, the policy is significant as many new arrivals have yet to secure visas or refugee status and thus will rely heavily on their U.S.-born child’s birthright American citizenship to obtain green cards years from now.
Former President Trump had said he was readying a plan to end birthright citizenship with an executive order that likely would have been challenged by open borders organizations, forcing the issue potentially up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump, though, did not sign any such order while in office.
To date, the U.S. Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled that the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens must be granted automatic American citizenship, and a number of legal scholars dispute the idea.
Many leading conservative scholars argue the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment does not provide mandatory birthright citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens or noncitizens, as these children were not subject to U.S. jurisdiction as that language was understood when the 14th Amendment was ratified.
Today’s anchor baby population exceeds the annual number of U.S. births. Whereas four million Americans are born every year, the anchor baby population stands at five million.
[SHAFAQ] A security source in Diyala reported that security forces thwarted an ISIS attack northeast of the governorate.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that ISIS forces of Evil attacked an army security point on the outskirts of Nawfal village, north of al-Muqdadiyah district, but the army forces confronted them and forced them to flee.
He added that an bomb blew up on the road leading to the village, but no casualties were recorded.
Areas north of al-Muqdadiyah, 40 km northeast of Baqubah, are subjected to continuous attacks due to their proximity to the Hamrin mountains, the largest strongholds of the terrorist organizations.
[EpochTimes] Dr. Omar Hamada on Dec. 1 said that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 may provide natural immunity without inducing severe illness, as the symptoms so far resemble more of a "mild, common cold" in South Africa.
In an interview with NTD’s "Capitol Report," the emergency room doctor and former U.S. Army Special Forces lieutenant colonel said that even though "we’re seeing an uptick in [the] number of people affected, the severity of disease seems to be, at this point, minimal."
"If the infectivity is greater, but the virulence or severity is less, this may be actually something good in terms of getting people immune to it without necessarily having to depend on a vaccine that’s not incredibly effective," Hamada stated.
On Dec. 3 the World Health Organization (WHO) said that Omicron has been detected in 38 countries, up from 23 countries two days prior.
The Omicron variant has also been reported in 11 U.S. states as of Dec. 4, including 15 cases in vaccinated individuals.
One of the cases in the United States so far was confirmed to have recovered from COVID-19 and have natural immunity.
Being mRNA-based, both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines trigger the body to recognize and attack the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus’s spike protein.
Because the Omicron variant has "approximately two dozen mutations in that spike protein," according to Hamada, the effectiveness of current vaccines against the new variant remains to be seen.
Dr. Anthony Fauci ...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place... , chief medical adviser to the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... , stated in a Friday briefing that it would "take a while" to know "what the impact is going to be globally and for people who are infected with Omicron."
"We absolutely have community spread in this country," Fauci told Bloomberg TV on Friday. "We don’t know how many of them, but there’s no doubt there’s community spread."
While Omicron is spreading rapidly globally, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky urged news hounds to focus on the Delta variant for the time being during the White House briefing.
"I know that the news is focused on Omicron, but we should remember that 99.9 percent of cases in the country right now are from the Delta variant," Walensky said.
Pfizer executive Ralf Rene Reinert said he does not "expect that there will be a significant drop in effectiveness" of the current vaccine against Omicron, and emphasized the importance of the booster program, in an interview with Bloomberg on Dec. 2.
When the Beta and Delta variants emerged, Pfizer had already started working on new versions of its vaccines only to conclude that the original shot provided good protection, Reinert told Bloomberg.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... Moderna could have a COVID-19 booster shot targeting the Omicron variant tested and ready to be submitted for authorization as early as March, according to the company’s president who spoke to Rooters on Dec. 1.
#4
They will never know the extent of the spread because the effects are so mild people will assume it’s a winter cold and just stay home while it runs it’s course
#5
Look, I don't care what other doctors say. The only doctor I listen to is Dr. Fauci. He IS the science. Even when he changes what he says from day to day. /sarcasm
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Does it give immunity to the other variants? Perhaps we should be *spreading* it instead of suppressing it.
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[Regnum] December 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the infamous Bialowieza Accords and the creation of the CIS. Thirty years is a considerable period not only for human life, but also by historical standards.
[NATION.PK] Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Pir Noor-ul-Haq Qadri Saturday expressed deep grief over the tragic incident of Sialkot lynching.
Talking to a private news channel, he said the investigation was under way and responsible to be brought to justice soon. He said Prime Minister Imran Khan had already taken notice of the Sialkot incident and he (prime minister) himself monitoring the investigation into the matter.
Qadri proposed to constitute a comprehensive commission taking all segments of the society on board on the inhuman incident.
He said the protection of lives and property of foreigners and minorities was the responsibility of the state and there was a dire need to teach the people true spirit of Islam. Every sect was strongly condemning the incident and no one could accept these type of incidents any more in the future, he said adding no one would be allowed to take law into their hands.
He said both the countries Pakistan and Sri Lanka were enjoying strong relations.
These type of incidents could be a cause of defaming the country at international level.
Meanwhile, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan Saturday said the people should learn the true spirit of Islam as “Islam is the religion of peace”. Talking to a private news channel, he expressed grief and sorrow over the tragic incident of Sialkot.
He said lack of knowledge was the main cause of such incidents in the society. The minister said more than 100 people allegedly involved in the brutal killing of the foreigner had arrested so far.
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[IsraelTimes] West Bank resident suspected of knowing of attack plans or of helping slain suspect; cab driver accused of driving alleged terrorist to Jerusalem ordered held 5 more days
Israeli forces on Sunday arrested the brother of a suspected Paleostinian terrorist who carried out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, the Shin Bet security agency confirmed.
The brother, who is suspected of having prior knowledge of Muhammad Salima’s intentions to carry out an assault and of possibly assisting him, was detained at home in the West Bank town of Salfit.
That’s Muhammad Shaukat Muhammad Salima in full. Perhaps at some point we’ll learn the brother’s name.
Salima, 25, stabbed an Israeli civilian near the Old City of Jerusalem on Saturday afternoon before being rubbed out by Border Police officers, Israeli authorities said.
Also Sunday, a judge ordered a taxi driver suspected of transporting Salima to be held in jug for at least five more days.
The man, a resident of the "triangle" of Arab towns in northern Israel in his 40s, is suspected of assisting Salima.
Border Police chief Amir Cohen met with the two officers on Sunday and gave them back their guns, which were taken when they were questioned over the shooting.
He also ordered that they return to operational duty.
The officers have said they feared he was still dangerous when they shot him, and they did not know what he was holding or concealing on his person.
The two officers killed the suspected terrorist after he stabbed Avraham Elimelich, an ultra-Orthodox man, in the neck, then attempted to attack the officers. The incident took place on a street near the Old City’s Damascus Gate.
#Iran’s national currency stumbled to record-low levels after renewed efforts to revive the country’s beleaguered nuclear deal failed to make progress.https://t.co/GNty2J2mdN
[Breitbart] Border Patrol agents estimate more than 100,000 known migrant got-aways since the fiscal year began in October. A source operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, speaking on the condition of anonymity, says the agency recorded 47,500 got-a-ways during the month of October. That is followed by an additional 52,000 got-aways in November. The source believes the increase in November means more than 600,000 migrant got-aways will be recorded this fiscal year if the trend continues.
The source says the constant flow of migrants being apprehended along the southern border impedes the agency’s ability to adequately patrol miles of the border. The absence of routine patrols is driving the got-away numbers up as there are no available Border Patrol agents to respond to electronic sensors, camera activations, and unmanned aerial surveillance sightings. On average, more than 1,700 migrants avoided apprehension by the Border Patrol each day in November.
[Breitbart] Border Patrol agents are arresting large numbers of Venezuelan migrants at a greater frequency than in past years. The large, mostly Venezuelan migrant groups that at one time almost exclusively entered through the Del Rio, Texas, are now spreading across the southwest border from San Diego, California, to Brownsville, Texas. The groups of predominantly Venezuelans are even crossing into the most remote regions of the border in West Texas.
As reported by Breitbart Texas on Wednesday, more than 70 Venezuelan migrants crossed the border through the Big Bend National Park near Alpine, Texas, in two groups. On Thursday, an additional 60 Venezuelan migrants were apprehended after crossing the border illegally and entering the national park.
The park is patrolled by agents assigned to the Big Bend Sector of the Border Patrol. The Border Patrol’s Big Bend Sector is the sector with the fewest migrant apprehensions among the nine southwest border sectors.
Border Patrol Agents near Brownsville arrested 168 Venezuelan migrants in one single group on Monday.
In Del Rio n Sunday, a single group of more than 250 mostly Venezuelan and Cuban migrants were apprehended and were detained under the city’s international bridge due to overcrowding at area Border Patrol stations.
A media report highlighted the issue of Venezuelan migrant trafficking in San Diego. In early November, Border Patrol agents in San Diego arrested two Mexican nationals suspected of bringing large numbers of Venezuelan and Brazilian migrants to Tijuana, Mexico, to be smuggled in Southern California. Nearly 350 migrants from Venezuela and Brazil were arrested by Border Patrol agents in San Diego over a two-week period in five large groups.
According to reports from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the spike in the arrest of Venezuelan nationals hit its peak in October. During that month, the Border Patrol arrested 13,387 Venezuelan migrants crossing the southwest border. Venezuela is currently the fourth-ranked nationality of migrants apprehended by the Border Patrol nationwide for the month of October. Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras are in the top three spots respectively.
In October of 2020, only 136 Venezuelan nationals were arrested illegally entering the county. As reported by Breitbart Texas, the sharp month-to-month increases over last year mark a more than 9,000 percent increase.
The exodus of migrants from Venezuela is a clear indication the trend is likely to continue. According to the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 5.6 million Venezuelans left their country over the past few years. In a recent report by the IOM, the volume of Venezuelans leaving the country is considered the largest external displacement crisis in Latin America’s recent history.
The current population of Venezuela stands at 28.7 million and has remained unchanged in nearly a decade as a result of external migration. In a 2018 survey by the IOM, 92 percent of Venezuelan migrants who have migrated to other Latin American countries indicated they intended to remain in their new country of residence. That may be changing.
Breitbart Texas interviewed several Venezuelan migrants who abandoned their permanent residence in a third country in hopes of seeking asylum in the United States. Those doing so are likely responding to a change in immigration policies regarding asylum petitions. Once forced to remain in Mexico under the previous administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols, many are now released into the United States to await the lengthy asylum adjudication process.
Hundreds of Venezuelans have joined in on a migrant caravan in Mexico hoping to achieve the same goal, according to a recent press report by Reuters. According to the caravan’s organizer, between 20 and 30 percent of the nearly 3,000-strong migrant caravan in Southern Mexico is comprised of Venezuelan migrants.
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Coming to a neighborhood [and Quikcheck] near you!.
[NBCNEWS] As Stacey Abrams ...the pudgy, sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Stacey nominated herself to be Joe Biden's vice president nominee, to widespread national apathy. She has a very keen eye for Racism in any form, to include the imaginary... builds her second gubernatorial campaign in four years, she is looking at a Georgia electorate that is far larger, younger and less white than the one that handed her a narrow defeat last time around, according to an analysis her aides provided exclusively to NBC News.That's one reason Abrams is confident that the result will be different this time, despite a national political wind that has shifted to Republicans' backs following the election of Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan... to the presidency in 2020 and Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock to the Senate in January.
Nearly 1.3 million Georgians have registered to vote since her first bid in 2018. Forty-seven percent of them are people of color, 31.6 percent of them are Black and 43 percent of them are under the age of 30 — cohorts that traditionally skew heavily toward Democrats — according to the Abrams campaign's analysis. Almost 250,000 of them have registered since the 2020 election.
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Long Lost Cemetery found in Georgia: Stacy Abrams to Assist in Documenting Names
They sure can "CREATE" voters out of thin air.
They were caught last election with 1000's of "extra ballots"they had not turned in yet.
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GA has 7,234,431 registered to vote. Only roughly about 8.87% is not registered. Of which felony convictions account for 8 percent of the overall population and 33 percent of those African-American males (source UGA.) so roughly 0.87% still need to register? ☺
Fulton Co. ONLY has 793,198 registered as of Nov. 22, 2021
45% White / 44% Black / 11% other
#4
She’s an incompetent toxic narcissist
Let them elect her
She’ll be impeached in six months
She’ll be Witmer and Hochul combined and a complete disaster
#6
Like Beto, Planet Abrams makes a profession out of being a candidate. It feeds the enormous and weight-appropriate ego, opens doors and connection that a gravity-impaired dirigible otherwise couldn't even approach, and pays a salary and expenses to a coterie of associates whose under-the-table kickbacks and gifts make for a comfortable lifestyle.
[An Nahar] Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and La Belle France stressed in a joint statement issued after talks between French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists. As crown prince, Moe has quietly jettisoned his country's policy of trying to impose its religion on the rest of the world... that the Lebanese government needs to "carry out comprehensive reforms."
It also needs to "abide by the Taef Accord, which is entrusted with national unity and civil peace in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... ," the statement said.
The statement also called for "limiting the possession of arms to the legitimate institutions of the Lebanese state," while emphasizing that "Lebanon should not be a launchpad for any acts of terror that would undermine the region’s security and stability, nor a source for the trade of drugs."
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#Sudan’s military will exit politics after elections scheduled for 2023, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan tells Reuters in an interview, adding that the deposed former ruling party will have no role in the transition.https://t.co/3CnYxdzHUG
[NEWSWEEK] Three coppers were denied service at a 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... restaurant because staff "felt uncomfortable" that they were armed.
"Three armed and uniformed San Francisco coppers came in to dine at Hilda and Jesse" on Union Street on Friday, the restaurant said in a post on its Instagram page.
"Shortly after seating them, our staff felt uncomfortable with the presence of their multiple weapons. We then politely asked them to leave."
The move prompted a backlash on social media, leading Rachel Sillcocks, the restaurant's co-owner and chef, to speak to ABC7 to clarify that the decision to turn the officers away was only because they were armed.
"It's not about the fact that we are anti-police," Sillcocks told the station.
"It is about the fact that we do not allow weapons in our restaurant. We were uncomfortable, and we asked them to leave. It has nothing to do that they were officers. It has everything to do that they were carrying guns."
Sillcocks added that the officers were welcome to return to the restaurant, as long as they came without their weapons.
On Instagram, the restaurant said it was a "safe space."
The post added: "The presence of the officers weapons in the restaurant made us feel uncomfortable. We respect the San Francisco Police Department and are grateful for the work they do. We welcome them into the restaurant when they are off duty, out of uniform, and without their weapons."
The caption added: "This is not a political statement, we did what we thought was best for our staff."
The incident prompted outcry on social media and a Twitter thread from SFPD Chief William Scott.
"Community engagement is a core principle of SFPD's 21st century police reforms, and we are intentional about asking our officers to support local businesses and get to know those they're sworn to safeguard," Scott said in a tweet sharing the restaurant's response.
In further tweets, Scott added: "The San Francisco Police Department stands for safety with respect, even when it means respecting wishes that our officers and I find discouraging and personally disappointing.
"I believe the vast majority of San Franciscans welcome their coppers, who deserve to know that they are appreciated for the difficult job we ask them to do—in their uniforms—to keep our neighborhoods and businesses safe."
Hilda and Jesse and the San Francisco Police Department have been contacted for additional comment.
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To all San Fran Criminals: "Hilda and Jesse" on Union Street is a cop and weapon free establishment with p*ssy employees and customers known to carry large amounts of cash. Police response will be slow.
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All Robbers, Thieves, Drug Dealers, Gang members, Pimps & "Working" Ladies.
Hilda and Jesse on Union Street @ _______________ is safe meeting and hook up location.However, you are asked to please conceal your weapons prior to entry. ☺
SERIOUS NOTE: They are actually a upscale 4/5+ star restaurant and why 3 police were in there eating???? I guess SF pays its LEO's good.
#11
911-what’s your emergency?
Hilda and Jesse Restaurant: those roaming smash and grab hordes are robbing our customers and destroying our restaurant!
911- Please telephone the Department of Social Services. Their hours are M-F 10am-3pm, leave a message if calling after hours.
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Actually, the dispatcher should tell them if they call 911 they don't feel comfortable going there, due to their obvious anti police bias and they should call Gavin Newsome.
[An Nahar] 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 on Sunday announced that his party will not name a successor for Information Minister George Kordahi, who resigned on Friday over a diplomatic crisis with the Gulf states."With our respect and love for all the names that have been raised in the press, our stance that we expressed in Bkirki about not naming a successor to ex-minister George Kordahi has not and will not change," Franjieh tweeted.
Kordahi stepped down Friday in a move he said could open the way for easing an unprecedented diplomatic row with Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and other Gulf Arab nations that has compounded Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective.... 's multiple crises.
The resigned minister had criticized the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... during an interview which was recorded before he became minister but was aired after he joined the Cabinet.
His comments angered Saudi Arabia as well as Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE, which responded by recalling their ambassadors from Beirut.
Saudi Arabia also blocked imports and Kuwait said it would limit visas issued to Lebanese, prompting fears that a Gulf backlash could endanger the interests of millions of expatriates living in Arab states of the oil-rich Gulf.
The standoff marked a fresh blow for Lebanon, whose government was only formed in September after a 13-month deadlock.
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[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005... has pledged that his party would confront any "bargain" aimed at restricting the work of Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar."As for what is being said about a bargain related to besieging Judge Bitar in parliament in agreement with the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... , in return for accepting the appeal against the electoral law, that would be a major crime against Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a strong argument in favor of European colonialism, even French colonialism... , the Lebanese, the judiciary and the investigation," Geagea said in an interview with Kuwait’s al-Jarida newspaper.
"We will work on confronting it with all our strength and we will not allow it. We will study the decisions that will be taken should they decide to resort to this bargain," the LF leader added.
He separately noted that "Lebanon went through a lot of difficulties in the past but it managed to beat them" and 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... cannot control Lebanon, because the model it is presenting contradicts with the nature of the Lebanese."
"Information Minister George Kordahi’s resignation is the biggest example that no side can tolerate what Hizbullah wants, and in the end the party was obliged to offer concessions and submit," Geagea added, describing Kordahi’s exit as "a strong blow" to Hizbullah.
"This might push it to resort to security options due to its limited choices," Geagea went on to say, noting that "the crisis is bigger than this and is related to the policies of Lebanon as a state."
He added: "Kordahi’s resignation will not lead to resolving the crisis with the Gulf states, but it might open a door for discussions and dialogue for the sake of reaching a common ground with which everyone in Lebanon would be convinced, regarding the need to alter the political course and prevent Hizbullah from controlling the state and its decisions."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BlockClubChicago] Four volunteers with My Block, My Hood, My City were robbed while hanging up Christmas lights in Grand Boulevard on Saturday, the nonprofit and police confirmed.
[Breitbart] A brawl broke out between rap groups Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Three 6 Mafia on stage during a Verzuz rap battle at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California, Thursday night. The fight came after a member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony called Three 6 Mafia "devil worshippers" and suggested the group’s name is a nod to "the mark of the beast."
[MAIL] The CEO of an online mortgage lender fired 900 of his employees in a brutal Zoom call - then slammed them for being being so lazy they effectively 'stole' from customers.
[BBC] A dissident former leader of Colombia's Farc rebels has been killed in an ambush in Venezuela, local media reported on Sunday.
[Just The News] Analysts urge strategy to credibly threaten to "render Taiwan not just unattractive if ever seized by force, but positively costly to maintain" by destroying its semiconductor industry.
/\ That this is even discussed is still more evidence that We Are Ruled By Morons
[MAIL] China's military is on pace to become a 'peer competitor' to the United States' armed forces as the country moves to amass nuclear weapons at 'breakneck' speed, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned on Saturday.
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[SAHARAREPORTERS] A Nigerian man, Osagie Aigbonohan, was on Friday convicted by the Southwark Crown Court, United Kingdom over his involvement in a romance scam in which he conned several women out of thousands of pounds. This was made known in a statement issued on Saturday by the National Crime Agency.
[PoliticsWeb] During the local election campaign Ferial Haffajee wrote about the sad state of her part (and every part) of 
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the 
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
[NATION.PK] Minister of Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Saturday expressed deep sorrow and regret over the 
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
[NATION.PK] The recent developments in Pakistain with respect to the government making unspecified deals with the TTP in Afghanistan through interim Afghan interior minister Siraj Haqqani, and with the TLP on the rampage again through an equally controversial clergy has earned the government a lot of ire from within as well as from outside. Both proscribed organizations have undoubtedly questionable conception, existence, funding, sponsorship, motives and bloody operational strategy; with the blood of law enforcers as well as that of innocent civilians on their hands, besides plundering and destroying public and private property. While the government takes solace in the erroneous argument of a belief in the non-
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...aka 
...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place...
[NATION.PK] Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Pir Noor-ul-Haq Qadri Saturday expressed deep grief over the tragic incident of Sialkot lynching.
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
[NEWSWEEK] Three 
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....
...a strong argument in favor of European colonialism, even French colonialism...
