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Cyd Charisse was an American actress and dancer. After recovering from polio as a child and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s. Her roles usually featured her abilities as a dancer, and she was paired with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly; her films include Singin' in the Rain, The Band Wagon, Brigadoon with Gene Kelly and Van Johnson and Silk Stockings.
Born:
Tula Ellice Finklea,
March 8, 1921, Amarillo, Texas, U.S.
Died:
June 17, 2008, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
And with that, Tula Ellice Finklea,
Wishes All Burgers Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year
(albeit 1961 Right side up or
Upside down it was still 1961,
go ahead stand on your head and look👀)
[Star Telegram] A Texas man charged with murder in a December 2020 road rage incident was recently gunned down in a convenience store while out on bond, according to police.
Davion Potts, 22, entered Primos Food Store in northwest Houston on Sunday, Dec. 12 — and an unknown man walked in behind him, pulled out a gun and shot him several times, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a Facebook post.
"The motive is unknown," Gonzalez said in the post. "But, he definitely needed killing"
Potts was arrested Dec. 8, 2020, about a year before his death, in connection with a fatal road rage shooting. He bonded out in late March of this year, Harris County court records show.
Potts killed the driver of a pickup truck, Travis Rowden, over a minor car accident, authorities told news outlets.
Whether mouse or trigger, anything worth clicking is worth clicking twice. Best to be sure!
I like the implication in the story that vengeance was served. Very satisfying in a mythic way, but if I were betting, my chips are on someone otherwise upset with Davion's business dealings.
[Politico] Russian military pressure cannot be allowed to influence who can join the European Union and NATO, warned Kaja Kallas, the prime minister of Estonia, ahead of two key meetings on the bloc’s relationship with its neighbors.
By amassing troops at the Ukrainian border, and then suggesting that NATO rescind a 2008 commitment to Ukraine and Georgia that they would one day become members of the alliance, Russian President Vladimir Putin "is trying to present himself as a solution to this problem that he has created himself. And I think we shouldn’t fall into that trap," Kallas said in a phone interview on Tuesday in which she also discussed concerns about U.S. President Joe Biden’s outreach to Putin.
"I don’t think that Russia has any right to say anything about who has the right and who doesn’t have the right to join [the] European Union or NATO," said Kallas, whose country of 1.3 million people borders Russia.
Russia will be high on the agenda of two high-level meetings this week. On Wednesday, it’s the sixth Eastern Partnership summit, in which the EU will meet with a number of its neighbors including Ukraine. Also taking part are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova (Belarus suspended its participation last June in the wake of sanctions imposed by the bloc following a disputed election).
A day later, EU leaders will meet for a European Council at which relations with Moscow, and the EU’s reaction to the military build-up on the border with Ukraine, will be discussed.
[Free Beacon] During a weekly briefing last Monday, Philadelphia district attorney and prominent "progressive prosecutor" Larry Krasner sought to downplay the surge in violence his city has endured over the last two years.
"We don't have a crisis of lawlessness, we don't have a crisis of crime, we don't have a crisis of violence," Krasner said. "It's important that we don't let this become mushy and bleed into the notion that there is some kind of big spike in crime."
Those claims are at odds with the facts on the ground. Philadelphia has seen over 500 homicides this year, the most in 60 years; shootings, which began surging last year, remain well above pre-2020 norms. As former mayor Michael Nutter (D.) put it in a blistering op-ed, "I'd like to ask Krasner: How many more Black and brown people, and others, would have to be gunned down in our streets daily to meet your definition of a ’crisis'?"
Krasner's comments, though, typify a rhetorical approach adopted by prominent politicians, think tanks, and the media amid a record surge in homicides across the country. Since murders began rising in the wake of last summer's anti-police protests, progressives have sought to discount or otherwise wave away the spike and conspicuously avoided discussing the role of the diminished criminal justice system. This wariness reflects a progressive fear of "tough on crime" rhetoric but is likely to cost them electorally—if it has not already.
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Cause Jemarius don' wanna hear 'bout how bad his shootin' is.
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12/15/2021 13:36
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There are two things in play here. The first is that diving down into the murder problem inevitably leads to black guys shooting black guys. Not an easy thing to admit or fix.
The other is you can make more money *trying* to fix a problem than actually fixing it. Vote for me and I will fight to fix Problem X. We will need money. And community outreach. And community outreach assistants. And a new city department of gang intervention. Come on, man! Get onboard and we can all get our beaks wet.
Note that strategy #2 only works if the problem never actually goes away.
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Strategy #2 also fails when people stop believing the bullshit.
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12/15/2021 13:48
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Actually, money for the prosecution offices for far more hours to address the under incarceration problem. Lock them away if you are not going to permanently remove them as a threat to society.
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How many times have these shitbags
- forged documents (Clinesmith, FBI and now - destroyed evidence (Hilary)
- fabricated stories out of nothing (Steele et al)
- created phony alibis (S. Rice re the WH meeting in Jan-2017 w Soetoro Comey and Yates)
- brazenly lied or outright perjured themselves (Comey's 200+ repetitions of "I don't remember" testimony, Biden re Hunter's influence-peddling, Brennan-Clapper et al and "all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation," American Pravda-media on nearly everything) ?
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Kakocracy, continued - from Business Ibsider's analysis this week of insider trading by Pelosi and her fellow whores (note that Pelosi just today once again defended this obvious corruption):
"CONFLICT CTED CONGRESS": Dozens of federal lawmakers and at least 182 top staffers have violated a conflict-of-interest law. Numerous members of Congress personally invest in industries they oversee.
Chauvin is in federal court in Minneapolis to plead guilty to three civil rights violations for murdering George Floyd and arresting a teenager in 2017
He will be sentenced to 25 years in prison, that he will serve at the same time as his current 22 year sentence for murder That first sentence would have got him out on good behaviour after only 15 years — do federal sentences have that kind of condition?
It means he will spend an extra three years in prison than previously thought
As part of the deal, he also pleaded guilty to violating the rights of a black 14-year-old who he arrested in 2017
In that case, he used a chokehold on the teenager and hit him with a flashlight
Chauvin had been called to the teenager's home by his mother who claimed he assaulted her
Chauvin said the teen lay on his bedroom floor and ignored his verbal commands
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At this point he's listening to what his lawyer says the Rubik's Cube Sentence-O-Meter Edition™ tells him makes the most sense. Any tea leaf reading past that makes Voudoun Auntie Jane blush.
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12/15/2021 12:30
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Federal TOFGB is measured in minutes per week. 85% of sentence is the average served.
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12/15/2021 12:32
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on the 2017 issues, this is being appealed
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12/15/2021 12:34
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Chauvin should put his training on trial. Unless he went beyond his training its the Police Department's fault for pushing ineffective/dangerous policies and training.
Do that and you have a chance they try to make it go away lest they be forced to open up cells and city/state treasury.
The files will be released by the National Archives at noon on Wednesday
They are among thousands that have been held back by the government since 1997, when a Congress review board completed its report
Many - including Kennedy's family - have called for them to be made public
Not all of the files will be released; the NSA is holding some back pending further review
The secrecy has fueled conspiracy theories about JFK's assassination
The President was killed in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in his motorcade in Dallas, Texas
Oswald denied shooting JFK in his interviews with police; he was killed two days later while being transported by police by a nightclub owner who shot him
Biden had promised to make the files public by October but he delayed, claiming COVID back logs stalled the release
As I remember hearing as a kid it was originally to have been 40 years.
But I guess the wrong people were still alive or in office. Either way 57 years later and we still will not see all the files. Many having likely been long erased, rewrote, pulled and/or stolen from the National Archives. Like has happen a lot under Clinton and others.
Note: Some might remember JFK was not for US Troops being in Vietnam. LBJ was the driving force.
BTW: My dad (Sgt. Major US Army Signal Corp) was there in 1960 "acting" as a Civilian.
[USA Today] A powerful storm walloped California with heavy rain and snow on Tuesday, as several inches of rain fell in the Los Angeles area and up to 8 feet of snow was expected in the Sierra Nevada.
The storm wreaked travel havoc across the state due to the rain and snow. It also raised the threat of mudslides in areas scarred by wildfires, prompting evacuation orders in southern California.
Nearly 7 inches of rain fell before dawn in one area of Santa Barbara County, northwest of Los Angeles, the National Weather Service said. The ongoing heavy rain will continue to create areas of flash flooding, with urban areas, roads and small streams the most vulnerable, the Weather Service said.
Further north, in the central Sierra Nevada, a whopping 2 to 4 feet of snow was forecast to pile up with local amounts to 6 to 8 feet over the highest elevations by Tuesday night, AccuWeather said.
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I was a Seven Springs season pass guy myself. I literally dropped off my skis and boots for resale at Willi's before I left town. They mailed me a check.
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12/15/2021 10:41
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Nothing beat night skiing when it was snowing so hard you couldn't see or hear and just had to inch down the hill. Oh, and The Foggy Goggle at the bottom.
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12/15/2021 10:43
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We once were in Snowshoe, West Virginia when the conditions were just right for fog with about 5’ visibility. It was warm enough that the snow was pretty slow, a good thing under the circumstances, and absolutely magical as people and landscape appeared and disappeared from view in the hushed silence. But that isn’t the kind of thing one deliberately seeks for a ski trip.
In the Rockies 8’ of base is not unusual, as I recall, though it generally doesn’t arrive overnight.
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I never skied WV, but I used to drive by the Cacapon resort and wish that I did.
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12/15/2021 11:17
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related note is that these storms replenish reservoirs.
e.g., Lake Oroville has risen about 50 feet since mid October, about 30 feet in the two days after the late October storm and about 10 feet since the storm this week started
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12/15/2021 11:18
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Until CA stops wasting its water on the Snail Darter, God can't send enough.
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12/15/2021 11:31
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And yet again, all the plans and money set aside in bonds authorized in the past few years, for drought relief that was promised for catchment basins and other containment structures, has produced not one additional foot of above ground storage. So all the water in SoCal and much of it in NorCal will flow in huge torrents of the LA River concrete channel from the rain, and in the spring melt of the snowpack. And the fools and clueless who haven't left yet bemoan more population growth, crime and endless scarcity of public utilities like water and power. Socialism returning the Golden State to 3rd world conditions as wealth is redistributed, stolen and wasted on a failed political philosophy. YJCMTSU!
[American Thinker] Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday, President Joe Biden blamed the recent deadly tornado outbreak in Kentucky on "climate change." Biden stated, "The fact is we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming and obviously it has some impact here."
Biden’s statement is laughably inept and easily disproved. All one has to do is look past the opinions, pronouncements, and hand waving and concentrate on what science and data actually say about the issues.
First, the top five deadliest tornadoes in America all occurred between 1840 and 1936. The Great Natchez Tornado on May 7, 1840, killed 317 people, and was the second-deadliest tornado in U.S. history. The deadliest was the March 18, 1925 Tri-State Tornado, which was also the longest-tracked tornado in U.S. history. The massive F5 tornado traveled 219 mi (352 km) across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
Second, the last half of the 65-year U.S. tornado record had 40 percent fewer strong-to-violent tornadoes (EF3 rated or greater) than the first half. To claim that climate change is causing severe tornadoes is speculation, and directly opposite data publicly available from the National Weather Service (NWS).
Dr. Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville points out, "To claim that global warming is causing more tornadoes is worse than speculative; it is directly opposite to the clear observational evidence."
A graph of 50 years of tornado data from the NWS Storm Prediction Center (NWSPC) clearly illustrates the downward trend in violent U.S. tornadoes rated EF3 or greater since 1970.
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Dr. Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville points out, "To claim that global warming is causing more tornadoes is worse than speculative; it is directly opposite to the clear observational evidence."
1st bigger question: Did Climate Change cause Biden?
Because before the Liberals Global Cooling, Warming, and Climate Change (aka climate cycle) Hype.
Tornadoes were a regular occurrence in the USA. As a whole, the U.S. averages around 1,200 tornadoes annually and happen year round.
Yes there are some really bad ones. Note: When looking at the following numbers, remember the US population densities were much lower in those years.
317 deaths - May 17, 1840 - The Great Natchez Tornado.
305 deaths - May 27, 1896 - St. Louis-East St. Louis tornado.
747 deaths - March 18, 1925 - The Tri-State Tornado.
332 deaths - March 21, 1932 - The Deep South tornado outbreak.
249 deaths - April 5, 1936 - Tupelo-Gainesville tornado.
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We now have doppler radar, storm watchers, early warning to take shelter, years of modern data. On the other side we have death tolls of people caught totally unawares as reported in the sensationalized (I know) newspapers of the times. Science!
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[BBC] At the bottom of a cave, perhaps; or in a basement when the power shuts off. But there's usually some faint glow coming from somewhere. Even the night sky never seems truly black, not least because there's usually a star or two twinkling in the distance.
So it's hard to imagine a time when all that existed was darkness, when you could travel in any direction for millions of years and still see absolutely nothing.
But this is the story that scientists tell us, of the "dark ages" that gripped the Universe before the first stars ignited. And very shortly, they intend to show us that time, or rather how it ended - how the cosmos ultimately became filled with light.
They'll do it using the biggest telescope ever placed beyond the Earth: The James Webb Space Telescope.
Launching in the coming days, JWST is on a mission to look deeper into the Universe - and therefore further back in time - than even the legendary Hubble Space Telescope, which it succeeds.
[Aljazeera] French forces have left the city of Timbuktu, the latest sign the former colonial power is scaling down its presence in northern Mali nearly nine years after a military intervention that helped push back fighters that have overrun parts of the country.
It was in Timbuktu on February 2, 2013, that former French President Francois Hollande declared the start of France’s military offensive in Mali. On Tuesday, the French flag was lowered and the Malian flag raised in its place at a military base, where a force of about 150 soldiers had remained after France began withdrawing troops.
[WIRE] White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki faced intense questions on Tuesday over a variety of issues facing the administration as it battles low approval ratings from the American public.
One reporter pressed Psaki on the "thin" public schedule released for President Joe Biden and asked what Biden was doing today. The inquiry came as questions have continued to swirl about Biden’s mental fitness for office.
"Well, let’s see. The President has two local interviews he will be doing later this afternoon," Psaki responded. "He has a number of internal meetings with senior members of his staff that have happened throughout the course of the day today, his Presidential Daily Brief and I believe there’s some mayors who are visiting today as well."
"What’s the purpose of the meeting with the mayors?" the reporter asked.
"It’s not a meeting with the President with the mayors," Psaki said. "They’re here, I’m not going to get ahead of it beyond that."
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My high school US history teacher loved to recite an apocryphal story of how barrels of whiskey had to be opened in bathtubs on the White House lawn to lure unruly guests out of Andrew Jackson's inaugural ball.
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He's fading fast. They've got to come up with a Plan-B. The Harris rehab is in high gear. The Clintons are scrambling.
As long as he can function as a human teleprompter, Joe is the perfect spokes-droid for the Brandon Administration. But as he nears his expiration date, he becomes increasingly unreliable. Can't have the Prez glitching out public, giving the game away!
Harris is a non-starter. Too many negatives (that laugh alone!) and unreliable. She will need to be moved out of the way. That will require deft maneuvering or an untimely accident. Helicopters crash all the time.
Cthulu lies dreaming in a chardonnay fog, but will never be President. Hillary lies dreaming... I *know* I typed Hillary. Damn autocorrect! She could play the role of queen-maker though. Say, what is Chelsea doing these days? Chelsea is the least insane of all the name-brand Democrats I can think of. It's not like the Dems have a deep bench. Gretchen Whitmer, anyone?
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I will go out on a limb and state there will never be another Clinton or Boosh prexident in my lifetime (admittedly, that's not all that long)
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Still think the Nixon-Agnew-Ford maneuver's a real possibility.
1. VP is moved out -- Ambassador to France prob'y
2. New VP and heir-apparent is moved in
3. Magoo (aka Plugs the Hair-Apparent) steps down and New VP takes over
Only Q is which identity-politics box the New VP will tick: Alphabet Person or Noble Mulatta?
[American Greatness] In a letter to the Department of Justice last year, an anonymous Democrat whistleblower accused fellow Democrats in Pima County, Arizona of adding approximately 35,000 votes to each of the Democrat candidates in the 2020 election.
This information came out Monday, during an "ad hoc" hearing in Tucson, where Arizona State House and Senate members met to discuss election integrity issues in Pima County.
During the hearing, experts provided evidence and testimony about the voting irregularities that allegedly took place during the election, including ballots from people not living where they voted, and inflated voter rolls across the Democrat-leaning county.
Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem, who has received Trump’s endorsement for Arizona Secretary of State in 2022, read the letter. It was dated November 10, 2020, and addressed to the Criminal Division of the DOJ.
"Please be advised the Pima County Recorder, located at 240 N. Stone Avenue in Tucson, Arizona, 85701 in Pima County, Arizona, and the Democrat Party added fraud votes. In the initial count of the vote by mail (VBM) totals released at 8 pm on November 3, 2020, There are approximately 35,000 fraud votes added to each Democrat candidates’ vote totals. Candidates impacted include County, State, and Federal Election candidates. Through the utilization of the automated ballot count machines in Pima County Elections, My understanding is that 35,000 was embedded into each Democrat candidates’ total votes. Below are the meeting notes.
In a meeting I was invited to by the Democrat party in Pima County, Arizona on September 10, 2020, no phones or recording devices were allowed. A presentation was given including detailed plans to embed 35,000 votes in a spread configured distribution to each Democrat candidate’s vote totals.
When I asked, "How in the world would 35,000 votes be kept hidden, or from being discovered?" It was stated that spread distribution will be embedded across the total registered vote range and will not exceed the registered voter count. And the 35,000 was determined allowable for Pima County based on our county registered voter count.
It was also stated total voter turnout versus total registered voters determined how many votes we can embed. The embedding will also adjust based on voter turnout. Because the embedded votes are distributed sporadically, all embedded votes will not be found if audited because embeds are in groups of approximately 1,000. This is so the County Recorder can declare an oversight issue or error, as a group of 1,000 is a normal and acceptable error.
Maricopa County’s embed totals will be substantially larger than Pima, due to embeds being calculated based on the total number of registered voters. When I asked, "Has this ever been tested, and how do we know it works?" the response was, yes, this has been tested and has shown significant success in Arizona judicial retention elections, since 2014. Even undetectable in post audits because no candidate will spend the kind of funds needed to audit and contact voters to verify votes and the full potential of the total registered voters, which is more than 500,000 registered voters. This year our Secretary of State has removed precinct level detail from election night releases, so candidates can’t see precinct over-votes.
This is what I have from this meeting. Just thought I’d report this. Not sure if you can do anything since I was unable to have a recording device at this meeting. Thank You.’
The whistleblower reportedly said he/she wished to remain anonymous and not be included any investigation.
Finchem said lawmakers were copied on the email, and over the ensuing months, they executed a "very quiet, but fruitful investigation."
He also said that his team was able to verify that the IP address of the computer that sent the email is in Tucson, Arizona, but unfortunately, they wee not able to verify the identity of the whistleblower. Joe Biden’s DOJ reportedly refuses to investigate the allegations.
During the hearing, election experts described other potential election shenanigans in Pima County.
For instance, in the small town of Sells, Arizona, 1,375 residents were determined to be of "voting age." However, 2,762 people were registered to vote in the town — more than double the voting age population.
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^ They hate us:
For simply existing
For not hating ourselves
For voting incorrectly and therefore needing replaced
For not eliminating ourselves quickly enough though they have given us fentanyl
On and on.
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I suspect an anonymous letter not backed by a recording is pretty much worthless in court.
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^ It's called a "tip". See something, say something. With the DOJ refusing to investigate the Tip means the DOJ is a criminal entity. But you have to no longer stop at the acronym DOJ and go beyond it to see who the individuals are who make up the DOJ. Let's start with this:
Gary M. Restaino
United States Attorney
District of Arizona
Gary M. Restaino was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on October 27, 2021 and confirmed by the Senate on November 19, 2021. He was sworn in as the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona on November 23, 2021......
[IsraelTimes] Police trying to crack down on holy warrior group ’Returning to the Mount,’ whose members dress like Arabs in order to enter Jerusalem holy site, where Jewish prayer is banned
An holy warrior Jewish group arranges for its members to disguise themselves as Moslems in order to enter the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, where they quietly recite Jewish prayers while pretending to engage in Islamic worship, according to a report Monday.
The far-right Returning to the Mount group, which advocates Jewish illusory sovereignty on the Temple Mount, has prompted concerns among security officials, who warn that their actions could spark violence at the flashpoint holy site, Channel 13 news reported.
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[OneIndia] A top Pak terrorist belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) was killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Poonch district on Tuesday, officials said.
A search is underway to track down another terrorist, who was his accomplice, in the area, they said.
The Army and police launched an operation after receiving specific intelligence inputs about the presence of armed gunnies in Behramgala area, a defence spokesperson said.
In the early hours of Tuesday, a terrorist attempted to escape while firing at the security personnel, he said, adding that the troops retaliated, resulting in the encounter in which the terrorist was killed.
One AK-47 rifle, four magazines, one grenade, pouches and some Indian currency were recovered from the terrorist who was identified as Abu Zarara, hailing from Pakistain, the spokesperson said.
He said that in a major success and boost to counter-terrorist operations, a foreign terrorist, who was specially trained and brainwashed to operate in Rajouri-Poonch area with a possible aim of orchestrating a strike, was eliminated.
"This is the eighth terrorist to be eliminated this year. Recently, Haji Arif, a dreaded terrorist guide, was also eliminated on the LoC in the Rajouri sector," he said.
The joint efforts of the Army and police continue to show positive results in Rajouri-Poonch region due to the unwavering support of locals, officials said.
[Breitbart] A Polish border guard was injured over the weekend when a group of approximately 50 migrants colonists attempted to storm the Polish border with Belarus, attacking the border guards with rock and stones.
The incident took place near the village of Czeremsza along the border with Belarus and saw the border guards discover the group of 55 migrants colonists, who attacked the officials with stones, causing one official to be injured after a stone struck him in the face.
The soldier had to be treated by a military doctor according to a report from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... -funded website InfoMoslem colonists Migrants, who stated that the 55 migrants colonists were eventually detained by the officers and that the following day another 88 attempted to cross into Poland illegally.
The Polish border guard also wrote on Twitter that since the start of the month, at least 838 migrants colonists have made attempts to cross illegally from Belarus into Poland.
Just days before Saturday’s incident, the Polish government released footage of further festivities at the border between migrants colonists and Polish border guards, with migrants colonists yelling obscenities at officers in English while throwing various objects at them. Yeah, these are the immigrants you want... Ungrateful f*cks. Shoot at will
The festivities have become fairly common and have seen major incidents like the major confrontation in November that saw Poland deploy water cannons to stop groups of hundreds of migrants colonists, some of which were allegedly armed with stun grenades.
Polish front man for the Minister-Coordinator of Special Services Stanisław Żaryn predicted last month that the crisis on the border was not going to be solved any time soon, and stated that the Belarusian authorities were attempting to exhaust Poland’s border guards.
"The conflict on the Polish-Belarusian border starts to be estimated to last for a long time. It may also mean a cynical ploy to exhaust our soldiers and officers," Żaryn said.
"We are entering the conflict phase when each day starts to look alike. We are still dealing with repeated attacks by groups of foreigners supported by the Belarusian services. We can see that this conflict is starting to be a conflict estimated to last for a long time," he said.
[Breitbart] After nine years deployed in Mali, La Belle France is organising a drawdown, with troops preparing to leave the last of three bases in the far north of the insurgency-hit and poverty-wracked country.
French troops were sent to Mali in 2013 by then-president Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... to tackle the rebels affiliated to al-Qaeda or Islamic State
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There's an insurgency because the government hurts its people and cares for nothing but itself. No amount of foreign troops will ever cure that sickness. They just bring death.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security forces have arrested 11 students from An-Najah National University in Nablus who are suspected of supporting the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, terror group on campus, a military spokesperson says.
According to the Israel Defense Forces’ Arabic-language front man, the 11 suspects were members of the university’s Islamic Bloc, a Hamas-affiliated organization that exists on many Paleostinian campuses.
The front man, Lt. Col. Avihay Adraee, says the students are suspected of transferring funds to Hamas, organizing pro-Hamas rallies and spreading propaganda for the terror group "under the supervision and guidance of senior Hamas officials."
Adraee says the arrests were conducted by the IDF and Shin Bet security service in recent weeks.
[IsraelTimes] Several windows at a mosque in the eastern German city of Leipzig were broken after dozens of people set off fireworks, set fire to garbage cans and threw bottles at cars, police say. It isn’t clear whether the mosque was targeted deliberately.
The windows were broken on Monday evening, police tell news agency dpa. Before that, the group of about 80 people had marched nearby and thrown paint and stones at a police patrol car. Police estimated the total value of the damage caused during the incident at 30,000 euros (nearly $34,000).
The mosque — run by the Ottoman Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs, or DITIB
... the Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam Birliğ department of the Turkish government’s religious department, Turkey’s official religious affairs authority in Germany for the further aggrandizement of Sultan Recep Tayip Erdogan I “the much beloved”in recent years...
— appeared to be the only building that was damaged, but police don’t say whether that was on purpose and there was no word on whether there was any political motive.
There were no arrests, though officers took 12 people to a cop shoppe to register their identity. Police initially linked the damage to a march by what they believed was a left-wing group.
Red on green? That’s new.
They have opened an investigation into suspected breach of the peace.
[ET] Researchers say that they may have discovered the molecular-level cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
Scientists at the University of California—Riverside said in recent findings that the key to understanding Alzheimer’s may have to do with "tau" proteins that likely cause neurofibrillary tangles—which are found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Previously, researchers suggested that amyloid plaques, which are a buildup of amyloid peptides, may be the cause.
Researchers focused on the different structures a single molecule can manufacture, known as isomers.
"An isomer is the same molecule with a different three-dimensional orientation than the original. A common example would be hands. Hands are isomers of each other, mirror images but not exact copies. Isomers can actually have a handedness," Julian said.
Both amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are critical indicators that doctors look for when trying to diagnose Alzheimer’s.
"Roughly 20 percent of people have the plaques, but no signs of dementia," said UCR chemistry professor Ryan Julian in a statement. "This makes it seem as though the plaques themselves are not the cause."
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 'If this floating ice shelf breaks apart, the Thwaites Glacier will accelerate and its contribution to sea level rise will increase by as much as 25%,' the researchers shared during the presentation. I wonder why the bad guys aren't packing that baby with nukes to bring about the projected coastal flooding disaster?
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Oh ow! Climate change is not the only culprit here, but a study in August found that Thwaites Glacier is also melting because of the heat from Earth itself.
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Did they account for the counter effect of Artic ice buildup? The excuses these assholes continue to bombard us with for global cooling / warming / climate change is almost admirable in their level of persistence.
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And with that Ice
Italians can make
Gelato is a frozen dessert of Italian origin. Artisanal gelato in Italy generally contains 6-10% butterfat, which is lower than other styles of frozen dessert
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The headline says a 25 inch rise while te text says a 25 percent rise in the effect of the glacier on sea levels. That effect has been infinitesimal so far, so that a 25 percent rise of it will still be infinitesimal.
Is this artical a joke?)
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Stupid is the real "dark matter." It's everywhere, you can't actually see it, but you can't fail to see its effects on everything else in the universe.
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#14, the moment a tsunami wipes out either blue coast, or an iranian nuke wipes out a blue city, the dems will immediately demand that they get spotted more votes than there were deaths.
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#12 have we reached peak stupidity yet?
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity doesn't have. - AlbertEinstein
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As I recall, water ice takes up more volume than the same H2O when liquid.
yep. Water expands when it freezes. This is how rocks are cracked apart during the winter months and how prehistoric peoples made smaller rocks out of big rocks. They would pour water in holes drilled into a big rock in the winter, let it freeze, then build a fire over it to melt it, top it off, rinse and repeat. Got the bolder to split to the size they wanted.
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Another religion for people who don't believe in God. There are always going to be more of them as they are ill-served by the education system and the media they also worship.
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The ice they are talking about in the article is not floating. It is glacial ice from land that is at sea still attached to the land but resting on the sea floor. It is like a person standing in 6" of water in a bath tub. If they sit down in the tub the water will rise.
Jacob Michael Gaines, 24, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for assaulting a US Marshall with a hammer during an #antifa riot in Portland last year. Gaines crossed multiple state lines from Texas to Oregon. https://t.co/yxJwHFrEl0
#Afghanistan’s central bank says it is working to ensure the stability of the #afghani, a day after the currency lost almost 12 percent of its value against the dollar in a matter of hours amid a deepening economic crisis and soaring inflation.https://t.co/mp1yCn9FeK
The central bank issued a statement saying that it had held a number of meetings with foreign exchange dealers, representatives of commercial banks and the business sector to halt the fall in the afghani.
"Based on its strategic planning policies, Da Afghanistan Bank has always tried to avoid volatility that could be harmful to the purchasing power of the people," it said.
[KhaamaPress] United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... reportedly plans to send to Afghanistan up to $20 million in cash every single week until March 2022 to contain the problem of lack of cash in Afghanistan.
The amount of money will be delivered to Afghanistan’s International Bank (AIB) and will then be either distributed in Afghanistan or spent on things that are most important to buy.
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] A venture capital firm backed by the Chinese government is a major investor in an artificial intelligence company that counts Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo's husband as a top executive, a potential conflict of interest as her agency works to counter China on the world stage.
Danhua Capital, based in California but established with the financial backing of the Chinese Communist Party, is one of the main funders of PathAI, an artificial intelligence firm that employs Raimondo's husband, Andy Moffit, as its chief people officer. Danhua Capital has been invested in PathAI since at least 2017, when it joined five other funders to contribute $11 million worth of seed funding for the artificial intelligence startup. It is unclear how much Danhua Capital has invested in PathAI, a private company, but the Chinese firm lists PathAI on its website as one of its featured "biotech and health" investments.
Danhua Capital was established and funded with the help of the Chinese government as part of its "penetration of Silicon Valley," according to a 2018 Reuters report on the firm. The Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a liberal think tank with former staffers now in the highest ranks of the Biden administration, testified to Congress in 2018 that Danhua Capital's mission is to use its capital to narrow the technology gap between China and the United States.
Neither Raimondo nor PathAI responded to requests for comment on Danhua Capital's investment. As commerce secretary, Raimondo is tasked with managing the U.S. business relationship with countries across the globe, and she has emerged as one of the most pro-China voices in the administration. In a September Wall Street Journal interview, Raimondo said the United States should strengthen economic ties with China, arguing "robust" commercial engagement with China would "mitigate any potential tensions" with the global rival.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Raimondo's agency was pushing back on efforts by others in the Biden administration to block Chinese technology firms from working with American companies. Commerce officials are arguing internally, according to the report, that the administration's tougher approach to China would hurt U.S. companies.
Raimondo said on Thursday she would not urge U.S. companies to pull sponsorships from the upcoming Beijing Olympics after President Joe Biden announced a diplomatic boycott of the games over human rights abuses. "What individual companies do is entirely up to them," Raimondo said. "We’re not going to pressure them one way or another."
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Raimondo's agency was pushing back on efforts by others in the Biden administration to block Chinese technology firms from working with American companies
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Huh. Usually the cause of these collisions is unattended bridges on both ships. The sea is big and sitting on the bridge with nothing to do but watch the autopilot for days on end gets old. There's an Xbox in your cabin calling your name.
The Arab Coalition confirmed it has carried out 31 operations against the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen’s Marib and al-Jawf areas, according to a statement.https://t.co/UwuLmUn51u
[OneIndia] This day will be remembered always and it was on this day in 2001 forces of Evil struck at the Indian Parliament.
The attack on Parliament took place two years after the Kandahar hijacking, which was carried out to secure the release of Maulana Masood Azhar ...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India... Post his release, he went back to Pakistain and set up the Jaish-e-Mohammad Continued on Page 49
[Breitbart] The 14-year-old son of an employee of Philadelphia’s BOLD Pizza shot a suspect in the face Thursday as the suspect was allegedly strangling the employee.
The incident occurred “just before 10 p.m.,” after the alleged robber entered the store and fought with the employee over the cash register, FOX 29 reported.
As the altercation escalated the suspect allegedly began to strangle the employee, at which point the employee’s 14-year-old grabbed a handgun from under the counter and shot the suspect in the face.
The suspect fled the scene but police followed the blood trail and apprehended him. He was hospitalized in critical condition.
Chief Inspector Scott Small said, “It was clearly a sign of a robbery because the cash register was open. There was money on the floor and there was also some broken glass inside the store and there was also a large amount of blood.”
Police believe the wounded suspect to be one of three men who robbed a CVS Pharmacy just prior to the alleged attempted robbery of BOLD Pizza, WPVI noted. A happier turnout than the face shooting video we saw the other day.
[ClarionNews] The Supreme Court on Monday voted 6-3 to deny relief for New York healthcare workers who were denied religious exemptions from the mandates to submit to COVID-19 experimental jabs.
Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s left yet again. In October, the pair joined the left to deny emergency relief to Maine healthcare workers seeking the same exemption in a 6-3 decision along the same lines. The request was presented to Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
In both cases, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the dissenting opinion with Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas joining him in defending freedom.
In this decision, nobody in the court’s majority bothered to provide justification for their vote with it only stating that the “application for injunctive relief presented to JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR and by her referred to the Court is denied.”
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F*cking cowards. Knew this kind of thing would happen with these two. Each one is terrified of being called an evil god-worshipping dogma-following Catholic rayciss fascist etc by his or her lefty law school colleagues
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Yeah, NOW!
I remember being told — by an accountant, of course — that accountants have the highest average IQ of all the professions. Separately, by the criteria applied by the article, lots of people could be considered underachievers, which means there is plenty of brain power to be applied, or being applied, in unexpected places, a very good thing indeed.
But the odds are high this will turn out to be among the large proportion of scientific studies that can’t be reproduced.
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If this is true, then we're all in a lot of trouble.
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People refuse to consider: Some people are insanely brilliant at a certain thing, and hopeless at everything else. This is what gets us Bill Gates believing he's the savior of mankind when he's really a guy who made a lucky business deal. He really hasn't written any meaningful code since his 8080 BASIC compiler (how much of that did Paul Allen write?) Same thing gets us Michael Bloomberg deciding he can tell us who needs a gun. Gets us every single Hollyweird arsehole telling us how to live.
When I need a brain surgeon, I'm not picking Lin Manuel Miranda. Even though many people would look to him to remind them when to breathe.
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when they say smarter than you do they mean smarter than a Daily Mail reader?
Most 'super-smart' folk have specialized in their education and had the discipline to study and see it through. That may not mean they are smarter but it does say a lot about them, vs the common.
[Garowe] Police in Kenya foiled an attempt by Somalia-based al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... hard boyz to conduct an Imam in one of the Mosques at Konton village in Wajir Sub County in the northeastern part of the Horn of Africa nation.
Reports indicate that the hard boyz stormed the Mosque and took hostage about 40 faithful who were present. The gang ordered them out and tried to drive them into a thicket heading to the nearby Kenya-Somalia border.
According to police records, their target was the imam who doubles as a National Police Reservist who was leading the prayers then. It was in the process that gunshots were fired forcing the gang to abandon their mission and escape.
Wajir County police commander Hilary Toroitich confirmed the incident saying that no injuries were reported. "We have sent a reinforcement to help in tracking the gang," he said.
The area has been a center of interest as gangs have in the past kidnapped government officials and killed them without making demands. Chief was in 2019 killed in the area after an abduction.
Al-Shabaab bandidosholy warriors are behind the series of incidents that have grounded operations. Three al-Shabaab bandidosholy warriors were on Saturday killed by a bomb they were setting up that went off accidentally at a village in Damasa, Mandera County.
Police said the incident happened in Nus Dariq village outside Damasa in Kenya. The terrorists’ bodies were discovered long after the incident had happened.
Officials at the Mandera County Government for instance in June 2021 stopped the movement of their vehicles over increasing terror-related incidents in the area. There are fears of more attacks after locals reported sighting more button men roaming in separate places while planning to strike.
Elsewhere in Somalia, the Somali National Army [SNA] and regional forces of Southwest State have killed several Alshabab members in planned security operations in El-Doon, Yaqle, Saydheliw, Ayroble . Asha-gabo, Magurto, and Buloburte-Jadid under Baidoa district, on Monday.
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Imagine what happens if people in the crowd jeer and throw rotten food at them.
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This is just an 'Optics Visit'.
"Jeez, we'd better do something!"
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Optics is what they call the bottles on show behind the bar. Just sayin'...
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Second stringers coming off the bench to keep the locals from screaming, "Let's go Brandon!"
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And it won't work. These women hitched their stars to their men years ago and they will be equally viable as flak targets. And the left stream media will screech about how horrendous the peasants are.
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What is a Second Gentleman, official title of the escort when the husband isn't "up to snuff"?
[Breitbart] Former Danish Migration Minister Inger Støjberg has been sentenced to 60 days in prison after being convicted of illegally separating child brides from migrant men in 2016.
The former Minister for Immigration and Integration, who served in the role from 2015 to 2019, was found guilty of violating the Ministerial Responsibility Act on Monday over her brief policy of separating couples — predominantly migrant men with underage wives — during the height of the European migrant crisis.
I missed a whole series of articles. This is the first of four by Oleg Airapetov
[REGNUM] Power in Kiev shortly after the February Revolution was seized by the Central Rada. It was headed by prof. M. S. Hrushevsky, the General Secretariat headed by the writer V. K. Vinnichenko became the executive body. Hrushevsky was the author of the concept of "Ukraine-Rus," since 1894 he taught at the University of Lemberg (present-day Lvov).
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[KhaamaPress] Deputy Minister of Information and culture and spokesperson of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Zabiullah Mujahid said that China will provide Afghanistan with over 500 tons of foodstuff soon.
Mujahid in an interview with radio free of Afghanistan said the country’s recent consignment of humanitarian aid with Afghanistan contained medication, 76 thousand blankets, and 41 thousand jumpers.
It was the second shipment of Chinese humanitarian aids to Afghanistan that weighed 15 tons.
In the meantime, Afghanistan’s minister of refugees and repatriates has said that China will soon provide the people of Afghanistan with 500 tons of flour and 7 tons of rice that will be given to people in need.
Bandits have murdered Shila Ojebola, a staff member of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... ) in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to People’s Gazette, Ojebola was murdered by the bandidos after the family had paid N7million ransom to secure his release.
Ojebola, according to sources, was recently promoted to a manager at the FIRS’ Medium and Small Tax Office in the Lugbe area of the FCT.
The promotion was said to have come when Ojebola was in the bandidos’ camp after he was kidnapped along the Abuja-Kaduna Highway about three weeks ago.
"He was promoted to the post of a manager while in their camp," said a family source.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... it was gathered learnt that the police and State Security Service (SSS) were involved in the payment of the N7million ransom.
Over the past year, the Abuja-Kaduna Highway has become a danger zone with massive kidnappings and killings of travellers.
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[MAIL] A secretive unit within US Customs and Border Patrol peered into the personal and financial records of government staff, nonprofit workers and up to 20 journalists from outlets like the New York Times and the Associated Press.
Some of the searches were part of a probe into media leaks during the Trump administration. One investigation, dubbed 'Operation Whistle Pig' in reference to a brand of whiskey, ensnared a Senate staffer who was having an affair with a reporter.
'When a name comes across your desk, you run it through every system you have access to, that's just status quo, that's what everyone does,' CBP agent Jeffrey Rambo told the department's inspector general in a 500-page report obtained by Yahoo News and published Saturday.
Earlier this year, a prosecutor declined to press charges against Rambo, who continues to work for CBP.
News of the searches spurred immediate backlash from media outlets and privacy advocates. CBP says its actions were governed by 'well-established protocols.'
[FoxNews] Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who represents a district that covers parts of eastern Brooklyn and southwestern Queens in Congress, expressed support Tuesday for a bill passed by the New York City Council allowing hundreds of thousands of noncitizens to vote in local elections.
"The legislation that passed the city council would permit legal permanent residents to be able to vote in municipal elections," Jeffries, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, told reporters. "And the law permits a city to make that determination. We, of course, exist in a system of federalism. New York City has made that determination. It's a determination that I fully support."
The measure, which would affect green card holders and those with work authorizations and was approved by the city council last week, doesn’t include state or federal elections, and people in the country illegally would not be allowed to vote, according to FOX 5 in New York City.
The city would be the largest to allow noncitizens to vote, extending the privilege to roughly 800,000 people.
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Imagine the future entertainment of states needing to petition for re-admission to the Union and having to certify that they no longer let aliens vote. Delicious.
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The #US is growing increasingly frustrated with the crackdown on press freedom in #Lebanon and the use of military courts to try civilians, officials have told Al Arabiya English in recent days.https://t.co/UHaK94TJi0
[IsraelTimes] The leader of La Belle France’s ‘far-right’ Zouaves group has been arrested over violence that broke out at a rally for French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, AFP reports, citing a police source.
Last week, a brawl between Zouaves partisans
...something about a French army unit in Algeria back in the day, so one imagines it now refers to some sort of French anti-Moslem colonist group..
.and an anti-racism group SOS Racisme
...a fighting arm of the Socialist Party in France, but really just another branch of Antifa...
broke out a rally for Zemmour, a child of Algerian Jews who is running on an anti-immigration platform and has two convictions for hate speech. He was injured during the fighting.
Shortly after Zemmour started speaking at the December 6 rally, fighting broke out and chairs were thrown at activists who stood up with "No to Racism" written on their T-shirts.
The country’s interior minister said Sunday he was seeking to have the Zouaves disbanded.
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'Moving heaven and earth' are actually unnecessary. The implementation of Dominion voting machines, 'mail-in-voting' and 'drop off boxes' are all that is required.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Grandma Francill White, 53, and her daughter Kimberly Cherry, 28, have been identified as two of five alleged looters who made off with more than $1 million in designer booty from upscale San Francisco stores
White has posted pictures of herself on Facebook wearing a Covid mask from Louis Vuitton — one of the targeted stores in Union Square
She also posted a shot of herself sitting astride a Harley Davidson, flashing a large wad of banknotes
White’s life of crime dates back 30 years with her first conviction – for stealing from a woman named Jane Snethen – in 1989
Despite charges – and 14 previous convictions ranging from shoplifting to attempted murder – all five looters are now back on the street on bond
Police have now stationed a mobile command center in the area. Clusters of cops can be seen patrolling every corner of Union Square 24 hours a day
The spate of lootings has been blamed on ‘woke’ San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin and a 2014 California law that made theft under $950 a misdemeanor
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Most of the punishments that were doled out to such thieves were proscribed by the "cruel and unusual punishment" ban in the Constitution. While mutilation is indeed cruel, it did make a person readily identifiable to all as a thief.
Maybe in the future there will be a biometric way to accomplish the same result? Naaaah. The ACLU would sue for sure.
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Maybe in the future there will be a biometric way to accomplish the same result?
Be very careful what you wish for, MM. ACLU might actually agree to implants if it showed who criticized someone or didn't follow government mandates.
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People love sci-fi tales of having to painfully excise an implant. Most would never survive a properly directed HERF blast, let alone a few seconds of a gamma knife.
The biometric approach I'm thinking of is facial recognition and doors that can't be casually breached. I'm frankly surprised nobody is currently selling a system that drops everything in jewelry store show cases into a vault below the floor if an alarm is triggered.
Yes, I know that facial recognition is "harming the rights of chador wearers." Tough. Those people can afford bonded "buying agents." Problem. Solution.
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[Rudaw] Iraq hanged three men in Nasiriyah city on Tuesday for terror offences, two security sources told AFP, with an international rights group saying executions do not bring justice to the victims of crimes committed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS).
The sources told AFP on Tuesday that one of the men was accused of being involved in a boom-mobileing in the city in summer 2013, and another was guilty of taking part in a similar attack in Karbala province.
ISIS controlled swathes of Iraqi territory in 2014 but the group was territorially defeated three years later. Iraqi security forces have made a large number of arrests since then, executing some.
According to Amnesia Amnesty International, 100 people were executed in 2019 but the number dropped to 45 in 2020.
Iraq executed six people, including three for terror charges, in late August, and executed three others in late January.
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They won't be terrorizing anyone anymore. Their "future victims" are good with that.
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[NewsFrontInfo] Another Ukrainian serviceman was blown up by his own mine. Indiscriminate mining often causes non-combat losses in the ranks of the Armed Forces.
During a briefing, Alexander Mazeikin, an officer of the press service of the People's Militia of the LPR, spoke about the new case. informs Luhansk Information Center.
"According to our sources, another incident occurred in the area of responsibility of the 57th brigade at the positions of the 42nd battalion near the settlement of Krymskoye.
As a result of the lack of minefields, Lieutenant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Savello was wounded," said a representative of the defense ministry.
Mazeykin also drew attention to the fact that the Ukrainian security forces are using anti-personnel mines. Thus, Kiev violates the Ottawa Treaty.
In addition, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refuses to take responsibility and are trying to expose the incident to the fault of the People's Militia of the LPR. She allegedly carried out "remote mining".
At the same time, the militants are afraid of new such cases. The head of the engineering service of the 57th brigade was instructed to carefully check the area around the Krymskoye one and find out the location of the ammunition, which was installed without drawing up the necessary accounting documentation.
Lugansk intercepts Ukrainian drone Rewritten from the source
[NewsFrontInfo] According to a news article which appeared on News Front website, Lugansk soldiers intercepted a drone near the settlement of Lozovoye.
The drone was under the command of soldiers of the Ukrainian 30th Brigade. The Lugansk spokesman said the drone, a quadrocopter, was to be used for spotting tube artillery over Lozovoye.
A Lugansk electronic intelligence unit disabled the drone, forcing it down.
Justin C. Moore, an #antifa member who allegedly conspired with comrades to make & use homemade explosives against police in Seattle last year, was arrested by federal authorities. Leftist verified accounts originally said police planted the evidence. https://t.co/MnfQ7RZWyM
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^ It maybe did. Of course, the mafia was not on social media.
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Didn't it take the FBI thirty years before the first Mafia arrest?
Pretty much. I was watching some stuff on John Gotti & Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano last night. They had footage of a soldier in the Bonnano family giving Congressional testimony, and J. Edgar Hoover wanted nothing to do with it. That effort (mafia roll-up) started to ramp up with Bobby Kennedy and eventually Rudy Guliani finished it, more or less.
[Rudaw] Iraq’s embassy in Poland will offer Iraqi migrants colonists stuck on the Polish-German border laissez-passers to voluntarily return home, an official said on Monday as thousands of people continue to take dangerous routes in attempt to cross to western Europe.
"In response to appeals from a number of Iraqi migrants colonists in the Republic of Poland, a delegation from the Embassy of the Republic of Iraqi in Warsaw is heading to the German-Polish border, for the purpose of granting laissez-passers to Iraqi citizens wishing to voluntarily return to Iraq," Ahmed al-Sahaf, spokesperson for Iraq’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
According to Sahaf, there are 403 Iraqi migrants colonists on the German-Polish border.
Thousands of Iraqi and Kurdish people have traveled to the Polish border in recent months, where they hope to cross over then make their way to Germany. In response, Poland has tightened its border security. Some migrants colonists on the Belarus-Poland border have sustained injuries, and several others have bit the dust.
Last month, the German foreign office denied rumors of picking up migrants colonists on the Belarus border into Germany.
Poland has also refused to take in any migrants colonists, instead calling on them to return home. However for those already in Poland, the choice remains between returning to Iraq and reaching their destination next door.
Germany's new foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, expressed solidarity last week with Poland, but has called for the humanitarian treatment of migrants colonists and refugees stuck near the country’s border with Belarus, particularly as temperatures drop.
Erbil and Baghdad have accused Minsk of exploiting the migrants colonists for political gains against the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . Iraq suspended the work of both the honorary embassy of Belarus in Baghdad and the consulate in Erbil in an effort to prevent its citizens from traveling to Minsk.
Iraq began offering repatriation flights last month, returning over 3,000 Iraqi and Kurdish migrants colonists from Minsk.
Around 37,000 people left Kurdistan and Iraq in the first ten months of 2021, according to the Summit (Lutka) Foundation for Refugee and Displaced Affairs.
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[RIA Novosti] State Duma deputies in the second and third readings supported a bill on the organization of public power in the regions. Among other things, the document prohibits the leaders of the subjects of the Federation from being called "presidents" and allows them to be elected for more than two consecutive terms.
The authors of the initiative were Senator Andrei Klishas and Deputy Pavel Krasheninnikov . The first reading took place on November 9, and the day before it was re-examined by members of the Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation.
As the press service of the committee explained to RIA Novosti, the return of the project is due to technical, not conceptual changes. So, in the second reading, support was received for a proposal according to which the supreme executive body of a subject can be called not only "government," but also in another way, based on historical and national traditions. According to Krasheninnikov, more than 200 amendments were received.
The speaker of the chamber, Viacheslav Volodin, noted that the initiative is part of the systematic work on updating the legislation, which is necessary after the adoption of amendments to the Constitution.
The document defines the principles of the activities of the authorities in the constituent entities of the Federation. At the same time, it is allowed to transfer part of the powers from the federal to a lower level, if this does not contradict the Basic Law. In addition, it is stipulated that regional laws and regulations cannot contradict the provisions of the Federal Law or the Constitution.
The deputies also supported the amendment of the legislation regarding the right to be elected to the post of the highest official. Now the head of the region cannot nominate his candidacy for the third time in a row, they want to abandon this restriction.
The number of terms in office of governors will be determined by the local legislature. Also, the law will enable local parliaments to work remotely.
At the same time, the authors of the draft propose to provide for a clause according to which the term of office of the head of the region and parliament will be five years. Now it cannot exceed five years.
State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve Kazan Kremlin
In addition, the current ban on the use of the word "president" in the title of the position of the head of a constituent entity of the Federation remains. The State Council of Tatarstan opposed this, where the head is named in this way, but the objections and proposals of the republican deputies were rejected.
In addition, the initiative suggests that the president can release the governor from his duties due to a loss of trust, or if members of the local legislature express no confidence in him. In general, according to the bill, the head of state can terminate the powers of the heads of regions for any reason.
Finally, the document obliges to create at the regional level control and accounting bodies that will check budgets and extra-budgetary funds.
Nearly 90,000 Hong Kongers have applied for resettlement in #Britain under a new visa scheme offering a pathway to citizenship, London says as it issues a report condemning #China’s crackdown on dissent in the former colony.https://t.co/7lOpz3Ho2V
[DailyWire] Kathy Davies — the woman at the center of a legal battle for her right to try Ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment — received her first and second dose of Ivermectin on Monday evening at 8:45 pm EST and again Tuesday morning around 9:00 am EST after a court order forced the hospital to comply with her family’s wishes, The Daily Wire can confirm.
On Monday, The Daily Wire reported that Fauquier Health hospital in Warrenton, Virginia, was found in contempt of court after refusing to obey a previous court order ruling that Davies had the right to try Ivermectin as part of her COVID-19 treatment plan. The week prior, Fauquier Health had gone back and forth with the Davies family and Virginia’s 20th Judicial Court, arguing why they could not give the mother Ivermectin.
Playing Devils Advocate.
What's to say the Hospital Staff actually injected Ivermectin and not something else. In order to prove their actions and "FDA steered opinions" on ivermectin were justified?
But the flip side.
Having yet delayed treatment again and against court orders. If anything now bad happens to the Mother, the Hospital Mgt. is screwed and some doctors are going to lose their medical licenses.
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Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine function as ionophores, they open a cellular door and allow Zinc ions into the cell.. Zinc disrupts viral replication. Without administering Zinc at the same time, Ivermectin is ineffective.
[FreeBeacon] Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) spoke at an awards ceremony over the weekend hosted by a Communist Party affiliate whose leaders used the event to recruit potential members to the organization.
Blumenthal, one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, presented certificates of special recognition from the Senate to three winners of the "Amistad Award," given annually by the Connecticut People’s World Committee, an affiliate of the Communist Party USA and the Marxist People’s World news site.
Blumenthal appeared even as Democratic leaders have downplayed allegations that many in the party support socialist or communist policies. President Joe Biden distanced himself from the left-wing ideologies during the 2020 presidential campaign, at one point bragging that he defeated a socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), in the primaries. Blumenthal used his speech at the ceremony to tout Democratic legislative policies, including voting rights reform, ending the filibuster and the Build Back Better Act, according to the Yankee Institute, a free market think tank in Connecticut that reported details of the event.
Blumenthal was introduced at the event by Lisa Bergmann, a Communist Party member who blamed corporations for the "imperialism that exists in our world that is undermining the labor and environment."
Bergmann and her fellow communist emcee, Ben McManus, issued invitations at the ceremony to join the Communist Party.
Blumenthal’s wealth is so vast—one estimate puts it at $100 million—that he has sometimes been unaware of all of his investments, including in a real estate development company linked to the Chinese government. Blumenthal said he was unaware of his investment in U.S. Shanghai LLC., which is listed on his annual financial disclosure, until contacted for comment by the Washington Free Beacon earlier this year. Blumenthal’s wealth comes mostly from his wife, a member of a New York real estate dynasty.
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President Joe Biden distanced himself from the left-wing ideologies during the 2020 presidential campaign, at one point bragging that he defeated a socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), in the primaries.
Joe did not defeat Bernie in the primaries. Bernie would have beaten Joe if the primaries had been conducted in a truly democratic manner. But everybody knew that the Democrats could not cheat enough for Bernie to beat Trump in the general election. So, yeah, Joe defeated Bernie in a backroom deal, the key feature of which was that Joe agreed to adopt and implement Bernie's agenda. All of the other Democrat primary candidates then dropped out of the race so that Joe could run as a moderate while the MSM pummeled Orange Mad Bad with one misleading and negative bit of fake news after another.
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Mod or not, I'll take this as Snark of the Day:
#3 And the rotten corpse of Gus Hall will be used as an armature, to save gas.
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He often misspoke about his "Marine Corps" experiences in Viet Nam especially addressing veteran groups.
His last deferment landed him a Marine reserve assignment in Washington which assured he not serve in Viet Nam.
[ToloNews] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the engagement with the Islamic Emirate is necessary, but added that that it should be conditional.
Speaking at a presser, Borrel said the conditions for engagement consist of the five benchmarks that EU had highlighted in September, and the Islamic Emirate should make progress on those benchmarks.
"We share with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... the understanding that some operational engagement with the interim government is necessary, but without granting them any legitimacy," he said. "This engagement has to be conditional on progress made by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... along the five benchmarks that we defined back in September."
On September 3, EU Foreign Ministers in a meeting in Slovenia set five benchmarks that lay the foundation for the bloc’s engagement with the Islamic Emirate.
The following are the benchmarks that the Islamic Emirate must reach:
• Afghanistan should not serve as a base for the export of terrorism to other countries
• Respect for human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... , especially women’s rights, the rule of law and freedom of media
• Formation of an inclusive and representative government
• Allow free access to humanitarian aid provided by the EU
• Provide safe passage for foreign nationals and at-risk Afghans
Borrel said he had spoken with Qatar Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman al-Thani about the situation in Afghanistan. Qatar plays a key role in the EU’s engagement with the Islamic Emirate, he said.
"As you know, Qatar plays a strategic role in dealing with the situation in Afghanistan on various tracks. It facilitates our interactions with the Taliban interim authorities, it ensures safe passage for those in need, facilitates the delivery of humanitarian support," he said.
Borrel also said the EU will expand its cooperation with its partners in Central Asia, adding that Afghanistan is also important in that matter.
[KhaamaPress] White House has again denied the release of over $9.5 billion of Afghanistan’s frozen fund and said that this was a complicated process and will not allow the Taliban to access the money.
Spokeswoman of the White House Jen Psaki reacted to the recent statements of Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister over the release of funds and added that the decision will be made after consulting allies.
Jen Psaki named the following three reasons for not releasing the assets,
Families of the victims of September 11 have made plea for the money to be given to them. The plea is important one.
US still recognized the Taliban as a terror group and most of the officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan are in black list of UN.
US is yet to get a clear answer over the money not to be used by the Taliban and how the money will be given to Afghan people.
The thing about terrorists is that they tend to prefer violence to reasoned discussion.
[An Nahar] Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, officials buried three of their members Tuesday who were killed by gunfire in a tense Paleostinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... days earlier. The holy warrior group accused members of a rival faction of the deadly shooting. Ayman Shanaa, an official with the holy warrior group, told mourners that Fatah militia members were behind the shootings, which he called a "heinous and cowardly crime."
There are tens of thousands of Paleostinian refugees and their descendants in Lebanon, most living in refugee camps. Fatah is the political faction of Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... and Hamas rules the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
The deadly violence took place at a Hamas-organized funeral Sunday in the Burj Shamali camp.
...also written Burj al-Shemali...
Shanaa called it "a premeditated crime" that aims to undermine security and stability in the refugee camps in Lebanon.
The funeral was held in the southern city of Sidon and attended by several thousand people, many of whom raised the green Hamas flag.
Shanaa called for handing the perpetrators "known to all" to the Lebanese security agencies.
Lebanese security forces don't operate inside about 12 Paleostinian refugee camps scattered around the Mediterranean country, where security is in the hands of Paleostinian factions who often compete for clout.
The violence started after a series of massive explosions in Burj Shamali late Friday, which Lebanese officials said ignited in an ammunition depot.
Hamas, which is powerful in the camp, denied it was a weapons depot and said the earth-shattering kabooms started with an electrical short-circuit in a storage area for oxygen bottles.
One Hamas member was killed in the earth-shattering kabooms. During his funeral on Sunday, gunfire erupted leaving three people dead and several injured.
The source of the shooting was not clear at the time and Paleostinian officials had different accounts of what happened. Shanaa's comments Tuesday were the most direct public accusation against Fatah, which had no immediate comment.
Tensions between Paleostinian factions in Lebanon often turn into violence but are usually quickly contained within the overcrowded camps.
[FoxNews] Older adults who drink moderate amounts of alcohol may have a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and a lower risk of mortality from all causes, compared to those who do not drink, according to a study published last month in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. Now about that moderate part...
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[REGNUM] Taliban officials in Balkh, Takhar and Jowzjan provinces have introduced new restrictions on the transmission of women's voices and music in the media. This is reported by Ariana News with reference to the report of the Committee to Protect Afghan Journalists.
The restrictions apply, in particular, to the appearance on the air of women journalists, as well as women in TV series, films and advertisements in the province of Gore.
In Balkh province, the Taliban for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice reportedly banned the broadcasting of music in the media and also ordered women journalists to wear hijab.
They still have jobs and can be seen — not nearly the retreat to the past as elsewhere in the Talib caliphate.
In the province of Takhar, a ban has been announced on the airing of TV series and films in which the faces of women actors are shown. Broadcasting of female voices through the media is also prohibited. In the province of Jowzjan, a ban has been introduced on the broadcasting of music on audio media.
At the same time, the media in the Ghor province were allowed to broadcast music and entertainment programs, but on the condition that Islamic norms were observed in the programs and announcements.
Note that on the 30th of the month of Akrab (November 21), the Taliban Ministry of Education issued an instruction on the publication of video materials in Afghanistan.
According to this instruction, the publication of female images in films and programs is prohibited. One of the points of this instruction states that women journalists in the media must wear hijab, and it is also prohibited on television to broadcast foreign films and series that contradict the laws of Islam.
The Afghan Free Journalists Association previously reported that over the past four months, about 2,000 women journalists in the country have lost their jobs, many of them forced to flee the country.
The vice-president of the association, Abdul Muid Hashemi, named among the main reasons for this economic problems, the security situation and restrictions imposed by the new leadership of the country.
#3
I am damn glad I bought my new roof early last year. Ditto the PC I built a few months ago.
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From the amazing Mrs. Ret the other night,” What’s this crap about retirees and Social Security recipients living on a fixed income? Aren’t we all?
Not like you can walk into the boss’s office at Spacely Sprockets and tell him that you need a bump this month because bills are getting too high with any reasonable chance of succeeding.
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Counterf@iters, bank robbers and safe crackers can adjust their incomes on demand.
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Oh, I forgot. Politicians can too.
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Prices are a little higher, but seriously, only about $8-12/$100 spent. If your living that thinly, you have nobody to blame but yourself, there are plenty of places costs can be cut if times are that dire.
There are constant gripes and complaints here about prices and how bad the government is for not fixing it, but complain and moan about government being too big in the next breath.This is raw capitalism at work doing what it does. Pick a stance and stick to it - get the government involved or keep it small, you can't have it both ways.
Oh yeah, anyone care to provide evidence of a fraudulent election, outside of Trump crying about losing but providing no evidence or a poorly constructed facebook meme? Why haven't McCarthy, McConnell, Thune, Barrasso, Blunt or any other republican leaders planted their flag on this hill and held the line if it were true? Oh, wait, I'm sure they are sellouts right?
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^ If you can't afford to spend more, it's your fault. Yosemite Pelosi.
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That’s absolutely correct, Your expenses are your responsibility, not the government’s or mine. Let capitalism adjust the market, not artificially adjusted by the government. You make the same point those who want student debt erased. It’s their debt, their responsibility. Nobody made them take out those loans, just like nobody made you make poor personal fiscal decisions so you cannot absorb 8-10% increases in cost caused by smaller government and free markets running prices.
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Yosemite: inflation of this sort isn't caused by market forces but by the idiotic federal government policy of shooting $5 trillion through a bazooka into an economy which these shitheads largely shut down. IOW they manufactured a supply squeeze at the same time they pumped up the Mother of All Luquidity Bubbles.
Unlike the 1970s spikes -- whose causes includes incompetence but more importantly, two separate oil embargoes -- today's entirely predictable inflation spike is 100% on Magoo, Yellen, Powell and the sh!t-for-brains Capitol Hill Democrats.
Those sh!theads created this mess. They own it -- full stop.
[DW] The EU has targeted individuals working with Russia's Wagner Group, a private military contractor, which the bloc said is involved in "serious human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses" in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... on Monday imposed sanctions on the Russian-based private military contractor known as the Wagner Group, which is accused of carrying out "hybrid warfare" on behalf of the Kremlin.
"They represent a threat and create instability in a number of countries around the world,'' EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told news hounds Monday after a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
The foreign ministers decided to "target the Wagner group itself, and eight individuals and three entities connected to it," according to a statement. The sanctions include asset bans and travel freezes intended to limit the group's operations.
The statement added that those who have been targeted "are involved in serious human rights abuses, including torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings, or in destabilizing activities in some of the countries they operate in."
The countries where Wagner is said to operate include Libya, Mali, Syria, Ukraine and the Central African Republic.
WHAT IS THE WAGNER GROUP?
The Wagner Group is a private military contractor that has been involved in flashpoints around the world. It has a controversial reputation primarily due to the conduct of its personnel, but also because of who leads and finances the organization.
EU politicians have said the group should be considered as a "proxy organization" for the Russian state. The EU said the group is "spreading its malign influence ... notably in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... " of Africa, which includes Mali. Germany and La Belle France have objected to the presence of Wagner Group fighters in Mali.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said the group has a "legitimate" purpose in Mali, as it was invited by the transitional government. Moscow has said the group does not represent the Russian government.
Since 2014, rights groups and media reports have linked the Wagner Group to separatist insurrection in eastern Ukraine. It has been in the crosshairs of the US and the EU for a number of years.
Dmitry Utkin, who is believed to be the paramilitary group's commander, was Monday's list of eight sanctioned individuals.
Utkin is a former military intelligence officer and is accused of ordering the torture and murder of a Syrian deserter, which was filmed and made global headlines.
Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin is understood to be the financier of the Wagner Group and is said to be a close associate of President Putin.
In 2018, the US imposed sanctions on Prigozhin. as he was indicted in the US probe into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. The EU followed up with its own punitive measures targeting the Russian national.
EU MULLS SANCTIONS IN RESPONSE TO UKRAINE
The move on Wagner Group comes as the EU foreign ministers warned of an unprecedented economic response, should Russia carry out an invasion of Ukraine, amid tensions over a Russian troop build-up near the border with Ukraine.
"The ministers — all of them — have been very clear today that any aggression against Ukraine will come with political consequences and with a high economic cost for Russia," Borrell told news hounds on Monday, following talks.
#Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami says demands by the UN nuclear watchdog #IAEA for access to the #Karaj site are beyond safeguards and unacceptable to Tehran, the semi-official news agency ISNA reports.https://t.co/UwU5aBL0Lh
[IsraelTimes] Rafael Grossi, head of UN nuclear watchdog, warns Tehran that there is no way around inspectors, says world currently only getting ‘blurred image’ of country’s nuclear program
An amusing thought, given how many of the leaders for those organizations were actually on the FBI payroll and therefore following FBI orders. But one can’t expect Deutsche Welle journalists to be aware of any of that — they’ll have got their narrative from the New York Times, Washington Post, and International Herald Tribune.
[DW] The bully boy groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers have been hit with a civil lawsuit for "conspiring to terrorize" Washington, DC, by the violent mostly peacefulJanuary 6 attack.
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine
...immigrant from Haiti, Clinton White House lawyer, first elected Washington, DC district attorney (in 2015), activist for immigrant issues — if he isn’t a Soros DA, he still fits the mold....
on Tuesday announced a civil lawsuit against two bully boy groups over their role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol Hill.
#1
Unofficial estimates of the Trump Rally crowd size was 1 million people. That many people could not have fitted into the capital building along with Antifa dressed as Trump supporters causing the damage and "attacking" capital police while capital police were leading Trump supporters into the capital as a part of a well orchestrated entrapment by the FBI, etc..
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The Capitol Protest was largely organic. It would have happened whether or not various groups (FBI, Antifa, PB, etc) were there or not. The game changer was Capitol Police opening the doors and letting people in. Had that not occurred history would be different.
[Personal] Several weeks ago, the Loudon Country CRT issue boiled over (in my mind) enough to mention it to my wife of 50 years, whose political views have diverged from my own over the last ten years or more. I asked her if she had heard of Critical Race theory.
Yes, she informed me, that was taught in some college-level course, that was all. "Not in high schools", I asked? No, no ... so - OK, end of discussion.
Karma intervened, and the next day, I sent her a copy of an article about the CRT blowup in the Ft. Worth schools, just 30-40 miles from where we live. Response — Crickets.
Tonight (12/14), the local CBS news (relatively even handed, and her local favorite) had a story about the heated CRT issue in Ft. Worth schools. I didn’t say a word, but she offered, "I used to think this was just taught in university; it’s very complicated."
I said, "No, it’s very simple. It’s all about race, which is not what Martin Luther King taught." The crickets circled around me and I went to bed. I hope she remembers King's statement about being 'judged by the content of your character, not the color of your skin.'
But I made a dent in a media meme! A tiny step forward!
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Rule #1
A wife will always remember something differently.
Proper response: If you say so honey.
Rule #2
A wife will deny what is recorded on video when it proves otherwise.
Proper response: It could have mis-recorded it, I guess.
Rule #3
Suck it up and accept the little flaws and issues for the greater good and happiness she brings.
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On small step for Bobby, one giant leap for Bobby-kind.
From a branding standpoint, Critical Race Theory is genius. The word 'critical' means it is important. Race is certainly a hot topic and 'theory', that means Science. You're not a Science Denier, are you?
Unfortunately for CRT, we value theories for their predictive power. Critical Race Theory divides people into two categories, Losers and Assholes, and predicts which one you belong to by the color of your skin. Not very sciencey or useful. Unless you are a grifter.
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The race peddlers' goal is white subjection. They will get the Chasen Buttigieg's and the 1.x million who watch CNN. Beyond that, they are trying to sell cancer and everyone they are trying to sell it to is not interested. They need to make it part of the school indoctrination program because it isn't going to get picked up on its own.
The rayciss version of Olestra it is and it will actually be a bigger failure. Because rayciss.
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Rule #1 A wife will People always remember something differently.
Rule #2 A wife will deny what is recorded on video when it proves otherwise. What’s recorded on video is always open to interpretation. See Rule 1.
Rule #3 Suck it up and accept the little flaws and issues for the greater good and happiness she brings. Congratulations: you love a human being and not a robot. Enjoy the things that make her so specially herself, and be grateful she does the same about your imperfections
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.
After recovering from polio as a child and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s. Her roles usually featured her abilities as a dancer, and she was paired with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly; her films include Singin' in the Rain, The Band Wagon, Brigadoon with Gene Kelly and Van Johnson and Silk Stockings.
[Star Telegram] A Texas man charged with murder in a December 2020 road rage incident was recently gunned down in a convenience store while out on bond, according to police.
[Free Beacon] During a weekly briefing last Monday, Philadelphia district attorney and prominent "progressive prosecutor" Larry Krasner sought to downplay the surge in violence his city has endured over the last two years.
[American Thinker] Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday, President Joe Biden blamed the recent deadly tornado outbreak in Kentucky on "climate change." Biden stated, "The fact is we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming and obviously it has some impact here." 
[Aljazeera] French forces have left the city of Timbuktu, the latest sign the former colonial power is scaling down its presence in northern Mali nearly nine years after a military intervention that helped push back fighters that have overrun parts of the country.
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security forces have arrested 11 students from 
[ET] Researchers say that they may have discovered the molecular-level cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
And with that Ice
[OneIndia] This day will be remembered always and it was on this day in 2001 
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
[Breitbart] Former 
...Arabic for 
[IsraelTimes] The leader of 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[Rudaw] Iraq’s embassy in Poland will offer Iraqi 
He simply misspoke about his military service and numerous draft deferments. 
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
[Personal] Several weeks ago, the Loudon Country CRT issue boiled over (in my mind) enough to mention it to my wife of 50 years, whose political views have diverged from my own over the last ten years or more. I asked her if she had heard of Critical Race theory.
