[Gateway Pundit] In July 2019 the FBI raided Jeffrey Epstein’s home in New York City. The FBI agents found damning information and evidence throughout his 7-story residence. The evidence included "numerous black binders" with white labels that had "clear pages containing thumbnail photos with CDs attached."
FBI agents also found several items in a safe including "binders with CDs, various items of jewelry, external hard drives, lose diamonds, large amounts of U.S. currency and passports."
The FBI later said the evidence in the safe went missing. Chris Wray’s FBI said they went back a few days later and the evidence had disappeared.
** The same FBI that ran a coup against the sitting US president based on completely made-up opposition party nonsense wants the American public to believe the Epstein evidence went missing and they had nothing to do with it.
** The same FBI that raided hundreds of homes of US patriots with dozens of armed agents this year for walking inside or near the US Capitol on January 6th, wants you to believe they had nothing to do with this missing evidence — after they were the last ones to see it.
** The same group that believes antifa is an idea but Trump supporters and conservative working Americans are domestic terrorists want you to believe they did not disappear the Epstein evidence.
** So the FBI went inside his home and took photos but did not confiscate the evidence?
On Friday she declined to give evidence in her defence, telling the judge: ‘The government has not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt so there is no reason for me to testify.’
Green on green, as it turns out, with accusations of Islamophobia by CAIR and petitions and student walk-outs for extra drama
.[PostMillennial] Following a viral altercation involving a hijab that occurred at Fairfax High School on Dec. 14 that prompted CAIR-backed student protests, the Fairfax Police Department have concluded that there is no evidence of a hate crime.
On Dec. 14, student Ekran Mohammed
...identified by her lawyer as Somali...
said she was called racist slurs, was pushed by two male classmates, and had her hijab pulled, revealing her hair.
In an Instagram video posted several days ago by a woman identifying Mohammed as her niece, Mohammed described the incident.
She said during a monthly meeting with marketing classes, a male Egyptian student "drew the Islamic flag and put a cross on it, like a red cross, like an X."
She added that the male student then specifically looked at her and her two female Moslem friends. After class ended, Mohammed said she walked to see a friend, and her backpack accidentally hit a male student. Mohammed said the male student's friends told him she said he was "ugly and little."
Following that, the male student tried to grab Mohammed's hijab from the back, she said. She turned around and grabbed his hair, and punched him in the stomach. Mohammed said that the male student then threw her into a desk, resulting in bruising to the left side of her body. Paramedics were called because Mohammed collapsed on the floor because she couldn't breathe. The paramedics were called for what the school said was a panic attack.
Fairfax police began an investigation into the matter as advocacy groups, primarily the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... (CAIR), called for an investigation into the alleged hate crime at the local high school.
"The police investigation determined the physical altercation between two Fairfax High School students was not a hate crime. The investigation revealed there were no racial comments made by either student," a Fairfax Police Department blurb stated. "The female student confirmed her hijab became partially undone during the altercation, exposing her hair. The female student advised that the information posted on several social media websites, stating that racial comments were used during the altercation were false," it continued.
Fairfax police determined that there was no evidence of a hate crime. The investigation into the altercation in ongoing.
Following the altercation last week, a petition was created urging for accountability on the school's part. "As the victim forever has this moment engraved in her mind, has already returned to school with no consequences. This is not right, this should have never happened, and the school is covering this up. As you sign this petition we plan to show whoever we can that and the school needs to take accountability for this disgusting incident. We plan on doing whatever we can to get justice and make our schools feel safe again," the petition's description states.
The petition is currently at 25,362 signatures.
On the Thursday morning following the incident, hundreds of students walked out of Fairfax High School in protest. Fairfax County Public Schools told WTOP that at 8:10 am around 350 students at the school "exercised their right to protest following an incident between two students that took place in school on Tuesday afternoon ... Fairfax County Public Schools and City of Fairfax Schools support the rights of students to peacefully protest."
The story that she had her hijab ripped off and was called racial slurs was a hoax. She got in a mutual brawl at school after arguing with two students of Egyptian and Asian background. https://t.co/pALUP4nzjn
The girl lied. She later admitted to Virginia police she wasn’t called racial slurs and that her head covering came off during the mutual brawl with a school boy. The incident involved Asian and Egyptian-American schoolmates. https://t.co/27ecLqoopr
In the predawn hours of Sunday morning, Israeli security forces conducted a series of raids in in the northern West Bank village of Silat al-Harithiya, near Jenin, arresting at least six people in connection with the terror attack outside the illegal outpost of Homesh last Thursday, in which one man, Yehuda Dimentman, was killed and two others were lightly wounded.
Palestinian officials identified the arrestees as Muhammad Youssef Jaradat, Ibrahim Musa Tahaineh, Mahmoud Ghaleb Jaradat, Taher Abu Salah, Ghaith Ahmed Yassin Jaradat, and Omar Ahmed Yassin Jaradat.
Two of the suspects were believed to have conducted the actual shooting, while the rest were suspected of helping them and otherwise being involved in the cell.
The six men, arrested at three locations in the overnight raid, were all handed over to the Shin Bet for interrogation. The guns that were suspected of having been used in the attack, as well as the car that was allegedly used to ferry them to the scene, were seized in the raids.
3 Israelis arrested on suspicion of torching Paleostinian car in northern West Bank
[IsraelTimes] Israeli police announced on Sunday that officers had arrested three Israelis suspected of setting a Palestinian car on fire near Nablus, the Israel Police, amid a wave of terror attacks and retaliatory attacks by suspected extremist settlers.
The adult and two minors were questioned Sunday and were set to be brought for a remand hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court.
Police said in a statement that Israeli forces had noticed several people close to the car after it went up in flames at a junction near the Har Bracha settlement. Israeli soldiers detained the three suspects until police arrived and arrested them, police said.
Palestinian Authority official Ghassan Daghlas, who tracks settlement activity, says in a phone call that no Palestinians were seriously injured by the stone-throwing. According to Daghlas, the Palestinians were driving their car near the entrance to Burqa, a local Palestinian town, when they were attacked.
The Israel Defense Forces says it is looking into reports of the incident. Some media reports initially indicated that one Palestinian was seriously wounded.
[LibyaReview] In a statement on Saturday, the Libyan Interior Ministry said that the police found large quantities of ammunition and explosives hidden inside a house in the Jafara region, Northwest of the country.
The statement came hours after a landmine went kaboom!, killing six children, and wounding two others from the same family.
The explosives were hidden in the house of a "bandit," the statement said,
...whatever that means in Libya — in Nigeria the bandits are linked to ISWAP/Boko Haram...
adding that ammunition and explosives were found in cooperation with the Department of Security and Safety al-Zawiya.
"These munitions and explosives were found after information was received about the suspicious house, and within the joint cooperation between the Jafara Security Directorate, the Internal Security Office of Aziziyah, and al-Amiriya Square," the statement concluded.
Last week, a medical source at the Sebha Medical Centre said that they received two deceased individuals and seven maimed cases, as a result of the armed festivities that took place in the city at dawn.
The source explained in a statement to Akhbar Libya 24 that one of the dear departed was a civilian, who was struck by a stray bullet. He added that two of the maimed were also civilians, who were able to receive the necessary medical care and left the hospital, after being hit by shrapnel.
In September, the United States (US) Embassy in Libya said that the US military cooperation can help Libya improve its ability to remove unwent kaboom! ordnance, brought to Libya by foreign actors.
Military and civilian bomb technicians from around the world, including two representatives from Libya, came together in Iowa to share counter-Improvised Explosive Device (IED) expertise.
"The effort ensures the safety of bomb-disposal technicians as well as citizens under threat of land mines and explosive remnants of war," the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) tweeted.
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Deja vu all over again. In 1953 a team of American EOD experts trained at the EOD school Indian Head, Maryland, were hired to render safe the more than one million mines buried in Libya following WWII. They did the job.
[Shafaq News] Two rockets targeted Baghdad’s ultra-secure Green Zone that houses the US embassy early Sunday, Iraq's Security Media Cell (SMC) said in a statement.
"The Green Zone in Baghdad was the target of two Katyusha rockets. The first was shot down in the air by C-RAM defense batteries, the second fell in a square, damaging two vehicles," the statement said.
The shot down rocket fell near the US embassy, while the second came down roughly 500 meters away.
No one grabbed credit for the attack.
In recent months, dozens of rocket assaults or drone kabooms have targeted US troops and interests in Iraq.
The attacks are rarely claimed but are routinely pinned on pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... factions in Iraq.
The latest rocket salvo comes after the country this week announced the end of the "combat mission" on its territory of the anti-jihadist coalition led by Washington. But roughly 2,500 American soldiers and 1,000 coalition soldiers deployed in Iraq will remain in the nation to pursue a role of training, advice, and assistance.
Pro-Iran factions in Iraq are calling for the departure of all US forces stationed in the country.
The attack also coincides with the 10th anniversary of the departure of US troops from Iraq on December 18, 2011, after the invasion and overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Washington then deployed its troops to the country to fight ISIS, which had captured large swathes of the nation in a lightning offensive.
At the beginning of November, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi escaped unharmed from an unclaimed drone kaboom, which targeted his official residence in the Green Zone.
In September, an "armed drone" attack targeted Erbil international airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, where there is a base hosting coalition troops.
[AlAhram] A Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Mahmoud Ezzat — the acting supreme guide of the Moslem Brüderbund — in a retrial on Sunday to life in prison for collaborating with the Paleostinian group Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and other foreign organizations and disclosing information pertaining to Egypt’s national security.
According to the prosecution’s investigation on the case that dates back to 2013, Ezzat, along with others, is charged with committing acts that undermine the independence, unity, and territorial integrity of the country.
A life sentence in Egypt carries 25 years in jail.
The official charges levelled against the defendants are communicating with foreign organizations with the aim of committing terrorist acts inside the country and financing terrorism to achieve the purposes of the international organization formally known as the Moslem Brüderbund.
Investigations showed that the defendants cooperated with elements affiliated with a terrorist group in Sinai and qualified others to spread rumors to influence public opinion.
Ezzat, who was arrested in 2020, was first handed a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... in absentia in 2015.
Under Egyptian law, in absentia convictions must be re-tried once the defendant is apprehended.
Today’s ruling against Ezzat, who is currently standing trial in other cases, can be appealed.
Ezzat was arrested in August 2020 in Cairo, after being on the run for several years.
In April 2021, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on terrorism charges in a separate case.
In 2015, Ezzat was sentenced in absentia to death, as well as given life imprisonment, after being found guilty of having supervised the killing of soldiers and government officials.
He was accused of involvement in the murder of the state prosecutor Hisham Barakat, who died in hospital after a boom-mobile tore through his convoy in Cairo in 2015.
The Brotherhood was blacklisted in Egypt in 2013 and deemed a terrorist group, months after the army overthrew Morsi who hailed from the movement.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was defense minister when Morsi was removed from power.
Founded in 1928, the Brotherhood later established itself as the main Islamist opposition movement in Egypt, and spread regionally with ardent offshoots from Tunisia to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... Ezzat is reported to have joined the Brotherhood in the 1960s, and spent time in jail under Egypt’s late presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
It was a busy weekend of tit for tat and vice versa in that particular corner of the country. See details of the arrest and a retaliation attack on the local Palestinians here.
[JPost] Parents of Jenin terrorists suspected of killing Yehuda Dimentman: ’We are proud of our sons.’
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have reached an agreement to step up terror attacks against Israel, especially in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The Iranian-backed groups also agreed to increase coordination between their military wings, Izaddin al-Qassam Brigades, and al-Quds Brigades. The agreement was reached during meetings of leaders of Hamas and PIJ in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
The agreement is seen by Palestinian political analysts as yet another challenge to the Palestinian Authority, whose security forces are continuing to wage a massive crackdown on Hamas and PIJ members in the West Bank.
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[Breitbart] The Chicago Sun-Times reports the city hit the figure of 800 homicides on Tuesday, when 23-year-old Sheridan Freeman was shot dead inside a home in West Pullman.
By Thursday, WBEZ Chicago noted the number of homicides in the city was at 812 for the year.
Chicago has long had a problem with gun crime and the vast majority of this year’s homicide victims were killed with guns.
For example, HeyJackass.com lists 776 people shot and killed in Chicago this year and another 4,403 shot and wounded.
At least 11 people have been shot and killed this week alone in the troubled city.
FOX32 tracked this year’s surging Chicago homicides and noted in November that the city’s death numbers were well-ahead of those posted during recent years.
They contrasted the number of homicides recorded January 1 through October 31 during the past three years and found 432 homicides during that time-frame in 2019, 661 homicides during that time in 2020, and 678 during that same time in 2021.
[Breitbart] Fifteen people were shot, two of them fatally, in Democrat-controlled Baltimore, Maryland, on Friday alone.
WBAL reports that the first of the two shooting fatalities occurred just before 1:00 p.m., when an unidentified individual was shot and killed “in the 600 block of Laurens Street.”
The deceased individual was one of three shot in that single incident.
Friday’s second fatal shooting occurred just before 8:00 p.m. “in the 1300 block of West North Avenue.” Five people were shot in the incident and one of them, a 36-year-old man, succumbed to his injuries.
WYPR noted that Baltimore had witnessed 315 murders for the year, as of December 15, 2021.
The Baltimore Sun pointed out that the 300+ homicides for 2021 “marks the seventh consecutive year of 300 homicides or more, a streak that began in 2015.”
On June 16, 2019, Breitbart News observed that crime was surging in Baltimore despite the presence of stringent gun control. The Firearms Safety Act of 2013 banned “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines and put in a place a fingerprinting/registration requirement for new handgun buyers. The Sun explained that Maryland has a red flag law that took effect October 1, 2018.
[Breitbart] A criminal complaint revealed officials initially learned of CNN producer John Griffin’s “depraved proclivities” 18 months ago, but the FBI did not arrest him until recently for allegedly soliciting three moms and their minor daughters for instruction in fetish sex, Fox News reported Wednesday.
The third count in the federal indictment from Vermont was regarding an encounter with a 9-year-old in July of last year, for which Griffin reportedly paid the mother $3,500 through Venmo, the article read.
Once the woman was taken into custody in August of last year, federal authorities seized “computers storage media, devices, phones, cameras, MicroSD cards, images, and video” from Griffin on September 2, 2020, court documents said.
CNN fired Griffin on Monday after his recent arrest.
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Obama/Biden Junta controlled DOJ waited over a year to act???? Was it because CNN was helping out Biden/Obama with the 2020 elections with false and faked news against Trump and others?
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A gorgeous city "at a certain angle and in a certain light" (Nick Cave, O'Malley's Bar) Gave us Chandler, Anchor Steam and sourdough. We'll reclaim it or mark it as one of the places where we lost the Big Game for good.
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... and the Wokester's first genuine ped0phile folk hero, Dowd's friend Harvey (M)... he's a queer rabbit, 'bout yea tall, with many a poor boy on his bunny trail
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The whiskey seller's last words on the gallows in Hang 'em High. "When ya take the Devil into your mouth..." The political cadre in San Fran was way ahead of the curve in Wokeness. Look at all the advantages it's brought them.
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I nominate #4 Procopius2k 2021-12-20 10:23
for best substitute name SNARK of the day.
The Clinton News Network nickname has been in need of updating for sometime and Procopius2k may have just nailed it.
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[ColonelCassad] There was a photo where Russian PMCs who have recently come under European sanctions are training soldiers of the Mali government that has recently come under European sanctions. The training takes place against the backdrop of the reduction of the French military contingent in Mali and the transfer of the largest French military base in Mali into the hands of the Mali army.
[GatewayPundit] Three retired woke Leftist US Generals warned there could be a civil war and ’another coup attempt’ after the 2024 presidential election because of a ’politically divided military.’
"As we approach the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol, we — all of us former senior military officials — are increasingly concerned about the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election and the potential for lethal chaos inside our military, which would put all Americans at severe risk," the generals wrote.
"We are chilled to our bones at the thought of a coup succeeding next time," they added.
For the record, nobody involved in the January 6 protest has been charged with the Insurrection Act. If you listen to someone they will usually tell you their intentions. They intend purge the military and make it theirs.
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Three unemployed men of destiny awaiting eternally in the wings for their return call to greatness... and will toot their own horns in the media if no one else will.
(WIKIPEDIA) He was then assigned to Iraq as Commanding General of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT), where he was in charge of training the Iraqi military from 2003 to 2004.[4]
Following the first Iraqi army battalion's graduation, their first mission received heavy casualties and raised questions about the efficacy of Iraqi soldiers trained under U.S. supervision. During an initial mission in April 2004 to assist U.S. Marines in Fallujah and under the supervision of a Marine advisory team, the Iraqi soldiers ran from the scene when they first were attacked by insurgents. "The convoy got stalled when one of the IAF soldiers driving one of the trucks simply jumped out and ran, leaving the truck running. This truck struck a civilian vehicle, creating a jam that prevented part of the convoy from moving. About 30 Iraqi soldiers were lost in this ambush. Some simply ran away, some sold their AK-47s and donned civilian clothes, and some had civilian clothes under their uniforms, so they simply took off their uniforms and ran." The Marine advisors managed to salvage the convoy and get them to safety, but with significant casualties. What was a battalion of 695 Iraqi soldiers has been reduced significantly with 30 casualties in the ambush, alongside 8 wounded, 24 combat deserters, 104 mutineers, 78 AWOL (absent without leave) and 170 on leave. This stands in contrast to the support of Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior U.S. commander in Iraq, whose remarks during the Iraqi battalion's graduation spoke of "high expectations that in fact they would help us bring security and stability back to the country."
(Wikipedia) Taguba is best known for authoring the Taguba Report, an internal United States Army report on abuse of detainees held at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The report was leaked, then published, in 2004.[2] Taguba again made national headlines in June 2008 when he accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes in a preface to a report by Physicians for Human Rights on prisoner abuse and torture in American military prisons.[5]
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John Scarne says the only course to take when you realize a game is crooked it to walk away.
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In the Beltway's case, it will require a "flush the punchbowl" approach.
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So some retired dude made famous by signing his name to a report decreeing the US Military as treating prisoners without dignity or process, is advocating taking prisoners and treating them without dignity or process.
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I believe the pro Ameircan side has alot of trained personnel already. I've yet to meet many soy boy former soldiers I would worry about. Like you know say Vindman.
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[Regnum] The real master of Ukraine was the commander of Army Group Kiev, Field Marshal Hermann von Eichhorn. He had about 250,000 people at his disposal. On March 28, 1918, he stated his opinion about the government very clearly: "People in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs still do not understand that we should rule in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian government should dance to our tune."
[Western Journal] CNN may have the opportunity to write another check for doing its job poorly, this time to relatives of former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn for labeling them followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
You’ll recall CNN reportedly wrote a very large check to former Covington High School student Nicholas Sandmann last year after falsely claiming he had confronted and sought to belittle a Native American gentleman during a protest in Washington, D.C. It was actually that man who had approached and stood toe-to-toe with the teenager.
Sandmann was wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, and the establishment media read into the encounter what it wanted to see. But when video of the incident started circulating, CNN, The Washington Post and other left-wing outlets had to backtrack.
On Thursday, a federal judge allowed a case brought by Flynn’s brother John "Jack" Flynn and sister-in-law Leslie Flynn to proceed against CNN.
Of course, CNN "news" coverage seems to go off the rails when it deals with any subject or person even remotely tied to former President Donald Trump.
[LibyaReview] Bani Walid General Hospital received 4 migrants colonists with gunshot wounds after they were shot in the city centre by unknown assailants who fled.
An employee at the Emergency Department at Bani Walid General Hospital said, in statements, that these migrants colonists received all first aid and treatment upon their arrival.
The employee confirmed that the condition of the injured people is not serious. He pointed out that they were handed over to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
“We don’t want to take care of ‘em — they’re all yours, O rich UN NGO.”
Notably, the Libyan Coast Guard intercepted and returned an estimated 28,600 refugees and migrants colonists at sea from January to October 2021, according to an Italian statistical report.
The report, issued by the Moslem colonists Migrants Foundation on Tuesday, indicated that "this number is unprecedented," noting that "the total number of people who have been returned so far has exceeded 100,000 migrants colonists since 2016." It added that 56,700 refugees and migrants colonists managed to arrive in Italia or Malta.
"The illegal practices committed by the Libyan authorities against migrants colonists and asylum seekers, whether during pushbacks or in prisons and detention centres, violate their right to life and physical and psychological integrity," the report read.
According to a Libyan government Official, the number of detained migrants colonists and asylum seekers in prisons and detention centres is believed to be around 13,000 people. These are mostly from African countries, such as Æthiopia, Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Sudan, Egypt, and the Maghreb states.
Over the past several years, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU) has adopted policies that have complicated the conditions of migrants colonists, and have legally restricted migration and asylum routes to Europe.
Since 2015, the EU has provided about $525 million to Libya to protect its southern borders, and limit the arrival of new migrants colonists. It directed a large share of this support to strengthen Libyan Coast Guard’s capabilities, modernise its equipment, and train its cadres to intercept migrants colonists’ boats within Libya’s territorial waters and return them to shore before reaching international waters. It has been accused of turning a blind eye to the abuses committed by the Coast Guard.
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Hey Max,
I live for these 12 Days, yeah man Me, I'm Drinking SHINE --- Moonshine, yeah and smoking aged cigars pickled in Rum, eating fine foods like 2" thick bovine steaks, and A. Sperry Gus (which is my nom de plume on another website, while drinking bottles of Petit Verdot (I love those little women, Brigette is super)) commenting and chatting my Axx Off all the while.
Max, buddy, you got to get a life and stop telling people what to do, as they say, "Who made you, a god, Rosebud?"
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Update:
Mon chéri Petit Verdot and I are finished, she is but an empty vessel now. Oh yes, she was a delightful little lady, she played fancifully over my tongue as we reveled and danced the day away. Sad but true, she is no more, but before she left, she did implore, I visit her cousin, Cabernet Franc, who she said could hook me up with a French heure. >;-)
[BBC] The Myanmar military carried out a series of mass killings of civilians in July that resulted in the deaths of at least 40 men, according to a BBC investigation.
Eyewitnesses and survivors said that soldiers, some as young as 17, rounded up villagers before separating the men and killing them. Video footage and images from the incidents appears to show most of those killed were tortured first and buried in shallow graves.
The killings took place in July, in four separate incidents in Kani Township - an opposition stronghold in Sagaing District in Central Myanmar.
The military has faced resistance from civilians since it seized control of the country in a February coup, deposing a democratically-elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi.
The BBC spoke to 11 witnesses in Kani and compared their accounts with mobile phone footage and photographs collected by Myanmar Witness, a UK-based NGO that investigates human rights abuses in the country.
The largest killing took place in Yin village, where at least 14 men were tortured or beaten to death and their bodies thrown in a forested gully.
The killings appeared to be a collective punishment for attacks on the military by civilian militia groups in the area, who are demanding that democracy is restored. Fighting between the military and the local branches of the People's Defence Force - a collective name for civilian militia groups - had intensified in the area in the months before the mass killings, including clashes near Zee Bin Dwin.
It is clear from the visual evidence and testimony gathered by the BBC that men were specifically targeted, fitting with a pattern observed across Myanmar in recent months of male villagers facing collective punishment for clashes between the People's Defence Forces and the military.
Foreign journalists have been barred from reporting in Myanmar since the coup, and most non-state media outlets have been shut down, making on-the-ground reporting all but impossible.
The BBC put the allegations raised in this story to Myanmar's Deputy Minister for Information and military spokesperson, General Zaw Min Tun. He did not deny soldiers had carried out the mass killings.
"It can happen," he said. "When they treat us as enemies, we have the right to defend ourselves."
The United Nations is currently investigating alleged human rights abuses carried out by the Myanmar military.
When the mob wants something they protest. When they get what they want, they still protest. It’s one of those meaningless lifestyle concept thingies.
[AlArabiya] Sudanese security forces fired tear gas Sunday at a huge crowd of protesters who had gathered near the republican palace in the capital Khartoum, witnesses told AFP.
Tens of thousands rallied on Sunday to mark three years since the start of demonstrations that led to the ouster of Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. He was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... , as well as against the current military chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
"The people want the downfall of Burhan," protesters shouted.
Security forces block major roads and bridges in #Sudan’s capital #Khartoum against planned protests over the Oct. 25 military coup that have continued even after the reinstatement of the prime minister.https://t.co/aiFIcceP9J
Tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands?Al Ghadeer claims more:
Hundreds of thousands of people marched to the presidential palace in #Sudan's capital Khartoum on Sunday in protest at the Oct. 25 military coup.https://t.co/VeGkP77W4N
Either criminals, script kiddies, or Iran’s shadow war against Israel. Regardless, a reminder to Israel webmasters to harden their sites.
[IsraelTimes] ’Sharp Boys’ says it hacked Lametayel and Tiuli, offers to sell info for $300,000
A previously unknown hacker group on Saturday claimed to have stolen personal data of some 3 million users from a pair of Israeli hiking companies.
In a statement posted on social media, "Sharp Boys" said it possesses 500 gigabytes of data from hacking Lametayel, a chain of stores that sells outdoor equipment, and the Tiuli hiking website.
The group said the data included usernames, emails, phone numbers and passwords, and shared photos of spreadsheets that included some details of users.
It offered to sell the information for $300,000.
"It appears that this is again a psychological war against Israel," cybersecurity expert May Brooks-Kempler told the Walla news site.
She also said that while Sharp Boys is unknown, its methods were reminiscent of Black Shadow, a group of reported Iran-linked hackers who use cyberattacks for criminal ends.
Last month, Black Shadow leaked what is said were full databases of personal information from Israel’s Machon Mor medical institute and the Atraf website, an LGBTQ dating service and nightlife index.
The group had initially hacked the CyberServe Israeli internet hosting company, taking down its servers and a number of sites, among them Atraf. Israel’s National Cyber Directorate said at the time that it had previously warned CyberServe that it was vulnerable to attack.
The latest Black Shadow attack followed an unprecedented, unclaimed cyberattack that wrought havoc on Iran’s gas distribution system, which Iranian officials blamed on Israel and the United States.
Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Israel have been engaged in a so-called "shadow war," including several reported attacks on Israeli and Iranian ships that the two have blamed on each other, as well as cyberattacks.
In 2010, the Stuxnet virus — believed to have been engineered by Israel and its ally the US — infected Iran’s nuclear program, causing a series of breakdowns in centrifuges used to enrich uranium.
[BBC] US rapper Drakeo the Ruler has died after being stabbed at a music festival in Los Angeles.
The 28-year-old, whose real name was Darrell Caldwell, had been scheduled to perform at the Once Upon a Time in LA festival on Saturday night.
His publicist confirmed his death to several US media outlets on Sunday morning.
The artist was reportedly stabbed during an altercation backstage around the time he had been due to perform.
Los Angeles police are investigating, but told reporters no arrests had been made as of Sunday morning.
Drakeo the Ruler had more than 1.5m monthly listeners on Spotify, and collaborated with Canadian rapper Drake on the single Talk to Me.
Paramedics responded to a call about a stabbing at about 20:40 local time on Saturday (04:40 GMT on Sunday). Reports say the rapper was then taken to hospital but later died from his injuries.
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Deutsche Welle’s photo journalists weigh in on this so important story:
Rappers who have been murdered
On the street, at a concert or while shopping: The cause of death for about half of all US rappers is murder. Rappers have also been killed in other countries.
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Poor rappers! Like lambs at the slaughter,
They die much more young than they oughtta!
But why? Deutsche Welle
Assigned a brave fella
To find out what poisoned... the water.
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[REGNUM] In Kuzbass it will freeze to -20 degrees C In the Kemerovo region tomorrow, December 20, partly cloudy is expected, at night in some places light snow, frost, fogs. This was reported by the regional hydrometeorological center.
"During the day, light, moderate snow in places. Ice on the roads. West wind, two to seven m/s at night, up to 12 m/s in places, four to nine m/ s in the daytime, up to 14 m/s in places. The temperature at night is −8 to −13 degrees C, in some places up to -20 degrees C, in the south in some places −2 to −7 deg. C; during the day -6 to -11 deg. C, in some places 0 to -5 deg C ", is specified in the forecast.
In Kemerovo, tomorrow, December 20, partly cloudy weather is predicted, moderate snow during the day, ice on the roads. The temperature at night is −10 to −12 deg. C, in the daytime −6 to −8 deg C.
Irkutsk struggles with snow
[REGNUM] Utilities of Irkutsk continue to work in an enhanced mode from the snowfall. This was announced today, December 19, by the press center of the city administration.
More than 60 pieces of equipment are involved in cleaning the streets and parks of the city during the day: more than 30 combined road vehicles, forklifts, sidewalk cleaning equipment and auxiliary vehicles, as well as more than 100 people.
In addition, more than a hundred people went out to clean the parks and boulevards of Irkutsk from snow and debris, 12 pieces of equipment were involved. In the districts, stairs are being cleaned from snow and ice.
Frost and wind go to Transbaikalia
[REGNUM] Residents of the Trans-Baikal Territory were warned of a significant deterioration in weather conditions on December 20. According to the territorial GU EMERCOM of the Russian Federation, this day is expected to increase the wind with gusts from 15 to 20 meters per second.
At night it will get colder up to 17 to 22 degrees С (with a clearing of 27 to 32 deg.), in the southern half of the region with clouds it will be -10 to 15 deg, during the day in the northern regions -27 to 32 deg. С.
Muscovites promised 30-centimeter snowdrifts [REGNUM] In Moscow, 7 to 12 mm of precipitation will fall over the coming week, the height of snowdrifts by December 26 will reach 30 cm. This was announced on December 19 by Evgeny Tishkovets, a leading employee of the Phobos weather center.
On the night of December 19, in the capital of Russia, at the VDNKh base meteorological station, five mm of precipitation fell (8 percent of the monthly norm), because of the snowdrifts grew from 17 to 23 cm, while the norm for this time of year was 15 cm, RIA Novosti reports.
The largest snowdrifts in the Moscow region were recorded in Pavlovsky Posad and Cherusty, 29 cm and 33 cm, respectively.
The forecaster added that the norm for the height of the snow cover for December 27 is 17 cm.And the record for this day is 52 cm, was set in 1919.
[FrontPage] One week after his arrest, January 6, defendant Robert Geiswein was indicted by a federal grand jury. As Julie Kelly writes at American Greatness, Geiswein "has been behind bars ever since, denied bail while Judge Emmet Sullivan delayed his trial on numerous occasions." Embattled Americans might recall Sullivan from the trial of Gen. Michael Flynn, President Trump’s pick for national security advisor.
"We should always remember that our country, was built upon Judeo-Christian values and principles," Flynn told the Republican convention in 2016. Hillary Clinton, Flynn said, "put our nation’s security at extremely high risk with her careless use of a private e-mail server." On the other hand, "Donald Trump recognizes the threats we face and is not afraid to call them what they are." That would be radical Islamic terrorists.
The "composite character" David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama did not want Gen. Flynn to become national security advisor. Obama then targeted Flynn to facilitate action against Trump.
[KRQE] Search warrant issued for Alec Baldwin’s cell phone in ’Rust’ investigation
The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office has issued a search warrant for Alec Baldwin’s cell phone Thursday as they continue to investigate the fatal shooting on the "Rust" movie set.
The sheriff’s department wants to search Baldwin’s phone for any evidence relating to the death of Halyna Hutchins. "Affiant is requesting a warrant for the seizure and search of Alec Baldwins’ cell phone to search for any evidence relating to the death investigation of Halyna Hutchins," the affidavit states. "Affiant believes there may be evidence on the phone, due to individuals using cellular phones during and/or after the commission of crime(s). Such information, if it exists, may be material and relevant to this investigation."
The affidavit also includes details of Baldwin’s initial interview with the sheriff’s office. In the interview, Baldwin stated he had exchanged emails with Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the gun handler for the production, about what type of gun to use. He said Guitierrez-Reed showed him various guns and he had selected the Colt .45 revolver.
Investigators are piecing together what led up to the October shooting of cinematographer Haylna Hutchins. According to the affidavit, after a brief search of Hutchins’ phone, investigators found conversations about the production dating back to July 14. It states investigators believe gathering information prior to the film start date is essential for a full investigation.
The affidavit also includes details of Baldwin’s initial interview with the sheriff’s office. In the interview, Baldwin stated he had exchanged emails with Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the gun handler for the production, about what type of gun to use. He said Guitierrez-Reed showed him various guns and he had selected the Colt .45 revolver. "He said he requested a bigger gun, and she also showed him different styles of knives for the production," the affidavit states. "Alec was shown a Colt with a brown handle, and a cherry handle, and he ultimately chose the one with the brown handle."
In an interview with ABC’s Geroge Stephanopoulos in early December, Baldwin said he did not pull the trigger on the prop gun he was holding.
OPINION: To know what live rounds to bring on to the set for a particular prop gun, the perp would need to know what caliber the gun will be. AND a cell phone will show what numbers he called to get the ammo for the gun.
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[REGNUM] A working group, called upon to deal with the settlement of issues related to the return of pre-revolutionary names to some streets of Simferopol and other cities of Crimea, will be created at the Public Chamber of the region. This was announced by the senator from the Republic of Crimea Sergey Tsekov .
"The Public Chamber supported this proposal. It was decided to create a working group at the Public Chamber, which will study this issue. Because not only in Simferopol it is necessary to return pre-revolutionary names, but also in Yalta, Feodosia, Evpatoria. Experts will work to determine the procedure for returning the pre-revolutionary names to the streets , ”he told the correspondent of the“ Crimean Information Agency."
At the same time, he clarified that he meant the return of the pre-revolutionary name to Karl Marx and Schmidt Streets (Ekaterininskaya and Potemkinskaya, respectively), and added that the cost of such renaming would be minimal.
"There will be no inconveniences for residents who live on this street, as well as for legal entities. It will not be necessary to specifically change the registration, only as needed, for example, obtaining a passport for the first time or replacing it by age. Although if I had such an opportunity, I would go and re-register on the very first day," the senator said.
He also expressed the hope that the pre-revolutionary name of Karl Marx Street will be returned in April 2022 by the next anniversary of the signing by Catherine II of the manifesto on the acceptance of Crimea and Kuban into the Russian Empire.
[Shafaq News] The Iraqi military intelligence on Sunday apprehended a woman in the south of the Nineveh Governorate over terrorism charges.
A statement issued by the Intelligence agency of the Ministry of Defense said that the intel received by the Intelligence department od the Iraqi army's 16th division confirmed that the terrorist is located inside al-Jadaa camp.
"The detachments of the department, in cooperation with a force of the 76th Infantry brigade, was able to arrest her consequently," the statement said, "the arrestee is wanted by the Judiciary pursuant to Article 4/Terrorism."
[Shafaq News] A blast from a roadside kaboom reportedly hit a convoy of the US-led Global Coalition in al-Anbar today.
Earlier today, Iraqi security forces thwarted an attempt to target a supply convoy by two bombs in babel, south of Iraq. A security source told Shafaq News Agency that a joint force from the Intelligence Agency and the Counter-Terrorism-Service identified and detonated two roadside kabooms set to strike a supply convoy of the Global Coalition on the highway leading to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, near al-Hillah.
[Shafaq News] Huqouq movement, close to the Hezbollah Brigades,
...the Iraqi Iranian sockpuppets, not the Lebanese one...
said that the latter is not responsible for the attack against the Global Coalition's logistics convoys.
A front man for the movement, Ali Fadl, told Shafaq News Agency, "The party that targeted the American military convoys must identify itself," noting, "the resistance cannot be held responsible, especially since it had issued an official statement clarifying its position and full commitment to the date of the withdrawal of US forces."
"We do not want to neglect the diplomatic side for the sake of the military side. The resistance has the right to decide what to do if the US forces do not adhere to the date of their full withdrawal."
In the past two days, different areas in the country witnessed operations targeting logistics Convoys of the Global Coalition. In addition, security forces thwarted today a Katyusha attack on the Green Zone in Baghdad, which includes the US embassy.
It is worth noting that the National Security Adviser, Qassem al-Araji, announced earlier this month that the US combat missions of the Global Coalition forces in Iraq have officially ended.
[AlAhram] Six people, including four women, were killed in Syria's al-Hol camp for displaced persons 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.... group in December, a Britannia-based war monitor group said Sunday.
The camp, which is controlled by the Kurdish-led autonomous administration in northeastern Syria, houses about 62,000 displaced persons, including relatives of IS fighters.
About 93 percent are women and kiddies, and about half come from Iraq.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a wide network of sources in Syria, "six liquidations were committed" in the camp by IS cells since the start of December.
The last victim to date was rubbed out on Saturday.
The victims include three Iraqis, two men and one woman as well as two Syrian women and one woman whose identity is unknown, the observatory said.
Since the start of the year, the number of killings in the camp has been on the rise.
Some 86 people were killed, including 63 Iraqi refugees who resided in al-Hol, according to the monitor's toll.
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman warned that "chaos and insecurity persist within the camp", labelling it a "ticking time bomb" in comments to AFP.
In March, the Kurdish-led authorities launched a major operation in the camp during which they arrested 125 alleged IS members.
[BBC] A two-year BBC investigation into Black Axe - a Nigerian student fraternity which evolved into a dreaded mafia-group - has unearthed new evidence of infiltration of politics, and a scamming and killing operation spanning the globe.
For two years BBC Africa Eye has been investigating Black Axe, building a network of whistle-blowers, and uncovering several thousand secret documents - leaked from the gang's private communications. The findings suggest that over the past decade, Black Axe has become one of the most far-reaching and dangerous organised crime groups in the world.
In Africa, Europe, Asia and North America, Axemen are in our midst. You may even have an email from them in your inbox.
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The Portland "journalists" (Melissa Lewis & Grace Morgan) suing me for retweeting them are revealed to be far-left extremists who call for violence. One actually took up arms to train with #Antifa & distributed riot gear. Read the @MiaCathell investigation:https://t.co/5YXqOXEzK1
By publishing facts, he has caused great harm to the public images of Anti-FA & BLM.
He has used freedom of the press in ways that have caused a deeper unwanted public review of our political agenda.
His factual reporting has caused peaceful protesters to be arrested for conducting social justice activates.
He has used the freedom of the press and has cost the ANTI-FA, BLM, a peaceful grass roots Social Justice movement, great property acquisition and monetary losses. By causing unwanted awareness of our social property equalization activities .
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I believe that these two are the principal filers in the lawsuits as they were the 'most presentable' and have the physical appearance of a somewhat normal person. You know, 'optics'.
They probably held a casting call to determine the best candidates for doing so.
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that's an ugly bunch if these 2 are the most presentable.
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Have you seen Mr. Ngo's (and other news outlet) photos of the typical Antifa miscreants, Chris?
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Compared with the rest of the Teefa freak show, these two wenches look like Paulina Porizkova and Gisele Bundchen
[Garowe] Somalia, and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... have been linked to the deployment of troops to Æthiopia, in a bid to assist Addis Ababa in fighting the Tigray Defense Forces [TDF], formally known as Tigray People's Liberation Front [TPLF].
The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... has now questioned the decision by the two nations to vote against the creation of an investigations team that would probe the ongoing war in Æthiopia, which has left thousands of people dead.
Somalia and Eritrea joined China and Russia in voting against the decision to investigate Tigray conflict, despite most countries backing the resolution. There have been previous accusations that both nations have troops in Æthiopia.
Out of the 47 members, 15 member states voted against the resolution while 21 endorsed it. A further 11 abstained. The resolution seeks to establish an international Commission of Human Rights Experts on Æthiopia, to be appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council.
According to the United Nations, the Commission will among other tasks conduct thorough investigations into allegations of violations and abuses of international human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... law and violations of international humanitarian law and international refugee law in Æthiopia, committed since 3 November 2020 by all parties to the conflict.
In June this year, the United Nations Special Rapporteur to Eritrea confirmed that Somali troops training in Asmara were sneaked to Tigray where they participated in the fight against TDF. Despite Somalia denying the reports, Eritrea would later admit the presence of her troops.
The troops had been training in Eritrea since 2019 but Mogadishu initially denied the reports. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... the federal government of Somalia would later also admit presence of her troops in Eritrea where they have been training for a while.
"The Special Rapporteur also received information and reports that Somali soldiers were moved from military training camps in Eritrea to the front line in Tigray, where they accompanied Eritrean troops as they crossed the Æthiopian border," the report read in part. The Somalin trainees were also present in the historic city of Aksum, the report noted.
The Somali troops were part of several young men who were clandestinely taken out of the country from 2018 by Villa Somalia. Parents were told that their children were being taken to 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... to build the World Cup stadia but it later emerged they were in Eritrea. Outgoing President Mohammed Farmaajo has been accused of seeking to use the soldiers for his re-election bid.
Eritrea has also been variously accused of supplying troops in support of the Abiy Ahmed administration. The US and the EU said in August more Eritrean troops had crossed into Æthiopia even after Federal Government in Addis Ababa said they had left the country.
Abiy Ahmed is fighting for survival in the country after TDF gained the most ground, but the Tigray rebels have since pulled back awaiting to unleash according to Getachew Reda, the spokesperson of the Tigray Defense Forces.
[IsraelTimes] Police on Sunday arrested a Paleostinian suspected of attempting to carry out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem near the Old City’s Damascus Gate, amid escalating tensions in the capital and the West Bank.
The suspect, a man in his 20s from Anata, just outside East Jerusalem, tried to stab a passerby before fleeing, according to police.
No one was injured in the incident.
A police statement said officers located and arrested the suspect after searching the area, and that they also recovered a knife.
...we have entered a new stage of the revolution which has been transforming this country, for the past 60 years, into a multicultural, Green, post-Christian, sexually liberated and egalitarian state in which only one opinion is, in reality, allowed.
Covid, quite unexpectedly, has provided the pretext for so much of what they have long wanted: surveillance, social control, the driving of dissent to the margins of life.
For, if dissent can be portrayed as actually dangerous to the health of the people, then why should the people put up with it?
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^ Well, that's a nice doomsday screed. Yes, I am sure the self-anointed Progressives watching MSLSD are all in favor of executing the un-vaccinated. Problem is, an equal number of us are not buying the hysterics and don't care. We might even be the sorts who will help the "enemies of the people" get through their days and earn livings.
We might even be the sort who subvert things in other ways.
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Freud got it right. A new religious cult:
"If you wish to expel religion from our European civilization you can only do it through another system of doctrines, and from the outset this would take over all the psychological characteristics of [religious cults], the same sanctity, rigidity, and intolerance, the same prohibition of thought in self-defence."
#16
Not everyone is a True Believer™ on Twitter 24/7 burnishing their Woke credentials. The smash and grab mobs aren't. The rappers stabbing and shooting each other aren't. The kids shooting each other in Chiraq are not listening to Rachel Madcow or AOC. They are purely atavistic and the people who imagine they are harnessing them are in for a nasty surprise. Everyone else knows better and stands out of the way.
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The problem is that this particular virulent strain is taking a very long time to perish with the host and thus die out.
COVID took about 18 months; this social pathogen that reappeared in 6 B.F. (= 6 years Before The Year of Our Floyd) may take 18 years. We're only 6 years in.
[Breitbart] Despite a law enforcement presence on both sides of the Rio Grande, a CBP source says more than 600 migrants were apprehended after entering the United States on Thursday.
The source says the arrests in Eagle Pass accounted for more than 50 percent of the apprehensions within the Del Rio Sector that day.
A rescue team in Mexico, “Grupo Beta,” patrolled the river periodically in an airboat as troops with the Mexican National Guard watched. The Mexican National Guard, known as “La Guardia Nacional,” had little apparent impact.
On the United States side of the Rio Grande, Border Patrol agents performed similar marine activities.
Texas National Guard troops standing along a makeshift wall of shipping containers watched over the river and took migrants into custody. Soldiers waited with family units until Border Patrol transports arrived.
One unaccompanied migrant child walked through a gap in the Texas border wall currently under construction. The wall is nearing completion, however, gates along roadways have yet to be installed. A Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol trooper spotted the youth and turned the migrant over to Border Patrol.
In a revolving door fashion, Border Patrol agents made several trips to the Eagle Pass International Bridge to return mostly single adult migrants to Mexico under the CDC Title 42 Emergency COVID-19 order. The source says these scenarios are playing out daily and have challenged the agency’s ability to keep up with the constant flow.
The migrant crossings are occurring in the downtown area and more remote ones around the city. The constant flow is creating a sense of frustration among residents by the lack of a coherent federal response.
Recently, nearly 200 migrants crossed the Rio Grande near Normandy, Texas, in one single event north of Eagle Pass. The larger groups are mostly Venezuelan, Cuban, and Nicaraguan migrants.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Sometimes, the trans doesn't take.
Comedian Trevor Noah filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court against the Hospital for Special Surgery and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Riley J. Williams
He claims they were 'careless in failing to treat and care for [him] in a careful and skillful manner' when he underwent surgery on November 23, 2020
The lawsuit claims they failed to use proper diagnostic tests and prescribe the proper medications, while also not discontinuing other medicines
As a result, the lawsuit claims, Noah, 37, suffered 'severe and painful personal injuries, mental anguish and a loss of enjoyment of life'
A representative from the hospital told People the claims were 'meritless'
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So a mentally ill person goes to a hospital to be sexually changed and is not happy. Because it does not meet up with his mentally ill expectations?
NO.
But I would agree if his family sued the hospital for performing the surgery, because it is clear he was a mentally ill person requesting a surgery. While in a mental state wishing to inflict self harm.
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate #Democrat who is key to President Joe #Biden's hopes of passing a $1.75 trillion domestic investment bill, said on Sunday he would not support the package.https://t.co/2WsPVGLEtf
A vital component of the filibuster-proof reconciliation package, which needs 51 votes in the Senate, is a plan to provide amnesty for about 6.5 million illegal aliens.
The provisions allow millions of illegal aliens to secure work permits, ensuring more foreign competition against working and middle class Americans for often minimum wage jobs. The amnesty would cost American taxpayers about $500 billion over two decades.
“Manchin’s comments today on Fox News Sunday that he’s a no on Build Back Better are gutting to immigration advocates who’ve worked through months of negotiations, redrafting to meet Senate rules, reworking to satisfy House Dem factions, more redrafting/strategizing,” a Bloomberg reporter notes.
In addition, and even more important to corporate America, are provisions to blow the lid off current legal immigration levels — where 1.2 million green cards and 1.5 million work visas are awarded annually to foreign nationals — for the benefit of multinational corporations.
Specifically, the reconciliation package would allow companies to import a limitless number of legal immigrants on employment-based green cards for at least a decade. Eventually, green card-holders would be able to apply for naturalized American citizenship.
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...There is a fair amount of chatter this morning that the Dems' take-no-prisoners attitude my be what finally sends Senator Manchin over the edge to switch parties - which quite likely means BBB is Blackadder Dead: "As dead as a great big...dead thing."
Mike
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dat Mistah Plugs' Sniff-Hair-Better ... it goddamn dead
As long as there are no mean tweets, it’s all good.
[Legal Insurrection] The Roll back demanded by Russia would leave Poland, Baltic states without NATO protection.
Amid massive Russian military deployment on the border with Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has demanded a NATO roll back in East Europe.
On Friday, Moscow published a list of demands addressed to the United States and the NATO that calls for an "end to NATO military activity in eastern Europe, including Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia" and "no expansion of NATO membership, particularly to Ukraine," Germany’s DW News reported citing the Kremlin document.
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An "end to NATO military activity in eastern Europe, including Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia"
Why is it in our interest to f--k around in Ukraine? In Azerbaijan or Armenia?
In Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Bumfukystan?
Can anyone --hey ShittyPants, this means you too -- anyone say with any coherence what in G-S's name is tge Anerican vital interest in any of these wretched pseudo-republics?
Can anyone say why ShittyPants's son should fight and die in Ust-Pizdusk?
#2
The gift that keeps on giving. When the Wall came down it was mission accomplished and America should have departed NATO. It was a warning sign that Deep State operated independent of the interests of Americans.
#4
Some of the Euros have thrown off the training wheels and Wokery too. Interestingly, it's the Danes leading the way. Sweden and France may follow...
"In the 1960s and 1970s Denmark recruited “guest workers”; refugees from Vietnam and Iran came in the 1970s and 1980s. The welcome waned in the 1990s with the arrival of refugees from the war in what had been Yugoslavia.
"The nationalist Danish People’s Party (df), founded in 1995, agitated to shut the door on them. In 2001 it backed a conservative-liberal government, which devised today’s two-pronged strategy of repelling would-be migrants and remoulding those who settle.
"Its policies included lengthening immigrants’ wait for permanent residency from three years to seven and ending schools’ obligation to teach in pupils’ mother tongues. To bolster Danishness it introduced “canons” of culture, history and democracy into the school curriculum. Without such steps 'it would have been really catastrophic', says Peter Skaarup, the df’s parliamentary leader. In Sweden, such sentiments are spreading; in Denmark they are now conventional wisdom...."
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Video of the combat use of the Lancet kamikaze UAV in Syria. The video, among other things, shows the elimination of two well-known Syrian militants, among whom was one of the best specialists in working with ATGMs.
Video is in Russian but is translatable
The Lancet was reportedly used about 40 times during the campaign.
In general, the Syrian test site was very useful for developing new loitering ammunition.
Plus a video from the "Gray Zone".
Video is unnarrated.
Our people are watching the air strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the positions of the "green" in the mountainous Latakia.
[Breitbart] Amazon reportedly filed a patent recently that suggests its Ring doorbell cameras may soon be able to identify “suspicious” people by scanning their skin texture, walking style, and voice. This represents the latest in Amazon’s growing push into biometric data collection.
Business Insider reports that e-commerce and tech giant Amazon recently filed a patent for its Ring doorbell cameras that describes new tech enabling the devices to identify “suspicious” people based on their skin texture, walking style, and voice.
[TheDiplomat] In 2015, the Indian government drew up a 100,000 million Indian rupee plan funded by the Ministry of Shipping and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration to transform the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (ANI) into the country’s first maritime hub. In 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the islands for the first time, inaugurating several development projects relating to connectivity, energy, and tourism, among other things. Most recently, he inaugurated the Chennai-Andaman and Nicobar undersea internet cable, which is set to provide a high-speed internet connection to seven remote islands of the ANI chain.
The islands have also seen the recent installation of 31 GPS strong motion sensors and accelerometers, SMS alerts dissemination systems, 13 Automated Weather Stations, State Emergency Operation Centers, and the commissioning of a solar power plant at Attam Pahad. The government of India under NITI Aayog’s "Holistic Development Program" for the islands has invited global players to invest in a wide-ranging social and infrastructure development program, including investments in resorts and other tourist infrastructure.
These developments show how New Delhi is fortifying its southernmost frontier at sea and gearing up for something bigger. As the Indo-Pacific region with its growing prominence becomes a theater of opportunity for India, the ANI have gained an important position in New Delhi’s foreign policy.
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Saudi Arabia’s defenses on Sunday destroy two drones launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militia towards Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia.https://t.co/FwukbJheqH
“The [Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... ] militia tried to target travelers with three drones at dawn today," the coalition said in a statement.
According to the coalition, the drones were launched from Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Sanaa airport, which has" become a center for cross-border attacks."
[Breitbart] Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed legislation that repeals the state’s last pro-life law by allowing minor girls to obtain abortions without their parents’ knowledge.
“With reproductive rights under attack across the nation, Illinois is once again establishing itself as a leader in ensuring access to healthcare services,” Pritzker said Friday, complying with the abortion industry’s narrative that ending the lives of unborn children is “women’s health care.”
Pritzker said he was “proud” of his legislature for passing HB 370, named by Democrats the Youth Health and Safety Act:
This repeal was essential, because it was the most vulnerable pregnant minors who were punished by this law: victims of rape and physical abuse in unsafe homes. I thank Representative Anna Moeller, Senator Elgie Sims and the lawmakers and advocates who have fiercely fought to repeal this law and keep vulnerable young people safe. I’m proud that Illinois continues to be a national leader in protecting reproductive rights.
Amy C. Gehrke, executive director of Illinois Right to Life, tweeted that, by signing the bill into law, Pritzker “ignored the will of Illinois voters, usurped the right of Illinois parents to be involved in their children’s health care, and endangered countless minor girls.”
Pritzker’s office noted Illinois has become an abortion destination state with “more out-of-state patients … now traveling to Illinois” for abortions.
And every out-of-state patient means more money in all sorts of coffers at a time when Blue state economies are not rebounding like Red states. California is going for abortion tourist dollars, too.
“According to the most recent data from the Illinois Department of Public Health, 7,534 nonresidents received abortions in Illinois in 2019, compared with 2,970 in 2014 and 5,528 in 2017,” the governor’s office observed.
State Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D) saw the repeal of the Parental Notification Act of 1995 as a direct reaction to the Texas Heartbeat Act, which the U.S. Supreme Court allowed to remain in effect, prohibiting abortions in the state once a fetal heartbeat is detected.
That makes sense. Texas is lost to them, so they have to make up for it where they still can.
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What kind of sick society views Pregnancy as some kind of deadly health care concern? Much like a Cancer.
And why do I get the feeling that the percentage of minor abortions from rape is very small and most abortions are a result of Jack and Jill having a bit of fun?
this is designed to further remove Parent's rights.
[Shafaq News] al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) reportedly killed a member of the terrorist organization of ISIS in al-Eith territory, east of Saladin, on Sunday morning.
In the same context, a force from the PMF 40th brigade carried out a security operation in Kirkuk earlier today.
According to a PMF statement, the operation covered multiple areas alongside the force's territory to pursue ISIS remnants and destroy its hideouts.
[AlAhram] Egypt is proud to host 6 million migrants colonists and refugees and is keen to provide them with decent life just as Egyptian citizens, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday on the occasion of the International Moslem colonists Migrants Day.
"Egypt has always considered migration as a positive phenomenon and an important means to achieve development in origin and destination countries, and it [migration] contributes to the convergence of civilizations and cultures, which leads to the strengthening of tolerance and the spread of a culture of peace and understanding and acceptance of the other," the statement added.
In October, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said at the Visegrad Group (V4) summit in Hungary that he does not allow his country to be a transit point for irregular migrants colonists seeking to reach Europe.
El-Sisi stressed that Egypt had no camps for those refugees, but it, from a human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. -based approach, treats them as guests on its soil, allowing them at the same time to join its schools and universities as well as being covered in its coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... vaccination campaign.
According to the UN Refugees Agency (UNHCR), Egypt hosts officially more than 265,000 refugees from 65 countries above them Syria, followed by Sudan, Æthiopia, South Sudan, Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... , Æthiopia, Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , and Somalia.
According to other sources including official statements, Egypt has hosted not less than 500,000 Syrians alone since the start of the crisis in Syria.
International Organization for Migration "IOM" states that there are around 3 million migrants colonists in Egypt.
Clearly, the correct number is lots. For perspective:
[AlAhram] Egypt's population increased by 750,000 over the past 160 days to reach 102,750,000 on Monday, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS).
The country’s population reached 102 million people on 5 July 2021, and 250,000 more babies were born over the following 50 days, CAPMAS said.
Cairo is the governorate with the highest population with 10.1 million people, followed by Giza with 9.3 million people and Sharqiya governorate with 7.7 million.
In February, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi warned of the risks of overpopulation, saying that "unprecedented population growth is Egypt's biggest challenge."
The president added that the country would need to lower the annual population growth rate to 400,000 before Egyptians can reap the fruits of recent development efforts.
They’ve been vaccinating as fast as they can afford with a variety of vaccines, both purchased and domestically produced, so any impact on birthrate/miscarriages should become visible within six months.
[GreaterKadhmir] policeman was shot at by gunnies near his residence at Bandzoo area of south 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 Pulwama district on Sunday evening.
"Today at about 1910hrs, Pulwama Police received information about a terror crime incident at Bandzoo area of Pulwama where forces of Evil had fired upon a Police personnel. Senior coppers along with reinforcement reached at the terror crime spot, " a police front man said while identifying the injured cop as Mushtaq Ahmad Wagay, son of Ghulam Mohammad Wagay of Bandzoo.
"In this terror incident, he received gunshot injuries and was immediately shifted to hospital for the treatment, " said the police front man.
"Police has started the paperwork but haven't done much else in this regard under relevant sections of law. Investigation is in progress and officers continue to work to establish the circumstances which lead to this terror crime. Area has been cordoned off and search in the area is going on".
[Breitbart] Florida’s job growth rate was six times faster than the country’s as a whole in November, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced on Friday.
"Our job growth rate is six times faster than the rest of the nation because we’ve worked hard to keep Florida open and protect the jobs of individual Floridians," DeSantis said, attributing the success to pro-freedom policies which have allowed Floridians to continue to work while blue states, many of which existed in extended lockdowns, continue to implement coercive policies, forcing people to choose between their jobs and a shot. DeSantis went on to say:
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"Progressives" are the only people who fail at Churchill's dictum of "After they have exhausted all the other possibilities, they will do the right thing."
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/\ While the dictum may have been accurate for the times, I'm not at all certain Churchill had encountered people such as these.
[RevolverNews] Six weeks ago, Revolver News published a blockbuster investigative report on Ray Epps
...apparent but unindicted FBI agent provocateur and bear hunter...
— a man who, more than any other individual, appears to be the key unlocking the question of active federal involvement in the so-called "Capitol Siege" of January 6th.
Out of all of the thousands of January 6’s protesters, and the thousands of hours of publicly available footage from that fateful day, Ray Epps has turned out to be perhaps the only person nailed dead to rights confessing on camera to plotting a pre-planned attack on the Capitol. On both January 5 and January 6, Epps announced multiple times, at multiple locations, his upcoming plot to breach the US Capitol. He then spent hours attempting to recruit hundreds of others to join him. On top of it all, Epps was seen leading key people and managing key aspects of the initial breach of the Capitol grounds himself.
As we explained in detail in our previous report, the FBI originally put Ray Epps’s face on its Capitol Violence “Most Wanted List” on January 8, 2021, just two days after 1/6. They offered a cash reward for information leading to his arrest. In fact, rank-and-file FBI agents initially deemed Epps’s role as an apparent riot organizer so important that they named him Suspect #16—one of the first 20 high-profile FBI targets in a database now packed with more than 500 suspects.
Then, six months later on June 30, 2021, both Revolver News and The New York Times published inconvenient stories that encouraged a more aggressive interrogation of the “Ray Epps third rail,” leading reasonable people to wonder why this publicly identified man on the Most Wanted List still had no charges filed against him.
The FBI responded to these important media stories the very next day. But their response was to quietly purge all online Ray Epps files from their website, then switch to a posture of “What? Who? Ray Epps? Never heard of him.” A little long but worth a read.
Very thorough, with lots of photos and video clips.
[TheDrive] Earlier this year The War Zone exclusively reported about a series of 2019 incidents that involved unidentified drones stalking US Navy vessels over several nights in the waters off of Southern California. Our initial report also covered the Navy’s investigation into the incidents, which appeared to struggle to identify either the aircraft or their operators. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday later clarified that the aircraft were never identified, and that there have been similar incidents across the service branches and allied militaries.
Newly released documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show that the full scope of these drone incursions was greater than it initially appeared, and they persisted well after the Navy’s investigation was launched. Deck logs indicate that drone sightings continued throughout the month of July 2019 and included events where drone countermeasure teams were called into action. One notable event involved at least three ships observing multiple drones. Uncharacteristically for unclassified deck logs, the details on this event are almost entirely redacted.
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So, a destroyer with a special crew of drone spotters onboard, while on exercises off the California coast, sees drones approaching the vessel.
Sounds like that was the whole point of the exercise.
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That could be too, Ed.
Don't tell the others and use their reactions for evaluation and/or training.
In between the Diversity and Self-Humiliation Classes, of course.
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Seems to me they could turn their fire control radars on the drones. Fire control radars are used to guide the anti-air missiles to their targets. Since the missiles can go hundreds of miles, the radars are powerful enough to reach that far.
At close range (1-2 miles), the radar beam should be able to completely fry any electronics in the drone.
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During one of the War in Afghanistan's worst battles, 21-year-old scout sniper Dakota Meyer took one brave risk.
After learning that four of his closest friends were missing after an ambush in a heavily Taliban-occupied area, Meyer decided to look for them by himself.
Hurt and tired, the Marine looked for the group while hiding as best as he could from a rain of bullets, saving over a dozen lives, including Army Soldiers, Marines, and Afghan trainees.
Dakota Meyer became the second-youngest living Medal of Honor recipient and the first living United States Marine since the Vietnam War to earn the United States Military's highest honor.
He was also the only one to share a beer with the president before the ceremony...
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I still recall the debate over maternity uniforms in the Army circa 1980s. After many annual reviews and refusal to create one, someone in JAG pointed out to the Chief of Staff of the Army, that with tens of thousands of troops in Europe at the time, if the balloon went up and any of these females were captured out of uniform, they could legitimately be shot as spies. Guess who's going to get blamed? Within days a special uniform review board approved the long sought maternity uniform.
Those who are old enough remember when females filled a auxiliary force (WAC, WAVES), that if a service member got pregnant, they were automatically given an honorable or general discharge. Today, they get to 'choose'. And yes too many use that to get out of dangers way or 'challenging' assignments. For males however, inflicting an injury to avoid 'duty' is still a courts martial offense. Equity my a$$.
[GreaterKashmir] A militant hailing from Kulgam district affiliated with The Resistance Front outfit, an offshoot of LeT aa per police was arrested by the security forces at KP road in neighbouring south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Sunday.
Quoting a senior Police officer, news agency GNS reported that the militant Feroz Ahmad Zargar, 34, alias Kamraan, son of Ghulam Mohudin, a resident of Gratabal Qaimoh in Kulgam, was held by Police along with army and CRPF near Al Noor Masjid, KP Road.
Pertinently, his elder brother Majid Zargar was a top LeT Commander who was killed in 2017 at Arwani.
The Kaduna State Government has said that the corpse count in the bandidos’ attack on some communities in Giwa Local Government Area of the state had risen to 38.
Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs in the state, Samuel Aruwan, made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday.
Aruwan had earlier said 20 residents were killed when the button men invaded Kauran Fawa, Marke and Riheya communities.
He added that houses, trucks and cars were also burnt along with agricultural produce at various farms.
"Following the report of attacks by bandidos across villages in Idasu, Giwa LGA, contained in an earlier update, security agencies have confirmed to the Kaduna State Government that 38 people were killed across the locations attacked," Aruwan said.
"Twenty-nine of the victims have been identified, with nine remaining unidentified as of the time of this update."
[ZH via Rantingly] North Korea is marking the 10th anniversary of former leader Kim Jong-Il's death in somewhat characteristically bizarre ways, with dictates from Pyongyang saying citizens must mourn on a "unified" front that includes a ban on laughing for 11 days.
More than mere commemorative moments of silence, all instances of general enjoyment have been banned during the week-and-a-half period, including shopping, recreation, and alcohol consumption. Even going for groceries is on the list of banned activities, according to Radio Free Asia’s Korean Service.
"During the mourning period, we must not drink alcohol, laugh or engage in leisure activities," a resident of the northeastern city of Sinuiju was cited in the US state-funded publication as saying. The source added that "In the past many people who were caught drinking or being intoxicated during the mourning period were arrested and treated as ideological criminals. They were taken away and never seen again."
"Even if your family member dies during the mourning period, you are not allowed to cry out loud and the body must be taken out after it’s over," the source told RFA further. "People cannot even celebrate their own birthdays if they fall within the mourning period."
While RFA is an American government-linked media agency, and so the report should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt, this type of strict mourning is somewhat common in many Eastern cultures from the Levant to East Asia, at least on a local level and within families. But strict dictates imposed on a national scale is something perhaps only common to the DPRK.
Dubbed by Pyongyang officials "the parent of our people," Kim Jong Ill's death anniversary commemoration ceremony observed in the capital included the following according to NY Post...
Cars, trains and ships blew their horns, the Hermit Kingdom’s flags were lowered to half-staff and people flocked to Pyongyang’s Mansu Hill to lay flowers and bow before giant statues of Kim Jong Il and his father, Kim Il Sung, who ruled for 46 years.
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all instances of general enjoyment have been banned during the week-and-a-half period, including shopping, recreation, and alcohol consumption. Even going for groceries is on the list of banned activities, according to Radio Free Asia’s Korean Service.
...Well, since there's nothing in the stores, nothing to do, and the hooch is probably poisonous, it sounds like this is less respect than making a virtue out of necessity.
[JPost] The new rules come following protests among some IDF soldiers that the rules of engagement overly restricted them.
The IDF has released new rules of engagement when dealing with those throwing stones and Molotov cocktails in the West Bank, relaxing the rules to allow for soldiers to fire even after the assailants throw their weapons, KAN reported Sunday.
Good.
The new rules require this to still be done in the immediate aftermath, but can also be done even as the assailant is escaping, according to KAN.
The new rules also allow for the IDF to fire at people stealing live ammunition and weaponry. This is especially relevant, as 70% of all criminal shootings in Israel are carried out with stolen military weapons, according to Walla.
In addition, the rules will also apply to the Egyptian border, which deals with cross-border smuggling, KAN reported.
The new rules come following protests among some IDF soldiers that the rules of engagement overly restricted them, which some claim resulted in the death of Border Police officer Barel Shmueli on the Gaza Strip border.
[Breitbart] The National Fraternal Order of Police blasted the National Football League after reports showed that the league has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to anti-police groups that advocate for the end of American police departments.
A recent review of the NFL’s “Inspire Change” social justice spending by Fox News found that the leagues have given hundreds of thousands to at least three anti-cop groups. In addition, the review shows that the NFL is proudly supporting the Vera Institute of Justice, the Oregon Justice Resource Center, and the Community Justice Exchange, all of which support defunding and abolishing the police.
[TheDiplomat] In 1616, English statesman Sir Walter Raleigh proclaimed, "Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself." Centuries later, one of the most distinguished American naval strategists of the 19th century, Alfred Thayer Mahan, would echo this idea. In his 1890 magnum opus, "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783," Mahan argued that national greatness is directly tied to control over the world’s oceans, for commercial advantages in peacetime and strategic advantages in times of war. In particular, Mahan stressed the importance of strategic locations such as chokepoints, refueling stations, canals, and seaports.
In this light, growing Chinese investment in the maritime shipping industry, both domestically and abroad, should be a major source of concern for geopolitical rivals such as the United States. In addition to its growing accumulation of shipping ports, China is the leading manufacturer of shipping equipment, producing 96 percent of the world’s shipping containers, 80 percent of the world’s ship-to-shore cranes, and receiving 48 percent of the world’s shipbuilding orders in 2020. China boasts the world’s second largest fleet of commercial shipping vessels and, according to the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, has now surpassed the United States as the world’s largest navy in terms of total battle force ships.
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China boasts the world’s second largest fleet of commercial shipping vessels and, according to the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, has now surpassed the United States as the world’s largest navy in terms of total battle force ships.
True dat, as far as it goes. But if we decided in any future war against them to go after their merchies, they're gonna discover PDQ that yer boats can't be everywhere...and it's not going to be very helpful to, say, conquer Taiwan when the ships you need to transport your ill-gotten gains all over the world are on the bottom of the ocean or trapped in/out of port by mines and submarines you can't see.
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battle force ships
Does this include coastal vessels which lack projection capabilities? Not that those responsible for the head count would ever cheat in their tabulation. /sarc off
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...transport your ill-gotten gains all over the world are on the bottom of the ocean
With today's supertankers, I see record setting 'tonnage' sunk reaching new heights. I see Liberia and Panama record making registrations of flagged shipping.
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[TASS] Russian Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile-gun systems (ZRPK) shot down more than 40 Turkish-made Bayraktar and Anka drones in Libya and Syria. This was announced on Sunday by the Russia-1 TV channel .
"In general, Arab crews both in Syria and Libya, according to them, shot down more than 40 Bayraktar and heavy Turkish Anka drones with Russian Armors," the TV channel said, citing military estimates.
The broadcast also showed Bayraktar shot down in Idlib, appearing in the area of operation of the Syrian air defense.
"In the Idlib region, we are now observing three Bayraktar unmanned aerial vehicles. At the same time, we can track them, starting from overflights and ending with landing," said Alexander Novikov, head of the 1st Directorate of the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation (GU MVS), noting that at the moment, these drones are on the agreed territory.
He stressed that "Pantsir" can withstand any drone and Russia is ready to respond to provocations at any time.
The Pantsir-S air defense missile system is capable of striking air targets flying at speeds up to 1000 m/s, at a distance of 200 to 20,000 meters. The complex can also fight light armored vehicles and manpower.
[GreaterKashmir] Police on Sunday identified the holy warrior killed in the shootout with security forces in Harwan area of Srinagar as Saifulla alias Abu Khalid alias Shawaz, a resident of Pakistain's Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... affiliated with the Lashkar outfit.
Khalid, as per IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar, had infiltrated in 2016 and was active in general area of Harwan ever since.
"SrinagarEncounterUpdate: Killed #terrorist identified as Saifulla @ Abu Khalid @ Shawaz, resident of Karachi (#Pakistain), affiliated with proscribed #terror outfit LeT. He infiltrated in 2016 & was active in general area of Harwan & involved in several terror crimes," IGP Kashmir said in a statement.
The IGP further informed that three Pak snuffies have been killed in Srinagar city in the last 33 days.
"03 #Pak #murderous Moslems killed in #SrinagarCity within 33days. They were involved in several terror crimes including attacks on Police/SFs & civilian killings. It shows that Pakistain is hell-bent to disturb peace in valley especially in Srinagar City".
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.
[Gateway Pundit] In July 2019 the 
[LibyaReview] In a statement on Saturday, the Libyan Interior Ministry said that the police found large quantities of ammunition and explosives hidden inside a house in the 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
[JPost] Parents of Jenin terrorists suspected of killing Yehuda Dimentman: ’We are proud of our sons.’
[Breitbart] The 
[Breitbart] Fifteen people were shot, two of them fatally, in Democrat-controlled 
[Breitbart] A criminal complaint revealed officials initially learned of CNN producer 
[GatewayPundit] Three retired 
[Western Journal] 
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
[BBC] The 
...They hate 
[BBC] US rapper Drakeo the Ruler has died after being stabbed at a music festival in Los Angeles.
[FrontPage] One week after his arrest, January 6, defendant 
[KRQE] Search warrant issued for 
Hezbollah
...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 
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
[Breitbart] Illinois Gov. 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[Breitbart] Florida’s 
[ZH via Rantingly] North Korea is marking the 10th anniversary of former leader Kim Jong-Il's death in somewhat characteristically bizarre ways, with dictates from Pyongyang saying citizens must mourn on a "unified" front that includes a ban on laughing for 11 days.
[JPost] The new rules come following protests among some IDF soldiers that the rules of engagement overly restricted them.
[TheDiplomat] In 1616, English statesman Sir Walter Raleigh proclaimed, "Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself." Centuries later, one of the most distinguished American naval strategists of the 19th century, Alfred Thayer Mahan, would echo this idea. In his 1890 magnum opus, "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783," Mahan argued that national greatness is directly tied to control over the world’s oceans, for commercial advantages in peacetime and strategic advantages in times of war. In particular, Mahan stressed the importance of strategic locations such as chokepoints, refueling stations, canals, and seaports.
