[PJMedia] Payroll firm ADP says the US lost more than 300,000 jobs in January, and omicron is taking the blame.
December’s impressive jobs gains were also revised downwards.
“Unexpectedly” is the code word once again, as Wall Street had predicted the economy would produce 200,000 new jobs instead.
January is the first month since December 2020 that the economy has lost jobs.
Despite White House boasts that 2021 produced more jobs than any other year, we’re still more than 3.5 million jobs shy of where the economy was in February 2020, before the demonstrably useless COVID shutdowns.
The Biden economy hasn’t been creating new jobs. it has been recovering needlessly destroyed jobs — and far too slowly. Or at least it was until now. The expected “v-shaped recovery” has been impeded by continuing lockdowns in two of our biggest states, Democrat-run California and New York.
Return to economic normalcy has also been delayed by Bidenflation, Biden’s war on domestic energy production, and Biden’s return to ruthless overregulation.
“Service-providing industries were responsible for 274,000 of the job losses,” reports CNBC, “with goods producers falling by 27,000.”
The Biden administration knew this was coming, too.
On Monday, White House spokesweasel Jen Psaki pre-spun the lousy numbers, falsely claiming that the “nearly nine million people [who] called out sick in early January” might be counted as unemployed.
But that’s not how the Bureau of Labor Statistics (their report is due out Friday) or ADP counts job losses.
ADP’s chief economist, Nela Richardson, said, “The labor market recovery took a step back at the start of 2022 due to the effect of the omicron variant and its significant, though likely temporary, impact to job growth.”
Left unsaid: How omicron caused 300,000 people to lose their jobs.
The Fed is also keeping a close eye on the jobs report. Our “transitory” inflation problem seems to have settled in for at least the medium term, but the Fed won’t raise inflation-killing interest rates so long as the job market is weak.
There’s a word for economic stagnation combined with inflation, something economists once believed could never happen at the same time: Stagflation.
That word was coined during the 1970s, the last time government over-regulation and funny-money policies combined to strangle growth and spark inflation.
Related: More from CNBC courtesy of Lord Garth has a deeper dive into the numbers.
The past 6 months, the BLS has reported fewer job gains than the ADP survey and by several hundred thousand in some months. So I wouldn't be surprised to see a much different result
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...So many Administration spokespeople will be tap dancing so fast to try and make this look good that it's going to sound like full auto day on the range.
Mike
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I'm super impressed with the decision to claim a modest 200k increase and any disparaging numbers are due to people taking a couple weeks off for sniffles and quarantine.
Now they look off by a cool half million, which even the dunderheads and tru-believers know is way outside a rounding error, and everyone who has had to take a sick leave is like, "That isn't how it works."
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Some peoples' position on anything is whatever the media and / or some celebrity tells them it should be. That's what's keeping the number from being higher.
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And yet the unemployment rate unaccountably dropped, amirite?
[FoxNews] Embattled CNN boss Jeff Zucker walked away from the liberal network on Wednesday after failing to disclose a "consensual relationship" with a CNN staffer.
No wonder he wasn’t concerned about the known antics of those who recently had to leave. Also no wonder he was divorced in 2019 after a quarter century of marriage to the mother of his four children.
"As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more than 20 years. I acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years. I was required to disclose it when it began but I didn’t. I was wrong. As a result, I am resigning today," Zucker wrote in a memo to staffers shared by CNN’s Brian Stelter.
"I came to CNN on January 28, 2013. Together, we had nine great years. I certainly wish my tenure here had ended differently. But it was an amazing run. And I loved every minute," Zucker continued. "I am grateful to the thousands of incredibly talented CNN and Turner Sports employees who helped make this such a joy for me, and such a success for all of us. I wish each of you nothing but the best in the years ahead."
Stelter noted that CNN staffers were "stunned" by the sudden resignation.
Under Zucker, CNN has recently been plagued by scandals, embarrassing headlines and struggles to attract an audience, leading critics to wonder if he would be shown the door once a planned merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery is finalized later this year. However, the sudden resignation before the potential deal was finalized sent shock waves across the media industry.
Zucker’s relationship was with CNN marketing chief Allison Gollust, who the now-former CNN boss has long been speculated to have a relationship with. Gollust will remain at CNN, according to Stelter.
Don Lemon? Jeffrey "Spanks" Toobin? Or just bailing with Dem Street Cred before he gets fired for the ratings collapse?
CNN president Jeff Zucker announced his resignation on Wednesday, following an acknowledgment that he had failed to disclose a romantic relationship with another senior executive at CNN.
"As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more than 20 years," Zucker wrote in a memo to staff. "I acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years. I was required to disclose it when it began but I didn’t. I was wrong."
Zucker was referring to his relationship with CNN executive vice president and chief marketing officer Allison Gollust, according to the New York Times.
Gollust said Wednesday she plans to remain in her role at the company. "Face it, I'm a whore, always have been, always will be"
"Jeff and I have been close friends and professional partners for over 20 years," she wrote. "Recently, our relationship changed during Covid. I regret that we didn’t disclose it at the right time. I’m incredibly proud of my time at CNN and look forward to continuing the great work we do everyday."
Gollust served as a communications director for Andrew Cuomo for just four months in 2012 and 2013 before quitting to join CNN.
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they knew about it, they cover each others ass like they do with these idiots in the White House.
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She worked for Governor Cuomo, was a staffer for a while for the other Cuomo brother and ran interference for the brothers. CNN and the NY government are one big happy family.
This resignation is deeper than a failed reporting of a sex thing.
[DenverChannel] A Downtown Denver business owner says shoplifting at his stores has gotten so bad he's having to charge customers a fee to make up the costs.
"[It's called the] Denver Crime Spike Fee, and so that'll be a 1% transaction fee for all of the items that are purchased in our stores," Derek Friedman, owner of several Sportsfan and Sock Em Sock Emporium locations in the Denver metro, said Sunday.
Since 2019, he says shoplifting at his downtown and Federal Boulevard stores has tripled.
"There's zero consequences, I think, for property crime in the Denver area. It seems like it's dropped to barely anything," Friedman said.
It's forced him to impose this new Denver Crime Spike Fee to help him recover thousands of dollars in losses, as originally reported by Denver Business Journal. The fee will go live in February.
"We're talking about six figures [in losses] for a really small business like us, and that is meaningful. It impacts our employees, and, more importantly, it now is going to impact our shoppers," Friedman said.
The problem has also made it harder for him to keep employees as they'd rather work at Park Meadows or Cherry Creek Mall.
"When you have the impact of having someone come in and wander around the store and then grab a jersey and a hat and pull out a machete and walk out, it does have an issue with your ability to recruit and retain employees," Friedman said.
Tobey Zamora, a customer born and raised in Denver, isn't too happy with the forthcoming 1% fee, but he knows the situation downtown right now is a bit rough.
"You got to do what you got to do. It sucks. It sucks that it falls back on us consumers," he said. "I'm not okay. But if I have to, I have to. I mean, I'm not gonna stop buying what I want."
Friedman says he may have to increase the fee in the future if things don't improve in the next few months. But he hopes by taking action, local and state leaders will pay more attention — and so will customers.
"My hope is that over the course of the coming months, some different approaches are taken to enforcement and police presence and attitudes towards police and the great job that they do protecting businesses like ours," he said. So the haves have to pay for the will nots. Fuck you Denver. I ain't shopping at your shit anymore.
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"When you have the impact of having someone come in and wander around the store and then grab a jersey and a hat and pull out a machete and walk out, it does have an issue with your ability to recruit and retain employees," Friedman said.
I laughed, not because this is funny, but because that is an absolute dead pan of truth.
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So: do I have this right? In order to buy something at this store, *I* have to pay a extra 1% for the privilege of shopping there? Not because I have done anything wrong, but because the police, courts and DA refuse to enforce the law.
Riiiiight!
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Good thing I didn’t leave anything behind in Denver.
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In order to buy something at this store, *I* have to pay a extra 1% for the privilege of shopping there?
Costs go up, prices go up. It is annoying to see it broken out and called a 'fee', but that is probably the point. Sounds like the local pols could use a bit of feedback. Or horsewhipping.
[Jpost] Despite confirming its purchase of NSO's spyware, the bureau claimed Pegasus was never used in any FBI investigation.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation acquired Israeli tech company NSO Group's Pegasus spyware for $9 million in 2019, the US agency confirmed to UK news outlet The Guardian on Wednesday.
But Pegasus was never used in any FBI investigation, the bureau claimed, adding that it "procured a limited license for product testing and evaluation only."
According to the report, the deal struck between the FBI and NSO was a one-year test project worth around $5 million. Despite "not using it at all... like, not even switching it on," according to a source, the FBI renewed the contract for another year, bringing the deal up to $9 million.
The deal was agreed upon following a "long process" of disagreements on how much control NSO Group would retain over its software, a source told The Guardian. The FBI reportedly took issue with NSO's policy of keeping sensors on its technology in order to be alerted if it was moved by a government client and to keep track of its physical location.
In addition, the bureau was reportedly wary of allowing NSO engineers to install Pegasus on FBI computers, instead agreeing to keep the spyware in a large container.
The FBI stated it bought access to NSO's spyware in order to "stay abreast of emerging technologies and tradecraft."
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You need to have complete digital fingerprints of any entity you may want to simulate when you do something naughty and need to plant them as evidence after you are finished?
The California DOJ has threatened to hold the leaders of Black Lives Matter personally liable over the charity's missing financial records
The organization has 60 days to disclose records about its $60 million in donations or it could have its tax-exempt status revoked
The charity could also face fines for 'each month or partial month for which the report(s) are delinquent'
The DOJ said 'directors, trustees, officers and return preparers' could be liable for 'all penalties, interest and other costs incurred to restore exempt status'
Charitable assets cannot be used to pay the costs associated with the matter
It is unclear with leaders would be held 'personally liable,' especially since all three co-founders are no longer affiliated with the organization
The notice comes just days after it was revealed that BLM has not had anyone in charge of its finances since co-founder Patrisse Cullors resigned last May
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California????? I guess BLM really is passe (the French word for "toast.")
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The CA DoJ Division of Law Enforcement, the actual LE Special Agents with Badges and firearms, is deeply compromised by politically biased leftists and minority-friendly, SEIU union influence. This is almost certainly theater and sound-bite bluster to offer cover. The Prosecutorial lawyers of the CA DoJ are far worse politically. My extensive exposure with them in policy, planning and operational enforcement operations is more than 10 years old, but I cannot imagine it got better since I retired...
[ZERO] Despite some countries embracing nuclear power as the obvious solution to the green energy problem that it is over the last 12 months, Europe is still shuttering reactors at a time when it needs them most.
With Europe is a massive energy crisis, what remains of a nuclear industry in Germany is about to be taken offline. This comes as "wholesale power prices are more than four times what they were at the start of the coronavirus pandemic," Bloomberg reported this week.
This comes despite the fact that the EU was slated to label uranium "green" this year. Meanwhile, as the rest of the world moves on to pragmatic solutions, government's across the EU are now facing massive energy bills and a supply crunch.
China, for example, is embracing nuclear in an attempt to try and clean up its air quality. Russia is also embracing new stations and has more than 20 reactors confirmed or planned, Bloomberg wrote. Japan called nuclear "key" to its decarbonization goals late last year.
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When it affects the cost of their exports, things will change toot sweet.
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China, for example, is embracing nuclear in an attempt to try and clean up its air quality.
Or provide spent fuel rods to be reprocessed to make Plutonium-239 nuclear warheads?
Joe Rogan has been strongly criticized for promoting COVID-19 misinformation, but he insists he is simply debating the issues
On December 13 he invited Dr Peter McCullough onto his podcast, and McCullough made a series of false claims about COVID ...the Daily Mail writer forgot to put scare quotes around “false claims”...
On December 31, Rogan hosted Dr Robert Malone, who shared his contentious views with Rogan's 11 million listeners
Spotify, which hosts Rogan's podcast, is under pressure to drop their huge star from their rosta
Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are among the musicians to remove their music from Spotify in protest, and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are 'concerned'
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^ Yes. With all the talk about musicians pulling their material off Spotify, where's the usual gleeful announcements from the left about the advertisers pulling out?
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The ads within the advertisers have a larger audience, such as Black Rifle Coffee's 'Master the French Press'.
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Joni, Neil and their fellow Geritol-flower children are fighting a losing battle. The whole rotten structure of lies and BS is collapsing now, thanks to the judge's order forcing Pfizer to start releasing their heretofore secret documents from their vaccine trials.
The Pfizer trials data is coming out. Biostaticuans around the world are starting to comb through what's been released -- and it's worse, far worse, than anyone suspected:
The data are overwhelming. This is the biggest policy debacle in modern history.
With the Pfizer data coming out now, the end is nigh. There will absolutely be political consequences.
The blame game will begin soon. Prime Minister Ron Klain and His Crapulosity's Government will sacrifice Fauci.
The Democrats will try to fix elections but their support will crater and the GOP will sweep the elections outside of CA NY IL and a few corrupt rotten boroughs like Fulton County, Wayne County MI, Philly etc.
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The one to watch now is American Pravda aka NYTimes. Their science and finance writers are smart enough to realize that the game's over.
They talk to the Mass General doctors who've said omicron's about finished and it's now just seasonal flu. They see that the North European nations, every one of them except the Teutons, are abandoning lockdowns and mandates and have gone 180 degrees in reverse: UK NL DK SE IE--all of them, opening up now.
If the NYTimes starts covering the release of this horrific Pfizer data, there will be a political earthquake.
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Fauxi is going under the bus, and the people who originally chose him specifically for his megalomaniacal mountebank style know he won't go quietly. So, he goes "unexpectedly." IYKWIMAITYD.
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"Sorry, Tony. It's just bizness. That would've been a sweet pension, too"
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Obviously we need much more time to dive into those (incomplete, also redacted) Pfizer trials data documents. It can't be the case that 3% of those jabbed in the first three months died, so the denominator here must be far larger than what the Canadians (linked above) inferred.
But here's the point: we know from Pfizer that this three month rollout caused, minimum, 1,227 deaths. In the US, the first 3 months' rollout was severely limited to a few elderly and healthcare workers -- just a few million or so. A death rate from the vaccine of 1,227 / 3m would be about 400 per million. Even the highest estimates of COVID death rates in a three month period are not much higher than 400 per million population.
IOW it seems clear from even this limited dataset that the Pfizer vaccine did not significantly reduce the COVID death rate and actually killed a significant number of those who took the Pfizer jab.
[Townhall] Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) placed holds on all Department of Justice nominees Tuesday after it failed to respond to the lawmaker's letter concerning allegations that the Biden administration is not representing U.S. Marshalls sued over their actions in defending the Portland federal courthouse amid Black Lives Matter riots in 2020.
Eight nominees — four U.S. attorney nominations awaiting votes in the Senate, two U.S. attorneys awaiting votes in the Judiciary Committee and two U.S. Marshals awaiting votes in committee — are now held up by Cotton's recent move.
The GOP senator sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday asking that the DOJ confirm that it is representing the U.S. Marshals or funding their private counsel, or to "explain why on earth you're not."
"These courageous officers were attacked by left-wing street militants with weapons such as mortar fire, ball bearings, and blinding lasers," Cotton wrote in the letter. "A refusal to represent these Deputy Marshals would violate the Department’s long-standing practice — not to mention its moral duty — to defend law-enforcement officers when they’re sued for actions in the line of duty."
Cotton vowed to block the department's nominees if he did not receive a "satisfactory" response by 3 p.m. Tuesday, and now, the senator is moving forward with his threat to object to DOJ nominees.
[AustraliaBroadcasting] Massive electrical power failure has crippled the Australian Navy's largest warship as it completes its humanitarian mission to Tonga following the January 14 volcanic eruption and tsunami.
The ABC can reveal that despite days of emergency work HMAS Adelaide, known as a landing helicopter dock (LHD), is still experiencing problems, having earlier been "stranded".
An email sent by HMAS Adelaide's commander states: "Marine Technical Department have worked throughout the past few days to restore power and get us operational again."
In the message, obtained by the ABC, Captain Stuart Watters says: "We are still experiencing issues with external communications and wanted to let you know that everyone onboard is safe.
"We want to thank the technical team for their hard work in hot and difficult conditions which is enabling us to complete our task and restore services and communications."
Sources on board HMAS Adelaide have told the ABC the ship was "stranded" for a period of time, because of a "total power failure", including the backup power.
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Last week, HMAS Adelaide was allowed to dock in Tonga to deliver humanitarian supplies, despite a COVID-19 outbreak that occurred on board shortly after it had departed Australia.
Thought the Aussie faucists had everyone jabbed?
You know. I'm watching a series covering USS Enterprise '42-'45. I don't think I have heard about any side losing an entire warship over a couple cases of the sniffles.
[Free Beacon] Democratic congresswoman Marie Newman (Ill.) appears to be using donor funds to pay out tens of thousands of dollars in settlement money to a political rival she bribed to keep out of her primary race.
In late June, Newman settled a breach of contract lawsuit with local activist Iymen Chehade, which stemmed from an employment agreement she signed that promised Chehade a six-figure job in her official office in exchange for his commitment not to run against her. Just two days after the settlement, Newman's campaign began paying Chehade a "salary" of roughly $10,000 a month, financial disclosures show. Those payments continued through late December, allowing Chehade to rake in more than $50,000 from the campaign.
Newman's settlement with Chehade came as the Democrat faced a congressional ethics investigation into her employment agreement with the activist. Under federal law, a candidate cannot promise a job "for the purpose of procuring political support." But Chehade signed a nondisclosure agreement as part of the settlement, making him unable to participate in the investigation. During the probe, Newman campaign manager Ben Hardin seemingly confirmed that Newman's settlement prompted the payments to Chehade, telling the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) that the activist "has a few deliverables as part of the settlement" but otherwise has "very minimal interaction" with the campaign.
[Illinoisreview.com via Zero] Villa Park State Rep. Deb Conroy (Democrat) wants to "isolate or quarantine persons who are unable or unwilling to receive vaccines, medications, or other treatments."
HB 4640 is scheduled to be heard in the Illinois House Human Services Committee February 2 at 9:00 AM.
If HB 4640 were to become law, persons exposed to an infectious disease could be placed under Public Health Department observation, only possible in a contained atmosphere with Department watch guards, some suggest such as a concentration camp.
The bill says:
To prevent the spread of a dangerously contagious or infectious disease, the [Public Health] Department may, pursuant to the provisions of subsection (c) of this Section, isolate or quarantine persons whose refusal to undergo observation and monitoring results in uncertainty regarding whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a dangerously contagious or infectious disease or otherwise poses a danger to the public's health.
HB 4640 would also set up a state network data collection system for persons that have received mandated vaccines, medications, or otherwise.
[Washington Examiner] South Dakota's unemployment rate has rebounded well since the pandemic, according to a new report from WalletHub.
South Dakota’s unemployment rate in December 2021 was 2.6%, an improvement from its 3% unemployment rate the previous December. The state ranked ninth in terms of improvement to its jobless rate, according to the report.
South Dakota is the only state with an unemployment rate better than its rate before the pandemic, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In December 2019, South Dakota’s unemployment rate was 3.4%.
The state was the only one to not implement pandemic-related shutdowns.
The U.S. unemployment rate is 3.9%, significantly lower than the historic high of 14.7% in April 2020, according to WalletHub's report.
Sectors that are growing include leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, transportation and warehousing, construction and manufacturing.
Analysts said the economy is seeing a shift toward more jobs focusing on computer engineering, online sales and artificial intelligence, and skills in those areas would do workers well when looking for jobs.
"Technology-related skills will continue to be in high demand," said Joshua Congdon-Hohman, an associate professor at the College of the Holy Cross. "Specifically, I expect the adoption of educational technology to accelerate as educational institutions are forced to be more flexible and nimbler in the aftermath of the pandemic. I fear brick-and-mortar retail will not recover, suggesting alternatives will also remain strong leading to higher growth in warehouse and delivery related fields."
[WashingtonExaminer] The battle over a Biden Federal Reserve nominee is escalating as Republicans prepare to grill her over her outspoken political advocacy, including her political support for reparations and policing reform, and Democrats accuse her critics of bias.
Lisa Cook, a professor of economics at Michigan State University who served under President Barack Obama as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers, was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve on the Fed’s Board of Governors. During her confirmation hearing Thursday, Republicans are planning to highlight her past political remarks and social media use to raise questions about her commitment to remaining nonpartisan as a top Fed official.
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Whatever....
What about the 32++million that have naturally acaiired immunity from having it in the last 60 to 90days?. Or is the goal to pump everyone UP with an experimental VAX?
[Breitbart] Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News on Monday evening that she thinks Attorney General Merrick Garland must appoint a Special Counsel to investigate President Joe Biden’s family members’ dealings with the Chinese Communist Party.
"I think what we know or what we can surmise by looking at all of this is that it is appropriate and the Attorney General should appoint a special counsel to investigate what has happened with Biden Incorporated and Hunter Biden, James Biden, Joe Biden, and their business dealings with Communist China and the Chinese Communist Party," Blackburn said in an interview Monday night.
Blackburn’s interview came after Breitbart News on Sunday evening published a 2019 document from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware showing that the IRS, as part of a criminal investigation into the president’s son, Hunter Biden, subpoenaed JPMorgan Chase Bank for financial records of Hunter Biden, the president’s brother James Biden, their associates Devon Archer and Eric Schwerin, and a number of business entities with which they were involved.
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A commendable effort which will go absolutely nowhere. The crime family must continue to sow the seeds of a Euro conflict in order to provide media cover for a failed economy, a Chinese virus, and Hunter's foreign misdeeds.
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While I support the appointment of Special Counsel to anything involving the Biden Admin Junta and related family members.
The problem is since Obama, the DOJ and a small group of Federal Agents have been acting like a liberal political enforcer unit, instead of following written law in the application of equal justice.
So in reality, this stands about as much chance of happening with any serious real effort, as a 1 legged well digger finishing the job on schedule.
[IsraelTimes] The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... appears set for an internal clash over its relationship with Israel at a summit this weekend, a rare point of contention for a bloc that values consensus.
The dispute was set in motion last July when Moussa Faki Mahamat, chair of the African Union Commission, accepted Israel’s accreditation to the 55-member body headquartered in Addis Ababa — handing Israeli diplomats a victory they had been chasing for nearly two decades.
Powerful AU member states, notably South Africa, quickly spoke out in protest, saying they had not been properly consulted and that the move contradicted numerous AU statements, including from Faki himself, supporting the Paleostinians.
Foreign ministers failed to resolve the issue at a meeting last October, and South Africa and Algeria have placed it on the agenda of a summit for heads of state that kicks off Saturday, according to AU documents seen by AFP.
Despite a long list of pressing issues including the 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... pandemic and a spate of recent coups, analysts expect the Israel question to get a lengthy hearing at the summit, which is marking the 20th anniversary of the AU’s founding.
There could also be a vote on whether to back or reject Faki’s decision.
[DW] US Democratic Senator Ben Ray Lujan is undergoing treatment after a stroke, but is expected to make a "full recovery."
Good.
His absence could imperil President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry... 's plans to confirm a new Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... justice.
US Democratic Senator Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico has been hospitalized after a stroke, his office announced Tuesday.
It's unclear how long Lujan will be out of commission for his recovery, which could spell trouble for US President Joe Biden as he seeks to push through major policy measures ahead of key elections later this year.
WHAT DO WE KNOW SO FAR?
The 49-year-old checked into a hospital in New Mexico's capital of Santa Fe last week after feeling dizzy and fatigued. The symptoms were later discovered to be caused by a stroke, with Lujan receiving decompressive surgery to ease swelling.
The senator is now recovering at another hospital in New Mexico's largest city, Albuquerque.
Lujan is expected to make a "full recovery." However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... it's unclear when he will return to his duties as senator.
COULD LUJAN'S ABSENCE DERAIL BIDEN'S PRIORITIES?
Lujan's absence could complicate US President Joe Biden's agenda in the coming months, as the Democrats only have a 50-member majority in the Senate, with Vice President Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge serving as the tiebreaking vote.
One of Biden's plans is confirming a new justice on the nation's highest court, after Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement last week. Biden is expected to announce a Black female nominee to replace Breyer by the end of this month.
The nominee would require all 50 Democratic senators to vote in favor of her confirmation. Biden is also under pressure, as Republicans could take control of the chamber following the upcoming November midterm elections.
A top Senate Democrat, Dick Durbin ...Senator-for-Life from Illinois and Democratic Party Whip. In April 2006, Time magazine identified Durbin as one of America's 10 Best Senators, so what's that tell you? He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois... of Illinois, expressed shock on Tuesday after hearing the news of Lujan's hospitalization, but said it's unclear how it will affect the schedule in the chamber.
"I'm so glad to hear that he will make a full recovery. We look forward to his quick return to the Senate," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 46.16023 years, or 323.12161 years in dog years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... of New York tweeted in response to the news.
Lujan began his first term in the Senate in January 2021, after serving in the House of Representatives for over a decade.
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At that age stroke effects can be extreme. Such a young age and I wonder out loud if he received vax as I expect many such events will occur more often. This is just the beginning of his story.
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The explanation he had a stroke is extremely vague.
The need for decompressive surgery suggests he had a bleed into his brain rather than a simple blockage of blood supply.
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Waiting, in the name of ‘equity,’ for a Dem proposal to place a Pub Senator in the ‘penalty box,’ until the good Senator is released from the tender care of Bones…..
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#5, however many good reasons there are to dislike Mitch, the fact is, he won't play that game. No sir.
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I was iffy as to the object of TW's 'Good" comment (good that the rat had a stroke, good that the rat was expected to recover, and on and on) but finally came down on the 'good he is expected to recover' facet. It is TW after all.
Personally, if all Dem rat reps and senators had strokes, I would call THAT good.
Ditto for pubs. They are all corrupt.
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but finally came down on the 'good he is expected to recover' facet.
Yes. Sorry I was unclear, dear Whisky Mike. Also that his absence will imperil, or at least slow, the Supreme Court nomination.
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Poor communication is on the communicator, Vespasian Ebboting9735. I can’t count on everyone believing my heart is as pure as an angel in white — especially when I’m really no more pure than the general run of humanity.
[Garowe] al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... forces of Evil have announced the execution of a man who they accused of spying for the Æthiopia National Defense Forces [ENDF] working for AMISOM and the Southwest regional troops, in the latest lawlessness incident within Somalia.
The forces of Evil are known to execute those deemed to be working with their enemies and have persistently mutilated the rule of law in the country. The al-Shabaab forces of Evil do not give one an opportunity for self-defense.
Al-Shabaab media reported that Nunow Sanweyne, 34, was executed by the firing squad in front of the locals at Bula-Fulay town in the Bay region of the Southwest state. Hundreds of civilians watched helplessly when he was being executed by the squad.
The al-Shabaab, who have been causing havoc in Somalia, insisted that the accused has been cooperating with the ENDF and Southwest regional troops by sharing intelligence on their whereabouts in previous months.
Most of the Æthiopian troops serving in the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission Forces in Somalia are stationed in the Southwest and parts of Jubaland. The troops are credited for the efficient fight against al-Shabaab krazed killers.
Æthiopian troops have often been targeted by the forces of Evil who control large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia. The forces of Evil usually attack military Forward Operating Bases in Somalia in their Dire Revenge expedition against the forces.
Elsewhere, one civilian died and another maimed after AU troops [AMISOM] reportedly fired mortars on residential areas in the Qoryoley town, Lower Shabelle region, southern Somalia on Sunday night. The shelling was in response to the al-Shabaab attack, said a resident.
The AU forces have often been accused of failing to stamp due diligence while fighting against al-Shabaab, leading to cases of civilian casualties. However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... the AMISOM team has managed to a large extent to neutralize al-Shabaab threats in Somalia.
[Garowe] A military court in Somalia's Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... state has slapped six men with death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s and punitive jail terms following a trial that substantiated their links to the al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... Death Eaters, who control large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia.
The al-Shabaab Death Eaters have been trying to make inroads in Puntland in recent years after facing military pressure in southern Somalia, even managing to wage deadly attacks especially in Galkayo and Bossaso, which is the commercial capital of the state.
The military judge said the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt that the six men who are in their youthful years have been working closely with al-Shabaab Death Eaters to execute terror activities in Puntland state.
According to the judge, the Death Eaters were responsible for liquidations in Galkayo between 2017 and 2021 and served as al-Shabaab hit squad. They have been slapped with death sentences and, or jail terms ranging from 20 to 30 years.
In June 2021, Puntland executed 21 Death Eaters who were part of the terror network. This was the highest number of executions in a country where the rule of law is rarely applied to the suspected offenders.
Those subjected to the trial include Farhan Faisal, Abdullahi Faysal, Barkhad Awil, and Liban Aden who will face the firing squad while Abdikani Farhan and Abdirahman Awil slapped with 30 and 20 years of imprisonment respectively, the Puntland court said.
Puntland has been struggling lately to contain violent mostly peaceful extremism following the rise of al-Shabaab and ISIS attacks within the region. Security forces have, however, been trying to contain the situation in collaboration with federal troops.
” ’Cause Jooos are icky.” I vote Israel should give them what they want, and take their normalization elsewhere.
[BenarNews] Indonesian Moslem groups, including an influential scholars’ body, are demanding the closure of a Holocaust museum that opened last week, with some saying it is part of Israel’s attempts to normalize relations with Jakarta and its occupation of Paleostinian lands.
Thank you, President Biden.
The first permanent exhibition and museum in Indonesia devoted to the memory of victims of the Holocaust opened in North Sulawesi province on Jan. 27, and is housed inside Indonesia’s lone synagogue.
Indonesia only has one?
The opening occurred amid reported Israeli overtures to establish ties with the world’s largest Moslem-majority nation. Indonesia, a staunch supporter of the Paleostinian cause, has long refused to open diplomatic ties with the Jewish State.
"We demand any exhibition be stopped and the museum be cancelled discontinued," said Sudarnoto Abdul Hakim, the head of foreign relations and international cooperation at the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the country’s semi-official Islamic authority.
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These homes were sold to the residents for ~$150K each. I'm curious as to how the warranty for these was presented.
I do remember that these were a 'glued particle board' type construction which, at the time, I thought might not be a good idea in the NO climate. I don't care what kind of chemical treatment you added to that product, it would still suck up a lot of moisture.
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Going to bet the suspect building materials were chosen because they were certified as "sustainable" by some green grift outfit.
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^ All probably true. Don't underestimate the new owners "tenants" to not do any maintenance as well....
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I was going to say the same thing Frank, there is always maintenance on a house. And judging by what the neighborhoods looked like before Katrina, I doubt there was any done.
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Sounds like a Chinese run building firm ran this. How much of the money was siphoned off for the organizers?
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Mike Holmes brought his crew down from Canada and did a two episode production on building one of those homes. He and Penn were both snookered by the seller of the wood used in the walls, making claims that obviously have failed to stand the test of time. 'Green' is just another 'Grift'.
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What did you expect from Hollywood? It is all about style and appearance for PR, not any real substance. That and making sure they grease the right people and contacts go to enviro-scam companies
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$1.7million house. Government "service" must pay well.
Or should we look at her husband's investments? Does the exemption from insider trading prosecution apply to the executive branch as well or only to Congress?
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[NEWS9] At least a half-dozen historically Black universities in five states and the District of Columbia were responding to bomb threats Monday, with many of them locking down their campuses for a time. Hoax threats? Jussie Smollett?
Both the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are investigating, the agencies said in separate statements.
In Georgia, Albany State University warned students and faculty on social media that “a bomb threat has been issued to Albany State University’s academic buildings.”
School officials at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, told students to stay in their dormitories Monday morning. After a search for any suspicious devices, the university gave an all-clear later in the day. Normal campus operations were expected to resume Tuesday, school officials said. Read the rest at the link
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Wondering out Outloud.
Could it be Mid-Terms elections are coming and the AF/BLM and Democrats are in panic mode, looking for anything to incite emotions?
"At least 17 historically Black colleges and universities said they received (FAKE) bomb threats in the past two days."
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"Security. How may I--"
"Howard?"
Alas, it was not Noel Coward.
"He sounded so white--"
"Quite unbearably bright--"
"And so right--"
"That we felt disempowered!"
[laughter from dorm]
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99% likely this is yet another race Hoax. There have been literally dozens of these -- I stopped counting at 70 -- at colleges and universities of all stripes and sizes, all over the country, in the last decade.
Racial hate crime hoaxes have occurred at, among others ( listing here from memory):
US Air Force Academy
U. Michigan
U Virginia Law School
Texas A &M
Elon College
Grand Valley State
Sweet Briar College
Montclair State
U Chicago
Oberlin
U Delaware
U Wyoming
Williams
San Diego State
SUNY-Albany
U Wisconsin
Yale
Kansas State
Iranian security forces killed two Kurdish couriers from the city of Urmiya at the borders of the Kurdistan Region, Hengaw Organization for Human Rights said.
In its monthly report, the human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... watchdog said that thirteen citizens sustained gunshot wounds and three others went missing.
Karmasan has the lion's share of the victims (10), according to Hengaw.
For decades, the Iraq-Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... border has served as a smuggling route, mainly to transport goods to Iran. Couriers who work for smugglers risk shootings and jail time.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin [ColonelCassad] And back to Northwest Africa.
And again the French sphere of influence.
Another attempted military coup.
During a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers in the presidential palace, unidentified men dressed in civilian clothes opened fire near the building with automatic weapons, after which a shooting battle with the palace guards ensued.
The government is now blocked in the building, but the attackers have not yet managed to capture the palace. The military took over the radio and the headquarters of the ruling party.
Several dead are reported.
Local sources say a group of military officers are trying to overthrow pro-French President Omar Sissoko.
At this rate, part of northwestern Africa will fall away from France by the time of the French presidential election.
And there it is not far to Niger with its uranium.
More from regnum.ru Detentions in Guinea-Bissau after coup attempt
[REGNUM] Several civilians and military personnel have been detained in Guinea-Bissau after an attempted coup d'état, President Umaro Sissoko Embalo said during a press conference.
According to him, these people "have already been arrested after the coup attempt." At the same time, according to Embalo, the conspirators are associated with criminal gangs that trade in drug smuggling. In this regard, the President of Guinea-Bissau promised to continue the fight against drug trafficking.
As reported BakuToday , earlier in Guinea-Bissau there was an attempted military rebellion. Eyewitnesses reported shooting in the capital. Later, the head of state said that the situation was under control, and the coup attempt had failed.
Six killed in attempted coup in Guinea-Bissau
[REGNUM] At least six people have died in an attempted military coup in Guinea-Bissau, Lusa news agency reported Feb. 1, citing its sources.
At the same time, earlier Lusa disseminated information that four people were injured during the rebellion in the republic.
As REGNUM reported earlier , on February 1, President of Guinea-Bissau Umaru Shisoku Embalo announced on social networks that the situation in the country after the coup attempt was under government control.
Militants from the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād on Monday mounted roadblocks in some parts of Borno State.
Areas, where the checkpoints were mounted by the terror group, include Mile 40, along Maiduguri/Gajaram road and Wajiroko, along Damboa/Biu road.
Sources said the insurgents were on the highways “checking on travellers' identity cards to fish out security operatives travelling in mufti.”
“They were also issuing tax receipts to defaulters,” another source confirmed.
SaharaReporters had in several reports in 2021 reported how ISWAP had been taxing residents of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe State.
Sources said failure of the residents to comply with the directive attracted the death penalty.
The terrorist group also lifted the ban imposed on fishing and farming activities in the Lake Chad area, three years after chasing people out of the area for allegedly spying for Nigerian troops.
It, nevertheless, imposed new taxes and levies in the areas controlled by ISWAP-Boko Haram, to regulate trades and agricultural activities. See Also EXCLUSIVE: Boko Haram Mounts Checkpoints On Bor
An bomb blew up targeting the Global Coalition on the borders between Dhi Qar and Muthanna Governorates.
A security source told Shafaq News Agency that the earth-shattering kaboom occurred on Tuesday targeting a convoy carrying logistical support equipment for the US-led Coalition while passing on the highway in the Sakna region.
No causality was reported.
There was no claim of responsibility.
The Iraqi authorities issued frequent warnings of targeting the foreign forces and diplomatic missions in the country.
On January 5, 2021, the Iraqi parliament voted by the majority to end the foreign military presence on the country's territory, following the killing of the Iranian Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani , and the deputy head al-Hashd al-Shaabi, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, in an American Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... near Baghdad International Airport.
Washington accuses armed Iraqi factions linked to Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... of being behind the attacks.
The Iraqi caretaker Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, dismissed the parties who executed the recent rocket attack on the Baghdad International Airport as "non-state groups", urging the political forces to take a firm stance against those "terrorists".
Al-Kadhimi's statements came during the weekly ordinary cabinet meeting he headed on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister extended greetings to the security forces that participated in the military campaign to eliminate ISIS remnants.
"During our visit to the border areas in northwest Iraq, we worked on strict security measures within the framework of a tight plan to preclude the infiltration of terrorist elements."
"Last week witnessed a very unfortunate event. A group from non-state forces conducted a coward terrorist attack on Baghdad's international airport," he continued, "those groups adopt the approach of terrorism. They deploy the same tools of terrorist groups and do what they do."
"The security forces are tracing the snuffies and identified some of the perpetrators. The investigations are underway," the Prime Minister continued, "all the culprits will be apprehended and held accountable without any exception."
[JPost] Helllooooo Iran! Shhhhh - it's confidential
The operation and confidential drill took place about two weeks ago and involved dozens of aircraft.
A US officer was allowed to participate as an observer in an Israel Air Force drill in recent weeks that simulated an attack on Iran, KAN news reported on Tuesday.
The operation and confidential drill took place about two weeks ago and involved dozens of aircraft.
According to the report, the fact that Americans were allowed at sites they're normally not allowed in has a lot of importance, especially as it comes amid talks in Vienna to return to the nuclear deal between world powers and Iran.
The training reportedly included a number of scenarios, including aerial refueling, hitting a long-range target and dealing with surface-to-air missiles.
In mid-January, IAF pilots and the US Air Force Central Command (AFCENT) held a joint training exercise called Desert Falcon. The exercises simulated airstrikes and dog fights.
In December, KAN reported that the IDF was planning a massive mock strike aerial drill for this summer to prepare for a potential strike on Iran's nuclear program.
On Tuesday, the IDF announced that the Israel Navy is for the first time taking part in one of the largest American-led naval drills in the Red Sea alongside dozens of other countries.
"The Israel Navy will join 60 naval fleets for the US Navy-led ’IMX’ International Naval Exercise," the IDF said. "For the first time, our Flotilla 3 & Underwater Warfare Unit will train with the US Fifth Fleet in the Red Sea. We look forward to strengthening security & global cooperation."
Israeli troops have held several drills with CENTCOM, the United States Air Force Central Command (AFCENT) and NAVCENT in recent months in the South of the county, including one in November with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in the Red Sea.
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I'm sure an assesment dossier is on the way to Tehran as we speak.
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Hopefully the IAF uses the obvious notion that USA would leak to IRAN to their advantage.
[JPost] Message to Hezbollah and Hamas
The laser system will protect Israel from missiles, rockets, drones and other threats.
Israel will surround itself with a defensive "laser wall," with new missile interception technology to be ready within a year, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced in a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
The IDF will begin using the laser interception system in the next year, first experimentally and later operationally, starting in the South.
"This will allow us, in the medium- to long-term, to surround Israel with a laser wall that will defend us from missiles, rockets, UAVs and other threats that will essentially take away the strongest card our enemies have against us," Bennett said.
The Defense Ministry successfully intercepted drones with the powerful airborne laser system installed on light aircraft in June. The system downed several UAVs at a range of one kilometer with a 100% success rate. The ministry intends to build a laser with a power of 100 kilowatts that will have an effective range of 20 km.
Bennett explained that today a terrorist in Gaza can launch a rocket into Israel that costs hundreds of dollars to make, while the Iron Dome battery shooting down the rocket costs tens of thousands of dollars.
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[Breitbart] On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) said that unless there is a policy shift on the border, the problems will continue, and one possible improvement is giving Border Patrol agents the technology to take down drones that are smuggling drugs near the border.
Gonzales said, [relevant remarks begin around 1:10] “We know what the issues are, and it starts with a policy change. We can add all these other things, but until a policy shift happens, we’re only going to continue to see all of these horrific things that are happening.”
He added, “I was speaking with an agent a couple of weeks ago, and this is what he told me. In one sector in particular, there [are] over 2,000 intrusions via drones. And what is happening is these small little drones are carrying fentanyl. They start in Mexico. They cross our border with these little drones. They drop the package, sometimes in a football field, at a school, somebody picks it up and takes it on from there. Let’s arm these Border Patrol agents with technology that allows them to shoot down these drones. This is one step that we could be doing.”
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One week-end at Goshington Park
The upper crust, just for a lark,
Were putting down peasants.
"We weary of pheasants."
The dog didn't bark in the dark.
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Too many Dems have signed onto Soros "open borders."
Their immigration policies have increased the flow of drugs and human trafficking. Terrorists have also come across our border. NGOs and a cottage industry of immigration lawyers are also a part of this problem.
[Breitbart] Ireland has begun its ‘utterly outrageous’ mass amnesty for illegal immigrants, despite significant doubts remaining over the number of illegals residing in the country.
Ireland’s Europhile government has begun its mass amnesty of illegal immigrants, opening up applications for the scheme on Monday.
Headed up by the island nation’s Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, the scheme — which has been criticised as “utterly outrageous” — will reportedly aim to “regularise” illegal migrants resident in the country.
According to a report by the Irish Times, the minister expressed a desire to “move on this as quickly as possible” regarding the process.
“This scheme will provide an opportunity for those who meet its criteria to remain and reside in the State and to become part of mainstream Irish society rather than living on its margins,” McEntee said.
The minister also emphasised that having a criminal record will not automatically disqualify an illegal immigrant from the amnesty, despite the scheme requiring an applicant to be of “good character“.
The scheme will also reportedly put illegals who are granted the right to remain in the state on the pathway to citizenship.
Speaking to Breitbart London on the scheme, the President of the Irish Freedom Party, Hermann Kelly, slammed the amnesty as “utterly outrageous”.
“It’s utterly outrageous that the Irish Minister of Justice would reward criminality and make those who have respected our laws and borders go to the back of the queue,” Kelly told this publication.
“At a time when there are over 8,000 Irish homeless and many people cannot afford a house because of sky rocketing demand and prices; it is virtually insane to hand out citizenship to illegal migrants who have shown no respect to our country,” the part president continued. “Helen McEntee must feel the consequences for her outrageous contempt for national security at the ballot box.”
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If I was China I'd send endless waves of tourists to nations that allow refugee citizenship. Then eventually you'd get enough numbers to influence their politics.
[Breitbart] Mexican authorities seized a large cache of ammunition and drugs in a rural area near the border with Texas.
The discovery took place over the weekend in northwestern Tamaulipas, a government news release revealed.
Authorities found 4,100 ammunition magazines for AR-15 and AK-47 rifles, 6,300 rounds, and almost 1,500 pounds of marijuana.
The general location is known as “La Riberena” south of Starr County, Texas, and is one of the busiest smuggling corridors into the U.S.
The region has seen a dramatic spike in violence in recent weeks as the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas tries to take control from the Gulf Cartel. In response, Mexican state authorities have increased their presence.
[JPost]"It just appears that way because of all the time we hate/oppose the Juice. It's a coincidence" Amnesty International released a report accusing Israel of apartheid.
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I reject Amnesty International's existence.
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Amnesty International, the original AI, died with the original members that knew what horror was seeing the Holocaust and the Berlin Wall. The 'Red Diaper Babies' that took it over in the 90's.
[GreaterKashmir] A police man was injured in a militant attack in the Amshipora area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Monday, police said.
“Today at about 1745hrs Shopian Police received information about a terror crime incident at Amishijipora area of Shopian where terrorists had fired upon a Police personnel. Senior police officers reached at the terror crime spot,” said a police spokesman, in a statement.
“Officers attending the terror crime spot learnt that ASI Shabir Ahmad was shot at by the terrorists while he was coming back from mosque after prayers in his native place Amishijipora area of Shopian,” it said.
“In this terror incident, he had received gunshot injuries and was immediately evacuated to nearby hospital where from he has been referred to Srinagar hospital for specialized treatment. The condition of the said injured official is said to be stable.”
The Iraqi red crescent (IRC) invited the families of 629 victims of the Iranian-Iraqi war to receive their remains.
The organization said in a statement, "Although 32 years have passed since the end of the Iranian -Iraqi war where hundreds of participants are still missing, from time to time the remains of some of them are found."
"The IRCS receives many requests from the Iraqi citizens to look for their missing relatives in the eight-years 1980-1988 war, which was considered the longest war in the twentieth century, which left hundreds of thousands of victims", it added.
The organization called on the families of the victims to receive their remains at the cemetery of al-Hassan al-Basri in al-Zubayrarea.
Ottoman Turkish authorities apprehended at least 12 Iraqi nationals with suspected links with the terrorist organization of ISIS terror in northern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , Anadolu Agency said on Tuesday.
Ottoman Turkish police carried out raids in the Ilkadim, Atakum and Canik districts of Samsun province to nab the suspects, said the sources on condition of anonymity.
The arrestees werr found in possesion of "digital material", according to the Ottoman Turkish news agency.
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[GreaterKashmir] Police on Tuesday arrested a youth who allegedly threw acid on a 24-year-old girl in Wantapora area of Hawal in Srinagar, reports said.
Quoting a police official, news agency GNS reported that soon after the attack, a police party was rushed to the area, which after searches was able to nab the assailant. “We have taken him (assailant) into custody,” said the official, adding that they are ascertaining the motive of the attack.
Medical Superintendent SMHS Hospital Dr. Kanwaljeet Singh told GNS that the victim has grievous injuries in her face. She has also suffered contusions in her eyes, said Dr Singh. “We are uncertain about her eyesight as of now as things are being looked into”, he further said.
On Tuesday, ISIS elements attacked the Iraqi Army north of Muqdadiya district, causing damage.
A security source told Shafaq News Agency, "The Army forces repelled an attack by ISIS snipers on an army point on the outskirts of Arab Fares village, north of Muqdadiya district."
"The attack caused damage to the thermal surveillance camera, while the attackers fled towards remote areas," he said.
The Miqdadiyah areas in Diyala have been a target of frequent attacks and security incidents due to their proximity to the Hemrin hills, which are the stronghold of ISIS in agricultural villages and orchards.
The bully boyz killed security forces, government officials, and civilians and displaced thousands of families from the region.
Heavy security deployment in areas between Diyala and Saladin to prevent terrorist attackshttps://t.co/I3lh8INMQI
The Commander in al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) told Shafaq News agency today that border villages on the outskirts of al-Udhaim district in Diyala, adjacent to Saladin, are witnessing a heavy security deployment in anticipation of any potential terrorist attack.
Al-Azzawi said that the residents demanded to train tribal groups in areas near Saladin, to back up the PMF.
He added that there is full cooperation between the security forces and the residents, to monitor and prevent any terrorists' movements or attacks.
The areas between Diyala and Saladin are full of security gaps and considered very dangerous, because they still contain ISIS hideouts from which the snuffies launch their attacks on the security forces and civilians.
San Quentin's death row dates back to 1893, when its first condemned inmate was hung
Its residents over the past 160 years have been the stuff of horror movies, and have included some of the vilest murderers in American history
Infamous former inmates include serial killers Charles Manson and the 'night stalker' Richard Ramirez
Governor Gavin Newsom placed a moratorium on executions in 2019, and is now moving to dismantle San Quentin's death row - the nation's largest
About 670 condemned inmates will be moved to the general prison population
One advocate said the victims' families are unhappy with the decision
'They´re moving condemned murderers into facilities that are going to make their lives better and offer them more amenities,' the victim's advocate said
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LOL. The executions continue on the streets, in businesses, in homes, and even in schools. It alters behavior. People avoid areas, people lock themselves down, people fear. Heck the executions continue in prisons but not carried out by the state.
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They say they have to let a lot of prisoners go because the prisons are too crowded and then they close San Quentin? They downgraded a whole bunch of felonies to misdemeanors because they said they don't have enough prisons and now they're closing one of the biggest prisons in the state? Only Democrats...
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[BBC] Myanmar is seeing increasingly deadly battles between its military and organised groups of armed civilians, new data suggests. Many of those fighting the military are young people who have put their lives on hold since the junta seized power a year ago.
The intensity and extent of the violence - and the co-ordination of the opposition attacks - point to a change in the conflict from an uprising to a civil war.
Violence is now spread across the country, according to data from conflict monitoring group Acled (Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project). Reports from the ground also suggest the fighting has become increasingly co-ordinated and has reached urban centres which have not previously seen armed resistance to the military.
Although precise death tolls are hard to verify, Acled - which bases its data on local media and other reports - has collated figures to suggest about 12,000 people have been killed in political violence since the military seized power on 1 February 2021. Clashes have grown deadlier month on month since August.
In the coup's immediate aftermath, most civilians died as security forces cracked down on nationwide demonstrations. Now, however, the rising death toll is a result of combat - as civilians have taken up arms - Acled figures show.
UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet agreed in an interview with the BBC that the conflict in Myanmar, also known as Burma, should now be termed a civil war and called on the UN Security Council to take "stronger action" to put pressure on the military to restore democracy. She said the international response to the crisis had "lacked urgency" and described the situation as "catastrophic", warning that the conflict now threatened regional stability.
The groups fighting government forces are known collectively as the People's Defence Force (PDF) - a loose network of civilian militia groups largely made up of young adults.
[FoxNews] Two other inmates were injured and transported to a local hospital for treatment.
America's 120 federal prisons are on lockdown after two inmates who were reportedly MS-13 gang members were killed on Monday in an altercation at a facility in Beaumont, Texas.
The fight broke out shortly before noon. Four inmates were transported to a local hospital where inmates Guillermo Riojas and Andrew Pineda were pronounced deceased.
Both Riojas and Pineda were members of the MS-13 street gang, according to the Associated Press. Nancy Pelosi's "Spark of humanity"
"In an abundance of caution, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is securing our facilities as a temporary measure to ensure the good order of our institutions," Emery Nelson, a spokesperson for BOP, told Fox News Digital. "The BOP will continue to monitor events carefully and will adjust its operations accordingly as the situation evolves."
No staff members were injured during the fight.
Pineda, 34, was sentenced to 78 months in prison for racketeering and conspiracy. He was due to be released in 2024, according to BOP records.
Riojas, 54, was sentenced to 38 years in prison for carjacking and interfering with interstate commerce.
BOP Director Michael Carvajal informed Attorney General Merrick Garland earlier this month that he plans to resign.
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Base territorial behavior. Someone found out they were not as tough as they thought they were. Looks like someone supports the death penalty even if the state does not.
[FoxNews] Jack Becker, who also served in the Korean War, danced to the song 'Stayin’ Alive' by the Bee Gees.
Becker served in World War II, but didn’t see any action. After the war, he stayed in the Marine Reserves and was called to serve Korean War, for which he received the Bronze Star Medal
[Epoch Times] ZYESAMI, developed by the Radnor, Pennsylvania-based pharmaceuticals company, currently is being tested with patients as part of the approval process of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). ZYESAMI is the brand name of aviptadil, a synthetic version of a natural chemical made in the human body called human vasoactive intestinal polypeptide. The company hopes to earn emergency-use authorization (EUA) that would allow widespread use of the drug in the treatment of COVID-19.
For now, the drug has progressed far enough in the process to be used by more patients under the federal Right to Try Act. That law allows the use of investigational drugs for patients diagnosed with life-threatening diseases or conditions, who have tried all approved treatment options, and who cannot participate in a clinical trial to access certain unapproved treatments. A fairly restrictive set of parameters.
Roofing contractor Joel Webb, 40, of Colleyville, Texas enthusiastically shared his story of using ZYESAMI as part of an earlier trial in mid-October. His recovery, the husband and father of four said, was nothing short of miraculous.
When he first realized his COVID-19 infection was getting serious, he resisted going to the hospital. Three friends from church had already died from the virus. Checking into the hospital seemed to mean certain death, he told The Epoch Times.
But when a doctor friend urged him to get checked out at an emergency clinic where she was working, he agreed.
He’d been sick for about seven days, and "I was to the point where I didn’t even know where I was," he said.
A CT scan showed his lungs looked full of shattered glass. Immediately, his doctor at the Frisco, Texas hospital offered ZYESAMI, telling Webb it was still in trials. Webb and his family declined. It seemed too risky to try an unapproved medication, he said.
Over the next few days, Webb’s condition worsened dramatically. He required increasing amounts of oxygen. The next step, he was told, was to go on a ventilator.
Devastated, his family gathered around him in the intensive care unit and prayed. Suddenly, he said, they were at peace about trying ZYESAMI and told his doctors.
Shortly after, a courier delivered the drug, he said. That night, he remembers nurse technician Daniel Igheghe holding his hand, praying with him, and singing a Christian worship song to help Webb drift off to sleep, as he struggled to breathe.
By the next day, something amazing had happened, he said. His vital signs rapidly improved, Webb said, and his need for oxygen dramatically decreased. The trend continued steadily. Soon, he was out of the ICU. And nine days after being admitted to the hospital, he left, no longer on oxygen.
The police in Kano State have uncovered how an Islamic student, Aminu Ado, was tortured to death in the northwestern Nigerian state.
The Kano State Government has accordingly asked the police to exhume the remains of the Islamic student, known as Almajiri in common parlance, for autopsy.
Dr Muhammad Tahar Adamu, the state Commissioner for Religious Affairs, disclosed this when he visited an Islamic school in the Wailari area of the state, on Tuesday.
The police have also confirmed the incident through the spokesperson for the state command, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who said some arrests had been made.
Kiyawa further said the police raided an illegal rehabilitation centre in Na'ibawa ‘Yan Lemo Quarters in the Kumbotso Local Government Area.
“At about 1100hrs, a report was received from ten (10) escaped inmates of an illegal rehabilitation centre, that one Musa Safiyanu, ‘m’, 55 years old, of Naibawa ‘Yan Lemo Quarters, Kumbotso LGA, Kano State is running an illegal rehabilitation centre with chained, tortured and locked (up) inmates, from where they escaped.
“And that, one of the inmates named Aminu Ado, ‘m’, 22 years old, of Na’ibawa Quarters Kano was tortured to death on the 29/01/2022 by Abdulladif Musa, ‘m’, 18 years old, of Na’ibawa Wailari Quarters Kumbotso LGA, Kano State.
“On receipt of the report, the Commissioner of Police, Kano State Command, CP Sama’ila Shu’aibu Dikko, fsi immediately raised and instructed a team of detectives led by CSP Abdulkarim Abdullahi to mount a 24-hour surveillance, verify the report, rescue the victims and arrest the culprits.
“The team immediately swung into action and the report was found to be true.”
He added that on January 31, 2022, 113 inmates were found in confinement.
“Some with various degrees of injuries resulting from torture. They were rushed to Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital, Kano for treatment and handed over to Kano State Government.
Recently, #ISIS activity has increased in the area controlled by government forces and the Iranian-backed factions in #Syria's desert. #Iranhttps://t.co/Wrm7Ml4G9A
Three members, including a leader of Iranian-backed factions, were killed on Tuesday in an ISIS attack on their car west of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
ISIS members attacked a Toyota car of al-Quds Brigade faction on the outskirts of al-Masrab desert, North Press reported a military source from al-Quds Brigade which is affiliated with Iran.
Three members, including the leader, Abu Diab, who was deputy commander of a regiment and was Paleostinian, were killed in the attack, the source added.
The source, citing sheep shepherds who were close to the targeting site, confirmed that two Death Eaters wearing ISIS dress and riding a cycle of violence fired a BKS weapon at the car and fled towards the depths of the desert, while chanting ISIS slogans.
Recently, the areas under the control of the Iranian-backed factions and the government forces in Deir ez-Zor have witnessed a significant increase in the activity of ISIS cells.
On January 29, four members of the Syrian government forces were killed in an attack on their point in the town of al-Mayadin, east of Deir ez-Zor.
Despite continuous security operations, the Hamrin basin areas, northeast of Diyala and Saladin governorates, have remained a security riddle for more than 17 years.
A senior military officer told Shafaq News Agency that the area will not be settled until the federal forces and the Peshmerga reach an agreement on the borders separating Diyala, Saladin, and Kirkuk in the north-east, as after the Peshmerga retreated, it turned into terrorist swamps.
The military Commander, who preferred to remain anonymous, pointed to the existence of open infiltration gaps between Kurdistan's border towards Khanaqin, northern Diyala, as well as the governorate's West. ISIS faceless myrmidons exploit those gaps to move freely, as the security operations could not address them without deploying permanent military units in coordination with the Peshmerga.
He described the security operations in these areas as open practices that drain efforts and facilitate ambushes and landmines, as happened in previous operations that left more than 30 injured and victims of the security forces about a month ago.
The Commander called for serious coordination between federal forces and the Peshmerga to end this situation in Hamrin, which hosts terrorist faceless myrmidons that appeared and disappeared like ghosts over the past years.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... former Miqdadiyah council chairman Adnan al-Tamimi said that security operations in Hamrin are not feasible without installing units and ground-holding forces reinforced with mobile detachments and thermographic cameras to restrict and prevent ISIS's movements.
He also stressed the need to close the infiltration gaps from the vacant Peshmerga partitions towards Hamrin with international raids to completely destroy ISIS hotbeds and tunnels in the area with long and intense strikes.
The Hamrin threat is not limited to Diyala. It also threatens Saladin from the eastern side near Kirkuk and Diyala, according to former parliamentary security and defense committee member Jassim al-Jabara.
Al-Jabara revealed to Shafaq News agency that ISIS is present in sensitive areas as part of a strategy seeking to recreate the 2014 scenario, unless the security leadership is corrected and solutions are put in place for vacant areas, especially the Hamrin Mountains, Kirkuk outskirts, and the Makhoul Mountains.
He also called for Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and a heavy military presence in ISIS's hotbeds near the Hamrin and Makhoul Mountains, which link three governorates and constantly threaten their security, in addition to transferring the military commands of operations' headquarters close to hotspots and security threat areas, to contain the danger before it occurs and to reduce the movements of ISIS's remnants.
The former security and defense committee member added that what is left of ISIS is nothing but detachments that move in the mentioned hot, vacant, and rugged areas, "which requires prior intelligence efforts ahead of military operations, away from the media and preceding announcements."
It's too hard!
[FoxNews] Mexico migration official gives Fox News inside look at border operation.
Mexican immigration agents are overwhelmed and undermanned by design, a Mexican migration official told Fox News in an exclusive interview.
"I just adapt to my president's decisions," said Nadir Ali Fernandez Villasana, the local representative of the National Migration Institute office in Nogales, Mexico. "But since this new administration took over, the new president in Mexico, it's austerity … austerity in the republic."
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador started an austerity policy when he took office in 2018, aiming to combat corruption by reducing government size and government abuses of expenditures. He planned to use the recouped money for future development in the country.
Fernandez Villasana said the policy had a direct impact on resources at Mexico’s northern border.
The Sonora border district spans 389 miles and has six major ports of entry, including Nogales.
Fernandez Villasana’s office, which is responsible for implementing migration policy across four sentry posts in the Nogales area plus 12 additional municipalities, had 40 agents to process people in the district. But under orders from the Obrador administration, that has been reduced to 15.
"There’s a pretty big difference between the United States and Mexico," Fernandez Villasana said.
"In Mexico, we don’t really consider migration to be illegal," he continued. "In the United States, people who have illegal migratory status are more chased than in Mexico. In Mexico, we try to make the migration orderly, safe. We don’t see it as a crime, like a crime of migration."
Fernandez Villasana told Fox News that Mexican citizens deported from the U.S. get food and travel vouchers and are released to find their way home. Immigrants from other countries, like Guatemala and El Salvador, are shipped to a facility farther south to complete the deportation process if they don't have proper paperwork.
Because of the reduced workforce due to the austerity policy, Fernandez Villasana said he doesn't always have the staff "to take some illegals to the migratory station who are illegally in the country, and if I don't have a provisional holding place to keep these people, I have to let them go. That's a consequence."
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[REGNUM] The suit of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin forced Eliot Higgins, the ex-director of the Internet publication Bellingcat (a media outlet recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent), to hide from a fair trial. According to the legal service of the Concord company, Bellingcat, led by Higgins, has repeatedly published false information about the Russian businessman. The courts confirmed the correctness of the Russian side, but this did not stop Bellingcat, which continued to post provocative materials on the Web.
A team of lawyers later sued Higgins in the High Court of England. Immediately after that, the director of Bellingcat left his post to avoid liability, the legal service noted.
“Thus, he can no longer be sued, which once again underlines the unreliability of the contested publications. We managed to squeeze another enemy of Russia, who was engaged in falsification and discrediting of our country and its leadership, ”the Concord publication says .
A team of lawyers later sued Higgins in the High Court of England. Immediately after that, the director of Bellingcat left his post to avoid liability, the legal service noted.
BACKGROUND
An information war is a set of propaganda measures aimed at demoralizing the population, the armed forces and the leadership of the enemy country.
Success in the information war allows you to sow disbelief in your own strength and the correctness of your position, distrust of the population in your leadership, and force them to agree with the ideological guidelines of the enemy. As a result, it will be easier to break the defense of the enemy army, force the leadership of the target country to act inadequately and erroneously, and, as a result, as in any war, impose its will on the enemy.
The information war is not something new, it has always been waged, but only as an auxiliary direction. The main method was direct force impact. With the development of information technologies, the spread of universal literacy and the greater openness of the information space, information warfare has become the main means of influencing the enemy. It is ongoing, regardless of whether the rival states are at war or at peace.
The main direction of the information war of the West against Russia is the promotion of Russophobic ideas. According to this line of reasoning, the West is taken as a standard, and it is concluded that Russia is some kind of initially “wrong” country. In this regard, the demonization of Russian history plays an important role - the creation and dissemination of "black" myths about all periods of Russian history.
Another important topic is the propaganda of national discord and regionalism. Within the framework of this concept, the differences between the population of different parts of Russia are exaggerated in every possible way, up to conclusions about “different nations”. Hostility is also kindled against people from the Caucasus, Central Asia, Muslims, Jews, and so on.
Also an important direction is the discrediting of the authorities at all levels. Unfortunately, authorities often give reasons for this. There are calls for the "overthrow of tyranny", the idea of "fighting corruption" is given a total dimension.
The general background of the information war against Russia is the creation of a negative perception by people of the surrounding reality. For those who fell under the influence of the propaganda of the "chernukha", no achievements and positive aspects of life are visible.
Unfortunately, since the destruction of the USSR, the West has in Russia a fairly large number of both paid and voluntary "fighters" of the information war, including those with high positions in society and the state.
Previously:
January 28 [RAPSI] Moscow’s Lyublinsky District Court will hear a 10 million-ruble (over $130,000) defamation lawsuit lodged by businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin against Alexey Navalny on March 10, the court’s press service told RAPSI on Thursday.
Another defendant is Navalny’s ally Vladimir Milov.
According to the lawsuit’s version published on the website of Concord Company, Prigozhin demands to declare statements calling him bandit and child prostitution convict disseminated by the defendants defaming and untrue.
Earlier, the businessman lodged another suit against Navalny with the Lyblinsky District Court. The tycoon seeks to recover 5 million rubles in compensation for moral harm inflicted by false discrediting information distributed by the blogger. Moreover, Prigozhin asks the court to recognize disseminated statements calling him "a dangerous special criminal funding a private military company responsible for hundreds of human lives" as inaccurate.
On Tuesday, the Ottoman Turkish warplanes struck Makhmour Camp and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) sites in Nineveh and Sinjar.
The Counter-Terrorism Service said that Ankara bombed six Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) locations in the Qara Jokh Mountain range, south of Erbil.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... also bombed the Makhmour Camp for Kurdish refugees, which resulted in eight deaths and injuries, including a PKK leader.
About 12,000 Kurdish refugees, who fled the civil war between Kurds and the Ottoman Turkish army in the 1990s, live in this camp.
Ankara says that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) uses the camp to train its fighters and launch attacks inside Ottoman Turkish territory.
A military source also reported that Ottoman Turkish warplanes struck PKK positions in Sinjar Mountain, Nineveh Governorate.
The source told our Agency that the bombing focused on sites and tunnels dug by the Kurdistan Workers Party fighters along Mount Sinjar, from the Jal Miran area to the border with Syria.
He added that loud explosions were heard in the Mountain without giving further details.
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At least eight people were killed and injured in an air strike by the Turkish air force on the positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, As-Sumaria TV channel reported on February 2, citing a source in the Iraqi security forces.
The area of the Makhmur camp in Erbil province was subjected to shelling. One of the PKK commanders was injured during the airstrike.
As REGNUM reported , on January 28, the Daily Sabah published information that Turkish foreign intelligence and the Turkish armed forces had eliminated PKK field commander Sileman Shemo Yusuf , known under the pseudonym "Azad" and who led the group's special forces, in northern Iraq.
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[RIA Novosti] Russian President Vladimir Putin recalled the promise not to advance NATO to the east: they said one thing, they did another, they threw it, they simply deceived it.
"As you know, we were given promises not to advance the infrastructure of the NATO bloc to the east by a single inch. Everyone knows this well
Today we see where NATO is located - Poland , Romania , the Baltic countries," Putin said at a press conference following the results of negotiations with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
"They said one thing, they did another. As people say, they cheated, well, they just deceived," the president added.
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KGB wouldn't lie to you. Pravda.
Did NATO Promise Not to Enlarge? Gorbachev Says “No” What the Germans, Americans, British and French did agree to in 1990 was that there would be no deployment of non-German NATO forces on the territory of the former GDR. I was a deputy director on the State Department’s Soviet desk at the time, and that was certainly the point of Secretary James Baker’s discussions with Gorbachev and his foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze. In 1990, few gave the possibility of a broader NATO enlargement to the east any serious thought.
The agreement on not deploying foreign troops on the territory of the former GDR was incorporated in Article 5 of the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, which was signed on September 12, 1990 by the foreign ministers of the two Germanys, the United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France. Article 5 had three provisions:
Until Soviet forces had completed their withdrawal from the former GDR, only German territorial defense units not integrated into NATO would be deployed in that territory.
There would be no increase in the numbers of troops or equipment of U.S., British and French forces stationed in Berlin.
Once Soviet forces had withdrawn, German forces assigned to NATO could be deployed in the former GDR, but foreign forces and nuclear weapons systems would not be deployed there.
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U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s verbal assurance to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in February 1990 that if Germany were allowed to reunify within NATO then the alliance would not move “one inch eastward”—a pledge Gorbachev foolishly failed to codify in writing. (Baker and others dispute this characterization, and Baker has denied that he made any formal pledges.)
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From Gorbachev himself from the link in #2: Gorbachev continued that “The agreement on a final settlement with Germany said that no new military structures would be created in the eastern part of the country; no additional troops would be deployed; no weapons of mass destruction would be placed there. It has been obeyed all these years.” To be sure, the former Soviet president criticized NATO enlargement and called it a violation of the spirit of the assurances given Moscow in 1990, but he made clear there was no promise regarding broader enlargement.
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That NATO is stationing troops on the former Warsaw Pact nations is entirely to due Putin's stupid aggressiveness. Several years after German reunification, in 1997, NATO said that in the “current and foreseeable security environment” there would be no permanent stationing of substantial combat forces on the territory of new NATO members. Up until the Russian military occupation of Crimea in March, there was virtually no stationing of any NATO combat forces on the territory of new members. Since March, NATO has increased the presence of its military forces in the Baltic region and Central Europe.
There was indeed a deal -- a verbal promise, which anyone who knows contract law is understood by civilized people as binding when the other party offers consideration. The Soviets offered consideration, and then some: they completely disbanded the Warsaw Pact. OF COURSE they were humiliated and have ever since been determined to avoid being fvcked again.
Re the promise: the entire premise of German reunification was that the Cold War formula would be nullified. IOW, a divided and militarized Germany would, post 1991, be replaced by a unified and demilitarized Germany. The Russians would NEVER have agreed to a reunified Germany had they known NATO would expand, not only "one inch eastward," but right up to Russia's borders.
That was the implicit deal. We knew that, they knew that, Kohl and Genscher knew that.
Here's Shifrinson:
Contrary to the claims of many policymakers and analysts, there is signiacant evidence that Russian assertions of a “broken promise” regarding NATO ex- pansion have merit.169 Applying insights from international relations theory to both new and preexisting evidence on the 1990 negotiations suggests that Russian leaders are essentially correct: NATO expansion violated the quid pro quo at the heart of the diplomacy that culminated in German reuniaca- tion within NATO. There was no written agreement precluding NATO expansion, but non-expansion guarantees were still advanced in 1990, only to be overturned.
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We not only lied to the Russians and humiliated them; we rubbed their faces in it. We crushed their brother-Slavs in Serbia, siding with a Muslim terrorist organization in the bargain, and lectured them about financial responsibility while we promoted and propped up a corrupt and mentally deficient figurehead while Russia turned into a shitty, lawless oligarchy that impoverished millions and caused longevity to decline...
Gee, THAT sounds familiar, doesn't it? Hits kinda close to home, друзя мои -- не правда ли?
Interesting that the same globalist shits who humiliated and cheated the Russians are the western elites who have helped China rise and stuffed their pockets over the last 30 years: the Bushes, Clintons, their Oligarch pals and the hundreds of little carpetbaggers taking in lobbying and consulting and investment banking fees from the global elites who have bequeathed is our current dystopian global nightmare.
Fvck them. Putin's a bandit but he's dead right on this one. We never ever should have expanded NATO eastward. We gained nothing and turned Russia into an enemy -- when we could have and should have played the Russia card against our REAL enemies, China and radical Islam.
Criminally foolish. History will not be kind to Bush, Baker, et al.
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Read Gorbachev's lips: he made clear there was no promise regarding broader enlargement.
While the west had no plans to expand east, it was the newly freed Warsaw Pact members who insisted on NATO membership. They were intimately familiar with Russian motivation and behavior and insisted on NATO membership before a situation rose like in Ukraine. What part of free association of free peoples don't you understand?
I believe one huge missed opportunity was not offering NATO membership to Russia and the rest of the FSU when the Eastern European members joined. It would have moderated Russian behavior and moved them to democratic government. If Russia declined to join, then they would have no excuse to bully the others from joining the democracy club. But the late 90's was a not a time strategic thinking but of selling out the USA to China and Oval Office bjs.
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"free association of free peoples" -- what bullshit.
The only thing that our elites understand -- and Russia's, and China's, and Germany's and France's and Japan's elites and every person on the planet who's ever held a responsible position understands -- is power.
We had an excess of power in 1991. Stupidly, though predictably, we reveled in that power and thought that a freak of history was the Mandate of Heaven / Manifest Destiny / The END OF HISTORY.
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What on earth is America's vital interest in Estonia? In Georgia? In Ukraine of all places? Germany, Japan, Korea, Canada, Mexico, Chicago? Let's get our asses out of all of them. It's a straw man argument cause the line can be drawn anywhere or nowhere.
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It wasn't Gorbachev that broke up the Soviet Union, it was the old line Communists' failed anti-Gorbachev coup that allowed the republics to declare independence.
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[Regnum] On January 30, Channel One aired the documentary “The Romanov Case. Investigation found…” As a result of various and numerous examinations, it was concluded that the remains found in the Piglet Log near Yekaterinburg belong to the Romanovs and their servants.
On the night of July 16-17, 1918, in the basement of the house of the Yekaterinburg mining engineer Ipatiev, which after the revolution became the House of Special Purpose, the former emperor Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Fedorovna, daughters Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia and son Alexei were shot. Doctor Yevgeny Botkin, a footman Alexei Trupp, a maid Anna Demidova and a cook Ivan Kharitonov, who were with the Romanovs, also became victims of the massacre.
The murder of ten people - members of the royal family and servants is a crime and has no justification.
The situation with Nicholas II is different. In modern Russia, the monstrous crimes committed during the years of his reign are not often remembered. But the number of victims of Bloody Sunday was in the thousands.
On January 9 (22), 1905, in different parts of St. Petersburg, pre-concentrated troops used weapons against peaceful processions of workers exhausted by problems. They went to Nikolai to tell about their troubles and aspirations. “The owner of the Russian land,” as Nicholas II called himself, answering the questions of the 1897 census, did not want to communicate with them. Instead of fatherly words, the workers and members of their families heard the whistle of bullets.
Ten days after the bloody massacre, on January 19 (February 1), the emperor received a working delegation, the composition of which was carefully selected. "Compassionate" Nikolai did not find anything better than to tell the workers that he forgives them ...
The entry made by the emperor in his diary on January 11 (24) is also noteworthy: “After breakfast, I received Rear Admiral Nebogatov, who was appointed commander of an additional detachment of the Pacific Ocean squadron.”
By that time, Port Arthur had already fallen, and the squadron under the command of Vice Admiral Zinovy Rozhdestvensky was stationed in Madagascar. In this situation, the Japanese fleet had a clear superiority in forces. Yes, and he was based in his ports. Nicholas II was not embarrassed. Rozhdestvensky received his order:
"The task entrusted to you is not to break through to Vladivostok with some ships, but to take possession of the Sea of Japan."
As a result, on May 14-15 (27-28) in a two-day battle near about. Tsushima, the Russian fleet suffered the most severe defeat in its history. In it, according to Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, Nicholas II "could not blame anyone but himself ".
The loss figures are horrifying: the Japanese sank 21 out of 38 Russian ships, and captured seven. Six ships were interned in neutral ports. The Almaz cruiser, the Anadyr transport, the destroyers Grozny and Bravy broke into Vladivostok. Of the 16,170 sailors, 5,045 were killed, and 7,282 sailors, led by the fleet commander, were captured. However, these victims in Russia are remembered 1000 times less often than the execution in the Ipatiev house. But each of the dead had relatives and friends, many sailors had children.
The situation with the memory of the Lena massacre is even worse - in 2012, its centennial anniversary passed completely unnoticed. Meanwhile, the Lena massacre and what preceded it is an extremely interesting and instructive topic. It helps to get rid of illusions about how wonderful life was in Russia under the last emperor.
On the eve of the 110th anniversary of the Lena tragedy, it is worth telling about it in detail. Go to this link to read the rest of the article in English
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Skid, I ran over a cottonmouth last year with the wheel of my brush mower - they really can hurl their whole body... fortunately away from me... it was quite amazing.
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If I ever got bit by a venomous snake India would be great place for it! Locally we had the guy who has a venom extraction lab get bit by a king cobra during feeding time. Wife takes him to the hospital with the antivenin. Checks back with the doc and gets told he still on the ventilator. The problem was the antivenin was for Australian tiger snake so the Doc didn't give it. The thing being that this can be MORE effective than king cobra antivenin for treating bites. Of course the person who knew this was unconscious , and you still might have to explain this to a doc who hopefully was awake for the three slides about it in his ER class. At least in India you have docs who have experience treating cobra bites. Hearing he is breathing on his own means he is pretty much out of the woods. Now it is just how much tissue damage there is at the bite site.
My closest call was stepping a 3' water moccasin, fortunately for me the snake had read Gibbons et al paper on such things.
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I've met up with quite a few cottonmouths. Never stepped on one but I have startled them. They will go off where they think they are safe and turn around and watch you. And they can and will bite under water. My uncle was bit on the foot while wading in waste deep swamp in south Alabama.
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[ZeroHedge] What always proceeds gun confiscation historically? A Registry.
A Registry of guns and gun owners is a tool that the federal government, the DOJ, and the ATF have had on their wish list for decades now. Anti-gun politicians and lobbyists have sold a registry as a tool for stopping crime, enforcing universal background checks, and ensuring public safety.
In reality, a Registry guarantees that large-scale confiscation will happen at some point. That's why the ATF is forbidden explicitly from keeping a searchable database by law.
Today, Gun Owners of America announced that the ATF has nearly 1 Billion records of firearm purchases, with over 850 million of those records in digital format. These records contain all sorts of personal information on gun owners in addition to the gun they've purchased. Important personal information, including their names, addresses, place of birth, sometimes even social security numbers, can all be found on these records.
The firearm transaction records that the ATF is referring to is the ATF Form 4473. Federal law currently states that a firearms dealer can destroy 4473 forms after 20 years. If a firearms dealer goes out of business or closes before those 20 years, federal law says dealers must hand over those forms to the ATF.
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Bandits killed 1,192 persons and abducted 3,348 others across Kaduna State in 2021, a state government report has revealed.
The report’s breakdown shows that among those killed comprised 1,038 men, 104 women and 50 minors.
This is contained in a security situation report from January to December 2021 as presented by the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, to the state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday.
Aruwan said, "Kaduna Central Senatorial District recorded 720 deaths from banditry, communal clashes, violence attacks and reprisal attacks.
"Southern Kaduna Senatorial District accounted for 406 deaths due to communal clashes alongside banditry.”
In his remarks, El-Rufai said based on the security report presented, an average of nine persons were kidnapped daily by bandits across the state in 2021.
El-Rufai, therefore, called on the Nigerian Government to create a theatre command similar to the one in the North-East to confront the insurgency affecting five states in North-West.
He said, “Kaduna State Government appeals to the Federal Government to create a Theatre Command similar to the situation in the North-East to confront the insurgency that has clearly emerged in five states of the North-West and Niger State with continuous and contiguous forest ranges.
“The creation of such a Theatre Command will enable holistic approach to counter-insurgent operations across the six affected states and the enhanced coordination of the resources of the Armed Forces, the Police, the DSS (Department of State Services), our respective State Vigilance Services, hunters and other local volunteers to fight the insurgents.”
The governor further disclosed that there is also an escalation in the number of persons killed by a whopping 255 compared to those killed by bandits and other criminals in 2020 in spite of its support for the federal security agencies to bring an end to the problem.
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[REGNUM] On July 6, 1918, the German ambassador to the RSFSR, Count Wilhelm von Mirbach, was killed. His name was often heard at the Fifth Congress of Soviets and on its sidelines as a symbol of violence and German imperialism.
The murderers of the German diplomat were Ya. G. Blyumkin and N. A. Andreev, who arrived with documents from the Cheka "in connection with a case directly related to the Ambassador."
[Townhall] "So I think it must have been Wednesday morning when I received a surprise call at 9:30 a.m. from Ron Klain, not a usual person to call me. I think the first time he's ever called me. He said the president wanted me to know that Stephen Breyer was about to announce his retirement from the court and they were telling a limited number of people and that I should keep it confidential," Sen. Dick Durbin told reporters Monday. "That’s what confidential on Capitol Hill leads to, I guess."
[Epoch Times] The year 2022 will be a turning point where much of the world will pivot sharply in the direction of either authoritarianism and repression or openness, and events in China will play a decisive role, said billionaire financier George Soros at a virtual event hosted by the Hoover Institution think tank on Jan. 31.
"2022 will be a critical year in the history of the world. In a few days, China, the most powerful authoritarian state, will be hosting the Winter Olympics, and like Germany in 1936, it will attempt to use the spectacle to score a propaganda victory for its system of state controls," Soros, 91, said.
Along other political contests such as the French elections and the Hungarian elections in April, and the U.S. mid-term elections in November, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) 20th Party Congress—an all-important twice-a-decade Party meeting —in October makes 2022 a year with few parallels in history, Soros said.
The stakes could not be higher as tensions between the CCP and Taiwan veer ever more in the direction of a military showdown. The reason this geopolitical crisis is different from another one dominating the headlines at the moment—Vladimir Putin’s designs on Ukraine—has partly to do with President Joe Biden’s reaction to these respective crises, Soros emphasized.
"Biden has generally pursued the right policies. He has told Putin that Russia will pay a heavy price for invading Ukraine, but that the U.S. will not go to war," Soros said.
By contrast, Biden has sent a strong message to Xi that the use of military force against Taiwan will come up against an alliance of pro-Taiwan nations including the United States, the UK, Australia, India, and Japan, along potentially with a number of not-yet fully committed nations such as South Korea and the Philippines, Soros said. But the formidable array of defenders does not lessen the gravity of the crisis given Xi’s stated willingness to assert China’s claims over Taiwan by force if necessary, Soros warned.
"He is devoting enormous resources to armaments. He surprised the world by introducing a hypersonic missile. The U.S. has nothing comparable," Soros said.
Xi’s aggressiveness on the global stage would be quite enough by itself to make 2022 a year unlike any other. Complementing this foreign policy stance is a dictatorial approach at home that has progressively undone the tentative market reforms ushered in by earlier CCP leaders, Soros noted. Economic reforms initiated by then-leader Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s invited foreigners to invest in China and fostered economic growth that spilled over, for a brief time, into the reign of the current leader, he added.
In contrast to his predecessor, Xi Jinping has brought companies firmly under state control, come down heavily in favor of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) over private companies, and generally pursued what Soros called "total control."
i’s aggressiveness on the global stage would be quite enough by itself to make 2022 a year unlike any other. Complementing this foreign policy stance is a dictatorial approach at home that has progressively undone the tentative market reforms ushered in by earlier CCP leaders, Soros noted. Economic reforms initiated by then-leader Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s invited foreigners to invest in China and fostered economic growth that spilled over, for a brief time, into the reign of the current leader, he added.
In contrast to his predecessor, Xi Jinping has brought companies firmly under state control, come down heavily in favor of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) over private companies, and generally pursued what Soros called "total control."
"This has had disastrous consequences. In contrast to Deng, Xi Jinping is a true believer in communism. Marx and Lenin are his idols," Soros stated.
Chinese citizens have gotten the worst of both worlds under Xi’s rule, as authoritarianism has stifled many enterprises even while troubles in the real estate sector have swelled to dangerous levels based on what Soros called an unsustainable model. It is a system based excessively on credit, where people are now forced to start paying for apartments not yet even built, and subcontractors who have not been paid are simply ceasing to work.
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Marx and Lenin are his idols," Soros stated. While I have a big brass Beelzebub in my bedroom.
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George Soros is a convicted felon and was a Nazi collaborator who profited off the Holocaust. Some people will try to lie and say he "survived" the holocaust because he's Jewish.. but in reality he "survived" by pretending to be Christian and taking a job with the Nazis where he stripped valuables from Jews then sorted through it as they were loaded onto cattle cars in front of his face. This wasn't something he was forced to do, he was paid very well for it, and described it as the happiest time of his life. To this day he says he says he still feels absolutely no guilt or remorse for it (he claims he was "too young to understand what was going on".. he was 14) he also has denounced his Jewish heritage, and has donated to anti-Israel terrorist groups.
Watch the 60 Minutes interview where he confesses. Note his reaction: is he ashamed, looking down, stammering? No, his eyes light up and he gets excited talking about his time as a Nazi collaborator. That's the deal with sociopaths, they can't recognize when they're horrifying normal people.
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^ nailed it. Well said.
The man clearly revels in power -- in his ability to get the better of another in a trade, a scalping, a fleecing. He's a sociopath.
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Oh yeah. Soros is so proud of the work he did with his Nazi foster-father turning in and confiscating the possessions of fellow Jews. Good Times... Good Times... (to him). The Nuremberg trials missed a few - he's one of them.
Russia is moving 2,000 Spetsnaz troops to Ukraine-Belarus border, stoking fears they will be used to invade
They will join 5,000 commandos already in position as experts warn they could form spearhead of attack
Russia has today begun a huge war games in Belarus in a move designed to turn up the heat on Ukraine
First phase of games got underway as Boris Johnson and Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki flew to Kiev for talks, while Russian held a rival summit with Hungarian leader Viktor Orban
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If you look at the map, Belarus’s border is perfect. Two highways heading south to cut the country in two and blocking nato. It’s a solid plan from a tactical perspective. Let’s hope Biden keeps our troops west of the highways.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
"2022 will be a critical year in the history of the world. In a few days, China, the most powerful authoritarian state, will be hosting the Winter Olympics, and like Germany in 1936, it will attempt to use the spectacle to score a propaganda victory for its system of state controls," Soros, 91, said.
The stakes could not be higher as tensions between the CCP and Taiwan veer ever more in the direction of a military showdown. The reason this geopolitical crisis is different from another one dominating the headlines at the moment—Vladimir Putin’s designs on Ukraine—has partly to do with President Joe Biden’s reaction to these respective crises, Soros emphasized.
Xi’s aggressiveness on the global stage would be quite enough by itself to make 2022 a year unlike any other. Complementing this foreign policy stance is a dictatorial approach at home that has progressively undone the tentative market reforms ushered in by earlier CCP leaders, Soros noted. Economic reforms initiated by then-leader Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s invited foreigners to invest in China and fostered economic growth that spilled over, for a brief time, into the reign of the current leader, he added.
