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Lina Cavalieri
Italian operatic soprano (1874-1944)
Natalina "Lina" Cavalieri was an Italian operatic dramatic soprano, actress, and monologist.
The Russian Prince Alexander Bariatinsky was deeply in love with Lina, and they had an open affair, but never became husband and wife as his parents and Tsar Nicholas II himself strongly opposed this marriage
[Rudaw] At least three Iranian border guards were killed after an attack by a Sunni bad boy group in Sistan and Baluchestan province, southwest of Iran, on Thursday evening.
Mehdi Shamsabadi, Sistan and Baluchestan prosecutor, told news hounds that a group of person or persons unknown targeted the border guards while they were filling gas at a station in Mirjaveh city. Three border guards were killed and one civilian was injured.
In separate conversations with Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni and Sistan and Baluchestan Governor Mohammad Karami, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref "emphasized the necessity of preventing the recurrence of such terrorist incidents by strengthening the borders of the country," according to the semi-official Mehr News Agency ...And if you can't believe Mehr News Agency who can you believe?... Jaish al-Adl, a Sunni bad boy group which frequently targets Iranian security forces in Sistan and Baluchestan, grabbed credit for the attack in a statement, warning that the province "is not safe for the guards of the oppressive regime."
Added for future reference: Jaish al-Adl, sometimes spelt Jaysh al-Adl, is an indigenous Balochi Salafi insurgent group based in Pakistan’s Baloch province. They regularly cross the border to attack Iranian targets. For some reason, the Iranian news media sometimes refer to the group as Jaish ul-Zalm.
Sistan and Baluchestan province, near the Pak border, is one of the only Sunni-majority provinces in the Shiite-dominated Iran. There are a number of Baluchi gangs active in the area that carry out regular bombings and suicide kabooms.
Jaish al-Adl, has carried out a number of suicide attacks on Iranian security forces, killing dozens in the border areas. The group was added to the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations in 2019 by the administration of former US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... The designation was in response to a deadly attack by the group on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which killed 27 guards near Sistan and Baluchestan’s picturesque provincial capital of Zahedan.
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We missed that story at the time, pippi — thank you. But they refer to the organization as Jaish ul-Zalm, so I went hunting for information and found this article dated last December, from Hasht e Subh Daily, a source I’ve used before:
[Rudaw] The United States army said on Friday that it had killed a suspected member of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in eastern Syria who was planning an attack on global coalition forces.
"On Wednesday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Forces killed an ISIS attack cell member in a strike in Eastern Syria. The individual was in the midst of planting an IED for a planned attack against Coalition and Partner Forces," CENTCOM said in a post on X without disclosing the exact location of the operation.
[Rudaw] The US army announced on Saturday that four suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) leaders were killed in a recent joint raid with the Iraqi security forces in western Iraq, including one responsible for the group’s all operations in the country.
The joint raid took place in Anbar province on August 29. US and Iraqi armies have provided conflicting numbers about ISIS corpse count, with the US Central Command (CENTCOM) initially putting the number at 15 and now it says 14 were killed. Iraq initially said 14 were killed but later said the number had increased to 16.
The US army said that four of them were ISIS leaders responsible for the group's operations and technical development in Iraq.
"As part of the on-going post-raid assessment, CENTCOM can confirm that four ISIS leaders were killed including: Ahmad Hamid Husayn Abd-al-Jalil al-Ithawi, responsible for all operations in Iraq, Abu Hammam, responsible for overseeing all operations in Western Iraq, Abu-’Ali al-Tunisi, responsible for overseeing technical development, and Shakir Abud Ahmad al-Issawi, responsible for overseeing military operations in Western Iraq," said CENTCOM in a statement.
"This operation targeted ISIS leaders and served to disrupt and degrade ISIS’ ability to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against Iraqi civilians, as well as U.S. citizens, allies, and partners throughout the region and beyond," it added.
The operation was centered around Anbar province’s Wadi al-Ghadaf, described by the Iraqi military as an "important den" for ISIS remnants in the country.
US Treasury had offered $5 million for info on Abu Ali Al-Tunisi; several other prominent members of terror group killed; troops seized weapons, computers, phones,10 explosive belts
Iraqi forces and American troops have killed a senior commander with the Islamic State group who was wanted by the United States, as well as several other prominent militants, Iraq’s military said on Friday.
The operation in Iraq’s western Anbar province began in late August, the Iraqi military said, and also involved members of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service and Iraq’s air force.
Among the dead was an ISIS commander from Tunisia, known as Abu Ali Al-Tunisi, for whom the US Treasury Department had offered $5 million for information. Also killed was Ahmad Hamed Zwein, the IS deputy commander in Iraq.
Despite their defeat, attacks by ISIS sleeper cells in Iraq and Syria have been on the rise over the past years, with scores of people killed or wounded.
Friday’s announcement was not the first news of the operation.
Two weeks ago, an official said that the United States military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected ISIS militants in the country’s western desert that killed at least 15 people and left seven American troops hurt.
Five of the American troops were wounded in the raid itself, while two others suffered injuries from falls during the operation. One who suffered a fall was transported out of the region, while one of the wounded was evacuated for further treatment, a US defense official said at the time, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the operation that had not yet been made public.
In Friday’s announcement, the Iraqi military said the operation also confiscated weapons and computers, smart phones and 10 explosive belts. It added that 14 ISIS commanders were identified after DNA tests were conducted. It made no mention of the 15th person killed and whether that person had also been identified.
[IsraelTimes] US special envoy Amos Hochstein will meet with Israel’s leadership on Monday in an attempt to avoid further escalation between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , the Walla news site reports.
US officials tell Walla that they are concerned by the increasingly belligerent rhetoric from Israel regarding Lebanon and are keen to avert a full-scale war.
putting his thumb on the scale for evil, yet again.
[IsraelTimes] A Maryland woman was arrested today on a charge that she vandalized federal property in Washington, D.C., during protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress in July.
A video posted on social media showed Isabella Giordano, 20, of Towson, using red spray paint to write "Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... " on a fountain in front of Union Station and spray-painting the base of two of the flagpoles in Columbus Circle, according to a US Park Police sergeant’s affidavit.
Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington on July 24 to condemn Netanyahu’s visit. A group of protesters had a permit to demonstrate in front of Union Station, but the Park Police revoked the permit after it couldn’t reach protest organizers that afternoon, the affidavit says.
Some demonstrators outside Union Station removed American flags and hoisted Paleostinian ones in their place. Others burned flags and sprayed graffiti on structures in Columbus Circle. The National Park Service estimated that it cost more than $11,000 to clean up the site and fix damages.
The Park Police said it received two tips from witnesses identifying Giordano as a suspect in the graffiti.
Giordano was scheduled to make her initial court appearance later today. She is charged with one count of willfully injuring or depredating federal property. It wasn’t immediately clear if she has an attorney.
[IsraelTimes] Channel 12 news plays intercepted recordings purporting to show Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... operatives discussing how to disperse overflowing Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... aid that they had seized.
In the recordings of radio conversations, one operative says, "We have trucks overflowing with goods." The second operative declines the offer, saying "we have everything. In the meantime, we have no room in the stores." He then suggests they send the goods to Khan Younis.
The report says the recordings indicate the difficulties in applying pressure on Hamas, which is making millions off control over the hundreds of trucks of international aid that enter Gaza every day.
The report also says that the IDF plans to reexamine efforts that allow private traders to import goods into Gaza because Hamas has been taking 20% of all the profits from the deals.
[IsraelTimes] Army accuses Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad of being a known terror operative in the Fara’a camp, after the UN agency says he was ‘shot and killed on the roof of his home by a sniper’
The UN agency for Paleostinian refugees said Friday that one of its employees was killed this week during an Israeli raid in the West Bank.
UNRWA identified the slain employee as Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, who "worked as a sanitation laborer" in the northern West Bank’s Fara’a camp and "is survived by his wife and five children."
According to UNRWA, he was "shot and killed on the roof of his home by a sniper" and that it was "the first time an UNRWA staff member has been killed in the West Bank in more than 10 years."
The Israel Defense Forces later said Jawwad was throwing explosives at troops in the camp and was a known terror operative, issuing an English language statement accusing the agency of "not telling the full story."
IDF spokesperson Nadav Shoshani said that during an operation in Fara’a, a suspect was identified hurling bombs that posed a threat to the forces operating in the area. IDF troops opened fire toward him to remove said threat, and he was killed.
"The terrorist was subsequently identified and it was discovered he is also an UNRWA employee named Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad. It should be noted that after receiving his details, it was found that the terrorist was known to Israeli security forces and he had been complicit in additional terrorist activities," Shoshani said.
"This is yet another example of an UNRWA employee taking active part in terrorist activities against Israel, as has been proven in several other cases in the past, including employees who participated in the October 7 massacre," he said.
In an earlier statement, the IDF said troops "conducted a 48-hour counter-terrorism operation" in the areas of Tubas, Tamun and Fara’a, killing "five armed terrorists" in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... and a sixth in "exchanges of fire" with "a terrorist that hurled bombs."
Mourners on Friday carried Jawwad’s body through the streets of Fara’a, with his blue UN vest resting atop the Paleostinian flag that covered him. Funerals for Paleostinians killed in the airstrike were held in nearby Tubas, with images showing button men among those in attendance — including one wearing a Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... headband.
The incident came days after UNRWA said six of its staffers were killed in an Israeli strike targeting a Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... control center at a school-turned-shelter in central Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s Nuseirat, with the IDF later saying three of them were members of the terror group.
The IDF said Hamas was using the school to plan and carry out attacks against troops and Israel. The military also said that it identified nine of the 18 people reported killed in the strike as Hamas operatives, including the three UNRWA staffers.
UNRWA, which coordinates nearly all aid into Gaza, has been in crisis since Israel accused dozens of its employees of being involved in the October 7 attack.
[IsraelTimes] Activists paint yellow ribbons along route, stage sit-in as police attempt to wash them off; mother of hostage warns Netanyahu that she won’t allow him to abandon her son
A group of protesters led by relatives of the Gaza hostages blocked Namir Road in Tel Aviv during a Friday demonstration calling for the Israeli government to agree to a hostage release-ceasefire deal.
No crowd estimate given, so there weren’t very many of them.
Activists descended on Namir Road early on Friday morning in order to prepare for the protest, painting large yellow ribbons — the symbol of support for the hostages — at various intervals along the route.
Similar drawings were painted on other key routes across the country, including on Highway 2, where the word “abandoned” was emblazoned above the ribbon, and on Highway 4, where the words “because of you” were painted in the same font as the logo used by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.
On Namir Road’s Hayarkon Bridge, where the main protest was taking place, the family members fighting for the release of their loved ones chained themselves together, tethering the chain to the bridge to ensure that no traffic could pass.
Among those leading the protest was Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan Zangauker was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7.
Wrapped in chains and standing in front of a banner reading “Abandoned to their deaths,” Zangauker was joined by her daughter, Matan’s sister, Natalie, who two weeks ago was injured by mounted police during a Saturday night protest in Tel Aviv.
Bonfires were lit in the middle of the blocked road, and protesters set off colored smoke bombs in front of banners and posters accusing the government of neglecting the hostages, abducted more than 11 months ago during Hamas’s brutal October 7 invasion and massacre in southern Israel.
Footage of the demonstration showed that at one point, police officers were pushing a group of protesters increasingly close to a makeshift bonfire before other protesters stepped in, forcing them back moments before the large banner they were holding could be set alight.
Elsewhere along the protest route, dozens of demonstrators staged a sit-in, refusing to move even as police attempted to wash the painted yellow ribbons off of the road.
[IsraelTimes] Tunnels are rare in the region, where the Israeli army operates regularly to dismantle terror infrastructure
The Israel Defense Forces said Friday it had located a short underground tunnel near a hospital in the West Bank city of Tulkarem amid an ongoing counter-terrorism operation.
The tunnel had an entrance but no exit, the military said, indicating that it was still under construction.
The IDF said troops would investigate the tunnel and then destroy it.
While Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... built a vast tunnel network under the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, the dismantlement of which has been a key challenge of the ongoing war there, tunnels are rare in the West Bank, where the IDF regularly operates to demolish terror infrastructure.
The military resumed its major operation in the northern West Bank on Tuesday after a lull of a few days. The operation, dubbed "Summer Camps," was launched on August 28.
Since the operation resumed, the IDF says it has killed 10 button men in festivities and dronezaps.
Also Friday, police released footage showing members of the elite Yamam unit detaining a wanted Paleostinian in a hospital in the West Bank city of Halhul early Thursday.
The Paleostinian suspect had been maimed in an attempted boom-mobileing attack in Halhul a month ago, police and the Shin Bet said.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 5,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,000 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the PA health ministry, more than 670 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or hard boyz carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 33 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
[MSN - Newsweek] A pro-Israel rally in Newton, Massachusetts, turned violent on Thursday evening, leading to the arrest of a 47-year-old Iraq War veteran.
Scott Hayes, of Framingham, faces charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and violation of a constitutional right causing injury after he allegedly shot a man who tackled him.
Hayes appeared in the Newton District Court on Friday afternoon and was released on a $5,000 bond. The court ordered Hayes wear GPS tracking device and a curfew so he can work, according to local media reports.
The chaos unfolded around 6:40 p.m. at the intersection of Washington and Harvard streets when the man, not associated with the rally, crossed the street and attacked Hayes.
The individual who was shot has life-threatening injuries and is receiving treatment at a local hospital.
Newsweek reached out to the Middlesex District Attorney Office for further comment.
Supporters gathered outside the courthouse earlier this afternoon.
HOW CHAOS UNFOLDED AT RALLY
A group of pro-Israel demonstrators gathered on one side of the street, while an unidentified individual, not associated with the rally, stood on the opposite side. The two sides exchanged words as the individual blocked the street.
At some point, investigators said the individual crossed the street and tackled Hayes.
"A scuffle ensued, during that scuffle the individual who crossed the street was shot by a member [Hayes] of the demonstrating group," Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said during the press conference.
YM – Fighting Anti-Semitism launched a GoFundMe campaign to cover legal defense expenses and present Hayes' perspective.
According to the GoFundMe page, Hayes was ready to leave the rally when a young man wearing a Palestinian flag pin started shouting from the other side of the street to pro-Israel demonstrators. The individual suddenly ran across the street, charged Hayes, attacked him and tackled him to the ground.
"Scott was wrestling with him when a gun went off," the GoFundMe page reads. "As soon as Scott noticed his assailant was hurt he provided emergency medical treatment."
The page also indicates Hayes is not Jewish but has been defending the Jewish people and "its right for self determination and governance all across Boston, its surroundings and all around New England and the US."
Ryan said investigators are aware of the information circulating on social media but will not comment further on it.
The Newton Police Department will provide extra patrols at houses of worship over the next several days and longer if necessary.
WHDH on Friday evening named 31-year-old Caleb Gannon of Newton as the person who assaulted Hayes and was subsequently suffered life-threatening injuries after being shot in the stomach during a scuffle. The outlet reports that the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office has applied for a criminal complaint charging Gannon with assault & battery.
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"My son and family" If I had kids that age I would seriously think about leaving New England altogether. I have an elderly relative there & have advised him to move away, but he won't.
[IsraelTimes] As Times of Israel readers are well-aware, since October 7, anti-Israel groups have launched widespread assaults on the rights of Jewish Americans, especially but not exclusively on college campuses.
I regularly tweet (@ProfDBernstein) about these incidents and comment, “Where is the Justice Department? Where is the FBI?”
I often get responses like, “isn’t the Department of Education investigating some of these colleges? What can the feds really do?”
The answer is that “the feds,” and the Department of Justice in particular, could do a lot to protect American Jews, and they are doing little to none of it.
Here are some examples.
(1) The Ku Klux Klan Act prohibits conspiracies to deprive Americans of their civil rights. This Act could be invoked against student groups that are blocking Jewish students from traversing their campuses, as at UCLA, and against groups that blockade public roads, depriving people of their right to travel. The Act has been invoked in private lawsuits, but the Justice Department has not brought a single case.
(2) The FACE Act prohibits “the use of physical force, threat of physical force, or physical obstruction to intentionally injure, intimidate, interfere with or attempt to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person who is exercising or trying to exercise their First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.” Hillel buildings serve as houses of worship, and various campuses have seen acts of intimidation of and interference with those students trying to enter or exit Hillel buildings. No one involved in these incidents has been charged under the act.
(3) Various complaints and lawsuits against universities have documented threats and assaults against Jewish students in violation of their civil rights. The Justice Department has not brought any criminal or civil charges against the perpetrators, with the exception of a Cornell student who threatened to kill Jewish students. Lower-level and less well-publicized threats, harassment, and assaults have not attracted Justice Department intervention.
(4) American intelligence officials have revealed that anti-Israel protesters are getting money from Iran, in violation of US sanctions laws. Despite this public revelation, no one has been indicted for receiving or serving as a conduit for this money.
(5) For political reasons, police departments in cities including DC, Philadelphia, and Baltimore have refused requests by university officials to clear illegal, antisemitic campus encampments. This inaction violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection of the law. More narrowly, this abuse of police discretion violates the conditions on which cities receive billions of dollars in federal funds. The Justice Department seems entirely quiescent in the face of this malfeasance. Similarly, local prosecutors across Virginia and elsewhere have told police that they will not prosecute Hamasnik protesters who violate state laws by wearing masks to intimidate the public. Again, no intervention against discriminatory law enforcement from the Justice Department.
(6) There are strong indications that antisemitic groups like American Muslims for Palestine and National Students for Justice in Palestine have illegal ties to Hamas. Several state attorney generals, most prominently Virginia’s Jason Miyares, are investigating these ties. There are also civil lawsuits pending against these organizations for material support for terrorism that has killed Americans. There is no indication that the Justice Department is seriously investigating.
(7) Jewish-owned businesses have been vandalized in New York and other cities. No federal civil rights charges have been filed against the vandals.
(8) Universities such as Yale have illegally failed to disclose massive donations from Qatar, Hamas’s ally. The legal consequences of this failure have been minimal.
(9) Finally, while the Department of Education has been investigating allegations of universities discriminating against Jewish students via a hostile environment, double standards, or otherwise, every one of these complaints has been filed by a private party, giving the Department of Education a legal obligation to investigate. The department does not appear to have opened a single investigation of its own, nor has it referred even the most egregious cases to the Justice Department for potential civil litigation. Every lawsuit that has been filed has been the product of private rather than government efforts.
One can speculate as to why the Justice Department has been so quiescent in the face of the largest outbreak of antisemitism in the United States in decades, failing to use existing legal tools when the antisemitism turns illegal. But what we can say for sure is that despite Attorney General Merrick Garland’s stated commitment to protecting the American Jewish community from hate crimes, his Justice Department has been an almost complete failure in combating such crimes inspired or committed by anti-Israel activists.
David E. Bernstein is a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, where he teaches constitutional law and evidence. He is married to an Israeli and travels to Israel regularly.
[Business Insider] "Voyager" — explorer, famous NASA mission, and now ... billionaire tech mogul?
That's the code name that Elon Musk's security team uses to refers to him, The New York Times reported as part of an investigation into the Tesla CEO's protective services.
And "Voyager" doesn't go very far without his bodyguards, flanked by as many as 20 security personnel, some armed — plus a medical professional — wherever he goes, according to the outlet.
In many ways, Musk's deep bench of security personnel makes sense. With a net worth of over $250 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, he's the world's richest person, and that stratosphere of wealth brings some very real risks into the equation.
[TN Star] Mark Penn, a former top adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, called Thursday for ABC to launch a formal internal investigation into its news division’s planning and execution of this week’s presidential debate to determine if there was some effort at "rigging the outcome of this debate."
ABC News came under significant bipartisan criticism because its moderators fact-checked some of Donald Trump’s statements but none from Kamala Harris.
Trump said Thursday that the debate was three-on-one and declined to participate in another one before the election.
Anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis moderated the first debate between Harris and Trump, which drew 67.1 million viewers, making it the most watched presidential debate since 2008. But it has drawn scorn from both Republicans and Democrats for giving the appearance of bias.
"I actually think they should do a full internal investigation, hire an outside law firm. I don’t know how much of this was planned in advance," Penn told the John Solomon Reports podcast.
"I don’t know what they told the Harris campaign. I think the day after, suspicion here is really quite high, and I think a review of all their internal texts and emails really should be done by an independent party to find out to what extent they were planning on, in effect, you know, fact-checking just one candidate and in effect, rigging the outcome of this debate. I think the situation demands nothing less than that," he added.
Penn, chairman of the Harvard CAPS Harris Poll, also said Harris has done a "good job" defining Trump as the incumbent and herself as the change candidate even though she’s the sitting vice president. But he described the mainstream media’s coverage of Harris’ campaign as laughable.
"It’s a 50-50, race. He’s [Trump] got more obvious tools to get across the finish line than she does and part of the thing here is that if the referees have their finger on the scale, it’s harder to, you know, break through and overcome. And certainly, general media coverage has been fairly laughable," he said.
Penn, president and managing partner of The Stagwell Group, suggested the Trump campaign mail out to every voter the ACLU questionaire that then-Sen. Harris, D-Calif., filled out and indicated she supports gender surgery for illegal immigrants and defunding Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
[MoneyMetals] The Saudis have joined other Asian countries in ditching their long-term sensitivity to the gold price. Evidence suggests theSaudi central bank has been covertly buying 160 tonnes of gold in Switzerland since early 2022, contributing to the current gold bull market.
Although the Saudis played a key role in the birth of the global dollar standard in the early 1970s, this time around they might even become a lynchpin for its dissolution.
INTRODUCTION
Until recently, Saudi Arabia’s gold demand would decline when the gold price went up and strengthen when the price went south. This dampened volatility in the gold market, which for many decades was ruled by the West.
Ever since the West immobilized Russia’s dollar assets in February 2022, those with diplomatic disagreements with the West are increasingly exchanging their dollars for physical gold. Saudi Arabia is the latest country—after China and Thailand—of which I have found cross-border trade statistics showing it has shifted from being price sensitive to a price driver.
[NY Post] IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler, who blew the whistle on Hunter Biden’s tax crimes, filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit Friday against the First Son’s attorney Abbe Lowell in Washington DC.
They accuse Lowell of behaving with “clear malice” when he retaliated against their whistleblowing by making defamatory statements to the media alleging that they had illegally leaked Hunter’s private tax information.
As a result of Lowell’s statements Shapley and Ziegler claim their reputations suffered “incredible and malicious harm.”
A sweetheart plea deal between Hunter and Delaware US attorney David Weiss fell apart last year after Shapley and Ziegler went public with their concerns.
Last week, their concerns were validated when Hunter pleaded guilty to all felony tax crimes brought against him.
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Bravo! Stout fellows! Beat the scum with their own stick!
Follow-up to this story from the beginning of the month.
[NY Post] An illegal migrant wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic is accused of "horrifically" killing a family of four in upstate New York last month as firefighters made the gruesome discovery during a house call.
Julio Cesar Pimentel-Soriano, 34, allegedly used a "sharp object" to fatally stab Fraime Ubaldo, 30, Marangely Moreno-Santiago, 26, Evangeline Ubaldo-Moreno, 4, and Sebastian Ubaldo-Moreno, 2, inside their Irondequoit home on Aug. 31, according to a felony complaint viewed by WHAM.
He allegedly stabbed each victim in the neck and chest multiple times.
"Obviously, the allegations are troubling," Assistant District Attorney Perry Duckles told the outlet. "They are difficult to deal with. They are difficult to see."
"It seems like this family was very well-liked and very active in their community, so obviously my condolences go out to their family, friends, and neighbors who had to suffer through this," Assistant District Attorney Perry Duckles said.
Firefighters were called to the residence around 5:23 a.m. on Aug. 31 for multiple fires around the home before they discovered the family of four’s bodies.
Investigators determined that it was "readily apparent" their deaths were from a homicide, and not the fire.
"This was a horrific scene," Irondequoit Police Chief Scott Peters said, holding back tears at a press conference Friday. "In almost 32 years of doing this job I’ve never seen anything like it."
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I'm fast reaching the point where I think any illegal that commits any other crime in Texas should be taken to downtown Houston, have his head lopped off via guillotine, and we should then put the heads on spikes on the border wall.
[JustTheNews] Boudreaux is among many sheriffs in the state who don’t support Harris for president, he’s said after their image was used in one of her campaign ads.
California residents are suffering from Biden-Harris administration “open border” policies and California’s sanctuary state law, California sheriffs argue.
At a recent U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing on victim perspectives, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said, “when it comes to open borders and the impact of illegal immigration in California, I have a front row seat to the havoc those can wreak.”
Boudreaux is among many sheriffs in the state who don’t support Harris for president, he’s said after their image was used in one of her campaign ads.
He then described cases in the Central Valley related to the border crisis. The region is known as the agricultural heart of California and referred to as the “major breadbasket of the world” because they produce so much food, he said. The region has also had a long history with illegal immigration because an estimated 80% of agricultural workers are in the country illegally, he said. With illegal immigration comes crime, and that has stretched thin law enforcement resources, he said.
“When it comes to our open border, the Central Valley is at the foot of the mountain staring down an avalanche. We are confronting a barrage of violent criminals, events, and drugs flow from the border into our community. The free flow of illicit and deadly drugs, principally fentanyl, have turned the corridors of Highway 99 and Interstate 5 into two highways of death that unleash unspeakable carnage.”
He described how deputies and canines have been killed by criminal illegal foreign nationals who’ve been deported multiple times after committing multiple crimes in other states. He also described multiple agency operations in several counties targeting drug trafficking operations that uncovered how Tulare County has become a hub for the Sinaloa Cartel. Cartel member suspects they interviewed told them that under the Biden-Harris administration “it is easier now in the last three years than in the history of the drug organization to move illegal drugs across the border into the United States.”
He also described arrests of illegal foreign nationals operating out of Washington state who were allegedly transporting fentanyl for the Mexican cartel “all over the southern border up to Washington.” Arrested and detained on multiple charges, they were let out of jail the next day and never to be found.
“Their release was a slap in the face to the criminal justice system and a direct repercussion of failed immigration policies and an open border,” he said. California’s sanctuary law, SB54, prohibits law enforcement from working with U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement (ICE). As a result, “there are no ramifications for their actions. California has basically become an open territory for the cartel to do whatever it wants.”
[Breitbart] A recent academic study has uncovered evidence that AI chatbots powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have an inherent leftist political bias, potentially influencing the information and advice they provide to users.
ScienceAlert reports that in an increasingly digital world, AI chatbots are becoming a go-to source for information and guidance especially for young people. However, a new study conducted by David Rozado, a computer scientist from Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, has revealed that these AI engines may have a political bias that could unknowingly sway society’s values and attitudes.
The study, published in academic journal PLOS ONE, involved testing 24 different LLMs, including popular chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, using 11 standard political questionnaires such as The Political Compass test. The results showed that the average political stance across all the models was not neutral but rather left-leaning.
This will not surprise those who have closely followed AI. For example, Google Gemini ran amok when it was launched, rewriting history into a woke mess of leftist fantasy.
While the average bias was not strong, it was still significant. Further experiments on custom bots, where users can fine-tune the LLMs’ training data, demonstrated that these AIs could be influenced to express political leanings using left-of-center or right-of-center texts.
Rozado also examined foundation models like GPT-3.5, which serve as the basis for conversational chatbots. Although no evidence of political bias was found in these models, the lack of a chatbot front-end made it challenging to collate the responses meaningfully.
As AI chatbots increasingly replace traditional information sources like search engines and Wikipedia, the societal implications of embedded political biases become substantial. With tech giants like Google incorporating AI answers into search results and more people turning to AI bots for information, there is a growing concern that these systems could influence users’ thinking through the responses they provide.
The exact cause of this bias remains unclear. One possible explanation is an imbalance of left-leaning material in the vast amounts of online text used to train these models. Additionally, the dominance of ChatGPT in training other models could be a contributing factor, as the bot has previously been shown to have a left-of-center political perspective.
It is important to note that bots based on LLMs rely on probabilities to determine the sequence of words in their responses, which can lead to inaccuracies even before considering various types of bias.
Despite the enthusiasm of tech companies to promote AI chatbots, it may be time to reevaluate how we should be using this technology and prioritize areas where AI can be genuinely beneficial. As Rozado emphasizes in his paper, “It is crucial to critically examine and address the potential political biases embedded in LLMs to ensure a balanced, fair, and accurate representation of information in their responses to user queries.”
[Breitbart] Authorities in Bihar, India, arrested three men on Thursday after an incident in a private hospital in which a doctor and several other staffers attempted to gang-rape a nurse. The nurse escaped, multiple reports noted, by using a surgical blade to cut the doctor’s genitals.
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Sanju is one of three people arrested for the attempted rape, according to the Hindustan Times. Citing the police report, the newspaper reported that the men involved had been consuming alcohol and committed several acts that indicate a premeditated attempt to rape the woman. It is not clear from reports at press time if police believe the men intended to otherwise hurt or kill the nurse in question. The men are reportedly facing charges directly related to the attack as well as the charge of consuming alcohol, which is illegal in Bihar.
The harrowing details of the alleged assault follow weeks of political turmoil in India over the threat of rape consistently looming over Indian healthcare workers. Indian women doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals have denounced the government and private medical facilities for not offering enough security to prevent sexual assault and the killing of staff in hospitals.
A nationwide doctor’s strike erupted in August in response to the rape and murder of a resident doctor in Kolkata that occurred while she attempted to nap in a hospital seminar room. Despite the suspect not working in the hospital and the hospital being fully operational during the rape and murder, no one intervened to protect the woman or stop the accused, Sanjoy Roy, from entering doctors’ space in the complex.
While the nationwide strike has subsided, a local doctors’ strike in Kolkata has persisted through this week.
India Today reported that the survivor of the Bihar incident was a nurse employed at the RBS Health Care Centre in Gangapur, Bihar, for ten to 15 months. Police reportedly found her hiding in an empty field.
“The nurse … recounted how the doctor, a physiotherapist, and his two associates had been drinking before they began harassing her,” India Today narrated, citing the police report. “When she resisted the doctor’s advances, she initially struggled to fend him off. In an act of self-defense, she used a surgical blade to attack the doctor, giving her a chance to escape and call for help.”
“The presence of mind and courage shown by the survivor is praiseworthy,” Deputy Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar Pandey told reporters.
The Hindustan Times reported that police “found blood-stained bedsheets, mobile phones and alcohol bottles from the hospital,” corroborating the nurse’s story, and they found that the clinic’s private camera system had been disabled, potentially by the attackers to eliminate evidence of the crime.
In addition to Dr. Kumar, two men identified as Sunil Kumar Gupta and Awadhesh Kumar are in police custody over the incident.
The incident occurs as India stands in the throes of a nationwide controversy prompted by a similar incident in which the victim did not survive. In early August, a 31-year-old resident working at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a government facility in Kolkata, attempted to nap in a seminar room of the hospital when a man identified as Sanjoy Roy attacked her, raping and killing her. The woman was found with a broken neck and “eye injuries” suggesting extreme violence during the last moments of her life.
Roy reportedly confessed immediately to the crime. The man was known to locals for spending significant time in the hospital and often acting inappropriately to women working there, but he did not work there nor was he related to any patients. It is unclear why he was allowed to loiter on the premises. Roy claimed to be a “civic volunteer” with Kolkata with police and reportedly often impersonated a police officer despite having no legitimate law enforcement authority.
Police later told reporters that Roy’s phone contained “quite disturbing and violent” pornographic content, to which he was reportedly addicted. No evidence suggests anyone in a position of authority at the government-run hospital attempted to ban Roy from the premises despite widespread reports that he was, at best, a nuisance to those working there and ultimately a major threat.
Doctors nationwide went on strike to protest the gruesome rape and murder, and several protests in August became violent. In one such incident, unknown individuals described as “miscreants” unaffiliated with the protesting doctors reportedly attacked the medical hospital in Kolkata, ransacking the site and causing significant property destruction. Several “miscreants” also destroyed police vehicles and physically beat the protesting doctors.
“A mob of miscreants entered the hospital. The agitating doctors were attacked and had to flee,” senior resident Subhendu Mullick told the Indian World Is One News agency (WION). “They even tried to enter the building where the junior doctor was raped and murdered. Police stood as mute spectators.”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Interactive map shows which jails are bursting at the seams as Keir Starmer releases 5,700 criminals early
An estimated 5,700 prisoners will be released early as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer defends the controversial policy.
Sir Keir, who is in the United States, blasted the inaction of the previous government for leaving the criminal justice system in such a perilous situation.
Critics have said the new Labour government is determined to lock up right wing protesters involved in anti-immigrant protesters.
Sir Keir lashed out at former prime minister Rishi Sunak in the Commons, repeating claims he had no choice but to cut the amount of time prisoners would serve behind bars amid urgent efforts to tackle the jail overcrowding crisis. His comments were in response to accusations from Reform UK's leader that Sir Keir was presiding over a two-tier justice system.
One inmate was arrested by police moments after he was released from jail.
Nigel Farage described 'some extraordinary celebratory scenes outside Britain's prisons, where in some cases serious career criminals were released' after pictures emerged of an inmate being sprayed with frothing bottles of bubbly by friends as they left jail.
Tuesday's exodus of 1,700 prisoners from jails across England and Wales came after Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced plans in July to temporarily cut the proportion of sentences which inmates must serve behind bars from 50% to 40% as the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said overcrowding had pushed jails to the 'point of collapse'.
At Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Mr Farage said: 'This to make way for, yes, rioters, but equally those who have said unpleasant things on Facebook and elsewhere on social media.
'Does the Prime Minister understand there is a growing feeling of anger in this country that we are living through two-tier policing and a two-tier justice system?'
Sir Keir hit back, telling MPs: 'I'm angry to be put in a position of having to release people who should be in prison because the last government broke the prison system.
'The prime minister was repeatedly warned that he had to adopt the scheme that we put in place.'
Referring to reports on Alex Chalk's pleas to enact the scheme when in post, he said the former justice secretary 'said if we don't do it we will have to get down on our knees and pray'.
Police chiefs also 'made it absolutely clear' to Mr Sunak before the election that he 'needed to take action', he said - in reference to a letter police chiefs sent him in June urging him to put the plan in motion immediately as prison overcrowding was hampering officers' ability to do their jobs.
Prisons watchdog Charlie Taylor has warned the scheme is 'risky' and it was 'inevitable' some prisoners released early would reoffend and end up back behind bars.
Some who are homeless on release could be temporarily placed in taxpayer-funded budget hotels if there is not enough space in bail hostels and other community accommodation typically used for offenders.
The number freed is in addition to the around 1,000 inmates normally released each week.
[FoxNews] A National Institute of Health internal review board found patients were pressured to join the research.
A long-term study of Havana Syndrome patients was shut down after a National Institute of Health (NIH) internal review board found the mishandling of medical data and participants who reported being pressured to join the research. The study had until now not found evidence linking the participants to the same symptoms and brain injuries. The internal investigation that halted the study was prompted by complaints from the participants about unethical practices.
This comes after the intelligence community released an interim report last year concluding a foreign adversary is "very unlikely" to be behind the symptoms hundreds of U.S. intelligence officers are experiencing, despite qualifying for U.S. government funded treatment of their brain injuries.
"The NIH investigation found that regulatory and NIH policy requirements for informed consent were not met due to coercion, although not on the part of NIH researchers," an NIH spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News.
A former CIA officer, who goes by Adam to protect his identity, was not shocked that the study was shut down.
"The way the study was conducted, at best, was dishonest and, at worst, wades into the criminal side of the scale," Adam said.
Adam is Havana Syndrome's Patient Zero because he was the first to experience the severe sensory phenomena that hundreds of other U.S. government workers have experienced while stationed overseas in places like Havana and Moscow, even China. Adam described pressure to the brain that led to vertigo, tinnitus and cognitive impairment.
Active-duty service members, spies, FBI agents, diplomats and even children and pets have experienced this debilitating sensation that patients believe is caused by a pulsed energy weapon. 334 Americans have qualified to get treatment for Havana Syndrome in specialized military health facilities, according to a study released by the U.S. government accountability office earlier this year.
Adam, who was first attacked in December 2016 in his bedroom in Havana described hearing a loud sound penetrating his room. "Kind of like someone was taking a pencil and bouncing it off your eardrum… Eventually I started blacking out," Adam said.
Patients, like Adam, who participated in the NIH study raised concerns the CIA was including patients who didn't really qualify as Havana Syndrome patients, watering down the data being analyzed by NIH researchers. Meanwhile, also pressuring those who needed treatment at Walter Reed to participate in the NIH study in order to get treatment at Walter Reed.
"It became pretty clear quite quickly that something was amiss and how it was being handled and how patients were being filtered… the CIA dictated who would go. NIH often complained to us behind the scenes that the CIA was not providing adequate, matched control groups, and they flooded in a whole litany of people that likely weren't connected or had other medical issues that really muddied the water," Adam said, accusing the NIH of working with the CIA.
The CIA is cooperating.
"We cannot comment on whether any CIA officers participated in the study. However, we take any claim of coercion, or perceived coercion, extremely seriously and fully cooperated with NIH’s review of this matter, and have offered access to any information requested," a CIA official told Fox News in a statement noting that the "CIA Inspector General has been made aware of the NIH findings and prior related allegations."
Havana Syndrome victims now want to pressure the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) to retract the two articles published last spring using early data from the NIH study that concluded there were no significant MRI-detectable evidence of brain injury among the group of participants compared with a group of matched control participants.
[BBC] I’m sitting in a courtroom in the town of Pushkin, 400 miles north-west of Moscow.
Opposite me is the "aquarium" - the glass and metal box where the defendant is locked, the courtroom cage that makes anyone on trial in Russia look like a dangerous criminal.
Behind the glass is Anna Alexandrova. The 46-year-old hairdresser has been charged with "the public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation".
Put simply, spreading fake news about the Russian army. The charge relates to messages and social media posts she has been accused of sending.
The key prosecution witness is here, too - Anna’s neighbour.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine there have been regular reports of Russians reporting neighbours, colleagues and acquaintances to the police over alleged anti-war statements.
Denunciations have led to arrests, prosecutions and, in some cases, long prison sentences.
But why has snitching become commonplace? And what are the implications for Russian society?
To find out, I have spoken to a number of Russians caught up in this, including a doctor informed on by her patient and an 87-year-old man who was forced off a bus and dragged to the police.
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Didn't Tampon Timmy Walz set up a Covid snitchline in Minnesota? Why yes, he did.
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Hardened criminals released from prison to make room for 12 year olds protesting against being groomed and murdered as British Government faces 'Enemies Within'.
[ZERO] Whatever you think of Donald Trump's performance during Monday's debate, or the fact that Kamala Harris didn't turn into a puddle of word salad before our very eyes, it didn't hurt the former president.
According to several post-debate polls, Trump not only gained swing voters, pollster Nate Silver projects that Trump will win the election.
🚨 BREAKING: Trump ticks back to being the 61% favorite in Nate Silver’s election model after more polls release
🔴 Trump: 61% (+22.3) 🔵 Harris: 38.7%
The model also gives Trump a 63% chance of winning PENNSYLVANIA, and a 52% chance at MICHIGAN.
[BBC] Thirty-seven people - including three Americans, a Briton, a Belgian and a Canadian national - have been sentenced to death over an attempt to overthrow the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The men were accused of leading an attack on both the presidential palace and the home of an ally of President Félix Tshisekedi in May.
Christian Malanga, a US national of Congolese origin, the suspected leader of the plot, was killed during the attack, along with five others. Some personal risk appears to have been involved.
In total 51 people were tried in a military court, with hearings broadcast on national TV and radio.
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No, no protest. No media. The matter will likely be handled quietly. Tshisekedi will be seen as a benevalent dictator who wishes to put the entire matter behind him, for the right price of course.
TAFF: "Talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people. What are one or two specific things you have in mind for that?"
HARRIS: "Well, I'll start with this. I grew up a middle-class kid. My mother raised my sister and me. She worked very hard. She was able to finally save up enough money to buy our first house when I was a teenager. I grew up in a community of hardworking people. You know, construction workers and nurses and teachers. I try to explain to some people who might not have had the same experience, but a lot of people will relate to this.
You know, I grew up in a neighborhood of people who were really proud of their lawn, you know, and I was raised to believe and to know that all people deserve dignity and that we as Americans have a beautiful character. You know, we have ambitions and aspirations and dreams, but not everyone necessarily has access to the resources that can help them fuel those dreams and ambitions. So, when I talk about building an opportunity economy, it is very much with the mind of investing in the ambitions and aspirations and the incredible work ethic of the American people and creating opportunity for people, for example, to start a small business.
For example, thinking about developing and creating an opportunity economy where it's about investing in areas that really need a lot of work and maybe focusing on, again, the aspirations and the dreams but also just recognizing that at this moment in time some of this stuff we could take for granted years ago, we can't take for granted anymore"
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"Mr. KS, you are 130 yards from the green, pin on the 4, 10 ft. elevation with a 5mph cross wind, what club do you choose?"
"You see, when I grew up many people mowed their yards, as people around me had yards, and in these yards were many, many, different kinds of insects, all of them good. And these insects, these different mounds, were not the same mounds as like in baseball. Baseball, also a sports ball, is sexist because I did not have the fweedom to play because I am too Black."
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She was not raised in a middle income family and she absolutely refuses to answer a question. This is why I believe she was given everything before hand in the "debate".
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"John Fogerty Theory"
Growing up absolutely privileged (Berkeley even!), and framing your entertainment face as 'Born on the Bayou'.
"See, I worked at McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs."
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People are always dinging her for not being able to talk coherently or answer questions. To be fair, Kamala has strong oral skills, just not for words.
Except for the very richest and poorest of us, Americans all think of themselves as middle class. And given that we do not have an aristocratic or noble class, and our very richest have paying jobs just like the poorest McDonald’s cashier, we are almost exclusively a country of the bourgeois class, with all the virtues and vices thereof. Many of our kids get paying jobs as soon as they have skills to sell, an experience middle class kids are not permitted elsewhere in the world, and it shapes their outlook.
Our beloved vice president’s problem is that she is an idiot, poor dear, not that she grew up other than middle class — even if it was the upper range of middle class.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Comprehensive, precision-laser surveys, conducted via aircraft over the tiny Pacific island of Temwen, have revealed just how advanced its lost city Nan Madol once was.
Sometimes called 'the Venice of the Pacific,' this megalithic stone city has drawn comparisons to mythic Atlantis — and even inspired horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, who drew upon news of the site's 1928 discovery as he wrote 'The Call of Cthulhu.'
But now scores of researchers are in a race to uncover the full extent of Nan Madol's ruins as they undertake plans to preserve the city as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Their aerial surveys, conducted via LiDAR or 'Light Detection and Ranging' laser-mapping, has uncovered 'a sophisticated and extensive landscape of cultivation features hidden under Temwen Island's vegetation.'
The discovery has promised to rewrite the history of many Pacific Island cultures, showing that societies once presumed to have relied on subsistence fishing and natural tropical bounty, were in fact engaged in sophisticated agricultural planning.
[DM] "According to the Wall Street Journal, United's deal is part of a larger initiative to improve its high-end offerings to first class and business class travelers." = $$
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An internal investigation by the Secret Service confirms multiple catastrophic security breakdowns took place ahead of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired eight bullets at the crowd, striking Trump's ear and hitting three rally attendees, one fatally, on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania at a rally.
Officials, in a new report, have called the entire operation to protect the former president 'alarmingly slipshod' and its communications system having 'significant weaknesses'.
Much has already been revealed about the haphazard communication between local police but the investigation uncovered that Secret Service had no access to real-time updates by local police.
Director Kim Cheadle resigned following the shooting. The Secret Service confirmed Assistant director of the Office of Protective Operations Mike Plati resigned ahead of the report's release Friday, while senior executive John Buckley and a senior, unidentified Pittsburgh-based agent are set to retire.
When nearby authorities were contacted about a suspicious man showing up at the rally it was not heard on Secret Service Radio, which is used by the service instead of the Military-supported systems used to protect the president and vice president.
The counter-snipers who eventually took Crooks out were initially told to send photos via text message to just a single official with the Secret Service, meaning an all points bulletin could not have been sent out.
This lax activity despite the fact that the police had seen Crooks carrying a range finder and said he was behaving strangely.
No one with the Secret Service was then able to hear about the authorities attempt to find Crooks after he was spotted when Trump started his speech and never secured the roof of the AGR building he used to fire away, senior government officials told the Washington Post.
The investigation allegedly went beyond the shooting, however, with the revelation that Secret Service dragged its feet on increasing security for Trump during the campaign, despite an Iranian plot to kill American political candidates.
Already, heads have begun to role within the organization after disgraced Director Kim Cheadle resigned following the shooting.
The Secret Service confirmed Assistant director of the Office of Protective Operations Mike Plati resigned ahead of the report's release Friday, while senior executive John Buckley and a senior, unidentified Pittsburgh-based agent are set to retire.
In August, a whistleblower is claiming that the lead Secret Service agent in charge of Donald Trump's deadly Butler, Pennsylvania, rally was 'inexperienced' and 'failed to implement appropriate security protocols.'
This past week, a bombshell congressional report claims would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks was incapacitated by a local cop before he was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
Two months after Crooks shot the former president's ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a preliminary report from Rep. Clay Higgins offered a differing narrative to the official one pushed by the FBI.
While it was initially claimed that Crooks was shot in the head within seconds by a Secret Service sniper, Higgins' report claimed it was actually a local SWAT operator who stopped the gunman's hail of bullets.
The congressman said the local cop's shot 'hit Crooks' rifle and fragged his face/ neck/ right shoulder area from the (gun) stock breaking up', which meant Crooks was unable to keep firing before he was killed.
It comes amid mounting scrutiny on the FBI and Secret Service's investigations into the shooting, weeks after Higgins also revealed Crooks' body was mysteriously cremated with approval from the FBI after just 10 days.
A bullet clipped the former president's ear while two others were critically wounded and former firefighter, Corey Comperatore, tragically lost his life while heroically defending his family from the incoming fire.
Trump recovered from his wounds and continued on with his campaign, appearing at the Republican National Convention two days later.
I honestly don't think, the DC Swamp Elites will ever allow the public to see the real assassination planning picture. It will be kept hidden, just like the JFK files that are now 20+/- years overdue for release.
claimed it was actually a local SWAT operator who stopped the gunman's hail of bullets.
There is online video showing the operator taking the shot, but the target is almost invisible from the angle of the shot. Whether he actually "stopped" anything is not clear from the video or from the evidence released by the FBI. See my other post on this.
The alleged "photograph" of the weapon used, from the FBI, shows no such damage. No MSM notice of this discrepancy is available anywhere. MSM doesn't deign to notice the lack of transparency in the investigation.
[DhakaTribune] Bangladesh Hindu Jagoron Mancha, a platform that advocates for the rights of Hindus, on Friday blocked the Shahbag intersection in Dhaka, protesting all the atrocities on the Hindus, including their torture, the destruction of houses and temples, and the burning of homes and land.
They placed the four-point demand by the blockade program.
From the demonstration, the protesters demanded immediate implementation of the 8-point demand they placed previously, alleging that the government didn't take any effective action to realise their demands.
Their major demands are: Create a minority protection committee, a ministry for the members of minority communities, increase Puja leaves, digitalize Pali and Sanskrit Education board, allocate prayer rooms in the halls and hostels of educational institutes and dormitories, and to form a Hindu Foundation.
Pradeep Kanti Dey, coordinator of Hindu Jagoron Manch, said: 'If you (government) can not provide security to the Hindu community, then tell us that we will seek security from the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... ''We are demanding the interim government to implement this demand. If not, in the future, Bangladesh Hindu Jagran Manch will be forced to coordinate with all organizations to observe strict
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[BBC] North Korea has for the first time offered a glimpse into a uranium enrichment facility which produces material for its nuclear weapons.
Photographs showed its leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... , who had earlier vowed to "exponentially" increase the country's stash of nuclear weapons, inspecting the area.
The state's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a report on Friday that he had similarly called for the uranium facility to increase its production.
Enriched uranium is essential in the manufacturing of nuclear warheads.
The photograph shows Mr Kim walking past rows of centrifuges and talking to military officials. Their publication comes amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula.
North Korea did not reveal when Mr Kim made the visit, nor which facility he visited – whether this is part of its sprawling Yongbyon nuclear complex, or another undisclosed site. Experts have long suspected that North Korea is covertly running at least one uranium enrichment facility, in addition to its well-known Yongbyon site.
It is not known how many nuclear weapons North Korea has, but one recent estimate puts the number at 50, with sufficient material to produce another 40.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] A wireless audio earring company responded after rumors spread that Kamala Harris once a marijuana-busting Caliphornia prostitutor wore an earpiece during Tuesday night’s presidential debate against Trump.
Social media users posted photos of Nova audio earrings next to a screenshot of Kamala Harris’s earrings and suggested she used an earpiece during the debate.
Others pointed out that Kamala Harris wore a pair of Tiffany pearl earrings.
The Germany-based company responded to a request for comment from Just The News.
"The resemblance is striking," the company told Just The News.
Read more on this story from Just The News reported:
Following the presidential debate on Tuesday, social media users theorized that Vice President Kamala Harris wore audio earrings on stage. The Germany-based company that sells the earrings said on Wednesday that the resemblance between Harris’ earrings and their audio earrings "is striking."
"We do not know whether Mrs. Harris wore one of our products. The resemblance is striking and while our product was not specifically developed for the use at presidential debates, it is nonetheless suited for it," Malte Iversen, managing director at Icebach Sound, told Just the News on Wednesday. "To ensure a level playing field for both candidates, we are currently developing a male version and will soon be able to offer it to the Trump campaign. The choice of colour is a bit challenging though as orange does not go well with a lot of colours.
"Currently, we are unfortunately out of stock and also busy preparing a lawsuit against a big Chinese tech company breaching our patents," Iversen continued. "We are talking to investors in order to ramp up operations accordingly and are confident that we will ship again very soon."
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The resemblance is striking and while our product was not specifically developed for the use at presidential debates, it is nonetheless suited for it," Malte Iversen, managing director at Icebach Sound,
The marketing people must be tearing their hair out. On one hand, it is a high profile, once in a lifetime opportunity to highlight their product, "The fashionable wireless earpiece for Presidential Candidates and Girl Bosses everywhere". On the other, there is the whole cheating thing, very un-American and not at all a good look.
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A Chinese company breached their patents? Ah, so now we know whose earrings Kamala was wearing.
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broadcast Yoko Ono singing on the company's frequencies
Ah yes, that Havana Syndrome thingie.
Interesting about the Chinese breaching the company's patents. One of the counter arguments on the interwebs is that Kammie's earrings look more like a fancy jewelry brand. What are the odds the Chinese copied that too?
…for those here like me who don’t keep up with such things, once upon a time they were the Big (whatever) accounting firm Price Waterhouse. Now they account, consult, advise, and are keen on artificial intelligence, all for a very big paycheck…
Chinese auditing arm has been suspended from the country for six months over its work on the collapsed Chinese property giant Evergrande.
The Big Four accountancy firm is also being fined more than $62m (£47m) after Chinese authorities said it had helped cover up fraud at Evergrande.
The real estate firm collapsed in January under a mountain of debt.
PwC China admitted the work had fallen "unacceptably below the standards" expected within the firm and apologised for the impact on its clients.
Nothing said here about people being fired and going to prison…
The Chinese authorities said PwC knew there were "major misstatements" in Evergrande's financial statements when it audited the firm.
As a result, the Chinese Ministry of Finance has imposed "administrative penalties" and suspended the operations of PwC's auditing business PwC ZhongTian for six months.
Other PwC operations providing non-audit services in China are not affected. In addition, China's securities regulator has confiscated the revenue PwC earned auditing Evergrande and has also issued a fine.
An investigation by the regulator said PwC had "seriously eroded the basis of law and good faith, and damaged investors' interest".
In response to the penalties, PwC said it had taken "a number of accountability and remedial actions", including the sacking of six partners and the launch of a process to fine responsible team leaders. You find a large openable window above the 30th floor...
An additional five staff have also left, and Hemione Hudson, PwC's global risk and regulatory leader, has been parachuted in to run the Chinese unit on an interim basis.
PwC admitted the work done on the Evergrande audit had been "well below" standards expected at the firm.
“It is not representative of what we stand for as a network and there is no room for this at PwC," the firm’s global chair Mohamed Kande said.
“That is why, following a thorough investigation, we ensured that actions were taken to hold those responsible to account.
“I remain confident in the China firm’s partners and staff as we work together to rebuild trust with stakeholders,” he added.
PwC China said in a statement: "We deeply regret and apologise for the impact this has had on our clients and people. We will work tirelessly to regain their trust."
Evergrande, which built property in more than 280 Chinese cities and branched out into other business sectors, teetered, then finally went into liquidation in January.
The Chinese authorities have accused Evergrande and its founder, Hui Ka Yan, of falsely inflating revenues at the firm to the tune of $78bn (£61.6bn) and imposed fines and bans on him personally as well as the business.
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"Auditors" are hired to look at a situation, and come to a conclusion that the people that hired them want. They're not auditors, they're justifiers.
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[Regnum] The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Dmitry Krasilnikov, who was involved in committing crimes in the Kursk region. This was reported on the agency's Telegram channel.
“The Main Military Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case against the commander of the operational-tactical department “Seversk” of the armed formations of Ukraine, Major General Dmitry Krasilnikov,” the department said in a statement.
According to the investigation, soldiers from the 22nd Separate Mechanized Brigade, the 80th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade, and the 61st Separate Mechanized Brigade, as well as other units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces under the command of Krasilnikov, illegally crossed the Russian border and attacked residential buildings and civilian infrastructure using missiles and drones.
In addition, Ukrainian military personnel have placed explosives on roads to prevent civilians from evacuating areas affected by the fighting.
“As a result of Krasilnikov’s criminal actions, a significant number of civilians were killed and wounded, residential buildings, civilian infrastructure facilities, and vehicles were destroyed and damaged,” the Investigative Committee notes.
At the same time, the department reported that Krasilnikov had been declared wanted. In turn, the court sentenced the military man to arrest in absentia.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier the representative of the military investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Lieutenant Colonel of Justice Dmitry Goryachenkov reported that residents of the border areas of the Kursk region testified about crimes committed by the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the invasion. According to local residents, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at houses, cars, and used FPV drones for this.
Before this, it became known that during the attack on the Kursk region, Ukrainian militants fired at and robbed civilians' cars. The looting is on footage from a reconnaissance drone of the 44th Army Corps.
Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region created something like concentration camps for civilians, according to a report by the Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Rodion Miroshnik.
It is noted that information about the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the captured territories was provided by witnesses and collected by the headquarters of the Russian Red Cross in Kursk, where relatives of missing people turned.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Thursday dropped two criminal counts against President Trump in Fani Willis’s lawfare RICO case.
In August 2023, corrupt Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis indicted President Trump and 18 co-defendants for daring to challenge the 2020 election.
Judge McAfee said two of the counts related to conspiracy and filing false documents are outside of Fani Willis’s jurisdiction since she is a local District Attorney and not a federal prosecutor.
A total of five of the 13 charges of the original indictment have now been dropped against President Trump. Judge McAfee dropped three of the charges earlier this year.
In March Judge Scott McAfee quashed six counts of the indictment, including three directly implicating Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... , AP reported.
Judge McAfee’s order specified that the charges dismissed were linked to the alleged solicitation of elected officials to breach their oaths of office.
This includes two charges tied to the controversial phone call on January 2, 2021, in which Trump spoke to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
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The general consensus of many GA voters is.
Raffensperger and the Gold Dome are hiding their roles in the massive, well documented, and video proven GA Voter Fraud and civil rights violations.
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The judge knocked out 10% of the charges to document that he took the Supreme Court decision seriously. He wants to convince energize that he is impartial for purposes of his reelection. The fact that the case is a joke and the DA is totally corrupt does not play into his calculus.
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[PJMEDIA] Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose warned election boards to be extra vigilant in the weeks before the November election after an investigation uncovered illegal voter registration forms circulating in Clark County.
In a media advisory, the secretary of state's office noted, "The office's Election Integrity Unit recently concluded an investigation into the origins of an illegal voter registration form translated into the Haitian Creole language. The Clark County Board of Elections reported this form to our office after rejecting its submission by a local applicant." According to the Public Integrity Division, the form had a name written on it but nothing else. Under Ohio law, anyone who commits election falsification is guilty of a fifth-degree felony.
In a memo to election officials, Hun Yi, director of investigations for the Secretary of State's Public Integrity Division, said, ''The Board confirmed they've only received one of these unauthorized forms, but they rightly recognized it as illegal and worked with my team to track down its source with the help of a county government assistance office."
''The form was erroneously included among others outsourced to a foreign language translation service. It garnered national attention considering the high number of Haitian refugees that have recently migrated to the Springfield area, and it serves as an important reminder that boards and designated voter registration agencies should be vigilant about the use of forms submitted to their office," Yi added.
Clark County is home to Springfield, Ohio, where as many as 30,000 Haitians have unexpectedly migrated—most of them semi-legally after the Biden-Harris administration extended Temporary Protected Status to 300,000 Haitian migrants colonists in June.
[BBC] Flying into Antarctica is an enormous challenge for both pilots and aircraft. A 60-year-old Canadian plane turns out to be perfect for the job.
"It's a massive adventure," says Vicky Auld.
Deputy chief pilot for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Auld is preparing for the organisation's annual autumn ferry flight from Canada to Antarctica. Months in the planning, this will be an epic 55-hour journey over 12 days, covering some 13,700km (8,500 miles) as the crow flies. This year, Auld will be piloting BAS' relatively luxurious and spacious four-engine de Havilland Dash-7, but most of her pilot colleagues will be heading south in 40-year-old twin-engine aircraft with unpressurised cabins.
Designed in the 1960s and still in production today, de Havilland Twin Otters have been described by some as the Land Rover of the skies. "They're overengineered, adaptable and rugged, designed for bush flying," says Auld. "Whether it's on skis, floats or big tundra tyres, with their short take-off and landing you can get into places that you just couldn't think about with other aircraft."
In Antarctica, BAS uses Twin Otters for everything from airborne scientific research to delivering fuel, supplies and field parties to remote locations. "It's unique," Auld says. "I can land at places where no-one has ever landed before."
[FoxNews] Kamala Harris who got her start in politix between former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' knees ' policy reversals in the spotlight ahead of presidential debate
Harris-Walz campaign communications director Michael Tyler joined 'America's Newsroom' to preview the ABC News Presidential Debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Time magazine was forced to correct its coverage of the ABC News Presidential Debate after implying former President Trump's statement that Vice President Kamala Harris supported free gender-transition treatment for detained migrants colonists was "false." At least they had the courtesy to close the barn door.
During the debate on Tuesday night, Trump remarked on Harris' old position as one of many left-wing issues she appeared to have walked back on since running for president.
"Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens who are in prison," Trump said.
Though Harris pledged she would support taxpayer-funded gender care for detained migrants colonists in an ACLU candidate questionnaire during her first presidential campaign, Time first reported the statement as "false." Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... and Kamala Harris
Former President Trump brought up Vice President Kamala Harris' past support of funding gender-transition treatments for detained migrants colonists as one of her far-left positions. (Fox News screenshot)
"The original version of this story mischaracterized as false Donald Trump's statement accusing Kamala Harris of supporting 'transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.' As a presidential candidate in 2019, Harris filled out a questionnaire saying she supported taxpayer-funded gender transition treatment for detained immigrants colonists," a correction read.
Many other far-left news hounds also considered it too absurd to be true, implying Trump made the concept up during the debate.
"'She wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens who are in prison' is the WILDEST thing I've ever heard in any debate. EVER," former CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... commentator Marc Lamont Hill wrote.
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[Clandestine's Newsletter] Ukraine is essentially a giant CIA base, posing as a sovereign nation.
The CIA moved into Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union, looking to take advantage of the lawless and destabilized country, using it as an offshore proxy, outside the scope of US oversight.
It began with the Nunn-Lugar Act in 1991, and then carried on into 2005, when then Senators Obama and Lugar visited Ukraine, to inspect the former Soviet bio, chemical, and nuclear facilities (pictured below), and then added Ukraine to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and began turning these former Soviet facilities into "defensive research facilities", which opened the door for US contractors to establish their foothold in Ukraine, and set up their money laundering and racketeering operations, under the guise of "foreign aid".
Then the CIA funded Nazi militant groups in Ukraine which led to the outbreak of civil war in 2014 in the Donbas. Amidst the chaos, the US State Department, via Victoria Nuland, leveraged the situation to install US-loyal puppets, including the infamous leaked phone call between her and fellow State Department bureaucrat Geoffrey Pyatt, about ensuring "their guy" Yatsenuik, was installed as Prime Minister. The State Department, in tandem with the CIA, covertly took control of Ukraine via Color Revolution in 2014.
Putin recognized this. He knew that the US had destabilized and taken control of Ukraine, and recognized that the US were building a proxy army on his border, by funding, training, and supplying Ukraine with weapons, and trying to bring them into NATO. This was a red line for Putin, as he has said for decades. Russia have been invaded from the West too many times before, and will not tolerate a hostile standing army and long-range missiles on their border. Just like the US didn’t like it when Russia tried to put nukes in Cuba in the 60’s, Russia doesn’t like the US trying to bring armies and weapons to Ukraine.
Essentially, Ukraine is an unofficial US territory and NATO member, and the Deep State do not want to lose out on their cash cow and strategic asset that is Ukraine, hence why they continue to send hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to protect Ukraine’s border. They are using Ukraine as a laundry mat to funnel in hundreds of billions for the war machine, and also covering up their extreme criminality in Ukraine, including crimes against humanity for bioweapon development, human trafficking, drug trafficking, etc. All the things they can’t get away with stateside, they do in Ukraine.
If the public knew the truth about the origins of US involvement in Ukraine, they would NEVER have supported sending a single penny to Ukraine. The narrative that Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022 "unprovoked", is war propaganda to make it appear Ukraine are the righteous defenders in order to garner your support, when in reality, The US started this conflict, they are the ones who brought war to Putin’s doorstep, and the US are the ones perpetuating the war by continuing to fund and supply Ukraine.
Putin does not want to conquer all of Europe, he just wants NATO off of his border, and justice for US development of weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine, namely, gene-specific biological weapons.
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The CIA moved into Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union, looking to take advantage of the lawless and destabilized country, using it as an offshore proxy, outside the scope of US oversight.
South Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were no longer options. They went with what was available at the time.
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Go back to the agreement that Ukraine would give up its nukes in return for guarantees by the US and Russia for recognizing their national integrity. Oh, that agreement.
[Rudaw] La Belle France has repatriated 364 children of suspected ISIS members and they are under close monitoring as part of the European country’s efforts to bring its nationals back from northeast Syria (Rojava), according to the head of the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office.
"There are 364 children... who benefit from coordination from my office to make sure they have the optimal care," prosecutor Olivier Christen told La Belle France Info radio station.
The parents are suspected ISIS members.
Referring to concerns about murderous Moslem tendencies in the children, Christen said that they "in no way seem to me to correspond to that expression," adding that they are "very young children, while others are fully fledged teenagers."
He confirmed that the children "are being closely monitored."
La Belle France had a large number of ISIS-linked children held in detention at two camps in Rojava and their family members campaigned to pressure the French government to speed up repatriations, something Gay Paree was resisting.
The prosecutor said that 170 women have been repatriated from Syria and Iraq since 2019 and nearly half of the children were returned in the last two years.
In July 2023, the French foreign ministry said they had repatriated 25 children and 10 women from camps in Rojava. The women had traveled to territories in Iraq and Syria that were under control of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) and were captured when the jihadist group was defeated in 2019. al-Hol camp in Syria’s Hasaka province where the families are kept has been called a "breeding ground" for terrorism, with human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups warning of squalid living conditions.
Iraq’s migration and displaced ministry on Saturday said that nearly 18,000 Iraqi nationals remain in al-Hol camp.
[DhakaTribune] Abdul Latif, a 48-year-old shopkeeper from Lakshmipur district, is in critical condition at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) after being brutally attacked by Chhatra League and Jubo League activists.
The attack occurred during a celebratory procession following the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Latif, the sole provider for his family, was severely injured on August 6 in Bhuiyan Haat, Char Ramich Union, Ramgati upazila.
As he participated in the procession, he was targeted by a group from Chhatra League and Jubo League, who attacked him with machetes, sticks, and rods, causing severe injuries including a large wound in his abdomen.
His intestines were exposed due to the continuous assault.
Local residents who witnessed the attack helped to stabilize Latif's injuries with a cloth before he was rushed to a nearby Sadar hospital.
Due to the severity of his injuries, he was referred to DMCH and admitted at 11pm on the same day.
He underwent a lengthy surgery from 12:30am to 5:30am on August 7.
Latif's wife, Bibi Asiya, expressed her anguish, stating that the family is struggling to cope with the financial strain caused by her husband's inability to work. With Latif unable to walk and an uncertain recovery timeline, the family faces severe hardship. Their home in Lakshmipur has also been flooded, adding to their difficulties. But he had time to be in a "procession"
Asiya has appealed for financial support from the community to help her family through this challenging time.
The violence is linked to a larger political crisis involving student protests and violent clashes with political groups and law enforcement.
The recent unrest has led to widespread casualties, with over a thousand people reported killed in various incidents, including police shootings.
Following the "red movement" and "Bangla Spring," which led to significant unrest, Sheikh Hasina's government was dislodged, and a 17-member interim government led by Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus was sworn in on August 8.
Communist law enforcement presented as the ideal to the world. Joy.
[DailyTimesPakistain] China will train thousands of law enforcement officers from different countries over the next 12 months, its police chief said Monday, as it seeks to cement its role as a global security provider.
Police from China have trained 2,700 officers in the past year and are planning to coach 3,000 more from various countries over the next 12 months, public security minister Wang Xiaohong said in a speech at a conference in eastern China.
"We will (also) send police consultants to countries in need to conduct training to help them quickly and effectively improve their law enforcement capabilities," Wang said.
The security conference held in the port city of Lianyungang in Jiangsu province drew law enforcement officers from 122 countries, regions, and international organizations including Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistain and global police body Interpol.
The annual Lianyungang conference is seen as part of the Global Security Initiative (GSI) proposed by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in 2022, which aims to address international issues through cooperation with other countries.
However analysts have described the GSI as a way of expanding China’s global influence and chipping away at the current US-led security order.
"It’s almost like saying ’if you don’t like the Western way of doing things, we’ve got the Chinese alternative’," Benjamin Ho, an assistant professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies’ China Programme, told AFP.
"So certainly, China is trying to highlight some of these (policing) initiatives in a big way, and that’s part and parcel of its jostling for influence vis-a-vis the West," Ho said.
Wang said in his speech to hundreds of conference delegates that law enforcement had been "politicized."
"Normal international cooperation has been demonized," Wang said, adding that China "rejects any form of hegemonism and bullying."
He also said that regional security risks continue to "spill over," including from the Ukraine war, the Israel-Paleostinian conflict and tensions in the Red Sea.
Rose-gold handcuffs, batons and bulletproof vests were on display for potential overseas buyers at the conference venue.
[DailyTimesPakistain] The Khyber Police have made district-wide security arrangements for the 7-day polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... campaign, deploying heavy personnel to ensure the safety of polio teams.
Under the supervision of District Police Officer Khyber, Rai Mazhar Iqbal, 945 polio teams and 2700 coppers and personnel have been deployed across the district. Strict security measures are in place, including enhanced checking at internal and external routes, special patrols, and additional checkpoints.
District Police Officer Khyber, Rai Mazhar Iqbal, has appealed to parents to cooperate with polio teams and administer polio drops to children under 5 years to protect them from the dangerous polio virus and prevent disability. The police have provided foolproof security to polio teams and deployed heavy personnel at various points to ensure a smooth and successful campaign.
US imposes sanctions against the media group "Russia Today" and Dmitry Kiselyov
[Regnum] The United States of America imposed sanctions against the media group Rossiya Segodnya and its head Dmitry Kiselyov, the US Department of the Treasury reported on September 13.
The ministry issued a general license, which requires financial transactions with the media group to be completed by November 13.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on September 13, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking to the media on September 13 ahead of a briefing, publicly accused the RT television channel of allegedly conducting covert operations to interfere in the affairs of other countries.
In August, the US Treasury Department expanded anti-Russian sanctions by adding 400 individuals and legal entities in Russia and abroad to the lists. In addition, sanctions were imposed on some citizens of Belarus, Italy, Turkey, Liechtenstein and China, as well as on 46 Chinese companies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly noted that anti-Russian sanctions have had the opposite effect. The West expected the country's economy to collapse, but it is growing and developing.
The news is being updated.
More from regnum.ru Zakharova responds to Blinken's call to treat RT as intelligence
Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova suggested treating the actions of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who accused the RT television channel of conducting secret operations to interfere in the affairs of other countries, as a blockchain.
“I propose treating Blinken’s actions like a blockchain,” she wrote on her Telegram channel.
Earlier in the day, Blinken publicly accused RT of conducting covert operations to interfere in the affairs of other countries, adding that the US, UK and Canada were launching a diplomatic campaign against the network and calling for it to be treated as an intelligence agency.
The Secretary of State also announced that Washington was imposing sanctions against three legal entities and two individuals who allegedly participated in such operations, in particular, in alleged interference in Moldova's internal affairs and future elections in the country.
As reported by the news agency Regnum, on September 11, 20 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers came to search an RT employee working in Miami. It was reported that the woman was not allowed to get dressed, she was beaten and searched. After the search, the agency employee was interrogated for about five hours. The woman had to leave the United States for security reasons, the Russian consul helped her buy a plane ticket, and she flew to Russia via a third country.
Even more from regnum.ru Blinken Accuses RT of 'Secret Operations' Interfering in Countries' Affairs
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking to the media on September 13 ahead of a briefing, publicly accused the RT television channel of conducting covert operations to interfere in the affairs of other countries.
“Today we announce that these Kremlin-backed media outlets are not only playing a role in efforts to undermine U.S. democratic institutions, but are also interfering in the internal affairs of nations around the world,” he said.
He said the new data, much of it allegedly obtained from the channel's employees themselves, showed that RT had the capacity to conduct cyber operations and had been involved in covert influence operations and military procurement.
The Secretary of State also announced that Washington was imposing sanctions against three legal entities and two individuals who allegedly participated in such operations. In particular, in the alleged interference in Moldova's internal affairs and future elections in the country. Moreover, he added, the United States, Great Britain and Canada were launching a diplomatic campaign against the TV channel and calling for its actions to be treated as intelligence.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on September 11, 20 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers came to search an RT employee working in Miami. The woman was not allowed to get dressed, she was beaten and searched. After the search, the agency employee was interrogated for about five hours. The woman had to leave the United States of America for security reasons, the Russian consul helped her buy a plane ticket, and she flew to Russia via a third country.
On September 4, the United States imposed sanctions against the media group Rossiya Segodnya, RIA Novosti, Sputnik, as well as the RT television channel and its editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan. Washington explained this decision by the fact that the blacklisted media outlets were allegedly involved in interfering in the American presidential elections.
On September 6, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov called the new US accusations and sanctions against Russia an attempt to put pressure on Moscow and the Russians. He stressed that Russia strongly condemns this line and considers it unacceptable.
[DailyTimesPakistain] Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... forces launched an unprovoked attack on Pak military posts along the Afghan border, resulting in a fierce exchange of fire.
They can’t help themselves — it’s who they are.
Security sources said that the Afghan Taliban initiated unprovoked aggression along the Pakistain-Afghanistan border, which was met with a strong response. From the morning of September 7, the Afghan Taliban began unprovoked firing with heavy weapons at Pak check-posts from the Afghan area of Plosin, near the Pakistain-Afghanistan border.
According to security sources, the unprovoked firing from the Afghan side continued until the evening of September 8 and 9. The Pakistain Army responded with a strong retaliatory fire, inflicting heavy losses on the Afghan Taliban.
So far, 16 Afghan Taliban fighters have been killed, and 27 have been maimed, while two of their tanks have also been destroyed.
Security sources have stated that any form of unprovoked aggression along the Pakistain-Afghanistan border ...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons... will be met with a decisive response.
This is not the first time Afghan troops have opened fire on Pak security forces posted at the border, sources said, adding that in the past Pakistain had shared its concerns with Kabul over such incidents. They claimed that the Afghan Taliban, apart from facilitating bully boy activities inside Pakistain, were now openly attacking the forces along the international border.
Pakistain had raised its concerns with Afghanistan after the attacks.
Islamabad has also called on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to rein in turbans and stop their support for terrorist groups that use Afghan soil to launch attacks on Pakistain.
Pakistain and Afghanistan share 18 crossing points along a 2,640-kilometer (1,640-mile) long border. The most commonly used ones are Torkham and Chaman, which frequently remain closed due to border festivities.
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[REGNUM] The US and UK have unexpectedly backed down on the issue of allowing the Kiev regime to fire Western long-range weapons at Russian territory. Just a few days ago, as Western media sources reported, they were ready to give the go-ahead; Volodymyr Zelensky even drafted a list of potential targets, which he handed over to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. But now their position has changed.
The British news agency Reuters writes that the White House is only prepared to turn a blind eye to the use of non-American missiles - the British Storm Shadow and French SCALP, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that permission should not be expected in the coming days, adding that the strikes "will not bring Ukraine victory in the war."
According to most experts, the change in position is connected with a rather tough statement by Vladimir Putin. The Russian president explained that in fact it is not just a question of permission to strike - this permission has existed for a long time, Ukraine strikes with what it can. At the same time, it is simply not capable of independently using high-precision long-range missiles.
“This is only possible using intelligence data from satellites, which Ukraine does not have; this data is only from satellites of either the European Union or the United States,” Putin said.
Flight assignments for these missile systems can also only be entered by NATO military personnel. This means, says the Russian president, “it is not a question of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not,” but “making a decision on whether NATO countries are directly participating in the military conflict or not.”
And if the decision is made, it “significantly changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict” and “will mean that NATO countries – the US, European countries – are at war with Russia.” Accordingly, Moscow will “make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be created for us.”
Putin did not say what the exact decisions would be. And this is logical - there is no need to give a reason for provocations. It is worth recalling Barack Obama's experience in Syria, when he said that if Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons, he would send in troops. In the end, the opposition used chemical weapons, setting up both Assad and Obama, who was driven into a corner. From there, Russia actually saved him with a proposal to simply remove all Syrian chemical weapons.
Now the role of provocateur is played by Zelensky, who, unlike Western partners, is interested in maximum escalation of the conflict with the involvement of NATO countries. The West is now guessing, trying to calculate what options Putin has, and then decide the issue of missiles for Ukraine.
In reality, there aren't that many options.
The first and, it would seem, the most obvious is a retaliatory strike. After an American or British missile reaches a Russian city, a Russian missile hits a US or UK military facility on NATO territory. The option is obvious, but at the same time the most risky. In addition, Moscow obviously does not want to drive the West into a corner where it will have to choose between entering into a military conflict with Russia or recognizing the futility of NATO and its guarantees if there are no responses.
Given the current level of American and European politicians, it is unclear which step they will consider the lesser evil.
The second option is the destruction of American systems outside NATO territory. For example, reconnaissance aircraft in the Black Sea. This option is fraught with mirror responses from the US and Europe.
"The West has a large stock of answers to our answers. Starting with whether to shoot down our missiles and UAVs from the territory of European countries," explains Dmitry Ofitserov-Belsky, senior research fellow at the IMEMO RAS, to IA Regnum.
There is currently a consensus in the West that such actions could be perceived by Moscow as an attack. It is no coincidence that Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who voiced this idea, did not meet with understanding from his NATO colleagues.
In general, the third option seems to be the most optimal - a retaliatory strike under a foreign flag outside NATO territory. And, importantly, with maximum legality. It is appropriate to recall Vladimir Putin's June statement that in the event of long-range weapons systems being supplied to Ukraine, Moscow reserves the right to supply weapons "to those states or even legal structures that are experiencing certain pressure on themselves, including military ones."
That is, to put it simply, to give America's enemies the weapons they need. And it was no coincidence that Putin mentioned "legal structures": the most obvious recipient of Russian weapons seems to be the Yemeni Houthis. Unlike, for example, the DPRK, the Houthis can immediately use Russian weapons for their intended purpose - to start sinking American ships.
Moreover, Russia can transfer the systems absolutely legally - sell them, for example, to the Iranian allies of the Houthis, and the operators will be Russian "volunteers". That is, simply put, Moscow will do everything according to the American template, within the framework of which the US legally transfers weapons to Ukraine, and their "volunteers" work there.
However, there is still one option left - to continue to pursue one's own line in Ukraine.
"Thinking in terms of 'how we will respond to their responses' is not very correct. Time is on our side," says Dmitry Ofitserov-Belsky.
At the same time, as Vladimir Putin noted, the situation has now reached the point of direct involvement of the United States in the conflict. And the process can be stopped by the most severe and at the same time verified response. The Americans and the British are afraid of this, and therefore hesitate to allow Ukraine to strike at Russia.
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That (IMO) explains why Vlad publicly supports Kamala - he know that if her victory is in doubt, the Deep State will provoke a direct (as distinct from proxy) war.
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If Ukraine wasn't losing this war, the use of Western missiles on Russian targets would not be considered. But Ukraine is losing and the Russian army seems to be gaining momentum every day. Apart from negotiations to end this war, the only option is to escalate. But escalation is a dangerous option with unpredictable consequences. The only safe prediction is that wouldn't be good for anybody. Are US and UK leaders really that stupid?
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But Ukraine is losing and the Russian army seems to be gaining momentum every day.
Who plotted this three hour tourtwo week Special Military Operation? Gilligan?
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[DhakaTribune] At least 45 shrines across the country had been attacked and vandalized in recent days
A video circulated on social media Thursday evening, showing Rafiqul Islam Madani, popularly known as "Shishu Bokta," calling on local people to participate in the vandalism of a shrine in the Netrokona district on Friday after the Jummah prayer.
In the video, he urged that for the sake of Islam, they should destroy the shrine, alleging that drugs and anti-social activities were being practised there.
However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... speaking to Dhaka Tribune on Friday evening, Foyez Ahmed, Superintendent of Police in Netrokona, said: "After watching the video, we took action and prevented any vandalism. What Rafiqul Islam Madani called for did not occur today (on Friday)."
The SP noted that Army and police personnel had spoken with both parties and resolved the issue on Thursday night.
Not only in Netrokona, but Army and police forces are also working in several other places to prevent attacks on shrines. Despite their efforts, multiple acts of violence have been reported in the last few days across the country.
on Friday afternoon, a group of people protested in front of the National Press Club under the banner of "Bangladesh Asheqe Awlia," representing followers of shrines in Bangladesh.
During the protest, they claimed that at least 45 shrines across the country had been attacked and vandalized in recent days, and they demanded justice for the vandalism.
They also called for increased security for shrines to protect their sites and the lives of shrine followers.
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