[Garowe] The United States has continued to showcase paradigm shifts in local politics involving several races, with the most recent victory of a Somali-American in local elections proving the country's huge milestone in accommodative politics.
On Tuesday, St. Louis Park elected the first Somali-born mayor, a huge milestone that breaks historical jinxes, in a country that has continued to give room for multi-racial politics, which were once an impossibility.
City Council Member Nadia Mohammed, 27, won by a considerable margin against retired banker Dale A. Anderson in Tuesday's election, became the nation's first elected Somali American mayor as well as the first Black mayor of St. Louis Park, Star Tribune reports.
"This is a milestone. This is not the destination," said the mayor-elect, thanking her supporters Tuesday. "As mayor, I want to ensure people see themselves reflected in our policies."
Her supporters embraced her as they chanted liberation songs following the rare victory in the country. Mohammed was elected to an at-large council seat in 2019 at age 23, making her the youngest person to serve on the St. Louis Park City Council.
Deqa Dhalac, a state representative of South Portland, Maine, was the first Somali American to serve as mayor of an American city in 2021, but she was selected by that city's six-member council rather than elected by the voters.
The new mayor campaigned on investments in the community through policies, attracting many supporters in the process. She was endorsed by Mayor Jake Spano, who did not seek re-election.
"I wanted to be the last in a line of all-white mayors in the city," Spano said Tuesday night. "She's got a great staff around her ... and a community that's going to support her."
Mohammed was also endorsed by Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and state Reps. Larry Kraft of St. Louis Park and Cheryl Youakim of Hopkins. Speaking to supporters Tuesday night, Mohammed spoke about her mother's journey to settle in St. Louis Park, giving her the confidence to enter politics at a young age.
"I have watched a courageous woman handle her business every day," Mohammed said. "That courage comes easy to me now."
Before her major historical victory, Mohammed may have been inspired by IIhan Omar, the Minnesota 5th District Representative, who became the first Moslem to be elected to Congress. Since then, more minority groups of politicians have been writing history.
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#1 Why would they stop? Their plan is working quite well. So well, their desired outcome may no longer be avoidable. All the mo is building on one side, heading in one direction.
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[FoxNews] The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59 (MFT) called for a members-only meeting to push a resolution that acknowledges harm done to Jewish residents in the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) district.
The meeting comes after a backlash ensued when the teachers union passed a resolution that called for a repeal of anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) legislation, claiming the measures suppress Palestinians' speech rights. The only thing they regret is that they were caught. But shining a light on cockroaches always has a salutory effect.
Per a flier obtained by FOX News Digital, the teachers union will hold a meeting on November 29 to "vote for a resolution acknowledging harm and affirming the purpose of our union."
"At the Nov. 29 MFT meeting, members will introduce and speak in support of a resolution that acknowledges harm done to Jewish members, students, and families by the previously passed ’Israel-Palestine’ resolution and reaffirms the purpose of our union," the flier reads. "The Oct. 25th resolution strayed far from MFT’s mission by not mentioning students or educators."
MFT admitted that there was "unnecessary division" caused in the community by the Oct. 25 resolution.
"While it was not MFT members' intent, the ’Israel-Palestine’ resolution passed at our October 25 meeting harmed many Jewish members, students, and families while causing unnecessary division within our union. We regret this," the flier added.
The local teachers union passed a resolution In October to "condemn the role our [America] government plays in supporting the system of Israeli occupation and apartheid, which lies at the root of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict." In addition, the resolution called on Minnesota state lawmakers to repeal anti-BDS legislation.
Jewish parents and other concerned citizens were outraged by the MFT's statement on the Israel-Hamas war, calling it "antisemitic and hostile."
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas organized and sent a letter earlier this month to interim Superintendent Rochelle Cox and the MPS school board to condemn the MFT. --- SNIP ---
Jeremy Cohen, a Jewish father of one child in MPS, told FOX News Digital the MFT resolution was an inappropriate move.
"To be clear, I think I would feel the same way. I know I would feel the same way. Had the resolution been drafted in any other way? Because I just don't think global politics has a place in the teachers union," he said.
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Yeah, if they would just stick to educating the kids...then maybe the kids would be able to read, write and do basic arithmetic.
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#1, #2 ...when the Marxists took over...period. And they have taken over, it's just that they don't govern well. Seriously, is there a single institution that hasn't been corrupted? At best, SCOTUS has been cowed. Still don't know who the whistleblower is, so yeah. That's all we got.
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#3: Can't do that if you don't know the material yourself. Our "teacher's colleges" do not attract the cream of the crop, and poorly prepare those it does attract. Techurs R Dum!
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[Garowe] The UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo said on Wednesday that it had signed a withdrawal plan for its troops in the nation, without offering details about a timeline.
In a statement, the peacekeeping mission, known as Monusco, said that it had "co-signed a note on the accelerated, gradual, orderly and responsible withdrawal" from the country.
The note contains a plan and timeline for the withdrawal, but the peacekeeping mission offered few details beyond saying that it will be implemented in three phases.
Monusco is one of the world's largest and costliest UN peacekeeping missions, with an annual budget of around $1 billion.
Peacekeepers have been present in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... since 1999 but militia violence has continued to plague the east of the country.
Dozens of gangs are active in eastern DRC, a legacy of regional wars that flared in the 1990s and 2000s.
Monusco's current 14,000-strong peacekeeping force is deeply unpopular due to perceptions that it has done little to stop violence.
The Congolese government has requested Monusco's "accelerated" departure.
[FoxNews] A train seen in Mexico headed toward the U.S. border had what appeared to be hundreds of migrants riding on top as record numbers of people trying to enter the United States continues.
The migrants were riding atop a BNSF Railway train in central Mexico as it departed from it departs Irapuato, Guanajuato, around 200 miles northwest of Mexico City.
The train route goes from there to Torreon, Monterey and then Piedras Negras, a border city across from Eagle Pass, Texas.
In response to a surge in migrants, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said Monday that it will temporarily suspend and reduce vehicle processing at ports of entry in Texas and Arizona.
In a statement from the CBP, the agency said beginning at 3 p.m. local time, vehicle processing operations at Eagle Pass International Bridge 1 in Eagle Pass will be temporarily suspended, and at 2 p.m. local time, vehicle processing will be reduced in Lukeville, Arizona.
The actions are being taken to allow CBP to redirect personnel to assist the U.S. Border Patrol with taking migrants into custody.
Several CBP sectors have seen an increase in migrant encounters in recent weeks. The U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector in Arizona reported having 15,300 illegal crossings last week, marking the highest weekly total ever.
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The Tucker-Bannon Episode, especially starting at 9.20 is highly informative about just how severe the illegal immigration problem has become, the problem is existential, and the federal government is utterly adversarial to its citizen's interests.
[Human Events] Note: Nov 19th. May have been posted already...
It was — see Related link below. But this gives us the French response to this particular group of Moslem colonists erupting to demonstrate their conquest. Hopefully that means France is starting to reverse course.
A gang of around 10 thugs with knives attacked a village festival hosting teenagers in Crepol, a rural French town, on Nov. 19, leaving one dead and 16 seriously injured. It is now being reported that the attackers were a gang of Algerian Muslims who, as one eyewitness stated, were screaming, "We are going to kill white people."
They’re downplaying what really happened
A gang of Algerian Muslims stabbed 17 teenagers at a music festival in rural France. One died from his injuries.
This comes just days after another Algerian Muslim stabbed four children in Ireland. https://t.co/daTiLjIFtd
2023-11-25
[Shafaq News] Canada not only trained suspected Iraqi war criminals in 2018, it distributed Western-made weapons and protective equipment to them — likely coming from U.S. stockpiles, says a former soldier who was among the first to blow the whistle on videos that implicate the trainees in atrocities.
The Canadian soldiers who were conducting the training in northern Iraq complained at the time to their superiors on the ground. They warned that their Iraqi students — many of them veterans of combat against 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.... Continued on Page 49
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Somebody's preparing their 'modified limited hang-out'.
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[Jpost] Hamas Official Hisham Qasem, in an interview on Turkish station TRT TV on November 26, claimed that the Thai nationals kidnapped to Gaza were taken for their own safety.
Qasem, in a talk translated by the Middle East Media Research Interview, claimed that Turkey and Hamas had “discussed the release of some of the [Thai] detainees.
“As we said at the beginning of the October 7 operation, these [Thai nationals] were detained for their own protection, because on October 7, the forces of the Zionist army were shelling the houses with people inside - whether members of the Al-Qassam Brigades, [foreign] laborers, or even the Zionist inhabitants of those settlements.”
HAMAS CONSPIRACY THEORIES
The Hamas official's false claims that Israel attacked its own people have been mirrored by the Palestinian Authority's leadership and have circulated online by conspiracists. Extensive documentation has proved that the atrocities committed on October 7 were done so by members of the Hamas terrorist organization.
“This was admitted in the initial investigation of the Interior Ministry,” Qasem goes on to claim, adding that it was reported in the Israeli media sources Haaretz and Maariv. Haaretz has denied ever publishing such a finding and no record verifying Qasem’s claims in Maariv's records.
Qasem also claimed that the release of hostages was thanks to the “blessed mediation by Turkey” despite media reports stating that Iran had brokered the deal to have the foreign nationals released.
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One of Hamas hostages was pregnant and I recall it was a Thai guest worker. I recall she was reported to have birthed while being held. And that is the last I heard about the baby.
2023-11-21
[Shafaq News] The American military affairs-focused website "Mission and Objective" reported that the United States and its allies conducted 387 operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria throughout 2023. This surpasses their activity in the entire year of 2022. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... despite the intensified pace of these operations, notably fewer ISIS murderous Moslems were killed compared to the previous year.
Citing the US Central Command (CENTCOM), the report stated that as of October 2023, US forces and their allies eliminated 101 suspected murderous Moslems in these operations, with 78 in Iraq and 23 in Syria. In contrast, allied forces killed at least 686 ISIS murderous Moslems during 2022, comprising 220 in Iraq and 466 in Syria.
The report highlighted that while fewer ISIS murderous Moslems were killed in 2023, allied forces apprehended a larger number of suspected ISIS members compared to 2022. It indicated a total of 483 ISIS members were detained by the end of October, including 150 in Iraq and 333 in Syria. In contrast, during 2022, US and allied forces apprehended 374 suspected individuals, with 159 in Iraq and 215 in Syria.
Despite continuous attacks launched by Iran-backed groups against US forces in the region, the pace of operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria remained consistent in September and October compared to previous months. The Pentagon reported that since October 17, US troops faced 64 drone and rocket attacks, with 30 in Iraq and 34 in Syria.
Daiel Bayman, a researcher at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, pointed out that the increased mission rates and reduced casualties coincide with ISIS's shift toward hiding. He noted the organization's adoption of guerrilla warfare tactics, likely resulting in armed festivities with other groups.
Bayman questioned whether ISIS's reduced casualties meant the organization was becoming less significant or if the US presence weakened it. He highlighted the uncertain extent of ISIS's current weakness, mentioning that full eradication of ISIS would require improved governance in the area to dissuade locals from joining the terrorist group. He emphasized the complexity of this issue during periods of civil unrest or war.
Bayman further outlined the current US strategy aimed at permanently diminishing ISIS's capabilities, compelling the group to allocate resources to survival rather than planning larger-scale attacks.
The report detailed that during September and October, US forces conducted 53 joint operations in Iraq, resulting in the deaths of 10 suspected ISIS murderous Moslems and the arrest of 33 others. In Syria, 23 joint operations occurred, with an additional three US-exclusive missions, leading to the death of three ISIS members and the arrest of 45 others.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Garowe] The United States has continued to showcase paradigm shifts in local politics involving several races, with the most recent victory of a Somali-American in local elections proving the country's huge milestone in accommodative politics.
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
