[NYPOST] Convicted drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is whining about the "cruel and unfair" conditions at his high-security US prison — and is begging authorities in Mexico to move him to friendlier confines in his native land.
The notorious narco-trafficker, who was extradited to the US in 2017 and is locked up at a super-max federal prison in Colorado, is pleading with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to pull some strings and get him back home, Mexico News Daily reported.
Guzman’s lawyer said things are so bad that when his client had a toothache, prison staffers just yanked his teeth.
"He doesn’t see the sun, the food is of very bad quality, there is no health care," attorney Jose Refugio Rodriguez told news hounds.
"He had a problem with his molars and instead of treating them, they took them out so he wouldn’t fuss," Rodriguez said, according to the outlet. "He is hurting in a trial that was not in accordance with due process."
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Oh, the poor drug lord.
Good thing one of Soros' men isn't in charge here.
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He wants to be placed in prison with less security. So his compatriots can break him out more easily.
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When the Rita Hayworth poster goes up, guards should rewatch Shawshank
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He wants to be placed in prison with less security. So his compatriots can break him out more easily.
Watch Mel Gibson's Get the Gringo. Mexican prison is a lot like house arrest, if you've got the cash to spread around. A US prison, even Club Fed, is nothing like house arrest. And Super Max is like being marooned on a desert island with prison bars instead of sunshine, and that island is the size of a walk-in closet.
[AnNahar] Amid Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's longest-ever pause in fighting — more than nine months — Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and its rival, the Iranian-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
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After a two-week visit to Tajikistan, #UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor accused the Tajik government of creating a "climate of fear" in the country.https://t.co/2PRjNOXiTS
Tajikistan’s human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations have become the focus of the international community’s attention. To this day, its residents face restrictions on their basic rights due to government corruption and its systematic violation of the rights of its citizens, which impedes the processes of social and democratic reform in the country.
Al-Estiklal received a copy of the Intelligence Online’s report published on January 5, 2022, revealing that after a two-week visit to Tajikistan, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor on December 9 accused the Tajik government of creating a "climate of fear" in the country and harassing dissidents, subjecting some to show trials and imprisoning them.
Last February, the US Ambassador to Tajikistan, John Pommersheim, and Tajikistan’s Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Ramazan Rahimzadeh, attended the handover ceremony of a facility set up for the ministry’s OMON gendarmerie-like paramilitary force.
OMON UNITS
The Intelligence Online report disclosed that OMON is charged with special operations and counter-terrorism and is also involved in arrests, interrogations, and torture of Pamiri civilians.
Pamiris are considered Tajik by the authorities, but others define them as a separate ethnic group, differing from Tajiks in terms of language, religion and culture. Pamiri languages are a Southeastern branch of the Iranian language family. Additionally, while most Tajiks are Sunni, Pamiris are Ismaili Shiites.
The US Central Command’s Drug Enforcement Program (CENTCOM) provided funding to build the facility.
Last August, Tajikistan’s President Rahmon presented promotions and medals to army officers who managed operations in the Pamir region of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region.
During the ceremony, a video showed OMON soldiers searching the bodies of killed Pamiri men deemed as "terrorists," and putting weapons on their bodies to take pictures, which human rights defenders opposed.
That same month, Pommersheim visited Gorno-Badakhshan to attend the Pamir-Invest Forum and met with the province’s governor "to discuss areas of bilateral cooperation," in the words of the US embassy.
Pommersheim also established a friendly relationship with Tajik General Saimumin Yatimov, who has headed the state apparatus of national security since 2010 and is considered one of the most powerful people in the country. Yatimov worked during his career in various fields, including education, but a leaked cable from the US State Department in 2005 described him as a "professional KGB officer."
Pommersheim relied on his deputy, John Ginkel—an expert on Afghanistan and counter-terrorism, who headed the State Department’s Bureau of Afghan Affairs and served on the US Embassy’s counternarcotics task force—until September 2021 before being replaced by Bridgette Walker, former employee of the US State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research who served in Baku, Alexandria, and Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective.... While he was ambassador, the United States provided assistance to Yatimov’s border forces, receiving in November 2021 Jeep cars worth nearly $1 million and in March last year trucks, radios, and spare parts worth $1.1 million.
[IsraelTimes] Vote urging Brussels to sanction unit draws praise from Jerusalem, as Europe’s position on Tehran hardens against backdrop of protest crackdown, drone transfers to Russia.
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Seems like the designation would have been long ago if it was going to happen.
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Bribes unpaid I suspect.
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would have been long ago
Well, they needed a measured response.
The Brits joined first so EU needed to let it age.
[FoxNews] Mexican cartels' control over the southern border threatens America's national security: Yuma official
Border town residents in Yuma, Arizona shared their concerns for national security as more migrants flood into the U.S. after paying the cartels for entry.
Mexican cartels controlling the southern border endanger Americans as they smuggle drugs and violent criminals into the U.S., a border town official told Fox News.
"This is not a political discussion," Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines told Fox News. "This is a national security issue."
"Unless this situation changes and we take back control from the cartels, for the trafficking coming across our border, it will only get worse," Lines said.
Nearly 100 known or suspected terrorists were arrested at the southern border last year, according to Customs and Border Protection.
The cartels have established effective — and lucrative — smuggling operations and use the migrant surge to bypass overwhelmed Border Patrol officials, according to Lines. Migrants can pay the cartels to help them cross the border, but if they can't afford the cost, then they can traffic drugs or work off their debt in lieu of cash.
Not either human smuggling or drugs, but both, each supporting the increase of the other, to the benefit of the cartels.
"There's a lot of people that don't like the United States for whatever reason, and there's plenty of people that want to get in here and do some damage," a Yuma resident and farmer, Alex Muller, told Fox News. "It's just like a ticking time bomb."
Nearly 100 known or suspected terrorists were arrested at the southern border last year, according to Customs and Border Protection. By comparison, over the previous five years, there was a combined total of 26 arrests.
Meanwhile, human smuggling operations' profits have skyrocketed in recent years. According to Homeland Security Investigations, the industry raked in $13 billion as of July — up from $500 million in 2018. And CBP seized 15,000 pounds of fentanyl along the southern border in 2022 — a 206% increase since 2020.
"You have all these cartels that basically run this border, funneling people and drugs across," a Yuma resident and fifth-generation farmer, Hank Auza, told Fox News. "That’s big money and people."
Cartel fees for migrants trying to cross the border can range anywhere between $4,000 and $20,000, a George Mason University professor told The New York Times.
Migrant encounters increased from 480,000 in 2020 to 2.3 million last year, according to CBP. In Yuma, there was a 171% increase in migrant crossings between 2021 and 2022.
"The whole world is crossing the border, and these are the people who want to get caught," Muller told Fox News. "There's a lot of people who don't want to get caught."
"Where are they going and who's supporting them?" Muller continued. "That's what's scary."
Cartel fees for migrants trying to cross the border can range anywhere between $4,000 and $20,000, a George Mason University professor told The New York Times. One man took out a $20,000 loan to smuggle his two sons into the U.S. They were later found dead in the back of a tractor-trailer abandoned in San Antonio along with 51 others.
Many migrants remain "indebted to the cartel" after crossing into the U.S., Lines said. As a result, they're forced to work off their debts.
"Not everybody is able to pay for it, and they come as indentured servants," Lines told Fox News.
Muller said the cartels taken advantage of Biden's border policies for the last two years.
"The border is 100% not secure," he told Fox News. "It's wide open."
[IsraelTimes] Department of Justice says it is one of the most serious sanctions-breaking cases it has seen, but Halkbank claims immunity under the US Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
The United States Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... will hear arguments Tuesday in an appeal by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s Halkbank against US charges that it violated sanctions on Iran.
The bank wants the high court to rule on its claim that as a state-owned bank, it has immunity under the US Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
Halkbank was hit with criminal charges in 2019 that it took part in a year-long scheme to launder billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian oil and natural gas proceeds, violating US sanctions on Iran.
The funds were used to buy gold and the transactions were disguised as food and medicine purchases in order to fall under a humanitarian exemption to the sanctions, according to court documents.
Halkbank allegedly used front companies to funnel $20 billion to Iran, including $1 billion through the US financial system, according to the US case.
The Department of Justice said it had charged the bank with six counts of fraud, money laundering, and sanctions offenses, calling it one of the most serious sanctions-breaking cases it has seen.
Halkbank says that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which protects foreign leaders and governments from lawsuits in the United States, extends to state-owned businesses.
US courts have disagreed, and the issue is now to be decided by the Supreme Court.
But the case is underpinned by the politics of US relations with Turkey, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ally and an important power in Middle East politics.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... has repeatedly rejected the charges against the bank, saying Turkey did not violate the US embargo on Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... and that political rivals were behind the case.
Multiple individuals have already been found guilty in the case, including Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a deputy director general of the bank, who was convicted in 2018.
Atilla was placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for a year and then released in 2019, and was greeted as a hero upon his return to Turkey.
[KhaamaPress] The last two holy religious scriptures of Sikhism (Saroops) of the Guru Granth Sahib arrived from Afghanistan’s Kabul in Delhi on Wednesday. The two Scriptures were carried out by three Afghan Sikhs from Kabul to New Delhi by a non-Scheduled Kam Air flight.
Six Holy Scriptures were successfully flown into New Delhi on August 24, 2021, and December 10, 2021, in two groups. These were transported on a particular evacuation flight of Afghan Sikhs from Kabul.
Since the Taliban ...Arabic for students... took control of Afghanistan, bringing back the symbols of faith and heritage associated with Sikhism has been going on continuously. As a result, the last two versions of Guru Granth Sahib were brought to Delhi, ANI reported.
On September 11, 2022, the four copies of the holy scriptures of Sikhs and 60 delegations were supposed to deliver to New Delhi but were refused permission by the Taliban-led Afghan government.
Officials from the foreign ministry of Afghanistan stated that unless an official confirmation letter from the Afghan Culture and Information Ministry was not issued, the scriptures could not be allowed to be taken out of Afghanistan, the Tribune reported.
After the intervention of the government of India and talks between the two governments, the two holy books were delivered to New Delhi in a non-scheduled Kam Air flight organized by Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee.
Since the Taliban led-government took control of power in the country, most Afghan Sikhs feel threatened in Afghanistan. As a result, the Indian government support them with the e-visas to leave the country.
[Rudaw] Iraq has told The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... that they cannot expect a normal relationship with Baghdad while continuously violating its borders, the Iraqi President told Rudaw on Wednesday.
Speaking to Rudaw on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid said that Iraq considers Turkey an important neighboring country with many mutual interests, however Ankara’s violations of Iraqi illusory sovereignty has become a matter of discontent.
"To be honest, the stance Turkey has in terms of entering Iraq, whether through army or aircrafts, has embarrassed the Iraqi government, the Kurdistan Regional government, and both Iraqi and Kurdish people, they all disapprove of this in every way," Rashid said.
Turkey launched an aerial operation, code-named Claw-Sword, in November, targeting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region’s mountainous areas, mostly Sulaimani province, and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria.
Iraq has on multiple occasions expressed its government’s discontent to Ankara, however Turkey’s operations are far from done.
"Last time I met their representatives, I told them the same thing, we cannot have normal relationship while our borders are being violated," the Iraqi President said, adding that the Iraqi foreign ministry has given Ankara notice multiple times as well.
Iraq last year took the issue to 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... . In July, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein addressed the UN Security Council, warning that Turkey has "expansionist" goals behind its repeated attacks on Iraqi territory.
Iraq’s complaint to the Security Council came in response to a Ottoman Turkish bombardment earlier in July that killed nine Iraqi tourists in Duhok province, sparking national outrage in the country.
Less than two months later, Ankara’s intelligence chief Hakan Fidan flew to the Iraqi capital and met with different top level officials.
Rudaw was told by one of the officials the MIT chief met with that during the meetings, Fidan had stressed Turkey’s support for Iraqi illusory sovereignty, however has told them that Turkey’s war with the PKK will continue in Iraq as long as the group remains on Iraqi land.
Ottoman Turkish violations on Iraqi land has numbered over 22,000 cases of violations, according to data obtained from the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in July, adding that until then, Iraq had filed 296 complaints to the Ottoman Turkish side.
Iraq’s ministry of defense in July said that the Ottoman Turkish military had entered 105 kilometers deep into Iraqi lands, setting up around 4,000 of their troops.
Turkey’s Claw-Sword operation is a continuation of Turkey’s Claw operations against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region, with the first stage starting in 2019.
The PKK is an gang fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey and designated a terrorist organization by Ankara.
Despite Ankara's denial, the assaults have previously led to civilian casualties who are often caught in the crossfire.
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“No. This time the Palestinians are going to experience the consequences of their actions.”
[IsraelTimes] Germany, La Belle France, Japan sign onto PA letter expressing concern over ’punitive measures’ enacted in response to call for world court ruling on conflict.
More than 90 countries on Monday called on Israel to reverse steps taken against the Paleostinian Authority over its push for an investigation into Israel at the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Late last month, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution promoted by the Paleostinians requesting that the International Court of Justice weigh in on the Israel-Paleostinian conflict, Israeli "annexation" and the "legal status of the occupation."
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They are so cruel. These people have nothing, and they're putting the hurt on them. Disgusting, as the vote shows the whole world condemns this behavior. And they think they're the victims!
How about this? We start sanctioning Israel until they begin behaving like a civilized nation. It's what we did to South Africa to force them to get rid of their sickening apartheid system. It can work again.
Oh, but we can't do that because Israel controls the US government like a puppet. We even give them billions in aid every year, like they're some kind of poor country.
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Oh, you absolutely should boycott Israeli products, Herman Hapsburg8987 — I think that’s a brilliant idea. Here’s a partial list as of 2021 link.
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/\ Double standards abound.
No need to get into a Sam Bankman-Fried, Bernie Madoff, Epstein, Maxwell, Diane Feinstein, Kissinger, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, Paul Pelosi, or Soros discussion however. Or specific religious political caucuses.
#8
Herman Hapsburg8987 is free to critique any group he wants as long as it reasonable on this site. If you can't take it don't read it.
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Well, thanks anon.
There are other forums where he would be welcomed and not considered a spittle spraying agitator.
Perhaps you could recommend some.
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Well, thanks anon.
There are other forums where he would be welcomed and not considered a spittle spraying agitator.
Perhaps you could recommend some.
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If that's directed at me, I'm hardly new to this site.
Should we talk about thin skin?
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Herman it's far past the time when the US minds it's own damn business. Ending apartheid in South Africa worked out so well, you can go to vidmax just about on a daily basis and see some crazy shit going on.
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You know what else they invented? Laws preventing Jews from marrying people of other religions.
Actually, the Ottoman Turks invented that, centuries ago. The British Mandate did not change the law, nor did Israel at its founding, being at the time in the middle of a war with five British-trained and officered Arab armies intent on killing all the Jews. Nor were the Ottoman Turks the only ones with such laws. But what it actually is, is that the state sanctions marriages performed by the clergy of Jewish, Muslim, Druze, and certain Christian denominations, and none others. However — and this is important — Israel does recognize civil, interfaith, and same-sex marriages performed abroad, so Israelis who fall into those categories generally run off to Cyprus for their weddings. Under Israeli law, the spouse of an Israeli automatically gets Israeli citizenship, except for West Bank Palestinians and the citizens of certain Arab countries.
You'll need to find some other reason for your Jew hate, Herman Hapsburg8987. Go on — you tee ‘em up, we’ll knock ‘em down.
He’s a chew toy, Bill Greans6336, which is why I, the Jewess moderator, did not strike his post with lightning. Why are you charging in to protect what does not need protecting?
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Kind of enjoy it. "Eastern Europeans eradicated Palestine" is the wildest shit I've heard since Al Gore tried to rape his masseuse.
I can't stop thinking about it. Say what you will about The Romans eradicated Palestine! group, at least we are talking about a certain people and time frame. The Eastern Europeans did it! has absolutely no context at all. Black Sea Slaves of Alexander the Great? The title, The Great, unfortunately does not cover this. How far back in time, and how far east do we have to go?
About the only thing which lights that bong is Eastern Europe under control of the Mongols, of whom spawned the muslim convert Timurlame, who then worked his way into The Levant slaughtering all those who were the wrong muslim.
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I appreciate you not Smokey Stamping him my Jewess Moderator, he is unenlightened.
If you take a look at the posts here today or any day you will notice it's largely the same contributors. You can pretty much guess what the comment is going to be based on the nic. Rantburg needs more opinions, commenters and contributors as long as they are reasonable. Running people off you don't like has not helped this site. Besides, his comments are pretty tame at least for R'burg.
Additionally, were I king for a day I would pretty much run Israel the way it's run now regarding the Paleos. But the IDF, Israel Government and Jews are far from perfect and from time to time deserving of criticism. (The shooting of a teen age girl in the face by an IDF sniper comes to mind).
Just my 2 cents.
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You can pretty much guess what the comment is going to be based on the nic
Why, yes, yes you can...
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....what about the Swedes. They spent some time in what we now call Poland. Are they also Eastern Europeans or solely Northmen?
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I mean, questioning genetic mythologies is not exactly a racist or bigoted thing. The 20th Century had the idea of genetic mythology; Mussolini linked his movement to the Roman Empire, Hitler the Aryan master race, and Jewish Zionists link themselves to the biblical idea of the Hebrews. Each argues something along the lines of "blood and soil," that they have a genetic right to rule some land and expel and exterminate impure races.
Apartheid can best be understood as a system of prolonged and cruel discriminatory treatment by one racial group of members of another with the intention to control the second racial group. When I got up today I didn't expect posts defending apartheid and anti-miscegenation laws...but here they are.
I think I've had enough internet for one day.
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I mean, questioning genetic mythologies is not exactly a racist or bigoted thing.
It depends how it’s done, my dear. When you rely on hypotheses negated by subsequent, more accurate genetic testing, choosing to ignore subsequent results because of your prejudices, then it is.
As for apartheid in Israel, some 25% of Israelis are Arabs. More could become Israeli, eg. most of the residents of East Jerusalem, but choose not to — a rejection by the Arabs, not by the Jewish state. Arab holidays and language hold the same legal status in Israel as Jewish ones; Arab-Israelis can and do live legally in non-Arab cities and towns, while refusing to sell to Jews in Arab communities; and Arab-Israelis can and do go to school and join professions, including the judiciary, national politics, and the army — in all of which they have risen to the top of each. It is hard to cry apartheid when Arab-Israelis are supreme court judges, army generals, and ministers in the government, when Israel is represented in international beauty contests and Eurovision by Arab contestants that the Jewish population voted for. Apartheid is supposed to prevent all that, not encourage it.
Finally, while there are indeed Jews all over the world, and even more who don’t realize they have Jewish ancestry, there have been Jews living in Israel, generation after generation, since the former slaves returned to the land following Moses. Even the Assyrian and Babylonian conquests in the 6th century BC didn’t empty the land — the Samaritans are the descendants of the ten tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel, and their bible shows the connection, while the Old Testament Book of Ezra opens with the returnees from Persia meeting with Jews who had not been taken to exile in Babylonia in 586 BC, and there was active correspondence between the Jewish schools in Hebron and sages across the Diaspora. And Mark Twain, in his Innocents Abroad, wrote about the Jews he saw living in the Holy Land... and the sparsity of Arab communities therein.
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Facts are a hard thing to get past for some, TW.
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/\ Agree, all. Should also be noted the followers of Methodism here in the States may be slightly different that the followers of Methodism in, let's say Nigeria.
Geography and the 'real world' views tend to vary.
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Apartheid can best be understood as a system of prolonged and cruel discriminatory treatment by one racial group of members of another with the intention to control the second racial group.
Bold declaration.
Utah for the Utahians!
Hollywood for the Scientologists!
Fulchner of Chartres, advisor to Baldwin I, after capturing Jerusalem suggests the destruction of State of Palestine before anyone can document its existance.
Fulchner, who is from France, is Eastern European because 800 years later Napoleon enters and occupies Eastern Europe on his way to Russia.
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We all have personal history/posting comments/context. I have f-load of comments back to 9/11 when I first found Fred's site. I've kept a nym and history throughout. When you post anonymously, I'm not required to grant you benefit of doubt or context. Fuck your sensitive feelings? Yes, because you haven't established consistency or trust. Grow up. Pick a nym, and be consistent, "Bill" and "Herman"
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I am disappointed that I am predictable. I need some introspection time with my stuffed Shamu.
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And they're just giggling like schoolgirls that they hit some triggers.
#30
The charge of Rantburgers being static in their views isn’t really valid. There have been plenty of pols, generals and policies that the group have soured on based on the facts which have been debated and stacked like cord wood over two decades and change. There really is no triggering the group unless you are talking about folks triggering claymores and laying down surprising fire. There are dissenters that stay. I remember a Murad from early on. Most find another place with people that don’t challenge them.
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[IsraelTimes] Miki Zohar says creators free to produce any content they wish, but if they want financial backing, they’ll need to pledge their work is not what he deems to be anti-Israeli.
[IsraelTimes] Police say it’s ’fake news’ that Ghassan Majali was initially refused entry; Amman summons Israeli ambassador, then Majali makes his visit
Jordan’s ambassador to Israel visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Tuesday after earlier leaving the holy site in protest at being held up by police at the entrance, prompting a diplomatic protest from Amman.
The Jordanian foreign ministry said it summoned Israel’s envoy Eitan Surkis after Ghassan Majali was allegedly "refused entry" to the Temple Mount. A statement from the ministry said Surkis was handed a letter of condemnation.
But Israeli police — and also Jordanian reports — indicated that rather than refusing him entry, cops briefly held him up since he hadn’t coordinated the visit with them.
In video footage, the ambassador was seen telling the police to "get away from me" as officers asked him to wait.
Majali left the area of the Old City’s Lion’s Gate after refusing to request permission to enter.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... he later returned and toured the Temple Mount, including praying in al-Aqsa Mosque. Video from the visit showed a man approaching Majali and his entourage to serve them coffee as they walked around the compound.
The Israel Police decried reports that Israel refused to allow Majali to visit the Temple Mount as "fake news," saying the ambassador had arrived without any prior notification and that a policeman hadn’t immediately recognized him, causing a "very small" delay while the cop consulted his commander.
Majali then decided to leave, according to the police.
"Had he waited a few more seconds he could have entered," a police statement said.
Majali was accompanied by the head of the Islamic Waqf — a Jordanian-appointed council that administers the Temple Mount.
Later on Tuesday, a Foreign Ministry front man issued a statement asserting that "there is no change in Israel’s policy regarding the Temple Mount. Israel is committed to keeping the status quo on the Temple Mount and the freedom of worship in Jerusalem. The Israeli Police is responsible for law and order on the Temple Mount."
Tuesday’s incident came amid tensions over the flashpoint site, which is the holiest in Judaism and the third-holiest to Moslems, who refer to it as the Al Aqsa Mosque compound or the Noble Sanctuary. Far-right police minister Itamar Ben Gvir briefly visited the site earlier this month, drawing fury from the Arab world, including Jordan, which hauled in Surkis for a dressing down.
Surkis told the Jordanians at the time that Israel remained committed to the status quo, that there had not been any violations of the agreement and that Israeli ministers have visited the site in the past.
Ben Gvir has long been an advocate of formally altering the Temple Mount status quo, under which Moslems are allowed to pray and enter with few restrictions, while Jews can visit only during limited time slots via a single gate and walk on a predetermined route, closely accompanied by police. Jews are not allowed to pray at the site, though recent years have increasingly seen police allow some silent prayer.
Israel captured the Temple Mount and Jerusalem’s Old City from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War, almost two decades after Amman conquered it during the War of Independence of 1948. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... Israel allowed the Jordanian Waqf to continue to maintain religious authority atop the mount.
Israel’s 1994 peace deal with Jordan specified Jordan has a "special role" at Moslem holy sites in Jerusalem. Amman views itself as the custodian of the Temple Mount.
Last week, police were accused by the Waqf of holding up a visit by Lord Tariq Ahmad, the UK minister for the Middle East region, to the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. Ahmad later played down the incident, telling the BBC that the hold-up was due to "security checks, whatever they needed to do."
[IsraelTimes] Despite scuffle between envoy and police on Temple Mount, Amman appears to be avoiding a major fight, says Israel, but wary Abdullah can only refrain from responding for so long
[IsraelTimes] US policy is instead focusing on unilateral and multilateral measures to hold Iran to account over cooperation with Moscow and crackdown on protesters, secretary of state says
Glory hallelujah! A solid first step, only two years late. At this rate they’ll finally decide to do something kinetic about it after the first Iran nuke is set off.
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How long did it take him to tumble to that?
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Implementing a Great Value foreign policy each and every day.
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[Rudaw] On New Year’s Eve, a small boat carrying more than 230 would-be migrants colonists, most of them Syrians, broke down and began to sink after setting sail from the northern coast of Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia... Since the collapse of Lebanon’s economy in 2019, an increasing number of people - mostly Syrian and Paleostinian refugees but also Lebanese citizens - have tried to leave the country and reach Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... by sea. The attempts often turn deadly.
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[IsraelTimes] Human rights groups says Navab Ebrahimi, known for his videos promoting Persian cooking, has been sprung; no reason was given for his detention
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... has released a prominent chef and Instagram influencer who was detained earlier this month in its crackdown on nationwide protests, human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... groups and supporters said.
Navab Ebrahimi, known for his videos promoting Persian cooking, was arrested in Tehran on January 4 and taken to the city’s Evin prison.
Nik Yusefi, an Iranian filmmaker and photographer who was himself arrested in October as part of the crackdown and then freed, wrote on Twitter that Ebrahimi had been released on bail on Wednesday.
He posted a picture of Ebrahimi smiling with his partner.
The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) also said Ebrahimi had been released on bail, adding there was still no word on the charges leveled against him.
Iran has arrested at least 14,000 people in the wave of protests sparked by the September 16 death in jug of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who had been arrested for allegedly breaching the strict dress code for women, according to the UN.
Prominent journalists, filmmakers, lawyers and activist muppets have been arrested. Some have been released on bail, including star actor Taraneh Alidoosti, but others remain in prison.
No reason has been given for the arrest of Ebrahimi, who had some 2.7 million followers on Instagram enjoying his slickly produced videos showing how to produce classic Persian dishes without pain.
But social media users said the arrest coincided with him posting a recipe to make Persian cutlets on the day the Iranian authorities marked the third anniversary of the killing by the United States of Revolutionary Guards General Qassem Soleimani .
Some Iranians opposed to the regime have made a habit of posting images of cutlets on the anniversary of his death, in reference to the manner of his killing in a US dronezap in Iraq.
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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.
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
...Arabic for 
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
[IsraelTimes] Police say it’s ’fake news’ that Ghassan Majali was initially refused entry; Amman summons Israeli ambassador, then Majali makes his visit
...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
