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Taliban-Appointed Agriculture Head in Panjshir Arrested on Corruption Charges
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Wife elopes with another man, husband marries her lover's wife as revenge
[GEO.TV] In a tit-for-tat move, a married woman bravely ran away with another man and her husband decided to take Dire Revenge by marrying the wife of his spouse's lover in India's Bihar, NDTV reported.

Ruby Devi was married to a man named Neeraj since 2009 and the couple had four children together. However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
Neeraj discovered that his wife was having an extramarital affair with a man named Mukesh a few years after their marriage.

Last year, Ruby and Mukesh decided to get married and upon finding the harsh reality, her husband filed a complaint against the man saying he had kidnapped Ruby.

In his complaint, Neeraj claimed that a panchayat (village council) took place in a bid to settle the matter but Mukesh refused to adhere to it and has been on the run since then.

Mukesh, who was also a married man, had two children and interestingly, his wife's name was also Ruby. Neeraj decided to take Dire Revenge and married Mukesh's wife this year.

The news caught the attention of social media users who also started giving their opinions while some took it as a joke.

Posted by: Fred || 03/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not on the usual list of "Basis for a Lasting Marriage"
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/05/2023 9:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Sort of a dysfunctional equation that equals the Brady Bunch. The fact that the women have the same first name ought to save on some administrative charges.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/05/2023 9:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Soon to be a 'reality' series on A&E.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/05/2023 11:19 Comments || Top||


Prince Harry says psychedelics are 'fundamental' part of his life
[PAGESIX] Prince Harry
...That guy who married Meghan Markle. You know. The ones that didn't get invited to Michelle Obama's party?...
recently spoke openly about his recreational use of psychedelics.

The Duke of Sussex, 38, revealed during an online chat with trauma expert Gabor Maté Saturday that drugs have helped him deal with his past traumas.

"It was the cleaning of the windscreen, the removal of life’s filters — these layers of filters — it removed it all for me and brought me a sense of relaxation, relief, comfort, a lightness that I managed to hold back for a period of time," he shared.

"I started doing it recreationally and then started to realize how good it was for me," Harry added.

"I would say it is one of the fundamental parts of my life that changed me and helped me deal with the traumas and the pains of the past."
I seem to recall that kind of thing is fashionable among the denizens of Silicon Valley. And no doubt among his wife’s show business friends...
Posted by: Fred || 03/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Timothy Leary unavailable for comment.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2023 1:05 Comments || Top||

#2  ...In hindsight, this would explain a lot.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/05/2023 1:43 Comments || Top||

#3  "Being married to Meaghan. Man, that's just a trip..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2023 2:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Alex Murdaugh's issue as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2023 2:05 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2023 2:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Is it safe to predict a car, or other creative accident is in his/their future?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/05/2023 7:17 Comments || Top||

#7  ^^^ hopefully
Posted by: Chris || 03/05/2023 8:21 Comments || Top||


#9  We are all begging for more privacy in our lives from gross info about the two of them but they refuse to shut up. We will soon be getting daily pictures describing their stool color and consistency. Nobody wants to know this stuff.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/05/2023 9:53 Comments || Top||

#10  "like the do-dah man".
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/05/2023 10:48 Comments || Top||

#11  Sounds like a public confession of constant criminal behavior to me. Easy slam dunk case.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/05/2023 13:29 Comments || Top||

#12  Predictable, Harry has gone from being a favorite royal offspring to disaffected drone to his publicity-hound wife to cause-celeb for "racial injustice", to internet troll, to drug addict. What a maroon...but what he has yet to realize is he will be shunned in his native land and ignored as meaningless as they devolve to d-list celeb status. Welcome to Duke of Windsor ignomy you fool.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/05/2023 14:23 Comments || Top||

#13  His legacy will be that history will point at him and laugh.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/05/2023 16:08 Comments || Top||

#14  Annoyance or sadness but no laughter. I expect a train wreck while he is with her. There is a chance for his public redemption after she dumps him.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/05/2023 18:00 Comments || Top||

#15  Nobody likes Toasted Ginger with Whine
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2023 18:25 Comments || Top||

#16  A white, whining, blaggardy pal
Was his feminist Falstaff: a gal!
"You'll eschew swilling beer
And do mushrooms!"
"Yes, dear."
(from The Bore's Head: A Night with Prince Hal)
Posted by: Slavish Speans9373 || 03/05/2023 20:03 Comments || Top||


New Source of Racism: Equestrian Division
Rich people problems are not race-linked, as it turns out.
[PJMedia] The New York Times, that intrepid warrior for anything and everything that the Left is hysterical about, on Friday published a lengthy piece about a source of systemic racism that no one has ever noticed before: It seems that equestrian helmets are racist because they don’t accommodate the dreadlocks that some black horse riders wear. One black rider’s mother lamented: "Mostly everything in this sport isn’t designed for us." Well, that’s got to change, and these Jackie Robinsons of the Coiffure, with the Times’ generous help, are leading the way to the Equestrian Helmet Justice that our society so desperately needs.

Chanel Robbins, the Times tells us solemnly, "has been riding horses most of her life, ever since her grandmother traded a cow from their family’s farm in Ontario for a pony when she was 7." Horse riding "offered an escape from thoughts that weighed on her," which included the fact that "she was the only Black girl in the neighborhood." But when she grew dreadlocks, her helmet didn’t fit anymore, and that, as you must know by now, is racist.

Fighting back tears (really, the Times actually said she was), Robbins said: "I finally freaking feel like myself, and now society is asking me to change. I just want to be able to ride." How dare Whitey do this! Is there nothing to which he will not stoop? Poor Chanel Robbins can only find relief on the back of a horse from the systemic racism that confronts her every hour in Amerikkka, but now Whitey has taken even that away!
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Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/05/2023 7:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Biden-Coup Executive Order 13985-Amended.
White Milk, White Eggs and White Printing paper are racist.

Only Brown Eggs, chocolate milk and brown/tanned paper using blue ink are acceptable in Federal buildings and by the DOD.

A company heavily invested in by Hunter, Jill, Nancy, and others, was awarded a 🤑 $103M conversation study contract.🤑


Next up changing of the colors of the USA Flag Stars and Stripes.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/05/2023 7:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Hermes staff feverishly working on the new 34" saddle design.
Posted by: Cesare || 03/05/2023 8:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Listening to a black kindergarten age child sing Mary Had a Little Lamb the other day. It's fleece is no longer white as snow.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 03/05/2023 9:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Talk to Nike or Dicks or any other of 100 woke companies to make a helmet so that you can be included in a sport that generally annoys any of the few people that continue to view the unwatchable summer Olympics. It will certainly be well worth it, as the proposed helmet can be the focus of a 45 minute segment that totally interrupts any type of coverage of actual sports.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/05/2023 10:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Why not just get a bigger helmet?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/05/2023 10:38 Comments || Top||

#7  She wants one specifically designed for black people.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/05/2023 15:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Not honestly a black issue, its a green one.

There is insufficient market demand for helmets designed for whatever the right term should be for Black Hairstyles. It isn't racist to not offer a product for which there is insufficient demand to make it profitable. Its just economics in a free market, capitalist nation.

If there were a lot more black horse-owners demanding the larger helmets, someone would see the potential profit and create the solution. There aren't, so there isn't.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/05/2023 17:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Maybe get a smaller head
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2023 17:31 Comments || Top||

#10  There are plenty of very attractive styles for African-American hair that are sleek or cut close to the head, and so would fit nicely under current helmet sizes. The lady just wants to have her dreads and ride safely, too — without shelling out $500+ that the internet informs me is the starting price for a custom made riding helmet.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/05/2023 19:39 Comments || Top||

#11  Whahahahaha...Frnaaaank
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2023 19:43 Comments || Top||

#12  I'd ride, but for one little hitch:
It's uniquely the pitch of the rich,
For no helmet I'd don
Could contain my bouffant!
Robbins: "Rock you a pompadour, bitch."
Posted by: Slavish Speans9373 || 03/05/2023 20:31 Comments || Top||

#13  Hmmm, any problems with baseball caps and helmets? National Felons League helmets? Even ice hockey helmets? I didn't think so. No further questions, your Honor.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/05/2023 20:35 Comments || Top||


Why Covid's 'lab leak' theory isn't all that crazy: Fascinating interactive map logs EVERY single biosecurity blunder of the last 100 years – including the 'Biological Chernobyl' that the Soviet Union tried to cover-up in the 70s...
[MAIL] Covid leaking from a laboratory in China and then going on to devastate the world has moved from a fringe theory to the US's official narrative of the pandemic.

Just this week, Beijing fired back at claims from the FBI that the virus did emerge from the now famous Wuhan Institute of Virology.

While the jury remains out on if Covid did indeed come from a Chinese lab, the last 100 years have seen dozens of similar incidents spark outbreaks, or narrowly avoid them.

From the world's last recorded smallpox death in Birmingham in the 70s, a Soviet cover up of 'Biological Chernobyl', to extinct polio being found in a Dutch sewer in November last year, lab leaks of pathogens are not as rare as you might think.

Here, MailOnline has created a map laying bare the biosecurity blunders and near misses across the world and highlighted just 10 of the most shocking incidents and near misses in lab leak history.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “Conspiracies beget conspiracies.”

~ Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan.

Dr. Rasmussen would surely agree the discovery of evidence and competing theories can also produce truth.

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2023 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  We'd have to crazy to think any nation could have and accidental release... or deliberate one...

Just look at the issues surrounding Deer Island, NY. Lyme disease) Or, the Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, in Fort Detrick, Md Anthrax leak and the pouring and concrete to fill in parts of the building.

Or Pine Bluff, Ark. Bio-Weapon Lab, or, Horn Island and that isolated island west of Hawaii plus Russia....and others.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/05/2023 8:06 Comments || Top||


#4  Each disinformation is like an Iwo Jima bunker that has to be breached.

Vaccine good
Masks good
Lab leak theory bad
No Feds in J6
No election fraud

And on, and on and on … The strategy is to exhaust us.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/05/2023 10:09 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
US 395 buried by avalanche near Mono Lake (SE of Lake Tahoe)
[Twitter] looks to be the result of multiple avalanche events

Posted by: lord garth || 03/05/2023 09:52 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bridgeport was out of power due to failure at Lundy Lake hydro
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2023 13:49 Comments || Top||

#2  one of the best towns in CA
Posted by: 746 || 03/05/2023 13:53 Comments || Top||

#3  395 runs right past my house. In Mono County, it has been closed from Bridgeport to Walker for much of the past several weeks.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/05/2023 14:11 Comments || Top||

#4  The San Bernardino Mountains in SoCal have a genuine crisis for rural mountain residents as they cannot get to food and some residents have been snowed in for over a week or more. Crestline has had many buildings and residences have roof collapse from snow load! Locals are begging for help describing it as a life-or death situation as elderly residences have been snowed in for a week without power.

https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/help-us-southern-california-mountain-residents-go-survival-mode-after-snowpocalypse
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/05/2023 16:56 Comments || Top||

#5  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5wOH_kfmvA
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/05/2023 18:27 Comments || Top||

#6  I used to call the Sierra area the 'snowy desert' when I was stationed in the mountains near Herlong, Ca. 10 plus feet of snow in the winter and needing a swamp cooler in the summer. What is happening now is merely a reoccurring cycle.
Posted by: Illeagle || 03/05/2023 18:57 Comments || Top||

#7  USMC Mountain Training Center must be shut down to Coleville
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2023 20:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Thanks, Trump. /sarc
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/05/2023 20:37 Comments || Top||

#9  another cold storm coming Monday-Tuesday

then, unfortunately, there is a possibility of a not so cold but wetter storm coming Friday-Sunday

When you get wetter denser snow on top of dry snow, it creates ideal avalanche conditions as well as caving in roof conditions
Posted by: lord garth || 03/05/2023 20:43 Comments || Top||

#10  And Newsome fled the State.
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 || 03/05/2023 23:50 Comments || Top||


Shelter in place issued and 1,500 are without power after ANOTHER Norfolk Southern trail derails, this time in Springfield, Ohio - as governor says they don't 'believe' any hazardous materials were on board
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Residents urged to seek shelter after Norfolk Southern train is derailed in Ohio

  • The company says nobody is injured and no hazardous materials involved - though 1,500 residents are left without power

  • It comes after a Norfolk Southern train sparked a massive fire after it was derailed one month ago

Posted by: Skidmark || 03/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "...governor says they don't 'believe' any hazardous materials were on board"

What is real life vs. Political/Commercial Newspeak pretty much dictates trusting nothing said until verified by others.

BTW: Not all train issues make the news.
The Mid-Jan. Tornados in southern Henry & northern Butts GA. county line area, derailed several train cars filled with questionable materials in Jenkinsburg, GA. about 1/2 mile east of Burg Rd. The cars were still laying there a month + later. This is a major rail line leading into Atlanta from ports like Savannah, and Fla. .
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/05/2023 7:02 Comments || Top||

#2  ...find any Sherman bow ties in the area?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/05/2023 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Tunnel Hill museum. Tunnel Hill, GA.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2023 8:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Video claiming to be this derailment

If real, I see 3 or 4 tanker cars.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/05/2023 8:39 Comments || Top||


#6  Tanker cars may be empty or full of vegetable oil. Or chemicals for shampoo. Liquids important to your everyday life. Probably not low-fat milk.

If the wrecked cars have been laying there for days, the railroad is probably looking for a contractor to come in and cut up the cars for scrap.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/05/2023 8:46 Comments || Top||

#7  The video is authentic based on my estimate of rural Ohio dialect and the demand for the buddy to steer while the driver films. Our state goal is to regress into Cro Magnon levels of cognition.

Interesting, the railroads did a lot of work to the crossings local to my area last fall. I believe they were doing something to the grading to prevent or repair plough damage. Crossings were shut down sequentially for a couple of days each leaving some new asphalt.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/05/2023 9:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Ohio Train Derailment Claims 20 Norfolk Southern Cargo Cars
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/05/2023 9:45 Comments || Top||

#9  Wait till the ‘experts’ uncover the derailment of some of the wheels of UP’s Big Boy when they were moving the rigid framed trucks around a tight radius switch: then they will shriek about how old equipment adds additional peril to the rails……
(Videos available if interested in watching the re-railing of it)
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/05/2023 10:54 Comments || Top||

#10  Demolition derbies are back in a new and exciting way.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/05/2023 11:04 Comments || Top||

#11  Besoeker I got killed a few times at Tunnel Hill.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/05/2023 11:34 Comments || Top||


Quake caused damage worth $5.1 billion in Syria
[An Nahar] The World Bank has said that Syria sustained an estimated $5.1 billion in damages in last month's massive earthquake that struck southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and northern parts of the war-torn country.

The quake killed at least 50,000 people, including about 6,000 in Syria, according to the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
. Tens of thousands are still missing and hundreds of thousands were left homeless.

In a report released Friday, the World Bank says the level of the damage in Syria is about 10% of the country's gross domestic product.

Syria's northern province of Aleppo was the most severely hit region, accounting for 45% of the total damages in Syria and amounting to about $2.3 billion in damages. Also badly hit was the rebel-held region in the northwest, home to some 4.6 million people, many of them previously displaced by Syria's war.

Aleppo was followed by the northwestern province of Idlib, with estimated damages of $1.9 billion and Latakia, government-controlled territory on the coast, with $549 million.

The earthquake has also compounded myriad other troubles in Syria, where the nearly 12-year civil war has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half the country's pre-war population of 23 million.

The World Bank cautioned that there is still a significant degree of uncertainty around its preliminary assessment.

"The disaster will cause a decline in economic activity that will further weigh on Syria's growth prospects," said Jean-Christophe Carret, World Bank head for the Middle East.

The damages assessed in the report include both in the residential and nonresidential sectors, such as direct damages to buildings and structures, as well as damage to cultural heritage sites, which is especially challenging to qualify.

In an earlier assessment report, the World Bank said on Monday that the damages in Turkey from last month's earthquake are estimated at $34.2 billion.

Posted by: Fred || 03/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Shit, that should buy the whole worthless country.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/05/2023 17:14 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Snark Headline of the Year
[BonginoReport] Kenosha Quickdraw Champion Sued by Runner-Up

Today in clown world; Kyle Rittenhouse is being sued by one of the people who allegedly tried to murder him.

As those who followed the Rittenhouse case remember, Gaige Grosskeutz
...a misspelling — he means Grosskreutz ...
pointed a loaded gun directly at Rittenhouse, but Rittenhouse was able to literally disarm him by shooting him in the bicep. Grosskeutz himself admitted under oath, with a devastated demeanor, that he wasn’t shot until after pointing his gun at Rittenhouse.

And in the end, Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges related to shooting Grosskeutz and others in self defense, though anyone who saw the video knows there shouldn’t have been any charges in the first place. Nor could any prosecutor have thought they had any chance of convicting him - the punishment was the process.

While in a sane world Grosskeutz would’ve racked up attempted murder charges over this, instead he’s attempting to sue Rittenhouse.

As Fox News reported:

Grosskreutz has filed a lawsuit against him and Wisconsin police and officials, alleging they "conspired" to let armed individuals patrol the streets and "mete out justice as they saw fit."

The Feb. 14 lawsuit seeks "damages for emotional distress, humiliation, loss of enjoyment of life, and other pain and suffering on all claims," and punitive damages.

Rittenhouse said news of the lawsuit was "very frustrating" and "upsetting." "This is, honestly, to me, an attack on our Second Amendment rights and our rights to self-defense," he said Wednesday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

"And it's saying if you use your God-given right to self-defense, they're going to come after you. If you went to court, you're acquitted, rightfully so, they're going to take you to civil court, and they're going to file. They're going to take you for everything you're worth. They're going to drive you into bankruptcy and drown you in a mountain of legal bills."

After Grosskeutz was shot, a friend of his, Jacob Marshall, posted a photo of them together in the hospital with the caption “can’t stop my boy.” In the comments section in the post, Marshall said “I just talked to Gaige Grosskreutz too. His only regret was not killing the kid and hesitating to pull the gun before emptying the entire mag.” When asked about those comments while under oath, Marshall opted to claim that he made up that quote - which seems unlikely given Grosskreutz’ actions before getting shot.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/05/2023 08:37 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Grosskreutz, a criminal, Possessed a gun illegally and traveled 40 miles to Kenosha. Perhaps he was hoping to add to an already illustrious criminal history that includes domestic abuse, drunk driving, burglary, possessing a loaded gun while drunk, trespassing and other offenses — but the fact is he was 40 miles from home and carrying an illegal weapon. He told the jury while under cross examination that he was armed with a handgun and had drawn the weapon before being shot by Rittenhouse.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/05/2023 15:53 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
S.Sudan peace deal violated as Salva Kiir fires Defence, Interior ministers
[NATION.AFRICA] South Sudan President Salva Kiir has fired his government's Defence and Interior ministers in a move that goes against the terms of a peace agreement signed with opposition party leader Riek Machar.

The sacked Defence minister is Angelina Teny, who is Machar's wife, while the Interior minister is Mahmoud Solomon.

Rooters reported that President Kiir violated the terms of the peace agreement by transferring the Defence ministry to his party, when the position was set aside for Machar's party. He handed Mr Machar's party the Interior ministry instead.

"The switch... is unilateral and a new cycle of violating the revitalised agreement," Rooters quoted Machar's spokesperson, Puok Both Baluang, as saying.

Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung...
Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity (so to speak) within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
on Friday urged the leaders of South Sudan to make "a new start" for peace, warning that history would remember them based on their actions, as he began a three-day visit to the violence-wracked country.

"The process of peace and reconciliation requires a new start," the 86-year-old pontiff said in a speech at the presidential palace in Juba, calling for intensified efforts to end conflict in the world's newest nation.

"Future generations will either venerate your names or cancel their memory, based on what you now do," he told an audience that included President Kiir, Machar, as well as diplomats, religious leaders and traditional kings.

Since South Sudan declared independence from Sudan in 2011, peace has eluded the impoverished country, with a five-year civil war between forces loyal to Kiir and Machar leaving 380,000 people dead and four million displaced.

"No more bloodshed, no more conflicts, no more violence and mutual recriminations about who is responsible for it, no more leaving your people athirst for peace," Francis said.

The "pilgrimage of peace" is the first ever papal visit to South Sudan since the predominantly Christian nation gained independence from Moslem-majority Sudan after decades of war.

It follows a four-day visit to 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...
, where a brutal conflict in the mineral-rich east was high on the pope's agenda.

As well as politicians, the pontiff is also expected to meet victims of conflict, and church officials, between prayers and an outdoor mass that is expected to draw large crowds.
Posted by: Fred || 03/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
Another FBI Whistleblower Says He Was Forced To Inflate Domestic Terrorism Numbers
[ZERO] Another FBI whistleblower has stepped forward to tell the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Federal Government that the agency had him boost domestic terrorism figures by dividing cases into multiple subdivisions.

FBI Special Agent Garret O'Boyle from the Kansas City field office told Congressional investigators that the agency had him divide a single domestic terrorism case into "four different cases," so that the FBI could go to Congress and say "look at all the domestic terrorism we’ve investigated," Fox News reports.

"Where, really, I was working on one case," O'Boyle continued. "But, the FBI can then say, well, he actually had four, and so we need you to give us more money because look at how big of a threat all this domestic terrorism is."

He also said that the FBI created a specific threat tag for pro-lifers "THREATSCOTUS2022" amid the leak of the Supreme Court's opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Center - as opposed to the raging pro-abortionists nationwide.

According to O'Boyle, the threat tag was shifted and "began focusing on pro-life adherence."

"When this threat tag came out, it was like, why are you focusing on pro-life people?" he said in an interview reviewed by Fox News. "It’s pro-choice people who are the ones protesting or otherwise threatening violence in front of Supreme Court justices’ houses."

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#1  There are two sides of every debate, and the FBI works to help the anti-America camp in all cases.
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#2  "Where, really, I was working on one case," O'Boyle continued. "But, the FBI can then say, well, he actually had four, and so we need you to give us more money because look at how big of a threat all this domestic terrorism is."

Manipulating metrics in order to get more power and money is par for the course for any bureaucracy, public or private.
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fuel storage depot fire in Jakarta killed at least 17 people, including two children
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