[FoxNews] The illegal immigrants colonists who were involved in a fatal Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, highway crash last week reportedly paid up to $10,000 each to be smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border.
The 25 immigrants colonists were jammed into a single SUV that crashed into a semi-truck in Holtville, a town about 125 miles east of San Diego, near the border.
13 of the passengers were killed. The remaining victims are still being treated for their wounds, but are likely to be deported once they recover — unless they file an asylum claim, according to the Daily Mail which was the first to report on their payments.
The immigrants colonists paid between $5,000 and $10,000 to be smuggled across the border, with Guatemalan immigrants colonists paying the highest fee. Their ages ranged from 15 to 53 and were a mix of males and females, officials said.
Customs and Border Protection sources told Fox News that the crash happened after a hole was cut in the border fence near Calexico, Calif.
The fence, likely constructed some time between 2007 and 2009, was cut several miles east of the port of entry and did not involve Trump wall construction.
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There were 25 people in the vehicle (25 x $5,000 is $125,000 to smugglers)!
The coyotes removed all but the two front seats to fit them all in the large SUV.
So 12 others are seriously injured because the coyote driver was speeding and lost control and hit a heavy gravel truck.
So 12 seriously injured illegal aliens are in a US emergency room at American taxpayers expense (13 x $4,000 is $52,000 per day).
I recommend returning the aliens to their country of origin ASAP to save taxpayers millions of dollars.
The California AG should sue the Biden Administration to recover the lost funds.
Except California's AG was just approved as Biden's Secretary of HHS.
While acting as California's AG, Xavier Becerra was busy suing and putting pro-life organizations and their members out of business so Planned Parenthood had no competition.
One can imagine what Becerra would do running HHS as a lawyer.
During his confirmation hearing even Mitt Romney had to question Becerra's stance on partial birth abortion.
My guess is Becerra will get Planned Parenthood to takeover HHS to implement the global cabal agenda to abort American babies
and replace them with young unaccompanied minor refugees from central and south American countries.
The blue state public schools will raise these orphaned children under the woke agenda to perpetuate their global agenda.
OK whether they paid up front or will have to pay by working it off over the next year, is the smaller argument.
Think about the fact that illegals working in the USA at NON-Taxed wages sending $$$$$ back to the Human Trafficking smugglers and part back home using Money orders or
Money-Grams.
All of this money being drained out of our economy, along with stolen jobs, Social Security not being funded, US and State taxes being avoided, Hospital care bills unpaid and on and on. Now add between 11.1 and 12.4 Million others already doing the same thing. Or about $100 Billion per year in drainage and related impacting items and issues.
Ref: Send the bill to Biden to Pay...
Biden does not pay anything.
WE THE PEOPLE PAY.
Maybe if there was a Congressional salary/US Budget clause. Where if the budget is not balanced then Congress must forgo further spending and a salary until it is.
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If they had that kind of money to PAY the traffickers they'd be rich where they came from, so the fee is being paid by others - indentured service deals which are essentially slavery, or by sympathetic parties, for altruistic reasons or more likely for political ones (vote buying.)
#3
Let the peasants have that good Mexican pot and maybe they'll stay in Mexico instead of coming here. But then, far more likely that they'll bring it here with them.
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Avocados? Wow. Sorta like the Corleone Family's olive oil.
[LibyaReview] Syrian mercenaries in Libya are hindering stability in the north-African country, despite the ongoing discussions to grant confidence to the new Government of National Unity (GNU), the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Tuesday.
The SOHR noted that 6,750 Syrian fighters remain in Libya. Since November, the fighters that have been returned to Syria, have only been replaced with new batches of soldiers.
The presence of foreign mercenaries in Libya continues despite international demands for them to withdraw. According to the October ceasefire agreement, all foreign forces were supposed to withdraw from Libya within three months.
According to SOHR statistics, the number of recruits who arrived in Libya was estimated at 18,000 Syrians, including 350 minors under the age of 18. Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... the number of jihadists sent to Libya is thought to have been 10,000 fighters.
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The Jordanian royals can’t stand it that the uppity Juices control the border and entry to a Muslim holyish place, so they manufacture reasons to take offense.
[DW] Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... and state and civic leaders have finalized a plan to improve the integration of immigrants colonists into society, the education system and the job market. It outlines a road map for the coming decade.
Getting a job might have been once been considered enough to be successfully integrated into society as a foreigner. For Germany, that type of thinking is on its way out.
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[IranWire] Milad Baniassad is 28 years old. He lives in an old, abandoned nursing home in the Bosnian city of Bihać, close to the Croatian border. The building has no windows. His tent is pitched there among the rubble, with just a fireplace to cook food on and keep himself warm.
Milad is an Arab from Ahvaz, Khuzestan province. He left Iran, his parents, and his sisters behind three years ago in the hope of forging a better life for himself in the European Union.
“The Iranian government does not allow people in our region to speak our own language,” he told IranWire. “In general, the government does not want us. We cannot speak the Arabic language or wear our traditional clothes. We can only find work selling vegetables at the market, as all the better jobs are taken by people from other parts of Iran. There is no future for us there. That’s why I left.”
Several other people share a room with Milad, and the whole dilapidated building is full of migrants and refugees, mostly from Pakistan. According to the United Nations Human Rights Council, around 8,000 refugees and migrants are currently in Bosnia, which is located on one of the principal routes to the EU from West Asia. Between 2019 and the end of 2020, the UNHCR reports that 4,933 Iranians have come to southeastern Europe. From here, they generally try to cross the border into Croatia to head toward Italy, but the Croatian border police prevent many of them from crossing. More at the link
#3
Avhaz Province is where the Sunni Arabs have been rambunctious about becoming independent from Iran’s Shiite Persian Mullahs. They turn up in our archives from time to time, both at home and in Europe.
#4
Whenever five or more Muslim men gather they're going to be plotting on taking over things. Whether it's the Sunnis or the Shiites you know they're going to make trouble for you.
[IsraelTimes] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s 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 in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... have vowed to improve cooperation as they launch construction of a new reactor at Turkey’s first nuclear power plant.
The two leaders each pressed a button on their office desks in Moscow and Ankara in a video link ceremony unveiling the third phase of Akkuyu station’s construction project.
Russia’s Rosatom state nuclear energy firm began building the first of four planned reactors on Turkey’s south coast in 2018. Erdogan hopes to put the plant online by the time Turkey celebrates its centenary as a post-Ottoman republic in 2023.
[EpochTimes] White House spokesperson Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama... said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... "declined" an offer of federal funds to pay for CCP virus testing for illegal immigrants colonists, adding that the administration hopes "he’ll reconsider."
"The governor has complained about testing at the border," Psaki said in an interview on MSNBC on Sunday. "FEMA, DHS has worked with local authorities, has worked with local NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] to come up with a plan that would cover 100 percent of testing costs for migrants colonists who cross the border."
"He has declined that funding," she said. "That is something that doesn’t help the people of Texas, and we’re certainly hopeful that he’ll reconsider."
Federal officials have asked Texas to assist with this issue, Abbott said Thursday, but he declined, saying testing and quarantining migrants colonists is the federal government’s job.
"Border security is strictly a federal responsibility. The federal government alone has the responsibility to test, screen, and quarantine illegal immigrants colonists crossing our border who may have COVID," Abbott said in a statement. "Instead of doing their job, the Biden administration suggested it did not have the sufficient resources and, remarkably, asked Texas to assist them in aiding their illegal immigration program. Texas refused."
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... on Friday that the department has been working with local officials in Texas to provide CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus testing and its agreement with partners called for federal funds to cover expenses related to testing, isolation, and quarantine.
"We hope that Gov. Abbott will reconsider his decision to reject DHS’s agreement with the Texan local authorities that would enable the very testing of migrant families that Gov. Abbott says he wants," the spokesperson said.
A Texas Division of Emergency Management spokesperson told Forbes that Abbott has sent some 40,000 virus tests to four border towns since late January, to help those communities deal with an influx of people crossing the border.
The dispute between Biden and Abbott follows reports that over 100 virus-positive illegal immigrants colonists were released by U.S. Border Patrol since January, according to Fox News.
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If I may add.
Instead of spending the US CITIZEN'S Taxpayer $$$$.
If the Socialists and Democrats are so hot a sweaty to treat their future potential voters. Then let their co-opted Political Parties put THEIR OWN $$$$ where their agenda is.
Let the DNC Party itself fund the Illegal's Vax'ing from their 10's of $Millions in back door China Donations. But only AFTER EVERY US CITIZEN has been treated that wants to take the shot.
#5
Funny how since January the CDC has mandated that ALL persons (including US citizens) entering the US of A have a COVID PCR/antigen test within 72 hours of entry. Of course, those things cost money, unless you are an illegal, of course.
#9
I agree with Abbott that testing and quarantining is the job of the Federal government - but by saying so he is pretty much locking the State out of any kind of border or immigrant jurisdiction. That now equals open borders, regardless of the actual laws.
#12
Texas has sent there National Guard to the border and I believe plan to complete the wall. The wave of illegals will move West which brings them closer to those sanctuary cities.
Second gen leaders of the Farmer Protests. Have they been taking Pakistan’s thirty pieces of silver the entire time?
[OneIndia] Farmers are ready to stay put on Delhi borders to protest against three agri laws for the remaining three and half years of the Modi government''s second term and the stir cannot be "culled" any which way the Centre tries, legendary farm leader Mahendra Singh Tikait''s son Narendra Tikait says.
Narendra, who does not hold any official position in Bharatiya Kisan Union, formed by his father in 1986, and mostly focusses on the family''s farming activities but is as vocal on issues concerning farmers as his two elder brothers Naresh and Rakesh Tikait who are leading from the front in the agitation that has been continuing for more than 100 days.
Speaking to PTI at his home in Sisauli, Muzaffarnagar district, 45-year-old Narendra also said his two brothers and the entire Tikait family would leave the protest if even smallest of any wrongdoing is proved against even a single family member, as he rejected allegations by some quarters that they have built properties and made money from the agitation.
The eldest brother Naresh Tikait is BKU president, while Rakesh Tikait holds the position of national spokesperson of the organization, which under Mahendra Singh Tikait''s leadership in 1988 had laid a virtual siege to Meerut in pursuit of higher prices for sugarcane, cancellation of loans and lowering of water and electricity rates. The same year, BKU held a week-long protest in Delhi''s Boat Club to focus on the plight of farmers.
After Mahendra Singh Tikait''s death in 2011, Naresh and Tikait have been leading the main organization in various roles, though a number of faction groups have emerged in various parts of the country over the years.
Farmers agitation will continue till three farm laws are withdrawn: Rakesh Tikait
Narendra said the Centre is under any misconception that it can "cull" the farmers'' protest like it has "culled" other agitations in the past using various tactics.
"I am here in Sisauli but my eyes are there at the protest," he said, adding that he keeps visiting Ghazipur border where hundreds of farmers and BKU supporters are camping since November 2020.
Asked about allegations that the Tikait family holds land worth hundreds of crores and that BKU is involved in hooliganism in the region, he said, "There is nothing that they (the government) could find against us and therefore this (levelling allegations) is happening. If they find a single fault in any member of our family, then we will return from Delhi."
He also rejected allegations of hooliganism by BKU as incorrect.
"Why would we do it? Some even say that we are taking money for the protest. More than 200 of our farmers have sacrificed their lives during the protest. People are donating money even during the last rites of those who have died. There is no question of we taking money for protests as we are not short on any resources," he said.
Describing his family''s position as Chaudhary or head of Balyan Khap (the Balyan caste council), Tikait said this Khap leads 84 villages in the region as per traditions continuing for ages.
His eldest brother Naresh Tikait is the head of the Balyan Khap, which makes him de facto head of ''Sarv Khap'' (all caste councils).
"We have 84 villages (belonging to the Balyan Khap). By that measure, we have 3 lakh bigha of land. When our father passed away, he had passed on the responsibility of 84 villages to us. We are Chaudhary of 84 villages and all this is ours only. What are we going to do by seeking more money," he said.
Tikait also hinted at a ''Sarv Khap'' meeting in Soram in near future to further mobilise regional support if protests continued further on Delhi''s borders and the government does not agree to farmers'' demands.
India's own Taliban. Indian Governments have been a succession of lily-livered pansies playing with marigolds and vermilion, bowing and joining hands and dancing to stupid hubris, from the day the country became free. If the present rulers had any sense they would just let the military handle the 'revolution', instead of domestic agencies. We would Khashoggi the movement leaders, and any scribes and reporters that dared to air their views or express their outrage over it. Keep culling, while the politicals covered for us at the UN and all those temples of global humanism from Brussels to New York.
The British had strategized the culling of a number of 'criminal communities and tribes' but failed to do it in time and the second world war started; and some of that muscle was drafted, hoping it would perish there, except it didn't. Things like the Criminal Tribes Act (1871) and banning of certain recidivist sections of society were necessary measures in establishing a coherent administration for law abiding people. But Independence brought with it the wonderful Socialist gravy train, and the first rulers were adherents of Gandhi, an insufferably self righteous bastard with delusions of sainthood and love for 'diversity'. These people who are holding entire villages to ransom today are the spawn of those leeches who have benefited from the socialist largesse. A system that appears to be very strong and unitary and crushingly autocratic, but is actually flexible like a 'reed shaken with the wind'.
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Gandhi, an insufferably self righteous bastard with delusions of sainthood and love for 'diversity'.
As racist as any man of his time, he wrote open letters to the Jews under the Nazi jackboot, advising them to proudly bare their necks to the Nazi sword, knowing they’d thusly showed their moral superiority.
#3
/\ To his credit, he worked his arse off as a British, Natal Indian Ambulance Corps stretcher bearer at the Boer War Battle of Spion Kop, Jan 23, 1900 – Jan 24, 1900.
[IsraelTimes] Three rounds of voting on Tuesday night failed to yield victor; terror group’s internal elections are conducted in secret.
Yesterday he’d lost to one of the other guys, but it looks like they repeated the exercise until the correct result occurred.
Yahya Sinwar has won a second term as the organization’s 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 Hamaswith 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... leader, a Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday.
[IsraelTimes] US envoy on Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... Robert Malley tells Axios neither Washington nor Jerusalem wish to see a return to the very public discord that existed between the countries’ leaderships during the runup to the signing of the 2015 nuclear accord with Tehran.
Ahead of the meeting of the nations’ national security advisors tomorrow, Malley says: "We don’t always agree, but the talks are extremely open and positive. While we may have different interpretations and views as to what happened in 2015—2016, neither of us wishes to repeat it," Malley said.
Unnamed Israeli officials tell Axios their focus during tomorrow’s round of talks will be to provide American officials with their latest intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program.
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Thank goodness that’s decided — until the next time local Malaysian Muslims decide to bully their local Christian minority again.
[BenarNews] Malaysian Christians are allowed to use the word "Allah" to refer to God in educational publications, a High Court ruled on Wednesday in ending a decades-long ban, which the court said was unconstitutional because it restricted religious freedom.
The Kuala Lumpur High Court further ruled that a 1986 directive by the home ministry to bar the use of Allah and three other Arabic words in Christian publications was illegal and irrational, because Malay Christians had used these words for more than 400 years, the state-run Bernama news agency reported about the verdict.
"The use of the words would not disrupt public order," Judge Nor Bee Ariffin said in her ruling allowing Christian publications to use not just "Allah, but also the words "baitullah," "kaabah" and "solat."
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] As Leb ...an Iranian colony 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 dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of 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... ’s street protests expanded to areas in South Lebanon - the stronghold of the Shiite duo (Amal Movement and Hezbollah) — political reactions by the two parties reflected a divergence in views.
The protests extended to the South and the southern suburbs of Beirut, where several roads were blocked with burning tires.
Amal, headed by Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... , was accused on social media of inciting its supporters to participate in the protests as a means to pressure President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... to conclude a settlement with President-designate Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... that would produce a new government.
While Amal sources stressed that the party had nothing to do with these moves, they noted in a statement to Asharq al-Awsat that addressing the financial and living crisis and economic deterioration "can only be done with the presence of an effective government."
Hezbollah and Amal Movement have conflicting stances over many files, including the relationship with the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... , Hezbollah’s ally. Disagreements between their supporters are also increasing, especially on social media, regarding political approaches to internal and regional policies.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... sources close to the Shiite duo said that the disagreements were only "about the details", stressing that the two parties met on strategic files and major issues, including "the need to form a government that would address the living and economic crises," as well as "major strategic headlines linked to the conflict with Israel and the need to resist it."
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The State Department blacklisted on Tuesday two Iranian government officials and barred them and their immediate family members from entering the United States, in what appeared to be the first such action against Tehran under the Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Candidate for president in 2020. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... administration.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement the US turned to the Human Rights Council in Geneva to outline its "concerns about the abuses the Iranian government continues to perpetrate against its citizens."
He announced the designation of Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) interrogators Ali Hemmatian and Masoud Safdari for their involvement in gross violations of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... , namely the torture and/or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CIDTP) of political prisoners and persons detained during protests in 2019 and 2020 in Iran.
The statement said these individuals and their immediate family members are ineligible for entry into the US.
"We will continue to consider all appropriate tools to impose costs on those responsible for human rights violations and abuses in Iran," the Secretary of State said, adding that Washington will also work with its allies to promote accountability for such violations and abuses.
"The United States will continue to support the rights of people in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and demand the Iranian government treat its people with respect and dignity," Blinken noted.
The Biden administration chose to take the action despite its efforts to coax Iran into negotiations over the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that former President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... withdrew from in 2018, dramatically increasing tensions with Tehran.
The sanctions came amid a rare move by 140 politicians urging the Biden administration on Tuesday to seek a "comprehensive" deal with Iran that addresses not just its nuclear program, but a range of other national security issues.
A letter sent to Blinken Tuesday and signed by 70 Republican and 70 Democratic House members, called for an agreement or set of agreements that reinstate limits on Iran's nuclear program, curtail its ballistic missile program, and address its "malign behavior" throughout the Middle East.
"We're encouraging the administration to look at how do you bring Democrats and Republicans together around an issue that should unify us, and that is addressing the risk presented by Iran," said Representative Anthony Brown, who helped organize Democratic signatures.
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Tack port. No, tack starboard. No, port. No, starboard. Rinse and repeat.
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Before or after giving the Ayatollahs $1 billion?
[AnNahar] A British-Australian academic who spent two years imprisoned in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has claimed Tehran tried to recruit her as a spy in exchange for her freedom.
In her first media interview since returning to Australia last November, Middle East scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert said Iranian officials asked her "many times" to work as a spy.
She had an Israeli boyfriend, which was enough to spin Iranian imaginations up to 200%.
She was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to 10 years in jail for espionage, an allegation she has denied.
"I knew that the reason that they didn't engage in any meaningful negotiations with the Australians was because they wanted to recruit me. They wanted me (to work) for them as a spy," she told Sky News Australia on Tuesday.
Moore-Gilbert also said she was beaten during her detention and suffered "psychological torture" from spending seven months in solitary confinement.
"It is so damaging. I would say I felt physical pain from the psychological trauma I had in that room," she said.
"It is a two-by-two meter box -- there is no toilet, there is no television, there is nothing whatsoever."
She said at times she "felt broken" by the experience of prison and had suicidal thoughts.
"I felt if I have to endure another day of this -- if I could I would just kill myself. But of course I never tried and I never took that step," she said.
Moore-Gilbert also criticized the Australian government's approach to her case, which involved keeping it quiet from the media while negotiating behind the scenes for her release.
"I think had my ordeal been made public, there's no way I would have got 10 years," she said.
"But there was no spotlight, there was no attention... And there was nobody to hold them to account."
Moore-Gilbert added that "much greater attention" was paid to her health and wellbeing once her detention made headlines.
She was arrested by the hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after attending an academic conference in the holy city of Qom in central Iran.
She was released reportedly in a swap for three Iranians linked to a botched plot to kill Israeli officials in Bangkok.
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.
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
...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 in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
[IsraelTimes] Three rounds of voting on Tuesday night failed to yield victor; terror group’s internal elections are conducted in secret.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...an Iranian colony 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 dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of 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...
...Candidate for president in 2020. 
