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'The war has begun' - Polisario Front launches attacks on Moroccan military bases
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
5 Psychological Tricks Sociopaths Use To Manipulate You
[Charisma On Command YouTube]

Posted by: charger || 11/15/2020 00:40 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  caring!
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 v || 11/15/2020 12:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Not only sociopaths use these methods to manipulate. The talking heads on the MSM also do by using disinformation (lies). The MSM has gaslighted us like crazy. For what purpose? To seize power and push an ideology and a globalist agenda. MAGA has been a great threat to them and their objectives.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/15/2020 15:57 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Operation Warp Speed Success As 20 Million Covid Vaccine Doses Expected In December
[Federalist] The White House’s Operation Warp Speed chief, Dr. Moncef Slaaoui, who is leading the Trump administration’s efforts to expedite vaccine development for the novel Wuhan coronavirus, said Friday that 20 million doses would be distributed in December.

On Monday, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced its leading candidate for a COVID vaccine proved 90 percent effective in late-stage large-scale clinical trials getting ready for public distribution.

BREAKING: Two vaccines that are currently completing Phase 3 trials could be approved by the US FDA in a matter of weeks — ready to immunise 20 million Americans in December and 25-30 million a month subsequently. pic.twitter.com/hqCf6YYgB6

- Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) November 13, 2020


Also, from ZeroHedge: Fauci Showed Breakthrough Pfizer COVID Vaccine Results To Biden Before Trump, Azar Confirms
When news first broke about the headline numbers from Pfizer's vaccine trial on Monday morning, we couldn't help but wonder how the Trump Administration and the White House had seemingly been left out of the loop. The Biden team was reportedly briefed on the data Sunday, one day before its release. Meanwhile, many at the WH first learned about the data from the press.
Posted by: Gleper Angemble8998 || 11/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How's Sputnik V doin'?
Posted by: Clem || 11/15/2020 9:37 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Ethiopian cities hit by rockets from Tigray forces
[DW]

The Æthiopian government said on Saturday that fighters from the northern Tigray region had fired rockets at the cities of Bahir Dar and Gondar in the Amhara region.

The Amhara region's troops have been fighting alongside government forces against soldiers loyal to the Tigray ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)
...yes, they are Marxists...
in a conflict that erupted earlier this month.

Debretsion Gebremichael, leader of the TPLF, told AFP that while he did not know anything about an attack, "any airport used to attack Tigray will be a legitimate target."

DEATHS REPORTED IN GONDAR
The airports in both Bahir Dar and Gondar are used for military as well as civilian aircraft.

However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
Getachew Reda, a spokesperson for the TPLF said in a statement on Tigray TV: "Our forces have conducted a counterattack to the Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s that we've been sustaining repeatedly. Military targets in Bahir Dar and Gondar have been hit with missiles."

"As long as the attacks on the people of Tigray do not stop, the attacks will intensify," he added.

Residents reportedly heard gunfire on Friday night, however, this has not yet been confirmed.

A doctor at a hospital in Gondar, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
to AFP, said that "there were at least two dead" and "10 to 15 injured." He said the injuries he saw came from a kaboom rather than bullets adding that there were "no civilians at all" among the dead or injured.

A statement from the Amhara regional government said that "the situation was controlled within a few minutes" and "our cities are in peace."

CONFLICT MAY SPREAD
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a military offensive against the Tigray region on November 4 after accusing local Tigray troops of attacking federal military camps in the area. The TPLF denies the claims.

Tigray is a federal state with many autonomous powers and home to many ethnically distinct people who make up around 6% of Æthiopia's 110 million-strong population.

Now considered a rebel group by the central government, the TPLF is also the leading party in Tigray and once dominated the government coalition in Addis Ababa. The party no longer feels represented by the central Æthiopian government.

Hundreds of people have already been killed in the festivities and more than 14,500 people have already fled into neighboring Sudan.

DW spoke with Samuel Getachew, a journalist from Addis Ababa about the conflict. Asked what lay at the heart of the violence, Getachew said: "You have to remember the TPLF was in charge of the Æthiopian federal government for 27 years so they've only gone back to their own state in the last three years. So it looks like it's a mixture of a power struggle and not wanting to accept the changes that are happening in Addis Ababa."
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies


China-Japan-Koreas
A 1000-year-old temple in China became a place to venerate XiJinping
[Parler] China in Focus·@ChinainFocus
13 hours ago·Impressions12847

"Because in China it is the authority above all else.”

A 1000-year-old #temple in China is no longer a place of worship. Instead, it's become a place to venerate Chinese #CommunistParty head #XiJinping.
Watch the full episode on the “ China in Focus ” YouTube channel.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/15/2020 02:28 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies


China's 'aircraft-carrier killer' missiles DF26B and DF21D successfully hit target ship in SouthChinaSea
Was it made of cardboard or of plywood?
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I like the way they're labeled in english.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/15/2020 11:50 Comments || Top||


Europe
Austria goes into national lockdown Tuesday as Covid-19 cases rise
[France24] Austria will introduce a national lockdown on Tuesday in a bid to bring its soaring coronavirus infections under control, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Saturday.

Non-essential shops will close and the current curfew from 8pm to 6am will be expanded into an all-day requirement to stay at home, with specific exceptions such as shopping for essentials or exercise, Kurz said. People should work from home wherever possible, he added.

The lockdown is due to last almost three weeks, with the last day set for December 6.

The Austrian government had so far used a lighter touch in dealing with the second wave of coronavirus cases than the first.

A nighttime curfew this month failed to stop infections from accelerating. Daily new cases hit a record of 9,586 on Friday, nine times higher than at the first wave's peak.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/15/2020 08:05 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  1 in 1000 people get infected in Austria DAILY (more than 9000 on Friday, pop. 9 million.

This would be like Germany adding 83,000 cases per day, or the U.S. 335,000 per day.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/15/2020 11:24 Comments || Top||

#2  The article at the link does not say whether the rate of severe infections needing hospitalization has inceased commensurately, European Conservative, or discussed how much improved treatment techniques have impacted that key metric.

On the other hand, with the population shut down, there is little for an overexcited jihadi to attack, which is no doubt why there haven’t been copycats of Vienna‘s Nine Minute Wonder.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/15/2020 12:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Undoubtedly a huge acceleration of new cases. But has there been a commensurate acceleration of new tests? Has/will hospitalization/fatality increases followed? Is there a 'cause?' Increased social gathering? Decreased masking? Or maybe decreased vitamin D as sunlight fades into winter? It all seems over-simplified.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/15/2020 15:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
SCYTL RAZZIA in Frankfurt? The involvement of the Spanish company Scytl in the US elections – US Army confiscates Server
Unverified, single source reporting on the "raid."
References links, good stuff.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/15/2020 09:24 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "a US Army (CIA?) Team raided the Scytl server facility in Frankfurt"

No this is impossible. U.S. authorities would need to ask German authorities to do that. And we would know if that happened.

SYCTL has strictly denied the claims. They have no servers in Frankfurt either. All technologies implemented by Scytl in the US are both hosted and managed within the US, by a local subsidiary, SOE Software, based in Tampa, Florida. Syctl doesn't tabulate, tally or count votes in the US.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/15/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#2  And the purported support from Gohmert is just a remark that he's heard of the same single-sourced report everyone else has seen.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/15/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#3  EC hat völlig Recht./EC is absolutely correct. As mentioned yesterday, even on US military installations, the German government has jurisdiction. If the Germans decide to let the US military handle it (concerning service members), then that is the Germans' decision and their decision only.
Posted by: Clem || 11/15/2020 12:41 Comments || Top||

#4  INTERIOR - DAYTIME, A MODERN OFFICE
( A prisoner is tied on the floor. Men in stylish yet durable military uniforms are carting off a server farm)
Prisoner: Hey, who are you guys? There's no insignia on your uniforms.
Guy In Charge: Mr. Trump sent us.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/15/2020 12:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election

Report due 17 January.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 11/15/2020 17:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Didn't the DNI already say there was no "interference"?
Posted by: Clem || 11/15/2020 17:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Anomalous -- long after the electors have cast their votes. That 45 day period is garbage.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/15/2020 18:22 Comments || Top||

#8  And of course we notified Pakistan, and Iran, and a half dozen countries in South America when we sent troops in.
Posted by: b || 11/15/2020 19:13 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Elon Musk says 'most likely' has a moderate case of COVID-19
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/15/2020 01:44 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


-PC Follies
Suspended NASCAR driver says he didn't intentionally draw a swastika on his toaster strudel
[NEWS.YAHOO] Truck Series driver Josh Reaume was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR on Tuesday for violating its social media policy. And according to Reaume, that violation was unintentional.
You know it's going to be something really stoopid when it involves violating social media policy.
Reaume, who owns a team in the Truck Series, says he posted a picture to Snapchat of a toaster strudel last week. That seems pretty innocuous, right?
I'm not sure you can get more trivial than that.
Well, the icing on that strudel was drawn in the shape of a swastika. And Reaume said he somehow didn’t realize that he had drawn a strudel swastika when he posted the picture to Snapchat.
Intention aside, why is two intersecting crooked lines grounds for an indefinite suspension from your vocation?
The tweet and his entire account are gone, so we cannot examine the evidence to decide for ourselves.
From TobyChristie.com:
What does a swastika have to do with racing trucks? Are there swastikas on the trucks?
“What happened was, I made a toaster strudel, I put icing on it. I put icing on it arbitrarily. I can — now, that this has become such a significant thing in my life, everything is crystal clear now in what I was thinking. I was mindlessly putting icing on a toaster strudel thinking about how I was going to arrange to get my daughter to day care in the morning because that’s my responsibility and I was flying out to Phoenix the next day.
Sounds reasonable enough...
“When I was done, I took a picture, I wrote, ‘Snack time,’ and posted it to my Snapchat, which I had no idea it was even more than my immediate friend group. [The account is] private, it’s not even under my name, to my knowledge. Now, shame on me for maybe not fully understanding SnapChat, and I don’t care to get on social media in the immediate future, but somebody obviously screen-shotted it or did something with it and pushed it to NASCAR. I don’t know what the image looks like.”
I've yet to take a picture of my bowl of cornflakes or my plate of bacon and eggs to post on social media, but if I did any swastikas, hammers and sickles, or other trademarks would be blurred or pixelated so's not to offend...
Reaume apologized for his actions in that interview and said that “there was not a bone in my body that had an intent of doing that.” But his explanation feels a little flimsy. How was his mind too preoccupied with family stuff to pay attention to how he was icing his strudel, yet clear enough to remember to post a picture of the strudel with the allegedly unintentional icing swastika to Snapchat?
The word "strudel" (much less "toaster strudel") does not appear once in either the "Horst Wessel Lied" or "Deutschland über Alles." Is the guy a drooling antisemite? Does he like marching in formation with guys who play dress up in Nazi suits? Does his right arm sporadically erupt in a Hitler Grüsse? Does he plan on invading the Low Counties? Probably an afternoon's mockery and derision is a more appropriate punishment than taking away his livelihood indefinitely.
Posted by: Fred || 11/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I had a bowl of Cheerios. They look like the insignia to the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Not sure about my Italian espresso, but I think they are considering getting their beans from Ethiopia.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/15/2020 12:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Toaster strudels are inherently racist and are to be pulled from the shelves of the major chains in 5...4...3....
Posted by: Clem || 11/15/2020 12:45 Comments || Top||

#3  NASCAR, really..... woke "rednecks"? mabey they should consider getting new management.....
Posted by: 746 || 11/15/2020 13:08 Comments || Top||

#4  I will never forget the horror I felt when I pulled the distributor cap off my Ford Pinto and realized the distributor rotor was exactly like one of the cross-bars on a Nazi Swastika. Despite lacking the other cross-bar and the little pinwheel arms, it was a perfect replica of the dreaded Nazi (National Socialist) symbol. I was shocked. But that might have been from leaning over the battery.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/15/2020 13:38 Comments || Top||

#5  This isn't the Bee? Damn, down another dollar!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/15/2020 13:44 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 Well, Henry Ford was a fan of the Nazis and even received a medal.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 11/15/2020 13:54 Comments || Top||

#7  "toaster strudel" was of course the password used by Nazi spies infiltrating our shipyards in WWII

not
Posted by: Bill Bumble3533 || 11/15/2020 14:17 Comments || Top||

#8  I thought this had to be the BEE.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/15/2020 15:59 Comments || Top||

#9  I was reminded of the story of the little kid who got suspended from school for chewing his pop tart into "the shape of a gun..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/15/2020 16:23 Comments || Top||

#10  Toaster strudels are inherently racist and are to be pulled from the shelves of the major chains

The inner cities would starve.
Posted by: Marilyn Hapsburg2880 || 11/15/2020 17:27 Comments || Top||

#11  Are Pop-Tarts still around? I used eat them cold.
Posted by: Clem || 11/15/2020 17:55 Comments || Top||

#12  in the movie Mean Girls, one of the girls brags that her father is the inventor of Toaster Shrudels
Posted by: lord garth || 11/15/2020 22:06 Comments || Top||

#13  Are Pop-Tarts still around?

Yes, and in even more flavours.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/15/2020 23:33 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2020-11-15
  'The war has begun' - Polisario Front launches attacks on Moroccan military bases
Sat 2020-11-14
  Zawahiri reportedly died a month ago of natural causes
Fri 2020-11-13
  Seven Soldiers Killed in Burkina Faso Attack
Thu 2020-11-12
  Turkey signs MoU for ceasefire in war it instigated and supplied terrorist Syrian mercenaries for in Karabakh
Wed 2020-11-11
  Minneapolis Starts Begging For Outside Resources
Tue 2020-11-10
  Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says he signed an ''extremely painful'' agreement with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Russia to end the war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region
Mon 2020-11-09
  Iraqi forces launch 'large scale' anti-ISIS air and ground operation in Salahaddin
Sun 2020-11-08
  Turkish-backed forces attack Syrian Christian city in Hama
Sat 2020-11-07
  Vienna anti-terror chief suspended after failure to prevent Islamist shooting
Fri 2020-11-06
  Marauding mob of antifa smashed up buildings one-by-one in Portland to protest election, IED and other weapons found
Thu 2020-11-05
  Armenian forces stifle Azerbaijani advance into key city
Wed 2020-11-04
  Joe Biden's campaign says he will have path to victory later Wednesday
Tue 2020-11-03
  Day 2: Vienna synagogue shooting: Active shooter situation in Austria
Mon 2020-11-02
  Report: At least one dead in shooting attack near synagogue in Vienna
Sun 2020-11-01
  Islamic State claims responsibility for church attack in Congo


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