[Washington Examiner] The anti-illegal immigration ads federal agencies air in Central American countries are useless, former senior Trump officials say, undercutting one of the Biden administration's defenses of its border policies.
Some liberal immigrant groups also said the ads do not stop migrants from coming to the United States and added that there is no research to support their efficacy.
Political pressure from the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border pushed President Joe Biden to launch the ad campaign in January, with tens of thousands of radio ads in Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras in Spanish, Portuguese, and six indigenous languages. The ads played on 33 radio stations, reaching an estimated 15 million individuals, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at a press briefing last week.
Psaki presented the ads as a meaningful example of actions taken by the Biden administration to help stem the tide of illegal migrants. Republicans have accused the Biden administration of an "open borders agenda" and a "public health crisis."
Trump administration officials and some immigrant advocacy groups say the ads are not effective at actually reducing the flow of migrants, who are facing extreme crowding in government facilities and are straining resources at border towns at the same time.
The State Department, which is placing most of these ads in conjunction with embassies, said that "data shows mobile is the dominant source of media consumption in the region," and digital ads placed on Facebook and Instagram have reached more than 26 million people since Inauguration Day.
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They’ll have had some of those things back home, Skidmark. But the ads announcing organized caravan embarkation dates, sponsored by various Progressive billionaire charity funds, have been running since 2018.
[M. Murcek] Yes. Long winded and not entirely PC. Prompted by discussion with Besoeker in the comments about keeping sugar out of food. But I share when I can...
Ok, let’s start here. What you’re eatin’ is chili. One of the things that’s in it ’r called chiles. There’s also somethin’ called chillis, over in India, but you got to get on a boat to get to them, and we just ain’t doin’ that. Don’t mix these up in conversation, you’ll just be makin’ people think yer ignorant, and we know you ain’t that, or you wouldn’t be here now, eatin’ chili.
This here is Basic Texas Red chili, so called ’cause we aimed to use as few ingredients as we felt were necessary. First, there’s pureed New Mexico chiles, which we got already prepared from the dry goods man in Old El Paso. They’re where the Red comes from. Over in New Mexico, that’s it, that and whatever spices the cook cares to add — or thinks he can get away with — is considered chili. It can actually be quite good. I think it’s just ’cause New Mexico chuck wagon cooks are sorta’ lazy. Must be those mountains they got to go up ’n’ down. We went on and added Spanish onion, green chiles, chili powder, cumin, and of course, beef, lots and lots of beef. Late in the game, we decided some pasilla peppers were also in order.
Now, in Texas, the vast majority of folks - you can never say "everybody" in such a big place - consider beans in the chili a hangin’ offense. In places where an argument may get settled with a brandin’ iron, a six-shooter, or a rope, it’s best to leave the beans at home, or at least not in the chili.
We shall reserve discussion of what’s in store for those using green bell pepper, brown sugar, ground meat, or attempting to pass off that "cincinnati style" stuff as chili for a time when the women and children are out of earshot. Spaghetti? Well, I never...
Not everyone can take the heat, and out here there’s no kitchen to get out of, so we have made an arrangement intended to maximize everyone’s satisfaction — how’s that fer sum fancy words? We have some friends back East, the Weaver family at Meadowview Farm, in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. These nice folks grow more than 200 varieties of hot chiles, 75 some types of "heirloom" tomatoes, and this old wagon boss personally never even knew that there’s at least 25 kinds of eggplant, but they grow ’em.
Anyways, we get a bunch of these different hot chiles, dry ’em out, grind ’em and invite the brave — or foolish — to add some of ’em to their bowl of red. We call this mixture Neutron Powder, in honor of some of that egghead stuff they do over at Los Alamos and Sandia. It ain’t quite radioactive, but you’d be advised to take care. A little goes a l-o-n-g way. Enter this high-stakes game at your own risk!
We have now finished jawin’ about what is and ain’t in a batch of chili.
We let this all cook slow for at least six hours. Beef cattle are more intelligent beasts than most folks suspect, but they are stubborn critters, and six hours cooks that stubbornness right out of ’em. Of course, six hours of cookin’ means the chuck wagon crew will have a long, busy day. To make this little ’ol batch, we had to cut up 18 pounds of tip roast into all them bite-size pieces. Many’s the wagon boss who’s happy to have a young Mexican or Indian boy or gal to do all that cuttin’. Some of these youngsters are so good with a knife that you gotta keep a extra close eye on ’em when the ain’t actually workin’. If they got to cut up a whole cow, well, they’ll be workin’ for quite a while.
Once all that beef is cut up, it goes with all the other ingredients into the pot and onto the fire — or into the crock pot, if you will. At this point, we need only be sure not to burn it. Not only will burnin’ it make the cowboys mad at the end of the day, but will also be a waste of all our hard work, so we’ll watch, and stir it on sparin’ occasion.
Now, the wagon boss has six hours to mess with. Some are known to practice fast shufflin’, bottom dealin’, quick drawin’, six shooter twirlin’, knot tyin’, knife throwin’ or lyin’. Then there’s also takin’ a spell for a siesta in the shade under the chuck wagon. Last one’s been known to be a favorite of mine. I already figgered out how to do all that other stuff. Don’t be tryin’ to sneak up, my quick drawin’s pretty good.
Bud’s Chili
2 jars salsa
1 bottle chili powder
1-2 tablespoons cumin
2-4 cans chopped green chilis
½ - 1 medium white onion, diced
2 cans pinto or chili beans, drained and rinsed
5 lb. Meat — your choice, see below
Combine in crock-pot as follows:
2 jars salsa, add chili powder (use hot Mexican chili powder if additional zip is needed), cumin, chopped green chilis and diced white onion (try red onion or Vidalia for a difference) turn crock pot on high and drain, rinse and add beans (or leave ’em out if you don’t like beans)
The meat is where the sky’s the limit. My fans say that the stewing beef I use is their favorite. Cut each piece of stewing beef up into 5-6 smaller pieces. This is the only labor-intensive part of the recipe. You can also substitute cubed pork, or a combination of cubed meat and ground meat, all ground meat or even turkey! (If you use turkey, consider using 1 jar green salsa and one jar turkey gravy in place of the regular salsa. You can also add some baker’s chocolate to the turkey chili for something really different)
Add the meat directly to the pot (no browning) Leave on high until uniform red color begins to appear, then cut back to auto-shift (if using a highly-recommended Hamilton Beach crock-pot) or low, otherwise. Cook about 6 hours from time the meat is added (somewhat less for turkey). Refrigerate overnight, then skim away the fat, which will crust up on top. Reheat and eat!
Additional serving suggestions: Over macaroni or rice; wrap in a tortilla (good but sloppy); layer with tortillas in a baking dish and bake to make Mexican lasagna; put on a pizza shell and bake in oven or on closed grill with cheese to make chili pizza.
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That recipe just reeks of racism and pro-Georgia voter registration laws.
But I bet Stacey "M1A1" Abrams is dying to try it out, but I don't think she can wait six hours.
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#3 I'm sure Stacy has knocked back a few hamburgers in her a half-day
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Delightful, M.!
That would be your standard ~2 oz. bottle of chili powder, I assume — do you have preferred brands for any of this? — and what size for the jars and cans?
What the Indians call chillis are just whichever varieties of hot pepper (capsicum) grow over there, as far as I know.
I don’t have a crockpot, but make do with at least a 6 qt Dutch oven for a batch that starts with 3 pounds of ground beef — in a 225 - 250F oven in the winter, in a styrofoam cooler in the summer — after browning the beef, sautéing the aromatics (onion, garlic, bell pepper, celery, because that’s how my darling mother-in-law makes it), and bringing the sauce to a boil on the stove so that the chili never has time to sit in the pot at bacteria-growing temps — and letting it cook low and slow between two hours and overnight. I haven’t found that the chili needs stirring once assembled in the pot. I mostly drain the fat after browning the beef, because removing the fat layer at the end removes the flavours absorbed therein, but I do use the fat to sauté the aromatics, which increases the beefy flavour of the thing. On the other hand, except for using ground beef instead of the labour of cutting up a roast, my version is much more labour intensive, which wouldn’t do for cooking on the trail.
Cincinnati chili was invented by an immigrant Greek restaurant owner, which explains both the cinnamon and the spaghetti.
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^ We don't mention Cinci chili in polite company. Love this recipe! I will insist on using cast iron Dutch oven. Crock just doesn't come to heat n brown the way I like. Some crocks you can brown in and then slow cook - I'm still stuck with the 20th century version. Thanks M Murcek for a good lookin' pot o'
red!
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I’m sure Stacy hits the The Varsity For chili steaks, chili dogs, several onion rings and an F.O.
Dutch oven is the way to go. I use a Le Creuset 9 quart, but any good cast iron will certainly do.
I like Badia Mexican chili powder but Tones is good too. I think 1/3 to 1/2 cup is th right amount for 5 pounds of meat.
I usually brown the beef these days. It adds flavor.
Overnight in the fridge and take away the dial soap colored fat on top. Seems that fridge time adds flavor.
Chili's one of those things that has lots of room for imagination, but yes, some sadly can ruin anything.
I think if you respect the meat you can do a million wonderful things to make it your own.
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I love beans too. But I know a lot of people who don't. As with people who don't like cilantro, cumin or garlic, I feel sorry for them and keep using those things anyway.
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Oh, shite, I forgot to mention. Typical jars of salsa go 14.5 oz. I like Publix store brand best. Old El Paso also good. For some reason Pace's is just too sweet for my taste.
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Sorry, Cincinnati chili will always be an unhealthy part of my diet. I know it's really just an eastern Mediterranean beef stew adapted to America and thrown over pasta, but give me a Five Way and a couple coneys and I'm happy.
As for standard chili, lately I've been using the Beef Council/Alton Brown pressure cooker Texas Red chili recipe. Good flavor, but not much heat, so I'm slowly increasing the amount of cayenne I are to it.
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From the directions on the back of Carroll Shelby's Chili: Now, don't use meat that's too lean, or you'll ruin the chili.
Who's going to argue with that guy?
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Rob, I need a Chili Mac fix now and then. I totally agree with you. Sometimes.
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Use the salsa, chili power, cumin, onion and green chili with New York strips or filets mignons to make Steak Ranchero.
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We should have a weekly recipe thread at Rantburg
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We talk about food, guns, pickup trucks, tools here. It's unstructured, as it should be. Catch as catch can, find when you will.
Salmagundi. Look it up...
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I like that Carroll Shelbys mix. But gonna have to try yours M
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Hell yes the Carrol Shelby's is damn good. Also just as good is Goldwater's Chili Mix. Created by the good Senator hisself. I had myself a great chilidog Thurs night so I'm still kinda riding the fire if ya know what I mean.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
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No masks were used in the development of this recipe. It's a given St. Fauxi and the crying woman at the CDC would not approve.
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Zenster used to share recipes, back in the day.
#25
Whao...Zenster. ... Murat... .Com.. it's all kinda stosl there
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
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"still there" but original seems appropriate
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I grew up with Cincinnati chili; still remember the frozen blocks of Empress Chili we'd buy, and the inevitable whole dried chile in it.
But I'll eat anything -- just about -- called chili.
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Whoa. Sudden painful nostalgia -- thank you, #27 -- for a certain cafeteria chili I hadn't thought of in years. Damned if I'm not gonna go get some for lunch tomorrow. If they're open.
[Guardian] Van der Hoeven is a co-founder of the Weather Makers, a Dutch firm of “holistic engineers” with a plan to regreen the Sinai peninsula – the small triangle of land that connects Egypt to Asia. Within a couple of decades, the Weather Makers believe, the Sinai could be transformed from a hot, dry, barren desert into a green haven teeming with life: forests, wetlands, farming land, wild flora and fauna. A regreened Sinai would alter local weather patterns and even change the direction of the winds, bringing more rain, the Weather Makers believe – hence their name.
“If anybody doubts that the Sinai can be regreened,” Van der Hoeven told the Egyptian delegates, an assortment of academics, representatives of ministers and military top brass, “then you have to understand that landing on the moon was once thought unrealistic. They didn’t lay out a full, detailed roadmap when they started, but they had the vision. And step by step they made it happen.”
Long interesting article at link. Last graphic would look more natural if it went all the way to the bottom corner of the Sea of Galilee
A valid approach, especially for a local population that has neither the education nor the attitude to maintain a high-tech system. The question is whether the Bedouin tribes and the jihadis will be able to resist raiding for profit and fun.
Israel has been taking a different approach to the desert, hard on the heels of their invention of drip irrigation in the 1960s:
I suspect that if the Egyptians really do start changing the ecosystem, the Israelis will be seized by the spirit of cooperative competition, seeing what improvements they can make to the techniques while reapplying them on their side of the border. To establish a baseline, this video shows what happens in the Judean desert when it rains, once every few years:
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Paging Jahn Kerry, Jahn Kerry another call for Jahn Kerry, please pick up the GREEN phone on your way back from your other green emmisary boondoggle....
#2
The Green Socialists will be all over this fighting it because that's what they do. Never mind that more green in the terrain means more oxygen and less CO2... the Green movement is not about making life better for humans, it is about draconian government power and anti-human rhetoric.
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But IF successful it would add about 44.4 million acres of possible food and cotton growing land to the region.
Add To This
Sometime around 2050, the population of Africa will be 2.5 to 3 times larger than it is now. Given Sub Saharan Africa has many parts already striving now.
This means 3x more food will be needed or starvation and deaths of of millions. Likely resulting growing land wars. All of which will decimate the Sub Saharan Africa area.
Questions:
1. How much of the +/- 680,000 gallons per second would be stolen that is dumped into the Mediterranean Sea (Med) to irrigate 44+ Million acres?
2. How would that affect the Med coastal sharing countries? Would Venice see some sea level drop? Would some Med Seaports have to be closed or deepened?
3. IF any food is grown would it be available to the Sub Shara Africa countries?
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Much of the area depicted on the map is covered by a sand sea to the east and desert pavement to the west. The Israelis did a good job with drip irrigtion in settlements near the Mediterranean. The prospects farther to the south are really very very questionable. Perhaps the Dutch plan on using the same engineers who did the miserable job on the Palm Islands of Dubai.
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the only thing you can predict here is that if it is successful and then you turn it back over to moslem control, it will shortly return to being a desert
[France24] French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has called on Iran to show a constructive stance in indirect talks to be held with a US delegation in Vienna next week as part of broader efforts to revive a 2015 nuclear deal.
I take it nothing at all was learned from the Compiègne Wagon Armistice of 1940.
Following a call with his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif on Saturday, Le Drian said in a statement that he had asked Iran to refrain from further violations of current nuclear commitments to aid discussions.
"I encouraged Iran to be constructive in the discussions that are set to take place," Le Drian said. "They are meant to help identify in the coming weeks the steps that will be needed in order to return to full compliance with the nuclear deal."
The European Union is pushing to bring US President Joe Biden's administration back into the nuclear accord to limit Tehran's ambitions.
The United States will not take part directly in the discussions also involving China, Germany, Russia, and Britain. But for the first time since former leader Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran agreement in 2018, a US delegation will be present.
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Regional domination, proselytism of Islam, and the elimination of the Jew are the long-term goals. Regional domination, did I mention it? Can no one see the parallels? You cannot partner or negotiate with these murderous SOB's.
[Just The News] The Golden Horseshoe is a weekly designation from Just the News intended to highlight egregious examples of wasteful taxpayer spending by the government. The award is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s.
This week, our award is going to Los Angeles County government in California for paying exceedingly high salaries to hundreds of city lifeguards, costing L.A. taxpayers ten of millions of dollars.
The Cabinet Secretaries of the United States of America each earn a salary around $200,000 per year. The top 15 lifeguards in L.A., however, earn closer to $300,000 per year — and some are paid almost $400,000.
A new report from OpenTheBooks.com, profiles the highest earning members of the Los Angeles lifeguard brigade throughout fiscal 2019. A man with the title of "Assistant Chief Lifeguard" made a taxpayer-funded salary of $391,971, including more than $60,000 in non-benefit "perks."
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No problem, Nancy & Co used the Covid bill to cover the exorbitant amounts by levying* the inhabitants of poorer states to cover the generosity of Cali pols et al.
#5
LOL, worked this shat as CWSI back in early 80s during high school and that was pool or river/lake water. The difference is significant but that was rarely reflected in the pay which was only slightly above min wage.
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[Washington Examiner] Charles Barkley says politicians seek to divide people based on race to "keep their grasp on money and power."
Barkley, a former athlete who is an analyst on Inside the NBA, said he finds "most white people and black people are great people," but politicians benefit by pitting them against one another.
"I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, are designed to make us not like each other, so they can keep their grasp [on] money and power," he said during a CBS broadcast prior to Saturday evening's March Madness games. "They divide and conquer."
Barkley said politicians don't have to live with the consequences of racial division because they don't live in the neighborhoods affected by their actions.
"We are so stupid, following our politicians, whether they are Republicans or Democrats, and their only job is, 'Hey, let's make these people not like each other. We don't live in their neighborhoods. We've all got money. Let's make the whites and blacks not like each other. Let's make rich people and poor people not like each other. Let's scramble the middle class.' I truly believe that in my heart," he added.
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He's not wrong.
It's really pretty simple, actually. Look at the collusion and the conspiracy -- that's the word that TIME magazine's scribe chose to describe it -- of this nation's wealthy and powerful to destroy Trump last year. Four individuals spent about $1 billion out of their own pockets to ensure that
- third-world and Tammany-style electoral shenanigans would evade scrutiny and rig the count for Biden in dozens of Democrat-dominated big cities -- this was the aim of Zuckerberg's $500 million spend
- tens of thousands of released felons would have their fines paid and then be registered (and instructed) to vote for Biden in Florida, supposedly tipping the balance there and in the Electoral College -- this was the focus of Bloomberg's $200 million spend
- over $100 million spent by Soros to elect far-left, pro-criminal, cop-hating Communist DAs in dozens of major US cities
- $200 million blown by Steyer on attack advertising against OrangeMan
A BILLUON DOLLARS. From just four individuals. That level of spending to pervert the democratic process has never happened in our history.
The only remotely comparable precedent is from post-Soviet Russia in 1996, when the billionaire oligarchs who looted that country during privat piratization rigged the election to ensure their sick alcoholic patsy Yeltsin would prevail over the Communist Party candidate Zyuganov.
We've become more corrupt than even Yeltsin's Russia.
"Unity" - LOL
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Who would prefer a communist over anyone? Communists are mass murderers.
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Communist Party candidate Zyuganov
Hardline Communist who didn’t want to give up the Soviet Union, chairman of the Communist Party, came out of the propaganda department. Just what Russia needed at that point, fer shure.
#12
Funny how you can wear/display a hammer & sickle or Ché all day every day, but a swastika? No way in Hades. Both repulsive. Time for a Black Book of Communism mention.
[Breitbart] Friday on FNC’s "The Ingraham Angle," Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) attacked Coca-Cola for its response to an effort by the Georgia General Assembly to shore up its election integrity in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.
Paul said there were stark differences in what was being alleged by Democrats and what the legislation in Georgia does.
"There is a difference between in-person and by mail," he said. "By mail should be the exception to the rule, and only for those who can’t show up in person, because it’s much easier to verify who someone is if they show up in person. There’s nothing Jim Crow about this. In fact, what is very insulting and really just gets to me is they’re implying that people of certain races are not able to comply with rules, show up, or have a driver’s license or figure this out. And I think that’s very racist in they’re thinking that they’re certain groups of our people who are incapable of following basic rules. I don’t think it’s true. I think the trend lines for all the different races voting have been good in our country for 20 or 30 years. And all these election bills do is try to make it easier to vote, but harder to cheat."
The Kentucky Republican likened it to the "extortion racket" once employed by Jesse Jackson and challenged Coca-Cola’s objective under these circumstances.
"It’s just an extortion racket that’s been going on for a long time," he said. "Jesse Jackson would do it years ago. He would protest in front of a big corporation that wasn’t doing anything wrong until they gave money to his organization, then his protest would leave the organization. That’s what they’re doing now. They think they can bully. But some of these corporations like Coca-Cola, I recommend people stay away from them. Because here’s the thing, Coca-Cola is now telling people to apologize for being white, apologize for being arrogant, apologize for all these things, supposedly, that white people are doing, and that’s a very racist sort of philosophy. It’s this woke sort of critical race theory. But it’s now infected a publicly-traded company."
"And when they start saying things like that, they’re actually going against what their mandate is," Paul added. "Their mandate is to maximize profit. But they’re — now they’re turning off 40% of the country who don’t really want to be woke up and told that we’re horrible people and don’t believe that there is horrible racism in our country. It’s been getting better generation after generation. And yet, Coca-Cola wants to make us all feel like race is a predominant thing in everyone’s life. And if you’re white, you’re somehow guilty or evil. And that’s a kind of a crazy philosophy for a mainstream company to get. that wants to sell products to all of us. Do they not want any Republicans to buy Coca-Cola products? They’re heading in that direction."
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Not much new here, classic global socialist tribal exclusion. First you must kill off or relocate the targeted population. Then the desired residents (correct tribe or political constituency) can be brought in to occupy the land and back-fill the former residents.
For a contemporary, soon-to-be kinetic example, please see Fred's article entitled 'Moving of S-400 missile systems was reportedly filmed in Voronezh region, south Russia' posted in today's Burg.
Yes, permitting illegal immigrants to cross our Southern border by the hundreds of thousands is simply a slightly different technique which achieves the same desired goal.
Communism, pure and simple. Ask any Cambodian, Czech, Hungarian, Albanian, Georgian, Rhodesian, or South African ages 45-70.
#4
/\ Yes, quite a mystery indeed. Asians are generally studious, family oriented, industrious and very hard working. Perhaps I have stumbled onto something.
[American Thinker] After Muslim Syrian immigrant suspect Ahmad Alissa, who is also white, drove about 40 miles from his home to a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado to deliberately slaughter ten shoppers, employees, and a policeman, all of whom were also white but apparently not Muslim, some Muslims and other wokes worried about "backlash" against Muslims. "Muslims fear backlash for tomorrow's massacre of non-Muslims"
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.
[Washington Examiner] The anti-illegal immigration ads federal agencies air in Central American countries are useless, former senior Trump officials say, undercutting one of the Biden administration's defenses of its border policies.
[Guardian] Van der Hoeven is a co-founder of the Weather Makers, a Dutch firm of “holistic engineers” with a plan to regreen the Sinai peninsula – the small triangle of land that connects Egypt to Asia. Within a couple of decades, the Weather Makers believe, the Sinai could be transformed from a hot, dry, barren desert into a green haven teeming with life: forests, wetlands, farming land, wild flora and fauna. A regreened Sinai would alter local weather patterns and even change the direction of the winds, bringing more rain, the Weather Makers believe – hence their name.
[France24] French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has called on Iran to show a constructive stance in indirect talks to be held with a US delegation in Vienna next week as part of broader efforts to revive a 2015 nuclear deal.
Regional domination, proselytism of Islam, and the elimination of the Jew are the long-term goals. Regional domination, did I mention it? Can no one see the parallels? You cannot partner or negotiate with these murderous SOB's.
Political patronage, it's not just 'alive and well' in Los Angeles. 
[Breitbart] Friday on FNC’s "The Ingraham Angle," Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) attacked Coca-Cola for its response to an effort by the Georgia General Assembly to shore up its election integrity in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.
Not much new here, classic global socialist tribal exclusion. First you must kill off or relocate the targeted population. Then the desired residents (correct tribe or political constituency) can be brought in to occupy the land and back-fill the former residents. 
