[ZH] A vibrant and diverse
mob of people entered a Wawa convenience store on Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia and broke out into a riot, seemingly without warning or reason. There's no comment yet from Philadelphia police on the cause of the rampage. As the economic situation in the US continues to decline and prices continue to rise on most goods, expect to see more scenes like this one on a regular basis. [Video in ZH article.]
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Organized Retail Crime - Nothing Spontaneous about most of these events. Not simply looting, but planned, with increasing numbers of tag-a-longs once it is underway. Brought to you by the confluence of existing Wakandan Street Gangs and the importation of a whole new experienced Central American criminal class by the Puppet Show.
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Congress of Fowls, or, An Area of Avian Affection
Independence Hall doves coo "Ungawa,"
Pluck flowers. Red geese honk "Black Power!"
"Free handfuls of stogies
With all stolen hoagies,"
Squawk blue cackling grackles at Wawa.
Hmm. Could've sworn I read something about twerking. Must've been some other looting story. Never mind.
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If the feebs were focused on anything besides honest, disgruntled Americans right now they could monitor the coordination on social media that goes into such a thing.
Maybe if the big corpos were being hurt they would. Right now it's just hard working pvt ltd owners I guess.
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Soon "shopping" will be online only through your cellphone. Come to the drive-thru and pick up your order from a cashier behind armor glass. No shoplifting unless you count mugging shoppers for their purchases.
[news.ntd] A Texas father embroiled in a high-profile custody battle fears a court ruling this week could allow his ex-wife to move to California and medically transition his 10-year-old son to a girl.
Jeff Younger, who lives in the Dallas area, told The Epoch Times on Sept. 23 that he will fight the Sept. 21 ruling by Dallas District Judge Mary Brown, and vows he’ll continue to fight for his son, James.
The parents have been engaged in a custody battle over James for most of his life. The mother, Anne Georgulas, started questioning James’s gender when he was a toddler. She argues that from a young age James chose to identify as a female, wanted to wear dresses, and eventually wanted to be known as Luna. As in Lunatic? Named after Mom?
She eventually socially transitioned the boy, and presented him at school as a girl. The school supported that after the couple separated.
Younger accused his ex-spouse of leading their young child to socially transition before he could understand the concept or its implications. He said James rejected being female and did not wear dresses when visiting his home after the parents separated in 2015. Texas really need to change their custody laws to include fathers in the children lives. That's a way to get fathers more involved in their children lives.
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It never seems like the father in these custody battle child mutilation stories is the one fighting to wreck his child's life with Island of Dr. Moreau surgeries.
Story in there somewhere...
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Ladies and Gentlemen ...
This is why getting to know the Egg or Sperm donor morals and beliefs before fortification is important.
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*Boggle* In certain cultures young children were mutilated so that they would grow up crippled and have a long career as (quote) successful beggars (un-quote). *Spit* I really have trouble expressing my disgust.
[ALARABIYA] Saudi Idol, a new version of the international ‘Idol’ televised talent show franchise, will be aired before the end of year, Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA) Turki al-Shikh announced Saturday. I'll bet the local salafists are turning over in their graves, the dead ones anyway.
With filming scheduled to begin next month, the new show will be launched in collaboration with Saudi Arabia’s GEA and MBC Group, al-Sheikh said in a tweet, adding that the first episode will air in December this year.
The new show, which seeks to hunt for Saudi talent, will feature a star-studded jury that will include singers Aseel Abu Bakr, Ahlam, Asala and Majid al-Mohandes.
Saudi Idol, which is set to be broadcast on MBC 1, will be divided into two categories, auditions and live shows, Al Arabiya reported on Saturday.
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How is a strict muslim country going to have a tv program with the word "idol" in it.
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John federman supports war on Ukraine!give USA monies of your tax dollars and support draft on USA youth
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'Tis better that allah yurdi albashar, *
than everything be House of Usher.
Sing! Dance! Clap and frolick!
For the everlovin' mālik,**
is anyway taking us to Hashar! ***
*Allah should please man
**judgement angels
***the judgement
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#1, good question. I haven't been in Saudi for almost 30 years; but I was aware that they would go through cycles of "tolerant" (by their standards) periods and "strict" periods. So you might see things that had been strictly forbidden before, and you might suddenly not see or hear things that had been permitted. It was a weird place.
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Just the actual name "idol". Implying idolatry. Monotheistically speaking, idolatry is right up there with shit they cut your head off for.
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Just the actual name "idol". Implying idolatry. Monotheistically speaking, idolatry is right up there with shit they cut your head off for.
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I agree with #5. #6, however, is crazy talk.
;-)
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The Saudis see themselves as owners and the original franchisers of the i-slam. And all Moslems with a brain in the world know that the i-slam is a con. It's as fake as the black Hebrew israelite nonsense, or scientiology.
So they feel no guilt in bending and twisting it to their needs. The rest of the stupid Umma however, the know-nothing, ass scratching, Allah hoos... they have come to see the Saudis as takfeer apostates for all their liberal reform.
[BBC Travel] Wildflowers grazed my legs as I hiked down from the volcanic-rock hilltop fortress of Pitigliano into the Tuscan valley below. At the base of the hill, I crossed a burbling stream and followed a winding trail as it inclined. All of a sudden, I was walled in.
Huge blocks of tuff, a porous rock made from volcanic ash, rose as high as 25m on either side of the trench I found myself in. I felt spooked — and I'm not the only one who's felt that way in vie cave like this. These subterranean trails have been linked with lore of devils and deities for centuries.
"When we were kids, nobody really went there," said Elena Ronca, a hiking guide who has been leading tours around this area of Tuscany, where she grew up, for 12 years.
That's because there wasn't much information about the trails, nor about the Etruscan civilisation that built them. The ancients didn't leave road maps or written records, and many pathways were abandoned and overgrown with shrubs. But in the last few decades, archaeological discoveries in tombs across central Italy, and as far as Corsica, have revealed more about the Etruscans and their mysterious vie cave, which are said to connect the land of the living with the land of the dead.
At their simplest definition, vie cave (via cava is the singular) were walled pathways used to travel from the highlands to the riverbanks and vice versa. While they're found in various places across central Italy (where the Etruscans thrived from 900 BCE to about 700 CE until they were absorbed into the Roman Empire), the vie cave here in southern Tuscany between the towns of Pitigliano, Sorano and Sovana are among the oldest andmost intact. "It's incredible that the vie cave have lasted so long," Ronca said. "During the Etruscan times, they knew what they were doing."
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~1200BC Late Bronze Age Collapse
~0900BC Etruscan is culturally dominate
~0800BC Iron Age in Italy Starts
~0750BC Greeks colonize Syracuse
~0750BC Rome is founded
ICYMI: The breadth of the damage caused by storm #Fiona that ravaged #Canada’s Atlantic coast has never been seen before, and it will take months to rebuild critical infrastructure that was destroyed, emergency preparedness minister Bill Blair says. https://t.co/PS7GzvFB73
[Red State] Lifelong liberal Democrat attorney Alan Dershowitz has agreed to represent Mike Lindell after the FBI ambushed the Pillow Guy a little less than two weeks ago at a Hardee’s in rural Minnesota, took his phone, and issued a subpoena regarding an investigation into Lindell’s involvement in an alleged election security breach in Colorado. Dershowitz explains in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed why he would defend such an obvious criminal mastermind:
I disagree with My Pillow founder Mike Lindell about a lot of things, including his belief that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. I’m a liberal Democrat; he is a conservative Republican. Yet I am enthusiastically representing him in his lawsuit against the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation over the recent search and seizure of his telephone.
In addition to his op-ed, Dershowitz has been making the rounds on Fox News, and also discussed his decision on his own podcast, The Dershow:
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I still don't know about this Dershowitz fella, but as long as he believes the law is still the law (in the rule of law), then I'll give him a thumb's up.
Despite not agreeing with Dershowitz politics on a number of points. As a lawyer, he defends according to the laws and knows how to play the jury game (eg..OJ ).
So a little digging, shows he was brought up as a Orthodox Jew and his strong dedication to the defense of Israel and the Jewish people and those defending it. So I feel makes him a trusted asset in this and other such Bill of Rights cases.
WHY?
Given the way the LSD's Gal Squad and others in the LSD party that have openly shown their antisemitic views and voted accordingly against Israel.
I feel he can be trusted to be a good lawyer against the LSD's over reach and strong arm tactics used.
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He has pointed out Democratic misbehaviour around Jews and Israel since Barack Obama was first elected president, that I can recall, then votes for Democrats like Obama anyway.
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Real conservatism is at its hear pragmatic. Leftism and the "neocon" scam are utterly idealistic. While you see stories about lifelong dems switching parties, you don't see much of the same going the other way, despite the media's excruciating effort to make it a big thing.
Actual dems who moved conservative: Reagan and Trump. Other side of the coin, a RINO moving left is basically just a case of coming out of the political closet.
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^ See: Specter, Arlen
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M. Murcek, many are lefty grifters pretending to be Conservatives but I think you undervalue mental health issues which are responsible for many moving leftward.
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Fascinating Article on Brain Differences between liberals and conservatives. Nothing definitive but telling insights about the generalized "thinking vs feeling" undercurrents in political positions.
Excerpt: ..."A 2012 study from the University of South Carolina found through MRI scans that Republicans show more neural activity in areas linked with tight social connectedness like family and country, while Democrats have more neural activity in areas believed to be linked with broad social connectedness, such as friends and the world at-large. This study decimated the long held stereotype that “Democrats enjoyed a virtual biological lock on caring for others.” This comes as no surprise since studies show that conservatives give “significantly” more generously than those on the left.
[NORTHAFRICAPOST] Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ’s military has admitted that three members of its airborne battalion had earlier this week attacked civilians and killed two mothers in Nylbat, an English-speaking village in Andeck district.
According to a statement by the military, the troops, who were dispatched to fight separatists in the troubled northwestern region, violated orders from military hierarchy and started shooting indiscriminately on civilians, killing two harmless mothers. The government says family members of the killed mothers rushed to the scene and collected corpses when the government troops left. Speaking via the messaging app WhatsApp from Andeck, a relative of one victim said civilians sealed their businesses and refused to go to their farms for three days as a sign of protest against Monday’s killings.
The government said it had arrested the three troops that fired upon unarmed civilians. But Eyong Tarh, an official with the Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa, says rights groups in Cameroon will continue exerting pressure until the military punishes all of its troops who have committed atrocities. "I have a worry whether the culprits will be brought to book, because similar cases have taken place but we don’t know what has happened to the perpetrators," Tara said. Rights groups have repeatedly accused both Cameroon’s military and anglophone separatists of killing civilians and torching their homes during their five years of fighting. Each side rejects the accusations as intended to tarnish its image.
Europe's unelected authoritarian ruler, Ursula von der Leyen, is not going to be happy: according to early exit polls out of Italy's national election, the right-wing bloc of Giorgia Meloni - which the ultra-left wing press just can't stop comparing to Mussolini - is set for a historic, if largely expected, victory and a clear majority (if, however, not a super-majority) which will propel Meloni to the top of the Italian government as the country's next prime minister, ushering in a historic right-wing shift for a country that - like Sweden until two weeks ago - has traditionally been very left-wing.
Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, which won just 4% of the vote during the last national election in 2018, won the biggest share of the vote in Sunday’s parliamentary elections with around 22.5%-26.5% of the vote according to an exit poll released by Italian national broadcaster Rai. She is now set to become prime minister but would require approval from junior partners in her coalition to assume the role.
According to an exit poll from Rai, Meloni's alliance which includes Salvini's League and Berlusconi's Forza Italia will win around 43% of the vote. The Center-Left alliance will have just 25.5%-29.5% of the vote, while the 5 Star movement has 13.5%-17.5% of the final vote.
Italy’s electoral system, which strongly favors parties that run as part of a coalition, is expected to help the right to an ample majority in both houses of Parliament: with 228 votes in the Lower House and 115 seats in the Senate (according to SkyTG24), Meloni will have a majority as just 104 votes are required.
As the WSJ notes, the Italian election is "the first big test of the European Union’s political cohesion as it confronts Russia’s attempt to redraw the continent’s post-Cold War order. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s restriction of natural-gas deliveries has sparked an energy-price crunch that, combined with other inflationary pressures, is expected to push much of Europe into a recession this winter."
Meloni replaces former Goldman Sachs partner and ECB technocrat and globalist, Mario Draghi, and will be the country’s first female prime minister.
The likely right-wing government will face difficult decisions over how to protect Italian households and businesses from sky-high prices for natural gas and electricity. While Italy’s parlous public finances allow limited scope for fiscal largess, if the UK is any example - and it is - Italy will engage in a similar strategy of targeted and debt-funded fiscal stimulus which will lead to a blowout in Italian debt, a further plunge in the euro and much chaos everywhere.
Italy's massive debt of roughly 150% of GDP, combined with Italy’s weak long-term growth record, makes the country vulnerable to bond-market selloffs if investors lose confidence in the soundness of Rome’s fiscal policies, and dependent on the European Central Bank to keep its bond yields stable. ECB support has typically been conditional on Rome following cautious budget policies and enacting economic overhauls aimed at improving growth. In other words, the Berlusconi example of 2011 is still vivid - if Meloni's policies displease the ECB, Christine Lagarde will simply refuse (or forget) to buy Italian bonds, sparking Europe's next sovereign debt crisis at the worst possible moment.
During the election campaign, Meloni tried to reassure voters and investors that she will keep Italy’s mammoth debt under control and won’t question the country’s foreign alliances or support for Ukraine. Expect all of that to change tomorrow.
#BREAKING Giorgia Meloni claims victory in Italian general elections, saying Italians show they want ‘center-right government led by Brothers of Italy’ pic.twitter.com/GcGLKF3OQ6
[DW] With the populist slogan "Italy and Italian people first!" Meloni called for less European bureaucracy, low taxes and a halt to immigration. Her critics warn she is flirting with Italy's fascist history.
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"Italy and Italian people first!"
How much more far right do you want? Should she start requiring all Jews to wear stars in public?
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It's the fcuking moslems who worry about far right. South asian and Sub-Saharan trash. This 'oh the Jews will be in danger!' schtick fools nobody. Nobody in goddamn Europe is bothered about Jews being attacked every week by mohammed kissers. A far right leadership ensures there's little to no moslems coming in. So what if it doesn't snuggle up to Israel and dance the hora?
And every country's leader should be about their own majority first. That's not fascism, that's loyalty to the folks who made you.
Wow. Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sums it up perfectly. No wonder the elites and establishment don’t want her to succeed. pic.twitter.com/aYdecShaNs
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Should she start requiring all Jews to wear stars in public?
Mussolini’s Italy was not interested in singling out and rounding up Jews until Hitler became seriously demanding — and then quite a few were hidden by their neighbours.
I stand by every word of Dron’s comment. As a Jew, I am considerably more concerned by the European culture of the past two decades that believes daily Moslem attacks on Jews and other natives the kind of thing the civilized must submit to without a murmur, without police intervention or news report. In the first year or two after Angela Merkel’s 2015 invitation to the “Syrians” we had weekly roundups of such crimes, but thereafter it became noticeable that only the most egregious attacks were allowed by the authorities to be noticed, lest the reporters be denounced as “racist”.
If, as prime minister, Ms Meloni can manage to arrest and expel from Europe those foreigners who take violence against the dhimmis as their natural right, even if she accomplishes nothing else, I will be satisfied. Also, I’ve noticed that about half of those on the “far right” admire Israel and want to be its friend, unlike much of the European political establishment — which far prefers the Palestinians and Iran, for reasons that apparently range from venal to vicious.
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by one of the other Mods
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Funny how the left is really afraid of strong women.
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A trifecta of rodent fatalities.
Tired of pavlovian banalities.
They perished making a point,
the point yet unmade,
but reminding us us
of our posts' mortalities.
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.
[ZH] A 
[news.ntd] A Texas father embroiled in a high-profile custody battle fears a court ruling this week could allow his ex-wife to move to California and medically transition his 10-year-old son to a girl.
[BBC Travel] Wildflowers grazed my legs as I hiked down from the volcanic-rock hilltop fortress of Pitigliano into the Tuscan valley below. At the base of the hill, I crossed a burbling stream and followed a winding trail as it inclined. All of a sudden, I was walled in.
