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'Horrific, cold-blooded murder': Sialkot blasphemy lynching
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
'Federal Prosecutor ‐ Local DA is making up nonexistent law to charge Michigan shooter's parents…
BLUF provided by Jonathon Turley:
[Citizen Free Press]...There is a risk to improvisational element in charging such a case. The question is whether there is actual knowledge or complicity by the parents as opposed to negligence. Otherwise, charges in this case could present strong grounds for challenge.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/05/2021 05:03 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  actual knowledge or complicity

Perhaps local school officials should be thoroughly questioned by the local DA as well. A starting point might be the failure to contact the local Police Department.

No, there is no escaping the fact that the parents are morons. Buying firearms for a troubled youth? Taking him to the range? Shades of Sandy Hook shooter's mother's attempt to "help" her son. Clearly the actions of morons.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/05/2021 5:17 Comments || Top||

#2 
Agreed Mr. B.

As we have seen in too many such cases resulting in murder(s). The NEA guided school counselor either sits on it for privacy issues. Or has their hands tied from reporting the violent persona by Unofficial pigeon holing guidelines.

Then there is the all to often heard "No My Baby" before and after warning the parents.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Blood-Soaked Harvest of Christmas
Posted by: badanov || 12/05/2021 02:17 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In Waukesha, yes. Harvest of horror.

And blood-soaked harvest of shame -- shame on our nation's vile, stupid, murdering elites and their big lies about black violent crime and black race-warriors like MathBoi Fly.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/05/2021 11:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Something that should concern any who think to physically invade us. Why does North Korea care — they aren’t even up to invading their brothers to the south.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/05/2021 13:58 Comments || Top||

#3  DPRK News Service is satire.
Posted by: badanov || 12/05/2021 14:02 Comments || Top||

#4  When satire sails 20 yards wide of the mark.
Posted by: Sheaper Glerens9439 || 12/05/2021 14:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Comrades, there is nothing funny in DPRK.
Posted by: Choting Wholutch8349 || 12/05/2021 15:26 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Despite expectations, China not rushing to cash in on post-U.S. economic collapse in Afghanistan
[Just The News] With Afghanistan's economy reeling in the aftermath of the abrupt U.S. withdrawal from the country in August, the ruling Taliban hopes — and Western democracies fear — that China will come to the regime's economic rescue. Such hopes and fears may prove slow to materialize, however, thanks to Beijing's ingrained economic pragmatism coupled with its apprehensions about Afghanistan-based jihadist support for the Uyghurs, China's oppressed Muslim minority.

The Afghan economy is collapsing. For decades, the country has been largely dependent on foreign aid, most of which has been halted since the Taliban seized control in August.

The Taliban's U.S. bank accounts have been frozen. Inflation is soaring, as is unemployment. Many workers who have jobs have not received their salary for months. The U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) expects 97% of the population to fall below the poverty line next year.

Historically, the country has been plagued by drought, corruption, and under-utilization of human capital. Other issues, such as brain drain and capital flight have intensified since the fall of Kabul in August. Widespread sanctions have further complicated the country's economic stability.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/05/2021 04:40 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Diabolical, yes. Stupid, no.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/05/2021 4:43 Comments || Top||

#2  You're gonna hafta beg...
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/05/2021 10:12 Comments || Top||

#3 
Internally CCP is having some real $$$ and social issues. But the CCP control over all media is so effective that the world still does not know even the true C-19/21 numbers.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Why hurry, a little press manipulation and Central Committee focus and a guilty American public will rush to provide food/economic aid because of the sad pictures and stories on the news. Poof, much of the problem solved and you further impoverish the main enemy.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/05/2021 12:13 Comments || Top||

#5  China plays the long game, our rulers have been too stupid to understand this in favor of taking cash. An old China tactic.
Posted by: 746 || 12/05/2021 13:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Cash in? Anyone who thinks Afghanistan is a gold mine has been consuming too much of the country's major export. The place is a wasteland, a status it gained ever since Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, thereby making the brigand-infested land trading route between Europe and the Orient obsolete.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 12/05/2021 20:04 Comments || Top||

#7  The Afghan economy is collapsing.

Buy on the dip, man!
Posted by: Raj || 12/05/2021 21:32 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
War: What Israel talks about when it talks about striking Iran’s nuclear program
Long. Herewith a few key sentences.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli officials have regularly called for a ‘credible military threat’ against Tehran’s nuclear facilities, but less discussed is the major conflict that’s almost sure to follow.

Billions of additional shekels have been poured into the defense budget specifically to prepare for strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The Israel Defense Forces has been making strides to prepare itself for the multi-front war that is liable to follow a strike on Iran, holding a number of large-scale exercises simulating such a conflict in recent months and investing roughly NIS 1 billion ($315 million) toward training for next year. The military is also working to improve its air defenses, particularly in northern Israel, in an effort to prevent the worst of the damage from rocket barrages and drone strikes in a future conflict.

But the propensity of Israeli officials to discuss the technical aspects of an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities belies the true calculus at play in deciding whether to carry it out: it’s not about the strike, but the war that follows.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  The war that follows has been a part of the Israeli calculus since the construction of Damona. After thirty years geography hasn't changed much but the sophistication of weaponry surely has.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 12/05/2021 8:51 Comments || Top||

#2  One wonders what role Israel envisions for its own nukes in this scenario.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/05/2021 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  What has scared most Muslims with half a brain is the Israeli credo, "Never Again". Implied is the promise that should Israel be flattened the Muslim World from Indonesia to Morocco will be flattened as well. Saudi Arabia has understood for decades that Mecca and Medina will be the first to go.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 12/05/2021 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Saudi Arabia has understood for decades that Mecca and Medina will be the first to go.

Possibly part of the reasons the Saudis were friendly for at least a decade behind the scenes before become more open about it. Surely one doesn’t nuke one’s friends first....
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/05/2021 11:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Ditto for Jordan
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/05/2021 11:16 Comments || Top||

#6  The sad new calculus might just be how much of a passive ADVERSARY the US/Bidet Administration might be. Yes, I think portions of the US command authority and the infestation of the intel and military senior leadership are that bent...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/05/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ I fully concur. The above graphic is from "Operations Opera" and the attack on the Iraqi reactor at Osirak in June 1981. Fully Tango Uniform in about 5 minutes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/05/2021 13:03 Comments || Top||

#8  If Iran comes close to getting nukes Israel will, rightfully, destroy them. Israel has become the only 'good-guy'. The U of S is no longer a player on the 'serious' stage. Satan has been after Israel since day 0. McArthur wanted to obliterate Peking. Swartkopf wanted to destroy Bagdad. Our erstwhile presidents said .....
Posted by: irish rage boy || 12/05/2021 13:15 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Garibaldi || 12/05/2021 13:44 Comments || Top||



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