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-Lurid Crime Tales-
CNN host Jake Tapper accuses GOP politicians of 'exploiting' Alec Baldwin shooting tragedy to score political points with 'cruel' jokes
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 09:40 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 10/25/2021 10:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Having to watch Jake Tapper is cruel, so it all evens out.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/25/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#3  When dems dance on graves to promote gun control it's business as usual. This is different.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 11:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Like leftists didn't make cruel jokes about VP Cheney shooting his friend on a hunting trip?
Posted by: jpal || 10/25/2021 12:01 Comments || Top||

#5  What's a JakeTapper? Is that another one of them gender-bender things?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/25/2021 12:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Ah, come on Jake, Alec always claimed to be a lady killer.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/25/2021 13:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Like Jake's ever stuck a microphone in Nancy Pelosi's face whenever a Dem politician says anything like that about a Republican or conservative.
Posted by: Raj || 10/25/2021 14:47 Comments || Top||

#8 
In his own words:

Breitbart 2018 interview. He openly called for the removal of the 2nd Amendment.

How he dealt with photo-journalists/reporter:

After using homosexual slurs and attacking the person.
He went on to say implying racism weridly. "I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.- Alec Baldwin"


Or this revealing quote:
"You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God. -Alec Baldwin "
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/25/2021 15:17 Comments || Top||

#9  #5 What's a JakeTapper? In my dictionary, it's synonymous with "loser"; "hack"; "a person of limited talent or skills who desires to become relevant".
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/25/2021 20:22 Comments || Top||

#10  /\ "a person of limited talent or skills who desires to become relevant".

One begins to grow out of that at age 55-60. Ask me how I know.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/25/2021 20:32 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Nolte: 5 Great Horror Movies That Warned Us About the Woke Gestapo
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 11:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Saudi Arabian ruler Mohammed bin Salman 'plotted to kill King Abdullah with a Russian poison ring' and is 'a psychopath who poses a threat to the planet' claims nation's former spy chief
  • Saad Aljabri claimed the Crown Prince planned to assassinate the former King Abdullah using a 'poison ring from Russia'

  • He labelled the Crown Prince a 'psychopath with no empathy or emotion'

  • The former intelligence official says MBS plotted to kill him in Canada in 2018

  • Aljabri has been in exile since 2017 fearing for his life and is accused of embezzling over $3bn from state-linked Saudi firms

  • Aljabri, a former intelligence official loyal to the kingdom's former ruler Mohammed bin Nayef (MBN), fled to Canada from Saudi Arabia in 2017 when MBN was ousted by the current Crown Prince
    ...so not exactly a trustworthy witness? Gotcha.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 09:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  Accidental death in 5,4,3...
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/25/2021 10:46 Comments || Top||

#2  I think if Bin Salman were a psychopath he'd have hired Anthony Fauci by now.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/25/2021 12:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Idiot. It's a poison "comfortable shoe" dagger from Rosa Kleb
Posted by: Frank G || 10/25/2021 14:16 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Review: I am not a terrorist. The story of my death
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

This is a considerable break from the pattern for Boris Rozhin, the author. Russian federal law requires a notice with every mention of a banned group such as ISIS, that said group is banned in the Russian Federation. Uzbekistan is not in the Russian Federation (Uzbekistan is part of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the CTSO defense pact.) and is thus exempt from Russian federal law.

As he mentions in the article, the film was made with the "active support of Uzbek state security.”

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 10/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Goebbels lied about everything.

Modern day analogies to that as well. Can't trust anything coming out of our MSM.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/25/2021 9:53 Comments || Top||

#2  "an entertaining Uzbek (!) Film"
I start to make a smarta$$ comment, then I think about the drek that's coming out of Crappywood.
shrug
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/25/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||

#3  My favorite Usbek is still Milana Vaytrub.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 10/25/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Didn't Dr Seuss pen a take about "Bartholomew and the Uzbek"?
Or was it canceled?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/25/2021 12:04 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Anti-government rallies
[DAWN] THE chaos is closing in on the government and its perpetual mismanagement inspires little confidence. On Friday, all the major opposition parties in the country erupted into the streets to protest against the government. The PDM alliance, led by the PML-N and JUI-F, held rallies in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
and Lahore with other demonstrations in parts of KP where politicians hit out at the government. The PPP had a show in Karachi and the Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
staged protests in Dir, Battagram and Mohmand.

As these parties and their thousands of supporters call out the government for rising inflation and unemployment, the matter of the yet to be signed summary of the spy chief’s appointment looms large. Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco...
in Washington, talks with the IMF appear to have failed, giving rise to further uncertainty. As if the government did not have enough fires to fight, Lahore and Islamabad are on tenterhooks as a result of a mass protest by the TLP — at present the most potent threat of them all.

The TLP’s ability to paralyse cities and bring life to a grinding halt is well known. It is also well known that the group has been indulged, emboldened and then struck down by various powers. While this makes for a multifaceted problem, the government’s mishandling of the TLP has been a constant source of concern. The party chief Saad Rizvi was arrested in April for disrupting public order and though he was initially detained for three months, he was again detained in July under the Anti-Terrorist Act.

The Lahore High Court had set aside his detention and a federal review board is scheduled to take up the government’s reference against him. It is clear that the government is prolonging his case, as there is no consistency in the reasons behind his detention. If the charges against Rizvi are legitimate, then the matter should be dealt with accordingly. If there is a terror charge, the government must demonstrate that to the court. By keeping his case hanging, authorities are only making the party chief and the TLP more popular in the eyes of supporters.

The state only has itself to blame for its convoluted and opaque dealings with the TLP. Though the TLP has time and again demonstrated that it can be disruptive and damaging, and has a clear Death Eater ideology, it has not yet been found by the authorities to squarely fall into the category of a terrorist organization like the TTP. For this reason, a ban is unjustified, especially as the TLP is still registered with the Election Commission as a political party — which in itself is an official discrepancy. Banning a political party because it can create a public nuisance sets a dangerous precedent which can be repeated to justify future bans. The government must work on a strategy that respects the right to protest while maintaining public order.
Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Science & Technology
The Endless Pandemic - The CDC fraud of 1976 with Swine Flu, They Never Tell the Truth
[Armstrong Institute] The problem we have is that the government protects its own and routinely refuses to pay victims of vaccines while granting 100% immunity to Big Pharma. So why should they really care if the product is safe or not? Big Pharma will make nearly $100 billion next year from this endless pandemic they hope to keep going without end.

John Hopkins is in on the scam. Big Pharma has been lobbying the government to look the other way to make sure everyone is forced to take their vaccines. Threats that you lose your job unless you submit is clearly an abuse of power when this is nowhere near as lethal as the Spanish Flu of 1918, when masks also were deemed "useless," as reported by the Washington Post.

Then the world’s greatest pretend philanthropist, Bill Gates, who invests in Big Pharm and is making a fortune pushing this pandemic, will not provide vaccines to poor nations for free but wants the US and Europe to pay him for the vaccines and they donate them. That is by no mean a philanthropist. Every small businessman is a philanthropist under Gates; the definition is because you are providing employment which in his view is charity.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/25/2021 06:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

It use to be the elite could controlled the narrative and control history owning the NEWS sources.

But the Internet with its Millions of blog sites digging & sharing details every second 24/7/365 has created a major hole in the elites information control blanket.

Question:
How long before we have to "apply" for a Internet permit?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/25/2021 8:02 Comments || Top||

#2  if we offer up $1000 for an eye and $2000 for an ear, these "elites" would become endangered
Posted by: 746 || 10/25/2021 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  how much for the whole head?
Posted by: Chris || 10/25/2021 8:19 Comments || Top||

#4  ..its like a chop shop. The money is in the parts not necessarily the whole package.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/25/2021 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5  ^I own a SAAB. I know.
Posted by: borgboy || 10/25/2021 21:44 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kurd Kommies redeploy to dodge Turkish offensive in Tal Rafat
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
By Boris Rozhin

[ColonelCassad] It is reported from Syria that the Kurds from the YPG have transferred the settlements on the front line around Tal Rifat
...also spelt Tal Rifaat ...
under the control of the SAA and the military police of the Russian Federation in order to avoid the Turkish offensive operation. Russian flags appeared on the front line. Turkish sources say that "the Kurds are again cowardly hiding from the might of the Turkish army behind Russian flags."

The Syrians write that the presence of the YPG in Tal Rifat is also declining and that the Kurds this time have a brain. Russian reconnaissance and combat aircraft were spotted in the Tal Rifat area.

If the area is taken under the control of the military police of the Russian Federation and the SAA (according to the scheme of transferring settlements on the front line around Manbij), then we have a scheme.

Assad is demonstratively preparing for an offensive in Idlib.

Erdogan is demonstratively preparing for an offensive on Tal Rifat.

Kurds from the YPG again transfer part of the occupied territory to Assad and the Russian Federation in order to avoid the offensive of the Turkish army. Profit.

If they do not, then the Afrin variant is always possible, when the Kurds did not convey anything, but they did not like the consequences.

Actually, in the near future it will be determined what they agreed on and what Erdogan and Putin did not agree on.

All that's left is to wait. The main goal remains unchanged: increasing the territorial control of Bashar al-Assad over the territory of Syria. The alternative to this is repeated meetings with Erdogan and his minions.

The United States has repeatedly shown that it and Erdogan are not going to fight over the Kurds, so they have to turn to the Russian Federation and Assad for real protection.

The Turks today noted the shelling of the Kurds from 155mm artillery in the direction of Tal-Temer. The shelling went on for 3 hours.

The Turkish Defense Ministry announced five dead. Also, the Turks do not particularly hide the fact that they actively use drones in the hunt for SDF / YPG field commanders.

Due to the deteriorating economic situation in Turkey, a small victorious operation in Syria against the Kurds would be very beneficial for Erdogan. But in the current realities, if it is possible, then perhaps as a serious exchange of most of Idlib for an operation against the Kurds.

It is also worth noting that unidentified persons have fired on oil refineries in the American occupation zone of Deir ez-Zor today. Most likely, new missiles from Iran arrived at the Iranian proxy. The recent shelling of At-Tanf shows that Iran is ready for its proxy forces in Syria to switch to a systematic pin-prick regime on American assets in Syria in the same way as it was done in Iraq, where the shelling of American bases and attacks on American convoys became systematic.

The goal of such a strategy is to force the United States to withdraw its troops from Syria (as in Afghanistan) or at least reduce its presence (as in Iraq) through systematic pressure.
Posted by: badanov || 10/25/2021 00:27 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Commies....
They are everywhere...
Posted by: Snakes Dingle1447 || 10/25/2021 4:23 Comments || Top||



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