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Boko Haram Releases Photos Of Tanks, Vehicles Captured From Nigerian Army
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
A brawl broke out at a Chuck E. Cheese
That’s what they do there, for some reason.
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Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  LOL! Feral Parents.

Some kid had an interesting birthday.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/29/2021 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Well cheese is white - part of white supremacy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/29/2021 3:00 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Vinegar Spolusing6485 || 04/29/2021 4:38 Comments || Top||

#4  This is why I go to Dave & Busters instead!
Posted by: Raj || 04/29/2021 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  "I went to a Chuck E. Cheese, and a dinner broke out!"

I like the 'reserved for law enforcement' parking closer to the entrance than the handicap spots.

WTF was that at 1:30? You speak English in What?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/29/2021 10:26 Comments || Top||

#6  What is going on with the public brawls? Is this phenomena new or just weren't reported before?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/29/2021 10:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Chuck E. Cheese Smackdowns(pre-pandemic) was a regular WWE event in the news, with the occasional shootings. Usually not White Supremacists *wink wink*
Posted by: Frank G || 04/29/2021 11:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Children learning their culture from the adults.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/29/2021 16:14 Comments || Top||


Suspect in anti-Asian attack claims victim robbed, maced him. Really.
[NYPOST] The ex-con charged with stomping an Asian man into a coma in Harlem claimed the victim attacked him first — and that video of the stomach-churning assault was "a whole lot of bulls—t."

"Nah, nah, nah," Jarrod Powell replied when asked why he allegedly kicked Yao Pan Ma, 61, in the caught-on-camera attack on Friday. "I was maced. I was maced and attacked."

The 49-year-old career criminal then added while being hauled into Manhattan criminal court in handcuffs, "Well, the video will tell you a whole lot of bulls—t.

"Him and a couple of other Asians maced me — robbed me."

Powell, who has at least 15 prior busts dating back to 1988, was held on $100,000 cash bail at his Tuesday night arraignment on four hate crime charges.

The victim in the attack, an out-of-work Chinese immigrant, was collecting cans at Third Avenue and 125th Street to help make ends meet when he was stomped last week.

The attack left Ma’s wife, Baozhen Chen, fearing her husband won’t recover from his medically induced coma — and demanding justice for the father of her two children.

"I am very worried my husband will not make it," Chen told The Post on Sunday.

The attack on Ma came amid a recent spike in hate attacks targeting Asian Americans.

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Well, the video will tell you a whole lot of bulls—t.

Exactly what the judge in North Carolina should say about the Andrew Brown Jr footage.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/29/2021 2:13 Comments || Top||


Sickening moment suspect sucker-punches gay man, 24, in New York City CVS while spewing homophobic remarks
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The video shows a man in a white shirt suddenly unload a punch to the head of a

Note the evil color of the shirt.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/29/2021 2:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, just look at the shirt and nothing else.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/29/2021 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Had to watch to see if it was a wife beater.

Nice the immediate follow up auto play hot-clips are all white 'dudes' doing sucker punches.

Going to hit pause here for a second. It is interesting how these media outlets over the last 15 years have created their very own, extremely racist, and unique prose in what was an attempt to be 'race neutral' into 'there is no violent people but white people'.

Running this victimhood hierarchy theory as a writer's jenga must be maddening. Probably a leading cause to the depression, drug abuse, sexual assault, and anxiety problems of those working the media fronts. "Two and two does equal five you hater!" but don't dare run that to their drug pimp.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/29/2021 10:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Perhaps this is why news ratings are declining so precipitously.
Posted by: Tom || 04/29/2021 14:58 Comments || Top||

#5  'there is no violent people but white people'.
If that's what you want...
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/29/2021 15:24 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies aged 90: NASA pilot who flew command module Columbia during the Moon landing passes away after 'valiant' battle with cancer
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Iron Mike" RIP
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/29/2021 8:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Here’s a toast...
Posted by: Lowspark || 04/29/2021 21:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Sir tonight I gaze to the sky and thank God for men like you.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/29/2021 22:50 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Man, 70, is killed by 60,000 'very aggressive' bees while mowing his lawn in Texas: Wife is hospitalized after trying to save him
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah'm OK everybody!
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/28/2021 17:42 Comments || Top||

#2  This beekeeper has several hives of that size. I feel bad for the guy, not a good way to go. But, I doubt all those bees stung him.
Also, never mow towards a hive, always away.
Posted by: Spoter B || 04/29/2021 0:10 Comments || Top||

#3  ^-- Gotta ask... do you know from personal exprience?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/29/2021 1:16 Comments || Top||

#4  I'd rather adopt a lion or something. Even if my love fails an' he goes rogue for some reason, at least I have just one individual to worry about.

No offense to all you Sherlock Holmes fans.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/29/2021 3:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Damn.
Posted by: Wren || 04/29/2021 3:28 Comments || Top||

#6  #3
Yes, always mow away.
Posted by: Spoter B || 04/29/2021 7:18 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 ... How do you get to the hive so that you can "mow away' from it?
Posted by: irish rage boy || 04/29/2021 7:45 Comments || Top||

#8  I suppose the same way you mow away from your mulch bed. Many Midwesterners are adept at controlling the direction of grass clippings with their mower.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 04/29/2021 9:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Beein' bees hard! Especially when there's a *bleep*load of the little sumbitches. Not that you can blame them. They're really just tiny hexapodal robots.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/29/2021 20:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Complicated by the fact that bees are now 'protected' in Texas.
You're not supposed to to kill 'em.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/29/2021 21:40 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Dubai, London An Oasis for Nigeria’s Corrupt Political Elites
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Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While not all can live the life they desire in Dubai, the London oasis serves corrupt elite from the entire commonwealth.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/29/2021 4:03 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Yes, a sanctuary city with a Gherkin.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2021 6:12 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Three Russian airborne units return to their bases
Direct translation of the article

MOSCOW, April 29. / TASS /. Three divisions of the Airborne Forces (Airborne Forces), after a surprise check, returned from Crimea to their permanent deployment points. This was reported on Thursday at a meeting at the National Center for Defense Management (NTSUO) of the Russian Federation, the commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel-General Andrei Serdyukov.

"The personnel of the 7th, 76th and 98th divisions, involved in a surprise check at the ranges of the Southern Military District in the Republic of Crimea, are concentrated in the points of permanent deployment," he said.

According to him, the transportation of their weapons, military and special equipment by military train trains will be completed by May 12.

In turn, the commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, reported that "the return of the Northern Fleet units that took part in the surprise check of the troops of the Western Military District has been completed, the troops have arrived at their permanent deployment points."

The servicemen of the Southern Military District (YuVO), who were involved in the verification check, will return to their places of permanent deployment by May 1. "The return of the personnel of the 58th Army's formations and military units will be completed by May 1, and its armament and military equipment - in accordance with the established schedule," General of the Army Alexander Dvornikov, commander of the Southern Military District, noted.

The meeting at the NTSUO was chaired by the Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov.

Changes have been made to the news (11:54 Moscow time) - information in the fourth paragraph has been added.
Posted by: badanov || 04/29/2021 06:51 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Here's the thing: They're Airborne.
All they gotta do is get on their planes to go right back to the Crimea.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/29/2021 11:36 Comments || Top||

#2  The de-escalation by Putin tells me that he made his point and I suspect backchannel communications will someday show what he got for it. I’m betting The Impostor and/or the Kalorama Kompound folded.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/29/2021 11:55 Comments || Top||

#3  The de-escalation by Putin tells me that he made his point and I suspect backchannel communications will someday show what he got for it. I’m betting The Impostor and/or the Kalorama Kompound folded.

The breakaway republics do this every spring -- express fears of a Ukrainian invasion of the republics -- and the Ukrainians play right into it, by expressing their fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Every spring.

The only difference this time is who is in change at the White House.

Mark my words. By March 2022, the same fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine will rise again to the top, Russia will deploy her divisions, wait 45 days and then go home.

Every spring.
Posted by: badanov || 04/29/2021 12:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Every spring.

Until the bear gets tired of playing by the dogs' rules?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/29/2021 13:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Until the bear gets tired of playing by the dogs' rules?

Heh. It could be that both the bear and the dog are enjoying the game.
Riffing on badanov's comment, it appears there is something for everyone. To wit:
The respective armies roll out for a short annual training exercise.
The GoodGuys(tm) defend the Homeland from Outsiders.
Budgets are justified. Increases are demanded.
Speeches are made at the UN.
Peaceniks get to march and whinge.
The Press has something to lie and pontificate about.

As long as the casualties are minor and nothing important gets blown up, it's a win/win for everyone.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/29/2021 17:26 Comments || Top||


Europe
Germany to spy on COVID skeptics over concerns of extremist ties
[IsraelTimes] Germany’s domestic intelligence agency will monitor leading protesters against COVID restrictions, the interior ministry says, over concerns they pose a threat to democracy and have ties to right-wing extremism.

The monitoring will focus on members of Germany’s "Querdenker" (Lateral Thinkers) movement, which has emerged as the loudest voice against coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
curbs and an active promoter of conspiracy theories that deny basic facts about the pandemic.

Some protest organizers "have clearly demonstrated that their agenda goes beyond simply mobilizing protests against the government’s corona measures," a ministry statement says.

Their main aim appears to be to "permanently undermine trust in state institutions and their representatives," it adds.

They are also suspected of seeking links with right-wing holy warriors such as "Reichsbuerger" (Citizens of the Reich) who question the legitimacy of the modern Federal Republic of Germany, and of spreading antisemitic messages and QAnon myths, the ministry says.

The holy warriors encourage supporters to ignore official orders and challenge the state monopoly on the use of force, it adds.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2021 01:13 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They blame the Querenkder, we blame Trump followers and of course the Russians. Am I wrong in suggesting a pattern ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2021 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  no
Posted by: Chris || 04/29/2021 8:19 Comments || Top||


France Detains Ex-members of Red Brigades Sought by Italy
[AnNahar] La Belle France on Wednesday detained seven former members of left-wing Italian Death Eater group the Red Brigades who have long been sought by Rome in what was billed as a diplomatic olive branch by President Emmanuel Macron.

La Belle France has been a haven for Red Brigades figures from the 1970s and 80s that are feted in left-wing intellectual circles in Gay Paree, since the presidency of Socialist leader Francois Mitterrand.

The so-called Mitterrand Doctrine, adopted in 1985, offered protection to the bandidos Death Eaters providing they renounced violence and were not wanted in Italia for murder or other "crimes of blood."

A statement from the French presidency said Macron had authorised the detention of seven former Red Brigades figures, while another three were being actively sought.

Without naming them, the statement said they were wanted for the "most serious crimes" but it made clear that Macron had not renounced the Mitterrand Doctrine.

"La Belle France, also affected by terrorism, understands the absolute necessity of providing justice for victims," the statement said.

"With this transfer, it is also part of the urgent need to build a Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
of justice in which mutual confidence must be at the centre."

Ultra-leftist groups like the Red Brigades sowed chaos during the period in Italia known as the "Years of Lead" -- named after the number of bullets fired -- from the late 1960s to mid-1980s.

The Red Brigades were the most notorious and were blamed for hundreds of murders, including the kidnapping and killing of Christian Democrat leader and former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978.

- DIPLOMATIC TENSIONS -
The presence of hundreds of figures in La Belle France who are wanted by Italia for murder, kidnappings and property damage has caused tensions between the two neighbours for decades.

In 2019, far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini said he would write to Macron "to ask him to stop allowing Lions of Islam who have massacred Italians to be free to drink champagne."

Relations between La Belle France and Italia were at a historic low at the time over a range of issues, but Macron sees new Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi as a close pro-EU ally.

Among those arrested is Marina Petrella, 66, a former Red Brigades member whose extradition was blocked in 2008 by then president Nicolas Sarkozy
...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit...
after an intervention by his Italian-born wife Carla Bruni.

Petrella, who was said in 2008 to be in poor health, has been sentenced to life in prison for murder in Italia.

Lawyer Irene Terrel, who represents Petrella and four other ex-Red Brigades figures, told AFP she was "outraged" by the arrests.

"Since the 1980s, these people have been under the protection of La Belle France. They've remade their lives here for 30 years in the full view and knowledge of everyone, with their children and their grandchildren .. and then in the early morning, they come looking for them, 40 years after the facts," she said.

She said that her clients would appeal against their detention and extradition.

La Belle France has extradited individual left-wing bandidos Death Eaters and Red Brigades figures in the past.

President Jacques Chirac broke with the Mitterrand Doctrine by authorising the extradition of university lecturer Paolo Persichetti, who was linked to the Brigades, in 2002.

Convicted murderer Maurizio Locusta was tracked down and extradited in 1987.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2021 00:24 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Commies


India-Pakistan
Relentless New Wave Sends India Covid Death Toll Past 200,000
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In a country with a population over 1 billion, this amounts to 0.02%.
Posted by: Tom || 04/29/2021 15:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Worldofmeters India:

Coronavirus Cases:
18,754,984

Deaths:
208,313

Recovered:
15,373,765

There's no time data.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/29/2021 23:04 Comments || Top||

#3  For comparison, the US:

Cases:
33,044,068

Deaths:
589,207

Recovered:
25,641,574

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/29/2021 23:07 Comments || Top||

#4  You can plug in the numbers yourself. We have more cases and more deaths per case at the moment, with a smaller population.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/29/2021 23:08 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
First MMA competition in SPACE will see two fighters battle in zero gravity during the 12 episode reality show 'Galactic Combat'
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/29/2021 01:08 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't think the marketing MBAs understand the term.

It only becomes 'Galactic Combat' when some Yautja or Space Orks turn up at the event, saying 'Hullo wot's dis?'
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/29/2021 3:35 Comments || Top||

#2  We have become such a modern, enlightened society.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2021 6:29 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^ ah, yes, those everyday knife fights.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/29/2021 7:17 Comments || Top||

#4  I'll take the Annunaki for 500 Quatloo.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/29/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||


New psychedelic-like drug boosts the body's 'feel good' hormone WITHOUT hallucinations - and it could be used to treat depression and PTSD
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In case you missed it, Skidmark.
Mortal Dreams
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/29/2021 3:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Judging from new drugs with similar hype introduced over the past 50 years, it will most likely turn out to be highly addictive, or have other undesirable effects not yet detected.
Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 || 04/29/2021 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Some users have experienced hormonal decline and shrinkage. Your results may vary.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#4  So if you don't have an erection in 4 hours be sure to contact your doctor...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/29/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||

#5  I just had my 2nd cataract removed & replaced with a prosthetic lens. Nurse anesthetist told me I got 50 micrograms of fentanyl as part of my treatment. No pain during surgery, although I did hear the surgeon talking from time to time. Otherwise no memory of the procedure. I haven't felt that good in 70 years! No visions, or spaced out feeling, just intense well-being. No wonder it's addictive.
Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 || 04/29/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||

#6  "...think about the level of power
wielded over humanity, by juvenile minds
with aspirations way above their abilities."

Yes indeedy.
Thanks Dron.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/29/2021 11:11 Comments || Top||

#7  More and more it feels alot like Pournelle's CoDominium type of world coming into being. 'Citizens' kept happy with drugs and welfare, gangs ruling various welfare hubs and rich taxpayers living in walled, armed camps and ruling over the little people.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/29/2021 18:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Or Fourth Century Imperial Rome, well the VisiGoths did amp up the tribal part in the Western part.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/29/2021 19:01 Comments || Top||


Co-founder of $2B startup says he was fired for taking LSD at work
[FoxBusiness] The use of LSD as a creative accelerant and microdosing as a tool to focus has become increasingly popular, particularly in Silicon Valley.

San Francisco-based Iterable reportedly sent out a memo to staff on Monday announcing that co-founder Justin Zhu was fired for violating company policy, but Zhu told Bloomberg on Tuesday that the board ousted him for taking the psychedelic before a meeting in 2019.

Zhu told Bloomberg he was experimenting by taking a small amount of the psychedelic, or microdosing, to boost his focus. A representative for Iterable did not return the New York Post’s request for comment.

The use of LSD is illegal in the U.S. and the Drug Enforcement Agency classifies it as a Schedule I substance, which also includes marijuana, heroin and ecstasy. But the use of LSD as a creative accelerant and microdosing as a tool to focus has become increasingly popular, particularly in Silicon Valley, where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs spoke openly about his use of the drug.

Zhu, who previously worked at Google and Twitter, co-founded Iterable in 2013 along with Andrew Boni. By Wednesday morning, Iterable had removed Justin Zhu from the leadership team listed on its website and named Andrew Boni CEO.

Boni reportedly said in the memo to staff that Zhu’s not only violated the company’s "policies and values," but his "behavior also undermined the board’s confidence in Justin’s ability to lead the company going forward."
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Isn't it amazing how much serious science and inventing was done by people who never took LSD? Just sayin'...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/29/2021 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  If microbuses increase your focus how did anyone at the meeting know he'd taken the LSD? More likely he was staring and babbling during the meeting and they debated calling for medical help.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/29/2021 9:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Justin Zhu was fired for violating company policy

Avoided the Friday Group Snort and instead was found playing to his own groove, the bastard.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/29/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2021-04-29
  Boko Haram Releases Photos Of Tanks, Vehicles Captured From Nigerian Army
Wed 2021-04-28
  Afghanistan: US Will not Provide Air Support after Withdrawal
Tue 2021-04-27
  Explosive-laden balloons launched from Gaza towards Israel
Mon 2021-04-26
  Pak: National Counter Terrorism Authority sez more than 19,000 social media accounts taken down for inciting hate and spreading terrorism
Sun 2021-04-25
  Sri Lanka arrests top Muslim leader over 2019 Easter attacks
Sat 2021-04-24
  German court convicts ISIS woman of crimes against humanity for Yazidi enslavement
Fri 2021-04-23
  Nigeria: At Least 83 Killed As Bandits Strike Again in Zamfara
Thu 2021-04-22
  Israel retaliates after Syrian missile lands near nuclear reactor
Wed 2021-04-21
  'Unbearable' conditions push Biden administration to close Houston migrant center
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  Chad's president Deby dies after fighting rebels on battlefield- Army
Mon 2021-04-19
  Khartoum, ICC Agree to Try Bashir
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  Mozambique: Terrorists Destroy Over 100 Cabo Delgado Schools
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  Iran Starts Enriching Uranium at 60%, its Highest Level Ever
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  Russia downs American spy plane - correction: "Escorted"
Thu 2021-04-15
  Biden Announces Withdrawal of US Forces from Afghanistan, Germany and Britain to follow


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