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-Great Cultural Revolution
Outrage as drag queen leads young kids in 'Free Palestine' chant: 'Wrong on every level'
[NYPOST] Video of a drag queen in Massachusetts leading a group of young kids to chant "Free Paleostine" has sparked fierce backlash — with some calling it "indoctrination" that is "wrong on every level."

The encounter, which unfolded at a "Queer Storytime for Paleostine" event organized by the Valley Families for Paleostine group in Amherst last week, had gone viral by Thursday as outrage mounted.

"Today what we’re going to do is shout ’Free Paleostine.’ Can I hear that?" the drag queen, known as "Lil Miss Hot Mess," was filmed telling the children in the 30-second clip.

"If you’re a drag queen and you know it, and you really want to show it, if you’re a drag queen and you know it, shout ’Free Paleostine.'"

The kids could be heard mimicking the drag queen by repeatedly chanting, "Free Paleostine."

Furious critics were quick to point out the hypocrisy of a drag queen touting the phrase given the harsh treatment of LGBTQ people in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
"An indoctrination double whammy: ’Free Paleostine’ meets ’drag queen story hour,'" Eitan Fischberger, a former Israel Defense Forces sergeant, tweeted.

"If people can’t see that drag queens teaching kids to chant ’Free Paleostine’ is wrong on every level, then they seriously are part of the problem," British TV host and politician Nigel Farage raged in a post on X.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves...
Jake Wallis Simons, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, quipped: "Seriously. Yahya Sinwar, Putin, Xi and the Ayatollah are laughing so hard (and sharpening their knives)."

Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has more here.

Posted by: Fred || 04/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [115 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  After seeing that picture I won't sleep for a week.
Posted by: Deacon+Blues || 04/26/2024 10:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Send it to Iran as a reward
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/26/2024 11:29 Comments || Top||

#3  So, Free Paleos....how do you feel about the LGURGLES+ hijacking your cause? That it is no longer about getting just ice but about drag queens and their gay struggle?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/26/2024 14:18 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Marine's video casts doubt on Pentagon's official account of tragic Kabul airport blast
A better after action report.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • 13 US personnel died when an ISIS-K suicide bomber attacked Kabul airport

  • Newly released video suggests there were more shots fired after bomb blast

GoPro video shot by a Marine at Kabul airport casts doubt on the official Pentagon investigation into a suicide attack that killed 13 Americans and more than 160 Afghans during the chaotic 2021 evacuation. Ever since then, the Department of Defense has said that the deaths were caused an ISIS-K suicide bomber acting alone. But the new video, obtained by CNN, raises fresh questions and suggests that far more gunshots were heard in the aftermath than has been admitted.

A dozen American military personnel described the gunfire and one said the first salvo came from an area of U.S. Marines close to the blast site.

'It wasn't onesies and twosies,' the Marine said. 'It was a mass volume of gunfire.'

A local doctor also told the news organization that he pulled bullets from the wounded and that dozens of Afghans died from gunshot wounds.

The Pentagon has dismissed previous claims that some of the victims were killed by gunfire and said troops who reported being fired upon were confused or suffering concussion from the blast.

The attack brought a tragic end to the hurried withdrawal from Afghanistan after a 20-year war. U.S. troops did their best to protect Hamid Karzai International Airport after the Taliban seized control of the capital in August, 2021, as thousands of foreign nationals and tens of thousands of Afghans tried to flee.

The blast at 5:36 p.m. on August 26 at one of the airport gates was the worst attack on American troops and Afghan nationals in more than a decade. A suicide bomber with the Islamic State affiliate detonated a backpack filled with ball bearings, creating carnage.

Witnesses reported hearing gunfire after the blast.

The official investigation concluded that American and British forces delivered three near-simultaneous bursts of warning shots that did not hit anyone.

U.S. Central Command later ordered a supplemental review amid reports that the bomber had been identified before the blast and the attack could have been stopped. It found that the reports were likely mistaken and agreed that a lone ISIS-K bomber was responsible.

The video footage obtained by CNN complicates things. It contains 11 bursts of shooting after the explosion, accounting for nearly four minutes of gunfire, in contrast to the Pentagon description of three 'near simultaneous' episodes. It shows Marines racing for cover in the aftermath of the blast. At one point they choke on CS gas released from a broken a canister. One can be heard saying: 'I got that on film, dude.'

An audio forensic expert, who reviewed the footage for CNN, counted a minimum of 43 shots.

Pentagon spokesman Army Lt. Col. Rob Lodewick said the two investigations looked into whether the bombing was part of a 'complex attack'—the name for a blast followed by gunmen opening fire.

'The Supplemental Review found no new evidence of a complex attack, and uncovered no new assertions of outgoing fire post-blast,' he said. 'Consequently, the Supplemental Review found no materialistic impact to the original findings of the Abbey Gate investigation.'

A British spokesman said its troops had fired warning shots above the crowd to prevent a surge.

CNN previously reported interviews with more than a dozen Afghans who said they had seen or heard gunfire.

'I saw people who were injured in the explosion trying to get up, but they fired on them,' said Shogofa Hamidi, whose sister Morsal was shot in the face.

Dr. Sayeed Ahmadi, the then director of the Wazir Akhbar Khan hospital in Kabul, said: 'Explosion injuries come with severe injuries and lots of holes in the bodies.

'But people who were shot had just one or two holes in the chest or head.'

CNN also spoke to 10 Marines, many of whom described hearing gunshots.

Sgt. Romel Finley, who received a Purple Heart for injuries sustained in the attack, told the Brrks YouTube channel, which interviews Marines: 'My platoon sergeant running past us, saying "get back on that wall and shoot back at those motherf**kers." So I was like, we are in a gunfight too.'

Christian Sanchez, another Marine survivor, told the same channel: 'All I see is flashes. And all I could hear was ringing. Like all hear is ringing and f**king flashes going on.

'And I start hearing snaps. And I start realizing that that's a f**king dude shooting at me. And I just started shooting at the dude.'
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [97 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  A perfect example of why we need to stop sending in our military to other countries. They just invite attacks, and then the freaked-out troops retaliate against the wrong people. Which in many cases is what the locals want because it drives recruitment through the roof and guarantees the conflict will continue forever.
Posted by: Uleremp and Company7042 || 04/26/2024 14:38 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
UN accuses RSF of kidnapping women and girls in Sudan
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its militias kidnapped more than 160 women and girls who were detained under slavery-like conditions over the previous year, a new report from the United Nations revealed.

The Secretary-General’s report on conflict-related violence covering the period January to December 2023, was presented to the Security Council on Tuesday.

“The United Nations has received credible information about the abduction of more than 160 girls and women in detention, including reports of women and girls being raped and detained in slavery-like conditions,” partly reads the report.

It added, “There are reports that women and girls abducted in Khartoum State were transferred to other areas, especially Darfur, chained in the back of trucks, which was the case in almost all instances”.

The Secretary General’s annually presented report did not, however, rule out the coercion of some women and girls to engage in prostitution or forced marriage, while in other cases, families paid a large ransom for the return of their members.

Advocacy groups such as Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) hinted on the sale of women kidnapped from Khartoum in areas of Darfur.

The UN said it had documented cases of conflict-related sexual violence, including rape, gang rape, abduction as well as trafficking committed against 98 women, 18 girls, a man and boy in 2023.

It reported that the cases occurred in the states of Khartoum, South Darfur and North Darfur, involving men wearing RSF uniforms mostly followed by members of its Arab militias, as well as unidentified armed men and army personnel.

Posted by: Fred || 04/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [92 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  Yet not a whisper of the Hamas rape gangs.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/26/2024 13:41 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Some US troops set to depart Chad, at least temporarily
[AOL] The United States is planning to temporarily withdraw some of its troops from Chad, U.S. officials said on Thursday, a move that comes just days after Washington was forced to agree to remove its troops from neighboring Niger.

Earlier this month Chad's air force chief ordered the U.S. to halt activities at an air base near the capital N'Djamena, according to a letter sent to the transitional government and seen by Reuters.

Pentagon spokesperson Major General Patrick Ryder said a portion of the U.S. troops in Chad would reposition out of the country.

He said it was a "temporary step" as part of an ongoing review of security cooperation with Chad, which would resume after the country's May 6 presidential election.

A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a few dozen special forces troops who are in Chad as planners and advisers will move to Germany for now.

Interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby is running for election next month, making Chad the first of West and Central Africa's junta-ruled countries to organise a vote. Opposition groups have flagged concerns about its credibility.
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 04/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [75 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why did we invade them in the first place?
Posted by: Uleremp and Company7042 || 04/26/2024 14:29 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Haiti: Former PM Henry submits resignation of cabinet, transitional council takes power
[AFRICANEWS] A council tasked with choosing Haiti's new prime minister and cabinet was sworn in Thursday (Apr. 25).

The swearing in ceremony of the transitional council did not take place at the National Palace in the capital for fear of gangs.

On a recent day, armoured vehicles rolled past the building.

Every day, bullets whiz past the area, striking buildings and people alike.

Caseus, a local resident, said he hasn't seen Haiti with such a high level of insecurity before.

"Since 1986, Haiti has faced deplorable insecurity," he lamented.

Gangs control most of the territory that surrounds the palace.

A state of emergency is enforced in the Ouest department where Port-au-Prince is located until May 3rd.

Former prime minister Ariel Henry officially submitted the resignation of his government on Wednesday from Los Angeles.

Posted by: Fred || 04/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [71 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule


Fifth Column
DHS Has a Warning for Foreign Students Participating in Anti-Israel Protests
[TOWNHALL] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned foreign students that if they are arrested for participating in anti-Israel protests occurring across college campuses they will face deportation.
Arrested and turned loose or arrested and convicted?
As anti-Israel protestors invade universities such as Columbia, law enforcement and Republican lawmakers sound the alarm as it becomes increasingly unsafe for Jewish students to be on campus.

DHS can lawfully deport a person if they violate their visa terms. Most of the time when visas are revoked, it is "prudential," which means that a person isn't always necessarily immediately removed from the United States. However, it does mean that someone would be denied future re-entry into the country.
Posted by: Fred || 04/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [155 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 

Given the Death To America chants,
why are they still here?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/26/2024 1:40 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Because they pay out-of-state tuition?
Posted by: SteveS || 04/26/2024 10:17 Comments || Top||

#3  They could participate in all the anti-white protests they wanted and even get class credit, but this is a line too far, eh? What's that line about finding out who you are not allowed to criticize.
Posted by: Uleremp and Company7042 || 04/26/2024 14:31 Comments || Top||

#4  If they’re kicked out for beating up Jews, my dear Mr. Uleremp and Company7042, they also won’t be protesting against “white people”. They’ve always protested against the Joooooos in addition to whoever was their putative target — who do you think the “Banksters” were supposed to be that Black Bloc/Antifa of Occupy Wall Street objected to, and have you forgotten that the anti-Trump Pussy March would not allow Jews to participate?
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/26/2024 21:12 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
White House shuts down GOP calls to bring in National Guard for college protests
[HILL] The White House punted on Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) demand for President Biden to call in the National Guard to college campuses amid mass protests over the Israel-Hamas war on Thursday.

Johnson visited Columbia University on Wednesday, the first of major pro-Palestine protests that have spread to dozens of college campuses around the country, and said that Biden should call in the National Guard to quell the peaceful demonstrations.

White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that the issue is not up to the president.

"That is something for the governors to decide," she told reporters, noting that Biden has previously criticized the protests as antisemitic.

Johnson went a step further Wednesday, calling the protests "dangerous."

"If this is not contained quickly and if these threats and intimidation are not stopped, there is an appropriate time for the National Guard," he said.

Student and faculty protests have urged the Biden administration to back a permanent cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and to stop supplying military aid to Israel, and they have advocated for their universities to divest from Israeli interests.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/26/2024 04:37 || Comments || Link || [194 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  The WH also refused to use the Guard on 6Jan. Anarchy and election interference (cancellation) are the goals. If the polls are unsafe, or the voters cannot reach them, it's all off.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/26/2024 4:44 Comments || Top||

#2  So KJP supports Gov. Abbott's decision to use State Troopers to quell the Austin protests?
Posted by: Bobby || 04/26/2024 5:26 Comments || Top||


#4  My lovely wife works remotely for Northwestern University in Chicago.

She tells me there is an announcement on the faculty website about a 'student group' setting up an encampment on campus grounds. Apparently the group did not go through the approval process before setting up their perimeter.

Faculty are warned to avoid the area as removal actions are undertaken.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/26/2024 10:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Johnson is a choad. Keffeyia wearing dweebs on campus need attention from the NG, but our southern border needs nothing.

Wat a turd...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/26/2024 10:42 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Nothing says dipshi@ like a westerner wearing a fok'n keffeyia.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/26/2024 10:53 Comments || Top||

#7  ...What has been kinda funny is how many of the protesters have been yelling that no one is going to 'Kent State' them.

Which tells me that at the very least, they're a bit concerned about the possibility.

Sleep tight, protesters.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 04/26/2024 12:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Publish their names. Let companies beware of who they may be hiring
Posted by: Frank G || 04/26/2024 12:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Archive their names. Punish the companies that hire them.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/26/2024 12:16 Comments || Top||

#10  George Soros is a Jew, too. Someone needs to start a conference call to get everyone on the same page.
Here's how he works, watch this in pieces while you do the dishes or drive to work.


Posted by: Uleremp and Company7042 || 04/26/2024 13:38 Comments || Top||


Exposing the Human Trafficking Operations Disguised as Refugee Charities
[Rumble] Tucker Carlson interview: America is being invaded and destroyed with the help of our leaders. Michael Yon has spent his life covering wars, so he recognized right away what was happening.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [64 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


Home Front: WoT
More than half of Americans support mass deportations of illegal migrants: poll
[NYPOST] More than half of Americans — including a hefty 42% of Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
— back mass deportations of illegal immigrants colonists
as President Biden’s border crisis rages on, a new poll shows.

Fifty-one percent of those polled said they would support booting the undocumented immigrants colonists, according to the Axios Vibes survey by the Harris Poll released Thursday.

In addition, a large number — 30% of Democrats and 46% of Republicans — signaled support for ending birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

Asked what their greatest fear was surrounding illegal immigrants colonists, 21% of those surveyed cited surging crime rates, drugs and violence as their main concern.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
32% said the Biden administration was "most responsible" for the current border crisis that’s plaguing the country.

"I was surprised at the public support for large-scale deportations," said Mark Penn, chairman of the Harris Poll.

Posted by: Fred || 04/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [85 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1 
Wonder how many would also support deporting those in DC that setup and ran the Open Borders agenda?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/26/2024 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  The rest know FBI is watching?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/26/2024 9:54 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan rubbishes US 'politicised, double standard' human rights report
[GEO.TV] As the US State Department released its country-wise analysis of the human rights situation, Pakistain has categorically rejected the contents of the "2023 Country Report on Human Rights Practices", terming it "unfair, based on inaccurate information and completely divorced from the ground reality".

"The US State Department’s annual exercises of preparing such unsolicited reports lack objectivity and remain inherently flawed in their methodology," Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said in a statement on Thursday.

"These reports use a domestic social lens to judge human rights in other countries in a politically biased manner. This year’s report is once again conspicuous by its lack of objectivity and politicisation of the international human rights agenda."

She added: "It clearly demonstrates double standards thus undermining the international human rights discourse."

Pointing out the US "double standards" on grave humanitarian issues, Baloch said: "It is deeply concerning that a report purported to highlight human rights situations around the world ignores or downplays the most urgent hotspots of gross human rights violations such as in Gaza
Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK)."

Only a politically motivated report, she said, could ignore the alarming situation in Gaza, the weaponisation of humanitarian assistance and the massacre of over 33,000 civilians. "Silence of the United States on the continuing genocide in Gaza runs counter to the stated objectives behind the so-called country reports on human rights."

Posted by: Fred || 04/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [43 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Malala reaffirms support for Palestinians after backlash
…even though Hamas would have done to her exactly what the Taliban did, and probably more thoroughly. Sadly, being a heroine is not enough to grow brains in the brainless thereafter.
[GEO.TV] Pakistain's Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai
Thursday reaffirmed her support for the Paleostinians after facing backlash from netizens around the world for collaborating with former US secretary of state Crooked Hillary Clinton
>...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
"I want there to be no confusion about my support for the people of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
[...] I have and will continue to condemn the Israeli government for its violations of international law and war crimes," Malala wrote in a social media post.

However, the women's rights advocate chose to turn off the comments on the said post on her social media accounts.

The Nobel laureate's remarks come after she faced scathing criticism from a large number of social media users who called her out for co-producing a Broadway musical "Suffs" with Hillary — the former Democratic presidential candidate and a political heavyweight who has time again opposed the calls for a ceasefire in Gaza despite more than 34,000 Paleostinians being martyred so far.

Posted by: Fred || 04/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [88 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Another con-servative darling.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/26/2024 15:36 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2024-04-26
  Somali National Army Kills 30 70 Al-Shabaab Militants in Mudug Region
Thu 2024-04-25
  IDF is ready to start the operation in Rafah immediately
Wed 2024-04-24
  Israel military strikes northern Gaza in heaviest shelling in weeks, central Gaza ditto
Tue 2024-04-23
  NYPD cops in riot gear arrest dozens of NYU students, faculty at pro-Hamas encampment on campus
Mon 2024-04-22
  Yale students tear down an American flag on campus
Sun 2024-04-21
  SDF capture 38 ISIS suspects
Sat 2024-04-20
  Tehran signals no retaliation against Israel after drones attack Iran
Fri 2024-04-19
  Several drones were shot down over Iranian Isfahan, media reports — IAF airstruck ‘em good
Thu 2024-04-18
  Venezuela received at least four Peykaap-III class (Zolfaghar) missile boats from Iran in 2023
Wed 2024-04-17
  Google staffers stage sit-in at offices in Seattle, California, NYC to protest contract with Israel
Tue 2024-04-16
  Gaza corpse count surpasses 33,700
Mon 2024-04-15
  Hamas thought they'd conquer Israel, had plans for how to divvy it up
Sun 2024-04-14
  Iranians celebrate after attacking Pearl Harbor Israel from all sides with suicide drones, missiles and rockets
Sat 2024-04-13
  Iran threatens the US with an attack if it intervenes in the conflict with Israel
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