[GEO.TV] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... said Sunday that the corpse count of Hajj pilgrims has climbed past 1,300 as they performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat and most of the dear departed did not have official permits. Gathered to the bosom of Allen.
"Regrettably, the number of mortalities reached 1,301, with 83% being unauthorised to perform Hajj and having walked long distances under direct sunlight, without adequate shelter or comfort," the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
The dear departed pilgrims belonged to more than 10 countries, ranging from the United States to Indonesia, and some governments are still updating their figures.
According to Arab diplomats last week, Egyptians accounted for 658 deaths, among whom 630 were unregistered pilgrims.
They said that the cause of death in most cases was heat-related as temperatures in Makkah this year climbed as high as 51.8°C, according to Saudi Arabia's national meteorological centre.
Riyadh had not publicly commented on the deaths or provided its own toll until Sunday.
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"Regrettably, the number of mortalities reached 1,301, with 83% being unauthorised to perform Hajj and having walked long distances under direct sunlight, without adequate shelter or comfort," the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
Step one: Return Palestinian refugees to their homeland.
Derbent, Dagestan, June 23, 2024, 21:58 - IA Regnum. Archpriest Nikolai Kotelnikov, killed in Dagestan, became the seventh priest to die in Russia at the hands of Wahhabis, Islamic scholar Roman Silantiev, who knew the deceased priest well,reported on the Telegram channel “ Tsennosti.RF ”
“Father Nikolai served all his life in Derbent, was one of the pillars of first the Baku and then the Makhachkala diocese. He was repeatedly threatened with death, and so he suffered martyrdom on the Day of the Holy Trinity,” he said.
Silantiev recalled that over the past few years, four Orthodox churches have already been attacked in Dagestan. He called for strengthening the fight against Wahhabi terrorists in Dagestan.
“After a very lenient punishment following the pogrom at the Makhachkala airport, they apparently felt their impunity, but even then it was necessary to put pressure on them using the harshest methods, and not try to justify their actions,” says the Islamic scholar.
In his opinion, the time has come to radically reconsider the approach to this problem in Dagestan and put the most tough and uncompromising people in key positions in this republic.
As reported by IA Regnum, on the evening of June 23 in Derbent, unknown persons fired at a church and a synagogue. The perpetrators fled the crime scene and are being sought. Later it became known that during the militant attack, police officers, the rector of the temple, Father Nikolai, and the temple guard were killed.
At the same time, a shootout took place in Makhachkala; unknown persons opened fire on the city streets and fired at a traffic police post. The “Interception” plan was announced in the city. Two militants who shot the police were killed.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, six police officers were killed and another 12 police officers were injured in the attack by militants in Derbent and Makhachkala. According to the Muftiate of the Republic, the number of deaths as a result of terrorist attacks has increased to nine, seven of them are law enforcement officers, and 25 people were injured.
After the attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent, the Dagestan authorities created an operational headquarters, said the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under an article about a terrorist attack.
Text compiled by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin from material provided by @khamsin_season. Rozhin's comments are in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The head of “Erdogan’s personal army” Melih Tanriverdi in conversation with Jeune Afrique rejected reports of the presence of his mercenaries, employees of the private military company SADAT in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. Particular emphasis in the conversation was placed on the consulting nature of the Turkish PMC and on the fact that it is not the Turkish “Wagner”.
The attempt at refutation followed a report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights about the arrival of Syrian militants in the Sahel zone under the auspices of SADAT, as well as material Le Monde, which spoke about the active desire of the people of Tanriverdi extrapolate their Libyan and South Caucasian experience to the situation in Niger and Mali.
The great ambitions of SADAT are no secret, but a fundamentally new element in recent reports regarding its activities are statements about its alleged readiness to cooperate with the Russian “African Korps”.
This is fundamentally important, given that Washington viewed cooperation with Ankara on Africa as an element of a strategy to counter Russian interests - in conditions where local players who survived the military coup are determined to look for alternative external partners as opposed to Western countries that have overestimated their capabilities.
It is worth noting that in Mali, during the operations of the local army and the Wagner PMC, Turkish Bayraktar UAVs provided air support for the offensive. At the same time, back in 2020 in Libya, Pantsirs of the Wagner PMC fought with Turkish Bayraktars during the battle for Tripoli.
It is also worth recalling that when the military seized power in Mali, the French media accused not only Russia, but also Turkey of supporting the coup.
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[FOX] The scandal-plagued United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is facing a lawsuit in Manhattan for its alleged role in aiding the terrorist movement Hamas to slaughter nearly 1,200 people on Oct. 7 in Israel, including more than 30 Americans.
The lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York on Monday, which was first exclusively reported on by the host of FOX Business Network’s Making Money with Charles Payne, lays out the charges against the controversial U.N. agency.
The lawsuit stated, "Hamas did not carry out these atrocities without assistance. It was aided and abetted by, among others, the above-named defendants, who are current or former senior officials of the UNRWA, as well as UNRWA itself, who collectively spent over a decade prior to the October 7 Attack helping Hamas build up the terror infrastructure and personnel that were necessary to carry out the October 7 Attack, including by knowingly providing Hamas with the U.S. dollars in cash that it needed to pay smugglers for weapons, explosives, and other terror materiel."
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Yes, he is Colombian born. However, he is not a Federal judge. According to Wiki, he is a judge on the New York STATE Supreme Court.
I thought he was a New York CITY judge, since the case was prosecuted by Alvin Bragg, who is the District Attorney of New York County.
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[GEO.TV] As the country reels under frequent incidents of violence and lynchings over blasphemy ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran... allegations, the National Assembly on Sunday passed a resolution on the protection of minorities in the country in the ruckus-marred session
The lower house session on Budget 2024-45 faced turbulence as the government and opposition remained divided over a new military operation, Azm-e-Istehkam, announced on Saturday to root out militancy from the country.
Besides the altercation between the opposition and treasury benches, the NA saw the passage of a resolution aimed at protecting the minorities with an overwhelming majority.
The resolution presented by Law Minister Senator Azam Nazeer Tarar stated that the federal and provincial governments should ensure the complete safety of members of minor communities in the country.
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[IsraelTimes] Before Oct. 7, 200,000 West Bankers commuted across the border for work. Now they sit home in uncertainty, while security officials warn of the potential threat of mass unemployment.
Within hours of the onslaught, the Israeli government announced the suspension of work permits for about 150,000 West Bank Palestinians who had been commuting daily to work inside Israel, plus another 18,500 Palestinians from Gaza, leaving an economic hole on both sides of the border.
It is estimated that besides permit holders, an additional 50,000 West Bank laborers were sneaking through the border illegally each day before October 7.
Among those who found themselves unable to work in Israel, where salaries are considerably higher than in the West Bank, were around 80,000 Palestinians who used to work on Israeli construction sites, many of them highly specialized in sectors such as ironwork, flooring, formwork and plastering.
The loss of wages has compounded the economic impact of the war against Hamas. A recent International Labor Organization report said unemployment in the West Bank now stands at 32 percent. The private sector suffered a 27% reduction in production value, equivalent to $1.5 billion, during the first four months of the war.
For Israel, the acute shortage of Palestinian workers following October 7 brought building to a shuddering halt. Residential construction fell by 95% late last year, contributing to an overall 19% slump in economic activity.
Other sectors, such as agriculture and services, were also hit, but none as much as construction, which accounts for 6% of Israel’s $500 billion economy.
LIVING IN LIMBO
“Many Palestinians live in a state of uncertainty. Their work permits are officially still valid and are even being renewed automatically, but if the permit holder goes up to a checkpoint to enter Israel, they won’t be allowed through. It’s an unprecedented situation,” said Assaf Adiv, the executive director of WAC-Ma’an, a union that represents Israeli and Palestinian workers.
“Nobody really knows when Palestinians will be allowed back in. A whole ‘rumor industry’ has developed that feeds on partial news from the media, Israeli contractors who call up their workers and promise them checkpoints will open the following week or after the next holiday. Palestinian officials also spread rumors in a bid to show that they have good connections. People’s despair causes them to believe any hearsay,” said Adiv.
Israel has withheld a total of around NIS 6 billion ($1.61 billion) in tax revenues to the PA, according to an estimate by the Palestinian finance ministry, which is today too cash-strapped to pay public workers’ salaries in full.
[GEO.TV] In a statement, Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... quoted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks saying he only wanted a "partial agreement after which the war would resume".
Hamas said Netanyahu did not show eagerness to follow the ceasefire proposal offered by the Biden administration, Al Jazeera reported.
"Our insistence that any agreement include a permanent ceasefire and complete withdrawal was necessary to block Netanyahu’s path," Hamas said.
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^The complaint was lodged with the South Korean Police Investigation Agency by an organization called People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy(PSPD)
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu stated earlier today that the “Intense Phase of the War against Hamas in the Gaza Strip is about to End” and that the Military will now be able to Shift its Focus towards the Northern Front with Hezbollah. pic.twitter.com/YrmX9p1R5o
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Beyrouth brûle-t-il? Seems Dominique Lapierre "attended the Jesuit school in New Orleans and became a paper boy for the New Orleans Item." No wonder I liked his stuff.
I recall in the first weeks of the Afghan war, how thousands of Pak Pashtuns of the TNSM rushed off to support al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Many were bombed to red goo, others were rounded up by the Northern Alliance (it was still in existence then) and tossed into conexes or the local jailhouse, to be held for ransom. Few made it back.
Ah, the good olde days!
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The Puppet Show largess to Iran, authored by the Kalorama Kompound, has funded much of the growing turmoil.
"Trump noted Iran was broke from sanctions when he left but Biden pumped money in, enabling the attacks on Israel: “Iran now has $250 billion cash. They made it all in three-and-a-half years and now they're much tougher to deaI with.”
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.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
