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Pearls; why do they hate us?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Posted by: Frank G ||
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Sometimes she looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about her she's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes.
#4
So, there on a boulder I sits,
Just enjoying the breeze and a spritz,
Very pleasantly wet,
When I'm caught, and this net
Inexplicably fits all me bits!
"Perspective? The view from one's height,"
Yaps a toy, tete a tete with Miss White.
"Weel done, cutty sark!"
Her wee beastie might bark
As she dances this Halloween night.
Attending a lady exotic:
"That pendant..." The thought idiotic:
"Look deeeeply..." It's swinging.
Less sleepily: "Bells ringing...
One heck of an antihypnotic!"
[One America News] 12 officers have been injured after the second consecutive night of violent demonstrations in front of a Washington D.C. police station.
Protests broke out on Wednesday night after a vigil for 20-year-old Karon Hylton Brown, who died while trying to evade the police. Demonstrators at the protest threw rocks, bricks and fireworks at officers. They have blamed police for the death of Hylton-Brown.
Authorities initially tried to stop the 20-year-old for not wearing a helmet while riding a moped-scooter, when he fled and collided with another vehicle.
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Although I should think the cops have more important things to worry about than a moped rider not wearing a helmet, something tells me Mr. Brown had other concerns when trying to flee.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
10/31/2020 16:34 Comments ||
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Haven't been following Revel, but it looks like things are going about as you'd expect. I used to be ferociously libertarian about helmet laws, sidewalk biking, and all that... now, having breasted the flood of murderous nonchalance unleashed by scooter startups a few years back, not so much.
[ToloNews] Violence has expanded to 28 out of 34 provinces in the country in the last 24 hours amidst constant delays in the start of direct peace negotiations between negotiating teams from the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... The Taliban attacked security outposts in the northern province of Kunduz on Thursday evening, killing at least one security force member and wounding three more, according to local officials.
"Intense fighting continues since last night between the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces and the Taliban," said Rabbani Rabbani, member of Kunduz provincial council. "People are extremely distressed about violence."
"They (Taliban) staged their offensive, but they faced strong resistance from the security forces. Eight bully boy were killed, two more maimed and their attack was repelled," said Inamuddin Rahmani, a front man for Kunduz police.
The Defense Ministry said the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces have inflicted heavy casualties to the Taliban.
"The Taliban staged attacks on the checkpoints and bases of the government forces in 28 provinces over the past 24 hours, but the government forces repelled their attacks and inflicted heavy casualties to them," Defense Ministry front man Rohullah Ahmadzai said.
Last month the Taliban launched a brazen attack on Lashkargah city, the center of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province in southern Afghanistan, leaving thousands of people homeless.
Provinces, where a fresh spate of violence reported, include Uruzgan, Badghis, Badakhshan, Baghlan, Balkh, Paktia, Takhar, Jawzjan, Khost, Zabul, Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... , Ghazni, Ghor, Faryab, Farah, Kabul, Kapisa, Kunduz, Kandahar, Kunar, Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... , Pashtun-infested Logar, Maidan Wardak, Pashtun-infested Logar, Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Nuristan, Nimroz, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... and Helmand.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... in a report this week said that the level of violence has continued to remain high despite the peace efforts. UN report shows that 2,117 non-combatants were killed in conflicts and attacks in Afghanistan over the last nine months.
[LhaamaPress] The Department of Justice announced Thursday an Afghan man has been arrested and charged in the November 2008 kidnapping of two New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... journalists, including their driver.
Haji Najibullah is charged with six counts, according to the news release: "hostage taking, conspiracy to commit hostage taking, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, and two counts of using and possessing a machine gun in furtherance of crimes of violence." All charges carry potential life sentences.
After seven months in captivity, American journalist David Rohde and Afghan journalist Tahir Ludin escaped in June 2009. Their driver, Asadullah Mangal, did not escape with them.
Najibullah and his co-conspirators "forced the victims to make numerous calls and videos seeking help" from loved ones "while surrounded by masked guards armed with machine guns," the Justice Department said.
"Nearly 12 years ago, the defendant arranged to kidnap at gunpoint an American journalist and two other men, and held them hostage for more than seven months," acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement. "The prosecution of Haji Najibullah shows that law enforcement will never stop in our mission to hold accountable those who commit violent mostly peaceful crimes against American citizens."
Security officials did not provide further details of Najibullah’s arrest, but the news release said he was transferred to U.S. custody from Ukraine.
[KhaamaPress] Local officials in Uruzgan province say they have prevented the fall of Dehraud district to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , but festivities are still ongoing in the center of the district.
Jan Mohammad Karimi, police chief of Dehraud district, told media that all government buildings and facilities are now under the control of Afghan cops.
According to Karimi, the Taliban had intensified attacks on the district center for the past four days, reaching local establishments in the district.
"The Taliban are present in the western part of the district bazaar. Last night, I checked with the lieutenant general and the deputy security chief of the Ministry of Interior that fresh troops had reached the district and that Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s had been carried out on Taliban positions," said Karimi.
The Dehroud police chief also said the district had been prevented from falling into the hands of the Taliban, but the Taliban were barricading themselves in civilian homes and fighting the Afghan army.
There were casualties on both sides and civilians in the festivities, according to sources, but the exact number is not yet clear.
[Jpost] A Mauritanian suspected jihadist pleaded guilty on Wednesday to shooting dead five people in an attack in the Malian capital Bamako in 2015 and planning two other attacks in the country that year that targeted Westerners and killed 37 more people.
In a court appearance in Bamako on Wednesday, Fawaz Ould Ahmed described in detail how he carried out the attack on La Terrace restaurant in March 2015.
He said he was also involved in planning a raid that killed 17 at Hotel Byblos in the town of Sevare in August and another that killed 20 people at Bamako's Radisson Blu hotel that November.
The attacks marked a brazen new phase in jihadist operations across West Africa, in which top hotels and tourist destinations frequented by Western tourists, aid workers and diplomats were no longer considered safe.
"I regret nothing," Ahmed told the court, adding that he had been seeking Dire Revenge for cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad printed in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... In January 2015, two months before Ahmed's first attack, Islamist Death Eaters in Gay Paree had stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo and rubbed out 12 people because of the cartoons.
Ahmed described taking a taxi to La Terrasse restaurant and carrying out the shooting.
"On arrival I went to the toilets, put on a balaclava, took out my Kalashnikov and shot those unbelievers," he said.
At the time, Death Eater groups Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and al Mourabitoun grabbed credit for the attacks in Mali as well as for attacks on a restaurant in neighboring Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... 's capital Ouagadougou and a beach resort town in Ivory Coast.
That’s ok — the Malian al-Mourabitoune is an Al Qaeda in North Africa affiliate.
Ahmed was captured in Bamako in 2016 as he was preparing to carry out another attack armed with grenades and a suitcase filled with weapons on behalf of al Mourabitoun, according to local authorities.
If convicted of the charges including murder and complicity in murder, Ould Ahmed and the one other suspect could face the death penalty
[Yahoo] An American citizen kidnapped last week in Niger has been rescued during a high-risk U.S. military raid in neighboring Nigeria, officials told ABC News early Saturday.
The mission was undertaken by elite commandos as part of a major effort to free the U.S. citizen, Philip Walton, 27, before his abductors could get far after taking him captive in Niger on Oct. 26, counterterrorism officials told ABC News.
Or selling him on as an investment, as has happened before. Kidnapping is a high risk/high reward kind of business.
The operation involved the governments of the U.S., Niger and Nigeria working together to rescue Walton quickly, sources said. The CIA provided intelligence leading to Walton's whereabouts and Marine Special Operations elements in Africa helped locate him, a former U.S. official said.
Then the elite SEAL Team Six carried out a "precision" hostage rescue mission and killed all but one of the seven captors, according to officials with direct knowledge about the operation.
"They were all dead before they knew what happened," another counterterrorism source with knowledge told ABC News.
President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... called the rescue mission a "big win for our very elite U.S. Special Forces" in a tweet and the Pentagon lauded the rescue mission in a statement.
"U.S. forces conducted a hostage rescue operation during the early hours of 31 October in Northern Nigeria to recover an American citizen held hostage by a group of gunnies," said Pentagon chief spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman. "This American citizen is safe and is now in the care of the U.S. Department of State. No U.S military personnel were maimed during the operation.
The raid included the extremely long-distance movement of forces via multiple C-17A Globemaster III transport aircraft flights and the employment of a quartet of both CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotors and MC-130 special operations transports, the latter of which pushed through Rota, Spain, before continuing to their target. AC-130 gunships and a large contingent of aerial refueling tankers also supported this operation.
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And presumably not micromanaged from the White House.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/31/2020 14:06 Comments ||
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#3 When you care enough to send the very best...
on a side note -
Four Soviet diplomats were kidnapped in September 1985 by a fundamentalist group called the Islamic Liberation Organization. Russia quickly dispatched its Alpha group, tasked with counter-terrorism hostage-rescue operations, to Beirut. Once the team learned that Arkady Katkov, a consular attaché and one of the four hostages, was killed, they responded quickly by tracking down and locating one of the kidnappers’ leaders (or relative it’s not clear). In order to send a clear message to the terrorists, Alpha group members castrated the hostage, cut him down into pieces and sent him to the hostage takers. They also threatened to kill more of the kidnappers’ relatives if the Soviet diplomats were not free.
#5
Screaming? Can't blame them for shooting him. I've always preferred -- just going by videos, mind you -- the more subdued approach. Humble mumbling, like.
Syrian accent. His account of what they were doing certainly squares with what those who returned from AZ have told me—they’re basically ground troops, standing in front of AZ soldiers, absorbing bullets. (As in Libya, safe to assume the Turks are in a nice hotel somewhere.) https://t.co/AY6QlcBy2Z
#Breaking! As a result of #Azerbaijan shelling, in Aknaghbyur village of #Artsakh/#Karabakh, 60YO Sergey Balayan was killed & 6 other civilians have been wounded. Azerbaijan continues deliberately/indiscriminately targeting civilian areas & population.#WarCrime#DontBeBlind
[Ynet] A Greek Orthodox priest was shot and injured on Saturday at a church in the center of the French city of Lyon by an assailant who then fled, a police source and witnesses said.
The priest was fired on twice at around 4 p.m. (1400 GMT) as he was closing the church, and he was being treated on site for life-threatening injuries, the source said.
BLM-antifa activists stormed a Seattle news station for reporting on public arrest records related to the riots. The activists claimed that reporting on their arrests was "doxxing." https://t.co/SG1ysQZELQ
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SPECIAL NOTE TO THE MEDIA:
Regarding Marxist All Other Lives Don't Matter.
The animals which you nurtured, and promoted to assist you in your attacks on a Free America, are now biting the hands that made them.
Now what are you going to do for protection in your DE-FUNDED POLICE CITIES? Call on the Local Socialists Leadership to form a "Committee for State Security". History, if factually allowed, should teach you that does not turn out well for the Media.
eg. Feb-March 1917 the Print Media initially helped the Socialist Revolution gain power. After November 1917 and it had power, it turned on the Print Media. An started killing or imprisoning any one in or related to anyone in Print Newspaper industry, who had reported a single word without the Socialist Revolutions permission.
#8
King 5 eh? I'm more of a KOMO 4 fan the few times I watch the news.
In either case King 5 doesn't even mention the storming of their own studio.
So I guess the intimidation worked!
There was an officer shooting in Vancouver, Wash. (near Portland) of a black man named Kevin Peterson Jr. BLM-antifa are claiming he was “lynched” by cops for being black. The sheriff says Peterson was shooting at police during a foot pursuit. https://t.co/C4soZHrCaU
A senior Indian diplomat was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to register Pakistan’s strong protest over ceasefire violations by the Indian occupation Forces along the LoC on 29th October 2020, resulting in serious injuries to two civilians.https://t.co/0oWF2hOIlR
Bibi and The Donald have been friends for a long time. This is a consequence of that.
[IsraelTimes] The Ir Amim watchdog reports that 2020 has already set a new yearly record for the number of Paleostinian home demolitions in East Jerusalem, with 129 units demolished between January and October.
Since the watchdog began collecting data in 2000, the previous high was in 2016, when 123 housing units were demolished during the entire year.
The municipality has said that it is merely enforcing laws against illegal construction. Paleostinian residents of the capital have long argued they often have no choice but to build illegally, as little construction is authorized in their neighborhoods.
According to Ir Amim, detailed plans for over 21,000 housing units were advanced in Jerusalem in 2019, but less than 8 percent were in Paleostinian neighborhoods, even though Paleostinians make up 38% of the capital’s population.
"The record for home demolitions coming specifically during the time of the 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... crisis shows the priority of the government: even a pandemic can’t prevent it from continuing to issue and carry out home demolitions," Aviv Tatarsky, a researcher at Ir Amim, says in a statement.
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.
[One America News] 12 officers have been injured after the second consecutive night of violent demonstrations in front of a Washington D.C. police station.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
My Klingon size-reference chart is outdated. Couldn't find it. Will continue to search. 
...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...
