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Plunging neckline and op art dots... on Pleshette? It's like -- speaking of donuts and other sweet things from 1972-ish -- combining three favorite tropical fruit Life Saver flavors.
When I started the Burg, 22 years ago, my original idea was to take smaller excerpts from news stories to follow what was going on with the Wonderful World of Terror. I registered the domain Thugburg at the same time, thinking I could keep track of the Bad Guy players and their ever-sifting organizational fronts.
Silly me. One person only has so much attention span. That's why we invented division of labor in my younger days, back in the Upper Paleolithic.
I still think it was a good idea. I covered the organizational thing and the big turban tracking, kinda sorta, with the translation routine. (Thank you, Righthaven, you rat toad sonsabitches!) It's not a good solution to me though. For years we've had the presentation of events half-hidden under big yellow repetitive blotches. It's not even databased; it's a great big brute force Javascript include.
There's gotta be a better way.
My thought at the moment is still half-manual. Build a Postgres table with the orgs we're interested in. Then fill in the organization's membership as it pops up. That still leaves us with the problem of associating the name and the org. We had separate org and name links before and that didn't work well. For one thing, we're also interested in non-WoT names, like who's the UN Human Rights head cheese? Who's the head of UNRWA?
Then we'd somehow have to tie Obits into it (Thank you, Seal Team Six and IDF!) We should probably also be able to generate an on-demand report on who died that we've been interested in during a specific time period.
I've only got vague ideas on how to do any of these that will work and be convenient to mods. I think those are the only two major constraints. Anybody else with any good ideas?
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Here is what ChatGPT has to say on the matter:
It seems like you're discussing your thoughts on the development and management of a website or platform focused on tracking various organizations and individuals related to terrorism and other relevant news. Your initial idea of tracking information about the "Wonderful World of Terror" is indeed important for security and awareness purposes, but it's also a challenging endeavor. Here are some thoughts and suggestions on your ideas:
Database Structure: Using a Postgres database is a good start. You can create tables for organizations, individuals, and events. It's essential to have well-structured and normalized tables to efficiently store and retrieve data.
Data Collection: Gathering data can be a mix of manual and automated processes. You can have moderators or contributors who manually input data about organizations, individuals, and their affiliations. Automation can help in data gathering from public sources, but this might require more advanced web scraping and data extraction techniques.
Entity Linking: Associating names with organizations and individuals can be challenging. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques can be used to extract and link entities. Named Entity Recognition (NER) tools can help identify and categorize names, organizations, and other entities within text.
Obituary Tracking: Tracking deaths and obituaries is crucial for keeping your database up to date. You can automate this process by monitoring news sources for obituaries related to the individuals or organizations you're interested in.
Reporting: Developing a reporting system for users to generate on-demand reports is important. You can use query tools that allow users to select criteria like time period, type of event, or specific entities of interest.
Moderation: Ensure that you have a moderation system in place to verify the data entered by contributors. This will help maintain the accuracy and quality of the information in your database.
User Interface: Consider creating a user-friendly web interface for both moderators and end-users to interact with the data.
Collaboration: You might want to collaborate with academic institutions, think tanks, or government agencies working on similar projects. Sharing resources and data can be beneficial.
Privacy and Ethical Considerations: Be mindful of privacy and ethical concerns when collecting and sharing data related to individuals, especially in the context of counterterrorism efforts.
Scalability: As your database grows, ensure that your infrastructure can handle the increasing volume of data efficiently.
Data Security: Implement robust security measures to protect the data you're collecting and the identity of your contributors.
Legal Considerations: Ensure you are compliant with data privacy laws and regulations in your jurisdiction.
Developing and maintaining such a platform is a complex task, but it can provide valuable insights and awareness in the field you're interested in. Collaboration with experts and organizations in counterterrorism and security fields may also offer additional guidance and resources.
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Databases are little more than containers. You should automate the scraping of data, and placing terrorists and organizations in those containers, and then teach your scraper to look for spelling variations, which seems to be the issues with data acquisition.
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Moderation: Ensure that you have a moderation system in place to verify the data entered by contributors.
We rely on the group to challenge information contributed by both moderators and by Rantburgers. The variety of knowledge and experiences the individuals of the group bring to the table is a constant education and delight — not that the AI cares about delight. But just yesterday we got the answer to whether a certain DA in California was a Soros protégé, which has been added to the searchable archive.
#4
I am not php/apache/mysql/Linux. I am 100% Microsoft Windows dev.
You should consider researching and building AI capabilities. Big names like TensorFlow (open source), PyTorch, and scikit-learn (its free) offer APIs that PHP can embrace.
Its another hill to climb, but I understand the benefits of letting AI do the work gives you phenomenal results that can be realized fairly quickly with a little dedication.
Numerous AI communities that you can hook up with:
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-10-ai-communities-for-ai-enthusiasts/
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Thugburg could be rather simple. A directed graph with names and linkages. Start with the focal centres of evil in the world, Soros and Iran, maybe Putin and Xi. The rest will eventually link to them.
I second this, however...
Don't be a victim of 'technology in search of a problem to solve'. 22 years of data is a lot to risk in a platform upgrade.
Had I a say, what I would like is a time-series, event geo-tracker which draws incidents from your existing data store. That product would contribute to building a chronological graph of actors&victims(nodes) and geographical events(edges) used to exploit some nexus of influences.
EX:
Iran can no longer fly arms to Aleppo, what is their alternative? What forces, when, contributed to securing that secondary site? Where are those forces currently active and are can we project new distribution points?
Use the AI [if you must] in a supervised learning mode to backprop train against your existing 22 years of data.
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What are the questions you want the system to be able to answer? (Who is alive associated with X-named org, and what alternative names do they have? What are the current and previous alliances of X-named org? Does name Y match any names we are tracking, and if so which ones? etc)
Maybe designing the specs first might guide figuring out what you need.
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There is no intelligence at all involved at this point. It is high speed search using algorithms that look at previous searches.
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When all else fails, 3x5 notecards, pushpins and yarn? Acetate overlay drops on a mapboard?
That pretty much plumbed the depths of my technical expertise!
I agree on the overall design being a directed graph. But, the data you've collected over the years is your valuable asset. I'd say two database tables at minimum: organizations and individuals. Possibly another one for locations.
The graph edges would be the (two-way) links between individuals and organizations. Individuals can link to several organizations and vice-versa.
Once your data is safely in the database, the path to developing edit and display routines should be pretty clear. You might also consider accessing the data via an API instead of directly - might be better for web access.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] On Monday, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) declared their successful takeover of Belila Airport in West Kordofan State.
Situated 55 kilometres southwest of al-Fula, the capital of West Kordofan State, Belila is home to an oil field that, prior to the outbreak of war, was producing approximately 22,000 barrels of oil daily. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... production has been severely hampered over the last seven months.
In an official statement, the RSF spokesperson asserted that they had "liberated Belila Airport in West Kordofan State with great success, resulting in significant casualties and equipment losses for the Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese Armed Forces (SAF) and their former regime bully boy supporters."
The spokesperson accused the army of repurposing Belila Airport from an oil company service airport into a military installation for launching attacks on cities, damaging infrastructure, and harming innocent civilians.
Eyewitnesses who spoke with Sudan Tribune disclosed that the RSF’s assault on Belila was executed with a substantial force led by Major Hussein Barshim. They also mentioned that the RSF had tightened their control over the primary processing unit in the oil field, looting several vehicles and company headquarters, which they subsequently set ablaze.
Barshim is the commander of a local militia that had been active in oil production sites within West Kordofan state. Following the war, he emerged within the RSF with the rank of major, leading a group of soldiers. He was assigned the responsibility of overseeing military operations in the North and West Kordofan states.
The Sudanese army did not issue a statement about the attack.
RSF fighters have shared videos depicting their presence at the airport.
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The RSF can capture the oil production sites within West Kordofan state, but given the location of pipelines it cannot market its petroleum.
[AFRICANEWS] The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that the number of displaced people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... has reached a record high of 6.9 million.
This latest increase comes following renewed conflict between Tutsi-led M23 rebels and militias loyal to the government in the eastern province of North Kivu in October.
It said it was intensifying its efforts to address the "complex and persistent crisis" across the country with most of those who fled their homes desperately needing help to meet their basic needs.
As the security situation continues to tank, movements become more frequent and humanitarian needs soar.
Nearly 200,000 people have fled their homes since the resumption of the fighting in the Rutshuru and Masisi regions, north of Goma, according to the UN humanitarian agency Ocha.
The IOM said it urgently needs to deliver help to those most in need, describing the situation in the DRC as one of the largest internal displacement and humanitarian crises in the world.
"For decades, the Congolese people have been weathering successive storms of crisis", said Fabien Sambussy, head of the IOM mission in the country.
More than two-thirds of the displaced people in the DRC live with host families.
The organization said that on top of the large-scale humanitarian crisis in the east, other regions have experienced conflict, insecurity, and disasters such as floods and landslides.
It is helping to manage 78 camps housing some 280,000 displaced people and is strengthening mental health services for people in psychological distress.
The IOM is calling for additional financial resources for its operations in the DRC, saying it has received less than half of the $100 million requested.
The eastern part of the DRC has been plagued by violence from local and foreign gangs for nearly 30 years.
Present in the country since 1999, the UN peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, is one of the largest and most expensive of its kind in the world, with an annual budget of one billion dollars.
But it is highly unpopular, with the DRC government calling for it to leave by December, saying it has failed to put an end to the violence perpetrated by gangs.
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The shoot downs from the USS Carney in the Red Sea on the 19th show that the Houthis are ichin' to be jihadin'.
Just being practical on the case of the Saudis.
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It's not like Moslems chop the heads off babies or anything... Is it? [GEO.TV] At least 60 people have been arrested after hundreds of anti-Israel protesters on Sunday, launched a demonstration at Makhachkala airport in Russia's Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... region, targeting an arriving plane from Israel.
This act of protest led to the closure of the airport and required security forces to intervene and disperse the demonstrators.
Local authorities reported that twenty individuals were maimed during the unrest, but the passengers on the Israeli plane remained safe.
These protests are part of a series of anti-Israel incidents that have erupted in the North Caucasus region in response to Israel's conflict with Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... 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... To address the situation, the Dagestani government announced its intention to enhance security measures across the republic, which is home to approximately 3 million people.
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So, you're at the airport assaulting children, to make sure child killers are kept out.
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[Regnum] Law enforcement officers detained at least 83 people who took part in illegal activities in Dagestan, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the North Caucasus Federal District (NCFD) reported.
“Currently, 83 persons who took part in illegal activities have been detained,” the statement said.
The department noted that operational search activities and investigative actions are carried out by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB and the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the republic. The message also clarified that the police conducted more than 50 searches, during which office equipment and telephones were seized, which are evidence in the investigation.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs added that the situation in Dagestan is under the control of law enforcement agencies. In addition, the department warned that any attempts to complicate the situation in the region will be suppressed.
As Regnum reported, on October 29, riots occurred at Makhachkala airport after a flight landed from Tel Aviv. A large crowd of men broke into the air harbor.
After infiltrating, they carried out pogroms and arson, after which the airport was closed. The airport resumed operations on October 30.
The authorities of the republic reported the detention of persons participating in the riots. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that behind the events at Makhachkala airport were Western intelligence agencies operating through social networks from the territory of Ukraine.
The Russian leader also said that they are trying to split Russia from the outside. To do this, according to Putin, organizers from Western countries use lies, provocations, and the spread of aggressive sentiments with the help of psychotechnics.
As opposed to killing Jews? Interesting, but it seems to me the Moslem mob was not in the least concerned about Mother Russia.
The main calculation of those who were behind the rocking of the situation in Dagestan was to create a negative background and present Russia as a country in which Jewish pogroms were taking place. Political scientist Armen Gasparyan told a Regnum correspondent about this.
The day before it became known that the residents of Makhachkala were incited to riots at the republican airport by the Telegram channel “Morning of Dagestan”, administered from the territory of Ukraine by former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev ( recognized as a foreign agent, included in the list of terrorists and extremists).
“Their calculation was more than successful, because now the whole world is writing about “horrific anti-Semitism” and “Jewish pogroms” on Russian territory. The calculation was precisely to create a negative background, ” Gasparyan said. - But here a question arises. Last year, this Telegram channel, which was created by the scumbag Ponomarev, made a fuss in Dagestan about partial mobilization. A year has passed. And again the same Telegram channel creates new unrest. Why was no effort made to restore order?
According to the political scientist, in particular, it was necessary to create a Telegram channel that would be responsible for the information agenda in Dagestan.
Gasparyan believes that what happened in Makhachkala makes us think not only about the punishment of riot participants, but also about the information component in the North Caucasus.
“This is not just a problem for Dagestan... in Karachay-Cherkessia, by the way, they also tried to gather people,” Gasparyan said.
The political scientist also suggested that the swell of interethnic tension in the Russian Federation is “the groundwork for March 2024,” when they will try to destabilize the situation in any way.
Therefore, according to Gasparyan, it is necessary to recognize the existing problems and begin to solve them, and not limit ourselves to punishing the direct culprits.
“Plus, let’s not deceive ourselves - this problem is directly dependent on what will happen in the Gaza Strip. What is happening there now is a prelude to the big game. What will happen when Israel launches a ground operation? We need to take all these factors into account. Otherwise there will be great difficulties,” Gasparyan warned.
In turn, political scientist Vladimir Kornilov agreed with the idea that the Ukrainian Center for Information and Psychological Operations (TsIPSO), and therefore the intelligence services of the Ukrainian regime associated with it (for example, the SBU or GUR) were directly related to the events in Makhachkala.
“Who is Ilya Ponomarev? This year he was officially included in the register of terrorists and extremists. Especially after he admitted his participation in organizing the assassination attempt on Daria Dugina , ” Kornilov said. - So there can be no two opinions about the fact that there is a traitor Ilya Ponomarev. This gentleman is clearly a tool. He himself is not smart enough.”
Kornilov emphasized that in this situation everything comes down to TsIPSO.
“However, now Ponomarev may get burned, ” the political scientist noted. “ It’s one thing to carry out terrorist attacks on Russian territory and against Russian public figures, and quite another to stir up anti-Semitic sentiments in the world.” Here he could become an object of interest for both Western intelligence services and the Mossad.”
Earlier , Regnum news agency reported that, according to the head of Dagestan Sergei Melikov , he received information indicating that the Telegram channel “Morning Dagestan” is administered from the territory of Ukraine by “traitors and Banderaites.”
In addition, he said that Russia’s enemies are trying to destabilize the situation in Dagestan, to create a “protest background” there, including using prohibited techniques related to inciting ethnic hatred and interfaith problems.
Melikov believes that the unrest was probably supported by those who are disadvantaged by the socio-economic transformations taking place in the republic, due to which these individuals lost their “illegal earnings.” The head of Dagestan called the incident “cynicism and betrayal,” and also described these unrest as “a knife in the back of our military personnel.”
According to the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov , the unrest at Makhachkala airport was provoked from the outside, using “information influence.”
It is also known that on the evening of October 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a large meeting in person on the events at Makhachkala airport. The Russian Foreign Ministry directly pointed out the role of the Kyiv regime in organizing the unrest.
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia condemned the actions of the protesters who broke into the Makhachkala airport and supported Islamic leaders who called for an end to the unrest, the press service of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) reported on October 30.
That’s nice. But a ravening mob of Muslim supremacists is not likely to give the words of a mere Christian head honcho any weight at all. His only role in their worldview is to organize the payment of jizya in all its forms, after all.
“There are no moral justifications for those who planned an attack on innocent people who arrived in Dagestan - they do not and cannot bear any responsibility for what is happening in the Middle East ,” the patriarch noted.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church said that he regards what happened at the airport as an attempt to incite hatred between Muslims and Jews. He has no doubt that forces that want to undermine the situation in Russia by any means are involved in provoking unrest.
Patriarch Kirill called on all Russians, regardless of beliefs, to strengthen interreligious peace in the country, built by their ancestors, and to unite to prevent its destruction.
As Regnum reported, on October 29, a large crowd of men burst into Makhachkala airport when a flight from Tel Aviv landed. They carried out pogroms and arson using firearms and explosives. The airport was closed, and soon the Dagestan authorities announced that those who started the riots had been detained. Makhachkala Airport resumed operations on October 30.
The head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, pointed out that the unrest is beneficial to Russia’s enemies, who are seeking to escalate the situation in the region. Press secretary of the country's president Dmitry Peskov said that on the evening of October 30, head of state Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting in person to discuss what happened in Makhachkala. A Kremlin spokesman said the incident was provoked by external forces.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reported on October 30 that the reaction of Russian law enforcement agencies to the events in Makhachkala was coherent and clear. She noted that this made it possible to thwart an attempt at provocation, the purpose of which was to sow unrest in Russia.
The Muslim supremacists of Dagestan are precisely as unlikely to listen to Ukrainian agitators as they are to the head of the Russian Orthodox church.
The Kiev authorities played a key role in the mass unrest that occurred in Dagestan, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on October 30 .
“In the implementation of the next destructive action, a direct and key role was assigned to the criminal Kiev regime ,” says a commentary published on the Foreign Ministry website.
The mass unrest was the result of a planned and carried out external provocation aimed at undermining harmonious development and ethno-confessional unity, the department emphasized.
Zakharova added that Kyiv is most interested in destabilizing the situation in Russia and discrediting it in the international arena against the backdrop of the world community’s fading attention to the crisis around Ukraine. Moreover, the promptness of statements by the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, about the event at Makhachkala airport indicates the coordinated nature of the sabotage of the Ukrainian special services, the diplomat emphasized.
As Regnum reported , a crowd of Makhachkala residents broke onto the runway of Uytash airport on October 29. People came with anti-Israel signs and chanted slogans in support of Palestine. At some point, part of the crowd broke the entrance doors and broke into the airport terminal building, causing riots. This happened after the flight arrived from Tel Aviv. As a result, both civilians and police were injured.
As a result of the riots , nine police officers were injured, two of whom were sent to hospital. A criminal case was opened into the incident at Makhachkala airport .
The head of the Republic of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov , said on October 30 that the unrest was being controlled from Ukraine. According to him, the initiators of this action, of course, operated from the territory of Ukraine. He also called what happened at the Makhachkala airport cynicism and betrayal.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing on October 30 that the unrest at the airport was provoked from the outside. He noted that people are easily provoked when footage of what is happening in the Gaza Strip appears in the media.
Passengers on the plane from Israel were not injured during the riots at Makhachkala airport and have already left the city, the Israeli ambassador said. The head of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia called on the country's authorities to punish participants in anti-Semitic actions in Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on the evening of October 29, mass riots occurred at the Makhachkala airport due to reports of the arrival of a plane with passengers from Israel. As a result of the unrest, more than 20 people were injured, including nine police officers. Today, five victims remain in hospitals, two of them in serious condition, the Ministry of Health reported. Security forces identified more than 150 riot participants and detained 60 people. The criminal case regarding the mass riots has been transferred to Moscow investigators, and searches are being carried out at the participants of the anti-Israel protest , the investigation reported today.
From October 26 to 29, mass anti-Semitic actions took place in the cities of three republics of the North Caucasus Federal District. In Cherkessk, protesters demanded that visitors from Israel not be allowed in, and in Nalchik a cultural center was burned. In Khasavyurt, Dagestan, hundreds of people gathered at a hotel after messages on social networks that there were refugees from Israel in this hotel, according to the Caucasian Knot report “Anti-Semitic actions in the North Caucasus: how it happened.”
Israeli citizens who flew to Dagestan were not injured during the riots at the airport; they were all taken out and have already left Makhachkala, Israeli Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben Zvi said today.
“Fortunately, no one was injured among the passengers on the plane. There were citizens who had Israeli and Russian passports, and those who only had an Israeli or only a Russian passport. For example, children who traveled to Israel for cancer treatment. “
"Everyone found themselves in this terrible situation. Fortunately, nothing happened to them - they were all taken out and are no longer in Makhachkala," RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
The ambassador noted that “any manifestation of anti-Semitism, no matter where, is a terrible phenomenon,” the publication says.
The President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, Rabbi Alexander Boroda today made a statement in connection with anti-Semitic actions in the republics of the North Caucasus.
“The events of October 29 at Makhachkala airport, as well as the incidents preceding them in Nalchik, Khasavyurt and Cherkessk, clearly show that the conflict in the Middle East has already affected the lives of people in Russia, and that anti-Israeli sentiment has now turned into open aggression towards even Russian Jews. Moreover, we see that the local authorities were not prepared for such incidents and allowed large-scale violations of law and order, mass protests with open threats to Jews and Israelis who could have ended up at the Makhachkala airport. But this can hardly be called incompetence - rather, the leadership of the republics could not imagine that the multinational Caucasus will be engulfed by such unrest,” reads Boroda’s statement posted on the federation’s website.
The rabbi called on the country's leadership and law enforcement agencies to "find and most severely punish all organizers and participants of anti-Semitic actions in accordance with Russian legislation."
“It is also necessary to take into account that the pogromists formed their position based on information from social networks and the media - both Russian and foreign. I ask you to pay attention to how events in the Middle East are covered - this complex issue must be approached with great caution and responsibility, so that people do not come to one-sided and radical views, so that they draw conclusions from humane positions, and not on the basis of raging negative emotions,” said Alexander Boroda.
Let us recall that Muslims of the North Caucasus did not remain indifferent to the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In Chechnya, the clergy organizes daily mass prayers in support of Palestine; the Muftiate of Dagestan reported on October 28 that thousands of participants participated in prayers for the Palestinians. On October 28, protests against the arrival of refugees from Israel to the North Caucasus took place in Cherkessk and Khasavyurt.
At the same time, the Coordination Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus on October 28 called anti-Semitic actions unacceptable and called not to regard the opinions of their participants as the opinion of the people.
Information about who and how in the North Caucasus expressed support for Palestine is collected in the “Caucasian Knot” document “ Actions in support of Palestine in the North Caucasus.”
The fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement began on October 7 with the firing of hundreds of rockets into Israeli territory, including civilian targets and civilians.
The most recent explosion of fighting, anyway. Gazans have been attacking Israel since the 1920s, or thereabout, with Hamas formally taking the lead after they won in local elections in 2006 or 2007.
The Israel Defense Forces responded by launching a military operation against Hamas, after which Israel announced a blockade of the Gaza Strip: supplies of water, food, electricity, medicine, and fuel were suspended. Thousands of people died on both sides.
The Islamic movement Hamas is recognized as terrorist in a number of countries: in particular, France and the European Union added it to the list of terrorist groups after the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In Russia, the movement has not been declared terrorist, since none of its representatives have been convicted in Russia, the Prosecutor General’s Office said in response to a request from a deputy from St. Petersburg.
So any of those arrested in this little kerfuffle actually Palestinians or even locals connected to Hamas?
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Re #7: Joe really shouldn't care. Why not? Because:
1) There really aren't that many Muslims in America
2) Biden's handlers can just generate the fake votes needed
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YEMAN must have problems. To distract people's attention, "leaders" start wars, Russia, Falklands, Hamas... just to name a few. Is a little like saying "squirrel" in USA to distract a conversation or Puma in Argentina.
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Iran has problems. When they do, they direct their proxies to hit Israel and get the FAFO response. They don't give a shit about any Paleo, Hizb' or Houthi lives. They're worth less than toilet paper, which serves a purpose (better than stones)
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What odds the Houthi missiles will actually hit Israel instead of the Palestinian territories or somewhere else altogether?
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tw, they will blame any Houthi missiles that hit Palestinne of the Jews.
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Wifebeater excuse: "Why do you make me hit you? I love you Paleos so much!"
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There is a certain logic to it: The Houthis would not be firing their errant missiles at the Juice if the Juice were not the Juice, so it is kinda sort the Juice's fault for being the Juice in the first place. See?
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Looks like a nice place for a really big spaceport...
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Personally, I think things have gone way too far for such an offer. In my view surrender ought be off the table, permanently. There isn't anything to talk about or negotiate.
Now it's time to go to work. It may be long and the egghead lobby may squeal then again they have a short attention span. Kill them all.
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Before the German GSG stormed the hijacked Landshut plane in Mogadishu in 1977, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt informed then President Siad Barre and asked him what should be done with the terrorists taken as prisoners.
Barre incredously asked: Prisoners? You intend to take... prisoners?
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First option preferred.
Option two is also what happens if they choose option one.
[GEO.TV] Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... has presented several conditions before permitting foreign nationals and Gazooks to exit 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... , the US State Department said on Monday.
This development comes as the United States is actively engaged in facilitating the safe departure of American citizens in Gaza who desire to leave and securing the release of hostages detained by Hamas.
The State Department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, emphasised that "Hamas is making a number of demands before they'll allow people to leave Gaza... Just as we believe they ought to release all hostages they are holding, we believe they ought to... let leave all the American citizens and other foreign nationals who are being basically forced to remain in Gaza against their will because Hamas won't uphold its responsibility to operate its side of the Rafah crossing."
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"You thought we have 200 hostages? Silly Americans, we have 2.3 million!"
#5
Seems a bit unrealistic to expect the Israelis to care more about the Paleos than Hamas does. Rather reminiscent of the scene in Blazing Saddles where the sheriff takes himself hostage. It was funny in the movie, but in real life it's kinda stupid.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] The IDF announced retaliatory strikes on Syria's military infrastructure
The Israeli army fired at military targets in Syria in response to strikes from the Arab Republic, the IDF press service reported.
“Some time ago, in response to shelling from Syria on Israeli territory, earlier on Sunday, October 29, an IDF aircraft struck military infrastructure on Syrian territory,” the army press service clarified.
Before this, Israel stated that they were returning fire after shelling from Syria was recorded.
As Regnum reported, on October 24, the IDF also carried out airstrikes on military infrastructure in Syria. Israel called this operation a response to the actions of the Syrian military. It is known that the Israeli army attacked military infrastructure and mortar installations in Syria using a fighter jet.
Senior lecturer at the HSE School of Oriental Studies Andrei Zeltyn believes that at present there is no desire in the Middle East to start a full-scale war with Israel. According to him, Israel will not carry out a massive operation, since Tel Aviv does not want to get involved in a story that could result in a large number of civilian casualties.
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[Regnum] A US military base located in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, near the Koniko gas field, was hit by a missile attack. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a local source.
“Several explosions were heard in and around the US base due to rocket fire,” the report said.
Three days earlier, a Lebanese television channel reported about an explosion at a US military base in Syria in the province of Deir ez-Zor. It was about the same base near the Koniko gas field. Journalists assumed that this was a missile strike. No data on consequences were provided.
Against the background of the worsening Palestinian-Israeli conflict, American bases in the Middle East began to come under more frequent shelling, in particular from artillery and using drones. So, in October, the bases of Al-Shaddadi in Syria and Ein al-Assad in Iraq were attacked. As a result of the attack on the At-Tanf base, 20 American troops were injured. During the attack on Ain al-Assad, one person died of a heart attack and four more were wounded.
The Pentagon reported that between Oct. 17 and Oct. 24, suspected Iran-linked militias attacked U.S. troops in Iraq 10 times and three times in Syria with missiles and drones.
#1
Secretary Austin. "No group will strike our troops with impunity." and then bragged that the counter strike a few days ago did not hurt any of the enymy.
#2
I assert that 10/7 was the beginning of round II of WOT.
In particular, it showed all the Western countries how deep the Islamist/Nihilist penetration into their country is.
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.
When I started the Burg, 22 years ago, my original idea was to take smaller excerpts from news stories to follow what was going on with the Wonderful World of Terror. I registered the domain Thugburg at the same time, thinking I could keep track of the Bad Guy players and their ever-sifting organizational fronts.
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
[GEO.TV] At least 60 people have been arrested after hundreds of anti-Israel protesters on Sunday, launched a demonstration at Makhachkala airport in Russia's 
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
