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Africa Horn
Djibouti leader says not considering normalization of ties with Israel
[IsraelTimes] Djibouti is currently not considering a normalization of ties with Israel, the African Moslem-majority nation’s president says.

"No, because the conditions aren’t ripe," Ismaïl Omar Guelleh tells the Africa Report in an interview. "We neither have a problem with the Jews as a people nor the Israelis as a nation. Some of them even come to Djibouti on business with their passport, and Djibouti’s citizens have been able to travel to Israel for 25 years now."
Really, for a country that probably has limited funds for embassies — and Jerusalem is not cheap — this is pretty much what formal normalization would look like.
However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
the small nation on the Horn of Africa takes issue with the Israeli government "because they’re denying Paleostinians their inalienable rights," he adds. "All we ask that the government do is make one gesture of peace, and we will make 10 in return. But I’m afraid they’ll never do that."
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, not under a putative Biden presidency, anyway.
Posted by: Tom || 11/26/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Russian military could be in Karabakh for over 5 years
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
'Azerbaijan will restore, revive all liberated lands'
[AA.TR] Azerbaijan will revive and restore all of its territories liberated from nearly three decades of Armenian occupation, the country’s president said on Wednesday.

"We have major plans for the restoration of these lands. These plans are already being implemented, [and] infrastructure projects are being implemented," President Ilham The Well-Beloved Aliyev
...Hereditary President-for-Life of Azerbaijan, Conqueror of Artsakh, Victorious Commander-in-Chief, Terror of the Infidel Armenian, Most Favored of the Sultan of All the Ottomans...
said in an address to the nation after the Azerbaijani army entered the reclaimed region of Kalbajar.

He said Kalbajar is a historic part of ancient Azerbaijan and one of its largest districts.

"We will restore Kalbajar — let no one have any doubts about that — and life will return there. Agriculture will develop in Kalbajar, especially livestock breeding. We have large pastures there," he said.

Aliyev accused Armenia of "brutally exploiting" the vast natural resources of the region.

"I have ordered officials to prepare a master plan for the reconstruction of the city; not just the city of Kalbajar but also all other cities [in the region], and life will return there," he said.

Illegal settlements
Aliyev said illegal settlement in Kalbajar was "another crime" committed by Armenia.

"People from Armenia and foreign countries have settled there illegally. This is a war crime under the Geneva Convention. We will hold the enemy accountable," he asserted.

He said Armenia’s leadership will have to answer for all of its "war crimes" and destruction.

"I could not find a single safe building in Aghdam. The same was the case in Fuzuli and Jabrayil. They have destroyed everything, like a savage tribe has passed through," the Azerbaijani president said.

Historical assets
The historical sites of Kalbajar are a "great asset" for Azerbaijan, Aliyev said.

He emphasized that both mosques and churches in the liberated region hold equal significance as "historical treasures" for his country, explaining that the churches in Kalbajar belong to the ancient state of Caucasian Albania.

"There are many historical documents confirming this [fact]. This is no secret. Armenia’s so-called ’historians’ and fraudsters have simply ’Armenianized’ ancient Albanian churches, added their own inscriptions and falsely claiming them as their own," said Aliyev.

"Anyone who looks at history can see that Tsarist Russia abolished the Albanian Church in the 1830s and gave all its property to the Armenian Gregorian Church, which is when Armenian priests and their patrons began to appropriate these churches."

He said Azerbaijan has thwarted Armenia’s main aim of "erasing the history" of Caucasian Albania.

"Azerbaijan has a broad scientific base on this issue. There are [many] research works available. These works are, and should be, shared not only with the scientific community, but also with the world community as a whole," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Europe
French Senate just passed a resolution recognizing the Republic of Artsakh/ NagornoKarabakh 305 to 1
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


4 EU nations sign joint memorandum on migration
[AA.TR] Greece, Italia, Spain and Malta signed a joint memorandum stating their positions on the EU’s new Pact on Migration and Asylum, the Greek government announced on Wednesday.The memorandum has been sent to the German chair of the European Council, Angela Merkel
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists...
, European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen by the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Italia’s Giuseppe Conte, Spain’s Pedro Sanchez and Malta’s Robert Abela.

"The four Prime Ministers of the countries of first entry emphasize that the rules must be clear not only in terms of the responsibilities of the countries of first entry, but also in terms of the rules of solidarity of the Member States, so that the responsibility is shared," said the statement.

The four leaders also said border control procedures should not lead to the creation of large closed centers and stressed the importance for an effective return system.

The EU Commission unveiled a new migration and asylum plan on Sept. 23. that proposed "a fair balance of responsibility and solidarity among member states."

Under the proposal, National authorities and EU agencies would conduct pre-entry screenings at the bloc’s external borders, providing a quick preliminary decision if the asylum application could be accepted or the asylum-seeker needs to return.

The procedure would involve health and security checks, fingerprinting and registration in the EU’s asylum fingerprint database.

The pact also wants to strengthen the EU’s returns system by harmonizing the legal framework of expelling failed asylum-seekers and expand the role of EU authorities in the procedure.​​​​​​​



Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


Fifth Column
A left-wing troll fools conservatives once again with ‘antifa’ prank
For prank, read psyop throughout the article. But it seems to me Mr. (?) Rahuba and his fans are a tad shortsighted in their view of the impact of his little head fakes — each time more people decide not to be polite when they find themselves in a real situation.
[DailyDot] Adam Rahuba, an admitted performance artist, continues to trick conservatives.

Right-wing Twitter users were fooled by an obvious prank on Tuesday after an admitted troll claimed that "antifa" was preparing to descend on conservative areas of the country.

The prank, carried out by political activist and performance artist Adam Rahuba, involved a tweet in which President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
was ordered to concede the 2020 election.

"If you do not concede by Sunday at noon, we will begin to block roads in conservative areas," Rahuba tweeted at Trump. "Your supporters will not be able to go to work or the grocery store to feed their families. We are armed & will retaliate to attempts at vehicular manslaughter."

Rahuba admits on his personal website, disinformationartist.com, that his ultimate goal is to "exploit conservative bias and fear" by planting disinformation online.

While Rahuba had initially kept his trolling a secret, his identity was revealed earlier this year after the Washington Post found that he had been behind a fake antifa campaign to hold a flag burning ceremony at the Gettysburg National Cemetery in Pennsylvania.

Despite the fact that Rahuba’s social media posts regarding the fake event contained obviously satirical remarks, such as offers for "Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
artists" to paint children’s faces during the flag burning, right-wing sites including the Gateway Pundit ran with the story.

And even though Rahuba has become a somewhat high-profile figure, conservatives continue to fall for his pranks.

Rahuba’s account was taken down by Twitter not long after.

Rahuba’s latest prank is similar to numerous others from the past several years that saw conservatives across the country flocking to defend their towns against non-existent Antifa rallies.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2020 00:15 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Adam Rahuba

1857 Fairacres Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA 15216

412-229-7865

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/adamrahuba

Parler: https://parler.com/profile/AntifaOfficalLeader
Posted by: 746 || 11/26/2020 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Call it "disinformation" if you wish, I look at it as seeding ideas.
Posted by: gorb || 11/26/2020 1:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Dis in your face, jackass.
Will someone please horsewhip this little troll?
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Hitler5401 || 11/26/2020 2:10 Comments || Top||

#4  While it may have been the latest Prank.
Want to bet there will be a few 100 nationwide that got the msg. and moved on it thinking it was real?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/26/2020 7:43 Comments || Top||

#5  That is Adam's number.
Posted by: Thimp Clusort2035 || 11/26/2020 8:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Leftists always project. He's telling you what they fear. So-called sustainable cities are the most vulnerable to logistics interdiction in history.
Posted by: Nero || 11/26/2020 9:54 Comments || Top||

#7  It's terrorism -- violence or the threat of violence for political ends.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/26/2020 12:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Not sure how much of a prank it is when nobody really believes they'd be that stupid to try it. I didn't. Hell, he's welcome to come block traffic in Houston. Just the regular commuters would kill them.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/26/2020 13:16 Comments || Top||

#9  That was a credible threat.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/26/2020 13:50 Comments || Top||

#10  Someday soon guys like that motorcyclist won't be calling the police, but his friends and family.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/26/2020 16:46 Comments || Top||

#11  Does seem exceedingly dangerous move in todays political climate.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/26/2020 18:30 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Succession war in TLP: Afzal Qadri calls Khadim Rizvi's son 'mentally unstable' and 'drug addict'
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Founding leader of Tehrik-e-Labbaik movement Pir Afzal Qadri has refused to accept the leadership of Khadim Rizvi’s son, Saad Hussain Rizvi.

Calling Saad Rizvi "mentally unstable" and "drug addict", Pir Afzal Qadri declared him "unfit to lead TLP".
He actually sounds well-qualified
He further stated that Saad Rizvi does not have any religious credentials, and is not even a Hafiz as he labels himself.

Afzal Qadri announced, "the wrong kind of people have been imposed on us but I will throw them out."

Asserting that he was the criminal mastermind behind the movement and he did most of the hard work that Khadim Rizvi was given credit for, he claimed that it was mutually agreed upon between Khadim Hussain Rizvi and himself that nepotism will be discouraged in the party they will form, and the leadership will not be passed down to the family of either of the founding leaders.

He said, "I was the one who ran campaigns in favor of Mumtaz Qadri and against Asia Bibi. I have been nominated in 106 cases due to this movement. I have given most sacrifices for it. After Mumtaz Qadri was hanged, everyone thought it to be the end of our movement. I renamed it and got approval from other members who knew nothing. I am the founder. Khadim Rizvi himself used to call me the founder of this movement."

#PirAfzalQadri claimed that Khadim Rizvi knew that his son was incompetent, and he used to request him to pray for Saad as he was a mentally unstable drug addict.

Afzal Qadri claimed that Saad Rizvi has not completed his education and is illiterate. He even accused him of corruption in charities and shared that Rizvi group has, on several occasions, sold the movement for their personal interests. He said that they do not shy away from compromising the movement’s interest for personal gains and even shake hand with rivals.

Qadri warned TLP followers that Khadim Rizvi’s group, who received a 40-acre land from Shiite community in Iraq, would sell the movement to enemies.

He announced that a man like Saad Rizvi could not hold the responsibility of the entire nation, so he will choose a leader himself and will soon make a formal announcement through a convention, after which the party will undergo organizational changes.

Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  We have a similar situation here in the USA with a son of a leader mentally unstable and drug addicted
Posted by: Airandee || 11/26/2020 17:55 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Israel demands UN Security Council action against Iranian presence in Syria
Putting Iran and its proxies on notice that after the UN Security Council does nothing, Israel may at some point choose to act.
[IsraelTimes] Following border incidents blamed on Tehran’s Quds Force, UN envoy Erdan says attacks violate 1974 agreement, risk regional escalation.

Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan on Tuesday night demanded that the Security Council take action against Iranian military entrenchment in Syria, following several incidents in which improvised bombs were planted on the Israeli side of the border, allegedly by forces controlled by Tehran.

The Israel Defense Forces has blamed a unit in Iran’s elite Quds Force, a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for planting three anti-personnel mines in Israeli territory along the border with Syria on November 17, drawing retaliatory Israeli strikes.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran's top military figure announces presidential bid
[AA.TR] The race for 2021 Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
presidential election has kicked off with a leading military figure -- who previously served as the country’s defense minister -- officially announcing his bid for the top political office.Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan’s name had been doing rounds for many months as a probable contender for the presidency and he finally made it official on Tuesday.

Dehghan, 64, who presently serves as the top military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
, is believed to have the backing of the latter as well as the support of revolutionary guards (IRGC).

Iran will go to polls on June 18 next year to elect a new government as incumbent President Hassan Rouhani
...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man...
’s reformist government completes its two terms.

Rouhani’s government has been under severe pressure at home since the US’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal in 2017, followed by re-imposition of sanctions.

It was clear that the wind is blowing in favor of conservatives after they swept the parliament elections earlier this year with an overwhelming majority.



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Iran’s parliament demands construction of heavy water reactor
[IsraelTimes] In defiance of international sanctions on nuclear program and amid European criticism, bill also calls for operating metal uranium production plant.
“Yossi, add those two addresses to the bomber targetting lists Avram sent over.”
Iran’s parliament on Tuesday passed a bill requiring the country’s atomic agency to build a new heavy water reactor and operate a metal uranium production plant as part of efforts to challenge international sanctions on its nuclear program, state media reported.

The parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission front man, Abolfazl Amouei, was quoted by various Iranian news outlets as saying the bill was officially called "Strategic Action to Lift Sanctions."

He said the law requires the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to redesign and optimize a new 40-megawatt heavy water reactor in Arak within four months.
This might be possible if Allah himself chooses to intercede... unless there is one already built and awaiting the grand reveal.
Since US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
pulled out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with world powers and began imposing crushing economic sanctions on Tehran, the Islamic Theocratic Republic has retaliated by producing more and more highly enriched fissile material in violation of the agreement, getting closer and closer to a bomb, while still leaving room for a return to negotiations.

The UN’s atomic watchdog agency said earlier this month that Iran continues to increase its stockpile of low-enriched uranium far beyond the limits set in the accord and to enrich it to a greater purity than permitted.

German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Andrea Sasse said this week that Iran was systematically violating the accord, ahead of a meeting between the German, French and British foreign ministers on the matters.

US President-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
has said he hopes to return the US to the accord, under which Iran agreed to limit its nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions.

Biden has argued that Trump’s withdrawal from the deal signaled to American allies that the US could not be trusted to stick to agreements and that while the accord may not have been perfect, it had been effective at blocking Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon.

Taking a step back from the brink, Iran’s foreign minister said last week that Tehran was willing to return to the deal if Biden lifts sanctions on Iran after entering the White House.
”First lift the sanctions. Then we can start discussions about the shape of the table and the make-up of the diplomatic teams before beginning on negotiating reentry in earnest.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  OK. Just don't forget 10% for the Big Guy.
Posted by: Tom || 11/26/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Agreed - provided Biden's brother builds it for them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/26/2020 12:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Ask Jimbo -- he's the Big Guy's go-to construction expert for billion-dollar government sweetheart deals -- like HillStone's $1.5b war profiteering deal in Iraq:

"In 2010, the vice president’s younger brother joined HillStone, a New Jersey-based company that subsequently won nearly $1.5 billion worth of business from a South Korean real estate developer that needed 'project management and construction management services in connection with a major housing development in Iraq,' according to a company press release at the time."
Posted by: Elmaviling Scourge of the Leprechauns6547 || 11/26/2020 12:57 Comments || Top||


Iran rejects ‘interference’ over academic facing execution
This one is clearly for Iranian pleasure instead of stock for trading.
[IsraelTimes] Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has warned against "all interference" by Sweden after Stockholm called on Tehran not to execute Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali, who was handed a death penalty
three years ago for spying.

"The judicial power of the Islamic Theocratic Republic is independent — all interference in the issuance or carrying out of judicial decisions is rejected as unacceptable," Iran’s foreign ministry front man Saeed Khatibzadeh says in a statement.

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Anne Linde on Tuesday took to Twitter after being in contact with her Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif
...Persian foreign minister, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values...
, in the wake of reports that Tehran was preparing to carry out the execution of Djalali, a specialist in emergency medicine.

"Sweden denounces the death penalty and is working to not have the sentence against Djalali carried out," Linde wrote.

Khatibzadeh says that the information being used by the Swedish authorities to inform their position on Djalali’s circumstances is "incomplete and false." He does not elaborate.
Ahmadreza Djalali isa specialist in emergency medicine.

Djalali, formerly based in Stockholm where he worked at the Karolinska Institute, a medical university, was arrested during a visit to Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in April 2016.

He was subsequently found guilty of passing information about two Iranian nuclear scientists to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency that led to their liquidations.

While imprisoned he was granted Swedish citizenship in February 2018, only months after his death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
was confirmed by Iran’s Supreme Court.

Djalali has claimed he is being punished for refusing to spy for Iran while working in Europe.

His lawyers also claimed they were blocked from presenting submissions ahead of the Supreme Court hearing.

Djalali’s death sentence has been widely condemned by rights groups including Amnesia Amnesty International and by UN rights experts.

The imprisoned academic’s wife told news agency TT on Tuesday that her husband had informed her that he was being moved to another prison where he would await his sentence in isolation, indicating an execution was imminent.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Iran says British-Australian academic freed for 3 Iranians
Those Western hostages are like money in the bank for Iran and others elsewhere in the Ummah.
[IsraelTimes] Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has freed Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a British-Australian academic who has been detained in Iran for more than two years, in exchange for three Iranians held abroad, state TV reports.

The report offers no further details beyond saying that the three Iranians released in the swap were tossed into the calaboose for trying to bypass sanctions.

Moore-Gilbert was a Melbourne University lecturer on Middle Eastern studies when she was sent to Tehran’s Evin Prison in September 2018 and sentenced to 10 years. She is one of several Westerners held in Iran on internationally criticized espionage charges that their families and rights groups say are unfounded.

It is not immediately clear when Moore-Gilbert will arrive back in Australia. State TV airs video showing her with a gray hijab sitting at what appears to be a greeting room at one of Tehran’s airports. She wears a blue face mask under her chin. The footage shows three men with Iranian flags over their shoulders — those freed in exchange for her being released. State TV earlier described them as "economic activists," without elaborating.
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Terror Networks
Global terror-related deaths fall to 5-year low
[Jpost] Deaths from acts of terrorism across the world are 59% lower than at their peak in 2014, according to findings by the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) that is published by the Institute for Economies & Peace.

In 2019, the total number of deaths stood at 13,826, down 15.5% compared to the previous year.
and all 13,826 are Soooooo grateful it's down
The broader impact of terrorism was also down along with the fall in deaths and 103 countries recorded an improvement on their GTI score, compared with 35, who saw a deterioration, the report said. In the world’s nine regions evaluated by the GTI, seven saw reduced terrorism impact.

The drop in the number of deaths was greatest in Iraq, Syria and Nigeria, where conflicts are ongoing, although they are nowhere near as "hot" as they were in prior years.

Still, a statement by the Institute for Economies & Peace said: "Despite the overall fall in the global impact of terrorism, it remains a significant and serious threat in many countries."

Conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq or African countries like a Nigeria and Somalia are where 96% of terror-related deaths occur.

According to the GTI, the largest decline in terror events was in Afghanistan, where there were 1,654 fewer deaths compared to 2018, a drop of 22.4%.
That was 2019. It’ll be interesting to see the statistics for 2020 — the Taliban and ISIS have been competing for biggest atrocity.
Nigeria had the second largest drop in terrorism deaths in 2019, with the number falling from 2,043 to 1,245, a 39.1% reduction.
Boko Haram split in two, and both parts seem to have retreated to their forest enclaves.
Afghanistan remained the country most shaken by terrorism, after it overtook Iraq in 2018.

Another problem area is Western Europe, North America and Oceania, which saw the largest increase in terror deaths "at any time in the last 50 years," with a 250% percent jump.
...and that even though Europe hides most of the small attacks as gang fights over territory, the mentally ill running amok, and normal underclass edginess.
The GTI report predicted that negative trends would continue in the West because of increased "political instability and violence" brought about by the pandemic and the accompanying economic instability.

Moreover, far-right attacks in these countries can often be carried out by individuals who have looser contacts with others with similar ideologies, but who are not part of a Middle Eastern-style terror cell.

Still, the report warns that even informal contacts with like-minded snuffies can radicalize individuals from dissidents to carrying out terror attacks. Only Afghanistan and Nigeria recorded over 1,000 deaths from terrorism in 2019.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2020 01:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think it has a lot to do with Trump being Proactive and eliminating the heads of these Terrorist Groups. Unlike Obama/Biden which pandered to these extremist and bowed to the world with documented BAD results.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/26/2020 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  MSM headline
Islam now 59% more peaceful!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/26/2020 11:53 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
It should be called "Let the Criminals Run the Country Act."
( Gun Free Zone )Fox News reported on the BREATHE Act this way:

BLM pressures Democrats to embrace bill described as ’roadmap for prison abolition’

Teen Vogue (which is how The Algorithm put this on my radar), framed it this way:

The BREATHE Act Is the Modern-Day Civil Rights Legislation We Need

Considering that Teen Vogue advocated for anal sex to teenagers, when they say this is the "civil rights legislation we need" take it with a grain of salt.

So what does the BREATHE Act actually say:

We have the text right here.

How about we pull out a few choice passages.

As of the first fiscal year (FY) beginning after the date that is one year after this Act becomes law, any existing budget authorizations and appropriations to the following programs and agencies are repealed, except as to the extent that is necessary to implement the Employee Transition Plan

The Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership (42 USC
§3711)
Project Safe Neighborhoods (34 USC §10101 & 34 USC §60701)DOJ Community Oriented Policing Services, including such programs Operation Relentless Pursuit
DOJ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
DOJ Denaturalization Section
DOJ Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section
DOJ National Gang Center
DOJ Organized Crime and Gang Section
FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF)
FBI Transnational Anti-Gang Task Forces
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE)
DHS National Vetting Center
DHS Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Program
DHS Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Grant
Program
This effectively eliminates every tool we have to combat terrorism, gang crime, and illegal immigration. It also reduces enforcement of the law in America’s most dangerous cities. That was the whole point of Relentless Pursuit.

"Americans deserve to live in safety," said Attorney General William P. Barr. "And while nationwide violent crime rates are down, many cities continue to see levels of extraordinary violence. Operation Relentless Pursuit seeks to ensure that no American city is excluded from the peace and security felt by the majority of Americans, while also supporting those who serve and protect in these communities with the resources, training, and equipment they need to stay safe."

But it also wants to take body armor away from police. Yes, that’s bullet point number one, The Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership. That is a program to supply body armor to local police departments with DOJ funds. They want to take body armor away from police.

What else?

Categorically prohibit federal law enforcement from using or contracting the use of:

Tear gas, rubber bullets, pepper bullets, pepper spray, flash bangs, long range acoustic devices (LRADs), Stingrays, lasers, and any other "less than lethal" forms of crowd control;
Military-grade Weaponry Vehicles and Stun grenades
TASERs
Aerial surveillance
Drones used for surveillance or other carceral purposes
Body cameras
Any sort of less-lethal crowd control tools. They want to disarm the police against the mob.

TASERs. So much for "why did you shoot him, he only had a knife, you should have used a TASER." Without TASERs, the only choice for police is guns. Either that or they run away like British police do, which is probably what the authors of this bill want.

Body cameras. They want to ban body cameras. Why? Because clearly the evidence is that all those shootings that were supposed to be racially motivated were not. Body cameras showed that those shootings were justified. Since the evidence doesn’t match the narrative, get rid of the cameras to get rid of the evidence.

Prohibit federal law enforcement agents, acting under color of law, from the following:

Engaging in violence, assault, sexual harassment, or extortion against any member of the public
Engaging in any sexual act with a member of the public who is under arrest, detained, or in custody
The use of physical restraints that are life-threatening or that restrict breathing
Requesting any warrant that permits no-knock or short-knock entries
Conducting SWAT raids
Conducting body cavity searches, visual cavity searches, or strip searches
Performing more frequent or more intrusive searches of transgender, gender nonconforming, or non-binary people
Allowing "cooling-off" periods defined as a period of time following an officer-involved shooting, during which individuals investigating the shooting are
prohibited from communicating with any officer involved in the shooting
Creating and enforcing watchlists including but not limited to, counterterrorism, counter-intelligence, and transnational crime-related watchlists.
I’m pretty sure that it’s already illegal for police or federal law enforcement to engage in sexual harassment, extortion, or have sex with people in custody. What concerns me about this wording is the phrase "engaging in violence, assault... against any member of the public." Does "violence [and] assault" include any force? Does a forcible takedown of a person resisting arrest count as violence that is illegal? I’m going to assume that is the intent.

As for cavity searches and no-knock warrants. You guys know me. I am definitely against their overuse but a total prohibitive ban is unrealistic. Conducting a raid, or cavity or strip search with a warrant issued by a judge is a necessary tool for law enforcement. Otherwise, there are going to be a lot more guns carried in the ol’ prison pocket.

If you want to talk about reforms to reduce rubber-stamping of no-knock warrants or ending judge shopping for warrants, I’m fine with that too. But total elimination is not feasible.

This part is insane:

Prohibit federal law enforcement agencies, on or off-duty in a contracted capacity, armed security, metal detectors, and other surveillance equipment from Federal Government offices that provide social services.

Prohibit the presence of federal law enforcement agents at or within 1,000 feet of any of the following locations:

Public and private preschools
Public and private elementary or secondary schools
Postsecondary schools, including colleges and universities
Other institutions of learning, including trade and vocational schools
Scholastic or education-related activities or events
Bus stops
Licensed adult or child daycare facilities
Any medical treatment or health care facility, including hospitals, community health centers, and health clinics
Federal, State, or local courthouses, including the office of an individual’s legal counsel or representative, and probation offices
Congressional district offices
Public assistance offices
Social Security offices
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Offices
Locations of any organization that assists children, pregnant women, victims of crime or abuse, or individuals with significant mental or physical disabilities, The BREATHE Act Federal Bill Proposal 14 including domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, supervised visitation centers, family justice centers, and victims services providers
Locations of organizations that provide disaster or emergency social services and assistance, including food banks and homeless shelters
Sites of funerals, weddings, or other public religious ceremonies
Places of religious worship, including but not limited to churches, synagogues, mosques, gurdwaras, and buildings rented for the purpose of religious services
Indoor and outdoor premises of departments of motor vehicles
Community centers
Sites of public demonstration, such as a march, rally, or parade
Sites of other public gatherings where parents and children are in attendance, such as a festival or fair
Any other location that could reasonably be viewed as sensitive in nature
These people want to let sex offenders get closer to schools than federal law enforcement.

This is ridiculous. Federal law enforcement can’t get within 1000 feet of a Congressional district office? That is the very definition of federal jurisdiction.

Bus stops? That eliminates the downtown region of most of America’s major metropolitan areas.

This pretty much ends the ability of federal law enforcement to enforce the law in the United States, which I assume is the point.

Raise the age to 24 years old to be tried as an adult.

Categorically end the practice of incarcerating individuals under 24.

Seriosly. They want you to be able to vote at 18, buy booze and marijuana at 21, but not stand trial as an adult until age 24. Why? So all the college activists can be treated as juvenile offenders. Simple as that.

Eliminate bars to obtaining asylum and withholding of removal, including the one-year application requirement for asylum, the bars for conviction of a so-called "particularly serious crime," and any associated fees, and enshrine the right to seek asylum and withholding of removal based on domestic violence, sexual, homophobic, transphobic, reproductive, ableist and gang violence into law.

Eliminate any bars based on a person’s manner of entry and criminal history

Under this clause, every member of Los Zetas or MS-13 could claim asylum, no matter how many people they were convicted of butchering in their home countries. This is just importing criminals.

This is just scratching the surface of the bill, which is 128 pages long.

Suffice it to say, it opens our borders, shuts down our prisons, gives criminals free rein, and hogties law enformcenet.

It is the Green New Deal of criminal justice reform.

Every square foot of America would be come the CHAZ.

Hopefully, this will be seen as too radical for our one-party controlled Government come January, but at this point, I just don’t know.

Usually, I’d say "it’s time to buy more ammo" but, 1) you’re already doing that if, 2) you can find it anywhere, but 3) if this bill passes, you can guarantee your right to self-defense will be eliminated altogether.

Posted by: 746 || 11/26/2020 00:22 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Teen Vogue" -- WTF?

This doesn't even rise to the level of satire. It's surreal.... like a transgendered meth addict's hallucinations
Posted by: Lampedusa Angimp2332 || 11/26/2020 8:52 Comments || Top||

#2  I realize that young people don't have a lot of experience or knowledge about how the real world works, and I was 14 once. But this is just beyond the beyond.
Posted by: Tom || 11/26/2020 11:19 Comments || Top||

#3  They're not thinking this through. E.g, in 1960 six-year old Ruby Bridges desegregated a school only because thee federal marshalls were there to escort her. And if federal LEO -- e.g., the Federal Protective Service -- can't be within 1000 feet of a courthouse we had better plan on frequently replacing federal judges. On the plus side, if Eric Holder's storm troopers come to arrest you for illegal possession of a firearm, you just need to run to a bus stop until you can reload.
Posted by: Matt || 11/26/2020 14:39 Comments || Top||

#4  1 April already?
Posted by: Choluth Phutle6472 || 11/26/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||

#5  like a transgendered meth addict's hallucinations

Next Teen Vogue - why transgendered meth addicts have the greatest anal sex
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/26/2020 21:40 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ and the best truck stops
Posted by: Frank G || 11/26/2020 23:02 Comments || Top||



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