[FOX] An Ohio man was arrested and charged after he allegedly beat his father's girlfriend and set her on fire which led her to jump out of a second-story window in an effort to escape.
Robbi Robinson, Jr., 23, was charged with aggravated arson and felonious assault for Thursday's attack.
Body camera footage from a Fairfield Township
...an outer suburb of Cincinnati — we once owned a cute little bi-level house there...
Police officer shows the arrest of Robinson, who was wearing a winter coat despite temperatures reaching 80 degrees.
The victim, 50, told officers that Robinson had beaten her to the point two of her teeth were knocked out before dousing her with gasoline and throwing a flame at her, according to WLWT. She then jumped out of the house on Arroyo Ridge Court to escape the abuse.
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Cincinnati? You don't suppose the contaminated water from East Palestine flowed downstream to the Ohio River? Maybe the people in Cincinnati should be drinking less water and more beer; the water makes you crazy.
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Are they flying use due to Tree Hugger-issues, or is it because 10 years ago we were in a war and the US ARMY was retaining seasoned Chopper pilots at a higher rate?
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The biggest issue is operating the control pedals in high heels. And breaking nails on the collective control.
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That putting on lipstick while driving is a killer.
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Let he/she/it/them who has successfully parallel-parked a helicopter cast the first stone!
The article mentions specific accidents but nothing about accident frequency. Hard to get worked up about decreased flight hours without some context. "But crashes!", you say. Hey, we are talking helicopters here - hundreds of rotating parts, all of which want to kill you. Of course they crash. The question is how often and why?
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The old saying was, “If we ain’t crashing, we ain’t flying.” Albeit my experience was in fixed wings, so there was significantly less crashing than rotating abominations to nature’s laws. Higher crash rates with less operational hours shows a reduction in quality across the full spectrum. Go woke get broke I recon.
[AfghanistanAnalysts] When the Taleban captured power in 2021, they moved swiftly to take over domestic revenue collection, adopting Ministry of Finance systems for taxes and customs. As insurgents, they had been diligent tax collectors and brought a wealth of experience in collecting money from people, but little in spending it – outside the war effort. Since foreign donors no longer support the Afghan state, it is now Afghan citizens who pay for what their government does. While the Islamic Emirate has been relatively open about revenues, it has been cagey about how it spends money. In this report, AAN’s Kate Clark and Roxanna Shapour have put together what little is known or can be found out about Taleban spending plans and priorities. They find large sums of money allocated to security and contingency codes and relatively little to social services apart from education. They also conclude that following the money reveals how well Afghan bureaucracy continued despite the upheaval of regime change – and how fully the Taleban have captured it.
This report attempts to fill in some of the gaps in Emirate spending, drawing on the very limited data available. It brings together information from three main sources:
The Taleban Ministry of Finance mini-budget for the last quarter of 1400 (21 December 2021 to 20 March 2022) with its breakdown of planned spending of 53.9 billion Afs, which is the best we have from the Emirate about its spending priorities, as the information it subsequently released concerning its 1401 budget was just a few sentences long.
‘Accountability sessions’ held in August and September 2022 in which the Emirate’s senior officials described to journalists, radio listeners and television viewers the achievements of their ministry or other state body during the first year of Taleban rule. Most boasted about the revenues collected, projects or ‘outputs’ related to their organisations and a handful mentioned budgets or staffing.
Information on salary payments to state employees, gathered by AAN in interviews conducted between June and August 2022, with a smaller round of interviews in December 2022 and January 2023 to check what, if anything, had changed.
This is the second part of reporting on Emirate finances. Part 1, Taxing the Afghan Nation: What the Taleban’s pursuit of domestic revenues means for citizens, the economy and the state, was published in September 2022.
[IsraelTimes] Book on Abraham Accords reveals extent of Jerusalem’s security assistance to Abu Dhabi, unlike what Emiratis felt was lackluster support from the US.
An updated version of a book on the Abraham Accords being released on Thursday reveals the multifaceted assistance Israel provided to the United Arab Emirates when the Gulf nation faced a series of missile strikes from Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels in Yemen
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This is a typical Soviet war flick about WWII, directed by Sergey Bondarchuk, based on a novel by Soviet novelist Mikhail Sholokhov.
It is set in southern Russia during the great retreats to Stalingrad. The film is about a Soviet rifle regiment cut down 90 percent by constant fighting.
This presentation has English subtitles, but doesn't allow for embedding.
I regarded as a good film, in that it kept my attention throughout.
Link in the title is to the film. [I removed the title link to a pronsite host.
The comment link is good] Link in title rewritten.
[19FortyFive] Ukraine has a complex reality it must face: U.S., UK, and EU senior leaders have voiced over the past few days strong support for Ukraine and their widely reported upcoming offensive. Reading some of the off-headline comments they’ve made, however, exposes the growing realization in the West that the hope of Zelensky accomplishing his stated objectives of driving Russia entirely out of Ukraine has a low probability of success.
A change in Western policy, therefore, is urgently needed — before Kyiv suffers more combat losses that are unlikely to alter the fact that the war will most likely end with a negotiated settlement.
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Ukriane can lose, but Putin can't. Putin has depth, Ukraine doesn't. Even if Putin dies, the Russophiles will say "He made the ultimate sacrifice" and keep on.
The ones that think like westerners have left or are trying to.
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Ukraine's Long-Expected Offensive: Why It Won't Beat Putin
They don't have to beat him. They just have to bleed him long enough and badly enough that when they finally do give in, the Russian military will have been so badly bled that it will be decades, if ever, before they're a threat again.
And when the Ukranians give in - and declare peace - they can join NATO. All those Russian dead, all the lost equipment, all the economic damage, and it will have been for nothing.
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Not sure what's going to be left of Ukraine, either...all for nothing.
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Bleed Russia until they're not a threat? A threat to whom? Seems to me the biggest threat to peace in that part of the world is NATO and bloody Biden's puppet masters who want to extend their antiquated treaty organization, their Holy Roman Empire, all the way to Vladivostok no matter how many people die. For what? Defense contractors? Globalist war mongers? Power for the sake of power?
It sure as hell ain't for peace. It ain't peace if you have to kill for it. And Biden is the last man on earth I want to hear talking about democracy.
And when the Russians are all dead, who will take over that part of the world? Mongols? Chechens? Turks? Iranians. Azerbaijanis? Kazhaks? Uzbeks?
You know damn well what I mean.
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It wasn't NATO who forced the Eastern Europeans to join. They were the ones who knocked on the door and demanded to be let in. And rightly so. It wasn't NATO who attacked and bit off chunks of Georgia, Ukraine in 2014 and tried to go whole hog on Ukraine in 2022. Seems the Eastern Euros were a hell of a lot smarter than Ukraine or you, for the matter.
It is exactly for peace that the countries joined NATO. Putin is too afraid of the power of NATO to attack it. The Russians have made it no secret that they intend to recreate the Soviet Union. Bad news for the countries you mentioned who would "replace" the Russians. Meanwhile, the Warsaw Pact was just a list of countries the Soviets invaded.
No more Russians? They've drunk the Red Kool-aid and the Black Kool-aid but not the purple yet. Their population implosion is of their own making, killing 30 million of the population in civil wars, forced starvation, gulags and outright police state murders. Then killing another another 30 by starting a WW2 in Europe in collusion with Nazi Germany. But, as Monte Hall would say, "That's not all!", Now Putin has started a war Russia can't win and what young wen don't die in Ukraine are flee Russia. Especially the highly educated and employable ones. A brain and body drain that will weaken Russia far beyond this war. Every one of those disasters were self inflicted. Blame the Russian soul, I blame their lack of morals and ethics.
Turkey election 2023: Live updates
Turkey will vote for a new president and parliament on Sunday - a vote seen as the most important in years and of great international significance. The polls will test the strength of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s two-decade rule which began on a positive note with reforms but has recently been linked to a devastating economic crisis, expected to be a decisive factor in the results. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, an Alevi from the Kurdish city of Dersim, is leading a collective effort by several opposition parties to unseat the incumbent president.
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It's likely that Turkey will do no more than replace one would be dictator with another one.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14 - a vote seen as the most important in years and of great international significance.
The polls will test the strength of President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... ’s two-decade rule which began on a positive note with reforms but has recently been linked to a devastating economic crisis, expected to be a decisive factor in the results. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, an Alevi from the Kurdish city of Dersim, is leading a collective effort by several opposition parties to unseat the incumbent president.
On Thursday, Muharrem Ince withdrew from the presidential race. Experts viewed him as a third party candidate who could drive away support from Kilicdaroglu, boosting Erdogan’s chance at a win. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... the opposite is now expected to happen as Ince used to be a member of the same party Kilicdaroglu is running for.
Here is what you need to know about the key presidential candidates and political parties ahead of Election Day:
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There should be millions of Americans marching on Washington demanding an end to this invasion. The J6 legacy has frozen virtually all of that, even as the Puppet reminds us again yesterday about "white Supremacy" as the most dangerous "terrorist" threat facing America, amping up again that chilling theme!
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I understand over $1 million has been crowdfunded for this guy's defense. I wonder how long before a crooked judge impounds it as "profit from crime."
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"profit from crime"
Nah, he'd have to confiscate most of the assets of the Donk party of NY.
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Harry Truman he ain't.
He shoulda followed the Clinton model.
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Biden did try the Clinton method of having a Foundation to launder contributions.
He had something called the 'Biden Foundation' for a few years. However, the purpose of the Foundation on the 501c paperword was purely domestic so China, Romania didn't have a good hook to contribute. This is unlike the Clinton Foundation which had about a half dozen sub-foundations.
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Nota bene: the yellow highlighter belongs to comments from poster Hupainter Peacock1045, green is badanov, periwinkle is mine. Some of HP1045’s comments have been interrupted by badanov’s and/or my responses. HP1045 periodically retreads the same ground, using yet another article from a small stable of sources who can be relied upon to deliver his message.
—trailing wife
[TheGuardian] A detainee held in the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay who was used as a human guinea pig in the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program has produced the most comprehensive and detailed account yet seen of the brutal techniques to which he was subjected.
And of course every word he utters is the utter truth — this we dare not question lest the readers of The Guardian sneer at us as nekulturny Americans.
Abu Zubaydah
... Al Qaeda recruitment and training leader as well as member of Al Qaeda’s Pakistan-based Shura consultative council — whose real name is Zayn Abdeen al Husseini and once in the Rantburg archives as Zayne Abu Zubaydah. He was arrested in Faisalabad with several others in 2002...
has created a series of 40 drawings that chronicle the torture he endured in a number of CIA dark sites between 2002 and 2006 and at Guantánamo Bay. In the absence of a full official accounting of the torture program, which the CIA and the FBI have labored for years to keep secret, the images give a unique and searing insight into a grisly period in US history.
The drawings, which Zubaydah has annotated with his own words, depict gruesome acts of violence, sexual and religious humiliation, and prolonged psychological terror committed against him and other detainees. They were sketched from memory in his Guantánamo cell and sent to one of his lawyers, Prof Mark Denbeaux.
... a Seton Hall law professor who has been a prominent lawyer for Guantanamo detainees. His big thing is how few GITMO detainees actually fought against the US, which has nothing to do with whether or not they are evil members of a terror organization attempting to conquer the world for Islam, who therefore deserve to be locked up for the duration of that war. He also does not seem to address — nor does the Guardian op-ed — how many of those thus far released from GITMO have returned to the jihad.
I'm just waiting for the deranged responses to begin. "He deserved it!" This is black letter international law. If you appear on a battlefield, armed without a uniform, and you are captured, you are at the mercy of whichever commander detains you. You have zero rights. The commander is free to execute you on the spot, hold a trial and execute on the spot, or interrogate you.
Not just on the battlefield — spies and saboteurs have the exact same zero rights. Being a law-abiding society is not intended to be a suicide pact, no matter how uncharmingly self-righteous The Guardian waxes in its determined ignorance.
Isn't America supposed to be the good guys? Torture is clearly evil. And who's doing it? The CIA and FBI? The deep state, hello? The field agents and operatives in the CIA have a commission to capture battlefield illegal combatants and to extract as much information from them as possible by which ever means. Whether that means bribing the prisoner with hookers and blow, or enhanced interrogation techniques, that commission doesn't change.
Zubaydah’s sketches provide a unique visual record of the US government’s use of torture in the wake of 9/11. Videotapes of Zubaydah being tortured were filmed by the CIA but then destroyed in violation of a court order, while a 6,700-page torture report by the Senate intelligence committee remains secret almost a decade after it was completed. Because when the CIA destroys evidence under subpoena, that's a sure sign that they're not afraid of what it will show.
Now we're going to chant, "Torture might be evil but it saved lives." Bullshit.
Torture is chancy — some will lie to stop the pain. But intelligent interrogation applying psychological and psychiatric discoveries can prove very useful indeed.
Though the full Senate report has never been made public, its conclusion is known: that the abuse of Zubaydah and other detainees failed to elicit any new intelligence. In other words, torture does not work.
Zubaydah, 52, was captured in Pakistan in March 2002 and renditioned to several CIA dark sites in Poland, Lithuania and elsewhere. He was the first victim of what was to become the widespread use of torture by the US against terror suspects.
He was transferred to Guantánamo in 2006, where he has been held ever since.
The US initially claimed he was a top al-Qaida operative but was forced to concede he was not even a member of the terror group. "Everybody agrees, they tortured the wrong guy; they went ahead anyway so they could get permission to torture other people," Denbeaux said. And now they've got it. Just like all the other weapons they built, this will now be used on us, the American people.
You’ve been nuked lately, Hupainter Peacock1045? Because I haven’t, nor has anyone shot a missile at me, nor even a basic scary black rifle. Possibly someone has bugged my phone, tracked my GPS, or explored my iPad, in which case they’ve wasted a great deal of time better spent on more interesting targets, but I’ve not seen evidence even of that. In short, your histrionics are not persuasive.
[IsraelTimes] The Shin Bet chief said Israel ’closed a circle’ with the killing of three notorious Islamic Jihad commanders. But our enemies are intent on keeping it open.
As I was writing this article, sirens began blaring in southern Israel, followed by barrages of rockets extending into central Israel — the start of the promised response from 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 Hamaswith 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... terror groups to Israel’s killing of three notorious Islamic Jihad
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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.
[FOX] An Ohio man was arrested and charged after he allegedly beat his father's girlfriend and set her on fire which led her to jump out of a second-story window in an effort to escape.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
