I feel like my head is going to explode.
Maybe pollen is the cause.
Forget it, Jake — it’s Dallas.
[FoxNews] Employees of the City of Dallas, Texas, must use people's preferred pronouns or risk termination, according to recently publicized documents.
An internal document titled "Workplace Gender Transition Protocols & FAQ" explains the city's expectations for conduct regarding transgender individuals.
The guidelines explain that "gender transition" can refer to a spectrum of situations, all of which are equally protected.
The document reads, "Transition may include ‘coming out’ (telling family, friends, and coworkers), changing the name and/or sex on legal documents, and/or accessing medical treatment such as hormones and/or surgery."
City employees are "expected to respectfully use the transitioning employee’s preferred name and pronouns, regardless of whether or not they ‘believe in,’ approve of, or accept an individual’s right to be transgender or undergo a gender transition," according to the guidelines.
It adds, "An employee has the right to be addressed by the name and pronoun of their choice. Our addressing the employee by their chosen pronoun is a sign of respect for them as an individual."
The document claims that "refusing to respect an employee’s gender identity by intentionally referring to an employee by a name or by pronouns that do not correspond to the employee’s gender identity" is a form of discrimination and harassment.
Failing to follow the city's protocol is grounds for an internal investigation and "may be disciplined up to and including termination."
[RichardPoe] Confounds the popular narrative, but popular narratives are inevitably penned by the victor. If you sense a still popular geo-political pattern or have thoughts about Ireland, you may not be wrong.
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Where does one begin with all of this? Britain's policy during the conflict was divided and fluctuating. The British supplied ships to the union navy too. The Union army was at its height about a million men, and the confederacy about 500,000 men. Are 11,000 British troops going to make much difference? The British had already abolished slavery many years earlier. I doubt the Canadians would have been keen to fight for slavery nor on starting a war against America. Britain recognized the Union’s blockade as legitimate.
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#4 Are 11,000 British troops going to make much difference?
Pentagon sending troops to train Peruvian coup regime’s killers
The French had a few thousand men in Mexico at the same time, they then reinforced their troops with 30,000 men under General Élie Frédéric Forey and captured Mexico City in 1863. They installed Maximilian I as the emperor of the Second Mexican Empire, a puppet state of France. The French intervention ended in 1867, when the Mexican republicans led by Benito Juárez recaptured Mexico City and executed Maximilian. The French withdrew their remaining forces from Mexico by March 1867. Those 11,000 Brits are facing a much more powerful force.
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The 'Alabama incident' is interesting. The Brits built and basically manned the CSA raider. Raiders were so effective against the American whaling fleets that they re-registered as British for protection and would stay so long after the war. The Alabama itself was sunk by the USS Kearsarge at the Battle of Cherbourg. The US sued the UK for damages in the international court. The UK told them to basically pound sand. That is till war fever between the UK and France started to heat up. The Americans said if you don't establish a precedent then we'll play the same game of offering the French ships. Deal was made.
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I have a relative who was a Captain in the 13th Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry. I have their history written by the officers after the war. They were in South Carolina when the war ended and came back to Tennessee through North Carolina by way of Hot Springs. They were held for 4 months and were scheduled to be sent to Texas because Maximillian ! was threatening to invade Texas. He thought the U.S. army was week after the war. Lots of French and English intrigue.
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Interesting anecdote, DB.
It seems rather counterintuitive that the French were so interested in México, including the bit about the history of "Cinco de Mayo".
[AlAhram] A public feud between two leaders in exile of the Moslem Brüderbund (MB) recently ended, but despite this there are divisions that still remain.
Following the death of the London-based acting Supreme Guide Ibrahim Munir last year, former secretary general of the group Mahmoud Hussein, who resides in Istanbul, went on to claim the position. But the London faction of the group had already put forward another veteran figure, Salah Abdel-Haq, as acting guide.
The two factions traded accusations of dividing the group and breaching its organizational rules. But it seems the London faction is quietly reorganising itself in Egypt as well as reshuffling the International Organisation while the Hussein-led Istanbul faction is losing ground in the leadership race. Many factors have helped the UK segment of the MB to dominate, but the most important is Munir’s legacy of mending fences with the British authorities. The UK government reviewed the group a few years ago after calls by some Arab countries to designate it a terrorist organization. The review was inconclusive which reinforced the accusation of "London harbouring Lions of Islam to use them as leverage in British-Arab relations".
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Move your wallet to a front pocket when walking amongst the POM.
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According to 2016 TV documentary Al-Tanzim (The Organisation) the intl organization of the MB has turned London into its center of operations. ... the project was inspired in part by a report issued by the British government in 2015, which discussed the MB’s presence and magnitude of activities in Britain. “The British report shed the light on the dangers this organization poses and its relations with extremist groups from all over the world.” The first part deals with the origins and growth of the MB starting with its foundation in 1928.
...the second part the focus is the existence of an international organization and how it functions in Britain. With four London offices controlling 19 front organizations, mostly media companies
and charities, the MB coordinates efforts in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, UAE and Palestine, among other countries.
[Breitbart] The Nicaraguan human rights collective Nicaragua Nunca Mas (“Nicaragua Never Again”) released a report this week accusing the communist Ortega regime of using 40 different types of torture on dozens of political prisoners.
The report documented at least 158 political victims tortured since the Ortega regime launched a crackdown on political dissidents in response to protests in April 2018. The regime’s response to that wave of peaceful anti-communist activity killed hundreds of people in addition to resulting in a significant increase in the number of political prisoners in that country.
The 40 different types of torture that the regime was documented to have used on its victims range from sexual violence against both women and men, forced nudity, extreme and inhumane conditions of detention, beatings, death threats issued to both the victims and their relatives, asphyxiation, temporary forced disappearance, burns, inducement to suicide, Russian roulette games, sensory overload, sleep deprivation, forced ingestion of drugs, food deprivation, intoxication, electric shocks, detachment of fingernails, denial of medical attention, and simulated executions.
Based on testimonies obtained from the victims, the report directly identifies the director of the Nicaraguan Police Francisco Díaz as the main perpetrator of the tortures. Díaz has been an in-law of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega since 2010, when Díaz’s daughter married Ortega’s son.
In addition to Díaz, the report directly implicates nine regime generals: Fidel Domínguez, Luis Barrantes, Pedro Argueta, Luis Alberto Pérez, Adolfo Marenco, Juan Valle Valle, Vladimir Cerda Moraga and Ramón Avellán. All are direct subordinates of Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo.
The report identified at least 33 police centers where torture took place in addition to seven penitentiary facilities and four clandestine centers, including the “Chipote” prison, where the Ortega regime keeps political prisoners in inhumane conditions.
Nicaraguan lawyer Juan Carlos Arce, a member of the Nicaraguan human rights collective, told the local newspaper Confidencial on Thursday that the Ortega regime has built an entire operative structure to torture dissdents of the regime and, since 2019, the communists have “evolved” their methods of torture, going from physical abuse to “disrupt your body” to more sensory types of torture.
“All these actions were aimed at generating harm, at physically destroying the people who were deprived of their freedom,” Arce said. “They used local government buildings to torture, local government officials tortured and gave the order to paramilitary forces to torture.
Arce added that the main evidence of torture comes from both the testimonies of the victims and their bodies, which showed obvious signs of abuse.
The report detailed how the Ortega regime is using spurious accusations of “treason” against dissidents to strip them of their citizenship, which renders them stateless persons and allows Ortega to exile them.
Since February, the Ortega regime has banished hundreds of dissidents and political prisoners from the country, stripping them of their nationality and seizing all of their assets and properties in the country. Spain has offered to grant Spanish citizenship to the banished Nicaraguans, with the latest group of 18 having received it on Wednesday.
“The arbitrary stripping of their nationality was preceded by a climate of aggressions and harassment, among which the following stand out,” the report documented, “attempts on their lives, health effects due to increased stress, anxiety and insomnia as a result of forced and involuntary displacement to another country, in addition to aggravating ailments they suffered prior to the arrests and during the period of incarceration.”
“Likewise, these persons have had their property confiscated, have been denied their constitutional right to a pension, and have been denied the right to a pension,” it added.
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Nicaraguans probably qualify for asylum if they are anti-communist. Same as Cubans and Venezuelans. Biden is not looking for those type of immigrants.
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Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Military Archeology
The concentration camp in Orel was located on the territory of the city prison on the street. Krasnoarmeyskaya from October 1941 to August 1943 during the occupation of the city and was named by the Nazi authorities "Army Assembly Point No. 20 of the 2nd Panzer German Army.
Orel — also spelt Oryol or Oriol — is an industrial city in SW Russia. Founded in 1564 as a fortress of the Muscovite State against Tatar attacks, it was the scene of heavy fighting during World War II.
"The conditions of detention in the camp were aimed at the deliberate extermination of Soviet citizens. In unheated, dark and damp prison cells of 15-20 sq. meters contained up to 60-80 people. Due to overcrowding, the prisoners had to sleep standing or sitting on the cement floor without any bedding. The lack of water for drinking and washing, fresh air, an extremely poor diet (200 grams of rye bread per day, watery soup made from rotten soy, buckwheat flour or spoiled rye flour twice a day at the rate of 25 grams per person per day) led to mass mortality. Yes, sickness caused by starvation, about 3,000 people died in the camp.
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[Spectator] You just had to have a reasonable set of expectations, that’s all.
My instinct is to join with Rep. Chip Roy and the House Freedom Caucus, who have condemned the deal as, in Roy’s phrasing, a "turd sandwich." Frankly, I would have been perfectly happy to defend an impasse and a default or government shutdown until Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... and the Democrats got down on their slimy knees and begged for quarter, and surrendered to the initial debt-limit legislation that Kevin McCarthy
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Let’s see what the debt becomes now without a limit under a Biden regime and what gets passed in the Lame Duck in 2024. Then we can decide whether it is pastrami or feces on rye.
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It's all in the appropriations. Budget means nothing if all you get is the f'ing omnibus bill. Why bother with a representative republic if they're incapable of doing their fundamental job. Maybe, just maybe, you need to cut back your work load (and sticking your fingers into everything) to a point where you can actually do the job.
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It's quite amazing how federal tax receipts are growing but these drunken sailors on Capitol Hill (who never seem to get hungover) will spend this country right into its demise.
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.
[FoxNews] Employees of the City of 
[AlAhram] A public feud between two leaders in exile of the 
[Breitbart] The 
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
