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Israel orders villagers to evacuate Lebanon border as Hezbollah tensions rise
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Nashville police chief orders manhunt for his SON John C Drake Jr. after two cops were shot outside a Dollar General
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/23/2023 00:51 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...And from that pic, Junior is clearly no stranger to this sort of thing.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/23/2023 6:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Obviously an oppressed individual. Nobody ever helped him get past anything.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/23/2023 15:35 Comments || Top||


Austin man claims he was drugged, robbed of thousands of dollars after night downtown
[FoxNews] Welcome to Texas.
Now go home.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/23/2023 00:26 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Texas' own Berkley on the Colorado River.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/23/2023 7:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Not really Berkley, more like those no go zones in French cities.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/23/2023 12:11 Comments || Top||

#3  They have cameras on ATMs anymore. Just saying. Maybe look at the film.

Posted by: mossomo || 10/23/2023 12:27 Comments || Top||

#4  As opposed to, say, just a night partying in the clubs on Sixth Street. Not all of them are strip clubs.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/23/2023 15:38 Comments || Top||


Huge swarm of goons - including man in PENNYWISE mask - loot Sacramento County 7-Eleven and jump behind counter to steal cigarettes
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] California, amirite?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/23/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule


#2  It is absolutely delightful to see how you rise to a challenge, Skidmark. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/23/2023 0:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Question:

The doors are not in use and all the windows busted out.

Did the store have a heads up on the mob, or are the 24hour service stations closing up at night now?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/23/2023 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Sadly, I have a lot of material from which to choose.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/23/2023 9:39 Comments || Top||

#5  It's Rio Linda, CA - Rush loved to make fun of Rio Linda when he was still a local broadcaster on KFBK. Not an epi-center of traditional American culture, but great street tacos...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/23/2023 10:55 Comments || Top||

#6  ^and a great place to buy a reasonable pack of smokes suddenly.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/23/2023 13:02 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 Lmao - good times, along with the Rush To Excellence tours. Mega dittos on the street tacos.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/23/2023 19:28 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
New Details in Death of Obama's Personal Chef Raise Questions
[PJ] New information from a FOIA request now places Barack Obama on the scene sometime after his personal chef, Tafari Campbell, went missing and was later found drowned.

The new information was first reported by Jesse Watters Friday evening.

"We have new information tonight in the drowning death of Obama’s chef Tafari Campbell," Watters revealed. "The Massachusetts State Police responded to our FOIA request and released their report with some redactions."

"According to the report, Obama was on the scene shortly after Campbell went missing," Watters said. "The report also states an unnamed female staffer jumped into the water when Tafari fell off his board, but it was already too late. He disappeared."

Initial reports claimed that the Obamas were not at their estate at the time of the incident, though later reports indicated that Barack and Michelle Obama "were out of the house" but on Martha’s Vineyard when it happened, and their presence on scene after Campbell went missing was a detail not previously known.

Previous: New Details in Drowning of Obama’s Chef Leave Unanswered Questions

"We also now know that Secret Service has surveillance footage of Campbell from Obama’s compound moments before he entered the water," Watters added. "So we’re going to see if we can get that."

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/23/2023 07:37 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I am all for sunshine and FOIA requests, but why would the Secret Service release surveillance footage related to a presidential protection detachment?
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/23/2023 13:07 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Cause they don't like Barry either.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/23/2023 13:23 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Resentment from having to shave Big Mike's back every day
Posted by: Frank G || 10/23/2023 13:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Big Mike's in Silverback territory now...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/23/2023 14:24 Comments || Top||

#5  The Chef saw Big Mike's wiener.
Posted by: Snuter Dark Lord of the Poles2908 || 10/23/2023 19:26 Comments || Top||


Two environmental activists interrupt French broadcast
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Putting the mental into environmentalism.

[REGNUM] In France, two environmental activists from “Last Renovation” (Derniere Renovation) broke into a television studio during the recording of a broadcast on the BFMTV channel. There was a broadcast of an interview with the deputy head of the Reconquista party, Marion Marechal.

“Last Renovation” published on social network X a record of the interrupted broadcast and a photograph of one of the participants in the environmental movement, Simon. The broadcast director had to turn off the sound and run commercials when one of them began to read out his manifesto.

“Citizen Simon, who supports Derniere Renovation and was wearing a T-shirt with the inscription “We have 521 days left,” interrupted a political show where Marion Maréchal was speaking,” the environmental movement reported on its social network page.

In the published post, the photo shows a young man sitting on a table with his hand raised in a studio surrounded by presenters and a politician. Ten minutes later the program was interrupted a second time.

An environmental activist on the Derniere Renovation page, among other things, demanded that €12 million be allocated to renovate houses in France to improve their energy efficiency. The environmental movement believes it is "unacceptable for the far right to have the opportunity to express their opinions" while global warming is spiraling out of control, TASS news agency reported.

At the end of March, IA Regnum reported that France had announced about the dissolution of the environmental movement "Rise of the Earth". The decision was made after the riots caused by these environmental activists. Dozens of people were injured during the protests, including law enforcement officers. Other reasons cited included calls for rebellion, attacks on security forces and repeated acts of violence.

Posted by: badanov || 10/23/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Stop! You're beaming out too much non-ionizing radiation!
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/23/2023 0:12 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/23/2023 10:16 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Achtung! US Travel To Europe Will Require Prior Approval, Biometric Scanning
[ZERO] Traveling to most European countries is about to get more complicated and invasive for American citizens: In spring 2025, you'll have to first request permission. And you'll be saying adieu to passport stamps and ciao to facial and fingerprint scans -- and having your biometric data stored in an enormous government database.

On Friday, an agency of the European Union announced the updated timing for the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS), which has first set to roll out in 2024. It applies to travelers from more than 60 countries that are currently exempt from visa requirements. Those countries have an aggregate population of 1.4 billion.

As is the case today, Americans won't need a visa, but they will need to apply in advance for permission to visit any of 30 EU countries for stays lasting up to 90 days. It will cost about $8 to apply, with requests submitted via the official ETIAS website or ETIAS mobile app. With activation of the process more than a year away, neither is yet configured to collect applications. ETIAS assures the public that most applications will be processed in minutes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/23/2023 07:46 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...and all those American servicemembers (and their families)?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/23/2023 7:57 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/23/2023 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Given that Europe is now a muslim colony, we'll just stay here. We really should pull all our troops out and let them handle it all.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/23/2023 8:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Why go to Europe? We have better scenery and nicer people here. If you feel the need to visit a foreign country, then try Canada.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/23/2023 8:52 Comments || Top||

#5  How is this different from a visa?
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/23/2023 9:32 Comments || Top||

#6  A FOX news opinion.
The single greatest threat to America is hiding in plain sight
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/23/2023 10:15 Comments || Top||


#8  What if we go to Africa and boat across? Do we qualify for free hotels and food? It’s good info for budgeting.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/23/2023 13:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Is it reciprocal?
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/23/2023 15:32 Comments || Top||

#10  It's pretty much what the U.S. requires from European travelers. That doesn't mean that it makes any sense.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/23/2023 16:17 Comments || Top||

#11  " If you feel the need to visit a foreign country, then try Canada." Canada has proven itself way too foreign for me.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 10/23/2023 16:42 Comments || Top||

#12  #10 There's a very good reason for that, and I'm sure you know as well.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/23/2023 16:49 Comments || Top||

#13  re # 11: It's certainly becoming way too foreign for me too, and I was born here back when Dinosaurs ruled the earth.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 10/23/2023 16:53 Comments || Top||

#14  What if I just go to Libya and take a boat across? I don't even need a visa then, right?
Posted by: Heriberto Snans8407 || 10/23/2023 17:01 Comments || Top||

#15  As long as I don't get a finger up my butthole I'm happy
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/23/2023 22:46 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
DRC: Former prisoner promoted to rank of general in army reshuffle
[AFRICANEWS] A former prisoner, convicted for his alleged participation in the liquidation of 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...
ex-President Laurent Kabila in 2001, has been promoted to the rank of brigadier general in an army reshuffle.

Eddy Kapend, who had been Kabila’s top military aid, was part of a group of soldiers released in 2021 following pardons issued by President Félix Tshisekedi, who took over from Joseph Kabila, the son of the late president, in 2019.

Kapend has always denied involvement in the murder plot, and rights groups at the time criticised the trial.

The army reshuffle comes just over a week after the former inspector general of the police and army, John Numbi, launched a verbal attack on the president.

Numbi, who lives in exile in Zim-bob-we, described Tshisekedi as "incompetent", saying "the army and police were no longer bound by their duty to obey".

However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
he stopped short of calling for an insurrection.

Kapend has been assigned as commander of the 22nd military region in his home territory of Katanga, a strategic province just two months ahead of the elections.

Former president Joseph Kabila, presidential opponent Moïse Katumbi, and Numbi, also hail from the south-eastern region.

Tshisekedi has denied there was a political motivation for the move, saying Kapend’s appointment was based on his merits as a military officer and his loyalty to the supreme commander.

Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Cutting off the Head of the Snake: Swiss Banker Pascal Najadi Calls on Swiss Authorities to Arrest People Behind the Release of
BLUF:
[Gateway] He urges the Swiss authorities to arrest those responsible for advocating a "global humanity injection by a bioweapon," implicating big pharma, big tech, Bill Gates, and other entities both he and his mother are victims of this grand scheme.

"I call on the Swiss authorities and security to arrest those people immediately."

"Why? The WEF, WHO, GAVI, Big Pharma, Big Tech, and Bill Gates all advocated a global humanity injection by a bioweapon injecting nanolipids into 5.7 billion people. And we Swiss are hosting them. That’s terrible. We cannot tolerate any entity that promotes poison to be injected into humanity. But you have done it. I’m the victim. I’m dying from it, and my mother, too. It’s a democide and will be judged. It will be corrected in the name of humanity," he said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/23/2023 06:37 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
J6 Detainee Torture Unsuccessful
[Gateway] Political Prisoner Nathaniel DeGrave told The Gateway Pundit that he still loves President Donald Trump, regardless of the harsh consequences of being a Trump Supporter.

"The Biden Regime tortured us to get to President Trump," said Nathanial DeGraves from prison. "They thought we would turn on him. THEY WERE WRONG! TRUMP 2024!!"
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/23/2023 06:24 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How about US Constitutional and Civil Rights charges and Impeachment brought against the US-DOJ leadership, DC Courts DA's and The Obama likely ran Biden Admin?

Sixth Amendment:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial....

NOTE: The US Legal system established remedy for a violation of a defendant’s Sixth Amendment speedy trial right is dismissal of the charges with prejudice. Courts do not have discretion to fashion less drastic remedies after finding a violation of the Speedy Trial Clause.


Pick a Violation and proceed.
* 18 U.S.C. Chapter 208 - SPEEDY TRIAL
* 18 U.S.C. Section 241 - Conspiracy Against Rights
* 18 U.S.C. Section 242 - Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law

Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/23/2023 7:29 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder about this myself. Do these people not have lawyers? And if so, why aren't they pushing this? And if not, isn't this a Miranda violation?
Posted by: Tom || 10/23/2023 15:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Lawyers don't uphold the law. They uphold the environment they have to work in.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/23/2023 15:20 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
'Stop, stop!': Pope Frank urges to stop Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine wars
[GEO.TV] Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
has called for an end to the Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
-Israel conflict, expressing concerns about its potential escalation.

During his customary Angelus prayer in Saint Peter's Square, Rome, he emphasised the destructive nature of war and pleaded, "Stop, Stop! Brothers, stop."

The conflict began when Hamas attacked Israel from the 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...
Strip on October 7, resulting in over 1,400 deaths.

Israel's Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, have killed more than 4,600 Paleostinians, primarily civilians, and left densely populated areas in Gaza in ruins.

Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah. Hey Pope what kinda refugee housing is available in Vatican city?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/23/2023 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ If he starts living his faith (as distinct from Roman Catholicism)? Nine Kowloon Walled Cities in the Gardens, plus another up front in the Square.
Posted by: Cheamp Thrimble2261 || 10/23/2023 18:00 Comments || Top||

#3  The Church has survived other "poor" popes.
Posted by: Squinty Hatfield8204 || 10/23/2023 18:15 Comments || Top||

#4  In this case, not "poor." Bad.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/23/2023 18:31 Comments || Top||

#5  How about bad [daps all around] and ""poor?"" ;-)
Posted by: Cheamp Thrimble2261 || 10/23/2023 18:51 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2023-10-23
  Israel orders villagers to evacuate Lebanon border as Hezbollah tensions rise
Sun 2023-10-22
  Explosion near the Israeli embassy in Cyprus
Sat 2023-10-21
  Tanks line up at Gaza border as ground invasion appears imminent
Fri 2023-10-20
  UN Secretary General calls on Israel and Gaza for two-week humanitarian truce
Thu 2023-10-19
  IDF has arrested 440 Palestinians, including many Hamas members, in West Bank since Oct. 7
Wed 2023-10-18
  Hamas accidentally blows up hospital, kills 500. Israel gets blamed.
Tue 2023-10-17
  Israel, Hamas deny ceasefire reports
Mon 2023-10-16
  Al-Shabaab dislodged from strategic areas in southern Somalia
Sun 2023-10-15
  Israel says primed for 'significant' three-pronged offensive in Gaza Strip
Sat 2023-10-14
  Gaza residents: “we prefer to die and not to be humiliated”
Fri 2023-10-13
  Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman Abu Ubaidah brags up details of Al-Aqsa Toofan
Thu 2023-10-12
  Egypt moves to prevent mass exodus from Gaza
Wed 2023-10-11
  Israeli Soldiers Find Dead Babies After Palestinian Hamas Attack
Tue 2023-10-10
  Death toll rises to 1,560 as Netanyahu orders to starve Gaza
Mon 2023-10-09
  Israel has officially declared a state of war


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