[ARABNEWS] Britannia’s former defense secretary Sir Gavin Williamson has urged Foreign Secretary David Lammy to listen to calls for the UK to recognize Somaliland ...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells.... as a sovereign nation, The Independent reported on Friday.
"This is an important symbolic step and I hope the foreign secretary listens to the growing cross-party voices on this matter and acts to move UK policy to recognize Somaliland, so recognizing the reality on the ground," he said.
Lammy is being pushed to review UK foreign policy toward a potential key ally in the Red Sea conflict with the Iran-backed 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... s. The former British colony is not officially recognized by any international power despite functioning as an independent state since 1991 when it broke away from Somalia following a civil war.
Earlier this week, the Lord Mayor of Liverpool Richard Kemp said: "Liverpool council unanimously agreed a motion calling upon HMG (His Majesty’s Government) to recognize the former British Protectorate of Somaliland as an independent country free from Somalia. The Somaliland representative to the UK and local Somaliland residents were delighted."
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Just Stop Oil
…the climate panic branch of Black Bloc anarcho-communist syndicalists funded by the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) with donations from rich Hollywood actors and the usual histrionic scions of old money families like Getty and Kennedy, and newer money like Disney, Hillary Clinton, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s PAC…
activists who threw tomato soup over a priceless Van Gogh painting have been found guilty of criminal damage. Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer, both 22, flung two tins of Heinz soup at the Dutch artist's 1888 masterpiece while it was on display at the National Gallery on October 14, 2022. The pair then proceeded to glue themselves to the wall following the attack on the painting. Although the oil-canvas worth up to £72.5m was protected by a glass cover and went unharmed, its 17th century Italian frame was damaged.
Both Plummer and Holland refused to say who they took instructions from before they carried out the publicity stunt.
[Daily Mail, where America gets it news] … shouted 'Allahu Akbar' in Washington during Netanyahu's speech.
Anti-Israel protestors and Hamas sympathizers who desecrated Washington, D.C.'s Union Station have learned their fates.
A minimum of eight people who participated in the anti-Israel protest during Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech Wednesday are now facing federal criminal charges after defacing federal property and fighting police.
Some protestors, however, have had their charges dropped by more lenient Washington, D.C. prosecutors.
Frederick Coates, Crow Momamome and Antonio Somerville have all been charged with attempting to carry a dangerous weapon, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C.
Nathaniel Lawrence, Sonia Krishan
…the outwardly lovely 2022 Miss Maryland Teen USA, now apparently a psych major at NYU…
and Roger Miller have been charged with attempted theft.
Zachary Kam has been charged with two counts of assaulting a police officer.
And Essa Ejelat has been charged with making threats.
Authorities also maintain that the protest, which began near the National Mall close to the U.S. Capitol before heading to the train terminal, is still an open investigation and updates could come.
In addition to those charged there are numerous protestors who were arrested that will not face charges, Fox News reports.
The D.C. attorney general's office got at least 11 cases 'no-papered,' which means that the charges were dropped.
Among those three were charges for crossing police lines, five were for disorderly conduct and inducing violence and three were for disorderly conduct causing unreasonable fear.
All of the charges are misdemeanors.
Further, the report reveals an additional five pending cases for crowding and obstructing, though prosecutors have yet to decide whether to press charges.
[WashingtonExaminer] One day before anti-Israel protesters caused mayhem in Washington, D.C., burning an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he spoke to Congress, scrawling graffiti across federal property, and burning American flags, the National Park Service granted the organizing group a public gathering permit. The Washington Examiner obtained a copy of that permit in full from a Biden administration source — providing a key window into the planning of the rally and the ways in which demonstrators skirted federal rules.
The permit, a redacted version of which can be read at this link, was given to the ANSWER Coalition,
…they used to call themselves International ANSWER, back when they were protesting the possibility of an American response to 9/11…
a group that coordinated with other pro-Paleostinian activist hubs on the planning and execution of the protest. Dozens of protesters were arrested following festivities with police, though at least 11 of them had their misdemeanor charges dropped by Thursday evening, the Washington Examiner reported.
But even before the protest began, the Interior Department’s National Park Service was aware of problems with ANSWER’s level of disclosure about its activities, documents reveal.
The NPS said in the permit documents that ANSWER "refused to provide specific locations for onsite contacts." ANSWER is a project of a charity in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... called Progress Unity Fund, according to tax records.
In the permit, the ANSWER Coalition described how it would be protesting in various areas in the nation’s capital, including John Marshall Park and Columbus Plaza. At 3:37 p.m. on Wednesday, after many hours of protests in the streets, the NPS said the permit for Columbus Plaza had been revoked.
Minutes later, a man wearing a red shirt was captured on social media graffitiing the phrase "Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... is coming" on a historic fountain in the plaza honoring Christopher Columbus.
The Wednesday protest, according to the permit, was slated for between 5 a.m. and 4 p.m. that day. Activists continued to demonstrate after 4 p.m. in the district as part of the rally, which ANSWER said on the permit application was to "stop the genocide in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ." The protest was called "Arrest Netanyahu! Surround Congress July 24 with the People’s Red Line for Paleostine," according to ANSWER’s website.
"These events were utterly predictable, as similar recent protests had also resulted in vandalism of federal property and assaults on Park Police, and the organization seeking the permit apparently did not even comply with its requirements before it was issued," said Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, a watchdog group investigating the Biden administration.
The permit said ANSWER, per federal rules, was prohibited from climbing, removing, or injuring "any statue seat, wall, fountain, light poles, elevator towers, or other erection or architectural feature, or any tree, shrub, or landscaping feature" in protest areas.
The document also cited 36 CFR Section 7.96, a regulation holding that "the alteration, damage, or removal of park resources or facilities is prohibited." On Thursday, NPS staffers began to power-wash the Christopher Columbus statue and fountain that were vandalized outside Union Station.
The permit listed ANSWER’s point of contact as Brian Becker, ANSWER’s director and "a central organizer for the Party for Socialism and Liberation," according to Liberation News.
PSL are boringly unapologetic Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries who split off from the equally Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Workers World Party in 2004. ANSWER is one of their projects.
[FoxNews] 'Our officer staffing crisis is at the root of our agency's mission readiness,' union chief says
Following the protests at Union Station by anti-Israel agitators defacing federal property in protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress, a Park Police union is pushing back against criticism that only a few arrests were made.
Thousands of Hamas-sympathizing agitators descended on Washington, D.C., Tuesday, at one point defacing federal monuments with phrases in support of the terrorist group responsible for the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, saying, "Hamas is coming."
Twenty-three people were arrested at the protests, but some have suggested that number should have been higher.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., posted on X, "How many more times are they going to allow leftist degenerates who support terrorism and hate America to vandalize property and attack police? There should have been hundreds of arrests today in D.C. not just 23."
But the U.S. Park Police Labor Committee is pushing back.
"Our officers on the ground did everything they could to protect life and property. In fact, despite having only 29 officers available to mitigate damage — 29! — with no additional help from the Department of the Interior, we processed several arrests for charges ranging from assault on a police officer to destruction of government property," Kenneth Spencer, chairman of the United States Park Police Fraternal Order of Police, said in a statement.
What about that contingent from the NYPD that came specifically to help during this protest? Were they left in headquarters to take care of the extra paperwork?
"That's why it's so disheartening to hear some members of Congress and members of the media, many of whom describe themselves as ‘champions’ of law enforcement, suggesting that officers gave protesters a ‘pass’ or that insufficient arrests were made.
"Nothing could be further from the truth. Anyone who truly cares to understand the problem would see that our officer staffing crisis is at the root of our agency's mission readiness.
Whose bright idea was it that the DC police staffing crisis should be allowed to continue unresolved?
A small unit of 29 officers arrested 10 individuals while being assaulted by a mob of thousands. We simply did not have the staffing or resources to accomplish a mass arrest operation."
At least one demonstrator, whose face was covered, was spotted by Fox News carrying what appeared to be the flag of the terrorist group Hamas while others were heard shouting "Allahu Akbar."
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A perfect example of the Democrat-run Washington cesspool. 29 effectives!
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The US Capitol Police, whose headquarters is two blocks away, has over 2,000 sworn, and patrols the entire areas immediately proximate to Union Station.
I cannot fathom why mutual aid wasn't requested. The USPP and ISCP work together all the time.
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I found myself thinking "I'm glad the US isn't hosting the Olympics in this current climate--there would be almost ZERO effort in making it anything other than a security nightmare."
[Gateway] On July 22, Sugimoto first released a six-minute video on his YouTube channel, revealing the footage for the first time.
In the video’s description, Sugimoto wrote: "Footage I filmed of the World Trade Center Collapsing on 9/11/2001. Filmed from the roof of 64 St Marks Place in NYC on a Sony VX2000 with teleconverter. Upscaled to 4K 60p using Topaz Video AI. For historical archival purposes only."
When asked why he decided to release the footage after 23 years, Sugimoto explained, "I was cleaning my closet and found boxes full of Hi-8, Digital-8, and DV tapes."
[GEO.TV] Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has said that his government will not allow military operation in the province, attracting prompt censure from Federal Information Minister Attaullah Tarar who termed the CM's stance as being his "compulsion".
"As a chief minister, I announce that we will not allow any operation in this province," CM Gandapur said while addressing a gathering of the Aman Jirga in Bannu on Friday.
"We will not shy away from shedding our blood for our country but will make our decisions on our own," he added.
The development came a day after CM Gandapur chaired a meeting of the apex committee, seeking to reassure the representatives of the Bannu Aman Jirga who sought increased role of police in the province among other demands.
The meeting of the province's top security body discussed the issues related to terrorism and the Bannu incident wherein at least four people were killed and several others sustained injuries after a protest staged on traders' call against deteriorating law and order situation escalated and turned unpleasant.
The incident caused widespread outrage in Bannu, after which CM Gandapur visited the area and tried to calm the people.
In his address today, the PTI-backed CM noted that wrong decisions were imposed on the country by the "slaves of the US", adding that the people of the province suffered huge losses due to wrong decisions made in the past.
CM Gandapur reiterated his resolve against terrorism, saying the provincial authorities would not tolerate any gang in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. He stressed that police would launch action wherever they suspected the presence of miscreants.
"Any highhandedness, if committed in the province, will be perceived as being against me," he remarked.
Responding to Gandapur's statement, Federal Information Minister Tarar said the chief minister had to give such statements as he was answerable "to a man [Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... ] imprisoned in the Adiala Jail".
He stated this while addressing a presser flanked by Federal Minister for Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan Engineer Amir Maqam today.
[GEO.TV] Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , the largest urban metropolis of Pakistain, has been ranked world’s second riskiest city in a list compiled by Forbes Advisor.
The port city is ranked only after Caracas, Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... in a list based on a study comparing 60 international cities across seven key metrics. The metrics or risk factors include crime, personal safety, health, infrastructure, natural disasters, and digital security.
According to Forbes Advisor, Karachi has the highest personal security risk. This reflects risk from crime, violence, terrorist threats, natural disasters as well as economic vulnerabilities.
Moreover, the State Department has rated it second in accordance with the worst travel safety. The port city also has the fourth highest infrastructure security risk.
"Terrorism and ongoing violence by Death Eater elements have led to indiscriminate attacks on civilian, as well as local military and police, targets," the US State Department stipulated in a travel advisory published in June 2023. They also gave Pakistain a "Level 3″ advisory, cautioning visitors to reconsider travel," reported CNBC.
Parallel to this, Caracas in Venezuela tops the list of world’s riskiest cities. It has the highest health security risk, reflecting the low level and quality of healthcare services and infrastructure as well as the highest crime risk.
Additionally, Yangon in Myanmar holds the third place in the list. The city has the highest digital security risk, third highest personal security risk, reflecting risk from crime, violence, terrorist threats, natural disasters as well as economic
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last week they were saying how Venezuela's crime rate was way down because they'd exported it to the US.
[GEO.TV] Pakistain has rebuffed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "belligerent remarks," dubbing them as "totally counter-productive" to resolving disputes between the two countries and reminding India of its own terrorism campaign.
Speaking at an event earlier today, Modi alleged that Pakistain was trying to stay relevant through "terrorism" and "proxy war" and added that such a strategy would never succeed.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch in a statement on Friday said that the Indian prime minister cannot divert the world's attention from the brutalities being committed by Indian forces in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... (IIOJK).
Dismissing the Modi's remarks, the FO said: "Bravado and jingoism undermine regional peace, and are totally counter-productive for resolution of long-standing disputes between Pakistain and India, especially the core dispute of Jammu and Kashmir."
"The Indian leaders’ rhetorical statements cannot deflect international attention from India’s heavy-handed approach to suppress the Kashmiri people’s just struggle for realisation of their fundamental rights and freedoms, particularly their inalienable right to self-determination," the statement said.
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From your mouth to the ear of G*d, Ahmad. Superior force applied with casual brutality is the only thing you mutants understand.
In which every single cliché on the subject is unwrapped and thrown at the reader, like a game of 52 pick-up.
[Regnum] The refusal of the dark-skinned French track and field athlete Sounkamba Sylla, who professes Islam, to participate in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is a consequence of the “sick, arrogant ideology” of European countries, the head of the Spiritual Assembly of Muslims of Russia, Mufti of Moscow Albir Krganov, said on July 26.
"This step is yet another example of the disdainful attitude towards Islam and Muslims in Europe," he said.
Krganov is confident that such behavior by the organizers will not go unanswered. In the case of Sylla, France probably decided to remember its colonial origins, he added, noting that the country's actions only perpetuate the historical mistakes of the past in modern society.
The modern Olympic Games increasingly do not unite nations, but become a tool for political and ideological manipulation, TASS reported his words.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 25, French runner Silla said that she was not allowed to participate in the opening ceremony because she was wearing a hijab. On July 26, the Russian Foreign Ministry called this decision an act of segregation. The official representative of the department, Maria Zakharova, recalled that the organizers explained their decision by the fact that wearing a traditional element of clothing during sporting events is allegedly prohibited. She emphasized that the Olympics have ceased to follow their goals, declared more than a hundred years ago, and now completely contradict the Olympic spirit.
According to Zakharova, Russian and Belarusian athletes were previously subjected to segregation and were banned from participating in the Games. Now discrimination has affected French athletes as well, she added.
In December 2023, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Russian and Belarusian athletes would only be allowed to participate in the Olympics in a "neutral status " if a number of criteria were met. Among other things, athletes are prohibited from displaying symbols of their countries. Also, those who have publicly declared their support for Russia's special operation or have a contract with security forces in the Russian Federation will not be allowed to participate in the Games.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the IOC's treatment of Russian athletes ethnic discrimination. He noted that the Russian Federation would continue to develop sports and follow the original principles of the Olympic movement.
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So, say 10 an hour each...WHO only needs say 10,000 vaccinators to use all million in a week. Wait, Gaza has no power so no refrigeration. Bye-bye vax.
[GEO.TV] An Israeli military commander said Friday that troops in the country's north were preparing for "a decisive offensive" against Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's Hezbollah after months of deadly cross-border exchanges.
Israeli forces have traded near-daily fire with Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ally Hezbollah since the ongoing war in 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.
Major General Ori Gordin, Israel's commanding officer in the north, told troops that "we have already eliminated more than 500 holy warriors in Lebanon, the great majority of them from Hezbollah", an army statement said.
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[JPost] Too late The source explained that the communications between the two sides at the security level have been ongoing since October 7.
The Biden administration was reportedly ready to sign a nuclear agreement with Iran, according to a Friday exclusive report by the Arabic-language Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Jarida.
The report claims that an informed source in the Iranian Supreme National Security Council confirmed that US officials a few days ago on Tuesday said the Biden administration is willing to negotiate a return to the nuclear agreement concluded in 2015 after introducing minor amendments to it.
The source explained to Al-Jarida that the communications between the two sides at the security level have been ongoing since October 7, and have recently become almost daily, and even several times during the same day to avoid a clash between them in the context of the Gaza war.
The two sides had decided to return to an unwritten agreement between them before Hamas attacked Israel, the report described, as a meeting at the political level between them was cut due to the death of President Ebrahim Raisi.
Iranian officials in the report say that Biden is ready to sign such an agreement before the end of his term in November, but he wants the Iranians to immediately return to implementing their commitments in the nuclear deal and come to agreements on a multitude of issues, such as what Tehran should do with the highly enriched uranium and the advanced centrifuges that were recently produced, in addition to Biden guaranteeing Iran regarding the possibility of Trump winning the presidency and not withdrawing from the agreement, as he did in 2018.
The source mentions an Iranian official insisting that the United States' return to the nuclear deal must have restrictions such as Washington not being able to benefit from the "trigger clause" that would enable the return of all international sanctions on the Islamic Republic, which is what Trump tried to do after withdrawing from the previous agreement concluded by former President Barack Obama.
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Iranians have insisted that all centrifuges and enriched uranium must remain in storage under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in addition to demanding the inclusion of a new clause that allows Tehran to extract these materials and return to its current steps in the event that any member withdraws from the treaty, or Washington delays in implementing its pledges to lift economic sanctions against Iran.
A source told Al-Jarida that the Iranians are demanding security guarantees from the White House that these sensitive warehouses will not be targeted if their location is revealed to the IAEA.
The US also demanded a secondary agreement that included pledges to stop attacks by Tehran's allies on Israel and American forces in the region to which they received a negative reaction.
The source told the report that Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, were informed of the American offer, expecting a response after Iran's president-elect takes the constitutional oath at the end of next week.
This came days after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that Iran was capable of producing material for a nuclear bomb "within a week or two," reiterating his country's commitment to preventing Tehran from doing so.
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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.
...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells....
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
