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KATHARINE BURKE 1925-29 played Lady Godiva in the 1929 Follies atop a white horse. from Jazz Age Beauties the lost collection of Ziegfeld photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston by Robert Hudovernik (2006)
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Grom, from the study:
The recent NHANES study also found that male participants who engaged in daily sexual activity were six times more likely to experience premature death than females who did the same.
That's probably from the husband getting home early. 8(
[JustTheNews] Several emergency vehicles arrived at the White House on Friday in response to a "suspicious item," the Secret Service confirmed.
Multiple entrances to the White House have been closed off amid the investigation, according to ABC News reporter Selina Wang.
President Joe Biden is currently in Delaware for the weekend while Vice President Kamala Harris is in Arizona.
The incident comes on the same that former President Donald Trump had to ground his plane in Billings, Montana, due to a mechanical issue. He has since departed on another plane to Bozeman, Montana, for a speech.
[AfricaNews] Mali has ordered Sweden's ambassador to leave the country within 72 hours because of what it called a ''hostile'' statement by a Swedish minister, the government said on Friday.
Ambassador Kristina Kuhnel's expulsion comes after Mali on Monday announced it was severing diplomatic ties with Ukraine.
It accused a senior Ukrainian official of suggesting that Kyiv had provided help to Tuareg rebels who claimed to have killed dozens of mercenaries from Russia's Wagner group and Malian soldiers in July.
Ukraine has denied any involvement in the fighting in northern Mali.
Bamako's decision to cut ties with Kyiv prompted Sweden's minister for international development cooperation and trade, Johan Forssell, to say on Wednesday that the government had decided to phase out bilateral aid to Mali due to its ties to Moscow.
"You cannot support Russia's illegal war of aggression against Ukraine and at the same time receive several hundred million kronor each year in development aid," Forssell said on social media platform X.
In the past decade, Sweden has provided more than $330 million in assistance to the West African nation.
Relations between Mali and the West have frayed since a military junta seized power in 2020 and staged another coup the following year.
Mali and its neighbours, Niger and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed... , also led by juntas, have pivoted away from their traditional Western allies to form closer ties with Russia.
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[Regnum] In the capital of Libya, Tripoli, an agreement on a temporary ceasefire came into force on August 10. This was reported by the official representative of the Tripoli rescue and emergency services, Osama Ali.
He said that the warring parties, the national unity government of Abdelhamid Dbeibah and the government of Osama Hammad, had agreed to a truce between the armed groups that support them.
"A safe corridor has been provided for the evacuation of more than 60 families. Work is continuing to evacuate the rest," Gazeta.Ru quoted a source at the Tripoli emergency medical center as saying.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, there are two governments in Libya that do not recognize each other. The Dbeibah government is based in Tripoli. The Libyan parliament passed a vote of confidence in it in March 2021. The Hammad government is based in Benghazi and is supported by the Libyan National Army of Khalifa Haftar.
Last July, President Vladimir Putin met with the head of the Libyan presidential council, Mohammed al-Menfi, in St. Petersburg. The Russian leader announced Moscow's plans to continue to facilitate a settlement in Libya based on ensuring the country's "unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity."
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For more than forty years the al-Thani family that rules Qatar has been hand in glove with the international Muslim Brotherhood (which gave rise to Al Qaeda). It provided a home to Qaradawi the MB cadi (religious leader). Despite its miserable reputation it sought support in the USA in great part to keep Saudi Arabia off its back. Stupidly, the US military built a big base there. In the USA itself the Clintons and Brookings Foundation, inter alia, broke bread with the al-Thani and kept their payoffs well disguised. Washingon has coddled the Arab conmen seemingly forever and it is well past time to cut the cord.
[GEO.TV] Bangladesh's chief justice and central bank governor have resigned, officials said on Saturday, as student protests that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee have widened to target more officials appointed during her time in office.
Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan resigned, the law ministry's adviser Asif Nazrul said in a Facebook video post, after students warned him of "dire consequences" if he did not. Reuters could not immediately contact Hassan.
Nazrul, an adviser in the new caretaker government, urged protesters to remain peaceful. "Don't damage any public property," he said in the post.
Bangladesh Bank Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder has also resigned but his resignation has not been accepted given the importance of the position, finance ministry adviser Salehuddin Ahmed told reporters. Reuters could not contact Talukder.
Days earlier, four deputy governors were forced to resign after about 300 to 400 bank officials protested against what they said was corruption by top officials.
The vice chancellor of Dhaka University, ASM Maksud Kamal, has also resigned, the university said. Reuters was unable to contact Kamal.
The university has been the epicentre of deadly protests that escalated in July against quotas in government jobs before morphing into an oust-Hasina campaign.
Hasina has been sheltering in New Delhi since Monday following the uprising that killed about 300 people, many of them students, ending her uninterrupted rule of 15 years in the South Asian nation of 170 million people.
Since her departure, the country has also seen the appointment of a new police chief as part of a shake-up of the security top brass that also included a new head of the technical intelligence monitoring agency and changes among senior army officials.
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So money is more important than justice.
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[Breitbart] Sectarian violence was rekindled in Northern Ireland on Saturday night as police were attacked with petrol bombs following a pro-unionist demonstration that took place in the city.
At least 10 police officers were injured in Londonderry on Saturday evening after they came under assault by a reported group of Irish nationalist youths during “several hours of disorder” on Nailors Row.
So far, police have made one arrest in connection to the incident, however, between Friday and Saturday evening, police made 31 arrests amid amid a broader outbreak of violence in the city, the Derry Journal reports.
In a statement, Derry City & Strabane Superintendent William Calderwood said: “The scenes we witnessed were disgusting, and I want to commend our officers for their professionalism. These were difficult conditions for officers from across numerous departments.
According to the PSNI, a mosque on Greenwell Street in Newtownards was attacked with a failed petrol bomb and alleged racist graffiti was written on the building.
“To see our officers injured as a result of this violence is appalling. It is completely unacceptable.”
The fire-bombings came after the Apprentice Boys Relief of Derry parade took place in the city, an annual celebration that marks the anniversary of the end of the Siege of Derry in 1689, in which the local Protestants successfully fended off the Catholic Jacobite forces of James II.
The parade, which saw over 5,000 members of the Apprentice Boys take part as well as 130 bands, is a significant date on the calendar for local unionists in Northern Ireland — also known as Ulster — who favour remaining a part of the United Kingdom rather than joining with the Republic of Ireland to the south.
Londonderry was one of the main epicentres of the decades-long conflict known as The Troubles between Irish nationalists and pro-British unionists, with many claiming that the city was the location for the first major act of the conflict, the so-called Battle of the Bogside following the same Apprentice Boys parade in 1969.
While the incidents on Nailors Row were unrelated to the wider anti-mass migration protests and riots which have swept across the UK, including in Northern Ireland, over the past two weeks, the police did report some suspected ethnically-inspired attacks in the city on Saturday.
According to the PSNI, a mosque on Greenwell Street in Newtownards was attacked with a failed petrol bomb and alleged racist graffiti was written on the building. There were also two instances of cars being set on fire which police are treating as being “racially motivated”.
Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Melanie Jones said: “We continue to investigate all reports made to us in relation to the recent disorder on our streets and we will be making further arrests. The outpouring of support from our communities for their Muslim neighbours has been heartening and more accurately reflects the views of most of the citizens of Northern Ireland.”
Pressure is mounting on Kenyan police officers to deliver on their promise to help bring Haiti's rampant gangs under control, six weeks after setting foot in the Caribbean nation. pic.twitter.com/LMjMXeNofW
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"Give us a minute! I haven't even learned my wh0re's name"
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08/11/2024 5:48 Comments ||
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They're still trying to work out who's gonna pay their bribes.
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Hey, at least they're not shitting in Haiti's water supply and causing cholera outbreaks like the last set of international police that were there.
...lest I speak too soon...
[IsraelTimes] Amid global criticism, Israel names 19 it says it killed in terror HQ at Gaza school
White House ’deeply concerned’ by strike; Egypt, Qatar fume; top EU diplomat slams unjustified ’massacres’; IDF dismisses Hamas claim 90 killed, says no major damage to school
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[ARABNEWS] 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 Iran-back Hezbollah group said it launched on Saturday explosive-laden drones at a north Israel army base following the killing of a Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... commander in south Lebanon a day earlier.
Hezbollah fighters launched ''squadrons of explosive-laden drones'' at the Michve Alon base near the Galilee town of Safed ''in response to the attack and liquidation carried out by the Israeli enemy in the city of Sidon'' on Friday, the group said in a statement.
Hezbollah's media office said it was ''the first time'' the group had targeted that base.
On Friday, an Israeli strike on a vehicle in the south Lebanon city of Sidon killed a Hamas commander, the Paleostinian hard boy group and the Israeli military said.
Hamas said in a statement that Samer al-Hajj was killed ''in a Zionist strike in the city of Sidon.''
The Israeli military said that its aircraft struck the Sidon area and ''eliminated'' Hajj, whom it identified as ''a senior commander'' for Hamas in Lebanon.
It was the first strike of its kind in Sidon since Hamas launched its October 7 attack on Israel, triggering war 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... and prompting its Lebanese ally Hezbollah to begin trading near-daily cross-border fire with the Israeli army in a bid to tie down its troops.
Ten months of cross-border violence has killed some 562 people in Lebanon, most of them fighters but also including at least 116 civilians, according to the AFP tally.
On the Israeli side, including in the annexed Golan Heights, 22 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed, according to army figures.
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Breaking News | Israel's Channel 12: Fires Break Out in 5 Locations in Northern Israel Due to Rocket Fire from Lebanese Territory. pic.twitter.com/cHSdvEaqiH
[NEWARAB] Fighting between pro-Iranian groups supporting the Syrian regime and Kurdish-led forces killed 13 people, mostly civilians, a war monitor said on Friday.
Six children were among the victims of intense shelling of Dahla in the eastern province of Deir Ez-zor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.
Fighting erupted on Wednesday when pro-Iranian fighters attacked Kurdish-held areas, according to the Britannia-based monitor, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria.
The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) also reported that 11 civilians, mostly women and kiddies, were killed in Dahla.
The SOHR said pro-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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... fighters carried out a "massacre" that "resulted in the death of 11 people, including women and six children," in Dahla.
Two members of Iranian-backed militias were meanwhile killed and three maimed in shelling by the SDF targeting al-Bulil village on the western bank of the Euphrates river, the monitor said.
The US-backed SDF spearheaded the offensive that defeated the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group's self-declared caliphate in Syria in 2019.
Arab-majority Deir Ez-zor province, a resource-rich region which borders Iraq, is bisected by the Euphrates river and home to dozens of local tribal communities, some of whose fighters joined the SDF in its battle against IS.
On Wednesday, pro-Iran groups supervised by Syrian regime officers succeeded in crossing the Euphrates, coming dangerously close to the al-Omar oil fields where American troops are based, the SOHR said.
Pro-Iran fighters were subsequently pushed back to the opposite side of the Euphrates following fighting that left seven dead, among them an SDF fighter, three pro-Iran militia men, and three civilians, it added.
The fighting comes amid growing regional tensions between Iran and its allies on one side, and Israel, currently waging a war 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... , and its backer Washington on the other.
Iran and Hezbollah have promised to respond to liquidations of the chief of the Paleostinian Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... group and the military leader of 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 movement, widely blamed on Israel.
Iran has provided military support to Syrian President Bashir al-Assad's forces through more than a decade of civil war.
The United States has around 900 troops in Syria that are part of an anti-jihadist coalition and also maintain a base on the Conoco gas field.
In September 2023, the United States intervened to stop similar fighting in Deir Ez-zor from escalating, in a country devastated and fragmented by more than 13 years of war.
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[ARABNEWS] US troops in northeastern Syria were attacked by a drone, a US official told Reuters, although there were no injuries according to initial reports.
This is the second attack in recent days against US forces in the Middle East as the region braces for a possible new wave of attacks by Iran and its allies.
Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Iran-backed Hamas, was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran on July 31, an attack that drew threats of revenge by Iran against Israel, which is fighting the Palestinian Islamist group in Gaza. Iran blamed Israel for the killing. Israel has not claimed responsibility.
The assassination and the killing of the senior military commander of the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, Fuad Shukr, by Israel in a strike on Beirut, have fueled concern the conflict in Gaza was turning into a wider Middle East war.
Iran has said the US bears responsibility in the assassination of Haniyeh because of its support for Israel.
Initial reports do not indicate any injuries, however medical evaluations are ongoing. We are currently conducting a damage assessment, the US official said on the condition of anonymity about the attack in Syria.
The attack took place at Rumalyn Landing Zone, which hosts US troops along with those from the US-led coalition.
Five US personnel were injured when two Katyusha rockets were fired at Ain Al-Asad air base in western Iraq on Monday, an attack the Pentagon blamed on Iran-backed proxies.
The United States has 900 troops in Syria and 2,500 in neighboring Iraq, who it says are on a mission to advise and assist local forces trying to prevent a resurgence of Daesh, which in 2014 seized large swaths of both countries but was later pushed back.
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Finally, casus belli to restart the war in Syria and remove Assad once and for all.
Hopefully we can get the war started on Iran, too. That's going to be some hard fighting but we can get it done.
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Remind me again what US troops are in Syria for as I do not recall the Assad government requesting US military assistance. Chevron might have, but I don't think Assad did.
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...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
