The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has expressed deep concern regarding reports of troop mobilizations in the capital, Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , including threats of using force to resolve the crisis surrounding the Central Bank of Libya. UNSMIL urgently calls for calm, tension reduction, and restraint, emphasizing that dialogue is the only viable solution to all disputes.
UNSMIL is actively engaging with all relevant parties to broker a peaceful agreement to address the Central Bank crisis.
The mission strongly criticizes the display of military force and armed confrontations in populated areas, deeming them unacceptable and a threat to the lives, security, and tranquility of civilians. UNSMIL considers these actions counterproductive, exacerbating the crisis and diminishing the prospects for a political resolution to the ongoing political deadlock.
Safety in Libya’s capital, Tripoli is continuously deteriorating, with threats of kidnapping and murder a daily occurrence for residents.
Over the years, kidnappings, arrests, and liquidations have increased substantially in western Libya. This is evident in the repeated statements of the Ministry of Interior, about the arrest of gangs and individuals involved in the kidnapping and extortion of expatriate workers.
In October 2022, the Head of the Zaher al-Jabal Police Station, Abdel-Salam Abdullah Abdel-Nabi, was assassinated by unknown assailants. Just days before, a policeman was assassinated in the same city. Despite this happening in full view of everyone, those at the helm of power do not move a finger to identify the perpetrators. The security authorities do not move to arrest them, or announce their names.
Salah Abdel-Salam, the former Executive Director of the Civil Society Commission of the Libyan Presidential Council, was kidnapped in central Tripoli.
The National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) said that there are reports of security forces being involved in the kidnapping of Abdel-Salam. There has been no contact with him since the incident, and the identity of the security agency that kidnapped him has not been established. So far, his fate remains unknown.
Libya ranked fourth in the Arab world, and twenty in the world, among the countries with the highest levels of organised crime, according to the report of the Global Initiative to Combat Crime (GLOBAL INITIATIVE).
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CAIRO (AP) — One of Libya's dueling authorities unilaterally fired the country's powerful central bank governor in an abrupt move that is likely to inflame tensions in the divided North African country.
The presidential council in the capital of Tripoli, which is allied with the government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah that controls western Libya, removed Gov. Sadiq al-Kabir, according to a decree issued late Sunday.
In his place, the council appointed Mohamed Abdul Salam al-Shukri, an economist and former deputy governor, as the new governor for the Central Bank of Libya.
Al-Kabir had led the central bank since October 2011 — the year that Libya was plunged into chaos after a NATO-backed uprising toppled longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. During that time, he accumulated significant influence and power but also faced criticism from officials on both side of the country's political divide in allocating Libya's oil money. In recent months, that criticism has turned into calls for his removal.
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Thank you for making us more informed than we would be without you, Sligum Hupomoling9524.
Sometimes the best way to reduce corruption, for a while at least, is to replace the old guy with a somewhat competent new one who hasn’t built up methods and connections yet.
[IRNA] ''The usurper Zionist regime has weakened and is on the verge of downfall'', Sheikh Zakzaky
…Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky (and a number of other spellings), the former head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Nigeria, converted to Shi'ism after a visit to Iran and now is a fiery Iranian sock puppet. He founded the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), the Shiite version of the Muslim Brotherhood — only beholden to Iran. Nigeria declared IMN a terror group in 2019, which didn’t really change anything. The good sheikh is regularly arrested for troublemaking…
was quoted by Iraq's al-Ahad channel while he was attending the al-Aqsa Call Procession in Karbala on Saturday evening.
The destruction of the Zionist regime will happen soon which is not optimism but the existing evidence shows this trend well, he said.
The Nigerian Moslem leader further stated that despite spilling the blood of innocent Paleostinians by the Zionist regime, 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... will be ultimate victor and that will pave the way for Moslems around the world to offer prayers in al-Aqsa Mosque in al-Quds.
[IsraelTimes] Accounts linked to Iranian ‘threat actor’ sent messages to individuals in Israel, Palestine, Iran, US and UK, pretending to be technical support, tech giant says
This sounds more to me like phishing than about APT42 or CharmingKitten, but I am ignorant enough to be unsure. What say you, O computer security mavens?
Meta said Friday it had warned US presidential campaigns to be wary after it discovered an Iran-linked hacking attempt using the WhatsApp messaging service.
The announcement is the latest from a tech giant of hacking threats ahead of the November election between Vice President Kamala Harris It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day and former president Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... , after Google and Microsoft earlier uncovered similar attempts attributed to Iran.
WhatsApp accounts linked to an Iranian "threat actor" sent messages pretending to be technical support for AOL, Google, Yahoo or Microsoft, according to Meta.
"This malicious activity originated in 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... and attempted to target individuals in Israel, Paleostine, Iran, the United States and the UK," Meta said in a post.
"This effort appeared to have focused on political and diplomatic officials, and other public figures, including some associated with administrations of President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The man who made Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter look competent, if only by comparison.... and former President Donald Trump."
Not most of us, then.
Accounts involved in what appeared to be "social engineering" — duping people into providing access to networks or vital data — were blocked, according to Meta.
An investigation linked the attempts to the same hacking group responsible for similar attacks aimed at political, military, diplomatic and other officials reported by Microsoft and Google, Meta said.
"Given the heightened threat environment ahead of the US election, we also shared information about this malicious activity with law enforcement and with the presidential campaigns to encourage them to stay cautious against potential adversarial targeting," Meta said.
On Monday, three US intelligence and security agencies said Iran was behind a recent hack targeting Trump’s presidential campaign and accused Tehran of seeking to influence the 2024 election.
The statement confirmed a Trump campaign claim from earlier this month, which came after internal communications and a dossier on running mate J.D. Vance were shared with a US media outlet.
Harris’s campaign said on August 13 that it too had been targeted by foreign hackers, but did not give an indication of which country was believed to be behind the attempt.
OpenAI last week said it took down a cluster of ChatGPT accounts being used to create content for a "covert Iranian influence operation."
The operation used ChatGPT to create articles and short commentary, which was then shared on social media platforms or websites, according to OpenAI.
Main topics were the conflict 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... , Israel’s presence at the Olympic Games, and the US presidential election.
"They interspersed their political content with comments about fashion and beauty, possibly to appear more authentic or in an attempt to build a following," OpenAI said.
Groups linked to the Iranian government have "laid the groundwork for influence campaigns on trending election-related topics and begun to activate these campaigns in an apparent effort to stir up controversy or sway voters -— especially in swing states," said Clint Watts, general manager of the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center.
Earlier this year, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines warned that Iran was becoming "increasingly aggressive" in its influence efforts, seeking to stoke discord and undermine democratic institutions as it has done in prior election cycles.
[IsraelTimes] Top security officer at US cyber firm says APT42, which is believed to be linked to the IRGC, is Iran’s ‘most powerful security and intelligence entity’ alongside the Quds Force
The Iranian hacking team that compromised the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... is known for placing surveillance software on the mobile phones of its victims, enabling them to record calls, steal texts and silently turn on cameras and microphones, according to researchers and experts who follow the group.
Known as APT42 or CharmingKitten by the cybersecurity research community, the accused Iranian hackers are widely believed to be associated with an intelligence division inside Iran’s military, known as the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or IRGC-IO. Their appearance in the US election is noteworthy, sources told Rooters, because of their invasive espionage approach against high-value targets in Washington and Israel.
"What makes (APT42) incredibly dangerous is this idea that they are an organization that has a history of physically targeting people of interest," said John Hultquist, chief analyst with US cybersecurity firm Mandiant, who referenced past research that found the group surveilling the cell phones of Iranian activists and protesters. Some of them were imprisoned or physically threatened in the country shortly after being hacked.
A spokesperson for Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... in New York said in an email that "the Iranian government neither possesses nor harbors any intent or motive to interfere in the United States presidential election."
Spokespeople for Trump have said that 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... is targeting the former president and current Republican candidate because they disfavor his policies toward Tehran.
HIGHLY TARGETED
The APT42 crew that targeted Trump has never been formally named in US law enforcement indictments or criminal charges, leaving questions about their structure and identity. However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... experts believe they represent a significant threat.
"The IRGC-IO is entrusted with collecting intelligence to defend and advance the interests of the Islamic Theocratic Republic," said Levi Gundert, chief security officer for US cyber intelligence firm Recorded Future and a former Secret Service special agent. "Along with the Quds Force, they are the most powerful security and intelligence entities inside Iran."
In March, Recorded Future analysts discovered hacking attempts by APT42 against a US-based media group named Iran International, which British authorities previously said were the target of physical violence and terror threats by Iranian-linked agents.
Hultquist said the hackers commonly use mobile malware that allows them to "record phone calls, room audio recordings, pilfer SMS (text) inboxes, take images off of a machine," and gather geolocation data.
In recent months, Trump campaign officials sent a message to employees warning them to be diligent about information security, according to one person familiar with the message. The message warned that cell phones were no more secure than other devices and represented an important point of vulnerability, said the person, who requested anonymity as he was not permitted to speak to the media.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. The FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence both declined to comment.
The Secret Service did not answer questions about whether the Iranian hacking activity could be intended to support physical attacks planned for the future. In a statement sent to Rooters, a Secret Service spokesperson said they work closely with intelligence community partners to ensure the "highest level of safety and security" but could not discuss matters "related to protective intelligence."
APT42 also commonly impersonates journalists and Washington think tanks in complex, email-based social engineering operations that aim to lure their targeting into opening booby-trapped messages, which let them take over systems.
The group’s "credential phishing campaigns are highly targeted and well-researched; the group typically targets a small number of individuals," said Josh Miller, a threat analyst with email security company Proofpoint. They often target anti-Iran activists, news hounds with access to sources inside Iran, Middle Eastern academics and foreign-policy advisers. This has included the hacking of Western government officials and American defense contractors.
For example, in 2018, the hackers targeted nuclear workers and US Treasury Department officials around the time the United States formally withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, said Allison Wikoff, a senior cyber intelligence analyst with professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The public emergence of APT42 in the ongoing presidential race began earlier this month following a report by Microsoft MSFT.O on August 9, which said the group was attempting to hack staffers on an unnamed presidential campaign.
APT42 is still actively targeting campaign officials and former Trump administration figures critical of Iran, according to a blog post by Google’s cybersecurity research team.
More secure than Trump In other news, Coldplay is still a thing?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Taylor Swift was also said to have been 'horrified' by the thought of a terror attack taking place at one of her shows, as one did in 2017 at popstar Ariana Grande's gig in Manchester.
Austrian authorities have since arrested three teenage suspects aged 17, 18 and 19.
The 19-year-old suspect was later named as Beran A, an ISIS fanatic
…aaaaand we have at least a partial name for future reference…
who was building a bomb in his parents' back garden
…more new information…
as he planned to mow down concertgoers.
He was radicalised by a notorious hate-preacher in Berlin, according to German intelligence sources. Swift was also said to have been 'horrified' by the thought of a terror attack taking place at one of her shows, as one did in 2017 at popstar Ariana Grande's gig in Manchester.
Austrian authorities have since arrested three teenage suspects aged 17, 18 and 19.
The 19-year-old suspect was later named as Beran A, an ISIS fanatic who was building a bomb in his parents' back garden as he planned to mow down concertgoers.
He was radicalised by a notorious hate-preacher in Berlin, according to German intelligence sources.
A teen terror suspect who plotted a bloodbath at a Taylor Swift concert in Austria was radicalised by a notorious hate-preacher in Berlin, it is believed.
Beran A., the 19-year-old ISIS fanatic who was building a bomb in his parents' back garden and planned to mow down concertgoers this week, was influenced online by Berlin's rabid hate preacher Abul Baraa, according to German intelligence sources cited by BILD.
Baraa - real name Ahmad Armih - is a well-known figure among Germany security services who has 46,000 Instagram followers and over 81,000 on TikTok.
Speaking to Bild newspaper, the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany's equivalent of MI5, said: 'The closure of his Berlin mosque and the coronavirus pandemic led to greater engagement on social media.'
'His rhetoric and speaking style are particularly catching on with young people.'
It comes as images emerged of the garden and inconspicuous outhouse where Beran A. is said to have been constructing his suicide bomb while his parents were on holiday in their native North Macedonia.
A few years ago, Beran A.'s parents - who immigrated to Austria from North Macedonia - moved into a newly built house in the Neunkirchen district of Ternitz with him and his younger sister.
Ternitz residents told local media that Beran, who was born in Austria and attended a local school, used to be a 'harmless boy next door' often seen lounging around in jeans and trainers.
But neighbours claim he underwent a dramatic aesthetic and behavioural transformation coinciding with his pledge of allegiance to ISIS last month, adding he began growing out a bushy beard.
This feature was clearly visible in a shocking photo of the would-be terrorist posing with huge zombie knives and an ISIS flag unveiled yesterday by German media.
The 19-year-old was arrested in Ternitz Wednesday morning while a second teen, aged 17, was detained in the Austrian capital, according to director-general for public safety Franz Ruf.
It later emerged that Beran A. and his accomplice had planned to attack Swift's concert venue by driving into the crowd outside and attacking them with knives and machetes before detonating a suicide bomb to kill as many fans as possible.
Until two weeks ago, Beran A. had worked in the same stainless steel plant in Ternitz as his father.
He was doing an apprenticeship as a retail salesman in the factory, where he had access to the plant's laboratory, including various chemicals.
During a raid on the family home in Ternitz, bomb disposal experts this week secured chemicals required to produce the explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP), which Beran A. is said to have already experimented with.
TATP is often used by ISIS in terror attacks and requires acetone as well as hydrogen peroxide, which officials confirmed was found in the house.
Ruf confirmed at a press conference yesterday that the suspect's 'preparatory action' in the home in Ternitz focused on the manufacturing of explosives.
The head of the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, said Beran A. was 'clearly radicalised in the direction of the Islamic State and thinks it is right to kill infidels'.
Beran A.'s parents and sister reportedly are currently on holiday in North Macedonia, but police is expected to question the parents over their son upon their return.
Following his arrest, the teen fully confessed to his plans to 'kill as many people as possible outside the concert venue', Austrian security officials said.
His planned terror attack was supposed to end with him detonating his homemade bomb and killing himself in the process, according to the Austrian Heute newspaper.
Firebrand preacher Baraa, who is said to have played a part in radicalising the terror suspects, once preached at the infamous 'As-Sahaba Mosque' in Berlin.
Police raided this mosque in 2018 on suspicion of terrorist financing and later shut it down.
The location had been a hub for radical Islamists, including Reda Seyam, a high-ranking German member of ISIS, and Denis Cuspert, one of Germany's most notorious ISIS fighters.
Following the closure of the mosque, Baraa moved his preaching online, where he continued to spread extremist ideology.
In his videos, he chillingly refers to the 'kuffar' (infidels) waging war against Islam, urging his followers to resist this perceived oppression.
'How long will this humiliation go on... how far will this go, with this war, with this terrorism of the kuffar against the Muslims?' Baraa asks in one of his inflammatory sermons.
His influence has grown over the years, with the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution noting that he has become a 'star' in the Islamist scene, despite multiple investigations against him.
[IsraelTimes] Condoning violence and vocal in their anti-West and anti-capitalist views, the protesters are preparing to sow more chaos this year as experts warn of intolerance for other views
The Student Intifada, a growing coalition of pro-Paleostinian, anti-Zionist student groups, is making clear its intention to disrupt the fall semester on school campuses across the United States. Across dozens of campuses currently opening their fall semesters, there are already calls for masked vigils in support of "Paleostine." Troublingly, many of the groups have gone from calling for demonstrations and encampments to condoning the use of violence and "the total eradication of Western civilization."
The Student Intifada’s roots can be traced to the National Students for Justice in Paleostine (SJP), founded in 1993 at the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Berkeley. However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese... it’s picked up followers since the 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 then again with the media attention on Columbia University following last year’s highly-covered student encampment.
With Columbia being an epicenter of the anti-Zionist student protests, it comes as no surprise that the Instagram account for Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) has posted that it draws inspiration "not only from Paleostinian resistance but from every struggle for liberation across the globe, including the student protests of Bangladesh."
Meanwhile,
...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth... the Instagram bio of Columbia University’s chapter of SJP now includes the line, "Long live the Student Intifada and Hind’s Hall" together with the inverted red triangle emoji used by the Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... terror organization to identify its targets.
But the loose Student Intifada movement is more than a collection of student groups with a physical presence on campuses. It occupies space on the internet, from social media platforms such as X and Instagram, to platforms like Substack where writers send digital newsletters to subscribers.
For example, "The Written Resistance®," a quarterly online newsletter published by the National SJP, and blog posts such as "Research & Destroy," is hosted on the Verso Books website. On The Real News Network, whose donors include Edward Snowden, Roger Waters, and the Scripps Howard Fund, people can access the movement’s video content, such as a recent roundtable discussion featuring various pro-Paleostinian students.
Avoiding mention of the October 7 Hamas atrocities that set off the ongoing Israel-Hamas war when thousands of bully boyz invaded southern Israel, brutally murdering 1,200 people and kidnapping 251 to the Gaza Strip, the Student Intifada portrays itself as a peaceful and "comprehensive movement which comprises diverse organizations and groups in society" that seeks to fight "the US colonialist and imperialist institutions," according to a policy paper titled "The Student Intifada in the United States" by University of Michigan PhD candidate Amir Marshi.
In his paper, Marshi, who declined to comment for this story, denies the movement is antisemitic.
"We’re not going to synagogues and yelling slurs and being mean to people. We are here having a peaceful protest on campus asking for one thing and one thing only, and that’s to stop a genocide," Marshi wrote.
Yet, the movement demands that universities sever ties with organizations such as Hillel International whose main mission is supporting Jewish life on campus, divest from charitable foundations that fund Jewish academic research and life on campus, and ban "Zionist" speakers.
’EXPECT TO SEE ZERO COMPROMISE’
With the National SJP as its guide, the movement isn’t limited to local SJP chapters. But it’s not so much the coalition’s reach that troubles some, but rather its refusal to engage with different perspectives.
"The movement is a belief cascade where those in the group compete with each other for acceptance. As they do that, their opinions become more and more extreme," said William J. Bernstein, author of "Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups."
"No matter how high their SAT scores were, they don’t have the critical thinking skills they need. They are incapable of putting themselves in other people’s shoes. They are utterly intolerant of other views," Bernstein said.
University leaders should expect the students to become more strident in their demands this fall, said Laura Post, an analyst with the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
"They are going to increase their efforts to drive Zionist institutions off campus. They are going to make the average Jewish and Zionist student increasingly uncomfortable. We can expect to see zero compromise from these groups," Post said.
For example, at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, encampment organizers affiliated with the school’s SJP chapter called on the university to "divest from all donors and funds that support and profit from the occupation in Paleostine, such as programs like Koret."
A Jewish philanthropic organization, the Koret Foundation provides grants to various causes, including student research projects at Sonoma State.
At Princeton University, organizers connected to the Princeton Israeli Apartheid Divest group and the New Jersey chapter of American Moslems for Paleostine (AMP) continue to demand the university cut ties with the Tikvah Fund, which is a Jewish philanthropic foundation that "supports teaching, research, and publication on Jewish thought."
’DESIRE FOR RADICAL REVOLUTION’
It’s the movement’s repudiation of democracy and apparent support of violence that most concerns Dr. Steven McGuire, the Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
"Their animating thing is a desire for radical revolution. The groups are a mixture of radical Paleostinian nationalists who do not think Israel has the right to exist. On the other hand, you have card-carrying Marxists who are revolutionary in nature and who see Paleostine as a key issue for advancing a global revolution," McGuire said.
Indeed, last December, Columbia Social Workers 4 Paleostine organized an unauthorized "teach-in and discussion" which not only justified the October 7 terror onslaught but also praised Communist leaders like Mao Zedong, founder of the Chinese Communist Party. Under Zedong’s policies, between 40 and 80 million people died due to starvation, forced labor, and mass executions.
In a July 31 Instagram post, the University of Chapel Hill SJP appeared to back the right to use violence.
"We emphasize our support for the right to resistance, not only in Paleostine, but also here in the imperial core. We condone all forms of principled action, including armed rebellion, necessary to stop Israel’s genocide and apartheid, and to dismantle imperialism and capitalism more broadly. The oppressors will never grant full liberty to the oppressed; the oppressed must seize liberty with their own hands," the post said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth... in an August 15 post on X, the Columbia University Apartheid Divest and the CU Club Bangla declared their support for Moslem student protesters in Bangladesh.
"And just as the Paleostinian resistance escalated the Intifada on October 7th, it is now the people of Bangladesh who are escalating the global battle for liberation...at least two hundred of our comrades in Bangladesh have been martyred by the Awami League... If we want to achieve liberation in America, we must be prepared to make these same sacrifices," read the post.
McGuire said that statements like these shouldn’t be shrugged off.
"Students constantly bombarded on social media are being led by a vanguard that is radicalized and believes in this [illiberal] ideology that requires followers to chant things that are genocidal," McGuire said.
’APPEASEMENT DOESN’T WORK’
Last year, campus leaders frequently ignored or dismissed the violation of institutional policies, disruptions to academic life, and the harassment and intimidation of Jewish students.
With that in mind, campus leaders must act more decisively if they hope to avoid the pandemonium that marked much of last year, said Richard Priem, deputy national director and COO of the nonprofit Community Security Service (CSS).
"I’m not the ADL, but there are relevant lessons to be learned from a security standpoint, mainly that appeasement doesn’t work. What started with an encampment ended with the violent mostly peaceful takeover of a university building. The lesson that needs to be learned is that there can be zero tolerance for this behavior," Priem said.
There were an estimated 3,200 people, not all of them students, arrested at colleges and universities last spring, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named. Most of the charges against students have since been dropped.
Other universities, including the University of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... and Harvard, withheld degrees from some pro-Paleostinian students facing disciplinary measures for their part in encampments and protests. Many of them have since received their diplomas.
As students begin moving into their dorm rooms and get ready to attend convocations, campus leaders seeking to slow the Student Intifada must do more to address what is happening inside classrooms, McGuire said.
"Universities have to ask themselves if they are giving oxygen to these ideologies through their course catalogs. Part of the problem is that too much of the curriculum focuses on all the problems society has and not on any of its accomplishments," McGuire said.
Bernstein agreed.
"Universities have to improve critical thinking skills. [Student Intifada] groups are not doing themselves any favors staying in their self-aggrandizing bubbles," he said.
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The Hamasnik and Leftard presence at the DNC was considerably less than expected.
They did penetrate the outer perimeter of the DNC security zone for a few minutes. They also managed to occupy some street space near the Israeli consulate. However there was little substantial looting or vandalism or violence against people.
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The Hamasnik and Leftard presence at the DNC was considerably less than expected.
Or, the level of taquia was a lot harder than expected.
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^In all fairness Grom I had a lawyer who was an Assyrian. And according to Wikipedia there are about 1000 of them living in Isreal. So they're still around if you know where to look.
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^
Sadly, the Assyrian Christian community was one of the victims of genocide by the Ottoman Muslems in the early 20th century. Some escaped to Iraq and suffered a massacre there in the 1930s.
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An Assyrian Christian church was attacked by a new convert to Islam in Sydney, Australia back in April. I believe there is still some of the original Syrian Christian community in Iraq today, although like the rest of the Iraqi Christian communities they are regularly attacked by jihadis and loving Muslim neighbors.
#10
We had a bussed-in pro-Hamas child protest "parade" this AM in my redneck east San Diego suburb. They were permitted to march in a "bumfuck-Egypt" near deadend street, so I never heard/saw about it
I understand they got a few obscene measures of support
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[IsraelTimes] Pro-Palestinian activists claim that targeting Zionists isn’t antisemitic because not all Jews identify as Zionists, but new policy shows that school disagrees, given that most Jews do.
... to split the boodle...
[GEOTV] President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
...former and current president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in... on Saturday held an important meeting with Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty. Fazl seldom misses a meal and is now so large he has his own gravitational pull... amid reports that the government was planning to summon join session of parliament on August 28.
The president along with Minister for Interior Senator Mohsin Naqvi arrived at Fazl's residence in the federal capital.
The meeting was also attended by JUI-F leaders including Maulana Abdul Ghafoor, Maulana Asad Mehmood, Aslam Ghauri and Engineer Ziaur Rehman.
Both leaders held detailed deliberation on potential key legislation likely to be tabled in the joint sitting.
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[IsraelTimes] Depending on location, people have 15-90 seconds to get to a bomb shelter compared to 30 minutes in the 1950s, making public shelters less relevant.
[GEOTV] Iran's new government will seek to "manage tensions" with its arch-enemy the United States to help reduce pressure and neutralise crippling sanctions, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said.
That’s nice. How well do you think that’ll work if Donald Trump is elected?
"What we have to do is manage the tensions and hostilities" between Tehran and Washington, he said in an interview late Friday on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? 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... and the United States have had no diplomatic relations since 1980, the year after the Islamic revolution that toppled its Western-backed Shah Mohammed Reza.
A landmark 2015 deal between Tehran and world powers granted Iran sanctions relief in return for curbs on its nuclear programme.
But the deal quickly collapsed and tensions reignited following the United States' unilateral withdrawal from the accord in 2018.
"In foreign policy, we have a duty to reduce as much as possible the cost of this hostility and reduce its pressure on the nation," said Araqchi, who was one of the key negotiators of the 2015 agreement.
He added that Iran's foreign policy will prioritise "neighbouring countries" as well as African countries, along with China and Russia, among others.
Araqchi criticised European countries for having "adopted hostile policies" towards Iran in recent years.
He said they would only "become a priority" when they "abandon their wrong and hostile policies".
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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.
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...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 
