BREAKING: Governor of Illinois says local law enforcement won’t cooperate with raids and deportations of illegals in his state pic.twitter.com/TswLV6UnNg
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A possible solution comes to mind.
Have the SCOTUS rule all the gun laws restricting law abetting citizens in Illinois from owning gun unconstitutional in that they are impeding the rights to bear arms.
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FWIW, Trump isn't about to let the Census Bureau count illegals or miscount blue states again.
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11/14/2024 11:35 Comments ||
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Blue cities rush to dismantle migrant shelters as Trump inauguration approaches
You are an illegal migrant who came up here based on promises from three NGOs that coordinated transportation and box lunches, except for the horror of the Darian Gap, where you lost three friends and saw several women raped. Now it’s winter and you are about to lose the roof over your head, just before Donald Trump becomes opesident for the next four years.
Tulsi Gabbard, a veteran and active duty Army reservist, served in the House as a Democrat from Hawaii from 2013 to 2021, before joining the Republican Party and campaigning for Trump in his most recent race for president. She is now a co-chair of the Trump transition team.
In September, Gabbard told Fox News Digital she would be "honored" to join a Trump administration and added that bringing an end "to the influence of the military industrial complex," working to prevent World War III and bringing the U.S. back "from the brink of nuclear war" would be among her priorities.
She was reportedly interested in the defense secretary job, but Trump is reported to have promised that appointment to former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, also an Army veteran.
Gabbard has criticized Democrats as "pro-censorship" and "anti-freedom," but her criticisms have extended to Republicans, as well. She has spoken out against U.S. involvement in the Middle East and criticized Trump during his first administration for the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
Gabbard controversially met with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in 2017 during the country’s civil war. She was opposed to the U.S. arming Syrian rebel groups and said she was "ready to meet with anyone if there's a chance it can help bring about an end to this war."
Gabbard was reportedly placed on a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) watchlist for terrorists known as "Quiet Skies" earlier this year.
The program allows federal air marshals to follow U.S. citizens and collect information on their behavior in an effort to stop threats "posed by unknown or partially known terrorists."
"As I was traveling, I ended up in 30 to 45 minutes of going through screening every time I would go to the airport to fly," she told Fox’s One Nation. "I noticed air marshals, I noticed K-9 teams. There were things that I saw and noticed that were highly unusual. But the deepest pain and harm and stress that’s been caused by this is that, forever going forward, I will always be looking over my shoulder, wondering if and how my government is surveilling me."
In Congress, she co-sponsored legislation that would ban first-use of nuclear weapons and often decries politicians who "beat the drums of war and ratchet up tensions."
Gabbard, who is a Fox News contributor, could not be reached for comment.
The director of national intelligence leads an office that advises the president, National Security Council and Homeland Security Council on national security matters. Any nominee for the role must be confirmed by the Senate – or put in on an acting basis.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Three former detainees at Abu Ghraib prison have awarded $42million for the torture they faced two decades ago.
The decision from eight person jury came after they found Virginia-based military contractor CACI responsible for the mistreatment of the men at the notorious Iraqi prison.
A different jury earlier this year couldn't agree on whether Reston, Virginia-based CACI should be held liable for the work of its civilian interrogators who worked alongside the U.S. Army at Abu Ghraib in 2003 and 2004.
Yesterday's ruling in Alexandria, Va, will see Suhail Al Shimari, Salah Al-Ejaili and Asa´ad Al-Zubae each receive $3million in compensatory damages and $11 million each in punitive damages.
The three testified that they were subjected to beatings, sexual abuse, forced nudity and other cruel treatment at the prison.
Whilst they did not allege that CACI's interrogators explicitly inflicted the abuse themselves, but argued CACI was complicit because its interrogators conspired with military police to 'soften up' detainees for questioning with harsh treatment.
CACI issued a statement expressing its disappointment in the verdict and its intention to appeal.
'For nearly two decades, CACI has been wrongly subjected to long-term, negative affiliation with the unfortunate and reckless actions of a group of military police at Abu Ghraib prison from 2003 through 2004,' the company said. 'To be clear: no CACI employee has ever been charged - criminally, civilly, or administratively - in this matter. CACI employees did not take part in nor were any of our employees responsible for these disturbing events.'
Baher Azmy, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed the lawsuit on the plaintiffs' behalf, called the verdict 'an important measure of Justice and accountability' and praised the three plaintiffs for their resilience.
The $42 million fully matches the amount sought by the plaintiffs, Azmy said. It's also more than the $31 million that the plaintiffs said CACI was paid to supply interrogators to Abu Ghraib.
'Today is a big day for me and for justice,' said Al-Ejaili, a journalist, in a written statement. 'I´ve waited a long time for this day. This victory isn´t only for the three plaintiffs in this case against a corporation. This victory is a shining light for everyone who has been oppressed and a strong warning to any company or contractor practicing different forms of torture and abuse.'
Al-Ejaili traveled to the U.S. for both trials to testify in person. The other two plaintiffs testified by video from Iraq.
The trial and subsequent retrial were the first time a U.S. jury heard claims brought by Abu Ghraib survivors in the 20 years since photos of detainee mistreatment - accompanied by smiling U.S. soldiers inflicting the abuse - shocked the world during the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
None of the three plaintiffs were in any of the notorious photos shown in news reports around the world, but they described treatment very similar to what was depicted.
Al Shimari described sexual assaults and beatings during his two months at the prison. He also said he was electrically shocked and dragged around the prison by a rope tied around his neck. Al-Ejaili said he was subjected to stress positions that caused him to vomit black liquid. He was also deprived of sleep, forced to wear womens underwear and threatened with dogs.
CACI had argued it wasn´t complicit in the detainees´ abuse. It said its employees had minimal interaction with the three plaintiffs in the case, and CACI questioned parts of the plaintiffs' stories, saying that military records contradict some of their claims and suggesting they shaded their stories to support a case against the contractor. Fundamentally, though, CACI argued that any liability for their mistreatment belonged to the government.
As in the first trial, the jury struggled to decide whether CACI or the Army should be held responsible for any misconduct by CACI interrogators. The jury asked questions in its deliberations in both cases about whether the contractor or the Army bore liability.
In the first trial, which ended with a mistrial and hung jury, multiple jurors told The Associated Press that a majority wanted to hold CACI liable.
CACI, as one of its defenses, argued it shouldn´t be liable for any misdeeds by its employees if they were under the control and direction of the Army. under a legal principle known as the 'borrowed servants' doctrine.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that CACI was responsible for its own employees' misdeeds. They said provisions in CACI´s contract with the Army, as well as the Army Field Manual, make clear that CACI is responsible for overseeing its own workers.
The lawsuit was first filed in 2008 but was delayed by 15 years of legal wrangling and multiple attempts by CACI to have the case dismissed.
Lawyers for the three plaintiffs argued that CACI was liable for their mistreatment even if they couldn't prove that CACI´s interrogators were the ones who directly inflicted the abuse.
Evidence included reports from two retired Army generals, who documented the abuse and concluded that multiple CACI interrogators were complicit in the abuse.
Those reports concluded that one of the interrogators, Steven Stefanowicz, lied to investigators about his conduct and that he likely instructed soldiers to mistreat detainees and used dogs to intimidate detainees during interrogations.
Stefanowicz testified for CACI at trial through a recorded video deposition and denied mistreating detainees.
CACI introduced a different report that concluded contractors like CACI did a 'satisfactory' job of complying with military procedures.
That all sounds like CACI plans to appeal the ruling.
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How disgusting. Who were the jurors? What law firm is representing the terrorists? They all deserve embarrassment and ridicule. What a miscarriage of justice. This is why we should not keep terror prisoners. Extract intelligence, then dispose. If I had executive power, i would drone them and finish the mission.
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Exactly who you thought they would be...and not one nano-second of these events took place on U.S. soil. Even their mailing address seems prescient: 666 Broadway, 7th Floor.New York, NY 10012
"Baher Azmy, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed the lawsuit on the plaintiffs' behalf,..."
"The Center for Constitutional Rights Board is made up of some of the country’s leading progressives, from lawyers and longtime activists, to human rights pioneers and academics."
[Jpost] The resolution was voted on at the UN committee, with the US, Israel, Canada, and four other countries voting against the resolution.
At the UN committee meeting on Thursday, Australia, as well as 158 other countries, including the UK and New Zealand, voted to recognize "permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources.”
The resolution was first drafted 20 years ago.
The US, Israel, Canada, and four other countries voted against it, and 11 abstained. The resolution will now proceed to the UN General Assembly.
The UNGA is a powerless talk shop where unimportant countries posture and preen in mutual adoration… and vote on yet another anti-Israel measure in the hope that this time the UN Security Council lets it go through.
Penny Wong, the spokeswoman for Australia's foreign minister, said the vote reflected concern for Israel's actions, including "ongoing settlement activity, land dispossession, demolitions and settler violence against Palestinians."
Australia also voted in favor of a separate resolution draft, which states that Israel must take responsibility and compensate Lebanon for its role in a 2006 oil spill.
160 other countries voted in favor of the second draft.
Alex Ryvchin, co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, said the voting reflected the "widening gulf" between the US and Australian positions on Israel and Palestine.
“This shift in voting won’t change much in Israel where the nation is concerned with Hamas and Hezbollah and hostages rather than the judgments passed by our government," he added. "But it will be noticed in Washington and certainly by Australians with a connection to the conflict, which may well be the point."
JEWISH, ZIONIST GROUPS ALARMED BY AUSTRALIA'S SHIFT
The Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) said it was alarmed by the shift in the country's long-standing positions.
"This is nothing less than an abandonment of Australia’s ally, the only democracy in the Middle East, at the very time it is fighting an existential, multi-front war against Iran and its proxies."
The ZFA added that the resolution opposes the construction of the security fence separating Gaza from Israel, which has saved thousands of lives.
"Without the fence that was opposed by this resolution, the death toll in Israel could have reached unimaginable levels.”
Political representative of the US mission to the UN, Nicholas Koval, said the US is "disappointed that this body has again taken up this unbalanced resolution that is unfairly critical of Israel, demonstrating a clear and persistent institutional bias directed against one member state."
The Australian Jewish Association called it a "betrayal" and said the Albanese government was the most "hostile to Jewish life and the Jewish State in Australia's history."
The President of Argentina Javier Milei has now joined forces with President Donald Trump to expose the UN, WEF, and WHO as terrorist organizations trying enforce their 2030 agenda of one world government while removing all human rights and freedoms for tyrannical globalist… pic.twitter.com/eofwvXeVsc
[IsraelTimes] Secretary says this was one of three demands that Israel fell short of meeting from letter that threatened partial arms embargo, which the US held off on implementing
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... on Wednesday called on Israel to implement days-long humanitarian pauses in the fighting 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 a rusty 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... in order to allow for the safe delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians throughout the Strip.
It was one of three steps that Blinken said Israel had fallen short on from a list of 15 that were included in a letter the US sent Israel on October 13, which gave Israel 30 days to implement those measures at risk of being deemed in violation of US law, which bars the transfer of offensive weapons to countries that block the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians.
As the deadline expired on Monday, the US said Israel had made enough progress on those steps to remain in compliance with US law, but administration spokespeople came under fire from news hounds who pointed out that even Israel’s daily average of aid trucks entering Gaza over the past month was roughly 15 percent of the benchmark of 350 that the US demanded Israel meet in the letter.
Moreover, even after aid has entered the Strip, much of it is looted by Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... or local gangs or remains in storage due to IDF restrictions, leaving the humanitarian situation as dire as ever. The situation remains particularly grim in northern Gaza where aid is starting to trickle in to areas that were under siege by the IDF for nearly a month.
But with Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s election win last week, the Biden administration saw much of its leverage over Israel disintegrate, given that the president-elect would likely reverse any move to withhold weapons from Israel upon returning to the White House.
In remarks to news hounds at the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... headquarters in Brussels, Blinken defended the US decision to continue sending weapons to Israel, saying Israel wouldn’t have taken any of the steps it did over the past month — such as the minor uptick in aid trucks entering Gaza, opening additional crossings and delivery routes, waiving certain custom requirements for aid groups, resuming the delivery of aid into northern Gaza and expanding the Muwasi coastal humanitarian zone — had it not been for the administration’s October 13 letter.
Still, he recognized that Israel had fallen short on some of the US demands; one being rescinding evacuation orders after the IDF finishes operating in particular areas.
The army’s refusal to do so has led to major overcrowding in the Muwasi humanitarian zone and concerns that Israel is seeking to take over large swaths of Gaza territory, either to create a buffer zone or to establish settlements. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured Blinken during the latter’s visit to Israel last month that Jerusalem is not planning to rebuild communities in the Strip, but when the secretary asked the premier to publicly declare as much, Netanyahu declined to do so, apparently due to pressure he faces from far-right coalition members who back the controversial effort, a US official told The Times of Israel.
Blinken said Wednesday that Israel has also fallen short on the US demand to allow the entry of commercial goods into Gaza.
"This is vital because so many of the things that commercial truckers bring in, including things like fruits and vegetables, are absolutely essential to the balanced nutrition for people in Gaza," he said, adding that such goods are not typically part of the humanitarian aid the enters Gaza and are critical for boosting Gazooks’ immunity to diseases as winter approaches.
Blinken recognized that the entry of commercial trucks raises the risk of additional looting. There are already roughly 900 trucks sitting on the Gazook side of Kerem Shalom due to such concerns, and the US is working to address with Israel and Egypt to address the issue, he said.
The most significant of the three shortfalls was the lack of "real and extended pauses in any fighting in large areas of Gaza so that the assistance can effectively get to people who need it," Blinken said.
While he acknowledged that this demand poses major challenges, it is one that Israel managed to meet to allow for a polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... vaccination campaign that served hundreds of thousands of children throughout the Strip — though one that likely wouldn’t have been necessary in the first place if not for the humanitarian crisis sparked by the war.
While Israel has allowed for hours-long pauses, Blinken said those will need to be extended for days in order to ensure that aid can get to all parts of the Strip.
The secretary noted that he will be discussing the issue with US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... in the coming days and stressed that Israel has a responsibility to meet these demands.
Regardless, Blinken stressed that the best way to address the humanitarian crisis is by ending the conflict, arguing that Israel has already achieved its war aim of ensuring that Hamas doesn’t have the military capabilities to conduct another October 7-like attack in addition to taking out the terror group’s leadership.
It still has not succeeded in releasing the hostages, though, and Blinken slammed Hamas’s rejection of recent proposals for a short-term deal. Netanyahu has also ruled out ending the war in exchange for the hostages, in what has further complicated negotiations. His critics have claimed his refusal to end the war stems from concerns that this would lead to the collapse of his coalition, which includes far-right elements who want the fighting to continue and for settlements to be established in northern Gaza.
But Blinken appears to place more of the blame on Hamas, adding that its refusal to engage in recent negotiations is what led Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... to tell the terror group’s officials in Doha to leave the country. No timeline has been given for that departure, though.
And while Blinken stressed Israel’s responsibility to surge humanitarian aid throughout Gaza, he called out the international community for failing to hold Hamas responsible for the continuation of the war. "It’s extraordinary to me that from almost day one, there is no focus on Hamas and almost deafening silence around the world on Hamas."
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] On November 13, the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) published a video message from Russian citizen Alexander Trufanov, who was taken hostage in the Gaza Strip.
He reported that he had been held captive for a whole year with little water or food.
“I want to remind the citizens of Israel: every time you eat or drink something, remember about us, the prisoners, that we do not have the opportunity to enjoy food and water,” Ynet quoted Trufanov as saying.
He also said that when Israel attacks civilians in Gaza, those who are in captivity also suffer. He called on the Israelis to do everything possible to ensure that the prisoners can return home. The Russian stressed that he really wants to return to his homeland.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, while in Moscow at the end of October, the deputy head of the political bureau of the Palestinian movement Hamas, Musa Abu Marzuk, announced his readiness to release Trufanov and Ukrainian and Russian citizen Maksim Kharkin.
As Marzuk explained, the Russian leadership had previously asked for the release of four of its citizens and two had already been released, as they were civilians. The other two, Trufanov and Kharkin, served in the Israeli army.
Russian citizen Trufanov also has an Israeli passport. He was captured by the Palestinians during the fighting. Marzouk said that he would be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
Ukrainian Harkin also served in the Israeli army and did not have Russian citizenship at the time of his capture by Hamas. His relatives obtained Russian citizenship to speed up his release.
Iran-Based “Academic” Hadi Dalloul saying it is yet to be decided whether they will let the Jews flee to Europe when “Palestine is Liberated” or carry out a Genocide against them.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Russian Defense Ministry made a representation to Israel after the strike carried out near the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. This was stated on November 13 by the Russian President's Special Representative for the Syrian Settlement, Alexander Lavrentyev.
"Israel did indeed carry out one airstrike in the immediate vicinity of Khmeimim. That is, it did not strike directly at the airbase, because this, naturally, would have had very negative consequences, including for Israel," RIA Novosti quoted the diplomat as saying.
He clarified that, according to available information, the strike hit a certain warehouse.
Oh? Iranian, Syrian, or Hezbollah?
The Russian Defense Ministry noted the inadmissibility of such actions, which pose a potential threat to Russian military personnel. Lavrentyev expressed hope that the incident would not be repeated.
Perhaps Russia ought to gently suggest to Iran/Syria/Hezbollah that it would be thoughtful of them to store their IDF-attracting stuff farther away from the delicate Russian army.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, since October 1, Israel has been conducting a ground operation against the Shiite Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon, while simultaneously continuing to bomb Syria. On November 10, at least six people were killed in an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) airstrike on the Sayyida Zeinab neighborhood in southern Damascus. A residential building was attacked.
Sayyida Zeinab is Hezbollah territory, a regular IDF target since Hezbollah reared up on its hind legs to join Hamas in attacking Israel. And now they’re paying for their pleasures.
On the night of November 8-9, the IDF Air Force attacked targets southeast of the city of Aleppo in Syria. Several Syrian soldiers were injured in the attack. According to Al Hadath TV channel, the strike was carried out on the As-Safira industrial zone. Journalists noted that military enterprises and defense warehouses are located there.
In September, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called on Israel to stop armed provocations against Syria and to refrain from actions that could lead to uncontrolled destabilization of the situation in the Middle East.
The statement by the Foreign Ministry spokesman was preceded by an IDF attack on at least ten sites in several Syrian provinces. According to Al Hadath TV, one of the targets was the Institute for Scientific Research in Hama province, where, according to Israel, weapons for Iranian groups were being manufactured. The strikes resulted in deaths and injuries.
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...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
