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Troops kill B'Haram chief bomb maker, eight others in Sambisa
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Possible major storm for SF, Valley and Sierra next week
-- This from the Sacramento Office forecast's discussion pm 6 March. January and much of February were pretty dry so flooding probably won't be too bad. However, the amount of snow predicted would likely close the Sierra passes, e.g. Donner, Echo at least periodically during the week.
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[NationalWeatherService] Ensemble guidance and cluster analysis continue to exhibit high confidence in an active weather pattern returning to the forecast over the extended forecast period with multiple weather systems moving through Monday [10 March] and again Tuesday through Thursday [13 March] bringing along rain, wind and mountain snow impacts to interior northern California. Here is a look at some 72 hour probabilities from the National Blend of Models (NBM) ending 5 AM Thursday:

Probability of Rain > 1 inch: 55-95%

Probability of Rain > 2 inches: 15-30% (Valley), 45-80%
(foothills)

Probability of Mountain Snow > 48 inches: 40-85%

Probability of Mountain Snow > 60 inches (N of I-80): 40-70%

Probability of Mountain Snow > 60 inches (S of I-80): 15-45%

Probability of Wind Gusts > 40 mph: 50-85% (Valley/Foothills)

Probability of Wind Gusts > 55 mph: 45-75% (Foothills/Mountains)
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/07/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We'll be drinking all that wet stuff pn the Nevada side this summer, so bring it. SnowPack in the Norther Sierras has been lighter than normal so far: Wiki AI Cite-"As of March 2025, California's Sierra snowpack was 85% of average, with the northern Sierra having the most snow. The snowpack was below average in the central and southern Sierra. "
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/07/2025 14:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Snow Pack Data
Posted by: Difar Dave || 03/07/2025 16:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Snow Pack Data

second try
Posted by: Difar Dave || 03/07/2025 17:03 Comments || Top||

#4  :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/07/2025 17:43 Comments || Top||


Pentagon Secret Project Participant Claims Giant Pyramid on Mars
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Joe McMonigle, who participated in a secret project of the US Department of Defense, said that he saw evidence of life on the planet Mars. This was reported by the Metro publication.

It is specified that in the period from 1978 to 1995, the man was engaged in telepathic research of remote locations at given coordinates, and one of the tasks set led him to Mars in the period “a million years before our era.”

McMonigle claimed to have seen a giant pyramid in which "very tall and thin" beings in strange clothing were sheltering from a powerful storm. He also described other areas of Mars where he allegedly saw "bones and ruins of buildings."
Yes, but he was telepathically contacting another planet a million years ago for the US Army’s Project Stargate, long before our species existed, so how trustworthy is his witness?
As reported by IA Regnum, at the end of December 2024, American businessman and billionaire Elon Musk said that in 500 million years, the Earth will become uninhabitable due to the expansion of the Sun. In this way, he responded to a remark by one of the users of the social network X that in 1 million years, humanity will have to save itself on Mars due to the explosion of our star.

Russian President Vladimir Putin joked on February 6 about sending cats, dogs and cows to Mars in the future. One of the winners of the Presidential Prize, an employee of the Belgorod State Technological University named after V. Shukhov, Natalya Cherkashina, told the head of state that scientists are working on increasing the radiation protection of materials and this may allow such a goal to be achieved in the future.

Wikipedia: Joseph McMoneagle

Posted by: badanov || 03/07/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What a trip man!
Posted by: Hupoluth Dribble3876 || 03/07/2025 7:15 Comments || Top||

#2  "engaged in telepathic research of remote locations"
So, he thought about going to work.
Good gig if you can get it. Definitive research.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/07/2025 8:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, they've already done a 270 degree analysis of this structure and determined that it is indeed a geological feature and not created by an 'unkown hand'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/07/2025 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  This is the kinda thing I would post.

Antarctica 'pyramid': The strangely symmetrical mountain that sparked a major alien conspiracy theory
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/07/2025 12:03 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
South African Parliament/ Action SA leader Athol Trollip ‘You told Trump to leave us alone. Now we are alone!’
[YouTube]
Posted by: Ulailet+Thud3602 || 03/07/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Athol Trollip wastes his breath addressing these kaffir morons.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/07/2025 3:30 Comments || Top||

#2 

How many years, across how many administrations, has the USA been playing "Save Africa"? Which cost US Lives and wasted $$ Billions over and over.

America 1st
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/07/2025 7:22 Comments || Top||


''We will expropriate land without compensation whether they [White people] like it or not''
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

None of this should surprise anyone.
Posted by: Fred || 03/07/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And start starving - like every other African country?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/07/2025 3:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Be sure and sell everything to China to prove how independent you are.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/07/2025 8:21 Comments || Top||

#3  So Apartheid rears its ugly head in South Africa again.
Posted by: Warthog || 03/07/2025 8:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Seize the land? It would only be just if the land was all you got - no buildings, no dams, no crops, no animals, no farm equipment, nothing but the land.
Posted by: Omoluger Ulising2352 || 03/07/2025 8:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Comrade Mandela would be so proud.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/07/2025 9:24 Comments || Top||

#6  "Bad Place to Be’ — Trump Invites South Africa’s White Farmers to U.S., Promises ‘Rapid Pathway to Citizenship.’="

“To go a step further, any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety, will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship,” he pledged, adding: “This process will begin immediately!”

https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/03/07/bad-place-to-be-trump-invites-south-africas-white-farmers-to-u-s-promises-rapid-pathway-to-citizenship/
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/07/2025 12:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Worked in Rhodesia/ sarc as if needed
Posted by: Beavis || 03/07/2025 13:21 Comments || Top||

#8  If this happens, Trump must tell the UN, if you provide SA any assistance, we will defund the UN.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 03/07/2025 20:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Aye.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/07/2025 20:23 Comments || Top||

#10  "Trump Invites South Africa’s White Farmers to U.S., Promises ‘Rapid Pathway to Citizenship."


There can't be too many left in SA. Many have already fled.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/07/2025 22:59 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Mending ties, Putin fills empty US envoy slot – with diplomat who has decried the West
Decried the West qua West, or the West led by the oh-so-Progressive Biden administration? The former makes the gentleman a pointed insult, the latter a most delicate compliment.
[IsraelTimes] Alexander Darchiev, 64, said to have green light from Washington, where he served 2 spells in embassy; he’s known in recent years for strong public denunciations of United States, West

Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
appointed Alexander Darchiev, a veteran diplomat known in the past for public denunciations of the West, as ambassador to the United States on Thursday to lead a rapprochement that has stunned Ukraine and European countries.

The Foreign Ministry said last week Washington had given it the green light at a meeting between Russian and US officials in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
to appoint Darchiev, who now serves as head of the ministry’s North America department.

The six-hour meeting in Istanbul last Thursday, where the delegations worked to try to restore the normal functioning of their embassies after years of tit-for-tat expulsions, was the latest sign of a thaw between the two countries.

US President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets...
has upended previous policy on the war in Ukraine, opening up bilateral talks with Moscow and pausing military aid to Kyiv after clashing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House last week.

Russia has had no ambassador in Washington since October when the previous envoy, Anatoly Antonov, left his post.

Darchiev, 64, has served two long spells in Russia’s Washington embassy and was ambassador to Canada from 2014 to 2021. Like other senior Russian diplomats, he has been known in recent years for strong public denunciations of the United States and the West.

"Apparently, Washington will need time to get used to the fact that its hegemony is in the past, and will have to reckon with the national interests of Russia, which has its own sphere of influence and responsibility," he told Interfax in March 2022.

In a memoir, John J. Sullivan, a US ambassador to Russia under then-president Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
, described Darchiev becoming "visibly enraged" during a meeting at the foreign ministry in Moscow, over remarks by Biden, who called Putin a war criminal.

"When I finished, he started screaming at me in a profane tirade that I should not come into the ministry with such a belligerent attitude," Sullivan wrote. Sullivan declined further comment on the events when contacted by Rooters, and Rooters was not able to reach Darchiev for his side of the story.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/07/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Darchiev becoming "visibly enraged" during a meeting at the foreign ministry in Moscow, over remarks by Biden, who called Putin a war criminal.

Oh, he was supposed to smile?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/07/2025 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2  "Was trifft, trifft zu" (Karl Kraus)
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/07/2025 6:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Just thinking out loud...
If a virulently anti-Western diplomat makes a deal with the Americans, he can hardly be accused of being a sellout or puppet.

/disclaimer: I know nothing about Darchiev and have personally denounced certain aspects Western culture myself.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/07/2025 10:20 Comments || Top||


Economy
Fears Of Starlink Troubles In Ukraine Have Sent A Smaller French Competitor's Stock Soaring Over 500%
[BusinessInsider]
  • The US' fraying relationship with Ukraine is boosting European satellite firm Eutelsat.

  • Its share price has skyrocketed amid fears that Ukraine could face disruptions to its Starlink access.

  • There's no clear sign of that happening yet, but Eutelsat said it's in talks with the EU.

Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 03/07/2025 06:00 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Trump Effect: E.U. Leaders Agree to Massive Defence Spending Boost
[Breitbart] European Union (E.U.) leaders holding emergency talks in Brussels agreed Thursday to begin a massive increase in defence spending in the wake of President Donald Trump’s demands for less reliance on U.S. taxpayer largesse in hardware, funding, and intelligence sharing.

With the growing realization they will now have to fend for themselves and leave the protective cover of U.S. dollars, countries that have faltered on defence spending for decades held the emergency talks to explore new ways to beef up their security, as Breitbart News reported.

“Today history is being written,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters after the summit ended.

AP reports she said the 27 E.U. leaders are “determined to ensure Europe’s security and to act with the scale, the speed and the resolve that this situation demands. We are determined to invest more, to invest better and to invest faster together.”

The pledge underscored a sea change in geopolitics spurred on by Trump demands European nations be responsible for their own futures and meet their military requirements with their own funds.

The leaders heeded Trump and signed off on a move to loosen budget restrictions so that willing E.U countries can increase their military spending.

They also urged the European Commission to seek new ways “to facilitate significant defense spending” in all member states, a statement said.

The EU’s executive branch estimates that around 650 billion euros ($702 billion) could be freed up that way.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a staunch supporter of Trump, refused to endorse part of the summit statement in favor of Ukraine.

But the 26 other E.U. leaders approved the bloc’s stance there can be no negotiations on Ukraine without Kyiv’s input and the Europeans must be involved in any talks involving their security.

Trump has previously criticized the cost of the war in Ukraine for U.S. taxpayers through major military aid packages and made clear he wants to shift more of the fiscal burden back across the Atlantic.

He has also challenged NATO members to raise defense spending to five percent of their overall economic output, as Breitbart News reported.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/07/2025 08:40 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Poland to train all adult men for warfare - PM
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/07/2025 8:42 Comments || Top||


#4 
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/07/2025 15:39 Comments || Top||

#5  The tax burden in EU countries is already very high. How are they going to pay for this? They can't cut welfare.
Posted by: Rambler || 03/07/2025 15:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
State Dept to shut down a dozen consulates, reduce staff numbers
[X] Saving more $$$$.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/07/2025 2025-03-07 01:32 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What are consulates for anyway.

France Steps Up Its Military Intelligence To Ukraine After US Halt
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/07/2025 9:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow, think of all those cushy EU postings being replaced by junkets to African/SE Asian hellholes.
Posted by: magpie || 03/07/2025 9:39 Comments || Top||

#3  “ A consulate is an official office of one country located in another country, typically in a major city, that provides various services such as issuing visas, assisting citizens, and promoting trade. It operates under the authority of the country's embassy, which is usually located in the capital city of the host country.”
Posted by: Rupert Unavish4075 || 03/07/2025 13:15 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2025-03-07
  Troops kill B'Haram chief bomb maker, eight others in Sambisa
Thu 2025-03-06
  ISWAP ambushes Boko Haram, kills 20 in fierce Borno clash
Wed 2025-03-05
  Hezbollah naval commander killed in Israeli strike in southern Lebanon
Tue 2025-03-04
   Israeli forces reportedly operating some 13 KMs from border in Syria’s Daraa province
Mon 2025-03-03
  Somali, U.S. Forces Conduct an Airstrike against Al-Shabaab in Hirshabelle State
Sun 2025-03-02
  US kills senior Hurras al-Din leader in northwest Syria
Sat 2025-03-01
  More Trans Terror? Texas Police Thwart 'Mass Casualty' Plot
Fri 2025-02-28
  DRC: deadly explosion at M23 rally wounds dozens, rebel leaders say
Thu 2025-02-27
  IDF strike kills senior Hezbollah member involved in weapons smuggling to terror group
Wed 2025-02-26
  Shin Bet foiled terror plot by West Bank cell to use 100 kilogram mine against IDF
Tue 2025-02-25
  Morocco says it foiled major Islamic State plot
Mon 2025-02-24
  Sudanese army ends RSF''s two-year siege of El Obeid
Sun 2025-02-23
  US officials: Yemen’s Houthis fired missiles at US fighter jet and drone this week, but missed
Sat 2025-02-22
  Nearly 2 Dozen Trinitarios Gang Members Arrested In Massachusetts
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  Israel intensifies West Bank offensives after bus bombings


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