[ARABNEWS] The Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s on Sunday threatened to mount more drone and missile strikes on "unexpected" locations in the Arab coalition countries in response to the latest US sanctions on the militia’s leaders.
Mohammed Ali al-Houthis, the president of the Houthi supreme revolutionary committee, said his movement would escalate attacks on "aggressor countries" if the US continued sanctioning military and politicians. "Sanctions do not scare the mujahideen," he tweeted.
Last week, the US imposed sanctions on two Houthi military leaders who are commanding the current offensive on the central city of Marib despite calls from the UN, the US and other countries for the group to halt its assault and engage positively with peace initiatives.
Despite heavy casualties and failing to make major advances in Marib province, the Houthis pushed ahead and attacked government-controlled areas outside Marib city, military officials said.
Some analysts believed that the US resorted to blacklisting Houthi military leaders in order to force the rebels to embrace the US special envoy’s efforts to end the war.
"The Houthis’ insistence to seize control of Marib has embarrassed the Americans and disrupted their desire for a peaceful political role to end this bloody war," tweeted Maged al-Madhaji, the executive director of the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies. He predicted tougher measures from the US if the Houthis continued to ignore the calls for peace.
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[ARABNEWS] Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were, to inclid Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... has been engaged productively in trying to bring the war in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... to an end, the US Secretary of State said on Sunday.
The Kingdom announced a widely-welcomed peace initiative in March. The plan included a nationwide cease-fire, the reopening of Sanaa airport, easing restrictions on Hodeidah port, and the resumption of negotiations to end the conflict.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s have ignored the plan and pushed forward with an offensive in Marib and attacked Saudi Arabia with explosive drones.
Blinken said the militia was still holding out as the conflict drags on.
"We need to see the same kind of response from the Houthis who continue to hold out, and 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... should use the influence it has to move them in that direction," Blinken said ahead of a visit to the region.
Speaking about the nuclear deal during an interview with CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who knows what it might stand for... ’s Fareed Zakaria, Blinken said that after five rounds of indirect conversations talks in Vienna, the US has made progress in clarifying what each side needs to do to get back into full compliance.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... he said that whether Iran is willing to do what is necessary to come back into compliance with the agreement remains to be seen.
The secretary of state added that if the US succeeds in getting Iran to comply with the nuclear deal, it would engage on other issues such as Iran’s support for terrorism and its destabilising activities in the region.
"We are fully prepared to go back to the original deal as it was. That’s our initial objective. And we — again, we don’t know if the Iranians are. If we do, if we succeed in that, then we can use that as a foundation both to look at how we can make the deal itself potentially longer and stronger, and also engage on these other issues, whether it’s Iran’s support for terrorism, its proliferation, its destabilizing support for different proxies throughout the Middle East."
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[REDSTATE] The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... has an opinion piece out — "Support for Black Lives Matter Surged Last Year. Did It Last?"
They note how immediately after the death of George Floyd, support for BLM surged. But then, after June 3, it took a precipitous drop, and as the summer went on, it declined to even less support for BLM than there had been before Floyd’s death among some voters. The article said that among some voters, including Republicans, that it turned to outright opposition.
The article suggests this drop is evidence of support from white people and Republicans being "fickle." They never seem to figure out why it took such a precipitous drop after June 3, just suggesting that people don’t like it when protesters seek redress of grievances or implying that Republicans and non-supportive voters have issues with civil rights. Translation: racisssst!
What they completely leave out and never mention is the riots, the assaults, the killings, the destruction that occurred over the past year in connection with BLM protests, particularly the destruction at the end of May, beginning of June. Do you think that might have had a little to do with the precipitous drop after June 3? How do you write about the decline in support and never touch upon that? Then came the radical calls to defund the police which virtually no one but Democrats supported.
What the decline showed was that yes, black lives matter to people which was why there was a brief moment of unity, but then, people of all stripes rejected the violence and the radical nature of BLM.
But, of course, the New York Times wanted to suggest it was uncaring white people and Republicans, while leaving out all the destruction.
The article notes that white Democrats were still supporting BLM which they take as positive movement. So basically they’re confirming either that Democrats are ignorant of what went on or are cool with destruction if they think they agree with the radical nature of it. It’s true. Democrats like Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... embraced BLM and have never repudiated it. Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and now Joe Biden's wing nut. She's displaying her level of competence in her hanling of the Biden Border Surge and 13 Biden campaign staffers even donated to a bail fund during the riots. Not a good look, Democrats.
The New York Times doesn’t believe that that opposition to BLM is likely to reverse any time soon. Good.
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Did a local bike ride on Saturday, changed my course to cross over a certain intersection in Milton. There were six / eight people on the side of the road with BLM signs; all old white liberals. A few people honked; of the three that did, it was black folks driving those cars.
#4
BLM is and always was a scam. A more effective version of a Sharpton Shakedown.
But unlike Sharpton, they cleverly did three things right. First, they narrowed their focus to the cops, tapping into the anarchists' "All Cops Are Bastards" energy and ensuring a never-ending supply of outrage by pretending every justified killing of a violent black douchebag -- Michael Brown, Breonna, St George -- was somehow a case of martyrdom.
Second, they escalated the violence. Sharpton staged one pogrom in Crown Heights in the mid-1980s. BLM killed DOZENS of killings in nonstop riots over hundreds of cities.
Finally, they enlisted the Democrats and their media whores in the struggle. Sharpton never cozied up to the Democrats or the Sulzbergers. BLM by contrast showed Pelosi, Biden, Harris and the rest that their anarchy and lies could be used to create an image of chaos that could be hung around Trump's neck.
And at the Times, BLM could be used by opportunistic, no-talented morons like Hannah Nikole Jones to gain fame, fortune and advancement at the expense of the Times' older white editors and writers whom they falsely accused of "racism."
In the end, BLM has been exposed as the biggest con job in US history. Sharpton must be burning with envy.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Samar Bilour is a woman of many things — the widow of martyr Haroon Bilour, daughter-in-law of martyr Bashir Bilour and the first woman elected as MPA on a general seat in 18 years.
She is the provincial information secretary of the Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... (ANP).
Recently, she exchanged her views on political, social, apolitical, and societal issues with Daily Times.
The first question was about the ANP’s future political strategy after leaving the Pakistain Democratic Alliance (PDA).
She rules out rejoining the alliance "because we have been feeling squeezed in the PDM for a while". She regrets the way her party was served a show cause notice and then excluded from committees, meetings, etc.
The ANP left the PDM after its senator supported PPP’s Yousaf Raza Gilani in the Senate for the opposition leader’s office. Samar, however, cleared the ANP and the PPP are more natural allies but so far they are not in a new alliance currently.
The ANP supported PML-N candidate Miftah Ismail, which was a decision by the ANP Sindh chapter, she explained.
Samar has been criticizing the PTI government both in the assembly and on social media.
"I’m very very disappointed in the performance of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government. As you are aware, that I was not a practicing politician until July 10 2018 when my husband passed away in a suicide kaboom, and then a couple of months later when I joined active politics, the PTI has totally transformed everything — from the police to the education sector to sanitation."
The government has even not spared the assembly.
"The CM does not come (to sessions); the same is the case with ministers and secretaries. It is a very distressing state of affairs when a premier law-making body of the province is so toothless and so powerless that the people sitting inside are powerless.
"Corruption is rampant and there are no checks and balances."
In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, no matter the people of the opposing parties, they would participate in each other’s happiness and sorrows, and you know not cross certain lines.
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[NPASYRIA] On Sunday, the Israeli army recommended that the government adopt a new security formula towards 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 Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip which is similar to the followed military strategy in Syria.
The army’s recommendations include changing the nature of the response to every "violation" from Gaza, such as launching incendiary balloons or missiles against Israeli towns, so that it is a "disproportionate and very strong response," as the Israeli Channel 12 announced.
The army’s recommendations also include dealing with Gaza like Syria, where the entire security institutions, the army, the Shin Bet and the Mossad, are working against the strengthening of Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, just as they are working with Syria.
The army also recommended cutting off contact that Hamas tried to establish between Gaza and Jerusalem and not accepting any incident in which Gaza responds to what is happening in Jerusalem, according to Channel 12.
The Israeli channel indicated that the army recommended the reconstruction of Gaza through Arab aid and strengthening the role of the Paleostinian Authority, all of which is conditional only on a state of calm.
The army also demanded the return of the "captured" Israeli soldiers and missing persons, as a major demand from the Israeli point of view, as Channel 12 stated.
"One does not need to be an intelligence man to know that Hamas and Jihad are well prepared for a new round of escalation," former Shin Bet officer Ilan Lotan, told Channel 12.
"The time has come to change the way we deal with them. This must start with the first incendiary balloon or missile launched after the ceasefire," he added.
He pointed out that every balloon launched from Gaza towards Nahal Oz or Sderot "is supposed to deal with it like a missile launched from Gaza towards Tel Aviv. Israel must restore deterrence."
In turn, bigwigs in the Israeli military questioned the effectiveness of the recent military operation against the Gaza Strip, especially the extent of the damage inflicted on the Hamas missile network.
Large forces of the Israeli army are still deployed along the security fence surrounding the Gaza Strip, in anticipation of the possibility of violating the ceasefire.
Last night, the Israeli Minister of Defense, Benny Gantz said, it is not unlikely that Israel would assassinate the head of Hamas’s political bureau in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, and the leader of its armed wing, Muhammad Deif, if circumstances permit.
A Hamas official warned that this could lead to renewed fighting. Yesterday, Sinwar appeared in front of the public for the first time since the recent escalation began.
For his part, Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy said, the Union cannot continue to fund the reconstruction of Gaza without the possibility of launching a political path between the Paleostinians and the Israelis.
He pointed out that leaving the causes of the Paleostinian-Israeli conflict aside "will only lead to new rounds of violence."
He stressed that there must be a return to real negotiations for a lasting solution through a political settlement based on the two-state solution.
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#4
Get a trebuchet and every time they attack Israel you fire one rock torn from the Al Aqsa mosque at Hamas headquarters. Just announce that plan and heads will explode.
[ARABNEWS] Jordan's King Abdullah stressed on Sunday the importance of the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith 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... ceasefire being translated into an extended truce, state news agency Petra reported.
King Abdullah said Jordan "puts all its diplomatic relations and capabilities at the service of the Paleostinian cause," Petra reported.
The king also said "there is no alternative to a two-state solution to achieve just and comprehensive peace", Petra added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch started the buffalo stampeding...... Egypt's foreign minister is to visit Jordan on Sunday to discuss ways to build on the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, de-escalate tensions in the Paleostinian territories and revive the Middle East grinding of the peace processor, a foreign ministry statement said.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will meet Jordan's King Abdullah and the Jordanian foreign minister during the visit, the statement said.
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King Abdullah probably just doesn't want the Paleo refugees to show up on his doorstep.
Somehow they eat all your food, wreck your houses and never leave.
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Paleo Locusts
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[IsraelTimes] Only 10% of Israelis arrested over raging inter-communal violence in recent weeks in mixed cities have been Jewish, while the vast majority are Arabs, Channel 12 news reports.
The network says police have made 1,552 arrests over the riots, of whom 1,039 have since been released.
Only 168 of them are Jews, showing that the violence was primarily carried out by Arabs — or, alternatively, that police are more likely to arrest Arab suspects.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security cameras capture ongoing efforts by the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group to exhume a number of its operatives who were killed when the Israel Defense Forces bombed the attack tunnel they were inside near the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith 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... border.
The IDF says it destroyed two such passages, which approached the border with Israel but did not cross it. The Israeli military believes that in both cases the terrorist operatives planned to emerge suddenly from the tunnel just before the security fence and attempt to conduct a cross-border raid.
In total, the IDF believes that 18 Hamas operatives were killed in these two tunnels.
Since a ceasefire was declared on Friday morning, excavators and work teams have been seen near the border, pulling the bodies of the terrorist operatives out of the ground.
[JPost]"We want some of that boodle!"
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has told the US administration, Egypt, Qatar, the European Union and other parties that the PA must be involved in any plan for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
Abbas warned that dealing separately with the Gaza Strip would solidify the split with the West Bank, embolden his rivals in Hamas, and undermine efforts to renew the stalled peace process with Israel, according to a Palestinian official in Ramallah.
Abbas, on the other hand, is seeking the backing of key Arab countries - including Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar - for his initiative to hold an international conference for peace in the Middle East under the auspices of the Quartet members — the US, EU, United Nations, and Russia, the official told The Jerusalem Post.
In a series of meetings and phone conversations over the past few days, Abbas told EU, US, UN and Arab officials and envoys that he welcomes the talk about a reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip, but insists that such an effort be carried out only in coordination with the PA government.
On Saturday, Abbas discussed the issue of the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip during a phone conversation with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, and a meeting with a visiting Egyptian security delegation.
"The president (Abbas) stressed the importance of coordinating all efforts concerning the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah," the official said. "He warned that failing to do so would only consolidate the division between the West Bank and Gaza Strip and undermine the Palestinian Authority."
Abbas’s insistence on being part of any deal to rebuild the Gaza Strip reflects his concern over the rising popularity of Hamas in the aftermath of its 11-day fighting with Israel.
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"...peace in the Middle East under the auspices of the Quartet members — the US, EU, United Nations, and Russia"
[NPASYRIA] 30-year-old Muhammad (a pseudonym) looked nervous during his usual work hours in an Autonomous Administration institution in the city of Raqqa, north Syria. Muhammad made a phone call, speaking words that seemed like riddles, then placed his phone on the table and lit a cigarette.
He sighed, and then said, "Oh, no. I have been a victim of fake dollars."
For years, the city of Raqqa has been witnessing an increasing number of cases of counterfeiting and promotion of counterfeit currency, and traders and residents in the city have fallen victim to the counterfeit dollar, which has caused many to lose their money in light of the sharp collapse in the value of the Syrian pound.
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How it works in Iran is... the connected to the Party get to profit from it, but noone else does. Cryptocurrency is off limits for ordinary people in Iran; its use is limited to the government and the nomenclatura. But allegations of cryptocurrency mining is used as a scapegoat for the preexisting failures.
[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says it remains unclear whether Iran is prepared to take the necessary steps to return to compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal.
Speaking ahead of a fifth round of talks in Vienna on rescuing that deal, Blinken is asked about Iranian reports that Washington has already agreed to lift some of the sanctions that have crippled the Iranian economy.
“We know what sanctions would need to be lifted if they’re inconsistent with the nuclear agreement,” he says on ABC’s “This Week.”
He adds that more importantly, “Iran, I think, knows what it needs to do to come back into compliance on the nuclear side, and what we haven’t seen is whether Iran is ready to make a decision.
“That’s the test and we don’t yet have an answer.”
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[HotAir] What're you gonna do, Joe? Up the begging pallets O' cash?
Iran has been busy lately, making demands for sanctions relief and the freeing of some of its frozen assets. All of these complaints have been geared toward bringing them back to the table regarding their nuclear program. Behind the scenes, it’s long since become obvious that the Biden administration has been negotiating with Iran while denying that they are doing so. With all of this diplomatic activity going on this year, you’d imagine that we would be pretty close to some sort of breakthrough, right? And indeed we are, though it’s not the sort of breakthrough anyone was hoping for. This weekend, Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, announced that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would no longer be allowed access to the images collected by cameras installed at Iran’s various nuclear sites. He then fired another shot across America’s bow, saying that "time is running out" for any sort of a deal.
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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.
[LI] PILING ON: Area cities of Azusa, Santa Fe Springs pass votes of ’no confidence’ in Gascón.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were, to inclid Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
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