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Haitian President Jovenel Moise assassinated in his home
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Afghanistan
Biden administration is considering whether to continue to authorize the CIA and the Pentagon to carry out deadly drone strikes and commando raids in Afghanistan
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Biden administration is considering...

...cause Biden isn't with us enough to decide himself.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/07/2021 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Translation: CIA "is considering."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Why?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/07/2021 12:10 Comments || Top||

#4  How can he stop?
Obama began the program.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||

#5  I'll take that as a 'yes'.
Posted by: Raj || 07/07/2021 16:05 Comments || Top||


Torkham border closed for all types of immigration
€[KhaamaPress] Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Tuesday that all types of immigration, departure and arrival, was being closed atTorkham border from today.

The minister added that the decision was taken on the advice of the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC).

Pakistain had closed its Torkham border over one month earlier after corona virus positive cases surged in Afghanistan.

The border is still closed but Pak citizens could cross the border into Afghanistan despite the closure. As per the latest order, Pak citizens will not be allowed either to cross the border as the ban include both departure and arrival.

It comes as Pakistain embassy in Kabul said yesterday that it is willing to repatriate Paks stranded in Afghanistan after 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 Saudis, to include 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...
suspended flights from Afghanistan as a result of rapid spread of covid-19.

Four thousand Pak citizens are now staying in Afghanistan who had come to Afghanistan to fly to Saudi Arabia.

Pak government had given permission to Afghan students, studying in Pakistain, to cross Torkham border so that they do not lose their semesters.

The dry port will remain open for transit purposes and the import and export of goods will continue as normal.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Africa North
Libyan PM's plane takes off using car lights after deliberate Tobruk runway shutdown
[Libya Observer] Libyan Prime Minister's plane took off from Tobruk airport using car lights after a sudden power outage on the runway as footage also showed on social media how Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah's plane took off with the help of lights from nearby cars and vehicles with news confirming the power shutdown was intentional to hinder the plane's takeoff.

Dbeibah’s motorcade heading to the airport came under many stops on the road by Haftar's loyalists who shouted unpleasant words and asked the Prime Minister to get out of the car, but Deputy Interior Minister, Faraj Egayem, intervened and promised to meet the protesters' demands except "Dbeibah’s greetings to Haftar".

Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Government of National Unity, Mohammed Hamouda, said early on Tuesday that Dbeibah left Tobruk after the failure of the House of Representatives to pass the budget bill on Monday, saying the government’s ministerial commission tackling the budget issues will see the needed amendment and hold meetings with House of Representatives' financial committee Tuesday.

Dbeibah attended Monday a session for the House of Representatives with the aim of obtaining an endorsement of the 2021 budget, which didn't happen.

Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


EU: We have not handed over patrol boats to Libyan Coast Guard
[Libya Observer] Peter Stano, the Spokesman for the European Union’s High Representative for Security and Foreign Policy, led by Josep Borrell, confirmed that the European Union did not deliver three patrol boats to the Libyan Coast Guard, within the framework of the ongoing cooperation between both parties, describing the news circulated on this issue as “false news.”

Stano indicated in a press statement Monday that the EU supported the renovation of three ships, which were handed over to the General Administration of the Coast Security, which is a different entity from the Libyan Coast Guard, according to the Aki Agency.

He further added that the EU is in the process of handing over six new inflatable dinghy boats to the Coast Guard and the General Directorate of Coastal Security, and the matter is scheduled to take place in the coming months.
Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  six new inflatable dinghy boats
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 9:21 Comments || Top||


Turkey strongly condemns affront to its flag by Haftar's supporters in east Libya
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Offended? You should see what they did to your picture, Yippy
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2021 12:05 Comments || Top||

#2  All that for a flag?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2021 16:05 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Dubai explosion caused by ship fire, authorities report
[LasVegasSun] A container ship anchored at Dubai's huge port caught fire late Wednesday Thursday, the emirate's media office reported, causing an explosion that sent tremors across the commercial hub of the United Arab Emirates.

The Twitter post from Dubai's state-run media office said that a fire was reported to have erupted on a ship and that a team of firefighters was working to control the blaze. Witnesses reported shaking buildings across the city.

People in Dubai recording with their phones from their high-rises posted frantic videos on social media showing a fiery ball illuminating the night sky.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/07/2021 17:52 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Details are scarce at the present time.

There sure seem to be lots of explosions lately.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/07/2021 17:56 Comments || Top||

#2  According to the Seattle Times, the fire is under control, whatever that means, and this took place at Jebel Ali Port.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2021 19:04 Comments || Top||

#3  "Here in the Royal Navy the cannibalism problem is relatively under control..."
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/07/2021 19:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Witnesses reported shaking buildings across the city.

She was shakin'... snapping her fingers!
Posted by: Raj || 07/07/2021 20:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Love me some Eddie Money
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2021 21:07 Comments || Top||


Jamal Khashoggi was leading secret double life when he was killed: podcast
[NY Post] WaPo and Qatari MB whore was also corrupt in other matters.
Murdered journalist beloved martyr of journalism Jamal Khashoggi
......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatari payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal......
was living a double life with two different women when he was executed ‐ including one he had secretly married, according to a new podcast.

The Washington Post columnist was tortured and then dismembered inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018, where he'd gone to get documents he needed to be able to marry fiancée Hatice Cengiz.

At the time, Cengiz had no idea that Khashoggi was also seeing Egyptian flight attendant Hanan El-Atr ‐ nor that he had secretly married her in Virginia just four months earlier, she told Yahoo! News' "Conspiracyland."

"He told me when he proposed to me, there is no one in his life," Cengiz told the investigative podcast.

El-Atr said she was equally in the dark about Cengiz, too ‐ whom Kashoggi met while El-Atr was detained for 10 days by Emirati security agents who grilled her about her relationship with him, she said.

El-Atr said that she became an item with the journalist when she started visiting him in his home in Washington, DC, in the early months of 2018 while she made twice-monthly trips there for work.

When he proposed soon afterward, he texted her to say that she "will be the happiest bride."

"I throw myself at you, kiss you and delight you. I take out a watch or a necklace or perfume I bought for you to delight you," he texted her, according to the episode titled, "A Tale of Two Women."

They married in an Islamic ceremony performed by an imam in a northern Virginia mosque on June 2, exactly four months before his murder, according to court records reviewed by Yahoo News.

However, they never got a civil marriage license, meaning the union was not legally binding. The groom did buy her two rings for a total of $2,000, the podcast said, citing receipts from a local jewelry store.

But that spring and summer he also started making frequent flights to Istanbul to see Cengiz, texting El-Atr that his "sister is here in Istanbul" to explain the trips, she told the podcast.
It is permitted to lie to women to keep them calm and prevent fighting and nagging.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  I had $5 on the switch hitter angle when I saw the headline.
Posted by: Raj || 07/07/2021 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  i do not give a shit
Posted by: Chris || 07/07/2021 0:46 Comments || Top||

#3  He wuzz a muzz who hated Murica as much as teefa freaks and ZeroHedge commenters. I hope his death was painful and slow.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 1:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Trying to care... Nope, still don't give "special reverence" to newsies dying
Posted by: magpie || 07/07/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||


Britain
London Bridge hero wins early release from jail: Convicted killer who tackled terrorist with narwhal tusk is given parole
  • Convicted killer who brought down terrorist Usman Khan has been directed for early release from prison

  • Steven Gallant was jailed for life with minimum term of 17 years in 2005 for the murder of a firefighter in Hull

  • He was one of three men who restrained Khan until armed police arrived at the scene in November 2019
    Both men were at the Fishmonger's Hall seminar as reformed prisoners, though clearly Mr. Khan wasn’t reformed at all. Mr. Gallant was the hero who snatched a 5 foot narwhal tusk off the wall and helped corner the jihadi on London Bridge until the police arrived.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 00:06 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  He never should have been in jail.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 1:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Note:IF I read correctly ...prior to this Heroic Act he was convivted of killing a fireman in 2005 with a 17 year min sentence. So 2005 +17 = 2022 and this happened in 2019?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/07/2021 8:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Should have at least released him on bail.
"But how will we know where he is?"
"He will be in the pub, with people buying him drinks."
Posted by: SteveS || 07/07/2021 9:15 Comments || Top||

#4  To copy M. Murcek, He never should have been in jail.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2021 12:38 Comments || Top||

#5  He probably violated his parole by brandishing a deadly tusk.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/07/2021 14:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Pulled from the pile by a previously unimagined narwhal tusk just for this occasion...

A true blue harpooner of Salem,
He really liked whales. Dude, he'd nail 'em.
We fainted at seeing
That ardent Fijian
Rebuffed, and the monster impale 'im!
Posted by: Jolugum Poodle9136 || 07/07/2021 17:26 Comments || Top||

#7  He very clearly belonged in jail when he was first sent there. He equally clearly seems to have chosen the better path even before this event, so should be rewarded for it. On the third hand, if he should return to former misbehaviour...
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2021 18:50 Comments || Top||

#8  ^^^
You got 3 hands ? and here i thought you were like the rest of us with 4... Accident injury, Covid ?
Posted by: Hupetle Whaitle3156 || 07/07/2021 19:07 Comments || Top||

#9 


Posted by: Hupetle Whaitle3156 || 07/07/2021 19:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Awakes a young man with three hands
And three feet and some wings. If he stands,
Will he veer to the right,
Or fight "whiteness" and light,
An "antifa" Ungeziefer? Eh, Franz?
[he chirps cheerful songs like... that guy's]
Posted by: Jolugum Poodle9136 || 07/07/2021 19:41 Comments || Top||

#11 

Robert Earl Hughes (June 4, 1926 – July 10, 1958) was an American man who was, during his lifetime, the heaviest human being recorded, weighing 1,071 lb (486 kg). He remains the heaviest human in the world able to walk without the need of assistance
Posted by: Squinty Johnson6531 || 07/07/2021 19:56 Comments || Top||


Deported asylum seeker must return to UK: High Court
[ARABNEWS] Home Secretary Priti Patel must within the next two weeks recover to the UK an asylum seeker who was deported to La Belle France, the High Court has ruled.

Justice Wall ordered Patel to use her "best endeavors" to return a 38-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker from Darfur, identified in court proceedings as AA.

Wall’s ruling on Tuesday comes on the day that Patel launched a new bill that will allow for charges against migrants colonists who "knowingly" arrive in Britannia without permission.

AA passed through war-torn Libya, where he says he was tortured and sold into slavery, while traveling to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
after escaping persecution in his home country.

The High Court was told that AA had nine of the 11 indicators of torture and trafficking, including scarring.

He arrived on British shores in a small boat from La Belle France on June 4, 2020, and claimed asylum.

But on Aug. 12, 2020, he was sent back to La Belle France, where authorities said he had to leave within a month, leaving him homeless and desperate.

The High Court found that AA was given a shortened asylum screening interview on arrival in Britannia, which broke from the previous policy of asking questions such as "please outline your journey to the UK."

This, the court heard, could have identified information about AA’s journey through North Africa, where migrants colonists and refugees are commonly enslaved as they venture into Libya.

Wall said AA must return to Britannia to be given a proper asylum seeker screening: "It is accepted by the defendant that these entries do not necessarily record answers actually given by interviewees but were at times completed by immigration officers from other information in their possession," Wall added. "It is to say the least an unfortunate way to record this information."

Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Tajikistan deploys more troops in Afghan border as Taliban get closer to its territory
[KhaamaPress] The president of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon ordered mobilization of 20,000 reservists to tighten security in border with Afghanistan after over one thousand Afghan government troops fled into the country, Rooters reported.

Security in northern provinces of Kunduz and Badakhshan bordering Tajikistan deteriorated ever than before.

Tajikistan border guard services confirm that 1,037 Afghan security force members have so far crossed the borders from Afghanistan as Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
captured up to six districts in Badakhshan province bordering Tajikistan and China.

Emomali Rahmon has also discussed the issue of insecurity escalated in northern Afghanistan in separate calls with the presidents of Russia Viladmir Putin and Afghan president Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
Statement released by Russia reads that Viladmir Putin has assured his Tajikistani counterpart of his support in case security deteriorates further in areas adjacent to Tajikistan.

In a telephone call between the presidents of Afghanistan and Tajikistan carried out on Sunday, president Ashraf Ghani had thanked Emomali Rahmon for his goodwill and letting in Afghan families. The earlier had assured the latter to address the problem of insecurity in Badakhshan province and flow of refugees.

Government of Tajikistan has not yet clarified to whether or not allow more Afghan government force members and civilians cross the border.

Russia prepared to send military support to Tajik-Afghan border: Putin

[KhaamaPress] Viladmir Putin has told his Tajikistani counterpart that Russia will back Tajikistan in bolstering peace and suggested military support to guard border with Afghanistan.

A statement released by Russian government further reads that Putin is prepared to support Tajikistan both on bases of bilateral relations and within the framework of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

Uzbekistan president Mirziyoyev also expressed his concerns over the recent conflicts between Afghan government force members and the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
steadily getting closer to its border.

Although no Afghan security force member nor any civilian has crossed Afghanistan border into Uzbekistan, Mirziyoyev says that tent comps
...I think they meant camps...
have been ordered to be built in border with Afghanistan for possible flow of refugees.

Concerns of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries comes as Afghan president Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
is set to visit Uzbek capital, Tashkent for attending a high-level conference on central and south Asia.

Taliban offensive operation expedited soon after US troops left its largest airbase in northern Parwan province, Bagram. The number of districts fallen to Taliban now crosses one hundred but Afghan government says that counterattack for recapturing the territories is underway.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Europe
Afghan Bundeswehr helpers arrive in Germany for asylum: report
[DW] The first group of Afghans to be granted asylum for their work with the German military has arrived in Germany, according to Der Spiegel. They are fleeing the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
who consider them "traitors."


The first six members of Afghan personnel, who worked with the German military during their time in Afghanistan, have arrived in Germany with their families, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Monday.

Their arrival marks the beginning of a program to provide asylum to Afghans who aided the Bundeswehr and who are now fearing for their lives as the Taliban regains control of large parts of the country.

A total of 23 individuals — which includes children — were flown out of the city of Mazar-e-Sharif in the north of the country by Ottoman Turkish Airlines, Spiegel said. Another 30 are expected in the coming days.

German military officials prepared documents for 471 local workers, such as interpreters, shortly before withdrawing from the country at the end of June. A further 2,380 visa documents were also readied for their families.

GERMAN GOVERNMENT UNDER FIRE
The German government expanded its protection program for these key workers to include all those who worked for the Bundeswehr or other German organizations since 2013, rather than just in the past two years as originally planned.

Nevertheless, the German government has been criticized for its overly complicated visa process. According to Der Spiegel, certain German ministers feared a "suction effect" if the visa hurdles were lowered.

Germany's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Rainer Breul acknowledged that the visa process had been complicated by the military's withdrawal from Afghanistan as well as the closure of the consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif.

He added that Berlin was working with international partners such as the International Organization for Migration, according to AP.

Defense Ministry spokesperson David Helmbold said that a small number of visa applications were open because "not all of those who received these travel documents wanted to leave straight away," AP reported him saying in Berlin on Monday.

Critics have also lamented the fact that Afghan locals who worked for service providers on German bases, rather than directly for the Bundeswehr, are not eligible for the asylum program.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Steve Bannon ‐ Transgender penis waver was planted by Antifa in Los Angeles Spa
[CitizenFreePress] That’ll be the incident at the Wi Spa over the weekend
Posted by: Hupanter Angiter6497 || 07/07/2021 06:54 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  It's not appropriate to wave your penis in public; transgender or otherwise unless it is to shake it off in the men's bathroom or at a deer stand in the woods out in the boonies.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/07/2021 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Cops love putting guys urinating in public up for lifetime enrollment in sex offender registries. Post George Floyd, that and shooting dogs are the only kicks they get on the job.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 9:43 Comments || Top||

#3  It's not appropriate to wave your penis in public

Unless of course you are grooming children.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 11:17 Comments || Top||

#4  We've all heard the stories about guys charged and labelled as sex offenders for urinating while on a golf course. My how things have changed.
Posted by: jpal || 07/07/2021 14:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Wave that thing around near me and I'll grab it and separate it from your body.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/07/2021 17:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Everyone go to vidmax and look at the video the San Francisco gay mens choir put out.
Posted by: Chris || 07/07/2021 18:57 Comments || Top||

#7  ^^
Send in the link or post it here
Posted by: Hupetle Whaitle3156 || 07/07/2021 19:03 Comments || Top||

#8  San Francisco Gay Men’s Choir — ‘We are coming for your children’
Posted by: Hupanter Angiter6497 || 07/07/2021 19:58 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Wouldn't these choir guys be gay $pedos?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/07/2021 21:17 Comments || Top||

#10  yeah I'm not puter savvy enough to be posting links but thanks to whom ever did.
Posted by: Chris || 07/07/2021 23:35 Comments || Top||


Members of 'Rise of the Moors' sovereign citizen militia REFUSE to cooperate at arraignment and claim they are not subject to U.S. laws after 11 were arrested during armed standoff near Boston
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Some of the 11 militiamen charged in armed standoff appeared in court Tuesday

  • One has refused to give his real name, saying only that he is a 'free Moor'

  • All refused to enter pleas or cooperate, saying they are not subject to US law

  • 'Rise of the Moors' group is part of the sovereign citizen movement

  • Members were arrested after fleeing from police into woods outside Boston

  • They face several charges including unlawful possession of a firearm

The group's purported leader Jamhal Tavon Sanders Latimer, 29, also known as Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey, told the judge: 'I don't understand how these charges can be brought against me.'

Latimer, a former U.S. Marine from Providence, Rhode Island, waived his right to an attorney, but the judge said she would have a lawyer speak to him about his rights before the next hearing in the case.

Pleas of 'not guilty' were entered on behalf of all the defendants, who were held without bail pending a hearing Friday to determine whether they are dangerous.

The first to appear, Quinn Cumberlander, 40, of Pawtucket, told the judge he was a 'foreign national' who cannot face criminal charges, and said he did not want a defense attorney.

Cumberlander invoked his Second Amendment right to bear arms, said the case should be heard in federal court, and said he meant no harm.

'We didn't want to cause fear. I object to being held without bail. I am not a threat to society or anybody,' he said in court.

Cumberlander described his group as a 'well-regulated militia' and said he was not opposed to the law, according to WCVB-TV.

Another defendant, Robert Rodriguez, 21, of the Bronx, New York, asked that a fellow defendant serve as his attorney. The judge noted the man is not a licensed lawyer and declined the request.

Rodriguez also refused to be interviewed by the Probation Department, which is part of the process for setting bail.

'I was seen by a probation officer,' Rodriguez said. 'But I did not commit a crime.'

One defendant, who has refused to identify himself to authorities, told the judge only that he was a 'free Moor.'

The judge ruled he had waived right to counsel, then ordered him out of the courtroom to watch proceedings on Zoom because he kept interrupting her.

Those arrested Saturday were identified as Latimer; Cumberlander; Rodriguez; Wilfredo Hernandez, also known as Will Musa; Alban El Curraugh; Aaron Lamont Johnson, also known as Tarrif Sharif Bey; Lamar Dow; Conrad Pierre; a 17-year-old juvenile; and two who have refused to identify themselves, state police said.

They are from Rhode Island, New York and Michigan.

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Ship them to Gitmo, then.
Posted by: Raj || 07/07/2021 0:04 Comments || Top||

#2  A white sovreign citizen - Lynda Lyon Block
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 0:06 Comments || Top||

#3  sovereign citizen is all you have to say
Posted by: Chris || 07/07/2021 0:44 Comments || Top||

#4  The dude's argument that he is a foreign nation AND he has a citizen's 2nd Amendment rights is a bit amusing.

Watch for this to quickly disappear from the news cycle since the perps are not the White Supremacists needed to sustain the Narrative.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/07/2021 0:46 Comments || Top||

#5  In a perfect world, it would be Gitmo for all of them.
Posted by: Hupanter Angiter6497 || 07/07/2021 0:53 Comments || Top||

#6  In a perfect world, they wouldn't cost us a dime. GITMO is not cheap.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 0:59 Comments || Top||

#7  #4 - not that it really matters in this case, but the BORs apply to all persons present in the US including foreign nationals.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 07/07/2021 2:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Took a trip down a rabbit hole, which may pertain to the "Rise of the Moors" :
Aborigine Moors of Amexem

Use of Tin foil Hats recommended
Posted by: Glerese Grundy1725 || 07/07/2021 2:37 Comments || Top||

#9  Their crimes aren't severe. They will end up getting time served and be back on the streets before the end of the year. These people, or some of them will be in the headlines again.
Posted by: Spoter B || 07/07/2021 6:56 Comments || Top||

#10 
To all S.NATION IDIOTS.
Break the law in the USA,
Get arrested in the USA,
Go to trial in the USA,
You will sit your A$$ in a USA prison.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/07/2021 8:50 Comments || Top||

#11  Now that the word Moors is back in vogue, can I also say Shine, Smoke or Splib too?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 22:12 Comments || Top||

#12  What do those words mean in this particular context, M?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2021 22:38 Comments || Top||

#13  They are all obsolete words to describe black people, tw. Im being a literary wiseass.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 22:49 Comments || Top||

#14  A favorite line from a crime novel. A cop near retirement age who hasn't moved up in the department:"You know what they did? They put me on a shine murder. Now, who's gonna help me with that?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 22:53 Comments || Top||

#15  TW, I'm from rural Georgia is you would like me to tell you what they mean.
Posted by: Chris || 07/07/2021 23:37 Comments || Top||

#16  if*
Posted by: Chris || 07/07/2021 23:38 Comments || Top||


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20 years after 9/11, US lawsuit alleging Saudi complicity hits key moment
[IsraelTimes] Former officials in Riyadh questioned under oath, but those depositions remain under seal, angering families of victims demanding accountability.

As the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks approaches, victims’ relatives are pressing the courts to answer what they see as lingering questions about the Saudi government’s role in the attacks.

A lawsuit that accuses Saudi Arabia
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Iraq
3,243 candidates are approved to run the Iraqi Parliamentary elections
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Several Palestinians arrested ahead of rally as PA crackdown widens
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian PM Shtayyeh later orders release of all those detained during Ramallah protest, the latest sparked by death of government critic.
Tipping point approaching: Mahmoud Abbas’s reign gets increasingly shaky.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Police probe former Joint List lawmaker for alleged incitement
[IsraelTimes] Heba Yazbak questioned over Facebook posts from before time in Knesset, including one that indicated solidarity with Palestinian terrorist; ex-MK says probe politically motivated.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe we should apply the same logic to the US Congress?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/07/2021 8:53 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
WSJ: Biden Slowly Unwinds Trump's Sanction Policy
[SHAFAQ] The Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know...
is revamping the way the U.S. uses punitive sanctions, aiming to stem sweeping pressure campaigns, avoid collateral economic damage and act jointly with allies rather than unilaterally, according to people involved in the planning process, Ian Talley wrote for the Wall Street Journal.The administration has nearly completed an extensive review of U.S. sanctions policy, which is expected out near the end of summer, according to one official. While details are still being ironed out, Biden administration officials have foreshadowed elements of the new strategy in a series of actions, including the planned easing of economywide sanctions against Iran.

Details of President Joe Biden
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IAEA says Iran intends to use indigenously-produced uranium enriched up to 20 percent
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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US attacks on Syrian-Iraqi border serve Daesh remnants, Iranian Foreign Ministry affirms
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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