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-Land of the Free
Texas is Taking Donations to Bus Illegals to D.C. and NYC
[Townhall] Texas is taking donations from the public to cover the cost of buses which will be used to send illegal migrants colonists crossing the southern border to liberal cities Washington D.C. and New York City.

According to the website, Gov. Greg Abbott
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
’s Border Transportation Funding has already raised $118,297 as of July 22, a big jump from the $64,000 it collected in April.

The donation page calls out President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan....
for ending Title 42, which allowed hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants colonists to enter the U.S., bringing in drugs and sex traffickers who took Americans’s jobs.

The Washington Examiner notes that Texas makes up 1,250 miles of the 2,000 mile long southern border. And of the 1.7 million illegal migrants colonists apprehended at the border, more than half were stopped in Abbott’s state.

In an op-ed, Abbot noted that nearly 300,000 migrant apprehensions have occurred and more than 326 million lethal doses of fentanyl have been seized at the border.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again...
the same donation page is also asking people to fund Abbott’s Texas Border Wall Funding, which began last week in an effort to halt illegals from crossing into the U.S.

The Texas governor has made headlines as of late, sparring with state leaders of D..C and New York City who are calling out Abbott for sending migrants colonists "closer to Biden’s doorstep."

New York City Mayor Eric Adams
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
(D) lashed out at Abbott saying that he will send New Yorkers to Texas to campaign for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke;
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President...
, to which Abbott responded saying it "feels like Clint Eastwood."

Last month, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) called on the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
to deploy the National Guard, claiming she has reached a "tipping point" with the influx of migrants colonists Abbott sent to the city.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Iran, Russia, Belarus and Armenia hold joint drone competition
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/17/2022 08:37 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Court in Volgograd did not find extremism in the song "About Islam"
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The court dismissed the lawsuit filed by the deputy prosecutor of the Volgograd region, who asked to recognize the song "About Islam" as extremist. The authorship and performance of the song is attributed on the Internet to the well-known group Casta, but the director of the group denied the involvement of the musical group in the song.

As the "Caucasian Knot" has reported, it is not the first time that the courts in Volgograd rule in favor of song performers. On February 17, the Volgograd Regional Court granted the defense's appeal against the decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court to recognize the song "Kill Beggars!" by the Pornofilmy group as extremist, and the case will be returned to the court of first instance. 

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of Volgograd found no signs of extremism in the song "About Islam" and dismissed the corresponding administrative claim, the joint press service of the courts of the Volgograd region reported today. The deputy prosecutor of the Volgograd region demanded that the song be recognized as extremist and that it be banned from distribution in Russia, the case was considered on August 15, the press service said. 

"It was not possible to establish the authorship of the musical composition "About Islam" during the consideration of the administrative case, since in the information and telecommunications network" Internet "its performance is attributed to a well-known group that has nothing to do with the performance of this song," the court noted. 

The claim of the deputy prosecutor of the Volgograd region was registered in court on April 13, the first hearing in the case took place on May 12, follows from the court file. The Ministry of Justice of Russia, as well as the department of the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications for the Volgograd Region and the Republic of Kalmykia, are indicated as interested parties in the court card. 

The text of the song "Pro Islam" and its performance are attributed to the popular Russian group "Kasta", V1 indicated today. At the same time, the director of the group, Ruslan Munnibaev, "categorically denied" the involvement of the musical group in this song. “This is not a Casta song, the group has never performed it ... There are several more Casta songs that are circulating on the Web, which in fact are not our songs. The authors of these songs are unknown, they released this song, indicating the Casta group. We do not know the real names of the authors and are not interested. The court also turned to us, we told them the same thing, that this is not our song," Munnibaev said.  

Recall that in 2010, more than 30 songs by the bard Timur Mutsuraev were recognized as extremist and included in the federal list of materials prohibited for distribution. He performed songs in Russian about the war in Chechnya, and later religious motifs and calls for jihad appeared in his work.

On December 30, 2021, it became known that the court fined Tugan Kadykoev, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria, two thousand rubles for posting a banned song by Mutsuraev on the VKontakte social network. But Russian courts fine not only for the performance of banned songs by Mutsuraev. On December 5, 2021, Adam Saiev, a resident of Chechnya, was fined 1,000 rubles for posting a song by a Chechen bard on the social network VKontakte, which is not on the list of extremist materials. According to experts,added to the atmosphere of lawlessness  in Chechnya.

Posted by: badanov || 08/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems


Iraq
LUTKA: migration rate of Iraqi citizens has increased unexpectedly
[Shafaq News] The Summit Foundation For Refugee and Displaced Affairs (LUTKA) revealed that the migration of the people is continuing.

"Despite the high threat of illegal immigration roads and hearing of drowning in Yacht daily, citizens are still red on migration and refugees to other countries for a better life." The Summit Foundation said.

"Over 100 thousand refugees have crossed the central sea to reach Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
without the dangers of the waves of the sea and all the dangerous roads."

"The cause of the unemployment and lack of stability and the challenges of migration is a major push for young people to migrate, besides having fake news and trying to freak out the youth by people who do human trade And they do what they say is safe and sound. Easily it gets to the point that none of these news is true; the risks of illegal immigration are much more than we see on a daily basis." It added.

According to the information from the Summit Institute, the migration rate of Iraqi citizens from the end of July and early August has increased unexpectedly and continues to increase especially after the recent tension and conflicts of Iraq citizens. Against the bombing of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
on the tourist areas of Kurdistan Region and the lives lost. Danying some Arab citizens and banning the visa of Turkey and re-accepting the visa of that country.

"As migration has increased by 1 to 1, and this rate has not increased after 2020, the reasons for migration and refugees are many and our youth are always on the way to this road for a better life." LUTKA concluded.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Six new mass graves discovered in Sinjar
[Shafaq News] The front man for the investigation and evidence-gathering commission on crimes and violations committed by ISIS in the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Suleiman, announced excavating the remains of 47 Yazidis who fell victim to ISIS in Sinjar.

Suleiman told Shafaq News agency that the remains were found in six mass graves in Sinjar, noting that guns and bullets were found at the same sites.

The remains were transferred to the forensic medicine department in Baghdad to be examined and to determine the identity of the victims.

For his part, the head of the Eyzidi Organization for Documentation, Khairy Ali, said that the concerned teams will hopefully be able to excavate the Alo Antar mass grave, near Tal Afar, which includes more than 2000 Yazidi victims killed by ISIS in 2014.

It is worth noting that only 30 out of 108 mass graves were discovered and excavated in Sinjar.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Sadr postpones 'million-man' protests indefinitely
A political hudna instead of a jihad one.
[Rudaw] Influential Shiite holy man Moqtada Tater al-Sadr
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
on Tuesday announced the indefinite postponement of the "million-man" demonstration by his supporters set to take place in Baghdad, in a move against the counter-protests called for by his political rivals.

Sadrist supporters were set to hold "million-man" protests on Saturday afternoon from Tahrir Square to the Grand Festivities Square in Baghdad, to express their support for Sadr’s calls for the dissolution of the parliament and the organization of snap parliamentary elections

Sadrist rivals, pro-Iran
...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...
Shiite parliamentary faction Coordination Framework, on Monday evening asked their supporters to prepare for mass counter-protests, calling for hastening the government formation process, with the time and place of the demonstrations to be announced at a later time.

"Your policy of imitating our steps is evidence of your failure and your persistence on your corruption," said Sadr in a tweet on Tuesday, saying he is postponing Saturday’s demonstrations until further notice "out of love for Iraq and infatuation for its people and sanctities."

Sadr added that the demonstrations will continue until the demands of the people are met, calling on his supporters to keep the "peacefulness of the protests," clarifying that the decision to postpone the "million-man" demonstrations is to foil the "malicious" plans of his political rivals.

The leader of the Sadrist Movement in recent weeks has continuously called for the dissolution of the parliament, in light of the legislature’s failure to form a new government 10 months after its election on October 2021.

Sadr emerged from the October elections with the most seats in the parliament, 73, but resigned from the legislature due to the continued obstruction of his attempts to form a national majority government by the Coordination Framework, who called for the formation of a government based on political consensus.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  Couldn't even get a hundred people to join him, 'eh?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 08/17/2022 3:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Conservatives should have a million man march on DC around Halloween this year. Wouldn't that be fun!
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/17/2022 9:23 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel, Turkey return to full normalization
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/17/2022 08:29 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Erdogan told a gathering of ambassadors in Ankara earlier that resuming full relations will “allow us to help our Palestinian brothers.”

Ha ha sure sure.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/17/2022 18:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Normal until the next time Sultan Erdogan has a temper tantrum about those uppity Jews refusing to know their place.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2022 23:00 Comments || Top||


Hamas source denies co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar quitting group’s leadership
Bummer. But now we know, should we come across that rumour elsewhere.
[IsraelTimes] Purported resignation letter circulated on social media cites ’special and personal’ reasons for leaving; source claims ’hostile parties’ behind disinformation

A Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", source said Tuesday that a letter purporting to show that Mahmoud al-Zahar, one of the founders of the terror group, had resigned from its politicianship in 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...
Strip was misinformation circulated by rivals.

The unnamed source spoke to the SHMS news agency after reports said al-Zahar had stepped down.

The source said al-Zahar was still "performing his duties" at the political office and "has not submitted his regulation as some claim."

"Those who are behind this news are hostile parties, seeking to get rid of al-Zahar," the source said, urging media outlets to only trust information from official sources and "not be dragged along by rumors."

According to reports, al-Zahar filed a letter in which he cited "special and personal reasons" for quitting.

On Monday, al-Zahar spoke at an event to mark the anniversary of Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in August 2005. Two years after Israel left, Hamas seized control of the territory from the Paleostinian Authority.

The politician, 77, was born in Gaza City in 1945. He played a key role in setting up Hamas in 1987 and was briefly detained by Israel in 1988. In 1992 he was exiled by Israel to Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....
, but eventually returned to the Gaza Strip.

Israel bombed his Gaza home in 2003, killing his eldest son, Khaled, but only lightly injuring al-Zahar. Another son, Hussam, a member of the Hamas military wing, was killed in a 2008 Israeli strike on Hamas operatives. al-Zahar has two daughters as well.

In 2006 al-Zahar was elected as a Hamas representative in the Paleostinian Legislative Council, where he has remained ever since. He was foreign minister from 2006 to 2007.

Last year al-Zahar told Britannia’s Sky News that Israel has no right to exist, and said the terror group’s strategy was to target Israeli population centers with rocket fire from Gaza. The interview came after a ceasefire that ended 11 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey claims responsibility for YPG fighter death
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
on Tuesday grabbed credit for the death of a People's Protection Units (YPG) fighter in northeast Syria (Rojava), days after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pronounced him dead
He's dead, Jim!
The SDF on Thursday confirmed the death of two YPG fighters in an "air attack" in Qamishli a day prior, among them was "Dijwar Kobani," whom Turkey later grabbed credit for his death.

Ottoman Turkish state media Anadolu Agency identified the fighter as Muhsin Yagan, code-named "Dijvar Silopi" and said he was the "so-called Qamishli state administrator" of the YPG, attributing his death to a National Intelligence Agency (MIT) operation in Rojava.

The SDF, however, did not disclose any leadership positions that the fighter held.

The backbone of the US-allied SDF, the YPG is designated a terrorist organization by Ankara and considered the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Turkey has recently ramped up its attacks in northern Syria, as it seeks to target fighters and key figures of the SDF in preparation for a looming offensive it intends to launch against Kurdish fighters in the area.

The US has repeatedly called for "immediate de-escalation" in northern Syria, expressing concern over the upcoming Ottoman Turkish offensive potentially setting back years of progress made in the fight against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS).

At least 15 SDF fighters have been killed in attacks blamed on Turkey since late July.

The SDF on Thursday claimed that its forces killed 23 Ottoman Turkish soldiers in Rojava earlier after it vowed Dire Revenge for the death of its fighters. Ankara did not comment on the matter.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte



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