#3
Why would the dems want to stop it. It's the perfect crisis, conflict, and makes way for replacement people. Keeping the masses stirred up and in a constant state of migration is the key.
Look what economic and political stability has done to Switzerland.
The United Nations' mission to Afghanistan said on Thursday they had asked the Taliban to hold a 'credible investigation' into reports of extrajudicial killings, including of children, in northern Daikundi province. pic.twitter.com/6L50hhy6To
A joint committee of the #Ethiopian government and Tigray rebels convened inside the Tigray region to outline disarmament plans as part of a peace deal signed last month to end the two-year conflict, #Ethiopia's government has said. pic.twitter.com/3uZsKBPN73
[AnNahar] Two months after 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... 's truce expired, fighting largely remains on hold but a series of attacks by 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 could have serious repercussions for a country crippled by war.
At least three dronezaps at ports on Yemen's southern coast have disrupted oil exports, the main source of income for the Arab world's poorest country and its Saudi-backed government.
The strikes launched by the Iran-backed rebels since late October caused no casualties but stopped some tankers from docking at the government-controlled harbors of Qena and al-Dabah.
They followed the failure to extend a UN-brokered truce that was in place for six months until October 2 and had brought a much-needed pause in the seven-year war.
A new truce has been hampered by rebel demands that the government pay wages for civil servants and even members of the armed forces in areas under Huthi control, including the capital Sanaa.
By attacking oil ports, Yemen's economic lifeline, the Huthis are "pressing for their demands to be met", Ahmed Nagi, a researcher at the Carnegie Middle East Center, told AFP.
The strikes also reveal the "economic challenges" facing rebels in territories they hold, as focus shifts from "power-sharing to sharing of resources," Nagi told AFP.
Revenues from oil exports totaled about $1.4 billion last year, according to the Central Bank of Yemen in government-controlled Aden.
The cash-strapped state produces around 80,000 barrels a day, according to government estimates, most of which is exported to finance the bulk of the government's budget.
Maged al-Madhaji, a researcher at the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies, said the Huthi attacks amount to "blackmail" of the government.
"They want a share of resources without making concessions."
- 'LITTLE TO LOSE' -
The Huthis seized Sanaa in 2014, prompting a Saudi-led coalition to intervene the following year to prop up the internationally recognized government.
Since then, the war has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and pushed the impoverished nation to the brink of famine.
An estimated 24 million people -— nearly 80 percent of the population —- depend on humanitarian assistance to survive, according to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... The recent port attacks, all claimed by the Huthis, "undermine peace efforts", Rashad al-Alimi, who heads Yemen's leadership council, said earlier this month.
Recognising their impact on Yemen's devastated economy, Alimi warned of "catastrophic humanitarian repercussions" if the government is unable to cover civil servant salaries and pay for public services.
In a briefing to the Security Council in November, U.N. envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg called the Huthi attacks a worrying development.
These dronezaps deprive the Yemeni government "of its main source of revenue from exporting oil" and "undermine the welfare of the entirety of the Yemeni people", he said.
"They risk setting off a spiral of military and economic escalation."
Targeting ports is a "big gamble that risks pushing the government into an extreme" response, the researcher Madhaji warned.
Elisabeth Kendall of the University of Cambridge said the Huthis ultimately hold the advantage.
"While the Huthis may be militarily weaker than the coalition in absolute terms, they have little to lose and much to gain by continuing the fighting as they seek to win further concessions," the Yemen expert told AFP.
"The Huthis are essentially holding Yemeni oil ports to ransom."
Commenting on the truce, Kendall said: "there is still hope but it is fading fast."
Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash arrived in Australia to face terror charges
Melbourne-born terrorist flew from Turkey to Darwin and will go to Victoria
He is regarded as 'most important and most dangerous' Australian ISIS member
Prakash was in prison in Turkey for six years for his role with ISIS and had been held in an immigration detention centre since his release in February.
Former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton revoked Prakash's citizenship in 2018 over his ISIS participation and on the grounds he was Fijian.
But Fijian immigration officials were adamant Prakash - who was born in Melbourne to a Fijian father - has never held or sought citizenship of their country. He also has Cambodian ancestry and was raised a Buddhist.
Prakash rose to prominence over his links to several terror plots in Australia and his use of social media to lure potential recruits to Islamic State.
In Turkey, he pleaded not guilty to being a member of a terrorist organisation in but was convicted after a lengthy trial in Kilis, and sentenced to seven and a half years jail.
During his trial, he admitted joining Islamic State but denied being a leader of the group.
He also said he regretted his association with the group.
The former rap singer was also linked to a failed Melbourne plot to behead a police officer and had connections to a number of Australian jihadis.
He was stripped of his Australian citizenship and had his passport cancelled on December 21, 2018.
'If given the opportunity, Mr Prakash would harm or kill Australians, and our country is a safer place for him having lost his Australian citizenship,' Mr Dutton said.
In June, the High Court ruled that the government's ability to strip citizenship is invalid, paving the way for Prakash to have his citizenship restored, according to the Australian.
2012: He converts to Islam and attends the controversial al-Furqan Islamic Centre in Melbourne
2013: Prakash leaves Australia to join the Islamic State in Syria. Takes the jihadi name Abu Khaled al-Cambodi and appears in IS propaganda videos. Recruits would-be terrorists in Australia
2015: Australian federal police issue a warrant for his arrest through Interpol
Prakash is linked to a failed Melbourne plot to behead a police officer on Anzac Day 2015
Prakash publicly praises Numan Haider, the 18-year-old who was killed after stabbing two police officers outside a Melbourne police station in 2014
2016: Prakash is captured by Turkish authorities trying to cross from Syria using false documents and imprisoned on terrorism-related charges
2018: A Turkish court rejects Australia's application for his extradition and a judge orders his release. Moments later, he is back behind bars to face local terror charges
2019: Prakash is sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in a Turkish prison
2022: Prakash is released from jail but is being held in an immigration detention centre
[IsraelTimes] Treasury Department says firms helped terror group with financial services and weapons acquisitions
The Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra) ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... on Thursday slapped terrorism sanctions on two accountants and two companies in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... for providing the terrorist group Hezbollah with financial services.
The Treasury Department announced it would also impose sanctions on a third person for assisting Hezbollah, a US-designated "foreign terrorist organization," with weapons acquisitions.
The penalties target Adel Mohamad Mansour, executive director of Hezbollah’s al-Qard al-Hassan group, which has been previously sanctioned by the US, as well as another company he is involved with, al-Khobara for Accounting, Auditing, and Studies.
The sanctions also apply to the firm Auditors for Accounting and Auditing and one of its representatives, Naser Hasan Neser, as well as Hassan Khalil, who the Treasury said has been active in helping Hezbollah acquire arms.
"The individuals and companies being designated today have enabled Hezbollah’s financial apparatus operating throughout Lebanon," the Treasury said in a statement. "Their public personae as financial professionals and institutions is just another way Hezbollah hides its abuse of the financial system to support its destabilizing agenda."
Mansour downplayed the impact of the sanctions.
"I am proud and this is a medal of honor for me," he told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named by telephone in Beirut.
"I don’t care about this at all. Since I joined this line [Hezbollah] I have been expecting anything," Mansour said. He added that al-Qard al-Hassan has been under US sanctions since 2007 and said it has not hindered its work.
[IsraelTimes] Salah Hamouri, a lifelong Jerusalem resident, to be sent to La Belle France where he holds citizenship, Shaked announces, accusing Adameer attorney of terror activities
Israel on Thursday announced it has stripped a Paleostinian lawyer of his Jerusalem residency and plans to deport him to La Belle France, saying the man is a terror operative belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine.
The decision by Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked underscored the fragile status of Jerusalem’s Paleostinians, who hold revocable Israeli residency rights but are largely not citizens. It also threatened to trigger a diplomatic spat with La Belle France, which has argued against the deportation.
Salah Hamouri, a lifelong Jerusalem resident who holds French citizenship, has been held since March in administrative detention — an Israeli tool that allows authorities to hold suspects without charge for months at a time.
Shaked said that after Hamouri’s detention expires this weekend, he will be deported to La Belle France as quickly as possible.
"We must fight terrorism with all the tools at our disposal," she said. "It is not acceptable for hard boyz like Hamouri to gain status in Israel."
Israel says that Hamouri is a member of the PFLP, labeled a terror organization by Israel and the United States. He has worked as a lawyer for Adameer, a rights group that assists Paleostinian prisoners, which was blacklisted by Israel for alleged ties to the PFLP.
He spent seven years in prison after being convicted in an alleged plot to kill prominent rabbi Ovadia Yosef but was released in a 2011 prisoner swap with the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group. He has not been convicted in the latest proceedings against him.
Israel, however, said he has used his Jerusalem residency to continue "his hostile, serious and significant activity." Security officials had urged authorities to swiftly advance proceedings against Hamouri "in light of his activities," Shaked’s office said.
Last year, Shaked revoked his Jerusalem residency rights, claiming a "breach of allegiance," and early this year he was placed in administrative detention based on secret evidence that he was not allowed to see.
The Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... this week cleared the way for the deportation after rejecting an appeal from Israeli human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... group HaMoked against the order stripping him of his residency.
HaMoked attorney Dani Shenhar called the revocation of his residency a "drastic measure that violates a person’s basic right to live in their homeland."
"As a member of the indigenous population of Jerusalem, Hamouri owes no allegiance to the State of Israel," Shenhar said. "The fact that this decision was made largely on the basis of secret evidence only exacerbates the injustice."
It was not immediately clear when Hammouri will be deported. French President Emmanuel Macron has previously raised concerns about the case with Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
"La Belle France follows Salah Hamouri’s situation very closely and at the highest level," said the French foreign ministry in a statement. He "must be able to have a normal life in Jerusalem, where he was born and where he lives, and his wife and children must be able to travel there to get back with him."
Last year, Hamouri was among six human rights activist muppets whose mobile phones were found by independent security researchers to have been infected with spyware made by the Israeli company NSO Group.
It was not known who placed the spyware on the phones. Israel says there’s no connection between the terror designation of Adameer and five other Paleostinian rights groups and any alleged use of NSO spyware.
Israel has provided little evidence publicly to support the terrorism designation, which Paleostinian groups say is meant to muzzle them and dry up their sources of funding.
Israel captured East Jerusalem, home to the city’s most important religious sites, in the 1967 Six Day War and annexed the area in a move that is not internationally recognized. It considers the entire city to be its capital, while the Paleostinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.
Paleostinians in the annexed part of the city have been granted residency status and may apply for citizenship, though few embark on the lengthy bureaucratic process. Residency allows them freedom of movement, the ability to work and access to Israeli social services, but they are not allowed to vote in national elections.
Residency rights can be stripped if a Paleostinian is found to live outside the city for an extended period or in certain security cases.
The Haaretz daily reported this year that fewer than 20,000 Paleostinians in Jerusalem, some 5% of the population, hold Israeli citizenship and that just 34% of applications are approved. It cited information from the Interior Ministry delivered by Shaked to a parliamentary inquiry.
Update at 10:40 a.m. ET:
🚨BREAKING
French-Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hammouri, held under administrative detention, was just notified of his forcible deportation to France on Sun 4.12
This comes after his Jerusalem residency revocation under “breach of allegiance” pic.twitter.com/C8xPYilvZm
[IsraelTimes] Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... commander Mohammed Ayman Saadi said to have been present when button men snatched Druze teen Tiran Fero’s body from hospital, directed talks that led to its release
A senior Paleostinian terror operative killed during overnight festivities with Israeli troops near Jenin helped criminal mastermind the recent kidnapping of Israeli teenager Tiran Fero’s body from a hospital in the West Bank city, according to a report Thursday.
Fero, a 17-year-old member of the Druze minority, was critically injured in a car crash in Jenin and taken to a hospital there, where he died and his body was snatched by unidentified button men.
Mohammed Ayman Saadi, a field commander for Paleostinian Islamic Jihad, was present during last week’s abduction, the Ynet news site reported. He was involved in the act’s planning and in the decision where to hide the body, and directed the negotiations with the Paleostinian Authority to release it, the report said.
Those talks, coupled with Israeli threats and diplomatic efforts, led to the teenager’s body being released some 30 hours later. He was buried shortly after in a funeral attended by thousands, on what would have been his 18th birthday.
Security officials have said the suspects sought the release of Paleostinians imprisoned by Israel or the bodies of deceased Paleostinian gunnies being held by Israel in exchange for Fero, who was a senior in high school.
Along with Saadi, Na’im Zubeidi from the Fatah-linked al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades was killed during the pre-dawn raid near Jenin. Zubeidi is a cousin of Zakaria Zubeidi, a notorious al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist who criminal masterminded attacks during the Second Intifada and managed to briefly escape from Israeli prison last year.
A report last week said the head of the gang that kidnapped Fero’s body was related to Zakaria Zubeidi, but he was affiliated with PIJ. Various armed factions are known to work together in Jenin against the Israel Defense Forces.
Photos Thursday from the funeral procession in Jenin for Zubeidi and Saadi showed both their bodies draped in PIJ flags.
A joint statement on the raid by the IDF and Shin Bet security agency — which described Saadi and Zubeidi as senior terror operatives in their 20s who served time in Israeli jails for security offenses — did not mention the recent kidnapping.
According to the statement, Saadi was a "prominent PIJ military operative" responsible for a series of shooting attacks against troops, and arming other operatives, under the direction of the PIJ leadership.
The statement said Zubeidi was also responsible for numerous shootings at Israeli forces in the West Bank.
And so the current Dems ape the worst actions and attitudes of the Democratic presidents before them. Yay.
[IsraelTimes] White House has been subtle in expressing concern over far-right’s rise,
...for a given value of subtle that suggests the grace of bulls in china shops and elephants surrounded by darting mice...
but Democrat close to president says administration working behind the scenes to push back
A Democratic US senator on Thursday said the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra) ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
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#1
Israel interferes in our domestic politics all the fucking time. No American can be president without the approval of AIPAC, the arm of a foreign country that is somehow allowed to influence our Congress.
Is this one of those things where it's OK when Israel does it but not OK when anyone else does it? I have a sneaking suspicion that it is.
Fuck off with that. How about this: we stop interfering in your domestic politics if you stop interfering in ours? No deal, eh?
According to a tweet from AIPAC, since its launch 10 weeks ago, the pro-Israel PAC has raised over $1.67 million in contributions to the PAC that can be given directly to candidates and an additional $1 million in contributions to campaigns through its online portal.
“We support pro-Israel Democratic and Republican members of Congress and congressional candidates to secure the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship,” the tweet stated.
One thing that should be said about Representative Ilhan Omar’s tweet about the power of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (more commonly known as AIPAC, or the “Israel lobby”) is that the hysterical reaction to it proved her main point: The power of AIPAC over members of Congress is literally awesome, although not in a good way. Has anyone ever seen so many members of Congress, of both parties, running to the microphones and sending out press releases to denounce one first-termer for criticizing the power of… a lobby?
Somehow, I don’t think the reaction would have been the same if she had tweeted that Congress still supports the ethanol subsidy because the American Farm Bureau and other components of the corn/ethanol lobby spend millions to keep this agribusiness bonanza going (which they do). Or that if she had opposed the ethanol subsidy, she would have been accused of hating farmers.
That’s American politics; the only difference between all the domestic lobbies that essentially buy support for their agenda is that AIPAC is working for a foreign government, a distinction but not much of a difference when the goal is to maintain a status quo that is not necessarily in the national interest.
#1
Have all sides submit a list of 10 candidates they like.
Compare lists
Select names that are common to all sides
Vote for top 2
then for number 1 slot if needed.
But that would eliminate all the deep pocket negotiations, that some power broker elites are playing.
Syrian opposition turns into factions under the commands of the Turkish intelligence and news report talking about build ups and preparedness for a soon ground attack. #SDF#Syria#Turkey. pic.twitter.com/1zNuKhK0bV
[NPASYRIA] On Thursday, Ottoman Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said the United States called on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... to re-evaluate any military operation into northern Syria.
"The U.S. asked us to re-evaluate. We conveyed to them our sensitivities and thoughts, and asked them to keep their promises. We emphasized that they should understand us," Akar told news hounds.
A day earlier, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told his Ottoman Turkish counterpart, via phone call, of his "strong opposition" to the new Ottoman Turkish military operation in Syria and expressed concern about the escalating situation in the country.
Austin reiterated Washington’s concern "over escalating action in northern Syria and Turkey, including recent Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, some of which directly threatened the safety of US personnel who are working with local partners in Syria to defeat ISIS," according to a readout published by the Pentagon chief’ press office.
Akar, for his part, called on Washington to deliver on its words regarding distancing the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from its southern borders.
Today, Mazloum Abdi, SDF’s Commander in Chief, in an interview with North Press, said they were committed to the 2019 ceasefire agreements, which stipulates the deployment of Syrian government forces to the border with Turkey. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... Abdi noted the Ottoman Turkish party is not and seeks to launch a new military operation into Syria with no sound reasons.
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#US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley revealed on Wednesday that President Joe #Biden was ready to resort to the military option to prevent #Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon in case sanctions and diplomacy failed. pic.twitter.com/POWrWAsj7K
#2
Russia / USSR still has 50+, 100+ KT Briefcase weapons missing. It wouldn't take much to replace the depleted core.
Or, given IRAN's already demonstrated ability to copy captured War Drones, maybe all that is needed is a weapon design schematic.
We keep thinking ICBM, but why not KISS? Just walk in 10 x 100 KT briefcases using our currently porous wide open borders and deliver them to Metro areas hi-rise building rooftops and/or DC.
Someone thinks that Iran wants to nuke Washington DC? Huh?
First of all, in the unlikely event that they wanted to do that, that would help America, not hinder us.
Second, Iran wants nukes to deter attack. This is basic nuclear deterrence theory, which was hashed out endlessly during the Cold War and is well understood.
"Dad, why did we attack Iraq and Syria?
Because son, Iraq and Syria have WMDs.
Oh, then why don't we attack North Korea and Iran?
Son, because North Korea and Iran really have WMDs."
Yes, I have predicted an attack on the US would be aimed at big cities. Don't know about the suitcase nuke scenario. If the tangos hit urban blue areas, the left will be screeching that the GOP has to spot them millions of votes in elections that follow. And the GOPe will say "OK!"
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I call Bulls*it! I'm fully prepared to believe that Contingency Plans and Use of Force Options Briefing were given, and that lots of people made lots of noise, but I do NOT believe Jojo will ever do more than talk tough. In his entire life he has never shown a scintilla of personal or political courage, this article is just political ass-kissing by yet another dem stooge.
How would this possibly be in the interests of the American people? Thousands of us dead, tens of thousands more with blown off limbs or PTSD, and for what? So the same incompetent fools who led us into Iraq can do the same thing, but on a much larger scale?
#12
Ref #9: .... but I do NOT believe Jojo will ever do more than talk tough. In his entire life he has never shown a scintilla of personal or political courage
When was the last time the US vanquished an enemy? If you have no enemies, how will the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) survive? Wars, big or small, civil unrest, political upheaval, regime change, and plagues are essential to the crisis slurping deep state that runs things and people. "War is our business, and business is good."
Chase the goose kicking and screaming, but do NOT endanger those golden eggs.
Biden will bluster. Someone else will call the shots.
Apparently there's something wrong with thinking about the interests of the American people and putting them first, and not letting them die in more pointless wars for the deep state's goals.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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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
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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.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
Hezbollah
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
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