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Mozambique President Calls for Help From SADC to Fight Insurgency
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Asian man pushed onto Queens subway tracks
[NYPOST] An Asian man was pushed onto the subway tracks in front of an oncoming train in Queens Monday morning, according to cops and police sources.

The 36-year-old victim was at the 21st Street-Queensbridge F train station around 7:45 a.m. when another man shoved him, according to authorities and the sources.

The train went into emergency mode and didn’t hit the victim, police sources said.

He was taken to Mount Sinai Medical Center with a cut on his forehead.

The suspect said something when he attacked, but the victim didn’t understand him, cops said. The crime is being investigated as a possible bias incident, according to police.

Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry, we don't care about anti-Asian violence anymore. That was last month.
Posted by: Tom || 05/25/2021 8:48 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Chad: Calling for a Civilian-Led Transition of Power to a Democratically Elected Government
[All Africa] The United States supports the recommendations of the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Peace and Security Council regarding Chad, and we join the African Union and our international partners in calling for a peaceful, timely, and civilian-led transition of power to a democratically elected government before October 2022.

The Chadian people deserve an inclusive national dialogue where all stakeholders can come together to decide the future of their country. Chad’s political transition should include a new national constitution, a concrete plan and timeline for elections, and support for strong institutions such as a representative National Assembly, an independent judicial system, and a reformed National Independent Electoral Commission. A representative, democratically elected government is the best path to long-term prosperity and stability in Chad and the region.

The United States has long stood with the people of Chad in advocating for democratic, representative government, and we will continue to support the people of Chad, the African Union, and our international partners in advocating for a timely transition to elected, civilian government.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia warns Turkey over ties with Ukraine
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Russia’s foreign minister on Monday warned The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
against what he said were attempts to fuel "militaristic sentiment" in Ukraine after Ankara moved to boost cooperation with Kyiv.

Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
last month pledged support to Kyiv amid a buildup of Russian forces along its border with Ukraine.

Erdogan said at the time that Turkey, a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
member, and Ukraine had launched a platform with their foreign and defense ministers to discuss defense industry cooperation, but added that this was "not in any way a move against third countries".

"We strongly recommend that our Ottoman Turkish colleagues carefully analyze the situation and stop fuelling Kyiv’s militaristic sentiment," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Argumenty I Fakty newspaper.

He said that encouraging "aggressive" Ukrainian actions towards Russian-annexed Crimea amounted to encroachment on Russia’s territorial integrity.

"We hope Ankara will adjust its line based on our legitimate concerns."

Turkey, along with the rest of NATO, criticized Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and voiced support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity as Kyiv’s forces battle pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Turkey, which faces Ukraine and Russia across the Black Sea to the north, also sold drones to Kyiv in 2019.

But Ankara has also forged close cooperation with Moscow over conflicts in Syria, Libya, and Nagorno-Karabakh as well as in the areas of defense and energy.

Moscow’s ties with the West have languished at post-Cold War lows since the annexation of Crimea, which resulted in a flurry of sanctions being imposed against Russia.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Europe
African migrant facing expulsion from Italy kills himself
[AlAhram] Mosua Balde, 23, was attacked by three men on May 9 in Ventimiglia, a seaside town near the French border, while reportedly begging near a supermarket.

An illegal migrant from Guinea
...oddly enough, the top ten African countries for deportees from Germany are: Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Cameroon. Presumably, Guinea is up there for Italy, too...
who survived a brutal assault earlier this month but faced deportation from Italia has killed himself, his lawyer said Monday.

Mosua Balde, 23, was attacked by three men on May 9 in Ventimiglia, a seaside town near the French border, while reportedly begging near a supermarket.

The incident caused nationwide consternation, as footage of the beating was posted on the internet and widely shared on social media.

The next day, police identified the three assailants, reporting them for prosecution but stopping short of arresting them, and also acted against Balde.

After being treated in hospital, the migrant was given an expulsion order and taken to a detention centre in Turin, as he was found to have no legal residency papers.

'It all happened in less than 24 hours,' his lawyer Gianluca Vitale said.
"I could barely have time to stir up the rubes and hold a press conference!"
Balde, who was in solitary confinement for unspecified 'medical reasons', was found dead in his room on Sunday morning, Vitale said, adding that he had killed himself.

The migrant was a failed asylum seeker who had been living in Italia near the French border for some time, and previously also spent some time in La Belle France, Vitale said.

The lawyer, who last met him on Friday, said he was trying to see whether there were grounds to stop his expulsion order and help him re-apply for asylum.

'Unfortunately, we didn't have time to do it', he said.

Italia is often the first port of call for African migrants colonists seeking a better life in the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
. Many of them seek to travel on to wealthier countries in northern Europe.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/25/2021 00:53 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whatever works.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 05/25/2021 7:46 Comments || Top||

#2  One (good) thing about Italians, you can't guilt trip them into not doing it again.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/25/2021 9:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden Brings in Islamic Activists to Investigate U.S. Military for 'Extremism'
[FRONTPAGEMAG] A decade ago, Hina Shamsi was fighting on behalf of the Holy Land Foundation whose leaders had been convicted of providing material support to Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,.

As the head of the ACLU’s National Security Project, Shamsi, a Pak citizen, had fought fiercely for the Islamic forces of Evil at Guantanamo Bay. "We all must pledge — not one person more in Guantanamo, not in our names," she recently declared.

But now the Pak advocate for Islamic forces of Evil has a new job: going after our soldiers.
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Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  Department of Offense: on the offensive against white soldiers

How much longer will our military tolerate these shitty little bolsheviks?
Posted by: Crereling Cheater9273 || 05/25/2021 2:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I just can't believe this. Someone please wake me up from this nightmare.
Posted by: Tom || 05/25/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#3  What the motherf... ? Whaa?!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/25/2021 9:27 Comments || Top||

#4  It must be noted that she was extremely busy in the Obama years, in trying to end retaliatory drone strikes on Taliban, torture of terrorists and profiling of jihadis.

The CIA taught the ISI only tech and how things work in western society or constitutionalist polities. The rest they were already better at.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/25/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Just to restate the obvious: Biden isn't doing this. This stinks of Obama/Brennan
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/25/2021 14:15 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Guess who reaps dividends from a DoD budget reduction ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/25/2021 14:18 Comments || Top||

#7  ^Let me take a wild, wild, guess - China?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/25/2021 14:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Joe Biden and the Democrats are acriminal organization that MUST destroy any entity that is a threat.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 05/25/2021 15:46 Comments || Top||

#9  WTF? Tell me this isn't happening
Posted by: Snavirong Munster2344 || 05/25/2021 23:15 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas threatens rocket fire if Israel puts conditions on reconstruction aid
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", leaders say they reject the conditions Israel is seeking to impose on 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...
’s reconstruction, including the proposal made by Defense Minister Benny Gantz yesterday that any aid that isn’t humanitarian be conditioned on Hamas’s release of two Israeli civilians and the bodies of two soldiers captured by Hamas in 2014.

Hamas would "not be blackmailed," the report in the Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar quotes officials as saying.

Hamas officials also threaten to resume rocket attacks on Israel if the Israeli government seeks to impose a new status quo on Gaza following the fighting, after some Israeli officials called for a renewal of liquidations of Hamas leaders if rocket fire and other violence from Gaza continues.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/25/2021 02:14 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  worked out well the last time for ya
Posted by: Chris || 05/25/2021 9:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope they fcuk up their hudna, get more homes turned to rubble, and the rubble turned to powder.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/25/2021 9:15 Comments || Top||

#3  we all do dron.
Posted by: Chris || 05/25/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe the IDF could mod their duvdevan concept and deploy some paleo rocket batteries [yes, against itself]. Timed charges that explode mid air, with lightweight casings. All light and show. Use dug holes in ground, like makeshift silos, to fire from. Retaliate by taking out whatever else you had on track.

Just an idea.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/25/2021 13:01 Comments || Top||

#5  So after getting their ass pumped in the corner and the ref calling the fight, gonna talk some smack?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/25/2021 15:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Sneak a few remote-explodable explosives in the HamAss supply chain. Wait until they are stocked up real bood then press the button - the secondaries will be spectacular!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/25/2021 21:19 Comments || Top||


Video of three times Hamas militants hid in ambulances in Gaza
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Ambulances are their APC.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/25/2021 1:58 Comments || Top||


Hamas' propaganda has been getting weird lately, Lukashenko might have a point
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran agrees to extend deal on cameras at its nuclear sites
[IsraelTimes] 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and the UN’s nuclear watchdog agree to a one-month extension to a deal on surveillance cameras at Tehran’s atomic sites, buying more time for ongoing negotiations seeking to save the country’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers.

The last-minute discussions, including the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency pushing back a statement planned for Sunday, further underscored the narrowing window for the US and others to reach terms with Iran as it presses a tough stance with the international community over its atomic program. The Islamic Theocratic Republic is already enriching and stockpiling uranium at levels far beyond those allowed by its 2015 nuclear deal.

Speaking at a news conference Monday in Vienna, IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi tells journalists that agreement came after a discussion with Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s civilian nuclear program. He acknowledges that challenges remain, however, as the agency still can’t access images taken by its cameras.

"I’d want to stress this is not ideal," Grossi said. "This is like an emergency device that we came up with in order for us to continue having these monitoring activities."

Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s representative to the IAEA, acknowledges the deal at the same time on Twitter. He says Tehran’s civilian nuclear agency, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, would keep the material already recorded by the IAEA cameras.

"We recommend the negotiating countries to seize the extra opportunity provided by Iran in good faith for the complete lifting of sanctions in a practical and verifiable manner," Gharibabadi writes.

Under a confidential agreement called an "Additional Protocol" with Iran, the IAEA collects and analyzes images from a series of surveillance cameras installed at Iranian nuclear sites. Those cameras helped it monitor Tehran’s program to see if it is complying with the nuclear deal.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/25/2021 02:14 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1 
OR
Now having a 120 day recorded Video loop, IRAN
is open to playing reruns. ☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/25/2021 5:31 Comments || Top||


The election silence of the Syrian presidential election starts tomorrow morning
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Oh, golly! I wonder who's gonna win! I'm so excited.

Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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1Muslim Brotherhood
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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2021-05-25
  Mozambique President Calls for Help From SADC to Fight Insurgency
Mon 2021-05-24
  Jew-beating murderous Moslem makes bail in New York
Sun 2021-05-23
  Turkish mafia scandal threatens Erdogan government
Sat 2021-05-22
  Center of District in Maidan Wardak Falls to Taliban: MP
Fri 2021-05-21
  Nigeria's Boko Haram leader 'badly wounded' dead again after clash with rival group: Sources
Thu 2021-05-20
  Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza ceasefire after 11 days of fighting
Wed 2021-05-19
  Biden pressing Israel's Netanyahu for end to military campaign
Tue 2021-05-18
  Israel Eliminates Terror Tunnel 163 Football Fields Long,
Kills Top PIJ Terror Commander
Mon 2021-05-17
  Palestinians report more than 100 strikes on Gaza City: houses collapse, Phase C attacks on underground ‘Metro’ tunnel network
Sun 2021-05-16
  IDF launches massive strike against Gaza,
bombs Hamas chief's home
Sat 2021-05-15
  Afghanistan: Ceasefire Violations Reported on 2nd Day of Truce
Fri 2021-05-14
  Israel Begins Ground Operations Against Hamas in Gaza
Thu 2021-05-13
  Israel rejects Hamas truce offer; ministers vote to intensify Gaza strikes
Wed 2021-05-12
  US fuel pipeline hackers 'didn't mean to create problems'
Tue 2021-05-11
  IDF confirms it attacked a tunnel in northern Gaza, multiple Hamas militants inside it dead


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