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-Lurid Crime Tales-
RazSimone, the self-appointed warlord of CHAZ who patrolled the occupied BLM-Antifa zone in Seattle in 2020 and handed out weaponry, is being sued by 5 women for sex trafficking and abuse


Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Sued by five women, but never arrested for anything.
Posted by: Raj || 01/23/2022 14:39 Comments || Top||

#2  And, not to judge, but I bet at the time, they all thought they were on the way up, workin' with a playah...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/23/2022 14:50 Comments || Top||

#3  "He only pimps me to prove my love for him"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/23/2022 17:32 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Dartmouth canceled planned appearance by conservative journalist Andy Ngo Thursday night in response to threats of violence from Antifa








Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  So Dartmouth is anti gay?
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/23/2022 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  I just a saw a news report on TV about a guy facing fed charges for the same thing. Why not these assholes?
Posted by: Chris || 01/23/2022 9:48 Comments || Top||

#3  What a bunch of sissies
What happened to having the event and siccing the police and dogs and the sheriffs on these thugs
We have people in jail for taking selfies in the Capital rotund without bail and these unapologetically violet hooligans are burning this country down?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/23/2022 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Absolute shame on Dartmouth.

They accepted me back in 1966, but I turned them down. Now happier than ever not to be associated with them.
Posted by: Tom || 01/23/2022 13:26 Comments || Top||

#5  That kind of thing is at most schools nowadays, Tom, so you might want to check into yours. Even the third tier universities I’ve been associated with — U at Buffalo and U of Cincinnati — have recently made the news for various stupidities of this nature.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2022 20:03 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Lashawn McNeil’s social media featured BLM and black nationalist content


Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Hmmm. Just like that guy --whatshisname in... er, Wauketauke or some such. I guess we all just forgot about him
Never mind
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/23/2022 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  No motive for his actions has yet been ascertained...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/23/2022 7:37 Comments || Top||

#3  They know the motive, just to chicken shit to say it.
Posted by: Chris || 01/23/2022 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Control the urban hubs, control the state or county. What are your questions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2022 9:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Beseige the urban hubs, control the state or county. Think about it.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 01/23/2022 14:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Control the grid, the backbone, the interstates and fresh water sources.

Partisans / minutemen will take care of the rest.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/23/2022 15:02 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
US military reduces airstrikes in Somalia under Biden administration
[Garowe] The United States military has significantly reduced Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Somalia, something which analysts relate to the withdrawal of the troops from the Horn of Africa nation in 2021, following an order from the Pentagon.

Former US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
ordered the withdrawal of US Africa Command troops before redeploying them to Djibouti and Kenya in 2021. The US argued that the troops were "strategically repositioned".

Data obtained from the US Africa Command indicate that in 2021, the US carried out only 10 airstrikes in Somalia compared to 72 in 2020. The airstrikes mainly target al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...

Death Eaters besides helping allied forces with air surveillance.

Dozens of senior al-Shabaab gunnies have been killed in various airstrikes including Ahmed Godane, the former al-Shabaab leader who was killed by a dronezap in 2015. The US has been targeting dangerous gunnies after doing due diligence.

But throughout 2020, there were complaints of the US military targeting innocent civilians, leading to the establishment of the Civilian Casualty Report which is now being issued quarterly. A few cases which have been confirmed, have since been lined up for compensation.

After 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....
took over, there have been deliberate efforts to reinstate the US army in Somalia. General Stephen Townsend and a host of the top military from the United States Army recently visited Somalia where discussions were held.

To mitigate frequent al-Shabaab attacks, the US deployed Special Forces to Wajir in Kenya where they are closely working with the Kenya Defense Forces [KDF]. The US presence in Kenya has increased following the unprecedented attack in Manda Bay, 2020.

According to data obtained by VOA, U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, 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...
, and Somalia totaled 852 last year, which was 42% fewer than the 1,459 U.S. airstrikes carried out in the same war zones in 2020, VoA reports.

More than a third of the strikes in the Middle East in 2020 and 2021 were carried out by a special counterterror joint task force, whose 2021 airstrike numbers are being disclosed for the first time in this report.

Two weeks after Inauguration Day, President Joe Biden announced his administration would take steps to "course-correct" U.S. foreign policy to "better unite our democratic values with our diplomatic leadership." He tasked Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to lead a review of U.S. forces around the world, so that America's military footprint was, in his words, "appropriately aligned with our foreign policy and national security priorities."

Somalia is struggling to contain violent mostly peaceful extremism and the US Africa Command has been a close partner. The United States has often insisted that the stability of the East Africa region depends on the elimination of the al-Shabaab bully boys.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Ethiopia army planning to ‘eliminate’ rebellious forces in Tigray: Military official
Posted by: badanov || 01/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Military reinforcements arrive in Libyan capital Tripoli
Posted by: badanov || 01/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
Rights Groups Urge UN Ban on Peacekeeping by Bangladesh’s ‘Abusive’ RAB Unit
Because the RAB was mentioned the other day.
[BenarNews] A dozen international human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
groups, in a letter made public Thursday, called on the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
to ban Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion from U.N. peacekeeping operations, citing allegations that it commits torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  more than 600 enforced disappearances in the past 12 years, a similar number of extrajudicial killings, and use of torture

So basically the CIA then?
Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291 || 01/23/2022 3:34 Comments || Top||

#2  True. UN wouldn't appreciate the RAB's idea of peace.

"Lookit that fool lyin' there. All peaceful like."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 01/23/2022 5:58 Comments || Top||

#3  "Is he resisting arrest, Sarge?"

"Not anymore..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/23/2022 8:12 Comments || Top||

#4  allegations that it commits torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.


Sadly, in parts of the world, these tactics are effective.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/23/2022 9:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Skid,
Sadly, there are parts of the world where these are the ONLY tactics that are effective

Perhaps the UN has forgotten what happened in Tiblesi when peaceful peacekeepers stood by and didn’t do a thing
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/23/2022 9:46 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan Sentences Woman to Death for Alleged Muhammad Cartoon on Whatsapp
[Breitbart] A trial court in northern Pakistan’s Rawalpindi city sentenced a 26-year-old Muslim woman to death on Wednesday for blasphemy against Islam after finding her guilty of "sharing images deemed to be insulting to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and one of his wives" via the instant messaging application WhatsApp, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday.

"The blasphemous material which was shared/installed by the female accused on her status [on WhatsApp messaging platform] and the messages as well as caricatures which were sent to the complainant are totally unbearable and not tolerable for a Muslim," Judge Adnan Mushtaq wrote in his verdict in the case on January 20.

Rawalpindi’s Federal Investi­gation Agency (FIA) first filed charges including blasphemy against Aneeqa Ateeq in May 2020 based on the complaint of a man named Hasnat Farooq. Ateeq pled not guilty to the charges.

Farooq met Ateeq online while participating in a multiplayer video game popular in Pakistan and continued to communicate with her afterward via WhatsApp. Ateeq wrote in an evidentiary statement to Rawalpindi’s trial court that Farooq "deliberately pulled her into a religious discussion to frame her after she refused ’to be friendly’ towards him," Al Jazeera relayed on Thursday.

"So I feel that he intentionally dragged into this topic for revenge, that’s why he got registered [sic] a case against me and during [WhatsApp] chat he collected everything that went against me," Ateeq alleged.

"Farooq contends the accused shared the allegedly blasphemous material as a WhatsApp status and refused to delete it when he confronted her on that messaging platform," according to Al Jazeera.

Judge Adnan Mushtaq issued Ateeq a death sentence on Wednesday according to "Section 295-C [blasphemy]" of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPP), the Karachi-based newspaper Dawn reported on January 20. The Rawalpindi trial court additionally awarded Ateeq a 10-year prison sentence and a $283 fine according to "Section 295-A [insulting religious belief]" of the national penal code.

Judge Mushtaq further convicted Ateeq of "posing as [a] Muslim under Section 298 of the PPC and awarded [her a] three years sentence with Rs50,000 [$283] fine," Dawn reported. Ateeq received a separate seven-year prison sentence and another $283 fine on Wednesday for violating Section 11 of Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA), which pertains to "hate speech."
Posted by: Omolung Juns5303 || 01/23/2022 03:55 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Iraq starts rehabilitating ISIS families in Al-Jada’a Camp


On Saturday, the mayor of al-Qaim district of al-Anbar announced that the Iraqi government had formed a joint committee to "rehabilitate" ISIS families moved from al-Hol camp in Syria to al-Jada'a camp in Nineveh.

Ahmed Jedian told Shafaq News Agency that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi, directed to form a committee that includes representatives from the National Security Adviser, the National Security Apparatus, the Joint Operations Command, and the Ministry of Migration and Displacement, to meet the 500 ISIS families.

"These families cannot pose a threat to Iraq as they are only women and kiddies." He confirmed.

"All those who have been transferred are currently receiving educational and rehabilitation courses for returning them home and integrating them into society, but so far they are still in al-Jada'a camp receiving lessons to getting rid of ISIS ideology." He added.
Posted by: badanov || 01/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Sadrists confirms its alliance with Sunni and Kurds forces to form a majority government
Posted by: badanov || 01/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Qatar signs financial deal to ensure natural gas supply to Gaza power plant
At least Israel will now be paid for what Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, previously got for free.
[IsraelTimes] Weeks after pledging cash to build pipeline connecting Israeli gas facilities with Strip’s only electrical plant, Doha agrees to set up escrow account with electricity company.

Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
’s Foreign Ministry said Friday it had signed an agreement with 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 electric company that will establish an escrow account for the costs of supplying gas and generating electricity at the Strip’s sole power plant.

The statement said that Qatar will be the owner of the account and will organize and manage payments through it. The Gaza Electricity Distribution Company will deposit $5 million per month when the planned gas-powered plant starts operating, the statement said.

Doha did not say how many years the Gulf nation was committing to the plan.

Qatar, the Paleostinian Authority and Gaza’s electrical company signed a deal last month advancing a long-term project to supply Gaza’s only power plant with Israeli natural gas.

Qatar’s envoy to the Gaza Strip, Mohammad al-Emadi, said at the time that Doha had signed a memorandum containing a pledge to invest $60 million in laying the pipeline for the proposed project.

But a final deal on the initiative, which has been in the works for years, has yet to be reached and could still be months or years away.

The so-called "Gas for Gaza" initiative is a complex diplomatic dance, involving Israel, Hamas, the PA, Qatar, Egypt and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, among other players. The project seeks to replace the diesel fuel that currently powers Gaza’s electrical plant with Israeli gas.

Gaza has suffered from a chronic electricity deficit for more than a decade. The coastal enclave has only one power plant — which runs on imported diesel fuel — and experiences daily blackouts of between eight and 12 hours.

With Israel’s approval, Qatar since 2018 has periodically provided millions of dollars in cash to Gaza’s Hamas terrorist rulers to pay for fuel for the Strip’s power plant, fund infrastructure projects and provide aid to tens of thousands of Gazook families.

Transitioning Gaza from diesel fuel to natural gas is widely viewed as an important solution to the enclave’s electricity crisis. Talks on a natural gas pipeline have been in the works for years, without a clear timeline for success.

Under the proposal, natural gas would flow from Israel’s Leviathan gas field, which lies off Gaza’s coast, to southern Israel. The EU and Qatar would then fund extensions to the pipeline to Gaza’s power plant.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russia offered Iran interim nuclear deal with US' knowledge - report
[Jpost] Iran rejected Russia's proposal and the US distanced itself from Russia's attempts at an interim agreement, according to a report.

Iran was offered an interim nuclear agreement by Russia with the knowledge of the US, NBC revealed in an exclusive report on Saturday.

Citing numerous former and current US officials, NBC reported that Iran rejected Russia's interim proposal, which was reportedly given the go-ahead by the Biden administration.

One draft of Russia's proposed interim agreement would have seen the Islamic Republic forced to stop enriching uranium up to 60%. In addition, Iran would have had to dispose of its existing stockpile of enriched uranium.

Earlier in January, the Islamic Republic denied a report it had reached a two-year interim agreement with world powers. An interim arrangement is not under serious discussion, NBC reported, citing a senior Biden administration official.

"Though we cannot speak for any discussions that may have taken place between Russia and Iran, at this stage we are certain that no such interim arrangement is being seriously discussed," the official reportedly said.

Russia's attempt at reaching an interim deal with Iran comes a day after Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke with his American counterpart Antony Blinken, when the latter warning that talks with Iran have reached "a decisive moment."

Blinken said that, while the window of opportunity to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) still exists, Iran's nuclear advancements would foil any return to the accord if a fresh pact was not reached in the coming weeks.

Other voices around the negotiation table seem more optimistic, with a European Union official saying on Friday that the Vienna talks are moving in the right direction and a final agreement may be within reach. Indirect talks between Iran and the United States on reviving the deal resumed almost two months ago.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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Sun 2022-01-23
  56 IS terrorists killed in northeast Syria
Sat 2022-01-22
  Iran says in talks with Russia to build nuclear power units
Fri 2022-01-21
  Al Qaeda announces death of former Bin Laden associate
Thu 2022-01-20
  Indonesian Militant Linked to Bali Bombings Sentenced to 15 Years
Wed 2022-01-19
  Mohammed al-Houthi: Yemen's only goal is the end of aggression
Tue 2022-01-18
  The Houthis attack Abu Dhabi, Arabian coalition airstrikes Sanaa
Mon 2022-01-17
  Police recovers anti-aircraft guns, other arms from Karachi godown
Sun 2022-01-16
  Day 2: Armed man holding hostages at Colleyville, Texas, synagogue demands release of convicted terrorist 'sister'
Sat 2022-01-15
  Authorities in hours-long standoff at Colleyville synagogue, no injuries reported
Fri 2022-01-14
  IRGC launched solid-fuel satellite rocket into space
Thu 2022-01-13
  TTP spokesperson Muhammad Khorasani killed in axe attack
Wed 2022-01-12
  Lebanon’s currency has lost more than 15 percent of its value since the start of the year
Tue 2022-01-11
  FBI Refuses To Say How Many Informants Were Involved In Jan. 6 Violence
Mon 2022-01-10
  Turkish FM: Our Forces in Libya aren't a 'Foreign Power'
Sun 2022-01-09
  Gunmen kill 140 people in Nigeria: residents


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