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Puntland troops foil car bombs, kill 24 ISIS militants in operation
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
'Sex addict' fourth-grade teacher, 27, 'offered to pay $200 for a father's motel room if he could molest the man's 2-year-old daughter'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Xavier Alexander, 27, charged with solicitation of a minor and traveling to meet a minor

  • Alexander, a fourth-grade teacher in Palm Beach, Florida, is accused of offering a father $200 to have sex with his 2-year-old daughter

  • Deputy pretending to be the father exchanged texts with Alexander and arranged a meeting at a motel, where he was arrested

  • Alexander, who has been moonlighting as a babysitter, allegedly told officers he is a sex addict, and that 'women, men and bestiality no longer satisfied him'
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2021 13:59 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  surprise, its a black guy
Posted by: 746 || 04/06/2021 14:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Are you sure he's not just a dark-skinned white person?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/06/2021 15:08 Comments || Top||

#3  You mean like one of them 'white Hispanics'?
Posted by: Raj || 04/06/2021 16:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Palm Beach. Teachers union member. Says it all.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/06/2021 18:06 Comments || Top||

#5  He's obviously white. With a really deep tan!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/06/2021 18:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Between these sorts of pedos, the middle school teachers hooking up with 12 year old boys... seems like kids are actually safer in a Catholic Church these days versus public schools. I guess the teachers have a stronger union.
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574 || 04/06/2021 22:54 Comments || Top||


Video shows man trashing Asian-owned North Carolina store, shouting Asian slurs
Another White Supremacist?
[NY Post] Shocking video shows the moment a crazed man wielding a pole trashes a Korean-owned convenience store in North Carolina while shouting racial slurs, according to reports.

Mark Sung, whose family owns the Charlotte store, said the brute who trashed their business was allegedly hired by a customer who had been banned from the shop.

"As he was [trashing the shop], he was like saying racial slurs, cursing at us, threatening us," Sung said. "And the guy that we banned ended up coming into the store, cheering him on and screaming, ’That’s what you get, that’s what you get! Go back to your country!’ "

The footage from the Plaza Sundries last week shows the culprit knocking down a display stand before he begins swinging the metal pole at the glass of refrigerated displays in the store.

Suspect Xavier Rashee Woody-Silas, 24, is now facing a slew of charges in the incident, including robbery with a dangerous weapon, communicating threats and disorderly conduct, the Charlotte Area Transit System said on Twitter.
Posted by: Unising Lumumba8103 || 04/06/2021 06:32 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  NBein’N
Posted by: Dacama || 04/06/2021 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2 
Why is the Black Community Leadership and the media so silent about this escalation in clearly Racist attacks?

But let a White guy break wind in a Asian Supermarket and the Headlines would read:

WHITE RACIST DOMESTIC TERRORIST GASES ASIANS

Plus BLOM/ANTI-FArt would be protesting in front of every bean cannery in the USA.

OPEN QUESTIONS:
When will the media start addressing this serious issue?

When will Black Community Leaders speak out against such acts and distance themselves from such Racist and Physical assaults of the Asian Community?

Xavier Woody-Silas Mugshot
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/06/2021 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Wakanda - Da shaape o'thinz 2 kum
Posted by: Ebbavigum Thud6177 || 04/06/2021 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  ..cause they can't deal in truth. Got to blame everyone and everything else for the massive failure of 50+ years of Great Society programs and massive redistribution of wealth. Wreckers, saboteurs, and white supremacists!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/06/2021 7:46 Comments || Top||

#5  I think you've nailed the heart of the problem. As long as everything is someone else's fault, there will be no progress.
Posted by: Tom || 04/06/2021 12:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Can't have people realize all these failures are the result of the successful democrat money laundering scheme.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/06/2021 16:15 Comments || Top||


Automotive catalytic converter theft coming to a city near you
[Town Hall] The eminent philosopher Lamont Cranston used those words to open each episode of The Shadow, a radio drama that ran on CBS from 1937 to 1954. Cranston—played on network radio by actor Orson Welles—would also ask the rhetorical question: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!!"

My 24-year-old son also knows. He is only a day or so from the one-month anniversary of his new pickup being vandalized in a Dallas apartment complex by a miscreant who rendered it undriveable as part of a nationwide explosion of crime which—surprise—is heading your way soon.

On March 7th my son bought a new Toyota Tundra and, as you might expect, was thrilled with his sleek transportation and headed into Dallas to show it to his friends. When he returned to the parking garage in a buddy’s apartment, the vehicle was making strange noises and the Check Engine Soon light came on.

The tow truck driver who was called to return it to the car dealer where it was purchased took a look under it, and immediately diagnosed the problem: the Tundra’s catalytic converters—both of them—had been literally sawed off while the vehicle was parked in the apartment complex.

My son filed a crime report with the Dallas Police Department, suspecting it would go unnoticed in a major city that regularly deals with more than its share of challenges (including President Biden’s idiotic decision to transport over 2,000 illegals aged 14-17 from the U.S. border with Mexico in order to house them at the Kay Bailey Hutchison convention center in downtown Dallas.)
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2021 01:36 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Love stories that are 'cliff hangers'.
"So, what brings you to 'Lamont's Wakanda Trading Store'...Iz gutz some plat e numb to trade... Yeah, where did you get it....Iz working on my ridz and iz upgraden...need to trade deez out, wadiya givez me for deez... $98.95 each...Wow sold!
Posted by: Ebbavigum Thud6177 || 04/06/2021 8:20 Comments || Top||

#2  this has been going on for years
Posted by: Chris || 04/06/2021 10:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Been seeing gooseneck trailer loads of these going down I69 heading for Laredo for years. For 'processing', don't cha know.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/06/2021 14:59 Comments || Top||

#4  First it was catalytic converters then Ford tailgates and now back to the Catalytic converters
again.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 04/06/2021 19:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Cat converters contain valuable amounts of platinum, worth more than gold,,,
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/06/2021 20:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Only if there's someone to "recycle". Hunt them down.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/06/2021 21:27 Comments || Top||

#7  "And give them [ahem] medals!"
Posted by: Ebberetle Pusher of the Electric Cars9598 || 04/06/2021 23:10 Comments || Top||


A South Asian immigrant who ran a souvenir shop on the Atlantic City boardwalk died after being robbed by an armed group of black youths
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wonder how much support Biden got from the South Asian community and what support levels are today.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/06/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||


At Least 34 Shot over Easter Weekend in Mayor Lightfoot's Chicago
[BREITBART] At least 34 people were shot, seven fatally, over Easter weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway...
’s (D) reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
.On Sunday, Breitbart News reported 19 people were shot, one fatally, Good Friday into Easter morning alone. By Monday morning ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times noted the violence had continued, resulting in at least 34 people shot, seven fatally, for the entire Easter weekend.
ONLY 7 out of 34? More range time, Jaquarious
The Chicago Tribune observed all seven weekend fatalities occurred on Easter Sunday.

Chicago is on track for record-breaking gun crime this year. For example, CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
explained the number of shooting victims for March 2021 was at a level police have not seen in four years:

For 2021, there were 233 shooting incidents and 298 shooting victims, police data show. In March of 2020, there were 146 shootings and 175 victims; in March 2019 there were 136 shooting incidents and 165 victims; and in 2018 there were also 136 shootings, with 151 victims.

Shootings in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago "are up nearly 40 percent" over where they were at this point in 2020 and homicides are up "33 percent in the first three months of the year compared to 2020."

Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The numbers are indeed rising, but Planned Parenthood enjoys a strong lead.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2021 2:37 Comments || Top||

#2  34 people were shot

Chicago Easter Egg hunts are pretty competitive
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/06/2021 5:51 Comments || Top||

#3 

3 days later how many have risen.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/06/2021 8:23 Comments || Top||

#4  #3: Are you including the brain dead?
Posted by: Unising Lumumba8103 || 04/06/2021 8:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Re #3.. and #4, I guess: just the ones that'll vote in the next election
Posted by: Cheagum Grundy6173 || 04/06/2021 10:30 Comments || Top||


Teens accused in fatal carjacking of Uber Eats driver to reportedly get cushy plea deal
Two unnamed Black teens murder Pakistani driver, Mohammad Anwar, 66, during carjacking, mourn lost cell phone.
[NY Post] The two teen girls accused of killing an Uber driver in a botched carjacking in Washington, DC, in March are expected to reach a plea deal with prosecutors in the case.

The bargain should be reached in the coming days, but it’s unclear if it will fully resolve the case, according to the Washington Post.

Under DC law, the 13-year-old can’t be charged as an adult — even in a murder case, according to the Post. The 15-year-old suspect could be charged as an adult, but that would increase the burden of proof on prosecutors, the report said.

In juvenile court in the district, defendants who are found "responsible" — meaning guilty — may only be jailed until the age of 21, according to the outlet.
Posted by: Unising Lumumba8103 || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So Black trumps Muslim?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/06/2021 5:31 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm sure Kyle R. will get the same deal.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/06/2021 7:25 Comments || Top||

#3  You were really expecting justice?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/06/2021 7:55 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Since the victim is a Muslim...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/06/2021 8:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Probably get a book deal and MSNBC deal before its over.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/06/2021 10:04 Comments || Top||

#6  This is not about color or religion! It is about women over men!
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Chomock9773 || 04/06/2021 13:09 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Sen. Rubio Hammers Hypocrite MLB Commish, Asks: Will You Give Up Augusta Golf Club Membership?
[SaraCarter] Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) on Monday penned a letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred asking him if he plans to continue his membership at an exclusive Georgia golf club amid of the league’s decision to withdraw its 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta to protest the state’s divisive new election law.

"I write to ask you whether you intend to maintain your membership at Augusta National Golf Club," Rubio wrote, referring to the golf club where the Masters Tournament is played annually. "As you are well aware, the exclusive members-only club is located in the State of Georgia."

The senator said the decision to pull the game out of the state "reeks of hypocrisy" and one that "will have a bigger impact on countless small and minority owned businesses in and around Atlanta, than the new election law ever will."

In the letter, Rubio also accused Manfred of hypocrisy regarding its business in authoritarian countries.

"Will Major League Baseball now end its engagement with nations that do not hold elections at all like China and Cuba? Will you end your lucrative financial relationship with Tencent, a company with deep ties to the Communist Party and actively helps the Chinese Government hunt down and silence political dissidents?" Rubio wrote.

However, the Florida Republican doubted that the league would do so.

"I am, of course, under no expectation any of this will happen," he wrote. "Taking the All-Star game out of Georgia is an easy way to signal virtues without significant financial fallout. But speaking out against the Chinese Communist Party would involve a significant loss of revenue and being closed out of a lucrative market."
Posted by: Clem || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No. Striking a pose does not involve cutting your own throat or kicking yourself in the balls.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/06/2021 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  ..it involves cutting other people's throat and kicking other people in the balls. That's why its so easy for them.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/06/2021 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Marco's in his rebellious phase. He'll be back on the ranch by sundown.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/06/2021 8:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Just a question: Did Atlanta limit attendance to sporting events, does Denver? Follow the money usually works for me but since I stopped watching sports 30 years ago I don’t know. The reason was that after working and traveling 4-6 days a week, spending the day watching da Bears or the CUBBIES meant I had no time for family. When the retired people who develop COVID and die, sports are over.
Posted by: Boss Chusolet3294 || 04/06/2021 11:36 Comments || Top||

#5  The Atlanta braves stadium is not located in in ATl but Marietta, which is in in Cobb Co.Not ATlanta.
Posted by: Chris || 04/06/2021 22:52 Comments || Top||


US military pushes 'inclusion,' effeminacy while Russian recruitment ads emphasize masculinity
[Rumble]
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Take the Shot? A Marauding Baboon Offers a Cross-Canyon Shot Opportunity
[Guns America] "They have the biggest canine teeth, per pound of body weight, of any species on earth. Just wait till you see them, Mate."

We were jolting up steep mountainside two-track on South Africa’s Eastern Cape, talking about baboons. A band of them had been raising Cain in the lambing pens, stealing corn out of the feed troughs and threatening the sheep. We’d been keeping an eye out for the troop while hunting plains game, without luck. Now we hunted the baboons specifically, hoping to reduce the pressure they were putting on the sheep.

The terrain was rough, rocky, and broken, with cliff-rimmed mountainsides soaring toward the skies. I was hunting with Dave Davenport, an eighth-generation stockman on the same land. The Boer war had been fought across his ranch, in part, and he showed me tarnished cartridges and bullets he’d picked up from ancient battlefields. The ranch sits deep in a natural horseshoe-shaped valley on the side of the mountains. Dave started Leopard’s Valley Safari here years ago and offers wonderful adventures hunting free-range plains game across the Eastern Cape.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2021 06:42 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
I'm disappointed, thought the story was going to be about Anti-Antifa Action in Washington & Oregon States.

Oh well, maybe tomorrow
Posted by: Ebbavigum Thud6177 || 04/06/2021 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  That is a disgracefully racist thing to say.
Comparing Baboons to Antifa or BLM is despicable.

Baboons simply do not deserve such an insult.
Posted by: TSgt_Ciz || 04/06/2021 18:48 Comments || Top||


Britain
The Poms Are Adopting Immunity Passports
[Hot Air] It looks like Great Britain is going to follow in the path of the United States, Israel and other nations that have begun dividing their societies into two classes of people based on their COVID immunity status. With the soccer championships coming up and plenty of Brits itching to get back out to music concerts or simply hitting the pubs, officials have established a system of digital and hard-copy "coronavirus status certifications" that will be tested at several upcoming events at a variety of indoor and outdoor venues in the coming weeks. The plan hasn’t been finalized yet, but Parliament is working on the details already. They can call their passports whatever they like, but the bottom line works out to the same thing. If you don’t have one, you’ll be staying home. (Associated Press)
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2021 01:58 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The most terrifying tool of tyranny since Iron Maiden!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/06/2021 2:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Letters of Transit must be implemented at once. The movement of the 'common man' from one village, one country to another must be stopped !
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2021 3:03 Comments || Top||

#3  So they make shot records mandatory for travel, etc... We have 4+ versions on this virus now. How will they account for that? We have zero vaccines for the other 3 or more variants. This just needs to fall away and the covid19 shot fall into the flue shots and people get them if they want them.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/06/2021 12:30 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
A Russian assessment of combat capabilities in southeastern Ukraine
Original in Russian

From Russian reserve FSB Colonel Igor Girkin's V Kontakte page:


Armed Forces of Ukraine

Donbass Armed Forces of Ukraine concentrated more than 90,000 bayonets,

The Ukrainians field 450 tanks, about 2500 armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles,

Five firing installations of the Tochka-U TRK, 230 MLRS, about 1050 units of cannon artillery and mortars, about 3500 anti-tank recoilless systems (SPG-9).

All these forces are consolidated into 10 brigades and at least three (or more) separate battalions, the so-called volunteers (i.e. nationalists) subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, which will most likely be used as detachments and to clear the occupied territories.

If necessary, the Armed Forces can use its reserve - about four well-equipped and equipped brigades, now located in the west of the country. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have practically no navy, the Air Force is in a state of deep stagnation, rising slightly above the collapse. Therefore, Kiev can rely only on its ground forces and NATO assistance.

Armed forces of Russian speaking separatists

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 1st and 2nd army corps of the Donbass militia are deployed in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, consisting of 14 combat brigades, regiments and support units numbering about 28,000 bayonets

The Russian speaking separatists field 650 tanks up to 800 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers

They also field 150 MLRS, more than 1000 units of barrel artillery, mortars, more than 700 ATGMs) which operate with the support of Russian regular troops, in command positions of which are regular officers of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.

Speaking in the Verkhovna Rada, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Ukraine Ruslan Khomchak said that there is an apparatus of military advisers and instructors of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with a total number of more than 2,000 to train specialists for intelligence special police units of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia has concentrated 28 battalion tactical groups located near the borders with Ukraine, located in the territories of the Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod, Rostov regions and in the Crimea. "An additional concentration of up to 25 battalion tactical groups is expected, which, together with the existing deployed forces and assets near the state border of Ukraine, creates threats to the military security of the state," Khomchak also told Ukrainian deputies.

It turns out that against the 90,000 grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian command can immediately throw into battle more than 120 thousand bayonets, more than 400 tanks, about 7,600 infantry fighting vehicles / armored personnel carriers.

Crimea

The Crimean group alone has about 32 thousand personnel;

The Russians have 24 warships and submarines with 168 KR "Caliber-NK / PL"

Also: 34-35 strike aircraft (9 Su-24M bombers, 13 Su-25SM attack aircraft and 1 Su-25UB combat training aircraft, 12 Su- 30SM), 24-33 fighters (13 modernized Su-27SM, 2 Su-27 and 9 Su-27P, 1 combat training Su-27UP, 2 Su-27UB, 6 Su-30M2), as well as 12 reconnaissance aircraft Su-24MR

32 new attack helicopters (12 Mi-35M, 4 Mi-28N, 16 Ka-52)

Missiles: 12 SPU BPRK "Bastion-P" (24 anti-ship missiles "Onyx"), 8 - "Ball" (64 anti-ship missiles X-35U) and 6 JV "Bereg";

Armored ground vehicles: 41 T-72B3 tank, 190 BMP (80 BMP-2, 40 BTR-82A, 40 BTR-80, 28 MT-LBT and 2 BRM-1K), 106 artillery systems

But here it is not even a matter of the number of troops. In terms of firepower, technically and qualitatively, the Russian Armed Forces are at a higher level than the Ukrainian ones. The first is the army of the twenty-first century with a full range of weapons, including electronic warfare systems, hypersonic missiles and the Kalibr missile launcher. The latter, in fact, and in terms of their structural state, are more likely only at the beginning of the twentieth century, without aviation and navy, but with tanks, electronic equipment and artillery from the middle of the last century.

First of all, the 4th Air Army and the Black Sea Fleet and the CFL will act against the Armed Forces of Ukraine with all their might. After the fire effect of this force, perhaps the Southern Military District of the RF Armed Forces will not even need to bring ground forces into battle, since they will have no one to fight with. "

Neither the 4th Air Army nor any of the military districts have been mobilized. Mobilization for war is a basic component of Russia's military readiness. While it is hard to exactly assess it, if none of the military districts are mobilized, positioning of tactical groups notwithstanding, there is no war.

Russia's defense scheme relies heavily on transforming military districts into the front combat formation commands. When army operations began in Chechnya in 1999 (2nd Chechen War), Russia formed a mobilized front command, but in the Russian general staff in Moscow, not in the Transcaucusus. That command basic component was the Russian 58th Army, the same base formation that supplied some of the troops for the 2008 war in South Ossetia.

We have no other recent example of Russia mobilizing for war -- not since WWII -- so my personal guess is that it would be social chaos, noticeable by the average casual Russian watcher.

More:

More units transported by rail to Voronezh from Kemerovo Oblast in central Russia, include the Russian 74th Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 120th Artillery Brigade, due to arrived April 11th. The units departed March 30th.
Posted by: badanov || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Donbass Armed Forces of Ukraine concentrated more than 90,000 bayonets,

Eh?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/06/2021 2:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Grom; Probably a machine translation error, "issued" or "procured" are probably what the original (Russian) text meant.
Posted by: Nomad || 04/06/2021 6:14 Comments || Top||

#3  IMO, somebody uses bayonets as a synonym for soldiers.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/06/2021 6:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Translation was bayonets.
Posted by: badanov || 04/06/2021 8:03 Comments || Top||

#5  I posted this at Instapundit.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2021 8:11 Comments || Top||

#6  OK, I've looked at the Russian language original.

Донбасса ВСУ сосредоточили более 90 тыс. штыков, порядка 450 танков, около 2500 БТР и БМП, пять огневых установок ТРК «Точка-У», 230 РСЗО, примерно 1050 единиц ствольной артиллерии и минометов, около 3500 противотанковых безоткатных комплексов.

Which translates as 95,000 bayonets (IMO personnel or infantry: archaic), 450 tanks, etc...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/06/2021 8:28 Comments || Top||

#7  штыков (shtikov) - I took that as slang for soldiers.
Posted by: Unising Lumumba8103 || 04/06/2021 8:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Russians prolly wanted to distinguish individuals who hump guns and rucks from the support system.
Posted by: badanov || 04/06/2021 8:35 Comments || Top||

#9  ^As I said, archaic.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/06/2021 8:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Not nearly as modern as Trans-Volleyball Teams.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/06/2021 11:45 Comments || Top||

#11 
We have no other recent example of Russia mobilizing for war -- not since WWII

...like the invasion of Czechoslovakia '68? They executed under bad weather to obscure satellite imaging.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/06/2021 11:56 Comments || Top||


#13  Ukraine says it wants to urgently join NATO
Sorry. All full.

Frankly, too many members for its own good... time to downsize the club.

Better for you to sit down and work something out with your brother-slavs. Let us know how we can help. Best, U. Sam
Posted by: Spaing Bluetooth8549 || 04/06/2021 17:59 Comments || Top||


Europe
France investigates secret restaurants for Paris elite
PARIS (AP) — Champagne, lobster and no masks: That’s what a French TV documentary says is on the menu at one of multiple high-end "clandestine restaurants" catering to the Paris elite, in violation of nationwide pandemic restrictions.

What’s even more shocking to the newly confined French public — and exhausted medical staff — is that one organizer claimed government ministers are among those who attend.

French authorities are investigating the accusations, and government members scrambled to insist they’re behaving properly.

Anti-capitalist activists and critics of President Emmanuel Macron aren’t convinced, and plan a protest Tuesday — advertised on social networks under the banner "Let’s Eat the Rich" — at one of the alleged secret venues,

The Paris prosecutor’s office said Monday that an investigation was opened Sunday into possible charges of endangerment and undeclared labor, and to identify the organizers and participants of the alleged gatherings.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2021 02:26 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Our $350. per person eateries keep the masked riff-raff to a minimum.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2021 2:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/06/2021 2:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I’m shocked, shocked to find that eating is going on here!

Your Chicken Marseilles, sir.
Posted by: Unising Lumumba8103 || 04/06/2021 5:01 Comments || Top||

#4  La Laverie Americaine?
Posted by: Thaper and Tenille8889 || 04/06/2021 5:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Most likely the same (dining in secret) has been going on in DC and San Fran.
Funny how after getting their jabs in DC they still wear masks around cameras. Who knew cameras were so dangerous.
Posted by: Spoter B || 04/06/2021 6:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hunter Biden admits he got a $50-000-a-month job on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma because of his family name
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2021 08:47 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now they're just rubbing our faces in it. Playground bully time-- and we're eating dirt now. In effect they're saying to us and the nation:

"Yeah, so we lied, suckers!
"He did it, yep. So did Pop-- haha!

"Everything you said about this moron and his corrupt father was true-- and then some.

"So we stole it. Right. We cheated. We lied.
"WTF are you gonna do about it NOW, b!tches?"
Posted by: Thurong Lumplump8950 || 04/06/2021 22:50 Comments || Top||


Janet Yellen Is Now Calling for Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate
[The Hill via Red State] We wrote about the Great Reset back in November, that it was a stated goal of the World Economic Forum.

Then in February, we reported how the World Economic Forum proclaimed that ’Lockdowns Are Quietly Improving Cities Around the World’ in a pretty scary video.

Now there’s another move that’s raising some eyebrows, this time from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

You would think that the Treasury Secretary of the United States would be about wanting to protect free markets. Not so much.

Yellen is now calling for a global minimum corporate tax rate. "Together we can use a global minimum tax to make sure the global economy thrives based on a more level playing field in the taxation of multinational corporations, and spurs innovation, growth, and prosperity."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2021 01:47 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tell it to the Celestials, Janet.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/06/2021 2:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Lowering all production will not create economy.
Posted by: newc || 04/06/2021 3:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Soviet Central Planning didn't work before.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/06/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Corporate tax accountants say "Thank you. This will make planning to pay no taxes much easier..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/06/2021 8:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Note she's not talking about replacing any taxes - just adding more on top of the ones corporations (and their customers) already pay.
Of course it'll start small, perhaps 0.5%, but with the UN involved it will quicky, and quietly grow.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/06/2021 9:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Ahhh... yet another page in the CPA Full Employment Act.
Posted by: Raj || 04/06/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Janet Yelling makes $201,000.00/year tax payer funded salary and $7 million in "speakers fees" and now wants employees to get a hair cut while the money goes to Deep State.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 04/06/2021 18:24 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jordan's Prince HamzahBinHussein Is Caught Between Accusations That He Was Planning A Coup And Ongoing Regime Attempts To Marginalize Him
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

He was the spare, unfortunately only in line for the throne until his elder brother, the king, produced his own heir. This is ever the tragedy of the younger sons of the nobility.
Jordan's Prince Hamza signs letter declaring support for the king: Royal court

[AlAhram] Jordan's estranged Prince Hamza signed a letter saying "I place myself in the hands of his majesty the king... I will remain committed to the constitution of the dear Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and I will always be of help and support to his majesty the king and his crown prince", the royal court said in a statement on Monday.

Prince Hamza, the former crown prince, signed the letter after he met with Prince Hassan, the king's uncle, and other princes on Monday, the royal court said.

"The interests of the homeland must remain above every consideration. We must all stand behind the king in his efforts to protect Jordan and its national interests", the letter said.
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wasn't there so I can't say for certain. But I have to imagine that it was about a dozen black clad individuals armed with MP-5's who put him into the hands of the King, 'most ruff-wy' too. That and I also suspect he is about to apprehend many new meanings and layers of 'estranged'.
Posted by: Cesare || 04/06/2021 13:18 Comments || Top||

#2  There are days when you can't even loose right.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/06/2021 14:55 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Chinese robotics firm shares 'terrifying' video of its four-legged robots moving in unison that Twitter users say could be the start of a robot takeover
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2021 09:03 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Boston Robotics - Do you know where your tech specs are?
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/06/2021 18:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't see any sensors on those robodogs. They are just a remote controlled investment scam at this point.
Posted by: Unising Lumumba8103 || 04/06/2021 20:00 Comments || Top||

#3  paging Sarah Conner
Posted by: 746 || 04/06/2021 21:22 Comments || Top||


Deaths from cocaine, meth mixed with opioids on the rise
[UPI] Overdose deaths resulting from a dangerous combination of cocaine and opioids are outpacing fatalities linked to cocaine abuse alone, a new U.S. government report warns.

"Much of the increase in the rate of drug overdose deaths involving cocaine in recent years is due to the co-occurrence of opioids," said study author Dr. Holly Hedegaard.

A similar trend has started taking hold because of the combined abuse of both methamphetamines and opioids. Starting in 2017, deaths attributed to that pairing started to outpace deaths linked to meth alone.

Still, the role played by opioids in cocaine and meth overdoses have so far differed by degree.

RELATED Hospital costs for substan
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/06/2021 05:21 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The future is here?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/06/2021 5:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Part of the gaudy ritual in the era of the new Woke Covenant.
"Let us now gives thanks and praise to the Blessed Martyr, St George Floyd" [priest distributes meth and fentanyl cocktails]
Posted by: Gloluns Unusose1193 || 04/06/2021 5:46 Comments || Top||

#3 

Well yeah, COMa - truth in advertising
Posted by: Ebbavigum Thud6177 || 04/06/2021 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4  I've been watching on YT the Columbus Ohio Police body camera videos..LOTS of that there..plus meth, of course...sad.
Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756 || 04/06/2021 11:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Used to call them speed balls. Coke and Heroine. Guess they are back in style, a painless heart attack...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/06/2021 11:43 Comments || Top||

#6  John Belushi was a pioneer!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/06/2021 12:29 Comments || Top||


New study finds 7% of all Americans are living internet-free
[NYP] Internet explorers they are not.

A new study has found that 7 percent of American adults do not go online at all — for a variety of reasons including old age, remote living, and poverty.

The Pew Research Center finding is down from 15 percent in 2015 and 48 percent in 2000.

However, that number remains stubbornly high among people age 65 and older, 25 percent of whom say they don’t log on. By comparison, just 4 percent of Americans between the ages of 50 and 64 say they don’t use the internet, down from 12 percent in 2019.

The difference in internet use is similarly stark when graded by educational attainment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2021 02:05 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2021 13:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Must be the urbanites again. There are vast swaths of America without cable or cell service out there in fly over country.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/06/2021 15:25 Comments || Top||

#3  I thought some one was coaching Joey. Those were some pretty retarded statements by our not so beloved POTUS.
Posted by: Clem || 04/06/2021 15:33 Comments || Top||

#4  All I have is satellite internet, 10 GB per month. Doesn't go far with embedded video...
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/06/2021 20:27 Comments || Top||


First US case of more infectious ‘double mutant' covid variant that emerged in India is identified in California
[Daily Mail UK]
  • Researchers at Stanford University confirmed what is believed to be the first U.S. case of a coronavirus variant that emerged in India

  • Indian authorities have referred to it as a 'double mutant' because it has two mutations on parts of the virus that help it hook onto our cells

  • The variant was linked to between 15% and 20% of samples sequenced from India's Maharashtra state, which has seen a 50% spike in cases in the last week

  • Health experts believe the variant spreads more rapidly, but there is no evidence to suggest that it evades vaccines antibodies more easily
Given that about 105 million Americans have gotten at least their first shot of the vaccine (thank you President Trump!), 24 million are known to have recovered from the illness (including a number of Rantburgers), and there are heading toward 7 million known active cases at the moment, this new double variant is going to struggle to get a foothold.

Posted by: Unising Lumumba8103 || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Double Mutant!!!! 😱
Posted by: Dacama || 04/06/2021 7:19 Comments || Top||

#2  As of April 5th, 2021
C-19 VARIANT DATA

Historical Notes:
Covid-19 Season #2 peaked back in early Jan. 2021:
With 24,602 Deaths "related" to Covd-19
out 315,163 "reported" Infections.

As of April 3rd, 2021 there were :
424 deaths "related" to Covid-19 so far
out of over 64,149 "reported" Infections.



Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/06/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#3  OMG!!!! The sky is falling!!! We are all gonna die!!! Please Dr. Fauchi save us from the germ you created!!!! OMG OMG OMG!!!!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/06/2021 12:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Does the mean we have to wear like 3 or 4 masks now? Or just a full body haz mat suit.
Posted by: Chris || 04/06/2021 14:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Did it come on someone on a H1B visa?
If so, it means we bought it on sale.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/06/2021 14:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Contact tracing will tell all. [slow smile]

Unless it leads to the H1B vector, or cross-border route.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/06/2021 15:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Mods - I used a verboten word in my previous comment; can you change it to something more palatable? Thanks in advance!
Posted by: Raj || 04/06/2021 17:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Double Secret Mutation.

Let me guess. No symptoms. No fever. Undetectable. Can spread to those who have had the Covid and those who have taken the shot.

Only way to stop it is shutting down for two weeks.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/06/2021 18:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Raj, I don’t see your previous comment, so can’t fix it. Sorry.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2021 18:40 Comments || Top||

#10  damn man you gonna get grom started with his bullshit
Posted by: Chris || 04/06/2021 22:49 Comments || Top||

#11  Segregation Suppression today
Suppression tomorrow
Suppression forever
Posted by: Your_Betters || 04/06/2021 22:52 Comments || Top||

#12  Only way to stop it is shutting down for two weeks.

Hey, it's just for a couple of weeks so we can flatten the curve. Oh, and you will have to wear three masks.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/06/2021 22:54 Comments || Top||



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