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Group of 225 Migrants Apprehended in West Texas Border Town
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Woman arrested after threatening to ‘murder everyone' inside Coweta County, GA school, police say
[WSBTV.com News Staff] COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — A Coweta County elementary school went into lockdown after police say a woman threatened to kill everyone inside the school following an incident at the bus stop.

According to police reports, 28-year-old Brittany Laparis Arnold was caught on surveillance camera shouting profanities at the monitor on her children’s school bus before letting them on board.

Later that day, Atkinson Elementary School Assistant Principal Monica Keel and Coweta County bus supervisor Fate Simmons made the decision not to allow Arnold’s children to ride the bus home that afternoon.

When Keel called Arnold to inform her she would need to pick her kids up from school, they were met with more profanity-laced shouting from Arnold, the police report states. It goes on to say that Arnold threatened to jump in front of the school bus and let it hit her before hanging up.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2021 02:15 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sic der Stasi on her!
Achtung!
Get on it, Ferret!
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/18/2021 6:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Reading the article was a hoot...

Thanks Mr. B.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/18/2021 6:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Clearly looney.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 11/18/2021 8:08 Comments || Top||

#4  The poor thing was having a bad hair day…
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Ah, the Loc Dog hairstyle. 90s are back baby!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/18/2021 14:31 Comments || Top||

#6  I knew before clicking on the article that she would be professional in appearance and a lady of the highest sophistication.
Subtle Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Crusader || 11/18/2021 14:32 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Subtle Snark O' The Day
Posted by: Frank G || 11/18/2021 16:18 Comments || Top||

#8  This is what happens when she is ridden hard and put away wet....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/18/2021 21:23 Comments || Top||


Rapper Young Dolph aka Adolf Thornton gunned down at Memphis Cookie Shop
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Rapper Young Dolph was shot and killed Wednesday at a cookie shop in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, and a search is underway for the shooter, officials said.

Police tweeted that no suspect information was available in the shooting, which took place at Makeda’s Cookie’s near Memphis International Airport.

"The tragic shooting death of rap artist Young Dolph serves as another reminder of the pain that violent crime brings with it," Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said in a statement. "My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends."

The Daily Memphian newspaper reported that Young Dolph’s cousin, Mareno Myers, said the rapper had been in town since Monday visiting an aunt who has cancer and was also giving out Thanksgiving turkeys.

"He was inside (Makeda’s), and somebody just rolled up on him and took his life," Myers said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2021 01:29 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "White Supremacists"?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2021 6:43 Comments || Top||

#2 
Some RAP will UN-WOKEN anyone.

Many Wally Worlds are now playing music to drown out the noise and conversations in their parking lots.

For the 1st time yesterday I understood why...

Some Ya-hoo thug wanta-be with what had to be 500 watt amps max'ed out speakers in his car. Windows rolled down (or already blown out), cruising the parking lot playing the filthiest RAP I have ever heard.

All while parents with kids were in the parking lot headed to or from the store.

Had me remembering that website "Amazing1" that I toyed around with years ago. Which offered a "homemade magnatron gun" device kit that fries cars electronics and stereos.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/18/2021 7:11 Comments || Top||

#3  not to mention NN, them walking around with the shit blaring out of their phones. No big loss of another "rapper".
Posted by: Chris || 11/18/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  "...somebody just rolled up on him and took his life"

A harsh and brutal injustice, no doubt. But I'm guessing that didn't just fall out of the sky.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/18/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Hey, he wanted thug life, he got it good and hard. His dream came true.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/18/2021 10:53 Comments || Top||

#6  He lost his cookies.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/18/2021 11:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Apoligies to Johnny Cash
"I shot a man in Memphis, just to shut him up."
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/18/2021 12:31 Comments || Top||


18-year-old charged with fatal shooting of Chinese university student in Chicago

[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Police on Friday announced that they have charged an 18-year-old with murder in the fatal shooting of a Chinese student near the campus of University of 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...
last week.

Deputy Chief of Detectives Rahman Muhammad said that Shaoxiong "Dennis" Zheng, 24, was standing on a Hyde Park neighborhood sidewalk on November 9, when Alton Spann of Chicago approached the Zheng and robbed him at gunpoint before shooting him in the torso and fleeing, according to ABC News.

Surveillance cameras reportedly captured Spann speeding away in a black Ford Mustang.

Police were able to track the vehicle using footage from the city's surveillance camera system, private residences, and the school's cameras, where they later determined that the car had been stolen in the suburb of Markham on November 3.

Spann was spotted on the North Side of Chicago on November 10, carrying two guns and a key FOB that belonged to the Mustang, Muhammad said.

"The firearms was tested by the CPD lab and (one of them) was confirmed to be the gun used to kill Mr. Zheng," he stated.

Police were also able to recover a video of Spann selling some of Zheng's belongings at a cellphone store.

Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said at a news conference on Friday that Spann has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and two counts of unlawful use of a weapon.


Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Was the victim a Chinese spy?
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 11/18/2021 8:06 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in one year
[CBS] An estimated 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in one year, a never-before-seen milestone that health officials say is tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and a more dangerous drug supply. Overdose deaths have been rising for more than two decades, accelerated in the past two years and, according to new data posted Wednesday, jumped nearly 30% in the latest year.

Experts believe the top drivers are the growing prevalence of deadly fentanyl in the illicit drug supply and the COVID-19 pandemic, which left many drug users socially isolated and unable to get treatment or other support.

The number is "devastating," said Katherine Keyes, a Columbia University expert on drug abuse issues. "It's a magnitude of overdose death that we haven't seen in this country."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2021 01:23 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In related news, Texas law enforcement seized over $2million in fentanyl and cocaine in a single day at the border.

As the Border Patrol focuses on caring and feeding thousands of migrants daily, the cartels are taking advantage of enforcement gaps. A redirection of CBP personnel from ports of entry to assist the Border Patrol has likely benefited the cartels as well. With reduced inspection capabilities at ports, cartels face reduced chances of losing shipments.

FJB.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 11/18/2021 2:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Tell me this is all a bad dream.
I can't believe this is happening to our beloved country
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/18/2021 5:39 Comments || Top||

#3 

OPEN BORDERS = MORE DRUGS
Let us not forget the Biden/Socialcrat's Open Border policy plays a major key role in allowing TONS of more Illegal drugs into the USA? That were previously stopped when the US border and immigrant were properly controlled.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/18/2021 7:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Some Conservative Inc.™ "commentators" (David French and Kevin Williamson come to mind, both Notional Review alumni) have opined that blue-collar white men dying of drug overdoses is a good thing. This is the "brain trust" some (hopefully not many, but none would be better) self-identified "conservatives" get their opinions from.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/18/2021 7:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Far more died in the U.S. from overdoses than from Climate Change. Chinese fentanyl probably got a lot of them. Much of this stuff came across our southern border thanks to China Joe's border policies.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/18/2021 9:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Unfortunate so many choose to destroy themselves but in the end they made the choice. Just a longer, more destructive suicide.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/18/2021 10:54 Comments || Top||

#7  We know the cartels have corrupted the Mexican government. Biden's open border policy is an indication that they have also corrupted him.

And then there is the Chinese connection. Remember what a great movie The French Connection was? How about getting Popeye Doyle after the Chinese? Yeah, I know. The FBI, CIA and DEA would never let it happen.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/18/2021 13:14 Comments || Top||

#8  If I could somehow solve just one of the problems facing our country, it would be the drug problem. Because it is a driver of so many other problems -- crime, homelessness, etc.
Posted by: Matt || 11/18/2021 13:17 Comments || Top||

#9  24 hours after receiving stimulus money overdoses galore.
Posted by: Dale || 11/18/2021 13:38 Comments || Top||

#10  That's not unexpected when you consider that so many *young* adults were told to forget their dreams and professions and instead go home and sit on the couch for over a year while living on mailbox money. Its *criminal* what we did to young adults in the name of the Chinese flue. There should be consequences for the "leaders" that perpetuated this nonsense.
Posted by: Crusader || 11/18/2021 14:55 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ this. They are destroying an entire generation. These kids have lost YEARS of socio-emotional and intellectual development.

Many of them will never recover from this.

Most will experience diminished earning potential and reduced chances for a stable and prosperous life.

It is simply criminal what has been done to these young people -- in the name of avoiding a risk that is literally smaller than their risk of a fatal car crash while driving on the highway in any given year.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/18/2021 15:12 Comments || Top||

#12  their choice.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 11/18/2021 18:22 Comments || Top||

#13  While the US Postal Service continues to handle mail containing fentanyl direct from Red China to distributors in the USA, strangely the MSM and leading pundits never talk about this, and Buy Dung? never mentioned it to Xi during their recent encounter.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/18/2021 22:13 Comments || Top||

#14  Yesterday NPR did post this quote from Anne Milgram: "This year alone, DEA has seized enough fentanyl to provide every member of the United States population with a lethal dose."
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/18/2021 22:33 Comments || Top||


Geert Vanden Bossche Was Right, The World's Most Vaccinated Country Cancels Christmas Due to Massive Rise in COVID-19 Infections
[ConservativeTreehouse] The most vaccinated population in the world exists on Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory located at the southern end of Spain. The average number of vaccinations is 2.79 per person for all residents.

However, even with that level of vaccination density, or perhaps —more likely— because of that level of vaccination density, the narrow peninsula is experiencing a massive rise in COVID-19 infections. As a result, the Gibraltar government announced today that all Christmas assemblies must be stopped, and citizens must re-evaluate their intent to gather in celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
Nice bar chart in article.


Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 11/18/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At this point it's just a cult: The Holy Church of the Branch COVIDians
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/18/2021 5:57 Comments || Top||

#2 
^ I see "Branch COVIDians" being added to the US Lexicon already.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/18/2021 7:32 Comments || Top||

#3  How will the CDC categorize adverse reactions (vaccine injuries) to the third shot?
Will third dosers be considered unvaxed until 10 days after the booster or will they be considered vaxed same day as jab 3?
Will vaccine injuries to children be categorized as unvaxed kids raise the rate of infection in children, thereby allowing the media to call for more kids to be vaxed?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 11/18/2021 7:38 Comments || Top||

#4  The "magic" in magic numbers is in the manipulation, misreporting and misinterpretation.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/18/2021 7:57 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Uncle Sam looking after Soldiers and Airmen in Germany ?
[Breitbart] US Air Force Employee Handed Over Couple's Purchase Records, Leading to $300,000 Tax Bill from Germans

The German tax collectors wanted to know it all: commissary expenditures, on-base gasoline purchases, visits to a Ramstein Air Base fitness center, discounted airline flights to the United States.

And special agent Dirk Roessling, a German employee of the U.S. Air Force's Office of Special Investigations at Ramstein, obliged in a five-page report that ended up being used against a U.S. military-affiliated family in tax court.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The solution: get out of there. They couldn't make it more obvious that they want us gone.
Posted by: Punky Elmigum9411 || 11/18/2021 3:28 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ this. Leave tomorrow.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/18/2021 5:46 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ should have left when the Wall came down. Make the Marines your international force. Model the Army on the old Swiss system.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2021 6:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Send them all home. I'm done with the German Govt.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/18/2021 9:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Or how about we send them a bill for their protection.
Posted by: Chris || 11/18/2021 11:53 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Ten civilians killed in CAR under attack of militants
Direct Translation via Google Translation. Edited.
[REGNUM] At least 12 civilians died as a result of the rebel attack on the military base and nearby settlements, said the official representative of the UN Secretary General Stefan Dujarrick in an official address.

" A total of 12 civilians were killed, 15 more were injured and are now receiving treatment at the local hospital. The civilians left the area where the attack took place," he said.

Dujarrik clarified that the attack took place near the village of Uham-Pendé. A UN peacekeeping contingent is now dispatched to the area where the attack took place.

As reported by IA REGNUM , earlier Russia transferred to the UN more than $81 million for peacekeeping missions. It is noted that the allocated funds will go to the work of peacekeepers in Western Sahara, Mali, Sudan, South Sudan, DR Congo, CAR, Somalia, Lebanon, Kosovo, Cyprus and the Golan Heights.
Posted by: badanov || 11/18/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Jair Bolsonaro and guns: A US culture war raging in Brazil
[BBC] Gun culture was a key part of Jair Bolsonaro's winning campaign to become Brazil's president. Three years later, what impact has he had on the nation's relationship with firearms and how much has US politics played a part?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The article has some accuracies but is slanted against guns which makes parts of the article false.

I was in all parts of Brazil before and during Bolsonaro's Presidency and Brazilian men of good standing know more about US gun laws than a lot of Americans because living in a country where guns were not legally allowed made the men yearn for the ability to protect their families better if they had gun rights. So they looked to US to learn how we do it in detail.

Now that they can own guns, yes, there are more shootings because during a crime people are now shooting the criminals.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 11/18/2021 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  The BBC is all that is Progressive, which now means boringly woke.

It’s so nice to get the facts from someone with personal experience, Blackbeard Barnsmell6454. Thank you. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2021 0:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Women in Brazil are also snapping up guns because armed criminals were especially brutal when it came to a woman who would not comply. They shoot women without hesitation.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 11/18/2021 1:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Guns made in Brazil:
2016. Taurus Judge (4510TKR-3SS) Five-Shot Revolver.
2014. SIG-Sauer P320. Semi-Automatic Pistol.
2013. Remington MSR (Modular Sniper Rifle) ...
2009. IMBEL .308 AGLC (Fz .308 AGLC)
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 11/18/2021 7:27 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 it appears it works both ways.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Brazilian highway patrol.



One in off duty female officer in action:



The above video is from Active Self Protection self defense channel on YouTube. The narrator puts one, sometimes two videos a day (9am and 5pm central time) of real life deadly confrontations from around the world.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/18/2021 14:48 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Satellite imagery reveals increased activity from Russia's 144th Guards Motorized Rifle Division and the 41st Combined Arms Army
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Capture of 33 Wagner operators in 2020 was the work of the Ukrainian special services.
Direct Translation via Google Translate Edited.
By Alexander Kots

[KP] HOT SUMMER 2020
What I, the special correspondent of "KP" had more than a year ago, fit into one newspaper spread, the investigators of Bellingcat managed to stretch it into two parts. And they actually confirmed the version of the Russian special services, which was first announced on the pages of Komsomolskaya Pravda. The British newspaper, which is associated with Western intelligence services, finally told what happened in Minsk last summer.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 11/18/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


State Duma may deprive Rashkin of immunity on November 25
Direct Translation via Google Translation. Edited.
[REGNUM] On November 25, the State Duma may discuss the issue of immunity of the State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin. As a REGNUM correspondent reports on November 17, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin told reporters about it .

In accordance with the regulations, within seven days the commission on mandate issues must study the appeal of the Prosecutor General, Volodin explained.

"In accordance with the rules of procedure, the discussion may take place next week at a plenary session on Thursday, November 25," the State Duma speaker noted.

The State Duma received a submission from the Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov .
Note: Rashkin was caught with the carcass of an Elk in his car two weeks ago. He is being charged with poaching.
Posted by: badanov || 11/18/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
OSHA suspends enforcement of Vax Mandate
Note: I was thinking of posting this as 'other' but really, the mandate is a form of terror with the USA Administrative State as the terror entity
[NationalReview] The OSHA website page dedicated to the COVID Vaccine Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) reads:

"While OSHA remains confident in its authority to protect workers in emergencies, OSHA has suspended activities related to the implementation and enforcement of the ETS pending future developments in the litigation."

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit fully blocked Biden’s executive order requiring companies with over 100 workers to mandate vaccination for their employees after temporarily staying it on November 12. The court ordered that OSHA "take no steps to implement or enforce" the vaccine mandate "until further court order."
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/18/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Someone is thinking they want to hang around after Biden cause a reckoning is surely coming?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2021 6:42 Comments || Top||

#2 

OSHA dramatically overstepped its authority and became a political tool, instead of a work place protector.

I would love to see a "Public" Congressional Hearing on who & how this leads back to in the White House.

Because I still feel Biden isn't playing with a full deck and we have a shadow government running things.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/18/2021 7:29 Comments || Top||


Europe
Estonia Orders Snap Military Drill, Calls Up Reservists To Fortify Border With Russia
[ZERO] The Baltic European Union country of Estonia has ordered previously unannounced military exercises along its border with Russia, at a moment Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland to its south are locked in a standoff with Belarus over the migrant crisis.

The drills are being interpreted in part as an act of solidarity with Poland and meant to send a message to Belarus and its main geopolitical backer Russia. In particular military reservists are being called up to fortify the border, just like is happening with Estonia's EU allies, as Reuters reports, "The Estonian government summoned 1,700 reserve soldiers on Wednesday for an unannounced exercise which will include installing a razor wire barrier along 40 km of its border with Russia, as the migration crisis in nearby Belarus intensifies."

For the past week Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia have had states of emergencies in place at their borders with Belarus, allowing additional forces and reserve units to be called up, as the situation shows no signs of abating anytime soon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2021 06:39 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Russian foreign minister makes diplomatic correspondence public
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Rusvesna] Paris and Berlin opposed the inclusion of a clause on the need to establish a direct dialogue between Kiev and the Republics of Donbass in the final document of the proposed meeting in the Normandy format.

This follows from the correspondence between Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his French and German counterparts Jean-Yves Le Drian and Heiko Maas, published by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

"To prevent further speculation, the Russian Foreign Ministry decided to publicize the primary sources and publish the diplomatic correspondence between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the heads of the German and French foreign ministries Heiko Maas and Jean-Yves Le Drian," the statement said.

In his first letter dated October 29, 2021, Lavrov informs his colleagues that he would like to reaffirm the importance of continuing joint efforts within the framework of the Normandy format to help resolve the conflict in Donbas.

"I believe that our possible meeting, the convening of which is now much talked about, should be well prepared, including the advance development of a detailed joint final statement with specific recommendations to Ukraine and certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions as parties to the conflict," Lavrov wrote and sent the Russian draft "A document that, as we see it, reflects the realities and main objectives of the peace process."

As indicated in the response of Maas and Le Drian, the text "contains provisions that will undoubtedly not find support among the countries of the Normandy format, including the establishment of a direct dialogue between Kiev, Donetsk and Luhansk."

In the next letter, dated November 6, Lavrov noted that he had received a response from his colleagues to the proposals of October 29 and was disappointed with them.

"Your statement of rejection of direct dialogue between Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk discredits the co-authorship of the leaders of Germany and France on the document dated February 12, 2015 (Minsk agreements - RV)," the Foreign Minister stressed.

In the last letter sent on November 16, the Russian Foreign Minister said that Moscow is increasingly faced with a distortion of Russia's position and its role in resolving the internal Ukrainian conflict.

"Unfortunately, your joint statement 'In support of Ukraine,' made in Brussels on November 15 following a meeting with Foreign Minister D. Kuleba, was no exception. In it, you threatened us with some "consequences" for the alleged attempts to undermine the territorial integrity of Ukraine, accused us of "yet another refusal" to participate in the Normandy format ministerial meeting," the Russian Foreign Minister wrote. And he added that he was forced to take an unconventional step: to make the correspondence public.

Related
The head of the Russian delegation warned at the OSCE forum against a military solution to the conflict in Donbass.

[VK] The Kiev version of the military solution to the conflict in Donbass may lead to the collapse of the Ukrainian statehood. Nobody is interested in this, Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security and arms control, issued such a warning on Wednesday at a meeting of the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation.

Gavrilov expressed confidence that the degradation of the situation in Donbass is due to the fault of the Ukrainian authorities and is "used by the Western" masters "of Kiev to put pressure on the Russian Federation, and absurd arguments are presented in favor of the mythical" Russian threat "to the sovereignty of Ukraine.

He also called the unscheduled NATO and US exercises in the Black Sea "reconnaissance combat." Against this background, the Russian diplomat considered it unnecessary to comment on the propaganda explanations of the Western countries for such a demonstration of force, which no longer surprises Russia.

Posted by: badanov || 11/18/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm thinking selectively.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/18/2021 12:34 Comments || Top||

#2  So the same people who trample on Hungary and Poland's sovereignty, who fail to protect their own nations' sovereignty in the face of millions of Muslim invader-colonists, are now up in arms about Ukrainian sovereignty?

Truly interesting times.

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/18/2021 12:55 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Rooftop Chinaman demonstrates Finnish M-39 Mosin Nagant 7.62x54
Note: The Finish M-39 is one of the only military service rifles with an adjustable front sight. Hat tip to Badanov for introducing us to 9-Hole Review.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2021 00:33 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Rooftop Chinaman" has a certain ring to it. Could be a band. Or an IPA.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/18/2021 5:55 Comments || Top||



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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

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 dominated Mexico for six years.
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  Explosion in Kabul killed and injured civilians
Sat 2021-11-13
  United States imposes sanctions on Eritrea’s military and other individuals
Fri 2021-11-12
  Iran-backed Houthis holding US Embassy staff in Yemen
Thu 2021-11-11
  Iran-Backed Militants Storm US Embassy in Yemen
Wed 2021-11-10
  Half-Naked Knifeman Reportedly Shouting 'Allakhu Akbar' Injures Police Officer in Oslo, Gets Shot
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  Fugitive ISIS operative hunted by the Russian government is arrested at airport in Bogota
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Sun 2021-11-07
  Assassination attempt on Iraqi PM
Sat 2021-11-06
  Minneapolis leftists threaten to burn down
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