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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Alec Baldwin: It's 'a lie' that he's not helping shooting probe
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/09/2022 06:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He killed someone. As much as he is a shit head, and as much as I dislike everything about him. He is entitled to a proper legal defense/due process and should follow his legal advice under our constitution.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/09/2022 10:18 Comments || Top||

#2  He blames everyone but himself.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/09/2022 10:35 Comments || Top||


NYC hate crime victim dies from his injuries
[NYPOST] An Asian man who was brutally assaulted in an April hate crime attack has died from his injuries, the NYPD announced Saturday.

Yao Pan Ma, 61, was repeatedly kicked in the head April 23 while collecting cans in East Harlem, cops said.

Ex-con Jarrod Powell was caught on video assaulting Ma, and busted four days after the savage attack, which left the victim in a coma.

Ma died Dec. 31, the NYPD said.

Powell, 49, was initially charged with attempted murder and two counts of of assault as a hate crime. He has pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
The case has now been designated a homicide, though upgraded charges were not yet filed, the NYPD said.

Powell, who has at least 15 prior busts dating back to 1988, claimed the victim attacked him first — and that video of the sickening assault was "a whole lot of bulls—t."

He was held on $100,000 cash bail at his arraignment. Ma, an out-of-work Chinese immigrant, was collecting cans at Third Avenue and 125th Street to help make ends meet when he was stomped.

Ma was taken to Harlem Hospital following the beating. His wife, Baozhen Chen, had feared her husband would not recover from his medically induced coma — and demanded justice for the father of her two children.
Posted by: Fred || 01/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Chinese man pleads guilty to stealing Monsanto trade secret
[FOXBUSINESS] A Chinese national admitted in federal court Thursday that he stole a trade secret when he worked for Monsanto and one of its subsidiaries in Missouri, federal prosecutors said.

Haitao Xiang, 44, formerly of Chesterfield, Missouri, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit economic espionage. He was indicted by a grand jury on eight charges in 2019.

Prosecutors said in a news release that Xiang transferred a trade secret to a memory card and then attempted to take it to China for the benefit of the Chinese government.

Xiang worked as an imaging scientist for Monsanto and one of its subsidiaries, The Climate Corporation, from 2008 to 2017.

Court records say Monsanto and The Climate Corporation developed a digital online farming software platform to help farmers collect field data to increase productivity.

Part of the platform was an algorithm called the Nutrient Optimizer, which the companies considered a trade secret and their intellectual property, prosecutors said.
Posted by: Fred || 01/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Did the law firm of King & Spalding facilitate a plea agreement ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2022 1:52 Comments || Top||


Ghislaine Maxwell victim says Virginia Giuffre told her about sleeping with Prince Andrew
[NYPOST] One of the key witnesses in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial came forward Friday with new information about Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s sexual abuse allegations against Prince Andrew.

Carolyn Andriano, 35, says in a new bombshell interview that Giuffre told her in 2001 that she’d had sex with the UK royal — and even showed her the now-infamous photo of the two posing together in Maxwell’s London home.

Giuffre, who was 17 at the time, is currently suing Andrew in New York, accusing him of sexually assaulting her when she was underage.

Now 38, Giuffre has long alleged that she was-sex-trafficked to the prince by Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein
A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whores sex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened...
and his madam, Maxwell.

Andriano — who testified at Maxwell’s trial using only her first name — waived her right to anonymity in the interview with The Daily Mail.

Andriano said she recalled Giuffre texting her from London in March 2001 to say that she was going out to dinner with Andrew, Maxwell and Epstein.
Posted by: Fred || 01/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So what was once a 'trophy encounter' can now be milked for a book and movie.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/09/2022 8:19 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Missing Florida woman last seen swimming in alligator-infested river
[NYPOST] Authorities in Florida have released chilling footage of a missing woman swimming and wading in an alligator-infested river before she vanished.
Oh, golly! I wonder what happened to her?
Paola Miranda-Rosa, 31, who authorities say is schizophrenic,
...and who clearly didn’t see a need for treatment, with sadly predictable results....
was reported missing by her family three weeks ago after she was last seen at a relative’s Orlando apartment.
"I think I'll go for a swim."
"No, I don't feel like it."

The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office revealed this week that hikers had since come forward to say they spotted the missing woman in Wekiva Springs State Park on Dec. 18 — a day after her family last saw her.
"It's a hot day."
"Not that hot. It's the middle of December."
"In Florida."

The hikers gave Sherlocks a video they took of the woman swimming solo in the river.
"I'm going in."
"No, I'm not. The river's full of alligators."
"They won't bother me. I ain't never been bit by an alligator."

Family members identified the woman in the video as Miranda-Rosa, the sheriff’s office said.
"Yessir, that's them."
Authorities have been using high-tech underwater camera systems to trawl roughly 4.5 miles of the river near where Miranda-Rosa was last seen.
"The water's fine."
"I shouldn't be here."
"Look at that cute alligator over there."
"He's a big 'un!"
"Lookidat! He's coming over to play."
"I wish I'd stayed on the shore."

They have also been scouring the woods on either side of the river for any trace of her.
Check the stomachs of the alligators that look particularly satisfied.
She self-identifies as She/Her/Lunch
Posted by: Fred || 01/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Lady and the Crocodile
Oh, she sailed away on a sunny summer day,
On the back of a crocodile.
“You see,” said she, “he’s as tame as he could be,
“I’ll float him down the Nile.”
Well, the croc winked his eye as she waved to them goodbye,
Wearing a happy smile,
At the end of the ride, the lady was inside,
And the smile was on the crocodile!
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2022 2:04 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Lia Thomas dominated by fellow Ivy League transgender swimmer Iszac Henig
[NY Post] Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
It's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world
Except for Lia, Iszac ... L I A, I S Z A C.

The University of Pennsylvania’s transgender swimmer, Lia Thomas, was defeated by another transgender swimmer.

The record-shattering Thomas previously competed on the Penn men’s team and has transitioned to female.

But at an Ivy League swim meet Saturday, a Yalie, Iszac Henig, defeated Thomas in both the women’s 100- and 400-yard freestyle races, the Daily Mail reported.

Henig, who is transitioning from female to male, set a record for the women’s 50-yard freestyle, the outlet said.

Henig was able to compete on the women’s team because she had yet to start testosterone treatment, according to a June piece in The New York Times.
Posted by: Huparong Cloluper8853 || 01/09/2022 07:53 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ivy League colleges are beclowning themselves now with out of control Wokeness and absurd levels of affirmative action preference for "under-represented minorities" that now include queers and chicks-with-dicks. Talented white and Asian males are increasingly saying F-you and dropping out of these madhouses in favor of excellent state flagship public schools.

This trend will destroy the reputation of Harvard Yale Princeton etc. Employers will come to see these as BS finishing schools for virtue-signalers whose distinctive skills are verbal fluency and a knack for figuring out how to tell liberal elites what they want to hear: Woke Soetoros.

Prediction: by 2030, at least one of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton will no longer be ranked among the world's top 25 universities.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 11:41 Comments || Top||

#2  The people who do the rankings are just as woke, or maybe even woker. It's the schools that resist this that will be downgraded.
Posted by: Ed || 01/09/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||

#3  If you include the alphabet people, URMs ("under-represented minorities") now make up about 35% of those who attend Harv-Yale-Pton. Recruited athletes, children of big donors, other alumni and staff, and foreign students make up another 40%. Most of the remainder are drawn from fewer than a dozen "feeder" elite prep schools.

Which means that the odds that one of these ridiculous Woke Finishing School classes will produce another Richard Feynman or E.O. Wilson or James Watson or John Updike, George Kennan, Henry Kissinger, TS Eliot et al. are effectively zero.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 12:52 Comments || Top||

#4  As a Yale graduate, I find this whole thing enormously amusing.

I couldn't read fiction book with this plot because no publisher would find it realistic enough. So I rely on real life to provide me with some very amusing entertainment. Like this.
Posted by: Tom || 01/09/2022 14:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Meanwhile, all those decades of women's athletic records and effort are meaningless.
Posted by: KBK || 01/09/2022 23:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Oppressed by crass Cassiopeia,
Identical twins pulled a Lia:
"Let's claim conjoined wits
And swap negative splits."
"What a scathingly schizo idea!"
Posted by: Phavimble Pholurong2922 || 01/09/2022 23:55 Comments || Top||


Hospitals across the U.S. turning to foreign nurses as healthcare workers are fired over vaccine mandates
[FoxNews] Upwards of 5,000 international nurses are waiting on approval for U.S. visas.

Short-staffed hospitals across the country are turning to international nurses to fill staff shortages as thousands of healthcare workers across the country are being cut loose for not submitting to a coronavirus vaccine.

Administrators at Billings Clinic in Montana have contracts with two dozen international nurses and is one of "scores" of hospitals across the country bringing in nurses from other countries to address staffing issues including retirements, according to an NPR report.

The report states that a backlog of more than 5,000 international nurses are waiting from countries like Ghana, Thailand, and the Philippines to be cleared to obtain visa approval to work in U.S. hospitals.

"We are seeing an absolute boom in requests for international nurses," Lesley Hamilton-Powers, a board member of AAIHR and a vice president for Avant Healthcare Professionals in Florida, said.

The push for more international nurses comes as thousands of nurses and healthcare workers across the country are losing their hospital jobs over coronavirus vaccine requirements.

Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic recently fired 700 unvaccinated employees who did not submit to coronavirus vaccines. Over 500 healthcare workers have been fired in Massachusetts for disobeying vaccine mandates and over 30,000 healthcare workers in New York have been fired.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/09/2022 06:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  And our health care system is now rapidly becoming a third world event.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/09/2022 10:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Rape of other nations. They have been doing this for years. Time to import Hospital administrators.
Posted by: Dale || 01/09/2022 15:36 Comments || Top||


Air Force Admits to Lowering Physical Fitness Standards to Allow Woman to Join Elite Unit
[American Greatness] The U.S. Air Force allegedly went out of its way to lower the standards of physical fitness tests and other exams in order to ensure that a female candidate could ultimately qualify for the elite Special Tactics team, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

The allegations stem from an anonymous memo that was received by the Beacon, claiming that a female candidate who repeatedly failed and quit multiple times when she initially couldn’t pass the training program was allowed to try again until the qualifications were lowered in her favor.

Lt. Gen. Jim Slife, head of the Air Force Special Operations Command, has since responded by claiming that "norms" have indeed changed.

"How we bring trainees through the pipeline today is different than the way we brought them through the pipeline 15 years ago, because our understanding of the best way to get trainees to meet these standards by the time they join the operational force has evolved," Slife said. "It will continue to do so."

The memo claims that the woman first received "preferential treatment" during the Special Tactics Officer selection process after she quit a swimming test. Despite this, she was "invited to return" to attempt the training again, which itself was a violation of "societal norms" in the Air Force.

The memo continues by describing how the woman "self-eliminated" on multiple occasions after she continued to fail various physical fitness exams; nevertheless, she was directly approached by Air Force leadership and encouraged to "stay in the training pipeline despite her effort to self-eliminate/quit." Those in leadership allegedly predicted that she would ultimately pass the exams "regardless of if she meets standards or not."

The incident is just the latest in a series of examples of women being arbitrarily favored for advancement in the military, ever since the 2015 decision by Barack Obama’s Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, to make all combat roles available for women. But veterans, Republican lawmakers, and others have pointed out that the vastly different standards for men and women are necessary due to their extreme physical and biological differences, thus meaning that some roles could only be fulfilled by men.

"The military community is not against women serving in the Air Force Special Warfare unit," said an anonymous service member regarding the incident described in the memo. "However, we want the first female to have earned the beret and NOT have been given it."

Slife, however, defended the conduct alleged in the memo by pointing out that "there is a difference between standards and norms. Norms may adapt over time, but the standards are always tied to our mission. As the mission changes, the needed standards may change as well, but that hasn’t happened in this case."

He also accused the authors of the memo of "bullying and harassment" against the female candidate, claiming that it was "singling out a fellow service member for public abuse."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2022 02:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ugh. I wouldn’t want something like that if I hadn’t earnt it by the exact same standards as the men.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/09/2022 4:18 Comments || Top||

#2  It's not just the USAF, and it's not just Physical Fitness Standards that have been lowered. Sadly, this is not a new phenomenon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2022 5:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Standards are set by the enemy in the real world. They don't care about 'equity' only victory.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/09/2022 7:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Dare I hope that the Chinese are also lowering standards? Hope?
Posted by: Tom || 01/09/2022 14:34 Comments || Top||

#5  So if you are a woman who is in one of these elite units - you are now deemed only in the unit due to 'Affirmative Action' - even if you are full qualified and might have passed the 'normal men's' qualifications.

I'm sure that's a morale booster right there. (/sarc)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/09/2022 16:15 Comments || Top||


Navy training goes woke: Boot camp to include classes on suicide prevention, hazing, racism and sexual assault after numerous crisis over past number of years
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • The Navy will add two weeks of training to its boot camp program that focusing on suicide and sexual assault prevention, hazing and extremism

  • Navy Officials said it would tackle the problems the agency has faced involving the rise of suicides and sexual assaults, as well as fires and deadly ship collisions

  • It also includes the rise of extremism after several former and active military members took part in the January 6 Capitol riot

  • The changes were first suggested after the Navy found crew members were ill-prepared to stop a fire that destroyed a $1.2 billion ship in 2020
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...In fairness, when I fell under the tender mercies of the US Air Force 44 years ago, we had classes on both suicide prevention and sexual harassment/assault. They were kinda simplistic, but in those less complicated days it was all you needed: for suicide, GET HELP or say something and for assault/harassment, DON'T DO IT lest ye find yourself a jailed E1 for a few years.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/09/2022 8:07 Comments || Top||

#2  When I attended Navy OCS in 1970, we had to take a driving safety course - apparently, in 1969, more sailors died in traffic accidents than died in combat in Viet Nam.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/09/2022 10:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Two weeks? And i thought 1day for ‘watermelon u’ was torture…
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/09/2022 11:41 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Climax, MI - 170 Vehicle Pile-Up Triggers Fireworks and Evacuation
[ABC] A spectacular highway pile-up and fire in Michigan involved 170 cars, sparked a massive fireworks explosion and prompted an evacuation because one of the vehicles was carrying hazardous materials, police said.

Police asked people to evacuate within three miles of the huge chain-reaction crash because of the hazardous materials in one of the trucks.

The crash took place amid snowy road conditions on I-94 near the small town of Galesburg between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, Trooper Rick Carlson told ABC News.

There was at least one fatality. Firefighters struggled with a blaze that involved at least two cars and four large trucks. One of those trucks contained 40,000 pounds of fireworks and much of it detonated in a colorful explosion.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2022 09:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Briefer title: 'Fireworks at Climax...'
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/09/2022 10:45 Comments || Top||

#2  ^^ Sounds like a 70s pr0n movie
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/09/2022 12:23 Comments || Top||

#3  just hoping there's no evacuation along with the climax. Messy
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||


Police discover live deer in car trunk in DUI stop
[NYPOST] A Pennsylvania woman had more than junk in her trunk during a traffic stop this week.

Newberry Township Police were shocked to find a live deer in the trunk of the 19-year-old’s car when they stopped her Thursday for allegedly driving under the influence.

The driver told the officers she hit the deer and placed it in her trunk with the aid of a passenger. Both thought the deer was dead, but later realized it was still alive as they kept on driving in the area about 15 minutes south of Harrisburg, according to a report.

During the DUI stop, police asked the passenger, a 21-year-old man, to take the deer out of the trunk and put it back into the wild. It was not clear if the animal sustained any injuries.
Posted by: Fred || 01/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fast Food.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 01/09/2022 1:56 Comments || Top||

#2  The deer had COVID and they were taking it to get tested.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 01/09/2022 8:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Jane Doe ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2022 8:40 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Nicely done
Posted by: Frank G || 01/09/2022 8:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Drive-ins charge a huge amount to for deer.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 01/09/2022 10:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Venison's better when fresh
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 11:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Reminded of the corny old penguin thing my mom liked telling.

A cop stops two guys with a gnu.
"I stopped you two yesterday, too!
My instruction to you?"
"'Take that gnu to the zoo!'"
"Which we did."
"Dude, for true!"
[an agreeable moo]
"Then we went to the game..."
"Where he seemed almost tame..."
"So we thought he might sit in a pew."
Posted by: Phavimble Pholurong2922 || 01/09/2022 13:25 Comments || Top||

#8  How much had the deer had to drink that they put it in the trunk?
Posted by: ed in texas || 01/09/2022 15:12 Comments || Top||

#9  If you're going to do deer sushi, you've got to do it right.
Posted by: KBK || 01/09/2022 23:20 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Kazakhstan's Minister of Internal Affairs Details High Level of Organization Among Rioters
[SputnikNews] "Large groups of protesters in different parts of the city attacked patrol squads. They took control of seven gun shops and seized weapons and ammunition. They seized public transport and municipal vehicles and used them to ram squads of law enforcement. They threw homemade incendiary mixtures and fired guns at police. They burned service vehicles, including fire engines," Turgumbayev added.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 01/09/2022 09:35 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  i guess everyone is just used to fake woke false flag events staged and carried out by idiots in certain governments!
Posted by: Omegum Darling of the Hemps9041 || 01/09/2022 12:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't give Antifart any ideas. They're already close to this m.o.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 13:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Because ranthamburgher is managed by a cuntservatives coward homosexual
This are the events that the prostitute are not telling you.


03/04/2021 . (April 4, 2021)
US allocates USD 1.5 million for "human rights preservation in Kazakhstan."

19/04/2021 (April 19, 2021)
US Embassy in Kazakhstan begins official "tender" to find "willing organizations" to distribute money.

22.04.2021 (April 22, 2021)
US again allocates money to "strengthen the media landscape in Kazakhstan."

20.05.2021 (May 20, 2021)
The USA provides money in the amount of 240 million USD to build up military bases in 20 countries, including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan (whether the governments of the countries ever agreed to this? ).

Thus, as you can see above, once Russia began moving its troops back toward the Ukraine Border in February into March, and the West realized they were going to have an actual fight on their hands over Ukraine, the West (i.e. U.S. Congress) regrouped and began throwing money at Kazakhstan. They decided THEN, back in March, they were going to move to destabilize Kazakhstan, and in April they started openly allocating the money to make it happen.

But wait . . . there's more!

Dec 16, 2021.
The US Embassy in Kazakhstan issues a travel warning for major Kazakh cities because of "upcoming demonstrations and warns of possible riots and mass arrests.

Source:
[https://kz.usembassy.gov/demonstration-alert121521/]

Well, well, well. That's some magic Crystal Ball the US Embassy in Kazakhstan has. They issued travel warnings about demonstrations and mass riots three full weeks BEFORE there was even any sign of such things. Gee, I wonder how they could have known? Maybe because THEY THEMSLEVES were arranging all of it?

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/satellites-would-be-attacked-first-then-these-radar-stations-if-ww3-commences-next-week
Posted by: I spit on you || 01/09/2022 17:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Spit,
Articles you refer to were posted here the last couple of days. If you do away with the silly insults you might get a dialogue going.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 01/09/2022 18:23 Comments || Top||

#5  I remember an article about NGOs going in and trying to influence the locals. The commies took the money and acted for their handlers. Whereas the Afghans and Paks took the American money and ran. Commies are such dumbasses.
Posted by: Xyz || 01/09/2022 18:56 Comments || Top||

#6  @#3 - Well... spitters ARE quitters right??
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 01/09/2022 19:41 Comments || Top||


Kazakhstan News Roundup
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Supermarkets reopen in Almaty
[REGNUM] Supermarkets resume work on a reduced schedule in the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan. This was reported on January 8 by the operational headquarters in its telegram channel.

It is specified that according to the city's business and investment department, 28 branches of the Magnum, Toymart and Small supermarkets have reopened to date. For the next two days, the work schedule is set from 09:00 to 18:00. Security measures have been taken, food stocks in warehouses and retail outlets are sufficient.

In addition, it is noted that the Magnum chain will open 40 stores on January 9, and on January 10, the work of all production enterprises of the city will be gradually resumed, with the food industry being a priority.

Earlier IA REGNUM reported that local outbreaks of fierce resistance of the militants continued in Alma-Ata.

Local outbreaks of fierce resistance remain in Almaty
[REGNUM] Local outbreaks of fierce resistance remained in Alma-Ata. This was stated by the deputy head of the city administration Yerzhan Babakumarov on the air of the Khabar 24 TV channel.

It is specified that the militants have been providing armed resistance to this day. In most parts of the city, the situation was stabilized, but outbreaks of fierce resistance are observed.

Earlier, IA REGNUM reported that the information spread by a number of media outlets about the battle in the area of ​​the village of Raiymbek in the suburbs of Alma-Ata was not confirmed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan.

Read earlier in this story: The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan did not confirm the data on the battle in the suburb of Alma-Ata

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan did not confirm the data on the battle in the suburbs of Alma-Ata
[REGNUM] Media information about the battle in the area of ​​the village of Raiymbek in the suburbs of Alma-Ata was not confirmed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan.

" We (the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan) do not confirm this information (about the battle in the area of ​​the village of Raiymbek) ," the department told Interfax.

Local residents, with whom the correspondent of the agency spoke, in turn said that in the area of ​​the village of Raiymbek "there were separate shots."

Earlier, some media reported that a battle was going on along the Alma-Ata-Bishkek highway in the vicinity of the village of Raiymbek.

Tokayev: hotbeds of terrorist attacks in Kazakhstan persist
[REGNUM] At present, hotbeds of terrorist attacks remain on the territory of Kazakhstan. This was announced on January 8 by the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev during a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin , he was quoted by the press service of the Kazakh leader.

"Kassym-Jomart Tokayev informed Vladimir Putin that the situation in the country is stabilizing. At the same time, hotbeds of terrorist attacks persist. Therefore, the fight against terrorism will continue with all decisiveness," the press service said.

It is also indicated that the President of Kazakhstan proposed to hold an online summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in the near future, and it is added that the timing of such a meeting will be agreed through diplomatic channels.

As reported by IA REGNUM , earlier it became known that unknown attackers sent messages about the threat of explosion of the embassies of Armenia and Belarus in Moscow with demands to withdraw the troops of these countries from the territory of Kazakhstan.

Nazarbayev's nephew continues to work as the first deputy head of the KNB
[REGNUM] Samat Abish, the nephew of the ex-president of Kazakhstan, continues to hold the post of first deputy head of the republic's National Security Committee (KNB). This was reported on January 8 by the KNB press service.

"This is how he works as a first deputy," the department noted, Interfax reports.

Earlier, information about the detention of Abish appeared in the media, but later this information was not confirmed.

Nazarbayev's nephew has been the first deputy chairman of the KNB since 2015.

11-year-old child died during riots in Alma-Ata
[REGNUM] One child was killed, a teenager was injured as a result of the riots in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan). Ombudsman for the rights of the child Aruzhan Sain announced this on January 8 .

On January 5, an 11-year-old child died from a gunshot wound. On January 7, gunmen shot at a car with a 15-year-old teenager. He was taken to one of the children's hospitals with gunshot wounds.

Mass protests in Kazakhstan began on January 2.

The authorities declared a state of emergency until January 19 and launched a counter-terrorism operation.

Checkpoints installed on the streets of Alma-Ata
[REGNUM] On January 8, checkpoints were set up on the streets of Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan), military equipment stands, Republic Square is closed. It is reported by Sputnik Kazakhstan.

The passage to the airport is also closed, the report says.

Mass protests in Kazakhstan began on January 2. The authorities declared a state of emergency across the country - until January 19 - and launched a counter-terrorism operation.

According to the UN, about 1,000 people were injured during the protests.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic reported that 18 security officials were killed.

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Courtesy of The Walking Unvaxed:
The situation in Kazakhstan is a much bigger deal than Western media is letting on.
A taste:
[ThreadReaderApp] It's almost as important to Russia as Belarus or Ukraine.

First, Russia and Kazakhstan have the largest continuous land border on planet earth.

If Kazakhstan destabilizes, a significant fraction of the country's 19 million residents could become refugees streaming across the border.
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#1  What I heard. The hardest part of the winter is near and people (refered numerous times above) in the rural areas are facing starvation.
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#3  Once again, our Arabic buttwipe had to be removed
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Government Corruption
Chief Justice Roberts criticizes White House for referring to Biden's vaccine mandate as a ‘workaround'
[Republic Brief] On Friday, conservative justices questioned President Joe Biden’s vaccine requirement for businesses, as the Court heard arguments from Republican officials and businesses who want to block the policy.

Justices John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch have said that states and Congress should lead the effort to combat the pandemic, rather than a federal agency.

Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative justice, argued the workplace policy was too broad, affecting more than 80 million Americans.

GOP-led states and business leaders brought a lawsuit against the mandate for companies with 100 or more employees as an example of federal overreach.

It appears that the liberal justices sided with the Biden administration’s position that vaccinations and mandates were the best way to curb the pandemic.

Roberts, however, asked U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar whether the Official Safety and Health Act of 1970 authorized the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to adopt the mandate.

’That was 50 years ago that you’re saying Congress acted. I don’t think it had COVID in mind.

’That was almost closer to the Spanish flu than it is to today’s problem,’ Roberts said, referring to the pandemic of 1918.

Arguments were heard while the nation struggled with the latest wave of infections, spurred on by the highly infectious Omicron variant.
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#1  Now that you know what it is, KILL IT !
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#2  From the man who used the appeal system to get around the unconstitutional act of the executive and judiciary of Pennsylvania dictating the means of selecting electors rather than as explicitly stated in the document to be done by the legislature. Workaround, right.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/09/2022 7:04 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm with P2k - it's a head fake.
Posted by: Raj || 01/09/2022 10:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Can't we just call it a tax and go home?
Posted by: SteveS || 01/09/2022 13:04 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't see how the Biden administration can force vaccine mandates on the American people when at the same time, they are allowing un-vaccinated invaders to flood through our borders. This is not only illegal, it's insane.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/09/2022 17:34 Comments || Top||

#6  workreacharound
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 19:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Watch the hand you cant see. How this will work is vanguard corporations are submitting a CONFIRMATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH OSHA COVID-19 ETS document. These large national and Intl corps will require anyone doing business with them be in compliance as a condition of business. Consequently, Co's, whose legal dept's are awaiting the outcome, will be forced to establish protocols to fulfill compliance. State governing bodies, which are always equal to or more stringent than OSHA, will then require it. So you will not be forced to vaccinate, you will be forced to comply or quit your job and leave the state if you want to work. As an aside I think one reason for the illegal surge is to supplant the flight from blue states, to prevent losing electorals and red state electoral gains due to population shift.
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Rand Paul hijacks The Babylon Bee: ‘Is Fauci Advising Justice Sotomayor?'
[Breitbart] Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) asked if Dr. Anthony Fauci is "advising" Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor after she touted falsehoods during oral arguments on Friday at the Supreme Court as justices weighed President Joe Biden’s coercive vaccine mandates.

"We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators" from the coronavirus, Sotomayor asserted on Friday, raising eyebrows.

After the remarks surfaced, Sen. Paul, a prominent critic of Anthony Fauci, tweeted: "Sotomayor: ’over 100,000 children...in serious condition, many on ventilators’ Is Fauci advising Justice Sotomayor? Will YouTube censor her?"
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#1  Give her a break! She is an Obama nominee and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is no longer there to help her with math.
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