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Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq terrorist militia prepares to attack GreenZone in Baghdad, Iraqi army ordered to deploy
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Page 6: Politix
6 21:19 JohnQC [3]
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Strange Twitter feed by PioyPioyPioy on RV bombing in Nashville
Posted by: gorb || 12/26/2020 10:20 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Indeed....
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/26/2020 11:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe. But this guy is into QAnon and Oswald-didn't-kill-JFK stuff as well. Large canister of salt needed
Posted by: Menhadden McGurque4922 || 12/26/2020 12:16 Comments || Top||

#3  More stretching facts to fit a preferred theory. There are lots of applications hosted or dependent on AT&T; pick one that fits your hobby horse and that was the target.

I wonder how many pizza delivery places were taken off-line yesterday? Maybe the bomb was a protest against pineapple on pizza?!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/26/2020 15:02 Comments || Top||

#4  pineapplegate!
Posted by: Gromomble White5797 || 12/26/2020 15:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Is someone trying to blind LE, emergency services and military and NG comms? You'd think if this were true there would be some follow-on terrorist/criminal/foreign action--unless this was a test or probe for some later bigger action.

Or it could just be some pissed-off guy with a beef. It's been such a weird FU year, anything's possible.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/26/2020 16:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Look at this
Posted by: 3dc || 12/26/2020 16:37 Comments || Top||

#7  The leads at this time would be vehicle VIN, license plate if one can be found, bomb residue to try to identify explosive, stolen vehicle reports any any other tips that might come in.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/26/2020 16:41 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: 3dc || 12/26/2020 16:55 Comments || Top||

#9 
What is the purpose of even having a court or election system in this new dicatorship
Posted by: 3dc || 12/26/2020 17:02 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ preserving the Grand Illusion.

Especially because we the people are patriotic - unlike our clownish, corrupt elites - and want so desperately to believe in the old verities which the elites have trampled on or demolished altogether -- rule of law, individual rights, due process etc
Posted by: Glusotch Ebbomorong5074 || 12/26/2020 17:12 Comments || Top||

#11  #5Target was not specifically AT&T.

The target was FirstNet which is a secure network for law enforcement and other emergency services.

This is also the comms that National Guard and likely other military use domestically.
Posted by Nautilus


Good assessment.
Posted by: Tennessee || 12/26/2020 20:15 Comments || Top||

#12  /\ Yes, good as any. Better than most.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/26/2020 20:54 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China's virus deceptions have been even worse than we thought
[NY Post] Fresh evidence published jointly by The New York Times and ProPublica confirms that Beijing has been trying to keep COVID-19 information from the rest of the world since the very start of the pandemic.

On Feb. 7, Li Wenliang, the doctor who blew the whistle on COVID-19, died of the disease he'd warned the world about. While working at Wuhan Central Hospital in China's Hubei Province, he saw a new version of the severe acute respiratory syndrome known as SARS, which also originated in China in 2002.

As news of the 34-year-old doctor's untimely death spread and grief went viral on social media such as Weibo and WeChat ‐ Beijing set out to bury the truth.

"They ordered news websites not to issue push notifications alerting readers to [Li's] death. They told social platforms to gradually remove his name from trending topics pages. And they activated legions of fake online commenters to flood social sites with distracting chatter," the Times-ProPublica team reports. In all, the Hangzhou offices of Beijing's Internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, issued more than 3,200 directives and 1,800 memos in its COVID-censorship drive ‐ all leaked by the hacker group C.C.P. [Chinese Communist Party] Unmasked.

"At a time when digital media is deepening social divides in Western democracies," the investigative team warns, "China is manipulating online discourse to enforce the Communist Party's consensus."

In January, before the coronavirus had even been definitively identified, the CCP began working overtime to mislead the world about the truth to protect the party's image as infections began soaring ‐ even making the disease look less severe. As a result, the world lost its best chance of preventing the global pandemic.

This is a damning expose from two left-leaning news organization. Now it's up to left, right and center to unite in holding the CCP to account for its obscene effort to protect its own image at the huge and deadly expense to the entire world.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/26/2020 03:51 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  They still are actively disturbing bio-virus in my opinion. Any country that defies them. Any country will pay. Every order shipped out of their ports is suspect. I'll bet you no shipment is debugged.
Posted by: Dale || 12/26/2020 4:05 Comments || Top||

#2  They told social platforms to gradually remove his name from trending topics pages.

Zuckerberg is more than happy to help.
Posted by: Clem || 12/26/2020 7:19 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Jonah Goldberg, a useful idiot for the left
Another useless Never-Trumper
[Am Thinker] Jonah Goldberg, one of the smugger NeverTrumpers, is as bitter and petulant as ever. And no, it’s not because of the undeniable election steal of 2020. In fact, Goldberg is quite satisfied that Donald Trump might be soon out of office even if the means to do so were most foul. It’s an "ends justify the means" type of thing. He is complaining that the Republican Party will remain the party of Trump regardless of who is in the White House come January.

Goldberg states this in his latest column. He begins it with words which more belong in the mouth of a CNN propagandist than an alleged conservative:

Throughout President Trump’s capture of the GOP, many Republicans have held fast to the hope that after he leaves office, the party can return to the sunny Reaganism of the ­Before Times. Of course, Trump’s bitter-enders have made it clear that they’d be happy to tear down not just the party, but the country itself to avoid having to live in a post-Trump world.


Translation: It is Trump and his supporters who are willing to tear the country down and not the criminals in the FBI, Department of Justice, the CIA, the Democrat Party, and media who tried by illegal means to overturn the 2016 election. Nor is it the fault of those who engaged in massive election fraud and ballot stuffing to seemingly give the election to a hapless Joe Biden.

As to the clear threat posed by leftists of all stripes intent on destroying the American republic, Goldberg is like the three monkeys that hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil. This former editor of NeverTrump Central, the National Review Online, is content to have the left do his dirty work for him (i.e., slay the Orange Monster from Queens).

Goldberg seems oblivious to the fact that the issues that propelled Trump into the White House in 2016 still resonate with the American people. These include immigration control, confronting China, addressing freeload allies, ditching free trade for fair trade, and avoiding foreign adventures.

Still, Goldberg does note two telling signs for believing his hope for the GOP reverting to its pre-Trump days is in vain. First are the polls. They show Trump is the heavy favorite of the Republican base for the 2024 nomination. It’s the second reason, however, that vexes Goldberg even more. It’s that Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is fully on board the Trump train.

Goldberg says many in the Republican establishment think those supporting Trump’s fighting the election steal suffer from a ’temporary fever, a last gasp of Trump’s cynical performative nonsense aimed at venting anger and raising money." Goldberg believes, however, that there’s more to it than a "fever" and that’s because of Cruz.

As Goldberg sees it, Ted Cruz "has long been a bellwether for the mood of the broader GOP base, which is why he switched from one of Trump’s biggest critics to one of his biggest supporters -- and why he offered to argue the Texas lawsuit before the Supreme Court." It’s this lawsuit, by the way — a suit that Ted Cruz, a true constitutional scholar, volunteered to argue — that the wordsmith Goldberg calls "idiotic."

The bone stuck in Goldberg’s craw is that no politician in recent memory has wrapped himself more in Reagan’s legacy than Cruz. But now the senator from Texas is all in with Trump. This is a betrayal in Goldberg’s eyes. But is it?

Ronald Reagan was president from 1981 to 1989. It doesn’t seem to have dawned on Goldberg that the circumstances of the 1980’s are far different than those facing America today.

Back then, the USSR was a true threat and China was an economic and military midget. That’s hardly the case today. Blindly following what Reagan did nearly 30-years ago is not just unwise; it’s downright foolish.

Looking at Goldberg’s behavior, it’s obvious he uses Republican fondness for Ronald Reagan as an excuse to practice his Trump-hate while trying to make himself look respectable. Peddling that self-serving malarkey exposes Goldberg as nothing but a useful idiot for the left.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/26/2020 04:55 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump achieved more to further conservatism than any president since Reagan. Maybe even more than Reagan, since he didn't compromise on immigration.

Goldberg needs to retire, maybe take up a service industry job. He definitely needs to get away from DC and NYC and be around actual Americans, rather than those dependent on government for their status.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/26/2020 9:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Is there a bigger collection of no-talent hacks, of someone's-sons, than the NeverTrumpers?

Aside from the cynical lefties who manipulate these clowns, who pays them any attention?
Posted by: Uleath Grundy7907 || 12/26/2020 9:47 Comments || Top||

#3  He definitely needs to get away from DC and NYC and be around actual Americans, rather than those dependent on government for their status.

"everything I know about conservatism I was taught by Bill Kristol and my couch"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/26/2020 10:09 Comments || Top||

#4  He definitely needs to get away from DC and NYC and be around actual Americans

Confused, leftest, bittereinder. His wiki bio is very revealing. Appears to have come by it honestly. Never cared for his analysis much, probably never will.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/26/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||

#5  I learned much of my conservatism from the founder of National Review and I figure Bill Buckley is spinning in his grave approaching warp speed.


Read his columns in the Journal American and Daily News as an early teen.

This crap just nauseates me.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/26/2020 10:41 Comments || Top||

#6  I read his 2012 book, The Tyranny of Cliches - How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas and thought it was pretty good. If I remember correctly.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/26/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Bobby - he's evolved
Posted by: Frank G || 12/26/2020 11:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Not all evolution is good.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/26/2020 13:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Slimy war-monger Bill Kristol is another one.
Posted by: Clem || 12/26/2020 14:01 Comments || Top||

#10  Turned into Panda Bears did they?

Bunch of fat fugs sitting around chewing cud who forgot how to fornicate?

Oh, that's not how they eat:
Pandas are born with sterile intestines and require bacteria obtained from their mother's feces to digest vegetation.
Snort, even better.

Got it. Pander Bears.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/26/2020 14:18 Comments || Top||

#11  Never Trumpers thought everything would go back to normal once Trump was gone. They missed that Trump restored the party of Reagan and Lincoln and the Never Trumpers are not welcome back.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/26/2020 23:49 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
NYC: Man Indicted for Murdering Americanized Daughter Who Didn't Want to Wear Hijab
[PJMedia] Kabary Salem is a former Olympic boxer who was arraigned Tuesday on murder charges over the strangulation death of his daughter, Ola Salem. Ola Salem, a Moslem women’s rights activist, was found dead in Staten Island on October 24, 2019. According to an acquaintance, Ola Salem was "becoming very Americanized," and that seems to have been what sent her father over the edge.

Kabary Salem was extradited from Kuwait, to which he fled not long after his daughter’s body was discovered. Before he left, he spoke to the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  Diversity is our strength alert.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 12/26/2020 8:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe muslim women deserve it? Maybe our hearts shouldn't bleed for self goals by this godforsaken phylum of humanity? As long as they keep the killing to their own sons and daughters, maybe we should even allow them some of their barbarity.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/26/2020 10:07 Comments || Top||

#3  “Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.[To Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati religious funeral practice of burning widows alive on her husband’s funeral pyre.]” Sir Charles James Napier
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/26/2020 13:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Ola Salem was "becoming very Americanized," and that seems to have been what sent her father over the edge.

Wouldn't wear a hijab? But probably wore a mask. Both try to force compliance.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/26/2020 21:17 Comments || Top||



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