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Israel turns down Hamas's hostage release offer
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
James O'Keefe vs. Southern Border NGOs Allegedly Involved in Human Trafficking
[PJ] James O’Keefe, of Project Veritas fame, has a damning report straight from the epicenter of the migrant invasion.
You'll be posing as a USAID representative Max. We use it routinely.
*Calling the cops and crying wolf about "muh racism" to cover for a human trafficking operation! Straight out of the Social Justice™ playbook.

"These ’Alitas’ (http://alitasangels.com) groups are part of a shadowy network of secretive nonprofits funding the mass migration of millions of people into the country, without truly vetting asylum seekers' claims and determining if they are eligible for refugee status," adds O’Keefe.

The reason, of course, that the corporate state relies on NGOs to do its dirty work — often assisted by federal money funneled through agencies like US AID — is because they operate outside of even the theoretical bounds of public accountability that government actors (again, theoretically) are subject to.

Emphasis added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2024 05:39 || Comments || Link || [39 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  The reason, of course, that the corporate state relies on NGOs to do its dirty work — often assisted by federal money funneled through agencies like US AID

The unmarked airplane midnight flights to NYC and other 'sanctuary cities' had to be funded by someone. Yes, taxpayer funding, a blinding flash of the obvious.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2024 5:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Rome fell from within.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2024 11:49 Comments || Top||

#3  I think we'll be lucky if we can decline as gracefully as Rome.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/22/2024 16:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Joe Six Pack vs The World. Joe Six Pack will go the way of Joe the Plumber.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/22/2024 19:04 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
What We Don't Know About the Danger of DEI in the Airline Industry is Scarier than What We Know
[American Thinker] United Airlines became the subject of derision and mockery recently as a viral video emerged of United’s CEO Scott Kirby proclaiming his company’s potentially disastrous and deadly mission to have half of their future hires be "women or people of color" as part of its corporate quest for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), an ideological cancer that has been eating away at America’s academic, economic, and societal strength for years.

The reasons for the acute public outrage aren’t mysterious. Millions of Americans fly commercially, and the idea of plummeting 30,000 feet over several minutes in anticipation of you and your family’s death is a frightening enough prospect for most people that the very idea of prioritizing race or gender in selecting pilots and mechanics seems nothing short of insane.

And in the past weeks, we’ve learned that the door plug of an Alaska Airlines fuselage blew off of the aircraft at 16,000 feet, depressurizing the cabin and creating a scenario so harrowing and nightmarish that one passenger felt compelled to send a presumedly final text: "Mom our plane depressed. We’re in masks. I love you."

The Boeing 737 Max was the plane involved, which some may remember was grounded after two deadly crashes overseas in 2018 and 2019, which claimed 346 lives in total and were both deemed the result of faulty equipment on the airplane.

As many Americans are only now discovering as a sidenote to other outrageous DEI news, such as the FAA being decidedly hellbent on taking DEI to its most ludicrous extent by "actively recruiting" people who suffer from "severe intellectual abilities," Boeing has also long been suicidally devoted to woke DEI initiatives. They now claim, for example, that they want their employees to "look like America," but are looking to have 92.5% of interview slates be "diverse," i.e., non-white males. This, of course, means that they are quite illegally prioritizing non-white male applicants for employment, and I am very much looking forward to the forthcoming lawsuits on these grounds. (See: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.)
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2024 05:32 || Comments || Link || [42 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The phrase "this will not end well" immediately comes to mind.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2024 5:37 Comments || Top||

#2  The idea of having a trade academy to train qualified folks with some ability to fly airplanes doesn’t seem bad to me. Mixing in the DEI stuff seems like a good way to DIE.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2024 11:52 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ kinda like a recruiting shortage for the army, or naval elements that launch nukes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2024 17:55 Comments || Top||

#4  And then today's unpleasantness with the missing bolts. Mrs Mundi insisted on cancelling our Poconos trip. It took her 2 seconds to convince me.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/22/2024 18:58 Comments || Top||

#5  My wife has always been afraid to fly. She has flown, but is willing to take a train or bus(!) from North Carolina to California, rather than fly.
For myself, I spent several years traveling for business. It never bothered me, including trips to India and Australia.
HOWEVER, with the DEI direction that aviation is taking, I'm thinking of following my wife's example and taking the train or driving.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/22/2024 19:30 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ We didn't get this old by taking unnecessary chances Rambler.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2024 22:45 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
A righteous UFC rant
[FoxNews] UFC's Dana White delivers pro-freedom response after being asked about Sean Strickland's tirade.

UFC president Dana White defended fighters’ right to say "whatever they want" after middleweight fighter Sean Strickland went on a wild rant when asked about his remarks on the LGBT community in the days before his fight.

When asking about Strickland, the reporter started his question to White stating that the executive gives his fighters a "long leash." White cut him off there.

"First of all, I don’t give anybody a leash. A leash? Free speech," White said. "To control what people say and to tell people what to believe – I don’t tell any other f---ing human being what to say, what to think and there’s no leashes on any of them.

"It’s ridiculous to say I give somebody a leash. Free speech, brother. People can say whatever they want and they can believe whatever they want."

Strickland faced backlash for his remarks on Wednesday. The reporter brought up comments Strickland made about having a gay son. The reporter mentioned how he was an ally of the LGBT community and that Toronto has a large gay and lesbian community.

Strickland asked the reporter if he was gay and if he had a son who was gay and whether he wanted a grandkid. The reporter said he was not gay, and it would not be a problem if he had a grandson or not.

"Well then you’re a weak f---ing man," Strickland said. "You’re part of the f---ing problem. You elected Justin Trudeau. When he seized the bank accounts, like you’re just f---ing pathetic. The fact that you have no f---ing backbone and as he shut down your f---ing country and seized bank accounts, you ask me some stupid s--- like that. Go f--- yourself. Move the f--- on man."

The reporter moved on from Strickland’s rant and mentioned how the fighter was going to use his time to speak out about Bud Light and the trans community after the company partnered with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney for a marketing campaign, which yielded disastrous results.

UFC, however, reupped its partnership with Bud Light following the backlash. White explained in October that Anheuser-Busch and Bud Light were their original beer sponsors more than 15 years ago.

"Here’s the thing about Bud Light… Ten years ago, to be trans, was a mental f---ing illness," Strickland said. "And now, all of a sudden, people like you f---ing weaseled your way into the world… you are an infection. You are the definition of weakness. Everything that is wrong with the world is because of f---ing you. And the best thing is, the world is not buying your f---ing bulls--- you’re f---ing peddling.

"The world is not saying, you know what, you’re right, ‘Chicks have d---s.’ The world is not saying that. The world is saying, ‘No, there are two genders.’ I don’t want my kids being taught about who they could f--- in school. I don’t want my kids being taught about their sexual preference. This guy is a f---ing enemy."

On Saturday, Strickland lost his middleweight championship bout against Dricus Du Plessis.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [25 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "It's depends on context."
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/22/2024 2:28 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukraine commits massacres once a month
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
by Dmitry Astrakhan

[REGNUM] On Sunday morning, Ukrainian artillery struck a market in Donetsk, injuring dozens of people. Only 18 people have died so far. At the same time, there are those injured and killed in drone strikes on ambulance crews and electricians in Gorlovka and Donetsk.

The news now includes shellings with a large simultaneous death toll. And messages about one or two wounded people come every few hours, becoming background local events. Alternating between relatively small and large terrorist acts, having practiced this tactic for years, Ukrainian militants achieve several goals at once.

On the one hand, people understand that they are under constant threat. On the other hand, the everyday nature of violence gradually leads to its displacement from the news and fade into the background. Therefore, every time Ukraine is accused of war crimes, they may be asked in surprise - “which ones”?

And once a month, Ukraine already organizes massacres, so that everyone understands: the scale can change at any moment.

By the way, such strikes with a large number of casualties in Ukraine are still considered to be “self-fire,” but smaller strikes are mocked almost openly. It seems like Russia is deciding in this way to return Donbass to the news agenda. Or some other absurd explanation.

At the same time, in Ukraine they say that bodies in the snow are the real “Russian world.” But where the “Ukrainian world” is, this does not happen. And if you love Ukraine with all your heart, then the shelling may stop or decrease. In Dnepropetrovsk, where Ukraine once suppressed pro-Russian protests, there are dozens of bodies lying on the street, neither in markets, nor at bus stops...

These are not theses from the times of the Northern Military District; they have not changed since 2014. “Well, the Russians protected you, are you satisfied?” - the Ukrainian IPsO, the main mouthpiece of the terrorists, repeats after each shelling.

An hour later, around the shelled market, the life of the front-line city goes on again. Food still needs to be bought, traders need to feed their families, residents need to collect water. In another couple of hours, when all the formalities are completed, the bodies will be removed. For Donetsk, these are fairly everyday occurrences.

It’s just that today 18 people died at once, and on the scale of Russia this covers the story of Twix the cat. And on other days there are not enough lives to “get on the agenda.” And this adds to the feeling of loneliness, isolation, even from one’s own people, when playing “Russian roulette” when going outside.

Against this background, by the way, it’s not even the Ukrainian terrorists who look the worst, but their “useful idiots” in Russia and in the world. They talk either about mistakes that cannot be avoided, or about fire on military targets, or about something else, like the fact that the one who crossed the border first is always guilty.

Only the terrorist is always to blame for terrorism, and I personally, based on the experience of these years, have no doubt that such attacks are well-thought-out and prepared terrorist acts.

Now I’ll go outside, get water and buy food for the evening. At the same time, if it’s quiet, I’ll warm up in the cafe, because they don’t heat the houses. On the way I will pass a couple of remaining visible places where hailstorms hit and the places where more than a dozen people died. The most widespread is marked with a wreath on the lawn, the rest are gradually forgotten.

This is everyday life. Like plywood on windows and duct-taped splinter holes on cars. Everything is far from being as lofty as in the articles of some guests of Donetsk.

Posted by: badanov || 01/22/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [30 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Russia backs Hamas terrorists. USA backs Bandera terrorists. China makes money of both sides.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/22/2024 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  ...UN condemns!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/22/2024 3:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Welcome to war without all those oppressive rules and rituals of 'Western Civilization' imposed by white men starting in the late 19th/early 20th Century.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/22/2024 9:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Not that those "oppressive rules" were ever followed.
Posted by: European Conservative || 01/22/2024 18:22 Comments || Top||


Delayed production of REB systems contributes to Ukraine's current quantity shortage, says Ihnat
[Yahoo] The future lies in radio-electronic warfare (REB) technologies; however, it’s unwise to overestimate REB given Ukraine’s current quantity, said Yuriy Ihnat, the spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Forces In an interview with Focus on Jan. 20.

There was no mass production of REB systems earlier, which led to a delayed supply, said Ihnat.

Ihnat recalled the Jan. 13th Russian attack, during which 40 missiles were launched at Ukraine. The air defense system successfully intercepted eight of the 12 guided missiles, with the remaining 20 falling short. Ihnat revealed that some missiles were neutralized by REB systems, causing them to malfunction or veer off course.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,



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