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Russia will quit the International Space Station due to economic sanctions over war in Ukraine
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-Land of the Free
Biden mocks his own poor approval rating, calls Trump's presidency a 'plague' and says he won't roast the GOP because 'there's nothing I can say that McCarthy hasn't on tape' as he headlines White House Correspondents' Dinner
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Couldn't go to Kiev.
Had a prior engagement.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/01/2022 07:41 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Republicans blast Mayorkas for pushing 'absolutely shameful' narrative about 'domestic terrorism'
MS-13et. al.
Black-on-Black crime
Human Trafficing
Narcos
Pedofillery
Dark Web transactions
Prison reform
Inner city gangs
International gangs
-Where's RICO?-

[FoxNews] Calling domestic extremism the greatest terrorism threat is '100%' political narrative, several congressional Republicans say.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  The Biden regime is the US's first real dictatorship. The dictatorship is setting up the KGB style apparatus necessary to prevent opposition.
Posted by: Bugs McGurque4586 || 05/01/2022 2:00 Comments || Top||

#2  The dictator is not necessarily Biden as much as it is the now shadowy Obama.
Posted by: Bugs McGurque4586 || 05/01/2022 2:03 Comments || Top||

#3  April 22 2022 - Former President Barack Obama joined the national conversation over free speech Thursday, arguing that the First Amendment shouldn’t apply to social media companies and calling for more regulation to combat misinformation online.

April 28, 2022 - Truth Commission disinformation czar has been selected.
Posted by: Bugs McGurque4586 || 05/01/2022 2:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Former President Barack Obama joined the national conversation over free speech Thursday

They must mean the governmental lecture over free speech.
Posted by: badanov || 05/01/2022 4:22 Comments || Top||

#5 
Was Mayorkas speaking about his own Liberal Socialist Democrat (LSD) party being the Domestic Terrorism threat?

Because, I have to ask.
With BLOM & ANTI-FArt, and etc... their Rioting, protesting, tossing fire bombs, explosives, attack using vehicles, looting and shooting of citizens and police. Forced WOKE, Social Justice, CRT, and open ANTI-WHITE Hate Crimes.

Or was pointing a finger at the parents that expressed their right to know what was being taught secretly to their kids at school, by a Liberal Socialist run Teachers Union?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/01/2022 6:11 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Vladimir Putin 'will undergo cancer operation in the near future' and is set to 'hand over power to hardline ex KGB chief while he is incapacitated', insider claims
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Russian leader set for surgery, which officials insist is 'of no particular urgency'

  • Power over Ukraine war will transfer to ally and Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev, 70

  • Putin has cancer, Parkinson's and 'schizophrenic symptoms': Telegram channel

  • Patrushev claimed NATO support for Kyiv will cause 'disintegration of Ukraine'

  • News comes as Putin expected to launch all-out assault and mobilise nation
Related: Russia's military 'is furious that Putin has down-scaled Ukraine invasion to focus on Donbas and is calling for all-out WAR'
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But does he need the Easter Bunny to keep him from wandering off into the weeds?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/01/2022 10:09 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Mickey M || 05/01/2022 10:40 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Troll just said Putin also has AIDS. Pass it on...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/01/2022 10:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Putin has AIDS? Wow.
Posted by: Matt || 05/01/2022 11:07 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Mickey M || 05/01/2022 11:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Persuasion via name calling, the Sunday Brunch Edition. My mom is dead. My wife is dead. Thanks for your concern.

It's not my fault you stepped on your dick. Rub some dirt on it and walk it off, tough guy.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/01/2022 11:24 Comments || Top||

#7  How is Russia going to stop the British and French retaliatory strikes from their subs when they can't stop the much less capable Ukranian leftover Soviet rockets from blowing up their oil depots?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/01/2022 11:26 Comments || Top||

#8  And God can give you AIDS to you ….or cancer
…. Like President Putin….


How sweet. Since Mr. Mickey M argues that the DailyMail article is a lie — I believe in the trade that’s called unconfirmed RUMINT — he just wished that you don’t get AIDS or cancer.

M. Murcek, that’s what the pros call effective communication.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/01/2022 11:53 Comments || Top||

#9  Hey Mickie, are we supposed to read Pravda?
Posted by: Jatle Sinatra9653 || 05/01/2022 12:08 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ No. He would like us to be Pravda.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/01/2022 12:08 Comments || Top||

#11  Maybe we should read WAPO? Ick.
Posted by: Jatle Sinatra9653 || 05/01/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||

#12  Maybe Daily Mail gets too close to the truth for some people's comfort.
Posted by: Jatle Sinatra9653 || 05/01/2022 12:15 Comments || Top||

#13  I'm sure Big Sister at DHS will send the Real Word™ down from on high soon.

Which will be fun.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/01/2022 12:15 Comments || Top||

#14 
Posted by: Pink Charlie Sperens6603 || 05/01/2022 17:35 Comments || Top||

#15  ^ The Daily Mail presents US domestic news in a way very few national news outlets do. Most national outlets over the years have chosen sides on the political divide, making them unreadable.

The Daily Mail is shrill, coarse, and often humorous. It is, as the dateline suggests, where America gets its news.

But there's good news: if you have a better source or article, you can post it yourself. We don't mind, really.
Posted by: badanov || 05/01/2022 18:13 Comments || Top||

#16  Sunday Sport could have been a contender for demonstration of my linking skills, but alas is no more.
Posted by: Bertie dm Tramp || 05/01/2022 20:12 Comments || Top||

#17 
Posted by: Mickey M || 05/01/2022 20:37 Comments || Top||

#18  We don't mind, really.

We’re always pleased to get better sources. So long as the source really is better, that is either more insightful or closer to the geography and players in question.

It’s true that some things tagged as War on Terror are not directly jihadi or anti-jihadi action. Narco gangs and migrant/illegal adventures, for example. But over the past three or four decades the narco gangs of Latin America and the khat/captigon/opium smugglers of the Middle East and North Africa have formed business partnerships bolstered by intermarriage with several of the major jihadi franchises. Off the top of my head, so you’ll want to check: Hezbollah with the Iran Revolutionary Guard and separately Al Qaeda in Latin America, shipping primarily cocaine and some marijuana north to the U.S. and east via North Africa to Europe; Al Qaeda in the Maghreb shipping Afghan opium and heroin across North Africa west to Europe and farther west to the U.S., and on the return trip shipping Latin American cocaine and marijuana north into Europe. Separately, the Houthis in Yemen and Al Shabaab in Somalia have the khat trade, supplying their compatriots in Europe and America, and ISIS along with loads of amateurs make and sell captagon across the Arab Middle East.. So keeping track of key narco gangs is another WoT play.

Then there are the huge flows of illegal migrants and asylum seekers to Western Europe and the U.S./Canada. While nominally fleeing ISIS rampaging across Iraq and Syria in 2015, it quickly became clear that most were not innocents fleeing depredations, but those who wanted to take advantage of Western generosity, those who saw themselves as colonizing the West for Islam, and thousands of trained jihadis hidden among them to prepare for major terror attacks. The recent trials in Paris and Brussels of members of the huge cell that staged multiple nearly-simultaneous attacks on the Bataclan theater among others in November, 2015 brought out that quite a few members blithely travelled around Europe and back and forth to the ISIS caliphate that sprawled across the border between Iraq and Syria buried in the flow of so-called asylum seekers. So keeping track of asylum seekers/migrants highlights ratlines connecting various nests of jihadis in the West, including Australia.

The Black Bloc or anarcho-communist syndicalists of Antifa, et al are a bit more of a reach, but the red Communist totalitarians and the green Moslem totalitarians support each other as each plans to take advantage of the successes of the other.

But most of the America stuff is on Page 3: Non-War on Terror and Page 6: Seedy Politics. So if you stick to pages 1 (WoT), 2 (WoT Background/Politics), and 4 (Opinion), you should be able to avoid exposure to most of the things you dislike.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/01/2022 21:07 Comments || Top||

#19  Incidentally, the Daily Mail and Breitbart are two of our go-to sites for jihadi news in Europe, Britain, Australia and the U.S. The New York Post is another consistent source. If you have better sources for those regions, or want to improve our coverage in those areas by scouring our usual sources instead of waiting for us to do so, please have at it. Rantburg is a group project, Pink Charlie Sperens6603, as you know since you’ve watched regular commenters submitting articles from their particular areas of interest over the past two decades.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/01/2022 21:28 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
De Blasio still gets NYPD security, despite refusal to pay for misuse
[NYPOST] Former Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserved him...
continues to be chauffeured around town by an NYPD security detail despite refusing to pay taxpayers back nearly $320,000 that city Sherlocks say he owes for misusing the perk while in office, The Post has learned.

Since leaving City Hall four months ago, de Blasio and wife Chirlane McCray have had a team of six NYPD detectives and a sergeant assigned to be their personal limousine and security service, police sources said.

The cops rotate so that least two are always on call to service the former First Couple from early morning to late at night.

They routinely drive them around town, including to restaurants, Prospect Park for long walks, and the Park Slope YMCA where de Blasio enjoys working out.
Posted by: Fred || 05/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:



Biden's New Ministry of Truth Is Already Expanding Its Scope
[PJMEDIA] When Politico revealed the existence of the Board in an offhanded statement buried 60 paragraphs down in its Wednesday "Politico Playbook," it said that the Department of Homeland Security was "standing up a new Disinformation Governance Board to coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia." DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, however, went farther than that almost immediately, saying on Thursday: "We have just established a mis- and disinformation governance board in the Department of Homeland Security to more effectively combat this threat not only to election security, but to our homeland security." And when Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
defended Biden’s new Ministry of Truth on Thursday, she went farther still: "We know there has been a range of [disinformation] out there about a range of topics, I mean, including COVID for example, and also elections and eligibility."

Was Psaki announcing more responsibilities for the Disinformation Governance Board, beyond what Politico had reported and what Mayorkas had said? It was hard to tell, as she sounded as if she was simply pointing out some of the areas in which supposed "disinformation" had circulated. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
she is the press secretary. What she says is generally the official line of the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
. If she didn’t mean to say that the Disinformation Governance Board will be clamping down on what Biden’s handlers claim is "disinformation" about COVID and eligibility (we already know from Mayorkas that the Board will be working against election "disinformation"), she will have to make an additional clarifying statement. Whether or not she does that, it is also true that when Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich asked for more details about what exactly the Disinformation Governance Board would be doing, Psaki professed not to have much information: "I really haven’t dug into this exactly, I mean, we of course support this effort but let me see if I can get more specifics."

Yes, of course Psaki supports this flagrantly unconstitutional effort to police what Americans say and think. She even professed to be surprised that anyone would oppose this sinister new initiative: "It sounds like the objective of the board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities. I’m not sure who opposes that effort."
Posted by: Fred || 05/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She keeps referring to groups, while an 'official' said that it will target individuals spreading 'disinformation'.
Posted by: Bugs McGurque4586 || 05/01/2022 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Remember Peppermint Patty is a serial liar. So whatever she said... it is probably much, much, worse.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/01/2022 0:21 Comments || Top||


#4  Already happening.

Elon Musk attempts to take SEC to Supreme Court over gag order he claims is unconstitutional
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/01/2022 7:52 Comments || Top||



#7  The Dems appear absolutely confident in their ability to steal elections in perpetuity.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/01/2022 10:10 Comments || Top||

#8  What government agency doesn't extend its scope?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/01/2022 18:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Stacey Abrams Thinks Joe Biden Is Popular
[PJ] The jokes practically write themselves on this one.

Stacey Abrams, who has never conceded her defeat in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election (after claiming, without evidence, that voter suppression tipped the election to now-Gov. Brian Kemp), says that Joe Biden may not be popular by poll numbers but he actually is popular ... by "intention."

Abrams made the ridiculous claim during an appearance on MSNBC on Friday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/01/2022 02:51 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


#2  She also thinks she is.
Posted by: Chris || 05/01/2022 9:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Abrams made the ridiculous claim during an appearance on MSNBC on Friday.

She chose the right forum to say something ridiculous.
Posted by: Raj || 05/01/2022 10:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Stacey Abrams also thinks she's intelligent.
You literally never know how wrong you can be.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/01/2022 14:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, he does still have a 35% approval rating.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/01/2022 17:03 Comments || Top||



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6Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
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1Houthis
1Muslim Brotherhood
1Narcos
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1Commies
1Devout Moslems
1Fatah
1Govt of Iran Proxies
1Govt of Sudan
1Govt of Syria

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Sun 2022-05-01
  Russia will quit the International Space Station due to economic sanctions over war in Ukraine
Sat 2022-04-30
  Nigerian Troops Killed ISWAP Commander, Dan-Buduma, Over 100 Other Terrorists
Fri 2022-04-29
  Russian Military Attacks Ukrainian Capital During UN Secretary-General's Visit
Thu 2022-04-28
  Antifa Riot in France Following Macron Victory
Wed 2022-04-27
  Putin meets UN Secretary-General in Moscow, denies hostilities in Mariupol, atrocities in Bucha
Tue 2022-04-26
  Vice President Kamala Harris tests positive for COVID-19
Mon 2022-04-25
  IDF fires dozens of shells at targets in Lebanon after rocket attack on Israel
Sun 2022-04-24
  Explosion at Nigerian illegal oil refinery kills more than 100
Sat 2022-04-23
  Russian General: Plan to Seize Ukraine's Entire Coastline
Fri 2022-04-22
  CNN: Russia replenishes forces on the front line.
Thu 2022-04-21
  Kiev reacts to proposal for ‘Easter truce’
Wed 2022-04-20
  Republican governors deploy 'strike force' to secure border amid surge in migrants
Tue 2022-04-19
  Ukraine:It's on again!
Mon 2022-04-18
  Joint military force from Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon says it has killed more than 100 insurgents
Sun 2022-04-17
  Pakistan Attacks TTP in Kunar, Khost Causing Dozens of Casualties


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