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Good afternoon
Rudy Giuliani displays a "very, very sensitive" alleged text message from Hunter Biden, which he claims to have handed over to the Delaware state police.
Wednesday October 21st, 2020

joanblondell_08
Suspected Islamists free 900 prisoners from east Congo jail
Greece Asks EU to Suspend Customs Union with Turkey, Report Says
Attack on Tanzanian Town by Mozambique-Based Militant Group
Mozambican Forces Claim Death of 270 Insurgents
50 Taliban Killed in Kandahar Battle
BLM activist charged with hate crime over assault of black conservative in San Francisco
'Chemical attack' leaves 15 people battling for breath after masked man walks into Pizza Hut, McDonald's then Tesco and sprays unknown gas into air sparking hazmat emergency response

Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2020 14:58 || Comments || Link || [336107 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She looks miffed. You don't want that look aimed at you...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/21/2020 16:37 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ True. Just look at that (?) fox.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/21/2020 17:14 Comments || Top||

#3  "My sister did WHAT...?"
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/21/2020 18:01 Comments || Top||

#4  When you realize you're stuck in an elevator ...
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/21/2020 18:46 Comments || Top||

#5  She's carrying a gat in that purse in her left hand.
Posted by: jpal || 10/21/2020 18:54 Comments || Top||

#6  If looks could kill!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/21/2020 19:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Hunter Biden's laptop seized by Feds in money laundering probe per Breitbart.com which means if Joe Biden was getting a 10% cut of money laundering Trump is President for the next 4 years by default and Joe goes to prison too. Historic.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 10/21/2020 23:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Stolen Kisses: A Tale of Modern Hollywood, or, "Live girl, dead fox."

"That's a wrap! An astonishing session,
Miss Blondell. Take ten and go freshen."
Click!
Smoldering, Joan
Shares a smoke, all alone,
In the throes of post-"model" depression.
Posted by: Betty Crimble7900 || 10/21/2020 23:59 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
'Chemical attack' leaves 15 people battling for breath after masked man walks into Pizza Hut, McDonald's then Tesco and sprays unknown gas into air sparking hazmat emergency response
  • Police believe chemical used in Upper Gornal, West Midlands attack last night was pepper spray

  • A 20-year-old man is being questioned after handing himself in to police today

  • Pizza Hut, Tesco and McDonald's were all targeted by a masked man last night
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/21/2020 10:20 || Comments || Link || [336091 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unpossible; did they not have a mask on?

Follow up would be to ask if it made the food taste better?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/21/2020 12:05 Comments || Top||

#2  in England
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/21/2020 12:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Isn't diversity wonderful?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/21/2020 12:25 Comments || Top||

#4  In Gornal a thing, with its wife,
Was mildly enjoying its life
Under mask and surveillance
When unknown assailants
Attacked with a bloody great... pointy slicey whatsit the likes of which nobody in that lockdown sector had ever seen.
Posted by: Betty Crimble7900 || 10/21/2020 14:09 Comments || Top||

#5  It’s very queer... I googled the event, and out of all the articles, not one has any description of the sprayer, beyond apparent age and sex. You’d think someone would have at least mentioned his clothes or hair colour, especially after he turned himself in.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2020 14:40 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ The dog that didn't bark. Embarrassing details must be suppressed, don'tcha know...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/21/2020 14:52 Comments || Top||

#7  The description is PC.
We're lucky they even used the gender term "Man"
instead of Person.

My local Newspaper, taken over by the owners of USA-Today, has gone as far photo-shopping the Criminals photo image to a silhouette. When I
UN-PC'd it it turn out to be a Black Teen that did the crime. I send it back to the editor corrected and they never updated the photo.

Same paper that has "Temporally' turned off commenting 10 months ago for any article.
In order to control the narrative and "accidental omissions and facts.
Posted by: NoBody || 10/21/2020 16:17 Comments || Top||

#8  When I
UN-PC'd it it turn out to be a Black Teen that did the crime


I had no idea that reversing the silhouette was possible, NoBody.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2020 16:28 Comments || Top||

#9  "More Pavilions at FolkFest"
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/21/2020 18:18 Comments || Top||


Houston police officer dead, 1 hurt; illegal immigrant suspect in custody
[FoxNews] An illegal immigrant from El Salvador was in custody Tuesday after one Houston police officer was shot and killed and another wounded at a southwest Houston apartment complex, authorities said.

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo confirmed the arrest and officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) later told Fox News that the suspect was in the U.S. illegally.

The slain officer was identified as Sgt. Harold Preston, a 41-year veteran of the force.

The wounded officer, identified by Mayor Sylvester Turner as Courtney Waller, is a three-year veteran of the department who was shot in an arm. He was expected to recover.

The suspect was identified as Elmer Rolando Manzano-Martinez, 51. ICE officials identified him as a "convicted criminal alien who is unlawfully present in the U.S."

Following his arrest Tuesday, ICE officials from the agency's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) unit placed an immigration detainer with the Harris County Sheriff's Office, ICE said in a statement.

A bystander came to Waller's aid and escorted him to safety in front of the apartment complex, Acevedo said. The man then went back and grabbed Waller's gun, which fell on the ground a short distance away, wrapped it in a towel and handed it to other responding officers, the chief said.

Police said Manzano-Martinez was shot in the abdomen area and was stable. He was expected to be charged with murder, Acevedo said.

Acevedo said the officers were responding to a domestic violence call around 8:15 a.m. Manzano-Martinez's estranged wife told Preston, 65, Waller and another officer that she was moving out of the apartment and needed to get some items inside.

Manzano-Martinez's 14-year-old son was with his mother and the officers in a parking lot for an hour before the teen opened the door to the unit just before 9:30 a.m. He saw his father with a firearm and teen warned the officers before Manzano-Martinez fired multiple rounds in their direction, Acevedo said.

Preston was hit multiple times, including more than once in the head. He was moved to safety by other officers. Manzano-Martinez surrendered after barricading himself inside the apartment.

Police officers responded to the unit twice over the weekend for domestic violence issues, Acevedo said. He was unsure if any weapon was recovered Tuesday.

Acevedo told reporters that Manzano-Martinez has long criminal history. In 2002, he was charged with evading police, for which he received 120 days in jail, Houston's KPRC-TV reported.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/21/2020 08:33 || Comments || Link || [336107 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A sargeant two weeks from retirement.
-crap-
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/21/2020 12:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Shooter was released without charge earlier by Soros backed DA Kim Ogg
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/21/2020 21:22 Comments || Top||


Border Patrol arrests nearly 300 illegal immigrants in 18 hours
[FoxNews] U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas, with the help of local law enforcement, arrested nearly 300 suspected illegal immigrants in a span of 18 hours last week, according to authorities.

Agents shut down stash houses and foiled alleged smuggling attempts during four separate incidents that saw a total of 294 suspects arrested for trying to sneak into the U.S., according to authorities.

At least 90 people taken into custody were from countries outside of Mexico.

The first incident occurred Oct. 13, when agents from the Laredo South Station, working with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Webb County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO), searched a residence and discovered 123 individuals from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras "stashed inside."

Authorities also encountered a sex offender inside the home, and immigrants were housed in unsanitary conditions, Laredo Sector Chief Patrol Agent Matthew J. Hudak said, according to the Laredo Morning Times.

Just hours later, agents and the sheriff’s office executed another search warrant at an apartment where they found 13 suspected illegal immigrants from Mexico living inside, along with "numerous U.S. citizens" who were also taken into custody, CBP said.
A brothel? Are there other reasons that citizens and illegals would mingle in an apartment in about equal numbers?
That evening, agents foiled a large human smuggling attempt at a checkpoint after a canine alerted agents to a tractor-trailer, which prompted an inspection. At least 84 undocumented immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were found hiding inside the cargo area. They were taken into custody for further investigation.

The final incident occurred Oct. 14, when a canine alerted agents to another trailer at a checkpoint. A "non-intrusive" scan was conducted that led to 74 individuals being discovered inside a refrigerated trailer.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/21/2020 08:30 || Comments || Link || [336082 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Are there other reasons that citizens and illegals would mingle in an apartment in about equal numbers?

The local ER looks like that.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/21/2020 13:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Now if we could just apply this to Antifa rioters.
Posted by: gorb || 10/21/2020 14:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Literacy classes?

Jose and the underage frowzes
With "Aeropostale" on their blouses
Assure us he's nice
As he scratches the lice
He's picked up in his settlement houses.
Posted by: Betty Crimble7900 || 10/21/2020 15:24 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
50 Taliban Killed in Kandahar Battle
[KhaamaPress] At least 50 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
hard boys, including a Pak adviser, killed during an operation carried by Afghan Security Forces in Maiwan and Zeri districts of Kandahar province, local authorities confirmed Tuesday.

Jamal Naser Barekzai, front man for local police, told Khaama Press in a phone interview that the in operation by Unit 01 of National Defense was carried for the past 24 hours in Maiwan and Zeri district of the province.

Some 87 Taliban injured during the battle, he added.

Taliban did not immediately commented on the claim.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2020 02:25 || Comments || Link || [336115 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Nimruz Blast Claims 5 ANSF, Hurts 2
[KhaamaPress] At least five Afghan Security Forces killed, and further two maimed, after their vehicle hit through a roadside mine in Kang district of Nimruz province, local authorities confirmed Tuesday.

Bahram Haqmal, head of provincial Governor’s press office, said the incident occurred at around 11:50 a.m. in central Kang district of the province.

The blast claimed at least five Afghan forces and injured further two, he added.

No group or individual has immediately grabbed credit for the attack.

Nimruz is one of the insecure provinces in southwest Afghanistan, where Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
holy warriors have extensive influences and activities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2020 02:25 || Comments || Link || [336087 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Maidan Wardak: Roadside Mines Claim 5, Wounds Nine
[KhaamaPress] Maidan Wardak, Governor’s office blurb states, that five non-combatants were killed and nine others were maimed on when two passenger vans collided with Two roadside mines in Jalriz district.

All the victims, including women and kiddies were civilians according to the statement.

According to Mehdi Rasekh, a representative of Maidan Wardak in the House of Representatives, nine non-combatants were killed and four others were maimed when two passenger vans collided with placed roadside mines in the Aab Basragh area of ​​Jalriz district.

Rasekh said: "First, a so-called Toyota Van carrying residents of the Waras district in Bamyan province collided with a roadside mine in the Aab Basragh area, killing and injuring a number of people."

He added: "When another vehicle was transporting the two injured in the incident, it also collided with another mine, as a result of which the two maimed civilians also died".

According to Rasekh, the mine was planted by the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
, but the group has not yet commented on the matter.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2020 02:25 || Comments || Link || [336084 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


District Governor in Khost Killed in Ambush
[ToloNews] Abdul Hai Zazai, district governor of Zazai Maidan in eastern Khost, was killed in an ambush on Monday by button men in central Pashtun-infested Logar province, said the provincial governor's media office.

The incident occurred as Zazai was on his way to Kabul province, the statement said, adding that "Mr Zazai and one of his bodyguards were killed and two others were maimed."

No group including the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
has grabbed credit for the blast.

Zazai was just 34 years old and was the youngest to serve in the post in the eastern part of Afghanistan.

Abdul Hai Zazai started serving as district governor when he was 29 years old.

Zazai was serving in Guzbuz, Bak, Musakhel, Nadir and Zazai Maidan district in the past several years.

Zazai, was a native of Zazi Maidan, had a bachelor’s degree in Sharia law. His father, who had served in the ranks of Afghan National Police, died in a suicide kaboom in Khost.

Zazai’s five elder brothers also followed the path of their father and joined Afghan police but he chose to be a civil servant.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2020 02:25 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under:


Civilian Vast Majority of Victims in Ghor Bombing
[KhaamaPress] Local residents and civilians are a vast majority of the victims who were hit during a boom-mobileing in Firozkoh, capital city of Ghor province, on Sunday, according to figures provided by security officials.

The blast that was initially reported to have occurred near the provincial police HQ, was later confirmed to have rocked area close to the local department of martyr and women affairs; the blast left at least 16 dead and maimed further 151 people.

All the 15 victims are civilians, including children and people with disabilities, who were gathered at the scene in normal routine.

Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales...
at least 120 of the all injured during the blast are also civilians, marking a vast majority of people being affected during the blow.

"There was a class for people with special abilities (near the blast scene). At least 22 of them were in the class. 18 of them have been maimed. Two of them are at death's door," said Gul Ahmad Rustami, head of the deaders and disabled office, as TOLOnews quoted.

No group or individual has immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2020 02:25 || Comments || Link || [336123 views] Top|| File under:


180 Civilians Killed, 375 Injured in Past Month: MoI
[ToloNews] 180 civilians have been killed and 375 have been maimed over the last month in a spate of violence across Afghanistan, the Afghan Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Tuesday.

This comes as negotiators representing the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan in the peace talks with the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
are in Doha to help find a negotiated settlement to the current bloody conflict in the country; however, no breakthrough has been achieved so far and the formal talks have yet to begin.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2020 02:25 || Comments || Link || [336073 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Subsaharan
Suspected Islamists free 900 prisoners from east Congo jail
Probably the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist group that started out in Uganda over three decades ago. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State — they just like killing infidels.
[Jpost] Armed men freed around 900 prisoners from a jail in Beni, east Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
, in a coordinated attack in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the town's mayor said, blaming an Islamist holy warrior group operating in the area.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2020 03:51 || Comments || Link || [336114 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


Six Chad soldiers killed by Boko Haram fighters: Army
[AlAhram] The soldiers were killed while patrolling a group of islets on the Chad-Nigeria border, army front man said

Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
fighters killed six Chadian soldiers in the Lake Chad region, where deadly jihadist attacks against civilians and security forces are on the rise, the army said Tuesday.

Security experts say Boko Haram, which originated in Nigeria in 2009, has established bases on islets dotting Lake Chad, a vast swampy expanse in the border region straddled by Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
The soldiers were killed while patrolling a group of islets on the Chad-Nigeria border, army front man General Azem Bermendoa Agouna told AFP.

Twelve other soldiers were maimed and the military killed around 10 "terrorists", he said.

The Chadian army launched an offensive against Boko Haram in April after some 100 soldiers died in an attack by the group on one of its bases.

President Idriss Deby then claimed to have pushed the jihadists out. But attacks have continued despite the military operation.

Fighters from a dissident branch, the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
West Africa Province (ISWAP) group, are also extending their grip and influence around Lake Chad.

At least 36,000 people have been killed and around three million displaced in the decade-long Islamist conflict which spread from northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
to Chad, Niger and Cameroon.

Those countries have formed a regional military coalition to fight the jihadists.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2020 03:12 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1  so long as they are not hanging booger soldiers we do not get involed nor nato or the un america has fair elections ! i am surprised roving gangs in technicals are not in the streets yet in america collecting thumbs or pointer fingers with indian ink on them! speech elections welcome to po bunk n bullshit merica !
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 || 10/21/2020 10:09 Comments || Top||


Mozambican Forces Claim Death of 270 Insurgents
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336082 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Attack on Tanzanian Town by Mozambique-Based Militant Group
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336080 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Nigerian Shiites Protest Continued Detention of El-Zakzaky in Kaduna
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
...former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Nigeria, he converted to Shi'ism after a visit to Iran, and now is a fiery Iranian sock puppet. He’s head of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), which Nigeria declared a terror group in 2019. Like the Muslim Brotherhood, its spinoffs, including Boko Haram, are much more violent. He is the only Zakzaky in our archives, though the rest of his name suffers considerable variation...
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336096 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Movement of Nigeria (Iran)


#2  I hope this means less spam e-mails from Nigerian princes.
Posted by: Clem || 10/21/2020 9:52 Comments || Top||



#5  Quick, send Black Lives Matter. The whole lot of them.
Posted by: Waldemar Flomonter9347 || 10/21/2020 12:13 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Armenian forces have downed another Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drone over Artsakh
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336077 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Europe
France to dissolve pro-Hamas Muslim group, says Macron
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Al-Azhar imam condemns beheading, but says insults to religion ‘invite hatred’
[IsraelTimes] In speech to Rome interfaith gathering, including Pope and French chief rabbi, leading Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb rails against freedom of expression, like showing images of Prophet Muhammad.

France to shut pro-Hamas group after murder; Macron vows action on Islamists
[IsraelTimes] French authorities to close Gay Paree mosque in clampdown on radical Islam following teacher’s grisly beheading; officials say killer was ’in contact’ with one pupil’s dad

French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday a pro-Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", group active in La Belle France would be dissolved for being "directly implicated" in the beheading of a history teacher outside Gay Paree last week.

Prime Minister Jean Castex told MPs on Tuesday that the government was now targeting "all associations whose complicity with radical Islamism has been established."

French authorities said they would close a Gay Paree mosque in a clampdown on radical Islam that has yielded over a dozen arrests following the beheading of the teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Moslem prophet Mohammad.

The mosque in a densely-populated suburb northeast of Gay Paree had published a video on its Facebook page days before Friday’s gruesome murder, railing against Paty’s choice of material for a class discussion on freedom of expression, said a source close to the investigation.

The interior ministry said the mosque in Pantin, which has some 1,500 worshippers, would be shut on Wednesday night for six months.

The suspected killer, 18-year-old Chechen Abdullakh Anzorov, had been in contact with a parent leading an online campaign against the teacher, the investigation into the killing revealed Tuesday.

The man wanted Paty fired after his daughter told him how the teacher had shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The parent — the father of a girl in Paty’s class — was behind an online campaign urging "mobilization" against the teacher.

The man, now in police custody, had placed his phone number on Facebook and exchanged messages with Anzorov on WhatsApp in the days leading up to the murder, police sources told AFP.

Among other messages, the father had published a video railing against Paty’s choice of lesson material. The mosque now targeted for a six-month closure shared this video on its own Facebook Page.

Paty, 47, was attacked Friday on his way home from the junior high school where he taught in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Gay Paree. Anzorov was rubbed out by police soon after the murder.

Police have arrested 16 people in connection with the killing, including four members of Anzorov’s family.

He also said "actions will be stepped up" against Islamist extremism in the country.

The decision to shut down the "Cheikh Yassine Collective," which supports the Paleostinian cause and is named after the founder of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
-based terror organization, will be taken at a Wednesday’s cabinet meeting, he said.

The group’s founder and Islamist radical, Abdelhakim Sefrioui, is currently being held by police for publishing a video on YouTube insulting teacher Samuel Paty.

On Tuesday, the head of the Pantin mosque, M’hammed Henniche, said he had shared the father’s video out of fear that Moslem children were being singled out in class.

Five pupils suspected of accepting payment for pointing Paty out to his killer were among those in police custody.
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336107 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


#2  Jihadi tourists in France, Skidmark? Yay.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2020 15:33 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
BLM activist charged with hate crime over assault of black conservative in San Francisco
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A Black Lives Matter activist has been arrested and charged with a hate crime-related assault after allegedly knocking a black conservative activist’s teeth out in an unprovoked attack at a free speech rally in San Francisco.

On Saturday, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a report of an assault near City Hall at a conservative-organized protest against Big Tech. Authorities met with “Team Save America” free speech organizer Philip Anderson. The black 25-year-old victim was punched in the face by a masked male assailant wearing tactical gloves who called him a racial slur. Philip lost two teeth and was left bloodied. Far-left protesters accused the rally of being fascist.

35-year-old Androa “Dro” Anderson, of Watsonville, Cal., was taken into custody in Oakland the day after the assault and transported to San Francisco County Jail where he was booked on charges of mayhem with a hate crime enhancement. He and Philip share the same surname but are not related. Androa’s bail is set at $110,000, according to the San Francisco Sheriff's Office.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336103 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Investigate Androa the drug dealer's connections. Trace the network and the $$$. Who else in Blamtifa is part of his ring?

Are the cartels funding Blamtifa now?
Posted by: Elmomosh Shomoper6789 || 10/21/2020 2:53 Comments || Top||

#2  It should be a crime to protest wearing a face mask for the purpose of preventing identification and tracking of criminal or even mischievous acts.
In other words antifa members should not be allowed to wear masks.
Antifa should be arrested, ID'ed, tracked and fined for wearing a mask.
Posted by: Snimble McGurque4348 || 10/21/2020 4:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Philip is most upset that his accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram were terminated hours after the assault.
Mr Anderson should be allowed to sue these media companies for L vs R spectrum bias if not racism.
Posted by: Snimble McGurque4348 || 10/21/2020 4:59 Comments || Top||

#4 


The CA State AG and City DA are in a Conundrum.


He/She/She-He's, He-She's, Sh-IT's/? must at least pretend to address this as a FELONY. Or the Federal Government clearly has authority to bring charges for Civil Rights violations, Hate Crimes, and more.

But if the City/State DA/AG act then the BLM / ANTI-FA SA troops will turn on them and storm the State/City officials in homes.

So the states only option might be to charge them, bond them out using Socialist funded bail money fund and delay the trial well into 2021+.

BTW: The announced Secession of certain UBER Liberal Socialist leaning states and the hinted CHINA military re-enforcement/support if they do so.... Plans to make Nov.- Jan. 2021 and interesting few months.

But we'll know if the DOD is taking the CHINA Military support of a Secession as a serious issue. Just by watching to see if Trump orders a redeployment of US DOD assets Equipment and supplies (ammo/USAF Nukes/Sub-Nukes) out of these subversive states, to more stable safe and pro USA locations.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/21/2020 5:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Snimble McGurque4348 it is in Alabama. The law was enacted to combat the KKK.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/21/2020 7:50 Comments || Top||

#6  KKK were the armed wing of the dem party, antifa are now the armed wing of the dem party.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/21/2020 9:16 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 || 10/21/2020 10:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Sounds like he was using his med card to purchase, then deliver with a mark-up.

Sucker Punch sounds like a failed comic book producer turned 2nd rate uber drugs.

Watching the video I was a bit skeptical on account of direction and angle. Did Sucker Punch have a loaded fist? That is, roll of pennies or such?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/21/2020 10:50 Comments || Top||

#9  Weighted gloves for boxing training. About a pound each.
Posted by: Waldemar Flomonter9347 || 10/21/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Feds better take this one over, or it's lost cause.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/21/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||

#11  That'd do it.

I understand most places, its one thing to pop somebody, its another if using a Loaded Fist, or some call Weighted Fist, basically turning the hand into a weapon point - brass knuckles is a well known example.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/21/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||

#12  It should be a crime to protest wearing a face mask for the purpose of preventing identification and tracking of criminal or even mischievous acts.

Covid-19 serves a number of purposes for Democrats and their militant wing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/21/2020 12:46 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ #10

Thinking same. The locals will throw the case.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/21/2020 13:13 Comments || Top||


7th statue in Portland toppled, damaged
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336092 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Rope tree, cause the local AG is protecting.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/21/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#2  The Bee Wins Again!

Travel poster, Portland:
"Admire the Pedestals Where Statues Used to Be!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/21/2020 23:17 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey’s S-400 missile test failed
After all, all the best Turkish missileers are Gulenists, and the rest are Kurds.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336077 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  You have to assume Russia sent the "Chimp" version of the system as they usually do. So sad the chimps weren't up to the job.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/21/2020 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Does that make yippee a rube, a mark, a chump or all or the above?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/21/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ just a chimp
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/21/2020 11:14 Comments || Top||

#4  You'd think, at some point, people would become a bit leery of buying Russian air defense systems.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/21/2020 12:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Especially while crapping on Russia at the same time.

I would not have been surprised if the missiles had turned around and hit the launchers/control station.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/21/2020 15:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Nah, that feature isn't activated during tests, only during actual conflicts.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/21/2020 16:05 Comments || Top||


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Another terror tunnel crossing dozens of meters into Israel from Gaza, Gaza rocket stopped by Iron Dome, Israel bombs Khan Younis in response
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

IDF hits Hamas-linked subterranean site after Gaza rocket fire
[IsraelTimes] Military says projectile intercepted by Iron Dome system; exchange follows uncovering of attack tunnel from Paleostinian enclave that reached into Israeli territory

Israel struck a subterranean site linked to Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
’s Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, rulers, the military said late Tuesday, after Paleostinian holy warriors in the coastal enclave fired a rocket toward Israeli territory.

The rocket, which was intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system, was launched hours after the military announced it had uncovered an attack tunnel emerging from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis that reached dozens of meters into Israel.

"IDF fighter jets and attack helicopters attacked underground infrastructure of the Hamas terror group in the southern Gaza Strip," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. "The attack was in response to the firing of a rocket launched from the territory of the Gaza Strip to Israeli territory earlier this evening."

The Hamas-linked website al-Resalah said the strikes targeted Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

No group in Gaza grabbed credit for firing the rocket, which set off warning sirens in the border area.

Video from a security camera shared on social media appeared to show an Iron Dom missile being launched to intercept the rocket.

According to the IDF, military engineers located the concrete-lined tunnel from Gaza after an "indication" from the barrier system whose installation is being completed on the border.

"The route [of the tunnel] was located as part of the ongoing efforts to find and neutralize tunnels and thanks to the technological and [intelligence] collection capabilities of the barrier," the IDF said in a statement.

The military said the tunnel did not penetrate Israel’s new underground barrier and did not pose a threat to communities in the area.

The statement did not specify who dug and built the tunnel, but the IDF reiterated it holds Hamas responsible as the Paleostinian enclave’s ruler.

The discovery of the tunnel came as tensions with the Strip have ramped up amid ongoing threats by Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
and other terror groups in the Strip to exact Dire Revenge should a hunger-striking security prisoner held by Israel die. Maher al-Akhras, who has not eaten for 86 days, is suspected by Israel of being a PIJ operative.

On Monday morning, the official Paleostinian news outlet SAFA reported that al-Akhras was in very serious condition as a result of his hunger strike.

On Friday night, at least one rocket was fired at southern Israel from the Strip, striking an open field where it caused neither damage nor injury. The IDF did not immediately retaliate, but a defense official said the matter would not go unanswered.

Last week, Channel 12 reported that Israel and Hamas had reached a truce agreement mediated by Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
that will see quiet on the southern border for a period of six months. As part of the agreement, Qatar will transfer $100 million to Hamas in a deal coordinated with Doha by Mossad head Yossi Cohen, alongside the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), according to the report.

However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
according to a Channel 13 report Tuesday, Qatar will only give $60 million to Gaza through the end of the year.

Mohammad al-Emadi, Qatar’s envoy to Gaza, has regularly visited Gaza in recent years with Israeli approval, bringing funds to the Strip for purchasing fuel, paying civil servants and helping Gaza’s poor. The most recent round of funds was set to run out within weeks, Channel 12 said.

Tunnel diggers could be heard until night before discovery — report
[IsraelTimes] The Kan broadcaster reports that voices could still be heard Monday night inside a tunnel the military discovered running from Gaza into Israel.

According to the report, the voices set off an underground system meant to block tunnels or alert authorities to their existence.

However, the IDF seemingly knew about the tunnel hours earlier on Monday, though it attempted to act coy by only referring to an “engineering operation” on the Gaza border.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz writes in a tweet that the tunnel was only discovered this morning.

“Even when it seems quiet in the south, under the ground terror groups are not letting up their efforts to hurt Israel’s citizens and its sovereignty,” he says.
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336105 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I wonder how long the Israelis were watching, letting Hamas commit effort and single-use resources before they put a stop to it? Qatar should be annoyed at such a waste of their generous donation. Iran ditto.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2020 2:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Back to normal.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2020 3:54 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel said to strike Iran-backed militia base in southern Syria
[IsraelTimes] Single missile fired at village near Golan Heights border, Syrian state media says midnight strike his school building, no reports of casualties.

Syrian state media said Israel fired a missile early Wednesday at a site in the Quneitra province in southern Syria, near the border with Israel’s Golan Heights.

The official SANA news agency said the midnight attack hit a school building in the village of al-Harah, without providing further details.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

The Israel Defense Forces would not comment on the matter, in line with its so-called "policy of ambiguity" regarding its military activities against Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and its proxies in Syria.

Israel has repeatedly accused the Hezbollah terror group and other Iran-backed militias of setting up bases and operating along the Golan border.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights — a pro-opposition group with unclear funding sources — said the strike hit a base for pro-Iran militias, adding that Israel was "likely" responsible.

Reports of the strike came two weeks after Israeli soldiers reportedly destroyed two Syrian military posts in the demilitarized zone separating the two countries in a rare cross-border raid.

That raid was said to be a warning to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
, whose forces are encroaching on the Golan Heights.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2020 03:51 || Comments || Link || [336088 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies




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