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North Carolina police officer recovering after latest shooting in Charlotte area
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Good afternoon
Chris Christie says Michael Flynn
‘never belongs anywhere near the White House'
Monday December 21st, 2020

Anita Page (5)
Mali Lost in Transition as Army Expands its Role after Coup
More than 500 Fresh Graduates Ready for Deployment: MoD
Federal officers bull rushed and made a targeted arrest at the antifa protest at the Portland ICE facility
Militants kidnapped and beheaded a young shepherd in mountains in Tunisia near the border with Algeria
SaudiArabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan congratulates Yemen on forming a new government
Kabul: jihadi hitmen lose shootout, 29 kaboomed including MP, 45 Talib rockets seized
Rudy Giuliani goes OFF and issues CHALLENGE: ‘Prove me nuts! Prove me wrong! Let me have access to those machines.'

Posted by: Fred || 12/21/2020 14:47 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  nice
Posted by: Frank G || 12/21/2020 15:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Old School Grace beats any of the modern day provocative pic's.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/21/2020 15:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Super cute!
I needa Anita.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/21/2020 17:25 Comments || Top||

#4  No tats
No 3/4" long false eyelashes
No spray tan
No bicep-guns or plastic surgery
= joy
Posted by: Woozle Clunk1329 || 12/21/2020 17:37 Comments || Top||

#5  More importantly no Adam's apple. Always go there first.
Posted by: jpal || 12/21/2020 18:45 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
North Carolina police officer recovering after latest shooting in Charlotte area
[FOXNEWS]A North Carolina police officer was recovering Saturday night after being shot while on duty, becoming the fourth officer shot in the Charlotte area in a little more than a week, according to reports.

Cpl. Frank Lee Whittington Jr., a 14-year veteran of the Kings Mountain Police Department, underwent surgery and was expected to be OK, Kings Mountain police Chief Lisa Proctor said, according to WCNC-TV in Charlotte.

Whittington was shot while responding to a report of a suspicious person on the back porch of a house. Proctor said she didn’t have details about the shooting.

"We are very thankful that he is still alive and that we're not planning funeral number three in the last week and a half for another law enforcement officer," she said.
Posted by: Fred || 12/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another real "police shooting" i.e. shooting of a cop by a subhuman POS.

In addition to the 12 shot and 5 killed in Dallas in July 2016, how many cops have been shot by Burn Loot Murder followers? How many killed?
Posted by: Glerese the Unfortunately Complexioned5739 || 12/21/2020 1:34 Comments || Top||

#2  24 hrs later and just searched local media outlets again @ 0533hrs.

The shooting suspect details are STILL being withheld...

Giving it being in a Kings Mountain Country Club Downing Dr. ,a very upper $$$ community, it will be interesting to see and understand why the PC/$$$ Delay.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/21/2020 6:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Coulter Rule .. tick tock
Posted by: Gomez Sinatra5160 || 12/21/2020 14:44 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
1 ANP Officer Killed, 2 More Wounded in Jalalabad Explosion
[ToloNews] An Afghan National Police (ANP) officer was killed and two more maimed after their vehicle hit a roadside kaboom in Jalalabad city, the center of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province, local officials confirmed on Sunday.

The incident happened in PD1 of the city.

This comes after Kabul also witnessed a deadly car kaboom on Sunday that killed at least 9 people and maimed 20 more.

No group or individual has so far grabbed credit for either attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:


Kunduz: AAF Wrecks ‘Taliban Extortion Checkpoint’
[KhaamaPress] At least seven Taliban
...Arabic for students...
killed and further two maimed after Afghan Air Forces carried and attack against an "extortion checkpoint" of the group in northern province of Kunduz, said the Ministry of Defense in a statement Sunday.

According to the statement, Taliban at the checkpoint would extort money from locals, causing security tension among residents in Chahardara district of the province.

"A Taliban’s extortion checkpoint was targeted by #AAF in Chahardara district of Kunduz province yesterday," said the MoD in a tweet.

"7 #Taliban were killed and 2 others were maimed as a result," the tweet added. "They were extorting civilians when they were targeted by #AAF."

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again...
in another battle in Kandahar province, at least 74 Taliban killed and further 15 members of the group killed in Zheria, Dand, Panjwae an Arghandab districts of the province, according to the statement.

"74 #Taliban were killed and 15 others were maimed in Zheria, Dand, Panjwae and Arghandab districts of Kandahar province, yesterday," said MoD in a tweet.

"They were preparing to attack #ANDSF positions when they were targeted by #ANA. Additionally, a large amount of their weapons were destroyed."

Taliban did not immediately comment on the incident.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Kabul: jihadi hitmen lose shootout, 29 kaboomed including MP, 45 Talib rockets seized
Hitmen Killed in Shootouts with Kabul Police
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Sunday that two Lions of Islam who tried to plan and organize targeted liquidations in the Farza district of Kabul province using a cycle of violence, were killed by the police.

According to the statement, the two men attacked coppers in Qala-e-Mohammad Jan area of ​​Farza district of Kabul province on Saturday.

Both are reported to have been killed as a result of the police retaliation.

Meanwhle, two Kalashnikov assault rifles, a pistol, and a cycle of violence were seized from them.

Insecurity in Kabul has escalated in recent months, coinciding with peace talks in Doha.

Explosion Rocks Afghan Capital, Killing 9
[KhaamaPress] At least nine people killed and further a number wounded after an explosion rocked Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday morning, local police confirmed.

According to sources, nine people have been killed and further six others were wounded in the explosion in Police District 5 (PD5) of the city.

The explosion occurred in Spin Kalay square in PD5 of the city.

Ferdaws Faramarz, deputy spokesman of the Interior Ministry, said three vehicles caught fire at the location of the blast, but the cause remains unclear.

The explosion targeted the vehicle of Haji Khan Mohammad Wardak, a member of parliament from Kabul, according to report. Wardak survived the attack.

No group or individual has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Earlier, the Afghan National Army (ANA) has discovered and sized at let 43 rockets during an operation in capital city Kabul, said the Ministry of Defense in a statement Sunday.

According to the statement, officials discovered these D30 model of rockets from Khak Jabar district of Kabul on Saturday.

“#ANA discovered and seized 45 D30 rockets ammunition in Khak Jabar district of Kabul province yesterday,” said the MoD in a tweet.

Officials did not provide further details but said “Taliban had planned to use the rockets in terrorist activities in Kabul.”

Taliban did not immediately comment on the incident.
The explosion targeted the vehicle of Haji Khan Mohammad Wardak, a member of parliament from Kabul. Wardak survived the attack.

The Afghan Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement confirmed that at least 8 people were killed and 15 were wounded in the explosion in PD5 of Kabul.

Massoud Andarabi, the minister of interior, confirmed that 9 people were killed and 20 more were wounded in the explosion in Kabul today.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Militants kidnapped and beheaded a young shepherd in mountains in Tunisia near the border with Algeria
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria Jihadists Kill Five Soldiers, Kidnap 35 Civilians in Two Attacks
[AnNahar] Five Nigerian soldiers were killed when 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....
-aligned jihadists ambushed a military convoy and more than 30 civilians were also kidnapped in another attack, military sources said on Sunday.

The military convoy was hit in northeast Borno state on Saturday, and turbans also attacked a transport convoy in the same region a day before, abducting 35 people and killing one woman.

Nigeria's 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...
and a splinter group, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), have killed 36,000 people and displaced around two million as part of a decade-long conflict.

Saturday's attack on the military convoy took place outside of Mafa, 44 kilometers (27 miles) north of the regional capital Maiduguri.

"The turbans fired an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) on the convoy which hit one of the vehicles with five soldiers in it," one security source said.

"All the five were killed."

The forces of Evil seized two vehicles in the attack, said a second source who gave the same toll.

ISWAP split from the mainstream Boko Haram six years ago and rose to become a dominant group.

The jihadist group focuses on military targets, raiding bases, ambushing troops and planting mines on the roads, but recently they have been attacking and abducting civilians.

At least 35 people were kidnapped late Friday by ISWAP turbans at a fake checkpoint in Garin Kuturu village outside Jakana, 25 kilometers from Maiduguri.

"The ISWAP turbans who were dressed in military uniform stopped the vehicles... Some of the passengers fled into the bush while 35 were taken hostage," a pro-government militia official said.

A woman was rubbed out and several others were maimed when the turbans opened fire on those fleeing into the bush, he said.

Jakana, which lies along the 120-kilometre highway linking Maiduguri and Damaturu, the capital of neighbouring Yobe state, is an ISWAP stronghold.

Abductions of civilians by the jihadists in the area have been on the rise, prompting increased military deployments which have failed to end the abductions.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/21/2020 00:23 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Fifth Column
BLM Harasses Milwaukee, Wisconsin Children’s Christmas Charity Event Attendees
[Breitbart] Members of a local Black Lives Matter organization marched through a Candy Cane Lane charity event and harassed people driving through the Christmas-decorated street. The residents of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, suburb decorate every year to raise money for a childhood cancer center.

The People’s Revolution, a Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization, organized a march to disrupt a children’s cancer fundraiser in West Allis, Wisconsin, Friday night. The group marched down Candy Cane Lane and harassed suburban attendees to the annual charity event where the residents decorate their homes for Christmas and the holidays, Wisconsin Right Now reported.

Posted by: trailing wife || 12/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  So black lives don’t matter if they are children with cancer?
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/21/2020 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm sure CNN & MSNBC are alllllll over this one.
Posted by: Clem || 12/21/2020 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  decivilization
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/21/2020 5:38 Comments || Top||

#4  same usual obnoxious behavior
Posted by: Chris || 12/21/2020 8:22 Comments || Top||

#5  A domestic terror organization that raises $$$ by extortion. Also funded w internet dark money.
How long before we see they're linked to CCP? Or Cuba, ISIS, Maduro, Iran?
Posted by: Deadeye Cluper1589 || 12/21/2020 8:26 Comments || Top||

#6  The founders of BLM are openly communist and linked to the CCP. For instance:

BLM Co-Founder Partnering Up With Pro-Communist Chinese Group
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/21/2020 8:38 Comments || Top||

#7  They can get away with this only in areas that will tolerate it. Ever wonder why you don't see this in the rural red areas? Damn good way to get shot there.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/21/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||

#8  Soros, of course.

We need the unorganized militia to protect citizens.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/21/2020 11:33 Comments || Top||

#9  An application of #4 birdshot and salt mix helps with this kind of skin condition I'm told. Apply as needed until the conditional goes away.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/21/2020 12:42 Comments || Top||


Wisconsin man who was convicted for sexually assaulted his own young child will receive tax-payer funding for a sex change
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

In 2007 Mark Allen Campbell, who now prefers to go by Nicole Rose Campbell, of Waupun, Wisconsin was arrested for sexually assaulting and abusing his 10-year-old daughter and was sentenced to 34 years in prison. In December 2020 a federal judge declared that Campbell at age 49, now identifying as a transgender woman, has a Constitutional right to gender affirmation surgery, paid by the taxpayers.

Racine Correctional Institute, a men's prison, where Campbell has been housed has allowed Campbell to dress in women's clothing and wear make-up. Campbell has received taxpayer-funded hormone treatments and counseling since being incarcerated. In 2013, six years into the prison term, Campbell requested gender confirmation surgery.

At the time, Campbell's request was denied. In 2016, Campbell filed a lawsuit claiming that Campbell's Eighth Amendment rights had been violated as Department of Corrections officials were "indifferent" to Campbell's "medical needs." The suit claims that Campbell was forced to suffer under the cruel and unusual punishment of not allowing Campbell to undergo drastic body modification surgery that would destroy Campbell's reproductive system and sexual health.
Castration is the proper punishment for what Mr. Campbell has done. The scientific research shows that with time most of those who undergo sex change surgery come to bitterly regret it, underlined by the poor quality of opposite sex plastic surgery and the constant pain that results. I can live with Mr. Campbell spending the rest of his life in physical and mental pain as a result of physical castration, even if the taxpayers have to pay for it in the guise of mental health whatever.
Posted by: Fred || 12/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  The scientific research shows that with time most of those who undergo sex change surgery come to bitterly regret it

And the downside here is? :-)
Posted by: gorb || 12/21/2020 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Change his sex from male to eunuch, with a dull knife.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/21/2020 0:59 Comments || Top||

#3  A dull rusty knife.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/21/2020 1:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Two pound sledge and a drift punch.
Posted by: gorb || 12/21/2020 2:57 Comments || Top||

#5 

Worth Repeating.

Transgender is a mental Illness that is well documented to lead to a increased suicide rate of 50+% for males seeking a female "appearance".

Compare this to the US Male hetero-sexual community of 1.34 per 10,000.

The Transgender 50/50 vs. Male hetero-sexual the 1.34 in 10,000 is a BIG difference.


So Hang Loose ☺....
The odds are this He/She-It will eliminate himself from the food chain in the next 5 years. Clearly because some PC panty weight decided its OK to treat this Mental Illness issue with a knife for PC touchy-feely reasons. Instead doing some basic sexual counseling to find the reason for this mental abnormality?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/21/2020 3:48 Comments || Top||

#6  IT will be moved to Taycheedah Correctional (women's prison) where the inmates have a much lower opinion than their male counterparts regarding sexual predators.

And there are some really nasty folks staying there.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/21/2020 7:44 Comments || Top||

#7  I don't want to hear one f-ing word about how public schools are underfunded or teachers have to buy classroom supplies with their own scratch...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/21/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#8  How about castration with a weed whacker?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/21/2020 14:52 Comments || Top||


Federal officers bull rushed and made a targeted arrest at the antifa protest at the Portland ICE facility
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Portland Police have made an arrest over the arson attack on Reo's Ribs
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Douse her in gasoline and light it.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/21/2020 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Has the Portland Mayor scheduled the parade in her honor yet?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/21/2020 1:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Isn't that the DA's job nowadays?
Posted by: gorb || 12/21/2020 2:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Black-owned business, Snoop Dogg's uncle, IIRC
Posted by: Frank G || 12/21/2020 5:57 Comments || Top||

#5  She will ammounce her run for the Oregon legislature right after New Years Day...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/21/2020 6:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Snoop Dogg's uncle, IIRC

And that's why there was an arrest.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/21/2020 12:50 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ lese majeste
Posted by: Slats Chinter4197 || 12/21/2020 13:02 Comments || Top||

#8  38 years old.
Posted by: Regular joe || 12/21/2020 22:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Another black male potential convert / switcher to Trump
Posted by: Gerthudion Protector of the Boskonians1805 || 12/21/2020 23:39 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Rockets 'targeting US embassy' rain on Baghdad's Green Zone
[RT] Multiple rockets have targeted the Iraqi capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone on Sunday evening. The US embassy’s C-RAM air defense systems were engaged to intercept the missile attack, which it said resulted in no casualties.Footage published on the social media show the night skies over Baghdad illuminated with flashes of light as rapid-fire guns of the US C-RAM systems were used to intercept the incoming projectiles. At least three rockets were targeting the American diplomatic missions, the Iraqi security officials told AP, saying they were launched by an "outlaw group."

Most if not all of the rockets were apparently destroyed mid-air, and the US Embassy in Iraq later said that it resulted only in some minor property damage. The embassy then called on Iraqi leaders to prevent any such future attacks and to prosecute those responsible.
There are a network of pro-Iranian groups in Iraq, including Kataib Hezbollah which is linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The groups also include Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, the Badr Organization and Rab’Allah, as well as a series of other small groups. Many of these are linked to the Popular Mobilization Forces or Hashd al-Shaabi. They are in turn paid salaries by the Iraqi government as an official paramilitary force.

This makes them a cross between Lebanese Hezbollah and the IRGC in Iraq. Many use symbols similar to the IRGC. Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, head of Kataib Hezbollah and deputy of the PMF was killed by a US Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in January 2020 when driving with IRGC Quds Force head Qasem Soleimani. The US said they were plotting attacks days after militias tried to storm the US embassy.

The rocket attacks began in May 2019. However tensions go back much further. These groups carried out attacks on the US after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Muhandis was wanted by the US for decades in connection with terror attacks in Kuwait. Qais Khazali, head of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, was once detained by the US at Camp Cropper in 2007. These groups have vowed to eject the US from Iraq. Even though the PMF and US both fought ISIS the US is seen by 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...
as its most implacable enemy.

The Trump administration increased sanctions on Iran. Pro-Iranian militias killed a US contractor near Kirkuk with a rocket attack in December 2019 and also killed three US-led Coalition personnel in March. The US responded with airstrikes.

The US has warned numerous times against more rocket attacks. In the spring of 2020 the US withdrew from a half dozen facilities in Iraq, including K-1, Q-West, Taji and other bases, and then installed C-RAM, an air defense system, in Baghdad at the embassy compound. The embassy compound in the Green Zone is a favorite target of the militias, particularly the Union III base near it. Another facility at the airport is also a frequent target.

The Iranian-backed militias use 107mm katyusha rockets often mounted on purpose built metal launchers that are placed in the back of white Bongo-style trucks. This is a unique setup used by the militias. In a rare event in September the Iranian-backed groups use Grad rockets
...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
to target the vicinity of Erbil International Airport in the Kurdistan autonomous region in Iraq, a message to the US that even if the US leaves Baghdad’s embassy and moves forces to the Kurdistan region, the US will not be safe.

The Kurdish region is more pro-American despite the accusations of US betrayal of Kurds in Kirkuk after the Kurdish referendum in October 2017 and the US failure to defend Kurds in eastern Syria in October 2019.
Posted by: Fred || 12/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Wile E. Coyote (Super Genuis) Rocket Factory. Typically Katyusha 107mm rockets designed to be fired from a launcher (dubious accuracy even off the launcher). WWII Soviet design where quantity had a quality of its own.

While certainly dangerous, more of a harassing/5 O'clock Follies type of attack.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 12/21/2020 9:45 Comments || Top||

#2  A 2000 pounder on the Iranian embassy every time a rocket is fired at the US embassy. Lessons will be quickly learned.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/21/2020 9:52 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Suspected Iranian cyberattack targets Israel Aerospace Industries
[Jerusalem Post] The hacker group Pay2Key claimed Sunday night that it had successfully hacked a range of Israeli defense industry companies, including the largest Israeli airpower defense corporation, Israel Aerospace Industries.

There were signs on social media and elsewhere that the hack was part of an ongoing and concerted Iranian campaign to hack Israeli companies.

The IAI said that the subject is currently being investigated.

Check Point has referred to Pay2Key as an elite hacker group that steals data and threatens to leak it if its target does not cooperate.

Pay2Key has already posted information relating to IAI, including to its cyber chief.

Earlier in December, the giant insurance company Shirbit was hacked by the hacker group Black Shadow.

Over several dramatic days, Black Shadow steadily leaked customer data to try to get Shirbit to pay it ransom money.

The insurance agency never paid, though its future as a business is also deeply uncertain, including that Israeli defense officials who had used it have loudly discussed switching to a different insurer.

Check Point also published a report earlier in December that 141 Israeli companies had been cyberattacked in November and 137 in October, a major spike in attacks.

Some view this as Iran's response to Israel's alleged involvement in recently assassinating Iran's nuclear program chief Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as well as other assassinations and sabotage.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2020 06:33 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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