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Rose Joan Blondell was an American actress who performed in film and television for half a century. Blondell began her career in vaudeville. After winning a beauty pageant, she embarked on a film career, establishing herself as a Pre-Code staple of Warner Bros. (Read - the scantily women are welcome/ sex sells)
Born: Rose Joan Bluestein, (Bluerock - Descendant of Bedrock) August 30, 1906, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. (lived to be 73 -3 months- 24 Days)
Died: December 25, 1979, (A Christmas Death - Bob Marley Visited) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Resting place: Forest Lawn Memorial Park (but there is not a tree in sight), Glendale CA Wikipedia IMDb
Joan Blondell 525 < Yeah, 5 o'clock somewhere - I'll drink to that; As he pours his 7th Gin & Tonic of the night, erh..early morning - Breakfast < yeah that it!
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- I have it on good authority, it was Bob Marley not Jacob Marley, who visited Joan on Christmas 1979. He played his lead song, which put poor Joan into a panic, and lead to her death. Bob followed but a few 3 years later, two greats 1 of film the other of music, never to live again, but in our hearts.
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She's one of my fav's, like a walking party. And she bathes!
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I was going to make the usual comment about only knowing her from her role as the middle-aged housekeeper on My Three Sons but when I looked that reference up on IMDb, I got a cramp in my mouse wheel finger scanning down through every thing she'd been in. Prolific!
[Fox Business] Court ruled that COVID-19 is not an occupational hazard but a 'universal risk'
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued mixed rulings in a pair of cases challenging Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandates, allowing the requirement for certain health care workers to go into effect while blocking enforcement of a mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees.
The latter, an Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule that took effect on Monday, said that businesses with at least 100 employees needed to require workers to get vaccinated, or get tested weekly and wear a mask.
The Court ruled that OSHA lacked the authority to impose such a mandate because the law that created OSHA "empowers the Secretary to set workplace safety standards, not broad public health measures."
"Although COVID-19 is a risk that occurs in many workplaces, it is not an occupational hazard in most," the Court ruled. "COVID—19 can and does spread at home, in schools, during sporting events, and everywhere else that people gather. That kind of universal risk is no different from the day-to-day dangers that all face from crime, air pollution, or any number of communicable diseases."
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it's about time someone up there got something right, besides the mandate for healthcare workers. Of course there were 3 idiots who on the court.
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The mandate for health workers at facilities that take federal money can be worked around many ways. SCROTUS has signaled they do not wat to re-visit this. Because they know an argument that working for a federal contractor does not make you a federal employee will open up a dozen cans of worms.
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Semi weaslely decision by SCOTUS. Good on OSHA part; not good for health care workers. Unintended ramifications for a profession where there is already an exodus of health-care workers.
Mandates of any kind are not well-accepted by Americans.
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Good question B. Non-vaxers being discharged by the military are getting hosed. This Biden policy decision impacts national security. The SCOTUS decision is weak-kneed. Maybe another law case will test the Constitutionality of the discharge decision.
I saw today, that the military is paying up to $50K for an enlistment bonus. The "woke" military must be having problems with recruiting. The idiots in charge seem to be hell-bent on destroying institutions and culture.
[BabylonBee] In a stirring speech in Atlanta this week, Biden recounted the time he was heroically arrested at a civil rights protest simply for wearing a white hood.
"There I was, outside a school protesting against school integration with my best pal KKK member Robert Byrd, and the cops were escorting black kids into the school," said Biden. "And then I said 'You won't turn my school into a racial jungle! I'm gonna wrap this chain around your head!' And then the cops arrested me and escorted me to their police car and bought me Burger King. It was delicious. Build Back Better! Universal mail-in voting! Yay!"
The audience seemed confused until several Democrat leaders instructed the audience to clap and cheer.
"Yay! Build Back Better! Universal mail-in voting!" they all cheered.
Biden's address has been hailed in the media as a "powerful call to America to be on the right side of history" and "a totally not racist speech."
Democrats have instructed black leaders to instruct black people that whatever the 80-year-old white racist said in his speech was a "good thing" and they should fully support it if they want "liberation and equality and all that stuff."
Republicans pounced on the speech, likely because they're racist.
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Federal takeover of elections: DOA.
Nuking legislative filibuster: impossible.
Private employer vax mandate: struck down.
Producer Price Index: surges to all-time high.
Consumer Price Index: highest since 1982.
Public support: craters to 33%
Time for a false-flag mass shooting at a school board meeting by an angry parent FBI contractor.
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[19fortyfive] American Who Spent 182 Days on the Battlefield Speaks Out on Ukraine and Russia: One US civilian has been to Ukraine and seen the border skirmish between Moscow and Kyiv up close and personal. Policy institute president and defense and national security expert Dr. Phillip Karber has visited Ukraine 36 times in the last eight years and has spent a total of 182 days at the front lines of various battlefields observing combat.
1945 caught up with Karber, who heads the Potomac Foundation, for a wide-ranging, detailed, and insightful interview about the situation in Ukraine and Russia. 1945 Defense Editor Brent Eastwood conducted the interview. Here's someone at least who thinks the Ukranine could hold its own
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Anyone but the screeching waifs with their drum machines and dancers that the "entertainment industry" pushes today.
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Music goes in cycles: Small Band to Big Band, melody complimenting the good singer and melody hiding the weaknesses of a singer... I miss the strong vocalists of earlier cycles.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Special report by Alexander Kots:
[KP] - Honestly, at some point I thought that everything, kapets the country, - a familiar local businessman meets me at the railway station of Almaty . - There was a feeling that everything fell apart, especially when the security forces completely disappeared from the city for two days. I underestimated Tokayev (President of Kazakhstan - Ed.), I thought he would fly to Rostov.
We are barely trudging through the dead traffic jams that suddenly fettered Alma-Ata, along which armed militants were running just a few days ago. My friend gets angry because he doesn't understand the nature of such congestion. Traffic cops are standing around, directing the creeping streams to bypass the center. But as soon as you try to go around the block that has arisen, new traffic cops appear and again drive you into a traffic jam.
Suddenly, a cortege accompanied by armored vehicles bursts past us into the center of the city, cleared of cars, and a helicopter flies along its route from above. By it, I understood for the next half day - where it is definitely not worth going by car. The "spinner" accompanied the convoy of the President of Kazakhstan, who came to his hometown to meet with the relatives of the deceased security officials - their portraits are now on electronic screens along the city roads. And look at the consequences of the pogroms.
"ELITE BANKS AND TURKISH SHOPS Marauders DIDN'T TOUCH"
I will say this - I expected to see a more apocalyptic picture in Alma-Ata . Reports from here in the first days of January drew a battle canvas on which no stone was left from the city. In fact, the looting affected only a small part of the city in the direction of the movement of the pogromists. But for Kazakhstan this is also unprecedented!
At the same time, the looting was suspiciously selective. In the middle of the smashed windows stands an intact supermarket of the Turkish chain. And the avalanche of marauders stopped just before the junction, behind which the offices of all the largest banks in Kazakhstan begin in fashionable buildings made of glass and concrete. Obviously, someone controlled the marauders and did not let them approach the elite facilities where they could take out all their class hatred.
Traces of urban battles (and I have seen enough of them over 20 years of work in "hot spots"), too, were found not many. Moreover, where the terrorists met with resistance (for example, at the local police department), they retreated without getting involved in long skirmishes. And where there was no resistance, and there is no need to shoot.
In essence, it was a classic terrorist attack with clear targets for which the militants were not going to inflame a lot of resources. Capture police station arsenals. To take control of the entrances to the city and the airport, through which help could come by air to the security forces. To speak on television, announcing some "South Kazakhstan" velayat and raise the "green banner of Islam" over the burned down akimat. The pogroms and robberies provoked by professional coordinators were a screen and proceeded in parallel with the capture of the city. It's just that no one expected that the central government would issue an order for harsh suppression - the curators did not warn about this from the “werewolf” security forces.
And nobody expected the CSTO
SHOOTING AND CUTTING OBLIGATELY PROFESSIONALS
However, a lot of blood was shed anyway. And in Alma-Ata they are sure that the official figures of the victims of the pogrom are at least three times underestimated.
The local ambulance station refused to give me exact numbers. But they told how the doctors had to work in real combat conditions, being attacked by militants. And they shared some interesting, previously unheard details.
- From 4 to 7 January 11,500 calls were received. We served 9100. A third is injuries, gunshot, cut, beaten, - the acting Acting told me. Director of the Ambulance Service Andrey Lozhkin. - We could not get to many patients because of the cordons and riots, because the brigades were attacked. We did not divide: strikers, non-strikers, policemen, not policemen. They could not be made out. Many of the strikers changed into police uniforms.
- Do you know that for sure?
- The policemen dressed in civilian clothes, because they were really killed there! The strikers did not allow us to provide assistance to the police. For this purpose, they stopped us. They searched cars, looked for police officers.
- What was the state of the people? And what are the injuries?
- In the beginning, of course, they were of moderate severity. Then they went already heavy, when weapons began to be used. Our guys and corpses were taken out, because they were captured. Basically, serious injuries from the evening of January 5th and 6th, gunshot. Head, chest and cut. The legs were mainly hit in the thighs, in the gluteal region, so that there was a lot of blood loss. Most likely, they were some kind of professionals ...
The thiefs took the corpses of their people
- 5 of our workers were injured - two drivers and three paramedics, - Shaykhidin Badirov, the deputy director for the medical department, shared with me. “The bandits say: don’t help the police, take care of our people. Leave those.
- They say the thugs took the corpses of their accomplices from the streets ... Is it true?
- It was so. At the 4th substation, the bandits forcibly took one ambulance brigade to take out the corpses from the Republic Square.
- Did the militants take out the corpses of their people?
- Well, yes.
The paramedic of that very substation Sergazy Abyllayev was attacked near Republic Square.
- On January 4, closer to ten, shooting began, grenades, noise. At that moment, a call was received to provide medical assistance to a police officer. Three people were loaded into our car, one of them was unconscious, two were seriously wounded. At that moment, our ambulance was attacked. They started throwing stones at us, broke the windows, the side door, opened the back door, threw a tear grenade. The second grenade was either a combat grenade or some kind of noise grenade. We managed to throw it out through the window.
- And what kind of people were they? Were you able to see them? Is it local? Not local? Are they Kazakhs or foreigners?
- There were different nations. I cannot say that only Kazakhs. They were young, yes, maybe 20-25 years old. Well, it was hard. They don't even come into contact with you in order to talk calmly.
From 4 to 7, 11,500 calls were received
- Have you tried?
- Yes. I tried: calm down, please. They don't listen to you. They swear: give us a policeman, don't help him, let, roughly speaking, die here. But we have completed this matter anyway. And they were hospitalized in the hospital urgently.
[Breitbart] Politico Playbook exclusively reported Wednesday that publishing giant HarperCollins is preparing to release the next investigative bombshell book by six-time New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer titled Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win.
Red-Handed remains under a strict embargo until its January 25 release date.
The book’s cover, which Politico obtained a copy of, features photos of President Joe Biden and Chinese Communist Party Leader Xi Jinping, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), LeBron James, Elon Musk, Henry Kissinger, and Bill Gates. According to Politico, Red-Handed will "expose bad actors on both ends of the political spectrum and their willingness to do China’s bidding."
Given the bestselling author’s investigative track record, the book’s subjects may have cause for concern. Peter Schweizer’s Clinton Cash sparked an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation. His last two books, Profiles in Corruption and Secret Empires, each hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China just 10 days after the trip.
Schweizer, who is the president of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and a senior contributor to Breitbart News, also authored Throw Them All Out, which, according to left-leaning Slate, was "the book that started the STOCK Act stampede." The bipartisan STOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge) banned insider trading by members of Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 4, 2012. The legislation received overwhelming support from both parties. One of the main figures featured in Schweizer’s Throw Them All Out, then-chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Spencer Bachus (R-AL), announced he would not seek reelection after the book’s reporting. CBS’s 60 Minutes did an investigative report on Schweizer’s revelations that won them the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based journalism.
According to Amazon, Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win numbers 352 pages in length.
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OK my 1st 3/4 day home since 12-29-2021. Wife still in ICU.
But have been following the usual Pee-On's (US) vs. Them (elite) dual justice system process.
As scary as I sound saying it.
Why we are still discussing or expecting any real Constitutional Justice?
They are playing US against US and never will see true accountability in any court system. Elite level royalty vs working Serf's. Serfs kept at that level with High Tax rates to keep advancement.
Read up a little on the Korean Joseon Dynasty or a dozen other countries where rich elitists used the same basic control processes.
Hell look no further than Dr. F (death) and his violations of INTERNATIONAL BIO-WARFARE laws? Where are the 5M charges for murder for his "test" projects in Wuhan?
Look at the shooting of Right Wing protesters WITHOUT criminal investigation. Murder of Police officers with the POS released on signature bonds. The store bought DA's.
But then add media deflection/propaganda writings to make heroes out of rapists, drug dealers, career Felons, and ped's. All which cause riots and the harm of innocent citizens and not the BLM/ANTI-FA criminals clearly assaulting VERY Sr. Citizens, looting $$$$$$$ stores, and burning things down.
MY OPEN QUESTION :
So how will justice be accomplished as long as $$$$$$ rules over law?
BTW: 1st cup of Coffee in over 10 days.... still tastes like crap. ☺
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Air Force is asking for an investigation following claims an unqualified female airman was pushed through special tactics officer training after quitting
Had the woman completed the 2-3 year program, she would become the first woman to make it into the elite special tactics field
The anonymous account which made the original accusations named the trainee as Captain Morgan Mosby
Questions have been raised as to whether the female airman received preferential treatment to stay in the pipeline having allegedly quit multiple times
Various allegations have been posted on social media in which the female candidate quit three times but was then reinstated or rejoined 'pipeline training'
The female airman was said to have quit training, twice during water sessions and also during a solo land navigation course
She was also allegedly given more chances to prove herself and received preferential treatment that was not given to other male trainees who quit
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I'm glad Crenshaw guards his former profession so closely. Maybe he could extend that concern to the rest of us instead of being a creepy political wh0re.
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Feels like Crenshaw has his sights on being the next McStain.
[Garowe] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... [EU] anti-piracy mission risks losing permission to pursue pirates in Somalia's waters due to local politics, the Observer reports, in the latest dramatic development in the Horn of Africa nation.
In December 2021, Somalia's federal government agreed to extend a UN mandate for the EU operation, called Atalanta, for just three months. Somalia has a coastline of 3,333 kilometers.
And its future intentions were "rather ambivalent" and "to be doubted", according to an internal EU foreign-service paper, dated 5 January and seen by EUobserver.
Somalia's new "posture towards the international presence [is] ... to be seen in the context of [Somalia's] ongoing electoral process, notably increasing tensions and electoral fragmentation," the EU said.
And as they prepared for presidential elections "likely to take place in June", the Somalian powers that be wanted to make a point.
They wanted the EU or other "future partners to reinforce [the] Somali national coasties and navy", instead of policing the region.
They also wanted Atalanta to focus more on illegal fishing and toxic-waste dumping, amid "destabilizing information stating that the operation [Atalanta] 'protects the illegal fishing vessels," the EU foreign service said.
And they wanted the text of any long-term UN resolution "to notably reduce the perceived negative language towards Somalia".
If the current UN resolution expires in March, then there would "be no more legal basis for Atalanta to fight armed robbery in Somali territorial waters or on its territory, and ... to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia", the EU noted.
The EU mission could still fight pirates on the "high seas" and could still perform "secondary tasks", it said.
These include protecting food-aid ships, enforcing a UN arms embargo on Somalia, pursuing drugs traffickers, illegal fishing boats, and illicit charcoal traders.
But "capability ... to pursue pirates and armed robbers in Somali territorial waters remains indeed important for an effective counter-piracy mission. Ability to act on land would be even better," the EU foreign service said.
The EU planned to "increase pressure " on Somalia to get, at least, another nine-month extension. It also aimed to use other EU military assistance to Somalia's armed forces "as a political leverage".
And they are seeking to extend their presence, with pending accords on Atalanta anti-piracy operations also in the waters of Djibouti, Mauritius, and Seychelles, the EU internal paper indicated.
The developments come amid increased instability in the region caused by Æthiopia's civil war. They also come amid heightened geopolitical tension, as China and Russia compete with EU interests in Africa.
In the meantime, Somalia's formal position was that "piracy is no longer posing a significant threat to the regional peace and security," the EU report noted. But the EU concern over Atalanta's potential expulsion from the country's waters indicated that that was far from true.
[Garowe] At least eight people have been confirmed dead in Mogadishu following a suicide explosion that targeted a convoy within the insecure capital, which has been witnessing several terrorism incidents in recent days.
Eyewitnesses said a jacket wallah driving in a car let 'er rip along the 21st October streets in Waberi district of the capital, just near the busy Aden Adde International Airport, further raising questions about the security of the capital.
Sources claimed the bomber targeted a convoy of "white officials" but their identity is yet to be established. There are several aid workers from foreign countries in Somalia, with some also attached to diplomatic missions.
The al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... terror group has grabbed credit adding that it targeted some "foreigners". The group further said it achieved the target according to its proxy media outlets, which often announce such attacks.
Tens of others were critically injured and have since been taken to various hospitals within the capital for treatment. This is the first major attack by the Lions of Islam this year in the troubled Horn of Africa nation.
Mogadishu resident Mohammed Osman said the shock of the blast hit the walls and roof of a mosque he was praying in nearby, causing massive damage that "I have never seen in my life". It's not clear if the convoy was headed to the airport.
"When I came out of the mosque, I saw several old houses collapsed, body parts on the street, hands, legs," Osman told Rooters. "Destroyed cars, burnt Tuk-tuks (rickshaws); all this mess and loss of lives in a minute, I survived."
The Lions of Islam still control huge swathes of rural central and southern Somalia and have killed thousands of people including innocent civilians, security forces, and government officials. The Lions of Islam were flushed out of the capital in 2007.
Currently, there are talks to have African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission having a joint mission with the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... in Somalia. The current tenure for AMISOM is set to expire in March this year and there are concerns that al-Shabaab can spread wings further in the country.
A large explosion outside the international airport in Somalia's capital killed at least eight people and wounded nine others on Wednesday, a local doctor said.
Dr. Abdulkadir Adam with Medina hospital shared the toll with The Associated Press. Witnesses at the scene said a passing U.N. convoy appeared to be the target in the Mogadishu blast near a checkpoint leading to the heavily fortified airport.
[Rudaw] A paramedic of the Kurdish Red Islamic Thingy was killed on Tuesday night in northern Syria’s (Rojava) al-Hol camp, which houses thousands of 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.... (ISIS) affiliates, media outlets reported, marking the second murder at camp in the year.
Two armed ISIS suspects assassinated a paramedic inside the medical service point in Hasaka province’s al-Hol camp, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported. He was shot in the head, which led to his death immediately.
The medic was identified as Bassem Mohammed, 26, from the province’s al-Salihiya neighborhood, according to North Press Agency (NPA).
Both SOHR and NPA claimed that the alleged killers entered the medical service point with forged IDs, killing Mohammed after their real identities were pointed out.
Nifty uniforms. And the holes in the mask are a grand idea!
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Those regimentals are way ahead of the new ⭔ in the woke department. I think the mask is copied from Hannibal Lecter? Which, given it's the sub-sahara may just be a thang.
[PJMedia] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s defense minister, Maulvi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, recently responded to news that the U.S. plans to station 2,000 troops at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul by presenting what he considered to be a tit-for-tat: according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the austere diplomat tweeted: "If America wants 2,000 English [i.e., American] troops at its embassy in Afghanistan, we also want 2,000 Fidayeen Mujahideen [i.e., jacket wallahs] from the Fateh Force at the embassy of Afghanistan in America." Two-thousand suicide bombers in Washington! It’ll almost be like Congress, but bigger.
MEMRI explains that "fidayeen is another term used by jihadi groups for their suicide bombers. ’Fateh Force,’ or ’victorious force,’ is a ’martyrdom force’ within the Badri 313 unit of the Islamic Emirate [of Afghanistan]. Badri 313 is named after the Ghazwa-e-Badr, the first Islamic battle led by Islam’s founder Muhammad in which 313 Moslems defeated thousands of non-Moslemrustics."
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[DW] In December, the Home Office sent a rejection letter to a Syrian asylum-seeker, saying it was safe for him to return. That would have been first case of its kind in the UK. Now, authorities appear to have backtracked.
The case concerns a 25-year-old Syrian man who came to the UK in May 2020. He reportedly evaded forced conscription into the army in 2017 to avoid being forced to kill fellow Syrians.
The man, who has not been named for his protection, has said returning to Syria would put his life in danger. He would be targeted as a draft dodger, arrested and possibly killed, he said.
In its rejection letter to the man, reported by The Guardian newspaper, the Home Office said he could safely return to Syria. "I am not satisfied to a reasonable degree of likelihood that you have a well-founded fear of persecution," the Home Office wrote, according to The Guardian.
In what appears to be a U-turn, the Home Office tweeted on Tuesday that "under the current circumstances we are not returning people to Syria. The UK government agrees with the UN judgement that Syria remains unsafe for them."
The Home Office confirmed its statement to DW.
'FAIR BUT FIRM'
In 2021, the UK introduced a major overhaul of its immigration and asylum system. Addressing Parliament In December, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the new law represented a "comprehensive, fair but firm long-term plan, which addresses the challenge of illegal migration head-on."
"Asylum-seekers deemed to have arrived in the UK illegally will no longer have the same entitlements as those who arrive in the country via legal routes," Patel said. "Even if their claim is successful, they will be granted temporary refugee status and face the prospect of being indefinitely liable for removal."
"Asylum seekers will be able to be removed from the UK while their asylum claim or appeal is pending, which opens the door to offshore asylum processing," she said.
A WORRYING MOVE
Though information on the applicant's case in question remains scant, the government's stance is a disturbing and surprising development, said Rim Turkmani, the research director for Syria with the Conflict Research Programme at the London School of Economics.
Turkmani, who has given expert evidence to the UK's Foreign Affairs Select Committee on the Syria crisis, said that, although the level of violence had abated in parts of Syria, the safety of individuals was still at risk, particularly where political motives are involved.
"Evading conscription in Syria after 2011 is indeed a political statement by men who refuse to join an army that is attacking civilians, committing war crimes, and where they may be positioned in posts where they have to take part in attacking civilian areas themselves. Seeking to avoid conscription puts the person at risk of detention, which, as documented by many human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organizations, could mean torture and even death. The mere fact that this person has applied for asylum puts him at risk if he is sent back to Syria," she told DW via email.
After our family member died from the spike vaccine, the neighbor wheelchaired for the rest of her life. WTH he's losing me. I don't care if he's playing to the media. There is no excuse. I'll vote for DeSantis.
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Trump calls DeSantis ‘gutless...’
[Washington Examiner] I'm all done now. This guy really just does not know where to get off.
Former President Donald Trump ripped "gutless" politicians who refuse to say whether or not they received the booster shot for COVID-19.
Trump's comments came in an interview that aired on One America News Network on Tuesday night. While Trump did not mention any names, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has notably dodged questions about whether or not he took the booster shot.
"Many politicians — I watched a couple of politicians be interviewed, and one of the questions was, ’Did you get the booster?’ because they had the vaccine, and the answer is 'yes,' but they're not answering it," he said. "Because they’re gutless. You gotta say it, whether you had it or not."
Trump also said that he does not believe "young, healthy people" should take the vaccine. He cited his son Barron, 15, whom he said was barely affected when he was infected with COVID-19. The former president also said he did not experience any side effects when he got the vaccine and argued that it saved tens of millions of lives globally.
DeSantis, who said that he received the "normal shot" of the COVID-19 vaccine, avoided a question about whether he got the booster shot in a Fox News interview last December.
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Many Americans are anti vaccine. Some politicians on the right do not want to step on their toes. You will never find a person who can get to the very core of such subjects like Trump can.
Desantis is a professional politician. Trump you is not.
Trump was elected TWICE because people are tired of professional politicians who all eventually corrupted. Even Desantis is being political about this topic as we speak.
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Yes, the right tends to toss out its sexual predators, mountebanks and poltroons while the dems circle the wagons until they absolutely must give up. Seems to me Trump is the one doing all the trash talking on other pubs. Do some of them deserve it? No doubt. Is it an honorable way to politick? Hell no.
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(Commonwealth Fund) JULY 7, 2021 Deaths and Hospitalizations Averted by Rapid U.S. Vaccination Rollout.
People who spread false information by saying the vaccines are not effect are endangering the lives of others.
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He's a rough old bastid and a survivor. I thought everyone knew that. Personalities aside, at the end of the day, surviving is the key.
He knew what the Chinese were up to and did his best to bring back lost manufacturing. He also kept the Russian at arm's length. Iran and the Norks were never quite sure what steps he might take to totally fok up their day.
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But telling a vax fanatic that it doesn't work is like telling some people you don't like dogs. they foam at the mouth and then start telling you that you aren't human and should die.
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People who spread false information by saying the vaccines are not effect are endangering the lives of others.
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There is only one Savior.
Not Trump
Not Cotton Eyed Joe Bidet
Not Fauxi
Not Pfizer
Not Moderna
Not J&J
Not "Dr." Guabera at WHO
Not Shifty Eyes Walensky at CDC
And, no, Missy, not your dog either...
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They're now admitting that the data was botched. Incomplete, inconsistent, inaccurate. 'With,' not 'from.'
Shifting definitions. No randomized trials with proper controls anywhere. Confounding variables all over the place.
None of the alternate hypotheses - high sugar / diabetes as the key co-morbidity for ex. - none of these were explored.
They suppressed effective treatments and vilified world-class experts who dared to point out any of the above inconvenient facts or suggest that maybe burning down the house to kill a rat was insane policy.
They have never, ever admitted that they do not have all the answers and that they've made grievous mistakes. Instead they said that criticism of them was tantamount to denying or attacking "science."
Fauci and the other COVIDian clowns are simply destroying us and our democratic republic. They have made every possible error.
They are mendacious clowns who deserve only scorn. And possibly prison sentences, or exile to a remote island.
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But if you abjure the sacrement (vaxx) and vestment (mask) of COVID, you are a murderer. No discussion, no reasoning. Pure, apoplectic fury.
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Many times, mass groups of people who become emotionally invested in a lie, upon the uncovering of the lie, they are not angry at the liar(s) but at the reality that exposed the lie.
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The bottom line is that we can trust none of their official data -- not for cases, not for fatalities, not for side effects, neither for the vaxxed nor for the unvaxxed -- none of it.
They are literally making this shit up as they go. Flying blind.
And we saw this coming back in March 2020, when they distorted and misconstrued the incontrovertible data from that quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship. That was a perfect controlled trial, with an elderly population in the most contagious environment short of an orgy, confined for two weeks, and the case fatality rate was exactly what the skeptics expected and what we now know is true: 0.3%.
This thing was never as deadly as they claimed. This whole farcical episode was a totally avoidable catastrophe of deliberate malfeasance. Worst in modern history. Fvck these clowns.
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^ My point exactly. Assertions are not proof of anything. It's not even a case of "if they had proof." There's no way to prove that I did or did not die of COVID because I did or did not drink Mt. Dew. There's no way to prove or disprove that I am alive right now because of the vaxx. No. Way.
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And for those who say that sometimes logic and reason must be suspended, because reasons, I will not even dignify that assertion with a response.
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In true tinpot dictator fashion they spread vicious, ridiculous lies about all the brilliant scientists who opposed them.
They're trying to destroy that skeptic who's one of their own -- the Nobel shortlist inventor of the mRNA treatment itself.
They slandered the man who gave the world science about science and alerted us to the ways that so many of modern biomedical conclusions are simply false, their methods faulty and their conclusions unreliable.
They created a vicious propaganda campaign which claimed that three world class epidemiologists -- from Harvard, Stanford and Oxford -- who dared to suggest that we should focus on the elderly and leave the kids alone were somehow "fringe" scientists.
They have ignored their own peers from Yale and Berkeley and across the elite world of academic epidemiology who've pointed out that this is endemic, not a pandemic, and that forcing anyone under 60 to take their ineffective jabs -- again and again and again, from here to eternity -- goes against every principle of wise policy.
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^ But, you are contradicting something Missy heard her dog say at 3 am. Murderer!
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Re: #25. Of course the ones who excelled at becoming administrative wh0res despise the ones that do actual science. Of course they are going to stomp them down in favor of good drones who bring in the grant money. And that gets us the results we are looking at right now.
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Never go to a doctor who has a medical and a law degree. Never use an investment counselor who got a JD and decided not to practice law.
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And the rest of all y'all can wait until 2028. We'll keep our governor for his full second term.
- Florida
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So let me get this right....DeSantis, on his own accord and in line with how he views his health, has had some shots, but is not forcing people to have them?
Leading voice of the Free States isn't exactly gutless. Kind of the opposite really.
Not sure this is the right tack here Trump; really need to be all together here vs. Leviathan.
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But when Trump agrees with Missy's dog, Missy is all-in.
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Trump can only serve one more term. the question is, would it be advantageous for Desantes to be VP for that term or better to keep being America's Governor.
#33
Considering the whole project could break up, we would rather keep him here in Florida, working for us.
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Fauxi now two points below Bidet in approval. A sign the man in the street is not stupid.
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You really are a know nothing. The vaccines do not prevent one from having COViD. The vaccines increase ones chances of surviving COVID dramatically.
#36
I know that's what they say. And, yeah, thanks for letting me know who you are with your lame insult.
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There it is. I know nothing, because I don't buy the gummint line. Please see above: They can claim that the "vaccine" lessens your chance of being hospitalized or dying but they cannot prove that. Cannot. Prove That.
That's not emotional investment on my part. That's just a scientific fact. It isn't Science™ so it can be discounted by people who roll that way. But it does not change the reality.
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Fauxi's approval is below Joe's today. Lot of know-nothings out there...
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There was not enough time to gather evidence before the vax unrolled to make a decent qualitative estimate* about decreasing covid severities.
The only solid evidence we do have concerning less severe cases, is that all those most susceptible have run the gauntlet or have died, and they are no longer doing any of those activities. Therefore, it seems like new cases are less severe because those testing positive have a functioning immune system.
*and that information is so cluttered by number padding any deduction is sketchy
Just an observer here, not pro or anti vax. Whatever decision you make just remember, to riff the breakfast joke the other day, the TV people are involved, you are committed.
#40
Also, the thick fog of mutancy bullshit. Didn't the flu tend to mutate once a year? Well, it's an old virus and not made in china. Who can say? Certainly not a know nothing like me.
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Remember when g(r)om used to call some of us childish? Good times...
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Proud flat earth science! denier for 18 months now, accordingly. Also have a decent batting average IMHO. Difference is, I'm not hoping people die for I Told You So.
Know plenty of people who got the shot because they were In The Danger Zone. Some even got a booster, because some vaccinations need that.
By second booster lots of getdafukouttaheres. Third booster, lots of Did I Take the Wrong Interstate Exit? faces.
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I took the first J&J shot and loaded to the safe limit on aspirin for 2 weeks afterwards because of clot worries. No damn way I'm taking any boosters. Because I know nothing!
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I've always wanted to be a murderer. Now I get to do it without, you know, actually killing anyone. Not exciting, but I already notched my belt because CNN and USAToday said I could.
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An informed medical decision based on needs and wants, as it should be.
#46
What? You wouldn't prefer to just do it because of social pressure and derision from people who mistakenly believe they know something?
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SCOTUS says OSHA does not have authority to mandate vaccines. Missy's dog says "Please don't kick me again."
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Let's not forget, OSHA's initial stand on mandatory shots was that if there were side effects, the employer was responsible for damages.
Then there started being reports about possible side effects, and Science! was like, nah, takes two weeks for immunity to set in, what you got is from Covid.
Now they are all OSHA gonna make you do it, and shots actually were always intended to lesson symptoms.
#49
SCROTUS said vax mandates for health care workers might fly. Ready to go to a hospital where a nursing school drop-out who was willing to take the vax to get a job is taking care of you?
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Five no-nothings on SCOTUS, obviously...
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The arbiter of who knows is absent for a while now. Scooping Missy's dog's poop, no doubt.
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Time better spent asking the vax history of these decision makers.
AOC, where are her papers, eh?
And why they are not responsible for any shot side effects caused by federal mandates.
Asking for the early 40s regional EMT who died of unexpected heart failure....COD labeled Covid.
Don't give me the Oh they can just get a different job bull. This was a legally operating business from when they hired on until an hour ago. New people hiring on, guess they know the score, but me, I"d be like Jobu says up yours.
#53
Perhaps the mildness of Omicron is not about vaccines or about Omicron.
Perhaps the mildness is just Covid (when you don't have 4 or so co-morbidities, the hospitals know what to do regarding a bad case, and the journalists and gov are no longer trying to scare the crap out of people because they hope to revive Biden's poll numbers).
#55
Even with the Science! cabal suppressing legitimate therapeutics, if you are diabetic, they will dietarily and otherwise minimize that co-morbidity. You can bet the sort of docs my dad used to call "intensivists" have some protocols in place now.
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They haven't banned insulin. Too much money involved compared to ivermectin and HCQ.
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Ooooooh, where's that b(a)rnsmell?
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You wouldn't prefer to just do it because of social pressure and derision from people who mistakenly believe they know something?
Guess I'm the poster child for doing everything wrong according to the CDC. Polite company I am a Control Group.
-does creepy Joe whisper-
I still shake hands. Never quit. Laughed at a guy trying to give me the chicken wing.
-normal-
Even talked face to face with those who were sick and tested positive. Without a mask. Less than 6 feet. Like a person instead of some leper. They were feeling bad enough, like they got The Black Spot socially, and that is square on the TV people and they can eat shit now that they are, like Billy Madison, all the cool kids do it.
Didn't tempt fate - washed hands before eating, kept hands off the T-Zone, washed up after visitors especially the pens and those who had sniffles and no self control. Just didn't let myself get shoved around and if you think grom was pushy, shit I have stories about my wife's thoughts. Broke her when I mentioned she was watching the news like a sports jock junky watches the super bowl event.
Ultimately, I did what was right for me, considering I thought I had already had it in February. And if not, go into it with a healthy lifestyle, good attitude, and active immune system.
Locking people in their house, living on delivered junk food, while broadcasting fear and shame on all media sources was just brutal to watch and I hope you all are at least half as pissed as I was.
We knew getting it wasn't much fun, even deadly. We also knew it was totally out of proportion and sure enough, the losers and petty tyrants took advantage of it.
#59
I do the fistbump after watching too many men leave the restroom without washing their hands...for the last 20 years. Not COVID-related, just common sense
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We're either already covered in piss, trusting a clean hand for a binding deal, or cut palms to share blood and go Pawnee on some motherfuckers.
#65
Unprovoked own-goal, or Washington Examiner injecting DeSantis into this interview?
For those who have seen the entire interview: Was DeSantis mentioned outside of this 40 second clip, specifically before the clip or lead-up to the interview?
Seems Washington Examiner is referencing a December DeSantis interview and using stock wedge phrases.
Just trying to stay as lawful-neutral as when examining Covid problems as what is medical and what is political.
*Hand-shake culture out here, and calving season to boot, so we know from an early age to wash before eating or don't complain about getting a taint.
Fun game. If at a meeting, especially hand shakes before or expected after a meeting, wait for that one member, and there is always one it seems, to fiddle with every treat on the plate, look around to see who is disgusted and who grabs a treat afterwards. Its a good tell.
**Those air dryers are a contributing reason why touch screens have the taint. Second would be people diddling on their phones in the crapper, finishing the job, washing their hands proper, just to go touching their screen again. Remember waaaay back when The New Yorker tried to make a famous cover of an overworked nurse sitting exhausted, in full gown, playing on her touch screen?
[AlAhram] Egypt’s official gazette published on Wednesday a cabinet decree to legalise the status of 50 unlicensed churches and 91 Christian service buildings that had been operating without a permit.
According to the information released in the decree, the churches and service buildings approved are mostly Egyptian Coptic Orthodox, with the minority being Protestant.
Coptic Orthodox Christians make up around 90 percent of all Christians in the country.
The newly legalised churches and service buildings are located in Cairo, Alexandria, Sharqiya, Daqahaliya, Menoufiya, Minya, Assiut, Qena, and Sohag.
In 2016, Egypt’s parliament approved a long-awaited law regulating the building and renovation of churches.
The committee to legalise the status of unlicensed churches was established in 2017 by Sherif Ismail, the prime minister at the time.
Since its formation in 2017, the committee has legalised the status of over 2,000 churches and service buildings in the country.
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Very welcome news. Welcome to religious freedom, Egyptians! It's wonderful!
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They live in a part of the world where there are many good reasons to be wary of religion. We live in a world where the newest religion of the Godless is COVIDianism, of which all should be skeptical, if not scared.
So, brave? Yes they are. Hear the Good Word.
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Presidents Sisi’s government has been doing this for several years now. It doesn’t stop the local village governments from harassing local church congregations, but at least they’re legal now, which helps.
Breaking: Darrell Brooks, the suspect in the #Waukesha Christmas parade massacre, has had dozens & dozens of new felony charges filed against him. Brooks is a violent career criminal whose social media details support for BLM & leftist causes. https://t.co/KTd70cXivupic.twitter.com/dT3MnaFcsE
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Krasnoyarsk is expected to reach −17 deg C, at night - to −25 deg C
[REGNUM] On Thursday, January 13, Krasnoyarsk will be partly cloudy, sometimes light snow, the air temperature is -17 to -15 deg C, ice on the roads. This is reported by the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation.
At 07:10, it was -16 deg C at Teatralnaya Square.
At night from 13 to 14 January it is expected to reach −25 to −23 deg C, cloudy, no precipitation.
The speed of the north wind is 2-7 m/s. Pressure - 742 mm Hg.
On Friday, January 14, in Krasnoyarsk up to -20 to -17 deg C, cloudy with clearings, no precipitation. At night - up to −25 to −23 deg C.
On Saturday, January 15, Krasnoyarsk is expected to reach −18 to −16 deg C during the day and up to −21 to −19 deg C at night. Partly cloudy, no precipitation.
According to forecasts of the Central Siberian UGMS, on January 13, in the south of the Taimyr Municipal District (MR), in some places a very strong south wind is expected on gusts of up to 17-27 m/s, a blizzard.
In the north of the central regions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the air temperature at night is up to -31 to -26 deg C, in some places up -39 to -37 deg C.
On January 13-14, in the central and southern regions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in Khakassia and Tuva, there is ice on the roads, in the mountainous regions there is an avalanche hazard.
Meteorologist warned of "diamond dust" in the Moscow sky
[REGNUM] The strongest cold snap since the beginning of the year, which will lead to the appearance of "diamond dust" in the air, is expected on January 13 in Moscow. Yevgeny Tishkovets, a leading employee of the Phobos weather center, announced to reporters on January 12 .
As the meteorologist specified, the air temperature in Moscow will drop to –20 degrees, in the south of the Moscow region –15 to–20 degrees is expected, in the north of the region there will be frosts down to –20 to–25 degrees.
With such anomalous cold and high humidity in the air in the morning can be observed the smallest ice crystals, which experts call "ice needles" or "diamond dust", or "precipitation from the clear sky." They appear as a result of freezing of water vapor.
In the light of the Sun or Moon, ice crystals can sparkle like many diamonds and cause various optical phenomena, such as pillars of light or a false moon. Such optical phenomena in European mythology always portend bad weather.
Earlier , IA REGNUM reported that in Moscow, the "yellow" level of weather hazard due to icy conditions has been extended.
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I live in Winnipeg. These temperatures would not be worth noting here. -39 C is harsh but it happens. -15 C is a nice day. Lows of -23 to -25 happen all the time. I don't even have to plug in my car until it goes down to -26.
[IsraelTimes] Despite never being charged, group has spent collective 85 years in prison opened two decades ago for so-called ’war on terror’ detainees in wake of 9/11 attacks
The US government has approved the release of five more prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay military prison, according to documents posted online this week by the Defense Department.
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And speaking of Americans, there are the 911 first responders discussed here.
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Since they started calling teachers and every single person at the hospital a "first responder," they devalued that too. JoeFlation. It can devalue everything!
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Making room for U.S. citizen "domestic terrorists" i.e. parents who question what their children are taught in school.
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[NATION.PK] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Wednesday convicted five accused involved in Johar Town kaboom case.
The court handed down death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... on nine counts to four accused — Peter Paul, Eid Gull, Zia Ullah and Sajjad, besides awarding five years imprisonment to the female accused, Ayesha Gull.
ATC Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta convicted the accused on proving charges against the accused. The court announced the verdict at Kot Lakhpat Jail. The court conducted the trial at jail due to security reasons and reserved its verdict on completion of arguments by the parties, a day earlier.
The court recorded statements of 56 prosecution witnesses during the proceedings whereas forensic evidence and CCTV footage were also made part of the record.
The Counter-Terrorism Department had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against accused — Peter Paul, Eid Gull, Ayesha Gull, Zia Ullah and Sajjad.
On June 23, 2021 a powerful blast in Johar Town killed three people and injured 24 others, including a police constable.
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#2 Boyfriend is arrested after cops find the headless torso of missing woman believed to be his girlfriend in the freezer of his New Orleans home - next to a saw with flesh on it
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-01-13 10:07
"...Sources say he denied it, saying, 'I do not like green legs and hands.'"
I'm sorry.
(I'm not sorry)
Mike
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[DAILYCALLER] A veterans activist with the Vietnam Veterans of America, Kristofer Goldsmith, described in a previously unreported 2008 video committing acts that an expert said could be a war crime that could carry a punishment of death or life in prison.
Goldsmith said in the video that, as a soldier, he sabotaged Iraqi allies’ rifles while they slept so that they were rendered defenseless. He said he spread the idea to platoon members who joined in, disabling the rifles of an entire Iraqi company fighting on the same side as the U.S.
Goldsmith is now the associate director for policy and government affairs at VVA, a congressionally chartered group that was involved in a town hall with Rep. Alexandria Sandy Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore... on April 17. The New York Democrat said of the Department of Veterans Affairs, "If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" — a position on the VA at odds with the majority of veterans groups.
Goldsmith is married to the editor of The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... ’ At War blog, Lauren Katzenberg. He has testified before Congress and has done research into internet hoaxes that has spurred a congressional investigation. Numerous major news outlets, including CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... , The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have featured Goldsmith.
He’s also been fiercely critical of the last two Republican administrations.
Goldsmith now says his claim that he sabotaged Iraqi troops’ rifles was fake.
"Yeah, so there was a time when I was an anti-war activist," he told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "No, it is not true ... I wish that stupid shit would go away."
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“I joined the army to kill people. To kill Iraqis, to kill Muslims,” he said. “I remember … standing up the day after 9/11 and talking about how we should use chemical weapons or biological weapons over the entire Middle East to make it so the religious land, the Holy Land, is not an issue that harms Americans.”
[IsraelTimes] Suspects photographed sensitive sites in Israel, attempted to get their kids to join army intelligence units; security service says they were recruited by an Iranian operative.
The Shin Bet security service has arrested five Jewish Israelis accused of assisting an Iranian operative in gathering intelligence and making connections in Israel, despite some of them suspecting that he was working for Iran, the Shin Bet said Wednesday.
The five suspects — four women and one man — are all Jewish immigrants colonists from Iran
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[RIA Novosti] NATO 's ignorance of Russia 's de-escalation initiatives creates preconditions for incidents and conflicts, and undermines the foundations of security, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.
A meeting of the Russia- NATO Council was held in Brussels on Wednesday.
"It was indicated that the Russian side has repeatedly offered the alliance to take measures to de-escalate the situation. Russian initiatives were ignored. This creates the preconditions for incidents and conflicts, and undermines the foundations of security," the message said.
Bilateral talks were also held in Geneva on Monday between the delegations of Russia and the United States. Talks in the Russia- OSCE format are scheduled for Thursday in Vienna.
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...In fairness, 'Russian De-Escalation initiatives' generally translates to, "Give us what we want and maybe we won't do anything. Until next time."
Mike
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In fairness, 'Russian De-Escalation initiatives' generally translates to, "Give us what we want and maybe we won't do anything. Until next time."
[An Nahar] A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission's revised antitrust suit against Meta, formerly known as Facebook, can proceed, shutting down the social media company's request for a dismissal.In a revised complaint filed last August, the FTC argues that the company pursued a "buy or bury" strategy against rivals to suppress competition.
This is the FTC's second antitrust run at the company. A federal judge in June dismissed antitrust lawsuits brought against Facebook by the agency and a broad coalition of state attorneys general that were among multiplying efforts by federal and state regulators to rein in tech titans' market power.
The FTC is seeking remedies that could include a forced spinoff of Facebook's popular Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services, or a restructuring of the company.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who in June ruled that the FTC's original lawsuit was "legally insufficient" and didn't provide enough evidence to prove that Facebook was a monopoly, said in Tuesday's ruling that the the first complaint "stumbled out of the starting blocks."
But he added that, though the "core theory" of the lawsuit — that Facebook is a monopoly engaging in anticompetitive behavior — remains unchanged, the facts alleged this time around are "far more robust and detailed than before."
Meta said in an emailed statement it is "confident the evidence will reveal the fundamental weakness of the claims."
"Our investments in Instagram and WhatsApp transformed them into what they are today," the company said. "They have been good for competition, and good for the people and businesses that choose to use our products."
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[JPost] Let's go Brandon/Kerry The US has granted South Korea a license to pay damages owed to an Iranian company, possibly a gesture from the US to Iran to move nuclear talks forward.
The US permitted South Korea to pay damages owed to an Iranian company, in an exemption to sanctions on Tehran that can be viewed as a trust-building step in the ongoing nuclear talks.
The US Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control granted South Korea a "specific license" earlier this week to pay Dayyani Holdings, which is linked to the Iranian government. The amount has not been determined, but Seoul owes the company $63 million since 2018, which was not paid due to US sanctions on Iran.
The move came days after South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-kun met with US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley, as well as the Iranian and European delegations to the Vienna talks.
Iran says South Korea owes about $7 billion for oil cargo, which it has not paid after then-US president Donald Trump left the Iran deal in 2018 and imposed "maximum pressure" sanctions.
The negotiations in Vienna, which are in their eighth round, are for the US and Iran to return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which restricted Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the gradual lifting of sanctions until 2030.
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[An Nahar] Victims of torture in Syria and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activists say they hope the upcoming verdict in a landmark trial will be a first step toward justice for countless Syrians who suffered abuse at the hands of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... 's government in the country's long-running conflict.A court in the German city of Koblenz is scheduled to deliver its ruling Thursday in the trial of Anwar Raslan, a former Syrian secret police officer who is accused of crimes against humanity for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail near Damascus a decade ago.
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[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A leading American newspaper published a controversial article about pedophiles, and the controversy heightened after the news outlet's social media account deleted its initial accompanying remarks about the piece.
USA Today attempted to reframe the controversial topic of pedophilia as something that's "misunderstood." A majority of the piece brings up how child molesters complicate the public image of pedophiles.
One of the quotes in the pieces comes from psychologist, author, and "internationally recognized expert" Anna Slater, who says there are people who "molest kids because they're scared of adult women. They molest kids to get Dire Revenge, but they don't actually have an age preference for prepubescent children."
The theme of the article tries to argue the psychological situation of pedophiles, claiming it's a condition they're born with.
USA Today later deleted a thread of tweets that espoused the same talking points from the article and were met with a heavy ratio on Twitter.
The headline has been edited from "What the public keeps getting wrong about pedophilia" to "The complicated research behind pedophilia."
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Yup. Called it years ago. Pedophiles are next after trans. How could it not be? People don't control what they're attracted to, right? And according to them being attracted to children is no different from being attracted to other men.
They will make it legal and normal if we do not stop them.
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I have heard it said that slaying of the unborn has "put this land under a curse." The longer I live on this old ball, the more I tend to agree with the theory.
Apologies to Sodom and Gomorrah. They may have had nothing on us.
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Zoo implies upkeep. I consider pedos an imminent threat waiting for an opportunity. Not just the natural ones, the groomed ones too, since they've had the taste.
[BLSGOV] Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.5 percent in December on a seasonally adjusted basis after rising 0.8 percent in November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 7.0 percent before seasonal adjustment. This BLS report doesn't show the time series to the 1980s. But that info is available many places. The peak inflation in the Carter years was 1979 when it was above 13%. What is remarkable to me is that 10 year and 30 year Treasury Bonds are about 1.7% and 2.1% respectively. Finally, the Eurozone inflation rate in 2021 was about 5% so the USA underperformed even that measure.
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Carterflation was tragedy and we got Reagan and Volcker. Bidetflation is farce and we will get some lunatic MMT acolyte at the Fed no matter who is elected prexident.
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Learn how to cook -- cheaper and (probably) healthier
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I like to cook, grill, load up my smoker. Haven't had fast food in a year. Burned out on packaged snacks. Eating out is a rare treat and venues are chosen accordingly. It's all good.
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I had a pole barn built about a year and a half ago for about 10$/sf (3000 sf). Freind got a price last week for about 17$/sf (1500sf less options) same people. so I question 7%. more like 70% in this case.
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When I got my roof done last year the contract specified plywood would be priced upon delivery. The contractor's guesstimate was fair, but it was still very expensive plywood compared to just 6 months earlier. It's stupidly more expensive now.
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Ref #6: I told my Speed Queen washer and dryer story a week or so ago. Yes, I question the 7% as well.
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What nobody is looking at is the vast inflation of the money supply and the Fed's balance sheet, couples with all the other central banks' hocus-pocus could lead to a conflagration that will make the Jimmuah Cahtah era look like good times. And if it is a runaway situation, there is nothing that political venality will be able to do to stop it.
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All of those brilliant minds and no one knows how to balance a checkbook.
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Only people with finite incomes need to understand budgeting. That's why money needs to be decoupled from gummint. Which is different from money being decoupled from politics, thought they are obviously related.
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The Marxists *do* understand supply and demand curves (and thus basic economics). The give-away that they at their core understand the subject is the Biden gesture to release supply from the strategic reserve. Only those who "get" supply and demand aka "basic economics" would make such a move.
They're self-indulgent liars with the rest of their policy decisions. Once you "get" supply and demand, you can no longer just sweep it away when you don't like how it conflicts with a pet theory/fantasy.
We'll never be able to have an intelligent conversation with the rank-and-file leftists on this matter because they made sure to dumb-down the education system.
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^ They don't "get" supply and demand enough to understand that a tiny, temporary distortion will not solve their problems.
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I told my Speed Queen washer and dryer story a week or so ago. Yes, I question the 7% as well.
Appliances are a solid 15%. My health insurance jumped 20%. Had a supplier call and suggest tagging certain items up 30% or I won't afford to replace them. I've been food shopping.
I"d like to know what has been included to lower the number to 7%...it isn't bullshit; that is up too.
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And to make it even more unpalatable, new appliance (and other larger item) deliveries can often run 6-8 weeks after order.
'Supply Chain Issues' and all that.
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If they're going to compare now to 1979 they should use the same "basket" of items that made up the CPI in 1979. I suspect that would be a very ugly number.
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Front page of the wife's Dallas Morning News noted the 7% and blamed the pandemic and supply chain issues.
Therefore, it'll go away in a few months, right?
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Stolen elections have dire consequences. Obama and Biden's legacy.
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All of those brilliant minds and no one knows how to balance a checkbook.
Of course they know. They're just wine. Larry Summers spilled the beans on this nonsense last spring when he said Magoo's stimulus was too big by a factor of 8 or 9.
Summers said what everyone knew but refused to say: shoot $2 or $3 trillion into the economy with a bazooka while locking people down, cutting back on oil supply, and paying them not to work, and you'll get hyperinflation.
So effing obvious. We knew these hopeless clowns were lying.
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Fauxi's approval is below Joes today. Uh oh...
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A key inflation measure climbed to a record high in 2021, as pandemic price hikes just aren’t going away.
The US producer price index, which tracks what America’s producers get paid for their goods and services on average over time, rose 9.7% last year, not adjusted for seasonal swings. It was the biggest calendar-year increase since the data series began in 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Stripping out prices for food, energy and trade services, which measures the changes in margins received by wholesalers and retailers, the inflation index rose 6.9% last year, compared with a modest 1.3% increase in 2020.
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We (non dem voters) didn't start the fire...
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And building a wall 10" high around the White House suddenly seems to make sense....
No joke. No sarc. Per Malone on his substack today: "According to the website above, the data reported in VAERS, reproduced on the site, show that adverse events triggered by Moderna batches have varied widely.
"5% of the batches appear to have produced 90% of the adverse reactions
"Some Moderna batches are associated with 50 x the number of deaths and disabilities compared to other batches."
Again, this is actual VAERS data. I looked up my / my family's batch and we found only nine adverse events. Malone found 742 for his batch, along with 8 deaths, 16 disabilities, and 13 life-threatening illnesses.
This time, the CPI rent inflation rate of 4.2% undershot the private rental data. As old leases expire and new leases are written, the CPI index for shelter should rise by 14 percentage points. Shelter makes up 32.3% of the CPI, so 14 percentage points in the cost of shelter would add another 4.5 percentage points to the headline inflation number.
I'm sticking this in opinion because I'm writing it as I go along and it only seems appropriate.
I already linked one article today yesterday on the subject of the interaction of the virus with ACE inhibitor receptors, that was something I happened to run across this morning. Based on some stuff from yesterday, I decided it would help a little to recap some of the more important links regarding both fraudulent materials and other notes on the subject:
Slashdot: Retracted Covid Paper Lives on in New Citations. Way back in Spring 2020, the Surgisphere Corporation generated a huge amount of patient data out of whole cloth that purported to show that ACE inhibitors produced a negative outcome in Covid patients. It was published in the NEJM and then retracted when the fraud was discovered. Since then, it has been quoted a large number of times, and only about 1/6 of the papers referencing it have noted that it was fraudulent and retracted. See Med Page Today and the online cardiology news site tctmd for more information on this particular folllowup study.
In the meantime, other studies have shown that ACE inhibitors were actually helpful, even as their use among hospitalized covid patients was discontinued:
Abstract Findings: "Findings Of 19 486 patients who had COVID-19
disease, 1286 received ICU care. ACE inhibitors were associated
with a significantly reduced risk of COVID-19 disease (adjusted
HR 0.71, 95% CI 0.67 to 0.74) but no increased risk of ICU care
(adjusted HR 0.89, 95% CI 0.75 to 1.06) after adjusting for a
wide range of confounders. Adjusted HRs for ARBs were 0.63 (95%
CI 0.59 to 0.67) for COVID-19 disease and 1.02 (95% CI 0.83 to 1.25) for ICU care...
...Interpretation ACE inhibitors and ARBs are associated with reduced risks of COVID-19 disease after adjusting for a wide range of variables. Neither ACE inhibitors nor ARBs are associated with significantly increased risks of receiving ICU care. Variations between different ethnic groups raise the possibility of ethnic-specific effects of ACE inhibitors/ARBs on COVID-19 disease susceptibility and severity which deserves further study.
In other words, we adopted a practice of taking patients off of a drug they were taking already that was helpful in combatting Covid as a matter of standardized hospital protocol for the first year and a half of the epidemic because of a fraudulent paper.
And no-one with the nation's so-called intelligence agencies performed any sort of followup investigation into the fake science that convinced us to shoot our pandemic response in the foot. I guess it was just the hobby of the owner of Surgisphere?
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^ I should elaborate. By that I mean the "medical community" found a narrative they liked and stuck with it even after it was debunked. Thing From Snowy Mountain's post is dead-on.
The left has been trying to politicize health care for generations. It's time to get gummint entirely out of health care. Maybe if the "medical community" spent more time policing its ranks than choosing a pony tail guy to wear a white coat while standing next to Bath House Barry, they could get results the public could truct.
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It seems pretty much straightforward.
The COVID19 virus attacks via ACE receptors, because its "spike proteins" fit the receptors like a key into a lock.
The Ace Receptor Blockers (ARBs) occupy those receptors and reduce their ability to uptake the ACE2 enzyme. By occupying the receptors it would seem they should reduce the uptake of the virus as well.
One would expect that this reduced ability to uptake would results in a slowing of the spread and subsequent replication, giving the body more time to fight off the virus. It would also follow that by slowing the pace of the infection, it would also reduce the chances of a "cytokine storm" which is what causes the worst effects in the lungs resulting in hypoxia and death.
So why is there any question seeing that this research is the right way to go, and continue with ARB treatment, or maybe even add an ARB as a treatment for early stages of infection?
Is this another case of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine - where a cheap generic pill is ditched in favor of expensive antivirals like remdesivir, and expensive monoclonal antibody infusions?
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35007072/
“ Cannabinoid acids from hemp (Cannabis sativa) were found to be allosteric as well as orthosteric ligands with micromolar affinity for the spike protein. In follow-up virus neutralization assays, cannabigerolic acid and cannabidiolic acid prevented infection of human epithelial cells ”. “ Orally bioavailable and with a long history of safe human use, these cannabinoids, isolated or in hemp extracts, have the potential to prevent as well as treat infection by SARS-CoV-2.”. You can buy gummies off of the net.
No joke. No sarc. Per Malone on his substack today: "According to the website above, the data reported in VAERS, reproduced on the site, show that adverse events triggered by Moderna batches have varied widely.
"5% of the batches appear to have produced 90% of the adverse reactions
"Some Moderna batches are associated with 50 x the number of deaths and disabilities compared to other batches."
Again, this is actual VAERS data. I looked up my / my family's batch and we found only nine adverse events. Malone found 742 for his batch, along with 8 deaths, 16 disabilities, and 13 life-threatening illnesses.
[An Nahar] Kazakh authorities said Wednesday they detained 1,678 more people in the past 24 hours over their alleged participation in the violent mostly peaceful unrest that rocked the former Soviet nation last week, the worst since Kazakhstan gained independence three decades ago.The additional detentions, reported by authorities in Almaty, the country's largest city that was hit the hardest by the turmoil, brought the total number of arrests to about 12,000. More than 300 criminal investigations into mass unrest and assaults on law enforcement officers have been opened.
Protests over soaring fuel prices erupted in the oil- and gas-rich Central Asian nation of 19 million on Jan. 2 and quickly spread across the country, with political slogans reflecting wider discontent over the country's authoritarian government.
As the unrest mounted, the authorities attempted to mollify the protesters and announced a 180-day cap on fuel prices. The ministerial Cabinet resigned, and Nursultan Nazarbayev ...served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Cossacks wear those great big hats. Or maybe it's the other way around... , the country's former longtime leader, was ousted from his influential post of head of the National Security Council.
Still, over the next few days, the demonstrations turned violent mostly peaceful, with dozens of civilians and law enforcement officers killed.
In Almaty, Kazakhstan's former capital and largest city, protesters set government buildings on fire and briefly seized the airport. The unrest was largely quelled by last weekend.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has blamed the unrest on foreign-backed "terrorists" and requested help from the Collective Security Treaty Organization, or CSTO, a Russia-led military alliance comprising of six ex-Soviet states. The bloc authorized sending 2,500 troops to Kazakhstan.
Tokayev said Tuesday that the CSTO will start withdrawing its troops this week, as they have completed their mission and the situation in the country has stabilized.
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[An Nahar] Austria's foreign minister said Wednesday that the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... wants to help Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia... escape its economic meltdown, but only if the country's leaders clean up Beirut's affairs.Alexander Schallenberg told news hounds after meeting his Lebanese counterpart in Beirut that Lebanon should reach a deal with the International Monetary Fund, move forward with the investigation into the August 2020 port blast and restructure the hard-hit banking sector.
Lebanon's economic crisis, which started in 2019, is rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement by the small country's political class. Bickering between rival groups has so far prevented economic reforms demanded by the international community in order to release billions of dollars of investments.
"Frankly we are very concerned about what is going on in the country," Schallenberg said. "Our message is, help us to help you."
"Austria will continue to stand on the side of the Lebanese people but what we want to see is action on the side of Lebanon," he said.
Lebanon's economic crisis has been described by the World Bank as one of the world's worst since the 1850s. Tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs since October 2019 and the Lebanese pound lost more than 90% of its value. That leaves nearly 80% of the population of 6 million, including 1 million Syrian refugees, in poverty.
Amid the crisis, Lebanon's government has not met since Oct. 12. Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and Amal have demanded that the judge leading the investigation into the port blast be removed. The Aug. 4, 2020, explosion in the center Beirut killed more than 200 people.
"The solutions are in the hand of the leaders of this county," Schallenberg said, adding, "they're the only ones who can get this country and the people out of this."
Lebanon's Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said the government is working on reforms, including in the corruption-riddled electricity sector. Bouhabib added that he hopes that Beirut will reach a deal with the IMF by the end of February.
Schallenberg said that there has to be a deal between Lebanon and the IMF, "in order for us as a European Union to give economic assistance."
The Austrian foreign minister said his country will continue to help Syrian refugees in Lebanon, with the eventual goal of returning them to their country.
Schallenberg is scheduled to visit Austrian peacekeepers deployed in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel.
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[Federalist via Rantingly] Within four months of the shooting, Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd was cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the Justice Department.
When U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd went on "NBC Nightly News" to tell his side of shooting and killing unarmed Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt, he made a point to note he’d been investigated by several agencies and exonerated for his actions that day.
"There’s an investigative process [and] I was cleared by the DOJ [Department of Justice], and FBI and [the D.C.] Metropolitan Police," he told NBC News anchor Lester Holt in August, adding that the Capitol Police also cleared him of wrongdoing and decided not to discipline or demote him for the shooting.
Byrd then answered a series of questions by Holt about the shooting, but what he told the friendly journalist he likely never told investigators. That’s because he refused to answer their questions, according to several sources and documents reviewed by RealClearInvestigations.
In fact, investigators cleared Byrd of wrongdoing in the shooting without actually interviewing him about the shooting or threatening him with punishment if he did not cooperate with their criminal investigation.
"He didn’t provide any statement to [criminal] investigators and they didn’t push him to make a statement," Babbitt family attorney Terry Roberts said in an RCI interview. "It’s astonishing how skimpy his investigative file is."
Roberts, who has spoken with the D.C. MPD detective assigned to the case, said the kid-glove treatment of Byrd raises suspicions the investigation was a "whitewash." The lawyer’s account appears to be backed up by a January 2021 internal affairs report, which notes Byrd "declined to provide a statement," D.C. MPD documents show.
[IsraelTimes] Gathering seen as move of defiance by terror group as Beirut seeks to mend relations with Riyadh; ties had hit a new low in October when minister criticized Saudi war in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
The Lebanese terror group Hezbollah hosted a conference for Saudi opposition figures in its stronghold south of Beirut on Wednesday in a defiant gesture certain to anger the oil-rich kingdom.
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[REGNUM] The loss of control over Baku and Grozny deprived Russia of oil. Customs tariffs ensured the ruin of Russian industry by German imports. The payment of the indemnity was an additional blow to finances. Lenin linked all his hopes with the imminent arrival of a new wave of revolution. On March 7, in his report to the VII Emergency Congress of the RCP (b) on the political situation, he spoke about erroneous assessments of Germany's potential, that the belief that the Germans were not in a position to attack led to a worsening of the situation.
[DW] The highest number of asylum requests came from Syria, while over 17% of first-time applications were on behalf of children born in Germany under the age of one.
More asylum applications were filed in Germany in 2021 than at any time in the past 4 years, according to figures published on Wednesday.
Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) said that, in 2021, 190,800 asylum applications were submitted.
It's the highest number since 2017, when more than 222,600 people applied.
HOW SIGNIFICANT IS THE FIGURE?
Since 2017, the number had fallen to 165,938 by 2019, with only about 122,000 asylum applications in 2020.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... in releasing the figures, the German Interior Ministry — which runs BAMF and compiled the figures — pointed out that any comparison with 2020 was not very meaningful. This was due to the impact of travel restrictions to contain the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
Some 148,000 applicants were foreigners applying for asylum in Germany for the first time.
About 17.5% of those applications were submitted for children born in Germany under the age of one.
WHERE ARE THE APPLICANTS FROM?
The biggest national group of people applying for asylum came from Syria — more than 70,000 people — as has been the case for several years, as the civil war there continues to rumble on.
The number of people from Afghanistan who applied for asylum has risen in the wake of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... takeover, with more than 31,000 Afghans applying in 2021.
Former local staff serving the Bundeswehr and other German institutions in Afghanistan, as well as their families, did not have to apply as they had received advance acceptance. This was also true of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activists and others who were promised admission by German authorities based on activities that could see them persecuted by the Taliban.
Statistics showed a significant rise in the number of people applying from North Macedonia, although the number from neighboring Kosovo was down.
The Interior Ministry attributed an increase in delayed asylum decisions to the complication of secondary migration within the EU and the changed situation in Afghanistan from August.
Germany also saw more than 11,000 migrants colonists enter the country via Belarus and Poland in 2021, although the figure was trending downward by the end of the year.
[IsraelTimes] New York police announce arrest of Othman Suleiman for allegedly punching Jewish college student, calling him a ’dirty Jew’.
The NYPD arrested a man and charged him with hate crimes on Tuesday for an attack on a Jewish man in Brooklyn last month.
The police’s Hate Crime Task Force said it charged Othman Suleiman with third degree assault and aggravated assault, and listed both charges as suspected hate crimes.
Suleiman is 27 and a resident of Staten Island, the NYPD statement said.
Suleiman is accused of attacking the Jewish man outside of a sneaker store in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn on December 26.
The accuser, Blake Zavadsky, said Suleiman confronted him because he was wearing an Israel Defense Forces sweatshirt.
The attacker "didn’t like it, told me I had five seconds to take it off and then he called us dirty Jews and punched me in the face twice," Zavadsky said.
Zavadsky was with another Jewish friend, Ilan Kaganovich, at the time of the attack. Both are 21 years old and in college.
Following the attack, Zavadsky and Kaganovich reached out to New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, who organized a protest against antisemitism in her Brooklyn district. Vernikov, a Republican, is also Jewish.
Later Tuesday, Vernikov said Suleiman had been released on $1,000 bail. She said she was "disgusted" with the decision in a post that showed her outside the courthouse with Zavadsky and Kaganovich.
Jews were the most targeted group for hate crimes in New York City last year. The NYPD’s hate crimes dashboard reported 144 confirmed attacks against Jews between January and October 2021, out of 416 total hate crimes in the city. Attacks on Jews accounted for 35% of all hate crimes, the largest proportion of any group.
The FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... ’s 2020 Hate Crime Statistics report showed that antisemitic hate crimes were 57% of all religious crimes.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has repeatedly denounced antisemitism and announced funding and other actions to fight antisemitism.
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I wish there was a coalition of richer Jews in America who'd pay to put a contract on these scum. Something like the Hunters. Go extremely low tech and use the commonest resource, Wakandans.
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It is not likely the third term of the Obama-Biden will be questioned so long as Dems have the House and Presidency and a kind of weird shared power arrangement in the Senate. I'm not confident that even if the Pubs had the House, Senate and Presidency that they would be able to clean up the rot and corruption in Washington.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] On Wednesday, the teenager at the center of the Loudoun County bathroom sex assault scandal last year was sentenced to complete a locked residential mental health program, and will be on probation until he’s 18.The defendant in the case must also register as a sex offender. He was previously found guilty on two charges of "forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one count of forcible fellatio."
District Court Judge Pamela Brooks said "this one scares me" in response to results from the teen's psychosexual evaluation, "which evaluates a person's sexual interests to see if there is a deviation from generally accepted behavior and the risk of sexual reoffending in the future," according to NBC Washington.
"Over the years this court has read many psychosexual reports, and when I read yours, frankly, it scared me. It scared me for you, it scared me for society," remarked the judge.
Brooks said that she has never ordered a juvenile to register as a sex offender, but felt it was necessary given the details of the case.
The unnamed male teen was 14 when last year it was revealed that he raped a ninth grader in the girls' bathroom while wearing a skirt, himself. The incident happened in May of 2021, but administrative staff didn't immediately notify parents about it.
The student was transferred to Broad Run High School, where he inappropriately touched a female student in an empty classroom.
According to The Daily Wire, the boy apologized to both of his victims at the sentencing hearing. But one of the victims said she won’t accept the apology until the defendant acknowledges a third victim of his. "I hope one day you tell them what you did to that girl," she said.
A fact acknowledged by the judge. Local reporting at WJLA says Loudoun County Public Schools completed their investigation into how administrators handled the two sexual assault cases. But they cite "Virginia Code and attorney-client privilege" for not sharing their findings with the public.
This story only emerged after the school board tried passing a transgendered bathroom policy, parents began asking questions, and Superintendent Scott Zeigler inaccurately denied knowledge of any bathroom assaults that had occurred on school property.
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And when the father of one of this monster's rape victims protested, he was beaten and bloodied and accused by the head of our federal law enforcement agency of domestic terrorism.
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....IMHO, of course - YMMV, as always - but I truly wonder if this case had just as much impact in VA , if not more so, than the CRT battles did on the gubernatorial election.
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Now, time for the principal who obstructed justice.
[IsraelTimes] British Council announces the release and return of Aras Amiri, amid ongoing negotiations in Vienna between Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and world powers.
An Iranian employee of the British Council arrested in Tehran and later sentenced to 10 years in prison over internationally criticized espionage charges has been sprung and traveled to the United Kingdom, the organization said Wednesday.
Iranian authorities did not immediately acknowledge the release of Aras Amiri. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... it comes amid ongoing negotiations in Vienna between Iran and world powers, including the UK, over its tattered 2015 nuclear deal.
The British Council said Wednesday that an appeal her lawyers made to Iran’s Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... had been successful. Amiri worked for the council’s London office.
"We have always refuted the original charges made against Aras," the council said in a statement. "We are very proud of her work in our London office as an arts program officer supporting a greater understanding and appreciation of Iranian culture in the UK."
In Tehran, her lawyer, Hojjat Kermani, confirmed that Amiri had been released in an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. He said Iran’s Supreme Court had determined that her earlier espionage conviction in the country’s Revolutionary Court was "against Shariah," or Islamic law. He did not elaborate.
Kermani said she left Tehran on Monday but had been free from prison in recent months as she appealed a travel ban.
Iran announced her conviction in 2019. Authorities there accused her of spying on cultural activities in Iran. The British Council previously said she traveled to Tehran to visit family on a private trip that didn’t involve her work at the nonpolitical organization, which is involved in arts, culture and education.
[IsraelTimes] Supporters of Fariba Adelkhah say Tehran ‘cynically using our colleague for external or internal purposes that remain opaque,’ adding that authorities are endangering her health.
Adelkhah was sentenced on May 2020 to five years in prison for conspiring against national security, accusations her supporters have always denounced as absurd.
The surprise move by the Iranian authorities to move Adelkhah back to prison comes at a hugely sensitive juncture in talks involving France and other world powers aimed at reviving the 2015 deal on the Iranian nuclear program.
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian complained Tuesday that the pace of the talks in Vienna is “too slow,” in marked contrast to the more upbeat tone from officials in Tehran.
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An instructor of mine liked to hold up a pistol and say "This is a firearm. It only becomes a weapon when you use it that way." So I guess, ordnance is an industrial product until it goes off...
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[An Nahar] Unknown individuals torched a picture of Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... at dawn Wednesday in the southern town of Khiyam, state-run National News Agency reported.
NNA said the picture had been hung two days ago in the town’s main square.
"Currently there is a state of tension and a Lebanese Army patrol has arrived on the scene," the agency added.
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"Torched Berry", a new flavor of Coke coming soon!
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It's definitely Russia's fault the Euros shut down a bunch of existing nuke & coal plants in favor of an imaginary future of cheap, free, and useless renewables. Call it the Reverse Tar Baby strategy. "Please let me throw myself into the bear's maw!"
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] In response to Portland ...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others... Police moving to make arrests in connection to an Aug. 22 riot in Portland, Oregon, Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... is urging its members to destroy any evidence they may still have that connects them to that day.An account with the username LaneCoAFA, which stands for Lane County Anti Fascist Action, posted to Twitter on Monday its warning.
"On 8/22 PPB chose to not engage. They later announced that they'd make arrests in due time. Tiny's arrest, if related to that day, may be the start of follow through," the group wrote. "If so, I think we'd be wise to consider that fash might not be the only ones going down for that event."
"If you were there that day & haven't burned your bloc yet, or deleted your comms, now would be the time to do so. As well tighten up on any other loose ends, OpSec or otherwise, which may be used to incriminate you," they continued.
"As of Sept 1st of last year, according to the previously attached article, PPB was interested in 6 people associated with 8/22, half of whom are presumed to be antifascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... s," they added.
On Aug. 22, hundreds of black bloc Antifa arrived at Portland's Waterfront Park to counter-protest the "Summer of Love: Patriots Spreading Love not Hate" event which was scheduled to begin at 2 pm.
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Their FBI handlers should have some pointers to pass along on evidence destruction.
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"Wipe? Like with a cloth?"
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So now we have clear openly stated OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
SAME OPEN QUESTION:
Since the FED's know and work with the BLM/ANTI-FA leadership.....
When will we see Arrested....
OR
a C-141 hauling them all to their next meetimh/Peaceful Protest...."accidentally" crash in a Volcano that BIDEN Puppet masters issued and Exec Order to Nuke? ☺☻☺
[NATION.PK] Pakistain’s most-wanted terrorist and outlawed TTP spokesperson, Khalid Balti alias Muhammad Khurasani, was killed in axe attack, it was revealed on Tuesday.
Seems fitting...
According to sources, banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) big shot Khalid Balti alias Muhammad Khorasani was attacked with an axe on his face, which led to his death.
Sources further revealed that the killing of Muhammad Khorasani has created a fuss among TTP ranks and more attacks are feared on other top TTP leaders.
TTP spokesperson, Khalid Balti alias Muhammad Khurasani, had been killed in Afghanistan’s 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 on Monday.
Khalid Balti alias Muhammad Khurasani was killed in an undisclosed location of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province.
Khurasani had been appointed as banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) spokesperson in 2014 after Shahidullah Shahid and renowned for his anti-Pakistain stance.
It was learnt that Balti alias Muhammad Khurasani had been operating a training camp for TTP Death Eaters in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... to disturb the peace situation in Pakistain.
After the success of Operation Zarb-e-Azab by Pak armed forces, Khurasani fled to Afghanistan and later he was appointed as TTP spokesperson. The outlawed commander had reportedly been busy merging the factions of TTP.
Khurasani was involved in many terrorist attacks on innocent citizens and personnel of the security forces. It emerged that the TTP leader was planning for carrying out another series of attacks after hinting at initiating terror activities in Pakistain.
[Breitbart] Nearly nine in ten suspects involved in fatal shootings in Sweden are either born abroad or are from migrant backgrounds, statistics reveal, as the country continues to deal with record levels of fatal shootings.
In 2021, Sweden saw another record high number of fatal shootings as the country continues to see fatal gun violence largely driven by criminal gang activity across the country.
According to statistics obtained by the French newspaper La Croix, the average age of suspects in fatal shootings in Sweden is 23 years old and claim that 85 per cent of the suspects are either born aboard or come from immigration backgrounds.
Swedish police claim that there are as many as 2,500 members of gangs in the city of Stockholm alone and that the dismantling of prior gangs made of up migrants from the Balkans who came to Sweden in the 1990s, has led to the formation of smaller and more violent gangs.
The gangs often operate in so-called “vulnerable areas” also known as no-go areas, with Swedish authorities noting that in around sixty neighbourhoods, gangs have an influence on the local community.
The statistics cited by the French newspaper echo statement made last year by Greater Gothenburg police commissioner Erik Nord who commented on the connection between mass migration and fatal gun violence.
“It is no longer a secret today that much of the problem of gang and network crime with the shootings and explosions have been linked to migration to Sweden in recent decades,” Nord wrote in an opinion article for Swedish newspaper Goteborgs Posten.
“When, like me, you have the opportunity to follow matters at the individual level, you see that virtually everyone who shoots or is shot in gang conflicts originates from the Balkans, the Middle East, North or East Africa,” Nord added.
Nord has not been the first to connect migration to gang crime and gun violence. In October of 2020, Linda Staaf, head of the intelligence unit of the National Operational Department (NOA) of the Swedish police force, noted that second-generation migrants had created a new form of gang culture in some no-go areas.
“Overall, we have three types of criminal structures: criminal organisations, such as criminal motorcycle gangs; family-based criminal networks in clan structures; and a new type of culture and network – that is, loose networks that are mainly gang criminals in vulnerable areas,” Staaf noted.
“The loosely composed networks often consist of second-generation immigrants. Parts of the clan structure are brought with them like honour and blood vengeance,” she said.
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All a white person has to know is "your best will never be good enough." You can't hand over enough money, bow deeply enough or die painfully enough.
So why even try?
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Another vignette from the Great Western Civilization Twilight on display. I keep waiting for the Aragorn Men of the West speech from someone, because Mordor is rising folks...
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[REGNUM] Over 200 Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels (Ansar Allah movement) were killed in one day in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... as a result of the actions of the Arabian coalition led by Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... . Al Jazeera TV channel reported this on January 12 with reference to a representative of the alliance.
According to him, the coalition was able to conduct 17 operations on the territory of the republic in the Yemeni province of Marib, where 90 Houthis were eliminated, as well as 16 attacks in the province of El-Beida. In the second region, Arabian forces killed more than 110 Death Eaters.
As reported by IA REGNUM , earlier the al-Masirah TV channel broadcast that the Houthis declared their readiness to stop the offensive of the government army and the Arabian coalition forces in the south of Yemen. A front man for the Ansar Allah movement claims that the rebels have killed at least 515 Emirati mercenaries.
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Only thing you aren't allowed to take for COVID is anything that works.
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"And in health news today, in an effort to flatten the curve, President Harris has issued an executive order everyone be provided a -quote- Fat J a day for two weeks. The President signified the event by -again quote- blowing a spliff, and then proceeded to explain how Tupac Shakur is still alive for 45 minutes straight."
[Al Ahram] Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and his Paleostinian counterpart the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... discussed efforts to reconstruct 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... Strip during a meeting on Tuesday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh.
President El-Sisi reiterated to Abbas Egypt's "firm" stance in support of the Paleostinian cause, emphasising the importance of achieving "a just and comprehensive settlement" to this issue in accordance with international legitimacy.
Egypt is keen to back the current Paleostinian diplomatic efforts, internationally and regionally, to encourage the resumption of peace negotiations, El-Sisi stressed to the Paleostinian president and his delegation.
President Abbas expressed his appreciation and gratitude for Egypt's "sincere" efforts under the leadership of President El-Sisi to support his country's cause and enable the Paleostinians to overcome the various challenges facing their cause.
He also said that Egypt has "a historical role" and "a stable, firm stance" to reach a just and comprehensive solution to the Paleostinian cause, a statement by Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady said following the meeting.
In November, Egypt called for the drafting of an "integrated vision" to fulfil the needs of the Paleostinian people and help the Paleostinian Authority (PA) overcome the economic crisis in the Paleostinian territories.
The economic crisis in the Paleostinian territories has worsened on the heels of the latest 11-day Israeli war on Gaza in May -- ended by an Egyptian mediation — in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, and delays in the payment of salaries by the PA.
Following the mediation of a ceasefire between the Israeli and Paleostinian sides, Egypt allocated $500 million to reconstruct the Strip.
Egypt has also dispatched massive engineering equipment and crews to participate in the Gaza Strip reconstruction alongside tonnes of humanitarian aid.
In November, Egypt and 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... have signed agreements to supply fuel and basic construction materials to the Gaza Strip, which has been under Israeli siege since 2007.
El-Sisi and Abbas also spoke about the latest developments on the Paleostinian arena, at the local, regional and international levels, Rady noted.
They discussed "recent intensive" regional efforts by Egypt in this regard and reached a consensus on the need to continue intensive consultation and coordination -- with the participation of Jordan -- at the bilateral or trilateral levels in order to revive the grinding of the peace processor, according to Rady.
Egypt and Jordan have been in talks with several international sides to resume the Paleostinian-Israeli talks.
Tuesday's meeting, held on the sideline of the fourth edition of the World Youth Forum, was also attended by Head of Egypt’s General Intelligence Service Abbas Kamel.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BabylonBee] In a stirring speech in Atlanta this week, Biden recounted the time he was heroically arrested at a civil rights protest simply for wearing a white hood.
[Breitbart] Politico Playbook exclusively reported Wednesday that publishing giant HarperCollins is preparing to release the next investigative bombshell book by six-time New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer titled Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...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 
[AlAhram] Egypt’s official gazette published on Wednesday a cabinet decree to legalise the status of 50 unlicensed churches and 91 Christian service buildings that had been operating without a permit.
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
[IsraelTimes] Suspects photographed sensitive sites in Israel, attempted to get their kids to join army intelligence units; security service says they were recruited by an Iranian operative.
[An Nahar] A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission's revised antitrust suit against Meta, formerly known as Facebook, can proceed, shutting down the social media company's request for a dismissal.In a revised complaint filed last August, the FTC argues that the company pursued a "buy or bury" strategy against rivals to suppress competition.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
I'm sticking this in opinion because I'm writing it as I go along and it only seems appropriate.
...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia...
Hezbollah
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
It goes a bit beyond the FBI Senator. 
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] On Wednesday, the teenager at the center of the 
...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others...
...Arabic for 
Nearly nine in ten suspects involved in fatal shootings in Sweden are either born abroad or are from migrant backgrounds, statistics reveal, as the country continues to deal with record levels of fatal shootings.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
[Al Ahram] Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and his Paleostinian counterpart 
