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Not that anybody looks good when they are ill, but PM Johnson looked a bit rough in his social media video the other day. Hang in there, Boris, and get well soon!
[Guardian] - Sweden’s government is drawing up new legislation to allow it to take "extraordinary steps" to combat Covid-19, local media have reported, amid concern that its relatively soft approach may be leading to a higher death rate than in other Nordic countries.
Denmark and Norway are among the many countries to have imposed tough lockdowns, closing borders and shutting schools and non-essential stores, and Finland has isolated its main urban area around Helsinki. But Swedes are still able to shop, go to restaurants, get haircuts and send children under 16 to class. Israel: Coronavirus Cases: 8,430, Deaths: 49, Recovered: 477.
Sweden: Coronavirus Cases: 6,830, Deaths: 401, Recovered: 205
The media is bombarding Americans around the clock with updates on the death count, highlighting death maps and scaring people into staying home.
Governors are forcing small businesses to shut down and threatening to jail anyone who violates their authoritarian social distancing orders.
The media hysteria is based on a Bill Gates-funded IHME Coronavirus model that has been proven to be way off.
It gets worse...
The amount of Americans who are reported to have died from the Coronavirus is based on a CDC coding system that will "result in COVID-19 being the underlying cause more often than not."
A new ICD code was established to keep track of Coronavirus deaths.
The U07.1 code will be used for death by Coronavirus infection.
However, there’s another secondary code, U07.2, "for clinical or epidemiological diagnosis of COVID-19 where a laboratory confirmation is inconclusive or not available," the CDC guidelines read.
"Because laboratory test results are not typically reported on death certificates in the U.S., NCHS is not planning to implement U07.2 for mortality statistics."
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More deaths, more federal money. It wouldn't surprise me if it were found that fatal bicycle crashes, old age related deaths, gunshot deaths and car crash deaths were listed as CV-19 deaths.
[hindustantimes] Afghan security forces have arrested 37 members of the so-called Islamic State Khorasan Province terrorist module that had targeted a Kabul gurdwara last month. The arrests were made in the last 24 hours after Afghan forces caught Aslam Farooqui, the Pakistani national who led the terror group ISKP known to have strong links with Pakistan’s ISI that carries out off-the-shelf jihad at its instance.
Among the 37 who have been arrested are 14 women and children. A majority of them are Pakistani nationals.
Aslam Farooqui and the members of his module are being interrogated in the presence of US security agencies outside Kabul, people familiar with the developments in Delhi and Kabul told Hindustan Times.
Afghanistan vice president Amrullah Saleh cheered the Afghan intelligence agency for the breakthrough.
“I am sure he is already singing & will sing more to the dismay of his patrons in & out. A treasure of intelligence. Make him talk,” tweeted Saleh, who earlier headed the Afghan intel agency National Directorate of Security. The reference to Farooqui’s patrons is seen to be pointing to Pakistan’s intel agency ISI.
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A combination works best. Injecting a filigrastim based cocktail with a few induced fractures used to be wonderful. These days some use mild doses of phenylquinone mixed in food are popular, since that passes any medical exam ordered by human rights defenders. Denial of basic necessities, repeated loud music and forced contorted postures work too. They don't leave any marks.
Patience and a little studied villainy, all it takes. Being Afghanistan, you'd think they go straight to villainy. But these are all muslims. I wouldn't trust any results they came up with.
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[AlMasdar] On Friday, April 3rd, the foreign ministers of the NATO nations held a teleconference to discuss the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and their contingencies; however, the meeting would apparently turn sour when Greece and Turkey traded accusations over Ankara’s decision to open their European border to migrants, the Russian newspaper Gazeta.RU reported.
According to the publication, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu left the virtual meeting earlier than all the other participants after disputes with Greece over migrants.
The diplomat recalled that an agreement was concluded between Ankara and the European Union in 2016, which obliged Turkey to accept about four million refugees from Syria and other countries of the Middle East, and not allow them to go to Europe.
In exchange for this, the EU promised to provide Turkey with assistance in the amount of €6 billion and provide other incentives, such as a visa-free regime for Turkish citizens. Cavusoglu stressed that the EU has not fulfilled its part of the deal.
"We advise them to think about the long term, because it is not just a matter of migration," he said, demanding from Europe liberalization of the visa regime, updating the agreement on the customs union and strengthening the fight against terrorism.
Not long after this, Cavusoglu accused Greece of killing migrants trying to cross the common border of countries.
In response, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said that Ankara’s claims are specially organized propaganda for political purposes and have fake news.
"Greece faced an organized and unprecedented attack on its border and a disinformation campaign from Turkey. The methods used by Turkey violated the values of NATO. All allies have the right to call for NATO solidarity, but only if they fulfill their obligations, "the Greek diplomat emphasized, as quoted by Gazeta.RU.
Cavusoglu demanded to give him the opportunity to answer, but NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg stopped this attempt, so as not to contribute to inciting scandal online.
The Turkish Foreign Minister, in response, disconnected from the conference.
Turkish and Greek relations are at a decade-long low, as disagreements over the movement of migrants and Ankara's oil exploration off the coast of Cyprus has put the two countries at odds.
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WSJ free coverage -- scroll down a bit. If nothing else, we are coming to a fine understanding of who's essential and who's not. Gender studies majors, anyone?
Since March 23, operators of New York state's power grid have been camped out in parking lots adjacent to the plants and control rooms that must be staffed 24/7 to keep New York’s lights on.
Operators work in teams of roughly half a dozen people in specialized, confined spaces. If one of them got sick, they could quickly infect others, resulting in a personnel shortage that could disrupt operations, according to Rich Dewey, chief executive of the New York Independent System Operator, a clearinghouse that oversees the grid.
Thirty-seven people are sequestered at the NYISO’s two sites in the Albany suburbs. Operators work for 12 hours, and then retire to camping trailers in the parking lots. These workers, which include cooking and cleaning staff, aren’t allowed to have physical contact with anyone outside the 37 people in their bubble.
Jon Sawyer, the NYISO manager of control-room operations, said that the employees volunteered and that "morale has been very high. People have adjusted quickly. We all understand the importance of our jobs."
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Now, when these guys start breaking down, then the real trouble will begin.
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@ The San Diego Poseidon desal plant they're doing the same things. RVs in the parking lot and delivered food, services
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#1 If these guys break down, we send in the editorial board of the New York Times. They know everything. Or the Harvard Law School faculty, if you prefer.
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I have a girlfriend, a chemical engineer by training, who was the QA point person at her Hershey’s chocolate factory back when a potential SARS pandemic was the concern. They drew up plans —and laid in supplies — in case there would be a need to shelter the workers in place at the factory for several weeks. They also had to figure out how to keep the workers in while family members were required to stay elsewhere. This is no more a surprise than the need for surge supplies of masks, gowns, and ventilators.
Good for the workers, and for their families back home.
[PJ] - President Trump's proposal to spend $2 trillion to rebuild American infrastructure was as gutsy as it gets, coming on the heels of another $2 trillion in emergency economic aid. The president tweeted, "With interest rates for the United States being at ZERO, this is the time to do our decades long awaited Infrastructure Bill. It should be VERY BIG & BOLD, Two Trillion Dollars, and be focused solely on jobs and rebuilding the once great infrastructure of our Country!"
We can't afford it, but we can't afford not to do it. That's just what I proposed in my last PJ column, "Fix Your Roof While It's Raining." The critical decisions will be about what we call "infrastructure." The president said, "We’re not going to do the Green New Deal and spend 40% of the money on things that people just have fun with."
What are the top priorities? Roads, bridges and tunnels are obvious. Rail is also important. America's oil production surge strained our transport system, rail as well as pipelines, and drastically raised freight costs. Overall, the U.S. producer price index is barely changed over the past ten years, but rail transport costs are up 30%.
We need to move strategically critical industries onshore, above all semiconductor fabrication. The U.S. now depends on foreign fabrication plants for most of its computer chips, and virtually all of its most sophisticated chips. University of Michigan researchers in 2016 demonstrated that booby traps and back doors could be hidden among the 20 billion transistors in a high-end chip. There's no way to find the gizmo after the fact. The only guarantee of security is to fabricate the chips onshore with tight security. Dr. Henry Kressel and I called for this in a November 2016 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. It's all the more urgent now. De-coupling from China should be an urgent priority where national security is concerned. A modern chip fab costs about $20 billion. Five such fabs should do it. So earmark $80-100 billion for that. A complete decoupling of the world's two largest economies is impossible, but we can ring-fence the industries that we most depend on.
Then there's telecommunications infrastructure. China will have its full 5G mobile broadband buildout done in three years, and we are taking our own sweet time about it. We need a multi-pronged program to leapfrog China: federal funding for network construction; expedited regulatory approval for spectrum; and subsidies for basic research to nullify China's head start. Huawei has 50,000 foreign employees, most of them European engineers and scientists, and controls about a third of all 5G patents. Asking our allies to keep Huawei off the premises didn't work. But a Manhattan Project to establish American technological leadership would put fiber, so to speak, in our alliances and wean our errant friends back from dependence on China.
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Better make that 3B - you know Nancy and every democrat (and not a few republicans) will add a trillion of pork.
After all abortion on demand is now 'essential'. Why not make it 'Infrastructure' too?
And the destruction of our infrastructure in the name of the 'Green New Deal' will now be 'Infrastructure Improvements'. Yes they are able to think that way.
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Check the empty freeways, unladen ferries, unoccupied railroad terminals, empty parking garages...Ass-u-meing everything will get to the steady state is perhaps in error.
Spend the $2T on lighting the dark fiber infostructure.
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There are a number of technologies sold to China (Stepper Scanners used to make computer chips for example) and China sells tech to the west. WE should start cutting them off from the technology world. Return them to little rubber junk products but move everything else somewhere else.
(CNN) Tybee Island, one of Georgia's most popular vacation destinations, depends on beachgoers to keep the town's economy alive.
But in an effort to curb the coronavirus, the city council voted to close the beaches March 20. The town went so far as to put up barricades and signs to keep beachgoers away.
The town's good intentions were upended on Thursday when Gov. Brian P. Kemp issued a statewide shelter-in-place executive order which supersedes all local orders relating to coronavirus -- and also opened up the state's beaches.
The governor put Tybee Island back in the beach business -- whether the town liked it or not.
Tybee Island Mayor Shirley Sessions fired back on Saturday, issuing a statement saying she and the town council don't want the beaches reopened now.
"As the Pentagon ordered 100,000 body bags to store the corpses of Americans killed by the Coronavirus, Governor Brian Kemp dictated that Georgia beaches must reopen, and declared any decision-makers who refused to follow these orders would face prison and/or fines," Sessions' statement read.
"Tybee City Council and I are devastated by the sudden directives and do not support his decisions. The health of our residents, staff and visitors are being put at risk and we will pursue legal avenues to overturn his reckless mandate."
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A few weeks ago we had a rare sunny weekend on the Washington coast. Beachgoers swarmed the beaches in spite of the Coronavirus advisory. Beach towns finally had to close down the hotels and such and literally kick them out.
One mayor, I believe it was Long Beach (Wa), stated that they can't close the state beaches, but they can close the shops and hotels in town. The following monday the useless Governor issued his emergency order.
Perhaps this mayor should do the same. Close the town tight.
h/t Instapundit
[NYT] - Italy underestimated the outbreak, then ordered a national lockdown to contain it. A month later, officials warn it is still too soon to reopen.
...Some scientists say that Italian officials did not act decisively to stop the virus early on, underestimating its danger and how quickly it spreads. "We realized the virus was here too late," said Roberto Burioni, one of Italy’s leading virologists. "It was already spreading."
Any decision to let up now and ease restrictions on movement, public health officials warned, would risk a new wave of infections. "We haven’t reached the peak, and we haven’t passed it," Silvio Brusaferro, the head of Italy’s national health institute, said at a recent news conference.
...Recognizing the continuing severity of the crisis, Italy extended its lockdown to at least mid-April, with most government and public health officials recommending that the measures remain in place even longer.
"If we started to loosen the measures, all our efforts made so far would have been in vain," Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said at a news conference on Wednesday. "We would pay a very high price. We ask everyone to continue to respect the measures."
That message may be tough to hear for the 60 million who have spent the past month confined to their homes and whose patience is wearing thin. But public health experts stress that safely releasing Italy from lockdown will require not only more certainty that the spread of infection has slowed considerably, but also assurances that the country can prevent another immediate outbreak. The choice is not between damage to economy vs. lives. There is no choice - given a severe enough outbreak people who today produce and transport food, keep water, gas, electricity, and internet running will stay at home. And then we all die.
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The struggle with the pandemic in italy wil have to be fought the old fashioned way. Quarantine in place and take the casualties. Watch the curve and hope you live to see the right side.
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So is everybody gonna get it? It's so contagious that lockdown won't kill it, just delay it? But 80% have mild to no symptoms? I thought it was "the Deadly Coronavirus". 5% might require hospitalization? Am I missing something, or are a lot of folks hyperventilating? Can office workers go back to work when all the old people are dead?
And I am one of those 'old people'.
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[Epoch Times] While South Korea had one of the worst early outbreaks outside China, the combination of public awareness, popular pressure, and civic cooperation seems to have brought the virus under control.
Yet the same vigilance appears sorely lacking in the Empire State, even as the CCP promotes its supposed success in controlling the disease in China, and painting the U.S. response as the epitome of administrative incompetence. The narrative is reinforced by many foreign media outlets, in large part because they tend to report the PRC’s official numbers of confirmed cases and deaths at face value.
On March 11, the New York Times published an article titled "Its Coronavirus Cases Dwindling, China Turns Focus Outward."
The article’s subhead echoes the CCP’s propaganda: "Beijing is mounting a humanitarian aid blitz in countries struggling with their own outbreaks. In doing so, it’s stepping into a role the West once dominated."
A March 16 editorial by the Washington Examiner criticized the Times report as perhaps "the most shameful piece of Chinese disinformation published by any newsroom in the United States since the COVID-19 outbreak first became a story."
"The article parrots China’s claim that its daily coronavirus cases have dwindled ’into the single digits,’" the Examiner notes. "No attempt is made to verify these numbers. ... With the media acting like this, who even needs the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China?"
[Armstrong] We are living not just in interesting times, we are living in UNPRECEDENTED TIMES, which has raised the stakes profoundly toward civil war. You may have been laid off, struggling and hoping your employer will not fold, or you may be working from home and wondering if your employee will not cut cuts and leave you there eliminating offices. Then there is the home confinement which depends on whether or not you live in a Democratic state where they want 1090% lockdown, fines, and/or imprisonment if you walk outside while telling neighbors to report on you as if this were East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Then there is the confinement with the family which many find stressful while schools are closed along with day-care-centers and caring for children 100%. The Republican States seems to be following generally just the social-distancing and allowing stores and restaurants to be open following guidelines of limiting the number of customers. Others find their families split forced to facetime, skype, or zoom as elderly relatives are trapped away from loved ones. Then there are those who know someone with COVID-19 or have found their parents go into a hospital for one thing expecting them to die and then they suddenly change the cause of death of COVID-19 out of the clear blue sky causing many to question what is really going on.
While we are all in prison since home confinement if a punishment inflicted by courts, we face the most amazing power grabs in all recorded history thanks to socialism which authorizes the government to pretend to "care" for our well being as long it is profitable. This is one of the greatest rearrangements of power in modern history unfolding before our eyes‐and governments are counting of scaring-the-hell out of people to ensure we’re too overwhelmed to do anything about it.
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Definitely worth reading the entire article. The Fauci - Bill Gates connection is something to think about. Fauci more and suspect with each passing day.
[National Pulse] In partnership with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the U.S.-China Business Council, the foundation “sourced” the sizable donation. American companies Chubb and Walmart also contributed, and FedEx comped shipping fees. Graphic at right - Henry Kissinger is flanked by Deng Xiaoping, right, and Qiao Guanhua in 1974.
Meanwhile, China’s reaction to the onset of the pandemic was to poach vast quantities of medical supplies from other countries.
A company insider at the Chinese Communist Party affiliated developer Greenland Group exposed the operation: “Basically all employees, the majority of whom are Chinese, were asked to source whatever medical supplies they could” including “bulk supplies of surgical masks, thermometers, antibacterial wipes, hand sanitizers, gloves and Panadol.”
And that’s coming from the same regime that insists on“global cooperation” to combat the pandemic it caused.
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China makes everything. Who in hell thought this was q good idea in the first place? That is, to give away our wealth to China? Why couldn't they make their own medical masks, supplies, ventilators and other such things? Now there is a shortage of these things here.
[Federalist] ’If Cambridge University can accept a much larger donation sum in support of black students, why can’t I do the same for underprivileged white British?’
It’s almost unheard of that schools would ever say no to a large financial donation, especially when it aims to help economically disadvantaged children get a better education. However, Dulwich College and Winchester College, two schools in the United Kingdom, recently denied such a donation. Both turned down more than £1 million for poor white boys, out of the concern the donation might fall afoul of Britain’s Equality Act of 2010.
The generous donor was 96-year-old Professor Sir Bryan Thwaites, who attended both schools on scholarships, and taught at Winchester for decades. He learned from his experiences that a good education is the best means to uplift children from disadvantaged backgrounds and provide upward economic mobility. He wanted to help poor white boys especially, because they are disproportionately at the bottom of Britain’s education system.
POOR WHITE BOYS ARE IN DIRE STRAITS
Even the U.K.’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) acknowledged in 2014 that being born a white male in Britain doesn’t necessary confer any privilege, because "white pupils from poorer backgrounds, especially boys, suffered the worst start in life as they continued to fall further behind every other ethnic group at school ‐ with their chances of a successful and prosperous career decreasing as a result."
A recent report by National Education Opportunity Network illustrates that the devastating educational gap white boys in low-income households experience hasn’t gotten any better by 2019. Among all racial groups with similar economic backgrounds, poor white British boys remain the worst performers in schools, and have consistently scored the lowest on the government’s "attainment 8" test, which measures the student’s average grade across eight subjects.
[ABC] In the summer of 2005, President George W. Bush was on vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he began flipping through an advanced copy of a new book about the 1918 flu pandemic. He couldn't put it down.
When he returned to Washington, he called his top homeland security adviser into the Oval Office and gave her the galley of historian John M. Barry's "The Great Influenza," which told the chilling tale of the mysterious plague that "would kill more people than the outbreak of any other disease in human history."
"You've got to read this," Fran Townsend remembers the president telling her. "He said, 'Look, this happens every 100 years. We need a national strategy.'"
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We'd be a lot better prepared if Bushy McHalliburton Hitler had actually bothered spending some money and some political capital on making sure the US still have a drug manufacturing capability. His familiy has a _lot_ of money and he was president, with the bully pulpit, for eight years. He never used it.
[Jpost] Hezbollah commander Ali Mohammed Younis was assassinated by unknown individuals in southern Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... on Saturday, according to Iranian media.
Younis was "responsible for pursuing spies and collaborators," according to unofficial statements, the Iranian Fars news agency reported.
He didn’t pursue them well enough, it seems.
The Fars report included an image of a body lying next to an open vehicle.
Video of a minaret announcing Younis's death in southern Lebanon was shared by the Iranian Tasnim news agency on their Twitter account.
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And that's one less respirator you need to make.
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There was a time when it would be accurate to immediately point at the Mossad, but nowadays I don’t know. As fractured and factioned, it could as likely he was taken out by a rival group with Islam
All of these groups are at each other’s throats fighting for various agendas in Syria
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The car was found on a lonely stretch of road between Qaqiyat al-Jisr and Zutar al-Gharbiya in Nabatiyeh district. There's a pic of a dead guy lying on the road next to a white vehicle, in jeans.
They believe it could be wholly unrelated to Hezbollah work. Of course, that's Lebanese intelligence for you.
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Not too mention Mossad seems to take the hands off approach. Oh look, his cellphone exploded while he was talking off it. Shouldn't hide his C4 kaboomite in there.
[Popular Mechanics] As the world fights against the COVID-19 pandemic, nuclear weapons have taken a backseat in most people's minds. But for Global Strike Command (AFGSC)‐the Air Force unit in control of two of the three legs of America’s nuclear triad‐their mission remains top priority.
And it's an unforgiving business. Nuclear deterrence requires extreme levels of readiness among pilots, maintenance crews, and security teams. Adversaries that don’t think the U.S. can respond with conventional bombing strikes or nukes could be emboldened to act aggressively.
But in a War of the Worlds-style twist, humanity’s most lethal weapons could be nullified by an organism that can’t even be seen. It's up to the AFGSC to make sure that never happens.
[LI] A lot of people owe Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) an apology because a microbiologist said "in no uncertain terms that the novel coronavirus could have been unleashed due to a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
Cotton raised the possibility of China lying about the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus. He pointed out a lab near the first cases of the virus. He never once claimed China used it a weapon.
The MSM immediately jumped on Cotton instead of holding China’s feet to the fire. Reporters called him irresponsible, a conspiracy theorist, etc.
This Twitter thread contains just a few of the attacks:
This will persuade all those deplorables that there’s no such thing as a Deep State for sure.
[AlAhram] The top U.S. federal watchdog vowed on Saturday to continue to conduct "aggressive" independent oversight of government agencies, after President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... fired the inspector general of the U.S. intelligence community late Friday night.
Michael Horowitz, chair of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), an independent agency in the executive branch and the inspector general at the Department of Justice, said in a statement that Michael Atkinson was known for his "integrity, professionalism, and commitment to the rule of law and independent oversight."
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"He’s decapitating the leadership of the intelligence community in the middle of a national crisis," he said. "It’s unconscionable, and of course it sends a message throughout the federal government and particular to other inspectors general."
Precisely what needs to be done. Was it not our own intelligence community that attempted to "decapitate" the Orange Man ?
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Michael Horowitz, ... said in a statement that Michael Atkinson was known for his "integrity, professionalism, and commitment to the rule of law and independent oversight."
It was Horowitz's report that criticized Atkinson and placed the noose around his neck. Hypocrite.
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Trump did the right thing in dumping Atkinson. Atkinson has never been forthcoming. We've never seen his deposition or testimony behind closed doors in the Schiff Show. We have never heard who the two whistleblowers were in that ginned-up lynching of Trump.
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He may well have some or all of those lofty qualities. What he apparently lacks is any spectrum of judgement considering the entire situation came down to the president having done nothing illegal or in any way beyond his authority. The entire dilemma distills down to it wasn't what they might have done. That is a waste of time, money, and effort.
Iran is setting up on the qeshm island of Al-Ahwaz, in the east of the arabian gulf, a system of surface-to-air missiles to aimed the gulf countries.. The drums of war are ringing between the Arabs, Persians and America waving a military escalation against Iran. https://t.co/iuQL7IztVo
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The Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and embarked 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), along with guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) and the dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS William McLean (T-AKE 12), conducted a routine transit through the Strait of Hormuz into the Arabian Gulf April 3, 2020. The Bataan ARG consists of amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5), amphibious transport dock ship USS New York (LPD 21) and dock landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD 51). The 26th MEU is a Marine Air-Ground Task Force supported by three major subordinate elements – the Ground Combat Element, Aviation Combat Element and Logistics Combat Element.
[Washington Examiner] The number of foreigners arrested for illegally entering the United States from Canada, Mexico, and along the coasts have dropped to almost nothing in the past week as the U.S. became the world leader in confirmed cases, according to Department of Homeland Security officials.
Only 79 people were encountered Sunday by Border Patrol agents nationwide after they had attempted to enter the country between ports of entry. If that rate continued over the course of a month, it would make for fewer than 2,500 apprehensions, a drop in the bucket compared to the 30,000 arrests that agents made just on the southern border in February and 132,000 at the peak of the border crisis last May.
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Those 'yearning to be free' and escaping Central American (but not Chicago/Baltimore) violence have second thoughts it appears. Gee, wonder why? /rhet question
[WAPO] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ‐ The suspected mismanagement of essential supplies during Hurricane Maria turned out to be a boon for Puerto Rico as it fights a rise in coronavirus cases.
Health Secretary Lorenzo González said Saturday that officials discovered a cache of urgently needed personal protective equipment at a hospital in the nearby island of Vieques that remains closed since the Category 4 storm hit the U.S. territory in September 2017.
He said the equipment includes face masks, gloves, gowns and face shields that were in good condition and would be distributed to health institutions.
"They’re very useful at this moment," said González, who became the island’s newest health secretary this week, the third in the span of two weeks.
He also said officials recently located a warehouse with medicine and medical equipment worth $4 million donated during Hurricane Maria, and that nearly all of it had expired. He did not provide details about what specific items were found.
Puerto Rico has reported 18 deaths related to COVID-19, including that of a nurse, and more than 450 confirmed cases, including several police officers who join health workers in demanding more personal protective equipment.
"Police are going the extra mile right now, and the government is not protecting us like it should," said Gregorio Matías, vice president of a police union.
The discovery in Vieques outraged many on an island still struggling to recover from Maria and from a series of strong earthquakes that hit Puerto Rico’s southern region in recent months.
González said he has ordered an investigation into why those supplies were abandoned in Vieques. The announcement comes two months after a group of Puerto Ricans discovered and broke into a warehouse filled with emergency supplies in southern Puerto Rico at a time local officials sought urgent help for those affected by a string of earthquakes. Other similar discoveries have been made since Maria hit.
González said the government still needs other equipment including testing kits and ventilators, noting that there are only 500 available for an island of 3.2 million people with high rates of asthma.
"If that’s going to be the difference between life and death, people are going to die," he said. "Don’t take this lightly."
A doctor who leads a COVID-19 government task force has said the U.S. territory needs at least 3,000 ventilators with the anticipated peak in cases expected in early May. Puerto Rico is in the middle of a month long curfew that is one of the strictest in any U.S. jurisdiction and has shuttered non-essential businesses and banned people from going outside unless they have to buy food, medicine or go to the bank.
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[Breitbart] A knife-wielding Sudanese migrant shouting "Allahu Akbar!" has stabbed two people to death and wounded "at least" seven others in France.
The suspected killer, said to be an asylum seeker in his thirties, was initially reported as having struck outside a bakery in Romans-sur-Isère, in the south-east of the country, by outlets including the MailOnline, citing local media.
However, a later BBC report ‐ which did not mention the suspect’s nationality or alleged cry of "Allahu Akbar!" ‐ said he attacked the shopkeeper and customers at a tobacconist before moving on to a nearby butcher’s shop.
Christophe Castaner, France’s interior minister, has offered his condolences to the victims — five of whom remain in critical condition — and confirmed that the suspect is now under arrest and investigators seeking to confirm his motives.
The suspect’s roommate is also said to be under arrest.
The assailant, identified only as Abdallah A.-O., a refugee in his 30s from Sudan who lives in the town, was arrested without a fight by police.
“He was found on his knees on the pavement praying in Arabic,” the prosecutor’s office said.
According to witnesses cited by local radio station France Bleu Drome Ardeche, he shouted “Allah Akbar!”(God is Greatest) as he stabbed his victims.
Interior Minister Cristophe Castaner, who visited the scene, said two people were killed and five others injured.
“This morning, a man embarked on a terrorist journey,” he said.
The initial investigation has “brought to light a determined, murderous course likely to seriously disturb public order through intimidation or terror,” according to the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office (PNAT).
It said that during a search of the suspect’s home, “handwritten documents with religious connotations were found in which the author complains in particular that he lives in a country of non-believers”.
The suspect, who obtained refugee status in 2017, was not known to police or intelligence services in France or Europe, PNAT said.
French police said on Sunday they had arrested another suspect in a terror probe triggered after a man went on a deadly knife rampage on Saturday in the southeastern town of Romans-sur-Isere.
Altogether three Sudanese nationals have now been detained over the incident: the alleged assailant — a refugee in this 30s — an acquaintance of his and a man who was living in the same household, police said.
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TW,
I'm not Varmet Splat.
I also stand behind my comments:
1. Frank admitted to deleting comments as accused by Besoker. I expressed my distaste for such censorship.
2. Do you want only commenters who think like grom? Wouldn't that be a bit bland?
3. Your banner is "Well Reasoned Discourse". Not if comments you don't like are deleted by certain mods, (excluding threats or cursing). Perhaps you might consider a change of your banner, Only Discourse We Approve Of. perhaps.
4. Several commenters were gleeful New Yorkers were dying. I still say that their comments were pathetic.
I'm not interested in meeting you in the O Club. I've said my piece. If you don't like my comments then you are free to delete them. I prefer Smokey the Bear over the Trooper.
Are we done?
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Thimp Clusort2035, the banner actually says Civil, Well-Reasoned Discourse. We tired long ago of the long flame wars tolerated in the early days — they add nothing to anyone’s understanding, and just end up hardening positions and driving good people away. Unfortunately, the Sink Trap was lost a number of updates ago, back when we were quietly concerned that Fred might die on us or that those horrid Las Vegas lawyers would succeed in their attempt to begger him. Neither came to pass, thank goodness, and he is fine now, but that was when things changed.
Now we’re doing the best we can. If you think you can do better, you are welcome to talk to Fred about joining the moderator crew. Goodness knows we could use someone picking up the Europe/Britain beat. It’s important, but became too exhausting for me.
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MOST DEFINITELY a couple of individuals who when given the ability to delete Rantburg commenters comments that were not in violation of standards those individuals have turned that ability into excessive censorship of opinions they simply disagree with. Everyone knows who the hellthey are.
[Rudaw] Syrian regime forces opened fire on a convoy of Kurdish security officials (Asayesh) in Qamishli on Saturday, killing one and wounding another. It is not yet clear what sparked the incident.
According to Rudaw’s Rangin Sharo at the scene, the incident took place on the Saba Bahrat roundabout in downtown Qamishli.
Tension still hung over the area hours after the shooting, according to Hawar News Agency (ANHA), a media outlet close to the Kurdish authorities in northern Syria.
The Asayesh officer who was killed has been named by security sources as Mohammed Sabi and the maimed official as Wael Jwan Salih.
Russian military police quickly moved into the area to deescalate the situation.
Rudaw footage from the scene shows three Russian military police vehicles and Syrian regime personnel deployed around the road junction.
Few civilians appear to be on the streets since authorities imposed 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... containment measures.
The Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), the political wing of the armed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has not yet released a statement on the incident.
Although Syria’s Kurds have maintained an uneasy truce with regime forces throughout the decade-old civil war, the two sides have rarely clashed in Qamishli, where both sides maintain a presence.
Since US forces withdrew and Ottoman Turkish troops attacked the autonomous Kurdish administration last October, the regime and its Russian backers have played a bigger role in the area’s security.
Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... , who has the military backing of Russia and Iran, has vowed to retake every inch of Syrian territory.
[HumanEvents.com] On Wednesday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (who, one must remember, holds no elected office at the moment) promised that any further coronavirus legislation might just contain something of "my green deal." It’s not clear if he was referring to some sort of environmental plan‐or how he expects to craft legislation from his basement in Delaware‐but even Sleepy Joe seems to think that a global pandemic signals a time for pork-barrel politics.
None among the Democrats has embraced this ethos more than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, however. As the coronavirus crisis rages on around us, Pelosi is still looking for creative ways to spend your tax dollars.
After failing to stuff the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package with a bevy of her social justice pet projects, Pelosi had the gall to announce that Democrats had made the bill about "workers first."
"It went from a corporate first proposal that the Republicans put forth in the Senate to a workers first‐Democratic workers first‐legislation," said Pelosi, at one of her increasingly bizarre news conferences where the grand dame of Congress appears to be crumbling under the weight of her own rhetoric. "The bill that was passed in the Senate last night [Wednesday] and that we will take up tomorrow [Friday] is about mitigation: mitigation for all the loss that we have in our economy while still addressing the emergency health needs that we have in our country."
What the Speaker neglected to mention, however, was how her bill would have forced any airline receiving government bailout money to cut their carbon footprint in half and any business to implement a "diversity plan." Oh, and she made sure the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts received a handsome handout (note: after they grabbed the $25 million in cash, the management promptly started laying-off musicians).
Now, Pelosi is moving on to "phase four" of the Democrats’ coronavirus rescue package: save the (Democratic) millionaires.
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Is there not some legal way to remove this woman from office along with other morons such as Schumer, Schiff, Nadler? (O.K. wishful thinking on my part this Palm Sunday morning)
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So, that "imagine there's no countries" thing? Not so much...
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Does this mean the Yippee has turned pirate? Certainly not out of the mainstream for Mediterranean Muzzis, "...to the shores of Tripoli" and all that.
[newindianexpress] Except intelligence officials, national security experts and the wary among police officials, not many Indians would have heard of the name Tablighi Jamaat [TJ] before the explosive Nizamuddin coronavirus episode gave it the publicity it studiously avoided. On the face of it, TJ’s six principles suggest Islamic piety in its extreme. But that is merely its cosmetic exterior, inviting the innocent and idealistic young Muslims into an ideological line that ultimately turns them as terrorists. The less known and dangerous side of the century-old TJ began unfolding the world over since 2001, but not in India.
NURSERY AND GATEWAY TO TERROR
“TJ is another system driver and integral element of Islamist Violent Non-State Actors’ internal dynamics; in many cases it has acted as nursery for indoctrinating Islamist terrorists,” writes Dr Farhan Zahid, a Pakistani counter-terrorism and security expert, in his analysis titled “Tablighi Jamaat and its links with terrorism” [Foreign Analysis March 2015 Centre Francais de Reserche Sur le Renseignement]. Dr Farhan says, TJ “in a way plays the role of recruiter and sympathiser [for terrorism]. TJ’s congregation allows radical elements worldwide to meet and discuss violent activities and provide them with the best opportunity to coordinate”. Adding “many of its followers have dual and overlapping membership with jihadist groups”, Dr Farhan cites references and says “TJ has now been considered as a ‘gateway to terrorism’.
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From January to March, almost 8500 stayed in the Tablighi Jamaat Delhi mosque complex, sometimes 2000 at a time. Two thousand men eating from communal plates with their hands, with the plates being reused for the next group without washing. Two thousand men using a pool of water for wudu. Washing their feet, hands, arms, noses, mouths in the same pool of water with 2000 other men.
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Some details, from a technical perspective.
It was born in Mewat, Haryana. The British said of the Meo muslims that they are uncivilizable, vile criminals - a criminal community worthy only of culling, for the security of the region. True, the british thought that about a lot of people back then, but in this case I'd agree.
The doctrines of the deoband it was born from were refined to sport an inherent taqiya, that they will be apolitical and shall not interfere in politics and matters of public import, like law. Some preachers went the extent of saying muslims must support the laws of the land and honour the kings.
But that was back when 'the king' was someone who could stopper a cannon's mouth with your arse and fire it, on a whim.
The TJ is rightly banned in Russia, central Asian States like Uzbekistan, and even in Soddy Arabia, primarily because it is a covertly criminal organization. Its budgetary needs are minuscule compared to other islamist ancillaries. It's funded by criminals in the global muslim community seeking to assuage their guilts; and provides training and teaching syllabi to other deobandi schools that are gateways into terrorism.
Overtly simple, just a bunch of monastic, ascetic looking men talking about 'the old ways', etc. But they create what psychologists would call an 'archetype dissonance' within the so-inclined individual and introduce a means to 'set things right' to minds they drive to near insanity with fake narratives and dogma. One can only understand their method of brainwash by closely witnessing a gestalt of their doctrines playing out on a sub-group - their attitudes, mating habits and diets changing over time. It is ... interesting. The actual influence it exerts is subtle but very strong. And legally unassailable. The Jamaát does not actively train terrorists or teach how to kill. It doesn't even preach about jihad or war. It only creates a worldview where killing the infidel becomes an imperative for the subject. A subject attends a jamaatis lecture for a week, then compulsively seeks training in one of the Markaz. These are not officially Tablighi. The Tablighi markaz are only for preachers to become brainwashers. The Markaz connects the subject to their extremist cousins who once were Jamaát students too, and they vet and recruit the subject. The Jamaát can claim it does nothing but point the individual to holy teachings, and any inferences he may draw from them is his own fault.
Our constitutional democracies, their compartmentalized enforcement arms, and the eunuch humanists posing as saints sitting in high offices today cannot begin to comprehend the power of loosely structured, decentralized entities like this. Of course, you don't have to understand something to kill it. Unfortunately, they can't do that either, because they've adopted constitutions that make mice out of men.
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^ I don't think we ever had hogs that big in Indian fauna; I always thought that was invented to cause them to hate the brits more. Maybe they sewed a lot of skins for it, sounds like a lot of elbow grease to waste on pure hate. Of course it may be true.
But the arse in the cannon thingy is definitely true. Happened to several rebel warlords and 'princes'.
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^ One of GM Fraser's Flashman books (Flashman in the Great Game, I think) ends with our hero strapped to a cannon and escaping by the narrowest of chances.
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Oh. Rantburg often reminds me what an acutely uncultivated schlemiel I am.
I think I remember it being recommended by the academy librarian, the one who tried but failed to make me pick anything but Clive Barker or Graham Masterton. ☺
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Dron, I had no idea until today that there was something called the Tablighi Jamaat. The best recommendation I can give you about Flashman is that Flashman is the least politically correct character in all of literature. Fraser himself was a Scot who fought the Japanese in Burma.
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I had no idea until today that there was something called the Tablighi Jamaat.
Believe me, I wish I could un-know it somehow ☺.
Downloaded 'Royal Flash', will read it as soon as I'm done writing my own short story for a collection.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] A joint operation of the Public Security Secretariat and the Mexican army has been launched to find the whereabouts of the gangs involved in the festivities.
At least 19 people have been killed in festivities between gangs in Madera, the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, the state Prosecutor's Office said on Saturday.
"The operation was immediately deployed when a report was received Friday at approximately 6:35 p.m., regarding a possible confrontation between rival groups linked to organised crime, in an area that leads from Las Varas to Largo Maderal", the General State Prosecutor's Office (FGE) of Chihuahua said in a statement.
The police forces who arrived at the scene located the bodies of 18 civilians, 18 long weapons, two vehicles and two grenades that were seized. Two injured men were also found by the police and taken to hospital, but one of them died, bringing the corpse count in the incident to 19. The other man remains in jug.
Raids of this type are not rare in Mexico, where violent gangs are a sad reality.
Early reports said that the alleged hitmen of a group that is a part of the Sinaloa Cartel were caught in an ambush by a group that is part of the Juarez Cartel, while driving on a dirt road in the town.
Mexico has seen high levels of gang violence tied to drug trafficking. There were 2,585 homicides in the country in March, despite social distancing efforts in the midst of 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.
How shocking that the violently non-law abiding also do not obey rules designed to save the lives of others.
There were more than 35,000 murders in Mexico last year.
[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... targeted a Taliban ...Arabic for students... gathering in southern Kandahar province killing at least six gunnies who were planning to launch an attack on security posts.
The 205th Atal Corps in a statement said the gunnies had gathered in Shalghami area of Maiwand district and were looking to attack the security posts.
The statement further added that the airstrike killed 6 gunnies of Taliban led by Mullah Haroon.
The airstrike also destroyed six weapons and two night vision goggles, the 205th Atal Corps added in its statement.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the airstrike so far.
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Thanks to the Tablighi Jamaat, coronavirus is spreading in India. From January to March, almost 8500 stayed in the Delhi mosque complex, sometimes 2000 at a time. Two thousand men eating from communal plates with their hands, with the plates being reused for the next group without washing. Two thousand men using a pool of water for wudu. Washing their feet, hands, arms, noses, mouths in the same pool of water with 2000 other men. India is quarantining as many of these imbeciles as it can but....
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It's only the muslim community that congregates with these arseholes that will be infected. The law abiding majority has quarantined itself and is safely out of the way.
If the GOI is smart, they'll let nature and the CORONA do what they do best, what a thousand judges and ten thousand officers couldn't do in decades - selective culling of muslims in India.
It is wasteful, stupid and callous of the administration to provide them nurses, medical attention and security. Fuck 'em , I say. Give them placebos and aspirins when they beg for drugs, burn the bodies when they die. If the thing infects the larger population of lawless muslims in the cities it will be a God send. All we must do is keep our citizens segregated. The disease stays active on surfaces for not more than eight days. At the end of the quarantine, all public facilities will have been disinfected anyway.
As many as are dead by then, the rest of us can tweet a 'subhanallah' for them. I would even advocate the propagation of rumour in the community that any vaccine or drugs provided will stunt your masculinity or make you impotent.
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The aftermath was shocking. In quarantine they sexually harassed nurses, smoked beedis, walked around the hospital ward naked, sang obscene songs, cursed and spat at female doctors.
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I wonder what else they expected. The lines have been drawn since last year. This is no unified, secular society or 'the most diverse democracy' anymore. Modi's afraid of his 'Gujarati Hitler' image given by the media; the judiciary is bought out by Soros or just plain incompetent; and Indian society can't stop whining about 'who is misleading our muslim brethren ?' All they want is 'Sallu and status quo, please'. But things are never going back to the way they were. The idea of Ghazwa is here to stay, until it's stamped out.
If this is the way things will be allowed to go, India will be another England or France in another decade or two.
The inability of the Indian Pols to entrust State Security to the military, especially against islamic jihad, is a result of their own dishonesty and hypocrisy. They're secretly afraid of us taking over, or covertly controlling government policies somehow. VK Singh's TSD established how effectively intel on personal vices and corruption can be used against not only pols but police, judges, media and corporate bigwigs. Everyone fears that sort of creature. But the truth is, something like it could have greatly helped against the leftist-islamist combine today. That, and guerilla warfare a la Duterte. If the UN or west didn't call that crazy loon on his 'war on drug(gie)s', why do our Pols fear a backlash if they reciprocate the jihad ?
Ghazi originally referred to individuals who participated in ghazw, meaning military expeditions or raiding. The latter term was applied in early Islamic literature to expeditions led by the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and later taken up by Turkic military leaders to describe their wars of conquest. In the context of the wars between Russia and the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus, starting as early as the late 18th century's Sheikh Mansur's resistance to Russian expansion, the word usually appears in the form gazavat. Other forms of the term have been used in recent times by jihadist groups. In English language literature, the word often appears as razzia, a borrowing through French from Maghrebi Arabic. In modern Turkish, it is used to refer to veterans, and also as a title for Turkic champions such as Ertuğrul, Osman Gazi and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
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Yes, TW. Though the connotations have changed somewhat, because now that they don't have horse mounted champions of conquest, just bagpacking criminals and some IT trained nerds with delusions. So the doctrinaires of the jamaat have found a way to invoke the appeal of the historic 'Ghazis' with the current concept of ghazi and shaheed.
In modern jihadi parlance, you can be either a Ghazi or a Shaheed. If you carry out an op against kuffar and survive it you are a ghazi. If you perish in the act, a shaheed. A ghazi is seldom used again in a near suicidal op, since he/she has attained to a higher estate. But are afforded the proper respect, but a ghazi is often approached and elevated to a higher position in the jihadi hierarchy. Some agencies try to create ghazis too, to infiltrate higher ranks.
The idea of Gazhwat-ul-Hind (conquest of the Indian subcontinent) is the second part of the Ghalba-e-Islam (total domination of world)in the sasquatch eschaton.
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A razzia is a raid or plunder for new slaves or women. I understand the confusion a historian may have between the two. You see, medieval sasquatch warlords may record their paltry thuggery as a Ghazhwa and when inquired about, officials and locals may report it as a razzia, leaving the European to infer that they're the same thing.
A gazhwa is total take-over, the replacing of indigenous government and application of Shariat on a land. In our time, it is a word hidden and never uttered. Replaced by things like 'tolerance', 'secularism', etc. But it is the doctrine at the heart of all islamist lawfare - the CAIR, ICNA, ISNA, everything. The extremist cousins are just the enforcement arm of the ummah. The larger ummah is involved in the Gazhwa too. Just by populating their communities in our lands, they contribute to the gazhwa. The cleric or Qazi that blesses a wedding or a newborn often uses blessings like 'may this union produce many ghazis', or 'another ghazi is born today'.
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Ugh. Thank you for explaining, Dron66046. It had long been unclear to me what razzias were. I’ve only thought in terms of the soft jihad of the law, the hard jihad of the sword, the fun jihad of rape — all in Dar al Harb, the house of war. Dhimmitude laws and jizya accomplish the submission and encouragement of the remainder of permitted unbelievers — the Peoples of the Book (Jews and Christians) — to move to Islam in Dar al Islam.
[Twitter] HT: AoS Listening to the audio, he may have said [he'd] "...have asked the President and The Pentagon over a week ago...", but y'all be the judge.
In any case, I've yet to see Mr. Wilhelm demonstrate an appreciation for how a "federation of states" works. Maybe that's "Prog" thing.
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He sounds like the Federal Government simply keeps nurses, doctors, and therarsit stored in a warehouse somewhere. Stacked like cordwood to be used only in case of an emergency.
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Maybe De Blasio should work with Governor Cuomo to get these things. As Trump said, it is not up to the federal government to supply all these things. There is too much reliance on the Feds for everything.
"Sure. We - look. We are - we have the biggest public health capacity of any city in America, and we have been employing it now for weeks and weeks in anticipation of this. I am very, very concerned, like every other mayor in America, but I do want to put in perspectives - you know, as of now, 36 cases against the backdrop of a city of 8.6 million people. So we do expect a substantial increase in number of cases, but we also know that this is a disease that - for the vast majority of people who get it, it will have a minor impact on them."
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Warren Wilhelm (real birth name) has been a fake, fraud, commie POS all his life. He Peter-Principaled into the Mayor spot and has proven his lack of worth
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Seems the 'models' are starting to fall down. From the link:
In New York, the IMHE model predicted that as of yesterday, 50,962 people would have been hospitalized as of yesterday due to the Coronavirus. The actual number? 18,368.
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You know buttercup, /YOU/ don't tell the Pentagon anything. You tell either the governor or your disaster preparedness officer liaison.
A businessman accused by the US of moving money for the IRGC's Qods Force has served as an alternate board member of Iran's Razi Petrochemical, a fertilizer producer owned by a large Turkish firm https://t.co/Mb3lGDGxnT
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Razi Petrochemical Company (RPC) | Iran Watch
Iranian petrochemical company affiliated with the National Iranian Petrochemical Company; produces ammonia, urea, sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid, DAP and sulphur; listed by the Japanese government as an entity of concern for chemical and nuclear weapon development and missile production.
[CNBC] The Comfort is supposed to treat patients with conditions other than COVID-19 to free up space in overwhelmed New York hospitals.
The 1,000-bed hospital ship, which arrived in New York Monday, has treated 27 patients as of Saturday morning, according to a Navy spokesperson.
Hospital leaders in New York City have criticized the Comfort’s deployment for not accepting COVID-19 patients and failing to provide tangible relief to strained hospitals. Who the h-e-double-hockey-sticks signed off on the transfer order? Not their name, their ears.
Multiple coronavirus patients have been accidentally transferred to a New York military hospital ship that was meant to be virus-free
Less than five patients with the virus were transferred from the city's Javits Center to hospital ship Comfort on Friday, which has received 21 patients
At the time, screenings did not indicate they were positive for the deadly virus
However, the patients were swabbed and put in isolation upon arrival to the boat, per the ship's protocol
By Saturday morning, all the coronavirus positive patients were taken back to the Javits Center
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Our government is aware that the Chinese Communist Party claim that COVID-19 is a wet market natural mutation is total bullshi*. The aggressive steps taken to insulate and protect our fighting men and women, particularly ships at sea are obvious. Our military is in the crosshairs, possibly the navies of Russia and Europe as well.
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Innocent mistake or it is hard to test. Move the intensive care to another ward and carry on after cleaning. It will happen. Be easy on people now please.
A very sobering essay by Matt Bracken, hat tip: American Partisan By accident or on purpose, Pandemic World War One has already begun, even if we don’t fully realize it yet. A few examples to make the point: the American super-carrier Roosevelt is in Guam, with over 100 of its crew infected after a scheduled port visit in Vietnam, and half of its 5,000 member crew under quarantine. Parris Island, the USMC’s east coast boot camp, has many troops infected, with no new recruits inbound, and graduating Marines quarantined on base indefinitely. Our thousand-bed USNS hospital ships Mercy and Comfort are deployed to Los Angeles and New York. U.S. military medical personnel are being sent to American Coronavirus hot spots to augment their civilian medical staffs.
If Pandemic World War One was launched intentionally, then naval vessels and isolated ChiCom special forces bases will become significant force multipliers, because they can be kept scrupulously free of Coronavirus, held back for later use when Western military forces are infected, depleted, and not battle ready. Even if the Covid-19 pandemic was not released on purpose, getting a head start on quarantining key military assets for later use becomes a critical factor, and such total isolation is far more easily achieved within China’s totalitarian dictatorship.
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Thank you, Alaska Paul.
First order of business: stop crippling ourselves. This paragraph crystallizes the madness of our 30-year policy that must end, immediately:
... China is only strong today because the West allowed it grow economically many fold over the past forty years, due to our short-sighted stupidity and our lust for ever-cheaper consumer goods, and even for cheaper medical supplies.
Sens. Hawley (R-MO) and Cotton (R-AR) have the right idea. First things first: detach ourselves from China as completely and as rapidly as we possibly can. Do this first and new options will appear -- and all the follow-on steps will be immeasurably easier.
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Very scary. Except
(a) China doesn't have a fraction of carrying capacity to transport 10 million men.
(b) These 10 or 30 million men are not soldiers.
Training 10 million soldiers and providing officers & noncomps to lead them - let me guess, the author is not a veteran.
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Hooking these de facto colonies on Chinese capital - state-owed and private debt, along with major asset purchases by the Chinese at steep discounts - would be more effective than military invasion. This is more or less what happened to Italy.
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^A former Seal, so what? If he thinks that China can train 10 million men as soldiers - and provide than with officers & noncoms, or transport them overseas, he's an asshole.
p.s. Why don't I ever see Israeli alumni of Sayeret Matkal or Marine Commando (or, for that matter, non Seal USA special forces) macho-ing on Internet?
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Ref #8: Where does he get the proof of his conspiracy theories?
I believe the word you were looking for may have been evidence as opposed to "proof." Evidence of this theory abounds and appears to be growing day-by-day. Again, this is a theory. Whatever the outcome, Brachen's theory will likely be war gamed long after we are all gone.
By the way, theories generate thought, dialogue, white papers, etc. Actual facts have been stumbled upon in such processes.
25 minute video on the Facebook page of Ryan Fournier, Co-Chair and Founder of Students for Trump.
Former Secret Service Agent for Barack Obama Spills Some Major Secrets by laying out detailed accounts about how Obama tried to spy on Trump and how Trump eventually tricked him! Discussed here ad infinitum for at least 3 years. Dan provides an effective overview.
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Any company that refers me to their Facebook page is a company I won't deal with. " He has a hob setting on his shoulder saying , " Breathe in , Breath out."
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Secret service is supposed to be silent. This type of stuff, if he's real, just further degrades their reputation. I bet a lot of folks are pissed.
[PJMEDIA] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... , in what can only be called a stunning flip-flop, now supports President Trump's travel ban with China, which was imposed on January 31.
"Joe Biden supports travel bans that are guided by medical experts, advocated by public health officials, and backed by a full strategy," Kate Bedingfield, Biden's deputy campaign manager, told CNN. "Science supported this ban, therefore he did too."
But Joe Biden did not support Trump's travel ban with China. His record is quite clear on this. In an op-ed in USA Today, Biden decried "reactionary travel bans," just a few days before the China travel ban was implemented. Biden advisor Ron Klain said the idea of a travel ban was "premature."
When the travel ban was implemented, Biden criticized the move during a campaign rally. "In moments like this, this is where the credibility of a president is most needed, as he explains what we should and should not do," he said. "This is no time for Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s record of hysteria and xenophobia, hysterical xenophobia, to uh, and fearmongering."
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Labels such as "Xenophobia" or any other phobia and "ist." are political tools used by the left to demonize anyone who disagrees with then, they don't like or threatens their power. They have "darker" tools, as well, if the PC crap doesn't work.
I don't think Biden is going to be the candidate. I think the Dems will spring someone else on the Party when the time comes--probably at convention time.
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We suffer from two viruses in this country: 1. COVID-19 and 2. The Deepstate Virus which has been ongoing probably from at the least after WWII and maybe longer.
Iran's new cases of coronavirus have dropped for the fourth consecutive day, official figures released Saturday showed, as a two-week holiday in the Islamic republic came to an endhttps://t.co/L3ZlnFEBE2pic.twitter.com/Tt6YWijfTk
[KhaamaPress] The Hindu and Sikh communities in Jalalabad city, the historic provincial capital of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , took a tough decision to relocate to a third country after a deadly attack in Kabul city which targeted a Sikh temple, killing at least 27 people.
Only two Hindu families currently live in Jalalabad city who have also decided to move after the Sikh community in the town decided to shift the ’Saroop’ of Guru Granth Sahib to safety, apparently to a third country.
A source within the Sikh community in Jalalabad city told The Times of India that they predict more attacks after deadly attack on Sikh temple in Kabul city.
The source further added that the Sikh community will most likely shift the ’Saroop’ of Guru Granth Sahib to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... Gurdwara in Pakistain.
This comes as a group of turbans attacked the Sikh temple in Kabul city late last month, killing at least 27 people including an Indian national and wounding many others.
The offshoot of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Afghanistan, ISIS Khurasan, grabbed credit for the attack.
[GEOPOLITICS.NEWS] The Libyan National Army, led by Field Marshal Khalifa Hafter, announce don Friday that it had repulsed an attack by "Syrian mercenaries" in the ’Ain Zara area near the capital city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... A member of the information office, Aqeela al-Saber, stated that the Libyan National Army’s "Ajdabiya Operations Force repulsed an attack by the Syrian mercenaries in Ain Zara."
In his statement, al-Saber said: "The militia supported by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and the Syrian mercenaries tried this morning to attack our advanced positions in order to recover what was lost in the past two days."
He stressed that "the attacking force today was entirely from the Syrians," noting that the operation ended with their suffering "significant losses in their ranks and control of other new sites that were theirs."
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[Breitbart] Rival gangs in the French city of Montpellier engaged in a street fight armed with machetes, despite the lockdown measures enacted by the government to stop the spread of the Wuhan 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... The violence took place in the Gambetta district at around 3:30 pm on Wednesday. Despite the presence of machetes and other weapons, many of which were left at the scene, no injuries were reported.
Police arrested three individuals in connection to the brawl and police say they are hunting for other suspects who fled the area using the city’s public transport system, Midi Libre reports.
Investigators say the violence erupted like lava from a volcano out of a gang rivalry revolving around the local sale of contraband cigarettes and hashish and that fights between members of both groups have occurred during the last three evenings in a row.
La Belle France’s nation-wide lockdown measures, which President Emmanuel Macron announced in mid-March, have greatly hindered the ability for criminal gangs to sell drugs and other items on the street.
According to a report from news agency Rooters, the lockdown has led to a spike in prices for street cannabis across La Belle France.
Yann Bastiere, a senior police union official, said that prices of some drugs have nearly doubled in some areas, saying: "The price of a 100-gram bar of resin went from 280 euros to 500 euros in a week in Marseille."
Thierry Colombie, an expert in organised crime, blamed the increase in prices on the lack of fresh supplies of drugs coming from countries like Morocco due to the Wuhan coronavirus lockdown measures.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... police agency Europol has warned that some organised criminals may be adapting to the new lockdown measures and shifting focus to other areas such as fraud and selling counterfeit medical items to take advantage of the outbreak.
[FinancialTimes] Vendors face a shifting landscape as supply routes close and users’ habits change.
Around the world, it is not just legal businesses that are being transformed by 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. From "corona specials" to personalised delivery services, drug pushers are hustling to keep business flowing, suppliers are scrambling to find new routes as transport closes down and promoters are flouting the ban on groups by holding underground raves.
In Berlin, a city famed for its hedonistic nightlife and techno clubs like Berghain, dealers such as Dave are adapting to serve the large number of clubbers who find themselves stuck at home with little to do but get high. Social distancing and restrictions on movement have also spurred stockpiling, with the price of some drugs rising sharply.
"People are panicking, and not just about toilet paper," said Lucy, who deals cannabis to her private customer base. "Right now I’m selling 500 grammes a day ‐ before I would normally sell about 100 grammes." Like all the dealers quoted in this article, she asked to be identified by her street name.
Dealers see trouble ahead, however. Lucy’s supply chain through Spain, badly hit by the pandemic, has been completely shut down.
Illicit trade experts say it is inevitable that the black market would take a temporary hit. But narcos have an advantage on legitimate businesses: "They are used to seeing distortions in supply chains caused by law enforcement, for example, or perhaps a particular airport detecting goods and cargo, and having to adapt," said Jason Eligh, a senior expert at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime.
As restrictions on air travel are tightened, dealers say they are eyeing more routes by land and sea, hiding their product amid legally traded goods. One dealer of Lebanese hashish said he expected his partners would try to smuggle the resin in among medical supplies. "They will find a way ‐ they always do," he said.
In Berlin’s Görlitzer Park, home to a notorious drug market, trade in illegal substances continues despite the lockdown. During a recent visit by the Financial Times, police could be seen searching vans on one side of the park, while at the other end, crowds of dealers ‐ many wearing face masks and gloves ‐ hawked their wares as usual.
While some are neglected, others are going off grid on purpose. For Berliners in the know, an underground scene continues to rage, replete with full bars, lighting and DJ sets. The raves are held in warehouses and remote apartments, dealers say, with the events co-ordinated via secret chat groups that alert people of the time and place the night before. Pre-paid tickets can cost up to €100 each and special lookouts are hired to watch out for police.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... of using "agents of terror" disguised as diplomats to carry out liquidations and engage in bomb plots across Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... on Thursday amid reports citing US intelligence that an Iranian hit squad was behind the death of a dissident Iranian journalist in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... late last year.
Iranian Foreign Ministry front man Abbas Mousavi has shot back at Secretary of State Pompeo over his claim that Iran’s diplomats are really "agents of terror" in disguise.
"Undisputed fact: US ’diplomats’ have long been in the business of coups, arming terrorists, fueling sectarian violence, supporting narcotics cartels, bullying governments and companies, spying on even US allies, flirting with dictators, butchers and terrorists, etc.," Mousavi tweeted Saturday, accompanying the tweet with a screenshot of Secretary Pompeo’s claims.
More captured #GNA Chadian mercenaries today by the lions of the Libyan army #LNA .#Tripoli The African mercenaries are under the command of Osama al-Juwaili It is clear in various front lines for every libyan militia fighter there is 4 non Libyan mercenaries. pic.twitter.com/1NSiF1R3Rs
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Italy’s COVID-19 death toll has surged past 15,000 as 681 more people have died after contracting the disease, Angelo Borrelli, the head of the National Civil Protection Department, announced on Saturday, adding that the daily rise in fatalities was slowing.
Saturday’s figures suggest that the rise in the death toll is beginning to slow, as 766 deaths were reported on Friday.
According to Borrelli, the number of people still displaying symptoms of the disease in Italy is 88,274. However, the number of people currently in intensive care has decreased, the Civil Protection Department chief said.
Italy has recorded a total of 124,632 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the start of the outbreak. The northern region of Lombardy has been the most affected area of the country.
More than 1.1 million people have been reported infected by the novel coronavirus across the world and 60,049 have died, according to a Reuters tally as of 1400 GMT on April 4. https://t.co/O13GAIVmwp
Cuomo said 630 people died in New York yesterday due to coronavirus. The sirens are constant. It's impossible to explain to people who don't live here how it doesn't feel actively scary to be here despite what it looks like on TV, but it's also draining, dystopian, and traumatic.
NEW: Number of visitors to #Hawaii dipped below 100 yesterday due to mandatory travel quarantine per @HawaiiHTA, just 94 visitors flew into the state Friday - normally that number would be around 30,000. There were a few arrests of people arriving without lodging plans #COVID19
#breaking Tokyo just announced 118 new coronavirus infections today — the first day to exceed 100 — and nearly TRIPLE the daily infections count this time last week. Currently 817 people are in hospital — and city is running out of beds set aside for patients with the virus. pic.twitter.com/2DaFTQXPcI
Spain starting to see slowdown in new COVID-19 cases
[IsraelTimes] Current numbers show Spain has 124,000 cases of coronavirus and over 11,000 deaths. Strict limitations that keep people at home except for shopping for food and medicine, as well as non-essential businesses, helped Spain reduce its rate of contagion that was over 20% last week to 6% on Saturday.
Sánchez gave a televised address to the nation Saturday and said Spain is close to reducing the spread of the virus. Sánchez used the address to announce that the government plans to extend the lockdown the country has been under for three weeks until April 26.
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[DCWhispers] The junior congresswoman’s "Praise Allah!" response to the news that America faces some very difficult days ahead as the coronavirus continues to work its way through the population has gone viral via social media.
It appears Ilhan Omar has recently deleted the tweet after she was strongly challenged by others, including some fellow Muslims, who were offended/concerned she would say such a thing.
Her tweet and one of those challenges are included below:
Per Ms. Omar, in "explaining" the tweet: "islamophobes, this is the same as "good god". [sic].
Per Learn Religions: Subhan Allah‐can be translated to mean, among other things, both "God is perfect" and "Glory to God."
Per LEXICO: "Among Muslims: ’(all) praise be to God’. Also used as a general expression of praise, gratitude, or relief. "
Per yahoo.com: "Subhan'Allah (Arabic سبحان الله) is an Arabic phrase often translated as "Glorious is God."
[DAWN] Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... on Saturday said that reports circulating on social media that 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... will not affect Paks were false, cautioning that the disease will not spare anyone.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the Prime Minister's Corona Relief Fund in Lahore, he said: "I read often on social media that Allah has created Paks in a way that corona won't affect them. Please don't delude yourselves into thinking like this. Corona won't spare anyone."
The premier asked people to not be "foolish" and advised them to take the necessary precautions against Covid-19.
"If you think you are immune, just look at New York. Many rich people live there [but] look at their condition now."
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I was gonna goof on the idea of Imran Khan telling people not to be foolish, but truth be told, "Don't Be A Dumbass!" is pretty good advice.
8 Hashd al-Shaabi factions issue a joint statement: 1- US only understands the language of force. Iraqi soil and air will be hell for them. 2- Adnan Zufi is “CIA candidate” for PM. MPs should withhold their support to “the agent”. 3- We will not allow US continue its occupation https://t.co/MBwFAwh7rh
[SPUTNIKNEWS] The bombshell decision by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to lay down their royal duties and move to Los Angeles Like Lavern and Shirley did...
unsurprisingly inflicted some additional security costs, and according to the US president’s recent Twitter rant, he was not about to pay for the couple’s protection in their newly found home. He's not paying for mine. Why should he pay for theirs? They're just private citizens now.
Prince Charles could reportedly cover half of his son Prince Harry’s and his wife Meghan Markle’s security costs in the US, a royal insider told the Daily Mail. That's mighty nice of him.
The Prince of Wales, who has just recovered from coronavirus, would pay a “private contribution” of up to £2 million ($2,5 million) every year towards the Sussexes’ living in the United States, and the source believes that this money would be used for the family’s protection, which is estimated to cost around $5 million annually. That's an awful lot of protection. Maybe they should shop around.
The royal insider still noted that this type of financial aid could be a significant blow to the 71-year-old monarch’s budget.
Dear Prince Charles is no monarch — that’s his mother. Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales, is merely the heir apparent, the longest in that role in the history of the English monarchy. Quite possibly that will be as far as he gets.
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Montaigne, "On Education," to Madame Diane de Foix, Comtesse de Gurson:
"I have never known a father refuse to acknowledge his son, however scabby or hunchbacked the boy may be. Yet this is not to say that he does not perceive these defects - unless he is completely besotted by paternal affection for his son - but the fact remains that it is his own son..."
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#5 "Defender of Faith" Which faith would that be?
You're hip to the irony.
It was the addled Prince Chuck who decided, by his lonesome, to change his title from "Defender of the Faith" to the idiotic "Defender of Faith." To avoid offending the Bradford Grooming Club and other members of the faith.
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The monarchy takes care of their own. Even with an abdicating king and an American divorcé. In other words. Buy off the problem. Reinforce bad behavior.
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Good to see the deadbeat royals actually pick up a check.
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More like defender of the Druids.
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Meghan and Harry responded to Trump that they didn't expect US to pay, they could pay themselves. Apparently Charles didn't get the memo or they are just living off the parents while pretending to be independent like so many other kids their age.
[IsraelTimes] Parking lots, convention centers, sports arenas converted to medical complexes, but authorities face dire shortage of staff as they brace for coming storm.
Convention centers, sports arenas, and parking lots from Los Angeles to Miami are being urgently converted into makeshift hospitals as US authorities brace for a surge in 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... patients.
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"I asked the president and the military over a week ago for 1,000 nurses, 150 doctors, 300 respiratory therapists," Mayor Bill de Blasio. "I don’t have anything yet."
A city of 6.8 million people, about the same population as Switzerland, cannot surge and locate the medical professionals it needs ?
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#1, exactly. Just a LITTLE context for these politicians' statements would go a long way.
I had no idea the mayor of New York had so little power or resources.
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Doctors, at least, have been retiring in numbers for years, a combination of the baby boomers retiring and doctors tired of dealing with health insurance nonsense that started a decade before Obamacare.
As for Hizzoner of New York City, they have a registry of 10,000 retired and private medical professionals willing to help out in exactly such an emergency, according to the NY Post. Has he called on them yet?
Airliners departs Istanbul Airport in the direction of Misurata or Mitika, with mercenaries and 7 Turks. This flight carries the Oil Aviation Registration Number which is 5A-POL #GNA#Libyapic.twitter.com/KJchYTAlhY
[FoxNews] Continuing to shape the post-coronavirus world. BLUF: age 37, strongly defended Mr. Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court hearing, originalist, member of the Federalist Society. Lots of red meat at the link.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's human rights body called the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Order 2020 "illegal" and a "violation" of international laws.https://t.co/oScs3E2rkm
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's human rights body - isn't that an oxymoron?
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Ironically the order does no such thing. To be able to apply for a domicile certificate (permanent residency) in Jammu and Kashmir,and be eligible for a job in the government service, the order requires the applicant to have lived in the state for 15 years. It is actually easier to become an Indian citizen than to become a permanent resident of Jammu and Kashmir. India does not practice demographic invasion.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[hindustantimes] Afghan security forces have arrested 37 members of the so-called Islamic State Khorasan Province terrorist module that had targeted a Kabul gurdwara last month. The arrests were made in the last 24 hours after Afghan forces caught Aslam Farooqui, the Pakistani national who led the terror group ISKP known to have strong links with Pakistan’s ISI that carries out off-the-shelf jihad at its instance.
[PJ] - President Trump's proposal to spend $2 trillion to rebuild American infrastructure was as gutsy as it gets, coming on the heels of another $2 trillion in emergency economic aid. The president tweeted, "With interest rates for the United States being at ZERO, this is the time to do our decades long awaited Infrastructure Bill. It should be VERY BIG & BOLD, Two Trillion Dollars, and be focused solely on jobs and rebuilding the once great infrastructure of our Country!"
[National Pulse] In partnership with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the U.S.-China Business Council, the foundation “sourced” the sizable donation. American companies Chubb and Walmart also contributed, and FedEx comped shipping fees.
[ABC] In the summer of 2005, President George W. Bush was on vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he began flipping through an advanced copy of a new book about the 1918 flu pandemic. He couldn't put it down.
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[LI] A lot of people owe Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) an apology because a microbiologist said "in no uncertain terms that the novel coronavirus could have been unleashed due to a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
The media is simply responding to their sponsors. Follow the money. 
"He’s decapitating the leadership of the intelligence community in the middle of a national crisis," he said. "It’s unconscionable, and of course it sends a message throughout the federal government and particular to other inspectors general."
[WAPO] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ‐ The suspected mismanagement of essential supplies during Hurricane Maria turned out to be a boon for Puerto Rico as it fights a rise in coronavirus cases.
...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...
[HumanEvents.com] On Wednesday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (who, one must remember, holds no elected office at the moment) promised that any further coronavirus legislation might just contain something of "my green deal." It’s not clear if he was referring to some sort of environmental plan‐or how he expects to craft legislation from his basement in Delaware‐but even Sleepy Joe seems to think that a global pandemic signals a time for pork-barrel politics.
[newindianexpress] Except intelligence officials, national security experts and the wary among police officials, not many Indians would have heard of the name Tablighi Jamaat [TJ] before the explosive Nizamuddin coronavirus episode gave it the publicity it studiously avoided. On the face of it, TJ’s six principles suggest Islamic piety in its extreme. But that is merely its cosmetic exterior, inviting the innocent and idealistic young Muslims into an ideological line that ultimately turns them as terrorists. The less known and dangerous side of the century-old TJ began unfolding the world over since 2001, but not in India.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] A joint operation of the Public Security Secretariat and the Mexican army has been launched to find the whereabouts of the 
...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...
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By accident or on purpose, Pandemic World War One has already begun, even if we don’t fully realize it yet. A few examples to make the point: the American super-carrier Roosevelt is in Guam, with over 100 of its crew infected after a scheduled port visit in Vietnam, and half of its 5,000 member crew under quarantine. Parris Island, the USMC’s east coast boot camp, has many troops infected, with no new recruits inbound, and graduating Marines quarantined on base indefinitely. Our thousand-bed USNS hospital ships Mercy and Comfort are deployed to Los Angeles and New York. U.S. military medical personnel are being sent to American Coronavirus hot spots to augment their civilian medical staffs.
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
...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 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...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...
like lava from a volcano
...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...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...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...
[SPUTNIKNEWS] The bombshell decision by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to lay down their royal duties and move to Los Angeles 
...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...
