[Federalist] Forty years ago, a KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov, revealed the systematic plan Soviet communists used to take down countries and establish a communist-type society and regime. More recently, a Chinese defector immigrant, Xi Van Fleet, has been on a crusade to warn Americans about the parallels between what is happening in America today and what Mao did in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
The systematic plan Bezmenov revealed involves four fluid stages of communist subversion: 1) demoralization, 2) disorientation, 3) crisis, and 4) normalization. In Mao’s America, Xi Van Fleet explains how Mao’s destruction of the "Four Olds" (old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits) is being replicated by today’s leftist cancel culture, which will end what is left of freedom in America if not stopped.
[Federalist] The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an attempt from left-wing organizations to have the court reconsider a ruling that found unelected bureaucrats were wrong to accept thousands of undated or incorrectly dated ballots during the 2020 election.
A three-judge panel for the 3rd Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision in March that any mail-in ballots that arrive in envelopes missing a date or with an incorrect date are invalid, upholding a state law and overturning a lower court’s decision.
Several left-wing organizations appealed the ruling by petitioning the court to review the decision en banc, a petition which was denied on Tuesday. It’s a big blow for Democrat operative and Russia hoaxer Marc Elias, whose group supported the lawsuit against the state law and which called it a “crucial” and “critical” case ahead of 2024.
Pennsylvania adopted universal mail-in balloting in 2019, with the law requiring voters to “fill out, date and sign the declaration printed on [the] envelope” before returning their ballot. But thousands of ballots mailed in during the 2020 presidential election and 2022 midterms “did not comply with the date requirement” as they were either missing dates entirely or had incorrect dates, the 3rd Circuit panel ruled in March.
Years earlier, a panel of judges for the court had ruled the date requirement was in violation of the Materiality Provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which stipulates a voter cannot be denied their right to vote due to a paperwork issue that is “not material in determining whether such individual is qualified.” That decision was later vacated after the Supreme Court issued its 2022 decision in Ritter v. Migliori.
The issue then ended up in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court where the judges ruled the ballots were invalid under state law and found they should not be counted. The court, however, was split as to whether tossing the ballots entirely would violate the Materiality Provision, so the judges directed county election boards to “segregate and preserve” those ballots — though they were still not to be counted.
Left-wing groups filed a suit last year which resulted in Erie-based U.S. District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter ruling that ballots with missing or incorrect dates should be counted so long as they are received by Election Day. Republican organizations, including the Republican National Committee, appealed the decision. The panel for the 3rd Circuit overturned Baxter’s ruling, admitting that while their immediate reaction would be to find that a “failure to date a return envelope should not cause his ballot to be disqualified,” their role was simply to determine when the Materiality Provision can be applied.
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It makes the cheating more difficult. I think some of the places cheat by direct swap on the mail in side. They have a stack of fakes that they substitute for real ballots. This will prevent the late breaking landslide.
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"The demonstrated ease of shipping and assembly supports the possibility of rapid deployment throughout the world without 'crowding valuable pier space at naval facilities'."
[NY Post] Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke admitted Wednesday that she was arrested and chose not to disclose the legal matter during her Senate confirmation process because it had been expunged from her record.
During her 2021 confirmation process, Clarke, who now heads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, was asked by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) in a questionnaire if she’d "ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person."
To which Clarke responded, "No."
The Daily Signal reported on Tuesday that Clarke was arrested in Maryland in relation to a domestic violence complaint back in 2006.
The outlet cited court documents, her ex-husband Reginald Avery and text messages between Avery and the head of the American Accountability Foundation (a conservative nonprofit group).
Avery told the outlet that his finger was "sliced to the bone" after Clarke allegedly came at him with a knife after he revealed that he was cheating on her.
Charges against Clarke were dropped, and more than a year later, she filed paperwork that would wipe the arrest from her record.
"Nearly 2 decades ago, I was subjected to years-long abuse and domestic violence at the hands of my ex-husband," Clarke said in a statement to CNN on Wednesday.
"This was a terrorizing and traumatizing period that I have sought to put behind me to promote my personal health, healing and well-being," she added. "The physical and emotional scars, the emotional abuse and exploitation, and the lying are things that no woman or mother should ever have to endure."
Clarke asserted that since the arrest was expunged, she wasn’t required to disclose it to lawmakers.
"When given the option to speak about such traumatic incidents in my life, I have chosen not to," the Biden administration official said. "I didn’t believe during my confirmation process and I don’t believe now that I was obligated to share a fully expunged matter from my past."
At least one Republican is demanding that Clarke step down from her role at DOJ, arguing that she should have disclosed her arrest.
"Kristen Clarke is in charge of enforcing civil rights laws. She enforces those laws aggressively against anyone who sneezes near an abortion clinic. And not at all against those who vandalize churches," Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wrote on X.
"She lied under oath during her confirmation proceedings, and should resign," the senator said.
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Clarke does not appear to have any intention to resign.
"As I have done at every stage of my career as a life-long public servant, I will continue working to ensure that we carry out our work in a way that centers the experiences and needs of crime victims," she said.
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...When I recruited for the USAF, I would occasionally run into someone who swore they had no record at all. Honest and for true. Promise and pinky swear.
Only to be SERIOUSLY surprised when something, always complicating but sometimes disqualifying, came back. Their response was INVARIABLY:
"But my attorney said that no one could ever see this!"
Au contraire, I would reply. McDonald's or K Mart can't see it if they're doing a background check but the United States By-God Air Force, in all its power, wisdom, and majesty sure as Hell can. By the by, a variation on this was when a prospect would at least say, "Yes, but it's been expunged," only to be Disappointed.
I am going to go out on a limb and suggest a scenario here. Since AAG Clarke was a Biden hire - and we all know how well they're vetted (looking at you, Mister Nuclear Crossdressing Luggage Stealing Guy) - nobody even thought about doing a checkout. If they had, somebody was told to memory hole it PDQ.
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Only if everyone was a saint. I, much like Jesus, believe in redemption. What is the point of expungement if it does not do what its definition implies. And what is the definition of Expunge?
1 : to strike out, obliterate, mark for deletion.
2 : to efface completely; destroy.
3 : to eliminate from one's consciousness.
I dont feel strongly about expunging violent crimes, but I do believe in process and expungement is a legal process available for people who need a redemption arc to their life story: Do your time, rehabilitate, be better, and move on with life.
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In my experience: affirmative action is not just discrimination against non-beneficiary groups. It's also discriminates against the (putative) beneficiary group by promotings the worst (most shameless and megalomaniac) members of that group.
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She should have answered truthfully, but it should not have been held against her, on in my opinion even asked. Not convicted. Anybody can be accused...
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Besides the obvious lie. She is also a DEI totalitarian who would no more grant anyone in her sights the same grace. She's a AA/DEI Bitch who should be held to her own standards
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The anti-Israel protest movement that started on Columbia University's campus and has spread nationwide has led to more than 1,750 arrests on college campuses including the University of Texas at Austin, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and the University of California Los Angeles.
Law enforcement agencies in riot gear were in a standoff with anti-Israel protesters at UCLA on Thursday morning. Police moved in on the protesters shortly after 3 a.m. local time, detained several agitators and have cleared the encampment.
President Biden delivered remarks Thursday condemning violent protests and saying, "order must prevail."
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Every time I read about these losers, I think of the riot scene in "Soylent Green" where they use garbage trucks with scoops to pick up the rioters.
[JustTheNews] The preliminary staff report is the result of a months-long investigation into the alleged coercion, where President Joe Biden's White House reportedly pushed social media platforms such as Facebook, Amazon, and YouTube, to censor books, videos, and posts
Emails released Wednesday show Facebook officials chafed at the Biden White House pressure campaign to censor reports that the COVID-19 pandemic came from a lab leak in China.
Facebook's President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg described the White House as "highly cynical and dishonest," in an email dated July 2021, according to an 800-page report from the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The report detailed alleged coercion between the Biden White House and Big Tech.
The full report can be found here.
Committee Chairman Jim Jordan highlighted portions of the report, which allegedly showed Facebook officials commenting on the "intense pressure" they felt from the Biden administration. The company had censored reports that the virus was "man made" from February through May of 2021 when it started demoting the reports instead.
Internal emails from July of 2021 showed Clegg's frustration with the Biden administration when he asked why the company removed reports that the virus was "man made." Members of his team responded and admitted that they should not have caved to external pressure.
"Because we were under pressure from the administration and others to do more and it was part of the ’more’ package," a team member said. "We shouldn’t have done it."
Jordan claimed the documents showed a "chilling effect" that the government had on social media platforms amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Facebook knew the White House wanted them to censor, but they didn’t exactly know what or how much," Jordan said in a thread on X. "The First Amendment is first for a reason. Without it, we cannot enjoy our other liberties."
The emails were part of a preliminary staff report that came out of a months-long investigation into a larger campaign to pressure social media platforms such as Facebook, Amazon, and YouTube, to censor books, videos, and posts.
"The First Amendment prohibits the government from 'abridging the freedom of speech.' Thus, 'any law or government policy that reduces that freedom on the [social media] platforms . . . violates the First Amendment,'" the committee said in a press release. "By suppressing free speech and intentionally distorting public debate in the modern town square, ideas and policies were no longer fairly tested and debated on their merits."
The report concluded that the White House censorship targeted "true information, satire, and other content that did not violate the platforms' policies," and that the White House had leverage because the companies had other policy concerns they needed addressed by the Biden administration that was unrelated to the censorship.
White House officials have denied the reports that they tried to pressure social media platforms to censor material on their sites, claiming the sites had the power to say no without any repercussions.
"We had no intention in coercing any social media companies into taking any action," Andy Slavitt, the administration’s former head of Covid-19 response, told Jordan in a hearing Wednesday. "We never received any indication that our dialogue ever was interpreted that way. I want to be clear that they made their own decisions."
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Leftists putting the squeeze on leftists.
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[Gateway] According to O’Keefe, Amjad Fseisim, a program manager working in Cyber Operations for the CIA and an NSAGov contractor with top-secret clearance working for Deloitte was caught in an undercover video implicating the highest levels of the intelligence agencies, including "The executive staff. We’re talking about the director and his subordinates," former CIA Directors "Gina Haspel....And I believe Mike Pompeo did the same thing too," "kept information from him [Trump] because we knew he’d fucking disclose it." Amjad reasons "There are certain people that would...give him a high-level overview but never give him any details. You know why? Because he’ll leak those details...He’s a Russian asset. He’s owned by the fucking Russians."
@mikepompeo
"So the agencies kind of, like, all got together and said, we’re not gonna tell Trump...Director of the CIA would keep [information from Trump]..."
Amjad reveals to OMG’s Undercover American Swiper that intel agencies not only kept intelligence information from a sitting United States President and Commander-In-Chief, they also used FISA to spy on realDonaldTrump and his team and are still monitoring President Trump according to Amjad who says, "We monitor everything." Amjad adds, "We also have people that monitor his ex-wife. He likes to use burner phones" — information only an insider with access to highly sensitive information would state.
"We steal it [information]" and "We hack other countries just like that," Amjad, who states he currently works on the CIA’s China Mission Center, explains how intel agencies obtain information. He also describes a broken intelligence system where "We don’t share information across agencies" because the CIA is "very reluctant" to share information with the "careless" NSA.
Watch the portion of the video that references the conversation above:
I'm pretty sure that photographs of Soviet missiles in Cuba taken by US planes were highly classified before the Kennedy administration decided to disclose them to the world public.
Also this isn't that big of a bombshell.
During Trump's presidency it came out that Trump was being consciously deceived about US troop deployments, essentially deposing him as CiC.
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Ouch, Besoeker. You’ve been sharpening your scalpel again, I can tell.
Mercutio, of course they aren’t telling that poor man anything more than the next words for him to parrot. There really isn’t any point in making it more complex than that for him. Though from time to time they do let him be in the room for the photographers.
[Free Beacon] The Biden administration funneled nearly $1.3 million to the Taliban as part of reconstruction projects in Afghanistan that are being administered by the United States, according to a government oversight group.
Since 2021, when the Biden administration conducted its botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs has allocated millions to weapons removal projects. As part of these activities, the U.S. government and its partners inside Afghanistan "have paid Taliban entities nearly $1.3 million in taxes, including $138,000 this quarter," according to an audit by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), which monitors America's $17 billion post-withdrawal investment in the country.
Another $5 million in U.S. funds remain available for future weapons removal projects, which will likely have to be conducted with the Taliban's blessing. The United States' payments to the Taliban—which seized power during the Biden administration's evacuation—come amid warnings that Afghanistan "is once again becoming a terrorist haven," according to SIGAR. The oversight group has repeatedly warned that billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars are potentially being diverted to the Taliban and that this money cannot be properly tracked because the Biden administration is stonewalling investigations.
With billions in taxpayer dollars still flowing into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, terror attacks from inside the country are on the rise. The Taliban government "remain[s] tolerant of some terror groups, such as al Qaeda and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan," according to SIGAR. Other militant groups, including ISIS, are also expanding their operations in Afghanistan and maintain the ability to launch attacks on U.S. and Western interests abroad.
[American Greatness] Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm. Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards, and increasingly politicized and mediocre faculty reflect a collapse of the university system.
The country is waking up to the reality that a bachelor’s degree no longer equates with graduates being broadly educated and analytical. Just as often, they are stereotyped as pampered, largely ignorant, and gratuitously opinionated.
No wonder polls show a drastic loss of public respect for higher education and, specifically, a growing lack of confidence in the professoriate.
Each year, there are far fewer students entering college. Despite a U.S. population 40 million larger than 20 years ago, fertility rates have fallen in two decades by some 500,000 births per year.
Meanwhile, from 1980 to 2020, room, board, and tuition increased by 170 percent.
Skyrocketing costs cannot be explained by inflation alone, given that campuses have lightened faculty teaching loads while expanding administrative staff. At Stanford, there is nearly one staffer or administrative position for every student on campus.
At the same time, to vie for a shrinking number of students, colleges began offering costly in loco parentis counseling, Club Med-style dorms and accommodations, and extracurricular activities.
As applicants grew scarcer and expenses went up, universities began offering "full-service" student-aid packages, heavily reliant on government-subsidized student loans. The collective indebtedness of over 40 million student borrowers is nearing $2 trillion.
Worse still, an entire new array of therapeutic majors and minors appeared in the social sciences. Most of these gender/race/environmental courses did not emphasize analytical, mathematical, or oral and written skills. Such course work did not impress employers.
Faculty hiring had become increasingly non-meritocratic based on diversity/equity/inclusion criteria. New faculty hires have sought to institutionalize self-serving DEI and recalibrate higher education to prepare a new generation for self-perpetuating radical ideologies.
At the more elite campuses, racial quotas vastly curtailed the number of Asian and white students. But that racialist social engineering project required dropping the SAT requirement and comparative ranking of high school grade point averages.
At the same time, to vie for a shrinking number of students, colleges began offering costly in loco parentis counseling, Club Med-style dorms and accommodations, and extracurricular activities.
Don't forget the ever popular money-laundering services of 'tuition-banking' for Intl students that cannot provide enough ID to open standard checking accounts.
[Business Insider] A retired judge has alleged that she was subject to racial discrimination while flying first class with American Airlines.
Pamela Hill-Veal was traveling with her family from Chicago to Phoenix back in February. In a complaint seen by NPR, she said that after she visited the bathroom, a flight attendant stopped her and accused her of slamming the door.
"He began to berate me by pointing his finger at me towards my face and saying, 'I told you not to slam the door ... so from now on, you are to use the restroom in the back of the plane' while he pointed in the direction of the restroom in coach," she told NPR.
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Probably complaining and being loud the whole trip too; the Phelps method of creating an unbearable situation, causing a reaction, then framing the reaction as instigating (desired story).
Bet NPR had a time slot opened before baggage claim.
[Red State] "The View" moderator and co-host Whoopi Goldberg ...born Caryn Elaine Johnson, a homely American cultural icon on the same tier of significance as Alfalfa, Lupe Velez, or Pia Zadora, only without Alfalfa's singing voice, Zadora's lovely butt, or Velez' Mexican Spitfiree personality. She pontificates regularly on national television, spewing lefty blather and utttering gaffes at nearly the same rate as Joe Biden, whom she purports to admire. She was once married to some white guy, but he appeared in blackface once and was never heard from again... lost her stuff over Donald Trump on Wednesday's episode of the absurd yet amusing show. Yes, Whoopi and the rest of the TDS-riddled panel lose their stuff over Trump daily, but Whoopi's latest effort was as laughable as it was patently incorrect.
At issue for the visibly angered Goldberg was a recent comment Trump made about race in today's America. As she glared into the camera, she snarled:
Please file under Holocaust Denials and Extraterrestrial Invasions.
[HILL] The expected withdrawal of U.S. forces from Niger will endanger U.S. counter-terrorism operations and hand Russia more influence in Africa as American and western ties on the continent fracture.
Around 1,000 troops in Niger are expected to eventually withdraw from the country after the conclusion of ongoing high-level talks between Niamey and Washington following a military coup in the African country last year, the Pentagon has said.
A forced withdrawal from Niger is a major setback for U.S. military as it fights against Islamic extremist groups across the Sahel, a volatile region that stretches from Senegal in western Africa to the Red Sea.
At risk for the U.S. is not just keeping ISIS, Boko Haram and other insurgent groups in check, but also the growing influence of Russia, Iran and China, all of which are jockeying for power in Africa along with the West.
But Western powers like the U.S. and European Union seem to be losing the battle in the Sahel.
Iran’s complex, direct attack against Israel on April 13 is remarkably similar to Russian-perpetrated attacks on Ukraine, employing one-way attack drones as well as cruise and ballistic missiles.
Perhaps one could safely assume there are numerous Russian advisors and technicians in Iran. The rather timid IDF response to the recent rocket attack from Iran was rather telling.
The Israeli journalist Amit Segal published a Hebrew-language story in the popular Israeli news outlet Mako that reveals an American betrayal of Israel of stupefying magnitude. ’Very senior officials associated with the International Criminal Court in The Hague,’ wrote Segal, ’have spoken about Israel’s fear of arrest warrants for senior officials in the context of the war in Gaza. The officials told N12 [Mako’s broadcast channel] that the intention to issue such orders would not have been possible without American consent.’
If this recent report should prove accurate, this would constitute one of the most egregious betrayals of one supposed ally by another...in recorded history. With friends like the Biden administration, who needs enemies? And, sadly, Israel has lots of those.
Should these allegations prove true, it would mean that Biden and his puppet masters are not content with attempting to incarcerate political opponents here at home, but also actively seek to have those they dislike abroad arrested—with the aid of an international body! To my knowledge, even Hitler and his minions didn’t do that.
Apparently not content with the Afghanistan debacle/disaster (and accidentally donating billions of dollars in crack military equipment to the likes of the Taliban after hastily bugging out), nor with promulgating an endless war in Eastern Europe, Biden and Crew have now pivoted to stabbing a long-time ally—and the only democracy in the Middle east—in the back.
Again, should the report be born out, it would clearly illustrate that the Biden administration itself is an illegitimate, protofascist regime bent on destabilizing other nations, including historically friendly ones.
[PJ] Inflation has finally caught up to millions of people's morning routine — that half-double decaffeinated half-caf frappuccino with a twist of lemon concoction from their corner Starbucks.
Financial analysis firm The Kobeissi Letter looked at the Seattle-based purveyor of caffeinated treats (I hesitate to use the word "coffee") and found themselves asking, "What happened to Starbucks?"
Second-quarter results are now coming out, and Starbucks reported that "North America and U.S. comparable store sales declined 3%, driven by a 7% decline in comparable transactions." the company reported. The average ticket was slightly higher — but stick a pin in that thought because I'll come back to it in a moment.
Things were even worse in China, where "same-store sales plunged 11% with an 8% decline in the average order." China is Starbucks' second-largest market by sales volume after the U.S.
Starbucks shares were down as much as 15% today on the news.
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For the price of 2 SB Grande coffees, I can purchase a Wally World <$12.95, small 2 cup coffee maker and a small can of coffee.
BTW: Anyone else noticed, the New 2019+ ground coffee in cans has a lot of color variations now? Like filler is being added.
However, given "Ingredients" listed on the coffee can usually just say "Coffee". Does non-Coffee Beans parts of the plant also count as coffee, under USDA listing rules?
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7-11 and McDonalds have better tasting, and brew more consistent coffees. Consistency is important to branding.
I drink my coffee black and I have not received a decent cup of starbucks coffee since before they started serving breakfast. All the coffee shops have similar tasting black-no-sugar coffee anymore.
My theory is that burnt coffee has a bigger coffee flavor profile in those mixed sugary coffee drinks, and the sugar mellows burnt flavor down a few degrees to more palatable. That answers my why.
Anyways. Am not a fan of combo coffee and breakfast joints because the coffee always seems to decline as they refocus on foods, and once your black coffee flavor profile declines, there's no sugar or other crap that can hide it.
[ET via ZERO] U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials found evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines caused multiple deaths before claiming that there was no evidence linking the vaccines to any deaths, The Epoch Times has learned.
CDC employees worked to track down information on reported post-vaccination deaths and learned that myocarditis—or heart inflammation, a confirmed side effect of the vaccines—was listed on death certificates and in autopsies for some of the deaths, according to an internal file obtained by The Epoch Times.
Myocarditis was also described as being caused by vaccination in a subset of the deaths.
In other cases, the CDC workers found that deaths met the agency’s definition for myocarditis, that the patients started showing symptoms within 42 days of a vaccine dose, and that the deceased displayed no virus-related symptoms. Officials say that after 42 days, a possible link between the vaccine and symptoms becomes tenuous, and they list post-vaccination deaths as unrelated if they can find any possible alternative causes.
[ZERO] A whistleblower at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems died Tuesday morning following a struggle with a 'sudden, fast-spreading infection,' the Seattle Times reports.
45-year-old Joshua Dean, a former mechanical engineer and quality auditor from Wichita, Kansas, alleged that Spirit leadership ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, including 'mechanics improperly drilling holes in the aft pressure bulkhead of the MAX.' When he brought this up with management, he said that nothing was done about it. So he filed a safety complaint with the FAA - and said that Spirit had used him as a scapegoat while they lied to the agency about the defects.
"After I was fired, Spirit AeroSystems [initially] did nothing to inform the FAA, and the public" regarding the bulkhead defects, said Dean in his complaint.
In November, the FAA suggested to Dean in a letter that his claims had merit, writing "The investigation determined that your allegations were appropriately addressed under an FAA-approved safety program," adding "However, due to the privacy provisions of those programs, specific details cannot be released."
Dean also gave a deposition in a Spirit shareholder lawsuit.
[Jpost] Colombia President Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday he would break diplomatic relations with Israel over its actions in Gaza.
Feel better now that you've passed that gas? Not that anyone cares.
Petro has already heavily criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and requested to join South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice.
[GEO.TV] Police Wednesday foiled a terrorist attack on the Jhangi check post in Dera Ghazi Khan late at night, injuring at least seven police personnel in the terror incident, police told Geo News.
According to the Regional Police Officer Sajjad Hassan Khan, the Jhangi check post is located on the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa-Punjab border in the Taunsa area.
He added that the attackers wanted to capture the check post, but they fled in the darkness of the night after the attack was repulsed by coppers.
According to Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Police, 15 to 20 bandidosforces of Evil were involved in the attack.
'SECOND ATTACK ON CHECK POST AFTER 2 MONTHS'
This was a second attack on the check post in the span of two months, said Punjab Police.
In a statement issued on X, formerly Twitter, the Punjab Police wrote: "The bandidosforces of Evil of the banned
...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization failed to attack the Jhangi (Hazrat Umar Farooq) police check post again after two months."
Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, 15 to 20 bandidosforces of Evil attacked with modern weapons including rocket launchers, hand grenades, laser light guns which Sub-Inspector Mohiuddin — the check post in-charge — and his personnel repulsed, the post read.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A shooter has been 'neutralized' after trying to break into a Wisconsin middle school.
The unidentified intruder was taken down Wednesday morning after trying to enter Mount Horeb Area Middle School in Wisconsin.
Cops have yet to offer further detail, including whether the suspect was injured or killed, how old they were and if they were connected to the school.
The Mount Horeb Area School District said on Facebook: 'Community members, there has been an active shooter at our middle school this morning.
'The individual did not breach entryway. Police department is helping to scope out our building to ensure the safety of our students and staff. I will keep you posted.'
The district later added that the 'threat has been neutralized outside of the building.'
No injuries have been reported at the middle school in Mount Horeb, which is about a half-hour driver from Madison.
Mount Horeb police potted a student suspect who they said brought a gun to Mount Horeb Middle School.
The student was killed before he could enter the school, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said Wednesday evening in a news conference. Kaul declined to identify the student or give his age, aside from saying the suspect was a minor and a male.
The shooting sent the middle school and four other Mount Horeb Area School District schools into lockdown late Wednesday morning, affecting 2,500 children. Several of the schools remained locked down into the evening.
The Mount Horeb coppers who were involved are on leave, Kaul said. No officers were maimed, he said.
Kaul didn't say how many officers were involved, or how exactly the student was killed. In response to a news hound's question about how many officers fired their guns, he said he did not know and it was something being investigated.
Kaul also did not provide information about whether the student fired shots at officers, or whether the student indicated he would bring a gun to school. Kaul also declined to discuss any prior interactions the student had with law enforcement.
"The physical security of the school" appears to have played a role in preventing the student from entering the school, Kaul said.
One of the officers involved was a school resource officer, Kaul said. The officers were wearing body cameras.
An emergency alert sent to area residents' phones said the suspect was "armed with a rifle and should be considered dangerous."
"Due to safety precautions taken by our Schools, the shooter was never able to enter the building," Mount Horeb Village president Ryan Czyzewski and Mount Horeb Chamber Board chair Kara Brandemuehl said in a joint statement. "The collaboration and coordination between our community's first responders and School District exemplified the highest standards of professionalism and dedication."
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Strange how they can't seem to make the connection between LGBT and mental illness.
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These are the Covid Teens, so mental health problems are up across the board especially substance abuse.
Also, there is the theory that the reason this lifestyle is up, is many are using it as Social Armor. For them, they are behaving in a manner at odds with how they really feel and constantly have to prove their armor, which would be very stressful.
Getting past all that, the ones who are, are told that to be part of The Team, they also have to accept the outrageous parts like pedos and trannies, and the behaviors they promote, or they are enemy.
Finally it seems to be a fundamentally unhappy lifestyle, with lots of short term relationships and cheating, sowing distrust.
Transgenderism is, by their own definition, a mental illness. Especially if a parent is forcing it. Then pump them so full of hormones it would never be allowed in agriculture. The pronoun game is an exercise in multiple personality disorder.
And one wrong media post and they are painted into a corner. Its like watching sea turtles hatch.
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not real confident in study methodology since it isn't obvious how non-responses were handled
however, note that of cis gender respondents over 25% of the males and 30% of females also considered suicide - not that much different from the LGBT group
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I agree with Piers Morgan, I am not a cis anything. I am a man, PERIOD.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ottoman Turkish Interior Minister announced that security forces in the country have detained 2,991 individuals over the past 10 months on charges of collaborating with ISIS.
Ali Yarlika stated that these individuals were detained in 1,422 operations conducted across the country.
These detentions occurred from January 1st of the current year to April 22nd.
Mr. Yarlika published these figures on his social media account, stating, "We will tolerate no Death Eaters and will continue our fight with determination in cooperation with security forces."
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has recently conducted extensive operations across the country, resulting in the detention of dozens of individuals on charges of ISIS membership.
Earlier this month, the Ottoman Turkish Interior Minister announced that the country had initiated extensive operations against ISIS, which will be carried out and continued in various cities.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... ISIS has intensified its operations across the region, targeting civilians and government officials in countries like Afghanistan, Iran, and Russia. This escalation of activity has led to increased insecurity and instability in the region.
Regnum. In Turkey, law enforcement officers detained 41 suspects of involvement in the Islamic State group. The country's Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced this on May 1.
Law enforcement officers conducted an anti-terrorist operation in 12 provinces - Bolu, Eskisehir, Istanbul, Kirikkale, Kilis, Kocaeli, Nevsehir, Sakarya, Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Duzca and Manisa, Sabah newspaper reported. The most people suspected of having links with terrorists were detained in the province of Istanbul - ten people.
Police officers seized firearms, various digital materials, as well as foreign currency and Turkish lira from the detainees.
As Regnum reported, on April 1, Turkish law enforcement agencies detained two suspects in preparing a terrorist attack in Istanbul, which was planned to be carried out by the Islamic State group. This is 37-year-old citizen of Tajikistan Faziljon A. and 41-year-old Kyrgyz citizen Zulfiya S. The detainees appeared before the court, which ordered the arrest of the man. His accomplice was deported from Turkey.
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on March 31 that in four days in 21 Turkish provinces, security authorities detained a total of 51 suspects of involvement in the Islamic State group.
He clarified that Istanbul and Antalya were among the regions where these special operations were carried out. According to the minister, during the searches, a large number of documents from the terrorist group were confiscated from the detainees.
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[GEO.TV] Former US president Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... has issued a stark warning to the incumbent commander-in-chief of the country Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. ‘This Is A Man ThatDoes Not Seem Demented’... as the Republican is enmeshed in his legal woes that are exhausting him financially and physically, according to the interview published by the Time magazine.
The 77-year-old former president is facing his first criminal trial about hush money payments that were allegedly paid to Stormy Daniels in 2016.
Trump while revealing one of his priorities after being elected to the Oval Office said that Joe Biden and his family would face several prosecutions under his administration.
And on one condition, the Democrat President would be forgiven only if Trump is granted immunity in his legal battle by the top court of the US.
Trump also shared how his administration would look like which the publican called "an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world".
The business mogul also issued a threat that he would appoint a special prosecutor to probe Biden and his family members if he secures the victory in November.
Donald Trump remarked about taking vengeance: "It depends what happens with the Supreme Court."
If immunity is not granted "then Biden I am sure will be prosecuted for all of his crimes, because he’s committed many crimes".
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Threats? No. What is good for the goose is what is good for the gander? Yes.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Patriotic frat boys valiantly protected an American flag on the campus of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill even while being pelted by water bottles from pro-Palestine protestors.
Footage emerged on social media showing the group of male students from the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity holding onto the stars and stripes during a Tuesday protest. Pro-Palestine groups lobbed bottles of water at the group who clutched the flag as they were screamed at by masked protestors.
One person was seen carrying an Israel flag as others threw objects and water at him as the group held the flag high so as not let it touch the ground.
Despite the best efforts of the hardy group, the protestors eventually managed to hoist the Palestine flag on the Chapel Hill campus.
Still, the men's action drew attention online with a GoFundMe set up for the frat that has raised more than $228,000.
'We are overwhelmed by you glorious, Patriotic Americans who value good beer and great times,' the fraternity wrote on the GoFundMe.
'We are in contact with multiple leaders from fraternities whose members helped defend the flag, including Alpha Epsilon Pi and others, in addition to Pi Kappa Psi. Our gratitude goes to all of them and we will update supporters on what comes next,'
After American flag was replaced by Palestine's flag, UNC Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts responded by personally walking out into the midst of the protest and removing the Palestine flag, ABC11 reported.
Roberts stood guard as he restored the American flag back onto the flagpole and applauded as workers did so. Footage taken shows Roberts clapping his hands as some students can be heard chanting 'USA!,USA! USA!'
Not long after the flag was restored, a decision was made to have it taken down where it was folded into its traditional triangle shape and taken away.
The flag pole was then left empty, prompting protestors who had gathered to disperse.
Following the chaos, classes were canceled for the rest of the day and non-mandatory operations were suspended.
Police had moved in to clear out an encampment and detained some of the protestors in a tense showdown.
The Daily Tar Heel reported that 36 people protestors were detained within the encampment.
Six of those 36 were later arrested and transported to the local magistrate's office, the outlet said, with all six charged trespassing before being released. The university said three of those arrested had been students, while the other three were not affiliated with the school.
In a statement Roberts said: 'For the last several months, we have spoken regularly and respectfully with the demonstrators on our campus, consistently supporting their right to assemble and express their views.
'We have been clear that students and community members can assemble and make their voices heard, but University policies must be followed.
'During events in recent weeks, the student demonstrators abided by our policies.
'That changed Sunday evening when protesters - including outside activists -- backtracked on their commitment to comply with these policies, including trespassing into classroom buildings overnight.
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This is supposed to be a feel good story but IMO this is awful and sends an awful message.
Americans in the US are unsuccessfully trying to protect a US flag in a place where it is legitimately and rightfully flown.
During their futile attemt they are physically accosted and humiliated, bringing shame and dishonor to themselves, the US and Western Civilization according to the standards of Honor-Shame cultures.
The flag that then replaces and triumphs over Old Glory symbolizes a polity pretty much opposed to all fundamental tenets and virtues of Western Civilization.
The flag of the US is then restored only for a brief period of time, then the flag pole is left empty.
And this awful event is inextricably linked to an anti jewish and anti western genocidal massacre that had the murderous intensity of the Rape of Manila.
What conclusions will Putin's, Xi's, Khamanei's, Kim's etc psychological profilers draw from this and other similar incidents?
US security guarantees for North Carolina, DC and Manhattan are de facto not credible.
Why should any rational actor take security guarantees for South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, or even Alaska seriously?
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Donations poured in for our Frat Bropatriots to throw a party - totals last night were just over $255,000. There's a message there somewhere.
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Update- “Pi Kappa Phi Men Defended Their Flag. Throw 'em a Rager.” The original goal was $15,000, but in less than two days the organizer raised more than $400,000 for the group..."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Anti-Israel protestors across US college campuses have shaken the nation over the last weeks, systemically setting up illegal encampments and sparking questions about the money behind the demonstrations.
Organized encampments have appeared across the country's most respected universities after first showing up at Columbia in New York City. Violent clashes between protesters and police have followed at various schools including UCLA and the University of Texas at Austin.
Many have pointed fingers at a company called Crowds on Demand, which provides paid protesters as a service, accusing it of hiring left-wing agitators to manufacture the movement.
But in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, CEO Adam Swart denied that his company has any involvement with the protests, and has actually denied requests from both sides.
'We've been inundated with requests by both sides. Not just in regards to the campuses, but just broadly in regards to this Israel-Palestine issue, we've been getting tons of requests over the past few months,' Swart said on Tuesday.
'We have heard from grown ups who want to do activity on college campuses... lots of requests, including from very high profile wealthy donors on on both sides to get involved.'
Crowds on Demand, however, is not accepting any requests related to the war in Gaza, Swart added, because it's not the kind of issue he likes to get involved in. Swart emphasized that his company only hires protesters who already believe in a cause but may not be able to afford spending their day at a protest.
While his company is not taking the jobs, Swart believes someone is, because as an expert on this type of operation, he recognizes the telltale signs pointing to big money behind a cause, like similar tents and expensive banners seen at Columbia University over the last week.
'I do, to be clear, think there is money behind the pro-Palestine protests - 100 percent. I'm just saying we're staying out of it,' he said.
Swart said it's possible for tax-exempt advocacy organizations to not disclose their donors, and thus anyone could be funding their causes, opening the door to enemy foreign powers like China or Russia to sow discord in the US.
'If this is coming from abroad, and I believe that it might be in some part, that is very troubling,' he added.
The People's Forum, a tax-exempt advocacy group who often hosts propaganda events for the regimes of countries like Venezuela and Cuba, has been accused of being behind the Columbia protests.
The Washington Free Beacon reports the group, which has received $12million from Goldman Sachs, may have provided materials for the so-called occupation of Hamilton Hall. Over 100 masked activists met at the group's Manhattan headquarters, a base for all kinds of leftist activism, to plan their moves on Monday, participating in breakout sessions that taught 'resistance' methods. There, People’s Forum executive director Manolo De Los Santos told the group to 'give Joe Biden a hot summer' and 'make it untenable for the politics of usual to take place in this country.' He then claimed 'Zionist' Columbia administrators 'want to be more like their masters in Israel.'
Daniel DiMartino, a PhD student at Columbia and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, told DailyMail.com The People's Forum is a group that aims to lobby for enemies of the US.
'The People's Forum is one of several foreign-funded organizations whose goal is to create havoc in America and defend tyrannical regimes like China's, Russia's, Cuba's and Venezuela's,' the Venezuela native said.
'I saw it firsthand when they hosted employees and officials from the Venezuelan socialist regime in 2022 in New York City. They don't care about human rights, not of Palestinians or Jews and certainly not of Venezuelans.'
The New York Times reported last year that the Chinese Community Party was indirectly funding the People's Forum.
Meanwhile New York mayor Eric Adams has warned that outside agitators have been instructing students as they took over Hamilton hall in Columbia.
'What should have been a peaceful protest, it has basically been co-opted by professional outside agitators,' he said.
A video shown by the mayor shows Lisa Fithian, an infamous agitator at US protests for over half a century, showing protesters how to occupy a building. Adams called Fithian 'the nation's best-known protest consultant', noting she gets paid as much as $300 a day to run demonstrations and teach how to take over streets during protests.
CNN has reported that at least half of demonstrators at Columbia are not affiliated with the university.
The anti-Israel protest at the University of Texas at Auston also appears to include outside forces, according to Jamie Hammonds, a content creator who covers homelessness and current events and has attended all the protests at the campus. Hammonds told DailyMail.com he attended over 30 Gaza protests that remained peaceful, before agitators showed up last week.
‘They were throwing water on the police, hurling insults, throwing water bottles, they were definitely provoking the cops to a confrontation,' he said.
Hammonds said he encountered a group that held signs that read 'Veterans against genocide' and admitted they were not students or even from Austin. ‘They were wearing camouflage, and they were holding signs. They were very much provoking the police,' Hammonds said.
'They were right in the middle of it. Yelling slurs at them, calling them some of the most vile names that you an imagine.'
Most of the protests across the US campuses have been partly organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a campus group with more than 250 chapters across the country.
SJP was founded by UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian, who has repeatedly justified terror attacks against Israel and Intifada (uprising) in the US.
Just days after the October 7 attacks, Bazian shared a video titled: 'Here's why Hamas says its attack on Israel wasn't unprovoked.'
Bazian also once apologized after sharing a cartoon of a stereotypical Orthodox Jewish man celebrating the murder and rape of Palestinians and another of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un wearing a kippah and demanding money from the U.S.
The group has received millions from several charities with alleged links to Hamas, per a report by the think tank Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). The ISGAP report asserts that SJP has become an effective and well-funded network for organizing protests around the country, but that its failure to register as a charity or formal organization left its funding sources and operations murky and unregulated.
Hints of financial backing could be seen at the Columbia 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment', including students erecting several identical high-end tents costing hundreds of dollars each, and handing out free Dunkin' Donuts coffee, $12.50 sandwiches from Pret-a-Manger and $10 rotisserie chickens to participants.
The nonprofits funding SJP include the Westchester People's Action Coalition (WESPAC), Tides, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), its parent organization Americans for Justice in Palestine (AJP), and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
The ISGAP report said SJP had the closest financial links with WESPAC, which acts as a 'financial sponsor' for the organization, routing tax-free donations through its accounts to SJP chapters.
The report said SJP also gets extensive organizational aid from American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a nonprofit under investigation by the Virginia attorney general and accused of being a reincarnation of a charity found liable for funding Hamas.
"As I walked down the stairs from the airplane in Estonia, I thought "Wouldn't it be great to be waving to a cheering crowd right about now?" I had the same thought as I returned home to the [United] States. Life can be very cold at times, and nothing makes people happier than having people cheer for them."
— Adam Swart, founder and CEO of Crowds on Demand, 2013 interview with LAist[7]
People Cheering for.... or against. Same pricing, less travel, per diem, and green earth tone pop-up tentage.
#11
Pretty soon, a non-white person will be injured and the 2020 St. George riots will be reawakened and merge with the present confrontation.
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This story has a familiar ring to it. More neo-Marxist and Sharia supremacists at work. Soros money and left-wing NGOs at work. The front-line agitators are mostly professional agitators; the remaining few are useful idiots. The New York Post has said polls indicate 4 out of 5 people support Israel.
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I want to know who provided all the plywood, pallets, screws, and tools to build the barricade at UCLA and how all the stuff was transported there.
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[Regnum] The Russian Project 22 350 frigate Admiral Golovko, which recently joined the Navy, is a new generation warship. This opinion was expressed on April 30 by Peter Suciu, a columnist for the American magazine The National Interest.
“As part of a new generation of multi-mission frigates, it [Admiral Golovko] marks a marked shift […] towards advanced missile platforms,” he wrote.
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[IRANPRESSTV] A high ranking Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i official has warned the United States against any hostile action against the Arab country, saying it possess far greater strategic stockpiles of deterrent weapons that Washington could imagine.
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli military says some 30 trucks carrying food and medical supplies from Jordan entered the northern Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip via the newly reopened Erez crossing today.
The trucks underwent a "careful security inspection" before entering Gaza, the IDF says. The IDF says the reopening of the crossing for humanitarian aid deliveries is "in accordance with the directives of the political echelon."
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[Regnum] A suspect in an attempt to set fire to a synagogue was detained by police in Warsaw. The press service of the Warsaw police reported this on May 1 on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
“The police, together with employees of the Internal Security Agency, detained a 16-year-old man, a citizen of Poland, related to the incident that occurred tonight on the territory of the synagogue on Twarda Street in Warsaw,” the report clarifies.
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[GEO.TV] A British police officer has been charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly publishing an image in support of Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , a group banned in Britannia as a terrorist organization, police said on Wednesday.
Mohammed Adil, 26, from Bradford in northern England, was arrested last November and charged following an investigation by British counter-terrorism officers, Counter Terrorism Policing North East said in a statement.
[IsraelTimes] Nearly all of the army’s posts along the border with the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip failed a routine inspection carried out just three days before Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",’s October 7 onslaught, Channel 12 news reports.
The report says the snap inspection was carried out at 6:30 a.m. on October 4, exactly 72 hours before the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, during which some 3,000 Paleostinian gunnies stormed the border and killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped 253.
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[NEWARAB] The leader of a main Christian political party in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah 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 dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original 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... blasted the Shia krazed killer group Hezbollah for opening a front with Israel to back up its ally Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... , saying it has harmed Lebanon without making a dent in Israel’s crushing offensive in the Gazoo
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Long past time to stop pretending that Lebanon is a country.
[NEWARAB] Ottoman Turkish police detained 210 people on Wednesday, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said, after using tear gas and rubber bullets to stop the protesters reaching Taksim Square, the traditional focal point of May Day rallies in Istanbul.
President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Xanadu Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Pleasure Dome Palace decree. It has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... said on the eve of May Day that the annual protests would not be allowed to take place on Taksim Square, which was cordoned off by police.
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[IsraelTimes] Four teenagers plotted to buy guns and attack Jewish people days after a bishop was stabbed in a Sydney church, news reports say, citing police documents.
Five teens, aged 14 to 17, were charged in a Sydney court on Thursday last week with a range of offenses including conspiring to engage in or planning a terrorist act.
Police alleged they all "adhered to a religiously motivated, violent mostly peaceful turban ideology" and were part of a network that included a 16-year-old boy charged with stabbing Assyrian Orthodox Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel on April 15 as a church service was being streamed online.
The church is Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley in Sydney's west. The unnamed stabby lad shouted something in Arabic before being thoroughly thrashed by angry parishoners, which is presumably why the authorities called it as a terrorist attack.
[GEO.TV] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... said on Wednesday he has still not seen a plan for Israel's planned offensive on the southern Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. city of Rafah that would protect civilians, repeating that Washington could not support such an assault.
Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem for two-and-a-half hours, after which Israel repeated that the Rafah operation would go ahead despite the US position and a stark UN warning that it would lead to "tragedy".
"We cannot, will not support a major military operation in Rafah absent an effective plan to make sure that civilians are not harmed and no, we've not seen such a plan," Blinken told news hounds.
"There are other ways, and in our judgment better ways, of dealing with the ... ongoing challenge of Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... that does not require a major military operation in Rafah," he said, adding that it was the subject of ongoing talks with Israeli officials.
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"There are other ways, and in our judgment better ways, of dealing with the ... ongoing challenge of Hamas that does not require a major military operation in Rafah,"
All of these ways have already been tried - in vain. No comment on "your judgment".
[NYPOST] The wife of an ex-college professor convicted of terrorism-related charges was spotted hanging out at Columbia University’s encampment prior to the dramatic NYPD raid where cops busted 109 people Tuesday night.
Mayor Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a few of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... on Wednesday blamed "outside agitators" for the campus chaos, saying cops had identified individuals who weren’t Columbia students among the protesters.
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If arrest records are to be trusted?
This is not just a group of, "Let's raise some hell and get laid", US College students. The arrest numbers seem to run as high as 6+ out of 10 were NON-Students and/or Not Local state residents.
All indications point to an internationally run Anti-USA- Anti-Israel protest. That is using a bunch of stupid hormonal College student stooges. Likely students desperately seeking some social-emotional place in a group. An even willing to even promote genocide and murder for some social acceptance.
Sure must be some seriously emotionally & socially detached college students on campus nowadays.
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"http://www.jewishworldreview.com" Feb. 4, 2002 >
Diana West, "The professor's war"
ONE way used to get money for Islamic Jihad terrorists was to make a check out to the Islamic Committee for Palestine. The ICP was once "the active arm of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine," ... The ICP, a U.S. based "charity" affiliated with the University of Southern Florida, was a front organization for Islamic Jihad until the FBI shut it down in 1995. So, too, was the World and Islam Studies Enterprise... until the middle 1990s. ...the FBI bugged a meeting of several Middle Eastern men in a Courtyard Marriott in Philadelphia on October 1, 1993. The men were there to discuss "Samah." Samah is the backward spelling of HAMAS, the loathsome terrorist organization... Those present discussed how the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development was raising funds to help HAMAS. Although there were clear violations of U.S. law... In the year 2000 this Islamic "charity" raised more than $13,000,000. After HAMAS was declared a terrorist organization by Bill Clinton in 1995, the Treasury Department proposed freezing the foundation's assets. AG Janet Reno blocked the proposal even after a connection between the foundation and Osama Bin Laden was revealed.... Both ICP and WISE popped up in a Wall Street Journal roundup of American outposts of terrorism written by Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson... The two groups were described... as having been "fronts for the purpose of fund-raising for Islamic Jihad and Hamas. Both groups, according to West, had another role: to bring terrorists into this country (including the leadership of Islamic Jihad) by helping procure entry visas. And both groups were run by a tenured University of Southern Florida computer science professor named Sami Al-Arian. Al-Arian... wasn't well known outside Southern Florida until he appeared on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor last fall. ... maybe it was because of his classic response to Bill O'Reilly's query whether it was true that Al-Arian had once roared, "Jihad is our path. Victory to Islam. Death to Israel. Revolution. Revolution until victory. Rolling to Jerusalem." ... In any event, the professor's appearance prompted hundreds of angry phone calls to the university... USF president Judy Genshaft was persuaded to fire Al-Arian in December. [later he was tried and jailed].
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:18 The electronic account of those liable for military service will start working on May 18, said Deputy Minister of Defense Ekaterina Chernorenko. According to her, in order to update the data in the e-office, you will need to download the mobile application, log in and fill out the necessary fields.
21:45 The United States has introduced new sanctions against the Russian Federation and related companies, the country’s Ministry of Finance reported. The list includes 29 individuals and 250 legal entities, 16 ships, the Pobeda airline, the Ural automobile plant, companies from Azerbaijan, Belgium, Slovakia, Turkey, the UAE and other countries that allow Russia to obtain technology and equipment from abroad.
In addition, the United States has imposed restrictions on more than 80 entities that help Russia circumvent previously imposed sanctions, as well as those associated with Russian chemical and biological weapons programs and its defense industrial base. The Office of the President of Ukraine noted that Kyiv’s proposals were taken into account in these sanctions.
21:07 The United States and allies are increasing pressure on the UAE due to cooperation with Russia in circumvention of sanctions, Reuters writes, citing sources. In particular, Western officials have asked the UAE in a series of separate meetings to share detailed trade information on exports to Russia and re-exports of so-called dual-use goods. Reuters sources also said UAE officials repeated assurances that export controls prohibit the export of sanctioned goods, without providing any evidence of such measures.
20:54 The Russian army may be preparing new missile attacks on Ukraine during the Easter holidays, and in all border regions there is a high probability of activity by sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Russian Federation. In this regard, Ukrainians must be “very attentive and extremely careful,” warned Ivan Slichko, head of the media literacy department of the National Security and Defense Council’s Center for Combating Disinformation. Read more in the material Dangerous Easter.
20:20 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Ukraine is preparing seven more new bilateral security agreements, including with the United States. The President also said that Ukraine has already fully implemented its part of its obligations in order to begin negotiations on accession to the EU in June.
19:42 66.9 thousand women serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, of which 47.2 thousand are military personnel, the Ministry of Defense reported. At the same time, 6.5 thousand occupy leadership positions, and 4,000 are on the line of contact.
18:49 The Russians shelled the village of Lelyukovka in the Kupyansky district of the Kharkov region, one person was killed, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
18:38 As of the end of April 2024, about 40 units of 3M22 Zircon hypersonic anti-ship missiles are in service with the Russian Armed Forces, while the production rate of these missiles is up to ten units per month, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported at the request of ArmyInform.
There are 400 units of 3M55/3M55M Oniks/Oniks-M cruise missiles in Russia, the production rate is up to ten units per month. 3M-14 Caliber cruise missiles - 270 units, production rate - 30-40 units per month. Kh-69 guided aircraft missiles - 45 units, production rate - 1-3 units per month.
18:03 The Ministry of Defense announced that it will cooperate with one of the largest satellite companies in order to limit filming of the territory of Ukraine. The department explained that satellite companies conduct daily surveys of the territory of Ukraine, and these images can be used by Russia. The Ministry of Defense also plans to extend the contract with a satellite company to order up-to-date images of the territory of Ukraine for defense and security purposes. The name of the company is not disclosed for security reasons.
17:46 The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit a Russian test site in the Luhansk region with ATACMS cluster missiles, Russian and Ukrainian public pages write. OSINT researchers determined that the attack occurred near the village of Rogovo.
17:22 Left-wing extremists burned the country house of Rheinmetall head Armin Papperger for supplying weapons to Ukraine, writes Bild. Radicals called the company “one of the beneficiaries of the so-called turning point” - this term (Zeitenwende) is used by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to refer to the war in Ukraine. Extremists believe that Rheinmetall is deliberately stockpiling "various old types of tanks" that "can now be sold to Ukraine along with ammunition for a huge profit."
16:39 The Russians fired at Gornyak, Donetsk region - according to preliminary information, two people were killed and six were wounded, said the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
15:31 The newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Baiba Braze, said in an interview with European Pravda that Ukraine received Western weapons from some partners with permission to strike Russian territory. “Of course, not everything is announced publicly, and it’s even better not to say it out loud for some time. The main thing is the influence on the battlefield. There is a choice here: talk about something loudly, or just do what needs to be done,” she added. Braje emphasized that international law allows strikes on targets from which Russia attacks Ukraine.
15:26 The Presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania Alar Karis, Edgars Rinkevics and Gitanas Nausėda issued a joint statement on the 20th anniversary of the Baltic countries' accession to the European Union. They called for the opening of EU accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova in June this year.
14:50 In Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, four people were injured as a result of Russian artillery shelling and a kamikaze drone strike, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. Several departments of the local hospital and ambulance, a school and sports ground, seven private houses, and power lines were damaged.
14:43 Ukraine reached pre-war export levels and in April exported more than 13 million tons of products worth $3.3 billion, which is more than in February 2022, said Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko. This was, in particular, influenced by the opening of the sea corridor last summer and the expansion of capacity with Moldova and Romania.
14:05 The Russians shelled Kalinovo, Novogrodovsk community, Donetsk region - one person was killed, two were wounded, said the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
13:54 In Odessa, the number of deaths as a result of the attack on April 29 has increased to six - one of the wounded died in the hospital, said the mayor of the city Gennady Trukhanov.
13:41 As a result of Russian shelling of Odessa, the building of the Ombudsman's office was damaged, Dmitry Lubinets said. At that time there were no workers or applicants in the premises, so no one was injured. However, it will take time to resume the office’s work, the ombudsman added.
13:17 The number of victims as a result of Russian shelling of the town of Zolochev, Kharkov region, has increased to six, among them an 11-year-old child. Two people died, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
12:52 Mercenaries from Nepal are deserting en masse from the Russian army, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. According to Ukrainian intelligence, mercenaries assigned to military unit 29328 of the Russian Armed Forces are now being actively searched for in occupied Ukrainian settlements, in particular in the Lugansk region. Nepalese are fleeing due to heavy losses in the "meat assaults", brutal treatment by Russian warlords and non-payment of promised money.
12:35 Five underground schools will be built in the Zaporozhye region, said the head of the Regional Educational Institution Ivan Fedorov. According to him, the first three schools are planned to be built in Zaporozhye, two more - in the Zaporozhye region. The Ministry of Education and Science has already approved the first projects of the regional team; the amount of subvention from the state will be up to 500 million hryvnia. Over time, the number of underground schools in the Zaporozhye region is planned to increase to ten.
11:58 The Russians struck a car and a private house with KAB in the village of Zolochev, Bogodukhovsky district, Kharkov region - two people were killed, two more were wounded, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. In addition, the enemy struck Kharkov - a hit was recorded in the Kiev region, and civilian infrastructure was damaged. There were also three enemy attacks by KABs between the village. Liptsy and village. Fun, preliminary - no casualties.
11:23 At night, drones of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense hit the Ryazan oil refinery and attacked an oil refinery in the Voronezh region, Ukrainian media write, citing sources. According to them, there is significant damage at the Ryazan plant, and the consequences of the attack on the refinery in the Voronezh region are still being clarified.
10:50 Odessa was attacked at night by three Iskander-M ballistic missiles, said Air Force spokesman Ilya Yevlash. According to him, the enemy was hitting densely populated areas. Residential buildings were damaged, three dead and three wounded were reported.
10:44 The US Senate approved a ban on the import of enriched uranium from Russia. Now Biden must sign the document. Such a decision should block the supply of fuel for the reactors. Sales brought Moscow about $1.2 billion last year - this is only profit in the United States. The ban, with some nuances, will remain in effect until 2040.
10:27 The energy ministers of the G7 countries agreed to commit to reducing dependence on goods from Russia for their nuclear energy needs. The joint communiqué following the meeting notes that G7 leaders commit to reducing dependence on civilian goods related to the Russian nuclear industry, including promoting a diversified fuel supply chain free of Russian influence. The G7 also said that they would provide assistance to countries that want to diversify their supplies.
09:48 The 18th Ukrainian Army Recruiting Center in the country opened in Kiev. Deputy Minister of Defense Natalya Kalmykova said that in total more than 2,600 applications were registered in the centers, almost 400 people are at different stages of recruitment.
09:06 The number of victims as a result of yesterday's strike by KABs on Kharkov has increased to ten, one person died, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. The building of the institution, the railway premises, and the railway station were damaged.
09:02 In the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling - in Novoaleksandrovka and Kalinovo, said the head of the OBA Vadim Filashkin.
08:55 The SBU reported that it is carrying out planned counterintelligence activities in the Shevchenko district in the center of Kiev. Among the main locations are Sofia and Mikhailovskaya squares and the surrounding area. The main goal of the measures is “to check and strengthen the counter-sabotage protection of important government facilities and places of public presence.” In particular, security forces inspect the territory and individual buildings and premises and check citizens who are in this territory of the central part of the city.
08:31 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 1:
personnel - about 469,840 (+1120) people,
tanks - 7312 (+5),
armored combat vehicles - 14,067 (+21),
artillery systems - 12,024 (+13),
MLRS - 1053 (+0),
air defense systems - 780 (+1),
aircraft - 348 (+0),
helicopters - 325 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 9538 (+7),
cruise missiles - 2126 (+0),
ships/boats - 26 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 16,175 (+33),
special equipment - 1980 (+3).
08:09 Over the past 24 hours, 122 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In particular, in the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces repelled 33 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka in the Luhansk region, as well as Verkhnekamenskoye, Razdolovka, Spirnoe, Novy, Kleshcheevka, Andreevka and Chasov Yar in the Donetsk region. The same number of attacks were repulsed in the Avdeevsky direction - in the areas of the settlements of Arkhangelskoye, Keramik, Sokol, Umanskoye, Semenovka, Yasnobrodovka and Netaylovo in the Donetsk region.
In the Liman direction, 21 attacks were repelled in the areas of Novoegorovka, Grekovka, Makeevka, Nevsky and Serebryansky forestry in the Lugansk region and Ternov in the Donetsk region. In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy tried 18 times to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the Georgievka, Paraskoveevka and Urozhainy areas of the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, six attacks were repelled in the areas of Berestovo, east of Kopanka in the Kharkov region and Stelmakhovka in the Lugansk region; on Orekhovsky - five attacks in the districts of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region, Rabotino and southwest of Belogorye, Zaporozhye region; on Kherson - two attacks on the left bank of the Dnieper.
07:38 In the evening, Russian troops shelled Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region, three times from heavy artillery and Grad MLRS, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. One person was injured, the administrative building, a kindergarten, a gas station, seven high-rise buildings and a two-story house, and a power line were damaged.
07:16 At night, drones attacked the Ryazan oil refinery; after the attack, a fire broke out at the plant, local residents reported on social networks. Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of six UAVs over the territories of the Voronezh, Ryazan, Belgorod and Kursk regions.
01:25 The Russians attacked Odessa with ballistic missiles, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OBA. As a result of the attack, three people were killed and three more were injured. Civilian infrastructure damaged.
[GEO.TV] President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in... has directed Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to launch a large-scale operation against street criminals in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , dacoits in the Katcha area, and narcos throughout the province in close coordination with other provinces.
President issued number of directives including taking action against the drug mafia, curbing stolen goods trade, completing much-delayed Karachi Safe City project and others to restore law and order in Sindh particularly bucolic provincial capital amid rising violent mostly peaceful street crimes.
The development came during a special meeting chaired by President Zardari to review the law and order situation in the province at the CM House on Wednesday which was attended by the high-ups of the federal and provincial governments, as well as representatives of the security institutions.
Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, provincial ministers Sharjeel Memon, Nasir Hussain Shah, Ziaul Hassan Lanjar, chief secretary, inspector general police (IGP), Director General (DG) Rangers Sindh and other bigwigs were present in the meeting.
The meeting was held to review overall law and order situation in the province, specifically the longstanding issues of Karachi street crimes, katcha bandidos, menace of narcotics, land grabbing, security of foreign nationals, as well as acquirement of facilities and resources.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
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[REGNUM] Drones continue their victorious march, gradually displacing traditional weapons from the battlefield. Drones hunt soldiers and armored vehicles, lay minefields, remove the wounded, and attack other drones.
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[ ewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 05/01/2024 to 00:00 05/02/2024
A total of 36 facts of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF combat engineers demolished two attack tunnels belonging to the Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun in recent weeks, the military says.
The IDF says the two tunnels were under "continuous intelligence and technological surveillance" since their discovery and until they were demolished.
The underground passages did not cross into Israeli territory, according to the IDF.
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Fri 21 May 2021: "After four wars in 13 years, or four battles in a single conflict punctuated by intermittent periods of calm, many Israelis and Palestinians on Friday expressed a weary sense of deja vu about the latest Gaza ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. “Life will return, because this is not the first war, and it will not be the last war,” said a shop owner, Ashraf Abu Mohammad, in Gaza.
[Reuters] Western tanks and military hardware captured by Russian forces in Ukraine went on display in Moscow on Wednesday at an exhibition the Russian military said showed Western help would not stop it winning the war.
Long queues of people formed on what was a sunny May Day public holiday at the entrance to the exhibition, entitled "Trophies of the Russian Army," which is being held outside a museum celebrating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.
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[Regnum] The draft resolution at the UN on the massacre in Bosnian Srebrenica in 1995, which was initiated by Western countries, is aimed at all ethnic Serbs and their statehood. It even violates the Dayton Accords, which initially limited Serbian sovereignty in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This assessment was voiced by IA Regnum, director of the Institute for Systemic Political Research and Humanitarian Projects Anatoly Gagarin.
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[Regnum] China has scheduled the launch of the Chang'e-6 probe to the far side of the Moon on May 3, the China National Space Administration ( CNSA ) announced on May 1.
“The Chang’e-6 mission, the fourth phase of the lunar exploration project, is scheduled to launch on May 3,” the department said.
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[USDeptOfEd] The Biden-Harris Administration today announced the approval of more than $6.1 billion in automatic student loan relief to nearly 317,000 borrowers who enrolled at any Art Institute campus on or after Jan. 1, 2004, through Oct. 16, 2017. The U.S. Department of Education (Department) found that The Art Institutes and its parent company, Education Management Corporation (EDMC), made pervasive and substantial misrepresentations to prospective students about postgraduation employment rates, salaries, and career services during that time. In October 2017, EDMC sold its remaining Art Institute campuses, and all existing Art Institute campuses closed under separate ownership in September 2023. Today's action brings the total amount of student relief approved by the Biden-Harris Administration to almost $160 billion for nearly 4.6 million borrowers.
"For more than a decade, hundreds of thousands of hopeful students borrowed billions to attend The Art Institutes and got little but lies in return. That ends today—thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration's work with the attorneys general offices of Iowa, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania," said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. "We must continue to protect borrowers from predatory institutions—and work toward a higher education system that is affordable to students and taxpayers."
The Department independently reviewed evidence provided by the attorneys general offices of Iowa, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, which conducted multi-year investigations into, and brought lawsuits against, The Art Institutes and EDMC. The attorneys general of Pennsylvania and Iowa provided materials obtained from investigations into these entities, including internal employment data, admissions training manuals, and the school's employment advertisements. The Massachusetts attorney general provided information obtained during an investigation into the New England Institute of Art—the Massachusetts Art Institute campus—including internal employment verification forms, other internal records of graduate employment outcomes, advertisements, and statements from former students and employees.
Today's announcement is another example of the strong partnerships between the Department and state attorneys general and their shared commitment to protecting federal student loan borrowers from predatory schools.
"The Art Institutes preyed on the hopes of students attempting to better their lives through education," said Federal Student Aid Chief Operating Officer Richard Cordray. "We cannot replace the time stolen from these students, but we can lift the burden of their debt. We remain committed to working with our federal and state partners to protect borrowers."
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How many times must this bullshit be overruled by SCOTUS?
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For more than a decade, hundreds of thousands of hopeful students borrowed billions to attend The Art Institutes and got little but lies in return.
Art degrees have never really been a great path to employment, and the term 'starving artist' comes to mind. Van Gogh died penniless as did many other very accomplished artists who became famous only after their deaths.
Although that's 'history' and probably not taught anymore.
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I also notice that they aren't bothering to offer 'loan relief' for the trade school students.
Of course those folks are actually learning a viable means of supporting themselves and could pay off any student loans themselves without 'help'.
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Well, I guess an Ivy League education will continue to be a waste of time but no longer will it be a waste of money … for the student just for the rest of us.
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Why? So they can take their Cambridge education and go protest and burn the school? I have little, actually zero sympathy for todays college students. Look around, they seem to be the future Nazis of our world. Wanting a socialist world where its all given to them, and their fascism and hate are carrying their day on campuses right now. We need to find the money trail to the leaders of this campaign, and end this...
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How many times must this bullshit be overruled by SCOTUS?
How many Divisions has the Court?
[IsraelTimes] Police at two campuses in Arizona have cleared out encampments and arrested pro-Paleostinian protesters.
Several people were arrested by police in riot gear early today at the University of Arizona in Tucson after President Robert Robbins directed school officials to "immediately enforce campus use policies."
And about 20 people were arrested at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff on Tuesday night on trespassing charges. Police dismantled a small fence made of chicken wire as well as nearly two dozen tents.
[JPost] Owcza downplayed the incident in a post on X, stating, "Peaceful protest [and] dialogue always has its place.
German Representative to the Palestinian Authority Oliver Owcza was heckled and his vehicle was attacked by students during his visit to Birzeit University near Ramallah in the West Bank on Tuesday.
Social media clips showed him walking quickly to his car as protesters followed him.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Joe Biden has been accused of yet another election year ploy to appeal to younger voters with his historic move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.
And also those Baby Boomers nostalgic for the follies of their youth.
It would not legalize the drug nationally, but instead change legal restrictions surrounding its use and study.
Critics say his campaign is 'grasping at straws' to find new ways to reverse his declining youth support and believe it could increase drug use across the country.
Biden has already forgiven more than $160 billion in student loans, after wiping $6 billion more for 317,000 students who went to art school.
Republican strategist Curt Anderson told DailyMail.com: 'Legalizing drugs makes America more lethargic and dumber, which obviously helps the Biden campaign.'
Democrats meanwhile have said the move is a long time coming and follows on from Biden pardoning all minor federal marijuana convictions.
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"Blunt Response?" That is pretty funny journalism. I've always suspected about 90%+ of Washington government employees are stoned out of their minds.
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The DEA made no headway in the awar on Drugs so they want to turn it over to the IRS.
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#1 Is cannabis really less dangerous than MDMA and Adderall? Experts warn of psychosis and heart risks as officials move to downgrade drug
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Although I've never partaken of the Devil's Oregano, I know some who do. Something that isn't being addressed is how much more powerful modern 21st century weed is as opposed to the (comparatively) mild strains of the past. There has been a LOT of unofficial work done to make modern weed far more powerful than it used to be, and until that's recognized, we're going to have issues.
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Scythians cultivated chronic buds - they have found smoking buds in their tombs, it was not hemp. One Scythian Prince is thought to maybe be the first pot dealer.
Holland has been cultivating MJ for how long?
Before Holland, marijuana was a pharmaceutical and cultivated in the Unites States - I would suggest cultivated to enhance its medicinal effects which would imply potency.
More people die in a year from Tylenol compared to zero deaths from pot. People say it makes you lazy. Lazy people are lazy no matter what the smoke.
Here I am, I'll smoke and run a 5K. Meanwhile people who boohoo it are out of shape, fat, take a have dozen pills daily while they sit on the couch watching tv. Hopefully this does not describe you guys and gals.
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#7- indeed, a 60 year old bro in law almost died of Covid since he was a 40 year daily pot smoker. Three weeks in intensive care.- one foot in the grave.
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[GatewayPundit] James O’Keefe last Friday warned he was about to release the most important story of his entire career.
“I have evidence that exposes the CIA, and it’s on camera. I am working on releasing a story that I believe is the most important of my entire career,” O’Keefe said on Friday.
“Do you think it’s a coincidence that right at this moment I am subject to an endless series of attacks?” he said. “This is obviously a sophisticated information operation designed to stop me from releasing this story. I’m sure you recognize they are masters of using half-truths and innuendos to raise doubt against people who don’t deserve it. It’s meant to consume my time and energy and make me back down.”
“But I’m not going to let it work. Rest assured, nothing will stop me from releasing this story,” O’Keefe said.
O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released part one: Exposing the CIA: A project manager working in cyber operations told OMG’s undercover journalist that the Director of the CIA would keep information from Trump.
He also said the CIA spied on Trump’s presidency and is still monitoring him to this day.
“So the agencies kind of, like, all got together and said, we’re not gonna tell Trump…Director of the CIA would keep [information from Trump]…” Amjad Fseisi, a project manager working in Cyber Operations for the CIA with top-secret security clearance told an undercover journalist.
Amjad Fseisi said Trump is a “Russian asset” – “He’s owned by the f*cking Russians,” he told the undercover journalist.
Per James O’Keefe:
Amjad reveals to OMG’s Undercover American Swiper that intel agencies not only kept intelligence information from a sitting United States President and Commander-In-Chief, they also used FISA to spy on President Trump and his team and are still monitoring President Trump according to Amjad who says, “We monitor everything.” Amjad adds “we also have people that monitor his ex-wife. He likes to use burner phones” – information only an insider with access to highly sensitive information would state.
“We steal it [information]” and “We hack other countries just like that,” Amjad, who states he currently works on the CIA’s China Mission Center, explains how intel agencies obtain information. He also describes a broken intelligence system where “We don’t share information across agencies” because the CIA is “very reluctant” to share information with the “careless” NSA.
O’Keefe Media Group’s bombshell undercover footage supports earlier reports by investigative journalists Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag that revealed how the American intelligence community illegally ran a spy operation against then-candidate Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 and illegally acquired intelligence that was later used to justify the Federal Bureau of Investigation (@FBI) official probe, “Crossfire Hurricane,” which in turn led to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation that ultimately did not find evidence of Russia collusion by the 2016 Trump campaign.
Contractors like Fseisi hold the duty to withhold sharing confidential or national security information. In denying his statements, Fseisi may have realized he could be held liable for violating internal agency provisions and federal laws like the Executive Agency ethics provisions, which restrict what he may share with others outside of his contracted-to agency. Additionally, any government worker or agency head who withheld information from a superior (i.e. President Trump) may violate: (a) obstruction of justice by deception (18 USC 1512); (b) conspiracy to obstruct (18 USC 371); and false statements (18 USC 1001). Agency regulations may also provide offenses related to insubordination, reflecting poorly on the agency in public, or misrepresentation or dishonesty.
When James O’Keefe caught up with Amjad Fseisi on the streets of Washington, D.C., Fseisi could not tell O’Keefe whether he had top secret clearance, denied making statements clearly caught on camera, and would not even confirm it was him on the video saying only “It looks like me.” When asked directly if he works at the CIA, Fseisi said, “I can’t tell you that.”
The official was terminated following O’Keefe’s undercover sting!
BREAKING – EXPOSING THE CIA: “So the agencies kind of, like, all got together and said, we’re not gonna tell Trump…Director of the CIA would keep [information from Trump]…” A project manager working in Cyber Operations for the @CIA and an @NSAGov contractor with top-secret… pic.twitter.com/TXq8ZjJEBq
[FoxNews] Delegates also voted to remove mandatory penalties for conducting same-sex marriages.
United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" from being ordained or appointed as ministers.
Delegates voted 692-51 at their General Conference — the first such legislative gathering in five years. That overwhelming margin contrasts sharply with the decades of controversy around the issue. Past General Conferences of the United Methodist Church had steadily reinforced the ban and related penalties amid debate and protests, but many of the conservatives who had previously upheld the ban have left the denomination in recent years, and this General Conference has moved in a solidly progressive direction.
Applause broke out in parts of the convention hall Wednesday after the vote. A group of observers from LGBTQ advocacy groups embraced, some in tears. "Thanks be to God," said one.
Not that it matters what American citizens think on the subject, but it’s still nice to know. And it shows how far out of the mainstream those college protesters actually are.
[IsraelTimes] An overwhelming majority of Americans believe Israel should go ahead with an offensive in Rafah in order to end the war against Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... , according to a new Harvard CAPS Harris poll.
The question posed to respondents is "should Israel move forward with an operation in Rafah to finish the war with Hamas, doing its best to avoid civilian casualties even though there will be casualties, or should it back off now and allow Hamas to continue running Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. ?"
In response, 72% say Israel should move forward with the operation while 28% say it should back off and allow Hamas to keep ruling Gaza.
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The woman yelling sounds like the unhinged Hillary supporter on election night in 2016. The Israel flag must be like the cross or light is to vampires--causes hysteria and freak-outs.
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[Regnum] About 200 rare editions of books by Russian writers, primarily Alexander Pushkin, were stolen from European libraries over two years, The New York Times reported on May 1, citing Europol data.
“Police are investigating a widespread, coordinated series of thefts of rare 19th-century Russian books—most notably early editions of Pushkin—from libraries across Europe,” the report says.
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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
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NY Post] Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke admitted Wednesday that she was arrested and chose not to disclose the legal matter during her Senate confirmation process because it had been expunged from her record.
...born Caryn Elaine Johnson, a homely American cultural icon on the same tier of significance as Alfalfa, Lupe Velez, or Pia Zadora, only without Alfalfa's singing voice, Zadora's lovely butt, or Velez' Mexican Spitfiree personality. She pontificates regularly on national television, spewing lefty blather and utttering gaffes at nearly the same rate as Joe Biden, whom she purports to admire. She was once married to some white guy, but he appeared in blackface once and was never heard from again...
[ET via ZERO] U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials found evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines caused multiple deaths before claiming that there was no evidence linking the vaccines to any deaths, The Epoch Times has learned.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...46th president of the U.S. ‘This Is A Man ThatDoes Not Seem Demented’...
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In 
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a few of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve...
...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in...
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
