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-Land of the Free
Gun Clubs Urge Jewish People to Become Proficient with Firearms
[Breitbart] Gun clubs in New York and Texas are urging Jewish people to respond to anti-Semitic threats at home and abroad by becoming proficient with firearms.

The Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) reported that Tzvi Waldman, founder of the NYS Jewish Gun Club, noted that "there has been an increase in gun ownership among the Chassidic community, especially in the past few years."

But Waldman wants to see even wider involvement.

He said, "Jewish people need to be vigilant, whether it is against a jihadist or a lunatic hopped up on drugs. This underscores the need for every congregation to have a trained professional. Whether it is just for a hobby or self-defense, what we try to do is promote responsible and legal gun ownership among the Jewish people."

Austin, Texas-based Central Texas Jewish Rifle and Pistol Club founder Mike Miller echoed Waldman’s points, saying, "Jewish people need to be trained to be proficient in gun laws and on the shooting range. When the police are called, it is often too late."

Miller added, "Jewish people need to rethink this pacifistic attitude that we have inherited from Europe. It is not helpful. We should let our enemies know we are not afraid to respond."
The Brotherhood of my Reform Jewish synagogue (the Jewish version of Episcopalianism) hosted a shooting day for the congregation a few years ago, so this is a real thing.
Related: Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2023 03:28 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When moving away is simply not an option.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2023 3:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Well said, Besoeker.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/28/2023 5:21 Comments || Top||

#3  I would argue that ALL law abiding citizens of the US should get and become proficient with firearms.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/28/2023 14:38 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Taliban using fingerprints, gun records to track down Afghans who assisted U.S., audit finds
[WashingtonTimes] Operatives of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
government in Kabul are trying to identify and retaliate against Afghans who cooperated with the 20-year American military and reconstruction effort, using fingerprint records, gun records and other methods to sniff them out and target them for retribution, according to a U.S. government report.

Eighteen months after President Joe Biden
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Posted by: trailing wife || 02/28/2023 04:32 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Europe
Greece fortifies border with Turkey
[NPASyria] Greece has reinforced its land and sea border controls with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
in light of expectations of a new wave of migrants colonists as a result of the earthquake that hit both Syria and Turkey.

At dawn on Feb. 6, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit northwestern Syria and southern Turkey, killing about 50.000 individuals and injuring much more. The earthquake also caused immense destruction of buildings, trapping thousands under the rubble.

Hundreds of extra border guards began patrolling the Greek-Ottoman Turkish land frontier in the Evros region at the weekend as contingency measures were stepped up to stave off the expected flows, The Guardian reported.

The patrols were dispatched as Greece’s Minister of Migration, Notis Mitarachi, called for the enhanced protection of the frontiers with increased surveillance infrastructure and additional fences.

"The mass movement of millions of people is not a solution," said Greece’s Minister of Migration, Notis Mitarachi, emphasizing the need for emergency aid to be sent to Turkey and Syria "before this happens".

It is expected that some of the homeless by the Feb. 6 earthquake will start heading towards Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
in the spring if humanitarian assistance does not arrive.

However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
despite fortifying patrols, great numbers of refugees are risking life and limb by circumventing the Greek isles to travel in vastly overcrowded boats from Turkey to Italia.

On Sunday, a wooden boat crowded with migrants colonists smashed into rocky reefs and broke apart off the Italian coast. Rescuers recovered nearly 60 bodies, and dozens more people were missing in the rough waters.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/28/2023 06:02 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: WoT
Texas sheriff warns that America is experiencing a 'silent invasion' of military age men
[JustTheNews] Once they arrive in major U.S. cities, they are embedded with gangs and or cartel affiliates acting like a “Trojan horse,” Coe said.

What's happening at the southern U.S. border with Mexico is in fact an invasion, Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe says.

“We’re experiencing a silent invasion of military age men,” Coe told The Center Square when describing what his deputies have been increasingly facing over the past two years.

He spoke with The Center Square during an Operation Lone Star task force multi-day operation during which law enforcement officers rescued foreign nationals from a burning vehicle and revived a five-year-old girl being smuggled who’d been stashed inside of a car’s trunk.

The “silent invasion,” Coe said, is being committed primarily by single, military age men between the ages of 17 and 45 who are illegally entering the U.S. They’re wearing camouflage and carrying backpacks, according to video captured by cameras placed throughout the county viewed by The Center Square. Many are armed and dangerous, committing robberies and engaging in shootouts with law enforcement, Coe said.

The men are believed to be working or associated with Mexican cartels. Once they arrive in major U.S. cities, they are embedded with gangs and or cartel affiliates acting like a “Trojan horse,” Coe said. “They set up in our cities, take over through voting and or crime, and scare the local people who move out. It’s happening in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio,” he said, where crime has also exponentially increased over the last few years.

He said, “You can win a lot of battles without getting violent,” referring to the “silent invasion” as an act of war against the U.S. by Mexican cartels.

Coe last month sent out an SOS asking for help from other counties to apprehend human smugglers in his small border county of roughly 3,000 people. In response, law enforcement officers from 20 agencies participated in a days-long operation during which The Center Square participated in a ridealong.

As soon as the task force got started, officers were engaged in smuggling pursuits. He said, “the more people we have, the more effective we’ll be” at pushing smugglers and gotaways “out of the area.” Gotaways are those who illegally enter the U.S., don’t request asylum or make other immigration claims, and intentionally evade capture.

A retired Border Patrol agent, Coe took office Jan 1, 2017, and says he’s never seen what’s he seeing now in his entire life. Things first started getting bad after President Joe Biden altered border security and immigration policies, and have only gotten worse since, he said.

In 2022, for example, his deputies made 877 arrests, filing 3,057 felony charges. Of all the criminal cases filed that year, 927 were immigration-related involving illegal foreign nationals or smugglers, he said.

While these numbers are unprecedented, the number of people who got away are even greater. Detected on cameras making their way through the county on foot, nearly 21,500 foreign nationals were detected but weren’t apprehended last year. That’s at least seven times the size of the county’s population. Their whereabouts are currently unknown.

“The other unknown,” he said, “is what’s not on camera. You might see two or three are on camera but shadows are also visible indicating there are more people behind them. The camera only shows the 2 to 3 people.”

In 2022:

  • Kinney County Sheriff’s deputies apprehended 3,192 illegal foreign nationals compared to the 1,124 they apprehended in 2021, according to the sheriff’s data.

  • they apprehended 741 smugglers compared to 169 in 2021, Coe said, as he went through the data with The Center Square.

  • His deputies engaged in 139 pursuits and 136 bailouts compared to 61 pursuits and 56 bailouts in 2021.

  • they impounded 580 vehicles compared to 179 in 2021.

  • deputies also seized 89 firearms carried by alleged smugglers, including some that were stolen, up from 29 in 2021.

Despite increased resources and funding through Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, apprehensions and crime continue to escalate, Coe said.

So far in 2023, their efforts and the stats are already breaking last year’s records across the board, he said. At least 6,600 illegal foreign nationals have been captured on cameras crossing through the county on foot, he said. “That’s an average of 150 a day. These are people who aren’t being caught,” he added.

His deputies already have apprehended 398 illegal foreign nationals and 96 alleged smugglers so far this year. They’ve also engaged in nearly 30 vehicle pursuits, including 27 bailouts, nearly all involving human smugglers, he said.

The majority of the alleged smugglers they’re catching are men from Houston between the ages of 17 and 25. Earlier this month they apprehended a 14-year-old who evaded arrest driving a stolen car, he said.

The overwhelming majority of alleged smugglers they’re arresting are U.S. citizens responding to social media ads hoping to make several thousand dollars per load. Those caught include a licensed security guard, attorneys, couples, and teenagers, Coe said.

Americans are coming to Kinney County from all over the U.S. Initially, they were from Oklahoma and Louisiana; now they’re also coming from Georgia, California, New York, and New Jersey, he said.

Their efforts would be severely limited were it not for support from the state, he said. “We couldn’t do what we’re doing without Operation Lone Star. Our county attorney handled 4-5 cases a month. Now it’s 150 every time we have court and we have court four times a week. We used to have district court once a month, now it’s 100 cases every time. The jury pool is busy, and we may end up with two grand juries to convene every other week.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [14 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  The migration of young, aspiring professionals seeking to build a better America. Talk of a "Trojan Horse" is fear mongering and racist.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2023 3:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Iran is actively seeking to assassinate Donald Trump.

https://arab.news/cevfr
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 || 02/28/2023 3:21 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Could be, but we won't know for sure for 75 years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2023 3:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Iran is actively seeking to assassinate Donald Trump.

They announce this periodically, but thus far nothing has come of it. One suspects that multi-billionaires can afford better personal security that mere best-selling authors like Sir Salman Rushdie.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/28/2023 5:44 Comments || Top||


#6  It's not a silent invasion. The apartments I lived in pretty much threw everyone out for renovation , but the only people they are offering renovated apartments are hispanic. When I go onto a job site, Construction, I get stared down since I'm usually the only white guy there.
Posted by: Chris || 02/28/2023 8:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Just like Putin, the commies here will need human wave attacks when they finally kick off the civil war.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/28/2023 8:58 Comments || Top||

#8  The vast criminal empires on deep blue cities these young men will create and expand will make the fabric of much of urban America look very much like their native countries. I read somewhere that it is estimated that 1/4 of the adult male population of Guatemala is already here.

For a glimpse of the expanded "cultural" experiences consider the following travel guide:

https://www.layerculture.com/blog/most-dangerous-cities-south-america/
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/28/2023 11:45 Comments || Top||

#9  will create and expand
Will or Have?

No-go area

FACTSHEET: NO-GO ZONE CONSPIRACY THEORY
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/28/2023 12:50 Comments || Top||


#11  uh yeah, and lots of em coming over dressed in camo. Then there are the MA incursions complete with ya know... shooting. And then there are the cartels with ya know... shooting. They're on the move. They're deployihg resources and weaponry. Meantime, Black History Month!!!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/28/2023 18:36 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel's ‘Top Gun': The US-Israeli aircraft that can take down Iran
[Jpost] Top Israeli officials have all made direct threats against Iran. US-Israeli F-35 aircraft drills have helped make this option a possibility.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Olde Tyme Religion
Malaysia to distribute millions of translated Qurans abroad to counter Islamophobia
[BenarNews] Malaysia has set aside more than U.S. $2 million in the 2023 budget to counter Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
by translating and printing the Koran in several languages and distributing copies internationally.

Of the 2 million copies that will be printed under the plan, the first of its kind by the government, 20,000 will be sent to Sweden where a far-right politician recently burned the Moslems’ holy book on at least two occasions.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 02/28/2023 01:17 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [6 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  Toilet Paper Shortage: Good Raw Material Being Wiped Out
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/28/2023 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  "Why it has become an issue is because those against Islam never read the holy book. .... So, we have to go back to the text or at least the translation to save and enlighten others about the deeper meaning of the religion."

Taqqiya. Actions speak louder than words. We see you.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/28/2023 8:31 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
HRW seeks repatriate 90 ISIS of TT nationals held in Syria
[NPASyria] Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling on the Government of Trinidad and Tobago (TT) to repatriate 90 of its nationals, including 56 children, who are detained in camps for Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) family members, in northeast Syria.

The HRW called on the government of TT to repatriate its nationals for rehabilitation, reintegration, and prosecutions of adults as appropriate.

The organization noted that the government of TT did not take any steps to repatriate its nationals, even as dozens of countries including the US and Barbados repatriated some or many of their nationals.

In August 2018, the TT government set up a team, the Nightingale Team, to deal with the possible repatriation and reintegration of those citizens in Syria and Iraq, but no action has been taken by the team until now.

Since the beginning of 2023, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) has handed over 127 foreign ISIS children and women to the governments of their countries, according to North Press Monitoring and Documentation Department.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/28/2023 06:02 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [18 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  As I remember, ISIS published a bunch of beheading videos that inspired a bunch of sickos to travel to join the human slaughter. Why would it be a priority of any rational country to repatriate the sickos? Maybe Trinidad and Tobago considers it a human right not to have beheadings in their country.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/28/2023 10:57 Comments || Top||



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  Top IS-Khorasan Commander Killed in Southern Afghanistan
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  Police arrest 5 settlers over clash with IDF soldiers, torching of Palestinian car
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  Pakistan Police arrest female suicide bomber in Balochistan
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  Rocket attack on Conoco oil field Syria where US troops are stationed.
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  Iranian cities hit by protests, in most widespread unrest in weeks
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  SNA Faction In Afrin Steals Aid Provided To Quake-Stricken Jindires
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  Putin pulls Wagner Group troops from Ukraine

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