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IDF forces located and destroyed a weapons depot belonging to the military-terrorist wing al-Jama’a al-Islamiya
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
A Chechen mother found her abducted daughter in the United States 24 years later
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] In 2001, eight-year-old Chechen girl Kheda Cherevkhanova was kidnapped by her uncle, who took the child to France and changed her name. For many years, her mother, Juliette, searched for her daughter, despite threats from relatives and the lack of any contact or information.

Juliet's husband died during the second Chechen campaign. The burden of caring for the family fell on Juliet's shoulders. In 2001, her deceased husband's cousin, Khansolt Chermykhanov, came to visit her. He offered Juliet help: let Kheda and his family go to Moscow for a short while—to rest and get a change of scenery. Juliet agreed and never saw her daughter again.

"Heda wasn't returned after a few days, or even a week. Only later did I learn that Hansolt had taken my child to France, to Le Mans, and then to Nice. There, he changed her name to Izana Chermykhanova and gave her his patronymic. Naturally, I raised the alarm. Hansolt and his family refused to communicate: first they threatened me, and then they stopped contacting me altogether," Julietta told KP.RU.

She couldn't go to France: she had no one to leave her other children with, and she didn't know her exact address. She also lacked the funds for the trip. But she continued to search for her daughter, contacting every agency, search organizations, and the media. There were no results until January 2026. Twenty-four years later, Kheda contacted her mother herself. She explained that she had lived in fear and cruelty all those years, had tried to escape several times, but was only able to escape at 18. She studied law, got married, and lives in the United States.

As it turned out, Heda had considered herself an orphan her entire life. At first, her uncle convinced her that her mother had abandoned her, and then he told her she had died.

The girl also said that her uncle and his wife treated her cruelly. They beat her, broke her fingers, arm, and leg, forced her to do hard labor, babysit their five children, and hid her from strangers.

As a child, Kheda managed to escape several times, but the police always brought her back. It wasn't until she was 18 that she finally escaped. She turned to a human rights organization. They helped her, and she entered college.

Heda is now 32 years old. Juliet blames herself and wants to punish those responsible, but Heda fears revenge from her uncle's sons. Mother and daughter maintain contact, dreaming of meeting again after their separation.

Posted by: badanov || 02/11/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1786 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Child sexual abuse 100%. Just like their Holy Prophet.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 02/11/2026 18:07 Comments || Top||

#2  She studied law, got married, and lives in the United States.

Ah, the Great Replacement theory.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2026 21:45 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Much is explained: James O’Keefe’s hidden camera expose of vicious man who got him kicked off Project Veritas
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2026 10:00 || Comments || Link || [1762 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, he was a damned fool not to own his Project Veritas himself. Pretty much figured something like this had happened. A mole. He had a million-sub Youtube channel. Now all he does is get angry and post about the forgotten Maui fire and how it was supposedly set on purpose by you-know-who so they could redevelop the land.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 02/11/2026 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Other than, you know, this video, as well as a number of other damning stings involving quick hook up 'dating' apps.

But was he? Being sole owner would create a single point of failure in case he somehow or someway became incapable of performing that role.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/11/2026 11:25 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ You mean like Breitbart?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/11/2026 12:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh yeah, I forgot about how Andrew Brietbart died suddenly after wondering out loud why DNC chairman John Podesta wasn't known as a world-class pedophile. Podesta's emails were full of odd references to pizza.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 02/11/2026 14:39 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Return to Winter in Sierra next weekend- possible travel issues
[ForecastWeatherGov]
Link goes to the Sacramento NWS forecast discussion which is updated at least once a day (sometimes twice a day).

Currently, all numeric models are forecasting a multi day series of storms beginning on Valentine day (15 Feb) and continuing on President's day (16 Feb) and possibly the next 4 days. Snow is forecast at all passes, even down to foothills. Possibly multiple days with over a foot and a half of snow and long periods where the Sierra passes are closed.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/11/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1796 views] Top|| File under:

#1  North Texas had some freezing weather last week, (70s this week), and the weather dudes kept referring to the pretty cold 2021 freeze:

139 hours: 5 pm Feb 13th - Noon Feb 19th (ties for 5th place for most consecutive hours below freezing NWS

Massive power failures. My 'rolling blackout' lasted 30 hours. Indoor temp bottomed out at 40.

Y'all keep that white stuff west of the Sierras - the Delta Smelt need it; we've had our ice storm this year!

Posted by: Bobby || 02/11/2026 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  The damned generator hasn't kicked off once this winter. Well, spring tornado season isn't far off.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2026 22:21 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Ethiopia: Heavy fighting in North Shewa Zone as Fano repels assault in Shewa-Robit

Text:

⚡️Heavy fighting in North Shewa Zone (📍Amhara Region, Ethiopia) as Fano repels multi-directional assault in Shewa-Robit City and overrun regime camp in Fered-Wuha Kebele, Efratana-Gidim Woreda.

🔵 Shewa-Robit City (Feb 7–8): Regime forces launched a nighttime, three-axis operation advancing from Kobo, Tere, and Wekfile Kebeles. Units of the Dejazmach Tessema Ergete, Aschalew Dessie, Berara Divisions, and Qagn Naser Battalion (AFNM-AFSPC) counter-attacked, inflicting significant losses in heavy fighting around the Mengist area. Clashes began around 5:00 am on February 7th and continued into February 8th. Regime forces reportedly used helicopters to evacuate dead and wounded; exact casualty figures remain unconfirmed.

More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 02/11/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1765 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
Academics from China who attended Chinese military-run schools work at U.S. colleges and labs
[JTN]
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1802 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Economy
BLS report for Jan 2026: some job growth
[BLSgov] Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 130,000 in January, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred
in health care, social assistance, and construction, while federal government and financial activities lost jobs.
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Most of the job growth was in health care. On the good side, wages rose nicely, above inflation. Nov and Dec jobs were revised down slightly.
CPI report coming up later this week. Per Cleveland Federal Reserve data, it may be below 2.5% annualized, which would be very good news.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/11/2026 08:40 || Comments || Link || [1755 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gubment jobs dropped by 42,0000, fantastic!
Posted by: Beavis || 02/11/2026 17:30 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Mass shooter 'in a dress' kills 10 and leaves dozens injured in Canada high school
Are they hinting that the shooter is trans?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] At least 10 people, including a suspected shooter, are dead after a woman opened fire at a high school in the northeast part of the province of British Columbia, Canada, according to police.

A total of eight people were found inside the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, including the suspected shooter, as well as two at a connected residence, officials said.

Authorities said the suspected shooter appeared to have died from a self inflicted gunshot wound at the scene.

Another 25 people are being evaluated for injuries at a local medical center, with two of those injuries being life-threatening.

RCMP Superintendent Ken Floyd told reporters that officials who identified the shooter are not disclosing the name at this time and the suspect's motive remains unclear.

'I think we will struggle to determine the 'why', but we will try our best to determine what transpired,' Floyd said at a press conference.

The superintendent did confirm that the suspect found dead at the school is the same person described as a woman in a dress with brown hair in the active shooter alert sent out earlier today.

'Officers are conducting further searches of additional homes and properties to determine whether anyone else may be injured or otherwise linked to today's events,' officials said.

Solicitor General Nina Krieger said during a news conference following the tragedy that officials quick response to the scene saved lives.

The District of Tumbler Ridge said in a statement that their community experienced a distressing incident: 'Our hearts are with all those affected, and we recognize that many residents may be feeling shocked, scared, and overwhelmed.'

The district noted that both Tumbler Ridge secondary and elementary schools will be closed for the rest of the week.

Tumbler Ridge is a district municipality of roughly 2,400 people, about 736 miles north of Vancouver.

The secondary school enrolls 175 students from grades 7 to 12, according to a provincial government listing.

An earlier emergency alert asking the public to shelter in place was lifted at 5.45pm local time.

Darian Quist, a grade 12 student at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, told CBC that an alarm sounded in the hallways instructing to close the doors because of an urgent lockdown.

For more than two hours Quist said they 'got tables and barricaded the doors,' until police arrived to escort them out of the building.
The BBC adds:
Nine people have been killed and 25 injured in related shootings at a school and home in western Canada, police say.

Authorities say they know the attacker's identity but have not revealed their name and gender
…pretty definitely trans…
- earlier, a shelter-in-place alert described the suspect as a "female in a dress with brown hair"
Insty Update:

Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1767 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs

#1  I always wonder why these shooters don't go down in a hail of gunfire. Shit, if you gonna do it go out shooting. Not that I'm condoning this but they seem to be bitches who can't stand up against real MEN!
Posted by: chris || 02/11/2026 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2 

UK Independent NEWS on the shooting Updating as new info is found.

Remember, there will be the usual delay as Social Media and other agenda details must be addressed.
🤫
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/11/2026 1:35 Comments || Top||

#3  NY Post sez "female in a dress"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2026 2:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Townhall has the same questions
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2026 2:48 Comments || Top||

#5  "What is a woman?"
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 02/11/2026 3:11 Comments || Top||

#6  TownHall

"The suspect was described as a “person wearing a dress,” where Canadian police used the phrase ‘gunperson’ to describe this person. You could probably guess where this is going"

BTW: other reports have the suspect having killed its mother and sister at home before doing the school.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/11/2026 3:31 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ "Gunperson." A new perp label for crime we've seen numerous times previously.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2026 3:40 Comments || Top||

#8  I still have the question of why these crazy ass women won't go down in a blaze of fire?
Posted by: chris || 02/11/2026 5:11 Comments || Top||

#9  The Last Refuge has images, if anyone can bear it.
Posted by: Knuckles Grundy1702 || 02/11/2026 5:28 Comments || Top||

#10  Whatever that is, A link sure would help.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 02/11/2026 5:54 Comments || Top||

#11 
How about The Last Refuge site instead
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/11/2026 6:38 Comments || Top||

#12  Posted as the School shooter.
IF a fact, then IT is yet another Trans Mental case that was not treated.

A 2nd picture
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HA2Xw_6aAAE2Mn9?format=jpg&name=360x360
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/11/2026 6:44 Comments || Top||

#13  Canada needs common sense trans regulations.
Posted by: Matt || 02/11/2026 9:57 Comments || Top||

#14  Must be more of that "trans genocide" we keep hearing about.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/11/2026 10:05 Comments || Top||

#15  Not that I'm condoning this but they seem to be bitches who can't stand up against real MEN!

If they weren't bitches who can't stand up against real MEN, they wouldn't be doing these things at all. My question is how they get their obviously insane hands on guns and who put these ideas in their heads?

And isn't it funny now that Trump has a firm grip on some of our agencies in America that these things aren't happening some much anymore here? Did he shut down Operation Chaos?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/11/2026 12:27 Comments || Top||

#16  It is looking like a boy totally on his meds.

$5 says I don't see another Bad Bunny or Super Bowl Whatever Logo today while media chaffs and deflects aisle inmorles.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/11/2026 12:30 Comments || Top||

#17  This one came from a shooting family, so he probably got the gun from home.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2026 13:08 Comments || Top||



Home Front: Politix
Maxwell refuses to answer questions about Epstein in congressional hearing
[BBC] Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, refused to answer questions from the US House Oversight Committee on Monday.

Maxwell appeared virtually for a closed-door deposition from the Texas prison where she is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.

Republican House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer said that "as expected", Maxwell pleaded the Fifth Amendment, invoking her right to remain silent.

"This is obviously very disappointing," he said. "We had many questions to ask about the crimes she and Epstein committed, as well as questions about potential co-conspirators."

The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution gives Americans the right to avoid self-incrimination by refusing to answer questions while under oath.

Democratic Representative Melanie Stansbury told reporters after the hearing that Maxwell used the opportunity to "campaign for clemency".
You won’t get anything if you don’t ask, but I can’t imagine she expected her odds were good.
Comer said it was clear from speaking to Epstein survivors "that Maxwell was a very bad person" who did not deserve any type of immunity.

In a social media post earlier, Maxwell's lawyer David Oscar Markus said Maxwell was "prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump".

"Only she can provide the complete account. Some may not like what they hear, but the truth matters," he posted.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1848 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Surprised she is still alive, given the threat she poses to the Elites for their Holiday visits.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/11/2026 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Not as it might appear. She was pressed for time due to a pickleball tourney and hair appointment.

She admits she has evidence she'd rather not share without pre-conditions. Evidently jail was the correct option for her.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2026 2:53 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't blame her. She's already been sentenced to 20 years at a resort. And Trump wished her well a few months ago.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/11/2026 4:16 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm surprised she didn't kill herself. Epstein's Fortnite (a video game) account showed activity since he supposedly killed himself.
Note that the Fifth Amendment only protects against self-incrimination.
You're basically saying, "yes I'm guilty but you have to prove it." One of our hard-won rights from the bloody British. That along with kn owning the charges against you and confronting your accuser.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 02/11/2026 16:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Epstein's Fortnite (a video game) account showed activity

You think your Fortnite account is secure?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2026 21:50 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Haptics: The wearable tech that lets spectators feel the match
[BBC] At the Tokyo Deaflympics, deaf Judo fans aren't just watching the matches, they're feeling them, thanks to Hapbeat vibrating devices that translate throws, footwork, claps and buzzers into distinct physical sensations.

Originally built for concerts, the tech uses sensors and human tuning to capture the nuance of live sport, giving spectators clear cues and a visceral sense of impact. The result is an immersive, shared experience that's bringing deaf and hearing fans closer together.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1778 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Reminds me not to wear that thing while at a MMA bout!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 02/11/2026 1:08 Comments || Top||

#2  The word you are looking for is "teledildonics".
Posted by: SteveS || 02/11/2026 7:48 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ New meaning to the term....netserver.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2026 7:54 Comments || Top||

#4  "teledildonics"

Really?? OK, I *snorted*, thx
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2026 8:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Sounds like the feelies in Brave New World.
Posted by: Cured Romantic || 02/11/2026 13:12 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2026-02-11
  IDF forces located and destroyed a weapons depot belonging to the military-terrorist wing al-Jama’a al-Islamiya
Tue 2026-02-10
  IDF says it killed four Hamas gunmen who emerged from Rafah tunnel, fired on troops
Mon 2026-02-09
  At Least 112 USAF C-17 Aircraft Headed To Middle East: 'Desert Storm Levels'
Sun 2026-02-08
  Nioro du Sahel in Mali under siege
Sat 2026-02-07
  The death toll from the suicide bombing at a mosque in Islamabad’s Tarlai area has risen to 31; ISIS claims responsibility
Fri 2026-02-06
  Mastermind behind Benghazi attack arrested and in US custody as Bondi takes dig at Hillary Clinton
Thu 2026-02-05
  FBI arrests 55 in massive drug ring with alleged China supplier flooding US streets with fentanyl
Wed 2026-02-04
  Military airstrike neutralizes 27 Bad Guys in Katsina dawn operation
Tue 2026-02-03
  Over 100 mortar shells found in UNRWA bags in Gaza
Mon 2026-02-02
  In Minneapolis Antifa set up checkpoints to check IDs against their data base for ICE agents
Sun 2026-02-01
  LA descends into a war zone as furious protesters brandishing Mexican and American flags while wearing gas masks ATTACK police
Sat 2026-01-31
  Iran targets injured at hospitals in crackdown on protesters
Fri 2026-01-30
  Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, attorney says
Thu 2026-01-29
  Battlefield 'voice of God' sonic weapon used in warzones unleashed on Minneapolis protesters
Wed 2026-01-28
  IDF says 3 Hezbollah operatives killed in separate strikes in south Lebanon


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