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as Wall Street chaos sees trillions more dollars evaporate
Donald Trump blamed, blamers expect us to join them in hysteria. Me? While I’m not good with all that investing stuff, I expected volatility, at least some of which is due to people taking losses early rather than later. Also, someone somewhere yesterday mentioned the possibility of malicious selling — how much of the chaos and trillions result from people who can afford it punishing the rest of us for letting Trump get voted into office?
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Decades long overpriced equities hold a lot of money that belonged in safer investments over the years, forced into equities, by design, during the Obama 0 interest-rate years. It won't sweat out for a while, a series of descending plateau's, dead-cat bounces, and further drops. Seeing this coming, a lot of big boys went much wider all-cash positions in anticipation of the 4th Turning. Trump has the collective in this auto-rotation, hope he knows how and when to flair as capital re-investment begins to really blossom the wider job base early next year! FWIW....
[HodhodYemenNews] The US forces renewed their aggression on 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 territory on Wednesday, targeting eastern Saada in northern Yemen with a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, local sources reported.
The US enemy forces renewed their aggression on Yemeni territory, targeting several provinces with a series of airstrikes, leaving several dead and maimed.
According to local sources, a US airstrike targeted a civilian vehicle in the Qahaza area, located south of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.
The US enemy warplanes carried out 15 airstrikes on various areas southeast of Saada city, followed by two more airstrikes targeting the southeastern outskirts of the city.
Additionally, a US strike hit Ras Issa in al-Salif, northwest of Hodeidah province, killing one person and injuring another, the sources added.
According to the sources, the US enemy bombed a reservoir in the Mansouriya district, cutting off water to more than 50,000 people.
"As a result of enemy attacks on the al-Senif water reservoir and the Water Resources Administration building in the Mansouriya area, more than 50,000 citizens were left without water supplies," the sources said
In addition, the US enemy launched airstrikes targeting the telecommunications network in Jabal Nāmah in the district of Jableh, Ibb province, killing one citizen.
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[Regnum] Members of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) launched a cruise missile and drone strike on a US Navy carrier group led by the aircraft carrier Harry Truman, which is in the northern Red Sea. This was stated on April 3 by Houthi spokesman Yahya Saria.
"The Yemeni navy, air force and missile forces carried out a joint military operation in which they attacked the US aircraft carrier Harry Truman and its accompanying warships in the northern part of the Red Sea," he said on Al Masirah TV channel.
The Houthis used cruise missiles and drones in the attack, Saria said.
An American MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance and strike drone was shot down over the province of Al-Hodeidah. This was announced on April 3 by the Houthis from the Ansar Allah military-political movement ruling in northern Yemen.
"Yemen's air defense forces managed to shoot down a US MQ-9 drone that was carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of Al-Hodeidah province. The drone was shot down by a locally produced surface-to-air missile," Houthi spokesman Yahya Saria said on his Telegram channel.
It is noted that this is the second drone shot down by Yemeni air defense forces in 72 hours, and the 17th since the beginning of the escalation of the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
[AnNahar] Two men have been arrested in Britain on suspicion of alleged links to Hezbollah, the BBC has reported.
“They were detained at separate addresses in London as part of an investigation by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command into activity both overseas and in the UK of Hezbollah, which is a proscribed organization under UK counter-terrorism legislation,” the BBC said.
A 39-year-old man was arrested at an address in north-west London on Tuesday on suspicion of being a member of Hezbollah, police said. A 35-year-old man was arrested at a separate address in west London on suspicion of the same offense.
The 39-year-old is also suspected of preparing for “acts of terrorism and involvement in a funding arrangement for the purposes of terrorism,” police said.
The two men were taken to a London police station and later released on bail until a date in mid-July, the force said.
It added that there was not believed to be any imminent threat to the public.
[AnNahar] The Spanish Civil Guard has carried out an operation against a group of individuals accused of joining a Hezbollah logistics structure in Spain, Spanish media reports said.
The operation focused on a faction facilitating the procurement of spare parts for drone assembly, according to Spanish media.
This operation was part of ongoing investigations launched in July in Barcelona, which were carried out in cooperation with German authorities to dismantle “Hezbollah logistics networks responsible for manufacturing drones,” the reports said.
We know exactly what's going on in Europe, and lately it's been especially spicey in Amsterdam, capital city of the Netherlands.
They have a car problem.
Europeans cars drive into crowds, and now they have cars that try to blow themselves up in the middle of public squares packed with people going about their day.
You can see the small explosion in the little red Fiat-looking car in the bottom right of the screen, just to the left of the monument.
What a frickin' miracle this one was a misfire and only set the failed terrorist aflame.
Video emerging from the scene showed the small red vehicle engulfed in flames, with reports the driver crawled out of the vehicle alight before members of the public ran to assist the dazed driver.
Thick smoke could be seen billowing into the sky, with passers by unsure of the events unfolding in front of them - as locals ran from the scene.
Further footage of the incident showed the dazed driver clambering from the vehicle, trousers around his ankles, as emergency services arrived on the scene.
It's believed no other people were injured in the incident, with the driver receiving medical attention at the scene before being taken to hospital.
… Dutch police confirmed the man had been arrested and was under police guard in hospital.
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Europe is lost. Literally nothing that happens there matters to anyone who doesn't live there. They should enjoy their capture by the Islamic hoard. They have ZERO intent on defending themselves.
I'm asking this question a lot lately. Your tribe used to protect you from other tribes. What happened? Is this evolution or devolution?
My parents and grandparents told me stories about the times before and these were not problems they had to face, it was not even a part of their reality. Why does it have to be a part of ours? Because diversity? Is it worth it? Is it even liked anymore?
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#4 ^But they do plan a war against Russia.
Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-04-04 00:32
Grom,
I just remembered - in early 1939, the French were actively discussing trying to get the British to join them in attacking...the Russians to rescue the Finns.
[NYPOST] A dangerous MS-13 local ringleader believed to be linked to nearly a dozen murders in the US was arrested on Long Island Tuesday night after four years on the run.
Joel Vargas-Escobar, who also went by ''Momia,'' was nabbed by FBI agents in Westbury, Nassau County, for his alleged role in 11 murders across Nevada and California, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada announced Wednesday evening.
The El Salvadoran national, who was in the country illegally, was the alleged leader of the Parkview clique, an MS-13 subset in Las Vegas, where he ordered the slaughter of at least two of the 11 victims in 2017, officials alleged.
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Remember to remind all your liberal leaning contacts.
How the D's Leaders stood behind Open Borders, despite knowing full well what it was dangerously allowing in, and what it was doing to the US Citizens.
How (D's) stopped I.C.E. from doing its job, not a few 100 times, but 10.5+ MILLION Times.
How, any harm to, death of a US Citizen, caused by such Illegally entering persons and especially the known criminal gangs members, is totally the fault and responsibility of Illegal Biden Coup, with the Democrat Party's NGO's help.
How that it has been proven that the 2020 election was stolen by the (D's).
How they used over $100B in illegal backdoor NGO's funds to control certain US Court System judges, to abuse the US Constitution, and violate Millions of voters civil rights.
So I again ask the question, that we hear & read over and over each day.
When will we see Indictments, Arrests and trials for these Coup members and the illegal unauthorized Felony use of the President's Auto-signer for Pardons by suspected Biden White House staff?
[IsraelTimes] Police and Shin Bet agents arrested two Bedouin Israeli teenagers from the Negev on suspicion of plotting to steal weapons from IDF bases to carry out a terror attack, spokespeople for the agencies say in a joint statement.
The two suspects, aged 17 and 18, planned to sell some of the stolen weapons to “terrorist operatives” in the West Bank, and use what remained to “carry out security offenses against Israeli targets,” the statement reads. They are also suspected of attempting to recruit a minor into their plot.
The Southern District Attorney’s Office filed a “very serious” indictment against the pair today in the Beersheba District Juvenile Court, after a joint investigation by the Shin Bet and the police’s investigations and intelligence unit.
[IsraelTimes] Amid crackdown on military indiscipline, IDF said to call off raid near Bethlehem after soldiers in the area found to have vandalized Palestinian property
Israeli forces killed one Paleostinian and injured two others who had hurled explosives at Israeli soldiers during an overnight raid in the northern West Bank, the IDF said Thursday.
The incident occurred during a combined counterterrorism raid conducted by the IDF, Shin Bet and police forces.
Soldiers from the Nahal Brigade responded to the attacks in Silat al-Harithiya, near Jenin, and successfully neutralized the threat, the IDF said, adding that there were no Israeli casualties.
According to the statement, security forces also arrested eight wanted individuals and seized two homemade "Carlo" submachine guns. The detainees and weapons were handed over to the Shin Bet and Israeli police for further investigation.
The raids were part of an ongoing Israeli effort in the West Bank, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, which was launched on January 21 and has since seen hundreds of arrests.
Also overnight, the IDF reportedly called off a raid in the Deheisha refugee camp near Bethlehem after troops were caught vandalizing Paleostinian property and spray painting graffiti in homes.
Kan news reported Thursday that the soldiers, reservists tasked with erasing anti-Israel graffiti, defaced property with their own markings, despite being explicitly instructed to remove incendiary messages, not to create new ones that could further inflame tensions.
However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... photos taken by Paleostinian residents reportedly showed the defacement of walls by Israeli soldiers with their own graffiti, including Stars of David over the Arabic slogans, and drawings of rifles.
Upon receiving the images, Brigade Commander Col. "Gimmel" — identified only by his rank and first Hebrew initial — and Judea and Samaria Division Commander Brig. Gen. Yaki Dolf immediately ordered the mission to be halted, withdrawing the soldiers from the area, Kan reported.
According to the report, the IDF has since opened an investigation to determine which soldiers violated orders.
The action appears to be part of a wider effort by new IDF chief of Staff Eyal Zamir to crack down on such acts of vandalism and restore military discipline that has become visibly lax over the last year and a half of war.
Last weekend, the IDF handed down punishments to several officers and troops for defacing Paleostinian property during an unwarranted search of the southern West Bank village of Jinba.
Media reports said that Zamir himself went to Jinba to investigate the incident.
As the IDF intensifies its counterterrorism operations, the region remains in a fragile state, with a rise in settler violence.
On Tuesday, a mob of some 50 Israeli settlers attacked homes in the northern West Bank village of Duma, setting property ablaze and assaulting residents. Three Paleostinians were reportedly injured in the attack.
The Israel Defense Forces says troops from the 636th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit opened fire at a “number of terrorists throwing rocks toward Route 375” near the village of Husan, killing one and wounding another.
[IsraelTimes] New military spokesman announces operation to cut off Rafah, but is coy on plans; army warns civilians to evacuate areas around Gaza City; Islamic Jihad-claimed rocket intercepted
The military said it was entering "a new stage" of fighting against the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terror group in 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 a rusty 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... Strip on Thursday, as troops prepared to cut off the southern city of Rafah and warplanes carried out extensive strikes across the enclave, amid warnings of further attacks.
Hamas-controlled health authorities in the Strip reported dozens killed in Israeli strikes over the previous 24 hours, including 27 people who died when three missiles hit a former school building in the al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City, though the tolls could not be confirmed.
Since the resumption of fighting in Gaza on March 18, Israel has struck more than 600 targets in the Strip and killed over 250 terror operatives, including 12 bigwigs in Hamas’s military wing and politburo - all gunnies and participated in the October 7 massacre.
Israeli authorities said warplanes had targeted "key Hamas terrorists" inside a command center used to plan and execute attacks against Israelis and that it had taken steps to mitigate harm to civilians.
The intensification in fighting came a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that troops would carve out a new security corridor that will seemingly cut off Rafah as it seeks to pile pressure on Hamas, which continues to hold 59 Israeli hostages kidnapped on October 7, 2023.
"In recent days, we have advanced to a new stage in the operation," Israel Defense Forces front man Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin told news hounds Thursday in his first briefing since assuming the post earlier this week. "The plan serves the goals of the war: returning the hostages and destroying Hamas’s military and governing capabilities."
He spoke a day after the IDF deployed a new division into southern Gaza, bringing the number of divisions operating in the Strip to three.
Defrin said the newly expanded campaign had involved more than 60 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s aimed at degrading Hamas’s capabilities and paving the way for ground troops to move into areas in the north and south of the Strip.
"We are now cutting off the Strip and we are increasing the pressure step by step... so they will give us our hostages. The longer they refuse to give them up, the more the pressure will increase until they do," Netanyahu said.
"We have broadened our activities in southern Gaza to surround and cut off the Rafah area," he added. "Beyond that, we’re maintaining operational ambiguity so we can surprise the enemy and bring about significant achievements."
Thursday also saw a rocket fired at Israel from central Gaza, setting off sirens in the border community of Nahal Oz. The projectile was intercepted by air defenses, the army said.
There have been a number of sporadic rocket attacks from Gaza since the IDF resumed its offensive last month, after a ceasefire and hostage release deal in place since January fell apart, with Israel vowing to ratchet up military pressure on Hamas to free the remaining hostages. The war, which has devastated the Strip, was sparked when thousands of Hamas gunnies invaded southern Israel on October 7, killing some 1,200 people and kidnapping 251. Most victims were civilians.
The army also said Thursday that a strike a day earlier against a Hamas command center in northern Gaza’s Jabalia had killed at least four operatives, including a terrorist who participated in the October 7 onslaught and another Paleostinian who was involved in the release ceremony of hostage soldier Agam Berger. Two Hamas members involved in launching rockets were also killed, the army said.
Paleostinians had reported that 19 people were killed and claimed the site was a clinic run by the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees.
According to Defrin, since the resumption of fighting in Gaza on March 18, Israel has struck more than 600 targets in the Strip and killed over 250 terror operatives, including 12 bigwigs in Hamas’s military wing and politburo.
"They are all gunnies and participated in the October 7 massacre," he said of the bigwigs.
Following the rocket fire Thursday, which was claimed by the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group, the IDF warned residents of several Gaza City neighborhoods to flee, saying it was issuing a "final warning" before strikes there.
Earlier in the day, hundreds of residents streamed out of the Gaza City suburb of Shejaiya after Israel warned civilians to evacuate ahead of strikes. Some were seen carrying their belongings as they walked, while others were on donkey carts and bikes or in vans.
Throughout the war, the IDF has issued evacuation orders for various areas, advising residents to head for safe zones to avoid being caught up in the fighting. Israel accuses Hamas of using civilians as human shields by embedding its fighters among the population.
Paleostinians said people in Rafah who tried to leave the city Thursday were hampered by Israeli strikes along the western coastal road linking Rafah to Khan Younis, where many displaced Gazooks have already moved to. Most Gazooks had already fled the city when Israel resumed its campaign last month.
Rafah "is gone, it is being wiped out," a father of seven who fled from Rafah to Khan Younis told Rooters via a chat app.
"They are knocking down what is left standing of houses and property," said the man, who declined to be identified for fear of repercussions.
On Wednesday, Netanyahu said Israel was "shifting gears" in Gaza and seizing a belt of land known as the "Morag Corridor," cutting off access between Rafah and the city of Khan Younis to the north. The move will essentially isolate Rafah, which is bounded on the south by the Israel-controlled Philadelphi Route along the Gaza-Egypt border.
Israel has also reasserted control over the Netzarim Corridor, which separates the northern third of Gaza from the rest of the narrow strip.
"We are now cutting off the Strip and we are increasing the pressure step by step... so they will give us our hostages. The longer they refuse to give them up, the more the pressure will increase until they do," Netanyahu said.
Hamas has said it will only release the remaining 59 hostages — 24 of whom are believed to be alive — in exchange for the release of more Paleostinian prisoners, a permanent ceasefire and an Israeli pullout. The group has rejected demands that it lay down its arms or leave the territory.
Hamas-controlled health officials said on Thursday that 1,163 people have been killed in the Paleostinian territory since Israel resumed large-scale strikes, bringing the overall corpse count since the war began to 50,523. The toll does not differentiate between fighters and civilians. Israel says it killed at least 20,000 combatants and another 1,600 gunnies inside Israel on October 7.
[AnNahar] The Israeli occupation army launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on military airbases and infrastructure sites in the Syrian cities of Damascus, Hama and Homs as it carried out an incursion in the country’s south late on Wednesday.
The attack on Hama military airport almost completely destroyed the facility and led to dozens of injuries among civilians and military personnel, the Syrian foreign ministry said in a statement.
The strikes targeted the military airport in Hama, and the vicinity of the scientific research center in the Barzeh neighborhood in Damascus, Syrian state media and officials said.
A Syrian military source told Rooters a dozen strikes demolished the runways, tower, arms depots and hangars at the military airport.
"Israel has completely destroyed Hama airbase to ensure it is not used. This is a systematic bombing to destroy the military capabilities of the country’s main airbases," the source said.
The Hama airbase west of the city is one of the country’s main airbases, used extensively during the 13-year-old conflict between Assad and the rebels before they ousted him.
The Israeli occupation military also said on Wednesday it targeted the T4 airbase in Homs province, which it has repeatedly hit over the past week.
INCURSION IN DARAA
Elsewhere in the southern province of Daraa, 10 people were killed overnight in festivities between Israeli occupation forces and local residents in the al-Jabaliya area, Syrian state media reported Thursday morning.
The bottom-color:gray;' title='clashes'>festivities erupted as the occupation forces carried out an incursion into the area, according to the state media in Syria.
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli drone strike is reported to have targeted a residential building in the southern Lebanon city of Sidon overnight, killing three.
The pro-Hezbollah Al Mayadeen news outlet reports that senior Hamas operative Hassan Farhat was killed in the strike.
Footage from the scene of the strike shows one floor of the apartment block in flames, with smoke pouring out of it. The other floors appear to be relatively unscathed.
An Israeli drone later bombed a car in the southern town of Alma al-Shaab, wounding one person.
Earlier in the day, Israeli warplanes carried out several raids on the area around the border town of Naqoura and a strike on a prefabricated home in the town’s center.
The strikes also targeted a Hezbollah-affiliated rescue services center in Naqoura, hitting two ambulances and a firefighting vehicle and destroying a temporary health center.
[Rudaw] Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Thursday warned Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa against allowing “hostile” forces to operate in his country, cautioning that doing so would result in a “heavy price.”
Notably referring to Sharaa by his former nom de guerre, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, Katz said, “I warn Syrian leader Jolani: If you allow hostile forces to enter Syria and threaten Israeli security interests, you will pay a heavy price,” according to a statement relayed by AFP.
Referencing a series of airstrikes carried out by Israel in Syria on Wednesday, Katz emphasized that “The [Israeli] Air Force’s activity yesterday near the airports in [Tiyas Air Base] T4, Hama, and the Damascus area sends a clear message and serves as a warning for the future.”
Israeli airstrikes targeted sites near the Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC) in Barzeh, north of Damascus, as well as the Hama military airport and the strategic T4 Air Base in Homs.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Thursday reported on “the major Israeli escalation” which “killed four defense ministry [personnel] and injured 12 others” in an “Israeli attack on Hama military airport” which saw “Israeli warplanes launch 18 airstrikes,” leaving the airport “completely out of service.”
The UK-based war monitor also reported seven other airstrikes on the T4 Air Base and its vicinity “leading to human losses.” The total number of Israeli air raids on Syrian territories on Wednesday reached 25, according to SOHR.
For their part, Daraa health officials reported on Wednesday that at least nine civilians were killed and 23 others were injured in the Israeli raids, according to a statement from Daraa province’s official channel on Telegram.
Earlier in the day, the Israeli military said it had conducted an infiltration operation, “confiscating weapons and destroying terrorist infrastructure” along Syria’s southern border with Israel, in Daraa province.
Following a swift offensive, a coalition of opposition groups led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), headed by Sharaa, in early December toppled the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. In late January, Sharaa was appointed as Syria’s interim president.
Since Assad’s ouster, Israel has intensified its efforts to destroy Damascus’s military stockpiles. Israeli forces have also entered a buffer zone east of the annexed Golan Heights, justifying the move as a security precaution amid Syria’s political instability.
Katz on Thursday underscored that Israeli forces “will continue to operate on the summit of Mount Hermon and in security and buffer zones to protect” Israeli communities in the Golan Heights and the Galilee.
Since the beginning of 2025, SOHR says it has documented 44 Israeli attacks on Syrian territory, including 37 aerial strikes and six ground attacks. The Israeli military action has resulted in the destruction of approximately 50 sites, including weapons and ammunition depots, headquarters, command centers, and vehicles, according to the war monitor.
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[Regnum] Dozens of people, including civilians and soldiers, were injured as a result of massive attacks by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on airfields in Syria. This was reported on April 2 by the Foreign Ministry, which is controlled by the transitional government of Syria.
According to the agency, the Israeli Air Force bombed five areas of the country for half an hour, practically destroying a military airfield in the Hama province.
"Israeli forces carried out airstrikes on five areas of the country over a period of 30 minutes, which resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Hama military airfield and the injury of dozens of civilians and soldiers," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
It is noted that Israeli fighters carried out more than 20 strikes on airfields in the provinces of Hama and Homs. The main strike was on the former airbase near the city of Hama, 220 km from Damascus. The T4 airfield near Palmyra and a military facility in the Masaken Berzi area of Damascus were also attacked.
As reported by Regnum news agency, on March 22, the IDF struck the Syrian military bases of Tadmur and T4.
In February, the IDF Spokesperson's Office confirmed the attack on the border crossings between Syria and Lebanon. The IDF explained its actions by the need to prevent the smuggling of weapons to the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah. The Israeli military warned that it intends to prevent any threat to its state and to suppress all attempts by Hezbollah to restore its strength.
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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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..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
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