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He was about 6-4 and slim. I met him one time. I understand Brookeville Maryland was named after him.
Vaudeville stage man.If you showed any interest in his playing he would never stop and had the biggest smile as he does here in this picture. He was in his 90's when I met him.
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"Brooke Johns, 93, an irrepressible former superstar of vaudeville who was a Montgomery County commissioner in the 1940s, died Dec. 3 of cardiac arrest at his home on the outskirts of Olney.
Mr. Johns was billed as "Six-foot-three and Oh! So Different" during his vaudeville days, and he was world-renowned for his vitality, his nasal voice and his banjo. Almost to the end, he retained a strong voice, a firm handshake and a quick sense of humor.
He retired at the peak of his show business career in 1930 to a farm 18 miles from the White House and eventually converted much of the land into the Brooke Manor Country Club. As the suburbs moved northward, the 207 acres he owned were widely sought after by developers, but he rejected many offers.
Last month, he and his family finally agreed to sell all but their 17-room home and surrounding 20 acres to a Rockville real estate development firm."
[ToloNews] The district governor’s compound in Jalrez district in Maidan Wardak and the police headquarters have fallen to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... after heavy attacks by the group for the last three days, an MP from the province, Mahdi Rasikh, said on Friday.
Rasikh said that some members of the government forces were captured by the Taliban after their attack on the district.
He said that the district remained under siege by the Taliban for the last two years.
Rasikh said that at least seven security force members were killed in the Taliban attack on the district, adding that some soldiers are missing.
He reiterated that "no action was taken by the central government to help the district" during heavy fighting in the last three days.
Taliban has claimed that they have captured Jalrez district.
Jalrez is located in the west of Maidan Wardak province. It lies 62 kilometers southwest of Kabul.
The Ministry of Defense in a statement said an operation has started by Afghan forces to clear Jalrez district of Death Eaters.
The ministry said that at least 10 bully boyz were killed in Afghan forces Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the district and that the operation will continue until Jalrez is fully cleared of Taliban.
This is the second district in Maidan Wardak that falls to the Taliban in less than two weeks.
[ToloNews] According to the sources, the center of the district is now under Taliban ...Arabic for students... influence. Afghan forces retreated from the center of Dawlat Shah district in Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... province on Thursday, two sources from the province reported, saying the decision to move came after the area was surrounded by the Taliban for months.
According to the sources, the center of the district is now under Taliban control.
Dawlat Shah district is located 47 kilometers north of Mehtarlam city, the center of Laghman, and shares a border with Panjshir province.
The district had been besieged by the Taliban for the last six months, sources said.
"In the past six months, more than 15 security force members were killed and there was no way to take the maimed out of the district," the sources said.
The Taliban claimed to have captured the district government buildings.
The Ministry of Defense said that Afghan forces will soon push the Taliban back from the area.
Provincial council members said that the Taliban attacked the district in the early hours of Thursday morning and "nearly 30 security forces members were killed and maimed." They said "the Taliban have also captured several security outposts."
"We contacted people and they told us that festivities are still ongoing in Dawlat Shah," said Gulzar Sangarwal, a member of the provincial council.
The district borders Alishing district, and Nuristan, Panjshir and Kapisa provinces.
"Claims of Dawlat Shah district falling are false. The security forces are present there," said Rohaullah Ahamdzai, a front man for the Ministry of Defense.
In the meantime, sources said that the local government and Taliban have extended the three days Eid ceasefire for another month in Alingar district of Laghman.
"They (Taliban) have come from Alingar district to Dawlat Shah for war. Not only from Alingar but also from neighboring provinces such as Kunar, Nuristan and Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. . The Taliban have come to Laghman for war," said Zayfonon Safi, an MP from Laghman.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan national intelligence service, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) have reportedly captured ISIS members in various parts of Kabul.
According to Presidential Palace, the detained group includes Sharifullah, Abdul Wahed, Mohammad Saber, Ayub, Aziz Rahim, Abdul Matin, and Khadija (Female affiliate) who in their admission of guilt confessed to being involved in 51 sanguinary attacks.
According to the office of First Vice President detainees Sharifullah, Abdul Wahed, and Qari Saber grabbed credit for 51 attacks, four cycle of violence attacks, one boom-mobile, three IED blasts, two rocket attacks, and kidnappings.
The group is said to have confessed to murdering religious scholars, Abdul Wahed a detained "terrorist" rented more than 20 houses in Kabul and used them as safe houses for "terrorist" sleeper cells, fighters, and jacket wallahs.
Abdul Wahed also facilitated and transferred 50 suicide bombers from Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. to Kabul and housed them in different locations.
National Directorate of Security in a statement said that five "terrorists" including Khaliq Kandahari, Safiullah, and Omid were killed in special operations that targeted ISIS centers in the capital, specifically in Bagrami district, PD17, and PD18 of Kabul city.
The detainees were reportedly involved in series of deadly attacks in Kabul including attacks on the enlightenment movement, the blitz of Shash Darak area, attack on Mufti Noman in Shakardara, rocket attacks on Presidential Palace, and suicide explosion in Shash Darak area that targeted journalists, and many other terrorist activities.
This comes as the Ministry of Defense on Thursday stated that 176 Taliban ...Arabic for students... were killed and 112 others were maimed in various security operations across the country.
A number of weapons and ammunition belonging to the Taliban were also destroyed during the battles, the statement said.
According to MoD, ANDSF also discovered and defused 48 different types of bombs following the operations.
ANDSF inflicted heavy casualties on Talibs in Nangarhar, Maidan Wardak, Ghazni, Pashtun-infested Logar, Khost, Zabul, Kandahar, Ghor, Badghis, Farah, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , Balkh, Badakhshan, Kunduz, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Baghlan, and Kabul provinces, MoD reported.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... security sources in Jawzjan province said a prosecutor was killed in an IED blast in Sheberghan, the center of the province.
Police officials in Jawzjan said the incident happened on Thursday morning in Kart-e-Nawayi of Sheberghan city.
No individual or group has so far grabbed credit for the attack.
The Kaduna State Government, on Friday, said some bandits attacked communities in Igabi, Giwa and Jema’a local government areas of the state, killing four persons with scores sustaining injuries.
The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, said at least 30 cows were also rustled in the separate attacks.
Aruwan, however, was silent on when the incident took place, adding that an attempt to burn a police post was repelled in Jema’a Local Government Area of the state.
He also said no fewer than four persons sustained injuries in the various attacks, giving the names of three of the injured as Mustapha Ya’u, Bilyaminu Saidu and Bilyaminu Abubakar.
The commissioner said, “Security agencies have reported that bandits invaded Zangon Aya town in Igabi LGA. According to the report, two residents, Falalu Dari and Sabiu Idris, were killed by the bandits.
“The bandits also attacked Rugar Delu, a settlement on the fringes of the town and rustled about 30 cows belonging to one Delu Bafilata, a herder. Delu sustained gunshot injuries to the chest and is receiving treatment in hospital.
“In another reported incident, bandits invaded Ungwan Murtala in Yakawada, Giwa LGA and shot one Inusa Ibrahim dead. In Godogodo village of Jema’a LGA, bandits attempted to attack a police outpost but were effectively repelled by the personnel. However, one Ayuba Madugu was killed by the gunmen.”
The commissioner added that the bandits’ attack on the Godogodo village almost snowballed into an ethno-religious crisis but was averted by the security operatives. He added that Governor Nasir El-Rufai commiserated with the families of the deceased and wished the injured a speedy recovery.
Meanwhile, gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed two people in Rikwe-Rishe, Kpatenvie village of Kpachudu community, Bassa LGA of Plateau State.
The victims, identified as Mr Shedrack Zehwie, 20; and Mrs Ladi Geoffrey, 25, were said to be at home when the gunmen stormed their compound around 9pm on Thursday and attacked them, killing them.
The National President of the Irigwe Development Association, Ezekiel Bini, who confirmed the killings to Saturday PUNCH in Jos on Friday said, “The two victims were farmers.
“The woman was at home while the man who came to visit a relative was just relaxing in the compound when the gunmen appeared suddenly and shot them dead on Thursday night. It’s really sad.”
The General Secretary of IDA, Dickson Auta, who spoke at the burial of the deceased at Rikwe-Rishe village on Friday, lamented the killing of the two Irigwe youths and called for the immediate stop to open grazing of cattle in Irigwe land.
According to him, apart from the destruction of farmlands and crops, and illegal grazing, the Fulani herdsmen have been lying in ambush and killing the Irigwe people.
The paramount ruler of Rigwe Nation, the Brra Nggwe Rigwe, Rev Ronku Aka in a remark, also frowned on the continuous violence in his domain.
While sympathising with the people, he emphasised that the land bequeathed to the Rigwe people by their forefathers could not be forcefully grabbed, irrespective of attacks and other strategies deployed against them.
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8-12 people. Right
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Darn. I had cannibalism-by-February in the office pool, but I guess it's no bet.
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Frank, it's 8 to 12 people now. You have no idea how quickly like wildfire the racism is spreading among black and brown people.
It's like the genetic memory of tribalism only needed to be lit by racist misreporting of the George Floyd police killing (he'd be just as dead if he were white but that's not how it was spun).
It took nothing at all to set off anti-white racism in black and brown people who are all too ready to accept grievance culture narrative against whites.
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Read “The Bell Curve”. This book explains it all. Segregation is cognitive. The book concludes with…. “…of all the rewards we can confer on each, the most precious is a place as a valued fellow citizen.”
#Antifa Portland accounts are very angry not enough of them showed up to shut down the right-wing flag-waving event today. The conservative event was held in a neighboring county to Portland, where police & the DA don't tolerate rioting. pic.twitter.com/sDkRHqoj9d
HORRIFIC: Joey Borgan of Lawrence NY, beaten in Manhattan for being a Jew. These "Protests" are an excuse to beat Jews & must be stopped immediately! @NYPDShea@NYPDTipspic.twitter.com/0BWNBMh59L
It is becoming more clear everyday that US Socialist-Democrat controlled areas are a breeding ground for the Open Racist agenda inherent of National Socialism.
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....And so the pogroms begin. If only the Czar knew.
Mike
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Islam has been whipping up the anti-Israel sentiment very effectively by coercing/co-opting the media, and buying off the universities with oil money (see: Georgetown).
Also funding think tanks and lobbyists, and pressure groups.
I suspect it is Islam that is funding the race war also - an Iranian proxy in Australia name of Hanan Dover went to an Islamist conference in Turkey and a week later the Baby Aylan picture opened Europes borders to mass migration. She then went to the Martin Luther King museum and posted about the civil rights movement. They know the pressure points of our culture.
I've never seen so much racism permeating academia, and especially being exported from the US as now
And by racism I mean hatred of white people and hatred of jews.
It's in textbooks in universities now: openly stating 'white men' are to blame for dominating other cultures. It's ignorant and wrong - no race has any monopoly on that behaviour.
Hollywood and netflix pump out movie after tv series where only white people are villains.
It's always 12 years a slave - about blacks being slaves of whites.
Never is it 12 years a slave about the Europeans taken by the Islamic slave trade
Or 12 years a slave about the black africans taken for 1000 years by the Islamic slave trade and castrated - millions died from sepsis.
This constant reinforcement and magnification of every blot on european colonial history together with the complete ignoring of any fault in the history of other cultures is producing something very dangerous.
It's not producing self-reflection and fairness in white people.
It's producing MASSIVE and DIRECT racism in black and brown people against white people.
In societies where the majority is conservative and opposed to islam, you will find islam piggybacks on communism to survive; becoming comrades gives muslims respectability and a platform for unending class war, which they can use to grow their influence. They form parties, pressure groups etc and field representatives all under the marxist label, while the endgame is always jihad.
In America, there was no way for islam to creep in and upend institutions of governance, influence the polity and own edifices of control like they do in say the UK or Canada. America, for all its compulsively liberal secularism would never let the muslim run rampant up and down its polity. So, they played the long game, entry and consolidation through their class cousins, those who were already scamming their way into power since the Clinton era. Their one great victory was Obama.
Today you have a legally supported, well-financed, politically perpetuated race war against the majority - which is targeted for enslavement - and an increasingly hostile Wakanda [black nation envisaged, taken from whitey's dead hands]. In time, you will find that one of the principal sources of that hostility is not some historic angst over great grandma being whipped to work, but islam. The camouflage behind color politics and marxism etc is just another form of classic muslim deception.
[NYPOST] A Jewish man was chased by two cars flying Paleostinian flags in Los Angeles, security footage shows.
The man said the people in the cars chanted "holy shit! Allahu akbar," an Islamic battle cry meaning god is the greatest, and pursued him as he walked to a synagogue to celebrate Shavout Monday night, according to Fox News.
"I’ve taken this route a million times and I’ve never been afraid," the man, who wished to remain anonymous, told the network.
"I was waiting by the light for it to change and suddenly I saw a bunch of cars coming and I see out of the corner of my eye they were waving the Paleostinian flag. They started speeding up and I heard them chanting ’holy shit! Allahu akbar.’ That’s when I started running for my life."
Surveillance footage obtained by the outlet shows the man running away from the speeding cars into a Bank of America parking lot.
"I ran as fast as I could," he reportedly said. "They were picking up speed and I really thought they were going to run me over, that it would all be over."
"I was petrified," he said. "I just kept thinking, ’I’m a father of six and I want to come home to them tonight.’ I thought they were going to kill me. My mind was racing."
[AlAhram] Thousands of people rallied in support of the Paleostinians across Pakistain Friday, hours after a ceasefire was announced between Israel and Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, the Islamist group which governs 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.
At least six people were killed and another 14 maimed by a bomb at a pro-Paleostinian rally in a Pak city bordering Afghanistan on Friday, officials said, the latest violence to hit the restive area.
"It was an improvised bomb which went off as participants began to disperse," said Tariq Mengal, a senior local administration official in Chaman, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province.
A second official confirmed the incident and toll.
Thousands of people rallied in support of the Paleostinians across Pakistain Friday, hours after a ceasefire was announced between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group which governs the Gaza Strip.
Friday's blast comes just weeks after a suicide kaboom in the quiet provincial capital of Quetta struck a luxury hotel where the Chinese ambassador was being hosted.
That attack was later claimed by the Pak Taliban ...Arabic for students... Chaman has long served as a gateway for Afghan Talibs entering Afghanistan from their alleged shelters in Balochistan, where the group's leadership council is believed to be based.
Pakistain is fighting several low-level insurgencies in the impoverished province, waged by Islamist, separatist and sectarian groups.
Balochistan is Pakistain's largest and poorest province despite being rich in natural resources.
Resentment has been fuelled by billions of dollars of Chinese money flowing into the region through the China-Pakistain Economic Corridor (CPEC) -- a key part of Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative -- which locals say gave them little benefit as most new jobs went to outsiders.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] A few hours into a ceasefire agreement reached between the Israeli government and Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,, which governs 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, Israeli police were reported to have stormed the compound of the al-Aqsa mosque once more on Friday.
Several Arab media outlets reported the forces launched tear gas shells and fired rubber bullets.
Al Jazeera journalist Arwa Ibrahim also reported stun grenades being launched at worshipers, "Back to square one?" she asked.
Citing Red Islamic Thingy, she said at least 20 people were maimed.
Ibrahim shared footage from the compound, showing worshipers scrambling amid loud explosions in the background.
The worshipers had stayed back after Friday prayers to celebrate the truce.
"They were singing and chanting when a contingent of the Israeli police [stationed] next to the compound came into the compound and started using crowd control measures that they use all the time, including stun grenades, smoke bombs and tear gas," Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... , who was reporting from occupied East Jerusalem, said.
That would be an action of the Islamic Movement - Northern Branch, the militant arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel, which goes in for riots and harassing Jews on the Temple Mount via their Israeli Arab Mourabitoun cadres, funding Hamas, and social services in Arab villages in the Galilee.
"They started firing in that crowd in an effort to try and disperse them."
Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed 232 Paleostinians,
...while Israel reports killing at least 225 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members, including a number of senior officers of both organizations, suggesting the Hamas authorities are a bit off on their numbers...
including 65 children, and have maimed another 1,900, according to the Gaza health ministry.
Vast areas have been reduced to rubble and some 120,000 people have been displaced, according to Hamas authorities.
On the Israeli side, 12 people, including two children, have died.
The truce brokered by Egypt, which also included Gaza’s second-most powerful group, 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... , was agreed upon in the early hours of Friday, following mounting international pressure to stem the bloodshed which erupted on May 10.
The violence was triggered after police action at al-Aqsa mosque during the Ramadan fasting month.
"Hundreds of people threw rocks and petrol bombs at police officers who responded at the scene and began dispersing the rioters," Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said in a statement.
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So it would seem Hamas didn't get quite the cease fire agreement they wanted.
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Lots of battlefields, Abu Uluque, and the jihadis switch from one to the other as best suits the moment. The war will not end until there are no more Jews between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Hamas got exactly the ceasefire it wanted, which means that the IDF stopped attacking, and various supporters started sending in supplies and money.
Turkish forces have reportedly prevented buses carrying displaced people from southern #Syria, which is under the control of the Syrian government, to the city of al-Bab, which is under the control of Turkish-backed opposition militias.https://t.co/jfNT2YGYCz
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 21, 2021
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A Turkish-backed Syrian National Army official killed and others were wounded on Friday in an explosion in the city of Salqin, northwest #Idlib.https://t.co/7VXX00T3FX
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 21, 2021
The Media Office of #Manbij Military Council said that their forces foiled an infiltration attempt by Turkish-backed Euphrates Shield groups in the village al-Jat, north #Syria.https://t.co/5kcZc6FrL7
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 21, 2021
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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