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First Biden, now Kishida: Scandal-plagued
Japanese prime minister stepping down
Thursday 08/15/2024

christinekeeler2
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
More than 200 prisoners evacuated from
south and Dahieh amid wider war concerns %u2014 Naharnet
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli strike on al-Abbasiyeh
wounds 10 as Hezbollah attacks Israeli posts
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli forces, Hamas clash in occupied West Bank
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel pounds Gaza ahead of ceasefire talks
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Iran will not attend Gaza ceasefire talks
Fifth Column
Pro-Hamas Protesters Stormed Into A Private
Meeting Between Kamala Harris Campaign Officials
German arrest warrant over Nord Stream blast mystery

Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2024 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Klassic ... chair.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 08/15/2024 3:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Chairs- why do they hate us?
Posted by: technochitlin || 08/15/2024 8:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I can see why Profumo "liked" her.
Posted by: `AlmostAmonymous5839 || 08/15/2024 9:23 Comments || Top||


Arabia
US military destroys two Houthi vessels in the Red Sea
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Over the course of 24 hours, American military personnel struck two vessels of rebels from the Yemeni Shiite movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) in the Red Sea.

"Over the past 24 hours, US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces destroyed two Iranian-backed Houthi vessels in the Red Sea," the command said on social media.
Good. More, please.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, one of the ships was attacked off the coast of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, the Royal Navy's Maritime Trade Coordination Centre reported on August 12. According to official information, the incident occurred 63 nautical miles, or about 116.6 km, southwest of Hodeidah.

Another attack on a British vessel took place on August 3. The attack took place 170 nautical miles southwest of Aden in Yemen.

Since autumn 2023, the Houthis have been attacking ships linked to Israel and its allies amid the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. They have threatened to prevent them from passing through the Red Sea until the operation in the Palestinian enclave is stopped.

In January 2024, the US and UK began retaliatory strikes against Yemeni rebel positions.

Posted by: badanov || 08/15/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  Can I assume a number of Houthis were also destroyed?
Posted by: KBK || 08/15/2024 19:08 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Anti-Israel protesters clash with law enforcement, unleash smoke bombs following Harris rally
[FoxNews] Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with law enforcement and stormed an afterparty marking Vice President Kamala Harris' rally in New York City.

In video footage, demonstrators were seen lining the street following a Harris rally attended by New York City Mayor Eric Adams in Harlem.

"You set Palestine on fire," one of the protesters was heard yelling.

The video footage captured anti-Israel protests creating a ruckus and setting off smoke bombs.

"How dare you," another yelled.

Harris has faced protesters at previous campaign stops, shouting them down after they interrupted the event.

"You know what, if you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I'm speaking," Harris said at a Michigan campaign event, eliciting static cheers from the audience.

The Biden administration's support of Israel in its ongoing war against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip has been a weak spot for the administration.

Posted by: Skidmark || 08/15/2024 09:43 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  That's a problem with employing useful idiots. They can't read the code words that say you're going to stab the Israelis in the back as soon as you get power. They actually believe the hokum that you spew to mask your intent in your pursuit of power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/15/2024 12:59 Comments || Top||


Pro-Hamas Protesters Stormed Into A Private Meeting Between Kamala Harris Campaign Officials
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I call all such miscreants "Hamasniks"
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 08/15/2024 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  TW - Delete this comment as well.

WTF, Raj?
Posted by: Raj || 08/15/2024 0:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Harris running mate denies relationship with antisemitic imam

"I have not slept with this woman, Asad Zaman."?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/15/2024 1:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Hamasniks

Hamasholes

Hamas adjacent

Hamas dummies
Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/15/2024 8:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Rock salt in a shot gun followed by a hickory shampoo.

"Don't forget to brush teeth."
Posted by: alanc || 08/15/2024 10:20 Comments || Top||

#6 
Kinda conflicted here.

Should they be locked up under 18 U.S. Code § 2339_ - for providing support to the HAMAS terrorists? Because, handing out a few 5 to 10-Year sentences might cool these idiots down.

But then again, they did disrupted and bunch Liberal-Socialist-Democrats (LSD's) planning the demise of America.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/15/2024 10:33 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/15/2024 10:39 Comments || Top||

#8  WTF, Raj? I made what I believed was an innocuous comment two weeks ago about teachers unions and it was deleted, like I'm ACA JOE posting his usual nasty shit. I'm still pissed off about it, so that's WTF, okay?

Have a nice day.
Posted by: Raj || 08/15/2024 11:08 Comments || Top||

#9  Guess it's no longer Her Turn to Talk.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/15/2024 13:28 Comments || Top||

#10 
I think no one but you remembers, Rage.
I may have happily deleted your remark.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/15/2024 15:44 Comments || Top||

#11  I made what I believed was an innocuous comment two weeks ago about teachers unions and it was deleted

Could it have been that your innocuous-meter needs slight recalibration, Raj? Most here have overstepped at one time or another — I’ve had comments spam-copped, and others deleted, both for cause. I am not even the only moderator who looked at one of my own posted comments and removed it for being over the line.

Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2024 22:22 Comments || Top||

#12  I've posted many times on this fine website (15,616 at this point), and I can count the number of deleted comments of mine in the single digits. Do the math - I'm not an intemperate sort. I take great care not to step over the line. You can choose to denigrate my innocuous meter all you wish, so get bent with the pious lecture.
Posted by: Raj || 08/15/2024 23:00 Comments || Top||

#13  Condolences; a mother's love.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/15/2024 23:09 Comments || Top||


Portland Antifa members disrupt Clackamas County Commissioner @BenforOregon’s press conference
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]



Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 
The US Democrat Party uses Anti-FA as a paramilitary wing, to disrupt political opponents.

Just like the Nazi's used the Sturmabteilung (SA) Brown Shirts. In fact, the tactics used by Anti-FA were originally used by the Nazi Brown Shirts.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/15/2024 4:50 Comments || Top||

#2  HotAir: Antifa 'Journalist' Found Guilty of Felony Riot
Posted by: Frank G || 08/15/2024 7:14 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 When they have both houses they can then institute the Allgemeine Schutzstaffel.
Posted by: Sligum Hupomoling9524 || 08/15/2024 7:44 Comments || Top||

#4  That Hacker creature is a real piece of work. I say creature as he has grown and sharpened a thumbnail to use like a raptor claw - so when he punches you he's also stabbing you. Opened up that one guy's face before LE got to him.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/15/2024 9:07 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Whistleblowers were targeted by Border Agency after exposing federal DNA Collection law was not followed for immigration violations
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Home Front: WoT
Palestinian whose name appears on terror watchlist captured at southern border
[NY Post] A Palestinian migrant whose name appears on a terror watchlist for allegedly previously using "explosives/firearms" was caught at the southern border Monday, The Post can exclusively reveal.

Border Patrol agents caught Omar Shehada, 35, at the border in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, according to a leaked memo obtained by The Post.

The arrest of Shehada — who hails from the West Bank — comes just weeks after three other suspected Palestinian terrorists were caught at the California border.

One of those suspects allegedly had "salacious photos" on their phone — including a picture of a masked man holding an AK-47 rifle, sources told The Post.

It also comes almost a year after Border Patrol sent out a memo to its agents warning about Palestinian terrorists potentially coming across the border following the Oct. 7 terror attack.

"Individuals inspired by, or reacting to the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border," the alert read.

It is not known which terror organization Shehada is allegedly affiliated with, but he’s listed on the terror watchlist for using "explosives/arms," according to the Border Patrol memo.

His journey to the border started in Madrid last month, according to the memo. From there, he went to Bogota, Panama City and San Salvador.

Shehada remains in custody pending his removal from the US.

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the number of migrants on the terror watchlist caught at the US-Mexico border has skyrocketed.

Border agents caught 26 suspected terrorists at the southern border between October 2016 and September 2021. Then, between October 2021 and September 2022, they caught 98 suspected terrorists — followed by 169 over the same period the following year and 93 between October 2023 and June 2024, according to agency data.
Jewish Press gives his name as Omar Nawaf Issa Shehada.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/15/2024 11:57 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IRGC advisor dies following injuries in Syria - report
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/15/2024 13:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Ship him back to Israel via ICBM and let them kill him that way with David's sling.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/15/2024 15:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Riddle me this: Why would a terrorist sneaking over our border use his or her real name?
Posted by: jpal || 08/15/2024 19:16 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Expecting a job offer (you know which one) from DNC?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/15/2024 19:45 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli forces, Hamas clash in occupied West Bank
[GEO.TV] The Israeli military said it had carried out an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday while Hamas said its fighters were engaged in fierce festivities with Israeli forces in the territory's Tubas city.

The official Paleostinian news agency WAFA reported that one man was killed in a raid in Tubas, while four others were killed in an Israeli dronezap in the nearby town of Tammun.

It did not give their identities, but Tubas residents said the man killed there was as a member of the Hamas.
Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Tubas has been under Israeli occupation. Tubas was transferred to Palestinian National Authority (PNA) control in 1995 under the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Posted by: Sligum Hupomoling9524 || 08/15/2024 7:36 Comments || Top||


Israel pounds Gaza ahead of ceasefire talks
[GEO.TV] Israeli air strikes targeted Gaza on Wednesday ahead of ceasefire talks that the United States hopes will stop Iran striking Israel in retaliation for the killing of a Hamas leader.

Iran and its allies blamed Israel for the July 31 killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran during a visit for the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian. Israel has not commented.
Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  How successful can peace talks be if one party is absent?

Headlines for the day: Gaza cease-fire talks resume in Qatar without Hamas in attendance
Posted by: mossomo || 08/15/2024 12:19 Comments || Top||


Al-Qassam Brigades ambush Israeli forces in Tal Al-Sultan
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
, confirmed on Tuesday that they had set up a tight ambush against Zionist forces in Rafah, southern 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 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.

"During a tight ambush, al-Qassam fighters detonated three tunnel entrances that had been previously booby-trapped against the Zionist enemy forces in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip," al-Qassam Brigades said in a brief statement.

Earlier in the day, al-Qassam Brigades stated on their Telegram Channel that they fired two M-90 missiles at Tel Aviv and its suburbs in retaliation for the Zionist massacres against civilians and the deliberate displacement of the Paleostinian people.

On the other hand, the Zionist army reported that a rocket launched from Gaza landed off the coast of Tel Aviv.
Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
More than 200 prisoners evacuated from south and Dahieh amid wider war concerns
Lebanese authorities have evacuated prisoners from cop shoppes in Beirut's southern suburbs and southern Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
to other parts of the country out of concerns about possible war with Israel, judicial and security officials said.

The officials say about 220 prisoners were moved. It comes amid concerns that the ongoing exchange of cross-border fire between Israeli troops and members of the Lebanon-based Death Eater Hezbollah group might expand after Israel killed a top Hezbollah official last month. Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate.

If all-out war breaks out, many fear that Beirut's southern suburbs and south Lebanon, where Hezbollah has a wide presence, could face intense Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s. The officials say the evacuated prisoners are held on suspicion of committing various crimes such as murder and theft.
Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Israeli strike on al-Abbasiyeh wounds 10 as Hezbollah attacks Israeli posts
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


US Air Base Attacked in Syria
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A US military airbase in Syria has been attacked. This was reported by Reuters, citing two US officials.

The incident occurred near the Koniko gas field in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor. The shells fired missed the base.

According to preliminary information, no one was injured as a result of the attack.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, the same US base was attacked several times at the end of July. It was claimed that the rocket fire was carried out by Shiite armed groups.

Several rockets were fired at the US Ain al-Asad airbase in Anbar province in western Iraq on July 25, two of which hit the perimeter. No casualties were reported in the incident.

American military bases in Iraq and Syria have been regularly shelled and attacked since the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in October 2023 and the start of Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip.
Posted by: badanov || 08/15/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies



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  Mohammed bin Salman 'at risk of assassination' over Israel-Saudi normalisation
Wed 2024-08-14
  Sudan's Burhan rejects peace talks, demands RSF withdrawal
Tue 2024-08-13
  Hamas kills one hostage and wounds two
Mon 2024-08-12
  Taylor Swift terror plot suspect's lawyer downplays plan to carry out ISIS-inspired suicide attack: 'Playing with ideas'
Sun 2024-08-11
  Lebanon proposes additional LAF troops in south to restore calm
Sat 2024-08-10
  Israeli airstrike targeted the security chief of Hamas in the Ain al-Hilweh camp while he was in his car in the city of Sidon
Fri 2024-08-09
  The director of public prosecutions of England and Wales warns that sharing online material of riots could be an offence
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  Taylor Swift concerts canceled after ISIS plot narrowly foiled by police
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  Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran arrested in political assassination plots including Trump
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  Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as chief
Mon 2024-08-05
  US, France call for 'utmost restraint' in Middle East. Utmost.
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  Hamas commander, eight other gunmen killed in two IDF drone strikes near Tulkarem
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