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| Kitty Dukakis, wife of former Massachusetts governor and failed Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, dead at 88 |
| 2025-03-23 |
 [NYPOST] Kitty Dukakis, the wife of former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, died on Friday at her Brookline home, her family said.The cause of her death was said to have been complications from dementia, her son, John, told The Washington Post. Dukakis, 88, is survived by her 91-year-old husband, Michael Dukakis, who lost the 1988 presidential election to Vice President George H. W. Bush. She served as Massachusetts' first lady from 1975 to 1979 and then again from 1983 to 1991, during her husband's three terms as the Bay State's governor. Related: Michael Dukakis 10/14/2024 Tim Walz’s Hunting Gaffe Explained Michael Dukakis 11/01/2020 Las Vegas Oddsmaker Announces Final Prediction: Trump Electoral Landslide Coming Michael Dukakis 07/14/2020 Can Trump Pull a Truman? |
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| Disposal of satellites. Will Kyiv repeat the fate of Saigon and Kabul |
| 2025-03-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Artemy Sharapov [REGNUM] In just one week, the new White House team has changed its attitude towards its junior partners from Kiev twice. For now, the Donald Trump administration has changed its anger to mercy, once again “opening the tap” of arms and intelligence supplies. But many things now indicate that the presumption of impunity for the current Kiev regime no longer works. It seems that military support will be provided only for “defensive purposes.” Speeches about support until the “complete liberation of Ukraine” have been put on the back burner. This somersault in Washington-Kiev relations has caused a stir in the world. Thus, the example of Ukraine was used in his recent address by the official representative of the Ansar Allah movement (an organization of Yemeni Houthis), Yahya Sari, addressing Saudi Arabia, which is in conflict with the Houthis. "Learn a lesson from the fate of Ukraine and do not rely on the United States," Sari warned, implying that in the future the United States may leave not only Kiev without support, but also its partners in the Middle East. However, the example of Ukraine is not something special. On the contrary, over the past decades, the United States has proven itself to be a very unreliable ally. And if tomorrow the States demand, for example, the resignation of Volodymyr Zelensky or even his arrest, there is nothing surprising about it. Because Washington does not like "junior partners" who start to think too much about themselves. THE GENERALISSIMO WHO WAS LUCKY The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, led to the United States entering World War II. At first, the United States did not intervene in the European theater of war, focusing its efforts entirely on the war in Asia. Here, America decided to rely on the government of the Republic of China, led by the nationalist Kuomintang party under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. At one time, Chiang Kai-shek had established himself as a consistent anti-communist, and his armed forces were waging war against the Japanese army. Therefore, the United States launched a program of supplying weapons to the National Revolutionary Army of the Kuomintang and training officers. With the end of World War II and the deterioration of relations between the former allies of the United States and the USSR, the United States placed a special bet on Chiang Kai-shek, seeking to prevent the communist Mao Zedong from coming to power in China. In 1946, a mission of American military advisers was deployed in China. The United States armed and trained more than 500,000 soldiers and officers of Chiang Kai-shek's army. The Pentagon provided the Kuomintang with thousands of tanks, fighter jets, and even strategic bombers, often piloted by American pilots in Chinese uniforms. According to official data, the cost of American aid to Chiang Kai-shek’s government from 1946 to 1949 is estimated at $4.4 billion — a monstrous sum at the time, equivalent to $72 billion today (for comparison, the volume of US military aid to Ukraine during Joe Biden’s entire presidency was $62 billion). The Chiang Kai-shek regime sanctioned the establishment of American military bases on Chinese territory, including on the island of Taiwan. However, the Communists ultimately won the Chinese Civil War. Why did this happen? On the one hand, the answer is obvious: the Communists turned out to be better soldiers than the Kuomintang. But the conflict between the Generalissimo and the United States is also cited as one of the reasons for Chiang Kai-shek's fall. By 1947, the Chinese leader realized that he was being relegated to a secondary role in the global confrontation with the USSR. Washington practically demanded that command over the Chinese troops be handed over to the American military. Chiang Kai-shek tried to argue with his senior partners and paid the price. The US government was not impressed by the junior partners' demarche and began to recall its advisers from China, and the civil war front predictably collapsed. In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek's government was forced to flee to Taiwan. At the same time, US President Harry Truman publicly stated on January 5, 1950 that American troops would not intervene if the Chinese communists decided to land on Taiwan to finally defeat the Kuomintang forces. Washington decided to reconsider its attitude to the situation only because of the outbreak of the Korean War. The US Navy's Seventh Fleet was sent to the Taiwan Strait, which essentially saved Chiang Kai-shek, who later headed the "Chinese Republic" until 1975. ELIMINATING THE UNRELIABLE LEE SEUNG Less fortunate was another friend of the United States, the first president of South Korea, Lee Seung-man. He took over the Republic of Korea in 1949. With what was essentially dictatorial powers, the president suppressed the communist opposition and sanctioned the deployment of a group of American “instructors” in the country. At first, there was talk of 200–300 American troops, but at its peak, the American contingent numbered 30–50 thousand people. Despite the fact that the United States supported South Korea in the war against the DPRK, directly intervening in the conflict, Seoul gained nothing from this support. Syngman Rhee's attempts to pursue an independent policy led to the United States accusing the president of political repression (which had previously been overlooked) in 1960. Then, externally initiated events began in the country, known as the "April Revolution". Syngman Rhee was overthrown and fled the country. However, the most obvious example of US cynicism in foreign policy is, of course, South Vietnam. "THE US HAS NO ESTABLISHED POINT OF VIEW" In 1954, local politician Ngo Dinh Diem became the first president of the Republic of Vietnam. As in China and Korea before that, in Vietnam the United States primarily focused on training local armed forces to confront the communists. American advisers implemented a program to create a Vietnamese army of 100,000 troops and 150,000 reservists. By the end of 1955, the number of American military advisers in the South Vietnamese army reached 350 people. By 1960, the mission of American advisers increased to 700 people, and a year later, South Vietnam became the largest recipient of American military aid. In particular, the United States provided the Vietnamese army with hundreds of military aircraft and helicopters, making the Air Force of the Republic of Vietnam the sixth in the world in terms of the number of modern aircraft. In 1962, the authorized strength of the South Vietnamese army was again increased to 200,000 people. But Ngo Dinh Diem turned out to be too inconvenient a figure for the United States. The president sought to pursue an independent policy for the country and, worst of all, proposed to resolve the conflict with communist North Vietnam by political means. Therefore, the United States decided to support one of the president’s opponents, General Duong Vang Minh. On the morning of November 1, 1963, a military coup took place in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). Rebel soldiers surrounded the government residence. Ngo Dinh Diem managed to call the American embassy and ask for help. In response, the ambassador stated that “it is now 4:30 a.m. in Washington and the U.S. government has not yet formed a point of view on this issue.” The president tried to escape, but was arrested and killed. The subsequent decade of South Vietnam's history was marked by a series of military coups that took place with the direct participation of the United States. Ultimately, the state, which had become a direct puppet of Washington, was unable to cope with the ideologically motivated communists. In March 1975, the Republic of Vietnam ceased to exist. The list of politicians "written off" by the United States includes, for example, the President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos, who started out as the "best friend of the United States" and was then overthrown as a result of the "color revolution" in 1986. The United States did not help either the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista or the Iranian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi - one was overthrown by Fidel Castro's guerrillas in 1959, the other - during the Islamic Revolution of 1979. But these are old stories. Surely, it is impossible for the United States to abandon its allies in the 21st century? DOGS MORE IMPORTANT THAN AFGHAN DEMOCRACY Here, the very recent events in Afghanistan come to mind. It all started out quite standardly. In 2001, the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom, which ended with the fall of the Taliban government* and the creation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, de facto under an American protectorate. A large group of the US army was deployed in Afghanistan, and the Americans also actively approached the formation of local armed forces. By 2020, the number of armed forces in Afghanistan was estimated at 200 thousand people. The US paid for the production and delivery of about a hundred Mi-8/17 helicopters, and also transferred dozens of UH-60 and MD-530F helicopters to the Afghan Air Force. Throughout the operation in Afghanistan, Washington emphasized the importance of cooperation with Kabul in the field of security and the fight against terrorism. Films and commercials were shot glorifying American support for the Afghan people. However, circumstances then changed and the US decided that it was no longer worth supporting its dear allies. In February 2020, an agreement was reached between the US government and the Taliban*, under which Washington committed to withdrawing its troops from the country by May 1, 2021. The events that followed became widely known thanks to media coverage and social media. The withdrawal of American troops led to the collapse of the Afghan government of Ashraf Ghani, who, however, managed to escape from Kabul in time. But the thousands of ordinary Afghans who had worked for the US military for many years were less fortunate - there was not even a place for them on American military aircraft. Instead, the Pentagon flew out service dogs. Subsequently, a wave of murders and reprisals against former military personnel swept across Afghanistan, primarily special forces officers who were most closely associated with the US. Although the US has not abandoned its support for Ukraine, it is becoming obvious that Washington will no longer invest in the "promotion" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The wording "maintain defense capability" translated from American means "not to let it finally fold." At the same time, historical practice shows that the leader of the country, who was yesterday the best friend and partner, tomorrow can be forgotten, written off or simply shot. On the other hand, experience also shows that active military cooperation with the United States does not always guarantee victory in a confrontation with external enemies. And even on the contrary: today's successes achieved with American weapons may turn into betrayal and defeat tomorrow. |
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| 'The Army of Tatars and Mongols.' Ghosts of the Distant Past Return to Syria | |
| 2024-12-15 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Artemy Sharapov After the immediate collapse of the Syrian Arab Republic, ruled by the Assad dynasty, the country, which was stitched together in the 20th century from a multitude of ethnic, clan-territorial and religious “patches”, began to fall into the past. And not only into the pre-Assad past, but also into the era before the Turkish invasion of the 16th century. Before the Ottomans brought their Levantine vilayets (provinces) into submission with an iron fist, this part of the eastern Mediterranean and northern Mesopotamia was the scene of a war of all against all. And interesting ghosts have begun to emerge from that past. Many observers have noticed that when the so-called "independent" Syrian militants now threaten war against their "colleagues" who are directly supported by Turkey, they use the word "Mongol", which is offensive to any Arab, meaning "irreconcilable enemy" and "stranger". The phrase from the press release of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* militants during the capture of Aleppo, when the victors immediately began civil strife, looked completely unexpected: "You are an army of Tatars and Mongols, we will not spare any of you." For a person even well acquainted with the history of the Middle Ages, the invasion of the Tatar-Mongols is associated first of all with the Battle of Kalka and the enslavement of Russia, with the devastation of Central Asia by the hordes of Genghis Khan, at most - with the Battle of Liegnitz, when the Polish knights, Templars and Hospitallers stopped the rush of the noyons - the "generals" of the Great Khan "to the last sea". But the Middle East? However, it is here that the "almkol" - the Mongols - left perhaps a greater and more tenacious memory than in Russia and the Eurasian steppe. To understand many of the events currently taking place in the disintegrated Syria, we should recall the events of 800 years ago. Yellow Crusade to the West By the end of 1224 AD, or 621 AH according to the Islamic calendar, the Mongols had completed their conquest of Central Asia. Having caused terrible devastation and destroyed dozens of cities, many of which were never rebuilt, Genghis Khan created a new ulus on the captured lands and returned to the steppes. Genghis's successors temporarily halted their expansion to the west, concentrating on the final subjugation of Rus', the countries of Southeast Asia, and the Indian kingdoms. In 1253, a kurultai was held at the headquarters of the Great Khan, where the grandson and successor of the great Genghis Khan, Mongke, gave orders to his younger brother Hulagu : to prepare a campaign to Persia and further - to Jerusalem itself. Hulagu was given a large-scale task: to subjugate the Arab states and all the territories lying between Persia and the Mediterranean Sea to the Horde. But it is interesting that part of the Mongolian army also had religious motives for the campaign to the West. By the middle of the 13th century, most Mongols still retained their ancestors' faith in the Eternal Sky - Tengri and the spirits subordinate to him and, despite all their religious tolerance, were distrustful of the preaching of Islam among their own. However, part of the horde had professed Nestorian Christianity since ancient times. The teaching itself, named after its founder, Archbishop Nestorius of Constantinople, was banned in Byzantium by the Second Ecumenical Council back in 431. However, followers of Nestorianism settled outside the empire - in the Middle East, Armenia, Iran, and reached modern China and Mongolia. One of the main companions of Genghis Khan, Wang Khan, the leader of the Kerait tribe, belonged to the Nestorian faith. In subsequent years, the Nestorians played an important role in the politics of the Horde. This is most likely where the legend that has long been current in Europe comes from, that in the east, beyond the lands of the “wicked Hagarenes” – Muslims, there is a Christian kingdom of the sovereign-presbyter John, who is ready to come to the aid of his brothers in Christ. Although Hulagu, who was entrusted with leading the campaign to the Middle East, was not a Christian, his wife, Van Khan's granddaughter Dokuz Khatun, and many of his confidants adhered to this religion. The future ruler of the empire patronized the Nestorians and made rich donations to churches and monasteries. The Christian part of the horde was in favor of going to the Holy Land and, no more and no less, liberating the Holy Sepulcher from the hands of the Arabs. When speaking about the Mongol conquest of the Middle East, a number of historians often use the term "Yellow Crusade". Hulagu and Dokuz Khatun. Manuscript of Jami at-tawarikh, 14th century The legend of Prester John probably had a direct reason. According to a number of sources, before the start of the campaign, the Mongols entered into an agreement with the King of France Louis IX, who was preparing the Seventh Crusade at that time to recapture Jerusalem. The rulers of Georgia and Armenia and representatives of other Christian communities also joined Hulagu's army. A huge army of several tens of thousands of people set out from Mongolia to the west, but it only reached the borders of Persia in 1256. It is also interesting that the campaign that destroyed Persia and the Middle East began… partly at the request of Middle Eastern rulers. And also partly for religious reasons. Assassins Creed The Baghdad Caliphs, the rulers of the Abbasid dynasty, traditionally considered Persia and Central Asia to be part of the great Caliphate. But by the 12th–13th centuries, the Abbasid Empire, a state of scholars and artists, celebrated in the tales of the Thousand and One Nights, was in decline. Present-day Syria, Iraq, the lands of the Kurds and Turks were a conglomerate of warring emirates that had yet to dislodge the “Franks” — the Crusaders — who held Palestine. And in the east, in Iran, a new threat was brewing. Here, a new radical Shiite movement was gaining popularity: the Ismaili Nizari. Back in 1090, the sheikh of one of the Nizari sects, Hasan ibn Sabbah, with a group of fanatically devoted followers, captured the mountain fortress of Alamut in northern Iran. It is believed that Ibn Sabbah, nicknamed the Old Man of the Mountain, reinforced his sermons by distributing a narcotic potion based on hashish to his students, making them more suggestible. This is where the name "hashishins" - hashish smokers - came from. This word entered European culture in a slightly altered form - "assassins". The order of assassins from the Alamut castle is still remembered today - it is enough to recall the popular series of games Assassin's Creed - "Assassin's Creed". And for a political murder or terrorist act in English there is still a learned word - assassination. The credo of the followers of the Mountain Elder consisted of renouncing their personality for the sake of a higher goal, unquestioning obedience to the sheikh - and, as a consequence, a willingness to participate in “targeted liquidations” of those whom the Elder called the enemy of the teaching. The heirs of Ibn Sabbah who ruled in Alamut captured another dozen fortresses in today's Iran, Iraq and Syria, mostly in hard-to-reach mountain valleys. The network of fortified castles became a stronghold of the sect. And the feuding Middle Eastern rulers did not skimp on offerings to the rulers of Alamut in order to eliminate their competitors - who could always be visited by a ruthless fanatical "liquidator". Thus the shadow of the "elders of the mountain" covered the entire Middle East. The Assassins, who had settled in the mountains around the modern Iranian city of Qazvin, were harassing the new Persian subjects of the Horde with their raids. And then the ruler of Qazvin turned to Khan Mongke with a request to send troops to protect against - as they would say today - terrorist threats. Baghdad was told not to joke about war By the time of the Yellow Crusade, the golden age of the Assassins had long since passed. The Mongols were not particularly intimidated by the sinister reputation of the sect, they guarded their commanders zealously, and they did not stand on ceremony with the mountain fortresses of the Assassins - they consistently and effectively razed them to the ground. The sinister castle of Alamut was no exception, of which only the foundation remained, excavated by archaeologists. The road to Baghdad was open to Hulagu. And – as with the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 and their attempts to “enter” Syria in the 2010s – the fight against terrorism was just a cover for plans to establish dominance in the Middle East. Moreover, the chaos that reigned there made the task easier. The Arab caliphs submitted to the power of the Turkish Seljuks and Egyptian Mamelukes, but for now they retained the nominal title of leaders of the Muslim world. The capital of the caliphate, Baghdad, remained the center of sciences and arts. The Abbasids still, albeit nominally, claimed supreme power in a huge region from Tibet to Spain. Which categorically did not suit the Mongols, who believed that the only source of power was the Great Khan. Having finished destroying Alamut, Hulagu founded a new ulus on the captured lands, after which he addressed a message to the Caliph of Baghdad, al-Mustazim, demanding that he recognize the authority of the Horde. According to legend, the commander of the faithful responded arrogantly to the message of the Mongols, believing that hordes of infidel nomads from somewhere on the edge of the world could not give orders to the descendant of the Prophet. Of course, this was a fatal mistake. From conquered Persia, the Mongol army moved south and reached Baghdad in 1258. Hulagu decided to split the army and sent some warriors across the Tigris River to besiege Baghdad from both sides at the same time. The Caliph's troops managed to inflict several defeats on the army that had crossed, but then the Mongols used a military trick: they lured the enemy into a narrow valley, after which they opened one of the dams on the Tigris. The Arab army was washed away by the raging stream of water and destroyed. Baghdad was left without protection. Chinese technology decided the fate of the caliphate By the end of January 1258, Chinese military advisers and "technical specialists" in Hulagu's army had completed the construction of siege engines, after which the Mongols launched an assault. Gradually, the conquerors managed to capture several city towers, after which the caliph decided to surrender the city. The capitulation, however, did not save the Abbasid capital. On Hulagu's orders, the city was subjected to brutal devastation. Arab and Persian historians testify to hundreds of thousands killed and enslaved. The Mongols burned famous libraries and educational institutions, so that the Tigris River was "black with washed-off ink and red with the blood of murdered scholars." Palaces and mosques were razed to the ground, city fortifications were razed, and the surviving inhabitants were enslaved. However, the greatest damage was done to the region's economy. The Fall of Baghdad. Illustration to Rashid ad-Din's Jami' at-tawarikh The Mongols swept across Mesopotamia, destroying the unique canal system that had been built over thousands of years. The territory of modern Iraq was turned into a desert unsuitable for agriculture. The conquest of Baghdad ended the imperial Arab state. But despite the successes achieved, the main goal of the Yellow Crusade was never achieved. Having destroyed Baghdad and rolled through Mesopotamia, burning everything in its path, Hulagu's horde reached the northern borders of modern Israel. Here the Mongols learned of the collapse of the Seventh Crusade and the capture of the French King Louis. Without the help of Western allies, the march on Jerusalem could have turned into a disaster for the Mongol army, which had already broken away far from its "rear". As a result, the conquerors returned to the conquered Persian lands, where one of the uluses of the Great Horde existed for a long time under the rule of Hulagu's descendants. Elder Hasan and his disciples For the Arab world, this campaign of the Turco-Mongol army had almost the same consequences as the invasion of Batu for Rus'. Since then, the "army of the Tatars and Mongols" has become a synonym for barbarism. The Arabs who survived the invasion were subjugated by the Turks, once again reverting to the tribal system. Therefore, when the Arabs call someone a Mongol, they are talking about an eternal enemy with whom it is impossible to negotiate - only to fight. With Syria's current collapse into archaism, this attitude towards armed "political opponents" will only increase. And the war zone that the former Syrian Arab Republic has become, alas, could become a breeding ground for terrorism, a phenomenon that appeared in the East long before the Muslim Brotherhood* and, even more so, Al-Qaeda*. Osama bin Laden or the ISIS* “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi were merely good students of Hassan ibn Sabbah.
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| Mentally ill Calif. school shooter shot at kids as ''countermeasure'' for US involvement in ''genocide of Palestinians'': note |
| 2024-12-06 |
| [NYPOST] The mentally ill gunman who shot and maimed two kindergarteners at a small Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, school Wednesday wrote that he was deploying a ''countermeasure involving child executions'' in response to ''America's involvement with genocide and oppression of Paleostinians,'' in a twisted note he left behind. The shooter who turned the gun on himself after opening fire in the playground of the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists was identified Thursday as Glenn Litton, a 56-year-old homeless man who was sprung from jail just two days before the shooting, according to police. Litton, who was pronounced dead at the Oroville school, had a long history of mental health issues, alarming criminal behavior, and past stints in prison, Butte County officials said at a presser Thursday. Cops believe his deranged writings — in which he called himself a lieutenant of ''the international alliance'' — stemmed from his compromised mental state. ''Countermeasure involving child executions has now been imposed at the Seventh Day Adventist school in CA, U.S. by the international alliance,'' he wrote in the disturbing note recovered by Sherlocks. ''I, Lieutenant Glenn Litton of the alliance carried out countermeasure in necessitated response to America's involvement with genocide and oppression of Paleostinians along with attacks towards 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... Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea characterized those writings as delusions coming from his mental illness, saying he ''pulled information from various sources, and it all came together in his mind to create a reality that is false.'' |
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| Hezbollah pounds Zionist settlements, occupation sites |
| 2024-09-30 |
| [HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Hezbollah's Islamic Resistance® pursued its precision strikes on Sunday, targeting the Israeli settlements in an unwavering effort to defend Lebanese territories and support 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 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 oppressionand disproportionate response... Strip. The group's military media released a series of statements detailing the attacks and their outcomes: First Operation The initial statement reported that in response to the barbaric Israeli aggression on Lebanese cities and villages, Hezbollah's fighters bombed the Ofek camp with a salvo of Fadi-1 missiles. Second Operation The second statement mentioned that the Islamic Resistance® fighters targeted Zionist soldiers in the al-Manara Israeli occupation settlement with rockets. Third Operation Hezbollah's third statement highlighted that the group's fighters bombed the Sa'ar Israeli settlement with a rocket salvo. Fourth Operation The fourth statement of the day stated that the group's fighters bombed the occupied city of Safed with a barrage of rockets. Fifth Operation According to the fifth statement, Hezbollah's fighters bombed the Rosh Pinna Israeli settlement with a rocket salvo. Sixth Operation The sixth statement stated that the Islamic Resistance® fighters bombed the Tsonbar Israeli settlement with a rocket salvo. Seventh Operation Hezbollah's seventh statement mentioned that after close monitoring of an Israeli force and upon its entry into the Ramia site, the group's fighters targeted it with artillery shells and achieved direct hits. |
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| Abbas, in UN speech, blasts Gaza ‘genocide,’ lays out 12-point ‘day-after’ plan |
| 2024-09-27 |
| [IsraelTimes] PA president leader calls for ‘international protection’ for Palestinians, strong UNRWA, single government across West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, while never mentioning Hamas Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... ...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 oppressionand disproportionate response... Strip, and laid out a 12-point vision for post-war management of the enclave, during his address to the UN General Assembly in New York. Abbas addressed the body almost one year into the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas  ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...in Gaza, which began when forces of Evil invaded southern Israel last year, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. The PA leader’s speech did not refer to the terror group at any point. He also mentioned the spiraling conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, accusing Israel of "genocide" in 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... , but not mentioning the terror group by name. —Skipping over the usual blather— Finally, Abbas presented what he said was a 12-point vision for the post-war management of Gaza, welcoming its review and amendment by the international community."I was raised in a middle-class family..." The first clause of the plan, he said, requires a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to attacks by Israeli settlers against Paleostinians in the West Bank. The second clause requires humanitarian aid  to be delivered en masse throughout Gaza.Third, Israel must fully withdraw its forces from Gaza, without establishing any buffer zones, and allow displaced Paleostinians to return to their homes, or at least to the since-razed towns where they lived before the war. Fourth, the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA, must be protected and allowed to continue operating, despite Israeli efforts to close it down due to accusations that some of its members took part in the October 7 attacks, and that Hamas has infiltrated it more broadly. Fifth, Abbas called for "international protection for the Paleostinians on their occupied land," saying, "We are not fighting Israel. We cannot fight Israel, and we don’t want to fight, but we want protection." Sixth, the Paleostinian government must have jurisdiction over the entirety of the Gaza Strip, including the Rafah Border Crossing and other entry points, Abbas said. Seventh, the PA will continue its efforts to engage in a "comprehensive national reform process." Abbas said Ramallah’s work on reform has been hailed by countries around the world and that it will be essential to rebuilding infrastructure in Gaza destroyed during the war. Eighth, the Paleostinian government will be the sole representative body for Paleostinians in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem and will have authority over all of those territories. "We will not ask for more, but we will not accept any less," Abbas said, adding that he is still prepared to hold national elections if Israel allows balloting to take place in East Jerusalem. Ninth, the Paleostinians will continue in their bid to obtain full-member status at the UN. Tenth, the UN General Assembly resolution ordering an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem within a year must be fully implemented in order to actualize a two-state solution. Eleventh, an international peace conference must be held within a year to implement the two-state vision. And twelfth, international peacekeeping forces must be established to protect the people of both countries. "These are the elements of our vision for the day after... And I call upon you to adopt this plan and to provide all the necessary means to guarantee its success," Abbas said. Danny Danon, Israel’s UN ambassador, responded to Abbas’s speech within minutes with a critical assessment. "Abbas spoke for 26 minutes and did not say the word ’Hamas’ once." "Since the massacre of October 7, Abbas has failed to condemn Hamas for their crimes against humanity," Danon said. "Only when he stands on the UN platform does he talk about a peaceful solution," he continued. "There is no greater hypocrisy and lie than this: Abbas’s legacy is one of chronic weakness in the face of terrorism and hatred." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in New York on Thursday shortly before Abbas spoke, and is set to deliver his own address to the General Assembly on Friday. |
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| Democrat-Run Philadelphia: More than 650 Shooting Victims Thus Far in 2024 |
| 2024-07-31 |
| [Breitbart] Data from Philadelphia’s City Controller indicates there have been more than 650 shooting victims in the Democrat-run city thus far in 2024. According to City Controller Christy Brady, 141 shooting victims shuffled off the mortal coil and 511 survived. Brady also pointed out that 85 percent of the shooting victims were male, 15 percent were female, and 81 percent of the victims were "Black (non Hispanic)." The Philadelphia Police Department maintains a database on homicides in the city that shows 153 people have been killed in Philadelphia year-to-date. The figure of 153 homicides is 38 percent below where the city was on the same day in 2023. On April 11, 2024, WHYY pointed to a Pew Charitable Trusts report which showed that the somewhat diminished homicide and "The total number of major crimes — which is the combined tally of |
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| Democrat Mayor Arrested for Possession of Child Porn hung out with celebrities and other important people |
| 2024-07-21 |
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Ex-Maryland mayor sentenced to more than a century in child pornography case may end up serving a fraction behind bars [MSN-Law&Crime] The 48-year-old former mayor of College Park, Maryland was sentenced to more than 100 years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to 140 charges for the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Associate Seventh Circuit Court Judge Karen H. Mason on Monday ordered Patrick Wojahn to serve 150 years in a state correctional facility, but decided to suspend 120 years of that sentence, authorities announced. Specifically, Wojahn in August pleaded guilty to 60 counts of distribution, 40 counts of possession, and 40 counts of possession of child sex abuse material with intent to distribute, records show. Judge Mason also sentenced Wojahn to serve five years of probation upon his release and to register as a sex offender. Under Maryland state law, defendants convicted of non Effectively, that means that if Wojahn is released and violates the conditions of his probation, he can be sent back to prison for the remaining 120 years of his sentence. THE SENTENCE In a news conference following the sentencing hearing, prosecutors said that the CSAM found on Wojahn’s electronic devices was quite disturbing and included pictures and videos of infants and toddlers being sexually abused by adults. Prosecutors reportedly also said that there was hundreds of child victims being sexually abused in the material found on Wojahn’s devices, noting that Sherlocks were able to identify 52 of the victims, at least one of whom had died by suicide. Several of those victims penned victim impact statements that prosecutors read in court, The Baltimore Sun reported. As previously reported by Law&Crime, Wojahn in March resigned as mayor of College Park — home to the University of Maryland campus — following his arrest in March 2023. Related: Patrick Wojahn 08/06/2023 Lefty Mayor sentenced to 30 years for kiddie porn Patrick Wojahn 03/04/2023 Dem Maryland Mayor and Pal of Pete Buttigieg Arrested on 56 Child Porn-Related Charges Patrick Wojahn 03/03/2023 At least 13 mayors arrested on child sex crimes since 2021 |
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| Nunchuck-wielding maniac attacks podcaster, is promptly cut loose by NYC judge who also freed alleged subway assailant |
| 2024-04-12 |
| [NY Post] A nunchuck-wielding nutjob with a lengthy rap sheet attacked a podcaster in Midtown — but was promptly cut loose with no bail by a Manhattan judge, The Post has learned. Bryant Kenyatta, 50, apparently left podcaster Stevie Lew with a fractured arm in the unprovoked attack at Seventh Avenue and 35th Street around noon March 12 — after following Lew and screaming, “F–k you! I’m going to f–k you up,” the victim said on a podcast. But Kenyatta — who has 12 prior arrests — was put back on the streets Tuesday on supervised release by Judge Marva Brown, the same judge who made headlines two months ago for setting another alleged violent attacker free. |
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| Shocking moment mob turn the tables on violent prowler after he was seen punching a woman on NYC street amid flurry of random attacks |
| 2024-04-10 |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A pack, not a herd.
They are seen descending on the man within seconds of him hitting the middle-aged victim, leaving him unconscious on the pavement. The crowd then disperses into the night - as if nothing ever happened. It is unclear when the incident took place, but the footage was circulating Monday. DailyMail.com has reached out to the NYPD for comment, as the attacks - mostly confined to the Lower East Side and Chelsea - continue. |
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| Is it possible to make chastity a national idea? |
| 2024-03-06 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Petr Akopov [REGNUM] One of the main myths of the liberal worldview is that in a totalitarian society the state controls everything, including family life and sexual relations. Therefore, it is not surprising that one of the news from the Seventh International Hippocratic Medical Forum held in Moscow found a deep response in the hearts of fighters against the “new Russian fascism.” |
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