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Good Morning

Biden announces $13 BILLION package to bring energy costs down for low and moderate income families to help with winter bills: Critics call plan an election 'gimmick' with just six days until the midterms
Thursday November 3rd, 2022

Lily Brayton
Documents Reveal Wagner's Golden
Ties to Sudanese Military Companies
Khartoum's autocratic enabler: Russia in Sudan
Perspective from the Breakaway Republics:
Invasion of Ukraine: November 2nd, 2022
Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify
Ukraine: Operational Brief November 2nd (updated)
FSB reported on the prevention of
a terrorist attack in the Stavropol Territory
FBI arrests far-right Boogaloo Boi, 29, for 'plotting to kill government officials while stockpiling machine guns and a rifle-mounted grenade launcher': Ohio extremist joked about Paul Pelosi 'staying home and getting hammered'
Teacher Anisah Burks admits to bringing
THC gummies to preschool that hospitalized 4 toddlers

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#1  It's the eyes.
For me it's always the eyes.
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#2 
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#3  Ewwwww
Posted by: Threaque Whomong9408 || 11/03/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Now Snakes, there is no need to be that way. You will not gain any sympathy with Rantburgers by posting nasty comments about a long time regular Rantburger like Skidmark. You might find yourself being directed to leave the internet because you're too fucking stupid.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/03/2022 12:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Clearly I’m missing vocabulary, but it doesn’t look worth learning.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2022 19:53 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Teacher Anisah Burks admits to bringing THC gummies to preschool that hospitalized 4 toddlers
[NYPOST] A Texas preschool teacher is facing criminal charges after four students were exposed to THC gummies.

Anisah Burks admitted to bringing a Ziploc bag filled with the candy to the Primrose School in Prosper, a suburb located 40 miles north of Dallas, Fox Dallas reported.

Children got into the bag and four students, who are all younger than 2 years of age, were taken to a hospital. They have all been released.

Doctors determined the cause of their illness was from THC, a substance found in marijuana, the news outlet reported. Burks had left the school before first responders arrived.

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
she left behind a jacket with a gummy candy inside, according to police. She has been charged with felony possession of a controlled substance and four counts of injury to a child and has been fired from the school.
So, "admitted" after the baggie was found
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  She appears to have shrapnel embedded in her face.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/03/2022 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Scarring from piercings?
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2022 0:18 Comments || Top||

#3  That face practically invites you to shoot at it.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/03/2022 3:38 Comments || Top||

#4  In this case, "teacher" is sorta like "jogger." Calling it something does not make it so.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/03/2022 8:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe it's time to bring back Flogging, Pillories, Stocks, and the Dunking Stool.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 11/03/2022 9:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Who hired this individual and why are they still employed?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/03/2022 11:53 Comments || Top||

#7  I imagine it’s as hard to find pre-school/daycare teachers as it is to find retirement home staff, so generally the standards involve breathing and heartbeat.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2022 19:58 Comments || Top||

#8  The school is a franchise daycare, infant through kindergarten plus afterschool care and summer camp. And they are indeed hiring.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2022 20:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Maybe they can infuse THC into candy corn or circus peanuts. Probably won’t prevent poisoning 2 year olds but the rest of us will be safe.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/03/2022 21:14 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Daily Evacuation Brief November 3, 2022
[AfghanDigest] LAST 24 HOURS
  • BADAKHSHAN EXECUTIONS REPORTED – Several sources and eyewitnesses reported that 12 NRF prisoners were executed by the Taliban in the Raghistan District of northeast Badakhshan shortly after being arrested. A Taliban source claimed a video of the executions was to be released soon but orders from Kandahar had mandated the videos be erased. This information has yet to be verified.

  • BUS BOMBING IN 5TH POLICE DISTRICT – 8 people were wounded in a roadside bomb attack that targeted a bus carrying employees of the Rural Rehabilitation and Development Ministry. No group had yet claimed credit for the attack and no further information was available.


CONFLICT TRACKER
Nangarhar: An unidentified band of fighters is said to have attacked a Taliban battalion-sized element in the Shinwaru district. 4 Talibs were reportedly killed in the clash. The incident is thought to have occurred during the night.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2022 05:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Taliban-Carrying Bus Explosion in Afghan Capital Injures 7 People
[Khaama] Seven people were maimed by a blast that struck a bus carrying Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
administration personnel in Kabul, the Afghan capital, on Wednesday morning, according to Taliban security officials.

The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development employees were traveling in a transport vehicle when it was targeted in a kaboom in Kabul city’s police district 5, according to Taliban Kabul police front man Khalid Zadran.

The Taliban security official, Zadran, stated that the earth-shattering kaboom in Kabul injured at least 7 people, who are said to be the administrative employees of the Taliban.

Khalid Zadran further stated that the earth-shattering kaboom that injured at least 7 people on Wednesday, November 2, was caused by the detonation of a roadside mine.

No group or organization has so far grabbed credit for the earth-shattering kaboom in Kabul. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
the Khorasan branch of the ISIS terrorist group has grabbed credit for other recent similar explosions.

Five medical staff working for Taliban security forces were slain last month in a shooting attack on a vehicle in western Afghanistan, which the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
grabbed credit for.

The recent incidents show that the Taliban’s assertions that they have maintained security in the country are futile, as the group itself suffered losses in the recent explosions and attacks.
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Horn
Suspected Al-Shabaab attackers abduct four in Kenya
[ShabelleMedia] Four people are missing after suspected al-Shabaab
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
gunnies hijacked an ambulance that was ferrying patients to a hospital in Elwak, Mandera County.

The attack took place as a driver raced with a patient and two paramedics on board on Tuesday evening.

Police said a major operation launched later on did not bear fruits as the attackers had crossed the border to Somalia with the Kenyans.

All the victims are locals and there are high chances they will be released, officials involved in the search said.

By Wednesday, no word on the missing persons had been received from Somalia, police said.

Witnesses and police said the four included two paramedics based at Lafey Sub-County hospital, a patient, and the driver of the ambulance and were en route to Elwak hospital for referral services. The four were identified as the 40-year-old patient-Moulid Abdi, Hassan Shaaban (driver), Abdirashid Billow Hussein and Aden Dai, both of who are staff at Lafey hospital.

North Eastern police boss George Seda said the incident happened at about 5.50 pm. He said the victims were driven towards Somalia through Komar Qota near Wante area.

"We have contacted the administration on the other side in efforts to secure the release of the four Kenyans," he said.

The attackers were armed with rifles at the time of the incident.

The area has been facing attacks and threats from the gunnies who are roaming there. Such attacks are common and they are usually solved through dialogue and the use of elders in the area.

Elwak is near the Kenya-Somalia border and is usually breached by Lions of Islam who attack at will. Two weeks ago, the Lions of Islam went to two mosques in the area and lectured those present telling them to join them in their quest to fight non-Moslems. They also attacked two communication masts before escaping.

Terrorists have been targeting security installations in a series of incidents and destroying them. They at times throw explosives, which don’t explode.

The border region has borne the brunt of repeated attacks from the gunnies who are at times aided by residents. The Lions of Islam at times plant explosives on the routes used by security agencies and attack them.

Somalia has not had a stable government after the fall of Siad Barre in 1991.
Two paramedics, their driver, and their patient were on Tuesday evening abducted by suspects of Al-Shabaab militants, police said, before being driven to neighboring Somalia through the Kenya-Somalia border in Mandera County.

Police reports indicate that the four were ambushed by the militants while driving on an ambulance belonging to the Mandera County government in the northeast of the country, as the driver was taking them to Laffey Sub County Hospital in the region.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2022 01:38 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa Subsaharan
Anti-Narcotic Agency, NDLEA Nabs 130 Drug Suspects In Kaduna
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Edo Government To Conduct Autopsies On 10 Fresh Corpses Discovered In State
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Death toll from migrant boat sinking in Greece rises to 20
[Rudaw] Rescue crews searching for dozens of migrants colonists missing from the sinking of a sailing boat in rough weather off an island near Athens were recovering mostly bodies on Wednesday, with only one more survivor — the 12th so far — plucked from the sea.

The coasties said it had recovered 20 bodies by Wednesday afternoon. Thirty-six people were still reported missing.

A total of 12 people, all men, have been rescued and taken to the island of Evia, east of the Greek capital. Eleven of them — six Egyptians, three Afghans and two Iranians — were picked up on Tuesday, while a helicopter spotted the 12th in the sea on Wednesday.

The initial nine survivors, who had been picked up from an uninhabited islet shortly after the boat sank in the early hours of Tuesday, had told authorities they had set sail from Izmir, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
, with a total of 68 people on board.

The boat ran into trouble in very rough seas and eventually capsized and sank in the notoriously treacherous Kafireas Strait, between the islands of Evia and Andros.

The tragedy was the latest in a series of deadly migrant boat shipwrecks in Greek seas that have left dozens of people missing or dead.

A separate search and rescue operation continued for a third day Wednesday in the eastern Aegean off the island of Samos, which lies near the Ottoman Turkish coast, for seven people still missing after a dinghy reportedly carrying 12 people capsized on Monday. Four people, who the coasties said were all Paleostinians, were rescued on Monday and one body was recovered on Tuesday.

Greek Shipping Minister Giannis Plakiotakis, who is also responsible for the coasties, slammed Turkey on Tuesday for allowing "ruthless smuggling rings to send people to their deaths, with Greece saving as many as it can."

Thousands of people fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa, Asia and the Middle East attempt to enter the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
through Greece each year.

Most make the short but often perilous crossing from the Ottoman Turkish coast to nearby Greek islands in often unseaworthy inflatable dinghies. Others opt to attempt to circumvent Greece in overcrowded sailboats and yachts heading straight to Italia.

At least 27 people drowned in two separate shipwrecks last month. In one, 18 people died when a boat that had set sail from Turkey sank off the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos. In the other, a yacht carrying about 100 people sank in a gale, killing at least nine and leaving six missing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2022 01:38 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


India-Pakistan
Khan Undergoes Surgery After Surviving Assassination Attempt, Shooter Confesses
[ZH] Update(11:44ET): Pakistan security services have confirmed an attempted assassination against the country's ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan earlier in the day at a political rally.

A senior leader from Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said Khan was shot in the foot, for which he's currently undergoing surgery. "The former Pakistan cricket captain was taken from the rally site just outside the town of Gujranwala to receive treatment in Lahore, around a two-and-a-half-hour drive away," CNN writes.

Bystanders and police could be seen jumping on a young suspected gunman, who was taken into custody at the scene immediately after series of shots rang out at the political parade, at which point Khan and his staff were standing on a large container. At least six were injured, and one person was killed in the attack:

Police said they detained a man suspected of firing shots at the rally. The male suspect was arrested with a 9mm pistol and two empty magazines, police said.

At least one person was killed in the incident, according to Faisal Javed, a senior PTI politician and close Khan ally who received a wound to the head in the attack. The victim’s name has not been released.

There's now concern that political violence could break out, given that the shooting came just as Khan was leading a protest march to the country's capital Islamabad...

"Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan started a protest march to the nation’s capital Islamabad in the latest attempt to press the government to call for early elections, while hitting back at the military’s spy chief," Bloomberg reported.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2022 12:48 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2022 12:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Khannnn!!!
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2022 14:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Man, I miss Liveleak.com. They would be all over a topic like this. Multiple camera angles. But it's gone, it was too embarrassing to have America's support for Al-Qaeda exposed on a daily basis.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 11/03/2022 15:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Gummint hitman.

In the 'Stain you never leave office gracefully and retire. There are no pensions and foundations. There's only jail or exile. You either run off to Londonabad to plot your return, or you stay and agitate until you're offed.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/03/2022 15:40 Comments || Top||

#5  "Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan started a protest march to the nation’s capital Islamabad in the latest attempt to press the government to call for early elections, while hitting back at the military’s spy chief," Bloomberg reported.

Looks like that got off on the wrong foot...
Posted by: Raj || 11/03/2022 19:33 Comments || Top||

#6  He may have to adjust his runup.
Posted by: Elmoting Flerelet5519 || 11/03/2022 20:17 Comments || Top||


Nigerian Woman Arrested At Indian Airport For Allegedly Smuggling 4kg Heroin
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Iraq
Leader of the New Generation bloc, Shaswar Abdul-Wahid, heads to Turkey
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


National Security Council (INSC) detains high-ranking officers smuggling 75 million liters of fuel daily from Al-Zubair field in Basra.
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  You'd think someone would notice 75 million liters missing daily?

"Abdul? What was our output Tuesday?"
"Four barrels"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2022 8:35 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Officer seriously wounded in West Bank car-ramming; attacker shot dead — IDF
[IsraelTimes] Footage shows assailant running over victim at checkpoint near Modiin, then getting out and trying to attack him with pickaxe before injured soldier shoots him

An officer in the Israel Defense Forces was seriously maimed Wednesday morning in a car-ramming attack at a West Bank checkpoint east of the Israeli city of Modiin and near the West Bank settlement of Beit Horon, the military said.

Footage of the incident at the "Bell" checkpoint, where Routes 4436 and 4437 from Beit Ur and Ramallah hit the major Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway Route 443, showed a van hitting the officer before the driver gets out of the car and appears to try to attack the victim with a pickaxe.

The injured officer then shot the Paleostinian assailant, killing him.

He was named by Paleostinian media as Habas Rayan, 54, from the West Bank village of Bayt Duqu. Israeli media said two of his sons have served time in prison for terror offenses, and one of them is still behind bars.

The officer, in his 20s, was taken to the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, where he was listed in serious but stable condition, according to medical officials.

The incident came a day after Israel’s national election, during which a closure was imposed on border crossings for Paleostinians between the West Bank and Israel. The closure of the crossings had ended at midnight between Tuesday and Wednesday.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2022 05:30 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  injured officer then shot the Paleostinian assailant, killing him.

Salute to the officer.

And kill the paleo's family in revenge. All of it.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/03/2022 12:15 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS claims responsibility for a machine gun attack that killed an Asayish leader in a village in the northern countryside of Syria’s Deir Ezzor
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Clashes, for the fourth consecutive day, in Daraa city between local gunmen and ISIS militants
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


With 45 days on the Iranian demonstrations, the death toll rise up to 287 death case in the cities and towns of Iran
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  I dont think this ever got the necessary critical mass and largely remained a student protest (outside their stans and tribal areas). General Strikes never occurred. Trade Unions mostly stayed out of it. Things seem to be fizzling out after regime threatened protesters over the weekend. Could be just a lull.
Posted by: mossomo || 11/03/2022 12:35 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Hudna! (in Farsi)
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2022 12:40 Comments || Top||



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