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NYPD pulls the plug on its Times Square subway police robot just months after Mayor Eric Adams touted the $12,500 machine as 'part of the fabric' of the future
02/05/2024

Antediluvian bathing babes. Or maybe they're diluvian.
-Lurid Crime Tales-
Baby-faced fentanyl pushers: Five drug runners aged 17 to 21 are arrested after gang sold opioids to KIDS at a school in Mississippi
Africa Horn
Sudanese Air Force intensifies
raids on RSF's positions in Al-Jazirah State
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel says it has struck more
than 50 Hezbollah targets in Syria since Oct 7
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas targets Israeli forces in Gaza cities
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel army says raided Hamas
compound used to train for October 7
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Sentence of a resident of Dagestan
in the case of aiding militants was upheld

Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2024 02:41 || Comments || Link || [33 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Even this dress would get them killed in mooslem countries.
Posted by: Sheba Turnkey || 02/05/2024 9:40 Comments || Top||


Thank you!
We’ve done it again!

Fred says that in these few days y’all have generously donated enough to keep the lights on here for at least the next six months, barring something really drastic.

So now we can go back to keeping track of what’s being reported from the nastier parts of the world and here at home, and figuring out what it all means — with snark and poetry mixed in among the insights.

:-)





Posted by: trailing wife || 02/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good to hear!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/05/2024 11:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Rant on!
Posted by: Abu Laptop (same as Abu Uluque but on a different computer.) || 02/05/2024 12:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Excellent!
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/05/2024 13:49 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Baby-faced fentanyl pushers: Five drug runners aged 17 to 21 are arrested after gang sold opioids to KIDS at a school in Mississippi
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A group of teens and youths have been busted for allegedly being part of a fentanyl ring selling drugs to kids at schools near Jackson, Mississippi.

Five youths aged 17 to 21 are the latest suspects to be arrested in a long-running multi-agency prong following 'numerous' overdoses in the Rankin County area.
The new yuppies clearly don’t spend much on dressing for success.
It comes as the overdose fatality rate in the US topped 112,000 in a 12 month period last year for the first time, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Meanwhile, federal researchers now say drug overdoses are a leading cause of death among American adults below the age of 45.

Richland Police Department in Mississippi said they have recovered 'a substantial amount' of fentanyl pills during the latest drugs bust which saw four youths arrested.

Richland PD along with Rankin County Sheriff's Department and Madison PD have arrested eleven suspects so far.

The latest group includes Pedro Martinez Garcia, 17, who has been certified as an adult, who has been charged with selling fentanyl. He was out on bond over previous charges of selling fentanyl, possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, and possession of methamphetamine.
Clearly got started in his profession early.
Ayden Broome, 18, and Mollie McNally, 19, are each charged with selling fentanyl within 1,500 feet of a school, church or park.

Haley Dunlap, 19, and Brooklyn Goss, 21, have also each been charged with selling fentanyl, while Goss faces the additional charge of possession with intent to distribute.

Several other youths, including some as young as 16 years old, have also been arrested.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/05/2024 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm sure it's a bunch of DeShawns.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/05/2024 3:48 Comments || Top||

#3  ^The latest group includes Pedro Martinez Garcia
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/05/2024 4:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/05/2024 4:26 Comments || Top||

#5  As I pointed out in another post, African-Americans' special status is threatened by illegals - and even some African-Americans beginning to grasp this.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/05/2024 4:36 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ They must have surely known the deep state would eventually turn on them. Communism has proven time and time again, useful idiots are only useful for a season.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/05/2024 7:31 Comments || Top||

#7  "Huh?"
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/05/2024 7:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Low quality drugs won't do the job that the good stuff can. Let all drug users die of overdoses.
Posted by: Sheba Turnkey || 02/05/2024 9:31 Comments || Top||

#9  #6 /\ They must have surely known the deep state would eventually turn on them. Communism has proven time and time again, useful idiots are only useful for a season.
Posted by: Besoeker 2024-02-05 07:31


Beso,

Sadly, they haven't got a clue.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 02/05/2024 10:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Re #8, you think that way until it affects your family or friends.
Posted by: Chris || 02/05/2024 11:39 Comments || Top||

#11  Sheba Turnkey sounds like a Democrat to me. Sure, go ahead, sell that shit to children and watch them drop dead on the playground.

Now think about Joe Biden, Sheba. Here is a guy whose own son struggles with addiction to illegal narcotics and yet he won't do squat to stem the flow of narcotics into this country. Upwards of 100,000 people have died every year since Biden took office due to drug overdose and most of those cases involve fentanyl. For all Joe Biden knows, his own son could become one of those statistics. What kind of a man is it who stands idly watching that happen and does absolutely nothing to stop it? An evil man, a Democrat, a man who thinks all those illegal aliens will help his party do away with democracy and establish a totalitarian dictatorship in America.

Are you evil, Sheba?
Posted by: Abu Laptop (same as Abu Uluque but on a different computer.) || 02/05/2024 12:12 Comments || Top||

#12  #10 +1
Posted by: mossomo || 02/05/2024 13:26 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Sudanese Air Force intensifies raids on RSF's positions in Al-Jazirah State
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
ese Air Force intensified raids, on Sunday, on the positions of the Rapid Support Forces in al-Jazirah State, while the two warring parties continued to exchange artillery shelling in Khartoum State.

Sudanese warplanes bombarded RSF positions across al-Jazirah, including areas in the southern part near Sennar State and Beikah Bridge leading to al-Manaqil City in the central area of the state.

Military analysts interpret these attacks as a prelude to a broader operation aimed at recapturing control of the state, seized by the RSF in mid-December.

In recent days, states bordering al-Jazirah reportedly mobilized forces and threatened to engage the RSF. Also, the Sudanese army’s Commander-in-Chief recently declared an all-out war against the paramilitary group.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake...
in Khartoum State, the army and RSF exchanged artillery fire in several areas on Sunday.

The army artillery at the general command in Khartoum shelled RSF positions in the eastern Nile, while the RSF targeted the vicinity of the Signal Corps in Khartoum Bahri. Military sources claim that an army force destroyed RSF combat vehicles in Halfaya, north of Khartoum Bahri.

These developments follow the Sudanese army’s recent gains in Omdurman and the seizure of strategic locations within Khartoum Bahri.

Since mid-April, the war broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum, before it expanded to several states in the Darfur and Kordofan regions and the Gezira state.

Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [53 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  Which nation(s) is (are) arming the Sudan military?
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 02/05/2024 8:50 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Deaf Man, Others Arrested For Drug Trafficking In Kaduna, Over 14 Tons Of ‘Ghanaian Loud’
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2024 2024-02-05 02:58 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Today in Irony: Deaf Man and ‘Ghanaian Loud’
Posted by: Frank G || 02/05/2024 6:34 Comments || Top||

#2  The deaf are out of control!
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 02/05/2024 8:03 Comments || Top||


Bandits Strike In Buhari's Daura Hometown, Kill 90-Year-Old Woman
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2024 2024-02-05 02:57 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Banditti


CAR army, with Russian support, repelled an attack by Sudanese militants
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Troops of the Central African Republic (CAR), with Russian support, repelled an attack by Sudanese militants near a mining facility in Vakaga prefecture
...back in the bad old days, slaves were their cash crop, but now it’s oil...
in the north of the country, CAR radio station Lengo Songo reported.

“The armed forces of the Central African Republic and their Russian allies repelled <...> an attack by armed bandits <...> at a mining site in the village of Mamu,” the report says.

It is noted that the attack was carried out by a group of Sudanese bandits.

During the joint military operation, one of the leaders of the Coalition of Patriots for Change group,
...since 2020 a coalition of rebel groups that succeeded the primarily Christian Anti-balakas, formed to disrupt the presidential election that year in support of former President Francois Bozize. The next year, the Wagner group recruited a bunch of Anti-balakas to form their Black Russians auxiliary...
Mohamed Ali, nicknamed B-13, was eliminated, the radio station added.

As Regnum reported, on January 18, the Russian Ambassador to Bangui, Alexander Bikantov, spoke about negotiations on the deployment of a Russian base in the Central African Republic. According to him, the appearance of Russian forces would strengthen security in this country.

Currently, there are 1,890 Russian instructors in the CAR. He emphasized that the republican authorities want to increase their number, but the specific timing and possible size of the contingent are still being discussed, the diplomat added.
Posted by: badanov || 02/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under: Banditti

#1  The only reason for being in the CAR is the traffic in gemstones.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 02/05/2024 8:30 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemeni Armed Forces hold military exercises practicing war against 'Israel'
Too cute for words.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Units of the Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i Armed Forces conducted on Saturday a military exercise dubbed "Yemen is the support of Paleostine".

They simulated storming an Israeli settlement and blowing it up after capturing its soldiers.

The military exercise reflected the level reached by the Yemeni forces and their combat skills and readiness to fight battles against the nation’s enemies and to support the Paleostinian people.

Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2024 2024-02-05 02:51 || Comments || Link || [31 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  Looks like their society needs some further innovation before we should fear their wrath. The implementation of pavement would be a helpful start. Consider pavement to be a force multiplier for those used Toyota trucks that are the bread and butter of your formidable strike force.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/05/2024 10:56 Comments || Top||

#2  It's not the Toyota trucks, it's the whacky qat addicts who drive them.
Posted by: Abu Laptop (same as Abu Uluque but on a different computer.) || 02/05/2024 12:41 Comments || Top||


Fifteen US-British airstrikes hit northern and western Yemen
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The US-UK aggression aircraft launched 15 Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s targeting several areas of 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...
’s western and northern provinces, a military source said on Monday.

According to the military source, the US-Uk aggression targeted Ras Issa area in Hodeidah with eight airstrikes and bombed several areas al- Zaydiyah district with three airstrikes.

In Saada, the US-UK aggression aircraft waged four airstrikes on areas in the eastern part of the city.

No casualties have been reported so far.
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2024 2024-02-05 02:45 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  No need to bomb the Houthi back into the Stone Age. To avoid embarrassing civilian casualties, I am sure we aimed at some sand dunes and will offer reparations for any camel herds that were turned into an inadvertent baloney mist. If there are no more drone or missile strikes, I will be proved wrong, but I suspect this is for consumption in the States and no military objectives were achieved.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/05/2024 12:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Middle East Institute
https://www.mei.edu/publications/under-pressure...
Under pressure: Houthis target Yemeni government with economic warfare
WebFeb 27, 2023 the Houthis’ economic warfare and attacks on vital oil infrastructure will undoubtedly worsen poverty and exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in government-held areas. Given that Yemeni households have an average of 6.7 people, according to pre-war state figures, the livelihood of nearly 3.4 million people is now on the brink. ...(worsen poverty???)
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 02/05/2024 12:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Kinda like NKor firing at the ocean.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/05/2024 14:06 Comments || Top||

#4  households have an average of 6.7 people, according to pre-war state figures, the livelihood of nearly 3.4 million people is now on the brink

Given that, as far as I can tell, the average household is supported by one person working part time, while the rest sit around chewing qat..

Why have they not all starved to death already?
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/05/2024 14:45 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Sentence of a resident of Dagestan in the case of aiding militants was upheld
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The cassation court upheld the sentence of Dagestan resident Mugutdin Gadzhiev, who was sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of aiding militants. The court found the defense's arguments about Gadzhiev's innocence unconvincing.

The Court of Cassation in Pyatigorsk approved the verdict of the Khasavyurt District Court to 33-year-old native of the village of Andirei Mugutdin Gadzhiev, who was sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of complicity in participation in an illegal armed group, Kavkaz.Realii reports today*.

The first sentence to Mugutdin Gadzhiev was made in 2021, then he was sentenced to eight years in prison with the first year served in prison. In the summer of 2022, the cassation court overturned the verdict and sent the case for review, but in the summer of 2023, the district court again sentenced Gadzhiev to eight years in prison, the publication writes.

According to investigators, in March 2020, Mugutdin Gadzhiev helped militants in the Khasavyurt region and his brother Mikail Gadzhiev, who was sentenced to nine years in prison for aiding militants and possessing a carbine handed over by them. Investigators claimed that Mugutdin Gadzhiev, at his brother’s request, gave him a lift in his car; on the way, the brother bought groceries at the store and then handed over the packages to the people who stopped the car.

The convicted brothers did not admit guilt, claiming torture by security forces, and abandoned their initial testimony, the publication says.

The hearing on the cassation appeal against the verdict took place on January 16, as indicated in the Gadzhiev case file on the website of the Fifth Court of Cassation. The case file was updated on January 25, it contains the text of the cassation ruling.

According to the document, the lawyer of the convicted person expressed disagreement with the court decisions, considering them illegal. “Indicates that Gadzhiev was found guilty of committing actions that he did not commit, and the commission of which was not charged to him; Gadzhiev was accused of aiding only his brother and was not accused of assisting other persons, of which he was found guilty,” it says in the publication.

The defense pointed out that Gadzhiev’s brother was convicted not for participation in an illegal armed group, but for aiding a participant, “while liability for aiding an accomplice of a member of an illegal armed group is not provided for by law.”

“The new charge was not discussed in court and was not supported by the prosecutor, the court arbitrarily changed the charge, violating the right to defense; Gadzhiev’s guilt in aiding other persons is not supported by evidence, the convict did not know them and had no communication with them, everything happened at the request of his brother, who himself was an accomplice, which Gadzhiev did not know about,” the defense’s position is given in the document.

The lawyer asked to cancel the court decisions and transfer the case for a new trial. However, the court found the defense’s arguments unconvincing and upheld the punishment imposed on Gadzhiev. “The lawyer’s arguments about obtaining confessions from both brothers under illegal influence, which entails their inadmissibility, were verified by the court of first instance and reasonedly rejected in the verdict, with which there is no reason to disagree. These arguments were the subject of a separate check and were not confirmed,” - it is stated, in particular, in the cassation ruling.
Posted by: badanov || 02/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [31 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Pakistan: At least 10 killed in attack on police station
[BBC] At least 10 officers have been killed in an hours-long assault on a police station in Pakistan.

The officers lost their lives after more than 30 militants launched the attack in the early hours of Monday.

Four others were injured in the two-and-a-half hour battle, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's provincial police chief told news agency AFP.

It is not clear who was behind the attack, or if it is related to the election being held on Thursday.

There has been a rise in violence over the last few weeks, including a candidate for the National Assembly being shot dead in another part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last Wednesday.

However, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa also has a long history of strikes on government and security targets, as well as civilians, by the Pakistan Taliban, Islamic State and other militant groups.

According to Akhtar Hayat Gandapur, the regional police chief, the attacks were launched at about 03:00 local time Monday (22:00 GMT Sunday), first with sniper fire, followed by grenades.

The militants attacked from three different directions, and briefly had control of the police station, he added.

The spectre of violence is already hanging over Pakistan's voters on Thursday, with the Election Commission of Pakistan categorising half of the country's 90,675 polling stations as either "sensitive", meaning there is a risk of violence, or "most sensitive", indicating a higher risk. The classifications are based on the region's security situation and history of electoral violence.

However, the issue is also at the forefront of voters' minds amid recent rises in attacks and counter-attacks.

According to the Islamabad-based Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), 2023 saw the number of violent incidents across the country increase for the third year in a row, with the most recorded fatalities - including security forces, militants and civilians - since 2017.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had the highest number overall, with some 458 attacks and counter-terrorism operations during the course of the year, leading to almost 1,000 deaths.

One senior government official told AFP the province's southern region was facing a "severe threat", as militants were beginning "to blend in with civilian populations in urban areas, making it difficult to conduct operations against them".

Meanwhile, last week in Balochistan, a province in Pakistan's south-west with the second highest number of attacks and fatalities last year, a political leader was also shot and killed in his party's election office and a bomb attack following a political rally killed at least four people. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for that attack.

The military also killed 24 militants in an anti-terror operation in Balochistan last week.

Posted by: Skidmark || 02/05/2024 08:24 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Scores killed in overnight strikes as Hamas weighs Gaza truce proposal
Hamas started the war, so now they get to enjoy the results.
[GEO.TV] Scores were reported killed in overnight strikes across 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip on Sunday, after Hamas
...always the voice of sweet reason...
said it needed more time to consider a proposal that would halt its war with Israel in the besieged Paleostinian territory.

Gaza health ministry said early Sunday that at least 92 people had been killed overnight, including in what the group's media office said was an Israeli bombardment of a kindergarten in Rafah where displaced people were sheltering.

Concerns over a potential Israeli ground incursion into the southern border city have mounted in recent days, with hundreds of thousands of displaced seeking refuge from the fighting there in makeshift shelters and encampments.

Many made the journey from even harder-hit areas after being told the city was a safe zone, but strikes have continued there as well, with mourners gathering outside a local hospital Saturday to pray for the dead after another bombardment.

"The children were just sleeping and suddenly the bombardment happened. The bedroom fell on my children. God took one of my children and three escaped death," Ahmad Bassam al-Jamal told AFP, his voice breaking. "My child now is a martyr in heaven."

The city that had been home to 200,000 people now hosts more than half of Gaza's population, the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
said.

A representative of the UN humanitarian agency OCHA has called Rafah "a pressure cooker of despair", expressing concern for what might happen next.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant warned on Thursday that the military — which began its ground invasion in the territory's north and has gradually advanced south — "will also reach Rafah".

Civilians who fled to the city have been pushed up against the border with Egypt, trying to avoid areas exposed to bombardment and fighting in nearby Khan Yunis.

"We are exhausted," said displaced Gazook Mahmud Abu al-Shaar, urging "a ceasefire so that we can return to our homes".
So did you cheer when Hamas brought back hostages from Israel, or or were you one of the tens of thousand of calls the IDF with information?
Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [46 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 
Posted by: Woozle Glamp3497 || 02/05/2024 2:34 Comments || Top||

#2  ^^ General Eisenhower said when US forces came upon the Dachau concentration camp, to get photos and to compile the data, saying at some point people will claim it never happened.
Posted by: badanov || 02/05/2024 3:18 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: badanov || 02/05/2024 3:21 Comments || Top||

#4  The bedroom fell on my children. God took one of my children and three escaped death


Aah sheeeeeyit!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/05/2024 3:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Long time. Sab kuchh theek?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/05/2024 4:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes, fine. Was just busy in stuff. Just zapping in an' out.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/05/2024 4:26 Comments || Top||

#7  ^😃
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/05/2024 4:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Eisenhower was right and photos were required.

My Dad was there at the liberation of the camp. He told us that no one could talk about it afterwards. It was too horrific.

And that's all he ever told us about it.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/05/2024 7:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Ike was correct about a number of things. He's one of the reasons we've not had a military leader as president since. If you recall the fate of David Petraeus, you are on target.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/05/2024 7:34 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ And the ones in congress touting their "service" make me ill...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/05/2024 7:52 Comments || Top||

#11  /\ Ditto! Badges and lapel pins do NOT make a soldier, or a leader. He seldom wore all he'd be awarded, and never wore any of them on civilian attire. Lincoln served a short time during the Blackhawk wars, but seldom made mention of it.

Posted by: Besoeker || 02/05/2024 8:01 Comments || Top||

#12  no truce. populate gaza with israelis.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 02/05/2024 8:52 Comments || Top||

#13  Well it's just odd that we can go to jail for speaking about this and disagreeing with the official story as approved by the US government. America has robust free speech protections. Except *this* one issue.


And it must be asked: quo vadis? Who benefits?



We have to go to jail because it might disadvantage Jewish people. No, you're not alone noticing this. We have law after law after law that puts our interests last and foreign interests first. Why?
Posted by: Woozle Glamp3497 || 02/05/2024 8:55 Comments || Top||

#14  you see how they use this for *everything*?

Posted by: Woozle Glamp3497 || 02/05/2024 8:58 Comments || Top||

#15  gaza and west-bank have been thorns in israels feet since their inception. the logical eastern border of israel is the jordan river. the southern border of israel is egypt. I read where israel is about to import foreign workers to replace palestinians who were fired.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 02/05/2024 9:02 Comments || Top||

#16 
Posted by: badanov || 02/05/2024 9:07 Comments || Top||

#17  just like the USA is importing other nations peoples to replace block, low IQ and poor american workers.
Posted by: Sheba Turnkey || 02/05/2024 9:28 Comments || Top||

#18  #13 And it must be asked: quo vadis? Who benefits?

Of wanderers possibly slowest
Are Herbs. Who asks "Whither thou goest?"
Of those unenthused
About uppity Jews
Or, to tell the truth, even the lowest?
Posted by: Slinesh Shererong7698 || 02/05/2024 9:34 Comments || Top||

#19  Except *this* one issue.

Or Covid.
Or Hunter.
Or Biden family finances.
Or Border...
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/05/2024 10:41 Comments || Top||

#20  Every thing is antisemitic.

Just like anything another group hears is racist. Gee, who started that? /rhet question.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/05/2024 10:43 Comments || Top||

#21  Not everything is racist or antisemitic. Some things are homophobic.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/05/2024 12:52 Comments || Top||

#22 
Posted by: badanov || 02/05/2024 14:12 Comments || Top||

#23  Hamas sent this young man to his death.
Posted by: badanov || 02/05/2024 14:13 Comments || Top||

#24 
Posted by: badanov || 02/05/2024 14:16 Comments || Top||

#25  #18 #13 And it must be asked: quo vadis? Who benefits? Don't you mean cui bono?
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 02/05/2024 19:43 Comments || Top||

#26  "I am Spartacus!"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/05/2024 19:55 Comments || Top||


Hamas targets Israeli forces in Gaza cities
[GEO.TV] Paleostinian button men kept up attacks against Israeli forces on Sunday in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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's two main cities, weeks after they were overrun by troops and tanks, in a sign Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
still maintains some control ahead of any potential truce.

Nearly four months into the war triggered by the October 7 attacks, there was persistent fighting in Gaza City in the north of the densely populated enclave, and in Khan Younis in the south.

Israel said last week its main focus was now Rafah, on the southern border with Egypt, which has piled pressure on the hundreds of thousands of Paleostinian civilians who have fled their homes elsewhere and are sheltering there.

The advance on Rafah is also a worry for Cairo, which has said it would not admit any influx of Paleostinian refugees in what it describes as a bid to prevent any permanent dispossession.

An Israeli official told Rooters, however, that the military would coordinate with Egypt, and seek ways of evacuating most of the displaced people northward, ahead of any Rafah ground sweep.

Paleostinians reported Israeli tank shelling and air strikes there, including one that killed two girls in a house.

As mourners bade farewell to the dead children, a relative, Mohammed Kaloub, said the air strike hit a room full of women and kiddies in Rafah's al-Salam neighbourhood.

"There is no safe place in Gaza, from the wire fence to the wire fence [borders from north to south], there is no safe place," he told Rooters.

After conducting partial pullouts from Gaza City in the past few weeks that enabled some residents to return and pick through the rubble, Israeli forces have been mounting incursions. Before dawn on Sunday, air strikes destroyed several multi-storey buildings, including an Egyptian-funded housing project, residents said.

The Israeli military said it killed seven Hamas fighters in northern Gaza and seized weaponry. Israel's Army Radio said troops in the area were trying to penetrate two Hamas bunkers, a mission it said could take two weeks amid resistance by the Islamist faction.

"Gaza City is being wiped out," one resident who asked not to be named told Rooters, adding, "The [Israeli] pull-out was a ruse."

In Khan Younis, overnight Israeli shelling killed three Paleostinians, medics said. Residents reported street fighting raging in western and southern areas of the city, where Israel said a soldier was killed in a Paleostinian attack on Saturday.

Troops in Khan Younis seized a Hamas commander's compound and killed several button men as well as a grenade- and knife-wielding Paleostinian, the military said.

Israel last week announced the "dismantlement" of Hamas in Khan Younis. An Israeli official later clarified to Rooters that, of four Hamas battalions originally there, one remained.

Thousands of Paleostinians are feared lost amid Gaza ruins. Munir al-Bursh, director of the Gaza health ministry, said dozens of decomposing bodies were recovered from northern areas evacuated by Israeli forces.

Israel says it has killed some 10,000 fighters in its campaign against Hamas.

Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [36 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 
Posted by: badanov || 02/05/2024 14:09 Comments || Top||

#2  From the Jordan to the Med,
All die Juden must... er... must have fled!
Posted by: Snoper Photer8177 || 02/05/2024 16:45 Comments || Top||


Israel army says raided Hamas compound used to train for October 7
[GEO.TV] Israel’s army said Sunday its forces had raided a Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
training facility in 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...
where fighters prepared for the October 7 attack on Israel.

The facility in the Paleostinian territory’s main southern city of Khan Yunis contained models of Israeli military bases, armoured vehicles, as well as entry points to kibbutzim, the army said in a statement.

Soldiers also raided the office of Mohammad Sinwar, a senior commander in Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.

During the raid on the al-Qadisiya compound in Khan Yunis, the forces encountered several fighters who fired at them, the army said.
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [37 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 
Posted by: badanov || 02/05/2024 14:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Amazing! Where did they get all of those old German Mauser rifles ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/05/2024 14:32 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 Most of the people in the pic are already dead. The rest are on borrowed time.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/05/2024 14:33 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
At least four members of Iran-backed Fatemiyoun Brigade were killed in US strikes in Syria
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2024 2024-02-05 03:04 || Comments || Link || [32 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Are those pictures of them in hell with Soleimani? Doesn't look hot enough
Posted by: Frank G || 02/05/2024 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  On the one hand, as the old West saying went, "Some people just need killin'."

On the other hand, if you think a two million dollar missile to kill a fifty thousand dollar drone is a bad deal, wait till you see what it cost to whack these mooks.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 02/05/2024 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Humanitarian is the password
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/05/2024 9:39 Comments || Top||

#4  After we published the possible targets and schedule for our response, I assume these are the mouth breathers who nobody bothered to tell while everyone else telecommuted or took PTO.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/05/2024 10:52 Comments || Top||

#5  sounds bout super
Posted by: Chris || 02/05/2024 11:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Our government announces the success of these strikes with great gusto, but such success depends on whether they achieve their purpose.
That purpose was, I presume, to discourage attacks on American targets by our enemies.
The organizations attacked claim that they will continue attacks on on us.
While they may be lying, this reaction is not a sign that the attacks acheived their aimss.
Posted by: By now || 02/05/2024 12:40 Comments || Top||


Israel says it has struck more than 50 Hezbollah targets in Syria since Oct 7
[GEO.TV] The Israeli military said on Saturday that since the outbreak of 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
war on October 7 it had struck more than 50 targets in Syria linked to the Iranian-backed Lebanese movement Hezbollah.

The remarks, in a briefing by chief military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari that mainly discussed efforts to beat back Hezbollah attacks launched in solidarity with Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
, were a departure from Israel's usual reticence about Syria operations.

"Everywhere Hezbollah is, we shall be. We will take action everywhere required in the Middle East," Hagari said.

Israeli forces have attacked 34,000 Hezbollah targets 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...
, including 120 border surveillance outposts, 40 caches of missiles and other weaponry and more than 40 command centres, Hagari said. He put the number of enemy dead at more than 200.
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [42 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Better than US in Yemen.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/05/2024 14:11 Comments || Top||



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