France Riots: Ambivalence and Augmentation In just a bit over a week of time, France's ambivalence toward rioting students has led to augmentation. Explosive augmentation of students on the street, a metamorphosis in demographic which now includes a greater number of adults roaming about in packs, augmentation in violence and arson, and now the entry - stage left - of union activists and activities. There is an overall augmentation in crime. And a government ambivalent to the powder keg, allowed for augmentation. France should have taken their cue from us - and our mismanagement of the Antifa and Black Lives Matters movements. (For our part, the acceptable embrace of our Constitutional right to peaceful assembly which then seemed unable to recognize that when peaceful assembly crosses over into criminal activities in the public square, there is the need for a law enforcement response.) In our case, it was not our ambivalence which did not allow ...
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Afternoon Images Latest mural in Revolution Square. PM Qalibaf needs to schedule his left hip replacement. The manner in which he is seated is a dead giveaway. (I do a head to toe assessment on everyone I meet.) Or he can schedule a few weeks of physical therapy and load up on NSAIDs. In the category "Some people never learn" - the "normies" are informed the Hamas "homies" will do it again. Image of Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (deceased) in October of 1986. He had a long run, for sure.
Savagery Who is this god? https://oct7map.com/ My strongest memories from this day: The boot which smeared mud on the facial features of a deceased Israeli soldier. Deceased females, prone and with their arms slung out; like broken dolls. The Israeli soldier being pulled out of a tank. A video which showed an individual crying for help after a grenade was thrown into a small enclosed space with multiple individuals who had sought refuge. The facial features were peeled off the skull and what was left was a mouth crying for help. I have never seen anything so hideous. A terrorist holding a Jewish baby. Young Jewish boys in their underwear and smeared with blood. They were seated at a table. They had just witnessed the death of their parents. If I recall properly, one of the terrorists was casually drinking a bottle of water. Terrorists walking though a compound which was eerily silent, the air punctuated with the takbir of the fighters.
Ketabchi * What I am reading tonight. But my thoughts really take me to October 7th. For the first time, a name emerges from the closed manufacturing rooms to the forefront of the Ministry of Defense: Mehrdad Akhlaghi Ketabchi. He is not a commander seen in the front rows, nor a face habitually chased by cameras. He is of that type known by his impact, not his image: a shadow man who spent his years within the aerospace industries system, from the lowest rungs of management to the presidency of the organization in 2014, and afterward at the heart of the defense industries. His name appeared early in sanctions lists, as president of the Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group, then in European Union documents as a manager in defense and aerospace industries, with his date of birth listed there as September 10, 1958. As for his image, it remained rare. In the circulating narrative, he is likened to those the Mossad's hand has not reached: a name that circulates in rooms, not streets, and ...
Russia Offers up a Parting Gift of the Plague... to forty-five nations. https://x.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/2106116503045394655 What a bunch of assholes. Sure. Chelyabinsk is 1,736 miles from Irkutsk. I get it. But I also remember how a man boarded a flight from Liberia, landed in Dallas, and brought the gift of Ebola to our city. He arrived asymptomatic and died four days later. But not before managing to infect nurses in Dallas and turn our hospitals into war zones with triage tents set up in the parking lots. I still remember some of the conversations we had as nurses, when realizing that nurses in our region contracted Ebola from this Patient Zero. The Soviet Union also gave us Chernobyl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster And in trying to convince the world that the Anthrax they released into the wind was attributable to God - you know like the gastroentestinal anthrax which killed the animals in the days of Egypt and Moses - they continue...
Time for the US Mission to Yemen to Depart Like... yesterday - as mentioned in my prior post. URGENT | "Operation Dawn of Yemen and the Reversal of Balances!".. Government forces announce the start of the attack toward the capital Sana'a Details of the ongoing field situation in Yemen: The Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces announced the launch of a broad strategic operation named "Dawn of Yemen" to advance toward the capital Sana'a, amid fierce clashes and the ignition of navigation fronts in the Red Sea: - Intense strikes and air support: The spokesperson for the coalition forces announced the participation of 100 fighter jets in carrying out more than 300 airstrikes on Sana'a and the western coast where Houthi positions are located. - Saudi Al-Ikhbariya channel broadcast initial footage of the operation, while the Yemeni army spokesperson (Colonel Majed Al-Nuzaili) confirmed the regaining of control over the "Dhu Bab" district and a...
Yemen It seems intuitive enough. Instability complicates negotiations. The Shi'a population also have a bearing on domestic political issues because the Shi'a have a concept called "the party of the wind"; which they understand very well. When in a minority position, they tie their allegiance to the rebel's mast if the rebel is winning. But they easily switch sides as one party gains leverage and dominance over the other. This action is partly based on cultural and historical interface regarding their survival in a Sunni-dominant nation. They do not want to be on the receiving end of a purge. Regarding the video of the home of the Sultan - which I viewed but did not include - it reminds me of scenes from when the RSF entered homes in Khartoum. The home is empty, the occupants having fled for their lives. So once again, the internal instability will make negotiations difficult - and the ThreatCon against our diplomatic staff deserves ...