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Welcome to the World Situation Report For April 3rd, 2022

The goal of this column is to present news from around the world that is not often – if ever – covered by more mainstream entities, using local sources wherever possible, but occasionally using news aggregators not used, again, by the mainstream media. Also, please note that we do use links to Wikipedia; while Wikipedia is well-known as a largely-useless site for any kind of serious research, it does serve as a launch-pad for further inquiry, in addition to being generally free of malicious ads. As with anything from Wikipedia, always verify their sources before making any conclusions based on their pages.

This column will cover the preceding week of news.


 

North America

 

Starting off in the United States, a wave of bomb threats against both shopping centers and various schools kept emergency responders busy across the country this week. While some calls were made by persons calling various locations, there is an uptick in threats of this type being made via social media platforms such as TikTok, from ‘dummy’ accounts; this is interesting, as it may signal an evolution of the waves of mass robo-call bomb threats against K-12 schools that plagued the United States and several European nations several years ago. The Freedomist will continue to monitor the situation, to see if this suspicion develops into a trend.

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Turning to Mexico, an “operator” of the Sinaloa Cartel, one Manuel Andrés, alias “El Griego”, was assassinated in a restaurant in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, just over the border from Arizona, yet another casualty in that country’s long-running drug- and gang-related violence.

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South America

Turning to South America, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW), issued a report on the 28th of March accusing the army of Venezuela, long-suffering under the rule of dictator Nicolás Maduro, of actively aiding Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) against the forces of a rival guerilla group, the so-called “Joint Eastern Command” – a little-known breakaway faction of the mostly-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). According to HRW’s report, the rival guerilla groups began skirmishing in January of 2022, fighting over control of territory and illegal activities in Colombia’s Arauca state and Venezuela’s Apure state, with reports of mass kidnappings, assassinations of local leaders and waves of internally-displaced refugees numbering in the thousands attempting to flee the violence.

In Columbia proper, meanwhile, national leaders blamed the bombing of a police station which killed two children and injured 39 others in the Colombian capital city of Bogota last week on other, unspecified dissidents of the FARC.

This comes as a report of some 11 FARC dissidents belonging to the splinter faction “Segunda Marquetalia” were killed in skirmishing with Colombian forces near the nation’s southern jungle town of Puerto Leguizamo. Many of the various splinter groups to have rejected the 2016 ceasefire and official disbanding of the FARC have gone to work as muscle for various cocaine cartels, guarding the coca fields and the resultant shipments.

 

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Africa

In Africa, the Nigerian state of Abuja saw a sudden spate of violence, as unidentified gunmen abducted traditional ruler His Royal Highness (HRH) Alhaji Hassan Shamidozhi. This comes as bandits attacked a train from Abuja, bound for Kaduna. Army units promptly responded to the attack on the train, reportedly carrying nearly one-thousand passengers, but reports indicated that some number of people were kidnapped by the attackers, and carried off. Elsewhere along the same rail line, police bomb squad units defused an IED planted on the rails near the town of Rigasa.

In the Central African nation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), rebels of the “M23” group reportedly shot down a United Nations (UN) helicopter (reportedly an Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma), killing eight peacekeepers and UN observers, six military personnel from Pakistan, and a pair of observers from the Russian Federation and from Serbia in the country’s North Kivu province. The group, attached to the UN’s MONUSCO mission in the country, were assessing the situation in the province, following a wave of attacks in the region by the M23 group that has sent thousands fleeing for safety. The M23 group has denied the attack, claiming that the helicopter was shot down by DRC armed forces.

On the continent’s Indian Ocean coast, Mozambique’s government made a statement that its army, the Mozambique Defense Armed Forces (FADM), had conducted a “successful operation” in the Macomia District of the nation’s Cabo Delgado province, reportedly destroying a “hideout”. This comes shortly after another operation, on Matemo Island, part of the Quirimbas Islands group, that reportedly killed some twenty Islamist terrorists from ISCAP. However, the conflict – simmering since 2017, with occasional bouts of significant combat – is difficult to report on, as Mozambique’s government actively restricts reporting on the conflict.

 

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The Middle East

 

The region remained largely quiet this week, “quiet” in comparison to the normal regional news cycle. In a surprise announcement on March 30th, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi government in Yemen said that it was suspending military operations in the Arabian Peninsular nation, as a goodwill gesture to allow peace talks to take place between the various Yemeni factions, in an attempt to end the long-running civil war in the country. This comes, as the Saudi government “blacklisted” some ten individuals and 15 entities for facilitating the financing of the Houthi movement.

In Pakistan, six Pakistani soldiers were killed, along with three terrorists, in an assault on an army post in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on the 30th. Meanwhile, other insurgents blew up a rail line near the Kotri area of Sindh province; no groups had claimed responsibility for the attack as of press time. Elsewhere in Sindh, a special antiterrorism court sentenced Zahidullah Suleman and Bismillah Haji Lala to death for plotting an attack on the Sindh Assembly building in an attempt to rally support for a war against the state. The court also laid down life sentences on three other defendants – Muhammad Qasim, Inamullah Bilal and Gul Muhammad – on a range of charges including possession of explosives, police encounter and attempted murder.

 

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Southern Asia

Finally, turning to India, police in Rajasthan arrested several suspects believed to be connected to Islamist terror groups, seizing approximately 12kg/26lbs of completed explosive devices and bomb-making components. Elsewhere, India remained mostly quiet, although a scattering of IED’s, most suspected to have been placed by Maoist Communist insurgents, injured several people throughout the “Red Corridor“.

 

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How Can We Think About This 21st Century War?

by Betsy Dorminey

Mature Language Warning

Faced with the horror of the unfolding war in Ukraine a young linguist of my acquaintance decided to conduct a bit of “man in the street” polling, 21st-century style.  The original post featured a screen shot of a Russian language post: her notes and translation appear below.

I speak a little Russian, so I’ve been reading the Russian-language side of Reddit.  Selection bias since it’s Russians posting on Western media, but since it’s *in* Russian it should be mostly free of trolls.  Most of them are really not happy with Putin.  Again, my language skills are rough but my translation:

Title:  Jesus Christ, where we’re headed is completely insane

Text:  Fucking hell, it’s already been six days of this shit.  Six days of following this clusterfuck and I can’t believe this isn’t a simulation, that it’s not some experiment on hamsters.  I’ve already gone stark raving mad, I can’t sleep from the panic.  What’s next?  How can we live like this? Why are the war hawks yelling “this is what Ukrainians deserve, our fight is righteous!”  Why the fuck does anyone support this goddamn regime?  God fucking fuck dammit HELP

Translator’s note:  hard for me to translate the vast arsenal of curse words in the Russian language, the post was peppered with them.

The official line, of course, is different.  State-controlled media portrays it as a “special military operation,” “de-nazification,” or “protection of Russian-speaking peoples.  But as Sean Illing reports in Vox dissenting journalists have fled and we know Russians are protesting the Ukraine invasion.  The state has imposed draconian penalties on dissent.  (Fifteen years in the slammer for using the “w” word!)  This expletive-laden cri de coeur really brings it home.

Good news is hard to find.  As Kyle Smith observes in The New York Post, journalism suffers when “what neutral principles do we stand for?” is replaced by “which side are we on?” Either you live in an authoritarian country like Russia where government controls the media, or you live in an authoritarian country like the U.S. where the media controls the government.  Ironic, isn’t it, since technology empowers anyone with internet access and a keyboard to reach the world.  You have to hunt, and peck. Fortunately there are clever youngsters out there who know how to bypass parental/governmental controls through social media.

Forget war crimes, treaties, the UN, and international tribunals.  War is a crime against humanity.  Killing people and destroying their homes is bad, and wrong.  Pious accords and laws on the conduct of warfare don’t make it right, or better.  An exceptional article by Dexter Filkins in the September 8, 2021  New Yorker asks, “Did Making the Rules of War Better Make the World Worse?”  Our obsession with rules has attempted to persuade us that wars can be legally waged in accordance with them.  No fair targeting civilians, okay?

Filkiins focuses on Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War,  by Samuel Moyn, a professor of history and of jurisprudence at Yale.  Moyn evokes Clausewitz and Tolstoy, Sherman, Afghanistan, and the My Lai massacre, and identifies a turning point in 1977 when the Geneva Convention was updated to impose rules on combatants where hitherto only destructive force had prevailed.  Moyn bemoans such legal niceties for damping the public outcry that should induce politicians to end such conflicts:  “”Humane” war [i]s a consolation prize for the failure to constrain the resort to force in the first place.”  (extra quotation marks mine.)  Protest is how a population responds to war and strives to end it.  See above.

It’s far from clear that having military lawyers second-guess generals has produced less war, or a safer world.  In the end, force will out.  As Joseph Stalin reportedly asked, how many divisions has the Pope?  I’ve got to believe Putin is familiar with that line.

Filkins takes issue with some of Moyn’s conclusions, but agrees in the end that “efforts to curb the cruelty of military force may have backfired.”  Fleets of drones and “smart bombs” and oceans of intel haven’t kept us out of armed conflicts.  For all its military might the United States hasn’t really “won” a war since 1945.  And, having just concluded two “forever wars” – Iraq and Afghanistan – Filkins cautions that the U.S. may be on the brink of a new cold war.  Or a hot one.

Conventions about how to wage war within limits have reduced the incentives to stop fighting. I can only hope that the players moving these lethal chess pieces around the Kievan Rus will stop and think a minute.  Assuming, of course, that they can gain access to reliable news about it.

Because, to echo the Russian post, what the fuck? We can’t live like this.

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Betsy Dorminey is an attorney in Georgia and an entrepreneur in Vermont. Her columns have appeared in the American SpectatorWestern JournalTownhall, Vermont Digger, and The Hill.

 

 

Slapping the Mask Off – How American “Leftism” is Destroying Adult Civility

Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, and in so doing he ripped the mask off the American Billionaire Left, exposing the dangerous ideology by revealing through the reactions of “Americans” the division between the adults of America and the Peter Pan adults of the American Left, who clearly have rejected Bill or Rights values for authoritarian, police state values.

But this slap began in 2015, when the Punch a Nazi meme was born, the meme that reinforced the notion that human beings have a right to physically harm and threaten others for their beliefs and words alone.

As Donald J. Trump rose in 2015, many of my former friends started to separate from me either because I hadn’t gone far right or I hadn’t gone far left.  As Trump rose, he emboldened far right elements just through his success alone and his use of certain phrases that seem to come from this same far right.

America First was once genuinely a dog whistle for America for the Whites, though I have no doubt Trump was not intending it as a dog whistle for white supremacism.  Even if he wasn’t, the marketing decisions of the Trump campaign both emboldened the far left and the far right.

As white supremacists marched, Antifa was able to use the fear of the white man to gain recruits, mostly from suburban upper middle class white neighborhoods.  In the course of the great meme wars of 2015, the prevailing brutal expressions of both sides came in the form of dropping Communists from helicopters and punching Nazis.

Actual white supremacism hasn’t been popular among American whites since probably as far back as the 1970s.  There are far less isolated white communities than there were before the 70s, and since the 70s, the conglomeration of most of our major social institutions has accelerated so much that even where different races live in racially exclusive communities, they are still experiencing daily interactions with people that represent most of the major races of the world in the places they work and the places they shop.

The internet has only accelerated our humanizing of peoples regardless of their races as more and more humans in America find allegiances with others more based on their shared beliefs than their race.  The hysteria over white supremacism has been almost entirely ‘fake news,’ to borrow a phrase that also emerged in 2015.

In point of fact, too many humans that happen to be white or happen to be black, especially, find themselves involved in friendly, and even familial, ways with people of different races.  My family, for instance, in the last two generations, has absorbed DNA and created blood family ties with people of African descent, people of “Latin” descent, and people of Asian descent.  And my story is hardly unique among other previously white families that are now mixed-race families.

White Supremacism was the scapegoat the American Left needed to recruit white elites, children of well-off white parents, children who more than almost any other group of white children, most assuredly benefited significantly from white dominance (which wasn’t ever white dominance, but really only rich white family dominance).

The American Left itself is largely the product of agit prop created by the few corporations that control the vast majority of content Americans consume on a daily basis.  These corporations themselves are controlled by a small number of overwhelmingly white billionaire families that derived their wealth which created their initial power most assuredly from actual white supremacism.

It is not lost on us who pay attention that the American Left in its current form is wholly the manufactured product of the two classes of whites that most benefited from white supremacism, the billionaire class and the upper middle class.  The children of these families would write the books and become the activist celebrities of the anti-white movement that was really a dialectical white supremacist movement the whole time.

The American Left is the Dialectical KKK.

Black Americans appears to mostly have bought the sale, convinced that the white devil is poised to finish them off at any time, convinced mostly by the most powerful, the most beneficial of white supremacism, in America today.  It is as if the master has convinced them that the poor whites living next to them are the reason they are slaves, so the master whips them up in a frenzy to attack the poor whites, but lets them know that they can never defeat these white devils without the assistance, the aid, of the good whites, the slave masters themselves.  Also, they will have to stay on the plantation if they wish to stay safe from the murdering white devil.

Preventing the American people from building a race-irrelevant society based on an Individual-rights constitutional Republic is the main goal of this project, the American Left project, as engineered by the whites that benefited the most from actual racism.  The goal is to destroy the ability of the weak to stop the strong from controlling them.  The goal is to keep racism alive.

The bill of rights, when the state fears a people who assume these rights are theirs, is the bedrock of a society that can exchange value with one another without being compelled to like one another.  The American Left wants total control of hearts and minds, because their project demands it.  Without total control, their worldview can never come to be, as it is fundamentally anathema with peaceful coexistence.  It is a war ideology designed to produce more war, more conflict, more upheaval, more dependence on central power to protect you from the devils.

It is a psycho-social tool designed by white billionaires to corral the black communities and contain the poor white communities.  It is a psycho-social tool designed to murder the American republic and replace it with something that allows the white billionaire class to move with impunity, whose end goals have little to do with ending racism, bigotry, and hate.

It has everything to do with controlling competition, primarily from the white communities, who have to lose freedom to be controlled, but also to maintain control over the black communities, who can be granted a slight increase in freedoms while still being controlled.  The freedoms granted are bribes for the black community to continue to be the DNC’s source for votes without working for them, to become a massive voting block that will never hold you accountable.

In this backdrop, the events of February 28th, 2022, will go down in history as the beginning of the end of the Billionaire Left’s stranglehold on society and culture, and the beginning of the end of their stranglehold on black communities.

What happened on this date?  Will Smith announced to the world that American Leftist thought is entirely and wholly incompatible with basic humanity, and most assuredly with adult maturity.  Leftist thought at its core not only allows for individuals to violently assault human beings for words and beliefs alone, but actually demands it.  Failure to punch a Nazi could result in you being punched for being a Nazi.

Will Smith, during a live broadcast of the Academy Awards, walked on stage and slapped a comedian, Chris Rock, for daring to make a joke about his wife.  Immediately afterwards, the assaulter was the one offering comfort by other celebrities during a commercial break.  After the break, Will Smith incorporated Leftist emotion-speak to veil himself once again in the priest-king aura the Billionaire Left has worked so hard to cultivate with the celebrity class, the priest-cult spokesmodels of the DNC, the political vehicle of power of the Billionaire Left.

He wrapped himself up in “I am Jesus” language shortly after just slapping a comedian for making a joke about his wife.

The Academy, that bastion of nonce the world has come to know through such luminaries as Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein, not only didn’t immediately have Will Smith removed for assaulting one of their chosen presenters, they went ahead and awarded him an Oscar for best actor.  His speech did just as much to undo the cultural and social power of billionaire leftism as his slap did.

The way the Leftists treated Will Smith after violating basic adult human civility standards that many children have already learned (sticks and stones break my bones, but words will never hurt me) further destroys their social and cultural standing among an increasing number of Americans, including black Americans, who are already beginning to peel away from the DNC machine in growing recognition of how they’ve been played by billionaires to do the bidding of billionaires by promising to end a devil that didn’t exist anywhere but inside these same billionaires the whole time.

Black America, the threatening call is coming from inside your own house, the billionaire left you so unconditionally support.

Will Smith claimed in his acceptance speech to be some sort of ambassador of love, a typical starting point for any leftist assault.  Afterwards, he then made himself the Moses of his people by declaring that he was a river to his people.  This is the second stage of a leftist assault.  The final stage is to identify the devil that is interfering with love and declaring your personal intention and confidence in ending hate by murdering the anti-love people.

Will Smith didn’t get to that final part of his speech, but he walked you up to the door of it, implying even that ‘my people’ need a rescuer, which means they must have an enemy they must be ‘protected from.’

First, the billionaire left appeals to your basic humanity by promising to be the ambassadors of love.  They’ll serenade you for a while at this point, gushing with declarations like “love wins” and “love doesn’t judge.”  Next, they’ll identify themselves somehow as the priests of this cult who have the secret (woke) power to finally conquer hate and let love win.  Finally, they’ll identify the enemy of love and proceed to push you to hate these enemies of love and commit to ending the existential threat to love by murdering, enslaving, and excommunicating from society these enemies of love.

It is a gnostic religion that requires human sacrifices.

When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, the next day “Americans’ actually debated whether Smith did anything wrong or not.  I combed the local news sites, perhaps as much as a hundred, from around the country to get a gauge of the country, and what I found was disheartening and encouraging.  It was disheartening because the adults who seem to believe that physically harming others for beliefs and words is ok, (in other words, it’s ok to punch Nazis), was close to 50 percent of the responses I saw on these news sites’ posts.

This group, whether they realize it or not, wants to make sure that free speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences (which means it’s not actually free speech).  They are seditionists at heart, for they reject the American Bill of Rights and replace it with Billionaire Leftism.

These local news outlets are all controlled by the same handful of Leftist billionaire corporations, and it showed, as the narratives that emerged in their stories fell along two lines, ‘what do you think of what happened’ or highlighting the traumatic and deadly disease of losing your hair.

The decision-makers in this cult must rightly have determined that attempting to build a narrative that legitimized Will Smith would nakedly reveal the true nature of these local news outlets that have devolved to become mere content marketing farms and agit prop distribution centers for the billionaire left.

It would reveal that the people writing your news are immature, violent, dangerous children who are very unsafe neighbors to have in your community.  If they weren’t, they’d soon be fired.

At the same time, they couldn’t speak directly against Will Smith, a fact that in and of itself should indict these local news outlets as it is as clear that Will Smith assaulted a man and acted like a spoiled brat petulant child, both during the slap and during the acceptance speech, something that is obvious to mature human adults not indoctrinated into a cult.

The goal here is to push that proverbial Overton window towards greater acceptance of punishing thought, something the billionaire class is desperate to gain control over, human thought, lest the innovators among the poors one day fell their Empires simply by no longer needing them.

What was encouraging, though, was how many Americans, of many races, in response to these adult children supporting slapping a man for saying a joke seemed to clearly see how obviously inviolate of adult civility this whole affair represents.  But more than that, I saw responses from people not mired in deep political and philosophical thought still clearly understand the existential risk to Americanism that this idea we can punish people for words and thoughts alone has become.

If you believe in punching Nazis, you are a seditionist against the American republic, which exists not in Washington but in the hearts of the real government, the American people (leftists not welcomed, for you are so violently opposed to it).

We are a nation that does not require a people to even like one another to exchange value with one another peacefully.  This is what civility is.  It’s not about politeness for politeness’ sake, or some sort of puritanical convention, or, as the billionaire left really wants you to believe, white supremacist constructs (which should tell you in and of itself how dangerous and how seditious to Americanism this billionaire leftism has become).

Civility enables people to mind their own business and still be able to buy a hotdog from a vendor or start an education learning how become a geneticist.  Without civility, open thought dies.  Without civility, the access to neutral truth dies.  We become the corrupt, through and through, like Russia, or China, both of which are experiencing massive collapses in key industries in large part thanks to the deep corruption that emerges from societies that punch Nazis, like the billionaire left wants you do.

As for the theory that this was a work, well, one cannot fully rule out that possibility.  If it were a work, and that were discovered, then this whole affair would dramatically accelerate the death of the billionaire left’s stranglehold on culture.

If I am correct in my assumptions, over the next few months you will begin to see more activity by billionaires that were either once part of the billionaire left or never were, that start to move towards supporting “American” standards like the right to free speech.  This will happen not because they all found the American Jesus in them, so to speak, but because they see the writing on the wall.  American Leftism is no longer a viable vehicle of power in America.

The other leftist billionaires might find themselves doubling down and going even harder, which will only work to the good of those of us who resist their corruption-enabling, cheat-enabling cult.

Will Smith smacked the mask of the American Billionaire Left, and it is never going back on again.

Welcome to the World Situation Report For March 23rd, 2022

The goal of this column is to present news from around the world that is not often – if ever – covered by more mainstream entities, using local sources wherever possible, but occasionally using news aggregators not used, again, by the mainstream media. Also, please note that we do use links to Wikipedia; while Wikipedia is well-known as a largely-useless site for any kind of serious research, it does serve as a launch-pad for further inquiry, in addition to being generally free of malicious ads. As with anything from Wikipedia, always verify their sources before making any conclusions based on their pages.

This column will cover the preceding week of news.



 

North America

Beginning in North America, a wide array of bomb threats continue to spread across the country, mostly targeting schools, but also businesses and shopping centers. While various individuals with certain mental or emotional issues are typically responsible for these events, the possibility exists that these are efforts to monitor emergency response procedures by law enforcement and other emergency services.

As well, a bomb, threat was made against a synagogue in Highland Park, Illinois, some 25 miles north of Chicago on the 18th, while the next day, worshipers at a mosque in Montreal Canada were attacked by an assailant identified as as 24-year-old Mohammad Moiz Omar, who walked into the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, about 15 miles from Toronto, and began spraying “bear mace” at the congregation. Worshipers subdued the assailant, who was arrested by Canadian police, was also armed with a hand ax. Authorities are claiming that the attack was a case of “Islamophobia“.

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Africa

Turning to Africa, the Algerian Army arrested seven suspected “militants” in its ongoing, low-level guerilla war against the remnants of Al Qaeda [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda]-aligned groups in the North African nation, following the end of its civil war in 2002.

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Meanwhile, thirteen soldiers were killed in the eastern region of Burkina Faso, in an ambush by unidentified gunmen, while eight more soldiers were wounded. This comes a week after over a dozen police officers were killed in a similar ambush in the landlocked nation’s central-north region, as we reported last week.

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In Nigeria, gunmen abducted over sixty people during the week. Most of these abductees are usually released after ransoms are paid, but many are either sold into human trafficking rings or forced to join armed groups, such as Boko Haram.

Speaking of Boko Haram, demining and cleanup operations continue in the Shiroro Local Government region, in the country’s central region, where the terrorist group laid numerous IED’s to deny residents access to their homes as a part of the group’s ongoing guerilla war throughout the region.

In the nation’s far northeastern Borno State, an airstrike by Nigerian Air Force Super Tucano light strike aircraft has reportedly killed Sani Shuwaram, the “Commander In Chief” of the “Islamic State – West Africa Province” (ISWAP). Details remain sketchy, although intelligence reports indicate that he may have been replaced by one Mallam Bako Gorgore, although few details of this individual are available at this writing.

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In the Central African nation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), horrific levels of violence continues in the Ituri region of the country’s northeast, as fourteen people were hacked to death in a “displaced persons camp” in the province. According to local officials the attack was carried out by an armed faction of the “CODECO” group, a formerly peaceful agricultural cooperative organization, which returned to violence in 2017 after a ceasefire following the Ituri Conflict of 1999-2003.

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In Sudan, continuing protests against the military junta of General Abdel Fattah Burhan, which has been ruling the country since its October, 2021 coup d’état have killed a thirteen year-old boy in the city of Omdurman, bringing the reported death toll to 88.

 

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In the continually strife-torn nation of Somalia, the Somali National Army reportedly killed seven terrorists belonging to the Al Shabaab terror group, while two other militants surrendered in the central region of the county.

At the same time, three persons were reportedly injured by a car bomb in the Hodan district of the capital city of Mogadishu. Accoding to police sources, the attack was aimed at Turkish engineers working in the country. Turkey has been quietly expanding into the African state since 2010, opening a basic military training facility in their own encampment to train a new army for the country, as well as a formal school for officer training.

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The Arabian Peninsula

In the Arabian Peninsula, the seemingly never-ending, multi-sided war between various Yemeni factions, and a Saudi-led Coalition grinds onward, with Houthi forces continuing a relentless campaign against Saudi oil facilities, further destabilizing world oil prices.

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The Middle East

Elsewhere in the Middle East, four Israeli civilians were killed in the town of Be’er Sheva/Beersheba and one remains in critial condition, following a ram-and-stab attack by an attacker identified as 34-year-old Muhammad Aleb Ahmad Abu Alkyan, a Bedoiun Israeli who was previously convicted and served three years in prison for supporting and promoting ISIS. This comes at the same time as continued protests on the West Bank, and threats by Iran’s IRGC commander to launch a missile attack on the Jewish state.

In Syria, a US base near the Deir Ez-Zor oil field was reportedly struck by several missiles, and reportedly by drones. No casualties were reported, but independent confirmation is not available at press time.

Elsewhere in Deir ez-Zor, a tribal elder was assassinated by IS, while in the north of the country, Russian Air Force jets struck reported IS targets on the 20th.

In the northern town of Ayn Issa, two children were wouded by Turkish artillery, while Turkish artillery struck targets near Tell Tamer, and four Syrian Army soldiers were reportedly killed in an IS attack near Resafa.

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South Asia

In the South Asian nation of Pakistan, the driver of a water tanker truck was killed when his truck struck a landmine. The deceased, identified as Mohammad Bahadur Khan Pathan, was delivering water to a the Notal-Gandhwah road construction project in the southern part of the country, when his vehicle struck the landmine. No word was available on which group may have planted the device at press time.

In the northwestern city of Sari Naurang, a police officer was assasinated in a driveby shooting by members of an unidentified terrorist group, while a shootout in the Bajur District killed two soldiers, three civilians and four insurgents from an undentified group. Additionally, five people associated with “Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)” and the “Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)” were arrested by Pakistani police in Punjab Province.

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In India, Jammu & Kashmir saw three terror attacks in 24 hours, while a member of the “Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)” terror group – responsible for the terror attack on Mumbai, India in 2008 – was arrested in the region’s Baramulla district. In the Shopian district, meanwhile, a grenade attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) station injured one police officer.

In the central state of Odisha, a man was arrested for “providing logistical support” to Maoist insurgents, in the town of Kalahandi. In the neighboring state of Chhattisgarh, Maoist’s attacked a CRPF camp in the Sukma district, injuring three police officers.

Finally, in India’s far northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, police and units of the Assam Rifles killed two insurgents from the “National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM)” in a raid on a safe house in the Tirap district, recovering military weapons (including a US M4A1 rifle), ammunition and other military-type equipment. The presence of a late-model M4A1 in far eastern India may indicate a case of fallout from the collapse of the US and Coalition efforts in Afghanistan, in August of 2021, potentially confirming the fears of analysts that the equipment left behind may be making its way into the wider terrorist community.

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Leading up to the mass mailer Presidential non-election of 2020, Big Social got whiff of a damning news item that could potentially derail the Biden train, the Hunter Biden laptop.

In a story alleging that Hunter Biden’s laptop was retrieved from a computer repair shop, Big Social decided to first immediately slap a big fact check claim that the story was not true, was fake news, was Russian disinformation.

But the story kept going out, and it was gaining in credibility, so Big Social decided to slap the old misinformation tag on the whole affair, nuking the story and any creators that dared continue overtly reporting on the laptop in future posts.  Trust the science, kids.

Hunter Biden’s laptop revealed direct ties between Joe Biden and Hunter Biden in business deals in the Ukraine, among other damning items.  A post-election poll shows 17 percent of the Biden voters would not have voted for him if they thought the stories connected to the laptop were real.  Big Social had done its job, in alliance with the DNC, to assure a plausible victory in the mass mailer non-election of 2020.

But now that Big Social has been exposed, again, and again and again and again, I ask you this, what next?  Do we continue to turn to the state for relief from a problem that the state itself seems more than willing to exploit?  If we empower the state to check Big Social, do we think it will stop with merely restraining it the way we the people would wish it to be restrained?

This story to me speaks volumes about the futility of ragertainment in opposition to what the DNC and its megacorp allies are trying to do to change the very nature of governance in America.  Rather than spending our time and energy seeking relief from the state from our corporate overlords, perhaps it is time for us to disconnect from them and reconnect with us, we in America still willing to exchange value with anyone, whether we like them or not, willing to follow our Bill of Rights and our Constitutional standards.

Maybe it is time for us to start simply being Americans again, where we live and in what we do.  We will find one another, I have no doubt in that.  In a span of two weeks, using a network of letter carriers, English Peasants in 1381 set off a revolt that nearly toppled a King but for their fear of the very idea of King itself.  We don’t even need a revolt, we just need gardens and microfactories and shared open source tech that enables us to equip ourselves with the tools that create sustainable flourishing for our households and our communities, be they geographically proximal or distributed.

The less you need them, the more you can protect what you steward, the more free we all are.  America emerged from this reality of power, the people who lived in these lands were sustainably flourishing, at the household and community levels.  They could survive and thrive on their own.  The only power the state had over them was the gun and their idea of authority.

So the Constitutional Republic with Individual Rights ethics was born, in large part, I support, due to this reality of power.  Today, we have exciting opportunities to utilize technology and revisit old tech to create the same type of conditions the wanna-be-dictators of America faced in the summer of 1787, the reality of power that they needed the people far more than the people needed them, and the people knew it.

The NYT Doesn’t Care If You Know Big Tech Rigged Biden’s Election

From thefederalist.com
2022-03-21 10:20:00
Joy Pullmann
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On March 17, 2022, The New York Times stated it had verified the authenticity of a laptop and its data as belonging to the president’s son, Hunter Biden. This was the same laptop holding information that Twitter, Facebook, and other corporate media immediately suppressed when The New York Post, a right-leaning competitor of The New York Times, reported on it three weeks before the 2020 presidential election.

If they had known about one of the Biden family scandals, such as the Hunter Biden laptop information, 17 percent of Joe Biden’s voters wouldn’t have voted for him, found a 2020 post-election poll. This means big tech’s suppression of this story likely made enough difference to tip Joe Biden into his low-margin win in the Electoral College.

Back in October 2020, Twitter and Facebook immediately responded to The New York Post’s publication of information from Hunter Biden’s laptop by effectively banning it from their platforms that effectively monopolize…

 

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Russia Threatens Poland in Lengthy Letter Days Before Joe Biden’s Visit

From www.newsweek.com
2022-03-21 14:01:09

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Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian security council, on Monday threatened Poland in a lengthy letter, just days before U.S. President Joe Biden is due to visit the country.

“The interests of the citizens of Poland have been sacrificed due to Russophobia of ‘mediocre politicians’ and their ‘puppeteers from across the ocean’ with clear signs of senile insanity,” the former Russian president and prime minister wrote in a post on his Telegram channel.

Medvedev was referring to a decision made by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki last week to minimize dependence on Russia and sever economic ties with Moscow in response to the Ukraine invasion that began on February 24.

“We will deal with the de-Russification of the Polish and European economy,” Morawiecki told a news conference on March 18. “We call for the suspension of activities on the Russian market.”

Morawiecki told reporters the move will help stop food prices rising. The United Nations food agency said this month…

 

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Ukraine War Threatens Semiconductor Supplies

Semiconductor supply in limbo as war halts Ukrainian neon production – National

From globalnews.ca
2022-03-11 17:01:01

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Ukraine‘s two leading suppliers of neon, which produce about half the world’s supply of the key ingredient for making chips, have halted their operations as Moscow has sharpened its attack on the country, threatening to raise prices and aggravate the semiconductor shortage.

Some 45 to 54 per cent of the world’s semiconductor-grade neon, critical for the lasers used to make chips, comes from two Ukrainian companies, Ingas and Cryoin, according to Reuters calculations based on figures from the companies and market research firm Techcet.

Global neon consumption for chip production reached about 540 metric tons last year, Techcet estimates.

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China Expanding Military Budget

In a Period of Brute Force, China Increases Its Military Budget Yet Again

From www.dailysignal.com
2022-03-11 19:05:35
Frederico Bartels
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The Chinese Communist Party announced this week it will increase the budget for the People’s Liberation Army by 7.1%.

The announcement occurred at the opening session of the National People’s Congress—the annual rubber-stamp parliament. Thus, it is just a matter of time before the extra resources start following to the People’s Liberation Army.

This increase continues the trend of sustained increases in the Chinese military budget. Since 2018, the Chinese Communist Party has increased the People’s Liberation Army budget by over 28% with consecutive annual increases of between 8.1% and 6.6%.

Contrast this with the U.S. defense budget which grew little under 5% from 2018 to 2021. However, if you take inflation into account, the U.S. defense budget decreased by 3% in those four years.

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Over 100 Dead After Chinese Jetliner Plummets to Ground

Chinese airliner crashes with 132 aboard in country’s south

From abcnews.go.com
2022-03-21 14:12:32

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More than seven hours after communication was lost with the plane, there was still no word of survivors.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a statement the crash occurred near the city of Wuzhou in the Guangxi region. The flight was traveling from Kunming in the southwestern province of Yunnan to the industrial center of Guangzhou along the east coast, it added.

Villagers were first to arrive at the forested area where the plane went down, sparking a blaze big enough to be seen on NASA satellite images. Hundreds of rescue workers were swiftly dispatched from Guangxi and neighboring Guangdong province.

The plane was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members, the CAAC said, correcting earlier reports that 133 people had…

 

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