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Just waiting for the (now-anti-Pakistani, now-Indian-backed) Taliban to put out a list of Americans wrongfully detained by US authorities — it would be a much, much longer list as of late.

And it probably still won’t get all of the enriched uranium. Iran is a very big country with a lot of hiding spots — artificial and natural. Iran’s land area is c. half the size of India.

People from Christian-majority countries have killed far more people in far more foreign countries across more continents than Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, etc.

They took the banner down to try to protect Trump. 😂

The funny thing is that Google Maps has a comment for this Union Station area Exxon as “I needed gas and it had a good price for DC”.

It is one of the most highly priced gas stations in DC. Unless dealing with a rental car drop off — and even then — this Exxon is one I always want to avoid.

This is a weird American war on the Middle East. More typically our military being involved in hostilities in Muslim-majority areas comes with increased racism against Muslims and people perceived to be Muslims. But this one isn’t doing that (yet) as much as it is spiking antisemitism.

Michael Baden was there for the autopsy, and he said the damages were far more consistent with a homicide than with a suicide. And he’s a legend when it comes to forensic autopsies.

It would be more than one minion. Also, Florida Republican Congressman Randy Fine is always game for anti-Muslim slurs, libels & other racist hate-mongering near and dear to his heart.

The Saudis want their own nuclear weapons, and they want a nuclear deterrent so as to avoid being a target for bullying by Bibi & Co. And the Saudis de facto army for hire and treaty security partner Pakistan don’t want another Israel-friendly country on their own border.

Trump & Co is no less hooked to Saudi money than Lindsey Graham is hooked to war and Netanyahu’s tongue.

Ships brandish China-links to weave through Strait of Hormuz Ships anchored in the Gulf or transiting the Strait of Hormuz are changing their tracking data to boast links to China in an attempt to evade Iranian attacks, according to data from shipping tracker…

The funny thing about that kind of fiction is there are reports that a China-bound oil ship managed to get safe passage because of its transponder being on. And then there is this too:

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

AP VoteCast:

“--About two-thirds of Jewish voters supported Harris; about one-third supported Trump.

--About two-thirds of Muslim voters supported Harris; about one-third supported Trump.

--About 6 in 10 Mormons supported Trump; about one-third supported Harris.”

AP VoteCast shows Trump boosted his level of support among Catholic voters Among several blocs of religious voters, including his loyal evangelical base, Donald Trump fared roughly as well in his victory over Kamala Harris as he did in his loss to Joe Biden four years ago. ...

What I stated is in fact correct and remains true whether anyone wants it to be true or not because of a desire to demonize Muslims and Muslim voters.

AP VoteCast summary from fall 2024 confirms it:

www.yahoo.com/news/ap-vote...

AI cameras are everywhere — and people are paying the price for their mistakes Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

An uproar should occur. Flock and other license plate surveillance agents produce false positive matches which can get innocent people flagged down by the police who then violently approach, attack or even kill innocent vehicle occupants:

www.businessinsider.com/flock-safety...

Same in all the continental Nordic countries.

That is a bit off. Norse/Vikings made it to the Americas centuries before Romance-language-speakers; the former’s transatlantic adventures didn’t include any Muslims while the latter’s transatlantic adventures did.

Most of these kind of things can easily be done by other actors — state actor or otherwise. And both Israel and Iran have a history of doing this kind of thing against each other and more broadly. Iran v Israel example (and Iran did get some Israelis to act):

www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-oper...

Not likely. Iran knows how to remotely build and activate useful idiots and gullible patsies, but not so easily suicidal ones.

The media circus is sort of its usual self in how it covers identifiable minorities and does so based on indicated minority type.

Inclination to engage in criminal violence or threats of such violence has a positive correlation to not being too bright or to having grown up around a lot of violence. But there are lots of hotheaded idiots who don’t know how to make a positive difference.

If they weren’t rich, who would even want to talk to them bedside those trapped with them.

Sorry to say I know a bit too much about the elected government and senior bureaucratic official ranks in Europe being loaded with racists with hostility for Muslims. Even the center-left parties have shifted in the racist direction.

Indeed. An earlier poll from earlier this year showed that Trump still had no less than 38% of Hispanic voters standing with him.

A very high proportion of the DHS goons in Minnesota were Hispanic Americans from the southern parts of the US.

About 38% of Hispanic Americans still supported Trump as of earlier this year.

They don’t even want a long record of complaints that can be used in a future review, so they are deleting them after a year. Clearly, this is the kind of organization that doesn’t believe in accountability for misbehavior by public officials (and who knows who else). Shameful.

The figure for Republican men under 50 is a big warning sign about what kind of Republicans we are facing and will be facing. It also explains the support levels for Trump-Vance/Chief Justice Roberts concentration camps.

And most bike locks can be very quickly broken.

There are so many bike thefts in Scandinavian cities that the police rarely get involved in investigating any particular incident of such theft. Even if you have a remote tracker in the bike and locate it, the police are reluctant to get involved.

I bike less than I would prefer because I don’t want to deal with the hassles and cost of bike theft. Also, choosing to bike on a cheaper, junker bike means I enjoy the bike ride less and bike shorter distances than on my preferred bikes. And I have a thing against pay-per-ride bikes.

Lots of anti-Muslim racists in various European governments. Anti-Muslim racism is at root a European invention.

There are quite a lot of DOD contractors in South Carolina.