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At least six ISIS ("Daesh") operatives were rendered ineffective by Turkish security personnel. Three Turkish National Police (TNP) officers were also killed; eight TNP officers and one security guard were wounded during the operation.

Map: Yalova Vilayet, Turkiye

This operation is part of ongoing counterterrorism efforts by Ankara. Last week the TNP launched scores of simultaneous raids, detaining 115 Daesh miscreants who were allegedly planning attacks targeting Christmas and New Year's celebrations. Officials said the group had called for action, particularly against non-Muslims, during the celebrations.

ISIS has carried out a series of deadly attacks in Turkiye in recent years, including a shooting at an Istanbul nightclub during New Year celebrations on 1 Jan 2017 which killed 39 people.

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"Earlier estimates suggested that between 600 and 1,000 Turkish citizens had joined ISIS by mid-2014, and other reports from 2015 to 2016 estimated that up to 5,200 to 9,000 Turkish nationals may have joined ISIS or related groups, though these figures include those who traveled abroad and may not reflect the current number inside Turkiye" (Source: www.fdd.org).

MIT, the Turkish analog to CIA, is an experienced agency capable of penetrating militant groups in the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa, as well as several parts of Europe. Ankara provided invaluable intelligence to France just prior to the 2024 Paris Olympiad. Paris repaid Ankara by extraditing several alleged PKK and Kurdish separatists back to Turkiye. The TNP is also an experienced, professional organization which quickly unraveled the amateurish 2 Oct 2018 assassination of Jamal Khashoggi by Muhammad Bin Salman's clumsy and brutal thugs in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Female TNP officers were deployed to Somalia to train their police forces.

Nota Bene: Chinese consumers prefer the taste of Florida's Key West lobsters over the New England variety. This report didn't specify the type of crustaceans that were boosted.

The lobsters, which were not alive, were on their way to Costco stores in Illinois and Minnesota, said the owner of the supply chain company that was victimized.

"This theft wasn't random. It followed a pattern we're seeing more and more, where criminals impersonate legitimate carriers using spoofed emails and burner phones to hijack high-value freight while it's in transit."

"For a mid-sized brokerage like ours, a $400,000 loss is significant," he added. "It forces tough decisions and ultimately drives up costs across the supply chain, costs consumers ultimately end up paying."

"Brokers are on the front lines of this problem, but we need federal agencies to have modern enforcement tools to keep pace with organized criminal networks," he said. "Until that happens, these thefts will continue to disrupt businesses and impact everyday prices."


This is just another example of the further "enshittification" of America under Dummkopf Trumpf where food is being hijacked like in a Third World country. Food prices and costs are sky-rocketing thanks to Trumpf's idiotic trade and tax policies that benefit the oligarchs, so organized crime gangs are supplying desperate restaurant owners with luxury swag at low prices.

This trend of hijacking food and other merchandise, high end or run-of-the-mill items, will continue as the US economy continues to plummet and people become more and more desperate. Expect an increase in small time "porch piracy" of Amazon products or other unsecured packages as well.

For Jeff. An automated look into male to female surgery youtu.be I expect RCADE to delete it soon so watch it asap.

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The lowest estimate I've seen for regret after gender-related care is based primarily on people who have had gender-affirming surgery. A recent systematic review and meta-analysis"a type of study where the authors aggregate lots of papers into one big estimate"that combined such studies found an overall rate of 1 percent for regret after surgery for both transmasculine and transfeminine surgeries. This echoes other large cohorts which have found that only a tiny proportion of the people who have these surgeries eventually report regretting the procedure.

That is such a terrible argument. What is .3% of 340 million people? Oh, so it's "statistically" low, medically damaging but because it's statistically low, SCREW the victims.
Unless the left is able to scrub this history will view this horribly.
#62 | Posted by BellRinger

I didn't make an argument. I asked a question about a statistic. Here's another stat: studies indicate that up to 1.7% of U.S. children are born with intersex traits. This includes individuals whose chromosomal sex does not match their phenotypic sex, as well as those with other conditions affecting primary or secondary sexual characteristics. These conditions can result in atypical genital appearance, disorders of sexual development, hormonal irregularities, breast development in males, excess facial or body hair in females, and similar variations.

So here's another question about a statistic: what percentage of that 0.3% is included within that 1.7%?

Now here's an argument for you. The data DHS is relying on to justify the proposed treatment bans does not attempt to answer that question. In fact, DHS does not even collect the patient-level data that would make answering it possible. As written, the regulations would either outright ban or severely restrict access to treatments for people with the conditions described above. While there is some wiggle room in regulations but their broad language is likely to lead providers to refuse care altogether. The risk of losing federal funding will outweigh the incentive to act in the best interest of the patient. Insurers will welcome new rules they can use to justify denial of coverage for the rare and often expensive treatments that may be needed by such patients.

We have already seen, since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, how treatment bans have lead to sharp increases in infant and maternal deaths along with avoidable infertility. The politicians who enacted those bans insist that these outcomes were not their intent, but they were entirely foreseeable. The same dynamic will play out here. Lawmakers will claim they never intended to block teenage boys from receiving hormones or surgery to treat gynecomastia, or to prevent girls with Turner syndrome from accessing treatments that protect sexual function, or any of the dozens of other similar foreseeable scenarios I can think of. Their intent doesn't change the reality that such bans will result in patient harm.

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