The Pentagon has appointed a rioter convicted for his role in 6 January, 2021 insurrection to a sensitive national security role dealing with counterterrorism, overriding insiders' concerns about his past record.
Elias Irizarry, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in connection with the storming of the US Capitol, has been appointed to a position in the US Department of Defense's special operations and low intensity conflict office which manages highly classified military operations, causing alarm among Pentagon officials.
The story was first reported by the Washington Post, which published a picture of Irizzary " holding what appeared to be a metal pole and wearing a pro-Donald Trump Make America Great Again (Maga) hat " looking over a wall on the day of the riot.
The eclipse that will darken the sky and have a historic duration will not be seen again for more than 156 years. The total solar eclipse will last the longest (4-6 minutes) in the southern Spain and parts of Northern Africa.
White supremacist Adan Hernandez-Mayoral (24) threw his life away after being sentenced in federal court to 54 months confinement for brutally attacking a woman of color on a bus in Kent, Washington. On 7 March 2024, the miscreant boarded a metro bus and began antagonizing the victim, calling her "Rosa Parks," and ordered her to move to the back of the bus, yelling "I don't like Black people, f***in' hate 'em," before savagely attacking the helpless woman.
How this 24-year-old violent doofus even heard of American heroine Rosa Parks is anyone's guess
Nine African teenagers who gang raped a 14-year-old girl three times in Belgium have all been spared jail, with seven getting just 30 hours of community service. Read more
A bed bug infestation at an Agriculture Department building is riling agency staff, reigniting frustrations over remote work policy and making at least some employees sick. The bugs were found in the building that houses the Animal and Plant Inspection Service, the agency responsible for containing and mitigating the spread of invasive pests in the U.S. The irony, one USDA employee said, "was lost on no one." The George Washington Carver Center in Beltsville, Maryland, first notified employees of the situation in mid-May, according to five employees familiar with the matter and a transcript of a town hall meeting obtained by NOTUS. The department opted to send employees home and allow them to telework for a few days to fumigate the building.
The psychosis of permanent war results, as it has in the U.S., in the curtailing of civil liberties and punishing economic austerity. Dissent is equated with treason. State power serves the dictates of empire rather than democracy, which devolves into farce, or in our case, a tawdry reality show.
The rollback of the New Deal, the closest we came to a social democracy, began in the mid-1940s. Cold War anti-communism and corporate opposition converged to make war on organized labor and the New Deal left.
This assault culminated in the Second Red Scare.
Israeli police unleashed the locusts on ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting mandatory military service in the IDF. Tens of thousands joined the demonstrations, as police used water cannon, stun grenades, and horses to disperse crowds. In the video you can see an Israeli mounted police officer's horse trampling one of the Haredim.
Undeclared Civil War Erupting in Israel
Six people were killed in the US state of Iowa after a series of shootings that appeared to stem from a domestic dispute, police said. The suspected shooter also was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Muscatine Police Department. The victims are believed to be family members of the suspect, identified as Ryan Willis McFarland, 52, of Muscatine, the department said.
Jewish groups condemned Israeli cabinet ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Amichay Eliyahu for marching in the NYC Israel Day parade. In 2021, Smotrich said that Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, should have "finished the job" and kicked all Arabs out of the country in 1948. Eliyahu had suggested that Israel drop a nuclear bomb on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Ethnic Cleansers Come to Enjoy the Big AppleRUMINT: The ICC may indict Bezalel Smotrich for alleged war crimes, just like Benjamin Netanyahu and ex-IDF General Yoav Gallant
The Navy has named the seven defense firms who submitted their designs for the new medium unmanned surface vessel (MUSV) marketplace in April that will advance to the prototype testing phase.
Corruption is a term used to describe dishonest or fraudulent behavior by someone in power. When applied on a national scale, "corruption" refers to government leaders who abuse their power, take bribes, or commit fraud or other disreputable acts to increase their own wealth and/or power instead of helping the people they are meant to serve.
Corruption is an unfortunate reality in many nations around the world, especially low-income countries, developing countries, and least developed countries, which have fewer checks and balances on their rulers' powers.
While no single data indicator directly measures corruption in a nation, many indicators offer indirect-but-accurate evidence of the presence or absence of corruption.
The sounds "snap, crackle, pop" may be most associated with breakfast cereal, but on a mid-September afternoon in west-central Missouri, it was weeds in a soybean field that were getting crispy. The marestail snapped, the cockleburs crackled and the pigweeds popped as Ben Kroeger delivered 15,000 volts of weed-killing current to those that dared to rise above the crop canopy.
Talarico quotes Jesus, and Paxton catches on fire when he enters a church.
I want to tell you something about Donald Trump, and I don't believe I've ever said this before. Donald Trump has extreme intelligence - and I don't mean just high intelligence like someone in Mensa might have.
I mean EXTREME intelligence. And the reason we know this is because Donald Trump TOLD US that in a post just after midnight last night.
Dummkopf Trumpf confirmed that he will be ruining the experience for NY Knicks fans by befouling one of the NBA Finals games at Madison Square Garden with his odious and unwanted presence.
Dummkopf Trumpf Most Hated POTUS in Global History
"It's a lethality competition," said United States army colonel Justin Harper last week about the Sullivan Cup, an American military tournament to find the best armoured vehicle crew. "Lethality is really what the army is all about, so we're here to learn things about the best competitors in the army, about the platforms and how to display combat excellence in this environment," he told Stars and Stripes military news organisation, echoing the bellicose language of the US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth. Over the course of a week, the Sullivan Cup pits various branches of the US military against each other, along with a handful of international teams. In the end, the most "lethal" team came not from the US military but from Ireland.
