Turkish security forces raided an ISIS (Daesh) cell in Turkiye's northwestern province of Yalova, south of Istanbul.
As ACA subsidies ("Obamacare') are set to expire on 31 Dec 2025, more Americans are getting sicker and sicker: NYS logged the most flu cases ever recorded in a single week, measles is spreading like wildfire across the US, whooping cough cases are increasing in West Virginia, and Florida reports more cases of dengue fever and chikungunya.
A $400,000 shipment of lobster was stolen as it was headed for Costco stores in Illinois and Minnesota by a driver impersonating a legitimate carrier.
ICE agents violently detained a Christian pastor on Christmas Eve in Lewiston, Maine, even though he showed them his ID.
North Korea released photos of a submarine equipped with a nuclear engine, sending the South Korean military into high alert. read more
Dummkopf Trumpf recklessly withdrew the US from the WHO on the first day he seized power on 20 Jan 2025. This year's spikes in measles cases could cause the US to lose its "elimination status" by next year after the CDC reports nearly 2,000 cases and 50 outbreaks nationwide.
Dr Vin Gupta on MSNBC: 'People are going to skip healthcare' as Americans brace for impact of skyrocketing health care premiums thanks to Dummkopf Trumpf and the Republican Party.
Links:
Superflu Spreading in Empire State
Dummkopf Trumpf and the Republican Party's war on the poor, sick, vulnerable, and disabled continues in our insidious privatized healthcare system which puts profits before people, unlike the healthcare systems of Germany, Israel, France, Canada, or the UK.
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Hi Hamburglar
Thanks for posting. That surgeon is a genuine Samaritan. As luck would have it, I was just gifted a National Geographic subscription for Xmas.
The Pyongyang regime is silly to show film of Westerners to their people. The Norks see how healthy and well-dressed the Westerners are compared to them, as well as their South Korean cousins.
North Koreans are doing terrible thanks to Kin Jong-un and his predecessors: i.ytimg.com
*** Poverty Drives People to Catch Rare Songbirds in China ***
"Each year on China, tens of thousands of birds are caught in nets for the pet trade, or for meat.
The pandemic and a property crisis have turned the economy sluggish, so catching and selling songbirds on the black market is a low-cost and often low-risk way of making a large profit.
A pretty songbird, such as a Siberian rubythroat, can often sell for nearly 2,000 yuan (210; $280), which is more than many farmers earn in a month."
Link: www.bbc.com
*** North Korea Tests Long Range Cruise Missiles ***
"North Korea fired long-range strategic cruise missiles into the sea to test the country's nuclear deterrence, days after Kim Jong-un showed off the apparent progress in the construction of his first nuclear-powered submarine.
Sunday's launches were the latest weapons display by North Korea ahead of its planned ruling Workers' Party congress early next year."
Link: More North Korean WMDs
Meanwhile, the morbidly obese Kim Jong-un stuffs his face with gourmet food as the children of his country starve, another generation of under-weight infants born under their nefarious dynasty.
ICE agents barked at the pastor that they had to take him back to their office in order to prove his legal status to be in the US.
"He's a pastor! You're beating a pastor," one witness yells.
"He's not a pastor in this country," one of the ICE thugs growls.
"God will judge you," an eyewitness warns. "You're taking people from their kids, and leaving them alone."
Map: Lewiston, Maine
#11
Your father and my friend served in the USAF as navigators at the same time. 'Vic' also flew missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis and met JFK (and MLK Jr later).
This pic is close enough to capture the essence of his situation as a minority in a USAF crew: i.ytimg.com
#9: There is no confusion on my part as a cook or my friend who worked in the food industry as a "taster." .
My wife and I bought fresh groceries and produce in Paris France and Tokyo Japan and ate like the natives during the day on picnics.
At night, we went to eat where the locals ate, not the tourist spots.
When I was single, I did the same in Thailand, Turkiye, and Germany. I bought local produce and ate picnic style. At night, I ate with the locals.
Food and produce taste better overseas because they are fresh, are less chemically-processed, and use different pesticides than US food. I can see the difference when I shop in the foreign grocery stores.
Check out the additives, dyes, and GMOs found in US food compared to the EU: blog.ansi.org
The Washington Post recently did a hit job on universal healthcare, a system enjoyed by the people in Germany, Florence, Canada, Israel, the UK, Greece, France, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Austria, and even little Albania: WaPo Shills for the Oligarchs
Hey Jeff Bezos, this is for you from the hardworking American taxpayer who is denied universal healthcare thanks to the Republican Party and greedy, sniveling oligarchs like you!
Boycott Amazon, WaPo, and WalMart
These two ghouls were better off selling cadavers legally to the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) like USC-Los Angeles: This is Not Kosher
What a f___ing universe we live in:
Franciscan Father Joseph Bach, whose organization helps migrants in the US, called the Trumpf junta's deportation of Iranians "the most unchristian thing to do. It's scary, it concerns me, it is not OK. I call this a death flight."
Link: Death Flight for Iranians
The sinister Trumpf junta, Republican neocons, and AIPAC have been stoking Islamophobia and anti-Iranian rhetoric in the US since 1979 when the Shah of Iran fell because Iran is one of the few Middle Eastern countries that stands up for Palestinians and counter-attacks Israel on their behalf, like resistance fighters from Lebanese Hezbollah or the Yemeni Houthis.
Two notorious hypocritical harridans in the malevolent Trumpf junta are Alina Habba, whose parents were migrants escaping persecution from Iraq, and Mora Namdar, the daughter of wealthy emigres who fled Iran after the Shah fell. Dummkopf Trumpf appointed this good-for-nothing political hack Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, deciding which foreigners are allowed to enter the US.
Mora Namdar is the owner of a mini-chain of beauty salons in Texas and contributed to the notorious Project 2025. This wealthy Iranian-American strumpet is watching the junta she works for deport terrified people back to Iran.
Citations:
Anti-Tehran Agitprop Authoress
Bio of Good-for-Nothing Mora Namdar
The picture-perfect definition of an Empty Suit,' the inter-galactically vapid and strictly unimaginative Marco Rubio was vetted for his position as USSECSTATE based on his loyalty to Israel by none other than mega-oligarch Larry Ellison: Marco Rubio Loyalty to Israel More Important Than to the American Taxpayer
Besides heartlessly dismantling USAID in 2025, as a Republican Senator from Florida, in 2015 Marco Rubella undermined the ACA ("Obamacare") by subtly adding riders to the bill. Years from now this hologram will enjoy a magnificent federal pension combining all of his years as a good-for-no-one US Senator and USSECSTATE. The thought of that is enough to make one retch.
More information on the development of this Russian-designed submarine:
"South Korean intelligence has been cautious in its assessments, saying that there is no concrete evidence that a Russian nuclear module has been handed over to Pyongyang.
What North Korea reveals and what it actually deploys operationally are two different things," said Park Won-gon, a professor of North Korean studies at Ewha Womans University.
"Even if Pyongyang received small reactor technology from Russia, it would still take considerable time to realize the technology, and the likelihood that it would function properly remains low."
Links:
www.csis.org
www.38north.org
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com