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High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington The trail that leads from Tehran to D.C. passes directly through the offices of Robert Malley and the International Crisis Group The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/iran-spy-ring-robert-malley-lee-smith Iran-Israel tensions are shining a fresh light on Robert Malley According to one report, Malley “helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments.” Unfortunately, that just scratches the surface of what Malley is accused of.

electrocute verb elec·tro·cute i-ˈlek-trə-ˌkyüt electrocuted; electrocuting 1 : to execute (a criminal) by electricity 2 : to kill or injure by electric shock electrocution

I read book back in the mid 1960's approximately when I was a teenager. I found it in the Leesville, LA, U.S. of A. public library.

When I heard the lady say, this is democracy now, I stopped watching the video. Nothing but communist propaganda!

I had a friend like that in San Antonio, TX . He was from Belize. I wish I could remember his name so I could look for him. He worked hard there, bought a 1970 Toronado there, then immigrated, legally, to the United States. He had the darkest skin of anyone I have known. Even darker than my neighbor a few houses down who is from Nigeria.

Except in that utopian state of California, U.S. of A.. I hear they are considering leaving that place.

I keep getting respiratory illness's that make me pretty sick. Each time testing negative for covid. Yet, I have some of the same after illness symptoms as described by those recovering from covid. Maybe it isn't just a covid respiratory illness causing the after affects, perhaps it's just the affects of a respiratory illness and old age. I am 75.

I am wondering how the hell they get enough snail slime to do experiments with or to use "in skincare for its moisturising and regenerative effects"??

Didn't the crusades began about 700 years after the muslims invaded Europe?

The worst part of those people, they don't realize that they are also the people they are protesting against! Wait.... you just wrote that... 😒

Where does your linked information say that cannabis causes paranoia?

Having worked in two different bars, I can guarantee that there are drunks that are fully capable of assaulting someone, and beating the crap out of the victim, before the criminal drunk attacker is stopped, by other patrons in the bar, or the police. A man (or woman) is drunk long before they "would barely stand on his legs"! Some get drunk sooner, some get drunk later, after they begin drinking, but still are drunk before they are falling down drunk!

Was the attacker drunk on an alcoholic beverage or something?

Off topic but related to government ID cards. I have a military ID card that has the ugliest black and white picture of me, of any other pictures of me that I have, on any other ID card (is that a convoluted statement?) The military ID card office will not retake the picture and reissue the ID card. My wife's picture on her military ID card, however, looks pretty good.

I hope that won't start a riot. There have been enough of riots in the Philadelphia area as it is. I would rather not have riots bleeding out into the areas around philly.

I am 6 foot 2 inches (187.96 cm), barefoot, up to 6 foot 3.5 inches tall depending on footwear, and I have acrophobia. I have rarely had any issue with a balcony railing in Thailand and I feel/felt safe from falling when on the balconies. The only exception I can remember was the railing of a room balcony at a hotel in Chiang Mai. It was a wooden balcony and when I checked it, it wobbled in and out so much, I thought it could fall off with a strong wind. The accessible balconies I have been on in Thailand are all waist high, which is about where 1 meter or higher. I have been on balconies in the U.S. of A.. that had lower railings, one measured at 30 inches/76.2 cm, which may be below building code requirements. The railings of the two balconies at my condo in Bangkok are at the level of my ribs which may be about 4 feet/121.92 cm. I have seen much shorter railings in Thailand on the area that the air conditioner is placed, but there were no door access to those areas and the windows either did not open or were restricted to opening to about 6 inches.

This crime is not funny! If the cops don't do something about it, then this crime will balloon out of control. Everyone will then laugh at the cops. The cops need to whip it now!

My first thought when reading "... an Aussie on the lamb", was I hope it isn't a fat Aussie sitting on the lamb.

off the topic of the thread in response to bradiston. OK, I did not go back to your original post, but I believe you said that most gun crimes are committed by whites kill who kill more people than anyone else. What the CDC article shows are firearm homicides by race. Which over the years reported range from 20 to 30 out of 100,000 people are killed by black people.. About (going by memory here) ranging from about 1.5 to 2.1 out of 100,000 people are killed by whites. Much of those statistics come from the FBI's data. It also shows that Hispanics kill more people with guns than do whites and that Asians and Alaskans kill fewer people with guns than any other ethnicity. On issue of mass killings, two of the biggest mass killings were also done by white men. One at a school (I think) back in the 1930's and the other a Federal building. Neither of those <deleted> used a gun. Both mass killings were done by use of explosives. If I remember correctly, your post addressed "mass shootings", done more by whites than any other race. On that, I agree. Which isn't the same thing as whites kill more people guns than any other race.

off topic TABLE. Firearm homicide annual rates and counts, by race and ethnicity — United States, 2019–2022 Race and ethnicity* Rate† (no.) 2019 2020 2021 2022 A/PI, NH 1.0 (202) 1.0 (208) 1.2 (241) 1.1 (233) AI/AN, NH 6.4 (154) 7.9 (191) 7.7 (185) 9.3 (224) Black or African American, NH 20.5 (8,438) 28.3 (11,832) 30.4 (12,721) 27.5 (11,565) White, NH 1.6 (3,129) 2.0 (3,969) 2.1 (4,064) 2.0 (3,828) Hispanic or Latino, any race 3.8 (2,301) 4.8 (2,947) 5.5 (3,455) 5.5 (3,500) Overall§ 4.4 (14,414) 5.8 (19,384) 6.3 (20,958) 5.9 (19,637) Sources: CDC WONDER; U.S. Census Bureau (NC-EST2020-ALLDATA; NC-EST2022-ALLDATA). Abbreviations: A/PI = Asian or Pacific Islander; AI/AN = American Indian or Alaska Native; NH = non-Hispanic. † Crude rates represent the number of firearm homicides per 100,000 persons. § Rates and numbers for the “Overall” category include the non-Hispanic multiple-race population grouping, not shown separately in the table.\ here is the link https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7242a4.htm

Nope. I have met some pretty nice British folk. So, like Nigerians, not all of them are the worst.

Not all of them. I have a neighbors here in the U.S. of A. who are from Nigeria. His kids go to the same Catholic elementary school that my grand kids go to. I pick up my grand kids from school (Mom does not want them to ride in a school bus) and the school bus drops his kids off at the corner where my house is. Their dad and I like to sit on a bench in the shade of one of my trees (not during winter though) and we talk about many different subjects while his kids and my grandkids run around the yard screaming, laughing, and having loads of fun.

New Hope. It's a nice drive up there ..

As someone pointed out, this is for passport renewal in the United States, just to make that clear.

If you are referring to the 6-8 week time frame, you are correct. I guess that should have been made much more clear in my post.