>DOUGH
>Erdogan wins
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1662198836373192707
The rise of antisemitic attacks should alarm all of us. Antisemitism and bigotry - like all forms of hate - have no place in our world, and it’s on each of us to combat this growing threat. @POTUS is right to take on this issue, and he deserves our support.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/25/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-releases-first-ever-u-s-national-strategy-to-counter-antisemitism/
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases First-Ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism
Administration announces over 100 new actions and over 100 calls to action to combat antisemitism, including new actions to counter antisemitism on college campuses and online; whole-of-society strategy includes new stakeholder commitments.
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is releasing the first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. This strategy includes over 100 new actions the Administration will take to raise awareness of antisemitism and its threat to American democracy, protect Jewish communities, reverse the normalization of antisemitism, and build cross-community solidarity.
President Biden decided to run for President after what we all saw in Charlottesville in 2017, when Neo-Nazis marched from the shadows spewing the same antisemitic bile that was heard in Europe in the 1930s. That is why he has prioritized action to counter antisemitism and hate of all kinds.
The United States has recently experienced an alarming increase in antisemitic incidents, among other acts of hatred. American Jews account for 2.4% of the U.S. population, but they are the victims of 63% of reported religiously motivated hate crimes, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/hate-crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d'%C3%A9tat_attempt
https://web.archive.org/web/20111212195153/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2011/01/islamic_group_is_cia_front_ex-.html
2011
Islamic group is CIA front, ex-Turkish intel chief says
By Jeff Stein
A memoir by a top former Turkish intelligence official claims that a worldwide moderate Islamic movement based in Pennsylvania has been providing cover for the CIA since the mid-1990s.
The memoir, roughly rendered in English as “Witness to Revolution and Near Anarchy,” by retired Turkish intelligence official Osman Nuri Gundes, says the religious-tolerance movement, led by an influential former Turkish imam by the name of Fethullah Gulen, has 600 schools and 4 million followers around the world.
In the 1990s, Gundes alleges, the movement "sheltered 130 CIA agents" at its schools in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan alone, according to a report on his memoir Wednesday by the Paris-based Intelligence Online newsletter.
The book has caused a sensation in Turkey since it was published last month.
Gulen could not be reached for comment.
But two ex-CIA officials with long ties to Central Asia cast doubt on Gundes’s charges.
Former CIA operative Robert Baer, chief of the agency’s Central Asia and Caucasus operations from 1995 through 1997, called the allegations bogus. "The CIA didn't have any ‘agents’ in Central Asia during my tenure,” he said.
It’s possible, Baer granted, that the CIA “turned around this ship after I left,” but only the spy agency could say for sure, and the CIA does not comment on operational sources and methods.
A U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, also said Gundes’s “accounts are ringing no bells whatsoever.”
Likewise, Graham Fuller, a former CIA station chief in Kabul and author of “The Future of Political Islam,” threw cold water on Gundes’s allegations about Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
“I think the story of 130 CIA agents in Gulen schools in Central Asia is pretty wild,” Fuller said by e-mail.
“I should hasten to add that I left CIA in 1987 nearly 25 years ago and I have absolutely no concrete personal knowledge whatsoever about this. But my instincts tell me the claim is highly improbable.”
Fuller added, “I cannot even imagine trying to credibly sell such a scheme with a straight face within the agency. As for Nuri Gundes, I am not aware of who he is or what he has written. But there is a lot of wild stuff floating around in Turkey on these issues and Gulen is a real hot button issue.”
Imam Gulen, “whose views are usually close to U.S. policy,” according to Intelligence Online, favors toleration of all religions, putting his movement in direct competition with al-Qaeda and other radical groups for the affection of Muslims across Central Asia, the Middle East and even Europe and Africa, where it has also expanded its reach.
Gundes, who was Istanbul station chief for Turkey’s MIT intelligence agency, “personally supervised several investigations into Gulen’s movement in the 1990s,” according to the newsletter’s report on his memoir, which has not been translated into English. The purpose of Gundes's investigation was not immediately clear. His own religious views could not be determined, but the influence of radical Islamist forces in Turkey swelled in the 1990s.
The imam left Turkey in 1998 and settled in Saylorsburg, Pa., where the movement is headquartered. According to Intelligence Online, he obtained a residence permit only in 2008 with the help of Fuller and George Fidas, whom it described as head of the agency’s outreach to universities.
Fuller says that’s wrong.
“I did not recommend him for a residence permit or anything else. As for George Fidas, I have never even heard of him and don't know who he is.”
“What I did do,” Fuller explained, “was write a letter to the FBI in early 2006 …at a time when Gulen's enemies were pressing for his extradition to Turkey from the U.S. In the post 9/11 environment, they began spreading the word that he was a dangerous radical. In my statement to the FBI I offered my views…that I did not believe he posed a security threat of any kind to the U.S. I still believe that today, as do a large body of scholars on contemporary Islam.
“I do not at all consider Gulen a radical or dangerous.” Fuller continued. “Indeed in my viewand I have studied a lot of Islamist movements worldwidehis movement is perhaps one of the most encouraging in terms of the evolution of contemporary Islamic political and social thinking…”
Fidas could not be reached for comment, nor would the CIA answer questions about him. George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs lists him as a visiting professor and “Director for Outreach in the Office of the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production.”
But the title was abolished when the Director of National Intelligence was created several years ago, an informed source said.
Life is a storm my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you: as Albert Mondego, the man!
Tis strange that it should be among such men that we find proofs of friendship and devotion.
We are kings or pawns a man once said.
We are kings or pawns a man once said.
>Russia hasn’t started to act seriously in Ukraine
I thought we already won the war we're not having?
>https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/inside-the-woke-scoring-system-guiding-american-companies/
source?
kek
>Does one have to be actively in uniform to be considered "military" or would a career in service with the skills and training to participate in this be enough?
Soros-backed prosecutor's scandal-ridden tenure having ripple effects even after resignation
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/leading-lgbtq-advocacy-organizations-raise-the-alarm-to-business-community-on-coordinated-anti-lgbtq-attacks-call-on-target-to-lead
Leading LGBTQ+ Advocacy Organizations Raise the Alarm to Business Community on Coordinated Anti-LGBTQ+ Attacks; Call on Target to Lead
>Lead
in a backwards way it reminds me of ISIS
After the fall of Iraq, any Baathist was unable to hold office or employment, aka anyone in the military.
No income, only military training, hello ISIS.
>This has nothing to do with a rainbow "PRIDE" display. This has everything to do with the aggressive and explicit sexualization of children.
>listen
>Iranians will asking Israel for help
The wildest trip so far has been hearing Chechen "Allahu Akbar, for the Russian Federation!" in battle against Ukrainian Nazis. Iranian drones are an interesting spice too.
In his victory speech, Erdogan criticizes the opposition for being pro-LGBT:
“CHP, HDP and all the others are pro-LGBT. But LGBT cannot infiltrate among us. We will be reborn. The family is sacred.”
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1662480760094224384
Zelensky has asked the Ukrainian Parliament to impose sanctions on Iran for the next 50 years.
Trade, investments and technology transfers with Iran will be banned.
Iran has provided Russia with Shahed suicide drones and other weapons which Russia is using against Ukraine.
>https://twitter.com/Rifleman4WVU/status/1662835018798977025
Didn’t realize Apples were this flammable..
Umbrella Pharmaceuticals was a European company responsible for the production of pharmaceuticals. Founded in the late 1960s, it became a subsidiary of Umbrella, a conglomerate spanning various industries from medicines to luxury travels. Umbrella Pharmaceuticals collapsed after the infamous Raccoon Trials came to a close in 2003. Until then, it was a leading member of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Companies.
The consortium existed for some time before the 1998 Raccoon City Destruction Incident where they unwittingly aided Umbrella in the development of bio-weapons: it was found out during the Raccoon Trials that Umbrella developed their weaponry with the use of fellow pharmaceutical companies under the guise of the co-development of medicines. Facing the possibility of a ban from trading and bankruptcy, the consortium members were allowed to remain in business thanks to a deal with the prosecutors: if they supplied the court with evidence implicating Umbrella with wrongdoing, their own misdeeds would be overlooked.
Umbrella developed their weaponry with the use of fellow pharmaceutical companies under the guise of the co-development of medicines.
>So did the USAF just empty a can of whoop ass onto Canada's Parliament?