>DOUGH
>https://twitter.com/WarClandestine/status/1743867439207592142
https://twitter.com/inside_africaa/status/1743532766447206455
Al-Shabaab leader Mahad Karate, reportedly addressing a gathering at a militant graduation ceremony, has publicly responded to Ethiopia's aspirations for Red Sea access. He unequivocally stated that Ethiopia would not succeed in acquiring any portion of Somali territorial waters.
In a formal statement, Al-Shabaab's spokesperson Ali Dheere declared the organization's categorical opposition to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Ethiopia and Somaliland, announced on January 1st.
Systemic racism theory predicts that counties where there are more White people and where people are more racist against non-Whites should have larger race gaps on cognitive measures. We used county-level data from the United States to test these predictions of the systemic racism model. We used cognitive test results from state scholastic tests from the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA) 4.1, which provided data for Black-White and Hispanic-White gaps from 1,473 and 1,750 counties, respectively. Contrary to predictions from the systemic racism model, we find that cognitive race gaps are smaller in counties with more Republicans: r’s with %Republican are -.54 and -.59 for Black-White and Hispanic-White gaps, respectively. Gaps also tend to be smaller where there are more White people, with correlations of %White with Black-White and Hispanic-White gaps of r = -.30 and -.38 (all results p < .001). We furthermore used data from Project Implicit as a measure of latent racism against Blacks. However, these also tended to have the wrong direction of results: Higher implicit anti-Black racism was associated with smaller cognitive gaps. Regression modeling reduced the effect sizes, but not the general pattern of directions. The same pattern was also seen for social status gaps as the outcome variable. Results were entirely contrary to the predictions of the systemic racism model.
The Iraqis do not need the Americans to fight Daesh (Islamic State).
The Iraqis will fight with all their might the second battle to liberate Iraq and expel the American forces.
American forces in the east of the Euphrates cannot remain if they evacuate their bases in Iraq.
Nasrallah on American support for Daesh: American forces sponsor the “Daesh” organization in Syria, provide it with support, and remove its members from prisons.
Those who are critical of the actions of the Axis of Resistance today are those who have not provided anything since the beginning of the aggression on Gaza.
Nasrallah on the actions of the Houthis: The silent and negligent regimes were surprised by what the Yemenis did in the Red Sea.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/secretary-defense-lloyd-austin-hospitalized-middle-east-missions-rcna132612
Pentagon waited three days to inform White House that the defense secretary was hospitalized in ICU
Austin took responsibility for not disclosing his condition sooner.
While Austin has been hospitalized, the U.S. conducted a rare and controversial strike against a senior Iranian-backed militia member in Baghdad, bases with Americans have been attacked at least six times, and the Biden administration has been considering options to strike Houthi militants in response to their continued attacks against ships in the Red Sea.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iraq-prepares-close-down-us-led-coalitions-mission-pm-statement-2024-01-05/
Iraq prepares to close down US-led coalition's mission
More than 300 new laws are now in effect in Illinois, but several sheriffs are refusing to uphold what's become known as the Protect Illinois Communities Act.
“I’ve deemed it from my understanding of case law as unlawful or valid on its face,” Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Bullard said. “My office will not be taking any action on this.”
“I notified the chiefs in my county that if the only charge they have against somebody is that they failed to register their weapon we will not be accepting them into our jail,” Campbell said.
“Even if the Supreme Court did uphold it and overturn those cases, we all know like 90% of it, that’s not going to change our position,” said Sheriff Bullard. “We know what the constitution says. We know what people’s rights are. We’re going to stand very firm on our position on it.”
confusion is an instrument of decomposition
>Jake Sullivan ultimately informed Biden
>embarrassing