Coups, Coups, Coups

[lucklucky]

Touche

[Strannik]

If true it raises French haute cuisine to the new heights

 

Edited September 15, 2023 by Strannik

[urbanoid]

They've always eaten strange things.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Oopsie.

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Unconfirmed as yet, but keep an eye on it, it was slated 'at risk' yesterday.

Edited September 17, 2023 by Stuart Galbraith

[Stuart Galbraith]

This is the alternative  take.

 

[Ivanhoe]

On 9/15/2023 at 10:24 AM, Strannik said:

If true it raises French haute cuisine to the new heights

 

The USMC used to refer to Army soldiers as doggies, so...

 

[BansheeOne]

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Colombian pleads guilty in Haiti president assassination

11 hours ago

Colombian ex-soldier Mario Palacios is the fifth of 11 defendants to plead guilty in the 2021 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moise.

A former Colombian soldier pleaded guilty in a US court on Friday for his alleged role in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise.

Prosecutors had said 45-year-old Mario Palacios was part of a group of Colombian contractors who broke into Moise's home, where he was killed.

Palacios had originally pleaded not guilty in the case.

What do we know about the murder of Moise?

On July 7, 2021, at the age of 53, Moise was shot and killed in his private residence by a group of more than 20 people, most of them Colombian mercenaries, when his guards failed to intervene.

According to the indictment, Palacios entered the president's home with the mercenaries and stole money and jewelry.

Prosecutors, however, said he played a minor role in the conspiracy and had no decision-making power within the group.

Plotters initially planned to kidnap Moise

Palacios is the fifth of 11 defendants to plead guilty in the 2021 killing. As part of a deal with prosecutors, he agreed to cooperate with the investigation and plead guilty. The sentence will be handed down on March 1.

According to prosecutors, the conspirators initially planned to kidnap the Haitian president but later decided to kill him. They say the plotters had hoped to win contracts under Moïse's successor.

Three defendants have already been sentenced to life in prison in the case: former Haitian senator Joseph Joel John; a businessman of Haitian and Chilean nationality, Rodolphe Jaar; and another retired Colombian soldier.

https://www.dw.com/en/colombian-pleads-guilty-in-haiti-president-assassination/a-67809171

[BansheeOne]

What do they say about history repeating as a farce?

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Haiti: Gang leader launches armed bid to oust PM Henry

3 hours ago

Haiti was paralzyed for a second day as gangs and security forces fought in the capital Port-au-Prince. A notorious gang leader said "the battle will last as long as it needs to" and advised people to stay indoors.

Haiti witnessed a second day of extreme violence on Friday as gangs looking to oust Prime Minister Ariel Henry rocked the capital Port-au-Prince with heavy gunfire near the city's international airport and a prison.

Haitian gang leader Jimmy Cherizier held a press conference on Friday and said that he would keep trying to remove Henry.

"The battle will last as long as it needs to. We will keep fighting Ariel Henry. To avoid collateral damage, keep the kids at home," the powerful gang boss, known by the nickname Barbecue, said.

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https://www.dw.com/en/haiti-gang-leader-launches-armed-bid-to-oust-pm-henry/a-68423885

[BansheeOne]

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Haiti: Prime Minister Ariel Henry agrees to resign

Published 6 hours ago last updated 4 hours agolast updated 4 hours ago

Prime Minister Henry says he will step down once a transitional presidential council is created and an interim premier named. He had held the position unelected since the 2021 assassination of the previous president.

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to resign amid surging violence in the Caribbean country, the chair of the Caribbean Community said Monday.

Henry said he will step down once a transitional presidential council is created and an interim premier named. He had held the position, unelected, since the 2021 assassination of the previous president, Jovenel Moise.

"We acknowledge his resignation upon the establishment of a transitional presidential council and naming of an interim prime minister," said Caribbean Community chair Irfaan Ali, also the president of Guyana. Ali thanked Henry for his service to Haiti.

A seven-member presidential council will be formed for the transition to elections in Haiti, which will appoint a new interim prime minister, Ali said late on Monday.

Henry is currently stranded in the US territory of Puerto Rico, following his trip to Kenya last week to lobby for UN-backed police to be deployed in his country.

Caricom leads urgent international talks on Haiti crisis

Members of a Caribbean regional trade bloc known as Caricom organized emergency talks in Jamaica on Monday to address the violence in Haiti. The meeting also involved Canada, France, the UN and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Caricom has pressed for a transitional government in Haiti for months amid protests calling for Henry's resignation.

Guyanese President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, the current Caricom chair, warned that, despite the ongoing talks to restore "stability and normalcy" to Haiti, some Haitian groups "are not where they need to be."

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https://www.dw.com/en/haiti-prime-minister-ariel-henry-agrees-to-resign/a-68498325

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/harvard-fellow-charged-attempting-smuggle-4-million-weapons-coup-south-sudan
 

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But Ajak, and his confederate Abraham Chol Keech, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives and works in Utah, are now alleged to have been on a buying spree to send $4 million worth of Stinger missile systems, grenade launchers, sniper rifles, automatic rifles, and ammunition back home to support a violent uprising, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed March 4.

“Keech and Ajak knew that smuggling the weapons and ammunition out of the country without a license from the U.S. government was illegal and would violate U.S. laws. Nevertheless, in or around February 2024, they caused funds to be transferred to undercover agents through U.S. Company-1 to purchase approximately $4 million worth of munitions and other goods for illegal export to South Sudan,” the complaint reads.

 

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://cis.org/Oped/Bidens-dirty-deal-sold-out-Haitian-democracy-migrant-deportations-former-envoy-says
 

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The Biden administration scuttled Haiti’s plans for free elections and backed a de facto dictator in exchange for his willingness to accept deportees, America’s former envoy to the country says.

Daniel Foote, the Biden- appointed former US special envoy to Haiti, says the administration has supported Dr. Ariel Henry — who took power as both acting prime minister and acting president after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise — because he was willing to accept Haitian migrants who have rushed the US border.

Henry was supposed to have organized new elections by now. But in September 2021, a large group of Haitian migrants camped in Del Rio, Texas, and images of the encampment — including border agents on horseback trying to prevent them from crossing the river — caused a political headache for President Biden.

Henry agreed to take in deported Haitians, Foote says, and the Biden administration stopped pushing for democracy on the Caribbean nation.

“I am confident that the chief reason they did that is his [Henry’s] malleability and the fact that he agreed that he would take all the deportees that they wanted to send. It wasn’t long after that ... we started putting them on planes,” Foote told me in an interview for my forthcoming book, “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History.”

“The US carried out a non-democratic transfer of power. We were just kicking the can down the road so that we don’t upset the vote moving toward the midterms.”

 

 

[urbanoid]

Of happenings in Worst Korea

'Okay, apparently this is what Yoon said:

- I'm declaring martial law to protect South Korea from the threat of Communist North Korean threat. I aim to destroy the anti-state forces who are acting against the happiness and freedom of our people.

- DP's recent attempt to cut budgets drastically is a direct threat against the constitutional order. They are traitors.

- I will normalize the nation as soon as possible.'

https://x.com/saber_psvm/status/1863946658729627831

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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced an "emergency martial law" on Tuesday accusing the country's opposition of ruling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state actions.

Yoon declared the step as critical for defending the country's constitutional order.

"To safeguard a liberal South Korea from the threats posed by North Korea's communist forces and to eliminate anti-state elements... I hereby declare emergency martial law," Yoon said in a televised address.

 

https://www.dw.com/en/south-korean-president-yoon-suk-yeol-declares-martial-law/a-70947817

[futon]

I have a hunch that he used it because he has little political power to counter opposition moves. Some scandal involving his wife among other things sapped his support ratings. Although in South Korean politics, towards the end of a presidential term, things have typically always turn very rough on any South Korean president. But at any rate, assuming nothing serious going on under the surface, he may have abused his ability to call martial law.

Edited December 3, 2024 by futon

[Roman Alymov]

Latest joke from Russian TG

"Well then listen up, the BTS group, taking advantage of the political crisis, pushed by the Ukrainian GUR to undermine the combat capability of the DPRK soldiers in the rear of the Sumy region, begins an operation to overthrow the too soft president of South Korea in order to unleash a war against the North. Of course, with the support of American nationalists, Israel and the resurrected from the back of the banned Al-Nusra." https://t.me/dva_majors/59253

P.S. SOF taking Parliament building https://t.me/milinfolive/136583

Armor columns on the streets https://t.me/infomil_live/12590

Edited December 3, 2024 by Roman Alymov

[Roman Alymov]

MPs are climbing the Parliament fence to declare military rule illegal https://t.me/anna_news/73739

Another pro-Rus joke - "It was too early SKoreans converted their T-80 into practice targets, they lost nice chance to cosplay Moscow-1993" (when T-80 were shooting at Parliament building)

 

[urbanoid]

Does the president of Worst Korea have a power of summary execution during the martial law? Because Johnny Somali is there and it would be some silver lining.

[Mighty_Zuk]

Waiting to see if any alliance members are supporting this to form my opinion.

[urbanoid]

17 minutes ago, Mighty_Zuk said:

Waiting to see if any alliance members are supporting this to form my opinion.

I think support for the execution of Johnny Somali should be near unanimous.

Edited December 3, 2024 by urbanoid

[Ivanhoe]

The risk of Yoon invoking embargoes, and the threat of western industrial nations being cut off from their K-pop media feeds, could tank the entertainment industry.

As for Roman's mention of the BTS group, I had no idea K-pop boy bands were getting into foreign policy.

 

[Mighty_Zuk]

20 minutes ago, urbanoid said:

I think support for the execution of Johnny Somali should be near unanimous.

I just hear Somali and I agree.

15 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said:

The risk of Yoon invoking embargoes, and the threat of western industrial nations being cut off from their K-pop media feeds, could tank the entertainment industry.

As for Roman's mention of the BTS group, I had no idea K-pop boy bands were getting into foreign policy.

 

Some of them were recently drafted. Don't ask how I know.

Edited December 3, 2024 by Mighty_Zuk

[Roman Alymov]

18 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said:

As for Roman's mention of the BTS group, I had no idea K-pop boy bands were getting into foreign policy.

It was sort of joke

[Markus Becker]

From X, parliament voted unanimously to lift the martial law. 

And I'm more shocked than a French police officer from WW2 that our official news is silent! 

[Roman Alymov]

1 minute ago, Markus Becker said:

And I'm more shocked than a French police officer from WW2 that our official news is silent! 

Nothing to look it, democracy in process

[Markus Becker]

Just now, Roman Alymov said:

Nothing to look it, democracy in process

Actually I was opening fire prematurely. They reported just after I checked online news for the last time before I had real life things to do.