We are proceeding much faster than anticipated in moving to our new permanent home.
This post outlines what has happened to the changeover and what to expect.
There have been changes.
1) The new rantburg.com will reside on a single quadcore Xeon CPU and RAID electronics, instead of the previously specified dual quadcore processor. The new server still has 32 gigs of RAM.
In the early going with the hosting provider, I had a devil of a time getting their RAID rig to work. My previous experience in setting up FreeBSD on a RAID rig in the past have been singularly negative. After three complete self-installations which failed, and me begging the hardware guys to move to a bare metal server, the hardware people decided to let me have what I needed.
Don't get me wrong. I love those guys. They are polite, knowledgeable, with years of professional experience behind them -- everything I'm not.
So, rantburg.com will be on a one terabyte SD drive bare metal server, instead of the virtual rig. This will make rantburg.com much more stable.
2) Thinking seriously about moving the changeover up by one, possibly two weeks. Setting up the new server was at times hard, moving from php 8.0 to php 8.3, and overhauling the apache php interpreter to an entirely new interpreter but it appears it is ready.
When I do decide it is time, I will post a post with the title "The changeover is tonight." At midnight, the database is backed up for the final time, and moved to the new server. Any activity on ranturg.com after that time will be gone forever.
At the same time, there will be an inevitable delay as the rantburg.com name is propagated throughout the domain name system. rantburg.com will be for some unavailable for a brief period of time. But newrantburg.1dogstar.net is now and always will be available.
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[Regnum] The Taliban movement ruling Afghanistan (under UN sanctions for terrorist activities) has begun closing beauty salons and women's hairdressers in Kabul. This was reported on August 10 by the Telegram channel Tolo News. Of course they are, further isolating women and removing them from the public sphere — raising the heat under the pot until the frog is completely boiled.
"The Taliban in Kabul have closed hundreds of women's hair salons. According to witnesses, the Taliban are searching homes, finding hair salons and destroying or confiscating their equipment," the article, published on August 9, says.
According to the publication, this is being done to advance the Taliban's course of ousting women from the social and economic spheres. Before the ban, 60,000 women worked in the beauty industry.
In July, Afghanistan International reported that Taliban police had carried out raids in Kabul, detaining dozens of women allegedly because of their inappropriate appearance. Police detained them in restaurants, shopping malls and on the streets, then took them away to an unknown location.
In December 2024, ABC News reported that Afghan authorities had banned non-governmental organizations from hiring women, threatening to suspend their activities if they failed to comply.
[X] Barire is about 37 miles southwest of Mogadishu in Lower Shabelle. They’ve been fighting over it for more than three weeks…
🇸🇴 SOMALIA: Somalia’s Ministry of Defence releases Turkish drone footage from the battle to retake Bariire from Al Shabab. Militants had planted explosives and dug trenches. Over 100 militants reportedly killed in the operation. pic.twitter.com/vvubeEayBw
Nigeria: Military says over 100 armed bandits were killed in coordinated air and ground strikes on Makakkari Forest in Zamfara’s Bukuyum area. pic.twitter.com/VA5koZLmcQ
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A person was killed, and several others were maimed in armed festivities that erupted Sunday morning between two tribes in the Hawf district of Mahrah province, eastern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... A local source reported that the festivities broke out between button men from the Kada and Balhaf tribes in the village of Al Fatak in the coastal area of Yaroub, following a dispute over a plot of land.
Members of both tribes used light and medium weapons in the festivities, while local authorities or forces loyal to the Saudi-led coalition did not intervene to stop the festivities.
The source indicated that tensions remain between the two tribes, with no solution to the disputes that led to the armed festivities.
#Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦: #Ukrainian Security Forces conducted an operation against an Organized Criminal Group in #Ternopil.
As a result several #Bulgaria-made 🇧🇬 RPG-22 'Netto' anti-tank weapons (made in 2022), GP-25 grenade launcher and F-1 / RGD-5 hand grenades were seized. pic.twitter.com/CMfeG7Nks7
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Paleostinian Ministry of Health in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip announced on Sunday that the corpse count from the ongoing Israeli aggression, which began on October 7, 2023, has risen to 61,430, with 153,213 maimed.
The ministry's daily statistical report indicated that hospitals in the Strip received 61 deaders and 363 maimed in the past 24 hours. The report also indicated that the total number of ''livelihood'' victims (aid victims) who arrived at hospitals rose to 1,778 deaders and more than 12,894 maimed, including 35 deaders and 304 maimed in the past 24 hours.
The suffering continues in the Gaza Strip, as the Ministry of Health confirmed that many victims are still under the rubble and in the streets and that ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them.
Amid the worsening humanitarian situation, hospitals recorded five deaths, including two children, due to famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of deaths due to famine to 217, including 100 children.
According to the report, the corpse count and injuries since March 18, 2025, when the Israeli occupation violated the truce, has reached 9,921 deaders and 41,172 injured.
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[X] How many of them are listed as double dipping in captured Hamas records as
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital https://t.co/MMKatjgeAapic.twitter.com/OBgVFrn0ax
An Israeli strike in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... City Sunday night killed a prominent Paleostinian journalist for Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i broadcaster Al Jazeera, Anas al-Sharif, whom the Israel Defense Forces has long argued was a Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... terrorist in charge of rocket launching.
Al Jazeera confirmed the 28-year-old’s death along with fellow journalist Mohammed Qreiqeh and videographers Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa in the strike, which it said targeted a tent near Shifa Hospital. An official at the hospital said two other people were also killed in the strike.
The incident came days after Israel approved a plan to fully conquer Gaza City and relocate southward around 1 million Paleostinians currently staying there.
Following Gazook media reports about Sharif’s death, the IDF confirmed carrying out a strike that killed him, saying he was a "terrorist operating under the guise of a journalist."
"The terrorist Anas al-Sharif served as a cell leader in the Hamas terror organization and advanced plans for rocket fire against Israeli civilians and IDF forces," the military said in a statement.
The IDF noted that in October, it published documents seized in Gaza that it said "unequivocally" confirmed Sharif’s "military affiliation with Hamas."
At the time, the military said Sharif headed a rocket-launching squad and was a member of an elite Nukhba Force company in Hamas’s East Jabalia Battalion.
"These documents serve as proof of the terrorist’s integration into the Qatari Al Jazeera media network," the IDF said.
Al Jazeera has fiercely denied No, no! Certainly not! Israel’s allegations and accused it of systematically targeting Al Jazeera employees in the Gaza Strip.
In Sunday’s strike, the military said it took steps to mitigate civilian harm, including "the use of precision munitions, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence information."
Minutes before being killed, Sharif documented Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Gaza City and posted footage to social media.
"Relentless bombing... For two hours, the Israeli aggression on Gaza City has intensified," he wrote on X.
And shortly after his death, his X account, which has more than 500,000 followers, published a message he had left to be posted in the event of his death that read, "...I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those who remained silent."
A press freedom group and a UN expert previously warned that Al Sharif’s life was in danger due to his reporting from Gaza. UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan claimed last month that Israel’s allegations against him were unsubstantiated.
In a statement, the Committee to Protect Journalists, which in July urged the international community to protect Al Sharif, said Israel had failed to provide any evidence to back up its allegations against him.
"Israel’s pattern of labeling journalists as Death Eaters without providing credible evidence raises serious questions about its intent and respect for press freedom," said Sara Qudah, CPJ’s director for the Middle East and North Africa.
Calling Al Sharif "one of Gaza’s bravest journalists," Al Jazeera said the attack "is a desperate attempt to silence voices in anticipation of the occupation of Gaza."
"Anas Al Sharif and his colleagues were among the last remaining voices in Gaza conveying the tragic reality to the world," Al Jazeera said.
Paleostinian terror group Hamas, which runs Gaza, said the killing may signal the start of an Israeli offensive. "The liquidation of journalists and the intimidation of those who remain paves the way for a major crime that the occupation is planning to commit in Gaza City," said Hamas, which itself regularly faces accusations of persecuting adversarial journalists.
The Paleostinian Journalists’ Syndicate condemned what it described as a "bloody crime" of liquidation.
Pro-Israel advocates hailed the killing of Sharif and posted photos he took with since-slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, as well as a screenshot of a Telegram message he posted on October 7, 2023, hailing the murders and kidnappings during the mass Hamas onslaught that day.
The Hamas-run Gaza government media office said 237 journalists have been killed since the war started. The Committee to Protect Journalists said at least 186 journalists have been killed in the Gaza conflict.
And how many of them are also the Hamas payroll?
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🎯STRUCK: Hamas terrorist Anas Al-Sharif, who posed as an Al Jazeera journalist
Al-Sharif was the head of a Hamas terrorist cell and advanced rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and IDF troops. Intelligence and documents from Gaza, including rosters, terrorist training lists and… pic.twitter.com/ypFaEYDHse
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Activists on social media posted a video showing a horrific execution carried out against a medical worker inside al-Suweida’s National Hospital.
Was he Druze?
The footage shows members of the Ministries of Defense and Interior dragging the young man and then physically assaulting him before shooting him directly.
The video also shows dozens of individuals wearing hospital work uniforms kneeling during the execution, reflecting a state of tension and terror that prevailed in the site. Following the execution, the victim’s body was dragged away to an unknown place.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, this incident is only one example of the violations committed against civilians in al-Suwaida, where SOHR has documented the execution of 401 individuals.
It pointed to an earlier incident on the 7th of this month, in which a man, his son, and his wife were executed, while women from the same family were kidnapped and later freed under public pressure.
If I recall correctly, they were Druze.
SOHR called for the formation of an independent committee including representatives from all concerned parties to follow up the issue of the missing people, disclose their fate and ensure accountability for those involved in these serious violations.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A person was killed, and several others were 
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Paleostinian Ministry of Health in the 
..always the voice of sweet reason...
