Yesterday, a man was run over by a driver. When Portland Police & emergency crews responded, he was already dead. Tera A. Harris, 49, was arrested over the incident. She has tried to sue city of Portland several times over the years alleging police brutality. #BlackLivesMatterpic.twitter.com/684svFRByF
[Breitbart] Sixty-six Idiots progressive Democrats are telling President Joe Biden to open the nation’s border to Afghan migrants because the U.S. bears moral responsibility for the wars in Afghanistan.
“After decades of disastrous U.S. intervention, one thing is clear: We have a moral responsibility to provide safe harbor and refuge for the Afghan people,” the August 26 letter, which does not set an upper limit on the inflow of Afghan migrants, states.
“The U.S. war in Afghanistan has caused irreparable harm to Afghans,” the letter claims, without mentioning the many hard-fought humanitarian gains Americans delivered or mentioning the almost 2,400 dead Americans — in the two decades since 2001.
The letter is from the House’s progressives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), and Rep. James McGovern (D-MA). It reflects their view that foreigners are entitled to easy access to the United States because “white supremacy” in the U.S. is responsible for the many ills in the world.
The U.S. must provide Special Immigrant Visas to many Afghans who fought alongside the U.S. military and must invite many more into the P-2 refugee program, the progressives say.
[PJMedia] Bagram Air Base was a world-class platform from which the United States could project any form of military power across Afghanistan in the heart of Central Asia.
Joe Biden ordered the U.S. to reduce the number from 2,500 troops at the beginning of his term to between 600 and 700 troops in the drawdown, an order that according to Gen. Mark Milley forced the military to have to choose between defending that base, which had two runways, during the evacuation, or defending the embassy and Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in the heart of Kabul, which has just one runway. The military, according to Gen. Milley, recognized that 600-700 troops would not be enough to secure Bagram, so it opted for HKIA. HKIA is now surrounded by an unknown number of enemy fighters belonging to the Taliban, ISIS-K, and al Qaeda — names that denote distinctions without much actual differences in ideology or capability. They’re all terrorists.
Bagram closed in the dead of night on July 5, 2021. Afghan army forces occupied it but the Taliban captured it around August 14, 2021, and promptly freed the captured terrorists held there.
Prior to the terrorist attack that killed 13 Americans and numerous Afghans last week, U.S. forces had not suffered a casualty in Afghanistan in more than a year. Thursday’s attack was the deadliest day for Americans in Afghanistan in a decade.
[KhaamaPress] Acting minister of culture and information and spokesperson of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Zabiullah Mujahid said, there remains no incentive for any blast or attack once foreign forces leave Afghanistan. Uh-huh. Pull the other one
He said the twin explosions which inflicted casualties to over 250 people at Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... International Airport, occurred in an area under US troops’ control, not the Taliban’s.
Zabiullah Mujahid in his interview with radio free of Afghanistan said that the presence of foreign forces triggers such kind attacks and explosions, thus he asked the US to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible.
"Once the foreign forces leave Afghanistan, we assure that there will not by any attack, no group will be allowed to carry out such attacks or threaten the security of other countries using Afghanistan’s soil." Said Mujahid.
The acting minister said the situation in HKIA is uncontrollable and their fighters are not trained enough and are too familiar with such situation to control the crowd. He asked people not to throng at the airport and promised not to be hindering anyone from leaving the country once the situation in HKIA returns to normal.
About the ISIS who grabbed credit for the twin blasts in HKIA Mujahid said, the group is not the one that is active in Syria and Iraq and added, he was sure that they will not carry out attacks and explosions once they see no foreign soldier in Afghanistan.
[KhaamaPress] Hundreds of men and women erupted into the streets of Kabul on Saturday, August 28, to protest against the closure of the central bank, private banks, and money-changing markets across the country.
They asked for their money as they have been facing severe problems due to lack of money.
People have also gathered at the gates of private banks and semi-private-Kabul Bank- but they were not given their own money. "Mo took a vow of poverty, and so will you"
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on Thursday directed all banks to reopen and resume functions as normal from Saturday, August 28, onward.
Despite the direction and assurance of security by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... to private banks, the banks’ employees do not dare to come to jobs and resume functions as normal.
The banks’ owners say that they cannot resume operation until the central bank of Afghanistan —De Afghanistan Bank- opens.
On the other hand, money-changing markets and money changers who have been playing a vital role when it comes to financial deals ascribed their operations and resumption to the resumption of the central bank.
Banks have been closed now for nearly two weeks which has left millions of people out of money.
Employers are not able to pay their staff and the employees who have money in their accounts are not able to withdraw to support their lives.
In Kabul itself, hundreds of protesters, including many civil servants, gathered outside a bank while countless more lined up at cash machines. The protesters said had not been paid for the past three to six months and were unable to withdraw cash. ATM machines are still operating, but withdrawals are limited to around $200 every 24 hours.
The economic crisis, which predates the Taliban takeover earlier this month, could give Western nations leverage as they urge Afghanistan's new rulers to form a moderate, inclusive government and allow people to leave after Aug. 31.
Afghanistan is heavily dependent on international aid, which covered around 75% of the toppled Western-backed government's budget. The Taliban have said they want good relations with the international community and have promised a more moderate form of Islamic rule than when they last governed the country, but many Afghans are deeply skeptical.
The Taliban cannot access almost any of the central bank's $9 billion in reserves, most of which is held by the New York Federal Reserve. The International Monetary Fund has also suspended the transfer of some $450 million. Without a regular supply of U.S. dollars, the local currency is at risk of collapse, which could send the price of basic goods soaring.
A U.N. agency meanwhile warned that a worsening drought threatens the livelihoods of more than 7 million people. The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization said Afghans are also suffering from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic and displacement from the recent fighting.
Earlier this month, the U.N. World Food Program estimated that some 14 million people _ roughly one out of every three Afghans _ urgently need food assistance.
The FAO said that crucial help is needed ahead of the winter wheat planting season, which begins in a month in many areas. So far, funding would cover assistance to only 110,000 families of farmers, while some 1.5 million need help, the agency said, adding that the current harvest is expected to be 20% below last year's.
The U.S. and its allies have said they will continue providing humanitarian aid through the U.N. and other partners, but any broader engagement _ including development assistance _ is likely to hinge on whether the Taliban deliver on their promises of more moderate rule.
But even as the group's top leadership has struck a more moderate tone, there have been reports of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. abuses in areas under Taliban control. It's unclear whether fighters are acting under orders or on their own.
Taliban fighters beat up a cameraman for the private broadcaster Tolo TV earlier this week in Kabul. Saad Mohseni, the CEO of the group that owns the channel, said the Taliban have been in touch with the station's management about the incident. He said the fighter has been identified, but it's unclear if he has faced any disciplinary action. There was no comment from the Taliban.
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As in Vietnam all bank monies taken. History repeats itself again. Private ownership of property no longer. What was yours is now ours. AOC doctrine.
[KhaamaPress] As the universities are still closed across the country and more than 200 university lecturers have left Afghanistan, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan appointed Sheikh Abdulbaqi Haqani
...any relation to the Haqqani Network Haqqanis?
as acting minister of higher education on Saturday, August 28.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... the academic deputy minister, financial and administrative deputy minister, and students’ affairs deputy minister was also appointed in the ministry.
The new leadership held an introductory meeting with the former leadership of the ministry and thanked the latter along with all university lecturers for their services in the ministry of higher education.
The acting minister said that national and religious are two vital values and pledged to be working along with the previous leadership of the ministry of higher education.
The former minister of higher education Abbas Basir who was attending the meeting said that he is glad to be handing over the ministry to a team that is both eligible and committed to serve Afghanistan.
In the metropolis-Kabul- private and government schools and universities are still closed and the IEA has said that the institutions will be resumed gradually.
IEA had previously appointed acting ministers of education, public work, and information and culture.
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The former minister of higher education Abbas Basir who was attending the meeting said that he is glad to be handing over the ministry to a team that is both eligible and committed to serve Afghanistan.
translation: "Please don't kill me!"
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[Breitbart] The Biden State Department made the astounding claim Friday that the Taliban and its brother organization, the Haqqani Network, are “separate entities.”
In truth, the two are tightly linked, and many of the top Haqqani leaders – including self-described “Kabul chief of security” Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani – are also high-ranking Taliban officials.
Terrorism experts were thunderstruck by the State Department’s blatantly false assertion, which it appears to have made to deflect public outrage over the Biden administration entrusting the safety of Americans still trapped in Afghanistan to a U.S.- and U.N.-designated terrorist organization.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... condemned the recent US dronezap targeting ISIS in eastern Afghanistan, a group front man told Rooters on Saturday.
"The Americans should have informed us before conducting the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... . It was a clear attack on Afghan territory, two were killed, and two women and a child were maimed in the attack," a Taliban front man told Rooters.
The US conducted a dronezap that killed two high profile ISIS targets and maimed another, the Pentagon said on Saturday.
The strike comes in retaliation for Thursday’s suicide kaboom which targeted Kabul airport and led to the deaths of dozens of Afghans and 13 US servicemen, and maimed scores more.
The Pentagon said ISIS-K was behind the attack, and the Death Eater group later grabbed credit.
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#US President Joe Biden says the US drone strike targeting #ISIS-K in #Afghanistan will not be the last one, and that the threat of another attack by the extremist group remains high.https://t.co/sHjG5Gd0Q1
What rot! Who, pray tell, would guard the zone against the Taliban and ISIS-K, given that all the soldiers are about to be pulled from the area?
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#France and #Britain will urge the United Nations to work for the creation of a “safe zone” in the Afghan capital #Kabul to protect humanitarian operations, French President Emmanuel #Macron says.https://t.co/Og8gjkqrhI
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Since Laws (Edicts) are issued by those that rule.
It is now lawful to restrict travel as they seek fit.
What opposition can a disarmed , non-voting Citizenry offer?
Now apply that simple logic to the current administration issuing Exec. orders, or the House attempting to reduced Constitutional Rights.
Remember all the Socialcrats need is to win a few seats in the US Senate and a few seats on the SCOTUS "accidentally" open up.
[AllAfrica] The Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... has formally blocked flights returning migrants colonists deported from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . Banjul argues that the country cannot reintegrate them.
Being the smallest country on mainland Africa, Gambia has a long tradition of migration.
An estimated 118,000 Gambians live abroad, according to the International Organisation for Migration, who send home remittances worth over 20 percent of the country's GDP.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... this week's announcement that the government aims to block flights of returning migrants colonists comes ahead of a presidential election in December and some have interpreted the move as a bid to boost electoral support ahead of the poll.
The Banjul administration says it will block all flights returning migrants colonists from the EU, just as Germany was preparing to expel a number of Gambians.
Gambian foreign ministry front man Saikou Ceesay says that the government decreed the policy last June, explaining thon the lam numbers of returning migrants colonists would cause "social upheaval".
He maintains: "We are trying to consolidate the peace, stability and democracy we have in this country."
The Gambia was ruled by violent mostly peaceful dictator Yahya Jammeh for 22 years, until he was forced from power in 2017 after losing a presidential election to Adama Barrow.
The first Gambian presidential election of the post-Jammeh era is due to be held on 4 December.
EU FRUSTRATION WITH GAMBIA
Meanwhile a European diplomat, who declined to be named, described The Gambia's move to block migrant returns as "a political issue" motivated by the upcoming election.
European governments have previously complained that The Gambia has never fully cooperated on returns.
The West African country signed a non-binding agreement on returns with the EU in 2018 has reportedly "never fully respected".
The European Council is due to examine a proposal which would tighten access to EU visas for Gambians, for example, over the country's "failure to cooperate on readmission".
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The ADF, under the leadership of Ugandan Musa Seka Baluku, is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons, and the CIA have tagged them as the local ISIS affiliate. But possibly they just like killing infidels...
[DW] The US’s first local Afghan support staff have arrived in Uganda. They will be assessed there to see if they and their families traveling with them are eligible for US visas. It is unsure if they will ever reach the US.
The United States and its allies have brought more than 100,000 people out of Kabul since the holy warrior Islamist Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... took power in mid-August. The majority have been flown out by the American military and have initially been distributed around various military bases in the Middle East and Europe.
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Hiding them away from the media and disclosure of the sordid details. The Taliban media blackout will soon cover any in-country monitoring or revelations.
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This report says only 5000 of 117,000 evacuees are Americans. That leaves 112,000 people who took the baksheesh and probably still in large numbers informed to the US's enemies and otherwise worked against us there. But now they want out. And they want to come here. Swell.
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Kinzinger is NO Republican
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They will be assessed there to see if they and their families traveling with them are eligible for US visas. It is unsure if they will ever reach the US.
However, they can always make it to Mexico and then to the US. Geez, you'd think they'd give these sucker one of those money pallets at the airport to pay their way.
[BenarNews] Three suspects in the 2002 Bali bombings, including "the Osama of Southeast Asia," will finally get their day in court on Monday, 15 years after being incarcerated at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Indonesian officials had indicated in 2016 that if Hambali were to be released, they would be reluctant to accept his repatriation for fear that his return could spark a revival among domestic terror cells.
By most accounts, this will be the first time that American media see the trio of detainees — two Malaysians and an Indonesian — since they were sent to the infamous lock-up. One analyst said their trial would only refresh allegations of the abuse and torture at Gitmo and reflect poorly on Washington, especially so soon after the Taliban ...Arabic for students... took over again in Afghanistan.
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[Breitbart] The White House said Friday that President Joe Biden still had confidence in his generals and in Secretary of State Tony Blinken after their disastrous performance in Afghanistan.
“Yes, he does,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki replied when asked by reporters during the daily briefing if the president had confidence in Secretary of State Tony Blinken.
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Do you dare fire anyone who has seen how the actual WH decision making is done? Sending a disgruntled Senior General outside the wire at this point would be very damaging.
[IsraelTimes] French President Emmanuel Macron says that his country will continue to deploy troops in Iraq to battle terrorism even if the US were to withdraw.
"No matter what choices the Americans make, we will maintain our presence in Iraq to fight against terrorism," Macron tells a news conference in Baghdad where he is attending a regional summit.
"We have the operational capacity to ensure this presence," he adds after the meeting, which has been overshadowed by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s takeover of Afghanistan and Thursday’s suicide kaboom in Kabul claimed by an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group affiliate.
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[Slovodel] Representatives of Rostec reported that military exoskeletons were tested in Syria, where they were included in the equipment of sappers of the Russian Federation Armed Forces. The exoskeleton has increased their combat potential.
Bekkhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the cluster of weapons, ammunition and special chemistry of Rostec, told RIA Novosti about testing combat exoskeletons in real conditions . He was honored to present a sample of an exoskeleton with electric motors on the sidelines of the Army-2021 forum.
"In addition to increasing the capabilities of a serviceman, the combat potential of the entire unit is increasing many times over. This is evidenced by the experience of combat use. In Syria, sapper units are already operating, equipped with passive exoskeletons," the corporation noted.
According to Ozdoev, the exoskeleton significantly reduces the load on the musculoskeletal system, and energy costs during running and walking are reduced by 15%. In addition, their development allows the military to take with them 60 kilograms more, since the exoskeleton distributes the weight and removes the additional load from the person. The development also allows you to fire from automatic weapons 20% more accurately and helps to solve the issue of recoil when firing.
The Future #Syria Party in northeast Syria warned of the revival of #ISIS cells coinciding with the escalation of Turkish attacks on the region.https://t.co/oaknIf5X1u
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) August 28, 2021
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[NPASYRIA] Youssef Qintar fears that he may be displaced again from his town of Kafr Lata in tbe Ariha region, south of the Aleppo-Latakia Highway in the southern countryside of Idlib, only five months after his return from the IDP camps.
The villages and towns located in Zawiya Mountain, Jabal al-Arbaeen, and Ariha city have been witnessing military escalation since June.
Since early 2020, the region witnessed relative calm following a Russian-Ottoman Turkish meeting in Astana, which encouraged some residents to return to their homes.
Despite the de-escalation agreement signed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and Russia in March 2020 and the presence of the Ottoman Turkish posts, residents fear of a new operation by the government forces with the return of escalation.
The residents are afraid that Ottoman Turkish forces may hand over parts of those areas to the government forces in exchange for obtaining new areas east of the Euphrates or gains in trade or weapons deals as they did before.
"The absence of the Ottoman Turkish position and its silence confirm that it agrees on what is happening," Qintar added.
Turkey was a guarantor in the countryside of Hama and Aleppo previously, and it promised the residents of those areas that it would prevent any advance of the government forces. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... it handed them over in return for being permitted to invade areas east of the Euphrates in 2019.
The area south of the M4 Highway in the countryside of Idlib is home to about a quarter of a million civilians, including thousands of IDPs, who suffer from difficult living and economic conditions, according to director of the of the Syria Response Coordinators Team Mohammad Hallaj.
"The recent military escalation in Syria’s north indicates that there is an unannounced agreement between Turkey and Russia, and suggests the continuation of the escalation," Northern Democratic Brigade front man Mahmud Habib said Wednesday.
Although Turkey and Russia are guarantors of ceasefire agreements, they are sharing in the escalation and shelling of civilians in several areas in the Syrian north, Habib told North Press.
The front man pointed out that there is Russian-Ottoman Turkish complicity in which Syrian civilians have been victimized, and it was matched by "ambiguous international silence and unclear reasons, even by the Global Coalition present in northeastern Syria."
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“The emphasis on using ‘other options’ against (Iran) amounts to threatening another country illegally and establishes Iran’s right to reciprocate ... against ‘available options’,” says Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.https://t.co/wvUSFIODq0
[NYPOST] President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us...... told Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House Friday that he was committed to pursuing a diplomatic understanding with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... over its nuclear program — before teasing the use of "other options" if that did not work.
In their first face-to-face meeting since Bennett became Israel’s leader in June, the president insisted that the US was committed to "ensure Iran never develops a nuclear weapon."
"We’re putting diplomacy first and seeing where that takes us," Biden added. "But if diplomacy fails, we’re ready to turn to other options."
White House press secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... declined to answer later Friday on what the president meant by "other options."
"Any President has a range of options at their disposal. I’m not going to outline those from here," she told news hounds. "But our first preference and our priority and our focus is on the diplomatic path and pursuing the diplomatic path forward."
Asked when Biden might feel he had exhausted all diplomatic efforts and turn to "other options," Psaki said she was "not going to give an end date on that given it is, by far and away, our best option and the preferable option."
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You mean ValJar vows diplomacy and endless word salad gibberish from the DoS while the Iranians try to find out when the IDF plans to act by using their friends in the Deep State?
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.
[Breitbart] Sixty-six 
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...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
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...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
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...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
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...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
