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Mary Louise Brooks, known professionally as Louise Brooks, was an American film actress and dancer during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as a Jazz Age icon and as a flapper sex symbol due to her bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career.
Born:November 14, 1906, Cherryvale, Kansas, U.S.
Died:August 8, 1985, Rochester, New York, U.S. Wikipedia -- IMDb
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"Channeling"
Louise Brooks
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That escalated quickly....
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"Oscar" - let's keep it to the model in question?
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[WarZone] The evacuation of Kabul is like none other in history. With open-source intelligence tools abound, including daily satellite images, flight tracking, and even a live camera feed overwatching Hamid Karzai International Airport, the average person can keep tabs on this historic event and unprecedented multi-national military operation in their own homes. In the panopticon that is today's internet age, peculiarities stand out. One such surprise was seeing a gleaming-white, but quite geriatric 727-200 appear on Kabul's ragged skyline, landing at the under siege airport amongst the constant flow of C-17s, A400Ms, C-130s, a few modern airliners, and other usual suspects.
It turns out that Niel Steyl, the Captain of a four-decade-old 727-200 that flies for Safe Air Company, an airline and charter outfit based in Kenya, answered an emergency call from the U.S. State Department for immediate airlift assistance after a complex terrorist attack, which started with a suicide bombing, killed 13 U.S. troops, as well as at least 170 Afghans, on August 26th.
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If this is a dupe,
It doesn’t appear to be, Besoeker. I got no hits in the archive for Niel Steyl. I’ve added the paragraph with his name to the article against future searches on the subject.
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Jihadists have seized several major airbases, in Herat, Khost, Kunduz and Mazar-i-Sharif, and Kabul
They have proudly posted pictures of seized $6m Black Hawks and a $14m Hercules transport jet
The Taliban have been hunting for pilots from the disbanded Afghan Air Force to fly the vehicles Have they, indeed? An opportunity for someone...
Before Kabul fell, planes and helicopters were disabled by US troops, while others were flown overseas
The jihadists have as many as 48 aircraft - it's not clear how many planes or helicopters this breaks down to
This is more aircraft than a third of Nato member states, including: Albania, Bosnia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Slovenia
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...The Blackhawks and the Hercs won't last long at all - they are maintenance-intensive, and though lots of parts may be available on the black market they aren't going to have the trained techs to install those parts. And for that matter, I can almost guarantee that there's not a single Afghan who can do it. The pilots do know how to fly their birds, but not fix 'em. All we've seen is one Blackhawk flying, and a couple of Talibs getting their pics taken in a -130 cockpit, safely on the ground.
The smaller planes - the A-29s - are almost as bad in terms of maintenance. The handful of armed Cessnas might actually be the biggest risk at this point, since they'll stay airborne and theoretically mission capable somewhat longer.
BOTTOM LINE: The Talibs would be better off putting all that hardware up for sale and parts than trying to get it working.
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I bet those A-29's keep flying long enough to be mighty helpful against a certain breakaway region. But they won't be much use against (for example) the Pakistani air force.
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So what you're saying is...defense contractors deliberately made these aircraft to continually require new parts and thus keep churn going? And this makes them unusable for anyone who's not got connections to the military-industrial complex? I'm not sure how I feel about that. I'm leaning towards "overall bad".
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[Just The News] "We are f*cking abandoning American citizens," an Army colonel assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division wrote Sunday in frustration in a series of encrypted messages that detailed the failed effort to extricate a group of American citizens, hours before the last U.S. soldiers departed Afghanistan.
The text messages and emails were provided to Just the News by Michael Yon, a former Special Forces soldier and war correspondent who was among the private citizens working with private networks and the military to rescue stranded Americans.
Yon told Just the News that a group of Americans were abandoned at the Kabul airport, pleading for help as military officials told them they were finished with evacuations.
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If all the USCITS (Americans) are successfully evacuated, the Taliban has no pawns and you have no incentive or requirement for further DoS negotiations with the Taliban. NO $$$ payments, sanctions relief, or future virtue signaling media broadcast repatriations.
All the folks that (Foggy Bottom) wanted to get out, are now out.
Do not waste the crisis, prolong it! The 60,000 number can easily be expanded closer to the next election.
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You could read this as the DoS setting the DoD up for failure.
A bit down the road, but I wonder what effect this fiasco will have on military enlistment and retention rates. "Be all less than you can be" is not inspirational.
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Theoretically, DoD has to do whatever the CinC says. We saw recently that doesn't necessarily happen. Theoretically, DoS does whatever the hell it wants, as the SecState is just a hand holder for the prexident and the lifers don't feel much loyalty to anyone who comes and goes, regardless of where they are on the org chart.
Just sayin'...
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Rep. Markwayne Mullin asked the US ambassador to Tajikistan, John Mark Pommersheim for help with his Afghan rescue mission
He needed assistance getting a large quantity of cash into the country
His plan was to use a helicopter in neighboring Afghanistan to rescue an American mother and four children
But the embassy refused, according to the Washington Post,
...there will be plenty of stories like this in the near future, I suspect...
and he threated officials
U.S. officials said they did not know of Mullin's location, the paper reported on Tuesday night
It was reportedly his second effort to reach Afghanistan for a private rescue bid, Last week he got as far as Greece but was denied permission to carry on to Kabul by the Pentagon, an administration official said.
Officials have been on high alert for similar missions after an unauthorized trip by Reps. Seth Moulton and Peter Meijer last week, which were condemned as thoughtless publicity stunts at a time when the armed forces were already overstretched at Kabul airport.
As of late Tuesday, U.S. officials told the Washington Post they were unsure of Mullin’s location and his office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Monday just before midnight.
The U.S. military helped evacuate more than 120,000 people, including U.S. citizens, allies and at-risk Afghans from Kabul airport.
The chaotic airlift was augmented by a string of private enterprises, from veterans using their military knowhow to help their Afghan allies reach the airport to charter planes collecting women who feared for their future under the Taliban.
The State Department reissued a Level 4 travel advisory for the country on Monday.
'Do not travel to Afghanistan due to civil unrest, armed conflict, crime, terrorism, kidnapping, and COVID-19,' it said.
Mullin is not a U.S. military veteran, unlike Moulton and Meijer. The Republican was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2012. He has been an outspoken critic of the Biden administration’s exit from Afghanistan.
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In a pressed plaid shirt tucked into blue jeans that hugged his brown cowboy boots, Mullin was in his element. These were his people. He may have been a member of Congress for seven years now, but you wouldn’t have known it by looking at him. Mullin has all the conservative talking points down about abortion and the dangers of socialism, but what his mostly rural Oklahoma constituents like about him is how rough he is around the edges, in all the right ways. He has cauliflower ear from his days of wrestling and mixed martial arts. He speaks with a thick rural accent and often stumbles over common phrases, coming across as less city and more country. He’s routinely direct and unpolished — some might even say crass, especially when he appears frustrated, like the time in a committee hearing when he told Democratic Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico to shut up.
Human caravan pictured moving across Pakistan's desert border and into Iran
Migrants who have survived the journey describe a scene of chaos, with elderly people, pregnant women and babies among those making the perilous trip
Comes as MPs revealed their concern about a new influx of migrants into Europe
The Afghans journey began in desolate Nimruz, Afghanistan's most sparsely populated province, largely covered by deserts and mountains.
A Qatari aircraft has landed in Kabul carrying a technical team to discuss the resumption of airport operations after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.
Bismillah Mohammadi, Afghanistan's defence minister before the government fell last month, said the Taliban had launched a renewed assault on Panjshir on Tuesday night.
'Last night the Taliban terrorists attacked Panjshir, but were defeated,' Mohammadi tweeted Wednesday, claiming 34 Taliban were killed and 65 wounded.
'Our people should not worry. They retreated with heavy casualties.'
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The resistance movement against the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in Panjshir province retaliated against an attack by the group that targeted one of the province's outposts, which led to the death of seven Taliban fighters, a member of the resistance movement said on Tuesday.
"We pushed back against an attack by the Taliban on an outpost last night and seven or eight Taliban fighters were killed and several others maimed," Afghan news outlet ToloNews cited Fahim Dashti, a member of the resistance as saying.
Two fighters from the resistance were maimed.
After the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan on August 15, Panjshir province in the country’s northwest remained an unconquered area. It has become a stronghold for resistance, mobilizing under Ahmad Massoud, the 32-year-old son of the slain leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, who vowed to resist the Taliban.
The Taliban had claimed on Saturday that it entered Panjshir without facing any resistance.
Massoud's supporters rejected the Taliban's claim of entering Panjshir. "There is no fight in Panjshir and no one has entered the province," said Mohammad Almas Zahid, head of the Resistance® Front delegation.
The Taliban's Samangani said that the door remained open for negotiations with Massoud's supporters and on Saturday a delegation of Ahmad Massoud met with a Taliban delegation in Kabul, ToloNews reported.
The Taliban had announced two weeks ago that hundreds of their fighters were heading to Panjshir to control the province.
If you rape a guy, and you're not a girl, wouldn't that make you... I'm so confused.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... , who has assured the world population that it will not infringe on women's or human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... in its new government, is proving time and time again that their words are empty promises.One man gay man, who in an interview with ITV went by the pseudonym Hanan for his protection, is one of the Taliban's LGBTQ victims.
Hanan said that he had been speaking with a man on social media for three weeks before agreeing to meet. That man reportedly promised a safe way for Hanan to get out of Afghanistan amidst the Taliban takeover.
Who arrived instead of the man was two Taliban members, who proceeded to brutally attack Hanan.
"Two people raped him, they beat him, and then demanded his father's number so they could tell him his son was gay," according to ITV.
Speaking with ITV, Afghan LGBTQ activist Artemis Akbary said that the possibility of death under the Taliban rule for LGBTQ people is greater than ever before.
"They are trying to tell the world 'we are changed and we don't have problems with women's rights or human rights' - but they are lying," said Akbary. "The Taliban hasn't changed, because their ideology hasn't change."
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They are trying to tell the world 'we are changed and we don't have problems with women's rights or human rights' - but they are lying," said Akbary
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Expect a steady stream of sob stories like this designed to whip up support for more war. Most of them will likely be made up - because who's going to check?
[NYPOST] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... has reportedly arrested a top holy man who had called on the country to resist the murderous Moslem group’s insurgency — sharing a photo of him blindfolded.Maulvi Mohammad Sardar Zadran, the former head of the National Council of Religious Scholars of Afghanistan, was photographed looking forlorn as he sat on the ground with his hands clasped together and a strip of brown material covering his eyes.
The clip was released by the Taliban as proof that it had arrested the outspoken holy man, according to the Pajhwok Afghan News agency.
Zadran had been a religious adviser to runaway President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... and had called on Afghans to resist the Taliban as they rose to take back the country, The Times of London said.
His son Samiullah told RFE/RL that his father was forced from his home in Khost and driven away by Taliban fighters on Sunday. There was no immediate word on where he was being held or if he was safe.
[Garowe] One of the alleged jacket wallahs in the funeral of Major General Paul Lokech alias Lion of Mogadishu, is still on the lam, Uganda said, few days after foiling a suspected terror attack in the northern part of the country, where Lokech was buried.
According to Uganda, the second suspected suicide bomber who targeted mourners at the burial of late Deputy Inspector General of Police, Gen Paul Lokech, at his home in Pader District, is still missing.
A source close to the operation that seized components for an improvised bomb told the Monitor that one of the suicide bombers beat feet from the scene on Friday night and security personnel was on his trail.
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[Garowe] There have been at least two pirate attacks along the coastline of Somalia in 2021, it has now emerged, in what could raise safety concerns within the Horn of Africa nation, which has also been struggling with terrorism in recent years.
In the past decade, Somalia's coastline was one of the most unstable, due to persistent pirate attacks. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... a collaboration with a number of partners saw the incidents drastically reduce, showcasing the extent of cooperation.
Days ahead of a reduced Indian Ocean high-risk piracy area [HRA] announcement, the motor vessel [MV] Anatolia was attacked by pirates off Somalia.
Data obtained shows the EU NavFor Operation Atalanta joint operations centre in Rota, Spain, was alerted to the then ongoing incident on 13 August. The alert had it a skiff carrying at least four gunnies approached the Anatolia, opening fire with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades [RPGs]. One of the RPGs caused damage in the vicinity of the bridge.
"After an exchange of fire lasting almost two hours between the assailants and privately contracted armed security personnel on board, the attackers abandoned their intentions and left. There were no injuries on board Anatolia, which continued its transit arriving safely at Mogadishu port," according to an EU NavFor Atalanta statement.
Last month, the IMB said piracy and armed robbery incidents are at the lowest level in 27 years, but risks remain to seafarers.
The reduced Indian Ocean high HRA announcement was made on 20 August by the International Maritime Bureau [IMB], a division of the International Chamber of Commerce. It is slated to become active on 1 September, next Wednesday, following a reduction in piracy off Somalia and the Horn of Africa.
"The HRA was created at the height of the Somali piracy threat in 2010 to show ship owners, operators and seafarers where pirates operate and where extra vigilance was required to avoid attacks.
"Subsequent updates to the HRA reflected the changing nature of threats in the region as well as more severe security threats, including piracy off West Africa, necessitating a change in how industry assesses such dangers to shipping," an IMB statement said.
In response to the Anatolia attack, only the second this year off the Horn of Africa, EU NavFor Atalanta pointed out the decline in piracy and robbery at sea off Somalia adding the incident demonstrated these crimes are not eradicated.
The attack on Anatolia was monitored by EU NavFor Atalanta JOC — Maritime Security Centre Horn of Africa [MSCHOA], sharing information with UK Maritime Trade Operations [UKMTO], from the moment the incident was reported. EU NavFor Atalanta was ready to assist with assets and capabilities in coordination with UKMTO and the Combined Maritime Force [CMF].
The Operation noted — gratefully — "no direct intervention was necessary".
Last month, the IMB said piracy and armed robbery incidents are at the lowest level in 27 years, but risks remain to seafarers.
IMB’s latest global piracy report detailed 68 incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships — the lowest total since 1994 — down from 98 incidents in the same period the previous year. In the first six months of 2021, IMB’s Piracy Reporting Centre reported 61 vessels boarded, four attempted attacks, two vessels fired on and one hijacked.
Despite the overall decline in reported incidents, violence against crews continues with 50 crew kidnapped, three threatened and taken hostage, two assaulted, one injured and one killed in the first half of 2021.
The Gulf of Guinea remains particularly dangerous for seafarers with 32% of all reported incidents taking place in the region, according to the IMB. The region accounted for all 50 kidnapped crew and the single crew fatality.
[AlAhram] Eleven children aged nine to 17, including five girls, have been kidnapped by presumed Salafist tough guys in northeastern DR Congo, a local official told AFP on Tuesday.
The rebels, thought to be members of the 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.... -linked Allied Democratic Forces ...the ADF 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. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels.... (ADF), kidnapped the group in a village in Ituri province on Sunday evening, according to Dieudonne Malangayi, acting chairman of the chiefdom of Walese Vonkutu.
The rebels erupted into the Bundingili area where the village is located, and kidnapped "all the civilians who were there, men, women and kiddies," he told AFP by phone.
More than three kilometres (two miles) away in the bush, the holy warriors 'freed the men, women and some young children,' but kept the 11 other children.
"We don't know what happened" to them, said Malangayi, who is also a representative of civil society.
The ADF, historically a Ugandan Islamist group, have been accused of killing thousands of civilians in Ituri and neighbouring North Kivu province.
No fatalities occurred in the latest raid, but "according to our analysis and the testimony of the freed civilians, they kidnapped these children to train them to become fighters," Malangayi said.
Since May, the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri have been under a state of siege, replacing civilian authorities with army and coppers to fight gangs.
The ADF, which the United States has deemed a terrorist group, is considered the deadliest of scores of armed militias that roam the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... On August 18, a contingent of US special operations forces arrived in the area to help the Congolese army in their fight against the ADF, US and Congolese sources said at the time.
In a separate incident in eastern DR Congo, one person was killed and seven were maimed late Monday by "armed bandidos" in Karisimbi, a district in North Kivu province, local mayor Jean-Paul Elongi Wandikia told AFP.
The local hospital said it had admitted eight people with gunshot wounds, one of whom later died.
Karisimbi lies in the Goma area, which is notorious for murders and armed robbery.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Members of the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia have killed an elderly woman in front of her children in 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... , Muammar al-Eryani, the country’s Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, said on Tuesday.
"Killing of old woman by Iranian-backed Houthi militia before her children in al-Asha, Amran, reflects their brutality, criminality and indifference to blood of Yemenis," the minister said in a tweet accompanied a video of the incident.
Al-Eryani said this brutal act confirms disavowal of Islamic, human, and moral teachings and values, as well as Yemeni traditions that criminalize assaults on women.
"These brutal crimes and violations committed by Houthi militia, including killing, looting of money and property, violation of sanctities an indecent assault, reveal their true face, and reflect part of the tragedy and suffering incurred by millions of civilians in areas under its control," he added.
On Sunday, at least 30 soldiers were killed and 60 were maimed in Iran-backed Houthi strikes on a military base belonging to forces of the Arab Coalition.
Medics said they received seven bodies and treated more than 50 people injured in the attack on al-Anad air base in the government-held southern province of Lahij.
Al-Eryani said the continued silence of international community, including the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , UN and US envoys, and human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... organizations, "on these heinous crimes, is considered as green light by Houthi militia to commit more crimes and violations that innocent civilians are paying the price for."
For his part, Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi said the Houthi militia will pay the price for their attack on al-Anad airbase in the government-held southern province of Lahij on Sunday morning.
The president said that the terrorist Houthi militia will be held accountable for every crime it commits against Yemenis, and that the people’s battle against the Iranian project in Yemen is continuing.
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Eight staff members of the Abha International Airport in #Saudi Arabia were injured when the Arab Coalition intercepted a drone that was targeting the airport, the coalition’s spokesman Brigadier General Turki al-Maliki says.https://t.co/JdcVRnVIoD
[BenarNews] A Dhaka court sentenced a half-dozen members of an Islamic turban group to death Tuesday for killing two gay-rights activists with machetes in a Dhaka apartment five years ago.
Some of the defendants smiled after Judge Mojibur Rahman of the Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal convicted and condemned six of the eight accused men to death row for the double-murder of Xulhaz Mannan and Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy in April 2016. Two of the suspects were acquitted.
"Analysis of the evidence proves that the accused decided to assassinate Xulhaz Mannan and Khandaker Mahbub Rabbi Tanmoy alias Tonoy, for holding rallies with homosexuals to establish their rights in society," Rahman said in the verdict, a copy of which BenarNews obtained.
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[Breitbart] British Border Force officials have admitted that some Afghans airlifted from Kabul have been found to have forged papers or no papers at all, but they are reluctant to "have an argument" with them
The Telegraph, a right-leaning newspaper close to Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... ’s government, reports being told by border guards that "some Afghan evacuees had arrived at Heathrow with no documentation at all, while others carried forged papers".
Assistant Director of Border Force Heathrow Ian Denison appeared to confirm these rumours, justifying the situation by telling the newspaper that some of the new arrivals "tell us they’ve lost the documents they had".
"We’re not going to have an argument with the people that have been through the process they’ve been through," he insisted. "You see people with their life belongings in plastic bags."
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] In a Project Veritas report released on Tuesday, they expose Inderkum High School AP government teacher Gabriel Gipe for politically indoctrinating students, and stating that he is turning his students into "revolutionaries."
In an undercover interview with a Project Veritas news hound, Gipe revealed that his intention is to radicalize students with Marxist ideas, giving extra credit for students that go to protests and "community events."
"I have 180 days to turn them [students] into revolutionaries ... Scare the f— out of them," said Gipe in the undercover footage filmed by Project Veritas.
"I post a calendar every week ... I've had students show up for protests, community events, tabling, food distribution, all sorts of things ... When they go, they take pictures, write up a reflection—that's their extra credit," he added.
Gipe revealed that he indexes students' political standings throughout the year, and watches as the class inches further left. "So, they take an ideology quiz and I put [the results] on the [classroom] wall. Every year, they get further and further left ... I'm like, 'These ideologies are considered extreme, right? Extreme times breed extreme ideologies.' Right? There is a reason why Generation Z, these kids, are becoming further and further left," said Gipe.
Gipe said that a student had anonymously stated on an end of year questionnaire that the Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... flag in Gipe's classroom made him uncomfortable.
"I have an Antifa flag on my [classroom] wall and a student complained about that — he said it made him feel uncomfortable. Well, this [Antifa flag] is meant to make fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... s feel uncomfortable, so if you feel uncomfortable, I don't really know what to tell you. Maybe you shouldn't be aligning with the values that this [Antifa flag] is antithetical to," Gipe said. He went on to say that a violent mostly peaceful overthrow of the US government is a necessary solution for today's society.
"Like, why aren't people just taking up arms? Like why can't we, you know — take up arms against the state? We have historical examples of that happening, and them getting crushed and being deaders for a cause and it's like — okay well, it's slow going because it takes a massive amount of organization," Gipe said.
Gipe also added that a "two-pronged system" is needed to overhaul the government, unlike the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
"You need a two-pronged system, which is exactly what Huey Newton and Fred Hampton [Black Panther Party] understood. You need propaganda of the deed—your economics—and cultural propaganda —as well. You need to retrain the way people think. So, the Cultural Revolution in the 60s was fixing the problem that came about after the economic one," Gipe said.
This antifa group is apparently connected to Gabriel Gipe. It is telling comrades to not show up to the board meeting to start a confrontation. pic.twitter.com/5UGksuvUeE
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Live stream of school board meeting later today should be good, even if they kick it off by saying they are going to squelch any discussion of the matter.
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#Pakistan’s counter-terrorism units raid a hideout of the #ISIS group in the restive southwestern #Baluchistan province, setting off a shootout that kills 11 militants in a shootout, says the police.https://t.co/PrrEM60Iki
[Rudaw] Six Iraqis sentenced to death, three for "terrorism", were hanged Monday in a prison in southern Iraq, a medical source told AFP.
The source said the hangings took place in Nasiriyah prison, where death row prisoners are held.
Those not executed for "terrorism" were sentenced over "criminal cases". "They just needed killin'"
Rights group Amnesia Amnesty International says it recorded more than 45 executions in Iraq last year, including many of people accused of belonging to the 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.
A 2005 law carries the death penalty for anyone convicted of "terrorism," which can include membership of an krazed killer group even if they are not convicted of any specific acts.
Rights groups have warned that executions were being used for political reasons.
Since Baghdad officially declared victory over IS in 2017, Iraqi courts have sentenced hundreds to death for crimes perpetrated by the jihadists who had set up a "caliphate" in territory seized in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
Only a small proportion of the sentences have been carried out, as they must be approved by the president.
Barham Saleh, who has held the post since 2018, is known to be personally against capital punishment.
According to an AFP tally, at least 14 people sentenced for "terrorism" have been executed in Iraq since the start of the year, all at the Nasiriyah prison.
Earlier this month, a man who murdered a senior Iraqi official in broad daylight was sentenced to death amid revulsion over the government's failure to halt a wave of liquidations.
In January, an official from Iraq's presidency told AFP more than 340 execution orders "for terrorism or criminal acts" were ready to be carried out.
Another presidency official said that all the orders were signed after 2014, most of them under ex-president Fuad Massum and at a time when IS occupied a third of the country.
Rights groups accuse Iraq's justice system of corruption, carrying out rushed trials on circumstantial evidence and failing to allow the accused a proper defence.
UN human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. experts in November urged Baghdad to halt all "mass executions".
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has good reason for its military incursions into Iraqi territory pursuing the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Iraq’s defense minister said on Monday.
"What Turkey is doing is called breaches, and these breaches have justification," Jouma Anad said during the Rafidain Center for Dialogue (RCD) forum in Baghdad. "They have a party named PKK and it is present in northern Iraq."
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[Rudaw] 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 (ISIS) fighters attacked a village in southwest Kirkuk early on Tuesday, killing livestock, according to villagers. ISIS grabbed credit for the attack, saying they have targeted the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic).
At around 1:30 am, ISIS fighters attacked Dogshman village in the Rashad sub-district of southern Kirkuk province. Villagers told Rudaw they locked themselves in their homes while the bully boyz burned houses and vehicles, and killed cows, sheep, and goats.
Hussein Zedan lost his father during an uptick of ISIS activity two years ago in the same area. Today, he lost almost all his property. "The losses are huge," he told Rudaw.
"The fighters came to the village. We could not leave our houses as we were stuck. They were walking around the houses and wanted us to come out, but we did not," he said. When the villagers did not come out of their homes, the bully boyz attacked their livestock and properties.
At least 25 cows and seven sheep and goats were killed, and five cars and tractors and two houses were burned. Villagers said ISIS fighters used rocket-propelled grenades (RPG).
ISIS grabbed credit for the attack on its propaganda channel on Telegram, saying they had targeted members of Sunni brigades of the PMF. It claimed the vehicles and houses they set on fire belonged to PMF members.
Villager Khatab Mustafa said they want the Iraqi government to provide them with security, hoping that ISIS will leave the village alone if it is under the protection of government forces. "If such attacks continue, the village will be evacuated," he said.
"There should be night vision cameras, people should be armed, and security checkpoints should be increased," he said.
There is a security checkpoint near the village, but their forces arrived too late to stop the ISIS Death Eaters.
Kirkuk province lies within disputed areas claimed by both the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government. There is a security gap between Iraqi and Kurdish forces in these areas that ISIS exploits as a safe haven from which to launch attacks on civilian and military targets. ISIS has carried out 134 attacks in these areas so far this year.
Baghdad and Erbil are working to close this gap. This summer, they established joint coordination centres in the disputed provinces, including Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... to improve their cooperation and they are in talks to create joint brigades.
Iraqi forces daily carry out operations against ISIS. On Tuesday, security forces arrested 19 terror suspects in Kirkuk, according to a military statement.
[IsraelTimes] 31-year-old from a town near Hebron opened fire with another suspect’s gun, hitting troop’s helmet and radio
The Shin Bet security agency announced on Tuesday that it had arrested two Paleostinian suspects over a shooting aimed at Israeli troops during a violent mostly peaceful demonstration near the West Bank city of Hebron during May’s flare-up between Israel and 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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.
On May 12, 31-year-old Muhammad Jabarin, from the town of Si’ir, shot up Israel Defense Forces troops responding to a riot in the area, the Shin Bet said.
A soldier was struck with two bullets. One hit the radio communicator he was carrying, and the other hit his helmet. The soldier lost consciousness as a result of the bullet hitting his helmet, but did not require medical treatment, the agency said.
Jabarin — who previously served 10 months in an Israeli jail over his affiliation with a cell belonging to al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group that planned attacks on Israeli targets — was arrested in coordination with the IDF and the Israel Police, the Shin Bet said in a statement.
In the Shin Bet investigation, it was revealed that the gun used in the attack belonged to 30-year-old Muntasir Muhammed Hussein Jabarin, apparently a relative, who lives in the same town.
Muntasir Jabarin was detained, and the M-16 firearm used in the attack was confiscated along with two magazines, according to the statement.
It was not clear when the arrests took place.
"The Shin Bet, the IDF, and the Israel Police will continue to use all means at their disposal to expose and prosecute those involved in terror activities against the State of Israel and its citizens," the statement read.
The violent mostly peaceful clash near Hebron had come during an 11-day war between Israel and the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group in the Gaza Strip.
[IsraelTimes] A 36-year-old Israeli woman driving along Route 60 in the West Bank has been moderately maimed after stones were hurled at her car.
The Rescuers Without Borders emergency organization says four Paleostinians stood by the side of the road and pelted the car with rocks, near the site where Asher and Yonatan Palmer were killed in a stone-throwing attack in 2011.
MDA says medics treated the woman and took her to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
Self-proclaimed members of the 'Units of the Martyr Wadi Hadad' toss an IED during activities at the #Gaza border this evening. pic.twitter.com/dWvDS6WFIe
Wadi Haddad, also spelt Wadih Haddad (1927 - 28 March 1978), also known as Abu Hani, was a Palestinian leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 's armed wing. He was responsible for organizing several civilian airplane hijackings in support of the Palestinian cause in the 1960s and 1970s.
[IsraelTimes] Gazooks from so-called ’night confusion units’ set tires alight and lob improvised explosives at fence, on day construction materials pass through Kerem Shalom crossing
Hundreds of Paleostinians demonstrated on the border between 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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 and Israel on Tuesday for a fourth straight night of riots.
Gazooks from so-called "night confusion units" set tires alight and rolled them toward soldiers stationed along the frontier, and lobbed improvised explosives, in a repeat of violence seen along the border the previous three nights.
As Israeli troops responded, the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-run health ministry in Gaza said that one Paleostinian was moderately maimed from Israel Defense Forces live fire.
There was no immediate comment from the IDF and no reports of injuries on the Israeli side.
The "night confusion units" behind the border riots do not officially tie themselves to Hamas, though their activities could not take place without the approval of the terror group that rules the Strip.
The groups, which are affiliated with various terror factions, have said that the nightly riots on the border will continue until at least Thursday, starting at around 8 p.m. each evening.
The latest violence on the border came as Israel allowed dozens of truckloads of construction materials into the Strip on Tuesday.
Bassam Ghabin, director of the Paleostinian side of the Kerem Shalom cargo crossing, said that 30 truckloads of cement, 120 trucks of gravel and 15 trucks of steel entered Gaza. He said that the materials began entering on Monday, and that the crossing was operating almost at the same capacity as before May’s 11-day war.
An Israeli security official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... under policy guidelines, confirmed that building materials had entered Gaza. He had no specific details, but said that they came under previously announced government decisions.
[BenarNews] The Philippine army was hunting for three suspected bully boyz after they detonated an improvised bomb that injured two soldiers at a checkpoint on southern Basilan ...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts... Island on Tuesday, the military said.
A brief exchange of gunfire followed the early-morning blast at a roadside checkpoint set up by the 68th Infantry Battalion on the outskirts of Lamitan town, military officials said.
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The Syrian Democratic Forces (#SDF) arrested four people accused of being affiliated with #ISIS in two separate operations east of Deir ez-Zor, east #Syria. https://t.co/uYQ0IB4tKy
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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
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[WarZone] The evacuation of Kabul is like none other in history. With open-source intelligence tools abound, including daily satellite images, flight tracking, and even a live camera feed overwatching Hamid Karzai International Airport, the average person can keep tabs on this historic event and unprecedented multi-national military operation in their own homes. In the panopticon that is today's internet age, peculiarities stand out. One such surprise was seeing a gleaming-white, but quite geriatric 727-200 appear on Kabul's ragged skyline, landing at the under siege airport amongst the constant flow of C-17s, A400Ms, C-130s, a few modern airliners, and other usual suspects.
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