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Good Morning

Jen Psaki discusses press room 'alligators', marriage and her red bob in 3,500 word Vogue feature with Annie Liebovitz photo shoot
Wednesday August 11th, 2021

Marilynmonroe6
Ankara and Baku in talks on creating a joint Turkic army
Wagner: Scale of Russian mercenary mission in Libya exposed
Nigerian army says 335 Boko Haram militants have surrendered
Cameroon Says Hundreds of Boko Haram Militants from Nigeria and Chad Surrender
Explosion on a merchant ship in the Syrian port of Latakia
In Syria, two soldiers were wounded by mortar fire from Turkish-controlled territory
Shocking moment DOZENS of migrants rush to climb into the back of a tractor-trailer driven by human smugglers in Texas

Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2021 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't know if she was the inspiration for this song, but I always reminds me of her...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/11/2021 7:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't Get Excited - Summer is Nearing an End - Fall in About 5 Weeks -
But Marilyn Monroe is going to "Take You to the Beach"
Swim Suit Edition begins in 5.4.3.2.1...

Posted by: Bill Whineling9226 || 08/11/2021 7:58 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Bill Whineling9226 || 08/11/2021 8:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Marilyn is going to leave you now,
but she is leaving you with this thought...

"Every Doll Needs a Parasol"


Have a Great Rest of the Summer.
Posted by: Bill Whineling9226 || 08/11/2021 8:09 Comments || Top||

#5  I was just asked by a lovely spirit, "don't forget to tell them at Rantburg, what cars I used to drive to the beach in...OK Bill... you're so sweet for doing this for me. I could just kiss you."
Posted by: Bill Whineling9226 || 08/11/2021 8:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Ah-aroooooo...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/11/2021 9:39 Comments || Top||

#7  We'll be going to the beach here on the Space Coast into October. Been known to go there New Years Day...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/11/2021 9:41 Comments || Top||

#8  I need to watch The Misfits again...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/11/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#9  I had a brother-in-law in the USMC (Who has since passed) that had the duty of driving Marilyn Monroe around when she visited the troops during the Korean War (police action).
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/11/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||

#10  The Misfits: Monroe basically reduced the male cast to stuttering teenagers. Gable so outdid himself doing his own stunts to impress her that he had a fatal heart attack shortly thereafter.
Posted by: KBK || 08/11/2021 18:59 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
DOZENS of migrants rush to climb into back of tractor-trailer driven by human smugglers in Texas
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Video footage obtained by the National Border Patrol Council Local 2455 union chapter showed how more than 100 migrants were loaded into a tractor-trailer

  • The incident unfolded in Laredo, Texas, last Friday when the individuals were spotted getting off at least 20 SUVs and then rushing inside the cargo box

  • Héctor Garza, President of the National Border Patrol Council's Laredo Sector, told DailyMail.com on Tuesday that it is unknown of the migrants were detained
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/11/2021 00:39 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Another example of Washington betrayal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/11/2021 5:32 Comments || Top||

#2  I doubt anyone rushed back into a boxcar after being let out.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/11/2021 7:08 Comments || Top||


NYPD finally crackdown on Times Square drug dealers: Cops bust huge drugs ring running 24 hour open-air crack market in bid to stamp out violence that is plaguing the world-renowned tourist spot
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Federal authorities and the New York Police Department bust up drug ring near Times Square in Manhattan

  • Drug ring involved at least eight men who worked 'round-the-clock,' according to federal prosecutors

  • Investigators said they operated a 24-hour open-air crack cocaine market in Hell's Kitchen near Times Square

  • Authorities said they dealt drugs from at least December 2019 until last month, when authorities busted ring

  • Times Square has been plagued by a spate of gun violence this past spring and through the summer

  • Last month, a 23-year-old woman was slashed in the area after she ignored a male assailant's catcalls

  • In June, a 16-year-old boy allegedly shot and wounded an enlistee of the Marine Corps, 21, in Times Square

  • In May, three innocent bystanders were struck by stray bullets after gunshots rang out in broad daylight

  • In April, a tourist from Kansas City was struck in the shoulder by a stray bullet in the area
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/11/2021 00:31 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  On the day that Cuomo announced his resignation - mere concidence?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/11/2021 4:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Times Crimes Slimes Square is amatuer hour. It's where visiting rubes go to cop hash made by rolling a dog turn in vacuum cleaner bag contents and "fentanyl" from the plumbing aisle at the hardware store.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/11/2021 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Defund The Police™ must be polling really bad for the mid-terms...
Posted by: magpie || 08/11/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||

#4  "Your making us look bad, damnit!"
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/11/2021 11:27 Comments || Top||

#5  you're right murcek, the real drug markets are in the projects.
Posted by: Chris || 08/11/2021 19:12 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
ANDSF Repels Taliban Attack on Mazar-e-Sharif: Governor
[ToloNews] The Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) pushed back a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
offensive on Mazar-e-Sharif city and retook Nahr-e-Shahi district, Balkh governor Mohammad Farhad Azimi said on Tuesday.

Azimi said that on Monday night the ANDSF and the Taliban clashed in Nahr-e-Shahi district and Dehdadi district.

He said the Taliban retreated from the area after facing strong resistance from the Afghan cops.

"The Taliban have focused their attention on Balkh province to take control," said Azimi.

"We managed to recapture this area while facing strong resistance and with the help of air support," said Sultan Musavi, the police chief of Nahr-e-Shahi.

Nahr-e-Shahidi is adjacent to Mazar-e-Sharif, the center of Balkh.

"Our frontline crosses over 34 kilometers which is very vulnerable," said Abdul Kabir Sharifi, Nahr-e-Shahi district governor.

"Last night we were attacked, but we defeated the Taliban," said Abdul Qadeer, the commander of public uprising forces.

Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him...
a number of residents of Hazarjereeb village in Dehdadi said that the Taliban has fired mortars toward the 209 Shaheen Army Corps several times in the past few days.

"Mortars were fired from the Imam Bakri direction towards 209 Shaheen Army Corps, the people are very fearful and they are fleeing the area," said Nawid, a resident in Dehdadi.

People in Dehdadi said that occasionally civilians are hurt as a result of the air strikes.

In the latest incident, three members of a family were killed in the Samar Qandian village of Balkh as a result of air strikes.

Fighting in Balkh has also displaced hundreds of families.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban Control Most of Farah City: Reports
[ToloNews] Reports say that the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
have taken over most areas of Farah city following fierce battles with the Afghan cops.

Sources said that heavy fighting is currently underway in the centers of Badakhshan, Baghlan and Faryab provinces.

Afghan security agencies are not providing information about developments on the frontlines in the north.

"The Taliban launched four attacks on the Farah police headquarters, but we defeated them," said an Afghan soldier in Farah, Zabihullah Atal.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch started the buffalo stampeding......
the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) reported that it has treated 4,042 weapon-maimed patients at 15 health facilities since the start of August.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians are at risk as fighting intensifies in and around Kunduz, Lashkar Gah, Kandahar, and other Afghan cities.

The International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) has called on both warring sides to show restraint and protect civilians and vital infrastructure such as hospitals from attacks, especially in urban areas.

"We are seeing homes destroyed, medical staff and patients put at tremendous risk, and hospitals, electricity and water infrastructure damaged," said Eloi Fillion, ICRC’s head of delegation in Afghanistan. "The use of explosive weaponry in cities is having severe and indiscriminate effects on the civilian population well beyond its target. Many families have no option but to flee in search of a safer place. This must stop."

"The situation is very concerning, the city is under the siege, I don’t know what the government is planning to defend the city," said Bahadur, a resident in Badakhshan.

"The people have a lot of apprehensions about this issue," said Wahid Shayoun, a resident in Badakhshan.

Fighting is also reported in Pul-e-Khumri, the capital of Baghlan.

"They launched about 100 attacks around Pul-e-Khumri city, but all attacks were repelled," said Baghlan governor Akbar Barakzai.

In Kapisa province, there are reports that the Taliban have recaptured Nejrab district.

"We call on the government to pay attention to Kapisa and support security forces and public uprising forces," said a resident in Kapisa, Kaka Mohammad.

"All people should mobilize behind their defense and security forces, they can prevent the advance of the enemies together," said military analyst Safiullah Safi.

However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
sources have said that there has been no plan so far for the recapture of Zaranj, Sheberghan, Kunduz, Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
, Taluqan and Aibak cities, but the security institutions have not given information about the security developments in the north.

The ICRC says that electricity is out across several contested cities and water supply systems are barely operational in some places. "Many families are trying to leave but cannot find transport to escape or simply do not have the financial means," the ICRC said.

The ICRC and its partner the Afghan Red Islamic Thingy Society (ARCS) say they are operating at full capacity to evacuate the maimed and transport the remains of those killed as a result of the conflict. In July alone, the ICRC helped nearly 13,000 patients suffering from weapon-related injuries across the country, and this number appears likely to rise this month as fighting increases in highly populated areas.

"Health-care facilities, medical workers, and ambulances must be spared at all cost," said Fillion. "We also call on all fighting parties to allow humanitarian organizations like the ICRC and ARCS to safely evacuate the injured and bring much-needed assistance to the civilian population."
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


13 Children En Route to Terrorist Training Rescued: MoJ
[ToloNews] The Afghan Ministry of Justice said on Tuesday that the country's intelligence forces prevented 13 Afghan children from being taken to Pakistain and trained to be terrorists.

According to the ministry, Death Eaters intended to take the children to the Khyber Agency
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
in Pakistain's Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province to provide them terrorism training after deceiving their families, but the Afghan cops prevented it from happening.
Well spotted, guys!
"Our country is in a state of war, in a state of - unfortunately - obvious aggression; when a society is in a state of war, its obvious that calamities and catastrophes are widespread as well," said Justice Minister Fazel Ahmad Manawi.

The radicalization of children in Pak religious schools is a constant concern for Afghan leaders and regional and international analysts.

The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations stated that another 67 children who were being smuggled by human traffickers and migrants colonists out of the country in border areas between 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Afghanistan were detained by Iranian border guards and handed over to Afghan cops.

Zabiullah Rahmatzadeh, director of immigration at the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations, said: "These people were going to Iran from Nimroz via Zahedan; fortunately, we handed them back to their families."

Numbers provided by the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations show that in the last four months more than 70 people, including six women and three children who were about to be taken out of the country by human traffickers, have been rescued by Afghan police forces.

Zahir Farahi, the Interior Ministry's director of the human trafficking department, said: "They had made fake visas, photo-changed passports, fake passports, and generally fake ID cards for them, and they wanted to get them out illegally either through the air or across open borders."

Members of the Afghan government's High Commission to Combat Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Moslem colonists Migrants held a conference on Monday to discuss the US State Department's recent report on human trafficking.

According to the US State Department’s report, Afghanistan is among the 17 countries that have failed to meet the minimum standards set for the prevention of human trafficking.

The State Department has warned that the 17 countries’ efforts in fighting human trafficking have been insufficient and unsatisfying and this could lead to sanctions by the United States against these countries.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Fighting Underway in Balkh, Takhar Provinces
[ToloNews] Fighting is underway between security forces and Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
in the northern provinces of Balkh and Takhar since Sunday night, officials from the province said.

The security forces supported by public uprising forces retook the control of Farkhar and Worsaj districts in Takhar on Sunday after they retreated from the capital city Taluqan, sources said.

The government and Taliban have not yet confirmed the news.

In Balkh, heavy festivities are underway in Dehdadi district since Sunday night, sources said. The festivities are close to Balkh capital Mazar-e-Sharif city and Pul-e-Imam Bukhari area, sources said.

The defense lines will break if reinforcement are not sent to the province, sources from Balkh said.

Security officials have not commented on the festivities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  "Gentlemen, you cannot fight here. This is Afghanistan!", said no one ever.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/11/2021 19:05 Comments || Top||


Over 4,000 Wounded Afghans Treated by ICRC in 10 Days
[ToloNews] Since the beginning of August, 4,042 weapon-maimed patients have been treated at 15 health facilities supported by the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC), an indication of the intensity of the recent violence, the organization said in a statement on Wednesday.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians are at risk as fighting intensifies in and around Kunduz, Lashkar Gah, Kandahar, and other Afghan cities.

The International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) has called on both warring sides to show restraint and protect civilians and vital infrastructure such as hospitals from attacks, especially in urban areas.

"We are seeing homes destroyed, medical staff and patients put at tremendous risk, and hospitals, electricity and water infrastructure damaged," said Eloi Fillion, ICRC’s head of delegation in Afghanistan. "The use of explosive weaponry in cities is having severe and indiscriminate effects on the civilian population well beyond its target. Many families have no option but to flee in search of a safer place. This must stop."

Street-to-street festivities in Kunduz, Lashkar Gah and other cities over the last few days have injured hundreds of civilians even as medical services are heavily strained due to damage to health facilities and a lack of staff, the ICRC said in a statement.

The ICRC says that electricity is out across several contested cities and water supply systems are barely operational in some places. "Many families are trying to leave but cannot find transport to escape or simply do not have the financial means," ICRC said.

The ICRC and its partner the Afghan Red Islamic Thingy Society (ARCS) say they are operating at full capacity to evacuate the maimed and transport the remains of those killed as a result of the conflict. In July alone, the ICRC helped nearly 13,000 patients suffering from weapon-related injuries across the country, and this number appears likely to rise this month as fighting increases in highly populated areas.

"Health-care facilities, medical workers, and ambulances must be spared at all cost," said Fillion. "We also call on all fighting parties to allow humanitarian organizations like the ICRC and ARCS to safely evacuate the injured and bring much-needed assistance to the civilian population."
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban enter third provincial capital in 12 hours, seventh in four days
[KhaamaPress] Sources have told Khaama Press that the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
fighters have entered the northern historic provincial capital of Polikhumri, Baghlan province Tuesday evening August 10.

As per the sources, the fighters have crossed security outposts of the center of the province and the Afghan Defense and Security Forces have retreated and people are horror escaping the city.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.

Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?

Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.

No, he said. Do you?...

the Taliban spokesperson Zabiullha Mujahid in a Twitter post said that the fighters have entered the Polikhumri city and Faizabad city of Badakhshan province.

The spokesperson claims that the button men have inflicted casualties to Afghan government forces in both the historic provincial capitals and the forces are chased away from the cities.

Earlier today, sources had confirmed the Taliban to have entered the center of Farah province and have broken the central prison.

The Afghan government has not yet confirmed the collapse of any of these three cities.

If confirmed, the northern industrial city of Polikhumri will be the seventh city after Zaranj, Kunduz, Taloqan, Aibak, Farah, and Faizabad to be falling to the Taliban in the past four days.

The unprecedented capture of territories in the past two decades comes as the warring parties are set to negotiate on the situation and probably peace, in Doha on Wednesday.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Taliban




#4  #1 IMO, loot & women provide a lot more sensible reason for waging a war than nation building.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/11/2021 7:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Seriously, anyone with an IQ of more than 30 really surprised by this?
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/11/2021 10:14 Comments || Top||


Taliban conquered Fayzabad the capital of Badkhshan province
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban entered Gardiz the capital city of Paktia province
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban entered Maimana city the capital of Faryab prvoince
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban takes control of border with Uzbekistan
[TASS] The Taliban movement has taken control of the border with Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Its leaders promise not to attack the neighboring countries, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.

"It is important for us that the border with Uzbekistan and Tajikistan has been taken under control by the Taliban," he said at the Territory of Senses youth forum.

He recalled that the Taliban had recently seized the city of Kunduz. "If you know geography, Kunduz is a quite large center," Shoigu said, adding that the Taliban leaders promise not to seek to cross the borders or attack neighboring nations.
Posted by: badanov || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Clashes between GNU Forces in Al-Zawiya, West Libya
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Not where I would have expected Stallman to start. I thought Redmond or Cupertino were more likely.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/11/2021 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  *Snort* Obscure programming humor that.
Posted by: magpie || 08/11/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Cameroon Says Hundreds of Boko Haram Militants from Nigeria and Chad Surrender
[VOA News] Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
ian officials say at least 82 former Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
fighters from Nigeria and Chad, along with their families, have surrendered to authorities in the past week. Authorities say they’re the latest among hundreds of the bully boy Islamists who have been defecting since May, when the group's leader was killed. Cameroon plans to deport the former fighters as the influx has overwhelmed rehabilitation centers along the border.

Cameroon’s government on August 10 said its National Committee for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration center in Meri, a northern town on the border with Nigeria, has 967 former jihadist bully boys. A week ago, there were about 700 former Boko Haram fighters and their families in the center.Among the over 260 who arrived within the past one week are 82 former Boko Haram male fighters. The others are women and kiddies.



Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Nigerian army says 335 Boko Haram militants have surrendered
[CONCHOVALLEYHOMEPAGE] The Nigerian army says 335 Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
Death Eaters, including two top commanders, have laid down their arms and withdrawn from the sect in response to a military offensive in the northeast.Military spokesperson Onyema Nwachukwu released photos on Monday of the men holding placards asking for forgiveness, and said the group’s chief bomb expert and his deputy were among those who turned themselves in. Hundreds of women and kiddies from the hard boys’ families also surrendered.

There have been several reports of snuffies surrendering since the reported death of the group’s leader Abubakar Shekau
...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka...
earlier this year.

It is, however, difficult to assess if the surrenders will be a major win for Nigerian forces fighting Boko Haram’s decade-long insurgency, according to Sadeeq Shehu, a retired senior officer of the Nigerian Air Force.

Even before Shekau’s death, he and his allies had faced a mounting threat from a breakaway faction known as 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....
West Africa Province, or ISWAP, which has become more prominent in carrying out abductions and attacks over the past year.

There are also fears that the ISWAP snuffies may now be operating in the country’s northwest, too. Authorities confirmed recently that an Death Eater flag was seen flying in one town in northwest Niger state.



Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Fifth Column
Matthew Rupert, of Galesburg, Ill., has been sentenced to nearly 9 years in federal prison after being convicted for his role in the Minneapolis BLM-Antifa riots last year
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  I was expecting 2 weeks of community service, released for time served.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/11/2021 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  get some dental work while you're in prion
Posted by: Chris || 08/11/2021 0:25 Comments || Top||

#3  He'll be more worried about anal work in prison.
Posted by: Raj || 08/11/2021 0:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Song of the early AM...
Posted by: Raj || 08/11/2021 0:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Just another pumpkin head communist ☭, should have given him 29 years
Posted by: Neville Flalet7059 || 08/11/2021 5:25 Comments || Top||

#6  This is the longest sentence for a BLM rioter.

May not have been long enough.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/11/2021 5:30 Comments || Top||

#7  ^A journey of a thousand li starts with one step.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/11/2021 6:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Is a li closer to a mile or a kilometer?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/11/2021 7:10 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Google it
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/11/2021 7:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Seems like typical chinese inflation. They all have one zhang or longer d*cks too...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/11/2021 7:55 Comments || Top||

#11  About 1900 the Chinese decided to change traditional measurements to pseudo-Metric: the 'Li' became 500 meters and the 'Jin" became 500 grams.
Posted by: magpie || 08/11/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||

#12  Looks to be an Antifa puke. Had there been more of these sentences or longer, there would have been far less trouble later.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/11/2021 10:49 Comments || Top||

#13  He’s white..now if he had been black, $22 fine.
Posted by: Omuck Chuns2452 || 08/11/2021 12:40 Comments || Top||

#14  Aren't most BLM 'activists' white?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/11/2021 15:25 Comments || Top||

#15  Cannon fodder was the old name for his kind.
Posted by: Grunter || 08/11/2021 19:21 Comments || Top||


Iraq
More than 18 attacks on electricity towers thwarted in Iraq in two weeks: military spox
[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces have thwarted more than 18 attacks on electricity lines in two weeks, a military spokesperson told state media on Sunday.

"Many of the people that are targeting electricity towers have been arrested," spokesperson for the Joint Operations Command Major-General Tahsin al-Khafaji told state media. "The security forces have thwarted more than 18 attempts to target electricity towers in the past two weeks."

Iraq suffers from chronic electricity shortages, especially felt when summer temperatures reach over 50 degrees Celsius. This is caused by multiple factors, including poor government delivery of services, rampant corruption, terror attacks on the power grid, and Iran’s recent cuts of electricity and gas exports because of unpaid bills.

Attacks earlier this summer on electricity pylons contributed to a blackout that left millions in central and southern Iraq without power during a heat wave.

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 (ISIS) has claimed dozens of attacks on Iraq’s electricity grid and threatened other vital infrastructure and Iraqi security forces said they thwarted several other attempts.

Khafaji added that ISIS is still an active threat in the region.

Earlier last month, Khafaji said that the "ISIS terrorist organization seeks to create panic through targeting these power lines."

Last week, Iraq’s electricity ministry said that attacks on power lines damaged 13 electricity towers in three provinces in just 2 days.

"ISIS probably views infrastructure as a soft target; the attacks require minimal resources and personnel, but the resulting electricity disruptions garner attention and undermine the Iraqi government," the United States Pentagon said in a report on operations against ISIS.

During a visit to the electricity ministry in July, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi said there is no quick solution to electricity shortages.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Army's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi said that domestically-manufactured ‘Dena’ Destroyer is ready for carrying out naval-related missions
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Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  ...It's an FF (frigate) at best, and probably closer to a K (corvette). That thing tries to take on a USN or RN destroyer, the crew will be communing with the Prophet PDQ.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/11/2021 6:01 Comments || Top||

#2  PBUH lol
Posted by: Frank G || 08/11/2021 7:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Going to guess drowning is haram. Desert cult and all...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/11/2021 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Can do a SINKEX really, really well... After burning, though.
Posted by: magpie || 08/11/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||

#5  "Naval-related missions"
So it floats, then.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/11/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Submersible - once.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/11/2021 10:38 Comments || Top||

#7  "We have created and rendered 3D models from the engineering blueprints. Our army of trained photoshoppers stand ready to composite images of the ship into pictures and videos of real-world naval-related missions."

Note: There is a rear admiral/ship of the desert joke lurking here, but I ain't going near it.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/11/2021 12:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Why do they call the camel the hip of the sesert? It's full of iranian semen...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/11/2021 18:17 Comments || Top||

#9  Ship of the desert...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/11/2021 18:17 Comments || Top||


Explosion on a merchant ship in the Syrian port of Latakia
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Most places one would initially assume an innocent accident, but here one assumes WoT - either accidental (or purposeful ... Israel) explosion of arms or chemicals or purposeful sabotage.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/11/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Just a power of prayer, Glenmore. Just a power of prayer.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/11/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||


In Syria, two soldiers were wounded by mortar fire from Turkish-controlled territory
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Militants, whose positions are located in the Turkish-controlled Syrian territories of the Idlib zone, fired at the Syrian military in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, Deputy Chief of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit said at a briefing on August 10 .

As a result of the shelling by the militants, two Syrian soldiers were wounded.

“Militants operating in the Idlib de-escalation zone of illegal armed groups controlled by Turkey fired at the positions of the Syrian government forces in the area of ​​the Khas settlement of the Idlib province and in the area of ​​the Urum al-Sughra settlement of the Aleppo province. As a result of mortar attacks, two Syrian servicemen were injured , ”said Vadim Kulit.
Posted by: badanov || 08/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies



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