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High Seas: US and Netherlands authorities intercept 8,500 pounds of cocaine worth $245m and arrest 13 drug smugglers during 45-day sting operation in the Caribbean Sea
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Black Lives Matter secretly used $6 million in donations to buy luxurious 6,500-square foot mansion with seven bedrooms and parking for 20 cars in Southern California in 2020 where leaders have filmed YouTube videos
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Black Lives Matter brass secretly used $6 million in donation money to buy a 6,500-square foot mansion in Southern California, it has been revealed

  • Emails show the firm wanted to keep the purchase secret, despite filming a video on the home's patio in May

  • The news comes as the foundation faces federal scrutiny for alleged misuse of donated funds - and comes on heels of criticism of co-founder Patrisse Cullors

  • Cullors, 38, came under fire last year for a slew of high-profile property purchases. She resigned after facing backlash from critics and supporters
They could have paid for a lot of troublemaking with that money, but instead they bought a nice house — a small win for civilization.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 
Black Lives
need to be
Pampered
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/05/2022 5:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Groundskeeper slightly wounded. Dozens of luxury automobiles riddled as alleged BLM rival faction rakes mansion with automatic weapons fire. Four vehicles seen speeding from the scene following a four minute barrage. More at Eleven.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2022 6:21 Comments || Top||

#3  The pic in the post is from I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka, which, if you haven't seen, you owe it to yourself to check it out. It's hilarious. In a similar vein, also watch Hollywood Shuffle.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 7:25 Comments || Top||

#5  The KGB IRS spittingly silent.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/05/2022 11:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Well FBI/DOJ when will we see Indictments?
BLM operates across state lines, handles $$$$ collected across state lines....etc etc etc.

Oh!!! that's are we are rolling into Mid-terms and the LSD's might get their A$$ handed to them, so they'll need every vote they can get now that States are banning DEAD People from voting.

So why upset the BLM Apple cart?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/05/2022 14:31 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Taliban BANS opium: Hardline rulers of Afghanistan say anyone caught growing poppy crop will be subjected to Sharia law
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] If the big turbans don’t get their cut, don’t nobody make no money at all. Capish?
  • The Taliban has announced a ban on harvesting poppies used for making opium

  • The group warned farmers their crops will be burned and they can face jail

  • Poppies are a main source of income for millions of small farmers in Afghanistan
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  Fuckin' monkeys with guns. China is a fool for dealing with them.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/05/2022 5:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Anyone growing poppies and not paying off will be subject to sharia law.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 7:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Until they realize that the pay offs from farmers that grow poppy fields is a majority of their income and suddenly find a fatwa for growing.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/05/2022 8:52 Comments || Top||

#4  ..for export.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/05/2022 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe they think their opium selling days are over now and they shall happily live hereafter on the 'tranche'. There will always be some excuse for the US Congress islamists and islamophiles to send money. We always knew there's another Pakistain in the making.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/05/2022 9:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Money on the table, Dron. The "tranches" go to the gummint {whatever that might be in the Stan) but a man who sells his own raw opium is a man in charge of his own life and wallet. At least until the door gets kicked in...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 9:30 Comments || Top||

#7  China is a fool for dealing with them.

I’ve been looking forward to China realizing it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/05/2022 9:43 Comments || Top||

#8  China is asshore! When I lived in NYC, the assholes were the ones who bought the knock off stuff from the Somalian street vendors and played monty.

That's China.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 9:49 Comments || Top||

#9  will be subjected to Sharia law To please the moon goddess of course.

Well I for one would not like to be camel raped.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/05/2022 11:11 Comments || Top||

#10  The CIA is going to be outraged.

We could have stopped opium production from restarting after the invasion. Remember, the Taliban banned it back in the 1990s, too. But it's just too profitable. Plus, the opioids that are destroying small town America come from Afghanistan, so there's that's another point in its favor.
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 04/05/2022 12:25 Comments || Top||

#11  Yes. There were stories about creating a bio blight to kill off poppies and coca when I was in college in the 70s. Never happened. But we did get COVID.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#12  Just remembered the Chinese developed many high yield poppy seeds specifically for the Afghans to cultivate for them. This was in 2015-2017. Maybe it's about quality control now?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/05/2022 12:40 Comments || Top||

#13  The US military was in complete control of Afghanistan for 20 years. If they had wanted to stop opium production from restarting, they would have done it.

But no. They allowed it to restart. Then they defended fields full of poppies from the Taliban, knowing full well those would be made into opioids and flood in to America.

"But the farmers needed that income" what a bullshit excuse. With all the money we spent on Afghanistan, we could have paid them all a subsidy not to grow crops. I hear USDA does the same thing and it works great.
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 04/05/2022 13:18 Comments || Top||

#14  The US military was in complete control of Afghanistan for 20 years.

Say no more guvner. Say. No. More.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 13:19 Comments || Top||

#15  But we did get COVID.

And herpes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2022 16:07 Comments || Top||

#16  ^ Well, me, personally, no. But as a society...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 16:08 Comments || Top||

#17  The US military was in complete control of Afghanistan for 20 years.
Has Anyone been in "complete control" of Afghanistan at any time? ...Absolute bollocks
Posted by: magpie || 04/05/2022 21:21 Comments || Top||

#18  So the Taliban are looking to monopolize the opium trade?

The US military was in complete control of Afghanistan for 20 years.


Just what I was going to say. But America is the bete noir for the latest crowd of trolls. Not a sparrow falls but a CIA agent shot it down...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/05/2022 21:26 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
More than 150 still missing after Nigeria train attack
[AlAhram] One week after button men attacked a train with explosives in northwestern Nigeria, the whereabouts of 168 passengers are still unknown, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has said.

At least eight people were killed and others missing on March 28 when button men detonated a bomb on the track and opened fire on the train linking the capital Abuja with the northwestern city of Kaduna.

President Muhammadu Buhari had said some passengers had been kidnapped and survivors said button men had snatched a number of passengers, but it is not clear how many.

It was the latest deadly assault blamed on heavily armed criminal gangs known locally as bandidos in the region.

In a statement late Sunday, the NRC said of the 362 passengers on board the train when it was attacked, 186 had been confirmed safe.

"Of the 362 validated passengers on board the attacked AK9 train service on March 28, 186 persons on the manifest are confirmed to be safe and at their various homes," it said.

The NRC said of the remaining 176 passengers, eight have been confirmed dead, leaving the whereabouts of 168 still unknown.

It said efforts were still underway to rescue the missing passengers.

The corporation said damaged track and coaches were being repaired while services on the Abuja-Kaduna route had been "temporarily suspended".

Two days earlier, button men killed a perimeter security guard in an attack at Kaduna airport before armed forces intervened.

Gunmen also attacked the same railway line with explosives in October.

Bandit gangs in the northwest and central Nigerian states have long terrorised communities, conducting mass kidnappings for ransom, raiding villages and stealing cattle.

But their violence has intensified. Gunmen often arrive in their scores by cycle of violence, sometimes striking several villages, killing and abducting residents.

Gunmen have also targeted highways for kidnappings between the capital and cities such as Kaduna and the northwestern commercial hub Kano.

Nigeria's military has been carrying out operations and air strikes to clear bandidos out of their camps hidden in forests across several states in the northwest. But the violence has continued.

Security forces are also battling Nigeria's 12-year jihadist insurgency in the northeast that has killed 40,000 people and displaced more than two million more.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/05/2022 02:30 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


India-Pakistan
Imran Khan accuses US diplomat of trying to overthrow government
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The prime minister of Pakistain accused a United States diplomat on Sunday of playing a role in a conspiracy to overthrow his government.

Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders...
claimed Donald Lu,
Who?
assistant secretary of state for south and central Asian affairs,
...that doesn’t really clarify, sorry. He’s not interesting enough to be found in the Rantburg archives...
had told him through Pakistain's ambassador to the U.S., Asad Majeed, that there would be implications if Khan survived the no-confidence vote, according to the Hindustan Times.

Khan added that he had reports that objectors to his Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
party had frequented the U.S. Embassy.

"What were the reasons that the people, who have left us, met people of the embassy frequently in the last few days?" he said in a televised statement.

The no-confidence vote was blocked in Parliament on Sunday, with Khan calling on Pakistain to prepare for an early election. He also requested Pak President Arif Alvi to dissolve Parliament, CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
reported.

The State Department did not respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment on Lu.

Posted by: Fred || 04/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  It's not hysteria. The 'Stain is the only 'ace' the US deepState has in this region. The CIA channels into Islamabad run deep and smell of curry and piss. They're dogs ove there. Dangle enough carrots before them [hell, some can be bought for a blówjob] and they'll sell out their affiliations, topple their governments gladly. And the military junta is pro-dollar more than pro-yuan, always. Give it a chance, and they'll even jail their PMs.

For Imran worshiping before Putin, to counter the possibility of increasing India-China economic interdependence under threats of sanctions, to punish the subcontinent basically... what better way than to do incentivize the junta to take over. That would plunge the region likely into war.

I'm all for war, but Imran was good for slow negation of the 'Stain influence in Asia. The corruption was phenomenal, the crime and chaos and utter sasquatchery was beautiful. He set back whatever Nawaz and Mush tried to build by a decade, and leeched both dollar and yuan out in truckloads.

This is not hysteria. The US wishes for a stable, productive, supportive Islamic Republic of Paxstan strong enough to push Washington's will in the region. We won't let that happen inshallah or outshallah. Because Washington is insane, we are not.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/05/2022 5:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I think you much imagine the ability of the CIA. Corruption and greed is Pak's biggest problem. If India's IB was worth a crap they'd have the Paks killing each other at a higher rate.
Always blame the US, eh Dron66046?
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 04/05/2022 6:16 Comments || Top||

#3  No, not always, unvaxxed. And I don't blame the US. For me, you are the US. Your rulers have not been representative of you for a longer time than you'd like to imagine. If you'd still like to defend their actions out of a sense of loyalty or hubris, I understand that too. It just is what it is.

Wholeheartedly agree about our IB and ...uhh, other chaps.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/05/2022 6:42 Comments || Top||

#4  No defense of the CIA from me. I would add, the government of India represents you about the same as my government represents me. Blaming the US is just too easy, especially in Pak, blame the locals for their deeds (and falling for foreign intervention).
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 04/05/2022 6:55 Comments || Top||

#5 
Unfortunately I do not have the luxury of thinking apart from the government, nor can I divorce myself from America. In whatever form, we all battle an existential threat from Islamists, commies, homegrowns, whatever. They all derive their strength from international conventions of 'inalienable rights' and 'due process' and such. So, a clash between East and West will exist until the west accepts the fallibility of these notions, or at least learns to apply them selectively. Everyone from the UN to the mandarins in DC would shit a brick if we nuked 'slamabad tonight, wouldn't they. The same people mumbling 'oh the humanity!' over dead bodies in Ukraine would tear up and whine to kingdom come over dead children and women littering the Khyber pakhtunkhwa. You will appreciate we are indignant at not being able to 'solve' Pakistain.

If India blames Washington for empowering the 'Stain and endangering everyone including Americans, it is a justifiable criticism. Of not only callousness but suicidal stupidity. If the moslems in Pakistain do it they're just being moslem ingrates.

Obama, Biden, the next one... as far we are concerned, all are to be feared. Only DJT was worth the trust and respect because he couldn't be taken for a ride by moslems. He understood who the enemies were and how to get ahead together without obstructing non-hostile societies. India suffered a greater setback in the dem putsch than any other Asian country in fact. If India works to undermine the west's ability to sanction us for ridding the world of pests, that too you cannot begrudge us. Trump gave only India the waiver on Iran and understood he couldn't trust the 'allies' his advisors pointed to. He trusted us instead.

To blame is to live in the past. To be wary of something you know has the Murphy's Touch is not paranoia or hatred but just plain prudence. And the US government has been pathetically underperforming on meeting the ideals the real America stands for.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/05/2022 7:41 Comments || Top||

#6  I dream of an America where, as soon as a politician, bureaucrat or "policy wonk" says "religion of peace," they lose their job and are banned from appearing as a commentator in any media format.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 7:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Amen.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/05/2022 8:04 Comments || Top||

#8  If India works to undermine the west's ability to sanction us for ridding the world of pests, that too you cannot begrudge us. Trump gave only India the waiver on Iran and understood he couldn't trust the 'allies' his advisors pointed to. He trusted us instead.

Well said. Americans consistently fail to understand how much damage is done by their blunt sanctions weapon. Trump was a breath of fresh air. Biden brought back all the foul stench and patronizing stupidity of liberal western imperialism. "Shaky." Tsk tsk.
Posted by: Slineling Chusong5031 || 04/05/2022 8:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Not all Americans, SC. Most of them are like you and me. All they want is service for their tax dollar. And most of that service is domestic. The few who were sold that schtick about 'protecting our freedoms' by fighting in Asia were also made to pay dearly by the deepState administrations when they asked for some of that freedom on Capitol Hill.

So we are all in this together. The American Right and India are not so opposed to each other's interests. We are not for blind and blatant Chinese expansionism for one. We are both victims and enemies of islamo-marxist and Globalist conspirators that seek to hijack our democracies.

Conservative Americans aren't naive. They are deeply patriotic and have yet to come to terms with the fact that this is not the America they have grown up serving. Imagine India taken over by the Congress, the SPs and Kejriwals. Having to witness the piecemeal dismantling of every edifice your brothers have died protecting. By scoundrels. This shit about Ukraine and Vlad... it's another hook into the hubris with which both RINO and libDem establishments have led the conservatives.

I read the arguments here. 'You are just wrong!' 'America is done!' 'No, Russia is!' 'Nazis! There's no such thing!' 'oooh the dead bodies!'

And I think of the engineers of chaos. And how they're consistently winning while we all predictably quibble.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/05/2022 9:00 Comments || Top||

#10  It always comes down to good against evil. At the end of the day, I need to be good more than I need to be American. I would like for the two to heavily overlap, but it's actually becoming less and less so these days. In the end, I'll choose good.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 9:05 Comments || Top||

#11  An excellent appraisal on all fronts Dron, or perhaps one with which I heartily agree. Well said, and thank you.
Posted by: Cesare || 04/05/2022 9:30 Comments || Top||

#12  Why's the article say "HYSTERIA" all over it? US diplomats meddle all the time. Should I post the intercepted phone call by the US viceroy of Ukraine where she discusses which government she favors in power and then says "Fuck the EU"?
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 04/05/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#13  Should I post the intercepted phone call by the US viceroy of Ukraine where she discusses which government she favors in power and then says "Fuck the EU"?

Put up or shut up.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 12:30 Comments || Top||

#14  And provenance is the coin of the realm. Juicy made-up stuff doesn't cut it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 12:32 Comments || Top||

#15  Should I post the intercepted phone call by the US viceroy of Ukraine where she discusses which government she favors in power and then says "Fuck the EU"?

That’s olds, not news. We discussed it here when the reports first came out. Also: ambassador, not viceroy. It says hysteria because Pakistanis are particularly prone to conspiracy theories. It’s a societal talent.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/05/2022 14:07 Comments || Top||

#16  #9 the engineers of chaos

Nailed it on the head. Putin and Zelensky (with a huge assist from Obama's, then Biden's people) have engineered a cosmic clusterf*** and we're the ones who will have to clean up their mess. ("We" means everyone around the world who's not part of the Davos set or the military-industrial complex)
Posted by: Oscar Graviter4329 || 04/05/2022 14:55 Comments || Top||

#17  "Engineers of Chaos", lol. Superb name for a rock group ...like Eagles of Death Metal.

Me I don't care about either P or Z or RU or UA. They're both a thorn in the side of the world, like the fucking Palestinians and the Israelis--multiplied by 1,000..
Posted by: Uloter Bonaparte5904 || 04/05/2022 15:01 Comments || Top||

#18  ^ Yes. That's why you are here stirring the pot.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 15:02 Comments || Top||

#19  ^ Can't they both lose? And leave the rest of the world alone
Posted by: Oscar Graviter4329 || 04/05/2022 15:03 Comments || Top||

#20  Palestinians are not our problem
Ukrainians are not our problem

But it's a big problem for us when our politicians tell us we need to ration food, gas etc because they're trying to punish someone who doesn't threaten us. Fuck off, thank you very much
Posted by: Uloter Bonaparte5904 || 04/05/2022 15:07 Comments || Top||

#21  ^ Still working out how this is a troll argument, but it's a troll.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 15:08 Comments || Top||

#22  Fuck off. Someone expresses his opinion you don't like, and you just spit out insults. How do we know you're not a bot?
Posted by: Uloter Bonaparte5904 || 04/05/2022 15:12 Comments || Top||

#23  Let's say, for the sake of argument, the USA worked out Prompt Global Strike and controlled its borders. We would be hated even more than we are now. For staying home and only hitting people who tried to hit us.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 15:12 Comments || Top||

#24  Fuck off. Someone expresses his opinion you don't like, and you just spit out insults. How do we know you're not a bot?

He ain't a bot.
Posted by: badanov || 04/05/2022 15:20 Comments || Top||

#25  We would be hated even more than we are now

Which is why I'm all for embracing the gate. Nazi, shmazi. Wear the name your enemy gives you proudly. Straddle an ICBM and shout 'I am the great satan who shall ass rape Allan with this!'

You guys think Putin gives a fcuk about what the press is saying? Or does Kim sit and worry about who doesn't love him in the west? But it's only good policy if you start from home. Russia, China both started from home. You haven't solved the domestic, don't try and control the world, simple.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/05/2022 15:20 Comments || Top||

#26  for the sake of argument, the USA worked out Prompt Global Strike and controlled its borders. We would be hated even more than we are now. For staying home and only hitting people who tried to hit us.

THAT, I agree with!! If the USA and the other major powers (and I include France too) were to "stay home and only hitt people who tried to hit us", the West would be much richer and more free. Safer as well.
Posted by: Uloter Bonaparte5904 || 04/05/2022 15:20 Comments || Top||

#27  * embracing the hate
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/05/2022 15:21 Comments || Top||

#28  He ain't a bot.

Lol.. He redeemed himself with the last comment. That's a good perspective ("good" because I happen to agree!)
Posted by: Uloter Bonaparte5904 || 04/05/2022 15:24 Comments || Top||

#29  #24 Thanks Bad. I am too actually decrepit in the flesh to be a bot. And nobody is spending any money to put me out there every day...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 15:24 Comments || Top||

#30  #27 Dron. If we are hated for staying home, we are finally doing something right.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 15:28 Comments || Top||

#31  I want a t-shirt.
ENGINEERS OF CHAOS "Embrace the Hate" World Tour 2022
Kyiv
Kharkov
Mariupol
Odessa
Odessa TX
Moscow ID
St Petersburg FL
Vladivostok, South Dakota
Rantburg, Ekaterinburg
Posted by: Oscar Graviter4329 || 04/05/2022 15:32 Comments || Top||

#32  My personal fantasy of foreign hatred would not be complete without the elimination of USAID and freely allowing US companies to profit from slave labor in foreign lands. Then we would be hated even more from certain quarters in CONUS.

But, it would be a start.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 15:32 Comments || Top||

#33  Poorly worded. Elimination of USAID and elimination of free use of foreign slave labor by US corporations.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 15:34 Comments || Top||

#34  #31. I don't see how St. Pete, FL, Odessa Tx or Rantburg belong on your shirt. You give yourself away as a troll.

We embrace a very rigidly structured form of chaos here. St. Pete is a great vacation destination. I know nothing of Odessa, TX other than it's not Austin and that works for me.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 15:37 Comments || Top||

#35  Oh lighten up fer (St.) petes sake. Odessa TX has a great Meteor Crater that would be a cool place for an outdoor concert. Worth the trip if you're out that way working the Permian Basin
Posted by: Oscar Graviter4329 || 04/05/2022 15:46 Comments || Top||

#36  Go see the Marfa Lights.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2022 15:54 Comments || Top||

#37  it's a big problem for us when our politicians tell us we need to ration food

Not a problem for you when you're on the dole.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2022 16:02 Comments || Top||

#38  A viceroy rules over a territory and decides what kind of government it has. It's a better word that describes the job better.

Put up or shut up.

Seriously? She even complimented the tradecraft of whomever intercepted her call. Here's the complete transcript.

Viceroy Nuland: "Good. I don't think Klitsch should go into the government. I don't think it's necessary, I don't think it's a good idea."

See how she's deciding what kind of government Ukraine will have?

Viceroy Nuland: "I just think Klitsch going in... he's going to be at that level working for Yatseniuk, it's just not going to work."

Good thing Ukraine is a democracy where the people decide their own fate without foreigners butting in and making decisions about their government without their knowledge or consent!
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 04/05/2022 16:37 Comments || Top||

#39  #37 Not a problem for you when you're on the dole.

I hadn't considered that. Good for you!

Do you live in California? How much do you take each month? Someone said they're rationing food in Spain... are they talking about food rationing in the USA yet?
Posted by: Uloter Bonaparte5904 || 04/05/2022 17:07 Comments || Top||

#40  I want to remember the Rantburg readers if they wanted to put the dots together, that March 7th of this year , foreign office of Pakistan received diplomatic correspondence from their ambassador in Washington DC. It detailed an official meeting he had with Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu. Mr Donald Lu told Pakistani ambassador that their current tilt toward china and Russia is not acceptable by Biden administration. And things will get more difficult if Pakistan does not correct its path.
All Pakistan had to do was to make sure upcoming no-confidence motion against PM Imran Khan does not fail.
That motion was filed next day March 8th. Imran Khan government kept quiet about this letter but asked intelligence agencies under his control to start documenting movements of 3 foreign ambassadors , 24/7.
I think its normal practice for any foreign ambassadors to meet different political leaders but it was highly unusual for them to meet members of national assembly from Imran Khan’s own party , 22 of these defected against Imran Khan.
This matter is fluid and complex , there is a lot at stake here. Barring any under handed surprises , Imran Khan will sweep next elections, local media estimating 80% support for him right now .
Basically what we are seeing is another cia color revolution or management change failure developing under our eyes.
Posted by: American Exceptionalism LOL || 04/05/2022 19:42 Comments || Top||

#41  Yes, yes, the CIA is your big boogieman.

Nobody cares. Pakistain is a backwater, like Russia the only reason anyone gives it any regard is it once was able to detonate a nuclear device.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/05/2022 21:23 Comments || Top||


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Mass grave found in Najaf
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Hamas said to have stopped Islamic Jihad from firing rockets to avenge dead members
[IsraelTimes] TV report says 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...
rulers do not want to currently be dragged into another war with Israel by PIJ, which wants to respond to killing of three of its people by IDF.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/05/2022 02:55 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran says oil production back to pre-Trump maximum pressure sanctions levels
[IsraelTimes] Output restored to pre-2018 level of 3.8 million barrels per day, official says, noting Raisi’s decision to invest $500 million to restore facilities and increase production.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/05/2022 02:55 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Relief charities supported and funded by Turkey grant lands to settlers without reference to their owners
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