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6 terrorists killed, 7 including soldiers martyred as clearance operation in Balochistan concludes: ISPR
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Pic Track - Soldiers at War Against Poachers (You Tube)
[Best Doc] In South Africa, determined people, both men and women, are coming together in a united effort to safeguard rhinos and other endangered wildlife from ruthless poachers. Armed with their courage and dedication, these protectors, some with military backgrounds or as volunteers, are rallying to defend the precious flora and fauna of national parks. Their mission: to combat this pressing threat and preserve the environment for future generations.

Director: Frédéric Cristea

More here, and how you can help YouTube
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2023 13:10 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Two black males brutally beat people inside a Los Angeles clothing store during an armed robbery
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Let me guess,
"Thugwear?"
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2023 2:18 Comments || Top||


#3  Dog bites man.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/14/2023 7:06 Comments || Top||

#4  The problem with lawlessness is that it involves lawlessness.
You get the whole package at once.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/14/2023 9:09 Comments || Top||

#5  What is not being said about the likely motives behind savagery of the crime speaks volumes.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/14/2023 11:41 Comments || Top||

#6  But I think Los Angeles did not recall (or, rather, never got the chance to vote on recall because of--wait for it--inspection of the validity of signatures on the petition! With 42% being fraudulent, if I recall) their Soros DA, nothing will happen to these males (they are NOT acting like men, and so I follow Andy Ngo's example in not calling them men.)
Posted by: Tom || 05/14/2023 12:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Prob wanted to validate their parking.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2023 16:05 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Next Chairman Of Joint Chiefs Wants White Male Officers To Be A Minority
[Daniel Greenfield] When I was working on the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s ’Disloyal Military’ investigation, I predicted that Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr. would be selected as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The media is now reporting that Biden will indeed pick Brown to replace Milley. And as bad as Milley was, expect Brown to be much worse.

Under Gen. Brown, the Air Force has become the most woke of the major service branches.

Brown disgraced himself and his uniform during the Black Lives Matter race riots by releasing a video in which he "seemed to barely contain his rage" while ranting "that the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution ’that I’ve sworn my adult life to support and defend’ have not always delivered ’liberty and equality’ to all."

What horrible acts of oppression did one of the most powerful men in the military experience that made him turn on America? In his own words to People Magazine, "When you get to senior levels, you have reserved parking spots around the base. I was in civilian clothes, I parked in a spot and someone came out and said, ’That slot is reserved for the Pacific Air Force’s Commander.’ And I go, ’Yeah, I know, because I am the Pacific Air Force’s Commander.’"

Someone questioned Brown’s parking space once and all the white male officers must pay.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2023 06:34 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This comes as such a surprise.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2023 6:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Someone needs to inform the General that his new boss is a white man...
Posted by: Warthog || 05/14/2023 9:31 Comments || Top||

#3  This is why he was given the job. A politicized military can only ever have one over-arching purpose: targeting the citizenry.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/14/2023 9:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Jackass. He was in civilian clothes and was asked for ID appropriately. It wouldn't have mattered if he was black, white or green with magenta stripes. When you are a racist then everything has a racist motive.
Posted by: magpie || 05/14/2023 10:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Dude doesn’t even know he is an affirmative action hire.
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 05/14/2023 13:52 Comments || Top||

#6  ’Yeah, I know, because I am the Pacific Air Force’s Commander.’"

Instead of "Thank you Sargeant. I appreciate your vigilance, but I am the Pacific Air Force’s Commander ."

Whadda' self-important dick...
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 05/14/2023 17:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Full circles we go. Remember when there was too many male officers? Ya, they put the 11 women in my flight class into advanced aircraft, pushing out all but the number one in the class. After 3 years none of the women were flying. Babies, staff assignments, marriages, etc... At a million a pop.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/14/2023 22:51 Comments || Top||

#8  It is the DoD's turn for the left's Long March through the institutions until the Pentagon looks just like the rest of DC.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 05/14/2023 23:50 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
With its economy in meltdown and malnutrition rising, now Afghanistan is hit by swarms of locusts
[Independent] Locust infestation could wipe out 25 per cent of Afghanistan’s wheat crop this year as 875,000 children slip into malnutrition.

A swarm of damaging locusts threatens to eat its way through a quarter of Afghanistan’s annual wheat crop — at a time when the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
-ruled country is plagued with rising poverty, a difficult economy and malnutrition among thousands of children.
It sure looks like Allah is displeased with Taliban rule...
Eight of the country’s total 34 provinces have been plagued by the Moroccan locust, known to be the most economically damaging pests in the world, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a statement.

"The reports of Moroccan Locust outbreak in Afghanistan’s breadbasket is a huge concern," the agency’s Afghanistan representative Richard Trenchard said. "It represents an enormous threat to farmers, communities, and the entire country," he said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2023 2:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Imagine how little I care. We tried to fix this but you wouldn't let us. No longer on my radar.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/14/2023 9:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Sounds like an excellent opportunity to get them started on that whole, entire insect diet.
Posted by: Cesare || 05/14/2023 9:16 Comments || Top||

#4  We tried to fix this

The original mistake.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/14/2023 9:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Has the US finally learned that you can't nation build in a place where the inhabitants have no concept of "nation" only tribes?

Probably not.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 05/14/2023 10:21 Comments || Top||

#6  now, they are trying to make us tribal in the US.
Posted by: 746 || 05/14/2023 13:27 Comments || Top||

#7  "Soylent Green is... bugs!"
Posted by: Raj || 05/14/2023 13:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Don’t eat the bugs. Wait for the frogs. They taste like chicken.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/14/2023 16:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Wait for the frogs

How Toad Licking Gets You High
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2023 16:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Golly I hope they don't hurt the opium crop. Thankfully the CCP will provide us with fentanyl
Posted by: Regular joe || 05/14/2023 20:22 Comments || Top||

#11  Economy in the dumper, starvation, swarms of locusts. Almost sounds biblical.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/14/2023 22:27 Comments || Top||

#12  Yet the US government is still sending $1 billion/year to Afghanistan. That enough money to feed every one of the 40 million 3 grain based meals/day
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 05/14/2023 23:06 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Good stuff to know about your 911 call (YouTube)
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2023 10:07 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Angola Overtakes Nigeria In Oil Production As Output Drops To 0.9Million Barrels Daily
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hmmm, Angola. Gee, I wonder why had a lot of attention over the years. Nice flag they have, by the way. /sarc
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/14/2023 1:06 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
First flight of the Turkish Hürjet advanced trainer
[aviacionline] The first supersonic light attack and advanced trainer aircraft designed and built in Turkey (Turkiye), the Hurjet, successfully completed its maiden flight.

At 7:35 a.m. (local time) today, the Hurjet prototype took flight for the first time from the runway attached to the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS) facility. During this first flight test, the aircraft reached an altitude of 14,000 feet and a speed of 250 knots. The flight lasted 26 minutes.

The Hurjet prototype had been undergoing runway tests since March 18 of this year and when it took off today, it became the first military aircraft designed and built in Turkey’s history to take off. The Turkish Air Force (Turk Hava Kuvvetleri) expects to receive the first Hurjets from 2025.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/14/2023 11:22 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hurljet?
Must be very agile.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2023 13:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like what happens when you get on an amusement park ride while drunk.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/14/2023 13:20 Comments || Top||

#3  "We doan need no steenking F-35's!"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/14/2023 13:33 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Judge Orders FDA to release of COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Data by Mid-2025 not 23.5 Years
[NTD]
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/14/2023 07:39 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Unless something else changes the judge's orders will be ignored.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/14/2023 18:10 Comments || Top||


Federal student loan repayments to restart, education secretary confirms
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2023 02:38 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The real world returns.
Posted by: Tom || 05/14/2023 12:59 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Poliovirus found in another environmental sample from KP
[Dawn] While the Pakis­tan Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health confirmed the detection of wild polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
virus in an environmental sample from district South Wazoo of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the Islamic Devel­opment Bank approved a financing contribution of $100 million, inclusive of a $35 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to the fourth phase of polio eradication project in Pakistain.

According to the Pakistain Polio Lab, the wild poliovirus Type-1, which was isolated from a sewage sample collected from Qureshi Mohalla in the district’s Wacha Khaura union council, was genetically linked to poliovirus found in sewage sample collected from the same district in September 2022.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/14/2023 01:53 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Science & Technology
News With Views - Manufacturing Mental Illness
[News With Views] The horrific murders that took place in late March at a Christian school in Nashville has led to many investigations — as to the motive, the means and the way the killings were carried out. Audrey Hale, age 28, "identified" as a transgender male, going by the name of "Aiden." Hale apparently planned the carnage for some time, leaving behind a "manifesto" which justice officials have refused to release, in order to protect the "trans" agenda. During her planning, she also created detailed maps of the Covenant School and church building, with multiple possible entry points and it appears the victims were killed at random. The "target" of the attacks were the church — and the school itself — which she had attended as a child.

When Hale "came out" as being a homosexual, her Christian parents refused to accept that. But her parents were apparently in the dark about many things related to their daughter, even though she still lived with her parents at age 28. They were not aware that their daughter identified as "transgender." They believed she once owned one gun, but that she had sold it. In reality, she owned seven guns, three of which she used during the attack, and she trained regularly at a local gun range. Her mother said she left home that day with a red bag, but had no idea that guns were inside or what she was planning.

But Hale shared her plans on social media in advance, stating that "something very bad" was going to happen that day. She had also been posting about suffering from severe depression in the weeks leading up to the attack, and she was being treated for an undisclosed "emotional disorder."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2023 09:21 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If we would institutionalize mentally ill people again...

But, no, we've all seen One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, and so we know that institutionalization is bad. The shallowness of our perceptions continues to amaze me.
Posted by: Tom || 05/14/2023 12:54 Comments || Top||



Paramount and Greece partner on N-Raven loitering munition production
[defenseWeb] Greek state-owned company Hellenic Defence Systems is partnering with global aerospace and technology company Paramount to produce the N-Raven long range loitering munition as the Irix.

The partnership was made public at DEFEA (Defence Exhibition Athens) 2023 this week.

The loitering munition system is called Irix after the word used by Greek poet Homer to describe hawks, and is poised to make history as the first loitering munition produced in Greece, Paramount said in a statement.

The agreement provides for the manufacture of internationally competitive long range loitering munitions in Greece, for the Greek market as well as export to international customers.

Leading Greek state-owned company, Hellenic Defence Systems (EAS), is a strategic partner to some of the largest companies in the international defence industry, with a 140 year-strong tradition of designing, developing, manufacturing and supplying the Hellenic Armed Forces with NATO-type defence systems. The Hellenic Ministry of Finance is the main shareholder and the company is supervised by the Ministry of National Defence.

Nikolaos Kostopoulos, EAS Chief Executive Officer said, "We are excited to be going into production — in Greece — with one of the world’s most advanced long range loitering munitions. In Paramount we found an ideal strategic partner, recognised as a pioneer in loitering munitions".

"EAS and Paramount jointly developed an innovative and advanced product, specifically for the Greek market, called Irix. This is a lighthouse project for the redevelopment and enhancement of the Greek defence industry, which we are immensely proud of."

IRIX is based on Paramount’s N-Raven unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology. The N-Raven is digitally designed with quick technology transfer in mind to enable government manufacture of loitering munitions technologies in own countries.

The partnership includes technology and skills transfer for local co-production of Irix as well as EAS’ ongoing participation in continued research and development (R&D) of future Irix system upgrades.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2023 07:14 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From Persisetant Surveillance to Loitering Munitions. That certainly didn't take long.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2023 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Much like "it depends whose ox is being gored," it depends who is being loitered and surveilled over.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/14/2023 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Paramount? Is this Disney's latest move?
(snicker...)
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/14/2023 9:07 Comments || Top||

#4  “Flight of the Irix?” Paramont’s sequel to “Flight of the Intruder?”
Danny Glover making a come back?
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 05/14/2023 9:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Self directed 'air mines'?
Reminds me of Screamers
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2023 16:03 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2023-05-14
  6 terrorists killed, 7 including soldiers martyred as clearance operation in Balochistan concludes: ISPR
Sat 2023-05-13
  Prigozhin says Russian troops are “fleeing” near Ukraine’s Bakhmut.
Fri 2023-05-12
  Israel kills another militant commander in Gaza as fighting goes on, truce efforts falter, 26 Paleos toes up
Thu 2023-05-11
  Hundreds Of Rockets Fired Into Israel As Tensions In The Area Escalate
Wed 2023-05-10
  Ousted Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrested, sparking protests
Tue 2023-05-09
  Terrorists Attack Nigerian Baptist Church Service In Kaduna, Abduct 40 Worshippers
Mon 2023-05-08
  Renewed clashes erupt between army and paramilitary forces in South Darfur
Sun 2023-05-07
  Organ Harvesting: Nigerian Lawyer Writes British Monarch, King Charles, Seeks Prerogative Of Mercy For Senator Ekweremadu
Sat 2023-05-06
  Chief of Khalistan Commando Force (KCF), has been assassinated
Fri 2023-05-05
  Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev calls for Volodymyr Zelensky to be killed
Thu 2023-05-04
  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seize tanker in Strait of Hormuz, for 2nd time in a week
Wed 2023-05-03
  Over 100 rockets fired into Israel from Gaza in under 24 hours
Tue 2023-05-02
  Gaza hunger striker pegs out. rockets fired, threats, vitriol follow
Mon 2023-05-01
  Nigerian Anti-Narcotics Agency Says It Cannot Arrest, Prosecute President-elect For Drugs Offences
Sun 2023-04-30
  Heavy fighting continues in Sudan despite US-brokered truce


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