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-Great Cultural Revolution
Even Though He Is Wrong On SO Much: Bill Maher on Woke Is Spot On!
[YouTube] The problem with communism – and with some very recent ideologies here at home – is that they think you can change reality by screaming at it.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/26/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Commies


-Land of the Free
Woody Harrelson's ‘Saturday Night Live' monologue about COVID sparks debate, Elon Musk says he was spot on
[FoxNews] Woody Harrelson’s opening monologue during "Saturday Night Live," where he referenced the COVID-19 pandemic and collaboration between the medical industry and the government to push vaccines, has sparked backlash online. And Twitter CEO Elon Musk chimed in on the discussion.

Closing out the segment, Harrelson talks about a film pitch that included one of the "craziest script" he’s read, which included the "biggest drug cartels" forcing people to remain in their homes unless they agreed to take and keep taking their drugs.

"So the movie goes like this," the actor explained. "The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes. And people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over."

Harrelson then joked: "I threw the script away. I mean, who was going to believe that crazy idea? Being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day."

The comments were widely covered by media outlets, who called them "anti-vax" or "vax conspiracies."

Several people on social media continued the conversation — with many people agreeing with the actor — then Musk chimed in.

"So based. Nice work," Musk responded.

Harrelsons' opening monologue included remarks about political division and he described himself as a "redneck hippie."

"You know, the red in me thinks you should be allowed to own guns," he said. "The blue in me thinks – squirt guns. So, I’m red and blue which makes purple. I’m purple."

He also made a mention to smoking weed and made a joke about why he prefers it to drinking alcohol.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Modern theory of imperialism and the split of the communist movement
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary in italics by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin;

[Prometej] Another article about the attitude of the left (in addition to the articles of the "breakthroughs") to the problems of the NWO and the crisis caused by world imperialism.

Modern theory of imperialism and the split of the communist movement

1. Russia is a country of the imperialist periphery, its economy is exploited and has few opportunities for development, the profit from Russia goes mainly to the collective imperialists.

2. The Russian government, however, pursues an independent policy and wants to maintain at least political independence, territorial integrity and a certain standard of living for the people.

3. The own big bourgeoisie is largely a comprador bourgeoisie and is on the side of collective imperialism.
"Power to the collective! Oh wait...that's Imperialist?"
4. The crisis in Ukraine was prepared by the secret services of collective imperialism since 2014, and in fact much earlier, with the aim of putting Russia in its place politically, and also, if possible, dismantling it so that it could no longer make independent decisions (without nuclear weapons , without a large army, with a divided territory, etc.).

5. Undoubtedly, the policy of the Western imperialists and NATO is extremely dangerous for the working class of Russia as well. The above-described "victory" over Russia and the deprivation of its independence also means a massive deterioration in the position of the working class, economic and political (the key word is "decommunization").

6. The working class of Ukraine is now already suffering from a fascist and completely dependent regime, at least since 2014 (collective imperialism would like to see something similar in Russia). Apart from a very bad social situation, anti-communism and partly (especially in the east and south) fascist terror, the imperialists, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, did not even stop at conducting biological experiments on people in NATO laboratories.

Of course, the current war also brings great suffering to the Ukrainian people. An end to this war is highly desirable. But since the war has already begun, it must be ended when the interests of all the peoples involved - Russia, Donbass and Ukraine - are protected, and not in the interests of collective imperialism, which, under the pretext of "a child's tear" (Dostoevsky), would very much like to get Crimea and access to the coast of the Black Sea, the rich resources of Donbass and Taurida, and in the future - the dismemberment of Russia and its complete dependence.

7. This war cannot be called "inter-imperialist", because it is the largest Russian bourgeoisie that is not interested in this war, as evidenced by the numerous statements of the oligarchs and the lightning-fast departure of, for example, Chubais, Prokhorov and other super-rich people. This is not a war waged by the "Russian imperialists", but a war waged by the nationally oriented bourgeoisie and patriotic officials with great support from the proletariat (75% of popular support in the polls, a noticeable volunteer movement).

This is an anti-imperialist defensive war.

8. This war slows down the global ambitions of the imperialists. In this sense, any equidistance, any condemnation of Russia as "also an aggressor" and "also an imperialist" is a betrayal of international solidarity.

Today we can see with our own eyes how the peoples of the world spontaneously understand this situation: in Africa or in distant Peru, anti-imperialist fighters suddenly raise Russian flags and posters with the inscriptions “Putin, intervene!”, “Russia, help defend our Motherland!” They perceive Russia as a "comrade" in a peripheral position, but with a more powerful army, as a force standing on their side - against imperialism.

Of course, one should not idealize Russia in this way: the presence of a powerful class of the comprador bourgeoisie does not allow it to pursue an anti-imperialist policy consistently, hence the many failures, and the observed vacillations and problems in the course of the NWO. But the position of the Communists, who are looking for "Russian imperialism" with fire during the day in order not to resolutely take the side of the fighting peoples, is weak and conciliatory.

(c) Ya. Zavatskaya
Posted by: badanov || 02/26/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is an anti-imperialist defensive war.

Always with projection from the Left. Europe 1700.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/26/2023 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Poor put-upon Russia. They should have stayed home.
Posted by: Ebbains Threrenter5475 || 02/26/2023 19:44 Comments || Top||


The Battle of Kyiv: A Tale of Russian Missteps and Ukrainian Ingenuity
[YouTube] On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. One of the principal targets was Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. Most outside observers, including U.S. intelligence, believed that the political center of would fall quickly. But as the hours turned to days, and the days turned to weeks, Ukraine proved that Kyiv would not fall so easily.

But the story of how Kyiv survived is complicated. A combination of Russian miscalculations and clever Ukrainian strategy made the difference. The dreaded 64-kilometer Russian Kyiv convoy fell apart, giving Ukraine a fighting chance for the rest of the war. This is the story of the Battle of Kyiv.

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China-Japan-Koreas
US Hegemony and Its Perils
[Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist China] Since becoming the world's most powerful country after the two world wars and the Cold War, the United States has acted more boldly to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, pursue, maintain and abuse hegemony, advance subversion and infiltration, and willfully wage wars, bringing harm to the international community.

The United States has developed a hegemonic playbook to stage "color revolutions," instigate regional disputes, and even directly launch wars under the guise of promoting democracy, freedom and human rights. Clinging to the Cold War mentality, the United States has ramped up bloc politics and stoked conflict and confrontation. It has overstretched the concept of national security, abused export controls and forced unilateral sanctions upon others. It has taken a selective approach to international law and rules, utilizing or discarding them as it sees fit, and has sought to impose rules that serve its own interests in the name of upholding a "rules-based international order."

This report, by presenting the relevant facts, seeks to expose the U.S. abuse of hegemony in the political, military, economic, financial, technological and cultural fields, and to draw greater international attention to the perils of the U.S. practices to world peace and stability and the well-being of all peoples.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Angomoling Angatle5680 || 02/26/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Shut the fuck up Xi.

Chinese hegemony is a thousand times worse. They're building aggressive new bases in the South China Sea and threatening Taiwan with invasion. I can't wait for the slants to try something, they're going to get a wing of B-2s demolishing the Three Gorges Dam. Then they'll get a flood of Biblical proportions and wish they'd never been born.
Posted by: Fat Bob Thrart2867 || 02/26/2023 3:48 Comments || Top||


China Declares War On The United States (Gonzalo Lira)
[TheSaker] INTRODUCTION
Since becoming the world’s most powerful country after the two world wars and the Cold War, the United States has acted more boldly to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, pursue, maintain and abuse hegemony, advance subversion and infiltration, and willfully wage wars, bringing harm to the international community.

The United States has developed a hegemonic playbook to stage “color revolutions,” instigate regional disputes, and even directly launch wars under the guise of promoting democracy, freedom and human rights. Clinging to the Cold War mentality, the United States has ramped up bloc politics and stoked conflict and confrontation. It has overstretched the concept of national security, abused export controls and forced unilateral sanctions upon others. It has taken a selective approach to international law and rules, utilizing or discarding them as it sees fit, and has sought to impose rules that serve its own interests in the name of upholding a “rules-based international order.”

This report, by presenting the relevant facts, seeks to expose the U.S. abuse of hegemony in the political, military, economic, financial, technological and cultural fields, and to draw greater international attention to the perils of the U.S. practices to world peace and stability and the well-being of all peoples.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 02/26/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Peace is that quiet time as participants reload.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/26/2023 8:16 Comments || Top||

#2  You wanna shut these loud mouth SOB's up good and proper? Shut down the imports to these stores along with some grain exports, and see what happens.

Cards on the table you bloviating communist bastids.

Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2023 9:55 Comments || Top||

#3  I vitamins I buy have on the label "Distributed by ___________". I suppose they don't dare write "Made in China".
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/26/2023 10:03 Comments || Top||

#4  "Beijing, will see 12,992 satellites operated by the China Satellite Network Group Co. Counter to Musk by sheer numbers.
Posted by: Dale || 02/26/2023 11:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Gonzalo be mad cause his vocabulary hasn't been updated since 1970.
Posted by: Ebbains Threrenter5475 || 02/26/2023 19:20 Comments || Top||


Europe
Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
I am not qualified to judge, dear Reader, but I distrust Mr. Hersh and I love a good debunking. I give you the blogger’s set-up, with the rest available for your perusal at the link.
[OliverAlexander] On the surface Seymour Hersh's story looks passable, but as you dig deeper it has more holes than the Nord Stream pipeline.

Update #3 includes debunks of Norway’s claimed financial incentives, provides information on past BALTOPS mine detection and clearance exercises and my email correspondence with Seymour Hersh

Update #2 includes detailed data debunking the use of any Alta-class vessel in the operation

Updated to include information given by Seymour Hersh in interviews in the days following his original post.


I would like to preface this post by stating that I will not be making any conclusions on who is responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions in this piece. While I have my suspects, all publicly available information regarding the earth-shattering kabooms is circumstantial and there is none that conclusively points to a specific culprit. The purpose of this post is to debunk the claims made in Seymour Hersh’s Substack post titled "How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline" using publicly available information.

In this post I do not take any stance on any of Seymour Hersh’s past articles or viewpoints, be they his Pulitzer Prize story in the 1970s and his recent work. This post will solely focus on the claims made in the recent Substack post.

Seymour Hersh’s recent Substack post claims to provide a highly detailed account of a covert US operation to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines in order to ensure that Russia would be unable to supply Germany with natural gas through them. All the information in Hersh’s post reportedly comes from a single unnamed source, who appears to have had direct access to every step of the planning and execution of this highly secretive operation.

When first reading through Hersh’s account of the events, the level of detail he provides could add credence to his story. Unfortunately for Hersh’s story, the high level of detail is also where the entire story begins to unravel and fall apart. It is often stated that people who lie have a tendency to add too much superfluous detail to their accounts. This attempt to "cover all bases" is in many cases what trips these people up. Extra details add extra points of reference that can be crosschecked and examined. In Hersh’s case, this is exactly what appears to have happened. On the surface level, the level of detail checks out to laymen or people without more niche knowledge of the subject matter mentioned. When you look closer though, the entire story begins to show massive glaring holes and specific details can be debunked.

Early in Hersh’s article, he states that the secrecy of mission to destroy the pipelines was the top priority of the Biden Administration. This he states is the reason why diver graduates from The Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center were chosen instead of SEALs or other SOCOM units. Doing this Hersh states would bypass reporting of the operation to members of Congress or the "Gang of Eight". In Hersh’s initial story, it appears that every precaution is being taken to avoid any leaks or bringing any unnecessary actors in on the mission.

Already in the accounts of the early top-secret planning meetings between high level US military, CIA and Biden Administration officials, some of the proposals seemed more akin to Tom Clancy fan fiction than plausible suggestions. The US Air Force officials reportedly proposed "dropping bombs with delayed fuses that could be set off remotely". One could write an entire post on the reasons why sounds entirely made up by someone with no real grasp of what that suggestion would actually technically entail.

During the supposed initial planning of this operation, from the way it is described by Hersh and his source, it appears that the CIA and entire interagency group were unaware of the fact that the Nord Stream pipelines were in fact pipelines.
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#1  OK, so it was Chad?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/26/2023 18:27 Comments || Top||

#2  I suspect Biff or Woodrow III.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/26/2023 19:48 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Neil Oliver, "What the Hell – We're Rationing Tomatoes"…
[Last Refuge] With around 4,000 miles separation, two friends of the Treehouse, Neil Oliver and Lee Smith, essentially asked me the same question this week, "how do we stop this madness?"

It should not be an option hearing this talk about the need to secede, fracture, isolate or form smaller defensive boundaries. WE ARE IN THE MAJORITY, they just control the power structures and systems of communication. That’s why they spend so much time, effort and attention manipulating social media. My proposed solution is to draw from history, specifically from the Polish solidarity movement. What we need is a general two-day workers strike, highlighting to the few that the many have had enough.

In his weekly monologue Neil Oliver takes the new issue of rationing vegetables in the U.K and overlays the surplus of lies that creates it. Neil Oliver generally has exceptional insight and strong grasps on the obvious; however, this one is epic and one of his best.
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#1  Have you shopped for tomatoes recently?
Sky high prices.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/26/2023 7:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Benjamin, Just one word - Burpee
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/26/2023 10:13 Comments || Top||


White House Executive Order Installs Political Commissars Throughout Government
[STARRS] On February 16, 2023, the White House released a new Executive Order: Executive Order on Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through The Federal Government.

For those who have forgotten or never learned about Communism, Section 2 of the Executive Order repeats history by essentially installing Political Commissars in all agencies in the US government:

Sec. 2. Establishing Equity-Focused Leadership Across the Federal Government. (a) Establishment of Agency Equity Teams.

[Lists the agency heads of State, Treasury, Defense, Justice, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, HHS, HUD, Transportation, Energy, Education, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, SBA, Social Security, GSA, USAID, EPA, NASA, NSF, and OPM.]

shall, within 30 days of the date of this order, ensure that they have in place an Agency Equity Team within their respective agencies to coordinate the implementation of equity initiatives and ensure that their respective agencies are delivering equitable outcomes for the American people.

(i) Each Agency Equity Team shall be led by a designated senior official (senior designee) charged with implementing my Administration’s equity initiatives, and shall include senior officials from the office of the agency head and the agency’s program, policy, civil rights, regulatory, science, technology, service delivery, financial assistance and grants, data, budget, procurement, public engagement, legal, and evaluation offices, as well as the agency’s Chief Diversity Officer, to the extent applicable.

Agency Equity Teams shall include a combination of competitive service employees, as defined by 5 U.S.C. 2102(a), and appointees, as defined in Executive Order 13989 of January 20, 2021 (Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel), and, to the extent practicable, shall build upon and coordinate with the agency’s existing structures and processes, including with the agency’s environmental justice officer designated pursuant to Executive Order 14008 of January 27, 2021 (Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad), and with the senior agency official designated to coordinate with the Gender Policy Council pursuant to Executive Order 14020 of March 8, 2021 (Establishment of the White House Gender Policy Council).
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And to think we thought this guy was bad:

Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/26/2023 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Don’t turn around, uh oh …
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/26/2023 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  There ain't no sech thing as the future.
Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2023 11:45 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ You will be instructed as to which channel to turn to regarding the "future." Please stand-by.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2023 12:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Nice to know all those newly fired from internet companies DIE commissars will find another home.
Posted by: Ebbains Threrenter5475 || 02/26/2023 19:23 Comments || Top||

#6  The Commissar's in town uh oh.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/26/2023 19:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Delusional Joe Biden takes victory lapse
[NY Post] To mark the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden made a surprising visit to Kyiv, where he promised continued American aid and international support. There, and in a second stop in Poland, his speeches sounded like declarations of victory.

"President Putin is confronted with something today that he didn’t think was possible a year ago," Biden said in Warsaw. "The democracies of the world have grown stronger, not weaker. But the autocrats of the world have grown weaker, not stronger."

Even allowing for Ukraine’s remarkable tenacity, the assertion of large geopolitical gains for the West is premature at best. The war in Ukraine is far from won, and claiming victory at halftime is a fool’s errand.

In fact, the second year is already shaping up as far more complicated than the first. Iran is expanding its drone supply to Russia and China aims to play a bigger role, with President Xi Jinping planning to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. More alarming, China might supply Russia with arms, creating a new axis of evil that could spark a world war.

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin is preparing to launch a new, larger offensive within weeks.

Despite these developments, Washington acts as if nothing has changed. It continues to drag its feet in helping Ukraine match Putin’s weaponry even as most of NATO has pulled its usual disappearing act.

Although the US has committed a staggering $113 billion to the war without serious auditing of where the non-military aid goes, it is still slow-walking military equipment Ukraine says it needs. The pattern is that first, the administration says no to a request, then weeks or months later says yes, and weeks or months after that, makes a delivery.

TWO-YEAR WAIT
The habit is reaching new levels of absurdity over Zelensky’s push for Abrams tanks. The White House agreed to the request on Jan. 25, according to The Wall Street Journal editorial page, but now says it might take up to two years for the 31 tanks to make it to the front lines.

In wartime, two years means never. Zelensky’s push for fighter jets is still in the "no" stage, so presumably, he will get those sometime after he gets the tanks.

The possibility that China will compound Russia’s offensive power should be a wake-up call to Washington. Instead, officials comfort themselves by repeating wishful talking points.

The always-unimpressive Jake Sullivan, Biden’s National Security Adviser, declared on CNN last week that "Russia has already lost the war" and sneered at a larger China role by insisting, without evidence, that many Chinese officials already find it "difficult to deal with" Russia’s assault on Ukrainian civilians.

"They’re just trying to get through," he said of the Chinese officials, "they’re trying to find a way in a very awkward space to not oppose Russia but to not fully support them either."

Samantha Power, head of the US Agency for International Development, echoed Sullivan’s view of a reluctant China, saying: "What Russia is doing is bringing them into circumstances that I think fundamentally are not in their economic interests, not in their — the interests of, again, expanding their standing" in the world.

Both hailed the impact of sanctions on Russia’s economy until anchor Fareed Zakaria reminded them of estimates "that the Russian economy is actually going to do better this year than the British economy or the German economy."

The Biden team’s happy talk strikes me as a dated, self-serving view of Chinese motives and goals. It’s as if the officials are talking about the China of 25 years ago when it was emerging as a modern power.

But what if they are totally misreading the communist regime’s agenda now? What if China is using the war and America’s involvement to make a move toward its goal of global dominance?

Count historian Niall Ferguson among those who believe the US is missing the big picture. Speaking on Dan Senor’s podcast, "Call Me Back," Ferguson expressed fears that Chinese leaders "are on a path to war and we don’t yet realize that. We still think this is just about speeches at Davos and sending Secretary of State Blinken to Beijing."

BALLOON BOY
He cited the spy balloon that crisscrossed America as a "classic Cold War strategy," and worries Chinese President Xi Jinping has concluded a military showdown with the US is "inevitable."

Ferguson also fears our massive military aid to Ukraine has reduced our ability to help defend Taiwan if China moves against the island.

"The military industrial complex has withered away," he said. "It’s startling to realize how much capacity we’ve expended in Ukraine and how long it will take to replace it."

Recall that the Pentagon early on bragged that America aimed to wear down Russia’s military capability by constantly resupplying Ukraine. Ferguson calls this a "strategic error" because Washington "failed to realize that China is the bigger beneficiary" of the policy.

"We’re not ready for prime time and all the tough talk about defending Taiwan is from an alternate reality," he said.

Given developments, that sobering perspective makes far more sense than the nonsense coming from the White House. Biden’s notorious history of being "wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades," as former Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously put it, does not inspire trust.

Moreover, there remains a possibility — no, make it a probability —that the Biden family’s corrupt deals with China tie the president’s hands. His response to the spy balloon suggests he was pulling his punches.

He tried to keep the balloon secret from the public so Blinken could go to Beijing to try to reset relations. After civilians spotted the balloon, Biden let it meander across America for four more days until it was shot down.

It was an extraordinarily brazen act by China, and officials there followed the shoot-down by demanding that America apologize! Thankfully, Biden didn’t, but days later, shrugged off the incident as "not a major breach."

Of course, he also said the fatal withdrawal from Afghanistan was a success and he had stopped inflation. And that Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation, that he never talked to his son about his foreign business and on and on.

The big guy says a lot of things that aren’t true. Why trust his assurances now about China?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/26/2023 00:21 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  It has been a great victory for our arms dealers.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/26/2023 10:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Smoken Joe....
Posted by: crazyhorse || 02/26/2023 10:45 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
‘Aman ki Asha’ proponents must ask Pakistan about persecution of Hindus, terror strikes in India
[OneIndia] Aman ki Asha calls have been made many times. But why does the ball always have to be in the court of India. Has Pakistain shown any signs of change towards its attitude towards India?

Pakistain has been in the news due to several reasons. The country is facing its worst economic crisis and the future looks weak.

Amidst this, the 'Aman ki Asha' proponents have come out and said that India must help Pakistain at this time of crisis. Similar demands were made many years back when this particular brigade spoke about patching things up with Pakistain, despite the country shielding the criminal masterminds of the Mumbai 26/11 attacks in which over 160 innocents died.

The 'India must help Pakistain' is being made despite the Pulwama and Uri attacks in which several Indian braves bit the dust. While terror attacks are an ongoing affair, it must be noted that each one of them has had a Pakistain hand in it. The Indian Mujahideen
A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor...
was funded by Pakistain, the attacks on Parliament, the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai, Samjautha Express blast, just to name a few all had direct links to Pakistain.

Pakistain has allowed its soil to be used as a launch pad for terror attacks. Moreover it shields the likes of Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
, Masood Azhar
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
among others. Whatever action Pakistain has taken against these monstrous Jihadis has only been token and has been a way of avoiding international pressure.

Terror attacks, infiltration, fake currency, terror funding are some of the ploys by Pakistain to keep India on the boil. The country operates with the sole agenda of trying to put India down. It has also been responsible for wars against India, all of which it lost.

The persecution:

Now coming to another issue that is boiling and continues to boil everyday. The persecution of the religious minorities, especially the Hindus in Pakistain. As we write this article, there could be a persecution on in Pakistain. Just last week, a minor Hindu girl was kidnapped, converted to Islam and marked off.

India has raised this concern on various occasions, but there has never been any solution to it.

Pakistain even had the audacity to reject a bill against forced religious conversions. In October 2021, the parliamentary committee had rejected this bill and then religious affairs minister, Noorul Haq Qadri had said that the atmosphere was not conducive to enact such a law. The minister had said that such a law could disturb peace and harmony in the country.

The violence against Hindus has been instituted in Pakistain. Description of Temples, rapes, forced conversions and cases of torture have been documented.

Every month, 25 Hindu girls are raped and converted to Islam according to the Pakistain Human Rights Council. Girls just vanish from their homes and are converted and then are forcibly married off.

In 2010, 60 members of the Hindu community in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
were attacked because one of them was drinking water near a Mosque.

At this rate of Islamist persecution, Hindus in Bangladesh may survive another 20 years onlyAt this rate of Islamist persecution, Hindus in Bangladesh may survive another 20 years only

In 2003, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain said that 1,000 Hindu families from Pakistain had fled to India. In 2014 it was found that 5,000 Hindus are migrating to India every year. Pakistain has also successfully used its blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
laws to target the Hindus.

These are just few statistics to show the atrocities Pakistain as a state has meted out against the Hindus and other minorities in the country. The persecution coupled with terror attacks is what Pakistain has offered India over the past many years.

The question is should India help. The other question is will Pakistain change. The answer to both is one big 'NO.'
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Iraq Looks for Expanded Economic and Political Ties with Washington
BLUF: Nobody cares, and if they do care, they disapprove.
[Shafaq News] Ambassador Douglas A. Silliman, the president of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, highlighted the importance of the Iraqi delegation's visit to the U.S., which was made earlier this month.

Fuad Hussein, Iraqi's deputy prime minister and foreign minister visited Washington February 9-15. As the first senior representative of Iraq's new prime minister, Mohammed al-Sudani, to visit the United States, Hussein came seeking to expand and deepen "financial and economic relations" with the United States and declaring that his focus on the economy — and not security issues — showed that U.S.-Iraqi relations had reached a new stage and were "healthy."

"Unfortunately for Hussein, although his visit was long planned, he had to deal with bigwigs in the administration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr., still focused on Russia's invasion and occupation of Ukraine, the downing of a Chinese spy balloon, and concerns that Iran
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Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2023 00:12 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  Iraq has been infiltrated by Iran since we invaded. There would be interest by our government in increased economic ties, if they could figure how to shovel cash into the military industrial complex with the name Iraq attached if the Ukraine scam is ended.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/26/2023 10:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Translation: "Spare change?"
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/26/2023 10:30 Comments || Top||

#3  If there is grift or graft available, we’ll stay in touch.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/26/2023 10:47 Comments || Top||

#4  So that's why Biden went to the Ukraine?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/26/2023 20:37 Comments || Top||



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