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[TheGuardian] Classified defence documents containing details about HMS Defender and the military have been found at a bus stop, prompting an investigation from the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
The loss of the sensitive information was described “as embarrassing as it is worrying for ministers” by Labour, who are seeking reassurances that national security has not been undermined.
The MoD said an employee reported the loss of the documents last week, which were discovered by a member of the public in a soggy heap behind a bus stop in Kent early on Tuesday morning, the BBC reported.
The papers included one set of documents that discussed the potential Russian reaction to HMS Defender’s travel through Ukrainian waters off the Crimea coast on Wednesday, according to the BBC, while another laid out plans for a possible UK military presence in Afghanistan.
A member of the public, who wanted to remain anonymous, contacted the organisation when they found the 50 pages of classified information, which included emails and PowerPoint presentations.
Britain was unexpectedly embroiled in a diplomatic and military dispute with Russia on Wednesday after the Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer, HMS Defender, briefly passed through territorial waters off the coast of the disputed territory of Crimea.
The documents confirm that a mission – described by the MoD as an “innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters” – with guns covered and the ship’s helicopter stowed in its hangar, was conducted in the expectation that the Kremlin might respond aggressively.
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I wonder how classified said papers were. There is Classified - Top Secret Eyes Only and there is Classified - Do Not Leave at a Bus Stop. If the papers are classified-classified, then there should be a record of who checked them out.
More support for my theory that humans are the weakest link in any system.
[Ynet] - Iran has drones with a range of 7,000 km (4,375 miles), Iranian state media cited the top commander of the Revolutionary Guards as saying on Sunday, a development which may be seen by Washington as a threat to regional stability. Eh?
None so blind as those who will not see. There is a return to a deal still under negotiation. Nothing must be allowed to interfere with reestablishing the Obama legacy. On the other hand, nobody does vapourware like the Iranians. Claims are easy, actually shooting off a rocket that will fly that far and land in the targetted country is a bit harder.
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Aren't sub launched ICBMs drones also?
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Take one Cessna light aircraft(or equivalent) then add extra fuel tanks and GPS guidance. The real question is: What payload and How stealthy?
[CNBC] I am capable of copying and pasting parts of many articles, but not at the CNBC site. Apparently, Joe didn't mean what he said.
Does your browser provide the option for a reader view? I find that makes copying much easier. In the meantime, here are what CNBC thinks are the key points:
President Joe Biden on Saturday said he doesn’t plan to veto the bipartisan infrastructure bill if it comes without a reconciliation package.
The president’s statement walks back a declaration last week that he would refuse to sign the bipartisan legislation unless the two bills came in tandem.
“That statement understandably upset some Republicans, who do not see the two plans as linked,” the president said in a statement.
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refusing to sign and vetoing are actually different
by saying 'no veto' it DOES NOT mean he would sign this infrastructure bill
also, the infrastructure bill has not be written, it is just an outline at this point - I suspect there will be pages and pages and pages of pork barrel stuff in it
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We should start a pool of how many pages it is. I'm betting over 4,000 pages and they will have only 2 hours to read and comprehend it.
[Geopolitical Futures] Throughout the past century, sub-Saharan Africa has more often than not either been largely ignored by outside powers or functioned uneasily as a proxy space for outside powers' various battles. Three things tend to pull outside powers in: There‘s of course the continent's abundance of natural resources, from oil to minerals to timber to, more recently, undeveloped farmland. There are concerns about nonstate threats spawning from the continent's many ungoverned spaces, particularly jihadism.
Finally, there's the global great-power competition that spills into the continent. All three pull factors are currently in play, leading to a surge of attention from several heavy hitters and aspiring powers alike – and, perhaps inevitably, a more crowded military environment.
[Breitbart Texas] Protesters greeted Vice President Kamala Harris during her visit to the border in El Paso with signs asking, "Do you hear their screams?" The signs reference the inhuman conditions in Biden-Harris unaccompanied migrant children detention centers.
In reference to the vice president's previous comments that she hadn't "been to Europe either" during an NBC's Lester Holt. "You made a wrong turn," the protester's sign reads. "This isn't Europe."
While Vice President Harris visited the border in El Paso, newly appointed Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz spoke with concerned residents in the Del Rio Sector where agents report a 457 percent increase in border apprehensions, Breitbart reported.
The chief listened to concerns expressed by the residents of Del Rio, Texas ‐ concerns that are very similar to those expressed by the Rio Grande Valley residents.
"I'm not worried about the family units that give up; I am concerned with mostly groups of males that are screaming in Spanish at me in my back yard," one Del Rio resident told Ortiz. "I have daughters and I am worried for their safety." I saw a T-shirt in Durango, CO that said -
Yes, I have a lovely daughter.
I also have a pistol
a shovel
and an alibi.
That becomes a bit problematic when there are enough bodies to merit a mass grave.
[Illustra Media] Over the years, Jerry Harned and I have been blessed to explore the details of some incredible animal life cycles. In the process, we've photographed and studied biological attributes and behaviors that have often made me step back, shake my head in amazement, and exclaim to anyone within earshot: That's absolutely impossible without the direct intervention of a supernatural designer!
Specifically, I'm talking about the epic migrations upon which the survival of an entire species is at stake (i.e., Monarch butterflies, Arctic Terns and Pacific Salmon). I love these types of stories because they involve daunting physical obstacles, seemingly impossible odds against success, and undeniable evidence of design, purpose, and the creative power of God. That's certainly the case with our newest John 10:10 Project release FIND THE WAY HOME.
This short video will transport you on a voyage that spans thousands of miles in the open sea. You'll travel without an ocean liner, multi-million-dollar GPS system, or cell phones to call the Coast Guard for help along the way. Instead, you'll dive into the Atlantic Ocean with hatchling sea turtles–small, fragile creatures (they weigh less than eight ounces at birth) that travel alone on an odyssey to ensure a new generation. Each is equipped with a sophisticated navigational system that guides them flawlessly through uncharted waters. And each reveals new wonders and confirmation of the God who once spoke them into existence. I hope you enjoy this remarkable journey. Bon Voyage.
[NY Post] An oblivious fan posing for the cameras caused a bloody crash Saturday that plunged the first stage of the Tour de France ‐ won by Julian Alaphilippe ‐ into chaos.
With one foot on the road and a cardboard sign encouraging riders to "Go!" hanging onto the course, the spectator's head was turned in the opposite direction of the cyclists when all hell broke loose.
Veteran rider Tony Martin crashed into the sign and tumbled to the ground, leading dozens of others behind the accident into a pile-up involving half of the riders.
Multiple bikes were damaged as a result of the crash but the injury toll to riders wasn't immediately clear.
The Tour cautioned fans to "respect the safety of the riders" and "Don't risk everything for a photo or to get on television!" But did he get a strongly worded letter in his permanent record?
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I was having brunch in the local country club bar yesterday with a friend and all he said was: "I really like that part"
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But did he get a strongly worded letter in his permanent record?
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I absolutely despise 'fans' like that broad. Primoz Roglic (the first guy who got hit) should've dropped his shoulder into her. Since she's in France, I recommend le guillotine, and I'm 3/4 serious about this.
[HUFF Poo] Veterans associations, furious vets and military personnel are calling on their insurance company to yank ads from Fox News and Tucker Carlson's program after he called Gen. Mark Milley, a "pig" for schooling Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) during congressional testimony.
Carlson went after the nation's highest-ranking military officer on Thursday, saying Milley's "not only a pig, but stupid" after the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff put Gaetz in his place. Milley told lawmakers ‐ most pointedly Gaetz ‐ that it's important for military personnel to be "open minded," "widely read" and educated about issues, including about Critical Race Theory.
"What is wrong with understanding? Having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?" an irritated Milley asked Wednesday during the House Armed Services Committee hearing, which left Gaetz shaking his head in disgust.
Carlson came back Friday to again attack Milley, slamming his remarks as "disgraceful."
Now veterans, service members and other customers are calling on the United Services Automobile Association (USAA), a banking and insurance company which primarily serves vets and their families, to stop supporting Carlson's show with advertising dollars.
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I seriously doubt there are many veterans that support the nonsense Milley was speaking and any veterans that are part of an association getting involved in this should reconsider their association.
What you get when you reduce promotion to box check equity for everyone. You know we've been in a war for 20 years. War is what an army exists for. Promotion should have been by demonstrated abilities on the battlefield not box checking. It's not fair, but neither is war.
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The U.S. military hasn't been required to win a war since WWII. There's too much money and prestige in peace-processing.
Never mind that long, low-intensity conflicts and up killing more than short, high-intensity conflicts. Never mind that the people supposedly representing our interests overseas find themselves enriched by keeping tyrants and monsters in power.
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Promotion should have been by demonstrated abilities on the battlefield not box checking. It's not fair, but neither is war.
How is that not fair? I thought the military was for killing people and breaking things so it's only natural that the baddest of the bad-asses get to lead.
And I would bet that any insurance companies that cancel Tucker will find the majority of veterans cancelling their policies.
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Not likel the huffnpuff makes it look. Its just a few of the usual suspects. Mainly a few blue checked hardcore anti-trump liberals on Tweeter, and the usual left-wing "veteran" groups.
Huffnpuff is being misleading as usual.
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^ this. Who, how many?
More lies & disinformation from left-wing media whores who resent Carlson's success
[JohnKassNews.com] John Kass has had a buy-out at Chicago Tribune and started his own blog. I'd bookmark it
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is an experienced lawyer, skilled in the great game of words.
She made a good living craftily parsing words at one of the city's top law firms.
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Lightfoot should immediately ...make a 180 degree turn on police and law and order that is now absolutely necessary to protect lives and the future of the city.
Other Democrats in other places are trying to do this now. For example, Stacy Abrams in Georgia has reversed her position on Voter ID laws after repeatedly likening them to Jim Crow racism.
[Breitbart] A number of emails seen by CNN ‐ which uses them to make the case that the platform isn't censoring enough ‐ show that the Biden campaign repeatedly pressured Facebook to censor posts from the Trump campaign and its supporters about election integrity.
CNN's own reporting confirms that Facebook changed its policies following the email exchange with Biden officials, yet goes on to quote Democrat activists who complain that the platform is still not censoring enough conservative content.
One post that the Biden campaign tried to have censored during the 2020 election was a video from Donald Trump Jr. in September 2020 calling for supporters to monitor early voting and counting boards.
Biden campaign officials tried to characterize the video as a call for violence, because Don Jr used the term "army" to refer to the volunteer effort, claims that were rebuffed by Facebook.
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[ESPN] EUGENE, Ore. -- For the past week, the national anthem has played one time per evening at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. On Saturday, the song happened to start while outspoken activist Gwen Berry was standing on the podium after receiving her bronze medal in the hammer throw.
While the music played, Berry placed her left hand on her hip and fidgeted. She took a quarter turn, so she was facing the stands, not the flag. Toward the end, she plucked up her black T-shirt with the words "Activist Athlete" emblazoned on the front, and draped it over her head.
"I feel like it was a setup, and they did it on purpose,'' Berry said of the timing of the anthem. "I was pissed, to be honest.'' "It's all about meeeeee"
Berry's reaction to the "Star-Spangled Banner'' was as notable as anything on the track on a blazing-hot Saturday, the second-to-last day at U.S. Olympic trials. With temperatures reaching 101 degrees (38 Celsius) on the field, DeAnna Price won the event with a throw of 263 feet, 6 inches (80.31 meters), which was nearly 7 feet longer than Berry's throw.
Clearly activism uses time and energy better put toward mastering basic skills.
Price broke the meet record on four of her six throws, and the last two of those throws also broke the American record.
Second place belonged to Brooke Andersen, while Berry grabbed the third spot by a scant 2 inches over Janee Kassanavoid. Berry, heading to her second Olympics, has promised to use her position in Tokyo to keep raising awareness about social injustices in her home country.
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They might find the international Olympic management have no problem in removing such behaviors from the game along with a quick return flight for any who think they can turn someone else's party into their 'me' moment.
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#2 They might find the international Olympic management have no problem in removing such behaviors from the game along with a quick return flight for any who think they can turn someone else's party into their 'me' moment.
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...This. And if enough American athletes decide to throw tantrums this time, the IOC may well have no problem at all reading them the riot act for the Paris games in 2024.
Which, frankly, is fine by me. There are occasional stories of genuine courage and sportsmanship among the US athletes, but they are few and far between anymore. They tend to be just as spoiled and entitled as their professional brethren, and now they can add to that politically obnoxious. A pox upon them all.
And one last thought: we heard people screaming bloody murder a few months ago when it was suggested that perhaps we shouldn't grace the Chinese with our presence due to, you know, the genocide and biological warfare stuff. If, however, the IOC decided to preemptively warn US athletes to keep the nonsense down, you'd see a tidal wave of support for a US boycott.
Mike
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Too many US Olympic women are looking more and more like the 1970-1990's East German and USSR Macha Athletes.
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If you don't want to represent your nation stay home, or exchange your citizenship for a country that will take you. It's not like the US has to put up walls to keep people out.
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It would be a POWERFUL statement on behalf of their cause if all of these celebrities and whatevers all dropped their US citizenship enmasse and applied for Cuban citizenship.
[American Thinker] It is really a struggle to imagine what the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) has in mind by discussing the elimination of accelerated math classes in schools until 11th grade in the name of equity. The story broke in April 2021and shortly thereafter, the VDOE leadership was backpedaling due to parent backlash. "Absolutely, acceleration is NOT going away in mathematics courses in Virginia, if a student needs an accelerated pathway they will absolutely get it," said Superintendent Dr. James Lane.
So, exactly what is meant by an "accelerated pathway"? It's obviously not an advanced or accelerated course or classroom. This sounds confusingly similar to the malarkey being proffered by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) recommending students find their ways on common pathways to learn Essential Concepts.
The NCTM and VDOE initiatives lack discussion on structure, sequence, topics, courses, classrooms, and advancement and most important, how the cornerstones of high school math -- algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus – will survive the restructuring.
What is really happening is a rare reveal of liberal orthodoxy exposed in the sausage-making process. I doubt the ideas are going away, they just won't resurface until better disguised.
Eliminating accelerated math courses for middle and high school students is simply a bad idea with serious consequences. For starters, Virginia will have far fewer students accepted into engineering programs of study at U.S. colleges. Thereafter, Virginia's engineering universities will be faced with watering down admission requirements for its own state students. Ultimately, Virginia students who are accepted into in-state and out-of-state engineering programs will not be able to compete with students from other states.
Math classes are the backbone of a high school student's body of work for those pursuing engineering. The normal sequence of classes offered toward high school graduation is Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2/Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus. Accelerated math students can handle Algebra 1 in 8th grade, which puts them on a trajectory to take full calculus (even AP Calculus) before graduating high school. According to PrepScholar's article "How to Get Into College as an Engineer: 5 Key Factors":
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Proof that 'educators' can't and won't do their job. Time for the students and parents to have an open market for the services and not one forced upon them.
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Ironic, isn't it? In Colonial America the feeling that children needed "enough 'Riting to sign a document, enough 'Reading to read their Bible (Protestant King James version naturally), and enough 'Rithmatic to cypher their monthly budget." Everything beyond that was Rich People's Education™ and was paid for by Rich People at their private schools...
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If you insist on bringing in lower paid engineers and industrial technology from India and China, no need to teach the deplorable proles math skills at any level. Pump them full of CRT and give them their trophy.
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Never mind engineering schools, which most of those parents and their children aren’t interested in anyway. Without the full sheaf of advanced/honours/AP courses, none of those students will have the knowledge or the GPAs to get into Ivy League schools. With all that those parents in particular already spend privately to train their children’s abilities to the highest possible pitch in preparation for winning the competition for Ivy League acceptance, those kids will be moved from public to private school at the speed of thought. If necessary certain previously necessary luxuries will be given up to pay for it, rather than endure the degradation of sending their precious offspring to a public or second tier private university.
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I had heard sermons in the 80s there was coming a time when America would be infested by demonic influences that would willfully destroy everything the fathers had built. I had thought it was all malarkey then. Today I see stupidity of the level of criminal insanity, sheer evil and madness... and I wonder.
[The Libertarian Institute] Over the course of the past century, a number of truly awe-inspiring heists have been carried out by con artists, whose modus operandi is to exploit human frailties such as credulity, insecurity and greed. Con is short for confidence, for the con artist must first gain the trust of his targets, after which he persuades them to hand their money over to him. A con job differs from a moral transaction between two willing, fully informed trading partners because one of the partners is deceived, and deception constitutes a form of coercion. In other words, the person being swindled is not really free. If he knew what was really going on, he would never agree to invest in the scheme.
The "Ponzi scheme" was named after Charles Ponzi, who in the 1920s persuaded investors to believe that he was generating impressive profits by buying international reply coupons (IRCs) at low prices abroad and redeeming them in the United States at higher rates, the fluctuating currency market being the secret to his seemingly savvy success. In reality, Ponzi used his low-level investors' money to pay off earlier investors, support himself, and expand his business by luring more and more investors in. More recently, Bernie Madoff managed to abscond with billions of dollars by posing as an investment genius who could deliver sizable, indeed exceptional, returns on his clients' investments.
It is plausible that at least some of the early investors in such gambits, who are paid as promised, suppress whatever doubts may creep up in their minds as they bask in the splendor of their newfound wealth. But even those who begin consciously to grasp what is going on may turn a blind eye as the scheme grows to engulf investors who will be fleeced, having been persuaded to participate not only by the smooth-talking con artist, but also by the reported profits of previous investors. Eventually, however, the house of cards collapses, revealing the incredible but undeniable truth: there never were any investments at all. No trading ever took place, and all of the company's transactions were either deposits or withdrawals of gullible investors' cash.
Before a con artist is unmasked, nearly everyone involved plays along, either because they stand to gain, or because they truly believe. Sometimes the implications of having been wrong are simply too devastating to admit, and these same psychological dynamics operate in many other realms where most people would never suspect anything like a Ponzi scheme. It is arguable, for example, that the continuous siphoning of U.S. citizens' income to pay for misguided military interventions abroad constitutes a form of Ponzi scheme. If President George H. W. Bush had never used taxpayers' dollars to wage the First Gulf War on Iraq in 1991 and to install permanent military bases in the Middle East, then Osama bin Laden would likely never have called for jihad against the United States. If the U.S. military had not invaded Iraq in 2003, then ISIS would never have emerged and spread to Syria and beyond. Such implications are deeply unsettling, and even in the face of mounds of evidence, most people prefer to cling to the official story according to which the 1991 Gulf War was necessary and just, while the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were completely unprovoked, and all subsequent interventions a matter of national self-defense.
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."
- Excerpt from Dwight D. Eisenhower's final speech to the nation.
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If the U.S. military had not invaded Iraq in 2003,
If Saddam had only followed the 'letter of the law' cease fire agreement that ended the fighting in 1991, then his followers (rebranded ISIS) would have not continued the fight.
Interesting if places like Portland and Seattle and Minneapolis had enforced the law and not tolerated anarchy, would they be in the position they are today.
Small scale, large scale. It's all human behavior.
If you want the 'what if' games -
The US had not taken the Spanish claims on the Philippines in the Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish American War would we have been involved in WWII? No reason for the Japanese to remove their perceived threat to their claim on the material wealth and access to the Dutch colonial East Indies.
Concur. And the con is who influences this behavior.
In this case con = proxy wars. My experience with the ongoing middle east fiasco(s) is that we are involved in a series of proxy wars that our unwitting politicians and strategists never quite understand ... or maybe they are witting accomplices...
Lets play the game...
-Gulf War I - the US could clearly be considered a proxy for Israel
-Afghanistan - the land of proxy war...an initial raid to eliminate or reduce OBL ended with us embroiled in a series of proxy wars as a spectator (Pakistan v. Afghanistan) and proxy war engaged against us by China and Iran...and US forces bled by large criminal enterprises with Taliban front groups.
-Iraq v.2 - perhaps led into this mess by Israel intel to reduce Saddam once again in what was supposed to be a large scale raid...then Bush the younger idiot was influenced to stay in Iraq and nation build based on what he saw on CNN...and we ended up in a huge proxy war between Sunni and Shia...
The arrogant American believes that we are the primary target in Iraq/AF...in most cases we were just in the way...they will fight their proxy wars no matter who inhabits those base camps.
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/\ ......they will fight their proxy wars no matter who inhabits those base camps.
All the more reason to simply stand back and observe. If a LEGITIMATE THREAT to our national securty evolves, say nothing and kill every damn one of them. Return home, and continue to say nothing.
[NYT via DNYUZ] Each week, our survey of recent residential sales in New York City and the surrounding region focuses on homes that sold around a certain price point, allowing you to compare single-family homes, condos and co-ops in different locales.
The "list price" is the asking price when the property came on the market with the most recent broker. The time on the market is measured from the most recent listing to the closing date of the sale.
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The land prices locally are insane: Everybody is Buying and Nobody is selling. We (finally) called a Realtor at 0900 and had two (2) firm offers by Noon.
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I heard on the radio the other day that the usual suspects, speculators, have shifting into property. Buying it like stocks. No intentions of living there. Not even flipping in the quick repair/upgrade sense. It'll collapse like they all do and we'll be stuck with paying for it one way or another.
[AP via DNYUZ] The Iran-allied insurgents escalated their efforts to seize Marib, the government's last stronghold in northern Yemen, in February, and the fighting has killed hundreds on both sides.
The fighting between Thursday and Sunday killed 29 pro-government personnel and at least 82 rebels, three pro-government sources told AFP. Rebel forces have not confirmed the toll.
Yemeni government officials said that since Thursday, the Huthis had mounted intensive attacks from the north, south and west, but were unable to breach government defences which were supported by air cover from a Saudi-led military coalition.
"These areas witnessed fierce fighting amid artillery shelling from both sides and intense coalition air raids," one government military official said.
Control of the oil-rich region of Marib would strengthen the Huthis' bargaining position in peace talks, but the battle has also raised fears of a humanitarian catastrophe, as many Yemenis had fled to the area to escape fighting in other parts of the country.
[American Thinker] There's a story that goes back to the time of President Harry S. Truman. President Truman was a very "earthy" guy from Missouri, and he did not put on airs or act like someone he wasn't. He used the phrase "horse manure" quite often when he was president. Whether talking about the Russian communists or the do-nothing Congress or the critics of his daughter's piano skills, Truman would often say, "It's a bunch of horse manure." With credit given to "Give 'Em Hell Harry" Truman, I can think of a few more events and ideas that cause one to say the same.
– When Dr. Fauci lied about how effective masks are and how important it is to wear masks when, in fact, he knew they were not helpful at all...horse manure.
– When scientists lied about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine because they did not want President Trump to get any credit for stating its positive effect over COVID...horse manure. Neil Cavuto: "It will KILL YOU! Squee!"
– When the CDC, Fauci, and other scientists lied to the American people by saying the China virus came from a wet market when they knew that it probably came from a Chinese bio-lab...horse manure.
– When colleges and universities are no longer safe havens for free thought, free speech, and free expression, but more resemble the "thought police" of 1984 indoctrination camps...horse manure.
– When the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel protests going on in New York City are making NYC look more like the Gaza Strip than America...horse manure.
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Found somewhere on the internet: While speaking to a group of farmers, Truman repeatedly used the word "manure." His wife, Bess, was in the audience with one of her friends who whispered to her, "Bess, can't you get Harry to say 'fertilizer'?"
Bess replied, "It took me 30 years to get him to say 'manure.'"
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[Western Journal] A lone police officer faced down a Black Lives Matter mob that had set fires outside a police station in Rock Hill, South Carolina, to protest the arrest of a black man who is a convicted crack dealer.
The officer was seen walking toward the angry mob to clear the street so firetrucks could drive through to extinguish the blaze raging on the lawn of the local police station, according to videos posted to Twitter on Wednesday by reporter Hunter Saenz of WCNC-TV.
The crowd stood around as the fires raged, and one of the protesters waved a large Black Lives Matter flag.
[Rudaw] Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the arrest of 22 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.... (ISIS) suspects late on Friday after a two-day military operation in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor.
"During the first day of the operation, Counter-Terrorism Units arrested 17 bandidosturbans and collaborators, and on the second day, the commandos arrested five others who were using civilian homes to hide and turn them into IED factories," the SDF announced in a statement.
The multi-ethnic force also uncovered "several secret tunnels and camouflage trenches" and seized "large quantities of weapons and kabooms" in al-Busayrah town.
In the operation, the SDF was able to "thwart potential terrorist operations prepared by those terrorist cells."
The operation was supported from the air by the global coalition against ISIS.
According to the SDF’s latest monthly report, ISIS carried out 32 attacks in May, mostly in Deir ez-Zor, "through bombings, liquidations, kidnappings, and killings, in addition to committing 11 liquidations of Syrian and Iraqi refugees who want to distance themselves from ISIS [ISIS] murderous Moslem ideology inside al-Hol camp."
Al-Hol camp in Hasaka houses just under 60,000 people, most are family members of suspected ISIS fighters.
The SDF report, published Friday, said the force had arrested 178 ISIS suspects in northeast Syria. "They were responsible for liquidations, arms smuggling, information transfer, and targeting civilians and military forces," the report stated.
[Rudaw] In a military parade put on by the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Baghdad earlier this month, drones were front and centre, carried in the backs of pickup trucks and driven through the streets of the capital, sending a clear message to the United States, which is concerned about growing use of drones by the Iranian-backed militias.
US interests in Iraq have come under frequent attack by rockets and, more recently, drones. The attacks are blamed on the militias who want the Americans to leave the country. Last year, the US installed Patriot air defense systems at bases in Iraq, including Erbil airport hoping that, along with its counter-rocket, artillery, and mortar (C-RAM) systems, US forces would be better protected from aerial attacks. But just over a year later, Erbil International Airport was hit in a drone attack targeting a CIA hangar.
The PMF’s military parade on June 13 was a preview for a bigger celebration planned for June 26, marking the anniversary of the establishment of the Iraqi militia forces that the Pentagon says are drawing attention away from the war against the Islamic State
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[OneIndia] Two low intensity explosions were reported early Sunday morning in the technical area of Jammu Air Force Station. One caused minor damage to the roof of a building while the other went kaboom! in an open area.
There was no damage to any equipment. Investigation is in progress along with civil agencies, the Indian Air Force said.
The police and the bomb squad have also been rushed to the spot.
The explosion was reported at a part of the dual use airport being operated by the Indian Air Force.
Chidambaram slams government for insisting on polls in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... before granting statehoodChidambaram slams government for insisting on polls in Jammu and Kashmir before granting statehood
The blast took place at around 2 am. While a few injuries have been reported, the nature of the blast is unknown. A team of forensic experts too have reached the spot.
"There were reports of a kaboom inside Air Force Station Jammu. There is no injury to any personnel or any damage to any equipment. Investigation is on," a defence spokesperson said.
The police said that they are waiting for a First Information Report from the IAF. The Jammu Airport runway and Air Traffic Control are under the control of the IAF.
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Suffice to say the air int directorate brief is a cushy job for men with little to no interest or acumen for the task at hand. For years they have depended on other agencies and foreign int for second hand data which they then present to command. If the enemy is using drones for two years now, it was their job to devise a counter, present a briefing and convince New Delhi to procure whatever's necessary. We take out package drones by rifle in Rajasthan and Punjab because we expect them and are prepared. Army int provides that preparedness.
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It’s such fun to see which Rantburgers have which languages — and so often the results are not what I expected.
Not just at Rantburg, to be sure. Many years ago, when the trailing daughters were young and we had only recently transferred back to the States after half a decade in Europe, we were standing in the cashier line at the grocery store when td #1 asked one of those “why” questions that are ever inappropriate when the object overhears. Fortunately, td#1 had already reached sufficient discretion that she asked me quietly in German, which since our return had become our secret language. Unfortunately, as it turned out, there are a great many German speakers in Cincinnati, so the object of her question answered in the same language. Since then I’ve noticed an interesting variety of languages in my local grocery store, startling to those who insist on the stereotype of the monolingual American.
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tw, I often say if you can speak two languages, you are bilingual. If you speak 3 languages, you are trilingual. If you speak one language, you are American.
On the other hand, you can drive from Key West Florida to Juneau, Alaska, a distance of about 4500 miles, and almost everyone you meet will speak English. If you drive that same distance from Paris, you are near Kabul Afghanistan.Look how many language areas you have traveled through.
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I have always felt that a Man of the World should be able to both greet and curse the natives in whatever their barbaric tongue. However, I can see that learning Esperanto was not as useful as I had hoped.
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By jingo, it's good for a gringo
To bite off a bit of the lingo:
Befriend a flamingo...
Play beach blanket bingo...
"Hey, lady, a... [flip flip flip] dingo!"
[Rudaw] Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) held a parade northeast of Baghdad on Saturday morning to mark the seventh anniversary of their founding in the presence of Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who is also commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
"Today I attended the parade of our children from the Hashd al-Shaabi," Kadhimi tweeted after attending the event at Camp Ashraf in Diyala province, using the Arabic name of the PMF and mentioning he has also this year attended events for the army and the police.
"We emphasize that our work is done under the Iraqi flag and the protection of its soil and people is our duty," he added. "Yes for Iraq... Yes for a strong Iraq."
The PMF were formed when a group of militias responded to a call-to-arms from Shiite holy man Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to stand against 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) as it swept across northern Iraq in 2014.
Numerous PMF brigades marched in the parade, including Shiite, Christian, and Yazidi, according to images and video shared by the PMF-linked Sabreen News on Telegram. An image of Abu Madhi al-Muhandis, the PMF commander killed alongside Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani in a US dronezap in Baghdad in January 2020, was carried in the parade.
The equipment on display showed the extent of the PMF’s military strength, including drones, tanks, armoured vehicles, artillery, rocket launchers, and boats.
Iraq’s National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji tweeted his congratulations to the PMF "for its glorious parade as it records in the pages of glory the most beautiful images of patriotism, professionalism and discipline."
"Greetings to every fighter in the Hashd [PMF], the army, the police, anti-terrorism forces and the Peshmerga," he added.
The PMF have been officially incorporated into the Iraqi security forces, but militias within their ranks operate outside of Baghdad’s control and receive support from Iran. These groups are blamed for liquidations of anti-government activists, and rocket and drone attacks on American interests around the country.
Hours before the PMF parade, multiple explosive-laden drones hit northeast of Erbil, a few kilometres from the site of the under-construction US consulate. No group has immediately grabbed credit.
[Rudaw] At least three people were killed in an IED car explosion in Afrin on Saturday, a blast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... blames on the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
An explosion from an IED planted in a car killed three people including a child in the center of Afrin city, the Kurdish led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) affiliated North Press Agency reported on Saturday.
The Ottoman Turkish Defense Ministry started pointing fingers soon after.
"The terrorist organization PKK/YPG has added yet another kaboom on innocent civilians in Afrin. The terrorists, who detonated a vehicle on the road used by civilians, killed 3 innocent civilians and injured 3 other civilians," the Ottoman Turkish ministry said in a tweet, adding their fight against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and YPG "targeting civilians" will continue.
Ankara considers the YPG to be the Syrian extension of the PKK, seen as a terrorist group in Turkey, and used this as a pretext for the nation’s invasion into Rojava.
The YPG, although ideologically inspired by PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan, denies any links to the PKK.
Turkey and its Syrian proxies invaded Afrin in March 2018, forcing hundreds of thousands of people — mostly Kurds — to flee to other areas controlled by the YPG, especially Shahba, north of Aleppo.
The YPG and other armed Kurdish groups affiliated with it have fought the Ottoman Turkish-backed militias in Afrin since losing the territory. Turkey has blamed several deadly explosions in the city on the YPG.
Turkey has conducted three military campaigns in northern Syria in the past several years, backing Syrian militia groups, and now controls Afrin, areas north of Aleppo, and pockets of territory within Rojava in the northeast.
Earlier this month, Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... blamed the YPG for an attack on Shifa Hospital in Afrin, where 21 people were killed, 17 of which were civilians including children, and 23 others were maimed.
However the Kurdish force denied the accusations and condemned the attack.
[DW] Abdel-Hakim Ourghi has written books including "You Don't Have to Wear a Headscarf" and "Reform Islam: 40 Theses." His application to train other Islamic teachers was turned down for vague reasons.
A German Islamic scholar has had his teaching license rejected because of his "liberal theological convictions," one of his peers told a newspaper on Saturday.
Islam expert Susanne Schröter spoke out in support of Abdel-Hakim Ourghi, who headed the Islamic Theology department at the University of Freiburg for nearly a decade.
Last month, the 53-year-old Ourghi had his "ijaza" (license to train Islamic teachers) denied by the Stiftung Sunnitischer Schulrat (Sunni School Board Foundation), based in Stuttgart.
The foundation was set up in 2019 with the responsibility for the teaching of Islam in the southwestern German state of Baden-Wurttemberg.
The decision sparked accusations that the application process was being used to intimidate theology professors with liberal beliefs.
"Mr. Ourghi has a doctorate in Islamic theology and has been teaching Islamic religious education for years," Schröter told the tabloid Bild. "The assumption that he is technically unsuitable therefore has no basis whatsoever."
It is therefore clear that "the lecturer was removed from the university because of his liberal theological convictions," she added.
A PROPONENT OF 'LIBERAL ISLAM'
Ourghi touts a liberal form of Islam, which conflicts with the views of many conservative practitioners.
For example, he has published a book of theses for peaceful and gender-equitable religious practice, and warned future religion teachers in his seminars against political Islam and what he called the "outdated views of conservative scholars."
His books include You Don't Have to Wear a Headscarf and Reform Islam: 40 Theses.
"Because I stand up for a secular and liberal Islam, they want to get rid of me," Ourghi told Die Welt newspaper on Friday.
OURGHI'S QUALIFICATIONS 'NOT RECOGNIZED'
The foundation didn't list a specific reason for Ourghi's rejection, but said his academic achievements were "not recognized in the sense of the ijaza order."
According to the foundation regulations, university professors who train Islamic religion teachers require a teaching degree in Islamic theology or religious education or an equivalent degree.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... Ourghi has a doctorate in Islamic theology, as degree programs in Islamic religious education in Germany have not been around for very long.
The Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs of Baden-Wurttemberg still, however, defended the decision.
A front man for the ministry said it would be unconstitutional to take sides because the foundation is a public institution.
IJAZA AS 'AN INSTRUMENT OF POWER'
"The ijaza serves as an instrument of power for the foundation," Ourghi told Die Welt. "It's about a warning to my colleagues: Either you represent what we want and give up, or you are no longer allowed to teach."
At least one German politician has now leaped to his defense.
"Obviously reactionary forces are trying to get a recognized Islamic scholar out of the way," said the center-right CDU's Christoph de Vries.
"I hope that the state government will put a stop to this unfortunate hustle and bustle, defend the freedom of science and protect itself in front of Ourghi."
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... has "neutralized" more than 18,000 "terrorists" in almost six years, the country’s minister of national defense said on Friday.
Ottoman Turkish Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar on Friday told commanding officers they had "neutralized" at least 18,220 gunnies since July 24, 2015, state-owned Anadolu Agency (AA) reported on Saturday.
Akar did not specify which groups the gunnies belonged to.
Ottoman Turkish officials use the term "neutralize" to imply surrenders, killings or capturing.
While Turkey is part of the Global Coalition against 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.... (ISIS), the country also considers the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to be a terrorist organization and often refers to the group in official statements on terrorism.
The PKK is an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey.
Turkey carries out domestic and cross-border military operations in the Kurdistan Region against the PKK. The country has also carried out a number of operations in North East Syria (Rojava) against the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which Turkey believes to be the Syrian extension of the PKK, and has used this as a pretext for the nation’s invasion into Rojava.
The YPG, although ideologically inspired by PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan, denies any links to the PKK.
Akar added, "Turkey respects its neighbors' territorial integrity and expects them to reciprocate with the same policy toward Turkey," AA reported.
The statement comes amid ongoing Ottoman Turkish operations in Duhok province targeting the PKK.
Babakir Zebari, a former Iraqi military chief of staff, told Rudaw earlier in May that Turkey in some places has advanced up to 20km into the Kurdistan Region in their latest operation.
Since the decades-long conflict was reignited in 2015 following the collapse of peace efforts between the PKK and Turkey, 5,372 people have been killed, 773 of them (or about 15 percent) in the Kurdistan Region, including 43 civilians.
Turkey has also set up several military bases in Duhok province in a bid to cut off PKK routes into Turkey and Syria. Ottoman Turkish forces have carried out intense bombardments of suspected PKK positions, which have driven residents of some villages to flee their homes.
Turkey has not only advanced into the Kurdistan Region but also Rojava. Turkey has conducted three military campaigns in northern Syria in the past several years, backing Syrian militia groups, and now controls Afrin, areas north of Aleppo, and pockets of territory within Rojava in the northeast.
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian Authority forces fire tear gas in Ramallah; demonstrations also held in Hebron, after activist Nizar Banat died following his arrest by Paleostinian security services.
Paleostinians clashed with security forces in Ramallah on Saturday in the third day of protests following the death of a prominent critic of the Paleostinian Authority, who died earlier this week in PA custody.
Nizar Banat, known for his biting videos on social media, died on Thursday after being arrested by officers in the Paleostinian security services.
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[AlAhram] Their joint statement came two weeks into their coordinated campaign along their common border against the forces behind a string of deadly attacks there
Niger and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... 's armies on Saturday hailed the results of joint operations against Islamist Militants forces, saying they had killed more than 100 'terrorists' so far this month.
Operations involving several hundred soldiers from each army have been carried out on both sides of the border, said the Burkinabe military command.
So far they have killed more than a hundred 'terrorists', destroyed around a hundred of their cycle of violences and other vehicles, as well as capturing or destroying weapons, said the joint statement.
'These results have lived up to our expectations,' said General Salifou Modi, chief of staff of Niger's army, during a visit to a military camp at Dori, the capital of the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... , in northern Burkina Faso.
A number of jihadists had also been arrested, he added.
The troops on the ground for Operation Taanli 'alliance' or 'cohesion' in the local Gulmacema language of eastern Burkina Faso have also had air support for reconnaissance and search operations.
The operation has focused on Tera and Torodi in Niger, as well as Dori, Mansia and Diapaga in Burkina Faso.
'In these areas, the populations will be left in peace at least for a while,' said General Moise Miningou, chief of staff of the Burkinabe army. 'We think that is what is essential.
'We are poor countries and our future lies in being able to pool our meagre resources,' he added.
That way, he said, 'we will get much better results. That's what has been done and we don't mean to stop so far down the right track.'
The two impoverished countries of western Africa have had to contend with repeated attacks from jihadists since 2015, which have claimed hundreds of lives and forced thousands to flee their homes.
The attacks have been attributed to groups affiliated to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... organization or to Al Qaeda.
[ToloNews] A senior Afghan security official claimed that the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... is making efforts to take military equipment, including tanks, to Pakistain -- as the group continues to take over various districts, security outposts and military bases that house dozens of vehicles, tanks and others.
Acting Interior Minister Gen. Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal who visited the eastern province of Paktia on Saturday said his remarks were based on intelligence information he has received.
"There is also information that the Taliban take some (military) tanks to Pakistain through Zabul province (in southern Afghanistan)," the acting interior minister said. "The National Security Council and the commander in chief have ordered permanent patrols to target any tank that is tried to be taken to Pakistain."
Another high-ranking official at the same event echoed the minister's remarks by saying that some military equipment has been transferred across the Durand Line — the de facto border between Afghanistan and Pakistain.
"They have taken military equipment owned by security forces across the Durand Line," said Shamim Khan Katawazai, head of the Independent Directorate of Local Governance. "There are evidence and footage about this. Pak soldiers have clicked photos with them."
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid rejected the claims on the transfer of military equipment by the group to Pakistain.
This comes as heavy fighting is underway in Paktia between security forces and the Taliban for the last week. Security forces retook Ahmad Aba and Mirzaka districts in Paktia from the Taliban in the last three days.
Paktia officials said that they have arrested Pak nationals who fought in the ranks of the Taliban during their operations.
Mirzaka district fell to the Taliban three days ago. Most parts of the district, especially government buildings, have been damaged in the festivities or have been set on fire as officials described.
Local officials claimed that the Taliban "has set ablaze" many security outposts and have "destroyed" some roads.
"Unfortunately, they (Taliban) burn and destroyed government establishments. They don’t have another message," Paktia governor Halim Fedaee said.
The 203 Corps Commander Gen. Jalaluddin Yaftali said that military operations are underway to retake seven Paktia districts that have fallen to the Taliban.
"They have made destructions in all districts," Gen. Yaftali said. "They have broken glasses. They have set ablaze some establishments."
Taliban has rejected the claims by security officials.
Paktia has 14 districts. At least 10 of them have fallen to the Taliban recently, but three, including Ahmad Aba, Mirzaka and Sayed Karam, were retaken while the group still has influence over Janikhil, Dand-e-Patan, Samkanai, Zazai Aryub, Ahmadkhil, Lazha Mangal and Rouhani Baba districts.
[Western Journal] The man who is accused of shooting a Daytona Beach police officer in the head on Wednesday was captured early Saturday in Georgia.
Police said Othal Wallace
...also known as Othal Toreyane Resheen Wallace and Othal “O-Zone” Wallace...
was hiding out in a treehouse on land affiliated with a black nationalist paramilitary organization.
Although Wallace had an arsenal with him when arrested, he was taken into custody without injuries.
Wallace is accused of shooting Daytona Beach police officer Jason Raynor in the head. He faces a charge of attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer.
“Othal Wallace was located hiding in a tree house,” Young said. “In the tree house with Wallace was multiple flash bangs, rifle plates, body armor, two rifles, two handguns and several boxes of ammunition.” Shoulda set the tree on fire
Multiple weapons were also recovered, he said. Several other people were at the site when the arrest was made he said.
Young gave an upbeat assessment of Raynor’s condition.
“There were very positive signs of improvement,” Young said. “He still has a ways to go. But basically from his condition right now they feel comfortable moving forward with more testing because they’ve determined that he’s now strong enough to endure more testing.
“As of right now his outlook, it is improving. It’s a positive one,” Young added. “But we are just going to continue to pray that he continues to heal.”
A profile on the NFAC in the Atlantic it said the group “has a militarylike structure, fields an army of hundreds of heavily armed men and women, subscribes to esoteric racist doctrines, opposes Black Lives Matter, and follows a leader who thinks we live in a period of apocalyptic tribulation signaled by the movements of celestial bodies. Its modus operandi is to deploy a more fearsome Black militia wherever white militias dare to appear.”
The group has apparently been around under that name for four years. Until this year it was frequently described as a far right Patriot militia made up primarily of law-abiding military veterans who respect and understand the Constitution, different only in its Black racial exclusiveness from the III Percenters, Oath Keepers, and Boogaloo Bois. At other times, it’s been described as a branch of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protests in Louisville, Kentucky and Stone Mountain were the big excitements until they commandeered the center of Austin in March to be their independent Black homeland of Orisha Land. There’s also a colony in the Colorado mountains, but it wasn’t doing well, last we read ...
In an interview, the leader of the group, who goes by the name of Grandmaster Jay and whose real name is John Fitzgerald Johnson,
... in previous incarnations he has been a rapper/producer/DJ, Army veteran, director of a global cloud integration practice and solutions architect — whatever that means — and an independent presidential candidate in 2016 who ran on a platform of racism, women’s rights, and economic equality...
called laws “just paper” and said the Black Lives Matter movement is too tame for his taste.
His goal, he said, is to rally all black gun owners to his cause.
“If I assemble 1 million legal guns, I have the fifth-largest ground army on the planet. I think that’s a pretty significant indication,” he said.
But how many of those Black legal gun owners are patriotic Americans instead of Black nationalist separatists? The Daytona Beach News Journal adds:
NFAC's leader, meanwhile, has been indicted for pointing an assault-style weapon at several federal officers at a protest in Louisville, Kentucky, on Sept. 4, 2020. According to a criminal complaint, John F. Johnson — aka Grand Master Jay — also took to YouTube to urge NFAC members to attack and kill law enforcement and their families. Johnson urged members to dismantle the body cameras of police they intended to assault.
In an interview with NBC's Morgan Radford last March, Johnson said the NFAC was growing "by leaps and bounds." He said its goals are self-defense and to create a Black ethnostate.
“The NFAC was born out of the last four years under the Trump administration. The deterioration of racial relations in this country," he said. "It means that you are preparing yourself to defend yourself. “
He called violence a "last option," but added the United States was built on violence as an option.
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opposes Black Lives Matter, and follows a leader who thinks we live in a period of apocalyptic tribulation signaled by the movements of celestial bodies
What a load of false flag, gaslighting, scamster bullshit.
Also, I wonder if the white population has something like this 'heavily militarized' militia. Because they need it. Yesterday.
I just hope there arise new militant groups with intelligent leadership, maybe ex-cops and vets, in time before a minority of scum run everything over.
Constitutionalism is almost dead as I can see from here. I never had much faith in it anyway, I know it's all a giant con to make subjects of nanny states believe in the contract. But a society's will to survive is tantamount. Let's hope it kicks in before it's too late.
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A few little details it would be nice to know--was this overwhelming force and surprise? Did the encampment managers cooperate?
And another we probably won't be told: Is Master Jay an FBI informant?
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That incident was embarrassing for them, yes. But in the early days a bunch of them were actual American military veterans, and the organization really is called the Not Fucking Around Coalition, which no doubt appeals to the founding members’ sense of humour. And it is more evocative than Antifa group names like John Brown Gun Club and Redneck Revolt.
[FOXNEWS] Judges appointed by former President Trump have stymied President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....... 's policies on multiple fronts in the early months of the new administration, taking what experts say is a less "deferential" approach to executive power as judges appointed by past presidents.
"What you’re seeing is that ’pen and phone’ initiatives are running into legal trouble right off the bat," Ilya Shapiro, the vice president and director of the libertarian Cato Institute's Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, told Fox News. "Trump appointed a lot of judges — more than anyone in one term than Jimmy Malaise Carter
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[AlAhram] Erdogan's detractors accuse him of clinging to a project that will lead Turkey to ecological disaster and debt as massive as it is unnecessary
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... on Saturday launched the start of construction on a controversial canal aimed at easing congestion on the Bosphorus but which critics say courts environmental disaster.
The "Canal Istanbul" is a gigantic waterway running parallel to the Bosphorus Strait connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and the Mediterranean.
"Today we are opening a new page in the history of Ottoman Turkish development," Erdogan said during the ceremony to lay the foundation stone of a bridge forming part of the project.
The 45 kilometre (28 mile) long waterway will connect the Black Sea to global maritime networks, a strategically important issue at the heart of European geopolitics and conflicts for centuries.
Erdogan's detractors accuse him of clinging to a project that will lead The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... to ecological disaster and debt as massive as it is unnecessary.
Erdogan devoted almost all of his speech to defending the project.
Citing the risks posed by the rising number of ships passing through the Bosphorus, Erdogan said the project was mostly aimed at "ensuring the safety of (Turkey's) citizens in Istanbul" and allowing the country to take "a more important place" in international trade.
Dismissing critics, he said: "All stages of the project have been designed in accordance with science."
The project has also sparked criticism abroad, mainly in Russia, a country that fears seeing easier access to the Black Sea for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces.
Under the Montreux Convention governing navigation through the Bosphorus Strait -- the only natural maritime access to the Black Sea -- countries that don't have a coastline to the waters must give advanced notification of plans for their ships to pass through the region. And then, the vessels can only stay for a limited time.
"This project in no way violates Montreux," said former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, who spoke before Erdogan at the ceremony.
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Current budget of $13 Billion is probably at least $5B below what will actually be needed.
However, if it were completed, Turkey would be able to charge for passage and would probably make a Billion $ or so per year on transit fees. Turkey could also make money on ports at the ends of the canal.
However a lot of people will have to be thrown out of their houses and farms will be lost. The project is thought to be massively unpopular in the vicinity of Istanbul.
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High Speed Rail Seaway
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Couldn't make it as a great conqueror, so now he's going to be a great builder?
[Garowe] Two IED blasts struck a military escorting convoy carrying high-level officials, including Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... 's Minister of Security, Abdisalam Mohammed Gallan on Saturday morning.
The minister was on his way to Balli-dhadin area from the Iskushuban district in the Bari region at the time of the attack that resulted in the death of one soldier and the wounds of three others.
The IED explosions destroyed a vehicle carrying Puntland officials, but all of them survived. The injured have been taken to a nearby hospital for medical attention.
The delegation included the Commander of the Puntland Darwish Forces Geneneral Yasin Omar Dheere and Governor of Bari Region Abdisamad Yusuf Mohammed.
No group has grabbed credit for the liquidation bid however, the attack comes amid military operation against al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... and ISIS faceless myrmidons in Bari province.
[ToloNews] Pakistain’s Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... said on Friday that his country will not take military action against the Taliban ...Arabic for students... if the group takes over Afghanistan by force.
Quoted in an article by The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , Khan said that "Pakistain will only recognize a government which is chosen by the people of Afghanistan, whichever government they choose."
"Let me assure you, we will do everything except use military action against the Taliban," Khan replied when asked what Pakistain would do if the Taliban took over Afghanistan by force. "I mean, we will do everything up to that. All sections of our society have decided that Pakistain will take no military action."
"Now, we are fencing it, and almost 90 percent of the border, we’ve fenced now," Khan said. "What if [the] Taliban try to take over Afghanistan through [the] military? Then we will seal the border because now we can, because we have fenced our border, which was previously [open], because Pakistain does not want to get into, number one, conflict, secondly, we do not want another influx of refugees."
Khan said that after the US withdrawal, he wished that Pakistain and the US could fix their "lopsided" equation of the past.
The remarks come as violence remains high in the country following a sharp rise in the Taliban’s offensives against government forces. Afghan forces retook the control of seven districts from the Taliban in three provinces in the last 24 hours.
The districts include Andkhoi and Khan Chahar Bagh in Faryab, Khinjan and Doshi in Baghlan, and Ahmad Aba, Mirzaka and Sayed Karam in Paktia, according to the Defense Ministry.
At the same time, sources said that three districts -- Khost Firing and Guzargah-e-Noor in Baghlan and Dolina in Ghor -- have fallen to the Taliban on Thursday and Friday.
Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... is underway between government forces and the Taliban in several areas in the country, particularly in the northern provinces of Baghlan, Kunduz, Faryab, and 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... where hundreds of locals have taken up arms to fight against the group in support of Afghan troops.
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#1 Why? they're just a para-military extension of the Pak military. Professional courtesy.
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In a counter to the ISI version ... there also exists a Taliban that is a para-professional extension of the Afghan military that returns the favor to Pakistan.
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I have personally watched overhead footage of the TB walking the trails to and from Paki Frontier Corps Durand Line checkpoints and lodgements. Paki complicity, not exactly the world's best kept secret.
The US and the Paki's have a common friend, the Communist Chinese. So we take no action against the Paks.
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Afghan Taliban will sooner or later be independent of ISI control. Pakistan not only feeds the beast, it keeps it chained too; as many believe the shura or elder council and their families are actually hostages as well as guests in Quetta. That's because as long as there's a conflict, they have nowhere else to hide and the ⭔ won't transgress against beloved Islamabad. So the ISI wants there to remain a threat to taliban in Afghanistan. Also, without a visible threat of gunnies and turbans there remains no excuse to beg for aid, without which the jihad will be dependent on OIC largesse only.
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While we know the ISI owns many on the shura council, and some Durranis in the government, the dynamic between Pak-Punjabis [most of the ISI bureaucracy] and pashtuns is marred by a linguistic-classist divide, distrust and disrespect. To them a pashtun is like a dog, best leashed and fed only a minimum.
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Taliban just wants Americans gone so they don't have to rely on ISI hospitality and can begin to consolidate political control, but ISI plants in the western think tanks and the fools at the ⭔ can't let that happen 'lest those horrible attacks be launched on America from Afghanistan'.
[ToloNews] Like eight other provinces across Afghanistan, this time, a large group of residents of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... in the west and Kunduz in the north took up arms to support the Afghan defense and security forces in the fight against the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Those who rallied in support of Afghan forces have said that they believe in peace, but will defend the democratic values at any cost.
So far, hundreds of people have taken up arms against the Taliban in Takhar, Balkh, Badghis, Baghlan, Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... , Jawzjan, Samangan and Kapisa provinces.
"The security forces are not alone. We are with them," said Nazir Ahmad, a member of public uprising forces in Herat.
"We must serve the country. We are very tired. Our bridges are destroyed. Our schools are destroyed," said Zikrullah, a member of public uprising forces in Herat.
Also in Kunduz province, a large number of people took up arms to support the Afghan forces in the fight against the bad boys.
"If you are fleeing Kunduz today, I want to tell you that a man dies one time, but a weak person dies each day," said Rabbani Rabbani, member of Kunduz provincial council, referring to reports that some local officials had fled Kunduz following increased attacks by the Taliban.
People in northern Baghlan province have also taken up arms to fight the Taliban.
"The war is not the solution for conflict in Afghanistan. There is a good opportunity for the Taliban to agree on peace," said MP Azim Mohseni.
Afghan security officials said that the government will never support the existence of militia forces, however all those who have taken up arms will be operating within the structure of Afghan forces.
The acting minister of interior Gen. Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal said that the government will add another 30,000 personnel to the ranks of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) and those who have taken up arms to fight will operate within the structure of the local police.
"We do not support building militia and will not allow it to happen. 30,000 people have been approved to serve in our military structure," Mirzakwal said.
"The way this process has stared indicates a sign of danger," said Rahmatullah Nabil, former head of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... Referring to the recent waves of public uprising campaigns in several regions of Afghanistan, a Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid has said that these moves are part of the government's attempts.
[AlJazeera] On September 2, 2020, Bulgarian journalist Dimitar Kenarov headed to the centre of the Bulgarian capital Sofia to cover an anti-government protest.
He was filming the largely peaceful demonstration calling for then-Prime Minister Boyko Borisov’s government to resign, when a few individuals started throwing projectiles at the police, who responded with pepper spray and batons.
In the ensuing violence, Kenarov, who had by then put on a gas mask marked “Press”, was yanked to the ground by police officers, kicked repeatedly in the face, and handcuffed, despite insisting that he was a journalist and showing them his press card.
He was eventually taken to the police station and released several hours later.
In the following weeks, the interior ministry denied that Kenarov had been held, despite available footage of his detention and a medical certificate that he was assaulted.
When he tried to take the case to court, the prosecution stalled the proceedings, while the interior ministry asked the National Income Agency to audit his tax and social security payments.
The episode provoked international condemnation from organisations including Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which took the case into account when preparing its latest Press Freedom Index released in April.
It ranked Bulgaria 112th in the world, the third-lowest among European countries, after Russia (150) and Belarus (158).
Mariya Petkova is a Bulgarian journalist covering the Middle East, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. More at the link
[IsraelTimes] In social media post, Fidaa Wishah, a Palestinian-American pediatric radiologist, also warned Jewish state, ‘your end is coming sooner than you think’.
A Paleostinian-American pediatric radiologist has been fired from her position at Phoenix Children’s Hospital after her social media post accusing Israel of "cannibalism" was called out by an antisemitism watchdog.
We can’t have medical personnel willing to exercise hatreds from back home against the local population. Either keep your hatreds and take your medical training back to where they’re acceptable, or stay here and give up your hatreds.
On Monday, the Twitter account @StopAntisemites shared a screenshot of a May 26 Facebook post by Dr. Fidaa Wishah, in which Wishah wrote "We will expose the #massacre and #genocide you Zionists are proud of."
"We will uncover your thirst to kill our Paleostinian children... A state based on atrocity, inhumanity, racism and cannibalism never lasts long!" she wrote. "Hey #israel... your end is coming sooner than you think."
The message was retweeted hundreds of times. Two days later, Phoenix Children’s replied to the tweet that Wishah had been fired.
"After a thorough review of the facts related to this matter, this individual is no longer providing care at Phoenix Children’s," the hospital’s tweet said.
The post in question is no longer visible on Wishah’s Facebook profile, and her Instagram account is private, but in a video apparently from her Instagram account that was posted to Twitter, she says she is being censored and that any allegations that she would treat "Zionist" or Israeli patients differently are "false claims."
*shrug* Why should we believe you, when you publicize your death wishing?
“I want to thank everyone who’s standing by me and who’s standing with the cause," she said in the video. "In a country that claims freedom of speech, when it comes to Paleostine-Israel, we are definitely censored."
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli delegation is set to meet with Egyptian mediators next week in Cairo and convey the new government’s demands regarding the ceasefire with the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group, sources tell the London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed newspaper.
Egyptian sources tell the newspaper that under the new government, headed by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, the delegation will bring "new developments" to be conveyed to Hamas and other 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... -based terror groups through Egyptian mediators.
The sources say the developments are pertaining to Israel’s position on the reconstruction of Gaza following May’s round of fighting, and Jerusalem’s demand to release Israeli captives and bodies held by Hamas.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Harris' overnight stay at her Brentwood home came a few hours after her trip to El Paso, Texas 93 days after being appointed the 'immigration czar'
Her Los Angeles visit is her fourth in the 94 days since taking office, compared to her lone visit to the border
Harris' trip comes a few days before a visit to the border by former President Donald Trump, but her office denied that Trump played a part in scheduling. Really it didn't.
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Not Louisiana?
I thought only Trump did narcissistic photo shoots?
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The return of ¡Qué Mala!
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Interesting that the Daily Mail shows pix of the protesters. Normally, protesting against a female Democrat Vice President would be forbidden. Makes me wonder if "they" are getting ready to replace her with someone more useful and less embarrassing.
[AlAhram] The court said issuing fatwas should be limited on the state’s religious institutions, warning that terrorist groups use social media to harm the state
Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court rejected on Saturday an appeal to a ruling banning non-specialists from issuing Islamic opinions, known as fatwas, making the ruling final, according to an official statement.
The ruling, issued earlier by the lower Alexandria Administrative Court, also bans those who are not licensed by al-Azhar or the Ministry of Endowments from "ascending the pulpits."
This means they would not be allowed to deliver the weekly Friday sermons.
The ruling targets advocates of terrorism, the statement explained, noting that the ruling is final.
The Supreme Administrative Court said on Saturday that mosques, especially small ones, have been misused to exploit poor people and their ignorance to attract supporters and spread division and dissension among people.
The court said such practices have led to arguments and physical violence that caused the loss of lives and damage to property as a result of bad boy thought.
The court affirmed that mosques should never be used for political or partisan goals or for election propaganda, noting that this contradicts with the sanctity of the mosques and harms the supreme interests of the state.
The fatwas issued by non-specialists, including on social media platforms, have led to an increase in extremism among the current and next generations, the court said.
The court said issuing fatwas should be limited to the state’s religious institutions, warning that terrorist groups use social media to harm the state.
The court called for the legislature to criminalise the issuance of fatwas by non-specialists that do not belong to Islamic institutions.
It also called on the legislature to criminalise the use of sermons to achieve political or partisan goals or for election propaganda even if the perpetrator is licensed to deliver sermons.
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has frequently called for reforming religious discourse in order to combat terrorism, especially as the country has witnessed many terrorist attacks against Christians and Moslems since 2013.
Earlier this month, El-Sisi told the heads of African constitutional courts, supreme courts, and constitutional councils that judicial institutions are imperative in the fight against terrorism and extremism.
[OneIndia] The Intelligence Bureau has yet again warned that the ISI and its proxies will try to sabotage the ongoing farmer protests.
The “farmer protests” siege of Delhi settled in for the long haul, because farmers clearly don’t need to plant, hoe or harvest in order to make a living at the trade when they’re being financed by romantic Sikh cousins in the First World and Pakistan’s ISI looking to cause trouble.
The Delhi Police and the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has been alerted about the same.
In the wake of the potential threat, three Metro Stations in Delhi will remain shut from 10 am to 2 pm as a precautionary measure and this step was taken following an advisory from the Delhi Police.
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The govt is secretly hoping these attempts actually succeed. The farmers of India provided a record 178 million tonnes of wheat, food produce is at all time high, and no one will miss these 'farmers' who apparently have nothing else to do.
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^Huh governement is secretly hoping these attempts succeed?? Insta pe ye LGBTQQRSTUVWXYZ nach rahein hain. "Dalits lives matter", "Farmers not terroists" ke naare lagate phirtein hain.
Interview with Russian professor of economics at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Andrey Kazantsev
[REGNUM] The growing chaos in Afghanistan can combine with permanent chaos in Central Asia," Professor of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics, Chief Researcher of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Andrey Kazantsev, commented to REGNUM IA REGNUM scheduled for June 28-29, the visit of Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov to Tajikistan.
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The growing chaos in Afghanistan can combine with permanent chaos in Central Asia Central Asia has been in a state of permanent chaos since shortly after the Mongol Empire disintegrated.
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At the line of verse, "Asked Vindmans of yore",
I laughed so hard,
nearly fell on the floor.
[THE-PIPELINE.ORG] "Jack Dunphy" always a good read
On November 19, 2019, Nathaniel Pinnock was shot and killed by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department. Pinnock, 22, had robbed an auto parts store in Hollywood while armed with a machete and was walking from the scene when officers arrived and confronted him. Despite the presence of several officers, Pinnock refused orders to stop and drop the machete. Instead he ran to the drive-through lane of a nearby Chick-fil-A restaurant where he carjacked a Lexus and sped off. He made it only as far as the adjacent street where, after colliding with police cars, he got out and ran down Sunset Boulevard.
Officers pursued on foot, and after running some distance Pinnock turned and charged at one of them while wielding the machete. The officer retreated and fired his pistol at Pinnock, who despite being shot continued charging. The officer ran into the street where he stumbled and fell, and when it appeared Pinnock was about to deliver what surely would have been a devastating blow with the machete, the officer again fired his pistol. A second officer also fired. Pinnock fell to the ground mortally maimed.
That Pinnock’s death did not become a national news story is owing to the fact that the shooting was so manifestly justified, as can be determined even from the cursory presentation of facts above. But such is the transparency now attendant to officer-involved shootings in Los Angeles that anyone questioning the propriety of the officers’ actions can find the LAPD’s video summary of the incident and the involved officers’ body camera footage here, the civilian police commission’s 37-page report here, and the Los Angeles County district attorney’s 12-page legal assessment here. All officer-involved shootings in the city of Los Angeles are similarly investigated and documented, and while one may argue with the conclusions reached by the police commission or district attorney in any given case, no one can claim the relevant facts have been concealed.
This level of transparency regarding the use of deadly force by police has come to be expected and is now common (though not yet ubiquitous) across the country, which makes it all the more curious that what rightly should be regarded as one of the most controversial police shootings to have occurred recently has gone all but unexamined in the press. The case of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by a U.S Capitol Police officer during the so-called insurrection of Jan. 6, has gone largely unexamined, either in the media or among the self-professed experts who find fault in even the most clearly justifiable police shootings.
Ashli Babbitt’s shooting was not clearly justifiable, far from it in fact, yet the U.S. Department of Justice, in a memo just over a page in length, explains it away by saying their "investigation revealed no evidence to establish that, at the time the officer fired a single shot at Ms. Babbitt, the officer did not reasonably believe that it was necessary to do so in self-defense or in defense of the Members of Congress and others evacuating the House Chamber."
And that, peasants, is that. Your rulers have made their decision, do not dare question it.
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It's easy for us to sneer and smirk and snark, but this is deadly serious. It's more than another Big Lie. The Democrats truly are using this ridiculous trespass incident as a pretext for shutting down any and all debate, dissent, opposition to their bullshit.
This has to be resisted. Our Republic is on the line.
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The Washington Post published video of the last two minutes leading up to the shooting, taken from near the front rows of the crowd. The policeman, quickly put on leave during the investigation, according to the January 8, 2021 article, was a substantial Black gentleman in a dark suit with simple gold cufflinks in his French cuffs shooting from inside the House lobby out toward the protesting crowd — cufflinks surely not being a common detail for that kind of duty.
Rantburg was down at that point, much to my distress.
[ToloNews] Supported by the public uprising forces, the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) on Saturday broke the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ’s siege on the outskirts of Pul-e-Khumri, the center of Baghlan province in the north, and managed to retake District 2 of the city where the two sides had fought some of the fiercest battles in the last seven days.
Some residents said Taliban still has presence in Band-e-Do and Blakha areas in the city.
Security forces on Friday retook the control of Khinjan and Doshi districts in Baghlan, but some residents said the Taliban still has check points on the way connected to Doshi and Khinjan districts.
Kelagai area has been another flashpoint between the security forces and the Taliban in the past few days. The Taliban made several attempts to infiltrate inside the city through Kelagai.
"When we arrived here, the Taliban defeated and fled the area," said Noor Agha, an Afghan National Army officer in Pul-e-Khumri.
"Three to four thousand people from Andar Abad and some others from Parwan and Kapisa came here. Although the bully boyz shown some resistance, but they were suppressed," said MP Nasim Mudabir.
Baghlan-e-Markazi, Dahana-e-Ghori, Tala Wa Barfak, Nahrin, Borka, Jolga, Khost and Guzargah-e-Noor are among the eight districts in Baghlan that have been out of the control of the government.
"We are now on the frontline. The enemy is on the other side," said Bahramuddin, the deputy commander of special forces in Baghlan.
[ToloNews] A US defense official quoted by Fox News said on Friday that the United States military has launched two dronezaps against Taliban ...Arabic for students... positions in northern Afghanistan.
The strikes came hours before President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... ’s meeting with US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run.... on Friday, the report says.
An unknown number of Taliban fighters were killed in Baghlan and Kunduz provinces, where the strikes took place, Fox News reported.
The Ministry of Defense has not commented on the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, but the ministry in a statement on Friday said that the Afghan Air Force targeted Taliban positions in Imam Sahib, Khan Abad and Gor Tapa districts in the northern province of Kunduz.
The ministry said that 35 Taliban fighters were killed in the Afghan forces airstrikes in Kunduz, including three key commanders of the Taliban — Qari Jawad Hashemi, Haidari and Mawlawi Qadir.
This comes as Afghan forces retook the control of seven districts from the Taliban in three provinces since Thursday evening.
The districts include Andkhoi and Khan Chahar Bagh in Faryab, Khinjan and Doshi in Baghlan, and Ahmad Aba, Mirzaka and Sayed Karam in Paktia.
At the same time, sources said that three districts -- Khost Firing and Guzargah-e-Noor in Baghlan and Dolina in Ghor -- have fallen to the Taliban on Thursday and Friday.
Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... is underway between government forces and the Taliban in several areas in the country, particularly in the northern provinces of Baghlan, Kunduz, Faryab, and 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... where hundreds of locals have taken up arms to fight against the group in support of Afghan troops.
The US Central Command has said that the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), flagship of the Ronald Reagan carrier strike group (CSG), along with guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67) and guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97), entered the US 5th Fleet area of operations on June 25.
While in the US 5th Fleet area of operations, the Ronald Reagan CSG will operate and train alongside regional and coalition partners and provide airpower to protect US and coalition forces as they conduct drawdown operations from Afghanistan, the US Central Command said.
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My great-great-great-grandson has won!
Well, leastwise, his war was more fun,
Dropping two thousand pounds
On a few Afghan hounds
And that guy with the ten rupee gun.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive it is. Or rather, will soon be.
Two years after a South Side alderman introduced an ordinance to rebrand the landmark reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Lake Shore Drive to honor DuSable because he was upset he didn’t hear the Black founder of Chicago mentioned during a river boat tour, the City Council on Friday ended months of racially charged debate by adopting a compromise to make it so.
The vote was 33-15, with "no" votes coming from 12 white and three Latino aldermen.
The ordinance calls for the renaming to happen immediately, but a city front man did not respond to questions about how long it would take to change the signs.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black... opposed Alderman David Moore’s initial plan to rebrand the iconic lakefront ribbon of concrete "DuSable Drive" on the grounds it would make the city tougher to market. But she got behind the late "DuSable Lake Shore Drive" deal rather than risk taking a total loss in the 50-member council.
Moore and other DuSable backers agreed to the compromise instead of trying to hold together a majority in the face of pushback from the mayor and opponents on the council, or risking Lightfoot using her first veto to further impede them.
Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, 35th, said the lack of proper honor for Black leaders has a harmful impact on Black children. Naming the road for him "is a small but important step to addressing racial injustice," Ramirez-Rosa said.
The protracted street rebranding fight came as Chicago faces many pressing problems, from rising violent mostly peaceful crime to crushing financial shortfalls coming out of the pandemic.
But in a city where symbolic representation has long been a measure of political strength, Moore and supporters of the change saw winning as a point of pride for Black Chicagoans and others who think DuSable hasn’t gotten his due. Capitulating to opponents would have been another indignity in what they see as long-running underappreciation of African Americans’ contributions.
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Can't wait for the yet to be named aboriginal tribe demand it be renamed for them. You know before the whites and blacks who showed up and took the place from them.
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Point du Sable left Chicago in 1800. He sold his property ... and moved to the Missouri River valley
From Potawatomi dream ground
to Capone's whore-stable,
for years equality's petridish
and hellhole unstable.
Maybe he knew, which way it blew
even as early as 1802.
"Fok dis shit!" He said,
left for Missouri, that DuSable.
[ToloNews] Figures indicate that 29 civilians have been killed in the last seven days of festivities in the northern province of Kunduz, local officials said as security forces are making progress on multiple fronts in the past three days.
Officials said that 225 more civilians were maimed in the festivities in the province during a week.
The security forces retook the control of two districts on Saturday and six districts on Friday. They have expanded their operations on various fronts, supported by public uprising forces.
But sources said that centers of four districts fell to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in the last 24 hours: Siahgerd and Shinwari districts in Parwan, Ghorak district in Kandahar, and Mizan district in Zabul.
"A mortar shell hit our home. My father was martyred," said Talib, a Kunduz resident.
"Children and women are among the victims. 95% of the casualties are civilians," said Ehsanullah Fazli, the head of the Kunduz public health directorate.
"The Afghan defense and security agencies have always been successful in providing security to Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the people who have been in the leadership have acted politically and with nepotism," said Sayed Hassan Paktiawal, an MP.
The Defense Ministry said that 225 Taliban were killed in 10 provinces in the last 24 hours. Taliban has not confirmed the figures.
"In other regions too, our brave security and defense forces are fighting the enemy with full force. Heavy casualty has been inflicted to the enemy over the past 48 hours," Defense Ministry front man Rohullah Ahmadzai said.
At least 100 districts have either fallen to gunnies or have been contested between the two sides over the last two months.
"They should listen to the residents of Ghorband district (in Parwan). They should not allow Ghorband to be sacrificed for conspiracy or a human tragedy that is out of the ability of the people," said Wais Farhadi, a resident of Parwan.
"When a district falls, efforts should be made to retake it so that civilians are not harmed," said Jalil, a Parwan resident.
The Defense Ministry reported Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, including Parwan, in three provinces in the last 24 hours.
"Airstrikes were carried out last night. At least 20 Taliban fighters were either killed or maimed," Parwan governor Fazluddin Ayar said.
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It's amazing to me, having done a tour there to see the contrast in accomplishment by South Korea. By the time of the cease fire the place was devastated. It's a small country with limited natural resources and land suitable for agriculture. Compare their situation with Mexico in 1953. Mexico has vast natural resources, abundant farm lands, a greater population, and had not suffer the devastation the Koreans had. Yet today when listing GDP for each, they are usually listed one before the other around the same location in the standings. Corruption is present in any government, but the degree it is pervasive in the culture easily reaches the self destructive and crippling levels.
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My father (Sgt. in Yankee Div.) on leaving France/Germany/Austria thought he landed a great assignment doing occupational duty in Kobe Japan, and then the Communists invaded Korea.
He earned his next Bronze Star somewhere up there by what was called the Lincoln Line.
A few years later we were all sitting in front the TV watching Battlefield and he saw himself marching long a roadside. He said he got wounded 2 days after that march was filmed.
[BREITBART] On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s "Washington Journal," Rep. Al Green (D-TX) said that Critical Race Theory
...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense... "is just about telling the truth about how there is still systemic racism in this country today and that we have to deal with it and how it impacts the lives of people."
Green stated, "Critical Race is about the side of history that we’ve not made known to the public, that we don’t teach in our schools. Slaves were not happy people. We should not in any way glamorize slavery. We shouldn’t sanitize it. We have to tell the truth about what happened in 1619 and thereafter. That’s what it’s all about. It’s the rest of the story and it’s all about history. And history can be very unpleasant. I don’t enjoy knowing that some of my ancestors in Africa sold people into slavery, but they did it. And they will live in infamy for it. But it’s the truth. So, the truth can set you free, but it can only set you free if you allow it to. You have to be willing to accept the truth, and Critical Race is just about telling the truth about how there is still systemic racism in this country today and that we have to deal with it and how it impacts the lives of people."
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The tell truth - that your party was the party of slavery, segregation and the Klan. It's your party's fault not America's. That your party promoted the destruction of the black family through programs and policies. The family unit that has worked in all significant societies for over 4000 years. That the time to blame everyone and everything else for the failure in 'your' community will not end till you take responsibility for your own choices and behaviors.
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Green stated, "Critical Race is about the side of history that we’ve not made known to the public, that we don’t teach in our schools. Slaves were not happy people. We should not in any way glamorize slavery. We shouldn’t sanitize it. We have to tell the truth about what happened in 1619 and thereafter. That’s what it’s all about. It’s the rest of the story and it’s all about history. And history can be very unpleasant. I don’t enjoy knowing that some of my ancestors in Africa sold people into slavery, but they did it. And they will live in infamy for it. But it’s the truth. So, the truth can set you free, but it can only set you free if you allow it to. You have to be willing to accept the truth, and Critical Race is just about telling the truth about how there is still systemic racism in this country today and that we have to deal with it and how it impacts the lives of people."
