[Epoch Times] DEL RIO, Texas‐Border Patrol agents have arrested 353 illegal aliens with sex-related criminal convictions so far this fiscal year. A large number of the detainees had prior convictions for crimes involving a minor.
In all of fiscal 2020, agents apprehended 156 criminal sex offenders, and 58 total in fiscal 2019.
The number of criminals illegally crossing the southwest border has spiked in tandem with the border crossing surge this year. Convicted criminals are the most likely population of illegal aliens trying to avoid capture by Border Patrol. Right. Everybody else wants to be captured, cleaned, and fed.
Border Patrol has detected more than 250,000 illegal aliens who have evaded capture so far this year, according to the newly-appointed Acting Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz on June 24. It's impossible to estimate how many have evaded Border Patrol without detection. Several recent examples at the link.
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Every indication is that the enormous quantity of fentanyl now entering the United States – across our open southern border – will make all previous overdose numbers pale by comparison. National statistics will not be in for some time, but preliminary local data is terrifying.
Milwaukee County is on track to see an 11% percent increase in overdose deaths over 2020. Deaths in 2020 were already 30% higher than the year before.
The Michigan Poison Center issued a warning on May 17, 2021, that 2021 overdoses in Cass and Van Buren counties had already surpassed the number of 2020 cases.
In Eugene County, Oregon overdose deaths in April and May 2021 were already up 70% over those in 2020.
All across the nation, local and state authorities are looking at a catastrophe.
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Sadly, every overdose death means that many repeat offenders — like George Floyd — won’t be repeating.
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It's all sad but keep in mind that the fentanyl is what drives many of them to crime in the first place. They need money to buy that stuff and holding a job when you're stoned can't be easy. Could well have been the reason why St. George the Floyd was passing that twenty dollar bill. No telling how many of those he passed successfully before he got caught.
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This is what happens when you send them back. If we convict them of a crime they should serve in the US where we can guarantee they serve their time. Then we should bill Mexico for the expanses and force them to pay tariffs if they do not.
[Top Trade Guru via iotwreport.com] In this video, BOB HUGHES receives a standing ovation after previewing some of the security features used during the Arizona audit. This includes the fact that the ballots were authenticated by police forensic cameras. On Monday, additional details of the audit will be revealed.
[CNS] In an era where everything is captured on camera, the cold-blooded murder of Gyovanny Arzuaga and Yasmin Perez remains particularly galling.
The occasion was the Puerto Rican Day Parade in Chicago, Saturday last. The location: West Division Street on the Northwest Side, at Humboldt Park.
South Africa style—and for no good reason—a bunch of "fellas," as Colin Flaherty is wont to say, leapt out of their vehicle, surrounded a stationary car, pulled a young couple out of it, and shot each in the head, execution style, while hopping about and gesticulating in feral glee. Watch:
There was no detonating rage or purpose to the act—only heightened arousal. The scene had the ritualistic quality of a voodoo ceremony, minus the wide-eyed ululation. Running commentary offered by the videographer had the same flat affect: Folks, this is good fun, but hey, stay cool. Chill.
"I don’t think this crime will be ’disappeared’ so easily," tweeted one "Musil Protege." "It may be worth watching Tucker tonight. He has developed a relationship with Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez," posited "Musil." The alderman is "a reasonable law-and-order Democrat, who has become something of a thorn in the side of Mayor [Lori] Lightfoot."
[Razib Khan] We're not the man we used to be. Over the last twenty years, genomics, ancient DNA and paleoanthropology have joined forces to completely overhaul our understanding of the origin of our species. The true diversity and complexity of human evolution over the last few hundred millennia surpasses even the most unhinged imaginings we might have hazarded just a short generation ago. But greater clarity has left us with a messier and less elegant narrative. Our species’ status, it turns out, is "complicated."
In the year 2000, the orthodoxy was that humans spread across the world 60,000 years ago, and were descended exclusively from a small population in Africa. Neanderthals and various other human groups (and yes, we didn’t even deign to give them all names) were evolutionary "dead ends." Of interest mostly to scholars, they were dismissed as failed experiments in a world our ancestors won. Today, this tidy story of us no longer passes a basic fact check.
In 2010, genomes recovered from ancient remains of "archaic hominins" in Eurasia turned out to have genetic matches in many modern humans. It seems they weren’t quite as "archaic" as we thought. In addition, we had to get used to the new reality that a solid 2-3% of the ancestry of all humans outside Africa is Neanderthal. About 5% of the ancestry of Melanesian groups, like the Papuans of New Guinea, actually comes from a previously unimagined new human lineage discovered in Denisova cave, in Siberia of all places.
Since these first major overhauls, the genetic picture has only grown more complex. Trace, but detectable (0.2% or so), levels of "Denisovan" ancestry are found across South, Southeast, and East Asia (as well as among indigenous people of the Americas). Similarly, trace but detectable levels of Neanderthal ancestry actually appear in most African populations. And, though we have no ancient genomes to make the triumphant ID, a great deal of circumstantial DNA evidence indicates that many African groups harbor silent "archaic" lineages equivalent to Neanderthals and Denisovans. We call them "ghost" populations. We know they’re there in the genomes, but we have no fossils to identify them with.
Even the canonical "Out of Africa" migration itself has turned out to be less neat and tidy than we thought. Outside Africa, whether you are an indigenous Australian, Amazonian native or a German burgher, fully 90-99% of your ancestry derives from a single ancestral human population pulse 60,000 years ago. Somehow, an isolated African tribe of 1,000 to 10,000 people, who became genetically homogenous due to their initial small population size, swept across Eurasia. By 50,000 years ago, they reached Australia. They had replaced the last Neanderthals and Denisovans by 40,000 years ago, if not earlier. They even migrated to North and South America 15,000 years ago.
But inside of Africa, the story is much richer and still not fully grasped. Many African populations started separating from each other 200,000 years ago, becoming distinct lineages such as Khoisan and West Africans. The emergence of modern humans within the continent was not an explosion, but a gradual evolution of interacting lineages. A slow burn. The ancestors of modern non-Africans were part of this dance, but were isolated at some point for tens of thousands of years, passing through the "great bottleneck." Where? When? Who knows? We can’t be sure at this point. Best to just come out and admit it: this chapter of the story is still provisional.
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"Good people!" The voice of the lord
In the darkness. "I know that you're bored,
But if you'll remain
Shut indoors, and be patient,
Your... science will soon be restored!"
[Victory Girls] Let’s mandate "race training" for all levels of federal government. That’s the latest from Joe Biden’s handlers at the White House. On Friday an executive order was announced that mandates equity, inclusion, and diversity for every federal employee.
The entire executive order is a piece of work. Please, read it all. This is what we are up against. When the federal government becomes a vehicle for "race training" ie; Critical Race Theory, we have a very big problem. As I noted yesterday, having the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff point out the problems of "white rage" and the fact that the so-called assault on January 6, need to be dealt with??!! As one reader of our blog pointed out, having Milley turn our military around to be looking inward towards the so-called problems within our country instead of doing their job which is standing the line against our FOREIGN enemies...that is NOT the role of our military!
And now we have the Biden Administration mandating critical race theory "race training" across the board.
The directive builds on Biden’s Inauguration Day promise for "an ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda," according to a White House fact sheet accompanying the order. The White House statement said "the enduring legacies of employment discrimination, systemic racism, and gender inequality are still felt today. Too many underserved communities remain under-represented in the Federal workforce, especially in positions of leadership." The order, the White House said, is designed to "take a systematic approach to embedding" diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in federal hiring and employment.
It’s all in the name of FAIRNESS! The problem is...mandating equity is not fair to anyone. It isn’t fair to the person who was hired specifically because of their skin color. It isn’t fair or right for the person who got passed over because they were only LBT instead of LGBTQZM, nor is it fair for the person who did get hired because their disability checked more boxes than the other candidates with disabilities.
It’s specifically not right to shunt aside someone who is ACTUALLY qualified for the job, yet that person is either a white female or white male.
There is nothing diverse or inclusive about this Executive Order. What this type of equity "race training" will do is further hamstring the federal government from doing their job. Oh wait, what if we don’t want the federal government to do their job?
Quite honestly, I can think of a great number of federal agencies and sub-agencies that need to go away because they are a detriment to this country, such as the Department of Education or the IRS.
That said, this mandate from the Biden Administration is a danger to us all.
For our military, we need that soldier to be QUALIFIED to GO TO BATTLE when necessary. We don’t need a military who will be scrambling to have the new E7, Sgt First Class, Major, Colonel, or General attain that rank because they are the right "color," right gender, or have the right pronouns! No, we need them to be able to swing into action to DEFEND our country and drop-kick all this politically correct horseshit to the curb!
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Fascinating that the one group that basically supports the party and programs already is going to be subjected to this. Preaching to the choir. I guess if its not selling anywhere else...
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this is more than just requiring employees to sit through power point training
operationally this will mean that performance reviews will rate employees on how much preference they gave to equity candidates, equity grants, equity contracts and equity regulations
promotions will also require this
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I suspect this has been going on for awhile in the Fed government. Now they have formalized it.
[Free Beacon] Over six months in office and four waves of judicial nominees, President Joe Biden has yet to name a white male to the federal courts.
Biden has named 24 nominees for the federal bench in the opening six months of his presidency, 19 of whom are minorities. He has also vowed to name the first black woman to the Supreme Court, and may have the opportunity to do so this summer.
The selections are a plain signal that the administration’s judicial selection is driven by racial preference. The prioritization of minority nominees is unprecedented since the administration of former president Jimmy Carter, who openly placed a premium on female and minority candidates. Biden and his outside supporters frame the issue in terms of judicial legitimacy, arguing the courts will not command public confidence if they do not broadly reflect the country’s increasing diversity. The challenge, they add, was exacerbated during the Trump years, when about three-quarters of the president’s nominees were male and more than 80 percent were white.
[New York Post -Video] Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Police in Bangkok, Thailand, arrested arson suspect Kanok Wan, 36, for allegedly dousing her ex-boyfriend’s motorcycle with gasoline and lighting it on fire — after he refused to get back with her.
[InfoWars] The New York Times reported, “The New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously…to relocate the bronze effigy of the nation’s 26th president that has stood at the Upper West Side institution since 1940.”
[Jpost] Two people have been injured in a stabbing attack in the east German city of Erfurt, according to German media.
German news site Die Welt reported on Monday morning that an unknown perpetrator attacked two members of the public, aged 45 and 68, with a knife before fleeing the scene.
The attacker is being described by German police officials as being in his twenties, having light hair, and a scarred face.
Eventually, the officers tracked down and detained the 32-year-old suspect in his own apartment.
The police said the alleged assailant was also injured, but his injuries appeared to be self-inflicted. The authorities moved the suspect to a hospital.
Police said the suspect in Monday's attack, identified as Johannes L.,
...how quickly they name the non-Muslim ones, unconcerned about creating prejudice...
had a history of mental issues and violent mostly peaceful crimes. There was no indication that the stabbings were politically motivated.
Deutsche Welle now thoughtfully adds the following public service message to all such stories:
If you are suffering from serious emotional strain or suicidal thoughts, do not hesitate to seek professional help. You can find information on where to find such help, no matter where you live in the world, at this website: https://www.befrienders.org/
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I was startled by my first example of the fashion at a rocker bar last Thursday. It was open jam night — “Let The Bodies Hit The Floor” got them up on their feet, and Dudley Taft, formerly of grunge bands Sweet Water and Second Coming is a favourite, to give you the flavour of the place. The dress was sweetly dowdy — the fabric was a floral in sepia tones which made the blond young lady fade into the background, paired with Depression era boots and a straw hat — but she clearly felt herself quite stylish.
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Bet you would look 'smashing' in the 50s-2021 style TW, pleasing colors, classic design, hot tomato look, with polka dots (appreciate ladies in polka dots like pic#2) --- Mr. TW might like it too.
I think its great, no grunge, real style, there might be hope for the Zzz's yet, if they get the 'conservative attitude' and 'I like Ike' politics.
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Not gonna happen folks - not today or tomorrow. Perhaps, in a not too distant future... but not today as there is little to no political currency to be had in it.
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Women dressing like women. Is that even allowed anymore?
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Bet you would look 'smashing' in the 50s-2021 style TW, pleasing colors, classic design, hot tomato look, with polka dots (appreciate ladies in polka dots like pic#2) --- Mr. TW might like it too.
You are too kind, Hupulet Untervehr2563. Mr. Wife does indeed enjoy that look on me. If I ever lose the Covid weight I’ll pull out all the cashmere sweaters and pencil skirts I currently have boxed up.
[BIZPACREVIEW] The U.S. Air Force introduced a new weapon earlier this month that can disable hundreds of drones simultaneously without making much noise.
The defensive weapon, called the Tactical High Power Operational Responder, or THOR, utilizes a burst of energy that disorients and disables the electronics inside drones within range.
Air Force officials said THOR will have multiple uses and can serve in a variety of roles and battlespaces.
“THOR uses a focused beam of energy to defeat drones in a large target area,” says the video. “It provides a non-kinetic defeat of multiple targets at the speed of light.”
The Air Force says the system portable enough to be transported in a C-130 aircraft, can be installed in about three hours, uses local power and can be set up by as few as two personnel.
The service branch also said that the system has been tested in real-world conditions and has successfully defeated multiple threats under various conditions using its instantaneous microwave beam.
The system can stop “attacks at long range before they threaten critical infrastructure,” the video concludes.
The first THOR prototype was introduced in New Mexico in 2019 at a cost of $15 million. Each subsequent system costs $10 million to manufacture.
While some bases have been defended by THOR even as it was under development, the objective, according to the Air Force, is to get platoons equipped with fully functional systems by 2024.
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Back in '94 there was a similar rise in lumber when I had my house built. The builder used steel instead, it was cheaper at the time. Only issue I've had is that 'home renovation' isn't going to be HGTV style cause you can't just cut any beams. Nailing baseboard at the corner joints gets a little tricky.
[Townhall] Not all ideas are equal. Some have less intrinsic value. Some are downright bad. Some are inherently dangerous.
Yet one of the reasons that the framers of our nation protected the expression of ideas was so that most could be evaluated and the individual could choose to reject or advance them.
Team Biden is full of bad & inherently dangerous ideas.
1. Biological sex is meaningless.
2. Racial makeup means everything.
3. Life has no value.
4.Laws, boundaries & accountability don’t matter.
5. Private property doesn’t exist.
6. Women are bleeding/birthing people.
7. Fathers are oppressive.
8. aith & Belief are to be eliminated.
9. The dignity of work/earning/saving & building of a legacy is immoral.
10. Merit doesn’t exist.
That’s ten, but you could literally list hundreds.
Everything they touch and each executive order they have issued advances the corrupt core of where such ideas are born.
Some would see these ideas as intuitively Marxist, but they go far beyond that. They do however all carry a key feature of Marxism: Godlessness.
The idea that humans can solve any civil, cultural, or criminal injustice sans an objective moral source is an absurdity.
[Rolling Stone Magazine] Former attorney general William Barr, one of Trump’s true loyalists, literally called "bullshit" on his former boss’s oft-disproven claims of election fraud.
This news comes from an excerpt of a book by ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, Betrayal, which chronicles the last days of the Trump administration. According to the book, Barr concluded it was highly unlikely evidence existed to back up Trump’s voter fraud claims even before Barr gave the go-ahead to go against long-standing Justice Department policy to investigate those claims.
"To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election," Barr told AP reporter Michael Balsamo in December 2020.
On top of giving investigators the OK, Karl reports that Barr began his own unofficial inquiry into the former president’s claims. Barr told Karl that he suspected all along that Trump was lying, and that the time had come for Trump to provide real evidence or move on.
"My attitude was: It was put-up or shut-up time. If there was evidence of fraud, I had no motive to suppress it. But my suspicion all the way along was that there was nothing there. It was all bullshit," Barr said.
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He's a lawyer, read his words for detail. '...highly unlikely evidence existed...' isn't the same thing as it didn't happen or said evidence hasn't been destroyed or indelibly obscured, X is not the same thing as F(X).
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Barr is a prime example of whats wrong with DC. He never takes a stand, just goes with the power base and leaves it at that.
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Yup. "To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election"
Me either, Billy. I'm still waiting for some investigations.
But there is plenty of circumstantial evidence out there.
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#6 /\ Yes, yes, yes, but the Durham indictments are expected on Friday.
Unintentional Snark of the Day!
There were a number of revelations as a result of Donald Trump's presidency - China's hand in almost everything, the resilience of government bureaucracy, the corruption of institutions like the IRS, FBI, EPA and DOJ - but the biggest was that the existential struggle between the Democrats and the Republicans was just part of one big show, like professional wrestling. The fans believe it is life or death, but the story line is as scripted as a Noh play.
We haven’t nearly seen the end to any of this, nor the reaction that it is liable to provoke among citizens who have had enough of being played by their own government. Think about all that while you make plans to celebrate the Fourth of July, a holiday that commemorates an earlier time when the people of this land had enough of being played by their rulers.
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Just your 'opinion',
AGB, you are a deviant.
Should have stuck to your guns,
You didn't and now
you look like a
[VDH at American Greatness] - Debt is suffocating us. Our currency is on its way to being Lebanonized.
Most major American cities are broke, dirty, unsafe, and run by either corrupt incumbents, neo-Marxists, or both. The law is optional, and applied asymmetrically on the basis of race and ideology. The past is found guilty by the laws of the present and so it is being undone.
The military budget is on a trajectory to be the smallest in terms of GDP allotment since World War II; its careerist officers, for their own short-term interests, are now demonizing and will soon be driving away the very demographic that has suffered percentage-wise the greatest casualties in recent wars and was once unquestionably the foundation of the military.
There is no U.S. border; it is an abstract construct that millions will illegally cross in the next few years, ostensibly because they will become future soldiers in the progressive wars for America to come. The idea of merit that built America is a dirty word, replaced by medieval tribalism of hiring and promotion by superficial appearance.
In just five months, Joe Biden created a desert and called it progress.
Progressivism is billed as many things. But its foundational brand is devotion to supposedly "scientific" principles to improve the human condition. That Enlightenment project demands greater social welfare expenditure and therapeutic education to "improve" human nature itself. And all this can sometimes require necessary force.
Such utopian dreams of mandated equity attract all sorts to the cause. There are the naïve who feel socialist redistribution, if at last done right just this once, can really, really create social equity and inclusion. Many of the sympathetic rich assume they will be exempt from the tough medicine that follows from their own guilt or sense of civic duty. Some are opportunistic and parasitical careerists piggy-backing on the chaos. Others are social and psychological zealots who find meaning and relevance as wannabe soldiers marching to utopia.
[Washington Examiner] UFOs exist that appear to display technology the United States does not possess and lacks the ability to defend against, according to a former intelligence chief.
John Ratcliffe, who served as former President Donald Trump’s final director of national intelligence and oversaw the nation’s 18 spy agencies, made the observation while offering insight into a declassified report on "unidentified aerial phenomena," which was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday.
The long-anticipated but very brief document discussed 144 reports of UFOs originating from U.S. government sources between 2004 and 2021. Eighty were observed with multiple different sensors, and most reports described the UFOs as objects that interrupted preplanned military training or other military operations. The ODNI report said "a handful" of the UFOs "appear to demonstrate advanced technology" and "in 18 incidents, described in 21 reports, observers reported unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics." Parts of the assessment also remain classified.
In giving his first public reaction to the unclassified ODNI report since its release, Ratcliffe told Fox News host Dan Bongino for a Saturday episode of Unfiltered that UFOs are a matter of national security and stressed that the real number of UFOs that have been observed remains unknown to the public.
Officials are telling us , We are being visited 🛸, and they don't know by who...
"The scientists identified 1,715 star systems where alien observers could have discovered Earth in the past 5,000 years by watching it ‘transit’ across the face of the sun."
Me, I'll say to them,
Y'all drop on by, and we'll have a drink and toast our new acquaintance, you Boys ever had shine, corn squeezens, or white ⚡ lightning ?
It cures whatever ails you, I guarantee!
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"It's... CRT!" [ripple of fear]
"Why cain't we jes' zerp 'em?"
"Oh,dear."
"Yo, send us to Durrr,
Where there could be a cure!"
"Fellow Alphans, the answer is clear...
And it's thirteen-thirds light years from here!"
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Has anyone seen the Alien movies? I always thought it's less about the deadly crawling things that may populate space, and more about the certainty of Americans bringing them home.
'Something is out there'
... and it hates us!
But verily let's go,
ask how it rates us.
Mayhap we shall,
without Sharpton Al
learn to love it
while it face rapes us.
[PJ] On Friday, the U.S. Department of Commerce again confirmed the ominous warning sign of inflation as the U.S. economy adjusts to global economic trends, the winding down of the COVID-19 pandemic, and President Joe Biden’s profligate government spending. While many economists and policymakers claim that the recent uptick in inflation is temporary, a recent Deutsche Bank report warned of a repeat of the 1970s.
The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index rose 0.4 percent in May, slightly less than the 0.5 percent increase economists predicted, MarketWatch reported. Over the past year, consumer prices have shot up 3.9 percent, reflecting the biggest gain since 2008 when oil prices hit a record high of $150 per barrel.
This PCE number is double the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent goal, but officials have downplayed the increase. Fed leaders argue that prices will lower next year as the economy returns to normal, most people go back to work, and widespread shortages of labor and supplies fade away.
The core PCE price index, the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation, rose 0.5 percent in May, hitting 3.4 percent, above the 3.1 percent April figure.
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The traditonal bureaucratic solution to inflation is to remove from the consumer price index anything that a consumer might actually buy.
"Anvils! Look at that! The price of anvils is rock steady."
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Container shipping delays out of south China will extend inflation and drive it higher...container rates are already 7 times what they were last year.
[Hot Air] The Texas Supreme Court is on a roll. Yesterday I wrote about a groundbreaking decision made by the court that Facebook can be held liable for sex traffickers who use the social media platform to recruit and prey on children. Today there is a "landmark" decision to be heralded from the court. A retail sports chain cannot be held responsible for selling a gun used in a massing shooting.
The mass shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in 2017 resulted in the deaths of 25 innocent churchgoers and 20 injured. A madman entered the church during Sunday morning services and opened fire. Those murdered included a pregnant woman. He turned the gun on himself after that, dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. This horrific event is Texas’ deadliest ever mass shooting. The attention turned to the mass shooter, a 26-year-old former airman, and how he came to have possession of his weapon, a Model 8500 Ruger AR-556, fitted with a 30-round magazine. The former airman had a troubled military record — he served a year in confinement after an assault conviction in 2012 and was released from the USAF in 2014 with a bad conduct discharge. He lived in Comal County, outside of San Antonio. Apparently, this developed from a domestic dispute and his mother-in-law was a member of the church.
With that record, the shooter should not have been in possession of a gun, right? Survivors and families of victims filed four lawsuits against Academy Sports + Outdoors, the retailer who sold the gun to the shooter. The lawsuits accused Academy Sports of negligence for making the sale in the first place. On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision — Academy Sports can not be held responsible for the actions of the gun owner. It tossed all four lawsuits.
As it turns out, Academy Sports did all it could to make a responsible sale. It followed the law and performed a background check. The shooter, however, wasn’t properly flagged as a risk. The Air Force dropped the ball. The Air Force didn’t enter his domestic violence conviction against his wife and infant son into a government database. This would have prevented him from passing a background check to purchase the gun.
When the lawsuits were filed, Academy Sports claimed it was shielded by the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. This law protects firearms dealers and manufacturers from lawsuits when the gun owner legally purchases a weapon and then uses it in a crime. The retail store asked State District Judge Karen H. Pozza, a Democrat, to throw out the lawsuits but she ruled against Academy Sports.
The unanimous ruling by the Texas Supreme Court was signed by Justice Debra Lehrmann. How could Academy Sports disqualify the shooter from purchasing a gun if the information against him wasn’t available?
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Car dealers for misuse of their product leading to deaths. Alcohol producers for the consequences of their product in the hands (guts and brains) of the usual suspects. In the latter some bars have been held accountable when they knew the patron was already drunk but continued service leading to dire consequences for others. The standard is that if the product is legal and sold iaw with the law, the manufacturer is not subject to litigation for the misuse of their product.
We share the complaint, but the key is that Mr. Spenser found the Somali jihadi’s name, or at least part of it:
[PJMedia] German authorities are baffled: a knife-wielding man, identified in the German media as "Jibril A.," stabbed three people to death and injured five others in Wurzburg, Germany, on Friday. Police and intelligence officials have no idea why he did it. Yes, he was screaming, "holy shit! Allahu akbar!" during his attacks, and yes, he told police interrogators after he was arrested that he had now carried out his "jihad," but really, what does that even mean? The German-language Tagesspiegel reported Saturday that "the motive for the fatal knife attack in Wurzburg on Friday has still not been fully clarified." Of course it hasn’t. After all, Islam is a religion of peace!
According to Tagesspiegel, Bavaria’s Interior Minister, Joachim Herrmann, said that "it must now be determined to what extent the psychological condition of the 24-year-old Somali played a role." Hermann revealed that "his condition had been noticed in recent months, including violent mostly peaceful tendencies, and a few days ago he was put into compulsory psychiatric treatment."
Hermann did acknowledge that Jibril’s screams of "holy shit! Allahu akbar" and identification of his act as a "jihad" do suggest "a possible Islamist motive, and that is also part of the investigation," but it’s clear that German authorities are favoring the idea that Jibril is mentally ill over the possibility that he is a jihad terrorist. German government front man Steffen Seibert tweeted Saturday: "The investigation will reveal what the motive was of the gunman from #Wurzburg. One thing is certain: His horrific act is directed against all humanity and every religion. All thoughts and prayers are with the seriously injured and the families of the victims in their pain today."
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Insanity. Mass insanity. Also the people who keep voting in these mental pieces of shit. All insane.
...His horrific act is directed against all humanity and every religion. All thoughts and prayers are with the seriously injured and the families of the victims... look, we don't really give a shit.
In which it is discovered that once again the FBI and Department of Justice attorney did not check any of the required boxes before charging ahead with destroying the life of their latest target.
[STUNDIN] A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.
The man in question, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, was recruited by US authorities to build a case against Assange after misleading them to believe he was previously a close associate of his. In fact he had volunteered on a limited basis to raise money for Wikileaks in 2010 but was found to have used that opportunity to embezzle more than $50,000 from the organization. Julian Assange was visiting Thordarson’s home country of Iceland around this time due to his work with Icelandic media and members of parliament in preparing the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a press freedom project that produced a parliamentary resolution supporting whistleblowers and investigative journalism.
The United States is currently seeking Assange’s extradition from the United Kingdom in order to try him for espionage relating to the release of leaked classified documents. If convicted, he could face up to 175 years in prison. The indictment has sparked fears for press freedoms in the United States and beyond and prompted strong statements in support of Assange from Amnesty International, Reporters without borders, the editorial staff of the Washington Post and many others.
US officials presented an updated version of an indictment against him to a Magistrate court in London last summer. The veracity of the information contained therein is now directly contradicted by the main witness, whose testimony it is based on.
HR 2021-010101 Anti-Liberal Espionage Act. to be introduced by Pelosi.
Henceforth, it shall be a Capital Crime with confinement until which time your suicide is carried out, for releasing documents or information related to the possible illegal or questionable activities of Socialist and/or Democrat politicians.
[Mint Press News] AFGHANISTAN — The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even warned that the economic dislocation could spark widespread famine. But one sector is still booming: the illicit opium trade. Last year saw Afghan opium poppy cultivation grow by over a third while counter-narcotics operations dropped off a cliff. The country is said to be the source of over 90% of all the world’s illicit opium, from which heroin and other opioids are made. More land is under cultivation for opium in Afghanistan than is used for coca production across all of Latin America, with the creation of the drug said to directly employ around half a million people.
This is a far cry from the 1970s, when poppy production was minimal, and largely for domestic consumption. But this changed in 1979 when the CIA launched Operation Cyclone, the widespread funding of Afghan Mujahideen militias in an attempt to bleed dry the then-recent Soviet invasion. Over the next decade, the CIA worked closely with its Pakistani counterpart, the ISI, to funnel $2 billion worth of arms and assistance to these groups, including the now infamous Osama Bin Laden and other warlords known for such atrocities as throwing acid in the faces of unveiled women.
"From statements by U.S. Ambassador [to Iran] Richard Helms, there was little heroin production in Central Asia by the mid 1970s," Professor Alfred McCoy, author of "The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade," told MintPress. But with the start of the CIA secret war, opium production along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border surged and refineries soon dotted the landscape. Trucks loaded with U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons would travel from Pakistan into its neighbor to the west, returning filled to the brim with opium for the new refineries, their deadly product ending up on streets worldwide. With the influx of Afghan opium in the 1980s — Jeffrey St. Clair, co-author of "Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press," alleges — heroin addiction more than doubled in the United States.
"In order to finance the resistance for a protracted period, the Mujahideen had to come up with a livelihood beyond the weapons that the CIA was providing," McCoy said, noting that the weapons issued could not feed the fighters’ families, nor reimburse them for lost labor:
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An interesting site that certainly digs deeper than most. Odd that this comes from a site that describes itself as follows
We focus our coverage on issues relating to the effects of special interest groups, big business and lobbying efforts and how they shape policies at home and abroad, including American foreign policy. Through the lens of social justice and human rights, we report on how these dynamics drive our foreign affairs and impact the world, and examine the effects they have on our democracy and freedoms as defined by the constitution.
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Simplistic. Afghanistan and Pakistan were THE major suppliers of opiates to Western Europe and North America in the mid-1970s. They took over from Burma/Laos because political and military instability and a long drought reduced movement of opium from the Golden Triangle. Myriad news reports in the nineteen seventies tied Pakistan military to the poppy trade in Afghanistan. There was Pak military operations all along the Northwest Frontier. They have not ceased to this day.
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The campaign against Paraquat goes back at least to New York Times, "POISONOUS FALLOUT FROM THE WAR ON MARIJUANA", By Jesse Kornbluth, Nov. 19, 1978.
[American Thinker] Technically speaking, Donald Trump is a loser. After all, it’s Biden who’s occupying the Oval Office. But let’s not get entangled in technicalities. Forty-one percent of Americans believe that Trump actually won the election and that Biden’s ascension was the result of fraud, with over half of Republicans holding that belief. And as Biden has managed, remarkably swiftly, to destroy the border, the economy, the military, education, and more, worried patriots are redoubling their support for Trump. So, when Trump, the man who didn’t win, calls a rally, thousands upon thousands of people show up. And the people who attended the rally in Wellington, Ohio, got vintage Trump.
The red-capped crowd filled the stands and the overflow area:
What worries me is the competition between to the Deep State vs. Socialist-Democrats to find, plan and activate their next James Earl Ray, John Hinckley/Oswald/Squeaky etc... solution to their problem.
List of assassination attempts on Presidents who upset the Deep State Apple cart:
Eisenhower: 38.
Kennedy: 42.
Nixon: 184.
Reagan: 197.
Trump: 2. Note: A complete list on Trump attempts still has not been released yet.
Interesting History Note
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was shot and still finished delivering his campaign speech before seeking medical attention. Teddy was running against SOCIALIST Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson who won by a slim margin.
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...some historians note that if Teddy had gone directly to the hospital, he would have garnered a greater 'sympathy' vote to get the office.
N.B. Given that Obama ended the tradition that former presidents keep their mouth shut about their successors, the road was opened for Trump to be Trump.
#6
They lived in different eras in what was acceptable, tolerable, or social norms of behavior. People who lived a hundred years ago had more in common with those who lived a thousand years before them, than we today have in common with those who lived a 100 years ago.
[Just The News] China is waging a "malign" campaign for global domination by 2049, coaxing or coercing U.S. firms to give up technology and intellectual property, usurping U.S. capital to build its companies and supplanting critical American supply chains, House Intelligence Committee Republicans warned Sunday in a memo outlining the stark challenges between Washington and Beijing.
The lawmakers led by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the panel's ranking Republican, announced they had begun an investigation into China's intentions on U.S. soil and the vulnerabilities they create and identified several preliminary conclusions from the evidence gathered so far.
"China is executing a plan to undermine and co-opt U.S. business," Nunes told Just the News. "Corporate America needs to understand that China is targeting them, often using lucrative access to Chinese markets as a means to acquire their technology and innovations, and even to force them to suppress their own employees' freedom of speech on China issues."
The most stark warning in the memo is that U.S. companies and financiers are aiding and abetting China's push — wittingly and unwittingly — to replace the United States as the premier global power.
"The Chinese government's grip on business is a powerful platform for malign influence," the memo stated.
"U.S. businesses are being manipulated and/or coerced into sharing key technologies with China and helping Beijing acquire sensitive intellectual property, which benefits China-based firms at the expense of U.S. industry," it added.
[BBC] Twenty-one men have been executed in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland after they were convicted of being members of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.
They were sentenced by a military court in Galkayo and shot by a firing squad.
State radio said 18 of the men had carried out assassinations and bombings over more than a decade.
As they were being executed the group attacked a town in another part of Somalia, reportedly killing soldiers.
Similar death sentences have been handed down by courts in other parts of Somalia before.
But this is reported to be the largest number of executions of al-Shabab members ever in Puntland.
[SHAFAQ] The Central Criminal Court in the Federal Appeal Presidency of al-Rusafa issued death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s against nine convicts involved in the Camp Speicher massacre in Saladin, in 2014.
The media center of the Supreme Judicial Council aid in a statement, "The convicts confessed to their participation in the execution of the Speicher crime and killing innocents in the summer of 2014, according to terrorist plots during the control of ISIS gangs."
The statement added that the court found sufficient evidence to criminalize the convicts following the provisions of Article 4 of the Anti-Terrorism Law No. 13 of 2005.
ISIS executed about 1,700 soldiers at Camp Speicher in Saladin Governorate, when it took control of the area in June 2014, in one of the worst mass killings during the era of the organization that extended until late last year.
Residents of #Syria’s #Palmyra say that the Iran-backed Liwa Fatemiyoun has seized four civilian homes, accusing their owners of affiliation with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.https://t.co/ucA9qIGGLm
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 27, 2021
Liwa Fatemiyoun are Iran’s Afghan Shiite irregulars.
Direct translation of the article. Edited. A REGNUM continues to investigate the traces of Hitler's aggression and genocide on the territory of modern Russia. Our new step on this path is a series of essays on concentration, labor, transfer camps on the territory of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation within its current borders.
Palestinians continue their nightly disturbances near the Evyatar outpost in the #WestBank. If the outpost does evacuate (by force or willingly) it's likely this will repeat itself in other areas in the #WestBank. pic.twitter.com/Da730MBdfo
Fatah gunmen marching in Halhul in support of President Mahmoud Abbas. This is likely occurring because of the recent protests against the Palestinian Authority's recent killing of one of its critics, Nizar Banat. #WestBankpic.twitter.com/02swbefX7P
[IsraelTimes] Nasri Abu Jaishto to resign on Monday as his Left-wing Paleostinian People’s Party withdraws from PA government over death in jug of Nizar Banat.
The labor minister in the Paleostinian Authority will resign, a member of his party said Sunday, as protesters marched for a fourth day demanding PA president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... step down.
The left-wing Paleostinian People’s Party has decided to withdraw from the Fatah-led PA government due to "its lack of respect for laws and public freedoms," central committee member Issam Abu Bakr said.
Nasri Abu Jaish, the labor minister and the People’s Party representative in the government, will therefore resign on Monday, Abu Bakr told AFP.
Demonstrations against the PA erupted Thursday following the violent mostly peaceful arrest and death in jug of activist Nizar Banat and continued Sunday evening.
Banat, a 43-year-old known for social media videos denouncing alleged corruption within the PA, died on Thursday shortly after security forces stormed his house, beat him, and dragged him away, his family said.
The PA has announced the opening of an investigation into Banat’s death, but it has done little to appease anger on the streets.
On Sunday evening, protesters defied a heavy deployment of security forces, holding up photographs of the activist as they marched in the West Bank, in Banat’s hometown of Hebron.
In Ramallah, the seat of the PA, protesters demanded those responsible for Banat’s death be held accountable, while several supporters of the Fatah party of Abbas gathered to shout slogans backing the president.
The Paleostinian Journalists Syndicate called for the dismissal of the PA police chief "due to the police’s failure to protect journalists who were attacked, prevented from reporting and threatened" within view of coppers at the protests.
According to the autopsy, injuries indicated Banat had been beaten on the head, chest, neck, legs, and hands, with less than hour elapsing between his arrest and his death, doctor Samir Abu Zarzour said.
On Saturday, protesters in Ramallah hurled rocks at Paleostinian security forces, who opened fire with a barrage of tear gas canisters, with reports of several injured.
Paleostinian human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... group al-Haq on Sunday accused security forces of "attacking the participants with batons and rocks" while dragging others to the ground and beating them, adding that some suffered head injuries.
Protesters called for 86-year-old Abbas to quit.
Banat had registered as a candidate in Paleostinian parliamentary elections, which had been set for May until Abbas postponed them indefinitely. The president’s original mandate expired in 2009 and he has since governed by decree.
In April, Abbas declared that legislative and presidential polls set for May and July respectively should not be held until Israel guaranteed voting could take place in annexed East Jerusalem.
Al-Haq warned there had been a "serious regression on public rights and freedoms" since the decision to scrap the elections.
In addition to holding the presidency, Abbas is also head of Fatah and president of the Paleostine Liberation Organisation (PLO), recognized internationally as representing the Paleostinians.
But Fatah faces a growing challenge from its longtime rivals, the Islamist terror organization Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, which rules the Paleostinian coastal enclave of 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...
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[REGNUM] Representatives of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (NPLF) shot down a C-130 Hercules aircraft of the Ethiopian Armed Forces. This is reported by the publication Air Live.
The incident took place on June 23 in Tigray province. The downed liner belonged to the 15th squadron located at the Debre-Zeit air base. The plane was carrying ammunition and explosives.
Tigray People's Liberation fighters claimed responsibility for the downed plane that was provided to the Ethiopian Air Force by the United States in 2014.
Recall that the NPT is a rebel group fighting against the government of Ethiopia, the conflict erupted in November 2020, after the militants attacked a military base of the country's air force.
[ToloNews] Five districts have fallen to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in the last 24 hours, including Shor Tapa in Balkh, Chak and Sayed Abad in Maidan Wardak, Rustaq in Takhar and Arghistan in Kandahar, adding another layer of complexity to the alarming situation that has emerged following the fall of territory to the bully boy group.
Takhar politicians in Parliament said Rustaq is the 13th district in the northeastern province that has fallen to the Taliban in recent weeks.
"The Shirkhan border town is fully under Taliban control. Reports indicate that Aqina border town has also collapsed and Ai Khanum town, that shares a border with Tajikistan in Dasht-e-Qala district, is also under threat," said Hamiduddin Yuldash, an MP from Takhar.
The fall of strategic districts in the north, south and west has created concerns over the possible infiltration of Taliban into the income-generating territory in the country, including the Shirkhan town in Kunduz on the border with Tajikistan.
Kunduz's provincial council and a private sector entity said that they are concerned about the loss of Shirkhan's incomes to the Taliban and warned of threats posed to other border towns — the Aqina border town in Faryab and Ai Khanum in Takhar.
"Security problems have increased recently. Sometimes the customs department and the finance ministry tries to transfer its employees from one place to another," said Hujjat Fazli, the CEO of Harakat, an entity facilitating investment opportunities for the private sector.
"We ask the government to pay serious attention to Shirkhan border town, to retake it," said Khaluddin Hakimi, a member of the Kunduz provincial council.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... , former vice president, warned the Taliban that he will return to Jawzjan in the near future and will suppress the Taliban after consultation with the president.
"I will begin my work. I will suppress them. I am calling on the security forces to come to me when I arrive," Dostum told TOLOnews.
The deputy minister of interior for policy, Naqibullah Fayiq, said that the Taliban’s focus is on income-generating areas, including border towns, but pledged that these areas will be cleared of the group.
He said that 11 districts have been retaken from the Taliban in the last three days.
Figures collected by TOLOnews indicate that 108 districts have fallen to the Taliban in the last two months, but security forces have retaken 10 of the districts during this period.
ISIS claims responsibility for a rocket attack on a power station in Iraq, the group's Nasheer News says on its Telegram channel.https://t.co/LMNJkFSN8M
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Welcome to Murica,
where we live with the pain
of prepubescent liberty
and short term gain.
Where Christ has become
today's Freddy Krueger,
and all we have to show for it
is one plastic booger.
[IsraelTimes] Malaysian hacking group calling itself DragonForce distributes information on Telegram app, including names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.
Pro-Paleostinian hackers have stolen the personal information of hundreds of thousands of Israeli students and have begun leaking it online, including names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and home addresses.
The cyberattack was announced by a group calling itself DragonForce Malaysia in a post to its website. In a message posted to a forum on the site, the group called on hackers, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... organizations, and activists to campaign against Israel, which it repeatedly referred to as "Israhell."
Student details were at first shared on Malaysian groups using the Telegram app.
The hackers tied the leak to Israel’s recent 11 days of fighting with terror groups in the 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... Strip.
Malaysian hackers behind the data breach apparently scooped information from the website of AcadeMe, one of the largest recruitment networks in the country for students and graduates seeking work. AcadeMe works with leading higher education institutes including Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University, the Open University, Bar-Ilan University, the Technion, and the University of Haifa as well as many colleges.
Cybersecurity expert May Brooks-Kempler, who administers the Think Cyber Safe group on Facebook, is investigating the extent of the hack. Details of some 280,000 students from 2014 to the present were leaked along with some 100,000 email addresses, Brooks-Kempler found.
She warned that the details could be used in cyberattacks focused on those who signed up to AcadeMe and advised users to change passwords and be alert to any suspicious emails, text messages or phone calls they may receive.
In December last year a hacking group calling itself Black Shadow broke into the Shirbit insurance firm stealing client details and demanding a ransom or it would publish the data to the internet. The company refused to pay and the hackers later said they had sold the information on the dark web.
God damn Joe Biden to the deepest ring of Hell for all the pain and destroyed lives he is causing, and all those who encouraged these trekkers, and all who think it is no big deal to open our borders to those coming here illegally.
The report continues at the link.
[MichaelYon] 27 June 2021
Panama City, Panama
Mind-burst, sans edit
(Paraphrasing from memory but I have verbatim transcript.)
Just interviewed a man who was in Darien jungle 22 days. He made it to Costa Rica. In San Jose now, trying to get passport and back to Ecuador. His trip to America is over.
Name: Nxxx xxxx. (Elided by me.) I asked why his first name sounds Arab and is family name sounds Armenian.
He said dad from Armenia but he grew up in Paleostine and now has business Ecuador, but the socialist president destroyed Ecuador. He was specific and without prompting that he and his younger Cuban wife struck out for United States due to Biden opening border.
His Cuban wife abandoned him in the jungle. She is in Tapachula, Mexico now heading to her family in Dallas.
Without prompting, he said the robbers and rapists he encountered are from xxxx xxxxx (elided by me)
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He was so injured after the Mountain of Death (the third mountain after entering Darien from Colombia), that he slept four nights alone in the jungle alone. Guides on Colombia side left him his group after two days and they got lost on third day at the Montaña de la Muerte (Mountain of Death).
The 13 Cubans he was with left him in the jungle.
He said the guides got cell signal by climbing trees like monkeys. High up in the trees. This sounds like Embera or other Indians. You may recall that I sometimes mention their climbing to the clouds fast like monkeys. He said they just climb up a tree and make a call.
Nxxxx could no longer walk. Pulled in between two rocks for protection. Mosquitoes terrible. Used his wife’s perfume to rid the mosquitos and he said it worked, but it rained heavily each night. (I confirm rain...I was not far away in Darien when he was lost).
Nxxxx had thrown out all his clothes. Most of them do. Said vultures literally landed in trees above and he could see them waiting in circles above. (I confirm that jungle is loaded vultures — the only place I have seen so many is Florida in winter.)
Nxxxx was stuck there for four days no walking. Just praying. Nxxxx said he saw many bibles along the trail, btw. — people were so exhausted and danger so high on the Mountain of Death that many were throwing away even food.
Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ians came and fed and helped him. Nxxxx said Africans and Haitians were very good to him but Latins not. Latins just passed him by but Africans and Haitians helped a lot. I said that is good because I hear many bad stories about Haitians, but I am meeting Haitians who seem fine people and often are helping people in the jungle.
[Daily Wire] Elected officials in San Francisco will soon decide whether the city should keep spending millions on "safe sleeping villages" for homeless people as its COVID-19 emergency response winds down.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the city's homelessness department "is pushing to continue an expensive tent encampment program that it says is crucial for keeping people off the sidewalks, despite its high price tag of more than $60,000 per tent, per year." The outlet reported that "the program currently costs $18.2 million for about 260 tents," and "the department is now asking for $15 million in the upcoming fiscal year for a similar number of tents, which amounts to about $57,000 per tent per year."
Some of the sites are operated by nonprofits, while the tent program is entirely financed through a business tax measure overwhelmingly passed by voters in 2018.
"If the funding is approved, San Francisco will pay about twice the median cost of a one-bedroom apartment for people to sleep in tents for the second year in a row," the Chronicle reported.
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Parking lots are essentially renting parking spaces for 160 dollars a day.... who doesn't like that idea, the kickbacks and guaranteed income make for some amazing graft, and it looks like the city is doing something when in fact they do nothing but use taxpayer money to pay off friends and maintain the status quo.
[ToloNews] Former vice president Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... , who is in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... for treatment, said Sunday he will soon return to his home province of Jawzjan in northern Afghanistan to suppress the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in the north, after consultation with President Ghani and the Defense Ministry.
"I predicted this years ago," Dostum said, referring to Taliban offensives in northern provinces. "All districts, tanks were handed over to the Taliban without resistance. I don’t know what the plan is?"
He said that the reason behind the fall of the districts should be investigated.
"We have seen such issues many times. I was telling them that such a situation will come and I asked Mr. President to assign someone capable because even your security guard will not remain beside you the next day," Dostum said. "Now that such a situation has come, we will come to the north, it is our home, I have been raised there... I will be proud if I am killed and martyred there."
Dostum called on the security forces and public uprising members to not surrender to the Taliban and to continue fighting against the group.
"I will never leave the territory," he pledged, saying that he will definitely return.
This comes as the Taliban has intensified their offensives against Afghan forces on multiple fronts. So far over the last two months, over 100 districts have fallen to the group.
Five districts have fallen to the Taliban in the last 24 hours, including Shor Tapa in Balkh, Chak and Sayed Abad in Maidan Wardak, Rustaq in Takhar and Arghistan in Kandahar, adding another layer of complexity to the alarming situation that has emerged following the fall of territory to the holy warrior group.
Takhar politicians in Parliament said Rustaq is the 13th district in the northeastern province that has fallen to the Taliban in recent weeks.
The fall of strategic districts in the north, south and west has created concerns over the possible infiltration of Taliban into the income-generating territory in the country, including the Shirkhan town in Kunduz on the border with Tajikistan.
Kunduz's provincial council and a private sector entity said that they are concerned about the loss of Shirkhan's income to the Taliban and warned of threats posed to other border towns — the Aqina border town in Faryab and Ai Khanum in Takhar.
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The movie about the Special Forces A Team assigned to Dostums part of the Norther Alliance was a terrific semi=documentary. Dostum was an impressive character in that, and seemed a decent ally. But he is mired in an entire nation stuck in the miasma of fundamentalist Islam playing with tribal mindsets, western technology and the wealth of the drug trade.
Thank you GW Bush for your naive thinking we could fix the place. Lives and treasure have accomplished little in the long run.
Al-Shabaab militants kill at least 12 people in a raid on a town and military base in central #Somalia, the army and local officials say.https://t.co/LOWUVjwMPf
Militants attacked the base and nearby town of Wisil in Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... state, more than 700 kilometers (430 miles) from the capital Mogadishu, several sources told AFP.
Abdirahman Adan, commander of a paramilitary unit in Galmudug state, said by telephone it was difficult to know the exact number of dead. But for the moment they knew that 12 people, six of them from the security forces, had died in Wisil.
The attackers had been pushed back and many of them had been killed, he added, without saying how many.
Abdullahi Sahal, a community leader in Wisil, also said six civilians and six soldiers had been killed.
The attack started with the detonation of a vehicle loaded with explosives, said another paramilitary commander, Mohammed Mire.
"After the boom-mobile explosion, they started heavy machine guns," he said. But the security pushed them back, inflicting losses, and they were now in full control, he added.
Ahmed Ayanle, a local resident, said: "There was a enormous explosion which hit the town before a heavy exchange of gunfire started early in the morning."
"The fighting went on for more than an hour before the al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... bully boyz pulled out," he added.
Another local, Bashir Ahmed, said he had seen three dead soldiers and 10 others maimed.
The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab confirmed the attack and claimed 34 soldiers at the military base had been killed.
Also on Sunday, further north in the state of 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... , the authorities announced they had executed 21 al-Shabaab members — the largest ever execution carried out in Somalia.
Colonel Mumin Abdi Shire, commander of the Mudug region in Puntland, said they had been convicted by a local military court.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates on Thursday mocked an "Oppressive Language List" posted by Brandeis University that deemed words like "picnic" and "trigger warning" offensive.The private Massachusetts university made headlines this week over its "Oppressive Language List" published on its website, which encourages the school community to stop using certain terms "that may hurt those who have experienced violence." It lists phrases like "trigger warning" and "killing it" as violent mostly peaceful language, and "you guys" and "freshman" are labeled "gender exclusive" instead of inclusive.
An entry suggesting "outdoor eating" as an alternative word to "picnic," because "picnic" has been "associated with lynchings of Black people," appeared to have been removed since the list went viral — but not before it caught the attention of Ms. Oates, a visiting professor at the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Berkeley, and an outspoken liberal.
"What is strange is that while the word ’picnic’ is suggested for censorship, because it evokes, in some persons, lynchings of Black persons in the US, the word ’lynching’ is not itself censored," Ms. Oates tweeted.
"What sort of punishment is doled out for a faculty member who utters the word ’picnic’ at Brandeis?— or the phrase ’trigger warning’? loss of tenure, public flogging, self-flagellation?" she mused.
Brandeis spokeswoman Julie Jette released a statement saying the list was developed by students who have "noted that many people who have experienced violence may be further harmed by the language others use in speaking with them," the New York Post reported.
"The list is in no way an accounting of terms that Brandeis students, faculty or staff are prohibited from using or must substitute instead," the statement said. "It is simply a resource that can be accessed by anyone who wants to consider their own language in an effort to be respectful of others who may have different reactions to certain terms and phrases."
[FOXNEWS] The U.S. military has conducted defensive precision Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against three facilities near the Iraq-Syria border region Sunday evening.
According to Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby, the facilities are used by several Iran-backed militia groups engaged in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks against U.S. personnel and facilities in Iraq, including Kata'ib Hezbollah (KH) and Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS).
"As demonstrated by this evening's strikes, President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?...... has been clear that he will act to protect U.S. personnel. Given the ongoing series of attacks by Iran-backed groups targeting U.S. interests in Iraq, the President directed further military action to disrupt and deter such attacks," Kirby added. "The United States took necessary, appropriate, and deliberate action designed to limit the risk of escalation - but also to send a clear and unambiguous deterrent message."
A U.S. defense official with knowledge of the strikes told Fox News that US Air Force F-15s and F-16s were used in the operation. The strikes took place at approximately 6 p.m. Eastern Time, or 1 a.m. local time.
At least one facility used by Iran’s militia forces to launch and recover drones was destroyed, the official added. Recent strikes by the crude drones have targeted Americans in Baghdad and Erbil in northern Iraq.
The official said he does not expect "a lot of casualties" from the Iranian-backed forces because of the time of the strike.
All U.S. jets returned to base without a problem, the official added.
Everybody seems busily meeting, all of a sudden — are they just confirming long-distance arrangements made during the Covid shutdown, or has something changed that requies new urgency?
[IsraelTimes] The visit to Baghdad by Sissi — hailed for brokering 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... ceasefire — marks the first time an Egyptian head of state has entered Iraq in three decades.
Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq agreed to bolster security and economic cooperation at a tripartite summit on Sunday that saw an Egyptian head of state visit Iraq for the first time in three decades.
The visits by Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II came as Iraq seeks to move closer to Arab allies of the United States in the Middle East.
Iraq is also seeking to establish itself as a mediator between Arab countries and Iran, after reportedly hosting talks in April between Tehran and Riyadh.
Sissi and Abdullah met Iraqi President Barham Saleh and Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi, with Saleh saying the encounter was "an eloquent message amid enormous regional challenges."
"Iraq’s recovery paves the way to an integrated system for our region built on the fight against extremism, respect for illusory sovereignty and economic partnership," Saleh said on Twitter.
The summit held between Kadhemi and his guests broached regional issues, as well as ways of bolstering cooperation between Iraq, Jordan and Egypt in the fields of security, energy and trade, according to a joint statement released at the end of the meeting.
The leaders discussed a "political solution" to Syria’s 10-year civil war based on UN resolutions "that would preserve its security and stability and provide adequate conditions for the return of refugees."
The Syria conflict has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions, with refugees flooding the borders of neighboring countries including Jordan, which lacks in resources and faces economic hardships.
The leaders welcomed efforts underway to restore stability in Libya and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , and called for the departure of foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya.
They called for renewed efforts to reach a "just and comprehensive peace" between Israel and the Paleostinians, and for the creation of an independent Paleostinian state.
They also hailed Egypt’s role in negotiating an end to deadly hostilities between Israel and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, in Gaza in May, and Cairo’s pledge to help rebuild the coastal enclave.
Kadhemi set the tone at the start of the summit, saying the three countries would "try to shape a common vision... through cooperation and coordination" regarding Syria, Libya, Yemen, and Paleostine.
Sissi is the first Egyptian president to visit Baghdad since Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s troops invaded Kuwait in 1990.
Relations between Baghdad and Cairo have improved in recent years, and officials from the two countries have conducted visits.
The Jordanian king visited in early 2019 for the first time in 10 years.
Media reports revealed that Iranian and Saudi officials met in Baghdad in April, their first high-level meeting since Riyadh cut diplomatic ties with Tehran in 2016.
Iraqi analyst Ihsan al-Shamari said that Sunday’s summit was “a message for the United States that Iraq will not only have relations with Iran at the expense of Arab countries.”
Analysts have long said that Iraq is a battleground for influence between arch-foes Washington and Tehran, with whom it maintains good relations.
[ToloNews] Clashes between government forces and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... have reached the outskirts of Charikar City in the central province of Parwan — 63 kilometers north of Kabul — but troops on the ground have not received orders from the center to retake the collapsed areas from the bad boys.
The control of two districts in Parwan, Siah Gerd district and Shinwari, fell to the Taliban in the last few days.
TOLOnews news hound Khaled Nikzad, who visited the frontlines in the Dara-e-Ghorband area of Parwan, said public uprising forces have joined the security and defense forces to fight the Taliban.
"Taliban are now in the position to make advances and we will not allow them to make advances toward Charikar City," said Hasibullah, a police officer in Parwan.
Some troops on the frontlines said they are fighting with less equipment than the turbans facing them.
"All these mujahedeen that you see here are waiting for an order to fight against this evil group and save the people from them," said Aziz Agha, member of public uprising forces.
"If you (Talibs) are killed you are from the Afghan nation, and if security forces are martyred they are also from this nation. We should try to come together," said Qazi Amin, a member of public uprising forces, referring to unity among the people.
Parwan residents said that the increase in Taliban attacks on Ghorband — 50 kilometers from Kabul — has raised concerns about their safety.
"If attention is not paid to the Dara-e-Ghorband valley, it is likely the Taliban will enter Charikar," said Hashmat, a Parwan resident.
"The forces should be supported to protect the city," said Khanullah, a Parwan resident.
But local officials in the province said that efforts to retake the lost areas have started.
"The security forces are there and they will soon push back the enemy and will not allow it to advance," said Abdul Wase, Security Officer at Parwan Police Headquarters.
[ToloNews] At least 13 people were maimed in a kaboom that targeted a bus carrying dozens of passengers in the city of Charikar, 63 kilometers north of Kabul in Parwan province, police confirmed.
The blast happened in Charikar’s District 2 at around 3:30 pm Afghanistan time on Sunday, police said.
Police said three of the maimed are at death's door.
Parwan police front man Salim Noori said women and kiddies were among the maimed.
Details are still not available about a blast that occurred in Bagram district of Parwan on May 29 that targeted a bus carrying university lecturers, killing four people.
[AlAhram] A record-low turnout of 33% in the first round of voting on June 20 proved particularly damaging for the National Rally and Le Pen's hopes of securing a regional breakthrough.
Mainstream candidates delivered a stinging setback to La Belle France's far right in regional elections on Sunday, thwarting its hopes of winning control of a region for the first time and slowing its momentum ahead of the presidential contest next year.
The Ifop polling agency estimated that the far right National Rally accrued no more than 20% of votes nationally, trailing both the mainstream right and the combined showing of green and leftist candidates.
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That’ll no doubt be another attack courtesy of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which the CIA believes is affiliated with ISIS.
[AlAhram] The mayor of the eastern DR Congo city of Beni declared a curfew on Sunday after three weekend kabooms.
An artisanal bomb went kaboom! early Sunday in a Catholic church in the city, injuring two women, followed hours later by a suicide kaboom outside a bar.
On Saturday, another bomb went kaboom! next to a petrol station on the outskirts of Beni without causing any damage.
[NPASYRIA] On Sunday morning, 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) claimed an liquidation attempt of the head of the Farmers Union in Raqqa, north Syria.
Through its official media pages, ISIS said, its members targeted two cars of an "official and a member of the Civil Council" with machine guns, which led to their injury and damage to the vehicles they were traveling in.
The button men shot Ali Muhammad al-Salem, head of the Farmers Union in Raqqa, near Abu Fasla Bridge on the southern side of the town of al-Samra, 10 km east Raqqa, which led to his injury with several bullets, an eyewitness from the town, told North Press.
Al-Salem was transferred to the Modern Medicine Hospital in Raqqa for treatment.
The Farmers Union is one of the civil society organizations, which works to communicate between the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) and social groups and economic activities.
The eastern countryside of Raqqa has recently witnessed the activity of ISIS sleeper cells by threatening workers in the Autonomous Administration Boards and institutions.
On May 23, ISIS claimed the targeting of the lawyer Khaled al-Mizan in the town of al-Karamah in the eastern countryside of Raqqa.
[NINANEWS] Two members of the Federal Police were martyred and a third was injured in an attack carried out by ISIS elements late last night, west of Kirkuk.
A security source said that ISIS terrorist gangs attacked Point 101 of the Commandos Regiment, the 3rd Mechanized Brigade within the Federal Police formations near Wadi (Abu Khanajer - Qaryat al-Salam), which led to the martyrdom of two members of the point, indicating that a force headed for support and went kaboom!. It had an bomb that destroyed a Hummer and maimed a policeman.
The terrorist elements of ISIS carried out an attack in al-Shay area, south of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... which led to the martyrdom of five Federal Police members and wounding three others.
[AlAhram] According to the UN, at least 760 people have died trying to make the Mediterranean crossing between January 1 and May 31
Tunisia's defence ministry said Sunday that its navy had rescued 178 migrants colonists who were trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to reach Europe.
Two bodies were recovered and 178 migrants colonists rescued during three operations off Tunisia's south coast, a ministry statement said.
The migrants colonists, who the ministry said were from Tunisia, Syria, Ivory Coast, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Mali and Æthiopia, had set off from the Libyan port of Zuwara overnight Friday to Saturday.
Tunisian authorities on Thursday intercepted 267 would-be migrants colonists who had also begun the sea crossing from Libya, most of them Bangladeshis, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.
Red Islamic Thingy official Mongi Slim warned Thursday that centres set up to house migrants colonists in southern Tunisia were full.
According to IOM figures, more than 1,000 migrants colonists hoping to reach Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... had set off from Libya and ended up in Tunisia since January, and the number of departures is rising.
There have been 11,000 departures from January to April 2021 from Libya, over 70 percent more than in the same period last year, according to UN refugee agency UNHCR.
The agency said the "deteriorating" conditions of migrants colonists in Libya were pushing many to make the dangerous crossing from the North African coast to Europe.
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badanov, I haven't been commenting on them, but thank you very much for posting these historical nuggets. It's so much more relaxing to spend some time thinking about Agincourt or Leyte Gulf than to read today's news.
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badanov, I haven't been commenting on them, but thank you very much for posting these historical nuggets. It's so much more relaxing to spend some time thinking about Agincourt or Leyte Gulf than to read today's news.
History goes to show that America and her past was a bit more than enslaving negros.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Meanwhile in the Democrat utopia of Chicago…
Dashcam video captured a gunman with full auto-gettem a fully automatic rifle opening fire in broad daylight in Southside Chicago.
A man stuck in traffic captured the shooting on Thursday morning.
Dashcam video showed a man with an automatic rifle exit a red Nissan Altima and start shooting at another vehicle stuck in traffic on 87th near Lafayette Ave.
Meanwhile Lori Lightfoot is diverting Covid funds to ‘fight systemic racism.’
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Fully automatic rifle?
My untrained ears hear a semi-automatic rifle going pop pop and another, presumably military select fire, in pew-pew-pew mode.
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First rifle was definitely full auto firing 3 round burst. Dummy didn't have the 100 round drum magazine secure and it fell out after the first burst (Cops say thank you for the fingerprints on the magazine). Shooter then fires backup pistol.
Two? or so years ago, Customs was intercepting shipments from China that converted AR-15s to full auto. Guess we know where one ended up.
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Or that rifle "fell off" a National Guard, police, or Army truck. Or was looted from a rail car -- Chicago gangs have people working inside the rail companies so they know of any such opportunities.
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how can you tell what was going on? i counted no fewer than 10 times the media played the clip of the 3 round burst over and over and interspersed with other audio clips.
to make it sound more deadly?
and another example of why the media cannot be trusted.
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how can you tell what was going on? i counted no fewer than 10 times the media played the clip of the 3 round burst over and over and interspersed with other audio clips.
That was a problem I had. It was like they were trying to edit the incident into the Battle of Mogadishu.
[SHAFAQ] A security source in Diyala reported that a soldier was killed and another was maimed in a kaboom that targeted an army patrol on the outskirts of Abu Saida district, northeast of Baquba.
The source told Shafaq News agency that an army force rushed to the incident scene and launched a combing campaign to pursue the perpetrators.
The villages in Abu Saida, 30 km northeast of Baquba, witness continuous security incidents and attacks due to the widespread dens and outposts of gangs in its orchards.
Follow up to yesterday’s exciting little attack which, we are informed, wouldn’t have been nearly so exciting had the airport director bothered to notice two years of warnings.
[OneIndia] An FIR was registered Sunday under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act after two explosives-laden drones crashed into the IAF station at Jammu airport, officials said, while indicating that the case is likely to be taken over by the terror probe agency NIA.
The drones crashed into the IAF station at Jammu airport in the early hours of Sunday, perhaps the first time that suspected Pakistain-based Lions of Islam have used unmanned aerial vehicles in an attack, officials said.
"The NIA is all likely to take over the case. They are already supervising the investigation at the scene of the blast after joining the probe," one of the officials said.
An FIR was registered under relevant sections of the Explosive Substances Act, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Satwari cop shoppe on the application of a junior warrant officer of the IAF, the official said.
Two Indian Air Force personnel were maimed in the earth-shattering kabooms that took place around 1.40 am within six minutes of each other. The first blast ripped off the roof of a single-storey building at the high security technical area of the airport manned by the IAF in Satwari area of the city. The second one was on the ground, the officials said.
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.... police chief Dilbag Singh has termed the incident a "terror attack".
India's air force tweeted that the attack caused minor damage to a building on the base, located in the southern city of Jammu in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, while the second blast hit an open area. It said no military equipment was damaged.
The incident, if proven to have been carried out by anti-India rebels, would mark a major shift in strategy against New Delhi. Rebels have primarily used classic guerrilla tactics such as ambushes, hit-and-run attacks, remote-controlled explosions and boom-mobileings.
Both countries claim to have shot down spy drones in the parts of Kashmir under their respective control.
The air base in Jammu is also used as a civilian airport, and the Press Trust of India news agency quoted the airport's director, Pravat Ranjan Beuria, as saying there was no disruption to civilian flights.
Indian authorities said forensic Sherlocks were surveying the area, and were later joined by the country's premier anti-terrorism agency, the National Investigating Agency.
Last week, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a crucial meeting with pro-India politicians from Kashmir for the first time since New Delhi stripped the region's semi-autonomy and imposed a slew of administrative changes, which many likened to the beginning of settler colonialism.
Indian authorities in the past few years have raised a possibility of attacks by rebels using drones in the region, especially after they repeatedly accused Pakistain of using China-made drones along the frontier to drop weapons packages for the use of holy warrior groups since last year.
Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict.
[Breitbart] An Afghan migrant raped a 25-year-old pregnant woman in an Athens neighbourhood, and when she begged for help from three Pakistanis passing by, they raped her, too.
The horrific incidents took place in the Agios Panteleimonas neighbourhood of Athens early on Wednesday morning and saw the victim, who is three months pregnant and has mental disability issues, raped by four migrants.
The first incident took place when she had gone to the Omonia area of Athens to get her mobile phone fixed. An Afghan migrant approached her and led her to a secluded area and raped her, Greek newspaper Proto Thema reports.
Following the sex attack, the young woman approached the Pakistani migrants for help, and the men told her to follow them. After a taxi ride to an apartment in Agios Panteleimonas, the three men took turns raping the woman.
Neighbours stated that they heard the young woman screaming and calling out for help. Afraid they might be caught, the three migrants let the woman leave.
The rape victim went to the police, who raided the apartment and found DNA from the young woman and items of her clothing. All three Pakistanis were arrested, but the Afghan migrant is still at large.
The case is just one of many sex attacks involving migrants in Greece, particularly Pakistani nationals.
Last month, a Pakistani was arrested after breaking into the home of a 65-year-old Greek woman with the intent to rob her but ended up allegedly raping her.
Just days earlier, a 34-year-old Pakistani man was arrested after being accused of attempting to rape several underage girls in the southern suburbs of Athens. The man was caught after one victim filmed him on her mobile phone and posted the video on social media to identify him.
Police later arrested the man in central Athens and found that he had an expired asylum application, as well.
Following the sex attack, the young woman approached the Pakistani migrants for help, and the men told her to follow them. After a taxi ride to an apartment in Agios Panteleimonas, the three men took turns raping the woman.
[NPASYRIA] The administration of Sere Kaniye Camp in Hasakah, northeastern Syria, said on Sunday that the camp has been expanded to receive larger numbers of displaced people residing in schools.
The Social Affairs and Labor Authority, in cooperation with the council of the Hasakah region in northeastern Syria, is preparing to transfer those displaced by the Ottoman Turkish invasion of Sere Kaniye in 2019 from their temporary shelters in schools to Sere Kaniye Camp after its expansion.
In August 2020, AANES’ Social Affairs Board allocated two camps to receive the displaced, who were forced to stay in schools that were designated as shelters amid an absence of humanitarian support.
Youssef Sheikhmous, the co-chair of the administration of Sere Kaniye Camp, said on Sunday that the camp was expanded with an area of 185 hectares, bringing its total area to 785 hectares.
Sheikhmous indicated, in an interview with North Press, that the camp was provided with 1,016 tents, bringing the number of tents to 3,656.
Sere Kaniye Camp began receiving displaced people from shelters in schools in the city of Hasakah last September.
In September 2020, the Social Affairs Board of the AANES transferred the displaced of Sere Kaniye, who were staying in 75 schools in the city of Hasakah, to Sere Kaniye Camp, including 2,165 families of 11,300 people, according to the camp administration.
Many families refused to leave the schools despite the decision of the Autonomous Administration, which was notified to them in advance, which came in the interest of the progress of the educational process.
Ahin Ahmed, the administrator of the committee to transfer the IDPs from the shelters to the camp, said that for some time, "we have been working to expand the camp to transfer those who remain in schools to the camp to secure their supplies that are not available in schools."
Ahmed pointed out that the tents are ready, as well as the land, "but we are waiting for one of the organizations to adopt the project and prepare the infrastructure for it, such as bathrooms and sanitation."
There are many schools that have not yet been evacuated, and their numbers are large; there are 50 schools in the Jazira region, and in Hasakah only, there are 34 schools to house the displaced. The rest are in its towns and countryside, according to Ahmed.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... many displaced families are still living in harsh conditions due to overcrowding of the two camps and the scarcity of humanitarian aid, while others have settled in cities and towns in Syria’s northeast.
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How accurate is the list? I have seen claims of Predators shot down while photos make it obvious they are Chinese CH-3s that the Saudis bought. They don't fly as high and are more vulnerable.
[ToloNews] As festivities continue and intensify, hundreds more have taken up arms against the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in support of the government forces, this time in 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... , Patkia, Ghor and Kunduz provinces.
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The arbakai [persian for messenger] are the anti-taliban. Community militia and village tough guys fighting for their right to not be ruled by some arseholes in Kabul, Quetta or Doha. They have their own jirga, their own intel networks, and some have even infiltrated Talibaners or turned them by marriage and dowry etc. Rich, poor, all kinds of pashtuns volunteer and train in secret to fight not only the shariah mad bastards but also the ISI presence hiding there. Several clans of erstwhile warlords have volunteered their wealth and resources to fight the taliban. They do not cooperate with or need the Afghan authorities as they see them as compromised and weak. It's the government that needs them from time to time, for support in skirmishes and protection in areas they can give talibs a licking. I won't say more, because American policy being what it is, they will likely be targeted on priority if their capabilities were known.
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That happens a lot actually. You have to understand their is no real police in certain areas. Every area has its own community police. If there are talib affiliated mujaheddin policing a sector and they come across an anti-taliban or defector of some kind, they'll arrest him.
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Everybody is, Wren. It's a mad mad world. You know it's the birthplace of islam, which most of Asia encouraged and welcomed [oh the songs! the belly dancing!] You can't accommodate rabies in your home and escape with your sanity. But Asians are smarter in many ways.
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*surprise pikachu face*
Belly dancing and Nora Fatehi... it was all Islamic? I was under the impression that it originated from Hinduism. But muslims do not allow women to show any skin right? So how can they tolerate such skimpy outfits?
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But muslims do not allow women to show any skin right?
In public, for the womenfolk of free citizens. At home in Saudi Arabia, at least, it’s the skimpiest of minidresses, to the point where my reporter did not know where to look. But slaves, concubines, and dancing girls do not have the privilege of modesty.
South Indian dance, uncontaminated by the innovations brought by waves of Muslim conquerers in the northern part of the continent, is very different:
They gushed over the new B.O. regime, too, until they started complaining they were cowboys, just like all their predecessors.
[AnNahar] Germany's top diplomat could barely stop smiling as he had a beer with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Berlin. Not so long ago, he acknowledged bluntly, he had less fun talking to American leaders.
"I still have to get used to the fact that I can speak to the American secretary of state and always be of the same view because that used to be different," Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said, recounting his first conversations with Blinken.
If anyone was uncertain that he was referring to tensions with former president Donald Trump
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'Allies' - I don't think you understand the meaning of the word. How many of those allies would be willing to accept the incineration of their country in the defense of the US as the US was willing 1950-92 for European 'allies'.
[ToloNews] Two army commanders on Sunday said the Taliban ...Arabic for students... made multiple combined attacks overnight attempting to break key defense areas in the northern city of Pul-e-Khumri, but their attempts failed as they faced resistance by security forces.
One of these attacks in the Block Ha area in Pul-e-Khumri continued for three hours, commando forces said.
“Their attacks continued last night, but we resisted and there is no issue and we have enough equipment and personnel,” said Imam Hassan, an army commander in Baghlan.
However, residents pay the highest price as many of them have been displaced. One resident of the city, Mohammad Azim, said his home has changed into a stronghold, and he has lost assets and his cousin was killed.
“The Taliban came from one direction, and I went to the roof and told them to allow me to leave and then they can do anything here. They told me that they will not do anything. They told me that tanks will come, I said they will not fire. I asked them not to open fire. But they opened fire and I escaped with my nephew but he was martyred,” Azim said.
Some public uprising forces who have gone to Pul-e-Khumri city from Narin district in Baghlan said they have been stationed in the Band-e-Do area to prevent the Taliban from entering the northern city.
“This is the frontline. The Taliban are on the other side of those gardens that have been connected to the Dand-e-Shahabuddin area,” said Imam, commander of public uprising forces in Nahrin district.
Another resident of the city, Mohammad Aziz, a young man, who looks after his home alone and has sent his family members to a safe place, had a story similar to Azim's.
“People have left. These homes have been turned into strongholds,” Aziz said.
The Taliban started their offensives on Pul-e-Khumri 10 days ago and so far clashes are underway on the outskirts of the city while the key highway that connects Kabul with the north has remained closed to traffic during this time.
Head of Libya’s High State Council Khalid Al-Mishri on Clubhouse: Haftar will not be allowed any political role in Libya, even if he wins the elections. We will use force to prevent this from happening.https://t.co/PzK4AXb3CT#Libya#LibyaReviewpic.twitter.com/xL2OuGCXuT
[Breitbart] Difficult to decide which category: "Sign, Portents" or "Obits"
This is exactly the kind of unimportant but pleasurable diplomatic assignment that spouses of heads of state are perfect for. She can’t really do any harm, and nobody expects her to accomplish anything beyond dressing more or less appropriately and making occasional polite conversation while the working spouse continues working. Or in this case, “working”.
Madame President First Lady Jill Biden is tipped to visit Japan for the Tokyo Olympics on a solo trip in place of President Joe Biden, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported Sunday.
The two countries are seeking ways for the president's wife to attend the opening ceremony, set for July 23, as well as meet with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and other senior diplomatic officials during her stay, according to sources cited by the outlet.
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This is exactly the kind of unimportant but pleasurable diplomatic assignment that spouses of heads of state are perfect for.
It's what Vice Presidents are for and also going to funerals for foreign heads of state and dignitaries. Guess those running the country think Jill is more competent at playing the role than the VP. They need to quickly fall back to the old play book in which they removed Agnew before they went after Nixon.
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You can just imagine what the time change and jet lag might do to the Big Guy.
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Wouldn't want him to miss his nap.
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The Japanese prefer their young women unsniffed
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First Lady Wilson pretty much ran the Presidency 100 years ago.
Which was vastly easier a 100 years ago when most federal laws and regulations could probably fit in one average size library stack. It was a time when the feds didn't stick their fingers into everyone eyes and business. A time when Congress could actually pass all appropriations during the fiscal year and didn't run the printing presses day and night infinitum.
[SHAFAQ] A force from the military intelligence seized large quantities of explosives and ammunition in al-Anbar and Nineveh governorates.
The Security Media Cell said in a statement that the Military Intelligence Departments in the Ministry of Defense, the Military Intelligence divisions in the al-Jazeera and Western Nineveh Operations Commands, received intelligence information regarding large quantities of explosives in Rawa district in al-Anbar, Tal Afar district, and Tal Abtah district, west of Nineveh.
According to the statement, the force seized more than a thousand tools used in explosives, 175 BKC kits, 11 rocket launchers, 10 Juhannam rockets, five mortar shells, 10 kilograms of C4, and six improvised bombs.
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal squads detonated the seized material under the direct supervision of their commands.
[AlAhram] The fighting between Thursday and Sunday killed 29 pro-government personnel and at least 82 rebels, the pro-government sources said
Clashes between rebels and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i government fighters killed at least 111 in Marib in three days, pro-government sources said, following a renewed offensive by Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... bully boys.
The fighting between Thursday and Sunday killed 29 pro-government personnel and at least 82 rebels, the pro-government sources told AFP.
"These areas witnessed fierce fighting amid artillery shelling from both sides and intense coalition air raids," a government military official said, referring to the Saudi-led military coalition that backs the government.
The Iran-allied Houthi bully boyz 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.
Control of the oil-rich region 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.
[NINANEWS] The security forces arrested a number of suspects, including five in terrorist cases, and seized bombs and kabooms in the capital, Baghdad.
The Security Media Cell stated in a statement that a wanted suspect was arrested according to Article 4/1 of terrorism north of the capital, in addition to the arrest of (3) accused according to different legal articles, including two of theft and a flagrant offense as they stole a cycle of violence for a citizen."
It added that another force was able to seize two homemade bombs and (4) plastic containers filled with chemical solutions, a pistol, an electrical circuit and detonating wires in one of the residential homes in central Baghdad.
A security force also arrested (3) accused according to Article 4/1 of terrorism and (9) accused according to various legal articles, including a girl of using narcotic substances, and (3) people accused of using narcotic substances were arrested, and they were seized with (500) grams of the Crystal substance.
The Baghdad Governorate Police Directorate arrested a suspect in accordance with Article 4 of terrorism and (3) other suspects wanted according to various legal articles on both sides of Karkh and Rusafa.
The joint detachments in the Baghdad Operations Command were able to arrest two suspects, one in accordance with Article 4/1 of terrorism and the other of impersonating an army officer, and seized (57) narcotic pills, and confiscated two pistols, (5) rifles of different types and (820) different ammunition rounds in the responsibility sectors on both sides of Karkh and Rusafa.
[NINANEWS] The National Security Agency arrested one of the most prominent drug pushers in Baghdad.
The statement of the agency stated that a force from the National Security Agency in Baghdad carried out a qualitative operation in which they raided one of the most prominent drug pushers in the capital, and was able to arrest him after he tried to resist the force and fired bullets at the force. The force also seized (4) kilograms and a half of crystal, and tools for use, in addition to seizing a sum of money estimated at (6) million Iraqi dinars, and light weapons.
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Opposition groups targeted the countryside of al-Qardaha town, north of Latakia, with shells and missiles for the first time for a year. #Syria#SNA#SAAhttps://t.co/ahKZsTOFjr
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 27, 2021
[KhaamaPress] After nearly two decades, the Dutch military involvement in Afghanistan will come to an end this month. According to a media source, the Ministry of Defense has presented two Dutch mission flags to the National Military Museum in Soesterberg to mark the occasion.
In a speech, interim Defense Minister Anke Bijleveld said, "We are leaving with mixed feelings. We see the images of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... progressing." "The security situation is worrying, and some of the progress may be lost," Bijleveld expressed concern.
The flag ceremony gathered dozens of people, but 25 seats were left vacant to honor the 25 Dutch troops who died in Afghanistan. According to Bijleveld, there was also a moment of silence for the "many Afghans who have died, the soldiers and colleagues."
After twenty years, all 10,000 foreign troops, including the 160 Dutch soldiers who remained on the ground, are leaving the country. At a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... summit in April, US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... stated that US combat forces would depart Afghanistan by September of this year.
Sigrid Kaag, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, highlighted that the Netherlands and Afghanistan have a long-term connection. "We have entered into a long-term relationship with the Afghan people. A relationship that we do not want to break 20 years later," she further added.
Turkmen Association in #Manbij, north #Syria condemns and denounces the Turkish forces and their affiliated opposition groups' bombing on the area. #Turkeyhttps://t.co/XkVFYd1Nif
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 27, 2021
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
In all of fiscal 2020, agents apprehended 156 criminal sex offenders, and 58 total in fiscal 2019.
[CNS] In an era where everything is captured on camera, the cold-blooded murder of Gyovanny Arzuaga and Yasmin Perez remains particularly galling. 
[Razib Khan] We're not the man we used to be. Over the last twenty years, genomics, ancient DNA and paleoanthropology have joined forces to completely overhaul our understanding of the origin of our species. The true diversity and complexity of human evolution over the last few hundred millennia surpasses even the most unhinged imaginings we might have hazarded just a short generation ago. But greater clarity has left us with a messier and less elegant narrative. Our species’ status, it turns out, is "complicated."
[Victory Girls] Let’s mandate "race training" for all levels of federal government. That’s the latest from Joe Biden’s handlers at the White House. On Friday an executive order was announced that mandates equity, inclusion, and diversity for every federal employee.
Much safer in a storm. 
[Rolling Stone Magazine] Former attorney general William Barr, one of Trump’s true loyalists, literally called "bullshit" on his former boss’s oft-disproven claims of election fraud.
Ref #7: I was unaware Durham had retired. Duhhh, this might explain the absence of news reporting relative to his investigation. 
[Washington Examiner] UFOs exist that appear to display technology the United States does not possess and lacks the ability to defend against, according to a former intelligence chief.
[PJ] On Friday, the U.S. Department of Commerce again confirmed the ominous warning sign of inflation as the U.S. economy adjusts to global economic trends, the winding down of the COVID-19 pandemic, and President Joe Biden’s profligate government spending. While many economists and policymakers claim that the recent uptick in inflation is temporary, a recent Deutsche Bank report warned of a repeat of the 1970s.
[STUNDIN] A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.
[Mint Press News] AFGHANISTAN — The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even warned that the economic dislocation could spark widespread famine. But one sector is still booming: the illicit opium trade. Last year saw Afghan opium poppy cultivation grow by over a third while counter-narcotics operations dropped off a cliff. The country is said to be the source of over 90% of all the world’s illicit opium, from which heroin and other opioids are made. More land is under cultivation for opium in Afghanistan than is used for coca production across all of Latin America, with the creation of the drug said to directly employ around half a million people.
[Just The News] China is waging a "malign" campaign for global domination by 2049, coaxing or coercing U.S. firms to give up technology and intellectual property, usurping U.S. capital to build its companies and supplanting critical American supply chains, House Intelligence Committee Republicans warned Sunday in a memo outlining the stark challenges between Washington and Beijing.
[BBC] Twenty-one men have been executed in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland after they were convicted of being members of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
A REGNUM continues to investigate the traces of Hitler's aggression and genocide on the territory of modern Russia. Our new step on this path is a series of essays on concentration, labor, transfer camps on the territory of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation within its current borders.
[IsraelTimes] Nasri Abu Jaishto to resign on Monday as his Left-wing Paleostinian People’s Party withdraws from PA government over death 
Representatives of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (NPLF) shot down a C-130 Hercules aircraft of the Ethiopian Armed Forces. This is reported by the publication Air Live.
[ToloNews] Five districts have fallen to the 
[Daily Wire] Elected officials in San Francisco will soon decide whether the city should keep spending millions on "safe sleeping villages" for homeless people as its COVID-19 emergency response winds down.
[ToloNews] Former vice president Marshal Abdul Rashid 
...Arabic for 
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates on Thursday mocked an "Oppressive Language List" posted by Brandeis University that deemed words like "picnic" and "trigger warning" offensive.The private Massachusetts university made headlines this week over its "Oppressive Language List" published on its website, which encourages the school community to stop using certain terms "that may hurt those who have experienced violence." It lists phrases like "trigger warning" and "killing it" as 
...... 46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
[ToloNews] Clashes between government forces and the 
[ToloNews] At least 13 people were 
[AlAhram] A record-low turnout of 33% in the first round of voting on June 20 proved particularly damaging for the National Rally and Le Pen's hopes of securing a regional breakthrough.
The mayor of the eastern DR Congo city of Beni declared a curfew on Sunday after three weekend 
[NPASYRIA] On Sunday morning, the 
[NINANEWS] Two members of the Federal Police were martyred and a third was injured in an attack carried out by ISIS elements late last night, west of Kirkuk.
[AlAhram] According to the UN, at least 760 people have died trying to make the Mediterranean crossing between January 1 and May 31
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Meanwhile in the Democrat utopia of Chicago…
[SHAFAQ] A security source in Diyala reported that a soldier was killed and another was 
An FIR was registered Sunday under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act after two explosives-laden drones crashed into the IAF station at Jammu airport, officials said, while indicating that the case is likely to be taken over by the terror probe agency NIA..jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
India's air force tweeted that the attack caused minor damage to a building on the base, located in the southern city of Jammu in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, while the second blast hit an open area. It said no military equipment was damaged.
[Breitbart] An Afghan migrant raped a 25-year-old pregnant woman in an Athens neighbourhood, and when she begged for help from three Pakistanis passing by, they raped her, too.
[ToloNews] As 
...Arabic for 
[SHAFAQ] A force from the military intelligence seized large quantities of explosives and ammunition in al-Anbar and Nineveh governorates.
[AlAhram] The fighting between Thursday and Sunday killed 29 pro-government personnel and at least 82 rebels, the pro-government sources said
[NINANEWS] The security forces arrested a number of suspects, including five in terrorist cases, and seized 
[NINANEWS] The National Security Agency arrested one of the most prominent 
[KhaamaPress] After nearly two decades, the Dutch military involvement in Afghanistan will come to an end this month. According to a media source, the Ministry of Defense has presented two Dutch mission flags to the National Military Museum in Soesterberg to mark the occasion.
...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
