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Fred still has a sharp eye for the babes and an appreciation for beauty. He's not over the hill yet. Joan Leslie's greatest failing was being a Democrat (if one can say this--the times were much different in 1952). "Leslie was a Democrat who supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election."
[LasVegasSun] A container ship anchored at Dubai's huge port caught fire late Wednesday Thursday, the emirate's media office reported, causing an explosion that sent tremors across the commercial hub of the United Arab Emirates.
The Twitter post from Dubai's state-run media office said that a fire was reported to have erupted on a ship and that a team of firefighters was working to control the blaze. Witnesses reported shaking buildings across the city.
People in Dubai recording with their phones from their high-rises posted frantic videos on social media showing a fiery ball illuminating the night sky.
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I don't want them sued over censorship. Well, I do, but before that I want them sued over their contributions to Ecohealth Alliance and making the virus.
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Turs out you don't have standing over how they mishandle your account.
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When users say something factual about the Dims and Zuk slaps a warning label on it as if it's a lie (actually an attempt at censorship), yet let Dims post lies about Trump without doing anything about it, he's got standing.
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Story apparently is that the guy drove the pickup onto the course while players were on. Golf Pro goes up to see what's going on and gets deaded. They later find two other bodies in the truck bed (including its owner). May be no connection to the Golf Pro
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Golf pros hole out a lot in club members' wives.
I was reading something a few years ago that said Dustin Johnson was banging other pros' wives like cheap gongs.
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Hot wife decides to take up golf to be with her new rich husband. She goes for golf lessons. First four swings she buyrs the club head. The pro says "You're gripping the club too tight. Hold it like you hold your old man's junk." She hits four 300+ yard drives. The pro says "That's good. See if you can do that without putting the grip of the club in your mouth..."
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According to a headline I read from the Arizona Republic, - which you must subscribe to read - says the audit may continue for at least a couple more weeks.
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I guess if I spent all my time at a chit coffee house by myself at a table for two, trying snarky tweets and waxing feminism, not getting noticed by the girls, I guess I too would be wondering why the guys don't take me seriously.
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How did Gilbert Shelton put it? "A friend with weed is a friend indeed..."
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Most guys have lots of friends but those friendships are paper thin (based on ...
That’s most people, male or female. Situational comrades rather than deep friendships. Females of all ages are better at acting like those activity-based social connections are kindred spirits by sharing lots of personal information, but in many cases the connection is no less superficial. I thought that we had just grown apart when I lost track of most of my high school girlfriends after we moved from university into adulthood, but the same thing happened with my adult friends when Mr. Wife’s career took us abroad for five years.
[TheIntercept] WestExec represented major corporations throughout the Trump years. Now it’s in the White House.
From its headquarters just blocks from the White House, a small, high-powered team of former ambassadors, lawyers, and Obama appointees has spent the past few years solving problems for the world’s biggest companies.
Less than six months into the Biden administration, more than 15 consultants from the firm WestExec Advisors have fanned out across the White House, its foreign policy apparatus, and its law enforcement institutions. Five, some of whom already have jobs with the administration, have been nominated for high-ranking posts, and four others served on the Biden-Harris transition team. Even by Washington standards, it’s a remarkable march through the revolving door, especially for a firm that only launched in 2017. The pipeline has produced a dominance of WestExec alums throughout the administration, installed in senior roles as influential as director of national intelligence and secretary of state. WestExec clients, meanwhile, have controversial interests in tech and defense that intersect with the policies their former consultants are now in a position to set and execute.
The arrival of each new WestExec adviser at the administration has been met with varying degrees of press coverage — headlines for the secretary of state, blurbs in trade publications for the head of cybersecurity — but the creeping monopolization of foreign policymaking by a single boutique consulting firm has gone largely unnoticed. The insularity of this network of policymakers poses concerns about the potential for groupthink, conflicts of interest, and what can only be called, however oxymoronically, legalized corruption.
WestExec does not affirmatively share its clients, and public financial disclosure forms only offer broad outlines. Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, says that government ethics laws written decades ago aren’t equipped to handle a situation in which a single firm launches 15 senior officials. “Yes, they’re employed by the government, I’ll grant you that. But are they actually working for the American people or not? Where does their loyalty lie?” said Clark. “The private sector can in essence co-opt the public sector.”
“These White House officials are experienced government leaders whose prior private sector experience is part of a broad and diverse skill set they bring to government service,” said a White House spokesperson in a statement. WestExec did not reply to a detailed list of questions for this story.
The firm describes one of its chief selling points as its “unparalleled geopolitical risk analysis,” now confirmed by the saturation of its employees in positions of power. WestExec has also succeeded in getting tech startups into defense contracts and helped defense corporations modernize with tech; it worked to help multinational companies break into China. One of its collaborators is the defense-centered investment group Pine Island Capital Partners, which launched a SPAC, or “blank check” company,” last year. Tony Blinken advised Pine Island and was a part owner. (Michèle Flournoy, another WestExec co-founder, had her nomination to be secretary of defense nixed. President Joe Biden instead nominated Lloyd Austin, himself a former Pine Island partner but not a WestExec consultant.)
What makes WestExec “boutique” is the promise that its executives would have face time with its seasoned policymakers. “We felt other firms brought people in for big names and never got to see the big names,” said one WestExec co-founder in 2020. “Tony is on client calls.”
The players: Tony Blinken, Avril Haines, David S. Cohen, Lisa Monaco, Chris Inglis, Jen Psaki, Ely Ratner, Colin Thomas-Jensen, Michael Camilleri, Gabrielle Chefitz, Julianne Smith, Barbara Leaf, Elizabeth Rosenberg, and Matt Olsen.
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It's not appropriate to wave your penis in public; transgender or otherwise unless it is to shake it off in the men's bathroom or at a deer stand in the woods out in the boonies.
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Cops love putting guys urinating in public up for lifetime enrollment in sex offender registries. Post George Floyd, that and shooting dogs are the only kicks they get on the job.
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It's not appropriate to wave your penis in public
[Last Refuge] In a remarkable display of how committed the Democrat party is to utilizing the narrative of domestic extremism for their own benefit, Nancy Pelosi is placing satellite field offices for the DC Capitol Police in key regions around the country. When we consider the FBI has field offices all over the country, you might ask: why does the Capitol Hill police need to expand beyond Washington DC?
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Interesting, does capitol hill security have jurisdiction in CA? Or did she just send a congressionally funded vigilante group from the district of Columbia into another state?
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The Geheime Staatspolizei, or Gestapo, started as a Prussian state department and spread nationally. Parallels?
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We already seem to have too blasted many armed police organizations wandering around the US with debatable public oversight. This seems, at the least, under the Federal Marshal, Secret Service, or FBI jurisdiction and not the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Pelosi seems to want the US to be a Parliamentary Democracy state with her as the Speaker-For-Life.
A group of 'foreigners', some of whom spoke English and Spanish, broke into Mr Moise's home in the hills above Port-au-Prince at around 1am on Wednesday, according to a statement by country's prime minister
The 53-year-old was shot dead and the First Lady Martine, 47, remains in hospital after what PM Claude Joseph called a 'hateful, inhumane and barbaric act'
Haiti's embassy in the Dominican Republic said the First Lady has since been flown to another country for treatment
In footage purportedly recorded by a witness, someone with an American accent shouts into a megaphone: 'DEA operation. Everybody stand down. DEA operation. Everybody back up, stand down'
Gunfire then erupts in the video uploaded to Instagram by someone who says they were in the Pelerin 5 neighbourhood, where the president's house is located
Residents reported hearing high-powered rounds and saw men dressed in black sprinting through the neighbourhood. There were also claims of a grenade going off and drones being deployed
PM Joseph said he had taken charge of the country and the police and armed forces were taking 'all measures to guarantee the continuity of the State and protect the Nation'
Joe Biden called the attack 'very worrisome.' White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki added it was an 'horrific crime,' adding 'we stand ready and stand by them to provide any assistance that's needed'
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Coon-an O'brien and Cool Bear getting some tar roll on a Hatian beach...
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In this best of all tropical... well...
The West showed the rest how to spell!
"Is it true what we've read?"
"That our president's dead?"
The prime minister said, "Who can tell?"
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I believe an ZH links should now come with the Morton Salt Girl image, but they have a report up that says it was "mercenaries" disguised as DEA agents, which is screenplay grade or YJCMTSU, take your pick...
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I believe an ZH links should now come with the Morton Salt Girl image,
Most of the time, yes. Skepticism in that quarter is my going-in position, despite generally being considerably less cynical than many here. On the other hand, if we know what they’re trying to sell...
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The cynicism of Rantburg regulars is a strength.
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At this point, the question is not whether they are lying, but what do the lies mean?
A lot of our sources are dubious at best. PressTV, anyone? Often they are interesting from a traffic analysis point of view. "Why are they talking about *this*?" "Why are they talking about this *now*?"
"We rational people have Pride!"
"We also," a Haitian replied:
"Stick your finger in mud
When you point at that, stud!"
Superstition and "science" collide.
BLUF:
[Just The News] The watchdog is asking for all records of communication between the FBI and financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citibank, Chase Manhattan Bank, Discover, and American Express, among others. However, no time frame was given for the FBI and DOJ to respond to the request.
In June, it was discovered that Bank of America had handed over the banking and transaction information of approximately 200 people in the Washington D.C. area at the time of the riot, according to Fox News.
Bank of America allegedly "actively but secretly engaged in the hunt for extremists in cooperation with the government" and, following the events of January 6, gave the FBI financial records of their customers." Such attention should be given the financial transactions of Hunter Biden and his associates.
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I wonder if they are investigating those who received images from protesters on 1/6?
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/\ If the government is in possession of protestors cell phones (selectors), you can rest assured that anything transmitted has very likely been examined. In the area of electronic surveillance, once the power to the selector is turned on, assumptions of compromise are SOP.
As an aside, the monitoring of cell towers can provide instantaneous or real-time collection opportunities.
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I have it from a reliable source that during the protest, despite multiple portable cell towers, communication was next impossible. Probably due to overload, like a football game (or something else?). Doesn't mean the ones that got thru weren't monitored.
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What was the IC distracted with when the USSR collapsed? What was it distracted by prior to 9/11? What big thing out of the blue will arrive while they look at QAnon Shaman's bank statements?
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[Garowe] The Somali National Army [SNA] on Tuesday recaptured Ba'adweyn town from al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... bully boys, over four months after the region was captured by the al-Qaeda linked group, which controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia.
Al-Shabaab has been using the strategic town in unleashing terror against innocent civilians, security forces, and top government officials. The town is an important supply route in the country, especially within the Mudug region.
Military officials said the town fell to government forces in the early hours of Tuesday with several surrounding villages also being restored by the military. The SNA troops have been executing operations across the country for months.
"Somali National Army along with 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... regional Darwish forces took over control of Ba’adweyn town and surrounding areas in the early hours of Tuesday, military officials confirmed," state media reported.
Apart from Ba'adweyn, the military has also managed to get hold of several towns in Middle and Lower Jubba, showing its capabilities ahead of the full implementation of the Somali Transition Plan [STP] which will see foreign troops leave Somalia.
Moments after the capture of Ba'adweyn, the SNA troops captured Harardhere and Imaamd villages in Southern Mudug in Galmadug state. During the operation, the Lions of Islam managed to escape from their hideouts.
"Troops from 21st Division of Somali National Army have captured Hareerdhere and Imaamd, al-Shabaab stronghold villages in southern Mudug region. Terrorists had fled before the Army arrived. This comes as SNA took over full control of Ba’adweyn town on Tuesday morning," state media added.
Last week, a senior al-Shabaab commander Mohammed Abdi Suubiye "Toosoow" was among 16 bandidosLions of Islam killed in a separate operation in southern and central Somalia according to military sources.
He was killed last Saturday after he attempted to resist the army in Darussalam near Adan Yabaal of the Middle Shabelle region, senior military officers told Garowe Online. His death was described as "critical" in the al-Shabaab war.
[American Thinker] The mental decline of Joe Biden accelerates. How long can he function as even a puppet president? The bigger question is: what happens when drugs can no longer keep Joe semi-coherent?
Let's pick a time, say, late November 2021, and fantasize.
At the end of November, the Democrat high command verges on a nervous breakdown. The President has not been seen in person or photographed for six weeks. Rumors abound that he no longer recognizes even his wife and that he wears Depends.
His wife assures everyone that Joe is okay and merely under the weather. He will return to duty after taking an extended break during the holiday season. Meanwhile Jill's hated rival, VP Kamala Harris, licks her chops.
The 2021 gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia have already shaken the high command. In ultra-blue New Jersey the GOP candidate came within two thousand votes of winning. In purple-blue Virginia Terry McAuliffe (D-Clinton) was blown out. In addition, the GOP captured both houses of the Virginia legislature.
The Democrats’ high command knows disaster awaits in the 2022 elections. Inflation, crime, and evictions show no sign of abating and the economy is beginning to tank. Add to that the complete absence of presidential leadership, the party faces a drubbing next November that would extend to the dog catcher level.
Joe needs to go and fast. Problem is that Jill has so far rebuffed any such suggestion. The 25th Amendment provides an alternative way to jettison a president, but this requires a two-thirds majority in both houses to be permanent. The Republicans would have to buy in.
But the GOP even more than Jill Biden cannot stomach Kamala Harris ascending to the Presidency.
Why? Let all the Karens and suburban wine sipping ladies live with what they created. You believe you rule by scarring people, they haven't been scared enough. Let them live with what they created because they were 'offended' by mean tweets. Don't ever let them have a pass, make them own it.
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This is not a problem. You are assuming that they can not (or won't) change the voting machines like they did in 2020. They hack they did to Trump can be applied to any election down to dog catcher.
You are also thinking they have any shame. Think how the Iranian Mullahs responded to the "Green Revolution.'
Woo Hoo. What comes next might give the election fixers a tummy ache...
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What if people decide elections are like using leeches medicinally? Obsolete. That might be fun.
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There's this thing called "by acclamation." Look it up.
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Could be the New England Group feels they have enough spots wrapped up they can thumb the California Group, in which case they will wheel the weeble wobble to '24.
Expect occasional Joe Headroom pre-records and more Harris is an Awful Person being discussed by east coast media.
h/t Hot Air
Finally. One university is standing up and speaking out against assumptions that it will change its name after the discovery that it is named after a slave owner. Wingate University in North Carolina announced it will not be changing its name. Instead, it is "time to reclaim the Wingate name".
In May, Wingate University, a private Judeo-Christian university with campuses in Wingate, Charlotte, and Hendersonville, North Carolina recently learned it is named for a slaveowner, Washington Manly Wingate. It was founded in 1896. Sixteen enslaved people were sold to fund the university’s endowment under his leadership. ?????????
The discovery was part of research by Wake Forest University. Seems to me - ignorant furriner that I am - that it stopped being about actually improving "African Americans" situation, and become pandering to their feelings of inadequacy - as imagined by white liberals (who, IMO, ARE inadequate)
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It was founded in 1896. Sixteen enslaved people were sold to fund the university’s endowment under his leadership.
What the hey? Slavery ended in 1865.
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I had Bee.
that it stopped being about actually improving "African Americans" situation
From the New American Bible - National Education Association (NEA) version:
"For it is better to fan the flame of grievance and stoke the fires of resentment than to teach the children algebra."
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Wake Forest University announced today, May 7, 2021, it would rename a portion of its Wait Chapel from Wingate Hall to May 7, 1860 Hall. The date reflects when 16 enslaved people were sold to fund Wake’s initial endowment under the leadership of then-president Washington Manly Wingate.
It's Wake Forest that was endowed, not Wingate U. Karen Townsend is a dunce.
But - I fully expect the Wingate select panel to recommend a name change.
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As our July 4th celebrations were beginning, the U.S. quietly closed and abandoned Bagram Air Base, the largest American military base between the Persian Gulf and the South China Sea.
Afghan looters were soon seen scavenging inside the base.
The long retreat of the American Empire is under way, and this longest war is likely to end in bloody retribution for the Afghans who sided with us against the Taliban and are left behind.
When the last American departed Bagram, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. is making plans for "an emergency evacuation of the American embassy in Kabul amid concern that a worsening security situation in Afghanistan could imperil the remaining military and diplomatic corps."
Apparently, we are preparing for a possible Saigon '75 finish to the war launched by George W. Bush 20 years ago. Pressed by reporters on the grim situation in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden did not want to reflect on or talk about what might be coming.
"I want to talk about happy things, man," Biden told reporters. "Look, it's Fourth of July ... it's the holiday weekend. I'm going to celebrate it. There's great things happening."
In that same edition, the Journal reported that China has moved 50,000 troops to the border region with India where forces of the two nations, in June 2020, had their bloodiest skirmish in decades.
Other reports suggest that China intends to fill the vacuum left by the departure of America's power and provide billions from its Belt and Road Initiative to build a highway from Kabul, Afghanistan, to Peshawar, Pakistan. But they can't make a vaccine for their own virus. Which leads me to a speculation that the rest of their high-tech abilities are a bluff as well.
..."China's emergence over the past four decades ranks as the biggest and longest-run economic boom in history. Its annual gross domestic product rose from a mere $191bn, or $195 per capita, in 1980 to $14.3tn, or $10,261 per capita, in 2019. It has raised more than 770m people from poverty and transformed the Chinese economy into a high-tech powerhouse that is on course to eclipse America's in size. This transformation is the landmark achievement of the Chinese Communist party, which celebrates its 100th anniversary on Thursday."
China's growth could not have been achieved had it not been for the U.S. decision to throw open the world's largest consumer market to Chinese-made goods, to bring Beijing into the World Trade Organization, and to sit idly by as a huge slice of U.S. industry and manufacturing was transshipped to China for production there and not here.
...In the Cold War with the USSR, time, it turned out, was on our side. But in the last decade, Xi Jinping might fairly see time as having switched sides. Either way, we are surely better off relying upon our abilities rather than our weapons to win the competition and settle the rivalry that may settle the future of mankind.
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"Win the competition"? That's the problem with these people. They can't see America for what it is - a place for Americans to live. To them, the world is a sports competition and all the countries players. A strange game. The only way to win is not to play.
China's growth could not have been achieved had it not been for the U.S. decision to throw open the world's largest consumer market to Chinese-made goods, to bring Beijing into the World Trade Organization, and to sit idly by as a huge slice of U.S. industry and manufacturing was transshipped to China for production there and not here.
China's campaign contributions to Bill Clinton in 1996 turned the tide and got him re-elected. Admission to WTO was the payback. Plus, our elites made a fucking mint from trade with China. And they fucked over our working class, always a bonus.
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China is a lone wolf in this world. No friends unless bought. The tide will turn. When Chinese leave China to infiltrate other countries and inter marry they are no longer pure bloods. No longer a connection with the homeland. The siblings integrate and no longer wish to be a part of hive. They will not be Chinese in the eyes of the homeland pure bloods.
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World will be divided between people who do what their cell phones tell them to do and everyone else. Let's rock.
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China is welcome to Afganistan and Africa. Good luck. You're doing god's work if you can bring them, even a little, into the industrialized world. more likely you'll realize the White Mans Burden can apply to any race foolish enough pick it up.
[FOX] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband placed a bet of up to $6 million on Apple, Amazon and Google-parent company Alphabet ahead of a powerful House committee moving forward with bills aimed at reining in the powers of Big Tech.
Paul Pelosi on May 21 spent up to $250,000 on 50 Apple calls that have a strike price of $100 and that expire on June 17, 2022. He also bought 20 Amazon calls, costing up to $1 million, that have a strike price of $3,000 and that also expire on June 17, 2022.
Convicted killer who brought down terrorist Usman Khan has been directed for early release from prison
Steven Gallant was jailed for life with minimum term of 17 years in 2005 for the murder of a firefighter in Hull
He was one of three men who restrained Khan until armed police arrived at the scene in November 2019 Both men were at the Fishmonger's Hall seminar as reformed prisoners, though clearly Mr. Khan wasn’t reformed at all. Mr. Gallant was the hero who snatched a 5 foot narwhal tusk off the wall and helped corner the jihadi on London Bridge until the police arrived.
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Note:IF I read correctly ...prior to this Heroic Act he was convivted of killing a fireman in 2005 with a 17 year min sentence. So 2005 +17 = 2022 and this happened in 2019?
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He probably violated his parole by brandishing a deadly tusk.
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Pulled from the pile by a previously unimagined narwhal tusk just for this occasion...
A true blue harpooner of Salem,
He really liked whales. Dude, he'd nail 'em.
We fainted at seeing
That ardent Fijian
Rebuffed, and the monster impale 'im!
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He very clearly belonged in jail when he was first sent there. He equally clearly seems to have chosen the better path even before this event, so should be rewarded for it. On the third hand, if he should return to former misbehaviour...
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Awakes a young man with three hands
And three feet and some wings. If he stands,
Will he veer to the right,
Or fight "whiteness" and light,
An "antifa" Ungeziefer? Eh, Franz?
[he chirps cheerful songs like... that guy's]
Robert Earl Hughes (June 4, 1926 – July 10, 1958) was an American man who was, during his lifetime, the heaviest human being recorded, weighing 1,071 lb (486 kg). He remains the heaviest human in the world able to walk without the need of assistance
[FoxBusinessNews] A long-awaited Supreme Court decision last month gave President Joe Biden the ability to remove the Trump-era leader of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and he wasted no time.
Dworkin and other housing advocates want FHFA to allow Fannie and Freddie to take on more financial risk — meaning more government intervention backed by taxpayers — in the name of expanding access to mortgages.
Among their ideas: Giving Fannie and Freddie free rein to purchase mortgages with lower credit scores, allowing private lenders to make more of those loans; cutting fees; and expanding investment that supports the construction of multifamily rental properties.
Advocates want FHFA to immediately do away with Trump-era limits on Fannie and Freddie's purchases of “high-risk” loans — characterized as having some combination of low credit scores and high debt-to-income or loan-to-value ratios.
Allowing the companies to purchase and guarantee more of the loans could lead to lenders issuing more of them, which would extend credit to more low-credit-score, low-income borrowers without requiring higher down payments to compensate for the risk. Fannie and Freddie would pick up the tab if the loan defaulted.
Dworkin said the companies today have "almost no measurable risk in their book of business," which includes borrowers who hold "extraordinarily high" credit scores and very few first-time homebuyers with low down payments.
“Their job is not risk elimination,” he said. “It’s risk management. Their mission is to add liquidity to the mortgage markets, not reduce it, and they need to get back in the liquidity business and add liquidity to underserved markets.”
Biden was given the opportunity to change the direction of the FHFA when the Supreme Court ruled that the agency’s leadership structure was unconstitutional and that the president should have greater authority to remove its director. Hours later, Biden fired then-Director Mark Calabria, a libertarian economist nominated by President Donald Trump who had made it his mission to shrink and shore up Fannie and Freddie so they could stand on their own as private companies.
The Biden administration then appointed another senior FHFA official, Sandra Thompson, to serve as acting director. Thompson has served at FHFA since 2013, and she earlier worked for 23 years as a bank regulator at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which polices lenders for safety and soundness concerns.
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Smeggin' hell! Didn't we just do this? It does not end well. OK, it ends well for some very specific parties.
At least we will get some happy headlines: Under the Joe Biden Administration, first-time home ownership has improved x-billion percent.
And no more mean tweets!
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Sounds like the sub-prime debacle prior to the run up to the economy crash of 2008. I was talking to a financial guy yesterday and asked him about housing prices escalating so rapidly. He thought it was a bubble that would burst at some point. The difference is that the many of today's purchasers are not necessarily low-income purchasers who may end up defaulting.
#10
Democrat solution for every single thing people complain about, spend taxpayers money, more restrictive rules and hire their allies to administer it in programs without end.
[National Pulse] Thomas Zimmerman — a Special Assistant to Joe Biden on National Security Agency personnel — formerly served as a visiting scholar at a Chinese Communist Party think-tank labeled as a "front group for Chinese intelligence collection and overseas spy recruitment" by the FBI, The National Pulse can reveal.
The stunning revelation — that Joe Biden’s intelligence apparatus relies on the recruitment from a recent collaborator with the Chinese Communist Party — comes just weeks after the G7 summit where Western nations pledged tougher measures against an increasingly aggressive Beijing.
Zimmerman’s influence over the National Security Agency (NSA) also follows explosive allegations from Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Carlson recently claimed the agency has covertly accessed his emails and texts. The NSA did not outright deny the allegations.
SHANGHAI ACADEMY.
While working at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, Zimmerman doubled as a fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS). SASS has been flagged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for its close ties to the Chinese Communist Party’s top spy agency: the Ministry of State Security.
SASS — which the FBI explicitly labels a "front group for Chinese intelligence collection and overseas spy recruitment" — was a key player in a 2019 criminal case involving a retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative selling classified U.S. defense documents to the Chinese Communist Party.
The American operative, Kevin Mallory, was contacted by SASS officials via LinkedIn to begin the relationship that culminated in a 20-year prison sentence for Mallory.
As a result, the FBI has described the Chinese Communist Party as dependent upon SASS employees to serve "spotters and assessors" of potential Western spies. Ministry of State Security officers — described by the FBI as keen on "influencing the foreign policy of other countries" — have also "used SASS affiliation as cover identities."
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As a result, the FBI has described the Chinese Communist Party as dependent upon SASS employees to serve "spotters and assessors" of potential Western spies.
The Bureau (and others) do not like competition in the source recruitment arena.
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Jeebus, we're being infiltrated from the inside. Reads like a fifth column effort. Meanwhile, those who should care in the govmint, are pre-occupied (distracted) with the white supremacist big scare.
[ToloNews] One policeman was killed and more than 21 others, including civilians, were maimed in a boom-mobile blast in southern Kandahar province on Tuesday afternoon, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The blast took place about 2pm local time in PD7 of Kandahar city, the statement said.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the statement did not provide further details about the blast.
The local officials have not yet commented on the blast.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... a security source said that the blast occurred close to a compound used by security forces.
No group including the Taliban ...Arabic for students... has grabbed credit for the blast.
There comes a point when a group goes beyond eccentric practices, becoming a full-fledged cult.
[JPost] The sect has been accused of forcing girls as young as 12 years old into marriages with much older men within the sect.
US and local Guatemalan police have begun raiding the compound of the extremist ultra-Orthodox (haredi) cult, Lev Tahor, arresting at least three top officials in the cult, Globes reported on Tuesday evening.
Another reporter for Globes reported that cult-members Yoel and Shmuel Weingarten have been arrested.
US and Guatemalan forces have performed several raids on the cult's leaders and members in recent years, mainly for kidnapping and child abuse charges, arresting their leader Yaakov Weinstein last March. In 2019, four members were indicted for kidnapping two children whose mother had taken them, wanting to return the children to Lev Tahor.
Founded in New York in the late 80's, Lev Tahor settled in Canada in 2003. The group's founder Slomo Helbrans was convicted for kidnapping a child he was tutoring in the early 90's in New York, but released after only two years in prison.
After being deported to Israel in 2000, Helbrans took his movement to Canada in 2003 where the cult remained for 10 years before rousing the interest of Canadian authorities, after which they collectively fled to Guatemala.
Shlomo Helbrans drowned in Mexico in 2017, leaving control of the group in the hands of his son Nachman and some associates who are believed to be even more extremist.
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[TASS] Wreckage from the An-26 plane disaster over Kamchatka has been found 3.8 kilometers away from the local airport, a source in the Ministry of Emergency Situations told TASS.
"The plane’s debris has been discovered 3.8 kilometers away from the airport. A group of 26 rescuers is heading to the site on all-purpose vehicles," the source said.
The Ministry added that darkness and the high tide are complicating the operation.
"Just 30 minutes ago, from the air, we discovered what we believe is the plane’s debris about five kilometers north of Palana. The plane’s fuselage is lying on the shore, while the rest of the aircraft is scattered over the coastal area. I emphasize that is presumably. Ground rescue teams and specialists are currently heading to the site in order to ensure that this is the missing plane. We would only be able to make conclusions after that," the governor insisted.
The Federal Agency for Air Transport disclosed that the crash site has been pinpointed about four to five kilometers away from the airstrip.
"The discovery location is about four to five kilometers away from the airstrip towards the coast. Rescue teams have discovered the wreckage. Considering the geographical features of the location, the rescue operations are complicated. The search group has commenced the rescue endeavor. The mission involves 26 rescuers and an all-purpose vehicle," the agency said.
The aforementioned An-26 plane belonging to the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Enterprise went missing on July 6. It was headed from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana and carried 22 passengers and six crew members on board.
The emergency services source told TASS that the plane stopped communication during its landing. One version suggests that the crash happened because of piloting error due to poor visibility. A criminal case has been initiated over violated rules of safety and air transport use.
[HotAir] I’ve written about this before but yesterday the NY Times published an interesting piece on the EUV lithography machines produced by ASML and how those machines really determine who can manufacture cutting edge microchips.
As you probably know, there’s a concept called Moore’s Law which suggests that the complexity of microchips doubles every two years while the cost of the chips is cut in half. And for the most part that has held true since the first CPUs were introduced in the 1970s.
But cramming more and more transistors into the same physical space gets harder to do over time. With each successive generation of chips, the number of transistors packed into a square millimeter has to climb. Actually making that happen turns out to be massively difficult. In fact, it required expertise from different companies around the world to allow for the creation of the world’s first EUV lithography machines. The machine itself is about the size and shape of a bus and costs $150 million dollars each.
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Don't give anything to the China!
China should have to steal everything.
Taiwan should move its factories to the US.
If China invades, the factories in Taiwan should be destroyed before the VIP's leave.
[Dallas News] Dallas-based Texas Instruments has chosen Richardson as the site for a $3.1 billion semiconductor facility that's expected to create more than 488 jobs. The article is dated April 18, 2021. I missed it then. An acquaintence recently told me her son just got a new job with TI, due to their recent decision to build more chips in the U.S. The 870,000 square-foot plant will boost Texas Instruments' chip production for a broad range of uses, such as smartphones, connected cars and industrial machinery. The company is already the biggest maker of analog semiconductors.
Texas Instruments plans to produce its more cost-effective 300 millimeter wafers at the facility. Each wafer is cut into numerous analog chips. The 300 millmeter wafers can yield twice as many chips as the company's 200 millimeter product. Not sure if 300 mm - about 12" - is the radius or the diameter of the wafer.
Texas Instruments considered two other locations for the new facility, according to the presentation. It looked at a site in Singapore and a site in Upstate New York at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Marcy. Sorry, Sonny!
[Gov.] Abbott's announcement called Texas "a leader in the development of innovative technologies because of companies like Texas Instruments."
"Made in Texas is a powerful label, and this expansion will create hundreds of jobs, generate billions in capital investment, and further solidify Texas' reputation both at home and abroad," he said.
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300mm diameter. It's cheaper to produce chips from a 300mm wafer since there are 2.25 times as many chips vs 200mm from each wafer processed.
For $3.1 billion TI will be making chips from yesterday's transistor geometries, micro-controllers and such. A new leading edge 5 nano-meter chip plant will cost $10-20 billion.
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I think in the future that actually being able to verify what your computer's doing is going to be a more important feature than its framerate in world of warcraft.
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At the first stage of the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian fleet was unable to establish control over the sea, its actions were generally unsuccessful. Nevertheless, it remained a fleet in being, a factor, a threat to communications, which the Japanese had to reckon with. This threat was not an obstacle to the transfer of the Japanese army from the islands to the continent, and above all to Korea. The failures of the fleet were followed by the failures of the army. All this did not meet the expectations of Russian society.
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...Very much enjoying these posts. For a lot more background, let me suggest Black Night, White Snow by Harrison Salisbury, which covers the time from the first revolution to the end of the October revolution. It's a massive read, but as poetic and all-encompassing as anything by Tolstoy.
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The local population did not support the Russians. Moreover, it was often tuned in favor of the Japanese.
The Japanese who'd run the place till 1945 spent a lot of time wiping out the Korean culture and language, not to mention many Koreans. For some reason, the Koreans still harbor ill feeling over that.
When retreating, part of the troops mixed with the convoys and began to lose organization. At the shouts of "Cavalry!", Which was constantly seen by carts, from time to time panic began, turning the retreating crowds into fleeing crowds. As a result, the chaos only intensified - the carts went without loads abandoned in flight, the artillerymen - without weapons lost in battle.
Sounds like the panic retreat of the US 2d Division from the Yalu, circa 1950, just vehicles rather than carts, and Chinese rather than Japanese.
[KhaamaPress] National Directorate Security in a statement said that a group of three along with their head arrested in an operation in northern Parwan province. The arrestees destroyed imported electricity pylons mostly in the north of Kabul.
The NDS statement reads that ISIS associates carried out destruction activities in coordination with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... As per the statement, the group of four has demolished 36 power pylons, has attacked oil tankers in PD17 of Kabul city and targeted lecturers of Albironi university and the doctors of emergency hospital.
NDS has also seized a great deal of detonating material used by the group while demolishing the power pylons.
The latest pylons were destroyed in Jangal Bagh of Parwan province which was rebuilt by De Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, DABS the previous day reconnecting electricity of Kabul and neighboring provinces.
They two power pylons collapsed in western Paghman district of Kabul are yet to be rebuilt and the district along with western parts of Kabul are still out of electricity.
Demolition of Power pylons has been a grave matter of concern among the residents of Kabul and the industrialists in particular.
De Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat claims that absence of power cost them over two million Afghanis per each hour.
[SHAFAQ] The Military Intelligence agency announced arresting a "dangerous terrorist" who killed many soldiers and citizens in al-Anbar.
The agency said in a statement that the information confirmed the presence of dangerous ISIS hard boyz in al-Ish village in al-Anbar, who was responsible for the death of many members of the security services and citizens.
He pointed out that the detachments of the Military Intelligence Department in the command arrested the terrorist and seized a Kalashnikov rifle and a pistol in his possession.
The arrested was handed over to the concerned authorities, according to the statement.
[NY Post] WaPo and Qatari MB whore was also corrupt in other matters.
Murdered journalist beloved martyr of journalism Jamal Khashoggi ......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatari payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal...... was living a double life with two different women when he was executed ‐ including one he had secretly married, according to a new podcast.
The Washington Post columnist was tortured and then dismembered inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018, where he'd gone to get documents he needed to be able to marry fiancée Hatice Cengiz.
At the time, Cengiz had no idea that Khashoggi was also seeing Egyptian flight attendant Hanan El-Atr ‐ nor that he had secretly married her in Virginia just four months earlier, she told Yahoo! News' "Conspiracyland."
"He told me when he proposed to me, there is no one in his life," Cengiz told the investigative podcast.
El-Atr said she was equally in the dark about Cengiz, too ‐ whom Kashoggi met while El-Atr was detained for 10 days by Emirati security agents who grilled her about her relationship with him, she said.
El-Atr said that she became an item with the journalist when she started visiting him in his home in Washington, DC, in the early months of 2018 while she made twice-monthly trips there for work.
When he proposed soon afterward, he texted her to say that she "will be the happiest bride."
"I throw myself at you, kiss you and delight you. I take out a watch or a necklace or perfume I bought for you to delight you," he texted her, according to the episode titled, "A Tale of Two Women."
They married in an Islamic ceremony performed by an imam in a northern Virginia mosque on June 2, exactly four months before his murder, according to court records reviewed by Yahoo News.
However, they never got a civil marriage license, meaning the union was not legally binding. The groom did buy her two rings for a total of $2,000, the podcast said, citing receipts from a local jewelry store.
But that spring and summer he also started making frequent flights to Istanbul to see Cengiz, texting El-Atr that his "sister is here in Istanbul" to explain the trips, she told the podcast.
It is permitted to lie to women to keep them calm and prevent fighting and nagging.
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[IZ] Consul of Estonia Mart Lyatte was detained in St. Petersburg while receiving information of a classified nature from a citizen of the Russian Federation. This was announced on Tuesday, July 6, by the DSP of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
"The FSB of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg caught Lyatte red-handed receiving materials of a classified nature from a Russian citizen, the Estonian diplomat - the consul of the Consulate General of the Republic of Estonia in St. Petersburg Mart Lyatte," the message says.
In addition, the center said that the activities of the consul in St. Petersburg contradict diplomatic norms and have a clear hostile nature towards the Russian Federation. Appropriate measures will be applied to it in accordance with international law.
[IsraelTimes] Heba Yazbak questioned over Facebook posts from before time in Knesset, including one that indicated solidarity with Palestinian terrorist; ex-MK says probe politically motivated.
[FoxBusinessNews] The Republican said he’s running ‘for Texas,’ not against Gov. Abbott.
Allen West, Republican candidate for Texas governor, said Tuesday that the "porous" southern border is one of the main reasons he is running on FOX Business’ "Varney & Co."
ALLEN WEST: I'm not running against Governor Abbott -- I'm running for Texas. And after announcing this past Sunday, Independence Day, I caught a flight down to Rio Grande Valley. And we did a video at about two o'clock in the morning from the Roma sector right on the Rio Grande River.
I watched 80 people come across the Rio Grande River into the state of Texas, where they were collected up and they were marched up and they jumped on a bus and they were transported to, I guess, a Border Patrol detainee facility and who knows where they go from there. So we have a porous border.
And I understand that Joe Biden wants an open borders policy, but we need to have leadership here in the state of Texas that protects Texas, makes sure that we have safe and secure neighborhoods and communities. Texas is the number one state in the United States of America for human sex trafficking. So that's one of the reasons why I feel it's important to have the right type of principal leadership at the head of the state of Texas.
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I dunno, to me he feels like all bark and no bite. He talks a lot but he also jumps around a bunch too. Abbott may not be perfect but he is a known quantity.
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Mentioned a couple of things he wants to blame on Texas but never said what he would do about it. In the mean time Abbott has already said what he will do about those problems before this guy pops up to beat a dead horse.
[DW] The first group of Afghans to be granted asylum for their work with the German military has arrived in Germany, according to Der Spiegel. They are fleeing the Taliban ...Arabic for students... who consider them "traitors."
The first six members of Afghan personnel, who worked with the German military during their time in Afghanistan, have arrived in Germany with their families, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Monday.
Their arrival marks the beginning of a program to provide asylum to Afghans who aided the Bundeswehr and who are now fearing for their lives as the Taliban regains control of large parts of the country.
A total of 23 individuals — which includes children — were flown out of the city of Mazar-e-Sharif in the north of the country by Ottoman Turkish Airlines, Spiegel said. Another 30 are expected in the coming days.
German military officials prepared documents for 471 local workers, such as interpreters, shortly before withdrawing from the country at the end of June. A further 2,380 visa documents were also readied for their families.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT UNDER FIRE
The German government expanded its protection program for these key workers to include all those who worked for the Bundeswehr or other German organizations since 2013, rather than just in the past two years as originally planned.
Nevertheless, the German government has been criticized for its overly complicated visa process. According to Der Spiegel, certain German ministers feared a "suction effect" if the visa hurdles were lowered.
Germany's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Rainer Breul acknowledged that the visa process had been complicated by the military's withdrawal from Afghanistan as well as the closure of the consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif.
He added that Berlin was working with international partners such as the International Organization for Migration, according to AP.
Defense Ministry spokesperson David Helmbold said that a small number of visa applications were open because "not all of those who received these travel documents wanted to leave straight away," AP reported him saying in Berlin on Monday.
Critics have also lamented the fact that Afghan locals who worked for service providers on German bases, rather than directly for the Bundeswehr, are not eligible for the asylum program.
[IsraelTimes] Former officials in Riyadh questioned under oath, but those depositions remain under seal, angering families of victims demanding accountability.
As the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks approaches, victims’ relatives are pressing the courts to answer what they see as lingering questions about the Saudi government’s role in the attacks.
[SHAFAQ] A reliable political source reported that the head of the intelligence service of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hussein Taeb, visited the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that Taeb arrived in Baghdad yesterday, Monday, on a secret visit.
He added that Taeb held meetings with the Iraqi factions and discussed with them the recent U.S. attack on al-Hashd al-Shaabi, and met with politicians, to discuss the early Iraqi parliamentary elections.
Yesterday, Monday, Taeb's visit coincided with the bombing of Ain al-Assad base in al-Anbar.
A few days ago, U.S. raids were launched on the sites of Pro-Iranian factions on the Syrian-Iraqi border, "in response to drone attacks launched by these factions on American facilities in Iraq."
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It's not that he has influence , it's that they know he ain't shit.
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A real NSA, CIA,FBI intelligence fusion center would be closely monitoring the Kalorma Kompund and the off site meetings of ValJar. Anyone think that is happening? Beuller?
The #Biden administration is considering whether to continue to authorize the #CIA and the #Pentagon to carry out deadly #drone strikes and commando raids in #Afghanistan after the complete withdrawal of US forces from the country.https://t.co/WgeLQtNZOR
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Biden administration is considering...
...cause Biden isn't with us enough to decide himself.
[Libya Observer] Libyan Prime Minister's plane took off from Tobruk airport using car lights after a sudden power outage on the runway as footage also showed on social media how Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah's plane took off with the help of lights from nearby cars and vehicles with news confirming the power shutdown was intentional to hinder the plane's takeoff.
Dbeibah’s motorcade heading to the airport came under many stops on the road by Haftar's loyalists who shouted unpleasant words and asked the Prime Minister to get out of the car, but Deputy Interior Minister, Faraj Egayem, intervened and promised to meet the protesters' demands except "Dbeibah’s greetings to Haftar".
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Government of National Unity, Mohammed Hamouda, said early on Tuesday that Dbeibah left Tobruk after the failure of the House of Representatives to pass the budget bill on Monday, saying the government’s ministerial commission tackling the budget issues will see the needed amendment and hold meetings with House of Representatives' financial committee Tuesday.
Dbeibah attended Monday a session for the House of Representatives with the aim of obtaining an endorsement of the 2021 budget, which didn't happen.
[ToloNews] Afghan forces pushed back an attack by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... on Hazrat Sultan district in the central province of Samangan on Monday evening, the provincial police said, adding that the festivities continued for many hours and ended shortly after midnight.
A front man for Samangan police, Munir Rahimi, said eight Taliban fighters were killed in the festivities.
He said the Taliban faced resistance by the security forces shortly after they started their attack on the district — which is located along the key northern highway that connects Kabul with Balkh province.
Taliban on Monday night claimed that they captured Hazrat Sultan district.
The group has not commented on their casualties in the festivities.
[Rudaw] A fire has been raging near a Duhok village as a result of Ottoman Turkish bombardment on Tuesday morning, a local official has confirmed to Rudaw.
The vicinity of Upper Hazanke, a Christian village in Chamnke subdistrict, has been on fire since 11am, according to Chamanke mayor Aland Amir, who said firefighters cannot visit the site due to security concerns.
"Fearing bombardment, our teams cannot go to the village in order to identify the losses and control the fire," he told Rudaw.
The village is located five kilometers southwest of Chamanke, near the town of Amedi.
[Digichat.info] A man got angry at a co-worker who kept appearing naked at the fish farm where they worked, and a man hit his co-worker on the head with a hammer.
Saw Paing Soe Thu, 35, was jailed for a year and a month on Tuesday (July 6), after pleading guilty to one count of voluntarily causing injury with a dangerous weapon.
A Myanmar national and 38-year-old compatriot Aung Win Htut were working on a fish farm located in the sea near Lim Chu Kang.
About one to two months before the accident, Aung Win Htut walked around the fish farm naked, prompting Saw Paing Soe Thu to tell him not to walk around naked.
Things came to a head on April 9 this year, when Aung Win Htut emerged from the bathroom without clothes at around 6pm. Saw Paing Soe Thu was cooking when a co-worker walked into the cooking area to put out the fire to heat the kettle.
Saw Paing Soe Thu was cooking on the stove when Aung Win Htut appeared behind him, naked. Confused, Saw Paing Soe Thu scolds his co-worker and gets angry at his co-worker for being naked.
After a while, Saw Paing Soe Thu consumed half a bottle of rice wine. At about 9:30 p.m. that day, the drunken man became enraged, as his colleague repeatedly appeared naked. He took a hammer – usually used to kill fish – from the storage area and approached Aung Win Htut, who was talking on the phone.
Then the Saw Paing Soe Thu hit the victim on the forehead with a hammer. The victim fell to the ground and bled from his forehead. He contacted the owner of the fish farm for assistance and the latter called the police at the Coast Guard Police at Lim Chu Kang Provincial Base.
[Libya Observer] Peter Stano, the Spokesman for the European Union’s High Representative for Security and Foreign Policy, led by Josep Borrell, confirmed that the European Union did not deliver three patrol boats to the Libyan Coast Guard, within the framework of the ongoing cooperation between both parties, describing the news circulated on this issue as “false news.”
Stano indicated in a press statement Monday that the EU supported the renovation of three ships, which were handed over to the General Administration of the Coast Security, which is a different entity from the Libyan Coast Guard, according to the Aki Agency.
He further added that the EU is in the process of handing over six new inflatable dinghy boats to the Coast Guard and the General Directorate of Coastal Security, and the matter is scheduled to take place in the coming months.
Some of the 11 militiamen charged in armed standoff appeared in court Tuesday
One has refused to give his real name, saying only that he is a 'free Moor'
All refused to enter pleas or cooperate, saying they are not subject to US law
'Rise of the Moors' group is part of the sovereign citizen movement
Members were arrested after fleeing from police into woods outside Boston
They face several charges including unlawful possession of a firearm
The group's purported leader Jamhal Tavon Sanders Latimer, 29, also known as Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey, told the judge: 'I don't understand how these charges can be brought against me.'
Latimer, a former U.S. Marine from Providence, Rhode Island, waived his right to an attorney, but the judge said she would have a lawyer speak to him about his rights before the next hearing in the case.
Pleas of 'not guilty' were entered on behalf of all the defendants, who were held without bail pending a hearing Friday to determine whether they are dangerous.
The first to appear, Quinn Cumberlander, 40, of Pawtucket, told the judge he was a 'foreign national' who cannot face criminal charges, and said he did not want a defense attorney.
Cumberlander invoked his Second Amendment right to bear arms, said the case should be heard in federal court, and said he meant no harm.
'We didn't want to cause fear. I object to being held without bail. I am not a threat to society or anybody,' he said in court.
Cumberlander described his group as a 'well-regulated militia' and said he was not opposed to the law, according to WCVB-TV.
Another defendant, Robert Rodriguez, 21, of the Bronx, New York, asked that a fellow defendant serve as his attorney. The judge noted the man is not a licensed lawyer and declined the request.
Rodriguez also refused to be interviewed by the Probation Department, which is part of the process for setting bail.
'I was seen by a probation officer,' Rodriguez said. 'But I did not commit a crime.'
One defendant, who has refused to identify himself to authorities, told the judge only that he was a 'free Moor.'
The judge ruled he had waived right to counsel, then ordered him out of the courtroom to watch proceedings on Zoom because he kept interrupting her.
Those arrested Saturday were identified as Latimer; Cumberlander; Rodriguez; Wilfredo Hernandez, also known as Will Musa; Alban El Curraugh; Aaron Lamont Johnson, also known as Tarrif Sharif Bey; Lamar Dow; Conrad Pierre; a 17-year-old juvenile; and two who have refused to identify themselves, state police said.
They are from Rhode Island, New York and Michigan.
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Their crimes aren't severe. They will end up getting time served and be back on the streets before the end of the year. These people, or some of them will be in the headlines again.
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To all S.NATION IDIOTS.
Break the law in the USA,
Get arrested in the USA,
Go to trial in the USA,
You will sit your A$$ in a USA prison.
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They are all obsolete words to describe black people, tw. Im being a literary wiseass.
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A favorite line from a crime novel. A cop near retirement age who hasn't moved up in the department:"You know what they did? They put me on a shine murder. Now, who's gonna help me with that?"
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TW, I'm from rural Georgia is you would like me to tell you what they mean.
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At least they are using money previously budgetted and unspent instead of demanding even more funds, even more of which would then happen to fall into certain particular pockets where it didn’t technically belong.
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That's an awful lot of money. How many children are we talking about? The article doesn't say. Seems to be a pertinent question. Are we entirely certain some of that money won't go to The Big Guy's cronies?
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Abu, what are you talking about? All of the money will go to the Big Guy's cronies.
This will purchase enough relief to fill a dozen photos and one press conference. The rest will vanish in 'management services'.
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[SHAFAQ] The Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra) ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... is revamping the way the U.S. uses punitive sanctions, aiming to stem sweeping pressure campaigns, avoid collateral economic damage and act jointly with allies rather than unilaterally, according to people involved in the planning process, Ian Talley wrote for the Wall Street Journal.The administration has nearly completed an extensive review of U.S. sanctions policy, which is expected out near the end of summer, according to one official. While details are still being ironed out, Biden administration officials have foreshadowed elements of the new strategy in a series of actions, including the planned easing of economywide sanctions against Iran.
[AJC] A Stone Mountain man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that left two men dead at a DeKalb County gas station in early April.
Hakeem Ross,
..interesting name...
29, was taken into custody at a Powder Springs residence on two charges of malice murder in the double shooting of Jamitre Weaver and Gerico Floyd, DeKalb County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Cynthia Williams said Tuesday.
Ross and Weaver were involved in an argument April 8 at a gas station at the intersection of Redan and Panola roads when gunfire erupted, Williams said.
Weaver was pronounced dead at the scene. Floyd was taken to Emory Hillandale Hospital, where he died, Williams said.
Ross was arrested without incident. He is being held at the DeKalb jail without bond, online records show.
[FreedomFirstNetwork] Today, the Two Mikes had the pleasure of interviewing Lawrence Klayman, a renowned lawyer, and the founder of Judicial Watch and of his current organization, Freedom Watch.
Mr. Klayman cogently and clearly explained that America is broken and that our legal system is a smoking ruin. “Our legal system is gone, it’s been taken away from us. We have corrupt judges and a compromised legal system,” Lawrence explained. If the American republic is to be recovered, only the widespread and targeted activities of common American citizens and their organizations can achieve the goal.
Mr. Klayman has formed the “New American Independence Party”, and on 5 and 6 July 2021 will hold the “Third Continental Congress” at the reception center of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA. The meeting will discuss and plan ways in which the citizenry can take the fight — in a legal and constitutional manner — to the authoritarians that pack the Biden regime, DoJ, and the FBI.
With how out of control our government has gotten recently, Dr Michael Scheuer brought up his concern that peaceful events such as the Third Continental Congress event are not going to be enough to take back our nation. While Mr Klayman made clear that he will never call for violence to take back the White House from Joe Biden, “he is dangerously close to a Coup d’état.”
Mr. Klayman also has, for several years, been working on new ways of applying justice in America. Quoting Justice Scalia, Mr. Klayman explained that the grand-jury process actually belongs to the American people as a whole, and not just the three branches of the national government. Given this fact, it is possible for the citizenry to investigate, arrest, try, and convict the offenders, people that the current judicial system ignores or abets, under the parameters of the Constitution and U.S. law.
— Mr. Klayman’s website is: http://www.freedomwatchusa.org, and the site contains documents about the organization, content, and goals of next week’s Third Continental Congress.
[SHAFAQ] The US Embassy in Baghdad, in the heart of the Iraqi capital's Green Zone, was the intended target of an armed drone the night of July 6. The C-RAM defense system of the embassy was able to bring it down before an attack.
Just hours before, Ain al-Asad base in Anbar province of western Iraq was hit by three rockets. The attack left no casualties.
The drone was launched from a residential area near the airport in Baghdad. This is the first time that militias have used a public place for launching an attack against US sites.
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[THEFEDERALIST] The NSA denied ‘targeting’ Tucker Carlson, but did not deny reading his emails. The NSA also did not deny that it may have accessed his communications through ‘incidental collection.’ Nor did they admit to it. Re "incidental collection": if I drive through your neighborhood on the way to the grocery store, I'm not spying on you even if I pass your house. Mountain = molehill?
It may be instructive to note that electronic collection can also be detected and monitored. The examination of 'targets' of detected monitoring can provide clues regarding intelligence shortfalls or gaps. Knowing what the enemy does NOT know (intelligence gaps) provides a window into his level of knowledge or lack thereof, on a given topic or area. The product of such collection can also be characterized as "incidental collection."
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“In a move apparently unprecedented for a military officer, Rogers, without notifying superiors, traveled to New York to meet with Trump on Thursday at Trump Tower,” the Post reported.”That caused consternation at senior levels of the administration, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel matters.”
The following day candidate Donald Trump relocated his election committee from Trump Towers to an alternate secure location. The media has pretty much 'memory holed' the relocation and the reported incidents surrounding the move.
[FRONTPAGEMAG] In the article titled, "Yes, kink belongs at Pride. And I want my kids to see it," freelance writer Lauren Rowello declared her support for the presence of "kinksters" — practitioners of sexual fetishes — in parades during so-called "Pride Month," the thirty days a year officially devoted to the compulsory celebration of LGBT narcissism. More specifically, she called for it in order to expose children as young as toddlers to "the scope and vitality of queer life."
Rowello, a self-described "gendervague" person who is married to a transgenderwoman, described how the couple attended a Pride parade in Philadelphia five years ago. (The term gendervague, in case you’re overcome by curiosity, refers "to a specifically neurodivergent experience of trans/gender identity." You’re welcome.) At one point during the parade, Rowello wrote, "our elementary-schooler pointed in the direction of oncoming floats, raising an eyebrow at a bare-chested man in dark sunglasses whose black suspenders clipped into a leather thong. The man paused to be spanked playfully by a partner with a flog. ’What are they doing?’ my curious kid asked as our toddler cheered them on."
Her toddler cheered them on. In a saner time, parents wouldn’t allow adults "playfully" engaged in sado-masochism within a hundred miles of their toddlers, but today a generation or two of fanatically woke parents intentionally expose their children to such a repellent display in order to inculcate, as young as possible, a sexual awareness that kids aren’t equipped to process. When the pendulum swings back the other way it'll be something to see. I'll likely be dead by then, but it would be nice to see these child abusers getting what they deserve.
"The pair was the first of a few dozen kinksters who danced down the street, laughing together as they twirled their whips and batons, some leading companions by leashes," Rowello continued. What kind of mother thinks it is appropriate to expose her children to human beings degrading each other with leashes? "At the time, my children were too young to understand the nuance of the situation, but I told them the truth," Rowello explained. "That these folks were members of our community celebrating who they are and what they like to do."
Here’s something else she could have told her children: all human beings are children of God, deserving of dignity, and literally parading them around like animals for sexual kicks is morally reprehensible. Maybe that’s too much "nuance" for Rowello.
[SHAFAQ] The leader of an Iran-backed Iraqi "militia" has vowed to retaliate against America for the deaths of four of his men in a U.S. Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... along the Iraq-Syria border last month, saying it will be a military operation everyone will talk about.
Abu Alaa al-Walae, commander of Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, said in an exclusive interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in Baghdad that the electoral victory of Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi as president will strengthen Iran-backed bully boy groups throughout the Middle East for the next four years.
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[DW] The COVID-19 crisis seems to have accelerated the La Belle France's efforts to return industrial production capacities to La Belle France. That could create thousands of new jobs — but not all production can be brought home.
Mid-sized French company Auer decided to shift its production away from boilers using conventional fuels to energy-saving heat pumps a few years ago.
For that transition, the family firm deemed it necessary to bring back to La Belle France parts of its production capacity back from countries such as Poland and Serbia.
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[ARABNEWS] Home Secretary Priti Patel must within the next two weeks recover to the UK an asylum seeker who was deported to La Belle France, the High Court has ruled.
Justice Wall ordered Patel to use her "best endeavors" to return a 38-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker from Darfur, identified in court proceedings as AA.
Wall’s ruling on Tuesday comes on the day that Patel launched a new bill that will allow for charges against migrants colonists who "knowingly" arrive in Britannia without permission.
AA passed through war-torn Libya, where he says he was tortured and sold into slavery, while traveling to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... after escaping persecution in his home country.
The High Court was told that AA had nine of the 11 indicators of torture and trafficking, including scarring.
He arrived on British shores in a small boat from La Belle France on June 4, 2020, and claimed asylum.
But on Aug. 12, 2020, he was sent back to La Belle France, where authorities said he had to leave within a month, leaving him homeless and desperate.
The High Court found that AA was given a shortened asylum screening interview on arrival in Britannia, which broke from the previous policy of asking questions such as "please outline your journey to the UK."
This, the court heard, could have identified information about AA’s journey through North Africa, where migrants colonists and refugees are commonly enslaved as they venture into Libya.
Wall said AA must return to Britannia to be given a proper asylum seeker screening: "It is accepted by the defendant that these entries do not necessarily record answers actually given by interviewees but were at times completed by immigration officers from other information in their possession," Wall added. "It is to say the least an unfortunate way to record this information."
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian PM Shtayyeh later orders release of all those detained during Ramallah protest, the latest sparked by death of government critic.
Tipping point approaching: Mahmoud Abbas’s reign gets increasingly shaky.
IPAs, that is. Why not just chew handfuls of hops?
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I dont't care what they make as long as they tell them to go fuck themselves.
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I kinda like the IPA's Rob. Highland Brewing Company in Ashville makes some very good ones. I like them in the summer when it's hot but like the darker ales in winter
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— Alghadeer English (@alghadeertv_eng) July 6, 2021
[Jpost] This is the third attack reported in the last two days, the other attacks targeted US forces in Asad base and near the US embassy in Baghdad since July 4.
Reports in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq said that there was an attack on Erbil International Airport on Tuesday evening. According to Rudaw the attack was a rocket attack. It comes a day after a drone attack was reported in Baghdad against US facilities near the US embassy. At least three drones targeted the Union III site near the embassy.
The Erbil attack was reported to include numerous rockets. In the past Erbil has been attacked by drones in late June and in April when a drone targeted a CIA hangar. The US has forces at Erbil airport. Pro-Iranian militias have increasingly targeted US forces in Iraq in attacks that take place weekly and now appear to have taken place daily since July 4. This included the two attacks on July 5, one of which was on Asad base, and then the attacks that unfolded the night of July 5 and now on the night of July 6 in Erbil.
US President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes on pro-Iran militias in Syria in late June in response to the drone attack near Erbil that struck near a site for the US consulate. The militias vowed to respond and fired a salvo at US forces in Syria near Omar oil field. Rumors said another attack near Omar unfolded on July 4 but the US-led Coalition denied that attack. The Erbil attack would therefore be the third attack in 36 hours. This is a major escalation by pro-Iran groups that seek to eject the US from Iraq. There have been around 50 attacks since the beginning of the year, increasingly involving drone.
The Kurdistan region is under threat from 122mm rockets based in Nineveh and has also been targeted by 107mm rockets smuggled closer to Erbil by militias. Drones have also been used because pro-Iran militias have difficulty penetrating the wall of security that the autonomous Kurdish region musters. However Iran now has the US in its sights and has apparently ordered its militias, likely via the IRGC, to begin a full-court press against the US. This militias include Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada.
The attack reportedly involved both rockets and missiles. Sources said at least 20 rockets and 3 drones were used. This would make it the largest attack so far on US forces and on Erbil. Iran has used cruise missiles and drone combinations in the past, attacking Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq in 2019 with missiles and drones. Footage in Erbil showed a fire and sirens as the attack unfolded. The airport was said to be closed due to the attack. Kataib Hezbollah had warned in recent days it had underground hidden rockets it could use. The major attack will force the Biden administration to consider a retaliation. It is believed that pro-Iran militias have large stores of rockets and drones as well as ballistic missiles in Iraq and Syria.
Update: The US Department of Defense downplayed the attack. The 20 rockets and 3 drones report was likely an exaggeration. "We are aware of reporting of a UAS incident in the vicinity of Erbil, Iraq. At this time, initial reports indicate no structural damage, injuries or casualties," a Department of Defense spokesperson said.
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The "right to repair" thing is a big deal, and I'm surprised oligarch Joe is backing it. For that reason, I expect it's just eyewash.
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Ok, me rant. Most embedded software in products you buy today is mediocre but benign. The software in my “smart” TV is useless and pathetic, but it can’t actually take over my house or my life. At the moment. But say I buy a $250,000.00 tractor. The software on board that thing nowadays is basically ransomeware, requiring me to surrender my expensive purchase to the dealer on its schedule, not mine. Even the dealer is not really in charge of the thing, he’s liable to tell me my stupidly expensive machine will not be available when I need it because the update it needs is not available to him or me. Of course, hot rodders have been burning custom EPROMS for their cars for years now, but if someone did that for my tractor, the manufacturer would sue everyone in sight. All this pain is part of the same set of laws that let all the social media giants stomp on your and my free speech rights. The answer, of course, is to make it your right to fix problems with the software as you see fit. Be it your tractor or your social media account. Zuck and Microdose Jack don’t want that. All the more reason you should.
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I'm surprised oligarch Joe is backing it. For that reason, I expect it's just eyewash.
I'm surprised too. Right to Repair is huge. Hard to believe Sleepy Joe is going against the corporations.
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The John Deere company and others have (like most of the auto industry) worked diligently to make their tractors beyond the capability of the farmer to work on and repair. This is done through the introduction of electronics and computers which shut down entire systems, creating a costly 'tow to the dealer' or call for the dealership to dispatch a repairman to make the necessary repairs.
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That's why the old fords and many others are still running. This new equipment is for major corporate agribusiness. Large operations mainly(Gates). Give me a four horse team any day. So many problems with this new technology. Break down and $1000 dollars to travel to dealer. Then the repair costs and updates on software($5,000) are outrageous. Windows 7,10,11 on and on it goes.
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Let's be blunt. Whoever is actually running the whiteless house is trying to starve us. I personally hate large corp farms. For such a critical part of our lives, they should not exist. Nor should the big ag usage of hard inorganic chemicals.
We studied Iowas Karth system in the 1980's and found 70% of all the groundwater was contaminated by inorganic nitrates. And small farms were as much at fault.
That being said, this is about controlling our frickig food supply! Not being able to repair our machines? My family farms would shoot the first bastard that tried to pull this shit.
Dale has a great point. Newer CPU tractors have major repair problems with no redundancy as system backups. Therein lies a huge problem.
Fords? Honestly the only old dependable tractors are the Farmalls, International Harvesters and John Deeres. Old Fords with their fenders still mounted securely are a rarity.
The first tractor I drove, worked at 8 years old alone was a Farmall B. I know this shit. And farmers are armed Mr. Demental.
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If you buy vegetable seeds or plants from, say, Bonnie Plants or any other large supplier and save some of the seeds from your harvest to plant next season they most likely will not produce. They have been engineered to produce one or at most two seasons of crops.
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^An unfertilized egg won't grow into a chicken.
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#8 Excellent!. In my area Fords (Blue color) are still running as well as many others, Farmall, Case, Alis Chalmers($4800. 1948), Deere, Massey and so on. 1941 Ford used now selling for $2500 listed. 150 years of farming history. Same with older pre-computer vehicles. Mechanics can fix those pieces of equipment. Far fewer problems.
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You can strip the electronics out of any interal combustion vehicle. You just have to know what you are doing.
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They could probably just tweak the first sale doctrine to permit like for like replacements by customers, and the development, transfer and sale by suppliers. Interesting question - can a replacement improve on the original? Remove DRM?
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I always thought the Amish might be onto something.
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I'm sure the FTC will get right on those regulations. Expect the comment period to open sometime in mid 2024, close sometime after the next election, and then the whole matter to be tabled for "further study".
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[KhaamaPress] The president of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon ordered mobilization of 20,000 reservists to tighten security in border with Afghanistan after over one thousand Afghan government troops fled into the country, Rooters reported.
Security in northern provinces of Kunduz and Badakhshan bordering Tajikistan deteriorated ever than before.
Tajikistan border guard services confirm that 1,037 Afghan security force members have so far crossed the borders from Afghanistan as Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... captured up to six districts in Badakhshan province bordering Tajikistan and China.
Emomali Rahmon has also discussed the issue of insecurity escalated in northern Afghanistan in separate calls with the presidents of Russia Viladmir Putin and Afghan president Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... Statement released by Russia reads that Viladmir Putin has assured his Tajikistani counterpart of his support in case security deteriorates further in areas adjacent to Tajikistan.
In a telephone call between the presidents of Afghanistan and Tajikistan carried out on Sunday, president Ashraf Ghani had thanked Emomali Rahmon for his goodwill and letting in Afghan families. The earlier had assured the latter to address the problem of insecurity in Badakhshan province and flow of refugees.
Government of Tajikistan has not yet clarified to whether or not allow more Afghan government force members and civilians cross the border.
[KhaamaPress] Viladmir Putin has told his Tajikistani counterpart that Russia will back Tajikistan in bolstering peace and suggested military support to guard border with Afghanistan.
A statement released by Russian government further reads that Putin is prepared to support Tajikistan both on bases of bilateral relations and within the framework of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
Uzbekistan president Mirziyoyev also expressed his concerns over the recent conflicts between Afghan government force members and the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... steadily getting closer to its border.
Although no Afghan security force member nor any civilian has crossed Afghanistan border into Uzbekistan, Mirziyoyev says that tent comps
...I think they meant camps...
have been ordered to be built in border with Afghanistan for possible flow of refugees.
Concerns of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries comes as Afghan president Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... is set to visit Uzbek capital, Tashkent for attending a high-level conference on central and south Asia.
Taliban offensive operation expedited soon after US troops left its largest airbase in northern Parwan province, Bagram. The number of districts fallen to Taliban now crosses one hundred but Afghan government says that counterattack for recapturing the territories is underway.
[THEEPOCHTIMES] Public school enrollment in 2020—2021 fell by 3 percent nationally compared to a year earlier, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), with pre-K and kindergarten jointly seeing a sharp 13-percent drop.The stark numbers represent the biggest year-over-year decline in enrollment since the start of the century, with the drop concentrated among the youngest learners, the NCES figures show.
Pre-K saw a 22-percent decrease, kindergarten enrollment fell by 9 percent, grades 1—8 experienced a 3-percent drop, while grades 9—12 saw enrollment rise by 0.4 percent. The figures are preliminary, with the final results expected next spring.
NCES Acting Commissioner Peggy Carr said in a statement cited by K-12 Dive that the figures are "preliminary but concerning," adding that the enrollment drops were "widespread and affected almost every single state and every region of the country."
The agency’s enrollment figures reinforce the view that the pandemic-related disruptions drove many families to switch to private schools or homeschooling.
At the same time, with the outbreak increasingly showing signs of tailing off, school districts across the United States are hiring additional teachers in anticipation of what is expected to be one of the largest kindergarten classes ever as enrollment rebounds.
[PJMEDIA] Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the discredited "1619 Project," has rejected a tenured position at her alma mater, the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. Instead, she will join Ta-Nehisi Coates, a former columnist at The Atlantic, at one of America’s most prestigious Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Howard University. Hannah-Jones argued that the controversy over her hiring and tenure had more to do with racism and sexism than her outright lies about American history.
"It’s pretty clear that my tenure was not taken up because of political opposition, because of discriminatory views against my viewpoints and, I believe, because of my race and my gender," Hannah-Jones told Gayle King on CBS This Morning, the Raleigh News & Observer reported.
"It has to be made clear: I went through the official tenure process and my peers in academia said that I was deserving of tenure," the 1619 Project founder argued. "The board members are political appointees who decided that I wasn’t."
While opposition to Hannah-Jones’ tenured position was indeed partially political, the political dispute traces back to the 1619 Project’s shameless twisting of history.
In April, UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism announced that Hannah-Jones would become the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, taking a Knight Chair professorship, endowed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The professorship brings top professionals to classrooms to teach and mentor students.
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"I refuse to belong to any organization that would have me as a member". Groucho Marx
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Hannah-Jones took a tenured position at Howard instead of a non-tenured position at UNC. Because she was not offered a tenured position at UNC, she and her legal eagles were looking into suing UNC for racism? What hubris.
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Howard University founded by the very people they hate. For minorities not just black people as I read on a plaque in the main entrance hall. Oil painting line the walls and I don't recall seeing black people. Hot bed of hate during the riot years as broadcasted by WHUR and Another was from American University( WPUT I believe).
€[KhaamaPress] Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Tuesday that all types of immigration, departure and arrival, was being closed atTorkham border from today.
The minister added that the decision was taken on the advice of the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC).
Pakistain had closed its Torkham border over one month earlier after corona virus positive cases surged in Afghanistan.
The border is still closed but Pak citizens could cross the border into Afghanistan despite the closure. As per the latest order, Pak citizens will not be allowed either to cross the border as the ban include both departure and arrival.
It comes as Pakistain embassy in Kabul said yesterday that it is willing to repatriate Paks stranded in Afghanistan after Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... suspended flights from Afghanistan as a result of rapid spread of covid-19.
Four thousand Pak citizens are now staying in Afghanistan who had come to Afghanistan to fly to Saudi Arabia.
Pak government had given permission to Afghan students, studying in Pakistain, to cross Torkham border so that they do not lose their semesters.
The dry port will remain open for transit purposes and the import and export of goods will continue as normal.
[DailyMail, Where America Gets Its News] The Afghan army is collapsing across the country, with videos posted by the Taliban showing troops laying down their US-made weapons and handing over the keys to their Humvee armoured cars
The US left Bagram Airfield last week - its fortress in the country for nearly 20 years - by slipping away in the night without telling the base's new Afghan commander who discovered they had gone the next morning
However, General Austin Scott Miller, commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, said he was shocked by how quickly the Afghan National Army had surrendered to the resurgent jihadists
'I don't like leaving friends in need,' he told ABC on Monday. 'We should be concerned. The loss of terrain and the rapidity of that loss of terrain has to be concerning. You look at the security situation, it's not good'
More than a thousand Afghan National Army soldiers fled into Tajikistan from the northern province of Badkhshan following clashes with the resurgent jihadists on Sunday
Tajikistan said that the Afghans were allowed to enter on the principle of 'good neighbourliness' but called up 20,000 reservists to bolster its border guard and prevent further flooding of the frontier
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...Changing sides as required is an old and honored tradition there - things don't go your way, then you kiss the requisite turbans, maybe hand over a couple of goats, and boom, Muhammad's your uncle. All the new rulers ask is that you behave.
This should have been clear to anyone with the ability to look things up in a library, yet the College of Cardinals - and their idiot civilian masters -that runs the US military has once again proved that they have forgotten nothing and remembered nothing.
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General Austin Scott Miller, commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, said he was shocked by how quickly the Afghan National Army had surrendered to the resurgent jihadists
Following the model of ISIS's overrun in Iraq. Yeah, no lessons learned there General.
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What is not surprising is that the Afghan army is shit and a lot of them support the Taliban anyway. The rest just join the most powerful side so they don't get killed.
Why this general fuckstick doesn't get that is beyond me.
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BTW General you keep pushing CRT on your own troops, they'll be doing the same thing when a real insurrection arises. I'm sure you and your brethren will be shocked too.
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Had a generation and a half to inspire and train, General.
That being said, I believe the US has had about the worst historical political leadership I can come up with at the moment. All that capital, blown by hanging LTs because a rumor a Koran got wet. Playing Mother May I? with the Pakis. Bullshit.
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The whole mission was a cock up from the git go. Once bin Laden escaped across the border to Pakistan we should have left that hell hole and all of the people who live there to their own devices. Many of us understood that even then and the comparison to Vietnam was disturbing. How much blood and treasure were wasted and for what? The military/industrial complex got to test some of their new toys and make big bucks in the process. I still harbor the suspicion that opium had a lot to do with it. Now we get all the fentanyl we can do from China and Mexico so we no longer need Afghanistan. Let the Turks, the Chinese and the Russians have it. They deserve it and the Afghans deserve them.
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[NATIONALREVIEW] Eric Adams was pronounced the winner of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday after preliminary final numbers showed the centrist won 50.5 percent of the vote.
The Associated Press called the race for Adams after the results showed he narrowly defeated former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 8,426 votes. Garcia received 49.5 percent after eight rounds of voting.
Adams, a former police captain, beat out a crowded field in New York’s first major race to use ranked-choice voting.
If elected, Adams would become the city’s second black mayor. As Democrats outnumber Republicans by 7-to-1 in New York City, according to the AP, Adams will be the likely victor of the general election.
The results come two weeks after voting in the primary ended, on June 22. While early returns showed Adams in the lead, tens of thousands of absentee ballots had to be counted and rounds of tabulations has to be done under the ranked-choice system in which voters ranked up to five candidates for mayor in order of preference.
Other than this bit, I don't see the names of the 9 key countries: The remaining nine nations including Hungary, Ireland and Peru have rejected the proposal
So who are the other six? And should we be surprised/alarmed/dismayed that Hungary, Ireland, and Peru are on the list? Journalists, bah! This lack of curiosity is why they can't learn to code.
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.
...Who needs friends, when you have got heavy weight internet buddies..
[Last Refuge] In a remarkable display of how committed the Democrat party is to utilizing the narrative of domestic extremism for their own benefit, Nancy Pelosi is placing satellite field offices for the DC Capitol Police in key regions around the country. When we consider the FBI has field offices all over the country, you might ask: why does the Capitol Hill police need to expand beyond Washington DC?
[TASS] Wreckage from the 
The 870,000 square-foot plant will boost Texas Instruments' chip production for a broad range of uses, such as smartphones, connected cars and industrial machinery. The company is already the biggest maker of analog semiconductors.
......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the 
[Digichat.info] A man got angry at a co-worker who kept appearing naked at the fish farm where they worked, and a man hit his co-worker on the head with a hammer.
[SHAFAQ] The 
[AJC] A Stone Mountain man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that left two men dead at a DeKalb County gas station in early April.
[THEFEDERALIST] The NSA denied ‘targeting’ Tucker Carlson, but did not deny reading his emails. The NSA also did not deny that it may have accessed his communications through ‘incidental collection.’
[SHAFAQ] The leader of an Iran-backed Iraqi "militia" has vowed to retaliate against America for the deaths of four of his men in a U.S. 
[THEEPOCHTIMES] Public school enrollment in 2020—2021 fell by 3 percent nationally compared to a year earlier, according to preliminary data from the U.S. 
[PJMEDIA] Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the discredited "1619 Project," has rejected a tenured position at her alma mater, the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. Instead, she will join Ta-Nehisi Coates, a former columnist at The Atlantic, at one of America’s most prestigious Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Howard University. Hannah-Jones argued that the controversy over her hiring and tenure had more to do with racism and sexism than her outright lies about American history.
[NATIONALREVIEW] 
