[1945] A few years ago, the U.S. Air Force awarded a $6.4 to $7.5 billion dollar contract to seven private companies to provide aggressor air combat training services to the Air Force through 2024. That huge sum is all dedicated to one goal: sharpening the skills of Air Force fighter pilots by putting them in realistic air battles against foreign jet fighters.
The U.S. military introduced aggressor squadrons back in the 1960s after learning in air combat over Vietnam that fighter jocks needed to practice fighting dissimilar aircraft using dissimilar tactics. Just because those aircraft might be deemed technologically inferior didn't mean their pilots couldn't cleverly employ them in ways that exploited weaknesses in American fighters and pilot training.
For example, the supersonic American F-4 Phantom had sophisticated radar and Sparrow missiles that allowed them to engage subsonic, cannon-armed MiG-17 fighters from miles away. But the North Vietnamese naturally didn't go along with the American playbook.
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Several companies have managed to make a working business model out of exploiting USAF training and tactics gaps.
(1) What does that say about current USAF training?
(2) What are the potential opponents seeing? (Seems that they could tap the contractors for knowledge.)
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Skid, when they drive past Earth, they roll up their windows and lock their doors.
We can't keep the best pilots. They want to fly and not put up with micro management, flying desks so others have 'equity' to use the same aircraft, and no political indoctrination. So, we're going to pay 3 or more times the cost of such pilots who will be civilians contractors instead.
[Conservative Brief] VoterGA’s Garland Favorito has filed a motion to immediately begin the inspection of the ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, from the 2020 presidential election.
Favorito is leading the court case in Fulton County, Georgia, to inspect the roughly 140,000 mail-in ballots from the Nov. 3 election.
"Motion to immediately proceed with ballot inspection: Come now, Petitioners Garland Favorito, Michael Scupin, Trevor Terris, Sean Draime, Stacey Doran, Christopher Peck, and Brandi Taylor (hereafter the Favorito Petitioners), by and through their attorneys of record, and file their motion to immediately proceed with ballot inspection," the motion stated.
Anti-Cuban government protesters held a candlelight vigil outside the White House overnight to mark the 26th of July Movement
Thousands of protesters showed up in Washington D.C. this weekend to demand Biden take action in Cuba
GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar joined the protests on Sunday, and more officials are expected to join Monday
Demonstration comes after violence broke out in Cuba earlier this month between citizens and government over a massive economic crisis along with food and medicine shortages in the midst of the pandemic
Hundreds of Cubans are in custody and at least one demonstrator was killed along with scores injured
Biden issues sanctions in retaliation, but critics claim they are 'meaningless' because the restrictions were already put in place by Trump in January
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According to HeyJackass, a person gets popped in Chicago every two minutes. Murder is a bit slower paced with one every 11 minutes.
Luckily, these incidents are not evenly distributed across the city but are concentrated in certain neighborhoods. Otherwise, the cops would be wanting mileage for driving all over town.
(for those playing along at home, the weekend total was 12 killed, 63 wounded for a fairly typical k/w ratio of 0.19)
BLUF:
[ZERO] 1. Experts compiled three datasets with officials from the states of Massachusetts, New York and Nevada that conclude:"Up to 90% of the people who tested positive did not carry a virus."
So, in summary, with regard to our current "casedemic", positive tests as they are counted today do not indicate a "case" of anything. They indicate that viral RNA was found in a nasal swab. It may be enough to make you sick, but according to the New York Times and their experts, probably won’t. And certainly not sufficient replication of the virus to make anyone else sick. But you will be sent home for ten days anyway, even if you never have a sniffle. And this is the number the media breathlessly reports... and is used to fearmonger mask mandates and lockdowns nationwide...
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The scam is winding down. Everyone invested in it is slowly backing out on their lawyers advice.
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Every time you shop take a minute to note the NEW 70% off lower prices for exactly the same hand sanitizers bottles and masks. eg. Wally World was $3.97 now $1 a bottle. 50 paper Masks was $49.95 now $18.95.
Heck at my area Wally Worlds they are now even giving away a free small bottle for a Pet Donation.
It has to make you wonder how screwed over we the customers were by the Big Box Stores?
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Both the case numbers and fatalities were grossly exaggerated. Effective treatments were suppressed. Doctors who spoke out were silenced. But we can trust the vaccine, so nobody worry!
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I don't know if this is the test but the one they had in late Trump had some kind of 'spinning' involved and my wife (a nurse) was telling me she believed they were overspinning which creates false-positives. Then after Biden was elected they reduced the recommended amount of spinning and the number of cases mysteriously dropped across the board.
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I never bought into the hysteria, so I never bought gallons of overprices sanitizer, hundreds of masks that were useless, or wore glove when I was shopping.
Now, I can buy dusk masks and nitrile work gloves for pennies on the dollar.
I feel a bit sorry for people who bought into (and bought) the hype because they believed the lies. Just a bit, though.
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^ Suckers aren't supposed to have money.
- Riverboat Slim
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I’m awfully glad that for a while, at least, New York City regularly cleaned and sanitized the subway cars — for the first time in a very long time.
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my wife (a nurse) was telling me she believed they were overspinning which creates false-positives
Yeah, that was the PCR test. The test amplifies a small amount of DNA. How many cycles you run determines the degree of amplification. Doing too many cycles makes the test overly sensitive and you start picking up viral wreckage instead of actual virus particles. Hence, the false positives.
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That half of the country not in thrall to your narratives won’t submit to your supposedly superior powers of reasoning and your empathic, nurturing concern for their well-being. They are quite convinced, based on a shit-ton of evidence and lived experience, that they are being played by a degenerate regime not at all run in their interests… that lies to them reflexively and incessantly. https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/in-a-hall-of-mirrors-you-have-to-break-some-glass-to-see-clearly/
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“Virtually every single person that is getting sick enough to be admitted to the hospital has not been vaccinated,” he said.
Exactly what we would expect to happen following mass vaccination. The question is how sick those admitted to the hospital are, and how many are in the sickest group versus the numbers at peak.
[France24] The United States will continue air strikes in support of Afghan forces fighting the Taliban, a top US general said Sunday, as the insurgents press on with offensives across the country.
Since early May, violence has surged after the insurgents launched a sweeping assault just days after the US-led foreign forces began their final withdrawal.
The Taliban's deadly assault has seen the insurgents capture scores of districts, border crossings and encircle several provincial capitals.
"The United States has increased air strikes in the support of Afghan forces over the last several days, and we are prepared to continue this heightened level of support in the coming weeks if the Taliban continue their attacks," General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US Army Central Command, told reporters in Kabul.
McKenzie acknowledged that there were tough days ahead for the Afghan government, but insisted that the Taliban were nowhere close to victory.
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I say let it fall under taliban, let them all return to their capital, sit in the swanky new green painted parliaments. Then nuke it. Etch the names of all your fallen boys on the bomb.
What is anybody going to do, throw you out of the UN?
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"The United States has increased air strikes in the support of Afghan forces over the last several days, and we are prepared to continue this heightened level of support in the coming weeks if the Taliban continue their attacks," General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US Army Central Command, told reporters in Kabul.
"...And besides,", General McKenzie continued, "it's nothing personal, the ordnance is paid for, and the zoomies need their flight hours."
Mike
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What is anybody going to do, throw you out of the UN?
We should be so lucky.
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article didn't say where the US Air Force was based, in Afghanistan or elsewhere
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[American Thinker] The Conservative Treehouse began a series on "The Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Community." That series, along with Tucker Carlson's revelation that the NSA possibly spied on him and at the very least illegally unmasked him, has brought the Intelligence Community center stage. I usually do not think too much about the various security and intelligence functions of the government, other than to marvel that they have managed to prevent a second 9/11. In doing a bit of research, however, I have come to realize that the security function of our country is a tangled web of bureaucracy. Is that really what it takes to protect U.S. citizens, or is this a turf-building and protection operation?
The foundation of any security operation has to be the knowledge that is gathered and analyzed. In the case of the federal government, that foundation is provided by the Intelligence Community, or I.C., which is "responsible for collecting, analyzing, and delivering foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information to America's leaders so they can make sound decisions to protect our country." The I.C. is a coalition of 18 entities with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) integrating the intelligence gathered; however, the members do not report to the ODNI. The ODNI is a relatively new entity, created in 2005 at the recommendation of the 9/11 commission. The commission reported that prior to the 2001 disaster, there were clues about an impending attack, but no one person had a full picture because information was siloed. In typical bureaucratic fashion, the response was to create another level of infrastructure and expand government operations.
Below is a list of the 17 other members of the I.C. and their primary mission. Mission statements portrayed on the I.C. website have been paraphrased for a clearer understanding.
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What if they want information only on how to screw the country?
Then they've come to the right place...
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"How Intelligent"? They're smart enough to hold on til retirement.
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One of the big problems of the Intelligence Community is that you have to shade your output to what the POTUS is willing to hear. It does no good to give him accurate info if he is going to ignore you. This has been a problem since at least LBJ.
The other problem is the CIA lawyers. Many CIA procedures are twisted beyond recognition in order to bring them into compliance with legal.
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So I get it, we love to complain. But lets put it in perspective, yesterday the was a near 200 rant event here on the burg. All arguing over the COVID shot. What's true? What's a lie? What's just a belief? etc... Then it gets angry, then it gets to attacking credibility. That whole event is a mirror of our intel community, NOBODY on that thread yesterday knows the truth, period. And in the intel community the truth is again, not known. Getting it right, just like the COVID discussion, is almost impossible and subject to more hard work and getting lucky, than factual. Every one, and every agency has their charter and and they make decision based on their views, just like in yesterdays thread.
After 911 they tried to reorganize to better facilitate sharing. But that did not work. Some of it was an unwillingness to share over operational, or personal, concerns. But what I saw was a group of agencies running at full speed and unable to take any more info. Like sharing gas for your car, but the tank is already full, most of the shared fuel goes to waste and not used. The intel shared did not have the appropriate screening for relevance due to too much info being processed. managing the load of info is overwhelming, then pass that on to another agency as an FYI, it gets lost.
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/\ Many CIA procedures are twisted beyond recognition in order to bring them into compliance with legal.
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But lets put it in perspective, yesterday the was a near 200 rant event here on the burg. ... That whole event is a mirror of our intel community, NOBODY on that thread yesterday knows the truth, period.
Bless you for the insight that turned the thing I found so distressing into a very useful demonstration, 49 Pan. What ought we to do about them all, then? They can’t be left running amok as they have been — the damage they’re causing by meddling in the nation’s politics is too great.
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Missed the iron curtain collapsing.
Didn't see the 9/11 attacks until they happened.
The two biggest events of my lifetime and the intelligence community whiffed them both. Hopefully they are getting lots of others we don't hear about but I think some senators should open the books and see for themselves.
We can't do anything. It's chaos. The fact that they have file cabinets, databases, satellites and shoulder holsters doesn't change the fact that they are taking guesses like everyone else. But their guesses are polluted by the myths they live. The best anyone outside the game can do is try to stand out of the way, or ride the chaotic surf.
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TW, I so agree. I'm not sure what the right answer is. Maybe cut their size and abilities down, by a large margin. They missed 911, all of them did, and it took ten years to find and get UBL. In some areas they are doing incredible things. It seems the leadership has been corrupted into politics completely. They seem to have aligned with the two parties and when an outsider comes in, Trump, they did nothing to defend him or even find the truth. They further went at it, for politics with the SC pick and investigation. It was a political hack job. Maybe move their headquarters to death valley and limit their travel to DC. Honestly I dont know how to fix corruption especially when the people that are supposed to be protecting us from it are running it.
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See: Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems. The system cannot check itself for errors. End of story.
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Didn't see the 9/11 attacks until they happened.
And yet they gave the CIA director the Medal of Freedom. If something like that happened in the old Soviet Union, the person would have gotten the Beria treatment.
No wonder the DIA refuse to the tell the others of the Chinese defector.
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Access,
"Hey buddy, tell me a story."
Story goes uphill, x10.
[chinese telephone]
Resourcing, x10.
"Hey buddy, do you know where I can find X?"
"There's some money/girls/boys/drugs/visas in it for you."
Acquisition x10.
[snatch & grab]
"Can you hear me thru my mask?"
"How long can you hold your breath?"
"Does it hurt when I do this?"
"Wow, that's gotta really hurt!"
"Your wife isn't gonna want that back!"
Rendering, x10, x10, x10.
1000 versions from 100 sources found by 10 OPs from what 1 guy said.
The failure is in the assumption of what WE would do in those circumstances. By the time it becomes actionable intelligence it's oral history from some alien culture.
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My AF career what in imagery Intel. I've worked with the CIA (NPIC) and the DIA. The guys I met from the NSA concentrated on Eastern Europe. Thirty to fifty years ago, they were all good people, and mostly former military. There were a lot of us e enjoyed then that didn't trust Intel from State or some of the other agencies.
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Registering as a democrat is in itself, sufficient evidence of "mental decline."
[Whatfinger] Former White House physician and current Republican member of Congress Ronny Jackson has told Fox News he believes Joe Biden will have to resign before his term is up due to an "alarming" decline in the president’s cognitive abilities.
Dr Jackson was the White House physician for former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama. He claimed President Biden would not perform well on a cognitive test, arguing his health is on the decline.
"I’ve been saying this from the very beginning. I’ve been saying that something’s going on here. I was saying this when he was candidate Joe Biden, and I’ve been saying that it’s only going to get worse, and guess what. We’re watching that happen right before our eyes right now," Congressman Jackson said. "There’s something seriously going on with this man right now, and, you know, I think that he’s either going to resign, they’re going to convince him to resign from office at some point in the near future for medical issues."
The White House has confirmed President Biden will undergo a physical exam "later this year" and the results will be made public, but denied the need for him to undergo a cognitive test.
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/\ I concur. The puppet masters want to keep Harris and Pelosi off the stage for as long as possible. The Deep State and Shadow President Soetoro would have a control problem with Pelosi.
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I imagined 'what if' when Harris was sworn in overnight. I'm sure 'insurance' is in place for that. A violent drag down or even a JFK wouldn't be too out of character for the deepState. If it's smart.
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/\ If it happens, you've probably just written the plan. Dr. Jill accompanies Plugs to Walter Reed in the middle of the night. With the exception of Dr. Jill, he will have no visitors. She will relay his daily thoughts and instructions.
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Biden is the perfect president for the bureaucracy, who are now firmly in charge. He does whatever they tell him to do. Any replacement might have ideas of his/her own, which the bureaucracy would not like. Therefore they will keep Joe forever.
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I don't believe Pelosi would accept the Vice-presidency, she has way more power as speaker of the house
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Kennedy was a mess his second term, Roosevelt had issues and the dems never removed them. Jill will run the presidency until election time. They will never pull him, that admitting defeat. They put him in power knowing he was incapable, and they did it to manipulate the office. They are right where they want to be, why change it?
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They put him in power knowing he was incapable
As did between some and many of the voters who voted for him. But the argument I heard was that both candidates were senile, so that wasn’t a factor. I was seriously shocked.
[Washington Examiner] Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested that it would’ve been "negligent" for the National Institutes of Health not to fund bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and declined to commit not to collaborate with Chinese government scientists in the future, insisting that "we have always been careful."
Last week, Sen. Rand Paul requested Attorney General Merrick Garland criminally investigate Fauci over his Senate testimony, during which he said the NIH never funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, which the Kentucky Republican says is a lie. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, insists the NIH grants did not fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab.
On Sunday, CNN’s Jake Tapper referenced last week’s back-and-forth between Paul and Fauci, noting the NIH has insisted the U.S. government-funded experiments proposed by the EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan lab did not meet the NIH’s definition of gain-of-function research and asked if the United States should "collaborate" with such labs whose research critics consider risky.
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Isn't it funny that we are supposed to trust computer modeling of climate as if it's gospel, but this virology stuff needs to be done in a manner that leads to a lab accident.
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/\ Given the number of suitable LAB's here in the USA. Why use US Taxpayer $$$$$ to fund any LAB controlled by Communist China?
1. It's very dangerous work. There have been "breaches of containment" close calls, Fort Dietrich for one. There is likely a good reason we're not hearing anything from USAMRIID or other facets of the intelligence community.
2. Why fund expensive domestic research primarily done by contractors and non-for-profits (who cannot be trusted to keep their mouths shut), when you can remote the effort at a fraction of the cost.
3. Gov't money may not be the only benefit the Chinese have derived from such a collaboration.
4. What better way to monitor what is going on in Wuhan than to have on-site sources who are free to travel to attend conferences, share data electronically, invite partnering researchers to periodically visit, etc.
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Why use US Taxpayer $$$$$ to fund any LAB controlled by Communist China?
If I understand correctly, after one/several lab accidents in domestic labs, they were forbidden — by Congress? — to do gain of function research anymore. Since Dr. Fauci and some others still wanted it done, they had to get someone else to do the work Americans can’t.
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Let's call St. Fauxi the "common thread." HIV+ people are "not to be stigmatized." People who won't get a COVID vax are "murderers" and should be treated like second class citizens. Bit of a paradox, no?
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I can't believe ho many people are saying this research would be fine if we were doing it. We were smart enough to stop making nerve gas. But apparently not smart enough to destroy the last stocks of smallpox (here and in Russia) This is not in any way the same as developing thermonuclear bombs which was going to happen in any event. This sort of research is something that should be banned on pain of immediate nuclear cauterization if it is discovered.
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We should have nuked Wuhan. The Chinese would not have been able to do anything meaningful in retaliation.
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A slight adjustment to the argument becomes 'Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer' ...
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency conducted raids at six locations in the four districts of Thanjavur, Madurai, Theni and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu.
The NIA raided the residence of accused Abdullah Saravanakumar and his associates. The case was registered after Abdullah posted incendiary messages on Facebook earlier this year in which he instigated people to wage a war against India on religious grounds.
He had also urged through his posts to establish Khilafat, thus threatening the unity, security and illusory sovereignty of India. During searches,22 digital devices including mobile phones, hard disks, memory cards, pen drives, laptops and many booklets containing incriminating materials have been recovered, the NIA said.
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It's just talk, Wren. Someone sitting in a liberal country taking out their frustrations. The paleos and Arabs talk about christians and jews the same.
The world should actually be glad the moslem is trained from birth to think with his dick.
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The weak hindooist only postures, insults and often ends up having to explain himself in court, while the moslem goes to court almost every other day for multiple such cases. The moslem also actually grooms young women, entire families deal in young girls and use them to death as per right.
And how do you know this thing is not a false flag operation to attack India in the international community with 'islamophobia' and 'hindu misogyny' accusations.
[IsraelTimes] 25 trucks intended for power plant in Strip are stuck at Kerem Shalom crossing; Israeli official says it’s Paleostinians’ fault, PA denies it.
Israeli authorities prevented 25 truckloads of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i-funded fuel intended for Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s only power plant from entering the Strip, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, officials told the terror group’s Voice of al-Aqsa radio station on Sunday morning.
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the Israeli military body responsible for coordinating the entry of goods into Gaza, declined to comment.
A Defense Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , blamed the Paleostinians for the delay, saying the Paleostinian Authority body responsible for coordinating with Israel had failed to inform Israeli authorities that the fuel was scheduled to enter the enclave.
"As soon as the Paleostinians properly coordinate with us, the fuel will enter," the official said.
Two Paleostinian officials in Gaza dismissed that explanation, telling The Times of Israel they had not been informed of any coordination issues.
The officials further maintained they were not responsible at all for coordinating the entry of Qatari fuel, which falls under a separate mechanism. Qatar, through its Gaza envoy Mohammad al-Emadi, and the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... coordinate directly with Israel to allow fuel to enter Gaza, the Paleostinian officials contended.
United Nations and Qatari officials declined to comment.
Qatar has provided subsidized fuel for Gaza’s only power plant since 2018 as part of an aid package it provides to the Hamas-run coastal enclave.
Until the May fighting between Israel and Hamas, Jerusalem permitted the subsidies to enter, in a bid to soothe tensions on its southern border. But since the May conflict, Jerusalem has sought to impose heightened restrictions on Gaza, significantly limiting imports and exports.
Israel has also largely halted the entrance of Qatari subsidies — which in the past included millions in cash — although it recently permitted Qatari-funded fuel to begin re-entering Gaza. Israeli officials have vowed that they will not allow a return to the status quo, which they view as too favorable to the Hamas terror group.
During the war, Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and Paleostinian rockets caused at least $290 million worth of damage to the Gaza Strip, international assessors reported in early July.
Israel and Hamas have been conducting indirect negotiations in Cairo in an attempt to strengthen the fragile ceasefire between the two sides. Israeli officials have said they will condition allowing the reconstruction of Gaza and easing the heightened restrictions on reaching a prisoner exchange with Hamas that secures the return of Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed and the bodies of IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, who died in 2014 fighting.
[NYPOST] House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... on Sunday named Republican Rep. Adam Kinzginer to the committee that will examine the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — after refusing to appoint GOP Reps. Jim Jordan and Jim Banks.Kinzinger, an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... ’s role in the melee, said he "humbly" accepted Pelosi’s appointment.
"I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution — and while this is not the position I expected to be in or sought out, when duty calls, I will always answer," the Iraq War vet wrote Sunday on Twitter.
The Illinois pol joins Rep. Liz Cheney ...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as Republican royalty. A staunch Never Trumper, Liz supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump for his role in the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Publicans dumped her from her leadership position in May 2021. Refusing to admit that she had trashed her own career, Cheney has said that she intends to be the leader... in a fight to help to restore our party and that she may be interested in a future presidential run.... of Wyoming as the only Republicans currently on the select committee.
Both congressional members were the only GOP politicians to vote last month in favor of establishing a select committee in the House to probe the debacle.
Kinzinger will bring "great patriotism to the committee’s mission: to find the facts and protect our Democracy," Pelosi said in a statement.
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“On January 6th, insurrectionists attempted to overthrow the government during the worst assault on the Capitol since the War of 1812,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “It is imperative that we get to the truth of that day and ensure that such an attack can never again happen." From Speaker-for-Life-and-Beyond website.
She wants to insure that we don't get to the truth of the day as she probably had a lot to do with fomenting and covering up the insurrection. BTW, I can believe she was in the position during the War of 1812.
#Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro says he is aiming to begin a dialogue with the country’s political opposition next month in Mexico facilitated by #Norway, a process he hopes the #US will embrace.https://t.co/fy6aRuIMZd
#UPDATE: Russian MoD: In the time from 5:40 to 05:54 on July 25, two F-16 aircraft of the Israeli Air Force struck, without entering the airspace of the Syrian Arab Republic, from the direction Southwest, with two guided missiles at targets in the Sayeda Zainab (Damascus) area
Only two missiles? It seems to me they usually shoot off more...
From Tass.com, the missile were intercepted by Russian made AA missiles:
Two Israeli fighter jets tried to deliver an airstrike on Syria’s Damascus governorate but all the missiles were downed by Syria air defense systems, Vadim Kulit, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, said on Sunday.
"From 05:40 a.m. to 05:54 a.m., two F-16 tactical fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force, which stayed outside Syria’s airspace, delivered a strike, from the southwestern direction, with two guided missiles at facilities in the settlement of Seidat Zeinab in the Damascus governorate," he said, adding that both missiles were downed with the use of the Russian-made Buk-M2E systems of the Syria air defense units.
It was the third attempt to deliver a strike on Syria’s territory in the past week. Thus, on July 22, Buk-M2E systems of the Syrian army downed four guided missiles fired from Israeli F-16 fighter jets at Syria’s Homs governorate. On July 19, Israeli fighter jets fired eight guided missiles at an area southeast of Aleppo. Seven of them were destroyed by Russian-made Panstyr-S and Buk-M2 systems.
[NYPOST] Flames racing through rugged terrain in Northern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, destroyed multiple homes Saturday as the state’s largest wildfire intensified and numerous other blazes battered the U.S. West.The Dixie fire, which started July 14, had already leveled over a dozen houses and other structures when it tore through the tiny community of Indian Falls after dark.
An updated damage estimate was not immediately available, though fire officials said the blaze has charred more than 181,000 acres (73,200 hectares) in Plumas and Butte counties and was 20% contained.
The fire was burning in a remote area with limited access, hampering firefighters’ efforts as it charged eastward, fire officials said. It has prompted evacuation orders in several small communities and along the west shore of Lake Almanor, a popular area getaway.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... the nation’s largest wildfire, southern Oregon’s Bootleg fire, was nearly halfway surrounded Saturday as more than 2,200 crew members worked to corral it in the heat and wind, fire officials said. The growth of the sprawling blaze had slowed, but thousands of homes remained threatened on its eastern side, authorities said.
Dixie Fire destroys 16 structures in California; Bootleg Fire 46% contained https://t.co/H5aDNoSdMx
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Welcome to Burnaforina.
Want to bet soon we will see the media promoting a Climate Friendly Special Interest Group calling for the elimination of the Northern California Power Grid?
YES ! California Wild Fires are Climate & Man related.
But not by Climate Freezing, Climate Warming or Climate Change.
But, it still is mainly a natural climate Cycle seen in that seasonally dry, windy and Lighting storm prone areas. Its a cycle that been going on for many many generations before settlers came to the area. history. Sure power lines are an added source, just like Mother natures lighting sparks cause dry things to burn.
In pre-Settler days, the Northern California Native American tribes deliberately used controlled burns many times the size of what we see today.
See: "To Manage Wildfire, California Looks To What Tribes Have Known All Along" By: Lauren Sommer • Aug 24, 2020
Note: They also used these fires as a weapon to also burn out hostile tribes and yes settlers. Hence why the tribal annual set fires were quickly stopped by settlers.
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In the old days they didn’t have Australian eucalyptus trees all over the landscape, which burn very hot and then explode, scattering hot coals much more widely... and between fires the sap glues bird beaks closed so the poor little things starve to death. But unthinking tree huggers refuse to allow the trees to be culled by the thoughtful, because as trees they are sacred.
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Better yet, put up a sign that says- Fire Free Zone. That will stop these fires.
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Toward the end of the nineteenth century eucalyptus trees were planted in California by the thousands. They were sold as the perfect tree for firewood.
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a mature Euc will contain up to 100 gallons of Eucalyptus oil. The were planted in San Diego County as fast-growing lumber for railroad ties. Unfortunately, they suck as ties and were never widely used
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[TRENDINGPOLITICS] A fully packed house for the "Rally to Protect Our Elections" in Phoenix, Arizona went kaboom! when Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... arrived to make his case the 2020 election was ’rigged.’
The 45th president made some of his most pointed remarks yet about the previous election to the Trump faithful.
"The 2020 election was a total disgrace," Trump said. "It was the most corrupt..." he began to say before being interrupted by cheers. The crowd then began chanting, "Trump! Trump! Trump!"
"And I tell this to people, I tell it to Republicans, and a lot of them are very good people," he continued. "And they say, ’well, sir, we have to get on to the future’."
"Let me tell you, you’re not going to have a future," Trump added. "First of all, our nation is being destroyed. But you’re not going to have a future in ’22 or ’24 if you don’t find out how they cheated with hundreds of thousands and even millions of votes, because you won’t win anything. You won’t win anything."
"But I tell people, this is the biggest issue there is," he went on. "This is bigger than the border. This is bigger than anything. This is the biggest issue."
"It was the most corrupt, dishonest and unfair election in the history of our country," Trump added.
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Biden has never had any support or turnouts to speak of, even in his own party and we are supposed to believe he won the election. Rigged is what the election was.
[NYPOST] Iraq’s prime minister said US combat troops are no longer needed to fight Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... turbans in the country and said a timetable for their redeployment will be part of discussions with 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... officials this week. "There is no need for any foreign combat forces on Iraqi soil," said Mustafa al-Kadhimi told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, adding that Iraq’s security forces and army are up to the task of defending the country.
He said any withdrawal of US forces would be based on the needs of Iraqi troops, which in the past year have carried out independent missions against the terror group.
"The war against IS and the readiness of our forces requires a special timetable, and this depends on the negotiations that we will conduct in Washington," al-Kadhimi said in the interview published Sunday.
The Iraqi leader, who is scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter...... on Monday, said he will ask the US for help in training and intelligence gathering.
The timeline could have most US troops out of Iraq by the end of the year.
Bubonic plague is endemic in that part of the country — prairie dogs are a reservoir, if I recall correctly. But it’s easily cured by antibiotics if the patient gets to a doctor quickly.
[CPR] State health officials have confirmed that plague was responsible for the death of a Durango-area child.
The 10-year-old girl was a member of a local 4H group, the Weaselskin 4H Club, confirmed one of the club’s leaders, Mike Latham. The club and the girl’s family declined to comment further.
A statement released Friday evening from the Colorado Department of Health and Environment said the investigation of the case to determine how and when the girl contracted plague is continuing.
“We are so sad for the loss of this young Coloradan and our deepest condolences go to the family,” said Dr. Jennifer House of CDPHE. “Public health is doing an epidemiological investigation and wants Coloradans to know that while this disease is very rare, it does occur sometimes, and to seek medical care if you have symptoms.”
This is the first human plague death in the state in six years. While exceedingly rare, when infections and deaths do occur, they disproportionately occur in La Plata County, home to Durango. Residents of La Plata County made up almost half of Colorado’s plague cases between 2005-2020, according to CDPHE.
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This is the first human plague death in the state in six years.
They didn't act fast enough to dump the child on New Mexico to move the death count south. Most medicos in New Mexico* know the signs of the disease for quick action to avoid death. The state's medical system is set up to act. Too many times neighboring states are too late and transfer the victim to New Mexico for treatment. At that point its like being put on a ventilator in the latter stages of Covid. Hey, but the count in on others.
* unofficial motto - home of the flea, land of the plague
[RUDAW.NET] In a televised speech on July 15, 2021, the leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... announced he was withdrawing from the election race, saying: "We inform you that I will not participate in these elections." At the same time, he dismantled the Sadrist Political Commission (SPC), which means parliament’s largest political bloc is left without a leader or decision-making body.
The SPC was directly responsible for guiding Sadrist government officials, managing daily affairs of the Sadrist parliamentary bloc, and giving directions to attend or boycott, and vote on parliamentary decisions and legislation. Sadr’s decision also led to the suspension of the electoral machine and the complete halt of Sadrist electoral activity. The absence of the Sadrist bloc in parliament means the entire legislature is paralyzed, as it is now challenged to achieve a quorum for any session or vote.
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Al Sadr, Al Khadimi, Al Capone;
all names of the complication prone.
But the one who beams real charm
Is the Tater, that oral germ farm.
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Advised an old Muslim of Bangor,
"By Allah, wank only in anger!
Employ but one finger
And don't you dare linger!
Langurs are okay, but no langour!
And remember, more than three boys sheikhs is playin' with it."
Say WHAT? I hurt my neck on this one. News from 2000?
They’re as bad as Hezbollah in terms of hiding weapons and tunnels under civilians.. Hamas responds to the report of secondaries after Israel bombed the weapons depot Thursday.
[JPost] Palestinians in the Gaza Strip said that the explosion that killed 1 and injured 14 on Thursday took place in a warehouse used by Hamas for storing weapons.
Palestinian factions and human rights organizations have called on Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups to stop storing weapons in residential areas following another explosion, which killed one person and injured 14 others on Thursday. They also demanded a thorough investigation into the explosion in order to hold those responsible accountable.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip said that the explosion took place in a warehouse used by Hamas for storing weapons.
Hamas said it has launched an investigation, but has not provided any details.
Thursday’s explosion occurred shortly after 8 a.m. in a house located in the Al-Zawiya market area in the center of Gaza City. Palestinian sources said that 69-year-old Atta Ahmed Saqallah died and 14 civilians were injured, including six children.
Medical sources at Shifa Hospital described the wounds of one of them as critical, according to the Palestinian Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights. The three-story house was partially destroyed, while neighboring houses and shops were partially damaged, the center said in a statement. According to eyewitnesses, a fire had broken out in the house before the explosion.
"Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza views the explosion incident with grave seriousness, as there have been repeated incidents of internal explosions in houses in overcrowded residential neighborhoods for various reasons in the past, which resulted in the killing of a number of civilians and the destruction of homes and public and private properties," the statement read.
"Accordingly, Al-Mezan reiterates its call for a comprehensive and serious investigation into this incident and other similar events, to publish the results of the investigation publicly, and to take the necessary measures to ensure that it does not recur in order to preserve the lives and property of citizens."
The Palestinian NGO Network, an umbrella organization comprising 133 member organizations, also called for a "serious and transparent" investigation into the explosion. "The Network stresses the need to expedite the provision of all forms of assistance and support to those affected," the group said. "It also stresses the need to announce the results of the investigation and to take serious measures to prevent such explosions from happening again."
Palestinian writer Fadel Al-Manasfeh said it was clear that Hamas chooses popular markets as a safe place for its ammunition warehouses because it knows that Israel does not target such places. He said that Hamas was "confused" by the explosion because one of its weapons warehouses had been discovered. He also pointed out that a similar explosion took place in an open market in the Nuseirat refugee camp last year, killing more than 10 Palestinians and injuring dozens others.
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Hamas accuses Palestinians of being careless with cigarette butts in their own homes.
"And absolutely no fireworks! No matter how many birthdays young Abdul has managed."
#Somalia has postponed elections that were due to start on Sunday after months of delays in the deeply unstable Horn of Africa country, officials tell AFP.https://t.co/29QOlznDK9
To me, it looks like an emulation of an Antifa poster. Mister Matta obviously ain't too clear on that free speech thingy.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Mayor Jimmy Matta of Burien, Wash. falsely claimed on Friday that he and other city council candidates were targets of a hate crime after yard signs appeared in public areas advocating against progressive candidates, of which he is one.
The signs read, "SEATTLE POLITICS ARE BAD FOR BURIEN," and had the BLM fist logo on them. The signs also said, "VOTE AGAINST," then listed the names of local progressive candidates Jimmy Matta, Hugo Garcia, Sarah Moore and Marxist candidate Krystal Marx.
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If it were not Race what would Black Mayors run on...
Surely not how much improvement the Inner-city areas has seen under their administration.
Overall.
Kinda reminds me of the WaterWorld Smoker Captain speaking how to get the pee-ons to row more.
#UPDATE: Tunisia: Al-Mayadeen Correspondent: The deployment of the Tunisian army in the vicinity of the National Television Corporation https://t.co/20IRLK15JE
So if you’re hearing about the coup in Tunisia and the storming of the Ennahada party headquarters, you may not know that, interestingly, this party has historically strong links to Iran and was inspired by Khomeini’s Islamic Revolutionary ideology & the Muslim Brotherhood. pic.twitter.com/XLcX2xzrsm
#Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has suspended parliament and sacked Prime Minister Hicham Mechichi after violent protests gripped the country paralyzing many cities. https://t.co/W1i3B3hWxA
Reports of the forced closure of the airport in the capital and borders in #Tunisia following the suspension of parliament and removal of the country’s prime minister, according to Al Arabiya’s correspondent in Tunis.https://t.co/7i2nOUNLcspic.twitter.com/Ta8E1L7tqD
Tunisian Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi accuses President Kais Saied of launching “a coup against the revolution and constitution” after Saied said he had frozen parliament and dismissed the government.#Tunisiahttps://t.co/TK23L8iYOJ
Watch: Hundreds of Tunisians honk and cheer in celebration after mass protests led to President Kais Saied announcing the suspension of the country's parliament and the dismissal of Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi.#Tunisiahttps://t.co/JC5JfcvxI0pic.twitter.com/0BI4oGCswK
Noureddine El-Beheiry, a leading figure within the Islamist Ennahda party, attacks Al Arabiya and Al Hadath channels over its coverage of protests in #Tunisia and threatens supporters of Tunisian President Kais Saied that “they will pay the price.”https://t.co/ChMnBVTlIB
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From an old Rantburg post: Captured Tunisian ISIS Fighter Confesses Muslim Brotherhood Encouraged Jihad in Syria. [PJMedia] A 34-year-old Tunisian ISIS fighter captured by Kurdish forces in Raqaa recently spoke to news hound Jenan Moussa of al-Aan TV. When asked why he had joined the terrorist organization, the fighter confessed that Ennahda -- the Moslem Brüderbund affiliate in Tunisia -- had encouraged young fighters to join the jihad in Syria. It's not a coincidence, then, that Tunisia had the largest number of imported muscle in Syria.
This deflates much of the U.S. think-tank and media establishment narrative that the Moslem Brüderbund serves as a "firewall" against jihadist groups: Posted by trailing wife 2017-07-17 00:00||
"The only unmasked and anti COVID restrictions president in the world, Kais Saied-Tunisia, ejected all parliament members. They will be judged by the end of the month for the COVID measures they took that destroyed the economy."
[AMGREATNESS] Contemporary Americans tend to scoff at the credulousness of those Puritans in Salem who leveled deadly accusations based on the phantoms of their own imaginations. But here we are, in the age of Critical Race Theory
...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites and Asians are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense... , still doing it.
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"one of the fastest-spreading and most fatal cancers humanity has ever known . . . There is nothing I see in the world today, in our history, giving me hope that one day antiracists will win the fight, that one day the flag of antiracism will fly over the world of equity."
"And I promise to continue to promote my views, for a hefty fee, until the magic money tree dries up!"
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CRT is based on the claim that an insidious, pervasive, but invisible force inhabits all Americans and American institutions.
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All because nobody has the ball to say "Sure there is inequality in achievement - but this is due not to systemic racism but to the 20 point IQ difference."
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Three suspects have been indicted by a grand jury on charges including felony attempted murder, aggravated assault, and aggravated battery in connection with the strangling of an officer in Aurora, Illinois, during a traffic stop in late June.
Officials announced Wednesday the indictments of 26-year-old Sheba Taylor, of Aurora, 24-year-old Jennifer Taylor, of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... , and 28-year-old Paul Sherrod Taylor, of Aurora, on the first-degree murder, assault, and battery charges.
"Because of the strangulation and because of the research that we know about how quickly it is for somebody to lose their life as a result of somebody preventing them from being able to breathe, we believe that the proper charge was attempted first degree murder," said Kane County state's attorney Jamie Mosser.
Dash cam footage has since been released of the June 21 roadside assault. The six-minute video was released by the Aurora Illinois Police Department on Wednesday evening, showing the violent mostly peaceful events that transpired during the routine traffic stop.
Video shows that the trio's car ran a stop sign, which prompts the unnamed officer to pull the vehicle over around 10:30 pm.
As the cop approaches the car after the group parks in a driveway located in the 600 block of North Elmwood Drive, the driver begins yelling obscenities at the officer through the window, according to a police statement.
The female passenger exits the vehicle, despite orders from the officer to remain in the vehicle. The female in the backseat also exits the vehicle.
After refusing to obey orders to get back in the vehicle, the officer informs the female in the backseat that she is under arrest for obstructing, according to police. The male driver exits the vehicle and then states that "I'm gonna knock you out, bro" to the officer if he touches the woman.
The officer then tells the driver he was also under arrest for obstructing. He attempts to arrest the driver, but the male suspect runs from the scene—with the officer in pursuit on foot and the two female passengers following.
"The two female passengers then began striking the officer with closed fists and kicking his body and head," stated the Aurora Police Department. "The officer heard a male's voice and then was struck repeatedly in the head from several angles. The rear female passenger placed her forearm around the officer’s neck and applied significant force to his windpipe, causing him to lose the ability to breathe. A short time later, additional officers arrived and placed the subjects into custody."
Aurora Police chief Kristen Ziman said that the assaulted officer was treated after the brutal incident, released from the hospital, and is back on duty.
"A minor infraction that likely would have resulted in a citation at most turned into an officer fighting for his life," said Ziman, according to Fox 32. The trio were released on bond and are due back in court for arraignment on Sept. 24.
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The trio were released on bond. Its the Chicago way bro'.
More on this story from yesterday, including the names of the miscreants involved.
[Breitbart] The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped charges against five members of the Chinese military whom federal prosecutors previously accused of lying to obtain visas to get jobs and a doctoral spot at United States universities.
Late last week, prosecutors wrote in a court brief that they would be dropping their criminal cases against China military members Juan Tang, Chen Song, Kaikai Zhao, and Guan Lei — all of whom had been accused of fraudulently obtaining visas to secure roles at U.S. universities in California and Indiana.
DOJ officials told the Wall Street Journal that the department dropped the visa fraud charges after a re-review of the cases and justified the move, saying the Chinese nationals had already served months in federal prison while awaiting trial:
A senior Justice Department official said the punishment for the crimes the researchers were charged with usually amounted to around a few months in prison, and the defendants had all been detained or under other restrictions in the U.S. since their arrest a year ago. That led the agency to determine that further litigation in the group of cases would unnecessarily prolong their departure from the U.S. and that their situations since their arrests amounted to sufficient punishment and deterrence. [Emphasis added]
A Justice Department spokesman said "recent developments" in the cases had prompted the department to re-evaluate the prosecutions. "We have determined that it is now in the interest of justice to dismiss them," the spokesman, Wyn Hornbuckle, said, adding that the agency "continues to place a very high priority on countering the threat posed to American research security and academic integrity by the PRC government’s agenda and policies." PRC is an abbreviation for People’s Republic of China. [Emphasis added]
The five Chinese nationals were arrested in July and August of last year as part of a federal crackdown on China military members fraudulently obtaining visas to the U.S. by hiding their ties to the Chinese military, known formally as the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
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China military members Juan Tang, Chen Song, Kaikai Zhao, and Guan Lei — all of whom had been accused of fraudulently obtaining visas to secure roles at U.S. universities in California and Indiana.
Did their desired curriculums include a heavy emphasis in science and molecular biology ?
[AnNahar] Two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed and two others maimed in areas of northern Syria under Ankara's control to keep out jihadists and Kurdish rebels, the defense ministry tweeted Sunday.
The ministry said "terrorists" targeted a Ottoman Turkish military vehicle on Saturday in the Euphrates Shield region south of the border, but did not specify which group they represented.
To be fair, one imagines everyone there hates the Turks — only partly for recent actions.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... launched Operation Euphrates Shield in 2016 in order to drive away from its border region Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... murderous Moslems and Syrian Kurdish militia forces deemed "terrorists" by Ankara.
The Euphrates Shield region includes the towns of Jarablus and al-Bab near the Ottoman Turkish border.
After the attack, "the terror targets were hit" in retaliation, the ministry said.
Ankara views Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) as an offshoot of outlawed murderous Moslems who have been waging a deadly insurgency against the Ottoman Turkish state.
Iranian security forces attack demonstrators in the city of Miandoab during rallies held in solidarity with protesters in Ahwaz, videos posted on social media show.https://t.co/0gmzZrnoWSpic.twitter.com/lsbsxhqH2O
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Miandoab is in Iranian Azerbaijan, literally the polar opposite of the demonstrations held in the Arab=clustered south. Are the ethnic minorities becoming restless?
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[REGNUM] Over the past week, Russian radar stations have detected 36 spy planes and 11 reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) near the borders of the Russian Federation. The infographics were published on July 25 by the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.
Russian radar stations (radar) during the week tracked 36 reconnaissance aircraft belonging to foreign states and 11 UAVs. No violations of Russian airspace were recorded.
Twice Russian fighters went up to escort foreign aircraft in order to prevent the possibility of violating the Russian border.
Earlier IA REGNUM reported about 47 aircraft that carried out aerial reconnaissance along the borders of the Russian Federation.
Reported Krasnaya Zvezda:
On July 22, Russian air control systems over the Baltic Sea area detected an air target approaching the State Border of the Russian Federation.
After turning a foreign military aircraft from the border of the Russian Federation, the Russian fighter safely returned to the home airfield. The flight of the Russian fighter was carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace. Violations of the State Border of the Russian Federation were not allowed.
[AlAhram] This brings the total number of Christian places of worship and service buildings that have been granted legal status so far to 1,985.
A cabinet committee tasked with legalising the status of unlicensed Christian places of worship approved on Sunday the legalisation of 76 churches and service buildings that had been operating without a permit, the cabinet said in a statement.
This brings the total number of Christian places of worship and service buildings that have been granted legal status so far to 1,985, cabinet front man Nader Saad said.
In 2016, Egypt’s parliament approved a long-awaited law regulating the building and renovation of churches.
The committee to legalise the status of unlicensed churches was established in 2017 by the prime minister.
The 10-member committee comprises one Christian representative, six government officials from several ministries, representatives from the national security apparatus, the intelligence apparatus, and the administrative control body.
[NYPOST] Elvis Nina Pichardo, 40, was busted in New York Friday after allegedly threatening to sexually assault two women in the Upper Manhattan park Wednesday and hitting a third with a tree branch while "continually slamming her head into the ground," according to police.He allegedly tried to pull her pants down and rape her, police said.
Pichardo — who was awaiting arraignment Saturday on charges including attempted rape, attempted criminal sexual act, sexually motivated assault, robbery and public lewdness — had been released from prison in Huntsville, TX on May 6 following his 2007 arrest and conviction in Waco, TX, records show.
He was accused of randomly targeting an 18-year-old woman, threatening and then attacking her, Texas law enforcement sources said.
Pichardo, who was carrying a box cutter, was charged with aggravated kidnapping and sexual abuse, according to sources and records. He was convicted in 2008.
The attacks in Manhattan began Wednesday morning when he was alleged to have approached a 34-year old woman and threatened to rape her before hitting her head and taking her iPhone, cops said.
A short time later, he was accused of threatening to assault a 40-year-old woman and also demanding her phone before she was able run off, according to police.
The third victim was taken to Harlem Hospital with head trauma.
Pichardo was living in the Bronx. He was originally arrested on a separate public lewdness charge in Chinatown.
[Garowe] U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Saturday that U.S. Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... in Somalia over the past few days were undertaken because Somali forces are intensifying their offensive against the al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group.
"Most recently what’s happened is our partner forces have increased their op[erational] tempo, and they have been pushing back on al-Shabaab in a more significant way," Austin told news hounds traveling with him to Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska.
"The result of that is some engagements that were fairly intense, and we conducted those strikes to support our partner forces," he added.
U.S. Africa Command targeted al-Shabaab with two airstrikes on July 20 and July 23, following a nearly six-month hiatus that began when President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... took office.
The Somali military has been embroiled in a fierce struggle on the ground with al-Shabaab in Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... state, the region targeted in both U.S. strikes.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told VOA and other news hounds traveling aboard a U.S. military aircraft Friday that U.S. troops were not on the ground with Somali forces during the strikes but were conducting a remote advise-and-assist mission.
Further information was not provided because of "operational security."
The U.S. military carried out 63 airstrikes against al-Shabaab in 2019 and 53 airstrikes last year.
Another seven airstrikes were launched in the first 2½ weeks of 2021 before former U.S. President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... left office.
U.S. officials explained the slowdown by citing a Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...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... review of the military’s airstrike policy. Senior Somali officials concerned with the lack of strikes had warned it would allow al-Shabaab "to come out of hiding."
[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said that the ongoing conflict between the Afghan government and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... has made over fifty thousand families leave their homes this year and 14 thousand of these families have been displaced in the past 15 days across the country.
Ever since the United States began their remaining 2500 soldiers’ evacuation over two months ago, the Taliban increased their offensive and toppled the territories which were not under their control in past. The situation behooved the Afghan government for counterattacks which caused heavy conflict and finally led to thousands of families leave their homes behind and seek refuge in secure places.
The families have not only been relocated to the capital cities of their respective provinces but also to Kabul.
The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation says that they are capable to provide the homeless people with shelter and food but warns on the other hand not to be able once the number of displaced families surge.
The Ministry estimates the number of displaced families to rise in the future.
Southern Kandahar is a province with the highest number of internal refugees who are suffering from different problems including heat, lack of shelter and food and their homes being looted back in their residences.
[ToloNews] The organizer of the rocket attacks on the Presidential Palace during Eid prayers was arrested with three others in Kabul city, the Interior Ministry’s front man Miriwais Stankezai
...”Stinky” to his friends...
said on Sunday.
The arrests were made during an Afghan special forces operation in PD5 of Kabul city.
Stanekzai said "the main organizer's name is Momen and he was also involved in several attacks in Paghman district of Kabul."
"All of these people arrested are members of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ," he said.
The Taliban has not yet commented on the arrest of these people.
On Tuesday, the first day of Eid, rockets were fired from PD4 in Kabul and landed in PD10 and PD1, targeting the Presidential Palace during a prayer ceremony.
The police said no one was hurt in the attacks.
No group grabbed credit.
ISIS-K claimed credit when no one else stepped forward.
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[REGNUM] With the onset of the third wave of the leash in Transbaikalia, water entered the territory of 14 settlements of Chernyshevsky, Nerchinsky, Sretensky and Shilkinsky districts, about eight thousand people were injured. This was announced on July 25 by the Deputy Prime Minister of the region Inna Shcheglova on the air of the TV channel "Russia-24" (GTRK "Chita").
According to her, the largest number of victims lives in the Shilkinsky and Chernyshevsky districts. In addition to residential buildings, objects of education, health care, culture and sports were damaged.
As reported by IA REGNUM , Transbaikalia is struggling with the third wave of flood. In the town of Shilka, Shilka district, 500 residential buildings with private plots, two schools and nine pedestrian bridges were flooded.
In the next two days, water is expected to reach the floodplain on the Chita rivers near the city of Chita, the Amur near the Pokrovka village, Shilka near the Anikino village, Nercha near the Zyulzya village, Chara near the Chara village, Ilya near the Ilya village, Olengui near Elizavetino.
Background
Continuous torrential rains have significantly worsened the flood situation in the Trans-Baikal Territory.
By mid-June 2021, hundreds of houses in more than 20 settlements were flooded in the region. Hundreds of household plots were under water. Several places and more than six kilometers of roads were also destroyed.
More than 100 people were evacuated to temporary accommodation centers.
Antifa march in Manhattan today. They hold a banner with their logo & a sign expressing a desire for vengeance. Video by @elaadeliahu: pic.twitter.com/bYbFjpKRff
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well, instead of your bullshit marches go and get it and see how you are received. Y'all aint about shit but running your dicksuckers.
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Honestly, I think the greater goal and Agenda of the ANTI-FArt leadership is to start a civil war.
A US against the New Left. So as to justify a Socialcrat Martial Law clamp down and iron thumb rule.
Given the DOD Loss Of Weapon Related Inventory audit reports leaking out. It also has me wondering if its being stolen by Military Personnel for personal use, or being funneled to certain groups?
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Someone should paint a giant flag on paper and cover it in super-sticky glue of the kind they use in some kinds of rat traps and spread it across the street in front of Antifa marchers. Then film it as the Antifa rush over to stomp the flag and get all caught up. Then tell them the flag had one start and was the Liberian flag the stupid racists.
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I don't understand why someone hasn't just hacked all their social media accounts and planted rayciss comments. Sh*tter and Fartbork would have to ban them all or explain why they didn't. Black eyes all around.
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Revenge for what? You are narcisstic cry babies who do nothing but try to tear society down rather than build it up. You are a bunch of nihilistic misanthropes who are head cases. Grow up, get outside yourselves, step up and do something useful for someone else.
[AlAhram] The crossing has been open on an exceptional basis since 16 May upon directives by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi
And how has that been working out for y’all? Do you recall why you don’t want the Gaza Strip back?
Egyptian authorities reopened the Rafah border crossing on Sunday after Eid El-Adha holidays to receive maimed and stranded Paleostinians and allow humanitarian relief assistance into the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
According to official sources, Rafah, the only crossing point between Egypt and Paleostine's Gaza Strip, has been open on both sides to allow entry of relief materials into the Gaza Strip for the reconstruction of the impoverished Paleostinian enclave after the widespread destruction it witnessed due to an Israeli onslaught in May.
[National File] Screenshot posted by Rep. Cori Bush
...D-St. Louis, Missouri and a brand new baby Congresswoman ...
appears to be of an unsubmitted request form on her website, making it unlikely that the message was sent to Bush by a "white supremacist."
Users also picked up on similarities between other message screenshots posted by Bush, arguing that the "white supremacist violence" was structured as if written by the same person.
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I just love how she calls herself a 'worthless piece of shit'.
Wakandan therapy maybe? Spend a day assaulting and insulting yourself, treat yourself the way you really believe you ought to be treated. Then shout out it was done to you by some white people and feel better.
#8
big business opportunity for a lefty willing to take a risk for the team. Contact this person, send them cash in unsequential bills, and tell them the nature of the hate crime you'd like them to commit against you. If done correctly you could at least ensure the 'victim' is not easily seen as the perp. Liberal politicians can then ensure a lax investigation to ensure the one person (or a small group to make it look like a nation-wide hate fest) does not get caught.
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Having said that, I expect in the next few years to see some go getter lefties start to send out hate messages or something to ensure the image of a hate filled nation.
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I've got a neighbor who literally beats her breast about how anti-racist she is. Her husband could make a Klansman blush. In the end white indifference will make blacks wish we cared.
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#8big business opportunity for a lefty willing to take a risk for the team. Contact this person, send them cash in unsequential bills, and tell them the nature of the hate crime you'd like them to commit against you.
See "Dirty Harry"
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[Contra Costa Herald] A day for the recognition of Ivermectin — "Covid is treatable with ivermectin and can end the pandemic"
By British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Group
An international coalition of medical professionals together with journalists, musicians, artists and others, have established World Ivermectin Day this Saturday 24 July 2021, with the aim of sharing the evidence-based message that the cheap, safe and easily-distributed medicine ivermectin can remove the fear of the covid pandemic to lives and economies. (See North America video)
According to the National Institutes of Health, Ivermectin is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved antiparasitic drug that is used to treat several neglected tropical diseases, including onchocerciasis, helminthiases, and scabies.
Reports from in vitro studies suggest that ivermectin acts by inhibiting the host importin alpha/beta-1 nuclear transport proteins, which are part of a key intracellular transport process that viruses hijack to enhance infection by suppressing the host’s antiviral response. In addition, ivermectin docking may interfere with the attachment of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein to the human cell membrane.
Some studies of ivermectin have also reported potential anti-inflammatory properties, which have been postulated to be beneficial in people with COVID-19.
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But I really, really WANT it to be gin and tonic.
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Anecdotal evidence for the usefulness of both HCQ and Ivermectin seems compelling and the risks are low --- but actual data-based scientific studies have not shown much, if any, benefit. It would be easier to believe those studies if the scientific 'community' had not damaged its credibility so severely with 'noble lies.'
What we see is a 62% reduction in the relative risk of dying among covid patients treated with ivermectin. That would mean that ivermectin prevents roughly three out of five covid deaths. The reduction is statistically significant (p-value 0,004). In other words, the weight of evidence supporting ivermectin continues to pile up. It is now far stronger than the evidence that led to widespred use of remdesivir earlier in the pandemic, and the effect is much larger and more important (remdesivir was only ever shown to marginally decrease length of hospital stay, it was never shown to have any effect on risk of dying).
I am a proponent of evidence based medicine. In other words, I think that medical diagnosis and treatment should be guided by the scientific evidence, not by expert opinion or personal anecdote, and certainly not by salespeople working for pharmaceutical companies.
We regard ivermectin as a core medication in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. For comprehensive information on ivermectin please refer to our Review of the Emerging Evidence Supporting the Use of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19 and the included references.
Youtube cancelled a meeting supporting ivermectin that was being watched by 3,000 people
Organised by (MAECC) Malaysian Doctors and others supporting ivermectin, it was one of the first World Ivermectin Day events….
The video was one of the first World Ivermectin Day events to go up on July 24, 2021 (you can watch it here.) However – censorship of Ivermectin is not unexpected.
YouTube says content about Ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COIVD-19 is not supported by health authorities around the world, and thus they cannot host knowledgeable discussions about Ivermectin on their platform. But YouTube has no problem hosting content recommending Tylenol for COVID-19. Go figure.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran’s judiciary wants to re-examine the cases of protesters that were imprisoned for taking part in widespread demonstrations against a fuel-price hike in November 2019, the semi-official Iranian Students’ News Agency reported.
Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei, the head of Iran’s judiciary, said he’d ordered Tehran’s prosecutor to release or acquit anyone who’d shown good behavior in jail or met certain "qualifications, without giving details, ISNA quoted him as saying in a meeting with the families of prisoners.
The move comes after protests in Iran’s southwest, oil-rich Khuzestan province killed three people and attracted widespread support from Iranians and prompted demonstrations of support in the city of Tabriz in the country’s northwest.
In November 2019, Khuzestan was gripped by some of the deadliest protests in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... since the 1979 revolution and rights groups have accused state security forces of having killed hundreds of people at the time.
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Yeah, we do the same thing too
especially after electing
democrats to office
BREAKING: Abdullah king of Jordan tells @CNN he met in recent weeks with Israeli minister of defense Benny Gantz. The King also confirmed for the first time my story about his meeting with Prime Minister @naftalibennett
[JPost] The Jerusalem District Court on Sunday ruled that the Palestine Liberation Organization must pay nearly NIS one million to the estates of two Israeli victims of a 1985 ship hijacking.
The Jerusalem District Court on Sunday ruled that the Palestine Liberation Organization must pay nearly NIS 1 million to the estates of two Israeli victims of a 1985 ship hijacking.
The breakdown of the damages is NIS 400,000 to each victim’s estate as well as attorneys fees for a decades long legal fight.
Channel 12 first reported the decision, but the Jerusalem Post independently obtained a copy of the ruling.
It was October 1985, when on its way to Alexandria, four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Achille Lauro at sea and demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.
During the hijacking of the ship, the terrorists shot a disabled Jew named Leon Klinghoffer while still strapped to his wheelchair and threw him into the water.
They also harmed various other passengers, including Sofi Chiser and Anna Shneider, whose families, represented by Shurat Hadin,
...which lives for this stuff, and seems to be very, very good at it...
initiated proceedings against the PLO around 21 years ago, to obtain damages for those harms.
[ToloNews] Residents of Malistan district in the central province of Ghazni claim that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... shot and killed 43 civilians and security force members after the group attacked the district earlier this month. Similar occurrences have been reported in other areas as well.
Among those killed were two young men whose father said they were killed while leaving the area with their families and that they were not babus government employees or security force members.
"Taliban fighters after entering Malistan district committed war crimes and killed civilians who were not involved in the fighting. They attacked people’s homes and after looting their property, they burned residential houses," said Mina Naderi, a civil society activist from Ghazni who read a joint statement from Malistan residents at a presser in Kabul on Sunday.
"In the center of Malistan district, they (Taliban) also destroyed and looted shops," she added.
The Taliban has rejected the claim by the residents.
Some of the displaced people who are in Kabul claimed that they have lost their family members in Taliban attacks, while others said their homes were damaged and destroyed in the fighting, forcing them to leave their areas.
Haji Nadir, caretaker of a 16-member family, said his sons Ramazan, 29, and Ishaq, 31, were killed by the Taliban 10 days ago when they were trying to leave the district with their families following an increase in fighting in the area.
"Who martyred the 40 civilians? Which stronghold were they in?" Nadir asked.
The two slain young men left behind five children who are now in Kabul. Figures show that at least 3,000 people have been displaced from Malistan district in the last 10 days following the Taliban attack. The eldest of the children is seven years old.
The spouses of the two young men said the Taliban blindfolded their husbands in front of their children, took them near a mosque in the area and then "opened fire on them."
"They were taken out and were taken a bit far (from their home) and were martyred," said Zulaikha, Ramazan Ali’s wife.
"We were on our way when we were stopped by the Taliban. The two were taken (Taliban) and both were killed," said Jamal, Ishaq Ali’s wife.
Malistan’s displaced residents also claimed that Taliban fighters collected food from homes in the district and issued an announcement saying that going forward they will treat people, especially women, based on the "Islamic emirate" rules.
Left-wing St. Louis, Mo. prosecutor Kim Gardner (@StLouisCityCA) is accused of sabotaging prosecutions by assigning incompetent underlings. A judge dropped several murder cases after her prosecutors kept missing court dates over & over for months. https://t.co/oHogYZlPff
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If it were the 1960-2000, I'd would say have the State of MO. AG, or the US DOJ AG investigate the claims. But both are likely doing the same based on Political agendas.
Which is likely another reason the DC Swamp is pushing LEFT vs. USA.
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I notice in the 2020 Census results that the city of St. Louis has dipped below 300,000 population. Down from a high of 850,000 in 1950. Look for even further and steeper declines by 2030.
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All politics aside, I can't overstate the degree of professional incompetence shown here. A big part of litigation practice is managing dates and deadlines, and the responsibility for that falls not only on the individual lawyer but also on the law firm. Not showing up for a hearing in a small civil dispute might well be a firing offense in the absence of a really good excuse, such as getting hit by a truck on your way to the courthouse. Not showing up for multiple hearings on a murder case boggles the mind. It would be even better to show up well prepared to argue the motion, but let's stick to basics: Get your butt to the courthouse on time.
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A puzzling tale with a deliberately anonymous subject, so we can’t check the Rantburg archive for the gentleman.
[Garowe] A British citizen has claimed he was tortured in Somalia and questioned by US intelligence officers, raising concern that controversial practices of the post-9/11 "war on terror" is still being used.
The 45-year-old from London alleges he has endured hooding, sensory deprivation, and waterboarding at the hands of the Somali authorities to persuade him, he believes, to cooperate with the CIA. Foreign Office officials are aware of the allegations of torture and US involvement, but their failure to act has raised questions over UK complicity.
David Taylor, whose name has been changed at his family’s request, has been detained without charge in Somalia for two years and fears that unless the UK government intervenes he will face execution in a military court or be rendered to the US. His family, based in London, says they are "heartbroken" over the situation and has accused the Foreign Office of "completely abandoning" him.
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David Taylor, whose name has been changed at his family’s request,
First of all, this is an immigrant, a muslim Somali who keeps going back. Second he had to have had dealings with the Shaboobs or the locals wouldn't be over him like flies on shit. David fcuking Taylor... yeah right.
[AlAhram] A first batch of 28 children was released two days after the raid
Kidnappers who raided a boarding school in northern Nigeria earlier this month released 28 children on Sunday but another 81 remain in captivity, according to a pastor involved in the negotiations for their release.
The attack on the Bethel Baptist High School
...definitely not a madrassah, making it even more likely to be targetted...
in the state of Kaduna was the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria carried out by Islamist snuffies and more recently, criminal gangs.
Parents told Rooters that 180 students typically attend the school, and that pupils were in the process of sitting exams.
"Twenty-eight students were freed this morning," Reverend Ite Joseph Hayab told Rooters on phone. "Quite a number of the students before now escaped ... but 81 are still in captivity."
Nigerian authorities have attributed the kidnappings to what they call armed bandidos seeking ransom payments.
The police and Kaduna state commissioner for internal security and home affairs were not immediately available for comment.
Radika Bivan, a parent whose daughter is among those kidnapped confirmed that 28 of them were released but said she did not see her child among them.
Kaduna authorities had ordered the closure of the school and 12 others in the area following the kidnap, without saying when they may reopen.
Schools have become targets for mass kidnappings for ransom in northern Nigeria by gangs. Such kidnappings in Nigeria were first carried out by jihadist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , and later its offshoot Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... West Africa Province, but the tactic has now been adopted by other criminal gangs.
Making tracking who did what a bit difficult at a distance. If only they politely left proper calling cards with their contact information after each attack.
#Ethiopia’s Amhara region calls on all armed residents to mobilize for battle against rebels from conflict-hit #Tigray, calling it a “survival campaign,” state media reports.https://t.co/ydlBi1Q4LI
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Jordan's King Abdullah confirmed that his country had previously been attacked by Iranian-made drones, stressing that there are many concerns related to Iran's activities in the region.
King Abdullah’s comments came during a sit-down interview with CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... ’s Fareed Zakaria in which he said that there are legitimate concerns regarding Iran’s regional activities.
"There are legitimate concerns in our part of the world on a lot of portfolios that the Americans are hopefully going to be able to discuss with the Iranians. So, the nuclear programs affects Israel as it does the Gulf. The ballistic technology has improved dramatically, we’ve seen that unfortunately against American bases in Iraq. We’ve seen Saudi being a recipient of missiles out of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... . Israel from Syria and Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that... to an extent and what misses Israel sometimes lands in Jordan," King Abdullah told CNN.
"And unfortunately, Jordan has been attacked by drones that have come out that are Iranian signature that we have had to deal with," King Abdullah said, adding the attacks happened in the past year or so when asked by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II is currently in the United States where he has held meetings with White House officials and is the first Arab leader to visit Washington since US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... took office.
[ToloNews] Residents of Shakar Dara district, north of Kabul city, claim that five people--four security force members and a police hospital employee--were taken by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and then killed by the group.
The residents said the incident occurred in Haji Paik village in Shakar Dara on Friday night as the Taliban conducted a two-hour search operation on a street in the village.
Some relatives of the victims said the five young men were first tortured by the Taliban and then killed.
The residents called it a crime against humanity and blamed the government for not providing security.
Many residents of the province were not prepared to talk on the record about the incident, but one of them, Humayun, said: "They were four or five who didn’t have military uniforms. They were taken far from here."
Many family members of the victims were not ready to speak on the record about the incident. But a relative of one of the victims gave an account:
"They took out my cousin’s eyes with a ramrod, they also took out his tongue and ran over him with a car. He was also hit by bullets from his toes to his head," said Abdul Rahman, a cousin of one of the victims.
Mayil Agha, a resident of the area, said the Taliban interrogated him on Friday night. He said the group set up a checkpoint in the village and for two hours they searched for government-related individuals to abduct.
"They were here from 7:30pm or 8:00pm to 10pm. No one was here to help. They killed five people today and they might take five more the next day. What should we do and where should we go?" said Mayil Agha.
Sayed Kamaluddin, an army member, and his brother Sayed Bahiruddin, who was a police solider in Zabul; Niaz Mohammad, a police officer; Ramish, a member of police special unit; and Sayid Rahim, an employee at a police hospital who had a monthly salary of 6,000 Afs (almost $80) and was the only breadwinner for his family, were the five individuals who were killed in the incident.
"They are strangers. They martyred their brothers under Pakistain’s order," said Nadir, a Shakar Dara resident.
Among close family members of those killed in the incident, only an uncle of Sayed Rahim spoke on the record about what happened on Friday night in their village.
"Four or five bullets hit his forehead. And some were in his backbone. He lied on the ground in Dasht-e-Gul Dara area," he said.
"The Taliban has some roots in Shakar Dara. A strong base has been established for Talibs here, and from here they can operate in the Kohdaman area and even in the city of Kabul," said Lotfullah Quraishi, a former commander of public uprising forces.
Residents of the village said that security forces last night searched the houses affected by the incident, instead of going after the Taliban.
"The Taliban are stationed on the other side of the river. Why are you searching for them here?" said Mohammad Shakir, a resident of Haji Paik village.
"The perpetrators of the incident will be arrested soon," Shakar Dara district governor Gawhar Khan Baburi said.
A Taliban front man, Zabihullah Mujahid, said the incident is under investigation. He said security force members will not be safe unless they quit fighting.
Illegal like the Taliban and Al Qaeda linked groups, or like popular uprising militias to defend against the jihadis?
[ToloNews] A special unit of the country’s intelligence agency, NDS, conducted an operation in Rabat village in Parwan province last week in which 10 people were killed, following concerns raised by local residents linking insecurity in the area to the existence of illegal gangs.
There have been many reports about the activities of illegal gangs in some areas recently.
One of those killed in the operation was a former aide to Almas Zahid, a presidential adviser. He criticized the operation but claimed that the people killed had no relations with him.
"They are from our area. One of them who was old and was killed was my bodyguard 20 years ago," he said.
"If the unit went on the operation to search for them, they should explain. If the unit conducted the operation for others, they should also explain. When a unit conducts an operation in a place, they should not kill everyone. They should make arrests," Zahid added.
The liquidation of an Afghan Air Force member also recently occurred in the village of Rabat. And in Bagram district, where the village is located, a blast targeted a university lecturers’ bus last month, attacks targeted power pylons, and some assassinations also took place--all of which Parwan residents said were perpetrated by illegal gunnies.
"It is concerning--it has created concern among Parwan residents," said Maihan, a Parwan resident, referring to the existence of illegal gunnies in the province.
"They fire weapons at night and conduct liquidations and armed robbery," said Changir, a Parwan resident, referring to illegal gunnies in the province.
The NDS did not provide information about the 01 Unit operation in Rabat village in Parwan.
[JPost] Smite them
Incendiary balloons launched from the Gaza Strip on Sunday led to multiple fires in the communities near the Gaza border.
The IDF attacked a military camp belonging to Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip, IDF Spokesperson reported on Sunday night.
Israeli Air Force fighter jets attacked the military base which contained a number of buildings used by Hamas members. The base was located in a civilian area, close to a school, IDF Spokesperson reported.
They also confirmed that the air strikes are in retaliation for incendiary balloons which were launched earlier on Sunday, leading to fires in the Eshkol Regional Council.
This followed a earlier closure of Gazan fishing space from 12 nautical miles to just six.
After the resumption of incendiary attacks and a series of situation assessments, the Coordinator of Government Operations in the Territories' (COGAT) Maj.-Gen. Ghassan Alian announced on Sunday that it was decided to restrict the fishing zone in the Gaza Strip down from 12 to 6 nautical miles.
The decision will take effect immediately and will continue until further notice. Prior to Operation Guardian of the Wall, Gaza's fishing zone stood at 15 nautical miles.
The decision to limit Gaza's fishing space came after the renewed launch of incendiary balloons from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli territory after 3 weeks of relative quiet.
The decision comes only 12 days after Gaza's fishing zone was expanded from 9 to 12 nautical miles due to the relative calm which was seen in recent weeks.
In a statement, COGAT said that "The terrorist organization Hamas bears responsibility for everything that is done in and out of the Gaza Strip towards the State of Israel, and it will bear the consequences of the violence perpetrated against the citizens of the country."
Earlier on Sunday, three fires were extinguished in the Eshkol Regional Council, near the Gaza border. The fire investigator determined all three were the result of incendiary balloons.
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[RUDAW.NET] A man suspected of involvement in the recent deadly suicide kaboom in Baghdad’s Sadr City was arrested in Erbil, the counter-terrorism directorate announced on Sunday. The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS) has grabbed credit for the attack.
The suspect, who is originally from Hawija and is residing at Hassan Sham camp, will be handed over to federal authorities, the counter-terror directorate said.
The bombing in Sadr City's al-Wahilat market on Monday killed at least 35 people and injured more than 60. The market was crowded with shoppers preparing for the Eid al-Adha ...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting... holiday, which began the next day.
Iraqi authorities arrested a "terrorist network" behind the bombing that was planning other attacks in Baghdad. The suspects were arrested in Kirkuk and Anbar, according to Iraq’s Security Media Cell.
ISIS no longer holds any territory in Iraq, but the Lions of Islam remain a serious security threat, carrying out attacks on civilian and military targets. Earlier in April, a deadly boom-mobileing in Sadr City’s al-Habibiya neighborhood killed and injured 20 people and destroyed five vehicles. The Lions of Islam grabbed credit for the attack.
In the latest edition of its weekly propaganda newspaper al-Naba, released Thursday, ISIS claimed it had conducted 22 attacks across Iraq between July 16 and 22, killing and injuring 147 people.
The Islamist faceless myrmidons believed to be behind last week's deadly suicide kaboom of a Baghdad market had planned more attacks during the Eid-al Adha festival, Iraq's interior ministry said Sunday.
The ministry released photos of five suspects arrested, including three brothers, after last Monday's attack that, according to the official toll, killed 30 people and was claimed by the Islamic State group.
"They were planning other attacks in other parts of Baghdad and other provinces during Eid," a ministry statement said.
Iraqi television broadcast overnight the "confessions" of the five, who were dressed in yellow prison suits, a common practice in major criminal cases in Iraq.
The bombing hit the al-Woheilat market in Sadr City, where many families were crowded on the eve of the Eid al-Adha, the most important Moslem holiday.
"Stop groaning and let Pavel Nikolayevich Grudinin be just a director of a state farm, a businessman, leave him alone, I beg you."
The leader of the Liberal Democrats recalled that the former State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vladimir Bessonov, sentenced in absentia to three years for beating police officers, "is tormented on the run in Lithuania, and the leader of the movement "For New Socialism," Nikolai Platoshkin "was charged and is restricted in freedom. "
"And now you are finishing off Grudinin as well. You understand that he will never be president, that you yourself will never win any governor elections, and there will never be persons on your lists that cause any doubts," Zhirinovsky said.
He also advised Zyuganov "to think about changing the name of the party, write a different program, forget Stalin, Lenin, the words
'communism' and 'socialism,' because in the coming years Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and Nicaragua will collapse."
"All left-wing regimes are doomed," said the head of the Liberal Democratic Party.
As reported by IA REGNUM , on July 24, the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation excluded Pavel Grudinin, a candidate for the State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, from the party list, as he violated the election legislation and did not provide a number of documents after his ex-wife's statement about the existence of an offshore company.
The fact that Grudinin owns shares in the Belize offshore company was announced by his ex-wife Irina, and confirmed by the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.
[ToloNews] Sources said that security forces left Narai district in the eastern province of Kunar on Sunday due to lack of supplies and that fighting continues on other fronts, including Nijrab district in Kapisa where its central areas are still under Taliban ...Arabic for students... influence.
"Narai district fell (to the Taliban) without resistance. This shows the weakness of the leadership of the security agencies," said Jawed Safi, an MP from Kunar.
Officials also reported fighting between government forces and the Taliban in Chahar Dara district in the northern province of Kunduz.
Officials in Parwan said that Taliban attacks were pushed back in some areas on the outskirts of Charikar city.
"The Taliban’s weapons and bodies were left there. Some of them were maimed. Their attack was thwarted," Parwan governor Fazluddin Ayar said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block... fighting was reported in parts of Hazrat Sultan district in Samangan province.
"Progress will continue in the Ghaznigak area and the highway. These areas have been cleared of the enemy and the operation continues," said a police commander in Samangan.
Security forces left Nijrab district in Kapisa — 100 kilometers north of Kabul — a week ago. Some MPs from Kapisa said that dozens of public uprising forces have taken up arms against the Taliban but so far the district has not been cleared.
"We should admit that there were some issues among the public uprising forces from the past and I hope that going forward, these problems are solved," said Mir Afzal Haidari, head of the Parliament's defense commission.
In Takhar province in northeastern Afghanistan 16 districts fell to the Taliban two weeks ago and festivities are still underway on the outskirts of Taluqan city, the historic provincial capital.
"We should hit the enemy. Who is this enemy? A few Paks? Or few other foreigners? Or a few Taliban? We have a strong force," said Abdul Latif Omari, a border forces commander in Takhar.
The Ministry of Defense said that efforts are underway to retake the fallen areas. The ministry added that 170 Taliban fighters were killed in the last 24 hours.
"Our forces are in better positions. Areas under the Taliban will become more limited every day," said Fawad Aman, a front man for the Defense Ministry.
The Taliban has rejected the figures provided by the ministry.
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.
[1945] A few years ago, the U.S. Air Force awarded a $6.4 to $7.5 billion dollar contract to seven private companies to provide aggressor air combat training services to the Air Force through 2024. That huge sum is all dedicated to one goal: sharpening the skills of Air Force fighter pilots by putting them in realistic air battles against foreign jet fighters.
[France24] The United States will continue air strikes in support of Afghan forces fighting the Taliban, a top US general said Sunday, as the insurgents press on with offensives across the country.
[American Thinker] The Conservative Treehouse began a series on "The Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Community." That series, along with Tucker Carlson's revelation that the NSA possibly spied on him and at the very least illegally unmasked him, has brought the Intelligence Community center stage. I usually do not think too much about the various security and intelligence functions of the government, other than to marvel that they have managed to prevent a second 9/11. In doing a bit of research, however, I have come to realize that the security function of our country is a tangled web of bureaucracy. Is that really what it takes to protect U.S. citizens, or is this a turf-building and protection operation? 
[Washington Examiner] Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested that it would’ve been "negligent" for the National Institutes of Health not to fund bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and declined to commit not to collaborate with Chinese government scientists in the future, insisting that "we have always been careful."
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