[Intellectual Frog Legs] I watched a significant amount of Mike Lindel’s Cyber Symposium... There were a lot of great experts and a lot of great presentations. But one of the more impactful moments for me came from Dr. Shiva. The man is a genius, let’s just begin there. And his story is even more remarkable than his résumé. A definite MUST WATCH
Big Take Away: Government Censorship by proxy. Proven my this MIT genius.
Here’s his resume: Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, the inventor of email and polymath, holds four degrees from MIT, is a world-renowned systems scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. He is a Fulbright Scholar, Lemelson-MIT Awards Finalist, India’s First Outstanding Scientist and Technologist of Indian Origin, Westinghouse Science Talent Honors Award recipient, and a nominee for the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
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Love me some Joan
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Hard for me to get wrapped around the idea of a sexy JB, since my first exposure to her was as a blowsy late middle-aged housekeeper on a '50s TV show.
[Jpost] The large-scale network was built with the help of North Korea and is much larger than Hamas' 'metro' network in Gaza.
A new report released by the ALMA Center has exposed a large-scale inter-regional tunnel network belonging to Hezbollah, stretching across Lebanon and designed to allow the group to move personnel and weapons.The report, titled “Land of tunnels” was released on Thursday by the center which researches security challenges facing Israel on its northern front.
According to the report authored by Major (res.) Tal Beeri, Hezbollah began its tunnel project after the Second Lebanon War in 2006 with the help of the North Koreans and Iranians and “is much larger than the Hamas ‘metro’ project in the Gaza Strip.”
The network supposedly connects the Beirut area, Hezbollah’s central headquarters, the Beqaa area used by the group as its logistical operational rear base, to Southern Lebanon. According to the report they allow for “hundreds of combatants, fully equipped, to pass stealthily and rapidly underground.”
The tunnels are also large enough for motorcycles, ATVs, and other small vehicles to move through them to allow for troops to maneuver from place to place “for the purpose of reinforcing defense positions or for carrying out an attack in a safe, protected, and invisible manner.”
The cumulative length of the network can be in the hundreds of kilometers and in one area stretches some 45 kilometers, connecting the area of Sidon to the Beqaa.
“According to our findings, it seems that part of the project was conducted in the geographical area of the Jensnaya Wadi’s - the valley between al- Hasania and Wadi el Leymoun - Barti – al-Sfenta (between Sniyeh and Bouslaiya) - Mizra Kafra - south Zhalta. In addition, in the geographical area of al-Tswuan– al -Roummaneh– Jabal Toura (radar) – Louaizeh – Sejoud – Mizra’a al-Zaghrine – al-Aishia – al-Qotrani- al- Sriri - Bracha Jabour - Meidoun - continuing to the western Beqaa,” the report read.
Like Hamas, the tunnels contain underground command and control rooms, weapons and supply depots, field clinics, and specified designated shafts used to fire missiles of all types (rockets, surface-to-surface missiles, anti-tank missiles, and anti-aircraft missiles).
Beeri wrote that the tunnels are also used for artillery attacks, with the shafts opening for a short period of time before being immediately shut. These shafts are hidden and camouflaged and cannot be detected above ground.
The tunnels in Lebanon, which do not cross the border with Israel, are the same as the tunnels in North Korea.
The report stated that Hezbollah’s tunnel network was built with the assistance of a North Korean company called “the Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation,” a company that specializes in the development of underground infrastructure. The actual construction of the tunnels was done by Hezbollah’s Jihad Construction Foundation.
In 2018 the IDF launched Operation Northern Shield to discover and destroy all cross-border tunnels dug by Hezbollah into northern Israel. Though the military said that it has found and destroyed six such tunnels.
The destruction of their cross-border tunnels was a significant hit to the group, and according to the IDF, they haven’t tried to rebuild them since.
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It's hard to imagine such construction going on without notice. The tailings must go somewhere. Since the IDF is releasing such findings they are likely sending a message.
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The IDF sees you when you’re sleeping
They know when you’re awake
They know if you’ve been bad or good...
Begun in 2006? No doubt depth bomb targets were calculated long since. When the time comes, the secondaries will be glorious and the sinkholes numerous.
Jennifer Sartin works for the Singing River Health System in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, but resigned from critical care because she 'couldn't take it'
Sartin said it's 'mentally straining' that people aren't getting vaccinated
Mississippi is among the states with the lowest amount of vaccinated residents and most hospitals here are at or near capacity
The Delta variant accounts for 13 percent of cases in the state
New US cases have increased more than five-fold over the past month with the seven-day average hitting 113,357 on Thursday
She added: 'When we went from three to eight Covid patients in one week I knew that it was going to be another wave almost - if not worse than - what we did last year.
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#5, Yes, people will find a way or wind up in Fema death camps. Hitler showed the way. History repeats itself. The noose slowly tightens. Example, prove you have all ten government mandated boosters. The cost of boosters will go sky high. They have planned this for twenty years.
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"But Sweden’s death rate is lower than other European countries that locked down and required masks, like France, Italy, and Spain. So if you aren’t a fan of those policies, you probably see Sweden’s light touch as a success story."
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In Mississippi, aren’t the majority of the unvaccinated African-Americans? I sympathize with the lady’s burnout, but the Black community keeps alive memories of medical experimentation, leading to trust issues when it comes to government-touted treatments and vaccines.
Separately, looking at the graphs at the link: while the number of infected is growing again nationally from a summer trough lower than last year’s, the number of dead is growing considerably more slowly from a much lower trough than we saw last year — exactly what growing herd immunity is supposed to lead to.
Finally, I wonder if it will turn out that Nurse Sartin was playing up the situation, as is happening so often recently — we had an article about a Democratic veterinarian running for office claiming to be working in an overwhelmed hospital emergency room recently who turned out to have been extraordinarily economical with the truth.
I never have felt it should have been a Nam style war. A simple number of A & B team surgical strikes of leadership would have crippled it quicker. With a lot less wounded, killed and screwed up for the rest of their lives.
I felt and still feel this basically was a Pentagon Career building and Military Supplier promoted war.
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The American SOuthwest is vastly overbuilt for the amount of water resource infrastructure extant. 40 years of growth as a tax base and governmental income source, absent dams and catchment basin projects is coming home to roost. Its mostly a f'cking desert, and caps on growth and money on groundwater recharging and vast desalinization from the oceans has always been ignored. (Before you laugh my friends, the Sea of Cortez is 60 miles from the US Border. )
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Massie’s comment came to mind again today when I saw the news that Sen. Paul has been temporarily suspended from YouTube for a video in which he said "most of the masks you can get over the counter don’t work because the virus particles are too small and go right through them." (You can see the video here; begin at 3:20 for the relevant part.) In a follow-up video protesting the suspension, Paul commented further. "Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work, they don’t prevent infection," he said. "Saying cloth masks work when they don’t actually risks lives, as someone may choose to care for a loved one with COVID while only wearing a cloth mask. This is not only bad advice but also potentially deadly information."
I’m probably closer on policy to Paul than most members of Congress — I once interviewed him for The Week — but this strikes me as courting the craziest SOB vote. Everything he’s saying is true, yet in a deeply misleading way. Of course, viruses are much smaller than holes in the weave of cloth or surgical masks. The point isn’t to catch individual viruses; it’s to catch far larger drops of virus-laden spittle. Yes, these masks are comparatively ineffective for protecting their wearer. Catching spittle protects other people. And yeah, if you’re unvaccinated and caring for someone with an active COVID-19 infection, a cloth mask isn’t enough. Did anyone credible say it was? You should get something like an N95 respirator, which keeps nearly all viruses out instead of simply keeping your spittle in.
Paul technically didn’t lie, but I think he did court this voting base. Massie does it, too. The libertarian position, for example, is that freedom of association allows employers to condition employment on vaccination if they so choose. But Massie recently touted a Kentucky statehouse "bill to prohibit employers from requiring the vax." I'm sure if some firm announced they are not going to employ, ahem, Wakandans. Paul & Massie would have condemned that firm - but announced their own readiness to fight to the death for "the rights of private enterprise against governmental dictates." Now, they're the source of "government dictates". Wonder what Ain Rand would say?
And where he used to pal around with the likes of former Rep. Justin Amash (L-Mich.), now he’s buddy-buddy with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), she of the QAnon ties, bad Holocaust analogy, and big craziest SOB vibes.
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" Sen. Paul ....said "most of the masks you can get over the counter don’t work because the virus particles are too small and go right through them."
These are FACTS proven with CDC,Federal sources cited here many times over the last 18 months.
Even including Dr. Death's "we should wear 2 or more masks..." public comments.
BUT... Can we at least agree that:
Water droplets (aka virus-laden spittle) and airborne virus particles BOTH cause infections?
At the least we can discuss:
Whether Infected Outgoing or Incoming Water droplets that are caught by the wearers mask, still contain the virus and are now sitting on or inside the mask with air flowing past them to others as a serious problem.
Given the commonly worn cheap masks do not filter to the Virus size levels. So let us discuss whether each infected breath is transmitting the virus into the surrounding air. Spreading forever how long the virus lives in typical Office/Store HVAC controlled air space. Which we have been told is anywhere from 1 min to 15+ mins of being airborne.
NOTE: I agree ANY mask filtering at any level of your air flow is better than no mask all. But eyes are also a infection point.
We wear a N-95's and a face shield in public, not the 50 masks for $7.99 cheap paper masks. Neither of us have been VAX'd and we have been out in stores and etc. almost everyday w/o infection for 18 months.
[Audacy] As lagging vaccination rates have turned Louisiana into one of the nation’s hottest COVID hot spots, retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Russel Honore has recorded a message for those still on the fence about getting the shot.
"Look, if you eat boudin balls and hot dogs, and you trust that, you can take this shot," Honore says in a video posted on Twitter by the Bring Back Louisiana Sleeves Up campaign. "This shot has been proven. It’s based on science."
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This argument is similar to a dog chasing his tail. Those against and those who are for. The deck is stacked against those who oppose(media, medical and politicians). I recall Vietnam was this way. I can only reflect old spook saying, " our government is capable of anything". Maybe not his exact words but close. I always wondered how things would be managed with increased populations. We can see the future now. I have said for many years now the WHO wants to reduce populations. This will not end soon. This is just the beginning of the end.
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g(r)omgoru if your government told you to eat shit would you? I have a better chance of being struck by lightning than getting covid so by your reckoning I will get struck by lightning
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I am sorry to say I have had another friend die as a result of Vaccine. Each raved they had no problems after shot. Each died within two months of vaccine. Three of who I have had close contact over many years and all within my age range. Many others too numerous to mention here.
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#4 #3 I've asked you once before - if your government tells you NOT to eat $hit, what will you do?
I already detailed to you the way the government _was_ lying and effectively telling us to eat shit and YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT MY ENTIRE COUNTRY and refused to look. We should treat you like you care about the truth when you already said you didn't care?
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YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT MY ENTIRE COUNTRY
No, what I said is that there is an entire world outside your country. And you better pull your head from your ass and look at that world.
But, I guess, your head is in it's place of maximum comfort.
[BenarNews] Five years after bombings killed four people and injured more than 30 in tourist hotspots in southern Thailand, authorities have arrested only three of 11 suspects from the insurgency-stricken Deep South in connection with the attacks, and convicted only one, sources told BenarNews.
A lawyer representing the suspects said one of the three men arrested had served his sentence, another was acquitted in May and a third is scheduled to return to court in September.
"[T]he spread of COVID-19 caused postponements beginning last year," Sitthipong Chantawiroj, a lawyer with the Moslem Attorney Center Foundation, told BenarNews on Wednesday.
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[AlAhram] Those evacuated will be screened both in Afghanistan and upon arrival in Denmark where they will undergo `a security interview with the immigration authorities and other relevant Danish authorities'.
Danish politicians have agreed to evacuate 45 Afghan citizens who worked for Denmark's government in Afghanistan and to offer them residency in the European country for two years.
What happens after that?
The plan approved Wednesday applies to people who worked at the Danish Embassy in Kabul and as interpreters for Danish troops. Demark, like other Western nations including the U.S., recently pulled its remaining troops out of Afghanistan. Denmark opened its embassy in Kabul in 2006.
Current and former embassy employees from within the past two years are eligible for evacuation along with their spouses and children. The effort to get them out of Afghanistan must begin as soon as possible but be carried out gradually 'so that the embassy still can function,'' according to a foreign ministry statement.
[AlAhram] The unrest in Ankara comes with polls showing anti-migrant sentiments riding high among many Turks
Dozens of angry Turks smashed up shops and cars believed to belong to Syrian migrants colonists in the capital Ankara, prompting police to intervene, media reports said Thursday.
The unrest broke out late Wednesday in response to a fight between local residents and people believed to be Syrian migrants colonists in which one Ottoman Turkish national was stabbed to death, the reports said.
Images on social media showed dozens of shouting men breaking through police cordons and then attacking cars and shops believed to be owned by Syrian families.
"The demonstrations and events that took place in our Altinag district this evening have come to an end as a result of the composure of our citizens and the hard work of our security forces," the Ankara governor's office said on Wednesday night.
"Our people are kindly requested not to give credence to provocative news and posts," it said in reference to the fight that provoked the unrest.
The Anadolu state news agency said two "foreign nationals" have been arrested and charged with homicide in connection the deadly fight.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... has become home to 3.6 million Syrians under a deal it struck with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... in 2016 to help avert the continent's migrant crisis.
The sides are currently working on updating the agreement.
Ankara has received billions of dollars of funding in exchange for setting up camps in the southeast that are now home to more than four million people in all.
Turkey's main opposition party last month made waves by vowing to send Syrians "back home" if it came to power in a general election scheduled for 2023.
Turkey's well-respected Teyit fact-checking platform has been debunking numerous negative social media posts about migrants colonists -- many of them Afghan -- this week.
The issue is gaining added attention out of fears that Talibs' sweeping gains in Afghanistan will result in a mass exodus of people from the war-torn country once the last US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... troops leave in the coming weeks.
Turkey is on one of the main transit routes for Afghans seeking shelter in Europe.
[ToloNews] Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... between the Afghan cops and the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... is ongoing in the southern provinces of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Kandahar and Uruzgan.
Residents in these provinces said that the security forces are now in control of only a few districts.
The Taliban reportedly captured the Helmand police headquarters after a 20-day siege.
In Kandahar province, there are reports that the Taliban has captured the central prison and hundreds of inmates have been released. The Taliban stated that they have released 1,900 inmates after taking over the central prison in Kandahar.
Fighting was also reported in some areas in PD2 and PD4 of Kandahar city, and people have evacuated their homes in these areas.
"Last night the police headquarters also fell to the Taliban in Helmand," said Attaullah Afghan, the head of the Helmand provincial council.
"The situation in Trinkot (capital of Uruzgan) is very critical, armed opponents have entered the city," said Mohammad Qasim, a resident of Trinkot.
[ToloNews] Heavy festivities between the Afghan cops and the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... continued in the northern provinces of Balkh and Jawzjan with the Balkh police chief claiming to have inflicted a devastating blow to the group in Dehdadi district.
"70 dead bodies of the enemy were lying on the ground as a result of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and ground attacks," said general Fahim Qaim, the commander of the Balkh police.
The Taliban have not commented so far.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.
Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!... sources said that Yar Mohammad Dostum, the son of Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... , has arrived in Mazar-e-Sharif city in Balkh province to plan a massive operation along with the nation’s defense and security forces against the Taliban.
Meanwhile, the Taliban have said that they have captured Sheberghan airport in Jawzjan.
Reports say that fighting is currently underway between the Taliban and the security forces in Dehdadi district and has been for the past five days.
The fighting is taking place in residential areas in Dehdadi, according to reports.
"Please do not use us as your shields; using civilians as a shield is a war crime," said Zabihullah Yari, a resident of Dehdadi.
"Firing is heard from all sides, the situation is critical," said Zahir, a resident in Dehdadi.
Balkh's police chief who was assigned to the post on Wednesday said that the security forces will soon launch a massive operation against the enemy in the north.
[ToloNews] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... on Thursday morning captured Ghazni city, the capital of Ghazni province, without any resistance from the security forces.
The head of the Ghazni provincial council in a Facebook post said that the governor of Ghazni handed over the city to the Taliban following his discussion with a Taliban commander Abu Bakr and then left the city toward Kabul with the escort of the Taliban.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... the Ministry of Interior said that governor of Ghazni province and his colleagues were arrested by security forces this afternoon.
The security forces are now deployed at an army base and fighting is ongoing between the security forces and the Taliban.
"They had an arrangement with him (governor), he might have thought there would be no accountability about how much money he had stolen that we sent to the security forces or how much he got from the Taliban," said Amanullah Kamrani, the deputy head of Ghazni provincial council.
"Currently most areas in Ghazni city are under Taliban control," said Naseer Ahmad Faqiri, the head of Ghazni's provincial council.
Meanwhile, there are reports that the Taliban have started house-to-house searches in Pul-e-Khumri, the center of Baghlan province.
Sources have said that Kunduz governor Ehsanullah Omarzad and Zabardast Safi, the police chief of Kunduz, are in Taliban custody.
"Everything in Kunduz has been looted, all government assets are in bad condition in Kunduz," said Amruddin Wali, the head of the Kunduz provincial council.
"The government has done nothing so far," said Naseer Sadiq, a journalist in the north.
"The scale of the tragedy in Badakhshan is very large, there are no exact figures are available so far," said Zabihullah Atiq, MP.
Meanwhile, footage shared on social media shows the Taliban dragging a person in Farah city, throwing him into a hole, and then killing him.
Police in Wardak province have arrested Daoud Laghmani, provincial governor of Ghazni which was apparently handed to the Taliban fighters on Thursday, August 12.
Ministry of Interior Affairs said that the governor along with his deputy and chief of staff have been arrested and disarmed in Wardak province.
Laghmani was let go and escorted by the Taliban from Ghazni province to Wardak province.
Mirwais Stanikzai, spokesperson of the ministry said that parts of Ghazni province have fallen to the Taliban while Afghan forces are still active in other parts of the quiet provincial capital and will launch operations against the fighters.
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 governor of Farah province along with the mayor of Farah city and other local officials have surrendered to the Taliban and then fled to neighboring Iran.
Earlier, the head of the provincial council of Jawzjan province had also joined the Taliban along with his 12 button men.
[IsraelTimes] Rights group condemns Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, for attacks on Israeli civilian areas during May conflict, confirms some rockets killed Gazooks when falling short in northern section of coastal enclave.
Of the over 4,360 unguided rockets and mortar shells fired toward Israeli population centers between May 10 and 21, approximately 680 failed and fell short in the Gaza Strip, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Deadly rocket and mortar fire on Israeli towns by Paleostinian terror groups during May’s conflict in 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... constituted war crimes, Human Rights Watch charged Thursday.
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How about foreigners get their nose out of our politics and mind their own business? Omar is a complete America-hating fuckface, but nobody deserves this, even her.
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^Rantburg was threatened with being blacklisted once before and the way the event was handled was disappointing during its otherwise stellar existence over the years.
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If I'm not mistaken the lovely and charming Ms Omar was born in Somalia and came to the US at around age five. I don't care enough to go look it up. While Minnesota was probably cultural shock, apparently you can take the girl out of Somalia, but you can't take Somalia out of the girl. Pity.
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Oh come now. AIPAC isn't under the control of Israel? Let us be adults here.
It's just a matter of time until that PayPal button on the bottom of the screen leads to an error page. Everything they did to Alex Jones, they'll do to you, too.
Knuckles Slererong5344, I send Mr. Pruitt a check or cash through the mail whenever he blegs. I don’t have a PayPal account, so their nonsense has no impact on me.
^Rantburg was threatened with being blacklisted once before and the way the event was handled was disappointing during its otherwise stellar existence over the years.
Eh? When was that, Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589?
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During the Obama Regime years. When a left wing private law firm was threatening right wing blogs with expensive law suits based on content and even the comments of their readers. Fred got one of their letters. Fred mentioned the expense to fight would be too expensive for Rantburg. Matt Drudge refused to comply and that resistance eventually led to their demise back when DrudgeReport was hard right and would not be intimidated but this site and many others capitulated for a short while.
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And the minute PayPal refused to accept my contribution to Rantburg will be the minute I stop using PayPal for anything.
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When a left wing private law firm was threatening right wing blogs with expensive law suits based on content and even the comments of their readers. Fred got one of their letters.
Do you mean the so-called copyright enforcement company, Righthaven? Fred originally posted about it here. I would have described the situation as attempted blackmail rather than blacklisting — except for boycotting articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, adding site attribution in square brackets at the top of each article, generally posting only the key paragraphs of articles from American sources, and Fred developing Auto Translate, we carried on as before. That problem went away at the end of 2011, when the court ruled Righthaven had no standing to sue for infringement; the company subsequently went bankrupt. We kept the practices as defense against future attempts, and because some of the autotranslations preserve accumulated knowledge about various players on the board.
We separately developed a rule about not saying things that appear to threaten American citizens, but that was to keep from causing Fred problems from his peers.
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Precisely TW. Seemed as though only yesterday but it was 10 years ago. It was a rather aggressive campaign by the left via that "entity". I will never forget that very troubling incident.
I think in the end Fred did not pay, Mr. Slomorong Thraiger7030. But until the courts ruled against Righthaven, preparations had to be made — and it wouldn’t have been right to let him bear the burden alone.
Thank You for the key to "Fred's Basement"
Anyone can do an archives search, dear Sonny Spomoth2776. Just under the dark blue bar above the articles list, above the list of recent commenters, there is a Search button above a box for your search terms. And at the top of the page, to the right of the most recent dates, is a hotlink for the Archives, arranged by date back to 2001.
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Several possibilities, carpenters tool, custom survival tool, nail claw hatchet, indestructible box hatchet but my guess is $39 dollars carpenters tool with pants with loop holder.
BREAKING: Foreign Minister @yairlapid: I agreed with my Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita that we will upgrade our relations to full diplomatic relations and open embassies in Israel and Morocco in two months
[RUDAW.NET] A Taliban ...Arabic for students... spokesperson told Rudaw on Thursday that their rule in Afghanistan will not be violent mostly peaceful, adding that they will treat women as per the Islamic law.
When asked about the videos circulated on social media, purportedly showing Taliban fighters mistreating people, Zabiullah Mujahid told Rudaw’s Shaho Amin late Thursday that, "when someone is in a fight with the enemy, they will be violent mostly peaceful with them."
"However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... we will not be violent mostly peaceful with our people. Did you know that we have taken control of 13 states within the country in seven days, and we have established our rule in those 13 states. This means that we are not violent mostly peaceful. People want us and they ask us to be with them. Everyone supports us, and we will give them all the rights specified in the Islamic sharia. We are committed to this," he added.
Taliban has made new advances in government-held areas recently.
The Pentagon decided on Thursday to deploy around 3,000 troops to Kabul immediately in order to evacuate the US embassy employees, according to Defense Department front man John Kirby.
Mujahid also talked about the discussions between Taliban and Afghani political parties in Doha, claiming that these parties are not united when it comes to making a deal with Taliban.
"So, we cannot wait for them but take serious steps in order to end war in this country, return security to his country and Afghanis."
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Given what is deemed acceptable by the Taliban. Like cutting off a persons head in the streets for perceived religious offenses.
I would have asked a more pointed question like,
"Like what do you consider Violent".
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By the way: Afghanistan has about $9.5 billion in international reserves (cash, gold, dancing girls, that kind of thing). Who gets that loot? I understand Congress spends that much before breakfast, but why give the Taliban a bigger war chest than they already have?
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli troops downed a drone belonging to the Hezbollah terror group on Wednesday after it entered Israeli airspace, the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday.
The military said the drone — a small copter mode — was "monitored throughout the entire event." An IDF spokesperson said the day-long delay in reporting the incident was necessary in order to study the device after it was brought down.
The front man said the device was not armed at the time, likely indicating it was performing a reconnaissance mission of some kind.
[TheGuardian] Protesters defy court order banning marches against German government’s coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... measures
More than 600 people have been arrested after participating in protests against the German government’s coronavirus measures, officials have said.
About 13 separate demonstrations took place around Berlin on Sunday, despite being banned by a court order and participants saying they would not follow safety rules.
Most of the approximately 5,000 protesters — a fraction of the 22,500 expected before the ban was announced — failed to stick to social distancing rules or to wear medical masks, according to police.
After participants did not heed orders to abide by hygiene rules, police used pepper spray and truncheons to break up the crowds. Water cannon and a tank similar to an armoured recovery vehicle were on hand but not needed, according to police.
Police confirmed that a 49-year-old man, who had travelled from the Rhineland region with his son to participate, collapsed and later died after breaking through a barrier.
A postmortem into the cause of his death has been ordered by a Berlin court.
The head of the Berlin-Brandenburg branch of the German Journalist Union (DJU), Jörg Reichel, was attacked on the sidelines of the protest, after months in which he has attempted to monitor the Querdenker (lateral thinker) movement. The movement is against the government’s attempts to restrict the spread of coronavirus, calling the measures fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... ic, and condemning the vaccine campaign as a form of apartheid.
Reichel, who according to witnesses was pulled from his bicycle and beaten and kicked before passersby intervened, had been acting as an observer for journalists covering the protests, a growing number of whom have reported being verbally and physically attacked by demonstrators.
Monique Hofmann, head of the DJU, said that Reichel, who is undergoing hospital treatment, had been receiving threats from the Querdenker scene for months, and that his picture and name had been circulated on numerous channels associated with the movement on the instant messaging service Telegram.
Several coppers were also injured on Sunday.
Police announced on Monday that three further demonstrations planned later in the day, under the titles "Year of Freedom and Peace" and "Free Life, Free Love", had also been banned.
Organisers have complained that they are being treated differently from other political demonstrations, such as the Christopher Street Day parade that took place in Berlin last month, attracting 65,000 participants. Mask-wearing and physical distancing rules were often ignored at that event.
Wolfgang Schäuble, the president of the German parliament, led condemnation of the Querdenker protests, arguing that the participants’ dismissal of mainstream scientific knowledge on the virus was irresponsible, and appealed to them to respect the evidence.
"If almost all experts globally are saying coronavirus is dangerous and vaccines help, who then actually has the right to say ’I know better’?" he told the Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung. "For me, that is an almost unbearable degree of arrogance." He added: "Look at the science ... don’t be led down the garden path by cheap slogans."
[DW] The trained business administrator Michael Ballweg founded the Querdenker (lateral thinkers) movement in the city of Stuttgart in 2020. Organizing it has become his full-time job, as the movement has spread.The Querdenker include pandemic skeptics, anti-vaxxers and anti-lockdown protesters. They claim the COVID-19 pandemic and the federal and regional laws aimed at halting the spread of the virus, infringe on citizens' liberties.
Now, protesters regularly take to the streets in cities across the country.Often the demonstrations turn violent mostly peaceful.
But images of festivities between demonstrators and police do not fit the image the Querdenker like to create for themselves. Michael Ballweg and his followers are always quick to emphasize their peacefulness and loyalty to the German Constitution.
This is exactly what happened in mid-March in Kassel. More than three times the permitted 6,000 participants marched through the streets. Most of them didn't follow social distancing rules of 1.5 meters, nor did they wear face masks. Counter-demonstrators were also on the move. As the situation grew increasingly confusing and violent mostly peaceful. Police were using batons, pepper spray, and water cannon. Photos and video footage of coppers beating demonstrators continue to circulate online.
Christopher Vogel works in the mobile advisory team against racism and far-right extremism in Kassel and has observed the demo on the ground. He considers general criticism of officials' behavior to be unfair, he told DW. The situation was confusing, he said: There were festivities between right- and left-wing radicals, but in between were families with young children and some demonstrators put their children "in the front row, as protective shields so to speak," Vogel recalled. His conclusion: "It was no longer manageable."
Deutschland l Protest gegen Corona-Maßnahmen Berlin, Reichsflagge
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The substance of the movement is "extremely thin," he said. In principle, Querdenker are only concerned with their individual freedom and have no further socio-political demands.
"They just want to get back to normal and have some peace and quiet from the state," Vogel said. If COVID-19 disappears from the front pages, a large part will say goodbye to political engagement.
This assessment fits in with the results of a study published in December 2020 by sociologists at the University of Basel, Oliver Nachtwey. He and his team asked more than 1,100 "Querdenker" about their motives and attitudes. Almost half of them had never participated in a demonstration before the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... protests.
"In terms of demographics, it's a relatively old and relatively academic movement," is one finding. Less than 10% are younger than 30, and the average age is almost 50.
Almost two-thirds of those surveyed have at least a high school diploma, more than half of them have finished their university education, and 67% consider themselves to be middle class.
23% of the surveyed Querdenker said they had cast their ballots for the Greens in Germany's 2017 federal election. Eighteen percent voted for the Left party and 15% for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). But, that was long before the pandemic. In September's elections, the AfD could almost double votes in Querdenker circles to 27%, while the Greens and conservative CDU/CSU would not get any support at all.
According to the Basel study, the vast majority of Querdenker, say they'll vote for little-known splinter parties in September, such as the Basic Democratic Party of Germany, which was only founded in July 2020. On that party's homepage, there are statements like: "Anyone who claims that freedom prevails in our country is lying. Because freedom does not prevail."
This perceived lack of freedom appeals to the Querdenker: 80% of those polled said they agree with the statement that one can no longer express their opinion without getting into trouble. Around 75% believe the media and politics are in cahoots, and that the government is hiding the truth.
The Querdenker movement is characterized by a strong sense of alienation, the study showed, not only from state institutions and the political system and the established media.
But the Querdenker followers were also found to be not "downright xenophobic or Islamophobic" and in some cases "rather anti-authoritarian and inclined towards anthroposophy."
[IsraelTimes] A United States army veteran who converted to Islam was found guilty of plotting to bomb a white supremacist rally in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and could be sentenced to life in prison, the US Justice Department says.
Mark Steven Domingo, 28, intended to explode two home-made bombs packed with long nails at the planned rally in Long Beach in April 2019.
He was detected early on by the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... and, prior to his arrest, undercover officers made sure that the bombs would not function as planned, the department said.
In postings to a private online group, he said the US "needs" another mass shooting "that would give them the taste of terror they gladly spread all over the world."
"There were mosque shootings in New Zealand. There must be retribution," Domingo wrote in one posting. He weighed attacks on Jewish people, churches and coppers, before settling on the white supremacist rally, according to the Justice Department.
Domingo was arrested after he took delivery of what he thought was an improvised explosive device from an undercover law enforcement officer posing as a bomb maker, officials said.
According to the evidence presented in his case, Domingo considered “various attacks — including targeting Jews, churches and police officers” before he decided “to detonate an IED” at a rally scheduled to take place in Long Beach in 2019.
As part of the plot, Domingo asked his confederate — who was cooperating with the FBI as part of the investigation — to find a bomb maker, and Domingo then purchased several hundred nails to be used as shrapnel inside the explosive device, according to officials.
No mention of his Muslim name or which mosque he frequents. Perhaps that will be revealed later. Update from KRON4 at 10:15 a.m. ET
Domingo, a former combat infantryman, had recently converted to Islam.
Military records show Domingo served about 16 months in the Army, including a four-month stint in Afghanistan in fall 2012. A U.S. official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in 2019 that Domingo was demoted and discharged before completing his enlistment contract for committing an unspecified serious offense.
He left with a rank of private, the lowest possible grade.
Domingo’s defense attorney, Lisa S. LaBarre, told jurors on the first day day of trial that Domingo’s father died of cancer when he was 5 years old, and his mother abandoned him to be raised by his grandmother, who resented the responsibility.
As a teenager, she said, Domingo found his mother’s diary, where she’d written about his younger brother—not Domingo—being her reason to live.
Imagine, LaBarre said, “She’s rejected you and even put it in writing.”
So, Domingo joined the U.S. Army in hopes of finding some kind of family, according to LaBarre.
Unloved, rejected, failed out of the Army, and now failed as a jihadi. Prison might be the only safe space for him to grow up.
[Babylon Bee] OTTAWA—Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (he/him, they/them) dusted off one of his old ethnic costumes today in hopes that President Joe Biden would approve his pipeline.
"Hello, President Biden, much happy greetings from my Middle East country, good sir!" Trudeau said in a meeting with the president today. "I have many great pipeline for you to approve today sir. And look! I have brought fresh hummus for you to much enjoy with your fine family good sir!"
Trudeau also gifted the president with some magic legumes and a mystical lamp that he said would grant wishes, though there was a $9.99 price sticker half ripped off the bottom.
Biden said he enjoyed his meeting with the "nice ethnic man" and that he was "clean, smart, and articulate."
"Nice fella! You know, over there in the Middle East, the women cover their hair. How are you supposed to give a good sniff if you can't even see a broad's hair? Very tough countries to live in over there."
While his pipeline was approved, Trudeau is sadly now canceled for wearing blackface. Not good!
#Tunisia: President Kais Saied, on Thursday, appointed Samir Abdellaoui as governor of #Bizerte under Presidential Decree No. 103 issued in the Official Gazette and dismissed former governor Mohamed Gouider under decree No. 102, said @TnPresidency. #TAP_Enpic.twitter.com/eBhTZe5UIQ
[RUDAW.NET] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) holy warriors on Thursday released two people kidnapped last week in the disputed Makhmour district. Security sources said they were released in exchange for a ransom, but the families deny any money was paid. Another four people are still being held by the group.
On Friday, ISIS holy warriors set up a fake checkpoint on the road between Erbil and Makhmour, a town 60 kilometres southwest of the Kurdistan Region capital. At least nine people traveling the route were stopped at the checkpoint and five people disappeared, two Kurds and three Arabs. Another person, an 18-year-old Kurdish shepherd, was also kidnapped by ISIS this week, according to Abdullah Tahir, a Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) representative in Makhmour. The holy warriors have also killed an Arab driver and blown up a cycle of violence.
Two of the hostages were released early Thursday morning. Families of the men told Rudaw they were freed without payment of a ransom, but security sources said $100,000 was handed over.
Three people were maimed by the holy warriors at the fake checkpoint.
"They were wearing military clothes that’s why we pulled up," one of the injured men, preferring to stay anonymous, told Rudaw on Wednesday, his hand in a cast. "We said salaam u alaikum [peace be upon you]. They answered in Arabic. We knew it was them when they answered in Arabic. They opened our doors and they said get out."
"When they said get out, we hit the gas and fled. Once we did they fired at us... The three of us got injured, but we didn’t pull up until we reached the Asayish checkpoint," he recounted.
A local tribal leader appealed to the government for help.
"We urge the state to look into the matter, because the Arab tribes have been harmed. We want the government to make a decision and have a stance, because we have no support or information about the kidnapped," Bashar Tabur, son of the head of Tabur tribe, told Rudaw on Wednesday.
Makhmour and the nearby Mount Qarachogh are located in an area disputed between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). It has been a safe haven for ISIS sleeper cells because of the security gap between Peshmerga and Iraqi forces, as well as the rugged landscape.
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[WND] News commentator Sean Hannity is questioning why the FBI is doing nothing about Hunter Biden after the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom revealed that it has obtained shocking video, from a laptop computer, showing a naked Biden with a prostitute.
And the president's son is fretting to her about another laptop that he reveals has similar explicit videos — and he suspects it was stolen by Russians. Worry about blackmail and the fact his father, Joe Biden, was running for president, are key.
It's the latest stage of the scandal that just keeps on giving for President Joe Biden, as Hunter Biden has been documented, according to computer videos and emails, as involved in a wide range of questionable behaviors, up to and including his acceptance of money from controversial sources, and Joe Biden's involvement in Hunter's business deals to the point he let him ride on Air Force Two while vice president to pursue his money operations.
WND doesn't link to the original Daily Mail report because of images from the videos, including slightly blurred stills showing the nude Hunter Biden and a nude prostitute.
But that report confirms the laptop computers — likely three — contain "embarrassing pictures, videos and communications of the president's son."
Hunter himself is on video complaining, "They have videos of me doing this," as he referred to a sex film he had just finished. "They have videos of me doing crazy f------ sex f------, you know."
He explained how one of the digital units was taken during a time period when he was out of control, overdosing on drugs in hotel rooms, and he now was worried about being blackmailed.
The prostitute asked him if that was his concern, and he said, "Yeah in some way yeah," and that was because "My dad [inaudible] running for president."
Dora Marchand, 29, was walking her dogs without a leash on the Upper West Side was arrested last week by park police
She has since characterized her arrest as 'unnecessary' and a 'power trip'
Marchand also admitted she knew having the dogs off the leash at the park was not permitted and vowing to continue to walk them off-leash in the future
Video footage taken by a witness shows her in handcuffs after her arrest
Marchand, who moved to New York from San Francisco on July 28, did not have her identification with her at the time of the arrest
She spent an hour in the NYPD holding cell while officers verified her identity
Marchand was then released with a $200 fine for not complying with officers and $100 for having the dogs off-leash
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Our dog walks off-leash with us all the time. Stays right with us on either my wife's or my left side while walking. She's not aggressive with people or other dogs while off-leash either.
Put her on a leash and she is more aggressive to others. Possibly because her sense of being able to project security has been restricted.
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What are the odds a San Franciscan pulled an attitude on New York cops?
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My dog is a jerk and turns even the best behaved off leash dogs into jerks. He might be better off leash but he's proven I can't trust him. So I have to walk at 5is in the morning to avoid these people.
[GREATERKASHMIR] The Congress Party on Thursday alleged that the party's official Twitter account as well as that of a large number of its leaders and workers have been blocked by the microblogging site.
This comes close on the heels of the blocking of party leader Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account after he shared pictures of the family of the nine-year-old alleged rape and murder victim last week in violation of the law.
Congress social media department head Rohan Gupta said the party's official Twitter account and around 5,000 accounts of its top leaders and workers have been blocked by Twitter.
He alleged that Twitter is acting against Congress leaders under pressure from the government.
"Twitter is clearly acting under government's pressure, as it did not remove the same pictures shared by the Twitter accounts of National Commission for Scheduled Castes for a few days," Gupta said.
The Twitter accounts of AICC general secretaries Randeep Surjewala, K C Venugopal, Ajay Maken, party's whip in Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore, Assam in-charge and former Union minister Jitendra Singh and Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev have also been locked, the party said.
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All India Christian Council, an alliance of Christian denominations, mission agencies, institutions, federations and Christian lay leaders in India.
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Yeah - heck of a 'correction' but it also begs the question - how many journalist have actually lost their minds because the Covid Vaxx spikes in the Vaxx have started to tear their brains apart; they have lost their sense of reason and perspective....
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The new normal. We will have at least eight years of this mess. Spanish flu lasted eight years but with media, medical and politicians involved could last forever.
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So its 783 not 5800, and a large percentage of those, perhaps even the majority, may be illegals allowed in without testing, and despite the hysteria, mortality is low, even with the tendency to use comorbidity for monetary purposes?
Its not just lying now, its a fifth column effort by the media to sabotage their domestic enemies, essentially whats left of traditional American citizens! Had enough yet?
[National Insiders] The Biden admin.’s handling of the continuing crisis at the southern border is floundering as the huge inflow of people illegally coming into the country remains at an all-time record, leading to more overcrowding at border facilities with coronavirus still being an issue.
A video taken this week by someone inside the Rio Grande Valley Sector reveals immigrants in a facility jammed in tightly, with many not wearing masks. This has caused Border Patrol to have to take people caught elsewhere in the area to the temporary holding spot under the Anzalduas International Bridge in the city of Mission, Texas, where temperatures go over 100 degrees on a daily basis.
"They are way over capacity — so illegals sit outside because where do we take them? Logistically it’s a complete nightmare — people need to go to the bathroom, eat, and on and on...This has gone past the point of sustainability — it is lunacy," the source stated.
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How are they "impeachment worthy"? There's no Constitutional duty to treat invaders kindly.
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Maybe the real reason isn't a Immigration holding location.
But actually a Covid-19 Breeding Cage prior to release in the USA.
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There is little doubt Biden will be impeached if the 'pubs take congress in the 2022 elections. I doubt a picture of covid infected illegals will do it, but that's better than a phone call.
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If they couldn’t convict President Trump (how many times did they actually start impeachment proceedings?), they won’t convict President Biden. Better to put the effort into blocking stupid bills and stupid proposed personnel until the Republicans have a veto-proof majorities in both Houses of Congress.
[FOX] Several lobbying firms with connections to President Biden experienced a sharp increase in cash during the first six months of 2021, with some raking in four times as much revenue over the same time period in 2020.
One firm cashing in on the Biden administration is headed by the brother of a senior White House official, and another bought a lobbying group owned by a top official from the presidential campaign. Two other firms are linked to lobbyists who worked under Biden when he served in previous offices.
The influx of cash to these firms "illustrates the extent to which lobbyists are engrained in the way things get done in Washington," Daniel Auble, a senior researcher at the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money in politics, told Fox News.
The most glaring instance of increased revenue through access lies with Washington, D.C.-based firm Ricchetti Inc. Jeff Ricchetti – the brother of Steve Ricchetti, Biden's former campaign chairman who now acts as a counselor in the White House – helms the firm.
Ricchetti Inc. hauled in $1.6 million in lobbying revenue during the first half of the year, a drastic increase from the $365,000 it had pulled in over the first half of 2020, lobbying disclosure forms show.
I had the privilege of watching the film in its entirety last night on a Russian language video site. It was gory, but very good.
The film is set in the breakaway republic of Lugansk in May, 2014. It shows the start of the separatist movement. the story centers around the foreshortened lives of two families, who were unaware of what was happening until it was too late.
The trailer is in Russian but in a translatable format::
Curiously, the Lugansk ruling government has yet to comment on the film.
[FoxNews] President Joe Biden departed the White House for a vacation in Wilmington, Delaware as multiple crises escalated Thursday, most notably the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan that has forced the Pentagon to send troops to the country in a desperate attempt to help Americans there escape. If only President Klain knew
But the security situation isn't the only crisis the U.S. faces as Biden heads to Delaware for his summer break, as it was also revealed Thursday that more than 212,000 people were encountered crossing the border in July. That number was a 13% increase over June and represented a two-decade high, dampening White House hopes that the summer heat would cause migrants to rethink the dangerous trek.
The situation at the border has only been worsened by the highly contagious delta variant, with reports of thousands of COVID-19 positive migrants packing detention facilities before they are released to their destinations throughout the country.
The delta variant has resulted in a renewed surge in COVID-19 cases across the country, particularly in southern states such Arkansas and Mississippi that have recorded new highs in hospitalizations.
Meanwhile, a key inflation measure surprised economists by hitting yet another record high, with producer price inflation rising 7.8% over the 12 month period ending in July. That number was the highest recorded in the over ten-year history of the metric, raising fears inflation could stick around longer than some predict.
The evolving crises have put pressure on Biden to rethink his vacation plans, delaying his departure and forcing him to spend some time at Camp David.
In total, the president plans to spend about two weeks away from Washington.
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^^^ #3 - answer - No - Biden left WDC, yesterday by 'coincidence' the new CCP "ambassador" to the USA was met by a State Department Officer yesterday.
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^ I doubt if the ambassador is offended. Surely he was briefed before he left Beijing about the president's condition.
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in 204 days in office he has gone back to Delaware for long weekends 17 times, and now is taking a vacation in Delaware? Sun-downing is increasing and the cumulative effects of juicing and stress are showing? This guy won't make it another 6 months...and they get The Jackal for a year then a massive sweep of the House and Senate by the right, followed by impeachment?
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JRB, jr. aka Joe - has had 17 vacations at his home since taking office, about once every 12-14 days on average. No one knows who visits joe at his home, even though a log is kept.
Joe became known as the guy who campaigned from his basement. A large number of Americans were stunned that he won the election.
Well, wild thought, what if Joe has something in his basement that he really needs to keep going ?
[FoxBusiness] Producer prices accelerated at the fastest annual pace on record in July as supply chain disruptions and materials shortages continued to put upward pressure on costs.
The producer price index for final demand increased at a 7.8% pace for the 12 months ended July, according to the Labor Department. The July print was faster than the 7.3% pace recorded in June and ahead of the 7.3% rate that analysts surveyed by Refinitiv were expecting. The reading was the strongest since recordkeeping began in November 2010.
Producer prices rose 1% in July, matching the increase from June. Analysts were anticipating prices would grow at a 0.6% pace.
[GREATERKASHMIR] Five people were maimed in a grenade attack on the house of a BJP leader in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Rajouri district on Thursday night, reports said.
Quoting officials, news agency PTI reported that the grenade was thrown on the house of the BJP leader in Khandli area and it went kaboom! on the rooftop.
Five people, who were maimed in the attack, have been hospitalised, the officials said.
Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Jammu Zone, Mukesh Singh confirmed the incident, reported PTI.
Some reports suggested that the BJP leader was also injured in the blast. However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... there was no immediate official confirmation.
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[SYRIAHR] Three button men accused of involving in crimes and drug trade were killed on Tuesday, after being surrounded by the police in al-Radar neighbourhood in Tartus city.
According to SOHR sources, a police patrol stormed a house in al-Radar neighbourhood in order to arrest a suspect for being involved in a crime and drug trade. When the members of the patrol arrived at the house, the button men opened fire on them and showed desperate resistance, before one of the button menwent kaboom! with an boom belt, which resulted in the death of the two other button men. It is worth noting that one of the button men was Syrian, while the two others were Lebanese.
Drug trade is prevalent greatly throughout Syria, especially with the growing influence of the Lebanese Hezbollah and the fact that a large number of the Syrians have joined Hezbollah with the aim of trading in and having drugs.
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Breaking: #Antifa member Clifford Phillip Eiffler-Rodriguez, 35, of Salem, Ore., was arrested at the violent protest on 10 Aug. where antifa gathered to attack participants of a street church protest outside Planned Parenthood. Clifford allegedly assaulted a female officer. pic.twitter.com/84k1BNzoG8
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They’ve been arresting people all along... processing them at the front end and sending them out the door at the back such that the worst have been through the process repeatedly.
News breaking: A reliable source says that tonight, in a telephone conversation with Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, the US Secretary of State & Secretary of Defense asked him to resign in order to allow a ceasefire & the formation of a transitional government. #Afghanistan@indypersian
#Tunisia: hundreds of hectares of forest trees, incl. Aleppo pine, wormwood, juniper & alfa were destroyed by a fire that broke out last week in the closed military zone in Mount #Mghilla & extended Wednesday to Jerouala & Fidh Khaled, #Sbeitla, said a local official. #TAP_Enpic.twitter.com/SVbZouDH03
[NATIONALREVIEW] The Texas Senate voted to advance a major Republican voting bill on Thursday in an 18-11 vote, along party lines.Senate Bill 1 passed after state Senator Carol Alvarado finished a 15-hour talking filibuster in an attempt to delay the vote. Filibuster rules prohibited Albarado from eating, sitting down, leaning on her desk, taking a bathroom break or speaking about subjects unrelated to the bill.
The all-night filibuster came one day after Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, a Republican, signed arrest warrants for 52 Democrats who did not return during the fourth day of the House’s second special session. The Democrats’ absence left the chamber eight members short of a quorum.
As Republicans hold the majority in both chambers, Democrats do not have the votes to stop the bill from passing. Instead, they have been working to delay the vote since June, when Democrats walked out of a legislative session to deny a quorum for Republicans to advance the bill.
Last month, 57 Texas House Democrats traveled to Washington, D.C., on private chartered jets, using their physical absence to deny Republicans of their needed quorum. They planned to hide out in the Capitol and fight for federal voting legislation until the Texas special legislative session expired.
Democrats have opposed the legislation, accusing Republicans of trying to suppress votes. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... Republicans have repeatedly said the bill is meant to make it "easier to vote and harder to cheat."
The bill aims to mandate that voters write their driver’s license or other identification number on absentee ballots, bans state officials from sending out unsolicited mail-in ballots, and bans 24-hour and drive-in voting.
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next thing you know them Texans will be chaining shut the Graveyards Gates and denying the Zombie Vote.☺
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^ The story I heard, can't remember where, is about LBJ when he first ran for Congress and his campaign staff was collecting names from headstones one night in a Texas cemetery. The people under the headstones would then be registered to vote.
One staffer said he was having trouble with a headstone because the name was covered with moss.
"Skip it," said a senior staffer.
"Now, hold on," said LBJ. "That man has right to vote!"
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the story I heard ends with Lyndon's boss saying,
"That man has as much right to vote as anyone else in the cemetery"
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[USATODAY] President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... said Wednesday his administration is taking steps to crack down on illegal activity that might be contributing to a rise in gas prices.Biden announced that the National Economic Council has asked the Federal Trade Commission to use "every available tool" to monitor the U.S. gasoline market and look for any illegal activity that might be causing gas prices to jump while the cost of a barrel of oil is going down.
"That’s not what you’d expect in a competitive market," Biden said from the White House. "I want to make sure that nothing stands in the way of oil price declines leading to lower prices for consumers."
The administration's actions come as gas prices have jumped more than energy prices over the past year. The price of gas has jumped 42%, while energy has risen 24%, according to the Labor Department. The average gas price in January was $2.326, almost a dollar less than what the average gas price was last month.
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It's called Fiat Government by Executive Order.
Do You Joe KNOW the Contents & Implications of the E.O.s YOU signed....
[AmSpectator] A coalition of faith groups joined with a Moslem American solidarity group known as the Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign to accuse Senate Republicans in a letter Monday of being motived by "anti-Moslem animus" in their hesitancy to confirm Biden nominee Dilawar Syed as deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration.
Their letter also implied the Republicans were violating the Constitution by using a version of an "ethnic or religious test" to prevent Syed — who would be the highest ranking American Moslem official in the 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... — from holding office. "No one should be denied the ability to hold office because of what they look like or how they choose to worship," they wrote.
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Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces seized explosives found in an ISIS hideout north of Baghdad on Wednesday. Authorities suspect ISIS was planning to attack Shiite rituals during the holy month of Muharramhttps://t.co/Y3Ad6MuMgv
[Guardian] Children born during the coronavirus pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor and overall cognitive performance compared with children born before, a US study suggests.
The first few years of a child’s life are critical to their cognitive development. But with Covid-19 triggering the closure of businesses, nurseries, schools and playgrounds, life for infants changed considerably, with parents stressed and stretched as they tried to balance work and childcare.
With limited stimulation at home and less interaction with the world outside, pandemic-era children appear to have scored shockingly low on tests designed to assess cognitive development, said lead study author Sean Deoni at Brown University.
In the decade preceding the pandemic, the mean IQ score on standardised tests for children aged between three months and three years of age hovered around 100, but for children born during the pandemic that number tumbled to 78, according to the analysis, which is yet to be peer-reviewed.
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The virus destroys the intelligence of adults, why should it not do the same for children.
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The oldest kids in this study are 18 months old. Take this study with a grain of salt the size of the moon.
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Give this some deeper thought.
Quoting a simple search "Children under the age of 2 cannot be evaluated with IQ testing. To be tested, children must be verbal and able to talk. Even if a baby is verbally advanced, IQ tests are not designed for children this young.(May 31,2021)"
The oldest kids born since the Pandemic started
would only be about 1 year, 7 months.
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The same experts who were diagnosing almost every kid in the 90s with ADHD just for being playful and understandably inattentive to half baked 'pedagogical' demands.
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The real agenda of this article: More government intervention.
The first few years of a child’s life are critical to their cognitive development. But with Covid-19 triggering the closure of businesses, nurseries, schools and playgrounds, life for infants changed considerably, with parents stressed and stretched as they tried to balance work and childcare.
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g(r)omgoru, I believe I'd rather follow one of the 'low IQ' Aborigine fellows through an Aussie barren outback than a Harvard-grad 'Explorer' any day.
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If I could keep up with him, that is.
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Aussie fellow I new once (hearsay) said the 'rough' way to hunt the roos was to chase them all day, sleep in the rough, then just go and pick them up the next morning when they were too stiff to run away.
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So that's how McDonald's got all that roo meat
. A place that actually was indicted for using kangaroo meat in their 100% beef product, but had enough money to keep it out of the media (and out of court).
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You can view the Americanized version of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's story in full and in English here:
[REGNUM] The official trailer for the feature film "Ivan Denisovich" directed by Gleb Panfilov has been published on YouTube.
Filip Yankovsky , Artur Beschastny , Stepan Abramov , Alexander Karavaev , Igor Savochkin are involved in the film adaptation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's story "One Day in Ivan Denisovich."
The film will premiere on September 23, 2021.
Recall that Solzhenitsyn wrote the story "One Day in Ivan Denisovich" in 1959, in 1962 the work was published in the magazine "New World."
The story is dedicated to the prisoner Ivan Shukhov, who ended up in the camp after the German captivity. The work, written in an anti-Stalinist spirit, brought Solzhenitsyn an unprecedented fame for him.
The trailer is in Russian but in a translatable format:
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Uhmmm...please sit for your G.E.D., y'all shouldn't have dropped outta school @14, its really beginning to show...racist,nazis,zionists,KKK....shush !
[NYPOST] A wildfire bore down on rural southeastern Montana towns Thursday as continuing hot, dry weather throughout the West drove flames through more than a dozen states.
Several thousand people remained under evacuation orders as the Richard Spring Fire advanced across the sparsely-populated Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... the Dixie Fire — which started July 13 and is the largest wildfire burning in the nation — threatened a dozen small communities in the northern Sierra Nevada even though its southern end was mostly corralled by fire lines.
The blaze had burned over 780 square miles, destroyed some 550 homes and nearly obliterated the town of Greenville. It was 30 percent contained.
On Wednesday, the Montana fire displayed extreme behavior and had grown by tens of thousands of acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. The blaze, which was only 15 percent surrounded, began Sunday and powerful gusts caused it to explode across more than 230 square miles.
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[EpochTimes] Texas state troopers have started delivering van-loads of illegal aliens to the Kinney County Sheriff’s Office to be charged with criminal trespass.
The parking lot and an old steel picnic table under a tree outside the sheriff’s office have become a proxy booking center as the building is more suited for the crimes of a quiet, rural county of 3,600 residents.
But last week, the area was bustling as troopers brought in and processed 17 illegal aliens on Aug. 3, another 17 on Aug. 6, and 13 more overnight on Aug. 8. All were males, and all appeared before the Kinney County justice of the peace for criminal trespass after being arrested on local ranches.
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Tucker Carlson recently went to Hungary and visited the fence that separates Hungary from Serbia. While he was there the border guards caught a couple of Syrians trying to get across the line. The border guards checked the Syrians' papers, frisked them and then escorted them to a gate in the fence where they were unceremoniously put back on the Serbian side. The detainment was very brief. There was no "asylum" hearing. The Syrians did not get to tell their sad story to anybody. They were simply returned to the other side of the border. Why can't we do that?
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Bet ya he was glad to get out of there so he could be fed.
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I never could fathom why we treat illegal border crossers as 'immigrants'. I sponsored 2 legal immigrants and it is a specific legal status which is granted by the government by way of an immigrant visa after a process of application, investigation, interviews, medical exams, etc... In each case I had to make a financial commitment, by way of an Affidavit Of Support, that they would not become a financial burden on the government.
These are not Immigrants. There is no such thing as an illegal or undocumented immigrant since 'immigrant' status is conveyed via an Immigrant Visa - a Document. You do not magically become an immigrant when you cross the border or overstay your tourist or business visa.
Take them directly to the border and kick them out. They are not immigrants and should not be given access to the 'immigration courts' or process. And yes that includes Asylum seekers - who should apply at a legal port of entry _or_ consulate office.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sits down with Tucker Carlson to discuss how western Europe is changing and how his country is moving further away.
Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense reports of periodic skirmishes from small arms in two directions; Yeraskh-Chambarak-Nakhchichevan and Verin Shorzha-Karvajar.
Report from Yeraskh, on the border with Nakhichevan where for the past month there have been regular skirmishes. Local man says "it has turned regular for us, we don't panic as before. We go to our work and back." As he's speaking, machine gun fire is heard in the background. https://t.co/rcL2JjKGrspic.twitter.com/ipm67You0Q
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212,672 encountered. But how many slipped across the border without being encountered?
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slipping across the border ?
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Those are only the ones caught. Border Patrol recons they catch 2 out of 3 border crossers. Figure that in and the run rate illegal aliens is nearly 4 million over one year.
#Tunisia: 14 suspects were taken into custody, incl. a former state secretary, the director of mines at Industry Ministry, the director of procurement & 2 former DGs of #CPG & 4 managers of handling companies & 3 are wanted, on suspicion of corruption in phosphate. #TAP_Enpic.twitter.com/OjVjoy0RbX
Apparently someone over there is capable of feeling stupid.
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“FIR stands for First Information Report. It is a written document prepared by Police when they receive an information about a cognizable offence.
In a cognizable offence, a Police officer has an authority to make an arrest without warrant.
It is a complaint generally filed by the victim or someone else on his/her behalf. When the FIR is registered by the Police, a signed copy is also given to the victim or the same person who filed the FIR. Police cannot refuse to register a FIR as it is against the law.”
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Police cannot refuse to register a FIR as it is against the law.”
That may be the law, Glating the Rasher of Bacon2870, but in Pakistan if you are the wrong kind of person or the accused is the right kind the police simply won’t accept the complaint.
Wait til the Ospreys are taking off from the roof of the embassy. Carter era good times
New York Post cover for August 13, 2021. Biden's Saigon
[NY Post] It doesn’t get more idiotic: "The Taliban also has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said with a straight face Wednesday.
Oh, and the State Department has sent diplomats to "press the Taliban to stop their military offensive and to negotiate a political settlement, which is the only path to stability and development in Afghanistan." They’re also begging to have the US embassy in Kabul left alone, warning that future US aid is at risk — and so effectively promising that we’ll actually subsidize these barbarians.
Hello? The Taliban has never given a damn about world opinion or "stability and development." It was a global pariah when it ruled Afghanistan in the ’90s, ignoring the handwringing as it crushed the country’s women, destroyed those 1,500-year-old Buddha statues and hosted the al Qaeda plotters of 9/11.
And it hasn’t changed a whit since, blowing off all diplomatic efforts these last 20 years to get it to abandon its drive to reconquer the country.
These are fanatics out of the 10th century. They’re turning girls as young as 12 into sex slaves as they advance.
The Afghan army, meanwhile, is showing all the fortitude of the Iraqi forces who melted before ISIS in 2014: Provincial capitals (plural) are falling every day, with No. 10 (Herat) and 11 (Ghazni) gone Thursday. (To be fair, Afghan morale surely fell through the floor when Americans started literally abandoning bases in the middle of the night.)
Now it’s a race to Kabul, where Uncle Sam is desperately rushing to airlift out all Americans in a replay of the 1975 fall of Saigon.
The White House can pretend that diplomacy might somehow save the Afghan government, but its real sentiments rest in President Joe Biden’s words while campaigning last year, when he said he’d have "zero responsibility" for what happened after he pulled US troops out.
We didn’t disagree with Biden’s move to remove the last US ground forces, just as Donald Trump promised as well when he was in office. That’s plainly what most Americans wanted, too. Afghanistan had become an endless war.
But any pullout had to have a plan. Not an utterly disastrous cut-and-run, with virtually no provision for the Afghans who worked with us all these years.
The Army of the Republic of South Vietnam fought off an invasion in 1972 — with the help of massive US airpower; 1975 was a disaster because anti-war liberals in Congress prevented more airstrikes.
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...The inevitable post-mortems will also likely find that a disturbing percentage of Afghan forces - both police and military - simply did not exist; 'ghost soldiers' whose pay was being collected by their putative commanders.
And that we knew it.
Mike
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I remember from my Homeland Security days a group of Middle Eastern "educators" who were running a fast growing private school for learning English as a second Language for immigrants, and how one of the classroom auditors brought the police in because she suspected fraud since she thought some of the people looked familiar. They were given auditing schedules and asked to make lodging arrangements for visiting sudit staff and bussed the same 30 people to site after site....sound familiar? Everything old is new again!
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I think the senior generals deserve at least half of the blame for this fiasco. President Trump ordered them to prepare for this when he was sworn in at the beginning of 2016. But they blew him off until last year, and then they delayed until President Biden was sworn in and agreed to delay a few extra months. So the generals have had five years to plan and organize, during which time they clearly did absolutely nothing to prepare our troops, our allies, and the Afghans for even the possibility of us leaving.
.@PentagonPresSec just said the numbers are in the range of 3,500 to 4,000. The 1,000 personnel are heading to Qatar, with possible forward movement to Afghanistan. https://t.co/pM8O7fyhw9
Thousands of troops will be heading to Afghanistan to help with the U.S. embassy departures, as Taliban forces advance on more provincial capitals. https://t.co/grIm862sz0
The US Embassy in Kabul again urged American citizens to leave Afghanistan "immediately" amid rapid Taliban gains in the country. It is the second such security alert in less than a week urging the immediate departure of US citizens. https://t.co/UCMmS8Ywtu
BREAKING -- the #Taliban claims to have captured #Herat, after taking control of the Governor's HQ, Police HQ & city center. Ismail Khan's whereabouts are unknown.
In #Kandahar, the focus of [street-street] fighting is now limited to one central district.
The United Kingdom is also sending military personnel -- about 600 paratroopers -- to Kabul on a short-term basis to provide support to British nationals leaving the country, according to a joint blurb from the Ministry of Defence and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The number of staffers working at the British Embassy in Kabul has also been reduced to a core team focused on providing consular and visa services for those needing to rapidly leave the country.
At the Pentagon, Kirby said the Defense Department was sending 3,000 troops from three infantry battalions -- two Marine and one Army -- to Kabul's Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... International Airport to help out with the removal of American personnel from the U.S. Embassy.
They'll be there "temporarily" and will begin shipping out in the next 24 to 48 hours. These numbers are on top of the 650 already in Kabul protecting the airport and the embassy.
An additional 1,000 personnel will be sent to assist with the processing of Afghans who worked as interpreters, guides and other contractors and applied for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV).
"I want to stress that these forces are being deployed to support the orderly and safe reduction of civilian personnel at the request of the State Department and to help facilitate an accelerated process of working through SIV applicants," Kirby said. "This is a temporary mission with a narrow focus. As with all deployments of our troops into harm's way, our commanders have the inherent right of self defense, and any attack on them can and will be met with a forceful and appropriate response."
A brigade of 3,000 to 3,500 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne will also be sent to Kuwait to preposition in case they are needed further.
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Gross decision. Afghan military may turn on the US troops just as dangerously as the Taliban because of them leaving Afghanistan forces to the wolves.
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This is insanity. Is someone pulling together an official surrender ceremony. Are hostages being send over to be re-purchased? WTF ?
The principal lesson of Iran is that you do not leave your embassy open in the face of impending takeover by a hostile regime. Given that the Taliban facilitated the killing of 3,000 civilians on American soil, I think they qualify as hostile. Whether a takeover is impending - we'll see soon enough, when US troops have completely departed. I wish the folks deployed there and the embassy people the best, but it would not be out of character for the Taliban to attempt to inflict serious casualties on the outgoing US presence. For the same reason they helped al Qaeda with 9/11 - mindless aggressiveness amounting to sheer stupidity and megalomania. If they succeed, the midterms will be a landslide win for the GOP.
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Gross decision. Afghan military may turn on the US troops just as dangerously as the Taliban because of them leaving Afghanistan forces to the wolves.
If the embassy were taken hostage or massacred outright - not out of the question, given the Taliban's material support for 9/11 - I expect US troops would be right back in there. For decades.
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“But why would the USA want to keep Afghanistan unstable?
Look at a map. Afghanistan is located in central Asia. It is an impoverished, underdeveloped country that is landlocked. It borders the three top opponents of US power on the global stage, Russia, China, and Iran. Since 2001, not only has Afghanistan been a mess of terrorism, drug trafficking, and societal chaos, but this chaos has spilled over into the three neighboring countries.”
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Is someone pulling together an official surrender ceremony.
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No, NN2N1, it is not funny. It is elder abuse, not that I have any sympathy for this particular elder. He wanted it so let him have it. But, no, it isn't fun to watch.
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[The Hill] Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) was heckled by a fringe Senate candidate at a GOP fundraiser in Illinois on Wednesday evening for firmly rejecting unfounded conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Trump.
During the fundraiser in Rosemont, Ill., Crenshaw was asked by another attendee if he thought the 2020 election was stolen.
"There's certain cities with problems, but don’t kid yourself into believing that’s why we lost. It's not. It's not," Crenshaw said.
Bobby Piton, a long-shot Republican candidate running for Senate in Illinois who has claimed without evidence that Trump will be reinstated to the presidency this year, then yelled repeatedly, "You're wrong."
"I'll tell you openly. I'll tell you, and I'm not wrong," Crenshaw pushed back.
"Yes you are. I have plenty of proof. I have proof in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia," Piton responded, citing the audit of ballots cast in Maricopa County, Ariz. "And guess what, it's going to turn out and it's gonna flip. You watch. You're gonna see firsthand."
"It won't. It won't," Crenshaw said dismissively. "And you've gotta flip all five states."
Crenshaw then sought to make clear that Republicans shouldn't buy into conspiracy theories that Trump lost reelection because of widespread voter fraud.
"This is something you gotta accept. Is there a lot of voter fraud? Yeah, there probably is. Enough that Trump won? No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Five different states? Hundreds of thousands of votes? You're kidding yourself," Crenshaw said.
Unlike most House Republicans, Crenshaw voted to certify President Biden's electoral victory on the night of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
But Crenshaw did sign onto a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that attempted to invalidate the election results in four swing states — Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin — that Biden won.
The Supreme Court ultimately rejected Paxton's lawsuit and stated that "Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections."
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Another "best thing since sliced bread, real deal, gonna save us all" phony.
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There are some decent people out there who suspect we're headed to civil war. They can't accept that happening because they know the pain and suffering it will bring. Same thing happened back in 1776. Some knew the regime in London was wrong but could not bring themselves to accept the break.
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/\ The tipping point may be federal law enforcement (LE) intervention and conflict with state and local LE and/or National Guard. It could come quickly and most violently.
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/\ Perhaps we should be on the lookout for the re-structuring of local gov't, mobilization exercises involving the airlift of brigade size elements to distant trouble spots, tactical aircraft landing and taking off on public roadways, and.....
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Have to wait until Milley purges all the white supremacists from the military. I think after that they'll need to integrate some of the recent, ahem, immigrants into the ranks.
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Texans have been wise to Republican wannabe Dan for a while. Not sure he will be going back
[NYPOST] The second-in-command of the 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... police force ignored a "sacred" ritual by skipping the playing of bagpipes during the final send-off for slain Officer Ella French — impatiently declaring, "We don’t have 20 minutes for this s—."
First Deputy Police Superintendent Eric Carter enraged cops who gathered Saturday night to bid farewell to the late officer, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
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I'm shocked. And I'm not even part of that community or its traditions. Major misstep by the First Deputy Superintendent.
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My Observation is The Leader is Stressed Beyond All Comprehension & Reason -- A Vacation for Him is in Order - followed by a job at the Police Academy before his retirement on December 31, 2021.
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Pipes are from the all white early period of the department. During the inauguration of Barack Obama for POTUS was the first time I saw a negative reaction to bagpipes when the cameras caught Michelle Obama's look of disdain as a group passed by playing the pipes.
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Mayor Lightbrain tried to blame it on covid protocals. That went over like a fart in a diving helmet
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Go choke on a dognut
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At a funeral or memorial service I can understand the bagpipes. They were trying to get the body to the medical examiner's office. This almost comes under the heading of evidence tampering.
Bottom line: I think the Sup made the right call.
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As the US struggles to suppress the rapidly advancing coronavirus Delta variant, new evidence has emerged that the latest Lambda mutation — ravaging parts of South America — won’t be slowed by vaccines.
In a July 28 report appearing on bioRxiv, where the study awaits peer review prior to getting published, researchers in Japan are sounding the alarm on the C.37 variant, dubbed Lambda. And it’s proven just as virulent as Delta thanks to a similar mutation making them even more contagious.
The strain has been contained in 26 countries, including substantial outbreaks in Chile, Peru, Argentina and Ecuador.
"Notably, the vaccination rate in Chile is relatively high; the percentage of the people who received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine was [about] 60%," the authors write.
"Nevertheless, a big COVID-19 surge has occurred in Chile in Spring 2021, suggesting that the Lambda variant is proficient in escaping from the antiviral immunity elicited by vaccination," they warn.
The Lambda variant is thought to have emerged somewhere in South America between November and December 2020, and has since turned up in countries throughout Europe, North America and a few more isolated cases in Asia, according to GISAID data.
The proportion the Lambda variant has of COVID-19 cases in the US is low with just one-tenth of 1% of the share — about 911 cases. Compare that to Delta, which has infected some 77,692 Americans so far.
"In addition to increasing viral infectivity, the Delta variant exhibits higher resistance to the vaccine-induced neutralization," the authors said. "Similarly, here we showed that the Lambda variant equips not only increased infectivity but also resistance against antiviral immunity."
Lambda has so far been labeled a "variant of interest" by the World Health Organization, compared to the Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta strains, which have all risen to "variant of concern," or VOC, status.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published scant literature on the Lambda variant, though a COVID-19 vaccine briefing from July 27 cited another pre-print study, dated July 3, which concluded that the mRNA vaccine in particular is thought to effectively neutralize the Lambda variant.
In Chile, where C.37 is proliferating, their notably aggressive vaccine campaign relied predominantly on the Sinovac Biotech vaccine, which employs the inactivated virus to promote the production of COVID-19 antibodies.
Meanwhile, doctors are urging patients to get fully vaccinated in order to mitigate the severity of illness if infected with COVID-19 and its variants. Studies have shown that vaccines are effective at reducing deadly outcomes of COVID-19 — and a booster shot may be even better, prompting the Food and Drug Administration to consider providing third vaccine doses to people with compromised immune systems.
In a recent appearance on NBC’s "Meet the Press," White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci concluded, "There’s no doubt that over time, you’re going to have an attenuation of protection."
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"Notably, the vaccination rate in Chile is relatively high; the percentage of the people who received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine was [about] 60%," the authors write.
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How many letters in the Greek alphabet? Somebody wake me when we get near the end.
And it’s proven just as virulent as Delta thanks to a similar mutation making them even more contagious.
"More contagious". You will be hearing that a lot. It is the Message of the Day. Watch for it!
Over time, viruses tend to become more contagious but less lethal. It's not a law of nature, but it is a general principle. Someone has suggested that today's seasonal colds are the remnants of the Russian Flu pandemic of 1889.
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/\ Yes, I believe it is now referred to "gain of function." You may have heard the term used recently. The effort appears to have been endorsed and possibly fully funded by the US Government. A fact not frequently discussed in polite circles however.
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Which cannot be true because colds and flu caused by different families of viruses
I have seen references to the Russian 'Flu' being a corona virus, not an actual influenza. 1889 and all that, plus the symptoms are kinda sorta similar. Need to look into this further.
A valid point. And food for some interesting speculation.
I would expect sequencing to show a difference between a virus that has evolved from a previous version vs one that was assembled. But I would not trust anyone who knew to tell the truth about it.
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These new variants are not novel and so not patentable. OH, they will try as they have done already and have some success. look for new flareups to maintain fear and boosters. Similar to hurricane season. Gamma, Beta, Alpha, Delta, Lambda and a fourth (starts with an M as I recall). Many others named and I had no idea so many. Very contagious but less deadly(the goal of any virus).
Country X, a terrorist or proxy group attacks the US with a biological agent in very small amounts in many areas in the US. The US is forced to mount a massive nation-wide preemptive effort at vast expense, even though it is only under limited attack. The attack is tailored to counter the highly detailed open literature on US federal, state, and local detection and response capabilities.
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#17, It is my understanding that since the Vietnam war(conflict)Asians were even then fascinated in Bio War virus and such. I suspect many other countries as well.
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Wait, we went from Delta to Lambda with nothing in between. That's weird, if you are naming them as new variants show up. But if you were going to the cabinet and pulling down a jar of pre-made 'samples' at random, it kinda sorta makes sense.
An alternative guess is they are naming them as they find them and the missing letters were just uninteresting mutations, unlike Lambda which is OMG! MORE CONTAGIOUS!! OH NOES!!!
According to preliminary data, rescuers managed to find eight people alive , at least two of them were seriously injured. The search for the rest continues. There were 16 people on board, including 13 tourists.
The crashed Mi-8 sank under water. According to the preliminary version, bad weather could have been the cause of the disaster: the helicopter landed in very poor visibility conditions, and there were heavy fogs in this region in the morning. Other priority versions: pilot error and technical malfunction.
One of the victims of the MI-8 helicopter crash in Kamchatka, near the Kronotsky Reserve, was a family from St. Petersburg: two parents and a child. By a happy coincidence, the father survived, the mother and the 17-year-old young man have not yet been found - and the chances of a miracle are diminishing by the second.
As the son of one of the surviving tourists , Mikhail Strelkin, told KP-Petersburg , a large group of acquaintances gathered in the ill-fated helicopter on August 12.
"Mikhail loved extreme, but his wife did not share this hobby": Mother and son from St. Petersburg cannot be found after a helicopter crash in Kamchatka.
“It was only part of the group,” Mikhail explained. "In general, about twenty people went to Kamchatka from St. Petersburg, probably. A month ago, they agreed, called their father, 'well, let's go.' Already on the spot, apparently, they split up; some went on foot, others chose a helicopter flight to the Khodutka volcano. The helicopter, as far as I know, was ordered in advance, back in St. Petersburg.
"If we consider the version that the helicopter hit its nose, then it is very surprising that so many people were saved. While the aircraft is in the water, it is possible to leave it through the escape hatches. But it all depends on the position of the helicopter, if it hits its nose or falls on its side, then there is almost no chance. The blades begin to chop off the beam of the helicopter, it does not float and sinks quickly. Then there are 15 seconds to get out. The survivors were extraordinarily lucky, they probably had strong guardian angels," Stanislav Shtinov, a helicopter pilot of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told KP.
Rosturizm after the crash of the Mi-8 also check compliance with safety requirements in the provision of tourist services in Kamchatka.
Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Bastrykin instructed to report on the progress of the investigation of the criminal case into the crash of the MI-8 helicopter in Kamchatka
According to open sources, Igor Redkin owns 49.5% of shares in the authorized capital of Vityaz-Aero LLC. The rest of the company's shares belong to the co-owners of the Okeanrybflot fishing company. He is also the founder of the Vityaz-Travel travel company and owns a 50% stake in the authorized capital.
We will remind, Igor Redkin said that he accidentally shot a man in the village of Ozernovsky, confusing him with a bear. After being detained, he withdrew his candidacy from the elections and suspended his membership in the party.
After the helicopter crash in Kamchatka, Rostransnadzor will conduct an unscheduled inspection of the Vityaz-Aero airline.
The president of the Black Lives Matter Utah chapter announced she's stepping down and has fled the state, citing "death threats" over a Fourth of July Facebook post that called the American flag "a symbol of hatred."
Chapter founder Lex Scott made headlines last month after she argued on behalf of her group, which is not affiliated with the national BLM organization, that people who fly the U.S. flag are hostile toward people of color.
"When we Black Americans see this flag we know the person flying it is not safe to be around," the July 4 post read. "When we see this flag we know the person flying it is a racist. When we see this flag we know that the person flying it lives in a different America than we do. When we see this flag, we question your intelligence. We know to avoid you. It is a symbol of hatred."
In a tearful video posted on the group's Facebook page Sunday, Scott announced she was resigning from both her posts as group president and as president of the Utah Black History Museum.
"Over the last month you know that I received death threats like a flood," Scott wrote in an accompanying statement. "This is not new. The only new thing was when someone attempted to climb over my fence and instead of defending myself, I relaxed my body and told myself that I wished they would hurry and get it over with. I did not even want to fight back. The exhaustion of being on defense had worn on me. So prepared to die that I welcomed death and that is not living." So... What happened? Is she dead now? She died, but then she got better
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Has she decided to $$$ Cash In $$$ her BLM earnings like other BLM leadership have?
Scott and the Black Lives Matter Utah Chapter – not connected to the national Black Lives Matter movement – came under fire on July 4 after saying those that fly the American flag are “racist.”
Why is she even in the USA if she HATES US SO MUCH?
MAYBE there needs to be a Return To Africa Go Fund Me.
with the required never to return or be jailed.
IMPORTANT BTW: This BLM bundle of mental issues is NOT to be confused with the 1000% better looking actress Lex Scott.
I look at that face and I think, "Dear Lord! What did they think he was going to do?
[NYPOST] A New Jersey inmate who was freed early because of the COVID-19 pandemic has been charged with murdering a teenager just two days after his release.Jerry Crawford, 25, was serving time for burglary when he was let out on "public health emergency credits" to parole supervision on Nov. 4, prison officials confirmed to NJ.com Wednesday.
He has since been charged with the murder of Davion Scarbrough, 18, who was bumped off in Bridgeton on Nov. 6 — just two days after Crawford got out of South Woods State Prison, the outlet said.
He was charged alongside Yusuf Waites — who had also just gotten out of custody less than a month before the shooting.
Waites, 23, was released from Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Crosswicks on Oct. 10 after completing his sentence on a gun charge, according to the report.
The pair were allegedly caught on surveillance video with Scarbrough shortly before his body was found riddled with multiple bullets less than half a mile from the prison from which Crawford had been released, NJ.com reported, citing court documents.
When Crawford was charged last month, he was already back in jug on gun and theft charges, the outlet said. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... those charges have since been dismissed.
Both men were indicted on charges of first-degree murder and first-degree conspiracy to commit murder for Scarbrough’s fatal shooting.
Waites was also indicted for attempting to kill two other men in a sweeping indictment involving eight other defendants, another killing, a drive-by shooting and a daylight shootout, NJ.com said.
[Survival Update] The Pentagon is considering giving the Space Force a greater role in a stepped-up effort to track and investigate reports of UFOs. But the newest military branch isn’t over the moon about the idea.
Space Force leaders are still struggling to rebrand an organization that has been lampooned since before its birth. Now, they are conflicted about becoming the military’s go-to on what the Pentagon now calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," according to five current and former officials taking part in the discussions.
Advocates for the Space Force taking over for the Navy, which is currently leading the Pentagon’s task force responsible for studying them, believe the new service is better suited to oversee a more robust effort aimed at collecting information on UFOs, and that its association with a topic of such public fascination, particularly among young people, could even boost recruiting.
"It makes perfect sense," said one former intelligence official who is advising the military in the planning, citing its more expansive geographic responsibilities than other military branches and access to global — and even galactic — surveillance technologies through the U.S. Space Command. "There is no limit to the Space Force mission. It doesn’t have a geographic boundary like the other services."
But the former official also said some fear it will only deepen the branch’s public relations challenge by providing more material for the jokes, science-fiction-themed memes and other forms of popular ridicule that the Space Force has endured since it was championed by then-President Donald Trump in 2018, who made it an applause line in his political rallies.
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Now that the powers that be have chopped up all the data and made hash out it, you'd like me to take over responsibility for this circus.
I myself would decline.
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Israeli occupation forces arrested on Thursday, eleven Paleostinians in Bethlehem in the West Bank.
Wafa News Agency stated that the occupation forces stormed Hebron city, Hadab al-Fawwar and Yatta town south of the city, Tubas city and Umm ar-Rihan village south west of Jenin, Beita town south of Nablus, new Askar camp northeast of the city and Jabal al-Mawaleh area in Bethlehem, and they raided the Paleostinians’’ houses and arrested eleven Paleostinians.
It is notable that the occupation forces on Wednesday arrested fifteen Paleostinians in the West Bank.
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When I visited Bethlehem, the Palestinians controlled it. Our Jewish guide was not allowed to enter the town. I looked at the “Time of Israel” new site and can find no information on this “event”.
“Israel had two towns named "Bethlehem" during this era. "Bethlehem of Galilee" was located in the region given to the tribe of Zebulun in northern Israel (see Joshua 19:15), while "Bethlehem of Judea," where Jesus was born, was located 6 kilometers (4 miles) south of "Jerusalem" (Matthew 2:1), “
[NYPOST] A Pennsylvania man led cops to his father’s severed head that he kept on a dinner plate in a freezer, police said.
Donald Lawrence Meshey Jr., 32, was arrested Wednesday in the stabbing death and dismemberment of his father, Donald Meshey Sr., 67, by Lancaster police after a woman called cops seeking a welfare check on a relative.
The caller said Meshey told her there was a "cadaver" in one of the beds at the home along with a head stashed in a freezer, police said in a statement.
A responding officer met Meshey at the apartment he shared with his father and was led to the "horrific scene" inside.
"Meshey escorted the officer inside the residence and took the officer to the kitchen, where he proceeded to remove what appeared to be a human head from the freezer to show the officer," the police statement continued.
While being questioned by detectives, Meshey admitted to stabbing his father for two to three minutes with a knife before dismembering his body, which he called a "cadaver doll," police said.
"During the interview, Meshey said he found what he described as a ’cadaver doll’ in his father’s bedroom, which looked and sounded like his father," cops said in a statement.
Investigators were still processing the scene and collecting evidence late Wednesday. An autopsy conducted early Thursday identified the victim as Meshey’s father, LancasterOnline.com reported.
The elder Meshey died from multiple stab wounds, a coroner found.
Donald Meshey Jr. said he dismembered his father’s body and put his body parts in large garbage bags before stashing them in the basement of their home. He moved the head into a freezer on Wednesday before cops arrived, police wrote in an affidavit.
The severed head was kept on a white dinner plate inside the freezer and Meshey used a handsaw to mutilate his father’s body, court documents obtained by WGAL show.
Meshey said he had moved his father’s torso into a 2007 Lincoln Town Car parked outside the residence, the affidavit states.
[FOXNEWS] Private armed security outfits have been hired to patrol a popular section of Portland known for its bars and nightlife after the city slashed police funding and saw a year of violence in the area.
"My job is to get you home safe," one guard for the Ravencrest Force Protection Group, Jean-Pierre LaFont, told Willamette Weekly. "Unless you’re the perpetrator. The only way for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. So I’m going to do something."
"This once was a great city," he added. "This is a great city. It’s the best. We just forgot."
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The people of Afghanistan are going to lose everything they have worked for, says Pashtana Durrani, the executive director of an NGO for girls' education.
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Lady It is/was your country... and you and yours have had at least a decade to defend it...
No surprise here after the US and its Allies spent thousands of our countryman's lives and 4.3 Trillion Dollars working with Your Countrymen to give them a Backbone, Army, Air Force, Supplies, Intelligence Organizations and Knowledge to defend you...
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what exactly have the Afghan pp worked for? Girls going to school? How about taking back your country so you want be stoned to death for talking to a male who isn't a family member. At some point put up or shut up. You know like say the YPG.
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"And dammit, I got this office and a nice job, and now I'm gonna hafta find another scam to run!"
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I guess the people there should have joined the fight instead of worrying about the calls to prayer.
It would be a shame if the people in other countries missed obvious wake-up calls.
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"Lost' more like it. I think we largely accomplished what we needed to by '02. Remaining after they had been severely punished was just stupid.
That said we also told them what they needed to know in terms of our will to victory. A husky appetite for revenge is something they could respect. Or, why isn't the scary Tora Bora mountain complex the new Tora Bora Reservoir. THAT would not require translation.
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.
[Intellectual Frog Legs] I watched a significant amount of Mike Lindel’s Cyber Symposium... There were a lot of great experts and a lot of great presentations. But one of the more impactful moments for me came from Dr. Shiva. The man is a genius, let’s just begin there. And his story is even more remarkable than his résumé. A definite MUST WATCH
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...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
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...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
[Babylon Bee] OTTAWA—Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (he/him, they/them) dusted off one of his old ethnic costumes today in hopes that President Joe Biden would approve his pipeline.
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[WND] News commentator Sean Hannity is questioning why the FBI is doing nothing about Hunter Biden after the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom revealed that it has obtained shocking video, from a laptop computer, showing a naked Biden with a prostitute.
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[National Insiders] The Biden admin.’s handling of the continuing crisis at the southern border is floundering as the huge inflow of people illegally coming into the country remains at an all-time record, leading to more overcrowding at border facilities with coronavirus still being an issue.
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[FOXNEWS] Private armed security outfits have been hired to patrol a popular section of Portland known for its bars and nightlife after the city slashed police funding and saw a year of violence in the area. 
