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Ironically, hydrogen is a big byproduct of fracking. But it doesn't fit the narrative, so never mind.
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20-30 years ago, when hydrogen powered cars were 'the next big thing', Scientific American published an article that didn't fit the narrative.
Because producing hydrogen from water took more power than burning hydrogen produced, the only cost-effective way to produce hydrogen fuel was with nuclear power. Oops!
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Corn ethanol has the same problem, I believe....more energy to produce it.....
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I always loved Jimmuah Cahtah during the gas crisis (that he caused) asking if Indy cars could be run on something other than gasoline for national good will. He had to be told the cars run on pure ethanol with the denaturant to make it undrinkable.
Never Mind...
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I read a few articles in the early 2000s about hydrogen and few take-aways. (1) Gas stations could produce hydrogen from water and thus the current infrastructure could be used. (2) A powdered version of hydrogen would be useful and safe if less bang per buck than liquid or gas hydrogen. (3) The entire drive train could be building a flat 'skate-board' type deal that allowed multiple chassis to be added ontop creating a lot of variety. In fact one or two companies could build the skateboards while others worried about the pretty chassis.
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Nuc Subs created oxygen by splitting water into its components. We waste water by using it to create ethanol and now you want to use more to create hydrogen. Water is the most important thing on earth. Why not use nuc power to create electricity and a different type of battery than we now use. Japan and Our colleges are working on this.
#1
Close those schools permanently and make the union sue to re-open them. Watch the fun.
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The leftists are willingly closing their own youth indoctrination centers (aka schools). This must truly be then end of days. Or do they believe a totally uneducated population would be more easily controlled?
#1
That Paul Newman. F him. That spaghetti sauce sux and it sends dollars to the same bqad places as Ben & Jerry's commie ice cream.
F. That. Sh*t. Pabst Blue Ribbon!
- Frank Booth
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Rarely met a Japanese i didn't like. Appalled by the bombings. Never quite bought the magic million. And here's my apology...
I'm as sorry for sending those Japs
To the land of co-prosperous naps
As are they for the things
That were done at Nanking,
And a thousand more lapses.
[nervous giggle]
Perhaps.
Sam Resto, a 29-year-old construction worker, was arrested on Thursday
He is accused of setting fire to a NYPD patrol car in the early hours of July 29
He was being followed by NYPD surveillance officers as he made preparations
Resto wore a Guy Fawkes mask as he torched the car near Central Park
If convicted he faces 20 years in prison for the attack
Resto had been arrested twice before: on July 10 for swinging a chain at someone during a parking dispute, and on July 15 during an anti-police brutality protest
NYPD estimates 300 cars worth $1 million damaged since George Floyd died
#4
We don't have enough water. We don't have enough power. Our roads, schools and hospitals are all over crowded. And yet Newsom wants more affordable housing for all the illegal aliens he wants to import into California.
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They closed the only two nuke power plants left, and haven’t built a major new plant or dam to provide power in decades. So, what’s left is the climate change meme as they implement the Venezuela solution. Welcome to the devolution to 3rd world conditions democrats.
#6
If I remember correctly, the last time this happened with a dem governor at the helm in CA in 2001, CA actually voted in a Republican governor shortly after. Vote red folks - even in CA.
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[Gateway] Former FBI Attorney Kevin Clinesmith is expected to plead guilty to altering Carter Page evidence to support the FISA warrant used to spy on the Donald Trump campaign in 2016.
However, Clinesmith, in order to save himself, implicated others on Crossfire Hurricane.
38-year-old Clinesmith altered an email from CIA investigators used to request a FISA warrant and renewals on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
Carter Page previously worked as a source for the CIA, however Clinesmith falsely said Page was "never" a CIA source.
#1
If there's enough drip-drip-drip here to last into October, it's ShowTime™.
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:-D, #1 M.M.
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Well, let's hope so.
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Well, if he suddenly kills himself by shooting himself in the back of the head twice or leaping through a window in a tall building, we'll know if he was a scapegoat or planning to testify against others.
[WION] To date, no one has stated the urgent universal need to aggressively investigate the true origin of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19, better than Karl and Dan Sirotkin in their August 12, 2020 article "Might SARS‐CoV‐2 Have Arisen via Serial Passage through an Animal Host or Cell Culture?"
"Despite claims from prominent scientists that SARS‐CoV‐2 indubitably emerged naturally, the etiology of this novel coronavirus remains a pressing and open question: Without knowing the true nature of a disease, it is impossible for clinicians to appropriately shape their care, for policy‐makers to correctly gauge the nature and extent of the threat, and for the public to appropriately modify their behaviour."
As the authors correctly note, serial passage, that is, the repeated re-infection within an animal or human population allows a virus to specifically adapt to the infected species.
That process occurs naturally in the wild, but it can be greatly accelerated in the laboratory by deliberate serial passaging of viruses in cell culture systems or animals, potentially leaving few or no traces as to whether the adapted viruses are naturally-occurring or laboratory-manipulated.
That type of "gain of function" experimentation can become particularly dangerous if viruses are adapted for human infection by serial passaging them through cell cultures and animal models that have been genetically-modified to express human receptors.
There are numerous scientific publications describing serial passaging of coronaviruses through "humanised" cell cultures and animal models, thus potentially creating a new coronavirus "pre-adapted" for human infection.
At present, the scientific consensus is that SARS-CoV-2 came from bats, but how it evolved to infect humans remains unknown.
Lawrence Sellin, PhD is a retired US Army Reserve colonel. He has previously worked at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and conducted basic and clinical research in the pharmaceutical industry. His email address is lawrence.sellin@gmail.com.
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It has in the past. It will be in the future. Till they remove populations from close proximity to livestock there will be swine and bird flu epidemics from given geographical locations.
#4
"gain of function" experimentation can become particularly dangerous if viruses are adapted for human infection by serial passaging them through cell cultures and animal models that have been genetically-modified to express human receptors.
BLUF:
[Townhall] Rush Limbaugh believes that Biden's support for forced masking is really all about the candidate's basement strategy. The Biden team has mostly confined Joe to the basement of his Delaware home in an effort to preserve his poll numbers. It's a good strategy for a 77-year-old gaffe-prone candidate who a majority of likely voters believe has dementia, as a poll conducted in early June found.
According to Limbaugh, Biden's calls for mandatory masking represents Biden's doubling down on his basement strategy.
"This is how plugs intends to keep himself unavailable," Limbaugh told listeners on Friday. "Plugs" is Limbaugh's nickname for Joe Biden, due to the obvious hair plugs on Biden's head.
[Red State] One important fact getting overlooked in all the discussion of whether FBI Attorney Kevin Clinesmith’s guilty plea represents the sacrifice of a minor criminal so the ringleaders can escape justice or the beginning of the end for those who were running the show is exactly whose show Clinesmith was a part of when the crime he’s admitted committing occurred.
You see, Clinesmith wasn’t working for James Comey on June 19, 2017, the date he altered that CIA email inconveniently identifying Trump’s onetime foreign policy advisor Carter Page as a trusted source.
By that point in time, Clinesmith was part of Robert Mueller’s Independent Counsel investigation.
#1
I thought it strange at the time that the Robert Mueller investigation sort of side stepped any potential criminality involved in the Carter Page and Trump campaign issue. As I recall, Mr. Page did have rather long standing Russian connections. Perhaps we now know why.
#3
They needed the FISA warrant to electronically monitor Carter Page (and collect FISA Section-702 'incidental intelligence'). If one of the FISA clerks, lawyers, or judges had noticed a Page-CIA connection, it may have queered the deal.
[Breitbart] Giant tech corporations have joined a Chamber of Commerce lawsuit that seeks to overturn President Trump’s executive order halting visa programs to prioritize unemployed Americans for scarcely available jobs.
Last month, the Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit against Trump’s expanded executive order, signed in June, that halts the H-1B, H-4, H-2B, L-1, and J-1 visa programs to reduce foreign competition against millions of unemployed Americans.
Today, there are 26 million Americans who are jobless — 7.7 million of whom are out of the workforce altogether and about two million who have been out of work for months but want full-time employment. Another 8.4 million Americans are working part-time but want full-time jobs.
Now, CEOs for the largest tech corporations in the world have signed onto the lawsuit in an amicus brief. Tech corporations such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Netflix, Zillow, and PayPal have all signed on to fight Trump’s order.
The full list of those supporting the Chamber of Commerce lawsuit include:
1. Adobe Inc.
2. Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers
3. Amazon.com, Inc.
4. Apple Inc.
5. Atlassian, Inc.
6. Autodesk, Inc.
7. Bates White, LLC
8. Box, Inc.
9. BSA Business Software Alliance, Inc.
10. Consumer Technology Association
11. Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce
12. Dropbox, Inc.
13. Facebook, Inc.
14. FWD.us Education Fund
15. GitHub, Inc.
16. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
17. HP Inc.
18. HR Policy Association
19. Information Technology Industry Council
20. Institute of International Bankers
21. Intel Corp.
22. Internet Association
23. Juniper Networks, Inc.
24. LinkedIn Corporation
25. Metro Atlanta Chamber
26. Microsoft Corporation
27. Netflix, Inc.
28. New Imagitas, Inc.
29. North Texas Commission
30. Partnership for a New American Economy Research Fund
31. PayPal, Inc.
32. Plaid Inc.
33. Postmates Inc.
34. Reddit, Inc.
35. salesforce.com, inc.
36. SAP SE
37. Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
38. ServiceNow, Inc.
39. Shutterstock, Inc.
40. Silicon Valley Bank
41. Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
42. Splunk Inc.
43. Square, Inc.
44. SurveyMonkey Inc.
45. Twitter, Inc.
46. Uber Technologies, Inc.
47. Upwork Inc.
48. Vail Valley Partnership
49. VMware, Inc.
50. Workday, Inc.
51. Xylem Inc.
52. Zillow Group, Inc.
The corporate lobbying effort to reopen pipelines of foreign workers to take U.S. jobs comes as companies are cutting Information Technology (IT) jobs, about 134,000 in July, due to economic shutdowns spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
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The imported labor is a captive group. No labor bargaining power, no job mobility. That's the attraction.
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@ #3 - Education system might be o.k., just finding Americans to switch majors from Urban Studies to Computer Science or Electrical Engineering might be the problem.
Your tech "solution" isn't profitable without imported, essentially slaver labor.
All good.
When will Gupta start asking for reparations too?
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Big Tech don't trust American education system?
You think the Indian education system is better? I've spent enough time around these people to believe that it is most certainly not. This is not about education. It's about the importation and exploitation of cheap labor. As far as I'm concerned, every last one of these companies can get the hell out of America and set up shop in the third world hell hole of their choice.
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#3 The main thing is that they hate actual Americans.
Just look at the CEOs and other execs at many of these firms.
Poor ed. is a pretext at most; never mind that Big Tech overwhelmingly supports the people responsible for that ed.
#13
I'm in favor of everyone who comes on an equal footing. Anything else, I'm against.
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Linus Torvalds was nearly blocked by INS because they didn't think he contributed any needed skills. But the thousands of H1-Bs who completed a "certification" course and know nearly nothing outside of it are welcomed in.
Look at the multiple HR-related groups listed -- the practices at HR are part of the problem. A checklist of claimed skills, no, we don't want to train anyone, just let us post jobs asking for 6 years experience in a 3-year-old platform...
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[IsraelTimes] The Wall Street Journal reports that a US government assessment concluded that "maintenance work" likely led to last week’s Beirut port blast.
The State Department assessment found no evidence of an attack on the ammonium cache or any evidence of foul play, a person familiar with the matter tells the Journal.
The assessment did not specify what kind of maintenance work led to the blast but found that that it was what started the fire that ignited the ammonium nitrate.
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The State Department assessment found no evidence of an attack on the ammonium cache or any evidence of foul play.
Ten days worth of investigation and Foggy Bottom nails it. Time to put them to work on the Benghazi, Epstein case, Clinton home brew servers, Seth Rich.....
[IsraelTimes] A Moslem woman who worked for a McDonald’s franchisee in Maryland claims managers and co-workers sexually harassed her and subjected her to religious discrimination after she converted to Islam.
Diamond Powell, 28, of Baltimore, has sued her former employer, Susdewitt Management LLC of Lanham, Maryland, on Thursday with the backing of attorneys from the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... , a Moslem civil rights group.
The Morgan State University graduate was Christian in 2016 when she started working for the company, which operated two McDonald’s locations at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Powell converted to Islam in February 2017 and began wearing a hijab, a religious head covering, to work.
A manager told her to "take that hoodie off" her head while another manager told her, "You don’t have to wait for God to wake up for you to pray," Powell’s federal lawsuit alleges.
Powell has a religious belief that she must pray five times a day at prescribed times. A general manager initially granted Powell’s request to take short prayer breaks during her shifts, according to her lawsuit.
"Her prayer breaks lasted no longer than a typical bathroom break," the suit says.
But the general manager prohibited Powell from praying in a quiet spot at the airport and instead told her to pray in a dirty stock room, the lawsuit alleges. After Powell continued praying outside the restaurant, the general manager eventually revoked her request to take a prayer break, saying, "God will understand," according to the lawsuit.
"By doing so, the general manager forced Powell to choose between continuing her employment with McDonald’s or sacrificing her sincerely-held religious beliefs," the suit says.
Powell resigned from the job in April 2018. Her suit accuses Susdewitt Management of violating the Maryland Fair Employment Practices Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Susdewitt Management owner Isaac Green disputed the lawsuit’s "characterizations" but said the company is reviewing Powell’s allegations and will "respond accordingly."
"We pride ourselves on our diverse workforce, and we have policies in place to provide a welcoming workplace and to respect the accommodations employees may need for religious reasons," Green said in a statement provided by a McDonald’s corporate spokeswoman.
The suit also claims Powell was sexually harassed at work, with several managers and co-workers asking her if she was a virgin and a shift manager making sexually explicit remarks.
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The McRib sandwich is not discrimination. It is a gift from Heaven.
[IsraelTimes] IAF aircraft face increasingly difficult challenges in ’war-between-wars’ against Iran, with more powerful air defenses entering region and actors increasingly willing to use them.
Over the past two years, the Israeli Air Force has destroyed a third of Syria’s advanced air defense systems, according to Israeli military assessments.
The Israeli Air Force has shifted its focus in recent weeks from the so-called "northern arena" of Syria and Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... toward the Gazoo
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[Jpost] Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... have suspended joint military patrols carried out along the M4 highway in Syria's northwestern region of Idlib over increasing bully boy attacks in the area, the Russian foreign ministry said.
Russia and Turkey began the patrols in March after they agreed a ceasefire in the region following weeks of festivities that brought Ankara and Moscow close to direct confrontation, and displaced nearly a million people.
Recent attacks by "radicals" have prompted a suspension of the patrols, the ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"Terrorists have stepped up the amount of shelling on government troops and nearby settlements, not ceasing their provocations in the 'security corridor' along the M4 highway. Thus, the joint patrols have been suspended," she told a news conference on Thursday.
The two militaries had carried out 24 joint patrols along the key M4 highway that links Syria's east and west, with the latest along the Trumbah and Ayn Al Havron road on Wednesday, Turkey's defense ministry said. Two patrols had previously been cut short over security concerns.
The ceasefire reached by Ankara and Moscow on March 5 has largely held, with both sides saying there have only been minor violations.
[Jpost] The IDF stated that the attack comes in response to the number of incendiary balloons sent from 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... not only on Friday, but throughout the week.
IDF tanks and fighter jets attacked a number of targets belonging to the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit. The attack came in response to incendiary balloons sent from Gaza and landing in Israeli territory, causing some 21 fires to break out on Friday alone, following a pattern of attacks that have been occurring all week.
Paleostinian sources report that the Friday attack occurred east of the al-Bureij refugee camp located in the center of the Gaza Strip.
During the attack, a naval force compound, underground infrastructure and observation posts belonging to Hamas were struck, according to the IDF's Spokesperson's Unit.
The IDF stated that the attack came in response to the number of incendiary balloons sent from Gaza not only on Friday, but throughout the week, adding that "all terrorist activity against Israel" is taken very seriously, and that the IDF "will do whatever is necessary to act in response to attempts to harm the citizens of Israel."
Earlier on Friday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi made a similar comment following a number of fires having already broken out. He told the Gaza border community that incendiary and explosive balloon launches will end in the following days, Walla! reported.
The IDF has been acting in response to incendiary balloon attacks for days, the most recent of which, prior to Friday's attack, occurred in between Thursday night and Friday morning, wherein IDF fighter jets and helicopters struck Hamas air defense, underground infrastructure, and observation posts.
The incendiary balloons caused some 27 fires to break out in the Gaza envelope on Thursday, and at least 120 had been reported throughout the week. Thursday's incendiary balloon attacks came despite the Defense Ministry's Thursday morning efforts to try and quell the attacks by halting the transfer of fuel into the Gaza Strip.
Israel launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, targets in the Gazoo Strip for the fourth night in a row late Friday in response to a spate of attacks using balloon-borne arson and bombs sent from the Strip into Israel in recent days.
The overnight attack on sites used by Hamas, the Islamist terror group that rules the enclave, was the fifth such operation since the start of the week.
The Haaretz daily reported Friday that Israel communicated that it won’t allow the transfer of a monthly sum of $30 million from Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... to Gaza unless the spate of incendiary balloon attacks stops.
The report, which did not cite a source, added that the Qatari envoy himself is "not thrilled" to go to the Strip until the escalation is over.
Paleostinian analysts say attacks from Gaza often aim to pressure Israel to give the green light for the transfer of the Qatari financial aid into the Strip.
In response to the attacks, Israel has already closed its cargo crossing with the Strip, with exceptions made for food and humanitarian aid, and also reduced the territory’s permitted coastal fishing zone.
The practice of launching balloon-borne incendiary and bombs from the Gaza Strip toward Israel has waxed and waned over the past two years, with an uptick since the end of last week. A General Smiting is in order
The president tweeted Friday that the directly payments, $3,400 for a family of four, are being held up by Democrats. "I’m waiting for the Democrats to approve it," Trump said during a briefing at the White House.
[Rudaw] A group of Peshmerga forces came under fire from both the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Ottoman Turkish forces in the Sidakan area of northeastern Erbil province on Friday, according to a Peshmerga commander. There were no casualties.
"At 10:15 am we wanted to go to the memorial ceremony for Brigadier Zuber Hali in Gurasha," Colonel Salam Mohammed, commander of Peshmerga Battalion 2, told Rudaw English. Hali was an Iraqi border guard killed in a Ottoman Turkishdronezap on Tuesday.
"Suddenly, we came under fire from behind from the PKK side. Then Ottoman Turkish army fired at us from their side as well. Our car’s tyre was punctured," Mohammed recounted.
He was traveling in a group of 10 Peshmerga in two vehicles. They did not return fire to either side "because we are in the region to protect its residents, not to attack anyone."
When the incident occurred, the Peshmerga were driving in an area known for festivities between the PKK and Ottoman Turkish forces.
Ihsan Chalabi, mayor of Sidakan area who was not at the scene but spoke to people involved, told Rudaw English that the PKK opened fire first.
The PKK, an armed Kurdish group fighting for greater cultural and political rights in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... , has its headquarters in the Kurdistan Region’s Qandil mountains. Turkey launched an air and ground operation against the PKK within the Kurdistan Region borders on June 15. At least seven civilians have been killed by Turkey.
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is investigating a video apparently showing a number of Afghan Army soldiers mutilatingTaliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... corpses in Arghandab district in Zabul province in southern Afghanistan. "Hey, we're Afghans. If ya can't have a little fun with the earthly remains of your enemies, what's life about?"
"The Afghan Ministry of Defense is fully aware of the footage that was shared on social media, we will seriously investigate and assess the issue, if personnel of the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces are found guilty, they will be treated in accordance with the prevailing laws of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan," said Fawad Aman, a front man for the Defense Ministry.
The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, said footage posted Thursday on social media purporting to show Afghan Army personnel mutilating Taliban corpses is deeply shocking.
It added that the announced Defense Ministry investigation needs to be swift and open. If crimes are proven the criminals must be identified and held responsible, UNAMA said.
The Taliban has called on human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organizations to investigate the incident.
"To prevent such incidents, we call on the warring sides to respect international and Islamic laws regarding this matter and respect human dignity and human rights," said Lal Gul Lal, head of Human Rights Organization in Afghanistan, a Kabul-based rights organization.
"At a time when Afghanistan has reached closer to a conclusion with the grinding of the peace processor, such incidents must be taken seriously by the Taliban and the Afghan government," said Abdul Rahman Wardak, an MP.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission called the incident concerning and said that such acts can prove dangerous for peace under current circumstances.
"Blasphemous treatment with the hostages or war captives or with the dead bodies of the opponent side is a clear violation of human rights, such a move provokes a feeling for Dire Revenge and will have a negative impact on the intra-Afghan talks," said Zabihullah Farhang, head of media office of the organization.
This comes as the bodies of three members of the Afghan National Army (ANA) have been found in Khak-e-Jabar district of Kabul province, the family members confirmed on Thursday.
The family members of the dead soldiers said that the three were taken hostage by the Taliban and were "brutally tortured" by the group before being shot.
[ToloNews] The Afghan government on Thursday released 80 of the 400 high-value Taliban ...Arabic for students... prisoners whose release was approved by last week’s Loya Jirga, the National Security Council said on Friday.
The consultative Loya Jirga, the grand assembly of Afghan elders, last week approved the release of the 400 Taliban ...Arabic for students... prisoners, a step that was seen as a key push for the start of the intra-Afghan negotiations.
The prisoners were released from Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul, according to the National Security Council (NSC).
According to government data, out of the 400 prisoners in question, 156 of them have been sentenced to death, 105 of them are accused of murder, 34 of them are accused of kidnapping that led to murder, 51 of them are accused of drug smuggling, 44 of them are on the blacklist of the Afghan government and its allies, 6 of them are accused of assorted other crimes, 4 are accused of unspecified crimes.
A document seen by TOLOnews shows that at least 124 Taliban prisoners who were sentenced to death by the courts are currently kept in Pul-e-Charkhi and Bagram jails.
Sources have said that some countries such as the US, La Belle France and Australia have reservations about the release of some of the prisoners.
[IsraelTimes] At least eight children under the age of 5 have died in recent days from health problems linked to the dire conditions in a camp in northern Syria housing tens of thousands of female supporters of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and their children, the UN says.
The UN children’s agency says the eight died between August 6-10 from malnutrition or dehydration from diarrhea. The camp has yet to report any outbreak of the new 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... , which has sickened people in other parts of war-torn Syria.
"Any child’s death is tragic. It is even more so when the death could have been averted," UNICEF says in a statement.
It says nearly 40,000 children from 60 countries languish at the al-Hol camp. It is operated by US-allied Kurdish forces that played a key role in dismantling the bully boy group’s self-styled caliphate, which once sprawled across large areas of Syria and Iraq.
Austrian Foreign minister Alexander Schallenberg : The #EU should reassess its relations with #Erdogan’s #Turkey in light of a series of recent events in the eastern Mediterranean, #Libya, #Syria, #Iraq & the conversion of the museum of Hagia Sophia to a mosque.#Greece . pic.twitter.com/8BLvyEBYuB
[Bangkok Post] Three soldiers were maimed in an exchange of gunfire with gunnies on Friday in Yaring district, where security officers were hunting for the bombers who killed a ranger on Thursday.The clash erupted in Buenaejuerae village in tambon Kolam where a combined team of soldiers, police and local officials were patrolling, said Pol Col Thotsaphol Sararuek, chief of Ban Sarong cop shoppe, who was alerted at 1pm on Friday.
An unknown number of men opened fire on the security officers, who returned fire. The exchange lasted about 30 minutes and three officers were maimed. They were rushed to a hospital while the hunt continued for the gunnies.
Maj Gen Pramote Prom-in, front man for the Fourth Army, said officers continued the operation after the attack.
Sub Lt Sutthiporn Supakarn, 33, was maimed in the right leg. Sgt Maj Anuwat Suansokchuek, 31, was hit in the left ankle, and Cpl Saenchai Chartchamnarn, 27, sustained injuries to his left leg and right ankle. All three were taken to Yarang Hospital in Pattani, said Maj Gen Pramote.
Authorities are still looking for those behind a pair of bombings that took place on Thursday in Pattani and Narathiwat provinces at roughly the same time. One ranger was killed in each incident.
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[Al Ahram] Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... Secretary-General Ahmed Abul Gheit has warned against what he termed "the Iranian-Ottoman Turkish schemes of hegemony" in the Arab region and their catastrophic consequences for Arab national security, noting that the current conditions in the region require more attention in order to preserve the interests of the Arab world.In an interview with al-Ahram Editor-In-Chief Alaa Thabet, Abul Gheit said these two regional powers, which are seeking to control the region's potentials and capabilities, are using "divide and rule" tactics, a policy that was once used by the colonial powers.
He warned against Iranian and Ottoman Turkish schemes which are aimed at obliterating Arab national states and turning them into sectarian districts that can be controlled by armed militias.
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A recently released #ISIS terrorist named Al-Mu'tasim bin Hamida beheaded His mother, father, sister & two nephews in Ain Zara #Tripoli last night He was in the #GNA’s #AlQeada ( Special Deterrence Force ) prison but released for no clear reason resulting in this tragedy#Libyapic.twitter.com/rdnfsjgK3i
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The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door
And he looked inside
"Father?" "Yes, son?" "I want to kill you"
"Mother? I want to..."
Jim Morrison, The Doors
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[PUNCHNG] Angola’s Supreme Court on Friday handed a five-year jail sentence to Jose Filomeno dos Santos, the son of the oil-rich country’s former president, for fraud when he headed the national sovereign wealth fund. "I am Jose Filomeno dos Santos, son of former president of Angola."
Dos Santos, 42, was summoned before court in December over allegations he tried to embezzle up to $1.5 billion (1.3 billion euros) from the sovereign wealth fund, which he oversaw from 2013 to 2018. "I saw your profile on the internet and feel you are honest person."
Nicknamed "Zenu", dos Santos was charged with stealing $500m from the fund and transferring it to a Swiss bank account. "I am need assistance in transfer $500,000,000 (five hundred miliion) $USD from Swiss bank to your country."
"For the crime of fraud... and for the crime of peddling influence... the legal cumulus condemns him to a single sentence of five years in prison," judge Joao da Cruz Pitra said. "For your kind assistance I am offfer five (5) percent finder fee of twenty five million (25,000,000) $USD."
Three co-defendants, including the former governor of the national bank of Angola (BNA) Valter Filipe da Silva, were sentenced to between four and six years in prison for fraud, embezzlement and influence peddling. "My bona fides can be vouch for by former governor of the national bank of Angola (BNA) Valter Filipe da Silva."
All four were acquitted of money-laundering charges. They had previously denied any wrongdoing.
Zenu is the first member of the former presidential family to be prosecuted as part an anti-graft campaign led by President Joao Lourenco, who came to power in 2017.
In February, Angolan Sherlocks froze the assets of Zenu’s billionaire half-sister Isabel dos Santos.
She is being probed for a long list of crimes in Angola, including mismanagement, embezzlement and money laundering during her stewardship of the state-run oil giant Sonangol.
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Hail Zenu! Your Galactic Confederacy subjects await implanting.
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] The director of Bamerni district, Hamid Zubair district, north of Duhok governorate, said that the bombing targeted a car carrying PKK members in the Araden, east of the district, killing two and wounding another seriously.
This attack comes after 4 PKK fighters were killed on Thursday by Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting a vehicle about 20 km from Duhok in Kurdistan Region.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... has regularly attacked Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) murderous Moslems, both in its mainly Kurdish southeast and in northern Iraq, where the group is based. In June, Ankara launched a new ground offensive, dubbed Operation Claw Tiger that saw Ottoman Turkish troops advance deeper into Iraq.
Iraq’s foreign ministry then said Baghdad canceled a visit by Turkey’s defense minister to the country and summoned the Ottoman Turkish ambassador to inform him of "Iraq’s confirmed rejection of his country’s attacks and violations".
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Scoop: Postal workers union National Association of Letter Carriers endorses Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, assailing the Trump administration's actions and warning that the "survival" of the USPS is at stake. https://t.co/5aeEFDGaZD
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Government should recommend that mail-in ballots be delivered in person to the ballot boxes on election day if you want to ensure your vote is counted.
Also - Wear a mask to the polls, bring a drivers license or other proof of identity tell the black men with machetes that you voted D if you need to to get by them to cast your vote. Vote more than once, no matter how many houses in the US you own and you will go to prison for election fraud.
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During the 1997 UPS strike, I had the joyful occasion to go to our local Post Office to get a package delivered. There was a fair sized line at the counter (with only one of four employee stations open at 9:30 in the morning).
A guy at the counter was grumbling a bit and the Postal worker said "I'll bet you're glad that you have the US Post Office, then."
He replied "Lady, if it wasn't for the Post Office, there'd be no UPS."
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[NYPOST] President Trump on Thursday predicted that far-left Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez would mount a challenge against Sen. Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 44.69181 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... — and defeat him.
"Schumer’s going to get beaten by her. She’s going to run against Schumer, and he knows that and he’s going to get beaten by her unless you can talk her out of doing it. He has no chance," Trump said on "Fox News Business."
"Chuck Schumer will be, in my opinion. AOC will run against Chuck Schumer for the Senate. Yeah, I mean, I think. And I think she’ll win," the president said.
The 30-year-old Democratic socialist is running for her congressional seat this November after defeating a challenger in the June primary.
Schumer, 69, the Senate minority leader, was elected to his fourth six-year term in 2016.
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Good move by Trump to make Schumer and AOC start pushing each other’s buttons while New York is drowning.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Grayson County Commonwealth’s Attorney Brandon Boyles is demanding an investigation into the Virginia Parole Board’s decision to release another convicted murderer, despite documents showing his office received proper notification.
The request for investigation comes about a week after the public was made aware of an Office of the State Inspector General report that found that the parole board broke the law when releasing a different prisoner convicted of murder, Vincent Martin.
The report said the board did not properly notify the Commonwealth’s Attorney in the case, did not "endeavor diligently" to seek comments from the victim’s family and only sought testimony that would provide evidence for Martin’s release. The board has denied these allegations.
Boyles told The Center Square on Thursday he is concerned the parole board also may have broken laws and protocol in a case involving the release of Robert Dwayne Godfrey, leading him to request an investigation from OSIG.
Godfrey pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in 1994 in the death of Albert Haywood Hamilton Sr.
Boyles' initial complaint claimed said he had not received proper notification from the board. The parole board, however, provided The Center Square on Thursday with a receipt of the notification letter signed by Boyles' secretary. Boyles said the signature looks authentic, but his secretary does not recall the letter and he was not made aware of the letter.
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They should have to spend the first month of release with a Parole Board member's family. Cozy
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Parole board probably all appointed. Politically upstream of prosecutor. Good luck.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Illinois state politician suspected of wearing a wire as part of a federal corruption investigation has resigned from a state ethics commission after he was charged with tax evasion.
State Sen. Terry Link, D-Indian Creek, was indicted on federal tax evasion charges Thursday for taxes owed from 2016, according to a charging document filed in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
Link could not immediately be reached for comment.
"[Senate] President [Don] Harmon has accepted Senator Link’s resignation as a member of the Legislative Ethics Commission," said John Patterson, a spokesperson for Harmon.
Link filed a tax return for the calendar year 2016 that stated income of $264,450 even though he knew his total income substantially exceeded that amount, according to a one-page criminal information document filed in federal court.
Prosecutors often charge defendants using an information document if they expect a guilty plea.
Link last year denied he was the politician who wore a wire for federal prosecutors that led prosecutors to file bribery charges against former state Rep. Luis Arroyo in 2019.
"Stick in there, fight, do whatever, and so they're not mad at me," Link told news hounds asking about the wire last year. "I don’t represent you. I represent them. ... You know I’ve been around for a long time. I know how people like to twist my words."
Arroyo resigned after being charged.
A footnote in the charging documents against Arroyo identified the unnamed state senator who agreed to wear a wire as "Cooperating Witness 1." It also noted the senator had been working with the FBI until Nov. 3, 2016.
At that point, he was "closed as a source" because FBI agents learned he had filed false income tax returns.
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[Breitbart] Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s government will buy $1 billion worth of missiles from the U.S. — the largest arms deal ever between the two countries.
U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Cornstein signed a memorandum alongside Hungarian Defence Minister Tibor Benko this week to purchase medium-range AMRAAM missiles. The armaments are manufactured by the U.S. arms giant Raytheon, which states the advanced weapons can be deployed in air-to-air or surface-to-air roles.
According to the U.S. ambassador, the missiles will replace existing systems that have seen service since Hungary was still under the yoke of the former communist regime, Kronen Zeitung reports.
In recent years, Prime Minister Orbán has enjoyed a good relationship with President Donald J. Trump, who has praised Orbán for the Hungarian leader’s stance against mass migration.
President Trump had stated: "Viktor Orbán has done a tremendous job in so many different ways. He’s highly respected, respected all over Europe."
"Probably like me a little bit controversial, but that’s OK. That’s OK. You’ve done a good job. And you’ve kept your country safe," Trump said after the two leaders met in Washington DC.
Orbán also praised the U.S. President, saying: "Today, there is a different, more ambitious leadership."
Prime Minister Orbán added that President Trump "knew everything about Hungary that he had to, and his goal was to establish good co-operation between Hungary and the United States".
Relations between the two countries have not always been smooth, however, with the Hungarian government complaining in 2017 that "the Obama-era State Department elite" had damaged U.S.-Hungary relations by seeking to undermine Budapest’s pursuit of anti-mass migration, pro-family policies.
Even after President Trump’s inauguration the State Department was allocating hundreds of thousands of U.S. taxpayer dollars to support what it described as "objective media" in Hungary — foreign interference on behalf of the opposition, in the Hungarian government’s eyes — with former U.S. ambassador Faith Whittlesey denouncing the scheme as an attack on "a good NATO ally and a robust democracy" by globalist bureaucrats who disliked Orbán’s politics in an article for Breitbart.
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The FMS missile portion is: The US State Department has approved Hungary’s request to buy 60 AIM-120C-7/C-8 AMRAAM-ER missiles, two spare AIM-120C-7/C-8 AMRAAM-ER guidance sections and related equipment from Raytheon for $230 million.
AMRAAM-ER is ground launched. The rest will be split between US and Norwegian contractors for the NASAMS system.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Justice Department announced the seizure of terrorism-related cryptocurrency on Thursday following the successful takedown of cyber-enabled finance networks operated by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,’s al Qassam Brigades, and al Qaeda.
"These three terror finance campaigns all relied on sophisticated cyber-tools, including the solicitation of cryptocurrency donations from around the world," the Justice Department said in a statement. "The action demonstrates how different terrorist groups have similarly adapted their terror finance activities to the cyber age. Each group used cryptocurrency and social media to garner attention and raise funds for their terror campaigns. Pursuant to judicially-authorized warrants, U.S. authorities seized millions of dollars, over 300 cryptocurrency accounts, four websites, and four Facebook pages all related to the criminal enterprise."
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For more than 20 years Dept of Treasury has done more than any other element of government to attack terrorist organizations. Unlike the obvious intelligence agencies and units it has done so quietly and without much fanfare.
[Al Ahram] Metropolitan Pavel, the head of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, on Friday called on President Alexander Lukashenko to bring an end to violence on the streets following contested presidential elections last week, the TASS news agency reported.
His comments came after the Belarusian leadership began releasing thousands of detained protesters and issued a rare public apology in an effort to quell nationwide street protests that pose the biggest challenge to Lukashenko's 26-year rule.
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At least three people died during protests in Ivory Coast on Thursday, police said, as small groups burned makeshift roadblocks in protests against President Alassane Ouattara’s decision to stand for a third term.
The West African nation has seen a number of scattered protests since Ouattara announced last week he would run in the Oct. 31 election, with the opposition accusing him of violating term limits.
Protesters in the southeastern town of Bonoua set fire to a police station after a young man died during a protest there on Thursday, police spokesman Bleu Charlemagne said in a statement on the state TV channel RTI.
He did not explain how the others died.
A video circulating on social media showed Bonoua’s police commissioner covered in blood as a crowd rescued him from the burning police headquarters.
Police arrested 58 people across the country, Charlemagne said.
The executive director of Ouattara’s party, Adama Bictogo, defended Ouattara’s decision to run again, saying: “For us, the debate is closed.”
[THEFEDERALIST] A top FBI lawyer who fabricated evidence in a federal spy warrant against Trump campaign affiliate Carter Page is expected to plead guilty to federal charges brought by U.S. Attorney John Durham. Kevin Clinesmith, who is expected to admit to deliberately fabricating evidence in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant application, used to spy on a former campaign affiliate of President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... , was a top attorney in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) and a key agency attorney under fired former FBI Director JamesThe spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI... Clinesmith is the first individual to be charged as part of U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the efforts in 2016 and 2017 to spy on the Trump campaign and Trump administration. Both Durham and Attorney General William Barr stated at the conclusion of the OIG investigation of the Page FISA warrants that they had reason to believe the entire investigation of Trump, which allegedly began in late July of 2016, was not legally predicated. Durham was tapped by Barr in May of 2019 to investigate the Russian collusion hoax and determine whether any criminal charges against those who perpetrated it were warranted.
Clinesmith’s deliberate falsification of a federal spy warrant was first revealed last December following a lengthy investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), headed by Michael Horowitz. Horowitz and his team wrote in a 434-page report that Clinesmith — identified in the report as "OGC Attorney" — altered an email from a separate U.S. federal agency, believed to be the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to falsely state that Page had never worked with the CIA to investigate suspected Russia agents operating within the U.S. In fact, as Clinesmith was told by the operative, Page had worked with the CIA previously, as well as with the FBI.
According to the OIG report, Clinesmith "[o]mitted Page’s prior relationship with another U.S. government agency, despite being reminded by the other agency in June 2017, prior to the filing of the final [FISA warrant] renewal application, about Page’s past status with that other agency."
"Instead of including this information in the final renewal application," the OIG report stated, Clinesmith "altered an email from the other agency so that the email stated that Page was ’not a source’ for the other agency, which the FBI affiant relied upon in signing the final renewal application."
Doesn't post? start looking for the obvious issues. Your post is still on your clipboard so you don't need to type it again.
Live > and learn.
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Dirty trick:
After your post fails to publish, back arrow on you browser and it's probably still in the edit box.
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That all perhaps sounds good in theory but that isn't reality at all and is a bit absurd to do for every post, Weblog entry, and e-mail in the world. Effective, yes; practical/sane, hardly.
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Sorry, Clem. I was guarding my work when computers hung up a couple times an hour. CTRL-S is a tic to me.
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I grew up typing and re-typing stuff on typewriters. When I learned ho to protect my effort on a green screen editing program I never looked back.
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And, no, I never had to use EMACS. Not sorry about that.
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Nevermind I'll just post one fraking link
I discovered the hard way that comments here are limited to two links. More than two links triggers Rantburg’s anti-spam protections. Posted articles can have more links, but I’ve gotten lazy over the years and let our readers go to the original article for most of those.
And that back arrow trick has saved the situation for me more often than I can count.
Unsurprisingly, Iranian regime apologists in the West are celebrating the UNSC vote to reject an extension of the arms embargo on Iran's @khamenei_ir regime. Worth recalling that Iran's regime has used its military to aid Assad's regime wipe out over 500,000 Syrians.
[Radio Free Asia] A public toilet has been erected on the site of a demolished mosque in Atush (in Chinese, Atushi) city, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to a local official, as part of what some observers believe is a campaign aimed at breaking the spirit of Uyghur Muslims.
Reports of the construction of the restroom on the former site of the Tokul mosque in Atush’s Suntagh village come days after RFA’s Uyghur Service learned that authorities had razed two of three mosques there in carrying out a directive to destroy Muslim places of worship en masse that was launched in late 2016, known as “Mosque Rectification.”
The Mosque Rectification drive, part of a series of hardline policies under top leader Xi Jinping, predates the mass incarceration of as many as 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in a vast network of internment camps in the XUAR that began in April 2017.
RFA recently conducted a telephone interview with a Uyghur neighborhood committee chief from Suntagh village in Atush, a county-level city of about 270,000 people under the administration of Kashgar prefecture in the cotton- and grape-growing region of southwestern XUAR.
The committee chief, who spoke on condition of anonymity citing fear of reprisal, told RFA that Tokul mosque was torn down in 2018 and that a lavatory had been built in its place by “Han [Chinese] comrades.”
“It’s a public toilet … they haven’t opened it yet, but it’s built,” he said.
“People have toilets at home, so there weren’t any problems like that,” he added, when asked if there had been a need for the public toilet in the local community.
The committee chief said that with Suntagh located about three kilometers (1.85 miles) outside of central Atush, the area sees few to no tourists who would require access to a washroom.
He conceded that the toilet was likely built to cover up the ruins of the destroyed Tokul mosque, as well as for the needs of inspecting groups or cadres visiting the area.
The chief said it was unclear how many people the restroom was built to accommodate.
“It’s still closed, so I haven’t even been inside,” he said.
Another resident of Suntagh, who also declined to be named, said that one of the two mosques in the village RFA recently learned were torn down in or around the autumn of 2019—Azna mosque—had been replaced with “a convenience store” that sells alcohol and cigarettes, the use of which is frowned upon in Islam.
Earlier, a public security officer in Suntagh confirmed that Azna mosque and Bastaggam mosque had been destroyed, while the mosque authorities left standing—Teres mosque—was the smallest and in the poorest condition of all three.
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"Public Toilet Erected on Former Site of Razed Church"?
You mean like when the Palis in 2002 invaded the Church of the Nativity (Jeezus wuz born heer) to hide from the Israeli army, took hostages, killed a few, stole the valuables, defiled the icons, destroyed church property and used the altar as a toilet?
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] Flooding caused by weeks of unusually heavy monsoon rains has killed at least 22 people in North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... , with four others missing, and even approached the country’s main nuclear reactor, but leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... says he is too worried about 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... to accept outside help.
The International Federation of the Red Thingy said the floods have left 26 people dead or missing, citing the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Red Thingy and the country’s State Committee for Emergency and Disaster Management.
The disaster adds to an already troubling humanitarian situation in North Korea, whose weak economy has been further battered by the coronavirus pandemic.
The official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said at least 16,680 houses and 630 public buildings have been destroyed or flooded during the monsoon, with nearly 100,000 acres of crops damaged and many roads, bridges and railway tracks broken. A dam at a power station also gave way, it said.
The floodwaters approached the Yongbyon nuclear complex last week, reaching the bases of two pump houses designed to cool the country’s main nuclear reactor, according to the 38 North website, citing satellite imagery.
The floodwaters have receded somewhat and pose "no imminent danger," since the main reactor apparently has not been operating for some time and a nearby experimental light water reactor has yet to come online, said Jenny Town, deputy director of 38 North, part of the Stimson Center.
"In the long run, though, it exposes a vulnerability of the reactors to extreme weather events such as floods," she wrote in an email, noting that North Korea has been working on building an embankment and dam along the Kuryong River to offer better protection.
"But this year, the river level is usually high," she added. "If this were to happen when a reactor was running, it could cause problems in the cooling systems that would necessitate the reactors to be shut down."
The floods have inflicted damage throughout the Korean Peninsula. In South Korea, weeks of rains have left 42 people dead or missing and more than 7,800 displaced, according to official estimates cited by the Yonhap News Agency. Provisional heavy-rain alerts were issued Friday for six cities and provinces, including Seoul, with more than 12 inches of rain forecast for some areas, KBS reported.
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[NATION.PK] Russia on Friday called for an urgent meeting of world leaders to "avoid confrontation and aggravation" over the Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... nuclear deal.
President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... stressed the need for a video conference of the heads of the UN Security Council’s (UNSC) permanent member states, along with the leaders of Iran and Germany.
"The goal is to outline steps to avoid confrontation and aggravation of the situation in the UN Security Council regarding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)," read a statement released by the Kremlin.
He explained that the urgency for the meeting was due to rising tensions around the Iran issue in the UNSC, saying "baseless accusations" were being voiced against Iran and "draft resolutions aimed at destroying previous unanimous decisions of the Security Council" were being developed.
Putin said the signing of the JCPOA in 2015 was a major political and diplomatic achievement, which made it possible to avert the threat of armed conflict and strengthened the nuclear non-proliferation regime.
He emphasized that Russia remains "fully committed" to the deal.
"In this region, as in any other part of the world, there should be no place for blackmail and dictate from anyone. Unilateral approaches to finding solutions do not help," said Putin.
"When building a complete security structure in the Persian Gulf zone, it is important to preserve the positive "baggage" that we managed to accumulate earlier at the cost of considerable efforts."
He said any problems could be resolved if all sides "approach each other's positions with due attention and responsibility, act respectfully and collectively."
The Russian president stressed the importance of preserving the JCPOA, warning of higher risks of conflict if the deal falls through.
"We also suggest that during the meeting of the leaders, they agree on the parameters for joint work in order to promote the formation of reliable security and confidence-building mechanisms in the Persian Gulf region," read the statement.
"This can be achieved if we combine the political will and creative energy of all our countries and countries in the region."
Signed between Iran and P5+1 countries — the US, UK, La Belle France, China, Russia, and Germany — the JCPOA curbed Iran’s nuclear activities in return for lifting of sanctions.
The US withdrew from the agreement in May 2018, sparking gradual cutting of obligations by Iran, who accused European signatories of delaying implementation of their responsibilities under the deal.
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This popular antifa account says the goal of the riots in Portland is to exhaust police physically & financially until they are no longer able to function. The long thread goes on to say that provoking a response is intentional for propaganda purposes & to radicalize public. pic.twitter.com/PHrjRlpk2B
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And since the DA has said he's not going to prosecute the bulk of the rioters, the cops really aren't going to knock themselves out arresting them, so cross-purposes.
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So who is going to protect ANTIFA If the police aren't there ?
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The Militia is armed precisely to deal with threats that overcome the power of government to protect the citizens of our Republic. Seems these anarchists and Marxist leaders are setting the useful idiots up to experience the awakening of a much abused populace. Someone should remind the complicit and corrupt local officials that once rebellion is put down, lampposts aplenty fill the public spaces around the centers of local government.
[Al Ahram] Militants attacked a police team in 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.... on Friday, killing two officers and wounding one despite tight security in the disputed Moslem-majority region ahead of India's Independence Day.
A group of Lions of Islam opened fire on the police team that was on duty in the Nowgam area of Srinagar city, the chief of police in Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, told Rooters.
"We had inputs that Lions of Islam may carry out attack and were alert," said Kumar. "They came through a narrow lane and fired indiscriminately."
He said the Lions of Islam had been identified and vowed to "neutralize them" soon. The area had been cordoned off searches were going on, he said.
The attack comes days after the first anniversary of the revocation of Kashmir's constitutional autonomy, a reform the Indian government said would promote the region's development by drawing it closer to the rest of the country.
But many people in Kashmir saw the loss of special autonomy as another step in the erosion of the rights of Moslems by the Hindu-nationalist government. The government rejects that.
Kashmir has been disputed by India and neighbouring Pakistain since the end of British colonial rule in 1947. Both countries claim it in full but rule it in part.
More than 50,000 people have been killed in more than three decades of insurgency in Kashmir that India accuses Pakistain of fuelling by supporting Moslem hard boy groups fighting India's security forces in its part of the divided region.
Pakistain says it only offers political support to its fellow Moslems in the Himalayan region.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The grieving mother of a 5-year-old who was shot to death in front of his sisters says she hopes the suspected killer will "rot in hell."
"This man will answer to me," Bonny Waddell, mother of Cannon Hinnant, who was killed as he played outside Sunday, wrote on Facebook this week. "That man will see me and my son through my face! This sorry excuse as a human being will rot in hell."
"My heart has been taken from me," she added.
The boy was riding his bike outside when police say his neighbor Darius Sessoms ran up and shot him in the head at point-blank range before fleeing back into his home.
Sessoms, 25, was eventually identified by eyewitnesses before being arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Police have not released a statement about a possible motive for the killing.
The boy’s family and friends gathered at his funeral Thursday and spoke out about his life and how his tragic death has affected them.
"He meant the world to me, just like all the other kids that are mine I helped raise," said Lee Parker, the boy's stepfather. "It'll never be behind us. He'll always be with us, but we're going to get through it."
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Tragic photoshop from the Turkish media @stargazete
They claimed that after the collision the Greek frigate "Limnos" suffered huge damage and returned to the shipyards for repair while the Turkish frigate Kemal Reis suffered nothing.
Zachary Greenberg, the far-left militant who punched a conservative activist at UC Berkeley last year, has now been arrested for allegedly stabbing a person multiple times on the street. https://t.co/3Y5Uhinulo
Zachary Greenberg, 30, allegedly stabbed a man riding his bike on the sidewalk in Princeton, California on Sunday.
The suspect is reported to be the same man who was arrested for assaulting a conservative activist last year.
A mugshot provided to Campus Reform by the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office appears to be the same man who was arrested last year for punching former Leadership Institute Field Representative Hayden Williams in the face while he was at the University of California-Berkeley helping conservative students recruit members for their Turning Point USA chapter.
We facilitate daily peaceful demonstrations in DC. Overnight, intentional fires were set & property destroyed. When this occurs, our members have a responsibility to take action.
At this time, 41 individuals were arrested for Felony Rioting & Assault on Police Officer offenses. pic.twitter.com/GbpWxYMjXm
9th confirmed #R9X strike (chronologically the 2nd) was on 8/28/2018 and killed Walid Bu Hariba, the #IS commander of #Sirte, outside of Bani Walid, #Libya. He was alone.
#9
That lower picture ought to give some of these jihadis reason to pause.
Some pretty meaty chunks there! It's one thing to go out in a big blast of glorious Islamic martyrdom and quite another to be chopped into chunks like a carcass at the butcher's.
I'm a big fan of Earth-shattering kabooms, but I'm cool with having my enemies sliced and diced by flying missile-swords.
[RADIOSHABELLE] At least 10 people were killed and five others were maimed in fighting between al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... and armed residents in Somalia’s central region of Mudug, witnesses and officials said.The fighting started Wednesday after heavily-armed al-Shabaab turbans, who control parts of the region, tried to impose taxes on the residents of Shabellow village. It’s about 20 kilometers west of the Ba’ad weyn district, a base for the 21st division of the Somali National Army.
"Heavily-armed al-Shabaab members first asked us to pass through our village, but in fact we found out they wanted to seize our village and we confronted them," the head of the village, Mohammed Ibrahim, told VOA by phone.
Ibrahim said eight of the residents and a number of al-Shabaab forces of Evil were killed in the fighting.
"They [al-Shabaab] killed eight civilians, including elders who could not run away, and women, and I saw the dead bodies of six of al-Shabaab fighters," Ibrahim said.
Residents said the forces of Evil briefly took control of the village and burned houses and businesses.
Al-Shabaab forces of Evil have grabbed credit of the attack, describing the village as a Somali military base, a claim denied by residents.
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NEW: On Friday morning, Seattle police cleared Cal Anderson Park where protesters had occupied a small rental shelter for several days to hand out food and clothing to people living homeless in the park. (Via @heidigroover & @sydbrownstone) https://t.co/Eouq36inRU
BLM and antifa hold another street protest in Seattle. Meanwhile, Chicago BLM is organizing protests in support of looters arrested last weekend, calling it “reparations.” #BlackLivesMatterpic.twitter.com/5ebKtJHLP6
[Al Ahram] Only the Lebanese people and their representatives can decide the country's future, Iran's foreign minister said on a visit to Beirut on Friday, following the massive blast at the city's port that killed 172 people and prompted the government to resign.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... backs Leb
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How terribly bold and original, to be sure. How fortunate for the parties involved that they’ve no need of your advice or your approval... nor does that part of the Ummah which sees the wisdom of what they do.
[NATION.PK] Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Senator Siraj ul-Haq has demanded the government to summon OIC session and stress upon UAE to review the move of establishing diplomatic relations with Israel.
In his statement Siraj ul Haq has stated that the Moslem Ummah should be saved from division; adding, that Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... has backed the formation of ties between the two countries for his win in next elections.
He maintained that Donald Trump must remember that Moslem Ummah and Paleostinians would never give up their struggle for Paleostinian cause.
He claimed that the people of Pakistain and the entire Moslem Ummah reject the diplomatic ties between the two nations.
He elaborated that the formation of diplomatic ties between UAE and Israel was a tragedy for all the Moslems around the world and especially for the Arab people.
#8
Apparently we have an answer to the age old parental question of 'if everybody else jumped off a cliff would you do it too?'. For some segment of the population the answer is Yes, or perhaps YES!
And what's with that admin of this crate of dim bulbs masquerading as a web group? They don't want to call him an idiot since he's learned his lesson? Oh, obviously.
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.
[WION] To date, no one has stated the urgent universal need to aggressively investigate the true origin of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19, better than Karl and Dan Sirotkin in their August 12, 2020 article "Might SARS‐CoV‐2 Have Arisen via Serial Passage through an Animal Host or Cell Culture?"
[Breitbart] Giant tech corporations have joined a Chamber of Commerce lawsuit that seeks to overturn President Trump’s executive order halting visa programs to prioritize unemployed Americans for scarcely available jobs.
"It's Not Personal....." 
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
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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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...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 44.69181 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Illinois state 
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Justice Department announced the seizure of terrorism-related cryptocurrency on Thursday following the successful takedown of cyber-enabled finance networks operated by the 
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A public toilet has been erected on the site of a demolished mosque in Atush (in Chinese, Atushi) city, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to a local official, as part of what some observers believe is a campaign aimed at breaking the spirit of Uyghur Muslims.
...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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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The grieving mother of a 5-year-old who was shot to death in front of his sisters says she hopes the suspected killer will "rot in hell."
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
