[AsiaTimes] Beijing, Moscow are working overtime to scrub the Taliban's 'terrorist' label and endorse it as a legitimate political movement
The first Taliban press conference after last weekend’s Saigon moment geopolitical earthquake, conducted by spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, was in itself a game-changer.
The contrast could not be starker with those rambling pressers at the Taliban embassy in Islamabad after 9/11 and before the start of the American bombing — proving this incarnation of the Taliban is an entirely new political animal.
Yet some things never change. English translations remain atrocious. Here is a good summary of the key Taliban statements. These are the key takeaways:
— No problem for women to get an education all the way to college and to continue to work. They just need to wear the hijab, like in Qatar or Iran. No need to wear a burqa. The Taliban insist "all women’s rights will be guaranteed within the limits of Islamic law."
— The Islamic Emirate "does not threaten anyone" and will not treat anyone as enemies. Crucially, revenge — an essential plank of the Pashtunwali code — will be abandoned, and that’s unprecedented. There will be a general amnesty, including people who worked for the former NATO-aligned system. Translators, for instance, won’t be harassed and don’t need to leave the country.
— The security of foreign embassies and international organizations "is a priority." Taliban special security forces will protect both those leaving Afghanistan and those who remain.
— A strong inclusive Islamic government will be formed. "Inclusive" is code for the participation of women and Shiites.
— Foreign media will continue to work undisturbed. The Taliban government will allow public criticism and debate. But "freedom of speech in Afghanistan must be in line with Islamic values."
— The Islamic Emirate of Taliban wants recognition from the "international community" — code for NATO. The overwhelming majority of Eurasia and the Global South will recognize it anyway.
It’s essential to note, for example, the closer integration of the expanding Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) — Iran is about to become a full member, Afghanistan is an observer — with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
The absolute majority of Asia will not shun the Taliban.
For the record, the Taliban also stated that it took all of Afghanistan in only 11 days: that’s pretty accurate. They stressed "very good relations with Pakistan, Russia and China."
Yet the Taliban don’t have formal allies and are not part of any military-political bloc. They definitely "won’t allow Afghanistan to become a safe haven for international terrorists." That’s code for ISIS/Daesh.
On the key issue of opium and heroin, the Taliban say they will ban its production.
As eyebrow-raising as these statements may be, the Taliban did not even get into detail on economic and infrastructure development deals — as they will need a lot of new industries, new jobs and improved Eurasian-wide trade relations. That will likely be announced later.
What this first press conference reveals is how the Taliban are fast-absorbing essential PR and media lessons from Moscow and Beijing, emphasizing ethnic harmony, the role of women, the role of diplomacy and deftly defusing in a single move all the hysteria raging across NATOstan.
The next bombshell step in the PR wars will be to cut off the lethal, evidence-free Taliban-9/11 connection;
Evidence-free? His memory is worse than mine.
thereafter the "terrorist organization" label will disappear and the Taliban as a political movement will be fully legitimized.
Moscow and Beijing are meticulously stage-managing the Taliban’s reinsertion in regional and global geopolitics. This means that the SCO is stage-managing the whole process: Russia and China are applying consensual decisions that have been taken in SCO meetings.
The key player the Taliban are talking to is Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s special presidential envoy for Afghanistan.
Of course they are. Diplomats talk to the government, no matter how disreputable that government might be.
In yet another debunking of the NATOstan narrative, Kabulov confirmed, for instance, "we see no direct threat to our allies in Central Asia. There are no facts proving otherwise."
Which is why Russia is just finishing practice maneuvers in the Afghan border.
The Beltway will be stunned to learn that Zabulov has also revealed: "we have long been in talks with the Taliban on the prospects for development after their capture of power and they have repeatedly confirmed that they have no extraterritorial ambition, they learned the lessons of 2000."
Despite those reassurances, they’ve also recently spoken about expanding Islam to the rest of the world. Which one is true?
Zabulov reveals plenty of nuggets when it comes to Taliban diplomacy: "If we compare the negotiability of colleagues and partners, the Taliban have long seemed to me much more negotiable than the puppet Kabul government. We proceed from the premise that the agreements must be implemented. So far, with regard to the security of the embassy and the security of our allies in Central Asia, the Taliban have respected the agreements."
These contacts were established "over the past seven years."
Faithful to its adherence to international law, and not the "rules-based international order," Moscow is always keen to emphasize the responsibility of the UN Security Council: "We must make sure that the new government is ready to behave conditionally, as we say, in a civilized manner. That’s when this point of view becomes common to all, then the procedure [of removing the qualification of the Taliban as a terrorist organization] will begin."
So while the US/EU/NATO flee Kabul in spasms of self-inflicted panic, Moscow is practicing diplomacy. Zabulov adds: "That we have prepared the ground for a conversation with the new government in Afghanistan in advance is an asset of Russian foreign policy."
Meanwhile, Dmitry Zhirnov, Russia’s ambassador to Afghanistan, is working overtime with the Taliban including a meeting with a senior Taliban security official on Tuesday. The meeting was "positive, constructive ... The Taliban movement has the most friendly; the best policy towards Russia ... He arrived alone in one vehicle, with no guards."
Both Moscow and Beijing have no illusions that the West is already deploying hybrid war tactics to discredit and destabilize a government that isn’t even formed yet and hasn’t even started working. No wonder Chinese media is describing Washington as a "strategic rogue."
What matters is that Russia and China are way ahead of the curve, cultivating parallel inside tracks of diplomatic dialogue with the Taliban. It’s crucial to remember that Russia harbors 20 million Muslims and China at least 35 million. These will be called to support the immense project of Afghan reconstruction and full Eurasia reintegration.
Chechens and Uighurs? Pull the other one, that has bells on it!
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And don't take it as a slight, Thing. I read a lot of crap too. You have to if you want a sorting setup.
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I usually don't like Escobar but watching everyone fall from the skies or get washed out of the wheel wells kinda indicates that things have gotten too out of hand. And I think our rulers are basically senile insane psychopaths owned by China/Russia anyway so this development makes sense to me.
[TheWeek] BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has been warning about the implications of a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and in particular its impact on India for months.
With the Taliban firmly establishing control over Kabul on Sunday and announcing there would not be a transitional government, part of Swamy's prediction has come true.
On Monday, Swamy warned the Taliban would gang up with China and Pakistan to attack India in a year's time. Swamy tweeted, "Taliban the first year will have as leaders of Afghanistan govt those who are with feigned moderate views. In the meantime, the Provincial leaders will be the genuine brutal Taliban hard liners. After a year, Afghanistan secured, Taliban, Pakistan, and China will attack India."
Various anti-Taliban groups in Afghanistan have been alleging Pakistan was backing the Taliban in its ongoing campaign of conquest.
Swamy had on Sunday claimed India should open its doors to all "anti-Taliban" forces to help set up an "Afghan Govt in Exile" and even "militarily move" to recover Afghanistan. Swamy had tweeted, "Now India must open its doors to all anti Taliban anti Pak Afghans to come to India and help set up a Afghan Govt in Exile so that when India recaptures PoK we will get back India's original border with Afghanistan. Then we can militarily move to recover Afghanistan."
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Agreed. This will happen while the chicoms invade Taiwan. The Paks will try to occupy Kashmir as part of its strategic deception during the chicom invasion
"We're working with the Taliban" and "Trumpsters are literally Taliban" isn't cutting it. In fact it is actually turning people in to how bad Afghan Bail has been.
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You can now Wonder, which group or individual of the 5th Column, that Joe let into the un-united states in America since taking office (1 Million plus suspects), planted the potential explosive.
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The Left - Pelosi - FBI - DHS - will have a Field Day with this - 1/6/2021 Insurrectionists - Right Wing Extremists - Bang Bang anyone on the Right will Hang !
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This is the reason Bite-one is staying in Delaware. The other is that he is taking a new anti-Alzheimer treatment that requires 16 hours of sleep, daily!
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I enjoyed country drives before covid, now i feel like I'm driving through Hatfield & McCoy territories...
anyone else or is it just me ?
CDR ^ don't forget the additional part of the treatment requires 32 hours in a pressurized hyperbolic chamber - so 5 hours for the pressurizations & 15 hours for depressurizations
now you know why Joe's vacations are 10-14 days apart, in his Delaware home (location of the basement chamber) with no "open record" of who visits there.
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I still enjoy country drives and Trump 2020 signs are still up. These are the type of people I grew up with. Bale hay, garden and can, slaughter or sell your animals, FFA and mountain oysters.
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Someone that said he worked for the Eff Bee Eye?
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Someone that said he worked for the Eff Bee Eye?
It would be beyond hilarious if he was hooked up with that crew the Feebs put together to kidnap MI Gov Gretchen Whitmer and set her adrift in Lake Michigan. If so, I would expect a "suicide by cop" real soon.
[JustTheNews] Judge intervenes in dispute between the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.
A federal judge in Louisiana has issued a temporary restraining order preventing Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine from mandating COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of student enrollment.
The decision is the latest development in a dispute involving several students, the private medical college operating at the University of Louisiana-Monroe and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.
Landry actively opposes vaccine mandates, while VCOM asserts its mandatory vaccination policy is critical to keeping students, staff and patients safe.
“Even during a pandemic, we must protect the rights of our citizens,” Landry said immediately after the ruling. “I'm pleased with the court’s decision and glad these students can focus on what's important; their education.”
Landry first approached the school when three students said they were retaliated against for refusing COVID-19 vaccinations.
“These complaints have included recordings of conversations with VCOM staff engaging in harassing and coercive conduct targeting students who have exercised their right to opt-out of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine,” Landry said in July.
The school rejected accusations of wrongdoing and maintains it has acted appropriately regarding health and legal obligations.
“The intention of VCOM’s coronavirus vaccine policy, is and always has been the safety of our students, the safety of our employees and workplace, as well as the safety of the patients being cared for by our students, faculty and staff,” VCOM said in an emailed statement.
The school granted the students religious exemptions after they filed a federal lawsuit, along with the attorney general, Aug. 4. Landry later backed out after Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana questioned the state’s standing.
The students continued their lawsuit, in part, because of restrictions that came with the religious exemptions, such as required vaccine education trainings, a prohibition on activities involving patients and only working with student lab partners who agree to work with unvaccinated students.
“VCOM has responded to the Attorney General’s letters twice by making minor amendments to our policy, but vaccination remains a requirement. This requirement is important as our students become medical providers in their first year,” the school said.
“Physicians and VCOM students, as medical providers, also have no right to be a vector in spreading the virus or infecting the unknowing patients they will care for, who would naturally believe the students would be vaccinated,” VCOM said.
Doughty sided with the students in his Tuesday ruling, saying the restrictions attached to the school’s religious exemptions would cause “irreparable harm” to the students. He added all VCOM students share the same risks outlined by the school’s administration by virtue of being at the University of Louisiana-Monroe.
“Although VCOM has an interest in protecting its students, its students are allowed to attend ULM functions, participate in ULM intramural events, study in the ULM library and mingle with ULM students, who are not required to get the vaccine,” the decision said.
Michael DuBos, the attorney representing the aggrieved VCOM students, said he was happy with the legal outcome.
“We feel it is important to respect individual rights, especially in a time of crisis. If not, it sets a dangerous precedent,” DuBos said.
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I will bet that all the “Americans” are immigrants that worked here till they got their papers and could draw social security. They then went back home. If true the Taliban will not kill them as long as they give their SS to them. If what I surmise is true then plank them. The IRS should start looking into this-Are tax forms sent every year?
[Just the News] Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, is best known as home to the Army’s tank division, the revered Old Ironsides military insignia and the country’s largest military-controlled airspace. But the Biden administration’s botched exit from Afghanistan is turning the vast installation into ground zero for the evacuation of Afghans who spent two decades helping the United States fight the war against terror.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn says the fort is preparing to receive 10,000 Afghan refugees, and military officials have hinted that number could reach much higher.
It’s the second major wave of civilian guests to be hosted at the fort, which began this spring helping the Homeland Security and Health and Human Services Departments to house thousands of unaccompanied minor children who were brought across the border.
The first mission has been plagued by multiple allegations of "poor, unsanitary and otherwise inadequate conditions," child abuse and neglect.
The portable tents set up for the migrants can hold up to 10,000 unaccompanied minors, but at the time of Cornyn’s visit only 2,500 were there, with an average reported stay of seven days.
On Tuesday, Cornyn received briefings at Fort Bliss and said the base was prepared "to take as many as 10,000 of those Afghans who worked alongside their American partners all these many years to try to combat terrorism and make America safe." The Texas Republican serves on both the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees.
Posted at 10:09 REACTION FROM PAKISTAN: GLEE - AND WARNINGS
When the news of Taliban taking over Kabul broke on Pakistani news channels, the responses were mixed.
But most - including some Pakistani politicians and a majority among the religious parties - couldn’t hide their glee that America had “lost”.
Many began pointing to a clip of the late former director-general of Pakistan’s spy agency – called the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) - describing the US withdrawal as “his vision”.
In the May 2014 clip, Hamid Gul, also known as the "Father of the Taliban", can be heard saying that "when history will be written it will be said that ISI defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan with America's help.
“But it will also be added that ISI defeated America (in Afghanistan) with America's help."
Not everyone is overjoyed at developments over the border – and warnings have begun to emerge aimed at those who might hope to pull strings from afar.
Pakistan has long been accused of playing a paradoxical role in Afghanistan. The country has previously been accused by the US, India, and most importantly by its own politicians and activists of using Afghanistan as a "backyard" to provide safe haven for militants to be used against India.
Senator Sherry Rehman, talking to the BBC, said that it would be a mistake for Pakistan to once again see Afghanistan as a “strategic backyard”.
Meanwhile, the former chairperson for Pakistan’s senate committee for human rights, Afrasiab Khattak, has come under fire from the state for his blunt criticism of Pakistan’s previous mistakes.
“Basically [the Taliban] are against the concept of a modern state,” he said. “Unfortunately, they are being supported from the outside.
“And those supporting them will pay a heavy price just the way they did in the past."
Posted at 8:10 'TALIBAN INTENSIFYING HUNT FOR PEOPLE WHO COLLABORATED WITH US AND NATO TROOPS'
A UN document says the Taliban are intensifying their hunt for people who worked for and collaborated with Nato and US forces.
The confidential paper was produced by the Norwegian Centre for Global Analyses, which provides the UN with intelligence information.
“The Taliban are arresting and/or threatening to kill or arrest family members of target individuals unless they surrender themselves to the Taliban,” the document, seen by the BBC said.
It said that those at particular risk were people with positions in the military, police and investigative units.
“The Taliban have been conducting advance mapping of individuals prior to take take-over of all major cities,” it said.
It added that the militants were screening for individuals while permitting some evacuation of foreign personnel from Kabul airport but the situation there remained “chaotic”.
According to the report, the Taliban are recruiting new informer networks to collaborate with the new regime.
Posted at 7:02 PROTESTS ON INDEPENDENCE DAY
National flag-waving Afghans have been seen protesting in several cities on Thursday, which marks the 102nd anniversary of Afghanistan's independence and falls at a time of great uncertainty and upheaval for the country.
One clip shared on social media appears to show a crowd in Kabul chanting "our flag, our identity" about the black, red and green tricolour national flag.
The Reuters news agency, citing witnesses, reports that several people may have been killed at a similar protest on Thursday in Asadabad - either by gunfire or in stampedes the firing triggered.
The reports of casualties come a day after several deaths were also reported at flag-related demonstrations in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
Videos on social media have shown some protesters appearing to remove and replace Taliban flags in places - pocket displays of defiance against the group's swift rise to power.
Posted at 6:46 UK AMBASSADOR PERSONALLY PROCESSING VISAS IN KABUL
The UK's Ambassador in Afghanistan, Sir Laurie Bristow, has remained in Kabul to help the evacuation of remaining Britons and has also been personally processing visa applications at the airport.
He has been praised for putting his own evacuation plans on hold, with people including the leader of the UK's Labour party, Sir Keir Starmer thanking him for staying behind to help.
Sir Laurie, who only took up his position as Ambassador in June, said on Wednesday that his team was working on the basis that they have "days not weeks" to get British nationals and Afghan's who worked with the UK's armed forces to safety.
While several countries have already evacuated their embassy staff, Bristow joined the French and American Ambassadors, who have also remained at Kabul airport.
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“But it will also be added that ISI defeated America (in Afghanistan) with America's help."
Yeah, we gave the Paks billions of dollars every year the whole time we were fighting the Taliban and they no doubt used the money to arm and supply the Taliban so, in effect, we were fighting ourselves. Don't tell me the money went into different buckets. Money is fungible like water. One bucket gets low and you just pour more water into it from another bucket. Our own government gave aid and comfort to the enemy they sent our troops to fight. Isn't that the very definition of treason?
And how do you suppose our military personnel feel knowing that their own government was supplying their enemy?
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Imagine if Trump had similarly cleaned house in 2017...
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The biggest supplier to the Taliban were the Afghan government and military officials stealing and reselling American supplies and weapons.
If our government had evidence of these thefts and did not prosecute then it's just as bad as giving it directly to the Taliban. Either way, sending our troops to fight in those circumstances was criminal.
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And I say the US DoS and even the DoD are riddled with islamophiles and compromised elements who are tolerant of if not inwardly cheering every successive victory of the global jihad; who paper over every major defeat and outrage and are bent upon weakening America. John Brennan anyone?
[Breitbart] The Taliban is killing people in Afghanistan they find with copies of the Bible on their mobile phones, a Christian non-profit denounced on Tuesday.
According to SAT-7, an organization that broadcasts Christian programs to churches and Christians in the Middle East and North Africa, the Taliban is using "spies and informants" to persecute the Christian minority in the country.
"We’re hearing from reliable sources that the Taliban demand people’s phones, and if they find a downloaded Bible on your device, they will kill you immediately," said SAT-7 North America President Dr. Rex Rogers told Religion News Service. "It’s incredibly dangerous right now for Afghans to have anything Christian on their phones. The Taliban have spies and informants everywhere."
Other Christian nonprofits and ministries that specialize in assisting persecuted Christians around the world have been sounding the alarm as well, emphasizing the ruthless nature of Taliban leadership. A Christian contact of one Release International partner described the situation as "dire" in a report published Monday. Release International is a Christian ministry that also assists persecuted Christians around the world.
"Our brothers and sisters in Christ are telling us how afraid they are. In the areas that the Taliban now control girls are not allowed to go to school and women are not allowed to leave their homes without a male companion," said Micah, a name assigned to him to protect his identity.
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Not a crime as far as UN and USDoS are concerned.
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There will be a reckoning, something no human rights laws and no geneva conventions will obstruct. May it come soon and those that would be kings be seen running for their miserable lives.
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A couple of well made movies based on books by local authors to set the flavor of how the Taliban, and others in that part of the world, operate - 'Osama' and 'The Kite Runner'.
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I saw Osama at a film festival in Delhi, I think. Hearbreaking it was. But even in the so called liberal Karzai regime, rural Afghanistan lived the same way.
[UPI] Aug. 19 (UPI) -- For the second straight day, throngs of protesters took to the streets in Afghanistan to show disapproval for the abrupt Taliban takeover, as U.S. President Joe Biden said troops may be kept there until all Americans are safely evacuated.
Officials said that several people involved in the new demonstrations were killed when Taliban fighters opened fire on them in Asadabad, which is located in eastern Afghanistan about 110 miles east of Kabul.
The demonstrators were waving the Afghan national flag while celebrating the country's independence from Britain on Aug. 19, 1919.
Multiple protesters were also killed Wednesday after clashing with Taliban fighters in Jalalabad, Afghanistan's fifth-largest city.
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1) Media lies all the time. They are not qualified to vet lies.
2) Politicians lie all the time. Too many Americans still don't get that.
3) Lies will fester and eventually kill you.
Wake. Up.
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Psychopath President of a Psychopath Bureaucracy, all carefully selected by the Chinese Politbureau with help from the OPM Database.
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Well at least they're not lying dog-faced pony soldiers.
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Pretty sure Me & The Boys + Case Natty Light could come up with a plan in one evening.
Of course, that requires the humility to admit to drinking shit and feeling like asshole the next morning, and likely some unflattering moments in between, but the job would have got done.
So, of course, over 20 years, dedicated and educated brains have worked on this. Pretty sure it would involve Bagram in the last act, not a decision point in the act before.
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“In addition to memory loss and confusion, many people with Alzheimer's disease have trouble sleeping. Now an NIH-funded team of researchers has evidence that the reverse is also true: a chronic lack of sleep may worsen the disease and its associated memory loss.”
[FoxNews] The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit by Attorney General Letitia James against David Elmendorf, the former owner of Bumpy’s Polar Freeze in Schenectady
A former ice cream shop owner in Upstate New York who was accused of calling police and falsely claiming to be threatened by non-violent Black Lives Matter protesters last year was ordered Wednesday to pay them a total of $4,500 for violating their civil rights.
The judge's ruling stemmed from a lawsuit by state Attorney General Letitia James against David Elmendorf, former owner of Bumpy’s Polar Freeze in Bumpy’s Polar Freeze, about 167 miles north of New York City.
Under the ruling, Elmendorf must pay $500 each to nine protesters he harassed, totaling $4,500.
Elmendorf's defense attorney, James Mermigis, said the allegations were "categorically false" and that his client's name was being smeared. Mermigis said Elmendorf was never properly served a summons, so no defense was made in court.
James' lawsuit was the first to rely, in part, on a new law that makes it illegal to submit a false "race-based" police report. The law was passed last year after a White woman called 911 on a Black birdwatcher in New York City’s Central Park and falsely claimed he was threatening her, reports said.
Elmendorf is accused of violating state law by making "multiple armed threats, including death threats, using derogatory racist language, against peaceful Black protestors and made false reports to the police regarding those protestors," the suit alleges.
The protesters went to his business in June 2020 to demonstrate after racist text messages Elmendorf allegedly wrote were shared on social media.
Elmendorf was also accused of calling 911 to falsely report that there were "20 armed protestors who were threatening to shoot him," according to the lawsuit. He allegedly referred to the Black protesters as "savages," the suit added.
"There is zero tolerance for harassment, intimidation, or violence of any kind against anyone in New York," James said. "As this nation continues to be plagued by division and hate, this decision sends a critical and clear message that those who perpetuate racism and discrimination, including filing false, race-based police reports, will be held to the fullest extent of the law."
"This is an important step forward, but our work isn’t over — we will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that every New Yorker feels safe and protected," James added.
Elmendorf is permanently barred from making future threats against people because of their race. He's also barred from brandishing a deadly weapon within 1,000 feet "of any person or group of persons peacefully protesting."
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The law was passed last year after a White woman called 911 on a Black birdwatcher in New York City’s Central Park and falsely claimed he was threatening her
A Lie makes its way around the world before Truth can get its boots laced.
The law was passed last year after a White woman called 911 on a Black birdwatcher in New York City’s Central Park and falsely claimed he was threatening her, reports said.
Ummm...that is the cover, not the reason. IIRC "Birdwatcher" was fuggin with Karen's dog to provoke an incident.
[FoxNews] Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced Wednesday that he's keeping National Guard members at the U.S.-Mexico border for another year, citing an "escalating man-made crisis at the border."
"The Biden-Harris administration has utterly failed to secure the border," said Ducey, in a news release by his office. "It’s clear that this White House has neither the ability nor the desire to address the border disaster — a crisis of their own making."
"Illegal immigrant apprehensions are the highest in two decades. Law enforcement is overwhelmed. The situation is out of control. This situation is the direct result of reckless policies and failed communication by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris," he added.
More than 150 Arizona National Guard members were deployed to the border in April after Ducey, a Republican, issued an emergency declaration in response to the growing migrant crisis that overwhelmed local officials.
Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that 212,672 migrants were encountered at the southern border in July, a 13% increase over the already massive 188,000 migrant encounters in June. In July 2020, there were just 40,929 encounters.
On Friday, Ducey called on Mayorkas to resign following leaked audio that showed the Biden administration official admitting the border crisis was "unsustainable."
The Guard is involved with data analysis, monitoring, and maintaining border cameras, providing logistics and administrative support to local law enforcement, and helping with medical operations at detention centers, according to Ducey's office.
"The brave men and women of the Arizona National Guard are standing in the gaps," Ducey said Wednesday. "Their mission directly contributes to the success of law enforcement officers working to maintain law and order on Arizona’s southern border. I’m grateful to all those who serve our state and are working day and night to keep Arizonans safe."
The operation will be funded with $25 million from the 2022 budget, FOX 10 Phoenix reported.
In April 2018, Ducey sent members of the Guard to help the Border Patrol boost security following a request from then-President Donald Trump.
The last troops on that mission left in November 2020, said Maj. Kyle Key, a Guard spokesman.
[Daily Mail UK] The Badri 313 is reportedly the Talibans special commando unit in Afghanistan
Reports coming out of the country say they are patrolling the streets of Kabul
The Taliban have previously released video and pictures of the unit's soldiers
They are shown as being equipped and armed with modern military hardware
This is rather than the typical Salwar Kameez and AK-47 slung over the shoulder that has become synonymous with farmer-turned-terrorist Taliban fighters
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Too Many Pak Rats running around - We need a MASS Exterminator - I know, WHO can send them all the COVID JABS they need for free, courtesy and with the cooperation of Uncle Joe/SAM - Forced Vaxx, Yeah that's the ticket !!!!
[Breaking Defense OCT 2020] Speaking publicly and in alarming terms about a partisan political issue does not come naturally to retired generals and former senior national security leaders. These public servants, many of them wartime commanders and leaders, are not given to histrionics or hyperbole. So when hundreds (it’s now up to 780) of national security leaders — including 22 retired four-star general officers and five former Defense Secretaries who’ve served in both Republican and Democratic administrations — put their names on a public letter supporting former Vice President Joe Biden’s run for the White House, Breaking Defense contributor James Kitfield interviewed a cross section of them to find out why.
"All of us who spent careers in the military were raised on the notion that you lead by example, and President Trump has been the antithesis of that in dealing with this pandemic," said Charles "Steve" Abbot, former commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet and deputy Homeland Security Adviser. "Instead of taking steps that I would call ’Crisis Management 101,’ President Trump shirked his duty to the nation by failing to provide the central leadership necessary to get our arms around the problem, and he continues to mislead the entire nation about this terrible threat. The result of that failure of leadership was that his administration committed an unrelenting string of missteps, and the American public has lost trust in what the president tells them."
The final straw for Abbot was President Trump’s attack on mail-in balloting during a general election beset by a pandemic, insisting without evidence that it will lead to "the most rigged election in history." That sustained attack on the legitimacy of a presidential election could all but portend a constitutional crisis in a close contest.
"If you want to know why hundreds of us who devoted our lives to service signed a letter saying we feared for our country, look no further than the spectacle of a commander-in-chief threatening not to support a peaceful transition of power if one is required. That’s an effort to undermine our democracy," Abbot said in an interview. "So, as a Navy man, I would tell you that the ship of state had already taken on a bad list during this pandemic. And President Trump’s insistence that he may not accept the results of the election is a torpedo in the water."
The signatories criticisms fall into some broad categories:
BELITTLING AND BULLYING ALLIES
President Trump’s America First foreign policy does not mesh with the worldview of most senior military and national security leaders. Trump is strictly transactional on the matter of burden-sharing and other issues related to our allies, and he has repeatedly expressed a view of alliances as little more than protection rackets. He also frequently goes out of his way to belittle and bully venerable allies, variously calling the Canadian prime minister "dishonest" and "weak," Germany’s chancellor "stupid," and the French prime minister "very, very nasty."
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Time to do away with civil service protections and lifetime gummint employment. The "stability" and "years of expertise" are just costing us too much.
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The adulation of experts and now of all times. Because now anybody can go online and find authoritative voices that prove not just anything but everything. 'Experts!', mostly self titled, too.
It's as though some impenetrable cloud of intellectual fart gas has descended on this great country. We don't need another politician.
We need some kind of nationally approved Moe Howard to line the bleeding lot of them up and slap them into some form of coherence.
The denouement would be the confrontation with that blithering idiot Milley, 'Come here, Porky-pine.' followed by a quick shovel to the forehead.
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Miley is a product of the personnel management system that practices 'equity' over capabilities. We dragged a peacetime promotion and selection system into a 20 year war. War is the ultimate test of warriors. There is no fair, there is no equity in war. The promotion system was suppose to be a process to find the leaders to fight in war during times of peace, instead it displaced the actual purpose of finding true combat leaders during war. We've ended up with bureaucrats and politicians who play the system instead of warriors. Get your boxes checked.
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BTW, Trump as president gave the order to execute a withdraw. The GOs refused to carry through. -
10 U.S. Code § 892 - Art. 92. Failure to obey order or regulation
Any person subject to this chapter who—
(1) violates or fails to obey any lawful general order or regulation;
(2) having knowledge of any other lawful order issued by a member of the armed forces, which it is his duty to obey, fails to obey the order; or (3) is derelict in the performance of his duties;
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We really should not worship politicians, generals, celebrities or media mouthpieces.
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Well Buy Dung is an impersonator president, put him in a uniform, lets get the court-marital going...
Everything else has been - forget the law, constitution, fake democrat leadership and Big Lies for the last 7 months... why stop now ?
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So when hundreds (it’s now up to 780) of national security leaders.....
Group-think. That's what happens when you operate inside an Echo Chamber.
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President Trump’s America First foreign policy does not mesh with the worldview of most senior military and national security leaders. Trump is strictly transactional while they are all leeches.
[NationalInterest] Afghans stand out among the refugees committing crimes in Austria and elsewhere. Why?
But there was one development that had not been expected, and was not tolerable: the large and growing incidence of sexual assaults committed by refugees against local women. These were not of the cultural-misunderstanding-date-rape sort, but were vicious, no-preamble attacks on random girls and women, often committed by gangs or packs of young men. At first, the incidents were downplayed or hushed up—no one wanted to provide the right wing with fodder for nationalist agitation, and the hope was that these were isolated instances caused by a small problem group of outliers. As the incidents increased, and because many of them took place in public or because the public became involved either in stopping the attack or in aiding the victim afterwards, and because the courts began issuing sentences as the cases came to trial, the matter could no longer be swept under the carpet of political correctness. And with the official acknowledgment and public reporting, a weird and puzzling footnote emerged. Most of the assaults were being committed by refugees of one particular nationality: by Afghans.
Actually Afghans should not even have been part of the refugee tide, at least not in significant numbers. It was the Syrians who were expected. Afghanistan, a place of lingering and chronic conflict, is no longer on the official refugee roster—that’s reserved for acute political and military emergencies. Still, European authorities and the public were sympathetic, and could understand why Afghans would want to leave a country rife with suicide bombings and empty of opportunity. Also, Europeans held a baseline positive sentiment towards Afghanistan. Many baby-boomer Europeans had, in their hippie days of yore, traversed that country in the legendary VW buses, and retained fond memories of friendly, hospitable people. Later everyone had mourned the loss of the Bamiyan Buddhas and felt for the poor people suffering under Taliban rule. And after that, NATO had been part of the “coalition of the willing.” Europeans were predisposed to be positive towards Afghan refugees. But it quickly became obvious that something was wrong, very wrong, with these young Afghan men: they were committing sex crimes to a much greater extent than other refugees, even those from countries that were equally or more backward, just as Islamic and conservative, and arguably just as misogynist.
It took a while for the pattern to be recognized because, until recently, western European media deliberately refrained from identifying an assailant’s refugee or asylum status, or his country of origin. Only when the correlation became so dramatic that it was itself newsworthy did this policy change. At that point, it became clear that the authorities had known about, and for political reasons had deliberately covered up, large-scale incidences of sexual assault by migrants. For example, a gang of fifty Afghans who terrorized women in the neighborhood of the Linz train station had been brushed off by a government official with the remark that this was an unfortunate consequence of bad weather, and that once summer came the young men would disperse into the public parks and no longer move in such a large, menacing pack. The public was not amused.
I could write the same report about Sweden, Germany, or any other country of asylum in Europe, but I am focusing on examples from Austria because that’s the European country I come from and know best.
What is going on here? And why, why, why the Afghans? According to Austrian police statistics, Syrian refugees cause fewer than 10 percent of sexual assault cases. Afghans, whose numbers are comparable, are responsible for a stunning half of all cases.
This brings us to a third, more compelling and quite disturbing theory—the one that my Afghan friend, the court translator, puts forward. On the basis of his hundreds of interactions with these young men in his professional capacity over the past several years, he believes to have discovered that they are motivated by a deep and abiding contempt for Western civilization. To them, Europeans are the enemy, and their women are legitimate spoils, as are all the other things one can take from them: housing, money, passports. Their laws don’t matter, their culture is uninteresting and, ultimately, their civilization is going to fall anyway to the horde of which one is the spearhead. No need to assimilate, or work hard, or try to build a decent life here for yourself—these Europeans are too soft to seriously punish you for a transgression, and their days are numbered.
And it’s not just the sex crimes, my friend notes. Those may agitate public sentiment the most, but the deliberate, insidious abuse of the welfare system is just as consequential. Afghan refugees, he says, have a particular proclivity to play the system: to lie about their age, to lie about their circumstances, to pretend to be younger, to be handicapped, to belong to an ethnic minority when even the tired eye of an Austrian judge can distinguish the delicate features of a Hazara from those of a Pashtun.
In search of an answer, perhaps we should take a closer look at the victims. We have eliminated improper attire and an unwittingly seductive manner, but might they have any other traits in common to shed light on why they became the targets of such madness? Reviewing them, one word comes to mind: fulfillment. A Turkish exchange student, happy to be advancing her education in industrial design at a good university in Vienna. A girl in a park, enjoying the sunshine. Two friends, taking their babies for a walk. A mother, enjoying a summer stroll with her two children. A contented old lady, out with her pet. Attractive, accomplished, happy, normal people . . . an unbearable sight, perhaps, to—and here I must agree with President Trump—losers. That is what he proposed we should call terrorists, and he is right. These young men, even minus a suicide vest, are losers, which has inspired them to become social terrorists.
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It's a four year old article. Very disturbing and a good read but still a four year old article.
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Subtract TWO Years for COVID Isolationism & IT is TOPICAL
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The article is pertinent because of the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Western politicians' intent to import even more Afghans into Western nations.
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I agree with most points made in the article except the false dichotomy between masochistic submission and genocide of the enemy.
There were many options available (both miltary and political) that would have restored Western deterrence by being sufficiently punitive well short of being genocidal.
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A valuable read. The only generation that came home with similar experience was the World War II generation, but man for man I think he’s right Gen GWOT.
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If there was ever a place where you could have deployed a nuke to make a statement. Afghanistan was the place. Should have been done on 9/12. There would be entire countries still having a migraine from concentrating on it.
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Imagine the hilarious stories about muzz still trying to go into Kabul and dying "because of the djinns" a few days later.
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So true, the word from the frontline door smashers. Very moving too, that bit about being needed again, if a little sad. I doubt men like Austin and Biden's loon troupe will ever let America retain its effective deterrence.
But worse than that America has a regime problem and needs to focus on the domestic.
[Right Scoop] Now, there’s been a lot wrong, right down the line, when it comes to how Joe Biden has dealt with the debacle in Afghanistan.
But one of the main problems with his administration is the failure to actually speak frankly and with transparency with the American people. They started this off very badly with both Biden and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki being on vacation. Biden didn’t even come back until Monday to make his speech. Then he went back to Camp David, and then came back to make a speech today. But that speech, as we previously reported, isn’t on Afghanistan, it’s on the Wuhan coronavirus. That’s stunning. Not exactly the thing that is most pressing with thousands of Americans and allies in danger in Afghanistan.
The national security team just held a briefing and it was a clown car affair that my colleague Streiff will be covering. But suffice to say, Gen. Milley and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin would lose their jobs in a real administration. Their responses were just horrific and it would be scary to have these people in charge of a public toilet much less in charge of our military response.
But when Bret Baier appeared on America’s Newsroom on Fox with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino this morning, they discussed the lack of transparency of Biden and the major players, the failure of the administration to really speak on what is going on in-country. This was prior to the Milley/Austin briefing. Baier said that according to their sources, after the COVID speech, he was hearing that Biden would be heading back to Wilmington, Delaware to continue with his vacation either today or tomorrow.
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Well you had to pull out someday. It's only fate that Biden is left standing on this clusterfcuked corpse of a campaign. But then he wanted this job so bad he upended democracy itself to get here. He can have it.
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In short, yes. Joe Biden did indeed undergo brain surgery on two occasions, both in 1988. In February of that year, he suffered from several episodes of increasingly severe neck pain. According to The New York Times, he attributed the pain to a pinched nerve and a viral infection.
One day, while he was alone in a hotel room, Biden felt a sharp, stabbing pain at the back of his neck. In his autobiography, Promises to Keep, Biden wrote that the pain was like nothing he had ever experienced and that he lay unconscious on the floor for five hours after it occurred. The next day, he went into a Delaware hospital for testing and was quickly rushed to Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
There, he underwent a lifesaving, six-hour surgical procedure to fix an aneurysm that had begun leaking at the base of his brain. In May of 1988, Biden underwent a second operation to repair another aneurysm on the opposite side of his brain. This second aneurysm had not caused any symptoms but was at risk of bursting.
During the 2008 presidential race (in which Biden was running for vice president), Dr. Eisold, the Capitol physician, said that Biden had “recovered fully without continued effects” from the aneurysms he had experienced 20 years prior. Further medical documentation revealed that he had relatively minor health problems in 2008, including chronic sinusitis and allergies.
Fast forward to the current presidential race,{2020} where some people are wondering whether Biden’s brain surgeries could indicate that he is not a good fit for the job ?
One person who felt comfortable weighing in on that question was Dr. Neal Kassell — Joe Biden’s former brain surgeon.
In a 2019 interview, Dr. Kassell said that Biden did not suffer any brain damage from the aneurysms (or the surgeries) that could come back to haunt him now, decades later. “He is every bit as sharp as he was 31 years ago. I haven’t seen any change,” Dr. Kassell said. “I can tell you with absolute certainty that he had no brain damage, either from the hemorrhage or from the operations that he had. There was no damage whatsoever.”
He then went one step further, saying about his vote in the upcoming election: “I am going to vote for the candidate who I am absolutely certain has a brain that is functioning. And that narrows it down exactly to one.”
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Every bit as sharp now as he was then? I agree wholeheartedly. I have seen and unfortunately heard the incoherent, infallibly wrong hack most of my adult life. He hasn't lost a step, he never had it in the first place, never issued.
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He is every bit as sharp as he was 31 years ago. I haven’t seen any change
Ouch.
He is slower at the quip.
But when Bret Baier appeared on America’s Newsroom on Fox with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino this morning, they discussed the lack of transparency of Biden and the major players, the failure of the administration to really speak on what is going on in-country.
Well, there is a real lack of curiosity going on as well. Lot of 'My Hot Take on Official Story' going on.
[WND] The looming report on the manipulation of the nation's legal system by those in the Barack Obama administration to pursue the now-debunked "Russia collusion" allegations against President Trump has those in the Beltway "rattled," according to an analysis by constitutional expert Jonathan Turley.
"For good reason," noted the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.
For two years, Durham, a former U.S. attorney, has been investigating what happened that allowed those in the establishment, inside the government in Washington, to manipulate evidence, as one FBI already has confessed, and more, to pursue the campaign against Trump.
The DOJ's inspector general already has released a long list of offenses that were committed during the Obama administration's work, and the FISA court, which was convinced to authorize spying on the Trump campaign with evidence that apparently was made up, has rescinded some of his authorizations.
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Americans have spent the last 2 years getting pounded with Noble Lies during this pandemic. If and when this report gets released I suspect America is going to get a Masters Degree in Noble Lying.
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If you can't get TPTB interested in a stolen election - I'm talking about you SCOTUS - even just to hear the evidence..why bother to release a unless it's to further the Lib narrative that "nothing happened.."
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*YAWN* Unless we see massive arrests and jail time for it's just another criminal coverup by the government, for the government, little people shut the hell up.
At this point, I think EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE in government needs to be fired.
#14
This is the same FBI/DoJ that was afraid to prosecute Ilhan Omar for immigration fraud because of the bad optics of prosecuting a black, muslim, female, somalia immigrant who married her brother? That cowardice defines them, and imagining they might actually take on a far bigger set of crimes? Seriously?
[Western Journal] In the midst of the Vietnam War, during one of the many moments when America was potentially set to betray the South Vietnamese side, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned that if we did, "the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal."
Kissinger’s warning would prove prophetic when Vietnam eventually fell; at the time, it was a major setback in our struggle against the Soviet bloc. Over a quarter-century since the USSR self-destructed, our enemies are more diffuse — even if one, China, looms large.
In one of America’s closest friends, Israel, one publication is sounding the alarm over whether a fatal decision has been made.
In the wake of Afghanistan’s fall, The Jerusalem Post — a centrist publication that’s one of the Jewish state’s oldest newspapers — published an analysis piece that questioned America’s dedication to its allies in the Middle East.
"After Afghanistan, the US will have to reassure allies and partners that it will remain somewhere in the world," the Post’s Seth J. Frantzman wrote in the Sunday piece. "As American officials speak about ’forever wars’ and wasting ’treasure’ around the world, there are concerns about what comes next.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security guards arrest a Paleostinian teenager who the Defense Ministry says ran toward them with a knife at a checkpoint between the West Bank and Israel.
According to the ministry, the 15-year-old ran toward the guards from the West Bank side of the Gilboa Crossing. They called for him to halt and aimed their guns at him.
"The suspect stopped, lifted up his shirt [to show he was not wearing an boom belt] and threw a knife away," the ministry says.
The guards arrested the teenager, a resident of the Jenin refugee camp, and handed him over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning.
The teenager appeared to be the relative of one of four suspected snuffies killed in a shootout with Israeli security forces earlier this week.
The Defense Ministry later released a photograph of the kitchen knife that was in the suspect’s possession.
[USAToday] WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime American foreign correspondent Joseph L. Galloway, best known for his book recounting a pivotal battle in the Vietnam War that was made into a Hollywood movie, has died. He was 79.
A native of Refugio, Texas, Galloway spent 22 years as a war correspondent and bureau chief for United Press International, including serving four tours in Vietnam. He then worked for U.S. News & World Report magazine and Knight Ridder newspapers in a series of overseas roles, including reporting from the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
Galloway died Wednesday morning, his wife Grace Galloway told AP, after being hospitalized near their home in Concord, North Carolina. He is also survived by two sons and a step daughter.
"He was the kindest, most gentle and loving man," Grace Galloway said. "He loved the boys and girls of the U.S. military. He loved his country."
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I was privileged to have met him and heard him speak at Hal Moore's memorial at Fort Benning a few years back. He loved soldiers. Sadly, we'll probably never see another like him.
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I was privileged to spend about an hour on a hilltop at Stony Valley, Fort Hunter-Liggett with LTG Moore and several other Company Commanders and listen to him talk about unit tactics, leadership and how terrain defines how to site battle positions and plan for actions after contact. One of the most impactful insights into real leadership I ever had.
[IsraelTimes] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... have blown up the statue of a Shiite militia leader who fought against them during Afghanistan’s civil war in the 1990s, according to photos circulating on Wednesday, sowing further doubt about their claims to have become more moderate.
The krazed killers’ every action in their sudden sweep to power is being watched closely. They insist they have changed and won’t impose the same draconian restrictions they did when they last ruled Afghanistan, all but eliminating women’s rights, carrying out public executions, and banning television and music.
As Afghans and the international community look to see if the Taliban will make good on their promises, photos circulated on social media of the destroyed statue. It depicted Abdul Ali Mazari, a militia leader killed by the Taliban in 1996, when the Islamic hard boyz seized power from rival warlords. Mazari was a champion of Afghanistan’s ethnic Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... minority, Shiites who were persecuted under the Sunni Taliban’s earlier rule.
The statue stood in the central Bamyan province, where the Taliban infamously blew up two massive 1,500-year-old statues of Buddha carved into a mountain in 2001, shortly before the US-led invasion that drove them from power. The Taliban claimed the Buddhas violated Islam’s prohibition on idolatry.
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If I were to wake up tomorrow and hear on the news that a giant rubber monster was stomping down Tokyo, I would be totally unsurprised. 2021! What can ya do?
"you're focked"
[10 News] President Joe Biden said he is willing to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan until every American who wants to leave the country is evacuated.
"Americans should understand that we're gonna try to get it done before Aug. 31st," Biden said in an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.
The president previously set an Aug. 31 deadline to end the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan.
But when pressed on whether Americans would be left behind, Biden told Stephanopoulos that he would be willing to stay beyond the deadline if more Americans needed to be evacuated.
Up to 15,000 Americans were reportedly in Afghanistan following the Taliban's takeover.
In the interview, Biden defended the Afghanistan withdrawal despite the chaotic nature of the past week.
"The idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don't know how that happens," Biden said.
Biden added that no one expected the Taliban to take over Afghanistan in a matter of days. Except ...everybody
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General Milley — We’re still working on it…
Lloyd Austin — We can’t do it…
Clarissa Ward — No way in hell Americans can get to the airport…
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^
We have idiotic - defeatist - chickensh-t leadership
in charge
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Make on call to the Pakistani Government and tel them that all US aid, access and military cooperation will end immeditely if the Taliban doesn't find every USCit by name and escort them to the airport. The entire farce is that we have no power, when in fact our money and access to the financial systems we control can't influence this completely. The Taliban are creatures of Pakistan, and we know it and have for decades. WE just have forgotten how to act like America....
#14
Feeling lonely, a long way from home?
Remember, all roads lead to roam:
Just duck by your dealer's
And pick up the Wheeler's
Impossibly timely old tome!
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O treacherous apostrophe,
Just why do you so hate poor me?
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Here is an idea....
Make the company pay the customers damages to correct and secure their credit profile with credit protection for 5 years.
The SSA & Fed are in seriously need of updated & new restrictions on the use and handling of ALL SSN ID #'s. Like allowing only the last 4 #'s to be stored by the commercial and Medical world.
Because, the Social Security Admin Number was NEVER designed to be used as a Universal National ID. In fact up until the later 1970's our original SSN cards were printed with ...
"FOR SOCIAL SECURITY PURPOSES * NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION
CNSNews.com asked Johnson: “A federal court in Texas v. United States has said giving an illegal alien a Social Security Number is not an act of prosecutorial discretion. What specific law gives the president the authority to give a Social Security Number to a foreign national in the country illegally?”
Rather than answer the question, Johnson instead noted that the administration has appealed the court’s injunction against the administration’s unilateral action on immigration.
He said: “Well, that’s a case that’s on appeal right now. We disagree with the district court’s decision but that’s what appellate courts are for. We’ve appealed the decision. We’re asking for a stay of the injunction. We went to the district judge first and the matter will be resolved in a few days. So that’s in litigation. I believe that the injunction will be reversed in a matter of time.”
Obama’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents Program (DAPA) would grant work permits and Social Security Numbers to as many as five million illegal aliens.
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#2 I agree with some caveats about the SSA security.
But it is clear to me and many others that the commercial & medical industry must be held to a standardized Secure Practices and/or be liable for compensation.
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Your credentials, including your SSN, go for about $5 on the darkweb. It's not like they don't already have this information for 20 other sources.
Still, it would be nice if someone somewhere started taking security seriously. If not, then companies should not be permitted to store my credentials at all.
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^ This. They should be entitled to a hash of the data they "need" only. It's about time for there to be a law against use of SSN for any non-SSA activities.
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SSA could use an income stream. How bout they make a business of issuing hard tokens to prove identity?
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New York City police charged Aaron Garcia, 37, of Yonkers with assault and attempted murder for a Sunday evening hatchet attack
The attack was caught on video at a Chase Bank in lower Manhattan
Surveillance video obtained by DailyMail.com shows Queens resident Miguel Solorzana, 50, standing at an ATM when the assailant sneaks up behind him
Garcia allegedly slashed Solorzano multiple times before fleeing
He suffered three slash wounds to his head, police said, and another slash wound to his right leg
He was transported to Bellevue Hospital where he underwent two surgeries and remains in stable condition
Police said Garcia remained in custody undergoing psychiatric evaluation at Bellevue as of Wednesday afternoon
A close relative, who asked not to be named, said Garcia had previously served in the Army, and was not the same after his return from deployment to Iraq
He was arrested in Chelsea on Tuesday evening, and is also wanted by the Yonkers Police Department
[TruthBasedMedia] The reason natural immunity is superior to vaccine-induced immunity is because viruses contain five different proteins. The COVID shot induces antibodies against just one of those proteins, the spike protein, and no T cell immunity. When you’re infected with the whole virus, you develop antibodies against all parts of the virus, plus memory T cells.
This also means natural immunity offers better protection against variants, as it recognizes several parts of the virus. If there are significant alternations to the spike protein, as with the Delta variant, vaccine-induced immunity can be evaded. Not so with natural immunity, as the other proteins are still recognized and attacked.
Not only that but the COVID jabs actually actively promote the production of variants for which they provide virtually no protection at all, while those with natural immunity do not cause variants and are nearly universally protected against them.
If we are to depend on vaccine-induced immunity, as public health officials are urging us to do, we’ll end up on a never-ending booster treadmill. Boosters will absolutely be necessary, as the shot offers such narrow protection against a single protein of the virus. Already, Moderna has publicly stated that the need for additional boosters is expected.
We get new flu shots every year. Some years they work better than others, but none are perfect.
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Pardon my layman ignorance, but isn't natural immunity a nuance of evolution itself? So it arrives concurrently with yet developing diseases and contends with evolving viruses. At its own rate.
What does one do to achieve immunity for something a)exceedingly virulent, (b)deliberately constructed to (c)infect billions suddenly? One surely develops vaccines. As I understand it, this involves exposure in a controlled manner to the very thing. Again, excuse my ignorance if this is not so.
Does one make mistakes because the evil sons of whores have had decades to create their bioweapon and we have only months to find cures and engineer an induced immunity? Sure. I suppose one minimizes the risks to the population too, because without the population... there is no point in lording it over our States, and no one left to lord over.
Is natural immunity more effective than a shot? Definitely. Have you time to evolve it fast enough to fight the rapidly unfolding CoV package of chaos? I think not. One cannot discount the profit motivations of big pharma and the callousness of governments, not to mention the compulsion to control and coerce. Which is where all this mistrust is generated. I think it would be a good idea to examine the science, and not the statistics when forming our opinions. One simply cannot trust the numbers and graphs in a time when more people show up to elect a man than are living in a district. Gromgoru may be casually dismissive of people he thinks are intellectually inferior, an irritating quality to some, but one thing about him he always points to the science of the thing. Of course I am not in favor of boots on the neck immunization or adding the cancel culture to vaccine protocols, but the public should debate and ascertain for themselves, sans fear mongering and blind anti-establishment rhetoric.
The flu virus, like HIV, notoriously mutates. So you are getting a shot for a *different* flu each year. The COVID jab loses effectiveness against the *same* SARS-COV-2 virus.
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IF we had immediately started work on a better vaccine instead of sticking to the crummy emergency one and hoping it’ll work better the third time around....
#10
The Science is c-19 is with us forever. There will be no cure.
Group thinkers (r) and apologizers (Drone) can write all they want, it won't change anything.
(r) has wished financial ruin and death upon first the Unmasked and now the Unvaxed. He has transferred his vile and hate towards Palestinians to white Americans. To write an "Aww shucks give the guy a break" comment indicates Drone willful ignorance of the filth (r) has written on this site.
To you both, I wish upon you what you wish upon us.
Keep taking your boosters suckers.
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Left unstated and unconsidered is the duration of natural immunity to COVID-19. Natural immunity to other coronaviruses seems rather short, and this explains why most of us get infected by similar coronaviruses over and over again.
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the virus is doing just what its creators want, even here at the "burg. That is to divide people. And its working quite well, look at the little spats that happen here...
it's a nearly benign sickness , the propaganda associated with it is what is dividing people
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I have always wondered what would happen with increased population. As Obama said this is the new normal. We have now in a steady decline in people skills. The phone and television have lead the way. Right and wrong no longer matter. We have become expendable numbers. The herd is actively being culled. Increasingly people are refusing to be managed. All business activity will decline as many are forced out of work. The non vaxed will be denied medical care. The pressure cooker has no relief valve. The show must go on down, and further down. No bottom to be seen as yet.
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I know more and more people who were fully vaccinated or previously infected, and even have low co-morbidities and very modest group exposure, who are being hospitalized with severe covid now.
Interesting question. What is the better choice for overall health? Get the vaccine, or give up access to what we call healthcare? Off the cuff I'd think most would be better off without the vaccine until their 60's. At some point you'll want chemo or a stent. Until then you are better off with COVID.
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I enjoy reading this guy, VDH, a few others, but at the end of the day they are voices in the wilderness. People much more vicious at the immediate game of becoming Washington insiders leeches are calling the shots, and all their attention has been focused on getting where they are and nothing else. Certainly not the big picture.
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You mean Americans can come home from sentinel duty all over the world and retool the economy for domestic production and export? Bring it on.
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Bagram is bigger, can accomodate lots of civilians, etc. but it is 25 miles further from Kabul than HKIntl Airport.
So defending it would take a lot of soldiers and the road to Kabul would take more. Biden authorized about 6k of troops on 8-15 or so and had he done this two months earlier, Bagram could have been defended. However, when Bagram was abandoned, the authorized number of troops was about 2k and that was not even enough to guard the embassy and HKI
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Pulling out of Bagram in the dead of night was when things started to snowball. Noone wants to die for a psychopath like Biden.
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Earlier this year, I was betting on Creepy Joe having a 'medical issue' forcing his abdication right about now.
Maybe this whole Clusterfarkle is in lieu of that.
There problem there is that the Kamel is universally recognized as even more incompetent.
What's Dr. Jill (and Ron Klain/Susan Rice) to do?.....
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I know my bet is +3 months; I think they did a test balloon back when she was declared border czar or whatever, and unexpectedly found she is not just totally unlikable, but impossible to work with. That is a poor combination for even what would be largely a ceremonial role. Crippling in fact, as a ceremonial role absolutely requires charisma and direction.
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I don't see what the problem with Biden is. He is the perfect puppet. Sure, nominally he is President of the United States of America and leader of the free world, but no one really thinks he is in charge of anything more complicated than a juice box. As long as They can roll him out to deliver presidential pronouncements and sound bites, it's all good! Biden can be President and They can get on with running the world.
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COVID cult will die soon as actual serious problems come to the fore.
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The vaccine is super effective. Here's your 17th booster shot! Plus, oh yeah, more and more hospitalizations are in the vaccinated pop. But don't worry. The vaccine is guaranteed by the same people who brought you Afghanistan, the 2020 election, Russiagate, Jan 6 conspiracy theories, BLM and all your favorites!
At least it’s something. Not that they won’t replenish their funds, between the opium and permitting China to extract a variety of natural resources.
[KhaamaPress] Gandhara has cited a US administration official that the country has frozen the reserve of Afghanistan central bank currently in US accounts to deprive the Taliban ...Arabic for students... of the assets.
As the official cited Tuesday, August 17, these billions of dollars will not be available for the Taliban.
The decision which will apparently hit millions of people in Afghanistan comes days after the Taliban grabbed control over the entire Afghanistan but Panjsher province.
This decision by Biden’s administration will not only suppress the Taliban leadership and their upcoming government but will also adversely affect the lives of millions of people who are already suffering from drought, unemployment, and poverty.
As per the International Monetary Fund, the central bank of Afghanistan namely De Afghanistan Bank had up to $9.4 billion at the end of April this year.
The assets of Afghanistan does not only include billions of dollars but also gold and US treasuries.
Since the Taliban is yet to be recognized by any country in the world, the situation will make it rather difficult for them to access their external fund.
Some countries have shown green signals for recognition of the Taliban in case they shape an inclusive government and respect women’s rights.
The Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid in his first official presser in Kabul said that negotiations over the upcoming government setup are going on and added that there will be an inclusive Islamic government in Afghanistan.
The head of Afghanistan’s Central Bank meanwhile said the country’s supply of physical US dollars is "close to zero." Afghanistan has some $9 billion in reserves, Ajmal Ahmady tweeted, but most is held outside the country, with some $7 billion held in US Federal Reserve bonds, assets and gold.
Ahmady said the country did not receive a planned cash shipment amid the Taliban ...Arabic for students... offensive.
"The next shipment never arrived," he wrote. "Seems like our partners had good intelligence as to what was going to happen."
He said the lack of US dollars will likely lead to a depreciation of the local currency, the afghani, hurting the country’s poor. Afghans have been lining up outside ATM machines for days, with many pulling out their life savings.
Ahmady said the Taliban will struggle to access the country’s reserves because of international sanctions.
The "Taliban won militarily — but now have to govern," he wrote. "It is not easy."
#2
Gotta protect Langley's 'Miscellaneous Operating Costs', don't you see.
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No idea what it's ultimate destination may yet be. But I have to ask if given the current situation, with thousands of foreigners and Afghan nationals desperate to leave if this is an especially good strategic move. Just another fine example of 'expertise' on display.
#2
Nikolas Cruz was adopted. Not to say that his adoptive home worked out so well for him or others...
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Scot, sometimes you best is not good enough. Sometimes that's OK. Other times, not so much. Thinking St. Fauxi in the latter category with his creepy virus experiments.
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He's in the same boat as the airport security officers at Boston on 9/11. It was an easy job as to be called Retired on Active Duty, just doing your time. No seriousness beyond when's the next coffee break. More ceremonial than functional. Then one day, the fundamental reason the position existed came home. That's when you discovered he were wanting. The people who assigned you to the job also considered it the same. They too were wanting.
Fortunately, today, you have lots of company. The senior members of our military join you in failing at their fundamental jobs. A very large ROADie community.
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In the society that bested them, they'd be on the hook for blood money to over 300 people's families. In America, they are "sovreignly immune" from the consequences of their incompetence.
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3000 people's families - referencing 9/11
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EXCLUSIVE: Pressed on whether the U.S.'s exit from Afghanistan could have been handled better, Pres. Biden tells @GStephanopoulos, "The idea that somehow, there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing—I don't know how that happens." https://t.co/mH1AyWI5lbpic.twitter.com/osAwdDQy2L
IDF allegedly destroyed Hezbollah post in last night's strike in Syria, @noamamir74 reports; video from site suggests it was packed with explosives, fire in area raged for long hours after attack, the report says. https://t.co/Hct5QdejcA
The target of last night's attack in Al-Quneitra region was the office of 90th Division's commander, Hussien Hamush (حسين حموش). https://t.co/3MUnLFy7hJ
The Syrian army's 90th Division works in full cooperation with Hezbollah, for which it supplies surveillance equipment and military posts. Hezbollah uses those military posts as their bases and command centers in the Golan File.
[IsraelTimes] In pamphlets, IDF warns Syrian troops to stop cooperating with Hezbollah and takes responsibility for a June attack on a Syrian base that it says was used by the terror groupA flier dropped on the Syrian side of the border on August 18, 2021.
The Israel Defense Forces reportedly dropped threatening pamphlets in southern Syria on Wednesday, warning Syrian soldiers to stop cooperating with Hezbollah, hours after reportedly conducting twin missile strikes on a Syrian military base and an outpost controlled by the Lebanese terror group.
The flyers, which were written in Arabic and addressed to "Syrian [Arab] Army soldiers," matched the style of similar leaflets that have been dropped in Syria in the past and included the silhouette of an eagle — the symbol of the IDF’s 210th "Bashan" Division, which is tasked with defending Israel’s frontier with Syria and the Golan Heights. The IDF refused to comment on the matter.
In the pamphlet, the Israeli military appeared to take responsibility for the shelling of a Syrian army base earlier this summer. The Israeli military has not publicly acknowledged conducting that strike or most others that it has carried out in Syria in recent years, under its general policy of ambiguity regarding its efforts against Hezbollah in the country.
"Despite our previous warnings about this and even after the attack on the al-Qahtaniah base on 17/06/21, Hezbollah — in a manipulative way — has turned you into a tool, into marionettes. It uses you as its eyes and it uses your bases without you even knowing," the flyer reads.
The flyer also directly names the Hezbollah official that the IDF believes is facilitating the relationship between the Iran-backed terror group and the Syrian military, Jawad Hasham, the son of Hajj Hasham, who leads Hezbollah’s efforts along the Syrian border.
"It is no secret that Jawad Hasham is currently in the Golan and in Daraa. Your filthy actions on behalf of Hezbollah are considered by the Syrian Army to be a top priority," the flyer reads.
The pamphlet accuses the Syrian military of allowing Hezbollah to operate within the bases and under the auspices of its 90th Brigade "in order to develop lookout capabilities and for other efforts."
"Be careful with your actions, you are being watched through a microscope. Hasham’s help has brought you destruction and his bad intentions are coming out. You are responsible for your actions, and Hezbollah is responsible for your suffering," it says.
According to a pro-opposition Syrian source in the Golan Heights, the office of the 90th Brigade commander, Brig. Gen. Hussein Hamoush, near the city of Khader, was one of the two targets of a missile strike on Tuesday night, which Syria said Israel had carried out. The second target was said to be a Hezbollah outpost in the area.
The IDF has repeatedly accused Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad’s military of actively assisting Hezbollah and warned it against this, both through flyers dropped along the border and through overt, public appeals, in some cases naming the Syrian and Hezbollah officials involved, including officers from Syria’s 90th Brigade and 1st Division.
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At least somebody's taking out the trash and not cooking the numbers. All chips in.
BREAKING: Egyptian President al-Sisi invited Israeli Prime Minister Bennett to visit Egypt in the coming weeks. Director of Egyptian Intelligence Abbas Kamel gave Bennett the invitation in their meeting today
San Diego County residents monopolized a local hearing on covid mandates anti-vaxxers furiously accused the board of 'crimes against humanity'
Matt Baker called the supervisors Nazis saying 'You are about to open a pit of hell' claiming they broke the Nuremburg Code for human rights
Over 100 residents voiced their opinions on local covid mandates during Tuesday's San Diego County board meeting that lasted four and a half hours
Some who claimed to be nurses questioned the science behind the vaccine and denied that mask are effective to stop the spread of the infectious disease
Escondido resident Kevin Stevenson said he had listened for nearly four hours to 'unhinged death cultists' as the anti-vaxxers took over the meeting
San Diego County announced that they will begin requiring vaccine cards or weekly testing and mask wearing for their employees
The county has suggested that local businesses follow similar procedures
1. The cheap paper and the cloth masks do not filter to the levels needed to block the Virus.
2. By the US CDC's own words and actions. It is official the Vaccine is only good for +/- 6 months, before a booster is needed for new strain and/or a new Vax is needed.
3. The CDC, Dr. Death and the power grabbing Politicians are the primary reason why so many DO NOT trust the c-19 process.
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Are Nuremberg trials warranted? Yeah, I think so. Will they happen? Nah. Cuomo killed old people without consequences. The people killing 12 year olds with a vax they don't need will skate as well.
[LA Times] Taliban fighters violently broke up a protest in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one person as they quashed a rare public show of dissent and as the group’s leaders met with Afghan officials from the toppled Western-backed government.
Video footage later showed Taliban fighters firing into the air and attacking people with batons to disperse the crowd. Babrak Amirzada, a reporter for a local news agency, said he and a TV cameraman from another agency were beaten by the Taliban as they tried to cover the unrest.
A local health official said at least one person was killed and six people were wounded. The official was not authorized to speak to media and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, videos from the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, a stronghold of the Northern Alliance militias that allied with the U.S. against the Taliban in 2001, appear to show potential opposition figures gathering there. It’s in the only province that hasn’t yet fallen to the Taliban.
Those figures include members of the deposed government — Vice President Amrullah Saleh, who asserted on Twitter that he is the country’s rightful president, and Defense Minister Gen. Bismillah Mohammadi — as well as Ahmad Massoud, the son of the slain Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. It’s unclear whether they intend to challenge the Taliban, which seized most of the country in a matter of days last week.
[ZH] Anyone watching Tuesday's US market cash session sees red across the board. One of the strongest selling programs in months dumped stocks, and equity volatility exploded to the upside. Quite frankly, this could be the beginning of a market storm.
Ahead of what could be further market turmoil, Palantir Technologies warned about an upcoming "black swan event," according to Bloomberg.
The software company, co-founded by the technology billionaire Peter Thiel and CEO Alex Karp, wrote in a filing last week that it stockpiled $50.7 million in gold bars earlier this month.
The filing also said it acquired technology startups, blank-check companies, and even cryptocurrencies. Palantir had previously said it would accept Bitcoin as a form of payment for its services, along with payment in precious metals
[LA Times] At a dusty traffic circle just outside the Kabul airport, amped-up Taliban fighters had corralled hundreds of unarmed Afghans. There, under a punishing afternoon sun, another tragic and tumultuous scene from the U.S. withdrawal played out on Tuesday.
The young men with the Taliban numbered only in the dozens, but the crowds cowered before them. The men fired automatic weapons indiscriminately into the air, and sometimes aimed them at the assembled men, women and children.
The beatings seemed to be administered almost at random, but with chilling deliberateness. Sticks, lengths of rubber hose, knotted rope, rifle butts — the fighters wielded them all.
Some of those on the receiving end of the blows were trying to slip away through a hole in the fence to get inside the airport perimeter, but others were simply squatting on the ground, trying to shield themselves.
This photographer, trying to capture an image of a fighter pointing his gun at the crowd, was whipped in the leg.
Gunfire could be heard every few moments in the traffic circle, which was blocked off by Afghan army vehicles commandeered by the militants when the capital fell. One fighter, after letting loose a volley of shots, directed a smile at one of his comrades.
At least a dozen people were wounded. A woman and child were left covered in blood; a few men in the crowd pulled them across the street to safety, hustling them into a yellow Toyota Corolla taxi that then sped off. An elderly man in a bloodstained sports jacket carried a limp child, whose eyes were open to reveal only the whites.
[FoxNews] Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR) was created during Trump administration
The Biden administration moved in June to dismantle a system designed to protect American citizens trapped abroad — just months before the Taliban took over Afghanistan, stranding thousands of Americans in the Central Asian country.
Fox News has obtained the June 11 memo sent around the State Department which gave the green light on the "discontinuation of the establishment, and the termination of, the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR)."
The sensitive but unclassified memo was signed by Deputy Secretary of State Brian McKeon, just a couple of months before the Biden administration’s botched troop withdrawal that saw Afghanistan fall under Taliban control.
CCR was formed under Trump-era Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and was tasked with providing "aviation, logistics, and medical support capabilities for the Department's operational bureaus, thereby enhancing the secretary's ability to protect American citizens overseas in connection with overseas evacuations in the aftermath of a natural or man-made disaster."
The bureau could have played a role in the response to the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, where thousands of American citizens and allies are trapped behind terrorist lines.
A State Department spokesperson told Fox News in a Wednesday email that it "is important to note that not only would the proposed Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau not have introduced any new capabilities to the Department, it was never formally established."
"Some administrative steps were taken before its establishment was paused, but the day-to-day operations of the team have not changed," the spokesperson said.
"Every requirement the Department delivered on last year, and since the proposed establishment of the bureau, can be delivered on today in the same manner if appropriate to do so," they continued.
A State Department official stressed to Fox News that none of the capabilities provided by the bureau have gone away. That official characterized the bureau as being in its early stages at the time, saying Secretary of State Antony Blinken had requested a review on it soon after he joined the department earlier this year.
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[REGNUM] Former Deputy Minister of Integration and Health of Albania, Albert Gayo, was arrested on August 18 on suspicion of deliberately setting fire to a dry forest.
Recall that in conditions of elevated temperatures and strong winds, the likelihood of an uncontrolled heat increases, but it is the aggravation of these factors by human actions that is destructive.
The Turkish Air Force is carrying out bombing raids in Yezidi-populated Sinjar in Iraq for the second day in a row. There are numerous casualties. pic.twitter.com/HfVmcS1BMK
[Garowe] With the Æthiopian conflict now spilling over from Tigray to other neighboring states such as Afar and Amhara, there have been reports that Æthiopia National Defense Forces [ENDF] have been using sophisticated drones from 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... in their operations.
The Tigray Defense Forces [TDF] which has particularly been at loggerheads with the federal army, has often claimed the military has been operating armed drones from an airbase in neighboring Eritrea
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The combat vehicle fell in a deserted place, which is located at the Ashuluk training ground. The MiG-29 flew without a combat kit. The pilot who controlled the fighter was killed.
A commission of the High Command of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation was sent to the scene of the incident, which will have to establish the causes of the incident.
[AlAhram] Underwear, an empty bottle and fresh footprints betray signs of migrants colonists sneaking around a new wall along the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
A 243-kilometre (151-mile) concrete wall, topped with barbed wire and surrounded by trenches, is being erected along its 534-kilometre frontier with Iran.
-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... border and stirring worries in Europa
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I thought walls were rayciss
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[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] A senior security source in Diyala reported today that the security forces and al-Hashd al-Shaabi are on alert in anticipation of attacks targeting gatherings on the tenth of Muharram.
The source told Alghadeer News that a senior ISIS security Official was arrested in the outskirts of Khalis district, who was planning to target Husseiniyahs.
An intelligence source told Alghadeer News that a special intelligence force arrested an ISIS terrorist known as Abu Obeida.
The source confirmed that the terrorist was planning to target Khalis district on the tenth of Muharram, through several terrorist operations," noting, "this terrorist is one of the most dangerous security elements of ISIS in Baghdad and Diyala."
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[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Poland has deployed hundreds of troops to support its border guards at the frontier with Belarus as a surge of refugees and migrants colonists sought to enter the country.Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Wednesday that more than 900 Polish troops were involved in the operation.
It is understood that most of the refugees and migrants colonists trying to cross are from Iraq.
Late on Tuesday, a Polish deputy interior minister tweeted that the border with Belarus is sealed and that the soldiers have been there for a week.
Poland, like Lithuania and other Baltic nations, accuses the authoritarian government of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of sending people across their borders.
They believe Minsk’s moves are retaliatory.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... imposed sanctions on Belarus following a disputed presidential election last year — which the West saw as rigged, as well as for harsh repressions on Belarusian protesters.
On Wednesday, EU ministers also held emergency talks "to determine concrete measures and forms of assistance to the affected states in managing and containing illegal crossings at the border with Belarus, also from the aspect of security at this section of the external EU border," the Slovenian EU presidency said.
More than 4,100 refugees and migrants colonists have arrived in Lithuania so far this year and are being sheltered in temporary camps across the country.
Lithuania’s border guard service released video footage on Wednesday which it said reveals that migrants colonists are being pushed across the border into EU territory by Belarus riot police.
After talks with Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte on Wednesday, EU Parliament President David Sassoli accused Lukashenko, once dubbed Europe’s last dictator, of "exploiting these poor people, men and women."
"I have seen these outrageous actions when officials push people across the border. It is both an issue of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... , and also a question of protecting the border of the EU," Sassoli said. "It is an organised activity of the Lukashenko regime."
On the eve of the meeting, German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas accused Lukashenko of launching a "hybrid attack" against the 27-nation bloc by channelling migrants colonists to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland in retaliation over the EU’s sanctions.
"We agree that this is hybrid aggression that uses human beings," Merkel said after their talks in Berlin.
Kallas said that "this is no refugee crisis, but this is a hybrid attack on the European Union."
Merkel said she would raise the issue with Russian 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... in Moscow on Friday.
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"In fact we're thinking of giving some American cities to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and President in Exile Mr. Ghani will soon be joining us in DC as their Congressperson."
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I will bet that all the “Americans” are immigrants that worked here till they got their papers and could draw social security. They then went back home. If true the Taliban will not kill them as long as they donate their SS to them. If what I surmise is true then plank them. The IRS should start looking into this. Are tax formsbeing filled out every year? Are the recipients younger than 100?
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Icarus was a fictional planned orbital solar weapon Power Station constructed by former North Korean colonel China and diamond magnate Gustav we will all be in our Graves. It appeared in EON Productions' 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day, largely as an homage to the Diamond satellite constructed by Ernst Stavro Blofeld in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever.
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Why do I feel the first two of these genius payloads will fall inconveniently over European and American cities, brightly burning hunks of bullshit. And soon after the project will put on hold.
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Read something like this in a SciFi story 20+years ago .In the story it goes out of control incinerates large paths of the earth as starts a slow orbit.
#8
A nifty space weapon! But very vulnerable to anti-satellite weapons.
Scenario:
China's power arrays 'malfunction' and accidentally destroy a major American city. Oopsie!
America retaliates by launching anti-satellite weapons (yeah, unlikely. but work with me here)
Huge debris field in geosynchronous orbit takes down the communication and observation satellites American military relies on. Mission accomplished - at least from the Chinese side.
Our friends at @CNN are reporting Russia is about to test a nuclear-powered cruise missile (again), if they haven't already done so. A short thread on a fun bit of #OSINT, starring an amazing pair of radar images from @capellaspace.https://t.co/XGZyVKTRdG
About 5,000 diplomats, security staff, aid workers, and Afghans have been evacuated from Kabul in the last 24 hours and military flights will continue around the clock, a Western official said.
"Everyone wants out," said a member of an Afghan family after they arrived in Germany. "Every day is worse than the day before. We saved ourselves but we couldn’t rescue our families."
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... said it had begun moving up to 100 international staff temporarily to Kazakhstan, but stressed it is "committed to staying and delivering in support of the Afghan people in their hour of need". The U.N. has about 300 international staff and 3,000 local staff in Afghanistan.
Britannia’s ambassador to Afghanistan said his team had evacuated about 700 people on Tuesday while Germany’s foreign minister said it had evacuated 500 people in total.
The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... have suggested they will impose their laws less severely than during their former rule, and a bigwig said on Wednesday that the group’s leaders would be less reclusive than in the past.
"Slowly, gradually, the world will see all our leaders," the senior Taliban official said.
Tens of people protested in eastern Jalalabad city of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province for flying Afghanistan’s-black, red, green-colored- flag which led to violence between them and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters.
Eyewitnesses said that the Taliban fighters launched indiscriminate fires at protesters during which two were killed and several more maimed.
Protesters are asking the Taliban to let the flag fly throughout the country and do not change it with the new one-colored white.
Local residents in Jalalabad city said that the Taliban have also beaten two local journalists as they wanted to cover the protest.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... tens of youngsters also gathered for the very cause in the neighboring province of Kunar bordering Pakistain.
Video clips from Asadabad city of Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... show that protesters have managed to fly the flag over a minaret in the scenic provincial capital.
In southeastern Afghanistan, Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... also witnessed a similar protest which turned violent mostly peaceful and the Taliban launched indiscriminate fires but no casualties were reported.
The protest and plea on social media for keeping the flag come as people around the country celebrate August 19-Independence day of Afghanistan- carrying and flying the flag on cars and rooftops every year on this day.
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[TheDrive] As the chaos at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan's capital Kabul was beginning to unfold after the Taliban entered the city on Sunday, an entirely different kind of exodus was underway from the country's northern regions. Satellite imagery confirms that dozens of fixed-wing aircraft, such as A-29 Super Tucano light attack planes, and helicopters, including UH-60 Black Hawks, from the now-defunct Afghan armed forces, originally supplied by the United States, are sitting at Termez Airport in neighboring Uzbekistan.
An image, taken yesterday, Aug. 16, 2021, of Termez from Planet Labs shows the sudden appearance of at least 22 small fixed-wing planes and 26 helicopters. The resolution of the imagery means we can't say for sure that all of these aircraft came fled from Afghanistan. However, what we can see fits almost perfectly with an official statement from the government of Uzbekistan that 46 aircraft, 22 fixed-wing types and 24 helicopters, coming out of Afghanistan had been "forced" to land. I'll be looking to see a few Super Tucanos on eBay...
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Hopefully their new home will be in the Panjshir Valley. It's the late 1990's all over again, with an even less competent but more compromised and vindictive Clinton (no, not Hillary).
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As long as the Federal Reserve is holding all of Afghanistan's gold in New York and Afghanistan's cash reserves are in banks outside of the country the Taliban are flat broke. They will be taking hostages as bargaining chips as soon as they realize this.
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He saves his aggression for when his wife makes him go out to buy her Jheri Curl...
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Brit Paratroopers are running patrols into Kabul to rescue their cits, and the 82nd Airborne Commander on the ground is refusing to go, read the article and realize how sold out the AmCits in Kabul are by their cowardly, disloyal Bidet administration:
#8
There's another Kenny Rogers song about when its time to walk into the bar where the assholes hang out, and locking the door behind you.
Should have been packed up and left like a gin milk fizz when Bagram folded shop. Looks like State didn't issue a GTFO for optics, and everyone was like, oh, its fine, because State didn't say GTFO.
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.
[Breaking Defense OCT 2020] Speaking publicly and in alarming terms about a partisan political issue does not come naturally to retired generals and former senior national security leaders. These public servants, many of them wartime commanders and leaders, are not given to histrionics or hyperbole. So when hundreds (it’s now up to 780) of national security leaders — including 22 retired four-star general officers and five former Defense Secretaries who’ve served in both Republican and Democratic administrations — put their names on a public letter supporting former Vice President Joe Biden’s run for the White House, Breaking Defense contributor James Kitfield interviewed a cross section of them to find out why.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime American foreign correspondent Joseph L. Galloway, best known for his book recounting a pivotal battle in the Vietnam War that was made into a Hollywood movie, has died. He was 79.
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...mindless ferocity in a turban...
