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The photograph is that of "Miss Inez Thomas of Dallas, Texas." Who represented her city as the Duchess of Dallas at the 1916 San Antonio Fiesta
Inez was the daughter of a multimillionaire Dallas businessman Mike Huffman Thomas, who had seven children with his wife, Emma Moss Thomas. Beginning in her high school years, Inez was constantly in the social news, and her attendance at parties, teas, and dances was reported. She attended a two-year college in Washington D. C., Fairmont Seminary. She graduated in 1915 and returned to Dallas to make her debut as an Idlewild debutante in fall 1915. She was participant at the 1916 Fiesta San Antonio, where she acquired the title of Duchess. She continued her life as a socialite, constantly giving parties at her home or at the Dallas County Club.
At the age of 33 years old (1926) Inez married Joseph William Rubush, a man 5 years her junior, at the East Dallas Christian Church. Mr. Rubush, who was a veteran of World War I had received the Croix de Guerre for his services. During World War II he served three years as a captain in the Chemical Warfare Service. He committed suicide on 18 November 1948 at age 51. Their only child Sharon made her debut as an Idlewild debutante in 1949. In 1950 Sharon married Thomas Walter Blake, Jr.
Inez re-married in the 1950's (date unknown) to a gentleman, Mr. (FNU) Schubert. Inez Thomas Rubush Schubert died July 23, 1974. At the time of her death she was resident on Lomo Alto Drive, Fort Worth, a member of Lovers Lane Methodist Dallas, Texas.
It is likely Inez Thomas was a patron of Neiman-Marcus, which was founded in 1907. I'm certain this gorgeous and elegant lady was a valued and regular patron! By looking at the cut of her dress and associated accessories, Inez was also a fashion leader in her social circle.
In Dallas, Inez likely danced fox trots and waltzes, maybe even the Charleston, to the music of Jimmie Joy's Baker Hotel Orchestra as well as Jack and Fred Gardeners' Orchestras; While she was in San Antonio, she would have danced at the St. Anthony Hotel to the same bands because they played in both venues with the names of the hotels changed where appropriate.
Portrait of one fine-looking Texan, made all the more so by her realization that a slight tilt up minimizes the effect of a generously-sized nose. Note the focal point is right at her irises; everything else is soft.
And perhaps M. Murcek has had this 'passing thought':
Oh, to be the Duke to such a Duchess.
"Another ladle of Tex-Mex chili to go with your Pearls lager, m'lady?"
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FYI - The bio with accompanying comments have been compiled and edited from diverse sources, available on the innerwebs' found in the USA. No fewer than 19 sites were visited to glean and verify information on the subject as well as supporting information.
I appreciate the Editor & Chief of Rantburg Fred P. choice for providing us with a challenging post on such a lovely lady from the early 20th Century.
CORRECTION: A @usairforce C-17 Globemaster III safely transported 823 Afghan citizens from Hamid Karzai International Airport Aug. 15, 2021. This is a record for this aircraft.⁰ The initial count of 640 inadvertently included only adults. 183 children were also aboard. https://t.co/DL6wP8WTQV
[Atlantic] When people ask me what I did in Afghanistan, I tell them that I hung out in planes and listened to the Taliban. My job was to provide "threat warning" to allied forces, and so I spent most of my time trying to discern the Taliban’s plans. Before I started, I was cautioned that I would hear terrible things, and I most certainly did. But when you listen to people for hundreds of hours—even people who are trying to kill your friends—you hear ordinary things as well.
On rare occasions, they could even make me laugh. One winter in northern Afghanistan, where the average elevation is somewhere above 7,000 feet and the average temperature is somewhere below freezing, the following discussion took place:
"Go place the IED down there, at the bend; they won’t see it."
"It can wait ’til morning."
"No, it can’t. They [the Americans] could come early, and we need it down there to kill as many as we can."
"I think I’ll wait."
"No, you won’t! Go place it."
"Do I have to?"
"Yes! Go do it!"
"I don’t want to."
"Brother, why not? We must jihad!"
"Brother ... It’s too cold to jihad."
Yes, this joke came in the middle of plans to kill the men I was supposed to protect, but it wasn’t any less absurd for it. And he wasn’t wrong. Even in our planes with our fleeces and hand warmers, it really was too damn cold for war.
Read: This is not the Taliban 2.0
In 2011, about 20 people in the world were trained to do the job I did. Technically, only two people had the exact training I had. We had been formally trained in Dari and Pashto, the two main languages spoken in Afghanistan, and then assigned to receive specialized training to become linguists aboard Air Force Special Operations Command aircraft. AFSOC had about a dozen types of aircraft, but I flew solely on gunships. These aircraft differ in their specifics, but they are all cargo planes that have been outfitted with various levels of weaponry that range in destructive capability. Some could damage a car at most; others could destroy a building. In Afghanistan, we used these weapons against people, and my job was to help decide which people. This is the non-euphemistic definition of providing threat warning.
I flew 99 combat missions for a total of 600 hours. Maybe 20 of those missions and 50 of those hours involved actual firefights. Probably another 100 hours featured bad guys discussing their nefarious plans, or what we called "usable intelligence." But the rest of the time, they were just talking, and I was just eavesdropping.
Besides making jokes about jihad, they talked about many of the same things you and your neighbors talk about: lunch plans, neighborhood gossip, shitty road conditions, how the weather isn’t conforming to your exact desires. There was infighting, name-calling, generalized whining. They daydreamed about the future, made plans for when the Americans would leave, and reveled in the idea of retaking their country.
But mostly, there was a lot of bullshitting.
Pashto and Dari naturally lend themselves to puns and insults—there is a lot of rhyming inherent to the languages, and many words share double meanings. Part of this bullshitting stemmed from a penchant for repetition. The Afghans I met would repeat a name or statement, or anything really, dozens of times to make a point. But this repetition intensified when talking over radios. A man named Kalima taught me this. None of us know who Kalima was, though it’s generally accepted that he wasn’t anyone important. But someone—we don’t know who—really wanted to talk to him. So he called his name.
He called his name again and again, at least 50 times, in every possible combination of syllabic emphasis. I listened the whole time, but Kalima never responded. Maybe his radio was off. Maybe he just didn’t want to talk to this guy. Maybe he was dead. It’s possible that I had killed him. I never heard a Kalima answer the radio after that.
All this bullshitting flowed naturally into the Taliban’s other great verbal talent, the pep talk. No sales meeting, movie set, or locker room has ever seen the level of hyper-enthusiastic preparation that the Taliban demonstrated before, during, and after every battle. Maybe it was because they were well practiced, having been at war for the majority of their lives. Maybe it was because they genuinely believed in the sanctity of their mission. But the more I listened to them, the more I understood that this perpetual peacocking was something they had to do in order to keep fighting.
Read: Why the Afghan army folded
How else would they continue to battle an enemy that doesn’t think twice about using bombs designed for buildings against individual men? This isn’t an exaggeration. Days before my 22nd birthday, I watched fighter jets drop 500-pound bombs into the middle of a battle, turning 20 men into dust. As I took in the new landscape, full of craters instead of people, there was a lull in the noise, and I thought, Surely now we’ve killed enough of them. We hadn’t.
When two more attack helicopters arrived, I heard them yelling, "Keep shooting. They will retreat!"
As we continued our attack, they repeated, "Brothers, we are winning. This is a glorious day."
And as I watched six Americans die, what felt like 20 Taliban rejoiced in my ears, "Waaaaallahu akbar, they’re dying!"
It didn’t matter that they were unarmored men, with 30-year-old guns, fighting against gunships, fighter jets, helicopters, and a far-better-equipped ground team. It also didn’t matter that 100 of them died that day. Through all that noise, the sounds of bombs and bullets exploding behind them, their fellow fighters being killed, the Taliban kept their spirits high, kept encouraging one another, kept insisting that not only were they winning, but that they’d get us again—even better—next time.
That was my first mission in Afghanistan.
Time went by, and as I learned what different code words meant and how to pick voices out of the sounds of gunfire, I got better at listening. And the Taliban started telling me more. In the spring of 2011, I was on a mission supporting a Special Forces team that had recently been ambushed in a village in northern Afghanistan. We were sent in to do reconnaissance, which sounds impressive, but logistically means flying in a circle for hours on end, watching and listening to locals. We came across some men farming, working a plot of recently tilled land. Or so we thought. The ground team was sure that these were the guys who had attacked them, and that instead of farming, they were in fact hiding weapons in the field.
So we shot them. Of the three men in that field, one had his legs blown off. Another died where he stood. The last was blasted 10 feet away, presumed to be dead from the shock wave obliterating his internal organs. Until he got up and ran away. He and his friends came back, loaded the newly amputated man into a wheelbarrow, and carted him off to a car waiting nearby. It seemed that they were trying to escape, but revenge was just as likely a scenario, and the ground team was worried that they would get more men, or more weapons, and retaliate. But I could hear them, and they didn’t sound interested in retribution.
"Go, drive! We are coming. Abdul was hit. We have him in the car."
"Keep going! Don’t let them shoot us!"
"Yes, we are coming. We will save him."
They were trying to get their friend to a doctor, or at least someone who could save his life. And then their car slowed down.
"No, brother. He’s dead."
The rest of them were no longer a threat, so we let them go.
Throughout my deployment, time and again, our kills outnumbered theirs, they lost ground, and we won. This happened so regularly that I began developing a sense of déjà vu. This feeling isn’t uncommon when you’re deployed; you see the same people, follow the same schedule, and do the same activities day in and day out. But I wasn’t imagining it. We really were flying the same missions, in the same places, re-liberating the same villages we had fought in three years ago. I was listening to the same bullshitting, the same pep talks, and the same planning, often by the same men, that I’d heard before.
On yet another interminable mission, we were supporting a ground team that had gone to a small village to talk with the elder. Together, they were establishing plans to build a well nearby. We circled overhead for a few hours, and nothing interesting happened. No one was doing anything suspicious on the ground; no one was talking about anything remotely militant on the radios. The meeting was successful, so the team headed back to its helicopters. And then the Taliban attacked.
"Move up, they’ve gone to the eastern ditch. They’re running, move up!"
"Bring the big gun; get it ready. They’ll be moving again soon."
The ground team had to sit and wait for its helicopters to be safe to take off.
"Hey, gunship, where are they, what are they doi—fuck, I’m hit."
The Taliban knew that they’d hit the team leader. I know because while I listened to his scream, I heard them celebrating.
"Brother, you got one. Keep going; keep shooting. We can get more!"
"Yes, we will, the gun is work—"
They stopped celebrating, because my plane shot them. This was the worst day of my life. It wasn’t the shooting or the screams or the death that made the day so terrible; I’d seen plenty of that by then. But that day, I finally understood what the Taliban had been trying to tell me.
On every mission, they knew I was overhead, monitoring their every word. They knew I could hear them bragging about how many Americans they’d managed to kill, or how many RPGs they’d procured, or when and where they were going to place an IED. But amid all that hearing, I hadn’t been listening. It finally dawned on me that the bullshitting wasn’t just for fun; it was how they distracted themselves from the same boredom I was feeling as they went through another battle, in the same place, against yet another invading force. But unlike me, when they went home, it would be to the next village over, not 6,000 miles away. Those men in the field may have just been farmers, or maybe they really were hiding the evidence of their assault. Either way, our bombs and bullets meant the young boys in their village were now that much more likely to join the Taliban. And those pep talks? They weren’t just empty rhetoric. They were self-fulfilling prophecies.
Because when it was too cold to jihad, that IED still got planted. When they had 30-year-old AK-47s and we had $100 million war planes, they kept fighting. When we left a village, they took it back. No matter what we did, where we went, or how many of them we killed, they came back.
Read: What we got wrong in Afghanistan
Ten years after my last deployment, and after 20 years of combat with the world’s richest, most advanced military, the Taliban has reclaimed Afghanistan. Whatever delusions existed about whether this would happen or how long it might take have been dispatched as efficiently as the Afghan security forces were by the Taliban over a single week. What little gains have been achieved in women’s rights, education, and poverty will be systematically eradicated. Any semblance of democracy will be lost. And while there might be "peace," it will come only after any remaining forces of opposition are overwhelmed or dead. The Taliban told us this. Or at least they told me.
They told me about their plans, their hopes and dreams. They told me exactly how they would accomplish these goals, and how nothing could stop them. They told me that even if they died, they were confident that these goals would be achieved by their brothers in arms. And I’m sure they would have kept doing this forever.
They told me how they planned to keep killing Americans. They told me the details of these plans: what weapons they would use, where they would do it, how many they hoped to murder. Often, they told me these things while doing the killing. They told me that, God willing, the world would be made in their image. And they told me what so many others refused to hear, but what I finally understood: Afghanistan is ours.
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Just cast's a bright light on how badly we did against a not particularly motivated enemy. COVID zealots are more fanatical than the average jihadi.
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You may win battles with sufficient resources and proper organization. But you will never dominate without sufficient hatred. Unless the west can learn this lesson, it is doomed to fall to jihad, commies, globalists what have you.
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Interesting that this guy posted his description of his job. I had an identical job when I was in Vietnam and haven't talked about it since, except the time my plane got shot up -- and that wasn't job content. I wonder if they've changed the rules or if they don't apply to him.
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Maybe good fodder for stories at the VFW, but it strikes me as way too much detail in terms of our listening capabilities to be published in a magazine.
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They told me how they planned to keep killing Americans... what weapons they would use, where they would do it, how many they hoped to murder. Often, they told me these things while doing the killing. They told me that, God willing, the world would be made in their image.
While I didn't interact with the taliban, I did with baloch and other organized groups. This is not what men discuss. Most of the time it's just desperate bursts of tactical info and sometimes short messages between those manning the comms.
You can recognize where the writer goes into gimme-a-pulitzer territory at times.
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Technically, only two people had the exact training I had.
Others came in with slightly different knowledge bases, so their training to do this or similar jobs had to be specialized to target their particular lacks so that in the end they arrived at the same place, ability-wise. Or a slightly different place, depending on the specific needs for their particular assignments— the US military is keen to add specialized knowledge for a specific task for those capable of absorbing the information. I once met a civilian translator once who had been put through a language course for Bosnian or some such minor European language — only the latest language he’d taken on for the job.
Perhaps our Atlantic journalist was kept unaware of the others before and after him, flying in circles over different areas of operation. It’s a big country, after all, and it’s been ten years by his own report.
Ten years after my last deployment, and after 20 years of combat with the world’s richest, most advanced military, the Taliban has reclaimed Afghanistan. Whatever delusions existed about whether this would happen or how long it might take have been dispatched as efficiently as the Afghan security forces were by the Taliban over a single week. What little gains have been achieved in women’s rights, education, and poverty will be systematically eradicated. Any semblance of democracy will be lost. And while there might be "peace," it will come only after any remaining forces of opposition are overwhelmed or dead. The Taliban told us this. Or at least they told me.
As I recall, the Taliban only ruled from Kabul last time from 1996 to 2001. And it doesn’t look like they’ve learnt all that much since then. Something to ponder.
Translation of German language Tweet:
The (German) Ministry of Foreign Affairs just confirmed something to the ARD studio that Taliban spokesman Naeem had tweeted tonight. Germany is providing 100 million euros in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan. So discussed in Doha / Qatar. ARD is a German public broadcast network.
[HotAir] The Texas Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for school districts to require people to wear masks in classrooms — at least for now.
For cities, counties and school districts that have defied Gov. Greg Abbott by issuing mask mandates in public schools, the Thursday ruling is a victory on a technicality: The high court left in place a Travis County judge’s temporary restraining orders against Abbott’s ban on mask mandates. The court’s order cited a provision that typically requires matters to go to an appellate court before it reaches the state’s highest civil court.
Paxton asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a series of temporary restraining orders issued by state District Judge Jan Soifer that allowed Harris County and eight school districts to mandate masks in public schools. Soifer also ruled that Abbott could not enforce his executive order banning mask mandates “against Texas independent school districts.”
[YNet] - Massive wildfire that raged in Jerusalem for over two days, becoming one of the biggest blazes recorded in recent years, was apparently the result of arson, new satellite images reveal.
According to the satellite imagery provided to Ynet by the United States space agency NASA, the fire started on Sunday at 3pm, at three, unconnected and far away locations, all at the same time. Ever creative Jihad
In light of the announcement that children will receive the COVID vaccine in schools despite her best efforts, Yifat Shasha-Biton must engage in some Introspection after she almost put our children at risk by objecting to to the inoculation being administered in school hours
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Six children hospitalized with post-coronavirus inflammation eight-year-old boy had coronavirus a month ago, and was asymptomatic, and this week he was hospitalized. Because of the scope of the infections, there is concern that this trend will continue to worsen."
"We're talking about a relatively high number of cases, and that's connected to the fact that there is a general rise in infections, and because the children aren't vaccinated," said Dr. Galia Barkai, who heads Sheba Medical Center's Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit.
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Cloud infrastructure is where it's going. Amazon has the lead, but gurgle is a distant single digit player behind MS Azure in second place. It's actually a good thing that companies will need fewer wogs H1B visa holders going forward.
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Yas, of course I'll trust Amazon & Google with my data
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Breitbart News reported last month:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/08/19/facebook-caves-bans-accounts-identified-by-white-house/ On Thursday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted that the administration is identifying posts to Facebook that contain “misinformation” about coronavirus vaccines and is in “regular touch” with the Masters of the Universe. Psaki specifically admitted that the administration is flagging “problematic” posts to Facebook.
Three weeks from now, America will be marking the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. The observances will be muted in New York, but not in Kabul - because that's the privilege of victory. So, ahead of that grim date, I thought we'd revisit August 2001 with a few columns of mine from that last summer.
We began a fortnight ago with the summer of sharks, and continued with racial demagoguery then and now. For this week's entry, I see Joe Biden is under fire for taking off for Camp David as America suffered a pitiful global humiliation. He'd barely been back in Washington for a day before it was decided that he'd heading off for a long weekend back home in Wilmington, Delaware. Apparently, Sleepy Joe finds it hard to sleep at the White House: possibly Trump made sinister modifications to the MyPillows before he left the residence.
Well, it's hard to see that it makes any difference where Biden sleeps as it's only the useless US media still maintaining the pretense that he's exercising executive authority. Sot here, from The Spectator of August 25th 2001, is a column of mine about a far more leisurely presidential break. I wouldn't cite this as my best work, but, quite unintentionally, it captures well the lazy languorous quality of what came to be called America's long "holiday from history":
ACCORDING to his tanned spokesman, George W Bush will cut short his vacation in Crawford, Texas, and return to Washington next Friday, 31st August. The President arrived in Crawford on 4th August and it was thought he intended to stay at least until Labor Day, 3rd September, thus beating Richard Nixon's 1969 summer sojourn and earning his place in history as the taker of the longest-ever presidential vacation. On the other hand, even at a paltry twenty-eight days, it's almost certainly the longest vacation anyone's ever taken in the Greater Waco area. Don't try to book online: the computer will redirect you to more glamorous resorts such as Crawford, Florida, Crawfordsville, Indiana, Crawford Notch, New Hampshire, or the Crawford oil field in the middle of the North Sea between Scotland and Norway. And, if you insist that no, really, you really want to spend a month in Crawford, Texas, the entire site crashes.
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We voted for this. When 9/11 hit, people who have since soured on the whole mess were all in. Boosh belongs at GITMO along with pretty much everyone who came after him. That, of course, ain't happening. Still, we can dream...
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GITMO? No, no, no! They need to be put someplace really miserable. Someplace cold, barren, rocky and windswept. Hmmm. I know, Adak Alaska. I even think there's a decommissioned Naval Air Station there. Put them in drafty barracks with insufficient warm clothing and a reduce calorie diet.
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Before you directed us to Alaska, you were describing a Maine Summer perfectly! - G.W. Bush has a family compound in Kennebunkport, which is isolated on a point, with the super cold Gulf of Maine - Atlantic Ocean surrounding the compound at a 360 degree circumference - If you fell-in the ocean water, I would give you about 25-40 minutes to live before you died of hyperthermia and that's in the summer. In the winter, Maine has been known to reach -40 degrees at high noon, with the ocean literally freezing so solid and thick that 3 ton trucks were known to drive over 1/2 mile deep ocean (Google WWII Winters in Maine) from islands in Casco Bay.
Send him home, the government will only have to spend money on the 24 hour guard in his Isthmus of Bush Compound
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Captain Obvious - please pick up the white courtesy phone...
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If none of the world's largest mining concerns found anything worth exploiting there in the past 20 years, that means it's not there. Afghanistan may be the world's strategic gravel reserve, but nothing more. One trillion. Three trillion. The magic numbers are in as perpetual flux as the COVID stats.
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Confucius say, "Heavenly place,
Afghanistan, fit for great race
Chasing tar-baby, catching
In rosy new patch...
And for watching Brer Rabbit reach space."
[Breitbart] A Texas judge has struck down President Joe Biden’s enforcement orders for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, commonly known as “sanctuary country” orders, that released into the United States countless criminal illegal aliens from local, state, and federal custody.
In a ruling on Thursday, Judge Drew Tipton issued a preliminary nationwide injunction sought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) that prevents the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from implementing the orders that have kept many criminal illegal aliens in the U.S. since Biden took office.
In February, the orders instructed ICE agents not to arrest and deport illegal aliens who had not been identified as terrorists, gang members, or were not recently convicted of an aggravated felony in the U.S.
As a result, illegal aliens charged and convicted of child sex crimes, armed robbery, drunk driving, burglary, cocaine trafficking, grand theft auto, heroin trafficking, credit card fraud, money laundering, and other crimes have been released into American communities rather than being turned over to ICE agents for arrest and deportation.
Tipton’s ruling, though, blocks DHS from continuing to implement the orders:
Although this case involves many issues of administrative and immigration law, its core concerns whether the Executive Branch may implement a policy that directly conflicts with laws that Congress enacted. The answer is no. In the end, through all their detailed explanations of the Executive’s seemingly unending discretion, the Government substantially undervalues the People’s grant of “legislative Powers” to Congress. [Emphasis added]
Because the States have demonstrated that there is a substantial likelihood that portions of the Memoranda direct Executive Branch officials to act in a way that is contrary to Sections 1226(c) and 1231(a)(2), those sections of the Memoranda cannot stand and are hereby enjoined. Additionally, the Court enjoins the sections of the Memoranda described above because the States have demonstrated a substantial likelihood that the policy concerning detention of certain aliens set forth in the Memoranda is arbitrary and capricious under the [Administrative Procedure Act] APA and the Memoranda fail to comply with the APA’s notice and comment requirement. [Emphasis added]
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This Preliminary Injunction is granted on a nationwide basis and prohibits enforcement and implementation in every place the Government has jurisdiction to enforce and implement the January 20 and February 18 Memoranda. [Emphasis added]
In addition, Tipton orders the Biden administration to provide a monthly report on the number of illegal aliens who were released into the U.S. the previous month after ICE agents did not detain them.
The court asks for each illegal aliens’ name, the crime they are charged and were detained for, as well as the reason that they were not detained by ICE agents and the ICE official who made the decision not to detain them.
Tipton orders the nationwide preliminary injunction to remain in effect pending a final resolution in the case “or until a further Order from this Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, or the United States Supreme Court.”
The case is Texas v. U.S., No. 6:21-cv-00016 in United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
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[Townhall] During Thursday's press briefing at the Pentagon, General Hank Taylor and Press Secretary John Kirby provided an update on the airlift of Americans and Afghan allies out of Kabul before taking questions on the Biden administration's handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
General Taylor reported that in the last 24 hours, the U.S. military footprint grew to number more than 5,200 total troops on the ground at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport and that additional gates for entry to the airfield were opened while the airport remains open and secure.
He also reported that 13 C-17 transport planes had arrived at HKIA with additional troops and equipment and 12 C-17s departed with evacuees.
When asked by Fox News' Jennifer Griffin about how planes conducting the airlift were being fueled, Taylor and Kirby refused to deny whether the United States was buying from the Taliban.
"The assets on KHIA, on the airfield, are what we need to maintain the operations, all operations to support the mission," Taylor responded without answering the question.
Griffin pushed, asking "so that's a no — you're not buying fuel from the Taliban?"
Taylor stepped back from the podium and Kirby stepped in. "There's- um- plenty of fuel sustainment capability at Hamid Karzai Airport and as you know Jen, we also have the ability of our- on our own- our logistics ability to fuel our aircraft as needed," he explained without denying that the U.S. was paying the Taliban for fuel. And 10% for the Big Guy
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It would of course be out of the question to fly those heavily loaded planes out with the minimum necessary fuel and air refuel them with tankers loaded in Saudi Arabia.
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Has anyone asked how much the USA is paying the Taliban to keep the airport "open and secure"?
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So far it looks like 100,000,000 Euros is under, errr, on the table.
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FWIW it’s roughly $30k fuel uplift per turn per wide body. Once upon a time inspected the fuel far,pm at KBL and frankly by now it should be empty. I mean who’s driving the trucks to refuel it (and the pipelines shut down). Gotta wonder how the overfly permits are being approved - by whom? Can you legitimately use a Reach call sign?
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The picture this article paints of officers paying attention to "metrics" reminds me of McNamara and his "free fire zones" and body counts. I thought the military had sworn "never again."
The fact that the old (bad) habits are back is very depressing.
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It’s a shame they are only lightly armed after Gen Milley and That doddering fool Biden left the Taliban all kinds of artillery, armored vehicles, tactical aircraft, helicopters, weapons, ammo, and even a few drones. I admire their bravery and dedication to their own liberty, but the numbers look very bad for them if the Taliban manages to organize effectively as something other than a guerilla and gestapo force.
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USGOV doesn't control all of CONUS. Especially the parts they are purposely igniring, like the southern border.
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The Taliban won’t. Remember they’re tribal and the various clans will eventually fight each other over the spoils of American equip, the cut from the Chinese for mining and so on.
So while the Taliban have all the shiny toys they’ll still to hire mercenaries not to use the stuff but to fix it
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Biden IGNORED calls from Boris for at least 36 hours, and there is still no coordination between brits and us forces. The brits are sending in the Paras in armed patrols to pick up isolated Brit civilians and allies. Why are we not doing the same?
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/\ Without hostages, there is little for Foggy Bottom to negotiate. Can't just load up on the last lift out and pi** it off. Think of the number of staff positions lost.
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Like the guy at Weasel Zippers calls him: President Applesauce Brains...
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“ Biden has struggled to overcome a stutter ever since he was a boy, and has been open about the challenges of public speaking, and the decades of work he put in to improving his presentation.”
BULL. SHIT.
The man was a motormouth who loved nothing so much as the sound of his own voice. Watch any pre-2019 video. He could talk the ears off a brass monkey until he started sun downing.
IMO the key paragraph:
[AmericanConservative] The reality is that America lost its war in Afghanistan more than a decade ago, roughly around the time when CIA officers began bribing aging warlords with Viagra. The Americans knew all about the young boys the tribal leaders kept in their camps; because the sex drug helped Afghan elders rape more boys more often, they were beholden to America’s clandestine service. Losing Afghanistan then is the least of it. When you choose to adopt a foreign cohort’s cultural habits, customs for which the elders of your own tribe would ostracize and perhaps kill you, you have lost your civilization.
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I take his point but inasmuch as this was done by a handful of individuals without civilization's consent with only after the fact discovery I think I'll hold on a little longer.
I think it was far worse in terms of informing the enemy a weakness unnecessarily. Much in the way of killing thousands hard and fast then sending civil engagement as if to apologize. In this case, ' We want to be friends so badly we champion and salute your repulsive lifestyle.'
Most of our global tribal adversaries aren't all that bright. But they are uniformly cunning and know how to observe and take the simplest route to a conclusion, as they remain unburdened with Hamlet-esque psycho drama.
I could go on about the Bush administration's lukewarm non-criticism of liberated Afghanistan's murderous intolerance in the Rahman case, Western governments & miltary siding with Afghan and OIC demands for an end to free speech civil rights in the West, while humiliating themselves before the murderous tantrum throwing 'Noble People of Afghanistan', etc.
The point is that the West of the 21st Century has ZERO civilizational confidence.
This is why, since 2001 our NATO governments have hallucinated the presence of Afghan 'allies' even though liberated Afghanistan's political posture (no peaceful coexistence but submission to Rushdie rules) was officially more hostile than the post Stalin Soviet Union's.
This is why we are failing, miserably and dangerously.
Scrapping "Infinite Justice" and pursuing "Enduring Freedom" made sure that freedom was doomed.
[NavyTimes] The 78th secretary of the Navy, Carlos Del Toro, who as sworn in Aug. 9, released a message to the fleet laying out the “four Cs” that the former officer sees as vital challenges to the department: China, culture, climate and COVID. and cRacism
In the Aug. 10 message, Del Toro echoed other military leaders in warning of China’s ascendance and its goal of challenging U.S. military superiority.
“We will not let this happen,” he wrote. “We will deter China’s aggression, protect our national security and preserve the peace.”
When it comes to culture, Del Toro wrote that “every Sailor and Marine of all races, genders, religions and ethnicities must treat one another with dignity and respect,” and that such behavior ensures combat readiness.
He called climate change an issue that “exacerbates every challenge we face, from naval installations to frequent deployments.
On the COVID-19 front, Del Toro called for vaccinating the force “with expedience.”
“If we are not vaccinated, we are neither deployable nor combat ready,” he wrote. “Immediately, the Navy and Marine Corps will make every effort to vaccinate and care for our force and defeat the scourge Covid has inflicted on our troops.”
Del Toro’s stance on vaccinations follows a Pentagon announcement this month that vaccines will soon become mandatory for all servicemembers.
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I didn't even bother to read it. I'd imagine "more drag queen storytime" is high on the list.
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When it comes to culture, Del Toro wrote that “every Sailor and Marine of all races, genders, religions and ethnicities must treat one another with dignity and respect,” and that such behavior ensures combat readiness. He called climate change an issue that “exacerbates every challenge we face, from naval installations to frequent deployments.
Well, in terms of reality and this administration, two outta four isn't bad. Trouble is that in practice China will go straight to the back of the line and stay there.
Mike
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I was never in the Navy, but I did live in dormitories for 8 years (private high school, college) dignity and respect were not on the table. I have trouble imagining the Navy as being any better in that regard.
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What he addressing the theatric version of The Navy, like a touring Broadway show? Or was this the fighting Navy, the military version?
A tower cum red and white dome
Loomed over the old Soldiers' Home
Till it got in the way
And was toppled one day,
But the bubbes all missed it. Well, some.
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True story, btw: Jewish old ladies' home practically in the shadow of the rusty old thing (which was visible from, and loved by, pretty much everything in Boston that had a soul).
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...For the record, in terms of aircraft, they got diddly that nobody else didn't already have - no F-16s, no A-10s, no AH-64s. On top of that, maintenance was already overwhelmingly in the hands of US and European techs, who ain't there no more.
What they did get was US biometrics tech, and I'm sure that the CCP and Russians are lining up to pay for that.
Mike
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The planes can be broken down into spare parts, but the people who broker such stuff are well known to the intel community. Now, if it was only a priority to deal with it...
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Now the jamaat asks the ISI to procure them for use against America or allies. If they see some worth in it, the PAF trains pashtun assets in their use and if successful, pins the whole thing on Taliban.
Then Pakistain 'stands in solidarity' with the hurt party and wags its head, offering to 'bring the elements to justice'. If accused, Imran Khan tut tuts and says 'Those ungrateful Americans! Doubting us?!'
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I'm having trouble getting an ABS control module for my 2008 Jeep Liberty. The part, if I can find it used, needs to be flashed with the VIN of my car to work. You think any significant part of an F-16 is any different?
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What they did get was US biometrics tech
...and the secure network mesh technology, which may be chinese anyway.
I'm having trouble getting an ABS control module for my 2008 Jeep Liberty.
Ah'm certain if the Stryker had an anti-braking skid system, one could be found.
[PJ] America’s humiliation in Afghanistan goes on. It’s going to get worse, quite possibly much, much worse, before it’s over, assuming it ever is. But the many reasons it didn’t have to be this way are already coming into clearer focus.
Start with the decision made sometime before Independence Day 2021 for the July 6 U.S. pullout from Bagram Airfield, the massive operations and supply center for air power, the decisive element of the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan.
That the Bagram withdrawal was pulled off at night without prior notice to our Afghan allies was a huge warning sign of the epic disaster President Joe Biden was setting about. Watching closely were the Taliban, Beijing, Moscow, and numerous other centers of evil in the modern world.
But not only was Bagram the heart of U.S. air cover for its own withdrawing forces and for those it built up in the Afghan military, Bagram was an essential asset in the inevitable evacuation of tens of thousands of American civilians and Afghans who helped the U.S.
Bagram could also have provided decisive leverage for the U.S. in the post-withdrawal period, especially in the event of the Taliban victory over the central Afghan government in Kabul. It’s not entirely analogous, but the U.S. ability to maintain its naval base at Guantanamo in Cuba is instructive in this regard.
Another key decision that was made prior to Independence Day didn’t prompt an embarrassingly well-publicized midnight departure because it was carried out behind closed bureaucratic doors in Foggy Bottom.
That was the "pausing" of a special program then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo established to coordinate and expedite the emergency evacuation of U.S. forces and civilians in crisis situations.
Pompeo saw the need for special capabilities that weren’t coalesced in the State Department, so, being a military veteran, he set in motion the creation and establishment of the Crisis and Contingency Response (CCR) bureau.
[France24] After years of accusations that Islamabad was covertly backing the Taliban, Pakistan overtly hailed the fall of Kabul on Sunday. Experts say geostrategic concerns about its enemy India motivate Pakistan’s pro-Taliban stance — making it unlikely to change course, even amid fears that the militants’ control of Afghanistan accentuates the jihadist threat at home.
Islamabad’s reaction to the Taliban’s victory was the opposite of the despair in Western capitals: Their triumph showed that Afghans had "broken the shackles of slavery", Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan asserted.
Khan’s special assistant Raoof Hasan framed the fall of Kabul — for many, a moment encapsulated by footage of hundreds of Afghans running alongside a departing US plane, desperately trying to flee — as a "virtually smooth shifting of power from the corrupt Afghan government to the Taliban".
Perhaps most tellingly, Pakistani Climate Minister Zartaj Gul Wazir singled out the country’s perennial antagonist India as the audience for her delight, in a subsequently deleted tweet: "India gets an appropriate gift for its Independence Day".
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This should actually come as a surprise to no one.
[Aljazeera] The United Kingdom says it will welcome as many as 20,000 Afghans under a new resettlement programme that will give priority to women, girls and religious and other minorities, according to reports in British news outlets.
The scheme aimed at those seen "most at risk of human rights abuses and dehumanising treatment by the Taliban" will offer a safe and legal route to Britain, the Times newspaper reported on Tuesday. About 5,000 people are expected to arrive in the UK in its first year.
[Conservative Wire] Hillary Clinton’s team should be sweating bullets after the latest update from Special Counsel John Durham.
Durham is presenting evidence to a grand jury regarding his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.
According to The Washington Post, Durham is focusing on whether someone lied to the FBI and gave them false evidence.
If someone working for Clinton’s team was involved with the unverified dossier or gave the FBI fabricated evidence to jumpstart the Trump-Russia investigation, that could be a crime.
This could also pertain to ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who was hired by Democrats and allies connected to Clinton’s team to compile the salacious, unverified anti-Trump dossier.
The dossier played a huge role in jumpstarting the Trump-Russia investigation.
"It has struck me from the start as a fool’s errand at best, and a political task at worst, but to shut it down would give the appearance of political interference that would be unwise," said former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade.
From The Washington Post:
Steele had been hired to look into Trump by an opposition research group working for the law firm representing Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Durham’s most recent inquiries, people familiar with the matter say, have focused in part on the authenticity of data given to the FBI about alleged cyber links between the former president’s company and Alfa-Bank of Russia — a theory pushed to journalists by some computer scientists in the fall of 2016 on the basis of purported server connections they had discovered.
The theory — which generated public pushback after it was published by Slate — essentially posited that Domain Name System lookups from Alfa Bank servers to a server with a Trump Organization-linked domain could signal a secret communications channel.
One of the researchers told the New Yorker in a story published in 2018 that his lawyer passed along the data to the FBI. Michael Sussmann, a Perkins Coie lawyer whose firm represented the DNC and the Clinton campaign, testified to the House Intelligence Committee in December 2017 that he talked with the FBI’s then-general counsel, Jim Baker, in September 2016 about the information. Baker testified that he referred the matter to investigators.
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And then Cyndy will sue Durham for slandering her dead husband.
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#5^^^July 2016 the farce began as I recall, August 2021...Durham report close to release... almost as if the authors are relaying on the media and public's poor grasp of math and the law.
At least two people have been killed after the #Taliban opened fire at a crowd celebrating independence day in #Asadabad, witnesses said (updates)https://t.co/DFnGHG2xOv
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All three have — thus far — very mild symptoms, which is what the vaccine is supposed to produce for those who don’t fight off infection altogether.
But testing positive to a nasal swab is not the same as being sick in any case — the concern is when the thing multiplies and moves from the nose to the lungs. It’s just like final daughter, who spent so much time in hospitals before she came to us that she now has MRSA resident in one nostril, where most of the time it sits quietly — her health has improved to the point that she hasn’t been hospitalized in need of the really strong intravenous antibiotics in over a year.
[EN.MEHRNEWS] Speaking to IRIB TV on Tuesday, former Iranian Ambassador to Afghanistan Fada-Hossein Maleki made the remarks in reaction to the ongoing development in Afghanistan and the flee of Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... from the country in the wake of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... advances.Ghani's decision of disarming the Afghan Army, surrendering, and finally fleeing the country was treason, he said.
Referring to the determining role of Ghani in recent Afghanistan developments, Maleki noted that Ashraf Ghani had a mission to hand over the country to the Taliban.
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Yah think?
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The area attacked tonight in the Qalamoun region has been subject to repeated Israeli airstrikes dating back to 2015. Some of those strikes reportedly targeted Hezbollah weapons shipments and Syrian positions. #Syria#Israel
Targets of tonight’s strikes reportedly near Qara in the Qalamoun region of Syria near the Syrian-Lebanon border and Damascus International Airport area pic.twitter.com/jOBp2ExFB7
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Can't imagine how desperate that parent is. Or what she thinks is coming. That she should think her kid has a better chance with a bunch of foreign soldiers than a place run by the Taliban
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Playing Devils Advocate.
Mother gets child to USA,
Child is granted USA Refugee Status Visa,
Mother manages to access US Embassy there or in neighboring country.
Mother uses child as USA travel ticket.
Mother is placed on US Welfare & related help. Then placed in a Afghani community for voting reasons.
Mother meets and marries a Naturalized Afghani Islamic and raises the child and others as such.
Mother and child and hubby live 10,000x's better than they lived in Afghanistan.
The Afghani Community grows and in 5 years they have community control voting power.
They elect a Afghani Islamic mayor and councilmen to run the community.
The Islamic Mayor and councilmen gradually impose Sharia Rules. As Covid-28AZ is used to mandate Burka's and face veils/Masks for infection prevention.
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^^^ Yep, pretty much. Colonizers one and all. I don't care about whatever flack my opinion might draw. We need massive reverse immigration in this country. All of the non European 3rd world folks have to go.
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Morning news does what I call The Bullshit Montage, where they find five or six 3-4 second clips about the day's narrative, and run them on a loop to a monologue, usually outsourced from a more professional or an official narrator.
This was part of that montage.
Wife's first reaction, she thought it was staged. She wasn't that cynical two years ago, but the manager caste hadn't shown themselves to be total muppets then either.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Last week, 41 aircraft of foreign countries (29 reconnaissance aircraft and 12 UAVs) conducted aerial reconnaissance along the borders of the Russian Federation and were tracked by Russian radar.
No violations of Russian airspace were allowed. Infographics with data from the RF Ministry of Defense were published on August 20 by the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.
In total, the pilots of the Russian Aerospace Forces performed 224 flight shifts at 68 airfields as part of combat training. Military transport aircraft made more than 900 flights.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the armed forces, within the framework of combat training, carried out about 13,000 practical measures at 135 training grounds. About two thousand driving lessons were completed, of which 50% were at night. The paratroopers performed about seven thousand parachute jumps.
More than 100 submarines, surface ships and support vessels guarded the maritime borders last week.
As part of the state defense order, BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles and KamAZ-4350 vehicles were repaired and delivered to the troops.
As reported by IA REGNUM , 33 foreign reconnaissance aircraft approached the borders of Russia last week.
For a given value of inclusive that only includes the Talibs and excludes everyone else, just like the first time round.
[EN.MEHRNEWS] After the Taliban ...Arabic for students... took over Kabul and other cities from the former Afghan government forces they held a presser in Kabul on Tuesday afternoon.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the front man of the group started the presser by greeting the attending global media.
Mujahid said Afghanistan is now an independent country after expelling foreign troops. He said that Afghans have the right to be independent.
He declared Afghanistan an Islamic Emirate. He added that "we do not want any external and internal enemies."
A strong Islamic and inclusive government will be formed very soon, according to Mujahid.
The front man assured the residents of Kabul that their security will be guaranteed, adding there will be full security for all diplomatic missions and aid organizations.
The front man further assured all countries and the international community that they will not be threatened from Afghanistan.
He further said that Afghans have the right to have their own regulations and rules.
He added that women can have activities and work and go to school based on the Islamic rules. He stressed that women will not be discriminated against based on Islamic Sharia. He said that the Taliban are committed to the rights of women under Islamic laws.
The Taliban front man concluded by saying that media can continue their work in Afghanistan on the condition that they do not endanger Afghans unity.
In answer to questions put forward by journalists, mujahid called on Afghans not to leave the country and return to live in their homeland. He reiterated a general amnesty for all Afghan officials who worked with the former government.
He later said that "Our struggle was to form an Islamic government."
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Reruns. I've seen this part before. Who controls the power. Who supply's the water. I go home. In walks the bureaucrats. Old blood disputes addressed with a flare of finality.
[TASS] The Russian and Syrian military significantly reduced the capabilities of turbans active in Syria but attempts to present some groups as part of the political opposition complicate the fight against terrorism, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Vasily Nebenzya said, addressing the UN Security Council on Thursday.
"Thanks to the consistent efforts of the Russian and Syrian military, the capabilities of terrorist organizations active in Syria, namely ISIS, have been significantly reduced," he pointed out. "At the same time, some terrorist cells carry on with their activities and still pose a serious threat," Nebenzya added.
According to the Russian envoy, the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... group formed on the basis of the Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... organization is the biggest one. "According to various estimates, its strength ranges between 10,000 and 15,000. The fight against this terrorist organization is complicated by attempts to present it as part of the political opposition," Nebenzya said.
"Hurras ad-Din, a branch of al-Qaeda in Syria, is another terrorist organization that continues to pose a danger in the region," he noted, adding: "Various sources estimate its strength between 3,500 and 5,000 members, half of whom are foreign Death Eaters."
"Russia will continue to provide the necessary assistance to the Syrian authorities in combating the terrorists," the Russian envoy emphasized.
#Georgia police shot and killed a motorist who had been "driving erratically" before leading officers on a brief chase near #Atlanta, authorities say. pic.twitter.com/QmYglWKue4
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Monica Brown, the driver's biological aunt and adoptive mom, said she's troubled by the video and believes her loved one didn't need to be shot.
"I feel like this was excessive force," she told NBC News on Thursday. "He couldn't go anywhere. They surrounded him."
I agree 👍 wit Mo'nika (show it to me baby) {yeah dats da ting....nice } Oh Sweet --- I agree Wit d lustful lady -- - He b drivin like he always waz, didn't need to b shot - Remember dis Erotic drivers, dis could B U --- Yours Sonny
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^ "Devonte Dawayne Brown, meet Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" It's a demographic long shot, but just for kicks put me down for 'should've shot our own damn suspect." Something about the reserved tone...
Refused to exit the vehicle or comply with lawful orders.
Possible drugs, weapon and etc.. in the car.
Decided to engage in Felony fleeing, which required pursuit thru public streets with pedestrians. Causing great harm and endangerment to the general public.
Avoid more attempts to stop.
Was finally hemmed in / boxed in. Repeatedly order out of the car and refused.
Started RAMMING police cars and driving towards officers attempting to remove him. Using a Vehicle as a deadly weapon.
Still refusing to surrender, attacking police and police cars with his vehicle in attempts to continue Fleeing. The suspect with pistol in the car was shot.
Devonte Dwayne Brown did the pretty much the same thing before. "Police had previously encountered Brown on June 3, when they charged him with a count of obstruction in connection with another attempted traffic stop..."
OUTSTANDING WARRANT
Maybe why he was fleeing?
Newton Co. 07/12/2017 Child Support Arrest Order # 91249
PREVIOUS ARRESTS
Doing a internet check uncovered multiple criminal and traffic records matching the name "Devonte Dwayne Brown" that also show related family as "Monica Brown". So he has a history of other interactions with the GA. Police officers.
[All Africa] There are doubts that most of the people that who are surrendering to military authorities are not actual Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... fighters but those trapped in enclaves, sources told the Daily Trust. The few among them who carried out arms against the state and locals before they surrender lost out of the power game and were left with no option but to go for the "amnesty window" availed them by the federal government, it was learnt.
When contacted on Wednesday, the Director of Defence Information (DDI), Maj.-Gen. Olufemi Sawyer, dismissed the claim while urging Nigerians to stop heating the polity.
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Like slavery in the US, most everyone involved is dead now. F*ck white guilt.
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M. Murcek: you miss the absolute gall of this.
slavery in the US wasn't run by a German occupation force.
"What about Poland's sins?" is a complete non sequitur from a treasonous psychopathic idiot trying not to talk about all the people who have fallen from airplanes on his watch.
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/\.....is a complete non sequitur from a treasonous psychopathic idiot trying not to talk about all the people who have fallen from airplanes on his watch.
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Hair splitting for a totalitarian turd. I totally agree with your take, Thing, but it's all of a piece too.
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I understand the desperation of the people who fell from airplanes. Maybe they should have made more of an effort sooner?
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What happened in Poland had a certain amount of tacit approval and connivance. Don't try to say otherwise.
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Tacit approval and connivance happened everywhere the Nazis were in control. So, prosecute those who did. Oh, they're dead? So, prosecute their heirs ad infinitum.
I am so sick to death of this genetic guilt schidt.
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As Slavs, the Poles were slated for their own genocide after the Nazis had cleared the slate of Jews, Gypsies, and the handicapped... and won their war against the Soviet Union. They were in an impossible situation themselves, and then the Nazis pitted them against the Jews in their midst.
But this is really about the current squabble between Israel and Poland about no longer returning Jewish property or something. With all else that’s been going on in the world, I haven’t been paying much attention to that — and neither should Secretary of State Blinken.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] At the very moment the Biden crime family administration ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... was being convulsed by its humiliating strategic failure in Afghanistan, the international oil cartel and the adjacent producers known as "OPEC-plus" added insult to injury with their defiant answer. As Rooters reported it, the major oil producers (including Russia) let word slip that they "believe oil markets do not need more oil than they already plan to release in the coming months."
On the day Biden was elected, Brent crude oil was under $40 per barrel. Today, it is nearly $75 per barrel. Likewise, average gasoline prices are currently 48% higher than they were the day Biden squeaked out his narrow, no-coattails win over former President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... Biden’s request of OPEC, as we noted previously, evinced a belief that environmentalists in the United States are easily fooled — that he can placate them by restricting domestic production while simultaneously calling for more imported oil that releases exactly the same amount of carbon dioxide when burnt.
But the oil-producing nations’ response to Biden is also evidence of how much respect and diplomatic prestige he has cost the U.S. in the last week.
Biden’s gross bungling in Afghanistan, followed by his appalling attempt on national television Monday to blame everyone but himself, points to a president who has apparently lost touch with reality.
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Reopen the pipeline from Canada and open up the US production you stopped Asshole Joe
[CFP] Original title: These two won't be alive long
Historic defiance against Taliban by Afghan nationals. Locals in Kabul replace the Taliban flag with the Afghan national tricolour flag at the famous Abdul Haq Square. Loud noise cheering from behind audible. Several protests against Taliban held, waving the Afghan flag.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Tropical Storm Henri is expected to become a HURRICANE with wind speeds of 85mph before it hits New England and Canada next week with National Weather Service warning those in its path to 'monitor it'. for those wondering, Obama's estate is protected pretty well from storms that travel east of it, even though it is only a few feet above sea level. There is a barrier island protecting the inlet that borders the estate and the likely path of the storm is east of Martha's Vineyard so his estate would feel the weaker part of the storm. Of course things could change.
Lots of storms all of a sudden. Is this normal or unusual, and if unusual are they extremely unusual or just a bit out of the ordinary?
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3 Hurricanes in a WEEK - Nasty Weather !
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Raj - You are a Crazy Man & We all KNOW IT !
Your Reply is As Expected ---
Only Thing We ASK is
Please Check In as Your House Passes Halifax Nova Scotia
So we know you are OK 👌
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☺ House Speaker Pelosi blames Trump'ers
for Henri threatening Massachusetts.
She went on to call for Democrats to investigate the application of Pronouns in Naming and the lack of Transgenderism.
Stating just because the storm is still deciding what it wants to be. It should not be forced to be labeled Herricane, Him-acane, Tropical Storm or a North Easterly. Let it decide. ☺
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Raj, I see you survived hurricane Bob. I was in Woburn at the time. I wasn't impressed having suffered through 10 other hurricanes while live in south Alabama and South Carolina
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Henri curved a bit to the left (west) and currently a 2-5' surge is forecast for Martha's Vineyard as well as other parts of the NY, RI and MA coast. This assumes the storm will reach minimal hurricane intensity but come ashore as a Tropical Storm.
this would be enough to do some physical damage but not catastrophic by any means
fwiw, Hurricane Bob in 1991, which came ashore near Newport RI with about 100mph winds, produced a general 5-8' surge but in places it exceeded 12'. Property damage was well over $1B, several lives were lost and it caused extensive beach erosion,
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Can we ignore anything less than seriously major storms, please? I don’t know enough to judge when articles on the subject are submitted, so please choose your articles carefully — we had 89 articles published today, which is a bit much of the unimportant stuff when there is a major situation using up bandwidth. We spend more time on the fun stuff when the world is quieter.
My heartfelt thanks to you all for making Rantburg the wonderful place that it is.
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Tropical Storm HENRI near hurricane strength to become the first 21st Century for NE; (1st) NE hurricane in 30 Years! Will effect Northern New Jersey, New York City and All New England States
Important enough ?
The Northeast megalopolis is the most populous megalopolis located entirely in the United States, with over 50 million residents, as well as the most urbanized megalopolis in the United States and the megalopolis with the world's largest economic output.
I have no idea, my dear. Is it that much worse than the usual? Lord Garth and Raj don’t seem to think it’s terrifying, though Lord Garth posted the article, whereas you are concerned. I depend on Rantburgers to put in perspective for me the many, many things you know that I don’t.
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On July 8th 2021, as a month’s worth of rain deluged the city inside of two hours, the vulnerability of the subway went on full display in videos of commuters wading waist-deep into pool-like stations.
That was just a severe weather front lasting 2 hours - Henri is going to be a full time job of survival - the infrastructure - water systems, electrical lines & substations, communication hubs, cell towers have not been challenged by a hurricane 🌀 in 3 Decades.
So yea, I sent in a link for your consideration for tomorrows RB Post - If this doesn't meet the threshold - don't post - your the moderator/editor-
The Worlds Premier Economic Region
Most Concentrated Megalopolis Region in the USA
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Thank you for explaining, Glereper Gleamble3946. I noticed your article in the hopper — it’ll be published along with the rest in half an hour. I’ve added a link to this discussion so all our readers will have this perspective.
"Intelligence and rationalism are not in themselves revolutionary. But technical thinking is foreign to all social traditions: the machine has no tradition. One of Karl Marx’s seminal sociological discoveries is that technology is the true revolutionary principle, beside which all revolutions based on natural law are antiquated forms of recreation. A society built exclusively on progressive technology would thus be nothing but revolutionary; but it would soon destroy itself and its technology."
— Carl Schmitt
Understanding the true significance of events is, at least in some sense, a task best left to historians. Even the fall of the Roman empire can appear as something akin to the normal state of things for the people living through it; the true historical significance of something is generally only clear well after the fact, and every new generation has its own notion of the true meaning of history. To the people living in Germany in 1450, the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest surely meant something very different than it did to the german nationalists of the 19th century. For the former, if people thought about the battle at all, it merely represented a particularly nasty defeat suffered by a long dead empire. To the people struggling to unite the german nation under the banner of a single strong state, the roman defeat by the teutons appeared as a prefiguration of their own political and national destiny.
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I think the true irony of the ascendance of a technologically driven world is that as we move into more unforgiving terrain, replicants and alien predators on Earth, trips to hostile planets as envisioned in Alien and Starship Troopers, human survival will dictate a certain harsh practicality that will leave no room for parlor guessing games about what might work. People like Brennand and Panetta will not be remotely up to the task. A very different type will emerge. With any luck those people will look more like Paul Artreides than Reinhard Heydrich.
But it could go either way...
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He's not for everyone. I've never read any of the Thomas Covenant books. Not my type of story. In interviews, Donaldson is quite bitter about writing and feels he's gotten a bad shake doing it. The Man Who books I still think are quite good...
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And I did organize an email campaign some years back to try to get J. Michael Straczynski to do the Gap Into books as a series of movies ala Babylon 5. Needless to sat I was not successful.
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In many respects, Donaldson's take on the industry mirrors Harlan Ellison's distaste for how Roddenberry mutilated his screen play for a Star Trek episode that aired as City on the Edge of Forever.
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I just can't get "swords and sorcery." I like hard sci-fi. The market for the former is enormous, almost nil for the latter.
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City on the Edge of Forever was in many respects a seminal Star Trek episode. Really. Jim Kirk and Joan Collins. Spock does miracles in a distant past. Actual history comes into play. Seldom did so much come together so well in a prime time TV show. Rod Serling was probably even impressed.
I don't even have a TV bundle these days. It's all crap...
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Presented in its entirely, unedited. by Seyed Mohammad Marandi
[AlMayadeen] Roughly 20 years ago, after the Taliban’s crushing defeat in Afghanistan and the complete withdrawal of support from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia under US pressure, the Quds Force began a dialogue with this seemingly diminished organization. At that time, many thought this to be a meaningless endeavor as the political landscape across the region was changing dramatically. The fact that the Taliban murdered 11 Iranian diplomats and a journalist inside the Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, would have made this new direction seem grossly inappropriate in the eyes of many in Tehran, if publicized.
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[PJ Media] During the presidential campaign, the Biden administration introduced a new word into the lexicon: a "lid." His campaign has called a lid countless times without explanation, meaning it was cutting off all media appearances for that day. The teleprompter broke? His puppeteer has Carpal Tunnel? Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... went on vacation to Camp David just before Afghanistan fell to the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and gave no public remarks on the matter until more than 24 hours after the fall of Kabul. That was a speech Biden delivered from the White House Monday, after which he took no questions from the media.
He went silent again, then delivered another speech on Wednesday, this time on COVID. He took no media questions after the conclusion of this address. He sat for an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Wednesday. That interview has caused yet more problems. Biden’s performance in it has been seen as heartless and incoherent.
Fox News reports that Biden has effectively called a lid, this time indefinitely.
In what appears to be a continuation of his campaign bunker strategy, and following his widely panned interview with ABC News on the stunning fall of Afghanistan, President Biden’s schedule Thursday contained no planned public remarks or press briefings.
The president took all public remarks, press briefings and pressers off his schedule as he and his administration deal with the blowback from their botched troop withdrawal that saw Kabul fall into the hands of the Taliban.
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Just like the election he just has to sit back and leave it up to the Leftist Machine to get him across the obstacles. But this time Trump is not the obstacle. Savage terrorists are the ones on the move and so far The Leftist Machine has no answer yet.
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Reports indicate he has left Washington for his home state of Delaware, or soon will.
I wonder if he's often returning to his private residence because medical treatments and visits by medical personnel can be kept secret more easily because public records laws and FOIA would only fully apply when the POTUS is residing in a public facility.
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If only what's going to hit the fan only affected Bidet voters. I'd love Never Trump GOPe idiots to get an extra helping.
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
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"Nobody does more harm than the person who feels baaaaad about doing it. Heaven protect us all from a difficult decision at the Pentagon..."
- William S. Burroughs
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Biden may have had an, obvious to his doctors, mental breakdown.
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Kamala has been the behind the scene President. She blew it on Afghanistan
(Not that Biden's dementia infested mind could have done better), so she has hoped a plane to get as far away from the fall out as possible.
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lord garth, I'm glad his doctors got right on it, few years late but .
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I met Ed Daly owner of World Airways in Oakland Ca.in 1981. He defied the US State Department and flew Vietnamese orphans out of Da Nang in one of his planes. They tried to stop him by lying about a plane the State Dept were going to use.
Those pricks never change.
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The latest appears to be a shouting match btwn the Cdr, 82nd Abn and the senior British officer at the airport. Evident the CG asked the Brits to STOP their downtown operations and the kak hit the fan.
Special Envoy @Rob_Malley tells @politico: US is thinking of contingencies in case the JCPOA talks collapse including signing a wholly separate deal with new parameters and another is a slate of punitive actions US would impose on Iran in conjunction with the E3
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Up till 2001, soldiers hospitalized were charged for their meals. The rationale was they derive a separate rations allowance* and the government was being reimbursed, something left over for generations.
*housing and rations allowances are separate from 'base' pay because retirement is calculated based upon base pay and the government is a skinflint when it comes to compensation unless its graft for their buddies. Oh, an until recently retirement pay was calculated as a 'benefit' for compensation. Now they deduct from the service members pay for it (along with FICA - social security/medicare).
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Half life of promises from the Biden Boyz is 0.001 femtoseconds. Back to owing the government for a ticket out of a crisis of their making (if you can make it to Kabul Airport alive).
“All passengers will need to reimburse the U.S. Government for the flight. A promissory note for the full cost of the flight, which may exceed $2000 per person, must be signed by each adult passenger before boarding,” the form stated.
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The cable was sent through the "Dissent" channel which indicates a large number of DOS personnel disagreed with ongoing policy. This could be a career killer now that they have been proven right.
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Wait until the TB start lining up the LGBT crowd and start mising them down. The Foggy Bottom crowd will REALLY have something to bitch and mian about.
[YouTube] Meet the man who inspired the character of Big Brother in George Orwell’s “1984”; the man who Churchill’s family would have liked history to bury; the man so secretive, he ordered to burn all his official records upon his death. What was he hiding? This is a journey through the unforgettable, unbelievable and breath-taking life of Brendan Bracken.
Bracker was one of Churchill’s closest advisors and friends, a relationship that particularly bothered Churchill’s wife Clementine. However, Bracken was devoted to Churchill and was instrumental in the most pivotal point of WWII – Churchill’s appointment as Prime Minister. Bracken was newspaper tycoon, Member of Parliament, Wartime minister, Peer of the realm, First Lord of the Admiralty, the first spin doctor, yet a compulsive liar, unmarried and secretive – and a “complete fantasist”.
This film tells the extraordinary story of a truly self-made man who helped to shaped some of the most important events of the 20th century.
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Ann sort of misses that Trump's pullout was to be May. It only points out the need to purge the senior ranks of the military (aka part of the Swamp) that obstructed this by not following the previous Commander in Chief's direct order.
To see photos of the Volkonsky Estate, click on the link in the title. by Yaroslav Chingaev
[Regnum] Sukhanovo is a former noble estate, hereditary estate of the Volkonsky family. The estate is located in the Moscow region, not far from the town of Vidnoe, stands on the steep bank of the Gvozdyanka river, in the middle of a landscape park with artificial ponds.
The village that was on this place passed from hand to hand until it was bought in 1769 by Melgunov Alexey Petrovich, a statesman under Catherine II. This place was inherited by his daughter Ekaterina Melgunova, who married Prince Dmitry Petrovich Volkonsky.
Ekaterina Alekseevna Volkonskaya turned this place into a monument of Russian classicism. Under her, the main house with galleries-colonnades was built and the existing palace and park ensemble was created. Being childless, Ekaterina Alekseevna presented Sukhanovo to her nephew Pyotr Volkonsky.
Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky was Minister of the Imperial Court and Appanages under Alexander II. Volkonsky attracted major Petersburg architects associated with the imperial court to the development of the estate. Such masters as Rossi, Gilardi, Stasov, Grigoriev, Menelas worked on the projects of various buildings here. Pyotr Volkonsky declared Sukhanovo a reserved estate of the Volkonsky family.
After the Revolution of 1917, a revolutionary committee was located on the estate. From 1920 to 1929 there was a boarding school organized with the assistance of Nadezhda Krupskaya. Since 1930, a sanatorium was located in the estate, and after that it was transferred to the Union of Architects. In 1960, the estate was recognized as a monument of all-Union significance. The film "Dubrovsky" of 1988 was filmed on its territory.
One of the most unusual buildings of the estate is the clergy house (the house of the clergy). The exterior of the castle-like building is immediately striking. This pseudo-Gothic building was built in the 1820s. and one of the few that have come down to us in its almost original form, only a few side turrets have not survived. The building was erected as a "Gothic house" according to the drawing of one of the Volkonsky children.
The unusual tomb-temple in the far part of the park was built by the famous architect Domenico Gilardi. The temple was consecrated in the name of St. Dmitry of Rostov. Now the Volkonskys' remains are not in the tomb; they were reburied (according to other versions, they were simply thrown out) back in the 30s of the XX century. In the building of the temple itself, a temporary altar has now been restored and services are being held. Orthodox priests perform a prayer service for the repose of the souls of the departed princes, as well as for the health of living people. Federal cultural heritage site.
Next to the temple is the Volkonskys necropolis - these are the very slabs taken from the tomb in the 30s. There are also two small pedestals with the inscriptions: "Pestel Varvara Alexandrovna 09/13/1837 - 06/28/1838" and "Maria Alexandrovna Pestel 10.11.1840 - 11.11.1840". These are the daughters of the younger brother and, in fact, the niece of the very same DecembristPyotr Ivanovich Pestel. Alexander Petrovich Pestel, found a shelter in Sukhanovo, where the children died here.
There is also a sculpture "The Virgin with a Broken Jug". This is a copy of the famous work of P.P.Sokolov, made in 1816, located in Tsarskoye Selo Park and praised by A.S. Pushkin. Volkonsky, it is true, was flattered by the opportunity to see small fragments of the imperial residences. Now the maiden is in place, but the jug is not visible.
Today the entire architectural ensemble is in a deplorable state. The main building, the Volkonsky mausoleum, the manor buildings decay with time, no restoration is carried out. The park, a cascade of ponds are abandoned and not well maintained. At the same time, there are tents on the territory of the park where banquets and weddings take place. The main house is occupied by a private lyceum. Other office or residential buildings.
The easiest way to get to the estate is by your own vehicle. You can go on your own by bus # 379 from the Butovo MCD station or the Rastorguevo station in the Paveletsky direction.
He is usually here between 2300 Yesterday to 1130 today --- Use the Clock above to - balance this in your mind --
THE JAB is a KILLER - The Information has been repressed for 8 Months in Collusion with Government & Media in the West and By Blind Obedience in the East (Eur-Middle East Inclusive) to Keep you Ignorant and Unthinking- (I got more opinion, but I'm sick of this subject - -sign off )
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My first guess would be "because they are young people".
And because they are anti-Israel, so anything Israeli authorities suggest they’ll be against as a matter of principle. And if, in the process, they can do something touted as harming Israelis, that’s frosting on the cake.
Very separately, I think it was Procopius2k I have to thank for stepping in yesterday when the discussion started to get heated. It was inestimably comforting to be referenced when I was off dealing with local things, and seeing with what grace y’all responded. I am enriched by knowing you.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] At least five people were killed and 50 others were maimed when a bomb went kaboom! near a procession of Muharram mourners in Punjab, Pakistain, news sources said.
An explosion targeting an Ashura procession in Pakistain’s Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... has killed at least five people and injured dozens more, al-Mayadeen reported.
Videos circulating on social media showed police and ambulances rushing toward the site of the bombing, India Today reported.
Several maimed people were seen waiting for help along a road in the deeply conservative city of Bahawalnagar in the eastern Punjab province where the attack took place.
Police also said that women and kiddies were among the deaders and maimed in the terrorist blast.
According to Punjab police, due to the high number of injured, there is a possibility of increasing the number of deaders in this terrorist incident.
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It's not really an Islamic holiday if somebody isn't getting blown up.
AQAP: "This victory shows that jihad and combat is the legitimate, realistic way to recover our rights, expel the invaders and occupiers... and return the Islamic nation to its glory... As for the games of democracy and peaceful methodologies, these are deceptive illusions."
‘Mr Johnson had been attempting to get Mr Biden on the phone to discuss Kabul falling from Monday morning. The pair eventually talked at close to 10pm on Tuesday.’
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[COLLIVE] A shooting incident in Denver, which killed a young Jewish man on Tuesday night, was originally reported as a drive-by shooting.
Local authorities said that that this was a "crime spree" that ended with the senseless murder of Shmuli Silverberg, 19.
But, according to highly-credible sources, as well as multiple social media reports surfacing online, this is not what happened.
The armed suspects entered the Yeshiva building. They fired at a school employee, who was able to get out of the way, and was unharmed.
The original Facebook posting said it was a deliberate act by the suspects, but it later transpired that the shooting was part of a number of shootings spread out over a number of city blocks, starting in Wakandan country.
No need. The fella who first objected to the incident being classified as an act of antisemitic terrorism, said he knew the people at the yeshiva well; he had conducted training for concealed carry permits, and had given talks on the subject.
It just happened to be that young man's unlucky day.
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LeRoy says there's something you should know
Not everybody has a place to go
And home is just a place to hang your head
And dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead
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I think it’s adorable, Skidmark. The thing about poetry is that in order to fit the rhyme and rhythm schemes, the poet must carefully ponder word choices. In the process, thoughts tend to become more crystalized than when just writing prose. Not always good or useful thoughts, to be sure, but it’s a slower process — more like sculpture than painting or drawing in the visual arts.
Now that the Afghan government has fallen, I believe I am free to talk about what I do know. I met with the government on neutral ground in Thailand. I was invited to give lectures there but just never found the time to make that trip. As I have said before, most governments have heard of Socrates. After all, it has been putting out economic and geopolitical forecasts since 1977. From my discussions with them in Thailand, what I can say is that the Taliban are largely self-funded, yet have been warmly protected by Pakistan which is the ONLY nuclear nation in that region. Pakistan has supported the Taliban, not for religious agreement, but because of their enemy, the Afghans, we friends with Pakistan’s enemy India. In that sense, there is a deep-seated religious conflict that goes back to the creation of Pakistan in 1947.
The peak in our model on the region took place in 2019 when any hope of some sort of peace treaty with the Taliban collapsed. Military operations between Afghan and US government forces and the Taliban then intensified in 2019 resulting in more than 8,000 civilian casualties. That was precisely on target being 72 years from 1947 which was the real period of the rise in militant Islam. A standard 2-year reaction was in play which has brought us to this point in 2021. But this is the start of a 13-year cycle of rising tensions which will also peak in 2032.
Pakistan is aligned with China and the idea has been that China will invest in Afghanistan and that may help to satisfy the Taliban. But that is perhaps wishful thinking. Religiously, they are more akin to Iran. Nevertheless, the Taliban has been a movement of religious students (talib) from the Pashtun areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan. They were actually educated in traditional Islamic schools in Pakistan. Keep in mind that Pakistan can be very authoritarian. Pakistan is blocking cell phones to compel people to be vaccinated.
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..yet have been warmly protected by Pakistan which is the ONLY nuclear nation in that region.
Sort of forgets India. Take with a grain of salt.
India has developed and possesses weapons of mass destruction in the form of nuclear weapons. Although India has not released any official statements about the size of its nuclear arsenal, recent estimates suggest that India has 160 nuclear weapons and has produced enough weapons-grade plutonium for up to 161–200 nuclear weapons. - wiki
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They're not really dependable in case of war with China. When China attacked Tibet, India instantly recognized it as Chinese territory. India also never formally supported Taiwan to try and not piss off China. We supplied AFG with ammo for arty and meds and evacced some Afghan businessmen but that's it. India keeps its overt engagements at the economic, cultural and soft-diplomacy level.
Due to the mostly leftist civil leaderships in India, it remains a singularly defense oriented power; non-aligned, non-committal. It's leaders live in a bubble where they believe the military will keep protecting the palaces at New Delhi, and as long as that is fine the world can go fcuk itself.
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[REGNUM] The Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties (CPVS) in Syria said that Militants belonging to the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... fired 20 times on Syrian territories adjacent to the Idlib de-escalation zone.
This was reported on August 19 on the page of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Facebook.
According to the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties (CPVS) in Syria, the Syrian provinces of Idlib, Latakia, Aleppo and Hama came under fire.
"In the Idlib de-escalation zone, 20 attacks were recorded from the positions of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group, including, according to the Syrian side, 20 attacks.
In the province of Idlib, 11 attacks were registered, in the province of Lataki: four attacks In the province of Aleppo: two attacks, in the province of Hama: three attacks," the Russian military department said in a statement.
What Nasrallah is implying is that an attack on the ship will be considered an attack on Lebanon thus risking retaliation from Hezbollah. https://t.co/xz38cXEH1h
Follow up to this story about Floyd Ray Roseberry, 49, of Grover, North Carolina from yesterday.
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The live streamer who threatened to detonate explosives outside of the #Capitol Building complex is out of his truck and has SURRENDERED to police#bombthreatpic.twitter.com/RLa8JqCJsR
Have noticed that a lot of social and MS Media are really pushing the loony tune Trump'er angle or making it seem like all Trump Supporters are emotional loony's.
eg. YOUTUBE "The Legend of Karen Episode #" every episode it makes sure to cast several Karens and Loony-tune Trump'ers. Never a biden supporter.
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I am, of course, guilty by association of this guy I have never met. The dem Bernie lover who shot up the congressional baseball game, he was on his own.
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A NASA spokesperson says it’s received a stay from the judge overseeing Blue Origin’s federal lawsuit, meaning work on the HLS contract must once again come to a halt.
[EN.MEHRNEWS] The spokesperson of the Iranian foreign ministry reacted to the latest IAEA report, noting that the nuclear programs and actions of 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... are in full compliance with the NPT and Iran's commitments.
Saeed Khatibzaded said, "Iran's compensatory JCPOA measures have been under the framework of the nuclear deal."
"The scaling down procedure has been in response to the widespread violation of the JCPOA and Resolution 2231 by the United States and the non-full compliance of other JCPOA parties, especially the three European countries, to their obligations," he added.
He underlined that Iran will pursue its peaceful nuclear program solely on the basis of the needs and decisions of its government and within the framework of its safeguard obligations as far as the US and other parties refuse to fully comply with their JCPOA obligations.
He assured that in case the other parties return to their obligations under the JCPOA and Washington fully and effectively lifts unilateral and illegal sanctions against the Iranian people, Iran will return its compensatory measures.
The UN nuclear watchdog said in a report to member states on Monday seen by Rooters, that Iran has made progress in its work on enriched uranium metal despite Western warnings that such work threatens talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal.
"On 14 August 2021, the Agency verified ... that Iran had used 257 g of uranium enriched up to 20% U-235 in the form of UF4 (uranium tetrafluoride) to produce 200 g of uranium metal-enriched up to 20% U-235," the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency claimed, adding that this was step three in a four-step plan by Iran. The fourth includes producing a reactor fuel plate.
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[EN.MEHRNEWS] In a tweet on Wednesday, Mohammad Javad Zarif ...foreign minister of the Medes and the Persians, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values... wrote, "For all their talk of democracy & War on Terror, events in Afghanistan & statements by US & NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... officials prove: They invaded & occupied Afghanistan & elsewhere ONLY to pursue their own interests—but couldn't even achieve that.""US/NATO now have clear obligation to compensate," he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert climbed the cocoanut tree, looking for ships. He saw none. He looked in the other direction and saw Irene, vigorously scrubbing her backside... in a tweet on Sunday night, Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif welcomed the establishment of a Coordination Council by Afghan leaders. "Violence & war—like occupation—never solve problems. 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... welcomes the announcement by @KarzaiH on forming a Coordination Council by Afghan leaders."
He also stressed that Iran is ready to continue its efforts for the spread of peace in Afghanistan.
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We live with death, be it on the highways or the streets of Chicago. There are even deaths in prisons, the ultimate lockdown for the living without any liberties. Life is about trade offs.
Over the past 48 hours, the elite tactical unit of the French Police, RAID, have made multiple trips into Kabul to rescue people sheltering in the French Embassy.
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They already have them, some assembly required. I bet China will be real surprised when they are used. That big fat dam needs to be hit.
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During the 1970s, Taiwan produced plutonium for its indigenous weapons program. The US placed nuclear weapons on Taiwan during the cold war and Taiwan's weapons planning went underground. Now the US nuclear umbrealla doesn't mean spit, and the Taiwanese probably have the makings of nuclear weapons by this time.
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^ I never cease to be amazed at what you can learn just from reading the 'Burg. By the way, the Global Strike Command is just across the state line in friendly territory.
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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.
[Atlantic] When people ask me what I did in Afghanistan, I tell them that I hung out in planes and listened to the Taliban. My job was to provide "threat warning" to allied forces, and so I spent most of my time trying to discern the Taliban’s plans. Before I started, I was cautioned that I would hear terrible things, and I most certainly did. But when you listen to people for hundreds of hours—even people who are trying to kill your friends—you hear ordinary things as well.
[Townhall] During Thursday's press briefing at the Pentagon, General Hank Taylor and Press Secretary John Kirby provided an update on the airlift of Americans and Afghan allies out of Kabul before taking questions on the Biden administration's handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. 
[PJ] America’s humiliation in Afghanistan goes on. It’s going to get worse, quite possibly much, much worse, before it’s over, assuming it ever is. But the many reasons it didn’t have to be this way are already coming into clearer focus.
[France24] After years of accusations that Islamabad was covertly backing the Taliban, Pakistan overtly hailed the fall of Kabul on Sunday. Experts say geostrategic concerns about its enemy India motivate Pakistan’s pro-Taliban stance — making it unlikely to change course, even amid fears that the militants’ control of Afghanistan accentuates the jihadist threat at home.
[Conservative Wire] Hillary Clinton’s team should be sweating bullets after the latest update from Special Counsel John Durham.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...Arabic for 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] At the very moment the 
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
...46th president of the U.S. S 
We're finally getting rid of these people. 
...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 
...foreign minister of the Medes and the Persians, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values...
