#1
You know there are literally hundreds if not thousands of employers out there desperate to get employees who are punctual, hard working, dependable, with a work ethic. They're paying sign on bonuses. They usually work 'normal' hours.
#2
I could point and spin in a circle and all points are towards somebody looking to hire a person who is punctual and attentive and understands a chain of command structure, as well as how to interact on a personal level.
Especially true for non-office people and/or tool handy.
Me, personally, looking for someone interested in front office and/or back installation. Another organization I know is actively seeking people like this. Talking lifetime opportunity with growth minded business in good communities and schools, plus plenty of outdoors and rec available.
Want to learn to shoot bow, know a dude who hit a rattler in the head at 40 yards. Want to learn a skill, plenty of tradesmen looking for someone just like you. Solid VFW organizations. Be able to walk when you are 50. Stuff like that.
#3
Get wild. Find a place to live out here where parents who had horses with their kids, and their kids have gone off to ranch their piece of land, and they will have a horse or two but facilities for more. Hell, they may even pitch in on your horse if you do the horse chores, show you the ropes after 40 years of experience. 9 to 5 it, do the horse chores, then hit your MMO with your buddies. Be able to talk about something real instead of the IKEA to head shop lifestyle.
Need that adrenaline? Join the volunteer fire. Its all fun and games until you are toe to toe with a 5000 acre/hour (or more) fire and its heading towards someone's house. You may even know that person.
And that is just lifestyle in 100 miles from here. There are mountain, desert, forest, lakeside communities everywhere doing this.
#4
The only power they have is voluntary compliance.As companies like GM and Ford downsize to be competitive.They purge the skilled workforce for the unskilled and undisciplined. Simply to cut overhead while giving themselves exorbitant bonuses. This story we have seen before many times. So our military is also compromised. They will do damage. They will fail but they will never win as the power of desires is as an opiate of failures.
#5
They must see what the last 6 months of operational planning has accomplished, and that with the current heads nobody gets promoted until all the gays and trans get promoted first. Endless HR meetings. A snitch environment to work in, being taught The Log Train is a tranny show instead of beans and bullets, and if you don't show you are a hater and called into the office, get on little behavior sticker on your profile.
Pisses me off just reading about it. They show they don't care about the troops with this move, they can't even plan a dinner menu but they will sure take advantage of a plate put before them. Nah, take on the vax either way, looks like shit.
[YNet] - Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Wednesday that he does not rule out that Israel would have to act alone in the future against Iran to stop it from acquiring nuclear weapons.
"Iran is two months away from accumulating the material needed for a nuclear bomb," he said during a briefing held with foreign envoys regarding the security situation in Israel.
#1
"Who will help me blow up this nuke plant and keep those idiots from getting a bomb?", asked the Little Red Hen.
No one will publicly, although there are some regional players who would silently approve.
[CBC] Prime minister makes pledge as Biden asks Pentagon for plans to adjust withdrawal timeline if necessary.
Canada will remain in Afghanistan beyond the Aug. 31 date set for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country to help evacuate more Canadians and eligible Afghans if the security situation permits, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today.
Now for the small print.
A PMO spokesman later clarified that the prospect of Canadian Forces' remaining in Kabul beyond Aug. 31 is contingent on the extension of the U.S. military presence, and that Canada would not remain in Afghanistan after the U.S. pulled out its troops.
#1
I really don't see how. My vaxx card is standard offset print on card stock. No hologram, no chip. That's the CDC card, which is what most people in the US have. It's hilarious that people who think ID to vote is up there with a mirror for a vampire are suddenly credential conscious.
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It's worth noting, the batches of fake cards that have been seized in the US so far were of typical low pathetic Chinese quality and were interdicted because of the channels they arrived thru.
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08/25/2021 8:34
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With all the other Fake ID's out there some idiot had to ask?
#8
Here is process I am sure Democrats will approve of.
A mass mailing of vaccinces to all unVAXed along with a form to be completed stating they took the VAX .... then they get a Vax card in the mail.
Well hell. The logic was ok for the 2020 election.
#9
We were able to stop the flow of drugs and illegal aliens across our borders, so I see no reason we cannot stop the spread of something that anyone can create at home with some poor-quality card stock and a cheap laser printer.
(psst. Tell the guy at Kinko's that SteveS sent you and he'll hook you up. The password is Swordfish)
#10
You don't even know me, but voted --
Oh yes! -- for your government Ovid.
So, don't you adore
Metamorphodite war?
Up your nose with a hose: War on Covid!
#3
80,000 "interpreters' for 2,500 troops. Um. Okey...
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#2, It's pretty clear that Jen Psaki doesn't want to talk about it. From the DailyWire:
REPOTER: Okay. Say after the withdrawal is done, it’s declared, it’s done, everyone’s out, if one U.S. citizen was suddenly discovered saying, “Hey, I really want to get out and I’m stuck,” who knows where, somewhere in Afghanistan or in Kabul, he’s got any problem, would this trigger a diplomatic, military, all hands on deck type thing to get to that person out, whatever the date?
PSAKI: Our commitment continues to be to U.S. citizens. If they want to leave, we will help get them out.
REPORTER: No matter of what the date?
PSAKI: Again, we expect there could be some, but I’m not going to get into it further.
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In other words, Joe Biden is basically telling the thousand of UuS citizens who may be trapped, “see ya, sucks to be you”.
Note at last count only about 5000 us citizens had been evacuated.
#4
Fighting the last war has worked out so well for the Pentagon...
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08/25/2021 9:06
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The US military's biggest problem in the field will not be suppressing the crude ordnance Iron Dome handles so well. We will be up against state of the art artillery and hypersonics either launched from conventional ground based missiles or aircraft. You will stop the hypersonics only by getting them in boost phase or identifying and eliminating the airborne launchers. Iron dome can't do either.
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08/25/2021 9:12
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^And, in any case, Hunter found a better supplier.
#10
The US military is run for purpose of buying gear from the defense supplier cartel. Their philosophy is 'it would nice if it works, but it doesn't have to'. As far as the head office is concerned, it could be used, or buried at sea (if the EPA will allow), but there's a buy budget to spend, and the generals and admirals have a future consultants position to worry about. It's all about the graft.
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08/25/2021 10:16
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^Are you sayin we might see something exactly like Iron Dome, with identical performance - but bearing a proud American name, and coming from a true blue (all parts are made abroad) American company?
#13
I think all the US weapons run on an RTOS probably based on OS9 (Not the Crapple OS) It's portable and small. you really can't use Windows to run anything on a small cheap chip.
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08/25/2021 10:50
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Most of the "Muh Linsux" crowd would be as lost writing scripts and using command prompts as a Windows user would be. Anyone who thinks they are clever for making jokes about large client operating systems operating things like an SM-6 missile probably should not be allowed to operate a garden hose or drinking straw.
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08/25/2021 10:56
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"Anyone who thinks they are clever for making jokes about large client operating systems operating things like an SM-6 missile probably should not be allowed to operate a garden hose or drinking straw."
But they still vote, MM.
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08/25/2021 12:30
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Stuff like Iron Dome gets built in Israel with US funding because it's a way of having our R & D escape the effects of the bureaucrats who brought us the current fuckup in Afghanistan or who funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The US scientific bureaucracy are basically like those cat sitters who buy your feline vegan cat food when you're out of the country for six months.
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#11, its a long and distinguished history of behavior -
The' 03 Springfield and the Mauser Patents
While it's well known the Model 1903 design infringed certain patents belonging to Paul Mauser it's less well known precisely what the
patents covered.
A little background:
In the spring of 1904 General Crozier, Chief of Ordnance, communicated with Mauser indicating some concerns over three patents related
to the design ofthe charger (stripper clip) for the new U.S. Rifle. Mauser detailed their US agents Von Lengerke and Detmold to look into the
matter. The Mauser patent attorneys in turn requested samples of the chargers and the new rifle which they were provided.
Good News and Bad News!:
Von Lengerke and Detmold and their attorneys having completed their review of the clips and the rifles got back to General Crozier. Of
the three original clip patents they advised only two were considered to have been infringed. On the other hand there were five features of the new
rifles design they were concerned about. To settle the matter Mauser proposed the US pay royalties in the amounts of$1.00 per rifle and $1.00
per thousand chargers.
The parties met and negotiated a settlement whereby royalties would be paid at rates of $.75 per rifle and $.50 per thousand chargers. The
amounts were to be paid at the agreed rates until the sum totaled $200,000. At that point the royalties would cease. The agreement was finalized
___ .and.the first check issued just about one year after General Crozier contacted Mauser.
#20
John Moses Browning was totally immersed in designing semi-auto pistols and automatic rifles at the time and was not at all involved in the army's crusade to remain in the 19th century forever.
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08/25/2021 18:40
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#2
Cops will still confiscate phones, erase videos etc. And then departments will sign conscent decrees to train cops on the public's right to record events occurring in public spaces. Rinse, repeat.
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08/25/2021 20:01
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#3
I think the vaxx panic idiots are sound and fury, which is what the media wants. Most of the data indicates the vaxxes are worthwhile and disappointing at the same time.
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08/25/2021 9:57
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#5
We are all dying every day since we were born. Some of us have been dying harder than others. The COVID religion that death can be eradicated is something some overrated blogger is excited about. The rest of us, not so much.
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08/25/2021 10:04
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Thought experiment: If an infusion of aborted fetal tissue would give you permanent immunity to COVID, would you want it?
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08/25/2021 10:06
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#6
(a) It can't.
(b) Hope wrong people don't see your post.
#13
I rest my case. People who take a religious zealot approach to health scare me. I avoid them and remain ready to neutralize them if they threaten me directly.
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08/25/2021 10:20
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#15
Where are all the "get the vaxx" people on fentanyl? Tobacco? Alcohol? Hmmmm?
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08/25/2021 10:23
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#16
Murder someone who would try to prevent me from getting an effective treatment (I submit that the vaccines are effective)? So far they aren't in a position to do that. If they became so, yeah, I'd be for stopping them.
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08/25/2021 10:26
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#17
Murder a totalitarian who decided what's right for everyone? I'm all in.
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08/25/2021 10:27
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Social distancing is not murder. It's simply a moderate increase in personal space. Think Ben Gurion. You were going up the escalator, I was going down. We exchanged a polite wave.
#19
I was at the severely overcrowded bar-room of the Bowers Hotel in Lehigh Valley having a beer during the Bowers Chili Pepper Festival. I was lucky enough to have a seat. Some idiot kept shoving his ass in my face. I stood up, almost a foot taller than the rude idiot and said "If I want a lap dance, I'll go over to Allentown or Reading and get one from a hot chick." His buddies all laughed as he backed away.
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08/25/2021 10:36
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#21
And who were the psychopaths who shot down a building full of rescue dogs so Lit'l Sandy would't be tempted to get a puppy to help deal the with stress of house arrest?
I guess what surprises me most about the debate is that it doesn't have to be so contentious. We have vaccines (sort of) for the vulnerable and those who want them. The only tier past that is mandates, and how many here (outside of grom) would support that?
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08/25/2021 12:13
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So, if there was something negative, it would become obvious by now.
Not necessarily the truth. It was only 60 days ago that they admitted myocarditis and pericarditis, after months of denials. They still have no answer for the heart swelling found in teens, and just two weeks ago agreed to study it, until then it was called antidotal my the FDA. They have yet to look into the micro clots, proteins migrating to the ovaries, post menopauses bleeding and other issues.
I'm not an Anti vaxer. I just took my shingles shot, first one. But I do believe with it getting into 350 million arms we should have done a better job making sure it is safe.
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08/25/2021 12:38
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Angstron, I listened to a interview with the guy that designed this vaccine. Its his opinion, and I agree, that this virus will never go away. It will morph over and over. There will be no ending it like we did with Polio. With that said he wanted to make it an annual vaccine aligned with the flu shot. Those who desire it and those most at risk should take it. Then leave the rest of us alone to make our own decisions.
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08/25/2021 12:42
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#26, they call polio other names now. Never did they mention those who got polio from Vaccine. Still with us. A fellows Grandson paralyzed from the neck down currently. He said they call it Guillain-Barre ,ANMS or ALS now as I recall. Definitely he said Guillain-Barre. Virus again. Vaccine production was shut down in the mid fifties as I recall because of some problems.
#32
The only reason for herd immunity or derived immunity from mandatory vaccinations is elimination of the virus. With the mutation rate, that seems unlikely. We are going to have to live with it. So why is Joe insisting everybody get the shot?
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08/25/2021 14:21
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this virus will never go away
Totally agree. Which means any measures we put into place now will be permanent.
#34
Hey, wait a minute, *I'm* made of fetal cells. Although most of them have grown up to be responsible adult cells. Most of them. Parts of the brainal region seem to be lagging a bit.
#38
This film was made before our pandemic. The father only was from England. The rest of the actors were Russian. Shows a control effort by a few against many.
[FoxNews] Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday that he has authorized state National Guard members to arrest people who illegally cross the Texas-Mexico border.
Along with performing a law enforcement function, Abbott said Guard members will also help with the early stages of constructing border barriers and a border wall.
"The Texas National Guard is playing an unprecedented role to secure the border because of the unprecedented refusal of the federal government to fulfill its obligations under federal law," the governor said in a statement. The National Guard typically doesn't have immigration law enforcement capabilities, according to Border Report.
Last month, Abbott ordered Guard members to assist the Department of Public Safety (DPS) in arresting illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border who break state laws.
"To respond to this disaster and secure the rule of law at our Southern border, more manpower is needed," Abbott wrote in a letter sent to Major Gen. Tracy R. Norris of the Texas Military Department. "DPS needs help in arresting those who are violating state law. … I hereby order that the Texas National Guard assist DPS in enforcing Texas law by arresting lawbreakers at the border."
That July order expanded on Abbott's June disaster declaration, which directed the DPS to enforce all federal and state criminal laws, including those on criminal trespassing, smuggling and human trafficking. The declaration had allowed the use of all available state resources to assist state and local law enforcement in protecting Texans from "criminal activity and property damage."
Nearly 213,000 migrants were encountered at the southern border in July, a 13% increase over the already massive 188,000 migrant encounters in June, according to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. In July 2020, there were just 40,929 encounters.
In March, Abbott launched Operation Lone Star to combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas. Since then, more than 4,600 arrests have been made by the DPS for charges including criminal mischief and criminal trespass.
The operation has also led to the confiscation of more than 700 pounds of cocaine, 127 pounds of deadly fentanyl, and at least 270 firearms.
[Blaze] A leaked cable from the U.S. Department of State detailing the number of American citizens who have been successfully rescued from Afghanistan in recent weeks raises serious questions about the Biden administration's handling of evacuation efforts.
What are the details? Biden administration officials have been inexplicably vague regarding both the number of Americans that have been evacuated and the number that remain stranded within the Taliban-controlled country, saying only that "several thousand" have been pulled out.
It turns out, their refusal to offer specifics may be due to the fact that their evacuation efforts have been largely unsuccessful.
According to a State Department cable — which was obtained by Politico national security reporter Alex Ward — as of Monday night, only 4,407 American citizens have made it onto outbound flights from Kabul since the evacuation operation began on Aug. 14.
#1
Inexplicable to some possibly, but surely as designed. Accountability requires some sort of metrics. Without accurate metrics, there is no method of accounting, or accountability.
#2
Magic numbers, always meant to be fluid. Goalposts moving, etc.
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If they can't tell you how many crossed the southern 'border' last week, how would you expect them to know what they're going half way around the world?
#4
But they can overbook their commercial flights here in the US and toss you if your mask doesn't fit correctly.
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08/25/2021 7:28
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We're in "...If a tree falls in the forest..." territory here. If they leave thousands of Americans behind but nobody from the Administration admits it (and God knows the media will lose their interest in this story at some point)...did they really leave thousands of Americans behind?
#6
How did a couple thousand troops need 32,000 "interpreters?"
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08/25/2021 11:15
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^ Americans of all sorts threw a lot of money around in Afghanistan. The Americans who were throwing the money didn't care because it wasn't their money. And they certainly didn't think about consequences.
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08/25/2021 12:10
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Who are all those "Americans" and why were they there in the first place?
#9
As best I can put it together, the current truth is that (1) the August 31 deadline is no longer a deadline like it was just yesterday and (2) "as many as" 1,500 Americans remain in Afghanistan. That comes from Al-Graudian's live feed here. You get the impression that the regime runs a focus group every couple of hours and adjusts the truth according to the focus group results.
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[HotAir] Kamala Harris is on her second trip overseas, representing Joe Biden to our allies in Southeast Asia. She delivered a foreign policy speech in Singapore Tuesday in which she presented the Biden administration’s vision for the Indo-Pacific. She took the opportunity to criticize China for its incursions in the South China Sea.
...China hit back, with Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin invoking Afghanistan in his response to a question about Harris’ comments, saying the messy withdrawal from Kabul showed the U.S. had lost credibility. He charged that the U.S. "can smear, suppress, coerce, and bully other countries at will in order to maintain America first, without paying any price."
"This is the order that the U.S. wants. The U.S. always tries to make use of the rules and order to justify its own selfish, bullying and hegemonic behavior, but who still believe it now?" Wang said.
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08/25/2021 8:21
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It seems stupid to me to go out of her way to alienate and insult the Chinese directly as we are demonstrating almost complete weakness in Afghanistan.
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08/25/2021 11:21
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#6
Pay no attention to what this whore says. What what her administration does.
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08/25/2021 12:19
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Yeah, don't want to be pissing off the Chinese. I take this as a sign that Kam is expendable.
Hey, look! Over at Instapundit: Not hoping it happens of course, but I’m gaming out a scenario where Harris has to step down before Biden for this mystery illness, Biden and Dems appoint a cogent and plausible Veep, giving Biden the room to step down at a later date and avoid the National Nightmare that a Harris Presidency would be.
My prediction has seeped into the Cosmic Unconsciousness! Now we just have to wait for the probability wave to collapse and see who the new Veep is. (Please Gawd, don't let it be John Kerry. It's going to be John Kerry, isn't it?)
#4
As a voter, you are either susceptible to corporate media and "influencers" or you are not. Unfortunately, old-school know the issues voters are in a permanent minority now.
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08/25/2021 10:00
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#5
What g(r)om said.
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08/25/2021 12:33
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#6
Always double-bag your late night ballot dumps. Some have been lost in unfortunate vehicle accidents in the past.
#8
in the unlikely event that no Americans are left behind in Afghanistan and the Taliban don't start mass killings, Biden's approval ratings will stabilize and maybe approach 50% again
under a worse situation with thousands of Americans stranded and mass killings, the approval rating will crash again and again
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Want more cyber security people? Try paying them more and stop undercutting IT job security with the indentured slaves on H1B visas. And chop support for college programs for anything other than STEM. The nation doesn’t need more women’s studies grads or gender studies “experts”, so top subsidizing them. Take their money and put it into the hard sciences, math, technology, and engineering departments. Make the socialist science crap pay all their own costs - credit for STEM are free, all others have to pay for their own programs departments and professors via credit hour tuition
[AlAhram]... The Moroccan navy has rescued more than 400 migrants colonists since Thursday, after their makeshift boats ran into trouble on the dangerous sea crossing to Europe, state media reported.
The 438 migrants colonists, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, were given first aid before being taken to the nearest Moroccan port, an officer told the state-run MAP news agency late Monday.
MAP also reported that Moroccan authorities on Sunday intercepted 58 migrants colonists, including 11 women, off Laayoune in Western Sahara.
Also from sub-Saharan Africa, these migrants colonists had attempted to cross to the Canary Islands, it said.
Earlier this month, a merchant ship rescued 33 migrants colonists who had spent two weeks adrift in the Atlantic Ocean en route for the Canary Islands. Fourteen fellow migrants colonistsbit the dust.
Migrant arrivals on the Spanish archipelago have surged since late 2019 when increased patrols in the Mediterranean dramatically reduced crossings there.
At its shortest, the sea crossing from the Moroccan coast is around 100 kilometres (65 miles), but strong currents make it very dangerous.
The vessels used are often overcrowded and in poor condition, adding to the risks.
In the first six months of this year, a total of 2,087 migrants colonists died trying to reach Spain, according to Caminando Fronteras, a Spanish NGO that monitors migrant flows.
[AlAhram] Plain concrete gravestones painted with a number and the word ``Afghan'' are all that mark the final resting places of dozens of unidentified migrants colonists who died trying to enter The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... through the rugged mountainous border with Iran.
Hundreds of people escaping conflict or poverty, mostly from Afghanistan but also from other countries in the region, have died over the years risking the perilous crossing. Some succumbed after exposure to extreme weather conditions, others died in accidents as their smugglers tried to evade authorities in trucks and boats crammed with people.
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[AlAhram] An explosion shook the base of an al-Qaeda-linked group in northern Syria on Tuesday, killing at least eight button men and wounding others, opposition activists said.
It wasn't immediately clear what caused the earth-shattering kaboom at the base of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... in the northwestern province of Idlib, the last major rebel stronghold in the country, but some said it was a shell that went kaboom! as fighters trained. HTS is the most powerful group in Syria's northwest.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the earth-shattering kaboom near the village of Ram Hamadan was apparently caused by a shell that went kaboom!. The Observatory said eight fighters were killed and 10 were maimed.
It added that the earth-shattering kaboom occurred as drones of the U.S.-led coalition were flying overhead.
Step news agency, an activist collective, said at least nine fighters were killed and others were maimed in the blast. Step said it could have been caused when a mortar shell went kaboom! during training.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Arabic for Levant Liberation Committee, has militarily crushed many of its rivals within the opposition, carried out a crackdown against the civilian population and set up its own so-called ``salvation government'' in 2017 to run day-to-day affairs in the region.
The group, which is led by Syrian citizen Abu Mohammed al-Golani, has been marking itself in recent years as a Syrian opposition group and distancing itself from al-Qaeda.
Syria's 10-year conflict has left about half a million people dead and half the country's prewar population of 23 million displaced, more than 5 million of them as refugees outside the country.
[AlAhram] The UN refugee agency on Tuesday urged Poland to take in a group of migrants colonists believed to be from Iraq and Afghanistan who have been stranded on the border with Belarus for more than two weeks.
Thousands of migrants colonists -- mostly from the Middle East -- have crossed the border from Belarus into the eastern EU states of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland in recent months. Build a wall....
Brussels believes the influx is being deliberately engineered by the regime in Minsk in retaliation against EU sanctions -- an accusation that Belarus denies -- and Poland has called it a "hybrid attack" on the bloc.
Poland has said it will not allow the migrants colonists in, with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki saying that this would be giving in to "blackmail" from Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko.
Morawiecki insisted on Tuesday that the migrants colonists "are on the Belarusian side of the border. Belarus is responsible for these groups".
"If someone on the Belarusian side wants to apply for refugee status, please do so in Minsk," he added.
Around 30 migrants colonists have set up a makeshift encampment just inside Belarus near the Polish village of Usnarz Gorny between lines of Belarusian and Polish military personnel.
"We call on the Polish authorities to provide access to territory, immediate medical assistance, legal advice and psychological support to these people," Christine Goyer, UNHCR representative in Poland, said in a statement.
"According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, to which Poland is signatory, people seeking asylum should never be penalised, even for irregular border crossing," Goyer said.
The UNHCR said it was "concerned by the alarming reports regarding a group of several dozens of people" at the border, adding that they were believed to be from Afghanistan and Iraq and may require medical attention and international protection.
The Polish government has announced its intention to build a 2.5-metre (8-feet) high barbed wire fence along a third of its border to prevent further arrivals, with work to begin in the next few days.
"States have the legitimate right to manage their borders in accordance with international law, however, they must also respect human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... , including the right to seek asylum," the UNHCR statement said.
#4
By moonlight the shtetl shone palely.
Grey rags on a clothesline swung gaily.
A rooftop, a fiddle.
A kitchen, a kettle,
A note: "Mazel tov! -- an Israeli ;-)"
[PJMedia] Never mind that antifa and BLM burned our cities with impunity for over a year. If you lean right you will pay the price.
Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, a right-leaning group of "Western chauvinist" men who support Trump and drink a lot of booze, was arrested on January 4 for burning a BLM flag purloined from Asbury United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., in December of 2020. At the time of his arrest, he was found with two semi-automatic magazines with the "Proud Boys" logo on them, which he claimed he was selling. The magazines were unloaded and Tarrio was unarmed.
Superior Court Judge Harold Cushenberry came down hard on Tarrio and sentenced him to roughly five months in prison, two months longer than prosecutors had asked for.
"Mr. Tarrio has clearly — intentionally and proudly — crossed the line from peaceful protest and assembly to dangerous and potentially violent mostly peaceful criminal conduct," the judge said.
Tarrio told the court he was "profusely" sorry for his actions, referring to them as a "grave mistake."
"What I did was wrong," Tarrio said during the videoconference hearing.
Fact-O-Rama! Though leftists consider the Proud Boys to be a group of "white supremacists," Tarrio, their leader, is of Afro-Cuban descent.
After his January 4 arrest, Tarrio was ordered to stay away from Washington. Law enforcement later said Tarrio was picked up in part to help quell potential violence.
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They are at war with you, not the barbarians that burn and loot your cities. They use the barbarians to awe you into submission. Seems to work so far.
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"Programs! Gitcher programs. Can't tell the perps from the paid informants without a program!"
In other FBI news, Richard Trask, one of the ring leaders in the plot to kidnap MI Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was outed as an FBI employee after he got arrested on a domestic beef. Turns out 12 of the 26 conspirators were working for the Feds.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s defence ministry announced more than 20 aircraft carried out an operation 200 kilometres into Kurdistan Region territory on Tuesday morning. A local mayor said suspected Ottoman Turkish drones had targeted a rural area of eastern Sulaimani province, near the border with Iran, sparking fear among the local population.
The mayor of Penjwen, Zana Rahman, said the strikes started at around 6:30am and continued for around 20 minutes, targeting agricultural areas of the district.
"All the suspicions are that Ottoman Turkish drones carried out the strikes, but we will look further into the matter," he told Rudaw. "There has not been much damage, but it has frightened farmers in the area."
Penjwen is located on the border with Iran. Kurdistan Region’s mountainous frontiers are home to several gangs fighting for Kurdish rights in both Turkey and Iran.
Turkey’s defence ministry said they carried out an air operation on Tuesday, targeting "terrorist" targets in the Asos region, claiming to hit 28 targets, including shelters and ammunition depots. "A heavy blow was dealt to the presence of the terrorist organization in the area," the ministry stated.
The Asos mountain range is located north of Penjwen.
Turkey launched twin operations, Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt, against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region on April 23. The operations are focused on the Metina and Avashin areas of northern Duhok province, far from Penjwen. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... Turkey has used its air force to attack areas further south on several occasions.
In June, four people were killed in Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Sulaimani’s Halsho subdistrict, bordering Iran. In May, Turkey bombed the same Asos mountain range. In February, Ottoman Turkish airstrikes targeted Sulaimani’s Pishdar district.
[Garowe] The Jubaland Security Forces [JSF] repelled an al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... attack over the weekend, in what could be one of the most progressive gains for the regional security officers in the recent months, which gives hope in the fight against the krazed killers.
According to military sources, the snuffies were planning an assault at Kudha in the Lower Juba region, but they were dealt a massive blow when the security forces responded immediately after an alert.
The Jubaland Security Forces were aided by the Somali National Army [SNA] which also guards the region. At least 60 al-Shabaab snuffies died on spot, with several others suffering immense injuries, according to a senior military official.
Major Daud Abukar, who is the SNA commander in the region, said the snuffies wanted to run over two military bases. He said that they faced hard times in attacking the military, which was seemingly prepared to face the krazed killers.
In a separate operation, two major al-Shabaab commanders were killed, according to the Somali National Army official. Those killed included Ali Kamiil and Xanbaleey, the Somali National Army said in a tweet.
"SNA Troops conducted an operation earlier today against al-Shabaab Terrorists. We received intelligence that the bully boyz were grouped up outside of Sabiid and Canoole. Our brave soldiers killed 60 bully boyz along with their commanders, notably Ali Kamiil and Xanbaleey," SNA said.
For the last several months, the SNA force has been conducting operations across the country, killing over 600 snuffies within the same period. This comes days before the official exit of AMISOM troops from the Horn of Africa nation.
Al-Shabaab has been fighting to topple the fragile UN-backed Somalia administration for the last 14 years. Although the snuffies have managed to seize a number of towns, they have, however, suffered heavy defeats in recent weeks.
[Garowe] A man convicted of financing the IS-Somalia bandidosturbans was on Monday slapped with 15-year imprisonment by a military court, following mounting evidence which was produced throughout his trial in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Abdirizak Mohammed Abdi Jimale was ordered to serve the next 15 years behind bars for his role as a money launderer for IS-Somalia, becoming the first major IS-Somalia convict in recent months, according to government records.
Documents provided in court established that Abdirizak Mohammed Abdi Jimale transferred $400,000 through a company called Heeryo Trading Enterprise between 2019 and 2020 to individuals suspected to be working for IS-Somalia in the war-torn nation.
The money was received by Ugandan and Æthiopian nationals in South Africa, court documents further stated, noting that it was specifically meant to facilitate terrorism. Military courts in the country have often proved to be efficient in trying terrorism-related cases.
Reports indicate that Somalia's spy agency, NISA arrested Jimale in March 2021. During his arrest, he was found to be in possession of $19,000, which he couldn't immediately explain the use, thus leading to his incarceration.
According to the court records, before joining ISIS in 2016, Jimale had been a member of al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... , the more dominant Islamist bully boy faction in the region. Jimale was maimed in 2011 while fighting for al-Shabaab against the transitional federal government of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.
He is believed to be one of few individuals who defected from al-Shabaab to IS-Somalia. Apparently, the two bad boy groups do not work together due to ideological differences and missions in the country.
While al-Shabaab is dominant in central and southern Somalia, the IS-Somalia is confined to the Golis mountains of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... in northern Somalia where they have little influence. In recent months, both the Somali National Army [SNA] and the Puntland Security Forces [PSF] have managed to destroy IS-Somalia hideouts in Somalia.
Military courts are often used to try individuals accused of terrorism in Somalia and have managed to preside over hundreds of cases. The bandidosturbans are fighting to topple the fragile UN-backed Somalia administration, which is yet to stabilize due to a host of internal challenges.
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The Jimale family is notorious in Somalia, as is the Barakat companies they founded in Somalia and Dubai. Name: LI 2: AHMED 3: NUR 4: JIM'ALE (script): علي احمد نور جمالي Title: Sheikh Designation: DOB: 1954 POB: Somalia Passport, United Arab Emirates, and renewed 24 Jan. 2008/ Other information: Associated with Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya (AIAI) Profession: Accountant and businessman. Father’s name is Ali Jumale, Founder of the Barakaat network of companies including the Barakaat Group of Companies.
[Garowe] The Somali National Army [SNA] have announced repelling an al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... attack in a military base within Amaara town of Mudug region in Central Somalia, in the latest victory against the bad boys, who are keen to topple the government.
For the last couple of months, the SNA soldiers have been carrying out operations in Central Somalia, in a move that is aimed at neutralizing the bad boys, who have been controlling large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia.
The officials of the 21st Division of the SNA Force said that they had inflicted heavy casualties on the bad boys. The military, however, did not give an exact number of gunnies who were killed in the attack.
But independent reports from central Somalia say al-Shabaab gunnies have retaken the town of Amaara after the dawn attack on government forces stationed there. The reports have been vehemently denied by the government, which insists al-Shabaab suffered losses.
The attack started with SVBIED, casualties have been reported. Federal and regional forces captured the town from the gunnies earlier this month, in an operation that was spearheaded by the Chief of Defense Forces, General Odowaa Yusuf Rageh.
Al-Shabaab has been targeting innocent civilians, security forces, and government officials in their attacks. There have been significant gains in the fight against the gunnies with over 700 of them killed from May to August this year according to military sources.
The SNA troops are trying to regain control of the country which has largely depended on AMISOM troops for security. The AMISOM team is scheduled to leave in December but there have been efforts to have them stay in the country for a little bit longer.
[BenarNews] Hundreds of Afghan refugees in Indonesia — most of them from the Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... ethnic minority — condemned the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s forcible return to power in their homeland as they rallied in Jakarta on Tuesday to demand resettlement to a third country.
Demonstrators gathered outside the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... refugee agency (UNHCR) office here and held up placards that read "Resettle Afghan refugees from Indonesia," and "SOS Afghanistan is not safe."
The ethnic Hazaras, who are Shia Moslems, are persecuted in Sunni-majority Afghanistan. Many of these refugees have been sheltering in Indonesia for years as they wait to be resettled in a third country, such as Australia.
Indonesia is not a party to the U.N.’s 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, and prohibits refugees from obtaining jobs and attending formal schools while staying in the Southeast Asian country.
One refugee, Hakmat Ziraki, said he was grateful to the Indonesian people and government for hosting the thousands of them, but they needed to move on.
"We came here to ask ... to know about our future, we are tired of waiting in limbo. We have waited about eight to ten years," Ziraki told the Rooters news agency in a video clip.
"We want the world to hear our voices and we are really thankful to Indonesian people, to the Indonesian government for understanding us. We are really sorry, we are really, really, sorry to have broken this COVID-19 lockdown."
The demonstration, which started out peacefully, became chaotic as security forces began to disperse the protesters for violating pandemic controls. Some demonstrators were seen being arrested by the police for resisting.
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Indonesia is not a party to the U.N.’s 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, and prohibits refugees from obtaining jobs and attending formal schools while staying in the Southeast Asian country.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian aviation organization says evacuation flight stopped in Mashhad for refueling, has since landed in Kyiv.
Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister reportedly claimed on Tuesday that a Ukrainian plane that was taking part in evacuation efforts of its citizens from Afghanistan was hijacked and flown to Iran, but the claim was later denied by the country’s Foreign Ministry.
"Last Sunday, our plane was hijacked by other people. On Tuesday, the plane was practically stolen from us, it flew into 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... with an unidentified group of passengers onboard instead of airlifting Ukrainians," Yevgeny Yenin said, according to the Russian TASS news agency.
"Our next three evacuation attempts were also not successful because our people could not get into the airport," he was said to add.
Yenin claimed the hijackers were armed, according to the Russian report.
But Iran’s aviation organization rejected the report, and said the plane had stopped in Mashhad overnight for refueling.
Shortly after, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement asserting that no plane had been hijacked.
"There are no hijacked Ukrainian planes in Kabul or elsewhere. The information about the ’hijacked plane’ that is being circulated by some media outlets is not true," the ministry’s spokesperson, Oleg Nikolenko, told the local RBC news agency.
The plane has since landed in Kyiv.
A military transport plane from Afghanistan with 83 people onboard, including journalists, activists, and Afghan women and kiddies, arrived in Kyiv on Sunday, Rooters reported.
The Ukrainian presidential office said around one hundred Ukrainians are still waiting to be evacuated from Afghanistan following the Taliban ...Arabic for students... takeover last week.
Let ‘em treat their patients with the Blackhawks they’re so proud of capturing.
[IsraelTimes] The World Health Organization warns that it has enough medical supplies to last it "one week," following the blistering Taliban ...Arabic for students... takeover of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul 10 days ago.
"WHO now only has enough supplies in-country to last for one week," says Ahmed al-Mandhari, the head of WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean region — stretching from Morocco to Afghanistan.
"Yesterday, 70 percent of these supplies were released to health facilities," he adds.
Mandhari says that 500 metric tons of medicines and supplies stored in Dubai were unable to be delivered due to the chaotic evacuation efforts at Kabul airport, which does not have the capacity to receive commercial flights.
"Countries sending in empty planes to pick up evacuees do not feel they are able to help," Mandhari says.
[IsraelTimes] Fighting between government forces and former rebels in the Syrian province of Daraa al-Balad has displaced more than 38,000 people over the past month, the United Nations says, as truce talks falter.
Daraa, retaken by government forces in 2018, has emerged as a new flashpoint in recent weeks as government forces tightened control over Daraa al-Balad, a southern district of the provincial capital that is considered a hub for former rebel fighters.
Clashes, including artillery exchanges, between the two sides since late July have marked the biggest challenge yet to the Russian-brokered deal that returned the southern province to government control but allowed rebels to stay on in some areas.
Russian-sponsored truce talks launched in the wake of the latest fighting have made little headway as the government has stepped up its campaign to root out remaining rebel fighters from Daraa al-Balad.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that 38,600 internally displaced persons are registered in and around Daraa, with most having fled from Daraa al-Balad.
“This includes almost 15,000 women, over 3,200 men and elderly and over 20,400 children,” OCHA says.
[IsraelTimes] Incident near Nablus occurs amid a shootout between troops and Paleostinians; no soldiers injured
A Paleostinian teen was rubbed out in the northern West Bank early Tuesday morning, after he apparently tried to drop a large object off a building on a soldier below, the military said.
The suspect, 15-year-old Imad Khaled Hashash, was shot while on the roof of a house in the Balata refugee camp, adjacent to the Paleostinian city of Nablus.
He was rushed to the Rafidia Surgical Hospital in Nablus, where medical officials declared his death, Paleostinian media reports said.
The Paleostinian health ministry said Hashash died after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head.
The Israel Defense Forces said that during arrest operations in the refugee camp, shots were fired by Paleostinians toward the troops, and the soldiers returned fire.
In addition, the IDF said, residents of the area threw bricks and other objects from the roofs of homes toward the forces.
"During the festivities, a number of troops identified a suspect on the roof of a building, holding a large object with both his hands, and tried to drop it on a soldier standing beneath the building," the IDF said.
One of the soldiers opened fire toward Hashash, and confirmed he had been hit, according to the military.
There were no troops injured in the incident, the IDF said, adding that the arrest operation was successful and a suspect involved in "terror activities" was detained.
Last year, an Israeli soldier, Amit Ben-Ygal, was killed after a Paleostinian dropped a large rock on him from the roof of a building near Jenin. A similar incident occurred in 2018, when a marble slab was thrown from the third floor of a building in a refugee camp near Ramallah, killing Ronen Lubarsky.
Since May, more than 40 Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli troops — soldiers and border guards — including in a number of cases with questionable circumstances, most notably the shooting of a 12-year-old boy in what the Israel Defense Forces described as an apparent case of misidentification.
Overnight Israeli arrest raids in West Bank towns are frequently met with fierce resistance from local Paleostinians — mostly in the form of rock-throwing and Molotov cocktail attacks — though the use of live gunfire against troops is rare.
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/\ Uhuhuh how about exterminating Taliban? They are nothing but biological hazards.
Exterminate the TB? Exterminate our newest Military Industrial Complex (MIC) client and tribal parters? They deserve those M4's. You on the other hand, must have your M4 taken away !
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The Taliban are being coached by the Chinese and by the State Department in green virtue signaling.
China will buy the Lithium and other rare earth minerals used in the manufacture of batteries and other green technologies from Afghanistan so the Taliban can have a cash flow of billions of dollars a month in order to finance its global war of terrorism.
China will process the mineral ores to produce the pure rare earth elements.
China will use these rare earth elements in the manufacture of batteries and other green technologies in order to sell to the rest of the world and become the largest economy in the world.
The Democrats will pass the three trillion dollar infrastructure bill so the US can invest billions of dollars in green batteries and other green technologies so the US can be clean and non-polluting and help fight global warming.
Of course most of the billions of dollars of green infrastructure will be purchased from the Chinese because the Taliban will not sell their rare earth minerals to the US.
Besides the US cannot manufacture green technologies here in the US because the elements used in the manufacture of green technologies like batteries are toxic and are not environmentally friendly and environmental regulation and mitigation required in the US is prohibitively expensive.
So all green manufacturing and green recycling has been sent overseas to pollute and to change the micro-climates of other countries and not our own.
NIMBY and out of site, out of mind.
So most of the 3 trillion dollar green infrastructure bill investment will end up going overseas to our arch enemies China and the Taliban.
After all climate change is the real global threat, much more than the global threat of terrorism from the Taliban.
And the thousands of American hostages being left behind in Afghanistan will be in the good green hands of the Taliban.
Meanwhile under cover of the Kabul hostage crisis Nancy Pelosi is hard at work getting that 3 trillion dollar infrastructure bill passed without a single Republican vote so that the "green cycle of violence" can really begin when the real money starts to flow in the trillions.
An official working at USCENTCOM sent the memo the same day that US flights were temporarily halted because of overcrowding at the Qatar base
Al Udeid Air Base outside of Doha has a capacity of roughly 10,000 people
Officials described the location as a desert with nothing else around
Doha embassy staff reportedly claim Afghans are 'in a living nightmare'
The leaked memo comes as the Biden administration touts increased evacuation numbers out of Kabul, after wide criticism of the president's handling of it
One anonymous official accused the White House and State Department of 'inadequate forethought and contingency planning' over conditions at the base
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More: The Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System has flagged up to 100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients of Special Immigration Visas as potential matches to intelligence agency watch lists, @DefenseOne has learned
Security screeners at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... have detected that at least one of the Afghans who was evacuated from Kabul Airport has potential ties to ISIS, a U.S. official confirmed to Defense One.
Moreover, the Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System has flagged up to 100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients of Special Immigration Visas as potential matches to intelligence agency watch lists, a second official said.
At least 6,000 fleeing Afghans have been evacuated to Al Udeid and thousands more have been flown to other temporary staging bases throughout the Middle East and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... by U.S. military aircraft. At those bases, Customs and Border Patrol screeners are checking evacuees’ IDs and biometric data against law enforcement databases, the first official said.
Ultimately, thousands of those Afghans will come to the United States, where they will be initially housed at several military bases, such as Fort Bliss in Texas, Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and Fort Lee in Virginia.
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More: The Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System has flagged up to 100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients of Special Immigration Visas as potential matches to intelligence agency watch lists, @DefenseOne has learned
...1.43% of 7k seems a tad, oh, I dunno, low.
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So, just like invaders in Texas, Arizona, et al.
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What if all these "refugees" had put their efforts into changing the places they are now trying to leave for the better. Easy to say, sure, but for most of them "plan A" was always to come to Uncle Sugar's 24/7 Strip Club, where the milk and honey flow free as long as you are not an eeeeevil white person.
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Like start some mini Iran or spread some f*cking disease
- One in a Million, Guns n Roses
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but for most of them "plan A" was always to come to Uncle Sugar's 24/7 Strip Club
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[UAWire] Major General, Valery Zaluzhny has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, replacing Ruslan Khomchak.
General Zaluzhny was formerly Commander of the Pivnich (North) Operational Command.
Khomchak headed the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for two years. He says that during this time, the Ukrainian army has become closer to NATO and is ready to respond to a possible escalation by Russia.
Khomchak led the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Ilovaisk in 2014, for which he is often criticized because of the huge losses of the Ukrainian military. Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Khomchak head of the General Staff immediately after assuming the presidency..
President Zelensky wants to see synergy between the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said presidential press secretary Serhiy Nikiforov.
Khomchak moves to the post of First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
The new Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Zaluzhny was born on July 8, 1973, in the city of Novohrad-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr region.
Zaluzhny has been in the Donbas since 2014.
"For me, the war began in mid-July 2014, when I was appointment a deputy commander of sector C, formed in the Donetsk region. Since then, I led almost all the army units that were created there. I reached the position of Chief of Staff of the Joint Forces Operation," Zaluzhny said.
In 2017, Zaluzhny became Chief of Staff, First Deputy Commander of the Operational Command West of the Land Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and in 2018, Chief of the Joint Operational Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and First Deputy Commander of the Joint Forces Operation.
On December 9, 2019, Zaluzhny became the commander of Operational Command North.
[al-Rooters] Booyah! HT Insty
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Joe Biden's bid to avoid reinstating an immigration policy implemented by his predecessor, Donald Trump, that forced thousands of asylum seekers to stay in Mexico awaiting U.S. hearings.
The court, with three liberal justices dissenting, rejected the Biden administration's effort to block a Texas-based judge's ruling requiring the government to revive Trump's "remain in Mexico" policy, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program.
The brief order by the justices means that U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's ruling now goes into effect.
The court's decision referenced its 2020 ruling that thwarted Trump's bid to end a program introduced by Democratic former President Barack Obama that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants - often called "Dreamers" - who entered the United States illegally as children.
Both cases concern whether the government followed the correct legal process in unwinding a previous administration's policy.
Biden, who has sought since taking office in January to reverse many of Trump's hardline immigration policies, rolled back the MPP program. Republican-led Texas and Missouri challenged the Democratic president's move.
The high court said the administration failed to show the decision to end the policy was not arbitrary and capricious.
Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented.
The administration formally repealed the policy in June despite the crisis at the border. Kacsmaryk ruled to reinstate the policy in early August, ruling the program was ended illegally. Kacsmaryk said the policy must be reinstated until it was "lawfully rescinded" and the administration had the capacity to hold all migrants. The ruling was not put in place immediately, and the Biden administration was given one week to file an appeal.
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If they do, it further undermines the legitimacy of the national government. If you haven't been keeping track its all spiraling quickly down. At a certain point, we'll join the Russian people in walking away from the vestiges of the central government. The only thing holding the place together right now is the common currency which they are in the process of destroying.
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SCOTUS makes a good decision; now to enforce the decision is a country that currently appears to be lawless and without any leadership that's identifiable.
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Somehow I think Bidet will ignore this, just plain ignore it and we will get months of mumbled, word-salad gibberish and testimonials from "Constitutional Experts" about why it's OK!
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I believe SCOTUS technically qualify as the Constitutional experts.
Which brings us back to the continuing dissolution of any reason to obey the law. You can only play - one set of rules for me and another set of rules for thee for so long before you find that the foundation crumbles.
[NY Post] Outgoing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo marked his final day in office Monday by handing out four sentence commutations and one pardon. He also made a parole board referral for a 76-year-old man over his role in the deadly 1981 Brink’s armored car robbery.
David Gilbert, a Weather Underground member who was convicted of three counts of second-degree murder and four counts of first-degree robbery for his role in the crime that resulted in the deaths of Nyack police Sgt. Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly Brown as well as Brink’s guard Peter Paige. He was serving a sentence of 75 years to life in prison with no possibility of parole until 2056.
Gilbert’s son, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, had lobbied Cuomo for his release.
Boudin’s mother, Kathy, also took part in the robbery. She pleaded guilty to felony murder and robbery charges and was paroled in 2003.
[Breitbart] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and moderate Democrats struck a compromise Tuesday on the path forward to voting on the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill and adopting the $3.5 trillion budget resolution.
The House passed on H. Res. 601, the resolution that contains the rule for the House to consider the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill, otherwise known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, S. Con. Res. 14, the budget resolution, and H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021.
The measure passed 220-212, after House moderate Democrats led a revolt against Pelosi. Democrats passed the bill on partisan lines, with strong GOP opposition to the bill.
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#UPDATE: Multiple reports stating that the #US has begun its withdraw from #Kabul#Afghanistan and that the gates to the airfield will be closed as early as tonight.
A long list of flights chartered for Afghan evacuees today has been forced to depart almost empty as access into the airport has been effectively cut off -- in part by the #Taliban, but also US Marines who appear to have orders to cease traffic and/or only allow U.S. citizens in.
“UK-US relations are about to enter their lowest point since Suez,” one senior MP said. “The special relationship is very, very damaged.” A minister added: “Biden’s America seems to have chosen to back off just when it was obvious only they could step up.” https://t.co/e59SjCeTeO
Other items in cable: • 128 planned flights in the next 48 hours • Approx 13,000 people inside HKIA • Denmark won’t temp host US SIVs • Cyprus will host evacuees in the “low hundreds” for 30-60 days • Netherlands to take 2k people for 60 days
US official on #s diff: DOD #s "include coalition and charter flights, which they help facilitate." State "numbers to date have not, as [State] does not play a role in these operations" & DOD #s "include contractors, US direct hires, & other USG personnel" while State doesn't
US airlift from Afghanistan records busiest day yet: 20,000-plus flown out
[IsraelTimes] The US military pulls off its biggest day of evacuation flights from Afghanistan since the operation began. But deadly violence that has blocked many desperate evacuees from entering Kabul’s airport persists, and the Taliban signals they might soon seek to shut down the airlifts.
About 21,600 people were flown safely out of Taliban-held Afghanistan in the 24-hour period that ended early Tuesday, the White House says. That compares with about 16,000 the previous day.
Thirty-seven US military flights — 32 C-17s and 5 C-130s — carried about 12,700 evacuees. An additional 8,900 people flew out aboard 57 flights by US allies.
Pentagon chief spokesman John Kirby said Monday the faster pace of evacuation was partly due to coordination with Taliban commanders on getting evacuees into the airport.
“Thus far, and going forward, it does require constant coordination and deconfliction with the Taliban,” Kirby said. “What we’ve seen is, this deconfliction has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow as well as reducing the overall size of the crowds just outside the airport.”
"Rep. Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Rep. Peter Meijer, a Republican from Michigan, who underwent a secret trip to Kabul to witness the situation at the airport for themselves, challenged President Biden and claimed that 'we won't get everyone out on time'. "
Pelosi has to be livid about that. One part of the regime strategy is to control the flow of information from Kabul. Another part is to push into the headlines any non-Kabul issue ("Squirrel!").
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Yes, thx Matt. I keep seeing the statement "60,000 rescued." A media talking point? Stats for a soon to be awarded Nobel Peace Prize ?
[Jpost] The IDF has reinforced the Gaza Division ahead of rallies planned for Wednesday by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The reinforcements include two units of special forces, an armored company and snipers, the IDF said Tuesday.
“IDF forces will act vigorously in the face of terrorist attempts at the fence,” it said.
The decision to reinforce the Gaza Division came following a situational assessment led by OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Eliezer Toledano. During the meeting, officers discussed the location of various forces, procedures for opening fire and approved operational plans.
The meeting took place ahead of a rally the Palestinians have called “The Sword of Jerusalem shall not be sheathed,” a reference to Hamas’s name for the fighting that took place in May.
The IDF is preparing for a variety of scenarios, including violent riots along the perimeter fence, the launching of incendiary balloons and rocket fire toward Israeli communities.
“The IDF will respond strongly to terrorist attempts and hold the Hamas terrorist organization responsible for everything that is happening in the Gaza Strip,” the IDF said.
On Saturday, during a violent riot along the Gaza perimeter fence, Border Police officer Bar-el Shmueli was shot in the head by a Hamas terrorist who approached his position and shot Shmueli with a handgun.
Shmueli underwent several operations at Soroka-University Medical Center in Beersheba and was in critical condition, intubated and sedated.
Following criticism that no senior IDF officer came to the hospital, Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi and Toledano visited his bedside on Tuesday.
More than 41 Palestinians, including 10 children, were injured during the demonstrations, the Gaza Strip’s Health Ministry reported. Among them were a 13-year-old boy who was hit in the head east of Gaza City, someone who was hit in the neck with a rubber bullet, a woman and a journalist, it said.
Gaza is engaged in an open military confrontation with Israel with the aim of putting pressure to end the 11-year blockade on the coastal enclave, Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman Daoud Shehab said Tuesday.
“The Palestinian resistance looks at what is happening today in Jerusalem and the attacks in the West Bank, and it always has its hand on the trigger,” he was quoted as saying by the Palestinian Ma’an news agency.
“The resistance is following all of this and is ready and ready in case the occupation tries to change the rules of engagement,” Shehab said, adding that groups in the Gaza Strip are “ready to respond to any aggression.”
Israeli defense officials believe Hamas is ready for another round of fighting. It has said it is satisfied with the outcome of Operation Guardian of the Walls, but Hamas’s rocket arsenal was not hit as hard as it would have liked.
PolitiFact - No proof Biden left Taliban $80B in weapons, or that he wants Americans’ pistols PolitiFact claimed donations
The list of equipment left behind. Its worse than I had thought.
Here is a more complete list (Forbes) of US-supplied and left behind equipment list now controlled by Taliban. Makes our efforts look almost minuscule. At least the guys we supported knew SOMEBODY here … gave a shit.
-2,000 Armored Vehicles Including Humvees and MRAP’s
-75,989 Total Vehicles: FMTV, M35, Ford Rangers, Ford F350, Ford Vans, Toyota Pickups, Armored Security Vehicles etc...
-45 UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters
-50 MD530G Scout Attack Choppers
-ScanEagle Military Drones
-30 Military Version Cessnas
-4 C-130’s
-29 Brazilian made A-29 Super Tucano Ground Attack Aircraft
=208+ Aircraft Total!!
-At least 600,000+ Small arms M16, M249 SAWs, M24 Sniper Systems, 50 Calibers, 1,394 M203 Grenade Launchers, M134 Mini Gun, 20mm Gatling Guns and Ammunition
-61,000 M203 Rounds
-20,040 Grenades
-Howitzers
-Mortars +1,000’s of Rounds
-162,000 pieces of Encrypted Military Communications Gear
-16,000+ Night Vision Goggles
-Newest Technology Night Vision Scopes
-Thermal Scopes and Thermal Mono Googles
-10,000 2.75 inch Air to Ground Rockets
-Reconnaissance Equipment (ISR)
-Laser Aiming Units
-Explosives Ordnance C-4, Semtex, Detonators, Shaped Charges, Thermite, Incendiaries, AP/API/APIT
-2,520 Bombs
-Administration Encrypted Cell Phones and Laptops ALL operational
-Pallets with Millions of Dollars in US Currency
-Millions of Rounds of Ammunition including but not limited to 20,150,600 rounds of 7.62mm, 9,000,000 rounds of 50.caliber
-Large Stockpile of Plate Carriers and Body Armor
-US Military HIIDE, for Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment Biometrics
-Lots of Heavy Equipment Including Bull Dozers, Backhoes, Dump Trucks, Excavators
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Why would we have needed Stingers there? Taliban had no air force and I don't think we would have shot down any Pak aircraft operating on the border.
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Murcek, because it's part of the pre-defined load out for a combat brigade. They each have an assigned amount for air defense.
(When eldest son was there as a combat engineer, he came upon a battalion strength river bridging unit. Armored bridge carriers, boats, the whole nine yards. Parked near Bagram. Unused.)
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Clears that up for me. Thank you.
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Stinger's batteries have an expiration date. That's only good if kept in accordance with instructions. Those flares will be adequate if not.
Shades of the Hutaree
[Jpost] A group of men who united via a neo-Nazi forum were criminally charged last week after allegedly devising a terrorist attack on the power grid in Idaho and the US Northwest, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.
On Friday, Paul James Kryscuk, 35, Liam Collins, 21, Jordan Duncan, 26, and Joseph Maurino, 22, were indicted in North Carolina. According to the DOJ document, Collins and Duncan are former Marines previously assigned to Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to damage the property of an energy facility in the US, the document states.
According to the accusations, the defendants researched, discussed, and reviewed in depth a previous attack on the power grid by an unknown group. The group in the earlier attack used assault-style rifles in an attempt to explode a power substation. Between 2017 and 2020, Kryscuk produced firearms while Collins stole military gear, including magazines for assault-style rifles and had them delivered to the other defendants. During that time, Duncan gathered a collected information, some military-owned, regarding firearms, explosives, and nerve toxins.
The indictment also states that the group members discussed using homemade Thermite, a combination of metal powder and metal oxide which burns at over 4000°F to destroy power transformers.
In mid-2020, Collins allegedly asked the group to each buy 50 pounds of Tannerite, a binary explosive containing aluminum powder and oxidizers, and can be used to make Thermite. Later that year, a handwritten list of approximately one dozen intersections and places in Idaho and nearby states was found in Kryscuk’s possession, including places with components of the power grid for the northwest US. The harm caused, if destroyed, could exceed $100,000.
Court documents claim that Collins and Kryscuk met each other on the now-defunct online neo-Nazi medium Iron March and used the forum to recruit the others. According to court documents, Collins wrote on the forum that he hoped the group would be "a modern-day SS," referring to the infamous Nazi force.
Their training was administered in a desert area near Boise, Idaho, Newsweek reported. A propaganda video the group recorded during training shows participants dressed in masks associated with the neo-Nazi group AtomWaffen Division firing assault rifles before displaying the "Heil Hitler" sign under a Nazi symbol. The video ends with a message stating "come home white man."
If convicted, Collins, Duncan, Kryscuk and Maurino could each face up to 40 years in prison.
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Given what we have learned from The Jan. 6 "Insurrection" And Gretchen Whitmer "Kidnapping", not to mention Coimtelpro program. I'm gonna reserve judgement.
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This is according sources like The Southern Poverty Law Center. Neo-Nazi's are part of the National Socialist Movement.
Which seems to fit with the Political Party of the KKK, Jim Crow and Bernie Sanders.
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After five years the FBI decides to close it down. The participants have married, moved apart, had children, and are attending Divinity schools. /s/
#1
Did a long study of the battle. The armies sat facing off each other for months at the location. The numbers reported were non-sustainable for food and fodder in such a static situation. Gee, someone fudging numbers. The victors write the history. The greater the disaster, the greater the prestige of the ultimate Roman hero Scipio in the great struggle.
Twitter report with Newsweek story. Go to title for story.
President Joe Biden's administration is prepared to pardon an influential Afghan tribal leader, who has been sitting in a U.S. federal prison for 16 years, in exchange for the last American hostage abducted last year in Afghanistan.
But Washington is insisting that the Taliban first provide proof of life for the U.S. hostage, a U.S. government official told Newsweek.
Bashir Noorzai, a top figure in the Pashtun tribe that shares his surname, the same tribe to which elusive Taliban Supreme Commander Hibatullah Akhundzada belongs, was arrested in New York City on drug trafficking charges in April 2005 during a trip in which he sought to advance diplomacy as the U.S.-led war in his home country grew even more violent. Today, he's serving a life sentence at a federal prison in New Hampshire.
Mark Frerichs is a U.S. contractor who was abducted in late January 2020 by elements believed to be tied to the Haqqani network, a Taliban-aligned militia operating across the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Newsweek was the first to report on his kidnapping days later, and has made contact with his family and former U.S. officials regarding his case, as well as the prospect of an exchange of Noorzai for Frerichs.
[Jpost] The European Union has delayed by ten months this year’s funding to the Palestinian Authority.
The European Union has delayed by ten months this year’s funding to the Palestinian Authority in a move that has deepened the PA’s financial crisis and raised doubts about the payment of August’s civil servant wages.
“The crisis is very serious, and at this stage we don’t know if we will be able to pay this month’s salaries,” a Palestinian official cautiously told The Jerusalem Post.
The European Union has been the largest single donor to the PA, providing 150 million euros for social allowances, including salaries for employees such as teachers and health care workers.
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This year, for the first time the EU has not provided its traditional 150 million euros for those salaries in a timely fashion, referencing technical reasons.
The EU might provide funds by October, leaving the PA scraping the barrel in an effort to fund August wages.
The payment of civil servant salaries for June and July were delayed by several days due to the crisis, the official pointed out.
“The banks are saying that they can no longer give us loans because they have reached the maximum of what they are allowed to give,” the official said.
The current crisis is directly linked to the sharp decline in foreign aid, he explained.
An EU spokesperson said that “the payments of social allowances to vulnerable Palestinian families and salaries to civil servants are the responsibility of the Palestinian Authority, not the European Union.”
“The PA has been perfectly aware for months that EU funding in 2021 would be delayed for technical reasons,” the spokesperson said.
“As per our communication with the PA, the delay in our annual support for Palestinians is expected to last until October 2021. The PA – like any responsible public authority – must plan on the basis of the revenue streams to which it has access, including when it knows donor generosity may be delayed,” the spokesperson explained.
The Palestinian official noted that there were other factors at work. There was a significant drop in tax collection, increased debts to the banks and the economic crisis resulting from the spread of COVID-19 and its Delta variant.
The crisis is also caused by Israel’s deduction of hundreds of millions of shekels from the amount paid by the PA to families of terrorists imprisoned or killed by Israel.
Another PA official said that the Ramallah-based government was hoping to receive more than $200 million in foreign aid during the first six months of this year. In reality, however, the PA received less than $35m. during the period, further aggravating the financial crisis.
We have made urgent appeals to the donors to fulfill their obligations towards the Palestinian people,” the official told The Jerusalem Post. “The Arab countries, as you know, have not given us one dollar in the past year. We are now relying on the Americans and Europeans.”
Starting from Aug 22, all major public places in Baiyin City, #Gangsu Province, #China will require people to show “Health Code” AND #VaccinePassport. Non vaccinated people will be denied entry. Major public places include supermarkets, hotels, schools, tourist attractions.... pic.twitter.com/CBr9dUC7tB
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Watch them slowly decline in all aspects of life. Slow national suicide. Isolated, no allies and a population if able will leave. Ration cards (implanted chips)rationed energy, rationed food,rationed medical and so slow suicide. They are dying and don't even realize it.
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You knew it would be a huge success story didn't you? There will be that occasional 'tapping on the hull' by those left behind, but it will be soon overshadowed by the Theresienstadt (Terezín), Poland style resettlement efforts. Check your local listings for more.
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You gotta admit that whoever wrote that should get lifetime admission to the Brass Monkey Club.
"The War Department, 1876: The number of Indians located by General Custer in the valley of the Little Bighorn has exceeded even his own lofty expectations."
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A near disaster. IDF Colonel Yoav Brunner, the northern Gaza Brigade commander was standing three meters behind the IDF soldier that was struck by a bullet at the #Gaza border Saturday. https://t.co/SvrSVxnbV5
[NYPOST] The Empire State’s newly minted chief executive, Gov. Kathy Hochul, told New Yorkers that she wants them to "believe in government again" as she officially grabbed the reins of the state bureaucracy after a wave of scandals forced former Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo ...Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he has about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him.
from office.Hochul, a Buffalo Democrat, takes over a state government that has been battered by the months of tumult that eventually resulted in Cuomo’s ouster, suffered a staff exodus at the Health Department as it attempts to battle the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic and a "crisis" in the state’s flailing tenant rescue program, which she vowed to get on track.
"I want people to believe in their government again," she said Tuesday during the short presser that followed her ceremonial swearing-in at the historic Red Room in the state Capitol.
"It’s important that people have faith," she continued. "Our strength comes from the faith and the confidence of the people who put us in these offices and I take that very seriously."
The looming wave of evictions from the pandemic is among the most immediate challenges facing Hochul, as the state’s federally funded tenant and landlord rescue program remains mired by delays, a glitchy computer system and a failure to get the word out about the effort.
#10
Of old was the priesthood profound:
Odd noises, dark nights, sacred ground
In the depths of a grove.
Now they'll plunder your trove
In broad daylight with nary a sound.
#12
Chapattery will get you... well, pretty far. I mean, not first base or anything, but... let's hold hands and walk the walls of the fort, shall we? ["please don't kill me!" smilies here]
[NRA] FAIRFAX, Va. — Due to concern over the safety of our NRA family and community, we regret to inform you that we have decided to cancel the 2021 Annual Meeting & Exhibits. This cancellation applies to all events and meetings that were scheduled in Houston. We will provide future notification regarding a rescheduled date for the annual Meeting of Members.
We make this difficult decision after analyzing relevant data regarding COVID-19 in Harris County, Texas. We also consulted with medical professionals, local officials, major sponsors & exhibitors, and many NRA members before arriving at this decision. The NRA Annual Meeting welcomes tens of thousands of people, and involves many events, meetings, and social gatherings. Among the highlights of our annual meeting are acres of exhibit space featuring the latest and greatest firearms, the display of countless accessories, and the offering of adventures and group gatherings that many travel hundreds, and some even thousands, of miles to experience. We realize that it would prove difficult, if not impossible, to offer the full guest experience that our NRA members deserve.
The NRA’s top priority is ensuring the health and well-being of our members, staff, sponsors, and supporters. We are mindful that NRA Annual Meeting patrons will return home to family, friends and co-workers from all over the country, so any impacts from the virus could have broader implications. Those are among the reasons why we decided to cancel our 2021 event. Last year it was COVID. This year it's vendors pulling out. Those who feel the COVID issue has brought out the worst in some commenters here should take some time to see what's happening in the comments on 2A blogs. If you don't want Wayne LaPierre drawn and quartered, you deserve to be cast into the outer dark yourself, many feel. I think the guy should have been gone a while ago, but that would involve a leadership responsive to its members. That seems to be a big problem in many places these days...
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[WashingtonFreeBeacon] Marines will lose their pensions, tuition assistance, and access to the G.I. bill, along with other military benefits, if they refuse the COVID-19 vaccination, according to internal emails reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
An Aug. 18 email from Col. Teague Pastel, a commanding officer at the Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C., told colleagues that although "vaccines are still voluntary," the military believes "they will become mandatory in the near future." The penalties for refusing the coronavirus vaccination, Pastel wrote, should be in line with others for insubordination. Those penalties include "administration separation," a demerit in the Marine's personal file, as well as the forfeiture of various retirement and financial benefits.
"Please continue engaging with our troops on the importance of vaccinating, and stress that it is still voluntary at this time. However, once the vaccine becomes mandatory they need to be prepared to separate and potentially lose benefits," Pastel's email reads. "If the Marines are not willing to lose the benefits then they should just get the vaccine now."
Pastel sent the email prior to the Food and Drug Administration's Monday move to approve the Pfizer vaccine, which opened the door for the military to mandate it for its members. The Pentagon announced the vaccine mandate within hours of FDA approval.
Although military officials, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley, previously discussed mandating the vaccine, how they planned on implementing it remained unknown. The memo obtained by the Free Beacon describes how the armed forces plans to use a variety of draconian measures to make life as an unvaccinated troop as difficult as possible.
"As you continue engaging with your Marines and Sailors about volunteering to get the vaccine now instead of waiting, please ensure they know the anticipated ramifications of refusing to vaccinate," Pastel says in the memo. He then says those who decline the vaccination will lose out on tuition assistance, "Post 9/11 G.I. Bill" benefits, as well as retirement contributions and credits.
The Marine Corps did not respond to a request for comment.
The Pentagon says more than one million troops are fully vaccinated, with another 237,000 receiving one dose. The percentage of those vaccinated by branch varies greatly, according to the military's latest numbers. The Department of the Navy, of which the Marines are a part, says 74 percent of its members have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
Other branches of the military have struggled to get their members vaccinated, with the Air Force seeing over 65 percent of its active force at least partially vaccinated. The Army has the lowest vaccination rate at around 50 percent.
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...Lemme tell y'all a story.
In the late 90s, the USAF couldn't get anybody to volunteer for the career and marriage destroying duty that was Recruiting, so some genius decided that ALL Staff Sergeants returning from overseas during a 90-day period were going to be recruiters whether they wanted to or not. When asked what would happen if these folks declined, the answer was "They'll be discharged - and they're far too invested in their careers at this point to walk away and lose everything now."
Dear 'Burgers, since you're here and you're reading this, it's likely you've already figured out what happened next. The OFFICIAL number of decliners was "in the low double digits", but it was enough to make the USAF very quietly kill the program. I was told on a couple of occasions later that the actual number (those who actually said no and those who indicated they were going to) was closing in on 50%, which would have crippled the junior NCO corps for years had they actually been separated.
The takeaway should be this: The USAF utterly failed to realize just how resistable an idiotic and ill considered 'irresistable' program could be. The United States Marine Corps - famed for the courage of its men and women, less so for the intelligence of some of its senior leadership at times - may well be about to learn the same lesson.
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I wonder when the the Asian's get wise to Harris and her super spreader tour. Normal people even if allowed to visit face 14 day quarantine in each of these countries.
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Yes of course, our Marines and soldiers are the problem, not activities at the Wuhan labs or our socialist central planners in Washington. Please concentrate media attention on our Marines, Airmen, Sailors, and Soldiers.
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Adding a new clause to an existing contract? Lawyers split a gut...
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Variola treatments had been around for over 50 years, and remember in those times flogging, hanging, and firing squad were on the table.
Perhaps a bad optics example as Australia rounds up children from their mother's breast, locks them in a concrete facility, and has their way with them?
It’s not a good sign when a White House chief of staff to a Democratic president wants to retweet favorable news coverage and all he can find is the least credible and most slavishly loyal commentators on the internet.
The Afghanistan fiasco has created that most disorienting and discomfiting experience for a progressive administration — a serious bout of critical media coverage immune to White House spin and determined to tell the unvarnished story of an ongoing debacle.
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The press is fully aware that come 1 September 2021 their access to events in Afghanistan will terminate (as planned).
Anyone see any estimates on Americans still trapped in Afghanistan? One or two, twenty, three dozen, a thousand? No, and you won't. After 1 September, it will no longer be a topic of discussion. How can accountability happen if there is no evidence.
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The press knows their access to events in Afghanistan will soon end. The Taliban will see to it. The key to effective deception is ensuring that only ONE story is told. That would be the Deep State's story of success in Afghanistan.
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Cargo planes from China and elsewhere will begin arriving on or about 1 Sept. The TB and the Klingons have established a very tight timeline. These pesky 'stay behind' Americans must be dealt with quickly....and forgotten.
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Look for a lot of bitter "Americans" who got out by the skin of their teeth to team up with "refugee" cadres to cause harm to the citizens here because we allowed their cushy gigs / Lawrence of Arabia fantasies to go in the crapper.
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If CNN said shit tastes good this idiot would eat a mouthful.
American's tolerated a tie in Korea, a loss of Cuba, a loss in Vietnam, etc.
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Press knows Biden cannot win re-election and will likely take down the Dems n the mid-terms and are hoping to force him out to get some kind of incumbent advantage. Unfortunately they'll have to get rid of Kamala as well as she is deeply unpopular, as is Pelosi, the next in line.
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/\ ditto #10. The Battlespace is already being prepared for some (quote) outside the Beltway (un-quote) savior of the masses to run against the Biden/Harris record.
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Cargo planes from China and elsewhere will begin arriving on or about 1 Sept. The TB and the Klingons have established a very tight timeline. These pesky 'stay behind' Americans must be dealt with quickly....and forgotten.
This comment, placed alongside Biden's weird swarmy smile after being asked what will happen, is a real creepy feeling.
[C4IsrNet] Drone pilots beware: Authorities at one of the United States’ top nuclear weapons laboratories issued a warning Monday that airspace over Los Alamos National Laboratory is off limits.
The birthplace of the atomic bomb, Los Alamos lab reported that recent unauthorized drone flights have been detected in restricted airspace in the area.
Officials said if you fly a drone over the lab, you likely will lose it.
"We can detect and track a UAS (unmanned aircraft system), and if it poses a threat, we have the ability to disrupt control of the system, seize or exercise control, confiscate or use reasonable force to disable, damage or destroy the UAS," said Unica Viramontes, senior director of lab security.
The lab would not release any specifics about how the system works, citing security protocols. They also would not say how many unauthorized flights have occurred in recent months.
Lab officials also warned of the potential for "collateral interceptions" of normal commercial or hobbyist drone flights, saying pilots should stay well outside the lab’s restricted airspace and the additional no-drone zone designated by the Federal Aviation Administration.
According to the FAA, drones are prohibited from flying over sites designated as national security-sensitive facilities. Aside from military bases and other Defense Department sites, restrictions are in place for national landmarks and certain critical infrastructure such as nuclear power plants.
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Last time I drove past the fenced boundary of LANL in 2006 I remember seeing posted signs warning of buried munitions starting on the other side of the fence.
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I've always thought we should have about a 2 football field distance mine field on the border. If you make it though, you can stay.
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Keep your non-government systems away from our controlled airspace. If there is any AGS (Aerial Gamma Spectrometry) sniffing to be conducted, we will do it.
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Always the assholes who ruin things for the rest of us. Might want to keep your drone clear of the secret government nuclear facility, eh? Oh no. They have to get blurry shots of the grounds so they can post them on social media and get likes. Because their lives are so empty that that's the only thing that matters.
Meanwhile the rest of us get our nice hobby fucked with. Good job, assholes.
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You may have noticed that the drones that were shutting down UK airports are out of the news. It's likely the geeks who were flying them are at a black prison in the Baltic now...
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Seems like an excellent way for free testing of laser based point defense systems. If they can take down missile and artillery shells, zapping drones should be easy.
1) Shocking footage obtained by hackers who hacked into the notorious Evil Prison in Iran’s surveillance system. It shows how prisoners are violently beaten and tortured by prison officials. Islamic Republics officials never allow UN Special Rapporteur to visit Iranian prison. pic.twitter.com/05eOx6QYJj
[RUDAW.NET] The head of Iran’s prison authority on Tuesday apologized for “unacceptable” behavior after leaked video showed abuses in one of the country’s notorious prisons.
Mohammad Mahdi Hajmohammadi said they are “accepting responsibility for these unacceptable behaviors and committing to trying not to repeat such tragic events and dealing seriously with wrongdoers.”
The video leaked to the Associated Press shows prisoners and guards in Tehran’s Evin prison, including a man smashing a bathroom mirror to try to cut his arm, guards hitting prisoners, and guards fighting among themselves.
“I apologize to God Almighty, our dear leader, the noble nation and the honorable prison guards, whose efforts, of course, will not be ignored under the influence of these mistakes,” said Hajmohammadi.
Iran’s deputy chief justice told reporters on Tuesday that the issue is under investigation. “The judiciary is determined to deal severely with those who disrupt the security of society and play with the lives of the people and disrupt the well-being of the people,” Iranian state media quoted Mohammad Mossadegh Kahnemoui as saying.
Human rights monitors frequently raise concerns about poor conditions, abuse of prisoners, and use of torture in Iran’s penal system, especially in wards of Evin prison that are controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
“Prison conditions were harsh and life threatening due to food shortages, gross overcrowding, physical abuse, and inadequate sanitary conditions and medical care,” the US State Department said in its annual human rights report.
Evin prison facility is the target of both US and EU sanctions for human rights abuses. After Iran cracked down on protesters following the disputed 2009 re-election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, many of the arrested protesters ended up in Evin.
International monitors are concerned that human rights could further erode in Iran under new President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline judge with a record of human rights abuses who played a role in a 1988 prison massacre. Raisi has defended his record. “All that I have done through my years of service has always been towards defending human rights,” he said after the June election.
[NYPOST] Dr. Anthony Fauci ...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place... has admitted making his latest mistake in coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... guidance, this time over when he thinks the pandemic will come "under control" — apologizing by saying, "My bad."
The White House coronavirus czar had told NPR on Monday that if enough people get vaccinated, the US could "really get some good control over this" by the fall or winter of next year.
But quizzed on it by CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... ’s Anderson Cooper later the same day, Fauci — who has been under fire repeatedly for flip-flopping on his public advice from the early days of the pandemic — said he actually thinks that control will come even sooner.
"Anderson, I have to apologize. When I listened to the tape, I meant to say the spring of 2022, so I did misspeak," he said.
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I'm really not going anywhere on the New Zealand - Australia - Communist China end of the COVID madness spectrum. I can spend my money better in places where freedom is not considered bad form in the face of a religious cult.
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Hawaii's Governor is trying to stamp out the last remnants of the tourist industry.
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#2 and #3, I think the real answer is "television cameras." TV camera addiction is real--maybe someone should start a telethon to raise funds to help cure it or something.
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Gouge their eyes out and disfigure them. That'll cure it.
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[FrontPage] During the 2007 Dem primaries, Biden attacked Obama for adopting his position on Afghanistan.
The flailing Biden campaign put out a press release accusing Obama of being a "johnny-come-lately" who had belatedly adopted Biden's push for "significantly increasing reconstruction assistance" and sending more American soldiers to Afghanistan.
While running for president, Biden had based his entire foreign policy around sending more troops to Afghanistan. He had memorized one line, "if we're surging troops anywhere, it should be in Afghanistan", and repeated it in the Senate, in interviews, and on the campaign trail.
Sending more troops to Afghanistan, he argued would give America "the moral high ground".
“The next president of the United States will have to rally the American people and the world to fight them over there, unless we want to fight them over here. But the over there is not, as President Bush has falsely and repeatedly claimed, in Iraq, but it's rather in the border areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan,” he insisted at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Biden attacked not only Democrat rivals like Obama, but also President Bush, for not wanting to send more troops to Afghanistan. “I asked the commander of British forces how long his people would allow him to stay in Afghanistan. And he said, ‘Senator, we Brits have an expression. As long as the big dog is in the pen, the small dogs will stay. When the big dog leaves, the small dogs leave as well.’ Well, guess what? The big dog left in 2002.”
He was only off by 19 years. Biden was preemptively accusing Bush of his own sins.
By the 2020 primaries, Biden had completely reinvented his entire history with Afghanistan.
“I’m the guy from the beginning who argued that it was a big, big mistake to surge forces to Afghanistan. Period. We should not have done it. And I argued against it constantly,” he falsely claimed.
Biden had gone from attacking Obama for ripping off his idea of surging forces to Afghanistan to being the guy who "from the beginning" had opposed the idea.
The idea that Biden opposed “from the beginning” was the one he originally claimed credit for.
That was quite a turnaround for the fraudster who had spent his previous presidential campaign declaring, "If we're surging troops anywhere, it should be in Afghanistan."
Biden, one of the co-sponsors of the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act, which began the nation-building push in that country, also claimed that he was against nation-building.
“Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to be nation-building,” Biden claimed in his recent failed speech after Kabul turned into Saigon. More at the link
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Robert Gates, Obama's Secretary of Defense said it best: "Biden Has 'Been Wrong On Nearly Every Foreign Policy Decision Over The Past Four Decades'"
Let's face it, Biden is a criminal and never was the brightest tool in the drawer. Moreover, he appears to have advanced dementia. At this time, someone else is pulling the strings on him. The election, most likely was stolen and we appear to be leaderless at this point. Every decision coming out of the WH doesn't make any sense unless someone is deliberately trying to destroy this country.
[C4IsrNet] The new U.S. Air Force secretary says he’s skeptical about current plans to build the service’s Advanced Battle Management System, signaling the program could be heading for an overhaul.
“I want to focus it more on specific operational return on investment,” Frank Kendall told Defense News in a Aug. 13 interview. “Where do we get the most improvement in performance operationally in the battlefield, for investments in that type of technology?”
“I don’t think we’ve thought thoroughly enough about where that type of technology can have the most impact and how to get there as quickly as we can,” he said. “I want to emphasize fielded, meaningful military capability, not just a demonstration that you show what cool thing you could do, but real capability in the hands of operators.”
The goal of the ABMS program is to create an “internet of things” for the military that would provide the technical infrastructure to connect all platforms and sensors, allowing information to flow freely among them. The service is also interested in integrating artificial intelligence technologies that could parse information and aid in decision making.
But in Kendall’s view, the program has yet to answer important questions about what information will be transmitted and why, what results it is aiming to achieve and how those results will be an improvement on current command-and-control capabilities.
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we would get more ability out of everything f ppl like you were not involved.
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connect all platforms and sensors, allowing information to flow freely among them... also interested in integrating artificial intelligence technologies ... parse information and aid in decision making.
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There was a 60es story by Poul Anderson (name escapes me). The bad guy is connected to a computer that gives him an IQ of 1000 - but he's still an idiot.
Did you know that a story by Harlan Ellison was the inspiration for The Terminator, the whole Skynet premise? Story goes, Ellison was uncredited by the makers although they took the idea for an evil AI and humanoid killbot from his work. So he encountered Cameron at a party and punched him in the face. Being a black belt he musta caused good pain too.
Since then, whenever the credits roll, Harlan Ellison is always mentioned. One of my favourite writers.
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If decision making itself is left to AI, that'd be something. We could start with courts.
A networked microchip array and a few SSDs could deliver in a second what a thousand judges and district attorneys and two thousand clerks couldn't in months.
Adapting the thing to battle would be far iffier. But policywise, AI would slay.
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#8 Skidmark, fabulous collection. I have all three. Those are all writers who just got it.
Hardly anyone from the current crop of woke wakandan hippies and lesbìan lunatics being entertained by the publishers can tell a story that will mean something to everybody who reads it.
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Last guy who could be considered to have a sexual chip on his shoulder and wrote a good Sci-fi story all the same, Samuel R. Delaney. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is still one of my favorites.
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Fred has a couple of science fiction books in the yellow sidebar. Good reads all, I thought.
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You can smell the arrogance in assuming that the Enemy™ will be incapable of jamming, spoofing, hacking and/or suborning the network system. Brings up the question that "If we are that superior why do we need fancy toys -- why not squash them like the bugs they are?"
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In the shade of a terebinth-- "GIDEON!
You'd better be chipping obsidian,
Not dreaming or scribbling!"
"Yes, dear," he sighs, nibbling
A nut as he slaughtereth Midian.
[Rudaw] Two orphaned children have been kidnapped from al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) by "terrorists" posing as internal security forces (Asayish), the Kurdish force said late on Monday, adding they have also stolen money from camp residents.
"Terrorist groups and sleeper cells at al-Hol camp, wearing military uniform similar to ours, have paralyzed the residents of the camp, stolen their money and defrauded them, claiming that they are affiliated to our forces," read a statement from the Asayish, which added that Ruqiah Mohammed, 4, and Samar Mohammed, 3 were kidnapped by the groups.
"We are monitoring and investigating the movements of these groups and they will be arrested soon," it added.
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Ummm — guys? This is the Taliban you’re talking about, not Westerners who think other cultures and faiths should be respected.
[ToloNews] The Shia Ulema Council at a presser on Tuesday urged the Taliban ...Arabic for students... to ensure that they will treat all faiths and ethnicities with equality and justice.
They said the next government should ensure the participation of all religions and ethnicities.
The holy mans called on the Taliban to ensure the safety and security of women and minorities.
"The Shia people never support violence and war, they all support peace," said Ayatollah Salehi, a Shia holy man.
The holy mans also issued an 18 point declaration.
"The declaration clarifies the working framework of the Afghanistan Shia Ulema Council," said Sayed Hussain Alimi Balkhi, a holy man.
[DW] Rwandan forces have driven out Islamist turbans in Mozambique's gas-rich Cabo Delgado province. Their success underlines the failure of Mozambique's army, but some observers want Rwanda to say when they will leave.
On August 9, the Rwandan military announced it had taken the strategically important northern Mozambican port of Mocimboa da Praia from al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... hard boys. The Kigali daily New Times quoted Brigadier-General Pascal Muhizi as saying the Rwandan army had chased out the al-Shabaab fighters.
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Yes indeed. Rail traffic for two weeks was nonexistent from the West Coast to the east coast. The state to state truck traffic first of the month will halt also. Seems they want to mandate truckers show proof of vaccine jab. Sales reps say first of month price increases on all products. Make more money on the few things they are able to supply. Then they blame in every industry their problems are that people don't want to work. $25,000 sign on bonuses if they come to work but that doesn't even work. Some(trucking industry) offered $5,000; get the bonus,then move on to another company.
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Isn't it interesting that 'blame' (according to the media and central planners) is generally placed upon the consumer, worker, and indolent citizen, never the oppressive government system ?
ALSO
If you have been watching the Food store shelves for certain items. You may have noticed a growing number of shortages in the last few weeks.
BTW: In the past few months, we are finding 2nd tier food stores (Aldi's, Lilda's & Dollar Tree etc...) to have better supplies and prices than Wally World.
Plus based on a wide difference in taste & package lot # data. It seems WW maybe using multiple alternative vendors for some items, in trying to acquire supplies.
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Was in the grocery store yesterday. Nothing out of stock.
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Was at local Kroger Super Store for canning supplies, noticed low supplies in the areas I was shopping and labels on cans I had not seen before. Prices stupid high.
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"rollercoaster was recently renovated in 2017, and modifications were made to increase its speed from 106-112 mph"
Ah. They improved the equipment.
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You should be allowed to buy a "death ride." The sign should say you must be at least this tall willing to die to get on this ride. Legal department satisfied.
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Does riding on this thing void your life insurance?
Asking for a friend.
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They have to stop "Seniors Day" ride discounts?
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All is coming together as planned. Director Burns is seen giving a knowing smile and polite golf clap somewhere behind the scenes. The territorial transition is nearly complete.
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I go with the shot of liquor and the sausages. Not glum at all.
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the actress playing the part of Monica says she (the actress) is queer
isn't that cultural appropriation
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True names and dates of birth for the subjects:
A. Hillary Diane Rodham, October 26, 1947
B. William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946
For A - How Many Ounces are in a Serving of Wine?
5 oz is a standard serving
Yes, only 5 oz! That means the average wine glass should not be filled to the top! Five ounces is about 1/5 of the bottle…. not 1/3 of the bottle!
See Here
It's August, she must have switched to Margaritas somewhere in May, Cinco de Mayo .
[TASS] The AK-12 assault rifle developed by the Kalashnikov firearms manufacturer (part of the state tech corporation Rostec) will become the basic weapon for Russian troops in the coming years, the Kalashnikov press office told TASS at the Army 2021 international military-technical forum on Tuesday.
"The AK-12 has served as a replacement for the AK-74 since 2018 and will become the basic gun of the Russian Armed Forces in the next few years," the press office said.
The Kalashnikov gunmaker has launched production of upgraded AK-12 automatic weapons, it said.
"The AK-12’s final design, shaped following its operational evaluation by troops, was featured at the Army 2020 forum. Now the Kalashnikov is producing this AK model already taking into account all improvements," the press office informed.
The AK-12 has been upgraded to get the capability to use round-the-clock sights, it said. AKA Tritium sights which are useful for night and all weather use, and which do not require batteries.
"The AK-12 provides for its 24/7 employment and is distinguished by good ergonomics and accuracy. Its design has been fully tested and the customer confirms this. The assault rifle is set to become the basic weapon of the Russian soldier for decades to come. The experience of its operation in the troops confirms that the assigned task has been accomplished in full," the Kalashnikov press office said. Same cartridge, same rate of fire. The only change is the claim as to its accuracy.
The Kalashnikov Group, the creator of the world-renowned AK-47 assault rifle, signed a contract with Russia’s Defense Ministry at the Army 2021 international military-technical forum earlier on Tuesday on the delivery of AK-12 automatic weapons to the Russian troops. Rostec still will make a 7.62x39mm version for special forces, and others.
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Hornady had a brass cartridge for the 5.45x39mm about 18 months ago, before they were discontinued. The anti-Russian ban sucks for sure, (I use Silver Bear 60 grain in my AK-74) but I am confident that the Russians will move production to another east European country (Prvi Partizan comes to mind) so production and prices will return to normal.
At least, that's the plan.
As for seeing this rifle in America, recall it's just another AK-74 with an improved barrel, improved sights, and dedicated rails. It uses the same cartridge the Russian Army uses (7N6 (53 grain slug)). My best guess is that someone in America will come up with an after market Tritium sight for the AK family.
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World is divided into people who gotta have a combloc gun and all the rest of us. I respect everyone's choices. I'm happy to struggle with keeping my 6.8 SPC AR fed.
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I'm happy to struggle with keeping my 6.8 SPC AR fed.
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Mine's a 24" barrel tactical. Perfect for what the guy in the vid was doing. Hell on hogs from a blind. Crazy cartridge, based on obsolete .30 Remington case. It's never let me down.
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CZ would always be high on my list, Besoeker.
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Shotwell says one supply chain issue for SpaceX is a lack of liquid oxygen because of demands to treat COVID-19 patients. Will impact launch plans, she says. #SpaceSymposium
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Florida C-19 Stats
Note: Last updated figures are for YESTERDAY and what the NEWS would be based on.
#1 in the USA for New C-19 Cases = +21,208
#29 for New C-19 Deaths = 6
#2 for Active C-19 cases = 779,088
OTHER STATES & STATS
#1 for New C-19 Deaths = Texas @ 215 Note: This figure includes illegal immigrant deaths.
ICE DATA Remember to make a mental note as you read this in that currently CBP has a less than 48% capture rate for illegal border crossings.
ICE politically screened and provided data as of 08/20/2021.
25,512 of the 306,313 detainees tested, 8.32% were found infected.
We also know reading around the way the ICE data is provided.
ICE as of 08/22/2021 claims only to be holding 1,248 COVID-19 Infected persons in custody.
So the question is: If ICE is only claiming to hold 1,248 infected Illegal immigrants now. Then what did it do with the 280,801 it acknowledges it found infected so far this year?
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When you see those pretty vapor clouds rolling off those rockets on the pad before launch, you are seeing pure waste. It took a lot of energy to concentrate and liquefy that O2...
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Correction to my comment for better accuracy.
The figures are Feb. 2020 to date, NOT year to date.
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Pure waste? Rather a design decision like the F-111s that deliberately leaked hydraulic fluid so that the actuators wouldn't have clogs in flight. The early F-111s actually had drip pans the ground crew placed under their wings on the ground and, as an USAF vet told me "You could tell that F-111s were on the base when you got near the runways from the smell of the hydraulics".
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Once had a ride on a USMC C130 out of Corpus Christi. There was a steady trickle of red hydraulic fluid running down along the inside airframe (they were using Dextron; long story).
Crew chief said if the leak stopped, to let him know.
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Or is this a 'as it heats materials expand to close those gaps' a la SR-71?
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IIRC, Robert Goddard chose Roswell, NM for the fact that he could easily get LOX from TX via the ATSF railroad since it was a by product of the time (ca1930's) of the natural gas industry. There is a liquid gas plant next to Patrick AFB. There is also a new one in Lakeland near the power plant.
[NYPOST] A liquor company CEO has been identified as the man who was allegedly high on acid when he plummeted to his death at Citi Field, police said.Ian Matthew Crystal died Friday after falling 30 to 50 feet during intermission at the Dead & Company show, an NYPD front man confirmed Monday.
The 46-year-old Brooklyn resident was a co-founder of the New York-based Evolution Spirits, according to his LinkedIn page.
Sources said Crystal allegedly took acid before the fatal plunge and had been drinking and smoking pot beforehand.
The late entrepreneur served as CEO of Evolution Spirits, the creator of Monkey Rum from Trinidad that’s available in 11 states. The liquor was developed out of a challenge in 2014 to create a new brand to support the National Geographic Channel show "Chug," according to Crystal’s LinkedIn profile.
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Never use your own product.
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Many of the most critical voices you’re hearing right now are the same people who got us into war & who think we should stay forever. Some are bought and paid for by the defense industry. So let me say unequivocally: President Biden made the right decision to withdraw our troops.
New: Chair of Jan. 6 House select committee Bennie Thompson says that the panel is seeking phone and text message records from members of Congress and Trump associates — from a list numbering several hundred.
Since January, the Biden-Harris administration has bombed Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. It has continued to wage economic wars on Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Syria, and the DPRK, among others. And it has also maintained US support for the genocides in Palestine and in Yemen. https://t.co/HEXLLwdmCR
— Human Rights Watch Watcher (@queeralamode) August 24, 2021
[NYPOST] Police on Tuesday released video and a photo of the suspected gunman who opened fire outside Penn Station Monday night, striking an innocent bystander from New Jersey.
The alleged gunman, wearing black pants, a black shirt and lugging a red backpack, is seen getting off an escalator at the transit hub after wounding the 58-year-old victim.
Police said the shooting happened around 5:50 p.m. when the suspect got into an argument with another man, possibly over food.
Cops said the argument ensued outside the NJ Transit entrance at Seventh Avenue and West 31st Street when the suspect approached his intended target, who was eating at the time.
"At this point, we know that we have two individuals, one of which is eating food," Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said at a briefing at the scene Monday night.
"The shooter comes up to the male that’s eating food, possibly asking for some food," Shea said. "He’s kind of shunned away, and that kind of spills onto the street here. We do not believe they knew each other prior to this interaction."
Shea said the suspect followed the 56-year-old would-be target outside and opened fire, missing him but hitting the bystander, police said.
The maimed man was hit in the leg and taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
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.
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
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...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...Arabic for 
...Arabic for 
...Arabic for 
/\ Uhuhuh how about exterminating Taliban? They are nothing but biological hazards.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[al-Rooters] 
[NY Post] Outgoing New York Gov. 
...Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he has about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him. 
[C4IsrNet] Drone pilots beware: Authorities at one of the United States’ top nuclear weapons laboratories issued a warning Monday that airspace over 
Keep your non-government systems away from our controlled airspace. If there is any AGS (Aerial Gamma Spectrometry) sniffing to be conducted, we will do it. 
...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place...
[FrontPage] During the 2007 Dem primaries, Biden attacked Obama for adopting his position on Afghanistan.
[TASS] The AK-12 assault rifle developed by the Kalashnikov firearms manufacturer (part of the state tech corporation Rostec) will become the basic weapon for Russian troops in the coming years, the Kalashnikov press office told TASS at the Army 2021 international military-technical forum on Tuesday.
[NYPOST] A liquor company CEO has been identified as the man who was allegedly high on acid when he plummeted to his death at Citi Field, police said.Ian Matthew Crystal died Friday after falling 30 to 50 feet during intermission at the Dead & Company show, an NYPD 
[NYPOST] Police on Tuesday released video and a photo of the suspected gunman who opened fire outside 
