"All I want is a gal with a stamp
Just like Mom's, but ironic, a vamp
With some hip hobo signs,
One who knows her cheap wines,
And can cook, wash, and make and break camp."
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The jungle fell silent in awe.
"At my shtick?" "At that chick!" And he saw
That she sure was a looker.
"I'm Maeve, jungle hooker,
Meth cooker, attorney at law."
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"And today we're still hittin' the skids--"
"With the right kinda dog and two kids--"
"Like, sharing our reefer
With fellow antifa..."
Ummm... something about lids, maybe?
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Bertha Eugenie Bohny,
Born: May 14, 1903, New York City, U.S.
Died: December 31, 1997, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
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How many were there originally? I am under the impression none really knows. The US State Department and its Afghan branch were mostly interested in flying rainbow flags.
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Running that story tomorrow. Of course he was instantly relieved. Bet he's reached 18 year lock-in for retirement so whatta they gonna do....send him to Vietnam ?
#7
Only somebody with a business degree would think this was a good idea. Oh wait, add education degree, public adim degree, ...
Forget it. They're all trendy idiots.
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since the left is so against the wall, how about we mine the entire southern border a 100 yards deep, if you make it through you can stay.
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By completely closing the southern border, Americans can solve two of our biggest problems: illegal immigration and drug smuggling and partly solve the problem of jobs export. Those problems are costing Americans nearly a trillion dollars per year to deal with.
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Maybe it is time to go all Ann Coulter on Central America's ass - you know, invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to market economies.
I know, you're thinking Afghanistan and nation-building all over again. But at least here we are starting with better materials. Unlike the Afghans who have been and still are a kind of desert hillbilly since before the Mongols, the Central Americans had civilization dating back pre-Columbus.
"But what about Iraq?", you say, "They were a civilization once." "Oh, shut up!", I explain. "Also Islam. Which tends to short out the reasoning part of the brain."
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"But what about Iraq?", you say, "They were a civilization once."
Yeah, pre-Islamic. Till they were conquered by the Medes (Persians). Who in turn were conquered by Greek hillbillies, aka Macedonians who were displaced by Romans, then the Persians again, then the Arabs, then the Mongols, then the Turks. The Europeans showed up for a brief appearance before the locals were back digging up their past to wax nostalgically about their once greatness (thousands of years and a very compromised gene pool ago).
[FoxBusiness] The world’s largest contract chipmaker is raising prices by as much as 20%, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that could result in consumers paying more for electronics.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to increase the prices of its most advanced chips by roughly 10%, while less advanced chips used by customers like automakers will cost about 20% more, these people said. The higher prices will generally take effect late this year or next year, the people said.
The price increases come in the wake of a global semiconductor shortage that has affected Apple and most car makers, including General Motors Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. In August, GM said it had to idle three factories in North America that make large pickup trucks, the company’s biggest moneymaker. Last week, Toyota said it would curb production by 40% in September.
The price increases have a twofold purpose for TSMC as it addresses the shortage. In the short term, higher prices push down demand and preserve supply for customers who have no other choice. Over the longer term, the higher income will help TSMC invest aggressively in new capacity, according to analysts.
The company has said it plans to spend a total of $100 billion over the next three years on new factories and equipment as well as research and development. It is expanding its production capacity in Nanjing, China, and has started construction on a $12 billion facility in Arizona.
The company’s market dominance gives it more pricing power than suppliers usually enjoy. TSMC accounts for more than half of the global semiconductor foundry market by revenue, according to Taiwanese research firm TrendForce, and it makes more than 90% of the world’s most advanced chips.
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everything else is going up, why wouldn't they?
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Taiwan should not be the world's largest chipmaker. We put ourselves at far too great a risk, especially obvious now. Pay the higher prices and make the chips here.
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There really aren't that many chip makers out there. Something like 6 (Global Foundries, TSMC, Samsung, IBM, Intel, and one in Japan) now that China is out (more or less). Other companies design chips but send the designs to one of those 6 to have them made. That makes it look like more companies are creating chips than that but nope.
Once China was pushed out of buying the newest equipment, shortages and increased prices were seem inevitable at least for a short time.
Samsung is building a new fab in Austin Texas, I think someone was building in Arizona or New Mexico so hopefully a year from now the shortage will be over.
[Karen's Kitchen Stories] With all the bad news out of Washington this week, do something good for yourself this weekend.
Los Angeles Danger Dogs are wrapped in bacon, and grilled on a baking sheet on top of a metal shopping cart with a can of Sterno to heat the baking sheet.
They are topped with grilled onions and peppers that are cooked on the same baking sheet, and nestled in a grocery store hot dog bun.
If you have ever been to a late night event in Los Angeles, you have likely been greeted by a line of sidewalk vendors repeating "hot dog, hot dog, hot dog" as you walk to your car.
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SMA Michael Grinston faced intense backlash after posting about the U.S. Army's inclusion and diversity amid the attack in Kabul that killed 13 soldiers
Critics said Grinston should be solely focused on the situation in Afghanistan rather than try and promote diversity in the armed forces
'Why would you even consider posting this at a time like this,' one person asked
Grinston serves as the 16th Sergeant Major of the Army and advices on matters of enlistment efforts, with inclusion being a key factor
He has since offered his condolences to the families of the victims He should offer his resignation
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I would want more than merely condolences from the Sergeant Major of the Army, but perhaps there are subtleties here that as an ignorant civilian I am unaware.
#5
Interesting way to highlight the last six months of decision making.
Sure it will bring great pride to the parents of those soldiers that the planners were totally focused on what style of hair females and trans can wear.
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There is only one strategic and tactical mindset and that is inclusion. Any other thoughts cannot be considered unless that person has been through 40 hours of diversity training.
-George S. Patton
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And remember troopers, when you find yourselves behind enemy lines, in the dark, heading towards St. Mere-Eglise, maintain tactical formation by asking each other your preferred pronouns.
-General James Gavin
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Show me someone who thinks the vax should be a choice, and I'll show you a neighborhood which should be patrolled and curfew violators shot down.
-Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
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SMA used to be the most respected rank in the Army
Really, check out the very first SMA.
At the conclusion of his tour in 1968 as SMA, CSM Wooldridge went on to serve as the Military Assistance Command-Vietnam (MACV) CSM and was later accused of improprieties. He retired in 1972 and in 1973 pled guilty to two counts of bribery for accepting stock from a corporation that did business with NCO clubs in Vietnam.
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Procopius, I did not know that. I know and greatly respect a CSM and did not anticipate that things went to sh*t so fast in that ladder - took more steps between Captains I know and respected and the political cadre.
[TASS] Russia is seriously worried over the way the situation in Afghanistan is developing and it most strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in Kabul, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Friday.
"We condemn these terrorist attacks in the strongest way. The reports about heavy casualties are very sad news, of course. Regrettably, quite correct were the pessimistic forecasts the chaos in Afghanistan will certainly be used by the terrorist groups and organizations entrenched there, in the first place, the Islamic State (outlawed in Russia) and its derivatives," Peskov said. "This breeds more tensions in Afghanistan. The risk is very great for all. And, of course, this remains a reason for our serious concern."
On August 26, Kabul's airport, which the Western countries are using to evacuate foreign citizens, saw two explosions staged by suicide bombers from the Islamic State. According to the latest report, the blasts killed 103, including 13 US soldiers. US President Joe Biden said the United States would track down those responsible and was already planning strikes against the Islamic State. The Taliban radical movement (outlawed in Russia), which has seized power in Afghanistan, has condemned the attacks and promised to punish those responsible.
[Bourne Institute] War is the health of the State.
It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate co-operation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. The machinery of government sets and enforces the drastic penalties, the minorities are either intimidated into silence or brought slowly around by a subtle process of persuasion which may seem to them to really converting them. Of course the ideal of perfect loyalty, perfect uniformity is never attained. The classes upon whom the amateur work of coercion falls are unwearied in their zeal but often their agitation instead of converting, merely serves to stiffen their resistance. Minorities are rendered sullen, and some intellectual opinion, bitter and satirical. But in general, the nation in war-time attains a uniformity of feeling, a hierarchy of values, culminated at the undisputed apex of the State ideal, which could not possibly be produced trough any other agency than war. Other values such artistic creation, knowledge, reason, beauty, the enhancement of life, are instantly and almost unanimously sacrificed and the significant classes who have constituted themselves the amateur agents of the State are engaged not only in sacrificing these values for themselves but in coercing all other persons into sacrificing them.
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We are either going to find smarter ways to deal with pisslam, COVID and communism or we are going to see a lot of new tears on the same old background.
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In the very next paragraph warning about the MIC Eisenhower also warned of the academic technological elite. That seems to have been overlooked for too long.
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The "academic technological elite" is today known as the professional-managerial class (PMC). They've basically taken over and are running society for their own benefit. They fucking hate our guts and wish us harm. They're doing a good job of harming us, too.
[TheVerge] ULA stops selling its centerpiece Atlas V, setting path for the rocket’s retirement
The Boeing-Lockheed joint venture will retire its stalwart rocket after 29 more missions.
United Launch Alliance won’t be selling any more of its workhorse Atlas V rockets, and it has stopped buying the launch vehicle’s Russian-made rocket engines for good, the company’s chief executive told The Verge. ULA’s decision sets up the retirement of one of the US government’s most trusted launch vehicles and is expected to mark the end for Russia’s iconic — but controversial — RD-180 engine, an engineering marvel and a core source of revenue for Russia’s space program.
“We’re done. They’re all sold,” CEO Tory Bruno said of ULA’s Atlas V rockets in an interview. ULA, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has 29 Atlas V missions left before it retires sometime in the mid-2020s and transitions to its upcoming Vulcan rocket, Bruno said. The remaining Atlas V missions include a mix of undisclosed commercial customers and some for the Space Force, NASA, and Amazon’s budding broadband satellite constellation, Project Kuiper.
Interesting that Project Kuiper -a Bezos project- is using Atlas and not Blue Origin or Vulcan(with BO engines).
#1
Well, ULA is in a spot. If the BE-4 engines aren't as good or better than the RD-180s, they will be out of the rocket business. All because of a snit dead Johnny McStain initiated.
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ULA could ask to buy the Raptor engine from SpaceX. The sooner the better, judging from the non-progress of the BE-4.
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^ A trenchant and accurate observation. And to the extent much of it will be fought over and stolen again and again and then wasted on dancing boys and trips to camel beauty shows it will actually be dispersed rather quickly.
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CIA DELIVERED this to the terrorists via C-130?
#12
Cash and weapons DELIVERED. Ransome money and Ransome weapons. You don't leave guns laying out on pallets in the weather like that. The weapons and cash were off loaded into that tarmac, people.
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^ Mosad. Scotland yard. KGB. See, when the rest of the world starts being attacked by terrorists using weapons and financed by the Biden administration with pallets of cash that Biden and his staff shipped to them, the world will come here for his ass.
#16
^ These are the same people who shipped provided guns to Mexican cartels when Obama and Joe took control of the Whitehouse. Mexico should have come after them but they didn't.
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The implementation of the international standards on the prevention and fight against money laundering and terrorist
financing has become a national priority that has resulted in the adoption of legislative measures in recent years and in
the review of the prevention and repression system, with the purpose of creating the most effective framework to tackle
such criminal conducts.
Felony committed by the President and his Deep State.
Because after the last two days I needed this. I hope you find it helpful, too, dear Reader.
[Townhall] Save America, former President Trump’s political action committee, is out with a new 90-second ad that absolutely destroys President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...... over the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. As my colleagues at RedState noted, the ad, which hit digital platforms on Tuesday, seemed perfectly timed to drop after the commander in chief delivered a humiliating speech in which rather than jumping straight into a discussion of Afghanistan, he started with his Build Back Better agenda. When he did move onto what should’ve been the main focus of his remarks, he humiliatingly conceded that the U.S.’s exit is dependent on the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and spoke about his virtual meeting with G7 leaders, claiming there’s "solidarity" and "unity" among them on the evacuation effort, even as public reports show otherwise. Then, Biden left without taking questions. Again.
Enter the ad, titled, "Surrenderer-in-Chief."
"Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan... promised Americans a future of growth, strength, diplomacy, and power," its description states. "He told us ’America was back.’ Instead, he withdrew troops from Afghanistan before removing our weapons, our allies, or even our own citizens."
The summary continues: "Joe Biden has backed down to our enemies and failed to protect our allies. Under Joe Biden, the Taliban is back — not America."
[IsraelTimes] Egypt partially reopens the Rafah crossing with the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, allowing one-way traffic into Paleostinian enclave, as Israel eases import restrictions.
Rafah, Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world not controlled by Israel, was shuttered on Monday by Egypt, which gave no reason for the move.
But it came after Gazooks on Saturday staged protests and violent mostly peaceful riots along the border with Israel. A Paleostinian rioter was killed, dozens of others were maimed and an Israeli soldier was at death's door from a gunshot wound.
Egypt, a key mediator between Israel and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, has previously used Rafah closures as a punitive measure against the Gaza rulers.
Late Wednesday, Hamas’s interior ministry announced that Rafah would open to incoming traffic on Thursday and to two-way traffic on Sunday.
People had begun to cross after midday, an AFP journalist says.
The Israeli military branch responsible for civil affairs in Paleostinian territories (COGAT) says more goods would be allowed to enter Gaza from Thursday, including "equipment for international civilian projects" and new vehicles, among other measures, it says in a statement.
Israel also agrees to boost by 1,000 the number of merchants allowed through its Erez crossing to Gaza.
"The civilian measures approved by the political echelon are conditional upon the continued preservation of the region’s security stability, while further expansion of these measures will be examined in accordance with a situational security assessment," COGAT adds.
The majority says that the CDC, in barring evictions, relied on "a decades-old statute that authorizes it to implement measures like fumigation and pest extermination."
"It strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the CDC the sweeping authority that it asserts."
It was the second loss for the administration this week at the hands of the high court’s conservative majority. On Tuesday, the court effectively allowed the reinstatement of a Trump-era policy forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their hearings. The new administration had tried to end the Remain in Mexico program, as it is informally known.
On evictions, President Joe Biden acknowledged the legal headwinds the new moratorium would likely encounter. But Biden said that even with doubts about what courts would do, it was worth a try because it would buy at least a few weeks of time for the distribution of more of the $46.5 billion in rental assistance Congress had approved.
The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the pace of distribution has increased and nearly a million households have been helped. But only about 11% of the money, just over $5 billion, has been distributed by state and local governments, the department said.
The administration at first allowed the earlier moratorium to lapse July 31, saying it had no legal authority to allow it to continue. But the CDC issued a new moratorium days later as pressure mounted from lawmakers and others to help vulnerable renters stay in their homes as the coronavirus’ delta variant surged. The moratorium had been scheduled to expire Oct. 3.
Landlords in Alabama and Georgia who challenged the earlier evictions ban quickly returned to court, where they received a sympathetic hearing. U.S. Judge Dabney Friedrich, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, said the new moratorium was beyond the CDC’s authority.
Most evictions for unpaid rent have been halted since the early days of the pandemic and there are now more than 15 million people living in households that owe as much as $20 billion in back rent, according to the Aspen Institute.
A majority of single-family rental homeowners have been impacted, according to a survey from the National Rental Home Council, and 50% say they have tenants who have missed rent during the pandemic.
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...That was fast.
Mike.
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Kavanaugh gave them a preview and yet they went ahead and did it again anyway
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The CDC's eviction moratorium, which has no legal authority in these matters.
#7
Like the Remain in Mexico ruling, waiting to see it actually be respected by a ruling class who don't need to follow the rules for the little people in the tax plantation....
#12
Between this and the Remain in Mexico rulings we will get a good read on whether the Executive branch is still subject to SCOTUS Constitutional interpretation. If not, then we are at Second Amendment time.
#4
Unions are looking at how they can get a cut, and expect some sort of "robot FICA tax," similar to the mileage taxes being discussed for electric cars.
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Last time I heard the government overhead (workmen's comp, unemployment insurance, etc.) was a 27% "hidden tax" on laborer's salary. It adds up fast.
#9
Yeah, but wait'll they guy who maintains the robot wants a raise.
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Industrial Maintenance Mechanic.
12-18 month course
Starts around $20/hour
School, of course, is pushing College hard at daughter, who may be more interested in a more hands-on career. I suggested this as an alternative.
With an increase in demand, and never hearing a student say, "When I grow up I want to maintain robots!" could make a good trade out of it.
#6
Got yer answer right here Leon old boy. Put the entire culture to the sword. Lay waste to the cities, power grids, airports, roads, poppy fields, and dams. Turn the air black with contrails until there is no longer any movement on the ground, no electronic signals, or electric lights.
Our departure should be locked into their collective memories.
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Beating a dead horse? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time?
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I think the problem with sci-fi analogies is, a sci-fi epic is thought out. The stuff going on in our foreign and military policy post WW II, not so much.
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possibility that we will act as Taliban's Air Force in their combat with ISIS
uggggg
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Maybe, just maybe, if we didn't buy the religion of peace bullsh*t so readily we could identify who should be carefully screened before allowing them in our country and we wouldn't need to go there and blow up their little sh*tholes. And if we were thorough in focusing on the people of that persuasion already here at the first hint of radicaliztion, the really peaceful ones who didn't want sharia law and just wanted to be American would be safe and productive citizens. Act like Hungary, close the borders, limit new immigration and defend the American culture and way of life! Peace Through Strength. Duh!
#14
The only people the left wants to keep out of America are white Christians.
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Yup, just as predicted. They're fucking PISSED that their war is over. They're foaming at the mouth to start it up again. This isn't over until the real government (i.e. them) says it is.
Honestly I'm surprised the Pentagon obeyed the executive on this. The last time it happened, they flat-out refused orders. They were close to declaring the President an enemy of the state for doing it, too.
[NYPOST] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... and his Department of Education are ignoring the growing exodus of students from the city’s most coveted public schools — surely because it’s a response to the DOE’s failures and de Blasio’s war on excellence.
Notably, PS 118 Maurice Sendak in Park Slope has seen its student roster lose 120 kids since the start of the pandemic. Its dismayed principal, Elizabeth Garraway, just emailed parents that the resulting budget crunch forced her to slash four teaching positions — while four others left for better opportunities. Sadly, that’s likely to send even more families fleeing.
Kindergarten enrollment at the high-performing elementary school has plunged more than 50 percent over the last two years, going from 76 in 2019 to just 37 last year.
That’s surely not just the pandemic: The DOE-engineered revamping of middle school admissions in the district, tossing out the screens that allowed some schools to be more challenging, has forced many families to rethink the public schools entirely, as did the scrapping of Gifted & Talented programs.
COVID certainly didn’t help: The DOE says citywide enrollment at its schools fell 4 percent — roughly 43,000 kids — this year, and the true figure is likely higher still. The failure to make remote learning work angered parents all across the city, and fears that in-person school still will have problems this coming year pushed many to find other alternatives, such as religious or private schools that, despite the pandemic, opened for safe, full-time schooling.
The DOE leadership’s habit of treating parental demands for excellence as nothing but racism hurts, too.
Queens state Sen. Leroy Comrie captured the sentiments of his mainly minority constituents: "If chronic underperformance doesn’t scare away successful students, then the pervasiveness of violence and bullying does. Enrollment is dipping and the DOE continues to operate as if the problem will solve itself."
If the next mayor doesn’t act fast to reverse de Blasio’s disastrous policies, every family that can will be rushing for the exits.
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The cosmopolitan mindset is that they have it "all figured out." Couple that conceit with a brain drain and just make sure you watch the ensuing fun from a distance.
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Police on Thursday claimed to have arrested two gunnies of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen outfit in Kishtwar district of Jammu division.
Quoting a police front man, news agency GNS reported that the duo- Ashfaq Qayoom Tak, son of Abdul Qayoom Tak, a resident of Passerkot Takpura Tehsil Chatroo, Kishtwar and Tousif Giri, son of Ghulam Qadir Giri of Pochhal Tehsil Kishtwar- were arrested by a joint team of Kishtwar Police, 11RR and CRPF 52Bn in the forest area of Naid Gam Chatroo during a search operation on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday.
Upon their disclosure, arms and ammunition comprising one pistol, one pistol magazine, twenty pistol rounds, one grenade, one Magazine of AK-47, two wireless sets, three leaflets of Hizb letter pad were recovered today from a hideout in the forest area of Pingnal Chatroo, police said.
As per the police front man, the search operation was launched following reliable inputs that the two youth were in close contact with Hizb gunnies in south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Anantnag district.
The front man further stated that both arrested gunnies were providing information with regard to the security forces to the gunnies and were hatching conspiracy to carry out holy warrior acts in the jurisdiction of Police Station Chatroo. On this information, a case FIR No 53/2021 U/Sec 13, 18-B UAPA dated 24.8.201 has been registered at Police Station Chatroo.
[Rudaw] Iraqi forces in Kirkuk on Tuesday arrested six people, seized a cache of explosives and rockets, and uncovered a terrorist den.
"The Joint Operations Command in Kirkuk arrested six wanted people based on different legal articles, and found three bombs, six different rockets, a terrorist den, as well as 110 60mm mortar fuses," Iraq’s Security Media Cell said late Tuesday.
The operation took place the same day several mortars landed near villages in Erbil’s Qoshtapa sub-district. Qoshtapa lies around 20 kilometers south of Erbil city, along the main road connecting Erbil and Kirkuk.
A source from the local Dibis police in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , told Rudaw they confiscated a vehicle near Amsha village. The vehicle was found with two rockets on it.
Kirkuk is one of the many disputed territories between Kurdistan Region and Baghdad. The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS) uses these disputed territories as places of hideout and to conduct hit and run attacks against civilian and military targets.
The security void in Kirkuk has also been by groups to carry out rocket attacks. In May, security forces seized five rockets that were "set to launch" in the province’s Altun Kupri district.
Late last month, Iraqi security forces launched a wide anti-ISIS operation in Kirkuk, and Iraqi and Kurdish forces have set up Joint Coordination Centers in disputed areas to increase their cooperation and eliminate the security vacuum, including in Kirkuk.
In separate operations on Wednesday, two ISIS suspects were killed in an Iraqi air force operation in Diyala, and seven other suspects were arrested in Baghdad, Anbar, Nineveh, and Kirkuk, the Security Media Cell announced.
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Glitch = The customers messed around with the settings (Without telling the Supplier) and gave un-authorized access to individuals by mistake.
Customer Malfeasance.
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Grinding my teeth here. Worked for a very short time for a consultancy whose owner routinely closed deals with the assertion that the software would work "out of the box" as in no setup, training, maintenance, etc.
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Oh, this wasn't a glitch. It was 100% intended.
[NPASYRIA] On Thursday, a masked gunman in Hawl camp, east of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, threatened the employees of a foreign non-governmental organization (NGO) to target them if they did not pay money under the name of "tribute", which led the organization’s employees to leave their positions in the camp.
The masked man, who was carrying a pistol, demanded the official of one of the educational centers of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) to pay tribute to all the organization’s workers in and outside the camp.
An informed source in the camp told North Press that the masked gunman demanded $300 for each employee working for the organization in the camp, and $500 for its staff working outside the camp.
He added that the incident took place in an educational center in the fifth sector, which is one of the NRC educational centers in the Hawl camp.
The source pointed out that the masked gunman, believed to be a member of ISIS sleeper cells, fled after warning the NRC employees of the consequences of contacting the security forces, claiming that the place was surrounded by button men affiliated with him.
The organization’s workers evacuated the camp with instructions to the guards of their centers (they are civil servants) to evacuate them in the event of any threat to their lives, according to an organization worker.
The worker suggested that the NRC would suspend its work in the camp until further notice.
The sectors within the Hawl camp lack security points, as the presence of the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) is limited to the camp’s perimeter and to the main gate in the first sector.
The incident is the first of its kind in the camp, which includes families of Lions of Islam of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS), and previously, there has been an increase in killings targeting Syrian, Iraqi and foreign residents.
During the first quarter of 2021, the Hawl camp recorded more than 40 killings, in addition to about 30 other killings since mid-April.
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... will not comply. That is the former president’s message to sweeping demands from the partisan Jan. 6 committee for privileged White House communications with his staff members and media contacts prior to the Jan. 6 events.
"Executive privilege will be defended, not just on behalf of my Administration and the Patriots who worked beside me, but on behalf of the Office of the President of the United States and the future of our Nation," Trump said in a statement.
The 45th president also has choice words for the Pelosi-led effort to publicly reveal his presidential and personal communications, which have long been considered legally protected under executive privilege.
"The Leftist ’select committee’ has further exposed itself as a partisan sham and waste of taxpayer dollars with a request that’s timed to distract Americans from historic and global catastrophes brought on by the failures of Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us... and the Democrats," Trump also said in the statement. "Unfortunately, this partisan exercise is being performed at the expense of long-standing legal principles of privilege."
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I don't like these blanket mandates - they will KILL some people. I actually think the vaccines are a good idea for a great majority of the people and should be encouraged, but there have to be exceptions.
[POLICETRIBUNE] Newly-sworn New York Governor Kathy Hochul chose an avowed supporter of the defund-the-police movement to be her lieutenant governor on Wednesday.Hochul, who had pledged to diversify her administration, chose New York State Senator Brian Benjamin, a black Democrat from Harlem, to be her No. 2, the Times Union reported.
Benjamin, who was running for state comptroller when he was chosen by Hochul, has described himself as progressive and has loudly and publicly supported efforts to defund the New York Police Department (NYPD).
Hochul became governor at midnight on Aug. 23 after now-former New York Governor 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. Noo Yawk's politix being what they are, he will probably run again on his record..... resigned in disgrace amidst allegations of sexual harassment.
Benjamin publicly endorsed defunding the police in a social media post in January.
"I support the movement to defund the police because I believe that there are parts of the NYPD budget that are not essential for public safety," Benjamin tweeted along with the image of a longer, more formal statement as part of his campaign for comptroller.
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Yet another unelected official.
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I feel bad for the "Up-staters" that will get trounced but the New Yawkers will get what they voted for good and hard. You thought "Sonny" Cuomo was bad? The exodus will continue.
[SpaceNews] Amazon is urging the Federal Communications Commission to dismiss SpaceX’s revised plans for its second-generation Starlink constellation, saying they are too broad and speculative.
SpaceX proposed two potential configurations for nearly 30,000 follow-on satellites Aug. 18, which Amazon said breaks FCC rules that require details of a proposed amendment to be settled before filing such an application.
SpaceX intends to proceed with just one of the options, but Amazon said filing for two also doubles the technical effort that operators face to review interference and orbital debris concerns.
Amazon'sProject Kuiper has yet to deploy any of its planned broadband satellites.
SpaceX said in a July presentation that it had launched 1,740 satellites for its first-generation Starlink constellation so far, serving around 90,000 customers in 12 countries.
Turns out Besos retired in order to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX …
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Starlink is pretty well entrenched. Don't really see why Bezos would see it as a viable market to carve. OTOH, it will be fun to watch the same people who wanted spontaneously ejaculated over the idea of Microsoft broken up start whining about court involvement now.
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Lawfare at it's finest. (But where's our cut?)
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We will know the fight heats up when a StarShip crashes into the Washington Post.
[BREITBART] Former first lady Melania Trump took to social media on Thursday to share that the Trump family is praying for the families who lost loved ones in the terror attack at the Kabul airport.
The attack, which a branch of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , or ISIS, has taken credit for, killed at least 12 troops and up to 90 others, with scores injured.
"We are praying for the families and loved ones of the Marine heroes killed in Kabul and for everyone who is suffering during this difficult time," Melania Trump tweeted
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[NotTheBee] While the U.S. government flounders to get Americans out of Afghanistan, the non-profit organization started by Glenn Beck has already helped 1200 Afghan Christians to escape from the country.
On Sunday, Beck posted on social media asking Christians to pray and fast for Christians attempting to escape from Afghanistan.
The post received an overwhelming response, despite little media attention. According to Faithwire,
In just 3 days, Beck's audience had donated over $22 million to fund the evacuations of Afghan Christian refugees.
This morning, he shared that the Nazarene Fund was boarding the second group of refugees:
Beck later posted an update to his Facebook page saying that a third plane full of Christians fleeing the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... had departed thanks to The Nazarene Fund and Mercury One.
He went on to say,
"By the end of the week, we will be able to move 7,000 Christians. It's pretty remarkable."
DailyMail.com can reveal the Capitol Hill cop who shot Air Force vet Ashli Babbitt, 35, on January 6 is Lieutenant Michael Leroy Byrd, 53 Nice of the good lieutenant to admit what had been reported for months...
Byrd, a 28-year police veteran, will reveal he was the shooter in an interview with Lester Holt on NBC News Thursday night
The Metropolitan Police Department has steadfastly refused to name the officer involved
The Department of Justice announced in April that it will not pursue criminal charges against the officer responsible for Babbitt's death
Following an internal review, the Capitol Police announced on Monday that he will not be disciplined
DailyMail.com spotted Byrd and his wife out shopping near their home, about 30 minutes outside of Washington, DC last February when he refused to comment
Babbitt's family lawyer remarked: 'Quite a turn-around, given the months of constantly saying that to identify him would expose him to danger. Where did that one go?'
Speaking hours after he was publicly identified for the first time, Lt Michael Byrd went on the defensive during an interview with NBC News star Lester Holt Thursday.
Explaining his decision to finally come forward, Byrd - a 28-year veteran of the force - said: 'I showed the utmost courage on January 6, and its time for me to do that now.'
Mom used to say: "Self Praise Stinks!" He just called himself a great man for killing an unarmed woman! Think about that.
Father-of-two Byrd's actions were deemed lawful by the Department of Justice, which said in April there was no evidence to support a criminal prosecution. In that announcement, the department did not identify him.
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Assuming DC can be cleaned up - I believe he can still be charged before a Grand Jury regardless of an inhouse white?wash. No double jeopardy involved.
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^ Correct. No jeopardy until an indictment is brought. A whitewash by a bureaucratic entity is not a No Bill by a grand jury.
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Unlike baseball, there *is* crying in the Capitol Police. For sworn law enforcement officers, they seem to be a big bunch of wussies. A bit lacking in crowd control skills, too.
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He could have just pistol whipped her a bit at she tried to climb through that window. Or maybe fired a warning shot to alert the Capitol police on the other side of the door.
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This is the idiot who left his sidearm in one of the Capital building bathrooms. My gut says he dhad his finger on the trigger and twitched and killed Ashli by accident and decided to lie and pretend he was saving everyone rather than admit his incompetance took a life.
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^ A most likely explanation, ruprecht. I'm putting a chip on "Affirmative Action Hire", also.
The interesting question, IMHO, is why the cover-up? I believe it was Besoeker who suggested the reason was to avoid embarrassment to the shooter's employer.
[THEASPENBEAT] Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us... recently learned a trick from Kamala. When he’s asked a legitimate question that he doesn’t want to answer, he laughs. This buys him time and maybe even avoids altogether the necessity for an answer.
Sometimes it works. But it works less well when the question is about human lives at stake.
It’s all part of his flippancy, snarkiness and gaslighting as he tries to divert attention away from the humanitarian catastrophe that he created in his Afghanistan abandonment. His strategy seems to have been something like "ready, fire, aim." It was "ready, evacuate the military, then bring them back ill-equipped and badly outnumbered to save some of the civilians." Civilians that are scattered around a country the size of Texas.
This guy couldn’t organize a company picnic.
When a Democrat news hound hand-picked for a softball interview last week asked Biden about the horrible video of an Afghan teenager falling hundreds of feet from a plane that was taking off, he angrily interrupted, "That was four days, five days ago!" as if it was ancient history (actually, it was only two days before the interview).
When a news hound asked a legitimate question of him at a presser — where he of course was refusing questions — as to what he would do if the evacuation didn’t proceed timely, he snarked to the news hound, "You’ll be the first one I’ll call." His handlers had cut his microphone because they’re terrified these days that he’ll respond to a question in exactly that way, but the news hounds heard and confirmed his snark.
Today the inevitable happened. Biden’s catastrophic handling of the evacuation detonated a bomb, literally. A suicide bomb exploded at the crowded gates to the civilian airport where the administration had instructed Americans to come for evacuation (while simultaneously telling them they couldn’t guarantee anyone’s safety in getting there, even though the Brits were doing exactly that with their people by sending out armed escorts to retrieve their civilians)
This is all being managed haphazardly from the civilian airport because Biden has already surrendered to the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... the U.S. airbase along with a few zillion dollars’ worth of military equipment and weapons stored there and elsewhere. (How long before they point a U.S. made stinger missile at a departing evacuation plane?)
Official casualty reports are that the bomb blew up 12 U.S. Marines and 60-some Afghans. The maimed, maimed and crippled will be hundreds more.
This isn’t funny, and someone who tries to deflect attention from legitimate questions about it with laughter, snark and lies is sick — physically, emotionally or both. Especially if that someone is putatively the Commander in Chief of the most lethal military in history and leader of the free world.
This heartless nincompoop has blood on his hands. Biden killed those 12 brave marines and those 60 innocent Afghan men, women and kiddies as surely as if he’d been wearing that jacket wallah vest himself.
If we the people allow him to remain in office spilling more blood, then we too will have blood on our hands. Biden must go. We owe that to ourselves and to the world.
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even though the Brits were doing exactly that with their people by sending out armed escorts to retrieve their civilians
Trillions for war, not one cent for ordinary Americans. We can go fuck ourselves before they will spend one thin dime on us. They will fight anyone who says other countries can do it so why can't we.
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Hello. What we can do about it is be laser focused on the midterms. We must crush them. Dems and RINOs. I don't want biden to resign. I want him to continue and hang like an albatross around the necks of every dem seeking office in 22. We must work from the local level as well. Get rid of CRT schoolboards, defund people, and the like. We must be on these fools like a horde of locusts. We need to clean house in the judiciary. Trump did great on that. Another 4 years of MAGA will help. There is a lot we can do. As our great president said, never give up, never give in. Continue to fight for what you know is right. God Bless America!
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Anybody else just flummoxed by the number and size of these blazes, huge swathes of California are burning or have burned, and now SoCal. Is this Biblical or have we been the victims of intentional arson on a scale unprecedented? I recall the worry in my Homeland Security days of a Jihadi, a Cessna and a box of railroad flares in August...
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have we been the victims of intentional arson on a scale unprecedented?
My superficial take, NoMoreBS:
1) It’s fire season, same as every year.
2) More invasive Australian eucalyptus trees plus more undergrowth equals bigger, hotter fires. Everybody knows this, but the tree huggers won’t allow either to be dealt with because everything green is sacred.
3) Lots more arsonists: Antifa/BLM/Black Bloc, the mentally ill, teenagers playing with matches, and the occasional jihadi.
4) This is just a guess, but I suspect California has less money for firefighting this year because they have to pay for more social workers to support the growing criminal class, non-teaching teacher benefits, welfare and benefits for illegal immigrants, and all the other world-changing projects they prefer to taking care of the important things.
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] Arrogance is the mask incompetence wears. And so, as President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. The guy who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him....... ’s failures become more obvious, his spine stiffens. He reportedly ignored intelligence community assessments to make his now infamous July 8 claim that a swift Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... victory was "highly unlikely." He did not correct course even after shaken State Department officials warned of a coming crisis on July 13.
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[NPASYRIA] On Thursday evening, five other displaced families from the towns of Tel Tamr and Abu Rasin, north of Hasakah, arrived at Newroz camp, near Derik, in the far northeastern Syria, due to the frequent Ottoman Turkish bombardment on their area.
Nadim Omar, a Relations Official in Newroz camp, said that the batch that arrived this evening included five families, numbering 32 members.
During the past three days, 56 families fled the Ottoman Turkish bombardment on Tal Tamr and Abu Rasin and their villages, where the Autonomous Administration secured buses for them.
Omar added that, in addition to families that came individually, the number reached 411 families, in total of 1,880 individuals.
Newroz camp, which was opened during the Ottoman Turkish attack on the areas of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Tel Abyad in 2019, includes 715 families, in total of 3,420 individuals.
Local organizations provide "insufficient" aid to newly arrived families due to the continued closure of the alYa’roubiyah humanitarian crossing.
Two days ago, Martin Griffiths, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, warned that the humanitarian needs of millions of Syrians have reached their highest levels since the beginning of the war.
[NYPOST] Four months after taking office, President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...... suddenly directed US intelligence agencies to probe the origins of 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... that — as everyone knows by now — came from China. Interesting timing this, perhaps prompted by the fact that he had just been caught canceling the previous president’s investigation into the matter.
"Senior administration officials" are now leaking to sympathetic media outlets that the final report of the intelligence community has been sent to Biden but that it is, sadly, "inconclusive."
Don’t expect to be able to read the report for yourself anytime soon, because it is "classified."
You must simply take the word of unnamed officials that we just don’t know and we may never know whether the novel coronavirus jumped from an animal to a human naturally, or might have accidentally beat feet from a lab in China.
But they are eager — perhaps too eager — to attack the idea that it could have been a bioweapon in development. They say it has several naturally occurring features that are found in other coronaviruses.
Well, of course, it does. That’s because it was genetically engineered using the "backbone" of an existing coronavirus.
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No clue, yes.
But why did they pay millions for the study?
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Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! [a croupier hands Renault a pile of money] Croupier: 你的奖金 (Your winnings), sir.
[MYNORTHWEST] Safety concerns over the scene in and around the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle have increased in recent weeks.
Lawmaker calls for shutdown of King County Courthouse after assault
These are concerns that existed even before a dozens-strong homeless encampment took hold at City Hall Park. It’s an issue that pre-dates the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Third Avenue for years has been particularly bad. There were some high-profile assaults a couple of years ago on Third Avenue to include folks who were kind of near the bus stop. There was a really terrible assault on an attorney who is walking into the courthouse, and so our court has been concerned for years about the courthouse safety issues that have been going on, in and around the courthouse," said acting presiding King County Superior Court Judge Patrick Oishi.
The concerns of staff reached a boiling point a few weeks ago when a female employee went to use the restroom, and as she entered a stall was attacked by a man lying in wait inside the stall. Nearby security heard her screams and were able to interrupt the attack, get the woman to safety, and arrest the suspect.
That attack came a short time after a deadly stabbing at the homeless encampment at nearby City Hall Park, which also had ongoing drug issues.
Following the attempted sexual assault, many who work at the courthouse took part in a rally and march around the courthouse demanding safety improvements.
Those safety concerns are now leading to another problem.
"All of our employees, whether it’s staff or judges, anyone who works in the courthouse, have to feel safe coming here," Oishi said.
But that has not been the case.
Beyond judges, their staff, or anyone else working at the courthouse, many others either have to come to the courthouse in person because they are filing for a protective order, or need to engage with eviction or rental aid, while others are compelled to come to court as witnesses or jurors.
"Those people absolutely need access to the courts, and the safety and security issues related to being in the courthouse, as well as in the city of the courthouse really has created what I have described to a number of folks as an access to justice crisis," Oishi said. "A crisis like no other we’ve seen."
"One of the things that highlights the access to justice crisis I think the most is our situation with our backlog of cases, combined with the need to really ramp up the number of trials that we are going to need to get out," Oishi explained, as an example. "And our situation with jurors — we have an immense criminal backlog of cases, and the court is ramping up, has been ramping up, and will continue to ramp up so that we can get more cases out there. But we cannot do that unless we have jurors who are willing to come to court."
Court documents filed this month state that the FBI paid a known well known white supremacist over $140,000 as a confidential informant over 16 years
The parallels between the description of the FBI informant and Joseph Caleb Sutter, 40, are strong enough to assume a connection
Sutter is a convicted felon who 'currently owns and operates a publishing company that distributes white supremacist writings' as listed in the filing
Sutter has lead several extremist groups including the Aryan Nations, the Rural People's Party (RPP), and the Church of the Sons of Yaweh
He was arrested for purchasing illegal automatic pistols scrubbed of their serial numbers with silencers in a foiled plot to launch domestic terror attacks in 2003
The 40-year-old runs the Martinet Press, a book publisher known to endorse and be endorsed by neo-Nazi groups
Sutter's intel appears to be the basis of the FBI's case against Kaleb Cole, the leader of the well-known terroristic neo-Nazi organization- Atomwaffen Division
Cole is attempting to fight the charges against him claiming that they are largely based on information from a paid information, which is controversial
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It's at the point where, it's not if there's an informant, but who the informant is.
Kinda like East Germany.
(I idly wonder how many we got around here...)
(Actually, they don't need any, because they can just compile internet logs. My happy thought for the day.)
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Background: Texas has a public beach access law. Only one road currently goes to the Boca Chica Beach. You can see the location of the proposed tunnel at the Google maps coordinates below. Both North Padre, South Padre and Boca Chica beaches are normally driven upon after entering the beach from a road. This will just keep the beach accessible for use while moving big stuff like rockets down Hwy 4.
26.064878288335837, -97.1521177586713 - location.
The Boring Company (TBC) met with Cameron County officials to discuss the possibility of a tunnel project running from South Padre Island (SPI) to Boca Chica Beach.
The Boring Company pitched the idea of an SPI-Boca Chica tunnel to Cameron County administrator Pete Sepulveda Jr. and county engineer Benjamin Worsham early this summer. Cameron County officials have been thinking of giving people access to part of Boca Chica Beach even during closures.
SpaceX activity has been steadily increasing as it continues to develop the Starship program. In August alone, Cameron County issued at least 13 public notices ordering temporary and intermittent closures due to SpaceX’s activities.
To give people access to the beach during closures, The Boring Company proposed digging a tunnel from the south end of SPI to the north end of Boca Chica Beach.
“From what we understand from SpaceX is there is a good portion of the beach that can remain open if there was access to it, even though the road is closed and even though a portion of the beach is closed,” Sepulveda told The Brownsville Herald.
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^ Like self-driving cars, they'll figure it out. Eventually...
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SpaceX has been trying for some time to Kelo the few remaining residents. I guess that's just not as easy in Texas as in the deep blue northeast.
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The beach in question is WAY south of South Padre and the main tourist areas. It strikes me of more of a local's beach than a place the spring break crowd will go.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... braces for a possible influx of refugees fleeing Afghanistan following the Taliban ...Arabic for students... takeover, concern over the potential impact is growing -- fuelled by festering resentment over refugees already sheltering in the country.
Turkey hosts 3.7 million Syrians, the world’s largest refugee population, and the mood has soured in recent weeks as social media videos allegedly showing Afghans entering by the hundreds unhindered sparked outrage.
Officials say around 300,000 Afghans are also currently in Turkey -- some have been there for several years. They include an estimated 120,000 unregistered people, although the opposition say the number is far higher. Gravestones for those who have died after crossing the border scatter a cemetery in the city.
While President Tayyip Erdogan and his AK Party have defended accepting millions of Syrians who fled conflict in their country, they have said a new wave would not be welcome.
"Turkey ... cannot handle another burden of migration stemming from Syria or Afghanistan," Erdogan said on Wednesday.
He has also warned EU leaders that Turkey will not be a "migrant storage unit" for Afghans trying to reach Europe.
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[Garowe] The Somalia-based al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... murderous Moslems on Tuesday suffered heavy casualties in the Mudug region, central Somalia, state media reported, in the latest crackdown against the turbans, who still control several villages in the country.
According to the state media, at least 90 al-Shabaab bad boyz were potted in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Somalia's central province of Mudug, a statement which has since been confirmed by the Somali National Army [SNA].
"Today al-Shabaab murderous Moslems attempted to attack Amara village and suffered huge losses. This afternoon an airstrike has been carried out against al-Shabaab that killed at least 90 terrorists," it said on Twitter.
Last month, the Somali National Army along with Galmadug regional forces liberated Amaara village from the al-Shabaab turbans. Since then, the troops have been trying to reinforce order and stability in the town, by supporting the local administration.
The statement did not mention which country carried out the airstrike, but state media quoting military officials said that "international partners" were behind it.
But later on Tuesday, the US Africa Command, which has been instrumental in the fight against al-Shabaab, confirmed helping SNA troops in the operation. The US army further said it had not assessed the casualties.
U.S. forces are authorized to conduct strikes in support of combatant commander-designated partner forces under the 2001 Authorization of Use for Military Force, it said in a statement.
"A battle-damage assessment is still pending due to the ongoing engagement between al-Shabaab and Somali forces. The command’s initial assessment is that no civilians were maimed or killed as a result of this airstrike," read the blurb.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... al-Shabaab said its fighters attacked the village starting with a suicide boom-mobile blast followed by a firefight. It claimed to have seized 14 vehicles, including 12 belonging to the military, during the fighting.
A military official in the region, who spoke to the Anadolu Agency on the condition of anonymity, said no government forces or regional paramilitary forces were killed but admitted that there are injuries. He said the military repulsed the al-Shabaab attack.
The Federal Government of Somalia and the U.S. remain committed to fighting al-Shabaab to prevent the deaths of innocent civilians, the US said. Violent bad boy organizations like al-Shabaab present long-term threats to the U.S. and regional interests, it added.
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battle-damage assessment is still pending due to the ongoing engagement ... (but) command’s initial assessment is that no civilians were maimed or killed but exactly 90 shaboobs were killed, this we know.
Also, The US army further said it had not assessed the casualties
Pardon me if I never again believe what the spokespersons of shithole armies have to say about their 'monumental victories'.
[ToloNews] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... have asked The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... for technical help to run Kabul airport after the departure of foreign forces, two Ottoman Turkish officials told Rooters.
The Taliban also insist that Ankara's military also withdraw fully by the end-August deadline.
"The Taliban have made a request for technical support in running Kabul airport," a senior Ottoman Turkish official said, adding however that the Taliban demand for all Ottoman Turkish troops to leave would complicate any prospective mission.
The conditional request by the Taliban, who swept back to power in Afghanistan 20 years after they were ousted in a US invasion, leaves Ankara with a difficult decision over whether to accept a hazardous job, one official said.
Mainly Moslem Turkey was part of a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... mission in Afghanistan and still has hundreds of troops at Kabul airport.
The officials say they are ready to withdraw at short notice.
Another Ottoman Turkish official said a final decision would be made by the Aug. 31 deadline for foreign forces to leave the country and end a 20-year military involvement in Afghanistan.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the Taliban has not yet confirmed the request for technical help from Turkey.
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[AnNahar] Russia said Thursday it has received new orders for arms and helicopters from Central Asian republics bordering Afghanistan following the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... 's takeover of the country.
The orders come as countries in the ex-Soviet region, where Moscow holds military bases, have raised concerns over the hard boy group sweeping to power.
"We are already working on a number of orders from countries in the region for the supply of Russian helicopters, fire arms and modern border protection systems," Alexander Mikheev, the head of Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport, told the RIA Novosti news agency.
While Russia remains cautiously optimistic about the new leadership in Kabul, it has warned of snuffies entering neighbouring countries as refugees.
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan earlier this month held joint military exercises with Russia close to their borders with Afghanistan.
Drills involving members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a military alliance led by Moscow, are also scheduled in Kyrgyzstan between September 7 and 9.
The maneuvers will focus on "the destruction of illegal gangs that have invaded the territory of an CSTO member state", according to the press-service of the alliance quoted by the Interfax news agency.
While the Taliban has said it does not pose a threat to Central Asian countries, the ex-Soviet republics in the region have previously been targeted by attacks attributed to allies of Afghan Islamists.
[NPASYRIA] Russian warplanes bombed posts of Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian armed factions in the countryside of both Idlib and Latakia, northwest Syria, Thursday.
Russian warplanes targeted Kabani hills in Jabal al-Akrad region in the northern countryside of Latakia with three Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s using concussion missiles, military sources of the factions told North Press.
The warplanes also targeted the factions’ fortifications on the outskirts of al-Fatira town and the area between the towns of Kansafra and Ain La Rose near frontlines, south Idlib, according to the sources.
As a result of the shelling that reached forest and lands surrounding the towns of al-Fatira and Kansafra, some trees were uprooted and burnt.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block... Damascus government forces shelled posts of the factions in the town of al-Zeyarah, west of Hama, and Kabani Hills, north of Latakia, with artillery shells reporting no human casualties, the same sources added.
The government shelling coincided with intensive flight of Russian drones over the area.
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Haqqani’s super duper elite troops. Someone else sponsors the Red Unit, the Taliban’s special forces/shock troops first deployed in Sangin town in Helmand province in 2016, then claimed a victory against ISIS-Khurasan in 2018. We haven’t been hearing much from them recently, for some reason. It should be noted that Sirajuddin Haqqani is counted among Al Qaeda’s leadership, probably their regional vice president for Afghanistan...
[IsraelTimes] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... has been showing off its own "special forces" on social media, soldiers in new uniforms equipped with looted American equipment who contrast sharply with the image of the usual Afghan murderous Moslem.
Pictures and videos of fighters in the so-called "Badri 313" unit have been posted online for propaganda purposes to underline how the Taliban have better equipped and trained men at their disposal than in the past, experts say.
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[BREITBART] White House press secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... confirmed Wednesday that President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. He also abandoned Afghanistan.... still intends to campaign for Gov. Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom ...the Mitt Romneyesque mayor of San Francisco as it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of California as it transforms itself into Cinderland... (D) in the Sep. 14 Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, recall election, despite the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan.
"I can confirm, the president does still plan to go and campaign for Governor Newsom in California ... that is still certainly his plan," Psaki said. Kam "Chuckles" Harris was supposed to, also, but has been postponed hidden away. Slow Joe won't help, either.
Psaki added that she did not have any particular dates or details about Biden’s plans to travel to, and campaign in, California.
Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder (R) leads most opinion polls among potential replacements for Newsom, should he be recalled. On Tuesday, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Elder dared Biden to campaign for Newsom.
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The entire liberal establishment is going tits up at the same time. It would be glorious if they weren't getting people killed and ruining lives in the process.
[IsraelTimes] Media and Jewish activists say police increasingly turn blind eye to practice, which Moslem leaders slam as violation of decades-old status quo at holy site.
As police stood by, three Jewish men stepped forward, placed their hands out at chest level and began reciting prayers in low tones in the shadow of Jerusalem’s golden Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount.
Jewish prayers at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, known to Moslems as the Haram al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary, have long been unthinkable. But they have quietly become the new norm in recent years, flying in the face of longstanding convention, straining a delicate status quo, and raising fears that violent mostly peacefulMoslem reactions could trigger a new wave of violence in the Middle East.
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Holding cell video shows an NYPD officer punching Eugene Blake on April 22
Blake, who was arrested for robbery, robbery using a dangerous instrument, and assault with intent to cause serious physical injury, allegedly flooded the toilet in the cell
The officers handcuff him and appeared annoyed when he slips on the water
After shackling him to a corner, Blake appears to say something, causing the officers to rush back in and pin him against the wall
One of the officers then punched Blake three times in the head as three other officers worked to separate the men and de-escalate the situation
Blake alleges that three of the officers later moved him to another cell and beat him while the fourth officer 'stood by and did nothing'
Blake has filed a civil suit in Manhattan federal court against the officers
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Please - for Daily Mail articles, kindly post a blurb - there's so much bullshit (add-ins, ads, videos, etc.) on there it makes it painful to read, not to mention the CPU usage going through the roof.
Eagle Base, aka the Brick Factory, just north of Kabul, has for 20 years been the home of the CIA’s premier Afghan surrogate unit, known in recent years as NDS-01. As @nafisehkBBC says, Eagle Base remained open even in recent days after the embassy closed, but now it’s gone. https://t.co/R7tmFSyVbX
[ToloNews] Supporters of Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the resistance front against the Taliban, and Taliban representatives held their first meeting on Wednesday afternoon in the center of Parwan province to seek an alternative to fighting.
The resistance front delegation was composed of 12 people led by Almas Zahid, a former Mujahideen commander, and the six-member Taliban delegation was led by Mohammad Mohsin Hashimi, the Taliban’s deputy leader of intelligence.
A representative of the resistance front, Mohammad Alam Ezedyar, wrote on his Facebook page that both sides agreed to not attack each other until the second round of negotiations is held.
The representatives met for three hours and then returned to their respective sides to share the discussed issues with their leaders.
“After three hours of discussion, it was decided that both delegations will share the message with their leadership and resume the negotiations to reach a durable peace in the country. It was also decided that the parties should not attack each other until the second round of negotiations,” wrote Ezedyar.
A member of the Taliban delegation, meanwhile, said that the Taliban wanted to discuss the issue of Panjshir, but Massoud’s supporters wanted to discuss the structure of the future government. Thus the negotiations had no tangible outcome, he said.
“The Panjshir delegation was more focused on the overall structure of the governance system. Since there were big differences between the two sides' demands, both sides decided to take the messages to their leaders,” said Anamullah Samangani, a member of the cultural commission of the Taliban.
The negotiations followed both sides' threatening to use military force.
“The discussions will bear results in the coming days. If the discussions have no results and they use another option (military), we will do the same,” said Noorullah Noori, a member of the Taliban’s political office.
“We are still waiting for the outcome of the negotiations. Despite this, we have all the military preparations as well,” said Hamid Saifi, a member of the resistance front.
Ahmad Massoud in a recent interview with the BBC said that if an inclusive and acceptable government for all is not established, Afghanistan will be isolated both politically and economically.
“We are negotiating with the Taliban. So far, several countries--like Canada--has said it will not recognize an exclusive government. If that happens the people will continue to suffer,” Massoud said.
The Taliban has said they will form an inclusive government, but the terms have still not been clearly defined.
NYPD released new high-definition photos on Thursday showing two gunmen and their two accomplices on mopeds who are wanted by the police
Two men approached a crowd in the busy Queens neighborhood of North Corona and opened fire, injuring 10 people, on July 31
The men were gang members targeting rivals in the Trinitarios gang, cops said
Three of the shooting victims were intended targets, but seven were people in the wrong place at the wrong time .300 is respectable hitting in the MLB, on the street, not so much
Eight men and two women, who range in age from 19 to 72, were all hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries
The NYPD and Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa
...founder of the Guardian Angels, now ready to work the problems on a higher level, so he registered to run for mayor of New York City as a Republican in February...
are offering a combined $30,000 reward for information
NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig described what was caught in the surveillance footage as 'pretty disturbing.'
'There's just one common theme I want to get out there that's a recurring theme that keeps happening and it has to stop throughout the city. That's gang members, that's guns, multiple guns on the scene, scooters being used, masks and, lastly, unintended targets getting hit. This is unacceptable in our streets of NYC and it has to stop,' he said.
Police said the two gunmen arrived at the scene on foot, but left by jumping on the backs of two mopeds driven by two other men. All four were wearing hooded sweatshirts and masks.
It is unclear which gang was involved, if any, but police said they were clearly targeting three Trinitarios members on the street.
Detectives suspect that the shooting was connected to a years-long feud between the Trinitarios and the Queens-based ABK (Always Banging Kings), according to the Daily News.
It also may be linked to the July 18 murder of Aldair Melchor, 25, who was shot dead on 132nd St. and 32nd Ave. in Flushing by a gunman in a black car sources told the Daily News. Since then, two more shootings have been tied to the ongoing gang war, the sources said.
The Trinitarios gang formed on Ryker's Island jail in 1993 as a means of protecting Hispanic inmates from other gangs. Outside jail, the Trinitarios began in the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn before expanding throughout the city and Long Island.
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"The Trinitarios (3NI), also called Trinitarians are the largest Dominican-American prison and street gang located on the East Coast of the United States, with subsets in New Jersey, and in all five Boroughs of New York City: The Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. Foundation and Early History"
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More of the ethnic vibrancy that makes cosmopolitans so sure they are smarter than the rest of us.
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The Peasants are, etc. (as the parasites screeched over urbane gunfire)
Three cheers for your magic melange
And a hoot for those mischievous anges
Who shape it! A pity
They make it so witty.
-- the dumbass mesclun of revanche
Not dogwhistling, of course, just playin' with triggers.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Fifty rebels and their families were evacuated on Thursday from the last opposition bastion in southern Syria under a Russian-sponsored deal to avert a military showdown in the strategic border area with Jordan and Israel, witnesses, rebels and army sources said.
Which rebels might these be? There are so many.
A contingent of Russian military police on Tuesday entered the enclave to impose a plan that allows the army to take it over, while offering safe passage to former rebels who oppose the deal to leave for opposition areas in northwest Syria.
The Russian move halted an attempt to storm the enclave by pro-Iranian army units led by the elite Fourth Division who hold sway in the region and had in recent days tightened a two-month siege, escalating shelling and pushing for a military offensive.
The Syrian army, aided by Russian air power and Iranian militias, in 2018 retook control of the province of which Deraa is the capital and which borders Jordan and Israel’s Golan Heights.
That deal forced thousands of mainstream Western-backed rebels to hand over heavy weapons but kept the army from entering the bastion known as Deraa al Balaad.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... Moscow gave guarantees to Israel and Washington in 2018 that it would hold back Iranian-backed militias from expanding their influence in the strategic region.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had earlier this month condemned what he termed the "Assad regime’s brutal" assault on Deraa and called for an immediate end to violence "that killed civilians and displaced thousands."
Over 50,000 civilians along with several thousand former rebels lived in the stronghold that was the site of the first peaceful protests against the Assad family rule, which were met by force before spreading across the country.
The area has now become a ghost town after weeks of intermittent fighting and shelling during which the army has prevented food, medical and fuel supplies coming in but opened a corridor for civilians to leave, residents and local officials say.
The enclave and other towns in southern Syria have, since the state regained control of the province, held sporadic protests against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... ’s authoritarian rule that are rare in areas under state control.
[NPASYRIA] The military build-up brought in to the vicinity of Daraa are the gangs of Putin, Assad and Khamenei, said As’ad al-Zou’bi, an opposition military analyst, on Thursday.
Over the past two days, the Iranian-backed militias have sent more reinforcements to the vicinity of Daraa al Balad and the besieged neighborhoods. These reinforcements included heavy equipment like tanks, armored vehicles and the 57 artillery. They also included a big number of members, according to local sources.
Al-Zou’bi added that "there are dozens of regimes and gangs that back these reinforcements," considering that the coming days will witness "the Great Battle of al Sham".
"There is no solution looming on the horizon, and the situation will develop. There will be interference and unexpected reactions. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the stand of all the residents of Daraa together will be the last word," he noted.
Russia sees Daraa as the final and most important step in its plan of supporting the Syrian government. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... 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... views the southern governorate as the most important step to start with in order to achieve its Persian goal, "to which unfortunately Arabs have not yet realized its danger," according to the military analyst.
Al-Zou’bi attributed the reason for Iran’s delay in controlling southern Syria to the "disagreement over the distribution of quotas between the three gangs."
The Iranian-backed militias continue its semi-ongoing targeting the besieged neighborhoods in Daraa governorate: Daraa al-Balad, Tariq al-Sad neighborhood and camps).
For more than two months, the government forces and pro-Iranian factions have besieged the neighborhoods of Daraa al-Balad and closed most of the roads to them.
"Iran’s goal is clear: to bring about complete demographic change in the region. The plan is dangerous and the objectives are profound, but we are still far from understanding these plans," al-Zou’bi stated.
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A once productive region of Syria. Now destroyed as (Feb 18, 2021, World Bank data) the Syrian economy has shrunk by more than 60 percent since 2010.
[IsraelTimes] ’There’s no war and peace has been established,’ says one man waiting in Pakistain, complaining authorities aren’t letting them cross the border.
From trucks stuffed with carpets, bedding, clothes and even goats, around 200 Afghan refugees look beyond the horizon toward Spin Boldak in their country’s south, waiting to return home from Pakistain.
Dreading another period of harsh rule after the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ’s rapid takeover following the US troop withdrawal, thousands have been desperately trying to flee Afghanistan, with chaotic images emerging from the Kabul airport.
But some families want to repatriate to their homeland, saying the Taliban will bring stability to the war-torn nation.
"We emigrated from Afghanistan during bombing and hardships, when Moslems were in trouble, now, praise be to Allah, the situation is normal, so we are returning to Afghanistan," Molavi Shaib told AFP while waiting at the border.
Divided by a three-meter-deep (10-foot-deep) trench filled with barbed wire, the mountainous boundary separating Spin Boldak from Chaman in Pakistain’s southwest sees thousands crossing the trade route every day.
As scores try to escape Taliban rule, Pakistain has ramped up security at the border, making the process more stringent.
"People want to return but they are not allowed to cross, we request the Pak government to allow us to cross the border because there’s no war, and peace has been established," Muhammad Nabi said. "We have our household with women and kids waiting — we want them to cross the border."
Pakistain has housed over two million Afghan refugees since the first wave of war broke out in Afghanistan over 40 years ago, with numbers fluctuating based on the conflict’s intensity, but the country has said it is not in a position to take in any more.
Displaced Afghans have long complained about feeling unwelcome with little access to employment and citizenship rights.
Many have become pawns in a diplomatic blame game between the countries, which have accused each other of aiding jihadist groups. Islamabad has long been seen as protecting the Taliban and could be one of the few governments with close ties to the new regime in Kabul.
‘BETTER TO GO BACK’
With dust blowing over their belongings and children squeezed in between the furniture, dozens of trucks are parked in Chaman’s barren fields, as returnees complete document checks and wait for their crossing to be approved.
The returnees say they will have better lives in Afghanistan.
"I am returning to Ghazni, now peace has been established and we are happy that we are returning back to our home. It’s much better to go back and settle there," Wali Ur Rahman told AFP.
His words are a jarring contrast to the images from Kabul airport. Many of those trying to get out of Afghanistan fear reprisals from the Taliban after working for foreign governments that fought the forces of Evil during the 20-year war.
But Nabi told AFP he was confident the end of the conflict would bring a brighter future.
"We migrated here to Pakistain because of the ongoing war in Afghanistan. Now peace has been established," he said.
IS named one of the attackers as “Abdul Rahman al Loghari,” from Afghanistan’s Logar province. The terror group claimed he reached within 5 meters of US forces before detonating his explosives.
Another huge blast heard in Kabul, Taliban say it was not an attack
[AlAhram] A huge blast rocked Kabul early Friday, hours after a deadly twin kaboom at the airport that was claimed by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... The new blast was heard by AFP staff. It was not immediately clear what caused it, and in the absence of any administration since the Taliban ...Arabic for students... takeover on August 15, further details were not immediately available.
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahadid, however, tweeted that it was a controlled explosion by US forces destroying equipment at the airport and Kabul residents should not worry.
Over 100,000 evacuated from Afghanistan, US says
[IsraelTimes] The United States has evacuated more than 100,000 people from Afghanistan since August 14, the eve of the Taliban’s return to power, the White House says.
“Since August 14, the U.S. has evacuated and facilitated the evacuation of approximately 100,100 people,” the White House says in a statement issued hours after Islamic State suicide bombers attacked crowds gathered outside Kabul airport hoping to flee.
US says around 1,000 Americans still in Afghanistan
[IsraelTimes] The US State Department says it is tracking roughly 1,000 American citizens whom it believes may still be in Afghanistan, as evacuation efforts proceed, despite deadly suicide attacks outside the Kabul airport.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken had said yesterday that some 1,500 US citizens were still thought to be in the country, but the department says today that it confirms that about 500 of them had been evacuated.
In the meantime, it says another 500 people claiming to be Americans wanting to leave have gotten in touch with the US embassy, but that it expects the majority of them would turn out not to be US citizens. Of the 1,000 Americans the department believes to be in Afghanistan, it says about 75 percent are making preparations to leave.
The local news reports as of 9:41 p.m. local time Thursday:
Kabul Airport Blasts Cause Scores of Casualties
[ToloNews] At least 60 people were maimed in two explosions close to Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... International Airport in Kabul on Thursday evening, according to officials at Emergency hospital.
The blasts occurred from inside a crowd of Afghans close to the Abbey gate area who were trying to leave the country, said the US Pentagon's press secretary John Kirby.
"We can confirm that the earth-shattering kaboom at the Abbey Gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of US and civilian casualties. We can also confirm at least one other explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, a short distance from Abbey Gate. We will continue to update," Kirby said.
At least 52 people were maimed in the blast near the Baron Hotel, a short distance from Abbey Gate in Kabul airport, said Zabihullah Mujahid, a front man for the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , adding that two explosions occurred in the area and the other blast also has casualties but the number is not yet clear.
Two US officials said at least one of the earth-shattering kabooms appeared to be from a suicide kaboom, according to a Rooters report.
A Taliban official told Rooters that at least 13 people were killed in the blast, including children, and many Taliban guards were maimed.
A US official told Rooters as many as three US service members were among those hurt, and that US casualty numbers were expected to increase, according to initial information.
At least one of the US personnel was seriously hurt, an official said.
Two kabooms killed four US marines, 13 civilians, and maimed over 70 more at Abbey gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday, August 26.
The first bomb is said to be among the crowd gathered to enter the airport to fly out while the second one was reportedly away from the gate.
Medical officials of the emergency hospital in Kabul said that the health condition of those maimed is critical.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... unconfirmed reports say that the twin explosions have killed 40 and maimed over 130 more.
Afghanistan Islamic Emirate has condemned the blasts in which civilians were targeted and said that the earth-shattering kabooms have occurred in a location manned by US forces.
The acting minister and spokesperson of AIE Zabiullah Mujahid said that they are committed to protecting the lives of the Afghan people.
ISIS has purportedly claimed the responsibility for the earth-shattering kabooms.
The second blast was at or near Baron Hotel, where many people, including Afghans, Britons and Americans, were told to gather in recent days before heading to the airport for evacuation.
Denmark's last flight has already departed, and Poland and Belgium have also announced the end of their evacuations. The Dutch government said it had been told by the U.S. to leave Thursday.
But Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said some planes would continue to fly.
'Evacuation operations in Kabul will not be wrapping up in 36 hours. We will continue to evacuate as many people as we can until the end of the mission,'' he said in a tweet.
The Taliban have said they'll allow Afghans to leave via commercial flights after the deadline next week, but it remains unclear which airlines would return to an airport controlled by the militants.
Germany ends evacuation operation in Afghanistan — defense minister
[IsraelTimes] Germany has pulled all of its soldiers out of Afghanistan, with its last evacuation flight from Kabul, Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer says. Germany had flown out 5,347 people since August 16, the minister says. The military evacuation mission has therefore now ended, she says.
“All soldiers, members of the foreign ministry, and federal police who have led this mission to a safe end for us on the ground have been flown out of Kabul,” she says.
France seeks to evacuate ‘several hundred’ more from Kabul
[IsraelTimes] France is still seeking to evacuate hundreds more people from Afghanistan, ahead of a looming deadline, President Emmanuel Macron says, warning of an “extremely risky” situation, in the wake of blasts around Kabul airport.
“We will do everything we can” to bring to France Afghan citizens and dual nationals who were in the French embassy, and are currently outside the perimeter of the airport in 20 buses, Macron says on a visit to Ireland.
Bangladesh Trying to Evacuate Afghan Students as Bombings Hit Kabul Airport
[BenarNews] Dhaka was trying to evacuate 15 of its nationals and 160 young Afghan women who had been studying at a university in Bangladesh, a diplomat said Thursday, as two suicide bombers struck crowded areas outside the international airport in Afghanistan’s capital, killing dozens.
A source with Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs who spoke on condition of anonymity said the group slated for evacuation via a chartered flight from Kabul was not affected by the bombings and still waiting in vehicles near the airport for permission to enter.
The fate of future evacuations was unclear in the aftermath of Thursday’s attacks, however.
The two simultaneous bombings hit late Thursday, hours after Western embassies urged people to leave the area due to the threat of a terror attack by the regional branch of the Islamic State group.
“We can confirm that the explosion at the Abbey Gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of U.S. & civilian casualties,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Twitter, referring to an area near the airport typically jammed with would-be evacuees.
“We can also confirm at least one other explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, a short distance from Abbey Gate,” Kirby said.
Video footage from the scene showed what appeared to be dozens of corpses, and witnesses at the scene said that the blasts were followed by gunfire, Reuters news agency reported.
Taliban official Suhail Shaheen said the two explosions took place in an area managed by U.S. forces. “We strongly condemn this gruesome incident and will take every step to bring the culprits to justice,” Reuters quoted him as saying.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s main spokesman, told AFP that “between 13 and 20” people were killed and 52 wounded in the twin blasts.
Twelve U.S. servicemen were among those killed, according to a Pentagon press briefing.
‘VERY CRITICAL’
Earlier, a Bangladeshi diplomat described to BenarNews efforts underway to evacuate 15 Bangladeshis and 160 Afghan students from the Asian University of Women in Chittagong who were stranded in their home country.
“They required permission from the Taliban and U.S. military to go to the airport. They don’t know when they will be able to fly, but they are trying,” Zahangir Alam, Bangladesh’s envoy to Uzbekistan, told BenarNews. He said that UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, was coordinating the attempted departure.
“The situation at Kabul airport is very critical. That’s why we are not sure when the journey will start,” Zahangir said.
As Bangladesh currently has no diplomatic mission in Afghanistan, Zahangir has been remotely coordinating evacuations, communicating directly with his countrymen from Tashkent, he said.
In Dhaka on Thursday, speaking to reporters before the bomb blasts, Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen gave limited information about the evacuation efforts.
“We are trying to bring back the Bangladeshis who are in Afghanistan. But we are not disclosing the procedures. There is a fluid situation in Kabul. That’s why we do not want to make any mistakes,” he said.
“Till now we have traced 29 Bangladeshis in Afghanistan,” a senior foreign ministry official, Mashfee Binte Shams, told reporters at the same press conference.
“Of them, about five people have already returned to Bangladesh while more 15 are waiting to go back home. Our effort to bring back the rest is underway.”
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[KP] This news caused a serious scandal in the media and social networks : allegedly, a special village for Muslims appeared in the Moscow region , where it is forbidden to drink alcohol, smoke, keep pigs, walk in shorts and T-shirts - all according to the laws of Islam. And the residents for this village are selected by a commission. Special correspondent Komsolmol Pravda, Dmitry Steshin went to the place to see everything with his own eyes.
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"How would you know? You were mental."Posted by: Dron66046 2021-08-27 01:05
"...Because they all had badges saying 'Fake Police'!"
Mike
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So because you were hassled by the ???, you screw over 50M people who were may have also been screwed by the same ??? at some point. The clarity of your logic argues against the "fake" part of the whole mental hospital thing.
The lead investigator into #Beirut’s huge port blast has issued a subpoena for caretaker #Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab after he failed to show up for questioning.https://t.co/nooQg5d0Xj
[IsraelTimes] al-Harumi made history when Ra’am became 1st Arab faction to play integral role in coalition; he abstained in vital vote, to protest home demolitions in Bedouin communities.
Ra’am
...the party of the Islamic Movement - Southern Branch, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel, which is currently allied with Naftali Bennett’s goverment. It’s estimated 10% of Israeli Arabs are affiliated with the Islamic Movement, whether the soft jihad of the political Southern Branch or the hard jihad of the sword wielded by the militant Northern Branch...
MK Said al-Harumi died early Wednesday after being rushed to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba after suffering a heart attack, the party announced. He was 49.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The UK Government is now in a race against time to airlift nearly 2,000 Afghan interpreters and other staff who worked for Britannia out of Kabul amid a growing backlash at Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences. So does Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... over his decision to stick to his August 31 withdrawal deadline. The interpreters are understood to have been deemed eligible to come to the UK and have passed security checks but remain on the ground at Kabul airport.
The Pentagon briefed this afternoon that there are currently 10,000 people in total waiting at the airport for a flight out of the capital.
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with one backbencher labelling the US President 'gaga'
Sounds like someone who'd feel right at home in Rantburg.
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'You have got to question Trump's moral fitness for the role, but you have got to address Biden's intellectual fitness and health fitness for the role.
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B, I've seen the name of the corpsman who was killed but few other details.
Biden having completely blown off the Brits is going to disrupt the Dems' attempt to strangle the narrative. Even if the entire US MSM limits itself to reprinting White House press releases, the Brit press won't. The Torygraph twitter feed this morning here is unmerciful.
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Because it seems a growing number of Scientists today have acquired little real knowledge. An just make up discoveries for their claimed field of expertise as they go along.
Milk it for a Meal Ticket and PC Political Agenda reasons.
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Wanna piss them and their media followers off? Refuse to follow the renaming. Let them "correct" you over and over again, and say "nope" Mock them.
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"Bug whut eats the leaves offn muh treez." "Bird whut crapped in muh convertible while th' top wuz down."
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Let us start with renaming the word Scientists.
Prior to the 1700s the field was called "Natural Philosophy". It is ironic that Science was adopted by researchers in the fields that required numbers (Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy) and repeatable rigor (Medicine, Biology) wanted to distance themselves from ---you know --- Philosophers and Theologians. And now we have fields like "Climate Studies" that depend on unreproducible computer models that depend on "97% Consensus" for their validation.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - but Taliban won't let anyone through crossings and neighbouring countries send BACK those who make it across
The Taliban now control all of Afghanistan's main border crossing points with neighbouring countries, making it difficult for Afghans to flee
For those Afghans who make it across the border, many are being sent back to Afghanistan by the countries
Afghans who reached Iran last week were sent back after being given food while Uzbekistan sent 150 Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan last week as per an agreement with the Taliban
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I knew a restaurant waitress (Afganni) who every year would walk into Afghanistan from Iran to see her family. This was in the 90's...
She worked in a restaurant in National City, Ca just south of San Diego.
Yesterday it was announced they’re to join the Taliban ruling council, but now it looks considerably less like a sinecure.
[KhaamaPress] Sources have confirmed to the Khaama Press that former President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... and head of High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... are house-arrested by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and are not allowed to go out. that's kinda what "house arrest" means
Sources also said that the two are only allowed to meet people at their respective residences.
As per the sources, Hamid Karzai is now living in Abdullah’s home.
Ever since former president Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... fled the country, Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, and Gulbadin Hekmatyar are the only political figures who are holding frequent meetings in Kabul both with the Taliban leadership and tribal elders.
The trio who have also created a council are said to be members of the 12-member grand council which is planned by the Taliban to be leading the upcoming government.
It is still not clear whether the three will have executive authority in the upcoming council.
The Taliban are still busy discussing the format of the upcoming government but have frequently promised to be forging an all-inclusive government.
Acting minister of culture and information and spokesperson of the Afghanistan Islamic Emirate Zabiullah Mujahid in a presser in Kabul had said that the religious scholars-Ulama- will be leading the government.
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[LetThemFight] So after several years of listening to the faint of heart and the lowly in character sob over the use of wrong pronouns, the meritless claims of institutional racism, continual cries of inequity, inequality, privilege and oh yeah, mean tweets, we arrive at today’s latest fruit of globalist clap-trap; 12 dead American Service members and another 15 wounded by some as yet unnamed cabal of Satan worshipping cretins in Kabul.
This follows a week of watching one of the most disgraceful egress operations in the annals of Military History. And it as an easily foretold ending to an historically ill-advised military doctrine which supplanted the hunt-kill strategy in place in Afghanistan until June of 2009. I “predicted” this that same fateful month and reiterated over the following decade.
I will remind those who forgot and the rest who have been too self-absorbed to know, that in June of 2009 Stanley McChrystal brought to light the fruit of a year of positing, posturing, submitting and frankly, undermining the probability of any kind of favorable outcome in what has been called, the Graveyard of Empires. Make no mistake, the genesis of this horrific turn in Afghanistan rests with the then newly Minted/Corronated/Sainted, Barrack Hussein Obama 6 months earlier. Obama had been very clear in his narcissistic “memoir”, Audacity of Hope, pg 261 …” I will stand with them [Muslims] should the political winds shift in an ugly direction…”
He backed those words with his Commander’s Intent statement regarding Afghanistan by voicing concern for the safety of the average Afghan; supplanting his sworn duty and associated responsibility for the Constitution, National Security and his War Fighters. His voiced concern instructed his bevy of Leftist Politruk and the machinery of Leftist Bureaucrats at the Pentagon who felt legitimized in dragging down the sullied book, from the dusty shelf in the Library of Horrible Ideas and one more time decided to apply the doctrine of the Counter Insurgency with its impossible ROE, to Afghanistan.
Given COIN’s 76 year history of 100% abysmal failure, it was nothing short of malfeasance and even justifying a charge of Negligent Homicide for those who recommended COIN with the same charge placed against the one man who chose to secure security for a foreign people over the security of the Nation and its War Fighters he was Oathbound to Defend.
Given the catastrophic endings for the Brits in Malay, the French in Indochina, the US in Vietnam, Somalia and the questionable conditions in Iraq; the predictable consequences in the entire Middle East from 2010-2012 including the attack on the CIA safe house in Benghazi where four Americans were killed and no rescue mission was launched, it was not only predictable that ANY egress from Afghanistan would be catastrophic, but in fact, a given!
With this history as backdrop, we can now discuss Biden’s Saigon or potential Dien Bien Phu through the lens of historical accuracy understanding that COIN in Afghanistan was doomed to fail even before McChrystal opened his mouth publicly in June of 2009.
What makes what we are witnessing in real time all the more frustrating is knowing his not too bright advisors had at least, warned him of the probability of failure a full 6 months before they pulled the metaphorical trigger on the egress.
It is also appalling and frustrating to have to listen to Biden and his underlings parade out rhetorical effort after lie after garbled statement in an effort to put a smiley face – even to take credit for some kind of tactical mastery in this entirely preventable episode.
Again, predictably, the White House Press Corps seems incapable or unwilling to ask the most obvious questions;
“Why didn’t you keep Bagram open until every single American Citizen and Afghan Collaborator were safe”…
“Why didn’t you secure the several billion dollars in US War Materiel and Weaponry before pulling out the last of the troops and contractors?”
“Why didn’t you immediately launch a massive extraction effort to safeguard and remove American citizens when it became undeniably apparent on August 14th?”
“Why in the name of all that is right and just did you give any sway to the Terrorists “Teachers” known as the Taliban?
Instead we have been treated to that age old political witchcraft, enjoined by both politician, bureaucrat politruk and media entertainer alike; the effort to polish a turd. Somewhere along the line it became knee-jerk to spin a story, create a tale, redirect the public gaze and basically, lie, rather than own up to the mistake.
Unfortunately, a full 50% of this population is more than happy to play along and even gleeful at the prospect of actively participating as long as it props up their questionable selection for the Presidency.
Obama may have started us down this path
Obama’s Politruk may have sullied themselves in the name of relevancy.
But it is Biden and his corral of miscreants who own this astoundingly shameful excuse for an egress.
And now he can add the names of at least 27 American War Fighters; dead and wounded who were tasked with nothing short of a cleanup operation in a vain attempt to help a feckless “president” save face.
Democrats and their legion of facilitators would do well to learn at least one lesson;
Sometimes, a Turd is simply a Turd.
I pray for the families of those 12 War Fighters whose lives were sacrificed for the sake of politics. It is doubly infuriating for our family being as this debacle began to take shape on the Anniversary of our Son's death in Afghanistan 08/14/2009.
I pray for the families of the thousands whose lives were sacrificed for the misplaced interest of a president who sullied his oath, 12 years ago.
I hope although very likely in vain, that those who selected the current figurehead will see the fruit of that ill-conceived choice even if it required the unnecessary deaths of yet more American Service members, this day, 26 August 2021.
[TASS] Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained 31 chieftains and members of an interregional structure of the Katiba al-Tawhid wal-Jihad terrorist organization (outlawed in Russia) in Moscow, the Novosibirsk Region, Yakutsk and the Krasnoyarsk Region during a nationwide sweep, the FSB Public Relations Center told TASS on Wednesday.
"The Federal Security Service in cooperation with the Interior Ministry and Russia’s National Guard as part of a special operation in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Yakutsk, Krasnoyarsk, and in Kansk in the Krasnoyarsk Region, as well as in the hamlet of Prokudskoye in the Novosibirsk Region terminated the activity of an interregional structure of the Katiba al-Tawhid wal-Jihad terrorist organization. Some 31 individuals from among its leadership and participants were detained," the center reported.
According to the FSB, the terrorist cell members recruited and transported adherents to active combat zones, financed the members of the terrorist group located in Syria and incited terror-related crimes.
The FSB reported that the search uncovered proscribed religious literature, Katiba al-Tawhid wal-Jihad’s propaganda videos, as well as communication devices, data storage devices and bank cards. The authorities have opened criminal cases, and active search measures are in progress.
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Katiba Tawhid wal Jihad (KTJ) is an Uzbek group which consists of predominantly Uzbek and Kyrgyz militants. It is not clear when this group was established: some sources mention 2013; others, 2014. It pledged alliance to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS) / Jabhat al-Nusra (JN) / Nusra Front on 29 September 2015. KTJ repeatedly blames Russia and the USA for waging war against Islam. KTJ's leader is Abu Saloh, who is allegedly a citizen of Uzbekistan. According to the group's propaganda, they adhere to the al-Qaeda brand of jihadism.
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[Bourne Institute] War is the health of the State.
...... 46th president of the U.S. 
Got yer answer right here Leon old boy. Put the entire culture to the sword. Lay waste to the cities, power grids, airports, roads, poppy fields, and dams. Turn the air black with contrails until there is no longer any movement on the ground, no electronic signals, or electric lights. 
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] 
...46th president of the U.S. 
Benjamin, who was running for state comptroller when he was chosen by Hochul, has described himself as progressive and has loudly and publicly supported efforts to defund the New York Police Department (
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[NYPOST] A 20-year-old tourist from Wisconsin was randomly attacked by a lunatic in 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
...46th president of the U.S. 
A 56 year old Nancy Pelosi. Not much to look forward to here. 
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] Arrogance is the mask incompetence wears. And so, as 
...... 46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry......
[MYNORTHWEST] Safety concerns over the scene in and around the 
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
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...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...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 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
[TASS] Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained 31 chieftains and members of an interregional structure of the 
