Mary Lynn Rajskub is an American actress and comedian who is best known for portraying Chloe O'Brian in the action thriller series 24, and the character Gail the Snail in It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Rajskub was a regular cast member on HBO's Mr.
Born: June 22, 1971, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
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"A Teuton from Texas? Me ass!
A star, Mrs. Dantzler, has class.
For... Mary. [red wig]
If she'll practice her jig,
Sure I reckon Miss... Brian can pass."
h/t Instapundit
[digitaltrends]-The Chinese government is inviting scientists to help build an enormous, 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) long spacecraft that it wants to construct in orbit. The wild concept is to build a giant orbiting craft the size of 10 city blocks from components sent up by rockets one piece at a time.
The concept is outlined in a project document from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (in the attachment titled "Guide for major projects of the Ministry of Mathematical Sciences"), which describes how the organization is looking for proposals for constructing an "ultra-large spacecraft with a size of one kilometer," saying this goal represents "a major strategic aerospace equipment for the future use of space resources, exploration of the mysteries of the universe, and long-term living in orbit." But they don't have proper pronouns!
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Confucius say, "Pardon my bragging,
But Han who pull heavenly wagon
Is man of great strength,
Flexibility, length,
And drink tea made from penis of dragon."
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An object in orbit struck by a much, much smaller object in an opposite orbit will have a very, very bad day.
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08/30/2021 21:13
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a much, much smaller object in an opposite orbit
1/2 M V Squared, baby! With the accent on the V.
But Han who pull heavenly wagon
The name China - Chung Quo - means Middle Kingdom, halfway between the gods in Heaven and us big-nosed barbarians down here on Earth. Having a ginormous orbital station would be a nice piece of symbolic propaganda and testament to Han Superiority(tm).
[Just The News] More than 70% of the 61,731 absentee ballots put in drop boxes in the November 2020 presidential election in DeKalb County, Georgia, were counted and certified by officials, despite violating chain of custody requirements.
The exact number of ballots was 43,907, according to the Georgia State News. The ballots were counted and certified by county and state officials, the news outlet says.
The chain of custody requirements are set forth in Georgia Emergency Rule 183-1-14-1.8-.14, put into effect by the Georgia State Election Board in July 2020.
The rule states absentee ballots placed in drop boxes "shall be immediately transported to the county registrar" by the two-person collection team. The team is required to sign a ballot-transfer form indicating the number of ballots picked up, the time the ballots were picked up and the location of the drop box.
The rule also states the county registrar or a designee "thereof shall sign the ballot transfer form upon receipt of the ballots from the collection team."
The Georgia Star News obtained from the DeKalb County law department 725 absentee ballot dropbox transfer forms used in the election in the county to document the chain of custody of the 61,731 absentee ballots, in response to an open records request.
[AP via Market Watch] Federal probe opened earlier this month after series of similar crashes.
ORLANDO, Florida — A Tesla using its partially automated driving system slammed into a Florida Highway Patrol cruiser Saturday on an interstate near downtown Orlando and narrowly missed its driver, who had pulled over to assist a disabled vehicle.
Earlier this month, the U.S. government opened a formal investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot driving system after a series of similar collisions with parked emergency vehicles.
The trooper whose cruiser was hit shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday had activated his emergency lights and was on the way to the disabled vehicle when the Tesla hit the cruiser’s left side and then collided with the other vehicle, highway patrol spokeswoman Lt. Kim Montes told The Orlando Sentinel.
The report said the 27-year-old man in the Tesla and the driver of the disabled vehicle suffered minor injuries and the trooper was unhurt.
Tesla TSLA, +1.53% did not immediately respond to an email sent to its press address.
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This is the buzz-ump-teenth time; Tesla EV kills a Gasoline Motivated Vehicle - Must be in the programming - "Your mission Teslev, is to wipe out Gamoves; Now get out there and get'em."
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Now VDH is in the "we gotta go back" camp. At the rate this is going, there will be no sane voices left on the matter.
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08/30/2021 10:50
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If we go back it should be special forces targetting things for airpower the way we won in the first place. Minimal footprint. No nation building and 15,000 civilians.
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Let the people who wanna go back go back. Just don't ask me to pay for it and don't expect any sympathy when they get their butts blown off.
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08/30/2021 11:30
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At this point I can't see how anybody suggesting we should continue to throw even more blood and treasure at the permanent mess can in any way be called rational or sane.
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08/30/2021 11:32
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I've reserved all of my respect and sympathy for the people who already served and sacrificed over there when our so-called leaders convinced them that it was a noble cause. By now we should have learned our lesson.
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08/30/2021 11:35
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To anyone who steps in with "but, but, we have to restore respect for US power, our credibility," I would say the only way you get that respect back is to utterly destroy the Taliban, Al-Quaeda, ISIS, and the whole rest of that ever expanding zoo / cesspool. Total annihilation.
Ain't. Gonna. Happen.
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08/30/2021 11:42
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Taxpayers have already spent $925 billion in interest payments
Ain't nothing compared to Queen Nancy's multi-trillion dollar robbery of the Treasury she's pushing. The American citizenry and any decedents are being sold into involuntary servitude.
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In 2001 the problem with Afghanistan was that it couldn't be bombed back into the stone age.
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#1 Because there are, as always, GOPe idiots on TV saying we need to go back and throw even more blood and treasure at the permanent mess.
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More US troops were KIA under Dem Pres Obama than any other president. Osama Bin Laden set his 9/11 US attack plan in the later part of Dem Pres Hillary Bill Clinton term and was executed just months into Bush's term due to dissarray in US intel sharing.
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Look at the bright side:
The Tahlli Bahn two. point. oh. have at least one person who can fly a Blackhawk, so it isn't all sitting around going to dust.
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From the article: In an ideal world, Biden would order a nocturnal retaking of Bagram, shift all U.S. evacuation efforts there, and provide air cover for incoming and outcoming flights as well as retaliatory strikes on terrorist enclaves as necessary. He would tell the Taliban that $80 billion of free military stuff was enough of bribes and that any more obstructive efforts will be met with bombs, not more cash and weapons.
But i guess that isn't what he meant when he wrote it.
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Took that as do something other that cuck out, but I see that now.
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Just watching the news. It just makes me angry and disgusted all over again. The current leadership are a bunch of traitorous surrender monkeys. They all need to resign or be removed from office or rank in disgrace. Personally, I think they should be prosecuted. They don't deserve to be in office and represent the American people. God bless the rank and file for they did a good job. God bless those who went over there in good faith and did their jobs. God bless those who were injured and died. We should have not left in the way we did. We will pay the price for a long time to come.
[Aljazeera] Gunfire from across the Afghan border have killed two Pakistani soldiers, the army said, in the first such attack since the Taliban took over Kabul 10 days ago.
The army said it retaliated and killed two or three attackers, a claim not verifiable because the tribal districts along the Afghan border are off-limits to journalists and human rights organisations. The incident on Sunday in Pakistan’s Bajaur district is the first of its kind reported since the Taliban took over Kabul on August 15.
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[NYP] Erik Prince, the co-founder of defense contractor Blackwater, is responding after the White House took a shot at him for offering to fly people out of Afghanistan on charter flights for $6,500 a seat — recalling that his contractors once rescued Biden from Taliban territory. The Big Guy just wants his 10%
Prince, a former Navy SEAL, added that the Biden administration’s bungling of the evacuation operation and the president’s refusal to extend the deadline have "shattered the confidence" of America’s allies.
"So we have shattered the confidence of our European allies and every other ally around the world that America depends, whether you’re a CIA agent trying to recruit somebody to work for you or whether you’re a country that America wants you to compete with — to side with us versus something that the Chinese want — it will definitely figure into people’s thinking how quickly America abandoned its friends in Afghanistan and left in such a horribly chaotic and clumsy manner," Prince told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson in an interview Wednesday night.
He also pointed out that Blackwater soldiers had to rescue Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel when they got lost in a snowstorm in 2008.
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No there's plenty of them, g(r)om. They just don't recognize each other as such.
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You're addressing the general, Mullah. I was referring to the specific claim made by Too Old "We'd all be better off if Prince hadn't rescued those three fools." That is, IMO, some other fool would take Joe's place - and nobody would notice any difference.
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"Just read Fukuyama." "Too cool!
Though I wonder, my dude, who should rule
As we rest on our laurels,
Investing in quarrels
And pestilence?" "King and Queen Fool!"
"We had never logged a month of 60+ mass shootings prior to 2020."
So it was SAFER BEFORE the Socialcrats seized power and funded ANTI-FArt and BLOM?
NOTE: General Methodology | Gun Violence Archive
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org › methodology
"The FBI does not have a definition of Mass Shooting." So did the Anti-Gun GVA made one up that fits its agenda?
So, it seems Socialcrats and Violence go hand and hand.
Maybe we should ban Socialcrats, ANTI-FArt & BLOM, instead of a CITIZENS Right to Self Defense?
Because Banning citizen ownership has time and time again PROVEN the only 2 groups that will continue to have firearms are the Government and the Criminal Element. History tells us eventually the telling the difference between the 2 becomes a challenge.
BTW:
In my county the LEO response time is 10 to 15 mins.
They usually arrive and ask us to put the weapon away. Then take control of the problem/suspect.
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"I'm not here about gun control. I'm here about preventing gun violence and gun death,..."
How odd... my guns have never once said they plan to commit violence and since I can detect no respiration or heartrate, I assume they have have already expired. Hence..no problem.
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Obama did this. Weaponized all Fed Agencies against his political opponents. Obama must be executing his third term behind the curtains while Biden sleeps all day which means Obama can be a lot more ruthless with inept Biden taking all the spears.
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All the alphabet agencies need to be disbanded. All Government employees G-13 or above need to be fired and barred from employment with the federal government.
#8
“ By its terms, the Twenty-Second Amendment bars only the election of two-term Presidents, and this prohibition would not prevent someone who had twice been elected President from succeeding to the office after having been elected or appointed Vice President.”
#9
The United States should send one ordinary citizen to a town meeting (57 States & Territories) to elect a Vice President to the vacant position and do what Duxbury, Vermont does to elect their dog catcher.
Duxbury has a town meeting every year, and the dog catcher is chosen by citizen vote. In the most recent town meeting, “dog catcher Zeb Towne, who was nominated almost unanimously for re-election, despite a “no” vote from his wife that cause laughter to erupt in the room.
Her issue - “She’s mad about the late nights I have to go out on those calls,” Towne said.
“No, It’s because you’re out there rounding up them bitches,” said another resident of Duxbury
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Large raids have been happening in Brazil for years. Started with large gangs paying up the Amazonto isolated towns, taking over the town, robbing the bank and then anything that moves, then getting out before the responding federals arrive.
I thought at first it was just a weird spasm when changing poses, but yeah, like that kid who picks his nose, then coyly looks around to see if anyone is watching, then neatly puts the booger into his mouth.
The 5,500-mile Colonial pipeline that supplies almost half of the gasoline on the East Coast shut down Sunday Afternoon. The initial press released stated it was a preemptive measure and only "Temporary".
But is looking like 2 to 3 days min.
However, Six refineries that process 1.92 million barrels per day of oil into gasoline and other petroleum products, either shut or curtailed some production. That includes two Valero Energy (VLO.N) plants in Louisiana that combined process 335,000 barrels per day and Phillips 66's 255,000 bpd Alliance, Louisiana, refinery.
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I hope you realize you're the asshole shouting at the top of your lungs "YOU DUMBASSES! YOU CANNIBALIZED YOUR BUSINESS JUST LIKE THE PEOPLE I ELECTED MADE YOU!"
#3
Sounds to me like y'all should be filling y'all's tanks while it's still cheap, to last y'all the two decades or so until we get a sane government and can get production online.
#4
I remember (roughly) a bumpersticker I saw during the 70's oil panic here in the 'Oil Patch': "If Yankees don't like Refineries they can freeze in the dark..."
[HOT AIR] The Sunday morning political shows were not kind to Joe Biden and his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Any and all criticism leveled at his decisions is warranted, especially since the death of 13 military members, ages 20 — 31 at the Kabul airport. There is no hiding from that tragedy at Camp David or in the basement of one of his Delaware homes.
One critic who keeps showing up is retired General H.R. McMaster who served as National Security Advisor in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2018. His time in the administration was bumpy and after he left, there was talk that he called Trump a "dope" which was denied by others present at the dinner at which the remark was allegedly made. McMaster ended his frequent appearances on FNC that he enjoyed as a member of the Trump administration and went over to CNN and MSNBC. They were happy to welcome someone who they thought would criticize Trump. Now, however, it is impossible to notice he is back on FNC. He is a vocal critic of Biden’s handling of the withdrawal of Afghanistan which must be a shock to his new friends in the Biden-friendly media. This morning he was interviewed by Chuck Todd on Meet the Press. His opinions have not changed from one network to another.
McMaster says the war in Afghanistan ended in "self-defeat". He said everyone involved in the war management during the last 20 years bears some responsibility but it didn’t have to end this way. He calls it "a one-year war fought twenty times over." The decision for withdrawal has been a costly one. McMaster said that Biden "doubled down" on Trump’s original plan and "failed to reverse" it. The fact is, too, that Trump’s agreement with the Taliban — an agreement that wasn’t a formal agreement — was already null and void due to Taliban conduct before Biden set his withdrawal operation into play.
"And of course, what’s sad about it is this war ended in self-defeat, Chuck. I mean we had a sustainable effort in place several years ago, that if we had sustained it, we could have prevented what’s happening now," McMaster told host Chuck Todd. "But instead, what we did, Chuck, is actually we surrendered to a jihadist organization and assumed that there would be no consequences for that. And we’re seeing the consequences today." McMaster calls it a surrender to a jihadi organization. He’s not wrong.
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Killing OBL and as many of his associates was the mission. After he was dead, it was time to head home. The Marshal Plan for the place was the self inflicted grievous wound pandering to the vanity of a segment of the ruling class. The gangrene is now spreading.
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so like bodieden put all those fire bases in the bottom lands surrounded by high ground and made fucked up coded maps put on cnn that remedials could follow not to mention the fake chat room crap and on and on and count your fucking bullets FUCK THEM ALL!
#4
McBastard stabbed Trump in the back and now he's stabbing Joe in the ankles. Makes you wonder if he's got any loyalty to anyone but his own face in the mirror.
Ma$turbation: $ex with someone you truly love...
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Yes, if he moves in next door, someone else can handle the welcome wagon duties.
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The Pentagon was lying for years about how it was going in Afghanistan. The Afghanistan Papers prove it. McMaster, as one of the ringleaders, certainly knew it.
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Contrast General C.Y.A McMaster with a memo prepared by General Dwight Eisenhower in case the D-Day invasion failed: "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
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KillingOBL and as many of his associates was the mission.
Really? Okay, it was the official reason. The only reason that made sense to me was: Deterrence. Starting in the 1960's a lot of bad actors decided that supporting terrorists gave them a deniable "Poor Man's Weapon of Mass Destruction". They couldn't afford a nuclear program but they could afford something that allowed them to threaten (in a fake Mafioso accent) "If youz does dat then somethin' bad will happen. Capisce?"
A 'Punitive Raid' on Afghanistan and toppling the Taliban would seem an appropriate response to that tactic -- and a warning to other people contemplating it. Unfortunately we got bogged down in that 'Nation Building' horsepuckey.
[WND] While we live in a time when many Americans will not admit it, I will: I love my country. Through good times and bad, good presidencies and bad, that love has never diminished. One generation of family member after another — from Jacob Zumwalt who served during the American Revolution to my son's 21st century service in Iraq as a bomb technician — attests to this love by voluntarily serving in uniform.
As a veteran who served for over a quarter of a century, I never thought I would say this about a commander in chief, but the terrorist bombing at the Kabul airport that claimed 40 lives, including at least 13 of our brave warriors, leaves me no choice. It is love of country and all those serving to protect her who have needlessly, callously and intentionally been put in harm's way with no rational basis for doing so that forces me now to declare: "Mr. Biden, you are not my president."
I do this with deep concerns. Every president before Biden making a bad decision did it with the same love of country many of us harbor. But Biden's outrageous actions, both in opening up our borders and rushing to withdraw from Afghanistan, is senselessly claiming American lives.
While the lives of all 40 victims claimed by suicide bombers is tragic, as a veteran my heart went out especially to the soldiers and Marines lost. Many had spent months in harm's way and were undoubtedly excited to know, despite the chaotic withdrawal Biden ordered, they would soon be back with loved ones. Yet, in a split second, that all changed specifically because Biden had inexcusably ignored the advice of much more experienced military experts.
Based on a political career lasting almost half a century, Biden, allegedly, was more experienced and better qualified for the Oval Office than some of his Democratic Party presidential predecessors. Governors Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton lacked the national and international experience that senator and Vice President Biden had before becoming president. The danger of inexperienced governors taking the national reigns of power became evident as Carter dragged us through the Iran hostage crisis and Clinton did the same with his numerous sex scandals. Yet, only seven months into what, hopefully, is only a single presidential term, Biden makes Carter and Clinton look like boy scouts.
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Words, grom. Maybe we should look to actions taken under these administrations. It's pretty clear Biden is somebody's President, he sure as hell ain't that of the majority of citizenry here as we've been labeled domestic terrorists.
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O’buma will take over as Vice President, what are the DIMs waiting for? “By its terms, the Twenty-Second Amendment bars only the election of two-term Presidents, and this prohibition would not prevent someone who had twice been elected President from succeeding to the office after having been elected or appointed Vice President.”
[Stars and Stipes] A Marine officer who filmed a viral video calling out senior military and civilian leaders for failures in Afghanistan resigned his commission "effective immediately" in a new 10-minute video Sunday and threatened to "bring the whole [expletive] system down."
Lt. Col. Stu Scheller was dismissed Friday from command of the Advanced Infantry Training Battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C., over the original video. In the new one, he claims he is not currently under investigation and that he likely would be allowed to ride out his remaining three years until retirement if he chose to stay silent.
"I don’t think that’s the path I’m on," he says in the video, shot inside an "abandoned school bus" in eastern North Carolina. "I’m resigning my commission as a United States Marine, effective now ... [and] I am forfeiting my retirement, all entitlements. I don’t want a single dollar."
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....This may not be a popular opinion, but - although I agree 100% with LTC Scheller and commend him for having the guts to resign his commission...something just is not sitting right here.
I hope and pray that my feelings are misplaced. But as Dad used to say, "Cherish, support, and defend those who seek the truth.
Beware of those who claim to have found it."
Mike
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There are a couple sites reporting the Marines plan to take Scheller and his family into custody for their own protection.
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That's a lot of mental hospital beds they're gonna need...
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Possible Terrorist Attack in Garland, Texas/Known Wolf
Garland Police identified the Lyft driver who was killed Sunday, August 29, in Garland, shortly before a masked gunman was shot at Plano Police Headquarters.
The driver, Isabella Lewis, 26, of Garland, was shot and killed after she dropped off or picked up someone who had requested a ride, according to Garland Police said.
The shooter in Garland and Plano has been identified as Emron Ali Rashid.
He was the one Lewis went to pick up for a ride.
There was a note left in the Lewis’ car, that led to a possible motive for the crime, authorities said, but did not elaborate.
Matthew DeSarno, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Dallas, said the Dallas FBI has joined in the investigation to see what led to the investigation and if it was an act of terrorism.
“Rashid may have been inspired by a foreign terrorist organization to commit these acts,” DeSarno said.
He was the subject of a counterterrorism investigation from 2010 to 2013.
At this point, we do not believe the suspect was provided assistance by others or that others were involved in the incident,” said DeSarno.
There is no indication Rashid and Lewis new each other.
Just before noon on Sunday, Garland police responded to a gunshot wound call in the 400 block of Forest Gate Drive.
Police say the caller stated someone was shot and the victim’s vehicle was stolen.
When officers arrived, they found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
“She was either going there to pick up a client or going there to drop off a client, we’re still kind of unsure why she was at that location but it was a hired ride,” said Matt Pesta of the Garland Police Department.
A spokesperson for Lyft has since released the following statement:
“We are heartbroken by this incident and our hearts are with the driver’s loved ones during this incredibly difficult time. Safety is fundamental to Lyft and we are ready to assist law enforcement.”
Minutes later, at approximately 12:15 p.m., officers responded to a complaint of a man “behaving erratically” in front of the Plano Police Department.
Prior to their arrival, the suspect entered the department’s lobby. And upon entering the lobby a second time, officials say he displayed a handgun, raised it and then fired it in the direction of a civilian police employee who was assisting a visitor.
Both the employee and visitor took shelter in a secure room off the lobby of the department, police said. At that time, two police officers reportedly responded from inside the building and exchanged fire with the suspect.
The suspect was transported to a nearby hospital where his current status is unknown, police said.
During their investigation, Plano police found the stolen Lyft driver’s vehicle outside the department.
No police employees or visitors were injured.
“Things kind of appear what they are, but we still need to link them with evidence, to be able to make that solid connection,” Pesta said. “It’s just a sad deal all the way around. I mean, let’s face it, a life was lost today, and there could have been many more if it wasn’t for the heroic actions of [the] Plano Police Department.”
Plano Mayor John Muns released the following statement:
“What could have been a horrific tragedy was avoided, thanks to the swift and effective action of our Plano police officers… I applaud the response of the officers who responded who stopped a dangerous situation from taking a deadly turn.”
[Just The News] The revelations come at a sensitive time for the FBI and Director Christopher Wray, who has insisted widespread problems revealed about the bureau's conduct in the now-discredited Russia collusion case have been fixed even as new revelations of misconduct come to light.
The FBI, already under fire for its handling of FISA warrants and confidential informants, is enduring more scrutiny as the Justice Department admits agents failed to disclose to a court that they had paid — to the tune of six figures — a white supremacist publisher for years to be an investigative source.
The admission came in a series of court filings this month in the case of Kaleb Cole, a Washington state man accused of being a member of the white supremacist group Atomwaffen and participating in an intimidation campaign against Jewish Americans and minority journalists. Cole has pleaded innocent and awaits trial.
Cole's lawyers filed a motion to suppress evidence gathered against their client on the grounds that the FBI had failed to disclose in a search warrant application that a publisher of extremist literature had been paid about $144,000 over 16 years to be an informant, including $82,000 for work in the case against Cole. The confidential informant (CI) also had an earlier felony conviction that wasn't disclosed, court records show.
The filings don't identify the informant by name but describe him as a publisher who "owns and operates a publishing company that distributes white supremacist writings."
"The CI began his long career as a professional informant in exchange for consideration regarding his sentence on a federal conviction for possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and an unregistered silencer," Cole's lawyers argued in an Aug. 13 motion.
"The failure to include the information about the CI's incentives is made more egregious by the fact that the warrant application incriminated Mr. Cole based almost solely on the alleged observations of the CI," the lawyers added.
Given the 1000's of court system "sealed" document leaks we have seen over the years in the NEWS? What if the FBI had listed that informants name on court documents?
How were a few over zealous FBI agents able to make a career out of conducting an investigation based on data from a Media/Social Media CI source?
Since it appears a few overzealous FBI agents were able to obtain warrants without listing the information source? Did these agents deliberately mislead the court system and their district supervisors?
Shouldn't we be looking closer at the "Appointed" Federal Judges that issues these warrants also?
Should the public be demanding stricter guidelines with heavy Legal Repercussions against both Judges and anyone circumventing the legal system?
In all honesty
I want to know the results of this 16 year investigation.
What did it accomplish?
Did it save lives and property?
#4
J. Edgar Hoover building, a hive of scum and villainy the white supremacy conspiracy in America. We've got to protect our phoney baloney jobs, boys.
#6
In no particular order, other US Government agencies and activities leading the race to the bottom include the CDC, US Postal Service, BATF, Department of Education, Department of Agriculture, Homeland Security, IRS, DoD, and DNI.
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#6 What have you got against the dynastic cluster fcuk that is DOE?
Keep in mind that in the event of govt 'shutdowns' they send their non-essential, their words not mine, workers home. That number is almost universally above 90% of the work force.
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/\ Whahahahaha.... Having done a little work at Oakridge and in the Tri-Cities of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick, I can assure you the absence of DOE was simply an oversight.
#12
Makes you wonder how much of Crime, Inc. is either a partnership with the FBI ala Whitey Bulger or an actual FBI-run operation like the Whitmer kidnapping plot.
"Give us some jobs for our Confidential Informants and a steady stream of expendable dupes for the prosecutors, and we can look the other way on the big stuff"
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^ Pretty much already the established case by all we know, or was at one time. E. Tarrio of the PBs is still somewhat in question. We do know he was working with FBI but that relationship might no longer be in place and probably ended in 2018. Now that he's been sentenced, I'm thinking they've gone their separate ways.
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Yeah, like when Ed Norton kicks his own ass in his boss' office.
[The Hill] Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that it is "not likely" the U.S. will have an "on-the-ground diplomatic presence" in Afghanistan on September 1st, but vowed that the Biden administration will continue to help those who want to evacuate the country past Tuesday's withdrawal deadline.
"First, in terms of having an on-the-ground diplomatic presence on September 1st, that's not likely to happen. But what is going to happen is that our commitment to continue to help people leave Afghanistan who want to leave and who are not out by September 1st, that endures," Blinken told NBC’s Chuck Todd on "Meet The Press."
#4
So what they have been saying is that as soon as that midnight gong chimes, and the date rolls over to 31st, that's it, no more planes. Not planes throughout the 31st, they done.
[FoxNews] Five rockets were fired early Monday at the Kabul airport and intercepted by a U.S.'s C-RAM missile defense system, a defense official told Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin.
U.S. Central Command did not immediately respond to an email from Fox News for additional details.
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... , the White House press secretary, said in a blurb that President Bide has been informed about the development by his top aides-- Jake Sullivan, his national security adviser, and Ron Klain, his chief of staff.
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By Caitlin Kenney, Fort Sill CannoneerApril 26, 2012. C-RAM The Counter Rocket, Artillery, Mortar system has been used in Iraq to protect forward operating bases and valued targets. D Battery, 2nd Battalion, 6th Air Defense Artillery trainers conducted a certification exercise April 19, at Fort Sill
FORT SILL, Okla.-- Mortars, artillery and rockets have been the weapon of choice for insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are mobile and can be easily hidden, giving Coalition soldiers just seconds to take cover when they are launched.
The Army, taking a note from Navy warfare technology, adopted the C-RAM system or Counter Rocket, Artillery, Mortar system. Known to the Navy as the Phalanx, this "system of systems" detects, warns and intercepts incoming rocket, artillery and mortar rounds at forward operating bases and significant targets in Iraq and now Afghanistan.
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A number here on the Burg may recall hearing this at Balad, Iraq or elsewhere.... to include the screaming and admonishments to get to a bunker and seek cover.
[PJMedia] Rep. Dan Crenshaw is a retired Navy SEAL who served and was maimed in Afghanistan’s Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province during his third deployment, in 2012. He lost his right eye and his left eye was badly damaged in an IED attack. Crenshaw is held in extremely high regard in the veteran and active-duty communities.
Lara Logan is a long-time award-winning journalist now working for Fox News who has spent much of her career covering war zones including Iraq and Afghanistan. Between the two of them, Logan and Crenshaw have spent years in and around Afghanistan. Due to their experience there, both are likely to have credible sources on the ground at the Kabul airport.
Both Logan and Crenshaw are independently reporting that Americans have been turned away from safety at that airport over the past couple of days.
Logan posted this tweet Saturday afternoon.
Most Americans don’t understand what’s happening in Kabul - been on this all night again w no end. US citizens are fighting through enemy lines to get to the airport. When they show their blue passport to 82nd soldiers at the gate, many are turned away & sent back to the Taliban.
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Certain pieces had to be in place before you get Lunch Vader.
Such as that gal who live stream bragged about dodging revelry, or the open communist who didn't get booted from West Point by either the admin or student body, or the latest gal marine making sergeant when she can't even change a tire.
These are symptoms of middle management performing with the blessing and weight of enough upper management, you get Lunch Vader and Gen Miley Cyrus.
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Most Americans don’t understand what’s happening in Kabul - been on this all night again w no end. US citizens are fighting through enemy lines to get to the airport. When they show their blue passport to 82nd soldiers at the gate, many are turned away & sent back to the Taliban.
That is because the US was focused on only getting out of the airport ASAP. Not on getting more Americans out. Massive Sh!t Show by Biden's Woke Generals.
The last plane of US Troops just left the airport.
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Iraq - US forces went in to take out Saddam Hussein. Mission accomplished.
Afghanistan - Our young men and women went in to take out Osama Bin Laden. Mission accomplished.
Our people in uniform prevented another 9/11/2001 for 20 years. They won.
Now. Tell me all about the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and the Dome of the Rock, all still standing proudly where the Second Temple once stood and will never stand again g(r)omgoru.
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I know some people here pissed you off, but several others here stood up for you. And I can understand your agitation about that as you have been one of us forever. But if you wanna bash my country then it is open season both ways so let's rumble.
[ToloNews] A U.S. Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... Sunday targeted a vehicle carrying "multiple jacket wallahs" from Afghanistan’s 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.... affiliate before they could target the ongoing American military evacuation at Kabul’s international airport, officials said.
There were few initial details about the incident, as well as a rocket that struck a neighborhood just northwest of the airport, killing a child. The two strikes initially appeared to be separate incidents, though information on both remained scarce.
Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... front man Zabihullah Mujahid earlier said in a message to journalists that the U.S. strike targeted a suicide bomber as he drove a vehicle loaded with explosives. Mujahid offered few other details.
Two American military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations, called the airstrike successful. They said the strike caused "significant secondary explosions" indicating the presence of a substantial amount of kaboom in the vehicle.
The strike was the second by America since the airport suicide kaboom. On Saturday, a strike in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province killed an Islamic State member believed to be involved in planning attacks against the United States in Kabul. The strike killed one person, front man Navy Capt. William Urban said.
The rocket attack meanwhile struck Kabul’s Khuwja Bughra neighborhood, said Rashid, the Kabul police chief who goes by one name. Video obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in the aftermath of the attack showed smoke rising from building at the site around a kilometer (half a mile) from the airport. No group immediately claimed the attack, however bully boyz have fired rockets in the past.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, a triangular dorsal fin appeared in the water. Then another... the family of a folk singer north of Kabul say the Taliban killed him. The shooting of Fawad Andarabi came in the Andarabi Valley for which he was named, an area of Baghlan province some 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Kabul. The valley had seen upheaval since the Taliban takeover, with some districts in the area coming under the control of militia fighters opposed to the Taliban rule. The Taliban say they have since retaken those areas, though neighboring Panjshir in the Hindu Kush mountains remains the only one of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces not under its control.
The Taliban previously came out to Andarabi’s home and searched it, even drinking tea with the musician, his son Jawad Andarabi told the AP. But something changed Friday.
"He was innocent, a singer who only was entertaining people," his son said. "They shot him in the head on the farm."
His son said he wanted justice and that a local Taliban council promised to punish his father’s killer.
Mujahid, the Taliban front man, told the AP that the hard boyz would investigate the incident, but had no other details on the killing.
Andarabi played the ghichak, a bowed lute, and sang traditional songs about his birthplace, his people and Afghanistan as a whole. A video online showed him at one performance, sitting on a rug with the mountains of home surrounding him as he sang.
"There is no country in the world like my homeland, a proud nation," he sang. "Our beautiful valley, our great-grandparents’ homeland."
Meanwhile on Sunday, private banks across Afghanistan resumed their operations. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... they limited withdrawals to no more than the equivalent of $200 a day. While some complained of still being unable to access their money, babus government employees say they haven’t been paid over the last four months. The Afghani traded around 90.5 to $1, continuing its depreciation as billions of dollars in the country’s reserves remain frozen overseas.
It seems unlikely that ISIS could lead such a gunfire attack on such a heavily defended area and then get away without any of their members getting killed by return fire, which means if there are no bodies of ISIS fighters then the “ISIS gunmen” the Pentagon reported probably never existed.
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Eyewitnesses at the scene of the deadly Kabul airport explosion on Thursday said that a significant number of the 170 Afghans killed in the attack actually died from gunfire by the US-led alliance in the chaos following the blast.
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Russian military journalist Aleksandr Kots lets slip in his most recent report that a number of Afghans may have been trampled to death in the incident as well.
I won't post his latest because his narrative is needlessly evocative.
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When Ezmarai Ahmadi returned home from work on Sunday evening in Kabul, the usual gaggle of squealing children were waiting to greet him -- his sons and daughters, and a slew of nieces and nephews.
He pulled his white sedan into the driveway of a modest house in Kwaja Burga, a densely populated neighbourhood in the northwest of the Afghan capital, and handed the keys to his eldest son to park.
Youngsters piled into the vehicle -- pretending the parking routine was an adventure -- while Ezmarai watched from the side.
Then out of the blue Afghan sky, a missile came screeching down -- striking the car with a terrible force and obliterating the lives of 10 people in an instant.
[ToloNews] Acting minister of information and culture and spokesperson of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Zabiullah Mujahid said that their cabinet is too likely to be completed in the upcoming two weeks.
Mujahid said that police chiefs for all the 34 provinces have been appointed and the entire cabinet is to take shape sooner.
Prior to that, a member of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s negotiating team in Doha Sher Muhammad Abbas Stanikzai ...Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Head of the Taliban political office in Doha. He was a member of Rassoul Sayyaf's group in the war against the Soviets.... had said that all the posts have been occupied temporarily and are given to acting ministers, heads, chiefs, and provincials governors.
Abbas had added that after forging the government; all posts will be given and occupied based on intelligence and experience.
On Saturday, August 28 the Taliban appointed acting minister of higher education and acting chief of Afghanistan’s Olympic committee.
Earlier, the Taliban had nominated acting ministers of information and culture, public work, and minister of education along with mayors of a number of cities and provincial governors to nearly all the provinces.
It has been 15 days since the Taliban takeover but the country is still in a sheer political vacuum. The Taliban leadership is currently based in Kabul and is busy negotiating over the upcoming government.
...sometimes written as Shaikh Abdulbaqi Haqani...
who has been newly appointed as the acting minister for the Ministry of Higher Education, says that in the new government, classrooms for female students will be separate from those of males. "Separate...unlit caves and basements. Islamic..."
Talking with officials of public and private universities and employees of the higher education ministry on Sunday, Haqqani said Afghan girls have the right to study but they cannot study in the same classrooms with boys."
He added that a safe educational environment will be provided for female students.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... the former Ministry of Higher Education, Abbas Basir, at the same event said that the Taliban ...Arabic for students... has promised to preserve the past two decades' achievements in the education sector and in the higher education ministry.
"The higher education ministry has made better progress than any other departments in terms of system-making," Basir said.
Union officials from private universities, however, said most of the laws have been imposed on the private universities and they urged the new acting minister to address this problem in the next government.
"The big problem is in the laws and we want the ministry’s officials to rewrite them soon," said Tariq Kuma, head of the union of private universities.
The new acting higher education minister said that universities will be reopened soon and that the salaries of lecturers and the ministry’s employees will be paid.
[SHAFAQ] A band of veteran Afghan leaders, including two regional strongmen, are angling for talks with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and plan to meet within weeks to form a new front for holding negotiations on the country's next government, a member of a group said.Khalid Noor, son of Atta Mohammad Noor, the once-powerful governor of northern Afghanistan's Balkh province, said the group comprised of veteran ethnic Uzbek leader Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... and others opposed to the Taliban's takeover.
"We prefer to negotiate collectively, because it is not that the problem of Afghanistan will be solved just by one of us," Noor, 27, told Rooters in an interview from an undisclosed location.
Atta Noor and Dostum veterans of four decades of conflict in Afghanistan, both fled the country when the northern city of Mazar-i Sharif fell to the Taliban, the hardline Islamist group, without a fight.
The U.S.-backed government and military folded elsewhere as the Taliban swept into Kabul on Aug. 15.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the backroom discussions are a sign of the country's traditional strongmen coming back to life after the Taliban's stunning military campaign.
It will be a challenge for any entity to rule Afghanistan for long without consensus between the country's patchwork of ethnicities, most analysts say.
Unlike their previous period in power before 2001, the predominantly Pashtun Taliban did seek support from Tajiks, Uzbeks and other minorities as they prepared their offensive last month.
Despite a commitment to negotiations, Noor said there was a "huge risk" that the talks could fail, leading the group to already prepare for an armed resistance against the Taliban.
"Surrender is out of the question for us," said Noor, the youngest member of the erstwhile Afghan government's team that held talks with the Taliban in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... Ahmad Massoud, leader of Afghanistan's last major outpost of anti-Taliban resistance, last week also said he hoped talks with the Taliban would lead to an inclusive government, failing which his forces were ready to fight.
It remains uncertain how much popular support is actually enjoyed by leaders like Atta Noor, widely accused of corruption, accused of multiple acts of torture and brutality, and described in a U.S. State Department report as a "quintessential warlord".
The Taliban, already a formidable military force, are now in possession of an estimated 2,000 armoured vehicles and up to 40 aircraft, among other arms left behind by fleeing Afghan forces, potentially bolstering their firepower.
Still, Noor said the Taliban would not be able to hold out against a popular resistance.
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"We are aware of reports of civilian casualties following our strike on a vehicle in Kabul today,” Centcom says, referring to reports Afghan children killed. Explosive in suicide bombers’ vehicle the US targeted “may have caused additional casualties. … investigating further.” https://t.co/XrNZ23Q7VJpic.twitter.com/lHYXfmHoBf
Rocket lands close to Kabul airport killing seven civilians
[KhaamaPress] A rocket fired from an unknown place landed in a residence close to Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...Former president of Aghanistan, part of the problem not part of the solution... International Airport based in Kabul in which seven people including children and women were killed.
The rocket hit a house in Police District 15 of Kabul city Sunday afternoon, August 29.
Local residents and eyewitnesses said that the rocket hit two cars parked in the house which caught fire and inflicted casualties.
Eyewitnesses told Khaama Press that the firefighters did not come to extinguish the car and they themselves contained the fire using soil and water.
"There was too much dark in the house, there were fogs everywhere, I saw the flesh of children hung in the trees and lifted the half bodies myself." Said Ghaws, an eyewitness.
As per the local residents, the rocket killed one man, one woman, and five minors.
No group has taken responsibility of the rocket, but ISIS-K had claimed the responsibility for last week’s two deadly kabooms at Kabul airport which took the lives of nearly two hundred people among them 13 US marines
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Ty J. Fox, a Portland #antifa riot suspect, was arrested the fourth time this month on Saturday & charged w/felony criminal mischief, attempted assault on officer, menacing & more. He has pending local & federal charges for throwing an explosive at police during riot last year. pic.twitter.com/RJtvWVcJWA
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Clashes between the Syrian regime’s 4th Armored Division and opposition fighters in the provincial city of the southern governorate of Daraa continued, leaving areas damaged by shelling and machinegun fire.
Daraa activists documented shelling targeting Tafas town, located in the western countryside of Daraa, and its surrounding plains. In the Tal al-Samn area, north of Tafas, festivities erupted with regime forces stationed there.
A few days ago, regime forces had reinforced their presence there with rocket launchers, artillery and more troops.
On Thursday morning, the regime launched more than 20 rockets against Tafas, killing three people and wounding ten others.
The escalation in Daraa continued amid efforts by local negotiators to revive a Russian-sponsored deal for a truce in the southern governorate signed last Tuesday.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the terms and conditions of the agreement go against the 4th Armored Division’s plans for the area.
Observers believe that the Division is actively seeking to obstruct any agreement, despite having accepted the implementation of the Russian roadmap.
Instead of adhering to the ceasefire deal, the Division is insisting on bringing more military reinforcements to Daraa.
On Friday, Amnesia Amnesty International urged Damascus to allow humanitarian aid to immediately enter the opposition-controlled area in southern Daraa, which is being besieged by the regime forces.
The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... has warned of food shortages in Daraa, where opposition-held neighborhoods are encircled by Russia-backed regime fighters seeking to regain control of the area.
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[Lucky Gunner Labs] Brass vs. Steel Cased Ammo Test Summary
We acquired four identical Bushmaster AR-15 rifles. We chose the Bushmaster MOE Series AR-15 because it’s a widely available, affordable, and mass-market. Our team didn’t want something too cheap and of lower quality or something too expensive and of high quality since our goal is to help the most number of people. We acquired 10,000 rounds each of the following ammunition (new production):
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I have seen chrome plated automatic weapons glistening in the sunlight in the hands of Brazilian military sentries along the walls of a fort on the Amazon.
It is the internal ballistics and the metallurgical properties of the two metals of the barrel and of the bullet.
Two metals sliding against each other produces heat.
Enough heat and the two metal surfaces can begin to melt and fuse, which is called galling.
This is common with stainless steel bolts, in engines and bearings that get hot.
Many high performance gun barrels and chamber parts are either made of stainless steel (approx 10% chromium) for high temperature performance or are chrome [chromium] plated to prevent rust and wear.
My father chrome plated his Cessna Continental engine cylinders.
A few months later he found chrome flakes in the motor oil.
When he removed the cylinder he found the rings had destroyed the chrome plating on the cylinders.
I think my father used chrome plated rings in a chrome plated cylinder which is contraindicated.
I think stainless steel on stainless steel has poor friction qualities especially under high temperature performance.
Of course steel can also gall so steel ammo has to be coated.
Chromium is very expensive, more than copper or brass, and then it would have to be coated to reduce friction which obviates the extra cost over just plain steel.
Brass has much better frictional properties than stainless steel and can easily be impregnated with high temperature lubricants like molybdenum disulfide.
An interesting article on gun barrel material: best gun barrel material
As a long time reloader.
I go with a balance of cost, PSI delivered at x Ft. and accuracy at 100 yds.
Regarding Steel Bullet heads vs. Brass/lead heads
I'll pick Brass/lead. They mushroom better and don't quickly wear down the barrel rifling as steel would.
BTW: While I have owned a small collection of firearms in various calibers since I was 12 (50+ years ago). For the life of me, I cannot say I have ever wasted 10,000 rds pinking using any particular firearm I have owned. Including a 10/22 Ruger squirrel/rabbit gun, I purchased @ Jim's Pawn Ft. Bragg 1990 to train my kids.
I'm not doubting it for a second. I think the mention of chrome was referring to chrome lined chambers in the rifles, not the external finish. You can still order chrome lining on barrel chambers from several barrel and upper makers, but melonite is much more common now. If the chamber is hard enough, it's the cartridge case that will lose in the frictive struggle. All the same, put enough rounds through it, it will wear out. Entropy is the big picture term for it.
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Once I adjusted the angle of feed on the AK-74, the bolt over stoppages stopped.
I have stuck casing issues from time to time, owing to how the head space was set. Mine was set barely in one end of the tolerance. I get stuck casing stoppages every 700 rounds or so. Can't be helped. My guess is that the Russians ship their commercial rounds with the tolerance a bit looser than their army issued cartridges.
I use Silver Bear 60 grain cartridges. I've shot close to 4k rounds through the AK using only those cartridges. The rifling still is pristine. The barrel is made in the USA, as required by federal law.
My guess is that the actual armory issued Russian made AK-74s with the original 7N6 (5.45x39mm 53 grain) cartridges prolly function flawlessly from round 1 to 10k.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] While in Vietnam last week, Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge posed with Vietnamese Communist leaders in front of the Ho Chi Minh sculptures.
Ho Chi Minh was a brutal dictator and the founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party. His regime carried out a class genocide against wealthy farmers and landowners, killing hundreds of thousands in Vietnam.
Who is she appealing to in this photo?
Kamala Harris bailed on the United States when catastrophe struck in Afghanistan, traveling to Singapore and Vietnam.
Fox News and The Gateway Pundit reported,
This week’s scenes of crowds gathering at Kabul’s airport and U.S. military helicopters arriving to pick up passengers at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan’s capital revived grim memories of desperate Vietnamese people trying to board U.S. helicopters as they left the embassy in Saigon more than four decades ago.
The prospect of Harris visiting Vietnam at this particular moment raised the possibility of the worst photo op for an American in that country since Jane Fonda donned a helmet there in 1972.
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Too bad she was too young to ever meet Ho Chi Minh. I'm sure he would have enjoyed her.
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Next stop Lenin's Tomb?
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A busted ho and a bust of Ho
meeting only so you'd know,
east, west it's always same.
Commie-nism's this dirty game,
and Hos are the ones who make it so.
[NYPOST] Democrat Eric Adams ...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black... isn’t trying to beat Republican Curtis Sliwa in the mayoral general election in November — he’s gunning to blow him out of the water.The retired NYPD captain-turned-pol has raised $2 million over the last 43 days, a war chest for what’s essentially a skirmish with a pre-ordained victor, his supporters told The Post.
Sliwa, by comparison, has garnered $200,000 in contributions.
"He’s growing to crush Curtis Sliwa," Councilman Eric Ulrich, a Queens Republican who supports the moderate Democratic candidate, told The Post.
Adams is seeking to win by a wide enough margin so that he can have a mandate to pursue his law-and-order agenda at a City Hall with a lefty legislature.
The Brooklyn beep raised the seven-figure sum by casting a wide net— hitting up both Democrats and Republicans from Queens to the Hamptons and Martha’s Vineyard—and keeping a brisk schedule of up to five events a day, sources said.
Ken Fisher, a politically connected real estate attorney, hosted a recent fundraiser for Adams at the Sky Bridge Terrace at 2 World Trade Center that brought in $50,000.
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Secretary of State Blinken tells ABC about 300 Americans remain in Afghanistan who “want to leave” ahead of Biden’s Aug. 31 deadline for U.S. forces to completely withdraw.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Suspected Islamist bandidosfaceless myrmidons killed at least 19 people in a raid on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , local authorities said.
The attackers looted houses and started fires in Kasanzi-Kithovo near Virunga National Park in North Kivu province overnight between Friday and Saturday, they said.
"I don’t know where to go with my two children," villager Kahindo Lembula, who lost four of her relatives in the attack, told Rooters by phone. "Only God will help us."
The head of Buliki district, Kalunga Meso, and local rights group CEPADHO blamed the assault on the Allied Democratic Forces ...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels.... (ADF) — an Islamist hard boy group accused of killing thousands of people in recent years, mostly in remote areas.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility and the ADF could not be reached.
The government declared martial law in North Kivu and neighbouring Ituri province at the beginning of May, in an attempt to quell a surge in violence that the military largely attributes to the ADF.
But the number of civilians killed in such attacks has only increased since then, according to the Kivu Security Tracker, which maps unrest in eastern Congo.
Earlier in August, President Felix Tshisekedi said special forces from the United States would soon deploy to the east to gauge the potential for a local anti-terrorism unit to combat Islamist violence.
The ADF was blacklisted in March by Washington as a terrorist group. It has publicly aligned itself with 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.... , which in turn has grabbed credit for some of its attacks.
But in a June report, U.N. experts said they had found no evidence of direct support from the Islamic State to the ADF.
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[ZeroHedge] After 20 years and a staggering $2.23 trillion spent in a “forever war” persistently spun as promoting democracy and benefiting the “Afghan people,” it’s legitimate to ask what the Empire of Chaos has to show for it.
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The moderation here is much like that practiced by SJWs. Only a narrow band of discussion is allowed, anything else gets censored.
Just because something is a colossal waste doesn't mean that we can't address waste that is merely gargantuan. We can do two things at once.
China spent $800 billion over ten years and got a nationwide high speed rail system for it. What do we get for all this money we spend on other countries? Jack and shit.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Syrians from the Shaitat clan have staged a protest in the eastern Dayr al-Zawr Province to condemn the US arrest of 300 rustics for fighting ISIS terrorists.
The participants in Saturday’s demonstration called for the release of the rustics, who are held in prisons run by the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed alliance of mainly Kurdish forces fighting against Damascus, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported.
The protesters said American forces and their allied SDF murderous Moslems had imprisoned members of the Shaitat clan without any charges.
They threatened that if the detainees were not released, the protests would spread all over the Dayr al-Zawr countryside.
Sheikh Khalil al-Kahilat Abu Wahaj, a prominent figure in the Shaitat clan, told Sputnik that the residents of Abu Hamam, Kishkiya and Garanij towns are outraged at US occupation troops and SDF krazed killers, who have kidnapped Syrian rustics on charges of collaborating with Russian and Syrian government forces.
"All these people, who are in the SDF custody, have in the past years participated in the fight against ISIS with the support of the Syrian Arab Army," he added.
He put the total number of the inmates at 300, saying 15 of them were detained this month.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse... Syria’s official SANA news agency reported that the protesters had blocked roads leading to Abu Hamam by burning tires.
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This privileged b*&ch would be crucified if it was a Trump admin official
[WFB] Trump administration officials faced allegations of wasteful spending for use of expensive military charters
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm earlier this week chartered a military jet to attend a diplomatic summit in Ukraine as the Pentagon struggled to evacuate Americans and allies from Afghanistan with limited time and operational resources, sources told the Washington Free Beacon.
Granholm's military flight took place amid the United States' frantic effort to airlift tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan ahead of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... 's Aug. 31 deadline and as the Department of Defense was forced to call in civilian airlines to bolster its strained evacuation fleet.
The secretary's use of a military jet—and particularly the flight's timing—may raise questions for the Biden White House, which is responsible for approving such flights. Trump administration officials faced allegations of wasteful spending for their use of expensive military charters for trips that did not have national security urgency.
Tom Price, who served as health and human services secretary under former president Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... , was forced to resign in 2017 after revelations that he took numerous overseas military flights and other private air travel, running up a $500,000 travel tab. Trump's former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt resigned in 2018 amid multiple controversies, including questions over his use of military flights that cost the government over $58,000. Former Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin was also scrutinized for taking military flights for unnecessary purposes.
"As President Biden recently said we are in a ’winter of peril,' so it’s disconcerting to see administration officials essentially taking joy rides on military aircraft. It's the definition of fraud, waste, and abuse," said Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center's Public Integrity Project.
The White House confirmed to the Free Beacon that Granholm used a military flight and defended it as "standard protocol" because Granholm was attending the event as a dignitary representative of the president.
Others questioned the justification. "Standard operating procedure does not apply during a national security crisis, these moments require judgment," one former Trump administration official told the Free Beacon. "The fact that the White House chose to send a cabinet member overseas on a non-mission essential visit, unnecessarily diverting State Department and DOD resources is ludicrous, not to mention an abuse of taxpayer dollars."
The official added that the flight military charters "require refueling and the support of personnel at military bases such as Ramstein Air Base, which is currently being used to transport and house thousands of people fleeing Afghanistan."
The Department of Energy declined to comment on the justification for the flight and how much it cost.
Granholm on Monday flew to Ukraine to attend the Crimea Platform Summit, a conference to support Crimea's independence from Russia.
Also on Monday, the Pentagon instituted an emergency program called the "Civil Reserve Air Fleet," which ordered civilian airlines, including American Airlines and Delta Airlines, to provide planes to help the evacuation efforts from Afghanistan. The program was last used during the early days of the Iraq war.
"It's a program that was designed in the wake of the Berlin airlift after World War II to use commercial aircraft to augment our airlift capacity," said President Biden.
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The secretary's use of a military jet—and particularly the flight's timing—may raise questions for the Biden White House, which is responsible for approving such flights.
No they won't - she's a female Democrat and thus beyond reproach.
[LIBYAREVIEW] The Libyan Minister of Oil and Gas of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Mohammed Aoun, issued a decision, suspending the Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanalla.
In two letters addressed to the Head of the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) and the Head of the NOC, Aoun attributed the reason for the suspension to the fact that Sanalla had undertaken a foreign work mission without his permission or approval. In addition, he said that Sanalla obstructed and prevented Jadallah al-Awkali from carrying out his duties as assigned by the Minister of Oil and Gas on August 24th.
According to the letters, Aoun demanded that Sanalla be referred for investigation and that al-Awkali continue to serve as the designated NOC Chairman.
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... al-Awkali sent a letter to Aoun informing him that he was unable to take up his position, as Sanalla informed his office manager that he is continuing his work from outside the country.
This has resulted in al-Awkali attempting to distance himself from the decision, to avoid disrupting the work of the NOC, amidst the ongoing confusion.
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[LIBYAREVIEW] The al-Watiyah base, located just 27 kilometers from the Tunisian border and 125 kilometers from Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , is one of the few military bases that escaped destruction during the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... ) intervention in 2011. This is also why it is now considered one of the most important sites in Libya.
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[NATION.PK] Two soldiers of Pakistain Army, on Sunday, embraced martyred after Death Eaters opened fire from inside Afghanistan across the Pakistain-Afghanistan border.According to details, issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) the Death Eaters inside Afghanistan opened fire on a military check post in the Bajur district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK).
"Terrorists from inside Afghanistan across the international border, opened fire on a military post and Pakistain Army troops responded in a befitting manner," stated ISPR.
Two to three bad boyz were potted and three to four injured during an exchange of fire with Pakistain Army troops in Bajaur district.
In exchange of fire, Sepoy Jamal and Sepoy Ayaz embraced shahadat.
In a statement, "Pakistain has consistently been asking Afghanistan to ensure effective border control on their side. Pakistain strongly condemns the continuous use of Afghan soil for terrorist activities against Pakistain," the ISPR said.
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[Breitbart] Russia has agreed to provide Nigeria with military equipment and troop training as part of a cooperation pact recently signed by the two nations, Nigeria’s embassy in Moscow announced Wednesday.
“The Agreement on Military-Technical Cooperation between both countries provides a legal framework for the supply of military equipment, provision of after sales services, training of personnel in respective educational establishments and technology transfer, among others,” the Nigerian embassy in Moscow said in a statement issued August 25.
The director of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Dmitry Shugaev, met with Nigerian Defense Minister Bashir Magashi on August 23 in Moscow, where the two signed the document in front of a bilateral delegation. Other Nigerian government officials, including Nigerian Ambassador to Russia Abdullahi Shehu, Nigerian Chief of Naval Staff Auwal Gambo, and various representatives from Nigeria’s army and air force attended the signing ceremony, according to ChannelsTV, a Nigerian news outlet.
While inaugurating Russia’s 7th annual International Military-Technical Forum “Army-2021” on August 23, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that “massive mutually beneficial portfolios of contracts for the supply of Russian military goods are concluded on the forum’s sidelines every year.” This remark suggests that the Russian-Nigerian military pact’s signing on the same day was scheduled to coincide with the opening of the Russian military expo outside Moscow. The exhibition is scheduled to last through September 4.
[LIBYAREVIEW] Libyan Military Commander Salah Badi ...a Misrata militia commander, self-appointed colonel and a member of the Wafa Islamist bloc. He was cashiered from the Libyan army in 1992 because he was nuts... has said The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... is in control of the western part of Libya, calling on Ankara to withdraw mercenaries and troops from the war-torn country.
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[PAGESIX] Sharpton’s going to be blunt: he isn’t interested in going to Albany.
Rev. Al told us he won’t be dipping his toes into the 2022 gubernatorial race now that impeached Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo ...Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he has about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him. Noo Yawk's politix being what they are, he is still hanging tough, waiting to ride it out.... is officially donzo.
"I am not interested in running for office, but I am certainly going to be interested in trying to deal with whoever is governor. They can expect that I will be running for the microphone to be loud and clear on what policies I think they oughta be dealing with," the Rev. told Page Six.
Sharpton, who ran for president in 2004, added that he doubts he’ll ever run for leader of the free world again. "I wouldn’t’ rule it out, but I doubt it," he said.
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[REGNUM] Defeats on the hills of Manchuria and in the waters of the Yellow and Japan Seas played a catalytic role in exacerbating numerous internal problems - agrarian, national, labor issues, etc. Port Arthur became a symbol of success or failure in war, a "symbol of dominion" for the Japanese. To an equal degree, he became a symbol for those who pinned their hopes for his downfall on the revolution.
[Breitbart] Local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in China’s southwestern Yunnan province forcibly quarantined over 5,000 residents of Jiegao district this week in an effort to curb the spread of the district’s latest Chinese coronavirus outbreak, the South China Morning Post reported Friday.
“More than 5,000 people from Jiegao district in Yunnan province were asked to pack their belongings on Monday [August 23] and Tuesday [August 24] and board buses taking them to a group quarantine centre in the city of Mangshi, 100km (62 miles) away,” the Post revealed, citing local government sources and residents.
A government source in the Yunnan city of Ruili, located 3.5 miles northwest of Jiegao district, told the Post on August 25 local CCP officials planned for the “evacuated” residents to stay in a group quarantine center for 14 days, during which time provincial health officials would “thoroughly screen everybody” for the Chinese coronavirus.
“He said the total evacuation of all the residents in the district had been completed, adding that the measure was the ‘last resort’ because the district had been locked down since March but had continued to report local infections,” the Post added.
[NYPOST] There’s a maxim in sports that you are not as good as you look when you win, or as bad as you look when you lose. It aims to give athletes an even-keel attitude instead of riding an emotional roller coaster.
No doubt there are Democrats and well-meaning others giving similar advice now to the Biden White House. The president’s team is understandably shaken by the horrific events in Afghanistan and must fear it will never regain its footing and public trust.
But what if the sports approach isn’t valid in this case? What if the Biden team is every bit as bad as it looks?
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The 'elite' decided anything would be better that Trump.
And that's what we got. Anything.
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There’s a maxim in sports that you are not as good as you look when you win, or as bad as you look when you lose.
Anybody who believes that never followed the San Diego Chargers. Now they are the Los Angeles Chargers but it's still Dean Spanos calling the shots.
And yes, Joe is that bad.
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Deep Biden concentration on: "Where's my ice cream?"
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... cannot take the burden of a new migrant wave from Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday after talks with his German counterpart.
"As Turkey, we have sufficiently carried out our moral and humanitarian responsibilities regarding migration," Cavusoglu said, speaking in a joint news conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. "It is out of the question for us to take an additional refugee burden," Cavusoglu said.
Turkey currently hosts 3.7 million Syrian refugees as part of a 2016 deal with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... .
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[SHAFAQ] The Iraqi President, Barham Salih, stressed the region's need for a new system to confront terrorism, economic fluctuations, and climate change.
Salih said in a speech during his participation in the al-Rafidain Forum in Baghdad, "the collapse of the regional system is behind the persistence of its crises."
"Iraq needs a serious dialogue that discusses the internal crisis objectively", considering the rampant corruption, mismanagement, poor services, and the people's questioning of the regime's legitimacy, are crises that cannot be tolerated.
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"Al Rafidain Peace Organization was founded in 2007 and works in fields of peacebuilding and gender issues in Iraq. Its work is focused on young people, children and women, particularly in universities and schools. The organisation considers monitoring and reporting on the reality of human rights and freedoms in Iraq to be an essential part of peacebuilding in Iraq."
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It’s all a black box to me, Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589. I have two younger siblings professing on the subject, but I turned out not to be suited for it.
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Colonial Pipeline has shuts down Fuel delivery lines due to Hurricane Ida
The 5,500-mile Colonial pipeline that supplies almost half of the gasoline on the East Coast shut down Sunday Afternoon. The initial press released stated it was a preemptive measure and only "Temporary".
But it is looking like 2 to 3 days min.
Note: As we have been previously told during the 3-5 day May 2021 Ransomware attack. The Colonial Pipeline TX-LO to NC carries about 100 millions gallons a of fuel a day, that means 6 refineries that process 1.92 million barrels per day of oil into gasoline and other petroleum products, either shut or curtailed some production.
Which will effect gas availability and Prices for a few days to a week.
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This shutdown only covers the TX to NC stretch. The terminal in NC is full and continues pumping to NJ, the end point. Liquid pipelines have terminals with storage tanks every few hundred miles, to allow for variations in flow rates.
This is mostly about the shut in refineries in LA not producing any flow input.
As to prices, well, any excuse to raise prices.
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[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... will allow all foreign nationals and Afghan citizens with travel authorization from another country to leave Afghanistan, according to a joint statement issued by Britannia, the US, and other countries.
"We have received assurances from the Taliban that all foreign nationals and any Afghan citizen with travel authorization from our countries will be allowed to proceed in a safe and orderly manner to points of departure and travel outside the country," they said in the statement.
The statement said the countries, which also included Australia, Japan, La Belle France, Spain, and many others, would continue to issue travel documents to designated Afghans.
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You can get on the jingle bus and go to Pakistan, Iran, or Uzbekistan?
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[Breitbart] Government employees are given bonuses for rubber-stamping corporate requests to replace American graduates with imported contract workers, an inside source told the Veritas Project.
“We’re supposed to be there to protect American jobs, and if you are getting a bonus because you are approving someone coming to the country … that to me, is unforgivable,” said the man, who Veritas described as a “Department of Homeland Security [DHS] insider.”
The man said he reviews corporate applications to import contract workers via the L-1A and L-1B visa program, likely at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency within DHS. The agency is now run by a pro-migrant political activist, Ur Jaddou.
These L-1 contract workers are similar — but cheaper — to the mid-skill H-1B contract workers who have been imported in very large numbers to deliberately displace American graduates.
Many American graduates have been denied careers at Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, and other technology companies because executives prefer to fill starter jobs with many thousands of foreign contract workers. The contract workers are cheap, compliant, and controllable — and they minimize the number of American professionals who can quit to create competing companies.
Under President Joe Biden, the USCIS dropped quality control rules set by President Donald Trump. The agency now directs officials to defer to companies’ claims that they cannot find American workers for the jobs, even if the claims were initially approved several years ago. The whistleblower said:
When they [companies] ask for an [L-1 visa] extension under the deference policy, we’re supposed to accept the fact that the first approval was valid, and therefore, we just approve it … [DHS managers] want us to approve as many [applicants] as possible.
DHS managers reward officials to rubber-stamp corporate claims, even though each stamp denies another job to American graduates, he said:
Officers get a bonus at the end of the year, depending on how many files have been processed. [The] process includes denial[s], but the chances are that the vast majority of them are approvals … It’s a bad thing because it incentivizes [work visa] approvals. If they denied 90 percent [of corporate visa requests], there would be a far less amount of cases processed because it takes so much longer. [But] if you approve a bunch of cases, then you are going to obtain a higher [compensation] bonus because the processing numbers are higher.
If an official investigates or denies too many visa requests, they will get penalized, he said. Once penalized, he said, “you’re not entitled to overtime, not entitled to telework, you’re not entitled to go detail, not entitled to a lateral transfer, not entitled to a promotion.”
Agency officials face intense pressure to approve high-priority requests, dubbed “premium processing” applications. These applications come with a $2,500 check to the agency’s overall budget. “We’re required to complete 15 of those a week,” he said, and added that if an official misses a premium processing deadline, “you get called in and disciplined for that.”
#Israel Air Force opens 1st-ever specialized munitions dept. for unmanned aircraft; move is part of adjustment to future battlefield where UAVs will play more dominant role; IDF also getting dozens of heavy drones by end of 2021, @WallaNews reported earlier.
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Still staffed by airmen doing the same jobs, it's not like there's a robot loading station.
It's to get the drones out of the area that manned aircraft cycle through. The chief differences are shorter runways and no crew rest facilities.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", has rejected conditions presented by Paleostinian Authority (PA) President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... for achieving national unity and forming a consensus government. 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... ruling group claimed that complying with Abbas’ terms meant surrendering to Israeli conditions.
"The requirements of President Abbas to form a government and achieve national unity are dependent on Zionist conditions and contradict the state of the Paleostinian national consensus," said Hamas Spokesperson Abdul-Latif al-Qanou.
"Any national dialogue should be based on Cairo understandings," affirmed al-Qanou.
Al-Qanou accused the PA President of having opposing positions to national consensus, violating signed agreements and practicing tyranny.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... the spokesperson defended Hamas by saying it had made concessions at every stage in the hopes of achieving national consensus.
Abbas has requested that Hamas to recognize international resolutions before engaging in dialogue over national unity.
Responding to a letter passed to him by prominent Paleostinian businessman Munib al-Masri, who met with the Hamas leadership in Gaza and abroad, Abbas wrote: "Hamas has to recognize the international resolutions in order to be a partner."
Al-Masri described his meetings with Hamas officials as "positive" and reiterated the movement’s intention to end the internal Paleostinian division and reach national reconciliation.
Abbas stressed that "there would be no dialogue with them (Hamas)" unless he is sent a letter by Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... that is personally signed by him.
Reconciliation talks between Abbas’ Fatah, the second-largest party in the Paleostinian Legislative Council, and Hamas are at a standstill.
The last serious attempt to reboot talks took place last June when Egypt engaged in a one-on-one dialogue with the two parties before launching an inclusive national dialogue that was canceled at the last minute due to the differences between Fatah and Hamas.
The two sides differed over the elections, which were ultimately cancelled, the government, the Paleostinian Liberation Organization (PLO), and reconstruction of Gaza.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] At least 30 soldiers were killed and 60 maimed on Sunday in strikes by the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militias on Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s al-Anad military air base.
The Houthis have carried out several attacks using armed drones and ballistic missiles on the base, Yemeni southern forces front man Mohammed al-Naqeeb said.
Naqeeb said that between 30 to 40 soldiers were killed and at least 60 maimed, adding the corpse count may still rise as rescuers were still clearing the scene.
The southern forces are part of the Saudi-led Arab coalition.
Two medical sources said several bodies had arrived at restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province’s main hospital along with another 16 maimed people. It was unclear if civilians were among the casualties.
Residents said that several loud blasts were heard in the al-Anad area, which is located at some 70 km (43 miles) north of the southern port city of Aden.
Several other residents from the disputed central city of Taiz said they heard ballistic missiles fired from launchers positioned in the Houthi-held eastern suburbs of the city.
In 2019, the Houthis said they launched a dronezap on al-Anad during a military parade, with medics and government sources saying at the time at least six loyalists were killed -- including a high-ranking intelligence official.
Al-Anad was the headquarters for US troops overseeing a long-running drone war against al-Qaeda until March 2014 when it was overrun by the Houthis.
It was recaptured by government forces in August 2015 as they recovered territory from the militias across the south with support from the Arab coalition.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Just The News] More than 70% of the 61,731 absentee ballots put in drop boxes in the November 2020 presidential election in DeKalb County, Georgia, were counted and certified by officials, despite violating chain of custody requirements.
[AP via Market Watch] Federal probe opened earlier this month after series of similar crashes.
[HOT AIR] The Sunday morning political shows were not kind to Joe Biden and his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Any and all criticism leveled at his decisions is warranted, especially since the death of 13 military members, ages 20 — 31 at the Kabul airport. There is no hiding from that tragedy at Camp David or in the basement of one of his Delaware homes.
[WND] While we live in a time when many Americans will not admit it, I will: I love my country. Through good times and bad, good presidencies and bad, that love has never diminished. One generation of family member after another — from Jacob Zumwalt who served during the American Revolution to my son's 21st century service in Iraq as a bomb technician — attests to this love by voluntarily serving in uniform.
That pesky intelligence source problem again. They really should seek professional help. 
...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...
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Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels....
[ZeroHedge] After 20 years and a staggering $2.23 trillion spent in a “forever war” persistently spun as promoting democracy and benefiting the “Afghan people,” it’s legitimate to ask what the Empire of Chaos has to show for it. 
...Arabic for 
[LIBYAREVIEW] The Libyan Minister of Oil and Gas of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Mohammed Aoun, issued a decision, suspending the Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanalla.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...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 is still hanging tough, waiting to ride it out....
[NYPOST] There’s a maxim in sports that you are not as good as you look when you win, or as bad as you look when you lose. It aims to give athletes an even-keel attitude instead of riding an emotional roller coaster. 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
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[Breitbart] Government employees are given bonuses for rubber-stamping corporate requests to replace American graduates with imported contract workers, an inside source told the Veritas Project.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
