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Jean Arthur was an American Broadway and film actress whose career began in silent films in the 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s. Arthur had feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, films that championed the "everyday heroine".
Gladys Georgianna Greene, aka Jean Arthur,
Born: October 17, 1900, Plattsburgh, New York, U.S.
Died: June 19, 1991, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, U.S.
ransomnote: the article does link to information which seems to prove that a trial protocol specified that participants be given 2400mg of a drug in a 24 hour period, which appears to be extremely high and potentially lethal.
I've heard all along that every time a government agency (ours or UK or other nation) tests HCQ/AZ or Ivermectin and declares it a failure, the dosages are wrong (too high, too low), are timed wrong (too little, too late, next doses delayed) or are missing important steps (Azithromycin WITH HCQ). The few accusations I checked out of this kind seemed to be correct. But I have not checked all the studies so my experience is limited.
This author is outraged and appears to state the SUSPECTED reason why the dose to be administered in 24 hours is so high as if motive is known. I understand the reasoning because I've seen the other assertions and a few studies etc., but the author has no proof WHY the dosages are in fact so high.
Perhaps a better question is to ask in all these cases why the governments testing and purporting to 'prove' HCQ and Ivermectin supposedly don't work, keep diverging from recommended dosages and protocols provided by those who say these drugs work (e.g., why not test Dr. Zelenko's protocol?). As I pointed out before, this can all be cross-checked with a standard medical reference that you could find in a local library.
[Bawston Herald] It’s Weekend at Biden’s, and what a busy time it’s been for Dementia Joe.
Presiding over the most humiliating military and foreign policy disaster in U.S. history, massive inflation, supply-chain breakdowns and COVID cluelessness — and those are the highlights of his feckless administration.
What makes Biden’s hologram presidency so ... special is that Dementia Joe can always cut directly to the heart of an issue, as he did in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.
All dialogue guaranteed verbatim. exactly
"The unprecedented flash floods in New York and New Jersey is yet another merminder that these extreme storms in the crimate clisis crisis are here. We need to do muss be better prepared."
Can we quote you on that Mr. President? TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE!
He can’t do it alone, though. Joe must confer with his top White House aides on the crimate clisis.
"I’m here with uh with my senior adviser and uh boy who knows Louisiana very well man and New Orleans’ Cedric Richmond."
A former Congressman who happens to be black. And Dementia Joe called him "boy." Imagine if Trump had said that ...
But this morning let us first consider the inner Dementia Joe, the "praxing Catholic," as he describes himself, as he spoke with Jewish leaders on the eve of the high holiday he calls "Russia Shona."
Most of the attention has focused on his abject lie to the rabbis that he visited the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after the 2018 massacre. He didn’t, of course — just flat out made up something that didn’t happen. It’s a Biden thing.
The president waxed philosophical as he struggled to describe what he wanted played at his daughter’s wedding, music usually reserved for a funeral but ... Dementia Joe.
"There’s a psalm based there’s there’s a hymn my favorite hymn in the Catholic church based on a psalm and it’s uh it’s a psalm that talks about uh um life and uh and uh and so uh I I uh asked that that psalm that hymn in the Catholic church ..."
Well, get to it man. For real. No joke.
"And it says may He lift you up on the eagle’s wings and bury you on the breath of dawn and let the dice shine upon you et cetera."
Let the dice shine upon you! Luck be a lady tonight, can somebody shout amen?
The dice have not shined upon Dementia Joe of late. You might say he’s been rolling snake eyes. Especially on Afghanistan.
"Now some say we should have started mast evacuations sooner and couldn’t this have be have been done in a more orderly manner."
But Joe defended the evacuations, which he mispronounced as "evacci-ations." He lauded the military for their "bravely" — not bravery, but bravely.
It’s Norm Crosby time whenever he reads from the teleprompter. He spoke of "deploring" (not deploying) generators. At one point, he read identify as "identivize," and at another time as "innenify." He reads "transmit" as "transfer." An "airlift" becomes "airmiff."
He issued an "emergely" declaration for the state of California.
During Hurricane Ida, he botched the names and acronyms of almost every agency he mentioned —— "the Federal Aviation Commission, the FAA," as he put it, not to mention "the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs, HUD."
Having spent his entire life doing nothing but grifting and bloviating, he seems out of touch with "ordinary people," as he condescendingly refers to his fellow citizens.
"Look," he said about Bernie Sanders’ $3.5-trillion welfare bill, "this is about good-paying jobs for ordinary people, blue-collar workers, jobs at prevailing wage not $15 an hour or $20 or $30."
Thirty bucks an hour is no longer a good job at a good wage? I guess not if you can set your crack-addled son up in an $83,333-a-month no-show job from a Ukrainian energy company.
Some more of Joe’s Greatest Hits, Labor Day-Russia Shona edition:
"For those hardest hit, the resources they need have to be get to them."
"I’m proud the Naval Academy the Naval Observatory once the head of the Naval uh the chief Naval Operations is now occupied by Vice President Kamala Harris."
"On my 16th birthday each of my children I put ’em on a plane."
"These are long-term prosperity we’re talking about."
"Next week I’ll lay out the next steps that are gonna we’re gonna deed to combat the delta variant."
"Today we learned the economy created 235 new thousand new jobs in August."
"Landmark investments to create even more good jobs and liver breathing room for millions of families."
"And they played and my mind’s going blank now what’s the song that is played where everybody is on the chair everybody uh you what what I can’t remember it anyway and that’s the song that was played."
"We used to remember all we had we always had you know the whole notion we had I guess it was every week was gonna be infrastructure week."
"Some more jobs uh some uh more mo- some uh months there are fewer some months more."
"We wanted to have a co-confessional uh um wedding."
"We have to shore up America’s competitive to meet these new challenges in the competition for the 21st century."
"I was raised by a righteous Christian father a father who uh who uh made sure that uh we uh we had we had dinner where we incidentally ate and we talked."
"So you know I don’t know what the hell’s going on here."
No kidding, Mr. President. And just so you know, we know you don’t know what the hell’s going on here.
No joke. For real.
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About six months from now, some lefty rag will publish this story: "I finally figured out how Ida was Trump's fault."
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09/05/2021 12:15
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] and Oh So Cute(!) pic of them in the hospital holding their tokens chilruns - without wearing masks. So precious
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They have no idea of the problems these children will present. Review of such children shows many varied social integration issues. The end results are far from normal. Let me just say you get what you pay for and there are no refunds.
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whatever I think of his policies or of his lifestyle, I wish him and his family good health and happy times
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09/05/2021 21:08
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Amen. Also (I gotta be meeeee!)...
Buttigieg squeezes one out
With help of proud husband, no doubt.
A transport! A movement!
A stylish improvement!
"Here, bold my hand, honey, and shout."
[MAIL] Prince Charles's aide Michael Fawcett has today been seen breaking cover after dramatically resigning over claims he offered to help secure a knighthood and British citizenship for a billionaire Saudi donor to the royal's charity.
Mr Fawcett was earlier spotted walking his dog outside his London home after last night stepping down as chief executive of The Prince’s Foundation. He did not answer questions when approached by a BBC camera crew as he returned to his home.
The bombshell resignation came after he was confronted with a letter in which he said the Royal charity would be ‘happy and willing’ to use its influence to help businessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz, who had given it hundreds of thousands of pounds.
The charity said that Mr Fawcett – arguably the Prince’s most trusted aide – had ‘offered to step down temporarily’ while its trustees investigate.
A former Palace official said the loss of Mr Fawcett was ‘an earthquake’ to the future King.
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Our founders especially despised inhereted aristocracy. And granted heraldic titles. So we have a country of old idiots worshipping "Camelot" and a bunch of young morons worshipping "prince" Harry and his mulatto "wife" because Oprah tells them to.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Comedian Fuquan Johnson is among three dead from 'cocaine-laced fentanyl overdose' at party in LA: Model and comedian Kate Quiqley is in critical condition
The stand-up comedian was found dead at a party in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles early Saturday morning
A fourth person found unconscious at the party is believed to be comedian and model Kate Quigley
Quigley was transported to a hospital in critical condition
Police suspect the four victims ingested cocaine laced with fentanyl
While LAPD is investigating, law enforcement sources told TMZ that the department's homicide unit have not been notified about this particular case
Last week, six residents on Long Island died from what authorities said were overdoses of fentanyl-laced cocaine
CDC says more than 83,000 people lost their lives to drug-related overdoses in the 12-month period ending in July 2020
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid similar to morphine but is 50 times more potent than heroin, is thought to be driving most overdose deaths in the United States
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Fentanyl patches are a vital part of dealing with pain from cancer. In addition it is used to deal with post op pain and even in obstetrics in some difficult cases.
The problem is that first, it is relatively easier to make, and second, it is powerful.
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this has nothing to do with fentanyl patches. It was mixed in with the coke.
Posted by: Chris ||
09/05/2021 17:44
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I had a friend die in my arms of a fentanyl overdose two years ago. The deputy, paramedics, and I worked hard on keeping him alive. But after they tapped narcan into his artery and he didn't wake up, I knew he was gone.
I believe he tbought he was doing heroin, not fentanyl. He'd been a junkie most of his life, and knew how to do his drug. But it wasn't his drug afterall.
[10News] Keep the comments civil. Posted because I enjoy AI biting FB in the virtue-signalling totalitarian butt
The New York Times reports Facebook has apologized for putting a "primates" label on a video of Black men.
The newspaper says the video was posted by a tabloid in June and showed Black men in altercations with white civilians and police officers.
The Times reports that after the video ended, an automatic message popped up that said "keep seeing videos about Primates." The newspaper says Facebook turned off the artificial intelligence feature that showed the message and apologized for what it called "an unacceptable error." Did they fact-check themselves, too?
The company told the newspaper that it would investigate further so that it doesn’t happen again. Facebook on Saturday did not respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
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Artificial intelligence did call it correctly, though. Humans are primates.
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09/05/2021 9:34
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The tech narrative is that blacks are smarter, but the system is set against them. Sort of like COVID cultism. About that rational.
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A 60,000 year struggle for global dominance. The only roadblock remaining is White Privilege.
[Scotland] A collaboration between two of Scotland’s oldest arts — poetry and whisky making — has resulted in the launch of a commemorative Scotch Whisky charity bottling for International Women’s Day, complete with a specially-written poem.
The Makar’s Malt is a limited edition single cask single malt Scotch Whisky marking the end of celebrated Scottish poet Jackie Kay’s tenure as The Scots Makar/National Poet of Scotland.
Following a tender process arranged by the Scotch Whisky Association, Isle of Raasay Distillery in the Inner Hebrides was selected by the Makar to create and bottle the commemorative single malt. The distillery worked closely with the Makar to choose a special single cask bottling, and a poem written by Jackie Kay ’Here’s Tae Ye!’ will feature on the bottle’s label.
Here’s Tae Ye
I raise my glass, my dear,
Wherever you now are,
North, south, east or west
Under the nearest or furthest star
Slàinte!
There’s love in this wee dram,
In the purest form
To greet you my fiere, my jo,
Nippy, heathery, warm.
Slàinte!
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There's a great old set of black and white pictures of guys in a pub trying bourbon for the first time. Quick web search didn't turn it up unfortunately. But it's hilarious.
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I'm a Balveny officianado myself. 21 year ols Port Wood courtesy of Dave Dilatush. Also Del Patron Anjeho
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[Pew Pew Review] When packing your range bag I’m willing to bet the majority of shooters forget one very important piece of gear. This piece of gear can save a life, and it does so every day. So what is it? Special attention to the military-issue CAT tourniquet and Quikclot Combat Gauze.
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The new coagulent dressings and powders you should never be without. That said, a dry cleaning bag and duct tape is all you need for a sucking chest wound in the field.
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Laugh Not
Feminine Hygiene Pads, small box of white draw string kitchen Garbage bags, Blue Painters tape, bottle of rubber clement, 1 dz large HD rubber bands, and 1/5th of Ever-Clear (190P) all make very good Emergency wounds items.
#7
Just packed my travel med kit for trip to Alaska:
2 x TQ
Israeli bandage
Quik clot impregnated dressing
Nose Hose
Chest seal n dart
Space blanket
Ouchy boo boo stuff
Have to say yes I’m rarely far away from a TQ n Israeli bandage.
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09/05/2021 12:47
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Ah'm thinkin' you're gonna be rock-hoppin salmon fishing. An aircast might also be appropriate for the slippery rock leg or arm collision challenge.
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Yes on the salmon but no on the rock-hopping. Mostly drifting in the 15 foot jet boat or wading off gravel/sand bars. We're not too far from a small clinic so the odd broken arm or gashed finger isn't a major concern. More worried about a bear encounter or trauma from a boating accident. Semper Paratus
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09/05/2021 16:54
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Tavor is nice, but stupidly expensive and proscribed by many countries defense establishments. Why re-invent the wheel. Look at India's ongoing tragedy in the "must be made here" department for guidance.
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[Hot Air] There are some big things happening this weekend related to the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force and congressional action associated with their work (more on that in a moment.) With this topic remaining in the news, I wanted to touch on the involvement of federal agencies in terms of identifying the various UFOs being seen by military pilots and others, along with how the United States (and the world) plans to respond in the event that at least some of these objects turn out to be of nonterrestrial origin. One agency that’s been increasingly involved in this research of late is NASA, which sort of makes sense since much of their business activities take place outside of our atmosphere. The person in charge there, former Senator and astronaut Bill Nelson is probably a good candidate to ask what’s going on and what sort of plans we have in place.
During a fairly recent podcast hosted by PBS anchor Margaret Hoover this summer, Nelson actually had the question put to him directly. He first opined that he is quite confident there is other life in the universe. He also spoke of being briefed by military pilots who described things that we still can’t explain. But then Hoover took a very direct line, asking the NASA boss the one question that few have seemed to want to address. If some of these unidentified craft actually did turn out to be controlled by some extraterrestrial intelligence, do we have a plan in place as to what we would do next? Nelson was rather blunt about it. The answer is no. Fast forward to the 21-minute mark for this portion of the interview.
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Um. In Papillion, a plan was a capsule a convict stuffed up his butt to hide something he wanted to keep. Seems apropos.
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09/05/2021 9:41
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NASA also seems to have no plans for moving forward with their defined mission, space exploration.
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09/05/2021 11:39
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I did fill out my census form as "Martian" when asked for a category of what I am.
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09/05/2021 14:55
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^^^ Good one, Deacon. :)
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09/05/2021 15:38
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Press: Allen agent ARRESTED,
New method of service suggested!
Burg: Mustn't be rude...
And he might make good food...
Hungry guest should be blessed and ingested.
Seriously, what sort of planning could we do without some notion of their capabilities and communications?
About the only thing you can do is specify that once we've determined that aliens are present, people with certain positions will drop what they were doing and become responsible for coordinating the "figure out what's going on" project.
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[Pirate's Cove] ’We must continue’: In Kabul, Afghans adjust to a new and uncertain fate
"Why are you travelling without a mahram?" the Taliban guard asks a young Afghan woman about her missing male escort.
She sits on her own in the back of a beat-up Kabul yellow taxi as it pulls up to the checkpoint marked, like all the others, by the white Taliban flag with black script.
What is allowed now in Kabul, and what is not?
The turbaned Talib, rifle slung over shoulder, tells her to call her husband. When she explains she doesn’t have a phone, he instructs another taxi driver to take her home to get her husband and bring them back. Once completed, all is resolved. (snip)
Some things don’t need saying. As soon as the Taliban swept, with surprising speed, into Kabul last month, Afghans knew what to do during Taliban rule 2.0. Men stopped shaving to allow beards to grow; women switched bright scarves to black ones and checked the length of their dresses and cloaks.
The length would be from head to toe, now. The BBC is soft-peddling it.
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Uh. Women were supposed to be ruling the world by now and keeping us nasty men on a leash. Ardern, Mutti, Pelosi, they're making a giant mess which men will have to clean up.
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At least it's not as bad as Texas, right? /sarcasm
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About what mean dyke marxist "feminists" want it to be like.
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[Right Scoop via FOX] It was announced today that the Biden administration will help Tajikistan secure its border with Afghanistan, which is not sitting well with many in the US:
FOX NEWS — The United States is helping Tajikistan secure a portion of its border with Afghanistan to help combat security threats in the region since the U.S. troop withdrawal from Kabul Monday, despite the ongoing crisis at the U.S. border that’s seeing thousands of migrants pour into the country every day.
The U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe has launched a project to construct new facilities for a Border Service detachment along the Tajik-Afghan-Uzbek border, allowing Tajikistan’s border troops to deploy more quickly in response to threats in the region, the embassy said in a press release Wednesday.
"The United States and Tajikistan enjoy strong security cooperation, and this border detachment project is just another example of our shared commitment to the security and sovereignty of Tajikistan and Central Asia," Ambassador John Pommersheim said in a statement.
The project is scheduled to break ground in early 2022. When completed, the new facility will provide housing for Tajikistan’s border troops and their family members, the release said.
Border agents have spoken out about this calling it a slap in the face:
[France24] Nearly four decades after disbanding and vowing never to get back together, Swedish superstars ABBA on Thursday announced a musical comeback with a new album and a London show featuring their performances captured by digital avatars.
The group’s Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson said via a video presentation in London that "we have made a new album with ABBA".
Abba had a string of hits in the 1970s and early 1980s after winning Eurovision in 1974 with "Waterloo".
Almost as famous for their over-the-top outfits as their music, the group notched up over 400 million album sales over 50 years despite parting ways in 1982 and resolutely resisting all offers to work together again—until now.
But on Thursday, Universal Music Group held a presentation of a new ABBA song called "I Still Have Faith in You" at the top of London’s ArcelorMittal Orbit tower.
Then Ulvaeus and Andersson appeared in person, both dressed in black.
"The album is in the can now, it’s done," said Andersson, describing the group’s return to the studio.
"It’s been 40 years, or 39, it was like no time had passed. It was quite amazing," he said.
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Circa 1980 my radio alarm clock awoke me to the sounds of song "Chiquitita".
The harmony between the two ladies was one of the most beautiful sounds I have ever heard.
At that time I was studying Spanish at a city college.
I understood very little of the words sung (which must have been the Spanish version),
but I believed Chiquitita was my dream lady with a beautiful voice.
Also, I loved the keyboard playing in "Chiquitita".
I love the sound of the harpsichord in a similar way.
I also like the harmony singing of Simon and Garfunkel in "The Sounds of Silence".
When one loves the harmony sound by itself,
it is a great reward to see the two vocalists lips sing the song together side by side and to try to distinguish between the two vocal chords.
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/\ The mind is somehow wired to remember the good times and forget the not so good. Let us pause from the current insanity and just for a moment, and 'think on these things'.... the good things.
#12
Frank, I saw BOC live at St. Augustine Amphitheater in late May (The Last Days of May) They still got it. So did the fans. Mark Farner opened. Talk about music I hadn't thought of in a while. Excellent!
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^ a 2 hour version of "Ina Gadda..."?
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I think Chiquitita was written by Charro. I remember a long, long time ago watching her accompany herself on guitar while she sang it on the old Merv Griffen show. I always thought she was just coochie coochie until I saw that. She really was talented.
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I think the ABBA song Fernando was also written by Charro.
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Both great songs.
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A sign of the Apocalypse, as was foretold.
Also, Springsteen on Broadway.
Get right with the Lord, 'cause he ain't impressed.
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Came four horesmen. They put out one good album then three of them ODd.
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[American Thinker] I learned two facts today, one about COVID's survival rate and the other about eye-opening medical information hidden within the bowels of the CDC. Both surprised me and they may surprise many of you as well. Admittedly, I had my suspicions about the survivability of COVID and have known for a long time (courtesy of my Brazilian hairstylist) that ivermectin is a good treatment, provided people receive it early enough. Seeing those suspicions confirmed, however, with hard data from a Stanford professor and the CDC was both shocking and satisfying.
The past 18 months have taught people paying attention to rather obvious facts about COVID mortality rates that the very elderly are the most vulnerable. Other vulnerable people are those with co-morbidities and those who are obese (and no, it's not fat-shaming to state an objective fact that ties in closely to surviving a potentially serious illness).
Dr. John Ioannidis, the Stanford University "Professor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research), of Epidemiology and Population Health and by courtesy, of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Science," was curious about actual infection fatality rates (IFRs) for COVID. Extrapolating from confirmed cases, he concluded that, around the world, more than half a billion people have probably been infected with COVID.
Using that metric, Dr. Ioannidis concluded that most locations around the world have an IFR that's less than 0.20%. Additionally, protecting vulnerable populations and treating people with appropriate medicines may further reduce mortality rates.
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When credibility is no longer a concern. You'd thing RS learned their lesson after the Fraternity Rape Hoax lawsuit almost put them out of business. But, no...
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As of June 1, 51% of covid deaths were in assisted-living facilities. That's with 37 states reporting, and New York in first place, with only 20% of nursing home deaths. Minnesota had 81% pass on in nursing homes. Source
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Skimmed over the R&D PDF report and one line struck me over others.
IFR in nursing home residents has been estimated to as high as 25%.
Yes!, it got me to wondering about NY Gov. "actual" nursing home numbers?
Googling "NY Gov. true nursing home death numbers"
I noted.
1. The numbers were found deliberately falsified and hidden from the public and the CDC for election year political reasons.
2. A number of the NY-Governor's staff admitted, it was done in fear of Trump having and using early accurate data. The focus was more on the political ramifications, than providing data to allow the proper evaluation and handling of the C-19 spread and treatment in given situations.
3. NY-AG Reports indicated the NY-Gov staff knew very early on that the nursing home mandate caused unnecessary deaths. So they under reported Nursing Home Deaths by around 50% to avoid political fallout.
Summary: Socialcrats played politics to protect their political image in an election year and US Citizens died.
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The old 'bolstering social security' conspiracy.
Sadly, the masses of electively reduced workforce absentees and gimmegrants won't be paying into it.
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Ivermectine, hydrochloriquine, laterile, what's the next political drug of the right?
Why has the right become a hotel for stupidity?
What is a conservative in the Reagan tradition to do? Vote democrat? That's about the sole option left for those of us not mentally controlled by these robotic, anti intellectual ideas of the Trump right.
Media Spreading Panic
The media continue to hyperventilate about “cases” but ignore the fact that death rates have declined since January. When one accounts for the 38 million Americans who have survived COVID and already have antibodies, then herd immunity is already here.
Data indicate that people who had COVID between January and February of 2021 and recovered have 13 times more immunity to the Delta variant than vaccines provide.
We’re at the stage where we can learn to live with COVID as we do with many other endemic diseases such as the seasonal flu. There’s no reason for fear.
But the public health authorities insist that these people with natural immunity must also be vaccinated.
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What is a conservative in the Reagan tradition to do? Vote democrat? That's about the sole option left for those of us not mentally controlled by these robotic, anti intellectual ideas of the Trump right.
If you aren't going to look at the evidence you can find at your local library you're just going along with people who committed murder under color of "scientific research." I don't think Reagan would have done this; maybe you should look up which party was running Alabama when the Tuskeegee Experiment was underway.
No one can stop COVID-19 with quarantines & orders or leaky mRNA “vaccines.” Things like ORF8 or not is what matters. Why don’t they sequence for that? You’ll never be able to stop this tiny virus with its spike “mutations,” titers, recalcitrant environmental persistence, & transmissibility. Inevitably ALL of USA population will contract some form of COVID-19 at some point.
Hopefully, most won’t get ORF8 strain, since the ORF8 genetic material has been deleting from the viral genome —as happened 2002 with SARS-CoV-1, almost as if planned https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104525
[Zero] An alternative compromise amendment to suspend draft registration unless the President declared a national emergency and put the Selective Service System into standby was submitted before Wednesday's committee session, but ruled out of order on the basis of arcane PAYGO procedural rules.
Under the same rules, the amendment to the NDAA to expand draft registration to women was ruled in order, considered, and adopted without any antiwar opposition from members of the committee.
Floor amendments may be proposed when the NDAA is considered by the full House and/or the Senate to repeal the Military Selective Service Act, end draft registration entirely, abolish the Selective Service System, or put Selective Service into "standby" as it was from 1975-1980.
But even if such amendments are proposed and put to a vote, they have little chance of success in either the House or the Senate.
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
Two militia acts were passed in 1792, the first year Congress met under the new Constitution. The first said who was in the militia and the second how the militia was to arm itself. Today the militia is defined under Title X USC.
A Venn diagram of those who composed the militia and those who exercised the vote was pretty much a total overlap. In 1861 the militia act was amended to include male citizens of African descent followed by the franchise of the 15th Amendment. That changed with the 19th Amendment which while extending the vote to women, failed to include the militia obligation of citizenship that males had been tied to since the start of the republic, aka "skin in the game".
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...The point here is to give the liberals something to hit the GOP over the head with and help get rid of the draft as well. 'Equality' don't enter into it.
Mike
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/\ Bingo! Will make the draft absolutely unenforceable and meaningless, thus ending it.
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No militia, then no need for the 2d Amendment (for a well regulated militia) will be next. Got to get into the opponents mind to understand their next move.
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You know, once upon a time you could expect a decent low average from conscripts. Look around today and ask yourself how many people you see at random you'd share a foxhole with.
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[Just The News] It's no secret that the past few weeks have not been President Joe Biden's best. But what about the costar of the "Biden-Harris administration?"
The vice president has been conspicuously absent lately from coverage and appearances pertaining to the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan — after having proudly claimed just four months ago to have been the "last person in the room" with Biden as he decided to fully withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
Kamala Harris' absence is especially puzzling given the recent drop-off of confidence in the president. The generally even-keeled Mike Pence was often trotted out to take questions as head of the coronavirus task force, especially after days of the more combative commander-in-chief duking it out with the press corps. The same, however, cannot be said of this vice president.
Speculation that the VP has been benched due to her performance in recent months is beginning to bubble up. "They had a minority, they had a woman, and now that they don't need her, they have her shelved," said Fox News' Will Cain
Harris' approval numbers appear to be plummeting even faster than Biden's, which are now underwater. Harris, however, according to the Real Clear Politics average, is now looking at a favorability rating of just 41.8%, with an unfavorability rating of 48.8%.
[NBCnews] The U.S. plans to send at least two Afghan evacuees back out of the country to Kosovo because of security concerns raised after they arrived at a U.S. airport, said two sources familiar with the U.S. evacuation.
The Afghans will undergo a further review in Kosovo.
The sources caution, however, that federal officials are acting out of abundance of caution, and just because a person is flagged does not mean they are a terrorist or pose a threat.
True. The No Fly lists are notoriously rife with errors.
Something in their profile — their name, background or a number in their cellphone — raised enough concern that they could not be permitted to stay in the U.S. pending additional review, according to the sources.
"A lot of people were moved very quickly and the intelligence community has been working hard to evaluate whether any of them pose a threat," said a senior federal law enforcement official. "Some of the vetting occurs while they are overseas, and some of it occurs here ... We are not going to allow people to intentionally be released into the community if they have unresolved derogatory information."
Any other evacuees who trigger similar concerns will also be sent to Kosovo, said the sources.
Of more than 30,000 evacuees from Afghanistan to the U.S., about 10,000 needed additional screening as of Friday, said the sources, and of those about 100 were flagged for possible ties to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... or terror groups. Two of those 100 raised enough concern for additional review.
Other evacuees who are currently being evaluated in the D.C. area were found to have been deported from the U.S. previously for past criminal offenses, said two sources briefed on the data. The Department of Homeland Security is now deciding what to do with the individuals.
Throw ‘em back. We don’t need to import known criminals who proved they won’t live by our rules.
In addition, U.S. officials are trying to arrange placement for unaccompanied minors, with up to 10 Afghans under the age of 18 arriving in the U.S. per day. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that Afghan children arriving in the U.S. unaccompanied would be sheltered by Health and Human Services while the agency finds a permanent home with a relative or sponsor.
As NBC News previously reported, Mayorkas said Friday that some evacuees whose names were on terror watchlists were prevented from entering the U.S.
“We are working with our international allies to address the disposition of those individuals,” Mayorkas said.
The appearance of a name on a terror watchlist does not necessarily mean that an individual poses a threat.
[DW] As the Taliban ...Arabic for students... take control of Afghanistan, they will further tighten their grip on opium poppy cultivation. This in turn will have an impact on the global drugs trade and in particular Mexico's powerful cartels.
Afghanistan and Mexico might appear distant from one another on a world map and are also separated by major historical, sociological and religious differences. But the Taliban and the Mexican cartels are united by the fact that they are both financially dependent on drug trafficking and use extreme violence to expand their political power and control of territory. Ahead of the elections in Mexico in June, numerous candidates were threatened and killed by the cartels, which supported other candidates and bought votes more openly than ever before.
In 2009, renowned experts had already presented evidence to the US Congress of the global perils posed by the Taliban and Mexico's cartels as "transnational drug-trafficking organizations" at a US Congress hearing, pointing out dangerous similarities that have only increased since then.
AFGHANISTAN, MEXICO AND MYANMAR CONTROL 95%
Roughly 95% of the world's opium poppies are cultivated in Afghanistan, Mexico and Myanmar, with all the illegal production and trafficking of heroin and other opiates that this entails. In Mexico, narco mobs are responsible for this and have the support of government officials. In Afghanistan, according to US and UN documents, producers are in direct contact with the Taliban. They also were complicit with the government — including the US-backed one. Experts at the US Congress hearing in 2009 estimated that 50% of Afghanistan's GDP that year stemmed from the proceeds of the illegal drugs trade.
The Taliban have always had an ambiguous attitude: Consumption of opiates is banned but not the cultivation and sale of opium poppies. According to a US State Department report released early this year, most opium production in Afghanistan was taking place in regions already under Taliban control or at least their influence. It said that the Taliban derived a considerable income from the trade, pointing out that this fueled conflict, undermined the state of law, encouraged corruption and was also a contributing factor to drug abuse in the country.
A UN report published in April corroborated these findings and drew a direct link between the Taliban and opium poppy cultivation. It said that the total area under opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan had increased between 2019 and 2020 from 163,000 to 224,000 hectares (402,780 to 553,500 acres). Moreover, though 21 hectares had been eradicated in 2019, none had been in 2020.
COULD RIVALS WORK TOGETHER?
The international narcotics business has spawned a number of cartels in Mexico. The Sinaloa Cartel is currently the fastest-growing one and controls the land where poppy cultivation is most profitable. It is thus a potential rival for the Taliban. But the fact that the cartel and the Islamist group serve different markets means that they could actually complement each other.
According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Sinoloa Cartel almost has a monopoly on the US heroin market. The Pentagon believes it to be present in 60% of the world's countries from EU and West African states to India, China and Russia — all nations where drugs from Afghanistan are also sold. For the moment, the Mexican cartel is mostly responding to demand for South American-made cocaineand synthetic drugs. But it would not be the first time that organizations, which are actually in competition, came together to increase their profits and political influence.
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First they will fight among themselves. The true powers divi up the spoils and consolidate their powers and control. Cartels, mafia, elites and governments all will share in the heredity of spoils. In so doing they protect future generations of their kind at the expense of all others.
[DW] On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... flag is flying over Kabul again. A German police expert fears that Afghanistan could once again become a gathering place for jihadis — including from Germany.
Sven Kurenbach still remembers the images of the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsing and the spontaneous minute of silence at the Berlin police department that followed. When Islamist murderous Moslems weaponized passenger planes on September 11, 2001 — killing nearly 3,000 people — Kurenbach was still head of inspection for the Berlin police's special units. Today he is Germany's top investigator into jihadist activities.
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So there are 48 countries that are guilty of war crimes and whose heads of state need to be tried at The Hague. I can't believe anyone in this day and age still thinks the Iraq war was justified. The WMD didn't exist and they knew that going in.
"This section examines the legality of the 2003 US-UK war on Iraq. Shortly before the outbreak of hostilities, UN Secretary General stated that the use of force without Council endorsement would "not be in conformity with the Charter" and many legal experts now describe the US-UK attack as an act of aggression, violating international law.
Experts also point to illegalities in the US conduct of the war and violations of the Geneva Conventions by the US-UK of their responsibilities as an occupying power. The section also looks at wartime violations on the Iraqi side."
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The increase in Islamist movements worldwide and also in Germany has to do with the way the "war on terror" — proclaimed two decades ago by then US President George W. Bush — was conducted.
I tend to agree with this part of the statement.
Having ZERO civilizational confidence and putting on display craven submission and masochism (not cowardice!) in the immediate aftermath of a mass fatality war crime attack on your country will make you look like the weak horse:
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The WMD didn't exist and they knew that going in.
They did exist, actually. We documented that here at Rantburg at the time and for years afterward. Search the archives, my dear Blinky Pholuling8616 Mostly chemical weapons in bulk in the form of huge bunkers storing pesticides that have the same effects on humans as they do insects — do you remember the villages full of dead rebellious Kurds in the 1990s? It was all over the Western news that Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons on them — but also small amounts of biologicals that the Al Qaeda cadres and others were trained to use at the facilities for terrorists at Salman Pak, who got some of the training given to Saddam Hussein’s extra special forces, and barrels of uranium yellow cake that killed some peasants who found the stuff in an unguarded bunker after the 2003 invasion, as I recall, and nuclear bomb-making equipment, if I recall correctly, hastily buried under the rosebushes at the bottom of the head nuclear scientist’s garden. Then there were the burn ditches around Baghdad and the truck convoys running full down to Syria with Iraqi weapons and gold, then coming back empty — both going on for months before the 2003 invasion. Do recall that the Israelis had destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor the French had built back in 1981, which did not destroy Iraq’s small but real uranium stockpile or the yellowcake precursors.
Did the inspectors find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
Yes--and they destroyed more of them than the U.S.-led coalition did during the Gulf War.
[tw note: This implies that there were still plenty of them at the time of the invasion in 2003.]
Among other things, U.N. inspectors located hundreds of tons of chemical weapons agents and thousands more tons of the chemicals used to make them; a major biological weapons production facility; machines for separating out radioactive isotopes that could be used to fuel a nuclear bomb; and dozens of missiles, launching pads, and missile warheads for both conventional and chemical munitions. Inspectors were stunned by the volume of information and material they found, and surprised that Iraq’s weapons programs were much more advanced than they had expected.
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Residual WMD did exist, but an active WMD program did not...and we knew this going in.
The 9/11 attack was one important sub-para in OBLs larger campaign plan. The elimination of Massoud was one point...clearing his six.
The attack against us (opposed by Zawahiri for all of the relevant reasons) was intended to rally the troops to the black banners.
Always talked about third phase...but never openly proven or documented...was OBLs intent to assassinate Saddam...one bullet is all it takes to change that form of government...and if the troops are rallying to the black banners...intent was to emplace a ruler that would be loyal to AQ.
Thus, the cause and effect. The Bush admin did not want to risk a ready made WMD program falling to AQ at that point in time.
But, Saddam did not have a WMD program, he did maintain enough WMD to paraphrasing his words - to keep the Kurds and Shia in line. If they did not fear him, well then Shia v alhus Sunnah open warfare would be in full bloom. He was a prophet.
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I remember it the way TW described.
Saddam had chemical and biological weapons when Bush ordered the invasion.
Plus, they were shooting at our aircraft daily.
Yesterday we had the report of his attacks, today news he was formally charged for the crime.
[IsraelTimes] A man accused of assaulting Jews in London’s Stamford Hill neighborhood appears in court today as he is charged over the attacks.
Aaaaaand a name, ladies and gentlemen:
Abdullah Qureshi, 28, is accused of assaulting five people on August 18, including a 64-year-old he allegedly punched, knocking him unconscious. Police arrested Qureshi on Thursday.
The charges against Qureshi are one count of racially or religiously aggravated wounding or grievous bodily harm; four counts of racially or religiously aggravated common assault; and one count of racially or religious aggravated criminal damage.
It’s always nice when the enemy’s trainers confirm the op. See here and here for reports on the Israeli bombing run.
[AnNahar] The Russian military, which provides air-defense systems to Syria, has said that Syria had shot down more than 20 missiles launched from Israeli F-15 fighter jets from Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that... 's airspace during the Thursday night raid.
Rear Adm.Vadim Kulit, head of the Russian military's Reconciliation Center in Syria, said Syrian air defense units downed 21 of the 24 guided missiles launched by the Israeli aircraft with Russia-supplied air defense systems. He didn't specify what Syrian facilities were targeted by Israeli jets and whether they inflicted any casualties or damage.
Syria's state news agency SANA had said that the missiles were launched from the area southeast of neighboring Lebanon and targeted areas near Damascus.
The Israeli military, which rarely speaks of its operations in the war-ravaged country, did not acknowledge that they carried out any Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s.
It said only that a surface-to-air missile launched from Syrian territory towards Israeli air space went kaboom! over the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, and that residents in central Israel had located several missile fragments on the ground.
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The Personal Touch, or, Brass... pretty much anything that rhymes with "Knuckles"
"Standoffish?!?" An affable elf
Of Delphi: "A shelf full of pelf
Have I made selling arms
And long marches and harms,
But I'm fondest of stand-ins, myself!"
[Rudaw] Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim, a leading Shiite religious authority, has died of a sudden heart attack, his office announced on Friday.
Hakim died at the age of 87 at al-Hayat Hospital in the holy city of Najaf of a sudden heart attack, reported state media.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... an unnamed source close to the dear departed’s office told AFP that Hakim died after undergoing a surgery three days ago.
President Barham Salih offered his condolences on Twitter, saying that Hakim was "one of the most prominent [figures] of the Islamic nation who combined knowledge with work in consolidating the values of justice, faith, love and peace."
The US embassy in Baghdad described the figure as "a symbol of peace, love, and harmony across the region."
"Grand Ayatollah Hakim was one of the four elite holy mans of Najaf. He was considered by many to be the leading candidate for succeeding Grand Ayatollah Sistani, and his death will raise many questions about succession in the Hawza," tweeted Iraqi researcher Marsin al-Shamary.
[SHAFAQ] Two members of a former parliament speaker personal protection team were maimed in an armed attack targeting their vehicle in Diyala.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that two officers who serve in the personal protection staff of Iraq's former parliament speaker, Salim al-Jubouri, were maimed in an armed attack in al-Miqdadiyah, 40 kilometers to the northeast of Baquba.
"The attack resulted in minor injuries, and the two officials were discharged from the hospital after receiving treatment," the source continued, "security forces started an investigation into the circumstances of the incident."
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[Breitbart] During an interview with Fox News National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin aired on Saturday’s "Fox Report," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said that the speed of the collapse of Afghanistan’s military and government was a surprise, and "what you saw unfold with this noncombatant evacuation operation was one of the contingency plans." And "There was an extensive amount of planning in this."
Milley said, [relevant remarks begin around 2:20] "I think a couple of things. One, is the collapse of the Afghan Army happened at a much faster rate and very unexpected, by pretty much everybody, and then with that is the collapse of the Afghan government. So, that was definitely a surprise. But I will say that there was an awful lot of planning done, ROC drills, rehearsals, etc. And what you saw unfold with this noncombatant evacuation operation was one of the contingency plans. And the speed at which it was executed, the flow of the aircraft, we had planes taking off every 30 to 45 minutes or so. We had — we brought in 7,000 — or 6,000 U.S. troops, and then there [were] about a thousand or more or so Afghan troops that secured HKIA. The first day, it was clearly chaotic, no question about it. You saw that on video, etc. But within about 24 hours, that settled down and it became a much more orderly process. The security of HKIA was challenging to say the least, and we saw the bombing. But that would have happened no matter where it was. People talk about Bagram, wherever there’s a perimeter, if there’s no outside force, if there’s no Afghan force securing it, and there wasn’t any, then there’s going to be U.S. forces on the perimeter, on the edge. And they were doing what they were asked to do, which is go out and screen and process people."
He continued, "So, were there — there’s a lot of lessons learned. And I think we’re going to go through that in a very systematic way.
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If you didn't expect the Afghan army to fall apart, then you haven't been paying attention for twenty years. I would think the Iraqis in Mosul would have shown y'all what could happen when you aren't propping them up.
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So... you planned to run screaming like a little girl with your tail between your legs?
And this fool is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
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I think we are going to need a steel gallows at Leavenworth in 2025...
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When MacArthur became the Philippines' senior military official, he scrapped Plan Orange which called for retiring to the Bataan peninsula with supplies and stores. He instead insisted upon meeting the enemy on the landing beaches. He failed to inspect the development of the Philippine army, instead listening to 'yes' men he put in place. The the Japanese army invaded, the leaders in the field desperately tried to execute the new plan only to be undermined by an ill trained, ill equipped army lacking communications for mobile operations. Weeks were lost moving anything into the peninsula. When they did it was all too like what you witnessed in Kabul. So, yeah, technically it sort of followed the original Plan Orange, but without the substance of the plan. He should have been relieved like Short and Kimmel in Hawaii.
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"So, were there — there’s a lot of lessons learned. And I think we’re going to go through that in a very systematic way."
When the official AAR was put together by CALL of lessons learned in Desert Storm it was held up for months by the commander TRADOC because he wanted a separate 'happy and glad' report. It actually took the prodding of the GAO to get it released over the obstruction.
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#7 He wasn't relieved because we needed a hero at the time. I believe the term is "failing upwards."
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(BAF) Biden Administration of Fools threw General Custer under the C-130. Either take the spear to deflect the wrath from Biden or we will demote you to private.
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Yeah, even with the worst of luck, they couldn't have screwed it up that badly without a plan.
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The Vets I have talked to(who were there) said "I have returned" MacArthur arrived after the shooting stopped. Milley has a similar look to him but he was never there. As with MacArthur he had his hand picked news sources who fed him only positive information it seems.
So you want the General who is over the entire theater on the front lines where they can get shot which would give he enemy a victory and to demoralize your own troops??????? (good lord!)
All sorts of lovely ideas that simply don’t apply to jihadi Islam.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] That is what the world needs today, especially amid all that has happened and continues to happen in it, from conflicts to disputes, intersections of interests, and wars. It is in need of a moment of contemplation and relaxation to push it to think of humanity’s place, human beings’ worth and the planet that brings us together without passports or restrictions.
All eyes are on Afghanistan, and no one knows the direction things will take for sure or what the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s policies will be in the next few days. Will this Taliban differ from that seen two decades ago? There are fears of Afghanistan becoming a haven for radical groups and a center for reproducing a new, mutated image of terrorism. That is why the Taliban is being put to the test today, and they are facing major challenges. The international community is monitoring their behavior and dealings, evaluating their actions, and thus making a judgment on them.
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The world cannot be stable so long as we do not strive to spread the spirit of forgiveness continue to hesitate to pull the trigger.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Influential holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... ’s announcement that he was reneging on his decision to sit out the October elections has reshuffled the political cards in Iraq.
Some sides have benefited from his return, while other have been harmed by it. Those who had initially rejoiced at Sadr’s absence from the October 10 elections, now find themselves at a loss in how to deal with his return.
Ultimately, the parties that had declared their withdrawal from the race on the heels of Sadr’s withdrawal have emerged as the greatest losers. They are the Iraqi National Accord, of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, and the Iraqi Communist Party.
With Sadr’s return, the Iraqi political scene has become embroiled in a cutthroat battle ahead of the polls with all rivals vying for the greatest seats in parliament. Regardless of who emerges on top, all sides will be eying the ultimate prize: naming the prime minister, who is always a Shiite, the parliament speaker, who is always a Sunni, and president, who is always Kurdish.
Sources told Asharq al-Awsat that behind-the-scenes efforts are focusing on the electoral mechanisms and means to limit electoral fraud. They are also getting ahead of themselves by focusing on the three presidencies.
The Shiite forces, for example, in spite of their deep differences, especially with Sadr’s return to the race, are preoccupied with setting the characteristics of the next premier. A seven-part committee is tasked with the mission.
The Shiites are seeking to agree on the name of the prime minister even before the elections are held.
With Sadr’s return, his supporters will want him to hold sway over naming the PM that will ultimately give the holy man major power over the political scene in the country.
Sadr’s return has taken all discussions on the name of the three presidents, especially the premier, back to square one. The holy man wants the PM to be a loyalist of his Sadrist movement.
Question remarks remain over current Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who had previously said that he was not seeking a second term. This may have changed with the return of Sadr, who backs Kadhimi. The premier also enjoys the support of Masoud Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party.
Other potential candidates include national security advisor and former interior minister Qassem Araji and former PM-designates Adnan al-Zurfi and Mohammed Shaya al-Sudani. Members of the State of Law coalition have suggested the nomination of its leader, former PM Nouri al-Maliki.
Heated discussions are also ongoing among Sunni and Kurdish circles over the name of the president and parliament speaker. Their choice will have to pass the approval of the Shiite parties. The president is nominated by the two main Kurdish parties, but he needs to be approved by the main Shiite parties. The same goes to the parliament speaker.
As it stands, deep divisions are plaguing the Kurdish and Sunni parties. If the camps remain divided even after the elections, the Shiites will emerge as the most powerful players on the political scene.
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Wiki: What percent of Iraq is Shia?
The data on the religious affiliation of Iraq's population are uncertain. 95–99% of the population are Muslims. The CIA World Factbook reports a 2015 estimate according to which 29–34% are Sunni Muslims and 64–69% Shia Muslims.
[IsraelTimes] Excluding tourism and services, commerce with several nations more than tripled during first 7 months of 2021 compared to same period the year before
Trade between Israel and countries in the Middle East and North Africa has grown significantly this year, following the Jewish state’s normalization of ties with additional Arab states, new data revealed.
In the first seven months of 2021, trade grew by 234 percent compared to the same period in 2020, according to Central Bureau of Statistics figures cited by Yonatan Gonen, a Foreign Ministry cadet.
The statistics showed trade with the United Arab Emirates surged from $50.8 million between January and July 2020 to $613.9 million in the same period in 2021.
The UAE was the first of four regional states who normalized ties with Israel last year, following Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994 as the only Arab nations to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
Trade with Jordan has also increased this year, from $136.2 million to $224.2 million, and trade with Egypt went from $92 million to $122.4 million. With Morocco, trade rose from $14.9 million to $20.8 million.
According to the data, trade with Bahrain was practically non-existent in the first seven months of 2020. During that same period this year, $300,000 in trade was registered.
The figures did not include trade in tourism and services.
The 2020 agreements with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, also known as the "Abraham Accords," broke with the longstanding Arab notion that there should be no normalization with Israel until it reaches a comprehensive peace deal with the Paleostinians. Paleostinian leaders condemned the agreements as "a stab in the back" and "treason."
Israel has already signed a raft of deals with both UAE and Bahrain, ranging from tourism to aviation and financial services.
"Just the beginning," Avi Berkowitz, a former White House official who was part of the team that negotiated the accords, tweeted in reference to the new data.
Looks like Putin's federal government is cleaning house in a prelude to the September 19th Duma elections.
[REGNUM] The Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev dismissed three generals from the Ministry of Internal Affairs at once. Russian State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein (United Russia) linked the personnel reshuffle with the recent arrest of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kamchatka Territory, Mikhail Kiselyov, who is accused of accepting a bribe.
"In the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they decided to 'tighten the screws,'" the deputy wrote on August 10 in his telegram channel.
Thus, the deputy head of the Moscow MIA Department, Lieutenant-General Andrey Ponorets, the head of the MIA Administration of the South-Western Administrative District of Moscow, Police Major General Yuri Demin, and the Deputy Head of the Department of Civil Service and Personnel (DGSK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Major General Vitaly Krasnov, were dismissed from the post.
According to Khinshtein, Ponorets and Demin in 2017 vouched for Kiselev when he was included in the federal personnel reserve.
"True, it is not clear whether only these generals are responsible for Kiselev's advancement?" - said the deputy.
As reported by IA REGNUM , the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev on Tuesday, August 3, introduced the new chief to the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Kamchatka. Ivan Kokukhin was appointed to this position by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin
Breaking: A shooting occurred in Olympia, Wash. where antifa came to confront anti-vaccine mandate protesters. Antifa accounts are saying it was one of their comrades who fired. pic.twitter.com/G1Tbhczq1G
Antifa are celebrating the shooting of Samoan right-wing activist Tusitala "Tiny" Toese with this meme. A similar meme mocking the death of Ashli Babbitt was made. pic.twitter.com/fZQ9MBdEEM
According to witnesses, antifa showed up armed to the anti-vaccine mandate protest in Olympia, Wash. & were repelled by the volunteer right-wing security. The antifa were retreating & chased when the shooting then broke out. Video by @JLeeQuinn: pic.twitter.com/oCOoczWYx8
Tusitala “Tiny” Toese: a Samoan-American who used to find Trump voters to beat up until he met and spoke with the Japanese-American Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibson, then became a proud Proud Boy, having found with them a much better reason to be involved.
Related from February, our little boy is growing up: Far right protest brawler assists with security at Clark County GOP meeting
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Hmmm. Our local vaccine absolutist often urges violence against people who have other opinions. I bet he got a woody over this. If he actually could...
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Interesting - trailing wife deleted a bunch of my comments just for calling him an asshole; that's why I haven't bothered commenting for the past week.
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Raj. He's not worth your attention. Take in his crap and come at it sideways as I did above.
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Local vaccine absolutist has several times said he'd like to "punch Ron DeSantis in the mouth." I've invited him to come on down for a righteous Florida beat-down. He doesn't have much to say to that.
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#6 - true.
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So - okay for me to resume regular Rantburg activities, despite trailing wife?
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TW does not hate you. She just tries to keep it civil here and she deserves all our applause for that. As for COVID cultists, don't attack the person, destroy the faulty logic and bad information.
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Faulty logic: a disease no worse than the flu should abrogate all constitutional rights. Destroy.
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You will hear COVID cultists screech "It's not the flu." Red flag.
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All the moderators know the rules, Raj dear, and enforce as needed. Mostly by the time I come along, the situation has been dealt with.
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Tiny is a good guy. Met him at Berkeley and in Portland during a Patriot Prayer event. He and his very young son performed a Samoan War Chant - a crowd favorite.
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Once again police surround and stop the antifa from proceeding further. Antifa gathered for a direct action in Croydon, south London to fight a small group of protesters calling for immigration/migration restrictions. pic.twitter.com/n0Oi9uDLr6
At least 17 people were killed in celebratory gunfire in Kabul, news agencies said on Saturday, after Taliban ...Arabic for students... sources said their fighters had seized control of Panjshir, the last province in Afghanistan holding out against the bully boy group.
Leaders of opposition to the Taliban have denied that the province has fallen, said Rooters.
The Shamshad news agency said "aerial shooting" in Kabul on Friday killed 17 people and maimed 41. Tolo news agency gave a similar toll.
At least 14 people were maimed in celebratory firing 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 east of the capital, said Gulzada Sangar, front man for an area hospital in the picturesque provincial capital of Jalalabad.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] An Egyptian court on Friday added 31 members of the banned Moslem Brüderbund to terrorist lists for a period of five years.
Among them is Aisha Shater, daughter of the group’s deputy leader Khairat al-Shater.
She is facing charges of joining a terrorist group that was formed in violation of the law and of incitement against the state.
All 31 members were charged with corroborating in 2018 with a terrorist group in achieving its goals, receiving funding for terrorist purposes and taking part in a criminal conspiracy with the aim of committing a terrorist crime.
Egypt banned the Brotherhood in 2014, designating it as a terrorist organization.
It has been accused of involvement in violent mostly peaceful acts that took place after the ouster of president Mohammed Morsi — a member of the group — in 2013.
Hundreds of its leaders and supporters, including its supreme guide Mohammed Badie, are on trial on charges largely related to incitement to violence. Several verdicts, including death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s, have been issued against the suspects.
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[OneIndia] With reports stating that nearly 20 persons from Kerala who joined 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.... Khorasan Province (ISKP) are roaming free in Afghanistan, an alert has been sounded in India.
Security agencies say that these persons could try and make their way back into India. An alert has been sounded at the airports as the agencies suspect that they may try and make their way back into India.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed on Saturday to tighten counter-terrorism laws this month after a knife-wielding hard boy known to the authorities stabbed and maimed seven people in a supermarket. but now they'll add charges against the dead guy? WTF?
Police rubbed out the 32-year-old attacker, a Sri Lankan national who had been convicted and imprisoned for about three years before being released in July, moments after he launched his stabbing spree on Friday.
Ardern said earlier the man was inspired by the ISIS hard boy group and was being monitored constantly but could not be kept in prison by law any longer.
"I am committing, that as soon as Parliament resumes, we will complete that work - that means working to pass the law as soon as possible, and no later than by the end of this month," Ardern told a news conference. while smoking crack
The Counter Terror Legislation Bill criminalizes planning and preparation that might lead to terror attack, closing what critics have said has been a loophole allowing plotters to stay free.
But Ardern said it would not be fair to assume that the tighter law would have made a difference in this case.
"This was a highly motivated individual who used a supermarket visit as a shield for an attack. That is an incredibly tough set of circumstances," she said.
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They'll still be able to attack random people, but will have to be in an unplanned manner. Got it.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] International financial agencies are pressuring Tunisian authorities to name the government party that will negotiate with them, reminding them of the reforms that they have been calling for, for years now, to continue to support the economy.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have expressed readiness to continue to support the Tunisian economy and provide the necessary funding.
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... they have demanded pledges that the authorities will carry out economic reforms after a new government is formed.
Ferid Belhaj, World Bank Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa, stressed after meeting President Kais Saied and other officials that the economic situation in the country is critical and challenging.
Several experts economic and financial said the IMF is demanding the appointment of a prime minister and formation of an economy-centric government before October.
Tunisia’s economy has lurched from crisis to crisis since the country’s 2011 revolution, most recently due to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic and lockdown measures.
It is the fourth time in a decade the heavily indebted country has turned to the IMF for help.
The small North African nation’s foreign debt load has soared to 100 billion dinars ($36 billion), equivalent to 100% of GDP, and Tunisia faces debt payments of 4.5 billion euros ($5.42 billion) this year.
The IMF expects the country will see GDP growth of 3.8% this year, after an unprecedented 8.9% contraction in 2020.
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ANTI-FArt is honoring, NOT ostracizing a known POS MURDERER.
A little bkgrd for some.
Their POS "Che" wanta-be was responsible for the August 29, 2020 murder of Aaron Danielson.
Their POS was located a few days later (not weeks) when we still had real Law Enforcement under the TRUMP Admin.
There the POS with extra Ammo-Mags, repeatedly fired on Law Enforcement officers. In fact the POS had loaded fresh clip, just before being justifiably removed from this world, the same way he treated others in it.
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[Korrespondent] In the annexed Crimea in Simferopol, near the building of the Russian FSB, more than 40 people were detained trying to find out the whereabouts of five Crimean Tatars taken away by security forces. This was announced by the Crimean Solidarity on Saturday, September 4.
"Near the FSB building on Franko Street in Simferopol, 40 people were detained. Among them are both men and women," the message on the Facebook page says.
In addition, two civilian journalists, Ayder Kadyrov and Nuri Abdurashitov, working for the Crimean Solidarity and Grani.ru were detained.
The chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov said on Facebook that among the detainees were the chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Kurultay of the Crimean Tatar people and a member of the Mejlis Lemmar Yunusov.
Earlier on Saturday, it became known that after searches in Crimea, five Crimean Tatars were taken away in an unknown direction : Eldar Odamanov, Nariman Dzhelyalov, Aziz Akhtemov, Asan Akhtemov and Shevket Useinov.
Relatives and lawyers are making attempts to find the missing, but to date, the whereabouts of none of the detainees is known.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expressed a strong protest in connection with the next illegal searches and detentions in Crimea.
And President Vladimir Zelensky regards the searches and detentions in Crimea as a reaction of the Russian Federation to the start of the Crimean platform. He demanded the release of the detainees.
[JPost] I'd think a major smiting is in order
Gazans continued to launch balloons toward southern Israel a day after a 26-year-old Palestinian man was killed and several others injured as thousands of rioters clashed along the border fence with Israel.
Accounts on social media shared pictures of Palestinians launching the balloons on Saturday, with one man saying that they were launching the balloons to honor those killed by Israeli troops.
"We are launching balloons loaded with pictures of the martyrs who were assassinated by the Zionist enemy, and messages bearing threats to them," one man was quoted by Shebab News Agency as saying.
The man said that while the balloons they launched did not have any incendiary devices attached, "Our message is that if the enemy continues to blockade Gaza, the balloons will be loaded with burning flames and explosives instead of messages and pictures of the martyrs."
The Hamas-run Health Ministry announced that Ahmed Mustafa Mahmoud Saleh
...his name just keeps getting longer. First it was Ahmad Saleh, then Ahmed Mustafa Salah, now he is suddenly a four-namer, and the final name has two different spellings...
from the Jabalya refugee camp died after he was shot in the stomach during the riots.
Another 15 Palestinians, including five children, were injured during the riots in which demonstrators hurled explosive devices and burned tires. Troops responded with live fire and tear gas.
Saleh was the third Palestinian killed during recent protests along the border fence, including 12-year-old Omar Abu Nil and 36-year-old Hamas operative Osama Duiej.
[FOX32CHICAGO] A 35-year-old reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... man was charged Friday with fatally stabbing a Chase bank employee in River North earlier this week.
Jawaun Westbrooks is charged with one count of first-degree murder.
The attack happened Wednesday around 11 a.m. inside a Chase Bank at the corner of Dearborn and Ohio.
The 24-year-old woman was stabbed on the side of her neck after "after having a brief conversation" with Westbrooks inside the bank, Chicago police said.
She was identified as Jessica Vilaythong. She graduated from the University of Illinois last year.
Police believe this to be a random attack.
Witnesses said a man screaming at pedestrians and holding a knife walked into the bank and within seconds had stabbed Vilaythong.
"I saw a guy with a knife, a pretty big knife, with blood on it and he was running with a head of steam," said an eyewitness to the attack, who did not want to be identified.
He then walked back out and continued screaming at people while waving the knife.
Paramedics rushed the woman to Northwestern Memorial Hospital as coppers scrambled throughout River North to find the attacker, still wielding a bloody knife.
Unfortunately, Vilaythong did not survive.
"All I can do is think about her family and we just pray for them. It's absolutely terrible," one woman in River North said.
Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said Friday the stabbing was caught on video which showed the kind of shirt the person was wearing, their jogging pants and another shirt over his head. The details of the shirt is what helped them find Westbrooks.
Stills of the video were sent to officers working the downtown area and the department set a grid search so they "weren’t roaming aimlessly looking" for the person. Police were able to identify him as he was walking.
"Due to calling for backup and having the proper people there, we were able to take him into custody without him harming somebody else or an officer," Deenihan said. "It really was a good job to get that person taken into custody that quickly especially everybody was afraid that he could possibly harm or be harming somebody else."
A weapon was recovered at his arrest.
Westbrooks had 12 prior cases, including an aggravated battery to an officer. The most serious case was in 2014 when he was charged with attempted murder with intent to kill. After allegedly attacking two women with a hammer near Navy Pier, he was sent to a mental health facility and the case was thrown out.
"How he got out and is now charged with first-degree murder ... there’s some frustrations from our standpoint," Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said.
On Thursday, 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly sent a scathing letter to Supt. Brown demanding more coppers in River North.
"Continuing to leave downtown unprotected will kill Chicago's economic engine," Reilly wrote. "Downtown needs swift and immediate action to curtail this increase in dangerous criminal behavior."
Bouquets of flowers were left in front of the bank to remember Vilaythong. The branch has been closed since the attack on Wednesday and may not reopen until next week.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Europe has been talking about this for years, but in the end nobody wants to pay for supplying their share of men and matériel.
EU leaders are debating a 5,000 strong force from willing countries in the bloc
Calls have grown in the US and Europe for stronger EU military capabilities
But some are resistant over fears of an EU army strengthening the 'superstate'
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Of course it's going to strengthen the superstate. That's the whole idea. The EU will use this army not against external threats, but against the European people. Imagine EU paratroopers dropping into Warsaw airport to force the landing of airliners full of refugees. That will be the sort of mission generated for the EU army.
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/\ Yes, I don't seem to recall our 'top men' in Washington asking State's Legislators or their constituents about their opinions, wants or desires relative to Afghan refugees or Central American border crossers being relocated (by the Federal Government) within their States.
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They might want to talk to the Dutch or Swedish goverments about this; they got their people out at the drop of a hat.
They had already planned it out, and didn't talk to anybody about it
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[DW] As the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... resumes flying humanitarian supplies to parts of Afghanistan, the EU and other countries are debating how to increase aid to Afghans without lending credibility to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... The United Nations has resumed air operations in Afghanistan through its Humanitarian Air Service in a bid to enable some 160 aid organizations to continue their activities in the war-ravaged country's provinces, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday. Aid supplies from the United Arab Emirates also arrived in Afghanistan on Friday.
The UN flights — operated by the World Food Program — connect the Pak capital of Islamabad with Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan and Kandahar in the southeast.
Dujarric said the Rome-based food program has reported that three flights have landed in Mazar-e-Sharif since August 29 and efforts are being made to increase operations to additional regions.
EU CONSIDERS STANCE ON TALIBAN ENGAGEMENT
As aid operations to Afghanistan take off, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... has been trying to decide how best to provide aid to Afghans without lending recognition to the Taliban.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said there could only be engagement according to strict conditions, and that engagement did not equate to regarding the fundamentalist group as Afghanistan's official rulers.
"In order to support the Afghan population, we will have to engage with the new government in Afghanistan, which doesn't mean recognition. It's an operational engagement," Borrell said.
The EU’s chief diplomat said women's rights must be upheld and the country would have to form an inclusive, representative transitional government.
Provision of aid would be dependent on the level of access given by the Taliban.
One regional expert doesn't think the Taliban are about to change their ways. Amalendu Misra, a professor of international politics at Lancaster University, told DW that the way the Taliban treated women was tied to its terror strategy and that the bad boy group may well continue on this path.
"It is very much more Taliban is doing, is very much a part of its terror strategy," he said. "It undermines the self-worth of women."
Misra also said the Taliban's core values fly in the face of democratic principles and are unlikely to change.
"There is going to be very little or direct participation of individuals in the decision-making process," he said. "It is going to be a form of theocracy, and it is also going to be authoritarian."
CHINA'S EMBASSY COULD BECOME AID GATEWAY
A Taliban front man said China would be keeping its embassy in Kabul open. Suhail Shaheen tweeted: "The Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister said that they would maintain their embassy in Kabul, adding our relations would beef up as compared to the past."
At a press briefing on Friday, Beijing said the embassy is functioning normally and would become an important channel between the two countries.
"We hope the Taliban will establish an open and inclusive political structure, pursue moderate and stable domestic and foreign policy and make a clean break with all terrorist groups," said Chinese Foreign Ministry front man Wang Wenbin.
Since the Taliban seized control of Kabul, ousting the Western-backed government on August 15, fears of a humanitarian catastrophe in the country have loomed large and relief organizations are holding talks with the Taliban to continue critical aid.
The UN has warned that 18 million people face the threat of a humanitarian disaster and another 18 million could soon join them if conditions deteriorate further.
Afghanistan has been battling a protracted drought, while the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic in 2020 put further pressure on a barely functioning health system.
[IsraelTimes] Counterterrorism expert says Paleostinian ally of bin Laden unwittingly revealed 2002 plan to kill hundreds at nightclubs, enabling thwarting of attacks ’at the last moment’
Al-Qaeda planned to carry out massive terrorist attacks on Israeli nightclubs in 2002 and was in the final stages of the plan, but was thwarted with the help of United States intelligence operatives, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation researcher has said.
Ali Soufan, who with other agents had monitored al-Qaeda for the FBI
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Chinese interest
As the old Afghanistan transforms into the new "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan", not only the question of the potential growth of the terrorist threat in Central Asia, but also the prospects for cooperation between the Taliban and China, is of increasing interest.
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[ET] U.S. military officials are withholding the names of the ISIS terrorists allegedly killed by an airstrike in Afghanistan that was carried out in retaliation for the suicide bombing attack that left at least 13 U.S. troops dead. Perhaps our new Taliban partners purposefully gave us some erroneous targeting data ?
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Idriss Azami Al Idrissi, head of Morocco’s National Council of the Justice and Development Party and the mayor of Fez, slammed head of National Rally of Independents (RNI) and agriculture minister Aziz Akhannouch, saying he was not qualified to serve as prime minister because he is "dominating the economy".
He explained that a prime minister should manage the country and its interests, while Akhannouch would limit foreign and local investment because of a conflict of interest given his economic clout in Morocco.
He added that Akhannouch is monopolizing the fuels sector in Morocco and owns a company that sells oxygen.
Al Idrissi urged the need to name an impartial prime minister who sets public interests above his own, noting that Akhannouch’s wealth had actually grown during the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic when businesses were incurring major losses.
The greatest challenge looming on the horizon in Morocco during the September 8 polls is the "cartel of money, authority and media," he warned.
Al Idrissi noted Akhannouch’s influence over the media, saying his party has swept social media with paid electoral campaigns.
"Such influence could undermine freedom of expression," he warned.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Fresh fighting was reported Saturday between the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and resistance forces in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley, as the holy warriors finalize a new government that will set the tone for their rule.
Facing the challenge of morphing from Lions of Islam to rulers, the Taliban appear determined to snuff out the Panjshir resistance before announcing who will lead the country in the aftermath of Monday’s US troop withdrawal, which was supposed to end two decades of war.
But Panjshir, which held out for nearly a decade against the Soviet Union’s occupation and also the Taliban’s first rule from 1996-2001, is stubbornly holding out.
Fighters from the so-called National Resistance® Front (NRF) -- made up of anti-Taliban militia and former Afghan cops -- are understood to have stockpiled a significant armory in the valley, around 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Kabul and guarded by a narrow gorge.
’UNDER INVASION’
Celebratory gunfire rang out in the capital Kabul overnight as rumors spread the valley had fallen, but the Taliban made no official claim Saturday and a resident told AFP by phone that the reports were false.
The Emergency Hospital in Kabul said two people were killed and 20 maimed by the salvos, as the Taliban tweeted a stern admonishment and warned its fighters to stop.
"Avoid firing in the air and thank God instead," said chief front man Zabihullah Mujahid, tipped to become the new regime’s information minister.
"The weapons and bullets given to you are public property. No one has the right to waste them. The bullets can also harm civilians, don’t shoot in vain." "Mo had gravity so we do too...idiots"
In Panjshir, former vice-president Amrullah Saleh, holed out alongside Ahmad Massoud -- the son of legendary anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massoud -- admitted the perilous position of the NRF.
"The situation is difficult, we have been under invasion," Saleh said in a video message.
Usually known for his sharp Western suits, Saleh was filmed wearing a traditional shalwar kameez tunic and a flat woolen pakol cap favored by Panjshiris.
"The resistance is continuing and will continue," he added.
Taliban and resistance tweets suggested the key district of Paryan had changed hands several times in the last few days, but that also could not be independently verified.
Although no details have been released about the ongoing fighting between the Taliban and resistance forces in Panjshir since Friday night, Taliban officials said they have captured four districts in the province.
Anaamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban’s Cultural Commission, said on Saturday that Taliban forces have captured Shotul, Paryan, Khenj and Abshar districts of Panjshir.
According to Samangani, now the fighting is taking place in Anaba, which is near to Panjshir's provincial center.
“The districts of Paryan, Shotul, Khenj and Abshar have been completely captured and now the Mujahideen are at the central part of Anaba (district),” Samangani said.
Due to the cutoff telecom services in Panjshir, TOLOnews was unable to obtain comments from the Resistance Front about the fighting.
Meanwhile, Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the Resistance Front, on Saturday morning in a Facebook post said they are resisting the Taliban attacks on Panjshir.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The United States has sanctioned four Iranian intelligence operatives behind a failed plot to kidnap an Iranian-American journalist and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activist, the US Treasury Department said Friday.
Senior Iran-based intelligence official Alireza Shahvaroghi Farahani leads a network of intelligence operatives, including Mahmoud Khazein, Kiya Sadeghi, and Omid Noori, tasked with targeting Iranian dissidents in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates.
The sanctions come after US prosecutors in July charged the four with plotting to kidnap the New York-based journalist who was critical of Tehran, whom Rooters previously confirmed was journalist Masih Alinejad.
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[TRENDINGPOLITICS] The Wisconsin legislature has approved an audit for the 2020 election. The news was reported by Right Side Broadcasting Network on Friday.
"Wisconsin Republican state politicians approved an audit of the state’s 2020 presidential election results, to begin in the coming weeks," RSBN reported. "Former state Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... Justice Michael Gableman was appointed to oversee the investigation of the election results."
The election audit details were reported earlier by the Wisconsin Examiner.
A copy of the letter via Rep. Mark Spreitzer.
"With no public hearing or public meetings — using merely a paper ballot distributed by Republican leadership to members’ offices — the committee that sets the Legislature’s agenda voted along party lines 5-3 to hire staff and officially begin an election audit under the direction of Speaker Robin Vos," the Wisconsin Examiner reported.
"The brief 5-line ballot did not specify any funding — or cost limits — on the election investigation, but Republicans have indicated they plan to spend $680,000 on ’at least to start’ in their hunt to find fraud and a ’steal’ of the presidential election," the report continued.
"The actual ballot wording allows Vos to appoint someone to ’oversee an Office of Special Counsel’ investigating the integrity of the election (Well before the vote he had already tapped former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman — an outspoken critic of the 2020 presidential election)," the report added.
The Examiner reported also added essential background on the audit.
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This is called "log rolling." See also: Kabuki
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The problem is that Wisconsin (and others states') Republican legislators, having been in office for a while, sit at the Capitol and think they have to 'get along' with others.
The opposition has no such delusion.
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The Talibs are all for inclusion and representation, so long as they’re the only ones included and represented.
[ToloNews] A group of Afghan journalists and activists held a rally in Kabul on Saturday but it turned violent mostly peaceful after protesters sought to move toward the Presidential Palace.
The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... used tear gas against the protesters who were calling for their rights to be preserved under the new leadership in Afghanistan.
Most of those who attended the rally in Kabul were women and were out on the city streets protesting for the second day.
The women who marched toward the Presidential Palace from the Pul-e-Mahmoud Khan area east of the Palace were not allowed to get close and the Taliban special forces used tear gas against them.
"We were joined by a group of women to defend our rights and were moving towards the Palace," said Suraya, a civil society activist, when the Taliban "attacked us," fired tear gas and ’beat’ a number of women."
"Twenty-five years ago, when the Taliban came to Kabul, they prevented me from going to school. I studied during the last 20 years after the fall of the Taliban and made efforts for a better future. I will not allow this achievement to be lost," said Azita, a journalist.
The Taliban said they had no option but to use tear gas against the protesters after they went "out of control."
"The protesters were moving toward the Presidential Palace, the Foreign Ministry and the Sedarat Palace, which are all within the safe zone, and no one is allowed to enter those areas. The Taliban tried many times to prevent them but finally they had to stop the women from moving toward the Palace," said Abdulhaq Imad, a media activist.
The protests were staged in Kabul and Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... after the Taliban said that women cannot work in high-ranking posts in the future government.
Eyewitnesses said that the women had gathered in front of the Ministry of Defense and the Taliban fighters wanted to talk with them but the women insisted to go towards the presidential Palace.
As per the eyewitnesses, the Taliban opened gunshots to disperse the women and asked the journalists to leave the scene.
As per the video clips aired on social media, the Taliban have also used tearing gas to disperse the all-women protest after they failed to do so after gunshots.
The Taliban fighters said that the women wanted to enter the Presidential Palace that has been prevented but did not say anything about the violence against the protesters.
Members of the IEA said that their government is not established yet and the women have to wait until they announce their government.
It is the fourth all-women protest since the Taliban takeover which was conducted in western Herat province and in the Afghan capital respectively.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Former Iranian armed forces chief Hassan Firouzabadi, who once accused Western nations of spying on the country using lizards, has died of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... aged 70, local media reported on Friday.
Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami praised Firouzabadi’s "continuous efforts" to defend "the sacred system of Iran", in a statement published on the Guards’ Sepahnews website.
A trained doctor, Firouzabadi joined the Basij volunteer militia during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88.
Serving in administrative roles, he swiftly rose up its ranks before being named head of the armed forces in September 1989 by Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... , remaining in the post until 2016.
Iran’s armed forces chief has authority over both the regular army and the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
That made Firouzabadi one of the main architects of Iranian military support for Baghdad and Damascus in their battles against the ISIS group and other turban movements.
Replaced by Mohammad Hossein Bagheri at the head of the armed forces, Firouzabadi then served as Khamenei’s military adviser until his death.
The Fars news agency reported that he died after contracting Covid-19.
In 2018, during an international face-off over the death in jail of Iranian-Canadian environmentalist Kavous Seyed Emami, Firouzabadi accused Western countries of using lizards and chameleons as "nuclear spies" to "find uranium mines and atomic activity" in Iran.
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per worldometer, Iran has been hit really hard by the Delta variant. Over 500 fatalities each day since 8 August - and those are official and probably under reported numbers
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who once accused Western nations of spying on the country using lizards,
In fairness, lizards are a sneaky bunch...
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[BBC] Most Americans today associate the name Oneida with fine silverware, yet very few know how it began life as a radical 19th Century religious experiment in free-love, whose members believed polyamory was key to the pursuit of immortality.
[Rudaw] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) gunnies attacked a village west of the city of Kirkuk late Wednesday night, kidnapping one civilian and injuring several others, according to security and border forces.
Clashes erupted between the group and residents of old Shahal village, leading to the injuries of two people. While driving the injured to the hospitals, a bomb planted on the road detonated injuring five more civilians.
"They [ISIS] were waiting for the Iraqi forces to come and for the bomb to detonate, but when this house brought the injured, the bomb detonated," resident of new Shahal village Muayad Ramazan, told Rudaw’s Hardi Mohammed on Thursday.
"They injured seven of them and kidnapped one," Sabeer Osman, a relative of one of the injured told Rudaw, noting that the injured were taken to Erbil and one is in a critical situation.
ISIS concurrently attacked the new Shahal village, injuring a member of the Iraqi forces and killing another.
An Iraqi official, who preferred to stay anonymous for safety reasons, claimed at least 15 members of the terror group had made their way toward the city from Qarachokh mountain.
ISIS sleeper cells are particularly active in parts of northern and western Iraq that are disputed by Erbil and Baghdad, including in the provinces of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Diyala, and Salahaddin. The group takes advantage of a lack of coordination between Peshmerga and Iraqi forces in these rugged areas.
Militants have conducted around 134 attacks in disputed territories so far this year, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Peshmerga Jabar Yawar told Rudaw on Monday, noting that most of the attacks took place in areas between Kifri and Tuz Khurmatu, as well as in eastern and western Kirkuk.
On Tuesday, the group grabbed credit for an attack on a village southwest of Kirkuk. It used rocket-propelled grenades (RPG), according to villagers, killing at least 25 cows and seven sheep and goats, and burning five cars and tractors and two houses. It also launched a mortar attack on a village near Kifri town.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Sudan’s Security and Defense Council, the country’s highest security authority, met to tackle the latest developments in the country, including recent tensions between the state forces and fighters from armed factions in Khartoum.
Thursday’s meeting, which stretched late into the night, was chaired by Chairman of the Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and attended by Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok.
The council took several firm decisions aimed at ending the "chaos and sabotage" and harm to "national security" and the country’s economy.
It also underscored the validity of official and internationally recognized documents and maps covering Sudan’s borders, given the current tensions with Æthiopia.
Defense Minister Yassin Ibrahim told the media that the council was briefed on the situation on the border and the "harmful activity" taking place along the northwestern border with Libya. The border triangle shared between Sudan, Egypt and Libya is notorious for drugs and arms smuggling, human trafficking and illegal migration.
The council also received a report on the festivities that had erupted in the Soba region south of Khartoum between the state security forces and gangs.
Soba on Thursday was the scene of a shootout between security forces and armed factions that had signed the Juba peace agreement.
Members of the faction had taken up temporary residence at the Rahaf cop shoppe. An order was issued for their eviction that they promptly rejected and a shootout ensued. The army and rapid support forces were forced to intervene to evict them.
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[OneIndia]The National Investigation Agency has filed a chargesheet against one 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.... terrorist in connection with the al-Hind Bengaluru module case.
The supplementary chargesheet was filed against Shihabudeen under various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Indian Penal Code. The case was first registered by the Suddaguntepalya Police Station, Bengaluru, Karnataka against Mehboob Pasha and 16 others.
Pasha a resident of Gurappanapalya, Bengaluru, Karnataka in association with Khaja Moideen Jalal accused in several cases registered in Tamil Nadu related to terrorism, and murder of Hindu leaders, formed a terrorist gang by recruiting young Moslems in South India.
They had selected Bengaluru as their base and conducted several criminal conspiracy meetings in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu since April, 2019. They had propagated the ideology of the proscribed terrorist organization, ISIS and conspired to collect arms and explosives for murdering coppers and Hindu leaders. The case was later taken over by the NIA.
Investigation has revealed that Shihabudeen Rajesh was part of the larger conspiracy and as per the directions of Khaja Moideen had collected and handed over arms and ammunitions in Mumbai to other accused persons. These arms were further used in the murder of SSI Wilson of Tamil Nadu Police.
[Finex] This stuff is just too expensive. But they have done a lot of worthwile research into this important product and share that freely on their website.
We tripped across this massive unmarked skillet while hunting for vintage cast iron the other day and it "accidentally" ended up in the ever growing FINEX collection.
It is well over 20 inches in diameter and 3 inches deep and weighs in at a ridiculously heavy 36 pounds and 3 ounces. The casting quality is rough and it has a heat ring and a gate mark on the bottom of the pan. Besides being the largest cast iron skillet we’ve ever seen, can you even imagine the stories this skillet could tell? Did it keep a logging camp fed on cold mountain mornings? Did soldiers gather around this in the mess tent?
One thing is for sure and that is that come Sunday morning we are going to make the mother of all blueberry pancakes in this beauty.
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Our cook uses one of these at our Civil War reenactments. We once aquired an ostrich egg. It filled up the skillet.
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Years ago at a KOA Kamp Store, they were selling a 36" skillet, but it was cheap pressed aluminum with a wooden handle and a coating that I'm sure would last beyond the first use. I have a 12" Lodge and had no trouble making 5 lb of taco meat in it yesterday. Looking at that skillet on the stove inspired the search that lead to this post.
I'd love to own some of the Finex stuff, but I'd buy more Le Creuset product first.
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/\ Someone in your encampment knew a bit about history and troops on the march.
[SHAFAQ] "America is back," goes President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan.... 's catchphrase, but his unapologetic exit from Afghanistan shows America won't be back to business as usual.
Beyond the trauma of the Kabul evacuation, Biden is pitching a much broader retreat: a halt to using vast military resources to impose order and US values around the planet.
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For those Americans fond of imagining their country to be a unique, invincible superpower — winner of the Cold War, then awesome military interventionist everywhere from Iraq to Africa ever since — this is a shock.
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I think lots of Americans want this. It's part of the perversity of American history that a democrat will pull down the entire Wilsonian project.
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Having lost a number of DOD friends in places where they were inappropriately used as "Peace Keeping cops" and NOT Soldiers, all for political election year reasons and nothing related to protecting the USA.
Well OK maybe some Special Interest Groups and Wealthy Donor Business plans or resources.
Maybe it is time we quit playing world cop and Get Our Own House and Borders In Order 1st.
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Prompt Global Strike. Managed from CONUS or ships at sea. No boots on the ground. Getting rid of a pariah nation by remote control is a good form of "nation building."
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So, Its Joes Idea for the USA
to engage in Isolationism...
Isolationism is a category of foreign policies institutionalized by leaders who assert that nations' best interests are best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance. One possible motivation for limiting international involvement is to avoid being drawn into dangerous and otherwise undesirable conflicts. There may also be a perceived benefit from avoiding international trade agreements or other mutual assistance pacts. More at Wikipedia
And Instituted, what will happen in a Post - Biden - World ?
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I just read Joe's Tuesday speech. After muddling through the post Afghan disaster spin, he reveals a bit of policy. There is much Trump and much Ben Rhodes in those two or three paragraphs of policy.
The old phrase even a stopped clock is right a couple of times a day seems to apply to Joe...either that or a blind hog found can find an acorn every now and then. Three acorns below:
1. Don't let your enemies dictate your foreign policy (Ben Rhodes reference...and he likely wrote this portion of the speech). Biden references China and Russia prefer that we are distracted, tied down, and wasting resources.
2. No nation building...very much Trump.
3. Prefers to respond to threats strategically when possible (uses new Pentagon buzzword "over the horizon" and respond tactically on when necessary to support the strategic strike...seems to be the policy of most on Rantburg.
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Politicians say a lot of stuff. Only mental deficients buy any of it.
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Maybe it is time we quit playing world cop and Get Our Own House and Borders In Order 1st.
It only works if we do both pieces, NN2N1. But while some small progress is being made on getting our house in order, the borders will remain unguarded so long as the Democrats are in charge.
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I agree, we shouldn't be the world's cop. We should be the world's John Wick. You piss us off and the only thing left is the pile of dead. Leave us alone and we'll sit quietly at home, minding OUR business.
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The world's John Wick. I like that. Wick, and Rambo before him were trying to mind their own business when otbers made that impossible. As an aside, read David Morrell's books (The guy who wrote First Blood)
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Read Ender's Game
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Never read Ender's Game. Never will. Also never read any Harry Potter books or any Tolkien. Never saw ET. Never read any Steven King. Somehow, I'm still alive and living a full life.
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Too bad our enemies - you know those who desire to KILL US, get a vote.
[EpochTimes] Some 40,000 people airlifted from Afghanistan have arrived in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday.
U.S. troops flew or facilitated the flight of more than 120,000 people from the airport in Kabul during about two-and-a-half weeks through Aug. 30, when the troops withdrew from Afghanistan completely.
Approximately 13 percent of the evacuees that have entered the United States have been U.S. citizens, according to Mayorkas. Another 8 percent were lawful permanent residents. The rest were Special Immigrant Visa holders or applicants or other Afghan nationals deemed vulnerable to Taliban ...Arabic for students... Death Eaters if they had not been evacuated.
Mayorkas has been using his powers of parole to let in some Afghans who lack a visa, the Department of Homeland Security revealed last week. Mayorkas declined to say how many Afghans have been granted parole.
The evacuees were initially flown from Kabul to U.S. military bases in third countries, such as Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
After vetting by a team of hundreds of government workers, including FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... officials, the cleared evacuees were flown to the United States. Most have been landing at Dulles International Airport in Virginia or Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania.
They are then shuttled to one of eight military bases scattered across the country, including Fort Bliss in Texas and Fort McCoy in Wisconsin.
Approximately 25,600 Afghans were being housed at the military bases as of Sept. 3, Pentagon front man John Kirby told news hounds in Washington.
The military has a capacity across the eight installations for about 36,000 but is working to increase that to at least 50,000. No more bases are expected to be needed to house the evacuees.
About 1,000 Afghans have been resettled, or moved off of bases, according to U.S. Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and Northern Command.
Mayorkas said the number of evacuees is expected to come in above 50,000.
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) said he visited Fort McCoy last week and discovered all Afghan nationals there were on parole.
"The Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us... has circumvented the SIV process," he said.
Afghans are also being allowed to leave the base at will, he added.
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The State Department has assembled a task force in D.C. who are processing Afghans out at Dulles Airport. Evacuees are then being sent from Dulles to Camp Atterbury, IN.
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.
[Bawston Herald] It’s Weekend at Biden’s, and what a busy time it’s been for Dementia Joe.
[MAIL] Prince Charles's aide Michael Fawcett has today been seen breaking cover after dramatically resigning over claims he offered to help secure a knighthood and British citizenship for a billionaire Saudi donor to the royal's charity. 
[Scotland] A collaboration between two of Scotland’s oldest arts — poetry and whisky making — has resulted in the launch of a commemorative Scotch Whisky charity bottling for International Women’s Day, complete with a specially-written poem.
[Hot Air] There are some big things happening this weekend related to the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force and congressional action associated with their work (more on that in a moment.) With this topic remaining in the news, I wanted to touch on the involvement of federal agencies in terms of identifying the various UFOs being seen by military pilots and others, along with how the United States (and the world) plans to respond in the event that at least some of these objects turn out to be of nonterrestrial origin. One agency that’s been increasingly involved in this research of late is NASA, which sort of makes sense since much of their business activities take place outside of our atmosphere. The person in charge there, former Senator and astronaut Bill Nelson is probably a good candidate to ask what’s going on and what sort of plans we have in place.
[Pirate's Cove] ’We must continue’: In Kabul, Afghans adjust to a new and uncertain fate
[Right Scoop via FOX] It was announced today that the Biden administration will help Tajikistan secure its border with Afghanistan, which is not sitting well with many in the US:
...Arabic for 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
...Arabic for 
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[JPost] 
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
The 24-year-old woman was stabbed on the side of her neck after "after having a brief conversation" with Westbrooks inside the bank, Chicago police said.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...Arabic for 
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan....
And they said Williams had mental issues. 
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed 
