"Sure I've reached me majority!"
"Really?"
"So sceptical, little Maude Fealy?
And why should you care?
I'm just smellin' your hair!"
"Well, all right, Joe, but do it genteelly."
[Lawfare] The Pritzker Military Foundation today announced the appointment of Alexander Vindman as its first Pritzker Military Fellow, based at Lawfare. The retired Army lieutenant colonel and former member of the National Security Council staff joins the Lawfare team for a two-year fellowship, during which he will write a book, complete a dissertation and do a variety of other public speaking, teaching and writing. and eating. Lots of eating. Not called Lt. Col (ret) Sausage for nuthing
Vindman will be joining me next week on the Lawfare Podcast to discuss the challenges of Russia and Eastern Europe policy, and authoritarian regimes more generally, facing the incoming Joe Biden administration.
He will also be joining Lawfare Live to take audience questions next Friday at noon:
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.....Attendance Ribbon with Numeral 6, the U.S. Army Parachute Badge and Air Assault Badge, and Parachute Badges of Israel, Russia, Canada, Holland, United Kingdom, and Poland. Upon retirement from the Illinois National Guard, Pritzker was promoted to the Honorary Rank of Colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard in March 2001.
I go to lots of meetings and jump out of airplanes, anyone's airplanes. I require parachute harness extenders and low-porosity (LOPO) chutes. Two Lopo's if you've got'm.
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Yes, lekach? A very small slice please. I'm meeting those Pritzker Foundation people later this evening regarding... 'job after.' Don't want to spoil may appetite.
Donald Trump? Yes, of course I still hate him. Why do you ask ?
[Denver Post] Returning to the seats/whims of power rather than serving the areas of the people Trump administration ordered the agency that manages federal land to Colorado in 2019
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will no longer be based entirely out of Grand Junction, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced Friday.
Instead, the agency headquarters will return to Washington, D.C., where it had been before a 2019 decision by former President Donald Trump, though BLM said it will maintain and expand its presence in western Colorado.
"It is imperative that the bureau have the appropriate structure and resources to serve the American public," Haaland said in a news release. "There’s no doubt that the BLM should have a leadership presence in Washington, D.C. — like all the other land management agencies — to ensure that it has access to the policy-, budget-, and decision-making levers to best carry out its mission.
"In addition, the BLM’s robust presence in Colorado and across the West will continue to grow."
Colorado politicians and Western Slope leaders who had lobbied to keep the headquarters here expressed mild disappointment on Friday, but also said they were pleased BLM will retain a presence in a state where about 36% is federally managed land.
The Interior Department said the move was to "improve the function of the bureau, help provide clarity for the BLM’s more than 7,000 employees across the country, maintain and increase access for stakeholders, and enable the bureau to better serve the American public and fulfill its mission as the steward of nearly one-fifth of the nation’s public lands."
The BLM director — Biden’s nominee for the job, Tracy Stone-Manning, has not yet been confirmed — and other leadership positions will be set in D.C. Other "senior personnel" will be based in Grand Junction, the Interior Department’s release said, "as part of the more than 95 percent of BLM employees that are already located outside of Washington, D.C."
Trump’s decision to shift BLM headquarters to Colorado in 2019, which came at the same time as the decision to move two U.S. Department of Agriculture research agencies to Kansas City, Missouri, was welcomed by many on the Western Slope and then-GOP U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner.
But more than 87% of the affected employees either resigned or retired instead of moving to Colorado, The Washington Post reported. And it didn’t lead to the promised 27 to 40 jobs; only three BLM employees are currently based at the agency’s leased offices in Grand Junction, said Christian Reece, the executive director of Club 20, an organization that advocates for western Colorado interests.
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No bureauracy ever gives up office space.
They can use it for 'satellite offices', so they can have an excuse for going skiing. Business travel, remote office, gotta keep track, ...
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All government office should be moved to the town Bettles, Alaska. Population 12. Refusing to move would mean loss off ALL pension and other benefits as well as being fired and barred from ever working for the government again.
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"But more than 87% of the affected employees either resigned or retired instead of moving to Colorado, The Washington Post reported."
And yet, somehow, the self-licking ice cream cone moved and soldiered on.
And this bunch just one upped it with 'I know, let's create a satellite office so we don't have to sell our houses, change our kids' schools, have "the talk" with our paramours, etc.'
[Times of Israel] - Over three million Israelis have received a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the Health Ministry announced on Friday.
The ministry said 3,020,716 Israelis have received the booster shot since they began to be offered this summer, while urging all eligible citizens over 12 to go and get vaccinated if they haven’t already.
"The vaccine has proven to be the most effective means of fighting the coronavirus, and it is available to everyone. Everyone who gets vaccinated protects themselves, their family and their surroundings," the Health Ministry said in a statement.
...Also Friday, a US government advisory panel was meeting to decide whether to approve administering booster shots of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine, with Israeli health officials presenting figures indicating waning immunity against infection among all age groups around six months after vaccination. And not a single death or serious complication: https://www.timesofisrael.com/of-600000-israelis-who-received-3rd-dose-fewer-than-50-reported-side-effects/.
Plus. Study: COVID booster recipients 20 times more protected against serious illness
https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-covid-booster-recipients-20-times-more-protected-against-serious-illness/ A new study conducted in Israel shows that individuals given a third COVID-19 vaccine dose are nearly twenty times more protected against serious illness and more than ten times more protected against infection, compared with those who received their second dose at least five months previously.
Yet, according to some sources, in USA you die the moment you just think about getting the third shot - I wonder what the explanation to the difference is (Maybe Israeli government managed to keep thousands of deaths secret?).
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The Religious Tenets of the Holy Church of Covid 19 Vaccination.
-If you get sick after the 1st vaccine shot, it's because you haven't had the 2nd shot yet.
-If you get sick after the 2nd vaccine shot, it's because 21 days didn't passed yet since you had the 2nd shot.
-If you get sick after more than 21 days since the 2nd shot, then the role of the vaccine was for you not the get gravelly ill.
-If you get gravely ill, then the role of the vaccine was to keep you from dying.
f you die, then at least you should be consoled knowing that "no vaccine is 100% effective, and anyhow, your death is the fault of those right-wing anti-vaxxing nutjobs.
Furthermore, because of the interesting times we are living in, you should also know the following:
-If you get ill or die because of the vaccine, the vaccine manufacturers cannot be held liable for your death.
-The government who is mandating you to get vaccinated also cannot be held liable.
-The nurse who jabs you in the arm and puts the vaccine in you isn't liable either.
-But if you refuse to get vaccinated, then you're responsible for every single Covid death in the world!
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Interesting quip I came across; how many times can you roll those dice with a medical procedure, before the medical procedure becomes more dangerous than the concern?
Even though I was a professional dishwasher for a number of years, the person who tells me I don't do that correctly agreed, how does one measure such an abstract, subjective thing as "Didn't get as sick as I could have."
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in USA you die the moment you just think about getting the third shot
Lots of people in the US are getting vaxed. The participation rate in the vax program is impressive. I hope your data is correct and the vax program is successful, but, I attempted to post articles with data that contradict what you have posted. So the jury is still out.
Hundreds of police officers started gathering at the Capitol Saturday morning where eight-foot-high security fencing has been erected
100 National Guard troops are on standby and additional checks are being carried out at nearby airports
Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said Friday they had intelligence of online 'chatter' that is similar to that seen in the run-up to January 6
Manger said it was 'tough to say' whether threats are credible but said 'we're not going to tolerate violence'
Republicans have sought to distance themselves from the event with even staunch Donald Trump allies Marjorie Taylor Greene and Madison Cawthorn not expected to attend
The rally, starting at 12pm, is being held in support of the January 6 rioters jailed for their roles in the riot
Dozens of dump trucks were driven in to form a barrier around the area ahead of the rally at 12pm.
Around 700 Trump supporters and far-right activists are expected to descend on the West lawn of the Capitol for Saturday's rally to protest the federal charges that nearly 600 rioters have been slapped with over January 6.
Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said at a press conference Friday the likeliest possibility for violence at the rally will be between protesters and counter-protesters who may show up, but that law enforcement will not allow things to escalate. He said their intelligence indicated three different groups - one of whom had a history of clashes - were talking of attending. He did not specify the groups.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported that a Department of Homeland Security intelligence report warned of social media posts that discussed the possibility of storming the Capitol Friday night.
It looks like that didn’t happen, which is suggestive.
One user also 'commented on kidnapping an identified member of Congress,' the document said, though the lawmaker wasn't identified by name in the report.
But the organizer of the rally, a former Trump campaign operative, said it would be a peaceful event. Matt Braynard, who is also the executive director of Look Ahead America, said the intent was to draw attention to the Trump supporters facing federal charges for their role on January 6.
'We look forward to having a very safe, peaceful expression of our First Amendment rights,' he said Friday morning on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal.'
He noted 'there's no intent for violence on our side.'
He also said he's hired private security for rally.
'Yes a diplomatic security team but they're looped in with the Capitol Police Department and many of them are themselves, you know, ex-cops,' he said.
Manger said they've had 'courtesy' conversations with rally organizers and he was aware they hired private security.
Braynard said his private security team would not be armed. He also said he's asking attendees to film any encounters they have at the rally.
'I believe it's my responsibility to do everything I can do to keep every one of our attendees safe and to do that, we're asking when people leave to leave in large groups, we're asking for people to, if you see anything at all suspicious to somebody acting oddly - look we've all got television studios, right here in our pocket, whip it out and start recording,' he said.
INFORMATION ABOUT SEPTEMBER 18 'JUSTICE FOR J6' RALLY
Location: Union Square area of the Capitol grounds, the section of the West Front containing the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial and Capitol reflecting pool
Start time: 12 noon ET
Leaders of event: Matt Braynard, a former Trump campaign official who organized the rally
He will co-host alongside Cara Castronuova, a pro-Trump boxer who appeared on season 11 of The Biggest Loser
Speakers: Joe Kent, who's challenging GOP Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler in Washington state; she is one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump Mike Collins, a Republican running for Congress in Georgia
Family members of people held on January 6 charges
"I was born on the City of Bangor..."
A two-fisted dick at the Manger
Talks jazzers and jocks,
Walks, cold fish on the docks,
Broads, and battles with boredom bottles and anger.
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Apparently the few people who showed up were vastly outnumbered by the press, police and undercover feds. They amused themselves by playing "Who's the fed?"
[RevolverNews] Conservatives often characterize modern America as a "nanny state," but the implications of this label are rarely explored. It’s not just about having a government that passes unnecessary regulations. The Nanny state is more fundamentally about having a government that is feminized at all levels. The past year and a half of Covid-19 tyranny are the apotheosis of the feminized nanny state.
Worrying about safety is an innately feminine trait, and not always a bad one: Women, being weaker, must avoid dangerous men, and mothers must protect children. When adopted as a top national priority, the obsession with "safety" is stifling, destructive, and in fact suicidal to a thriving civilization. Curtis Yarvin famously labeled America’s collection of ruling institutions "The Cathedral," but he might have been more accurate if he called it "The Nursery."
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More from the opinion piece:
And now, to cap things off, we have a vaccine policy that actively puts the health of young boys at risk.
Teenage boys are six times more likely to suffer from heart problems from the vaccine than be hospitalised from Covid-19, a major study has found.
Children who face the highest risk of a “cardiac adverse event” are boys aged between 12 and 15 following two doses of a vaccine, according to new research from the US.
The findings come as Professor Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, prepares to advise ministers on whether there is a wider benefit to society from vaccinating children.
Researchers found that the risk of heart complications for boys aged 12-15 following the vaccine was 162.2 per million, which was the highest out of all the groups they looked at. … The second highest rate was among boys aged 16-17 (94.0 per million) followed by girls aged 16-17 (13.4 per million) and girls aged 12-15 (13.0 per million). Meanwhile, the risk of a healthy boy needing hospital treatment owing to Covid-19 in the next 120 days is 26.7 per million. This means the risk they face from heart complications is 6.1 times higher than that of hospitalisation. [The Telegraph]
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^ The CDC liars were aware of the extremely high incidence of myocarditis in boys taking the vaccine, but simply lied about it two months ago during the public hearing.
Their sleight of hand involved conflating all the contraindications into one statistic that effectively buried the fact that for young men, myocarditis from the vaccine is a far greater risk than severe illness from COVID.
The Great Barrington doctors - 43,000 signatories -- pointed this out at the time. This group btw includes three leading experts: Martin Kulldorff of Harvard Medical School, Sunetra Gupta of the University of Oxford and Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University.
And now Dr. Bhattacharya is being attacked by Stanford's crazy Covidians. They're trying to get him fired. For standing up for medical facts and logic -- and for defending the health of our sons.
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Dale you are correct, working on different types of construction for over 25 years and for the most part it being all males, we rarely had arguments.
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The myocites in the heart are not replaced. Once inflamed they'll die and leave scar tissue. We are permanently damaging the hearts of young boys who have -- statistically speaking -- no chance in hell of getting serious COVID.
[NY Post] By Lt. Gen. (ret) Keith Kellogg
Commenting on the recent events by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is not easy for me. For much of his career, Mark Milley served with distinction and honor. I worked hand-in-hand with him during my four years in the White House and I’d like to think we built a rapport based on mutual respect. It is hard to separate that man from the one who has emerged these last months, alongside the alleged actions he has not denied.
Civilian control of the military is enshrined in our Constitution. Article 2, Section 2 is extraordinarily clear — a civilian leader, the elected president, is commander in chief. His senior advisers provide input toward decisions involving use of force and the role of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is to provide his best military advice. He is an advisor who executes the commander in chief’s commands, not the other way around.
Any action on the part of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs that gives the impression that he has traveled outside his lane, however slight, should be met with swift and severe recourse. This is not political; this is about the preservation of our democracy. Resign or be fired. Either way, credibility, honor, and trust is GONE
Unfortunately, recent comments by many in the media, including retired military officials, appear to undermine that hard truth. They are trying to give Gen. Milley a pass, not because they believe this departure from norms is a good thing for our republic, but because they will support anything that portrays former President Donald Trump in a poor light. Such politicization of the responsibilities of the chairman and his critical role does this nation a disservice.
In my lifetime, I have seen military officials removed for overstepping their responsibilities. In fact, I’ve seen officers removed for things that bordered on the silly. The allegations against Milley are anything but.
Unauthorized military discussions with a growing adversary about potential action sends a negative signal to an enemy. It conveys confusion, weakness, and calls into question our ability to control our military forces. It also implies that the military, in fact, calls the shots — not the commander in chief. Any undermining of the civilian control of the military is problematic; this was dangerous.
Moreover, this call was made in the aftermath of a contentious election in the midst of a debilitating pandemic caused and perpetuated by the same country on the other end of the phone. In diplomatic relations, what’s not said often carries as much weight as what is. Milley’s alleged call communicated disarray.
Nothing was further from the truth. I was the longest serving senior national security official in the Trump White House. I was confident then, and confident now, that Trump was a commander in chief that we needed and served us well in multiple crises. You need only look at the fall of Kabul, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and our failure to coordinate with our allies, the tragic drone strikes that killed seven children rather than an ISIS-K member, and the French withdrawing their ambassador to see how far we’ve fallen. Peace through strength is more than just a catchphrase.
The Biden administration needs to hit the reset button in more ways than one. President Biden may have confidence in his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but the American public no longer does.
Keith Kellogg is a retired Army lieutenant general who was an assistant to the president and national security adviser to President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. He is currently co-chairman for American Security at the America First Policy Institute.
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"He is an advisor who executes the commander in chief’s commands, not the other way around."
As the chairman he's not part of the chain of command though:
In addition to the China call allegations it is claimed that Milley pressured certain military officials to promise not to act on certain orders without informing Milley and getting his approval.
If I'm interpreting this correctly it would have been a direct violation of the Goldwater–Nichols Act if Milley had laid claim to and exercised any such command authority even in concordance with the President's wishes.
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My hunch is Milley did not act without backstopping and cover from the SECDEF and powerful members of congress. There is much more to this story. Will it ever be told? Not likely.
Then-CIA Director Gina Haspel told the US's top general that former President Donald Trump was "acting out like a six-year-old with a tantrum" in the wake of the 2020 election, according to a new book.
In addition to refusing to concede the 2020 election to President-elect Joe Biden and pushing groundless claims of election fraud, Trump fired (or tried to fire) a number of top officials — most prominently, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on November 9.
"Yesterday was appalling," Haspel said in a November 10 conversation with Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's forthcoming book "Peril."
"We are on the way to a right-wing coup. The whole thing is insanity. He is acting out like a six-year-old with a tantrum," Haspel, a 35-year veteran of the agency, said, with the authors writing that she, too, was afraid of being canned.
Milley assured Haspel that "we're going to be steady," according to the book. "Steady as a rock," he added. "We're going to keep our eye on the horizon. Keep alert to any risks, dangers. Keep the channels open."
*Fox is reporting that Milley cleared his conversations with the office of the SECDEF. That seems to be parsing things just a bit - not cleared with SECDEF, but 'with his office'. Curious.
*During the last days of the Nixon Administration, SECDEF James Schlesinger sent out a quiet order that no 'unusual' military orders from the White House were to be executed without his approval. THAT is how this should have been done, if it was necessary at all.
*A lot has been said about 'if' this is true.
I say we absolutely have to believe it, because that nice Mister Woodward fella wrote a book about the Trump Administration a few years ago that had some outrageous things in it...and we were told then that we HAD to believe it.
Milley broke about a dozen or so rules, and if the Chinese had taken that moment to hit something, they would have been crowing to the heavens that America said they wouldn't attack...and that khaki-suited idiot would have had the blood of thousands on his hands. All I have to say is this: in the movies, when someone betrayed his oath, his traditions, and his country like this, they would give him a pistol with one round in it and tell him to do the right thing.
Not like he would.
Mike
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/\ Yes, I suspect the General slipped the bounds if not the intent of legal "Foreign Disclosure" AR 380-10 and possibly more.
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"Esper requested his deputies use back channels to ensure the Chinese knew we knew what their intelligence said and that their intelligence was wrong. Esper further ordered a postponement of some American naval activities in the Pacific so the Chinese did not get spooked. Gen. Milley was one of the people who worked back channels to defuse the situation." (from Swan via Erickson)
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Resign or be fired. Either way, credibility, honor, and trust is GONE
I agree with the sentiment, but credibility, honor and trust are no longer in play. It is all about the will to power now.
#2 My hunch is Milley did not act without backstopping and cover from the SECDEF and powerful members of congress. There is much more to this story. Will it ever be told? Not likely.
That pretty much sums it up, IMHO. Milley may be the visible face on this mess, but he is not the only rat in the cellar. I hate to be pessimistic, but I can't help wondering if the American Experiment is over.
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"Milley earned his commission as an Armor officer through Princeton's Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps program in 1980 and spent most of his career in Infantry assignments." Wikipedia
Princeton. Hard to believe the same institution that gave us Ted Cruz also gave us Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Gen. Mark "The Quisling" Milley.
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I hate to be pessimistic, but I can't help wondering if the American Experiment is over.
Phase I is over.
Soon to begin is Phase II, in which the patriotic and freedom-loving ("normie") states and counties separate from the post-modern, globo-homo, "1619 Project" Woke-Fascist blue counties.
We just need to accept reality and go our separate ways now.
[NewsNationNow] Proposal to close ‘tax gap’ could give IRS more information about your bank account
Many financial institutions this week, have been warning their customers of a New IRS Account Tracking Proposal.
On the surface it looks like a hunt by Congress for Tax and Spend money. But when reading it deeper, it seems clear, it would allow the IRS to lower the account tracking threshold to $600 and also wants to collect"transaction activities".
Using the adage "Give the Fed's and Inch, they'll take a Mile".
I think (and I will cheerfully confess to error on this) that the end point of this is to track cash transactions, specifically deposits. After all, if you're pulling in money from an under-the-table job, Uncle Sam's not getting his vig, is he now?
And since all checks are now scanned, if you're seen to be writing lotsa checks to someone/something, they're going to take a look at you too.
In the end, it seems to me that you can have as much income as you want, as long as it's from 'approved' sources and you can spend as much as you want, as long as it's at 'approved' places and under 'approved' circumstances. Direct debit for utilities, mortgages, and loans will be the standard whether you want it or not, and you might want to keep receipts if you spend anywhere except the grocery store.
Mike
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After another couple rounds of this inflation $ 600.00 will be the price of a happy meal.
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They want to be able to track all transactions over $600. And if your expenditures don't match your reported income... or if your making unapproved purchases or contributions...
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Proposing is easy. Passing actual bills in both Houses of Congress that can go to the president for his signature is much harder.
Given that Congress doesn’t seem able to pass even their highly touted multi-trillion dollar budget bills, I suspect this is more wishful thinking than a serious threat on the lawmakers’ side, and overexcited reporting by News Nation Now.
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Don't forget, Congress has drooling over private retirement funds like Kamala Harris at a fundraiser for decades. Just think of what it can do with all that funding! Much better than your foolish and selfish decisions! Why it can give everyone an equal and fair retirement!
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^ IRC it was good Ol' Chollie Rangel that first proposed putting Gubbamint IOUs in place of confiscated 401K funds so each retiree could get equal "guaranteed" 2% returns
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Ref #11: I cringe at the thought of Kamala Harris drooling over anything.
[FOX] Aug. 18, 2021 - 3:37 - Investigative journalist Lara Logan has spent her career reporting on various wars and conflicts. Now, she's sitting down with Tucker Carlson for an in-depth analysis of what’s happening in Afghanistan.
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I believe Logan is now married to a former US Army NCO, intelligence community contractor and grey man. I believe the company he worked for has gone Tango Uniform.
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After what happened to Logan in Egypt I would have thought she chose another career path by now.
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^ She's a smart attractive and articulate lady. Perhaps she's not gonna back down. I like her
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That was worth every second of watching, and sent me to look up the multiple shuras Ms Logan mentions, which led me to a Herald Dawn (Pakistan) article from a few years ago:
Over the years, despite maintaining its ideological coherence, the insurgency has fragmented as its loci of operations have expanded from the south and the east into northern and western Afghanistan. This ‘fragmentation’ has manifested itself in the shape of disputes over the makeup of the central leadership (Quetta Shura), creation of separate governance and control structures and different viewpoints over negotiations with Kabul. Decentralisation and differences of opinion have always existed but the public acknowledgement of Mullah Omer’s death has accentuated the broader fragmentation dynamic, especially along regional lines.
According to a recent report, the insurgency has four main shuras (Quetta Shura, Mashhad Shura, Shura of the North and the Rasool Shura) — a form of leadership council that presides over and controls different Taliban organisations. The ‘old guard’ is based out of the Quetta Shura that has authority over the Miranshah Shura (primarily the Haqqani Network) and the Peshawar Shura. A first source of factionalism can be identified in the divergence of opinions and the emergence of dissidents within this arrangement.
In 2007, the Miranshah Shura declared independence from the Quetta Shura and in 2009 the Peshawar Shura followed suit. The Peshawar Shura, beleaguered by financial difficulties without the support of the central leadership, re-joined in 2016. The Haqqanis re-joined in 2015, only after Sirajuddin Haqqani was promised the role of deputy leader within the Quetta Shura. As of 2017, there seemed to be an ongoing struggle for monopolising control of the Quetta Shura between Haibatullah Akhundzada, his predecessor’s cousin Obaidullah Ishaqzai, and the increasingly dominant Sirajudin Haqqani.
Antonio Giustozzi (who has had access to the leadership of the various shuras and authored the report mentioned earlier), reported that Haibatullah was willing to negotiate with the government and expand non-military activities. On the other hand, hardliners Sirajudin and Obaidullah opposed reconciliation with Kabul and held opposition to attempts by some to open up to Iran.
A second and more prominent feature of the fragmentation is the increasing regional autonomy between the various shuras. At the leadership level, none of the other shuras recognise the authority of the Quetta Shura completely. The Shura of the North only occasionally consults and cooperates with the Quetta Shura and usually only for large-scale military manoeuvres. It cooperates much more readily with the Mashhad Shura. Between 2015 and 2017 the Rasool Shura (that refuses allegiance to Quetta Shura’s leadership) and the Quetta Shura engaged in armed clashes against one another.
The Quetta Shura blamed the Rasool Shura of being pro-negotiations. In an interview in 2015, then leader of the Rasool Shura, Mullah Rasool, stated that he was not opposed to negotiations with Kabul in principle, but was critical of the monopolisation of the peace process by the Quetta Shura and the levy this allowed to the Pakistani authorities. Furthermore, the governance structures the insurgency has employed have also been run separately by the respective shuras. For instance, the Quetta Shura, the Rasool Shura and the Shura of the North have their own respective military, justice and education commissions.
[Washington Examiner] Secretary of State Antony Blinken deleted a tweet this week that said the United States stands with the people of Hong Kong.
"Beijing should let the voices of all Hong Kongers be heard," the original tweet said. "The PRC's disqualification of district councillors only weakens Hong Kong's long-term political and social stability. We stand with the people of Hong Kong & continue to support their human rights & fundamental freedoms."
The tweet came after the People's Republic of China announced the dismissal of seven pro-democracy councilors after determining their oaths were invalid .
[MAIL] A small earthquake shook the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area Friday night, but there weren't any immediate reports of major damage or injuries.
The magnitude-4.3 quake struck shortly after 7:58 p.m. and was centered near Carson, about 21 miles (34 kilometers) southeast of downtown LA, according to preliminary information from the U.S. Geological Survey website.
Its depth was reported at about 9 miles (14 kilometers), the USGS reported.
Some people reported feeling a jolt ranging from a moment to several seconds across the area. It was felt in neighboring cities, including Santa Monica, Torrance and Beverly Hills.
There were reports of a fire breaking out at an oil refinery in Carson, but a Carson city official later explained that flames seen leaping into the sky were part of a 'controlled flaring.'
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L.A. region and Bay area are most vulnerable to a big one. San Diego? Not so much. Unfortunately, neither is Sacramento
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It was caused by the massive unloading of containerships backed up at Long Beach, creating shifting surface loads. How's THAT for a tin foil hat theory?
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As a youngster, being a fan of sci-fi apocalypses, I was saddened to learn that the west side of the San Andreas fault was not going to fall into the ocean, but was merely headed north, riding on the Pacific plate.
[American Mind] I reject the terms of surrender offered by Jason D. Hill in his essay "Freedom From ’Blackness,’" recently published in The American Mind, in which he demands that blacks renounce their racial identity and "become a psychologically raceless people and open ourselves to the luminous potential of man and a new birth to the black individual as an individual."
I’m not renouncing a damned thing about my life and heritage in the United States. Professor Hill calls on black Americans to empty themselves of any human identification. He supposes this will make us pioneers of a new "planetary ethic." This proposal is religious in nature. He wants blacks to be the new man of the new creation promised in the Christian Bible, but he wants to arrive at that glorified humanity without the Second Coming of Christ. Hill sounds like Saint Paul: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Or, to look at it from another perspective, he wants to remake blacks in the image of Homo Sovieticus, starting over at Year One.
Hill presents a warped view of black history and then can’t imagine why blacks embrace it. He pretends the only reason blacks coalesce around a "self hating form of identification" is a "fetishized history." But if Professor Hill weren’t in such a rush to bring about the new Eden he might have examined the motivations of the actual black leaders who were trying to save a people from an overwhelming flood of hatred. Richard Allen, for instance—a prominent black leader in the late-eighteenth century and founder of the African Methodist Episcopal church—said what knits the cause of blacks, from the prosperous and educated to the poor and discarded, is the "bond of suffering and wrong."
Hill’s polemic is also flawed for what it omits. Black Americans have no tribal affiliation. We’re not Masai, Yoruba, or Zulu. We assume whatever political moniker is affixed to us—from Colored to Negro to African American—but we are Americans foremost. Certainly the rest of the world sees us as Americans. The black soldiers I know who served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan can reliably report that when the bullets were flying on the battlefield the jihadis aiming the AK-47s their way certainly thought of them as American. Even wrongheaded and easily manipulated black athletes, from John Carlos and Tommie Smith to Colin Kaepernick, who took a stand against the flag did so because they wanted more of what they conceive to be America—not more of what they conceive of as being black.
American citizenship is our birthright. It rightly offends us when we think it is being denied. Throw away our particular American blackness and you throw away what makes us exceptional. It is odd that Professor Hill made no mention of the very real amor patria black Americans possess. Why not? Has he internalized the racist belief that blacks can never be fully American? Is he projecting his own black self-hatred onto the distant, dumb blacks he psychoanalyzes in his piece? That’s an uncharitable reading, but one worth considering because Hill wouldn’t be the first black in an elite position to look out in despair at the condition of his people and consider them too hopeless to continue as constituted and too embarrassing to be counted as the civil equals of white Americans.
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black-american, NO! irish-american, NO! indian-american, NO! american of african descent OK! american of irish descent, OK! american of cherokee descent, OK. we are first american.
If you still MUST add a Hyphenation in front of it...
Then you might need to visit your Great-Great Grandparents homeland and see why they left or why they still would have it a helluva lot better here than there.
eg. My Grandparents on my fathers side, were sold as indentured labor to a mill in 1898, located Chicoppe, Mass.
If they did not work out the agreed on ## years indentured period, they knew family back in the home country would have been beaten and more.
Never once did I hear them or my Ret. Army CSM father put ____- before American.
[American Mind] Revelations from a new book, Peril, by Bob Woodward and Rob Costa, reveal just how deep the spiritual rot in the military goes. In the days after the January 6 protest, General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, promised, in the event of a war, to give aid and comfort to China. According to the Washington Post, after the Capitol protest, Milley sent secret communiques to the head of the People’s Liberation Army, promising that "If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise."
In a decent country such a brazen act of collusion with a foreign power by one of the most prominent leaders of the armed forces would be met with immediate and unrelenting backlash. Instead, this betrayer of the Constitution and the principle of civilian leadership of the military is a liberal darling. At the inauguration, Joe Biden thanked Milley for undermining President Trump in the final weeks of his presidency.
Milley, before reaching out to China, sat down with the service’s top officers and demanded from them what amounted to an oath—none of them would launch a nuclear weapon without his approval. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff went behind the President’s back to secure control over the nation’s most important weapons.
Our generals are losers abroad, and grifters at home. They parrot MSNBC talking points on Twitter and grovel before Fauci. This is bad enough. But Milley’s actions show that America’s top military officers have reached another level of delusion. They fancy themselves a new praetorian guard to protect the nation—as construed by elite editorial boards—from the people’s elected representatives.
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Milley, before reaching out to China, sat down with the service’s top officers and demanded from them what amounted to an oath—none of them would launch a nuclear weapon without his approval
The only oath you had -
I ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Sort of forgot that 'thingy' so long ago. Looks like you instead tried the play the one we were told never to do.
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Democrats have established a Chinese (CCP) style communist government. A One Party System. Elections are circumvented so that The Party always remains in control. Until the Party is overthrown, it will continue to gain control of all institutions. The US Military has now under The Party. The FBI, DHS, etc. has already been taken over by The Party.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jane Powell, the bright-eyed, operatic-voiced star of Hollywood’s golden age musicals who sang with Howard Keel in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and danced with Fred Astaire in "Royal Wedding," has died. She was 92.
Powell died Thursday at her Wilton, Connecticut, home, longtime friend Susan Granger said. Granger said Powell died of natural causes.
"Jane was the most wonderful friend," Granger said. "She was candid, she was honest. You never asked Jane a question you didn’t want an absolutely honest answer to."
Granger was a youngster when she met the then-teenaged Powell, who was making her film debut in 1944′s "Song of the Open Road," directed by Granger’s father, S. Sylvan Simon.
She performed virtually her whole life, starting about age 5 as a singing prodigy on radio in Portland, Oregon. On screen, she quickly graduated from teen roles to the lavish musical productions that were a 20th-century Hollywood staple.
[Just The News] While the Biden administration halted construction of the border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the United States is funding border security efforts for Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic trying to keep Afghan insurgents and refugees out.
One day after the Biden administration's Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw from Afghanistan, the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, announced that it had launched a project to construct new facilities for a Border Guard Detachment in Ayvoj, along the Tajik-Afghan-Uzbek border.
That facility is designed to help Tajik security forces better respond to Afghans seeking to flee Taliban rule or insurgents seeking to cause mischief to its neighbor.
While the announcement was largely overlooked by the U.S. media, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) warned in August that it was "preposterous" for American tax dollars to be spent securing a foreign country's border while the U.S. southern border remained wide open.
Last month, nearly 209,000 illegal aliens crossed the U.S. southern border, a two-decade high and four times higher than the last August of the Trump administration, which had tightened border security.
"So we are clear: your tax money is spent building a wall and securing the border in Tajikistan and hydro-power in Afghanistan, but our borders are open and the last large hydro power plant built by Army Corp of Engineers in U.S. was in 1979," Gosar said.
Tajikistan shares an 835-mile border with Afghanistan — less than the 1,254 miles of border shared between Texas and Mexico and less than half the 1,954-mile distance of the entire U.S.-Mexico border.
A new detachment facility in Ayvoj, Tajikistan will replace an outdated facility and allow the Border Guard Service to deploy forces more quickly to border areas in response to threats posed by the Taliban's takeover.
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In fact, one study that was conducted on 800,000 individuals showed that people who have taken both doses of the Pfizer jab are 13 TIMES more likely to have a breakthrough infection, and are at a “greater risk for Covid-19 hospitalizations.”
Boy howdy what a humdinger of a vaccine.
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See, Deacon, they were right when they said not to trust a vaccine from Trump...
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How many of the advisory committee have connections to NGOs (and hence UN, which is against the third jab until all the world is vaccinated - never mind the pesky Zionist [= racism] data that immunity is transient) or China.
p.s. If 10% of the reports re serious complication due to the vaccination coming from US are true - IMO, FBI should look into the possibility of some fanatic adulterating the shoots. Did happen to Moderna.
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I am 75, the Pfizer shots caused my resting heartbeat to drop from 60 to 40. It dropped right after the first shot, two weeks later started to rise and the dropped for two weeks after the second shot. It is now back to normal! My sleeping SPO2 has not returned to normal. I’m f…ed! I did make a VARS report..
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#10. Old timers called OXYQ10 the oxygen vitamin. When you sleep everything slows down as if hibernating. The heart demands the most oxygen and will work harder to get it if O2 level is low. I find it works wonders with walking. I believe it will also help when sleeping. You will see a difference real quick. Amount or frequency use your own judgement.
[IsraelTimes] Six of those indicted by Brussels prosecutors are currently on trial in La Belle France for the November 2015 attacks there
Ten men accused of involvement in the March 2016 kabooms in Brussels that killed 32 people will face trial, Belgian federal prosecutors said Friday.
Six of the suspects, including 32-year-old French-Moroccan Salah Abdeslam, are currently on trial in La Belle France over the November 2015 Gay Paree attacks.
"Ten of those charged were today ordered to stand trial in the Court of Assizes by the indictment chamber in Brussels," front man Eric Van Duyse tweeted.
On March 22, 2016 two jacket wallahs blew themselves up in Brussels international airport and a third in a crowded Metro station in Brussels.
Investigators linked the gang that carried out the attacks in Belgium to the earlier attacks in Gay Paree in November 2015, which killed 130 people.
Abdeslam is the best known of the suspects, allegedly the only surviving member of the group directly involved in the Gay Paree attacks, arrested after a shootout in Brussels.
Both sets of attacks were claimed by 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.... jihadist group.
The trial in La Belle France over the Gay Paree attacks is already underway and, following Friday’s decision, the Belgian case is now likely to start in September 2022 and last a year.
It will be the largest criminal trial in Belgian history, held in a specially-built high-security court in the former NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... headquarters in the capital.
[IsraelTimes] In rare interview days after ending his tenure, Eli Sharvit says missile frigates and submarines are now continuously deployed to protect ships from growing threats posed by Tehran
Israel’s navy has stepped up its activities in the Red Sea "exponentially" in the face of growing Iranian threats to Israeli shipping, the country’s just-retired navy commander said in an interview.
Vice Adm. Eli Sharvit stopped short of confirming a series of attacks and mishaps on Iranian ships that have been attributed to Israel. But he described Iranian activities on the high seas as a top Israeli concern and said the navy is able to strike wherever necessary to protect the country’s economic and security interests.
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[IsraelTimes] Pro-Paleostinian protests have occurred on weekly basis near Michigan house of worship since 2003; congregation says demonstrations interfere with worship, cause emotional distress
Weekly for 18 years? That sounds like harassment to me — after the first year or two the message was most surely received by all interested parties, and most of the uninterested as well.
Provocative pro-Paleostinian protests outside a Jewish synagogue in Michigan are protected by the Constitution’s First Amendment, a federal court appeals said on Wednesday.
The court declined to stop the demonstrations or set restrictions in Ann Arbor. The protests have occurred on a weekly basis since 2003, with people holding signs that say "Jewish Power Corrupts," "Stop Funding Israel" and "End the Paleostinian Holocaust."
Members of Beth Israel Congregation, including some Holocaust survivors, said that the protests have interfered with their Saturday worship and caused emotional distress.
"But the congregants have not alleged that the protesters ever blocked them from using their synagogue or that the protests were even audible from inside the building," Judge Jeffrey Sutton said.
He said a proposed remedy — a 1,000-foot buffer and limits on signs — would likely violate the First Amendment.
"The key obstacle is the robust protections that the First Amendment affords to nonviolent mostly peaceful protests on matters of public concern," Sutton said in summarizing the case.
He was joined by Judge David McKeague. Judge Eric Clay agreed with the result but on different grounds.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief in support of the activists, saying that the protests are entitled to protection even if "offensive, upsetting and distasteful."
"If public officials and courts have discretion to suppress speech they don’t like, then none of us truly enjoys the freedom of speech," Dan Korobkin of the ACLU said.
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"But the congregants have not alleged that the protesters ever blocked them from using their synagogue or that the protests were even audible from inside the building," Judge Jeffrey Sutton said.
...but pro-lifers doing this outside a Planned Parenthood office?
[IsraelTimes] Money disbursed through supermarkets, money exchange shops and other stores; no final agreement on aid for Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,’ government payroll
Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... resumed its distribution of aid to Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... on Wednesday for the first time since the May conflict between Israel and the territory’s terror groups, this time through a new mechanism that does not involve suitcases full of cash.
The Hamas-run government’s official news agency said that the money is being disbursed through supermarkets, money exchange shops and other retail stores in a process that will continue over the coming days. The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... has said that the funding amounts to $40 million.
The aid is part of an informal truce brokered by Egypt and the UN in recent years, in which the Hamas terror group, the Strip’s rulers, traded calm for the easing of a blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt when it seized power from rival Paleostinian forces in 2007. Israel views the blockade as a necessary measure to limit the ability of Gaza’s terror groups to arm themselves.
Israel had been allowing millions in Qatari cash to flow through Israeli crossings into Gaza on a monthly basis since 2018, in order to maintain a fragile ceasefire with Hamas. As of early 2021, some $30 million in cash was being delivered in suitcases to Gaza each month through an Israeli-controlled crossing.
Since an 11-day conflict in May, Israel has blocked the payments and imposed heightened restrictions on the enclave.
The renewed policy has sparked controversy within Israel, with critics seizing on the optics and accusing the government of bowing to Hamas pressure. Naftali Bennett has vowed to end such deliveries since becoming prime minister in June.
The Qatari aid went to some 100,000 needy families and to pay the salaries of civil servants in the Hamas-run government. There is not yet an agreement on the aid for Hamas’ government payroll.
The new government has excoriated former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policy of "suitcases full of cash" for the Hamas employees.
Bennett and other senior Israeli officials have repeatedly vowed that there will be no return to Netanyahu’s Gaza policy, adopting the slogan "there’s no going back to the way things were."
"There will be no return to the previous framework," Bennett’s office said in a statement on Sunday.
But the Prime Minister’s Office did not explicitly rule out the use of cash transfers in general, saying only that Israeli security officials were "examining various alternatives."
"When a proper outline is found that ensures that the money does not go to terrorist activities, it will be presented by the defense minister to the prime minister," Bennett’s office said.
In the wake of the Gaza war, the United States pledged to work with the internationally recognized Paleostinian Authority to rebuild Gaza. But the PA, which has been confined to the West Bank since the Hamas takeover, withdrew from the aid agreement.
As a result, the UN announced on Monday that the Qatari funds would be distributed through the same mechanism its agencies use in the territory.
[IsraelTimes] Jewish leader in Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... slams acquittal of Mohammed Tatai, likens it to decision not to try killer of Sarah Halimi because he used drugs.
A senior imam in La Belle France who in a sermon recited a religious text commanding Moslems to kill Jews has been acquitted of incitement to antisemitic hate charges.
Mohammed Tatai, the rector of the Great Mosque of Toulouse, had no desire to incite hatred in his sermon from 2017, the Correctional Tribunal of Toulouse ruled Tuesday. The sermon came days after news broke that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Jewish community leaders, who broke relations with Tatai and his mosque following the discovery of his sermon, protested the ruling. Tatai leads an interfaith dialogue group called the Circle for Civil Dialogue.
Franck Teboul, the president of the Toulouse chapter of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, said it was reminiscent of a recent decision in La Belle France not to try the killer of a Gay Paree Jewish woman who during the 2017 slaying of Sarah Halimi spewed antisemitic slurs and shouted about Allah. A court ruled that Kabili Traore was too high on marijuana to make him responsible for his actions.
"Even when you kill a Jew you’re not convicted but considered crazy," Teboul told La Belle France Bleu. "So you tell thousands at a mosque to kill Jews and hide behind a centuries-old text to avoid conviction."
Moslem community leaders praised the court’s acquittal.
Abdallah Zekri, the president of the Observatory for the Fight Against Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... , and a community leader appointed by the Great Mosque of Gay Paree, said the verdict "cuts against radical fundamentalists who expected Tatai would be convicted to tell their followers: ’Look how they’re treating a moderate Moslem,’" La Belle France Bleu quoted him as saying.
Zekri defended Tatai, saying "he’s always maintained good relations with the Jewish and Catholic communities."
Tatai, who has not resigned his communal posts, has received some backing from prominent members of the Moslem community.
In the sermon, which was filmed, he said that the Prophet Muhammad "told us about the final and decisive battle: ’Judgement Day will not come until the Moslems fight the Jews. The Jews will hide behind the stones and the trees, and the stones and the trees will say: Oh Moslem, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him — except for the Gharqad tree, which is one of the trees of the Jews’."
He also predicted Israel’s demise and said the 2016 funeral of Israeli President Shimon Peres was in fact Israel’s funeral.
Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Great Mosque of Gay Paree and the president of the French Council of the Moslem Faith, protested the controversy over Tatai’s sermon rather than the sermon itself.
Acting as Tatai’s spokesperson, Boubaker said Tatasi "apologizes to anyone who was accidentally offended by the pulling out of context" of the sermon. Neither imam explained what they believe to be the correct context.
[IsraelTimes] Police in La Belle France have arrested one suspect in connection with the gang beating of a Jewish man on a Lyon street.
Five men ganged up on the victim after calling him a "dirty Jew," the Actu 17 news site reported. The Jewish man, who was wearing a kippah while walking down the street, suffered minor injuries.
The alleged assailants had ordered the Jewish man to leave the Gabriel-Peri square in the city’s 7th District. He confronted them verbally and challenged them to make it physical, according to an account that police believe reflects the occurrences of the incident on September 8 at approximately 8 p.m., Actu 17 reported.
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A senior imam in La Belle France who in a sermon recited a religious text commanding Moslems to kill Jews has been acquitted of incitement to antisemitic hate charges.
[IsraelTimes] Pretrial hearing in case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, four others put on hold after infection of reporter; another person who was in courtroom also suspected of being infected.
[IsraelTimes] State TV gives no cause of death for former strongman who suffered a stroke in 2013; Abdelaziz Bouteflika ...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out... helped resolve civil war, but later became mired in corruption scandals. World-Class Combover™
[IsraelTimes] John T. Earnest to serve life sentence without possibility of parole for killing Lori Gilbert-Kaye and wounding three others in 2019 attack
A 22-year-old former nursing student pleaded guilty to the murder of one person and the attempted murders of 53 others in connection with a 2019 deadly shooting at a Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, synagogue on the last day of Passover, effectively ending the possibility of facing the death penalty .
John T. Earnest
...8chan nutter who succeeded at the synagogue after failing previously at a mosque...
entered a similar guilty plea on July 20 on state charges in San Diego Superior Court and agreed then to serve the rest of his life in state prison without the possibility of parole. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 30.
In the federal case, sentencing has been set for Dec. 28. Defense attorneys and prosecutors are also recommending a term of life in prison, plus 30 years, according to the plea.
Federal prosecutors had said previously that they would not seek the death penalty, and Friday’s plea agreement finalized that decision. In July, the Justice Department halted all federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment in the Trump administration, though the order didn’t prohibit prosecutors from seeking the death penalty.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, who has said he has reservations about the death penalty, issued the moratorium as officials conduct a review of the government’s policies and execution protocols.
Earnest opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle during the last day of Passover services in April 2019 at Chabad of Poway, northeast of San Diego. The attack killed 60-year-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye and maimed three others, including an 8-year-old girl and the rabbi, who lost a finger.
After Earnest emptied his initial magazine, several congregants rushed at him. Earnest fled in his car and, shortly after, called 911 and confessed that he had "just shot up a synagogue." Earnest was apprehended by local law enforcement who found the rifle and additional ammunition in his car.
In his plea Friday he admitted that he set also had fire to an Escondido mosque on March 24 with seven people sleeping inside, though no one was hurt.
He said he carried out the attacks because he wanted to kill Moslems and Jews.
A federal grand jury in May 2019 indicted Earnest on 113 charges, to which he pleaded guilty on Friday.
"This nation stands with Lori Gilbert Kaye’s family and the survivors of these unspeakable acts of terror," Acting US Attorney Randy S. Grossman said in a statement. "We emphatically reject the defendant’s hate, racism and prejudice, and we hope the conclusion of this case brings some measure of comfort to all those affected by his heinous crimes."
[IsraelTimes] Police say suspect, a Paleostinian who illegally entered country, has been arrested; victim hospitalized at death's door; conflicting reports on circumstances of attack
A man was stabbed and seriously maimed in Jaffa outside Tel Aviv on Wednesday afternoon, police and medics said.
The circumstances of the assault and the identity of the victim were not immediately clear.
Police said the assailant was a Paleostinian man who had illegally entered Israel and he had been arrested. Police said the motive was apparently a terror attack and identified the victim as a resident of Jaffa.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the Magen David Adom rescue service identified the victim as a 49-year-old East Jerusalem resident.
MDA said he was taken to Wolfson Medical Center in Tel Aviv at death's door with stab wounds.
Pictures from police appeared to indicate that the man had been stabbed with a screwdriver while fishing.
Police said they were carrying out searches in the area for other suspects.
The attack comes with forces on high alert on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, and the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
There has been a spate of stabbing attacks in recent days, apparently in solidarity with six Paleostinian security prisoners who beat feet from Gilboa Prison last week. Two of the six are still on the run.
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The intro paragraph to the summary link in comment 1.
he Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is evaluating Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s (SpaceX) Starship/Super Heavy program, in particular a proposal to operate the Starship/Super Heavy launch vehicle at its existing Boca Chica Launch Site in Cameron County, Texas (Figure S-1) and conduct launches originating from this site. SpaceX must obtain an experimental permit and/or a vehicle operator license from the FAA to operate the Starship/Super Heavy launch vehicle. Issuing an experimental permit or a vehicle operator license is considered a major federal action under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended (42 United States Code 4321, et seq.), and the Council on Environmental Quality NEPA-implementing regulations (40 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] Parts 1500–1508 [2020]) and requires an environmental review. The FAA is the lead federal agency for this environmental review.SpaceX plans to execute its Starship/Super Heavy program over the next several years and may require a number of new or modified experimental permits or vehicle operator licenses issued from the FAA in order to execute the program. Thus, the FAA has drafted a Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA), which evaluates the potential environmental impacts of the activities associated with SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy program. The FAA is not licensing the entire Starship/Super Heavy program because SpaceX does not have the full details of all its planned operations at this time. The applicant, however, has provided the FAA with an initial mission profile that has been analyzed in this PEA.A programmatic document is a type of general, broad NEPA review from which subsequent NEPA documents can be tiered, focusing on the issues specific to the subsequent actions. The use of a programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS) or EA, and subsequent preparation of a project specific EIS or EA, is referred to as “tiering” the environmental review. The FAA has recognized that a programmatic review and tiering may be appropriate “to sequence environmental documents from the early stage of a proposed action to a subsequent stage to help focus on issues that are ripe for decision and exclude from consideration issues not yet ripe or already decided.”1The completion of the environmental review process does not guarantee that the FAA will issue an experimental permit or vehicle operator license to SpaceX for Starship/Super Heavy launches at the launch site. SpaceX’s license application must also meet FAA safety, risk, and financial responsibility requirements per 14 CFR Chapter III
Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment for the SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy Launch Vehicle Program at the SpaceX Boca Chica Launch Site in Cameron County, TexasS- 4 S.3 Public InvolvementThe FAA is using multiple methods of stakeholder engagement and public outreach to solicit comments and feedback regarding the proposal. The FAA conducted a public scoping process and is publishing this draft PEA for public review and comment. The FAA sent an email on November 23, 2020, to interested parties notifying them that the FAA was in the beginning stages of conducting an environmental review for SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy proposal. The FAA also sent an email December 22, 2020, stating that the agency was holding a public scoping period to determine the scope of issues for analysis in the draft PEA. The email provided an overview of the proposed project and the indication that the FAA would be considering the preparation of a programmatic EA as well as an overview of the FAA’s overall environmental review process. The scoping comment period was open through January 22, 2021. A total of 321 comments were received between December 22, 2020, and January 26, 2021. Concerns raised by commenters about the project included the following:•Potential impacts on protected species and habitat•Potential cumulative effects of the proposed project and other development projects in the Rio Grande Valley•Closure of public areas such as local roads and Boca Chica Beach•Level of environmental review (i.e., the appropriateness of an EA versus an environmental impact statement [EIS]) •Potential impacts on airspace•Potential impacts on minority and low-income residents•Potential impacts on land of cultural importance•Safety of launch operations given the proximity to nearby liquefied natural gas facilities•Degradation of the environment due to test and launch operationsPositive impacts raised by commenters included the following: •Economic benefits to the regional economy•Continued innovation and progress in commercial space transportation•Benefits of reusable launch vehicles•Job creation•Ideal southerly location All comments received during the scoping period were given equal consideration in the preparation of the draft PEA.
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In accordance with CEQ’s NEPA-implementing regulations and FAA Order 1050.1F, the FAA released this draft PEA for a 30-day public review. The FAA provided public notice of the availability of the draft PEA for public review and comment in the Federal Register and on its project website. Following the close of the public comment period, the FAA will revise the draft PEA, as appropriate, in response to comments received, and a final EA will be prepared. The final PEA will reflect the FAA’s consideration of comments and will provide responses to substantive comments. Following review of the final PEA, the FAA will either issue a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), Mitigated FONSI, or issue a Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS.The FAA developed a project website2 and email listserv (which can be joined through the project website) to inform the public of the project. The FAA will update the website and provide email updates as the PEA and FAA licensing process progresses
The FAA will hold two virtual public hearings to solicit comments from the public concerning the scope and content of the Draft PEA on October 6 and October 7, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. CST. Following the presentation, members of the public can provide oral comments. Additional information regarding the virtual public hearing, including instructions for joining, will be posted to this site by October 4, 2021.
[KhaamaPress] Ministry of education of Afghanistan led by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , in a recent directive, directed all secondary and high schools to be resumed on Saturday, September 18.
As per the directive, only male students and teachers of secondary, high schools, and religious schools-Madrasa- are allowed to return to schools.
The directive covers the above-mentioned educational institutions of all 34 provinces.
"Hereby, students and teachers of all private and Emirati (governmental) secondary, high schools, and religious schools are asked to return." Read the directive.
The directive does not include the reason behind the resumption of boys-only schools and about the girls not being allowed for the time being.
Prior to that, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan had only allowed preliminary classes of both boys and girls to be resumed.
The decision comes as the government universities are not yet resumed and private universities are functioning with segregated classrooms.
In the meantime, the IEA shut the ministry of women affairs and replaced it with the ministry of encouragement and the promotion of virtue, and the prevention of vice.
This was one of the strictest departments of the Taliban in the 90s which has been dealing with the physical appearance of the people, their behavior, and their piety.
[ToloNews] After nearly 20 days, the roads leading into Panjshir province have been reopened and telecom services have been restored, officials of the caretaker cabinet and residents of the province confirmed.
Local residents said that electricity has yet to be reconnected in the province.
Mohammad Wasi Almas, a local journalist, said: "The telecom networks have been working since yesterday. The serious challenge is the electricity cutoff, which has not been solved,"
Some Panjshir residents said "90 percent" of locals left their homes and fled to the mountains following the festivities between the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and the Resistance® Front forces in the past weeks, and they face serious issues.
"An economic crisis has emerged, people are struggling with economic problems," a resident said.
"From 100 percent, only 10 percent of people stayed, and the rest have left their houses," a Panjshir resident said.
Local security officials in Panjshir, however, say the situation is normal in the province. "Protecting women, children and people is our obligation. All the issues such as lack of electricity and food are lies," said Mawlawi Sana Sangin Fatih, a local security official.
In the meantime, the New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... has reported that Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the Resistance® Front, has hired a lobbyist in the United States to shore up support for the resistance front.
A source close to Ahmad Massoud said the aim is to discourage the United States from recognizing the Taliban. According to the New York Times, the Taliban are also looking to do the same in order to secure international funding and legitimacy.
"No worries about this issue. They will try, but cannot do anything. Invaders, the United States and its friends have been defeated here. You saw their tanks, cannons and plane remained here," said Saeed Khosti, a member of the Cultural Commission of the caretaker cabinet.
The new development comes as previously 20 members of the European Parliament--in the EU resolution draft on Afghanistan--called for Massoud to be invited to the EU Parliament and Council, but in the final version of that resolution the section was removed.
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Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the Resistance® Front, has hired a lobbyist in the United States to shore up support for the resistance front, the Taliban are also looking to do the same.
It seems like everyone tries to get in our knickers for something or other.
[ToloNews] Following frequent complaints over the closed Passport Department in Kabul, several people raised their voices on Thursday to reopen the department.
A large number of people gathered at the door of the department, claiming that they must travel so their relatives can receive medical care.
Ali Mohammad Mohammadi said his 32-year-old daughter has heart illness. He wants to take her abroad. Ali Mohammad said: "I have a patient to take outside the country but we do not have passports. The department is closed."
Abdul Rashid said his wife needs to go outside the country for medical treatment. He said: "my wife is ill. I come here to get a passport for her."
The number of people applying for passports has increased due to many reasons. Fleeing the country, traveling for medical treatment, escaping poverty and security threats are among the reasons.
Human rights say that traveling is a civil right for everyone.
Sayed Mohammad Same said: "It is an Islamic principle that a person can leave his/her country based on political, security and economic issues. Or they can return. The international laws also accept that this is a right."
Meanwhile Abdul Khaleq Mohammadi, the deputy of the Passport Department, said the office will possibly start work next week. "The system and equipment is good. No problem exists. But the issue is that the passport department connects to some other organizations like the ministry of interior, Afghanistan's central bank, Afghanistan central civil registration authority and the ministry of commerce."
Government offices and some private organizations have remained closed since the Taliban ...Arabic for students... takeover.
Black Market Visa Business Booming in Afghanistan
[ToloNews] As most embassies in Kabul closed following the collapse of the former government, and the number of people demanding visas has increased, the black market business for visas is skyrocketing.
A number of tourist travel agencies say currently only Pakistain’s visas can be obtained legally, but visas of a number of other countries are being sold on the black market at high prices.
Shafi Samim, the director of a tourist travel agency in Kabul, told TOLOnews that people buy visas from the black market at double or triple the regular prices.
According to Samim, people buy visas from Pakistain for up to $350, Tajikistan for $400, Uzbekistan for $1,350, and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... for up to $5,000.
Before the collapse of the previous government, however, a Pak visa was around $15, India's was $20, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan's cost $60 and Turkey's was $120.
"The real price for a Tajikistan visa is $60, but on the black market it is around $350 to $400. The real price for Turkey's visa is $120, but on the black market it is up to $5,000. There are secrets that we do not know, only the firsthand dealers know how to obtain them," Samim said.
A number of travel agency officials urged foreign countries to reopen their embassies in Kabul and in order to issue visas to Afghans.
Parwiz Akbari, an employee of a travel agency in Kabul, said: "We urge them to reopen their embassies to dismantle the black markets."
Residents speaking to TOLOnews also urged foreign countries to reopen their embassies.
Mohmmad Haroon, a Kabul resident, said he has a Pakistain visa but he cannot cross at Torkham gate. According to Haroon, in order to cross the border into Pakistain in addition to a visa you now need a "gate pass," which some people near the Pak embassy are selling.
"People have been waiting here for one and two months. They have visas but cannot pass at Torkham gate. They (sellers) have created a black market and sell the gate pass for $200 to $300," Haroon said.
Govt Employees Face Closed Offices, Unpaid Wages
[ToloNews] Residents told TOLOnews they are facing financial problems as government offices have mostly remained closed and their wages have not been paid.
Geti, a teacher at a government school, returned to her job a week after the Taliban came to power, but she has not received her salary yet. She said: “I did not get a salary for two months. I face economic problems. The teachers in my school are the sole breadwinners for their families.”
Residents voiced concerns over the closure of some offices across the country. For example, people are waiting to receive their National Identity Card. Enayatullah, a Kabul resident, said: “I came to get my Identity Card. The process has not resumed. I ask that the process begins very soon.”
An official at the Afghanistan Central Civil Registration Authority, ACCRA, said that national identity cards have already been printed and will be distributed new week. Hazarat Mohammad said: “We started our work. We will distribute printed identity cards on Saturday.”
Meanwhile, the caretaker cabinet’s Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund at a Wednesday meeting ordered all ministries and some other government offices to immediately begin providing services to the people.
Saaed Khosti, a member of the Taliban cultural commission, said: “We will witness more improvements in government, and the salary issue will be addressed.”
A teacher at Alexander Hamilton High in @LASchools has been revealed to plaster classroom w/far-left propaganda. Classroom featured “F— Amerikkka,” “F— the police” posters in addition to BLM & trans flags. Revelation mirrors antifa teacher at @NatomasUSD. https://t.co/4CPRsXOsMx
These photos were sent from a concerned parent to the national grassroots group Parents Defending Education. The same group reached out to the Los Angeles Unified School District to seek a response.
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It seems the City of Angels is infested with demons.
Parents across the city should keep their kids at home until the offending demon in this case is properly sacked. The district gets money from the state for average daily attendance (ADA) so a student sick out would get their attention.
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Funds should follow students, not school districts. It's already happening in some places.
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Benny gantz The #Israeli Defense Minister will officially visit #Morocco for the First time, accompanied by Finance Minister, the visit may include signings of New Israeli arms supply contracts. pic.twitter.com/quAKIlps2m
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] After 13 months of foundering under caretaker prime ministers, 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... finally has a government.
That is very good news for a country suffering from the effects of economic collapse, political intransigence, financial malfeasance and the interference of foreign powers. And all that on top of the still mysterious port explosion last year that devastated the capital Beirut.
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[Jpost] "Oops"? Remember all the "righteous strike" by Milley and breast beating by McKenzie? Resign NOW!
The Pentagon had said the Aug. 29 strike targeted an Islamic State suicide bomber who posed an imminent threat to US-led troops at the airport.
A drone strike in Kabul last month killed as many as 10 civilians, including seven children, the US military said on Friday, apologizing for what it called a "tragic mistake."
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Ten were killed in the attack, including Ahmadi, two adult family members, and seven children
This is still a lie from what I read when reports first started coming out a couple of weeks ago. Ahmadi handed the car keys to one of the kids when he got home to park the car for him in the drive way. He was working hard to get the story out to the world in the interview. What did they do, initially off him to shut him up since then???
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Where are all the people who always want someone "frog marched out of the White House."
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When the Klingon's Eagle Base shut down, the Joint Priority Effects List (JPEL) was likely shut down as well. The "mistake" is the work of amateurs within DoD and the White House attempting to exact a news grabbing revenge strike against potential suicide vest plotters.
The strike appears to be have been sanctioned without supporting JPEL intelligence, or conducted with no US or Coalition intelligence at all. The work of politically motivated, knee-jerk amateurs.
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Most interesting part? This was all exposed by NYTimes. What politics and backstabbing motivated that? Cuz you know it wasn't honest Jourolistic impulses. My money is on Klingons getting the goods on DOD and getting ahead of the blame game
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That's a point, Frank. Why is the NYT suddenly committing journalism? That *has* to be orchestrated.
But incompetent f*ckwaddery aside, I say we look on the bright side and note that they did actually manage to kill *someone*. Your tax dollars at work!
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Does anybody, anybody, believe that Biden gives a rat's rump who got killed? By now he's forgotten all about it. I don't believe there was any "intelligence" involved at all. They picked a random target and blasted it so they could claim they had avenged the attack at Kabul airport. The only mistake was not allowing for whatever factor caused NYT to spill the beans.
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Are these the same experts who are carefully vetting our newly imported terrorists?
Back in the day, Clinton had a chance to kill bin Laden and he deferred the attack based on good intel due to imagery that showed a swing-set near the OBL target area...thus, killing no terrorists (nor, kids for that matter I guess). The tragic result - OBL lives and directs the deadly 9/11 attack that brought about the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan...fast forward over two decades...all the way to the last act...the curtain call of the Afghanistan folly...Biden approves a strike based on terrible intel that kills at least 7 innocent kids and no terrorists...
No statement from the the SecDef on this matter either that I can find. I am fairly positive that he was the approving authority on this tragedy...I hope he see the pictures of those kids...I hope Biden does too.
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I've been telling everyone who ever bragged to me about voting for Bidet "You voted for that." Shuts em up every time.
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Agency waits until Gen Frank McKenzie, Cdr, CENTCOM releases drone strike "mistake" video to issue "we told you so" virtue signaling message through their CNN disinformation arm. Things we now know:
1. USN did the, highly touted "over the horizon" shooting.
2. CIA managed Joint Priority Effects List (JPEL) tool not utilized.
3. DoD and CIA both had 'eyes on target.'
4. CIA apparently had no mission cancellation capability.
5. USN, DoD, and possibly White House disregarded CIA 'last minute, last second' warning.
6. DoD maintained 'righteous strike' media profile until General McKenzie's news release.
7. White House and POTUS continue to say nothing.
8. Former CIA Director John Brennan is now a CNN strategic analyst.
Did I mention that former CIA Director John Brennan is now a CNN strategic analyst?
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RE #16
A hot topic in the world of killer robots is whether you need a human in the loop to prevent accidents, rampages, and other "uncommanded excursions". I would suggest this list argues against the idea.
4. CIA apparently had no mission cancellation capability.
I use to work with a guy who seemed to know a lot about blowing stuff up. He was pretty adamant that you needed a way to make sure whatever mischief you were planning did not take place were circumstances to suddenly change.
Last thought: If your masterful public relations move ends you up in the Hague for war-crimes, you are doing the PR thing wrong.
It was too late. The warning (from the CIA) on August 29 came seconds before the missile hit the car, killing 10 civilians, including seven children.
You don't suppose this is actually a prank by the CIA to get over on the Army and remove them from further influence in Afghanistan? Might make it easier to conduct business.
"Hey, Bob, wanna punk the Army? I bet we can get them to dronezap some poor hapless goat herder."
"Better yet, some guy from an NGO doing "for the children stuff."
"Excellent! We can call off the op at the last second and make the Army look like murderous incompetents."
"I can't wait to see their faces!"
Nobody has eyes on the target. No procedure or mechanism to abort. The last second warning. Why am I suspicious?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A French court on Friday found a 62-year-old man guilty of insulting President Emmanuel Macron by depicting him as Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... in protest at the government’s COVID-19 policies.
The court handed down a fine of 10,000 euros ($12,000) to Michel-Ange Flori, a former advertising executive, who had posted an image of Macron looking like the German dictator on a billboard in southern La Belle France.
La Belle France scrapped a ban on "offence to the president" in 2013 but, like any other citizen, the head of state is protected by a law against "public insult," though such cases rarely go to trial.
Following a complaint from Macron’s LREM party, prosecutor Laurent Robert argued in court that Flori had shown "an obvious willingness to do harm."
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[REGNUM] A total of 63 foreign reconnaissance aircraft approached the state border of Russia during the week. This is reported on September 17 by the official publication of the Ministry of Defense "Krasnaya Zvezda".
Also during this period, 20 foreign drones were recorded carrying out aerial reconnaissance along the Russian borders.
It is noted that all these objects were tracked by Russian radar stations. In order to prevent violation of the border, a fighter from the air defense forces on duty once rose into the sky.
According to the Ministry of Defense, there were no violations of the airspace of the Russian Federation in any of the episodes.
#Lebanon’s Finance Ministry says it had been informed by the Central Bank that $1.139 billion in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) from the #IMF had been deposited in its account.https://t.co/uLfNHNWFuc
#Lebanon’s finance minister has signed a new contract with restructuring consultancy Alvarez and Marsal (A&M) to carry out a forensic #audit at the country’s central bank, the ministry said in a statement.https://t.co/Jxy80aMxr1
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The UN ambassador representing Afghanistan’s ousted government has asked to remain in the country’s seat at the world body in New York, a UN spokesperson said on Friday, setting up a showdown if the Taliban ...Arabic for students... tries to appoint their own envoy.
Ambassador Ghulam Isaczai signed a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... with a list of Afghanistan’s delegation for the General Assembly, Guterres’ spokesperson Farhan Haq said.
It was not immediately clear if the Taliban, who seized power last month as US and foreign forces withdrew after a 20 year war, would put forward their own envoy to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Isaczai sent his accreditation request on Wednesday, Haq said, a day after the new General Assembly session started.
Dozens of world leaders are traveling to New York next week for the annual UN gathering and Isaczai is currently scheduled to address the final day of the meeting on Sept. 27.
UN credentials are dealt with by a nine-member committee appointed annually. The committee, named on Tuesday, is made up of the Bahamas, Bhutan, Chile, China, Namibia, Russia, Sierra Leone, Sweden and the United States.
The committee traditionally meets in October or November to assess the credentials of all UN members before submitting a report for General Assembly approval before the end of the year.
The committee and General Assembly usually operate by consensus on credentials, diplomats said.
Until a decision is made Isaczai will remain in the seat, according to the General Assembly rules.
When the Taliban last ruled between 1996 and 2001 the ambassador of the Afghan government they toppled remained the UN representative after the credentials committee deferred its decision on rival claims to the seat.
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If I go back,I will be killed. I am too important and rich for you to let that happen.
[REGNUM] In the Lipetsk region on the first day of voting, voter turnout reached almost 15%. As reported by IA REGNUM , the data on the voting activity was published by the CEC of Russia.
By 20:00 on September 17, 52 thousand 567 people, or 22.51% of the total number of voters, had voted.
As reported by IA REGNUM , in the Lipetsk region elections of deputies of the State Duma of the eighth convocation, the Lipetsk regional council, as well as three municipal election companies are being held.
[REGNUM] In the Kursk region, on the first day of voting, voter turnout reached almost 15%. As reported by IA REGNUM , the data on the voting activity was published by the CEC of Russia.
By 20:00 on September 17, 126 thousand 672 people, or 14.90% of the total number of voters, had voted.
As reported by IA REGNUM , elections of deputies of the State Duma of the eighth convocation, the Kursk regional Duma of the seventh convocation and 121 municipal election campaigns are being held in the Kursk region.
[REGNUM] According to the election commission of the Pskov region, on the first day of the three-day voting for the election of deputies to the VIII convocation of the State Duma of Russia, the turnout was 17.29% of the total number of voters included in the voting lists.
At the elections of deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies of the VII convocation, the turnout was 16.51%. On the first day of voting, 25.31% of voters came to the elections for the head of the Kuninsky district, 15.65% of voters came to the elections for the head of the Novosokolniki district.
Recall, as of July 1, 2021, 518,029 voters were registered in the Pskov region.
In the Pskov region on September 17, 18 and 19, 2021, elections of deputies of the VIII convocation of the State Duma, elections of deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly of deputies of the VII convocation, as well as elections of local councils in five municipalities are held. In two districts, heads of districts are elected.
[REGNUM] In the Astrakhan region on the first day of voting, voter turnout reached almost 15%. As reported by IA REGNUM , the data on the voting activity was published by the CEC of Russia.
By 20:00 on September 17, 105 thousand 724 people, or 14.57% of the total number of voters, had voted.
As reported by IA REGNUM , elections of deputies of the State Duma of the eighth convocation, deputies of the Duma of the Astrakhan region of the seventh convocation, the head of the Akhtuba region, heads of five settlements, as well as deputies of district and village councils are being held in the Astrakhan region.
Members of election commissions interfere with checking voters' documents and preventing voting at places of residence, said the coordinator of the Observers of Dagestan movement. Some voters ask to be photographed at the polling station in order to report to the authorities.
As the "Caucasian Knot" has reported, voting in the elections to the State Duma, the People's Assembly of the republic and local self-government bodies began in Dagestan today. Representatives of political parties pointed to the difficulty of holding elections in a pandemic.
The result of the elections to the State Duma deputies from Dagestan is predetermined due to the low activity of voters and opposition parties, as well as behind-the-scenes agreements in favor of candidates from the ruling party, Dagestani journalists suggested.
[KavkazUzel] On the first day of voting, voters mostly came to polling stations in Sochi with invitations from enterprises, they put marks on ballots, filmed it and sent it to someone, members of election commissions and observers reported. In this way, the authorities use administrative resources to promote the right candidates, they say.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on September 17, observers and deputy Alexander Korovainy reported that at the polling stations of the Kuban mass transportation of voters and violations in filling out the documents were recorded.
The proxy of the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Rostislav Shcherbakov, filed two complaints about violations during the voting in Anapa and was attacked at the exit from the precinct.
Kuban voters announced on September 15 that they were forced to vote at work. State employees and workers in enterprises in the Krasnodar Territory are forced to detach themselves from polling stations at their place of residence and vote at their place of work, which makes it possible to control turnout, party representatives argued.
Kuban is in the top five regions with the highest number of complaints of violations, said activist of the "Voice" movement * David Kankiya.
On September 17, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent visited three PECs # 46-30 # 46-09 and # 45-20. Employees of various enterprises came to all PECs with invitations. They were mostly young people. They answered the correspondent's questions sparingly, saying that they were "told at work to vote."
Vladimir told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he had voted for the report and the chief asked him to send a photo. He said that he filled out the ballots as he was told. “I only know [the candidate] from the posters. Huge banners (hanging) all over the city. I saw it on TV a couple of times. Me personal nothing bad and nothing good he did not. But everyone says he will win. I don’t believe in elections and wouldn’t go, but I’m afraid of dismissal, ”Vladimir explained.
House committees in Mamaika complained to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the chairman of the TOS calls on the social networks of house committees to gather residents of apartment buildings and lead them to PECs to vote for a representative of the ruling party.
Nadezhda Ovchinnikova, chairman of the Mamayka TOS, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that she had assembled a group on the social network, in which she "urged people to show their civic position and vote for the most stable party and a stable deputy from United Russia."
[KavkazUzel] The leadership of election commissions at several precincts in Volgograd did not allow to get acquainted with the register of home voting and poorly sealed the boxes, observers said.
As the "Caucasian Knot" has reported, 34 candidates from 11 parties are competing for seats in the State Duma from four single-mandate constituencies in the Volgograd region.
Of the four current deputies of the State Duma, only one is participating in the race. Only the ruling party was actively campaigning; there was no sharp pre-election struggle in any single-mandate constituency in the region.
On the website "Map of Elections Violations", which was launched by the "Golos" movement, as of 1700 hrs Moscow time on September 17, seven complaints from five polling stations were recorded in Volgograd.
At three polling stations, observers were not allowed to familiarize themselves with the register of home voting.
"The stationary box is stitched with thread and sealed so that it allows unauthorized opening. It was sealed before the arrival of the commission," says one of these complaints.
At another precinct, according to the complaint, a group of PEC members returned after a home vote, but the contents of the box with ballots were not immediately transferred to a safe package. These complaints were written on behalf of the members of the election commission, that is, observers.
The Volgograd voter also said that the employees of the Volgograd branch of Rosgranstroy are currently voting at one precinct, despite the fact that all employees are registered in other districts. "No one was attached to this site in advance. Site at school No. 34 in Volgograd," stated in the complaint published on the site.
On the website of the Electoral Commission of the Volgograd Region, as of 1708 hrs Moscow time on 17 September, there are no comments regarding these complaints. The "Caucasian Knot" cannot verify the data on these violations.
Lebanese PM Najib Mikati says #Iran’s fuel shipments imported by #Hezbollah constitute a breach of #Lebanon’s sovereignty but plays down the possibility of US sanctions. https://t.co/tWGCbBo9Rj
The internal political crisis in Afghanistan, including the one caused by the flight of the United States, fundamentally changed the conditions for the further existence of the CSTO. For the first time in two decades, the participants were required to fulfill their obligations and adhere to the principles underlying the very concept of collective security.
The fact that the overwhelming majority of the session was held in a closed regime for journalists indicates the magnitude of the difficulties and discrepancies that have arisen. However, judging by the well-known results, it was still possible to overcome a significant part of the disagreements.
As a result of the work, the parties signed 14 final documents, of which at least six indicate the deepening of integration and the gradual transfer of the CSTO from a purely political to a collective defensive status.
Although it is too early to talk about complete success, however:
- an agreement on joint material, technical and medical support of the collective forces of the CSTO.
- a plan for equipping them with modern weapons, military and special equipment, special means.
- decision on the scheme of a secure multiservice communication network of the CSTO.
- the decision on the chief of the Joint Staff.
- decision on the composition of military contingents and the formation of special forces of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces
point to the gradual creation of real military instruments of a collective nature and the structure of their practical use. What can be considered an undoubted success on the way to modernizing the mechanism of the Organization.
In addition, two other fundamental points should be considered positive.
First, the parties agreed on the need for collective participation in the solution of the task of strengthening the Tajik-Afghan border, which has a length of 1,344 km and in many sections passes through hard-to-reach mountainous terrain.
However, so far this agreement is of the most general nature. Tajikistan introduced a certain package of proposals, formalized in the form of a draft Interstate Target Program, which the other participants agreed to "consider and accept as quickly as possible."
Secondly, the CSTO members approved a plan for holding a series of military exercises of the Collective Forces in Tajikistan: Search-2021, Echelon-2021, Interaction-2021 and Cobalt-2021, organized according to a single operational concept.
The first of which is scheduled for October. Although the amount of forces and means involved for its implementation is still unknown, but it is unlikely to be very large. Nevertheless, this will already serve as a significant help in strengthening the security of the Tajik border with Afghanistan.
And most importantly, at the last session it was possible to come up with a mechanism for integrating the CSTO into the UN international security system.
Translated into Russian, this opens the CSTO the opportunity to form collective peacekeeping forces not only on behalf of a regional state (and the CSTO is primarily a regional treaty), but also on behalf of the United Nations. Thus, the channel of Western intervention in the Central Asian region is cut off, allegedly on behalf of "the entire international community."
Summarizing the above, the CSTO summit that took place can be considered generally successful. However, much remains to be done to transform the Organization into a truly effective collective defense mechanism.
Elena Panina is Director of the RUSSTRAT Institute
[JPost] Prolly them pesky Ruritanians...or Hezbollah*snicker*
Syria's electricity minister said an attack on one of the gas lines at Deir Ali station led to an electricity outage that affected the capital Damascus, its outskirts and other areas, and that repair work is ongoing, the state news agency (SANA) reported on Friday.
The Minister also told state TV that electricity is expected to return in Damascus city within an hour and then successively to other affected areas.
There were no further details on the nature of the attack.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...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... Friday announced new sanctions on 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 Iran-backed Hezbollah, with the top US diplomat calling on governments around the world to clamp down on the terrorist group.
"Hezbollah is increasingly looking for additional sources of revenue to bolster its coffers. We call on governments around the world to take steps to ensure Hezbollah and other terrorist groups do not exploit their territory and financial institutions," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
An announcement from the Treasury Department said four individuals were being designated due to their ties to Hezbollah.
The sanctioned Hezbollah supporters were part of a Lebanon and Kuwait-based funding ring working to support Hezbollah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - Quds Force (IRGC-QF).
The networks have allegedly laundered tens of millions of dollars to benefit Hezbollah and the Quds Force.
"Hezbollah, with the support of the IRGC-QF, uses the revenues generated by these networks to fund terrorist activities, as well as to perpetuate instability in Lebanon and throughout the region," the Treasury Department said.
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[REGNUM] It is not surprising that some citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina are involved in financing terrorist operations in the Middle East. So the Russian historian, researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Georgy Engelhardt commented on the news that in early September, the prosecutor's office of Bosnia and Herzegovina brought charges against 61-year-old Sena Hamzabegovic of financing terrorist operations.
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[KavkazUzel] Private Vruyr Shahramanyan was wounded in shelling from the Azerbaijani side, the Defense Ministry of Nagorno-Karabakh said.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote , Azerbaijan and Armenia regularly exchange accusations of violating the ceasefire in the zone of the Karabakh conflict and on the border of the two countries. The authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh also stated about shelling from Azerbaijani positions.
Thus, on September 7, the ombudsman for human rights in Nagorno-Karabakh reported that the house of a resident of the village of Tagavard was damaged during shelling by the Azerbaijani military.
In August, shelling on the line of contact between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops became as regular as before the autumn war of 2020, but the sides are not using heavy weapons now, military experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" said.
Today, at about 12.30 (11.30 Moscow time), the Azerbaijani military violated the ceasefire "in the west of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Defense Ministry of the unrecognized republic reported.
"As a result, a soldier of the Defense Army, Private Vruyr Vardanovich Shahramanian, received a gunshot wound. In connection with the incident, the relevant information was provided to the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent," says the publication on the agency's website, translated by Caucasian Knot.
The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, as of 15.07 Moscow time, did not comment on this information on its website.
#Somalia’s regional leaders call for the president and prime minister to end their damaging feud which has stoked deep concerns about the stability of the Horn of Africa nation.https://t.co/HnpRZKvoGE
#Iraq | The leader of al-Fatah alliance, Hadi al-Ameri, lambasted the "conspiracies" plotting to "dissolve" or "merge" al-Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) into other security agencies and demanded equipping the Iraqi army with aerial defense weaponry. pic.twitter.com/zgPqJPGzLT
#France recalls its ambassadors to the #US and #Australia, days after a deal was struck between the latter two countries, blindsiding Paris and resulting in the loss of an estimated $40 billion submarine deal.https://t.co/JinB8zHoTP
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Well... that $40 billion is going to the US and Great Britain, rather than France.
So the only thing I can fault them for is annoying the French. But had they "consulted" with them, the French would have just increased their bribes to Aussie pols and kept the business.
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And just like that, the SOB's dropped the French Sub deal.
#4
We ricola you home, and riassign you to Switzerland, dah US Ambat 2 West CH, dah other OZ Ambat 2 East CH.
Your mission: 2 Sell a Nuclear Submarine to CH 2 protect dah waters of Lakes Biel, Geneva and Lake Constance.
And we advise you to watch out, be careful, because they, the Swiss, have cantons all over the CH. And we have heard rumors Liechtenstein is becoming "restless", confrontations may be brewing.
I'm not a crazyfool, that moniker is already taken.
#8
It was a $40bil deal that turned into a $70bil deal where deliveries of the first had been pushed back 5 years at the same time. Aussies were trying to retire their Collins class boats, and had to spend $20 bil on a life extension that they didn't want, but the French kept dragging things out. The French were building a copy of an already existing boat, with the nuke reactor removed. Couldn't get the AIP system to perform as promised.
They're going to end up getting British Astute class boats (built with US licensed tech).
BTW, at the same time the Aussies bought big on Tomahawks.
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No hulls were built. The subs are still in the design stage and the Aussies already spent $2 billion on that for a sub that is under-powered for their needs.
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Even though the project was not going as planned, there should have been a notice of termination before switching to another supplier. The transition to another supplier causes a lot of problems handled the way it was.
BLUF: Khalil ul Rahman Haqqani vs Baradar cage match, now with added henchmen shoot outs! It’s like they’re members of the Taiwanese parliament or something,
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The man the US and its allies hoped would be a moderate voice in Afghanistan’s Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... government has been sidelined after a dramatic shootout in the presidential palace in Kabul, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group’s most public face who led peace talks with the US, was physically attacked by a leader of the US terrorist-designated Haqqani Network in early September during talks at the palace over forming the cabinet, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing the incident.
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#4
Bullshit this site is now editing anti covid articles. 2 submissions I submitted not allowed.
Not necessarily - check for certain banned keywords first, as a fair amount of stuff I post has to have certain word changes in order to successfully post.
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The trifecta would be an excess (three?) of links, and inadvertent references to games of chance (or their venues) and sapphic romance (and probably other pr0ny stuff).
#7
Nobody here gets everything they submit published, including Fred. The only way to guarantee that all your submissions are seen by the world is to have your own blog.
"Civil, Well Reasoned Discourse" as stated on the front page header, is permitted and encouraged.
I am certain nearly everyone who follows this site is capable of determining what does, or does not fit this requirement. Examples of things not permitted would be a threat against someone's life, child phorn, racial bigotry, senseless argumentative behavior and name calling between viewers and posters.
Common sense and good judgement generally prevail, or it seems to have in the last two decades or so.
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/\ Indeed it does TWU. The JP is a valid source. Important to keep in mind here, the system is not perfect. On occasion, I have accidentally deleted articles. I do my best to recover them and re-post. Sometimes I am successful. When I am unable to re-post, I contact other MODS to assist. Generally, things can be recovered. If re-posting is impossible, I apologize and attempt to ask the poster to re-post or provide the appropriate link. Again, there is a haunting human element. AI is coming however. So there is hope.
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#11 - I frequently post JP articles. Sometimes there is something in the content that doesn't allow it to slip past the filter, and no matter how hard I search (I've been her near 20 years, so I know most of the offending words), I can't find the offending phrase or word. Life goes on.
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*not sure how many times I fretted a comment, only to find the offending word was both a surprise and a revelation.
Seen JP quite a few times. Check for three card monty or three cups and a monty.
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Sapphic sister triggers are the trickiest. Very surprising
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Skid,
I'll continue with my $100 annual donation to the site. It's still the best site I have seen. I'll continue to point out garbage when I see it.
#20
I spend about an hour each evening deleting multiple articles that duplicate information posted here previously or duplicating other articles on the same story — there is remarkable agreement on what is important enough to submit articles about! — and stacking as much as possible multiple articles giving additional information on the same story under one headline. Fred’s little Related search has been a big help there, significantly reducing the amount of time spent on this effort. At least a quarter to a third of my own articles get cut at this point, making me confident that I’m on the right trail with my choices.
If you want to do your own searches before submitting an article, there is a search button at the top of the list of most recent commenters in the right margin of of each page of the Burg.
Thank you all for this civil, well-reasoned, informative discussion of a topic of concern to us all.
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[REGNUM] An unknown person threw an explosive device on the premises of the Chinese Consulate General in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, O Antagonista reported on September 17.
According to journalists, the incident took place on the evening of September 16. CCTV cameras show how a man in black clothes pulled an object out of a bag and threw it in the direction of the diplomatic mission, and then ran away.
The device was defused by sappers who are now studying its fragments. The explosion damaged the gates of the consulate general. Nobody was hurt during the neutralization. Law enforcement agencies are trying to establish the identity of the offender.
As reported by IA REGNUM , in June 2020 in Rio de Janeiro, a man armed with a knife attacked the head office of the largest Brazilian television channel Globo. He took the journalist hostage and demanded a meeting with one of his colleagues.
[GREATERKASHMIR] The accused in National Conference leader Trilochan Singh Wazir's murder case were planning his killing for the past two-three months and planted fake evidence to mislead the police, taking inspiration from Bollywood movie Drishyam', officials said on Thursday.
The body of 67-year-old Wazir with the head wrapped in a plastic bag was found on September 9 in a washroom of a flat in Moti Nagar in west Delhi, which was taken on rent by his acquaintance Harpreet Singh (31), a native of Amritsar.
Police said they have arrested two people from Jammu -- Rajender Chaudhary alias Raju Ganja (33) and Balbir Singh alias Billa (67) -- while two suspects Harpreet Singh and Harmeet Singh are absconding. absconding beat feet
Several police teams have been formed to trace the absconding accused.
The four accused had planned to dump the body at a metro station or IGI airport and visited the places but couldn't succeed in their plan, police said.
Elaborating on how it all happened, police said that Harpreet had called his classmate Chaudhary to Delhi from Mumbai on August 14, assuring him of the job of a taxi driver here.
On the directions of Harpreet, he left Delhi on September 1 from Basai Darapur and went to Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and switched off his mobile number and start using another number in Jammu, they said.
On September 2, he collected Wazir's luggage from his house in Jammu and left for Delhi. He switched on his number again in Punjab and came to Basai Darapur on September 3 via a taxi, police said.
Chaudhary left the spot at around 11.30 am to collect his bag that was left in taxi (as per their planning) and returned from Kashmere Gate area at 5.30 pm, they said, adding that he remained at the spot with others co-accused Harpreet, Harmeet and Billa.
He, along with Harpreet and Harmeet went to the terrace and planned to kill Wazir.
Harpeet handed over one pistol to Harmeet. They came back and Harmeet allegedly shot Wazir who was already unconscious due to sedative given by them, police said.
Chaudhary, with Harpreet and Harmeet, cleaned the blood from the spot and the body was shifted to the washroom. Thereafter, they planned to dump the body at a metro station or IGI Airport and visited the places but couldn't succeed in their plan, the police said.
The accused planned the murder over the past two-three months on the lines of Bollywood movie Drishyam and created false evidence to mislead the police, a police brass hat said.
The call detail records analysis revealed that Harpreet called several numbers in Jammu after September 3, and one of the numbers was found registered in the name of Chaudhary's mother, the officer said, adding that later, Rajinder was arrested from his in-law's house on Tuesday.
During investigation, it had surfaced that in 1983, a triple murder took place in Jammu area in which one Kuldeep alias Pappi, who was Harpreet's maternal uncle, was killed using swords.
Wazir was arrested in that incident and was lodged in jail for around three-and-a-half-years, a police brass hat said.
The police said that facts are being verified, including whether Wazir's murder was related to that particular incident.
Hundreds of aid trucks have not returned from #Ethiopia’s war-hit #Tigray region, and their disappearance is “the primary impediment” to ramping up the humanitarian response, the #UN says.https://t.co/6sC0nU3Fm5
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... appeared Friday to have shut down the government’s ministry of women’s affairs and replaced it with a department notorious for enforcing strict religious doctrine during their first rule two decades ago.
Workers were seen raising a sign for the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice at the old Women’s Affairs building in the capital.
Several posts have appeared on Twitter in the last 24 hours showing women workers from the ministry protesting outside the building, saying they had lost their jobs.
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Women should not be having affairs! Knute the Muslims!
[GREATERKASHMIR] Militants on Friday evening rubbed out a non-local labourer in Nehama area of south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Kulgam district.
"Today at about 2055hrs Kulgam Police received information about a terror crime incident at Nehama area of Kulgam where bully boyz had fired upon a non-local labour. Senior coppers reached at the terror crime spot," a police front man said. Was it in front of a Home Depot?
"Preliminary investigation has revealed that bully boyz had fired indiscriminately upon a non-local labour identified as Shankar Kumar Chowdhary son of Khokha Chowdhary resident of Preetnagar Kathiyar Bihar at Nehama area of Kulgam. In this terror incident, he had sustained grievous bullet injuries and was immediately shifted to hospital for the treatment, however, doctors declared him brought dead," he added.
Police has started the paperwork but haven't done much else in this regard under relevant sections of law and taken up investigation.
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"You ain't from around here, er ya?"
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Has the war on international terrorism been lost? Have the US and its allies dropped out of the war on terror that they declared two decades ago? These are some of the questions raised by commentators across the globe last week as the US marked the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Many commentators answered both questions in the affirmative.
Yes, they said, terror groups are still operating in no fewer than 20 countries while start-up terror outfit have been able to carry out attacks in a number of Western countries including the United States. At the same time, the US has reduced its footprint in a number of countries that continue to shelter terrorist groups.
In some cases the "yes" answer came from professional America-bashers who miss no opportunity to portray the "Great Satan™" either as an earth-devouring monster or a wet mouse looking for shelter from a hailstorm of unpopularity.
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"These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion. The Taliban must act, and act immediately. They will hand over the terrorists, or they will share in their fate."
George W. Bush, Statement To Joint Session Of Congress September 20th 2001
The Taliban are stronger now than they were pre 9/11.
The West is paying danegeld to Taliban Afghanistan now which amount to official recognition and submission.
Sponsoring a mass fatality war crime attack on the US is a winning move.
Dismissing official statements by the POTUS made in the aftermath of such an attack as irrelevant bluster is a smart move.
[GREATERKASHMIR] Militants rubbed out a railway cop in Wanpoh area of south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Kulgam district on Friday.
Quoting a police brass hat, news agency GNS reported that holy warriors fired upon a railway constable identified as Bantu Sharma son of Nathji near Shamford School. He was shifted to to nearby hospital at death's door, where doctors declared him brought dead, the officer said.
Principal GMC Anantnag, Dr Iqbal Sofi told GNS that the said cop arrived as brought dead to the hospital.
Soon after the attack, the whole area was cordoned off to nab the attackers.
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Pakistani security forces and Bomb disposal squads conducting search operations and sanitising cricket stadium in Islamabad after New Zealand cancels cricket series with Pakistan owing to terror threats. Pakistan has been a global hub of terrorism. pic.twitter.com/ic9Hx6SD0t
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California (5,255) and Texas (4,481) will receive the largest numbers of the first wave, while smaller populated states like Oklahoma and Missouri will receive 1,800 and 1,200 respectively. Michigan, Florida and Georgia will both receive more than 1,000 Afghans each. New York will receive 1,143 and Arizona will receive 1,610.
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They are going to be Olympic Gold Medalists at non-assimilating. Let the games begin.
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Send them all to Ilhan Omar's district. After all, there are lots of Muslims there, Muslims always get along with each other, so everything should be fine. /sarcasm
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Law of the jungle. Woo Hoo!
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They will arrive there soon enough. The various peoples have seen what the blacks had done for years to gain power and influence. It is a deliberate effort to secure power for their people, no longer we the people.
Nannatt Waldrop, 37, is accused of boarding a yellow bus in the town of Center Point at 7:18 a.m. Tuesday morning and getting in a fight with the 11-year-old
Waldrop believed the alleged bully had been picking on her own child
A video of the scrap went viral and brought it to the attention of authorities, who arrested Waldrop
Waldrop is being charged with third-degree assault, trespassing on a school bus and disorderly conduct
Jarick Jermel Willis, 32, who practices African spirituality, allegedly threw his girlfriend's daughter off a Las Vegas apartment balcony because she was 'full of bad spirits'
After, the five-year-old girl's mother grabbed a gun to protect her and her son
During a struggle, Willis was shot and then ran off but was later arrested
He and the girl are still alive in hospitals, but Willis is listed in critical condition
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.
[Denver Post] 
Ref #11: I cringe at the thought of Kamala Harris drooling over anything.
[American Mind] I reject the terms of surrender offered by Jason D. Hill in his essay "Freedom From ’Blackness,’" recently published in The American Mind, in which he demands that blacks renounce their racial identity and "become a psychologically raceless people and open ourselves to the luminous potential of man and a new birth to the black individual as an individual." 
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jane Powell, the bright-eyed, operatic-voiced star of Hollywood’s golden age musicals who sang with Howard Keel in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and danced with Fred Astaire in "Royal Wedding," has died. She was 92.
[Just The News] While the Biden administration halted construction of the border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the United States is funding border security efforts for Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic trying to keep Afghan insurgents and refugees out.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out...
...Arabic for 
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...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...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...
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...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
...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...
Hezbollah
And just like that, the SOB's dropped the French Sub deal. 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The man the US and its allies hoped would be a moderate voice in Afghanistan’s .jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
