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First Men in the Moon (1964)
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Martha Hyer was an American actress. She is best remembered for her role as Gwen French in Some Came Running, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her autobiography, Finding My Way: A Hollywood Memoir, was published in 1990.
Born: August 10, 1924, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Died: May 31, 2014, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.
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Was Martha a Late or Early Bloomer ?
Did Martha Bathe ?
Did Martha Bear Arms ?
Did Martha Smoke ?
Was Martha 'Smoking' ?
Inquiring Minds Want to Know...
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#7 Was Martha a Late or Early Bloomer ?
Did Martha Bathe ?
Did Martha Bear Arms ?
Did Martha Smoke ?
Was Martha 'Smoking' ?
Inquiring Minds Want to Know...
...Left out: Did Martha Ever Put Anyone's Eyes Out?
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Any man getting within range of Martha had to keep his eyes open, or he'd get his eyes poked out!
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Women of that era appear to be a different species compared to the current crop of purple-haired, tatted manatees that pass for media stars.
[NPR] Young Afghans who recently fled their homeland joined with American soldiers to play a soccer game on a sunny fall day at the sprawling Fort McCoy military base in Wisconsin. The Afghan team had both boys and several girls — including a goalie who wore a black hijab and blue jeans.
They are among 13,000 Afghan refugees who escaped the Taliban forces in August now find themselves at this Army base, awaiting resettlement in communities across the nation.
Nearby, Afghan women hang laundry on chain link fences. Kids play frisbee or scoot by on bikes. Girls walk past hand in hand. Many grown women look out their window in their barracks.
Brig. Gen. Christopher Norrie heads the task force called Operation Allies Welcome. For Norrie and others, these Afghans are not refugees.
"We have guests here who have served and sacrificed with us, who helped us, many here previously wounded in combat — all hopeful for a better future," Norrie says.
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Nearby, Afghan women hang laundry on chain link fences. Kids play frisbee or scoot by on bikes. Girls walk past hand in hand. Many grown women look out their window in their barracks.
Teach 'em to moonshine and put their cars up on cinder blocks, we can turn them into hillbillies in a generation. I mean, they already got the tribal hill people thing down, they just need to learn the local idiom.
Snark aside, it will be interesting to see how this experiment in cultural transplantation works out. Since humans are involved, the results will be mixed. Probably the usual 80/20 with the weight on the bad side.
My money is still on Boulder for the measles outbreak.
[The Last Refuge] Earlier today, during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the Arizona vote outcome, representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ) questioned Maricopa County officials about their deletion of 2020 election data in order to avoid a state senate subpoena for election records.
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers and the boards vice chairman, Bill Gates, admitted they intentionally deleted election data to route it onto an archive file. The archives of the county records were not subpoenaed, that way the county could avoid sending the full 2020 election data to the auditors.
The admission takes place at 01:52 of the video testimony
[USBureauOfLaborStatistics] Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 194,000 in September,
Average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 19 cents to $30.85 in September, following large increases in the prior 5 months.
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The number of unemployed persons fell by 710,000 to 7.7 million.
The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) decreased by 496,000 in September to 2.7 million but is 1.6 million higher than in February 2020.
In September, 13.2 percent of employed persons teleworked because of the coronavirus pandemic, little changed from the prior month. The first two items are from the payroll report. The last three are from the household survey. That is why there is a disconnect this month. The post Covid economy is emerging slower than expected and, at least this month, wage gains are essentially all cancelled out by inflation.
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Talked to my tractor guy just back from a regional Kubota sales conference in Ft. Worth. The news was grim. While they can sell everything they can make (in Japan), it can't get here. Surplus scheduled for 2022 won't show up until 2023. Kubota has moved to a just-in-time inventory sales model. You buy one, they build it and ship it. No more sales off the lot.
the logistics problem you noted didn't show up on the 2021 GDP 2nd Q (ending 30 June) estimate released 1 Oct.
the initial estimate of the 2021 GDP 3rd Q (ending 30 Sept) is due in late Dec 2021
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Just-in-time manufacturing and logistics is a big contributor to the bottlenecks we're seeing.
If demand isn't smooth and predictable, the whole just-in-time, integrated demand & supply chain model collapses. Demand is now staggered, skittish, binge & bust.
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I recall in threat assessment analysis that one of the key metrics was the identification of "single point of failure nodes" and the design of systems around them that don't have alternatives. Just in time logistics and the insanity of a manufacturing chain linked across an ocean to a political enemy (China) is astonishing. Port throughput, labor shortages, covid insanity and concentration of virtually all trans-modal shipping points to a couple of ports, each run though a state (California) of massive over-regulation and congestion. You couldn't design a system more ideal for failure if any of the parts failed, let alone most of them. The oil spill from drift anchoring ships waiting a month for offload is just the icing on the cake. o use a favorite USMC expression, what a Jugf*ck!
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More likely he was loading the gun he had created.
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Printing you own prosthetic leg would be a cool project. Major Nerd Points!
Virginia and 19 other states filed a lawsuit against the federal government in an effort to prevent 3D gun plans from being distributed online
"3D gun plans" are just data files. Good luck stopping that!
Also worth noting is that you can make guns with regular tools. We were making guns back in colonial times, long before the invention of the 5-axis CNC milling machine.
Eight Marines and one sailor died in a July 2020 accident off California's coast
Their amphibious vehicle sank in a training exercise and the rescue was botched
Earlier this year a report found a multitude of errors in maintenance, training and rescue procedures contributed to the tragedy
On Wednesday two new reports - one by the Marines, one from the Navy - were published
The authors found that the commanders, while still to blame for the incident, were under intense and varied pressure from COVID and politics
The mother of one of the victims told The Washington Post she was unimpressed by the finger pointing
Marine Corps investigators found in March that the deaths were 'preventable,' and said that complacency, poor maintenance and inspections, and inadequate training all contributed to the tragedy.
But on Wednesday, the results of two new investigations led by the Marines and the Navy found that the commanders in charge of training were stressed out and struggling to deal with many competing demands put on them because of the pandemic.
Major General Robert Castellvi, who at the time was the commanding general of 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, was fired in June - the highest-ranking officer to face disciplinary action in wake of the disaster.
His firing came after that of Lt. Col. Michael J. Regner, commanding officer of Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, in October 2020, and Col. Christopher Bronzi, the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit's commanding officer, who was relieved of his command in March 2021.
In all, 12 Marines have been or will be punished for their roles in the accident, Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Ryan Bruce confirmed to Military.com.
Lt. Gen. Carl Mundy III, who led the Marines' investigation, said it would be 'a mistake to discount or overlook' the demands on the forces, which he said contributed to the many errors.
'The claims on their time and attention surfaced in a number of interviews with several senior officers who described the conditions during this period as second only to their experience in combat,' Mundy wrote.
He said that 'associated reverberations' from a coronavirus outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier had 'compressed and complicated available training opportunities' for the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit.
The Marines were also tasked with providing security for the USNS Mercy, a hospital ship that was deployed off the California coast to help with COVID-19 patients at the height of the pandemic.
Mundy also noted that the Marines had a number of other 'non-standard' missions at the time, including being sent to the U.S.-Mexico border for Trump's immigration patrols.
Finally, he said they were 'planning for major combat operations due to heightened tensions with Iran in January 2020.'
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The mother of one of the victims told The Washington Post she was unimpressed by the finger pointing
That's what *I* thought.
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"Inadequate training" and "demands on forces" - too much training time diverted to BS topics, and away from priorities like actual mission readiness.
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Oh. They were so upset by a laundry list of things which either hadn't happened or were inconsequential that they were rendered unable to perform the most basic, essential tasks. Must be Hell wringing your hands over what might be. Perhaps John Basilone had something to say on that topic.
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You know who was "under intense and varied pressure... from politics"?
Eisenhower.
Yet he was ready to take sole responsibility if D-Day failed.
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" “Stress Control Cards” which were the equivalent of a wallet-based mood ring. the recruit or soldier could put their finger on a special square, which would turn colors to indicate a range of stress levels, from “relaxed” to “most stressed.” " In today's services perhaps the Clinton thing still exists. I can hear it now; Come on man, chill. The response would be epic.
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"We just can't stop him!"
Publicly announce he's got no influence, that Joe is sick of his corruption and disowns his son. Let the law take care of him, instead of sheltering him.
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[YNet] - Russia is set to host the Taliban and other Afghan factions for talks later this month, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday, in a move that reflects Moscow's efforts to expand its clout.
Zamir Kabulov, the Kremlin envoy on Afghanistan, said there will be a meeting of the so-called "Moscow format" talks involving the Taliban and various other Afghan parties in Moscow on Oct. 20. He didn't say who would represent the Taliban.
In remarks carried by Russian news agencies, Kabulov also said that diplomats from Russia, the United States, China and Pakistan will hold talks on Afghanistan this month. Russian collision?
What on earth do they hope to accomplish? The previous Afghan government has already surrendered.
[REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS] Cybersecurity experts who held lucrative Pentagon and homeland security contracts and high-level security clearances are under investigation for potentially abusing their government privileges to aid a 2016 Clinton campaign plot to falsely link Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... to Russia and trigger an FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... investigation of him and his campaign, according to several sources familiar with the work of Special Counsel John Durham.
Durham is investigating whether they were involved in a scheme to misuse sensitive, nonpublic Internet data, which they had access to through their government contracts, to dredge up derogatory information on Trump on behalf of the Clinton campaign in 2016 and again in 2017, sources say — political dirt that sent FBI Sherlocks on a wild goose chase. Prosecutors are also investigating whether some of the data presented to the FBI was faked or forged.
These sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive law enforcement matter, said Durham’s Sherlocks have subpoenaed the contractors to turn over documents and testify before a federal grand jury hearing the case. The Sherlocks are exploring potential criminal charges including giving false information to federal agents and defrauding the government, the sources said.
The campaign plot was outlined by Durham last month in a 27-page indictment charging former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann with making a false report to the FBI. The document cites eight individuals who allegedly conspired with Sussmann, but does not identify them by name.
The sources familiar with the probe have confirmed that the leader of the team of contractors was Rodney L. Joffe, who has regularly advised the Biden White House on cybersecurity and infrastructure policies. Until last month he was the chief cybersecurity officer at Washington tech contractor Neustar Inc., which federal civil court records show was a longtime client of Sussmann at Perkins Coie, a prominent Democratic law firm recently subpoenaed by Durham. Joffe, 66, has not been charged with a crime.
Neustar has removed Joffe’s blog posts from its website. "He no longer works for us," a spokeswoman said.
A powerful and influential player in the tech world, Joffe tasked a group of computer contractors connected to the Georgia Institute of Technology with finding "anything" in Internet data that would link Trump to Russia and make Democratic "VIPs happy," according to an August 2016 email Joffe sent to the researchers. The next month, the group accused Trump of maintaining secret backchannel communications to the Kremlin through the email servers of Russia-based Alfa Bank. Those accusations were later determined to be false by the FBI, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Justice Department inspector general and a Senate intelligence panel.
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I really think the only reason Durham wasn't shut down on Bidet's arrival in the White House is that some of his handlers love keeping the Clinton and Bath House crime families wondering...
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Names to remember: names Rodney Joffe, Neustar Inc, Steven Terrell, Mark Wauck, Lisa Hook, Packet Forensics, April Lorenzen, Zetalytics LLS, Jean Camp, Paul Vixje, David Dagon, Manos Atonikakis.
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Who needs battleships when the LCS class is available, engines permitting?
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Warships with one gun, and an automated one, just seem to be planned for failure. As long as it works and systems are optimal great, but redundancy just seems to make sense, as does a fully manual mode as a final backup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-inch/38-caliber_gun
[FOXNEWS] Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, locked in a margin-of-error race with Democratic former Gov. Terence McAuliffe this fall, told Fox News he is not surprised his opponent admitted President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...... 's popularity is collapsing in the Old Dominion.
On "The Story", host Martha MacCallum noted Biden won Virginia by more than 10 points, and contrasted that with McAuliffe's admission during a leaked videoconference with Democratic activists that "headwinds from Washington" and "Biden [being] unpopular in Virginia" could hurt his campaign if they do not get out the vote.
McAuliffe, a longtime confidant of Bill and Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... who preceded term-limited incumbent Gov. Ralph Coonman Northam Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He has a fondness for wearing blackface. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all? , is leading Youngkin by 4 points or less in a state that recently saw its legislature flip Democratic, and hasn't had a Republican governor or U.S. senators in a decade.
"President Biden is unpopular because he’s failing as our president," said Youngkin.
"We watched what happened in Afghanistan. He absolutely abandoned Americans and our military and allies; Afghans that had been shoulder to shoulder with us. There is a complete failure at the border. He’s ruining our economy."
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The Syrian-Kurd side of this story from yesterday.
[NPASYRIA] Yesterday on Wednesday, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) handed over a number of children and wives of ISIS members to German and Danish delegations.
The delegation consisted of Kristoffer Vivike, Head of Department for Consular Assistance and Crisis Management, Manja Kliese, Head of Division Consular Assistance for Germans Abroad, and Kurt George Stöckl-Stillfried, Director for Consular Affairs and Migration, along with security advisors in order to repatriate their citizens.
Abdul Karim Omar, co-chair of the AANES Department of Foreign Relations, and other officials of the department received the visiting delegations.
The German delegation received 23 children and eight women who were in Roj camp in northeastern Syria, after the two parties signed a document bearing the slogan of the Autonomous Administration.
In an exclusive interview with North Press, Stöckl-Stillfried said that he will come back to northeast Syria again to repatriate their citizens.
He thanked the Autonomous Administration for its efforts regarding "this humanitarian mission."
For his part, Vivike said that he is in Qamishli to "repatriate 14 children and three women from Roj Camp."
"Treatment will be provided to the children, and women will face criminal charges," he added.
The Danish official thanked the Autonomous Administration for the beneficial dialogue about the prevention of re-appearance of ISIS.
Following the meeting, the delegations left the city of Qamishli accompanying the women and kiddies.
Late in June, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander-in-Chief, Mazloum Abdi addressed a speech to the meeting of US-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS that was held on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in Rome.
Abdi called on the Coalition to repatriate those people to their homelands, support education and rehabilitation/de-radicalization programs, and support stability and economic recovery in liberated areas to address the root causes of extremism.
Tabloid-style daily Bild reported that [German] foreign ministry and police officials landed in the region early Wednesday on a US military plane, which then brought the group to Kuwait before they boarded a flight to Frankfurt.
The women are aged between 30 and 38 and come from several regions around Germany, Der Spiegel weekly reported.
German federal prosecutors said three women — whom it identified only as Solale M., Romiena S. and Verena M. in line with local privacy rules — were arrested on arrival at Frankfurt airport. They are accused of membership in a foreign terror organization, taking the children with them against their fathers’ will and violations of their duties of care and education.
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[AmericanThinker] Affirmative Action: Obviously a euphemism for institutionalized racism. Apparently, it's OK to discriminate against people of European descent rather than blindly consider merit. And in the absence of merit, mediocracy becomes more prevalent. This is the left's preferred remedy, rather than allow the "clients" of this practice better access to quality education so they can have more marketable skills.
Minimum Wage: Based on the myth that standards of living can be elevated by government edict rather than increases in productivity. Advocates for minimum wage rely on the slander that employers (AKA job-creators) exploit their workers, and they confuse the price of a worker's time with its value. The market for labor is not at all different from other markets: prices are determined by the tension between supply and demand. Personal experience: We hired the niece of one of our regular workers to come in after school and tidy things up. Among other things, I had to show her how to use a broom. After a while, the local do-gooders raised the minimum wage, and we had to let her go — and then we hired a bonded and insured janitorial service that came in after we closed and did better work, all for about the same money.
Homelessness: Another euphemism, this time for conspicuous vagrancy. Now they're using the term "unhoused," while I prefer "street bums." The explanation proffered for this sacred cow is a shortage of affordable housing. It just so happens that all housing is affordable, or else it's vacant. What good is a vacant property to its owner? Taxes; insurance; and, often, debt service are still being charged. Meanwhile, substance-abusing useless adults are flocking to the blue cities, particularly those that enjoy mild weather, largely because of the political nincompoopery that embraces their deplorable condition. Cities have always had skid rows, but this used not to be such a problem. Even losers had enough of a sense of shame to stay out of sight — eventually, perhaps, even repairing their lives and moving on. Now it's a protected life style.
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Off topic, but:
Noting that the current trend is that we are supposed to eat 'organic' food, because frankenfood bad!
Has anyone else wondered about the dissonance of them pushing "synthetic meat" products loaded with chemical additives?
Just wondering.
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In my high school chem class we were taught that 'organic' meant 'of biologic origin and containing carbon.'
1. Abortion. "I have the right to choose what my body does." However, this doesn't apply to COVID vaccines and masks.
2. The election was a fraud and rigged and Biden is not the legitimate president (a fraud).
3. CRT
4. The staged border crisis.
5. Energy independence
6. Climate change is a fraud.
7. The "Green New Deal" is a fraud.
8. The Dems and the Russia, Russia, Russia fraud.
9. Other frauds.
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I didn't mean to imply that "energy independence" is a fraud. If you toss it into a conversation as something good, you are certain to invite a screaming leftist fit.
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...Brewster was the proverbial one-hit wonder, and that's being generous with the term. The F2A (aka Buffalo)was a screamer in prototype form and the USN's first monoplane fighter, but when little details like radio, armor, etc. were added, it turned into a slug. One commander of a unit equipped with Buffalos stated in an official report that any pilot assigned to one should be considered lost as soon as he left the ground. OTOH, the Finns(!) got some amazing results out of theirs and managed to build a wooden-winged homegrown version that had impressive performance but never got into service.
Brewster also built a variant of the Vought F4U Corsair called the F3A Battler...which was so bad that the USN redlined it from the most basic combat maneuvers (wings kept falling off)and only used it as a limited trainer, and the ones delivered to the Royal Navy apparently went straight to storage and may never have been flown in ANY capacity. It was also notable for a horrifying run of foreign object problems during construction, bad enough that in desperation the Brewster management built a jig that flipped each completed F3A upside down to pop out any potential FOD.
Their last plane was the XA-32 (possibly to have been nicknamed Bear) a single engine attack ship that - had it met its most basic specs - might have been nice to have around had it gotten into service in time. It too was a complete and utter flop, and in 1944 - with the US still needing every single aircraft it could turn out - Brewster ceased aircraft production. They held on until '46 until being quietly dissolved.
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Thanks for the interesting video. I had read that the Finns were satisfied with the F2A Brewster Buffalo after stripping all of the carrier equipment out -- after losing weight it was quite nimble.
[HOTAIR] From the beginning of the pandemic, many of us realized that there was no easy answer to the eviction situation with so many people suddenly out of work. When the moratorium ended, either the delinquent renters would be unable to catch up and be evicted or the landlords would be unable to recover their loss rental incomes and go bankrupt. The only way to avoid the situation would be to dump the problem on the backs of the taxpayers and bail everyone out.That’s exactly what happened. In the pandemic rescue package, nearly fifty billion dollars was allocated to send to delinquent tenants so they could pay off their landlords. That money is finally flowing out and the crisis in many areas has been largely averted. Also, as the AP notes, many landlords who could serve eviction notices right now have been voluntarily holding off if the tenant has applied for the federal funding. That generosity is probably cheaper than going through all of the hassle of a court proceeding to evict someone.
Another factor is the fact that there are still localized eviction moratoriums in place in some states and cities. But assuming most of those people also apply for federal aid through the rescue deal, it’s possible that most of them will see their situations sorted out as well.
Yes, there were certainly still some evictions taking place. The AP features a story about a woman who is a grandmother and an exotic dancer (?) who was evicted in Tucson recently, along with her two children and her grandchild. She’s currently staying with relatives while applying for grant money to get a new apartment. I’m sure there are many more of those stories out there.
So what lesson should we take away from all of this? Was it really a wise investment of $50 billion in taxpayer money to settle the debts of these renters and those who were delinquent on their mortgage payments? I suppose the government has done far stupider things with our money in the past, and at least real, working-class people (in many cases) are benefitting from it. And since it was the government’s decision to shut down the economy and cause everyone to lose their jobs to begin with, perhaps that’s where at least some of the responsibility should have been placed all along.
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[OneIndia] Two teachers have been killed by holy warriors in Srinagar. The incident comes two days after holy warriors rubbed out three civilians in Jammu and 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.... Today's incident took place in the Eidgah area of Srinagar. The two teachers who were killed have been identified as Satinder Kaur and Deepak Chand. Satinder was the principal of the school.
Two days after killing 3 civilians, holy warriors kill 2 teachers in Srinagar
"At about 11:15 am, holy warriors rubbed out two school teachers at Sangam Eidgah in Srinagar district," a police official said.
On Tuesday, The Resistance® Front killed three civilians including a prominent chemist in Jammu and Kashmir. In the first incident, holy warriors fired at a chemist, M L Bindro at the Iqbal Park area of Srinagar. He succumbed on the way to hospital. The incident took place at around 7 pm.
Releasing a statement after the attacks, spokesperson for The Resistance® Front, Umar Wani said that the group had carried out three assassinations in North Kashmir. He said that Bindro was killed because he was an RSS worker.
In the second attack the TRF killed one Virender Paswan. The outfit termed him as a non-local informer of the Intelligence Bureau. The third attack was on Shafi Lone, whom the TRF termed as an informer. The attack took place at the Shahgund area of Hajin in Bandipora district.
In its statement, the TRF said that it would continue with attacks on RSS workers and non-local informers. We will continue with the attacks and strike fear in the hearts of these people the statement also read.
Investigations by the police are underway and a search has been launched for the terrorists.
The TRF is an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba which was formed last year. The TRF has largely local holy warriors and since the day of its formation, it has targeted Hindus and people which it thinks are informers of the police. An official tells OneIndia that the intention is to drive fear into the minds of the people. The TRF has specifically targeted Hindus and those in support of peace in Jammu and Kashmir, the officer also said.
[AnNahar] Now the uncontested rulers of Afghanistan, the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... have set their sights on stamping out the scourge of narcotics addiction, even if by force.
At nightfall, the battle-hardened fighters-turned-coppers scour the capital's drug-ravaged underworld. Below Kabul's bustling city bridges, amid piles of garbage and streams of filthy water, hundreds of homeless men addicted to heroin and methamphetamines are rounded up, beaten and forcibly taken to treatment centers. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named gained rare access to one such raid last week.
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The Taliban may go after Afghan users, but its attack on growers will greatly displease the Pakistan military ISI. That could be breaking rice bowls.
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Both of these people are fools, and are full of confidence about their totally biased opinions. afghanistan, like many African countries, consisted for many centuries as collection of self governing tribes, with a loose general government. This kind of structure lasted for centuries, because the people were reasonably happy with it. The enjoyed their festivals and celebrations as well as their life styles, though by modern standards they mostly lived in poverty. The good thing about it was it was stable,. The bad thing about it to Western eyes was that it wast too stable., and did not allow progress and prosperity.
The trouble with Western attempts to change these things, (which includes the Russian attempts) have been both arrogant and inept at all levels. They have led to much more harm to the citizens than help.
neither seems to realize that pure democracy is not the American system and does not work at all in a tribal society especially when there is a dominant tribe. It exists nowhere. Giving power to a new elite corrupts it and corruption at the top leads to corruption that spreads throughout the society and the corruption of the Clintons and Biden is doing the same thing to us now.
Scott Horton seems to believe Russian propaganda completely. His knowledge of history is weak, while Kristol is senile.
The two parts of Ukraine have very different histories and many in the East speak Russian; they sometimes behave like different tribes, Rivaly between their leaders is no surprise. Ihe present elected leader of Ukraine a Jew but to Horton it is a den of Nazis.
Have either wondered how the two most violent countries in the 1940s became the two most peaceful and humble people ever since?
The traditional views of the first world war are all wrong. a ccording to the latest theories. It was the German General Staff that forced the war on everyone.
And do yo know why? Because it knew that it had a fantastic advantage over the Russians that could disappear at any moment.
And do you know what it was?
The Russians, in modernizing their army had adopted use of the radio, a relatively knew invention, and made all of its communications through radio signals. In their innocence about it, they neglected to encode their messages, and the Germans were able to hear them all,. They knew exactky where all Russian forces were and where they were going. That information mmmadeit possible for them to disrupt all Russian plans and to attack the Russian armies at exactly where they could not resist. The battles of Tannenberg and the MAsurian Lakes, and all other battles between them were easy German victories. because of this advantage. And the German general staff feared that the Russians at any moment could remedy their blunder.
The war in the West took place entirely in France and Belgium, and left Germany untouched. Not only that, the Germans lost their allies, Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria Hungary before the American offensive in the Argonne began.
They were trying to arrange peace then. Wilson was actually pro-German. and his 14 points were created in Germany. He only got pushed into the war because of the abominable Anti-American behavior of German agents in this country, including sabotage and the famous Zimmerman telegram attempting to recruit Mexico as German ally
That Germany started the war and should pay nothing to countries which had suffered the most from it.
The Germans also took Lenin to Russia to overthrow the Kerensky democracy. and surrender to the Germans.
Our betrayals of allies started with Chang Kai Shek. Our Chinese exoerts all hated him and loved Mao, and were delighted when we stook his best armies and brought them to the cities of the North while the Communists occupied the countryside. Chang would not agree to Mao's terms, and we cut off supplies to those armies. This left them to starve or make terms with Mao.
All the academic experts were delighted, It was only when millions starved to death in Mao's paradise, while Taiwan under the hated Chang became an economic powerhouse, did anyone realize that Chang was right and the idiot Mao was wrong.
the current leaders of China seem to have forgotten that.
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Bill Kristol is merely a “Conservative”. After driving The Weekly Standard into bankruptcy, and sucking up tens of millions of Progressive dollars in a failed attempt to attract conservative readers with a replacement, he showed his true colours last November:
Not presumably forever; not perhaps for a day after Nov. 3, 2020; not on every issue or in every way until then. But for the time being one has to say: We are all Democrats now.
The man is an intellectual fraud. As for the other person, I’m afraid I regard professional Libertarians with as much respect as Mr. Kristol. Nor does an internet search suggest he has anything illuminating to say.
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Libertarian = "Legalized marijuana is the answer to everything."
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Clearly in love with sound of their own voice.
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As a Libertarian (note the large "L"), I have mixed feelings about Scott Horton and his LI (Libertarian Institute), whose podcasts I listen to regularly. There is good and bad to be found there from the perspective of a reasonable American Libertarian.
First, I think it's important to recognize that the LI probably gets money from the Russians. It literally shares some staff with Russian Today. Which isn't always 100% a bad thing; but it bears keeping in mind, as it's reflected in the LI's reporting of international affairs. Which can be objectively extremely illuminating, if also extremely biased.
And what is that bias? It's simple, really. Scott Horton has spent so many years criticizing the United States military, Saudi Arabia, and Israel that he's lost all objectivity and gone completely around the bend. He rails tirelessly against both, but ignores or glosses over abuses by China, Russia, Iran, the Palestinians, or anyone else. I don't think he even does it on purpose at this point. It's become second nature to him.
Of course, Horton isn't the only person who works at the LI, and not everyone there is in lock step with him. But when the Libertarian convention happens next year in Reno, I'm going to go and see what I can do personally about sidelining Horton. His voice isn't helpful to anyone right now.
Oh, on a side note: I don't smoke pot. Or drink. Or do anything else that would get in the way of reading Ludwig Von Mises, Murry Rothbard, or Hans Hoppe from the quite of my library.
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Thank you for that thoughtful and sensible insider’s perspective, Secret Master. You’ve ever been a quiet voice for sense here at Rantburg. Good luck in Reno.
Uncle Sugar’s been tossing around money like budgets don’t matter.
[AnNahar] The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will "provide up to $29 million to deliver reliable energy across all regions of Leb ...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them... ," the U.S. Embassy said on Wednesday.
The Embassy added in a statement that USAID has awarded a contract to IMC Worldwide, Inc. to implement the Innovation for Affordable and Renewable Energy for All (INARA) Activity under the Initiative to Deliver Essential Assistance and Services (IDEAS) Project that is designed to provide up to $29 million to deliver reliable energy across all regions of Lebanon.
"The USAID is seeking to increase the supply of electricity generation at the community level and to increase the cost-effectiveness, eco-friendliness, sustainability, and reliability of power supply, while clarifying and strengthening the enabling environment for renewable energy-based electrical power generation," the Embassy said.
"We are excited to introduce this new project, which will target all regions of Lebanon and improve the delivery of basic services," Eileen Devitt, USAID Mission Director, affirmed.
"We believe that projects like this are important to energize communities to seek out affordable, sustainable, local solutions to challenges they face every day," Devitt added.
Since 2012, USAID has implemented more than 15 green energy ... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The green in the term refers to the vast number of dollars that have been thrown at the problem since 1973 with indifferent results... solutions to keep homes and businesses lit, reduce fuel consumption by 30 percent, and minimize pollution for nearly one million people.
More than 20 projects are still being implemented across Lebanon to provide backup electricity and access to water.
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An el lined with beaucoup barbed wire,
The train ran from Cairo to Tyre
For our neighbors to use
While enjoying the views,
And we called it the Green Ghetto Flyer.
For 'tis but a short step from envy to aspiration, and thence to cooperation, prosperity, and peace, glorious lasting peace, throughout the Middle East!
I think Zelensky is being a bit unfair. Russian authorities recognize and criticize Soviet actions between 1917 and now.
[Rusvesna] On October 6, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke at a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacres.
So, Zelensky called Babi Yar "a place that God left forever, and the devil bypasses." And he said that "the Holocaust pandemic began here."
Further, the president described in paints how people were killed "on an industrial scale."
He quoted the announcement: "All Kiev Jews to come here" (presumably, we are talking about the station where the Jews of Kiev were gathered).
In addition, Zelensky said that in addition to Jews, gypsies, Ukrainians, and prisoners of war were killed. He said that Babi Yar is "a monument to a man who kills."
The head of the Ukrainian state also added that Ukraine is a state where people are important, not ideology (unlike the Nazis). Zelensky also said that the current event is a "test for like-minded people."
At the same time, Zelensky could not resist criticizing the USSR. He said that the Soviet authorities poured waste into Babi Yar, "They simply tried not to notice the tragedy."
The President reproached that stadiums and other facilities were being built near this place. And they did not build a "worthy memorial complex."
The monument to "Soviet citizens and prisoners of war soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army, shot by the German fascists in Babi Yar" was erected back in 1976.
[AlAhram] Iran's state TV reported Thursday that speedboats belonging to the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard have intercepted a U.S. vessel in the Persian Gulf. A U.S. Navy front man said he was not aware of any such encounter at sea over the past days.
The region remains on edge over Iran's escalating nuclear program. Talks in Vienna to revive Tehran's now-tattered 2015 accord with world powers have stalled since June, with no date set for their resumption.
Thursday's Iranian report aired footage that the TV said was filmed from one of the Guard speedboats. It shows a vessel with the U.S. flag and several personnel on board as the speedboat appears to be chasing it.
A voice is heard in Farsi, saying: ``Keep chasing them.'' The report did not say when the encounter took place.
So it could have been years ago?
Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, a front man for the U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, said he wasn't aware of any sort of unsafe interaction with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in the last two days.
So it could indeed have happened years ago.
The report is the first such report in recent months.
In May, the Guard rejected the U.S. Navy's claim that fast-approaching Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz sparked a tense encounter a day after the U.S. said the Revolutionary Guard sent 13 armed speedboats too close to U.S. Navy vessels in the Strait.
The United States at the time said a Coast Guard cutter fired warning shots when two of the Iranian boats came dangerously close.
The 2015 nuclear deal saw Tehran drastically limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. In 2018, then-President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... unilaterally withdrew America from the accord, raising tensions across the wider Middle East and sparking a series of attacks and incidents.
With the talks in Vienna now stalled, Iran has breached limits set by the accord and is enriching small amounts of uranium to its closest-ever levels to weapons-grade purity as its stockpile continues to grow. Iran says its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes.
رهگیری قایق های تندرو آمریکایی توسط شناورهای سپاه
نیروی دریایی سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی با انتشار تصاویری, قدرت رهگیری و اشراف کامل خود را بر نیروهای امریکایی و بیگانه در خلیج فارس نشان داد. pic.twitter.com/o6wZYeLPkc
From October 1, Russia has doubled electricity supplies to China via a link across Amur River, helping to relieve the current energy shortages in northeast China. https://t.co/eeDZtSHS2d
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[REGNUM] In Ankara, a Russian citizen was detained, wanted by Interpol for his participation in the terrorist organization "Islamic State." This was reported on October 7 by the Hurriyet newspaper.
The special operation to detain the militant was carried out by the Turkish security forces. It is known that the terrorist entered Turkey illegally and was in the capital. The police found the house where a member of the radical group was hiding.
During the search, law enforcement officers seized more than four thousand dollars, eight thousand rubles and more than 16 thousand Turkish lira, as well as numerous digital materials and fake Syrian identity cards issued in the name of the offender.
It is also noted that in relation to the terrorist wanted by Interpol, who is accused of committing crimes on the territory of Syria, a "red notice" was published, requiring, if he is caught, immediate arrest and extradition.
As reported by IA REGNUM , in September in Ingushetia, four extremists who were preparing terrorist attacks in the region were detained. All of them were supporters of ISIS.
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[JustTheNews] "A crisis that began at our southern border now extends beyond to every state and requires immediate action before the situation worsens," a group of 26 governors wrote to the president recently.
On Wednesday, 11 Republican governors are joining forces in Mission, Texas to oppose what they see as Biden administration open border policies that have wreaked havoc both on their respective states and the U.S. collectively.
Their announcement comes after they, as part of a group of 26 governors, called on President Joe Biden to end his open border policies and requested a meeting at the White House — to which they have not received a response.
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[IsraelTimes] Two prisoners in Ramon jail placed mattresses in the shower room, set them alight, after wardens tried to move security prisoners between facilities in wake of Gilboa prison escape.
Prosecutors on Thursday charged two members of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group with setting fires in the Ramon prison in southern Israel last month, amid the escape of six Paleostinian security prisoners.
Omar ar-Roub, who is serving a life sentence, and Hammouda Zaika placed mattresses in a prison shower room, set them on fire using a lighter, which resulted in damage to the walls of the toilet cubicle, as well as the cellblock, according to the indictment.
The unrest in the prison, as well as others around the country, came as the Israel Prisons Service issued new restrictions on inmates following the escape of six security prisoners from a high-security Gilboa prison on September 6.
At the time, the Prisons Service began to move PIJ inmates between facilities following the jailbreak, as five of the escapees were members of the terror group.
Two cells in different wings of Ramon prison were set on fire on September 8, according to the IPS. Both blazes were brought under control after a short while.
Earlier that day, at least seven cells were set on fire in Ketziot prison, also located in Israel’s Negev desert, by members of the PIJ after they had refused to be moved between sections.
Prosecutors on Thursday said that if the prison guards had not managed to extinguish the fire quickly, "the fire could have spread throughout the prison and the incident could have ended in terrible disaster and loss of life."
The six prisoners — five of them members of the PIJ, along with notorious Fatah terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi — beat feet from Gilboa Prison, making their way out through their cell’s drainage system and an empty space underneath the prison. They had reportedly begun digging in November, using plates, panhandles, building debris, and part of a metal hanger.
Four of them were captured in northern Israel within the first week, but two others made their way into the northern West Bank city of Jenin and hid out there until their arrest on September 19.
The escape exposed a series of lapses at the prison, including a failure to learn lessons from previous escape attempts and several operational blunders such as unmanned watchtowers and sleeping guards.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has arrested a key conspirator in the Vizhinjam arms case.
The agency arrested Satkunam alias Sabesan, a Sri Lankan national in connection with the case. The NIA said that he was a former member of the intelligence wing of the LTTE
...the Tamil Tigers, formally the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is a plain vanilla Socialist ethnic liberation movement in northern Sri Lanka, crushed in 2009 after a 26-year civil war. Their claim to fame was normalizing the civilian suicide bomber, subsequently copied with great enthusiasm by various jihadi movements. Despite having been crushed, the remnants pop up from time to time, because revolution is much more fun for some than getting a job and getting on with life...
and was residing at Valsaravakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was involved in arms and drug trafficking from Pakistain to Sri Lanka. The funds were being used for the revival of the LTTE, the NIA said.
The case was registered by the NIA based on the complaint by the NCB that five AK 47 rifles and thousand rounds of 9mm ammunition were seized along with 300kgs of heroin off Minicoy coast upon interception of the fishing vessel Ravihansi by the Coast Gaurd on March 18 2021.
The probe has revealed that the accused had arranged conspiracy meetings of LTTE sympathisers in India.
He had also played a crucial role in routing the proceeds of drug trafficking to former LTTE cadres in Sri Lanka for the revival of the outfit.
[AlAhram] Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Thursday named a new government, led by billionaire tycoon Aziz Akhannouch whose National Rally of Independents (RNI) trounced incumbent Islamists in elections last month.
The 24-member cabinet including seven women is largely made up of technocrats, with foreign affairs minister Nasser Bourita keeping his role.
The monarch "led a ceremony... at the royal palace in Fez, appointing the members of the new government," the palace said in a statement.
The list of ministers included members of the liberal RNI and the election runner-up the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), both considered close to the palace, and the conservative Istiqlal party.
Bourita and interior minister Abdelouafi Laftit are independents.
The RNI won 102 of parliament's 395 seats in the September 8 polls, sweeping away the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) which had headed the governing coalition for a decade but took just 13 seats.
Businessman Akhannouch -- worth $2 billion according to Forbes -- has led the RNI since 2016.
His party is considered close to the palace and has been part of all coalition governments for the past 23 years, except during a brief period between 2012 and 2013.
Following his win, Akhannouch pledged to improve conditions for citizens of Morocco, where entrenched social inequalities have been exacerbated by the pandemic.
The new government will also take office amid increased tensions with regional rival Algeria, which cut diplomatic ties with Rabat in August over what it said were "hostile actions".
Morocco called the move "completely unjustified" and based on "false, even absurd pretexts".
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[REGNUM] The presence of the guard of honor of servicemen at the wedding of Georgy Romanov and Victoria Bettarini in St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg on October 1 was previously agreed with the military and sanctioned by the commander of the Western Military District. This was stated by the director of the office of the "House of Romanov" Alexander Zakatov.
"With regard to the participation of the honor guard, a corresponding instruction was given by the commander of the troops of the Western Military District. The presence of the guard of honor did not violate any laws, norms, statutes and traditions," Zakatov said in an interview with Interfax.
He is confident that the presence of the guard of honor at the private ceremony "showed the whole world that historical traditions are respected in Russia."
According to Zakatov, Georgy Mikhailovich and the head of the "House of Romanovs" Maria Vladimirovna have been citizens of Russia since 1992 and "always show great respect for the state power of Russia and its Armed Forces."
Let us remind you that an official investigation was launched in the Western Military District in connection with the participation of active military personnel in the wedding ceremony.
[REGNUM] Officials of the Western Military District were brought to disciplinary responsibility after the military of this unit was sent to the wedding ceremony of a descendant of the Romanov dynasty as a guard of honor.
As reported on October 6, citing a source in the Russian Ministry of Defense RIA Novosti, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu brought to disciplinary responsibility officials of the Western Military District, who made decisions "on the allocation of military personnel of the commandant's unit for a private event."
It is specified that the event took place on October 1 at St. Isaac's Cathedral (St. Petersburg). In the Western Military District, an official investigation was conducted in connection with the incident, "as a result of which violations by individual officials of the requirements of the governing documents were established."
[AlAhram] An Israeli judge's conclusion this week that "quiet" Jewish prayer should be allowed at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, revered by Moslems and Jews, has stirred Paleostinian furore over the Jerusalem flashpoint.
Jews refer to the site as the Temple Mount, referencing two temples that were said to have stood there in antiquity. al-Aqsa is at the heart of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, falling within Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, but administered by the Waqf Islamic affairs council.
The Waqf called the Tuesday ruling by Jerusalem Magistrates' Court judge Billha Yahalom an illegitimate "provocation," while Paleostinian prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh warned Israel against any moves to enforce it.
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[AnNahar] Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Thursday that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... is ready to rebuild Beirut port and that Iranian firms can build two power plants in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... within 18 months.
With what funds?
He stated in a joint presser with his Lebanese counterpart Abdullah Bou Habib that "Iranian specialized companies are willing to build two power plants with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts in Beirut and the South within 18 months."
He added that his country is "fully ready to rebuild Beirut port if the Lebanese side asks for that."
Abdollahian voiced his remarks after meeting with President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... and Prime Minister Najib Miqati, on his first visit to Lebanon since taking his post after Iran’s presidential elections this summer.
[DW] Speaking to DW, former Afghan MP Mariam Solaimankhil blamed Pakistan, particularly its spy agencies, for the Taliban's seizure of power in Afghanistan. She also stressed that "people around the former president Ghani" brought the country down.
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[NewsFront] Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties (CPVS) in Syria, said that the militants of the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham terrorist group (banned in the Russian Federation) are preparing a staging of a "chemical attack" in Syria.
The representative of the Ministry of Defense noted that information that the militants are preparing provocations in the southern part of the Idlib de-escalation zone has been received by the Central Command Center for a month.
"According to available information, the terrorists are planning to stage a 'chemical attack' on the contact line in the areas of the settlements of Kansafra and Kdura with the involvement of the pseudo-humanitarian organization "White Helmets" and local media resources for staged filming," Kulit said.
The actions of the militants are aimed at accusing the government forces of Syria of "using poisonous substances against the civilian population." Russians and Syrians long have maintained that chemical attacks which sparked a response from NATO were staged events.
[Eater] To be able to stop at almost any Southern gas station and have a good, inexpensive meal is an American tradition rooted in Black survival and entrepreneurship
Scanning the aisles of small, locally owned gas stations in the South is like taking a step back in time. Few other places stock old-school Necco Wafers, Mary Janes, Bit-O-Honeys, and Chick-O-Sticks alongside foods like pickled eggs, pickled sausages, gizzards, barbeque, and pound cake. At Dodge’s Southern Style, a gas station between Ravenel and Johns Island, South Carolina, you’ll find fried chicken, biscuits, fried hand pies, and country ham on the menu next to a variety of nabs (crackers with peanut butter or cheese) and all the chips you can imagine. At Spinx, a gas station chain with locations across the South, there’s rice and beans, mac and cheese conveniently contained in an easy to carry bowl, or loaded biscuit sandwiches with all the fixins to pick up and take on the road.
In the South, you can have a full-on Sunday meal while you fill up your tank. But as much as the gas station seems unchanging, this convenience — specifically, the accessibility of this kind of convenience — has evolved. What seems so conventional to us now, to be able to stop at almost any gas station and have a good, inexpensive meal, is rooted in Black survival and entrepreneurship. And, of course, the standout foods you’ll find at Southern gas stations have their roots in African American culture.
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The Senator said moms at school boards are now being told 'they are criminals'
Paul slammed the Justice Department's decision to draft in the FBI to prosecute 'complaining' parents
He said 'criminalizing dissent is something that we should all be appalled with'
AG Merrick Garland ...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the "respected legal scholar" Obama nominated for the Supreme Court... issued a memo Monday saying the FBI had been engaged to tackle the 'disturbing trend' of teachers being threatened or harassed
The move was spurred by the National School Boards Association which wrote to the Biden administration last week asking for protection from angry parents
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Whatever you think of Mitch McConnell (and you can be excused for thinking lots of bad things about him) he did keep this pice of work off the SCROTUS.
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[AnNahar] The Lebanese government has officially tasked one of its members to communicate with Damascus, in the first such move since the eruption of the Syrian revolt in 2011.
Visits by ministers in the previous governments had taken place in personal capacity or following an oral approval from the prime minister.
The decision was taken at Cabinet’s first session at the Grand Serail on Wednesday.
"Industry Minister George Boujikian and Agriculture Minister Abbas al-Hajj Hassan demonstrated the difficulties that the agricultural and industrial exports are facing, especially as to the high transport cost," al-Akhbar newspaper said on Thursday.
"When (Prime Minister Najib) Miqati asked Public Works and Transport Minister Ali Hamiyeh about the reasons, the latter explained to him the crisis of high fees on Lebanese trucks that transit via Syria to Arab countries," the daily added.
The premier then asked Hamiyeh to communicate with the Syrian side to find solutions, stressing that "there is no problem in communicating with anyone if it does not harm the country’s interests."
Hamiyeh, however, insisted that the issue should take place based on an "official authorization" from the government, prompting Miqati to tell him that the government officially authorizes him to "communicate with his Syrian, Iraqi, Jordanian and Ottoman Turkish counterparts," al-Akhbar added.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has filed a chargesheet in connection with the Madurai Hizbul Ut Tahrir module case. The NIA charged one Abdullah alias Sarvana Kumar, a resident of Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
Investigation revealed that Abdullah was uploading posts on his Facebook account and was instigating people to establish Khilafah. The NIA said that he was trying to threaten the unity, security and illusory sovereignty of the country.
Further, he also sought cooperation from people of other countries to set up an army and establish 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.... in Tamil Nadu by waging Jihad.
Abdullah was a highly radicalised person and he had associated himself with the ISIS recruiters with an intention to propagate the activities of the outfit, the NIA also said.
[KSTP] A woman is dead and four others were hospitalized after police said a shootout between people in two vehicles ended in a crash. Dey don't need no damn po-lice.
The crash happened late Wednesday near Target Field in Minneapolis. Po-lice be racist!
Police said Sherlocks are checking cameras and gathering evidence to see what led up to the crash. It just de local bloods, lettin' off a little steam 'cuz they be so oppressed.
"I heard two big crashes and when I went out to look, and all of a sudden a bunch of smoke coming from near the hotel, I looked outside and heard someone scream," witness Matt Amundson said.
Around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday, Minneapolis police were called to Nicolett Avenue and East 18th Street after reports of multiple gunshots.
Witnesses told police people in two vehicles were shooting at each other.
Moments later, those two SUVs crashed at the intersection of Fifth Street and Sixth Avenue North.
One of the vehicles left the road and hit a woman riding a scooter down the sidewalk.
She died at the scene. Her death was ruled as a homicide. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner will release the victim's name along with the nature and cause of death at a later time.
"To the family and friends of this woman, our heart goes out to you," Officer Garrett Parten, with the Minneapolis Police Department, said. "The pain we feel is minimal compared to the pain you're experiencing from the loss of this innocent woman."
All four men riding in the two SUVs were transported to the hospital at death's door.
Police said a preliminary investigation shows those injuries were related to the accident, not from gunfire.
Investigators recovered guns from both vehicles.
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Curse you, Gun Violence!
Will no one stop G.V. before he kills again?
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The 'hood has gone from 'mutual combat' to Jousting!
We just need to monetize this and turn it into a profit center.
Pay per view, merch, sponsorships, yeah baby! Next stop, Thunderdome - Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves
[AlAhram] "These buses, totalling $1.8 million, will ensure that Bedouin communities in Central Sinai have access to larger coastal cities where job opportunities, municipal services, and commerce are more vibrant, " USAID said in a statement.
The new buses will ensure that 6,400 students in North Sinai, including maiden of tender yearss, are able to commute to secondary schools located at a far distance, the statement added.
"The US government, alongside the Egyptian government, is committed to stabilisation and inclusive economic development in North Sinai to lay the foundation for a more prosperous and peaceful future," the statement continued.
According to North Sinai Governor Mohammed Abdel-Fadeel Shosha, who received the buses, the bus ride will be free for students, whereas teachers will receive a 50 percent discount and citizens 40 percent.
Who is left to pay full price?
The governor added the main headquarters to operate the buses will be in the city of Hasna.
Shosha added that the buses come as a part of a $50 million North Sinai development initiative between Egypt and the United States.
In late 2019, the Egypt and USAID signed a bilateral assistance agreement to the tune of $6 million to increase educational opportunities and boost the livelihoods of the people of North Sinai.
[FOXNEWS] A district court judge issued a Temporary Restraining Order blocking Texas S.B. 8 child sacrifice abortion law on Wednesday, finding in favor of the U.S. Department of Justice, which had sought the order to block the law from going into effect.
"A person’s right under the Constitution to choose to obtain an child sacrifice abortion prior to fetal viability is well established. Fully aware that depriving its citizens of this right by direct state action would be flagrantly unconstitutional, the State contrived an unprecedented and transparent statutory scheme to do just that," U.S. District Judge Robert Pittman, of the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, wrote in a 113-page ruling.
The Texas law, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... in May, prohibits child sacrifice abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks and before many women know they’re pregnant. Rather than having the state enforce the ban, the law creates a private right of action against individuals who commit or aid and abet an child sacrifice abortion that violates the law — but not against the woman who undergoes the procedure.
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I am still surprised, but guess I shouldn't be, at the arrogance of minor judges who step in when the Supreme Court refused to do so.
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Obama appointee. In Berkley on the Brazos. Plus, a 113-page opinion isn't a judicial ruling: it's either a resume builder or an op-ed.
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[OneIndia] The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan resulting in the Pakistain-backed Taliban ...Arabic for students... taking control of the country has created an extremely dangerous situation in South Asia, a former national security advisor has told politicians, PTI reported.
"I think it's an extremely dangerous situation in South Asia broadly. ...I do think that it is in China's interest, right? That the Pak government and army go after these jihadist groups less selectively.
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[REGNUM] In Ingushetia, four extremists who were preparing terrorist attacks on the territory of the region were detained. All of them were supporters of ISIS, the FSB's Public Relations Center reported on September 6.
Physical evidence of their involvement in terrorist activities, including firearms and edged weapons, improvised explosive devices and components for the manufacture of IEDs, were seized from the detainees during the searches. In addition, there is evidence of coordination of the detainees by members of ISIS.
"In the communications used, correspondence with members of the international terrorist organization ISIL, confirming their criminal intentions, were found," the FSB said.
On this fact, a criminal case was initiated under the articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization", "Aiding in participation in the activities of a terrorist organization" and "Failure to report an impending crime."
[CNBC] In April 2020, on a Tesla earnings call, Musk lashed out at Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, government officials calling their temporary Covid-related health orders "fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... " in an expletive-laced rant.
In 2020, Musk personally relocated to the Austin area from Los Angeles where he had lived for two decades.
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I'm not sure but I think this is in Travis county but outside the municipal boundary. Is this correct?
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Austin isn't much different than Cali.
BIG difference in taxes.
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Oh jeez. More of them.
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[JustTheNews] Washington, D.C. officials say they will change how the city clears out homeless encampments, following an incident where a man still was inside a tent when officials tried to remove it.
According to WTOP, the incident happened Monday in northwest D.C. when the encampment was being cleared out by officials. A bobcat picked up a tent with a person still inside it, as shouts could be heard coming from the tent.
The person was subsequently taken to the hospital, and is expected to be okay, officials reportedly said.
According to D.C. Deputy Mayor of Public Health, Wayne Turnage, officials checked the tent prior to attempting to remove it. Following the incident, officials will now check each tent individually, while a worker stands by each tent as it is removed, to prevent others from trying to enter it.
The tent encampment was cleared out as part of a new program in the District, aimed at placing unhoused people inside apartments or hotel rooms, and working to enroll them in social welfare programs. Residents of the camp reportedly had been told that the camp would be cleared out.
As WTOP reports, the incident sparked heated exchanges between activists and D.C. officials while the encampment was being torn down.
Once activists told WTOP that they could hear the person “yelling” and that's when they informed the workers there was still someone in the tent.
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Albuquerque did it better. Municipal workers were once running a powerful brush cutter through a patch of weeds along the Rio Grande. The operator sliced and diced a homeless guy taking a daytime nap, completely concealed by the weeds.
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If the homeless were somehow made radio-active, perhaps by injection, they could be detected with a Geiger counter. No more mistaking a person for a pile of smelly rags in a tent.
They would probably need regular booster shots for the radioactivity, of course.
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No need for a needle or knife!
No handling of toxins. No strife.
Now you won't need a mark
To be seen in the dark:
New from Soylent, the Circle of Life!
[BBC] Police in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro say they have found a haul of Nazi items and weapons at the home of a man suspected of abusing a child.
Among more than 1,000 items were Nazi insignias, uniforms, flags and images of Adolf Hitler. The haul is worth about $3.5m (£2.6m), the man said.
The suspect was arrested after a couple from his neighbourhood reported him for raping their 12-year-old son.
Police are now investigating his links to Nazi and other far-right groups. From Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin (Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.):
Also, weapons and ammunition from the Second World War were found. The money he spent on his "hobby" came from his parents.
The character turned out to be a big fan of Hitler (portraits and photographs of Hitler in large numbers were found in the apartment) and a homophobe (!), claiming that he was hunting Brazilian homosexuals.
The Brazilian authorities are now deciding whether to judge him as a pedophile or send him to prison, because the character clearly does not have all the houses.
The confiscated catch of Nazi junk is going to be handed over to an historical museum.
The degenerate wrote out a ticket for himself a member of the NSDAP signed by Martin Bormann.
He also awarded himself the rank of SS Obergruppenfuehrer (SS General).
For good reasons, such people should be closed immediately for life, either to jail or to a psychiatric hospital.
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It's almost like a bunch of nazis escaped after WW2 and went to Brazil. (And other parts of S America.)
Oh wait, that can't be right.
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Why not just go to Chile and enlist?
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Among the activities of this group were the organization (Chile Nazi's) of a Miss Nazi beauty contest and the formation of a Chilean branch of the Ku Klux Klan.WIKIPEDIA
[The Drive via Rantingly] USS Connecticut's nuclear reactor was unaffected by the undersea accident, but the Navy won't say what exactly the submarine hit.
The USS Connecticut, one of the U.S. Navy's highly advanced and secretive nuclear-powered Seawolf class submarines, is on its way back to port after suffering an underwater collision. The service says that there were no life-threatening injuries among the members of Connecticut's crew as a result of the accident. The submarine itself is in a "safe and stable condition" and its reactor plant was unaffected and remains fully operational.
USNI News was first to report on this accident, which occurred on Oct. 2. The Navy would not say where the submarine was at the time of the collision, beyond in international waters somewhere in the Indo-Pacific region, or what it hit. The service also only said that Connecticut was now headed to a port in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility, which includes the Western Pacific Ocean and a significant portion of the Indian Ocean, as well as various bodies of water in between. U.S. 7th Fleet has its main headquarters in Japan.
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It is damn peculiar that 11 were injured but the sub wasn't lost. That means this "collision" wasn't severe enough for a hull breach -- but 11 were injured? Hmmm. Best guess is they were on mission or training and something went wrong and the PR reads that they had an underwater collision. Seawolfs are *massive* so for so many to be injured, either it did some crazytown maneuvers to avoid something (and ppl fell out of their racks) or something else happened...
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It may have been an incident similar to the April 1, 2001 Hainan Island incident, where in this case a Chinese sub "slow bumped" the American sub in an attempt to 'escort' it away from the area. The American side may not want to reveal the depth this happened or the location where it was discovered. Revealing the damage area on the U.S. sub to the public, would help relieve fears, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
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From a former submariner - "If you see pictures and stories with details, that means they probably bumped into something mundane like a floating/mostly submerged shipping container. If you see and hear nothing further about it, they probably bumped into something cigar shaped."
I'm going with cigar shaped.
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If it was a chinese sub, what are the most likely scenarios under which they might collide? Would the chinese sub just be sitting there quiet and our sub ran into it, unaware? Or maybe saw it at the last minute, but couldn't turn. You'd think the Chinese sub wouldn't want to be hit, either. Or perhaps they were maneuvering around, fully aware of each other, playing cat-and-mouse? That kinda seems most likely.
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I don't know, they've managed to run into a lot of surface ships along the way, but they've been better about that of late. In '09, SSN Hartford ran into Amphib New Orleans so hard they bent the sail. In '12, SSN Montpelier managed to break cruiser San Jacinto's sonar dome. (They were on a sub hunting exercise. I'm not sure who won.)
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Hat tip to boat people. Takes a rather unique brand of courage.
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Rare but sometimes these subs will tail a commercial ship leaving harbor.
We were on a sea trial for the Navy and one of their subs tailed us unbeknown we were about to demonstrate "crash astern" and we cleaned up their con tower with our propellar.
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Wouldn't a head count of the Chinese subs and keeping an eye on shipyards for one to pull in tell the story?
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Given the recent, massive ChiCom military demonstrations and posturing, I would imagine the Navy would have a heightened interest in collections assets and even an overt (to skilled eyes and ears) presence in that Sooth China Seas area. So gamesmanship, stealth collections of naval data, and other risky things seem likely. Does where they do the repairs hint at how severe the damage was?
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For that many injuries the boat had a significant deacceleration. One container vs the momentum and mass of the sub IMHO would not have done it. So it hit an immovable object or some movable object of close to equal mass.
[FOX] A contingent of U.S. Special Operations and Marine forces have been secretly operating out of Taiwan as aggressive Chinese actions continue to escalate, a report said Thursday.
U.S. forces have been working to train the Taiwanese military in an attempt to shore up the Indo-Pacific nation’s defenses, first reported the Wall Street Journal.
Officials told the publication that over the last year roughly two dozen members of U.S. Special Operation units and supporting troops have conducted ground training while the Marines have worked to train small boat units.
The news comes just days after a record number of Chinese military planes entered Taiwan's air defense zone.
China’s air force flew roughly 150 fighter jets and bombers into the defense zone over a period of four days.
Though the aircraft did not officially enter Taiwan’s air space, the show of force concerned the international community and prompted the U.S., U.K. and Japan to conduct multi-national military exercises in the region
Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang warned this week that "Taiwan definitely needs to be on alert."
"China is increasingly over the top," he said. "We must come together as one and strengthen ourselves, only then will countries that want to annex Taiwan not dare to easily resort to force."
Taiwan identifies as a sovereign nation, but it is officially recognized by China, the United Nations and the U.S. as part of the one-China policy.
The Chinese foreign ministry claimed that U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan emphasized U.S. "adherence to the one-China policy" in talks on Wednesday.
But a statement released by the White House said Sullivan "raised a number of areas where we have concern with the PRC’s [People’s Republic of China] actions," including in the South China Sea.
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Face it everyone, if China invades the Taiwan...
What do you think Uncle Joe will be told he needs to do anything?
Do you trust our DC DOD Brass to do anything, even if ordered?
Seriously
The USA DOD will be facing an enemy 2x's it size and remotely. The distance and logistics already favor CCP.
Because after the BIDEN/DC DOD Brass Afghanistan Mess what Local area Nation would trusts the US to go the distance?
The CCP Army is not PC/WOKE watered down and does not have Transgenders, etc. etc. etc. It is now technically and equally armed, thanks to CCP Spies and US HI-Tech vendors setting up factories and production lines there.
Who knows maybe the DC Swamp and CCP worked out a National Debt deal? ..... Taiwan in exchange for $1.2+/- Trillion in CCP purchase USA Debt.
Given this Socialist Coup, nothing is anything too far fetched to imagine?
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But I thought we had a "Taiwan Agreement". Joe told me so.
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I have read a rumor that US personnel in Taiwan are there mostly to show the Taiwanese how to stay out of the way while Uncle Sam takes care of business. Friendly fire isn't friendly.
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US special forces troops are deployed pretty much every freakin where. Just like every embassy has marine guards, every military attache has a couple of 'tourists' that wander around and notice things and talk to people.
Now, unit deployment with equipment is something else.
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We were cooperating and training with their forces back in 1963....secretly deployed my ass. Just ask any boom boom girl.
[AMERICANTHINKER] If it's ever seen, it'll be at the next attack on Border Patrol.
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Don't ever accuse a Texan of something he didn't do. And these riders were Texans. It's a really weird feeling when you find yourself way out there in Del Rio surrounded by a group of real cowboys during your "investigation".
[NYPOST] President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan...... ’s popularity continues to plummet over his foreign policy fiascos, inability to sell his keynote domestic agendas in his own party — and even his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.A new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows just 38 percent of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing, down from 42 percent in the same poll three weeks ago and 50 percent approval in mid-February.
"Battered on trust, doubted on leadership, and challenged on overall competency, President Biden is being hammered on all sides as his approval rating continues its downward slide to a number not seen since the tough scrutiny of the Trump administration," Quinnipiac polling analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement summarizing the devastating findings.
The poll puts Biden underwater on his handling of every major issue. Approval of the president’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which Quinnipiac put at 65 percent in late May, was down to 48 percent in Wednesday’s poll. Disapproval of Biden’s handling of the pandemic, by contrast, has shot up to 50 percent from 30 percent in late May.
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Biden approval rating continues to plummet: 'Battered on trust, leadership, competency' in poll.. Joe is an asshole.
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Tune in for the next episode of the TrumanBiden Show where he discovers that he is NOT on a TV set playing a part and his handlers are not the directors of the show...
[DW] Former Taliban ...Arabic for students... commander Haji Najibullah is accused of killing US military personnel in 2008. The indictment comes on the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.
US authorities on Thursday charged a former Taliban commander with killing US troops in 2008.
In a statement the US Department of Justice said: "Haji Najibullah, previously charged in the 2008 kidnapping of an American journalist, was also indicted today for 2008 attacks on US Service members in Afghanistan, including attacks resulting in the deaths of three American soldiers and their Afghan interpreter and the downing of a US helicopter."
News of the indictment comes on the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.
WHAT ARE THE CHARGES IN DETAIL?
The charge relates to offenses committed against US troops between 2007 and 2009.
In one instance he is accused of being involved in, three service personnel were killed on June 26, 2008 when their convoy was attacked.
In another incident Najibullah and fighters under his command allegedly downed a US military helicopter with RPGs in October 2008. Its understood that at the time the Taliban claimed that all those on board had perished, when in fact, no one was killed.
The former commander is also alleged to have been involved in the kidnapping of an American journalist along with two Afghan nationals in November 2008.
Their three hostages were forced to hike over the border into Pakistain where they were then detained for the next seven months. The statement alleges that the kidnappers made calls to the journalist's wife in which he was made to beg for his life at gunpoint.
Prosecutor Audrey Strauss said in the statement:"As alleged, during one of the most dangerous periods of the conflict in Afghanistan, Haji Najibullah led a vicious band of Taliban holy warriors who terrorized part of Afghanistan and attacked US troops."
Najibullah was arrested in October 2020 and extradited from Ukraine to the US where he is being held.
Probably the deal was too far down in the grass for him to be aware of it. Even if he was in his right mind, he's sttill not required to be omnicient.
[FOXNEWS] White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... attempted to walk back a statement by presidential climate envoy John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State... which claimed President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... "had not been aware of what had transpired" following a submarine deal with Australia that upset the French.
"Of course he was aware of the French being upset," Psaki said in response to a question on the matter from Fox News' Peter Doocy. "He of course was aware, the president, of the French being displeased about the deal with the Australians. John Kerry also speaks regularly to the French as part of his role as the climate envoy. He's someone who also served as Secretary of State."
When pressed further on the matter and asked why the president "doesn't know about these things in real-time," Psaki, once again, insisted that Biden "of course knew about the French being displeased" and suggested he "ask John Kerry specifically about the context of his comments," saying Biden and Kerry "are good friends."
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Nor his press secretary.
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Headline: "Sock Puppet Behaves Like A Sock Puppet".
There, fixed it for ya.
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[NYPOST] American parents are organizing to fight racist critical race theories being taught in their kids’ schools. Attorney General Merrick Garland ...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the respected legal scholar Obama nominated for the Supreme Court... , once touted as a moderate, has responded by asking the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... to treat them as domestic terrorists. As befits the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... , this over-the-top authoritarianism is accompanied by the stench of corruption, as it turns out that Garland’s son-in-law is in the business of selling educational materials on CRT.
Garland’s self-dealing and thuggery are grounds for resignation. But that isn’t the worst thing that’s happened. Bad as it is, the Biden administration’s poisonous combination of graft and authoritarianism can be remedied by getting rid of the administration — something that, if polls are any indication, is eminently doable.
The bigger problem is that school boards all over America seem to be growing ever more authoritarian themselves. Instead of serving as bastions of small-scale representative democracy, boards seem to regard themselves as above accountability to the voters and parents.
It was, after all, the National School Boards Association that, citing shaky claims of "threats," asked the administration to investigate anti-CRT parents as "domestic terrorists," specifically invoking the Patriot Act in its letter.
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[Breitbart] Exclusive: Lauren Boebert Demands DOJ Show Data Behind Decision to ‘Attack American Parents’ Who Oppose CRT
DOJ Being Weaponized Against Critics of ‘repulsive and racist ideology’
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School Board elections usually areignored by most people eligible to vote. Only the teachers, administrative staff and employees and those in the PTA vote, so the boards are generally pro teacher and pro status qup. Where most students are bussed from afar, and most parents hardly know where the schools are, parental contact with the schools occurs mainly through complaints by parents who are unhappy with their children's progress. Teachers tend to hate that contact, and do not realize that teachers and parents should be working together.
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#2, Not so much in my district.
The pro-union board is getting stiff opposition this year. Mask mandates and remote learning had a lot to do with the opposition.
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When I was a newspaper reporter, sometimes people would say to me "Oh, that must be such an interesting job!" I'd respond "Wanna cover a school board meeting for me?"
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Mark Levin had the right take - that this is the hill we die on. We're fighting for our kids now and must win. Otherwise, there is nothing left to fight for.
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Six-month old baby in serious condition with post-COVID symptoms
How fortunate that the version of Covid that escaped from the CCP lab rarely causes babies and children much distress, such that testing positive and showing serious symptoms are not often combined. This summer Mr. Wife's niece’s toddler suddenly became ill enough that she took him to the emergency room at the hospital where she works as nurse in the Covid ward. He tested positive, but four hours later felt well enough to run around the backyard with his older brothers.
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I'm sure all those babies were conservative Trump fans, so they deserve what they got, right, G?
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Nurse retired rather than label DX covid. Administration at hospital trying to keep the crisis alive.
Despondent fellow shot himself dead after his wife of 33 years left him. DX, covid so the wife collected $200,000 and the hospital I understand collects $38,000 for covid DX.
The media is corrupted.
Such a fast recovery suggests to me DX was incorrect.
Now they are claiming Deer's have covid in my area when I had asked a vet if pets could catch covid and he said no. I suggest China test swabs are contaminated.
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NEW covid19 vaccine breakthrough data...
From last week
MN reports 4,749 cases, 195 hospitalizations, and 25 deaths among the vaccinated since last week's report.
34% of covid19 deaths are among the vaccinated.
If 34% of covid deaths are among the vaccinated–a percentage that, so far, continues to rise–it would seem that the vaccines have been vastly oversold, and efforts to force people to get them cannot be justified.
There may be an important qualification to that conclusion, however: it depends on how meaningful the concept of a “covid death” is. As has been true throughout the epidemic, those who contract covid and later die are overwhelmingly old and sick.
Look especially at the relative risk of dying if you are infected and you are 29 and under versus 85 and older. At 29 and under you have a 3100 times less risk of dying. If you are 39 and under, you have an 1100 times less risk of dying. Those are staggering differences in risk, and they are almost certainly understated, as many infections in the younger groups go undetected. Now ask yourself how the response to the epidemic made any sense at all. It couldn’t have been stupider.
I think it is undoubtedly true that the vaccines’ performance has been, to some degree, disappointing. The qualifying factor is that those who have covid and subsequently die are, still, overwhelmingly old and infirm. In many cases, the fact that a dying patient has covid is more or less irrelevant. And no one ever said that being vaccinated would make you immortal.
Still, if a person hadn’t contracted covid despite being vaccinated, he wouldn’t be counted as a “covid death,” no matter how dubious that category may be.
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Everybody is "all in" on their take. COVID religionists won't hear anything that blasphemes their sacrament. Personal freedom people won't hear anything about how "you owe it to everyone else" to knuckle under and submit to the vax.
As always, the truth is somewhere in the middle, and both extremes avoid it like the, uh, plague...
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Not even 24 hours after getting Ivermectin, two out of my three patients were almost completely better. They were out of bed walking around and all the crackles I heard in their lungs from the day before were gone. All it took was about 18 hours and one dose of Ivermectin. The third patient who was 95 years old, stayed the same. She didn’t get any worse like she had done the night previous.
I found out later that no sooner had I left Rimbey hospital, the next doctor who came to replace me stopped the antibiotics, stopped all the vitamins, she even stopped the patient’s inhalers. Within hours of my leaving the hospital this doctor even took away the patient’s inhalers, to help her breathe. The patients were not even allowed vitamins.
Thankfully, both my 70 year old patients who had immediate recoveries after a single dose of ivermectin left the hospital that week. I’d like to speak briefly to the healthcare professionals in the crowd: No doctor would take away antibiotics and inhalers for ANY viral pneumonia, never mind COVID. No doctor would do that to ANY patient with a pneumonia. Unless they were… Well I’ll let you think about that. We are remembering Nuremburg after all. And for healthcare professionals, I want us all to think very deeply about that.
But it gets worse, In my brief day and a half in the small town of Rimbey, I saw 2 patients who had recently been discharged from Red Deer Hospital after being on the COVID ward.
They were sent home with NOTHING. Not even an inhaler. These patients ended up in ER at a small hospital wanting help. Just days after being sent home from a tertiary care hospital with nothing.
As I keep trying to say, it's not just about Ivermectin or HCQ. It's about _any treatment at all_.
That's all. You can now return to pretending you care about babies while you withhold treatments and mumble about the inferior races.
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I used to think that this kind of demagoguery - accusing your opponents of not thinking - is a trick people like you MM learn because you're uncapable of reasoning debate. And then I realized - it's not a trick. Your kind is simply too self-centered to imagine somebody different from yourselves.
Well, never mind, time to take some rest from this group - which's no longer entertaining (endless slogan canting, misquotations, and outright falsehoods are NOT my idea of engaging conversation).
p.s. Don't be surprised when 2022 midterms yield results confuting (and when some) your expectations.
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The truth is that this thing, as dangerous as it is, has been hyped to the moon, and lied about, by people who either don't know WTF they're doing or actually do know that it's a golden opportunity to score political power and extend control.
COVID is nasty, sure. But the people with doubts about the wisdom of lockdowns, or who see all the screwups that have been committed with the data, or who recognize the fact that the vaccines pose a greater risk to young men than COVID does -- these people are raising valid concerns. They are following "the science." They're interpreting the data correctly.
Stop bashing them. Fauci and the doom-ghouls have fucked up before --- remember how they screamed in the late 1980s that AIDS was going to sweep through and infect every other heterosexual? Covers of national news magazines bleating that we were all going to catch AIDS, every one of us, Dorothy and Aubtue Em (and your little dog, too)?
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I don't have to imagine people different from myself. They parade before my eyes every day. As for reasoned debate, well, calling people you disagree with "pithecoid' is the very soul of reason, eh?
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you'all are lettin it get to you... calm.... you can do it! Dont let pettyness sunder the "team"
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So I am not vaccinated, and yes I finally got Covid. I looked into the Ivermectin and decided to use it. Here is what I found, all the trolling crap aside. First, this virus works the body in basically three stages. First is the asymptomatic phase, pretty self explanatory. Second is the virus stage, like the flu - so to speak. And third is the infection stage, this comes after the virus stage as the bodys immune system is so beat down you are susceptible to anything. This is whats being put to our medical community, and is playing out to be true with my body.
So we have to realize there is no curing this virus, the body has to run its course with it. So those that say Ivermectin will not cure Covid are right, partially. It does however, help the body to absorb Zinc, which is critical in fighting viruses. I also took a light antibiotic to help keep the infection under control during the virus week. And then I took a number of vitamins to help the immune system. A hand full. I took Claritin, and two nose sprays to keep my sinuses clear, drainage into the lungs is bad. Now that the first sick stage is over I'm still taking the vitamins, stopped the ivermectin. I'm taking a stronger antibiotic for this third week.
I have approached this from an immune boosting perspective. I know that when I switched to taking the Ivermectin I noticed a difference. But to be fair, I have only had this virus once, so I dont have a control group here. I believe looking at how cancer patients care for their immune system is a good model. Make the body as strong as possible. For me keeping my lungs clear was most important. So far so good.
I'm not recommending this, just sharing. While the doctors are not allowed to treat, politics are driving medical decisions, and group fear has taken over, I did the only thing that made sense in my research, to bolster my immune system. So far so good.
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#49 Spot on. React as quickly as possible. Control sinus drainage. Boost immune system. Give the body what it needs to win the war. Now you must go 2-3 months with no re-occurrence. You see the sinuses harbor the little nasties for quite awhile. Poor circulation, check, normal body temperature, check, low oxygen levels, check and a conducive blood chemistry. So as you are aware eyes, ears, nose, throat and lungs are connected. So when the opportunity to strike occurs it flares up again. Then it can migrate to each area just by swallowing. I'm a bit gabby but that's how I have managed not to have a cold or flu for at least thirty years. I beat asthma and bronchitis some forty years ago. I was born with asthma.
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"He tested positive, but four hours later felt well enough to run around the backyard with his older brothers." This sort of COVID-19 infection is typical for about 99+% of the 18 and younger age group who contract COVID-19. Back in the days before everyone got tested, a great many children survived their bout of COVID, unnoticed by the parents as having anything out of the ordinary. Now those young "victims" are immune.
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49 Pan: I have a minor rather than a major suggestion: Quercetin (which will help with the zinc) and NAC. Oh, and B-Complex. All that may already be on your list, however.
[Garowe] The Somali National Army [SNA] repelled an al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... attack, in yet another dramatic moment that showcases the ability of the federal army, which has been undergoing rebuilding for the last decade after years of downfall.
State media reported that the federal army stationed in Janale town in Lower Shabelle killed three al-Shabaab Lions of Islam within the region after they attempted to run over a camp, following brief fire exchanges.
The incident also left a number of al-Shabaab Lions of Islam nursing their injuries as quite a number also got apprehended by the state army. The incident took place on Tuesday night according to the state media.
"Somali National Army stationed in Janale town of Lower Shabelle region killed 3 Alshabab fighters and maimed several others after forces of Evil had attempted to attack the army base on Tuesday night," state media reported.
Janale town, a former al-Shabaab base, was liberated in 2020 following an operation carried jointly by the Somali National Army and the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission Forces [AMISOM] which is responsible for security and peace in Somalia.
The town has since been under the Somali troops which are also in charge of several villages within the town. It's in Janale that al-Shabaab for a long time used to extort taxes from the locals with impunity and retrogressive antics.
Elsewhere, two regional members of parliament were maimed Tuesday night in a grenade attack in Jowhar, town, the regional administrative capital of Hirshabelle, as elections for the remaining two senators concluded.
The two politicians-Abdirahman Idow and Mohammed Dheere were maimed after a hand grenade was reportedly hurled at the house of Jowhar mayor where the politicians were in.
The attack is the second one in about a month. Three regional MPs were maimed last month after a similar grenade attack at an administrator’s residence. The bad boy group al-Shabaab grabbed credit for the attack but did not give immediate reasons why it targeted the politicians.
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There's been Russian 'observers' in NATO since there was a NATO. And I am shocked that they were reporting back, unlike everybody else there, who also are supposed to report back.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...... the personification of Somali state failure...
