[BREITBART] Being second daughter has its perks. President Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge ’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff made her debut on the French high-fashion scene in Gay Paree on Wednesday. Emhoff walked the runway for the fashion company Balenciaga in its first haute couture show since 1967.
"Balenciaga couture, thank you/congrats to @demnagvasalia and the whole Balenciaga team truly amazing," the 22-year-old model wrote on Instagram. Emhoff added several photos of her getup for the runway walk featuring the idiosyncratic and gender-fluid designs of the fashion house. As any fool can see, she got the job because she's ever so much better looking than any of my granddaughters or your homely kids.
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Miss Ella has hooked up with a fashion magazine editor (his name escapes me at the moment). The couple is named, appropriately enough Sam and Ella.
[MAIL] Two US citizens arrested over the assassination of Jovenel Moïse have allegedly claimed they were hired as translators in a plot to arrest the Haitian president but not to kill him. "we were working for the real President, Stacey Abrams"
Haitian-born American citizens James Solages, 35, and Joseph Vincent, 55, are said to have confessed to being involved in Wednesday's early morning raid that left Moïse dead and his wife fighting for her life.
Vincent allegedly claimed the plot was orchestrated by a foreigner named 'Mike' who spoke English and Spanish, they planned to take Moïse to the National Palace and the plot was devised over the course of a month in a hotel in Pétion-Ville.
Deputy justice of the peace Judge Clément Noël told Le Nouvelliste the two men, who both live in Florida, said 'the mission was to arrest President Jovenel Moïse, within the framework of the execution of a mandate of an investigating judge and not to kill him.'
Solages said he 'found this job on the internet', Noël told the outlet.
[The Federalist via Right Scoop] According to a new report there were potentially enough fraudulent votes cast in Georgia, from people who voted in counties they had already moved out of, to take away the 12,670 vote lead that Biden won by last November:
New evidence indicates that more than 10,300 illegal votes were cast in Georgia in the November 2020 general election — a number that will continue to rise over the next several months, potentially exceeding the 12,670 votes that separated Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Under Georgia law, residents must vote in the county in which they reside, unless they changed their residence within 30 days of the election. As Jake Evans, a well-known Atlanta election lawyer, told me, outside of the 30-day grace period, if people vote in a county in which they no longer reside, "Their vote in that county would be illegal."
Soon after the November general election, Mark Davis, the president of Data Productions Inc. and an expert in voter data analytics and residency issues, obtained data from the National Change of Address (NCOA) database that identified Georgia residents who had confirmed moves with the U.S. Postal Service. After excluding moves with effective dates within 30 days of the general election, and by using data available from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, Davis identified nearly 35,000 Georgia voters who indicated they had moved from one Georgia county to another, but then voted in the 2020 general election in the county from which they had moved.
Some of those moves could have been temporary, involving students or members of the military, Davis stressed, adding that under Georgia law temporary relocations do not alter citizens’ residency status or render their votes illegal. But, given the margin separating the two presidential candidates, approximately one-third of the votes at issue could have altered the outcome of the election. Yet the media, the courts, and the Secretary of State’s Office ignored or downplayed the issue.
"It was disconcerting to see the media and the courts largely ignore serious issues like these, especially since the data I was seeing showed very legitimate issues," Davis said. "In fact, I heard members of the Secretary of State’s team admit some votes were cast with residency issues, but then claimed there weren’t enough of them to cast the outcome of the election in doubt," Davis added. "That was not at all what I was seeing, and as far as I am aware the Secretary of State’s Office has never put an actual number on the ones they did see."
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Charles Murray notes that we have never had such a high percentage of Americans believing that most of our national institutions are fundamentally without legitimacy. It's close to 80% of white Americans now.
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And Pelosi impeached Trump for saying to Brad Raffensperger there ought to be enough fraudulent votes that could be found to turn the election around in Georgia.
There ought to be recourse to dump the vile Pelosi out of the office but I doubt that it will happen.
[American Thinker] Well, everyone could see it coming.
It turns out that the National Security Agency (NSA) didn’t just eavesdrop "incidentally" on the emails and text messages of Tucker Carlson, one of the few journalists in America willing to stand up to the Deep State.
Anyone with half a brain could see the lizard-like lawyering in the NSA’s "non-denial denial." As Bill Clinton famously put it, "it depends on what the meaning of the word ’is’ is."
"Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency," the NSA statement read, dodging the question of whether it had obtained and read his emails and texts, "and the NSA has never had any plans to try to take his program off the air."
Again, from what we know of lying government lawyers, the tenses are crucial: the NSA never "had" any plans.
That says nothing about whether it now has such plans. "It depends on what the meaning of the word ’is’ is."
It appears that NSA officials did precisely what Carlson predicted: they leaked these private messages to compliant members of the controlled corporate media.
Appearing Wednesday on Fox’s "Mornings With Maria" Bartiromo, Carlson reported that he was informed by a journalist that he respects that the NSA had indeed leaked his private emails to journalists in an effort to get his show canceled. The friendly journalist confirmed for him what was in the emails.
We will know this for a fact in the next few days if the "hit piece" Carlson was told is in preparation appears — in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, or another media outlet directed by America’s out-of-control intelligence oligarchy.
Bartiromo’s reaction was right on the mark.
This goes beyond the usual Democrat Party dirty tricks — stuffing ballot boxes, mobbing politicians to intimidate them, burning down cities.
This is banana republic-level subversion, spying on journalists to silence all opposition.
This is the kind of stuff the old "Democratic People’s Republics" in Eastern Europe pulled, spying on citizens — the Stasi had the entire country wired with eavesdropping devices -- and then threatening to use the information against them.
If Republican members of Congress really cared about the country, they would immediately call for a Congressional investigation of the NSA and the entire corrupt intelligence community.
If they had even a little backbone, they would call for a Department of Justice criminal investigation — and threaten the NSA’s lapdog director, Paul M. Nakasone, with criminal contempt if he fails to cooperate.
But we know they won’t. The country has seen why with its own eyes.
When former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified, under oath, before Congress in 2013, he committed perjury on live national television.
Clapper was asked point-blank by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"
Clapper replied: "No, sir. Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly."
We now know that this was 100% false — and that Clapper knowingly lied under oath.
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Carlson is a direct threat to their media, disinformation bureau. They are after Carlson's sources. His sources are likely US Government people. Terminate the sources and the problem is resolved.
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Evidently, neither NSA or the Bureau were able to monitor traffic of the two US fellas involved in Moïse shooting, who claimed to be "translators hired by 'Mike' on the internet."
[PJ] If you want to stick it to big corporations and rein in their real or perceived abuses, use your political prowess and the laws of your own sovereign country to do it. Instead, the Biden administration wants to sidestep this responsibility and cede U.S. corporate tax policy to create a new global corporate tax rate. Price-fixing tax rates, if you will, would make it harder for companies to jump to cheaper countries to do business. Instead of competition, this group of nations seeks to make businesses their captives.
This is not tax policy, it’s the establishment of a cartel.
It’s not lessening income inequality—one of the reasons given for this socialistic move toward, dare I say it, a global government—it’s intended to enrich government.
This one-world tax plan would kill competition and make the 130 countries that have so far signed on—there are only 169 recognized countries in the world—a one-world-ish cartel where individual liberty would take a back seat to corporate liabilities.
Ironically, The Washington Post, whose owner is one of the biggest oligarchs in the world, sounds positively giddy about the plan.
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We will soon learn that this was what Hunter Biden's overseas jet setting was all about. Hunter was actually the Global Corporate Tax mastermind. The 'Big Guy' gave him a very taxing assignment. His paintings are a stress relief. Media reporting at 11:00.
[Twitter] I encourage you all to take a minute to listen to this fiery speech by Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina Mark Robinson. It's worth every second.
I encourage you all to take a minute to listen to this fiery speech by Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina Mark Robinson.
[IsraelTimes] After suspicious bag found, two departure halls evacuated and Doha-bound flight forced to return to Brussels Thursday in what local authorities said was a false alarm.
A security scare at Brussels airport that saw the evacuation of two departure halls and a Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... Airways flight to Doha recalled midflight on Thursday was an apparent attempt by 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... to test Israeli aviation security measures, Hebrew media reported Friday, citing Israeli security officials.
The incident started Thursday when a suspicious suitcase was found by Israeli security agents at the airport who turned it over to Belgian federal authorities.
They decided to evacuate two departure halls and a nearby building that was being used as a mass vaccination site, Brussels Airport said.
The bag was apparently found to belong to a passenger on a Qatar Airways flight from Brussels to Doha, which was forced to return to Brussels.
Belgian authorities inspected the bag and found that it did not contain explosives and announced that the incident was a false alarm. Flights resumed after a 90-minute delay.
Israeli security officials told the Ynet news site on Friday, however, that the bag was found to contain bottles of hand sanitizer and the owner, an Iranian woman, was taken off the flight and detained.
The Israeli officials said that given the location of the bag, near the check-in area of an Israel-bound flight, they believed this was a deliberate Iranian operation to test Israeli aviation security measures.
Channel 13 also reported the suspicions.
Ynet’s security analyst Ron Ben-Yishai said that the Iranians have become frustrated in recent years with their inability to stop Israeli operations against their nuclear program and weapons supplies to terror groups, in addition to their failure to respond in any meaningful ways, and are looking for other options at striking back at Israel.
War is a Darwinian exercise. The one who isn’t as good at it loses.
Israeli intelligence officials told Ynet that they were "investigating the incident."
Israeli officials assisted Belgium in ramping up their airport security policy after Islamist jacket wallahs killed 16 people and injured over 150 in the departure hall of Brussels Airport in 2016. The bombings were part of a coordinated assault on the Belgian capital’s transport system.
Investigators later found that the bombers were trying to target Jews and Israelis at the airport.
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Instead of spending tens of thousands to hire models and a professional photographer, one of the clerks — the one who likes to photoshop images for her Facebook page — spent an hour doing this.
Also, they didn’t have a little person in their group photo, nor a woman in a hijab, nor a woman with grey hair and glasses to match the single older gentleman...
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^-- nor an overweight person, or an ugly (or even a homely) person. Looks like a group of random people selected solely based on their color, gender, and good looks.
[American Thinker] The writer who calls himself Techno Fog has been following closely the libel lawsuit launched by Alfa Bank's owners against Fusion GPS over its accusations that the bank had engaged in "bribery, extortion, and interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election." Mark Wauck provides context: Unfounded concerns and rampant conspiracy theory. The Durham report will tell all. The Indictments are coming soon. You'll see !
Anyone might be forgiven for imagining that the Russia Hoax is over and done with. But it's not. And Techno Fog has a very interesting article to remind us of that fact. As you may recall, during the final month or two of the 2016 election campaign, outlandish accusations were leveled against Alfa Bank. The basic idea was that a Russian bank, Alfa Bank, was laundering money on behalf of Donald Trump, money that the Putin regime was paying Trump as their supposed agent. These outlandish accusations came from the Hillary campaign and its oppo research branch — in other words, Fusion GPS (remember?), Glenn Simpson, and shady Clinton campaign lawyers.
The whole story quickly collapsed under the weight of its own absurdity, after a brief flurry of excitement ginned up in the Dem media proxy outlets. Even oppo research stories require some minimal factual content, and this story lacked the bare minimum. Apparently the Clinton campaign thought the whole thing would be water over the dam, but Alfa bank had other ideas. They sued, and Techno Fog brings us up to date:
devilmanJuly 9, 2021 at 11:57 AM
I've long suspected that Fusion was one of the three contractors who were improperly exploiting the NSA database back when Mike Rodgers shut down the access in 2015.
Very few have covered that aspect of their operation but they fit the bill and had the qualified network within their organization at the time.
The embarrassment of disclosure between Perkins Coie and others would be bad for dozens who are no longer in politics. But if the NSA data for sale scheme holds water, that would be much much worse.
Fortunately, AB isn't backing down! Time will tell.
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The Director NSA (DIRNSA) Admiral Mike Roger shut down illegal intelligence exploitation (collection against US Citizens) in 2015 and again in 2016 during the Trump Campaign. Owing to the historical conflict between NSA and CIA, my guess is Fusion is a Klingon contract cover organization.
Wiki: Fusion GPS is a commercial research and strategic intelligence firm based in Washington, D.C. The company conducts open-source investigations and provides research and strategic advice for businesses, law firms and investors, as well as for political inquiries, such as opposition research.
Mass labor shortage has left the privileged residents of the Hamptons fending for themselves
As real estate skyrockets, summer workers are having difficulty finding rentals for the season, leaving restaurants and shops shorthanded
Other factors include a sweeping ban on J-1 work visas in 2020 and reluctance for hospitality staff to re-enter the industry after the pandemic
According to a Joblist survey, hospitality jobs are unpopular, with 38% of former hospitality workers saying they're not considering returning
In addition, residents have had to lower their beauty standards due to salons being shorthanded, having to go without a visit to their local salon
'Everyone's going for the natural look this year. If you see unpainted nails, you know they just can't get an appointment,' one resident told Vanity Fair
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
or do real work against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? Yes, of course,
To launder, to clean, to wash a Bentley, to sweep
and more; and by a sweep to say we work our backend off. Oh, the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that my flesh is heir to, 'tis a revelation
about the washers of the dish. To cook, to clean, and remain serene. Oh my bed, to sleep, perchance to dream, Oy, where's the rub ?
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"I woke up in the morning,
Both cars were gone.
I felt so low-down,
I threw my drink across the lawn."
-- poorly remembered snippet from a Martin Mull concert
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Been mowing lawns since I was a kid. First my dad's and then my own. Scooping the poop and raking the leaves too. Raking the leaves is tedious but I still do it. Actually pulling weeds by the roots. Now that's hard work and tough on the butt muscles.
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Our church had a volunteer work day once. The minister showed up wearing blue jeans with polished leather loafers instead of work boots or running shoes or just about anything less casual. That, I thought, was a serious fashion faux pas. In fact, it gave me the impression that the man is unaccustomed to sweating or getting his hands dirty.
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IIRC, you can live without food for a few weeks or so if you are healthy. Without water in a normal climate for a few days. So beer gives both hydration and calories.
A few minutes without oxygen, of course.
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[Breitbart] Chicago community leaders are pressuring Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) to declare a "State of Emergency" regarding the city’s gun crime.
Breitbart News reported nearly 100 people were shot Friday night, July 2, through Monday, July 5, in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. That weekend violence followed a Thursday in which 32 people were shot, including a one-month-old girl. Well, she shouldn't a pulled a 9
On July 7, 2021, the Chicago Tribune noted that 2,021 people had been shot in Chicago so far this year. That figure represents 164 more people than were shot during the same time frame in 2020.
ABC 7 points out that community leaders are urging Gov. Pritzker to declare a "State of Emergency," which will allow the city to "receive more funding" as the violence rages.
Father Michael Pfleger is also pushing for Chicago to work with surrounding communities via one overarching plan against gun crime.
Pfleger said, "We need emergency funds; we need emergency action. And the action is this comprehensive approach because what we’re doing is obviously not working."
Pritzker’s office indicated the Governor is treating gun violence "as a public health crisis," and he plans to continue doing so.
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More huffing and puffing. That should solve the problem.
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Help, help, our citizens are shooting each other!
Aw, nothing a little money won't fix. No, it won't stop the shootings, but we can create programs, pay off hire some people, and make great speeches about how we are Doing Something(tm). Hey, what do you think about a People's March to "raise awareness"?
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ABC 7 points out that community leaders are urging Gov. Pritzker to declare a "State of Emergency," which will allow the city to "receive more funding" as the violence rages.
You could burn the place down, been done before. Then ask for more funding.
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I'm gonna stick my neck out and assert that the reason for all the violence is drug gangs fight over turf. Nobody seems willing to confirm or deny this assertion. So it would seem the way to deal with the violence is to interdict the drugs that are imported into this country from Mexico and China. The fact that this state of affairs is tolerated, the fact that our border remains insecure, says a lot about corruption at the highest levels in our government. Securing the border would be much more effective in curbing Chicago's violence and much less threatening to law abiding citizens than declaring war on guns. But, hey, since when do Democrats care about actually solving problems?
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...fighting over turf...
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Legalizing the drugs is not an option because that would lower prices and therefore lower profits. Can't have that.
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Build a wall?
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How about more funding for police?
Of course, part of the problem that a lot of the aldermen are in bed with the gang leaders.
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Abu, It's perfectly possible legalize drugs and not have the price go down. Look at California. Street pot there is still around, and cheaper than the legal stuff. I'm told better quality, too.
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you are correct ed. I get Cali weed here in Georgia with not much mark up.
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I've read all the Travis McGee novels by john D. MacDonald. Good reads all. For fun, each one had a color in the title. Hollywood botched bringing this to the big screen. Rod Taylor and Matthew McConaughy are not a good choice for Travis McGee. Nick Nolte in his prime might have been. All the plots are pretty predictable but enjoyable reads non the less.
[Just The News] A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled in favor of a Tennessee farmer, granting an injunction against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in its effort to grant federal loan forgiveness to only "non-whites."
The Southeastern Legal Foundation and the Mountain States Legal Foundation joined to represent Union City farmer Robert Holman as he challenges a provision in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) that allows for automatic loan forgiveness up to 120% of the federal loan for farmers or ranchers who are "socially disadvantaged," which is defined as "Black, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Hispanic, or Asian, or Hawaiian/Pacific Islander."
The legal ruling estimated while there was not a cap on the amount of loans that could be granted, $3.8 billion had been allocated to the program and, without an injunction, those funds might be gone before the case is resolved.
A case in Wisconsin granted a temporary restraining order against the USDA loan program, but Thursday's ruling from U.S. District Judge S. Thomas Anderson created an injunction against the USDA, halting the distribution of funds through the program until the case is fully resolved.
"The reason that is so vital is then the USDA cannot spend all the money and come to court and state that this is now a moot point," said Braden Boucek, director of litigation for the Southeastern Legal Foundation. "Now the government will have to bring new information to show that it has the legal basis to do this, and this is the only way to remedy it."
Anderson took the Wisconsin case into account in his ruling, along with similar cases against the USDA in Texas and Florida, and the case of Tennessee restaurant owner Antonio Vitolo, owner of Jake's Bar and Grill in Harriman.
Vitolo also was granted an injunction related to an ARPA initiative aimed at minority restaurant owners.
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Read this MAIL article at your earliest convenience. Reporting indicates it will likely soon be replaced by a diversionary MOD.... 'Alien siting story taking place in the Lake District.' Something about 'brown water discharge - clean water recovery' or so I am told.
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I was gobsmacked to note the later part of the article that after Maxwell's father died mysteriously in 1991, Epstein asked his close friend
"Stuart Pivar, a New York society art dealer and a former friend of Epstein's, told me that Epstein appointed him to watch over Ghislaine in the days after Robert Maxwell mysteriously fell to his death from his yacht in 1991.
Pivar said Epstein told him to make sure Ghislaine 'made it through this dark period'. But it was difficult to match the glittering social queen Ghislaine seemed at Manhattan parties with the woman described by the Farmer sisters, 'pathetic' in her emotional and financial dependency on Epstein, who treated her with disdain."
Pivar was obviously a very close friend of Epstein to be so tasked, and is the Art Dealer sponsoring HUNTER BIDEN's art debut and sales!
Possibly something overheating or worn out equipment giving up. Possibly Mossad having their little joke...
Update at 11:35 p.m. ET per Skidmark’s link in comments: Just a stun grenade, so moving article to Page 3: Non-WoT.
[IsraelTimes] Explosion said to occur in a park, with no damage to property.
A large explosion shook Tehran on Friday night, with the cause not immediately clear.
Rooters quoted state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
as saying "an unknown object went kaboom!" in a park, without causing damage or casualties.
Firefighting teams were dispatched to the scene.
Monday saw a kaboom outside Tehran, reportedly at a state-owned warehouse. The site was near factories of several major companies.
Numerous explosions have been reported over the past few years in complexes vital to Iran’s nuclear program and its energy and military sectors, notably including alleged sabotage at the Natanz nuclear plant.
Earlier Friday Iran’s railroad system came under cyberattack, with hackers posting fake messages about alleged train delays or cancellations on display boards at stations across the country. The semi-official Fars news agency reported that the hack led to "unprecedented chaos" at rail stations.
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Seriously? The very term 'Iranian Railroad System' conjures a spiral of inherently comedic images, but 'unprecedented chaos'. What must they have done now. Certainly a shame that there is no humor in Islam because they produce enough comedy.
[BREITBART] Referring to food as "exotic" creates distance between individuals and groups and "reinforces xenophobia and racism," according to a recent Washington Post article which, instead, suggests people ask themselves why they are unfamiliar with certain foods and question their willingness to change that. I was once stationed in Northern Thailand. I lived in a little house up on posts to keep the snakes out. My landlady welcomed me when I moved in with a home-cooked meal. There was a really tasty omelette, some tam som, and a bowl of beetle soup. The tam som looked like cole slaw. I didn't think it was exotic until it scorched my gullet. I knew the beetle soup was exotic; it's not something you're offered routinely here in pizza-and-tacos land. I also ate most of it to be polite.
The Thursday article, written by the paper’s food section staff writer, Daniela Galarza, and titled "Stop calling food ’exotic,’" begins by quoting a couple who praised Afghan restaurants and referred to the cuisine served as "exotic," in an old Post essay. When I was stationed in Vietnam, I liked most of the food. Thit bo xau han tay is merely beef and onions. There were about a dozen different types of rice; none of it that I saw was brown, but I liked them all. On the other hand, I considered fermented duck eggs "exotic." I couldn't get past the smell.
Though she admitted the couple "meant no harm," their use of the term "exotic" indicates that they see the world through a "presumptive Anglocentric perspective," according to Galarza. More like a European perspective. I like coq au vin and Jaegerschnitzel and borscht and pirozhki (most of them, anyway). I love souvlaki, but I don't like tzatziki.
After receiving letters from readers critical of her inclusion of "exotic" spices and ingredients in her "Eat Voraciously" food-themed newsletter, she claimed the word hit her "like a slap," leading her to conclude that it has lost its essential meaning. I like satay, even though it's "exotic." In Indonesia they use peanut butter when whuppin' up some barbecue sauce. The fact that it's "exotic" doesn't mean it's bad, or not tasty. It's not routine. Tacos used to be exotic. Spaghetti used to be exotic.
"What’s ’exotic’ to you isn’t ’exotic’ to my neighbor, might not be ’exotic’ to my mom, probably wouldn’t be ’exotic’ to my best friend," she wrote. Creole cooking is European-descended, but I'm not fond of crawdads, exotic or not, and when I've "blackened" something that means I burned it. My father liked crawdads. He also ate ramps, and pickled pigs' feet, which aren't exotic, but which I've never tasted in my entire life. The smell, again.
She also claimed that use of the term, particularly regarding food, "indirectly lengthens the metaphysical distance between one group of humans and another, and, in so doing, reinforces xenophobia and racism." Likewise my grandfather, the one from Italia, used to catch sparrows and eat them. I wouldn't, because to me they're cute little birdies. In Italy they're poor man's ortolans. The first time I saw him use chicken feet to make spaghetti sauce I laughed my eight-year-old butt off. Too exotic for my tastes now, but I ate it way back then.
Galarza then quotes Chandra D. L. Waring, professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, who claimed that the term is only used to describe something non-white. I like lots of Indian food, even though it is "exotic," in the sense of unfamiliar, not on the sense of non-white. You don't get much whiter than lutefisk, but I find it pretty exotic. Confusing the terms "exotic" and "non-white" is something for a mind with nothing better to do with its time. Or maybe for someone who needs something to bitch about to show his/her/its superiority to the rest of us unwashed clods.
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I'd like to see these c*cksucker's restaurant bills over the past few months; something tells me there's massive bullshit going on here.
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Using "exotic" ingredients means you get to charge an extra three dollars. If the menu's in French that's another three. If it's a non-Indo-European language that's an extra buck, and if it's a non-Indo-European language without a translation that's another two.
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If I have to buy more than one new spice or condiment to make a recipe, or learn a new technique, I count it as exotic. Back when Mr. Wife and I were in our first decade of marriage, I splurged on an 18 bottle spice rack. It came with all the usual American spices in labelled jars, some of which I have never used. A few years later, after Mr, Wife had brought me some cookbooks from some of the countries his job had taken him to, I had to buy a second spice rack — the two together, rotated 90* plus space on top, now hold 44 jars of spices divided between many of the usual American ones and exotics (Tex-Latino and Southeast Asian) I know they’re exotic because I have to order them from The Spice House because my local corner grocery store doesn’t carry them.
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...hey, the Spice Trade, the western institution that would launch the horrible terrible European expansion across the globe. Should have left Constantinople alone, all that bad Western stuff might never had happen. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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If the use of "exotic" gets you all het up to write a letter? You need to get a fucking life. Perhaps be beaten at random times of day so you have something else to fret about
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Really just affirming their own American-centric racism, like those tv heads reporting on Libyans landing in Italy as African Americans.
They really are stuck in their own closet, even when the body travels.
Just the other day, the meme passed about how exotic Ranch Dressing is in the UK.
[AUDACY] After weeks of unrest in the Uptown area of Minneapolis, a business owner is saying enough is enough and is looking for help to bring safety back to the area.
The owner, who spoke to News Talk 830 WCCO's Adam Carter on the condition on anonymity has owned a business in the area since 2018. He says that the past few weeks of civil unrest has been the worst the area has seen. He says that the problem is with the leadership in the city.
"A disgusting lack of leadership. There is not an adult or a parent in the room. The city needs leadership right now and I don't believe the city leadership that we currently have has it in their DNA to do what it takes to fix, or get under control, the issues that we are facing in Uptown."
As the owner looked to place blame on why the civil unrest is happening in Uptown, he turned his ire to Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender.
"Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender had an opportunity to direct the police forces to deal with the people committing illegal acts, not peaceful protests, but illegal acts. Blocking traffic, setting dumpsters on fire, shooting paintballs at customers, throwing rocks at people. Instead of directing the police to deal with the illegal acts being committed, she tells the police to block traffic so the protesters and agitators can have time to continue their illegal acts."
The Uptown business owner says that he understands peaceful protests in the wake of the death of Winston Smith. He doesn't believe that the people causing the issues in that part of Minneapolis are part of the peaceful protesters.
"It is by far the most moronic leadership decisions you can make when dealing with those that don't have a cause. The agitators don't have a cause, they're anarchists. They just want to stir up trouble."
While the civil unrest has gone on for weeks in Uptown, the owner says he doesn't know how long his business can stay afloat. He is hoping that something can be done to end the pandemonium in the streets.
"At what point do they actually get their fill to deal with it? That's the part that is befuddling and the most upsetting. At what point do you say 'enough is enough?' They are currently saying they are not at their breaking point yet. But Uptown is at its breaking point."
After taking aim at the Minneapolis City Council, the owner had one more salvo for Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
"Governor Walz is culpable and absent because he is running for re-election and he won't send additional resources to the Minneapolis Police Department to attack and address the issues we're facing. Without a vibrant Minneapolis the state of Minnesota is not vibrant."
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Time to bail, mate - the sell signal should be obvious by now.
Yeah, but who would be dumb enough to buy? I'm afraid the people who didn't bail long ago are stuck.
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but who would be dumb enough to buy?
New Yorkers and Californians moving out of state, the same kind of idiotic foreigners who were buying up turn-of-the-century Detroit mansions, astounded at the steal they were able to negotiate?
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I don't know if even Californians and New Yorkers are that dumb. It starts with trying to get an insurance policy. If the insurance company won't insure the place, that should tell you something.
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In the wake of celebratory gunfire that killed a pregnant mother in #Syria's #Qamishli, #AANES' Interior Minister calls the shooters "murderers" and promises accountability.https://t.co/x9tmYE7CqZ
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[JustTheNews] A new law that goes into effect Sept. 1 will make Texas the first state to punish sex buyers with a felony.
HB 1540 was filed by state Rep. Senfronia Thompson (D-Houston). It passed both chambers of the state legislature and was signed into law by 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... The new law creates a separate offense for buying sex and raises the penalty to a state felony subject to jail time. It expands first-degree felony human trafficking to include certain actions related to obtaining victims from shelters or certain residential facilities. It also requires the state to deny some alcoholic beverage licenses and permits if drink solicitation occurs. It also amends provisions governing common nuisance lawsuits relating to prostitution and illegal massage operations, and amends provisions on civil racketeering relating to human trafficking.
The bill also includes a trespassing offense for those who traffic through a residential treatment center. Traffickers are targeting these centers, the House Research Organization bill analysis states, in order to lure and recruit children. The bill gives law enforcement "another tool to combat this through the trespassing statute and by expanding child safety, drug-free, and gang-free zones," it states.
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"We have receipts showing that you bought your date a cocktails, fine steak dinner, and a movie before having sex that night. That's a felony in Texas, wiseguy"
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Well, there goes the stud farm. Guess they'll have to send them heifers out of state.
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I dunno. We both have stolen elections. As for inflation, yeah, theirs was faster than ours, but I recently paid $2.95 for a nickle candy bar.
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Asshole has a point. We need to work on ourselves. A lot. We can back off giving sanctimonious lectures to African countries for a while. The only people affected will be Ivy League employees of the State Department, and F them already.
[NYPOST] The notorious San Diego home of Willard Mitt Romney, aka Pierre Delecto ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a trans Republican and a member in good standing of the Never Trump Party, attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain... , which made headlines in 2012 for having planned an installation of a car elevator, is now in escrow for $23.5 million.
The move comes after years of enduring backlash from neighbors for tearing down and demolishing the initial oceanfront structure and building a new, bigger home. This hasn't been in the San Diego news since he bought it.
Anthony Ciani, a La Jolla, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, architect and former neighbor of Romney at the time, told The Post that his issue was mostly concerning public use of the beach. and legally prolly blocked his view. I'm no Romney fan, but rich people bitching at each other makes me wish a pox on both their houses
"Not all of the neighbors had issues with the Romneys’ project," Ciani said, "but others, including me, disputed their claim to own the sandy beach west of the historic property line which could interfere with the historical public use of the beach, and because that uses that additional area of land to build a larger house than would otherwise comply with the development regulations."
And also he is an icky Republican, even if he loudly proclaims his hate for everything Trump.
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Unfortunate that they don't mention his Lake Winnipesaukee place in NH. I'm going up there next weekend to hang with college / fraternity brothers; I would think nothing of launching fireworks over his place and then bugging out like I stole a car.
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Chandler E. Potter, in his 1856 history of Manchester, translates the name as meaning "Beautiful Water in a High Place". He explains that Winnepesaukee is derived from "Winne" (beautiful), "Nipe" (water), "Kees" (high), and "Auke" (a place), meaning literally, "the beautiful water of the high place".
[NYPOST] The man charged with fatally shooting pro golfer Gene Siller during a triple-homicide spree in Georgia is an aspiring rapper who had been jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for DUI hours later — only to be freed before cops put two and two together. Bryan Rhoden — a 23-year-old rapper known as "B. Rod" — was finally busted for the slayings Thursday and charged with three counts of murder after Saturday’s bloody spree, which ended at the upscale Atlanta-area Pinetree Country Club.
Police say his first two victims — Henry Valdez, 46, and Paul Pierson, 76 — were found dead in the back of Pierson’s Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck, where they had been bound and gagged, at the golf course.
Siller, a 46-year-old father of two who was also the club’s director, was then bumped off when he stumbled across the scene and "witnessed an active crime taking place," police say.
Within hours of the triple homicide, the young rapper was picked up around 25 miles away for a slew of driving offenses, including DUI, driving without insurance and providing false ID, jail records show.
He was booked by the Chamblee Police Department at 2 a.m. Sunday — then released at 8:35 p.m. Tuesday, the records show.
Rhoden was still in Chamblee when he was arrested for the slayings Thursday, said Cobb County Police Chief Tim Cox.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] In wake of 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...... huddling, on Thursday, with radical left-wing activists who pretend to be "civil rights leaders," MSNBC on Friday touted National Urban League President Marc Morial coming out after that meeting and hurling the vile accusation that Republican-sponsored voting reforms and the U.S. Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... were conspiring to create "American apartheid." Rather than fact-check such a horrendous lie, the partisan cable channel endorsed the disgusting rhetoric instead.
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Marc Morial is a straight-up Democratic machine politician. He used to be the mayor of New Orleans, as was his father (Dutch Morial) before him. Some background from a lefty source is here.
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Blame the pother guy of doing what you are doing!
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. By Dmitry Steshin
Unhappy Afghanistan, during the entire existence of such a toponym, has managed to try on itself and all the socio-economic models available on the planet. The anamnesis also included oriental despotism, exemplary Anglo-Saxon colonialism and simply Chaos without names. There was an attempt to build a Soviet republic, or at least a "developing country of the socialist camp." Finally, Afghanistan lived under Islamic fundamentalists in the first version of the Taliban, and then, without transitions, quickly plunged into the export version of "Western democracy for liberated countries."
Russian translation and summary of a recent RAND report. I couldn't find the report online. By Vladimir Orlov
Part one. General issues
According to RAND experts, the French armed forces are among the most efficient in Western Europe and boast a full range of capabilities allowing them to engage in a full range of operations, including high-intensity conventional warfare against an equal adversary.
In this report, RAND researchers examine the role that the French military could play as a coalition partner in a hypothetical conflict with Russia.
France has space capabilities out of Guiana Space Centre. They have Arianespace and Azercosmos (ESA Soyuz) launching out of there. France could improve it's military space situation if it invited some of the "New Space" companies to launch from there with permissions from New Zealand, USA and Japan. (Yes Japan now has New Space as private companies have taken over their launch vehicles.) Both Blue Origin and SpaceX could provide more throw weight than Ariane 5 and some of the other companies smaller quick launches to Space. The ESA should think out of the box on this as France is the only visible EU nation acting for a military advantage in space.
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"France's priority is to maintain strategic autonomy - which it defines as the ability to wage any war and remain a nuclear power." Really? France just announced its military will depart Africa's Sahil.
Unleash the Feebs!
[BREITBART] President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage... offered to send a "strike force" into reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Thursday in order to help Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black... (D) stem the tide of shootings occurring daily in the city.
ABC 7 reports that a "strike force" would focus on gun trafficking.
Lightfoot responded to Biden’s offer by saying, "My hope and expectation is that they’re going to be coming relatively soon. I’ve made not secret of the fact that this is a matter of incredible urgency and I think the president’s plan is to make a difference in localities like Chicago this summer."
On July 7, 2021, the Chicago Tribune noted that the city has witnessed 2,021 shooting victims this year. That figure represents victims in fatal and non-fatal incidents combined.
The Tribune maintains a second table of data focused solely on homicides, and it shows that 364 have been killed in Chicago so far this year.
Chicago, like all of Illinois, has a 72-hour waiting period on gun purchases, a red flag law, and a Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card requirement for would-be gun purchasers. The process for acquiring a FOID card involves a background check.
Moreover, Cook County, the county in Chicago is located, has an "assault weapons" ban.
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Maybe when the door to door vaccination squads go into Chicago, they could also ask if the people have any guns. If they do, the FBI SWAT team can rush in and seize them (the people and the guns), especially if the guns are legally owned.
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If the door to door vaccination squads knock and get no answer at all, I suppose they will simply have to blast their way through the locked door with shotguns -- the real Joe Biden approach.
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[SHAFAQ] The Military Intelligence Directorate arrested today a forger who was trying to list ISIS’s dead forces of Evil as deaders, al-Anbar governorate.
The directorate said in a statement that the perpetrator was using fake transactions and forged books and documents, in which he listed dead forces of Evil as deaders, in exchange for money from their relatives in al-Khalidiya Island in al-Anbar.
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In the United States, you dial 911 only for an emergency. Here is a list of emergency numbers for people traveling abroad. OCONUS Emergency Contact Link.
Lastly, share a copy of your itinerary, daily schedule, hotels, mode of travel, cities, people visited if any, etc. with a relative or trusted agent back home. Don't forget to bring along a copy of your medical prescriptions and foto copies of your US Passport and credit cards. A good rule of thumb is to make sure your US Passport does not expire for at least six months after your travel departure date.
[AlAhram] Hours after Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name... issued a staunch defence of the US withdrawal, the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... said fighters had seized the border town of Islam Qala -- completing an arc of territory from the Iranian border to the frontier with China.
The Taliban claimed Friday to be in control of 85 percent of Afghanistan, including a key border crossing with Iran, following a sweeping offensive launched as US troops pull out of the war-torn nation.
In Moscow, a visiting delegation of Taliban officials said they controlled about 250 of Afghanistan's 398 districts -- a claim impossible to independently verify and disputed by the government.
Separately, Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP the Islam Qala border crossing was "under our full control", while government officials in Kabul said a fightback was under way.
"All Afghan cops including the border units are present in the area, and efforts are under way to recapture the site," interior ministry front man Tareq Arian told AFP.
With the Taliban having routed much of northern Afghanistan in recent weeks, the government holds little more than a constellation of placid provincial capitals that must be largely reinforced and resupplied by air.
The air force was under severe strain even before the Taliban's lightning offensive overwhelmed the government's northern and western positions, putting further pressure on the country's limited aircraft and pilots.
Biden said the Afghan people alone should determine their future, but he acknowledged the uncertainty about what that would look like.
Asked if a Taliban takeover was inevitable, the president said: "No, it is not."
But, he admitted, "the likelihood there is going to be one unified government in Afghanistan controlling the whole country is highly unlikely".
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The Taliban, for their part, welcomed Biden's statement.
"Any day or hour that US and foreign troops leave earlier is a positive step," front man Suhail Shaheen told AFP.
Afghan commandos clashed with the bully boyz this week in a placid provincial capital for the first time, with thousands of people fleeing Qala-e-Naw in northwest Badghis province.
On Friday the Afghan defence ministry said government forces had "full control" of the city.
"(The Taliban) were being hit by air strikes as they were retreating from the city," Badghis provincial council chief Abdul Aziz Bek told AFP.
"They have retreated from the city and the fighting has stopped inside for now."
[AnNahar] Russia on Friday said the Taliban ...Arabic for students... controls about two-thirds of the Afghan-Tajik border and urged all sides in Afghanistan to show restraint.
"We have noted a sharp rise in tension on the Afghan-Tajik border. The Taliban movement quickly occupied a large part of border districts and currently controls about two-thirds of the border," Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, adding that Moscow urges all sides to "show restraint."
She said that Moscow is ready to take "additional measures" to "prevent aggression" on its ally Tajikistan and called on all sides to "avoid spreading tensions outside of the country."
Afghan authorities have vowed to retake all the districts lost to the Taliban and deployed hundreds of commandos to counter the holy warriors' offensive in the north.
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I believe one parallel Afghanistan will not share with Vietnam is the manner in which they will deal with American withdrawal. Vietnam has enjoyed peace, modernization and prosperity since the Americans left, at least as much as communism will allow. Afghanistan will not.
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fuck em
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[ToloNews] A Taliban ...Arabic for students... delegation in Moscow
...they’ve visited Iran, spoken with China, and now Russia...
said on Friday that it will not attack provincial centers — despite fighting by the group on the outskirts of many cities, including Qala-e-Naw in Badghis, over the last three days.
Sieges instead of full frontal attack? Golly.
Sources from Kandahar on Friday said that the Taliban attacked District 7 of the city of Kandahar and captured two outposts.
The sources said that some residents of the area have left their homes, but Kandahar police said that more forces have arrived at the area to push back the Taliban attack.
Taliban negotiator Shahabuddin Delawar, who is in Moscow with two other members of the group, said that they will not attack cities to prevent bloodshed.
He said the reason behind their attacks is lack of addressing their demands for the release of their prisoners and removing the names of their leaders from UN blacklist.
Delwar said they are in talks with other Afghans to discuss a new system "that should be Islamic, Afghan-inclusive and united."
He added that they have "85% of Afghan soil under their control."
According to him, they have over 250 districts in Afghanistan under their control and over 170 of them have been taken over in the last two months.
In response to a question whether they will favor a return of Taliban’s emirate, Delwar said that the issue will be decided upon in the intra-Afghan peace negotiations.
He said that all Afghan border towns taken over by the Taliban will remain active. He vowed to address traders' problems.
The Taliban members sought to signal that they did not pose a threat to the wider region however.
They said the Taliban will do all it could to prevent ISIS operating on Afghan territory and that it will also seek to wipe out drug production.
"We will take all measures so that ISIS will not operate on Afghan territory," Delwar said. "Our territory will never be used against our neighbors."
[SHAFAQ] A member of the Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee, Badr al-Zayadi, warned that the Iraqi people are facing a "dangerous future".
Al-Zayadi told Shafaq News Agency, "The recent U.S. moves including sending new soldiers and planes to Erbil indicate that the upcoming situation is dangerous."
"Any move by these forces to strike the PMF positions inside Iraq, will result in more violent mostly peaceful responses, and therefore the security situation in Iraq will be difficult during the next stage", adding, "the U.S. attack on al-Hashd al-Shaabi is unacceptable, as they are official Iraqi government forces."
"The central government in Baghdad should schedule the departure of foreign forces from Iraq, for the situation to calm down. Otherwise, the country will be facing unpleasant consequences."
Al-Zayadi noted, "what is currently happening on Iraqi soil is like an undeclared war. The arrival of private American planes to the country means that there are specific targets for them to strike."
He called on the government to, "control the situation, as the country is on the verge of parliamentary elections, and the continuation of such events affects the holding them on time."
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[AnNahar] Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... has decided to step down and he is seeking an appropriate exit, media reports said on Thursday.
"There is lack of a real political will to form a government and there is an intention not to form the government," Lebanese journalist Johnny Mounayar said in an interview with al-Jadeed TV.
"PM-designate Hariri has decided to quit... and the decision is not to form a government with or without Saad Hariri," Mounayar added.
"From now until the date of the parliamentary elections, we will witness the most dangerous months of the Lebanese crisis," the journalist went on to say, warning that the country will witness further deterioration.
Center House sources meanwhile told MTV that "the issue of accepting an alternative PM-designate is being discussed by (Speaker Nabih) Berri, Hariri and the ex-PMs."
"We have not heard of the report about (Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... head Jebran) Bassil’s sadness over Hariri’s resignation and the presidential camp has done everything to prevent the government’s formation," the sources added.
[NATION.PK] Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi ...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached... has said power sharing is the way to avert civil war in Afghanistan.Speaking at the Senate's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs in Islamabad on Friday, he said it is our effort and desire that the neighboring country does not plunge into the civil war again.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistain wants that the dignified return of Afghan refugees be made part of the Afghan grinding of the peace processor.
The Foreign Minister said 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... has an important role regarding Afghanistan which cannot be overlooked.
He said Pakistain s relations with Iran has further strengthened. He said we are establishing border markets with Iran.
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[NYPOST] The Democrats have a problem: They have run away from their core voters. And they are beginning to notice and worry.
Lefty blogger Kevin Drum noted this recently. He observes that Republicans have moved slightly to the right, but Democrats have moved way, way to the left on social issues.
Drum says he is "personally happy" about the Democrats’ move left. But he is worried, because while the Democratic Party has moved hard left, the voters it relies on to attain power haven’t.
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Not on bringing in millions of illegals to take their jobs?
[STARTRIBUNE] St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell on Friday defended one of his sergeants against accusations of racial profiling made by a Minnesota state politician ticketed during a traffic stop last weekend.
Rep. John Thompson, DFL-St. Paul, was cited July 4 for driving while under suspension after police say he was pulled over for not having a front license plate. Days later at a rally in St. Paul, Thompson described the encounter as an example of being profiled by police because of his race.
"I thought we weren't doing pretextual stops in this state, but we are," Thompson said Tuesday outside the governor's residence at an event marking five years since his friend Philando Castile was fatally shot by a police officer in Falcon Heights. "We're still getting 'driving-while-Black' tickets here in this state — as a matter of fact, in St. Paul. So let's just call it what it is."
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Turkish forces and their armed opposition factions targeted a number of villages in the countryside of Hasakah, northeastern #Syria, with heavy weapons for the third time this week. https://t.co/HD6yjyb1FL
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The Internal Security Forces (#Asayish) arrested a member of an #ISIS cell during a security operation carried out in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern #Syria.https://t.co/P7YnQl9JUd
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Entomological Society of America is looking for a new name for the insect
President said it was an 'ethnic slur' that had been rejected by Romani people
She also argued that 'no one wanted to be associated with an invasive pest'
Maybe we should just call it the Rose Lee Moth and everybody will know what we meant?
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Ah, the bug was named *after* gypsies. Here I thought it was because the moth *infested* gypsies. You know, like carpet beetles and carpets, or fruit flies and fruit. It's all clear now.
I like Rose Lee Moth. It's more dignified than Hubba-Hubba Moth.
Well, that was called 'Gipsy' because of the engine
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My recent issue of Smithsonian magazine details an effort by The Audubon Society to-rename several species of birds because the current names reflect that those who discovered them were slave owners or other now undesirable traits. Woke infiltrates nature.
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Tommie Lee Moth - infects drug-addled bimbos
Robert E. Lee Moth - takes over & obsesses the minds of Wokerati
Rose McGowan Moth - destroys brain cells
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Perceiving the wokusts were wroth,
Their mouthparts agnash and afroth,
Bug-eyed scientists pled,
"Racists, please use instead,
'Begging, thieving, and child-selling moth!'"
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[IsraelTimes] Organizers of Sunday’s Jewish solidarity rally say it’s critical to also focus on attacks on Israel, but some say that’s not a definition of antisemitism they can agree with.
"Not a definition of antisemitism we can agree on."
Israel will feature large in a Jewish organizational rally against antisemitism, with the goal of uniting the Jewish community following a wave of attacks.
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The left can't demonstrate on behalf of an apartheid state like Israel. They restrict immigration by ethnicity, which is a big no-no. This is what the alt-right wants for America.
[ToloNews] The Islam Qala border town, one of the main trade gateways into Iran, and the Torghundi border town, one of the two trade gateways into Turkmenistan, both in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province in western Afghanistan, have fallen to Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , local officials confirmed on Friday.
Activities at Islam Qala customs were stopped after it was fallen to the Taliban, said Nisar Ahmad Naseri, the acting head of Herat customs department.
Videos on social media show Taliban fighters chatting with Iranian border forces in the bordering areas between Afghanistan and Iran.
Taliban has announced to have captured the Islam Qala customs and the Torghundi border town.
Sources from the province said that all officials of Islam Qala customs and a big number of security forces stationed there have crossed the border to 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... following Taliban’s arrival at the area.
Islam Qala customs is one of the biggest customs in the country that adds at least 1.5 billion Afs (around $20 million) to the government’s income every month.
...Afghan National Army caption under the Communists, mujahideen commander against the Soviets, twice governor of Herat province — first for the mujahideen, then after the Taliban were defeated — Northern Alliance commander, and finally Minister of Energy and Water in Hamid Karzai’s government, he no doubt expected that at 75 he would be sitting back and enjoying less active maneuvers as an elder statesman...
a former mujahideen leader and a senior member of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... party, has mobilized hundreds of his loyalists in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province in the west of Afghanistan to fight the Taliban ...Arabic for students... as the group continues to capture large swaths of territories across the country.
Taliban has come closer to the city of Herat after taking over many districts in the province, including two key border towns.
"We will reorganize the war fronts. We will save the city of Herat from those who have the order to plunder the city. We will not let them to change their dreams for plundering Herat into reality. We will not allow them to cast an evil eye towards the honor and dignity of our people," said Ismail Khan.
Ismail Khan also pledged that after maintaining security around Herat city, the military efforts will be focused on recapturing other districts of the province from the Taliban including the other territories that have fallen to the group in.west zone.
"Soon you will witness the presence of public uprising forces in various parts of the city and in the districts of Herat. We will move towards other areas of the western zone after fixing turbulences in Herat city," added Ismail Khan.
Over the past 24 hours, the Taliban has captured eight districts in Herat province including Islam Qala and Torghundi border towns.
Karkh, Kohsan, Gulran, Kashk-e-Kohna, Robat Sangi, Shindand, Adraskam and Pashtun Zarghoon are among the districts that were fallen to the Taliban in the past 24 hours.
"We will never allow the Taliban to enter into the city of Herat. We assure the people to prevent the infiltration of the Taliban into the city," said Feroz Ahmad Azizi, a Herat resident.
"The Taliban will see a worse treatment from the public. If they insisted on fighting, we will take weapons, if they offer the hand of friendship, we will show similar gesture," said Abdul Latif, a Herat resident.
Local officials in Herat said that from the total number of 19 districts in Herat, only Guzra and Injil districts are currently connected to the city of Herat.
[Rudaw] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS) claimed dozens of attacks on Iraq’s electricity grid and threatened other vital infrastructure in its weekly propaganda magazine al-Nabaa, published Thursday.
ISIS claimed it destroyed 68 electricity towers in cities across Iraq, mainly in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad, as well as in the north and west.
"The previous attacks targeted the electricity sector, including towers, transmission lines, generators, voltage transformers, and others. The mujahedeen [ISIS fighters] also expanded their target area to include the oil sector," al-Nabaa quoted a bad boy saying.
He also threated Iraq’s water infrastructure.
Recent attacks on electricity pylons contributed to a blackout that left millions in the centre and south of the country without power during a heat wave.
ISIS said they started a 35-day operation against electricity lines on 6 June, destroying more than 15 towers a week and threatened "there will be more coming."
On Sunday, a military spokesperson said at least 44 electricity pylons have been targets of recent terror attacks. Security forces in Diyala province killed one suspected terrorist as he was trying to blow up electricity pylons on Monday.
"ISIS terrorist organization seeks to create panic through targeting these power lines," Major General Tahsin al-Khafaji told state media on Sunday.
Khafaji added that a joint operations cell between security forces and the electricity ministry had been formed to strategize how to protect the power lines. A force drawing from the army, police, and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF or Hashd al-Shaabi) has also been formed to protect the electricity towers.
Iraq suffers from chronic electricity shortages, keenly felt when summer temperatures reach over 50 degrees Celsius, caused by multiple factors, including poor government delivery of services, rampant corruption, terror attacks on the power grid, and Iran’s recent cuts of electricity and gas exports because of unpaid bills.
The United States defense department estimates there are 10,000 ISIS fighters operating in Iraq and Syria. In Iraq, ISIS exploits security gaps between Iraqi and Kurdish forces and its fighters "operate in small, mobile cells that primarily conduct simple hit-and-run attacks," targeting "infrastructure, security and military positions, and civilians," the Pentagon said in its latest report on operation against ISIS, released in May.
In its propaganda magazine, ISIS claimed it conducted 44 attacks in Iraq from July 1 to 8, killing and injuring 62 people.
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[AlAhram] Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank amount to a war crime, a U.N. human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... investigator said on Friday, calling on countries to inflict a cost on Israel for its "illegal occupation".
Michael Lynk, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Paleostinian territory, was addressing a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, boycotted by Israel which does not recognise his mandate or cooperate with him.
"In my report, I conclude that the Israeli settlements do amount to a war crime," Lynk said. "I also note that the Jooos are icky"
He said the settlements violate an absolute ban on an occupying power transferring part of its civilian population into an occupied territory, thereby meeting the definition of a war crime under the Rome Statute founding the International Criminal Court (ICC).
"I submit to you that this finding compels the international community ... to make it clear to Israel that its illegal occupation, and its defiance of international law and international opinion, can and will no longer be cost-free," Lynk told the Geneva rights forum.
Many countries consider the settlements a breach of international law. Israel disputes this and cites Biblical and historical connections to the land, as well as security needs.
Israel's mission to the U.N. in Geneva, in a statement to Rooters, rejected Lynk's report as "the latest one-sided and biased report against Israel" and accused him of turning a blind eye to violations committed by the Paleostinian Authority and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... rulers Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,.
The United States, Israel's closest ally which has observer status at the council, did not speak at the council which it accuses of having an anti-Israel bias.
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The territories are part of the Mandate on Palestine given by the League of Nation to GB - to establish Jewish National Home. Six Day War merely corrected some of the deliberate crimes committed by GB's management of the Mandate & and 1947 Arab aggression.
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...tell me again about the plight of East Prussian and Silesian Germans which happened just 3 years before. Wars have consequences. Tell me about the Georgians and Ukrainians while you are at it.
[NYPOST] 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... on Friday said first son Hunter Biden ...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him..... has "a right to an artistic career" — and that his upcoming art sales won’t be an avenue for influence-peddling with his father. Psaki said a "professional gallerist" brokering the sales won’t inform the first son of who is buying his debut artworks — for which he’s seeking up to $500,000 — and that any offers that exceed reason won’t be accepted.
"After careful consideration, a system has been established that allows for Hunter Biden to work in his profession within reasonable safeguards. Of course he has the right to pursue an artistic career just like any child of a president has the right to pursue a career," Psaki said in response to a question from Weijia Jiang of CBS News.
"All interactions regarding the selling of art and the setting of prices will be handled by a professional gallerist adhering to the highest industry standards and any offer out of the normal course will be rejected out of hand," Psaki said at her daily press briefing.
[NYPOST] White House press secretary Jen Psaki insisted Friday that President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....... "does not" talk business with his son — despite new records indicating otherwise — and separately confirmed that Hunter Biden still co-owns a Chinese investment firm.Psaki denied that the president talks business with his son in response to new evidence that he met, while vice president, with Hunter Biden’s business associates from Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and Mexico.
"The president does not discuss business dealings with family members and otherwise I’m not going to respond to Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer," Psaki said in response to a question from The Post at her daily press briefing.
Psaki, who also was asked at the briefing about ethical questions involving the first son’s new art career, additionally confirmed to The Post that Hunter Biden still co-owns a Chinese investment firm known as BHR Partners, which was formed 12 days after he joined his father aboard Air Force Two for a December 2013 trip to Beijing.
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[REGNUM] A total of 46 foreign reconnaissance aircraft approached the state border of Russia during the week. This was reported on July 9 by the official publication of the Ministry of Defense "Krasnaya Zvezda".
Also during the week, five foreign drones were recorded carrying out aerial reconnaissance along the Russian borders.
All of these objects were reportedly accompanied by Russian radar stations. In order to prevent the violation of the state border, fighters from the air defense forces on duty rose into the sky four times.
According to the Ministry of Defense, there were no violations of the airspace of the Russian Federation in any of the episodes.
Probably some weird Russian word meaning monitored...
Yandex translates it as "under maintenance|escort|accompaniment".
I get that people want their own language, what with tribalism and all, but do you really need a different word for everything? The world would go around much faster if people would speak English like everyone else.
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Russian language is extremely context sensitive.
Some phrases in Russian don't make sense in English. The closest analog is idioms.
Additionally, there are several concepts that are defined by a single word that cant be defined in Russian without using a number of words which could in translation confuse the translation,
Conversely, there are some concepts in English that require several words, a phrase or an idiom that the Russian use a single word.
So, the phrase that Russian radar stations accompanied the targets make perfect sense.
Some elements of this story have been translated via Google Translate.
[Rusvesna] At least two Syrian radical Islamic groups are planning attacks in the wake of Syrian president Bashir al-Assad's coming inauguration, according to Russian language sources.
... Al Nusra ally also spelt Hurras al-Deen, which apparently is Arabic for "Guardians of Religion", though sometimes it is called Harakat Ansar al-Deen. The membership includes foreigners as well as Syrians...
...formerly Jund al-Aqsa, it merged with Tanzim Hurras al-Deen in 2018 to form Nusret Islam, now apparently known as “Hurras al-Deen and Ansar al-Tawhid”, or sometimes Tanzim Ansar al-Tawhid — because if you can’t play Toad The Wet Sprocket with organization names, what is the point? The combined group lost a bunch of emirs a couple of years ago from around the Ummah...
groups recently completed preparations for attacks on Syrian government forces in the south, according to the sources:
It has been established that the turbans are almost finishing preparing for an attack on a number of facilities of the Syrian Arab army. In addition, military equipment was transferred to the Kneddah area, 40 km from Idlib, including a group of pickups with homemade rocket launchers, up to 300 turbans and a truck with ammunition.
The proof, according to the sources, is that those groups have been conducting attacks against Ottoman Turkish backed militia, their columns and at checkpoints. A failed attack against Maaret El-Ihuan by Khuras al-Din, also took place the day before. The Death Eaters have been looting local residents and robbing NGO supply columns.
Slowing down the radicals' operations have been the recent closure of the border checkpoint at Bab al-Hawa.
Syrian forces have responded to the threats by increasing the number of checkpoints.
The reports say that the Death Eaters are being supplied by "foreign intelligence services."
The attack plans are to take place in Daraa and El-Quneitra provinces. The report said the terrorist sleeper cells have been filled out in Tafas, Nava, Jasim, Es-Sanamain, Dail and Mutaya.
[NATION.PK] Pakistain’s Foreign Ministry rejected India's statement of denying involvement in Lahore blast by saying that there is irrefutable evidence of India’s aiding, abetting and financing of the terrorist attack.
"We have pointed out in the past also Indian state sponsorship of terrorism in Pakistain," said Zahid Hafeez.
"There is no doubt that the intelligence agency from across the border was involved in planning and executing terrorist attacks against Pakistain," he added.
He accused India of using terrorism as an instrument of state policy and said it makes India inculpable under international law, the UN sanctions regime and international counter-terrorism conventions. Then his lips fell off.
The FO said that the former Indian Naval officer "Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was caught red-handed in March 2016, is the most familiar and undeniable face of India’s state sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistain."
He urged the international community to hold India to account and take practical steps to proceed against the Indian nationals involved in patronage of terrorism against Pakistain.
On June 23, at least three people were killed and 24 others maimed in a powerful blast near the house of Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go.... , the leader of Jamaatud-Dawa (JuD).
On Sunday, Moeed Yusuf, Pakistain's national security advisor, said Pakistain's intelligence agencies had found irrefutable evidence of India’s involvement in the Lahore terrorist attack.
"A detailed forensic [analysis] of all the equipment, including cellular phones, has been conducted, which has clearly indicated a connection with Indian state-sponsored terrorism against Pakistain," Yusuf told news hounds.
"There is no doubt that the Johar Town blast and cyberattacks are interlinked and state-supported by India.
"We presented a detailed dossier in November last year with very minute details highlighting terror financing, phone calls indicating network linkages and a terrorism racket run by India," he said.
Last year, Pakistain said India was funding the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain and ethnic Baloch armed separatist groups that conducted attacks on Pak soil.
New photos circulating on Telegram showing Commander of #Iran's IRGC-Quds Force Esmail Ghaani visiting Liwa Fatemiyoun's headquarters in #Syria. Unclear as to date of visit--but if this week, noteworthy timing amid drone attack on Omar oil field & #Afghanistan developments. pic.twitter.com/4wNACunFXa
BREAKING North-Press reporter: Russian warplanes launch airstrikes on the outskirts of Juzef village in Zawiya Mountain area, south of #Syria's #Idlibpic.twitter.com/POFs3TL0D1
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[ToloNews] Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... on Friday morning launched an attack on the Dostrict 7 of Kandahar city and took over at least two security outposts, sources said. But security officials said Afghan forces prevented the group from advancing in the area.
Taliban has control over 10 districts in Kandahar.
"There isn't any big issue there. I can assure the residents of Kandahar. We will not allow the Taliban to enter into the city until we are alive," said Rohullah Khanzada, the governor of Kandahar.
"The situation is under control, there are no worries. The people should be assured that their brave sons will defend them," said Salim Ehsas, the Kandahar police commander.
"They (Taliban) wanted to launch an attack around the highway, many of them were killed and their bodies were left there," said Mohammad Hashem Rekwal, a police officer in Takhtapol area in Kandahar.
"There are threats around city belts in PD7. There is a good coordination and we are fully ready along our soldiers," said former MP Lalai Hamidzai.
The Afghan cops are also fighting Taliban in centers of Kunduz, Baghlan, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , Ghazni, Faryab and Maidan Wardak provinces.
"If the government does not bring a systematic reform in the strategy, programs and the leadership of the war, if the people do not get mobilized behind the government, I think the Taliban will be emboldened further," said MP Aref Rahmani.
The Defense Ministry said on Friday evening that Afghan forces retook the control of Ali Abad district in Kunduz province from the Taliban.
"The government forces have launched their operations to retake those areas that were lost. Massive casualties have been inflicted to them," said Rohullah Ahmadzai, front man for the Ministry of Defense.
The Taliban has rejected the government’s claim of inflicting casualties among the group fighters.
To be fair, the poor man can’t remember anything earlier than whatever he was told after breakfast this morning, so as far as he knows, this is true.
[KhaamaPress] US president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... in his major policy speech on Afghanistan in the White House said that US did not go to Afghanistan to build nation in the first place but this is the responsibility of the Afghans.
US president delivered his speech last night in which he announced to pullout the remaining troops on August 31, days ahead of his September 11th deadline.
"It’s the right and the responsibility of the Afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country." Said biden.
US president Joe Biden delivers his speech hours after UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... announced the end of his country’s military mission in Afghanistan in parliament. Both the leaders touched mostly the same issues on the war torn-country.
Boris Johson and Joe Biden pledged not to leave those Afghans behind who have contributed to their military mission over the past two decades in Afghanistan. Biden in particular reiterated his state department’s decision to move Afghan interpreters to a third location before they enter into United States. As per Biden, US will start relocating applicants of SIV (Special Immigration Visa) this month.
A success in their two-decade mission in Afghanistan was another coordinated point uttered by both the leaders. They said that they have achieved their mission-counterterrorism- for which they went to Afghanistan in 2001.
As the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... have been in its strongest posture ever seen in past 20 years and continue capturing more territories Joe Biden said that he believes in the capacity of Afghan troops.
Biden reaffirmed that US will continue providing support to ANDSF.
#2
Sing Africa's sons, "How we love it,
That African beat! Scrub-a-dub it!
Hot crocodile water?
It good fi ya, daughter,
So tell Babylon he can shove it.
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#BREAKING: Train services in #Iran were delayed by apparent cyberattacks on Friday, with hackers posting the phone number of the country's supreme leader as the number to call for information, state-affiliated news outlets reported.https://t.co/TSUZopDEDx
Train services in 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... were delayed by apparent cyberattacks on Friday, with hackers posting the phone number of the country's supreme leader as the number to call for information, state-affiliated news outlets reported.
Trains were delayed or cancelled as ticket offices, the national railway's website and cargo services were disrupted, with "unprecedented chaos at railway stations across the country", the state broadcaster IRIB reported.
A notice on electronic boards at stations asked travellers to call a number which in fact belonged to the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... , IRIB and the semi-official news agency Fars said.
"Long delays due to cyberattacks," said another notice on station boards, Fars added.
IRIB later quoted a state railway company front man as saying technicians were checking the disruptions and denying that there were major delays.
It was not clear if the reported attack caused any damage or disruptions in Iran’s computer and internet systems, and whether it was the latest chapter in the US and Iran’s cyber operations targeting the other.
Iran disconnected much of its infrastructure from the internet after the Stuxnet computer virus — widely believed to be a joint US-Israeli creation — disrupted thousands of Iranian centrifuges in the country’s nuclear sites in the late 2000s.
However, attacks attributed to Israel have more frequently targeted Iran’s nuclear program, like Stuxnet or recent explosions at the Natanz nuclear site.
Friday’s cyberattack follows a number of mysterious explosions, fires and mishaps that have plagued the country in recent months.
On Monday, an explosion at a state-owned warehouse outside of Tehran caused a major fire at the site. Tehran has yet to provide details on the location and cause of the blast.
[Rudaw] Iran’s expeditionary Quds Force commander brought one main directive for Iraqi militia faction leaders long beholden to Tehran, when he gathered with them in Baghdad last month: Maintain calm, until after nuclear talks between 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... and the United States.
But he was met with defiance. One of the six faction leaders spoke up in their meeting: They could not stay quiet while the death of his predecessor Qasem Soleimani and senior Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in a U.S. dronezap went unavenged.
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[LIBYAREVIEW] On Thursday, the Kingdom of Bahrain published the national terrorism lists in its official gazette, in order to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. The list included individuals, organizations and media groups, including seven Libyan leaders and entities.The Bahraini authorities called on the Kingdom’s executive authority to act immediately on the list, which was approved by the Bahraini Cabinet. As well as implementing the resolutions of the UN Security Council under Chapter VII, on the prevention and suppression of terrorism and its financing sources.
The Libyan figures included Ali al-Sallabi, Ismail al-Sallabi, Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, Sadiq al-Ghariani ...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence. Aligned with the GNC govt... , Mahdi al-Harati, Ahmed Abdel-Jaleel al-Hasnawi, and al-Saadi Abdullah Ibrahim Bukhazem. This is in addition to terrorist groups such as the Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... , and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council (BRSC), the Benghazi Defense Brigades (BDB), and a number of media arms of the terrorist groups such as al-Nabaa, and al-Tanasuh TV channels.
With regard to the terrorist-designated Libyan media institutions, it was noted that Walid al-Lafi, the current Minister of State for Communication and Political Affairs of the interim Government of National Unity (GNU), was one of the former directors al-Nabaa TV.
The al-Tanasuh channel was directly managed by Libya’s former Mufti, Sadiq al-Ghariani, who is known for controversial fatwas that incite violence, in addition to his support to terrorist groups in the country.
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[RUSVESNA] VGTRK journalist and Moscow City Duma deputy Andrei Medvedev expressed his opinion on the possible introduction of a Russian military contingent into Afghanistan, recalling the still painful war of 1979-89.
“The reaction to the Afghan question in Russia is indeed sharper than to Syria. Because Afghan. Yes. And there is an attitude towards that war, painful and wrong.
Iran's largest navy vessel, the KHARG, is still leaking fuel in the Gulf of Oman after capsizing following a fire that broke out at the beginning of June. Fortunately, no lives lost. 25.64703° N, 57.65864° E pic.twitter.com/xqUe4TpiwK
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[BREITBART] Being second daughter has its perks. President 
[MAIL] Two US citizens arrested over the assassination of Jovenel Moïse have allegedly claimed they were hired as translators in a plot to arrest the Haitian president but not to kill him. 
[The Federalist via Right Scoop] According to a new report there were potentially enough fraudulent votes cast in Georgia, from people who voted in counties they had already moved out of, to take away the 12,670 vote lead that Biden won by last November:
[American Thinker] Well, everyone could see it coming.
Carlson is a direct threat to their media, disinformation bureau. They are after Carlson's sources. His sources are likely US Government people. Terminate the sources and the problem is resolved. 
[PJ] If you want to stick it to big corporations and rein in their real or perceived abuses, use your political prowess and the laws of your own sovereign country to do it. Instead, the Biden administration wants to sidestep this responsibility and cede U.S. corporate tax policy to create a new global corporate tax rate. Price-fixing tax rates, if you will, would make it harder for companies to jump to cheaper countries to do business. Instead of competition, this group of nations seeks to make businesses their captives.
The Director NSA (DIRNSA) Admiral Mike Roger shut down illegal intelligence exploitation (collection against US Citizens) in 2015 and again in 2016 during the Trump Campaign. Owing to the historical conflict between NSA and CIA, my guess is Fusion is a Klingon contract cover organization. 
[Breitbart] Chicago community leaders are pressuring Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) to declare a "State of Emergency" regarding the city’s gun crime.
[BREITBART] Referring to food as "exotic" creates distance between individuals and groups and "reinforces xenophobia and racism," according to a recent Washington Post article which, instead, suggests people ask themselves why they are unfamiliar with certain foods and question their willingness to change that.
[AUDACY] After weeks of unrest in the Uptown area of Minneapolis, a business owner is saying enough is enough and is looking for help to bring safety back to the area.
... 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...
[NYPOST] The notorious San Diego home of 
[NYPOST] The man charged with fatally shooting pro golfer Gene Siller during a triple-homicide spree in Georgia is an aspiring rapper who had been 
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[NYPOST] The Democrats have a problem: They have run away from their core voters. And they are beginning to notice and worry.
[STARTRIBUNE] St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell on Friday defended one of his sergeants against accusations of racial profiling made by a Minnesota state 
[ToloNews] The 
Michael Lynk, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Paleostinian territory, was addressing a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, boycotted by Israel which does not recognise his mandate or cooperate with him.
...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him.....
still co-owns a Chinese investment firm.Psaki denied that the president talks business with his son in response to new evidence that he met, while vice president, with 
[NATION.PK] Pakistain’s Foreign Ministry rejected India's statement of denying involvement in Lahore blast by saying that there is irrefutable evidence of India’s aiding, abetting and financing of the terrorist attack. 
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...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 
