[News With Views] One wonders whether a hearing before some Congressional committee is the appropriate venue for determining what relationship (if any) certain officials and agencies of the government of the United States may have had to the emergence in Communist China of what is called "Covid 19", and the subsequent transmission of that "virus" throughout the world. In principle, it would seem that a simple criminal investigation of this matter would be more straightforward, as well as far more consequential. Such an investigation would focus on four questions:
3. Did any officials or employees of the government of the United States—whether individually or in concert with officials or employees of a State’s government, agency, or instrumentality; with private parties or organizations; or with any combination thereof—knowingly provide financial and/or technical assistance to an organization which is part or under the control of the government of Communist China, for the purpose of research and development aimed at increasing the transmissibility, infectivity, and lethality of some micro-organism, virus, or other infectious substance (whether this research and development happened to be labeled "gain of function" or was assigned some other designation)?
4. Did those officials, employees, or individuals know, should they have known, or were they willfully blind to or recklessly indifferent towards the fact, that such financial and/or technical assistance could (and likely would) aid at some stage and to some degree in the development of a biological agent suitable for use as a weapon by the government of Communist China or some organization which is part of or subject to its control?
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Who would do such an investigation that is not bought? Yes, I'm quaking in my boots over just about any policy anyone could mention. An analogy would be that are forest fires everywhere and only a few are pissing on the fires to put them out. Many are adding fuel to the fire.
[AlAhram] In 2015, Death Eaters bombed a bus carrying more than 50 coppers.
The Damanhur Criminal court sentenced on Thursday 16 people to death for bombing a police bus in 2015 in Beheira governorate.
Ten of the defendants attended the trial while the others were sentenced in absentia.
According to the State Security prosecution, the defendants belong to a terrorist cell affiliated to the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund group.
In 2015, the Death Eaters bombed a Beheira Security Directorate bus carrying more than 50 coppers and police personnel who were on their way to work at the Rashid cop shoppe one early morning.
Three coppers were killed and 36 others were maimed.
The prosecution accused the defendants of joining a banned bad boy group, funding a terrorist group and supplying it with money, arms, and ammunition as well as of murder and attempted murder.
The sentence is first-degree and can be appealed.
So the thing is still in process.
The Damanhur Criminal Court also sentenced eight people to death for the murder of a policeman in Beheira governorate in 2014.
Six defendants attended the trial and two were sentenced in absentia.
According to the court, the defendants are members of a terrorist organization in Beheira. In December 2014, they shot 38-year-old policeman Rabie Mohammed Ali to death as he was leaving his house, injuring another man in the shooting.
This is also a first-degree sentence that can be appealed.
Posted as a comment this morning by our own Shereth Shavirt.
BLUF:
[UNZ] To ask the question again, what is the purpose of the vaccination? Is the purpose the "grave harm to female fertility"? Is the purpose the large percentage of the vaccinated population that some experts expect will die from the vaccine’s toxicity? Is the purpose Big Pharma’s profits? Is the purpose to breach the law that requires informed consent for any intervention in one’s body so that authorities can mandate that we be microchipped?
[E-Times] Most Americans were as indifferent to the U.S. women’s soccer team’s recent loss to Sweden in the Olympics as they were excited about the team’s World Cup win in 2019. In between was the team’s nonstop politicking, from whining about compensation to virtue-signaling their disrespect for the United States. The celebrity face of the team, perennial scold Megan Rapinoe, is going the way of teenage grouch Greta Thunberg, becoming more pinched the more she is tuned out.
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Marie Khan-Cullors Brignac used her corporate grifting to buy four homes. The one she bought in California’s Topanga Canyon is surrounded by a new $35,000 security fence.
Critical race theory guru Ibram X. Kendi offers virtual, one-hour workshops for $20,000 a pop. He is franchising woke re-education kits—in between bouts of damning capitalism as a catalyst of racism.
The woke movement is a slicker, more sophisticated and far more grandiose version of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson’s shakedowns of the 1990s. Those, at least, were far more honest in leveraging cash with charges of racism—and came without the academic gobbledygook of critical race theory.
Our freeways are jammed. Airports are crammed. Labor is short. Huge pent-up consumer demand for essentials and entertainment outpaces supply. Yet Major League Baseball’s recent All-Star Game saw record low television viewership—about a quarter of the audience of 40 years ago, when there were 100 million fewer Americans.
The Summer Olympic Games are getting anemic TV ratings. The NBA’s crashing TV ratings have followed the downward trajectory of the NFL’s ratings. Woke sports earn the same public disgust as the accusatory and boring Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards.
Cable news networks CNN and MSNBC fueled the story that former President Donald Trump allegedly colluded with Russia. They contextualized (to excuse) the summer looting and rioting of 2020. And they cheered on two impeachments as a prelude to their 24/7 woke drumbeat. Their ratings, too, have now dived.
Never has TV been more politicized. Sitcoms, dramas, and commercials are designed more to resonate woke messaging than to entertain. So naturally, dismal TV ratings reflect the expected public boredom that ensues when art serves politics.
How many times will disingenuous Dr. Anthony Fauci swear that he never sent federal money to the Wuhan virology lab for gain-of-function research, or blame his critics for pointing out his gyrating advice on masks, or offer yet another noble lie on herd immunity?
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They had to find some way to monetize all those "studies" degrees...
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It's about the Left's big failure in one community, so they blame everyone and everything else for their failure except that community itself and the choices they made. See the Left doesn't believe in human free will.
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By the time white woke moms and the crazy progressives notice that their own neighborhoods are morphing inevitably into whiter versions of Boyle Heights, but with the same traditions about tribal territory and local , browner power centers, it willl be far too late. The way back is fast closing forever, and the Golden Age of the American Century is past.Sadly for them, most of their existing life skills are useless against the new players who will just use violence and fear to compel their obedience. It will take a lot longer in the rural areas, but as a famous communist once remarked, "...quantity is its own form of quality"!
[Zero Hedge] Radioactive material headed to Michigan from an Ohio company never made it to its destination, a filing by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission revealed. In its "Current Event Notification" report for Wednesday, the commission that regulates commercial nuclear power plants and other civilian uses of nuclear materials in the United States said the Ohio Bureau of Radiation Protection had informed officials about a missing shipment involving Prime NDT Services.
The Ohio radiation bureau learned from Prime NDT that a source of Iridium-192
...which has a half life of 74 days...
was shipped through an unnamed carrier on July 12 from a facility in Strasburg, Ohio, to a facility in Michigan, the NRC said. Iridium-192 is a radioactive isotope of iridium, which can be used in industrial gauges that inspect welding seams in such equipment as pipelines and in medicine to treat certain cancers, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The material can also be used to make a dirty bomb.
According to the Detroit News, Prime NDT Services is an Ohio-based inspection company that performs testing services in the energy and industrial industries, many involving pipelines and other energy industry equipment.
The nuclear commission report categorized the isotope as a "Category 2" level of radioactive material, but did not specify the quantity of material that was being shipped or how it was packaged.
"Category 2 sources, if not safely managed or securely protected, could cause permanent injury to a person who handled them, or were otherwise in contact with them, for a short time (minutes to hours)," the report said. "It could possibly be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period of hours to days."
According to the NRC classification scale, Category 1 nuclear materials are for strategic uses and include quantities in excess of 5 kilograms of uranium 235 or uranium-233 or 2 kilograms of plutonium. Five kilograms equals slightly more than 11 pounds. Think plutonium which Doc Brown stole from the Libyans.
Category 2 materials contain more than 1,000 grams of U-235 or more than 500 grams of U-233 or plutonium, or in a combined quantity of more than 1,000 grams. One thousand grams is equal to 2.2 pounds.
At the bottom is Category 3: materials would be those classified with more than 15 grams of U-235 or U-233 or plutonium alone or combined. Fifteen grams equals a little more than 8 ounces.
So here's the problem: "As of July 21, the source has not been delivered ..." the Ohio commission's notice to the NRC reads.
It was unclear how long shipping the material to Michigan would have been expected to take. The company is based in Ohio just south of Akron, but the Michigan delivery point was not specified. The carrier transmitting the material was redacted in the NRC notice.
The incident report refers to the shipment as a "Lost Source."
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Actually, except for that pesky gamma ray this is a fairly "benign" isotope: short half-life and decays to "observationally stable" Platinum-192 (if I have read the table correctly). With its short half-life I am sure some industrial customer is beyond pissed that it disappeared in transit.
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short lived radioisotopes are not dirty bomb material.
I'm not so sure. If your goal is blowing stuff up good, maybe not. But if your intent is to cause panic and a media event, a little bomb that scatters some debris and sets Geiger counters pinging madly, even if only for a few days, sounds like just the ticket. Can we get a ruling from the judges?
ZeroHedge] Readers know by now that the Western US is facing a megadrought, heat waves, fallow lands, wildfires, water shortages, grasshopper plague, and deteriorating reservoir conditions.
The latest data from the California Department of Water Resources provides a map of water levels for 12 major reservoirs in California.
What's concerning is that nearly all reservoirs in the state are way their historical average marks that suggest stricter water conservation measures are ahead. Some of these reservoirs are at risk of having their hydroelectric power plant cease operations because the water level is too low to turn the turbines.
In other words, just the usual uncomfortable California result of the usual California business as usual within the usual weather cycles. Zero Hedge does like pushing adrenaline.
When you have MILLIONS of people moving to and living in a state that is 3/4's arid and then bust dams and reservoirs to be "Earth Friendly" what do you expect IF you are thinking about future human impact repercussions.
I remember the drought back in 1990'ish where the farm valley crops were left to died due to the irrigation water being funneled to LA and yes swimming pools were filled.
BTW: Here is NOAA's data on this drought and previous cycles.
eg. California has experienced many droughts, such as 1841, 1864, 1924, 1928-1935, 1947-1950, 1959-1960, 1976-1977, 1986-1992, 2006-2010, 2011-2017, 2018 and 2020.
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Any Californians trembling with fear aren’t tough enough for the environment. They ought to start working immediately to move to somewhere within their risk tolerances. Connecticut, perhaps, or Vermont.
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If pnly we were near an unlimited source of water...like an ocean or something
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A webpage to keep an eye on is the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) site here. It shows the total demand for electricity versus the amount supplied by renewables at any given time. Roughly, they've got 14,000 megawatts of what they call "renewables" to serve a peak demand of 40,000 megawatts. And this is before the shutdown of the Diablo Canyon nuke because Gaia doesn't like nukes. Something's got to give.
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Haven't built a major damn or reservoir in 40+ years, and haven't limited building permits in any meaningful way statewide since permit fees, sales tax and property taxes are the lifeblood of local and state governments. Nukes and desalination plants to completely solve this would cost less that the stupid high-speed rail project which, incredibly, is being revived by the Bidet morons.
Its like they must choose the wrong answers for every public policy question....
[ZeroHedge] July 29 marks this year’s Earth Overshoot Day, the day that humanity’s demand for ecological resources exceeds the resources Earth can regenerate within that year.
Over the decades, the ecological and carbon footprint of humans has gradually increased, all while Earth’s biocapacity, i.e. its ability to regenerate resources has diminished significantly.
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The old Paul Ehrlich "Population Bomb" scare them scam. They keep shutting down existing means of using and exploiting resources, no kidding, you'll run out of resources. It's a self inflicted wound.
[TennesseeStar] The National Institutes of Health has doled out nearly $46 million in taxpayer funds to 100 Chinese institutions in the form of sub grants since the 2012 fiscal year to conduct research into infectious diseases, drug addiction, mental health and other scientific fields, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of federal spending data.
The NIH’s ongoing funding of Chinese research institutions comes amid growing bipartisan concern in Washington D.C. over the fact that U.S. taxpayers support research in a country that has violated international health regulations, stonewalled a proper investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and that may be in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the NIH sub agency led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, provided $6.6 million in taxpayer-funded sub grants to 27 of the Chinese entities, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, to conduct research into allergies and infectious diseases, sub grant data pulled from USASpending.gov shows.
One of the NIAID-funded sub grants, which involved the transfer of $428,000 to a Chinese government-owned institution in 2020 to conduct research into emerging mosquito and tick-based infections, states unequivocally that the U.S. will only receive the research, funded in part by U.S. taxpayers, upon approval by Chinese government authorities.
"Following testing for common pathogens, and then, after approval by the relevant authorities of the Chinese government, a subset of samples will be sent to Washington University in St. Louis for further analysis," the sub grant description to the Chinese National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention reads.
The NIH did not return a request for comment.
Another NIAID-funded project provided $600,000 in sub grants to the Wuhan Institute of Virology prior to the COVID-19 pandemic to conduct research that involved the genetic modification of bat-based coronaviruses.
A House Energy and Commerce Committee aide told the DCNF that their investigation shows that USA Spending sub award data is incomplete and underreported, meaning the NIH’s funding of Chinese institutions could be higher than available reporting currently shows.
Fauci has defended his agency’s funding of the Wuhan lab amid growing concern that it could be linked to the COVID-19 outbreak, saying it would have been "negligent" for his agency not to do so.
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Israeli Jews average three children per family, with birth control available to all who want it. They aren't likely to see surreptitiously reducing the birthrate as a priority.
[AlAhram] 'One suspect was killed in a shootout, while the other suspect was injured and subsequently apprehended,' the statement of Æthiopia's Somali region communication office said
An infiltration attempt by the terror group al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... to Æthiopia from neighboring Somalia has been foiled, Æthiopian authorities said on Thursday.
In a press statement, Æthiopia's Somali region communication office said two suspected al-Shabaab operatives were intercepted earlier this week.
"Two suspected al-Shabaab operatives who tried to enter from neighboring Somalia to Æthiopia were intercepted in the Mustahil locality of Æthiopia Somali regional state," said the statement.
"One suspect was killed in a shootout, while the other suspect was injured and subsequently apprehended," the statement said.
Somalia has struggled with the lack of an effective central government since 1991 when former President Mohammed Siad Barre was ousted from power by armed rebellion, leading to the Somalia Civil War. The weakness of the central government of Somalia has led to the proliferation of sea piracy, illegal fishing by foreign boats and attacks by terror groups, most notably al-Shabaab.
In January, Æthiopia announced the arrest of dozens of suspected Æthiopian gunnies linked to al-Shabaab.
h/t Hot Air
[The Atlantic] - America’s split with masks turned out to be a brief hiatus. After getting their shots in the spring and early summer, many people figured they could dump their face coverings for good—a sentiment the CDC crystallized in May, when the agency gave fully immunized people its blessing to largely dispense with masking, indoors and out. Yesterday, the agency pivoted back, recommending that even fully vaccinated people wear masks under certain high-risk circumstances, including in public indoor spaces in parts of the country where the virus is surging, Director Rochelle Walensky said in a press briefing. (She specified places where new case numbers exceed 50 per 100,000 people in the past seven days; that currently includes about two-thirds of U.S. counties.) With an ultra-contagious SARS-CoV-2 variant rampaging, face coverings are being called upon to once again supplement the protection offered by vaccines.
The CDC’s decision, which many public-health researchers have been anticipating for weeks, might look like a flip-flop or a fumble, some sort of masking mea culpa. But to me, and the experts I talked with, redonning masks (or simply keeping them on, as many people have) is not some shameful regression to the dark ages of the pre-vaccination era. Nor is it an indictment of the COVID-19 vaccines, which are doing an extraordinary job of curtailing the global burden of disease. Instead, it’s a doubling down on two defenses that we know work, and work well together.
Masks, after all, are reemerging in response to the fast-changing conditions around us—offering another layer of protection at a time when we need it most, in much the same way we seek out umbrellas when it rains, sunscreen when it’s sunny, and better security systems when our neighborhood crime rates tick up. "With Delta being such a dominant force, we need to include every layer we can think of," Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University, told me. The vaccines are excellent. But while so many people remain vulnerable, and the virus continues to shape-shift, shots can’t shoulder the burden of protection alone. Our understanding of masks is evolving; for now, they still have a crucial role to play, as a partner to the shots we'll be depending on long term. Basically the reason vaccinated people are asked to wear masks is because: while they are safe from symptomatic disease, they can be asymptomatic carries who can infect unvaccinated people. Now, one might ask "So what, is is their [unvaccinated] choice to be idiots - why should I care?" That's because when they get Covid and cannot pay for their treatments (The average cost to treat a hospitalized patient with coronavirus is $30,000*, according to a study: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/09/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-coronavirus-treatment-costs.html), guess where the $$$ will come from?
*That's also why your government (and mine) push vaccinations for all they are worth. Costs of vaccination are $47 (https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-to-be-paying-average-of-47-per-person-for-pfizer-moderna-vaccines/) i.e. 1/640 of treatment.
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On and on it goes. With this sort of thinking it will never end which is the intent. This will go on for years playing this game of woe. Germophobia has won the day.
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p.s. #2 You do realize that, if you get sick, you might take a place of somebody more deserving: like somebody who recently arrived through your South border?
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/\ I believe getting vaccinated makes one more independent of governing elites.
Yes, I agree. 'Government compliance' would have emptied the Warsaw ghetto without a shot being fired. We must follow the orders of the elites. "Work compliance will set you free."
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Why the masks again? It's simple stupid, they want another round of mail in of fake voters for the next election. As the Rant posting the other day, they know they're f*d if any integrity is in the voting process. Masks are their joker to keep the scam going by scaring enough clowns to allow another round of fake elections.
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Oh how America cares: Heroin kills but the GIVERNment passes out needles. Opioids are addictive and deadly yet passed out dope like candy, COVID is said to be deadly but over one million illegals have be pushed into America by the current administration….. regardless of where anyone’s view of vaccines are it is obvious to me that masks do not work to stop a virus
eg. The most commonly used "Procedure / Surgical" paper masks scored only 38.5% effective and the commonly seen reusable/washable 3 layer knitted cotton mask scored the lowest at @ 26.5% effective filtration. If you mask, or as we do shopping ....Go N-95 or better and wearing your Sun glasses or face shield is actually a good additional layer of protection.
Remember: "Basically the reason vaccinated people are asked to wear masks is because: while they are safe from symptomatic disease, they can be asymptomatic carries who can infect un-vaccinated people." aka Typhoid Mary's.
Regarding To Vax or Not:
If the Vax is the solution then why are the 3 Vax'd extended family sick right now, the eldest 50'ish hospitalized then sent home doing 5lt O2, the 15 y/o 102 fever and sick for 2 days and then jackass who was VAX'd and said he couldn't have it because he was Vax'd in June.
"Drug makers and some scientists say people will likely need a booster shot of the Covid-19 vaccines and possibly additional shots each year, just like for the seasonal flu.
Sure sounds like a FLU scenario where every season requires and different strain shot.
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At least they're not mandating 'Essential Oils'....yet.
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Keep in mind that this virus isn't going anywhere. It'll be with us for decades if not forever. So any 'temporary' COVID measures put into place now are going to be permanent. And I'm not going to wear a mask for the rest of my life. F*^k that.
[ToloNews] Residents in the newly retaken Kaldar district of Balkh in northern Afghanistan on Thursday shared their experience under the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in the past month, saying the Taliban torched their homes and used residents as human shields during the fighting with the Afghan cops.
They said the civilian population paid a heavy price during the fighting between the two sides and their livestock and other belongings were lost.
Tazarigh village, which is only 8 kilometers away from center of Kaldar district, saw some of the heaviest fighting between the security forces and the Taliban. People in the area say that their homes were destroyed.
Mohammad Nazar, one of the residents in the village, said: "Here it was our home. The Taliban, who are the slaves of Pakistain, came here and destroyed our homes, they planted mines here," he said.
Debris can be seen from a distance in Kaldar district.
TOLOnews’ news hound Sayed Mohammad Aref Musvai, reporting from Kaldar, said that the Afghan cops are still on red alert in the district to respond to possible threats by the Taliban. The security forces liberated Kaldar on Monday.
"The Taliban did not manage to hold out against us, we recaptured the district center in two hours," said Ahmadullah, a member of the Afghan Special Forces ...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... Businesses have reopened in the Kaldar district bazaar.
"Nothing was left here in the district, there is nothing left in the police headquarters and NDS headquarters, everything was transferred out by the Taliban," said Mohammad Yousuf Ghulamzada, Kaldar district governor.
Residents in Kaldar said that they suffered difficult days in the past month.
"When the airplanes were coming, they (Taliban) were dressing in women's clothes and were sitting inside with the children, several children died," said Mohammad Nazar, a resident in Tazarigh village of Kaldar district.
Residents in Kaldar said that imported muscle were also fighting against the Afghan forces along with the Taliban.
"Based on the statistics that we gathered from the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... , imported muscle were seen among them (Taliban), these foreigners included Chechens and Kazakh and their dead bodies were lying on the battlefield," said Fazluddin Najamzada, the head of Balkh's security department.
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Following the Soviet departure from Afghanistan, in 1988 there followed a vicious civil war. Eventually won by the Taliban, the years were replete with savagery, and the thousands of atrocities committed by the Taliban. We can expect the same results in the years ahead.
[ToloNews] Salaam Telecom has not been providing services anywhere in Afghanistan since Wednesday 10 am, according to reports. "Mo didn't have Telecoms in the 7th century, and neither do you!"
Some reports also say that the outage had a link to the recent trip of a Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... delegation to China, however, officials of the telecom company have explained the outage as a technical issue with no political reasons.
Officials at the company have said that the company has lost several of its employees in Taliban attacks in the past and has suffered millions of dollars worth of financial losses.
Sources said that in the past three months, Salaam Telecom lost 51 towers. In six districts 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... all the assets that belong to Salaam Telecom have been destroyed. In 8 other districts, including Torghundi and Islam Qala ports, Salaam Telecom has stopped its activities due to the presence of the Taliban.
"We do not have any operations in areas under the control of the Taliban," said Ashiqullah Alizai, the head of Salaam Telecom Company in Herat.
"In areas that are under the control of the Taliban--for instance, in Faryab, in one of the districts, as we know, all assets that belonged to Salaam Telecom were looted, however, in other districts, they are operational," said Enayatullah Kamal, the governor of Faryab.
According to officials, in provinces like Takhar and Kunduz, Etisalat, Afghan Wireless and MTN telecom services operate only during the day. They cannot operate during the night due to Taliban threats.
"In areas where there is fighting, the activities of telecom companies are facing problems, there are also reports of financial losses," said Saeed Shinwari, a front man for ATRA.
Based on available figures, over the past few years the Taliban has destroyed dozens of telecommunication towers in different parts of the country, with some reports saying the Taliban has destroyed as many as 308 telecom towers in this time.
The Taliban has said in the past that Salaam and Afghan Telecom companies are military targets.
[ToloNews] Fawzia Koofi, a member of the peace negotiating team representing the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan in the talks with the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , on Thursday said that the presence of foreign Taliban in the northern regions of Afghanistan, particularly along the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border, is threatening the security of those areas. She called for swift action to neutralize them.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoyguv warned that Russia will act immediately if there is a threat emanating toward Central Asia from Afghanistan.
Chinese officials have expressed hope that the Taliban will fight against the "East Turkestan Islamic Movement" (ETIM)
...sometimes called the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), this Uighur jihadi group is listed under Tehrik-e-Taliban in the Al Qaeda organization table. Based in Badakshan with a second branch in Al Nusra-controlled Idlib-Latakia, Syria, only a rump group remains in China. The Russians and Americans take turns killing off their Syrian emirs — last I heard they were on their third Number 1 in three years, so he’s about due to kiss a missile...
holy warriors.
Is that likely?
"Now the activities and movements of foreign turbans have increased more than any time before along the border areas and in the strategic locations which have come under Taliban control, unfortunately," said Koofi.
Based on a Radio Azadi report, imported muscle reportedly with ties to Tajik holy warrior groups are present in some districts of Badakshan including Kuf Ab, Shekay, Nusay Maimai and Khawhan.
"In case there is a threat to our ally, Russia will respond within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization," said Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoyguv. "In the initial step, Russia will use Base-201 in Tajikistan-Afghanistan border," he said.
The Russian defense minister also expressed deep concerns over the movement of ISIS fighters from Syria and Libya to Afghanistan.
"This is the collective responsibility of the international community to jointly combat the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. We hope that the Afghan Taliban draw a clear line to the terror groups and act against them seriously and robustly to remove the barriers," said Zhao Lijian, a front man for the Chinese foreign ministry.
[ToloNews] Afghan cops pushed back a Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attack on 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... city and Karokh district in Herat province on Wednesday night, said local officials on Thursday.
"The Taliban has sustained casualties and fighting is still ongoing in some parts of the city," according to officials.
The Taliban launched simultaneous attacks in Pul-e-Malan in the south of Herat city, Seyawashan village in the city, and in the center of Karokh district, the officials said.
"At least 40 Taliban were killed and more than 40 others were maimed," according to local security officials.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the Taliban has not yet confirmed the deaths of their fighters.
Several army vehicles were also damaged in the attacks, according to sources.
The festivities are still ongoing in Pul-e-Malan.
"We have tanks and military equipment and will fight against the Taliban with strength," said Akram Khan, a commando forces commander.
"We are defending our soil. We are not moving forward at this time in order to prevent the civilian casualties," said Abdul Rahim, a commando force member.
Mohammad Ismail Khan,
...one of the Northern Alliance/Jamiat-e Islami warlords, the Herat Tajik was an Afghan National Army captain under the Communists, mujahideen commander against the Soviets, twice governor of Herat province — first for the mujahideen, then after the Taliban were defeated — and finally Hamid Karzai’s Minister of Energy and Water. He no doubt expected that at 75 he would be sitting back and enjoying less active maneuvers as an elder statesman. Instead he stood up a local unit of the People's Resistance® Front, with plans to be formidable...
a former mujahideen leader who is also leading the public uprising forces, visited the battlefield.
He assured the public that the security forces will not allow the Taliban to enter the city.
"A small number of Taliban have come to villages near the city of Herat and there is nothing to worry about," he said, adding that "the security forces and the people's forces are ready to eliminate them and prevent the enemy from advancing. People in Herat should not worry."
Gen. Sayed Merajuddin Sadat, the provincial police chief, said the "Taliban wanted to create fear among the people to prevent us from advancing in the districts."
"The security forces responded to the Taliban last night and their bodies are on the battlefield. The security forces and the people will fight against the Taliban and will push them back from the city," said Colonel Abdul Hamid Hamidi, commander of 207 Zafar Corps.
There is no report over possible security forces casualties in the festivities.
[IsraelTimes] Around 122,000 Paleostinians currently work legally in Israel and the settlements, and their incomes are important to a PA economy that has taken tough hits during the pandemic.
[ToloNews] Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday said they have increased the combat capabilities of its military base in Tajikistan and training local soldiers.
This comes after Moscow warned that ISIS was moving into neighbouring Afghanistan.
The security situation has rapidly deteriorated in Afghanistan amid a US troop withdrawal, Shoigu said, who was in Tajikistan on Wednesday for talks.
That foreign troops withdrawal has prompted Moscow to prepare for a potentially major security challenge.
Quoted by Rooters, Shoigu said that ISIS fighters are moving into Afghanistan from Syria, Libya and several other countries.
The new battlefield for jihad tourists bored with dwindling prospects for excitement wherever they are now. Yay.
"What's more, in some parts, we can also see that these movements are quite seriously organised," the Russian Defense Minister said.
Calling the US troop exit "hasty", Shoigu said that Moscow is training Tajik military personnel at Russian military universities and facilities affiliated with the military base it operates in Tajikistan.
"We provide everything needed for military training," Shoigu said. "We are paying increased attention to strengthening the combat capabilities of our base and refining plans to jointly repel possible Death Eater infiltration."
[KhaamaPress] The abroad training program is the first move after NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ended its military training program inside Afghanistan and is believed to be a prelude for further programs as such.
Earlier in June, heads of thirty states- NATO members- had promised that they will continue supporting Afghan National Defense and Security Forces and training them outside Afghanistan.
The Afghan Special Forces ...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... soldiers were reportedly flown to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... on Wednesday.
A NATO spokesperson in Brussel has confirmed the training but did not provide information about the exact location of the program.
The location for training Afghan cops was previously said to be 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... which is currently hosting intra-afghan peace talks.
Based on the US-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... agreement inked in the Qatari capital Doha, foreign troops must leave Afghanistan by September which behooves the foreign countries to continue training Afghan Forces out of the country.
NATO member states along with the United States are committed to giving the Afghan government up to $4 billion until 2024 to fund security forces. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg in his recent telephonic call with Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... reiterated NATO’s support to the Afghanistan military and its civilian presence in the country.
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NATO member states along with the United States are committed to giving the Afghan government up to $4 billion until 2024
You have to admire grifting on this scale. This isn't Three Card Monte in the park. We should all aim so high.
That seems an awfully heavy operations tempo. Can they keep it up?
[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan state ministry in peace affairs on Thursday published its four-month report on civilian casualty by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and Afghan government forces which demonstrates a surge in violence by the Taliban.
The report states that the Taliban have conducted 22 thousand attacks against Afghan National Defense and Security Forces which have left hundreds of thousands of people displaced.
The report is published one day after tens of youths protested against the ongoing conflicts in Kandahar province which have displaced 22 thousand families.
As per the report, a total number of 5587 civilian people were killed and maimed as a result of 93 suicide kabooms, 650 rocket shells, 1675 mine explosions, and 844 liquidations by the Taliban.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg...... 24609 Taliban fighters have been killed and maimed as a result of ANDSF operations in the time span mentioned, reads the report.
That’s a lot of dead turbans, cleaning out that end of the gene pool.
The statement released by the ministry further reads that foreign troops’ withdrawal from Afghanistan has prompted the Taliban to escalate violence. The statement too blamed regional intelligence for encouraging the Taliban to gain victory militarily.
As per the report, 621 schools have been shut by the Taliban fighters which has led to 42 percent of students be devoid of education.
The influx of more than 10,000 fighters from outside Afghanistan in order to increase the violence shows that there are also foreign hands behind the war in Afghanistan," said Sayed Abdullah Hashemi, an official of the State Ministry for Peace Affairs.
[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in a blurb on Thursday said that due investigations show that the daughter of the Afghan ambassador to Islamabad, Selsila Alikhel has been kidnapped and then tortured physically and mentally in Islamabad.
Medical reports and relevant pieces of evidence indicate that Selsila Alikhel was manhandled and then tortured on July the 17th.
Afghan ambassador to Islamabad Najib Alikhel had filed a petition over his daughter’s abduction in the Pak capital the following day.
The statement further reads that based on medical reports and other pieces of evidence a crime of this type can never be justified and the Pak government is obliged to provide diplomats and their family security based on international conventions.
Afghanistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reiterated that the Pak government must expedite its investigations and bring the culprits to justice.
The MoFA is set to send a delegation to Pak to conduct a joint investigation on the case and share relevant information and pieces of evidence regarding the case.
The statement further reads that the investigations have not been complete yet and premature judgments concerning the incident can harm the feelings of Afghan people and may create skepticism about the transparency of the investigations.
Pakistain Minister of Interior Affair had earlier said that Selsila has not been kidnapped and accused the Indian spying agency of defaming Pakistain and harming bilateral relations with Afghanistan.
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I was a San Franciscan for twenty years and it's always been at heart a pit. But this Boudin character makes one long for the days of Willie Brown and Kamala Harris.
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Biden: "Oh, May was such a long time ago. How am I supposed to keep straight what I say? Ask me something about truck-driving, I can tell you all that."
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DAILY MAIL ON LINE -TODAY JULY 30 2021 How Covid symptoms differ between genders: Men are more likely to suffer fatigue and a fever and women normally get coughs and chest pain, study claims
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This thing will likely escape death penalty and be again in your midst courtesy of some asshole in a black robe. Why she was in any relationship with Mr. Hyde is another issue for our times.
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Charges with 2nd degree murder. Guess no premeditation detected, just as the police are often baffled by the motivations of people who shout Allen's Snackbar...
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"I grabbed her by the hair and her head came clean off"
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Friend from Shakopee says he's known as The Crazy Cuban.
[NasaSpaceFlight.com] Russia’s Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) Nauka, meaning “science,” has defied the odds to successfully dock to the ISS after a long and arduous journey dating back over 20 years and a problematic propulsion system after launch which had threatened the success of the mission.
The docking was not without issue, with Russian cosmonauts noting that Nauka wasn’t on the correct course less than an hour before docking; however, a retro burn quickly corrected the issue. After also troubleshooting an issue with the TORU manual docking system, Nauka successfully docked in automated fashion to the Zvezda service module’s nadir port at 09:29 EDT / 13:29 UTC, marking the first major expansion to the Russian segment for over 20 years.
UPDATE — July 29, 5:34 EDT / 21:34 UTC
At 12:34 EDT / 16:34 UTC, the ISS’s systems registered a divergence from the nominal attitude orientation. The station’s gyros attempted to correct the attitude error but couldn’t.
At 12:42 EDT /16:42 UTC, the ISS’s attitude departure exceeded limits and a Loss of Attitude emergency was declared, giving NASA and the ISS top priority through the TDRS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite) communications network in geostationary orbit.
At this time, the ISS was commanded to free-drift, the gyros were shutdown, and emergency control was handed to the Russian segment and the Zvezda service module. Zvezda likewise tried to correct the orientation of the Station, fighting against Nauka as the new module continued to fire its thrusters.
Over the next 45 minutes, Russian controllers attempted to cease the thruster firings from Nauka, which were occurring without command. During this event, the ISS attitude movement never exceeded 0.5 degree per minutes and the crew did not feel the event.
according to Russian media reports, Nauka burned through its remaining fuel during this thruster event.
At 13:29 EDT / 17:29 UTC, with Nauka’s thrusters no longer operating, Russian controllers were able to use Progress MS-17’s thrusters to get the Station back in attitude control and returned to a stable orientation.
As a result of the need to evaluate the station, Starliner’s OFT-2 mission, which was scheduled to launch on 30 July, has been postponed to no earlier than Tuesday, 3 August 2021 at 13:20:10 EDT / 17:20:10 UTC.
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In a discussion thread on the Russian module at NasaSpaceFlight it appears at some point in time Russia had offered Nauka to China. China looked at it and said "No Thanks!".
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Quick, a paper bag...
what, you're saying paper bags are not ecologically friendly...
And this is... ?
MOM, her mom...
The Nightmares are only beginning
[IsraelTimes] A 12-year-old Paleostinian boy was killed Wednesday after apparently being shot by Israeli soldiers near the West Bank town of Beit Ummar, according to the Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry.
The IDF acknowledged that its troops had opened fire in the area, saying that soldiers were pursuing suspects in a vehicle who had tried to bury the body of a newborn baby near a military post.
Paleostinian Authority health officials identified the boy as Mohammad al-Alaami, a resident of Beit Ummar, saying he was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers. al-Alaami was allegedly sitting in a car at the entrance to the town when he was shot.
The boy was evacuated by medics at death's door to Hebron’s al-Ahli Hospital, but later died of his injuries, the Health Ministry said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, a group of soldiers near Beit Ummar saw several Paleostinians digging near a military post close to the town entrance before leaving the scene in a car. When the soldiers approached the site, they found the body of a dead day-old baby in a plastic bag, the army said.
A short while later, the soldiers saw a similar car; believing it to be the Paleostinians who had recently buried a baby, they sought to arrest its passengers, the military said.
"The soldiers initiated the suspect arrest procedure, which included calls [in their direction] and shooting in the air. When the vehicle did not stop, one of the soldiers fired at the wheels of the vehicle in order to stop it," a spokesperson for the IDF said.
The Israeli army said it was looking into reports that a Paleostinian child was killed during the shooting. An investigation into the incident had been opened in the army’s Military Police, a body that examines the conduct of Israeli soldiers.
Hebron has seen considerable Paleostinian unrest over the past day following the apparent shooting of a member of the well-known al-Ja’abari clan in broad daylight on Tuesday, allegedly as part of a dispute with another family.
According to the Paleostinian wire service Ma’an, more than 12 Paleostinian businesses and four cars were torched on Tuesday night.
In a rare move, Hebron governor Jibrin Bakri ordered a nightly curfew in the city. "Stay home to preserve your safety and security in light of the current security situation," Bakri warned residents in a statement, saying that curfew violators would be prosecuted.
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alternate headline , 12 year old paleo doing some bullshit got shot.
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The IDF acknowledged that its troops had opened fire in the area, saying that soldiers were pursuing suspects in a vehicle who had tried to bury the body of a newborn baby near a military post.
Probably some Paleo/MSM plot to accuse Israel of murdering Palestinian babies. If you think I'm kidding, where were you the last 40 years?
[IsraelTimes] Israel announced on Thursday it would expand the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... fishing zone after restricting it for four days in response to the launching of incendiary balloons into Israel from the coastal enclave.
"Following a security assessment and with approval from the political echelon, it was decided to expand the Gaza Strip fishing zone from six to 12 nautical miles, starting Monday morning," the army’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories said in a statement.
COGAT also said that on Sunday, it would start again allowing the entry into Gaza of food, water, medicine, fishing goods, electrical supplies and agricultural products donated by the international community as part of the reconstruction effort for the Strip.
Israeli authorities will also allow the export of scrap metal from Gaza to Israel, COGAT said.
Paleostinians living in the Gaza Strip will be allowed to travel abroad via the Allenby crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, subject to the approved criteria, COGAT announced, adding that it would also allow 29 private vehicles that have been stranded at the Erez pedestrian crossing since the May war between Israel and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, into the strip.
"The civilian measures approved by the political echelon are conditional on the continued maintenance of security stability in the region," COGAT said.
Israel has in the past used fishing zone restrictions as a punitive measure against Gaza following attacks or border riots, though critics say the policy is a form of collective punishment borne mostly by people unconnected to the border tensions.
Hamas has warned of a return to fighting should Israel seek to again tighten restrictions on the blockaded Gaza Strip. The coastal enclave has seen tighter controls than usual since the May conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... Hamas plans to escalate the situation on the border if Israel does not allow the passage of 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... i funds into the Gaza Strip by the end of this week, sources in the terror group told a Lebanese newspaper on Thursday.
The source told the Al Akhbar newspaper that if there are no changes to the current situation regarding the entry of money and goods to the enclave, it may push some Gaza terror factions to launch rockets at southern Israel.
In June, a similar threat was conveyed via the Lebanese paper, which apparently resulted in the resumption of incendiary balloon attacks.
With Israel’s approval, Qatar has in recent years distributed hundreds of millions of dollars in cash to enable Gaza’s Hamas rulers to pay for fuel for the Strip’s power plant, pay civil servants’ salaries, and provide aid to tens of thousands of impoverished families.
An official familiar with the negotiations told The Times of Israel this month that Israel had notified Egyptian mediators that it will no longer allow the entrance of unmonitored Qatari cash into the Strip, as had previously been done.
[IsraelTimes] Documents, reportedly by secret Revolutionary Guard unit, name Israel, US, UK and others as potential targets; also say attacks could be used to blow up fuel pump at gas station.
A cache of top-secret documents, allegedly written by Iranian intelligence, show Tehran is building a bank of potential targets for cyberattacks, Sky News reported on Monday.
The files, screenshots of which were published by the UK news outlet, show plans for attacks that could sink a fat merchantman or blow up a fuel pump at a gas station.
They also include researched details about satellite communication devices used by the international shipping industry, as well as computer-based systems controlling the lights, heating and ventilation in smart homes.
The five documents, spanning 57 pages in total, of which at least four appear to have been written last year, show an interest in cyberattacks against Western countries, including Israel, the United States, Britannia and La Belle France.
They were written by a secret offensive unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ cyber command called Shahid Kaveh, the report said, citing an unnamed security source who said he was "very confident" they were authentic. Other knowledgeable sources said the documents "looked credible and interesting."
The documents were said to have been written by "Intelligence Team 13," and each begins with a quote by Iranian Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... : "The Islamic Theocratic Republic of 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... must become among the world’s most powerful in the area of cyber."
"They are creating a target bank to be used whenever they see fit," the source was quoted as saying.
Intelligence Team 13, he added, "are supposed to be rather clandestine. They work on offensive cyber operations globally."
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the documents appeared to be based on open sources and internet searches rather than privileged information, according to Sky.
Iran’s embassy in London declined to comment on the report.
One document showed diagrams of systems designed to keep cargo ships balanced even when they tilt.
"These pumps are used to bring water into the tanks through centrifuges and in order to operate correctly, the task must be completed with precision. Any problems could result in the sinking of the ship," the document said.
It added: "Any kind of disruptive influence can cause disorder within these systems and can cause significant and irreparable damage to the vessel."
Another file detailed information and photos of automatic tank gauges that track fuel flow at gas stations.
"[An] explosion of these fueling pumps is possible if these systems are hacked and controlled remotely," it said, adding that an attack could also cut the fuel supply.
Another document examined satellite communications devices use at sea, called Seagull 5000i and Sealink CIR.
The file featured internet searches along with key phrases that included Israel, the US, the UK, La Belle France and other countries.
Commenting on the report, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky that unless steps are taken to counter the threat of cyberattacks, "our critical national infrastructure, our way of life could be threatened quite easily."
Britannia’s military cyber chief Patrick Sanders said Iran was "among the most advanced cyber actors. We take their capabilities seriously. We don’t overstate it. They are a serious actor and they have behaved really irresponsibly in the past."
Last year, a Confederate statue toppled by BLM rioters in Portsmouth, Va. landed on the head one of the participants. Chris Green suffered a severe brain injury from the incident & is now mentally challenged. No one was ever prosecuted for the violence. https://t.co/RTB1VNFIS5pic.twitter.com/WbBDTqMUCU
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There certainly is a last laugh aspect to this unfortunate event. I was trying to find who the statue was but my google-fu is weak and diluted by Merlot.
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Just to add insult to injury send him the bill for the statue replacement/cost. He will have difficult time denying his participation in its destruction.
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Last year, a Confederate statue toppled by BLM rioters in Portsmouth, Va. landed on the head one of the participants. Chris Green suffered a severe brain injury from the incident and is now even more mentally challenged
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has arrested a key conspirator in the killing of the Parihar brothers at Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... The accused has been identified as Malik Noor Mohammad Fayyaz aged 51. The case relates to the killing of Anil Kumar Parihar and his brother Ajit Kumar Parihar. The brothers were fired at by unknown persons when they were returning home.
The NIA filed a chargesheet against 7 persons including three snuffies of the Hizbul Mujahideen ...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003... who were killed. The snuffies who were killed were identified as Osama-bin-Javid, Haroon Abbas Wani and Zahid Hussain.
Four persons were also arrested in the case-Nisar Ahmed Sheikh, Nishad Ahmed Butt, Azad Hussain Bagwan and Rustam Ali. Further investigation in the case to the unearthing of a larger conspiracy. The motive was to revive terrorism in the Chenab Valley.
The NIA said that Fayyaz had visited Assam and Nagaland along with the other accused to procure weapons for furthering terrorism in the Valley. He was instrumental in motivating and recruiting gullible Moslem youths to join the cadres of HM.
“Someone needs to create porn for children.”@thetimes journalist @FloraEGill wrote a series of tweets calling for a genre of pornography aimed at child audiences. https://t.co/QGdjkSpbji
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No not anime. What's that thing with the little girls getting raped all the time and school children in short skirts with their legs splayed apart and vacuous stares on their faces?
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Dron, Boku No Pico is plain evil-it is literal child gay p*rn which is generally recommended to the ones who are new to anime. The one you have described is called loli hentai or absolutely crass anime series like Redo Of Healers and My Happy Sugar Life.
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*Sigh* Bugs Bunny, Road Runner cartoons, followed by Action-figure themed commercials cartoons. The Good Old Days™ when the Networks could claim that that was educational content they were mandated to air by the government.
Edgar Valladares, a high-ranking leader within the Gulf Cartel, and his bodyguard, Juan Miguel Lizardi, were found dead Tuesday in Reynosa, Mexico
Valladares and Lizardi were beaten and shot dead, and abandoned inside a pickup truck on a highway
Valladares oversaw the Gulf Cartel's Escorpiones cell and instructed gunmen to attack neighborhoods in the city of Reynosa on June 19
At least 15 bystanders were shot dead by gunmen aboard vehicles; police killed four cartel members and so far have arrested 13
Escorpiones member Jonathan Balderas, who was wounded in a shootout with police, confessed to investigators that Valladares had plotted the deadly assault
Portland: Huge trucks gather in SE Portland to dismantle & clean the growing homeless encampment at Laurelhurst Park. The area had become a growing biohazard with human waste & needles all over the residential area. Far-left activists gathered to protest. pic.twitter.com/2UUeOcQRCx
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Huge trucks gather in SE Portland to dismantle the city and throw it into the Columbia River.
Said Portland Mayor Ted "Pencil Neck" Wheeler, "We've totally screwed the pooch here. I admit it. We have turned the city into an apocalyptic hellscape. City Council has decided the best course of action is to toss Portland into the river and start over from scratch".
A former Kansas City police chief has pled guilty to assault charges after punching a handcuffed man who had tried to kill his infant daughter
Greg Hallgrimson, 51, and another officer rescued a baby girl from a frozen pond in 2018 after Jonathon Zicarelli, 31, told police he drowned his child nearby
After returning from the mission, Hallgrimson threw a handcuffed Zicarelli to the ground, punched him in the face, and told Zicarelli, 'You deserve to die'
The child suffered from hypothermia but survived the terrifying incident
The former chief was put on administrative leave and then resigned from his post in 2019, much to his city's dismay
Zicarelli remains in Jackson County jail on felony charges of domestic assault and child abuse
[SANA.SY] Terrorist groups targeted with shells the National Hospital and the citizens’ homes in Daraa city.
SANA news hound said that the terrorist groups, positioned in Daraa al-Balad neighborhood, targeted neighborhoods in Daraa city with shells, one of which fell on the National Hospital and damaged equipment and supplies in the Renal Department.
The news hound pointed out that a mortar shell fell in al-Sahara neighborhood, adjacent to Daraa al-Balad, causing material damage to properties.
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[SHAFAQ] The Iraqi intelligence announced arresting ten forces of Evil in al-Anbar and Nineveh.
The Directorate of Military Intelligence said in a statement that accurate information reached confirmed the presence of three forces of Evil wanted by the judiciary under an arrest warrant following the provisions of Article 4 of terrorism, in the Karma and Heet districts in al-Anbar.
The statement added, "In light of the information, the detachments of the al-Jazeera Intelligence Department and forces from the Fourth Regiment, headed towards the target and arrested two forces of Evil in Kubaysah district of Heet District," noting that the Military Intelligence Division detachments in the Tenth Division managed to arrest another terrorist in Karma district, east of al-Anbar.
For its part, the Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency reported arresting seven forces of Evil who held several positions in ISIS in Nineveh Governorate.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... a force from the Third Brigade of the Rapid Response Division in the Ministry of Interior destroyed several ISIS hideouts in Wadi al-Shay and al-Jiyam village, west of Tuz Khurmatu.
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well, they are up 10 compared to our "intelligence". hey to the guy who is monitoring my post though.
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[SHAFAQ] The Supreme Judicial Council revealed arresting a person who impersonated the head of the office of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Abu Ragheef.
The Media Center of the Supreme Judicial Council said in a statement that the Nineveh Investigation Court ratified, today, the statements of an accused of impersonating Lieutenant-General Ahmed Abu Ragheef, and blackmailed officials in the governorate.
The statement added that the accused impersonated Abu Ragheef to blackmail directors of departments and officials in the governorate, to push them to appoint people and approve projects and contracts, noting that the accused was threatening officials by referring them to the Anti-Corruption Committee in his requests were not implemented.
By the end of August 2020, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi formed a committee to "investigate corruption and major crimes", headed by Lieutenant-General Ahmed Abu Ragheef, with the membership of officers from the Ministry of Interior, the Intelligence and National Security Services, and the Integrity Commission.
The Counter-Terrorism Service was assigned to implement decisions issued by investigative judges or courts specialized in the investigation committee's corruption cases.
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Well at least he was original, most of the time its Napoleon.
[SHAFAQ] People in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan were buried under mud and debris when heavy rain brought flash floods during the night.Children and women are said to be among the victims in Kamdesh, with at least 60 people dead and dozens more missing, and many homes destroyed.
The disaster zone is held by Talibs fighting the government.
Talks are being held to try to let rescue teams enter the area which is hard to reach in normal times.
Afghan officials gave a corpse count of 60 but the Taliban ...Arabic for students... say 150 people died in the flooding, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency reports.
An engineer working for the province of Nuristan, where Kamdesh is located, told an Afghan journalist the final toll could exceed 200.
The Taliban say they have sent their own rescue crews to help, promising relief funds worth about $62,000 (£53,000), AP reports.
But it is not clear how well equipped they are to deal with a disaster on such a scale.
They have been fighting government forces across the country, gaining territory since US-led foreign troops left.
Flash floods happen when rain falls so heavily that normal drainage cannot cope.
Torrential rain and flooding kill people every year in Afghanistan, where badly built houses in isolated rural areas are particularly vulnerable.
Many factors contribute to flooding, but a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall more likely.
The world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.
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oh well, let the talibs take care of you.
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Wiki: Nuristan is Afghanistan's least populous province, with a population of about 167,000, Parun serves as provincial capital. Nuristan is bordered south by Laghman and Kunar provinces, north by Badakhshan province, west by Panjshir province. It was formerly called Kafiristan (كافرستان) until the inhabitants were forcibly 'converted' from an animist religion; a form of ancient Hinduism infused with local variations,to Islam in 1895, and thence the region has become known as Nuristan ("land of illumination").
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The west trying to undo the legacy of Russian Czar Aleksandr III By Tatiana Stoyanovich
[Regnum] Another political crisis is brewing in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). This time it was caused by the decision of the high representative of the international community in BiH, Valentin Inzko, to introduce into the country's criminal code a provision prohibiting the denial of the "genocide of Muslims" in Srebrenica in 1995.
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That would be the same Serbia whose intel service back the terrorist Black Hand cell that assassinated the Austrian Archduke starting the mess in Europe and the world. The results of which we're still living with today and several hundred million lives later. Srebrenica was a drop in the bucket in the casualty count.
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/\ Excellent historical point. Details and facts probably residing in a series of papers and books in some dark, seldom visited corner in the library of the Center for Lessons Learned.
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Confucius say... "Solly, today feel like singing:
When an eel -- we say mán --
Makes its way up your can,
That's amore!
When you squeal and you shout
And the Party find out,
That's amore!
All Xinghua 'Ha ha ha ha ha,
Ha ha ha ha ha,' when you 'Awww, come and get it!'
Hearts so gay, how they're gonna laugh
At your little gaffe, take away social credit.
[FoxNews] The Philadelphia Police Department has issued an internal memo detailing changes to the way officers handle "quality of life crimes," such as public urination or prostitution, under a new pilot program.
The changes come in response to a 2010 lawsuit, Bailey v. City of Philadelphia, in which eight Black Philadelphia residents sued the city over allegations of discrimination during stop-and-frisk encounters.
The city reached a settlement in 2011 and agreed to train officers to enter relevant information into a database after each stop and search, as Fox 29 Philadelphia first reported.
"As part of this agreement, the city's statistical expert has reviewed the PPD's stops each year to identify any racial disparity. In 2020, our expert found that racial disparity does exist in certain types of stops," the Philadelphia Police Department told Fox News in a statement.
The city's expert "believes that the root cause of the racial disparity identified may, in part, result from the manner in which the PPD enforces certain quality-of-life-type offenses."
"As such, the Philadelphia Police Department is committed to exploring or piloting different programs that can improve the service we provide to the community and also reduce racial disparity, bias or even the appearance thereof," the Philly PD said.
The memo obtained by Fox 29 states that Philadelphia PD officers will no longer immediately issue citations to or arrest individuals engaging in quality-of-life crimes. Instead, they will "FIRST engage only in a mere encounter with the individual and request the individual stop engaging in the prohibited behavior. The individual will NOT be detained and are free to leave."
The process for officers will now go as follows: activate body cameras, notify police radios that they are engaging in "mere encounters," request individuals engaging in quality-of-life crimes stop doing so, record the encounter and categorize the video as a "Mere Encounter – Quality of Life" incident, the memo says
"The purpose of the Modified Quality of Life Enforcement Pilot Program is NOT to abandon quality-of-life enforcement, but rather to provide offenders an opportunity to cease and desist such activities, prior to the issuance of any citations," the Philly PD said. "This is a balanced approach that still allows the PPD to address community complaints while striving to reduce or eliminate the racial disparity that has been associated with this type of enforcement."
Officers purportedly told the Fox 29 reporter they do not believe the new program will stop people from committing quality-of-life crimes, and that "at least half the department" does not have body cameras to complete the first step of the new initiative.
The pilot program will operate in the Philadelphia PD's 14th District, according to the memo.
[RUDAW.NET] Six civilians including several children were among 19 people killed Thursday in the fiercest festivities to rock Syria's Daraa province since it was captured by the government, a war monitor said.
Artillery shelling by regime forces on the village of al-Yadudah, northwest of Daraa city, killed a woman, her child and three other youngsters, said the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Regime artillery fire also killed a sixth civilian in the district of Daraa al-Balad further south, according to the Observatory.
The deaths bring the toll for Thursday's festivities to a total of 19 across the province, which is located in southern Syria.
The figure includes at least eight Syrian regime fighters and five button men affiliated with former opposition groups, the monitor said.
Russian-backed Syrian army and allied forces recaptured Daraa from rebels in 2018, a symbolic blow to the anti-government uprising born there in 2011.
State institutions have returned but the army still has not deployed across the whole province, and tit-for-tat bombings and liquidations between former opposition figures and regime forces have since become routine.
Tensions flared on Thursday, leading to what the Observatory called the "most violent mostly peaceful and broadest festivities in Daraa since it came under regime control".
Fighting started when regime forces fired artillery shells towards the former opposition hub of Daraa al-Balad in tandem with a ground push, the Observatory said.
In response, button men launched a counterattack across many parts of the Daraa countryside, where they seized several regime positions and captured more than 40 regime fighters, according to the Observatory.
Both sides have since upped artillery attacks.
Citing a medical official in a regime-held part of Daraa city, the official SANA news agency said mortar attacks by gangs on Thursday killed two civilians, including a child.
Many former rebels stayed in Daraa instead of evacuating under a Moscow-brokered deal, either joining the army or remaining in control of parts of the province.
Daraa al-Balad, a southern district of Daraa city, is among the areas controlled by former opposition forces.
The pro-government al-Watan newspaper on Thursday said the Syrian army had started "a military operation against hideouts of snuffies who thwarted a reconciliation deal".
SANA said that the "Syrian army has deployed in several areas neighbouring Daraa al-Balad to tighten security", accusing local fighters there of carrying out attacks against soldiers and civilians.
In March, button men in Daraa killed 21 Syrian soldiers in a bus ambush.
The soldiers were en route to al-Mzairib district in the rural west of the province to arrest a former opposition commander when they came under fire.
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Sumerian pagan nonsense. We have thousands of similar stupid stones laying around all over the place in India. They're so worthless, the people in-charge often replace them with crude replicas and sell the real things to idiots abroad who will place them in the Louvre next to Ahura Mazda's butt plug.
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I thought ‘Epic of Gilgamesh' was a MMRP app for your phone OR tablet?
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Is this like a 'Big Chief' tablet?
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A tablet. The roar of "the autobahn."
An antediluvian antiphon:
Ignatius in think-off
With missing minx Minkoff,
Washed up by the Walmart of Babylon.
"Let us cross over Braes Bayou and rest under the shade of the cormorants."
Situation in Daraa is escalating rapidly. As well as a tank and at least least 2 technicals captured, several SAA have been killed in fighting. pic.twitter.com/Gl4375gwff
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/\ Yes, transported and dumped off. All but one appears to have bled out elsewhere. He may have assisted with the dumping of the bodies, then been executed.
The US just missed the top 5, in part because it's close to 'external' megacities
Such cities are vulnerable to displacement and could cause a migrant crisis
It ranked high on its amount of fertile land and manufacturing capabilities
New Zealand took the top spot, thanks to its temperate climate and isolation
Other countries in the top 5 include Iceland, Australia, Ireland and the UK
That’s certainly one perspective. The survey may need to readdress the impact of mass migration after seeing how Texas handles things, not to mention the next Republican president. Really, this is all based on “science”, not actual science.
Still, the U.S. would have fallen somewhere just out of the Top 5, the researchers at Anglia Ruskin University in the U.K. told DailyMail.com.
The researchers compiled their Top 5 list of countries that they consider most likely to survive a global climate collapse based on a separate list that had been prepared by the University of Notre Dame.
In Notre Dame's list, it came up with the 20 countries it determined were least likely to be damaged from climate change.
The U.K. researchers used that list to determine their Top 5 to survive a climate collapse.
A collapse would mean the fraying of supply chains and international agreements that help trade among countries. Such a collapse would bring the global financial system to its knees.
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Don't believe a word of any study the conclusion of which contains the word 'likely'.
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Forgets that when kaka hits the fan who has the most guns. It ain't the people in Donk cities, except for the gangs. When the 'safety' is released, I wouldn't want to be an interloper someplace I shouldn't be.
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I would think the least developed countries would be the most likely to survive since they have very little dependency on technology, other countries, GIVERnment…. The Amish may be the last group standing in America.
[PJMedia] One of the most frustrating elements of the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been the complete lack of attention given to recovered immunity. Health bureaucrats like Anthony Fauci rarely mention the fact that individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 infections likely maintain robust antibodies to protect against the virus for many months. These antibodies, along with T cells and B cells, may persist for years or even decades—or even a lifetime—based on what we know about other coronaviruses, including SARS. Yet Fauci and Co. are still urging everyone, whether or not they’ve been previously infected, to get the vaccine—a novel approach to infectious disease management. More at the link.
[TaskAndPurpose] President Joe Biden has vowed that the United States will make sure the Afghans “have the capacity to maintain their air force,” but signs have emerged that the Afghan Air Force is already falling apart.
About one-third of the Afghan Air Force’s 160 aircraft can no longer fly because they lack spare parts since the United States withdrew its contractors from the country, Afghan lawmaker Haji Ajmal Rahmani reportedly said during a recent webinar sponsored by the State Department Correspondents Association.
The Afghan Air Force has also run out of laser-guided precision munitions, Rahmani said.
“It’s not low — it’s actually out of stock,” the Washington Examiner quoted Rahmani as saying at the July 23 event.
None of this is surprising. Read the rest at the link
[SHAFAQ] The leader of the State of Law coalition, Nuri al-Maliki, criticized the head of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... mission in Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert.
Al-Maliki said in a tweet, "It seems that Mrs. Plasschaert needs to know her role as UNAMI mission's head in Iraq."
"The mission acts upon the Iraqi government's request, and has no authority to interfere in the affairs of the elections except with what the commission needs," adding, "we refuse her proposal to postpone the elections."
The "Iraqi Tribune" announced on Wednesday dropping out of October parliamentary elections, the congress aligned with the leader of the Iraqi National Accord, Ayad Allawi.
The Front is the third political party to withdraw from the Iraqi Parliamentary elections after the Sadrist movement and the Iraqi Communist Party.
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[9Dashline] Afghanistan is a complex geopolitical playground and remains one of the world's fiercest battlegrounds. After the recent withdrawal of US and NATO troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban immediately began claiming territory in various parts of the country. They now control more than 85 per cent of the country. The Afghan government may be overthrown in the next few months due to the poor preparation of the country’s security forces. Against this backdrop, the question arises whether China may be the next great power to get embroiled in the ‘graveyard of empires’.
Great powers have always tried and failed to turn Afghanistan into a hotbed for their geopolitical ambitions. America is the latest superpower to suffer a catastrophic defeat in the country after two decades of unsuccessful occupation and nation-building. Washington's poor performance in delivering major energy, infrastructure, and connectivity projects has been one of its biggest failures over the past twenty years. Meanwhile, Beijing is carefully preparing to fill the void left by the US.
CHINA’S POSITION IN AFGHANISTAN
China is pursuing three main objectives in Afghanistan: avoiding a further expansion of the conflict and all-out civil war, promoting intra-Afghan negotiations, and preventing the rise of terrorist forces and activities. In this respect, China is relying on intensified relations with Russia (the Dragonbear), Iran, and Pakistan. Afghanistan is geostrategically located in a hotspot linking the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and Europe. China views the country as a major geopolitical puzzle piece between Pakistan and Iran, both of which have already deepened their ties with Beijing under the Belt and Road (BRI) and China-Pakistan Economic Corridors (CPEC) initiatives.
In this context, some specific strategic projects in Taxkorgan, Wakhan and Gwadar are of immense importance. The construction of Taxkorgan Airport on the Pamir Plateau in the northwestern Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang is a significant long-term investment, as Taxkorgan is "China's only county-level city bordering three countries — Tajikistan, Pakistan and Afghanistan". China and Afghanistan share an 80-km border with the Wakhjir Pass, which is the only potentially navigable pass. However, there is no road connection to the pass on the Afghan side. A potential investment would be to create a direct link to Afghanistan through Wakhan and Little Pamir as part of the Belt and Road Initiative, thus revitalising the Silk Road in Afghanistan through the Wakhan Corridor.
Perhaps that is exactly why the US is pulling out now — the move could possibly become an American trap if China enters the Afghan quagmire and fails.
A road project connecting Bozai Gonbad with the Wakhjir Pass is currently in the implementation phase and is being financed by the Afghan government without any Chinese involvement. Whoever is in charge in Afghanistan will soon have to decide whether to reconnect the country with China by building a 50 km highway, a project estimated to be worth at least 5 million dollars. The realisation of the transit corridor contains potential risks and challenges for China. Beijing considers the Wakhan a potential infiltration route for residents in Afghanistan, who vow to conduct terror activities in Xinjiang. Chinese interest in a direct connection to Afghanistan may grow with the changing situation on the ground as Beijing is seeking to gain a foothold in Afghanistan through the BRI with USD 62 billion in investments following the US withdrawal from the war-torn country.
The CPEC consists mainly of projects involving highways, railroads and energy pipelines between Pakistan and China; the port of Gwadar is a key strategic asset, which enables Beijing's power projection into the Indian Ocean. Beijing could include Afghanistan in CPEC to provide economic incentives through a direct land connection with Pakistan. Concrete projects can be developed under the “Digital Silk Road, the Sino-Afghanistan Special Railway Transportation Project, the Five Nations Railway Project, and a Kabul–Urumqi air corridor”. Currently, China is Afghanistan’s second-largest trading partner (USD 1.19 billion), but it can significantly increase its trade volume through its direct land connection with Pakistan. Talks on the construction of a main road between Afghanistan and the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar indicate this may be the first major project within CPEC in the near future.
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Let them spend their blood and treasure.
Washington's poor performance in delivering major energy, infrastructure, and connectivity projects has been one of its biggest failures over the past twenty years.
What a weird take. The entire idea was to make a profit from war as well as keep a military outpost near China.
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Easier said than done, and a rather unprofitable prospect for anyone with sense. When beginning any such venture one must take stock of one's capabilities and allies. I will grant that China has capabilities, though not war-tested since the 70s. But it's their allies who will screw them. Dealing in any way with a moslem State has it's disadvantages, and with Pakistan you usually get what you don't see.
Thing with Afghanistan is, Pakistain will want to remain the principal negotiator while the Taliban will want direct dealing. It suits China too to deal directly, but they are reckless with money and believe they can absorb any losses on the way to Empire. They will rely on Islamabad, just like the US did.
Some, who constantly look for chinks in the OBOR [no pun] to exploit, know that there is a rift growing between the lawless brigands in turbans and the Pakis. Also, the ISI shall most likely use Pak-trained 'unknown non-state actors' to extort China by halting projects, holding up stuff for ransom, kidnappings and attacks in the near future. Aid, for 'combating terrorism' will flow with reckless abandon into ISI coffers. They will keep advising them against direct military retaliation and the Chinese, supreme cowards that they are, will continue to pay the ransoms and appease the sunnis by assisting their operations in other parts of the world.
There will be fewer graves in fact than when America and Ghani were bombing everything to shit blindfolded.
This is the great islamic extortion racket, gentlemen, and everyone who doesn't understand moslems is a mark of some sort. The moslem lives for nothing but ravaging what's in front of him, and pissing on the remains. Nobody there wants civilization, development, trade or anything. China, for all their admirable initiative in Xinjiang, have not learnt the most important lesson, just like everybody else. And that will be their folly.
If they were smart and had balls, they would force the ISI to off the Taliban brain trust in Quetta, then test their nukes from Nangarhar to Herat and plant the red flag on an irradiated mud pit, and finally send in the Uighurs, in chains, to build and to mine. While the rest of the world watched, unable to do anything for anyone.
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Yuans were the only ones to conquer and pacify the area in history. Yuan is the term the Chinese use for the dynasty more commonly known as Mongols who ruled. The Paks better read up on how the Yuans dealt with two faced neighbors.
20 Taliban terrorists killed & seven others wounded during a joint clearance operation carried out by ANDSF inTaluqan City of Takhar province. Several villages of Taluqan cleared of terrorists. pic.twitter.com/JU6HCc6NO6
— Ministry of Interior Affairs- Afghanistan (@moiafghanistan) July 29, 2021
"Let's you and him fight!" [Twitchy] - Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who still hasn’t stopped harassing Justice Brett Kavanaugh, got a taste of his own medicine last month when a story about him belonging to an "all-white" private beach club blew up in the media, even though his office claimed that the club had members of color — which didn’t exactly fit Whitehouse’s claim that the club was "still working on" integrating. Then he was busted for "failing to address" the "lack of diversity" at a sailing club to which he belonged.
That was a month ago, but now the New York Post is reporting that Black Lives Matter Rhode Island told WLNE that they will make Whitehouse’s life miserable unless he cuts ties with Bailey’s Beach Club. You know what's next - let's start the pool! I think BLM won't strike this weekend (sudden change of plans by the Senator) but they will by the following weekend, and for some reason I think Whitehouse folds immediately. Put me down for $5 on Aug. 7th.
[SHAFAQ] Security authorities launched an investigation into the landing of a rocket near al-Rahman mosque in al-Mansour area, Baghdad, at dawn today, Thursday.
In a statement issued earlier today, the Security Media Cell (SMC) said that the Katyusha rocket was launched at 4:20 am from the Paleostine Street.
The incident did not result in human casualties, according to SMC.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that two rockets landed near the U.S. embassy downtown the Iraqi capital.
[SHAFAQ] Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement, affiliated with the Iraqi Resistance® Association Commission (IRAC), disowned today's rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Leader of the movement, Saad al-Saadi, told Shafaq News Agency, "targeting the U.S. embassy or diplomatic missions is not in the vocabulary of the Resistance® since they are not military missions."
"The attack was done by U.S. or U.S. Proxies in order to shuffle the cards and accuse the Resistance® factions," he added.
Two Katyusha rockets landed in the vicinity of the U.S. embassy since the U.S.-Iraqi agreement on the departure of the U.S. troops from Iraq.
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Two Katyusha rockets landed in the vicinity of the U.S. embassy since the U.S.-Iraqi agreement on the departure of the U.S. troops from Iraq.
But the State Dept. insurance? Have the checks not cleared ?
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Headed North To Alaska next month for 2 weeks of salmon and halibut fishing. In some ways, Alaska is like Africa - bad stuff happens, it happens fast, and nobody is coming to get you. At least Alaska has a robust SAR capability
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[SANA.SY] Suffering of Hasaka citizens has entered its 37th day as the Ottoman Turkish occupation and its terrorist mercenaries still cutting off drinking water which deprives about one million citizen from the only water source.
General Director of Water Establishment in Hasaka , Mahmoud al-Oukla, said in a statement to SANA news hound that the Ottoman Turkish occupier has until today stopped the operation of Allouk water station and prevented workers from entering the site in light of the detorioration of the water security crisis for the people of Hasaka city and the western countryside, and the increasing need for water as a result of the summer high temperatures.
Al-Oukla pointed out that efforts to ease the effects of the crime of cutting water are continuing by government service agencies, humanitarian and civil organizations which work to increase the number of water tanks scattered in the streets and parks and to put them in areas where they are not present, in addition to ensuring that they are filled with drinking water more than once during the day, in order to meet the needs of the people of water.
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In southern Ukraine, Soviet troops set off explosive charges to destroy port facilities and defensive structures at Odessa in preparation of the evacuation of 35,000 Soviet troops from Odessa to Sevastopol in Russia, which would commence after sundown.
[RUDAW.NET] In the past two weeks, five parties have dropped out of Iraq’s election race. Shiite, Sunni, non-sectarian — all sides are questioning the legitimacy of the vote in an environment where powerful militias operate outside government control, activists and elections candidates are threatened, and the electoral commission and political elites are accused of fraud.
Will the election go ahead, is the question on everyone’s lips.
The Sadrist movement was the first to announce its withdrawal when its leader, prominent Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... , declared he will not run. "I announce that I am withdrawing my hand from all those who are working with this government, the current and the upcoming, even if they had allegiance to us, the family of Sadr," Sadr said in a televised speech.
Sadr does not hold elected position himself, but he leads the Sairoon coalition, parliament’s largest bloc.
The Iraqi Communist Party joined the Sadrist movement, calling on the masses not to vote because the elections lack the "slightest degree of integrity."
In the 2018 election, the Communist Party allied with Sairoon, collectively securing 54 seats.
On Wednesday, the Iraqi Platform, led by former prime minister Ayad Allawi, announced they too were dropping out of the race. A similar decision was made by the National Dialogue Front led by Sunni leader Salih al-Mutlaq.
Wael Abdel Latif, deputy head of the Iraqi Platform party, told Rudaw English on Thursday that with the presence of armed factions threatening the lives of activists, there is no room for fair elections. The electoral law in its current form may lead to internal war between those gangs, he added.
"The parties have the intention of fraud, and there are four million electoral cards that have been forged in advance. The state will not be able to confront the armed factions, even the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... will not be able to monitor every electoral center in the country," Latif said.
Allawi, who headed the Iraqi government in 2004 — 2005, ran in the 2018 parliamentary elections as head of the National Coalition and won 21 of parliament’s 329 seats.
"We are fully convinced that these elections will be the worst elections in Iraq after 2003," Latif added.
The Iraqi National House, a new party formed by a group of Tishreen (October movement) protesters, also withdrew from the elections for the same reasons.
Hussain al-Gharabi, the party's front man, told Rudaw English on Thursday that despite government assurances about the elections, it is clear that the ruling political parties have no intention of creating a democratic environment for the vote.
"The conditions for holding the elections are not met, so the party decided to boycott, especially with the presence of uncontrolled weapons and impunity for killers of activists," Gharabi said.
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[SANA.SY] Ottoman Turkish occupation forces and their mercenaries of terrorist organizations have continued targeting, with rocket and artillery shells, the locals’ houses and properties in several villages, Aleppo northern countryside, causing material damages to the houses, private and public properties.
Local sources told SANA news hound that the Ottoman Turkish occupation and its mercenaries on Thursday, attacked with rocket and artillery shells the villages of Tal Madiq, Abin, A’aqibah, Deir Jamal, Tal Rifaat and al-Shahba dam in the northern countryside.
The sources added that the attacks caused huge damages to several houses and agricultural fields belonging to the locals.
It is noteworthy that the Ottoman Turkish occupation, on Wednesday attacked with heavy artillery shells the residential houses in Tal Rifaat, Meng, Ain Dikna, Tinb Kishtaar in Aleppo northern countryside, causing a material damages to the houses and properties.
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Staff Sergeant Micah E. Walker of Peyton, Colorado, died during training
Training exercise was at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center's Special Forces Underwater Operations course at a Key West Army facility
'During the training event, the soldier submerged and did not resurface,' an army press release stated
A spokesperson for the facility said that an autopsy had yet to be performed at that the cause of death was unknown
Walker is survived by a wife and three children, and had just qualified to become a Special Forces medical sergeant this January
Walker had received the Army Achievement Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Army Good Conduct medal and a slew of other accolades
The seven-week training is considered the most difficult throughout the military branch, and two thirds of the elite soldiers who are chosen to participate quit
Trainees learn to fight other divers underwater and travel long distances underwater for covert operations
#3
The SF groups have historically had teams that were Scuba Qualifed, or they at least had the capability to cross-level abd put together teams to meet unique requirements. Some SF missions are simply too mundane or lack the media visibility required for the Navy.
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Leather cadillac's, parachutes, SCUBA, and Vespas are all logistic capabilities that permit the warfighter to get to the job site. SEAL training, like SF, MARSOF, USAF SOF each have unique capabilities.
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#2 One might just as easily ask what Navy SEALs are doing in pitched gun battles deep in the Hindu Kush or urban warfare in Iraq. Snark and snide aside it is still harsh news and a reminder of the guys out there grinding it out.
[TASS] Some forces in Pakistan would like to replicate what the Afghan Taliban movement did and destabilize the situation in the country, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said during an online briefing on Thursday.
"Pakistan is Russia’s solid partner. We are on the same wavelength as top Pakistani officials who have made public statements that they are not interested in Afghanistan turning into an Islamic Emirate that would influence Pakistani society, where there are forces that would be inspired by the Afghan Taliban’s experience and would try to destabilize the situation," he pointed out.
"Pakistan, along with Russia and almost all neighboring countries, is interested in Afghanistan returning to normality and becoming a reliable trade and economic bridge connecting Pakistan and Eurasia," Kabulov noted.
The Russian presidential envoy emphasized that a rise in tensions between Kabul and Islamabad had been caused primarily by the domestic political situation in Afghanistan. "Sometimes it seems that when those in Kabul who are supposed to protect their land from the Taliban fail to do that, they start searching for someone to blame and always consider Pakistan to be a suitable scapegoat," Kabulov said.
[SHAFAQ] The U.S. plans a sanctions campaign against Iran’s evolving capabilities for precision strikes using drones and guided missiles, according to U.S. officials, amid concerns over the threat these weapons represent to American and allied interests.
The effort comes as Western security officials say they see those capabilities as a more immediate danger to Middle East stability than Iran’s nuclear-enrichment and ballistic-missile programs.
The U.S. has sanctioned some of Iran’s missile programs in past years, but officials said that targeting Iran’s procurement networks, such as the providers of parts used to build the drones and precision-guided missiles, could more effectively disrupt those activities.
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All mediated by Russia, which played a decisive role in the surrender of militants in southwestern Syria.
Since then, there have been several rebellion attempts in the area by former militants who have failed to fit into the new reality. Each time this was accompanied by attacks on the checkpoints of the Syrian army, armed clashes and the subsequent arrival of the Russian military, who reconciled and extinguished the conflict.
The reasons for these riots are both external and internal. On the one hand, foreign special services and structures of the "green" are trying in every possible way to incite discontent in southern Syria.
On the other hand, a weak economy, overwhelming corruption, showdowns at the local level, restrictions on smuggling on the border with Jordan, all this causes discontent among former militants, which is what the leaders of such riots actually use to attract the disaffected for another attempt to "ignite the fire of the green revolution."
And here's another series. Former militants from the NDF and one of the brigades of the 5th Assault Corps riot in part of the city of Deraa and a number of settlements in the provinces of Deraa and Suweida.
Yesterday, for example, they captured several checkpoints of the Syrian army and one tank.
To suppress the rebellion, the Syrian 4th Armor Division and various forces went to Deraa a few days ago to strengthen the ongoing CTO (the formal legend of the operation, the fight against ISIS militants), which already has experience in this area. Last night, the ultimatum presented by the military to the militants expired to surrender their weapons and disperse.
Of course, Russia is making an effort to make things end like last time. The Syrians are more likely to crush it all once and for all.
Artillery and mortar attacks have already begun on rebel positions in Deraa. On the outskirts of the city, there is a strong shooting battle. It cannot be ruled out that the "homeland of the Syrian revolution" will be ironed out one more time, to be sure.
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...Arabic for 
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[Twitchy] - Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who still hasn’t stopped harassing Justice Brett Kavanaugh, got a taste of his own medicine last month when a story about him belonging to an "all-white" private beach club blew up in the media, even though his office claimed that the club had members of color — which didn’t exactly fit Whitehouse’s claim that the club was "still working on" integrating. Then he was busted for "failing to address" the "lack of diversity" at a sailing club to which he belonged.
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
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