[Palmieri Report] According to Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec, the Biden White House is descending into fighting among rival staffers.
He said that Biden’s Chief of Staff wanted to get Biden back to the White House.
Jill Biden blocked it.
Kamala refused to do a press conference because she is focused on Haiti and not Afghanistan.
Ron Klain wanted Biden to rush back to DC yesterday afternoon to the Situation Room but Jill stepped in saying that Biden could ‘project his leadership’ from anywhere, per WH official
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I watched Bidet's address, it sure seems like either they got his meds just right or this situation has scared him straight. He blamed only the Afghans for what's happening and insisted we have to fight mideast terrorism from "over the horizon" from now on. If sure came off like somebody realized this had to go note perfect or else.
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Thank you for watching it, M., so we don’t have to. Nice that someone got the words right for him to say, since nobody over there is getting the actions right.
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I watched it as well for reasons I am not entirely certain of or reconciled to. It was very decent of him to explain to the simple populace that he had decided to leave Afghanistan and he didn't much care what anybody thought of it. What a guy!
Of course there wasn't any discussion of the mass of functional equipment left behind, classified and not. The effective grounding of the Afghan Air force by his personal order, although he held out great disdain for their performance. Then he graciously explained that the current mission was 'not without risk'. So much to learn and apprehend.
All in all a typical self congratulatory dem speech although I begin to suspect somewhere a straw man has thrown his back out under the strain of that Overton Window.
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The address was pathetic. He very briefly allowed that "events unfolded more quickly than we anticipated" but otherwise accepted no responsibility for a totally botched and humiliating withdrawal.
He talked on and on and on about how the mission should never have been nation building, that we shouldn't have to fight their civil war for them so he stood by his decision to withdraw. Fair enough.
But running off to Camp David while the Taliban moved into Kabul and US embassy staff desperately attempted to destroy evidence and safely evacuate was unforgivable. It projected an image of a president who is old and tired, detached from reality and taking orders from his wife. It discourages our friends and emboldens our enemies.
I still say he should resign.
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Well, in one respect, they wasted what may have been one of his better performances by having it during working hours on a Monday. Lots of people will see only snippets on the news tonight. Got to wonder if that's because they knew he wouldn't do so well at say 7-8 pm tonight.
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M. Murcek, that just goes to show they never know when Joe will have a good day anymore.
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wouldn't do so well at say 7-8 pm tonight That is the time when the chronically demented start "sundowning".
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Most of the post mortems are focusing on the horrible optics of Joe taking no questions and leaving immediately to resume his vacation at Camp David.
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The sorry SOB neglected to mention that he was VP under Soetoro for 8 long years of the AFG mess. He alluded to all possible scenarios closely examined and everything essentially going as planned. No mention of the recommendation of military advisors, diplodinks or staff. We must give him WOKE points for the mention of the plight of Afghan "women and girls"....no mention of dancing boys. Said "buck stops here" but went on to blame the host government and people. No sign of Kam, which was a definite plus.
Failing grades all around. Back to bed following an exhausting brief.
[NYPOST] The utterly nauseating and unnecessary abandonment of Afghanistan to its fate recalls a similar humiliation at the hands of Islamist gunnies in the Jimmy Malaise Carter ...peanut farming former nuclear sub officer, who succeeded Gerald Ford as president. Carter perfected the approach later used by Joe Biden to get elected, presenting himself as a moderate whose Zero-based Budgeting was going to so away with the federal deficif. Once in the hands George McGovern's rejects, who were ever so much more virtuous than the rest of us, the nation immediately spun into a Malaise®. By the time Jimmeh, as he was contemptuously referred to, was running against Ronald Reagan, the liberal columnists were pronouncing the nation's problems as too severe to be solved by anyone; they were simply unsolvable, or maybe insoluble. That was why Reagan was such a flop. After Obama, Jimmeh's's only the second worst president ever, and by the time Biden's done maybe the third. Depending on how many Dems we elect in coming years, he may even end up looking competent... administration.
President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...... ’s profligate spending policies are unleashing inflation that is sparking voter distrust so noticeable that even NPR is sounding the alarm.
He is begging OPEC to come up with more oil while interfering with US production. He announced barely a month ago, with great confidence, "The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... is not the South — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability.
"There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable."
Our president comes across as weak, meek, ineffectual, incompetent and confused. (Momentarily confusing South and North Vietnam doesn’t even make the list of the top 100 senior moments we’ve seen this year from this near-octogenarian, despite the fact that his staff is keeping him hidden to a degree with little if any precedent in the past half-century.)
Biden is embarrassing the United States in real time, and I await with eagerness the Biden version of the blame-shifting Malaise Speech. Biden’s version, of course, will be the This Is All Trump’s Fault speech.
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The way out of this is to have several states examine the ballots from last year and declare that a new Presidential election be held, because of fraud.. or… fill in the blank.
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No, the Jimmy Carter moment comes later. Once the troops he's pushed in run out of ammo, can't be extracted, and are taken prisoner as hostiges, That will be the Jimmy Carter moment.
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[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] The shocking fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... is such a failure that even the liberal networks on Monday have abandoned Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name... 's decision making (at least for now), hammering the President as "completely wrong" and executing a Vietnam-esque Saigon "debacle."
On NBC’s Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie opened the show by blasting, "A catastrophe for its people and a debacle for the Biden crime family administration ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... . A triumphant Taliban storming the presidential palace in Kabul, seizing total control of the country."
Guthrie piled on: "And the President at Camp David standing by his decision but under fire for a botched withdrawal." All three networks eagerly and repeatedly compared Biden’s disaster to the fall of Vietnam. NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel linked, "The Taliban had been taking potshots at the U.S. transport planes as they leave and many are drawing comparisons to the U.S. evacuation from Saigon."
Good Morning America hosts repeatedly used the Vietnam language that Biden hates the most. Co-host Robin Roberts opened the show by comparing: "The Taliban take over with terrifying speed, described as Saigon on steroids." Later, she echoed, "The capital officially under Taliban control this morning. The quick takeover described as, ’Saigon on steroids.’"
Talking to global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz, George Stephanopoulos declared, "This appears to be the Saigon moment in Afghanistan." Raddatz agreed, "It certainly does."
Continuing the trend of putting the harsh response up front, CBS This Morning opened the show with a clip of Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA): "President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter...... saying you wouldn't see helicopters evacuating the embassy like Saigon, and yet here we are. This is President Biden's Saigon moment."
Even Democrat donor and co-host Gayle King made the Vietnam comparison: "At least five people have been killed in the chaos, and we just learned there's now a temporary halt on flights at the airport. Many observers compare the scene to the fall of South Vietnam back in 1975."
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Boy, their handlers are pissed at losing their war. Criticizing the president! The media are government lapdogs these days, but this? Unprecedented.
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They're panicking. They put so much effort to oust Gorbachev Trump they couldn't think beyond that. Now things are really running out of hand. In the history doesn't repeat itself but rhymes category they're whistling past the graveyard. Our monetary system is the only thing keeping it together, but with the Left's uncontrolled spending and the Fed's cowardice, they're going to kill that.
[BIZPACREVIEW] NBC News White House correspondent Monica Alba noted on Sunday that Republicans "have seized on" the "optical comparison" of the hasty U.S. withdrawals from both Kabul, Afghanistan, and then-Saigon, South Vietnam, after photos of similar helicopters lifting off from the respective U.S. embassies in both countries 45 years apart went viral Sunday.
CH-47 Chinook helicopters were seen ferrying American diplomatic personnel and Afghan allies from the rooftop of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul for much of the day Saturday and into Sunday, images that were broadcast by news agencies sent out over wire service reports.
During her report, Alba noted that last month President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... assured Americans that the withdrawal from Afghanistan would not at all resemble the chaotic scenes in what was at the time the capital of South Vietnam ahead of rapidly advancing North Vietnamese troops.
In addition, her report included a clip of Secretary of State Antony Blinken from this past weekend, in which he claimed, "This is manifestly not Saigon."
"Still, helicopters continuously evacuated Americans and our Afghan allies to the airport throughout the day, an optical comparison Republicans have seized on as they continue to blast the president’s foreign policy strategy," Alba said, as she led into clips of Reps. Michael McCaul of Texas and Liz Cheney ...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as Republican royalty. A staunch Never Trumper, Liz supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump for his role in the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Publicans dumped her from her leadership position in May 2021. Refusing to admit that she had trashed her own career, Cheney has said that she intends to be the leader... in a fight to help to restore our party and that she may be interested in a future presidential run.... of Wyoming ripping Biden.
[Western Journal] Kabul, soon to be the capital of what will be formally known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, had a blend of fear and panic with patches of surface calm Monday, one day after the Taliban took control of the city.
The Muslim outlet Ummid News reported that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has been declared president, replacing Ashraf Ghani, who fled as the Taliban moved on the capital.
Baradar, a co-founder of the Taliban with Mullah Omar, was captured in Pakistan in 2010 but released in 2018, according to the Associated Press.
He was part of the team of negotiators who met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other officials in Qatar in September 2020.
"There was no expectation that we would achieve victory in this war," Baradar said. "But this came with the help of Allah, therefore we should be thankful to Him, be humble in front of Him, so that we do not act arrogantly."
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B, anyone meet your 8 AM resignation deadline from yesterday?
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/\ No, but I've extended it for another 24 hours. I am hoping for a televised resignation session at around 4:00 pm today. Plugs, Kam, Austin, eight or ten more.
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Ref #5: Thanks Flav. Nice that he was able lecture and virtue signal us on his strategic genius. I mistakenly thought it was a giant klusterfok. I'm now pleasantly relieved this was all part of the Biden master plan.
[TOI] Cricket will not be a casualty in the wake of drastic political change in Afghanistan, assured country's cricket board CEO Hamid Shinwari, saying the Taliban "love" and "support" the game. "Hell, they let me live."
Speaking to PTI from Kabul, Shinwari also assured that the members of the national team and their families are safe as the Taliban took over the reins of the country.
Star players including Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi and Mujeeb Zadran are playing in the UK in the 'Hundred' tournament.
"Taliban loves cricket. They have supported us since the beginning. They did not interfere in our activities," said Shinwari.
"I don't see any interference and expect support so that our cricket can move forward. We have got an active chairman, I remain CEO until further notice," added the top Afghanistan Cricket Board official.
Cricket's rise in the country coincided with Taliban's rule between 1996 and 2001 with many Afghan refugees in neighbouring Pakistan picking up the sport.
"It can be said that cricket flourished during the Taliban era. It is also a fact that many of our players practised in Peshawar and they made the sport mainstream in Afghanistan.
"The good thing is that we are heading towards normalcy. The people have started working. We will resume our office from tomorrow and the national camp which was underway ahead of the Pakistan series in Sri Lanka will also resume after a two-day break with the change in regime," said Shinwari.
Talking about the players safety, he said: "Other than four or five players who are playing overseas the rest are all in Kabul. Like I said, they are safe and doing fine."
The BCCI Indian Cricket Board
is also keeping an eye on the developments and is hoping to see participation of Afghan players in the India Premier League.
"It is too early to comment but we are keeping a watch. For us, nothing changes and we expect Rashid and other Afghan players would be part of IPL," a BCCI source told PTI.
[AmericanThinker] Kandahar is fallen. Kabul, too. To hear again those names is to bring back a lost youth a lifetime of operations overseas. When I heard that Kandahar had fallen to the Taliban...I had a bad day. I did not think the news would hit so hard — but it did, and I thought to take a moment to give hard won advice to those who were there, as well as to reflect upon some of the reasons why the Taliban are on the cusp of victory.
Think of those who served
First, this moment is a bad time for those who served there in any way, and it is natural to feel that way. Basically, our side lost — and we will question our service and sacrifice. Whatever memories we have are going to come back, and some of them may be overwhelming. Each day veterans kill themselves, with the loss rippling through their community, so this is a time to be extra aware of that potential.
My advice is mostly common sense: when you are emotionally weak, do not marinate in bad news. If the news of Afghanistan's fall bothers you — do not follow the news. Look outside: the sun is still shining, the birds are singing — stay in the present moment, and dwell neither on the past that you cannot change nor on the future if you have no capacity to change it. Be active, focus on positive things, and do not stew in negative emotions. Ask for help if you are having bad days. Some of the hardest feelings of guilt may come for those with close ties to Afghan partners or interpreters. Know that it is indeed a helpless feeling and that you may not be able to help, but that this is not your personal fault. Talk to others — you would be surprised how even pastors, priests, or counselors can help just by listening. Of course, some of the best conversations are with brothers in arms.
Why Afghanistan fell
Separating facts from emotions is useful for such tragedies. So with what feels like a lifetime of observation and participation, I offer this main point: the government of Afghanistan lost the "Mandate of Heaven." The people of Afghanistan had twenty years to experience Afghan government and decide that it was not worth fighting for. The stories are legion: the first president, Karzai, constantly releasing captured terrorist leaders as he dealt directly with the Taliban. President Karzai's brother being the top gangster of Kandahar. The Afghan Air Force heroin-smuggling ring. The Thursday Man Love sessions for all the pedophiles of the Afghan police and military. The "ghost" soldiers and ever-stolen supplies of the Afghan Army. The massive vote fraud of the Afghan presidential elections. The Afghan judges who gave no justice without a bribe. In sum, the Afghan government had the facade of a constitutional system — but inside its halls, it was a collection of thieves and robbers getting as much as could be gotten while the money was flowing.
To bring the image closer to home, imagine if the U.S. government were closer in substance to that of the city of Baltimore — feckless, dishonest, corrupt, possibly fraudulently elected. How willing would you be to stand and die on the orders of such a government? At times, I would put forth that some of our current national malaise is due to such a perception of our government. The miracle is that so many Afghan soldiers, airmen, and commandos fought for so long and still continue to fight for a few more days, at least
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"Grabbing a cat by the tail teaches a man something he can learn in no other way."
- Mark Twain
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One lesson Jarrett didn't learn is that when you see a society as awful as he described it then why ask people to put their lives at risk to protect that society. Why funnel money into a society that bad?
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Big problem is way too many people fell for the Three Cups of Tea bushwah...
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The USA is beginning to sound like Afghanistan, stolen elections and crooked politicians.
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Lessons:
1. Don't nation build. US military is the best at winning wars, not at nation building.
2. Learn from the soviets. Use advisors to teach the locals to do things themselves but don't take over a war for them because it is too easily spun as foreign occupation and it is too easily perverted by corruption all around.
It's actually a rather transparent scam. The host 'nation' foments trouble, or lets things go to seed and factions fight to the point intervention can be invited. They approach those wonderful people in Washington who for all you know schooled them and gave step-by-step instructions in how to appear totally fcuked to the world. Then begin the presentations to all the House committees and the reports come in from the Vindmans all around, enabling the LOTUS to declare an 'important mission for America'.
And in go the C17s, tents are pitched and another ice cream cone is ready.
[ChicagoSunTimes] Fifty-six people were shot, eight of them fatally, in citywide gun violence this weekend. Six of the wounded were 15 years old or younger.
The youngest homicide victim, a 7-year-old girl, was killed in a shooting Sunday afternoon that also wounded her younger sister.
Serenity Broughton, 7, and her 6-year-old sister were being placed in the backseat of a car by their mother when gunfire rang out about 2:50 p.m. in the 6200 block of West Grand Avenue, Chicago police said.
The 7-year-old was shot in her chest and torso and pronounced dead at a hospital, police said. Police said her younger sister was “fighting for her life” at Loyola University Medical Center.
Other weekend homicides:
A 70-year-old woman was fatally shot early Monday in Hegewisch on the Far South Side. The woman was parked in her car just after 4:25 a.m. in the 13300 block of South Baltimore Avenue when two males approached and fired shots, police said. She was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where she was pronounced dead. Her name was not released.
A man was killed and a woman injured in Chatham early Sunday when someone opened fire at a group of people. The shooting happened just before 2 a.m. in the 7500 block of South Saint Lawrence Avenue, police said. The man, 33, was shot in the chest killed. The woman, 34, was shot in the leg and her condition was stabilized.
Saturday evening, a man was fatally shot in a drive-by in Hyde Park on the South Side. Around 8:15 p.m., the victim, 25, was standing on the sidewalk in the 800 block of East 54th Street when a white-colored vehicle drove up and someone inside opened fire, police said. He was shot in the torso and taken to University of Chicago Medical Center where he later died.
A 59-year-old man was fatally shot Saturday afternoon while driving in West Humboldt Park. About 12:40 p.m., the man was driving in the 1200 block of North Pulaski Road when someone in another vehicle fired shots, striking him in the upper back and right arm, police said. The man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A person was killed in a triple shooting Friday night on the Eisenhower Expressway near Damen Avenue. The shooting happened around 8:30 p.m. and closed down a stretch of Interstate 290 for about four hours while troopers investigated, according to Illinois State Police. Three people wounded in the shooting had been located at a nearby hospital, officials said. One person was later pronounced dead and the other two were expected to survive.
A 35-year-old man who was critically wounded in a shooting Friday in West Englewood died from his injuries days later. Anthony Ballard was pronounced dead at 10:12 p.m. Sunday at the University of Chicago Medical Center, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. On Friday, he was hanging out on a front porch about 5:30 p.m. in the 6300 block of South Honore Street when someone approached and opened fire, striking him in the head and chest, police said.
Friday evening, an 18-year-old man was killed in Belmont Cragin. About 5:15 p.m., the teen was in the middle of the street in the 5100 block of West Fullerton Avenue when someone in a vehicle fired shots, striking him in the leg, chest and back, police said. The victim, Nikko Mercado, was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
Forty-five other people were wounded in other shootings this weekend, between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday.
Last weekend, 75 people were shot, including a Chicago police officer who was killed, in Chicago gun violence.
The Progs talk all the time about loosening gun laws will result in Western style shoot outs, but those shoot outs are happening on their watch, in their cities, on their dime.
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The way women are treated by Muslims is why they will win the world. When will the progressives in the USA wake up and start attacking the Muslim faith instead of the Christian Sheep.
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He that follows the law is then a debtor to the whole Law, Bourbon. As the world and political condition's changed, God has to allow for self preservation too I'm sure. Which is why it also says 'If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone...' and 'he that hath a purse, let him take it and likewise his pack; and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one..'.
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Here's an idea. Let's try going one full year without a major data breach and without any government leaks before we even consider giving law enforcement backdoor keys to all electronic communication.
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Maryland State employees also. When the Canada meat processor was hacked from the dark web. The hackers promised a more pervasive hacking worldwide. Then so it is happening. Chip cards are the worst. Chase bank told a client they felt it was Amazon or WIFI sources. I know for a fact the old bar code readers are unaffected(8 years) in my area as is good old cash.
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First thing I thought of when I read this story was the incident where a female NASA astronaut put on an adult diaper and drove straight through from Texas to Florida to kill her astronaut boyfriend. Not saying I drew any conclusions, just that that situation came immediately to mind.
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^ diaper-wearing Astronaut Lisa Nowak (a long-running joke here) was actually going to confront the other woman
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Donnie Hyatt claimed federal agents raided his family's home in Oxford, Georgia, on August 10
He said agents seized 'every electronic device' and 'had my 11-year-old daughter at gunpoint'
The Hyatt family is associated with 111% Security Force and its leader, Stockbridge resident Chris Hill ...age 46, US Marine Corps veteran who founded 111% Security Force in 2014. By day a paralegal specializing in bankruptcy and immigration law
Hyatt said the raid was part of the FBI's probe into the January 6 Capitol riots
He said he and his wife attended Donald Trump's 'Stop the Steal' rally but insisted they did not join others who stormed the Capitol that day
The death toll from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that shook the island nation of Haiti on Saturday has risen to 1,297 with at least 5,700 people injured
In Les Cayes, officials believe there are only 30 doctors for one million residents
The earthquake took out the town's underground water pipes and destroyed the town's markets, leaving hundreds without food
It flattened hundreds of homes and buildings, with the walls of a prison ripped open by the violent tremors
United States officials have already sent aid to the struggling nation, which is still reeling from the assassination of President Jovenel Moise last month
Pope Francis also urged Catholics to help the country
But rescue efforts may be marred by a tropical storm that is set to bear down on the country on Monday
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The media: "It will be horrible if the Taliban stop girls from going to school..."
Also the media: "Your children must remain at home while schools are closed indefinitely..."
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This twitter thingy has some pretty funny stuff. If only I felt like laughing.
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How old are you Matt?
Or in other words, are you old enough to watch Islamic radicals demand an entire community to a stadium to watch them put a round from an AK47 through a woman's head in the end zone? Or broadcast to the world an American being beheaded?
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^ Failure's no longer an orphan as long as the media and the dems (and the GOPe quislings) have Trump to blame...
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Could be just the excuse that Harris and Pelosi need to invoke the 25th Amendment. But if I was Harris, as unprepared for this kind of responsibility as she is, I would fight and beg for Joe to stay in office as long as possible.
But, yes, the only honorable thing for Biden to do at this point is to resign.
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He's just coming back to talk about his most recent ice cream cone.
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as he Zooms his National Security Council from Camp David
Likely a photoshop.
Did the White House use photoshop in Biden photo? Note the time in London and Moscow on the clocks. Clocks show 3 hour time difference. However, there is currently only a 2 hour difference. Before March, London and Moscow have a 3 hour time difference because of daylight savings.
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Harris is all "i'm looking into Haiti, that's all joe despite my earlier statment."
Joe is all "Trumps fault, despite my claims we had it all in control just a short time ago."
Military is like "Biden didn't listen to us."
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Anyone remember Saigon 1975?
The only difference is today Both parties have responsibility.
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"All US Embassy Staff Have Now Been Evacuated"
That just leaves a couple of thousand troops who were put in there to protect the 'important' people.
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^Yep - and it's the best argument for Trump 2024 that I can think of.
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they are not following CDCguidelines call FBI they must be terrorists gathering together not wearing FAUCI of the loom masks! think of the fines and all that money call the DHS AND FAA NOW we got video evidence!
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any meme things from DIE HARD and SAIGON?
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History repeats itself. Shithook landing at embassy in Saigon and another at Kabul embassy.
[Conservative Brief] Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) is under serious scrutiny for his donation of more than $50,000 of his campaign funds to his alma mater at Stanford University following revelations that his son is enrolling in the school for his freshman year.Filings in the Federal Election Commission show that Lieu gave four donations amounting to $51,046 to his alma mater, Stanford University, between the years of 2016 and 2018.
Fox News reported on Sunday that Lieu’s son is enrolled in the college as a freshman in the class of 2025, according to his Instagram bio, raising questions about whether Lieu’s donation was intended as a quid-pro-quo to the college.
As Fox News highlights, Lieu’s son’s admission into Stanford comes in the wake of the "Varsity Blues" scandal, which saw the kids of rich parents, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Full House’s Lori Loughlin after William Sanger fraudulently inflated their kids’ test scores and bribed college admission officials.
The Twitter account that first raised questions about Lieu’s donation was swiftly banned from the platform after the user posted screenshots of the FEC filings and that of Lieu’s son’s Instagram page.
"This looks very bad," remarked National Review contributor Luke Thompson, highlighting the account’s suspension.
The FEC allows political campaigns to provide financial donations to charitable organizations, including schools, but campaigns are prohibited from using the money for "purposes that personally benefit the candidate."
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Uh. This is very bizarre. The account that tweeted about @tedlieu making contributions to Stanford out of his campaign account - and Lieu’s son now attending Stanford - has been suspended.
#2
The FEC allows political campaigns to provide financial donations to charitable organizations, including schools, but campaigns are prohibited from using the money for "purposes that personally benefit the candidate."
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House and most mainstream media, what we have now is a "pandemic of the unvaccinated," with 95% to 99% of COVID-related hospitalizations and deaths being attributed to the unvaccinated
To achieve that statistic, the CDC included hospitalization and mortality data from January through June 2021. The vast majority of the United States population was unvaccinated during that timeframe
January 1, 2021, only 0.5% of the U.S. population had received a COVID shot. By mid-April, an estimated 31% had received one or more shots, and as of June 15, 48.7% were fully "vaccinated"
Natural immunity offers robust protection against all variants, whereas vaccine-induced immunity can’t. The reason for this is because when you recover from the natural infection, you have both antibodies and T cells against all parts of the virus, not just the spike protein
According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Delta variant is both more transmissible and more dangerous than the original virus and previous variants, but real-world data show it is actually weaker and far less dangerous, even though it does spread more easily
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House and most mainstream media, what we have now is a "pandemic of the unvaccinated."
1 According to the official narrative, 99% of COVID-19 deaths and 95% of COVID-related hospitalizations are occurring among the unvaccinated. In a July 16, 2021, White House press briefing,
2 CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky claimed "over 97% of people who are entering the hospital right now are unvaccinated."
But as reported by Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham on "The Ingraham Angle," "that statistic is grossly misleading,"
3 and in an August 5, 2021, video statement, Walensky inadvertently revealed how that 95% to 99% statistic was created. More
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CDC WEEKLY COVID DATA REVIEW - August 13, 2021
SOURCE: CDC
OTHER CDC SOURCED DATA UPDATE: As of August 13, 2021
During the same time, CDC received reports from 49 U.S. states and territories of 8,054 patients with COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infection who were hospitalized or died.
Overall, about 196.5 million people, or 59.2% of the total U.S. population, have received at least one dose of vaccine.
About 167.4 million people, or 50.4% of the total U.S. population, have been fully vaccinated.
[Gateway Pundit] Afghanistan’s new de facto leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has issued a congratulatory message to his fellow Taliban on the declaration of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan."
Mullah Baradar’s statement was given from the presidential palace in Kabul on Sunday.
"We have achieved an unexpected victory," he said. "Now is the time to test, to show how we serve our people and ensure their future in the best possible way."
#Afghanistan's new de facto leader Mullah Baradar issues congratulatory message to his fellow Taliban on the declaration of the 'Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan'.pic.twitter.com/bymr5HWRsf
— Yannis Koutsomitis (@YanniKouts) August 15, 2021
Baradar also announced that he has been appointed leader by the Taliban and will be taking control of the government.
The Taliban leader was arrested by Pakistani authorities in 2010, but was released in 2018 due to pressure from the United States.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country Sunday morning to "prevent more bloodshed."
"Today I came across a tough choice. I had to face the armed Taliban who want to enter the palace or leave the country I have dedicated my life to protecting and nurturing for the last 20 years. If left unchecked, countless patriots would be martyred and the city of Kabul would be devastated, resulting in a major humanitarian catastrophe in the 6-million-strong city," Ghani wrote in a Facebook post. "The Taliban had made it clear that they were ready to carry out a bloody attack on all of Kabul and the people of Kabul to oust me. In order to prevent a flood of bloodshed, I decided to leave."
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Best case realistic scenario is that the Taliban accepts aid and development loans from China, and that the Chinese use economic pressure to get them to reform. China has close ties to Pakistan because of BRI, and Pakistan is one of the Taliban’s oldest state allies. The PRC has also already met with Taliban leaders anticipating the transition. It’s obviously a long shot, but it’s a far better situation than what the Yankees were doing.
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Given that the DIA kept the defection of the Chinese official secret from the CIA, I doubt the upper management at the CIA is out to do anything to upset their second employer.
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If I was the Afghan President I would have had folks build a bomb into my desk in the last few days before I left. Would have been a nice capper to have the Taliban leadership blown apart during their first broadcast. But I'm spiteful that way.
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Unless there are enough members of the House to vote for this, it's never going to make it out of the House. If it does make it out of the House, there's not enough votes in the Senate to bring removal. It's a gesture.
There are many others who should be impeached because of their part.
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This kind of websites are really build stupid. Who' the idiot that accept the crap they ask? permission for? They don't even have a reject all option.
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No reason the Talibs can't just seal off the airport then auction off the foreigners for ransom and execute the locals. Once flight operations are off the table there's not anything that can be done militarily by the US to prevent it.
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[Bloomberg] It’s been two decades since Wall Street analysts were this upbeat.
About 56% of all recommendations on S&P 500 firms are listed as buys, the most since 2002. It’s one more data point that shows the extent of the euphoria sweeping markets after a blockbuster earnings season.
While analysts are historically a bullish bunch, they’re turning even more optimistic in the face of relentless stock-market gains and corporate earnings that topped even the highest expectations. For all the concerns about the delta variant, China’s regulatory crackdown or waning Federal Reserve stimulus, it hasn’t made much of a dent yet on stock prices.
"It’s not just financial conditions and low rates fueling the appetite for risk assets -- tremendous fundamental improvement is forecast into 2022," Todd Jablonski, chief investment officer at Principal Global Asset Allocation, said in a note.
[CitizenFreePress] The Taliban now has javelin missiles as well as the OS for Strykers and other military vehicles. "Everyone is wondering what the black market is going to have in Iran," a US official told me.
"An F-15 flight simulator was also left in Bagram, the Taliban has that now."
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 15, 2021
Trump would have been impeached immediately for leaving top secret material behind.
Cernovich — The Taliban now have javelin missiles as well as the OS for Strykers and other military vehicles. "Everyone is wondering what the black market is going to have in Iran," a US official told me.
"An F-15 flight simulator was also left in Bagram, the Taliban has that now."
**** A Light Side ? (below) ****
Taliban works out at Presidential Palace gym...
Taliban enjoying gym at kabul president palace. pic.twitter.com/FkQY2vR3zw
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The fault goes back to Bush and Chaney not wanting to engage in real war, but some Hollyweird production that looked like war. That meant destroying the Taliban's base of operation which was Pakistan. "Cooler heads prevailed" and delivers this event.
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Biden wants to disarm citizens in the U.S. with draconian measures and yet he leaves behind a ton of state-of-the-art weapons that will arm our enemy, the Taliban.
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And it was all "sold" to the Afghans with US taxpayer funds.
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"An F-15 flight simulator was also left in Bagram, the Taliban has that now." Well China or Russia will have it. Taliban is unlikely to get much use out of a simulator beyond selling it.
Does seem like something that could have been removed months ago easily enough. Same with destroying the super secret documentation we were scrambling to destroy over the weekend. Why wait even if you though we had more time they knew the end was near.
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It doesn't matter. Biden's response and Pelosi's to Afghanistan shows you they just want "the little people" dead unless they are ChiComs or Taliban.
[Rudaw] An Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) emir was arrested in a joint security operation conducted by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and international coalition forces in western Deir ez-Zor, local media and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Saturday.
The SDF and coalition forces clashed with the emir, an Iraqi, for nearly 40 minutes after storming his house. He was later arrested and his house blown up, SOHR said.
The joint operation was supported by four helicopters and a fighter jet, it added. The operation was also reported by the North Press Agency (NPA), an outlet close to the SDF.
ISIS seized control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014. The last of its so-called caliphate was defeated in Syria in 2019, but the group remains a threat on both sides of the border, particularly in Deir ez-Zor, which is controlled by both the SDF and regime forces.
The SDF frequently conducts security operations against ISIS turbans. The force launched 34 operations against the group in the first half of this year, in which 245 suspects were arrested and three others were killed.
Many of the operations have been focused in the border areas where in late June they arrested 22 ISIS suspects, and 24 across 53 locations in late May.
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I want to thank the American judiciary for sticking their hands into the conduct of war in helping make this victory possible. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Article posted to Khaama Press Monday, 16 Aug 2021 06:34 AM Afghan Time
[KhaamaPress] Hours after 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... along with his close aides and the first lady left Kabul for Tajikistan, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... entered Presidential Palace ARG.
The retreat of Afghan national police from their outposts around the capital left the city in chaos and allow the city to be looted and plundered easily. Though the Taliban earlier on Sunday had said that there is no plan to enter the Afghan capital militarily, the security vacuum in Kabul city made them decide to direct their fighters to enter Kabul and occupy the empty police outposts and police districts.
Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era... International airport was also packed with tens of passengers awaiting flights out of the country who then took to the runway but found no plane and are still stuck there.
To avoid the power vacuum created after the escape of the president, head of High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , former President Hamid Karzai and head of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbadin Hekmatyar came together and shaped a temporary council.
The council is aimed at transferring the power peacefully to the Taliban and asked Afghan cops and forces of the Afghanistan Islamic Emirate to secure Kabul city and do not allow any chaos.
The trio in their separate video clips delivered different messages to the people of Kabul.
Abdullah Abdullah accused Ashraf Ghani of fleeing the country and leaving the people in mess. Abdullah also erupted into the streets of Kabul and greet the people who were hugging crying and thanked him for being with them.
Hamid Karzai encouraged people not to panic as he and his children are still living in the Afghan capital.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... Gulbadin Hekmatyar accused Ashraf Ghani of continuing the war and remaining stubborn to transfer power peacefully to a government that is acceptable to all.
The Afghanistan Islamic Emirate asked people to cooperate with them in identifying and arresting those who impersonate them and rob people and property.
In several video clips shot by the members of AIE show that looters and plunderers were arrested after people call them.
The night was rather quiet when it comes to the nightlife of a city but there were sporadic fires and the choppers were patrolling the Afghan capital.
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Deja vu all over again: In 1989 the first trusted friend that Pakistan wanted to install in Kabul was Hekmatyar. For three years, Hekmatyar targeted the city with tens of thousands of rockets provided by the Pak Milirary ISI. He also launched ground attacks against a sitting government, the most serious one occurred in January 1994 in an attack joined by Abdur Rashid Dostom, and Abdul Ali Mazari, the leader of the Shi‘ite Wahdat Party. As one author put it, "Only the ISI could bring such strange bedfellows together!" When Pakistan realized Hekmatyar’s inability to attain power in Kabul, it designed a new plot fomented by General Naseerullah Babar, the Pakistani Interior Minister. Babar is considered the “Godfather” of the Taliban, and ISI fundeed Taliban for years. Covering its bases, the ISI continued its ties to Hekmatyar, and both were surprised at how quickly the Taliban conquered Kabul in late September 1996. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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We more or less destroyed the Taliban not long after that. it was when we took over the country and tried to make them Democratic that we really failed.
Ignore those pictures of the Afghan army that our military senior leader geniuses spent 20 years and zillions of dollars on disintegrating in the face of a pack of glorified mountain banditos from the Seventh Century – the real story is that, finally, America’s fighting men and women are fully aware of the urgency of accepting and validating the trans experience. And it's even better if said trans people are BIPOC. Plus differently abled.
Our broke, woke armed forces would be a hysterically funny punchline if the joke wasn’t, “The greatest military in human history walks into a bar, puts down trillions of dollars and buckets of American blood, and asks the bartender, ‘So, what would it look like if all the generals and admirals sucked-up to the garbage establishment that has totally failed the people of the USA?’”
Yes, it is a joke, a sick one. Fire all the generals. Invite a few back, maybe a dozen. Clean out the Pentagon. Can all the “Diversity Consultants,” “Equal Opportunity Officers,” “Climate Change Mitigation Specialists,” and every other strap-hanging oxygen thief who doesn’t contribute to the only thing the military should be focusing on right now – putting Chi Coms in graves.
Yeah, there’s been a strategic failure of epic proportions by our civilian establishment. We need to fix that at the ballot box by tossing out every Democrat and every Liz Cheney-esque combat tourist who delights in sending our young people overseas to get ground up in idiotic wars designed to enrich their cronies. Hardest hit at the end of Afghanistan: Haliburton, Raytheon, KBR, and a hundred other contractors you never heard of. Oh, and the Afghan people, but they never really figured into this calculus except in the abstract idea that we were going to convert a nation of savages into Lil’ Vermonters living the Norman Rockwell dream of community democracy.
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[PJ Media] As the Taliban moves into Kabul and demands the unconditional surrender of the central government, Taliban commander Muhammed Arif Mustafa told CNN: "It’s our belief that one day, mujahedin will have victory, and Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world. We are not in a hurry. We believe it will come one day. Jihad will not end until the last day." The CNN "journalist," demonstrating yet again its spectacular misunderstanding of the conflict (which, of course, is shared by the U.S. foreign policy establishment), followed that with "It’s a chilling admission from a group that claims it wants peace." The Taliban does indeed want peace. It wants the peace that will follow the world’s submission to the hegemony of Islamic law.
Muhammed Arif Mustafa was stating plainly what the U.S. State Department steadfastly ignored for twenty years: the fact that the Taliban views itself as the exponents in 21st-century Afghanistan of a fourteen-hundred-year-old conflict, one that is as old as Islam itself. The History of Jihad details how Muslims in Afghanistan and the world over have waged this jihad without any interruption throughout that entire period, with the goal that the Taliban commander enunciated: to establish the rule of Islamic law anywhere and everywhere possible.
This imperative was often energized by grievances, but was never, contrary to State’s assumption, built on grievances alone. The Qur’an commands: "And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah." (8:39) Some might think that because the Taliban is ending what they perceive as "persecution" — that is, the American presence — in Afghanistan, it will lay down its arms. This is once again a fundamental misunderstanding. The Taliban, and other groups like it, will fight on "until religion is all for Allah." Within Afghanistan, this will take the form of a ferocious and merciless persecution of women who do not obey Islam’s veiling laws, and of anyone else who dares to violate the strictures of Islam in any way. And outside Afghanistan, the Taliban will do all it can to aid jihad groups elsewhere, as it aided al-Qaeda to prepare for the jihad attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001.
No one in Washington or among American forces in Afghanistan ever showed any sign of understanding this. In an interview with ABC News back in 2010, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan at the time, Gen. David Petraeus, "conceded that a successful counterinsurgency campaign could take up to 10 more years, but said he intended to stick to the 2011 drawdown date."
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But, no worries! THE CIA and Pentagon are laser focused on domestic extremists, white supremacists, mask deniers, fake hate crimes and 1/6 insurrectionists.
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The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Communists were systematically executed under their regime.
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Next time the Taliban kills a bunch of Americans we should repeat what we did when we took over Afghanistan (SF with laser pointers and B-52) but avoid the whole occupation part. Then just repeat that as often as necessary.
[FoxNews] Border Patrol agents in a California mountain range were fired upon from Mexico while taking a group of migrants found illegally entering the country into custody last week – another instance of violence against U.S. immigration officers at the border, yet no arrests have been made.
At approximately 9 p.m. on Aug. 9, Border Patrol agents "were the target of multiple shots" near Otay Mountain, which contains the highest summit of the San Ysidro Mountains in San Diego County, according to a statement released Saturday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The barrage of bullets was unleashed on agents arresting a group of undocumented immigrants, about two miles east of the Otay Mesa gatehouse and approximately 250 yards north of the international border. As agents escorted the group to their vehicles, they heard gunfire and gunshots heading toward the area where they were, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
Agents immediately ordered the migrants to take cover behind the bushes, while they themselves sought shelter. Marine Air Operations (AMO) and the tactical unit (BORTAC) responded to the area immediately, but could not locate the subjects, the statement, initially issued in Spanish, said.
The international liaison unit requested the assistance of Mexican authorities, who responded south of the border in the area where the shots were suspected to originate, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Residents of the area reported seeing several people from the Mexican side flee the area in a pickup truck and a motorcycle. No other information on the subjects could be obtained.
[NATION.PK] Islamabad police have arrested six more accused including owner of Therapy Works in Noor Muqaddam murder case, according to official sources.
The sources said that Dr. Tahir was among those arrested in the night-long raids. Amjad who was injured by the main accused Zahir Jaffar on the day of the incident has also been arrested by police. The police had recorded a statement of Amjad last week but didn’t arrest him due to his injury. The official sources said that all these accused have been arrested for hiding evidence. So far, the police have arrested 12 persons in connection with this heinous murder.
The police have also confirmed that the accused had raped the victim before killing her. The police had added section 376 of the PPC (rape) in the FIR after forensic report confirmed rape of the victim. Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one... the police have claimed that DNA and fingerprints of accused Zahir Jaffar have confirmed his involvement in the murder of Noor Muqaddam. They said that photogrammetry tests conducted on a video in which Noor Mukaddam was seen making efforts to save her life and being chased by the accused confirmed that it was genuine. The footage had been sent to the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Forensic Science Agency, Lahore, to find out if the video was genuine. The Sherlocks had obtained the footage of a CCTV camera installed in the neighbourhood of the accused’s house which revealed that the victim in an effort to save her life had jumped from the first floor of the house and ran towards the main gate, but found it locked. Shortly afterwards, she took shelter in the guard’s room, but the accused broke the door and dragged her inside the house. The gardener, who was present in the house at the time of the crime, had confirmed during the interrogation that he had seen the victim jumping from the first floor.
Noor, 27, daughter of former Pak diplomat Shaukat Muqaddam, was found murdered at a house in Islamabad’s upscale sector F-7/4 on July 20. A first information report was registered the same day against Zahir Jaffar, who was arrested from the site of the murder, under Section 302 of the Pakistain Penal Code on the complaint of the victim’s father.
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[Gateway Pundit] Ralph Jones resigned from his Election position in Fulton County on Friday.
Back in early December we first learned the name of the individual who told election workers to go home on Election night so he and some hand-picked workers could pull ballots out from under tables and jam thousands of Biden-only ballots through tabulation machines.
A short time later, the CFO of the Secretary of State’s office, Gabe Sterling, claimed that nothing was out of the normal in Fulton County on Election Night. Sterling lied in an interview with Newsmax and said that there was an election poll watcher in Fulton County when they were jamming thousands of ballots into voting tabulation machines on election night. This poll watcher, Sterling said was Ralph Jones. But this was a lie because Jones worked for Sterling and the elections department of Fulton County. Jones was not an independent observer. Jones also was pushing thousands of ballots through the tabulation machines himself on Election Night.
Gabe Sterling and Secretary of State Raffensperger were lying. The actions in Fulton County on Election Night were criminal.
[RedState] With Afghanistan on fire, the airport in chaos, and uncertainty on how all US personnel will make it out alive, the recriminations for what is still transpiring are in full swing. You'll be less than shocked to learn that some are blaming Donald Trump, who hasn’t been president for the last seven months.
On the other hand, those living within the confines of our current reality are pointing the finger where it belongs, toward the current President of the United States. While Joe Biden had previously taken credit for his supposedly fabulous withdrawal plan, he’s now desperately trying to pass the buck, be it to Republicans or perhaps his own vice president.
Yet, things look to be even worse than they first appeared. Reports are coming out that the reason the Afghan Air Force couldn't operate is that the Biden Administration banned foreign maintenance contractors (i.e. the only people with the expertise) from entering Afghanistan.
This per The Daily Beast.
The Afghan Air Force didn’t take flight because — God help us — Joe Biden refused to let outside maintenance crews into Afghanistan, effectively grounding the fleet. pic.twitter.com/0L1wNSqGPa
Helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft do not just run into perpetuity. That’s especially true when dealing with military variants, which can often require many hours of maintenance for every actual flight hour flown. By banning foreign contractors from helping the Afghan Air Force maintain its fleet, Biden effectively grounded it and took them out of the fight.
And while they weren't flying the latest and greatest types, A-29 CAS aircraft and Mi-24 Hinds (along with the other light-attack helicopters the Afghan Air Force had) would have been very useful in trying to hold off the Taliban as they advanced toward Kabul, even if temporarily.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] On Saturday, residents of the countryside of Tel Tamr town, north of Hasakah, northeast Syria, spent the night in terror after the Ottoman Turkish forces escalated the shelling targeting villages in the area with dozens of shells.
"The Ottoman Turkish forces targeted the village of al-Dardara, north of Tel Tamr, yesterday night," a source of the Tel Tamr Military Council told North Press.
"The Ottoman Turkish forces renewed bombing, targeting the villages of Qubur Qarajneh, Sheikh Ali and Maslata, on the frontlines between the towns of Tel Tamr and Abu Rasin," the source added.
From 9:00 pm yesterday to 01:30 am today’s morning, more than 50 mortar and artillery shells fell, in addition to the firing of flares by Ottoman Turkish forces at different times on the villages mentioned above.
The Syriac Military Council, a military formation affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), deployed on the frontlines in the countryside of Tel Tamr, launched a counter-attack on the sources of fire.
On August 4, the Ottoman Turkish bombing of the countryside of Tel Tamr wounding an elderly woman and two members of the government forces in Umm al-Keif village, north of Tel Tamr.
For more than a month, the countryside of Tel Tamr and its villages have been subjected to frequent Ottoman Turkish attacks, which led to the displacement of residents to safe regions.
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Joe Biden, Commander in Retreat [REDSTATE] The depth of Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... ’s ineptitude is stunning. Nothing he’s done in his first seven months has shown a breadth of competency — but his failure with Afghanistan has moved to the top of the list of failures. Biden made promises he couldn’t keep.Just hours after "guaranteeing " that Kabul would not be a repeat to Saigon 1975, with helicopters evacuating personnel from the roof our embassy, that is precisely what is happening.
Biden issued a paper tiger, "Play nice or I’ll get really mad" warning to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... that, no doubt, was met with ridicule and mocking laughter. The Taliban will do as they wish, likely using the equipment we left behind.
Biden’s stated goal was to be fully out of Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Why he picked that date is incomprehensible. But the Taliban aren’t waiting. They will be in control of Kabul by the end of the week, and our embassy by Sept 1st.
But rest assured, America — the Taliban won’t turn our embassy into ashes when they take it; they will wait to meet Biden’s withdraw date, then in a repeat of what they’ve done to monuments of prior empires, they will immolate those buildings on 9/11.
Well done, Joe.
Joe Biden Blames Donald Trump for Afghanistan Collapse
[BREITBART] President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... issued a statement Saturday blaming former President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... after the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... rapidly took control of the majority of Afghanistan’s major cities."When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor," Biden wrote, complaining that Trump negotiated a deal "that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001."
Biden also noted that Trump had set the troop withdrawal date of May 1 and reduced troop levels to 2,500.
The president said he had the choice of either following through with Trump’s withdrawal plan or sending more troops back into Afghanistan to secure the country.
But Biden set a later date for withdrawal, choosing a new deadline of September 11th before walking it back to August 31.
"I was the fourth President to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan—two Republicans, two Democrats," he said. "I would not, and will not, pass this war onto a fifth."
On Saturday, Biden announced his decision to surge 5,000 American troops into Afghanistan to help ensure the safe evacuation of American personal.
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To be memory holed by 99% of the Democrat-infotainment complex. Try to find any pics of the World Trade Center jumpers in the main stream media or the aftermath when they hit the ground.
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Reality: That thing that doesn't go away when you ignore it.
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Bdet just flew in from Camp David on Marine One and landed at Ft. McNair? Why, it was just on the old parade ground in the center of the fort. What would cause them to go the the Fort next to the Navy Yard which actually has a formal helipad? ANd then a traditional ground motorcade to the White House? Why do I think MANPAD threat forced an unexpected alternative landing zone at the last minute? Anyone?
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"They are ignorant, unambitious, anti-social, uncurious, materialistic, narcissistic, and profoundly unhappy. Yet they are strangely proud of all this and expect their free, prosperous world to continue as it always has."
Hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times.
[RedState] (The REDSTATE EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the most important story out of Afghanistan today and possibly about the entire war. It’s not an understatement to say that Hollie is one of the few western journalists in the country and has a vantage point few have. Please watch the entire interview; it’s filled with crucial information.)
In less than a week, Afghanistan has fallen. How could this happen so quickly after US officials assured everyone that the Afghan military was fully capable of defending the country against the Taliban?
Sunday evening (Afghanistan time) I spoke with Jenna Lee Babin of SmartHER News about how rapidly the country fell and why based on what I've seen and heard in the country. We'd spoken on Friday, and while it was a little tense at that time the changes since then have been abrupt, sudden, and dramatic.
With Mazar as an example, when we first got in early Thursday morning it was a normal city. It was full of life. People were in the streets. The markets were full. Everybody was at their shrine. And I remember being shocked because everybody was talking about the northern provinces going, and I thought it was completely exaggerated. There didn’t seem to be any imminent threat.
Friday, things had shifted. You could just feel a sense of fear. There were people saying, "They're coming! They're coming!" I wondered if they were exaggerating. Shopkeepers were closing down, but things were still open and there were people around.
And then Saturday it was just a ghost town, and people were lining up at banks to get money out. We were hearing rumors about there were three front lines and the first one had been breached.
And then it was gone, just like that. Literally, just like that.
From my understanding, the level of corruption within the Afghanistan military and the government, that is part of how the Taliban won a lot of this, is they paid the commanders off to surrender a city before. So those who genuinely do want to fight -- and there are a lot of men that wanted to genuinely fight -- they were basically kept in the dark and ANA commanders were paid off by the Taliban in advance to surrender the city. They were just left with, you have no choice but basically to run.
The level of corruption that enabled the Taliban to come back into power is just mind-blowing. It's mind-blowing to see that and to see all of the weapons that have now gone into the Taliban’s hands when the Afghan army runs away, we paid for.
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Ref #1: Just out of curiosity, I'd like to follow the Mullah-geld and discover where it actually came from. Is Mullah-geld fungible ?
Pres. Trump's plan with conditions established, was to be out in May. Were those Mullah dollars a 'lease on peace' until Biden's September transition could be realized ?
I know it sounds bizarre and unheard of....but was the Mullah-geld palletized and air-dropped to the Taliban from unmarked aircraft in the dead of night? Later turned into cash payments to the Afghan Army and local officials for their peaceful stacking of arms ?
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#3 Heroin and opium are always big dollar winners and I would not be surprised to discover the Chinese emperor found his wallet just in time. That and remember, Hunter has connections all across Asia and he is an enterprising lad.
Feel sorry for the woman, if it's over quick she'll be lucky.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Wasn't he a rapist/voyeur, a pervert of some sort? Do correct me if I'm wrong. Of course the feebs could have made it all up. Him being a marxist and all.
As for the current scenario, many would argue the real dream he had is going perfectly according to plan and this scam begins at him.
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Dron, King may have had indiscretions with young ladies in his personal history, but he was no rapist/voyeur. The FBI floated those scenarios to discredit him, sort of like the orgy and 'golden shower' documents about Trump.
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Thank you for that, Galactic Coordinator and Mullah Richard. I can again see him in the light I was taught at school to.
But his legacy's fcuked, you can't deny that. All thanks to the Patrisses, Ta Nhisis and Georgies.
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While I’ve not studied the history of that period in any depth. certainly the literature of the time strongly suggests that in those days almost all those who fancied themselves intellectuals and/or idealists were communists or socialists of one sort or another. A good many of them included “free love” in their idealized society, and indulged among themselves in the meantime. And certainly the Soviet Union was very involved in all the social movements its people could wriggle their way into the leadership cadres of, in the US, Britain/Europe, and the Third World.
So I would be shocked if Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., of sainted memory, had not been connected to the Left, and that absolutely none in the movement were creatures of the Soviet Union or Maoists — especially those who turned their back on non-violence.
[NATION.PK] Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said that the people of Indian Illegally Occupied 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.... (IIOJK) observed Indian Independence Day as Black Day and protested against the Indian occupation.
The Chief Minister said that the so-called world’s largest democracy had been exposed as the Indian government violated all democratic norms and human values in the IIOJK. Usman Buzdar said that India was committing serious human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations, adding that she narrowed life in the IIOJK. Usman Buzdar said that every child of Pakistain was standing beside the oppressed Kashmiris. He reiterated that Pakistain and Kashmir were brothers and Pakistain was incomplete without Kashmir. Usman Buzdar reaffirmed that Paks were standing with their Kashmiris brothers and would keep supporting them. He said that the Modi government would have to account for their brutality and oppression. "The international community could not act as a silent
Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has condemned the incident of kaboom in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and expressed a deep sense of sorrow and grief over the loss of innocent lives in the tragic incident. Usman Buzdar said that those who were involved in the incident had no religion. He said that the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government equally shared the grief of heirs of the victims, adding: "All our sympathies are with them." The chief minister also prayed for early recovery of the injured.
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Nothing new. Infact there are more mini-Pakistans and mini-Afghanistans in India.
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1. Pull out. Embarg-oh every piece of aid and money to AFG. Disassociate completely.
2. Let an Emirate grow there, let the shura fight it out who will reign and who will remain in Quetta. This may take not more than two or three years. Disregard the 'oh the humanity!' cries of the media and sit still on your arse until then.
3. False flag some minor outrage against yourself or allies. There are ways to instigate the actor to hit you too and leave an inviting opening, I'm sure the State Dept knows tonnes about that. Because they may not do anything of the scale to warrant the response. For a real outrage you'll have to wait so long they'll probably have a seat in the UN by then.
3. Nuke Kabul. 💥 Destroy the dream of an islamic emirate and regain the lost morale. And no, conventional missile warfare, bombing and artillery and sorties based on intelligence from Islamabad won't cut it.
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^Why tf is India busy on saving Afghans?? What about other the 56 ISLAMIC COUNTRIES? Where's that bitch Malala?? I don't want India to become sharia hellhole!
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I have honestly felt since the 1960's, Congress needs to seriously overhaul the process in which the USA President and themselves declare wars AND how it will be waged.
A ground war there, in my opinion.
Was never a realistic process for success.
Just look at the previous British and USSR failures over the preceding 150+/- years.
Also given back on 05/01/2011, the DC/DOD claimed it eliminated OBL and had killed a lot of top Al-Qaeda leadership.
So wouldn't a US pull out in 2011-12 been a good time leave?
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I have honestly felt since the 1960's, Congress needs to seriously overhaul the process in which the USA President and themselves declare wars AND how it will be waged.
Short end - Covert the Army over to the Swiss system without authority to be deployed. Increase the Marine Corps somewhat to be the force to be deployed outside of the country. If you don't have the toys to play with, your means to get into trouble are reduced.
When the Wall came down, it was the signal to leave. When OBL was wacked, it was the signal to leave.
When you go to war, you go to war not some kabuki substitute for the real thing.
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They fought to give Afghanistan a 20 year chance. You can't really do more than provide a chance. Unfortunately the Afghans came up unworthy (as did the Iraqs and others).
They fought to provide a lesson to America that we shouldn't be trying to build up countries. Our own politicians and military get corrupted in the process. Or troops get killed and maimed. And the nations rarely step up to defend themselves the way we expect, they just know how to use us as a jobs work program until its time to catch the last flight out.
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According to today's State Dept, they died for Intersectionality.
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All this is the Afghans fault? Boy, that's a hot take. WTF? How can you shit on people that got bombed and droned and had their wedding parties blasted with HMX because any gathering of men was deemed a terrorist plot? And all this is their fault?
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The Taliban offered to surrender in December 2001 but this was rejected.
From Slomorong Thraiger7030’s link:
Rumsfeld Rejects PlanTo Allow Mullah Omar 'To Live in Dignity' : Taliban Fighters Agree to Surrender Kandahar
Dec. 7, 2001
WASHINGTON— Afghanistan's Taliban militia said Thursday that it had agreed to surrender its last remaining stronghold, the southern city of Kandahar, to a prominent anti-Taliban commander and would begin giving up its weapons on Friday.
But Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld immediately objected to portions of the deal that reportedly would allow the Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, to remain in Kandahar to "live in dignity" in opposition custody, so long as he renounced terrorism.
Even as we type, Taliban representatives continue to meet in Doha, continuing to negotiate a “peaceful transition” as they have done for the last many years while they quietly trained in Pakistan and killed and bribed in Afghanistan to prepare the ground for their reconquest. This is a textbook case of taqiyya, or possibly one of the other four types of Sharia-mandated Muslim lies required by Allah, one of whose titles is The Prince of Lies.
We tried the precision targetting, hearts and minds route. When we have to go back, it should be with B-52s — Operation Arc Light II across Afghanistan and key points in Pakistan.
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It is the Afghans fault because it is the Afghans country. The US military leaders must share a lot of blame but we were not occupiers who could do whatever we wished. If we were (as in Germany and Japan) I suspect the result would have been different.
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Looks like some commenters are pissed off that more Americans won't be coming back home maimed, missing body parts and scarred with PTSD.
Nobody's going back to Afghanistan. The American people won't stand for it. Deal with it: your precious mass murdering war is over. It was always going to end this way.
Well, unless the Taliban surrendered and disarmed and went home. But then you wouldn't have been able to kill so many people.
Hardly WW2 in casualties. No non-precision bombing or fire bombing of urban areas. No shut off of the flow of food (doing to Japan what Germany tried to do to England).
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It doesn't matter. Biden's response and Pelosi's to Afghanistan shows you they just want "the little people" dead unless they are ChiComs or Taliban.
Ah, I thought that vitriol smelled familiar!
Afghanistan is *bleep*ed, gas prices are up and now we are getting refried vitriol. Man, the Biden Era sucks.
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Nobody's going back to Afghanistan. The American people won't stand for it.
Tell that to Biden, please. In that sentiment I agree with you 100%, nobody should. I'm not a warmonger of any sort. But once you're in it, there are ways to win and ways to lose. I am not fond of ways to lose.
[Bee] KABUL—Approximately twelve minutes after U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan, Taliban fighters have completely taken over the entire country.
"Woah, that's a bummer," said the Biden Administration's foreign policy team. "We didn't see that one coming."
As the Taliban began its campaign of shooting and killing, as is their time-honored tradition, CNN anchors gushed with praise after noticing all the Taliban fighters were responsibly wearing masks to protect themselves and others from COVID.
"Wow! In the midst of the battle and bloodshed, these noble desert knights of Islamic superiority are wearing masks! Bravo!" said Brian Stelter.
TV anchor and world-renown polemicist Don Lemon was also quick to weigh in. "All things considered, we ought to be praising the COVID-safe masks these majestic mujahideen warriors are wearing," he said.
"They are showing all of us the proper way to behave during a pandemic—something those horrible idiot Trump supporters don't seem to get."
Inspired by their example, the Biden Administration has invited the Taliban to the White House to record TikTok videos in hopes of convincing Trump supporters to get vaccinated.
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[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid claims to have taken Wardak province bordering Kabul in the west of Kabul.
This brings the total number of Kabul’s neighboring provinces to three out of five to be toppled by the fighters in the past 12 hours.
The Taliban took Pashtun-infested Logar province in the south of Kabul on Saturday noon, Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... province in the east of Kabul on Saturday night, and now Wardak province on Sunday morning.
Zabiullah Mujahid in a Twitter post said the Maidan Wardak province has fallen to the fighters and the province-based Afghan National Defense and Security Forces have fled to Kabul.
The province for over a month had been in the control of the Taliban but the scenic provincial capital Maidan Shar.
Parwan and Kapisa are two other neighboring provinces of Kabul that have been witnessing heavy conflicts between the warring sides and the Afghan government is holding merely control over the capital city of Kapisa province.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse... there are reports of Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... bordering Pakistain in the southeast being surrendered to the Taliban without resistance and confrontations.
On Saturday night, the eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. and Laghman province fell to the Taliban after negotiations with the governors of the Afghan government and the Taliban.
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[ColonelCassad] Briefly about the situation on the evening of August 15.
1. In fact, August 15 was the end of the Afghanistan that has existed since the fall of 2001. They just barely made it to the 20th anniversary, as well as the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack. The Taliban have fully met their already established two-week deadline for the seizure of the entire country. The Americans suspected something, so they shifted the departure date from September 11 to August 31, but still did not have time to leave before the inevitable happened.
2. Former President Ghani and former members of the government fled the country to Tajikistan. Ghani's relatives (the son flew away on a business jet), some members of parliament and the top of the army fled the country. Earlier, the already former Marshal Dostum fled to Uzbekistan, leaving the cortege and convoy on the bridge near Hairaton (the cortege was subsequently plundered).
The former Afghan Defense Minister accused Ghani of treason, collusion with the Taliban and sabotage of the army, calling Ghani a dog and his government a gang. My dear fellow, you yourself were a member of this gang, which also appointed you the Minister of Defense instead of the previous member of the gang.
3. Taking advantage of the fact that the power of the government finally collapsed and mass looting and looting began in the city, the Taliban officially ordered the introduction of militant units into Kabul to restore order. The militants were ordered to shoot robbers and marauders on the spot. Thus, the Taliban did not wait for the completion of the evacuation of the United States.
The United States will not be able to save its face in any form; it will have to evacuate from a city that has already been captured by the Taliban. And the Taliban, of course, have the option to give the US additional problems during the evacuation. It is as if you walk up to a person hanging on the roof of the 10th floor and step on their fingers.
4. Panic and crush at the Kabul airport, thousands of people are trying to board a plane from Afghanistan. Some of the Europeans and Americans have not yet been taken out. The airport itself came under fire in the evening. The US contingent is defending the section of the airfield through which US military transport aircraft take off. Washington is threatening to send several thousand Marines from Kuwait to hold the airport during the evacuation. Also, German special forces are urgently transferred to the airport to evacuate the remaining Germans and their accomplices.
5. Although the Taliban have already announced that they control the whole of Afghanistan, this is not entirely true - some parts of the country are still formally under the control of the military and local administrations with whom surrender negotiations are underway. For another 1-2 days, the process of surrender and re-subordination of the new government will go on. It is unlikely to take too long. Almost no one wants to fight, they are tired of it.
6. The new Afghanistan will be formally headed by Mullah Baradar. The one who flew to Moscow for negotiations with Lavrov and in Doha, for negotiations with Pompeo. Karzai and a number of former Afghan officials are simultaneously cosplaying the Doenitz government in Flensburg in May 1945.
Most of them will go into political oblivion in the coming days. And this is the best case for them. In the evening, the Taliban announced that there would be no transitional government in Afghanistan (it was supposed to be headed by an announcer from the Voice of America), only and exclusively the power of the Taliban representatives.
7. Russia will not yet recognize the Taliban and will "monitor the situation" for now. There really is nowhere to rush. The Taliban meanwhile guaranteed the security of the Russian and Iranian embassies in Kabul. Also, guarantees were given on the Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif. I bet that within a year the Taliban will be recognized by at least 30-40 states. So far, the European embassies are being closed and their diplomats are fleeing from Kabul (from among those who didn’t scramble earlier). Some airlines have already announced that they will stop regular flights to Kabul starting Monday.
8. In the American media today is the day of hesitation and genotyping. Dark ghouls like Bolton, Henri-Levy and the like, condemn Biden for repeating the evacuation of Saigon and a terrible blow to the reputation of the United States and democracy around the world, which will have huge consequences for America's image for many years, as well as have a significant impact on domestic politics. America, since Biden actually gives the Trumpists a fat trump card, which will be used already in the next elections to the US Congress, where the pictures of the catastrophe in Afghanistan will be a very eloquent argument in discussions about the achievements of foreign policy.
9. Virtually all of the military property of the Afghan army went to the Taliban army. There are probably more of these weapons than the militants need. Taking into account the fact that some of them were plundered even before the Taliban, when the Taliban began to build their regular army in Afghanistan, at first it will be able to equip up to 200,000 people with tanks, artillery, MLRS, hundreds of AFVs and thousands of carts and other Humvees. Also, the Taliban will have an air force of about 35-40 aircraft and helicopters. With ammunition and ammunition in the coming years, the development of the captured Everest will also not arise, which is important, due to the Taliban's lack of a military industry.
10. Shariah is already being established throughout Afghanistan. Local Taliban governors are actively promoting the coming Islamization and demanding submission from old officials and local residents. Women's rights are already being restricted, but as an indulgence, they will be allowed to study and go to work if they wear the hijab. And it will be possible to go out into the street without a man.
For theft, robbery, pornography on the phone, demonstration of obscene images, etc. and the like, threaten with various punishments, up to a noose and execution. They are also approaching the solution of the issue with alcohol and cigarettes, but everything is somewhat more complicated there.
[KhaamaPress] The only province in the north of Afghanistan, Balkh, fell to the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... which brought the entire northern zone under the fighters’ control.
The Taliban launched heavy attacks on the provincial city, Mazar-e-sharif, and toppled the city after a relatively heavy confrontation with Afghan Defense and Security Forces and the armed uprising.
Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... and the prominent Jihad leader Atta Muhammad Noor who was defending the city fled to Uzbekistan along with their fighters and sons.
Atta Muhammad Noor has written on his Facebook page that, the collapse of Mazar-e-sharif was a plot and was aimed at getting himself and Marshal Dostum surrendered.
The Afghan government has not commented on the collapse of Blakh province yet.
The Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid on his Twitter wrote that the provincial office, police headquarter; NDS local office, and 209th Shaheen corps have fallen to the fighters.
Mujahid further wrote that the central prison has also been broken and inmates were let flee.
Earlier, Attah Muhammad Noor has said he will never ever surrender to the Taliban and there is no power to get him arrested in the province. Marshal Dostum had also said that Balkh is the door of Afghanistan and they will never let the province topple.
[NPASYRIA] On Sunday afternoon, unknown button men, who were riding a cycle of violence, opened fire on two civilians in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria. A military source in the town of al-Shuhail, 40 km east of Deir ez-Zor, said that masked button men shot Abdullah al-Hassan and his cousin Muhammad al-Hassan near the al-Hasya complex in the town.
He added that the two civilians were maimed in the chest and are in a "critical" condition, according to what a doctor at al-Shuhail Hospital told them.
Local sources in the town said that the injured were civilians and did not belong to any military or political faction.
Recently, Deir ez-Zor countryside has witnessed an increase in liquidation attempts against members of the Syrian Democratic Forces, employees of the Autonomous Administration institutions, clan dignitaries and the civilian population, some of which have been adopted by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS).
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.@thesundaytimes investigated how China undertook a concerted campaign over years to seize power in the WHO. The hollowing out of the health organization led to poor guidance & response when COVID-19 broke out in late 2019 in China. https://t.co/YQgQTW4T1B
[Daily Mail] Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has issued a state of emergency for his state's Panhandle region after Fred strengthened back into a tropical storm as it approached the United States.
The storm - which weakened to a tropical depression, before regaining its strength as it hit the Gulf of Mexico, is set to hit the United States on Monday or Tuesday.
A tropical storm warning is now in effect for the coast of the Florida Panhandle from Navarre to the Wakulla/Jefferson County line, meaning tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area in the next 24 hours.
Fred is currently whipping up winds of 40mph, although meteorologists expect them to pick up speed as they approach the Sunshine State.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey - whose state is also at risk of being hit by Fred - says her officials are monitoring the weather event and 'will be ready to act from the state level if needed.'
Meanwhile, another Tropical storm - Grace - has emerged just behind Fred, and is currently bringing heavy rain and winds to the Caribbean.
Grace is forecast to pass over Cuba on Tuesday, and could bring downpours to Florida and the Bahamas later this week. The storm is currently forecast to travel across the Gulf of Mexico, and could also bring extreme weather to parts of Louisiana.
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are under tropical storm warning, the Weather Channel said.
Haiti is on storm watch, as the country braces for Grace just days after a 7.2 earthquake left more than 700 dead, and close to 3,000 injured.
The National Hurricane Center said that rainfall from Grace may lead to flash, urban and small stream flooding, along with potential for mudslides.
Fred was located early Sunday about 335 miles south-southeast of Pensacola, Florida, and moving north-northwest at 12 mph.
Grace had maximum sustained winds around 40 mph. The storm was moving west-northwest at 16 mph.
[KhaamaPress] Head of High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... in a video clip said that the former Afghan president Ashraf 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... left Afghanistan.
He said that he left the people of Afghanistan in mess and misery and he will be judged in futurity.
Ashraf Ghani along with NSA Hamdullah Muhib and head of the administrative office of President Fazel Mahmood Fazli left Afghanistan for Tajikistan.
Earlier, speaker of Afghan parliament Mir Rahman Rahmani, Younus Qanuni, Muhammad Muhaqeq, Karim Khalili, Ahmad Wali Masoud, and Ahmad Zia Masoud fled to Islamabad.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... in an official statement said that the fighters were directed to enter Kabul city so that they prevent potential looting and chaos in the city.
The statement reads that, since Afghan forces have left outposts in Kabul city, there is a risk of plundering.
Kabul is taken by the fighters at a time when the power is not transferred yet and a delegation is said to be leaving for Doha to complete the process.
Two sources said that President Ashraf Ghani has left the country after the Taliban entered the city on Sunday.
According to the sources, his close aides have also left the country along with him.
Earlier in the day, acting defense minister Bismillah Mohammadi said that the president has handed the authority of solving the crisis in the country to political leaders.
Mohammadi said that a delegation will travel to Doha on Monday for talks on the country’s situation.
The delegation includes key political leaders, including Younus Qanooni, Ahmad Wali Massoud, Mohammad Mohaqiq among others.
Sources close to the Taliban said that it has been agreed that Ghani will resign after a political agreement and hand the power to a transitional government.
Afghans have said that they seek a political settlement and an end to the ongoing violence in the country.
#AFG “ Defense minister Bismillah Khan fled in a military air craft with 3 of his sons.” A source tells me.
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One of my favorite things about this mess is imagining that there's more than one journalist out there shredding his lovingly written "Milley for prexident" story right now.
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Good idea. do away with the teachers' unions. I'm not sure about the PTA. It used to be a method for parents and teachers to discuss school issues. If it's become communized then it should go, but I don't think that's the sort of thing they're talking about.
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'racist' standardized testing that is an 'Americanized caste system'
The big problem with standardized testing is that it shows what a crappy job 'educators' have been doing, especially in schools with a large minority population. Test scores have been flat for decades with the number of administrators (and their salaries) steadily rising.
Ironically, one of the original goals of the SAT exam was to enable bright students to get into college despite not having alumni parents or going to the right prep school. But now, under the doctrine of disparate outcome equals racism, it bees racis', man.
According to Critical Race Theory you are either an asymptote or a misanthrope. No two ways about it. Actually, those are the two ways. But just those. No more. It's not a theory with a lot of predictive power.
[NPASYRIA] Five years after the expulsion of ISIS from the city of Manbij, north Syria, Mustafa al-Hameidi recalls scenes of beheading in full view of all and a way of living and thinking "similar to the pre-Islamic era," as he described it, during ISIS’s control of his city.
On August 15, the Manbij Military Council, supported by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US-led Global Coalition’s air coverage, managed to expel ISIS from the city of Manbij after more than two-month battles.
"During the control of ISIS, we were living in a way similar to the pre-Islamic era in terms of clothes, the way of thinking and living," al-Hameidi said.
He did not adapt to this situation, so he was imprisoned several times on various charges such as smoking, being late for prayer, failure to wear short clothes or shave the head.
When ISIS controlled the city, it imposed strict laws restricting basic personal freedoms. It specified a special dress for women and prohibited smoking, hookah, mobile phones, and all intellectual and cultural activities.
Al-Hameidi was forced to accept all laws imposed on residents and implement them to avoid imprisonment every time.
"A scene keeps haunting me. It was when I saw a gathering in the market and went to find out what was happening. I was shocked and felt as the life has stopped when I saw a member of ISIS beheading a civilian in his twentieth for blasphemy ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran... ," he added.
"Life does not matter to me anymore after this scene. I was afraid to go to the market due to the barbarian scenes I used to see each time I went there," he stated.
"The one who lived in Manbij during that time is still haunted by nightmares he cannot escape," he referred.
Al-Hameidi never imagined that ISIS may get out of the city especially after it controlled wide areas of Syria and Iraq amid no objection of any of the countries calling for "fighting terrorism and liberating the people."
"ISIS entered Manbij through the Ottoman Turkish-controlled city of Jarablus and extended to other regions they used to control at the time," al-Hameidi pointed out.
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Per @LucasFoxNews: Gen. Frank McKenzie, CENTCOM commander, met with Taliban leaders today in Doha, Qatar to warn them not to attack Americans evacuating Kabul or else the U.S. military would “strike back,” U.S. officials tell Fox News
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"I will have you know sir, that these boots are part of my uniform and I will not part wi... oh! OK, you may have them. What?! No! These... are my... regimental trousers! Ugh! Fine! They were old anyway!"
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They won, they get everything and the US retreating tail between our legs, they should be satisfied.
But if they took hostages how would their situation be any worse? If they slaughtered Americans leaving do they think the US would really just respond with wholesale slaughter when they are now intermixed wiht civilians in the cities?
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[SteynOnline] Indeed, what difference would it make if it closed down its military? Obviously, it would present a few mid-life challenges for its corrupt Pentagon bureaucracy, since that many generals on the market for defense lobbyist gigs and board directorships all at once would likely depress the going rate. But, other than that, a military that accounts for 40 per cent of the planet's military spending can't perform either of the functions for which one has an army: it can't defeat overseas enemies, and it's not permitted to defend the country, as we see on the Rio Grande.
So what's the point?
Oh, oh, but, if a nation doesn't have an army to defend it, a quarter-of-a-million foreign invaders could just walk into the country with impunity every month!
The scale of America's global humiliation is so total that I see my friends at Fox News cannot even bear to cover it. As I write, every other world network - the BBC, Deutsche Welle, France 24, not to mention the Chinese - is broadcasting the collapse of the American regime in real time; on Fox, meanwhile, they're talking about the spending bill and the third Covid shot and the dead Haitians ...as if the totality of the defeat is such that for once it cannot be fixed into the American right's usual consolations ("well, this positions us pretty nicely for 2022"). More at the link. Read the whole thing.
The Ass-Covering in extremis begins - we should be looking at a slinky of retirements, but I doubt it. No shame when No Competence got them where they are
[ConservativeBrief] Joe Biden reportedly rejected the advice of top military generals when he planned the withdrawal of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan. and who were the sources? A-hem
According to the Wall Street Journal, Biden met with several heads of the armed forces to discuss the withdrawal of American forces from the Central Asian nation, which has been under U.S. occupation for around two decades. The meeting happened ahead of Biden’s announcement of his intent to have the United States leave the country entirely.
The generals recommended that Biden leave behind a force of 2,500 servicemen in Afghanistan and negotiate with Taliban for a peace deal.
Why bother negotiating, when all the Taliban were ever interested in was reconquest?
Biden reportedly rejected their advice.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
In contrast to the numerous Trump policies he reversed, he opted to carry out Mr. Trump’s deal with the Taliban instead of trying to renegotiate it. In so doing, he overruled his top military commanders: Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East; Gen. Austin Scott Miller, who led NATO forces in Afghanistan; and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Citing the risks of removing American forces to Afghan security and the U.S. Embassy, they recommended that the U.S. keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan while stepping up diplomacy to try to cement a peace agreement.
The report surfaced amid the total collapse of the U.S.-backed Afghan government, whose leader, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, fled the country on Sunday morning as Taliban forces made their way into Kabul, the nation’s capital. The Taliban and the remainder of the Afghan government are currently negotiating a transfer of power reportedly with the intention to minimize civilian and military casualties.
The transfer of power comes as the United States is abandoning its embassy in Kabul, with personnel and officials using Kabul’s airport to evacuate the country.
However, plans to evacuate were thrown into disarray when the U.S. embassy issued a notice warning Americans still in Kabul to "shelter in place."
"We are instructing U.S. citizens to shelter in place," the embassy said. "The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has suspended consular operations effective immediately. Do not come to the Embassy or airport at this time."
"The security situation in Kabul is changing quickly and the situation at the airport is deteriorating rapidly," the statement added. "There are reports of the airport taking fire and we are instructing U.S. citizens to shelter in place. The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has suspended consular operations effective immediately. Do not come to the Embassy or airport at this time."
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The top generals are unanimous that the war must continue, forever. They are on record saying that we would be in Afghanistan for 50-75 years. By that point it might as well be a US territory like Guam.
[PJ] Shouldn't she be stoned to death? The Somalian Way UNCLE DAD
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has long been accused of marrying her brother to get around U.S. immigration laws (he should have just walked across the southern border). Now a DNA test, done surreptitiously, shows that there is a 99.999998% chance that Omar and her second husband, Ahmed Elmi, are siblings.
The test was posted online by a Republican strategist from Minneapolis, Anton Lazzaro, on Wednesday. Twelve hours later, Lazzaro was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.
[An Nahar] Afghanistan's warlords vowed defiantly to defend their strongholds from the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and crush the bad boys. But, like the government's forces, they too gave up with surprising ease.
As the turbans swept through the north in a surprise offensive targeting Afghanistan's anti-Taliban bastion, President Ashraf 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... called for a national mobilisation of militia forces.
Despite Ghani's chequered history with the country's warlords, the beleaguered president was hoping they could help turn the tide.
In the besieged northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, Ghani was looking to longtime strongman Atta Mohammad Noor and ethnic Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... Both were known for their dogged defence against the Taliban in the 1990s, and had remained influential figures during the past two decades of war.
In the days leading up to their defeat, the greying commanders appeared to be the fearsome figures from their younger years.
"The Taliban never learn from the past," Dostum told news hounds last week after flying back to Mazar-e-Sharif, while offering a not-so-subtle reference to the alleged massacre of the turbans by his fighters in 2001.
"The Taliban have come to the north several times but they were always trapped. It is not easy for them to get out."
Noor took to social media to issue his own warnings, posting graphic pictures of Taliban killed by his troops while promising to fight to the death.
"I prefer dying in dignity than dying in despair," wrote Noor on Twitter, alongside other defiant posts vowing to "defend the nation".
In a video posted to Facebook on Saturday, Noor spoke calmly to camera dressed in military fatigues while rifle fire could be heard close by.
- 'COWARDLY PLOT' - Ultimately, bravado did not beat back the bad boys.
Late Saturday, both men's militias were routed after the Afghan military units they were supporting surrendered to the Taliban.
Dostum and Noor fled across the nearby Uzbek border.
Noor claimed they had been the victims of deep-seated betrayal, saying on Twitter their resistance came to an end "as a result of a big organized & cowardly plot."
He offered no other details.
Video posted on pro-Taliban social media accounts, meanwhile, showed a group of young Taliban fighters combing through Dostum's gaudy residence, digging through cabinets and testing out overstuffed furniture.
Their rout came days after fellow strongman Ismail Khan was captured by Taliban fighters in the western city of 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... Khan had in the lead-up to his defeat sounded like the same powerful figure who had ruled his fiefdom with such authority for decades that he earned the nickname "Lion of Herat".
"We demand all the remaining security forces resist with courage," Khan said last month.
But with a look of resignation, Khan was on Friday forced to pose for pictures with Taliban fighters and give an interview to an bad boy media outlet.
After all the hefty promises and chest thumping, it was a humiliating end.
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Noor claimed they had been the victims of deep-seated betrayal, saying on Twitter their resistance came to an end "as a result of a big organized & cowardly plot
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Wouldn't shock me if our military was sending all the equipment and support to "right thinking" Afghans rather than the northern tribes that helped us liberate the country. Then these right thinking leaders just surrender to the Taliban.
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oh great, they're going to hijack for every event now aren't they.
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If they want to rumble with teefa, I say let em...
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ALF instead of ELF and ALF is the new AMERIKAN osama bin laden! aliens terrorists a giant false flag psyop AFGHAN LIVES FIRST ALF THE ALIEN HEAD HONCHO eating CATS!
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[NATION.PK] Pak authorities on Sunday have closed Torkham border with Afghanistan after Taliban ...Arabic for students... captured Jalalabad area.According to details, the crossing has been closed for every kind of movement. Security has also been tightened over the presence of Taliban on other side of the border.
On the other hand, Taliban raced closer to a complete military takeover of Afghanistan after capturing more major cities, leaving only the isolated capital Kabul for them to conquer.
They took control of the key eastern city of Jalalabad, just hours after the seizing the northern anti-Taliban bastion of Mazar-e-Sharif -- furthering an astonishing rout of government forces and warlord militias achieved in just 10 days.
Jalalabad had a population of around 356,000 people as of 2014. The city is around 65 kilometers (40 miles) from the Pak Torkham border crossing, making it a center for international trade.
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[NPASYRIA] On Sunday afternoon, the mutual shelling between the armed opposition factions and the Syrian government forces renewed in the countryside of Aleppo, Hama and Idlib, northwest Syria.
"The government forces bombed the towns of al-Bara, Balyon and Kansafra in Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib, with missiles and heavy artillery shells," opposition military sources told North Press.
"The bombing coincided with intense flight of Russian reconnaissance planes and warplanes over Idlib and the countryside of Hama, Aleppo and Latakia," the sources added.
In Aleppo, forces of the Syrian government in the 46th Regiment targeted the positions of the opposition factions in the towns of Fafertin and Kafr Amma in the western countryside, with artillery shells.
The al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room, which includes several factions, announced that it targeted the positions of the government forces on the Hantotin and Jurin areas in the southern countryside of Idlib and western Hama, with rockets and artillery shells.
The sources indicated that the al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room also targeted gatherings of the government forces in the town of Bastron, west of Aleppo, with heavy artillery shells.
[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, residents of the countryside of Tel Tamr town, north of Hasakah, northeast Syria, spent the night in terror after the Ottoman Turkish forces escalated the shelling targeting villages in the area with dozens of shells.
"The Ottoman Turkish forces targeted the village of al-Dardara, north of Tel Tamr, yesterday night," a source of the Tel Tamr Military Council told North Press.
"The Ottoman Turkish forces renewed bombing, targeting the villages of Qubur Qarajneh, Sheikh Ali and Maslata, on the frontlines between the towns of Tel Tamr and Abu Rasin," the source added.
From 9:00 pm yesterday to 01:30 am today’s morning, more than 50 mortar and artillery shells fell, in addition to the firing of flares by Ottoman Turkish forces at different times on the villages mentioned above.
The Syriac Military Council, a military formation affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), deployed on the frontlines in the countryside of Tel Tamr, launched a counter-attack on the sources of fire.
On August 4, the Ottoman Turkish bombing of the countryside of Tel Tamr wounding an elderly woman and two members of the government forces in Umm al-Keif village, north of Tel Tamr.
For more than a month, the countryside of Tel Tamr and its villages have been subjected to frequent Ottoman Turkish attacks, which led to the displacement of residents to safe regions.
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[ConservativeBrief] A Democrat city councilman and five others have been charged with election fraud in California.
Compton City Councilman Isaac Galvan and Compton City Council candidate Jace Dawson worked together in order to help Galvan keep his district and Dawson was charged with attempting to bribe a registrar as she was counting votes on election night, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Isaac Galvan, 34, was one of six people charged Friday with conspiracy to commit election fraud, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
Prosecutors allege Galvan conspired with Jace Dawson, one of his opponents in an April primary for Galvan’s council seat, to direct voters from outside the council district to cast ballots for Galvan in a June runoff, the complaint states.
At least three improper ballots were counted in the runoff election, ultimately swinging the race, according to the complaint. Galvan raked in 855 votes while Andre Spicer, a Compton native and entrepreneur, tallied 854 ballots in a June runoff election, records show.
Prosecutors also charged Dawson, Kimberly Chaouch, Toni Sanae Morris, Barry Kirk Reed and Reginald Orlando Streeter with two counts each of conspiracy to commit election fraud. Chaouch, Morris, Reed and Streeter all voted in the primary or runoff for the Compton City Council’s second district, despite not living there.
The pair were arrested on Friday and brought into a downtown courtroom in handcuffs as they both pleaded not guilty and were released on their own recognizance.
This is the second time Los Angeles County prosecutors have discovered attempts to manipulate mail-in voting in the 2020 election.
Spicer said he had suspected fraud and his concerns were validated when a woman told his staff that she had committed voter fraud.
“They asked her what do you mean? And she said … she registered to vote from his house and she knows about 20 other people who did the same thing,” he said.
“I can take a loss, but I can’t take being cheated. I don’t like what that does for democracy. It contradicts what I advocate for,” he said. “To hear this happening. I don’t even have the words.”
In November, two men were arrested charged with an attempt to register around 8,000 “fictitious, nonexistent or deceased” voters for mail-in ballots in the Hawthorne mayoral election, The Times reported.
Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Montenegro, 53, and Marcos Raul Arevalo, 34, were charged with multiple counts of voter fraud after allegedly trying to register 8,000 “fictitious, nonexistent or deceased” voters to receive mail-in ballots. The scheme was part of an illicit bid by Montenegro to become mayor of Hawthorne, according to a criminal complaint made public Tuesday.
Montenegro and Arevalo allegedly used three recently registered post office boxes and Montenegro’s home address to submit the fraudulent applications, which allowed election officials to quickly flag them as suspicious in mid-October, according to Dean Logan, the county’s top election official.
While court records show at least 29 mail-in ballots were issued to people Montenegro and Arevalo had allegedly ginned up, none of the ballots were tallied in the general election, Logan said.
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This has been happening in California for decades. For decades California switched between Democrat and Republican governors, then suddenly its all Democrats all the time. They have election fraud down to a science except this time a spotlight was on them.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...... 46th president of the U.S. 
...knaves, footpads, and 
...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as 
[Western Journal] Kabul, soon to be the capital of what will be formally known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, had a blend of fear and panic with patches of surface calm Monday, one day after the Taliban took control of the city.
[Conservative Brief] Democrat Rep. 
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"We have achieved an unexpected victory," he said. "Now is the time to test, to show how we serve our people and ensure their future in the best possible way."
[Bloomberg] It’s been two decades since Wall Street analysts were this upbeat.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
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Ref #1: Just out of curiosity, I'd like to follow the Mullah-geld and discover where it actually came from. Is Mullah-geld fungible ?
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[Bee] KABUL—Approximately twelve minutes after U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan, Taliban fighters have completely taken over the entire country.
...Arabic for 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
[PJ] 
In the days leading up to their defeat, the greying commanders appeared to be the fearsome figures from their younger years.
Ultimately, bravado did not beat back the
[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, residents of the countryside of Tel Tamr town, north of Hasakah, northeast Syria, spent the night in terror after the 
