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Marleine Gaile English was an American film actress during the 1950s.
Born:January 4, 1935, San Diego, California, U.S.
Died:December 10, 2012, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Occupation:Actress | Stage Name: Marla English Wikipedia IMDb
[Blaze] The mother of a United States Marine killed in the terrorist attack outside the Kabul airport last week tore into President Joe Biden during a radio interview on Friday, placing ultimate blame for her young son's death at the feet of the president.
[PJMedia] Bagram Air Base was a world-class platform from which the United States could project any form of military power across Afghanistan in the heart of Central Asia.
Joe Biden ordered the U.S. to reduce the number from 2,500 troops at the beginning of his term to between 600 and 700 troops in the drawdown, an order that according to Gen. Mark Milley forced the military to have to choose between defending that base, which had two runways, during the evacuation, or defending the embassy and Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in the heart of Kabul, which has just one runway. The military, according to Gen. Milley, recognized that 600-700 troops would not be enough to secure Bagram, so it opted for HKIA. HKIA is now surrounded by an unknown number of enemy fighters belonging to the Taliban, ISIS-K, and al Qaeda — names that denote distinctions without much actual differences in ideology or capability. They’re all terrorists.
Bagram closed in the dead of night on July 5, 2021. Afghan army forces occupied it but the Taliban captured it around August 14, 2021, and promptly freed the captured terrorists held there.
Prior to the terrorist attack that killed 13 Americans and numerous Afghans last week, U.S. forces had not suffered a casualty in Afghanistan in more than a year. Thursday’s attack was the deadliest day for Americans in Afghanistan in a decade.
[Babylon Bee] President Joe Biden has finally stepped up delivering harsh remarks regarding those responsible for the deaths of our troops in Kabul. The President has authorized deadly force to deal with all who caused this tragedy.
"We will not rest until those responsible for this senseless, avoidable crisis in Kabul have been removed from this Earth," said a forceful Biden. "We will unleash everything within our military’s arsenal to stop those who allowed this to happen!"
Unbeknownst to Biden at that very moment, a US military drone was activated and given the White House as its target. Before Biden could finish his speech he was pulled away urgently and briefed on what he’d just done.
"Aw c’mon man! I said kill the terrorists. Not us! What’s the deal, man?" said Biden.
"I’m sorry sir, but unfortunately you said to kill those responsible, Mr. President," said General Milley. "The drones are quite literal, sir. There’s nothing we can do."
At publishing time, Biden had tried to give the drones new orders to kill those who wish to harm our country, but the drone’s path remained unaltered.
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Take a look at Figures #2 and #3 and start comparing the Percent of Vaccinations, to Percent of Cases, to Percent of Deaths, to Percent of Total Population while reading the data.
Note: There is also data for White, Hispanic, and Asians.
SUMMARY:
Asian lead the way in Vaccinations.
Black and Hispanic people are less likely than their White counterparts to have received a vaccine, leaving them at increased risk.
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I like the idea of spoiled little white kids dressed in their slave labor sweatshop clothes and clutching their slave labor iPhones screeching for reparations and other white guilt posturings, utterly oblivious to their own hypocrisy.
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Keeping in mind that this is the mostest worstest emergency that ever happened and all hospitals everywhere are at the breaking point...but they are firing staff who do not want to be vaccinated.
Inasmuch as nothing so momentous and horrible beyond description has ever taken place and everybody, I say EVERYBODY must be vaccinated and have their papers at all times...Afghan refugees are being 'offered' but not required to take the vaccine. Let's not forget the border crossing individuals who are being released all over the country, you know, Sneezy and Feverish.
Given that we have a situation so black and dire that this PANDEMIC must be relentlessly promoted and a cure so wonderful it must be mandated, we simply have to face the fact that things will never improve.
Since the Def-Con meter is now irreparably destroyed and they had to release the guy in DC who runs down the street screaming run for your lives, we need to immediately go back and do all the things that didn't work in the first place, taking solace in the immense cost and lives forever ruined.
Whatever you do, ignore potentially important information about age, weight/obesity, and multiple co-morbidities. The Hell with all of that, concentrate and the straight dope, go where the big numbers are no matter what gymnastics you have to perform to get there.
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#6 The new normal. I don't believe most people realize this will last many years or become permanent. The serous mental and physical issues will be costly. Industrial revolution is in its death throes as I might venture to say and humankind. In comes AI to save the day or so we will think. Work fewer hours, more vacation time as when they introduced computers.
Distancing & lockdowns are needed to "flatten the curve" so we can get the vaccine - until they're permanent, regardless of the shape of the curve.
The vaccine will get us back to normal - except when new variants emerge. Which they will, inevitably and ad infinitum.
The goal isn't to serve or support the public. It's to enable the Left's agenda: suppression and destruction of a self-standing middle class and rule of law, and their replacement with UBI, cultural Marxism and the complete domination by the Woke socialist + Big Tech oligarchy.
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#3 XYX I noticed that also. So many are shutting down. No TV, no news media. Going back to the old days free of such distractions. The Amish had it right all along.
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#3 XYX I noticed that also. So many are shutting down. No TV, no news media. Going back to the old days free of such distractions. The Amish had it right all along.
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Over the past month+ the death rate from covid in NE Texas is the highest in the state, and if annualized would amount to 0.2% of the population per year.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A thousand? Pikers: 160,000 protest in France against Covid rules
[AlAhram] Sixteen people were arrested and three police officers slightly injured in what was the seventh consecutive weekend of Covid protests.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] New information: The drones were operated from Nevada's Creech US Air Force base in the desert an hour’s drive from Las Vegas. It was launched from Doha, Qatar. Jalalabad is near the Tora Bora mountains.
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It was the R9X hellfire too. Also known as the "flying Ginsu".
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Pointed out elsewhere: Bidet administration gave Taliban a list of people it doesn't want them to hurt, but won't tell Americans who the two "plotters" were.
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If Creech US Airbase drone targeteers are THAT fok'n good, why were they not employed in support of the Kabul evacuation, gates, perimeter defense, etc. ?
[New American] 2021 is a big year for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an organization that often is heralded as the most influential think tank in America, if not the entire world. Prominent on the Council’s website (cfr.org) is its centennial page, "Celebrating A Century," a self-congratulatory promo of the organization’s accomplishments over the past hundred years. The promotional features an impressive cavalcade of pictorials, videos, and articles showcasing the Council’s worldly influence and power, as demonstrated by the hundreds of presidents, prime ministers, princes, potentates, politicians, kings, diplomats, and dictators — including mass-murderers — who have graced the organization’s meetings, and/or have written for its famed journal Foreign Affairs.
The CFR does indeed wield unparalleled influence in political, financial, business, media, and academic circles, and is regularly showered with accolades by "the great and the good." It is the public face, the brain trust, and the central nervous system of what critics refer to as the Deep State — the unelected "permanent government" that has hijacked our country.
In April 1945, just days before the end of World War II, Secretary of State Edward Stettinius journeyed to Pratt House, the CFR’s headquarters in New York City. He had come, he said, to "bear witness, as every Secretary of State during the past quarter of a century, to the great services and influence of this organization in spreading knowledge and understanding of the issues of United States foreign policy." Every secretary of state since then has continued the tradition. As you will see in the accompanying table showing CFR influence in the State Department (pages 26-27), Secretary Stettinius and almost every one of his successors — until the Trump administration — has been a member of the Council. And now, with the enthronement of Joe Biden, that CFR control of the State Department has resumed, with CFR member Antony Blinken taking over as secretary, and a bevy of Council members filling out the top posts at State and in the rest of the Biden Cabinet.
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Rovere’s choice of the word "Presidium" was apropos. He obviously was comparing it to the murderous, unelected, and unaccountable gang of criminals that ran the Soviet Union
"Presidium?" The shadow gov't? Yes, we already have it, may have had it for some time. Includes the puppet parade duo of Biden and Kam. The actual Presidium membership is classified. Most of us have no need to know.
[Rudaw] A child was injured in a Ottoman Turkish bombardment near the northern Syrian city of Manbij, the local military council said in a statement late Saturday.
Ottoman Turkish forces bombed the village of Arab Hassan, northwest of Manbij late Saturday afternoon, injuring 10-year-old Malik Faisal al-Jarad in the leg, according to a statement from the Manbij Military Council.
"These strikes caused damage to the property of the residents, including agricultural land and livestock as well," added statement.
The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry has not immediately reported the incident.
Local media reported that the child is in stable, pH balanced condition and receiving treatment at a Manbij hospital.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... has several times in the past threatened to attack Manbij to force out Kurdish forces from the city. In 2018, Ankara and Washington struck a deal that saw the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) leave the city and control handed over to local councils.
Ankara claims that the Kurdish fighters are affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an gang fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey, and Ottoman Turkish forces regularly bomb Kurdish positions in violation of ceasefires brokered in 2019 by the United States and Russia. Several civilians have been killed and injured in recent weeks.
The spokesperson for the YPG, which is the backbone of the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said on Friday that they are "disappointed" that the global coalition against 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) has chosen to be silent about Turkey’s attacks.
[AlAhram] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... deployed extra forces around Kabul's airport Saturday to prevent large crowds from gathering after a devastating suicide kaboom two days earlier, as the massive U.S.-led airlift wound down ahead of an Aug. 31 deadline.
New layers of checkpoints sprang up on roads leading to the airport, some manned by uniformed Taliban fighters with Humvees and night-vision goggles captured from Afghan cops. Areas where large crowds of people have gathered over the past two weeks in hopes of fleeing the country following the Taliban takeover were largely empty.
A suicide attack on Thursday by 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.... affiliate killed 169 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members, and there are concerns that the group, which is far more radical than the Taliban, could strike again. Many Western nations have completed their evacuation operations ahead of Tuesday's deadline for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces.
An Afghan who had worked as a translator for the U.S. military said he was with a group of people with permission to leave who tried to reach the airport late Friday. After passing through three checkpoints they were stopped at a fourth. An argument ensued, and the Taliban said they had been told by the Americans to only let U.S. passport-holders through.
On Saturday, the Taliban fired warning shots and deployed some kind of colored smoke on a road leading to the airport, sending dozens of people scattering, according to a video circulating online that was consistent with AP reporting.
Order descends on Afghan evacuations after airport carnage
[AlAhram] "We have lists from the Americans... if your name is on the list, you can come through," one Taliban official told AFP near the civilian passenger terminal of Hamid Karzai International Airport. "If your name isn't here, then you cannot come through."
Order replaced chaos at Kabul airport Saturday with Taliban fighters escorting a steady stream of Afghans from buses to the main passenger terminal, handing them over to US troops for evacuation.
Gone are the tens of thousands clamouring to get inside the airport grounds in the hope of getting aboard a flight before August 31, when the US-led evacuation ends and the last foreign troops depart.
The deadly Islamic State suicide blast at a secondary entrance on Thursday likely scared away many looking for a way to escape the return to power of the hardline Islamists, but the Taliban have also sealed off all roads leading to the airport and are now only letting sanctioned buses pass.
On Saturday AFP saw more than a dozen small- and medium-sized buses disgorge tense-looking passengers at the main gate of the airport. It was unclear who had organised the buses -- or where they had come from -- and the Taliban officials and guards present would not allow the passengers to be interviewed.
ON AN ADVENTURE
The men and women were separated and made to walk on opposite sides of the road, but both groups carried infants or led children by the hand -- some oblivious to their ordeal and skipping as if on an adventure.
Everyone was stripped of their luggage apart from what they could keep in a plastic bag -- but a Taliban official was quick to offer an explanation.
"Because of the blast, the Americans won't let them take anything," he said.
"We tell them to take the money and the gold in their pockets. If they leave clothes we will give to other people."
Heavily armed Taliban fighters were seen throughout the grounds and auxiliary buildings of the airport complex, while US marines peered at them from the passenger terminal roof.
After a 20-year war, the foes were within open sight of each other, separated by just 30 metres (yards), and holding fire.
Also in view of the American troops were Badri special forces in humvees gifted to the Afghan defence forces, but now flying the white Taliban flag.
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Plugs definitely went to Dover, along with Milley, Blinken, etc. According to CNN Plugs watched "stoically". But I haven't seen any detail about the reception he got.
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I'm thinking that for greeting the commander-in-chief on this occasion the command "Hand...Salute!" may have been changed to "Extend...the Finger!".
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Now this is just great. Biden checks his watch during the transfer. Time for your nap, Big Guy? These dead Marines are just a waste of time?
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^ "When is my lid? Somebody call my lid. I want my ice cream cone and a nap"
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A touch of real class. The poor, helpless SOB.
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His press handlers ten minutes before the ritual: "This will be great! Photo-ops of him looking Presidential during a time-honored ritual! He doesn't even have to say anything."
His press handlers ten minutes after the ritual: "Don't you dare finish off that Jameson's, Bob! We only got three more bottles."
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[DW] The US’s first local Afghan support staff have arrived in Uganda. They will be assessed there to see if they and their families traveling with them are eligible for US visas. It is unsure if they will ever reach the US.
The United States and its allies have brought more than 100,000 people out of Kabul since the holy warrior Islamist Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... took power in mid-August. The majority have been flown out by the American military and have initially been distributed around various military bases in the Middle East and Europe.
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Hiding them away from the media and disclosure of the sordid details. The Taliban media blackout will soon cover any in-country monitoring or revelations.
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This report says only 5000 of 117,000 evacuees are Americans. That leaves 112,000 people who took the baksheesh and probably still in large numbers informed to the US's enemies and otherwise worked against us there. But now they want out. And they want to come here. Swell.
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Kinzinger is NO Republican
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They will be assessed there to see if they and their families traveling with them are eligible for US visas. It is unsure if they will ever reach the US.
However, they can always make it to Mexico and then to the US. Geez, you'd think they'd give these sucker one of those money pallets at the airport to pay their way.
[IsraelTimes] French President Emmanuel Macron says that his country will continue to deploy troops in Iraq to battle terrorism even if the US were to withdraw.
"No matter what choices the Americans make, we will maintain our presence in Iraq to fight against terrorism," Macron tells a news conference in Baghdad where he is attending a regional summit.
"We have the operational capacity to ensure this presence," he adds after the meeting, which has been overshadowed by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s takeover of Afghanistan and Thursday’s suicide kaboom in Kabul claimed by 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.... group affiliate.
It sounds like there are teams all over the landscape over there, getting people out.
[IsraelTimes] Ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn fixer Moshe Margaretten and Israeli-American businessman Moti Kahana rescue athletes, prosecutors and judges from Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... rule after Zebulon Simantov refuses to leave
Zebulon Simantov, Afghanistan’s last Jew, has not left Kabul, despite the best efforts of some Jewish figures and organizations.
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[Fox32Chicago] A Chicago mother says a Cook County judge has taken away her parental rights after learning that she is not vaccinated against COVID-19.
In what all parties agree is a very unusual and perhaps unprecedented step, a judge at Chicago’s Daley Center has stripped Rebecca Firlit of custody because she refuses to get a vaccination shot.
"I miss my son more than anything. It's been very difficult. I haven't seen him since August 10th," Firlit told FOX 32 News in an exclusive interview.
That’s the day Firlit appeared in court via Zoom along with her ex-husband for a child support hearing involving their 11-year-old son. The two have been divorced for seven years and share custody and parenting time.
She says out of the blue, Cook County Judge James Shapiro asked her whether she had been vaccinated. Firlit told Shapiro she had not because she has had bad reactions to vaccines in the past.
Shapiro then ordered that Firlit be stripped of all parenting time with her son until she gets vaccinated.
Over the past two weeks, Firlit has been able to talk to her son on the phone and through video calls, but has not seen him in person.
"I think that it’s wrong. I think that it’s dividing families. And I think it’s not in my son's best interest to be away from his mother," Firlit said.
Firlit is now appealing the court order, saying the judge has no business taking away her parenting rights simply because she’s not vaccinated.
"It had nothing to do with what we were talking about. He was placing his views on me. And taking my son away from me," Firlit said.
Annette Fernholz, Firlit's attorney, says the judge has overstepped his authority.
"In this case you have a judge, without any matter before him regarding the parenting time with the child deciding ’Oh, you’re not vaccinated. You don't get to see your child until you are vaccinated.' That kind of exceeds his jurisdiction," Fernholz said.
"You have to understand the father did not even bring this issue before the court. So it’s the judge on his own and making this decision that you can’t see your child until you’re vaccinated," Fernholz added.
The attorney representing the father, Jeffrey Leving, says they were also surprised by the judge's decision, but they support the ruling saying that given the pandemic, the child should be protected from an unvaccinated mother.
"There are children who have died because of COVID. I think every child should be safe. And I agree that the mother should be vaccinated," Leving said.
A spokesperson for Chief Judge Tim Evans and Judge Shapiro said they couldn’t comment because of the ongoing nature of the case.
Leving believes the judge is breaking new ground that could now play out in other custody cases. There is no timetable on when the appellate court will make its decision.
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Well mothers today so fed up with social services (if you can call it that anymore) are or have said if you think you can do a better job, go ahead and take'em. JDS services warehouse youth now from the cities where the only family they have are their gang.
[BREITBART] At least ten people were shot Friday and eight were shot Thursday in Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black... ’s (D) reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... .The Chicago Sun-Times reported that there were one fatality among the shooting victims on Friday. That fatality occurred just before midnight Friday, when a man "driving in the 900 block of West 59th Street" was shot to death by the occupant of vehicle that pulled up alongside him.
The dear departed driver was 27-years-old.
The Sun-Times noted that at least eight people were shot Thursday, but none of the shootings were fatal. Two of the maimed victims were teenagers, ages 14 and 17.
The 14-year-old was sitting in his home when he was struck by a stray bullet from outside. The 17-year-old was "walking in the 6900 block of South Jeffery Boulevard" around 5 a.m. when he was shot in the leg.
Breitbart News pointed out that at least 44 people were shot last weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago, seven of them fatally.
Moreover, Breitbart explained that there had been at least 158 expressway/roadway shootings in Chicago this year alone, as of August 23, 2021.
HeyJackass.com observed that 364 people have been shot and maimed in Chicago during August 2021 and 78 people have been shot and killed.
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[BenarNews] Three suspects in the 2002 Bali bombings, including "the Osama of Southeast Asia," will finally get their day in court on Monday, 15 years after being incarcerated at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Indonesian officials had indicated in 2016 that if Hambali were to be released, they would be reluctant to accept his repatriation for fear that his return could spark a revival among domestic terror cells.
By most accounts, this will be the first time that American media see the trio of detainees — two Malaysians and an Indonesian — since they were sent to the infamous lock-up. One analyst said their trial would only refresh allegations of the abuse and torture at Gitmo and reflect poorly on Washington, especially so soon after the Taliban ...Arabic for students... took over again in Afghanistan.
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Ahmad Massoud's supporters rejected the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... 's claim of entering Panjshir. "There is no fight in Panjshir and no one has entered the province," said Mohammad Almas Zahid, head of the Resistance® Front delegation.
The Taliban's Anaamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban’s Cultural Commission, said that the door remained open for negotiations with Massoud's supporters and on Saturday a delegation of Ahmad Massoud met with a Taliban delegation in Kabul, ToloNews reported.
[NYPOST] The gunman who allegedly shot an innocent commuter outside of Penn Station earlier this week was held on bail Friday — after calling a Manhattan judge "bro" at his arraignment.
Marvin Bruce, wearing gray sweatpants and a blue hoodie, appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court Friday afternoon before Judge Zhuo Wang after being arrested on assault and weapons possession charges.
"Good afternoon, bro," the 27-year-old greeted said to the judge moments after the jurist began the arraignment.
Wang ordered Bruce to be held on $100,000 bail or $300,000 bond.
The suspected triggerman allegedly shot a 58-year-old innocent bystander in the leg outside of the bustling commuter terminal just before 6 p.m Monday.
The bullet "shattered" the victim’s femur and require emergency surgery, prosecutors charged in a criminal complaint.
Marvin Bruce, 27, was taken into custody at his home in Brownsville on Thursday morning and later charged with assault with intent to cause physical harm and weapons charges for shooting a tourist outside Penn Station.
At the arraignment, Assistant District Attorney Meral Kerim told the judge, "the facts in this case are extremely violent mostly peaceful."
"The defendant, during rush hour at Penn Station, fired a firearm," Kerim said. "He was observed following a stranger out of Penn Station, at which point he removed a firearm from his waistband and shot in the direction of that stranger.
"However, you can observe a lot just by watching... he missed and instead struck an innocent bystander in the leg."
Bruce was on the lam for three days after the shooting and tried to run from the warrant squad when he was arrested in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn on Thursday, according to Kerim.
Cops have video footage of Bruce ditching a gun in a box on the street after Midtown shooting, Kerim told the judge.
He also admitted to the shooting soon after his arrest, Kerim added.
Legal Aid attorney Francis White argued for Bruce by highlighting that the 27-year-old has no criminal record and "he is, of course, presumed innocent."
...which Breitbart proceeds to lay out in extensive detail.
[Breitbart] The Biden State Department made the astounding claim Friday that the Taliban and its brother organization, the Haqqani Network, are “separate entities.”
In truth, the two are tightly linked, and many of the top Haqqani leaders – including self-described “Kabul chief of security” Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani – are also high-ranking Taliban officials.
Terrorism experts were thunderstruck by the State Department’s blatantly false assertion, which it appears to have made to deflect public outrage over the Biden administration entrusting the safety of Americans still trapped in Afghanistan to a U.S.- and U.N.-designated terrorist organization.
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“The emphasis on using ‘other options’ against (Iran) amounts to threatening another country illegally and establishes Iran’s right to reciprocate ... against ‘available options’,” says Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.https://t.co/wvUSFIODq0
[NPASYRIA] Youssef Qintar fears that he may be displaced again from his town of Kafr Lata in tbe Ariha region, south of the Aleppo-Latakia Highway in the southern countryside of Idlib, only five months after his return from the IDP camps.
The villages and towns located in Zawiya Mountain, Jabal al-Arbaeen, and Ariha city have been witnessing military escalation since June.
Since early 2020, the region witnessed relative calm following a Russian-Ottoman Turkish meeting in Astana, which encouraged some residents to return to their homes.
Despite the de-escalation agreement signed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and Russia in March 2020 and the presence of the Ottoman Turkish posts, residents fear of a new operation by the government forces with the return of escalation.
The residents are afraid that Ottoman Turkish forces may hand over parts of those areas to the government forces in exchange for obtaining new areas east of the Euphrates or gains in trade or weapons deals as they did before.
"The absence of the Ottoman Turkish position and its silence confirm that it agrees on what is happening," Qintar added.
Turkey was a guarantor in the countryside of Hama and Aleppo previously, and it promised the residents of those areas that it would prevent any advance of the government forces. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... it handed them over in return for being permitted to invade areas east of the Euphrates in 2019.
The area south of the M4 Highway in the countryside of Idlib is home to about a quarter of a million civilians, including thousands of IDPs, who suffer from difficult living and economic conditions, according to director of the of the Syria Response Coordinators Team Mohammad Hallaj.
"The recent military escalation in Syria’s north indicates that there is an unannounced agreement between Turkey and Russia, and suggests the continuation of the escalation," Northern Democratic Brigade front man Mahmud Habib said Wednesday.
Although Turkey and Russia are guarantors of ceasefire agreements, they are sharing in the escalation and shelling of civilians in several areas in the Syrian north, Habib told North Press.
The front man pointed out that there is Russian-Ottoman Turkish complicity in which Syrian civilians have been victimized, and it was matched by "ambiguous international silence and unclear reasons, even by the Global Coalition present in northeastern Syria."
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[NYPOST] Imagine a surgeon who repeatedly operates on the wrong organ, or a pilot who misses a landing time and time again, maiming and killing scores of passengers. We would revoke their professional licenses, without delay.
Why then do we tolerate the so-called national security "experts" at the helm of the US government, who pursue, for decades, ruinous policies that cost trillions in hard-earned taxpayer money and countless American lives?
The Afghanistan collapse has proven that the US government’s ignorance of foreign cultures and mindsets can no longer be tolerated. After 20 years of immense effort by American war fighters, intelligence personnel, diplomats and aid workers to turn Afghanistan into what Westerners consider a normally functioning society, it has reverted to the same chaotic and brutal place that it has been for centuries.
It is reasonable for Americans to ask: Will anyone in the US government be held accountable for sinking $2 trillion and sacrificing more than 6,000 of our fellow citizens’ lives to achieve what was unachievable in the first place?
The reason America had to spend 20 years in Afghanistan involves a profound lack of foreign cultural expertise in the intelligence and national security communities, in which I proudly served as an intelligence officer and specialist in Russian doctrine and strategy. Failure to understand the adversary, as Sun Tzu taught us — whether it’s Afghan snuffies or Russia conducting unrestricted cyber warfare and sabotaging our elections — results in unrealistic policy goals and deficient war fighting strategies, and ultimately leads to defeat.
US planners failed to anticipate how the snuffies in Afghanistan might adapt, fight and stymie the world’s most sophisticated and technologically advanced military. The Death Eaters’ employment of essentially homemade improvised bombs (IEDs) enabled them, the weaker side, to prevail over US forces. IEDs were responsible for 60 percent of all American fatalities and half of the total US casualties in Afghanistan, and they mitigated US advantages in resources, technology and ground combat.
The US government "experts" ignored four fundamental issues while engaging in a protracted conflict in Afghanistan: how corrupt the Afghan government bureaucracy is; how hard the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... -inspired snuffies — whose Afghan identity is wrapped up in resisting foreign invaders — would fight; how resourceful a weaker power can be when faced with a more powerful opponent; and how alien the Western concepts of democracy, women’s rights and the like, are for a tribal, patriarchal Afghan culture. These are not complicated issues to wrap your brain around. You can add in having a safe haven and support from an outside source. The Talibs are controlled by the Quetta Shura. Quetta isn't inside Afghanistan. Senior Talibs travel around freely with Pak ID cards and passports.
With proper expertise and by taking stock of the Soviet quagmire in Afghanistan in the previous century, America could have avoided the exorbitant losses incurred by the longest war in US history. Instead, after the American military quickly achieved its initial objective of defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan, the establishment continued to press on with the usual, and doomed, mission of nation-building, security assistance, and training and equipping the incapable Afghan army. Rather than recognizing the legitimate Rabbani government of Afghanistan and supporting it, they invented the "Southern Alliance" and put Pashtuns in power. Karzai -- a Pashtun -- promptly turned on us. The Biden administration seems to be determined to repeat that mistake by refusing to treat with the Pandjir Valley alliance under Masood, Jr.
What’s worse is that the government bureaucracy went to great lengths to conceal its incompetence behind the rubric of classified information, an approach which I experienced first-hand. My former agency, the DIA, censored significant portions of my book, which reveals the deficiencies of the intelligence community in its understanding of Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... and the Russian threat to America.
Once-confidential government documents about Afghanistan contain impressions from 400 direct participants in the Afghan war, ranging from generals to diplomats. They lay bare the stark contrast between the actual situation on the ground and the mischaracterizations and outright lies presented by government officials to Americans for almost two decades. Sounds an awful lot like Vietnam, doesn't it? In 1969 we had McNamara. Today we have swarms of MBAs.
Washington think tanks and "Beltway bandit" consulting firms are bursting at the seams with "experts" who mucked things up for America by conjuring up "pie-in-the-sky" policy ambitions and wrongheaded warfighting strategies. These unelected babus bureaucrats rotate in and out of the government, dragging our country into endless and unwinnable wars that spill blood and waste our treasure. Few, if any, of these "professionals," as they like to call themselves, are held accountable for creating crisis after crisis across the globe.
At this point, no matter how well-meaning the establishment’s desire to remake the world in America’s image by removing every tyrant, every terrorist, and every sign of injustice and poverty, the relentless pursuit of unachievable outcomes is no longer an innocent mistake.
It is reckless. And it’s professional malpractice.
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My simple advice would be to sit still for a moment and try and entertain the possibility in their great tactical minds, that maybe trusting moslems to fight moslems, provide right intel on moslems, do anything good with your money is a bad idea. And most importantly, if you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself. But who's listening...
Sun Tzu! Waste of time!
Pashto, Urdu, Dari... heh!
Learning ghoul yammer?
We'd rather just mime,
'buc-ket', 'wat-ter'...
and at them snootily stammer.
God forbid that we be rid
of these dubious helpful Moors
reporting in their pajammers.
Yesterday, a man was run over by a driver. When Portland Police & emergency crews responded, he was already dead. Tera A. Harris, 49, was arrested over the incident. She has tried to sue city of Portland several times over the years alleging police brutality. #BlackLivesMatterpic.twitter.com/684svFRByF
[JamBase] Foo Fighters had a special surprise to end their concert at The Forum in Los Angeles last night, as the band was joined by 11-year-old drummer Nandi Bushell for a performance of "Everlong." Bushell’s guest appearance came following her 2020 drum battles with Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl and their adorable video chat a few months later.
"One day I picked up my phone, and my friends were all texting me asking if I had seen this shit? And I clicked on the link and I see someone is challenging me to a drum off. So I’m like, ‘Isn’t that nice?’ I kind of brush it off," Grohl said as per Consequence as Nandi’s drum kit was rolled on-stage. "But all my friends tell me, 'no dude, you have to step up. This is the real deal. This is a drum off."
"So I respond. I said alright, I’ll play nice. But then she comes back, and she whoops my fucking ass in front of the entire planet,” the Foo Fighters frontman explained of their multiple drum offs. “Round three! I do something else, and she comes back and kicks my fucking ass again. Tonight was the first night I came face to face with my arch nemesis!" More at the link including two videos.
[Breitbart] The White House said Friday that President Joe Biden still had confidence in his generals and in Secretary of State Tony Blinken after their disastrous performance in Afghanistan.
“Yes, he does,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki replied when asked by reporters during the daily briefing if the president had confidence in Secretary of State Tony Blinken.
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Do you dare fire anyone who has seen how the actual WH decision making is done? Sending a disgruntled Senior General outside the wire at this point would be very damaging.
[BizPacReview] A video clip of a female U.S. Army soldier who appeared to threaten to shoot American citizens if martial law is ever declared and they refuse to comply with orders has gone viral on social media and triggered widespread backlash.The clip went viral thanks to Jeremy Darling, a black conservative who posted a snippet of the larger clip to his own TikTok and added his own commentary, warning that the soldier’s words "should be cause for concern."
The soldier’s words were as follows: "Understand that if active-duty military actually get deployed within the United States, that weapon is not just pointed at other people, other countries. It’s pointed at you. If you do not get in your house when I tell you to, you become the enemy. Martial law."
It’s like that, huh?
Watch the clip either at Darling’s TikTok or via the tweet below:
Who is this woman? An investigation revealed that she’s a 35-year-old self-identified "lesbian" who goes by the pronouns "she/her." Sounds about left.
Furthermore, she runs the "Lord Daddy Nugget" TikTok account, which is where she posted the original video that Darling later cropped.
She also runs the @Nuggetsnchicken Twitter account.
The clip of her shared by Darling triggered massive, massive, massive outrage, some of it initially mistakenly aimed at Darling.
Here’s a small sample of that outrage (*Language warning):
Everyone go spam #misterdarling on tiktok
She is hoping she gets the chance to shoot Americans who are standing up to this COVID nonsense
Absolutely evil and disgusting
Is this the white rage they’re talking about?
— PHUCC fear 👊 (@phuccfear) August 27, 2021
Notice how the latter Twitter user called her an "imperialist bootlicker." This suggests the user is a left-winger, meaning her remarks offended some on the left as well.
But despite the massive backlash, some defenders pushed back on the anger by claiming she’d been taken out of context.
To check whether this defense is valid, it’s necessary that the full video she’d shared to her TikTok account be examined.
The full video begins with Miss "Nugget" sharing a video of another TikTok user named Jodi angrily ranting about the military’s lack of action in regard to authoritarian coronavirus diktats being imposed on the American people.
"This is a message for our United States military, the Air Force, the Army, the Marines, the Navy, Coast Guard, Space [Force], everybody that considers themselves a person that would defend this f—king country. Where are you? We thought the military took an oath to protect this country. They took an oath to protect our Constitution. That includes enemies foreign and domestic," Jodi says.
"Where are you, military, because if you’re leaving it up to the American people, you need to let us know, because everybody’s on the edge of their seat. You got millions and millions of gun owners that are ready to walk out and start a complete f—king bloodbath, and we’re beginning to wonder where our f—king military is," she adds.
After the conclusion of the clip, Miss "Nugget" responds by accusing Jodi of being a domestic terrorist and warning her of the consequences of martial law being declared.
"I mean, I’m no expert, but that sounded like a terroristic threat, with you talking about a bunch of gun owners going out and starting a bloodbath. Like have you never heard of the Insurrection Act?" she says.
"There’s reasons why the military doesn’t deploy within the U.S., and if they did, your ’good ole boys system’ is not going to fare well for you. Martial law. You know, where your rights get curtailed. You don’t have all those same freedoms that the Constitution guarantees at that point, so be careful what you wish for, and stop opining about things you don’t understand," she adds.
Watch the full TikTok video here.
Ms Nugget took her post private.
It sounds as if Miss "Nugget" got the impression that Jodi wants martial law to be declared in the United States. Jodi’s made her own account private, so it’s impossible to check her original video and determine whether she had indeed made such a demand.
"Nugget" has, for her part, claimed via Twitter that she’d just been trying to be "informative of the insurrection act."
The whole thing, which sounds to me like the lady is recommending against calling out the military against a domestic situation:
Ok here’s the original video with both parties involved. They’re both wrong in this situation https://t.co/a0FHbKkQZu
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She must live in the barracks. Anyone who lives off post and their families will be compromised. As you see in Afghanistan, the environment of civil wars is not civil.
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Muttering "Be afraid of me, be very afraid" into a phone camera (and posting it on the web, and later taking it down when called out) is pretty much as tough as this type gets.
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Apropos of nothing in particular, in Michigan last year there were about half a million deer hunting licenses sold. That is 500,000 people - men, women and youngsters - who hang out in the woods and ambush human-size mammals.
Where firearms are held by the Feds and only allowed to civilians in limited numbers under very controlled conditions - like the civilian is not white, east-asian, christian, or conservative.
[ABCNews] Authorities in northern Nigeria say three separate groups of kidnapped students have been freed within a 24-hour period
Authorities in northern Nigeria announced three separate groups of kidnapped students were freed within a 24-hour period, prompting speculation late Friday thon the lam ransoms had been paid to the button men blamed for a spate of recent abductions.
Among those now free are some of the youngest children ever taken hostage in Nigeria, a group of 90 pupils who had spent three months in captivity. Hours after those youngsters were brought to the Niger state capital, police in Zamfara state said that 15 older students also had been freed there.
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Video interview at the link of a group that has gotten 200+ people out of the country.
[EpochTimes] Elliot Ackerman has served five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine Corps officer and CIA officer. Over the past 10 days, he and his cohorts have unofficially evacuated around 200 people from Kabul airport.
"We gave these people our word, that if they worked with us, we would stand shoulder to shoulder with them."
"Any decent human being would have a hard time turning their back on these pleas for help."
Ackerman describes his and his operatives’ timely evacuation of 29 Afghans Thursday. They were able to get the group into the airport just 20 minutes before the ISIS suicide bomb went off.
With the Aug. 31 deadline for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan looming, Ackerman gives his battle-honed perspective on the best course to take, both diplomatically and on the ground, going forward.
[NPASYRIA] Yesterday, on Friday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested 18 people in Abu Khashab area, 70 km in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor, on charges of belonging to the sleeper cells of 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) and working for the Ottoman Turkish intelligence.
"The SDF launched a two-day security campaign, during which they were able to arrest 18 people," a military source of the SDF in the town of Abu Khashab, told North Press on Saturday.
The source added that a number of detainees were on charges of belonging to ISIS, and others on charges of working as sleeper cells recruited by the Ottoman Turkish authorities to carry out liquidations and destabilize the region for money.
In a statement published on its official website on Saturday, the SDF said that a quantity of weapons and documents were seized. These weapons prove the terrorists’ involvement in many liquidations and bombings at the orders of Ottoman Turkish parties within the "occupied" areas and intelligence centers in Ottoman Turkish territory.
The statement pointed out that the security campaign came "after an intelligence and field effort to pursue members of terrorist cells and their collaborators."
The arrested turbans admitted to carrying out several bombings and liquidations in the area, according to the same source.
Yesterday, on Friday, the SDF arrested wanted individuals on the charge of belonging to ISIS in two different operations in the towns of al-Baghouz and al-Jazra in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
On August 24, the SDF arrested two ISIS members in al- Latwa neighborhood in the Thiban town, 50 km east of Deir ez-Zor.
Recently, the SDF and the Global Coalition have intensified their security operations to pursue ISIS sleeper cells in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
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[Breitbart] Sixty-six Idiots progressive Democrats are telling President Joe Biden to open the nation’s border to Afghan migrants because the U.S. bears moral responsibility for the wars in Afghanistan.
“After decades of disastrous U.S. intervention, one thing is clear: We have a moral responsibility to provide safe harbor and refuge for the Afghan people,” the August 26 letter, which does not set an upper limit on the inflow of Afghan migrants, states.
“The U.S. war in Afghanistan has caused irreparable harm to Afghans,” the letter claims, without mentioning the many hard-fought humanitarian gains Americans delivered or mentioning the almost 2,400 dead Americans — in the two decades since 2001.
The letter is from the House’s progressives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), and Rep. James McGovern (D-MA). It reflects their view that foreigners are entitled to easy access to the United States because “white supremacy” in the U.S. is responsible for the many ills in the world.
The U.S. must provide Special Immigrant Visas to many Afghans who fought alongside the U.S. military and must invite many more into the P-2 refugee program, the progressives say.
What rot! Who, pray tell, would guard the zone against the Taliban and ISIS-K, given that all the soldiers are about to be pulled from the area?
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#France and #Britain will urge the United Nations to work for the creation of a “safe zone” in the Afghan capital #Kabul to protect humanitarian operations, French President Emmanuel #Macron says.https://t.co/Og8gjkqrhI
The death toll from explosions at an arms depot in southern #Kazakhstan climbed to 13, authorities in the ex-Soviet country confirm, adding that three people are still missing.https://t.co/GqTRq4Xbo2
[KhaamaPress] As the universities are still closed across the country and more than 200 university lecturers have left Afghanistan, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan appointed Sheikh Abdulbaqi Haqani
...any relation to the Haqqani Network Haqqanis?
as acting minister of higher education on Saturday, August 28.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... the academic deputy minister, financial and administrative deputy minister, and students’ affairs deputy minister was also appointed in the ministry.
The new leadership held an introductory meeting with the former leadership of the ministry and thanked the latter along with all university lecturers for their services in the ministry of higher education.
The acting minister said that national and religious are two vital values and pledged to be working along with the previous leadership of the ministry of higher education.
The former minister of higher education Abbas Basir who was attending the meeting said that he is glad to be handing over the ministry to a team that is both eligible and committed to serve Afghanistan.
In the metropolis-Kabul- private and government schools and universities are still closed and the IEA has said that the institutions will be resumed gradually.
IEA had previously appointed acting ministers of education, public work, and information and culture.
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The former minister of higher education Abbas Basir who was attending the meeting said that he is glad to be handing over the ministry to a team that is both eligible and committed to serve Afghanistan.
translation: "Please don't kill me!"
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The Future #Syria Party in northeast Syria warned of the revival of #ISIS cells coinciding with the escalation of Turkish attacks on the region.https://t.co/oaknIf5X1u
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) August 28, 2021
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... condemned the recent US dronezap targeting ISIS in eastern Afghanistan, a group front man told Rooters on Saturday.
"The Americans should have informed us before conducting the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... . It was a clear attack on Afghan territory, two were killed, and two women and a child were maimed in the attack," a Taliban front man told Rooters.
The US conducted a dronezap that killed two high profile ISIS targets and maimed another, the Pentagon said on Saturday.
The strike comes in retaliation for Thursday’s suicide kaboom which targeted Kabul airport and led to the deaths of dozens of Afghans and 13 US servicemen, and maimed scores more.
The Pentagon said ISIS-K was behind the attack, and the Death Eater group later grabbed credit.
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#US President Joe Biden says the US drone strike targeting #ISIS-K in #Afghanistan will not be the last one, and that the threat of another attack by the extremist group remains high.https://t.co/sHjG5Gd0Q1
Despite agreement between the Russians, the government and the Central Committees, the Iranian-backed factions are still targeting Daraa al-Balad. #Daraa#Syria#Iran#Russiahttps://t.co/uYYgcJs9gR
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) August 28, 2021
Around 350 #migrants tried to scale the fence from #Morocco into #Spain’s Melilla enclavembefore dawn on Saturday but none managed to get across, a Spanish government spokesman said.https://t.co/5UjUpDL4EE
[KhaamaPress] Hundreds of men and women erupted into the streets of Kabul on Saturday, August 28, to protest against the closure of the central bank, private banks, and money-changing markets across the country.
They asked for their money as they have been facing severe problems due to lack of money.
People have also gathered at the gates of private banks and semi-private-Kabul Bank- but they were not given their own money. "Mo took a vow of poverty, and so will you"
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on Thursday directed all banks to reopen and resume functions as normal from Saturday, August 28, onward.
Despite the direction and assurance of security by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... to private banks, the banks’ employees do not dare to come to jobs and resume functions as normal.
The banks’ owners say that they cannot resume operation until the central bank of Afghanistan —De Afghanistan Bank- opens.
On the other hand, money-changing markets and money changers who have been playing a vital role when it comes to financial deals ascribed their operations and resumption to the resumption of the central bank.
Banks have been closed now for nearly two weeks which has left millions of people out of money.
Employers are not able to pay their staff and the employees who have money in their accounts are not able to withdraw to support their lives.
In Kabul itself, hundreds of protesters, including many civil servants, gathered outside a bank while countless more lined up at cash machines. The protesters said had not been paid for the past three to six months and were unable to withdraw cash. ATM machines are still operating, but withdrawals are limited to around $200 every 24 hours.
The economic crisis, which predates the Taliban takeover earlier this month, could give Western nations leverage as they urge Afghanistan's new rulers to form a moderate, inclusive government and allow people to leave after Aug. 31.
Afghanistan is heavily dependent on international aid, which covered around 75% of the toppled Western-backed government's budget. The Taliban have said they want good relations with the international community and have promised a more moderate form of Islamic rule than when they last governed the country, but many Afghans are deeply skeptical.
The Taliban cannot access almost any of the central bank's $9 billion in reserves, most of which is held by the New York Federal Reserve. The International Monetary Fund has also suspended the transfer of some $450 million. Without a regular supply of U.S. dollars, the local currency is at risk of collapse, which could send the price of basic goods soaring.
A U.N. agency meanwhile warned that a worsening drought threatens the livelihoods of more than 7 million people. The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization said Afghans are also suffering from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic and displacement from the recent fighting.
Earlier this month, the U.N. World Food Program estimated that some 14 million people _ roughly one out of every three Afghans _ urgently need food assistance.
The FAO said that crucial help is needed ahead of the winter wheat planting season, which begins in a month in many areas. So far, funding would cover assistance to only 110,000 families of farmers, while some 1.5 million need help, the agency said, adding that the current harvest is expected to be 20% below last year's.
The U.S. and its allies have said they will continue providing humanitarian aid through the U.N. and other partners, but any broader engagement _ including development assistance _ is likely to hinge on whether the Taliban deliver on their promises of more moderate rule.
But even as the group's top leadership has struck a more moderate tone, there have been reports of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. abuses in areas under Taliban control. It's unclear whether fighters are acting under orders or on their own.
Taliban fighters beat up a cameraman for the private broadcaster Tolo TV earlier this week in Kabul. Saad Mohseni, the CEO of the group that owns the channel, said the Taliban have been in touch with the station's management about the incident. He said the fighter has been identified, but it's unclear if he has faced any disciplinary action. There was no comment from the Taliban.
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As in Vietnam all bank monies taken. History repeats itself again. Private ownership of property no longer. What was yours is now ours. AOC doctrine.
The last British flight evacuating civilians from #Afghanistan leaves Kabul, bringing to an end an operation that has airlifted more than 15,000 Afghans, Britons and other foreign nationals in the two weeks since the #Taliban took control.https://t.co/c9Zvytf9eR
#Italy says it has taken in the largest number of Afghans fleeing the war-ravaged country following the #Taliban takeover, vowing “not to abandon” vulnerable groups after airlift evacuations end.https://t.co/joTHcIKGj9
[NYPOST] Republicans are vowing to hold President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan... accountable for his handling of the botched Afghanistan withdrawal that has led to the death of at least 13 US servicemembers and over 100 Afghans.
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Glendower: “I can call the spirits from the vasty deep.”
Hotspur: “Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come, when you do call for them?”
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Not gonna happen over his admin's gross mismanagement of Afghanistan.
Who the hell wants Harris as a President and Pelsoi as a VP?
Leave it the way it is until after the 2022 election.
In the mean time have a State Gov. appoint Trump as a House Of Rep. (HOR)
then hold a 2022 HOR vote to make him speaker of the House.
After 2022, the Senate issues the overdue 25th mental state investigation on Biden. Harris is impeached for handful is well documented issues and action which violated her oath of office.
Trump becomes acting US President, immediately calling for a Special Election.
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Kabuki theater. Still going to cross the aisle to indenture future generations on that multi-trillion dollar looting of the treasury for special interests.
The Okinawa prefectural government said Saturday that it has found foreign matter in an unused vial of Moderna Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine not belonging to batches already suspended from use following the discovery of contaminants.
Japan's health ministry said Thursday that foreign substances have been confirmed in 39 unused vials at eight vaccination sites in five prefectures -- Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Gifu and Aichi.
The same day, it halted the use of around 1.63 million doses, or three lots, which came from the same production line of a Spanish factory, as a precaution.
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Japan was in the middle of the International Olympics and according to news reports, they were the ONLY nation shipped Contaminated Moderna vaccine.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
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[Regnum] Due to the epidemiological situation, only five countries are taking part in the festival this year. Among them are military bands from Russia, Belarus, Greece, Mexico and Qatar.
“The main theme of the festival is such concepts as Time, Music and Peace. And the main word here is music that heals the soul and gives hope in a world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, ”the organizers of the festival noted.
Traditionally, the Presidential Orchestra of the Commandant's Service of the Moscow Kremlin FSO of Russia, together with a company of the special guard of the Presidential Regiment of the SKMK FSO of Russia, was the first to enter the paving stones of Red Square.
People's Artist of Russia Tamara Gverdtsiteli , who sang Bulat Okudzhava's song "Prayer", was a special guest at the opening of the festival.
At the end of the performance, the combined orchestra of all the Spasskaya Tower participants under the direction of the Chief of the Military Orchestra Service of the RF Armed Forces - Chief Military Conductor, Major General Timofey Mayakin performed a medley on the themes of popular songs by Russian and foreign authors. The opening of the Spasskaya Tower festival ended with a festive fireworks display.
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[Slovodel] Representatives of Rostec reported that military exoskeletons were tested in Syria, where they were included in the equipment of sappers of the Russian Federation Armed Forces. The exoskeleton has increased their combat potential.
Bekkhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the cluster of weapons, ammunition and special chemistry of Rostec, told RIA Novosti about testing combat exoskeletons in real conditions . He was honored to present a sample of an exoskeleton with electric motors on the sidelines of the Army-2021 forum.
"In addition to increasing the capabilities of a serviceman, the combat potential of the entire unit is increasing many times over. This is evidenced by the experience of combat use. In Syria, sapper units are already operating, equipped with passive exoskeletons," the corporation noted.
According to Ozdoev, the exoskeleton significantly reduces the load on the musculoskeletal system, and energy costs during running and walking are reduced by 15%. In addition, their development allows the military to take with them 60 kilograms more, since the exoskeleton distributes the weight and removes the additional load from the person. The development also allows you to fire from automatic weapons 20% more accurately and helps to solve the issue of recoil when firing.
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Having taken a peek at the last Anti-FArt Website whines on the Atlanta Worldwide Freedom Rally held just over a month ago (07/24/21). It was not even grade school level lame.
But it was the Pot calling the dinnerware Black none the less.
Given Anti-Fart/BLM's historically documented Anti-Semitic, Racist positions. A group where a majority of its members adhere to Socialism, Anarchism, communism, and other misc versions of socialists views. A group well known for its physical violence, thievery against a groups seeking to voice Pro-USA & moral views, Freedoms and Rights.
So I giggled as I read their website calling Worldwide Freedom Attendees (WFA) Racist and Anti-Semitic. All because the WFA oppose Federal/State efforts to FORCE people to partake in a medical practices and treatments which they oppose based on conflicting Facts, lack of long term evidence and blanket immunity from civil actions for side effects.
Then I reminded myself who were the last 2 Governments that FORCED medical procedures of their populations. The National Socialist Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Without evidence, Antifa accounts in Portland are saying a homeless camp was shot up by a right-winger. Antifa blame all ills on the right & when there is nothing to blame they make up lies. Meanwhile, antifa were secretly filmed assaulting a homeless man last weekend. pic.twitter.com/q8Egya3pf3
Seattle #antifa member Nicholas James Armstrong is furious the antifa in Portland were forced to retreat following a failed attack on a rally last week. Armstrong was one of the armed antifa providing "security" at the checkpoints in CHAZ. @TwitterSupportpic.twitter.com/h9U6wme1Iy
The ADF, under the leadership of Ugandan Musa Seka Baluku, is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons, and the CIA have tagged them as the local ISIS affiliate. But possibly they just like killing infidels...
[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, the countryside of Idlib and Hama, northwest Syria, witnessed a continuation of mutual shelling between the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions and the government forces, causing material damage to civilian homes.
"The government forces stationed in the city of Kafranbel renewed their artillery and missile shelling on the towns of al-Fatira and al-Bara, in the Zawiya mountain area, south of Idlib," sources of the opposition factions told North Press.
"The bombing targeted neighborhoods and residential homes, which resulted in the destruction of public and private properties, without casualties reported," the sources added.
The government bombed the sites of the opposition factions near the towns of al-Enkawi and Qleidin in the Ghab Plain area in the western countryside of Hama countryside, with heavy artillery shells and rocket launchers, according to the same sources.
Responding to the government bombing, the al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room, which includes several factions, announced that it had targeted the positions of the government forces in the town of Malajah in the southern countryside of Idlib, with mortars and Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... Earlier on Saturday, the Russian warplanes renewed their aerial shelling of areas held by Ottoman Turkish-backed armed Syrian factions south of Idlib in addition to targeting a training center belonging to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front), while Syrian government forces shelled several villages in Zawiya Mountain.
The de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subject to a Russian-Ottoman Turkish ceasefire agreement signed in March 2020; however, the area witnesses frequent mutual bombardment despite the entry of the ceasefire into force.
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[NYPOST] The Rev. Jesse Jackson has been moved to a physical rehabilitation center, while his wife Jacqueline was transferred to the intensive care unit at the hospital where the two were undergoing treatment for COVID-19.
The 79-year-old political activist and minister and his 77-year-old wife were admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... last weekend.
Family members said in a statement Friday that Jacqueline Jackson was moved to the ICU and was receiving oxygen, but breathing on her own.
The statement said that Jesse Jackson’s coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... symptoms were subsiding, and that a hospital focused on physical rehabilitation due to his Parkinson’s disease.
"As his COVID-19 symptoms abate, his Parkinson’s has become more in focus. Therefore, he has been transferred to The Shirley Ryan Ability Lab where he will immediately begin intensive occupational and physical therapy," said a statement from Jonathan Jackson, through the Rainbow Push Coalition.
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According to News & Political PR reports.
Jesse & his wife were vaccinated back in Jan/Feb 2021 time-frame and with great Fanfare. All in a effort to convince other Black Americans to get Vaccinated. Aside from still getting infected after being VAX'd
Well that sure worked for them...
Seriously they are in there 70's and still alive.
I am sure being Political Activist MILLIONAIRES helped a little also.
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All that is true but I still hope they make it.
If real Nazis came and started shooting everyone on my block I wouldn't point and giggle when they shot the guy two doors down who didn't cut his lawn enough, and then wait until they're next door to take action.
South Sudan, where the war of all against all seems to be a hobby...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] South Sudan security forces have arrested seven people, including a top religious figure, a civil society organization said Saturday, as rights groups warn of a widening crackdown on critics in the East African nation.
The arrests, which police denied, come ahead of planned nationwide protests organized by the People’s Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA), which has called for the country’s leadership to step down.
They were detained because of alleged links with the PCCA, according to Jame David Kolok, chairperson of the South Sudan Civil Society Forum.
Four activists were picked up on Friday in the northwestern town of Wau, while two others were taken into custody along with a bishop in the southwestern city of Yei on Wednesday, Kolok told AFP.
The authorities "are accusing both the activists and the bishop of having possession of information that is attributed to the (PCCA) coalition," he said.
"This crackdown should stop."
But a front man for the South Sudan police denied the detentions.
"We have not arrested anybody," Major General Daniel Justine told AFP.
A heavy police presence has been deployed in parts of the capital Juba this weekend, he said, urging citizens not to take part in Monday’s protest, branded by authorities as "illegal."
"We have just appealed to the public not to come out... so (the demonstration) will not take place," Justine said.
He warned that police will "take legal measures" against anyone who defies the protest ban.
The United States embassy in Juba has asked its citizens to avoid the areas where protesters may assemble, urging them to "exercise caution."
The latest detentions follow a series of arrests in recent weeks.
On Friday, security officials briefly detained three journalists and shut down their radio station in eastern Jonglei state.
Two prominent activists were arrested earlier this month for joining the PCCA, a broad-based coalition of activists, academics, lawyers and former government officials.
The PCCA this month issued a declaration saying they have "had enough" after 10 years of independence marked by armed conflict, escalating insecurity, hunger and political instability.
The world’s newest nation has struggled with civil war, famine and chronic political and economic crisis since celebrating its hard-fought independence from Sudan in 2011.
Breaking: A group of #antifa were saved by police after they were beaten & forced to retreat at a violent left vs right protest in Modesto, Calif. Antifa & other left-wing protesters gathered to oppose a "straight pride" event. pic.twitter.com/nZZ9gLkfru
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Nothing like good news after such a gloomy week. I hope the police went about it disinterestedly, like 'Ho hum! Would you please stop... YAWN... stomping on that anarchist, sir? '
[EpochTimes] A human trafficking operation joined by 12 states has rescued 47 victims and arrested 102 persons, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced on Friday.
"Using both buyer-centric and victim-centric ’sting’ human trafficking operations, Missouri and participating states were able to rescue 47 victims and hookersprostitutes sex workers ...the oldest profession was legal (though not always unregulated) for thousands and perhaps even millions of years. That never has made it something most people want their daughters doing... and provide needed medical services to 41, and arrested 102 across the country in connection with human trafficking," the Missouri Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.
According to the information provided by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, the operation rescued victims and made arrests in 12 states.
Missouri: 4 victims rescued, 2 arrests made
Illinois: 1 victim rescued, 3 arrests made
Iowa: 11 arrests made, a large amount of currency has been seized
Kentucky: 21 adult victims rescued, 2 minor victims rescued, 46 arrests made
Minnesota: 8 victims rescued, 3 arrests made
Nebraska: 7 arrests made
North Dakota: 6 victims rescued, 3 arrests made
Oklahoma: 1 victim rescued, 7 arrests made
Tennessee: 4 arrests made
Texas: 4 victims rescued, 2 arrests made
Wisconsin: 5 arrests made
South Dakota: 9 arrests made
The operation, Operation United Front, was led by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and the Missouri State Highway Patrol and joined by various law enforcement departments from Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas.
The Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... also joined the efforts.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Missouri Attorney General’s Office served as the main communications hub to coordinate other states’ operations, while each state conducted its own operation simultaneously.
Missouri also offered training and information about how to best conduct these operations to participating states.
"Operation United Front was an unprecedented human trafficking operation that brought together law enforcement agencies from different jurisdictions—something that rarely happens. When we all come together, we can affect change and more effectively fight human trafficking, a crime that is often multi-jurisdictional in nature," Schmitt said.
According to data collected by the FBI, there were 1,883 human trafficking offenses reported in 2019, with 875 of the offenses cleared or closed, including 18 offenses that involved minor victims under the age of 18.
The term "cleared" or "closed" usually means the law enforcement departments have made arrests, the suspects have been charged, cases have been turned over to the court for prosecution, or the offender has been identified.
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Anyone volunteering the names of the 'victims' and pimps or would that be racist?
[YouTube] Peoria Police officials say the parents and siblings of a 20-year-old pregnant woman are accused of targeting the woman, with incidents stretching back to March 2021. The family reportedly did not agree with the woman's boyfriend's status as a non-Muslim.
In which the Alfartousi family head down the path toward an honour killing, but are arrested before they get there. AZ Family has more.
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Let’s think, why do liberals attack Christians and not Muslims?
Let’s see Christians believe “thou shall not murder” or some reasons that Muslims can kill, including “Leaving religion. Killing someone else. Married man/women who commit adultery. Non-Muslims. Whoever attacks Muslims.”. Could it be FEAR?
[AllAfrica] The Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... has formally blocked flights returning migrants colonists deported from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . Banjul argues that the country cannot reintegrate them.
Being the smallest country on mainland Africa, Gambia has a long tradition of migration.
An estimated 118,000 Gambians live abroad, according to the International Organisation for Migration, who send home remittances worth over 20 percent of the country's GDP.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... this week's announcement that the government aims to block flights of returning migrants colonists comes ahead of a presidential election in December and some have interpreted the move as a bid to boost electoral support ahead of the poll.
The Banjul administration says it will block all flights returning migrants colonists from the EU, just as Germany was preparing to expel a number of Gambians.
Gambian foreign ministry front man Saikou Ceesay says that the government decreed the policy last June, explaining thon the lam numbers of returning migrants colonists would cause "social upheaval".
He maintains: "We are trying to consolidate the peace, stability and democracy we have in this country."
The Gambia was ruled by violent mostly peaceful dictator Yahya Jammeh for 22 years, until he was forced from power in 2017 after losing a presidential election to Adama Barrow.
The first Gambian presidential election of the post-Jammeh era is due to be held on 4 December.
EU FRUSTRATION WITH GAMBIA
Meanwhile a European diplomat, who declined to be named, described The Gambia's move to block migrant returns as "a political issue" motivated by the upcoming election.
European governments have previously complained that The Gambia has never fully cooperated on returns.
The West African country signed a non-binding agreement on returns with the EU in 2018 has reportedly "never fully respected".
The European Council is due to examine a proposal which would tighten access to EU visas for Gambians, for example, over the country's "failure to cooperate on readmission".
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Category 4 Hurricane (major)
Sustained Winds: 130-156 mph 113-136 kt 209-251 km/h
What to expect:
Catastrophic damage will occur: Well-built framed homes can sustain severe damage with loss of most of the roof structure and/or some exterior walls. Most trees will be snapped or uprooted and power poles downed. Fallen trees and power poles will isolate residential areas. Power outages will last weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.
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Remember the Colonial Pipeline Hack back in May 2021? Colonial Pipeline, delivers about 45% (100M/Gal a day) of the fuel consumed on the East Coast. The pipeline runs through South Louisiana. The Phillips 66 refinery in Westlake, the CITGO refinery in Lake Charles and the Delek U.S refinery in Krotz Springs feed into it.
YES, I hope and pray I am 100% wrong.
But has the oil industrial learned anything from the previous Hurricane related outages in the last 12 years and actually applied it?
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But has the oil industrial learned anything from the previous Hurricane related outages in the last 12 years and actually applied it?
So basically you expect to be able to spend the last twenty years trying and succeeding to drive out of business all the people in production down on the Gulf Coast of the US but you think you'll still be able to drive down to the Kwik-E-Mart and buy a tank of gas at $ 2.00/gal?
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As of right now the storm is aimed at the heavily industrialized corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, and has already hit the oil patch south of that corridor. Whether you live in Louisiana or in Montana, fill up your tank.
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Raj, it will all be because of Climate Change™ and OrangeManBad somehow...
#12
I just went to Accuweather and they said the Inner Eyeball is coming ashore there now. If it weren't a couple hour drive I'd go over and have a look, I've never seen the Inner Eyeball before.
#16
Bourbon street not smelling like piss would be worth a drive, especially if you got to see the Inner Eyeball. I've never seen the Inner Eyeball, but if you turn your head fast enough, you can see your own ear.
[FOXNEWS] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, school district is investigating a teacher after she posted a video admitting that she encouraged her students to pledge allegiance to a gay pride flag after she removed the American flag from her classroom.
"Okay, so during third period, we have announcements and they do the pledge of allegiance," the teacher, identified as Kristin Pitzen of Newport Mesa School District in Orange County, said in a video posted to social media. "I always tell my class, stand if you feel like it, don’t stand if you feel like it, say the words if you want, you don’t have to say the words."
"So, my class decided to stand but not say the words. Totally fine," she continued in the now-viral video.
"Except for the fact that my room does not have a flag," she said, explaining that she removed the flag during the pandemic and then whispered to the camera, "because it made me uncomfortable."
She went on to say that one of her students asked where they should look during the pledge of allegiance since there is no American flag in the classroom.
"In the meantime, I tell this kid, ’We do have a flag in the class that you can pledge your allegiance to. And he like, looks around and goes, ’Oh, that one?'" and points to the pride flag.
The Newport Mesa School District told Fox News on Saturday that the incident is under investigation, but could not provide more details as it does not "discuss employee related matters."
"We are aware of this incident and are investigating. While we do not discuss employee related matters, we can tell you that showing respect and honor for our nation’s flag is a value that we instill in our students and an expectation of our employees. We take matters like this seriously and will be taking action to address it," public relations officer for the district, Annette Franco, told Fox News.
The video has meanwhile garnered backlash on social media, including from former acting director of national intelligence Ric Grenell.
"What kind of parent would allow their child to be taught by this wacko? Why are parents turning their kids over to someone they don’t know? I’d like to talk to people who think this is good?!?" Grenell wrote on Twitter, accompanied by the video.
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Remind me again why Public Schools are losing students hand over fist every year.
Could it be in part due the NEA's Uber-Liberal agenda and protecting IDIOTS like this one?
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If there is anything close to an insurrection conspiracy, its the NEA. In any rational democratic society, employees of the state are never co-equal to the state. If you don't want to work for the state, quit.
[JPost] Hamas says: "We need smiting too!" IDF spokesperson confirmed that IAF warcrafts struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday night, following violent riots at the border with Israel.
An army base used by Hamas for training and weapon manufacture was targeted, as well as a tunnel near Jabalya, the IDF said in a statement.
The strikes were carried out in response to incendiary balloons that were sent into Israel from Gaza throughout the weekend and over the past several days, causing two fires on Saturday, and due to the violent riots on the border. Some 11 Palestinian protesters have been injured in clashes with the IDF at the sites of the protests, according to Palestinian media.
According to Gazan reports, Palestinians fired machine guns against IAF aircrafts, but the IDF statement did not comment. The reports also claimed that the IAF attacked a Hamas army post in Salah a-Din in the central region of the Gaza Strip using an unmanned aerial vehicle.
"Night Harassment Units" were gathering on its border with Israel at a point on the fence east of Gaza city at 8 p.m., though a relative calm ensued after approximately an hour. The riots reignited around midnight.
Hundreds of rioters gathered at the border, burned tires and threw explosives. IDF forces deployed and in the area responded with riot control munitions and Ruger riot-control sniper rifles, according to the IDF Spokesperson Unit.
The troops were reinforced by special forces and tank units, it added. Smoke em if you got em
Images circulated on social media show the Palestinian "night confusion unit's" preparations for activities tonight on the Gaza border. The groups also announced a gradual escalation of nightly border protests, and incendiary/explosive balloon launches toward southern Israel. pic.twitter.com/FJYPA0YJhA
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] The remains of 30 people were raised from mass graves on the outskirts of the city of Pervomaisk in the Luhansk People's Republic. Anna Soroka, the chairman of the interdepartmental working group on the search for burials in the LPR, told this to reporters.
People who died in the shelling of the city by the Ukrainian military in 2014-2015 were spontaneously buried near Pervomaisk. Excavations here began on 23 August. While the remains of 30 dead have been recovered, there may be at least 50 of them.
According to Soroka, the authorities have already been approached by people whose relatives could be buried on the outskirts of the city. The interagency working group continues to collect information.
Earlier, in the republics of Donbass, special bodies were created to search for missing people. Burial data will become the basis for appeals to international courts. Material by Chris Covert follows. Transation by Google Translate,
According to Russkaya Vesna, Donetsk is forming its own program to search for and recover bodies from mass graves
In a separate story a former Ukrainian SBU officer, Vasily Prozorov, said he had interviewed a number of individuals who had knowledges of atrocities committed in 2014-2015 in the early part of the war in eastern Ukraine.
Said Prozorov:
I interviewed the victims, to see personally and in photographs the atrocities and torments that they experienced.
I saw how the letters DPR or LPR were carved on the bodies of civilians, the swastika was burned out, joints were twisted, arms and legs were broken. Even the worst enemy would not wish that.
Prozorov can be seen speaking in this video. The video is translatable. He is linked to a website UkrLeaks.
Hattip lotp. Hard words, clear thinking — just ignore the socialist anti-Americanism and other -isms, and the demand at the end for open borders. But the authors are as hard on Afghanistan’s Communists, the Soviets, and sentimental Western feminists as they are on America. A taste:
[AnneBonnyPirate] A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britannia and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important truths.
First, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... have defeated the United States.
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[KhaamaPress] Acting minister of culture and information and spokesperson of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Zabiullah Mujahid said, there remains no incentive for any blast or attack once foreign forces leave Afghanistan. Uh-huh. Pull the other one
He said the twin explosions which inflicted casualties to over 250 people at Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... International Airport, occurred in an area under US troops’ control, not the Taliban’s.
Zabiullah Mujahid in his interview with radio free of Afghanistan said that the presence of foreign forces triggers such kind attacks and explosions, thus he asked the US to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible.
"Once the foreign forces leave Afghanistan, we assure that there will not by any attack, no group will be allowed to carry out such attacks or threaten the security of other countries using Afghanistan’s soil." Said Mujahid.
The acting minister said the situation in HKIA is uncontrollable and their fighters are not trained enough and are too familiar with such situation to control the crowd. He asked people not to throng at the airport and promised not to be hindering anyone from leaving the country once the situation in HKIA returns to normal.
About the ISIS who grabbed credit for the twin blasts in HKIA Mujahid said, the group is not the one that is active in Syria and Iraq and added, he was sure that they will not carry out attacks and explosions once they see no foreign soldier in Afghanistan.
A Houthi court in the Yemeni capital #Sanaa has sentenced 11 Yemenis to death, including two women and a professor of international law at Sanaa University, on charges of aiding what the Iran-backed militia described as “the enemy.”https://t.co/DtaOXtfu1G
[NYPOST] President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us...... told Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House Friday that he was committed to pursuing a diplomatic understanding with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... over its nuclear program — before teasing the use of "other options" if that did not work.
In their first face-to-face meeting since Bennett became Israel’s leader in June, the president insisted that the US was committed to "ensure Iran never develops a nuclear weapon."
"We’re putting diplomacy first and seeing where that takes us," Biden added. "But if diplomacy fails, we’re ready to turn to other options."
White House press secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... declined to answer later Friday on what the president meant by "other options."
"Any President has a range of options at their disposal. I’m not going to outline those from here," she told news hounds. "But our first preference and our priority and our focus is on the diplomatic path and pursuing the diplomatic path forward."
Asked when Biden might feel he had exhausted all diplomatic efforts and turn to "other options," Psaki said she was "not going to give an end date on that given it is, by far and away, our best option and the preferable option."
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You mean ValJar vows diplomacy and endless word salad gibberish from the DoS while the Iranians try to find out when the IDF plans to act by using their friends in the Deep State?
Kadeem Yarde, 23, of Bideford, Devon, was charged w/riot in connection w/the violent far-left/antifa riot in Bristol, England in March. Rioters started fires & tried to break inside the police station. Yarde, who pleaded not guilty, is a BLM activist & aspiring social media star. pic.twitter.com/sVIiSwQJQf
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Since Laws (Edicts) are issued by those that rule.
It is now lawful to restrict travel as they seek fit.
What opposition can a disarmed , non-voting Citizenry offer?
Now apply that simple logic to the current administration issuing Exec. orders, or the House attempting to reduced Constitutional Rights.
Remember all the Socialcrats need is to win a few seats in the US Senate and a few seats on the SCOTUS "accidentally" open up.
[Breitbart] A New York Brewery, First Line Brewing, announced they will be leaving 13 beers on a reserved table for the 13 fallen U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan during Thursday’s terrorist attack.
The brewery announced on their Facebook page that they will have a reserved table inside their brewery set with 13 cold beers to pay tribute to the ultimate sacrifice.
"[Thirteen] glasses will sit un touched at this reserved table all night for the 13 American troops who were killed in Afghanistan on August 26th," the brewery wrote, noting, "These brave courageous individuals paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country."
The post also said the beers would continue to be replaced "throughout the night to ensure that they are fresh and ice cold just how they would want them. Thank you to our amazing staff for this amazing idea to honor these heroes."
Besides honoring the fallen, the brewery said as the information of those killed continues to develop, the brewery will be donating on behalf of the 13 service members. "As we know more about the situation we will decide the most appropriate donor recipient(s)," the post noted.
"God bless their families and loved ones. God bless the United States of America," the post concluded.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Babylon Bee] President Joe Biden has finally stepped up delivering harsh remarks regarding those responsible for the deaths of our troops in Kabul. The President has authorized deadly force to deal with all who caused this tragedy. 
New grocery store in D.C. 
...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 Pashtun equivalent of men...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[NYPOST] The gunman who allegedly shot an innocent commuter outside of 
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
Why then do we tolerate the so-called national security "experts" at the helm of the US government, who pursue, for decades, ruinous policies that cost trillions in hard-earned taxpayer money and countless American lives? 
...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 
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...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[NYPOST] Republicans are vowing to hold President 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
[NYPOST] The Rev. 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
IDF spokesperson confirmed that IAF warcrafts struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday night, following violent riots at the border with Israel.
...Arabic for 
[NYPOST] 
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
