[STARTRIBUNE] Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey ...The inept and ineffective (but I repeat myself) Dem class president mayor of Minneapolis during the George Floyd race riots. Frey issued the order for police to evacuate the Third Precinct so it could safely be burned to the ground, and has since dithered, waffled, and obfuscated on a near daily basis. The city is a Dem stronghold, so he'll probably be reelected... unveiled a budget plan Friday that seeks to restore police funding to nearly the level it was before George Floyd's killing.
The mayor's $1.6 billion spending plan, announced during a virtual speech, includes nearly $192 million for the Minneapolis Police Department, whose fate will come before voters in the November election.
"Following the murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis became ground zero in the debate around the future of public safety and a case study in the dangers of grand pronouncements with little planning," Frey said, referring to a pledge some council members made last summer to work toward ending the department.
He said that while the city has invested in other safety programs, "It would be disingenuous to expect these new, complementary programs to succeed simply by breaking down the work of others."
Frey's 25-minute speech touched on a question that has dogged city officials since Floyd's death in May 2020: If they want to build violence prevention and mental health programs, should they use police funding to do that, or draw from other pools of money?
The mayor's speech kicked off a monthslong budget negotiation process that will finish in December, weeks after the election but before the next class of elected officials is sworn in. Besides increased funding for violence prevention, Frey proposed plans to boost affordable housing and programs aimed at cutting carbon emissions.
Policing, though, is the subject that has captured national attention, as people wait to see whether — and how — Minneapolis will fulfill a promise to transform public safety in the wake of Floyd's murder by a police officer.
Policing and public safety have become central issues in the races for mayor and City Council, and political committees campaigning for and against the replacement of the Police Department have brought in more than $1 million this year alone.
To pay for his spending plan, Frey would rely on a 5.45% property tax levy increase, federal American Rescue Plan funds and cash on hand. The city estimates the levy increase would amount to $140 for an owner-occupied home valued at $297,000, $360 for an apartment building valued at just more than $1 million and $186 for a commercial building valued at $529,000.
The Minneapolis Police Department began 2020 with a budget of about $193 million, an amount that was later reduced amid 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 a national debate ... an expenditure of personal wind at the national level that leads to face-making and other histrionics but can't be shown to have ever solved an issue ... on policing after Floyd's killing.
As they settled on spending figures for the police in 2021, Frey and a divided City Council intensely debated whether police funding should be used to increase violence prevention and mental health programs.
They settled on a $164 million police budget for this year — with the caveat that police could access an additional $11 million in reserves if they received approval from the City Council. With that money since released, and American Rescue Plan funding infused, the Police Department now has about $180 million to spend this year.
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Why would you join? The pols will stab you in the back and railroad you into prison at a heart beat. The stereotypical Lucy Van Pelt, I'll hold the football for you Charley Brown.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Ella French was shot and killed in the line of duty while performing a traffic stop
Since then, Chicago 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... called her 'Ella Franks' and the city's top cop David Brown called her 'Ella Fitzgerald' twice
On Saturday, her body was taken via ambulance from the hospital where she was pronounced dead by the medical examiner's office
Her comrades wanted to line the route and give her a bagpipe honor guard procession
The commanding officer ordered the ambulance carrying her not to stop
He said 'we don't have 20 minutes for this s**t' and told them to keep going
Cops at the hospital where French's wounded partner was being treated then turned their backs on Mayor Lori Lightfoot
Lightfoot supported defund the police movements last summer despite Chicago's soaring crime rates
On Wednesday, Lightfoot doubled down on the decision not to stop the ambulance carrying French's body
She says it would have delayed French's family in getting to the morgue
Lightfoot also fumed at the media for asking her 'offensive' questions like did she force her way into the hospital
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[KhaamaPress] Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the same country that once produced McKenzie King... announced that the ongoing deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... together threatens Afghans, thus there will be a resettlement program for up to 20,000 Afghans.
The government of Canada has expressed its deep concern over the current state of Afghanistan and is trying to provide the vulnerable Afghans with safe places to live.
The announcement comes only hours after the Taliban grappled control over Afghanistan’s 18th province which brought the total geography of the fighters to more than half of the war-battered country.
Canada’s new plan not only includes 20,000 new visas for Afghans who have been forced to flee Afghanistan or are at risk of being killed by the Taliban but also for the Afghans who have already been seeking asylum in the country.
As per the new program, visas will be issued to the refugees who are sponsored by the government or privately and also by those families who have been living in Canada.
The decision over resettling Afghans comes a day after Canada announced to deploy additional troops to Afghanistan to secure the evacuation of its staff from the embassy in Kabul.
As the situation is getting worse with the passage of every single day, Afghans are striving to find any possible way out of Afghanistan to secure their lives.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... nearly 400,000 thousand people have been displaced internally in the past two months.
[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan is rich geography when it comes to mines and natural resources. Some of these mines are ready to be excavated while others are being mined illegally. So we can surely claim that this geography still possesses a vast amount of intact mines and natural resources which amount to nearly $3 trillion.
Based on a geological investigation conducted ten years ago in the US, it has been estimated that the total worth of Afghanistan’s mines and natural resources is USD1000 billion.
The most important natural resources of Afghanistan are as follow, gold, silver, and plutonium, a vast amount of uranium, tantalum, bauxite, natural gas, salt, metal stone, copper, silver, chromium, tin, talc, sulfur, coal, barite, and zinc. Since there is a scarcity of these resources around the world, they have attracted special attention of the globe to Afghanistan.
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[NEWS.YAHOO] As Afghanistan continues to fall to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... at a "faster-than-expected" pace, those who served in the war are reportedly "riveted in horror" watching the krazed killer group make gains, and immensely frustrated by the withdrawal that's threatening to undo their 20 years of work, The Washington Post reports.
"It makes me angry, really angry," said Tom Amenta, a retired veteran who was originally deployed in 2002. Afghanistan "has never had a clean solution," he told the Post. "But now that it's gotten hard, we're just going to bounce? It doesn't make it right."
The United Kingdom's Foreign Affairs Select Committee Chair Tom Tugendhat, who also served in Afghanistan, called the withdrawal "wasteful and unnecessary," adding that it's as though the rug has been pulled out from under the Afghan government.
"It's just frustrating," lamented Army veteran John Whalen. "We knew that this would happen. Now, all the people who went and served, are like, 'Why did my friend die?'" Whalen told the Post he asks himself that question, too.
Scott Novak, a former Army medic, added that, as the situation progresses, there's a "lingering sense of sadness" amongst his military friends. "No one's saying, 'Hey, you know, at least we did something.' There's just nothing to really show for it," he explained. "And so, everyone's kind of angry and wondering, why? Why were we even there?"
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I am also horrified.
Back in 2001 it seemed that a nationalist govt would provide stability. By 2002, it seemed the Taliban military presence was almost completely gone but they came back and by 2010 the Taliban were a major threat that took 100k American soldiers to defeat. But the defeat wasn't for long and by 2015 or so it was a stalemate with about 10k American soldiers. Trump brought the American force up to about 15k in 2018 but the stalemate continued.
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How many of these vets want Americans to continue fighting for Afghans who won't fight for anything beyond 1200AD? The entire Afghan government and military was a con game to extract dollars.
The Afghans can now go back to what they know best, squabbling among themselves.
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How many of these vets want Americans to continue fighting for Afghans who won't fight for anything beyond 1200AD? The entire Afghan government and military was a con game to extract dollars.
A lot of those dollars will be filtered through the lobbying industry back to the politicians who voted for it.
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This horror results from the continuing American inability (and arrogant reluctance) to accept that Asia is no place for the lessons of the Reformation and post Industrial legalism.
Stay engaged and reap horror upon horror until Kingdom come. Literally.
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What did you expect? A culture that is corrupt as anything we have here in our major cities, states, and in the Swamp. Why would you die to defend that?
Remember the actions by the American command structure when they went after the two American personnel who hammered the Afghan base commander who was porking some poor boy in the adjacent room. It's all corrupt.
Hearts and Minds campaign again shows failure, but the people in authority will not give up on it, not that much different than the socialists who keep failing and failing and failing. "We'll get it right the next time."
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...don't forget the pols who like thumping their chest to show how virtuous they were in nation building and bringing the people into the 21st Century.
There are so many things about this that piss me off it's hard to focus on just one, but at the top of my current list is the fact that not one person in government is going to lose his phoney-baloney job over this. They might randomly select a lance corporal and bust him down to PFC, but that's it. In fact, they'll probably create a special Afghan Panic Commendation Medal and hand it out to all concerned.
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^ Afghan Panic Evacuation Medal?
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^ Same people who closed down Christian churches over COVID won't do a thing against muzz.
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After 911 Bush should have GLASSED Afghanistan and Pakistan. For some reason the jerk tried to nation build. THE USA IS SHIT AT NATION BUILDING! It was stupid.
Then Saddam wanted to kill his dad. So he invaded.
He should have just taken out a massive $ hit order on Saddam.
All those lives ours and theirs wasted because or DC morons can't take the proper actions.
[IsraelTimes] Cybersecurity company Check Point names opposition group Indra, which it says inflicted ’nation-state-level damage’ in July assault.
A shadowy group — not Israel — was behind a July cyberattack on Iran’s railroad system that according to state media caused "unprecedented chaos" at train stations and reportedly led Tehran to attack an Israeli-owned ship a few weeks later, according to a new report.
The report, released Saturday by the Israeli-American cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies, named the Iranian opposition group Indra as the actor behind the attack, which it characterized as having inflicted "nation-state-level damage."
During the July 9 attack, the hackers posted fake messages about alleged train delays and cancellations on display boards at stations across Iran. They also urged passengers to call for more information, listing the phone number of the office of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... On the following day, the Iranian transportation ministry said a "cyber disruption" had affected its computer systems, taking down its website and links associated with it.
In its report, Check Point said those assaults were carried out using a version of a hacking tool deployed in previous attacks on Iranian interests in Syria that Indra — which is named for a Hindu war god — had grabbed credit for in 2019 and 2020.
According to one report, 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... may have believed Israel was behind the cyberattacks, and chose to retaliate by launching a drone attack against the Israeli-owned oil tanker MT Mercer Street on July 29, killing two crew-members and sparking an international uproar.
Check Point said the case highlighted the danger of "a non-state sponsored entity... creating the same kind of havoc" as a state actor with far more resources.
Israel and Iran have been engaged in a years-long shadow war, with Israel allegedly directing most of its efforts — including multiple suspected cyberattacks — at sabotaging the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s nuclear program.
A phone number--64411--was displayed on boards of train stations today in #Iran amid the reported cyberattack on the rail system. It directed commuters there to call for more information. It matched the number to #Iran's Supreme Leader's Office that is displayed on his website. pic.twitter.com/IQQ85I6QhJ
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) July 9, 2021
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Hacking non-threating and non-combatants, whether Iranian, US, or Israeli is not the same as attacking Terrorists and Enemies.
In trusted White-Hat and Gray-hat circles. There is little, if any, sympathy for Black-Hat Hackers attacking run of the mill avg. Joe Blow citizen environment. These are the lowest hanging ITSEC prizes because demonstrate NO serious Network/System Penetration skills or talents. Since most of these attacks are little more than Script-Kiddie level.
[LOKMAT] "According to the teachings of Islam, victory of one Muslim necessarily helpful to another Muslim. How Taliban control of Afghanistan will help Pakistani Taliban, time will tell," said the most elusive chief of UN designated terror organisation TTP Noor Wali Mehsud to CNN in an interview.
The dreaded militant leader has a plan in place after the Taliban's takeover of Kabul. He told the channel that the TTP is fighting along with the Taliban in Afghanistan, but the group's main "goal" is to have its "own" independent country.
"Our fight is only in Pakistan and we are at war with the Pakistani forces. We are firmly hoping to take control of Pakistani border regions and make them independent," declared Mehsud from his unclosed hideout in Waziristan near the Durand Line, the disputed border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
TTP's stated objectives are the expulsion of Islamabad's influence in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan. Besides, the implementation of a strict interpretation of sharia throughout Pakistan, and the expulsion of Coalition troops from Afghanistan is part of the TTP's playbook. TTP leaders also publicly say that the group seeks to establish an Islamic caliphate in Pakistan that would require the overthrow of the Pakistani Government. TTP has historically maintained close ties to senior al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama Bin Laden.
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"The TTP is targeting Pakistani Army personnel and CPEC and they are being bolstered by the Afghan Taliban, who want to show their power in territories on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to assert its power and influence," says one Pakistani analyst.
Meanwhile, the growing popularity of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement PTM) is a matter of concern for the TTP and the Pakistani rulers.
PTM is a secular, democratic movement of young Pashtuns demanding restoration of peace and tranquillity in the tribal areas of restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA. PTM holds Pakistan Army responsible for gross human rights violations in the garb of successive counter terrorist operations in the tribal areas.
On Tuesday, the PTM, which has strongholds in Pakistan's tribal areas, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, and parts of Karachi, organised the "jalsa" in support of the peace and stability in Afghanistan
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The government of Pakistan — or rather the ISI for the army of Pakistan, which owns the government — has worked very hard over the decades to achieve this result. Let us hope they drink this cup to the very dregs, leaving not even a single drop unswallowed.
[BenarNews] Some members of a church shuttered by authorities in an Indonesian city in 2008 after locals opposed it are insisting the church be reopened, their front man said, after the mayor allowed them to build a new house of worship elsewhere.
Human rights groups have cited the controversy surrounding the GKI Yasmin church in Bogor, just south of Jakarta, as an example of growing intolerance in Indonesia. The Christian minority in the world’s largest Moslem-majority country represents about 11 percent of the population.
Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto should respect a 2010 Supreme Court
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...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...
...hereditary prime minister of the same country that once produced McKenzie King...
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